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it i’ J. M. Mason, United state.i Senate.
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j|,-ur> jiull, Esq.. At!.- ns, Oa.
t'rof/E.-Conio, N. 0 coil. ; o, Columbia. Jea-w3m
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*r 111-: lied,.l dgned pr .ir ; • s t«» cure Dropsy of every
] tb- .rt pi ion It.- has b. en huc- « ful in the treat
~ . ~j th, . din.;, ..fo,- lifttV vea l He ran he neen.
.o ;i I, y them.le> ouih oil fu iosf Point, or addressed
by letter lo that i lliee I lie medicine ran be sent any- j
where l* v li.i loa.l, with direet.on? for UkiUK it- or I j
will attend pei-M.ually, if r«4|uwted, and paid lor iny J
trouble I will buy Nog roe • afflicted with Dropsy, or
.-ure them, a- the owner may prefer. I. have never.
Know n ai a e t<» return when gured by my remedy*}
Hat, u eu.ry refer, ~, i n Ki veu, if desired
MILES G. BROOME. j
Union Point, Oa., July <>. 1857. Jyll-wtJal j
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I' III: I r;i lei,re o, Amb Ingram, in Wilkin- '*
I .ii comity, oentaining Three Thousand Acres, the
• -r. a ter p.-rt under len-and about cue half cleared.
V»ir ah .\ i- place is about .’ls milt ■ from Macon, 17 from
1,0 , and "M fn»uMHujb.«buitr-al Railroad. It i> well
vat, <■« >! and tmibered , has a gomLDivoUicg, Negro •
, <irlst Mill, tliu House, amtad necessary out
••Hint,or s For further parti id at s address or call ou tho .
mib t riti. rat Vutlibert, Rau l,Midi coumv. Ga.
iylrtw.hu Wil l lAM JNGRAM. *
N OTIOST hi s. I
•IMII r. h:.x .ug determined to move West, #
A , - ler »ieo,u filu xnoHdearable FARM# in
s-.nfiex. a* tu Georgia, coHnhdn three lots or squares, j
situaie,! i x i.i lesnortuo Ogleth»rpo t county,
ami a, Iwalihv as any lo at ion in Ueorgia. There are
tour hundred and thirty acre of elear-d Eaud—33o acres I
cleared within the last four year -all of a light gray
eulor, well adapted to the uroduettou of cotton All «»l‘ ,
*.he land as level a could bed. o ul; well watered,
hm; od water, xv ;th all iiuprovemcuu nece wry tor a
lir-t rate Farm—Gin House, Gin, Gear and Screw, all of ,
theb. t i i .tCnals, and an well made nnd arirngod ** j
Stov k. Fanning Utensils, and provision# enmißli lor J
the ph" ... will In* lumished to the purchaser, if desired, ;
«t la r prices. A i-us!i purchase* agre.it barßaiu.
All . i the abovt' r.alucd articles and place will be oftered
an id. ..it u mis, and it not *dd before the first Tmv.luv j
i \ N«»\« mber next, will be offered ut public aato iu the* j
town of OKletborpe • j
1 also oil. r my HOUSE and LOT in KauUowntor sale, j
Rtul tYfimk it one «*» the mo i pleasantly Situated lor a 1
residence u the town C«U and see.
jviowdur Wild JAM ELLIS. j
'ai/abama plantation jtoa sale
rl' 111. mule. s lM :u d olfers tor sale his valuable PLAN f
I r \ i’K»N, situated In the comity of Macod, If j
miles from’ Mom* >mery a-d Weal l’oiul Railroad. 7 {
miles es 1 on l boupeo-creok, contalmu# IdOO i
acre -.of I.i-hI-700 ol nii.uh is in a due state of cnlfiva- j*
ti.-u lh. ein well watered a> i finely timbered;
healthy, and pr.uhie. s t’o'.ton and Oom equal to any
laotls so this section. Uu the p*einlacs ises id a large
Owed.eg House, with good dm ami Screw, and all no- •
coaaary buildingl'm further particulars, inquire, of
U II ARMS'I KON. 1. Notasuiga, Ah* . «.»• the under
Mgne lon the prenu.-o RIM Ktl L> RISK ILL
FOR SALE’ ’
■S' Ik *' : * ies q:n. d. hem a <i«\.iioua of leaving the State,
1 offers :it prrvate fi REAL ESTATE in
the owned Wnrreniou, Warrencouuiv, Ua . consisting 1
• i \ •. and Lo . • . '-out ;i-.»• kom
..in . \i- o, u>' Cuvx nge >bop and Tools. Machine,
.unit'd. dall his stock, together with all hit finished
and unfinished work.
|Froi.i llttA'U to twenty dollar* worth of
* ik . 1.1 , »sily be disposed of, at good pftb ok, at this
aland, iu twelve months. * _ *'
Persons wishing to purchase,'are respectfully Invited
call and examine for themselves.
P > . m will be giv»‘u at any time, to suit the pur
cha GEORGE L. BONHKR.
W-i 11 c;. * - hi. Ala. .1 mie 5, I85«i, wtf ,
FOK SALE.
I NOW i tier lor sale my entire River PLANTATION,
■_> or to miles south of Columbus, fit. in Barboitr
county. Ala,, lying on the Chattahoochee river, contain,'
ug 2-0»2 acres . 1200 in a tint* slat* of cultivation ami
goml r. \>* t A good Water Gin mid Ferry atro*i the
Ch.v »ho hoe river The above .• be for sale at any ,
Lme- until sold and possession given. Terms to cult pur
c\i-ei v f ,:.n2l ts j M ATTIIEW AVBRETT.
-FOR SALE,
V PLANTATION' containing 1500 acre* Land, well
timbered ; 200 acre* cleared, aotiproducoa the best
Sea L and Cotton and Pn vs . usof aft kinds. A good
two <torv Dweittinr. v; ntauiing seven roonß, with four
fire places, and 4b teet Fiacra ; K;;uji<u. Smote House,
lwosiv.ry Cotton House, Cm House, and other buildings,
are on tti«i premises, with a Well of food water ;<a fine
range lor Hogs and Cattle . Fish and Oysters convenient
m large abuudai A more healthy, pledfcaqt location
is not to be found in Southern Georgia. -Further par
tier. • s oan be obtained by application to the subscr her
at Sava, at; Y- WOOLLEY.
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CO L. EM A N HOUSE
BY LANIER A* EAY)Y,
KNOXVILLE, TENN.
HMIK un.ior iriu dliiiv ug taken charge of this large
A and ooBimo.i: »ns House, respectfully solicit and
hope to merit a liberal share oi patroage. >R'ho house ie
furufished in Ahv m.«i tbor.>ugft audtuodern style, with a
view to couvemeuce and comforL It is situated in the
heart of the city, convenient •ad the business, and on
the principal streef Au omuibus is always in readiness
to convey passenger* t>< and from the D«potfou the arri
val and »iepai .ire of the cats The Slag* for Mont vale
Springs arrives and depart* daily.
The table will be supplied with the bent the market
affords, and no pains will be spared to reuder guests
cotnfi’ttable SAMPSON LANIER.
j u V lii. l;*.Vi jv2Mf> JrllN FAHY
K. BEARDEN. "*• »■ FRANCISCO.
BEARQ£N St rRANCISCO,
1 )ROIH ( K AN O COM MISSION MERCHANT^
I Ms. om Ga . w,l. -oil oft t . i - v Bacon. Lard, (
i•; >ii r Corn. Oais. Fcathcfs and Tennessee Produce
generally. . ,
IVrso a shipping to a# can roly npon prompt returns.
KKKFR Ts •
Merchants and Oitireus of Knoxville . Mqgcan A Co.,
Jo Edwards. Jame C. Litt. d,Comptroll* r. Nashville ;
Richard B Camp bell, -en Chau ler A- Co.. J & M.
From h Cb,v;an>vt; T J. Cauipoell, Cleveland; R C.
ja 'ks..iv * then' Merchant* of East Tenuesse generally.
““ wisitfiN LAND.
IWI I.L sell o: e Lad. or ail of my interest m Texas
L Nl). fIO,OOO acres )
These Lands 1 c on the Rio Frio and the Perdenales
rivers. They are located nthebe-t part of the State
for Stock rat> > and the .' at g*r part o» them are said to
be as rich a* anv The t«tle> ere porftet
wem * A 11 SHEPHERD,
ie2fi-wst* Cdlmubr, , Ga. »
FOR SALE,
AVFKV durable FARM >nd Summer RKSI
UESCE. '■'¥ >'.:'pr.'ved and lo a pleaant m
borbulvd mil-Aw;-: Aur-*«t«. The pi=ee ' o«t..n«
about 400 acres of B".'it Fanuij.* Laud i *‘JU ot "Uu li
*r» n cultivation. Asa Summer, or Resi
dence. the location is at otce pleasant and desirable, on
account «.f health', schools, society, easy access to market
and being in a convenient distance <1 Allens Station.
August h A: Savannah Railroad.
App iratiou may be made on the premises, or to the
subscriber by letter, who will take pleasure in giving all
further information.
Possession given the flr s t day of January next
WILLIAM J- MIMS.
Angti'-ta. July ?th, 1 jyb dJcw3m
AUGUST A HOUSE FURnTsHINGDEPOT'.
THE underpigned are now receiving unusually heavy
1 supplies ol Fresh Goods, to which they invite the
attention of the trade and families. Our stock of
BTOVEB, GRATES, RANGES. Tin, Wood and Willow
WAKES, is now very complete, together with our usual
variety of I'LJKNISHJNG GOODS, and small Wares
Call and see so.- ynjuaelve*. 8. S. JONES & CO.,
kplO 210 Broad -street.
Weekly Chronicle & Sentinel.
vCbronirlc & Sentinel.
t o!, Tidwell’s I,eit«r of Acceptance.
Nkwsav, July 24, 1857.
Cot.. M. Tidwell, Fayetteville —
Jtrar Sir :—The American Convention which
met #c Newnan, this day, far the p'irp<ee of nomi-
Jitif' a r.tiididate for iron* the Fourth
C’-Djye Diatrict, ‘ >/am ims>usty arid by ar■ '
• /ifmofion conferred that diatioctiou upon you ;
nudappointed the under- gned a Committee«lo n«-r
--tify j <jii <4 the action of the Convention, and request
your acceptance oi the nominat ion.
1 he uniif rr'or#e«i, in the discharge r»# the pleading
duty aligned them, can Hr,t withhold the expression.,
of their hope that you will gratify the earnest wi-hea
oi vonr friends, by an early and favorable reply trj
tijw communication.
Kr,closed pleased find a copy of the proceedings
of to, Convention.
Very reepectfu ly, your oUt serv’ts,
8. F. Alexander, 1 u
U 11. IDgham,
<4. >4 Solas , ' r Committee.
N. E Bento*,
C. I*. Ham.eitek,
Fayetteville, July 27th, 185 f.
Gentlemen;;Y'»ur le:ter informing me oi my
unanimious jjojriination a.-* a candidate lor Cong ret*,
by the Ainerieacrparty of the Fourth CpDgrearional
Ili-lrict, has beenreceived. fine so generously and
uaauip.oasTy tendered, nhouid not bo declined , and
r vUgh .here may be a largo majority against US in
1 c I)i-'nc ye! wiih the firm aod u n doubt iqg scon
fiden«e whjciyl have iu the of Jhe prin
- Pi t objec-i.- '.f the party, it would 4
‘h* wrong in me, nr any of iu members, tx> refuse to
«-rv - when , /dled upoif by such a Convent ion as
fan In ve the honor to rtrpreseut. For one, 1 can
uAt, nod will not, defeat be inevitable! de
c.me. (jur- iiyi believes it i» h tier T<»
• i»T rigiit than The defeat with which
• >ar party has heretofore met, has been borne with
uncon.p'Hining submission , but the wrongs and in
jmie i influded upon our coniin<4p country, by ele
•Ming to j w**r and place tho;e of pur opponents
-•>1 theg>-.dt staled Jicmorratfcparty.jilein too intole
i tifUe to be bprne by a free and onccap peaArdii] and
l:ftpj>y.people. Tin; f«c‘ is seen, knc*wirand felt
x. it 'mm 'ihge» s tair.ty, that our eonutry is blehdiag
it e vei y-pore ; that the d,uth been wronged,
injured, brtnrynl and insulted ; that Americatf free'
ugrll. men who have been proud of her name", and
Hmnkinl to Heaven that they were American citi
zens, tif* IM'W mounting Avar liter ruin and desola
tion with which 4 hey are threatened, and their ctnce
fond cfbuTmu ut lo imr Luion broken, through a
seeming iKc. to save themselves, their cherish
ed institutions and property.
Hermit me, »u candor, to ask an honest and
lb nkc g pdltple (without going into any argument,
which 1 conceive to be mnnecesskry and improper
in Ibis leiier) the < nuse which lias produced such un
hai>py resultj ? HaYo the people wronged them
selves 7< r it the oUicinls of party,who have base
ly betrayed, wrougea ai;d deceived a confiding and
unsuspectiiig people 7 * If it is tfie intentional acta
<4 the peapre they should notr complain ; but t it be
doulhtlesHTrue) party leaders, w ith whom the
rights and iuteresf* of the country have been in
trusted, their party should be searched, and those
jvho have proven themselves unworthy of trust, re
moved and disarmed fit power and place, and no
longer permitted to deceive and injure a free and
virtues people. This should be done, though it
remove from • ffico those who have arrogated to
Oiemßelvcfl the name of Democrat, a name once
’clierihhedby tnany, but now prostituted by beieg
made the means of placing unfaithful party lead
ers in office, and of oppressing their constituents,
and especially those of the South, iu order to
build up a strong National party, the only
which is to give power and phee (o political aspi
rant-. Devotion to party may bo commendable in
i;s votaries, but fidelity to our Country is better.
U will le. my duty and plea.->uie to show lo the
people of the Fourth Congressional District, on all
suitable occasions, to the best of my ability, the
causes that have produced such alarming effect*;,
and satisfy them, it possible, that the parly assunt
m, the name of Democracy is alone responsible—
bring the only party that has held the power to
effect our interest either for well 4<r for woe ; and 1
4:aun4it doubt but .that when the honest thinking
pruple of ihe country see the faithlessness of their
I. »t4i«:rn and the tendency of their part, that they
will have the firmness and nerve to denounce them.
Tim resolutions fucompanying your letter, as well
atUhose 4»t the State Conv4 ntion, winch yours
approved, have my approbation and will receive
my support.
In conclusion, gentlemen,permit me to make to
you, mid through y4»u to the Convention and parly
you r present, tliejacknowledgments of a grateful
heart for the confidence reposed in me by the Amet i
can party of the District, as manifested by the action
4>i your Convention.
Hoping that the people will at once outer it.to an
investigation of tb h wrongs an<l injuries (which all
udmi') have been done them, and that the errors
may be exposed And corrected, ami V4iur nomina
tion made triumphant in tlie election, i remain,
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
M. M. Tidwell.
Messrs S. F. Alexander, H. 11. Biglmm, G. M.
Nolan, N. K. Benton, C K. Hanlciter.
Crops of the United Btates for 1855. —We
itneH below some interesting facts and figures.—
They show the estimates of the agricultural pro
dude of the United States for the year 1855, as fi
nished in an official form from the Patent office.—
They cannot be regarde4las strictly correct, but they
are ns nearly so os possible. It will be seen that
tl»4- Crop4*f Indian corn for the year is estimated in
value at $360,000,000, whereas the wheat crop jsee
mated at only $-17,500,000. The cotton cr4ip is es
timated at $130,000,000; while the hay and fodder
crop is estimated at $160,000,000.
V EGETABI.K PRODUCTS.
Valuation Total value.
Indian Corh.. fiOO,OiX),oOO biwhel# at fiOct.s.^:fiio,oo'',ooo
Wheat. H»5,000,000 at $l5O 247,500,000
Rye 14,000000 “ at $1 14,000,000
Barley 0,0(0,000 ‘ at 00 eta. 5,040 OfM)
Oats 170,000 000 “ at4octs. GH,000,l)00
Buckwheat.... 10 000,000 “ ktfiOcta. 5,000.000
a’ts)J 10,000,000 “ at:i7ols. 41,250,000
Fla \seed 58 000 “ at $1.25. 72,000
> Beans and Peas v 9,000,000 “ at $2 18.000.0(H)
CJo A grasswi. 1,000 000 “ at « L... :J,t)(H).OCK)
Rice 250,000,000 pounds at 4 cents 10,000,000
Sugar (gane) . .505,000.000 ai j cents 35,550 IHJO
Sugar (maple). 84,100,000 ,s * at 8 cents 2,720,000
.. .. 14,tX)0JKt) gallons at 50 cts 4,200,000
Win*-. . ..... 2,000.000 *' nl $1 .. 3,510,000
Ilops f.
kudmi d product .. a 25,000.0(H)
Garilru products * -* 50,000 000
Tobacco 190,000 000 pounds at 10 cts 19,0 0,000
Cnlton 1,700,000 000 *' at 8 cents 130,000,000
Hemp 34,500 tons at SIOO 3,450,000
Flax ... 800 000 pounds at 10 cts. 80.000
fata V & fodder* 10 1)00,000 tons at #2O 160,000,000
Pas»lira ge 143.000,0p0
- • $1,355,550,000
DOMESTIC ANIMAL!' \NT> ANfWAI. PRODUCTS.
Valuation. Total J'aluc.
Horned Cattle. 21,000,000 at S2O each ... $42,900,000
Horses, Asses,
Mules 5 V O,OOO at SfiOeaeh.... 300,000,000
Sheep. 28,500,000 at $2 each... 47 000.000
.Nwfhftb 32,0W),000 at $5 each—. 160,000,000
IN*i!*ry -* 200,0t0 000
Slanguteivd animals 200,000,000
Butler, Chees, 500.000,0Q0 pounds at li cts 75,0:0,000
Milk (exclusive
ly of that used
ic-rTuttCr and
chedsc)... 1,000,000,600 eals. at 10cts. 100,800,000
Wool GO,'. 00,quo lbs. at 35 cts... 21,000,000
Beeswax and
honey 1fi,000,0 0 lbs. at 15 cts... 2,400,000
Silk cocoons 5,000 lbs. at $1 5,C00 (
$932,005,000
The aggregate tor 1857 will no doubt prove
much larger. It is quite Apparent, from the
ing, that this is an immeiiHe country, and that our
resources are of vast extent and magnitude. Should
wo untoward event take place, the crop for the pres
ent year will prove greater than on any former oe
casion, and the effeol wUi be beuelicial, not only to
♦the farn*er, but Co the merchant, the manufacturer,
the store keeper, and especially to the mechanic,
the day laborer, and the thousands who eat bread
l>y the sweat bf the brow. — Balt. Amor .
To.nnaok of Ntrtv York*'—We have compiled
fromfthe < tlicial records, our quarterly statement of
the tonnage ut this port for the.quarier ending Juno
30th* 1857. The total entries trom foreign ports
show a slight increase ft pen the corresponding quar
ter of last year, amt are a little above the average
cf th<He ime period in past years. The clearances
.trt* largo iu tonnage than for the same time in any
furmer year, althofigh ihere is a falling off in the
number of vessels ;
ENTERED AT NEW YORK FROM FOREIGN PORTS FC?B
THREE MONTHS, JUNE 30, 1857.
No. of vessels Tonnage. No. seamen.
American vessels-. 011 411,190$ 13,844
Foreign vessels.... 315 1 19.1)1)7 J 58,7G5
Total entered.. 1,259 59i.188 19,009
Do same Hue 50 1,2.kS 537.70 \\ 18,220
Do same time '55 l,tk! 452j»73| 14,022
T>o. same tffbe ’5-1 1,328 611,00*j 10,468
lKv. tyime time 153 v ' .\M,095 18,997
!>p. some time o 2 1,3 K ‘s:tt,s3oj 18-.777
1 >o.>suine time *sl 12 U J 70,801 10,942
Do. same time ’501,085 384,713$ 14,763
Wf.IV YOftK FOR FOREIGN PORTS DU
RI.NO MONTHS KNDINO JUNK 3ft, 1^57.
N*v of vessels. Tonnage No. seamen.
vt jslqls.. 57 9 340,4221 1*0,592 •
Total cleared- - - - 875 474,392* 16,005
Do. satiffe time \>o 1*1)8 168-596 J 15,882
Do. same time .55 8.*»2 :i78.803 12.891
l )o. same t iuie ’sl 979 V>7,901 J. 15 606
IX.. sarfte tiffle \Vfll,l3o 448,319 i 16,530
Do. -ame time ’52 905 422,120 15,401
Do same*time’sl 1,045 409.37 1.»*42S
Do. same time ’SO 880
We have compiled our usual summary of the
coastwise commerce of this port, fort ire same pe
iuxi. go far as can 1^8 done front the Custom-House
records. As explained iu our formerarticles
a very large portion oi our coastwise
commerce does not appear.upon the record; for.
unless tite vessels have foreign goods or distilled
spirt's on boafd, they have not been obliged to make
any «4ticiai H4&n<Qrledgment of their arrival or de
part ure* A law was passed by Congress more than
a'year ago, authorizing the Secretary’of tbtf Trea
sury to obtain ftlll particulars ot the coastwise com
meffte, but. we tieiieve uo aetkm has been takeu
under it. Xs the vessels clearing coastwise are
often Wien wit has tidies obliging them to clear at
the Custom House,4he record of clearances is much
larger than the entries, but neither approach any
where near the true total The following is a copy
of t he official record :
coastwise commerce of new york forthequar
# TERVNDING JUNF.<3d.
Entered coastwise. Cteared coastwise.
1 f ar. No. ot vessels. Tone. No. of vessels. Tons.
9r?\ - 193,249 . 1
••*>•*< 136.181 1,168 233 ?3a
18.. 1 ->24 ICI.-JO-J- 1.J78*
18. x; .53' U 1,965 1i!33 SFj'sSa
1853
1854 616 161.227 1.561 4tU 984
1855 »sl>B 1.67 240 1,196 357’,270
1650 521 ■?
1 8,37: 458 449,028 . jj.241 380,098
Thin shows a falling stir Ibe record >:oe--,
but it may br that tlir dr* !iue is bah* ijithe uuiubrr
tfvesseU which have effipitillr rei cruised,
while the buatuees usay have atftm'iy increased.
Tut total for the last' quartof'3ho*?, as entered
rout wise, 160 regiatcFeU ▼eseeb. 214.230 tons, aud
298 licensed, 69.798 tons.* The eiraranM?- coast
wise include 4*h>
Ntj licensed, 4803198 lons. If fuff particulars oould
be obtained of the coastwise'-commerce, including
the quautity and value of the articles shipped, the
statistics would be interesting and valuable.—Jour
no/ of Commerce.
Was it Emewbizi or Patrokagi ‘ —Oneof
the New York lines of European steamers has stop
ped its trips because the owners did not get the
mail contract from the United State* Government.
3 be “commercial enterprise" ofNcw York, ofwhicb
we hear such extravagant eulogies, is noFlben equal
to the maintenance of a Hue of steataere, yrithout an
extraordinary share of public patronage. No won
tier the merchants of that ai’y keep so many borers
at Washington duting every session of Congress.—
Hie only pettier of surprise is, that every other At
lantic city, seduced by this example, has not been
presenting equal, claims to public aid in its “com
mereial enterprises ’ This would have equalized
the Government patronage, and prevented com
mercial monopoly, of which they all complain.—
/'him. Ledger.
From Sail Lake C’ify.
A telegraphic despatch from St Louis briefly an
nounced ihe news from Lake City up to July
Ist,received at St. Louis on the 23d. In the Si.
Louis Republican 4,f the 22d, received by yester
day’s mail, we find in addition, long extracts frorfi
the Deserd News, showing what the Mormons think
of the public opinion in the States against them.—
We make a few selections :
From the Deseret. Nerrg, Jiuu 3.
Not having a paper Urge enough and as a grade
of character low enough to render it compatible to
print therein all the slaodeis against us which ar
rived iu a she months' mail, President Brighton
Young notified the congregation, on Sunday, the
7th, that if they would like to bear what Was pub
lished about u» in the States, they would manifest it
by asefciq^lingiu the Bowery by BA. M., on the
morning of the 13th. The President caused the
whole six months’ batch to be collected, and re
quired two excellent readers to be present at the
time and place appointed, who read by turns, for
nearly four hours, the printed product'-ms of fren
zied, beclouded, and addled brail.s to an immence
congregation of the purest and noblest people to be
f undon the whole earth, and could edit4„»rs, scrib
blers, and sneer-makers have seen the smiles of deri
sion and speech of disgust with whi- h their lucu
brations ana studied were received by each
intelligent hearer, it might seem that they would
have beea tempted to tut n their time, efforts, and
pubiicatioiri into a channel that would in some
small degree benefit (heir fellow beings.
But to return, perhaps those zealous friends of
fiuman rights and social progress woul 1 kindly
waive the forcible expulsion of the " Mormons,”
lest their being again plundered, driven and mur
dered. in thirtChristian and loving Itßh century,
liould so scatter them among the people as to utter
ly contaminate all the whited sepulchres now
glistening with such an outside show of apparent
purity. For this reason some may deem it a better
plan to Send officers aud troops here, with the sole
view of sowing dfeeouaicn aud corruption in the
most united and right-seeking community in tfie
nation. Such persons appear to have forgotten
what their mothers learned them, that water and
«>il are not easily mixed. They also fail to compre
hend, iu spite of all our plain end philanthropic,
teaching*, that the corrupt, the iudojent, the
pbatitie-i .the ease hunting, fictitious woridly popu
larity-seekingy&c., &c., are ail out of place in Uiah, -
and would soon jeave f4jr their congenial climate.-
and society in the cities of* the States, and thus
sorely chagrin and disappoint th-ir sanctimonious
aiders and abettors
But who that reflects does not understand that
the hue and cry. the howling uud braying against
‘fair Utah,’are for Buncouie, to subserve the de
signs of most selfish and debased plana ? Who out
side of Utah aud seeking office therein, cares one
particle about her prosperity aud welfare ! Not
one, no, not one. That they want office, grave as
is that offence, is one of the very smallest evils that
can be laid to their charge, for when it is obtained
they far too frequently use its privileges for the
purpose of more efljputually trampling upon tiie
rights of their fellows.
Do they fancy that we American born and*raised
are not familiar with what is our due ? I)o they
ever wi dly imagine that we do not most thorough
ly understand the Constitution of the United States,
and are.uot conversant with the statutes at large*
at ieast so far as applicable to Territories 7 The
most virulent newspapers have admitted that we
are 1 nfdrmed upon these points, an i that by the
Constitutions and laws of the United Slates we are
beyond their reach, never having in the least degree
in (ringed upon nor contravened the provisions
thereof. But all this does not answer their pur
poses, when tho “Mormons” are iu question. Ah,
what a difference as to which bull go*ed which ox ?
With the law, the Constitution, a large majority of
the Judges of the Supreme Court and every appli
cable correct usage of our G ivernment, from its
beginning, upon the side of Utah, still “something
must be dune” with those terrible “Mormons.”
Perhaps some from the lofty (?) pinacle of their
supposed wisdom look in compassion upon our be
nighted condition, and in the outgushings of their
philauthrophy (.') are ready to immolate themselves
upon the altar of patriotism, for the redemption of
Utah. Pooreouls! we pity you, but candidly we
do not need your court, your compassion, nor sac
rifices in our behalf, and emphatically wish you to
understand that we do know what we are about and
are most amply able to takt; care of ourselves, if
you will but keep away and let us alone.
Now, O ye 10. i-g ones abroad seeking office iu
Utah, ye who d-i jointing for notoriety nnd fat
places will you not let a little good advice throw a
slight gleam of sound sense aud fair dealing iito
your darkened understandings, and clear your be
clouded and mistaken notions? Utah is most as
suredly not a desirable abiding place for any who
do not love salvation. The salaries are net high,
and t herefore pickings and stealings have not rapid
ly enriched even the most expert who have been
sent here. Tho society is now wise congenial lo
the tastes and habits of those who expect to continue
in the indulgence of the spicy “sly cuts” recotmn?n
ded by Christian monogamists. There are no daily
papers to dish up a long and dark catalogue of daily
crimes, and no crimes to be served up. There i 3
only a monthly mail n’ best, and often only one in
six months, except from California, and you would
pine yourselves away iu fretting for an opportunity
to solid off yiiur slanders.
We are fully aware that President Buchanan and
his Cabinet cannot be presumed to know the quali
fications of all who are hounding them for office aud
a clutch at the spoils, aud are thereby liable to have
their best intentions frustrated. But they do know*
(jiat Utah unanimously and of right wishes and re
spectfully petitions that his Excellency Brigham
Young be continued to be her Governor, a man
long ami thoroughly tried and proven to be most
worthy. And what American citizen, having a due
respect for the constitutional rights and welfare of
the people will so much as ask for the appointment
iii Gov. Young's place, or even aceept it if proffer
ed without being sought ? Not one. Neither can
any intelligent person, unmaddened by party fren
zy, uncontaminated by laws of office aud spoils,
and possessed of only a tolerable respect for the
rights and feelings of others, be so wicked and ma
licious as to urge President Buchanan lo appoint
any officers in Territories, save those indicated by
the choice of the people dwelling therein. Any go
vernmental appointments for Territories, more than
for States, is iff best but a relic of barbarous colo
nial usage.
But the universal yell is, “President Buchanan
must do something with tt*e Mormons.” Not yet
knowing how long and how well he may be able to
withstand the terribly clamorous and unjust outside
pressure, and we being known to be on the side of
economy as well a* justice, we most respectfully
suggest, in cn.se lie cannot withstand the pressure,
that he select one or more civilians, unbound by
any ism or isms, if such can be fouud, also intelli
gent strictly honorable, upright and gentlemanly,
iu tho true sense of those terms, and send them to
Utah on a short visit to look about them and see
what they can see, and return and report.
Violcui Totiiittlo,
A violent and destructive tornado occurred iu the
town of Tewksbury, Middlesex county, Mawachu •
jbetts, yesterd.iy afternoon. At about half past five
o’clock P. M., some of the inhabitants noticed over
Round Pond a singular appearance, it resembled
in the opinion of borne, a water-spout; wafi-at fiist
about the size of a cart wheel, and appeared to be
in a whirl. As it gathered force, a noise was heard
like that of a heavy train of cars under full head
way. Its path was through the valley, with a width
of about twenty-five rods, and it soon assumed all
the characteristics of a violent tornado, leveling and
sweeping all within its sphere.
It first struck among the orchards of Mr. Jacques
and Mrs. Kittredge, doing considerable damage.
With increased force it then strut k UDon the farm
of Mr. Morey, totally destroying tiela of rye ami
uprooting ah Ids apple trees. At this place a fisher
man, a resident of Lynn, tvho was on his return from
Lowell, supposing that a shower was approaching,
drove under a tree for shelter. The tornado struck
the team, taking both horse and wagon into the air,
landing the horse ill a ditch by the bide of the road,
throwing the man across the road, breaking the
wagon into IV ..gments. Some portions of the wagon
were afterwards found nearly a mile from the spot,
sticking up in the ground. The occupant of the
-wagon was thrown across the road, the tree under
which he was • sheltering being blown down upon
him, by which he was seriously but not fatally
bi uised.
It next swept through the orchard of Oliver Car
ter, doing great damage, and then crossing the hill,
made a clean path through an oak grove. One of
these oaks was afterwards found iu a 4uck pond a
quartet of a mile distant. The larger portion of the
orchard of Mr. Caleb Livingston Wfic ( miofighed.
It then crossed the farm of Mr. Samuel Thompson,
tearing down his fences and destroying his cornfield,
orchard. Jtc. It next struck the* house and barn
of Mr. John Clark. The barn was completely de
molished, and the roof and tlie back part of the
house carried away. There were nine persons in
the house, at the time, but they were fortunately in
thedower rooms, and all thus escaped injury. The
houseless family were afterwards cared for by the
inhabitants.
The tornado then crossed the river and took off
the corner of the barn of Mr. Benjamin Burt, des
troying the sheds between the iiouse aud baru. At
this place the force of the w’ind was such that an
(»x learn was taken from the ground and broken in
pieces. Os one wheel not a spoke left. Con
nnttiug in its com «.* it c ossed the tra«i of the Bos
ton aud Maine K Voed. uprooting trees, and *was
’ast beard from up or the farm of Mr. Upton, of Wil
mington, w here it made a path iu the woods, but
‘gradually diminished in violence, which was notice
able tip m the fact that Mislead of pulling up a tree
by the roots, oifiy the tops were takeu off. As it
passed the railroad track a spiked plank at a cross
ing was torn up and carded a considerable distance.
course, the inhabitants were in a state of great
alarm at this unusual visitation.
It is entirely owing to the fact that its path was
through the valley that there was not more sdrious
injiirjr, uekrly all the houses being located upon the
elevated ground. Some state that the first they no
ticed of the matter was the branches and even whole
trees wheeling in the air.
Others imagined it to be a fire in the air. One
family under this supposition threw a pail of water
uponjhe fire in the cooking stove and fled, to the
cellar for safety. One tree of considerable size was
seen in the air*at an estimated height of eighty feet
and tlie trunk of a large tree which was uprooted
has not yet been Found. Some of the fragments of
the house of Mr. Clark were carried for a conside
rable distance. Although the loss of property must
be quite~large,foitunaiely no lives were lost.—Bos
ton Traveller of Saturday.
The East India Mutiny—The Washington
“States’’ publishes an extract from a letter received
by a friend in Washington, containing the views
of a person whose opinion*, the Sfatfcs thinks, are
entitled to great consideration. The writer declares
that the East India mutiny means the loss of the
British m*-sessions In Asia; that the war w ith Rus
sia was the first act in the drama of British deca
dence, this uprising of the Asiatics, the yet more
decisive seepnd act. England is about te fall to a
third or fourth rate power. In 1860 England will
own uothing in Indiv but a wide-spread and ruin
ous war. Such are the predictions of this prophet.
Similar predictions have been made for a hundred
years. England, within our own recollection, has
been on the point of falling to a third or fourth rate
power a dozen times. We are tired waiting td se*
the accomplishment of the prophecy. Her war wim
we did not approve* but, we are bofind in
candor to confess that ste came out of it stronger
thau she went in. France was wearied out with
the struggle, wheft England had just fairly warmed
up to her work. She U more powerful at this mo-'
meat than she has been at any previous period of
her history. * It recjlitres e -me reverses to rouse her
to the full vindication of ber strength. The uprising
of Jhe Sepoys wm the British dominion
of the Last ? a dominion gamed by tilliblistering and
wrong, but winch will be held with the Anglo-Sax
on * strong and miyielding grip. The resources of
L« g4and can be but little understood bv any who
suppose that the Indian disturbances wiil eh tike lien
power in that quarter. Nor do we know that it is ?
desirable for humanity that they ahooid. ’ Rjvk.
Dispafek.
Mormon Djctrine.— U 1 would not be afiaid to
promise a man who is sixty years of age, if he will
take the counsel of Br. Brigham and hi? brethren,
that he will renew his age. I have noticed that a
man who has but one wife, and is declined to that
scon begins to wither and dry up, while a
man who goes into plurality looks fresh, young and
sprightly. Why ie this ? Because God loves that
man, and because he honors his work and word.—
1 Some of you may not believe this, but I also know
it. For a man of God to be confined to one woman
[ is a small business, for it is as much as we can do
now to keep up under the burdens we have to carry,
and do not know what we should do if we had only
one wife apioe. ’ — Hebcr C. Kimball.
AUGUSTA, (iA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST o, 1857.
I From the Charleston Standard, of Tuesday.
From California—Central ‘America—China-
Oregon and Havana.
! By the steamship Isabel, which arrived at abont
! hall past 11 o’clock, last evening, and to whose Pur*
! ser, Mr. Mahoney, we would render our usual ~
j knowledgmcjutr. we received our files from Cali
fornia, Central America, Otegon; China an \ Hava
na, extracts from which, as copious as the late 1- ur
of their reception wifl permit, will be found below.
I The news is not of "especial importance—tLfet from
China, however, is interesting.
We refer the reader to the following summary of
intelligence:
.The State. —Politics have been the all engross*,
ing theme Os conversation during the two weeks
which*!stve sipee the departure of the last
mail steamer, The-election of delegates to the De
mocratic State Convention has already taken place
in most of the larger comities, and at no previous
period in the history of the State has there been
witnes ed so much excitement at primary meetings
of the Democracy. Tue struggle was between the
Administration and Broderick wings of the Dem i- •
crscy, John B. Wefiet being the Gutjematoual can**
didate of the former, and J. W. McOorkie of the
latter. So far as returns have been received,
Weller delegates are greatly in tne majority, and
there is now no doubt that he will go into the State
Convention with a numerical force sufficient to
give him tfie nomination on the first billot, proviJ
ed, how -ver, his forces weakened by The
multitudinous applications which have been hereto
fore brought to bear so successfully en California
politicians. The Convention meets in Sacramento
on the 1 lib.
The Republicans hold their Convention a? rirat
Capital ou the Bth, and it is expected that fall delega
tions will b*- present from most % of the counties.
There L not the remotest possibility of acheiv
i.ng a victory at the ensuing election, even though
the Democracy split, of which there is some proba
bility. They, however, seemed determined to
maintain their organization as a party, and will,
doubtless, poll their full strength on the day of elec
lion. # •
Intense heat has pie vailed all over thfe Btau? dur
ing the fottnighf, but now the wfeatbeteis cool and
• • 1 ■ .•
On theCp9:Ti ult, heavy rain l ■. iblkTlironghoUt the
interior; a phenomena of rare occurrences in June
in California, although showers have been witness
ed o OHsionally as late as August. The crops were"
not seriously injured, and the prospect ifpw is that
they will be garnered in good condition, alb’ct
scarcely as abundant as last year.
Mining is carried on as successfully as ever, aud
new discoveries are constantly chronicled. Atten
tion of capitalists is still being directed to quanta
enterprises, aud vjeus long since abandoned for
want of money to explore them, are being worked
to advantage. The facilities for procuring the re
quisite materials for quartz crush*ng are far greater
than ♦ ver belore, and the machinery itself being
simplified and effective, companies engaged in this
branch of mining, are generally difiug better than
ever before. The Quartz Miner’s Convention, af
ter resolving itself into the Quartz Miner’s Associa
tion, adjourned Ljue die ou the 19th. *
A fire occurred in Marysville on tho 19th ult.,
which destroyed twelve frame buildings. Loss—
sl2,ooo.
A fire iu Grass Valley, on the 18th, burned pro
perty to the amount of $2,000.
Great interest still continues to be felt in moun
tain wagon roads, and men and mouey are at work
Stage coaches now run regularly between Placer
viUe and Carson Valley. Contracts for grading
the more difficult sections of the route have been
let, and in a few weeks, a road will be ready
to connect with the National Road that is to have
its terminus in Honey Lak- Valley. The “Big Tree
route, as also the Oroville route are bo b feasible,
ami over them stages have been driven with com
paratively little difficulty.
The citizens of Mariposa having invited Hon. S.
W. Inge to give them his views on the validity of
the claim of John C. Fremont to the mineral lands
in that county, the latter responds in a communica
tion, denouncing the claims of Fremont, and de
claring that they never can be sustained before the
Supreme Court. «
The pecuniary affairs of the State look rather
more cheering. The Treasurer announces that
within sixty days ho will be enabled to pay all au
dited claims against the State in cash. There is
now a prospect that the scrip system will be abol
ished.
The ensuing anniversary of our rational inde
pendence is to be generally aud enthusiastically
observed throughout the State. Scarcely a village
of the valließ or precinct in the mountains is there
to be found, which will not make a public demon
stration more or less imposing. This city, the great
metropolis of the coast, alone has no celebration. —
Under the Consolidation Act, no monies can be ap
propriated for any purposes of public display, and
the citizens eilhe feel too poor, or too little patriot
ism to move in the matter, and so the celebration i
goes by default.
The Cahuilla Indiana have been committing great
outrages on the Mormon settlements in San Ber
nardino, by running off' and slaughtering their
stock. A detachment of Saints had gone in pursuit ,
of the red men.
Salt Lake.— We have news, via Carson Valley,
to May Bth, which is, however, but two days later
than previous advices. Brigham Young had not
returned from his northern tour. The spring had
been damp and cold, and vegetation backward.
The organ of the saints is perfectly mum on the
subject of their internal dissensions.
Sonora. —Recent rich discoveries of gold have
been made near Mazatlen, and the rush thither
was great. The gold is very similar to that found
in Mariposa county, but the diggings are by no
means extensive.
Oregon Territory. —The oflicial returns of the
election show that the majority for Lane for dele
gate to Congress will reach nearly three thousand.
The Democrats have also been successful in the
election of a majority of their territorial represen
tatives.
The Rogue River Indians are threatening to at
tack the whites at Umpqua, and are reported on
their way thither.
Washington Territory. —No overt acts of hos
tility have been committed by the Indians in that
territory, alt,hough they swear vengeance against the
“pale faces’’ for waging war against them last win
ter, when the crew of the “Massachusetts” killed a
number of their race.
Business throughout the territory was good.
The steamship Constitution leaven this port to
day for Puget Sound. She is to carry the mails be
tween Olympia and Bellingham Bay,underthe con
tract entered into bet ween Messrs. Hunt ik, Scran
ton and the United Stat s Government.
From New Granada and Nicaragua.—We
have the tiles ot the Aspinwall Courier to the 19th
instant, from which we make the following compila
tion :
The chief news of the fortnight is that of the pas
sage of the law granting the President of New Gra
nada power to settle the difficulties between this re
public and the United States. The main points of
objection to the laws are, the revamping of the “ton
nage! duty” and the capitation tax ; against these
two enactments the efforts of Messrs Bowlin and
Morse were especially directed, and the U. S. gov
ernment lias more than once peremptorily declared
the inadmissibility of their execution. The Panama
government, too, have abandoned them entirely.
The Roanoke leaves this port, we understand, in
a few days for Boston, with the filibusters she has
on board, the majority of the party brought down
from Rivas by Lieut. McCorkle.
From the South Pacific, our advices during the
past fortninght were almost devoid of interest,
j Yivancd was still on his feet, but at a stand still—
i in Peru ; and some borax mines had been discover
jed there In Chili, the trail of the conspirators
• against the state still “dragged its slow length
! along,” and a call upon a number of the merchants,
j both native and foreign, to show their books before
j one of the courts of that city, had caused iquch ex
j citement and had been met with a firm but reapect-
I ful refusal.
From Costa Kie v and Nicaracua.—The steam
er Clyde arrived at Aspinwall on the 7th, from
G-eytowu. She brought a few passengers * and a
few more filibusters. The news she brings us from
Nicaragua is all in the shape of rumors—and glean
ed from hearsay. We are told that Martinez and
Chillou and Mendez are to have a tight nest month,
and that the Chamorro party have sent "fen urgent
solicitation for the return of Walkeu, or* some one
iu his stead.
We also understand from several parties that the
Costa Ricans say they have sent to England for
three gunboats, one for San Juan del Sud, one for
San Juau del Norte, and one for Lake Nicaragua
and that they not only intend to maintain and
strengthen their positions on the river and lake, but,
that they will also sell the boats, &.C., of the transit
route to Messrs. Harris & Morgan,and defend them
in the use of the road.
The Costa liican papers we have are from Sau
Jose to June 24th. They are replete from congra
tulations and interchanges of sympathy between the
officials and prominent individuals of Costa Utica
and San Salvador—severe censure of the poor Nica
raguans—aid, strange as if may seem, in view of
the above rumors, denials of any intention to divide
or annihilate Nicaragua.
F?om the Asp inwall Courier, July 11.
The Spanish Expedition tq Mexico. —From a
fully reliable source, we learn that the rumor re
specting the probability of the return of Santa
Anna to Mexico is based upon facts of the most im
portant character. We are informed, there is no
doubt that Capt. Gen. Concha, of Cuba, has made
a l contraet with Santa Anna to provide the latte with -
three vessels of war. and from 1500 to 3000.rmen,
expenses to be paid by Santa Anna, with which Le
is to endeavor to take Comonfort's place—find that
subsequently Santa Anna is to satisfy the demands
of Spain against Mexico. The contract is signed,
and the only question is, whether Spain authorized
Concha to make the bargin. Os this, we think
there can be but little doubt. If this work is to be
done, the sending the additional naval force to Cuba
to protect it against the United States was no idle
precaution. . f
Chinl.—By the arrival of the Wizard at this
port, we have received forty-seven days later news
from China. If is of less importance than usual
There had been engagements near Shanghae. be
tween the Imperialists and rebels, and also between
an English vessel of war and sundiy Chinese junks,
but further than these there had been littie fighting, j
Rice was very scarce and high, and in the districts !
about Canton a great suffering and distress per
vaded amongst the poorer classes.
The emigration hither from the Flowery King- J
dom is greater than ever. The Wizard brought I
or ten vessels are on their way from Hong
with thousands more of these agreeable accessions
to our population.
Atlanta & LaGrange Railroad—The Stock
holders of the Atlanta & LaGrange Railroad held '
their*annua.’ convention in this city on Saturday,
the 'doth inst.
Tha-Report of the Superintendent, George G.
Hull, Esq., shows the business of the past year to
be as follows :
Passengers * $171,694.85
Freight - 125,531 7Q
Mail? • 20,543 76
Total $317,770 31 j
Expenses, ordinary and
Extraordinary - $ 125;8#« 51
Net Profits $191,89*2 31
This i? an increase over the business of last year
of $39,646 87; the increase on passenger traffic over
iast year, was $23,355*22. The original capital
stock of this Company was $725,560.00, which
makes the net profits on the equal to
about 261 pc’- cent. The stock was increased last
year to $1,000,000 —30 per cent, of the increase was
distributed to the Stock holders. The debt o i this
Company is small—less than $200,000 —so, alter lay
ing by a suitable reserve fund to pay the debt and
purchase iron, the net profits being realized by
tbe original Stockholders is over fifteen per cent,
per annum. *
The management of the Road, under Mr. Hull,
seems to have been excellent. — Atlanta American, ,
New Steamers for the Canadian Line.— We
learu with much pleasure that Messrs. Edmondstone,
Aden Co., of Montreal, have contracted for and
are now building in Scotland, four large and power
ful first class screw steamers, to enable them to ful
fil their contract with the Canadian government fbr
a weekly mail line, running to the St. Lawrence in
the summer, and to Portland in the winter. These
boats are to be 2,100 tons each. Fifteen feet lon
ger, two feet wider, and one foot deeper, with cy
linders four inches larger ihan the boats now run
ning in this line. They will be the finest and best
screw steamers afloat.
With two fine lines of European steamers, and
the expected advent of the Great Eastern next
spring, we hope the “little fishing village’’ as our
Boston friends kindly call us, will keep her spirits
up. and wiil “wilt” no longer.— Portland Argus
July 34. *
. Key West Items. m
, Burning o# tjHh Ship Carmack. —Tb£ pil
boat Edna Jones,jprlvtd herein Wedret day more
ing last, with CatW-Stiluhen and seven ot4.be -ere v
of the ship of Thomaatcm, Maine, lateh
&tn ;! ’oiled by theinrtiHje Gulf, in consequence ©
her W* gon fire, - «? -
W. learn t theCaraek wa> from X«-w Orkwi;
bound to Liv»-rp»j6j Villi a fall cargo of potion—
-2700 bates—tbal oigf*thsi Lfitkinst., when four day ;
out and about 25(L*niiti»» from Torthgas, she •?&
struck by fire, when all atter.tior
* was directed to the openings below, and
keeping the deckdi VUC tJorxied with water, in ortlei
to confine the fii lu* hold, and all sail made lot
Tortugas On finding that the lk# war
rapidly gaining on 4£c,gpip. the master deem&i «ii
prudent for the safety ofaH on board to abandon
the vessel—then about 80 miles from Tortugas-ami
the three boats werff put overboard and stu b pro
visions placed in thefh as could be conveniently’ goi
at, 'together with compasses, quadrants, dec..;-the
•JnasTer and seven of Vrsw taking the first boat, the
Ifirstfnate and seven men. the second’boat, and the
second mate and <?x men the third boat—at this
* 'time the ship was in ffaipes,and the lire progressing
rapidly. - +
Oal leaving the ship the master gave the cofirse,
bearing and distafiwMjf TiSrtugaa to the officers ot
the bvats, with orders to make the beet of their way
tqtbat port ; shortly f.fter this tlie boats werefsepa
raUd in a heavy squad. On the 16th tfte master
and seven men, first boat, were fallen in with
and picked up by nkgbark Afin Elizabeth, of Phila
ddphia, from LafftMUK bound to Trieste, and irons
fem-d to the pilot bijp , Edna Jones, and brought
tofefcisport s£ The first mate and
seven men, in tkoMfepnd boat, were picked up by
the ship W. V. Moses, ood transferred to the pilot
boat Champion anil* brought to this port on the
evening of the 22<fr»t. The second mate and *ix
men, in the third boa? have pot as yet been heard
from . but it is t * b©Ji< ped that they too have been
picked up, and nrl new safe. The first aud second,
boats' crew broush£J|&re took passage id the ship
S. li. Mallory, wkidapmilcd for New Orleans on the
23d insf.
The Carack was bail 1: at' Thomaaton, Maine, of
r mirth* «V' okU The Value
©T . esse: and can't, is estimated as. s2ffo,(®o.— Key
oj the Gulf ; SM/A. *
Wreck of the Bark Pacific.— Yesterday af
ternoon the IJ. 8. seimoner Tortugas, tender to Fort
Jefferson, arrived here, from Tortugas, bringing
news of the wreck of tk* haik Pacific, Qapt. Gard
ner, from New York bound to Mobile, with an as
sorted cargo of merchandize. She struck on East
Key Shoal, Tortugas, ou the22d uist., at Ii P. M ,
aira remained there. 'lhe cargo was being thrown
overboard, in or der to lighten hgr, when the w reck
ers went to her assistance: they were immediately
employed by (he master to extricate the vessel,
and we understand Unit many of them are now
leading from the bark.
Her position on the, shoal is . a very dangerous
one, she being n the rocks, and as she was expect
ed u* bilge at latest accounts it is thought probable
that she went to pieces during the heavy blow of
last night; however this may be, pjl our wreckers
have gone to her assistance.-find the greater portion
if not all her cargo aud materials will be saved.— Jb,
“A Second Daniel Come to Judgment.” —Tfie
New York Times, says the New Orleans Daily Delta
i-* touch exercised by the attacks of the independent
Southern journals upon the Kansas policy of Gov.
Walker. It comes vigorously to the rescue of that
delectable patriot, anil eulogizes Mr. Buchanan in
honored accents.
It has discovered that ihe late articles of (lie
Washington Union, iu relation to the position of the
Southern press, “are an official rebuke of the auda
cious faejionists” of South Carolina, Georgia, Ala
bama, Mississippi aud Louisiana.
The patriotism of the Times is as amusing a3 it is
sudden. Its love for the whole country, and its
glorification of the President, will doubtless asto:
ish the people on both sides of the line. Hear it, ye
Southern gentlemen of Mr. Buchanan's Cabinet,
who love place and power better thau the fair land
this side of the Ohio—hear it aud tell us how you
Hike the company of ex-Lieutenant Governor Ray
mond :
“Mr. Buchanan has taken up a position in which
he may be sure that he will rally to himself the sup
port of all the peaceful, orderly and patriotic citi
zens of this country of all suctions. \V odo not be
lieve that the Conventions of the Democracy, so
called, in Georgia and Mississippi—that the Charles
ton Mercury and the New Orleans Delta represent
the great conservative body of Bcuthem men bv
whom the policy of the South herself is to be finally
determined. We rely upon whatever of intelligence,
of good faith, of honor and of love of count ry is to
oe found at the South or at the North, for the prompt
and positive annihilation of that sectional spirit
which is prepared to sacrifice the peace of the na
tion and the order of a great Territory to the schemes
of a few fanatic partisans.”
* Mr. Buchanan endorses Walker, and the New
York Times endorses both Buchanan and Walker !
Gov. Walker declares the climate and soil of Kansas
uusuited to slave labor. The Times cries “Good !”
Gov. Walker hob nobs with Lane and Robinson
and Wilson. “ Good again,” cries the Times. Gov.
Wulk r, knowing the disastrous results to the South,
and seeing that pro-slavery must, conquer if some
thing i i not done, assumes the air of a dictator, aud
demands that Yankee squatters shall be allowed
equal privileges with lawful voters. “ Good again,
cries tiic Times. And lastly, Mr. Buchanan,
through the Unitoii, endorsee all that Walker did,
and all that Walker said, and (he Times cries out
more jubilant than ever, “ Good for Mr. Buchanan !”
Surely, there is liete an affinity of no inconsiderable
power.
The Herald throws out the hint that the Times is
fishing for the organship ot the Democracy of New
York city. It says :
“Should Kansas under the auspices of Governor
Walker, be quietly admitted into the Union within
the next six or eight months as a Free State, it is
possible that the Times may supplant the Daily
News or the Day Book as a New York «ity organ
of the Democracy.”
Would it. not be a better speculation for the Times
to unite with the Washington Union, sleep in the
same bed and cover with the same blanket ? The
twain are on excellent terms now, nnd we see ho
objection to the marriage. It is cruel to keep apart
‘ Two soulh with but a single thought,
Two hearts th-.t beat as one.”
[Alabama Journal. i:
Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun.
W ashington, July 27.—For some days past the ii
Secretary of State has been engaged in conferences j
with General Herran, the minister from NewGra- f
nada, in relation to the adjustment, of the differences a
which have unhappily occurred between the two *«
countries. It »s so generally the impression that
Gen. Henan has full power to treat on the subject,
and to consider all that we have demanded, that 1
much disappointment would result from a failure of f
the negotiation. But I should'doubt whether Gen l
Herran’s power extend either to the cession ot terri- c
tory, or the relinquishment of the ultimate property
of the State in the railroad. The act of the CoDgress t
which empowered President Ospira to make a trea- t
ty with the United States—(disposing with the usu- 1
al constitutional form ) —restricts the authority of a
the President on those subjects. This will put an c
end to the project of obtaining the sovereignly over t
an island in the Bay of Panama. It does not ue- t
cessarily exclude a qualified jurisdiction over the 1
travel route. But we have the right already, under 1
the existing treaty, to keep the route free from ob- i
structions whenever they shall be interposed. I
If .vc obtain a cession of the land of Tobago it j
may afford to Great Britain a good reason lor ob- i
taiuing for her own purpose ai other island—Jsla
del Key. But Mr. Moore expresses the opinion that 1
the British do not require nor desire any island in
that bay.’ «
Mr. Eumee, Minister to Venezuela, and Mr. San
ford, who went out to Cameras as an agent of Shel- :
ton At. Co., to urge the demand upon the Venezue
lan goVernment for indemnity on account of their
ejection from Bevil Island, have been hr-re for some <
days, expecting that the subject of ottr relations with
Venezuela would be taken up by Gen. Cass, but the I
report of Mr. Eames has not yet been opened. The I
subject will be the next one which will engage the
attention of the Secretary. I may state, however,
that Mr. Eames, in conformity with fijs instructions,
presented the claim in the strongest terms, and the
Venezuelan government did not undertake to
refute iiia argument, whereby die demonstrated that
Venezuela had no title to the island iu question.—
The government could not, however, be induced by
Mr. Eames' urgency to make any specific reply tn
the demand, nor even state whether they did or did
not admit the claim to be valid.
Mr. Eames in his last letter fixed a day when he
should leave Caraccas for the United States, unless
an answer should be given. The Minister, iiLj*ef>ly
stated that the subject could not be cohsiderea
within the time slated, and that as Mr. Eames was
to leave, they might find it expedient t communi
cate their views on the subject lo this government,
through their Minister here. Prior to this corres
pondence, Mr. Eames had asked : ud obtained leave
ot absence. The government will probably send
Mr. Lames back for the purpose of bringing’ the
•natter to a conclusion, unless they abandon it,
which is not probable. Jo.\.
Rums Doings— We learned yesterday the particu
lars of aserious and tragic occurence in Oakland co.
on Sunday last. A man by ihe name of Phillips
who resides on Sashaba plains, about twelve miles
from Pontiac, had been at Qoruhna under the
charge ot a physician, bis 'mind having become
temporarily disordered from intemperance and
other causes. He returned home u i Saturday night
last, apparently in hig right mind, wit hour any "feigns
of mental aberration visible. Too first symptoms
of Lie returning in lady were on Sunday morning.
When the wife was milking she heard a lhrg&tcne
whiz past her head, and looking around to see
whence it canje, saw her husband rushing toward
her with an axe raised to strike her. Before .she
could get out of hia way he struck her a severe
blow in the back, between the shoulder blades,
inflecting a deep and frightful wound.
She screamed for help and a hired man Toeing
near by, sprang to her assistance, when Phillips
tun ed upon him, striking him with the axe, break
ing his right arm, and inflicting some other serious
j wounds. A son of Mr. Phillips, some nine or’ten*
! years of age, here interposed to save the hired man,
; when the maniac father turned upon tfis sou strik
' iugMin a heavy blow upon the head with the axe,
j breaking ip, his skull frightfully. After these defaon-
I stratious he calmed down somewhat, and was con
i lined So as to prevent Ms doing any further injury,
but is now a raving and hopeless maniac. Our
informant states that on Monday morning Mrs.
Phillips, the hired man arid the sou, were all alive;
but were in a dangerous situation, and .it was not
expected they would survive.— Detroit Adcet riser,
July 23.
The Murder of Babbitt— The New York
Herald, of Saturday, sayr : Mrs. Julia Ann Bab
bitt sends us a oommuuifrau'on full of melancholy
iniefest, containing toe results of au inquiry lately
made by her, relative tq tue circumstance# attend
ing ike .murder of her husband. The letter is dated
at Crescent City, lowa, a - wkjph place Mrs. Babbitt
had arrived after & fa iguing and perilous journey
j irourwiait Lake City to Independence, ajid theneeto
Fort Laramie, Fort Kearney and Eilisdale, lowa.
At the three first named piaaes, Mr£ Babbitt had
DQjnmupTcations from travellers. French traders,
friendly Indians, and the United States officers com
-mending the forts. Their joint .ta&luumiy bUdws
friai Mi. Babbitt..in company with Messrs. Rowland
and Sutherland started from Fort Kearney far Fort
Laramie about the Gtu of September last. K and i ;at
they were murdered and robbed by a party of Chey
enne Indians. spm<*offif- Babbitt’s jewelry and'
other valuables have been since seen with the sav
ages. Mrs. Babbitt foHv acquits any white'man of
a participation in her husband's death, and repudi
ates the idea that he was murdered by the Mor
mons.”
The Fever in Mon
tevideo—Abatement of the Dtsease —By the
arrival at this port of the barque Palmetto, we h%ve
advices from Montevideo to June. 9. The fever,
wnich bad so terribly ravaged that pity for several
months past, has afier carrying off Its victims by
the thousands, abated its .and when the
Palmetto left had nearly disappeared. It had car
ried off persons in all .conditions of life, and such
terror did it create for a time, that nearly all the
business men left the city . but they - bad returned,
and business was revivipg. It is singular that the
adjoining city of Buenos Ayres, composed as it is
of the native* of *il countries pf the earth, should
have been entirely exempt from the disorder, which
the authorities there believe was in consequence ot
• tne strict quarantine regulations they had enforced.
’ At Buenos Ayres allwas progressing in a peaceful
l I and satisfactory manner. By a law of the 15th May
j all tonnage dues for vessels of every flag are sup
r j pressed. Spanish doubloons, 3945; bills on the
i i United States, 7 per cent discount. The American
, j sloop-oGw&r Falinonth was still at Buenos Ayres.—
I Boston Traveller, July 24/a.
Jin nil!n.
A letter to the St. Louis Republican, from a cor
respondent on board the U. S. ship Levant, a
< Manilla, dated March 20, 1857, gives the annexec
1 interesting pen and ini* sketch of that city, the seal
of the Soanish in the East?
Manilla, % capital of Luzon and the seat of the
J bpau in the E ist, h pleasantly situa
tbe btaitfi !ul bay beax ing the stone Dame.—
Its s uj is eligible in the. extreme, audits appear
ance trom jus bay. as it looms up one solid mass of
aivhiteeturat splendors with its turrets, glistening
domes and, towering spires, is peculiarly grand:
vividly, indeed, does it recall those peerless but dis
tant scenes ot domestic beauty one so fondly dotes
over,-so sincerely loiigs for, and on this lemote sta
. tion so seldom encotuffered.
Ou approaching the shore Manilla resolves itself
into The utmost symmetry; massive walls of tra
yeriia, Uventy-four feet high by fourteen feet thick,
completely encompass it, which, with the many for
tifications that every where abouadylends it an air
iff great sreugth. The principal fortification is the
Citadel, whore breastwork mounts a battery of
twenty eightr24. pounders abreast the anchorage,
wgh a c«o,- fire rrom its north and south bastions.
Its situation is very c ommanding, aud it is substan
tially and durably conjstrficteA cf the stune material
as the walls.
T c houses of Manilla are elaborately well built
of in a style of architecture somewhat resem
bling the Paliodiau. yet peculiar to the place, and
induced by the great prevalence of earthquakes.—
As a {'eneral Hong, they possess but little eleva
tion. iu lieu pf which they cover extensive areas.—
The superior dwellings combine in an eminent de
gree every quality that* can pos'dbly enhance de
lightfulness and adapt them for theirtroyical locali-
The churches, which arc exclusively ot the
Catholic persuasion, approximate in structure the-
Saraqenio style of architecture, and many of them
hi e perfect edifices <sf magnificence. The Cathedra!
de Manila and Igleria de San Domingo are the ffiost
attractive ones, and vie, in the gnniptuousness aud
splendor of their interiors, with the most gorgeous it
ims beenifty goffd-fovtune to v'dk for gftme time.
Among tne important manufactories of Manilla, I
may mention (he large cigar factories, conducted
uutier the auspices of tne Government, and several
ly employing from five to. eight thousand native
girls and boys ; fire manufactories of piua, the ma
terial of which is a vegetable fibre, derived from
the macerated leaf of the pine apple, and possessing
a texture comparable 10 the finest French batiste ;
,U \e elegantly and invitingly wrought by the artisti
cal skjll of native maidens into articles of ladies’
app.wel of iqisurpassed b auty. Dresses, costly ns
v i- : r sc< r !> ca P fc -' , f Geeves, chemisettes, hand
.ierchieiS, collars, bco , Arc., are extensively made
ot it, aud it appeals to form the staple dress of the
country, texture and embroidery determining the
condition of tho wearer. Tlie manufacture of huso
a beautiful jrm Ler ml for ladies’ dresses, is also lu
cratively carried ou.
The street? of the city are spacious, regularly laid
out, and uncommonly clean, which, united to the
strict decorum find extreme gayety everywhere
pervading them, fenders a promenade at ail hours
a most agreoabl * pastime. The “drives out,” par
ticularly on the Calzada, are really lovely. Vehi
cles of every shape aud hue, drawn by horses pomp
ou.dy caparisoned, daily throng them, displaying
their precious burdens of wit and beauty with daz
zling effect.
Manilla and suburbs contain a population cf 200,
000 souls, consisting of Spaniards, Mestizos (a very
pleasant people,) Luzonese and Chines.,.
The great and attractive feature in this mixed
population is the Mestizo, a mongrel variety sprung
irmn the intermixture of Spaniards with the na
tives. This variety is agreeably characterized by
a medium stature, light olive complexion, symmet
rically formed head and lace, jet black liair and
eyes, and a very pleasing expression of countenance,
seemingly impr.-ssed with a genuine and unaffected
piety, and possessing in an eminent degree a native
and graceful simplicity, u bland nnd hospitable dis
position, with a sanssouci manner, apparently very
happy of Bpendingjheir lives, they readily concili
ate one’s attention and esteem.
Tho Mestizos (or Mestizo women) are literally
charming}; and m them w# find centered the courtly
refinements of the accomplished Castilian senorita,
harmoniously blended with the artless grace of na
tive womanhood.
The costume of the Mestizos is singularly unique ;
it consists of a short, loose, transparent, pina cam
iza (chemise,) barely reaching the waist, over
which is adjusted a delicate handkerchief of the
same material. Over their white and neatly em
broidered skirts of grass cloth, is a brilliant colored
jnpe, which they wrap around themselves and fasten
at the waist in the peculiar Malay style.
Like tin Spanish Indies here, they all go barehead
ed, tastefully adorning their jetty hair with a pretty
coitfmv (»i ii -ah and fragrant flowers. But little
jewelry, and that of native manufacture, embellish
1 heir | qj . which seems to argue that
“Loveliness
Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
Hat is,'when unadorned, adorned with most.”
The above, with a tidy pair of rapalillas , which
invest'their'diminutive aud well formed feet, con
stitute their entire vesture, which, in this equable
clime, admits of no variation.
Nothing can exceed the beauty of the surround
ing country —the verdured elegance, the calm and
rural happiness, and ravishing scenery that cease
lessly appears.
Fields of cu’lured sugar, coffee and indigo ; groves
of oranges, limes and luscious mangoes, in ex
uberance wave their golden summits, diffusing a
fragrance almost heavenly; in short, a broad ex
panse briliantly enameled with all that ri fascinat
ing, charmingly lends itself to the enchanted vision,
revealing such a totality of wondrous objects of taste,
science and magnificence,
‘ As for a while o’erwhelms the raptured thought
With luxury too daring.”
Commercially, Manilla ranks high. Our trade
here is both extensive and lucrative, and but for the
stringent aud oppressive measures adopted by this
government, respecting alike imports and exports,
would become the most nourishing and desirable
commercial city in the East.
Our shipping at present, iu the harbor amounts to
twenty unrivaled clippers, with an aggregate ton
nage of 13,0(10 tons, which exceeds by far that of
any other nation. The exports of Manilla consist of
sugar, coffee, rice,' hemp for cordage, tobacco,
indigo, hides, native cloths, cotton, rhubarb, and
hats.
The government of Manilla, like that of Havana,
is vested in a Captain General and a kind of Real
Audiencia. Their authority is well bus tamed by a
force consisting of fifteen regiments—one Spanish
and fourteen native—numbering 10,000 soldiers,
■all in n etate of thorough discipline.
0»
France —Prospects of Revolution—The
Army. —The English press is tilled with ominous
predictions of an approaching revolution iu Paris,
based on the election of Cavaignac and his asso
ciates. The success of the three Republicans is re
garded as foreboding another “ihree days.” The
quarters in which they have been triumphant are
those occupied by the working classes, who, in
Paris, are very intelligent as well as spirited, and
whom the Emperor has sedulously, but, from this
demonstration it would seem, vainly, endeavored
to propitiate. His chief reliance, however, has been
the army and the peasant proprietors. The Legis
lature be can brush away at any moment it annoys
him, as he would brush a fly from liis face. If the
army is contented, the Government has nothing to
fear. Louis Napoleon owed his elevation to the
army ; it has stood by him from the first, and he has
stood by it; lie gave it occupation in the Eastern
war ; it owes to him a military glory that complete
1) effaced the blots on its old escutcheon, and made
France confessedly the first military power
of Euroi e. The aimy is large, amounting to nearly
400,000 men of all arms, of which Algeria employs
80,000 and Rome 20,000. Previous to the war, the
army wai restless and dissatisfied ; the Algerine
regiments inclined to the Orleans family, and many
of those in France were infected with Republican or
Socialist opinions. The Russian war, however, ral
lied them all to their Government. We have heard
of nothing »ince to cause discontent and dissatisfac
tion. aud the war is too recently ended, for the
soldiery to be restless again. A French army, it is
true, always sympathizes with the people, but it
has a superior sympathy with its own interests.
We observe that some journals of the United
States, to which we are accustomed to look as en
lightened leaders of public opinion, look with san
guine anticipations ot another French Revolution
as if it. would ensure a stable Republic. What
earthly ground is there for such a hope, except iu
the “ wish” which “ is father to the thought?” How
can we expect a stable government from a revolu
tion which, as was tody said of the revolution of
1848, must be merely an aggressive negative, the
simple product of discontent and disgust; mere in
action, denial, dissatisfaction l Are these the,foun
dations on which a Commonwealth can be built 7
There must be religion ; fide municipal institutions*
a free political education; enlightened reverence
for law and liberty; these, the slow accretions of
ages form the soil, which must exist, and be con
solidated, before a Republic can be planted and
take root. That Frenchmen, notwithstanding their
repeated disappointments, should expect, a Repub
lic to come into existence without any sort of prepa
ration qualification, or basis for it is natural, but it
is marvellous that Americans, whose own liberties
are inheritances from a-distant past, the gradual
growth of ages, should look to a French Revolution
for a Republic to be bornin a day, to the barricades
for a perfect political and social system.— Richmond
ijftnalch.
Wine Growing in Missouri. —A wine company
has been recently formed in Missouri, for the manu
facture of wine from die grape vineyards of the re
anon and the product of tlijs manufacture, appears
Tn ihe market this year for the first time. The en
terprise prairies complete success, as good profits
are real’z*.*i. and experienced do not
hesitate to Declare the American wine superior to
many es the choice 'foreign bands. Missouri seems
peculiarly well adapted to the grape culture > for,
while blasting and mildew are said to have befallen
the grape crop in Ohio, the vineyards in Missouri
are free from blight, and now promise a rich har
vest. The zealous cultivators expect to displace
all foreign brands, am mg discriminating judges of
the article. The St. Louis Republican describes at
much length tue works of the Missouri Wine Com
pany, the process of manufacture, Ate. The main
building is very wide audlso feet in depth, having
three cellars beneath it, hewn out of solid jock, the
lowest of which is 33 feet below the surface of Che
earth, for the purpose of securing a low tempera
ture. The Catawba grape is almost the
cultivated for wine, though good success has been
had in making sparking wine from the wild grape,
which brings $9 per dozen. The choicer varieties
of Catawba rate at sl2 to sl3 per dozen. Tne Re
publican says ,
In the year 1856 the Company manufactured 60,-
000 bottles, or 13,000 gallons of the three forms of
Catawba. THe present year the amount will not
exceed 40.000 bottles. The failure of the crops last
fall advanced the price of the unmanufactured arti
cle twentydive per cent., besides limiting the quan
tity. sTrthat Wine Company contracted
their operations.
We understand that the business of wine growing
ia profitable. An acre,o/ vines properly leaded
"will yield 400 gallons of wine, which, at one dollar
per gallon, the usual rate, will yield s4oo*or $350
net, as it costs not more than SSO per acre to culti
vate the grape and press out the wine. The first
cost A s procuring the vmes and preparing the
ground, we did not learn. *Tsut the cp£t subsequent
ly’ is not above the figures stated—fifty dollars per
acre.— Balt. Amcr.
Chloroform Robberies are mostly Humbugs.
—Here is a story we find in an exchange :
*“Two females were riding in a stage in New
York. One of them, as if by accident, waved her
handkerchief two or three times *in the face of the
other. There was chloroform on it, and the
pecting female soon "dropped to sleep, which the
other took advantage of, by picßinj* her pocket.
- Xow v chloroform Las a pungent odar t and the
‘*unßUspectifig festal ” must have had brazen' nos
trils not to have noticed it And then, again, she
was very susceptible to succumb to two or three
waves of a handkerchief, when the shortest tunes
ever known in surgical operations is one minute,
with the hankerc-hief fceld closely on the nostrils.—
Oftener it inquires five minutes ttf bring on anes
thesia.— Bufa o Advertiser. jf
Value of Ne>v York City J*ro pertrr—The
Assessor’s List of New York city, for 1857, shows
real estate to the amount of $352,958,803, and per
sonal estate - to the amount, of $ 168,216,449 39-
making au aggregate of $521,175,252 39.
The reqi estate in 1856 amounted to $340.971,498;
pereoifei estate to $172,767,781 94, making an ag.
gregate of $.,13,739.27994.
lucrease of 1857 over 1856, $7,435,972 45. This
increase, it will be preceived by the figures, is
wholly on real estate, the estate having
undergone a decrease of nearly five millions.
From the Journal of Commerce.
Custom nnd Fra nil vs. Justice.
Messrs* Editors : —ln this nineteenth century,
with all the professions ofimprovement we seem to
ret togra<ie so far as fair dealing is concerned: and
as New l ork State shares in the perpetration of
sotnt> of the tv.is I wiali to complain of. I will etnd
tins to your paper • Custom,- in mercantile affairs,
with the assistance of "Ql,ambers of Commerce,-
‘•Custonjpry Tare'’ on many arti
cles. The resuit jiow experienced is, that the in -e
nious aud euhmntr have their packages made "to
weigh from 5 to 1U per cent more than custom al-
The article oUard is often put up in 'such
packages In kegs weighing 60 lbs., tlie tare allow
* if 0 ' ii ’’ Kl ' ** ,e weigh, iu some lots, 12
or Id lbs. Barrels are under influence
Butter shipped South, marked “15 lbs. tare ou tir
kin," have been found to weigh as high as 26 lbs ■
ltfto 20 lbs. is common. Tubs marked 12 lbs. often
weigh 15 lbs. The result is that a dealer who wishes
to give actual tare', is driven out of the trade by
such dishonesty. ' This system of fraud enters into
t.ie article of candles. Years ago, 16 ounces* were
given for a pound ; hut in tlie present day 11 ounces
is a pound If you buy 1,000 lbs. eandlds. you .only
receivers lbs. J , J
.11 actuallareis not established, our sugar hhds.
.1 weigh 21 per cent. * nß l6»>l yl I? per cunt. In
the casg ot butter and lard, kegs and barrels will
increase m weight; candles will weigh 12 oz. to the
pound, and the idea of heuesty will be obsolete. 1
knew a case of N. O. sugar where the hhds. weighed
bo lbs —more than 12 per cent; and from the pres
ent course ot progress in this art, 1 look for an in
crease yfcthe evil, unless our law-makers pass laws
to make it unprodtable. We arc row met with the
answer, when a case is brought to notice, “Can't
allow if it is established hy the Chamber of Cdnv
uieroe, or “by custom.-’ It this is Jaw (aud some
say custom makes law)—why do we have any Leg
islatures? The fact is, those gentlemen do not real
ize tlie time fit-itc of U;e Case, and the retailers or
consumers are not in position to have any voice in
the matter. Hoping you. will tend your columns to
Correct the evil, lam yours, &c. • , Gi«h ek
Rkpi y.—Oui correspondent will set- from die
annexed section of a law. passed Ijy the Legislature
ot this State,, April L, 185;, that a remedy for the
evil of which he complains has already been provid
ed by statute, aud we hope, if he or any of his
neighbors have suffered, they will see the law duly
enforced. In this case .'‘custom'" must give way
before a positive enactment, unless the customers
prefer to be- cheated •
Passed April IT, 1857.
1. When any person in this State shall put up
for sale any beef, pork, lard, hams, flour, meal, can
dles, cheese, starch, or other articles of produce or
merchandize, iu casks or packages, aud shall mark
or stamp an such cask or package the weight of,
contents ot such cask or package, with a view to
still the same, such mark and stamp shall be the
true weight thereof, and the (rue tare of such cask
or package shall be marked thereon: and it any
person shall knowingly mark or stamp false or short
weight or false tale on any cask or package, ami
shall sell or offer for sale the contents ot any such
cask or package so marked or stamped false or
short, be shall fOrleit the sunt pf twenty-live dollars
for every such cask or package so old or offered
tor Bale, and be guilty of a misdemeanor.
$ 2. This act shall*take effect on the first day of
June next.
Ihk American Exfiimtion to Seuastopot.—
The Philadelphia Bulletin lias received a letter
from Mr. Juo. E. Goweu, who went from that city
at tho head of nil expedition to raise sunken vessels
in the harbor of Sebastopol. It says ■
On reaching Sebastopol he immediatdly began to
titoutthe transports aud gun-boats that are to be
used, preparing heavy spars for derricks making
masts and guys, staying them and arranging Ihe
blocks and falls. He was waiting the arrival ol' Mr.
Wickersliain and some of the apparatus required to
carry on the work. Ife had received information
that the property sunk in the harbor was of ranch
greater value than he luid any idea of Independent
of the ships sunk, there was fifty thousand dollars
worth of new sheet copper that was taken out of
the warehouse when the South side was evacuated
and put on board the transport Ilerezan, which
was sunk on the Xorth side at a convenient place
for raising. There were also thirty brass field
pieces, said to be worth 1,000 each, that were thrown
over the bridge by which theliussians orossed from
the South to be North side. There are also tlie
bottoms of four men-of-war, coppered and copper
fastened, that were sunk at the head of the ship
harbor, which will be valuable for their copper, and
which are included in the contract. These will af
ford work for the party when the wind prevents
operations in the main harbor. The llussiaus had
only taken up three small vessels since last autumn.
A Deaf Man’s Appreciation of Eloquence.—
Somebody relates an anecdote of a deaf man being
present on au occasion when an eloquent South
Carolina orator was speaking, aud alter many ef
forts to catch something of what waa said, exclaim
ing at last :
“Who is that speaking?”
“William C. Preston,” was the reply, in a loud
tone.
“Who did you say?” persisted the unfortunate
would-be listener.
“William C. Preston,” of South Carolina scream
ed the other.
“Well, well,” returned the querist, “I can’t hear
a word he or you are saying; but, great Jericho!
don’t he make the morions splendid.”
This anecdote reminds us ot a scene that took
place in a New England court, many years ago,
when Prentiss Mellen, (afterwards Chief Justice of
Maine,) was practicing at the bar. lie was coun
sel for the plaintiff in a case, in which the defendant
who was present at the trial, was “as deaf as Ailsie
crag.” As the counsel warmed in his argument and
was “making the motions splendid,” the defendant,
who knew that he was the theme of all this impas
sioned eloquence, made many efforts to hear some
portion of what was going on. This lasted some
time, the lawyer getting more and more earnest and
demonstrative, aud the unfortunate party getting
nearer and nearer to the speaker, holding his hand
to his ear, in assiduous but abortive efforts to catch
a word or two of the philippic.
At last his patience failed him, and utterly forget
ting all considerations of time, place and propriety,
he finally burst out as follows:
“I can’t hear a word of what you’re saying, Squire
Mellins, but I swear you he /’’— N. O. Picayune.
Frightful Fire in Boston. —The Boston
Traveller gives some particulars of (the burning of
Trull's Distillery in that city on Friday:
The fire apparently commenced in the centre of
the immeuse building, which extends from Merrimac
to Friend street, and is one of the most extensive
manufactories of New England rum in the United
States.
The liquor from the building, as it poured into
the gutters of the street, was on fire, and presented
a singular spectacle. The fire broke out while the
workmen were at work in the building. A large
brick well is in the centre of the building, which
runs to the top and is covered by a woodeu roofing.
A still in this well, tilled with alcohol, burst, throw
ing the top of the well, with a large quantity of
bricks, to the street below, with a report similar to
a cannon. Only the centre, from the lower Btory to
the top of the building, waa destroyed.
A little girl named Annie Harkins, about 10 years
of age, was passing at the time of the explosion, and
was dangerously if not fatally injured, by the hot
steam. Mr. Will'am Chapman, waa at the time of
the explosion standing in the door of the stable, and
was badly burned on his face and anna by the
;team which came in. Another little girl was
severely burned, which might have resulted serious
ly, had not a man seized a bucket of water and
poured it upon her. Loss not known, but fully cover
ed by $20,000 insurance.
The Trouble in Minnesota. —Two Constitu
tional Conventions were in sessien in Minnesota, at
oUr last dates. For a lnug time the political com
plexion of the delegates was doubtful, and contra
dictory reports were circulated from day to day. At
la3t, however, it was pretty generally established,
that the Republicans had the majority. The num
ber of that party claiming seats, was fifty-nine, in
eluding four Democratic contestants. The Repub
lican delegates received the official certificate, but
soon after, Governor Medary removed the register,
and the contestants in some way then also secured
a quasi official recognition. The regu'ar Demo
cratic s reugth is forty-three, and if the four contes
tants are added, forty-seven. Six Democrats were ,
also elected from the Pambina District, whofte right
to sit in Convention the Republicans denied be (
cause that district was not included by Congress iu ,
the State limits. Admitting that the' Democrats
were entitled to all they claimed, the state of parties
would have been Democrats fifty-three, Republi
cans fifty five. When the day of meeting arrived,
as no hour had been fixed by the act of Congress,
the two parties appear to have “fought shy,’ each
respectively being anxious to secure the organiza
tion. The fifty-nine Republicans took possession of
the Legislative Hall, and at twelve o’clock orga
nized, and proceeded to business. The Democrats
refused to recognize them as the Convention, but
designating them as a meeting of citizens, proceed
ed to the Council Chamber and opened their Con
vention there. The result will be the preparation
of two Constitutions for submission to the people.—
And thus, it will be seen, we are likely to have a s -
rious difficulty with Minnesota.— Bolt. Amcr.
• A Cat Consignment. —A New York merchant
recently sent for a cargo of Maltese cats from that
celebrated Island, per schooner William E. Cal is,
of Nkntucket, Capt. Smith. Fifty kittens were re
ceived on board the schooner, as apart of the assor
ted cargo. On the voyage very rough weather wat*
experienced. At first the tars attributed the rapio
succession of gales to the comet, bu» one old sailor
tifld the crew that it was nothing outside the veasel
that occasioned the storm ; that one cat was enough
to send any ship to Davy Jones’ locker, aud as they
had fifty on board* not a man of them stood a chance
of setting foot on dry land again. This was enough
fori he superstitious crew, and the cats were imme
diately demanded of the captain, given up and
drowned. By a singular coincidence the storm there
upon abated. The owner of the cats has now suad
the owners of the vessel for damages, laying the
value of the cats at SSO apiece, or $2500. —Albany
Express.
Value of Clover Hay.—H. Capron, of Illinois,
who has been largely concerned iu the dairy busi
ness, (having sola S6OOO worth of milk in a single
year,) informs the “Country Gentleman” that he
made accurate experiments to test the. value of
timothy and clover hay. These experiments ex
tended through a period of two years, w*rre accom
panied with accurate weighing and measuring, aud
the food was changed from timothy to clover, and
vice versa, once a month, and the results were that
the clover hay uniformly yfelded ten per cent, more
milk than the timothy. It will be observed that
tftle was ndt a single experiment, but- a series of
periments, extending for a long period. .It is also
proper to state that the clover was well cured.
Railroad Bridge BJ/'iint. —We learn from the
Selma (Ala.) Reporter, that the Bridge across Co ea
river, on the Tennessee and Selma Railroadr * *
burnt on Thursday night last, and with the excep
tion of the pillars, is a total loss. The fire was n«*t
discovered until it had obtained such headway that
It cnuld not be subdued. *
The Reporter thinks that it was undoubtedly tne
work of ad incendiary, as the cars passed over H on
Thursday at half-past 2P. M , and the division mas
ter crossed it that night after dark.
It is estimated that the loss will not fall short of
thirty thousand dollars. The Company wiil pro
ceed to replace the bridge as soon as it can possibly
be done.
A “ Font” of Type.—As a w rap of information
with which few of our readers are acquainted, we
give the proportions in which the different letters
are cast in a “ font” of type, aud in which they oc
dhr Ih print.
Letter e, 1,200; t, 900; *,850; n, o, s, i , 800; h,
640; r, 620.; d, 440; /. 100; u, 340; c, m, 300;/
250 ; tc, y, 200 rg, p, 171 kV, *l2O ; k, 80; q, 60; j, x,
40 ; z, 20.
.Besides these are the combined letrers. /?, 50 ; ff,
40 ;f,20 ; ffi, 15; Jfl-, 10; a, 10; 6. This refers
to the email letters only, leaving out points, capitals,
small capitals,figures, italics, spaces and accents.-
The proportion for capitals and small capitals dif
fers from the small letters. 4u those, I takes the
first place, then T, then A, and E, &e.
Literary Joke.—Our learned societies seem to
enjoy a good joke an will as anybody.. a late
meeting of the Alumni of Alfred College, New York,
the President of the institution, at the graduates’
dinner, was called upon to cut a Large pyramidal
loaf which had tempted the appetites of the hungry
literati; when lo! it proved to be a most elegantly
i decorated crust, filled with old documents, Arc.,
» much to the confusion of the grateful President, who
l was taken by surprise, but to the great amusement
of the crowd.—A. L. Chronicle.
VOL. LXX.— NEW SERIES VOL. XXI. NO. 31
II IT HOPE A N 1 NTBL hIHUNCt’
BV THE NORTH AMERICAN.
> iwilV'f' B . team ? h 'P K»ropa, Capt. Leitch, from
■ “Tim Uth 1 ’ arr,Ved at J- 1 ver P°°> on the evening
The steamship Indian, from Montreal and One
bee on the Ith inst., aud the Khersouese from Port
laud via Halifax afid £t. Johns, N. F., arrived at
Liverpool on the 14th inst.
The steamship Belgique arrived at Southampton
on the 14th. r
The screw steamer Kangaroo left Portland one
hour before the North American, nnd the Ariel
and Washington were to leave Southampton the
same day. * .
The great feature of the news by the North Ame
rican consists in the advices received from India by
tilt arrival of tho overland mail. The munity among
alarnollg^'e xtent^’ r ° atU 1 ‘° haVe to au
Twenty-three native regiments had joined in it.
The insurgents had been deteated outside the walls
ol Delhi, but still held possession ol the city.
Gen. Anson, the British Commander-in chief had
died of cholera.
Sir Colin Campbell hadstarted for Delhi to suc
ceed him. , .
The news from China contains no new feature of
special interest.
Italy and Spain were tranquil.
Great Britain. —In the House of Commons
Mr. Dillwin gave notice of a motion that the Clerk
of the House iu administering the oath to members,
be authorized to omit fr ui the oat Ii of abjuration
the words~-“ On the true faith of a Christian.’’
Mr. Griffiths gave notice of a resMutioii that no j
hostile steps ought to b 1 * taken by Government with
regard to the making of the Suez canal.
On Tuesday Col. Lindsay moved an address for
copies of Secretary Marcy’s letter lo the French
Government in to the resolution of the Pa
ris Conference ou the subject of privateering.—
Lord Palmerston said that it was not usual for Gov
orunujut to produce correspondence between two
in« ©pendent governments. T
SecretaryMaroy’s letter to the French Govem-
was not officially iu the hands of the British
Government, and could not be produced. The com
munication of the American to the French Govern
ment imd been made by the last Government ot the
United States, but the present Administration had
intimated that they dia not wish for an answer to
it.
Under these circumstances the House would feel
that ihe question could not be discussed properly.
He therefore hoped ii would not be pressed. Lord
John Russel thought the Government could make a
statement of the grounds upon which the deolara
tioubad been entered into. He was afraid the con
sequences would be very serious, but Eugland was
bound to them now.
Sir Charles Napier thought the engagement could
not be biokcn, and would necessitate the blockad
ing of every port of un enemy. Tho motion was
withdrawn.
France. —The Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Times - ays the Conspiracy recently discovered
was the most serious of any the public have know
ledge of, in the character of the persona concerned,
the extent ot its ramifications, and the objects pro (
posed, — which included the assssination of the Em
peror and a revolution throughout Southern Eu
rope. _ ]
The details of the recently discovered conspiracy |
iu Paris were creeping out.
Queen Victoria will visit Fontainbleau in Sep- j
tember. .
Tho members of a provisional government were
already named by the conspirators, and the plans
were pretty near perfected when the discovery was
made.
The declared hostilities of Lord Palmerston to the
Jiiez Canal produced a considerable sensation in
France, and the Paris journals are pretty severe in
thtdr comments on it.
Tt is stated that the Duke de Grammont, the
French Minister at Turin, wilt sucoerd Count de
Worry, in the mission to Russia.
Spun. —According to the latest accounts from
’Spain tranquility was every w; -re t published aud
Courts Martial were in full opai tion
Italy. —Nothing has been i eiveo from Italy
bey4md the details of revolutions movements al
ready anticipated.
The tw o Sicilies were tranquil.
C: louel Pisacore, the chief of tho insurgents in
Calubria, w as under arrest.
The Queen of Naples was not expected to live.
India. —The Indian mail had arrived in London.
Tho advices from Calcutta were to the 7th of Juue,
aud from Bombay to the Isth.
The di .iff ctiou was entirely confined to the
army. The native troops lmd been disarmed at
most of tlie stations iu the Puujaub. In the intelli
gence from Delhi, which is to the Bth of June,
states that the heights around the town were pos
session of the Government troops who had attack
ed and driven the rebels within the walls and cap
tured twenty-six guns. The Bombay money market
was uneasy. There was almost a panic.
Tho fall of Delhi was looked for hourly when the
Indian mail left.
The loss to the Bengal army by the mutiny and
other causes was nearly thirty thousand men.
It is believed that the crisis is passed.
At the latest accounts there was a rumor of a
panic and desertions amongst the insurgents at Del
hi.
The British Government were acting vigorously
iu Indian affairs. Sir Colin Cainpell left on a lew
hours notice.
In Bombay and Madras the armies continued
firmly loyal.
The telegraph wires between Agra and Delhi
had been cut by the insurgents.
The steamship Erin, from Bombay, with the mails
for China, was wrecked on the coast of Ceylon, on
the 6th ot June. Her passengers aud the mails and
specie were saved. The. cargo was valued at near
ly H 200,000, ami with the vessel was lost.
’At Calcutta little was doing in imports. Sterling
exchange was at 21 j.
China. —Hong Kong advices were to the 25th of
May.
At Foo-Chow-Foo all was quiet, and tea wascom
ing down freely. The rebels had been defeated
tlu-ro. Trade at ShaDghae and Hong Kong was
quiet. In freights nothing was doing.
Exchange ou London at Shanghae was 7s. 2d tl
7s. 3|}<i. The American house of Messrs. King «&
Co at Hong Kong had suspended payment. The
liabilities, mostly to Chinese, amounted to $150,000.
Turkey. —lt is denied that the Porte had issued
a protest against tlie occupation of Perin by the
Engl sh. Roßchied Pasha simply h-\ \■; personal in
terview with Lord Stafford de Uedcliffe ou the sub
ject.
Russia. —A despatch announces that the Rus
sians have occupied Gagny.onthe frontier of Aba
sia.
Persia. —lt was stated, but doubted, that the
Shah had made a requisition on General Out ram
for a column of troops, to enforce the evacuation
of Herat, which was held by his nephews, who dis
approving of the terms of peace reiused to with
draw.
Australia. —Advices from Melbourne to the
26th of April, and over sixty thousund ounces
ot gold, had been received by tho ship James
Baines.
The O'ShftUgnePßy Ministry had resigned.
A spirited speculation in gruin was going on in
the Melbourne markets, which otherwise were dull
The Crops in the West.—The Cincinnati Ga
zette thus reviews the crop prospects in Ohio and
the vicinity i
The weather, since our last, lias been all that
could be desired for the crops. It has been particu
larly favorable for corn, which has grown with won
derful rapidity the last ten nave, and is now in all
rich corn lands, a3 fo r ward ana luxuriant as it has
ever bseu at this season, so that with continued tk
vorable weather, we may say the corn crop will be
as large and profuse as that of grass and smal grain.
The range of temperature has been during the day
88 to ii 2 degrees m the shade, and during the night
85 to 88 degrees with some heavy showers. Wheat
has reached maturity in Kentucky, and the harvest
ing of it in that State is about drawing to a close.
In this State, Indiana and Illinois, it is being cut in
the Southern portions and nearly ripe in the North
ern, and before this month is out the wheat, harvest
ing wili.be general throughout the entire Northwest.
The oat and grass crops are very abundant. Owing
to the rap'd and simultaneous maturing of the
wheat, consequent upon the hot sun and high tem
perature, farmers are kept to busy securing the
barley, rye and wheat crops, they have not had
time to prepare any of consequence for market, and
several parcels of wheat sold some time ago and
which were to be delivered last week, have not yet
come to hand, and it is now pretty certain that we
shall not have any new wheat, of c usequence in
market before the middle of August. There is now
a good demand for it for export, and buyers from
the L ike towns and from Western New York have
been here seeking to make contracts.
Thk “Telegraph” upon Judge Thomas.—The
Macon Telegraph of this morning is om upon Judge
Thomas, for the latter’s excoriation of Buchanan !
“Straws,” 6c c. We may there!or- oouut upon the
Telegraph being lound along »de of the Federal
Union. Savannah Georgian, Cos 'file Standard and
Athens Banner, vs. the Constitute'. • ’ Ainericus
News, and Columbus Times, in tbe matter ot
Wslker’s policy in Kansas. This is a “very pretty
quarrel as it stands,” and we have no heart to “in
ter v’ene”.for tqe purpose of healing the breach.—
Citizen.
Walker and Buchanan—“ Like master, like
Man.”—lt is dimply ridiculous for the Democratic
organs of Georgia to denounce Walker as a Traitor,
while they palliate the conduct of the President,
who is the principal offender. Walker is only the
agent of the President. He is acting by instruc
tions from bis employer, and it cannot be made to
appear that he has exceeded his instructions. As
the Newhan Blade, (a neutral a paper of Democrat
ic tendency,) says, “it is like kicking a dog for bit
ing you, and thanking his master for setting him
on.”— Georgia Citizen.
We heard yesterday that two pegroes were bitten
and killed by a rattlesnake on the farm of Mr.
DeLyon, near the Isle of Hope, Saturday last. Our
reporter was unable to obtain either the particulars
or a confirmation of the rumor.— Sav. Key.
Romantic.—A pleasant affair occurred on the
bout Jeuneseee Belle, last week, on her way up to
Cincinnati.. A gentleman had been courting a lady
who had $45,000 in her own right. She had refused
him several times,.aud- repulsed his attentions on
the boat. At Cayolton, Ky , the young lady took
advantage of an hour’s delay of the boat to go
ashore with her aunt and viee the town. In return
ing on board she fell into the river. Her ill treated
suitor plunged in and rescued her. That evening
the passengers on the boat assembled to see the
Re v*B C. Snodgrass, of St. Louis, unite the lady
to her devoted lover.
Wheat. —We hear of occasional sales for future
delivery. Yesterday 7000 bushels prime white, deli
verable August stb, biought SI.OO, though the price
was conceded to be above the market.— Naghviile
Banner Ap&th. %
New York, July 28th.—The steamship Philadel
phia, from Havana, with dates to the 23d, arrived
hereto day/ She reports the health cf the island as
good, a* also that of the city and shipping. The
markets were dull; The .stock of sugar on hand
amounted to about 225,000 hoxesr.
The brig D. Miller had lauded, near Caidenas, a
cargo of 4uo slaves, alter which she was burnt.
An Eastern Editor announces the death of a lady
of his acquaintance, and touchingly adOo : “In her
decease the sick have lost ari invaluab.e friend.
Long will she seem to stand at their bedside, as she
was wont, with the balm ot cumulation jp one hand
and a cup of rhubarb in the other.”
Recruits’for Florida.—A recruiting officer of
the U. S. Cavalry corps now stationed in Florida,
was on a visit to our city last week for the purpose
of enlisting recruits for that branch of the service.
He succeeded, we are informed, in raising a compa
pany of twenty-eight among the young men of the
city, who took their departure yesterday on board
the WeUka, for the seat of war .—Sav. Rep.
Destroying Houses of 111 Fame.—The fire
companies and a number of other citizens of In
dianopolis “washed out” a number of houses of ill
* fame, a few evenings since, and drove off the in
mates, much to the relief of the citizens of the neigh
borhood. About $21)00 worth of furniture and bed
ding was piled in the street and destroyed by fire.
One woman vainly defended her door with a revol
ver, but did not injure any one. She expressed her
astonishment that a principal mover in that affair
was one of her best patrons.
One Ind of the Railroad in.—An Alabamian
a few days since went out to see the depot of the
Mobile and Ohio Railroad. Near the depot were
, several Irish draymen. Thinking to quiz them he
) shouted to one—
t “Has the railroad got in?”
“One ind has, sir," was the prompt response.
i.nicr from Mexico.
By the steamship Texas, at New Orleans, wo
j have two week's later advices from Mexico. The
r news relative to the recent elections, and the feel
ing towards Spain, is of considerable interest. The
Picayune furnishes the following summaiy :
By t his arrival we have papers from Vera Cru«
to the 2lst, from the city of Mexico to the 17th iust.,
j fourteen days latter The election for President of
the Republic, under the new constitution, took place
on Monday, the 13th iuat. So far as the returns
were in, they are entirely favorable to Comonfort,
of whose election none of the papers at Hhe capital
seem to entertain a doubt. In the district of Mexi
co, thl Electoral College stood 281 for Comonfort,
12 for Lerdo de Tejada, and 17 scatterring. Some
days would elapse before all the States would be
heard from ; but the vote in the district is believed
to be about a fair example of what might be expec
ted from the rest ot the country.
The election for President of the Supreme Court,
who in case of the death, absence or inability of
the elect of the people becomes by the constitution
President of the Republic, also took place on the
same day. The successful candidate is believed to
bo Senor Benito Jurrez, of the Progresisto or ultra
Democratic branch of the Liberal party, ComonforL
bemg classed with the Moderados. Tli°re seems to
have been an understanding and entire accord be
tween the two parties.
The elections in this district, and so far as heard
from elsewhere, passed oft in the most quiet and
orderly manner. Indeed, the Tra t d’Umon com
plains of the want qt “ardor and enthusiasm on the
part of the people in the exercise of a right which
lins at the foundation of the institutions of the coun
try.*'
The election for Deputies for the'capital took
place on Sunday, the 12th inst., and resulted in the
complete triumph of the Liberal party.
The prospect of a war with Spam, however, seems
to occupy most of the attention of our neighbors at
time. The alarm has already become
serious. Among other things, the Secretary of the
Interior has addressed a formal circular to the Go
Vernons of the several States on the subject. It be
gins by stating that Gen. Lafragua, the Mexican
Envoy, had not yet been honorably received in his
otficial capacity, and intimating that, notwithstand
ing everything lmd been done to evert it, a rupture
must inevitably take place; declares that, full of
confidence in the justice of her cause, Mexico
awaits with calmness the course which events will
take, and that if war must come, relying upon the
patriotism of her oitzens, she is ready to meet it;
and finally calls upon the Governors of the several
States to hold the National Guards, under their com
mand, ready for whatever order; in the mean time
to transport full reports of their number and effi
ciency to the proper Ministry at the Federal capital.
In connection with this subject, the Ecu Nacional
says that, in case of a war with Spain, Comonfort
will place himself at the head of the army, in which
case Juares would be President of the Republic.—
The Legislature ot Puebla has authorized the Go
vernor to eoutract lor the equipment ot 4000 of the
National Guards of that State in the shortest time
possible Other and similar preparations to meet
the invading enemy continue to be made through
out the Republic In regard to the actual state and
prospect of the negotiations between the tve yj
vernments, it is stated, and generally believed by
most • f the papers at the capitol, that instructions
have been sent to Gen. Lafragua to the effect that if
he be not officially received in eight days after giv
ing notice to the Spanish government of the receipt
of said instructions, he is to withdraw from Mad
rid. This, says the Extraordinary, will effectually
bring the loiig-p Hiding Spanish question to a close
one way or the other, in tho course ol the next two
months.
The news from the Pinto war of the South is still
conflicting. It is quite certain, however, that Al
varez has not succeeded in subduing the Indians,
who are as troublesome as ever It. is reported,
among other things, that the old chieftain is break
ing down in health, uud does uot conduct the cam
paign with his wonted energy.
As to the political state of the republic, revolu
tionary movements are reported on every side. One
at Jalpan, in the interest of Santa Auna, had caused
the Government considerable inquietude.
The whereabouts of Santa Anna seems to give
our neighbors at Vera Cruz and the capital consid
erable anxiety. It was generally believed he was
somewhere on the Island of Cuba.
The Vera Cruz Progr« so of the 21st, states that
all the correspondence touching the Sonora massa
cre has been received at the capital, and intimates
that it will soon bo laid before t lie public, when
“all the mysteries involving this atl'air will be
cleared up.”
In the midst of their enthusiastic preparations for
war, our neighbors seem not to have forgotten the
blessings of peace. The payment of the Spanish as
well as English claims has been renewed, aud the
Government, seem more than usually active in the
punishment of the Cuernavaca offenders. Four of
the convicts had arrived at the capital. Touching
the resumption of payment, the Effandarte says the
Government was solely influenced therein by a sense
ol justice, and uot at all by the actual state of 4 in
ternational relations.” The Enghsli claim ot $240,-
000 has been « ffioially recognized.
On the subject of the vomito the Vera Cruz pa
pers are not very communicative. Iu the tiles be
fore us we And bu* the allusion, and that in a medi
cal article c,0.1 lflimicuted to the Progreso, in which
the various inodes of treatment only are discussed.
From incidental allusions in this article, however,
and its general spirit, there would seem to be con
siderable alarm on the subject.
From “My Last Cruise, ” by Lieut. Habersham ,
United Slates Navy.
FenNibilily of llrilihli Stenim rs flenching Pe
kin.
There was a great talk in Hong-Kong about this
time (1854) as to the feasibility of a Commissioner
going to Pekin in person and obtaining an inter
view with the brother of the sun and moon —the ce
lestials Ileinfung—the Emperor of the Chinas. The
object of this desired interview was to put into the
imperial ear certain proposals, &c., which could
never reach it in writing, or which, reaching, would
never be acted upon, from the fact that the manda
rins or rebels would stop the despatches, or that the
former would influence the celestial mind against
the proposals of the encroaching “fanqui” or bar
barous, as all foreigners are contemptuously called
in China.
Many were the schemes projected aud abandon
ed to uttain this important interview', until it was
finally determined to t ry and reach Pekin by water.
Pekin was situated near the Pi ho river, and Pi bo
liver emptied into the Gulf of Pielnli, and the Gulf
of Pichili in turn emptied into the Yellow Sea ; why
might not vessels of war go to the mouth of the
Pi-ho, and from there despatch boats, or even
smaller vessels, upon a visit to the great capital ?
And why might uot the Commissioners go iu those
boats 1
No one could object to this arrangement, because
no one had ever been to the mouih of the Pi ho ;
and so Mr. Ruber? McLean, of the United States*
and Sir John Bowring, of England, gave it out as
their intention to a.tempt to “reach Pekin by wa
ter.”
The next thing to be done now was to find the
vessels ; and Commodore Perry, Commander Ro
ger* and Admiral Sterling were each called upon to
assist the cause. The former placed the steam fri
gate Powhatan at the disposal of Mr. McLean, the
secodd gave the “old John'“ and the little Cooper,
while the latter furnished Sir John Bowling with the
screw steamer Katiier and a hired Jorcha—a vessel
about the size of the Cooper, but drawing much less
water, it, wtw hoped that the two latter might bo
able to ascend the river witu boats in tow, ami thus
give an air of greater force then Gould have been at
tained wi’h boats only. These arrangements hav
ing been made, we were ordered to prepare lor sea
with all despatch. We were togo to Si anghae, via
the river Min, and await the arrival of Mr. McLean
iu the Powhatan, and to take advantage of all op
portunities for making surveys
Arriving at Sbangbae after a fearfully stormy
passage, they found the Pekin party anxiously
awaiting their nival, aud on they went over the
Yellow Sea. round the Shantong promontory and
into the Gulf of Piohilli, until they sighted the
low land at the Pi-ho liver. Mr. Habersham thus
continues :
The “old John” now began to feel herself of vast
importance, w« only drew twelve feet of water, and
could consequently go much nearer the river than
the other steamers; so we tcok the loicha and
Cooper in tow. and sti»od in for the land. We ran
Into thirteen feet water, and then cast off the ves
sels, which continued on before a light breeze, the
torcha getting safely into the river, and the schoon
er, which drew a foot more water, grounding on a
bank near its mout h. We were a week getting her
in after that—some of the hardest woik I evei en
gaged in. Then after both she and the lorcba were
safely anchored inside of the mud forts, the Secre
taries of trie Commissioners took up their residence
on board, and communications c
The Chinese seemed very averse to have anything
to say to us at all, and humbugged us to such an
extent that some of us advocated the idea of forcing
out way up to Pekin and demanding an interview
in person. As we were not the confidential advi
sers of the ministers, however, our opinion had little
weight—none at ass, I fear.
Thus passed several weeks; and while the diplo
matists were making themselves hoarse with talk
ing we made a beautiful survey of the locality; the
schooner attending to every thing inside of the riv
er, afid our ship, the bar and adjoining coasts. The
schooner had Carnes —our sailing master—and his
boat to assist her; and ujmui one occasion, when
they were trying to ascend the river as high as pos
sible, they came to a barrier of junks, with only a
passage way of some twenty feet wide between the
two tiers, and, upon their attempting to go through
it, they* werea?sailtd by crowds dt Chinese armed
with spears aud mate blocks, and found themselves
under the necessity of retiring quietly or shedding
blood. They chose the former, as the Liter might
have put a stop to all communication. Besides, the
officers had no orders, and did not feel themselves
empowered to “declare war ”
We lound the Chinese ot that region a powerful
and athletic set of men, very different from those of
more southern latitudes; th« women we did not see.
Lieutenant Raper, K N., locates the mouth of this
river in lat. 38 deg. 58 min. north, and long. 117
deg. 47 min. east, and we found ten feet of water on
its bar at high tide, and twelve or fourteen fathoms
inside. From all that we could see, there was no
reason why an ordinary river steamer might not as
cend to within a few miles of Pekin, this city being
situated some distance from the bank.
Our commissioners had one or two grand “pow
wows on the beach inside of the river, which we
all attended in full uniform, after which they steam
ed away in disgust, leaving the “old John” aud the
Cooper to continue the survey towards the Great
Wall of China, now only some hundred miles to the
northward and eastward of us. As far as J have
been able to learn, our attempt to .reach Pekin by
*water was lollowed by no results; but tins lailure
must not be placed at the door of Mr. McLean aud
Sir John Bowring ; it was entirely owing to the de
termination of the Chinese to keep all foreigners
out of the centre of their empire.
""The Brunswick Convention. —We have been
able to learn no particula s of this body, further
than that delegates trom a few counties assembled
on Monday last, and adopted a resolution recom
mending Col. Seward as a candidate for re-election
to Congress. We shall likely get lull accounts by
the steamer this morning.— Sav. Rep.
A Mormon in Trouble. —Last week adit*c : pleof
Brigham Yeung attempted to preach the Mormon
doctrine in Smythe county, Va., and though warn
ed by the citizens refused to desist. He was ac
cordingly seized, tarred aud feathered, after which
he made a rapid exit.
During a late thunder storm at Greenville, S. C.,
* the lightning struck a mill, knocking over two ne
groes who were at work in it. As sodh as they re
gained their feet, the first exclamation of one of
them, in great surprise, whs. “Who fire dat gun?”
July 14th, 1857.
To the Editor of the Jersey City Courier:—ln
one of your indues you chose to charge ine with be
inif the proprietor of a medicine called Ur. H.
James’ Extract of Camialis Medica,” and you sta
ted in substance, that Ur. James and myself were
one aud the same person. Perfectly astonished at
finding myself with an alias for the first time in my
file I called, to day, at what you said was my place
ot ’business and residence—No. 19 Grand street
Jersey City. I was prepared to take possession,
but unfortunately for me I found a Dr. James on
the premises. lie is a veiy old man, Xam only 35
years of age. He has practiced ineuicine for lorty
years or thereabouts : I never did anything but
scribble for the press, you see there is a mistake,
and if you publish this note it will be partially rec
tified. Respectfully,
Thaddeus W. Meighan.
Philadelphia, July 27 -Caprain Henry of the
United States Navy, died last night at York, Pa.—*
He was on the retired list.