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fhPiiiiiwi *.V Ml •• ll' »|IJ» wnierf-r gold
wa** vng f r. ‘ ]«•< -wker*- itcould
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fitr’- V* n n pnwn.* ii« a luxuriant
‘ .I t . . i - Tli** winter has been |
** < ~ . nitvh B<ajw Earing fall
,
* ' \ rni" wife thelabor of the
n, , to a eon- * extent. . . J
I «,,-*•!. V.osopened With the most .
ni* v »Ui# .. warm and plea- ,
‘ , v it -d of enow, the
... w, i-nortly Uin excellent |
• t ‘,r>«ik i».r : husbandman and
. , vVr .ee * • mid vagetatian of I
. t r ditv. The entire i
* ? * * * (,!,. time covered with *
* ; !*• blooming Idi« one vast !
, ,v«V » rom ail quarters there I
‘ i.roiific bar vest, and fruit
I nr- fnv. ■■ ■ ■ «■ *
‘ l _ «... <,f is everywhere prosperous. |
*• : •••■;.iners. a* a clam, been do- |
, r < rt .|j rum. To maintain <tud render j
/ it-., *r ;* < >»iidit .oB of that hnpor !
r . , . »pi‘n r» qmred to construct ditch"-,
, • ami ereet quattz mille i
„ ..-•■? judiciously under!akeii. aie now I
;•> i.rord not mly naf , but lariative |
, 4 br • have not shown j
*• i-^a‘in *to put tbeir money in enterprises
! i.. >-ijom oxp< Mi. Crabb, had at
tt-‘ nt •■> o ?•*. ’ •oY •• Y uma, without aoci j
ri , (l . g*..*i i.-v i Atur baking a ciav or
•v»-» a* ti,i« Lr -■ • •••* ;mt t< **y were to push on into I
, I'. „ 'a*ll \< ent to Honor*, aod per
tv . rn r -»• over theSacramento, opposite J
if, ', li -. *.r ij inu- h dissatisfaction to the
i • ,j; ; « ..lid ti*e inhabitant* of the J
1 , J arisen amongst the Mor J
j • • Sru Bernardino and Halt Lake. j
l H/ ., .j.?- iroin (.’anion Valley represent j
.. Siam,
, , ,utin ti t Valley, the cattle were fat, J
f • j,. rt. ; ■ nd. th<- if inerß making [
>mi aliairs generally in prosperous con
i. rba* been revived in this city, da
• ; mxuo. r« pr* -*«*nlii»gtbat on the Ifhof !
i j,,.. ‘., W | .nu \,erh attacked by a band
, I u ~p, i twelve of the inhabitants, !
~ j j it 4.i hi the money, jewelry, &.e., !
I ; March, a hot wind blew from 1
,f , |>. -frrr wni' hin a few burs withered !
. „j * , lit r vegetation tor a considerable 1
\• i"i,i utx.'it San l>K-go.
1 - K, The money market, which
v j t ; *\ <for the laet Steamer, has been j
-it: . 4-v* . f' and is now t;ghter than it has j
1,,, ; , ,#4.1 . ij, liths pa-t The speculative meve
!,.! » tW si tenth oj March, requiring as they |
. yufn- -.1 fit*.ney,Contributed materially to
I- . I.rly - • In: • ativ-ly a vi-ry '
~; i( rt oh i,! t . : nr* dn tnkeu up have since pass
, -i i- ihe receipts of Dust from the 1
i . i have io( been so heavy j
, while tiie<. *mg up of the business of ;
, . f, . rtumj IbniKing I iises.aui one or two !
I ~ i ,4M> Who advanced largely, has created i
nIJ . . deioaini fron. those who have U) settle up j
, i rale-* have go in up It is very diflicuit to i
< i i money a* we write at b'i per cent., and 3 per
, , u i;».dotibt*-dly h :\*e to be paid, os a rule, j
i m . r>' ihi • jingeucy i» iu its nature tempo j
ay be expected to pass away as the j
~t ..f the « Ity ivgulatc.-i it .self, so that in a few i
v ~-y may go buck to it* old standard.—
lu< *iy yield of the mines will bring relief spee- j
(1 ,i, :■ i*i> n~ we j-ball now begin to receive j
. ~ utitu of dust from the Northern coast, j
v. , . verity of the weather during the win- i
t, ~ n ,in u great degree, a suspension of opera i
i ,n- '< ha. ;e in the ebarader of the advices I
1 . . mi... I r .n. all quarters we hear good |
| an !w e cioi n.»t that this will prove to be
• ..! ■ j,*., perou. . <.n ever enjoyed. The at
, * ii,.• p.- i .p!e in the mountains is being j
:,j u u >,iu d degree t«» (|uurtz, and new mills j
,im li- iig er». d,ni:d new veins opened in every j
, 11,,I 1 ,, .eref of the successful working of
, ! <4 bei ii di-< >- ..ted at last, and there is no i
, ~ ti . 4 \vi t-th which will be derived from j
t...h l.r/ii,.*!. oft ! ■mu ing for years—nay, centuries I
, The p hcii anti hill diggings still con- j
ini'. t-> yield enormous amounts of gold, and it is I
... .mm r 00. l among the miners that the country |
in . Our intelligence from Oregon is to |
March
A- 11 bio in ul< nt occurred at Oregon City, on .
ti.. l.t: uitiino, tl.oHti-auiM I’ortlaiid having been |
mil over th'-Ini** at*, t place, causing the death j
oi < ;,pi;uu .lamiofoo and one of the bauds, and the
ent ire destruction of the boat
'I « " Hie) Sunk.- I bans bad a fighl at the j
\V .. Walla stilt .n, u' which eleven of their num
ber w.• m kill**'! T; •> at t!ie (band Ground re
m>' i in. , . • '•(! and desire to return to
tb* u old camping •/ oiinrt*.
f-.in n• t t.. «i» .*! another Indian outbreak |
in Wusbiogton Term ary
I * mm kno.'i I- • < ' VVc lmve dates from ,
If. , t< M .r. b 17*1* Tne Gaeeta Ofuial and J
ibi I mpo pnblirh »*o . n rpoiidence beiweeil
M lb wliii •nu Moih.*, and «Boih. pombo
m ii h>*“*. I* | pears ilia* the six points
ui« l.\ t • i’i> *i | t* have been demanded
l,v i . I’uited S'n*.- *; .v rum out, are not correct,
hi <t * .toll win -■ihe urinal demand:
I i !. ■ it 1 ’ . "'•«• iof Panama and As
, i, n, • if.'l* ; > iid‘-nt municipalities, iude- j
i„ tw . .tb tho power of self-govern*
i, , • i : .. .• f . try of ten miles wide
. th. • ’ Perfect freedom of j
lb. • t.i '■ N.-’-tiv- ,'v and liberty guaran- ]
t,., ; i hs-d Otb 'r nations :
' , . . . i in. ! Males, in full sove
,ri •f v, i i.. fv. i. a' ! gi aij) -ol islands in the Jlay
( I i'Hi-.ima i- . v-'-.l iation, and all the rights
mid .•;s I . ! I\. .1 iu fix Kailiuad contract,
T.i p : dc.mages occasioned by the
' "|!b' I'b. i'i 11'| tub!- u' ’by 1 1 »• 1 uited States,
x t!. X. (liHii ;i absolutely and decidedly
, , H ! in !. i 'in. Claims the sum of JjdoO.OOO
pi, in lb,- l m!ed Siul( 'V»r d .magesdone to Panama
at, i w (Ii .i I'm i .h/.i-im b\ Ameiicans on the
I >i|i 4> I April; that the Pnit.-.l States owes rtqiara
-111 ,| ito \. u (i aiia-wi f i tli. i ide protest of Colonel
Wan!, dated April ’! \ am! toi the disrespectful
b-iti-rs of Coin M«*rv in<* and Captain Hailey.
1 1,, notes of S< Pombo and Gonzales are
long and full of fa’s*- a.-- ilioiis and incorrectdeduc
In tb.- Mouse of l?epr< sentatives it has been pro
• p,., .d to raise a loan of in case New
j n.b-i wii. attempted to lie invaded by the Tin
ted States.
M. n I afti Moi an; \id bv the Hritish steamer
jit A spin wall, from Cniltiagena
('„rrt spowleurr of On .Y. £xpre*s.
A- nm Air., April :«* —The alarming aspect of
~u ,'tons with New Grenada, is creating great
, v ■ i i;i*• i.t licii'. Immediate war with the United
States m apprehended.
Pi,.- propelty holder «»f Panama have begun al
i . ;ul\ t o < aleulute the - banccs of loss, during the
H4o n. - wl > h n ay yet transpire before the settle
ni. i;t .-f ibe ditVn ultii.- between this country and
th»- United Statv- :
Uoi •, w« . ks pn>' they have openly declared
that i.o n. i..i, lations could possibly erne the mafc
t, i that i'. iu certainly would boa rupture, and the
i ( nit v\ i,;db. l.it* temporary posting of United |
Nt ,p-until** lstlimus; but that meantime
mu. I. .-! * ui-i It.- - lie. In fact, a plot was formed j
i i , • . .u. of the specie from California, but it
-.•nu i *\\ h-aked i-ut, ami the prompt precaution
i.-k* :i i ..-ip n.'il • t kill 'd it. we cann *t yet say |
w : li 1.. } tal and tonnage tux must be paid
b.ni.wi and then they ask themselves how the 1
att. ii pt to i-us i\* this can be made. It, can be
used as a pretext tor allot her'riot— an effort to seize
the specie m transit.
\ft« i -ill the time given them to arrange for the
pa\,■ - i ni of tin Mackintosh debt, which New Gra
iiH-i i l as owed to Hritish ȟbj<*cts for many years,
mu! which it was -ome :.ix months ago peremptorily
. a < .1 on ti* pay, under penalty of a blockade, the
N, w Giaimd-.m ('ongress have enacted a law r ,
w tliout reference to or consultation with the parties
to In it ist'ed This law does not provide terms »>t
, 11 1. in* nt win. h .-an be accepted— after (he British
Go\< i imu-nt 1 ad prepared to carry out a threat of
punishment.
In \ i.-vr of thes • tacts, the merchants of Uartha
g.-im. H irMiiquilla. Sta Martha and Sabanillu, ex
p.. t speedily to suit -l t om a blockade; and yet,
bile ttins il* erving such treatment at the hands of
tli, British Government, many New Granadians
are urging streinmsly that Great Britain should as
>lst u,T- treble republic ’ against “the siaveot*ratio
anne xati.mistic bhbtiator government of the Van-
I n* there an mifiiwr to establish such an
irien #r hope, that English sympathy at least will
avail the New Granadian Government somewhat,
w« have many proofs Among them, is the fact
that the mail tYom Bogota brings a large number of
pamphlets containing the recently dosed Commis
sion. stamped anti mailed to all parts of the United
States ami INuadas, a* well a* other points where
British sympathy might be aroused.
l-'ui'M ’(.'At i. vo We learn that the British war
steam* r P* art. hud taken two of the war steamers
x, \ i i n used by tin Viiranco party, and
w h > . tew day* ag*s overhauled the New Gra
ua»ia. a steam* r running in the British Pacific St* am
Kaviga on ( omj aiG s line, broke open her atm
, o ,»ui. abstracted therefrom thirty two thousands
dollars, and also t*K'k from the boat, arms and am
nui i,it ,’»n 'belonging to Castillo The capture lessens
ti.< v mees of the revolutionists materially, and
u. s t,>rt !*t he co ufid*o«* *-t the steamship company in
{ht'ii secui ity to »rry w hat they choose. Hence, in a
h’t *>t spe*ie whi* U tiiev had refused to take, and
which is now lying * n the lathinns. will go through.
A inwall, Ap! I *Jo.—\' \ Callao we have dates
fr* tn >yduey to February Itb. The legislative
C m t*i j»ass d two important bills, oue called
* iie G“ i Fields Management Bill and the other the
G" >1 Fields Duty B 11.
1 < Sydney p.ipev* of the 3d contain an account
ot .*■ i-olu dno *’«• perpetrated at a village
en , Ms: ;:.(>■ i- *. veil miles from Port do France,
ini' . uta. lu -.mviL eleven Frenchmen and
a a . numbel o* S wick lslauders. procuring
s.v. ..wood, when they were most savagely at
ta« k .without any warning and every one mur
l >t news from Central America is via Cos
ta K We have : -port from the steamer Paua
w rtv 1 .»• Puiiani,-. ou the 10th instant,
brii _ . s Ist, from Rivas.and to the
> > . .k*.- . and we also have Costa
K so- MU. and an official letter from
G Mora. t..< * i.i t *»t the allied forces, dated i
: h . - \pi ig.adiiic-s«ii to th*- .Minister of
W v„ . pr. t,o on the Bih.
A 1 '•«*■«<- • hat Walker is hemmed hi '
at k • > in : coo i«‘ic*JOn the Pacific side, I
w p* .i some Guatemalan troops. I
n a-... .at R aiejc, and were expected iu !
a *.::.> - w* 11* na> over >u hundred uien. is !
Mt u.:mk u*-»« '.iv !ig i'll mule and deg meat. i
: g : g rtbiy at cv« v point; itis men desert mg hiui i
at the « live pe: on\ the aides fighting him j
« -i ~ gui saga u'i > nine pouuders.
Apr IS— J \.i t a eourie: arrived from Ri- j
vas With letter- . . in General Mora to the 13:h
ii >a: b iiik.iv was represented to be entirely !
• i in two build • gs. l aving a small yard |
Iki AT, :hem, which was strong'}- fortified De
set- - were constancy aking place, and the men l
«•* g to the Com Kieau camp half famished *
w ger. They r*q sent Walker loudly out of j
» \i- • w.••.e . xo pin ofca tew lean mules !
ai. ■ -es. and a was impossible for him to move
. -.j; •-;> :hr*;fii atu i •*, no provisions could be I
■ o subsist ms men. Great dissatisfaction ,
*’ • • i nu n. aud threats were begin
li - 1 !,t ‘ : otU ud but deep,“ that it in two day's 1
■‘ n ' 1 il *d u*.»t air.v *-, tae men would unani- :
- f-m leader t,» the aiiietv This is the sub {
" . loth, and if reliable, tile i
" I lUi:t ’ vei y nearly at an eu .. i
. ’' ':% N . tu ' I'Uli iusi. the fri
L . V'V ' '*•?“ *° Aaninwall the I
it 1 ua» i,-.ihrugr aad desisted a;-
C . ‘■'..Viii' ' . W " lk r i T " m «!» Snti ,
i alawXwi;, I
* 11 g d ’'’ l* removed from 1
1.. ■ » r ruoto A rent.- Sat. .luau del X orle 1
The I. Uli *er lirouxht by the frigate* was about !
three iurtidred and seventy.
\N t a .--‘learn by the frigates that L- ekridge, Au
d>. »i: hu«i a few ethers, remained at Greytown. !
and that ttte steam frigate Orion had goue to Car- \
thag* i » lu* Aicht r, nud two gun-boats were leu j
in t lie imrbor of Greytown
kriege's artrval with the wounded fix>m the;
steamer .V 't. wa> an !u>ur and a half after the
i*>am* Tennessee lett Pu.ita Arenas for AspinwalL ’
When Lock wbagain with the re
maiudt r ot ins m< n, the Tennessee was going out of
the hhrb«> r . me Captaki having refused to wait for I
th«-iii. an*, i .*vii-g taken * nly a part of those that
w* i. on the Point when he arrived. He had on
board ab* ut fifty.
The u;in, after they found they could not go on I
tk*- 1 eiiii***sce, were anxious for some means of !
Ut.ut poi Uttion part of the way at least towards the
United SiatCT. They Lad given op their amu to |
I/.-kridg- BfSieving afterwards tha' their arms ,
». ulci nSi - tun iu t-ecuring p»R»agee. they wen-, to |
I. .' k nUte and reobtnined them.
No Hrr.infinent, however, wm made. They
were then -old that the Hritieh fleet would Bend
11. i,r awny. if thev would Rive up their arm^—
I ey at m* handed all their anna up to Mr.
the 12th, the Col. Canty, who wm with Spen
, at ,j,f. tekiog of the etearaeie and who com
maDdedat Coetilio. arrived in the harbor of Grey
town with one hundred and fifty Coeta Ricans un
der hie co rimnnd, on t*-e steamer Charles Morgan
c- 1 Canty is an EngHshtnan, and the son of an
Koglihbman who formerly kept a hotel in San Jose,
iuCn-tali:ca Col C came down to Greytown.to
act ex the representative of Costa Rica. On bis
arrive.. Mi. Scott went on board the Hritish man
~f-v> ar. whither Col. C. had gone, after being board
ed by one of her boats.
Th.-ro Captain Krkhkine. the senior officer of H
B M s fleet at Sell Juan del Norte, or Greytown,
proposed to Col. Canty, oh behalf of the Costa Hi
can Governa-en*. and to Mr Scott, on the part of
Charles Morgan Son. and the filibusters, ar: ar
rangement for sending away Lockridge'e men, &f
ler giving Col. Canty to understand that be would
allow no fighting iu "that harbor, if matters could
be amicably settled, and intimating plainly- to Mr.
Scott that if he entered into his arrangement he
should be fully protected, and if not he must take
care of himself and the property under his charge.
Thk C-MK.CI WITH THE Hritish—The con
tract to which the three parties subscribed was
somewhat in this wise:
Ist A bill on -Morgan & Son was to be drawn by
Sc,-t endorsed by Colonel Canty on behalf of the
Costa Rican Government, and secured by pledge
and deposite in Mr Scott's hands, under the strict
guard of the British fleet, of all the arms and am
munition of Lockridge and the iron steamer “ Res
‘ “id That Scott should pledge himself that none of
this rccuniy nor any of the other property in his
charge should be used for filibustering or other un
lawful purposes, on penalty of forfeiting his protec
tion
3d That Col. Canty should not molest any of the
aforeaaid security.
T.h That Scott or any other agent from him
»• bon Id negotiate at Aspinwall for the paseage thence
to the l otted State*. , . ..
• r »th. That, any stray arms hereafter found, should
be included in an inventory which had been made
of the property given as security
(tb That any sick, t hen at the Point, from whom
contagion might be feared, should be kept there at
the mutual expense of Costa Kica and Morgan
> in and when well sent to the United States.
7tii No reference respecting this agreement,
either t » nations or individuals other than those rep*
*. .-* nted by the present parties to it, should deprive
the property of the Company and of Mr. Scott of
fuitner protection from the fleet.
The inventory which was attached to the agree
ment ' mprised the iron, stone, four braes mounted
held pieces, ranging from 1 to 9 lbs. in calibre,
nearly three hundred loose muskets, besides a dozen
< a*es packed, some two hundred small kegs of pow
der, a large quantity of lead loose and packed, near
' fifty boxes of made ammunition, and a number of
cases of clothing, stores. Slc.
Thk Costa Ricans ani» Vanderbilt—The
Costa Ricans wanted these arm*. They cotoplaiu
i ed at Greytown that Vanderbilt had not come up to
the scratch in his dealings with them ; they intimate,
| however, that the rontr is likely to be under hiscon
trol they were to raise their flag near the Coinpa
i ny s premises, next morning, alter the frigate had
The steamer Thames arrived at Aspinwall, from
San Juan this morning—with Gen. \\ heat, Col.
Anderson, and Capt. Thompson, filibusters. Ihe
| river San Juan has been declared open by Colonel
Canty, who was issuing passports to those who
wished to go into the interior. Gen. Mora was
daily expected at Greytowm.
Rivas had sent a collector of customs to San Car
los, and Gen. Mora had pent him home with in
structions to inform Rivas that he Mora) would at
tend to ail the collecting that was to be done on the
San Juan river. The only other item we have by
the Thames is, that Walker would be compelled to
surrender by or before this time.
The Orion, of the British fleet, has gone to Car
thageua, and the Cossack will join her for a block
ade, having been rid of the filibusters she brought
here, through the Agent of the United States Mail
Steamship Company, who has admitted them on
board the Granada.
Special Correspondence of the N. O. Picayune.
Late from Central America.
By the Arrival of the Steamship Empire City.
Panama, April 20, 1857.
The Panama Railroad Company’s United States
mail steamship Panama. J. M. Dow, commander,
arrived here from ports in Central America on the
evening ofthe 12th. She brought 30passengers and
a cargo valued at SIOO,OOO, chiefly of the following
articles —727 bales indigo ; MOO large sacks coffee;
til,ooo tbs. Indian rubber, 5,600 hides, and 2,000
packages sugar.
The coffee crop would be greater in Costa Rica
than last year ; 84,000 quintals passed through the
gates of St. Jose in the months of Jauuary and Feb
rua y; prices 8$ to 9 cents.
The dates from the City of Guatemala are to the
•>_>d March , Cojutepeque, 26th ; San Jose de Costa
Kit:a. April Bth*. The new.-, except from Nicaragua,
is unimportant.
I will collate and translate for the Picayune all
the facts «*f most interest which I can find in my files
of Costa Rica papers, as well as give you what 1
can collects here from reliable sources.
The Orizaba brought a report to Panama, that
while Walker had gone to attack St. George, Cham
orro attacked Rivas with 2,000 or 3,000 men—upon
learning which, Walker, after getting into the Plaza
of St. George, returned to ltivas, and falling in with
Chamorro’s force, got him between his fire and that
llenningscn, and killed 300 of his men and wouu
. 327 more.
-Tbv. Weekly Album, of March 26th, gives the fol-
I lowing account of this tight, giving the names of the
I killed and Wouna.,d of the allies :
At early dawn, on vv*. 16th instant, Walker ven
tured out with ali his disposable force, and taking
up a position at the Church of i'vujblo Nuevo, which
is close to St George, opened a heavy t\ re upon the
| latter place, which he kept up throughout vw day,
sending into the town close upon 500 round sw,
besides grain and shells. His riflemen, during the
same period, were actively engaged. This fierce
attack was most nobly resisted. At Ip. m., finding
all his attempts fruitless, after losing more than 125
of his men in killed, he commenced a retreat, but
here he had to encounter difficulties he had but lit
tie anticipated. Gen. Canas, foreseeing the result,
had. with much judgment, detached Gen. Jerez
with a force to obstruct his passage, and wherever
a position offered itself detachments of rifles were
placed to lmrrass and impede his retreat. General
Jerez had also occupied a position which gives
command upon the four cross roads. This position
is wit hin half a mile from Rivas, aud from it the at
tuck became so fierce that the bandit force broke,
and was completely dispersed, saving themselves
by hasty flight, as best they could. This, the close
vicinity of Riva« and nightfall, favored. They,
however, left many more killed and wounded;
whilst Gen. Jerez remained in p issession of the po
sition he had as ably chosen ; aud here, we under
stand, that officer was reinforced on the following
day, it being the intention of the commander-in
chief to move his entire force, and to invest Rivas.
We have to lament the loss, on this occasion, of
22 killed and 60 wounded , from this total we regret
to notice that two of the officers and six of the men
killed, and one officer and twenty of the wounded,
belong to the Costa Rican Army. The remainder
are from the ranks of the Allies. The filibuster loss
oil this occasion must have been very great, for, be
sides the dead left upon the grouud, four omnibu3
loads (transit carriages) were drawn into Rivas.
Several deserters had gone over from Walker to
the allied camp; amongst the number, three had
taken part in the engagement of the 16th. They
affirm on oath, that more than one baudred of the
filibusters were slain on that occasion, and that the
number cf wounded was very great.
Walker is said to have left three pieces of cannon
in the hands of his enemy.
Sanders lost, in trying to relieve Caycee, who, it
will be recollected, was cut off from Rivas about
March 3, twenty-eight found dead on the field, and
a large number badly wounded. The eighty men
brought down last by the Sierra Nevada w’ere one
half of them killed and wounded. lu the former
affair the Allies lost oue captain and two privates
killed, and one ensign and eighteen privates wound
ed. In tne afiair with Caycee previously, the loss
was some three or four wounded. In cutting offtlie
eighty California recruits, none of the Allies were
killed.
Gen. Juan J. Mora took the chief command of
the allied forces on the 19th March, and immediate
ly gave orders for the close siege of Rivas. Walker,
with 600 meu, half of which were sick and wound
ed, had strongly fortified liivas, aud intrenched
himself to the eoming attack.
On the 22d March, at 9 A. M , Gen. Mora, with a
column of 800 men. inarched out of St. George,
which he left guarded by 100 Leonese soldiers, whom
fie left under command of Col. Carvajal. In a little
time he reached the Four Corners, about 600 yards
from the principal plaza of Rivas, which he found
occupied by Gen. Jerez, who had established there
his headquarters. A tire was kept up all day
against the city, with a 24-pounder, which Walker
answered with a 9-pouud gun, without damage.
On the 23d, at |three-quartcrs past three A. M ,
. Gens Cuuas and Chamorro invested at different
i points the fortifications of Rivas. Canas kept up a
j tight for seven hours with Walker's forces, aud atter
1 rashly penetrating into the Plaza, was forced to re
i treat, not beiug able to cross the moats and strong
I entreucluueuts ot Walker, protected as the were by
I riflemen aud artillery.
I On the 24th, at 4in die morning, the division of
[ Chamorro made a slight attack upon the entrench
, meuts of Santa Ursula, without effect. It will re-’
quire some days to reduce the strong fortifications
of Rivas. The* allied loss in these different attacks
, in killed and wounded amounts to about 100 men.
The last dates from Rivas I find in an extra of
( the Crouica de Costa Rica, of April 8, in the shape
of au official despatch from thecommander-iu-chief
i of the Allies. 1 will translate it in full:
Headquaktkrs, Four Corners, )
April 1,1857. S
1 have kept your Excellency informed of my
opei at ions since I took the chief command of the
army l have but little to add. but nevertheless
you will find it interesting.
The siege of Rivas is more complete than could
have been hoped with the small force at my dispo
sal The good selection of the posts, and the ser
vice of my scouting parties, have coutribut d much
towards the success of the siege. A twenty-four
! pounder that 1 have planted has done much damage
! to the city and dispirited the enemy.
Day after to morrow at latest, I shall place iu
battery at the port of Puebla, occupied by General
Xaturch, another gun of equal calibre, brought by
my orders from the Fort of San Carlos, which will
cross its tires with that at my head-quarterr, and
which will completely destroy or dislodge the fili
busters. Walker an<l his force s are reduced to feed
on mule meat and dogs, seasoned with sugar in de-
I fault of salt, and of this they make & most misera
ble ration. Those pushed by Lunger, who go out
to hunt tor plantains, are driven in by my troops
without th<*ir having effected their object. Every
i night 1 send iu little guerilla parties from each one
i of my posts, wuo advance to the entrenchments of
the I'iaza, thus obliging the filibusters to be con
| stantJy on the alert at uight, so that they have no
to rest. This course, united to the certainty
they feel they are completely hemmed introduces
I a desertion among them of about five each day, to
my headquarters. 1 calculate that triple that num
ber daily take the road to Costa Rica. The filibus
ters have arrived at such extreme pusilanimity that
one of their deserters of yesterday returned from
uiy ca«rp to hie old quarters in the Plaza (which
are th* same that Gen Salazar occupied when we
were ast year at Rivas) distributed some of the pro
clauu.tions and returned freely to my camp.
Su.ce yesterday fourteen deserters from the ene
uiv Lave come into my camp
1 am assured that a uivi.Mon of Guatemalians will
by mh uiu Granada. I shall send the steamer San
Carlos tor them to-morrow.
L' erv probability is iu favor of our speedy tri
umph. lam your Excellency's obedient servant.
. Joan J. Mora.
lo the President.
Private letters have been received from Re
aieio at San Jose, giving assurance that a Gua
temalan division would be in Rivas on the Ist of
ApriL 0
The A hum Seminal says that Gen. Jesev has ta
ken possession of San Juan del Sur.
From the Bth to the 37th of March there arrived
il oeta Rica, eighty six deserters from
v> atkei . They declare that the balls of the cannon
of the allies cross ihe hments, and begin to
cause considerable damage. They say that Wal
ker has 600 men very strong fortified in Rivas. A
great portion of these 600 were sick, or wounded, or
rendered incapable of duty from the mgvas. (a small
lusect that gets into the flesh, generally in the feet,
deposits its eegs, and dually causes the loes of the
member.it^not taken out). They had been manv
“J®. 1 ™* 11 ? half starved. Among the deserters
&t Liberia was Walker s t,'uarter
niea CoL Cayce, who occu-
FJst r UUe 1 in Kivu. Walker has
under ,[!t- t Vr hters - Ca >' served
try. but quit him -rtmu „ r cfime J , ° coun
probably afraid “ tu , r J lmvfd He was
prisoner uoito would ahoot him if taken
Arenas, de Cost , Kica an.i * Tte p I>UD:a
did not lake any awav. as tne^...i L Panam ®
ing only prom sec tlnm" egress !lav "
™ ti»e J Lie o Xicarsgua, ii* uawtl ii^
**<*** Centra, American £k£g
Salvador has decreed a forced oan of $20,000 per
mouth, duriug the coolijuare-e of t’ue war in N*ca
rmgua.
Capt. Antonio, At Ita ian, of the Gaatetr.aV-in
war schooner Asun o;.. was wLot off San Joac de
Guatemala on the 16th March, having been detect
ed in a conspiracy to deliver up his ve*?ei to \\ al
ker. A paper called the Telegrafo Setentrional, has j
been started among the ruins of Granada. Its mot i
to is the placard Gen. Ilenningaen posted up after j
lie burned the city:
“ Aqutfue Granada ' —“Here stood Granada.' <
Gen. Xatnich, previous to the last arrival of re- I
cruits for Walker from California, wrote a very
temperate letter to Commodore Davis of the U S.
sloop of war St. Mary’s asking him to interfere for
the enforcement of’ the United States neutrality
laws i find the following answer from Commodore
Davis, in Spanish, in the Boletin (Ifficial, of Costa
Rica. As it was probably first written in English,
then translated into Spanish, and now brought back
again into English, it may not be literally correct iu
every paragraph:
[ Trarulaiion.]
On Board the U. S. Sloop-of-War St. Mari s,
San Juan del Sur, March 3,1&>7.
To his Excellency Don Florencio Xatroueh. Com
mander-in-chief oi the Division of Coeta Rica.
Salvador and Nicaragua:
Sm—Your note of 24th February only came to
hand on the Ist instant, which will account :or any
delay that may appear from the date of my reply.
I have given t.> ihe various subjects of your com
munication the attentive consideration which the
aespect for your high position and a knoweidge of
my duty entitles it.
Your Excellency asks me to interfere by force of
arms againsl the disembarkation in this port ot men
who you suppose will arrive in the next steamer, to
unite themselves with the party of Gen. Walker ,
and you communicate to me the decree of the Gov
ernment of Costa Rica and its allies, suspending the
transit between San Juan del Sur and San Juan
del Norte, declaring these ports to be in a state of
blockade.
In answer to your request I have to say, that the
President of the United States in his last annual
message to the Senate and House of Representa
tives, distinctly recognizes the existence of civil
war in Nicaragua, not caring to receive either of
the diplomatic representatives of the two belliger
ent parties, or to decide with his imperfect informa
tion which is the actual government. Since that
time no change has taken place in the affairs of Ni
caragua which can in any wise authorize my separ
ation from the line ot conduct strictly imposed upon
me by the clear and direct language used by the
head of my government.
During a civil war in a foreign nation, the exis
tence of which war is acknowledged by the Govem
ment of the United States, the two parties are re
garded as two independent belligerent nations, and
the Government of the United States, according to
my impressions, has no right to interfere in the hos
tile acts of either p&ity, when they confine these
acts strictly to legitimate’war upon each other.
My position in relation to the two parties engaged
in the civil war which exists in this State, is that of
a neutral ; and it is evidently the duty of a neutral
to lend no aid to one party which he is not equally
prompt to lender the other.
How precious is this neutral position, and how sa
cred are its obligations, the Republics of South
America had ample opportunity to know and ap
predate during the civil wars which resulted in their
separation from Spain, in the system adopted by the
Un.ted States and Great Britain.
Besides, permit me to observe, it is an error to
suppose that because the United States, in virtue of
a iaw of Congress, forbids the recruiting of men for
foreign service, within the territory and jurisdiction
of the United States, that the commanders of her
ship of war necessarily are bound to the same du
ties, and exercise equal faculties on the water* with
in the jurisdiction of foreign governments. And it
will be as apparent to you as it is to myself that, if
my government had intended that this ship should
take an active part, as you propose, in the questions
that disturb the peace of this country, it would not
have omitted to furnish me the necessary instruc
tions.
Having referred to the last annual message of the
President, permit me to call your especial attention
to the great interest it expresses in the protection of
the persons and properties of the citizens of the
United States in Nicaragua. Its words are direct
ed, with especial reference to the deranged state of
your affaire ; and in default of what may be styled
a responsible government, I shall uee my best ef
forts to protect those of my fellow citizens who have
not compromised themselves in the war. The as
surancesyou give that the property of the Transit
Company shall receive no prejudice from the forces
under your command, receive my cordial thanks;
but this matter is of such importance, and weighe
upon my mind to such a degiee, in consequence of
recent events, in which ignorant citizens of the
United States were the sufferers (?) that I cannot
permit an opportunity to pass without recurring to
them.
In answer to the last paragraph of your note, I
have honor to say, in respect to the suspension of the
communication between the two oceans, by thelake
of Nicaragua, that, unfortunately, it is not a mat
ter included iu my instructions. But the notifica
tion of the blockade of this port has excited my
sincere surprise.
Your excellency knows that when such a notifi
cation is not supported by the presence of a compe
tent force in or near th*? port, there cannot boa le
gal blockade. In this case it is the more stmnge,
us the waters of this port are not only not iu
possession of your force, but are actually under the
domination of the opposite party, who have blocka
ded it with the schooner Granada. But before en
tering into a useless discussion—as I hope it will
prove to be—on blockades, so clearly defined by in
ternational laws (the rights of nations,) and which I
presume are much better understood by your Ex
cellency than by me, permit me to ask to wlifit point
you claim the exercise of the rights of belligerents
under the laws of blockade, and to what point you
limit the operations of neutral vessels. I pray your
Excellency to answer these important questions at
your earliest opportunity. I c the honor to be,
very respectfully, your obedient servant,
Chas. C. Davis, Com’r.
U. S. Sloop of war St. Mary’s.
Isl view of the preceding information, it is not at
all probable that Walker uowoccupies Rivas. In
deed, he must have been captured, destroyed, or
escaped, with the remnant of his little force, ere
this. It is possible he may have cut his way to
San J uan del Sur, and got on board the steuiner
Orizaba, which was in that port about April Bth, or
he may have been taken on board the St. Mary's.
If taken by Allies, he will no doubt be executed.
They w ill not forgiw him the executions of Corral,
Mayonga and Salazar— nthey can forget that they
have been despoiled by him of their tine estates,
and had their proud city of Gtunada reduced to
ashes. But if San Juan del Sur bt actually occu
pied by the Allies, Ido not see how lie f . all escape
out of the couutry, even if he readies the o rt.
T. V*. R,
Latat.— Our correspondent gives the following
information is a postscript to a letter dated at As
pinwall, April 20 :
The British steamer Thames is in from Greytown.
A boat came down from San Carlos, with news
from Walker up to the 13th. The Allies had dug a
trench, completely encircling what is left of Rivas.
Walker is confined to only two houses ; and tha
dispatch of the commander-in-chief of the Allies
says he was expected to surrender about the 20th.
f. vv. R.
Additional fi-oiu Nicaragua.
Letters in the New York papers confirm the state
ment received by telegraph, with regard to Walk
er's besieged condition in Rivas, with 700 men, the
allies fighting him with twenty four pound guns
against his nine pounders. His men were deserting
him at the rate of five a day, but those who remain
ed, were fighting the enemy at every point. The
New York Express says :
In the Costa Rica paper we find accounts of sev
eral small actions with Walker’s troops, of which we
have hitherto had no advices, and in which Walker
is reported to have been uniformly beaten. The
Boletin Official of San Jose, March 14, contains a
dispatch from Gen. Chamorro, detailing a battle
which took place ou March sth at the hacienda of
Jacote, near Rivas. Walker had sent a email party
to convey 80 recruits and some wagons from San
Juan del Sur. They were attacked and beaten by
150 Costa Ricans, with a loss of one fillibuster kill
ed and three taken prisoners. Hearing the tiring,
Gen. Sanders, with 300 men, sallied out of Rivas to
join in the fight. He met the Costa Ricans in the
{ilain of Coyol, and, after a hard fight, is reported to
lave retreated iu order, his men “disputing the road
foot by foot, and defending themselves, it must be
confessed, with unheard ot valor.” Gen.Chamorro
adds: —“The bravery of the enemy was obliged to
yield to the vigor of our bayonets, which, after a
charge of two miles, finished their defeat in the plain
of la Cruz. They fled iu all directions, leaving 28
dead, 40 rifles, *fcc.. on the field.” The Costa Ri
cans reports only two killed iu the fight.
The battle of San Jorge, which took place on the
16th of March, and was reported here as such an
astounding victory for Walker, is thus officially
related by Ge j. Cauas to the Costa Rican govern
ment :
San Jorge, March 17, 1857.
Sir: —At sunrise yesterday the enemy attacked
our fortifications with the great body of his forces
and with his artillery. He threw 400 cannon ba 11s
between 6 o’clock in the morning and 4 o’clock in
the alternoou, happily killing but few victims. Du
ring these hours of incessant cannonade, parties of
our troops sallied out to fight hand to hand with the
enemy, in order to favor the fire which Gen. Jerez,
with 500 men, had undertaken to make upon their
rear. The enemy being unable to advance afoot
towards our encampment, sought safety in retiring
to its general headquarters, leaving the field of bat
tle strewed with corpses and carrying off with him
four cart loads of wounded
Gen. Jerez having fortified himself in a house on
he road, where the enemy had to pass in order to
re-enter Rivas, made a furious attack upon the re
treating forces at 5 o’clock. I*. M. A multitude of
filibusters were killedjm this second battle.
Gen. Cauas reports six killed and twenty-one
wounded of the Costa Ricans. Total, 22 killed and
60 wounded.
During the month of March, 100 deserters had
come in from Walker, and the Boletin Oficial gave
him fifteen days, from the 28th of March, to reach
the end of his tether.
A Destructive Fire in Mobile. —About nine
o’clock yesterday morning the warehouse known as
Sanford’s, but owned by Mr. W. A. Dawson, which
is situated on Eslava street, between Water and
Royal streets, was discovered to be on tire, and be
fore any check could be made to the dames it ex
tended south to the Relief Press warehouse, owned
by Mr. E. C. Center. In both warehouses there
were stored a large quantity ofh iyand a general
assortment of merchandise. The dames spread so
rapidly that it was utterly impossible to save much
pioperty iu either warehouse.
Tne loss is estimated at from $30,000 to $40,000.
Mr. Centre had an insurance on the Relief Press
of SI,OOO.
Messrs. Pomeroy &. Marshall had about 1,000
bales of hay and Mr. T. Gueanard about 2,500 bales,
all insured.
Mr. Caleb Price had about $2,000 worth of mer
chandise burnt, with no insurance.
Mr. Dawson was insured on his warehouse, but
to what amount we could not learn.
Mr. J. P. Rutland had stored in the warehouse a
large quantity of merchandise belonging to various
parties in the country, but it can not be ascertained
whether there was any insurance on it or not.
During the fire a sad accident occurred. The north
wail of Sanford’s fell and buried beneath its ruins
a Mr. Blouut, a ship carpenter, and an elderly
man. All thought he was killed; but active exer
tious restored him to his home with only a broken
arm.
The fire is believed to be Ihe work of an incendi
ary.—Mobile Tribune , 29M.
Fannin’s Battle Ground.—We recently passed
the baitie ground where the brave Fannin and his
valiant men so fearlessly fought their treacherous
and overpowering foes.’ As we approached within
a few hundred yards of the we observed a pile 1
of something which we at nrst supposed to be the
c&rgo of some broken down wagon. But on near
ing the place, we were surprised to find a loose pile
of stone about six feet high. There are no rocks
nearer the spot than the Meuahuilla, a distance of j
about seven miles, and ol course this little pile that i
now marks the place of sad memory, must have j
been taken from there.
The pile stands in the centre of the entrenchment, j
roughly put up without mortar. We know not, no r i
is it known here who placed it there -. but whoever
he is, he has exhibited a nobleness of nature and a
national pride that abides only in the bosom of the
generous and patriotic, and has set an example to
Texians that should remind them of their duty. A
monument should be built there to mark the place
where that brave Out ill-fated band so dauntlessly
fought in defence of liberty.
Nothing can be more truly national, patriotic and
noble than the erection of this little pile, so silently
done—no show—no boasting—a still and silent act, i
prompted by a generous love of true valor, to [
the spot where hie unfortunate countryman so val
iantly fought against such fearful odds
It is to be hoped that this testimonial of national
pride will awaken Texians to a solemn duty too long
neglected.— Goliad Express.
Sad Occurrence. —We learn that Mr. Wm. P
Irwin was killed under very painful ciscumstances.
on Wednesday last, at a Steam mill 9or 10 miles
Southwest of this place. He attempted to arrange
some of the machinery while it was in operation, and
was caught by one of the bands, drawn into the ma
chinery and killed instantly. At the third or fourth
revolution of the shaft his skull was crushed and his
brains knocked out —Grtjin Union , 2dinst.
, ffw tkc Baltimore Nxn, May Is/.
B/r.ke ar:.t Ilio; «»n it#* Baltimore and Ohio
Unit road.
On Monday last a new order adopted in January
last bv the board of directors of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, for sealing the doors of the mer
cb an disc cars, took effect. This plan of preventing
and detecting depredations for the property trans
ported in the cars has been in successful use. it is
said. UDon some of the New England, New \urk
and other roads. The plan requires the conductors
of the sealed care to give a receipt for them as they
are taken from their point of departure, •and the
agent at destination in turn receipts to the conduc
tor for them on arrival. To this the conductors are
said to have objected, under the plea that it was
asking of them too great a responsibility, and since
Monday there have been signs of a strike rapidly
■ brewing.
On Wednesday night the seceding conductors
raltied in force at Martineburg station and under
took to stop the operations of the road by violence.
Mr. Boilinan, of the track department, who was
then in Mart ins burg, endeavored to pi event this
conduct, and assumed a defensive attitude with
firmness. On yesterday the sheriff and judge of
Berkeey county, with the Hon. Andrew Hunter,
the counsel of the company for that district, headed
the civil posse to quell the disturbance and protect
the company in cany ing on its affaire.
In Baltimore yesterday morning violence was
also employed with success iu preventing the de
parture of the trains though it is reported that two,
ou* of six or seven, the average complement, got
off for the West Iu the afternoon a renewed and
more imposing demonstration was made by some
100 to 125 men, two-thirds of whom, it is alleged, are
the refractory conductors. Six engines and trains
were arranged to start, there being well disposed
men. with a few new hands, to act in their charge,
ready and willing to go with them As the hoar
approached 4 o’clock) for the start, the Mount
Clare grounds were occupied by the strikers, who,
by jeers, persuasion and taunts tried to intimidate
the men from their duty. Three of the trains were
started from the elation, several of the officers of
the road accompanying them to protect the men.
and also a posse of some six or seven of the i*fly
police, beaded by Deputy Marshal Manly. The
two men on the last train. Conductor Barnes and his
brakeman, were attended by Mr. W. P. Smith, of
the transportation department, who promised to
stand between them and their expected assailants,
it having been rumored that a general attack w*as
to be made outside of the city limits.
On reaching the Spence property, near the Wash
ington turnpike bridge, a half mile beyond the city
line, the crowd mounted the two first trains in great
force, uncoupled the care, screwed on the brakes,
and \ itched the men off and chased them into the
woods. The rioters at this time were over a hun
dred in number ; the jurisdiction of the city police,
few as they were, was not good, the train employees
were scattered, and no prospect of anything but the
most violent resistance to any further efforts to get
off the trains. Under this state of things, Mr Smith
ordered the trains back to the city, and they were
so returned without obstacle.
Some of the participants in this affair are said to
have been identified, and the proper legal steps ta
ken to arrest them under bench warrants for their
grossly unlawful proceedings, the attorneys of the
company being duly alive to this condition ol things
calling for their promptest efforts. The Master of
Transpo Latiou. Dr. VVoodeide, finding that the
company would be without sufficient police force
to sustain it, and to protect its well-disposed men,
will send no freight trains out this morning. At
four this afternoon efforts will be made, under the
protection of the public authorities of the city and
State, to resume operations , but it is expected and
hoped that no further violence will lie offered,
though various threats are currently reported re
garding the intentions of the discharged men and
their outside allies.
The company contend that it has assumed no ar- !
bitrary or unreasonable grouud upon the question, !
and that the experiment instituted by the board (
may have readily been modified in its execution i
upon a fair interchange of views and statement ot \
objections by the meu. Rut having assumed the j
grouud they now' occupy, it is imperative upon the i
company, in their judgment, to discharge every !
man who has thus refused obedience to orders, and '
combined to prevent others from their execution. '
It is said further to be the resolution of the compa- j
ny to adhere to its ground on this point, as a matter !
of high principle, involving the absolute discipline !
of its service, although upon the now minor ques- j
tion of the seals they may be willing to change ma
terially, as applying to its new rule.
We hope, for the credit of our city and the good j
of the roa«<, that these soenes will terminate to-day. I
It is reported that the strike has now extended over '
the greater part of the road, and efforts are making j
to induce the engineers aud others to join it.
Saturday, May 2. —The difliculty with freight
trains on the main stem of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad still continues, and the parties striking
were more exasperated yesterday afternoon than at
any time since the difficulty began. During the
whole of Thursday night there were several hun
dred persons collected at the Locust Point junction,
and along the road tor about a mile beyoud the
Washington turnpike bridge. All day there were
accumulations to the crowd until it numbered some
five or six hundred persons. A large number of fe
males occupied the hill to the east of the Locust
Point junction, and remained until six o’clock in the
evening. Yesterday afternoon attempts were again
made to get off to Martinsburg the trains delayed
by the interruption of the mob on Thursday.
In the meantime, in order to insure itself against
the repetition of like outrages, the company had
made a requisition upon the Governor of the State
for authority to organize a force sufficient for the
protection of the trains and the hands omployed
thereon outside the city limits.
The following is the reply of the Governor, who
is at present sojourning at the place from whence
his official note emanates ;
“ Ellicott’s Mills, M/iy Ist, 1857.
“ lo Augustus P. Shutt, of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad.
“ Si r —Satisfactory information having been com
municated to me that unlawful resistance may be
attempted to prevent certain officeis of the tonnage
or passenger trains of the Baltimore aud Ohio Rail
road Company from running said trains and dis
charging their duties to the company, you are here
by authorized to organize, or cause to be organized
a sufficient military force to protect the officers of
said trains in the discharge of their duties along the
entire liue of the road throughout the State of
Maryland, aud as tar as may be necessary, and for
that purpose all civil and military officers of the
SUite are authorized to co-operate with you.
“T. Watkins Ligon,
“ Governor of Maryland.”
Thus armed with extraordinary power, the com
pany at once proceeded to dispatch its trains as
usual, and the first tonnage freight convoy trains at
about four o’clock left the Mt. Clare Station, with a
passenger and mail car attached, (thus constituting
it a United States mail train) containing the sheriff
of Baltimore city and a posse of armed men, pre
pared to put ti e train through to its destination
(Martinsburg) at all hazards, even at the cost of
life, if absolutely necessary, and in self-defence.—
The train passed tfi e scene” of its former detention
with safety, but upon approaching Jackson s bridge
at a good rate ot speed, rq iere a crowd was assem
bled, a show'er of heavy slo»«« were hurled at the
engine, and through the window* 0 f the passenger
mail car containing the sheriff and to* posse. The
vollies of stones were returned by a vuiley from
United States muskets by those in the car, ana a ij, o
from revolvers loaded with ball and buckshot, ana
with considerable effect. The crowd recoiled in
great confusion, and took to the wood? and surroun
ding hills, and the train passed on and met with no
further interruption until about three quarters of a
mile beyond the above point, where the train passes
through a deep grade.
Here a party had stationed themselves upon the
high banks on either side, and as the train approach
ed commenced pelting the eugiue and already rid
dled windows of the passenger mail car with heavy
stones. The sheriff and his officers, advantageously
posted within, returned the fire as before and with
greater effect, as several were seen to stagger and
fall from the embankment. An attempt was here
made to board the train, but deterred by the firing,
the party scattered, and the train continued on at
an increasing rate of speed. The engineer stood to
his post manfully, though several shots were aimed
at him, it evidently being the intention of tho rioters
to either kill or disable him, which would necessari
ly involve the stoppage of the train.
Early in the afternoon, when it was rumored that
the trains would start out at 4 o’clock, three omni
buses with the friends of the strikers, left the city
for Ellicott’s Mills, and it was here the most deter
mined resistance was anticipated to the passage of
the train in question. At the Relay House a dis
patch was received by the conductor, from Ellicott’s
Mills, announcing the fact that the above disorderly
parties had arrived, taken possession of the road,
avowing their determination to return the approach
ing train to the city. Notwithstand ng, at about 5
o’clock, the train was put under way by the brave
engineer, now armed with a musket. At leaving
the Relay House it moved on at a cautious pace
towards the Mills, in order to guard against any
obstruction that might be put upon the rails.
Nothing occurred along the line, nor was any
riotous demonstrations manifested by the various
squads gathered upon the route, until the train was
approaching the water station near Ellicott’s Mills,
when a simultaneous attack was made upon it from
ali sides by persons who, armed with shot guns, pis
pili and missiles of every description, took advan
tage of the location, and remained secreted behind
the rocks, trees and shedding. The fire was now
returned in good earnest, a halt was ordered, and
the sheriff and his posse leaping from the car, pur
sued the rioters, firing upon them as they ran through
the thickets and over the hill. One fell, supposed
to be shot dead, but was carried and plactd in an
omnibus, which was driven rapidly off. One of the
rioters, a young man, received a ball through both
thighs, and it is thought he cannot recover. Anoth
er was shot in the face while taking aim at an officer
from a house. Many more are wounded, and it is
thought several fatally.
Robert Smiley, one"of the participants in the riot
at ibis point, was seized and held a prisoner within
the car until it arrived at Ellicott’s Mills. He was
then marched between an armed guard to the ma
gistrate's office, and underwent an examination
upon the charge of attempting to detain the United
States mail, and also resisting the sheriff in the dis
charge of his duty. At six o’clock, without further
difficulty, the train, with the sheriff and his posse
still on board, left Ellicott’s Mills for Martinsourg.
Dispatches subsequently received at the Camden
station furnished the information that no further
trouble had been experienced. The armed train
i had passed Mount Airy and Martinsburg without
| difficulty. Dispatches from Grafton, Piedmout,
Fetterman and Martinsburg say that all is growing
quiet Some arrests had been made and the parties
held to bail to keep the peace. There was a gene
ral disposition on the part of seceding conductors to
return to duty.
Shortly after the starting of the first train, the
agents at Mt. Clare received a telegraphic dispatch
from those in charge announcing its successful pas
, sage through the several bodies of rioters which had
; attacked it, and the second train immediately star
ted from Locust point junction, but was met by a
large c.owd near the bridge, a party of whom jum
ped aboard, uncoupled it in three places,, and threw
the bolts and coupling pins away. This train, too,
was attacked with stones, and a lad, one of the new
ly employed, was struck on the head by a missile
find knocked to the ground. Upon this traiu they
were not prepared for extreme measures as upon
the first that forced the passage, e se it would have
probably likewise gone through. Thus checked, it
was obliged to stop, and was backed home to the
Mt. Clare depot.
The city police, after the occurrences at Ellicott’s
Mills, went out upon the road to meet the returning
omnibus, wnich proved to be one of Mitchell’s
Franklin square line, No. 22. But it had been driv
! t-n in with speed, and evaded the police The dri
ver. who was questioned by officer Manly, said he
I took out sixteen men, but brought back only five,
! cue of whom was wounded.
No further efforts will be made to send out the
fains on the main stem until this afternoon. Four
freight trains, however were yesterday dispatched
west from Martinsburg, and two arrived at the Mt.
Clare station in this city. Among those engaged in
the murderous assaults upon the train yesterday,
few of those recently in the employ of the company
were observed to participate in the attack, though
they were present in full force as aiders and abettors.
A large body of police, under the command of Depu
ty Marshal ’Manly, accompanied the trains to the
city limits, but nothing occurred within their juris
diction.
To-day the company will probably avail itself of
the services of the United states troops, and the
transportation of freight will be resumed.
Dr Hiram Cox. chemical inspector of alcoholic
liquors in Cincinnati, states, in an address to his
fellow-citizens, that during two yeans he has
249 inspections of various kinds of liquors, and Las
found more than nine tenths of them imitations, and
a great portion of them poisonous concoctions. Os
brandy ne does not believe there is one gallon of
pure in a hundred gallons, the imitations having corn
whiskey for a basis, and various poisonous acids lor
the condiments. Os wines not a gallon in a thou
sand. purporting to be sherry, port, sweet Malaga,
A c , is pure, but they are made of water, sulphuric
acid, alum. Guinea-pepper, horse-radish, Ac., and
many of them without a single drop of alcoholic
spirit. Dr. Cox warrants there are not ten gallons
of genuine port wine in Cincinnati. In his inspec
tions of whiskey he has found only from 17 to 20
per cent, of alcoholic spirit, when it should have 42
to 50, and some of it contains sulphuric acid enough
m a quart to eat a hole through a man’s stomach
holes ale Pardoning. —W e are informed bv
private letter from Mississippi that the Governor of
that State—‘little Johnny Mcßea has w ithin a
few weeks paet liberated forty odd convicts from
the Penitentiary at Jackson, and among them two
noted negro stealere. —Memphis Eagle.
From, tht Memphis Bulletin, May \UL
Railroad Jabilee—Twenty Thousaud Visitors !
Yesterday was a great day for Memphis—a day
that will be remembered by the little bovs, when
they shad have become the "oldest inhabitants. *
vi ;th pride aud pleasure. The day previous had
been most inauspicious, the rain pouring down in
a perfect deluge, and leading every one to predict
a failure and aisappniutmeiit in the pageant of the
morrow. Y'esterdav. however, opened soft an 1
spring-like : and by it o'clock the sau came out,
chasing away by his genial smile every frown from
the sky.
" ith the first crash of the numerous bands of in
struments, the streets and thoroughfares were crow
ded with people. Main street, upon which the pro
cession was to be formed, was choked from one end
to the other, and the cross streets presented a deluge
of human beings, hurrying forward to see or join
the numerous companies that were forming the cor
tege.
THE PROCESSION.
Amidst the firiug of cannon from the Bluff, the
procession was formed in the following order :
Music.
Washington Rifles.
Union Guards.
Marshall Baxter.
Mu-ic.
Phoenix Fire Company of Charleston.
Mechanics’ Fire Company of Augusta.
Music.
Fire Company of Nashville.
Music.
Oglethorpe, Washington andG.tE. C , No. 10.
t ire Companies of Savannah.
Memphis Fire Companies.
Strangers and Citizens on foot.
President of the day aud Vice-President, in
carriages.
Orato* s of the day, iu carriages.
Governors of the different States in carriages.
Presidents and officers of ttio different Railroad
Companies, in carriages.
\ isiting* Mayors aud Alderuienof the different cilies
in carriages aud omnibuses.
Mayor and Aldermen of Memphis, iu carriages.
Delegates from different cities, in carriages.
Ladies, in carriages.
Strangers and Citizens, in carriages.
The Assemely.—The procession moved through
oui principal streets, and then assembled at Court
Square, where the following organization was
had:—
President of the Day—U on. A. 11. Douglass,
Mavor ol the city.
I tee Presidents —Samuel Tate, President of the
Memphis ond Charleston Railroad: Frank M.
V\ bite, President Mississippi uud Tennessee Rail
road Robertson Topp, President Memphis and
0 :o Railroad ; John Robertson. President Mem
phis and Little Rock Railroad.
Sccretarr.s —J. 11. McMahon, John R. McClana
han, .1 P. Pryor and I. M. Partridge of the Memphis
Pics ; Mr. Heart, of the Charleston Press; Mr.
Lamar, of the Savannah Press; Messrs. Clay and
h igures. ot the Huntsville*Press ; Mr. Holmes, of
the St. Louis Press.
The Speaking.— An address of welcome was
then delivered by Mayor Douglass on behalf of the
city and citizens of Memphis ; closing by intro
ducing to the immense assemblage His Honor Win.
Porcher Miles, Mayor of Charleston, and member
elect to the next Congress, who had been selected,
in the unexpected absence of Gov. Jones,, to ad
dress them on the occasion.
We shall not mar the recollection of this beauti
ful, chaste and eloquent effort, by any attempt at
the slightest sketch even, of the glowing thoughts,
the lofty and polished diction, aud the delicately
appropriate sentiments with which it abounded.
He was iollowed by Hon. Win. Cohen, of Savan
nah, lion. W. \\ Boyce, M. C. of South Carolina,
Mark A. Cooper, of Georgia, and R. R. Cuyler Presi
dent of the Georgia Cei tral Railroad.
The Collation.— After these addresses, the
procession was again formed, and marched to tW
Navy Yard Grounds, where an elegant aud abuac
dant collation had been prepared by Mr. Speeut,
under the direction of the Committee of Arrange
ments. We are gratified to be able to state, that
ample accommodation was provided for ait, witli
entire convenience and iu comfoiv.
Our friends, the Firemen, numbering several hun
dred, took possession of the Hall of the “Hemp
House,” where they mingled freely in social inter
course with the citizens—a large number of the
fairer portion of which availed themselves of the
occasion to realize the indisputable fact that south
era firemen mw/ be, and are , polished gentlemen.
At Night. —Main street, at the intersection of
Madison, was illuminated by a Triumphal Ar*3h,
spanning the street from east to west, and having
radiating from it in jets of gas the names of the dif
ferent Railroads connecting with Memphis. It ivas
also festooned with evergreens and flowers,, and
presented a most beautiful appearance. Cl irk s
marble buildings were also finely illuminat ed.—
Thousands of gentlemen and ladies were out to see
it, aud the neighborhood of our office, presen led as
gay and joyous an aspect as if there had beeu a
Carnival going forward.
The Fire Works.— A splendid display of fire
works on the Promenade divided the uttraction
with the Triumphal Arch, aud lent brilliar.cy to the
scene.
The Ball. —As we go to press the large hall of
Exchange Buildings is filled with a large concourse
of gallant gentlemen and beautiful ladies, winding
up the day’s hilarity under the inspiration of music
aud the dance.
To day's Programme. —The following is the or
der of ceremonies for to-day :
At A. M., Common School procession and pic
nic, at the Navy Yard.
At 11 A M., the Phoenix FireCompauy of Charles
ton will throw into the Mississippi, the two hogs
heads of ocran water, brought with tbe*.n from the
Atlantic.
At 11| A. M., address at Court Square.
Carriages and omnibuses will bo in attendance for
those wishing to takopart in the procession.
At 11 £ A. M , address.
At 3 P. M., Steamboat Excursion and dinner.—
The City Councils aud invited guests, the guests of
the Board of Mayor and Aldermeu.
At 3£ P. M., Fjre Department of Charleston,
Nashville and Memphis, will make a display of en
gines and skill.
At night, cannon and Pyrotechnic display.
Venerable Editors.
The Boston Evening Transcript, which has a spe
cial mission in the way of unearthing interesting
reminiscences, has been giving notices of some
veteran cotemporaries of the editorial fraternity
now surviving, in and around Boston. Among
them is Joseph T. Buckingham, formerly of the
New Euglaud Galaxy and the Boston Courier. He
is said to be sevei ty-eight years old ; but his mind
retains its vigor, and few persons arc better ac
quainted with current events. Mr. Buckingham
has resided in or near Boston since February, 1800.
The first day he arrived there from Connecticut he
heard Fisher Ames pronounce a eulogy on George
Washington, who died a few weeks before. Mr.
Buckingham has been connected with the press
more than half a century. He commenced the pub
lication of the Polyanthes in 1806. In January,
1809, he began a weekly of sixteen pages octavo,
called ‘‘ The Ordeal.” In 1817 he issued a prospec
tus of the New England Galaxy and Masonic Ma
gazine, and continued the publication many years.
The Boston Courier was established in March, 1824,
by Mr. Buckingham, as the special and avowed ad
vocate of the American system, aud long stood al
most alone in its advocacy of*a protective tariff.—
He remained editor of the Courier until June, 1848,
aud is now living in retirement at Cambridge.
Nathaniel Willis, (father of N. P.,) who has been
in the editorial harness for the long period of fifty
four years, has started three newspapers, which are
continued to this day, viz: The Eastern Argus, at
Portland, the Recorder and the Youths’ Companion,
published in Bosu u .
Wm. Warland of the present pro
prietor aud editor of u** Boston Evening Gazette)
commenced his editorial career in that city more
than half a century since. Forty-six years ago he
was connected with the Boston Repertory, and in
1812 he issued proposals for a daily paper in Bos
ton, which, by a union with a gentleman who had
issued similar proposals, resulted in the establish
ment of tne Boston Daily Advertiser. Forty-b’w
yearß ago Mr. Clapp established the Evening Ga
zette, and conducted it for thirty years, when he re
tired, and was succeeded by his son.
Nathan Hale, of the Boston Daily Advertiser, is
still in the editorial harness, having been connected
with that paper since 1813—a period of forty-four
years, during which time it has always occupied a
commanding position. Like the instance last
named, a son (Mr. Charles Hale) worthily follows
in the business of the honored parent, and is among
the most prominent of the younger generation of
editors.
The Rev. Thomas Whittew.ore, editor of the Uni
versalist Magazine uud Trumpet, has occupied tee
editorial chair thirty five years. David Reed, Esq ,
of the Christian Register, has conducted that paper
more than thirty .six years.
The Transcript might greatly extend this list of
honored veterans of the press now surviving. The
editor does briefly mention others, as follows :
Richard Boylstou, Esq., of Amherst, N. 11., is an
occasional visitor to this city. He was a graduate
of the Columbian Centinel office under Major Ben
Russell, and in ±BO9 purchased the Farmer Cabinet,
a weekly paper, published at Amherst, N. H., with
which he has ever since been connected. Hon.
Ansel Phelps, and member of the Executiue Coun
cil, elected last November, has been editor of the
Greenfield Gazette since 1811. Hon. Caleb Foote,
of the Salem Gazette, has conducted that paper
since 1827. Next to the Worcester Spy, it is the ol
dest paper in Massachusetts, and has always been a
highly influential newspaper.
Jo. Hales, and Win. W. Seaton of the National
Intelligencer, at Washington, and Francis Hall, of
the New York Commercial Advertiser, are still in
the harness; aud Col. Peter K. Waguer, who has
been an old wheelhorse of the press for more than
half a century, Isaac Monroe of the Baltimore Pa
triot, the veteran Townsend of the New York Daily
I Advertiser and Express, Charles King of the New
I York American, (now President of the Columbia
j College, ) Joseph R. Chandler of the Philadelphia U.
j 8. Gazette, and many others we might name, are
! reposing on their editorial laurels, in various parts of
the land.— N. (J. Picayune.
Chinese Brutality.— The following are stated
by an English paper to be the modes of execution
and punishment is China. What can be more fero-
I cious and inhuman. First, there is the wooden
cage, which consists of two large pieces of wood
fitting into one another, and having three openings,
into which the head, or the head and a hand, or the
head and both hands, according to the severity of
the sentence, are put. This punishment is so se
vere—for the wretch condemned to it has to sustain
on his shoulders a weight of 200 lbs., without any
possibility of relief—that it is certain death, if in
dicted for more than a very few days. Next comes
beating with bamboo canes—a process which
sometimes kills after fifteen blows. Then flaying,
crushing limbs, aud teariug out the tendons of the
feet. Strangling and beheading are the capital
punishment, to which may be added—though, it is
said,. not often practised—the penalty by which a
criminal is placed between two boards, and sawed
in two from head to foot. Starving to death is some
times practised, the culprit being buried in the
earth up to the neck, aud there left to die ; or he is
fixed in the wooden cage, and fed with daily di
minishing rations of rice, till he dies on the last
grain, as the horse on his last straw. In 1840, 4,000
persons v\ ere beheaded iu the province of Canton,
out of a population of 900,000.
Mr. Meadows, the interpreter of the English em
bassy m China, in 1852, saw at Canton an execu
tion which he afterwards described. The criminals
were insurgents who had fallen into the hands of the
Tartar officials. The place of execution was a low
. room, from which the heads of persons previously
executed had not been removed. A fire of sandal
wood burnt before the shed where sat the manda
rins who were to superintend the execution, and in
j terposed its fragranevf between their nobility and
the stench of the decomposing heads. The criini- j
I were brought in, some borne in baskets, and ;
cammed out on the ground, where they lay para !
' * ea . r * OT . fr° m the effects of torture inflict- j
ed during their trial and imprisonment. They were
then p.aced in order, in a kneeling position, with j
cheir iaces towards the grounds a man standing be ■
nma each and grasping him tightiv by his bound
nanus. Another, in ease of resistance, seized the !
queee, anpulled in the opposite direction, to keep i
the neck extended. All bein* thus prepared, the |
executioner came forward, a sabre his weapon, j
which he held with two hands, etanding with his *
egs somewhat apart, ready for the work. In three !
thirty-three bodies were headless, ail but j
the first complete l )'severed with one blow. Fromone
to another the executioner leaped, body and sword. I
precision of a machine.'and dealing a
death blow at everyjump. One criminal remained, |
and for him a more awful death was appointed. He i
was a man of powerful frame, in the piime of life. '
and had surrendered himself to the officials to save |
his wife and family, who were in their hands, from I
torture. They took aud bound him to a
wooden cross tied against the wall. The desk was
then cut .rom hia forehead, breast and extremities
a horrible process, which occupied five minutes, |
and was yet rapidly performed. The unhappy !
man was then taken from the cross and beheaded.
Surf EKING is East Tensessee —We learn that
a great number of people North of Clinch Mouutain
in this county are actually starving. It ia said that
there ia no com or wheat in all that country. We
also learn that a poor woman and her four little
children starved to death last week. They had been j
living on wheat bran for some time. Our citizens
who have grain should look to this thing —not hold j
baek to sell to foreign speculators. From the pre- |
sent indications, all kinds of produce which ia uow
in the country can be consumed at home thia year.
We tear the worst has not come yet. We frequent
ly hear men who have aeveral head of horsea, be
a'idee cattle and other stock. 6ay "1 have OD j7
euough grain for one more feed !"■—RogertriUe
Timet,
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of them have promptly remitted the amounts due-
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We shall continue to send these notices to all de
linquents, until we purge the list of all who do not
pay us promptly.
Failure of John F. Bell &so.
The New York papers announce the failure of
, John F. Bell & Co., Brokers of that city. This is
the firm who own nearly one-third of the stock of the
Bank of Fulton, aud as to whose solvency and re
sponsibility we made enquiries of the Atlanta press,
a few months ago, without obtaining any satisfac
tory information. We suspected then , that their
fortunes were desperate, and that the purchase of
stock in ftie Bank of Fulton was only an additional
effort to save them from ruin—perhaps the last an
chor which they could commit to the raging billows.
We were satisfied they were not raea of capital,
(for they were rather obscure Wall-street Brokers)
because, if they actually had capital, they could in
the brokerage business realize much greater profits
in New Y T ork, where money is always worth one to
two per cent, a month, than they could hope to
realize from Bank stock in Georgia. We then re
garded them as mere speculating adventurers and
fimmciererß, who were making a desperate effort to
financier themselves into a fortune, and if they
failed, they would have the consolation of knowing
that the loss would fall on other parties.
But with this we have nothing to do—ourpurposa
in alluding to the failure, was simply to remind the
public, that it affords another and apt illustration of
the correctness of the position we have occupied in
relation to non-resident stockholders in Banks.—
Had John F. Bell & been men of fortune,
the bill holder of the Fulton Bank, in Georgia, had
comparatively little security, so far as they are con
cerned, for the ultimate redemption of the bills in
the - event of a failure; and as they are insolvent,
the bill holder has no guarantee whatever to the
extent of their liability, in BUch an event.
We ask the people to reflect upon these things—
give them that consideration their importance de
mands, because all classes are deeply interested in
the preservation of a sound currency, aud they will
at once perceive, how entirely correct our position
has been in denouncing all Wild Cat Banks as whol
ly unworthy of confidence or credit.
Bnnk of Fulton.
We are pleased to learn from the following letter
of A. W. Stone, President of the Bank of Fulton, to
the Editor of the “Dispatch," that the Bank of Ful
ton is not likely to sustain any injury by the failure
of Jno. F. Bell Co., of New York.
If the stock owned by Bell &. Co., has been
transferred to responsible bona fide parties in Geor
gia, the friends of the Bank will have no cause to
regret the change ; so far from it, it will contribute
much to increase confidence in the Bank, aud re
lieve it of an objectionable feature in its organiza
tion. We hope that such has been the result :
Atlanta, May Ist, 1857.
Mr. Editor :—I notice in the papers the suspen
sion of John F. Bell &. Co., of New York. The fact
of his being a Stockholder in this Bank induces me
to say that his suspension will not in the least affect
us, not having lost nor shall we sustain one dollar's
loss, or inconvenience.
His stock was actually paid in, and bona fide
transferred, before his failure, to responsible parties
whose names will appear in our next report.
A. W. Stone, President.
Sale of Bank and Railroad Stock.—The at.
tention of those who desire to make investments
in Bank and Railroad Stock, is invited to an adver
tisement in another column of a sale to take place
in front of the Georgia Railroad and Banking Com
pany’s Rank, at 10 o’clock, A. M., on Wednesday
the 13th instant, by Wm. 11. Howard.
Augusta Free School Examination.
There was quite a largo attendance at Ma
sonic Hali yesterday afternoon to w itness the exam
ination of the scholars of the Augusta Free School.
The exercises consisted of speaking by the boys,
and reading, compositions, singing, and recitations
by the girls. The male portion of “Young Ameri
ca” acquitted themselves with the highest credit,
by far the greater part displaying animation and
ambition to excel in that difficult but useful brauch
of education. Their pieces were, almost without
exception, well memorized, and the delivery, of
course, embraced all descriptions of oratory, timid
and bold, slow and rapid, awkward and graceful ;
but all showed the marks of careful training, and
the effect of patient and judiciou3 instruction. The
compositions ot the girls, as far as we could hear
amid the noise and confusion, were well written,
and evinced much taste and some originality, in the
investigation of their subjects. Their singing, re
citations, dialogues, &.C., all passed off with much
credit. The examination, altogether, was one of
the most creditable we have ever witnessed, and
speaks well for the efforts of the teachers.
Smala Pox in Griffin. —The “ Empire State,"
of the 29th ult., says : The Small Pox yet lingers
among us, being still confined to the two families
which we mentioned last week. Sevefal of those
who have been afflicted with varioloid, have recov
ered. so as to be able to be up and about, still con
fined to quarantine bounds. All are rapidly recov
ering, and bid fair soon to be well. No new cases
have occurred since our last issue. We have had
but one case of confirmed Small Pox, besides that
of Mr. Duffey, and six or seven cases of varioloid,
some of them so very light as to be scarcely per
| ceivable.
j The Cleveland Herald, in noticing the passage
j through that city, on their tray West, of a Mr,
, Hassjerd, with hit wife and fften children , says
| they were noted as the finest and neatest looking
j specimens of“movera’' ever seen. They were from
j Elmira, in New York. The Herald adds: “In ap
\ pearance the family was a rare instance of health,
intelligence, and thrift. The oldest child was sev
| enteen years old, and the youngest was at the
breast; and the mother had a look of cheerfulness
and bodily vigor that many of our city dames of
half her years might envy.’’
A Musical Feature under the seductive title of
a “Philanthropic Novelty,” was inaugurated at the
Broadway Tabernacle, New York, on Wednesday
evening. The “Philanthropic Novelty” is composed
of a band of seven negro slaves from Alabama, who
are singing to obtain money to purchase their free
dom—so the story runs.
Woman as a Physician.— The Irish patriot
O'Brien, in his work on the Principles of Govern
ment, says : “The medical art is an occupation pe
culiarly adapted for female practitioners. That wo
men, when suffering from disease, should be under
the necessity of consulting men, is a practice obvi
ously repugnaut to every natural sentiment of deli
eacy. Women, therefore, instead of being excluded
from the medical profession, ought rather to be en
couraged to qualify themselves for its exercise, and
to practice it under a diploma, with the same sanc
tion that is accorded to medical graduates of the
male sex.”
Norwegian Emigrants —lnformation has reach
ed England that upwards of 10,000 Norwegians will
proceed from Norway to Quebec during the present
summer. Several of these will remain in Canada,
but the larger portion will pass on to the Northwest
ern States of America.
The Snow- in Western Massachusetts.— The
Hartford Times learns from a passenger from Grant
ville (just over the Mass, line) that the snow ia two
feet deep there, and the sleighing is good. He came
in a part of the way on runners. The drifts between
West Grantville and Hartland are from five to six
feet deep. The storm was considered as severe in
that vicinity as the great January snow storm.
There was good sleighing on Thursday in Beveral
towns in Litchfield, Connecticut
Railroad Accidents in England. —The official
report of railway casualties in England for the last
year states the number to be 281 killed and 394 in
jured. The calculation is that one passenger in
every 16J millions carried was killed, the other ac
cidents having occurred to persons either the ser
vants of the companies or neither passengers or
servants.
W ho arc the Mormons f
The Washington “States," good Democratic au
thority, has invited the public attention to the fact
that the great body of the Mormons, who arc now
giving so much trouble to our government, are not
our own people, but the rejected off-scourings from
the various countries of Europe. It is afact worthy
of note, and we copy below a few paragraghs of the
article, that our readers may be aware of the > fleets
of foreign emigration, so fostered and encouraged
by one of the political parties of the country. The
States says :
The announcement we made yesterday of the
arrival of the ship George Washington, at Boiton,
with eight hundred aud fifty Mormons from Liver
pool, calls our attention again to the fact that Utah
is more of an English colony than an American Ter
ritory.
The Mormons have a most extensive missionary
organization, which stretches its vile fibres over at
most every country iu Europe. Iu the island of
Great Britaiu, (England, Scotland aud Wales.) and
in Scandinavia, they are mod successful. Their
conversions are numerous among the ignorant low
er class people. They form communities in various
localities, and raise funds by subscription, by which
means they are carried to America, then let loose
in parties to make their way through the country to
the Salt Lake. It is in this maimer that foolish,
weak, and prurient people are entangled into their
meshes.
Some mouths ago we remember that an Elder
Williams arrived from England iu the ship Colum
bia with some two hundred and twenty, which he
himself had converted to the Mormon faith. They
were principally from Bristol. They were quartered
for the winter in St. Louis, Cincinnati, and New
York, aud are by this time on their way for the
“Promised Laud.”
About twelve months ago some details of deso
lation created in an English Family by Mormons
directed attention to the ship Em eu Train, which
arrived at B<>stou. from Liverpool, with nine hun
dred Mormons, of which number three hundred
were contributed by Birmingham alone.
In the official Mormon Emigration Report of the
year previous, we find some significant facts. In a
period of five months during that year, (18.55.) 3,-
6-26 Mormons arrived at the port of New York
Philadelphia, and New Orleans, in the following di
vision:
At New York 4
Philadelphia 1,450
New Orleans 1,302
It must be borne iu mind that this was only for
five mouths —winter months, too; and that the list is
irrespective of the arrivals at Boston, which re
ceives a majority of all the Mormon immigration.
These instances are but few, aud as such are
within reach of us at present; but they indicate, as
plain as facts can indicate anything, the uature of
the Mormon population.
As Ohio Editor on Fashionable Dancing. —
An Ohio editor gives his views of several dances
which he witnessed at the Inauguration Ball at
Washington, thus:
“The want of variety in this Metropolitan dan
cing, was, however, fully made up by the fancy
things, such as the waltz aud polka. These were
absolutely barbarous. The old fashioned waltz, the
morality of which even Byron called in question, is
here ignored as altogether too cool and distant. The
lady here lays her head on the geutleman's bosom,
puts oue hand iu his coat-tail pocket, then resigns
herself to his embraces, and goes to sleep, all but
her feet, which, when not carried by him clear off
the floor, g >es patting around on her toes. The
gentleman thus entwined throws his head back, and
his eyes up, like a dying calf; his body bent in the
shape of a figure 4, he whirls, backs up, swings
around, swoons to all appearances, pushes forward,
and leaves the ring to the delight of all decent peo
ple.’’
Postages to Foreign Countries. —The Post
master General has just issued a new table of in
structions to postmasters, in which he fixes the rate
of single ldlters of half an ounce or under to Great
Britain at 24 cents. Ditto to any part of Germany
by closed mail 30 cents. Ditto to most parts of Ger
many by the Bremen line direct, 15 cents. Ditto
for quarter ounce letters to Germany, via France,
21 cents. Ditto for quarter ounce letters to any
part of France or Algeria, 15 cents. Prepay
ment optional in all cases. The rate for liters to
Canada and the other British North American pro
vinces is 10 cents ; prepayment optional.
Well Retorted. —We gather from the Boston
Transcript that Mrs. Fanny Kemble Butler hap
pening to meet a well known gentleman of that
city, (Mr. W.) iu the Messrs. Chickering’s piano
forte warerooms, the other day, expressed some
surprise on seeing this gentleman enter into familiar
aud cordial conversation with Col. C., one of the
partners of the house. She is said to have wondered
that a person engaged in mechanical pursuits should
be treated by Mr. W. as an equal and a gentleman.
“He is a Colonel, too—is he?” added the lady. “In
our country none but gentlemen are colonols.” “In
our country, outlie contrary,madam,’’ said Mr. \V.,
“not only may a mechanic be a gentle
man, but even an actress may be a lady. Good
morning madam.”
Damages for Slander.— The Milledgeville Re
corder says :—Oglethopre Court was in session last
week. The business on the docket occupied most
of the week. The case that excited most of inte
rest, was one of slander. The plaintiff, a young la
dy, recovered damages, $2,500, through a petit
jury. Such cases are of rare occurrence in that
county, and the outdoor talk was, that if an appeal
was taken, a special jury would likely double the
amount of damages.
East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad. —The
Bristol News, speaking of the work on the East
Tennessee and Virginia Railroad, says that as soon
as the track can be laid across the Watauga river,
(about eight miles) coaches will run from the Wa
tauga crossing to Jonesborough ; aud also about
the same time it is expected that the road will be
opened for travel to Bull’s Gap, in which case the
staging will be reduced to a little more than fifty
miles, and this distance will be lessened as the track
laying progresses.
The British Minister on ’Change. —The Jour
nal of Commerce of Saturday says : —Lord Napier
dropped in upon the New York merchants yestor
day at the hour of high ’Change. He was accom
panied by Wm. Butler Duncan, Esq., whose guest
he is during his brief stay in the city. The British
Minister’s expected visit having been hinted at in
some of the .papers, there was an unusually large
attendance of our leading business men. His Lord -
ship was introduced by Mr. Duncan to gentlemen
desiring it, and having his hand earnestly and hon
estly shaken for a quarter of an hour, withdrew,
leaving a very pleasant impression of his amiability
with all who succeeded in getting a glimpse of him,
which was no easy thing in the dense crowd.
Constant Hearer.— lt is said of the late Coun
tess of Burford, that though for the last few years of
her life she had to ride almost constantly on horse
back upwards of sixteen miles, to and from the
churches where she attended, yet neither frost, snow,
rain, nor bad roads, were sufficient to detain her at
home. How unlike the condi*it of many, who
suffer any trivial incident to keep them from the
house of God.
A new line of Atlantic Steamers will commence
running in May, between New York, London and
Bremen, leaving each port semi-monLly. This line
is owned by the European and American steam ship
ping company of London and Southampton. The
steamers are the Queen of the South, 2,221 tons;
Indiana, 2,364 tons; Arago, 2,315 tons, and Jason,
2,667. These ships will continue a semi monthly
line. On the outward trip the steamer will remain
one day at Southampton.
The panic in St. Paul’s and St. Peter’s Minnesota,
arising from the rumors of a general rising ot the
Indians at the North, has subsided. The Superin
tendents of the Indian Affairs announce in letters
to papers of the Territory, that the payment of the
moneys due the Indians will settle all the troubles,
and that the force detailed for the protection of life
and property is not needed. The reported massa
ere of the eettlers iu Northern Minnesota is now
said to have been confounded with that which hap
pened in lowa some time since.
Scarcity of Fodder— The Warsaw Western
New Yorker, of the 21st instant, says, the snow
storm of last week was most disastrous to stock.—
It mentions a number of instances where cattle
were either knocked on the head or died of star
vation. Fodder being so high—Hay fromsls to
$25 per ton.—it was considdered cheaper to let the
cattle die than to undertake to“ winter them trough.”
Defaulting Tax Collector Caught.— We
learn Bennett Powel, defaulting Tex collector of
Emanuel county, Georgia, has been arrested in
Texas, and brought home, by his security, Swain M.
Fortner, and the money due the State paid into the
Treasury.
Death of the Mayor of Memphis. —A tele
graphic despatch, received in Charleston, states
that T. B. Carroll, the Mayor of Memphis, died
in that city on the 26th inst.
Extraordinary Longevity. —Mrs. Elizabeth
Goldizen, who resided on the North Fork, in Hardy
county, Va., died a few days since, having reached
the extraordinary age of one hundred and eighteen
years.
The Snow Storm of t ls. 12th ult .—The Liv
ingston (Ala.) Democrat says the fall of snow on
Sunday, the 12th inst., is believed to have been the
heaviest that ever occurred in that part of the
country. It began in the morning about five o’clock,
and continued to fall incessantly for six or seven
hours. As it immediately succeeded a rain, the
ground at the time was so wet, that the snow melt
ed almost as fast as it fell. If the ground had been
dry or frozen, it would, doubtless, have been cov
ered to the depth of five or six inches.
Governor Gorman, of Minnesota, has issued
a proclamation calling for an extra session of the
Legislature of that Territory for April 26th, “for
the purpose of enacting such laws as may be deem
ed necessary to enable the people to form a State
Constitution, preparatory to being admitted into
the Union as a State. ’
Death of Judge Alexander of Tennessee.—
The Hon. Ebenezer Alexander died at his resi
dence in Knoxville, Tenn., on Wednesday last, 20th
inst. A meeting of the citizens was held and reso
lotions massed, expressive of the public sorrow.
The Law of Evidence. —The New York Ex
press says : “A bill has passed both Houses of the
Legislature and has become a law, which provides
that parties to legal proceedings in Courts of this
State, may hereaftei be examined as witnesses in
their own behalf, on giving ten days notice to the
opposite side of their intention to be so examined.
This radical change in the common laws of evidence
has long been advocated by legal reformers.
Suicides in Philadelphia. —There w-ere fifty
two suicides in Philadelphia last year—thirty-five
men and seventeen women. This shows an in
crease on the preceding year (1855) of nine. In
that year the proportion was thirty-four men and
nine women. In 1855 the preference appeared to
be for hanging, but last year shows a decided pre
ponderence of poisoning cases.
The ship Cathedral, of Boston, was lost off Cape
Horn on the 18th of February whilst on her passage
to San Francisco. Nine lives were lost, including
Captain Howard, Dr. Kirkendal, of Trenton, X. J .
Phillip Rock and Samuel B Hall, of Philadelphia.
The remainder of the crew had arrived at Panama
n an English Bteamer.
There were 396 deaths in New York last week
96 being of scarlet fever and 46 of cohsumption.
Plastic Cotton.—The following communica
tion we fiud in the columns of the Charleston C m
t ier, who says of its author. Mr. Legake, that Is
a literary, scientific, practical horticulturist and ag
riculturist, whose views and suggestions are al
ways worthy of consideration:
A few rough specimens of work in plastic cotton,
exhibited in November last, were so fortunate as to
obtain a gold medal from the Institute; and the
value of the invention has been since fully reoog
n zed by the press in various parts of the United
States. At the time of the above named exhibition,
however, the plastic mass had resisted all my efforts
to render it capable of being moulded, as well a*
worked by baud. This quality 1 Lave since suc
ceeded in obtaining Lr it, as well as a more valu
able application as a substitute for the expensive
rooting materials now in use.
Many experiments during the three or four past
moil hs have, I think, established the following
facts: That cotton can be rendered fire and weather
proof, and plastic at the same time, and laid upon
roofs, either flat or inclined, so as to form a siugle
uu broken covering, at a cost much below that ot
pine shingles, namely, from three to four dollars
per square of 100 square feet. A single thickness*,
ii inch) of Pin-tic Cotton costs not more thaus2</
0 o() per square-. n roof of double thickness (5 inch)
will cost from $3 <1 1 50; the last named gross amount
is scatcely justified, however, by even the present
price of cotton.
The chemical salts used in its preparation, I need
scarce,y say, are among the cheapest of iheir kind,
or the above results could not have been obtained.
The hardness of the material is remarkable when
dry—that is. from twenty-four to forty-eight hours
after being laid on. In color i! somewhat resem
bles slate, though this may be altered at pleasure.
The different solutions for the menstruum may be
ke.it an unlimited time, iu casks or smaller vessels,
and mingled in proper proportions (cold) when the
raw staple is to be immersed. The immersion itself
requires but 15 or *2O minutes, or, where the quanti
ty is small, a still shorter time will suffice. 1 would
only further say, that the menstruum referred to
above is applicable not merely to cotton, but to any
other fibrous material, and that the values 1 have
assigned are consequently rather above the ave
rage.
The retention of vegetable fibre, in all cases, is the
best safeguard against cracking or injurious con
traction or expansion of the mass; and my later ex
periments go to show that a vast amount of now
absolutely valueless material, abounding iu our
Southern country, may be converted to use by the
above means, combined or otherwise with the more
valaable_staple. 1 am, your obediant se v«nt,
J. M. Legake.
Destructive Fire in Apalachicola—s2oo,ooo
worth of Property Destroyed.—The Charles
ton Courier has received an extia from the office
of 111 e Commercial Advertiser, giving an account,
of another fire, still more destructive than the one
reported a short time since : •
It occurred on Thursday, the *2*2d lust., and com
menced in the Union Warehouse. Most of the citi
zens of the place were at dinner, and the workmen
of the warehouse were all in the yard, so that before
the fire was discovered the interior of the building
was in flames; and of course, with all its contents
—about two thousand bales of cotton—was soon
destroyed. There were also some hundred bales
outside the warehouse, ready for shipment, nearly
all of which were lost.
The Post office .and Advertiser office, wooden
buildings, were also destroyed, but the hydraulic
press and ware house, though seperated from the fire
by only the width of the street, with the wind blow
ing the flames directly upon them, were saved.
The tire extended across Centre stieet to the old
Hospital, and all that block and the block below,
lying between Commerce and Market streets, were
Imriit over,rendering houseless about fifty families.
Mitchelßow, North of the Union, with the inter
vening buildings, were destroyed—most of the
goods in the stores having been removed. The Ice
House was also destroyed. There were several
hundred bales of cotton on the wharves,just landed,
which being showered with burning cinders, were
often on tire; but all of this was saved more or less
damage. The P. D. Warehouse was in great dan
ger for an hour—the tiu melted from its doors—but
in the face of almost unendurable heht, it was saved
with its valuable contents, worth about $150,090.
The only loss of life mentioned was that of a negro
boy belonging to Mr. Thomas Oman, and who was
buried beneath the fallling walls. The Advertiser
thus sums up the loss :
Cotton lost, 2450 bales, value $160,000
Union warehouse and other stores. 21,500
Dwellings and shops 16,500
Other property 3,000
Total $200,000
Ou this there was a total insurance of $166,000.
There were but 100 bales Cotton in all that were
uot insured, divided among several oweers.
The following is appended by the Advertiser to
the account of this disaster :
A committee of citizens is at work providing
means and ai ranging their use, to relieve the wants
of those who are thus suddenly rendered houseless
and homeless—the poor. Lei all who are able, and
especially those who have not suffeied in their own
interests by this sad disaster, contribute liberally to
their needs.
The Letter Sheet Prices Current of Ihe Adverti
ser will be discontinued until another reason. Wo
could not replace the necessary materials iu time to
be of 8 -rvice this season, now so near its close.
The fire —the 11011-working of the Telegraph for
some days, aud the absence of foreign news, which
is past due, all cause a suspension of operation in
our cotton market—the stock of cotton in store be
ing suddenly reduced about one-third. Prices not
quotably changed. _
Slave and Coolie Trade.— lnformation lias
been received l>y the Department in Washington,
from a correspondent at Havana, of the arrival at
that port, of the Florida, of Boston, commanded by
George U. Nickerson, and owned by Win. Parsons
and Franklin Skinner, with 341 coolies, having lost
22 on the passage, 17 by natural death amis drown
ed. Two other American ships are soon expected
to arrive at Havana with coolies. A correspondent
at St. Paul de Loanda writes that the slave trade
on that coast is now flourishing. It is said that five
vessels have lately left with slaves. The Congo
river audits neighborhood have been the headquar.
tore, and American gold is now quite plenty there,
having been brought in vessels which clear from
New York—some for Cape de Verds, audsome for
Loanda, but which seldom arrive at those places.
Alminum, or Clay Metal. — James M. Saf
ford, A. M. State Geologist of Tennessee, in his
report to the General Assembly of that State, De
cember, lttOJ, speaks of this metal in the foltowiug
manner :
These properties are sufficient to make this curi
ous metal very useful. It has already been applied
to several purposes in the arts, and will, no doubt,
be much more extensively applied if chemists suc
ceed in reducing sufficiently the cost of its produc
tion ; which they appear so be in a fairway to do.
Its manufacture “ is encouraged by the French go
vernment, who wish to procure a large quantity of
this metal, in order to use it for cuirasses, (breast
plates, and other purposes, for which it is especially
fitted by its tenacity and lightness."
It is not improbable that the cost, of produc.ng
aluminum will be still further diminished, and that
this metal will become of world-wide importance.
If so, we have no lack of ore in Tennessee tor the
production of our share !
Is it Free or Slave ?—The Cheraw (S. C.) Ga
aette moots a singular question. Mr. J. P. Smith
arrived at Cheraw a few weeks ago from Scotland,
with Afiican twins, of whom some little lalk has
been made. During her stay iu Scotland, their
mother gave birth to another child, whom she brought
home with her. Now the question crises, if that
child, born on the soil of Scotland, is bond or free l
If born free, how can it be held iu slavery here t And
was not its introduction in this country a viola
tion of the law prohibiting the foreign slave trade I
The mother became free when she entered Scot
land, but returning here, she returns to her owners.
The remaining question is, can she enslave her child
by her own return to servitude ? %
A Curious Verdict in Virginia. —At Hartford
Superior Court, as we learn from a correspondent
of the Petersburg Express, a land suit was decided
in a novel way. It depended upon the boundaries
of a tract “at the head of Hodge's creek." The
testimony as to where the head of the creek is, was
so conflicting that the jury could not agree. But as
the costs had swelled to a greater nmouut than the
value of the land, the jury proposed, ns a compro
mise, that the land should be sold, the proceeds
equally divided between plaintiff and defendant
and each party pay his own costs. This was agreed
to, and the suit ended.
Selling a Man at Auction in Illinois. —The
Sheriff of St. Clair county advertises a negro man
for sale at public auction, he being guilty of the
“high misdemeanor" of having come into the State
of Illinois and remaining there for ten days, for
which offence he was fined SSO, as provided by the
Black Law of 1853, and in default of paying which
tine, the Sheriff of the county in which he was found
is directed to sell him to any body willing to pay
the SSO.
Those free soil papers at the north, which were so
shocked a few weeks ago at the idea of selling free
negroes in Georgia to pay their taxes, would do well
to make a note of t he above.
Withdrawal of Lands. —The Commissioner of
the General Land Office has issued instructions for
the withdrawal of the public lands in the State of
Alabama falling within the probable limits of the
act approved the 11th of March last, to aid hi the
construction of that portion of the railroad from
Savannah to Mobile which falls within the limits of
that State, and the branch road from Eufaula to
Montgomery.
Found Drowned. —The Thomosville (Ga.) En
terprise says the body of a man named Ezra Root
was discovered in the Oclockonee River about four
teen miles above Thomasville on Saturday the 15th
of April. A horse and buggv belonging to the de
ceased were also discovered at the same time, horse
likewise drowned. He was known to several citi
zens of Thomasville as a resident of Barm eville,
Pike County, Georgia, formerly from Suflield in
the State of Maine, but latterly a traveling cigar
agent.
Expedition against Mexico. —The New Yerk
Herald learns that a new filibustering movement is
on foot in that city, and that a small vessel has been
chartered by some friends of Santa Anna, and is
about to be sent off for Tampico, or some place in
that vicinity, with two or three tLousand muskets,
a lot of cartridges, and a few men, to kirk up a
rumpus in the State of Tamaulipus, preliminary to a
grand move of the friends of the ex-Dictator, in
and out of Mexico.
Scarcity of Provisions.— Northern Michigan
papers complain of a great scarcity of provisions in
their section of the State. Instances of great suf
fering. and almost starvation, in particular neigh
borhoods are reported. Property has been sacri
ficed at ruinous prices, and farms mortgaged to
obtain the means of subsistence.
Valuable Cargo. —The ship Republic cleared at
Charleston Thursday, for Havre, with J J 3 bales Sea
Island, 3,428 bales Upland Cotton, 2*25 tons Rails
and 3 boxes mdze, weighing 1,542,979 tbs., valued
at $213,519.
A letter dated Cape Palmas, -West Coast
March 3d, announces the conclusion of the wai in
that, quarter, and the return of Governor Roberts
and his force of one hundred men to Liberia. The
United States ship St. Louis remained in port.
The United States brig Dolphin arrived on the pre
vious day.
The Administration, it is stated, has offered the
Governorship of Utah to several prominent gentle
men, who have declined it. Gov. Izard, of Nebras
ka, is to be removed. Orville Clark, of New \or ,
is named as his probable successoi.
A Rise in Price s.—We learn from the New York t
Mirror that the landlords of the tirst-cfya* in.
that city intend to raise the price of board to $3 per
day-
Samuel D. Grimes died iu Pike county, Ala., J
]ae t week, at the advanced age of 110 years. I
i'h« Arctic Panorama.
Wt had the pleasure of examining this splendid
work of art, laat night, at Conceit Hall. It is truly
an exquisite specimen of the artist's skill. We start
on the voyage from New York ; and from the fideli
ty with which the familiar scenes about that city
are delineated, all can judge of the accuracy of the
entire Work. It would be in vain for us to single
out any particular portion, or, in fact, describe the
effect “Go and see foryourself," is all we can say
The sky, the water, the moon and stars, the
clouds, the stoi ins of snow, the groups of figures in
all their different positions, the icebergs, the ship
ping, aro all represented before us with a vivid
tiu !. fulness really startling. The Aurora Borealis,
. e Mirage and the Parhelion cannot be described.
I.ook at the picture before you; they are there 1
A master baud lias sketched Client with startling
reality. The effective representations of salutes
and signals at sea, and the heart rending distress
o the < rews of the shipwrecked aud burning ves
sels deserve particular notice.
A refilled mid delighted audience assembled to
greet the first exhibition, and applause was fre
quent and well deserved. It will bo exhibited again
to night.
Gov. Wise Cornered.— The “outside pressure'
upon Gov Wise, of Virginia, in reference to the
“distribution” sentiments of his Louisa Court House
speech of 1839-MO, which he now utterly repudiates
has compelled him to appear in the columns of “The
Smith” in explanation. The statement ho there
makes is certainly singular enough, lie says, spea
king of several of his prominent public acts: —
Now the act of 1836 was before and the act of
1841 after the Louisa speech ; my own real opinions
were given in speeches and votes ou these acts, in
my representative place ; and the Louisa speech
was made. at. the hustings iu an excited political
canvass wheu, as the speech shows to « very candid
mind who will read it, that the iutent was not to put
forth, my own opinion* on measures of policy and
const Uu 'ional questions so murk as to contrast and
romp-ire the opinions of Mr. Clay with those of Mr.
Van Hu ren , at a time when it was thought they would
be the competing candidates for the Presidency.
Once again l repeat, that my opinions on leading
measures, ns a public man, are uot to be found in
that speech.
Singular Suicide. —On Thursday laat the cap
tain of a steamer near St. Louis was collecting fare,
a German stone cutter named Hugle handed him &
note and immediately jumped overboard aud was
i drowned. The letter read as follows, aud was sign
ed Matthius Hugle:
Alton, 111., April 18,1857.
My Dear Wise —1 have to tell you to come over
here, as I intend remaining here, having a good
place. Corneas soon as possible, and bring every
thing along. Your faithful husbaud.
Postscript written in pencil.—Don’t come; 1 end
ed my existence ou tin; 21st of April, because you
always had such a foul mouth ana always tried to
wear the breeches, which you can do now. Adieu
and shift for yourself.
Inquest.—An inquest was held by Lewis Levy,
Esq., ou the body of a negro man named York, the
property of Mr. C. DeLaigle, who fell dead in the
field. The verdict of the jury was, “Died by a visi
tation of God.”
Land Warrants.—Thenumberof land warrants
issued during the present month, in Washington,
under the act of 1855, is over 3,000, requiring near
ly half a million acres of land. Altogether more than
200,000 warrants have been issued, to satisfy which
25,000,000 acres of land will be necessary. Six thou
sand warrants were issued under the same act to
persons who rend red military or naval service iu
the Revolution, or to their widows, requiring nearly
a million of acres to satisfy.
Supposed Loss ok the Barque Courier.—The
Captain of brig Tangier, from Matanzas, Cuba, ar
rived at Lliia port, spoko on the 14th of April in lati
tude 35, longitude 73 20, barque Courier, from Mo
bile, loaded with cotton, 15 days out, foremast and
main topmast, and rnizzen topmast carried away,
and leaking badly. The Captain offered to take the
Captain aud hands on board of his vessel, but the
otter was declined, and he passed on. A very heavy
gale came up Hoon afterwards, and it is feared that
t he Courier, with all on board have been lost.
Murder by Negroes.-—The Warrenton, Va.,
Whig states that a negro man iu Rappahannock
county, a few days since, for having informed upon
some of his associates, who had been stealing, was
taken out by them forcibly and hung. The negroes
are in jail.
Fire at Sandusky.—A fire occurred at Sandus
ky, Ohio, Wednesday morning, destroying the San
dusky Machine Company's buildings and contents;
also several dwellings. Loss SIOO,OOO, which is in
mred to the amount of $30,000.
Address of Secretary Stanton totheCiti
-:i:ns ok Lawrence.—Secretary Stanton address
ed a meeting of the citizens of Lawrence, Kansas,
last week . He was introduced by Gov. Robiuson.
He repeated the general and most important points
contained in his address previously published. lie
said the “bogus" laws must be enforced and the ter
ritorial taxes paid. The latter proposition was de
cidedly negatived by the audience. The speech
was listened to pleasantly and respectfully through
out.
Uniformed Police. —Uniforming the police of
American Jcities k appears to be among the im
provements destined to universal adoption. Every
week adds some additional city to the list, and we
feel confident, if the unquestionable benefits of the
system could be witnessed by those which have not
already done so, there would be an immediate re
resort to it among them. Newark, New Jer
sey, is the latest instance we have noticed. The
Daily Advertiser, of Tuesday, says :
The Chief, Captain and two Lieutenants of the
Police received yesterday from New York uniform
caps and coats, which are designed to be worn
while on duty. They are similar to those used by
the New York police, made of blue cloth, with brass
buttons. The caps bear on front the office of the
wearer, and are made somewhat in the militury
style with a straight visor. The coats are made in
the frock style with brass buttons, which when the
wearer i* off duty, are concealed with a blue velvet
cover. The uniform altogether presents a neat ap
pearance, and rendero 1 he wearer at once conspicuous
as a member of the police. It has not been required
by the city, but, we learn has been adopted at the
pleasure of the Chief and Assistants, and will be
imitat -d by all the force.
Crawford, the Sculptor. —A postscript to a
letter from Mrs. Crawford, dated Paris, April 9th,
to a gentleman iu Philadelphia, says :
I add a few words at the last moment, that you
may have the very, latest news of Mr. Crawford,
which this Saturday’s steamer can carry. He had
had a succession of comfortable days, and is this
morning better than he has been during the three or
four past ones. A quiet rest, a refreshing awaken
ing, and an arising without sickneps or discomfort
of any kind, have combined to make him feel
brighter—perhaps more encouraged. He is at this
present moment .having finished his breakfast, ex
tended ou a chaise lonpve —where he passes many
waking hours, and some sleeping ones, too.
In another part of he letter, Mrs. C. says the phy
sicians are of t l»e apinion t hat Mr. Crawford may live
several monjlf, possibly a year, but there is no
hope of his permanent recovery.
The Chinese Minister. —Mr. Wm. B.Rced, the
Chinese Minister, will embark in the steam frigate
Minnesota, which has been ordered to Norfolk and
to be in readiness to sail on the 15th of, May. The
Minnesota will receive the armament originally in
tended for the Colorado.
Marine Disasters. —The ship Delta, frpm St.
Thomas the 20th instant, and Bermuda the 25th, ar
rived at Halifax the 19th ult. The ship Arabella
from Apalachicola for Liverpool, was struck by
lightning on the 14th instant, and totally consumed.
The captain and crew were rescued and taken into
St. Georges on the 19th.
The Ohio Elope’ ent Case. —Judjje Torbell on
Wednesday at Springfield, Ohio, decided that the
wealthy heiress, Miss Martin, who recently eloped
with Mr. Boyd, was at liberty to go to her husband.
The Judge, however, doubted the legality of the
marriage, as the banns were not published. The
case has been up ou a writ of habeas corpus since
Friday last, and has caused great excitement. The
parties are highly respectable.
Loss of the Ship Cathedral.— The ship Ca
thedral, Capt. Howard, of 1616 tons, valued at SIOO,-
000, was lost on the 18th of February, on her way
from Boston to San Francisco. On the afternoon
of that day a tremendous sea struck the ship, and a
heavy squall passing at the same moment, she fell
immediately on her beam ends. The water rushed
in ; and the chief officer, Mr. Clarke, informed the
captain that the sli p was going down. The captain,
sick in bed at the time, told the mate to save him
self and others, if he could. As for his part, he would
go down with the ship. The foliowingjpersona were
were lost: Capt. W. H. Howard, of Boston ; Dr. C.
W. Kinkendafl, Trenton, N. J.; Ann K. Flaherty,
St. Johns, N. B.; Ben Davis, Bristol, England ; Jno.
Graham, Germantown, Pa.; John Delanv, of N. Y.;
ana Philip Koch and Samuel B. Hall, of Philadel
phia. The rest of the persons on board got into a
boat, and were picked up a few hours after by a
schooner.
Free Trade.—The London Post, of April 2d,
•jays : In the United States—our only compeer in
the commerce ot the world—the beginning of the
end of protection has made its appearance. It is
but a little, but it is the loosing of tne waters. The
concessions made by the manufacturing interests in
the Northern States—less the consequence of a re
cognition of sound principles than the fruits of an
overflowing exchequer—are in many instances tri
fling ; but we know what follows the introduction of
the point of the wedge. Free trade in the raw ma
terial of manufactures, and the drugs and dyestuffs
used in them, is now the law pf the United States.
Fact for Northern Circulation.— A New
Orleans gentleman, writing from Hot Springs, Ark.,
to the Picayune, says .
But how came I here, say you ? Well ; not will
ingly, nor on my own account. But having a very
faithful servant almost entirely paralized from the
effects of rheumatism, the doctors say, and the same
eminent authorities having j pronounced hie cure
very doubtful, unless carried to the Hot Springs of
Arkansas— that place healing the halt, the lame, and
the naralyzed, and the negro himself, seeming to
be , Overwhelmed at the idea of being sent off from
home, unless “master' went with him, I had no
other alternative—and here I am.
Fights with the Indians in New Mexico.—
Ou the 6th ult nine men from Casa Colerado, New
Mexico, near Albuquerque, were murdered by the
Indians in the mountains. On the 9tb of March,
Captain Gibbs, Kdles, from Fort Fillmore, attack
ed a number of Indian?, killed six, and severely in
iured another. Captain G. was severely wounded
'„y a lance, l.ieut. Baker, Hides, from Fort Thome,
on the nth attacked an Indian camp, and eight of
the men were desperately wounded. In this ao
tion, private Patric Sullivan was killed. Sergeant
Dugan, Corporal Brady, Bugler Keid, and private
Dougherty were wounded
Accident and Dkath.— Mr. James Brigman, of
this citv came to bis death on the doth ult, by an at
teinnt to’iump on the cars while the train was under
heaif»vay J near °Dover, Ala. He ost his balance,
■TiiT.nder the wheels and a portion of the train
oassedover him, mutilating his limbs in a horrible
manner The conductor stopped the train, picked
UP the sufferer and brought him to this city, where
he died an hour or two after his arrival. This aooi
dent presents another fearful warning against these
bold and life-hazardous risks of meeting a certain
and painfulideath, from a moving train. The de
ceaied was about 30 years ol age, and we learn
leaves a widow and eliildren to mourn their sudden
bereavement in this doubly afflictive death of hus
band and father. —Columbus Kriq., 2d.
loe was selling March the 12th, at Honolulu
Sandwich Islands, at 40 cents a pound.