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*T TH* CITT OF r. II.TI'I«KF.
Emgi.ad) —A coiniDur.U'Ati'JH, without datejrom
(ou-t it.n..plc, byway of Or mum J. -peak* of
or seven Ei«!i»h line of battle ships and '«e fn*
ates that wae expeeted in the lUpboru. to rein
foroe Uu EnsliA tqnadron. , _ ,
The Gazette contains a royal proclamation, de
ciarnur that Parliament shall meet foi tlie despatch
of htunnesi on the 'M of February next.
ICi -»IA. Os all the vessels that were scuttled or
■ ■ink in the l ari rof fv-bastopol betwi-en Septem
ber nn.l t ehruary IT, there have been only one
st.-amer, the Chersonese, and a few transport*
raised . the result of tin- examination to which the
o! hers have been subjected t»y the divers, show them
not to be worth much exte-rn-e being bestowed upon
them The -hits* of the flue which were sunk at the
. ntranco of tin- harbor, had already been ten years
afloat, and have now been imbedded rathe sand
there for two Wireers. that they certainly cannot
he worth nt. h Ttu I'neni Paris, Grosstot, Con
stantine. Maria, and Tsrbesina, are King on their
beamenil and have been much injured by the lurch
i f t»v'-r ft! ti,<- guns, the ball aid. and other ponde
;.,U- artiH*- . tin: Cbarabry. KuUewtachy, and the
r- Vladimir, B* Groraouoasetz.
Od« -a. Klim a. and Turok, are described a*
Tariffing upright on their keels, and it w proposed
<r> If: : by means of the Chersonese and the
Ah regard h those steamc-ra which were among the
v' - that were last nunk eomiiderable hope* are
f-utertai i-d that they may be brought into service
The parties who have undertaken the re
wrecks from th botto n of the.har
bar, are to be paid for their trouble and outlay with
if ’l. alfof the estimated value of all objects recov
ered, a remuneration that is thought tobe in alinro
rmb..ity v y inadequate to tiie expenses. The
:n*-thod proposed is to fasten on to the aides of the
v* - < l to be rai.-ed sack* made air tight with tar or
gatta p«*r< ha . in the c/*se of a abip of the liue it is
:*>•!>; .ted that I*ooo of these sacks must be used,
,;/H. -.7*,000 cubic feet of air. Whether the
„runi* <1 vow-el can ever be used or not, it seems to
be < r'n. dthut they mart be lifted, and not blown
-pj.-ccin.iarriiu h as by this latter process tha
oad- would be encumbered with avast number of
, . vr, .. jriitis, anchors and other heavy bodies, which
v * • fid fur ever after'obstruct the anchorage very
j gr< it' d activity prevails along the bank* of
the Caspian Sea. Transport* and steamers are in
niflV ct.riveving troops or stores between An
tra* ,a i .v ontfrakow, Bakinks andAstrabad ; the
steaoHTi generally convey troops, as, for instance,
th*- Th k: and th** Cuba lo'tely conveyed three hun
dred ifniii to Schondrakow, while the trawqxirtseon
vf-v materiel and provisions. Prince Bariatuiski
bdy repaired to Tiflis, the seat of his government,
frorn A*t radian to Fort Petrowski by water, and on
th:- M < H ion inspected.all the fortified places along
‘m co/1 t Attached to his headquarters and staff
tj 4-rt- i• i peeial division entitled the * 1 l)njour Ber
vicf- «»f Mhi in* ’’ eonsi-ting of a vice admiral audse
veral naval officer', and having under its concentra
' d command the flotilla in the Caspian Sea, the
. r : - n»**n the *ast coast of the Black Sea, and the
’! f H.wb ut flotilla of the Cossacks of the Sea of
A of! It must also not be lod sight of that not long
•bfo k there was a Governor G neral appointed o
Kiit.'. .a '» under the nupreme command of Baria
i.-ki, who has likewise under him ChrulelTs army
. obr-r\ulion on the Turkish Cuucasaian frontier,
. | | M . troops occupying th** Caucasus underßebu
off, Thu extended,’and at the same time con
.■< ;.f itst«■ < 1 command, v*-ted in the hands of Prince
Bariatinski, points very distinctly to prepara
tion- being made with reference to the prea
. nf critical state of matters in and connected with
T • Berlin correspondent of the London Times,
p< e< b, say* :—Although the Swiss
Conn I.ration has for the present refused the un
. onflitinnu! liberation of the prisoners as a prelimi
narv to negotiation, it i- by no means impossible
Unit ii may find expedient to suspend the execution
ol ju ig;n< nt on them when once they have been
tri* •! then will then be a better opportunity for
ii-<> r-tiig • - the exliortafi*'iiw of th** Luropeon and
Grr • i. jeiwers, who, it is believed, will then renew
beii mediatory endeavors, and in case of non-suc
reaten Switaeriaad with the
v ion ot MQtnlity. nadm
the pn-t'ciion of whn h Switzerland feelseinbolden
<•«! toaffnait the general voice of Europe.
I • !< t Liverpool pap- rs say : The Neufcha
, i pute r-* til«. cupies the attention of the Knro
,,-nn govcriiinente. It is said that the tone of obser
•;i. m reference to the matter, is more concilia
ti a? li< iin than was the speech Irom the throne,
and willi the view of enlisting the g<»<*i offices of
Fra* ' it *ms that the Prussian Ambassador at
p . Count ilat/.feldt, now in lierlin, is about to
return to his post with instructions to remove ap
prehensions of Prussia doing anything unnecessari
y to endanger the peaee of Europe.
> Paris corn sja»i. lent of the London Times
> l‘fi speech of the King of Prtißsin at the opening
i th** Diet is looked upon here as much more rnode-
Ve than was expected, considering the very strong
manlier in which the King is said to have expressed
him < 1 about his “rights.” The affair will probably
b iibmitted to a Congress. In the meantime the
.'■".vi have no idea of stopping the proceedings u
•liurtt the prisoners , any delay that has occurred is
\ in l »• urgent business of another kind which has
occupied th" Procuieur General. The .Judge d*lu
• i u t .'-n’s report will be laid before the Chambre
In M: • en Accusation, which, like the grand ju
i y, will decide whether there is sufficient ground or
i, ito r .ml the prisoners to trial. In the present
■ me it is not doubtful what that decision will be.—
ft affair will then be brought before the Court,
i MjMed of three judges and twelve federal jury
tec The prisoners will have every facility of de
lence at their disposal. The trial, which Kill not
t very loug, will take place at the beginning of
next month.
I IMM k—A Paris letter says the Russian gov
. rnmeiit continues its system of conciliating France.
\ young Prince Ims n rived at Paris. He isat
-1 ■ ieTied to the Uussian embassy, lie possesses
in immense fortune, and is ordered to keep great
state.
Hie Times Paris correspondent writes on Satur
iy, that, the French and English governments have
■ i /reed on re opening the Congress, and it will be
held in Paris
With regard to a second Congress, which, it was
a. i«*■•*!, might be summoned for settling certain mi
ior details, (lie Post says ■
1 1 ; . « ..ml contVreaoe has no power of re-open
i : the treaty ot Paris or of altering its text or
e«*pe The inference maybe Hiunmoned at any
Moment, aud w < nee no reaso i why our government
hould object twits being called together, though the
j ills in dilute are the I Hie of Serpents ami Hoi
<1 With reaped to the Me of Sepenta, Turkey
has possession of it, and au English fleet is in the
. .ghborhnod. These fact s are alinoat as simple us
[! indisputable right of the Porte to the islands.—
I’ho conference will not attempt to restore it to Rus
i.i With regard to the question of Holgrtfd, about
that i 0.., there can be no doubt, save that which
hiug'-H upon the name of the place, ami the Porte
yd to learn whether Russia will care to put tin*
pi* lion. England will stand by the one possible
i. -Igrud, ho will Austria, Sardiania, Turkey, ami,
we doubt not, so will France.”
rhe ministerial statement, authorizing the rail
way companies to borrow k 21i,00(),000f. created a
~*dd effect on the Hourec on Monday,notwithstand
ing that the sum was generally considered insnfli
.i. nt. Tin* companies demanded,>oo,ooo,ooof. Set
tlements on the Hourse progressed favorably ; prices
wen- still rising.
The Advertiser asserts that arrests continue to be
daily made, and this very hour there are from 'JOO to
too political prisoners in Paris prisons.
In i i;ki-( i ion in Sicily.—Paris, Dec. An
insurrectionary movement took place on the i£2d
lit . in some communes of the province of Palermo.
Tin* government authorities had been driven out.
A deputy ol the parliament of 1848 is at the head
id the movement. The Neapolitan government
iiad dispatched troops tv* the disturbed places. Ar
r. Is huu taken place in Palermo ; but nothing is yet
known of importance attaching to the insurrection.
I’he London Post's Paris correspondent writes
that a despatch iv l ived on Monday states that
when the courier left Palermo, order has not been
established, and the movement was expected to
spread.
Beyond the report that disturbances had alsooo
v uni'll at Girgvnti, there is no later news.
The express says that there is an impression
among the Italians in London that there will be a
• vmpathetie movement in Calabria.
Paris, Monday, Dec 1,6!*. M—A telegraphic
dispatch was this day received at the French For
«ign office, announcing the commencement of an in
-urreetion in Si ily. l'lie scene of the revo't was.
j ; t»pi us, Cefalu, on the sea coast, about 15leagues
the east of Palermo The insurgents were head
ed by a person named Bentveuga, who had been
formerly pardoned by the King—an ancien grade.
Ploops had la cn sent against them, but it i«
not stated whether a collision had taken place.—
Disturbance is said to have also taken place at
Girgv uti, (the ancient Agrigoutum,) on the Southern
ro.is. of Sicily. Naples was tranquil at the date of
I he dispatch.
A letter from Naples, of the 30th, say's ‘ The ci
ty still remains peifeetly tranquil, as might have
been expected ; though,' every now and then, judg
ing from au increased number of guards, some alarm
felt by the government. A report circulates
among the Royalist party, that France is to occupy
Naples and England Sicily. Grent courtesies have
fu < u exchanged between* the authorities and the
British steamer now in port, as between persons
not on tiie most loving terms, who are bowing to
one another all the more profoundly.'*
Tuk Nkifchatei Affair —The King of Prus
> , n il the two houses of the Prussian Diet on
tl.v- \.:»th ti'i .by a speech from the throne, in which
•a made .! e follow mg reference to Neufchatel.
“I have been most paiufully affected by the re
v« ut events in mv Principality of Neufchatel. where
tin antagonism that has existed ever since 1848 be
t ween my undoubted right aud the actual move
an nt of public affairs has brought loyal men iuto
the power of their adversaries The moderation
with w uch. iu the interest of the general peace, I
inve treated the existing state of things in this Prin
cipality for yeai - past has been duly* appreciated aud
recognized l>y the Powers of Europe. It is my wish,
eveu alter this last deplorable conflict, aud now that
my indisputable right has been recently corrobora
te i by the unanimous resolution of the Germau
Federal Diet, tv* bring about a settlement iu harmo
ny with the dignity of my crown, by means of nego
tiations with the European Powers ; at the same
time 1 must not aud will not allow my long-enduring
patience to be turned into a weapon against iny
rights. My people may rest convinced that I shall
make the senotis and thorough consideration of my
own duties and of the state of tilings in Europe the
guide and criterion of my future steps in this matter,
and 1 too entertain the confident trust that, when
ever circumstances may call for it, my people will
>u p forward to vindicate the honor of mv crown
wiihjthe same energy*, loyalty aud devotion they
have ever shown.
Kr' MiTi x ok the Ccscsress.—The Press of
t .i- morning has the following:
Fm n\v Xu.MT.— lt hasbeea finally settled that
the vi.flV-renee respvM-ting Bolgrad and the Isle of
Ski pents shall be referred to a second Congress.—
Tht t : .erenee will again assemble at Paris.
The Bourse Gazette of Berlin has a partial cou
nt ma ion of this announcement:
V ll xx a. Nov. *,*."> —There is no longer any doubt
cat tl.v Cabinet of Vienna had ceased to oppose the
assembling of a second Congress at Paris. It more
.•x t*i (vi « nts to haw the Neufchatel question dis-
F-. di y the Congress. The contradictions which
-v i ant wspapers have given to these points are de
void of tbund a tion.
Thkl i kk.ish Ministry —A telegraphic dispatch
n the Paris Moniteur confirms the news of the re
construction of the Turkish Ministry received firs*
by telegraph via \ ienna.
(«'ov.(lv*:irv*' I.ctter to (hr PirsiHem.
Washington. Dec. 16.—The President's ines
j. . communicating the letter and journal of Gov.
Geary, was ’aid before each House of Congress to
day. I i addition to what has been already stated
e: Gov. GearyV saying :o the President, uuiler date
vs November *22, it appears by Gov. Geary's jour
nal, that the fr eState men complained that none
but free State men were arrested and cast in prison,
but when proslaverv men were arrested for crime.
:hev were discharged. While Governor Geary was
addressing them, to convince them that they were
in error, and while eulogizing the impartial admin
istration of justice, news arrived of the release of
Hays, the murderer of Buffum, whereupon Gover-
vary fearlessly pronounced the act of Judge
LecompU- iu the discharge of Hays, against whom
the grand jury had found a bill of indictment for
murder in the lint degree, a* a judicial outrage,
without precedent, hs well as discourteous to him.
u# be had been the means of arresting Hays: and
that he should have been consulted. That the act
u > - greatly calculated to endanger the public Deace
and destroy entirely the influence of the feeling
which he was laboring dav and night to inaugurate,
and to bring the court and jury iuto utter contempt.
That he would treat the decision of Judge Lecompte
..-a nullity and proceed upon the indictment tor
murder, to the arrest of Hays, as if be had merely
vmxTpcd. That he would submit the matter to the
President, being well assured that he would permit
no judicial officer here to forget his duty and trifle
with the public peace by making a decision abhor
rent to public justice and grossly steeped in partial
ity. Whereupon the Governor Issued his wan ant
for the arrest of Hays, etc.
It costs more to seed an ounce letter to Europe
t han it does to send a barrel es flour.
Corrt*pon<\*nnof the Baltimore American I '
THIHTV-MM HTU fOMlUffik —-H -clou, ; j
IN SENATE Det- 16. )
On motion of Mr Jones, of lowa, the Committee ,
on Commerce, wn* directed to inquire into the **xpe- ,
dieucy of making a further appropriation off. 10,000
for the enlargement of the Custom House and Post 1
Office at Dubuque, lowa ,
On motion of Mr Jones, of lowa, the credentials
of James Harlan, Senator elect from lowa, with the (
protest <j ( the S* nate of that State relative thereto. (
werej taken up for consideration. .
Mr Harlan proceeded to speak on the subject j
staling the facts wiffi reference to his election and 1
citing the proripow in the United States Constitu
tion and th*- laws of I*>wa bearing on the caae.
Mr Harlnn said he sfconld not object to the sub
feet to bn referred to the judiciary committee as t
moved, although thecominittee iscompceed of those
who ar>- politically oppoaed to him.
Mr. Bayard remat iced, that it has been inti
mated by tiie Senator whose seftt is contested, that
be had no political frit-nds on the committee of the
judiciary, the matter should be referred to a select
committee. There were precedents for such a
course
Mr. Seward said when the committee was organ
ized, the minority objected to their arrangement,
tor'the reason that the minority were not represent
ed in the important’eommitteert, a* they thought
they ought to be As a general thing, he would prefer
these question* to go to the regular standing commit
tees, but it was the right of the Senatorfrom lowa,
although be had not insisted upon that right, to have
some political friends upon the committee which wa*
to act upon his case.
Mr. Butler observed he should have too much re
gard for his reputation es a lawyer to allow his judg
ment on a legal and constitutional question to be
biased by political feeling*, but he would prefer the
f*abject to go to a select committee and be composed
of the oldest Senators.
Mr. Hale and Mr. Fessenden preferred the usual
< ourae on such occasions.
The subject was referred to the Committee on
the Judiciary, by the following vote : Yea* 31—
nays 13. .
On motion of Mr. Hal*, a resolution was adopt
ed, instructing the Committee on the Judiciary to
inquire whether any further legislation is neces
sary to carry into effect an act regulating the com
pensation of member* of Congress, passed in August
ia wt -
Mr. Houston gave notice of his intention to
introduce a bill providing for the establishment
of a mail route, and carrying a serai-weekly over
land mail from the Mississippi River to San Fran
cisco.
The House bill providing for the settlement of the
accounts of the soldiers of the revolutionary army
and their widows and orphans, was discussed until
the adjournment.
HOUSE.
Mr. Etheridge submitted the follow ing resolu
tion. which was read for information : Resolved,
That this llous* regard all suggestions or proposi
tions of every kind, by whomsoever made, for the
revival of the African slave trade, as shocking to
the moral sentiment of the enlightened portion of
mankind, and that auy act on the part of Congress
legislating for a territory or legalizing that horrid
and inhuman traffic, would justly subject the Lni
ted States to the reproach and execration of
all civilized and Christian people throughout the
world.
Objection was made to the intioduciion of the re
solution.
Mr. Eriiedridge moved a suspension of the rules.
Mr. Campbell, of Ohio, demanded the yeas and
nays.
Mr. Walker asked whether, if the House shall sus
pend the rules, it was the purpose of Mr. Etheridge
to move the previous question or the adoption|of the
resolution to cut off debate.
Mr. Etheridge replied that the resolution contain
ed a self evident proposition, and he presumed eve
ry gentleman had an opinion ou the subject. He
should not discuss it, but would move the previous
question.
Mr. Jones, of Tennessee, said he wanted Mr.
Etheridge to leave out the argument in the resolu
tion, and said he was as much opposed to the re
opening oft he African slave trade as his colleague,
flic was here called to order, as debate, the Speak
or said, was inadmissable at this time.]
Mr. Jones said he would not be gngged by either
the speaker or others.
Mr. Orr ineffectually strove to offer a substitute,
simply resolving that it is inexpedient to [repeal the
law* prohibiting the African slave trade.
Mr. Kthedridge's motion to suspend the rules in
order to enable him to introduce Ins resolution, was
agreed to, yeas 140, nays 53.
Messrs. Greenwood, McMullen, Puryear, Smith
ot Virginia, Zollikoffer, Burnett, Barkskale and
Phdps, severally gave their reasons for voting to
the effect that while they oppose the re open.ng of
the slave trade, they thought that the resolution was
out of character aud ill-timed.
Messrs Keitt and Garnett, remarked that had
they been present, they would have voted iu the
negative.
Further explanations from the Democratic side
were objected to by many members, amid cries of
“ order.*’
The demand for the previous question was sus
tained by a vote of 35 majority, undthe main ques
tion was ordered by a vote 11 majority.
Mr. Queen moved to lay the resolution on the ta
ble, by a vote of—y«.-as 71, nays 137.
Mr. Etheridge’s resolution was then adopted—
yeas 132, nays 57.
Mr. Orr, under the suspension of the rules, sub
mitted a resolution that it is inexpedient, unwise,
aud c< ntrary to the settled policy of the United
States to repeal the laws prohibiting the African
Slave trade. It was adopted—yea* 183, nays,
Messrs. Barksdale, Bennett of Mississippi, Brooks,
Keitt, Quitman, Shorter, Walker, Wright of Missis
sippi.
Mr. Washburne, of Ma ne, asked leave to offer a
resolution calling on the President to communicate
a statement of the amounts of money paid and lia
bilities incurred for the pay and support of persons
called into the service of the United States, either
under designation ot inilitia ot Kansas, or ns posse
conutatus . by the civil officers in the t *rritory, since
the date of its establishment, and for witnesses and
arrests, detention and trial of persons charged with
treason against the United States, or with a viola
tion of the so-called laws of the Territory pending
which the House adjourned.
IN SENATE Dec. 10.
On motion of Mr. Dodge a resolution was adopt
ed, calling on the Secretary of War for copies of all
letters addressed to that Department or to Hon.
Wilson Shannon, late Governor of Kansas, by Col.
Sumner relative to Kansas affairs which have not
heretofore been communicated.
Mr. Brown gave notice of his intention to intro
duce a bill providing for the construction of a rail
road and telegraphic communication between the
Atlantic coast and the Pacific and for other pur
poses. «
Mr. Wilson introduced a bill amendatory of the
act to organize the Territories of Nebraska and
Kansas. Referred to the Committee on Territories.
On motion of Mr. Rusk, a joint resolution grant
ing further time to the creditors of Texas to present
their claims aud for other purposes was taken up.
Mr. Rusk explained and advocated the resolution
! which extended thv time to January Ist, 1858, and
! repeals the proviso on the former act for a distribu
tion pro-rata of the residue to those who have filed
their releases.
Mr. Benjamin said he thought the resolution ought
not to pass, and he moved its reference to the Com
mittee on Finance in order to a thorough investiga
tion. The motion was negatived.
Mr. Fessenden introduced a bill in addition to
the act more effectually to provide for the punish
ment of certaiu crimes against the Unit -d States,
which was referred to the Committee ou the Judi
iary.
Mr. Fessenden explained that it was intended as
a remedy for certain defects in criminal law. It has
been found that for the crime of manslaughter, when
it is committed oil the high sens, but the person not
dying until he arrived ou shore, there is no punish
i meut. Instances have occurred where the individ
ual committing such crime lias escaped on this
ground. This bill is proposed as a remedy to that
defect. There was also an omission of a similar
character with reference to a case of poisoning taking
place at sea. in which the person does not die until
he reaches shore For this crime no punishment is
provided for in the existing law. He alluded to a
singular anomaly in the criminal law, it being found
| an offence of assault with a dangerous weapon when
deal It does not ensue, it is punishable by three
years' imprisonment without hard labor, which
seems very inconsistent with justice.
The .s nate then adjourned.
HOUSE.
Mr Whitfield introduced a bill providing for the
assessment of the damages sustained by the loss and
destruction of property belonging to citizens of
Kansas during the recent disturbances iusaid terri
tory. Also, a bill establishing a District Court at
! Leavenworth city, and at other places in Kansas,
i Also, a bill establishing two additional Lund Dis
• tricts in Kansas.
! Mr. Campbell, of Ohio, from the Committee of
; Ways and Means, reported the Indian, Civil and
(Army appropriation bills, which were referred to
the committee of the whole on the state of the
Union.
Mr. Campbell, of Ohio, reported the bill ameud
j mg the 28th section of the Tariff act of August,
1842, so as to prohibit the importation of indecent
• and obscene prints, transparencies, statutes, etc., the
parties offending to be proceeded against in due
course of law and the articles to be destroyed. The
bill In.s passed.
On motion of Mr. Campbell, of Ohio, the further
consideration of the bill reducing the duties ou im
port* and for other purposes reported at the last ses
sion was postponed until the first Tuesday in Jan
-1 | uary.
' lue debate ou the President’s annual message
was then resumed.
Mr. Nichols contended, notwithstanding the as
! sertion of the President, the agitation of the slavery
question is a legitimate consequence of the repeal of
the Missouri Compromise. It ill became the Execu
tive, in the face of the policy endorsed by the latter,
to make use of such language as he had in condem
nation of those who had differed from aim.
It was said those who oppose the policy of his
i Administration are abolitionists. He held iu the
i broadest sense that Congress may govern the terri
tcries, and exclude slavery or any other institution
it may deem injurious to their prosperity. If this
made him an abolitionist, he was one.
His object beiug to supply some pages in the po
litical history which had been omitted by the Demo
crats in their discussions, he referred to the speech
es of Mr. Douglas and others, in 1848; articles iu
the newspapers and the proceedings of Democrat
ic Conventions and Legislatures, to show that m the
Democratic party there is much difference of opin
ion relative to the slavery question, a large portion
advocating the exclusion of slavery from the territo
ries. Notwithstanding this, those' who, as a party,
hold similar opinions are denounced in offensive
terms by the President, who has added insult to in
jury. In his remarks, he stated that duringjthe Pre
sidential election, it being necessary to conciliate
tin* popular sentiment in the Free States, the very
men who opposed the election of Mr. Fremont
charged his mends with hostility to the prevention
of slavery iu the territories. As’ to the threat of dis
union iu the cveut of Mr. Fremont s election made
by the Democrats, such fears existed only in the
heated aud disordered brain of politicians, and not
iu the hearts of the people.
After other remark iu the same strain, which were
replied to by Mr. Jonee, of Tenuessee, who argued
that there was uo express power delegated to Con
gress to establish territorial governments, tiie House
adjourned
IN SENATE Dec. 17.
Mr. Weller grave notice that, immediately after
the holydays. he should call up the Pacific Railroad
bill, which was under discussion at the last session;
and he indulged a hope that it| would command the
vote of a majority of the States
The consideration of the bill granting farther
time to the creditors of Texas to present their claims
was resumed
After debate, the bill was passed.
Mr. James gave notice of Lis inteution to intro
uuce a bill for establishing a Navy Yark at New
port, Rhode Island.
Mr St-ward introduced a resolution which was
adopted, requesting the Secretary of the Navy to
report , whether in his opinion it js practicable and
fXDC'lient to cause >!eam vessels to be so construc
ted as to afford a greater security agaiust accidents
. re diau now exist; and submit such sugges
Subject *** may think Prop* l " 10r legislation on that
The Senate then adjourned.
r ,. A . J HOUSE
thousand extra copies of the Secretary of
tic Treasurys report on the> lQaucef of the Gov ' en] .
meat were ordered to be printed
The President’* message was again resumed Mr
Cum back defended the Republican party “om the
imimatit-e of the President that they had assailed
the institutions of the country and sought to destroy
the Union by overturning the Constitution. Such a
charge was entirely gratuitous. There were noth
ing said by the leaders of that party in their Conven
t ion or press to justify such au allegation. On the
contrary, they hud declared for their principles, the
declaration and maintenance of the Uuiou and the
Constitution as essential to our happiness and gene
ral prosperity.
lie ventured to say that if e resolution had been
introduced in the Cincinnati Convention, asserting
the preservation of the Union at all hazards, it would
not nave received a nunanimous vote. When the
President, the great political physician, comes %o
doctor the Republicans for disunion maladies, be
would commend him to look to some Southern pa
pere which support the administration, while they
advocate a dissolution of the Union.
The Republicans arraign the President at the bar
of this house for making willful misrepresentations
Thc-v could prove that there wa* a dieunion party,
favoring the revival of the Afriran slave trade, and
prohibiting free speech and a free press 1 The Re
publicans make no attack on slavery in the States.
They washed their hand* of that institution. But
when, he said, you attempt toplaat It ow-groand-m -
which we have a common interest, then, if we*euf
fer you to do it, we are responsible for the institu
tion—not otherwise. He claimed that the Republi
cans was the only white man’s party in the country.
Mr. Walker commented on that part of the Pre
sident's Messege which state his reasons for discon
tinuing diplomatic relations with Nicaragua, audex
pre-sed his opinion that this government has nfis
ta en him from the beginning to the end concerning
the whole Central American question. He wishing
to refresh the recollections of the past, spoke of the
importance, as was recited iu the President’s .Spe
cial Message in May last, of having a peaceful
sag* between toe two oceans, to be secured by
friendly relations with Nicaragua. and dwelt at
length on the intestine troubles in Central America,
to show England’s agency in - fomenting the exist
ence of warfare, ehe having supplied Costa Rica
with arms to be directed again*! Nicaragua, whose
Minister we had received.
The English Government had always assumed the
right to control the fate of that country, iu order to
? remote her own commercial and political purpoaei-.
le insisted on the importance of having some set
tled understanding with Central America, as through
that country we must have a transit to the Pacific,
to enjoy the rich trade of the East.
He aid not seek to inculcate the idea of annexa
tion, but that our country was destined to enlarge
its domains, he had no doubt. He should like our
Government to abandon neu k rality as provided for
bv law. beyond its proper interpretation.
’The clouas seemed tc be lowering over Genera;
Walker, at whom all eyes over the wo id is direct
ed. No man has been more maligned than General
Walker 11* was no vulgar adventurer, but en
dowed with all the elements which make a hero, if
not a statesman young, bold, thoughtful, scholarly,
self sustaining. He went to Nicaragua with no vile
purpose of plunder, backed by no strong forces, but
by the invitation of those who were fightiag for free
dom and seeking to revive the fortuu* s of that Re
public. .
The President may have acted wisely in discon
tinuing our diplomatic relations with Nicaragua, but
Gen. Walker was at the head of the only legal
power authorized to rule therein, and he represent
ed not only the liberal feeling in that State, but
what is more important to us, was the representa
tive and type of our own nationality, and the instru
ment by which our rights in future may be secured
and advanced. If it was important in May last to
recognize General Walker’s government, because of
the protection necessary to be afforded to our citi
zens in that quarter, the subject is not less impor
tant now'.
After further debate on the subject of party poll
tics, the House adjourned.
IN SENATE Dec. 18.
On motion of Mr. Fish, the Committee o i
Commerce were directed to inqure into the ex
pediency of erecting a Custom House at Sag liar
□or. .
Mr. Hale offered n resolution directing tiie Com
mittee on Military Affairs to inqure into the expe
diency of discontinuing further e -"siropriatious for
the Military Asylum iu the Disin ti ol Columbia
what is the annual expense and manner of suppor
porting a soldier there ; and whether a more com
Fortable mode may not be adopted at much less ex
pense, by direct payment in money, and by board
ing them at private establishments, or by affording
relief in some other way. lie had understood chat
the Military Asylum of this District was supported
by seventy or eighty aoldifers, at a cost of about
SSOO each,giving them nothing but pork, beans,
and the usual army ration, together with such ve
getables as are raised on the place. The soldiers
were likewise seperated from their families, where
as a much smaller amount of money would enable
better care'to be taken of them at their respective
homes.
Mr. Thompson, of Ky., suggested an amendment,
which Mr. Hale accepted, extending a in
quiry to tiie military asylum at Ilarrodsburg, Ken
tucky, and report it it be desirable to retain either ;
aud further, whether the asylum at Ilairqdsburg
may not be beneficially removed to California. —
The resolution was passed.
Mr. Pearce, from the committee on the library,
reported the House resolution, stricking out the sec
tion authorizing the purchase of copies of Dr. Kane’s
Narrative, but reserving the following, which was
passed: That the Secretary of the Navy shall cause
to be struck and presented to Dr. Kane and his of
ficers, aud men, such appropriate medals as, in the
judgment of the Secretary, shall express the high es
ti: *ation in which Congress bolds their respective
merits and sendees.
Mr. Stewart presented a memorial from Edward
K. Collins and his associate contractors for carrying
the mails between New York aud Liverpool, set
ting forth that the original contract did not enable them
to keep up a successful competition with the British
liue, sustained as it is by increased government sup
port. They express an unwillingness to surrender
to England the great national ocean supremacy
they have now’, and desire if it must be surrender
ed, that it shall be done by the hands other than
their own ; and ask, inasmuch as they embaiked in
the enterprise at the solicitation of our government,
that Congress may pass a law to terminate their
contracts and dispose of their ships, so that he be
relieved from the undertaking without loss. Refer
red to the Post Office Committee.
The consideration of the President's message w’as
resumed.
Mr. Jones, of Tennessee, thought the President’s
condemnation or strictures ou the Republicans per
fectly proper and eminently truthful. He said there
was another question of far greater importance to
h.m and the country than any which might be got
up on quibbles regarding the message. Jft was as to
the power ot Congress to carry slavery into the Ter
ritories or exclude it therefrom. Much had been
Ha id on both sides, but after all it was not a ques
tion for Congress or any other deliberative body to
decide.
It was to be adjudicated by the Supreme Court of
the United States, and he honed in a few days their
decision would be given. Whilst he should deeply
regret if that decision should be against the rights of
the South, yet regarding the Constitution ae that
higher law which is above all law, he was ready to
bow submissively to the decision, be it what it
might. If all would agree to submit to that decision
this controversy was approaching its end, and every
lover of bis country would rejoice to have a final
settlement of this agitating subject made at this
time.
He proceeded to apeak of squatter sovereignty as
one of the humbugß of the day ; and then passed on
to speak of the Republicans, charging them with
striving to extinguish slavery in the States.
Messrs. Seward, Hale and W r ade spoke in reply
to some of his statements after which the Senate ad
journed.
HOUSE.
Twenty thousand copies of the President’s mes
sage and the accompanying documents were order
ed to be printed.
The consideration of the President’s message w’as
resumed.
Mr. Quitman said he believed every word of the
President on the slavery question was well timed
and true. And the developments iu the House show
that the objects of the Republican party were such
as the Executive had attributed to them. The lead
ing men in that organization had declared their pur
pose to destroy that Institution which is intertwined
with the Southern States.
Speak’ng on the subject of Central America, Mr.
Quitman said ho4was ‘opposed as an American to
flowing and yielding to England and France. This
has been the rock ou which we have spilt. We
want no treaty with any foreign nation relative to
our duty on this continent, and we should not there
fore call on any European power to come across the
oc2an to help regulate American affairs. We should
ourselves attend to this matter. He believed that
Gen. Walker was an instrument in the hands ot Pro
vince to carry on American civilization, and it was
the duty of our government not to throw’ obstacles
111 Mr. Quitman concluded by minutely defining his
views on the theory of our Government and its
practical application to the questions of the day,
taking a strict State Rights view of the entire sub
ject.
Mr. Branch defended the South from the misrep
resentations concerning its growth, prosperity and
social condition; and he contended that the issue
made up and decided in the late canvass was in fa
vor of the peace and quiet of the South against the
Congressional agitation of the slavery question. lie
denied emphatically that there was a difference ot
opinion among any portion of the Democrats as to
the construction of tne Kansas and Nebraska Bill.
They are all agreed that the people shall be left free
to regulate their institutions in their own way, sub
ject only to the Constitution. He believed they could
only legislate upon slavery in their sovereign capac
ity andconstituttonal power. There was no squat
ter sovereignty in that, lie was willing to abide by
the decision of the court as to the pow’er of the Ter
ritorial legislature on that subject.
Mr. Davidson entered into an argument to show
that Congress has not now, and never had, power to
legislate on the vexed question of slavery in the ter
ritories, and expressing the opinion that the history
in the President’s Message of the troubles which ex
isted iu the country for the last year is true to the
letter. Adjourned.
A Terrible Tragedy in Illinois.— The follow
ing extract from a private letter, dated at Mon
mouth, Warren county, Illinois, Dec. I*2, we find in
the Rochester American :
A bloody tragedy was performed at the Baldwin
House, in this city, this afternoon. I was convers
ing with a gentleman in I)r. Thayer’s drug store,
about two o'clock, when the terrible cry of murder
was heard, and we all started out to discover the
cause. We were soon directed by the throng of
people to the above named hotel, distant only a few
yams, and there, weltering in their blood, lay the
victims of the most sanguinary single handed con
flict it has been my lot to witness. It is impossible
to describe the horror which depicted the visages of
that throng of spectators called thereat a moment’s
warning. The circumstances are as follows A
Mr. Fleming, an elderly gentleman, and two eons,
about ‘25 to 28 years of age, had called upon a Mr.
Crosier at his rooms at tlie Baldwin House, armed
each with a loaded pistol, to coerce the latter geu
tleman into a concession and retraction of acaluni
ny affecting their daughter and sister, with w hich
they charged Mr. C. Mr. C., after some pretty
warm language had passed between the parties,
agreed to and did sign a retraction in the presence
of a friend whom the Messrs. Fleming had brought
with them.
Immediately after delivering the paper into the
possession of their friend, the Messrs. F., or one of
the brothers, says to Mr. C., “I am now going to
cowhide you and one of the boys, holding a cock
ed pistol to his head, directed the other io inflict the
threatened punishment, which he immediately com
menced. lie had struck three or four blows, when
C. pulled a dirk-knife from u side pocket, and pass
ing at the same time his arm around the neck of the
one who plied the lash, stabbed him in the left
breast, ana as quick as thought withdrew the knife
and struck the one who held the pistol a backhand
ed blow, which reached, as did the first, to the heart
of his victim.
Both brothers received their death-wounds in less
than two seconds, and were both bloody corpses m
three minutes after they were struck. The old man
had gone out into the hall and locked the door, and
stood upon the outside with a pistol to keep out as
sistance. The affair has created an immense ex
citement here, I assure y ou. The young man Cro
zier is under arrest, having surrendered himself in
to custody, and is to undergo an examination to
morrow.
The sympathies of the people are mostly with
Crosier. ’ He acts and looks the picture of despair.
He is a young man, some 27 or 30 years old, and
anmarried. He is said to have been engagtdto the
lady in question, who is at present out of the State.
The other parties w ere respectable farmers, and two
of them. 1 understand, members of the church in
good standmg.
New York, Dec. B.— There is much excitement
in the Episcopal circles here in consequence of a
furious assault upon the choir and congregation of
Grace Church, iu the columns of last week's
Churchman, which claims to be the organ par ex
cellence. Its choir, the Churchman says, is only an
orchestra, where only operatic music of the most
sensuous kind is performed, and the provisional
bishop is invoked to stop the awful blasphemy. Be
sides. the congregation are denounced as not a whit
better. The Churchman says, “It is not a worship
ping people, but one that goes there to be tickled
“They come in with an air and a smirk, which tell
the same tale. - “The ladies sometimes behave
there as they do at the opera, or the theatre, or in
the ball room’, while the men a* lrealy criticise in
their pews, the performances in the organ loft, as
they would in the dress circle at the Academy, or
Wailack’s. Don Giovanni or Norma.” I have said
this blast from the Churchman is creating a great
excitement : but not so much because it is the
Churchman that says it, as the report that it was
written by an eminent authority in the Episcopal
church, and is supposed to be a preliminary praeti
towards following up the suggestions of the
Dishop $ pastoral, recommending the “suppression
ot light and irreverent music/’
w s< *.—We understand that a negro
old belon giuK to Mr H. T M
Dante!, of Unsctty wa, foun? yesterday morning,
m the woods near W httehall, hanging to the limb of
a tree and quit* dead. He had b«n engaged in
hauling wood to the city, and is supposed to have
hung himself, using the retns from the harness for
the purpose. —Atlanta Jntelli^enerr
It is estimated that not less than 14.000 negroes
havs been landed on the Island of Cuba during the
last eight months, as slaves.
I'glirit strate* S*apremF Conrt—Trial for Frrf»
dom.
Washikoyon, Dec. 15.—The Supreme Court was
thronged this morning by an audience comprising
many distinguished jurists and members of Con
greps to listen to *he argument in the trial of a slave
for freedom Ali the judges were present.
The case of Dred Scott Plaintiff vs. John F A
Sandford. came up for argument on questions of
law The plaintiff, a man of c-o or, brought suit to
try his right of freedom. He claims to have been
emancipated by his master s having taken him to
reside in Illinois, which act it is declared by the
Constitution of that State operated to emancipate
him. Tne Circuit Court decided against the plain
tiff on the ground that by his return to Missouri, his
master's right, dormant whilst in Illinois, was reviv
ed. That the Constitution of Illinois was a penal
law which the courts of other States were not bound
to enforce.
The case was argued at the last session but the
decision was reserved to allow arguments on certain
points of law Montgomery Blair appeared for the
plaintiff, and Reverdy John on and H. S. Geyer for
the claimant.
Mr. Blair opened the case by stating that nothing
was said at the last session upon one question on
which the Court invited argument, viz —whether a
plea in abatement of the jurisdiction of the Court is
raised by pleading the merits of the case. He quoted
the decision of Judge Daniel to the effect that the
set of IT*9 did not change the rule of common law
requiring a plea in abatement. Unless the final
judgment made upon that plea is named, the Court
cannot take notice of the evidence when trying the
law on that subject.
Another question is wither the applicant is a
citizen of Missouri ' Mr. Blair contended that the
plaintiff i* legally a free man of Missouri within the
eleventh section of the act of 1730.
It had been objected that he was not entitled to
all the immunities of other citizens but if that is the
test of a citizenship, three fourths of the whites of the
United States are not citizens, because the census
shows that there is not more than one voter in eveiy
five of the inhabitants. Therefore, that hypothesis
do-• not hold good. The allegati- the plain
tiff is not a citizen, because, such as are eligible to
the Senate for instance, falls to the ground like the
other, because there are many citizens of the United
States, foreigners by birth, who are not eligible to
the Presidency, lie referred to the decisin i
Judge Gaston,'of North Carolina, that al persons
born in the realm are citizens. Slaves are citizens,
under disabilities, end foreigners are citizens,
under disabilities which are removed by naturaliza
zation.
He instances the Constitution of various States
which declares t hat every white male citizen shall
vote, showing by the language that there are other
citizens, and that it is necessary to deny them cer
tain privileges by positive enactment and express
law.
Mr. Blair thought that social law was not the law
for courts of practice, and he contended on the
ground of the former ruling of the courts that the
party need not be entitled to nil the privileges of
citizenship. Judge Gaston states that there has been
no law repealing the general principle of common
law: that birth make citizenship. Indeed the act
of the Missouri Legislature of Itflo expressly rec g
nizes free negroes as citizens, and declares that none
shall come there who are not declared by other States
as citizens.
The question was the constitutionality of the Mis
souri Compromise. Whether it be so or cot, the
constitution of Illinois is, and under it the plaintiff is
entitled to his freedom unless forfeited by his return
to Missouri. The Declaration of Independence de
clares liberty to be one of those rights which are in
alienable : and are we to be told that a negro by
any act ot his own can abrogate this act. He cited
many cases bearing on the subject and said that
Judge Scott of Missouri was the first man on this
continent to find out that the plaintiff had alienated
his liberty and was made a slave again. It was a
settled point in the law of Missouri, even before her
admission into the Union, but it was not law but
passion and politics that had invaded Judge Scott’s
mind. It was a point in the common law which the
court was called upon to decide upon general prin
ciples audit was not bound to consider Judge Scott’s
opinion more than any other, except for weight and
learning. He alluded to a point in his opponents
brief that Dr. Emerson must be regarded as a per
son in transitu and said there is no evidence that he
had residence other than the place where lie was
found, for when he returned to Missouri he did so to
Jefferson Barracks. He quoted the act of Illinois
on the subject of slavery, any relation of which con
fers emancipation.
If a man took a Degro to Illinois under the knowl
edge that he thereby became free and cannot be
held he intended to violate the law which prohibits
slavery or involuntary servitude. As to the Con
stitutionality of the Missouri Compromise he, with
the country, had entire confidence in the decisions
of this court. Whichever aide of the line it might
decide, was indifferent to him. A proposition was
made by Congress in 1780 to the States for a general
session of land for the purpose of a general adminis
tration of them for common use and benefit. First,
to be sold; second, for the appointment of tempora
ry governments ; and third, for their admission as
States under that act, cessions were made by Vir
ginia and other States.
In 1781 the resolution was offered by Jefferson
excluding slavery from the land ceded. Some States
being not represented, it did not pass, but subse
quently, in 1787, it did pass. In 1781) Mr. King
when reviewing Jefferson’s motion said that Con
gress hud all power to pass rules and regulations for
the government of a Territory. This would autho
rize the enactment of a law prohibiting slavery.
The Court had affirmed that the act of 1780 re-en
acted that of 1787. And by the Bth section of
the Missouri act, slavery was prohibited north of
36- 30’.
There was no doubt upon the subject t ill the in
vention ot squatter sovereignty, which he thought
was the father of many anomalies. The Vigilance
Committee of San Francisco, for instance, was an
illegitimate t-xercise of squatter sovereignty. The
Compromise Act of 1850, in spirit, if not language,
re-affirms the act of 1845, prohibiting sluvery in
Texas north of that line, for it says : “Nothing shall
be implied to invalidate,” etc,
Without concluding Mr. Blair gave way for an
adjournment.
The case will occupy several days.
Washington, Dec. 10.—After the adjudgment of
two minor cases, the argument was resumed in the
case of Dred Scott vs. Sanford. H. S. Geyer for
the claimant took the broad ground that an African
was incapable of being made a citizen. So it has
been held by the Courts in a number of cases, and
at the time of the adoption of the Constitution every
State except one slaveholding State held that he
could not.
The convention for the adoption of the Constitu
tion left open the African slave trade for twenty
years. To his mind, it was not the intention of the
framers of that instrument to make an importation
of material for citizenship.
The law of Missouri says : If a negro come with
naturalization papers from another State, he shal
not be whipped. The law don’t recognize him as a
citizen, if a master carries a slave into a State
where slavery does not exist and the slave has not
been discharged by the local law, and he takes him
back to a State where slavery is established, the lat
ter are not bound to enforce the law of the other
State or exact the forfeiture imposed. He denied
that Judge Scott was the first to deny that a slave
was emancipated by residence in a free State. It
had been decided everywhere that the mere tempo
rary residence of a master in a non-slaveholdmg
State does not emancipate the slave. He referred
to the Constitution of Illinois, which he understood
was intended to interdict the Legislature from, by
law, establishing slavery, and not to effect transitu
slaves. In the case of Massachusetts vs. Ames, the
slave was released by habeas corpus aud not by the
laws of the State. He thought when we examined
the question, the precedents recognize the right of
Congress to establish municipal governments in the
Territories.
'SgHe denied that there had been any judicial de
cision allowing them to go beyond this. The re
markable fact that every attempt to legislate on
slavery was not under the Constitution, but under
the pretence of compact. The act of 17118 and oth
ers were not an exertion of power to inhibitslavery,
but an exercise of commercial power. In fact these
very acts recognize the existence of slavery by lo
cal laws, and protect it. He gave a history of the
passage of the Missouri Compromise, which was
only paused under the pressure of circumstances to
enable the admission of Maine to take place. He
thought the South, there being no time for discus
sion, surrendered it for the sake of peace, without
considering the question on the ground of constitu
tionality.
Mr. Geyer entered into a long argument in favor
of the doctrine of Squatter Sovereignty, stating
that in it the people were resisting what they resist
ed in the Revolution :—the omnipotent power of le
gislation, aud contending that nothing could be found
in the Constitution, or decisions of the Supreme
Court, confering supreme unlimited power over the
Territories on Congress. He denied the people of
the Territories the power to set up any government
they please. So also was it incompetent for Con
gress to impose upon them any government. All
the legislation of Congress must have reference to
their admission on an equal with other States. Al
luding to the fact that all the States assisting in
forming the Constitution were slaveholding except
one, he said that they having provided for a con
tinuance of the slave trade tor twenty years, it
could not be that they intended to deprive a portion
of the people of the use of the Territory obtained
by the arms and money of all the people, or subject
them to an arbitrary use of it. If Congress has
omnipotent power over the Territories, there was
nothing to prevent their making any man therein
slave. He could not suppose that such a thing ever
entered the minds of the framers of the Constitu
tion, jealous as they were of legislative power, and
successfully as they resisted it. And they were not
the men to enact, upon this Continent, tha oppree
sive power claimed by the Parliament of England.
Adjourned.
The case adjudged at the opening of the Court as
referred to above, were as follows :
No. 11. Romelius L. Baker et. al. vs. Joshua
Nochtriep, Judge Campbell delivered the opinion
of the Court, reversing the decree of the Circuit
Court of the United States for the Western Dis
trict of Pennsylvania with costs, remanding the
case, and directing that the Court dismiss the bill
with costs.
Nos. 9 and 10. United States vs. George N. Steu
art and the United States vs. Charles L. Baron.—
Judge Curtis delivered the opinion, reversing the
judgment of the Circuit Court of the United States
for the Western District of Alabama, remanding
the cases with directions to award venire faci-.s de
nero.
Washington, Dec. 17.—Ibe bench aud the bar
oi the Supreme Court, and a numerous auditory,
listened with the most prof mud attention, today, to
the learned and eloquent argument of Mr. Reverdy
Jobnson upon the great constitutional question in
volved in the Missouri case. Mr. Johnson argued
the question of the constitutionality of the Bth sec.
tioc of the Missouri act, which prohibits slav' ry
forever in the territory north of the line of thirty six,
thirty. If he did not convince all that Congress had
no constitutional power to impose upon tile terri
tories the institution, he has, at least, presented
arguments which it will be very difficult sto answer.
In the great debate in 1890 on the Missouri bill,
the question was upon the constitutional power of
Congress to prohibit slavery in a State. But the
views then presented apply with equal force to the
power of Congress to inhibit slavery in the territo
ries. There can be no doubt that if Congress have
the power to inhibit they have also the power to es.
tablish slavery in the territories, and for this no one
ha# 'contended,
Mr. Johnson closed his argument with eloquent
and impressive remarks upon the agitation which
had been caused by this question, and expressed
his confidence that there was enough of good sense
and fraternal feeling among the American people to
avoid the calamity which might be the consequence
of this dispute. He expressed the belief, also, that
the opinion of this tribunal, whatever it might be on
this question, would be cheerfully acquiesced in
by the country.
' Mr. Blair will close the argument to-morrow on
the part of the plaintiff.
It is the greatest question ever submitted to this
court, and their opinion, it unanimous and deci
sive. would carry with it great weight. But, should
the court be sectionaily divided upon it, the evil
will be rather increased than diminished by its de
cision.
It is not improbable that the court will deem it
unnecessary to pronounce any opinion upon the
constitutional question if the case can be disposed
of. as it may be. upon grounds independent of that
question.
The Senate have passed the bill extending the
time for the presentation of claims under the Texas
creditor act. The bill for the payment of revolu
tionary officers, ice., will, no doubt, pass after some
further debate. Mr. Toombs is expected here to
night, and is to be heard in opposition to the bill,
after which the vote will be taken.
The Steamship Great Britain. —The famous
English steamship Great Britain has again under
gone at Liverpool important alterations for increas
ing her capacity and efficiency. She has had a new
iron stern post, forged at the Mersey Foundary,
which is said to be "the most ponderous piece of
wrought iron ever put together for any purpose.’ 1 —
She is to have a double biaded screw—to have a
lion and unicorn figure-head of life size—her masts
have been moved forward, and alterations made in
her rig to enable her to carry a fourth more canv&ps,
—witii other important alterations by which she
will have accommodations for nearly 600 passengers,
with room for 2,000 tons of cargo and 1,000 tons of
coal, besides stores and water for a voyage to Aus
tralia.—Boston Advertiser.
Coolies is Cuba. —The value of Chinese ooolies
in Cuba has gone up from $lO2 to $276 in five
jjrears. and four hundred and seventy-three were
landed at Chucas lately. The contractors were
about to put screw steamers on for the trade
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tage of them, the fault is theirs, not ours. They have,
therefore, no caase of complaint. By keeping us
out of our money, they subject us to loss and great
inconvenience, for which they certainly ought to
compensate us. Those who do not like the terms
can pay their bills and stop the paper, if they wish.
“WTiat is Consrrew* Doing?”
This question is often propounded to us, and in
mest cases the only answer we are able to make is
“Little, except Talking.*' When the Honorable
members voted themselves a salary in lieu of their
per d ein allowance, the measure recommended it
self to the people by the hope that their servants in
Congress, no longer having inducement to waste
their time, would devote more of it to the business
of the country; that there would be some ebb in the
muddy flood of Buncomb speeches which has its
source in the Capitol. But the hope has proved
vain—the members still drone along with their in
terminable stream of bald and empty talk. Every
small-beer politician, who has managed to attain a
seat, thinks it obligatory upon him to give vent to
a speech or two, generally nobody knows wbat
they are about at the time, and the chances are that
he does not know himaelf, till he sees them modeled
into some form and comoliness by the reporter and
printer. No business can be done until nearly all
the members are delivered of the eloquence which
has been festering in them daring the vacation,
consequently/or want of time, business most pres
sing and important to the country is neglected—na
tional interests, the most vital, suffer, that members
may have opportunity to discuss their own transcen
dent merits, or those of their party. Our Neros
fiddle while Rome burns.
How it happens that the speech-making mania is
more prevalent among us than any other civilized
nation, is a speculation for the learned to perplex
themselves with; whether it is that we are, by nature,
more tonguey, or whether it originates from the de
cided preference, our people have for the talker rath'
er than the worker, or whether there are too many
talkers by trade in our legislative bodies, certain it
is that the speech-making disease prevails to a nox
ious extent. Public meetings and conventions are
announced, with a great flourish of trumpets, to pro
mote some important object; very little is done, but
a great deal is said, the only worker is the gentle
man who writes the resolutions with which the wide
ly expanded and elongated proceedings invariably
finish off, and which are strung along after them like
the tail of a boy’s kite.
A vast amount of the evil in Congress might be
abated if the members would only consent to leave
their party differences outside the doors of the Capi
tol, and there discuss them in their own time, and
when they had nothing better to do—if they would
remember that they told their seats not as Whigs or
Democrats, Americans or Republicans but &6 rep
resentatives < f the whole people. Party rancor has
risen to such a baneful height among us, that a
Congressman seems to think that he represents, not
his whole constituency, made up of people of differ
ent political opinions, but only the party majority
(it may be, not one half his constituency) which
made him what he is. Accordingly he spends the
time which ought be devoted to the interest of the
whole people in speechifying to prove to that inajor
ty what a goodparty man he is; in pandering to their
prejudices, and in rousing their animosity against his
and their opponents. Thus it happens that mis
named representatives and Senators represent not
the interest of the whole people but only the politi
cal notions of a part.
The evil is great aud increasing, yet we see no
remedy for it unless the people themselves under
take the cure, (which they will never do as long as
they continue to be cajoled by their babbling party
leaders) or some Cromwell or Bonaparte arises
to turn out the drones at the point of the bayonet..
Nicaragua.
The statement of Gen. Walker’s situation and
prospects which we have published, render? the
hope of “extending the area of freedom” in Central
America very slender. It appears, that General
Walker is separated from his army whioh is sur
rounded in Granada, and in a very desperate situa
tion. All prospect of holding the country or of con -
quering it, (for it never has been conquered, Walk
er, and his men, only having been able to call the
ground they stood on their own,) seems to be yield
ed up, and the utmost that can be hoped for is, that
the beleagured army may be able to extricate itself
and to retreat in safety. Walker now holds power
over the Transit route of twelve miles across the
Isthmus, and he holds that as much against citizens
of the United States as against the Nicaraguans ;
and unless the recruits which have been raised for
him in New York and California speedily reach
him, it will be impossible for him to hold that much
longer, as not only the States of Central America
but most of those of the South American Continent,
are united against him—a coalition brought about,
it is said, by the influence of the Transit Company.
We have never been favorable to Gen. Walker’s
enterprise, believing it a usurpation, to use the mild
est term possible, an unjustifiable interference in
the domestic affairs of others, establishing a prece
dent and principle which the people of the Southern
States should be the last to countenance—but we
cannot look with indifference upon the probable fate
which seems to await so many of our countrymen.
It is true they have brought that fate upon them
selves, and their course was not forced upon them
but adopted by their own free choice; but there is
not the less cause for regret, that by the incompe
tency of their leader, or for other reasons, they hare
been placed in such fearful peril. We trust that
they may be enabled to free themselves, and to>
leave the country. We look with anxiety for further
accounts.
Even if Walker’? enterprise should fail, it will
probably be attended with some good results*
will teach the people he has invaded that firm 'union
among themselves and a stable government are the j r
only safeguard against similar invaaior' d in f u fc ure .
The semblance of republicanism, have
pretended to for many years, t> jeir ep hemercal go
vernments continually liabl* ' [o be ove rtumed by
factions, ai e not sufficient to g; ve sa f e ty to a people
in the pi esent time. wF en there are so many fully
awake to eveyr ehs r.ce of taking advantage of the
weakness and di-v;^i ona of others. We think the
case of Nicaragua w ill be one of the many in the
history of th e world in which good effects have re
sulted from U nworthy causes.
Significant. —Mr. English, of Illinois, during
the d'ebate in the House a day or two since, is re
ported to have asked “if there was a Southern man
who would not vote for the admission of Kansas as
a free State ?" The answer was, “not one.’’
Mr. Brooks, of South Carolina, said, “he, as a
Democrat and a South Carolinian, would vote for
the admission of a State excluding slavery, provid -
ed this was agreed upon by a majority of the actual
Bettlers. ” As the “actual settlers" are moetly free
State men, how has Kansas been seoured to the South
by the election of Buchanan 1
Mr. English farther said “there was a difference
between the position occupied by the Democratic
party of the North and that of the South upon the
question of squatter sovereignty.” This is what we
have always charged, andjhave never ceased to point
out how fatal the Northern construction of the Kan
sas bii! was to the South. All the sign* seem to
indicate that the Northern construction will pre*
vail.
The Cabinet Makers are still very busy in
their endeavors to manufacture one for Mr. Buchan
an'. Tbe latest on dit is that Howell Cobb of
Geovgiais to be Secretary of State. We have no right
t'j interfere with the domestic arrangements of the
Democracy, being in the disfranchised minority,
but there is no one of his party in Georgia whom we
would more gratified to see in the cabinet than Mr-
Cobb. His cool common sense and judgment has
always kept him from the violent extremes which
have characterized many of his compeers, his ap.
pointment will be grateful to the conservative por
tion of his own party and the least distasteful to his
opponents of any that could be made from this
State.
The high price of slaves in the Northern Slave
State indicates that the people there are under no
great alarm for the safety of the institution. If slave
property were as insecure there as is sometimes
represented, it seems scarcely possible that it would
command such prices. The machination, of the Abo
litionists here not yet brought slavery to its last ga9p,
as they pretend to flatter themselves, and as some
politicians would fain have us believe. The follow
ing paragraph, from the Centreville (Md.) Times ,
indicates that the price of negroes is much higher
there than even in States farther South.
Sale of Slaves. —J. A. W. Powell, Esq., sold at
public sale on Wednesday last, a number of slaves
at the following prices : One man aged from 19 to
21 years, f0r51,375: one managed from 21 to 23
years, for $1,480. one woman, aged 35 years, with
a small child, for $1,200; one woman, aged 30 years,
with three children, aged from 4 to 7 years, for
$3,500.
A Mi -take. —We see that some of our eotempora -
ries class Mr. Pearce, of Maryland as a “Knew
Nothing.’ Mr. Pearce is a tx'ansition Whig or
rather a politician the chryse.lit , from which pro
bably he will emerge a full blown Democrat. Spe
cimens have been quite common in this State and
elsewhere in the last year, or two.
The Author. —ln the U. S. Senate a few days
ago of South Carolina, made a
speech denouncing an article that appeared in the
last number of tire Edinburgh Rerieic , reflecting in
terms of gretvt severity upon the assault on Senator
Sumner and the “Border Ruffians** in Kansas.
Senator Benjamin stated that it was written by a
gentleman of New York, but declined giving his
name. The New York Post says the- author of the
article is William Henry Hcrlbct, a native of
South Carolina, but at present residing in New
York.
Add together England, Wales, Scotland and Ire
land, and the aggregate superficies w ill yield almost
precisely the area©f Kansas, which, nevertheless,
is small compared with its sister Territory Nebraska
The Arrow-mitta Hcax Again*
In publishing the comments of the London Tim
on Judge King’s letter, in our issue of the 10th iust.,
we did not deem it necessary, where Judge King
is known, to make any remarks on the truth of the
statements which the Editor seems to call in quee- \
tion, as we had previously given the story an un ;
qualified contradiction. The Editor, however, is ;
more excusable for his incredulity on the subject of j
duelling and the safety of railway travelling in !
Georgia, than for his affected belief iu the ridicu
lous hoax of Arkowsmith. The safety of railway i
travelling in'Georgia, is indeed extraordinary . and
should be more generally known and noticed than it j
has been ; that “no passenger has ever been killed
or materially injured (meaning, we presume, maim
ed or permanently disabled) in the passenger cars,"
has been ofteu stated of the Georgia Road, and never
contradicted that we are aware of, aud we presume
the same is true of the other Roads. That this was
according to Judge King’s information, uo one here
will doubt. A few passengers—and very few—have
b 3en killed and injured “on railways in Georgia,”
(the version of the Times) it is true, but it has been
genially understood that they were not in the places
provided for them—that is “in the passenger cars.'
There are also duelists in Georgia. But the laics
are not disregarded , and they leave the State to
Bdttle their quarrels. It has sometimes, and very
rarely, occurred that persons, residing out of the
State, have crossed the line to settle a quarrel, but
immediately left the State to avoid a prosecution.
But we return to this subject, mainly to state what
will surprise our readers, that the truth of Arrow
smith's hoax is still a subject of serious discussion
in England. We have been taught to consider
Euglandgas an enlightened nation, but really begin
to think that old Albion is good missionary ground.
A letter has been shown us, written by a firm in
London to a friend in this city, requesting affida.
vits, officially attested before the English Consul,
to prove that no duel was fought,or murder commit
ted, onthe railway train betweenMacc n and Augusta ,
on the 28th of August last! The writers acknow
ledge the hoax to be ridiculous, but apologize tor
the request by saying, that “ The Times is the lead
ing British journal, and is distinguished by nothing
so much as by unmitigated hatred to the United
States,” and they wish the strongest proof to con
vict that paper of falsehood. Again, they say, that
“ the English people are very ignorant of the United
States in the simplest matters , (we should think so.)
but generally not unfavorably disposed towards the
people, or unwilling to hear the truth,” &c. Some
thing is due to the ignorant of all nations honestly
seeking information, but has not this farce already
been carried about as far as self-respect will allow ?
Something of the kind now asked, has been already
furnished by Mr. Cuyler, the President of one of
the roads forming the line bet ween Macon and Au
gusta, who resides in the same city with the British
Consul, through whom the evidence was sent. The
truth is, The Times never needed or wished correct
information on the subject, and as for the English
people, if they are too ignorant to appreciate the
evidence already furnished, or too much prejudiced
to believe it, all further evidence must be wasted
on them.
Mr. Law’s Lecture.
To those who were present last evening to hear the
lecture of Mr. Law, on “Oratory, its dignity aud
uses, we need not add a word of commendation.
To those, however, who were not so fortunate as to
hear it, we may say, in all candor, it was a most el
egant and finished production, whether regarded for
its rhetorical diction or its eloquent delivery. He
surpassed the most sanguined anticipations.
A New Kansas Bill.— The following is the bill
introduced in the Senate by Mr. Wilson, amenda
tory of au act passed May 30th, 1854, entitled “ An
act to organise the Territories of Nebraska and
Kansas
Be it enacted by the Senate aud House of Repre
sentatives of the United States of America in Con
gress assembled, That the one hundred and fifty
first chapter of the alleged “ Laws of the Territory
of Kansas," entitled “An act to punish offences
against slave property,” with all such other provi
sions of that code as recognize and protect slavery
in said Territory, and all provisions which establish
official oaths other than those specified in the or
ganic act, or which require any test in regard to
slavery or the fugitive slave law, to be applied to
attorneys, inrors, or voters, or which suspend t lie
writ of hotoeus corpus, or which allows any other
than actual residents of said Territory to vote, or
which allows jurors to be selected in any other man -
ner than by lot, or which punish citizens of said
Territory by chaining them together and exposing
them to’labor on the public works, with iron chains
and balls attached to them, be, and the same are
hereby, declared inoperative and void.
II eavy Contract.—Major J. W. Scott, United
Sta tes Mail Agent for Texas, informs the Houston
Telegraph that a contract has been finally entered
iuto between the Opelousas Railroad Company and
Mr. Vanderbilt, of New York, by which the latter
binds himself to put in and keep a sufficient number
of boats between Berwick’s Bay, connecting with tbe
railroad and Galveston, to answer all demands of
trade and travel. The contract to be in force for the
term of five years ; and if not further extended, then
in that case, the railroad company is to take the
boats as per valuation.
Banking in Pennsylvania. —The Legislature
of Pennsylvania meets in a few weeks. The Hur
risburg papers contain a formidable list of applica
tions, from which it appears that there are eleven
applications for banking privileges for Philadelphia,
on an aggregate capital of $11,300,000 ; while for the
country there are twenty-five applications for an ag
gregate capital of $6,628,000, being a total for the
State of thirty-six applications and an aggregate
capital of $21,000,000.
A New Bedford (Mass.) paper states that the ship
James Arnold lias just returned from a Pacific
whaling cruise, after nil absence of 48 months, on
her first voyage, with 2590 barrels sperm, 100 do
whale oil, and 600 pounds of bone. Three days
since she took three sperm whales, the blubber of
which she has on deck; also the head of al6 barrel
whale, weighing about 1 j tons. The latter will be a
great curiosity to landsmen.
Life in New York City.— The following >; e w
Tork correspondence of the Breton Jourij#’, j, too
true :
“One of our rich merchants, a ma’ a 0 f a fortune of
a million and a half—a residentor. the 6th Avenue
connected with one of the first houses in New York,
*£ e msane Hospital. He
nv lZenLht at,on f O . f L W) ’ s-t our city shows in ma
°f danger of over attention
' -^ eke 7 a list of the drunkards who
Ami “ deaths by railroad collision,
, . could the number of deaths and
‘‘y. growing out of the “haste to
ue ntu os id j incessant application to business—
ine G f the mind in the accumulation of
tSi . • known—the appalling number would
OtMtJf, air j convulse society.’
Coltj. —At Dubuque, lowa, snow has fallen to an
unusual depth, in many places drifted for miles to
the depth of fourteen or fifteen feet. The streams
are frozen over hard and fast—and teams pass over
them with as much safety as though the ice was
granite rock.
Closing the Pennsylvania Canal. —The water
will be let out of the Pennsylvania Canal on or about
the 20th iust., thus closing the navigation on that
public thoroughfare for the season.
A Just Compliment. —The Liverpool Times,
with lese pretensions than its London namesake,
understands American politics and the American
character much better. Commenting on cur late
Presidential election, it thus pays us a compliment
which no other people yet merit :
“It is amazing how soon party spirit, carried to a
verge of excess, subsides in the United States when
the will of a sovereign people becomes known.—
The minority bow with instinctive respect to that
numerical preponderance which it is the genius of
the American Constitution to represent. However
fierce the struggle, however superhuman the efforts
which have been made to secure victory, the belli
gerents, when the battle is over, lay down their
arms without forfeiting each others’ respect. Itre
quiree a long course of educational training in prac
tical freedom to attain this control, but it is posses
sed by the Americans to an extent unknown in any
other country where free institutions exist; and the
solution of the enigma must be looked for in the
fact that every man feels himself an atom in the
great total—the equal of the foremost in the land ;
and the self respect so generated pays to the State
the homage of an ungrudging submission. Men
deserve to be free who can make such sacrifices for
individual opinion, and yet yield with patriotic phi
losophy to the course of events which they cannot
control. The Union stands in little danger ot disrup
tion while this noble sentiment animates the breasts
of American citizens.”
Machine Mining. —There are at present sixty
three factories situated in different parts of Califor
nia, in which quartz grinding and extracting the
gold by machinery is carried on. Thirty of these
are driven by steam engines, and tbe others by wa
ter-wheels.
Russian Horses. —The Patent Office Report
speaks of ten different breeds of horses in Russia.
Some of them are hardy breeds, which, it is thought,
might be introduced into the United States. The
horse in the northerly province of Archangel is de
scribed us quite small in size, but very strong. It is
satisfied with very coarse food, even with moss,
never taeting oats, which do not ripen in that re
gion.
George Peabody. —Mr. Peabody’s health is
nearly restored. Hi has returned fr om New Hamp
shire, and will leave Boston next week on his way
to the South—returning to Massachusetts in the
Spring. He has spent the present week in Salem,
Danvers and Georgetown. He will not return to
London before June of next year.
Increase of Steamships. —Steamships have
rapidly increased within the past few years. There
are now no lese than 39 steamships regulariy run
ning between America and Europe, comprising
seven British and four American lines, one French
and one Belgian. The average tonnage of these
amount to about 100,000 tons.
Mortality of New York.—The total number
of deaths in New York last week was 442—an in
crease of 45 compared with the mortality of the pre
vious week. Scarlet fever continues prevalent, 45
deaths from that disease having occurred during the
week. Consumption (67) is the only disease from
which the mortality exceeded that from scarled fe
ver.
Health of Boston.— During the past forty-eight
hours, says the Evening Traveller , of Monday, re
turns of the deaths of sixteen children in this city, of
scarlet fever, have been made to the City Register.
It is a larger number by two than died during the
whole of last week.
A Fortunate Traveller. —lt is stated that a
German, with whom Bayard Taylor formed a friend
ship, has recently conveyed to him a free gift, an
estate near the Thuringian forest, wliich contains a
beautiful residence, bu'lt in 1760 by ©ne of the min
isters of Ernest 11. _
A Locky Musician. —A blind ha ad organist, who
went about the streets of Rochester, N. Y., with a
pale, sickly little daughter, has fallen heir to an es
tate in Wales, said to be worth $1,'900,000. A promi
nent legal firm in that city is now engaged in ma
king out the necessary papers
The Bubble Burst.
It it characteristic of political humbugs, got up by
party inau igere, that they die instantaneously when
the electiou on which they are intruded to have ef
fect has past. The discussion of any great and sub
stantial measure of national policy does not cease
with one Presidential canvass, but the subject con
tinues t' be agitated, until, like that of the Bank
and other questions which formerly divided parties,
more than one judgment has been passed on it by
the people. But those ephemeral bubbles, blown
up by the breath of gassy stump orators, iuto tlie
semblance of something terrific and enormous,burst
at once when they have served their purposes. Os
such an evanescent character are those which have
of late years been puffed iuto gigantic magnitude
by the party calling itself Democratic. True, the
Whigs were not altogether guiltless of humbugs,
but their log-cabins, & c., were harmless and inno
cent, compared with those of their opponents, which
are intended to aggravate partizau hatred, to array
one section of the country against another, to de
stroy the government and divide the Union.
Among the dangerous delusions presented to the
; people of the South iu the recent Presidential can
! vass, the hope of making Kansas a slave State, oc.
I cupied the most prominent position. Elect Bu
chanan, they were told, and almost instanter Kan-
I sas will be redeemed from the abolitionists and be
I saved to the South ; the very men who held out this
I tempting bait, at the same time knowing that the
case was already adjudicated, that it was no longer
* an open question, that the unavoidable effect of the
“popular sovereignty” principle of the bill organiz
ing Kansas was to give it over to the freesoilers—we
say they knew this : they knew that all their talk
about making Kansas a slave State was a delusion
and a cheat; if they did not know it, they have less
common sense than they have credit for. These
are the two horns of the dilemma. They can seat
themselves on that which they think is most com
fortable.
Well, Buchanan was elected, and the bubble is
already burst: no party thinks it worth while, since
the election, to deny that, under the operation of
the squatter sovereignty principle, Kansas is inevi
tably destined to be a free State. That it might
have been made a slave State under the same prin
ciple, is barely possible, and no one attempts to de
ny it : but there were almost inseparable obstacles
in the way, foremost among which was that no man
was so rash as to risk valuable slave property iu a
territory when he might be deprived of it at any
moment by the votes of alien free laborers, whose
interest was opp >sed to slavery, and with whose
labor it came in competition.
It is evident that since the repeal of the Missouri
line, which insured the safety of slave property iu
all the territory South of it, the same formidable ob
stacle to Southern settlement will exist, in every
territory to be organized. Before that repeal, the
Southern man carried his property wherever he
pleased South of the line, assured of its possession,
but now even there his possession depends on the
votes of people directly inteiested in depriving him
of it. Our wise Southern politicians have torn down
the barrier which, although it fenced us in, at the
same time fenced out the balance of the world and
persuaded us that their proceeding was a great mea
sure of justice and right to the South—that the
Southern planter ought not to have fences round his
plantation, and the South has thrown up her cap and
shouted “down with all fences and up with Buck.
and Breck.”
On account of that difficulty iu the way of their
settling the territory, the Southern men who went to
Kansas, did not go as actual settlers—few carried
negroes with them. White they were roaming over
the territory seeking something or somebody to
tight with, the Free State men were quietly loca
ting their claims and acquiring preemption rights
to the best portions of the territory. The “actual
settlers” were principally the Free State men, aud
to Ihem, iu the land sales which have lately taken
place, every advantage possible was given. Every
regulation was made by the government, in accord
ance with the Democratic policy lately developed
by Senator Big i. kr aud others, to facilitate their
acquiring laud at the lowest price and on the easiest
terms—the few Southern men, who yet remain in
the territory, being obliged to bargain with the
squatter and give double the cost price for land if
they desired to have any, aud these few are invest
ing. on speculation, not with a view to settlement
Nine-tenths, probably, of these squatters are free
State men, aud to them the question of slavery is
to be submitted. Who doubts how they will de
cide, or who, that understood the question, ever sup
posed that Kansas would be a slave State 1 Whit
field, we will venfiure to predict, will be the last
pro-slavery delegate ever sent from the Territory.
We know there is vury little use in complaining.
The fatal mistake has been made by the South, and
cannot now be reinedfied. There may be some use,
however, iu keeping iu remembrance the delusions
practiced by the Buchanan politicians, that the
people may be waiTied against similar cheating
hereafter. We denounced and exposed it at the
proper time, during the canvass ; we showed the
unavoidable effect of the squatter sovereignty prin
ciple, and though our voice was then drowned by
the clangor of the ‘■‘sounding brass” echoing from
almost every stum p in the land, we shall continue
to do our duty fer .rlessly, in exposing trickery and
deceit whenever we detect it.
New HooliNU
Notes, Pract'icaJly and Expository on the Gospelsj
for the use of Bible Classes, Sunday Sohoo 1
Catechists and other pious Laymen
By Rev. Charles H. Hall. 2vols.
This will be found a most useful work by those for
whom it is designed. The text of the Gospels is ac
curately giv en and the notes are elaborate and
learned expositions. The explanations of the few
difficult arid obscure passages, as for instance the
first five y 61*868 ot John’s Gospel, arc admirably
made. \S r e have the more pleasure in recommend
ing this w ork as it is the production of a native of
tliis city_
For 88 le by Oates & Bro., and 11. D.Norkeli..
“A ChJ lds History of Rome -,” By John Bon
ner, 2 vols.
The Messrs. Harpers have done good service to
the rising generation by publishing such books as
these, thus rendering the dry details of history more
interesting to the minds of the young.
For su»e by Oates «fc Bro.
Violet, or the Cross and the Crown. ByM. J.
Mcln posh.
A most, interesting and excellent work, present
ing some pictures of Southern Life more favorable
and just than are usually found in Northern works.
Received from the publishers, Jewett & Co.,
Boston.
The Adventures ok a Roving Diplomatist. By
Henry "Wikoff.
The najne of the Chevalier Wikoff is not un
known to fame, lie lias “stuck out” from the sur
face of society occasionally for the last fifteen years,
and he was truly regarded as an amusing and
innocent humbug. Many will recollect his court
ship of tbe heiress, Miss Gamble, and how he got
into prison for too persistently following her—at
least such was thought at the time to be the reason
of his incarceration. Many have read his amusing
book “My Courtship and its Consequences; ” in
which his various martyrdoms are recorded—but it
appears from his present work that his imprison
ment was not in consequence of his loving too
staunchly, but that politics and not love (one is as
bad as the other for getting a man into scrapes) was
the cause of his misfortunes. It appears from his
account that he had the misfortune to give snuff to
the “British Lion,” and the consequent sneeze threw
the unfortunate Chevalier into prison at Genoa.
But all who love an amusing book, which may be
true, had better read the Chevaliers’ tribulations
for themselves.
For sale by Oates & Bro.
The Pi.ay Day Book. New Stories for Little
polks. By Fanny Fern. A pretty Christmas
present for Young America.
For «ale as above.
New England Society.
Tii j 3 Society celebrated the anniversary of the
landing? of the “Pilgrim Fathers” on Monday. A
most \uxuriouß dinner was provided by Mr. Robins
of the Planters’ Hotel, (in the language of one of the
toasts, “O f all hosts, the Cock Robin,”) and its at
tractions r endered it impossible foi us to report the
proceeding s, as we should be glad to do. It. could
not have b een expected that any frail mortal could
keep the nin of the “feast of reason and the flow of
soal” with such a splendid spread of creature com
forts before him.
The Weather*
Among the subjects for the consideration of the
Southern Convention, we would respectfully recom
mend to their notice an amelioration of the weath
er. Such as we have had lately is decidedly a
Northern production, and one that we could very
well da> without. The wisdom which has so effec
tually provided against all the other evils which the
South labors under, could readily devise a remedy
for this.. We hope they will take it into considera
tion at the next Convention, and advise us what to
do abc<nt it.
The New Sugar Cane. —The Chicago Free
Press ha * an article which exhibits very encouraging
result* fr om experiments with the new Chinese eu.
gar cane in Wabash county, 111., last season. The
following statement of the writer is remarkable :
“lam weil convinced that in 1860 the Southern
planter w:ill have no sale for his Sugar in the State
of Illinois. From present indications there will be
one hundre d acres of Chinese sugar cane in Wabash
county ner ; year, which will save the county $lO,-
000.’*
Importance*of a Witness. —A Cincinnati pa
per tells a pi etty good story of a Frenchman and his
jealous spouse at one of the hotels of that city. The
lady Indulge d herself continually, as soon as closeted
with her mispronouncing husband, in hysterical up-
for his imaginary delinquencies in ogling
the ladies at table, and at last things grew so bad
that the following denouement transpired. The lady
led off, as usnal, with much emphasis:
Monsieur, however, had reached the culminating
point of human endurance, and he retorted in a ve
hement roulftde of broken English, interlarded with
French expletives, until the fair one seized Lis case
of razors in an apparently desperate determination
to commit suiciae.
Seizing her arm with one hand he pulled the bell
rope violently with the other, a summons which was
speedily answered, for the waiters, whose organs of
inquisitiveness are usually well developed, had been
religiously listening outside of the door, to what
was going on within. As soon, however, as one
entered the chamber, our gallant Frenchman re
linquished bis hold of the lady's arm.
“Ah, ah! Madame, ’hissed he between his teeth,
“you shall cut your troat, eh? Ires bten.ver goot,
now you cut your troat so quick as you like. Mais
I has vonleetle witness as you cut him yourself—
Ab. ah ma eherc, sacrc if you want to cut your troat,
out him right way.”
A New Danger. —A lady says whalebone is so
brittle that the cold will cause it to snap without any
other cause. It is feared, therefore, that when hoops
appear on the sidewalks in very cold days, cracking
will be heard like that running through the ice in
cold latitudes, suddenly causing and
strange tppearance? in the silk balloons thus ei
posed ! As faithful sentinels, we give the note of
warning iu time to be prepared for breakers.
f«en. Harney—The: seiniuoles«
Gen. ILlrsiy has called upon tb Governor o.;
Florida for seven companies of mounted volunteer*
in addition to those already in the service of the
United States. The Floridian sa}*: The entire
Volunteer force will consist, perhaps, of a thousand
men, the companies of which will operate independ
ently of each other, as no regimental organ!* tion is
expected or desired.
Gen. llarney has commenced flic arduous duty
of removing the Indians, in good earnest; and with
his known activity, experience and indomitable will
no one doubts that he will succeed ultimately, if not
immediately. His object is to terminate the war
before spring, and should he fail to do so, will give
sufficient protection to the frontier inhabitants, by
the establishment of a cordon of forts across the
Peninsula, to enable them to give proper attention
to agricultural pursuits.
The requisition for an additional number of Yol
unteers by Gen. Harney, will relievo the State of
the necessity, and consequently the expense of an
independent Volunteer force, thereby saving to the
State no inconsiderable debt that would have em
barrassed our pockets and credit for muuy years to
come.
Franklin College*
The Faculty elected by the Trustees of hi - in t i
tution is composed as follows :
Dr. A. Church, President pro tern , subject to th *
confirmation of the Sen at us Academicus n't its next
session.
Dr. Wm.T. Brantly, Profi ssorof Belles i a iters
and Oratory.
J. D. Easter, of Smithsoninu Institute, Wash
ington City, Professor of Natural Philosophy and
Chemistry.
P. H. Mell, of Peufield, Piofet-.-or of Langua
ges.
W illiams Rutherford, of Athens, Professor ofMath
ematics.
James Woodrow, of Oglethorpe Uaivciwity. Pro
fessor of Natural Sciences.
W. 1). Wash, of Mississippi, and Win. Heni y Wa
dell, of Athens, Tutors.
The Allot of Gold.—The Philadelphia Penn
sylvanian has the following communication in an
swer to an article in the Tribune, that by means of
a process recently discovered m France and com
munieated to persons in this country, a bar of gold
had been alloyed from five to ten per cent., and
passed through the assay office iu New York, not
withstanding the usual assay tests :
Mint of the United States, >
Philadelphia, December 11th, 185<i. ]
To the Editor of the Pennsylvanian:
Referring to the article which appeared in your
paper of to-day, respecting a new urthiiiee in u
mg gold, which assayers cannot detect, you will
please state that no such experiment has been made
upon the Mint as is represented, and it is believed
that no metallic compound can resist the tests used
in our mining establishment.
But, as it may give satisfaction to the public
who are not generally aware of the character and
power of assay tests, i would wifliugly cause an o\
periment to be made upon the metal if furnished
with a sample. This 1 presume e >uld be done
without the inventor parting with his alleged se
cret.
If, as the New York Tribune asserts, “it is noi
possible to fix a limit to the progress of discovery,”
It is just as possible that lead or some other metal
may be transmuted into gold. But we may " al ! v
place such chimerical visions alongside .of the vi
sions ot the alchemists.
I observe in connection with this subject the pub
lication of the fact that [sl ,000 in our gold coin had
produced worth $ 1,000. This has often b“ n
done where the coins operated upon were dir.' k
prior to 1834. The act of Congress of J une -’, 1«,
so far exchanged the standard of the gold count
as to make SI,OOO of the previous coinage worth, in
bullion, $1,062.50, which is a little beyond the i su
“the modern chemist'’ attained, and which is thought
in some quarters to bo so remarkable.
I am, very respectfully, your oh’tserv’t,
James Ross Snowden,
Director of the Mint.
The Tribune in reply to this letter say**:
We should be pleased to hear from Mr. Snowden
how he knows “no such experiment has bet n made
upon the Mint.” If the experiment wus suer*■ssfully
made, as alleged, of course the Mint authorities
know nothing about it, and Mr. Snowden’s denial
amounts to nothing. The authorities could only
have detected the “experiment” if it had failed,
which it did not. We stated tie experiment was
made with double eagles, a recent coin, and con e
quently the Director’s last paragraph in the card has
no force.
The New York Post also saye .
Weare informed that such an experiment us thm
alluded to, but denied by the Director of the Miut,
was actually made on the Assay Office in this city,
by Mr. John Thompson, and one which he alleges
was perfectly successful. The experiment was
made with double eagles of the new coin* —not the
old. This matter is not likely to drop at this point.
Vessel Abandoned. —The brig Geo. T. Ward,
Captain Fish, from Galveston, Texas, arrived at
New York on Friday last, with the captain and
crew of the schooner H. W. Godfrey, from Vir
ginia, with pitch pine lumber, which wna abandon
ed in a sinking condition on the Bth instant. The
Godfrey lost her mainmast and sails about a week
since in a severe northwest gale, after passing Har
negat; she was driven to sea and became water
logged, in which condition she was found, lat. Mi,
lon. 73 , and the captain and crew were taken offby
the Geo. T. Ward.
The California Vote a: tracts a good deal of
attention in the public press. The Trenton Gazette
has the following :
Overwhelming Defeat of Fremont in Cali
fornia.—The Pathfinder’s own State ims repudiated
him with a more decisive vote than any other of the
Free States. The majority against him is wmii/-
si.r thousand out of a vote of 1 i-1,000. This uses him
up for 1860, even if any chance for him had remain
ed ; but it is wellknowh that he is now kept as a
mere stalking horse, iu order t hat the semblance of
thefßepnblicanPa>ty may still bo kept up. Tin
cause of the result iu California was easily Ji.-cerni
ble. The charges against Fremont, which were
topics of discussion here, were there known to be
true, and the people were influenced accordingly.
The Albany Argus also says :
It will be seen that out of 11 1,000 votes, Fremont
gets less than "-20,000 ! In California he was known,
ilis professional pretentions, his reputation as a
“pathfinder,” his pretence to statesmanship were
known there, and he is cast out and repudiated by
the people with an unanimity seldom witnessed m
an American State, and rarely paralleled—except in
the history of his own cart er there and elsewhere.
Minnesota is about to take the initiatory steps for
admission into the Union as a State, through its del
egate, Mr. Rice. It is estimated that a census to
determine the number of representatives to which
she would be entitled, if now taken, would show a
population of nearly or quite two hundred thousand,
and that, by the time it shall be taken it will amount
to a number sufficient to give this nourishing terri
tory a right to at least three representatives. In
1860 it is estimated that the population will have be
come half a million, and that, even with the Ugli
est probable ratio of representation, she will be en
titled to four representatives.
A Kansas Hero. —Cor.. Jim Lane, the leader of
the famous Free Soil army in Kansas, is reported to
have made $200,000 by his invasion. A > he is, or
was. a Democrat of the strictest s< ct, being one <*f
the immortal forty-four, whom the people of Geor
gia were earnestly exhorted to endorse last year, we
presume he considers hia little pickings as merely
legitimate “spoils.”
Losses on the Lakes. —ls the losses on the great
Lakes during the present year are any indication
of the amount of ommerce on our inland ; as. t
must have grown enormously since 1818. In t - t
year the losses amounted to but v. little over $ 10-',-
000 ; in 1853 they had increased to nearly a million;
in 1854 they were a little over two mill ons ; but the
present year they have already reached the fear!ui
sum of four millions. Hut, huge as this amount is,
it does not seem so great when it is viewed in con
nection with the statement that the commerce »
the Lakes passing the St. Clair Flats amounted the
present year to more than three hundred millions of
dollars, while the coasting trade, not included in
that estimate, amounts to at least a hundred million •
more. _
Important Case. —The Washington Union state;
that the case in the Supreme Court of tin: United
States of Scott and others, involving the question of
the power of Congress to prohibit slavery in the.
Territories of the United States, is to be argued on
Monday next, should there be a full bench on that
day. Seldom, if ever, has there been a case before
this high tribunal of greater importance, or one in
which such a general and deep interest is felt.
Steamship Line between New Orleans \si>
Havre. —The New Orleans Courier states that the
new iron screw steamer Joseph Perrier Ims been
placed in the direct trade between Havre and New
Orleans, and that she was to have left the former
port on the 25th ult., and may be expected at New
Orleans from the 15th to the 20th of this month.
The case of Dred Scott, now being argued
before the Supreme Court at Washington, and re
ferred to in our telegraphic dispatches involves the
constitutionality of the Missouri Compromise and
the power of Congress to prohibit slavery in a Terri
tory, in the following manner. Sc ott is the son of
a slave woman belonging to an asmy officer, who
moved with his family and his slave into the Terri
tory where, by the Missouri Compromise, slavery
was prohibited. There Scott was born, but was
afterward carried back to Missouri, and is now held
therein as a slave. lie sues fur his freedom, on the
ground that he was born fiee, by virtue of the Mis
souri prohibition. The case has been before the Su
preme Court a year or more, and was argued, but
not decided, last winter.
John W. Syme, Esq., of the Petersburg Intelli
gencer, has purchased the Raleigh (N. C.) Register
for $5,100, and contemplates permanently residing
there. He offers the Petersburg Intelligencer for
sale.
A Swindler Arrested. —Messrs. Fawcett
Isham &, Co., extensive dealers in leather, in New
York, recently sent some $30,000 woith of hides in
to Greene county, to be tanned. When they were
ready for market, a man whose name is unknown,
by playing the “confidence game,” took possession
of them, and, carrying them out West, offered them
for sale, representing himself as being one of an Al
bany firm. Doubts being entertuined as to the tiuth
of his story, the telegraph was resorted to, and it be
ing made pretty certain thu? be was a swindler, of
ficers proceeded on his track, and succeeded in ar
resting him at Chicago. Some $20,000 worth oj the
leather was also recovered.
Treasure Found.—About one thousand dollars
in old American and Spanish gold coin and French
silver, were found on Tuesday last, in asmoke house
attached to the dwelling of Mr. Teeter, on t.,e
South Mountain, in Lower Heidelberg township,
Berks county, Penn., by one of the gii s ' '
him. The smoke house had been used by the fami
ly for a great many years, in entire fe.onu.c o he
treasure it concealed. The pieces bear the dab. of
1733, and the American coin in pnucipa
sue of 1800 to 1804.
In the M.lkv W.ir.-Mr. Asa Whitney, the
originator of the great Pacific Railroad scheme, is
extensively engaged In the milk business, in Wash
ington. He lives a few miles out, keeps about fifty
cows, and a pump, and supplies Washington people
with milk.
Mr. Samuel Warren, the English barrister and
author of “Ten Thousand a Tear,” is a candidate for
•he office of Recorder of Loudon.
ATr «ie «o Henry Clay.
Tno following tribute to the lamented and gallant
“Harry of the West,’’ was paid i y Hon. Thomas
b. Marshall, during the recent political excitc
men. It ie enough that Mr. Marshall was the
speaker, nnd Kentucky's idol the subject:
. 4 F, v< - v } >m ' knows that the various subjects of
• 1 ux/'s bomr ary, the admission of California, the
tcintonal otganiziitiou Utah and New Mexico,
the recovery of iugitivo slaves who hud escaped
lieni ti- n* owners into the territory of States whose
Ct ‘ n f' *" 1 > did re t Uow slavery, and theabolition
° xV ril )u 1,1 th * Di&tr i"t of Colue bia, were
by Mr. Clay to bo ni.itod in „ single bill and
I I l ' > ; one m* ;isu’e. In this form the ‘omnibus”
Hi., as i. was teamed, failed But. tn the shapo of
1 netsion each separate subject.,the principles
conte ucd h.r by Mr. Cay were adopted, and be
came a part of the bp 1 lion of that year. Why
1 ‘ If i lefeated and dS
ineinbcred, yet in the shape of separate acta, adopt
« i in r.nuost exact accordance whh 14s wishes, is not
for me to inquire. It *1 on tho part
ot mime Senators to deprive the dying leader of the
honor., ot Ins last bats hi, :t was a vain hope. In the
p. blip mind, and in common } . rlance, they uro still
associate*!. In history they will be known as Mr.
{ • mise. Th< ae . ouped andb rmed
the C ompiyin;.- e of 1850 in the Democratic platform,
even the Ivy.- is and Nebraska tu ts adopt tliecom
iimn nomenelat are, i ml instead of reciting tbeseve
r.d act> by t heir title* eall them tlie Compromise,
T.e friends ot Mr. Ch\y meditate the oonetruc
tiou ot a monument, to ma k the spot where repose
the remains ot that frail !<•* •:.r.ent, which onoeneld
111 hi.. : rv -ml. 1! will b ‘ h*'.:i ruble to them, and
•a woods
which »m 1 yof hit hhe had himself
been so long the living omarm-nt, but it will be use
-1 -'S him or to his Jai • lb* trusted neither him
st It nor his t me t > iTua4mnic.il hands or perishable
matenu.s “Pu t git nionitmetUvm perennius erre .”
They may lay their pedestals of granite—they may
rear their polished colutrns till they pierce ana flout
r th< ir marble pillars all
* vi rwi ll the bhr/enry of his d-« ds, the trophies of his
triuinphtic.t genius, an 1 surmount, them with images
of his form wrought by the eunmngest bands—it
matters not —he is not there. The prisoned eagle
has burnt the bars, and soared away from strife, and
conflict, and calumny, lie is not dead—Relives.
Inu an not the life eternal in yon other world of
which religion touch's, but hereon earth ho lives,
the life which men call fame, that life the hope of
which forms tin* solace of high ambition, which
ai i wise and good,
the champions oi truth ami human kind, through all
! their labors—tiiat life is liir beyond all chance or
change, growing, expansive, quenchless us time and
human memory.
He needs no statue —ho desired none. It was the
image of his nail he wished to perpetuate, and ho
lias stamped i* himself iu lines ui flame upon the
souls of his countrymen Not all the marbles of
Ca»rara, fashioned by the chis-l of Angelo into the
mimicry of breathing life, could convey to the senses
a likeness so perfect of himself ns that which he has
left upon the minds ot men. lie carved his own
btututc, lie built his owu monument. In youth he
laid the base broad a; hi.- 5 own country, that it might
well sustain the mighty stru imv hr had designed.
He labored !i roically through id' l on the colossal
shaft. In 1850, the lust year of the tic.-1 half of the
10th century, he prepared the healing measures
which b«*av his name as the capital wel l propor
tioned and in perfect Uc ping with the now finished
column, crowned hi . work, \v that it was good
nnd durable, sprang to its lolly and commanding
summit, and gazing from that lone l.eighth upon a
horizon \s Inch embraced all coming time, with eter
nity for his back ground, and the eyes of ti e whole
world rivet ted upon his solitary figure, consented
there and thus to die.”
New York, Newfoundland and London
Telegraph Company.—We learn that ti e cable
which is to connect Newfoundland and Ireland is
now being manufactured at tie rate of from ton to
fifteen miles per day, with the certainty (hat the ex
tent of over 2,”00 miles will be eomp'eted on or be
fore the first of June next..
I ’tit!t the e miplotion of the submarine connection
between Newfoundland and Irelan I, the company
will make an efiort to obtain the news from the
steamers as they pass Cape Face, N. F., from which
point to New York the Wire is already stretched,
and over which communications have been trans
muted with grout regularity for seme weeks past,
from the office of the American Telegraph Compa
ny, No. ‘2l Wall* street.
The British Government, in response to an ap
plication of Mr. Field, the managing director of
the Company, for permission to rt ceive the news
from the mail steamers off Cap* Race, N. F.,
and Queenstown, Ireland, say through C. E. Tre
velyan, Esq., Treasu.y Chamber, Loudon, as fol
lows :
“I am commanded by the Lords Commissioners
of Her Majesty’s Treasury to acquaint you that
their 1 rdships have stated to the Lords m the Ad
miralty that after communicating with Mr. Cunard
tis to tiie feasibility of the plan, and receiving from
him an assurance tha; it might be carried into effect
without in any way retarding the regular mail ser
vice, they arc of opinion that the necessary direc
tions may be given for the purpose, subject to the
following conditions:
•‘J. That the mail steamers shall iot bo de
layed.
'• •2. That they shall not bo required to alter the
oourse they would otherwise have taken.
“3. That no responsibility shall attach to the ship
or to the government.
“ 1 That the companies shall make such arrange
ments in reii recce to the receipt and despatch of
measagi aas rhall be satisfactory to the Treasury,
n o.der t i . ecuiv equal a Ivuut.iges to all persons
using the telegraph ’
Statistics of Protestantism and Romanism
—The following stati.-tii's of the Protestant and
Roman Cathode populations separately throughout
the world, are given in the London Christian Wit
ness, professedly compi’ed from the* beat authori
ties :
PROTEST ANTS IN THE WOULD, 1855.
Great Britain *2l.ooo,'''oo United States of
Ireland “ioo,oi>o| America. ...‘21,000,000
Prussia 10.000,000!British America. 1,750,000
Germ a i .States... 11,000, (JOOj Africa and Uslsl-
Austrian Empire.. 3,000,000; ands 700,000
Denmark ‘J,soo.ooojWest India, mid
Swedeu and Nor Guia a 1,000,000
way 4,600,000(1ndia, Ceylon and
Holland and Belgi- ! Chinn 500,000
itm ‘2,500,000 AustniliaandPoly-
Switzerland 1,500,000 i nesia 1,000,000
France ‘2,500,000 .
Russ an Empire.. 1.200,000 Total Protestants
Greece and Asiatic j in the world... .88,250,000
Islands 500,0001
ESTIMATE OF ROMAN CATHOLICS IN 1855.
Rome and thnl’a- [Prussia 0,000,000
pal States. . .. 8,000,000 Switzerland 1,000,000
Italian States— 1 Russian Empire.. .2,000,000
Tuscanv. Mode- [Great Brnainand
na and Parma.. .2.750,000 1 Ireland 5,000,000
Naples and Sicily. B,7so,<KK)(Turkish Empire.. .3,000,000
Sardinia 5,000,000 South American
Austrian Bmpiri— i States* 29,000,000
German Siates.ll,ooo.ooo N. America and
Hungary 10.OJ0 000, Canada 2,500,000
Italy. s,ooo,oos[lndia and China-. .3,000,000
Poland -1,000,000 West Indio* ami
Spain 14,000 0 0 Hayti 2,500,000
France twiuoojoOojT't'l Roman Cath
llclgium and 110 - i olios in the
land '1,500,000 world 159,000,000
The Nicaraguan Navy.—The N. O. Picayune ,
of Thursday evening, contains the following trans
lation of a letter addressed to Capt. C. J. Fayssoux,
by the surviving crew of the Costa Rican brig
Onccno D'fibril, which was blown up in the action
of the 23d November with the schooner Granada ,
under Capt. Fayssoux :
[Translation.]
Virgin Hat, November 25,1850.
Capt. C. ./. Fa/p.sou.r, Nicaraguan Army :
Dear Sir—We offer the most sincere thanks to
you, for Ui« great humanity you displayed towards
us on the night of the 23d of this mouth, when we
suffered shipwreck by the explosion of the brig
“11th of April,” coming from Costa ttica, with the
intention of attacking San Junn del Sur. We will
have ever a most grateful recollection of you and
your Government tor the kind treatment we have
received at your hand. You, when you aw your
enemies in the act of being lost, abandoned every
thing in order to save us, even forgetting your du
ty, only thinking of us a. j unfortunate beings need
ing succor. Tins is verified by your leaving things
of much value, which were aboard our vessel, which
any one but yourself would have removed. In
short, we have been treated by you, your Govern
ment, by the General in Chief, and all the authori
ties, with such kindm-,s that we cannot find words
to exprer s our grat’tudo.
So, dear sir, we hope that you will be pleased jo
offer to all your officers our humble thunks, and in
particular, to the illustrious Gen. Walker, for hav
ing had the goodness to set. us at liberty, assuring
you and the G« neral that none of us, or our friends,
when we relate to them these circumstances, will
ever take up c.rms against our saviors.
In short, sir, we hope that God will preserve your
life to enjoy the reputation which ail brave men de
serve, and .allow us to sign ourselves your faithful
friends who kiss your hands and feet.
(Signed) George Chavis,
And twenty-four others.
Ihe Methodist Church North Ims appropriated to
mi- lioimry purposes for the year J 857, sums amount
ing to $250,000. Os this amount, SIOO,OOO ure de
voted to Home, and $73,137 to Foreign Missions.
Africa is flitir chief field, receiving $27,767 ; China
and Germany receive each $10,000; India, $7,500;
France and Turkey, $5,000 each; South America,
$3,500; Central America, s2,oooNorway, Sweden
and Denmark, $3,000. The domestic fund is divided:
to the population speaking English, $05,000 ; to the
Germans, $46,000; to the Indians, $10,350; to the
Scandinavians, $10,500 ;to the Welsh, $3,050; to
the French, $l,lOO.
Texas and Arkansas.—The emigra‘ion to these
States from the older slave States is remarkably
lurge, and seems constantly on the increase. A re
cent number of the Memphis Bulletin says:
“We have never before observed so large a num
ber of emigrant going westward as are crossing the
river at this point daily, the two fe-ry-boats (some
times three) going crowded from early morn until
the boats cease, making three trips at night. It ih
no uncommon sigl.t to see from twenty to forty wa
gous encamped on the bluff for Ihe night, notwith
standing there has been a steady stream going across
the river al« day, and yet the cry is still they come.
The emigration is from the older States, mostly Vn •
ginia, North aud South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,
to settle is Ar
kansas and Texas. Judging from these indications,
the influx of population into these Stages will bj
larger this season than ever before, aud of good sub
stantial citizens.”
State Reporter.—Benjamin Yancey Martin,
Esq., of Columbus, Ga., has been elected Reporter
of the Decisions of the Supreme Court of Georgia,
to till the vacancy occasioned by tho resignation of
Thom A' R. R. Conn, taq
ExcitemeM i.v Tennessee. — The Nashville
Union says that the reports in relation to the anti
cipated slave insurrections were greatly exaggera
t ,1 and that the excitement in question was limited
to the Iron Works on Cumberland river and then
viocinitv" and to Sumner county. It has now ai
mOHt emirely subsided. In Sumner county the
X was limited to a conspiracy {“ kll ‘ V's. or
three men and has been thoroughly exposed.—
ThTvS.ce committee turned the leaders over
to the law, and they will ho dealt with by the
Tutiie iron works there is no doubt that the no
gross of .m insujrection andof
their way to e free State. The plot wMliiWyaD
surd and impracticable, exe.ept so far
ed the livosofa tew men at ns fu» outoreatt. it
has been fully exposed, aud the eaders summarily
PU 'fßis"is a brief outline. The details are contradic
torv even here. The excitement and alarm has not
been a tithe of what it has been represented to bo
else where ; and slave-holders liave telt far more ap
prehension for their slaves than for themselves. This
may ippear strange to some of our northern brethre*
but it is certainly bo.
Nashville aud Chattakooga Railroad, and
the Hog Business.— We are pleased to note the
large ’increase cf freights in the stock line over
this road during the present, as compared with last
yeur:
From Ist Get. to 12th Dec. 185<>—095 car loads of Hogs.
“ “ *t “ “ “ 1855 —160 “ “ “ “
Excess 123 “ i( “ “
There were 10,Of U head of Uoga shipped last year,
and 18,000 so ar as this.
Muks, kirses, sheep, cattle, turkeys, &c., about
the same as last b a. on.
Add 5,000 hogs that have cros ed the river at this
point, and we have 3aLO( 0 hogs th pped to tins mar
ket since Oct. Ist—being a large increase ovtr last
yesr.— Chattanooga Aav.