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HCIOPKAN INTELLIGENCE.
B* ihp Atlnollr.
T1,,. important intellfoc™* wm« from Madrid
t i l( . i ,-n, ,',f th<‘ fall of <o Donnell and restoration of
Narva,-*' to dower. O'Donnell has reined, and
trail l.lrn all hi« colleagues. Tl.e Queen ba*
ted tiieir resignations. Sarvae* is appointed Pre
iWeut of the Council, and has already provided
himself with thirteen associate*. He has allotted
tiie principal office* as follow.: Pidal. horeign Af
fairs. Seife, Finance, Nocedal, Interior, Arzueia,
Justice. Urbistondn, War. Lesondl. Mani'e.General
Sanz i§ appointed Captain General of Madrid, and
Gen Lezuela, Director of the Cavalry.
The Paris Journal dea Debata containa thia an
nouncement: “We believe that the pretensions
raised by Uuaaia with regard to the lale of Serpents
have been abandoned, Uuaaia haaffiven away, and
tile island will again become apoaseseion of 1 urltey*
The lioforad difficulty remaina as before. '
The Neapolitan affair also remain* aa tie fore—at I
but settle-r All thoughts of an the
Hay of Naples are now abandoned. TIK-Irench
and Ki.ei.sb Minister- will not even be
The matter is referred to BL ‘' t J ,er } an *
Russia is said to have made the formal proposal for
eonvooation of the (second) PlempotenQanea to the
Congress of Paris. Franco and i'russia have adher,
sol and tl.e consent of England is alone waited for
bu’t is with certainty anticipated.
Denmark is reported to have consented to the
reduction of the transit duties on goods passing
through ilalstein and Lauenburg, from five pence
per cwt. to one [>enny. This measnre is but the ne
ctary fore-runner of a reduction of the Hound
Dues. '
From England there is nothing worth repetition,
excepting a piece of gossip to toe effect that Lord
Palmerston, without con* ultmg the Queen, appoint
ed the Rev. Mr Trench to the Bishopric of Durham,
but the Queen reading the appointment in the pa
pers, sent for Palmerston, “snubbed” him soundly,
and cancelled the apjKiintment.
OuiT liRirAIS.—A buret of correspondence
tos taken plaio in the London papers on the subject
ut Kansas. The lettere are mofoly mere expres
sions of opinion, with the exception of one from a
Mr. Uladstone of Surrey, who recently made a tour
hi Kansas, and gives a rather grapuio sketch—in
the anti-slavery interest—of what he saw there.
A new line of screw steamers is about to be es
tablished between London and Valparaiso. The
first ship, the Chili, of 1,000 tons, will sad on the
SOU. of November. .She will proceed from Valpa
raiso to Coquimbo and Caldera, and will also for
ward passengers to too principal ports of Peru.
The London Times’ monetary article of Monday
evening, the 13th, notices that the reports from the
manufacturing towns for the past week confirm all
that has been said regarding the extent to which the
trade of the country is independent of the move
ment* of the discount market. In no quarter is
there the slightest indication of the advance to six
and seven per cent, having interfered with the regu
lar i nirse of operations At Manchester prices
have been fairly maintained, and goods for the most
pail are firmly held. A* Birmingham there has
been full employment, and general prospects are
encouraging. Foreign orders are received to an
average extent, while from Australia the demand is
active. For iron previous quotations are still main
tained by the leading firms, although there is much
underselling. The Nottingham advices describe an
active business, both in laco and hosiery, with a
tendency .to higher prices. In the woollen districts
there is great steadiness, the home demand being
satisfactory. The Irish linen market* have again
been without variation.
The advices from Bombay, of .late September
IX, are filled with accounts of the preparation* made
by the Indian and British Governments to invade
Persia. The reason of this invasion Is the reported
occupation of the Herat by the Persian troops. A
fleet is to be sent to the Persian Gulf with certain
demand* which it is not expected the Hhah will ac
cede to, whereupon an invading force is to be sent
to take possession of Kurrack and Buahire, as a ba
sis of operations Bgaiust Teheran. Six regiments
of infantry, and three of cavalry, with field and
siege trains, are already detailed for land service.
The fleet will number 22 steamers, with a large
number of gun boats. In addition to these prepa
rations large quantities of ammunition are bong
sent up Hie Indus to the direct assistance of Dost
Mahomed and the Atlghan party in Herat. It is ex
poctod that Persia will light, hut that she must
speedily flail before the British forces.
KitA.Nct:.- —Letters from Paris on the subject of
♦lie financial crisis are less unfavorable. The bul
lion of the Bank is (aid to be increasing both in
Paris and at lie- brunches, and it iaVulded that some
of the dealers who have lately drawn five franc
pieces from the provincial for the purpose of melt
ing, are depositing the lnirsut the Bank for an ad
vance of listen upon them. The police measures to
prevent the purchase of coin at a premium are also
stated to have temporarily succeeded.
The French fleet destined to act against Naples
remained at Toulon on the lfltli.
M F’ervals, Russian Councillor of State, passed
through Berlin, a few days since, on his way to
Paris, hearing the definitive resolution of Russiu
to the Emperor Napoleon uto the assembling in
Paris of the Diplomatic Congrcm to settle the afluiis
of the East, Naples, Greece, and Neufohab j.
I*dters from Paris rumor that Messrs. Rothschild
have contracted with the Bank of F'rance to supply
field to the amount of £6,400,1100. A small portion
las been already sent. For some weeks to come,
therefore, the Australian ami American arrivals of
geld will probably be thus absorbed.
Correspondence of the London Times.
Tux N’kai'oi.itan Question —Paius, Oct. IS. —
It is stated on good authority that a note, which I
presume we may consider as an ultimatum, was
dispatched ou Saturday to Naples, by the F'rench
Government. In it tiie King is informed that if ho
persists in rejecting the advice of the allied Govern
ments, Baron Brenier, the Minister of F’rance at
Naples, would be withdrawn, and all diplomatic re
lations ’ cease II is also believed that a similar
•oimnumeaUnn Ims been made by the English Go
vernment. If the ministers are recallod, thu fleets
w ill proceed to the Bay of Naples, for the protection
of the F'rench and English residents, and a letter
from that oily dated the 7tb, mention that the opin
ion was general that the appearance of flit) English
and F'rench flags would be the signal of a move
ment in Sicily. The note is, lam assured, couched
in moderate hut firm terms. How King F'erdiuand
will receive it remains to be seen.
>Vaiii.ikv Puxi'Arations in Naci-PS.—A letter
lroiii fjvracuse, published in the German Universal
Gazette, says: “Everything assumes a military as
pect here. All the gnus of Iho batteries have been
new mounted, ti.'e posts have been doubled, and the
stealings of the Kingdom of the two Sicilies have
brought a large quantity of ammunition to our arse
nal The officers and soldiers are forbidden to hold
converse with tkc civilians. The reactionary par:y,
• insisting of the clergy, a small number of the no
bility, the Government functionaries, and the dregs
of the people, have organized here, as inNaplee, a
eommiltea of resistance, which seeks to frighten the
liberals."
POHTUOAt.—Application has been made to tlio
Portuguese Government by a Mr. Gntlai to lay
down an electric telegraph between Portugal and
tlis Brazils. A similar application lias been made to
♦be Brazilian Government.
The Portuguese recently resumed the occupation
of the Port of Ambriz, on the West coast of Africa,
and have made it and the River Anibrig the boun
dary of the Province of Angola. A royal decree of
the Hth inst., orders that all trading establishments
Uetlonas) shall have the license ot the Governor,
mid shall give bonds, when required, not to engnge
in the slAve trade The tariff is stated at twelve per
•not. upon all foreign goods imported in foreign ves
sels , Hixper cent, lor the same goods in Portuguese
vessels ; four per cent, if foreign goods shall go indi
rect from either Lisbon or Oporto: and three per
cant, if the goods he Portuguese produce or manu
facture. The export duty on produce shipped from
Ainlirig to a Portugese port is two per cent., and
three per cent, to a foreign port.
At stria —According to the Milan Gaccttc, the
Flmperorand Empress of Austria will visit Milan in
January, 1857.
Orders have been given lo build threesliips-of-the
line immediately at Pola.
The Verona official Gazette of the oth, in an nr
t icle on the Neapolitan question, says that no serious
apprehension should be entertained as to its final
insult, as Russia, Austria and France can have but
one and the same opinion respecting the rights of an
independent sovereign and the sanctity of treaties.
• The affair, moreover, (adds the Gazette,) has as
sumed a pacific appearance, and we hope to be
soon able to announce Unit the cloud which dark
ened the political horiion of Europe, has vau
ishotl.'*
Ii ai.t.—From Naples we learn nothing of inter
est, except that preparations lor defence continued.
The slateineut in the Germau papers that the King
of Naples had addressed autograph lettere to Queen
Victoria and to the Emperor of the French, asking
to be admitted to the Paris Conference, is denied
by the Neapolitan Embassy in Pars. Advices from
Ajaccio of the 7th, mention the arrival there of a
part of the English fleet, namely—ships of the lino
Duke of Wellington and Conqueror, two steam
frigates ami twocorvett.-s Other ships were ex
pected from Malta. The French sqadron remained
at Toulon. The American ship Supply was at Na
ples.
The Genova, one of the uew steamer* of the
Transatlantic Company, arrived at Genoa on
k.s nth, and is to sail for New York on the ‘2oth
tent.
The difficulty between the Courts of Sardinia and
Tuscany, relative to the expulsion of the Sardinian
student-tourists from Florence has been settled,Tus
•any having apologised. *
'l'll K Hut.—A detachment of Russian troops still
occupied the Isle of Serpents. iThis is doubtful )
It is fun iter affirmed (bat equally requires contirma
*iou) that the conferences to be held relative
to the Principalities arc uot to open yet for two
mouths. A Turkish General, with a number of
stall' officers, had been sent to the Herzegovina and
Upper Albania. A few days since two Austrian
Commissioners went toCeitiyue, the capital of Mon
tenegro. to have an official interview with the Mon
tenegrin Government. Austria is about to send a
special commission of five persons to Ispahan, with
presents for the Shall of Persia.
The Czar was to make his solemn entry into Bt.
Petersburg on the 14th inst.
The Pans Dabats publishes an article, signed by
M <.e Suoy, on the meeting of the Paris Congress.
It is suited that the question of the Island of Ser
pents lias been already settled—that the island is to
be restored to Turkey ; that, ns regards the islands
of the Lower Danube, they will also be ceded to the
Porte. As regards the union of the Principalities of
Moldavia and Wallachia, the Debate says that as
the Commission charged to consider the whole ques
tion of the Principalities lias not yet entered upou
its functions, that question must be deferred ; ami as
Franoe. Austria, England and Turkey each claim
tlio Presidency in the Commission —a post which is
one of " influence" —the Debats is of opinion that
this as well as some other preliminary matters,
must first be settled bv the Paris Congress before
♦lie aetuat question of tjie Danubian Principalities is
touched upon. No date is yet fixed for the meeting
of the Congress.
Morocco. —The Emperor of Morocco on the re
monstrance of the British Charge d Affaire, has
agreed to pay an indemnity ot SIO,OOO for the bark
Hymen, and' $7,000 for a F'rench ship, recently
plundered by the Riff pirates. A body of cavalry
under the command of the Governor, Hen Abde
l was about to proceed from F'ei to inflict a
•hastisement on the Rins.
Thz Latest ut Tkl 11. hark.— The PerSitin Ex
veditsPn. —Losoon. Wednesday. Oct. 15, 185fi. — A
letter fro7" Bombay gives the details of the prepara
tions making to supply the naval contingency.—
There will be employed fourteen steamers, six of
them cat rying from' two to four sixty-eight pounders;
ten heavily armed gun-boats, four schooners, and
other craft tor landing troops, and twenty or twenty
six transports. The expedition will be very corn
piste
Tu« British F'i ekt in th» BlacS S*a —Let
ter* from the Koval Albert, bearing the flag of Ad
miral lord Lvons, to as late a date as the 2d Octo
ber announce that she was making preparations to
winter above the South Bridge, and without the
Goldeu Horn; and that in consequence iff the non
execution of the Treaty of Paris by Russia, Her
Aliuestv's steam frigate Mageccieue. the Lynx
steam Weeer, steam gun boat, had re-entered the
Black Sea. to be followed forthwith by the Vulture
steam frigate.
Thu London Times Citt Articls.—London,
Tuesday Evening. Oct. 11—The English F’nuds ex
perienced a farther fall to-day of jt per cent. This
was the first day for the payment of the dividends,
and a largo proportion of the heavy advances ob
tained from the Bank of England daring the shut
ting season had to be repaid. In several cases a
renewal was desired, but it was for a longer period
than seven days, and this announcement was the
eanse of the depression daring the afternoon. Un
der existing circumstances, support to the Stock
Exchange could only la* afforded at the cost of
some fresh restrictions on the dividend* of eoinmer
sial paper. The that the ultimatum
is understood to bavi been sent on Saturday to the
King' of Naples, and that its non aoceptauee will be
follower by the recall of the English and F'reneh
represent*' lveß ai, d dispatch there of the com
bined fleets i'» stated to have created the increased
depression in the .French F'unds.
The letters from l'nP e t°-day confirm the more
favorable reports regarding .' ile , position of the Bank
o* France, and their stock ot n'r ,lK,n “ alleged to
have been increased marly £ Hi",,.* 1 etnee the
publication of their inoiifhly return. It also"fak'd
that the Hank docs not at present contemplate any'
new measures of restriction.
Tb* arrivals ol gold from Australia and America t
tcceivffd are likely to afford a sufficient supply to I t
meet the Continental demand during the next few
days. No further withdrawals have taken place
from the Bank.
The D»ilt Kiwi Citt Article —London,
Tuesday Erenin/r, Oel. 14, 1856.—The F'unds
showed considerable steadiness at the opening of
business this morning. Il transpired soon after
ward, however, that the Directors of the Bank of
England have curtailed their advances upon Go
vernment Stock to seven days of the ordinary pe
riod of fourteen. This circumstance being related
as anticipated of a decided strain upon the Bank s
resources at once caused a fall, arid the market
closed with a flat appearance at a reduction of three
eighths per cent, from the final quotations of yester
day It is also confirmed that the Bank, with a view
to withdraw notes from circulation, and to strength
en its position, has itself been borrowing money upon
stock m the market. Under these circumstances,
much uncertainty is felt as regards the renewal of
loans. The more prudent speculators are evident
!y acting upon a belief that it is dangerous at pre
sent to bold stock by mean* of borrowed money. In
the Stock Exchange to day, money did not com
mand more than five per cent, upon Government
securities, but this merely represents the rate cur
rent for loans from day to-day. In the Discount
market full rates continue to tie exacted- Owing
to the magnitude of the advances recently obtained
from the. Bank by the public, of winch a large
amount quickly fails repayable, it is apprehended
that the relief afforded by the dividend payments
will be merely temporary.
At Baris to-day the three per cent. Rente* su*toin
ed a fresh fall of} percent. F'resh measures of re
striction. calculated to depress the Bourse, were
rumored as likely to be shortly adopted by the Bank
of F'rance.
From the Ijyndo a New*, Oct . 13.
Great, secrecy continues to be observed in the
withdrawal of gold from the bank for exportation,
but it is known that at least £IOO,OOO was taken
yesterday. The Bank of F'rance continues a buyer
of gold in this market, as its position imperatively
demands, and there seems no prospect whatever
that these purchases will cease, bat we are a-**ured
that there is no foundation for the rumortransmitted
from Baris that the Back of F'rance bad just entered
into contracts with eminent parties m London lor
the supply of a fixed sum of £0,400,000 in gold
The overdue supplies of gold from Australia are im
patiently awaited, inasmuch as they would for the
time obviate the necessity of having recourse to the
bank for the means of meeting the foreign demand
for the previous metal. It js scarcely necessary to
remark that the movements of Bullion are
watched with tbe closest attention, owing to the
general belief that, should the existing rates of dis
count prove insufficient to check the drain upon the
bank's metallic stock, a further advance in the bank
term* will be made.
Ur the Asia.
The mail steamer Washington, from New York,
arrived at Southampton at 'J o’clock, on the morn
ing of Saturday the 18th inst.
The screw steamer Kangaroo, from Bliiladelphia,
arrived at Liverpool at 0.15, on the morning of
Thursday the 16th, and about noon ol the same day,
the Khersonese arrived from Portland, via St Johns,
Newfoundland. The Khersonese, on the 15th, when
in lat. 48 03, long. 50 41, passed an ioeberg. 150 feet
high, and of considerable extout, drifting nearly
Southward.
Oct. 18th, off Holyhead, passed the Cunard mail
steamer Canada.
Correspontlence of the TV. Y. C<em. Advertiser.
London, Oct. 17.—The position of the money
market is unchanged. Some accounts from Purls
represent that the pressure upou the Bank of F'rance
is diminishing, but they are too vague to excite
much confidence. Hero the demand for gold for
exportation, and the consequent influx of foreign
paper for discount, i* unabated, there have
even been apprehensions of a further rise in the
rate. These were premature, but the bank have
not altogether abstained from increasing the existing
restrictions. In ordinnry circumstances they have
usually been willing to advance money on Govern
ment stock on the same terms as those at which
tliay have taken commercial hills, but the day be
fore yesterday, they refused to make loans of this
kind for a longer period than ceven days, and yes
terilay they announced that they would refu.se them
altogether.
This determination produced a renewed fail on the
Stock Exchange. Consols, which at the last date,
were quoted at 91 J, had suddenly recovered to
within a fraction of 112, owing to a report, which ob
tained general circulation yesterday morning, that
the Bank of F'rance had resolved to suspend specie
payments, and just as a reaction was commencing
from anon-confirmation of (.lie rumor, the notifica
tion from tbe Bank on this side became Jiuown,
wb.ch hastened the fall, which continued until they
renehed DO}. To day there has beeu a better feeling,
and the final quotation is HI * -
The question whether the crisis is to continue de
pends entirely on the course of evciils in F'rance,
and as the influences ill opuration in that country
are ip a great measure the results merely of a panic,
any attempt to solve the problem must be vain. All
persons here see that there is nothing to he done but
to wait day by day the quotations from the Paris
Bourse, and the report us to the fluctuations in the
amount of bullion in the Bank of F’rance ami its
branches. In this country everything is sound, and
Hie fact is confirmed from all quarters that there
never was a period of such general activity, com
bined with so complete an absence of unhealthy
speculation.
The movements in the discount market fail to
produce the slightest effect on the prices of pro
duce or the industry of manufacturers ; and out
of the region of the Stock Exchange no oue would
be aware, from any unusual signs, that the course of
financial affairs was experiencing the slightest dis
turbance.
At the departure of the last packet there was a
statement that the Bank of F'rance had contracted
with Messrs. Rothschild to supply them with $82,000,-
000 of gold as fast os the means could bo found. II
is now said that a contract ha* been made, hut that
its exact amount is not known. According to some
persona it is not more than half the total originally
mentioned. All that is positively ascertained is that
orders have been sent uot merely to London, and
to various part* of the continent, but to New
York, to buy up all that can be procured. Whether
the means employed for obtaining it include I lie
raising of money on the hypothecation of stocks, or
the sale of sixty days paper created for the purpose,
is a point which will doubtless give rise to some in
teresting conjectures.
Amid all the confusion, the remarkable fact of the
total absence of commercial failures, uot merely in
England and Germany, but iu F'rance, where all the
mischief originated, is still presented. Not a sin
gle rumor of difficulty of this kind hus yet been
heard. ...
The Bank of Amsterdam yesterday raised its rates
of discount to 5 per cent. Up to the end of lust
month it had stood at 4 per cent.; but it was then
advanced to 4 J.
The uneasiness on the continent regarding the
displacement of silver by gold is increasing, and ns
the point is wholly independent of the existing cri
sis, it must continue to attract attention, even utter
tlie prevailing embarrassment hus subsided. Austria
is believed to contemplate the adoption of a gold
standard whenever she returns to specie payments,
and at Hamburg the Board of Commerce have just
recommended the substitution of that metal for the
existing silvqr currency. .
The intelligence of an ultimatum having been for
warded by F'rance and England to the King of Na
ples, has beeu confirmed, and it was expected to
reach him yesterday. It is represented lo be of a
very moderate character, but His Majesty is said to
have determined upon a high course, such as be
comes a Bourbon. His courage is perhaps stimula
ted by the belief that Louts Napoleon would be no
less frightened than himself, at the prospect of a
revolution in Italy , and that under these circum
stances, coupled with financial distress in Paris,
tlmie is lio reason to apprehend anything beyond
make-believe measures According to some ac
counts France has stipulated that, although the com
bined fleets are to cruise Off Naples, they shall not
approach close to the city, as she believes by
ibis means nil danger of an outbreak may be
avoided. .... , ,
The particulars of tlio event winch immediately
preceded the resignation of tin- Ministry at Madrid
have not yet arrived. It is understood Hint at u ball
which was given a few evenings previously the
Oueen showed more than ordinary tavor to O Don
nell n circumstance perfectly characteristic of her,
as she is said to have inherited from her father his
peculiar liabil of heaping honors and caresses on
anyone whoso downfall he had resolved upon.
Accounts from Australia show that the gold pro
duction of the first half of 1856 has realized the ex
pectations expressed at ilm beginning ot this year
It was then said Hiat a total equal to $601)00,000
might be relied upon in the twelve months. The ac
tual shipment* for six mouths appears to have been
s:n 000,000. Last year, iu the same period, they
ware $23,600,000.
A remarkable statement appeared iu the Tunes
the day before yesterday headed “Railways and re
volvers iu Georgia." It was from a correspondent
and gave an utterly incredible narrative of a railway
trip from Augusta to Macon, during which six of
the passengers were killed on the route by duelling
and one child murdered. In addition to its inherent
improbability, the story contaius some obvious iu
aocuracea with regard to the distances ou the line,
and other minor circumstances, such ns the writer
having heard the footsteps of a man, who had been
left behind, chasing the train, as well as the fall of
the child’s body, when it was thrown from the train
iu full motion.
The Globe evening paper had an article .nst
night, ridiculing the whole account, but its Tory
contemporary, the Standard, adopted the entire de
tails, and held lip as a sample of the state of things
in a country where there is no established Church !
Xu a sebsequent reference to the affair, the Times
stated : "Its insertion was delayed for some days,
that wo might obtain satisfactory vouchers for the
writer's respectability, sanity audffruthfulness; ami
on those pHiit* we have no doubt. Short of a mi
racle, we never read any thing so simply stated,
vet so incredible iu its substance. Spectator.
Correspondence of th* Commercial Advertiser.
Paris, Oct. 16.
The week has been characterised by more polit
ical excitement than we have seen in a long tune
The most confident friend* of the Emperor do not
attempt to conceal their uneasiness at the disturbed
state of affairs. Elements are at work which, it
they (Jo not to tend a revelution Jwill at least require
all the tact of the Government to prevent it. The
politicians and financiers of the country are rapidly
returning to Uieir posts at Paris, and great efforts
will no doubt be made to give a more liappy turn
to affaire. ..
There is no doubt that the Neapolitan question is
largely implicated in this feeling of uneasiness, tor
it is felt that a demonstration by England and
F'rance against that country would almost inevita
bly bring about a revolutionary movement in Italy:
and every body iu F'rance knows the danger ot
sueli a movement in the present disturbed state of
affairs iu Paris. 1 luting the week the feeling has
been intense on this subject, and it did not need the
posting of incendiary handbills to intensity At
the date of my last, there was a strong belie! that a
solution of the Neapolitan question would soon be
attained. It could not be believed that the King of
Naples would persist iu bis opposition against ihe
demands of F'rance and England, with a revolution
ary people behind him and so colossal an enemy in
front, And even now. with an assurance .from
those at Naples iu a position to know) that he still
adhere* to his defiance, and is making preparations
for a determined resistance, the majority of our pol
iticians believe that he will yet recede. The last
note of the allies to King Ferdinand, it is said, is
couched in mild and conciliatory terms, and has no
other character of menace than the knowledge that
is a last note, which will be followed by the with
drawal of the two legation* and the appearance of
tlie fleets before Naples, if ils terms are not agreed
to. The crisis is therefore near at hand.
The financial panic of Paris arrived at its apogee
on Saturday last. On that day all sorts of rumors
were afloat, and at the close of the Bourse the ex
citement was intense. A revolution on Suuday
would have astonished nobody, for to this excite
ment of the financial world mast be joined the griefs
of the poor, whose quarter s term of rent came due
yesterday, and who found all then rents advanced
lor the next term to a figure beyond their means.—
Many of these poor families have beeu unable to
find any resideiw within their means, and have
made no provision whatever for moving day. A
forge police force was stationed yesterday and
to-2sy in the populous quarters, but no disturbance
occurred.
But Hie rent day crisis is not yet passed. Under
anv circumstances the question of rents is a grave
oua for the Government, and is still unsolved. The
Government receives a tax of eleven per cent. on
all the routs paid in the city. These very rents are
one of its best sources of revenue, and the higher
they are maintained the better financially for the
Government. The proprietors hold the wealth of
the country in th-ir hands, and are thus all-powerful
either for or against a Government. As there can
be no interference of the Government with this
class or with the prices which they may fix upon
their property, no resources are left the Government
in its management of the poor, but conciliation and
force, Direct means of relief it has none. As I
have before stated, a quantity of cheap houses are
to be built by Government, to be let at low rates to
the poor, but it is not anticipated, so far as I can
learn, that this system can be extended to a point to
effect much good. Great hopes are held out, but
this is only a conciliatory scheme. Americas.
The Danubian Principalities and thi Nea
politan Question. —Both these questions seem
likely to be disposed of peaceably, the latest intel
ligence, by telegraph, being that in consequence of
an urgent note from F'rance, Austria had commenc
ed withdrawing her troops from the Principalities.
• 1 -‘1 been for some days understood that an eam
radthe;^ ect ’ ftudtLe Par "
pens had been allowed to condemn the course of
Austria in Ftrong terms.
The actual condition of the Neapolitan question
is still a secret There wa# a revival of the rumor
that the ultimatum was about to be presented to
King Ferdinand, in the form of a joint vote from Eng
land and France, but that step hap been go long
threatened that the authenticity of the report may
well be doubted. Vienna papers still insist thatthe
difficulty is nearly adjusted, and that the English
fleet, spoken of as designed for the Bay of >aple*,
was in reality destined to Malta as its winter sta
tion. It is certain that the French fleet has not yet
sailed from Toulon. .
The Danubian Principalities question bem£ set
tled it is probable that the Neapolitan difficulty
will be carried before the Congress of nations to be
assembled in Paris, and will there be finally solved.
The I»ndon Times in its issue of October 17, has
an editorial which betrays some apprehension uhat
England is about to abandon the policy of coercion.
Its concluding remarks we give:
In our hum: le opinion, then, it would be mere
political pedantry, or an avoidance of responsibility
that cannot be avoided, or something w or»e tnan
either, to forsake our position in the Mediterranean.
VVe rejoice to say that we are not forsaking it. As
usually happeus, the Court of Naples has put its
own construction on the delay, and concluded, with
tbe logic of despotism, that what we have not done
precipitately we did not mean to do at all. In no
respect, however, have England and France altered
their intention.
A note couched in tbe most moderate and concilr*-
tory terms had doubtless been presented by thi?
time. On its rejection—which we do not expect—
the two legations will withdraw, and the combined
squadron, by that time at Malta, will proc ed to
ward. but not to, the Italian coasr. The La i/aroui
and the Court je.-ters will possibly have the oppor
tunity of seeing the ships, which, according to cer
tain SVapolitan handbills, had been lost a id per
haps their alarm will then be as great a? their pre
sent. security. But we do not apprehend coy dis
turbance to the public peace from any quar er. The
sight of an overwhelming force has a vt ry tran
quilizing effect on tbe mo*t turbulent rninds.
*Shoula there be any threats, the squadi on will
enter the bay, and under its guns the English and
and French will find Naples as safe and pleasant a
place as any in Europe. Let the worst come to the
wore*, and let His Majesty be ever so obstinate,
and ever so desirous to see the fleets for which he
has offered a reward, we do not anticipate t hat the
most timid lady visitor at Naples will Lave to make
the leaat alteration in her arrangements. It is pro
bable, however, that his Majesty will not permit his
fait:iful subjects to see the fleet, but will m ike the
concessions requisite to avert that spectacle.
France. —The French Government had notified
the German powers of its intention to erect fortifi
cations between Strasburg and Kelil, as si offset
to the fortified bridge projected on the Rhine at
Cologne. The note had been met by a protect
on the part of some of the German pow-.s, as
serting that there is no parallel in the cases,
both banks of the river at Cologne belonging
to the same Dower, while at Kehl, one bank be
longs to France and the other to the Duchy of Ba
den. of which power France can entertain no appre
hensions.
It will be remembered that the newspaj era de
scribed the Emperor’s return from Biaritz a> almost
secret, and aci omp&nied by great precautions for
his personal safety. To disprove this, wepiesume,
aa well as to silence the reports about attempts to
assassinate him, the Emperor on the Nth inst on his
way from St. Cloud to St. Maur, on horseback, and
considerably in advance or bia guards, rod* slowly
through the Faubourg *St. Antoine. This was done
.at the workmen's dinner hour, and the Emperor
passed directly through the crowd, by whom he was
well and leiUlly received and greeted. On .is re
turn from Maur, he repassed through the earn * local
\)n the Llth inst., the Princess Mathilde, daughter
of prince Charles Bonaparte, was married in the
chapel of the Tuiflerie?, to Count Louis de C imber
ces.
Count Walewski, Minister of Foreign Afla rs, has
sent a circular to the French diplomatic agents at
foreign courts iu answer to that of Russia of Sep
tember iM, in which the French government repels
the reproaches of Prince Gort&chakoff, and adduces
arguments to prove that lie was in error in stating
that the conduct of France and England in the Na
ples affair is contrary to treaty and to the public
right of Europe. Jn the Berlin Bourse Gazette it
is stated that Count de Morney hac read thp note to
Prince Gortschakoff, and that it is full of pacific
protestations, and moreover contains the assurance
that the action of France towards Naples wfl’ be of
a purely diplomatic character.
Aloekia. —The Moniteur, of Oct. lGth, publishes
a despatch from Marshal liandon, Governor Gene
ral of Algeria. After stating that the Kabyles of
the tribe of Beni-Boughredan had made their
submission, and that those of the Beni-b >u-Ad
don were about to do 90, the despatch gives an
account of operations against the JJepi-pou.Ma, the
insligatorsof the movement of resistance Lo the
French.
The attack upon the villages of this tribe was
made on the 7th, and continued on the Btli f Oc
tober. The loss of the French was nine killed, in
cluding two officers and 38 wounded, including two
officers ; that of the Kabyles is reported as consid
erable.
The results obtained by these combats (says the
despatch) decided the Beni'-Mahmoud, neighbors of
the Bein-Dodala, to ton4er terms of submission,
which were granted. This puts an pud to the in
surrection, which, under the influence ot AvTladj-
Amar, threatened at the end of September to as
sume serious proportions.
The next move was to be on Tizi Ouzou.
Spain.—ln addition to the members of tin* Cabi
net appointed by Narvaez, reported by the last
steamer, Senor Arguelleshas been made I).rector
General of the Colonies, and Senor Leopold Cento,
under Secretary of State.
Tin* desamortisemcnl of church property had been
suspended, and all sales under it annulled. Tl o con
cordat is re-established.
The Governors of Corunna, Ciudad Real, Ponte
Vedra, Alicante, Toledo and Cordova had been re
moved from office.
The railway concessions from Madrid to Bryonne
had been definitely assigned to M. Pereire.
The Spanish Government has conceded to British
consuls the right to ad minister the effects of British
subjects dying intestate in Spain.
Among the gossip of letter writers is a story of a
difficulty between Narvaez and Senor Guelny
Reute, hieband of the Infanta Josefa, which resulted
in a challenge from the latter, and his consequent
banishment from Madrid by special ’order of the
Queen.
Prussia. —The bankers of Leipsic and Breslau
have bound themselves not to send silver abroad,
and a similar decision is expected at Berlin.
Sweden. —The scarcity of silver was much felt in
Sweden, aud a monetary crisis was apprehended
in consequence.
Official announcement is made of the betrothal of
Prince Oscar, youngest son of the king, toilr' Prin
cess Sophie Wilhelmine Marianne Henrietta of Nas
-1 aau.
The new law for the regulation of public schools
is published. It sanctions many improvements
on the old system, and places all schools under
the unconditional superintendence of the church.
Denmark. —A new Ministry had not been form
| ed, but it was anticipated that the former Minister
of Finance, Herr Andrea, who had resigned be
cause opposed to the proposed settlement of the
Sound and transit dues, would now return to office,
and a speedy organization of the Ministry would
1 follow.
Austria refuses to pay the dues levied for the main
tenance of the lighthouse at the Sulian mouth of
the Danube, .on the ground that she was not consul
ted respecting its establishment.
Turkey.—Constatinople dates arc to the 6th inst.
A ministerial crisis was expected, and Redschid
Pasha was looked upon as the future vizier. A
firman had been published touching the “natiomi
representation” in the Principalities, but it makes
no mention of the Union of Moldavia and Walla
chia. The l’orte has invited the ambassadors to a
meeting preparatory to the convocation ot the
Divan on the subject of the re organization of the
Principalities.
The financial companies which are soliciting the
privilege of establishing banks in Turkey wn o to
send in sealed proposals on the llth inst. The Porte
guarantees (> per cent, on the Euprates railway,
and a portion of the shares iuthat uudertakin c are
to be reserved for the East India Company ni.'l for
Turkey. The railway will enjoy exclusive pri
vileges, will receive the land gratuitously to work
the mines near. The company undertake to estab
lish a telegraph and line of steamers to connect with
India.
Miscellaneous. —Queen Victoria and Court
have returned to London, from Balmoral, Scot
land.
A treaty of commerce is being negotiated bet ween
England i*nd Morocco. All monopolies are to be
abolished under it.
A telegraphic despatch from Constantinople, da
ted the 9th instant, states that Sefer Pacha had
gained two victories over the Russians in Circas
sia, anu Lad takeu from them 800 prisoners and 21
guns.
Latent News by Telegraph.
From the City article of the London Daily Ntc's.
Notwithstanding the fresh restrictive measures
just adopted by the Bank, and the anticipation of
"an unfavorable return from that institution, the va
rious stock exchange markets, although opening
flatly, showed a decided increase in firmness this
afternoon.
The funds experienced a steady upward move
ment. and finally closed per cent, above the four
o’clock quotations of yesterday.
The improvement is mainly attributable to the
investments of the public, which, as we anticipated
would be the case, have been stimulated by tiie
recent fall. The re investments of the recipients of
dividends form especially an interesting feature of
the market.
The advices from Paris relative to the settlement
there were also considered more favorable than was
expected.
Iu the disconnt market to-diy, tiie supply of
money was rather more liberal, but the Bank
rates were fully maintained, and in many eases ex
ceeded.
In the stock exchange money was also easier, the
dealers having apparently over supplied themselves
for the moment, and the rates for short loans were
still as high as 5J to 6 per cent.
No telegraphic intercourse was received from the
Paris Bourse to-day.
From the ciiy article of the London Times.
At the commencement of business the English
funds showed increased heaviness without any as
signable cause, but although they remained dull
until nearly the middle of the day, the market was
ultimately firm, and th * latest transactions were
at an improvement of j per cent ou yesterday 's pri-
Money was in full supply iu the stock exchange,
in consequence of the amount brought iu by the pub
lic for stock.
At the Bank of England there was a steady but
not an excessive demand; and in the open market
there was generally less pressure.
The letters from Paris to-day are again less
discouraging. The half mouth market had pas
sed oft* well, and money was more easily ob
tainable, both in the Bourse and iu the discount
market.
No gold was taken from the Bank o: England to
day for exportation.
France. —The Paris correspondent of the Daily
News announces that the works of the Louvre are
to be suspended. The exterior walls will be com
pleted, but the interior will be left to be carried out
under more favorable auspices.
West Indies. —The packet Oronoco arrived last
evening at Southampton. Her dates are. Panama,
Sept. *Jod: Bat bade us 27th; Jamaica 26th; Deme
' rara 25th: Trinidad 25th: Antigua 28th; Porto Rico
| 30th: Doming* 28th; St. Thomas Oct. Ist. She brings
forty-three passengers and specie to the amount of
$ 1 />60.:L r >3.
There is little news from Jamaica- The mercan
tile markets were- more prosperous than for some
time past. Sea Island was generally healthy and
the ensuing crops were expected to be large. Ex
change bills at*6o days were at 2j per cent prem.
Merchants bills at U per cent prem.
Accounts favorable from Barbadoee.
At Demerara large numbers of veaeeU were wait
ing for cargoes and freight*;. They were very
busy and had been unusually. delayed during the
fortnight.
At Granada trade was dull.
The news from the Pacific is from Valparaiso to
the 31st August and Callao to the llth September.
There is nothing of special interest
Spain. — Madrid. Oct. 17. — Royal decrees have
been issued, refusing the supplementary act of
constitution, re establishing regime in the palace,
and the right of the episcopal faculty to confer holy
orders, iu pursuance of the concordat. The proses
sion and noviciate of women in convents is at the
same time authorised.
France and Austria.— Tbe Austrian Gazette
confirms the statement of the Ost Deutebe Post,
that the French Government has sent to that of
Austria a note demanding in peremptory terms the
withdrawal of its troops from the Danubian Princi
palities.
Yesterday Baron Hubner returned to his post
at Pai 'is.
Drunkenness in the Pulpit. —A novel case
has been decided iu England in favor of a clergy
man of tbe Established Church, which has excited
some comment in the public journals. In the Court
of Arches, a clergyman pleaded guilty of gross acts
of intoxication ana the use of profane ana indecent
language. Jt even appeared that on one occasion
he took with him to church, when about to officiate
therein, a bottle of spirits, of which he drank a con
siderable portion, so as to render him unfit to de
cently perform the service. Yet, notwithstanding
he had already been suspended for a similar offence,
and reinstated in his curacy, the Court refused te
deprive him of his office.
From tkc N. O. Picayune, 27 tk +U .
Twelve Dnvs L.arer from Mexico— A rrivnl of
the C'alhouu.
We have received by this arrival full flies of Vera
Cruz papers to the 22d, and of the capital to the
19th inst. The news is of interest in its general
character, as it indicates the continued growth of
discontent against the present Government; al
though from the Mexican papers we learn these
sac ts, not so much by the announcemeat of new
bands oflnsurgents as from the increased number
of reported victories obtained by the Government
forces in places where we had not before sseen maike
aware that there was any resistance to the preae’at
authorities. We presume tliat this suppression of
facts as to the real state of the country is the result
of the policy of the Government, which exercises a
censor- hip over the press, rather than of a desire on
the part of the press to falsify the trutiu In this
partisan and one-sided character of th» Mexican
papers we find no exception : and even the English
paper published in the capital, the Mexican Extra
ordinary, is as devoted to private interests as the
rest ot "its compeers in that country. From our
flies we extract the following items of news :
The Extraordinary says : Rumors of the defeat of
reactionary movements come from every quarter.—
They have’ now amounted to almost daily occur
rences. An attempt at revolution was promptly
quelled at Colima on the 15th ult., aud we learn by
private advices from Vera Cruz that Senor Don
Pedro Cueto was lately arrested aud in communi
cated on a charge of conspiracy. He was found as
sociated with a number of malcontents.
Another attempt has been made at revolution by
a party headed by a man named Chalchicomula, in
the State of Puebla. He has been routed and his
forces completely put to flight by the forces of the
Republic. Several persons were taken prisoners :
Don Jose Gusto Goffre, Don Manuel Tagle, Don
Francisco Arnota, Don Vicente Calderon, and one
other person. The plan Calderon was to proclaim
the Basis Organicat , and Don Romulode la Vega
President. This is the sixth failure of the reactionists
to create a revolution in the State of Puebla.
A pronunclamiento suppressed at Mara
ratio, in the State Michoacan. It commenced
amongst the soldiers, who, after assassinating the
Com andante and wounding the Major, were prompt
ly brought to order.
An attempted revolt has lately been suppressed
in Mazatl&n.
The lato news from Sonora announces the suc
cesses of the government for; es over the Gandara*.
The town of Guy&mas had beeu deserted by the
revolutionists and re-occupied by the forces of the
Government. There had been an action between
the two parties ou the plain of Dolores and many of
the revolutionists taken prisoners.
The Interes, of Puebla, announces that CoL Car
los Patron hud pronounced in tbe town of Tepeoju
ma with 200 men. The Government of Puebla had
sent Gen. Montera with 400 men to operate against
him.
The Trait d*Union states that Gen. Marino Salas
was arrested in the capital on the 12th inst., end also
a Carmelite friar. On the 14th, a stage coach that
was leaving the city was stopped and all its passen
gers arrested by the Governor.
The interior mails seem to be perfectly disjoint
ed. No regular advices had been received from
Mazatlan, Guadalajara, San Luis and many other
places for several days.
It is reported that the rebel Castrejon has died
from the severe woundß which he received in the
late battle he had with the Government forces, He
was operating ugainst the Government on the road
to Acapulco, in that region where Gen. Alvarez was
so often reported killed during Santa Anna’s rule.
The Voz del Pueblo, of Chiapas, says that the
Curate Lopez hud placed himself at the head of a
body of men in the town of Juchitan, aud had at
tacked that of Tehuantepec. He was repulsed by
Salinas, who commanded the forces of the Govern
ment.
The Interes, cf Puebla, of the 16th, states that
the Huetjozingo, in that State, has been taken by a
band of insurgents. A picket of troops was sent
against them from Puebla.
At the town of San Dimas, iu Durango, an un
happy event occurred on the 16th of September.
It seems that while the population, with the
ayuntamiento and patriotic junta, were on their
way to the church to assist in the solemn ceremony
of Tc Deum, a party of armed men, numbering ten
or twelve, made their appearance and manifested
a disposition to interfere with the ceremonies. They
did not. however, but proceeded to a commercial
house, where they watched the movements. After
tiie ceremony was completed the populace disban
ded, shouting vivas for their independence, tec. At
this time a man, supposed to be drunk, shouted
“Death to the Spaniards,” when, simultaneously, a
volley was lired from the armed men in the com
mercial house, \\ ho were Spaniards. Two persons
were instantly killed. This was the tocsin of alarm,
and at once the populace found arms and attacked
the house. For the whole night shooting cont inued,
and the next day the people sacked the houses ana
set tire to them. At the end of this conflict, five
dead were picked up and some were d,su£< vously
wounded.
A party of “facciosos” entered the town of San
Juan del Rio, Queretaro, and from there marched to
the city of Queretaro, of which they took posses
sion. In the attack Gen. Magana, commanding the
government troops, was killed. The insurgents are
commanded by Gen. Mejia, who took a part in the
rebellion of Gen. Uraga, at Puabla, and who,
through the clemency of the government, et-caped
from death. The standard of the rebels is the well
known “Religion y Fueros,” and be«ideß they pro
mise to divide Lhe land prapeity amongst the In
dians. The number or the invaders, it said, does
not exceed five hlindrcd. Gen. Traconis, it is
thought, will be the general in conimaud to operate
against them.
\Yc have received a private letter, dab.d 19th
inst., in the city of Mexico, which says “the distur
bances at Queretaro are of a more serious char
acter than is reported in the newspapers of this ci
ty.”
On account of the late events at Queretaro
the mails from the capital were not sent to that
town.
The Coinandnnte of Iguala announces on the 11th
inst., to the Gov. of Vera Gruz that he had defeated
Castrejon at the hill of Venado.
Gov. Traconis has resigned his post as Governor
and Commandaute General of the State of Puebla.
Various rumors are in circulation in connection with
this resignation. Besides the rumor given übove,
tliat he would be sent to Queretaro to operate against
the insurgents there, it was rumored jn the capital
tliat he is to take charge of the Government whilst
President Comenfort proceeds at the head of the ar
my against Vidaurri. Gen. Carcia Coude was to
succeed him at Puebla
The Inleres of Puebla fears that the resignation
of Gov. Traconis will give rise to serious disturban
ces in that State, and the Siglo XIX of Mexico
joins in that opinion. His energy and tact, united
*to great prudence, had been the strongest support of
the Government against the reactionists.
lion. John Forsyth, our Minister at Mexico, reach
ed the capital on the lfith instant. He had been
reported sick of fever at Jalapa, but it was a mis
take.
President Comonfort is again well from an attack
of illness, with which iic had been afflicted for seve
ral days.
Or. the 11th inst., the Ministry gave a dinner to
Senor Don Miguel de los Santos Alvarez, Minister
of her Catholic Majesty of Spain.
A banquet is in preparation in honor of President
Comonfort, to be given at Ixtacaleo. The prepa
rations now being made are on an extensive scale.
The mechanics of Aguascalientes have united with
those of the capital to manifest their sympathy for
him.
The Constituent Congress arc progressing very
slowly with the projected constitution. The sixty
fourth article is now under consideration. Great
complaint is made in the papers of the absence of
members from their seats.
On the 26th ult. three successive shocks of earth
quakes were felt in Colima. No harm was sustain
ed by any person from this visitation.
Senor Don Ignacia Comonfort, the present pro
visional President, has been proposed as Constitu
tional President by the Artesano of Aguascalientes.
A Queretaro paper states that there had passed
through that city commissioners from Gen. Vidaur
ri on their way to Mexico in order to arrange the
pending difficulties between him and the General
Government.
The Extraordinary says:
The reported sales of property belonging to civil
and ecclesiastical corporations, in conformity to the
law of the 25th June, amounted in the different,
States and Territories, on the 10th inst., to sl4,
413,816 58.
There have now been adjudicated 1,702 es
tates, and the law* has passed to be one of the
great realities of the times, and will forever mark
the point from which Mexico too;: an enlightened
advance in social and commercial progression.
The Vera Cruz Progresso, of the 22a has the fol
lowing:
“A paper of the capital, without giving its author
ity, says that Geu. Almonte before proceeding to
London, will wait in Vera Cruz for the arrival of
the British fleet, in order to arrange with its com
m&nder a suspension of all operations until he has
filled liis mission to the United Kingdom. It adds
that the Governor here is authorized to accede to
these arrangements, and we add for our part that
our cotemporary of the capital has dreamed these
things.”
We find the following in the Extraordinary : The
Minister ot Hacienda has received from La Paz,
Lower California, an account of a most frightful
gale, which commenced blowing violently from the
southeast, on the 16th ult.. and continued with una
bated fury until the morning of the 19th. The tor
nado tore down many of the principal houses ia La
Paz, and many people were seriously injured by fall
ing roofs and timbers. The shipping were driven from
their anchorage and destroyed.
From the interior of the peninsula the most
sad reports have been received of the ravages of the
storm.
• This gale has been the most severe that has ever
been experienced. It is impossible to calculate the
loss of property. Reports from the east coast of the
Gulf stale tliat serious damages had been sustained
there also.
The Camphene Accident in Philadelphia.—
Further Particulars. —lt was mentioned under our
telegraphic head yesterday that a terrible accident,
from burning fluid, occurred on Saturday evening,
at the house of Andrew Moore, in Philadelphia.—
The Daily News of yesterday has the following par
ticulars of the distressing affair :
Mrs. Moore, as is too often done, was in the act of
filling a metal lamp while burning, with fluid, when
one other children, a small girl who was at her feet,
pulled her dress. This, for a moment, diverted her
attention from the lamp, and the flame coining in
contact with the fluid, a whole quart being in the
vessel, it was ignited. In the fnght of Mrs. Moore,
she threw it from her and over the children, ana
the carpet being set fire to, the dresses of the i hil
dren were in a blaze the next moment. The light
and the cries of the family brought assistance, nut
three of the ehildren were so dreadfully burned that
two of them died in the course of the night, and one
early yesterday morning. One of these, a girl aged
thirteen years,"was not of the family. Iler name
wasjEllsnJ. L ampsen, from Washington, D. C.,
and was at the house on s visit. As soon as her
dress caught she ran into the street and fell into the
gutter in front of the house. The others were
named Emma H. Moore, aged eight years ; Wil
helmiua. aged six years ; Rachel Moore, aged three
years. A babe, Elmira Moore, aged one year, was
badly burned. but not fatally. Mrs. Moore's inju
ries are severe, bat not such as to cause any
serious apprehensions.
Mr. Moore was not at homeat the time, butr-ach
ed home soon after, and in his efforts to extinguish
the flames, his hands were badly burnt. Mr. T. S.
Fortesque and Mr. Charles Close to ere the first to
reach the house after the alarm was given, and they
iucceeded in tearing the burning dress from one of
the children, but in time to save it from a dreadful
death. Drs. Kamerly and Laws, the latter of the
U. S. Navy, were early at the scene of the disaster,
but four of the children were burnt beyond the pow
er of human skill to save, the fourth being consid
ered in a dying state last evening. A more terrible
sight was never witnessed than the four children, so
shockingly burnt as they were about the body and
head. The eldest gni. Ellen Jane Lampsun, re
tained her senses to the last, and prayed audibly just
before she ceased to breathe. The casuality caused
the most intense excitement in the neighborhood in
which it occurred, and the house was thronged with
thecutioas all of Yesterday. A most extraordinary
fatality lias attended the family of Miss Lampoon
three ( 'r four years ago her father, two brothers and
an uncle were drowned, and some months ago her
mother died. Time and again it has been impressed
upon tie. public the danger of filling fluid lamps
while burning, and yet, notwithstanding the numer
ous u . nts -rred through the prac
tice. it is still done. All mothers should remember
the fearful warning in the calamity we have re
corded.
A Suspension Bridge is to be built across the Mis
sissippi, at St. Louis, Missouri, to be eighty-four feet
above high water mark, and more than a mile in
length. The greatest distance between towers wiil
be IStXi feet, and the foundation of some of the tow
ers w ill be 60 feet below the surface of low water. —
Mr. J. \V. Bisseil, of Rochester. N. V., has received
> the appointment of engineer. The bridge is expect
ed not to cost less than two millions of dollars.
A Rare Chance to cet a Husband. —The edi
tor of the Fredericksburg (Ya.. News, advertises for
a wife, for himself Applicants must not be over
twenty-two years of age. and will not be required
to have more than SI,OOO in cash. The editor adopts
this as the cheapest mode of obtaining a wife, not
having time to hunt out one, and the advertisement
costs him nothing.
Fire.—We learn with regret that tbe gin-house
of Dr. \\ . G. Ballard, near this place, wasconsumed
by fire, on Wednesday night last, with its entire
contents, consisting of cotton, wheat, oats, dec.—
Loss about two thousand dollars.— Madison Vint*.
iiTornia Intelligence.
We rom our San Francisco files received
by the rtr Xllinois some details of California In
teUigeß'^
FOR THE LAST FORTNIGHT.—STATE.—
Tn«a political campaign was fairly opened for the
sea son by a grand Barbecue held' on the 20th ult.,
& San Joee. A large number of cattle and animals
r oasted whole were devoured, and the Americans,
•Republicans and Democrats each had their speakers
there to explain their respective principles. Besides
posting the San Jose people pretty thoroughly upon
political subjects no great results seem to have flown
from it
Considerable speculation in California War Bonds
has taken place since the sailing of the previous
steamer.
From every part of the mining districts the most
cheerful accounts are daily received. This season
seems to have been particularly favorable for those
who are engaged in mining operations of all kinds,
and a very large amount of gold has been extracted
during the last fortnight.
From the Northern coast mines in the neighbor
hood of Cresent city very favorable reports have
been received, and the placers of that district are
paying richly, Indian Creek being particularly men
tioned.
An alteration in the system pursued, has lately
made the Feather river again extremely produc
live. Owing to the present low stage of water, the
American river mines, and especially those upon its
middle fork, are paying very richly, SIO,OOO being
yielded by one claim in a single week. Many miles
of flume have been erected along it, all of which
pays well as investments.
In numerous localities in the neighborhood of
Shasta new discoveries of rich diggings have lately
been made. From others the yield this season is
much larger than ever before, and the miners are
represented as all contented and doiog well. Hea
vy strikes are likwise report ed in the neighborhood
of Sonora, and along the whole length of the Tuo
lumne river, and more labor is being done upon the
numerous bars than at any time during the three
previous years The miners there are now secu
ring the rich dirt from the bed of the stream to wash
during the winter.
From Oregon we learn that great excitement ex
ists on aooount of the reported richness of the Fort
Colville mines, and a general stampede is being
made towards them.
In the North the weather for the past two weeks
has been uncommonly warm, and throughout the
State great doubt prevails. The “oldest inhabi
tant” and his relatives among the native Cali
fornians and Indians, are in expectation of a
small deluge from the rain? this fall. The presence
of the Yankees has, however, altered tilings so ma
terially, that the old rules may not answer as here
tofore.
A fire which occurred at Prairie City on the 25th
ult, caused eonsiderable damage. Another smaller
fire occurred on the Stanislaus river, opposite
Knight’s Ferry, where two men were destroyed by
the flames.
The Supreme Court bas lately decided a suit in
favor of Mcssiek vs. Sunderiana, by which the for
mer gets a title to one third of the city of Sacramen
to, worth $3,000,000.
About 15,000 head of cattle are recruiting in Car
son Valley. These have all come across the plains
this year, and it is estimated that 25,000 persons
and 80,000 head of cattle will arrive during the sea
son.
Robberies and occasional murders are reported
from all parts of the State. The neighborhood of
Nevada appears to be liked by the highwaymen,
and travellers in that region are particularly liable
to make the acquaintance of these gentry. The
conduct of the San Franciscans is offered to the Ne
vada folks as an example well worthy of being fol
lowed. The roads from Stockton to the Southern
mines are likewise infested. Among the highway
men at present one Tom Bell occupies the distin
guished position formerly held by Joaquin the Mex
ican bandit. Robberies in all parts of the country
at the same time are charged to him. Several men
said to have belonged to his band have been arrest
ed and others shot. An encounter took place be
tween a sheriff’s party and some robbers on the Ist
inst., between Auburn and Folsom, in which the ve
ritable Tom Bell is said to have been wounded, and
one of his companions named Ned Conway was
killed. All their horses were captured, but the oth
ers escaped.
CiTT.—l'he local news of the past fortnight has
been comparatively devoid of interest. The hith
erto fruitful topic of the Vigilance Committee lias,
to use a California phrase, “dried up.” The Com
mittee have been eraineniy successful, and since
the acquittal of Durkee on his trial for piracy, even
the law and order bloods of the most uire animosi
ty have submitted to the course of things, and now
there is almost a perfect silence on the subject.—
Political talk has usurped the place of everything
else for the present. The various parties have had
repeated meetings, and processions, and consid
erable enthusiasm, if not excitement has prevailed.
The assessment rolls forth© city and county of
San Francisco have been made out within the fort
night, and show the total valuation of the property
to be $30,368,251, on which the aggregate taxes for
State and county purposes is $038,078.
On Monday September 22d, six clipper ships with
cargoes of assorted merchandise arrived m port
from New York and Boston. Two clipper ships
also arrived the next day, beside other vessels from
other quarters. There has consequently been con
siderable briskness about the wharves and ware
houses. Business seems to be reviving.
The money agreed to be paid by the Vigilance
Committee to Alfred A. Green for the celebrated
Pueblo papers, $12,500, waw duly delivered. A por
tion of it in the hands of Wm. 11. Green, Alfred’s
brother, was seized by the sheriff on execution
against Alfred. The fact that so much money had
been actually paid for the Pueblo papers, opened
the eyes of the community as to their importance.
Hitherto they had been considered by many to be a
humbug. They are now regarded os genuine. It
is understood that the Committee will present them
to the city.
The Revenue cutter William I ... Marcy returned
last night from a chase of the schooner Curlew,
which left port some ten days since without taking
the necessary papers. The Marcy cruised up ana
down the coast for some time, but was neither able
to see nor get any information of the Curlew, and
at last abandoned the chase. It is supposed that
the Curlew ran very far out to sea for the purpose
of avoiding apprehension. She is doubtless bound
on some unlawful voyage.
Arrest or John McDougal. —John McDougal,
ex-Governor of California, and late of Sail Mateo
county, soon alter his arrival from the east by the
steamer John L. Stephens yesterday, was arrested
by officer Rand. McDougal is charged with elec
tion frauds last May, when a lot of rowdies and
shoulder-strikers controlled the San Mateo ballot
boxes. Many frauds were perpetrated, which were
afterwards discovered aud the election set aside.—
The affair then came before the Grand Jury of that
county and a number of indictments were found
and bench warrants issued. One against McDougal
could not be served on account of that diatinguish
iudividuaJ’e absence.
Yesterday, “I, John,” was conspicuous upon the
streets, until officer Rand, who had a bench warrant
from San Mateo, took him into custody. McDou
gal was very indignant, but said he w*as ready to
give bonds for his appearance, and proceeded to the
office of Justice Smith, as is usual in such cases, had
the amount, for which bail might be received, speci
fied upon the back, and in this instanee it was unac
countably small, being only SSOO. McDougal took
with him Gen. Estell and Judge Scarborrough, who
signified their willingness to go on the bond; but
some difficulty occurring about getting up the pa-
Sers, the matter was laid over till this morning.—
IcDougal gave bond, with Edward F. Beale und
James S. Graham as sureties.
Oregon.— Governor Stevens was at last accounts
in the Walla Walla country, endeavoring to treat
with the Indians, but only the Nec Perzee showed
a willingness to comp to the council.
From the general demeanor of the savages, there
does not seem to be a very good prospect of a speedy
peace.
Capt. Bowman of the U. S. A. had become insane,
and escaped from his friends while they were taking
him to the Dalles. His body was afterwards found
nearly consumed by wild beats.
The official rote in Pennsylvania reduces the De
mocratic majority to about2,7oo. In this connec
tion it may be well to show what the leading organs
of the Buchanier* tliat ore now shouting over a
barren victory claimed before the election, nere
are some extracts on this point.— Balt. Amcr.
We assure our friends abroad that wo shall carry
the State on the 14th by from 25,000 to 40,000 ma
jority.—Pen 7}*ylvafiian , sth.
The Democrats are largely in the majority in
Pennsylvania, over all parties and combinations.—
We shall be disappointed if the majority on the l lth
is less than 20,000. It may reach 40,000. — Washing
ton Union, lOJA.
We are sure of Pennsylvania on Tuesday next by
30,000 majority.— Albany Argus, IDA.
Our friend* in Pennsylvania are sanguine of 30,-
000 majority on the State ticket, and some go a*
high as 50,000. — Boston Post, 8 (k.
Migratory Pickpockets. —Pickpockets appear
to have adopted a regular system of migration and
depredation during the present season. Whenever
an agricultural fair or other assemblage of persons
is likely to be held, they are sure to be the first on
the spot. They are getting too numerous, appar
ently to thrive in the large cities, and necessarily
take to the inland towns and villages. At the fair
at Petersburg, Virginia, they have committed sun
dry depradationa within the oast few days, robbing
a lady of S39S, which she haa taken to prevent its
being stolen from her husband’s pockets ■ plunder
ing the Rev. Wm. H. Starr, agent of the Virginia
Colonization Society, of s7y, and valuable papers,
and stealing a handsome gold chain from one of the
glass cases. Two genteel looking youths are con
fined, with strongly suspicious circumstances mili
tating against them. — Balt. American.
A young man was sentenced In Pittsburg, last
Saturday, to six months’imprisonment in jail for as
saulting another with “knucklers.” Ilia counsel,
previous to the passing of the sentence, solicited
leniency for his client on the score of good charac
ter and gentlemanly conduct generally. The judge
replied it was fortunate for him that he was not in
dicted for an attempt to murder, and said when
people with gentlemanly culture and good charac
ters performed such deeds, he should punish them an
rowdies and ruffians. “The first gentleman of the
laud shall fare no better than the poorest devil.”
Growth or New Orleans. —The commerce of
New Orleans for the past year has been larger than
for any previous year. We also learn from the
Crescent that a large number of buildings are in the
course of erection in that city, involving an expen
diture of more than two millions of dollars. Among
them are two splendid churches, two orphan asy
lums, one Jewish and one Catholic, a Mechanics In
stitute, one Medical School, and Jewish Synagogue,
a cotton press to cost $150,000; a house for James
Robb, to cost $75,000; several other houses costing
form $12,000 to s:is,ot»o each,land a large number of
stores costing from SIO,OOO to $20,000 each. The
new Custom House will not be completed in seve
ral years. It will cost $3,250,000. We are happy
to record such unmistakable evidences of the pros
perity of New Orleans, and of the most patriotic
and enterprising of American cities.
A New Villainy.—A widow woman in Peters
burg, Va., has been arrested on a charge of thefl,
at the instance of a young man she refused to marry.
He first circulated reports against her character in
other respects, and fading to do her injury in this
manner, had her arrested on the charge named,
offering to retract the charge if she would marry
him. She, of course, still refused, and was brought
up for trial, when the graceless scamp failed to ap
pear.
Trenton, Oct. 28.—The Republicans and Ameri
cans met here to-day for the purpose of forming a
Union Electoral ticket. A respectable number of
both parties were present. They met in separate
Conventions. The Republicans proposed to the
Americans a fusion similar to that made in Pennsyl
vania. but a difficulty arose about the terms of the
proposition. A second proposition was then made
by the Republicans, to which the Americans an
swered that no arrangement could be made. Both
Conventions adjourned and no fusion was effected.
A Remarkabli Woman. —There issaid to be liv
ing upon Bate’s Island, in Casco Bay. on the coast
of Maine, a woman of the most wonderful powers
of hardihood. The Island contains aboutfive acres,
the harvest portion of which she has put under cul
tivation, raising a handsome crop of potatoes and
other vegetables yearly. The land never was
ploughed, out has been thoroughly hoed over by
her. The remaining portion she devotes to raising
hay of a superior quality, every crop of which she
has mowed and cured with her own hand. The ear
ly part oi the day she devotes to fishiag, going
through the breakers in a fragileskiff, rowing single
handed where many a strong man would quail and
hesitate. The results of her day's fishing she ex
changes for mone» and groceries, with dealers who
visit the Island from Portland.
Tenure or Judicial Oeeice nr Connecticut.
—The people of Connecticut a week or two since
vs ted upon a constitutional amendment to limit the
term of judicial office to eight years. They now
bold office during good behavior and until they
reach the age of seventy. The vote was light and
not of a party character, but the amendment was
adopted by a majority of between twelve and thir
teen hundred.
Disgusted. —J. B. H. recently returned Jfrom
Philadelphia, tells a good story of a disgusted Fre
monter. who, having been pretty well plucked by
his party for “necessary election expenses,' under
promise of political triumphs and an office, was ap
proached just after the Pennsylvania election by a
committee man with an invitation to fork over again
“for the good of the party.” “A’* nr et /” respond
ed the victim. “What! nothing for bleeding Kan
sas V’ “Nary rad—let her bleed f”
WEEKLY
Cjironkle & Sentinel.
AUGUSTA, GA
WEDNESDAY MORNING NOV’B. 5, 1556.
TO CAMPAIGN SUBSCRIBERS.
As this is the last Weekly paper but one, that
will be sent to our Campaign subscribers, we avail
ourselves of the occasion to address a few words to
them, and to say we shall be greatly pleased to
continue to send our paper to all of them who may
desire it. That there are many such, we hope aud
believe, and we trust they will be prompt in advi
sing us of their wishes. If you desire the spread of
the great conservative principles of our party, you
canuot better accomplish that object than by enlight
ening the public mind, that the people may know
what we advocate. Aud the most, effectual way to
do tills, is to foster and cherish the press. If you
are diligent in the performance of this duty—if you
make the necessary effort to extend the -circula
tion of those journals best calculated to enlighten
the people, victory will sooner or later perch ou your
banner, if you are true aud steadfast to your princi
ples.
We hope, therefore, that our friends everywhere,
as well Campaign Subscribers as all others who ap
prove the conduct of our paper, will unite in a
ooinmon effort to extend the circulation of the
CHRONICLE & SENTINEL. Many of you can,
by a little effort, send us large lists of NEW sub
scribers, and we ask you, as you love your princi
ples and desire success, to make that effort. Let
every man who can send us one new subscriber do
o. We promise, in return, to perform our duty.
The Election.
The election yesterday was one of the most quiet
and orderly we have ever known in any communi
ty. We have not heard of the slightest disturbance
of any kind. So much for the closing of the drink
ing shops throughout the city during the day.
The day was very inclement and wet—raining at
intervals from early in the morning till late in the
afternoon. Yet, notwithstanding all this, the vote
polled in this city was the largest ever known.—
There were 1,633 votes polled in the city, being
near 300 more than was polled last year, which was
up to that time the largest vote over polled. This
increased vote is to be attributed in a great degree
to the number of strangers in the city from other por
tions of the State.
The result of the vote cannot be ascertained till a
lato hour at night, perhaps mid night or after, and as
we are compelled to go to press at an early hour in
order to get our papers ready for the morning mails,
we cannot lay it before our readers till our next issue.
More European Troubles.
Another struggle between the powers of Europe
eeeins to be impending ; and as every shock of con
tending nations there vibrates along the sensitive
commercial cord which unites us to Europe, it will
interest our readers to be succinctly put in posses
sion of the cause of the embroilment which now
threatens iho universal peace.
It has arisen from the interference of England
and France In the internal affairs of the Kingdom of
Naples. The King of that country is absolute in
power, and one of the most detestable tyrants who
have disgraced modern times. His treatment of
political offenders has been most barbarous, and
their complaints have at length attracted the atten
tion of the Governments of England aud France,
and have determined them to interfere. A note was
addressed to the King, remonstrating with him up
on his conduct and desiring a change in his policy.
To this the King replied angrily and haughtily, de
nying their right to interfere in his affairs. Anoth
er more peremptory note wan then sent by the two
Rowers, and preparations were made to back up
their remonstrances with a powerful fleet, and co
erce tiie King, sinco they could not persuade him.
Before, however, the fleets had sailed, the Czar of
Russia steps in, and intimates, in a manifesto to the
two Powers, that he considers their interference un
justifiable, and farther hints that ho will make the
cause of his brother monarch his own. Rather
than plunge all Europe iuto war, which would be
the consequence of their perslstanoe, England aud
France have been induced to hesitate, to keep
their ships at home for the present, and to take
time for deliberation.
Thus the affair stands at present. The King of
Naples manifests a firm resolution to resist, especi
ally since he finds himself thus supported by Russia,
and the two Powers are disinclined to act in the face
of the menace es the Czar. The probability seems
to be now that they will draw back and leave the
King of Naples to tyrannize over his Kingdom in
his own way.
So far as the abstract principle is concerned, it is
evident that Naples is in the right. No nation has
any just prerogative to interfere with the internal
government of another, and it little becomes En.
gland to do so—as her people have often made it
a subject of reproach to us, that we are too much
given to intermeddling with neighboring govern
ments, and have denounced us us a nation of fili
busters and land robbers. But in more than one
instance in the lost few years she has been guilty of
the same sin she has been so ready to ascribe to us.
In the case of the Indiau Kingdom of Oude, she
first interfered to protect, and, because the King did
not govern his subjects to suit her, proceeded to an
nex his dominions ; in this she displayed the true
filibuster spirit, and the same spirit shows itself in
this more recent instance of Naples, where, whether
the King governed justly or not, was really no con
cern of hers. Kingdoms or “Southern Confedera
cies”—all who seek her alliance or assistance, or
give her an excuse to interfere, Jwill bo very likely
to rue it.
The Centrnl American Question.
•NEofthe humbugs hatched up by the Pierce
Administration for effect on the election, seems to
have exploded a little too soon. Only a short time
since the whole country mhs set agog by a threat
ened war with England. Pierce swore he was
going to annihilate Great Britain, and Marct
threatened to put Queen Victoria and all her ar
my and navy into the pocket of those famous patch
ed breeches. Crampton got his walking papers,
and, to people who did not understand Democracy,
every thing seemed to threaten war. Those who
recollected Polk’s 54° 40 / war, and some more
alarms of the same nature, were not very despe
rately frightened. The valiant bluster about war
with England, like the Kansas commotions, ceased
about the time, or soon after the Cincinnati Con *
vention. Mr. Pierce was disappointed in getting
the nomination, so he and his man Friday thought
it was of no use for them to spend their breat h and
exhaiiMt their vocabulary for Buchanan, who had
supplanted them ; therefore the question was quiet
ly settled and put out of the way—se quietly, that
people began to wonder what had become of it.—
Like the man who kicked at nothing, our fellow
citizens found they had only strained themselves to
no purpose.
The best of the joke is, that the noisest party in
the quarrel, has no part in the settlement of it.—
While Uncle Sam and John Bull are quarrelling and
on the eve of a fight, Honduras modestly steps in,
and claims the bone of contention as hers, enters
into a convention with England, by which the latter
relinquishes all title in the Bay Islands to Honduras,
a convention is signed with the names of the repre
sentatives of the two parties, in which our govern*
ipent, which has done all the wrangling, seems to
have no more interest than all the rest of the world-
We may w'oll exolaiin, “oh most lame and impo
tent conclusion,” and denounce the conduct of an
administration anfi the continuance in power of a
party, who, for mere electioneering purposes, has
placed us in so ridiculous a position before the civil
ized world, the position of a blustering bully, quar
reling about a piece of property to which he himself
has not the slightest right or title.
Who Rules America t
The Brooklyn Evening Star contains a list of
over 1700 foreigners naturalized, in the county
Court of Kings county, by Judge Sam’l. S. Morris
since the 23d of September last. If in one county,
by one Judge, so many arc made citizens, some
idea may be formed of the immense multitude na
turalized in preparation for this election. Among
the American people no sensible man doubts that
Mr. Fillmore has the majority of voters, but what
cna they d > against their opponents backed up as
the latter are by an army of foreigners, so great
that no man can number them.
Medical College.
The Annual Course of Lectures in the Medical Col
lege of Georgia were opened yesterday by an intro
ductory lecture from Proff. Ford, which, for beauty
and eloquence, surpassed anything of the kind it has
been our good fortune to listen to; his theme was
the Physician and his Studies.
He was glad to see so many young gentlemen
present on the occasion, and w*e learn that it is the
largest matriculation at so early a period of the ses
sion that they have had. The School is decidedly
popular, and with its present able Professor, must
continue to grow in public favor.
A Link or Southern Steamers.— The Hon. A.
D. Mann has addressed a letter to the citizens of the
Southern States, in which he earnestly advocates
the establishment of a line of steamers between
Chesapeake Bay and Milford Haven, reported to be
about one hundred and twenty miles south of Liver
pool. The distance he represents at about 3,150
miles, or at least one hundred miles shorter than at
present traversed by the steamers from New York
to Liverpool. The town of Milford is situated one
hundred and twenty miles southward and westward
of Liverpool, one hundred miles westward of Bris
trol, and two hundred and seventy miles westward
of London. It is connected with each by railway,
with the exception of a space of three miles, which
will be completed next spring.
Southern Medical and Surgical Journal.—
The November number of this valuable journal is
on our table. On looking over the table of contents,
we find it containing its usual variety of original
and selected matter. It contains four original arti
cles, viz : Typhoid Fever, by S. W. Burnet, M.
D., Forsyth, Ga; Letter on General Pathology, by
S. D. Holt, Montgomery, Alabama ; Cholera In
fantum and Convulsions Treated Principally by
Water, by J. S. Wilson, Muscogee county, Ga.;
Large Stone in the Bladder, by S. Heandon, M.D.,
Thomaaville, Ga. This work is edited by Professor
L. A. Dugas and H. Kossignol, M. D., and pub.
lisbed in this city monthly at three dollars per annum
in advance.
Well Said. —A cotemporary says :In our opin
ion, the result of long experience and observation
an editor of a newspaper deserves far more credit
for what he keeps out of his paper than for what he
puts in it.
Pardoned. —Gov. Bragg of North Carolina, has
pardoned Alexander Booker, convicted at Randolph
Superior Court, of the murder of Chavis, whe had
••dated kis state*.
Corruption Fund Committee.
In the pure days of the Republic, candidates and
parties were accustomed to rely for success upon
the intelligence and patriotism of the people. But
all that has been changed—money is now the chief
agent employed. It was thought shameful in former
days, to use money for such purposes; but it is now
openly, and without a blush, solicited and employ
ed. Bribery and corruption are avowedly used to
defeat the will of the honest and honorable portion
of the people. All this is an evidence that patriot
ism and love of Republican institutions are de
clining among our people. So shameless has this
practice become, that even Governors of States
stoop to solicit contributions to corruption funds
Not content with spending the revenues of the
government to enable them to buy majorities, a tax
is levied out of the private members of the party.
A disgusting instance of the practice is displayed in
the Democratic circular which we publish below,
signed by “T. Bracg, L. O’B. Branch,” and oth
ers. Mr. Bragg is Governor of the State of North
Carolina, and Mr. Branch, a member of Congress
from the same State, and they call on their fellow
Democrats to send them money “that the Consti
tution and the Union may be defended and pre
served.” When these men took an oath to support
the Constitution, did they understand they were
to support it by the most open and audacious
bribery ?
The people have looked upon the means by which
their elections have been carried with too much
indifference. They seem to think it a matter of
course, that corruption should be au essential ele
ment in every canvass. If they do not arise and
firmly resist the downward speed with which this
Government is hastening to utter debauchery, the
day is not far distaut wheu all offices will be put
up at auction to the highest bidder, as they were in
the declining days of ancient Rome. Indeed, it is not
much better now with us —that party which lias
the greatest command of money already can se
cure to itself the victory in our elections, and the
consequent “spoils.”
What think the honest patriots of the land of the
Governor and other dignataries of North Carolina
collecting money in that State to carry the eU ction
in Pennsylvania ! Is it not an evidence that we
have fallen upon evil times ?—a period when cor
ruption stalks abroad at midday, and is resorted to
by men in high places to carry the elections? This
corruption fuud committee, say the money is de
sired to circulate documents! What think honest
men of a committee in North Carolina on the 20th
of September, issuing a circular to collect money to
be seut to Pennsylvania to circulate documents in
Pennsylvania to influence the election in that State
on the 14th of October—only twenty-four days af
ter the circular bears date in Raleigh. The i iiing is
absurd—the committee knew when they penned the
circular that the money could not be used for any
such purpose.
The Last Desperate Struggle.—To show the
extent to which the resources of the Democratic
party of the whole Unton were used to carry the late
Stato election in Pennsylvania, we copy the conclu
sion of a circular addressed by prominent Demo
crats of North Carolina to their monied friends—a
copy of which was missent and made public. The
circular is dated “Raleigh, Sept. 20, 1856,” and
concludes thus :
“ Pennsylvania must be saved at every hazard.
We will not dwell upon the calamities likely to re
sult from the election of Fremont: it is enough for
us to know that our Northern friends regard the
cause as more or less in peril, and call on us through
the National Executive Committee for aid. We
appeal to you. therefore, as a Democrat and a pa
triot, to contribute forthwith whatever amount of
money you can, and raise what you can from others,
to be forwarded to the National Executive Commit
tee at Washington. Whatever is done should be
done quickly. The money, we feel confident from
our knowledge of the committee, will boused pro
perly, in spreading sound and useful information
among the Northern people so as to effect the most
good for the cause. Send whatever amount you
may raise to Hon. L. O’B. Branch, Raleigh, who
will take pleasure in forwarding the same to the
committee.
“ Our all, a* a people, is at slake in this contest.
Our Democratic friends in the free States are light
ing our battles for us. Our enemies, embracing
much of the wealth of tlio non slaveholdiug States,
are using large sums in the hope of electing Fre
mont ; and thus obtaining possession of the Gov
ernment. Let us then contribute liberally of our
means, counting money as chaff, when aur rights,
our liberties, our very safety, and the Constitution
and the Union are to be defended and preserved.
“ We need hardly add that this communication, it
is hoped, will be considered as strictly confidential,
and by no means to be made public. Not because
of any unwillingness on our part to meet the res
ponsibility of tins movement, but for the reason
that it might be used to the prejudice of our friends
abroad. By all means give this your immediate at
tention.
T. Bragg,
L. O’B. Branch,
W. W. Holden,
Will. A. Blount,
L. J. Johnson.
Wine Test—Mr. Axt’s Proposal.
The Wine Test of Mr. Chaui.es Axt is postponed
until Thursday, Nov. 20th; when he will be happy
to meet in this city all manufacturers of or dealers
in Hock Wines, native or foreign, in competition
with his Georgia Hock, made from the Catawba
Grape, of the growth of 1856. Ho hopes there will
be a full attendance, as he is determined to con
vince the public that better Wine can bo made in
the South than in any other country in the world.—
Will exchange papers in the South please copy ?
Charleston Medical and Surgical Jour
nal. —The November number of this truly valua
ble bi-monthly work is on our table, freighted with
its usual variety of original and miscellaneous mat
ter. The two last numbers present an entirely new
feature. The August number contained a fine like
ness of the late Professor Chapman, and the present
number contains one of Dr. Daniel Drake. We
are pleased to see this feature in our medical jour
nals, and hope they will meet with sufficient encour*
agement to continue them. The present number
contains four original articles, viz : “Typhoil Fe
ver—lts Treatment’ s —by T. A. Dargan, As. E>.
“Remarks on the Constitution of the South Caroli
na Medioal Association”—by a Member; “Yellow
Fever”—by Professor S. 11. Dixon; “Notes on In
teresting Surgical Cases” —by S. 11. Tolaud, M. D.,
of San Franoisco. This work is published bi
monthly, in Charleston, and edited by C. llappol dt
M. D., at $ 1 per annum.
The Vote for Governor.— For convenience of
reference, we give the vote each candidate for Go
vernor received last year t
Johnson 53,478
Andrew’s 43,222
Overby 6,284
Total vote of the State 102,984
Johnson’s majority over Andrews 10,256 over
both Andrews and Overby 3,972.
Sir John Franklin. —Meetings have been held
throughout Lincoln, England, with the object of
raising funds for a suitable monument to the late
Sir John Franklin. The people of Spilsby, the
birth-place of Sir John, are particularly active in
the matter.
Tennessee Opposid to Disunion. —The Nash,
ville Daily Gazette of October 4th, after quoting
many articles tromthe Buchanan Southern press in
favor of secession, disclaim* any such feeling in
Tennessee:
There is no country where patriotism takes so
tangible a shape a d bo firm a hold of mind as here;
none, where each individual feels so surely that he is
an integral partot the great national whole, and that
he will be an individual sufferer if that whole is
diminished. The honest people—the men who have
the burdens of government and the brunt of
battle, are opposed to disunion, civil war, frat ernal
bloodshed—the conflagration of houses and cities,
the massacre of women and children, and all the
dreadful and untold enormities of a civil war—hor
rid war unto death, consequent upon secession and
revolution.
Fremont’s Toe Nails. —The Republicans not
finding in their Presidential candidate any thing re"
markable, mentally, are endeavoring to show- that
he is a very wonderful man physicially. In the bi
ography of him published in the New York Tribune,
is the following :
“On one occasion he had a leg and foot fro
sen. The toe nails came off, but a thing unu
sual, it is said, in such cases, they all came out
again.”
The Detroit Free Press suggests that Fremont’s
followers hereafter designate him as the Great Re-
Tot-Nailed.
Atlantic Sl Gult Railroad—Meeting of
Commissioners —The Commissioners of the At
lantic &, Gulf Railroad met in Milledgeville, says
the Southern Recorder , on Wednesday last. The
Hon. Charles Spalding, of Mclntosh, presided, and
A. M. Speer, Esq., of Bibb, acted as Secretary pro
tem. Besides the Chairman there were present
Messrs. C. J. Munneriyn, of Decatur, E. R. Young
and Wm G. Ponder, of Thomas, and Hon. Edward
C. Anderson and Dr. James P. Screven of the city
of Savannah.
The subscription of Six hundred thousand dollars,
which was necessary to secure the subscription of
half a million by the State, was reported to have
been made, of which the city of Savannah sub
scribed $200,000, the Savannah, Albany and Gulf
Railroad Company $200,000, and individuals the
remaining $200,000.
Having made their report to the Governor, as re
quired by the act of Incorporation, the Board ad
journed, subject to the call of the Governor at some
future day, for the purpose of superintending the
electibn of a Board of Directors and the complete
organisation of the Company.
Election Frauds in Indiana. —The Republican
Central Committee of Indiana have issued an ad
dress in which they state that the aggregate vote of
the State has been swollen nearly fifty thousand
since the election of the year 1854 ; that nearly
twenty thousand of these votes were. fraudulent,
being cast by men whose names do not appear up
on the tax lists : that fraudulent voters were import
ed from Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, and Kentucky,
swelling enormously the vote in all the border coun
ties, and in those accessible by railway.
Quicx Transportation.— A large shipment of
Flour passed through Baltimore recently from Zanes
ville for Boston, via the Central Ohio Railroad, the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the Boston steam
ers of the Merchants and Manufacturing line, which
was taken out of warehouses at Zanesville on Tues
day of one week, and was in store at Boston on the
succeeding Tuesday.
Allies of the South in the Northwest.
Ata Buchanan meeting held m Washingtion, Wia
eonsin, a few days since, a Mr. Hobart told his
Democratic audience “his right arm might wither
before he would vote for the extension of slavery
over territory now free.” The Democrat of the
21st, which report* the substance of his address,
adds, “this is the opinion of all good national Dem
crats.”
Another Great Whig Meeting in Boston.—
The Whigs of Boston and vicinity had another im
mense meeting in Fanueil Hall on Friday evening.
J. Thomas Stevenson, EBq., presided, and opened
the meeting m an able address. "He was followed
by Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, and. l Thornton Wil
liams, Esq. The hall was crowded to excess, and
the speeches were listened to with great attention
and applauded with much enthusiasm.
Mr. Fillmore nmi the Fugitive Stove i.nw.
The charge having been made in Alabama that
Mr. Fillmore refused aid to carry into effect, the
fugitive slave law, a correspondent of tho National
Intelligencer x wrote to the Editors of that paper to
ascertain if such was really the case. Tho Editors
of that paper make the following calm but trium
phant vindication of Mr. Fillmore, and display by
the evidence they produce how firm aud indexible
our noble President was not only in executing the
law, but his indexible determination to put down
all who should resist it :
In answer to our Alabama subscriber, says the
Intelligencer we state that the case of Burns, the
fugitive, did not occur during President Fill
more’s administration, but under that of his succes
sor, President Pierce. We will add, however, in
justice to Mr. Filllork, that the reeordaofthe time
show* that he was faithful to his pledge to execute
the laws. Soon after the passage of the fugitive
slave law, William Crafts , a fugitive, was pursued
from Georgia by Mr. Hughes and Mr. Knight,
agents for the owner. On reaching Poston a writ
was applied for and was issued by the United States
Commissioner, but the marshal failed to make an
arrest, in consequence of measures taken by tho
Abolitionist to conceal the fugitive and aid his es
cape. Complaint was made to the Ptesideut that
the marshal lmd been derelict, aud au investigation
of the facts was immediately ordered. Mr. Chit
tenden, the Attorney General, reported, Nov. 25tb,
1850, that, although he could see no evidence of any
particular activity on the part of the marshal or his
deputy, it did not appear that there was sufficient
cause for their censure or removal from office. They
seemed to have acted to a considerable extent upon
consultation and in concert with Mr. Hughes, the
agent for the owner of the fugitive. Mr. Crittenden
concludes by saying :
“If I could have discovered any satisfactory evi
dence of the neglect or t vasion of duty by these of
fici&ls in this case, it would have been no less conso
nant with my feeling.? than my judgment to have
recommended their instant dismissal from the public
service/*
In a letter addressed by the Acting Secretary of
State to Robert Collins, Esq , of Macon, Georgia,
the owner of Crafts, the President’s views arc given
explicitly. Mr. Collins inquired “ whether i: not
in the power and is not the intention of the Execu
tive of the United States to cause that law to be
faithfully and properly enforced V' Mr. Derrick,
Acting Secretary of State, said :
“To this the President directs me to reply that
you cannot be more deeply impressed than he is
with the importance of having every law faithfully
executed.” “He has no thought of shrinking from
his duty in this or any other case ; bill will, to the
utmost of his ability, firmly and faithfully perform
it.” “ The President feels the importance of avoid
ing, as far as practicable, all causes of irritation be
tween the North and the South, aud especially on
the exciting subject of slavery. Were ho permitted
to advidfe, he would suggest to all the importance
of permitting the laws to take their usual course, and
that everything like intimidation and illegal or un
just annoyance should be scrupulously avoided.
Every effort should be made to cultivate a fraternal
feeling. We should be a people of one int.cn st and
one sentiment, knowing no local division and tole
rating no sectional injustice. Our Union, so dear to
the heart of every true American,.can only be pre
served by a strict observance of the Constitution
and an impartial administration of the laws.”
In his Message to the Senate of the United States
of the 19th of February, 1851, on the subject of the
rescue at Boston of Slmdraoh, a fugitive, President
Fillmore, after referring to the circumstances of the
rescue, said:
“Nothing could be more unexpected than that
such a gross violation of law, such a highhanded < ■ »n
tempt of the authority of the United States, should
be perpetrated by a baud of lawless confederate;; at
noonday in the city of Boston, and in the very tem
ple of justice. I regard this flagitious proceeding
as being a surprise, not unattended with some de
gree of negligence ; nor do I doubt that, if any such
act of violence lmd been apprehended, thousands
of the good citizens of Boston would have present
ed themselves voluntarily and promptly i<» pre
vent it; but the danger does not seem to have been
timely made known or duly appreciated by those
who were concerned in the execution cf the pro
cess.”
Mr. Fillmore then recited the provisions of the
several laws on the subject of the security of pri
soners committed under the authority of the United
States, and the then existing law of Massachusetts
against the use of the State prisons for fugitives.—
lie communicated to the Senate a copy of hi ? pro
clamation of the 18th February, 1851, in relation to
the occurrences in Boston, aud copies of instruc
tions from the Departments of War and Navy rela
tive to the general subject; also copies of telegraphic
despatches from the Department of Slate to the dis
trict attorney and marshal of the United States and
their answers. The President then referred to the
several laws authorizing Executive interference
and suggested some amendments necessary to jus
tify a more summary interference in case of re
sistance. He concluded with the following emphatic
remark :
“I use this occasion to repeat the assurance that,
so far as depends upon me, the laws shall be faith
fully executed, and all forcible opposition to them
suppressed ; and to this end 1 am prepared to
exercise, w -cnever it may become necessary, the
power constitutionally vested in me, to the fullest
extent.”
Iu the discussion in the Senate which followed
this communication, Mr. Cass said :
-‘With respect to tho course of the Administra
tion, which is condemned by the honorable Senator
from Virginia. (Mr. Mason,) it is no part of iny busi
ness to defend if ; it has able and zealous friends
enough on this floor todothat; but J owe it to 1 ruth
and candor to say that, as far as I understand the
measures of the President, I approve them, and I
believe he is determined to do his duly firmly in re
spect to this law.”
Mr. Downs, of Louisiana, said :
“I am glad the President has taken the proper
course, as I think, to see that the laws shall be
faithfully executed.” “He lias given us no reason
to doubt his sincerity und fidelity in carrying out
this law.
The case of the fugitive Authomy Burns, is of
more recent date. It occurred during the present
administration and we are happy to he r.ble to
say that, like his predecessor, President Fierce
■ acted with the promptitude and energy becoming
■ his high position und hie duty to the Constitution.
New Books.
“ Tit for Tat,” a novel, by a Lady of Ne-v Or
leans,” is a reply to Mrs. Stowe’s new book called
“ Drod.” This book is not only an excellent retort
. upon those English sympathizers and pseudo phi
lanthropists who encouraged and flattered Mrs.
Stowe, but it is also a most entertaining narrative
of the evils of the system of white slavery in England,
which is fostered by the same aristocracy which had
so much feeling abhorrence for negro slavery. It
is said to bo written by a Lady of New-Orleans.
We hope the compliment in the preface to one of
the present candidates for the Presidency, will be
appreciated. For sale by Geo. A. Oates & Bko.
1 “The Birins,Axe and Saudi,e-Bags and other
f Lectures. By Wm. Henry Mii.i.vvard.
. These productions, by the famous blind preacher
, should be read by all who have the taßte to appreci
, ate quiet humor, true eloquence and poetic descrip
tion. For sale by Oates & Bro.
The change of a single letter makes a curious dis
• ferenoc in a word sometimes. A paper copying
I from “Benton’s Thirty Years,” calls it “Thirty
t Bears in the United States Senate.” —New York
( Dispatch.
Not long ago we noticed a similar typographical
, error. A paper having occasion to mention Massa
chusetts, instead of calling it the “Old Bay State,”
i as it intended, by the error of a letter, calls it the
i Old Boy State. Not very inappropriate consider
ing the prevalence of spiritual rappiugs there.
“ Official.” —lf ever wc are elected President
of the United States, (from which Heaven preserve
us,) we intend to appoint the Proprietor of the St.
Charles Secretary of the Interior —his punetunlily
in supplying us with lunch, shows that he under
stands the business of that department.
Lands in Arkansas. —By a proclamation of the
President, published some time ago, all there
served lands in the land district of Arkansas have
been restored to market. The Little Bock Demo
crat says:
“Those lands, lying as they do. in the very heart
and centre of the State, must become very valua
ble, as well for t he richness of the soil as on account
of their location. It would he well for the emigrant
and the actual settler to examine the situation and
quality of the restored lauds. They certainly offer
great inducements, as well to the industrious hus
bandmen of small means ns to the capitalist and
planter. Much complaint has been made by cer
tain parties because so much of! lie public domain
was withheld from market. This < 1. if it was one,
now no longer exists. We muy Urefore anticipate
that a large number of emigrants will now make
their homes in this State who heretofore looked on
ly to Texas. No State in the Union at the present
tune offers greater inducements to the man of indus
try and capital than does Arkansa.”
The Wilmington (N. C.) Commercial, October 25
says : The action of the Board in dismissing Mr
Hedrick was not extrajudicial on this occasion, as
some persons suppose. Some years ago, on account
of the introduction of certain political influences in
to the University, the Trustees established a stand
ing rule, that neither Professor nor scholars should
engage in political conflicts. It was under this rule
that Mr. Hedrick was dismissed, in consequence of
his perseverance in wrong doing, after being duly
admonished that he was violating a law of the Insti
tution. The wisdom of this regulation will be quite
apparent to every reflecting mind.
Burning of the Propeller Spaulding.—A
telegraphic despatch from Buffalo to Eilw od Wal
ter, Esq., says that the propeller Spaulding, with
nearly a full load of valuable goods, was burned
Friday morning at the American Transportation
dock at that port. Vessel and cargo nearly a totul
loss. The propeller was bound to Toledo.
The total loss by the burning of the Spaulding,
cargo and vessel is estimated at $90,000.
Hare Justice.—Under the head of “Administra
tion of Justice,” we find the following paragraph in
a Costa Kica paper:
No. 27—Sept. 12.—The State against Jose Delores
Munoz, of San Jose, for the crime of secretly plant
ing tobacco. The sentence of the Judge of Hacienda
is confirmed, condemning the prisoner to srrrufy
years , two mouth and thirty days' imprisonment 0.1
hard labor , and to pay a fine oj four hundred and
seventy dollars , besides cost of suit.
Nice country that for mi agricultural people.
Foreign Interference. —It is said that the
Kussian Minister at Washington has been openly
electioneering for Buchanan. He has done so,
doubtless, by the permission of hia master, the Czar.
How long do the American people mean to submit
to be governed by foreigners and foreign influ
ence?
Lake Disaster. —The propeller Sandtuky was
blown ashore at Conneaut, Ohio. She was bound <
to Buffalo with a cargo of 3000 barrels of flour,
which were all under water when the despatch was (
sent off. v
Frost. —We were visted on Friday night with a
very heavy frost, sufficient to finish all Cotton a j,
other vegetation which was not destroy* “ y i ~
frost some weeks since.
Munificent Lend, of
Chicago, has given *IOO,OOO to tound a Umvers.ty, I
in charge of the Presbyterians. This munificent
public benefactor arrived in Chicago ume years r,
ago, fiom Scotland, with just two sovereigns in Ins o
pocket. '
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Gov. Wise—Tbe union Convention of Go
vernors.
The Richmond Times publishes a two column let
bir from Governor Wise, brought out by the inter
rogatories of the Raleigh Re * inter as to the purport
of his recent visit to that place. The length of the
ettei does not however afford the Gov. room to reply
airly and unequivocally to the questions propound
ed. The nearest apjuoach he makes to a reply is as
follows:
iro ( i >l) my own motion, desiring to
d r f ?L g ’ b , y affeotion to No. Ca., that I
there. Does a Know-Nothing or Blue
h ederubst deny my constitutional right to do so ?
God help him! I mean to do so again, and will an
swer to the grand jury there, or any other lawful' tri
bunal, or to any private individual who will make
the demand of my right, as a citizen of one Stale
of pnv leges in another. The time, too, is not ap
pumted m ine Constitution, whether I shall go to
V. , -'VS' time for the returns of the
,N Section” or not. Nullum tempusoc
"vorUithw free country. Locomotion is
frcu ‘ aur
It makes little matter what she erratic Governor
thought to do by going to Kaleigh, since a disgrace
ful failure wai his deserved reward, but such eva
sions as the above, ot a question which the people
had a right to ask, and which he would have found
no difficulty in answering had his purpose been a
proper one, will only affix upon him more deeply
the stigma of being a party to a dangerous, but hap
pily abortive attempt at disunion.
The remainder of the letter is devoted to a rhap
sodical discussion of the slavery question ; less in
tensely disunion than has beau usual with the lat.
effusions of the Governor's pen, but more intensely
characteristic in its peculiarities of style. Here is a
deduction and an apostrophe that may serve at a
sample of the whole:
“Already has the black flag the Pacific liailroad
inscribed on it; already has the political revolution
ovi; whelmed the lart Democratic vtios of habor
bUh. Shade of Macon, look down upon that blessed
soil of your native ,Suito,upoti which you impressed
jour pure mid simple faith, and ‘guard the passing
This evasion of Gov. Wit* .aanot relieve him of
the odium—indeed it is a virtual acknowledgment of
the truth of all that has keen charged. Governor
Adams, of South Carolina, let the cat out of tho
bag fen days in advance of the day of meeting in
Kaleigh, and he will not now, like Gov. Wish
skulk behind evasions. He announced that the
meeting was to bo held, at tho intimation of Gov j
Wish; he stated the time and place, (Oct. 11th, at
Raleigh.) and declared openly the object of the con
vent ion.
How Citizens arc diode. .
The rapidity with which our Courts about elec
tion times furnish aliens certificates ot citizenship,
and tiie revolting scenes that lull unfrequently illus
trate the progress of the work, would seem to afford
sufficient ground, says the Baltimore American, (or
the amendment of our naturalization laws, liut tho
investigat'd! that is now going, on in Philadelphia
into the late election frauds iu that city developes
stilt stronger reasons for the necessity £of such a
change as will surround those laws by sufficient
guards (o protect the ballot box from the outrage*
committed against its purity. The evidences which
we subjoin from a Philadelphia paper, gives the
key to the manner iu which the unprecedented in
crease in she vote of that city was brought about
Before Alderman Wolf, on Wednesday, ail Irish
man named John Cooney, belonging to the twenty
third ward, u as charged with issuing and furnishing
voters with fraudulent naturalization papers. Tho
following testimony was elicited, to widen we direct
the especial attention of the. reader.
Samuel Comly , affirmed— Dennis Flanagen had
a naturalization paper; i did not see the date; Ido
not think ho was in the city when it was taken out,
I had some conversation with Flanagen about hi*
papers ; he said he got them from Cooney.
Dennis Fiauagen, sworn—l consider lam a natural
ized citizen; I can’t tell who gave the papers to
l ie.; 1 was at home when I got them ; I was at tho
Slat House that day ; I got them at Owen Fitz
gerald’s house, in By berry; there was no person pro
ent when 1 go/ them butwoman ; she’s astep-daugh
terof mine ; 1 read the paper; it had my name on,
and so I knew it was mine ; she said it was left for
me; Ido not know why left it; I had some conver
sation with Cooney before tie election; lie asked
me if I had my papers; he said 1 could have them;
he did not say he would get t hem ; / never declared
my intention to become, a citizen of the United States
before I got my papers ; 1 declared my intention
the day I got my papers; before no court ; I mean by
receiving my papers, 1 declared my intention; /
voted at the general Kid-lion on /hose papers. I
never received any other in regard to my citizen
ship ; 1 was -not at court at any tune, to be made a '
eifuen; 1 raw my name on the paper and 1 took
them; I did not pay anybody for those papers; 1
have not promised to pay; I. don’t know who signed
the papers ; nor the court from which they came.
Henry Dunn, sworn —I know Cooney; 1 voted
last election; 1 have my papers; I don i know where
I got mv papers; I gos \ny papeis about throe weeks
ag«>; 1 don i know Jfcvb.i whom I got them; they
were placed in my coat pocket by somebody ; I don’t;
know who; l had never declared my intention to
become, a citizen ; 1 never had a conversation with
an., person in regard to my papers; my coat was
oiVwhen I was at. work; i found the papers in my
pocket; I told others thai 1 had found them in my
pocket; Idu not know whom ; 1 told some of tho
laborers; I found them in the veirr.g; I am sure I
did not sp ak to any one about l ie. papers; Cooney
works here ; l might ha ve talked with him about tho
papers; I have talked with him many a time; I read
my name in hie papers; I presented them ut tho
election poll; they looked at them and sent them out;
again; they are at hoirm ; no one said anything at
the election,; I have talked to Cooney since about
tho election, 1 do not know what wo said; I have
been here ten years the twenty-third of next month;
I had not been in the city for near a year; I don’t
know whin was in the papers; l found them in my
pocket about before the election; 1 diet
not mention to anybody that I had found them;
Cooney is a laborer like myself ; he might have been
away without iny knowing if; he never said any
thing to me about it; C .oney was about all the day
I found the papers ; twelve or fourteen others were
working.
Owen Fitzgerald, Adam Cooney, Dick Heylin,
Harney Clark. Peter Kelley, Patrick Mnluon, Micha
el Hughes, Neil Maguire.
Some of these men voted on election day; Mi
chael Hughes did ; he told mo ho voted ; I vena pre
sent when John Cooney voted; Kelley voted,ho
lms been here ten years ; t landed in Now York
when X came here ; 1 remained three months there
—-then a year in Jersey, then a year in Schenectady,
then a month in New York again I have resided
in Pennsylvania about eight years.
John Carson, sworn—l am not a nativeof this
country; l camo here June id, 1 SIS ; X never de
elan dmy intention to become aeitisi-ii; 1 got my
papers tin day I paid my lux. s ; we were sitting at
the fire one night when I said I was sorry that l
hod not declared my intention so that I mightvote;
son c one said that X might nut my papers without
declaring ; X do not know who said this ; it. was at
a n. ighborV i. use ; I found them in my house ; lily
wife said that some papers wore thrown in the house,
and were in the closet; t found they were my na
turalization papers.
Edward Scott, sworn—l am not a native , 1 hnvo
been here six years ; I declared my intention to be
come u citizen ; it lms not been throe years , I huvo
my papers; t did not got them from the State
House, I got them from the Committee; 1 cannot
say whether I got tic m in O dober or September ;
I was at home when t hoy were given to me; 1 do
not know who gave them to me ; it was in the even
ing ; I do not know who was present , when the
man came he did not slay very long; lie had no
oilier business but to give mo my papers; I had
scon him before, and talked witli him about getting
my papers ; in about live days he auie to see mo,
al my work ; asked me if 1 had my papers, and said
lie could get them ; 1 do not know las name, nor
where he lives.
I saw him on Second street, on election day; 1
do not remember his name, but it was something
like Thirsallor Tressed ; he lives in St. John street.
'l'n is was the testimony oleeited; aud the ease wus
continued over for a further hearing.
Mr. 1 finale ill I.owed.
The announcement that the lion. Kurus 'Ohoatx
was to address a Buchanan meeting on Tuesday
evening, ah Huntington Hull, in , Lowell, attracted
an immense throng, of all parties. From state
nieiils in the liosiou papers we gather the follow
ing:
Ladies were admitted to i, cries, and these
thronged, till! doors were open..: to the multitude.
The hall is one hundred and twenty by eighty feet
At seven o’clock it was filled to repletion. Men
stood packed together in the closest possible man
ner, and it was estimated that, there wore five thou
sand persons within tlie walls. The orator win
hailed us no man in Massachusetts had been hailed
siucc Webster ; and every thing promised an hour
of intellectual enjoyment mid instruction rarely af
forded, and a satisfactory termination. The meet
ing came to order, was organized; the president,
Mr. Whipple, was introduced, and was gracefully
saying that lie would not detain us—that this au
dience was here to hear another—and while thus
agreeably engaged, u sound, as if from a cannon
ala distance, tilled ail ears, and we felt the floor
yielding. There was a general panic and a move
ment towards Ihe platform, anu a great deul of
excitement. Finally, however, the fright subsided.
After Mr. Choate had spoken about three-quar
ters of an hour, however, another crash was felt in
the centre of the bail, which settled two or three in
dies, and the vast audience rushed to the outlets of
tlie hull. For u few moments lee panic was fearful,
and the screams and cries of the people who were
crushed in the crowd were appalling. The ludies in
the galleries were the most self-possessed of any,
and remained perfectly quiet, although their blanch
ed cheeks betrayed the fear in which they stood.
Mr. Choate sat down, and seemed as culm as if safe
ly seated in hi- own study during the whole of the
scene of excitement.
Mr. Butler, with a Israeli architect, Mr. ltaud,
who went to make an examination of the building
after i lie second crash, returned in a few moments,
and Mr. Butler then informed tin; audience that
they had discovered that the heads on one or two
bolts had given way, and that in order to avoid the
poi-ibility of any catastrophy, the people had better
retire from the hull in as quiet a maimer as possible.
The audience then left the hallos lost as they could,
and re a..-• milled in front of the Merrimack House.
A platform was soon constructed, extending out of
a second story window over the porch, on which
Mr. Choate appeared and delivered the remainder
oi Ms speech.
The gentlemen on the platform were of the last
to leave. Mr. Choate while passing to the door, for
the first time seemed to indicate by expression a
realization of the danger which environed us. The
flm.r actually sunk under him two or three inches,
an • in; was heard to remark—“ This js going; out
lie retained hi- seif-ni session and walked on.
It is fated that Mr. Buller, on returning from the •
inspection of the floor disguised his fears, arid never
expected to leave the hall alive- Ho discovered,
with Mr. Itand, that the floor had yielded percepti
bly, that the noise which ■-» alarmed u!f was ho
snapping of the iron fastenings and supports; that
icti'J .„7iienee WHS not soon removed, the floor and
tin- roof and perhaps the side walls would soon
lie discovered that certain timbers
and joints upon which the floor rested had given
way. and i hat the ceiling of the depot beneath was
opening and threatening. Altogether itwusumost
wonderful escape.
Preserving Kuos.—The North-western Farmer
uah tried the following method of preserving eggs i
and recommends it:
Take a sei've, and cover the bottom with eggs
then pour boiling water upon them, sufficient to give
them a thorough wetting, permitting the water to
pass otr through the aeive. Take themout and y
them, then pack them in bran the sinafl >
and your eggs will keep forever.
MEXICAN AFRA.RS.-The New Orleans Picayune
publishes a letter from Gen. which mil
nates that the new American -Minister will not find
. ho Government to which he is accredited m exi.t
-nee and states that Alvarez and V.datim were both
idvauoing on the capital, in order to overthrow Pre
sent Couionfort.
Wednesday last, by which one man was killed,
wo or three severely wounded, aud several oars
re re iiydred.
jlrun Ban ds. —With the exception of a few mile*
1 Virginia, there isuow connected line of Kailroad
li the way, from Bangor, on the Penobscot, to
loutgomery, op the Alabama; ere long, the chain
rill be extended to New Orleans, thence to be car
ed westward until : t reacliens the shore of the
’acific.
Death or a Geoßoian. — The Tntr Californian
otices the death of Chari.es G. \m:i.i a native
fMouticello, Ga , Clerk of tli .strict c ourt. He
ied at San Francisco om the oth ult.