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Till **l I I C ONGRESS —3d Sc»d©«.
iXSEN'Ai. ......Jan.3o.
Tne fceuatc rr*i*ani«fd the consideration of Mr
Houston p resolution culling on the I‘resident to com
municate the number and cause of desertion* from
the Navy since the passage of the aid to promote
the etficieuey of the Navy He maintained that the
service tied been greatly improved by that measure.
The farther consideration of the subject was post
poned until to-morrow
The Senate at an early hour went into Executive
session, and subsequently adjourned.
HOUSE
Various report® u|»on private bills were made
from the several committees
House went into committee on the private
• aPmdar The entire session was exhausted by dis
cussing a private bill ... . . ~
During the pioceoding*. Mr. Howie presented the
PettUolTof Dr J»me« Agricultural
Chfinat of Maryland, pravin# th*t nitrate of a«la.
and other chemical salts forming compourd parti
of Peruvian guano and other agricultural fertilisers,
may be admitted duty free.
IN SENATE Jan 31.
< >n motion of Mr. Bigler, the bill providing for a
survey of the ()hio river audits pnneipa tributa
ries wen- made the special order for Monday next
The consideration of the Indian appropriation bill
was then resumed.
Mr Hale commented in severe terms on the con
duct of Governor Stevens in proclaiming martial
law, and arresting the Judge of the Federal Court
of Washington Territory. He was opposed to
placing a single dollar in the hand.'* of such a man ,
and be thought that in the days of the Roman su
premacy, no outrage equal to this was *ver perpe
trated in the most remote province of that Empire.
Mr Hunter replied, showing the pressing neces
sity for making the proposed appropriations lor
Washington and Oregon Territories.
After debate a large number of amendments were
adopted, some having in view the preservation and
maintenance of peace amongst the Indian tribes on
the Pacific coast. The bill is still pending.
Mr Houston’s resolution, calling upon the Presi
dent for the number and causes of desertion from
the navy, since the passage of the act providing for
the efficiency of the navy, was adopted.
The Senate adjourned
HOUSE.
Vlr Grow, from the Committee on Territories, re
,H,rted a bill fixing the boundaries of Minnesota and
authorizing the people thereof to form for them
selves a Constitution and State government, to be
admitted into the Un*on on a footing with the origi
nal States, according to the Federal Constitution .
an election to be held on the first Monday in June
next for delegates to the Convention. In the event
of the people deciding in favor of a State govern
n ent, the Marshal is to proceed to take the census
with a view of ascertaining the number of represen
tatives she is entitled to under the present census.
The same provisions are embraced in this bill as
in former bills of similar character relative to pub
lic lands for education, etc , to be assented to as
obligatory as both Min leeota and the United States.
Mr Grow said that the proposed State embraces
70,000 square miles, leaving west of the boundary
about 00,000 square miles to be hereafter enacted
into a government by the Indian name of Dacotah.
Mr. Phelps did not.desire to impede the progress
of the bill, but he wished to know how much of the
proposed territory on the west side of the Mis
sissippi river.
Mr. Grow replied, about three-fourths.
Mr. Phelps said Mr. Grow had frequently advoca
ted the sanctity of compacts and he wished to know
whether lie believed in the sac:ediu>KS of the Ordi
nance of 1787.
Mr Grow replied—Certainly.
Mr. Phelps resumed, saying that by the Mh Arti
<W- ill that Ordinance permission was made for free
States out of the Northwest Territory, which had
long since been organized, and now Mr. Grow pro
posed another
Mr. Grow Maid he thought this came with a bad
grace from Mr. Phelps, considering that the Platte
in untry wam taken an dmcluded within the liinitM of
Missouri.
Mr. Phelps explained that he did riot regard the
ordinance of 77 or the compromise of 1820 as sacred
COlllpACtl.
Mr Boyce asked whether Minnesota hat sufficient
population for a State.
Mr. Grow Maid that Minnesota would be about
the size of Missouri and her population is between
tine bundled and seventy-rive and two hundred
thousand persons
A motion to table the bill was voted down by a
large majority.
The bill was passed, yeas, \>H, nays, 74.
If i. Grow, from the committee on the Territories,
reported a bill for the relief of the people of Kan
sas It declares all the purported laws passed by
the Legislature assembled at Shawnee Mission to be
null and void, for the reason that the members
thereof were elected in violation of the organic law
and usurped power aud enacted cruel and oppres
sive laws. It also provides for holding a new elec
tion. Any one offering to vote must prove by his
own oath that he is a bona tide settler ; and by the
oath of legal voters that he has been for more than
one mouth preceding the election an actual resident,
und fitv 1 • » resident of the election district in
•*f, , off*. Fines, from |3O to SOOO.
B ti to twelve months to be im
•j. disturbance or control of the
tuiaied bands, and the wilful
r> m .V* by any judge.
j" rd, but the House refused to
fan 86, nays 12.
Mr. Kuna. -»tuO no could not consent to sweep
away tin- whole codec! Kansas laws, but wished to
offer a resolution repealing the obnoxious laws.
Mr. Campbell, of Ohio, desired to make an amend
ment, permitting none hut citizens of the United
States to vote.
Mi Letcher wanted the bill logo where it could
be seen and discussed.
M r Grow moved that the bill bo recommitted, I
pending which the House went into Committee of
the Whole on Territorial business.
The bill authorizing the inhabitants of Oregon to
form a Constitution and State Government, pre
liminary to their admission into the Union ns a
State on an equal footing with the original States
was taken up.
Mr Whitney offered on amendment to confine
voting to citizens of the United States remarking
that he would do all he could to prevent aliens from
making constitutions for Americans.
Mr. Lane replied that the laws of < >regon do not
ixmnit aliens to vote, nor do they ulaim that privi
lege.
Mr. Whitney’s amendment was disagreed to, and
one was afterwards adopted confining suffrage in
voting for delegates to the Convention to frame a
constitution, to citizens of the United States.
The committee rose, when the amendments were
concurred in and the bill passed.
IN SENATE Eeb. 2-
On motion of Mr. Weller a resolution ww adopt
«<d requesting the Secretary of War to communicate
conies of all the oorreuponuenee not heretofore fur
iiished relative to the proceedings of the Vigilance
t Committee of I 866.
On motion ol Mr. Pearce a resolution wiw adopt
ed calling on the Secretary of War for all the infor
mation in his possession showing the result of the
c tfoiU made to introduce camels in the military
service.
On motion of Mr. Adams the Senate proceed
ed to the consideration of the bill to establish a
Department of haw, and to prescribe the duties
of the auditors and comptrollers of the treasury.
The further consideration of the subject was post
poned.
Ou motion of Mr. Bigler a resolution was adopt
ed, providing for the appointment of a J »int
Committee to ascertain and report a mode of
examining the votes for President ami Vice-Presi
dent and notifying the persons elected of their elec
tion.
The Senate resumed the consideration of the
Indian Appropriation bill ami passed it. Adjourn
ed
HOUSE
The House passed the bill legalizing the entre#
under the graduation aet of 1864, made prior to its
passage, ou eases where the settlement was made in
good faith.
Mi Kelsey, by unanimous direction of the inves
tigating Committee, reported a resolution requiring
the Sergeant at Anns to bring before the Commit
tee James W. Simon ton, to answer, ou summons
of the speaker, suuh qu stums as may be propound
ed to him.
The resolution was passed under the operation of
the previous question.
The House took up the bill to establish the codec
tlou districts of the Timed States, designating the
porta of entry and ports of delivery, and for other
purposes, jit re organises the entire system J And
after action thereon, its further consideration was
postponed uutil Monday next.
Mr Pelton, from the Committee on Commerce,
reported back the bill authorising the President to
procure a suitable revenue steamer, to be stationed
at the port of New York. The bill hail passed the
House, and the Senate returned it with amendments
which were concurred in.
Mr. Humphrey Marshall, from the Committee on
the Judiciary, leported n bill dividing -the State of
Texas into two iudicial districts . the present Judge,
iWatroua,) to V confined to the Eastern District.
The bill was passed.
Mr. Barbour, from the committee ou the judiciary
reported a resolution that John C. Watrous, district
Judge of the district of Texas, be impeached of high
crimes and misdemeanors.
The report was ordered to be printed and the
House a4|Ourued.
IN SENATE Eeb. 8.
Mr Wilson introduced a bill to secure to actual
settlers the alternate section# of the public lands re
served in grants made to the railroads. It provides
that actual sottlers shall take the reserved sections,
being about 11.000.000 acres, at $2 60 per acre, in
compliance with the pre-emption act of 1841.
Mr Brown presented the petitiou of a committee
of the corporation of Washington, praying Congress
to cede to the said corporation the public square or
ienervation on which the centre market house now
stands, and to authrise it to borrow money for the
purpose of erectiug a new market house thereon,
which was referred to the committee on the District
of Columbia.
Mr Brown also presented a petition of the citisens
**f Washington county residing out of the corporate
limits ot tne city, praying for the establisbmen of
public school witinn that portion ot the District of
Colum corporate limits of the cities
ofW •' get own, which was refer
red ho District of Columbia.
»ui went into executive
ae. .ours therein adjourned
USE.
. othe consideiation of tlie
§p* v :;v. • neiug business relative to
tbe Diotnci w. cca»..o.a.
The House nav u.fc proceeded to the special order
—business relating to the District of Columbia—the
following named Dills wen* passed
The bill (fromthe Senate) extending tne charter
ot the Firemen’s Insurance Company of Washing
ton aud Georgetown. in the District of Columbia.
The charter is extended to Juue Ist, 1888.
The bill incorporating a new insurance company
of the District of Columbia ; Silas 11. Hill and others
are the incorporate company The Senate bill sup
plementary to the act organising the Insane Asy
lum for the District of Columbia, the main design of
which is to provide at that establishment for such
insane person# as have heretofore been sent to jail,
in the absence of legal facilities for haring them con
veyed to the asylum.
A bill to incorporate the Columbian Institute lor
the education of the deaf, dumb and blind.
M: Woodworth, from the committee ou the Dis
trict of Columbia, made an unfavorable report on
the memorial of the workmen employed ou the Cap
itol extension asking for an increase of pay. It was
I aid on the table
The House laid upon the table the bill for iucreas
mg the salaries ot the judges of the several federal
court s of the District of Columbia.
Tne Howe went into committee of the whole, Mr.
Stephens in the chair.
The following bills, after consideration wore laid
a#ide to be reported to the House.
The Senate bill regulating the terms of the circuit
court of the District of Columbia. [lt authorise*
the judges to tix the time of the terms as the con
venience of the public may require, but not less than
three per annum 1
A bill to re-imburse the corporation of George
town, in the District of Columbia. $4,600 advanced
towards the construction of the Little Falls bridge
W hen the committee rose the former named bill
was passed, and (ending the question ou the latter
the lions© adjourned.
IN SENATE Feb. 5.
Mr. Allen presented the credentials of James F
Simmons, elected Senator from Rhode Island.
Mr W'heeier, from the committee on Military as
fairs, reported in favor of printing the documents
recently communicated relative to General Scott’#
Pay A debate ensued
Mr. Crittenden said that the time required to
print such a large document would defeat the ob
ject of the House bill relative to the pay of General
Scott.
Mr. Weller responded, saying that upon an ex
amination of the correspondence between the Sec
retary of War and General Scott, the committee on
Military affairß were satisfied that justice to both
paities required the whole to be nriu ted, and if ths
order is mad© now, it ©an be laid ou the table as
early a# next Monday and within two or three days 1
from that time, the committee will probably be able
to report back the bill now before them. It was
with regret that be was obliged to say that a portion
of the correspondence was of an angry character
Mr Beli, of Tennessee, inquired whether the com
mittee coild not decide which portion of the cor
respondence ought to be suppressed, and which
printed. He thought that the personal controver
sies of these gentlemen were not necessary to be
mbiisbed, in order to understand the arguments re
ative to the bill before the Senate.
M. Weller replied that the committee could not
do that without subjecting themselves to the impu
tation of doing injustice to one or the other of the
parties. As the case now stood, if the Senate want
to do justice to both parties, the whole correspon
dence ought to be published.
31 r. Pearce would be obliged to vete against the
motion to print the correspondence. A portion of it
was very acrimonious in its nature, and could not
be essential to the merits of the qu€ktion. To pub
lish this crimination and re-crimination would sub
serve no purpose of pub ic utility, but it would be
extremely painful to the friends of both parties, and
would furnish rather a bad example, judging from
what he could hear. Uriles* the correspondence
could be expungated he wouid be obliged to vote
against printing any portion of it.
Mr. Fitzpatrick observed that it could not be de
nied that the correspondence was characterized by
bitterness; but the publication of a large portion of
it WAS necessary to the proper understanding of the
question now before the Senate in reference to the
proposition to increase the pay of G«n. Scott, me
committee with every desire to do what was proper
are of the opinion that to arrest the publication of
any part of the correspondence, might subject them
to suspicion of an attempt at favoritism. He thought
the entire might to be published, although he re
gretted to see some harsh language in the corres-
Seward opposed printing such portions as
»rere of a personal character, a* having an injurious j
tendency. He could not consent to publish anything
calculated to Impair the character of either of these- j
distinguished aud patriotic men.
Mr. Stuart said no officer of the Government has
a right so to spice his public correspondence om to j
deprive the legislative department of the Govern
ineut of its fullest use. The Senate could not act 1
understandingly unless ail these facts were spread
before them.
Mr. Weller remarked that when he introduced
the resolution catling for this information, he had 1
forgotten the fact if he had ever known it, that a por
tion of the correspondence was personal in its cha
racter. The b»li before Congress was based upon
the i lea that the War Department had done injus
tice to General Scott. In order to examine that
question, the publication of a very large portion of
this correspondence was absolutely necessary. It
was necessary to know upon what grounds the War
Department refused to carry out the legal wishes of
Congress.
Mr. Benjamin said the souutry required the in
formation, and he felt constrained to vote in accord
ance with the recommendation of the committee.
Mr. Toombs remarked that the Senate might not
make itself the conduit to put private quarrels be
fore the public. Let them do that through the me
dium of the newspapers.
Mr. Bigler said that while he would vote for
printing this correspondence, because the committee
on military affairs recommended it, he would not
commit himself against the bill from the House,
because his present opinions were in favor of that
measure.
The motion to print was then agreed to.
Mr. Wilson briefly explained the bill offered by
him, yesterday, to secure to actual settlers the alter
nate sections of the public lands reserved in the
grants to the Staten for railroad purposes. He said
that at the last session, Congress granted 21,000,000
acres, and within a few months, the reserved sec
lions, amounting to nearly eleven millions, will
come into market. They will at once be seized up
on by land speculators to the disparagement of the
people of the new States and emigrants from the
older States. His bill proposed to withhold these
alternate sections from sale, and allow actual set
tlors alone to take up lots of 160 acres each, at. $2.50
per acre, If the bill become- a law, these lands
will be prevented from passing into the hapds of
non resident speculators to the permanent injury
of the new States aud the actual cultivators of the
soil.
Adjourned.
HOUSE.
Mr. Florence introduced a bill equalizing the Ar
my, Navy and Marine pensions.
Mr. Bingham, from the Committee on Elections
reported a resolution, which was adopted, that Mr.
HaU is legally elected from the first Congressional
District of lowa.
The resolution giving Mr. Clark Ijis contested mil
eage and per diem lies over.
The House then discussed the joint resolution pro
posing to give each branch of Congress entire con
trol of its contingent fund, without the supervision
of the Treasury officers.
Mr. Bocock, while opposing the bill, said he saw
corruption, like a gangrene, stretching throughout
the country. lie would not break down the bar
riers by wretch the public treasure was now guard
ed.
The bill was passed by a majority of seventy sev
en votes.
Mr. Campbell, from the Committee of Ways and
Means, reported favorably on the Senate bill, to aid
tin* submarine telegraph.
Mr. Jones, ofTenuessee, moved that the bill be
laid upon the table ; but the motion did not prevail
—yeas 53, nays 123. This was considered a test
vote, and there is no doubt of the final passage of
the bill,
Mr Campbell said he would endeavor to dispose
of tin* subject to-morrow.
The Tariff bill was then taken up in committee,
when Messrs. Evans, Wright of Tennessee, and A.
K. Marshall made political speeches,after which the
House adjourned.
IN SENATE Feb. 5.
The Senate agreed to the bill relating to foreign
coins and the coinage of cents, and added another.
The Senate in addition to other business, passed
the House bill to confirm certain entries of land un
der the graduation act, and the House bill extend
ing the time for selling the lands granted to the Ken
tucky Asylum for educating the deaf and dumb.
Mr. Busk reported a bill for the transportation of
the mails from the Mississippi river to San Francis*
The annual report of the Commissioner of Patents
was laid before the Senate (as well hh the House,)
and the question of printing extra copies was refer
red to the Committee on Printing.
After further business the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
Mr. Campbell moved the previous question on
the Senate SubmarineTelegragh bill, which was not
sustained, 43 only voting in the affirmative.
Mr. Smith, of Virginia, thought it unwise policy
in the Government to sanction this remarkable pro
position. There was Constitutional authority to
embark in this scheme. He did not believe that its
advantages would be as gieat to the Government as
wns claimed, the termini of the line being on British
soil If, as they were assured, it would be establish
ed whether this Government assist or not, where
was the necessity of pressing the bill to a hasty pas
sage.
Mr. Seward advocated the bill, showing the ad
vantages of the Sub-Marine Telegraph, and main
taining that if we can enter into postal treaties witn
foreign governments, and pay eight hundred thou
sand dollars per annum for ocean mail steamer ser
vice, we have the same power to assist in this enter
prise, at less expense.
Mr. Mace regarded this a mutter of much import
mice, believing it would l« ud to greater results than
have yet been anticipated by any one in the House.
It was connected with the postal affairs of the coun
try, aud with a view of examining into its merits, he
moved that it be referred to the Committee on Post
Offices and Post Roads.
Messrs. Campbell, of Ohio, and Washburne, of
Maine, severally said tlint this motion amounted to
an effort to defeat the bill.
Mi Mace assured them this was not his intention.
Pendingthis subject, the House went into commit
tee. The Tariff* bill being nominally under consid*
oration—
Mr. Clingman spoke on the subject of Central
American aud Cuban affairs, saying, in the course
of his remarks, that we have a right to expect a
bold policy from the incoming administration con
cerning it.
Mr. Stan ton argued against the reduction of the
duties on wool, and characterized the pending bill
as one for the benefit of manufacturers, irrespective
of the interests of agricultural classes.
Mr. Letcher proceeded to show the necessity for
a reduction of the revenues.
When he concluded, the House adjourned.
IN SENATE Feb fi.
On motion of Mr. Wilson the Senate adopted a
resolution directing the Committee on Commerce
to inquire into the expediency of authorizing the
Secretary of the Navy to expend such sums as he
may deem necessary, not exceeding $50,000, for
the further exploration of the La Platte and its tribu- (
taries.
Mr. Fish, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, ,
reported back a joint resolution authorizing the Se- ,
cretary of the Navy to pay the offi. era and seamen j
of the expedition sent in search of l)r. Kane at the J
same rate of pay allowed the officers and seamen of
the expedition under De llaven.
The Senate passed three or four private bills, and
receded from their amendment striking out the al- *
lowance of iuterest from the claim of Alary Reeside. ‘
The bill now only requires the action of the Execu- !
live. The Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
The House took up the private calendar.
The House passed seventeen private bills, and
adjourned. _
From the N. O. Picayune of -J insl.
Later from Mexico.
The bark Gen. Taylor, Captain Thomas, arrived
on Saturday night from Vera Cruz, which port she
left on the 20th of January. She fl ings on frieght
$300,480 in specie.
We have city of Mexico papers to the 14th of
January.
Ti e last uewfl from the insurgents at San Luis
Potosi is that.ou the 27th of December, they were
at JuralHaciendo; the 28th, at San Felip, but retur
ned again to San Luis on the 30th.
Zacatecas and Aguas Calientea contingents were
marching upon San Luis.
The first number of the new journal, LasNoveda
des. was suppiessed at Mexico by order of the Su
pr«*tne Government
There were minors in Mexico from Puebla that a
new insurrection or pronunciamieuto was to take
place there shortly, Miramon being the leader.
Senor Urquioli was fulfilling the functions of Min
ister of Finance, and Senor Palaeioy Magarola, those
of Minister of Relations
The country was quieter than it had ever been
since the close of the war with the United States.
The rebellious spirit of the clergy was, however,
giving considerable trouble to tne Government,
and some of their numlier had been summarily
dealt with
The following is the number of properties and
their value, belonging formerly to the church, which
have been sold lately, oy virtue of the law of disa
mortixation, of June 26, 1856:
Number Value
District ot Mexico 10 $78,930 00
State of Vera Crus 23 95,039 74
State of Michoac&n 2 406 64
State of Oajaca 8 33,517 92
State of Mexico 2,612 07
State of Aguascalientes 5 10,719 37
S-ate of Puebla S 3 101,263 50
131 322,489 24
Total, before given 2,679 18,575,842 86
Total 2,810 $18,898,332 09
It will be seen from the foregoing statement that
President Comonfort is resolved not to shrink from
the responsibilities, vexations and - mats attendant
upon the execution ot this law
The liis&mortis&lion of church property has in
several places not been completed . from toiler©taro,
for instance, there had been no returns at all. To
obviate this. Senor Lerdo gave orders before leav
ing the Cabinet that all the properties which had
not been sold in their respective States, should be
sold iutbe city Mexico.
The Trait d’Union, of the 12th of January, men
tions a rumor that the Apostolic Nuncio had receiv
ed orders by the last packet to ask for his passports,
and return home. “If this be true,*' says the Moni
tor, of the 13th, “we applaud it, and hope that the
Government will make hast© and expedite these
passports.'
The Monitor, es the 13tx. says the insurgents had
fiually left San Luis, and that the revolution was at
au end. Othon, one of the leaders, fled with two
hundred men towards the mountains. The others.
Mon toga, M.jia andCalao then held several coun
cils, and determined to flv
Besides $210.000 which they got bv robbing the
conducts, they received $ 1110,(K)0 iu’the shape of
forced loans from the merchams. The Monitor d**es
uot give the date of the departure of the insurgents
from San Luis.
The Xovadades, of the city of M* xico. whose sup
pression we *have already mentioned, ha# reappear
ed under the name of Kevistade Mexico.
Homicide. —Mr. John Hill, overseer of the track
on the Koine Rail Road, was killed last week by a
negro Joe, belonging to John Smith of this place.
The circumstance#, we are informed, were a# fol
lows : Ou Friday morning, a difficulty having arisen
about some work, as Mr. Hill started to chastise him
Joe struck Mr. H., upon the head with a club, from
the effects of which blow he died ot Saturday night.
A post mortem examination showed that his skull
was broken, and the veidict of the Jury of Inquest
was willful murder. The negro is lodged in jail and
will probably l>e tried the present session of the
towt —Rome Advertiser. M %d
EUROPEANINTELLIGENCE.
BT THE BALTIC.
Great Britain. —Lord Palmerston has issued
the following circular to the House of Commons :
Downing Street. 16th January. 1857 Sir—
The nr acting of Parliament having been fixed for
Tuesday, the 3d of February, business of great im
portance will then eome under the consideration of
Parliament, aud I trust, therefoie, t lat you will
allow me to express my earnest ho.>e that it may be
consistent with your convenience to attend in your
place, in the House of Commons, at the opening of
the session. I have the honor to be, Sir, your obe
dient and faithlul servant, Palmep-ston.
We irifb. therefore, toon expect an official pro
gramme of the contemplated Government mea
sures. Excepting some election rumors, cf local
interest only, there is nothing else in home pou
lard Napier has arrived in London, from Scot
land, and will probably leave tor VN ashington in
about three weeks. , , ,
An influential meeting of merchants and brokers
was held in London, on the PJth, Baron Rothschild
in the chair. The object of the meeting was to in
duce the Government to pa** an act placing war
rants, bills of lading and other documents relative to
the delivery of goods on the same footing as bank
notes or bills of exchange. The Govern-r of the
Bank of England produced the draft of a bill to be
presented to the President of the Board of Trade,
and a letter was exhibited in which the President
stated his readiness to receive a deputation on the
subject.
The London Times published a circumstantial ac
count of the hist illness and death of the Rev. Dr.
Grant, Roman Catholic Bishop of Southwark, /Lon
don ) Dr. Grant himself declares that he is alive
and perfectly well.
Rev. Dr. Richerstetb, the newly appointed
Bishop of Ripon, was consecrated on Sunday, the
18th.
Robson, the Crystal Palace forger, has become a
maniac, and there is talk of removing him from prr
son to Bethlehem Hospital for the insane. Leopold
liedpath, the other great forger, is found guilty, and
sentenced to transportation for life. Kent, Red
path’s supposed accomplice, has been acquitted.
Mutiny os Board thf. Americas Ship J. L.
Bogart. —An unpleasant circumstance occurred on
31onday morning, the 1 Dtb, on board the J. L. Bogart,
Capt. Conway, while the ship was at anchor in the
river Mersey. Our Liverpool correspondent sends
us the following from the Liverpool Post, as the
most correct account of the incident, but he declines
to endorse the implications made therein as to the
conduct of the officers of the ship :
Yesterday morning shortly after ten o'clock, the
report of firearms was heard to proceed from on
board the American ship J. L Bogart, and soon a flag
of distress was hoisted. Captain Conway, who was
ou shore at the time, hastened to the American Con
sul’s office, and immediately proceeded on board.
The Consul instantly communicated with Mr.
Clough, the indoor superintendent of police, and he
shortly after despatched detective officers Scott and
Eaton, fwith two others of that department, and
they taking ten other officers, proceeded to board
the ship. ( >n approaching the side, they perceived
a regular battle going on on the deck; and even
the bulwarks of the ship bore traces of the contest,
being largely daubed with blood. On going ou
board, the deck round the forecastle presented a
horrible appearance, and Was covered with pools of
gore; the men showed shocking proofs of savage
treatment, and the first mate liau his head nearly
cloven, apd lay on the dec H Cue of the crew was
in front of him, also on the floor of the ship having
been wounded in the thigh by a pistol fired at him,
as lie stated, by the second mate. The oflicers im
mediately stayed the tumult, aud then proceeded to
make arrests. The captain and officers charged the
crew with mutiny, and the latter accused the offi
cers of brutally id-treating them. Sixteen of the
crew were placed in custody for mutiny aud injury
to the officers ; and the second mate was arrested
for shooting at aud wounding James Christie, an
able seaman on board.
Christie received the wound in the upper nail of
the leg, and the ball lodged in the thigh. lie was
taken to the Birkenhead landing place, whither the
other fifteen charged were earned, together with
the second mate, and be was thence conveyed to
the Birkenhead office. The bullet yet remained in
the wound. The first mate, whose name is C. O.
Thorber, was carried to the Northern Hospital,
where he now lies. He has received a very bad
wound on the head and a stabbed wound in the
shoulder. They are not supposed such as to place
his life in danger, however. The whole of the erew
in custody are more or less injured—some of them
very severely. Officer Scott took from t he person
«f the first mate a pistol, and on being carried to the
hospital, “brass knuckles” wore found in his pocket.
We understand that inquiries made on board led to
the conclusion that the officers from the moment the
ship cleared, commenced ill treating the men, and
that this ilMreament reached such an acme on yes
terday morning, that the men struck work and re
fused their ordinary duty, ihe officers immediate
ly resorted to arms, shots were tired, and Christie
tell wounded. The men then seized whatever was
at hand and attacked the officers, wounding the first
mate, as we have stated above. The occurrence
has created much sensation in town.
Qne alleged cause of the mutiny, as stated by the
crew, is that they shipped for New York, under ar
ticles to that effect, and us they wee nearly ail
black or colored men, on learning that the vessel
was bound for Mobile, they refused to go, that be
ing in a Rlave State, where they would all be re
tained in slavery. The men who are in custody
are all blacks, and the ship hgs certainly cleared for
Mobile.
On Tuesday, the 20th, the affair was investigated
before the full bench of magistrates at Birkenhead.
The prisoners were brought up in the custody of
four Liverpool detectives, and'gave the following
names : Hiram Caddis, Edward Spriggs, Josep i
Williams, Jeremiah Jones, Lott Wyatt, David
Walker, Samuel Stevens, Nicholas John, William
Elliston, John Batties. George Kent, Chas. Win
terpole, John Wellesley, Edward Hill, Benjamin
Hodge, and Lemuel Dorsey, all colored men. They
were charged by Capt. Joseph Conway with mutiny
on board his ship.
Peter Campbell, the second mate, was charged
with shooting Janies Christie, on board the same
ship. Mr. Campbell, solicitor, defended the prison
ers, and “some philanthropic gentleman of Liver
pool,’’ employed a second lawyer, Mr. Snowball, to
assist in the defence. Captain Conway appeared
before the Court, and charged the prisoners with mu
tiny. The magistrates refused the charge of mutiny,
as beyond then-jurisdiction, but were ready to hear
any charge of assault.
No direct evidence being ready as to the assault,
the prisoners were discharged, with the exception of
Jos. Williams, Jeremiah Jones and Lott Ilyatt, who
had arms in their hands when apprehended. The
case is adjourned until to-morrow the 22d. The
first mate lies in a dangerous condition in the hospi
tal, and the second male is in custody. The crew
assert that they were shipped for a British bark
('.ailed the Robin Hood, for Antigua, and refused
to work when they found themselves on board the
Bogart.
The Assassin Verges. —A correspondent of the
London Daily News, who was present at the trial
of this extraordinary criminal, thus describes the
scene aud conduct of the prisoner :
“The Court was acurious sight as the clock struck
ten and the prisoner appeared at the bar. People
of many nations made up the audience. English,
French, Russian, even the Turkish fez was there;
and it seemed to me as though very little would
have induced them to take the law into their hands.
Ou entering, the prisoner gazed calmly and quietly
about him, and certainly he did not look like an
assassin, lie was dressed in plain clothes; his face
was very pale, his forehead high and massive, per
haps a little prominent, aud his look calm, clear, and
rather contemplative, lie seemed proud of his po
sition; but a nervous movement of the hand might
be observed from time to time, and likewise of the
tongue, which he passed continually over his lips.
Lie held a bundle of papers and a pencil in his lmnd
and asked several questions of his guards, which
were, as I afterwards learned, respecting the differ
ent places occupied by the various professional peo
ple, jury, judges, &c.
“When Verges spoke he did so in a loud, clear
and sonorous tone ot voice, always, when possible,
addressing himself to the public, and not to the jury
or president. About them he seemed to care little,
nor did he appear at all to realize his position. The
accusation being read, he rose, and witli great
calmness and some dignity complained that justice
had not been done him—that at least thirty witness
es were necessary to his cause, and that those had
been denied him. lie proceeded to read the dilfer
ent documents he had addressed on this subject to
the authorities. He reclaimed these witnesses with
great pertinacity, stating that their lives had been
mixed up with this, (1 use here his own words,)
and that their testimony was necessary to him ; ana
then meeting with opposition on this head, his true
character shone forth, and he became greatly exci
ted, virulent in his language, and most violent in
his gestures. His request being overruled, the
witnesses present were brought in and gave their
evidence.
To each of these lie replied, often interrupting
them in the most violent and excited manner using
abusive epithets to them, as well as to the Presi
dent, who bore his violence with the utmost pa
tience. On some points he spoke long, lluently,
and well, denying any irregularity of past life, and
maintaining that he had but revenged himself after
enduring undue persecution and hardship. At times
he became almost furious, being frequently held
down by force by his guards, and even in that posi
tion vomiting forth insults against the witnesses and
the president. Ou one occasion he called on our
Saviour to look dowu on the proceedings of the ini
quitous court who were trying him, and then broke
forth in a torrent of abuse against the ecclesiastic
who was giving evidence. All this time the pub
lie, to whom he frequently appealed, seemed great
ly excited againsi him, and injurious epithets. |to
which he seemed insensible, were frequently launch
ed against him, on some sally of his, worse than
usual.
Eventually, the prisoner's letters to the care of St.
German i'Auxerrois were read, and these seemed to
drive the unfortunate man into a state of frenzied
passion. The president was totally powerless to ar
rest the torrent of abuse lie poured forth, lli# face
was convulsed with rage, his voice hoarse with pas
sion. and at length the president, more by ges
ture than voice, rose, declared the court adjourned,
and the guards endeavored to remove the prisoner.
Still speaking and gesticulating, he resisted the ef
forts of fonr powerful soldiers, and then turning to
the people and raising his hands, he cried in a loud
and powerful voice, ‘peuple, defendez moi!'
This appeal to the public was singularly met. A
perfect roar of abhorrence burst from them simulta
neously. It increased. "Canaille! - ’ —“Assassin!—
were heard ou every side. Men jumped on the
benches, shaking their fists at him . they grinned
at him ; and even the shrill voice of the gentle sex
might at times be heard screaming out the word
“Assassin!" and thus he left the court.
“Why prolong this recital of a painful scene—such
a one as was never witnessed before, even in that
room, where almost every known crime has been
heard and judged ? On the court re-opening, which
it did in about hall au hour, the same scenes were
again witnessed. Verges, commencing witli calm
and digity, carefully dissecting and discussing the
evidence against him as it was given, and without
taking notes . ever complaining of partiality and in
justice toward# him, but in no way denying his
crime, but treating it as a just and called for ven
geance for the wrongs inflicted upon him ; calmly,
slowly, and circumstantially he narrated each detail
of the murder ; nay, even dwelt on the fears he had
lest some of the priests present on the occasion
should recognise and poiut him out before he had
attained his object . tears, as he said, not entertain
ed on his own account, for, raising his finger lp
wards, and casting his eyes in the same direction,
“I," he added, “fear none but God.” In this man
ner, he even stated the very time and day when the
idea of the murder first entered his head ; and yet
when the different witnesses were heard. Verges
lost all this calmness, hurling forth anathemas and
violence against all and each, and was only restrain
ed from personal outrage by the men who guarded
him. At length his passion became such that he
would not permit any one to b© heard, and this ne
cessitated the adjournment of tin? court, and his
removal The usual forms being gone through, he
was declared contumacious, and the trial was pro
ceeded with in his absence
On the jury entering, after consideration of the
verdict—their absence having lasted about 26 min
ute* —their foreman rose, and #osti!iwa> that crowd
ed court, that, low as he spoke, each word was dis
tinctly heard. Each head was bent forward to catch
the low, earnest voice of the speaker, as he gave
forth that verdict, now so seldom heard in France,
the result of which must be death. Then a alight
murmur of approval ran round the room.
Paris. Sunday evening.—At seven yesterday
evening the prison authorities went to Verges’s cell
to read to him the sentence of death. He heard it
calmly, but immediately the reading wa# finished be
exclaimed “Go, now, gentlemen, and execute jus
tice. You also will be condemned. Go : I dismi*#
and despise you.” The governor of the prison then
gave ordeis that Verges should be c lothed in a
straight waistcoat, tcamisote tie force,) which it i*
stated, is the costume invariably imposed upon
criminals under sentence of death. He submitted
quietly, simply observing, “I know that I no longer
belong to myself.’’ He passed the night tranquilly
and ate his breakfast with a good appetite. On l»e
--iug asked whether he had any wish to express, he
said that he desired to appeal to the Court of Cas
sation, and also to present a petition to the Emper
or for pardon. "But,” he said, “Low shall I write
the petition with this straight-waistcoat, which pre
vents me from using my hands v He was told that
he might dictate what he wished, and that hi* strait
waistcoat should be taken oft when he wanted to
sign, lie thanked the governor for this explanation,
lie was then whether h< would wish to Pee a
priest, and he said, "I accept hi*, service with pleas
ure.’ The Abbe Nottelet was then introduced, and
Verges threw himself into his arms and embraced
him. I cannot help observing, that if th® medical
theory of homicidal monomania is to be admitted at
all, few stronger cases of it have ever been known
than that of Verges.— Daily Aetei.
Revolution in Peru.— Her Majesty’s steam
frigate Tribune arrived at Calladon ou the 4th of
December, on her voyage to the Coast of Central
America She had been detained at Arica, Peru,
in consequence of the revolution, and an attempt to.
take the town by the Peruvian squadron of General
Vanoo. Her surgeous were of great assistance to
the wounded . and the Spanish papers states that
her presence and the efforts of her officers prevented
much disorder and bloodshed after the town had
fallen ; *2O were killed and 35 wounded. Several
ladies took refuge on board.
Spain.—Madrid, Jan* 12.—Numerous arrests
took place in Madrid last night and in the course of
yesterday. A new decree of the civil governor of
the province of Barcelona prohibits the wearing of
pwordsticks and other arms not destined for domes
tic uses, or for hunting or shooting. Pocket kuives
must not exceed a certain dimension ; poiguard
knives of every dimension are prohibited, as well
as pistols other than hostler pistols ; also guns of a
calibre for a bullet of more than an ounce, with a
barrel of a Castilian yard in length.
All these arms are to be deposited in a place to be
appointed by the armorers, and cannot be sold ex
cept for exportation. Armorers must further fur
nish to the authorities a report of the arms which
they have in their warehouses or shops ; but they
cannot sell any to private individuals without the
previous permission of the civil governor. Arms
that may be introduced into the province by mer
chants are to be sequestered and deposited in some
secure place until circumstances permit their remis
sion to the proprietors. Smuggling of arms will be
punished as an attempt against toe public order.
Analogous measures have just been adopted by the
authorities of the province of Saragossa.
China. —Private advices from Shanghai to No
vember 19th say that there is a prospect that the
specie shipments to that port may prove excessive,
owing to the scarcity of produce.
The English at Canton are strengthening their
position, but showed a disposition to remain on the
defensive until they receive advices from England.
Meanwhile, it is understood that reinforcements are
to be sent for.
At Canton, whence the accounts are to be the
24th November, the exchange stood at 4s. sfd. to
4s. Bd., being only a fraction lower than at the pre
vious dates.
Naples. —The following private letter, bearing
cate the 11th of January, has been received from
Naples :
After the explosion of the powder magazine, a
police commission for the army was established.—
The object of the commission is to find out a grand
conspiracy connected with the attempt of Milano
and the two explosions. They have already set to
work. More than a hundred persons have been ar
rested, of course Liberals. All these persons have
been thrown into dungeons without examination,
and without being aware of the oause of their ar
rest. It is rumored that the government has dis
covered the authors of the explosion of the Carlos
111, in the commander of the snip, the officers, and
in fact all who had escaped the explosion. It is also
reported that the seamen have spoken, aud indicated
the criminals paid by the English.
On the following night the city was deserted and
the cases empty. The gas has been turned off from
a part of the Royal Palace, from the theatre of San
Carlos, and that of the Fonda, as au explosion is ap
prehended. The theatres are to be closed for three
days, the 11th, I2th and 13th, in order to avoid a de
monstration which was prepared in them for the
12th, the King's birthday. To-morrow, the 12th,
the Royalists are expected to make a demonstration
for their “ adored Sovereign.” The word has been
sent round for all honest men to keep within doors;
the streets will be deserted. Many families have
already quitted their houses in the Rue de Toledo.
At Peuta, province of Salerno, a person named
Petrone, chanced to make some remark about the
King in a case. The gendarmes made an attempt
to arrest him, but a priest, a brother of Petrone, is
; sued out with a poignard in his hand, attacked the
| gendarmes, killed one of them, wounded three, and
put the rest to flight. The whole family at once
emitted the pla*.e and repaired to the mountains. In
' this country, those who would enjoy liberty must
lead the life of brigands. It is a civil war without a
truce. A hundred persons are released from prison
I to day, but 200 are arrested the next.
Ntrjilicn* <#n Knii«a«—A«ritiu.
The Atlanta Intelligencer, au well an other Demo
cratic papers, have denied that Mr. Stephens, in his
speech of January 6th, expressed the opinion in re
ference to Kansas becoming a slaveholding State,
which the Richmond Whig attributed to him, and
which we took occasion to comment upon the other
day, we replied by showing i}iat the Whig did not
charge him with having used the expression in that
speech. But, as these papers seemed disposed to at
tribute misrepresentation to Mr. Stephens’ oppo
nents, we occupied a little leisure time on Tuesday
in looking back into the reported Congressional
proceedings, to see if we could refer to the date, aud
the record. Wo examined no Know Nothing au
thorities, but referred at once to Democratic sources,
and there we tind the charges of the Whig substan
tiated, word for word, aud letter for letter ! In the
New-York Daily News (a leading Democratic Bu
chanan paper) of January 7th, is a report of the de
bate in the House of Representatives on the day
previous, furnished by its owu reporter; and in
that report we fiud the following paragraph as a
part of Mr. Stephens’ speech, or rather as one of his
retorts upon Mr. Campbell, of Ohio, who had inter
rupted him with questions:
“ Mr. Stephens said ne had never advocated the
Kansas Nebraska bill as a Southern, but as a nation
al and constitutional measure. Although he should
like to see Kansas admitted into the Union as a
slave State, he thought there was no sucli probabili
ty. Not only the laws of climate and production,
but those of population would prevent it, aud so ot
the other territories.”
This is precisely the language attributed to him
by the Richmond Whig. We learn, too, that the
Washington Union reported his speech substantial
ly in the same way, and we find it also charged up
on him by the New Orleans Delta. If Mr. Stephens,
in the report of his speech prepared by himself for
publication, thought proper to alter his reply to
Campbell, or to omit it altogether, the subsequent
modification is no proof of the incorrectness of the
repeaters, or of any misrepresentation by his oppo
nents.
Will the Intelligencer now “ have the manliness”
to correct its inuendoes against the honesty of the
opposition press. —Columbus Enq.
Retributive Justice.— An Extraordinary
Case. —Some months ago we briefly alluded to the
1 arrest of a United States soldier at Bedloe’s Island,
named John Lawlor, on suspicion of having mur
dered a young woman named Mary Dunn. Lawlor,
it will be recollected, wrote a letter to the Chief of
Police, stating that, about four years previously,
while teacher in the workhouse at Rathdrum, coun
ty Antrim, Ireland, he violated the person of the
girl alluded to, and then drowned her so as to avoid
detection ; furthermore, that the spirit of the mur
dered victim haunted him night and day, and that
ho could obtain uo rest or peace of mind until lie had
divulged the fearful secret, which until then he had
kept locked within his breast. While incarcerated
in the Tombs, Lawlor manifested insanity, which
led many to believe that the story of the murder
was without foundation, and had only been trump
ed up forthe purpose of obtaining his release from
the army. The prisoner was examined by some
medical men, who gave it as their opinion’ that he
was insane, and should be sent to the lunatic Asy
lum on Blackwell’s Island tor medical treatment.
In accordance with the opinion of the physicians,
Lawlor was sent to the institution in question, where
lie has remained ever since. Meantime the British
Consul in this city has been active in making inqui
ries respecting the murder of which Lawlor himself
confessed to be the perpetrator, and a correspond
ence was had with the authorities at Rathdrum in
relation to the affair. Tin* result of an investigation
goes to show that a murder was oommitted about
the time stated by the prisoner ; that the name of
the victim was Mary Dunn; that Lawlor was a
teacher in the workhouse at the time, and moreover,
that he was present at the inquest held upon the
body of the deceased. These facts, together with
the admissions of the prisoner to the authorities in
this city, will, it is supposed, result in his being sent
back to Ireland for trial. When Lawlor was sent,
to the lunatic asylum, he had all the appearance of
au insane man, but now is quite sane. —Neic York
Herald.
Robber* of the Mails—Arrest of the Of
fender.—The citizens of Somerset and other neigh
boring counties in New Jersey have been very
much annoyed of late by the interruption of their
correspondence through the mails, and the entire
loss ot a large number of letters containing money
remittances to aud from New York, and many other
places. It was evident that some one enjoying the
confidence of the Postoffice Department was posh
ing these speculations in a bold and unscrupulous
manner. As is usual in such cases many really in
nocent officials, who had the opprtunity of pilfering
the missing letters in the ordinary course of the
mails, have had to shoulder their share of the suspi
cions; but thanks to the experience and eneigy of
Mr. J. Holbrook, special Postoffice agent, their in
tegrity has been most satifac.torily vindicated by the
detection and arrest of the guilty party, Richard D.
Vanarsden, assistant in the Postofnce at Somerville.
The agent, as we are informed, after secretly nar
rowing down the difficulty to that officer, took fur
ther measures to fasten the guilt in a legal manner
upon the persou above named. Money known to
have been in the mail,was,'on his arrest, found in his
iiossession , and the fact that the numerous depre
ssions in that region are justly attributed to him is
further established by his own confessions, and the
extent of his cash expenditures for some time past;
Vanarsden is in custody of the United States Mar
shal. and is to be wxamined before Judge Dickin
son, of the United States Court, to whom the war
rant for his arrest was made returnable.
Henderson and Nashville Railroad.—W. N.
Bilbo, Esqof this city, who was present at the
meeting of the stockholders of the Kentucky portion
of this important road, publishes in the Patriot of
Tuesday morning last, a full statement of the cir
cumstances of the affair in regard to the detention
of the bonds of the road in England, showing quite
plainly that there has been a great lack of business
tact in the former President of the road. The bonds
were assigned over to the said Seymour without the
concurrence or the approbation of the Board of Di
rectors, which will render the payment by the Com
pany null and void. The report also shows that
said Seymour traded off some of the bonds for a
ship, or at least pawned them for it, and was unable
atterward to redeem them. Seymour has repeated
ly refused to give up the bonds which he holds,
but in case they are never returned, the Compa
ny cannot, under the provisions of the charter, be
made responsible for them.
V e are glad to learn that notwithstanding this
afiair, the work on the road will go forward, and
will soon have forty-two miles to the coal fields com
> pleted.
Among the prospective resources from which
this city is to get an abundant supply of coal, the
completion orthis road will secure the most abun
dant and reliable. We trust capitalist and property
holders will bear this fact in mind, and see to it that
the Tennessee portion of the enterprise does not
languish.— Nash.rille Banner.
Brutal Murder ok a Slave by his Owner. —
Michael Boylan, a German, residing on Lover’s
Lane, near this city, was arrested yesterday by
Sergeant Wilson and Privates Richardson and Wal
ler of the Mounted Police, on a charge of whipping
his own slave, a man named Stepney, to death.—
The circumstances of this outrage as'we have learn
ed them, are as follows .-
It appears that the negro had beeL run away for
some time, and was taken on Tuesday last ana car
ried to jail by Constable Jones. He was then whip
ped, and turned over to his master. Yesterday,
Boylan, while under the influence of liquor, renew
ed the punishment, and continued it until the negro
sank under the infliction and died. When Sergeant
Wilson arrived at the soot, negro was lying on
the ground lifeless, and Boylan by the side "of him
completely stupified by ’ liquor. The latter, to
gether with his nephew, whose name we did not
learn, was arrested and carried before Justice Rua
sell, who committed them both to jail for further ex
animation. Sergeant Wilson is of opinion that but
for his prompt arrival on the spot, the negro would
have been buried and the crime concealed, as the
cofin was already prepared and a hole dug to re
ceive it
We are shocked to record such a crime in our
midst, and trust the law will be rigidly enforced
against the offender.— Sarannah Repull tea n, oth
tnstant.
Who Killed Dr. Burrell *-The more evidence
that is taken on the awful tragedy in Bond street,
the more clearly is it seen that it was the work of
no common hand, of no mere lawless vagrant.—
Though the witnesses whose testimony is given
elsewhere cannot be described as directly fastening
the charge of murder on this or that person, yet
their evidence goes on the one side to narrow very
materially the circle within which the culprit must
be sought, and on the other to lessen the improba
bility that a person in a station where murderers are
supposed to De uncommon should have taken the
life of the late Dr. BurdelL There is a risk and a
responsibility in giving expression, at this early
stage in the inquiry, to the suspicions that ferment
in the public mind." It is possible that those whom
the public eye now' regards as guilty may prove sim
ply unfortunate. But we are bound to say that up
to’this moment the burden of the testimony taken
is frightfully against John J. Eckel and Emma Au
gusta Cunningham.— N. Y. Herald.
Marrying Family.—A mother and four daugh
ters, all of whom reside in Northampton, have, col
lectively. approached the altar of Hymen seventeen
times ! The mother bad four husbands, owe of her
daughters four, and the others three each.
WEEKLY
Cjjroraele & SkntmcL
AUGUSTA, GA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING FEB’Y.II, 1556.
Madison Female (.'allege Endowment.
Thi Trust*©* desirous of giving permanency to
thi< excellent institution, are now entering upon a
moet laudable enterprise, to endow it with a perma
nent fund of fifty thousand dollars, by contributions
from the public. They hare, therefore, selected as
the Agent for carrying out the object, the Rev.
Joseph H. Echols, one of the Professors of the
Institution, who will visit the counties in the East
ern portion of the State, for the purpose of laying
the subject before the people for their action. Os
Mr. E. we need not speak, either of his fitness for
the station, his high integrity as a mac, or hi 9 exem
plary character as a Christian. He is too well
known, and where known, so fully appreciated, that
no commendation of ours is necessary. We may,
however, with propriety, submit a mere outline of
the plan adopted, (to which we give our hearty con
eoucurrencej for the accomplishment of the object
proposed, that our readers may reflect upon,
and give it their approbation or not, as their
judgments may dictate; ana we feel assured that
all will pronounce it a noble and praiseworthy chari
ty whether they contribute or not.
The plan is this: The Trustees of the Institution
propose to give to the citizens of any county who
will contribute five hundred dollars , the perpetual
tuition, in the literary department of the College,
of any three 'necessitous young ladies, whom they
may select, the mode of selection to be determined
by the donors to the fund.
To the citizen*of a county raising three hundred
dollars , the tuition of two such young ladies, and to
a county giving one hundred dollars , tho tuition of
one such young lady.
And to the Ladies they propose, for every hundred
dollars raised by them , they will give in return the
perpetual tuition of one necessitous young lady.
These propositions cannot be regarded otherwise,
than as most liberal and praiseworthy, on the part
of the Trustees; aud we think the people will gen
erally cheerfully respond in advancing so noble a
charity. Upon the advantages resulting to society
from conferring au elegant education upon young
ladies, who are iu indigent circumstances, and who
would not otherwise obtain it, we need not descant
—indeed, the blessings and benefits that may ac
crue to society, could not be enumerated or fore,
told. In every community there are children upon
whom nature has bestowed her choicest gift in con
fering upon them great mental power, audit is the
highest duty of society to develope it. This plan
suggests the manner of its accomplishment to a
limited extent, and we sincerely hope, will, to that
1 ‘ extent, be eagerly adopted by the people of the sev
eral counties, who may be invoked. The Agent
will gladly receive contributions, in any sum, from
one dollar or more, as any citizen may choose to
give. This is emphatically a work of the people,
aud it is desirable that as many may participate in
it as possible.
Fire.
A building on Ellis-st.,adjoining W. E. Archer’s
Livery Stable, used as a carriage repository and
store house, was burned yesterday morning, together
with most of its contents, —consisting of carriages
and buggies, a large quantity of feed, saddles, liar
nesses, ice., belonging to the Stable, together with
a valuable horse and some hogs. The origin of the
fire is mnknown, but is supposed to have been the
act of an incendiary, no fire being used about the
building. The prompt exertions of the Fire depart
ment prevented its spread. Mr. Archrr’s loss is
about 500. which is partially covered by insu
rance. The building belonged to Mr. R. 11. Gard
ner.
There were two alarms of fire on Sunday night,
the first, about 9 o’clock, occasioned by the burning
of some straw in a field beyond tbe corporate limits
oftbeeity. About 11 o'clock, somo cotton, which
had been landed at the canal basin by a boat from
Petersburg, was discovered to be on lire, evidently
the work of an iucondiary. The engines repaired
to the spot, and soon succeeded in extinguishing the
flames. About four bales were consumed, belong
ing to Mrs. Sarali Terrell, of E bel t county.
Signor Donetli’s Exhibition.
It will be seen, by tbe ad vertisement, that the stay
of this amusing spectacle in our city is limited to
four nights instead of six. The exhibition has been
drawing crowded houses in Charleston during the
past week, not only of the younger portion of the
population, but of all both old and young, who could
bo expected to appreciate the luxury of a hearty
laugh. The Charleston Couritr, oflast Wednesday,
says :
“The wonderful and amusing exhibition of Signor
Donetti’s monkeys, dogs and goats, appears to be
the principal object of attraction in this city at pre
sent, and on last aud Monday evening,.the Institute
Hall contained a crowded audience, who enjoyed
themselves to the fullest extent. If any one wishes
to see humanity aptil to perfection, let him go and
see the monkeys.
Artesian Well.
Tux boring of the new Arteßian W ell, at the erois"
ing of Watkins and Linooln streets, is being prose
cuted with energy, and we learn from the contrac
tor, Mr. J. 11. Stearns, that there is every prospect
of success. The augur lias penetrated to the depth
of 90 feet, and the blue rock met with on Greene
street, at the depth of 46 feet, has not yet been en
countered. Some specimens of gold have, however,
been brought up.
Baltimore Sausagij.— Humorous gentlemen
have, from time immemorial, when sau
sago, desired to be helped to some of the “bow
wow” article. This turns out to be no joke—at
least in Baltimore; for in that city, on Saturday
last, a man was arrested with a freshly killed dog
in a bag, which ha carried into a sausSge making
establishment. The American of that city says that
not less than two hundred carcasses of animals
have been used up in that way during the past
year.
United States Treasury. —The funds in the
, United States Treasury, subject to draft, on the 26th
t January, were $21,490,881 83, of which $16,309 85
1 was at Kichssond, Va.; $16,498 01 at
1 N. C.; $21,977 10 atSavannah, Ga., and $14,206 02
at Nashville, Tenu. A transfer of $125,000 has been
i ordered to Norfolk, Va.
1 -r
t R. 15. Rhett, Jr., has purchased the interest of
the late W«. R. Taber, Jr., in the Charleston Mtr
c cury, and that journal is now under the proprietor
ship of Hart & Rhett.
Asking for Compensation.— A genuine Aiab,
, named Mohammed Ilabat, is now in Washington,
- D. C., seeking redress and compensation for ser
! rices rendered this country by his father, Hamet
Carainalli, during the war between the United
i States and Tripoli in 1804. Caramaili was the
bashaw ofTripoli, but his brother has usurped the
1 throne. In this crisis Caramaili joined his forces
with the Americans, and aided them with large sup
plies, both of camels and money.
A Whig Contention. —The old line whigs of
New Hampshire have is-ued a call for a State con
vention, signed by many of the prominent whigs of
the State, to be held at Concord on sth of February,
for the purpose of nominating a Governor, railroad
commissioner, and three representatives to Con
gress, to be supported at the ensuing election.
Wholesale Divorces. —There were 110 divorce
suits instituted in San Francisco during the year
1856. In 39 of these cases decreet of divorce have
already been granted. In 1855 there were 72 di
vorce suits commenced in San Francisco, and it is
presumed that decreet dissolving marriage have
been rendered in all of them.
There is at present quite a rage throughout Mis
souri for the incorporation of new Banks. Bills to
charter nineteen of these institutions, with an ag
gregate capital of twenty nine million dollars are
now before the Legislature of that State. Most of
the proposed Banks are to be located in St. Louis.
Crossino the Chesapeake on the Ice.— lt is
stated in the Centreville (Md.) Times that three
lads of Kent Island—Thaddeus M White, Charles
Tolson and Samuel Thompson—on the 26th ult.,
walked across the bay on the ice to Anuapolis and
back the same day. They left the island at half-past
twelve o'clock at noon and got back about eight
in the evening. The distance from shore to shore is
twelve miles.
Kmaecipation op Slates in Missouri —The Mis
souri Drynorrntlek.ee strong ground in favor of the
emancipation of the slave population of that State
There are 80,000 in Missouri, and the Democrat sug
gests that the State should buy them and ship them
to Liberia.
Sinoing School. —We are requested to state that
a Singing School will be opened in the Masonic Hal
on Saturday next, the 7th inst., at 11 o'clock A. M. for
Masters and Misses. Terms, $3 for twenty lessons.
Books free.
Marine Disasters. —The total number of ves
sels lost during the month of January, as far as in
telligence baa reached us, is 131, of which 34 were
ships, 14 barks, 22 brigs, 59 schooners, and two
sloops. The total value of vessels and cargoes,
$3,734,500.
East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad.—
There are seventy miles of this road yet to complete.
Tkirty of this will be ready for the cars by May,
and the then remaining gap of forty , it is said, will
be closed before the end of the year.
The Sbppering Mormons.—A letter from Salt
Lake under date of October 31« t says: “We have
dreadful acoounts of the sufferings among the Mor
mon emigrantaby the hand-cart train, which is now
in the mountains. The train contained -350 souls
Oue-eeventh are already dead and they are dying at
the rate of fifteen per day. There are some 600
more behind, of which we have heard nothing.
We hope they have atopped at Laramie. It is im
possible for them to get through this fall. The Mor
mons estimated that there are not less than 1500 of
their brethren yet to come in, and the snow is re
ported to be not less than a foot deep in the moun
tains.''
—
A Spanish Amiricas Alliancr.— The Repub- ,
iics of Pern, Chili and Ecuador, knve entered into i
a formal alliance for the purpose of preventing en- j
croachments from North America. They have \
doubtless become alarmed at the recent demonstra- ,
tione in Nicaragua. (
An Ahirican C'omaant por London.—Mr H. 1
C. Jarrett. of Baltimore, sailed in the America, from ’
Boston, for Liverpool, on Thursday. Mr. Jarrett
goes out to make arrangement* for the appearance. j
of a company of American sectors, some of whom are 1
already engaged, at Drury Lane theatre. London, f
■eat summer • ■
The “garrotmg** process of robbing is carried on
to a great extent in New York—two or three cases
occurring nightly, notwithstanding the vigilance of
the police.—Zto/*. Patriot.
These facts do not present a very flattering pic
ture for the contemplation ©f visitors to the city of
Gotham, nor do they pay a very high compliment to
the advanced progress of Northern society, of which
we have heard such loud boasting as compared with
Southern, in the last few years. With ail the “evils '
of our peculiar institution, human life and men s
purses are more safe in any portion of the South than
in New York, as the annals of crime abundantly
attest. The existence of a highwayman is scarcely
known in any portion of the South, and yet they
uightly seize upon their victims in the great thorough
fares of New York.
The subjoined extract from the c MTespondence of
the Baltimore American, is interesting in this con
nection :
New York. Jan. 31, P. M. —The disappearance
of young De Forrest continues to excite consider
abfe attention. Although seventeen days hare
elapsed since his mysterious absence was made
known, no clue to his whereabouts has yet beeu ob
tained—nothing is to be found but the well-known
bad character of our city after dark to base con
jectures upon as to his tate. Erastus L. De For
rest is the sou of Dr. De Forrest of Watertown, Con
necticut, aud a graduate of Y'ale College; he stu
died engineering at New Haven for throe years sub
sequent to leaving college. He is a young man of
means, having inherited about $20,000 from a rela
tive a few years since; his father, who is a retired
physician, is also reputed wealthy. He is 22 year*
of age, and is described as 5 feet 9 inches in height,
stout built, full face, square prominent forehead,
dark eyes, black hair and very small whiskers. He
came to this city from Watertown on the 13th of the
present month, intending to sail on the 17th in the
Empire City, on a trip of pleasure to Havana. On
the 14th he called on Air. Eli Curtis, an uncle, at
No. 57 Maiden Lane, who was not in at the time,
aud thence went to the American Exchange Bank,
where he is known to have had a check cashed for
$l2O. The total amount of money he* had about his
person after leaving the bauk was not far
Whether he was murder id—whether the murderer
saw him draw the money from the bank, and dog
ged him the rest of the day, or whether he was as
saulted, garroted, killed Uy mistake for some other
Eeraou, or at a venture, or whether in pure accident
e fell into the river and was drowned, we are quite
likely never to know.
Gnrrotiug,
Yesterday we noticed the frequency of robbe
ries by this process in the city of New York. As
the term, as applied, was a new one to us, and pro
bably many of our readers, we subjoin the follow
ing description of it, which we find in the Richmond
Dispatch .
Garroting.—This is a name for a new mode of
attack by street robbers upon passengers who are
supposed to have money. It was first practiced in
London, whose thieves have found imitators in the
Northern cities. As described in a Loudon paper,
the robbers work in a gang, which consists general
ly of three persons. The tallest and most muscular
comes behind the intended victim, and rapidly
throwing his arm around his neck, presses the throat
almost to strangulation. The others rifle the pock
ets, and otherwise assist. As the best defence, it is
recommended that the chin be held down to the
chest at the first perception of danger, as rani-ly
and as firmly as possible, so as to allow the fungi
full play, and theu make good use of them—scream
ing lustily for help. This will make the robbers run.
As the best means of suppressing this kind of vio
lence, which sometim* 8 results iu death, imprison
ment for life for the robber is recommended. Judge
Russell, of New York, evinces the intention of act
iug upon this principle, and has dealt very rigorous
ly with some who were convicted of this terrible
mode ot robbery.
We learn from the New York Tribune , that these
robberies have become so common in the city, the
citizens have formed “ self-defence clubs” whose
duty it is to protect their members. The Tribune
says :
There are at this time four of these clubs, having
for their special object the subjugation of the prowl
ing rascals who waylay honest people on their way
to their homes in the evening. The names of the*e
four clubs are the “Mezzels,” tho “Raritans,” th#
‘‘Amigo” and the “Curlews.” The oldest is the
“Amigo Club.” It is also the largest, comprising
about five hundred members. Its regular meeting*
are held in East Broadway. The majority of it*
members are respectable working mechanic*, and
to use a phrase well known to the pugilist, they
“travel on their muscle,” caring but very little for
the aid of bowie knife or revolver. The cry of
“Amigo!” “Amigo!” is tb# pronunciation peculiar
to the Amigos, at any time secures the necewary
aid in disposing of the ruffians who, having all the
boldness to rob, are destitute of the courage to work
for an honest livelihood.
Next in importance are the “Raritans.” This
club is described as being in vigorous operation aud
ready for any emergency. It numDers about sixty
members, who are mostly dry goods clerks. Some
of them are “rough and ready” young men, and
fear nothing iu the shape of humanity. They
are always well armed. They have no rules speci
fying what weapons shall be used, leaving that to
the discretion ot each member as his case may de
mand. They meet monthly and profess to be a se
cret organization.
The “Curlews” are limited in their numbers, and
do not exeeed seventy five, all young men, who, at
the time of admission, were under eighteen years of
age. The greater number of them are clerks aud
salesmen in large wholesale stores ; not a few are
young men who have experienced life in California,
Texas and other places of fighting interest.
After dark, the ‘Curlews” are ready for action.—
The signal for aid is significant, and effective in
summoning help, when needed. The club is divi
ded into sections, and is, according to description, a
complete organization. It is supposed to have
some connection with the Broadway and Fifth Ave
nue Club Houses. Several of the * members ar*
regular frequenters of the Union Club.
The “Mezzel” Club is a powerful organisation,
and is constituted of west-enders.
Settlement or the Boundary between Nic
aragua and Costarica. —Advices have boen re
ceived by the last steamer from Aspinwall, at the
Central American Legation here, that Costa Rica
and the Rivas government of Nicaragua have ami
cably arranged the boundry question and all other
matters in dispute between the two republics. The
territory forming the southern bank of the San
Juan river is ceded to Costa Rica, and that river is
made the dividing line between them. The right of
transit is to be exercised jointly, and all privileges
under it are to be made the subject of joint grants.
It is also said that two commissioners have been sent
to New York, to make a new sale of the Transit
route. President Rivas has obtained abundant
proof that the old Accessory Company is as much
to blame for the Advent of Walker to Nicaragua as
tbe Morgan & Garrison company is for supporting
him. The confiscation of the boats and property of
the old Transit Company by the Rivaa-Walker
government will be sustained by the present Rivas
administration, and the whole thing sold to some new
party. Senor Molina, the Costa Rican Minister here,
will leave for New Yolkin a day or two, to meet
the two commissioners there.
Death oe a Physician.— The Petersburg, Vir
ginia, papers announce the death on Saturday last
of Doctor Bbnj. 11. Mat, of that oity, in the 69th
year of his age. For the last forty years of his life
he had been afflicted with total blindness which,
however, did not prevent the practice of his profes
sion, in which he was eminently successful. He was
a brother of the late Judge Mat, and was much es
teemed by all who knew him.
Louis Napoleon and the United States.— On
New Years day the diplomatic corps in Paris paid
their respects to the Emperor, on which occasion he
congratulated Judge Mason on the amicable rela
tions existing between the two Governments, hoped
the change about to take place in our administration
would not interrupt them, and sincerely trusted that
its present representative at his court would be re
tained as a guarantee of the desire of our Govern
ment for a continumce of kind relations.
Rich in the Matrimonial Line. —The Ponte
toc (Miss.) Examiner contains the following nova
anti-matrimonial compact:
“ To all whom it may concern. —This is to certify
that Mr. Mallett has been a faithful and kind hus
band, and has never mistreated me or my children
in any way; but owing to dissatisfaction, arising
among my cliildren and friends, I have thought best
to separate from him, and live together no longer as
man and wife; and I do hereby release him from
any obligation to support me, in any manner what
ever. A. F. Mallitt.”
With such an endorsement, Mr. Mallett is “in
olover.’’ That there Is a probability of nuptial re
union, the annxed Benedictine response would seem
to indicate:
“In consideration of the above separation, I here
by notify all persons that I will not be reeponeible
for any debt contracted by my wife, Augiletta F.,
whatever, while she continues to live separate from
me. J. G. W. Mallett.”
November 20, '56.
Mr. Buchanan and Mr. Fornbt. —The following
is the letter which the President elect wrote, but
ineffectually, to secure the election of Forney t*
United State's Senator:
Whiatland, Jan. 7, 1856.
My Drar Sir : — Although I have always refrain
ed from interfering in the choice of Senators by the
Legislature, yet the highly confidential relations
which a Pennsylvanian President ought to sustain
towards a Pennsylvania Senator, at the present mo
ment, induces me to say a few words to you as a val
ued friend ou the pending Senatorial election. I
learn that doubts have been expressed as to my pre
ference among the candidates, and although my
opinion may be entitled to little weight, I do not
desire to be placed in an equivocal position on this
or any other subject. Wheu asked I have always
said.l preferred Col. Forney.and I should esteem it a
friendly act towards myself for any person ip, or
out of the Legislature to support him. At the same
time, I desire to express my warm personal and po
litical regard for Messre. Robbins, Foster, Bucks
lew and Wright. From the course pursued by Mr
Brodhead for some years past, confidential relations
between him and myself have ceased.
I have thus presented you my views so that if
yon should deem it necessary, you may speak my
sentiment* to *uch persons as may consider them of
any value.
From your friend, very respectfully,
James Buchanan.
Henry S. Mott, Esq.
Macon A. Western Railroad.—Th* report of
the President and Superintendent of the Macon is.
Western Railroad, ha* the following statement of
the year’s business, ending Nov. 30, 1856:
The gross income, for freight, mails,
passengers and interest on money
loaned, amounts to $349,907 41
Expenses 205,008 60
Net $144,898 81
Add balance from last report 109,387 27
Amount received on new stock 745 35
Suspense account, land sold 517 15
$245,44h"53
Out of which has been paid—Di
vidends Nos. 19 Sc 20, $135,415 00
Interest on b0nd5.9,555 00
state and City Taxes. 2,790 55
Paid from this fund and
charged to construc
tion account 52,967 99 $200,739 54
Balance in hand $54,819 99
Counterblast to Tobacco.—Mr. Solly, the
eminent writer on the brain, says, a late clinical
lecture on that frightful and formidable malady sof
tening of the brain, "I would caution you, asstudeat*
from excesses in tbe use of tobacco aud smoking,
and I would advise you to disabuse your patients’
minds of the idea that it is harmless. I have had a
large experience of brain disease, and I am satisfied
now that smoking is a most noxious habit. I know
of no other cause or agent that tends so much to bring
on functional disease, and through this, in the end, to
lead to organic diseases of the brain, as excessive
use of tobacco.”
Crawpor , the Sculptor. —lt is stated that
private letter received in Philadelphia from Roma,
by the steamer Arabia, give the gratifying intelli
gence that the symptoms' of Mr. Crawford were mush
more encouraging.
Gen. Scoft—Secretary Davis*
Yesterday wc published a very brief telegraphic
synopsis of the correspondence between Gen. Scott
and the Hon. Jf rr. Davis, Secretary of War. To
day we call from the Baltimore papers and New
Herald a more extended abstract, which we
subjoin ; presuming that it presents as far as it goes,
a lair and impartial expose of this moat remarkable
correspondence. To form an enlightened opiuion,
however, of the merits of the controversy, will re
quite the perusal of the entire correspondence,
which is said to be very long. However men, after
a careful perusal of the whole, may determine
which, or whethereither, is right or wrong, we think
there can be but one opinion, among all intelligent
minds.in referenoe to the correspondence itself;
that is; as an official correspondence it reflects
credit upon neither of the gentlemen, and is a re
proach to both :
The correspondence between Gen. Scott and Sec
retary Davis quite voluminous. From a hasty
examination of the various documents, it appears
that Gen. Scott declined to give open and specific
information to Mr. Davis regarding the expenditure
of the secret seivice money iu Mexico, believing
that no obligation of public or private honor, at*
cording to the usages of nations and armies, re
quired him to disclose names and circumstances.
He, however, expressed a willingness to give such
information for his private ear alone, which the Sec
retary said he was willing to receive in confidence.
In November, 1855, the President of the U. States
write* to Secretary Davis, saying in substance :
“Gen. Scott states two grounds on which he has
learned that I hesitated to allow the five per cent..
commissoD. It is proper to remark that he has been
misapprehended my position. ILe
himself fixed 4$ per cent., which he might properly
receive for his disbursements in Mexico; and a bal
ance •truck upon that basis, was the subject of con
versation between us.”
Mr. Davis, in response to the President, informs
him that Gen. Scott had charged himself with the
Bum of $261,691, all of which, excepting $30,000,
were levied and captured in Mexico, aud took credit
for disbursing $255,541, leaving $6,155 withheld by
Gen. Scott on his account. This balance the Presi
dent authorized Gen. Scott, through the Secretary
•f War, to retain.
Gen. Scott, iu a letter dated New York, Decem
ber, 1855 write* that there are two items, making
$1 ,885, against him as not admitted or dis-allowed
by the President on account of five per cent, charg
ed by him on all moneys disbursed. He says it was
entirely within the competency of the President to
allow that charge, and he asks that suit be brought
against him by the government to recover the
amount claimed to be due by him, nearly $6,000. —
But the President declined to enter suit. There are
many explanations relative to these figures, but the
financial parts of the transaction cannot be fairly
understood by this mere reference to the subject.
Among the documents is the opiuion of Attorney
General Cushing, dated January, 1856, to the effect
that the act creating the grade of lieutenant gene
ral does not confer upon Gen. Scott all the authori
ty which was imposed by the law of 1793 upon
Washington, who was thereby made the comman
der of the armies, while Gen. Scott was appointed
lieutenant general by order of the President of
the United States. It carries retrospective pay
and emoluments, but not retrospective authority.
General Scott’s correspondence with the officers
of the government goes back as far as 1848, and
that between him and the Secretary of War during
1855 contains the following features ; Mr. Davis,
on July 25tli. says: “I leave unnoticed the exhibi
tion ot peevish temper in reply to an inquiry from
this departmentment, etc.” Gen. Scott replies,
July 30; “It would be easy to show that the
whole letter in which you charge me with exhibiting
a peevish temper is as flippant in its statements and
logic as in that accusation.” “Certainly as Secre
tary of War you have done enough to warrant unre
than a suspicion that from the first you have con
sidered it your special mission, by repeated aggres
sion on my rights and feelings to goaame into some
perilous attitude of official opposition.
“To prove my long forbearance, for at, my time
of life all angry discussions are painful, I will now
proceed to to enumerate some of the provocations
alluded to, without dilating in this place on your
partisan hostility to the brevet of lieutenant general,
and to the compensation Congress intended to at
tach thereto.” The General theu alludes to one of
the Secretary’* “captious retorts,” and his “cap
ping the climax by usurpation and absurdity.” lie
likewise says: “Following out your personal rebuke
in the letter of the 12th, your object in violation of
principle, is to crush me into servile obedience to
your self-will. I know your obstinacy, and I know
also what is due to myself as a man and a soldier ,
and if I ain to be crushed, I prefer it at the hands
of my military peers.”
In reply, Secretary Davis sent the following un
official note, dated
Washington, Aug. 2, 1855.
Sir: —Your letter of the 30th July was received
yesterday, and as you requested was referred to the
President. When returned to me it will be an
swered. Y’ou have taken the occasion of an official
correspondence to make unfounded imputations up
on my motives, and to use such language as my
idea of the requirements of oflicial courtesy does
not permit me to notice in my official character,
and I therefore adopt this unofficial mode. You
ascribe to partisan hostility my opposition to con
ferring on you the title of Lieutenant General, but
that oppostion was actively and publicly made when
1 was a member of the United States Senate, and
chairman of the committee of military affairs. You
were then known*to the country as a distinguished
soldier, but had not been forced upon public at ten
tion as a partisan politician, nor as such been judged
by the people or approved by me. You certainly
had better opportunity to know of my ©pposition
then than when it was merely that of a W'elf settled
aud long entertained opinion held by me in a posi
tion which separated me from a participation in the
active business of Congress. My views were pub
licly given as a senator to a sufficient extent to
•how on what my judgment rested, and your present
accusation, which charges me with usurpation for
the most unworthy ends, and imputes to me mo
tives inconsistent with official integrity, is con
sidered basely malevolent and pronounced utterly
false. Your obedient servant,
Jeee. Daws.
This note, though unofficial, is replyed to by Gen
Scott officially, who insists upon spreading it upon
the files of the Department. This reply is dated
August 6th, and Secretary Davis rejoins again Sep
tember 7th, at great length, and reviews the specifi
cations in Gen. Scott’s indictment against him.
The general next grants leave of absence to Col.
Hitchcock under circumstances not approved by
the Department, and is ordered to countermand or
revoke the leave of absence. This lie refused to
do, assigning his reasons therefor. Tliis reason was
referred to the President, who endorsed the reason
assigned as unsatisfactory.
The Secretary of War is then request ed to report
the views .vs to the means best calculated to secure
promptitude in the execution of orders relative to
the movements of the army. Secretary Davis re
commends, in reply, that the headquarters of the
army be removed from Now York to the seat of go
vernment.
Next comes the following rich specimen of official
correspondence:
lIBAD-qUARTERS OE THE ArMR, )
New York, Sept. 29, 1856. j
Sir With all the records of the anny and every
compulsory assistance at hand, you huve by a toil
of more than five weeks, on what to your nature
must have been a labor of love, poured only on me
in twenty-seven compact foolscap pages, this full
measure of your spleen and vengeance Its pre
cursor was savage and scurrilous, but the slowly
concocted venom now vented is no doubt fondly re
lied upon to kill at once. The felonious intent is
olear enough. Nevertheless, you may be forced to
borrow the exolamation, “ ’tis done, aud the at
tempt and not the deed confounds us.”
Then foliows, at length, much denunciation and a
defense of the cause generally.
The Secretary of War replies again December
20, reviewing the matters in controversy at great
length, and exposing many of General Scott’s
money dealings with the government; referring to
one item the Secretary says:
“The law did not allow you what you paid to
yourself. That payment to yourself, what mean
ness does it display ! What could have been less
consistent with the generosity and mugnanimity
which should have graced the first in rank among a
baud of gallant soldiers ? You awarded to yourself
the whole per centage of the money paid by the city
of Mexioo when subjugated by their victorious
arms.”
To this delicate allusion to the old hero’s finnn
-1 ciering qualities, he comes back at him in game
i style and says, under date of January 31, 1856:
“Such continued recklessness of character could
only proceed from one whose low ambition is ttut
tsred with the title of‘The Favorite.’”
He is again lengthy, and referring to some remi
niscenses calied up by Secretary Davis, General
Scott says:—“For revenge, the slanders respecting
the trial of 1810 was disinterred by your letter of
September, which being refuted in the same mouth,
is now re produced with variations.
Who shames a scribbler t Break one cobweb tliro’,
He spins the slight self pleasing thread anew;
Destroy his fib or sophistry in vain,
The creature’s at his dirty work again.
This caustic epistle thus beautified with poetical
extracts, was responded to by the Secretary in a let
tsr beginning thus:
War Department, Feb. 28, 1856.
Sir—l received your letter dated January 31,
and proceed to notice it* contents.
You have persisted in making your letter official,
and have thus forced upon me the obligation to re
ceive th ;m and reply, in such terms as seems to me
appropriate, to the baseless accusations which de
rive their only importance from the high standing
you occupy.
Another instance of your capacity in the same
breath to beg for sympathy and utter slauder is
your accusation that I have endeavored to pro
voke a duel with an old soldier, known to be so
lame in both arms as to write with difficulty and
pain.
Those ignorant of the fact that the great disabil
ity of which you complain was the result of a fall
upon the pavement in New York, would naturally
infer from the introduction of the phrase “old sol
dier” that you were by wounds received in battle
disqualified for self-defense, and every generous
heart that believed your assertion would visit with
indignant censure the unmanly attempt to involve
a wounded veteran in personal combat. But no
such purpose was entertained. You had given no
tice to the world that you would not act upon the
sentiment which makes a gentleman responsible to
any one whom he assails when in the vigor of man
hood. You pleaded a sense of religion and patriotic
scruples, as reasons for not answering to the person
al defiance of an aggrieved officer, General Jack
son—your superior in military rank, and infinitely
above you in every other respect—and it was not
to be supposed that you would, at this time, take
different ground. But no disability, no age, no plea
of conscientious scruples can be admitted, to shield
a slanderer from rebuke, and when you gratuitously
impute to me motives injurious and offensive to me,
I addressed to you an official note, and fixed on you
the brand of falsehood, which you vainly endeavor
to wash away with your unfailing flood of abusive
epithets.
You obedient servant, Jefferson Davis.
To Brevet Lieut. Gen. Winfield Scott, U. S. A.
To this spicy communication and these gentle
hints at his cowardice, the hero of Lundy’s Lane
thus pitches into his adversary, under date of March
20, and says : “ Again yon recur to my past history
and my court martial of 1810. Now your ‘ thrice
told tale,’ again and again refuted and pat to shame,
but which, with Calaban malice, that needs must
ourse, you are likely to re produce to the end of the
chapter, if only to give me the advantage as yon
say, of referring to a particular passage of ray his
tory—this, to such a spirit, if not victory, is yet re
venge.”
To this the Secretary of War returns a lengthy
reply, and Gen. Scott again retorts—“ My silence,
under the new provocation, has been the result first
of pity, and next of forgetfulness. Compassion is
always due to an enraged imbecile who lays about
him blows which hurt only himself, or who at worst
seeks to stifle his oppouent by the din of naughty
words."
Th# following is an appropriate Jims to this rare
specimen of official correspondence :
WarDxpartmint, May 27, 1856.
Sir—l have received your letter of the 20th inst.
The delay for which you make a hypocritical apolo
gy has strengthened you to resume the .abor of vi
tuperation, but having only iu this correspondence
stamped you with falsehood, and whenever you have
presented a tangible point, convicted you by con
clusive proof, I have ceased to regard your "abuse,
and as you present nothing in this letter which re
quires remark, I am gratified to be relieved from
the necessity of farther exposing yonr malignity and
depravity. Your obedient servant,
Jepperson Davis.
Brevet Lfeut. Gen. Winfield Scott.
Tee Tehcaetebic Route.—A letter to the New
Orleans Picayune from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec,
dated the 17th of December, mentions the arrival
there of the schr. C. B. Kundson, with 153 laborers,
and the reoonnoitering force of the Tehuantepec
Stage Company from New Orleans.
A Haul op Fish. —The Kent News states that a
school of white perch was discovered a few days
ago frosen in the ice, near Swan Point, in the Chesa
peake bay. On Monday and Tuesday, of last week, I
nearly forty bushels were eat out —the i«e was 1
a bent 17 inches thick. 1
University ot ticorßia,
We learn that there are nowin attendance,
Seniors
Junior 7777 .V.sv
Sophomores 03
Freshmeß .03
Total... -88
Almost daily accession? are coming in. The Fresh
man class is already larger than it has been during
any period within the last four yetna.
We clip the u h-yc, yt tiu SuvajuiakErpublican,
from a late Athens paper. Eighty-eight students in
the University of the‘Empire State of the South,’ anti
yet one of the classes larger than it been at any
time iu the last four years 1 Is there a Georgian
whose cheek will not blush for Shame, and who
will not hang his head in humility over such an ex
hibit ?
Upon the close of the Revolutionary War, al
most the first subject that, engaged the attention of
our patriot fathers, was the education and moral
training ot these who were to come after them ami
uphold the free institutions which they had won by
their blood. Iu 1784 au act was passed for the en
dowment of a State University, and large tracks of
the most valuable laud in the State—amounting to
twenty thousand acres iu each county—were set
apart for the establishment and support of such an
institution oue that should be the pride of our peo
ple and a pillow ot support to the Commonwealth.
Their aims were high, and nobly did they provide
tor their complete success and accomplishment.-
Sc\ enty.three years have passed away ; our State
has advanced with giant steps in every element of
material pregvtvr, until we are held up as a light
and example,—and yet we are told that the only in
stitutiiHi of learning in our midst that is dvpenden
on the fostering care of the B*ate, numbers in il
catalogue ofstmK-t but ku.hti kiohi of the yon ;,
of the bn..! - mambai barelyomfficietit for the sop
port of a• ft is
and adi-ilmn- : • . t • v .,. Giorgio, and we u
cord the fact w. . . «ng ofliumMe and mortitied
pride.
What is the cause o' his humiliating state of as
fairs in our State Univer.iiy ; Tiiis is.a question
that addressee itself to every citizen of Georgia, and
claims his earnest interest and attention. We ahalj
not pretend to answer it in detail, but would simply
ask if there is a man within our borders, who believes
that an institution properly managed and controlled
by those who have charge of its affairs, could have
sunk to such a level ? Argument is unnecessary—
let common sense answer the question There
stands the fact—the shameful, galling fact—ami let
those who would apologise for the existing manage
ment of the institution, look it honestly in the face,
and account for it if they can !
This question is too important to be embarrassed
by considerations of personal attachment of private
courtesy. The honor and reputation of our Stat eis
at stake—the well being of our ehildred is involved
in the issue, and he who would be swerved from his
duty by the considerations named itOa traitor to bot h
The present condition of the University is proof con
elusive that it has beeu the hands of men wholly
inoompi-lcnt to • n;i.\go it, with cither credit or ml
vai
are resolved : . such barriers shall stand b««
I 1
e stabile linn tfr rtod md t1 in inn
tionofbotli a 11 . . ;.;.d m \v men to conduct
it.
South p&ftoLiNa Rau.uoa I'he Board of l)i
rectors of the South (b >11:;.!. Railroad Company
present the following r< utt of the operations of the
Company for I
1856:
The gross income from all sources has
been
Ami tlm expenses of management, “or
dinary and extraordinary,'’ 780,2911 18
Leaving 760,208 70
From which deduct interest on the lor
eign and domestic debts, and dama
ges, die.—say 195,829 99
And we have left, a nett income of 570,439 31
Out of this, twoaemi annual dividends
of 5 per cent, each have been de
clared, amounting to 387,9G0 00
And the balance $183,479 31
has been as heretofore transferred to the credit of
“surplus income.”
Ship Canal Across the Isthmus.—A lute Lon
don Times has a letter from William McDermott, a
surgeon in the British navy, formerly attached so
11. M ship Espeigle, employed on the Darien Ev
pedition, in which lie gives tin; details of a new'pro
ject for cutting a ship canal across the IsHimus of
Panama, from Caleddni i Bay, on the Atlantic, to
tlie Gulf San on Hie Pacific. He dcscrih
the route as easy and without difficulties, except a
mountain 930
nel'.ed or avoided by a longer route around it. The
tunnel will he three miles long, The Times , in an
editorial, invites attention to the scheme, without
endorsing it further than to expatiate upon the great
commercial importance 6f an inter-oceanic canal.—
It is not probable that this scheme of Mr. McDer
mott’s possesses any great superiority over others
for the same purpose that have been discussed and
almost forgotten. But, independent of the natural
difficulties in the way, no canal can now be con
structed across the isthmus without the consent of
the Panama Hailroad Company, the government of
New Granada having stipulated in its charter not
to authorize any such enterprise unless with the
concurrence of tho company.
An Imtoster. —The Petersburg Express notices
the sudden departure from that city, under fear of
lynch law, Os Dr. J. J. Stephenson, a three years
graduate of the Pennsylvania penitentiary, lie had
succeeded in getting into “good society,” but a let
from Philadelphia made his “quietus,” and the “doc
tor” was* forced to leave.
Rivers Fimz a in Geckoia.-— The Etow. -i
river, in Ca • county, Ga., was frozen over on S; ■
imluy Wi ek men cro« id rer on tin
was five i-• thi L. Ti o Chattahoochee riv
was also fi> /' ! A Mi.* Outer, on the previous!
Friday, on ~ r ‘I:
a thing nev « > • by tin olde i •
while inhabit
The British R- ’ i ■ L«>imlon Timesoon
tains a staten uudei
the several-head
each quarter,compared wi?!; ’ho amounts received
in 1855, and in tho corresponding quarter of that
year. The receipts of the y-ur willed to
£72,218,988, being a net in-w as•• of £3,977,772,
compared with the amount received in the prece
ding year. There was an increase of every regular
branch ot the revenue, and a t illingoft’ only in the
miscellaneous receipts. The greatest increase was
on the property tax. of which the aggregate for the
year was $16,028,422. The revenue from the cus
toms increased by £1,084,073, without any change,
we believe in the rates of duty.
The Burnt Steamer Knoxville.-— •’ We observe
by the New York papers, that proposals are adver
Used to be received for the raising of the steamship
Knoxville, ns she now lies at the dork in New York,
and transporting her to the Novelty Iron Works, it
is probabie that her machinery is the most valuable
consideration.
State h• • < N. C.—The Legislature of North
Carolina has passed a bill incorporating the Bank of
the Btafce ofNortff V rtracreaae* Un
tal stock, (m-'.v -'i M),000, to $3,00 000~th<
I
Ul-f '
may, within v * • .
whatevi ram
unsubsenh d ontl may be
taken by the St i:*
Yellow Fiver i
excellent way of keeping quiet about epidemic dis
eases in the city of New York. F.oma compari
son of the city inspector’s report, and from other
documentary evidence, it is now ascertained that,
tliere were about one thousand deaths from yellow
fever in the city of New York dining the summer of
1860.
Payment or State Debt Interest. —The pay
ment of the semi-annual interest on the funded debt
of the State of Pennsylvania was commenced at
the Bank of Pennsylvania, in Pennsylvania, on
Monday morning, by Mr. Feunimore, the State
agent. On that day, $019,000 was paid out, and on
Tuesday about $20,000 more, making in all some
$639,000, of which amount of interest about two
thirds go to foreign holders of the bonds. The whole
amount of the semi annual interest payable at this
time is between $900,000 and $1,000,000.
O i.d Age for cutting Telth.— ln the Hern
phi* Appeal, of Janaary 24th, Mr. John 11. Fuller,
under date nl Bolivar, Ulnt instant says:
I aaw in one of the Memphis papers, Home time
lg|. a not '
venty yearn old, x • fui : of teeth. lex o
beat that story. I havi negro woman who save
she is one hundred y* .. *: oM, but i-oippoeed to b*-
ahout ninety three, who ? • v< r had a tooth in her
head until within ti:» In*;' h\x month*. Since the
first day of last August. • ha* out as pretty a act
of teeth as ever 1 • . .*
moreover can pick one hundred pounds of cot
ton per the week r<» ind
Southern Medical and Surgical Journal. —
The February No. of this standard Medical periodi
cal is promptly on our table, and from a cursory
survey of its contents, we are pleased to see that
the new Editors are determined to discharge their
duties faithfully. This is an ftiteresting number—
it* original and selected matter is good, and we
commend it to the Profession. It is edited by Pro
fessor 11. F. Central arid Robert Campbell, M.
D., and printed in this city at per annum in ad
vance. .
Heave Damages.— ln a suit brought by Mrs.
Purnell against the Petersburg Railroad Company,
at Richmond, Virginia, during the present week,
for damage* for injuries sustained byjherself,
her son, and for a servant killed in consequence of
the accident, the jury rendered a verdict as fol
lows To Mrs Purnell, $ 1,1-58 for the injuries sin
sustained ; $;, IDS for the injuries, sustained by her
son, Thomas It., and ?9W> for the loss of the servant,
with interest from the time of the accident to the I
present,.-) ! ’
. ~ lr ~ . ~... . M. It. Bate! am, of I
An intelligent r
Cflbnhnli
fruit buds by» ■ ,
Hehasexam.r ■ - —^
lie says in add *
There is an®rro . : '.'''TV.; !‘!o
peach bud* will /.•*■ V,.* '!*s. . . m,,-' ....jp
degrt ss !»♦ «»w .. i 11- - wood and
buds't hen vint'. rH. ,- faH, Mke the
r«t one it Will he found It, u tin the trees can
withstand more severe cold than altera inoi-t fall
like that of 1855.
AeCinx/iT. —On Tuesday bight last a gentleman
by the name of Grady, from North Carolina fell
from the Western At Atlantic Train,- a few irtJhutes
before it was about to leave the Depot in Atlauta,
and breke his leg.
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■ ■ •#». - . *
Important from Nicaragua— Walker still Un»
conquered.
Tl; New York Times has further news from Ni
• which it placts reliance, showing that
Walker’s position was much more favorable than
before reported. The Times says:
. NY -mentioned in the Times of yesterday mom
ing, that intelligence was reported to have reached
V us Udyby the steamer Cahawba, several days later
irom the camp ot (b neral Walker. We have since
a ! \ <d continual ion of this report, together with
» imsid«:able interest from ou£ Spe
eml (or respondent in Nicaragua. His despatches
being intrusted to private hands were not delivered
to lie. until yesterday afternoon.
Mr. E. N. Stagers, United States Mail Agent at
San b ran cisco, who left Greytown on the 22d of
January, informs us that advices had been received
tlieie from Gen. Walker to the l?th of that month,
winch is eight or ton days later than previous ad
vices.
Ile states that the report, which reached hero
some days since by telegraph from New Orleans
and was noticed in the Times of the 2d instant, that.
Greytown was in possesion of the Costi Ricans,
was utterly untrue, lie was himself there for some
time, and everything was perfectly quiet.
Fifty-one men who had served under Walker and
been discharged upon the expiration of their time,
had found their way to Greytown and reported that.
Walker’s position at Rivas had been undisturbed—
ami that he had from four hundred and llfty to live
hundred effective men under his immediate com
tnand.
Captain Scott was at San Juan with two hundred
and nU.-en men, fitting out a steamboat with four
nieces of artillery, for I lie purpose of recapturing the
boats from the Dosta Ricans. Four hundred men
were * \p cted from New Orleans, and ninety-two
fr.'in CniifonTin, in the steamer Sierra Nevada.
A quarrel is reported td have arisen between the
Guatemalans niial’esia Eicuus, which may iqjuro
i ' < . a of the Allies, and impede their
future operations."
i ■ Ni. iu.iguan correspondent of the Times
writes that au exciting scene had taken place in
111 >’lllll ■ll <■ tin- utiwarranted interference of the
- had evoM
\\ a-.kec's recruit* ter Hiitisli subjects, and
.i t' ''me i 1 . H-Ulind- ■ with the adoption
< t fonrible means if lu* refused to give them up. The
t"h i'e. rut j.. \ to im-sist. and some dozen of
h' men h-ft him, and n\ lih’d themselves of the offer
of lb it: -:i p : . i .-i t ion. 'i’hc Uolonul, however, sol
emnly p! < !cst< d against this interference, and Gen.
Wheat seized the opportunity to make a patriotic
speech. which \v,u - really applauded by the recruits
who remained t o slim e tin* fortune and work tJie de
liverance td General Walker.
lv.\r 1 d OrKration OF Law in England—-The
trial ol Leopold Redpath, the great English forger,
which took place in England outlie 6th instant,
before Mr. Justice Willesund Baron Martin, affords
an instance of swift and summary justice, which is
in striking contrast with the manner in which trials
of a. similar description are habitually conducted in
this country.
Five indictments had been found against Redpath
separately, and several others against him conjointly
with Charles J. U. Kent, for forgeries 011 the Great
Northern Railway Company, by which he had ob
tained not far from CSO 000 sterling The first in
dicimenf t aken up which was against Redpath alone,
dun ged him with fraudulently forging what purported,
to be a transfer oi dock flftmi John Morris to Wilt.
11. Dixon.
Sargec t Pany, on behalf ofthe defence, tho
roughly witnesses of the ppi
locution, but intro.ln. .-it cn . videncc of hisown,
iier \yitli ret. ■ •met • ' tacts qf th* case, OV tho
• ot. •! In Ins address to
: ; c . i . ooteo-.' .11 hat tho|, was no sufficient
1 : . ■ .• .;1. • * -lei. • dr of an intent to do
# •niarks atieiiiptsd to
oiry inv. ighiug strenti
i- ’ ’’ |• d o ;,:i»nl.licg*ai»d speculation
; Vv '••• | ' •! •* > 1 oinp.-niie-. part!< 11 tally tho
j ‘il. .N •: .. wh;<k los client if found guil-
I ty, would fall a victim.
Aft from Mr Justice Willes, tiie
m./i. i.. f . i.i« 1 hi! minutesabseuce, returued
Uedpichn 1. * 1 in.-, 1 at‘Mice put 011 trial agaiu, to
g»‘ther with < ! m;lch l {' K- nt, on an indictment
for forging m d f. Innioiisly int. 1 ingadoi’Uinent which
purport, d to be a tran.-'or of .C 1087 10s. stock, from
Stephen llimimond to George Sidney. Keui
was charged as the attesting witness to tin* fictitious
signature.
i’he jury, without; quitting the box, returned a
verdict of guilty iu the case oi Redpath, and not faul
ty in that ot Kent The other indictments against
the latter were then not pros'd, and those against
the former laid over for the present.
Pennsylvania Railroad. —The annual meet
ing of this Company was held at Philadelphia on
Monday. We take from tho Ledger the following
condensed view of its operations during tho past,
year, as presented in the annual report of the Presi
dent and Directors:
The report states that 11 miles of (ho second (rack
ol the road has been laid during the year, making
150 miles of this track which lias been completed.
The company has 1“ miles of rail, ties, iVo., ready to
lay during the present year. $1,000,000 will be re
quired yet to finish the second track.
Among the stork owned by the company are 133
freight and passenger locomotives—an increase of
15; 1 • wide passenger can:, 22 narrow, 138 eight
vVheei wf.k car.' and 1,2(5 eight wheel house ears
for general merchandise.
The curnimrs of tho Company for the year from all
sources, were I,< 20,193 *I. From which deduct
toll.-- paid for a.w o! other ■ aids, as follows: Philadel
phia .u.d Ccinmliia Railroad (State,) $4-14,055.30;
11 an Liu-: and L.-;’imuter Railroad, $234,182.69;
Northern‘Central Railroad (freight,) $51,889.12;
Philadelphia City Railroad, $8,269.29; leaving busi
ness of the Pennsylvania Railroad, $3,981,169.81.
The receipts from the business of the road were
$4,724,603.7 «S. From which deduct—Transportation
expenses, State tolls* 11. and R. Railroad tolls, N. C.
Railroad tolls, insurance, office expenses and rents.
$2,992,467.17; deduct also interest upon loans and
dividends, Nos. I and 2, taxes, Ate , $1,344,748.76;
leaves a surplus for the year of $387,387.85.
To exhibit, however tho true condition of the
year’s business, there should be deducted,say sllO,-
000 to meet depreciation of iron, cross ties, and
bridges, which amount, it is estimated, would meet
the depreciation.
Losses on thk Lakes, —Aw elaborate statement
of the disasters on the Lakes appears in the Buffalo
Republic of Hat unlay evening, showing the most de
ploralile losses of life and of property. No less than
407 lives were lost last year. We gather from it
that 29 steamers and 77 sailing vessels have been
entirely destroyed by disasters during the past sea
son, besides a much greater number that have suf
fered more or l<-sw partial injury. The total loss of
property by these disasters was :
Steamers $1,378,106
Sailing Vessels 1,660,774
.Total $3,038,874 *
Omptm.d v, it it pn ceding y*. aisrlhis shows astoa
by and large increase, thus:
....$2,187,825
“1851 30. IT, “1855 2,797,839
-1 ' 1.01,j “ 1856 3,038,874
The I*>!* oi life lias also increased nearly In the
Lives 1- -tin I: 1., I*9
1855 118
i > 107
These resale an* partly to be attributed to tho in
creased amount of commerce on the Lakes. But
they are no much greater Mian they need be, that
the) cull loudly for incro efficient means of saving
vea.-iela in distiesH. The total number of sail mid
steam-vessels is 1,256, tonnage 339,736, valued at.
$12,944,360.
' Marine Losses for January. —The New York
5 Courier publishes a list of the vessels reported to be
• totally lost during the month of .January, which
! shows a total of one hundred and thirty-one vessels,
of which twenty-four were ships, fourteen barks,
thirty-two brigs, fifty-nine schooners and two sloops
The Courier says :
Tiie total value of the property lost was three
million, seven hundred and thirty four IliuMsaml,
two hundred dollars. This is exclusive of partial
, losses of cargo and damages to vessels not amount
ing to a total loss, which, at an estimate, would be
1 likely to increase the figures to something near five
million dollars We do not think that, there has
ever Indore been t o large an amount of loss reported
in a single month ’! I • v • sols reported in this list
arc* chbdly An. --i< an although some foreign are in
eluded, wl.oii bo, n-l 4 *> < . f».»m a United States
port, !'i bo in.-,.;red in this country.—
ured abroad or at
n falls mi owigrs, it. is
in -;b! k: wit!i anything like ttccu- \
I’o . io: .t.iiiy reported to be lost is
eighty.i w ». : ! the crews of the vessels
report! dr . ’ hi regard to which all
hoj • total to three liUM
dred.u i a oaiful sacrifice of human
life to the pursuit ot commerce.
The lui ;■ in: : , • s of the last few months are
attributable in no nail degre# t«* the increased ton
nag«- of the . (mill of laic years. This augment
ed capacity n ini them, by the disproportion to
their strength, h-ss lit t<> withstand severe storms,
and also increases their liability to get aground on
bars and shoals. The following table shows that
this tonnage has more than doubled within the last
forty years :
No. Vessels Built. Ay. Tonnage.
1816-26 7,89-1 106
I 826-’36 8,538 l‘>o
1836-M6 9,066 135
1846-’56«, 16,388 225
The Winding Times states that, seventeen of the
employees of the Central Ohio Railroad have been
lodged in jail in Franklin county on ft charge of
thieving. One of the employees of the company had
previously been arrested, and informed on the rest.
It is stated that within the past year the road has
paid over $3,000 for the lost property. Anything
was stolen, dry goods, hardware, oysters, &c.
An exchange paper discovers over sixty persons
mentioned as having been frozen to death during the
cold weather of the nn-.-ent winter—we presume in
# the Cni'-d Slav.-. T!,«* number-observed is possi
*bly but an index e«> a much greater mortality from
the same cause. -
Thk Cam net The Washington correspondent
of the New York Journal of Commerce says:
The chi* f 'ticking point in the construction of a
cabinet by Mr. Buchanan, is the selection of Secre
tary of State Mi Hunter, of Virginia, it is welt
under.-toed, has declined that or any other place in
the cabinet (Jon. (’ass of Michigan, appears to have
been placed out of the question, at least for the pres
ent, Robert J Walker, who has been serionsly urged
for this post, is likely to beaten; Mr. Toucey, of Con -
necticut, who, as a last resort, has been proposed,
lias not quite strength enough to command that
situation. All the competitors being put aside, or
having neutralized each other, it follows that there
is e good chance to come back to the original project,
which was started in the pre**. and well received in
the country, for retaining at the head of the State
Department, William L. Marcy.
Found Guii.ty ok Murder.— Worrell, one of
the Gordon murderers iif Missouri, has been found
guilty of murder in the first degree. A motion, how
over, has been made for a new trial. Bruff, who is
implicated in the murder, was on trial at last ac
counts. The main defense for Worrell was the
usual plea of insanity, but it proved of uo avail.
A manat work in the “Philadelphia Brewery,"
in St. Louis, fell headlong into a cauldrod of boiling
water on Friday last. It is supposed the water
reached his lungs, and although immediately snatch
ed out by bis companion, that he cannot recover
Death of a Methodist Bishop.— Bishop Key- *
cold, of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Canada,
di* a fr««ia .o' the 'u nit, at Hamilton* Canada
outlie 17 th of January, aged seventy-one
!■ w ■ : .iu Clyuekill, near the city-of
II N Y<*ik end I n been a preacher for
i¥ty years.
Th kCa :i v** at Work.—Tmu Shu Autoinu \ icxa
Times says: *
“The camels, twenty-two in number, have just
passe<l through our city, loaded with about 60(1
pounds each, returning to their place of rendezvous,
which is some seventy miles from here. There are *
dromedaries also with them, and seated on tlie top of
these camels and dromedflHes are Arabs and Turks,
dressed in their own costume of their own country.
Texas is.jp great country, and San Antonio is a great
city. We have among us people of every nation
and religipiwuid around us every specimen of the
animal Kingnoin, with perhaps the exception of the
woolly horse, which can now only be found near the
source of Salt liver."
# Hl