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Weekly Chronicle & Sentinel.
BY WM. S. JONES
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onen and Inridcntu in the Polar Uenionw.
We have already alluded to Dr. K&ne’g admirable
Work ou “Arctic Exploration*.” It is, perhaps, the
most deeply interesting: publication of the day. The
style tb rung bout is admirable, and many novel and
ext I ting incidents are described. We subjoin one
or two passage* : —Philadelphia Inquirer.
A TH HILLING INCIDENT.
We fastened at last to the great floe near the
d.ore, making our harbor in a crack which opened
The imperfect diet of the party wm allowing it
*e!f more and inure iii the decline of their rcuscui&r
power. They seemed scarcely aware of it them
Helves, and referred the difficulty they found in drag
ging and pushing to something uncommon about the
.ce or sludge rather tLou to their own weakness
But, a* we endeavored to renew our labors through
'be morning fog, bolted in or. all Hide* by ice fields
so diet* rted ai a rugged as to defy our efforts tocr.jss
them, the truth seemed to burst upon every one.—
We had lost the feeling of hunger, and were almost
-at idled with our pasty » roth and the large draughts
of o h which accompanied it. l was anxious to send
<»ur small boat, the Erie, across to the iumirie hill at
Appal., where I knew from the Esquimaux we
*L >uld find plenty of birds ; but the strength of the
party was insufficient to drag her.
\V. were sorely disheartened, and could only
wail for the fog to rise, in the hope of some sinooth
. r platform than that which was about us, or some
!-. .d that might save *i« the painful labor of tracking.
1 L&u climbed the iceberg; and there was nothing in
i< w except the Dalrymple Rock, witii its red bras
sy face towering in the unknown distance. But I
! ardly got back to my boat before a gale struck us
Vein the northwest, and a floe, taking ujkju a tongue
• f ice about a mile to tlie north of us, begau to
wing upou it like a pivot, and close slowly upo nour
i arrow resting place.
At tii wt our own floe was also driving before the
wind; but in a little while it encountered the sta
t-unary ice at the foot of the very rock itself. On
the instant the wildest imaginable ruin rose around
us. The men sprang mechanically each one to his
station, bearing back the boats and stores; but I gave
.un for the moment all hope of our escape. It was not a
Lip, imeh as is familiar to Arctic navigators; nut the
whole platform where we stood, and Cor hundred
of yards on every side of us, crumbled and crushed,
and pilej, and tossed itself madly under the pres
sure. Ido not believe that of our little body of men
ell oi them disciplined in trials, able to measure
danger while combatting it, —I do not believe there
i one who this day can explain how or why—hardly
when, in fact-—we found ourselves afloat. We only
l;imw tl.at in the mid-t of a clamor utterly indescri
bable, through which the biayingof a thousand
trumpet* could no more have been heard than the
voire of a man, we were shaken, and raised, and
v juried, and let down again in a swelling waste of
broken hammocks, and as the men grasped their
boat-hunks in the stillness that followed, the boats
< blind eway in a tumultuous skreed of ice, uud
enow, and water.
Wo-were borne along in this manner as long as
i • unbroken remnant of the in-shore floe continued
revolving,—utterly powerless and catching a
e itnpse ( very now and then of the broken headland
that look< d down on us through the broken sky. At
1-st the floe brought up against the rocks, the looser
liugments that hung round it begun to separate,
b wareand boat-Looks to force
«»ir battered little Uotilia clear of them. To our
joyful surprise, we soon found ourselves in a stretch
o. the land-water wide enough to give us rowing
room, and with the assured promise of land close
ahead.
As w«* neared it, we saw the same forbidding
wall of belt-ice a. at Suthcr'aud and Kakulyt. We
pulled along its margin, seeking in vain either an
opening or access, or a nook of shelter. The gale
r. se, and the ice began to drive again ; bu* taere
. • but get a grapnel out to the
belt aud hold on for the rising tide. The Hope
love her bottom and lest part of her weather
boardiug, and the boats were badly chafed. It was
. a.. . .t was not without cougtaut
exertion that we kept afloat, bailing out the scud
tl.at broke over us, and warding oil the ice with
At three o’clock the tide was high enough for us
!<> cuie the ice cliff. One by one we pulled up the
i arrow sheU, tin- whole sixteen of us
uniting at each pull. We were too much worn
<. v.;i t«» unload, but a deep and narrow gorge
opened in the cliffs almost at the spot where we
ri unbered up ; ami, as we pushed the boat into it
oi an even keel, the rocks seemed to close above
our heads, until an nbruptturn in the course of the ra
vine placed a protecting cliff between us and the
-ale. We were completely eucaved.
The D i utTCRt of Old Gkim.—Now, let us (
eh in ft lighter strain. Poor “Old Grim,”
i four footed favorite, has departed, and the Doc*
-.’s >oliloquy on the occasion is not unworthy of
Dickena:
“Old Grim” was a“character,” such as, perad
vciiture, may at some tiuie be found amoug beings
oi a higher order and under u more temperate sky.
A profound hypocrite and time server, he so wrig
gled his adulutory tail as to secure every one’s good
graces and nobody’s respect All the spare morsels,
. d ■ u u ••! the mess, pawed through
the winnowing jaws of “Old Grim/’ —an illustra
tion not so much of his eclecticism as Ins universal!
ty of Uiste. He was never known to refuse auy
tiimg offered or approachable, and never known to
• o satisfied, however prolonged and abundant the
bount y or the spoil.
“ Gwm” was an ancient dog : bis teeth indicated
many winters, and his limbs, once splendid tractors
lor the sledge, were now covered with warts and
ringbones. Somehow or other, when the dogs were
harm wing for aioumey, *• Ola Grim’* was sore not
to bi found ; ana upon one occasion, when he was
detected hiding away in a east off barrel,he inconti
nently became lame. Strange to say, lie has been (
lame ever since except when the team is away with- ,
nut him.
Cold disagrees with “Grim;” but by a system of
patient watchings at the door of our deck house, ac
\ ompanied by n discriminating use of his tail, lie be
came at last the one privileged intruder. My seal
kin coat had been Ins favorite bed for weeks to
gether. Whatever love for an individual “Grim”
• “xpressed by his tail, lie could never be induced to
follow him on the ice after the« old darkness of the
winter set in ; yet the dear good old sinner would
wriggle after you to the very threshold of the gang
way, *n«l bid you good bye* with a deprecatory wag
ot the tail which disarmed resentment.
ilia appearance was quite characteristic —his
muz/.le roofed like the old-fashioned gable of a
Dutch garret window; his forehead indicating the
in d meagre capacity of brains that could consist
with his sanity as a dog; his eyes small; his mouth
curtnined by tong black dewlaps ; and his hide a
m:*ngy russet studded with chesnut-burs ; if he has
g< • indeed, “we ne’er shall look upon his like
again.” So much for “Old Grim.”
When yesterday's party started to take sound
ings I thought exercise would benefit “Grim,” whose
time-serving sojourn on our warm deck had begun
to render him over corpulent. A rope was fastened
round him; for at such critical periods lie was ob
stiuate and even ferocious ; ana, thus fastened to
Ig .1. commenced his reluctant journey.—
Reaching a stopping place after a while lie jerked
upon Icslinc, parted it afoot or two from its knot,
and dragging the remnant behind him, started off
through the darkness in the direction of our brig.—
11 «• has not been seen since.
Parties are out with lanterns seeking him, for it is
ten red that his long cord may have caught upon
gome of the rude pinnacles of ice which stuu our noe,
and thus made him a helpless prisoner. The ther
mometer is 14 G' below zero, aud old “Grim’s” teeth
could not gnaw away the cord.
Thk C’knsus of Russia. —The Moniteur de l*Ar
ir.ee gives the following as the results of the census
of the Russian empire, taken by order of the Em
in or at the time of hie accession to the throne:—
The total number of the population amounts to 63,-
fiuo.ooo, the principal elements of which give results
unknow nto the rest of Europe. The clergy of the
K sian church stand for the enormous number of
510,000; that of the tolerated creeds, 35,000; the
hereditary nobility, 155,000; the petty bourgeoisie,
iiiciu.'iug discharged soldiers, -125,000; foreigners
roiding temporarily. 40,000; different bodies of
t’o.vrtick* colonized on the Cural, the Don, the Wol
gn. the 1 flack .va, the Baikal, the Baschkirs, and
i!.< hr. mlar Kalmucks, *2,000,000; the population
. f tin* towns, the middle and lower classes, 5,000-
• : i he populat ion of the country parts, 45,000,000;
the wandering tribes, 500,000; the inhabitants of the
is ans-Caucasiau possessions, 1,400,000; tiie kingdom
. i Poland, 1,200,000; the Grand Duchy of Finland,
1, iOO,OOO, and the Uussiau colonies in America, 71,-
005. At the accession of the Emperor Nicholas t lie
et iisus then taken only gave a population of 51,000,-
000. This large increase in the space of 30 years
may. however, be readily understood when it is
cvuVuicrod that the Russian territory Ims now an ex
tent of '2‘2,000,000 of square kilometres (a kilometre
is t iis of n mile', ami a length of coast 0f27,000 kilo
metres. If the population continues to increase in
the same proportion it will, by 1900, amount to 100,-
000.000. The Russian empire, according to the same
document, contains 112 different peoples, divided
into I*2 principal races, the most numerous of which
is the Slavonian, including the Russians properly
sn called, the Poles, the Cossacks, and the Servian
conusies of the Dnieper. These populations inhabit
tie finest aud the most important provinces of the
tmpire.
High Handed Arrant.—Our city readers are
doubtless aware of the fact, says the Richmond
Whig, that protracte d meetings have been in pro
gt\ss at two of the Baptist churches in Richmond for
several weeks, ami that a large number of persons
of both sexes have been induced to become “pro
fessors of religion." Amoug the converts are three
young ladies, who have been reared in the Roman
Catholic faitli. Two of them were immersed some
days ago, aud the third, who is an orphan, was im
mersed on Sunday night. The Irish friends of the
latter, on hearing of her intention to become a Pro
tect ant, resorted to the mo6t scandalous measures to
pn vent the consummation of her resolve. They
tirrt sent for her to attend a meeting of her Catholic
tricuds and in tlieir presence make a recantation of
her profession of Protestantism: but, being fully de
termined upon the course she had marked out for
hc.’sclf, tiie >ummous was of course disregarded Ou
Suuday night, she proceeded to the Second Baptist
Church to prepare tor the rite of baptism, and while
thus engaged, a party of Irish—men aud women—
made their appearance iu front of the church. A
small number of them entered the doors, and seated
tiumselves < u the front pewqi uttering the most
violent threats against the young lady. The atten
tion of the pastor, l)r. Howell, having been called
to these intruders, he summoned several male mem
bers of the congregation to the vicinity of the pulpit
and it was determined on consultation to have them
ejected from the church, unless they would depart
quietly. The efforts to induce them to withdraw
met with a blustering opposition, but finally pre
vailed, and the champions of Papacy retired, still
avowing their determination to be revenged on the
young lady for abjuring the religion of her deceased
parents. Quiet beiug restored, the services were
preceded with, and the ordinance of baptism ad
miuistejed to tne young lady, who had been the ob
ject of such unscrupulous annoyance.
We learn that the two Irish women connected
with the above outrage, called at the residence of
the family with whom the object of their persecu
tion resides, and demanded an interview, no doubt
d«' guing to remove her by main force . but, we are
glad'to have it in our power to state, that they were
tepuised uud warned to keep away from the pre
Decisions of ihl Attorskt General of the
Emtr St ave>.—Washington,Oct.23.—l. Ship
masters in foreign ports are subject to the requsi
ti.>i, of the Consul to take on board aud carry to
the United States distressed mariners, but not
••'euaien, or other persons accused of crimes and
: ■ lu transported to the United St at ee for prose
*\* Officers aud crews of the public ships of the
j l u.ti-a *..tatee are not entitled to salvage, civil aud
mmiary, as of complete legal rights. The allow
ni'Av of salvage, civil or military, in such cases,
is against public policy, and ought to be abolished
iu the sea service, as it was long ago in the land ser
3. District C ourts of the U. S. have power to pro
vide specifically for the confinement of persons con
victed by federel law, it refused admittance into the
jails of the State. Iu such case the persons may be
coufined in ihe penitentiary of the District of Colum
bia.
4. There is punishment by statute for the act of
a ship-master iu unlawfully putting a seaman on
>hure in a loreigu port, but not for an assault on a
seaman on board of a ship or otherwise in a foreign
port.
TLt- Ohio Baptist Convention, at Columbus, on
tb<* 24tli inst., passed a sorb s of resolutions denounc
ing slavery and pledging theme!vee to labor against
its extension.
From the Baltimore American.
Arrest of n Finished Villain—A Second Monroe
Edwards.
It will be recollected that about a year ago, a
man named George Gomer was arrested in this city
on the charge of having sold to the house of Brown,
Brothers Sc Co., and McKim Sc Co., forged bills of
exchange on Ex.gland for considerable amounts,
and after Laving been kept in jail for some time,
w&j discharged on bail of a nominal amount. It
appears that prior to his arr est he had also written
to Messrs. W illiam Howell Son, a forged letter of
introduction, purporting to be from a ho. se of good
standing at St. Bartholomew, with two bills of ex
change, which he requested should be sold and the
proceeds placed to his credit. The letter stated that
a firm named 11 Bcawnier had deposited $7,000 in
that house in coin, which was to be shipped by the
first vessel. A subsequent letter statea that a ves
*'-l had been procured, which would proceed to St.
Bartholomew for the specie, and thence to Porto
Rico, where she would take in a cargo of sugar aud
coffee for a port in the United States About two
weeks after that time, Messrs, fl A: Son received a
letter signed M. Beauznier, at Norfolk, stating that
he was sick, but as soon as he recovered he would
come on to Baltimore and see them.
A few days more elapsed and a letter was receiv
ed from the -ati.* party from New York requesting
that the money lor the bills of exchange should be
sent on to hint as he bad an opportunity to send
some things to the West ludies, by which he eou d
make a handsome profit. The money was imme
diately sent to a banking firm in New York, but
was never called for, and in a short time the bills
were returned protested. lie also sold bills of ex
change in Charleston for SII,OOO for which he re
ceived cotton, which was shipped to New York aud
there sold at the order of George Gomer, the name
lie then assumed. His next transaction was at Wil
miogton, N. C , where he purchased one thousand
barrels of spirits of turpentine to be sent to Bor
deaux, but the trick failed because the forged bill of
exchange he presented could not be negotiated
in that city. Though he had been subsequently ar
rested in this city, he again returned here in June
last and presented a forged letter of introduction, to
one our principal shipping houses, purporting to be
from Messrs, Indues Sc Co., of St. Thomas. He was
precede! by a letter purporting to come from that
house which bore its private marks, aud was a ship
letter endorsing his credit and character, but
which was subsequently ascertained to be a forgery.
On presenting the letter of introduction he pro
posed to purchase and did purchase flour to the
amount of $4,300 for which he paid a bill of ex
change purporting to be from the hands of Roths
child Sc Cohen aud payable in England. The flour
was shipped to New York where that too was sold
and the proceeds paid over to Louis Rechard, the
name lie had there assumed. He next went to St.
Louis where he succeeded in selling forged bills of
exchange on the hame house to the amount of' $lB,-
000, to the banking house of Mr. Clark, Dodge &c
Co., as soon as they discovered the swindle, the po
lice of New Y'ork were put ou the alert and some
time since he was arrested and thrown into prison,
and on Tuesday of last week taken to St. Louis for
trial. On searching his premises but S*J,SOO were
found secreted in a blank book, the leaves be
tween which the notes were placed having been
pasted together at the edges. From advices receiv
ed in this city there is no doubt his real name is
Beaumies, a native of Martinique, whence he was
banished for smuggling and his vessel confiscated.
He speaks English and French fluently and is a
shrewd business man. In his various forgeries he
has used the names of Alexander Grey, J. Imbart,
Maline Dutton, Louis Rechard, and Adrian de
George. It is said he lias a wife living in Martin
ique but when he left that place he took with him the
daughter of a wealthy Italian merchant. How much
he has obtained by Ins forgeries it is impossible to
tell, but there is no doubt the amount is between
$50,000 and SIOO,OOO. It is to be hoped that justice
will now be done him and that he will be accom
modated with quarters where his faculty of imi
tation will not avail him except for the benefit of
the State in whose service he may be employed.
The Cruise of a Slaver.
Tiie trial of Baptista and Stabell, the parties
charged with owning and fitting out the schr. “C.
F. A. Cole,” at this port, for the slave trade, is now
in progress in the U. 8. District Court in this city.—
The evidence is not yet concluded. A witness, who
was cabin boy on the voyage from Baltimore to the
slave coast of Africa, and back to Sagua la Grand,
Cuba, with a cargo of 335 slaves, gave au interest
ing account of the voyage, yesterday, lie testified
through an interpreter, (Mr. Jos. Marks,) as follows.
Ball. Patriot.
He went out last December, in the schr. Cole,
from Baltimore; Capt. Baker went along. The ves
sel went from here to the coast of Africa—went first
to Cabindo. They were two months going to Cabin
do; a patsenger named Drummond left the vessel
there; the vessel stopped there one day. The ves
sel then cruised out one month, aud then went into
the river Congo They went into the river between
11 and 12 o’clock in the day time; they anchored in
the river and waited for the people from the brig
Dolphin to visit them. An officer came on board
the schooner Cole and asked for all the papers on
the vessel; the officer tried to see what was on board
of her. Antonio Silva, the mate, raised the Ameri
can colors and said they had no right to search an
American vessel. They then guve the officer as
much liquor as he could drink; he got drunk uud
went ashore. That, is the usual treatment to officers
when they come on board. That night they went
up the coast to Devil’s Point and anchored. Capt.
Labradada and two men went ashore, and the Cap
tain again came aboard with the cabin passenger
they lauded at Cabindo. They discharged cargo,
and the negroes began to come on board iu ten and
twelve, all fastened by the neck, in boats. Some
335 negroes came on board, eight or nine boats
bringing them off. The negroes were all on board
by or 'J o’clock in the day time. The vessel lay
one or two r miles from shore. They landed from
the vessel nothing except whiskey and lumber.—
They sailed from Devil’s Point about l o’clock that
day, the vessel going to Sagua la Grande, Cuba ;
they were thirty-five days in making the voyage.—
About thirty-five of the negroes died on the passage.
The passenger who got out at Cabindo came to Cu
ba with them.
The negroes wero put down in the hold on a deck
laid over the water casks, and fed on beans and
bread and rice. When they pul the negroes ashore
at Cuba they went in the day time, landed the
negroes after seven o’clock, aud came out at night.
Six men were discharged after landing the negroes
at Cuba. Only eight men were on board when they
came out from Cuba—Baker, Silva, witness and
five men. Capt. Labradada, Antonio Pollens, a pas
senger named Lippold, Drummond, Frank Labra
dada, (a cousin of the captain) and the cook, got out
at Cuba. Four men were discharged in the Chesa
peake before the vessels was sunk—they were on
vessels from Baltimore. Capt. Baker, Antoine,
witness and two others were on the vessel when she
was sunk about S o’clock at night. The holes were
bored iu her in the bay—she was run ashore, the
plugs taken out and she was let go. Nothing was
taken from the vessel before she sunk. Witness
shipped for Madeira, wishing to get to his own home
at Cadiz, Spain. Before they left the vessel, after
she was sunk, three pilots came aboard the next
morning. The mate Antonio Silva left Piney Point
the day they got there—the others went up to Wash
ington iu a steamer three days after. Witness then
came to Baltimore and went off' that evening. The
chronometer onboard, Labradada look ashore with
him at Sagua, la Grande, Cuba.
Selling a “Drummer.”— A “drummer” is a
travelling dry goods salesman, whose business is to
“drum” up trade for his employers in New Y'ork.—
The following good story is from Porter's Spirit of
the Times, and shows how one of them got sold, in
a trip he made down South, in Benton count}', Ala.
He was riding from Talladega to Benton Point,
with Bill Martin, in 1840, ami found out a new way
to make a well:
Bill and the Drummer were riding along, and
stopped to get some water at a newly located farm
iu the lower part ot Benton county. The farmer
had set fire to an old pine stump near the front
door, and at the time our travelers stopped, the
fire was in the sap root, some two feet below the
surface, all the wood above the ground having been
consumed.
The smoke issuing from a large hole in the ground,
attracted the attention of the Dummer, and turning
to Bill, he asked the meaning of it.
“Why,” said William, “my friend Thompson here
is burning out a well.”
“Burning out a well! What do you mean?”
“Just what 1 say,” rejoined Bill; “he is burning
out a well—have you never seen it done ?”
“Never—nor did 1 ever hear of such a thing ; I
would like to have it explained.”
“Nothing simplier,” says Bill “Throughout this
section of the country the soil is strongly impregna
ted with high inflammable salts, and all we have to
do when a well is needed, is to dig a hole a foot
deep and four feet square at the top; wet the
ground around the surface to keep the fire from
spreading; fill the hole with piue knots, set tire to
the knots, and iu a week’s time you have a first rate
well.”
“Do tell,” exclaimed the wondering Gothamite.
“Y’es,” said Bill, warming with the subject, “the
fire burns straight down, just the size of the hole
at the top; it burns slowly, and thus bakes the
sides as hard as brick, aud continues to burn
until it reaches water, when, of course, it ceases te
burn.”
“But," says the Drummer. “1 should think the
mass of ashes and cinders would extinguish the fire
long before water is reached.”
“A very natural prima fade conclusion,” said
Bill; ‘ but this is the strangest of the whole pro
cess ; there are no ashes ! I am not chemist en
ough to explain it, but Professor Brumby, of the
University, attributes it to the volatile principle
contained’ in the inflammable salts. I|wish I could
explain it; but this much I do know, that out of
at least one hundred weiis of the same sort in
Benton county, I have never seen in all, a bushel
of ashes.”
A Cowhiding Scrape—Petticoat? Getting
Pugnacious. —Ladies are often subjected to imper
tinent looks and remarks of fast gentlemen, and
some of them are occasionally insulted because pre
sumed to be unprotected. Once in a while these
“fancy fellows" wake up the wrong passenger, as
was the case a few days since. A young and hand
some lady was looking out of the second story* win
dow of her brother’s house into the] street, when she
observed a tall man watching her closely and
catching her eye, and though entirely unacquaint
ed, gave her a very insinuating bow. Not rel
ishiug such uncalled for impudence, and having no
male friend at hand to protect her, she armed her
self with a cowhide, repaired to the front door, and
then took her stand, to se;e if the insult would be re
peated.
She had only been in the door a few minutes,
when the fascinating gallant returned, and suppo
sing his attractive person had drawn her down,
spoke to her in the most familiar manner, and
commenced a conversation He had not said
more than three words, however, before she
sprang out of the door, and began to pour the
cow-skin on his shoulders in such a powerful
manner, that he broke and run like a quarter
horse, determining, no doubt, in his own mind, to
be careful how he attempted to force himself into
the presence of a strange lady in future. —Richmond
Dispatch .
Exploration of the Nile. —The new expedi
of the headwaters of the Nile, under the command
of the French Count d’Escayrac de Lauture. and
under the protection and auspices of Said Pasha,
promises to exceed all similar projects hereto set on
foot. At Vienna twelve officers of the Austrian
general staff expressed their willingness to join the
expedition, from which number three were selected,
who, together with the mineralogists, Mayer, re
cently in the service of the Dutch Government in
Borneo, make up the complement of Germans in
the expedition. The whole force will comprise
twelve Europeans, besides the leader, and three
hundred soldiers furnished by the Egyptian Govern
ment. Among these latter, who are principally na
tives of the interior of Africa, there are supposed to
be a sufficiency of interpreters. For the navigation
of the Nile, the expedition has thirty barks and two
small steamers, aud a crew of one hundred men,
besides the necessary men and means to continue
the journey by laud beyond the head of navigation.
Never before was a scientific expedition fitted out
in like manner. The expedition will leave Europe
on the 10th of September, Count d’Escayrac. with
the Germans, embaikingat Trieste, and the French
expeditionists at Marseilles. The entire panv will
meet at Alexandijh. and expecl to reach Chartoum
by December, where they will remain some time to
complete the organization.
Thanksgiving Day has been set for observance
by the Governors of the States of Maine.jMaryland,
Missouri. Connecticut, Vermont, and New Hamp
shire, on Thursday, the 20th of November. Per
haps other Statee will join them in appointing the
MUDe day.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY" MORNING, NOVEMBER 5, 1856.
Railroad fleeting in Ulintou.
Clinton, Oct. 21, 1856.
At a meeting of tiie citizens of Jones county,
convened for the purpose of taking into considera
tion the building of a Railroad from Macon to
Warrenton, it was moved by Leroy Singleton Esq.
that Peyton T. Pitts be called to the Chair, aud
on motion. Col Lochrane, of Macon, was request
ed to act as Secretary.
The Chairman, iu a few forcible and pertinent
remarks, explained the object and purpose- of ti?e
meeting aud organized for business.
On motion, ten delegates from Jones county were
appointed by the Chair to confer with the delegates
present from the adjoining counties, which were ap
pointed as follows :
Major Leroy Singleton, Gen. D. N. Smith, David
E. Blount, Benj. Barron, Capt. Parish, Thoe. O.
Bowen, Jas. M. Gray. Win. S. Moughon, Dr. Jas.
T. Barron and Tbos. Hunt.
Ou motion, the Chairman was added to the dele
gat«r*.
Col. D. C. Campbell, presented the names of the
delegates from Baldwin, as follows :
Jas. Herty, li. M. Orrne, Oscar V’. Brown, D. P.
Brown, Charles Bonner, Arthur I. Butts, Jno. A.
Breedlov *, Thus. Morri-, Miller Grieve, jr.. D. C
Campbell, Jno. 11. Biowu, R. L. Hunter, and J. T..
Bivins.
Col. Lewis, of Hancock county, presented the
names of David W. Lewis and E. Cain as delegates
from the county of Hancock.
On motion of Gen. D. N. Smith, the gentlemen
present from Bibb county were admitted as dele
gates, viz.:
E. A. Nisbet, Washington Poe, P. Stubbs, J.
Rutherford, O. A. LocLrane, C. Anderson, Wm. T.
Massey, A. J. McCarthy, Wm. T. Lightfoot, and A.
11. Campbell.
The Chairman introduced Judge Nisbet, who pro
ceeded to address the meeting in behalf of tiie en
terprise in an able speech, reviewing the benefits
of Railroad enterprises to the State aud the devel
opment of her industrial and monetary resources by
the increase of capital aud the enhancement of the
products of her labor.
Col. Campbell being called on, made a short and
sensible speech in favor of the contemplated Road,
giving a statistical statement of the present freights
paid by the people of Georgia on the several Rail
roads, and the benefit competition between them
would re mlt in to the cultivators of the soil.
Col. Lewis being called on, responded iu a hu
morous an i argumentative address in favor of Rail
roads in general, and the Road in question in par
ticular. He alluded to the cost of the Road, the
prospects of bunding it, the wealth of the counties
through which it passed, and concluded a capital
speech with a happy allusion to the associations it
would generate between the people of Jcuea anil
Hancock.
On motion, the meeting adjourned until 3 o’clock
for the conference of the de'egates. The report of
their action may be found bo'ow.
Peyton 1 Pitts, Chairman.
O. A. Loclirane, Sec’y.
3 o’clock, p. .m.
The committees from the various counties met ac
cording to appointment. Col. D YV. Lewis from
Hancock county, was called to the Chair, and J. F.
Barron requested to act as Secretary.
Col. Campbell of Baldwin offered the following
resolutions :
That the committee from the county of Jones
be requested to suggest names as commissioners,
to open books in said county for the purpose of ta
king subscriptions to stock for the road iu contem
platon.
The commissioners suggested by said committee
are the following named gentlemen: R. 11. Hutch
ings, J. F. Barron and Isaac Hardeman.
Col. A. 11. Chappell from the county of Bibb, of
fered the following resolution :
Resolved , That the Board of Directors be reques
ted to cause the books ot subscription to be opened
for receiving subscriptions of stock at suitable points
along the route of the proposed Railroad, and at
such other places as they shall deem expedient; aud
that the commissioners for receiving subscription
shall make their report to the Board of Directors on
or before the second Tuesday in January next.
Col. Campbell of theounty of Baldwin offered the
following resolution:
Resolvf d, That a committee of four be appointed
by the Chair to prepare an address to the friends of
this enterprise, setting forth its claims, and calling
on them to lake stock in the company.
Col. A. 11. Campbell moved that the chairman of
this meeting be appointed chairman of the commit
tee to prepare said address, and also to appointsaid
committee, whereupon the chairman appointed the
following named gentlemen ; Col. Campbell of
Baldwin, Dr. A. Kingman and David E. Blount of
Jones, ns his associates on the committee.
Mr. Brown of Baldwin, offered the following reso
lutions which were adopted :
Resolved , That the several corporations and com
munities who are interested in the contemplated
Railroad from Macon to Warrenton, be requested to
appoint and send delega! es to the Ralroad convention
to be held in the city of Augusta, on Tuesday, the
13th day of January next.
And he it further resolved, That the commission
ers appointed at the different points are hereby re
quested to make their reports at the meeting in the
city of Augus a.
And be it further Resolved , That the newspapers
m the cities of Macon, Milledgeville, Augusta and
Charleston favorable to the construction of said
road, be requested to publish the proceedings of this
meeting. David W. Lewis, Chm’n.
Jas. F. Barrow, Sec’y.
Seeing the Elephant. —A friend tells us of a
rich incident that occurred tiie other day in the
court room at Frankfort, in which the proverbal at
tractions of the elephant are very forcibly illustra
ted. It seems that, ou the day in question, a me
nagerie was expected in the city, and the people
were naturally on the qui vive for the approaching
sights—an interest in which, as the sequel shows,
Lis Honor the Judge kneely participated. Not with
standing, the court was held on that day, though
not exactly as usual. In the progress of the morn
ing's business a case of continuance arose which the
Judge was evidently not: at all inclined to favor.—
His countenance, indeed, grew absolutely stern
with disfavor. The lawyer iu charge, having urged
his plea with all the ingenuity and ability at his
command, was at length in the act of yielding tiie
point in despair, when a brother lawyer, especially
up to snuff, rose aud whispered into his ear that the
menagerie had arrived, and the elephant would swim
the river J The suggestion was big with relief.—
Brighteing with hope, thejwily lawerat once drew
himself up deferentially, and, addressing the court,
said : “May it please your Honor, I have this mo
ment learned that the Great American menagerie
has reached the city, and the elephant will imme
diately swim the Kentucky river ! The people, I
am informed, are already thronging upon the banks
to witness the feat.” The hit was palpable. The intel
ligence of Buchanan's election could hardly have
wrought a more wonderful change in the hearing of
his Honor. Ilis stern countenance, at once relaxed
into the most genial complacency, and, in a tone of
generous excitement, lie remarked : “Gentlemen,
I grant this continuance, aud adjourn the court.—
I never have seen an elephant swim a river, aud as
I am an old man, it isn’t likely that I’ll ever have a
better opportunity. The court’s adjourned!” The
last thing our friend saw of the court it was making
for the liver at a speed never contemplated by the
Life Insurance Company. Verily there’s no resisting
the elephant!!— Louisville Journal.
Brigandage in Italy. — A letter from Bologna,
of the 6th, in the Correspondance Italienne, says:
“Monsignor Berardi, Sub Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs at Rome, left this place yesterday
for Ferrara and Pavenna, after having held a long
conference with Monsignor Amaci, the Austrian
General Degenfield, ana Gen. Kalbermatteu, of the
Swiss troops. In order to put au end to the atroci
ties of the brigands the Papal Government, they
say, is about to distribute arms to the peasantry.
Meanwhile, public security is in so precarious a
state that landlords, fearing that the municipalities
have neither means nor authority to protect proper
ty, have actually taken the gen d’armes into their
private service, paying them as much as 2fr. a day.
The following tragical event occurred here on the
3d. Countess Mazzauerato received a threatening
letter the day before, in which she was commanded
to send 300 scudi (15,000 frs )to a certain place, if
she wished the life of her husband to be respected.
She communicated the letter to the director of the
polioe, who sent two gen d’armes iu disguise to the
place pointed out—one of t hem was to conceal him
self, and tiie other was to speak to the robber, and
give him a bag having the appearance of contain
ing the sum specified. The gen d'armes according
ly went ; but the brigand, ou feeling the bag and
discovering that it was tilled with pebbles, drew his
knife and intiicted several wounds on the luckless
gen d’arme, who attempted to defend himself with
his pistol, but ineffectually, as it hung tire. His
comrade not coming to his assistance, he would in
evitably have fallen a victim, had not a guard in
the service of the Mazzaeurato family come up in
time, shot the brigand through the heart, and fright
ened away the others, who were coming to his as
sistance.”
The Cuban Slave Trade. —A letter from Ha
vana states that the slave trade betweeu Cuba and
Africa is very active, and adds :
“Two landings ou the South side count 963 ne
groes ; on the North, East of Cardenas, 374 or 375 ;
1337 in all—having lost by death on the voyages
thirty-six in the three vessels, showing unusual care
for the comfort of their victims. The importation
of slaves is perfectly systematised, aud with the
best will for its prevention, iu conformity with
the won s of interdiction uttered and reiterated
by the Captain-General, can be carried on with
impunity : especially as long as your merchant
princes, ship-builders, <scc., are interested in its pur
suit.
ki The orders of the Cuban traders are eagerly
sought for in your ship-yards, and ten per cent, of
overt profit will make some of your veriest saints
sinners in Africa. At any rate, Yankee ingenuity
and Yankee enterprise serve to defeat the best ef
forts of this Government for the suppression of the
slave trade, and they may well give up in despair.
The complaints belong at home more than here at
the present time, for without a tile of soldiers for
every 1800 miles of sea coast, and each one imbued
with the power and the spirit of Concha, it could not
be prevented, with the temptation that is held out
for success/’
Our Country.— The population of the eleven in
fant colonies in 1701 was *262,000 souls. Georgia
and Delaware were added to the number about 1749,
and the census reports give us 1,046,000 In the
year 1775. the thirteen collides had 2,303,000 whites
and 500,000 slaves. After the adoption of the pre
sent Constitution, in 1790, there were thirteen
States, with 3,172,664 whites, 50,456 free colored,
and 697,807 slaves. In 1850, the States had increas
ed to thirty-one, and the population to 19,550,000
whites, 434.000 free colored, and 3,204,000 slaves. —
The total population at this time is approaching
thirty millions. The number of electoral votes is
296, requiring 149 to elect a President bv the people.
The Northern States have 176, and the Southern
120.
A tragedy took place in Lockport, X. Y., on Tues
day* exhibiting such revolting cruelty as to be al
most incredible. A little bov, five years of age, be
longing to a Mrs. Story, on Wasliburton street, was
roasted alive by a fiend in human shape, named
Elizabeth Craig, a white woman whose husband is
a negro. The evidence elicited before the Coro
ners jury, shows that the victim was left with a
smaller child by its mother, when Elizabeth Craig,
who lived in another portion of the house, took the
opportunity, and entered the apartment and pro
ceeded to the execution of the deed, which, it has
been shown, she had previously threatened. With
horrid imprecations, the child was held on the fire
by its tormentors, until its legs and bowels were
burned to a cinder, then, with satanic revenge, the
body of the child was reversed by the murderess
until its back was roasted to a crisp. It died a few
hours after, and the woman is now in jail.
The Tehuantepec Route.— We learn by a let
ter from New Y'ork that the brig Judge Bianey
sailed from that port a few days since forme Coats
coalcos, loaded with materials for the construction of
the Tehuantepec carriage road. Two vessels had
previously been dispatched ; but the contractor,
tmdin*: labor so abundant, sent for more tools. The
probability is that this route will be opened in Janu
ary next. It will make a vast difference in the
travel to and from California by very materially
lessening the time and distance.— Sat. Intel.
Pork from Europe. —lt is stated that the French
Government has shipped to the United States,
twenty thousand barrels of prime mess pork, pur
chased in Cincinnati, Ohio, during the Crimean war.
Being no longer wanted, it is sent back for a mar
ket
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
By the Arabia.
Correspondence of the Commerdal Advertiser.
London, Oct. 10, 1856.—The monetary crisis at
Paris is the sole subject of attention. The letters
each day and the hourly telegraphic quotations from
the Bourse are looked for with the greatest eager
ness, to show if a suspension of specie payments is
to settle the question, and to constitute a new epoch
in the history of France.
The imminence of the danger will be understood
from the fact, which may be received as positive
that some of the leading persons connected with the
Bank of France have already urged the necessity of
resorting to an inconvertible currency. They ap
prehend that if this step be not taken, the run for the
specie will not continue untii the coffers of the es
tablishment are completely drained, and they argue
that if a atop page is to be encountered, it will be
better that it should take place while yet they have
a good sum in hand. The Emperor, however, looks
with extreme repugnance ou the proposal. He sees
to some extent the political perils that would be con
sequent upon it, and the resolution, therefore, is that
it shall not be adopted until every palliative has
been tried in vain.
Among these palliatives lias been a resumption of
the gold purchases on this side. At the present
rates of exchange gold could n«»t be drawn from
London to Paris, but the Bank of France has given
orders to the Rothschilds' to purchase it at any cost.
To pay for it they resort to an increased issue of
notes, by which they buy up all the bills on London
ihev can find; but as this cannot alter the balance
trade, the result simply is that in the course of a
short time the gold which they obtain at a premium is
drained from them at its natural price. The opera
tion is exactly that of buying water at a penney a
pailful to fill a sieve, but within the present year the
Banks of France have thus actually expended about
SIOO,OOO.
The hope that a recovery may yet take place has
further been greatly damped by some proceedings
ou the part of the Government, which indicate not only
terror at the crisis but imbecility iu grappling witii
it. A hurried report has been put forth bv M. Magne
the Finance Minister, announcing that the revenue
calculations for the next year present the most sat
isfaetory prospects ; that the-present panic is whol
ly unwarranted :2tliat the balance of trade 13 in fa
vor of the country, that there is plenty of specie in
circulation ; and that there is not & single thing to
create uneasiness, except the wickedness of the
money changers who dare to offer a premium for
silver with the view of sending it abroad. This pro
duction was followed by the issue of a police order
against the practice in questions, and also by a noti
fication to the newspapers that they are not to
enter upon anyjfinancial discussions.
Nevertheless, many looking at the affair at a dis
tance, may fiud difficulty iu believing that it can
have come to such a point as to warrant the appre
hension entertained. It is plain that the external
demand for specie must by this time have been al
most fully met by the sums exported, and conse
quently, that it ;s only from the home panic that the
dreaded catastrophe can arise. Whether the blind
alarm of the people has yet reached an ungoverna
ble height, is a matter upon which an opinion can be
formed only by persons on the spot. The publica
tion of the regular monthly balance sheet, which
has taken place to-day, was looked forward to as
likely to exert a considerable influence, either in re
storing confidence or precipitating a collapse. The
prospect now’ is that its influence will be in the latter
direction, since although the expose was expected
to be a disastrous one, it exceeds the worst anticipa
tions hitherto entertained ou this side.
The bullion tlurii g the month has experienced a
further reduction equal to 113,850,000, and the ag
gregate amount now held is only $33,300,000 while
the outstanding note circulation is $1*22,500,000. —
Such proportions are altogether unprecedented in
France, where the people have never yet become
thoroughly habituated to a paper currency, and it in
to be feared that the discovery of the fact - will lead
to an increased rush. Even at the present rate of
efflux, the Bank would be thoroughly drained in a
little more than two months, and as a panic always
increas towards its last moments in a geometrical
ratio, there is reason to apprehend that if tilings do
not at once take a favorable turn, the conclusion
will only be a question of a few days.
It is vain to speculate on the moods of the people
at such a crisis ; as they are acting under headlong
impulses, a feather may turn them one way or the
other ; and the French Government ought to be
best able to estimate the impulses they have to
work upon. If persons in London, however, were
to judge of the probabilities of the case by putting
themselves in the place of the Parisians, they would
have felt that the attempt to regulate the course of
the precious metals by transferring the subject fiom
the finance to the police department, and to inspire
confidence in the situation oy prohibiting any dis
cussion upon it, had at once extinguished every
prospect of extrication.
Os course the monetary disturbance has continued
to put the Naples demonstration into the shade. It
is reported, however, that King Ferdinand has sig
nified his willingness to udopt any measures that
may be unanimously recommended by the ap
proaching Congress which is to assemble at Paris to
settle the Turkish boundary and other points left
open by the peace plenipotentiaries at their former
meeting. Spectator.
Postscript. —Since the above was written, the
telegraph has brought the closing quotations of this
evening from the Paris Bourse. They show an im
provement of a quarter per cent, and it is therefore
to be iulerred that the bank statement has, at least,
not produced an increase of apprehension.
Paris, Oct. 9, 1856.—Since the Emperor’s return
on Thursday evening last, there has been great ef
fort on the part of the Government to meet the va
rious questions that now unsettle the political and
commercial worlds. Three or four Cabinet councils
have been held at St. Cloud, under the presidency
of the Emperor, and a great movement seems to be
goiug on in the various departments of state.
The question which more nearly interests the peo
ple of Paris, this week, is one of an entirely local
churacter; and it is this which has occupied the
greater portion of the Government consultations.
I refer to the threatened commercial crisis. The
stringent measures adopted by the Bank of France
contribute more than anything else to the panic
which reigns. At a moment when the Bourse seem
ed on the point of relieving itself from the condition
into which it had fallen, from causes which I men
tioned in my last letter, this action of the Bank pro
duced a bad effect, and served to throw the funds
back again to the low point at which they have
stood for some time. On Saturday, last, it is said,
M. Gautier, under-governor ot the Bank, went to
St. Cloud in a desperate state of mind, to see the
Emperor. The Emperor was absent in the park, on
a hunting excursion with the Empress. The per
sistence of M. Gautier was so great, that the mo
ment his Majesty returned he obtained an audience.
He demanded of the Emperor, with great vivacity,
that the forced circulation of the bills of the Bank
should be authorized. The consideration which M.
Gautier urged for this extraordinary measure seem
ed to proceed from the most profound conviction of
its necessity. The Emperor was opposed to the
measure personally, but he promised to bring it be
fore the council the next day, which he did, and it
was rejected almost unanimously.
As the result of the council of Friday, the Minis
ter of Finance has published a long report to quiet
public fears, which places the state of the treasury,
the bank, and the general resources of the country
in a flattering light. He does not believe that there
is any need of so much alarm, and hopes that the
present panic will pass without failures—a result
which is almost impossible.
The directors of the different political journals
were called on Monday to the “bureau of general
surety,” at the Ministry of the Interior, and request
ed to be very circumspect on the subject of the cri
sis. They were also asked to banish from their ex
change bulletins the notices which were designed to
propagate the new commerce of brokers in the
value of pieces of silver, a species of speculation to
which the Administration has offered a direct ob
stacle, by interdicting the announcement of the
premiums offered with this view and placed on the
outside of the offices of brokers. The akirm which
prevailed last week on the trade in five franc pieces
nas partially subsided since the announcement of
these new measures by the Government, and it is
said even that silver begins to return into France. —
But this may only be an announcement to calm the
public mind.
At this moment they fabricate daily at the Mint of
Paris 2,800,000 francs—ss6o,ooo—in 20 franc gold
pieces ; 300,000 francs—s6o,ooo—in 10 franc gold
pieces ; and they have just begun, by necessity and
against a former decree of the Minister, to manu
facture gold pieces of five francs, of which they will
turn out about 300.000 francs daily. As to the
pieces of 50 francs ($10) in gold, a Ministerial de
cree has suppressed their coinage for a given time,
and no more of these or of pieces of 100 francs will
be issued, unless upon a specific order. The amount
of silver coined daily is much inferior to that of gold,
and lately has been confined to pieces of one franc
aud half a franc. The coining of 5 franc pieces in
silver, however, will immediately commence with
all the vigor which the meagre supply of this metal
will admit, in order, if possible to make up for the
vacuin caused by the exportation of this piece into
foreign countries.
The affairs of Naples, as mentioned in iny last, no
longer possess the bellicose appearance which is at
tempted to be given to them across the channel.
Without ceasing to be a grave question, it is yet no
longer regarded as one likely to bring about a con
flict. In Paris, financial and commercial affairs
have this week almost caused Naples to be forgot
ten. The only fact of a salient character connected
with this question is that Admiral Dundas, with two
English vessels, had arrived at Ajaccio.
It now appears that the new conference of Paris, in
which this Neapolitan question, as well as the ques
tions connected with the late war, are to be settled,
will convene ia this city about the 15th of next
month. The Neufchatel difficulty, and the proposi
tion of Mr. Marcy on maritime law, it is expected,
will also be considered by this Congrees. Con
gree es are now the fashion, and it is to be hoped
that they will inaugurate an era of progress in civili
zation.
The note of Prince Gortschakoff, which last week
occupied so much attention, has lost much of its
interest, at least of its alarming character, by the
discovery* that it was read to Count Walewski and
other Ministers of foreign Governments three weeks
before its publication ; and that its reading to these
Ministers was accompanied with such verbal ex
planations as divested it of all the offensiveness
which has been attributed to it since.
Os the suspicions expressed in England, that
Austria is playing a double game with Russia in the
affair of Naples, we have positively no confirma
tion at Paris ; and there is every reason to believe
that they rest mainlv upon the well known reputa
tion of Austria in this speciality in diplomacy. It is
safe to say this much, however, that no reliance can
be placed upon any position which she may profess
to take oil the question.
It is now generally admitted that .the Emperor of
France, before leaving the Spanish frontier to return
to Paris, wrote an autograph letter to the Queen of
Spain, in which he counselled her to retain O'Don
nel aud Rios Rozas at all .hazards. This letter, if
really written, will doubtless strengthen the position
of these gentlemen, and predictijns as to their fate
become less valuable in consequence. Narvaez
had arrived at Madrid, and his movements are atten
tively watched.
Arrests continue to be made in Paris of individu
als" suspected of conspiring against the life of the
Emperor. The conduct of his Majesty on the oc
casion of his retnm to Paris, and since, give the
impression to the public that these arrests are based
upou facts which fully warrant the utmost rigor of
the police. His entry into Paris was private, unan
nounced as regards the hour, and made under the
most cautious circumstances. His carriage, which
was closed, was surrounded by mounted men, and
instead of passing over the usual route, they passed
rapidly through the city by the river quays. The
same precautions were observed on Monday even
ing when he went to the opera.
Americis.
Losdos Mosey Market, Friday evening, Oct.
10—The rate of discount has been increased 1 per
cent, since our last, and now rules at 6 per cent, for
bills under sixty days, and 7 per cent, for those of
longer date.
Trie arrivals of specie have been moderate, and
almost wholly from the United States, the entire of
whieh have been swallowed in the export demand.
The arrival of the Champion of the Seas, now
overdue, is looked for anxiously at this crisis, as
she is expected to have a large quantity of gold on
board.
The return from the bank of Englandfor the week
ending the 4th of October, gives the following re
sults when compared with the previous week :
Public deposits... £7,759.490 I Decrease £650,361
Other deposits...-10.3iE1.813 Increase 366,749
Rest 3,785,466 | Increase 31,072
On the other side of the account: —
Gov't, securities £11,464,276 | Decrease £500,675
Other securities 21,562,464 Increase 1,966,080
Notesunemployed.3,77s.s9o | Decrease 1,604,120
The amount of the notee in circulation is £20,-
1 920,155, being au iucrease of £ 701,925, and the stock
ot bullion in both departments is £ 10,750,257,
showing a decrease of £985,115, when compared
with the preceding returns.
The greatly increased value of money has in some
measure checked the heavy demand for specie, but
still large orders are in the market, and more are
anticipated ou arrival of the next China mail ; pri
ces, therefore, are not quoted lower. The future
will, of couise, depend much ou the operations of
the Bank of England, it being important to put a
stop to the present enormous aeuiat d for export. If
the efforts to do this are successful, prices must come
down.
English securities have been subjected to many
variations, owing to the stringent state of the money
market, aud the rapid advance by the Bank of Eng
land in its rates of discount. The uncertain state of
the political world, as lar as regards Naples, tends to
increase the dullness. Y esteraay was pay day in
consols, and the difference of the last monthly ac
count have been liquidated. A failure was announ
ced in the Stock Exchange, but it was not of i mpor
tance. Consols opened 91|to91§, when they ad
vanced to 91 at which there were alternatively
buyers and sellers until the afternoon. The market
then showed increased steadiness, and the final pri
ces were 91 £to 91f for money, and 911 to 92 for the
6th of November. To-day the market was very
firm, closing at the following rates :—Consols for ac
count, 92 S> 92o ; ditto for money, 9s‘&9ls.
From the Louden Times , Oct. 11.
Thk Bank of France.— The monthly returns of
the Bank of France, published yesterday, although
it appears not to have produced a bad effect at
Paris, is little calculated, when taken in conjunction
with the police proceedings against the bullion
dealers, to diminish the anxiety regarding that es
tabUshment. It exhibits a further fallen off of
£2,770,000 in the stock of specie, which is now’
reduced to £6,650,000, without any proportionate
contraction hiving taken place iu liabilities, the re
duction in the note circulation, which was previ
ously £24,800,000, being only £336,000. At the
same time the unfavorable character of these figures
is greatly aggravated by the fact that they do not
represent the full extent of the drain, since an ex
penditure of £25,(H10, (equal to 2$ per cent, on n
million sterling) has been incurred during the mouth
iu purchasing gold at a loss, which to the extent of
the total thus artificially brought in, must lesson the
receipts to be relied upou for the feature. Even
supposing these purchases to be continued, os will
mostly likely be the case, although at nu increasing
cost, the process of exhaustion at its present rate
would be completed iu little over two months.—
There is, therefore, no cause for surprise at the in
tensity of the impressions lately felt as to the im
pending peril. The other figures of the return pres
ent an extraordinary increase of £2,900,000 in the
discounts, consequent upon the rush to obtain a full
supply of moueybefore the recent advance in the
rate, and an increase of £700,000 in the.deposits,
which is to be attributed, it may be presumed, to
this supply having been considerably beyond the
commercial requirements of the moment. The ad
vance on stocks and shares remain almost without
alteration, the former showing a decrease of only
£92,000 und the latter of £7,000. The Govern
ment balances present a decrease of nearly £700,-
000.
The private letters from Paris state that during
the last two days the drain from the Bank of France
has partially subsided, the amounts withdrawn not
having exceeded half of those taken ou the two
previous days. The view for the moment was,
therefore, less desponding, aud’the idea of a volun
tary suspension ot specie payment is said to have
been abandoned, the Emperor being inflexibly oppo
sed to it.
Mouths of the Danube, Sept. 29.—We have
been thunderstruck here by the intelligence that
four thousand Austrian soldiers had suddenly poun
ced upon Galiz and occupied it—done the same at
Ibrail —and seized all the ports of the * Danube.—
The Constantinople Journal speaks only of Ibrail
being occupied, but no doubt both have been so.
They have not only quarteredJheir troops in these
towns, but they have taken possession of police and
post offices, so that all persons and communications
must pass through then* hands. This of course
shuts the door in the face of the commissaries charg
ed to consult with the principalities, and you may,
in consequence, expect Sir Henry Bulwer home.—
You will be better able to judge than I am the
cause of this defiance to the Western Powers. Is it
a set off for any demonstration of ours against Na
ples, and a significant declaration that if we carry
out our liberal poilcy in Italy, Austria will cany
out a contrary one upon the Danube and in the Eux
ine ? This would be a very grave challenge, for
Austria is not the power to cast that challenge, it' it
did not know that it was supported by some other
power, aud there is none to support it in such a poli
cy except Russia.
I)«*N|ttitcii from Governor Geary.
Washington, Out 27.—Among the official de
spatches received here to-day from Governor Geary
of Kansas, ia one dated Lecompton, Oct. 15, in
which he details the circumstances attending the ar
rest of an organized band consisting of about 240
persons among whom were very few women and
children, comprising seven families. This party
was regularly form d in millitary order under the
command of General Pomeroy, Colonels Eidridge
aud Perry und others. They had with them twenty
wagons, in which were a supply of new arms, most
ly muskets, with bayonets and sabres, and a lot of
saddles, Sc c., sufficient to equip a battalion consis
ting one fourth of cavalry and the remainder infan
try. Besides these new arms, which Gov. G. says
were evidently intended for military purposes, and
which were in the wagons, and the search of which
was strongly objected to.
The emigrants were provided with shot guns,
rifles, pistols, knives, etc., sufficient for the ordmafy
uses of pel s ns travelling in Kansas or any other
western Territories. From the reports of the ofli
cers it appears they had with them neither oxen
household furniture, mechanics tools, agricultural
implements, nor any of the necessary appurtenances
of peaceful settlers.
They were permitted to pursue their journey un
der the escort of a squadron of dragoons, and subse
quently Governor Geary according to promise met
them near Topeaka. They apologized for their evi
dent and undeniable disregard of his proclamation
which apology, though plausable, was far from be
ing satisfactory.
After welcoming them as peaceful emigrants and
assuring them that he woula positively enforce his
proclamation und suffer no party of men to enter or
travel through the territory with a warlike or hostile
appearance, to the terror of the peaceful citizens,
and the danger of renewing the disgraceful and
alarming scenes which the inhabitants had so recent
ly passed through. Governor Geary insisted upon
the immediate disbandment of the combination
which was agreed to with alacrity. The majority
of the men were evidently gratified to learn that
they had been deceived in relation to Kansas af
fairs, and that peace and quiet, instead of strifeland
contention, were reigning there. His remarks were
received with frequent demonstrations of approba
tion, and at the cloee the organization was broken
up and the members dispersed in various directions.
After they had been dismissed from custody and
the fact announced by Major Selby their thankful
ness for his kind treatment toward them during the
time he held them under arrest was expressed by
giving him three hearty cheers.
In conclusion Gov. Geary expressed his regret
that societies exist in some of the States whose ob
ject is to tit out such parties as the one just descri
bed, and send them to Kansas to their own injury
and the destruction of the general welfare of the
country. He says: “Very many persons arc in
duced to come out here under flattering promises
which are never fulfilled, uud having neither money
to purchase food and clothing nor trade or occupa
tions at which to earn au honest livelihood are driv
en to the necessity of becoming either paupers or
thieves; and such are the unfortunate men who
have aided materially in filling up the measure of
crimes that have so seriously affected the prosperity
of Kansas.
“It is high time this fact should be clearly and gen
erally understood. This territory at the present
season of the year and especially under exciting cir
cumstances offers no inducement for the immigra
tion of the poor tradesman or laborer. The country
is overrun with hundreds who are unable to obtain
employment, who live upon charity and who are ex
posed to all the evils of privation, destitution and
want.”
Among the documents is the report of the immi
grants to Gov. Geary complaining of the rough
treatment they received from the troops acting as
they understood under the orders of Mr. Preston, the
Deputy United States Marshal, declaring their mis
sion to Kansas to be peaceful, having no organiza
tion save one of police for their own regulation and
defence on the way. And, coming in that spirit to
the territory, they claimed the right of American
citizens to bear arms and be exempt from unlawful
search or seizure.
Capt. Silbey, who had them in charge says they
were never for one moment made to feel the res
traints of military discipline, but on the contrary re
lieved from the onerous duty and necessity of night
ly guards, and assisted rather than retarded in their
journey. The Captain, agreeable to Gov. Geary's
instructions restored such of the arms as were claim
ed as individual property.
The Election in Indiana.
It is claimed by the Republicans that if the. bal
lots were purged of the fraudulent votes cast at the
polls during the recent elections for State officers,
the Fremont ticket would have been successfully
carried by a majority of more than 10,000.
In thirteen counties of the State, fraudulent votes
have been detected, covering more than Willard’s
majority. In DeKalb, Noble, Width ; . Allen, Cass
and Huntingdon, over five hundred 1 Uh laborers,
freshly arrived, were brought forward by the De
mocracy and voted.
“The facts as they have been furnished from the
bestsources,” says the Indianapolis Journal, “prove
indisputably that thousands of railroad workers,
who have no residence in the State, coming upon
the call of such hand-bills as we saw posted up about
the city, and are always flying thick when an elec
tion is approaching, and staying only till another
job calls them to another location, with no intention
of remaining a moment beyond the completion of
the contract they are upon, voted in all the counties
in the Northern part of the State and along the Wa
bash, aud in the central section, where railroads
were being made, or made their transportation to
a desired point easy and cheap. These tacts cannot
be disputed, and are not denied. But the claim
that such men are legal voters, is impudently ad
vanced in the very face of law and reason. Thus
frauds are defended aud excused, and elections are
carried against the citizeus by wandering bands of
hired voters.”
Where a portion of these illegal voters came from,
may be understood by a statement made in the
Louisville Journal. That paper says that “fully
three-fourths of the Irishmen 1 1 work on the Louis
ville and Portland Canal were discharged. On
Monday and Tuesday few or none of them could be
faund in this city, but the vote of Fl >yd county, In
diana, just opposite here, was increased about the
number jof discharged Irishmen.—Ball. Pat.
Affray—Probably Fatal. —Yesterday, in the
forenoon, an affray occurred in front of the Wil
liams’ Grocery, opposite the Perry House, in this
city, between Mr. Peter Edgar and Wm. T. Price
and his son John Price, in which Edgar received a
cut in the head with a butcher knife, inflicted by
Wm. T. Price, and three stabs in the back—one
very large one near the region of the heart—with a
knife, inflicted by John Price. The large cut was
to the hollow and very large—made large evidently
by a wrench of the knife. It is thought Edgar can
not survive his injuries.
The affray is said to have originated from a very
trivial cause. Edgar was slightly intoxicated, and
some words passed between W. T. Price and him
self, in a jocular way, when Price drew the butcher
knife and struck at him, when knocked him
down with his fist. Price then rose and came at
him again, and inflicted the wound on the head,
when they both came to the ground. While down,
John Price gave Edgar the stab in the back. In
the excitement of the moment they were permitted
to escape. They are said to have crossed to the
Alabama side of the river. The Sheriff of Musco
gee and Deputy Marshal Robinson are in pursuit of
them, but with no success up to the time of going
to press.
Wm. T. Price is about forty-five years of age,
five feet eight inches high, has black hair and
eyes, dark skin, sharp features, is stoop shoul
dered, and his lingers present the appearance of
deformity, having been affleted with bone
felon.
John price is about eighteen years of age, chunky
build, has black hair and eyes, and weighs from 110
to 120 lbs.
From all we can learn, the Prices are very bad
men, and the public, wherever they may go, are in
terested in having them brought to justice.—Colutu
bu» Sun , Oct 29.
Hogs in Ohio.— The total number of hogs in
Ohio over six months old on the Ist of April, 1856,
was 1,740,972, against 2,044,003 the previous year.
This estimate includes all the counties but seven.
From the A. O. Picayune.
Later from the Rio Grande—Success of Vl
datirri.
Tiie Nueces Valley, of the 18th, has received by
private hand,advices from the Mexican frontier up
to the 12th inst. Vidaurri, at the head of his forces,
had marched from Monterey upon Mier, aud en'er
ed that town without any resistance, as Garza’s
forces retired to Camargo. That paper says:
Ihe possession of Mier supplied Vidaurri with the
much ueeded “sinews of war,” as anumberof mer
chants had their stock of goods ready to pass
through that place for the Monterey market, and
they made him the necessary cash advances to satis
fy his claims for introduction duties. From Mier
Vidaurri moved on against Camargo, with every
prospect of takiug that place, without much loss, as
it was well known that of the troops defending it—
consisting of the National Guard from Guerrero,
Mier, Camargo, Reynosa and Matamoras—only
those of the latter place were really hostile to Vi
dauiTi’s principles ; and it was after all more than
expected that terms of au arrangement would be
patched up betweeu them. But, in any event, Vi
daurri’s troops were more than sufficient to
make resistance from the opposing party unsuc
cessful.
Col. Jordan commands Vidaurri’s Artillery, lie
commanded this corps at the battle of Saltillo, a year
ago last May. when Santa Anna’s General, Guitian,
was shamefully whipped, chiefly owing to the man
ner in which \ idaurri’s Artillery was mameuvred.
Col. Juau Zuazua, in command of his Lampazos
Riflemen, is also aloug with Vidaurri.
[This conflicts with our former accounts from
Tampico, where it was officially announced that
Colonel Zuazua had abandoned Vidaurri, aud si
ded with Governor Garza. We are inclined to
think these latter advices are correct. — Editors
Picayune. ]
Gen. Canales has been on the American side of
the Rio Grande for some time, waiting a favorable
opportunity to “pitch in,” and take advantage of
circumstances.
The former Governor of Tamaulipae, Don Jesus
Cardenas, is also on our safe side of the lvio, with
the same intentions It is believed by both that
Vidaurri has the best chances of success, and they
are ready to fraternize.
Messrs. Mathew and thomas Nolan, who left Ca
margo ou the night of the 11th inst., after having
participated in several skismishes betweeu the belli
gerent forces, in company withothei.Americans, re
port the following news:
The fighting commenced ou the 10th, and up to
the night of the llth, success had not favored either
party. Vidaurri has 3,000 men under his command,
sonic of whom are Americans. Camargo is de
fended by 1,300 Mexicans, under command of Gen.
Garza. Camargo is situated about three miles
from Rio Grande City, on the opposite side of the
river, and the troops of the contending forces are
scattered up and down the river for several miles.
011 Suuday last, Gen. Carvajal was sent for by Gen.
Garza, to take command of the Government forces,
lie had gone down to Camargo, but whether he had
accepted the invitation is not known. No general
engagement had taken place, but Gen. Vidaurri had
sent a despatch to Gen. Garza, informing him that
uuless he surrendered the town immediately, hi*
should commence to bombard it. [Besides several
pieces of heavy ordance, Vidaurri has four howit
zers, or mortars, in his possession.] Garza sent
word for Vidaurri to “pitch in!” aud immediately
proceeded to fortify himself.
This was the state of affairs ou the other side of
the river, when the Messrs. Nolan left.
The accounts from the Rio Grande concur in sta
ting that Vidaurri is popular on botli sides of the
river, and has at his command money and men suffi
cient to enable him to prosecute the pending revolu
tion to a successful issue.
In addition to the foregoing we have been favor
ed with ail extract from a private source to a gen
tleman of high standing in our city, which states that
Geu. Vidaurri lmd possession ot Mier aud, proba
bly, Camargo also ; and that he was making ar
rangements with merchants along the line for the in
troduction of goods into Nuevo Leon. The excite
ment at Rio Grande City was very great in conse
quence ot these events.
Texas Items.
The Austin Times , of the 18th, notices the arrival
of Mr. A. J. Byrd in that city, direct from Fort
Belknap, and says:
The Indians on the Reservation, when Mr. Byrd
left, were quiet.
About three weeks since a party of Wichitas
made a descent upon the settlements, and carried
off nine 01* ten horses and mules. They came close
to Fort Belknap without being discovered.
Near a month since a stealing party of ten In
dians, said to be Keechies, but generally thought to
be Northern Camanches, made a foray upon the
frontier, and took off’upwards of fifty animals be
longing to sundry persons. They passed almost
within sight of Cainp Cooper, a cavalry post, where
they stole horses and mules from Charles Barnard
and others. They also robbed Mr. Harvey Mat
thews of fifteen head of horses and mules within
five miles of Fort Belknap. The troops at this post
made no movement for the recovery of the stolen
property; but the force is all infantry, and they
could have effected little or nothing. The mounted
men from Fort Cooper pursued the Indians ; were
out two days, and returned witii the usual regular
luck —not having seen or done anything. These are
but two of many such occurrences transpiring on the
frontier.
There are complaints of the inefficiency of the
troops stationed on Ihe Texas line north of the Col
orado. The friendly Delawares, Shawnees and Cad
does of the Reservation are the only dread of the
Indian depredators. Thay follow them with perse
verance, and fight them with skill and gallantry.—
The others do not fancy the kind of fun they get in
these encounters with their more civilized breth
ren.
A war should be made upon the Northern Coman
ches the Wacos and Wichitas. The most appropri
ate and effective force for the prosecution of a cam
paign against these tribes would be the citizen sol
diers of Texas, aided by the above mentioned
friendly Indians. Jose Maria, Caddo chief, has
said he could put an end to this predatory war with
in eight months, or charge the government nolhing
in case of a failure.
The Corpus Christi Valley of the Bth inst., has the
following:
At Rio Grande City there was great excitement,
not ouly in consequence of the fighting upon the
opposite side of the river, but, to a great extent,
produced by a personal difficulty between Captain
John S. Edmondson, of this city, and Mr. Andrew
Wright, of Victoria, which resulted in the death of
both parties. All day, ou the 10th, they had been
together, in Camargo, and at night crossed the riv
er, and were iu a drinking house at Rio Grande
City. A dispute arose between them, and a real or
imaginary insult was passed, when Wright drew a
six-shooter aud shot Edmondson through the side.—
Capt. E. grasped his revolver, and, with uneering
a’m, shot Wright through the breast. Both parties
expired almost immediut ly.
The Columbia Democrat, of the 21st inst. says :
The cotton parking for the last two weeks has
been very much retarded. There are some com
plaints that cotton is sprouting anew.
Ou Thursday morning last we had the first frost
of the season.
There whs a frost, at Gonzales on the mornings of
the 16th and 17th inst.
The Gonzales Inquirer is informed that the cot
ton crop of tlmt county cannot possibly exceed one
third of what was raised last year—some say one
fourth.
Trying to make a run on a Bank. —Last Sat
urday night, about eight o’clock, a white man dis
guised as a negro, called Mr. James Farley, of the
Banking House of John Henley & Co., from his
residence, on the pretence that sone one wanted to
see him at the Bunking House. Mr. Farley went, but
did not go the way the negro indicated—through a
vacant lot. When lie got to the Bank, he found no
one wishing to see him, and suspecting something,
he sent the police to the vacant lot. The conspira
tors had left, but a passenger was hailed—took fright
and ran—and was shot at by the police.
Mr. F., on his return, found the pretended negro
near his house, and after some conversation, drew a
pistol and ordered him to stand—but lie didn’t. Mr.
F. fired at him jus he ran.
The object of all this mano:uvering was to get
Mr. Farley to a rather secluded spot, and to rob
him of the Bank keys. He had been warned a
day or two previously, that certain suspicious
persons habitually lurked about his premises of
an evening. They were perfectly well known by
sight to a number of persons in town. They have
temporarily withdrawn from society, we under
stand.
lc this case the Bank made the run on the outsi
ders—showing a heavy financial condition.—Mont
gomery Mail.
A Stimulant to Patriotism. —William Lang is
the name of a trumpeter lad who wont to the Cri
mea at the age of thirteeen. He was frightened at
the whistling of the cannon balls on the banks of the
Alma for the space of half an hour, but never has
been afruid of them since. The night after the bat
tle he was found by an officer lying under a bush
half dead from exhaustion ; he was wrapped in a
horse rug and carried to the camp, where he speedily
recovered. He sounded his trumoet at Bulakluva,
at Inkennann, and during the who*le siege at Sebas
topol. His comrades gave him the highest praise
for his intrepidity. He would ride througn a storm
of shot to carry provisions to men in the trenches,
and when he could be spared he attended the sick
with all the care of a Nightingale. He returns to
his native town of Woolwich decorated with the
medal with four clasps, the youngest but not the
least gallant hero of the war.— English, jiaprr.
Mr. Fillmore in Louisiana. —The following is
an extract of a letter from a prominent merchant in
New Orleans, dated October 18,185 G:
I am glad you think so well of Mr. Fillmore’s pros
pects, and hope Maryland will not falter. I think
Louisiana is perfectly safe for him. We will give a
tremendous majority for him iu this city. It is a rare
thing to see a Buchanan man about here now-a
days. 1 consider the thing about certain now that
Millard Fillmore will be our next President. Don’t
be afraid of Louisiana. We are all Fillmore men
here. We keep the ball rolling, and shall continue
to do so until the day after election.
Fire at Aiken. —We learn by private letter re
ceived in this city from Aiken, S. G\, dated the 28th
instant, that the kitchen on the premises of Dr.
Amory Coffin, took fire on the night of the 27th,
and was burnt to the ground. The most unfortun
ate incident was, the burning up of a favorite negro
woman, who for very many years had been a nurse
in the family of Dr. Coffin.— Charleston Courier.
Letter from Fremont.— The San Francisco
papers publish a letter from Col. Fremont, in an
swer to a letter of enquiry about political matters
andressed him by the Editor of the Evening Bulle
tin. The same letter was addressed to the other two
Presidential candidates, but neither of them an
swered. The Bulletin says Fremont’s letter has
given great satisfaction to the citizens generally.
Presbyterianism and Slavery in Canada.—
The Presbyterian Church in Canada, in Synod as
sembled, has enjoined its Presbyteries to be careful,
in admittingjto fellowship Presbterian'ministers from
the United States, to examine them on the subject
of slavery, and to be satisfied before receiving them
that their views accord with the resolution passed
by the Synod in 1850 and 1853, asserting non-fellow
ship with slaveholders.
Dr. Crane, the Phrenologist. —The Wilming
ton North Carolina Times says : Dr. Crane squatted
here for a short time in Virginia not long since, and
there he left the lady he took from Portsmouth, to
her fate, and it is said trotted off with the lady of
his landlord 1 Officers are in hot pursuit of the de
mon, and if captured, he will pay dear for his impu
dence. We warned the public a week or two ago,
to watch that man.
Artificial Fish. —There was a new feature at
the Agricultural Fair at Cleveland, Ohio—a show of
fish raised artificially. They are chiefly spotted
brook trout, from six months to two years old, and
were in a large tank with glass sides, supplied with a
running stream of ice water. Doctors Garlich and
Arckley. who furnish the exhibition, have quite a
‘•fish raising” about two miles from Cleveland. I i
pond are thousands of| fish, principally trout, all
raised by artificial means.
How to Avoid Sleepless Nights.— At a la'.e
meeting of the Scottish Curative Mesmeric Asso
ciation, held in Edinburgh, Mr. A. J. Ellis announced
to the audience that if they wished to avoid sleep
less nights, they should lie with their heads to the
north —not on any account to lie with their heads to
the west.
Remarkable Fact. —ltiis a remarkable fact that
every man who has ever been presented by the abo
litionists as a candidate for the Presidency was a
Democrat ! Biniey, Gerritt Smith, John P. Hale,
Martin Van Buren, and John C. Fremont, were all
Democrats in good standing with their party, and
the “sage of Kinderhook” is now one of their
“shining lights !**
VOL. LXX.—NEW SERIES VOL. XX. NO. T>
The ReecYM Disaster on hone Island Sound.
The Boston Traveller, of Monday, says : Among
the incidents connected with the circumstances of
the gale of the 17th, some transpired as magnani
mous as others weieludicrous. When it was ascer
tained tliai the steamer Connecticut could uo longer
weather tiie head sea aud wind with safety, the cap
tain, already in a disabled condition, sent for Mr.
Brown, the pilot. After ordering him to put the ship
about, as the Inst hope, a person asked the pilot ou
his way to the wheel house, what was to be done.—
He replied—“ Put the vessel before the wind, and if
necessary die at my post.” The persevering con
duct of the engineer was equally praise worthy.—
Deaf to all enquiries and cries of danger alike ; not
unnerved by the harrowing scenes around him,
among the deck passengers, lie stood (the joint
power of the boat witii the pilot being in his hands)
at his critical post unmovea, until his coolness and
intrepidity was rewarded, by the half-wrecked craft
ploughing before the wind.
The delay in putting about—which, probably, will
be the subject of some condemnation—can be ac
counted for by sea faring men, and those acquaint
ed with the immense guards and upper works of an
ordinary Sound boat, deeply laden iu such a furious
gale, and seas literally mountains high—and when
this ''dernier resort this forlorn hope, was adopt
ed, the cry “look out for your guards,” naming
along the decks, and echoing from lip to lip, was
terrific. At this juncture, a demented man, and
how many such were there, was a “vis
a-vis” chair, minus the seats, with a ffieet, to
wards the forward doors of the upper saloon, al
ready to commit himself (beiug almost clad in life
preservers) to the boiling deep ; and when the ves
sel was actually about, and safe, comparatively, it
was difficult to persuade him to relinquish his liold
upon his frail craft.
During the rush through the uper saloon, and at
the heightii of the frenzied work of destruction-go
ing on among the passengers, a man burst open the
door of a state room and came upou a fellow passen
ger in tiie act of adjusting his means of safety.—
Fearing the loss of his last hope, the life-preserver,
he took up the key of his *t ite room door, present
ed it in the face of his intruder, and cried, "Another
step and you’re a dead man.” The discomfited
plunderer awful consternation, resolving for
ill** present to reserve a choice of deaths. The most
ridiculous part of the proceediug occurred iu the
morning, in the discussiou between the parties as to
who was iu earnest,and who thought tin* stateroom
key to be a revolver. We are strongly inclined to
be! eve the hallucination mutual, although each par
ty charged the other with fear and consternatiou.
Amid all the scenes of terror and confusion, how
ever, some of the passengers, and some few ladies
among them also, remained perfectly collected, and
by their conduct inspired others with hope aud con
fidence in the providence of God.
The Bergen Tunnel — A (treat Work. —As has
been already stated, the Long Dock Company,
chartered by the State of New Jersey, is cutting a
tunnel four thousand three hundred feet in length,
through the Bergen Ilill, about two miles from jer
sey City, for tin* use of the New Y'ork and Erie Rail
road,— the object be ng to afford a direct and inde
pendent approach to this city, for that great chan
nel of travel and traffic; to secure adequate depot
accommodations at the New York terminus of the
road, with extensive warehouse and dock privileges
for the trans-shipment of foreign bound freiglit ;
and especially to avoid the dangers of‘‘Bergen Cut,”
aris ug from the number of trains passing at that,
point.
The tunnel is cut directly through a ledge of hard
trap rock by drilling and blasting, and its construc
tion is a very formidable work. It will bo twenty
three feet in height mid twenty-nine feet six iuches
in width, affording ample space for two wideguage
track. It is estimated that 1,500 kegs of powder
will be used in cutting through. There are eight
perpendicular shafts or openings from the tunnel to
the Buface, varying iu depth from 70 to 90 feet. In
five of them the bottom has been reached, and the
drift (tunnel) commenced. The others are nearly
ready for tunnelling. The eight shafts and two Jnp
proaches will "resent eighteen faces where the rock
can be assailed, and with two Hets of men for day
and night, eighteen different gangs can bo employ
ed, numbering in all, about 1,200 men. The present
force is about 700, as a larger number could not now
be advantageously employed. Near the opening of
every shaft there is an engine t»f thirty-live horse
power, to pump water, i*uise stone and inject fresh
air. The large piles of stone near them show what
has already been accomplished. So far as practica
ble, the debris is carried, by means of locomotives,
to tlie proposed dock and depot ground between
Jersey City and Hoboken, to assist b filling out the
water front, which extends 1,130 feet, and will form
the bulkhead for six piers 800 feet in length. Four
steam excavators arc at work at this point.
A descent into the shafts is attended with very
peeuli: r emotiops. The visiter steps into a tub, and
13 instantly swung off over.a dismal orifice appar
ently bottomless, for the smoke, from repeated ex
plosions ot powder, rolls up as from a large chimney,
and only the dripping sides of the rock are visible.
But-just as tiie light, of day is almost gone, the tul)
strikes bottom, and the figures ol men are dimly
discovered, by the aid of numerous tallow caudles,
stuck upon the sides of the cavern with lumps of
clay. All is damp, murky, and cold, and the ear is
deafened with the noise of implements. Before and
behind are rows of workmen, each with his light,
diligently plying their tools, and slowly but surely
urging then* way through the adamantine walls.—
When all is in readiness lor an explosion, the men
retreat up the bucket, and to save time, it is so ar
ranged that the several explosions takes place sim
ultaneously. The shock is felt for a long distance,
and people residing within the circuit of a mile, are
often roused from their slumbers by its violence.—
The construct ion of this tunnel was commenced last
July. The contract says the work must be com
pleted by the 15th of December, 1857. James II-
Maiiery is the contractor. — Jour. Commerce.
Indian Excitement in Minnesota.— The Sioux
Indians in the vicinity of St. l*aul, Minnesota, are
in a high state of excitement, caused by the murder
of one of their number. It appears that on the 4th,
one of the Sioux Indians called at the house of a
Mr. Brannel and complained of having lost a blan
ket. Sympathizig with his loss, Mr. B. and his wife
started into the fields to assist iu finding it. He
wandered off some hundred yards, when the treach
erous Indian threw off the garb of his friendship,
and commenced u deadly assault upon Mrs. Bran
nel. lie held his victim firmly by the tiiroat, but
het cries for aid, I hough smothered and interrupted,
attracted her husband to the snot, who rushed to her
protection. At his approach the Indian left his vic
tim and turned upon Mr. B. with u drawn knife,
when the Frenchman seized a loaded rifle and shot
his assailant through tlie head.
The remaining Sioux in that vicinity are des 1
perate, and have sworn vengeance. They are con
tinually prowling around the place in bands of 50 1
to 75, declaring if they cannot revenge them
selves 011 Brainier, they will take some of his near- (
est neighbors—that they will have a white man’s 1
scalp to dance ou before they are content. The
neighbors are in constant tarror, and lmrdly dare to
leave their homes.
From Honduras.—The New Y'ork Herald's cor
respondent at Belize, Honduras, writing on 26th of ■
September, states that tlr* popular feeling against
Americans from the United States had obtained
such a height in Omoa andTruxillo that many of
our citizens had left the mines und other fields of
labor, in order to return home. Some of them died
at Belize. The reports from the goldmines are dis
couraging. Only a fine sand could be found in the
interior, and that was scarce. Pure gold had been
discovered 011 the const, near Truxillo, but the men
had only made one dollar u day as yet. Our desti
tute sailors and land travellers suffered greatly at
Belize, and a call is made on the Cabinet to provide
an aid fund. The merchants of Guatemala, Hon
duras, and San Salvador are represented as being
much incensed against Walker for Lis assumption
of the Presidency of Nicaragua, and vow his over
throw, with the aid of Chile and Peru. A very un
easy state of public feeling prevailed in Belize. On
the Rio Hondo—north—tiie Indians had commenced
to interfere with the mahogany cutters, and a chief,
named Lucianno Zue, huu seized on all the wood
cut ou that river, and demanded a payment of four
dollars per log for it. The t inber had been previ
ously bought on British account, from the Yucatan
people, with the consent of the Mexican govern
ment ; and if Zue did not give way some trouble was
expected. The weather was very hot.
The Territories.—There are now open for set
tlement the Territories of Minnesota, Oregon, Ne
braska, Washington, New Mexico, Utah and Kan
sas. These Territories contain, according to a com
pendium of the census of 1850, published in 1854,
the following area:
Miiinnesota 166,025 square miles.
Oregon 185,030 “ “
N ebrask a 325,882 “ “
Washington 122,022 “ “
New Mexico 207,007 “
Utah 299,170 “ “
Total 1,286,136 or 928,127,040 acres.
Kansas 114,798 or 73,470,720 “
The first named six Territories contain 1,286,136
square miles or 823,137,040 acres of land, as the total
area of all the States and Territories belonging to
Union is 2,936,166 square miles, they comprise near
ly one half of the whole. They run through seven
teen or eighteen degrees of latitude, and embrace
millions of acres of the finest laud and mineral de
posits, in the finest climate, on the finest rivers in
the world. What a noble prospect! With peace
and prosperity, wlmt may we not anticipate of the
future ! This country is merely in its infancy. Its
growtli in power and population has scarcely com
menced. Let us keep true to each other and tre
Union, and what a glorious heritage shall we be
queath to coming generations.— Phil. Inq.
The Ocean Telegraph.—The Journal of Coin
inerce gives some interesting facts concerning this
novel and roost important undertaking:
“The arrangements for laying the wire are not yet
complete, Mr. Field being at present in England
with reference to this matter; but we learn that the
telegraphic connection between this port and St.
Johns, N. F., is very nearly complete. An unex
pected delay arose from a miscalculation as to the
length of the wire required for going through Nova
Scotia, occasioned by inaccurate surveys, so that it
was necessary to return to England, and procure
twenty-five miles additional—making the whole
length of atmospheric wire J 25 miles. This portion
is nearly finished, and the two sub-marine cables
sunk between St. Johns and Prince Edward’s Island,
and across the Gulf of Sh Lawrence —one over fif
teen miles in length, and the other eighty-five—are
found to be complete, and iu the best working or
der. The entire expenditure on this important en
terprise, up to the present time, is between $600,-
000 and $700,000. The cost of the ocean survey is
defrayed by the United States Government.
The National Character of the Protestant
Episcopal Church. —The proposition introduced
in the General Convention of the Protestant Epis
copal Church, at Philadelphia, to give to the Gene
ra! Convention the initiative in the proceedings
against accused bishops, and taking it away from
the dioceses, was defeated, ns those who have read
our daily reports of the proceedings will have no
ticed.
There is a significance in this vote which perhaps
may not have struck the casual reader. It proves
the caution of I he convention, many of the members
having been really in favor of the proposed change,
on some accounts, yet voting against it rather than
incur the danger of bringing the slavery question
into the councils of the church. It also illus
trates the harmony of the convention and the ab
sence of all sectional lines, New York and Alabama,
and Louisiana, Pennsylvania and South Carolina
voting together.
While some other denominations of Christians in
our country have allowed themselves to be split up
into sectional divisions, by means of admitting this
firebrand into their councils, the Episcopal denom
ination has always sedulously avoided the snare
and the danger, and so far with complete fluent '.*,
and so, we do not doubt, will always continue to
do.— N. O. Picayune
A correspondent from Tully, Miss., writing to the
Baltimore luii, says : I saw yesterday one of the
greatest natural curiosities now extant—a snake
iith two heads, one at each extremity. Ihe body
wa- about two feet iong and two inches in diame
ter in the centre. The snake was well formed, large
in the centre, and gradually tapers to eaeb end,
with two perfect heads in every respect. But the
most novel thing to witness was its actions toward
the gentleman who caught it, running one way with
as much ease, apparently, as the other, with both
tongues out, each raging, apparently, with anger.—
I have no doubt many of your readers will look up
on this as false, (a snake story,) but it is a fact, and
can be vouched for by many of our most respectable
citizens.
Columbia, Oct. 30.—A dispatch from Washing
ton states that the Providence Bank of the Repnb
ic tailed yesterday.
Poetry Commerce,
The Hon. Edward Everett, whose brilliant
gtonuß gives a golden lingo of poetry to every
thing it touches, thus speaks of Commerce in his
late beautiful speech at the Peabody Testimonial:
Track its history for a moment from the earliest
period, in the infancy of the world its caravans,
like gigantic silkworms, went creeping through the
arid wastes of Asia and Africa, witu their infinitesi
mal legs, and bound tho human family together in
those vast regions as they bind it together now. Its
colonial establishments scattered the Grecian cul
ture all round the shores of the Mediterranean, a*:d
carried the adventurers of Tyre and Carthage to the
North of Europe and the South of Africa. The
walled cities of the middle ages prevented the arts
and refinements of life from being trampled out of
existence under the iron heel of the feudal powers.
Tho Ilanse Towns \vere the bulwark of liberty and
property on the North and West of Europe for ages.
The germ of the representative system sprang from
the municipal franchises of the boroughs. At the
revival of lette.rs, the merchant princes of Florence
received the fugitive arts of Greece into their pala
ces. The spirit of commercial adventure produced
that movement in the fifteenth century, which car
ried Columbus to America, and Vasco di Gama
around the Cape of Good Hope. The deep founda
tions of the modern system international law were
laid in interests and rights of commerce, and the
necessity of protecting them.
Commerce sprinkled the treasures of the newly
found Indies throughout the Western nations; it
nerved the arm of civil and religions liberty in tho
Protestant world—it gradually carried the colonial
system of Europe to the ends of the earth, and
with it the elements of future independent, civili
zed, republican governments. Put why should we
dwell on the past? What is it that gives vigor to
the civilization of the present day but the world
wide extension of commercial intercourse, by
which all the products of tlie earth and of the
oceau, of the soil, the mine, of tho loom, of the
forge, of bounteous nature, creative art and uu
tiriug industry, and brought by the agencies of
commerce into the universal market of demand
and supply ? No matter in what region a desira
ble product is bestowed on man by a liberal Provi
dence, or fabricated by human skill It may
clothe the hill * of China with its fragrant, foliage —
it may glitter in tli3 golden sandH of California—
it may wallow in the depth of tin.! Arctic seas—it
may ripeu and wh ten in the fertile plains of the
sunny South—it may spring forth from the dying
shuttles of Manchester, m England, or Manchester
in America—tue great world magnet of commerce
attracts it alike, and gathers it all up for the service
of man.
A Wki.i. of Gas n Macomb Co.—We learn from
the ML Cleinona Advocate that a j.,m* spring lms
been discovered on the premises of Mr. Rone, about
four mile* above New Baltimore, on the border of
Lake St.. Clair. Some workmen had been for a con
siderable time engaged in digging a well on Mr.
Rose’s premises, a rod or so Northwest of the house,
which is of brick and newly built, and had by dig
ging and boring in all, attained a depth of 7a feet.
They had drawn up tho augur to the place whore
they had loft oil* digging, and commenced boring,
and there left it with some other tools and were at
dinner, when they Were startled by a violent noise,
at first like an CAploLi m and then followed a roar
like “blowing ofF’a large steam boiler, accompanied
by a very perceptible. trembling of the foundations
of the house. As may be supposed, the inmates
rushed out, and beheld, to their utter astonishment
and consternation, the well vomiting forth a hugh
column of sand with such force us to throw it to tho
height of over two hundred feet.
Limbs on a tree dost? by, som * of them two and
three inches th ough, were knoekiil otl’aml broken
in pieces by the course gravel and pebbles, as tin y
would have been by a shower of musket balls; the
body of tho tree and the apples trees in the orchard
for thirty yards distant wore plastered thick with
sand and mud ; the augur was blown 1 - r »0 feet in tho
air, and fell at a distance of if>o yards from the well;
a stone weighing sixteen pounds was thrown up to
nearly the same height end fell a hundred yards off.
The ground, for full an acre in extent, w u covered
with gravel and sand to the depth of from one to
six inches. The gas has been several times igultcd
and burns with a bcniritul white tiamo, and although
the well has been filled up, for fear that tho entire
und t pinning of the Swan Creek country might tie
scattered to the four winds, the current of gas i.-j ho
strong that it. escapes through several crevic.es and
around the edges $1 the well, and maybe at any
time ignited, as it often is for the satisfaction of vis
iters. Rather gassy-r-that story.
Dangerous Counterfeits. —There is now in
circulation in this city a vast numberof counterfeits
in the shape of American quarters, which are so
well devised and executed as in almost defy deter
tion. They m - e composed of a brittle metal, which
i j plated with silver m such araanm-r »•« to have the
appearance of best silver coin. So admirable is this
counterfeit, that a number were yesterday received
ac one of our hanks an genuine, and their baseness
was only afterwards discovered by the weight teat,
the acids Inking no effect upon them. They arc
somewhat lighter than the genuine. It is supposed
they are very numerous in our midst. 'There
reems to be, also, circulating in the city at present,
« considerable quantity of counterfeit gold coin, pur
porting to be quarter and half eagles. Two of the -
latter were received yesterday by a gentleman at
the cattle show grounds, in exchange for a Virginia
bank bill. Doth are dated 1851, and exceedingly
well executed ; although being softer and lighter to
the touch than the* genuine coin, are easily distin
guished by the careful observer. (Quarter eagles of
a bnso issue have also been received during the
week, by two retail houses oil Baltimore street.—
There is evidently in the city a party from the
Eastern cities, engaged in passing oft’ bogus coin
during the exciting scenes of the cattle show week.
—Baltimore Sun, Oct. 24.
The Wall Street Forger.— Tim New*Yoik
Herald gives us the following description of the
Wall street financier :
4< The career of Huntington has been like a dis
play of fireworks—brilliant, but evanescent. For a
little while he spent money like water. He had six
or eight, horses—two pairs for carriages, for himself
and wife, and several fast trotters His sideboard
was brilliant with massive plate. lie was a great,
man at Saratoga, Niagara and liockaway, where
his wife had more trunks and j ore diamonds than
any one else ; and in town ho kept up two matri
monial establishments, one regular and the other
irregular—one a Christian home, the other a Mo
hammedan seraglio—one according t > flu* laws of
New-York, and the--other according to the customs
of the Mormons—within a few doors of < ich other.
He was a prince for an hour. People ate at his
dinners, drove his horses, drank his v\ ino, borrowed
his money, and wondered how hegotitull. ifut the
crash came at lust, and what, are all his fornn i splen
dors compared with his pn sent position? lie
bought his luxuries at tremendously high prices.”
The first trace that we can find of Mr. Hunting
ton’s connection with financial matters dnlcs buck
only so far as 1852; when he and two or three other
individnais fell into the hands of the police of this
city for the share which they had in getting up a
fraudulent shinplasier concern under 4he title of
the “ Anacostie Hank of Washington, D. C.” In
dictments were found against him ami his accompli
ct*B on that oocaeion, but they were never brought
to trial, on account ( as appears from some endoi re
menton.the bill,) of some informality or incom
pleteness of the proof.
Silver Charge. —The advance (nays the New
York Journal iff Commerce) in the v alue of bar nil
ver abroad has created a demand for entail silver
coin for export to Cuba an J other points Sout h, and
a premium has been paid for dimes, which will p ; h
for the same as shilling pieces (12£ evuts) when the
latter arc scarce. This has led to the impression
that silver change is scarce and can only b** procur
ed ut a premium. This is not so; silver can Lc ob
tained at the United States Mint at Philadelphia in
exchange for gold at par, and merchants and others
who want it for the purpose of change can
it in sums of SSO to SIOO at the sub treasury without
charge in exchange for gold.
Subscription in New Yoek for One Hundred
Cannons for Sardinia. —The Italians in New-
York, as well as those who sympathize with .Sardi
nia in her present stiugglo against Austria, have
opened a voluntary subscription to. contribute to
wards defraying the expenses for one hundred can
nons, to be presented to the Sardinian peoy.lo for
arming the new fortress on the point of erection at
Alexandria in P.< dmont.
It will be recollected that Sardinia is the only free
government in Italy; there is freedom of tin* press
—there found shelter all the political exiles jf other
Italian Stotta—ihere the Bible j'h permitted to bo
circulated, and the citizens enjoy civil and reli
gious liberty and for this Sardinia has been de
nounced by the Pope. That small State although
surrouiided by despotic powers, bus taken the
lead for emancipating the whole Italian penin
sula. As Austria has already advanced an army
towards its frontiers, Sardinia will soon be com
pelled to meet the enemy in the open field, and
from the result of the struggle, will Italy rise from
her political and national grave, or be doomed for
ever.
Mormon ism. —Late European advices state that
Mormo ism i« making such progress in Denmark os
to excite considerable alarm in the minds of religious
and reflecting rnen. Petitions have been sent in
large numbers to the Government, asking that the
Mormhns may be restricted from the more public
practice of thejr ceremonies.
A Perilous Hide. —A journeyman hatter, resi
ding about half a mile from Plainfield, while going
from that place to his home, on Saturday night, be
ing on the track at the time an extra coal train was
goine up the Central railroad, was caught by the
cow catcher, and after several unsuccessful attempts
to notify the engineer of his whereabouts, he arrived
'in Somerville. He kept Lis courage up with the
idea that the train would stop at some intermediate
station, but it being merely a coal train, he was
obliged to go all the way through. Ilia leg was bro
ken, and it is a miracle that he was not instantly
killed.— Trenton [N. J ) Amer.
Recipe for Weevil in Wheat.— -We received
the following recipe for preventing the ravages of
the weevil in wheat from a .friend, and place it be
fore our readers for trial :
Sprinkle one-half gallon of salt over eighty bush
els of wheat, and mix it together. This, I have found,
will drive the weevil from wheat, as well as pre
vent it from their attack .—ljaurensville Herald.
Boats for Florida.—A fleet of thirty metallic
boats are being built at Francis' establishment, at
Greenpoint, designed to aid the United States troops
in their operations against the Indians in Florida
this winter, particularly in penetrating the Ever
glades. Th«-y are twenty-two feet in length, and
three feet six inches in breadth, wit h lookers at each
end for ammunition and provisions. Fifteen of
them are already finished, and present a fine appear -
ance. ,
A very large bout, twenty-eight feet in length,
finished in'good style, with heavy brasa oar-locks
and brass tiller, has just been finished for the Go
vernor of St. Thomas. , ....
Boats for the Coast.—A large number of life
cars, made of corrugated iron, are bunding at
Francis's boat factory for the general government,
and are to be distributed among the stations on the
coast of Long Island New Jersey, established for
the security of life m case of shipwreck.-.V 1.
Journalo) Commerce.
\ Good Jokk. —\Ve are indebted to a Demo
cratic friend who relishes a good joke, even at the
expense of his own side, for the following At the
lati: Buchanan Mass Meeting, in Atlanta, a stalwart
Buchaneer was huzzaing lustily for Buchanan, when
another equally zealous and excited Democrat, re
sponded as lustily— I "Hurrah for Breckenridge!”-
Thereupon Bach. No. 1, thinking Buck. No. 2, was
cheering for an opponent , assailed him with some
opprobrious epithet, which was retorted, and Buch.
and Breck. pitched into one another with a will. The
man that knew “Mr. P. S. Forward,” probably in
terposed to settle the difficulty, and inform the par
ties that Breckenridge was the animate , as Bu
chanan is the inanimate representative of the great
and glorious Democracy. —(tiffin Union.
Overworking the Brain. —An intelligent wri
ter in one ot our large cities gives a note of warning
which many in the present excitement and rush of
our country would do well to heed. “Iu one of our
lunatic asylums," he says, “there are now several
gentlemen, all of whom were one year ago in full
health and active business, and 111 each of these ca
ses mental aberration is traceable directly to over
working the brain. They are men of wealth and
social eminence, and until their sad affliction, were
distinguished forlusefulness iu the ebuerh and the
community. But to these we must add perhaps
thousands of cases in which premature old age or
premature ill health and mental imbecility liavq
arisen irom similar causes.”