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1857! • THE 1f357 !
Oi TIiKRiN < I I/riVATOR,
• rr,t Ag,.<;'>iurr., Hurt.culture', Stalk Urrtdhus^
/• /•, y , ««#, .17-0/ Farm Economy, trc.
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Jilu.ii also with Waffieroai Elegant Engravings.
-G-i DOLLAR A \ LAIC IN ADVANCE.
DA NIEL LEE. A D. Atilt l). REDMOND, EDITORS.
\ i if ♦ nth Volume will commence In
January, 1857
iiiiijr .« volume of:*-! pa-;i-. w th«- v «u»r. It contains a
VAIs I: Ai; M-: Dlt 10 IN A! • < JON I lil BCJT JONB
The Cash *SybiV m will lx; rigidly adhered to, and In
Hanks r«*r<-ivt 'I m par Ail money remitted by* mail!
• fagt paid, will U at the risk of tb« Publishers.
»■■al-h lii ! * I'! !ii annum, Ten DOLLAR*
AM ■ WII. K. JONES, Aumistn, tin.
FOR SALE.
T»*K «'«idcr i.au-d, being deriron <4 leaving the State,
* ;.t privat. a!y, ail 1., KKAL ESTATE in
the t own of Wairenion,\Vai rea county, Ga, consisting
oi a Dwelling liousc, and Lot of admit five acre#of
.a . Also, his Carriage Shop and la.t Tools, Machine,
ni.iiboi. i all hin t .t k. together with all his finished
and uni)oinbed work.
Pioin fifteen to twenty thousand dollars worth^of
•• « ' ' Im-'.wmn'a I ,;'* .f. .-u i the p»r
• baser. OKOItGE L KOSHER.
War ronton, fla , June 5, 1.8,%, jc7 wtf
FOR SALE.
I NOW mi,, i saleinyent.ro Him PLANTA'I ION,
1 "i M v.' -1 outh mi’■■l.iiubn Ua., in Barbour
good repair.* A go.Vwnf* r"oin 't i Perry ac ross tho
...no uiuil sold ttodj.o —r.iong.v n I'erni.i to suit pur
ri.ao i M (jaiiJl U i MA I 'i HEW AVEKETT.
TO MEN OF TASTE ANO CAPITAL.
cleared and mid** goo<H li . tno remainder generally
well timbered It has . ral sj.rlugs ofeool blue Lime
lane ,!*.;, 'V-r n*\ •n •i ' **' aj • i'ahirg'e ted com mod /
tis lb-ok Dwelling, urronnded by lino scenery, and
'.fhonutT t'rfUUy. /..oveui! ru-e.' and hoalthfuluoss to an
uxteer H • I ii ev.r. equalled in this country. But
a;i I res.ini» ol the place cau hardly fail to satisfy you
that It i. a No I art Urn i «,t subject to the fliutuatitV.
J W. D. COWDREY.
1 \.\ e Spi ing, July 10 1 jyLLwtf
A writ i
J\ timber, d •’«'<) a . re*, clesrod, and produces the best
So* I . . all kind A good
; .vi i v ,dt* ag- on rooms, with four
rtre |da. ■ r. i. 110 feet Pia/.r i . Kitt'h* n. Smoke House |
tw ) story (’■ • m lions. (Un House, and other buildings,
hi '• . •»>. pr, i.-«-s, with a Well of good water ; a line
range for and Cattle; Fish and Oysters convenient
t ular . c.io ho oMained l»\ application to the subscriber
at Sun uma! V. WOOLLEY.
LAND AGENCY.
I > OIIT. W. SI *1 MS, Newuan, Coweta county, !
r\ni s u ' ! ! ! 0,1 io t th f o, p p,i ‘ 4 j
, wdi anre and wish sold, can !
,• ittendeu to by pending me their uumbers |
and I.,i:i. ..a-ms Oft hie. nod power of attorney to sell and
make till. I w ill also give particular attention to buy
.ng 1 and who may desire it. .M w6m . !
Qoor orw srdod Free of Caaige 1
ai < * . \and avann.v railroad.
VTT!:.>TM.N t called to thi.i Road n> & means of
N n oaren. ' t r FIRST CLA >M
MTFV .« Illi s.wiSiU.il.' W-I lad Sailing Vessel
rmi • ny... . '•..!*’! i .'!wem Now-York
anil > anna . a >«. a St« ai oibip Lino from Philadet
I'liia. r.nd Sailing \ c It-<m lliut |»«-rt, Hal»lu»>«re and
It > in.ik’ug tl o t unmunlcation between tb« North
r.mc All,l .mail hi reliable tor CERTAINTY
ANoßl'i<KD, a* that to any oilier Southern Port.
\Thn U a*l tan oxjii tonlj the liu ilucsa of Augusta,tho
Town* a:i-1 Comities along the lino of the Georgia Rel
oad. and those Counties lying to the North of that Road
Other Roa.i have a larger fleid of ope ration* that cannot
ho nogh t,• i merely to i-tvure no limited n lra«ff a.*
that to v. Mob we mast alone give alt our ilmo ; ami
,L> comp t i. i will heallovrc l, by superior attention, to
tl iprlve . * ; it. tor it is our fall determination toconduct
tt wit;* that th.eUty, du;u..ch and eo< omy, which insure
As re» ants Rates,they shall ho as low ashy any other
R,.ad ami in order t * reduce all chary. * to a minimum
rate, contract* for have already boon eutered
tofo at Savannah, and no one connected with theßeceiv
lug an l Forwarding ha. any ether i-‘f**rc t than that of
aeelug that ALL OH AROES are at tho lowest rates.
I By Railroad * saving of ons quarter oi one per
cent can bo made in the In ur&nct between Northern
'a. *G • •4s U *]V.R',YAR!>r.i) I BOP OOMMIB
- N : i ti, v . a:c, • it.' 0 R !•.
¥ 1 KANI lS 1 V.'H.'.lv. P. -o.hmt.
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COLEMA N HUU SV7,
BY LANIKR & KADY,
KNOXVILLE, TENS.
!i tt E undei ogued having taken charge of this large
and commodious House, respectfully solicit and
hop© to merit a libera! dtare of pati on go. Tho house is
• *\ h i: ’ a
• h»w to convenience and comfort It is situated in the
heart of the city, couv enient to all the business, and on
ihe pr •. .pal street An omnibus is always in readiness
1 • o iiv, v ' .ami tYoin the Depots ou the arri
val a*. ’it i.Ai-tur, . the cars. The S;agc for Montvalc
Spring' arrives and departs daily.
rbe table will be supplied with the best the market
affords, and no cams will be span ! to render guest?
. iinf. . SAMPSON LANIER.
Jn 1 v l' ; l> • • liv.' Mf] JOHN KADY
S3O REWARD.
1* VNAVk IV, iron f •* l riber. residing in Put-
IV tie.ir M. .n August last, my Negro
Man PR \\ K. lie is about years old, five feet ten iu
©he* h . h. of me<t .am size. has a slight impediment in his
I
The above reward will be paid for bis delivery to me,
The Southern R vorder will publish till forbid, audfor-
BEARDEN <* FRANCISCO,
I )KOnm \M> t*o >m ISSION MERCHANTS,
L 1 Mar.'tt. It a. w 'll sell on Commission. Bacon, Lard,
L Flour, Corn. Oats, Feathers, and Tennessee Produce
* Merchants and Citizen* of Knoxville ; Morgen & Co .
J ; - f 1-tt F . !.r Naahwde ;
*L.. \ Chuii bell.* lien Chau tier A Co. J A M.
Fiem ' Cl. . i; 1. J. Camp! ell, Cleveland; R C.
Jacks m. Ath« •• Merchants of East Teuneasegenerally.
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PATENT GROUND.
H AVIMi .b- d from Mr. Win Southwell Lis
. pat; i- •_ • - . -'ding r n Y.arand o:!u r SAWS.
saw- made—an«i are not liable to become untrue.*
Were-; ec tfu l!y info-in all manufactures of Lumber,
that no Saw will be s Lt f. ai this establishment but
wbst is of superior Iceland workmanship; ihe temper
will be fouad more even and uniform than any saw c
Otu re.»'. .♦ :i \ OAR MICA AEL A BEAN, Angus
a.Ga. j-i WELCH A. GRIFFITH
PRACTICJ OF SURGERY.
I kK. Jl HI All U prepared to aeoom
I ’ mouH. «• w.-.h l..and Nursing, such patients as
tL»ay be dir? , t.-.i ty Uiiafor Surgical operations or treat
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NOTICE.
r I' 11 1 ' I * S-. li No lS7.letlCTß.July
# i‘* ' ‘ 1 Poe, President, and the left
. a.t t ■ p. loiter A. payable to Geo. M
■SnknfAiSnoi 'f JV ' I>av Cashier, ou the
■Qbaorlhcr n t-' * l f *n e ,Ut ° of tbc
,’ 4 ' .‘ , ‘ 1 - rt, ‘ Ui-'i:tLs after date ap
i’U in a »*. V 1 i r the anovc haif
-w,
“tymont*. tVb u lheci!j of A;i ?usta for the
ap?-w3m WILLIAM VINEYARD.
let the LADIES READ THTS.
- no »i"«l*«rtlf> K. math ..mght for. »nd
wPF.m I - , u obtain, as a GuOb
HhLLiLt tl the Ladies will rejoice that at lasi there
S.]T...“f'r. 01 - 1 . 11 ' '- h > ' !l mpy.*u buy, niib tb,
,U ** 3 U - a ‘ ey art * P crfoct iu every respect,
and umior. i v » the case with mo*t other
Needle# now iu use w.. a sm<ui portion of a paper
prove good, but every Fecdie is varranltd.
Be -urn and buy L. J LAW HENCE S GOO VE LESS
PERFECT EYED NEEDLES, to l>c found at all the
Stores. jan3i-w6nto
S2O REWARD
HA N A 'V.4I Ihe bubscr.U .» on the 30;h of May
;ast, : Neg • Mau named ABEL, of black com
plexiou, etout built, and weighs about 80pounds There
are no particular marks about him, except a blemish i
one of his ey« ’l h* bove reward will be given lor his
apprehension and delivery to the undersigned in Augus-
U. Ga KIRKPATRICK A CAMPBELL.
jeO-wtf
\rAHMSIf. Copt I, Japan aud Coach VARNISH
iuai received, and for sale at
H. F. CHEW’S DRUG STORE
apt* Turpin a Iron Rauge
Weekly Chronicle & Sentinel.
The Fir»» >op»f«l« nf Mbit S< o(s.
Mr 1., I.e< editor Os the St. L*mi>> Leader,
I . , a lit.-;i a »■* iutereetioK life of Mary Ouean
lof Sootn—a womau who, in her youth, was queen
of tienuly, nod in her lifter yeai.-:, queen of sorrow,
i\v rtratt the folkwing graceful jjitesageb:
j On the Sunday following, the solemn ceremony
I w 111- firmed by the bride’s uncle, the Cardinal,
wh.h «1! the jKjinp and splendor that the beauty of
the ritual and thi: maenificeut style of the times
could allow. The chroniclers, ancient and modern,
vie with each other in the minute description of the
-<'<e - pact- poured in theirepilhalamia by dozens,
most eloquent and enthusiastic among whom was
Master Geo. Buchanan.
>t -y of course, looking exquisitely; her
I •'•f -t b • un of sixteen years was clad ‘in a robe.
,-r than Idly, with a regal mantle and train of
hiui.-h gray cut velvet, richly embroidered .with
white silk and peai s.' She, (ike her mother, was
comndera.bly above the ordinary size of women,
d I'Xquio tely formed, particularly her bands and
• I.: H- r I,air wie very abundant, ar,d of a rich
chestnut color, her eyes large and a very dark hazel,
HJiu COflipleXlOD t Uh.' OI li (ielb'uAe Eru:.etlc, clear,
but without, much color. She stood at the eule of
her young Francis, the Daupliin, in the
old pavilion, erected before the doors of Notre
Dame, and heard the blessing pronounced which
W/iH to make her, eventually, Queen of France, while
tn<* shoros of the Heine rung with the ac< lamat.ioiifl
of the de!igb;sd tu J entha.-nuUc pe<iple.
“Then Joilowed the grand dinner at ibe palace of
H: - Archbishop, stud then the country ball, which
terminated at the very reasonable hour of 5 o’clock
in the afternoon. After that, back to the palaco,
where «upper and rich pageant* had been com man
ded. A hundred gentlemen served the meal; a
hundred more raised on a dais ‘discoursed moat elo
quent musk ’ Francis le Walafra, heroic Due de
Ouise, was master of the ceremonies; the vases,
ilagons and bar ins, fresh tfom th«f magic chisel of
Benvenuto Cellini, Hashed c.ut on the board.—
Fleura-de-lya in gold studded the azure eeiling, and
from the walls, in statuesque repose, looked down
the lengthened line of Gallic kings from Pharamond
in Henry, lather of the bridegroom. The guests
bore nauc -still wonderful iri history. C'onde and
j nicely Lorraine, and the etern constable of
! 1- ranee, old Montmorenci, Angouleme and d’Este,
I and Catherine de Medic is and Jeanne d‘Albert, the
wiintiy Queen of Navarre.
“First iu the pageant, when the meal was ended,
came the seven planets marching iu succession.
Mars in his Minor, Dian with her bow. Then five
and twenty steeds, each bearing a young prince,
defiled before the Scottish bride. Then coaches
: ill of piJgrimn, chanting songs ; then a triumphal
nr filled with musicians, and drawn by silver cords.
Next came twelve pr'meen, on twelve unicorns, sup
ported by the arms of Scotland.
• But the finest pomp o£all was after the dancing
had been ended, when six fine galleys, with silver
i.lasts, sailed in, each guided by a prince, who, as
they passed the groups of ladies, seized and carried
otl one of thejn, as the wild Norse Vikings used to
win their brides. The Dauphin caught his fair
young v. ife, the King of Navarre hia pious old one.
Bn .test ant Conde won the Duchess ot Guise, head
of the Catholic party ; and thus, 4n the regal hall,
ablaze with light, the mirth wenton, while outside
the heralds scattered money among the shouting
people, and Paris was tinny with joy.
Why, even in sober old Scotland, across the sea,
they were feasting and making merry in honor of
their darling young queen’s nuptials. There were
‘lyres and processions,’ and a ploy was acted in
Edinburgh, and even the oid *Moni A/.'g* was tired,
and prudent Sawney sent after the bullet, and ten
shillings were paid out to somebody for bringing up
the huge gun, to be schote, and for the finding and
earrying of her bullet, after she was schote fVae
\N ardie muir to the castle.^”
“It win a very young couple, that royal pair;
Francis being but fifteen, and Mary, thirteen
months his senior, in her sixteenth year. But they
had grown up together, and he, thoifgh somewhat
timid and feeble, was sincerely loved by his girl
wife, and returned her affection with passionate
1 f*nderness. But the marriage sports and the
t> anting are over, and earnest life has begun for the
Queen Daupliiness. Now, led by ill-judged coun
sel, she sows the first seed of discord to ripen into
venomous maturity, between herself and Elizabetu
of England.'
‘Pass but a little while, a few short months, and
the young husbadd is dead. He was ‘attacked with
hi. abcesH in the <n'.r;’ an acute in flam (nation of the
brain succeeded ; when God changed his counte
nance, and sent him away;’ and a young wife and
willow remained to weep for a lover-lmsband, too
early called hence to b•• here no more. But let our
author depict the scene :
“Tenderly did his young queen watch and nurse
him, buthe sank gradually until the fifth of Decem
ber , when he yielded to his disease. When the last
..Hie* r were administered to him, the feeble boy
ling asked for absolution for all the wicked deeds
that had been done in his name by his ministers of
state and when the religious duties of the solemn
hour were over, h»* appeared to have no earthly
thought b it for the pale, fair girl who sate by his
pillow weeping. Earnestly he conjured his mother
to be kind to he , to love her as a daughter, as earn
estly he asked his brothers to promise that she
!i udd be a beloved sister to them, and so, iu tire
venteenth vear of life, in the seventeenth month
(f his r«*ign, Francis the second died.
“With Ins death the Quirtes fell, and Catherine
dr Medici* was once nmre Regent ami Mistress of
Ki.uice, and prepared to avenge upon the Queen
of Scots w hatever slights she had borne during that
sad reign.
“Mary was now an orphan and a widow . her pro
tector, Henry 11., was (lead . her uucles fallen . her
royal mother-in law and her cousin implacable ene
mies . her hirthrealm torn by conflict ing parties, she
litM-a-lf upoor, young, fricuuless queen. ‘She was,’
says the English spy, Sir Nicholas Throckmorton,
‘a heavy aud deloious (Vif.*, us of good right sha had
reason so be, who, by long watching with him
through lu s nineteen da^s’sickness, and by painful
diligence about him, but especially the Issue thereof,
is u(*t in the best time of her body.’
‘So writffc Throckmorton to her foe Elizabeth.—
‘Take curt.of her for my Fake,' pleaded the dying
kind, ‘O, Francis!’ exclaimed Charles IX., looking
at her portrait, ‘happy brother! Though your life
and reign wore so short, you were to ne envied in
this, that you were the poaiessor of that angel, aud
the object of her love.’
‘.John Knox, recording the death of Francis, speaks
ol him simply an the ‘husband of our Jezebe !’
“Mary has recorded somewhat of her own feeling
of bereavement in a letter to the King of Spain, and
iu the verses that close this chapter.
“ ‘You have consoled,' she writes to Phillip II ,
“by jour letters, the most afflicted poor woman uu
der heaven, Übd having deprived me of all I loved
and held most dear on earth, and left nie no.other
comfort save that of seeing others deplore Ins loss,
and iny too great misfortun ». God w ill assist me,
if il pleases Him, to bear what comes from Him with
patience, for without His aid, I confess I should
tirnl so great a calamity too heavy for my strength
and little virtue.’
“And these are the willow’s verses :
‘Tli© voice of my sail song.
NY itli mournful sweetness, guides
My piercing eye along
Tli© track that death divides;
‘Mid sharp and b tter sighs,
My youth’s bright morning dies !
“(Jan greater woes employ
The * courge of ruthless fate T
Can au v hop©. when joy
I\r'sakcs viy Ligh ©state ?
My eye and heart behold
The shroud their love enfoid.
‘O’er my life’s early spring,
And o'er its opening bloom
My deadly sorrows fling
The darkness of the tomb.
My Mar of Hope is set
in yfaruiog and regret
‘That which once madeino gay
Is hateful iu my sigh* ;
The smiles of day
To me is darkest night ;
No keener pangs contend
Than iniue their stiugs to blend
’<> Memory's steadfast throne,
One image ever reigns,
Whose outward name alone
My garb of wo maintains
And violets paint my cheek
With lines that lovers seek.
‘1 tlnd on earth no rest,
Unwonted source of grtef,
Yet changes may be blest,
If they bring relief.
'Hie world, whate'er my fate
Alike is desolate.
When to the distant >kies,
I raise my fearful sight,
The sweetness ot his eves
Ream> from he*cloudy height
Or from the clear, deep wave,
He smiles as from the grave.
When day's long toil is o’er.
And dreams steal round mv couch
I boar tha*voice once more.
1 thrill to that deafftoneh.
I ti labor and repose,
My soul his presence know s
No othe^ object seems,
Lovely though it may be,
What my sight worthy deems,
For others or for me.
My heart -hall ne'er o’erthruw
The summit of love’s wo.
My song, these murmurs cease,
With which thou hast eomplaiued.
Thine echo shall be peace '
Loye changeless and unu igned.
Shall draw no weaker breath,.
Ju parting nor in death.’
Mr Bivhanan and the South.— Since the
“resident inhabitant v and alien suffrage doctrines of
Mr Buchanan’s Inaugural, are about to be ccu
summated by Governor Walker in Kansas, we are
anxious to see what trick will be next resorted to,
by the Democratic leader? of the Sooth, to humbug
the people. We wish to know the color, tefnper
imi size of 4 tbe next animal which will spring from
the Democratic mealdub. Is he to be like Van
Huron ‘a Northern man with Southern principles,”
or like old Buck, a Northern man with freesoil
princ’ples ’ W hope the people bth at the North
and South will see that the next IVs.Jqntial candi
date s* not sole* ed by politicians, but by themselves
—and he is a National man with National princi
ples. all wilfbe well l’he De mocratic party has
Fncoeeded ?o admirably iu saving what whs never
endan*en-d =ex< ept from its own tollv) that South
erners will hardly trust to it for salvation stgnin,
unless as Butler says—
True, tk© pleasure is a'fcreat.
In K icg cheated, as to cheat
lt will be noticed that for years back, the Demo
cratic party has signally failed to reduce any o f fta
principles always except the spoils- into practice,
Every four years, there is a revolution in that party
and the Northern or Southern w ing in power, in
>:♦ ad of attending to the great interests of the coun
try. art* plotting and adopting remedies to heal the
broken wing, even if the bqdv the coud try J dies.
When the ease becomes very desperate the Demo
cratic quacks are dismissed, a Whig or American is
elected by the people, and we for a season hear no
move of tLdt "bttfod {indtAunde l in politics, which
was once iucorpt-rated in a ou the Mam
moth Cave of Kentucky :
*The ruameth care, O * what a spot,
Iu summer cold, in winter hoi,
Great God Almighty, what a wonder ‘
Geueral Jackson, bioodand thnsd.-r !
The Democratic ca\ e L always at variance with
the laws of nature. Iu winter ft is made too hot
an»i iu the summer too cool, by Southern Hotspurs
and Northern Aminiuab Sleeks, to suit the conSti- (
tutions of conservative sensible men of any section
Qoih mbus Enquirter. *
IJV* S ** Ottyton. died at his residence in
Dublin, Laurens County, on the 16th nit. Dr. Guv
ton was an eminent physician, and had represented
Laurens U ounty with ability in both branches of onr
Statei 'Legislature leave© a family ancTinanv
gir * l ° moum bie tarl - v death.—Afar** Messt i -
SHooriN.. i> Jaxington.-Io a quarrel
C %- a *" ll ‘ f departed etates
man. aud a horse framer named Edgar, in Eexing
ton. ivy., on Tnuredav. the former ahot the latter
twee wiLh a p,et°; One ball entered hie mouth
and passed out behind the ear. Another bail lodged
m hte back. Edgar te reported mortally wounded
lui parueehave not been on amicable terms for
sometime. —Ctnctunati Cumumaat ~
Tbere were 353 death* in New York during the
past week, being 19 less than the week preceding
Os this number 900 were under ten years of age,
and 39 were inmates of of the public institutions.
Cpurtumptiou claimed 59 victims, and scarlet fever
16.
Dr. Livin«c**ion% Advcntiirp-t and I>i*eoverJ**a
!■ Africa.
Having sent h<« wife and children to England
under the direction, and to the care of the London
Missionary Society, on the Bth of June. 183 i!, I)r.
Livingston proceeded from Cape Town, whither he
had gone to see his family embark, a distance from
h;.-* missionary station oi no les? than a thousand
miles. He returned to Koruman, Mr. Moffat's sta
Don, where he wa* detained for a time by untoward
circumstances. The Trans-Vaal Bf»ers. seeking re
venge far hia supposed influence with the Bakwains
in the matter of traffic in ivory, had desolated the
Kolobeng station, killed sixty of the natives, and
expressed their intention to murder him. In the
spirit of true heroism, he desisted not from his pur
pose, but determined to open a new way into the in
terior, although he had lost £3OO.
Starting from the Kumman station, he proceeded
in a north and north-westerly direction, byadiffer
ent route from that which he had formerly taken,
chiefly to avoid the “tsetse Thu new path
brought him into a densely wooded country, where,
to his great surprise, he found vines growing luxu
riantly, and yielding clusters of dark purple grapes.
Bat it was aVearyjourney both for man and beast,
as the grass was from eight to ten feet high, and our
traveler was compelled to perform the double duty
b »th of driver and road maker, “having,” as he
tells us, “either the axe or tne whip in hand all day
long, till we came to latitude 18 degrees 4 minutes.”
FJf-re he found himself approaching the Chobe, and
entering that network of fivers called Linotkanoka.
The state of things was now widely different from
that which he saw on his former visit. Then the wa
tors were at their lowest point, and flowed within
their ordinary channels; now the country was flood
ed. This formidable difficulty was much increased
by the sudden illness of almost ali his attendants.—
He had, therefore, to work his way to Linyanti al
most unassisted, being compelled to leave the inva
lids and the wagon behind him. Having with some
difficulty crossed the smallest of these flooded
streams, he reached a river called the Sanshurah, half
a mile broad, abounding with hippotami. Embark
ing, with only one attendant, in a email pontoon
which he had brought with him from Cape Town,
lie proceeded across the flooded country in search
of Die Chobe.
After “splashing,” as he says, “through twenty
miles of an inundated plain,” he climbed a high
tree and was gladdended by a sight of the much de
sired river. On approaching it he found abroad
chevau.c de frise of papyrus reeds, and other aquatic
plants interwoven with a creeper resembling the
convolvulus, w'hich rendered Chobe almost unap
proachable. By breaking or crushing this rank
vegetation, in order to obtain a footing in the wa
ter, often deep, out of which it grew, he struggled
on toward the open stream, taking the pontoon with
1 im. A still more formidable barrier than reeds and
Hags next presented itself, in what he calls “a hor
rid sort of grass, about six feet in height, having
serrated edges which cut tire hands most cruelly,
wore liia mole skin, unmentionables, quite through
at his knees, and his shoes, nearly new, at the toes.”
Ibreedays were thus spent amidst the mass of
reeds ; but, though he was constantly wading, and
wet up to the middle, he during that time slept
soundly at night, and on the fourth day he was re
warded for his labor by hia success in reaching the
river, and launching the pontoon upon its bosom.—
Joyfully embarking in this frail craft, he paddled
down the Chobe about twenty miles, and arrived
at a village of the Makololo. The natives stood
aghast at his apparition. Entrenched, as they sup
posed, by their rivers, they believed themselves to
be unapproachable. sudden arri
val, therefore, was to them a great marvel, and the
achievement exalted him in their eyes. The only
explanation which they could devise for so strange
an event, was, that “he had fallen on them as
from a cloud, and yet came riding on a hippota-
As 88011 art information of the arrival of Dr. Liv
ingrtton reached Liny anti, a number of canoes, con
taining one hundred and forty natives, were sent
off to convey him and his wagon to the town, where
they received a welcome such as is given only to
their chief. The delight of Sekeletu, the successor
of Sebitoane, who was then only about nineteeu
years old was manifested both in his actions and his
words—he said,
“I have now got another father, instead of Sebi
loane 1”
The feeling of delight manifested by the chief
was shared by the people. The mode of address
here adopted Sekeletu to the doctor, is very common
among the African tribes. Mr. Moffat, speaking of
Moselekatse, and of his intercourse with |that war
rior chief, says :
“ As he wa< rather profuse in his honorary titles,
especially in calling' me a king, I requested him
rather to call me a teacher, or anything but, a king.
‘Then,’ lie said, * shall I call you my father V I
rejoined ‘ Yes ; but only on condition that you be
an obedient son.’ This drew from him and his no
bles a hearty laugh.”
As to the doctor’s reception among the Makololo,
the prevalent idea with thorn Beemed to be that,
with bis arrival, some great and indefinite good
news was to be expected. They imagined that they
were immediately to be raised to the same condi
tion, in point of importance and civilization, with
the Bakwaius, and the Kururaanese, of whom they
had received a very exaggerated account, and they
fancied they would soon be possessed of the clothing,
the horses, the arms, the wagons, and other acc >u
trements belonging to the white people. The sel
fishness and discontent with their present condition,
so natural to man in all ages and countries, was par
tieularly manifested by these savages on this occa
sion. They said, “ Jesus had not loved their fore
fathers, hence their own present degradation. He
had loved the white man, and had given them all
the wonderful things they now possess ; and, as the
missionary had come to teach them to pray to Jesus,
and to pray for them, their wants woula soon be
supplied.” They expected, no doubt, a very great
deal of advantage from the doctor’s medicines, lib
erality, kindness and power. The idea which the
Airican tribes have of the attribute is often pecu
liarly favored by circumstances. The doctor’s
falher-m-law tells the following capital story, which
happened among the natives at his station.
Mr. Moffat says, it was related to him by one of
them in graphic style. “Two men had succeeded
in stealing an iron pot. Having just taken it flora
the fire, ii was rather warm for handing convenient
ly over a fence ; and, doing no awkardly, it fell on
a stone, and was cracked. ‘lt is iron,’ said they,
and off they went with their booty, resolving to
make the best of it; that is, if it w r ould not serve for
cooking, they would transform it into knives and
spears. After some time had elapsed, and the hue
and cry about the missing pot had nearly died away,
it wap brought forth to a native smith, who had laid
in a stock of charcoal for the occssion. The pot
was further broken, to make it more convenient to
lay hold of with the tongs which are generally made
of pieces of the bark of a tree. The native vulcau,
unacquainted with the nature of cast iron, having
with his bellows produced a good heat drew a piece
from the fire. To his utter amazement it flew into
pieces at the first stroke of his little hammer. Auother
and another niece was brought under the action of the
fire, and then uuder the hammer, wdth no better
success. Both the thief and smith, gazing with eyes
and mouth dilated on the fragments of iron scatter
ed round the atone anvil declared their belief that
the pot was bewitched and concluded that pot steal
ing was a bad speculation.”
The morning of the day fixed for the doctor's depar
ture presented a scene of unusual animation and in
terest at his starting point, which was Sekhose, a
village on the Zambese. His movements were re
garded with extraordinary anxiety. On the banks
of the river many w T ere gathered, who watched with
extravagant gesticulation and discordant utter
ances, the miniature tieet which was collected upon
its waters. Uuder the bright tropical sky there you
might have seen thirty-three canoes, manned by one
hundred and sixty rowers, awaiting the signal for
their depart me. Out of this fleet, Dr. Livingston
selected a vessel twenty-one inches wide and thirty
tour feet long, manned by six experienced and ath
letic rowers. The Zambese now rolled on in am
ple volume, in the direction contrary to that which
he intended to take; but no sooner was the word
of command uttered, than the rowers swept through
ilie wates at a rate tar suppassing that of the current
mighty though it was. As he proceeded up the
river, the doctor was filled with the aduiiration at
its magnificence and beauty. “It is often,” he says
“more than a mile broad, and adorned with nume
rous islands of from three to five miles in length.—
These, and the banks too, are covered with forests,
and most of the trees on the brink of the water send
down roots from th« ir branches like the banian. —
The islands, at a little distance, seemed rounded
masses of sylvan vegetation of various hues, recli
ning on the bosom of the glorious stream. The beau
ty of the scene is greatly increased by the date palm
and lofty palmyra towering above the rest, and
casting their leathery foliage against a cloudless
sky. The banks are rocky and undulating, and ma
ny villages of the Banyeti, a poor, but industrious
people, are situated upon both of them. They are
expert hunters ot hippotami and other animals, and
cultivate grain extensively.”
A Cap it ai. Story. —Some j’ears sioce, au eccen
tric old genius, whom for convenience we will call
Barnes, was employed bj’ a farmer living in a town
some six or seven miles westerly from the Penobscot
river, to dig a well. The soil aud substratum being
mostly sand, old Barnes, after having progressed
downward about forty feet, found one morning up
on going out to his woi a that the well had essentially
caved iu and was full L>early to the top. So having
that desire, which men cave, of knowing what wiu
be said of them after they are dead, and no one be
ing yet astir, he concealed himself in a rank growth
of burdocks by the side of a board fence near the
mouth of the well, having first left his hat and frock
upon the vgindlass over the weU. At length break
fast being ready, a boy was despatched to call him
to his meal, when lo ! aud behold ! it was seen that
Barnes was buried in the grave unconsciously dug
h>' his own hands. The alarm being given, and the
family assembled, it was decided first to eat break
fast aud then send for the coroner, the minister, and
his wife and children. Such apathy did not flatter
Barnes' self-esteem a bit, but he waited patiently,
determined to hear what was to be said, aud see
what was to be seen.
Presently all parties .arrived and began ‘prospect
ing the scene of the catastrophe, as people usuallj*
do in such cases. At length they drew together to
exchange opinions as to what should be done. The
minister at once gave it as his opinion that they had
better level up the well and let Barnes remain ; for,
said he,‘he is nojy beycud the temptation to sin.
and in the day of judgment it will make no differ
ence whether he is buried five feet under the ground
or fifty, for he is bound to come forth in either case.
The coroner likewise agreed that ‘it wouid be a
needless expense to his family or the town to disin
ter him when he was so effectually buried, and
therefore entirely coincided with the "minister. His
wile thought that as -he had left his hat aud frock, it
would be hardly worth while to dig him out for the
rest of his clothesaud so it was settled to let him
remain. But poor old Barnes, who had no break
fast and was not at all pleased with the result of the
inquest, laid quiet until the shade of evening stole
over the landscape, theu he quietly decamped to
parts unknown.
After remaining incogntto for about three years,
one moruiuig he suddeuly appeared hatless and
frockless as he went) at the door of the farmer for
whom he had agreed to dig the unfortunate well.
To say that an avalanche of questions were rained
upon him as to his mysterious re appearance, A*c.,
w quid convey but a feeble idea of the excitement
which his bodily presence created. But the old man
bore it all quietly, and at length informed *them that
on finding himselft buried he waited for them to
dig him out, uutil his patience was exhausted, when
he set to work to dig himself out. and only the day
before had succeeded . for, his ideas being somewhat
confused by the pressure of the earth at the time
he was buried, he had dug veiy much at random,
and instead of coming directly to the surface, he
came out io the town of HcJdne , *ucmucs eatt of ike
Penobscot river f
No further explanations were sought for by those
who were so distressed and sorrowful over his sup
posed final resting place.— Bangor Jtferionian.
The Population or Utah.— The Mormons in
Utah are not by any means sa numerous as they
endeavor to make the world believe. In fact they
seem to have palmed off spurious
census statistics upon the public. In the early part
ot the year iSSo, the Mormons estimated their
strength in Utah roundly at 30,000 to 36,000, bat at
the ssh conference of that year, as appears from a
regular census taken by themselves, they did not
quite come up to 10,000. According to information
obtained from the Mormon agency in St. Louis, in
1854, it appears that the immigration of 1854 was
only about 0500, that 3600 was the sum total repor
ted as shipped from Liverpool for 1855, and that
3000 only were iLe numbers intended to be sent
ovar the plains the same year. With these data,
and making a fair allowance for the lose and gain,
the population in 1856 was estimated by the Hon.
B G Ferris at 98,500. From these slender figures
they have gone on magnifying their population un
til they have actually induced most persons to be
lieve i» one hundred thousand At the present time
it does not reach, it is said, 40,000
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 24, 1857.
From Ike National Americetm. 3 %
To the Southern flight* Wing of the oh) *• 4 Si
mon Pure** Democratic Party of (<eoena.
1. one of your number in reason and
address a few words to you. I Apgret that tffi com
munication cannot 1 each you through the dfi?ars of
the so-called Democratic party of this djy—this
‘ Latter Day Saint Democracy.” A man will often
times admit that he is sick, but neither you Dior I
have ever yet seen any one take physic if lßrbonld
avoid it—not even a doctor himself. So it is with
the “Constitutionalist.” “Times Ac Sentinel,
ral Union," “Telegraph," etc. They krfow the
right, but still the wroDg pursue. But” I anticipate.
\ ou and I once belonged to a party in Georgia, and
in other States as well, who opposed the “Cmupro
.niae measures of 1850,” believing them to Abe, as
they really tccre , a base surrender to anti-Savery
propagandists. We thought then, (I still,
and ever shall,) that Toombs, Stephens, C6bb &
Co., had basely surrendered our Rights as
iu the Union ! We were, upon the whole, no l>is
unionist per se, (a few were and are so still,) though
tee tccre all so charged , and we were defeated by
the united powers of the Triumvirate , and those
led by them from both the Whig and Democratic
parties ’ We were obliged to submit, but the spirit
that animated us was not crushed out ; it Uannot
be ; I am loth to belie ever can be. by human
power, unless ice rccreaotly surrender our rights
by our oven actions. Since that contest, new' cause*
of concern to us have arisen—nevr doctrines imve
been sprung upon the country, aud boldly advocated
all over the Union, and by none more eloquently than
by this same Triumvirate, Toombs, Stephens' and
Cobb !! One of these doctrines is, that an "Alien,
pauper or criminal, or what not, has more right to
vote in a Territory than you or I, native-born citi
zens. I say more right, and I mean that you and I
had to serve twenty one years, while these people
can vote in as many days ! Did you ever put* your
eyes on an Alien w’ho was a sincere advocate, knd
defender of the institution of Slavery \ I 'iterer
have, aud 1 have known many, and some of them
slaveholders! These people— aliens —flockingjby
hundreds of thousands to the Territories ofjihe
United States —bein x there allowed to vote on*ufeir
arrival—to fonn constitutions ; and being in deadly
hostility, by nature and education, to our dorcfb|tic
institution of Slavery, th nk you they will not show
their faith by their works ? How many free States
will make application for admission ere long, made
so by these Alien votes of Toombs, Stephens, Cobb
&. Co., and thus overpower us in Congress? fltfy
Southern Rights friends of 1850, think of Shis
alarming truth, I beseech you ! How long will it
be after these fanatic scoundrele get the power*be
fore they will alter the Constitution, aud redur€ us
to a vassalage worse—infinitely worse—than dlktli
itself? How lung? This is not all that concerts
us. We sent our quota of Representatives to Con
gress, but overcome by the sordid lust for pWc<
and plunder they have exhibited such weakness—
such want of true patriotism—such disregard of our
rights and interests, that to day where is the man
upoh wnoDi we can rely to face and fight our ene
mies ? Is it Toombs? His record shows his vote
for Alien Suffrage iu Minnesota! Is it Stephens !
His whining over Kansas last year and this year,
in aud out of Congress, answers the question. To
whom shall we turn ? Would to God w r e had a Cal
houu or a Dawson! But the day of great niedf
pure men—patriotic men—has passed away, and in
their stead who have we ? Are you prepared, con
scientiously, to endorse these men after what hfca
passed ? Are you prepared to repudiate your prin
ciples and again vote tor these Southern renegades 1
Remember these facts in October. #
Last year, many of you, no doubt, charmed by
that magic name Democrat, voted for Buchanan,
but little did you think or believe, 1 would fain
hope, that you were endorsing political doctrines'as
poisonous to Southern Rights—Southern honor apd
Southern Equality—as arsenic or prussic acid to
your physical life f What is his past record 7 *'A
life-long history shows biin to be a political thimble
rigger—a corrupt partizan, and Kree-soiler !
Think you he has any regard for the Equal R«gHts
of the South—the perpetuation of Slavery ortho
welfare of the Country f Think you he would turn
upon his heel to preserve our equality, if he could
make auything for himself by an opposite course 7
If you do, it is more than is warranted by any evi
dence he has given, present or past, known to the
country, His Inaugural is an open bid for Alien
support to himself and hia measures—a virtual
proclamation to the world to make this land of ours
a leceptac/e —a pest house —where the feloDS, pau
pers, aud scum of the world, can come and take
possession in fer. How does that suit you, South
ern Right Democrats of Georgia ? Does that rush-*
ing of felons and paupers into Territories, to soon
crowd upon us more and more free States, look like 0
preserving, or wishing to preserve, our equality in*
the Union ? Does that coincide with our Platform
in 185 t) ? True, we did not in so many words havq
Alien suffrage, Sc c., up, but the principle of opposi
tion to these things was contained in it when wo
demanded equality in the Union as our just right !
Was it not ? Most assuredly. Will you abrogate
your principles, satisfy yourselves, aud utterly aiK
nihilate every vestige of our rights in the Unions
compelling the South to vassalage, oppression and
ruin, by a continued support of men and measures
so palpably antagonistic 7 Answer this question?
to your own consciences, as you will have to answer
for your sins to your God. Once more. Are you
prepared to vote and act with a Party in Georgia,*
claiming to be Democratic, upon whose garments
ha ig all the filth of the Presidential campaign of
1856, and who having no principle at all, commen
datory to the people of Georgia, are endeavoring,
by every species of deceit imaginable, to gain
anothei triumph ; a Party who seek office at th« ex
pense of every principle, ever held dear by Jeffer
son, Jackson or Calhoun . who are led by Toombs ,
Stephens, Cobb , S' Co., whose greatest ambition
has been place and pin nder at all risks, and who are
as unable to appreciate true Democratic Repub
lican principle as a Chinese, Hildas unwilling as
unable 7
Ponder on these things. Southern Rights Demo
crats of 1850! Remember that every Alien vote
allowed iu the Territories is but adding to the
weight of the blow which, in the future, will annilii
late the institution of Slavery, and ruin the South
and her people ? I’m no croaker; I judge the fu
ture by the past, and with God s help shall do my
duty, by pointing out the rocks and shoals toward
which we are tending! More anon.
A. S. R. Democrat and American.
How the Public Land Goes.—We have com
piled a table of the amount in acres, of the public,
lands, that, have been granted to the several States
and Territories, for purposes of internal improve
raent, under the name ot Railroads, companies, and
individuals and swamp lands, which we append.—
This table does not include any grants for military
purposes, for public buildings or education. To
obtain these figures, we have condensed the tabic
incorporated into a speech by Mr. Carlile, of Vir
ginia, in the House of Representatives in Congress,
which we published in full some time 9ince, and
which we understand to have been compiled in the
laud otiice at Washington, and is thought to be
correct.
To this we have added the estimated amount
of grants made by the last Congress, which we
find in the Message and Documents, 1856-7,
part I—adding in the case of Minnesota our own
estimate of four millions—which has been put
down by others at a much higher figure. We
submit' tnis table, disclosing the sources of our in
formation, because it contains the facts in a small
compass, of easy comprehension, and because we
believe it is more nearly correct than any other,
which we have seen.
We have only to add, for the present, that in our
estimate and calculation some days since, in which
we arrived at the conclusion that Tennessee, if
made equal to that State which had received the
highest amount of the public lands, would be enti
tled to something over forty-three millions of acres ,
we took the representation in the popular branch of
Congress as our proportional basis. Mr. Bell's bill
provides that the estimate should be made upon the
entire congressional strength including the Sena
tors—-on the same prinoiple of our elections for Pre
sident. This would reduce our figures somewhat,
and would, perhaps, be the most proper mode of
makiug up the account. This, however, is merely
a question of detail, and does not affect the great
principle for which we contend —the equal right
of all the States to share alike the benefits and ad
vantages of our public domain.
The following is the table :
Ohio 10,113,556
Indiana 3,075,005
llJiuois 5,034,366
Missouri 5,712,653
Alabama 4,572,211
Mississippi 6,557,178
Louisiana 12,180,728
Michigan 13,925,324
Arkansas* 10,672,807
Florida 13,485,531
lowa 8,700,007
Wisconsin 6,249,796
California 500,000
Minnesota 4,340,000
Total 105,119,160
*Therewas a special grant of more than a mUliou and
a half of land to the Cairo and Fulton road, estimated by
the Secretary of Interior in his last Report, which we
have not included in the above table, and which we pre
sume was not in the table of Mr. Carlisle.
Nashville Banner.
The Artesian Well in the Desert.—A cor
respondent of the Moniteur del'Armies, a Military
French journal, gives an interesting account of the
finding water in coring an artesian well in the de
sert, by French engineers in Algeria. The place
was the oasis of Sidißached, which had already
become nearly burnt up from want of water,
and threatened entirely to disappear: and the wa
ter was found and rose to the surface on the 13th of
March, from the depth ot 54 metres, or about 15?
feet. As soon as the hard pan or bed was pierced,
the water instantly rose in the pipes, pouring out a
thousand gallons a minute, at a temperature of 24
degrees of Reaumer. The engineer estimated that
as soon as it had reached its level of ascension fair
ly, the quantity would average about 1,250 gallons
per minute. Think of a fountain springing up in a
wasting desert, with a perennial flow of twenty
hogsheads per minute. The fountain formed is de
scribed as truly magnificent.
At the moment of the water's bursting forth, no
Arab was present, but the news quickly spread,
and in a few minutes the whole population of the
village rushed to the spot, and threw themselves
upon the works with such frenzy that force was
necessary to remove them. Women and children
lay down in the stream, as if they had never seen
water befoie. The Sheik of Sidi Rached coaid not
repress his emotion ; he threw' himself on his knees
by the trough and wept for joy. The next day the
inhabitants of the neighboring Arab villages came
to thank the engineer and to bless the fountain,
while in the evening there was a dance and a grand
merry-making, and this festival was kept up for
six days. In the meantime, the people went mi
medially to work and constructed a sluice t# con
vey the vivifying stream to the portion of the oasis
which was dead For the want ot moisture.
Railway Earnings. —The earninga of the Penn
sylvania Railroad for the last month were $4b1,177,-
5«, being a deereac-e of $52,41*8 68 on those of the
corresponding month last year. The total receipts
from January Ist to June Ist yf the present year
show a falling off of $29,476.12 from those of tne
corresponding period last year. .
The earnings of the Milwaukee _&nd Mississippi
Railroad for die month of M&y. 1857’,, are
corresponding month of 18»o, $b1,30» : increase,
*19,336. The earnings for the last month wonia
have been much larger had it not been that the
through train* were interrupted for several days, in
consequence of the track being damaged on the
Kickapoo bottoms by the freshets.
The earniDgs of the La Crosse and Mdwaukie
Kaiiroad Company. (Eastern Division.) for May
were, $63,221.70; May, 1856, 841,476: increase,
$21,745.77. The first five months’ earnings of the
current yetr yield, as we are informed, a trffle over 6
per cent, net, after paying expenses and interest,
although the spring has been a backward one.
The earnings of the Chicago, St. Paul and Fond
du Lac Eai road Company, in Mav, 1857 , were $50.-
168 32; in May, 1856, $19,513.(71 increase. $30,-
655.31.
Amusing Incidikt. —An amusing incident occur
red in the fourth act during the performance of the
Ladv of Lyons in Boston on Tuesday evening last.
At the moment when Pauline rushed into Claude
Meinott's arms to eave herself from the assault of
Beauseant. it happened that Claude’s Mr. Belton's)
wig flew off his head He immediate’ . hid his bare
head behind the ample drapery of Famine s (Miss
Avonia Jones) skirts, and edged her along about a
yar I until he could recover his lost locks—the audi
ence meanwhile convulsed with laughter Claude
had righted himself, and the dialogue was about to
proceed, when it appeared that in the ooafusion his
sleeve buttons had been entangled in Pauline s
luxuriant curls, andauww.»,,suifi became necessary
while this knot was unravelled
t# .Uouni Vernon Association.
To the Mayors of Cities. Towns and Villages.
Presidents or Heads of Universities. Colleges.
Academies and Schools . Presidents of Societies,
Masters of Lodges. Captains of Military Compa
nies* Head* of other Institutions and Associa
tions, Divines, Physicians, Lawyers and Editors
throughout the Union.
We have been commissioned, by “The Southern
Matron’ to make an earnest appeal to ali and each
of youTto come up promptly and efficiently to tfce
help of the “La lies* Mount Vernon Association of
the Union,” in the great and j»atriotic work of the
purcbSfP find consecration of Mount Vernon, as the
perpetual bhrire of Washington and the Mecca of
America. It is but the fittiug homage to his illus
trious fehade ; to the greatness and goodness of hh
chafacter ; to the private and public virtue of which
he wasYLe model; to his laurels as a warrior aud
his wisdom as a sage ; to his fatherhood of our
country?’ Let, then, every one feel, acknowledge
and redeem the filial duty of contributing his mite
to the great and glorious enterprise of hallowing the
tomb of Washington aa a public U ust, in the guar
dian custody of Virginia, Lis mother State, for the
reverence of all America, and the homage of all the
world, in all time to come.
The purpose of “The Southern Matron,’ and of
the patHotic daughters of America, of whom she is
the presiding aud inspiring divinity, is to raise the
sum ofjfvvo Hundred Thousand Dollars, by
voluntary subscription, previous to the &»d day ot
February next, for the purchase of Mou.t Vernon.
fryuiUEgy? l P r °P rietor > and its dedication, on
bu-ty-day, (the one hundred and tweu
““p6>, anniversary of Washington’, birth,) ns
fh tlp Mr U ,^t£f ne °‘ .K real nes?, patriotism and
zoith. fc Moie than one eighth ofthe required emu
ha. beep already raised, \y the eloquence ofthe
thenidu ere «t t ““ ? f *J aasa chusetts, worthy of
the Old gay State, mthe day, when Buuker Hill
and gave forth responsive thun
ders against the common foe. Orators, lecturers
editors, and pleaders of both sexes, are already ac
tively at tfork, trom rock-bound Maine to golden
California, from Ibe Atlantic to the Pacific border of
ourcontijienlai Kepublic, under the banner of "Tho
Southern Matron,” in the same noble cause ; but it
requires united as well as vigorous effort to achieve
the consuipmation most devo-tly to be wished. In
the iiamt* then, of ‘ The Southern Matron. ' adaugh
ter of the Palmetto State, with ancestral Virginia
blood running in her veins, the head of this holy
missioned tie- women of America, who, from a sick
pillow, and with trembling hand, has issued those
heart stirring missives and appeals which have pene
trated ail’d agitated ail America—in that name, un
der which'she inaugurated and has rendered feasi
ble the hallowed enterprise—in that name, under
which alone her modesty consents to communicate
with the public, and by which she will go down to
aud be blessed by posterity aud all future time—
and for her sake, as well as fort he sake of the sacred
cause vritirwhich she ha 3 identified herself in immor
tal union—we propose, and earnestly appeal to all
and each of you—and especially to the Mayors of
cities, towns and villages—-to take all necessary
and proper steps to bring the subject prominently,
by means of public meetings or otherwise, before
the public, in your respective precincts, organiza
tion, or circles ot influence, on the coming Forth of
July, (or as soon thereafter as practicable.) that it
may be consecrated, and rendered memorable for
ever, by thinking up of Mount Vernon Subscrip
lions , froifrevery portion of the Republic, so ensure
to Mount Vernon purchase, and so hallow, addition
ally, if possible, the Birthday of our National Inde
pendence, By rendering it tributary to the proposed
homage so him, whose wisdom and valour, under
Proviaence*simird that birthday so our Conntry.
To our brother editors, too, in the whole Repub
lie, we extend the invitation to enlist, as knights,
iu the order .of Mount V eruon, and to do gallant and
efficient service, under the patriotic (lag ot “The
Southern Matron,” both sounding to the onset and
layitig at lie: feet the fruits of victory.— Charleston
Conner, June, I8o?.
Nota Bkne.—AH subscriptions, from One Dol
lar, (which secures membership,) and upwaidn, with
name, sunt, aud residence of each subscriber, to be
carefully registered, and to be forwarded, (i. order
Ihat each subscriber may be sure of having his or
her name enrolled, as a member of the. Association,
in the Mount Vernon Purchase Book, to be deposit
ed at Mount Vernon,) with the funds collected, iu
any State having a Mount Vernon State Committee,
to such Cokn.uiMee, aud in default thereof to Mrs.
William F. Ritchie, Ist Vice President, or Mr. Wil
liam H. Mcfariand, Treasurer of the Ladies’ Mou t
Vernon Association, Richmond, Virginia—or to any
of t lie Organs of the Association, which are at pre
sent the Pennsylvania Inquirer, Philadelphia, Jour
naland Statesman, Wi'iuington, Dei.; Richmond
Enquirer, Richmond, Va-, Whmiugton Heiald,
Wilmington- N. C.; Charleston Courier, Charleston,
S. C.; Chronicle and Sentinel, Augusta, Ga.; Herald
and Tribune, Mobile, Ala.; St. Louis Republican,
St. Louis, Mo.
The Washington Ifiots—Report of tap*. Tjler,
of the Marine*.
Marine Barracks, Washington, June 2, j 857.
Sir: —lncompliance with your order, received
about 12 o clock on yesterday, 1 immediately col
lected the available mariues at head quarters and
the navy yard, amounting in all to one' hundred
privates, with a due proportion of non-cowmission
ed officers!. * This force I divided into two compa
nies—the first was commanded by brevet Major
Zeiliu, the second by Captain Maddox, with a sub
altern to each company. Lieutenants Henderson
and Turner. After supplying my command with
bail cartridges, I loaded and proceeded direct to
the City Hall. On my arrival there, I reported to
the Mayor of the city of Washington, in obedience
to anorderfrom the Navy Department received by
me, through you to the effect that I was to obey
such orders as the Mayor might wish executed,
with a view to clearing the polls at the different
precincts of the municipal election, then being held
m the city of Washington. The mdyor forwith pro
ceeded to the first precinct of the Fourth ward, ac
companied by me and my command. We soon ar
rived upon the ground, and 1 immediately drew up
my command in line in front of the precinct which
had the effect to clear the precinct. The Mayor
then proceeded to address the officers of the elec
tion and those around the precinct, but I did not lis
ten to nor hear his remarks. Immediately thereaf
ter, and perhaps while the Mayor wa3 yet delivering
his address, a committee—consisting of two persons
—came from the market house with a message to
me, to the effect that tho-e in charge of a cannon
planted at the markethouse would tire upon me if I
did not immediately abaudon my position in front
of the precinct; I replied, then I will take your
cannon! and straightway proceeded with my com
mand to the markethouse.
O ; arriving opposite to the cannon I halted my
command, faced it to the tront ? and with the first
platoon of the first company, with Maj. Zeiliu at its
head, I charged and took possession of the cannon.
My purpose w r as to take the cannon with as little
loss of life as possible; hact I have tired before
c harging, the loss of life would have been immense.
The charge of bayonets, however, was sufficient
without the fire to disperse the rioters in every di
rection. In their flight they did not forget, how
ever to discharge their revolvers. Pistols were
also freely tired from behind the wooden enclosure
at the market house, which were returned by single
shots from the first platoon, still in charge of the
cannon. About this time the marines in line were
fired upon by another gang of rioters from the op
posite corner of the street, dangerously wounding
one man in the face belonging to the first company,
which caused the blood to spout from his mouth and
nostrils. This fire was returned by a portion of the
marines belonging to the second company, comman
ded by Capt. Maddox—l being still engaged in look
ing out for those who had fled from the cannon and
taken refuge around and about the market house ?
but,, on hearing the report of this fire from the 2d
company, I faced about and beheld several persons
on the opposite side of the street in the agonies of
death and many others, to all appearances, badly
wounded. I immediately ran down the line and
ordered the men to cease firing, and not another
shot was fired bv any one of them.
After re-loading the discharged muskets, I re
mained upon the ground about. 30 minutes, and
then, at the request of the Mayor, marched my com
mand to the City Hall, where I remained until the
cars from Baltimore came in, in the afternoon, when
I, with my command, accompanied the Mayor to
the railroad depot—understanding from him that he
expected other rioters from Baltimore in the cars.—
In that event, the Mayor thought the depot would
be the best place to settle with them ; and in that
opinion I entirely concurred; but none came. I
remained at the depot until half-past 8 o’clock, and
being entirely satisfied that all was and would be
quiet for the night, I ordered Lieut. Henderson to
the Barracks in command of the men, and went
home myself and retired to rest. I am, very re
spectfully, n. B. Tyler,
Captain of Marines, commanding.
Arch’d Henderson, Brevet Brigadier General
and Commandant of the Marine corps.
The American Flag —This day ie the anniver
sary of the adoption of the American Fiag, a reso
lution having pfen introduced in the American
Congress, June 13th, 1777, “That the flag ot the
thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alter
nately red and white ; that the Union be thirteen
tars, white in a blue field, representing a new* con
stellation.’’ There isa striking coincidence between
the design of our flag and the arms of General
Washington, which consisted of three stars in the
upper portion and three bars running across the
escutcheon. It is thought by some that the fiag
was derived from this heraldic design. History in
forms U 3 that several fiags were used by the
Yankees before the present national one was
adopted. . „ . , ,_ ~
In March, 1775, a minor flag with a red held was
hoisted in New York, bearing the inscription ©n one
B»de of “George Rex and the liberties of America,”
and upon the reverse, “No Popery.” Gen. Israel
Putnam raised on Prospect Hill, July 18th. 1775, a
fiag bearing on one side the motto of our Common
wealth, “Qui tranatulit sustincton tfce other,
“An appeal to Heaven "—an appeal well taken and
amply sustained. In October, 1775, the floating
batteries of Boston bore a flag with the latter mot
to and a pine tree upon a white field, bearing the
Massachusetts emblem. Some of the colonies used
in 1775 a flag with a rattlesnake coiled as if about
to strike, and tbs motto, “Don’t tread on me.
On the 2d of January, 1776, the grand union flag
of the stars and -tripes was raised cn the -heights
near Boston, and it is said that some of the regulars
made the grand mistake of supposing it was a token
ot submission to the King, whose speech had just
been sent to the Americans. The British Register
ofl776sayß: “They (therebels) burnt the King's
speech, and changed their coloTs from a plain red
ground to a flag with thirteen stripes, as a symbol
of the number and union of the colonies. ” A letter
from Bos’on, published in the Pennsylvania Ga
zette, in 1776, says “the union flag was raised on
the 2d in compliment to the United Colonies.”
Tue various flag-* we have mentioned, the Pine
Tree Rattlesnake, and the Stripes, were used ac
cording to the taste of the patriots, until Juiy ; 1777,
when the stars and stripes were established by law
At first a stripe was added for each new State, but
the flag became too large, and Congress foreseeing,
possibly the spirit of annexation, reduced the stripes
to the original thirteen, and now the stars are made
to correspontTin number with the States.
The American flag is one of the most beautiful
that floats upon any laud or sea. Its proportions
are perfect when it ia. properly made—one half cs
broad as it is long. The first stripe at the top is red,
the next white, and theer colors alternate, making
the last stripe red. The blue field for the stars is
the width and square of the first Seven stripes viz :
four red and three wjiite. The colors of the Ameri
can flag are in beautiful relief, and it is altogether
a beautiful national emblem Long may it wave
untarnished. He who would erase one stripe, or
dim one star upon it, “acts a traitor's part, and de
serves a traitor's doom."— boston Herald , 15 tk,
The Last Dodge to Sell Ready-Made Cloth
ing.—The Baltimore Weekly Despatch says eome
of the clothing dealers on Central Market Space
have away of securing sales occasionally, which
savors strongly of rascality and the drep-game
They place in the coat-pocket an old portmonnaie
stuffed with paper ; a customer comes along inquir
ing for a vestment. The dealer, if he judges his
customer to be of the right atnp©, after essaying
several coats, at last say:- : “Here is a coat made
foi a gentleman—he wore it one dajr and sent it
back—it was too email tor him; try it on. Ah ! it
fits first rate—like it was made for yon. It is well
made—buttons sewed on strong—pockets. 1 The
customer puts his hands into his pockets to try’
them, when his fingers come in contact with the
pocket book. His imagination is kindled witn the
idea of appropriating the supposed treasure. “How
much dia you 6ay the coat was ?” he eagerly asks.
The dealer names a good round price. “It suits me
—I H take it,” is the quick reply. The money is
paid—the self-duped customer walks Off hurriedly
with his supposed prize—not stopping to hear the
suppressed chuckle of the dealer as he looks after
him o.»t of the ooruer of his eye
Letter from .tlaj. Ilo.iel.on.
We give below the patriotic and truthful letter of
Maj. A. J. Donelson to the National American Comi
cii, and recommend it to the earnest attention of our
readers:
Tulip Grove, May 26,1807.
B ,f! : —I regret that it is led in my power so at
tend the meeting ofthe American party which is to
tie held at Louisville on the 2d of June. I regret
tins the more as I approve of the meeting ami be
neve that much good will be effected by it. The
local prejudices which have enabled the party, call
eu by Gen u&cktou the "sham Democracy, to get
possession ofthe Federal Government are rapidly
losing then influence; and there are many reasons
in other respects for saying that the people already
comprehend the machinery by l «U h the true inter
ests of the country have been sacrificed to subserve
the purposes of a few sectional agitators.
We see in the formation of the present Cabinet as
we did in that which it superceded, a coalation of
the most discordant elements, and a mockery of
many ot the most important landmarks established
by our early statesmen.
Mr. Buchanan, in 1852, unwilling to risk the dis
pleasure of the uulifier and the abolitionists, pro
fessed to consider the maintenance of the Missouri
compromise as the panacea for the evils which had
grown out of the slavery agitation—an agitation
which lie was amongst the first to start. He was
so sensitive on this subject that he felt himself ag
grieved when his name happened to be placed in
the same list with the patriots who sustained the
measures of 1800. He desired it to be understood
that the lines of 36 30 was his measure and that it
was in tills attitude that he made terms with alien
squatter sovereignty, throwing overboard his sa
cred 36 30, as he had previously done his 54 40, and
suddenly became the medium through which the
Buffalo platforudst, the Nashville Hartford conven
tionist, and all other ultraists that have dieturbed
the peace of the country for the last seven years,
have gained a momentary triumph aud have now a
potential voice in the Federal Administration.
We are indebted to Mr. Buchanan and this alien
squatter-sovereignty for the composition of a Cabi
net which represents nothing national, and which
can do nothing but reward the ultra partisans who
were most active in arraying one section of the
country against another. We see in one ofthe de
part meats a Secretary who but a short period since
denounced in terms of the coarsest billingsgate the
whole State s Rights party ofthe South, declaring
thetrdoctrmes and designs false and traiterous to
the Union. By the side ot this Secretary site one of
the most notorious ofthe leadets of this Southern
rights party. There too sits the man who declared
that ms heart would break sooner than approve the
compromise of 1850; ami be in cordial fellowship
with the Cabinet Minister whose chief pretension to
public favor rests on the fact that he united with
Messrs. Clay and Webster in giving that compro
mise a cordial support. The natural result, of such
& compound of contradicti »ns is, that every corrupt
faction in the land looks to tlie Administration for
protection and countenance. Hence, like the pre
ceding Administration, it has a Northern and South
ern face on the slavery question, and is provided
with Cabinet Ministers to speak with forked tongues
to both sections.
Let it be our purpose to hold up to public scorn
this shameful feature of party degeneracy aud cor
ruption. Let us constantly contrast it with the en
nobling examples left by the early founders of the
Republic.
There is no bnger room for humbuggery on the
slavery question. This “sham Democracy ” w.th
the blood which it has shed in Kansas has lost this
portion of its capital ; and it is now obliged to sub
mit to the tests it has provoked in numerous other
intrigues equally fatal to the true and lasting inter
ests ofthe people.
Are aliens, without naturalization, still to bo re
cognized art squatter cove-eigne, aud in this char
acter to decide what shall be our organic laws and
who shall be our public officers 7 A e the public
lands to cease to be treated as the common fund of
the Uuion, and to be hereafter given away in utter dis
regard of all the principles of equality which entitles
all the Statestoßhare alike in this great inheritance of
wealth ? Ist he question of internal improvements to
be settled according to the views of sectionalism
which have formed t he cabinet, or according to prac
tice and recommendation of those patriots w ho Lave
looked to the preservation of the Union as our great
est political blessing ? Are we to have new attempts
at filibusreriflm iu Cuba and the other West India is
lands, in accordance with the sentiments of the Os
lend Conference ? Are Americans to be still pre
scribed for daring to uphold the doctrines of Wash
ington, .Jefferson, Madison and Jackson, for repeat
ing their admonitions against the dangers of foreign
influence and the counsels of those demagogues who
would lessen the attachment of the people to the
Constitution and the Union 7
The principles involved in these questions are
forced upon our serious attention by the practices
ofthe modern “sham Democracy .” Their discus
sion will show that tne American party occupies the
only safe ground and furnishes the only means of
extrication from the disasters which have sprung
from the counsels of the demagogues who have
not hesitated to embroil the country iu civil
war in order to make political capital out of the
excitement necessarily produced by such an event.
Trusting that your deliberations will be marked
by the moderation and forbearance necessary to
the union of all our friends, and that no unnecessary
issues will be created on the slavery question 9r
any other local one, I conclude by assuring you of
my undimmished faith in thejustice of our cause
and iu its ultimate success. All that is necessary is
action, firm and uncompromising action, against
the monstrous coalition of factions which has been
organized in the name of Democracy and which is
destroying all political morality. This and a zea
lous defense of the principles embodied in our plat
form is the duty of every American in the present
crisis.
I aw, vary rfcspecUuUy,*.*-
Your obedient servant,
A. J. Donelson.
B. Duncan, Esq., Sec. Kentucky State Council.
Western Court Etiquette. —The Judge of a
Western court recently decided a point adverse to
a certain lawyer. The lawyer was stubborn, and
insisted that the court was wrong.
“I tell > out hat lam right!” yelled the court,
with flashing eyes.
“I tell you, you are not!” retorted the counsel.
“lain right!” reiterated the court.
“I say you ain’t!” persisted the cousel.
“Crier,” yelled the Judge, “1 adjourn the court
for ten minutes," and jumping from the bench, he
pitched into the counsel, and after a lively lit:le
fight, placed him hors du combat ; after which, bu
siness was again resumed, hut it was not long be
fore another misunderstanding arose.
“Crier,” said the court, “we willedjourn this time
for twenty.minutes,” and he was about taking off
his coat, when the counsel said :
“Never miud, Judge, keep oil your coat—the
p’int, is yielded—my thumb’s out o’ j’int, and I’ve
sprained my shoulder!”
Hydrophobia.— The Mad Stone.— A gentleman
by the name of Summers, from Iredell, N. C., spent
a day here last week, on his way home from the
house of Mr. Joseph Pointer, of Person county,
whither he had been to test the virtues of a celebra
ted Mad Stone, in Mr. Pointer’s possession. Mr.
S. stated that eight days before, he was bitten by a
dog, supposed be mad—that he Immediately had
the wounded flesh cut out and thoroughly cauterized,
but not feeling satisfied, he visited Richmond, Va.,
in search of a Mad-Stone, and not finding it, he
there accidentally heard of Mr. Pointor’s. This
stone had been applied to the wound, and continued
to adhere to it for a while and then drop off—as it is
said to do when applied to a poisonous wound and
becoming saturated with the poison—this it con
tinues to do so long as there is poison in the system,
and when it. sucks all out, we understand that the
stone loses its adhesiveness.
The poor man seemed deeply dejected—not the
faintest smile was observed to flit across his sad
face while here.— Milton (N. C.) Chronicle.
Request. — subscriber has it in contempla
tion to compile and publish a pamphlet, or book,
embracing the leading incidents, speeches, etc.,e c.,
of the recent Railroad Celebrations at Memphisand
Charleston, together with a full account of the visit
of the Memphis Delegation to Huntsville, Atlanta,
Augusta, Charleston, Savannah and Macon. To
make the pamphlet as complete as possible, he re
quests that full lists of all the delegates who actually
attended the Memphis Celebration from the cities
above named, be forwarded immediately to him, by
mail, at this place He also requests that the
speakers who participated in the different celebra
tion3 and receptions, send him revised copies of
their addresses, should they deem it advisable. The
compilation, it ie expected, will make about 200
pages, large octavo, and will be furnished to sub
scribers, postage paid, at $1 per copy. The Mayor
and Aldermen of the cities above named, and the
delegates generally, will please signify to the sub
scriber the number of Copies they rnay desire to
take.
The object of the compilation is to preserve, in a
durable form, a full record of the rejoicings over an
event which rises to the dignity of an epoch in our
annals, and is rendered memorable by the benign
results, political, social and commercial, which are
to flow from it to the end of time.
Those of the delegates from Memphis to Charles
ton* who actually attended, and whose names were
not published in the Eagle and Enquirer, of the
26th May, are requested to forward their names
through t ie Post Offic eto J. P. Pryor.
Memphis, June 13,1857
A Southern Literary Man Disheartened.—
Professor D. Burton Roes, author of the Southern
Speaker and other clas3 book?, attempted to com
mit suicide in St. Petersburg, Va., on Thursday, by
taking choloform and stabbing himself in the region
of the heart with a clasp knife. He was not dead
at 2 o’clock on Friday morning, though little hope
is entertained of his recovery. The wound was in
flicted while shut up iu his room at Powell’s Hotel,
and when found was lying op the floor in a pool of
blood. On the bed were found letters addressed to
his friends and wife indictating disappointment and
depression of spirits, and intimating and attributing
the intention of taking his life to reverse of fortune,
and the non appreciation of his efforts in the fnrth
eranee of Southern literature.
Another Burglary.— On Saturday or Sunday
night last, the ttoree of Joseph H. Ladson. fronting
on Congress and St. JuiiaL streets, was entered by
burglars. They effected an entrace by forcing the
lock on the cellar door on St. Julian street; after
desc ending into the cellar they forced open a trap
door leading into the atom Fearing to light the gae
the rogues made use of matches ; as fast as one ex
pired another was lit, the floor being covered with
the halt burnt remains. From the till they aba rat
ted all the bills, leaving the silver change. A desk
was also visited ia which a tin box was kept con
taining individual and bank notes, which box was
carried off. Mr. Ladson had an iron safe, but it be
ing of an old, he thought, insecure build, his
money, note:*, &.c.. were put in the to secure
their safety.— Sav. Rep. 16th inst .
Two Children Suffocated. —On Wednesday
Isat smoke was discovered issuing from the windows
oi a house in Rcxbury, Mass., occupied by several
Dish families. The room from winch the smoke is
sued was occupied by Thomas O'Hara. O'Hara
left Nome early in the morning to attend to his work,
and his wife soon alter, to do some washing for a
family in the neighborhood, leaving the two young
est children locked in the room. It is supposed that
the children, while playing wish matches, set fire to
the bedclothes from which a great smoke at once
tilted the room, and suffocated the children. - When
the door of the room was opened, the children were
dead
Failure or the Revolutionists in Peru.—
The revolution in Peru under Vivanoois at au end,
and has proved, as we have always anticipated, a
complete failure All the revolutionary ships had
surrendered except the Apurimae, 41 guns, and by
arrangement with her officers, she was to be deliver
ed up to Castilla within a week It is not believed
that the trouble of Peru w ill cease with the re
establishment of peace. Seriou questions, it is said,
will arise with Chili and the United States in rela
tion to guano. Large quantities were sold below
the legitimate rates by vivancc,and the Peruvian
government is now about to claim tbe difference.
Walker’s Army — About two hundred sick,
the remnant of Walker’s army, had arrived at ban
Carlos, in the steamer San Carlos, on their way
home. They are described as being in a most
pitiable condition. It is suppossed that the men
left in Rivas had gone to Coeta Rica. Nicaragua
was tranquil, and an electiou was to be held on the
15th of June. The republic would be occupied by
the four Central American States until its govern
ment was firmly established.
A Green Rose. —One of these * xtraordhiary na
tural curiosit ea may be seen at Thomburn’s seed
store, in Broadway. The leaf, stalk, buds and
flower are like those of ordinary roses in form, but
all of one uniform green oolor. The parent staik
is said to have come from Japan. —Albany Journal.
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
f ■
by the Vanderbilt.
Tbe Russian Grand Duke Constantine paid a
strictly private visit to Queen Victoria at Osborne,
arriving there at midday on the 30th ult„ from Cher
bourg. His Imperial Highness was saluted by the
ships ot war assembled therefor the purpose, aud
the American frigate Susquehanna, then lying in
the roadstead, took a prominent part in his recep
tion, the Russian flag being run up at the main dur
ing the saluting, and the band on deck playing the
Russian national anthem. The Susquehanna imme
diately aftewardc sailed for Gravesend. The Grand
Duke remained at Osborue.no longer than Sunday
evening, at II o'clock, when he embarked on board
the Queen’s steam-yacht Osborne, sleeping on board
and ats o’clock on Monday morning sailed for Ca
lais, under salutes b ora the R. Y. S. battery at Cowes
and the fleet at Spithead. The brevity and privacy
of his visit, as compared with the length and publici
ty of his sojourn in France, afford a topic for com
ment in the English journals.
Mr. Stevens, the English Consul at Teheran ar
*l £ Vwima onthe 30th ult., with the ratified
Anglo Persian treaty, and left for London the same
evening.
The little Arch-Duchess Sophia, of Austria, died
at Ruda on the evening of the 29th ult.
A despatch from Constantinople states that the
subscription list ot a banking scheme started by
na ril, ve , ms had £ 1,800,000.
The h ederal Assembly of Berne has been, con-
Pruasi *° r °* duue * to the treaty with
The Spanish census is nearly completed, and the
result will, it is said, show a population of 17,000,000
souls.
The “Constitutionnel” publishes a private letter
from the Persian Gulf, received through Bagdad,
which announces that on the 21st of April, the Brit
ish troops evacuated the town of Moh&inmerah, of
which they had taken possession at the latter end
of March.
Almost a Revolution in Belgium.—Extraor
dinary Scene in the Chambers. —Brussels has been
the scene of popular turmoil, which at one time as
sumed the features of a serious political demonstra
tion. It took its rise in a warm aud exciting debate
ia the Chamber of Representatives, on “charitable
institutions." A sentence uttered by one of the
members was loudly cheered by the spectators in
the gallery, when the President ga -e orders to the
huisaiers to clear the gallery. Soon afterwards a
number of men with their hats ou forced their way
in, and the Chamber was again cleared by troops,
and orders given to strengthen the military posts
outside. The crowds increased to thousands, and
cries of all kinds were heard, shouts of “Vive la
Roi, * mingling with “A has le Convents,” “Down
with the priests,” “Down with the Catholics,”
“Lpt us drown the President,” &c., &o. The fer
ment. spread to Antwerp and several other Belgian
towns. The mobs broke the windows of several
Monasteries aud Jesuits’ Colleges. The King was
very popular. Numerous arrests were made. At
latest dates order was restored in most places.
From China—Hong Kong, April 15..-Our latest
advices.from England are to the 27th of February.
It is intimated, however, that the semimonthly mail
to and from China and England is to be re-estab
-1 tehee, and the first steamer from this under the
arrangement, is advertised to leave on the 25th
i ust ant.
Since the 30th ult., the occurrences we have to re
port have been unimportant.
H. M. St. Sampson came down the river on
the 14th instant, but brought no news ot any in
terest.
The Chinese war junks and boats, which were at
one time so numerous in the vicinity of our vessels,
are said to have nearly all disappeared
Rear-Admiral Sir Micheal Seymour has his flag
at present on board H. M. ship Calcutta, in the har
bor.
On the 2d inst. the boats of the Hon. Company’s
steamer Auckland, at Tung Chung Bay, cut oat a
mandarin junk, which was brought in here by the
steamer. A battery ou shore, which opeued fire on
the boats as they were pulling in, was also taken
possession of, and held till the junk was got under
weigh. In this service two officers and one seaman
were severely wounded, and four men wounded
slightly.
An engagement also took place when the boats
of H. M. steamers Sampson and Hornet and ship
Sibyle, under Commodore Elliot, attacked a strong
force of mandarin boats and three lorchaa in Deep
Bay, at tbe entrance of Cauton river. Ten boats
and the three lorchas were destroyed. Tne firing
that was kept up on our boats from the shore, where
a great number of Chinese soldiers were congrega
ted, was very heavy, but the only accident on our
side was one man severely wounded. Some impor
tant papers are said to have been found on board
the junks, but their contents are not at present made
public.
The Company’s steamer Auckland left hero for
Singapore on the 6th inst. During her short sojourn
here she succeeded on several occasions in render
ing good service. The Company’s steamer Zenobia
lett hereon the 7th inet. for Singapore and Ma
dras. H. M. steamer Barraeouta left for England
on the 13th inst.
His Excellency Sir John Bowring, after the re
ceipt of his despatches by last mail, the 10th of
February, visited Macao, where he had a conference
with the French and American mil isters. It is un
derstood that instructions have been sent out by
the Imperial French that the French
forces in these parts are to co-opertfte with ours in
1 .e present crisis in China. The American minister
had not received similar orders from his government.
The French minister, M. Bourbillon, is at present
here on a visit to Sir John Bowring.
We have to report a most atrocious murder which
has been perpetrated here. Mr. Charles Markwick,
government auctioneer, formerly a servant in the
East India Company’s service in Canton, and one
of the oldest European residents in China, was
strangled while confined to his bed by siokness, by
one ot his house servants, for the sake, it would
appear, of some little property which was in the
house. The miscreant has for the present escaped,
but as the government have offered a reward of
£SOO for his apprehension, it is likely this may ulti
mately lead to his being secured.
The Lady Mary Wood arrived yesterday from
Shanghae, with dates to the 6th inet. The steamer
touched at the other ports on her way down, and re
ports that quiet prevailed. Above Chimmoo the
steamer fell in with two large rice junks, which were
being attacked by eight large piratical boats and a
heavily armed lorcha. On tho steamer approach
ing the pirates made off. The junks were taken in
tow by the steamer and brought to Amoy. The
crews reported they had been fighting for three
days ana nights. A great number on board the
junks were killed and wounded.
Pekin Gazettes reach to the 2d of March, but
still no mention is made of the Canton question.
A letter from Rangoon of April 11, says : —“ The
China Bazaar part of the Goods Bazaar, and the
whole of the native town is burnt down.”
The Shanghae officials, with, it would appear, the
concurrence of the Imperial government, have im
posed a duty of 12 teals per chest on the entrance
of opium into Shanghae. The money goes into the
Imperial treasury for payment of troops.
At Ningpo a collision had taken place betweeu the
French and Portuguese lorchmen. Two of the form
er were wounded. The matter has been reported
to the French Minister, and an inquiry will no doubt
be instituted.
From Canton we have no reliable information.—
Great distress, we hear, prevails in the neighborhood
from the high price of rice.
Ainoy advices are to the 12th instant. Transac
tions in imports have been to a fair extent.
Foochow advices are to the nil inst. 4,500 chests
congou have been settled at extreme prices ; three
vessels had sailed for Great Britain. A small busi
ness had been done in imports. Exchange on En
gland quoted ss. 4d. per dollar.
A report has been received here this morning that
her Majesty’s ship Raleigh, on her way from Singa
pore, struck on a lock somewhere near Macao, and
it was necessary to run her on shore. The AdmiraJ,
we believe, has advices. Assistance will be sent
down at once to the Raleigh. A French war steamer
will be one of the vessels.
The mail is closing, and we are unable to get any
further particulars of this accident.
BY THE EUROPA.
Parliament, which at the date ot the accounts by
the Vanderbilt was not in session in consequence of
the Whitsuntide holidays, had again assemoled, but
had not, up to the time of the departure of the Eu
ropa, despatched any business of particular import
ance. The debates had been rather tame.
The U. S. steam frigate Niagara, Capt. Hudson,
having been inspected by the American Minister,
had proceeded to Portsmouth to receive the neces
sary alterations preparatory to taking on board her
portion of the Atlantic telegraph cable at Liverpool.
The British government had kindly loaned the use
of the dockyard at that place.
Belgium had subsided into the quiet condition
which it presented previous, to the late riots, and no
apprehensions were felt of a renewal of the scenes
of disturnancee which recently prevailed.
The London money market was without essential
change since the sailing of the steamship Vander
bilt, on the 2d inst, and consols closed on Friday at
932994 for money.
The Liverpool cotton market, owing mainly to the
interruption of the holidays, had attained no great
degree of activity, and closed steadily at about the
rates current at the departure of the Canada on the
30th of May. The sales of the week were about
40,000 bales.
The Liverpool breadstuffs market had assumed
all the features of extreme dulness, and to effect
sales a slight decline had been submitted to upon
all articles except corn, the prices of which were
barely maintained. The interventions of the holii
days, with favorable weather for the crops, had
been mainly instrumental iu this depression of the
market.
The Liverpool provision market was very quiet,
and prices were generally without essential change
since the departure of the Vanderbilt.
The sugar market was rather inactive, with no
particular alteration in rates.
The Canadian Steamship Company’s screw steam
er Indiana, from Quebec, arrived at Liverpool at
2 P M., on the 4th instant
The screw steamer Kangaroo left Liverpool on
the 3d for New York, and the United States steam
ship Fulton left Southampton on the same day for
New York.
Great Britain. —Pjjrliarnent resumed its sit
tings op the 4th, bat the' proceedings were only of
local interest. **
In the House of Commons Lord Pahy-vaton had
intimated that he intended to submitat this
ses don for the abolition of the church rates’.
Mr. Berkley gave notice of his intention to bring
up the question of the ballot on the 23d of June.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer stated that there
was no intention at present oi reducing the duty on
paper, tor euucational purposes.
Ineffectual efforts were made for the appointment
of committees to revise tiie duties es the Board of
Trade, snd to consider and report measures for im
proving the condition of the labdfmg classes.
The Princess Royal Annuity bill was finally
passed.
The London Times states that there is noi the
least ground for the report that the United States
frigate Niagara is not to take her share of the sub
marine cable. She was to leave the Thames on
Monday for Portsmouth dock yard, where some of
her Htaunebiors were to betaken out, and her ward
room altered to accommodate the cable. This done
she would at qjk a proceed to Birkenhead and com
inence taking in the cable.
At the Greenwich works about nine hundred
mites of cable was completed, and the whole length
would have been done but for the fact that the daily
consumption of fine wire has been more than all the
wire drawers of England could famish.
T e Agamemnon was to commence taking in the
cable; at Greenwich on the 9th or 10th of June. Her
tender is to be the steam frigate Leopold.
All the vessels will rendezvous at Cork harbor,
where the final arrangements will be made.
The war steamer Cyclops is now taking soundings
along the proposed deep sea route.
The period for paying out the cable is the month
of August.
The suspension of William Mclntosh Ac Co., of
Manchester is announced. The liabilities are sup
posed to be about 100,000. T j
An apDeal is put forth for funds to carry out Laay
Franklin’s Arctic Expedition, which is expected to
start by the beginning of July. . i_ fft
Franck.— The statement that daring thelat
visit of the Emperor to the Museum of ArtiUery an
attempt was made upgu hi* life i* reiterated, aud
thrffhet of the English journal* not
reference to this matter, a* well a* to the govern
ment election plan, wa* that their despatch** were
intercepted at the French Poet ofcce, give* oolor
to the story. The recent government circulars in
regard to the approaching election formed the mam
political theme, and Faria correspondence general
ly agrees in saying that the document has created
a sensation highly detrimental to government inter*
The list of democratic candidates for Paris had
not arranged The correspondent of the Time*
VOL. LXX.—NEW SERIES VOL. XXI. NO. ‘2.)
says that iu the event of the election of these candi
dates 1 he difference of opinion as to taking the oaths
to the existing government will probably be satis
factorily arranged. He also states that it is doubt
ful if Gen. Cavaignac will appear as n candidate.
It was expected that the monthly returns ofthe
Bank of France, to be published "in a few days,
would show an increase iu the stock of bullion
ainouuting ho more than £ 1,800,0(H) sterling.
Rntnors of an approaching interview between the
Lmperor Alexander and the Emperor of the French
al t ‘ again circulating in Paris.
Lsloium.—The recent excitement appears to
have completely died out,
The Graud Duke Constantine of Russia had paid
a visit to the King of Antwerp.
Spain.—Someoheap l read riots had occurred at
Granada. A large number of the people paraded
through the principal streets, aud having assumed
a menacing attitude were ordered to dispeise.and
tailing to do so, they were tired upon by the troops
which had beeu called out, aud four persons were
wounded. They to a retired to their homes and
quiet was restored. The city was nevertheless, de
clared in a state of siege.' On the 25th all was
tranquil.
The Madrid correspondent of the London Times
says the negotiations on the Mexicau question have
been suspended until the arrival of the Mexican
mail, due early in June, and adds: “If it brings
authentic intelligence of chastisement inflicted on
the delinquents, this will give a favorable impulse
to the ulterior march of the question. But if the
expected news be within the mark, and less than
the requirements of the Spanish Cabinet, it is not
impossible that Lafragua, unless Lord Howden and
the Marquis de Turgot are able to detain him, will
leave Madrid on account of the refusal of this gov
ernment to recognize him officially. In this case
hostilities may be expected. It is to be feared that
the Mexioan question presents very serious diffi
eulties, and is by no means so near its settlement
as some have recently supposed.”
Italy—The Naples correspondent of the Daily
News recounts a large number of continued bar
barities on the part of the authorities, and says that
a placard addressed to the dozens, calling on them
to rise, had been put in circulation. Tri colored
bills of an inflammatory nature had also been freely
distributed.
Austria.—^ The announcement of Marshal Ra
detsky> death appears to have beeu premature, as
the official gazette of Verona of thelilst of May con
tains a medical bulletin that his health continued to
be satisfactory.
Russia.— The Prussian papers say that the Em
peror of Russia is about to reduce bis army, aud it
s stated al Vienna that the St. Petersburg govern
ment has made advances to Austria.
Persia.— The ratifications of tile treaty of peace
O J and Persia were exchanged on the
2d of May, at Bagdad, with great ceremony. Mu
tual congratulations passed between Mr. Murray
and the Persian Plenipotentiary.
Grkece—The French Consul at Athens has de
manded of the Greek government the establishment
if a G; eek embassy at Paris.
Turkey.-— The Vienna correspondent of the Lon
don Times says the Forte has forwarded a memoir
of its diplomatic agents in Europe, demonstrating
the necessity for some change in the treaties between
Turkey and the Christian Powers, lu the document
it is set forth that public peace and security cannot
be maintained in Turkey so long as each seperate
legation and consulship have a right of jurisdiction.
The Latest by Ttlegraph.
Proceedings in Parliament. —ln the House of
Lords on Friday Lord Stanly intimated, in response
to several petitions for a relief in the Merchants’
Shipping act, that government saw no reason foi
any alteration in the existing law.
In the House of Commons, Sir John Pakington
said he fouud that in the ordinary course of things
there would be little chance of his bringing forward
Ins motion on national education until too late a pe
riod of the session to admit of its being properl • dis
cussed, unless he received some indulgence from
the government. He therefore appealed to Lord Pal
merston to aid him iu enabling the now Parliament
to discuss so important a subject.
Lord Palmerston admitted the importance oftho
subject, but could not at present otter a government
day lor the discussion.
This it is presumed shelves the measure for the
session.
The Sound Dues question was taken up, and the
House voted £ 1,125,000 in liquidation of England s
share in the redemption.
Mr. Lidsell called attention to the Danish transit
dues, which, although of comparatively small
amount, were vexatiousin their operation, and ought
to be abolished by treaty, os well as the Sound dues.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer said, in response
that the government had endeavored to get the
abolition of the transit dues included in the treaty,
but had been unable to obtain the assent of the
Danish government to the proposition.
France.—The improved position of the Bank el
France having led to rumors of a contemplated re
duction in the rate of discount, the writer of the
Times city article says “It seems that such a step
will be resorted to before the artificial purchases <»t
gold are entirely stepped.
France and Russia. —The Paris correspondent
of the Times says : —Count de Morny, previous to
his departure from St. Petersburg, which is to take
place about, the 25th of this month, will sign the
treaty Os commerce bet weefi the French nud Rus
sian governments, of which the clauses are already
agreed to.
Belgium. —Official despatches from Brussels of
the 3d declare that tranquillity is restord, b t that
many petitions against church abuses had reached
the government. A very strong feeling against
the Jesuit* continued to manifest itself throughout
the country.
A Brussels letter in the Paris Presse says that at
a Cabinet council it was resolved to withdraw the
obnoxious bill on charities, and that two or three
ministers tendered their resignations which the king
refused to accept.
The Chambers will be convoked again in a few
weeks, bnt only to vote upon urgent measures, and
after they are passed the session will be closed. .
Spain. —Madrid dates are to the 30th ult.
The disturbances at Granada had entirely ceased,
but the authorities continue to take military precaii
tions, and were causing bread to be sold to the poor
at a reduoed rate.
Australia. —The Catherine Adams, from Syd
ney, has arrived off Plymouth, but, her amount of
gold remains to be ascertained. This vessel is said
to have made the passage in sixty-nine days.
The Medway, 110 days from Melbourne, wae nil
Plymouth yesterday evening, with 50 tons of cop
per ore, 4,500 bales wool, 18,000 ounc s of gold dust
and 106 jpaasengwrs. She sailed February 17th,
rounded Cape Horn the 24th of March, entered Per
nambuco May 3d, left on the 6th, and ciossed the
line on the Bth.
The Difficulty with New Granada.—Advi
ces from Bogota to the24th of April state that the
Mackintosh question was either settled, or on the
point of being so, and that relations were about to
be restored between the two governments. It is
added that Don Juan de Francisco Martin who has
resided for the last three years in Paris, is appointed
Minister Plenipotentiary from New Granacla to the
Court of St. James.
Suicides in France.—A very curious work has
just bgen issued from the Paris press, on Suicide,
and Suicidal Insanity, written by a distinguished
author in the departments of physiology and psy
chology—M. Boismont. The author shows that the
total number of suicides in France from 1834 to
1845, inclusive, was twenty-five thousand nine hun
dred and fifty-one, of which seventeen thousand,
nine hundred and four were men. Within the same
period the total suicides iu Paris, alone was four
thousand, five hundred and ninety-five, of which
throe thousand, two hundred and fifteen were men.
Unmarried suicides were as 1 to 2—seventy-six ;
married, 1 to 2—nineteen; widows end widowers,
1 to 2—thirty-two ; persons of wealth, one hundred
and twenty six; in comfortable circumstances, five
hundred and seventy-one ; gaining simple subsist
ence, two thousand ; hard up, two hundred and
fifty-live ; used up and desperate, one hundred and
fifty-nine ; paupers, one thousand one hundred and
seventy-three. The number of suicides in Paris is
greater during the summer than the winter months ,
and of the four thousand five hundred and ninety
five suicides in Paris, one thousand and ninety-four
were committed during broad daylight, seven hun
dred and sixty six in the evening, six hundred
and fifty eight at night—the remainder not ascer
tained.
A Chapter of Murders.—A St. Petersburg
letter in the Czas, of Cracow, gives the following
extraordinary story :
“A tragical drama has just taken place here. The
agent of Count Sch , who had been to the bank
to receive a sum of 15,000 silver roubles, lost the
packet of notes on his wav home. The money was
picked up by a clerk, who, instead ot giving the
property at once to the owner, followed him to his
house and inquire the name of the person who lived
there. The finder of the money then returned home,
hesitating in his own mind how he should act.—
When he arrived there, a violent quarrel took place
between him and his wife, the latter wishing 10
keep the money. The clerk, however, on the fol
lowing morning, went to the house of the count to
deliver the sum, but the latter would not receive it,
saying that his agent had committed suicide in the
night in consequence of the loss. Overcome with
remorse, the clerk returned home, where he found
that during his absence his wife had hanged herself
from vexation at not having kept the money. He
immediately cut down the body and hauged him
self with the same rope.”
—
Three Children Drowned hy their Mother
at Leoni.—Oo Thursday, the 28th ult., the village
of Leoni, Jackson county, was the scene of ate ri
ble tragedy, as we learn from the Jackson papers.
Mrs. Logan, a colored woman—mother of a family
of nine children, in a fit of mental derangement, at
tempted the murder of her whole family. In the ab
sence of her husband, she called all her children in
to the house—the oldest being but 14 years of age,
and forbid their going out. Presently she took one
of her children, went out, and threw it in the well;
then another, and so on, until she had carried out
four. The older child) en, having their fears exci
ted, followed their mother with the fourth victim,
and saw her throw it into the well. They tried to
interfere, but were unable—the mauiac mother ma
king most desperate efforts to drown them ; failing
in this, she threw herself down upon her dead and
drowning children. The well was cur bless—some
12 feet deep, with about 4 feet water. While in the
well, her children from the top handed her down a
pole, to which the mother and one child clung, and
were drawn out. The remaining three were drown
ed—all efforts of the neighbors to reaueciafe them,
proving unavailing. Pecuniary troubles, it is
said, induces the temporary aberration of mind,
which led to this dreadful tragedy. —Detrait Adw
‘The Mammoth Steamer Great Eastern.—
There is now a fair prospect that this steamer will
make her first trip across the Atlantic to this port,
not by the way of Sandy Hook but by Long Island
Sound. Well informed Sound Pilots say that there
is no risk in calculating on 35 feet at high water in
the shallowest place. Should the Great Eastern
come by this route she could stop at Morris's Wharf
the other side of Heli Gate, W'hieh is now' 600 feet
long, and could be easily extended so as to accom
modate her.- -N. Y. Exprets.
The venerable and much respected artist, Kem
brandt Peale, of Philadelphia, is row in New York,
where he proposes to deliver a discourse on W ash
ingtcn and L Portraits " He is now in hts 80th
year.
The Montreal Witness complains that crowds of
young French Canadians are (lady leaving that ; c. y
for the western part of the United States and Cali
fornia—as many as 150 having left a short time since
in one company for Minnesota.
The Delaware Republican, in announcing that
vouue Worrell, formerly of that State, is to be hung
for murder in Missouri, on the 19th of June, says
that “ grief has made its effect upon his parents.
His mother is very iii, and his father is undoubtedly
insane.”
Thtf Bank of the State ofNorth Carolina bas de
clared a dividend of5J percent, (tbe }to pay the
State) tax for the last half year, and a further divi
deud of 5 per cent, out of the accumulated surplus
profits.
The collection in six oountiee of North Carolina
fur the purchase of Mount Vernon already amount
to $1,662.66, all of which is deposited in the Bank
of Cape Fear.
The Memphis Bulletin, of the 7th inst., announces
the reception of ten tierces rioe, it being the first
shipment es that article through by railroad from
Charleston.
The Legislature of California has passed unani
mously a resolution declaring it as their opinion that
the State debt should be paid.
From the Utica Herald , of June 15.
®*** ,nop dlimry Phenomenon —-Lone of Life --
.Tlynterion* Movement* of nil Atmospheric
Body.
On Saturday aft ernoon very many of our citizens
noted the appearance of a very remarkable forma
tion of Hebuloua or cloudy substance extending from
tb© heavens nearly to the earth, where it seemed to
diminish almost to a point, but expanding gradually
as it ascended, until the peeu’iar form was lost in
the clouded sky. This remarkable and tunnel like
column of cloudy mist, passed over the city at about
four o’clock, aim was remarked not only by its pe
culiar appearance, but by a rushing, buzzing noise,
as it swept off in the direction of Deerfield. It wa«
watched for some moments, and the people gener
ally believed it to be a wateV spout, as its conical
form corresponded witli all ideas of such natural
phenomenon. It soon passed from sight, and was
made the sportive conversation for the hour, with
out the least just conception of what the body con
sisted, or of its destructive power. Its effects how
ever, have been most wonderful, and may justly
attract the attention and scruntiny ©f the scientific
world.
The conical mass settled to the earth a few min
utes past four, at a point uear the residence of Milo
Root, in Deerfield, where one or two fences were
torn down and scattered about the fields. Here the
destructive power seemed merely to touch the but
face ; between this point and the rosideuoe of
Nathan lludlong, in Schuyler, a distance of one or
t \vd miles, a prostrated tree or fence only attest to
its destructiveness. At Mr. N. Budloug's the m ,'S
terous agency settled to the earth, and in an instant
scattered a barn to pieces, and tore up several trees
on the opposite side of the road; next the well house
of Mrs. Richardson, which was standing directly in
a south-eastei ly line from where it first touched the
earth, was demolished, and quite a number ot trees
in her orchard were destroyed ; the path of destruo
tion then tended in a direct line to the,southeast, as
marked by numerous posfrate trees aud riddled
fences, until it approached the Bapt’st parsonage
house, occupied by a Mr. Johu Warren.
Mr. W. in terms us that tie was eng ged in his
garden at about four o'clock and saw the approach
of the cloudy object, as it threw up the trees. As
ils course pointed in the direction of his own house
he ran to the dwelling, caught two of his older chil
dren, and called to his wife to save the other three
and herself by following him to the cellar. The hua •
band had descended two or three steps with his
charge, and the wife, with an infant and two older
childreu had reached the cellar door when the house
was struck. The whole frame work was lifted from
the stone foundation ; the entire wood work above
the first floor with the sleepers attached, whioh
caught in the foundation, was finally turned roof
like over the entire mass.
Mr. Warren, with two of the childreu, remained
iu the cellar enclosure, without injury ; Mrs. War
ren was found on the ground about ten feet from
the cellar door, almost entirely s'ripped of her cloth
ing, and so severely injured about her neck and bo
ny that she died within an hour after the calamity,
although entirely conscious ; her infant was >ouud
near by and almost entirely free from ijury, yet
utterly destitute of clothing ; a little boy who was
following his mother to the cellar is now lying uu
conscious from ihe wounds he received in the oom
moil wreck. llis recovery is very doubtful; an old
er girl escaped without any injury. The dwelling
was two stories, IBx2tl feet, and substantially built
In rear of it was a barn, distant about five rods,
‘-25x32, feet, which was literally slaved into splint
ers.
Next in the southeasterly line of i f s course it
unrooted eevt-val large trees, scattered the fences,
crossed the road and demolished a large b«rn, bo
longing to Mr. John M. Budlong. Tins building was
of recent and very substantial build, and 35 by 50
ft et upon its base, yet the destructive element tore
it to pieces, scattering largo timbers about the fields
at a distance of from live to titteen rods, distribut
ing of the roof in various directions, and actually
taking up an iron cylinder threshing machiug,
weighing perhaps four huudred pounds, and deposi
ted it at lea.st eighty feet from the *»arn. A cow be
longing to Mr. 8., standing near the barn, was kill
ed without any upparent outward ..ound. About
80 rods farther on n a direct line, a smaller barn be
longing tp the same gentleman was demolished,
and what was very singular iu this instance, but
little of the material of which it was constructed ie
to be found anywhere. A few shivered boards and
timbers alone attest its previous existence. The
dwelling of Mr. Budlong had a narrow escape.-
A shingle or two lorn from one corner of the roof
indicate how narrowly it escaped destruction.
Beyond the premises of Mr. ii ~ for about a mile,
prostrate trees aud fences evidence the track of tho
destructive messenger. It however seemed to have
released its hold upon the earth soon after leaving
the farm of Mr. 8., lor it was distinctly seen to rise
from tlie surface and dissolve its conical shape into
a general cloudy form. The Phenomenon was fol
lowed by violent rain and wind. Two men at work
in a field saw the strange apparition approach and
took to their heels, barely escaping its track as it
passed on. It seemed to rise from tlie earth in four
or five minutes from the time it was first seen and
the evidences before us of destruction, lie in a dia
trict not over four or five mhos iu extent, in a due
southeasterly direction from where its first touoh
was felt, and in track about fifteen rods in width
Whatever of material substance presented itself in
this track was swept away and tho ruin presented
is certainly fearful to behold.
Had the mysterious body settled upon this oity
and passed down Genesee street, there would not
at ibis hour remain a vestige of its present forma
tion. Os what the destructive power was composed
we are not prepared to affirm, but of its force we
cau truthfully attest. Huge trees were tossed from
their deeprooted resting places as readily as a gar
dener would pull up a radish from the sandy earth,
fences and even fence posts were soatteied in all
directions as if they were chips, and buildings of
fered no more resistance limn a clapboard to a forty
horse power engine. The moving mass of ruin is
represented by all who saw it to have been a vapory
substance ; it was not accompanied by any wind or
storm, tpit seemed an independent agency, travel
ling on its own account, at a speed perhaps a mile a
minute. Iu its motion there was a constant revo
lution, and when it was rising this whirling pecu
liarity became more terrific and violent. Tho pe
culiar buzzing sound which was noticed in its pas
sage by our own citizens was also remarked by
the people along its course iu Deerfield and Schuy
ler.
All the peculiarities attending the phenomenon
seem to demand a scientific investigation as to its
cause and peculiar effect. What agency could pro
duce such results except electricity we are unable
to comprehend; and yet the at range proofs of
destruction exhibited can not well be explained on
any popular theory connected with this wonderful
agency The trees are still green in the las and
healthful iu the bud, and neither wood or metalin
subalances with which the element came in contact
bear the slightest mark of heat, or show the usual
marked effects of atrnysphsric electrical contact
a destroying power. But we have no solution
of our own that, is at all satisfactory to ourselves,
much less to give the euder. The subject, is one
worthy of scientific exposition, and as the facts and
evidences attending the phenomenon are fresh And
easily accessible, we hope some one will undertake
the task of reducing to the etaudard of tho public
mind a comprehensive explanation of the occur
rence.
The lady who was killed was thirty-one years of
of ago. The building which the family occupied
was known as the Baptist parsonage, and is about
five miles from thi city on the road leading through
Schuyler Corners. Yesterday several parties visited
the scene of disaster, and al agree tha no descrip
tion of the ut er ruin wrought can suffice to convey
any just conception to the public mind.
Sui! vs. Sienm.
Such a depression, it is said, as now exists in lh*
mercantile marine of New York, has beeu seldom
experienced. According to the New York Jour
malof Commerce, wharves, far u, town, usually
vacant, are fully occupied by ships laid up in idle
ness ; otner vessels, taking their chance in trade,
sail in balast, or othe> wise earn an unpr< fit able loss
to their owners. Profitable voyages are the excep
tions. Prominent among the causes tending to this
result, the Journal mentions the great increase of
ocean steamers, whose influence have beeu more
perceptible siuce the close of the Easiern war, by
wnich quite a number of them were released from
the transportation service. A struggle for pre
eminence between wind and steam has been com
menced upon the ocean, which the Journal predicta
will be long protracted, for the great lnarititna
nations have already an ov rstock of suil and
steam tounage, which will not be sensibly diminish
ed by destruction for severe 1 years.
“When trade is prosper* us, says the Journal,
‘there will be ample employment for all. at remunera*
ive rates. When trade fl igs, steam will be at a
disadvantage, on account of the greater expendi
ture aft* ndiug its use. Here is the point where the
owners of sailing ships feel their strength. It they
do not always make money an fast, they are certain
not to lose it as fast. Thus far,they are unquestionably
the smallest sufferers ; for it may well be. doubted
whether a s tuple hue of Irani Atlantic xleamets ex
empt the Canard has yet earned a dollar beyond tit
cost and expenses. Tv; of them have recently dona
well, and paid dividends; but, after deducting ex«
• enses and allowing for deterioration of the ships,
the stockholders will not find themselves much
benefitted by the operation. And yet, a great
amount of capital is being invested in steamers
abroad—propellers being preferred, almost without
exception. We are informed that, of eighty stea
mers in process of construction at this moment in
England and Scotland, there in but one scle-wheel
steamer. Quite a number of these are intended for
the American trade ; and the English evidently
cherish a design of effecting a coup de main that
shall prove us effectual in restoring to Great Britain
the supremacy of the seas us was the American clip
per fleet in depriving tier of it—as regards the size,
fleetness, &c., of these “Camels ot the, ocean.”
.Something ot this sort seems to have been in mind
when one of our London eon temporaries recently
indited the following :
“ The indications are too distinct to be in-iscon
ceived,that a new era in oceau navigation is rapid
ly approaching. The proofs have become convinc
ing to investigating minds, that iron and steam are
to supersede wood and canvas in the movement of
the products and passengers between the two hem
ispheres. The greater size, strength and security in
every respect—to say nothing of durability of wear
—which may tie imparted to iron steamships, com
bine to render such a result positively certain.—
Before the end of this century there will not, proba
bly, be a wooden hull navigating the Atlantic undoi
canvas.
“ The employment ofetearn as a motive power
has already accomplisheu more than o>iver Lvans,
or Solomon Cos, or Francis Fortune, the so cousid
ered wild enthusiasts of their times, in relation to
its propelling properties, likely ever imagined in
tneir enlarged anticipations of its success. But.
notwithstanding all that has been so wonderfully
consummated through its agency, itftis not presuma
ble that anything like perfection has been attained
in the salutary influence which it is to exercise on
the destinies of mankind. Science never slumbers.’*
Whilst the Journal thinks that such bold asser
tions should be taken with, considerable allowance,
it admits they have a certain significance. Forty
ocean steamers now ply between North America
and the European continent, only about one-fifth of
which are American.' Since the introduction of
steam in 1838, it appears from a statement of the
Treasure Department at Washington that two-fifths
of the value of t e importations into New-York
from England and Franco have passed from sail
vessels to ocean steamers! S<» great have been the
improvements made in propeller machinery, in se- .
curing power and compactness, that the machinery
occupies but one fifth of the space available for
goods in the common merchantmen. The Journal
adds that the subject is occupying the thoughts of
the New-York ship builders, aud that there are
among them tluyie who are ready to demouscrate the
ability of the Americans to construct propeller steam
ships that shall be equal to any afloat, and who are
desirous of obtaining for this department of marine
architecture increased attention.— Rich. Dispatch.
Distressing Casualty. —We have been showu
a letter to Col. A. W. Hammond from his Ferryman,
Mr. Thomas W. Free, at Danville, Sumter county,
dated the 10th inst., from which we learn that on
Wednesday previous, about 9 o’clock in the morn
ing, the Ferry House, together with its contents,
was consumed by fire, aud Mrs. McKinley, widow
of former Ferryman, and her step daughter, burned
to death.— Atlanta American .
On the first of July the new tariff takes effect, un
der which, foreign liquors are subject to only thirty
percent, instead of one hundred per cent, ad valo- •
rem duty as heretofore.
The deaths in Philadelphia last week were 153,
of which number 67 were under five years of age.—
Consumption carried off 26, croup 7, and soarle(
fever 7,