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vLuroniclc £ Sentinel.
The Fall or Delhi.
7 .'<• ■■awl’ letter from the Bombay correepon
! (k-i,: </ th- I/’ ijdon Time*, j>ivea the particulars of
: Hi. of I>elbi, and the usual summary of events
i -i ‘ the departure of the previous mail:
, 1 J •i. O. t —Deiiii is once more in posses*
| - id of the British. The place was assaulted with
.< < e > on the i Ith of N-ptember, when a perrria
- effected. During the fevor
kdvaooefl aadaond^
• o • ity were made, and on the 20th the
• : -pa* -< n. i)Bed within the walla wag in
1 shod observe however, that we
t |f ’ i* - ;ved as yet such certain evidence of
h of the Litter part of this story ae of that of
i i Th-proceedings of the 11th, 15th, and
• .iit .u fi *-:ti the official bulletins is
*: <’hiel inner at Inhere, founded
jiapL < ine-.-agei Irom Delhi. But of the
I *. “U on the _ hwe have only heard by
• fvjifi the Residency of Jeypore in Rej
; ii i rraehed Lord Elphiriatone by way
.i yesterday. It is dated at Jeypore
. evening of the 2 id, and is to the fact that the
’ h ,ii't been received at the Residency, both
Kajar .nd thus from the Vakeel or minia
! i-. ! ; ■ -tnfly bren none of those denparate
•>m the city that characterized the early
Mi * and their only success attained
j -n the night of the Ist of Semtember. when a
• : fr • a b:.tery on the further side of the
of which I wrote my lag! burst among a
• 1 tli* ’ ! in froi.t of the 51 etcalfe-house,
.wo men and wounding seven. On the
■:gti’h arrived in camp the long-looked
; :ge train of between 30 and 40 heavy guns
.g< laal • its of am
ti • ••r'corted by th<* remaining wing of the
1 -of. two more roinpanies of the fUt, and a
i . ingoftbe Ist Belooch battlion of the Bombay ar
! fa the *.tli came in from Meerut a most valuable
fthe 1 oth Rifle* and 100 Ar
| i try : * cruits. To the latter were added 45 men
1 , 1/u.cers. Tie place of this detachment
; ‘iippii'd at Meerut by the 7th Punjan-Infantry.
• : -\* ing day the army was further streng
-Iby U • i V ■ bib Rifles under Capt. Wilde,
tops of tbe Jbeend On tbs
’ i, ;• ; ... the 7 tii the advanced batteries intended
i ■ • e Moree bastion and tbe ad
i ’ curtain were armed with JO heavy guns at
i b(i’varJ from the bastion, and an enclosure
half 1 tance ol walls, called the
.... | ed by a detachment of
In these (tioQi we sus
• and ai- ot some! hing under 50 lulled and wouii
j d*d ) t wo olliceiii among the former.
ci day was marked by the opening of tbe
i the M iee bastion and by the
j a. i vai in camp of theJummoo or Cashmere Con*
• lit. Meanwhile tlie engineers were hard at
’ vvc.i. i the erection of other batteries. On the 11th
.he M 0! ii fiKMB Roods* it
| lit .at little in .re than 3110 yards, and upon the
!in ‘.mere and Water bastions a fire was
. and from lb heavy guns aud howitzers and 10 large
:.i p'Hutcci at two points in front of the inclo
liuowo as Ludlow castl-, and bo noted in
mr.. ):i the 12th the attack on the Water
: i b.-n whs strengthened by four IS pounders and
i:; lit, i ll ■ 1 1 , mortars (increasedafterwardsap
! j )>i ficiy to < ight. <1 U,<i former and J 2 of the latter)
; : n fiat :.*•)(; and 250 yards from the wall and the
; • -mu: hoii:**'compound near the river. The fire
i < < nemy was most severe upon the last named
;!. ■ which were exposed not only totheguns of
t • Water bastion, but to those in the old inner
• .... and also to those of the other fide
i I ihe !i Ji the Cashmere bastion was in ruins.
bar Bide were similarly
( .‘/and Item the d-bris of the Moree bastion
, m light gun or two at intervals replied to the
v \v : ho? and shell that were poured into it. At
i•• Water bastion bad
• v m'hici ly less severely, its extreme inaga
-1 nip, and at light gun which enfiladed
| on batteries had been silenced.
m M orning of the 1 till, soon after day break
’ to. k place The attacking columns
. 1 gathered from the only communication
hat n syet reached Bombay—three
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> ■ not given. The main point of assault.
tion < ine eoluxnn,
gos GUi kas sod the m.-wly ar*
i Jumiimn contingent, was directed to make a
■ii, .Mm kit the lv ishengunge suburb,
■ Mi ‘dr il'm Lahore gate on the western
icceeded in carrying the
• a adt tlie gate itself. But the suburb was
i . .1 by lh enemy in force, with a balfeiy of
( i shnicrc troops behaved indifferently, and
*- i{ |i;• ■ IVoit - ot the brave fJhoorkas the
. .... liin w; repulsed. Its commanding officer,
Sirmoor battalion, is among the
northi rn ride ol the
: . in w 1 i. * The troops entered at the breach
. m i I:.. . rimis oppcbition. and spreading to the left
y < i■.iu| l •• and tlm “whole line of defences from
VV der bf-tion to the Cabul gate, including the
, v’ .. .uit-re gate and ba tion, the Moree gate and bee
honse, and the
in as nb*,ut Tl.-c principal loss sustained by
•ii wasdueto the obstinate resistance
cleaiii t* i way ah mg the ram
: . to iho Cabuigate, and afterwards in an at
, ; iit into the denser
ith af \ in the direction of the Jumna Mus*
is mount! I to about 500 killed
: five officers are reported to have
. M Wmiii :ed in all about 30. Oftheh.es
0 r: mutiners 1 do not observe even an estimate.
■ once made for shelling the
rmyuutofthe Palace, the Selimghur, and the
i.. strong places of the city, aud the firing com
! loth By Re* evening
. ibn ich vt ■: ■. ffet ted in thi waUof the
azine enclosure, which whs held in form by tlie
t ,j a nd th pla< e was Btormed the next morn*
s) bv the iilst Foot, and detachments of the french
... iwi Itiflei In it were oaptnred
I | ,; ol caiiuou. Tbe Palnce being now well
, ■... ...I (lie uiii.ri and mortars opened upon it from
ii. ■ em-losuie. and the enemy appears to
alien back at all point*. Thus the Kisheii
em... battery, whirl, had repulsed the Jummo
~. .... vis ulmudom.il and occupied, and the Kims
. re taken swelled tlie total number of captured
| pieces to upward of m .
7’i;e battery on the futher side of the river seems
and at th® date ot the
• - 1 p. m. on the 16th
an attack upon themaganize had been repulsed,
; of post a Lad been established from the
• ( . ; I gate to the msgr/ine, and the enemy some
; maintaining oofy a
1. t. ; < ‘tl and “desultory warfare from the tops of
I ii . him Many townspeople had come in and
1 H cciv’ djjqu&rtere, w hich was of course refused to
■ < ~ Sepoy. All this is bo satisfactory that we may
. : |i t nit tin* reporte from Jeypore. that on tbe
3i , t w*: entirely in our hands. But 1
i hall keep thi* letter open to the last in hope of
> hjli-i in t-lligeuee, as a steamer is just in from
h m ;.■. : t . w l,u h .Mr. Frere was keeping ready for
a id whii h he would not have d®§-
nute'ied uule* he had some tiling worth sending. I
: .i o ur, by the way to u eution that the Jey
, s though L do it—that
;\ ;• ies< .i lto a neighboring shrine
Soindia, •*! la mote*
i o\* i reported, was raiding 15,000 men to intercept
Ti .! north-west of Delhi, in the Hurrianach dia-
Gt neml \ an Cortlandt is still busy represent
and re-.-ctlUug r4e country. On
• s.t . mbt-r an insurgent village near
occupants drivt n out
i tfi ij-pi \d. With the loss of one of the ringleaders
i mut .’ yof the Hurrianach battalion and 25
age at a at! r data, when
e mutinied 10th Cavalry tV-i!, and
e T i"• v'licvs. foimerly of the same regiment,
ivs . i. .with execut. 1. On this occasion a large
. and Frees, cattle and money rat
, 1,;.. •! a u of the General’s men. From Meerut
i . do not hear of any more raids against insurgents
:. v ■ Agra report any
t - inoi iigs rn the part ot Major Montgome
i very in cessful engagement at Hattrasa
: v r'iGh v. Mat.omed Khan, the self syled Soubah
j .i’ii of tin* k i gos Delhi, which appears to have
1 .mu ted the country about Allyghur.
• U- • vrdirg Cawnpore and Lucknow lam unable
1 \• \ >u’ *■ favorable au account as a fortnight
i aid cipated. Gen. Outram, in his letter of
, . i ot September, expressed a hope that he
~and t;.*t ..ver the distance between Allahabad
‘ u isr he was at the time of w riting) and Cawn
lu this hope he was, however,
. ‘inud. On one occasion at least his advance
j .. mmeded by au armed lorce, or his progress
. < J i.v the necessity ot chasiising it. A party,
inbei u< nt destroyer a: about 300
i ii - the number Ii net men*
Ia. v rcssed the Ganges from Oude, presumable
purpr.- eof plunder, at a point ahead of Sir
I ;t s’ In. of march. As soon as they were heard
M or V n riit Eyre, of old A Afghan and recent
! .v. c lebi itv, was sent on with part of his own
j v. .it- c i iii elite of the sth and i‘*4th Foot, and
op of ln\ tiu’.ar Horse, to attack aud disperse
o u : M .vr's approach the enemy hastily be
b to th< r boats, Nimdbf the
i ~\ u whom, when they had re-embarked,
v s.. > t\ smart tire Even when the infantry
... poured volley after volley into the
u . . ti e rebels still made what defence
ud,l at vheo tbe held pieces
.. v iirape they threw themselves panic
v to ti e river, to perish almost to a man
~. :.-.i he of aU arms that rained upon them
, Th- boats were sunk and the guns
is was on the 10th of September,
••ad quart ere of the sth Fosileers
. ... : v rcii.aii uer ot t-.e 78th Highlanders reached
* v ’ James with the rest of the force
: t : V\: ltd on the following day, orders were
’ .
• i ,'’ n c ti river at hall past 2 the uext
; . i know from a private letter from
, i . ti -• -f the 7s: ‘, and nothing, so far as
vel from Cawnpore direct to
- -..it counter-orders were subse
•’ t ’ v il: : ■ crossing was delayed
C - .a steamer for Sue 2 called at
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t ran
. • . v : .e K. • . ti -veminent thus—"Cion.
Cun*
g WBf
[ garrison ,1 cknow we have
that little. bow* nr, it en-
I had ermine aai blown up a
j .j rtheii trei ‘hmeiit, with a number of fa
! occupied it, and then sallying out had
v?V ;wo Impounder guns which the enemy
::<> bear upon them, though without do
n . u £ damage Os the amount of provisions
! T ; ir io ‘ eitner oneway or the other. On
j . \ &v - rein that we know of nothing
’ u di<;rt‘V or even materially to affect the
.i* h when 1 last wrote were so
,\ •- aiiu-a, tv’ vi! von this side of India.
’ . wr. h . 4 . Allahabad, that this long
, W , leheved in time to save
j -v ; ir'iiVt -and the honor of English wo-
! liv 1 - -t: ere is little doubt that Capt. Peel.
reached Allahabad,
v. ... c . wi .e& of Lis arrival. At
! t t r~K A reinforcements have arrived
( . * free, the 23d, 93d, and 82d;
P u artillery from the Cape, and
v ‘ mpanies of the same
.11..- _ From the capital to Alla
! . < • i. both sides of the river ap
net agaii WbiftkM be
B
j y. b- vieg ap*u. i t ward Agra oy
j -a i >*ftted that their main bo
■ 1’ turned Southward from
• *-*••• Uewnh territories, others again,
by bmg wan -i off by the Rajah, they had
j ~ i uutr> and moved down into Bundel-
Tui> las: account may e. psruaps. the true
! If not. y the mere rumor of their ap
. - - mutiny of the 50th Bcn-
Native • a* Xagodo, in the province .
: ! w at ba> remained quiet so long.
liaaffectioe rea* Led .Tubbulpore
1 * *r } led tht-'e was the 52d Nat ve In
w i ke :h** ! th, had never hitherto
wl. t.y i- •! ill feeling. But about this tiuv
was diH owed that a plot wa*hatching,in which
! of the Sepoy* and many of the loose pop ill a
j lion oi the town were oonoemed, to break open the
[ gaol and release certain piisouert late y confined
there. Th s Bcheme was frustrated. Shortly after
w*ard an old cLiet of one ot the neighboring Goud
Man was arrested on suspicion of instigating an at
tack upon the Europeans and their property, and
being convicted was blown from a gun, his eon suf
fering with him for the same crime.
A little while longer and the uUd mutinied, taking
advantage of the scattered condition of the Madras
column, which was stationed at intervals between
Jubbulpore and Saugor, keeping open the road, and
was in no great strength at the former station.
Their mutiny had in it something of originality.
They dismissed ail their officers hut one, Lieutenant
Met iregor, whom they retained as a hostage for the
safety of their comrades in the two companies that
were in advance with tbe head quarters of the Mad
ras column under Gen. Miliar at Dumoh. This little
arrangement they explained in a respectful letter
written to their own commanding officer, in which
they said that in leaving cantonments they by no
means considered that they were quitting the ser
vice of the Sircar ; that they remained, and pro
posed to continue to remain, true and good ser
vants of the government ; but they had heard and
believed that the Sircar intended to destroy them
and had brought in the Madrasees for that purpose.
Hence they thought it better to withdraw till the
Sircar should be more properly and kindly dis
posed toward them.
They were takmgaway the Sicar s arms and am
munition it was true,,but, then, had they not left all
their own propertypAind, with which the Sicar
might indemnify itself l And so the regiment
inarched off, ali but the two companies which were
with Gen. MilMr. whom the General forthwith
cleverly and quiellybdiiamed. But the effect of all
this is very bad. It may cost us for a time the
whole of the Sangor territories north of Nerbudda.
Ti e Bundelas are up in renewed spirits. General
Miilar attacked a body of them, aud slew 811 with
out the loss of a man. But another party defeated
a sally from the fort ol Saugor, killing Col. Dalzell,
of the late Wd, who headed it, and several men.—
The Madras column abandons Dumoh and concen
trate? itself for the protection of Jubbulpore. If,
as in spite of their remarkable letter may be antici
pated, the o-d join the Bundeias in strength, the
o ‘ utnn may have to recross the Nerbupda. If
Koor Singh comes down it must; but 1 hope and
think that when tidings of the fall of Delhi have
well liltered through the country many a now for
midable looking band of marauders will be dissipa
ed r veil more rapidly than it was formed.
Lor the past fortnight we have had further lit! le
disturbances in this Presidency, which constitute a
d-awbaek, though but a slight oue, on the generally
favorable character of the intelligence, aud afford a
contrast to the loyalty of the Madras army, still un
stained, unless by the refusal of the Bth cavalry to
proceed for service to Bengal, for which, by the
way, all the subalidars and the native staff officers
have been summarily dismissed from the service.
To return to Bombay, and to conclude. Our
monsoon i? at an end, and bas been a very favorable
one, the fall registered being T 8 inches. Trade is
active; money abundant. Government Four per
Cents have risen to 82, and would go higher but for
the extreme depression at Calcutta. Exchange on
London. 2s 1 Id.
P. S —Tne England brings nothing from Kurra
chee, but a copy of the Jeypore story which I have
before given. But I have been obliged by the pe
rusal of an extract from a letter received at Nus
seerabad on the evening of tlie 24th of Sep-emb.-r
from Capt. Eden at Jeypore, September 23, 8 A. M.
which gives details of the doings in Delhi ou tlie 17th
and 18th, ami which ruii thus “On the 17th shel
ling the Lai Kilia (Red Fort; this appeared to be
some other stronghold than Selimghur) and city.—
h ighting all day . leaders aud native officers in open
dis-cusion, accusing one another, in presence of the
kiug, of cowardice. In the end unanimity prevail
ed, and they resolved to light as men without iiope
of mercy or pardon.
Friday, the 18th.—Shelling all night on the Lal-
Kiila. Tliis morning fighting recommended, and
mutineers on some points successful, but constant
ly lepulsed. Rifles doing much mischief among the
re bels. City people, both rich and poor, running
away. Suburb, where Reid failed, (the Kishen
guage) is ours, and also the rebels battery there.—
King and two sous concealed. One bastion of the
Lal-Killa destroyed, and it will be taken. Capt.
E len adds, “The above is from the Durbar news
wiiter to the Elijah at Jeypore. There maybe
some exaggeration, but in the main I am inclined
to believe this report, as Hie man lias always sent
current reports on the whole.” After this the re
port of the total occupation of the city on the 20th
may be accepted unhesitetingly.
I regret to say that it appears probable there
is something in the Punjab between Lahore and
Mooltau. I alluded in the beginning of my letter to
a stoppage of dawk communication between these
towns. I now And that whon the England left Kur
rachee no dawk had reached Moult an from Lahore
for eight days. If anything is wrong it is in the
Gogaira district. Attachments are out both from
Lahore and from Mooltau , but nothing is yet known
of the cause or of the magnitude of the obstruction
to tlie traffic. All was quiet in Sciude, and the au
thoritieß were on the alert.
Letters from Neemucli record a successful opera
tion from that station against Nimbheera, where
the Rajah of Tonk was in revolt. Tlie detachments
of the Bombay 2d Cavalry and 12th Native Infan
try which accompanied tlie party of the 83d behaved
very well, replying only with musketry to the cries
of ‘Been, deen !’ (the faith,) which meet them from
the walls. The euemy cvucuated the place during
tiie night, abandoning his guns. The troops are
clamorous to be leu against Mundesore er Bhown
agger, whither the remnant of the Mundesore revolt
has betaken itself.
The following had been received from the resi
dency surgeon at Jeypore, dated Sept. 23d :
We have this moment received information from
the Durbar of our troops having occupied the entire
city of J)elhi on Sunday last, the 20th. The Vakeel
of the Jhupur Nawab had been here a little while
before with the same intelligence, so you may rely
upon it. The King is said to be in the Durgah
Nizam oodeen, about six miles from Delhi. He
and his two sons escaped disguised as women, aud
the women of the Zenana in men's clothes.
It was reported at Alimedabad, upon the strength
of letters from Ajmere, that the King of Delhi had
been captured.
At Calcutta tbe produce market was unaltered,
but there was some improvement in the demand for
imports. Freigtits were dull, aud money very tight.
Exchange on Ixmduii 2s. 3.(d for credit.
At Bombay trade was active and money abun
dant, Exchange on London 2s. ljd. The monsoon
w r as at an end, and had been a very favorable one.
At Madi as prices of exports were high. The im
port market was Bteady. Money easy. Exchange
2s 2jd for scrip.
Kniina—Action of the Constitutional Conven
tion.
Letters from Leavenworth, Kansas Territory, to
2d iust., show that the Constitutional Convention
had made active progress in the formation of a oon
stitution. The Convention have established the
.Judiciary election system, leaving the power with
the Legislature to create a Court of Chancery. The
Governor of the State, to be eligible to office must
be a citizen of the United States for twenty years.
This provision met with considerable opposition, on
the ground of its conveying a principle somewhat
akin to Native Americanism. The rights of suf
frage contain a clause requiring the payment of
a tax a year previous to an election which was also
opposed, but whs carried by three majority. This
clause may possibly be struck out. The following
are the sections of the Constitution relating to
slavery:
Section 1. The right of property is before and
higher than any constitutional sanction, and the
i ight of the owner of a slave to such slave aud its
increase the same, and is inviolable aa the right of
the owner of any property whatever.
Sec. 2. The Legislature shall have no power to
pass laws for tlie emancipation of slaves without the
consent of their owners, or without paying their
owners, previous to emancipation, a full equivalent
in money lor the slaves so emancipated. They shall
have no’ power to prevent emigrants to the State
from b inging with them such persons as are deem
ed slaves by the laws of any one of tlie United
States or Territories so long as any person of tbe
same age or description shall be continued by the
laws of this State ; j>rocided, that such person or
slave be the bona fide property of such emigrant ;
ami provided also, that laws may be passed to pro
Dibit the introduction of slaves into this State who
have committed high crimes in other States or Ter
ritories. They shall have power to pass laws to
permit the owners of slaves to emancipate them,
saving the rights of creditors, and preventing them
from becoming a public charge. They shall have
power to oblige the owners of slaves to treat them
with humanity—to provide for their necessary food
aud clothing—to abstain from all injuries to them,
extending to life or limb—and, in case of neglect or
refusal to comply with the direction of such laws, to
have such slave or slaves sold for the benefit of the
owner or owners.
Sec. 3. In the prosecution of slaves for crimes of
higher grade than petit larceny, the Legislature shall
have no power to deprive them of an impartial trial
by a petit jury.
Sec. 4. Any person who shall dismember or de
prive a slave of life shall suffer such punishment
as would be inflicted in case the like offence had
been committed on a free white person, and on the
like proof, except in case of insurrection of such
Tlie question of submitting the Constitution to the
people for confirmation or rejection had not been
icted upon. It is thought that an effort will be
made to submit only the sections relating to slave-
JiHge Cato, of the Second Judicial District had
i>sued an order directing Gov. Walker and Secre
tary Stanton to sho v cause why a mandamus should
n<v be issued directing them to grant certificates of
election to the pro-slavery delegates claiming to
have been elected to the Legislature from the coun
ties of Johnson and Douglas. Gov. Walker and
Secretary Stanton in reply protest against the juris
diction of the Court, and* aemur to the proceeding
as an usurpation of power, and therefore a nullity,
which, under their oath of office, it would be their
dutv to disregard. In conclusion they say :
** , TUe undersigned beg leave further to state, that
if the said Judge should command them to issue
certificates of election as aforesaid, and should deem
it his duty to subject them to imprisonment for
disobeying Lis order, as they would be compelled to
do by their conviction of its usurpation and utter
nullity, and because the certificates before the date
ofsaid rule or order ha i already been issued to oth
er persons, such is their desire to maintain the p'ace
of this Territory, that they will submit individually
to such imprisonment and if any tnmult should be
apprehended by said Judge, in consequence of mon
strous frauds which have been perpetrated upon the
electiv* franchise in the recent election, the Gover
nor wi’l direct the regular troops of the United
State*, now here and subject to his order, to act as a
<. ■ -i in aid of the Sheriff or Marshal,
who may be directed by said Judge to execute said
mandate of imprisonment
[Signed) R J. Wai.ker,
Governor of Kansas Territory.
[Signed] Fred. P. St amok, Secretary.
A Man Running away from his Wife, akd
Jumping into the River to avoid her.—Tester
u rday forenoon & rather indicrous affair took place
bc’werna husband and wife, in the neighborhood
of Furlong s Block,on Huron street, which came
near ending fatally. A tailor named Carey got
quarrelling with his better half, or rather his better
naif got quarreilir g with him. and he ran away and
left her — as every man should do when his wife be
gins to scold. liat Mr-. Carey was not to be baf
ried by this, and being nearly as good a traveller as
ue was. put after him and overtook him in the above
mentioned place, when she commenced pummelling
her liege lord in a manner that would be creditable
to an old pugiiist. He retreated under a heavy
p*. une ng u-ward the bridge, but as the draw was
open, there was no roomto retreat further, unless he
nmped into the river, and in he jumped ( The wa
ter was to cool, and we think it had the effect of
bringing him : • a true sense of his perilous situa
aou. He worked hard to keep above the surface
of the watrr, and after getting a pretty good soak
iiitr. i.e was dsued out by two men who were work
bridge in a boat. In the meantime the
vixen iuc and upon the abutment quite ooolly
king at he*i ..usband struggling in the water, and
when he kept up longer than she expected, she was
heard to exclaim : “ I wish to the Lord he would
s.nk He didn’t sink, however, for which be may
be thankful, on the contrary, to the boatmen.—Aim
*rauket SentiruJ.
Russian View of the Fall of Delhi.— The
Ei g ish troops at Delhi are in a more difficult poei
i. u than they were before the aesault. They are
in their ‘own besieged by the Sepoys, who have es
tablished thamselvee in a fortified position six miles
m Delhi, after having cut off all communication
net ween that place and the other great military
posts We remarked some time ago that the mili
tary movements of the Hindoos displays a system
of tactics which would do honor to the beet of Eu
ropean Geneiais.—Lc Xvrd, of i^russe/i.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER *25, 1857.
from the X. Y. Tribune Special Correspondent.
Important from the Plains.
Camp, 260 miles from Fort L&ramie, >
October 13, 1857. j
During Capt. Van Vliet’s stay in Salt Lake City
last month, he overheard but one remark which in
duced him to believe that the declarations by the
Mormons of intention to resist the troops were not
earnest. That was an observation by Brigham
Young to the effect that his intention was unaltered,
“unleie he should get another revelation to the con
trary, which he was sure that he should not. ’
Tne result has certainly justified the Prophet's
confidence. No such revelation had been received
by him up to October a, on which date acts were
committed under his direction which esnnot fail to
end in bloodshed. On that day the two regiments
of infantry and the artillery and ordnance batteries
were encamped on Ham’s Fork, which branches
from Black’s Fork, which is a fork of Green river.
The two nearest supply trains were but a few miles
distant from Green river, on the east bank, and
about 3U miles from Col. Alexander’s camp. The
next on the road had advanced about 20 miles west
from Pacific Springs, which rise at a short distance
beyond the South Pass. About 11 o’clock at night,
these three trains were surprised and seized by par
ties of Mormons, their contents examined, and what
.was worth pillaging was stolen, and the remainder
■Ktroyed by fire. Each train coastisted of 26
wagons, aud belonged to the number sent out by
Mwsrs. Russell &, Waddell, of Leavenworth City,
contractors for toe transportation of stores to the
axrny and for the supply of beef cattle. The team
ttere made no resistance, and were unharmed.—
These Mormon bands are understood to be under
the command of “BUI” Hickman, although it is
rumored that Heber C. KimbaU attends them.—
They are all well mounted and armed, each man
being provided with a California horse, and with a
iifie and from one to three revolvers. Hickman is
supposed to have directed the proceeding near Pa
cific Spring, while a man named Locksmith com
manded near Green river.
Immediately upon the receipt of the news o! this
attack, Col. Alexander sent Capt. Marey of the sth
Infantry, with five companies, back to Green river.
He arrived, however, only in season to take charge
of the cattle of the trains, which the Mormons had
left, with the polite request that the troops would
fatten them over Winter, when they would be in
good condition for Mormon eating in the spring.—
Another of their juex d'esprit was a remark to the
teamsters that the “had only “burned the wagons
this time, but would be likely to burn the wagoners
the next.” Col. Alexander also sent despatches to
Brevet Col. Smith, from whose camp I am writing,
and Capt. Marey sent by another messenger a cir
cular letter to the trains on the road advising them,
for the sake of safety, to place themselves under
Col. Smith’s protection. Both expressmen were in
tercepted by the Mormons, but as nothing suspi
cious was found on their persons, and it did not ap
pear on what errands they were bound, they were
released. The one from Col. Alexander, perceiv
ing that it was impossible to avoid arrest, destroy
ed the despatches to Col. Smith, according to his in
structions, and we are ignorant of their contents.—
The other brought Capt. Marcy’s circular safely
through in the toe of his moccasin.
We know, however, in the absence of the official
despatches, that Capt. Many has rejoined Col.
Alexander, and that the eDtire fjrce has moved to
the north along Bear river towards Soda Springs,
where it will probably await the arrival of the re
maining supply trains, the sutlers trains, of the sth
and 10th lutantry, and of Col. Smith's battalions.—
The reason for tliis movement do not appear by a
glance at tbe map, to a person unacquainted minu
tely with the conformation of the country and the
character of the climate. The direct train to Salt
Lake City, passing Fort Bridger, Medicine Butte,
aud The Needles, which Col. Alexander has aban
doned, is possibly by this time impassable to wagons
or artillery on account of the weather. The season,
which had been uncommonly favorable up to the
beginning of October, has resumed its natural se
verity.
Ice has formed in our buckets every morning but
one since we left Fort Laramie. The northern
slopes of the mountains are completely whitened
with a covering which will not melt till 1858, and
even the southern slopes are powdered scantilj- with
snow, of whioh there woe a fall on Saturday night
that chilled our road on Sunday aud Monday aud
lias muddied it to day. The Mormons have proba
bly burned the grass along that entire route, and
obstructed the defiles in which it abounds, in such
a manner that only artillery cou and clear them But
if the army concentrates at Soda Springs it will
have before it a road along a valley, open, it is
said, even at midwinter, direct to Salt Lake City.
I know of no charts which exhibits all the lines of
road on which these movements will be made, and,
indeed, I am unable to gath-r from our guides such
info, mation as to trace them accurately on Capt.
Stansbuiy’s map, which is the largest chart of this
country that I possess, but I believe them to be
substantially these: The direct route from Califor
nia to the State crosses tbe Wahsatch Mountains
far to the north of Salt Lake City, and continues al
most due ea t to its junotiou with the main road to
that city which passes F'ort Bridger, and then runs
ou through the Soulh Pass, dividing, however, near
Ham’s F'ork, into three branches, which cross the
Green River and unite beyond the Big Sandy.—
From one or the other of these branches, a road
leads up into Oregon, toward F'ort Hall, passing
Soda Springs, from which, at the Springs, there is a
cut-off into a read direct from F'ort Hall to Salt
Lake City. It is over these latter roads and the
cut off that Colonel Alexander's inarch will be di
rected.
The Mormons who intercepted the expressmen
told them that they had a force of 700 men scat
tered along through the mountains as far east as the
Devil's Gate, through wliioli the Sweetwater flows,
about 200 miles from F’ort Laramie, and near which
is a dismantled Mormon mail station, at a tire from
some of whose logs we warmed our feet not a week
ago. But this must be a gross exaggeration.
Neither of the parties which burned the trains ex
ceeded JOOin number, and it is difficult to conceive
how a force of even that strength could have gained
the rear of the army unobserved. It is a fact, how
ever, that ever since the Mormons settled on Salt
Lake, they have been assiduous in collecting infor
mation concerning the topography of the country,
and many of their leaders understand it as thorough
ly as the most experienced mountain guide. The
employment of a great part of their young men in
herding cattle has made them acquainted with
every Tittle stream and /canyon, and inured them to
the saddle. It is these young men, and these al
most solely, who constitute the element of the
Mormon military force from whioh there is danger
to be apprehended. They possess the ability, if
they have the will, to carry on .an annoying guer
rilla warfare, sweeping down from mountain passes
upon single travelers and unprotected trains.
I am unable to make an estimate of the amount
of stores destroyed by them in their foray of Octo
ber 5. The original amount intended for the Utali
expedition was an eight month’s supply for 2,51)0
men, and each train was assigned a proportion of
all the articles to be transported, including even
ordnance stores. Whether different arrangements
were made when it was thought necessary to leave
the 2d Dragoons with Gev. Walker in Kausas, I am
not aware. At any rate, it is the general impres
sion that the loss of so great a qu ntityof provi
sions as the 72 wagons must have contained, would
necessitate a movement toward Salt Lake Valley,
were not such a movement on other oecounts a con
sequence of their destruction. The season will for
bid tbe transmission of any further supplies or troops
from the East than ore now already far on their
way. Whether Col. Sumner’s command has return
ed from its pursuit of the Cheyennes to the Arkan
sas ; whether Col. Cook is marching his dragoons
toward us to fill out so far as is now possible the or
iginal programme of the army of Utah, which was
disturbed by Gov. Walker’s schemes in Kansas; or
whether Gen. Harney, Col. Johneton, Gov. Gum
ming, or any of the new territorial officials are on
their way west, we are not informed ; for the moat
recent advices we have received from the East ex
tend no later than to September 1. Ignorant as we
are of what may have occurred there during the last
forty days, it is impossible for us to fix the responsi
bility for the delay, so accurately as yourse.ves, up
on those on whom it belongs; but someone is cer
tainly to blame for the tact that of the 2,500 men or
iginally destined to the expedition, hardly 1,400 are
now available, and for the other fact that of all the
newly appointed territorial officials, ODly one, to
my knowledge (Chief Justice Echols.) is anywhere
near his post of duty. Mr. Morrell, the Postmaster
of Sat Lake City, who was appointed by President
Pierce last year, but whose commission was stolen
from the mail, is also an exception. He is encamp
ed near the South Pass, and will place his wagons
under Col. Smith’s protection to-nn now.
This news, of the actual rising of the Mormons in
arms, cannot surprise you more than it does those
on the scene of action. The presence of Dr. Bern
hisel with Captain Van Yliet, on his journey to the
States, seemed of itself an offset to all the threaten
ing messages of which the latter was tlie bearer.—
It seemed incredible that the Mormons should have
the assurance to send a delegate to Washington to
uphold them in Congress, when they were in actual
armed rebellion. That they have been excited to a
forcible outbreak only by the grossest misrepresen
tations, I cannot doubt. As an instance of these, I
may specify one which is by no means the most ab
surd. When tbe general orders from the headquar
ters of the army for Utah for the establishment of
thi ee new posts in the Territory reached Salt Lake
City, the circumstance that they were to be “ dou
ble ration posts” excited the utmost indignation.—
Supposing that it meant all the garrison as well as
the commanding officers were to draw double ra
tions, laughable as it may appear, it is a fact i hat
they believed that the extra ration was to be fur
nished to each soldier, to enable him to marry and
support a wife, whom, of course, he would seduce
from among them. Capt. Van Vliet found this illu
sion universally prevalent
In consideration of the journey of Dr. Bemhisel
to Washington, while affairs are in such a condition
among his constituency, I feel bound to send you
the foUowing information concerning the mode of
his election, for the accuracy of which I do not
vouch for it is not of my personal knowledge, but
for which I send you privately my authority. It has
been stated tome that on the Sunday before the day
fixed by law for the election, Brigham Young rose
in the Bowery, where an audience of several thou
sands was collected, and spoke substantially to this
effect:
“Brethren, to-morrow, you know, is the day to
vote for Delegate to Congress, so the law says. —
But I don’t see why to-day isn’t just as holy, and
why we shouldn’t take a vote to-day. Brother
Bernhieei, brethren, has done well enough in Con
grees, though nobody ‘s of much use there, and if
it’s worth while to send anybody to Washington, I
guess we might as well send him back ; if he can’t
do us any good, he won’t do us any harm. So all
C that are in favor of sending Brother Bemhisel
k, will please rise,”
Accordingly the whole audience roee. The next
day, at the election, but few votes were cast, and
those all for Dr. Bemhisel, it being felt to be useless
to oppose him, although he is said to be very un
popular in Salt Lake City. If Ido Dr. Bernhiael
any wrong by this narration, I am sure you will be
willing to correct anything which he shall prove to
be inaccurate.
As another item, which I have neglected to iasert
in its proper connection, it is reported that the Mor
mons have taken prisoners two men belonging to
Dr. Magraw’s party, who were sent on business to
ward Sat Lake City.
The following letter we find in the St. Louis Dem
ocratc
Camp on Sheet Water, Oct 13.
Colonel Smith, of he 10th Infantry, with a por
tion of his command, consisting of about 65 meD.
rank and file, are encamped here for the night—
Lieut. T. J. Lee, with fifty men, were at Laramie to
escort Gov. Gumming on, when he comes that far.
Our camp is thirty-five miles east of Pacific Springs,
which are the first that empty their waters on the
west side of the South Pass. An express has just
reached us as unexpected as it is important; and I
avail myself of a halt to give you a succinct state- |
ment for the public. The Mormon problem is solv |
ed They have seized upon the very first opportu
nity afforded them of perpetrating an act of war. On
the night of the sth ins:, about 1U o'clock, they seiz
ed ana destroyed seventy-eight heavily leaded w&g
one, containing government for the army.
The wage.ns ana teams were the property of Messrs.
Russell it Waddle contractors. The trains were
some forty miles distant from each other. This
£ roves that there were more than one company of
[ormons. My informant says that the notorious
“Destroying Angel. Bill Hickman, commanded
one. and Locksmith the other party, of about
80 men each. One train of *26 wagons was destroy
ed 61 miles of us, and the other, of 52 wagons, was
taken near Green river, 30 miles west of Colonel
Alexander's train. There were no soldiers with
these trains, and the teamsters offered no resistance.
For their docility in this respect the Mormons
gave them one wagon and some provisions, with
1 which to make their way back to the States, and
burnt the residue. They profess to have between
the I>tvU • Gita, oa Uuff river, and iha Mormon
Ford, on Green river, seven hundred men under
arms. On hearing of the loss of the trains, Col.
Alexander, who was encamped on the Ham's F’ork,
sent Captain Marey, with four hundred men, back
to Green river, to enable the teamsters to collect
their cattle and take them on to headquarters.—
He also sent on a Frenchman to us. On the next
day they ordered a Mr. F'ieklin, of Captain Mc-
Graw's party prisoners. These men were sent
by McGraw on to Salt Lake to buy flour for his
party.
Our express brought in his moccasin an order
from Capt. Marey, which I have been permitted*)
read, ordering the trains to i . i .‘i iL ljlM 00.
came up. W.- i..:\e !Lice or four trains of twenty
six wagons each up wit. Col. Alexander— one a few
milts in advance of us, and two behind us, and the
road is lined wit! meislwiits and settlers’ goods for
oi. ,• hundred uiih - moor rear.
Colonel Alexander has broken np his camp on
Ham s Fork, and changed his course of the Bear
River route, and we are expected to collect and
fuard these traiM to his camp near Soda Springs.
here is yet plewr of provisions for us until spring,
except forage. We have no corn, hay or oats for j
cur animals, .ud must rely upon grass. This the
icvih-sauUs may bum, unless the snow prevent it
and then our mules can profit little by it. Our
force, rank aud file, is about MXty live men; but I
am informed tbgtthe teamsters will be armed to
morrow with lilies,and made to stand guard over
their trains at flight. Our expressman believes we
light for our trawsin a day or two
:n. -re, and it m . be .so. If attacked. Col. Smith
a to fast. There win be no surrender.
1 Inc t>..-lir.g prevades officers and men. Col. Chap
man. an old veleMnin war, lieutenants Eiwood
and Kinsel, and J ;dge Eckels, Mr Brown and Mr.
Ml Coriuick ar. with ns, andWiti i. 4se the rifle, if
necessary. We shali dooafdntyh Wittihe people
of the States do theirs ? 1 believe they will send us
men and supplies soon. CslifiSito could give us
soldiers even m winter.
I think the Mormons will attempt to emigrate'in
the spring to the Sandwich Islands or to Vancouver.
Let a close look out be kept for them. This is no
camp news. It is reliable, I believe.
No civil appointee, except Morel, postmaster, and
Judge Eckels, of Indiana, have come on bo far, as
yet. When General Harney and Governer Cum
mings will come no one know . We shall go on to
morrow, come what may; and with or without or
ders, if any party attacks Col. Smith, you will hear
a good report of him and his gallant little band. He
will fight.
The following is an extract from a private letter
dated Fort Laramie, Oct. 22,1857 :
An express from the army on Haws’ F'ork reports
that Brigham Young informed Col. Alexander, by
express, that he must not advance further into the
territory. Col. Johnson is collecting the trains all
together at the South Pass, to escort them in. The
2d dragoons will be here to-morrow.
Correspondence of the Baltimore American.
Afl'nirs at tlie C'apltol.
Washikgton, Nov. 10,1857.
O and and familiar faces appear again upon the
Avenue, and distinguished arrivals are registered
hourly at the hotels.
Since the adjournment of the last Congress a large
number of spacious and elegant dwelling houses
have been erected in different parts of the city, with
broad balls, capacious drawing rooms, and cool
wine cellars, as if in anticipation of full pockets and
sumptuous hospitality the coming season. Nearly
all these houses are rented at good round rates, to
members of Congress aud gentlemen of the lobby,
who have had some experience in Washington life,
and who find keeping house aud entertaining not
much more expensive, and far more agreeable and
independent that being cooped up in a hotel, with
mean fare §nd no fire.
The new wings of the Capitol will not be occu
pied until spring, except some of the committee
rooms. A small army of workmen, painters, plas
terers and carpenters are scattered through the al
most innumerable rooms, halls, alcoves and recess
es of this immense building—while the public
grounds for a quarter of a mile around contain work
shops of every description, with large piles of lum
ber, cast iron, stone and marble, ready to be work
ed up. The new Representative’s Hall lias no wood
work about it except the floor and doors. Tlie fres
coe work and the rich ornamental gilding and paint
ing look al riost too brightjaud gaudy, but the stain
ed glass roofing w hieli is yet to be put up, will great
ly subdue the light and improve the general effect.
The walls around the hall are covered with two
ranges of pannels, twenty in each range. These
panuelß are about eight feet by eleven, and will ad
mit pictures as large as those in the Rotunda. The
upper range, which surrounds the spectator’s galle
ries is prepared with ninches to admit statuary.
The superintendent of the frescoe work is now
engaged in filling one of the pannels which will be
completed by the meeting of Congress. Tlie picture
commemorates an important revolutionary event,
and the incident selected furnishes the artist witli a
most interesting and spirited subject. “Lord Coru
wa lisonthe 17th of October, 1781, sent a letter to
Gen. Washington asking a suspension of arms for
twenty four hours, to allow time to prepare terms of
capitulation; Washington allowed them.” Wash
ington is represented standing with his left hand
resting upon a table and his right extended to re
ceive a despatch or letter which is about to be pre
sented to him by a British officer who has just en
tered. There are several other figures in tlie group.
In the back ground are seen i lie “round-back chair”
and tlie well known camp chest, so often pointed
out to visiters at the Patent Office. The whole pic
ture is exceedingly spiri ed and life-like, and when
completed will be worthy of the incident it define
ates and the position it occupies. Congress will no
doubt make additional appropriations to ornament
the entire building in frescoe painting.
The two Walkers continue to furnish speculation
for the newspapers—but it is quite probable both
will retire to private life soon. A smile must have
enlivened the heavy features of the sedate Secreta
ry of State when he read Gen. Walker's royal mani
festo. He talks like an ex-king in banishment who
can scarcely speak English.
Leading Democratic members who have arrived
here from the South predict an uncompromising
“split” in their ranks both in the Senate and House
upon the Kansas policy and other issues that may
arise thereafter.
Judge E. E. Sinclair, recently appointed an As
sociate Justice of the United States Court in Utah,
passed through this city a day or two since on his
way to F'ort Leavenworth, from whence it is said a
detachment of United States troops will soon be
ordered to join the force that has already reached
the borders of the Mormon country. Promptness
and decision on the part of the administration will
either bring the outlaw Prophet into a compromise
or compel him to pack up his wives and other
chatties and retire to the Russian Possessions or
Mexico. He will not resist United States troops ex
cept on the vocal principle of warefare. It is quite
likely when the new Governor and tee Superinten
dent of Indian Affairs arrive and he finds himself
dispossessed of both these offices, and sees that the
Federal officers have United States troops to sustain
them, he will advise another hegeia like that of
Nauvoo. Judge Sinclair is a gentleman of fine legal
attainments and (what is especially requisite in au
executive or ajudicial officer in Utah at this time)
possesses great tact and pleasing address. It is
rather doubtful whether the “reports of the United
States Court of Utah” ever reach ua; if they do we
shall be curious to see how the law relating to hus
band and wife, parent and child is expounded.
Modem law will not suit the high priest and his
destroying angels.
Yours, M.
(Standing CominftteeM of the llouNe.
Lunatic Asylum. —Messrs. Wilkes, Westmorland,
Lewis of Hancock, Harrison of Chatham, Barton,
Pickett, Howard, Shelton, Bigham, Harris of Dough
erty, Spray berry, Bailey, Walker of Clarke, Dia
mond, Smith of Towns, and Harrington.
On Blind Asylum. —Messrs. Locket, Harrison,
Harrington, Taliaferro, Wilkes, Moughon, Wimber
ly, Clarke, Smith of Coweta, Battle, Gay, Bell and
Bailey.
State of the Republic.— Messrs. Pickett, Harrison,
Crittenden, Irvin, Lewis of Greene, Hillyer, Kenan,
Barrett, Christy, Bell, Harris of Dougherty, Lazen
by, Holden, Kendall, Ward, Black, Fain of Fannin,
and Worley.
On Deaf and Dumb Asylum —Messrs. Webster,
Reid of Putnam, McCantz, Wilkes, Westmoreland,
MiUedge, Taliaferro, Harris of Cobb, Worley, Luff
man, Moore of Clark, Pittard, Hays, Lewis, of
Greene, and Mintz.
On Public Printing. -Messrs. Boggess, Griflfeth,
Brantley, Daniel, Kitchens, Wood, Mott, Kendall,
McLean, Price, Roberts, Young, Schley, Christy
and Craft.
On Enrolment —Messrs. llardelman, Kirby, Phil
lips, McMillan, McAfee, Mizille, Harper, Howard,
Haines, Wilkes, McDonald, Glass, Fain of Union,
and Fannin of Morgan.
On the Penitentiary. —Messra. Faulk, Awtry,
Gilbert, Battle, Brassell, Harkness, McGregor,
Shelton, Smith of Talbot, Coleman, Duncan, Mad
dox, Terrell, McDaniel and Holiday.
On Journals.— Messrs. Crittenden, Clark, Ed
wards, Fortner, Fuller, Griflfeth, Hall, Grovenstein,
Gay, Hays, Holden, Hines, Johnson, White and
Young.
On Petitions.— Messrs. Diamond, Wright, Tom
linson. Schley, Crumbie, Findley, Crittenden, Rob
erts, Williams, Taliaferro, Causey, Taylor, Bras
well, Myers, Davis.
On Consolidation —Messrs. Lewis of Greene.
Hillyer, Kenan, Jones, Diamond.
On Agriculture and Internal Improvement. —
Messrs. Westmoreland, Boggess, Hardeman, Pruett,
Moore, Pickett, Myers, Lewis of Hancock, Big
ham, Smith of Towns, Hardy, Chapman, Price, Con
ley, Pittard, Fulmore.
On Military Affairs.— Messrs. Millege, Harri
son, Hardeman. Kenan, Kimbrough, Sheffie.d,
Owen, Strickland, Harris, Wall, McEver, Walker,
Findley, Reid, Oneal.
On Judiciary Messrs. Irvin, Kenan, Lewis of
Hancock, Smith of Coweta, Sprayberry, I? ain, Hil
lyer. Big ham, Fannin, Bailey, Craft Luflfman, Ever
ett, Jones, Guy.
On Manufactures. —Messrs. McLean. Carter, Ju
lian. Neal, Embry, Lewie, Lee, Curenton, Brantley
Kimbrough, Marshall, Merchiaon, Darden, Frede
rick, Davis. .
Public Education. —Messrs. Lewis of Hancock,
Picket, Braswell, Sherman, Daniel, Fmcannon,
DeLamar, Willis, McWhorter, Barrett, Hopkins,
Roberts, Kitchens. Smith of Tatnail, Wimberly,
Thos. W. Walker. Jas. M. OweD, Smith of Towns.
On Finance.— Messrs. Smith of Towns, Barton,
Pruett, Pickett, Moore, Lane, Hardeman. Cannon.
Harrington, Batts, Holmes, Little, Mints, Graham.
McCants and Lewis ot Greene.
On Banks. —Messrs. Gordon, Irvin, Lockett,
Milledge, Powell. Mott, Hughes, Julian, Lewis of
Greene, Strange, McConnel, Moughon. Webster.
On New Counties. —slessrs. Cumbie, Shelton,
Braaeell, Worley, Everett, Chapman and Findley.
Gov. Mcßae, of Mississippi, proclaims Thanks
giving in the following manner, which is more re
markable for a buisiness-like than a religious spirit:
“Since I have been in office 1 Lave, in each year, as
Governor of the State, without any authority of law,
butsustained by ancient custom, appointed a day of
Thanksgiving. Thursday, the nineteenth day of this
month, is the day now appointed, and I trust it will
be observed. There is, certainly, some super-ruling
Providence which has brought us into existence ana
which will ultimately accomplish the ends for which
we were created, not only as individuals, but as a
people. Nothing can, therefore, be lost by recog
nizing the obligation which we owe to the Supreme
Being—by it much may be gained.”
Sad Accident—Death.— Mr. Matthew Craw
ford, aged 60 years, formerly a resident of this city,
and a gentleman highly esteemed, on Monday while
travelling hither on the cars from Charlotte, N. C..
where he resided, met with an accident that caused
his immediate and ead death. It appears that Mr.
I Crawford, in passing from the baggage or smoking
car of the tram, slipped and fell through, fracturing
his head and spine so severely as to cause instant
death. The Coroner. D. Millar. Esq., empanneled
a jary yesterday afternoon, and having learned
that the car was not furnished with a platform or
hand rail, as is usual, but was an old freight car,
rendered a verdict of “accidental death,’ and cen
sured the Company in consequence of said car not
being properly arranged. —Columbia Times.
The Worth Monument. —The construction of
this monument in New York, for which the common
council appropriated about stis 000, has been com
menced. It will stand in the triangular plot at the
junction of Broadway and Fith avenue.—The foun
dation, which was laid some time ago. is 15 feet
square, and is built with a vault 10 by o feet, in which
the remains of Major General Worth now in Green
wood|Cemetery, will be deposited on Evacuation
Day, the 25th instant. The entire height cf the monu-
Iment will be 50 feet. The material is Quincy granite.
The names of the battles in which Gen. Worth par
ticipated will be inscribed on the four sides of the
shaft, and the panels of the base will be designs in
Wome representing _
EIKOP EA N INTEI.I.I (J E N ( E.
BY THE CITY OF WASHINGTON.
Ihe City of Washington arrived at New York
on Monday, with Liverpool papers to the 4th.
Great Britain.—Monetary Affairs. On
Saturday the 31st ulk, the absorption of Consols bv
the public steadily continued, and the closing price
for the day was 90$. A very active demand for
money was exhibited, aud 6 per cent was treely of
Joans on stocks without success. Gold
from the Bank in considerable
llie limes city article remarks :—“Confidence at
Laverp-ÜByind Manchester, and in tlie manufactu
ring generally, is still upheld in a manner
to e £? l,;e apprehension of further
o&nJLixig dimcuities has greatly subsided, and the
stoppage of the Boro ug h Bank (Liverpool,) has been
roil owed oy much le?s excitement than might have
been feared, loohlqg ai the large amount of its de
poeuß and general liiUuii .es. From the system of
management which, it is alleged, will be developed
whenever a full inquiry ia made by the stockhold
rs, it will probably be fern : ,•
extinction of this lnstituaa if it bad happened at
a time free from a tendency To alarm, could not
uave been regarded as a public mis to i: in
The range of Consols during tbe mouth of Octo
ber was as much as 4 per cent Monday, Novem
ber 2, being the day for the half Yearly Indamv at
the Bank of England, was kept Is a holiday at the
Mock Exchange. Consols however were uominal
thfpeaviness being attribu
ted to^ the nature of the news from
America by the Niagara. In the discount market
the demand was rather 1- ss pressing, and in some
cases choice bills were negotiated at a fraction be
low the Bank n pßuum rate.
The TimesCifv article says, “Some acceptances
were returned this afternoon of Messrs. li. Wilson,
Htflleft or Cos., of Liverpool, the correspondents of
Messrs, liobb, Hallett & Cos., of New York. The
engagements of the firm are believed to be large,
but it is hoped such difficulties as have arisen may
be but temporary.”
The shipment of specie (silver) to the East by the
steamer of the 4th was ascertained to be £956 816
The failure of Winterhoff, Piper & Cos., of Ilam
burg, announced, with liabilities estimated at
1 ,000,000 marks banco.
Owing to the holiday on the Stock Exchange, and
? ,?, 0I i an ' va ’ ‘ n I J ' ver P°°! of the London papers
of Wednesday, we have no quotations for Ameri
can securities later than Saturday, October 31. On
that day tlie market was active aud Illinois Central
shares advanced to 7®5 discount, aud New York
Central to 72® 70. Michigan Centrals of 1869 sold
at 78 j; Erie Bonds of *62 at 45, and Pennsylvania
Central second mortgage at 86.
Attempt to Launch the Great Eastern.—
The launch of tlie mammoth steamship, heretofore
known as the “ Great Eastern,” but now formally
christened “ Leviathan,” was commenced at noon
on the 3d inst. The usual means were taken to
move the vessel, but for sometime without avail.
After about three hours labor, tlie ship had moved
about six feet by the stern and a little over four feet
by the bow, when one of the powerful purchase
chains broke aud the work had to be temporarily
suspended.
During the operations a sudden strain on one of
the drums caused it to revolve with great velocity,
throwing sevi ral of the men into the air like straws,
and knocking down otheis with great violence.—
F’our men had their arms aud legs broken, and one
died as he was being conveyed to the hospital. Im
mense numbers of people, including many distin
guished meD, assembled on shore and on the river,
to witness the launch.
The Times of Wednesday says thaf a postpone
ment of further efforts to the 2d of December had
been resolved upon, and that in the meantime the
ship will stand in great danger of settling, owing to
the immense pressure (12,099 tons) upon the new
rnado earth.
M.scellaneous.—Mr. James Morrison, one of
the wealthiest merchants of London, is dead. The
value of his property is estimated at nearly four
million pounds sterling, a considei able portion of
which is invested iu securities in the United States.
The shipping returns of the British Board of
Trade for tlie mouth of September, show an increase
in the employment of ail kinds of vessels, except
American, the business of the latter, having been
affected by the commencement of tlie panic.
The Roman Catholic Bishop of Toronto, Canada,
in addressing a congregation at Kilkenny, is said to
have “earnestly entreated the people, if they could
by any possibility remain in Ireland, not to think of
emigrating, as it was almost incredible tlie misery
and wretchedness he constantly witnessed among
the unfortunate Irish emigrants. 1 ’
A statement had been made that the screw
steamship Hydaspes had been lost on her way to
India with troops, but as neither the Admiralty
nor the owners of the vessel had received any
such intelligence, it was believed to be without foun
dation.
The Liverpool Albion says that Sir Wm. Goro
Ousley lv. C. B. is entrusted with full powers to ar
range the Greytown bombardment question witli
the President of the United States, and the other
vexed questions relating to Central America and
the Musquito Indians.
Sir W. G. Ousley, it adds, is a gentleman who bas
acquired considerable reputation as a statesman and
gicificator, and he is also a personal friend of Mr.
uchuuan.
It is stated that as the barque John W. Brook
man, of and for New York, was leaving Sunder
land, a serious misunderstanding prevailed on board
between the captain and crew, because the latter
complained that the vessel was not fully manned.
One man had been felled with ail axe, aud the posi
tion of affairs was such that measures had been ta
ken to intercept the vessel.
F’RANCE. —The funeral of Gen. Cavaignac took
place on s aturday the 31st, in the Church of St.
Louis d'Antin. All wasconducted with order and re
gularity, although the streets through which the pro
cession to the eemetary of Montmartre passed
were crowded, and about 15,000 people followed
the hearse to the gates of the eemetary.
Quite a large body of troops took part in the pro
ceedings, and many prominent Republicans, and
literary and political celebrities were present. The
procession contained far leas of tlie democratic ele
ment than was expected. An Imperial carriage
was looked for in the train, but there was none. As
the hearse passed along, every hat was raised, aud
the spectators often remained bare-headed until
it was out of sight. No address was spoken over
the tomb, but the soldiers paid the usual military
honors.
The regret felt at the death of the General is de
scribed as deep and universal.
The Paris correspondent of the London Post says
that friendly negotiations have taken place lately
between certain great continental powers regarding
the reduction of their respective armies. The gov
erment of F'ranoe will certainly economise on this
important item of public expenditure, and the Em
peror of Austria according to late dispatches from
Vienna has agreed to a reduction of his military ex
penditure.
Spain. —The Spanish Government had not yet
signified its decision on the last communication
from Mexico, namely, that the offered mediation of
F'rance and England will be accepted on condition
that M. Lafragua, the Mexican Envoy, shall be
previously received at Madrad in his official cha
racter. M. Lafragua was still in Paris, awaiting the
reply of tlie Spanish Cabinet.
Austria. —The official Gazette of Vienna an
nounces the imposition of a tax of one kreutzer up
ou newspapers. The impost is to apply to foreign
as well as local journals.
According to a Paris letter in the New Prussian
Gazette, in June last a convention was entered into
between the Austrian aud British governments to
the effeot that in the case of a revolutionary out
break in Italy, Austria may rely for the protection
of her dominions on the friendly services of Great
Britain. The authority for this is not very reliable.
Denmark and Sweden. —An energetic debate
on the subject of liberty of conscience, w. a being
carried on in the Chamber of the Swedish Diet.
Latest. —After seven days debate the religious
liberty bill was rejected.
The Mediterranean.— Telegraphic communi
cation by submarine dhble between Sardinia and
Algeria, had been established. The contractors
were about to lay the cable between Cagliari and
Malta, and between Malta and Corfu, aud with good
weather it was hoped the operations might be com
pleted in a fortnight.
The Black Sea.— The Constantinople correspon
dent of the Daily News says :
“By news from the Circassian coast we learn that
a blockade is established there “by means of Rus
sian vessels. A few days ago the fourth corvette
from the Baltic passed through these straits on her
way to the Euxine. Then again, in Nicolaieff they
are completing a ship pierced for 120 guns, and
it is said that the keels of similar ships are on the
stocks.”
China. —The Paris Pays says : We have private
intelligence from Ilong Kong to September 8. The
Viceroy Yeh was expected at Canton about the 15th
on his return from Pekin. The Emperor had con
ferred on him the title of Ileu-vzy-pank, which
means lieutenant of his person.
This is a rank which is never given except to
?rinces of the Imperial family when on a mission.—
tis said that Yen has positive orders to summon
t‘ e English to evacuate Canton, and is authorized
in default of compliance to make an official declara
tion of war against England.
From llte London Observer.
Effect of the American Revulsion in Great
Britain.
It would, perhaps, be too much to say that the
present financial crisis is equal to that of 1847, al
though, in a great measure, it resembles it. The
real difference is, that whilst in 1847 our financial
difficulties were produced by inordinate speculation
at home and by overtrading abroad, in the present
instance it is produced by the speculations of our
continental and transatlantic brethren. In 1847 we
saw firm after firm, which, previous to that period,
were considered almost “as safe as the bank,” tum
bling to pieces, and the result was a general panic.
But still, such was the general soundness of our
commerce, that not a single Bank was obliged to
stop payment, although there were several who
were regarded as being in a very ticklish position.
The panic of 1847 may, therefore, be favorably com
pared with the panic now in operation in America.
In that country, with one or two exceptions, the
whole of the Banka have stopped, or rather have
refused to pay specie. This is, by the majority of
persons, regarded as sound policy, and as the only
means of preventing absolute ruin. But the con
sequence i o this country cannot fail to be very dis
astrous. When the enormous amount of our eom
merrial transactions with America, the almost fabu
lous amounts of our eiports to that country, come
to be considered, our manufacturers must be ex
pected to suffer severely. The long list of failures
that is brought by every mail is enough to frighten
even the n.*l prosperous firms, and, as a conse
quence, numerous failures may confidently be ex
pected, so intimate are the connections between
firms in Boston and New-York on the one hand and
Liverpool, London, Glasgow and Belfast on the
other.
Nor will the embarrassments be exclusively con
fined to the American trade. The present high
rates of money must produce embarrassments
among smaller houses in other departments, and
the pressure is at this moment being most unmista
kably felt in the textile manufacturing districts in
Lancashire and Nottingham, and in the hardware
districts of Birmingham and Sheffield. In fact, all
branches of trade must be large sufferers, and, as a
consequence, the working classes cannot but feel
the effects of the general depression during the next
few months. Such is now the distrust that natural
ly exists, that few of our manufacturers care to eon
sign their goods to firms in America, who, for aught
they know, may next day atop payment. To carry
on the manufacture of goods for which there will
really be no market for the next six months, would
be suicidal tolly ; and yet for manufacturers to close
their mills is almost equally disastrous, as they can
not afford to allow their capital to remain idle. Os
tne two evils, however, the latter is evidently the
least. But, although the prospect for the next few
months is gloomy enough, yet there are strong
grounds of hope for the future, especially as regards
this country. Had payments still continued to be
made in specie, a very large amount of the precious
metals would have been drained from England, at
tracted bytheir high prices. The present high rate
of interet in this country, together with toe con
specie payment in America, will, however, pretty
nearly put a stop to this, because our capitalists
will prefer taking 7 4* cent for their money at call,
than running the risk of sending it to America.—
But, although there will not be that drain that was
anticipated some three weeks since, yet tee must be
prepared to see a certain amount of English capital
finding its tray to America, owing to the great de
preciation of almost all the really good securities,
some of them having fallen as much as 50 V cent —
I These offer very alluring baits and cannot fail to
I attract many of those who have any spare capital.
I As yet it is satisfactory to find that so few houses
bank has, up to this time, been compelled to stop
payment, although a certain amount of ureasiness
is telt with respect to one or two others The pre
sent high rate of discount would, at first sight, lead
many persons to believe that these were the most
prosperous times for the basks ; but they lose sight
of the fact that in order to realize these large pro
fits they are compelled to run great risks, inasmuch
as the paper, which in prosperous times would be
considered as safe as a bank-note, may now at any
moment become almost valueless, and this not
from any fault of our own merchants but from the
misfortunes of those on the other side of the water.
The banks, therefore, are obliged to use every possi
ble precaution ; but even then they cannot hope to
come off scatheless, because several of them are
known to hold a considerable amount of American
paper.
I here is also this additional cause for fear for some
°! °. ur °miks, especially in the metropolis. During
the last two or three years the competition amongst
the 3anks has been very great. The high rate of
dividend which many ot the old banks paid called
several new banks into existence, and, in order to
keep up their business to their old standard, the old
banks have been compelled to enlarge their sphere
ot operations, and to run fgreater risks. At the
same tune the commercial public may be pretty
well satisfied that, supposing any great pressure
was to fall upon oue of the London banks, the oth
ers would do all in their power th assist it , because,
u once a feeling of insecurity were to arise, it
would be impossible to say where it would stop.
In the midst of ail this trouble and uncertainty
however, we have the inestimable blessing of food
at a cheap price. Wheat is now lower than it has
been for the last five years, and there is every pro
bability of its being still lower. Meat is also falling,
and these two circumstances will do much to alle
viate the misery which the financial crisis would
otherwise infallibly have produced.
Parts (Nov. 2) Cor. of the London Times.
Eefect of the American Revulsion in
F'rance. —The F'rench houses in commercial rela
tions with the United States watch with intense
an xiety the course of the financial crisis in that coun
try. They are aware of the d:fficulties they will
have to encounter; they despatched goods for
which they themselves have entered into engage
ments in the full confidence of returns which cannot
be realized so long as the American banks do not
resume their payments in cash. Y'et, if we are to
believe what we are told, the effect will not be so se
verely felt on French trade as is supposed. The ma
jority of the houses that will lose by tlie American
taiiures are wealthy, and in a position to meet the
crisis. Some have already taken precautions against
loss, aud also to secure the payment of their ad
vances. They have also sent orders to their agents
m the United States to accept payment in paper,
and to lay it out in the purchase ot corn, cotton and
sugar lor which a ready demand will be found- iH
the markets of Europe.
The retail trade of Paris has declined during the
past w r eek in|mcst branches. The sale of goods has
not yet become as active in the fancy shops as is
usual at this season ot the year, owing, most proba
bly, to the mildness of the temperature, and the cold
must first set in iu earnest before Winter purchases
are made. The activity observable iu the maga
zines during the month of September and the early
part of October has died sway; the difficulty ex
perienced in the negotiation of commercial paper
has obliged the manulacturers to narrow their cred
it operations, and in several instances to refuse con
siderable orders for whioh payment was fixed at too
long a date. The slight advance which has taken
place for the last eight days in corn has been succeed
ed by a general decline. The offers are not solely
tlie natural result of the abundance ot the last har
vest and the accumulation of stocks. Many holders
of grain and flour have decided on disposing of their
slocks for the simple rea ou that they are pressed
for money,
The Reported Indian Jlassacre-
The following letter is from the Rev. Thomas
Williamson, published in the St. Paul Times, the
substance of which came by telegraph :
Pa.iutazee, Oct. 26, 1857. —A report reached this
neighborhood on day before yesterday, that five
hundred American soldiers have been cut off by a
large party of Teetonwan, near the Missouri river.
The news was brought here by a man from the up
per end of Big Stone Lake, whose son-in-law (oue
of the upper Sissitonwan) had just returned from a
camp of tlie Ihanktonwan on the Missouri river,
where he heard the news.
He reports that while he was there a number of
Teetonwan came to the camp of the Ihanktonwan
to dance tlie scalp dance, and that he saw them
mounted on tlie dragoon horses, witli the holsters
aud pistols which they had taken. They said thal
tlie Long Knives were going to war, and not very
far from some F'ort on the Missouri river, and as
they proceeded westward they camped near a large
body of the Teetonwan, who nearing their drums i u
the night surrounded their camp, and while they
were nearly ali asleep rushed upon them and killed
them with their knives and war clubs before the
Long Knives could get their guns or horses, and not
one escaped.
It is common for warriors to magnify their ex
ploits, aud we hope there is much exaggeration in
this report; but if two or even one hundred of our
soldiers have been thus cut off, it is a sad case. I
fear there is truth iu it. It is very improbable that
not one should have escaped, and likely you will
have some account of it from other sources not far
from the time this reaches you. You doubtless re
member t hat persons acquainted with the Sioux, al
most without exception, apprehended that trouble
would grow out of the neglect of our Government
to send a detachment of our army to punisli those
wh o perpetrated the murders at Spirit Lake.
The young man who brought the news to Big
Stone Lake, says that at a feast to which he was
called by the Ihanktonwan, he sat next to Inkpadu
ta, who said to him, “Last ..Summer you Sismston
wan tried to kill me for killing somb Long-Knives.
Now, far more Long Kinves have been killed, but
I was not present. I have, however, found rela
tivc-s among the Teetonwan, who will receive me
kindly.” lie confirms the report of the old man’s
entire blindness, and says that beside himself two of
his sons aud a son-in-law are in that region.
I have confidence in my information that he gave
me the above news as he received it from the father
in-law of the man who brought it from the Missouri,
and he believes it true; but aa he is not acquainted
on the Missouri river I could not learn from him on
what part of the river tlie fort is situated from
which the soldiers were going, but it was probably
some detachment of the army marching to Utah.—
He says the place of the battle is oniy five or six
days travel (between two and three hundred miles)
from Big Stone Lake. As the messengers came ex
press to bring the news, it is probably not more
than two or at leart three weeks since the battle oc
curred.
They report further, that a party of the Ihankton
wan had recently returned from an unsuccessful
expedition against the Good-Ventures or Iticarue,
who reside on the Missouri above them. That hav
ing in this expedition lost five or six of their soldiers,
they purpose coming, next Spring or Summer, to
cry to the Sissitonwan, Warpotonwan and Mdewa
kantouwan for the help to|exterininate those their ene
mies. Tlie Sissitonwan are apprehensive they will
come in large numbers with a view of being pres
ent at the annuity payment, and give much trouble
to the annuity Indians and whites who live among
them, and have sent to advise the Warpotonwan
urgently to request that the payment may be made
early aud be over before they come, and thus pre
vent their coming. Thos. S. Williamson.
The Suspended Banks. —All the suspended
Banks of our city have promptly met the demand of
the Comptroller General of the State, for the penal
ty, imposed, by law, in case of suspension. The
penalty, prescribed by the anti-sußpension Act, is
at the rate of 5 per cent, per annum on the amount
of circulation, at the time of suspension, payable
monthly, until resumption of specie payments. We
give below a statement, showing the amount of cir
culation of each suspended Bank, at tiie dfcte ot
suspension, and of the amount of penalty, paid by
each, for the first month, from which it will be seen
that the Bank of the State comeß in, by far, for
mucb the larger proportion. The idea of the Bank
of the State paying a penalty is a mockery, nay sim
ply farcical. The Bank is owned by the Sta e ex
clusively, and it pays its share of the penalty incur
red, by giving the Comptroller General a check for
the amount, which he immediately deposits in the
Bank, or has passed to the credit of the State, on the
books of the Bank. This is the financial feat, com
monly described as paying a debt by taking money
out of one pocket and putting it in the other, or,
still more familiarly known, as robbing Peter tojpay
Paul. The Bank of the State thus, not only pays
no penalty at all, but actually makes money by the
operation—receiving on deposite the penalties paid
by its fellows in guilt, the other suspended banks,
and coolly discounting on them. We trust that our
State, while resorting to such preventive or remedi
al legislation as the crisis may demand, will not hesi
tate, as a matter of honor and good faith, to refund
to the other suspended Banka, penalties incurred
by an offence, of which, through her Bank, she is
even more deeply guilty than they are.
Amount in circulation , by the suspended Banks , respective
ly, ax time oj suspension, and of the penalties severally
incurred by them.
South Carolina Bank $93,759.50...paid.. .390.64
Bank of the State of S. C ■ - -1,159,999.12 4,958.53
People’s Bank 359,980 00 1,499 92
Bail Road Bank - 196,000.00 820 00
Planters A Mechanics 8ank.148,101.89 617.09
Farmers & Exchange Bank. .640,085.00 2,692 02
*2,633,925.01 *10,978 20
[Chas. Cour.
Supposed Loss of an American Ship and all
Hands—Bottle Washed Ashore. — A pint bottle,
found washed ashore on some bare rocks under
Wh tbury Point, on the property of the Earl of
Haddington, was forwarded by his lordHhip on
Thursday to the American Consul at Leith. The
bo'.tle was sealed with wax, and over the cork was
a slip of parchment fastened with wax : bearing the
words—“ Washington, 16th June, 1857. Inclosed
in the bottle, on a small slip of paper, like a leaf torn
from a memorandum book, was the following: “Lat.
43 J 26’ N., long. 37 1 if. Ship Washington, of New
York, 2,157 tons burden. J. E. Judkins, comman
der. Caught in a hurricane. Laden with cotton. —
Abandoned. Just going down. Crew and officers,
68 in all, taking to the boats. God help and pity us
all, Amen.” The latitude and longitude given here
are trom a spot in the middle of the Atlantic, so that,
if the document be authentic, it must Lave traveled
round either the northern or Bouthem coast into the
German Ocean, to be landed on the shores of the
Frith of Forth. The only circumstance, as pointed
out by the Earl of Haddington, that might indicate
the thing to be a hoax—a very heartless and stupid
one if it be so—is that the writing on the parchment
slip covering the cork of the bottle is not so
much obliterated as upwards of four months’ expo
sure to the waves might naturally have been expec
ted to have made it.— The Scotsman.
The Pen it ent i art. —We take the following ex
tracts from the late report of the Principal Keeper
of this institution to the Legislature, showing its
£ resent condition, as therein set forth.
[ale Convicts in Prison. Oct 4th, 1856 15!)
Reed “ daring the year, 68
“ Female “ “ “ 4 72
231
Maiee pardoned by the Executive 44
Females “ “ “ 2
Males died 4
“ discharged on expiration of sentence, 13
“Escaped 4 67
Leaving in prison on stb day of Oct., 1857 164
Os the 46 pardoned by the Executive, there were
eighteen pardoned a short time previous to expira
tion of their sentence, for the purpoee es restoring
them to their civil rights.
More suitable accommodation is advised for the
cemfort of female prisoners, and also improvements
in other respects.
The resources are notes and
accounts 28,164 77
Doubtful and unavailable 5,000 00
Cash on hand. • 1,068 *26
*24,233 03
Liabilities—due individuals, including
Officers & Guard, 19 - 374U4
4,858 99
To which may be added —
Manufd Articles on hand
in B. K. a Dept.
Manufd articles in progress 6,U2.i 71
Material on hand J ' 94 ' j gg
$32,772 85
VOL. LXX—NEW SERIES VOL. XXI. NO. 47.
Late nnil interesting; from Mexico.
The steamer Tennessee has arrived at New Or
leans with the Mexican mails to the 7th inst., and
$542,569.50 in specie. We condone. from the
Picayune aa follows:
The general news is important. The political
guarantees of tlie new constitution have been sus
pended, as proposed, and Pressidcnt Comonfort
again clothed with dictatorial powers; on what pro
eise terms and for what length of time was not
known at latest advices. The first vote, which was
lakeu on the 30tli, in secret session, was on th<*
genel-al proposition, and stood 72 to 31 . The terms
ot the dictatorship were to come up for considera
tion the next day, the 31st, when an attempt w„s
made to have the discussion public, but this was
voted down. It was not known, therefore, whether
the demands of the Executive were granted iu
whole or in part, though from a despatch received
at Vera Crnz it would seem that nothing had been
settled.
The new Secretary of the Interior, Juarez, and
confessedly tlie most important man iu the new
Cabinet, whether we consider his office, his personal
character or his inffueuce, reached the capital the
evening of the 31st. Multitudes of people went out
of the city to meet him, and his entry into the same
was almost a triumphal one. Sr. Juarez who, we
believe, is an ludiau of pure blood, has always
been an extreme radical in politics. He is un
doubtedly a man of eminent talent and acquire
ments, as he is a statesman of large experience,
having held many important offices. He is the au
thor of the law “Juarez.”
The other membets ot tlie new Cabinet have been
well received. Their installation was ,-ery timely,
and as expected, proved favorable in its influence
upon tbe demand for extraordinary powers.
Tbe President, however, would not seem to have
silenced all his enemies yet On the 30th appeared
a most violent pamphlet, of a personal and political
character, against him, entitled “What are Comon
fort’s Principles ?” It was at once seized and sup
pressed.
The Santannist Gen. Cortes, who returning from
Madrid was arrested on board the Tennessee on
her present passage out, arrived at the capital un
der escort on the 30th. The Monitor says he had
better have been “reshipped” at Vera Cruz, as he
would not fail to communicate with those to whom
is his mission. Much is 6aid of important papers
found on his person, but none bad been publi lied.
He was not, as at Vera Cruz, thrown into prison,
but held iu duress and incommunicado atthe prison.
A circular was issued from the Ministry of Jus
tice on tlie 30th ult., formally declaring all decisions
of tbe ecclesiastical courts null and void iu civil and
criminal matters, in conformity with tbe 13th arti
cle of the constitution which denies to them all ju
risdiction iu tlie same. Tiie civil and ecclesiastical
powers are henceforth in ali things distinct.
Rumors were iu circulation at tlie capital that tlie
new government proposed to subject tobacco again
to an export duty, but they were not credited at
Vera Cruz on tlie 6th.
The F'ederal troops have taken vosse-.sion of the
District of Cuernavaca, where the difficulties be
tween the Spanish and Mexican citizens have oc
curred, aud martial law has (herein been proclaim
ed.
Gen. Alvarez continues still to prosecute tbe war
with the rebels in the South with varied success
He bad received strong reinforcements and was
sanguine of tlie result, but at last accounts bad
struck no decisive blow, nor is tlie great Acapulco
road to the Pacific yet opened.
The rav ages of the Indians in all parts ol tlie Re
public are reported as greater than ever, and from
a more thorough examination of our mail, we can
see no improvement in tlie general social condition
of the country. Depredations of bandits aud rob
bers are leported on every side.
Rumors of another Santa Anna expedition on the
coast were again iu circulation, but nothing seems
to have been known. It was believed, also, by
many that the old chieftain, who gives our neigh
bors much imaginary trouble atleasi, was p.l the
bottom of the revolution in Yucatan.
The following private nolo, written on the morn
ing of the oth the iust., and entrusted, outside the
mail, to L.j Extraordinary of that day, is the very
latest possible.
City ok Mexico, Nov. 5,1857.
Kds. Pic. —On the evening of tiie 3d iust., Col.
8. VV. Inge, Msjor J. Caperton, Edw in Bell and L
Q. Washington,of California, arrived in tins city,
e route for New Orleans, via Manzanillo, where
they lauded from the Golden Age on the 16th of
October. Near Guadalajara they were attached by
robbers, two of whom they shot, causing the others
to retire. They then proceeded without molesta
tion until they reached Queretaro. On the morn
ing of the 2d inst, as they were about to leave that
city, a “Pronunciamiento” broke out headed by
Mejia, and a desperate fire continued for eleven
hours. F'iually the go vernment troops were over
powered, and ihe city taken by tlie revolutionists.
At 3 o’clock in the afternoon the party made their
escape in the diligence, und arrived safely in this
city. They will leave lor New Orleans on tlie etea
mer of the 21st.
The country continues in a state of disorganiza
tion although there are no features of news which
are not contained in the regular edition of tlie Ex
traodinary of yesterday. As papers cannot be
mailed by tlie extraodiuary, 1 send you extracts
from the latest date.
Tbe enclosed number of tlie Extraordinary allud
ed to in this note says :
Congress lias granted the extraordinary faculties.
Night before last (the 2d,) they were in secret, ses
sion all night. The conditions of the faculties we do
not yet know.
The position of the Government at this moment,
is truly critical. No man can gainsay this. We
have always said thal a legislative form of govern
ment was not tlie tiling. Where tlie sum of gene
ral ignorance is so groat the Government must bo
powerful and silent, and tbe cri ical position in
which the Government finds itself is entirely owing
to the delay and inaction alwayß consequent upon
discussion. It is a singular circumstance in this
country that legislation has brought on more disor
der than anything else. It is therefore a favorable
sign that the present Congress appreciates this fatal
fact.
The latest express from the South brought the
startling intelligence that the Government forces,
which so recently entered Cuernavaca iu triuinpb,
had been completely routed near that place, and the
revolutionists left in oomplete possession. Tlie Ex
traordinary says ;
It appears that after taking Cuernavaca, the Gov
ernment troops were induced to pursue the reac
tionists towards the south. Cobos and Moreno kept
up the show of a hurried flight until they arrived at
tlie Pass, which is about, two leagues this side of
Iguala. Here they were joined by Vicario, and tlie
whole united forces of the revolutionists were at
once secreted so as to deceive their enemies. The
Government troops got well into the Pass—which
is represented to us as very difficult and in every
way disqualified for military movements—when the
reactionists charged upon them with all their force
from the more favorable localities around.
The scene that ensued must have been terrific.
The troops of the Government were hemmed in,
and no alternative was left them blit to fly as best
they could, under a shower of musket balls. Gen.
Gonzales was the object of the revenge of the rev
olutionists, and he was soon left dead by his flying
troops.
Gen. Jose Moreno was the leader of the revolt,
but it will be seen he received efficient aid from the
bandits and robbers. What will be the end of the
matter no one can tell.
Comonkort’s Proposed Extraordinary Pow
ers.—Tlie following is the oflieiai report of the
Congressional Committee on the proposed grant of
extraordinary powers to the Executive of tlie
neighboring republic of Mexico, and which, article
by article, was still under consideration, in secret
Bession, at our latest advices. Tlie report, it will lie
noticed, is conceived, like all similar Mexican do
cuments, in the form of a decree. It is divided
into two portions—the first of a negative character,
unde the head of “guarantees suspended,” tlie sec
ond of a positive character, under the head of “pow
ers granted.” It will be seen that both propose in
fact, as well as in name, most extraordinary gra ts:
Guarantees Suskended.— Art. 1. The guaran
tees contained in Articles 9, 10 ond II of the con
stitution are totally suspended, [the right to assem
ble peacably together, to carry arms for self-defence;
and to pasß freely through the country without let
ters of security or passports] In consequence, the
Kxecutive shall determine the requisites necessary
to the exercise of these rights.
Art. ‘2. The guarantees contained in Articles C
and 7 are likewise suspended, [the right freely to
express opinions except when the same is an attack
upon morals; and the inviolable light to wriie and
publish works on whatever subject;] but the
abuses of printing shall be adjudged by the law of
the ‘2Bth of December, 1855, without disabling the
Government from imposing fines to the amount ot
SI,OOO or imprisonment for two months upon au
thors or those in whatsoever manner responsible for
publications affecting public order.
Art. 3 The guarantee contained in the first part
of Article 16 is suspended for political offences.—
[No one shall be molested in liis person, family,
property, &.C., except upon judicial authority.]
Art. 4. For the same offences Bhall be suspended
the firet part of Article 19, but detention, which is
referred to, shall not exceed one month. [No de
tention shall exceed the term of three days, except
upon proof of sufficient reason tor imprisonment |
Art. 5. The guarantee contained in article 21 is
also suspended [The application of punishment
belongs exclusively to the judiciary J The Govern
ment is empowered to punish political offences by
imprisonment or banishment. The punishments
shall be imposed in a couacil of the Ministers, and
shall only last for the term of the suspension of the
guarantees. The violations of these punishments
may be prosecuted according to common law.
Art. 6. The first paragraph of the 27th article is
suspended, [private property shall not be taken
without consent of the owner, except in cases of
public utility and with previous indemnification, I
eaving to the charge of the Executive the judgment
of the public utility and necessity and the terms o
indemnity.
Art. 7. The suspension referred to in the previous
articles shall have effect from the day on which t sis
agreement shall be published as a law to the 30th of
April the coming year, completing its. caducity by
the simple lapse of this term.
Art. 3. Said suspension shall only take place to
render effective the authorities conceded to the Ex
ecutiveofthe Union, for the preservation of public
order, and by express order of the same.
Art. 9. During the tetm of this suspension pohti
cal offences shall be despatched over whatsoever
others of the common order.
Art. 10. It is understood by article 2d that the
provisions in the last part of article 17th of *he con
stitution, with regard to costs, shall be unprejudiced
[The latter partof article 17th of the constition j ro
vides that the tribunals shail be always open, and
justice be meted out, and that judicial costs ire
abliabed.j
extraordinary powers granted.
Art. 1. The Government is authorized :
1. To acquire by extraordinary means and v it):
the least encumbrance, as much as the sum $5,1 00,
000, providing for its payment from the free par t of
the federal rents; to dictate the necessary measures
for the regulation of the receipt of said rents.
2. To regulate the floating debt proceeding fi om
contracts without augmenting the amount of this
debt Dy said arrangement.
3. To celebrate contracts, ceding the right of \ ay
by the Isthmus of Tehuautepect, with the necess rry
condition that all questions that may arise for their
fulfillment shall be resolved by private arbitraton,
or by the tribunals of the country, without any i ase
being able to sell or hypothecate in all or in part the
national territory to any foreign government.
If to carry out these contracts there should be any
new treaty made the same shall be submitted to t e
approbation of Congress.
4. To concede with the same restriction
of way by the railroad which is to be made be-w -
the port of Vera Cruz and any other on the 1 a. ific
° C 5 a To augment the forces of the nation to 15 OtO
“T’To dispose as many s ,M men for the na
tional guard of the States and Federal District, ob
serving to employ them in the least gra% e manner
according to exigencies of the public service, and
fixing for each State the proper number ~ ,
~7to situate in the communities the forces that
may be considered necessary, to attend to the de
fence of the independence and the preservation of
shall be able when he may deem
it neesary, to separate himself from the place of re
1 sidence of the Supreme powers.
Art. 2. The neglect of quick and efficacious obe
dience on that part of whatsoever authorities to the
orders that the Government may dictate, within the
time of the passage of these authorizations, shall be
grave cause of responsibility that shad be irreinia
-5 sibly exacted in preference to all.
Art. 3. Any orders of weight that should be is
i aued by virtue of these authorizations shall be grant
, the day of the publication of thh
iwu u ‘* ov l ern ® en t shall open a new account in
[ f, , ran J f. ts ;’V llt! receipt aui expenditure oi
the funds ot the federation
Hall of t!m Commissioners of the Congress of the
l iiion - -Mexico, Sept. 2b, 1857.
Signed- Mata, Ruiz, Guzman, Flores, Cendfjas
Pork— The Louisville Courier of Thursday says
We have no transactions to report in the market
here, thou k we understand that buyers in Marion,
Washington end Carroll counties, Ky., have made
purchases at 4c. gross, for pac king. The prevai.ing
price here is sc. nett. Early in the week one of our
packers slaughtered a lot of *2OO hogs, we believe,
disposing of the hams and lard on private terms.
Lard in kegs ii offered at 12£c.
At vatious points in Indiana, including Roekport,
hogs were freely offered at $ 1, with no buyers. Corn
along the Wab.isk and at Vincennes, is quoted at 20
cents, and at other points at. 25a30 ceuts. The fol
lowing is from the Cincinnati Gazette of Wednes
day :
A lot of 800 head Illinois hogs, averaging 190 to
200 lbs.. 6old on Monday, to till a contract, at 5.25
per 100 lbs. nett. The market is dull, there being
ver> little demand except from parties having con
tracts to till. Packers have not yet made up their
minds what to do, and it is not probable they will
purchase freely before the first of December. The
bulk of hogs to arrive this month will be required
to fill contracts. Four houses were cutting yester
day, and about 1,800 were packed. The weather is
favorable, and 2,000 will probably be packed to day.
In products, a lot of green hauid sold at 7 cents.
There were buyers for shoulders at Ij, and prime
barrel lard at 10: aud we heard of a small sale ot
new mess pork at #ll.
Tne St. Louis Republican, of the 10th, has the
following:
The first operations of the season in packing hogs
transpired to day. About SOU head were killed at
the pens of Ashbrook A - Cos., and 800 more will be
slaughtered to morrow. These, however, are about
all that are on hand at present, and they were pur
chased for November delivery, prior totlie beginning
of the financial difficulties, which have o complete
ly prostrated the market.
The Cleveland (Tennessee) Banner of the Bfili,
says :
We hear some speculation in regard to the pro
bable price ol this article nett. Some are of opinion
that it will range from 7 to 8 cents, while others
think that 0 will be the highest figure. We are of
opinion that the market will settle down at the latter
figure.
Sil\ er Bedsteads.—The Paris correspondent of
the Journal of Commerce reports that six bedsteads
ot s Iver have been ordered from one of the large
furniture establishments in that city, by the Pasha
ot Egypt—in contemplation of the marriage of his
son with the present Sultan’s daughter. The arti
cles are thus described : The work is of an ara
besque character; the bedstead is composed through
out of pierced open metal work, doubly plated, with
scrolls ot lnaMedaud burnished silver in high relief.
The head is pierced and surmounted with chased
foliage, the foot harmonizing in character, and be
ing emiched by a large arabesque shell. Fluted
and polished pillars at each corner support graceful
ly arched open work, over which is intended to fall
the musketoe net—the only bed furniture used in
the East. The silver work is thrown into relief by
a lining ot crimson velvet, and a matrees and bols
ter of green saiiu complete the ornaments of the
couch. Thee slot the set is estimated a’ #7 0,000.
The c-xhavagance of the Parisian world is making
such rapid strides towards eastern magnificence
that we shall doubtless, ere long, here of Parisian
boudoirs and bedrooms ornamented not only with
silver or golden couches, but with elegeres, divans,
&c , of the Hame precious metals.
The Cai'ture of the Government Trains uy
the Mormons. —The dispatches received at Wash
ington from Chief Justice Echols, of Utah, in rela
tion to the capture of government trains by the
Mormons, is dated at “Camp Sweet Water, twenty
one miles east of South Pass, Oct. 13, 1857. Judge
Echols says :
“Au express has ju l unived ;.ma -m river,
and repents that on th ; • • . ■ ,i traiu
of twenty-Bix wag -; ww* eaptui -1 by the Mor
mons, twenty fiv< oi rom ■ • ring
At the sam< imeti
Green river i :gi • g ... load
ing. The Mormons • ■ . y Lad seven bundled
inen there aud aid fi huudred more at Salt
Lake City.
“Col. Ale.xaudi i qmd on Hum's Fort,
■•Wy n i . 5 front 1 rain, which
is destroyed, lie sen CapUr.-.i M.-.rcy with four
hundred men b-ck to \ K . er, to enable the
teamsters to collect their cattle. The Mormons
killed no one, tor the reason that no resistance was
made.
“Col. Smith will coMect the tiaius on this side and
escort them forward. We are in good spirits, and
that is a great help to all. The Mormons will likely
attack us in a day or two, and may rue their iinpu
deuce. We have forty-seven men in (his command,
but Col. Smith is a boast within himself. We have
determined, if attacked, to use the rifles in the lines.
We shall most likely fake the route on Bear river
or Salt Lake City. The want of forage for our
mules is the greatest hindrance, but we shall go on
il we have to walk ad carry our provisoes.”
The above dispatch, showing the first over tact,
of Mormon treason, was immediately laid before the
President of tJie United States, who summoned the
members of the cabinet for consultation upon its
contents. The intelligence was considered in cabi
net meeting in the afternoon, but.no definite action
determinedon. The Secretary of War thinks it
would be hopeless to a tempt to send reinforcements
or supplies so late in the season as this. Dispatches
are anxiously locked for from Col. Johnson, who is
in command of the army for Utah. The govern
men! officers do not fully credit the report received
from Judge Echols.— Balt, Sun.
Terrible Epidemic in Lisbon. — The corn s
pondent of the London News, writing from Lisbon,
Portugal, October 19th, gives an account of the
distressing epidemic in that city. Every body had
left the city that could. The lettter says :
Their is no appearance of life—no business , the
shops arc shut up; no carriage wakes the echoes ot
the silent streets. On ’change it is the same—hard
ly a dozen merchants are to be found at the hours
ofbusiness, few bills are negotiated, and every
thing m the shape of trade is paralysed. The gov
ernment has begun to provide encampments in
squares and open places for the gallegos, or water
carriers, who live in close, dirty houses, where they
are greatly overcrowded, and unable to pay proper
attention to cleanliness. The average mori a lily is
about GO daily, aud the upper and middle classes of
society have hitherto suffered most. The Count do
Casal, the Baron de Rozende, and Signor Senzedel
lo, are among the victims of note who have recent
ly been carried ofl. Among other things may be
mentioned the facts that the Cardinal Patriarch, the.
head of the church in Lisbon, has seized this time to
visit Santarem, where he persists in remaining—
praying, hut at a distance, for the welfare of his
Hock. I hear, besides, of some eases of husbamla
abandoning their wives and children who are at
tacked by the lever, and Hying away into the open
country. But in opposition to this we may set the
conductor many members of the medical profession
who manfully maintain their posts, though many their
number have succumbed to the destroyer The
King is also assiduous in doing every thing in Lis pow
er to calm t he terror of the people, and is frequently to
be seen riding about the streets. Asa natural con
sequence of the stoppage of business, there is a
great scarcity of money, and a monetary crisis is
feared in tin. 1 commercial community.
The Fall oe Delhi. —The news from Europe
b ings the announcement of the fall of Delhi after
an obstinate contest oi six days. The English are
now in possession of the city, and the back of the
mutiny is considered broken. All the rest of the
re-conquest is but a question of time. The insur
gents still exist in great numbers, and the fear now
is that they will unite in predatory bodies and rob
and plunder all over the country. The military
tribes of India are familiar to such a life and will be
ready to resume it. But with Delhi and Lucknow
recovered, and the Punjaub ease, the British troops
will be able to dispose of any bands who may infest
Central India. There may be a great deal more
fighting to be done, but as the whole Bengal army
could not make any headway against two thousand
British troops, the prospect is poor for their success
ful opposition when a force of eix‘een thousand
British soldiers is united against them.— ledger.
Institute for the Blind.—On Wednesday
last, we witnessed the examination of the pupils of
this institution, and were highly gratified with what
we saw and hoard. The exercises consisted of vocal
and ins! romental music, reading arithmetic, in which
they e/. ibit.ed remarkable proficiency. Their skill
in Ihe manufacture of varmu-| articles, useful and
ornamental, is suprising. The number of pupils
nowin the Institution,is 19. We learn they will
visit Milledgeville this winter, and we sincerely
trust that the noble charity they so touchingly rep
resent, will find in the (ieorgia Legislature, a stead
fast and liberal almoner. —Journal 4r Messenger.
In one of the New York courts on Saturday there
was an interesting case, involving the responsibility
ofthe proprietors ot ho!*-|, ,\ 9UIn ~, nponey was
placed in the hands of the clerk of one of the hotels
for safe keeping, by a person stoppii :.o hotel.
The next day the :. nE-or ded .-o! ‘ho money.
The proprietors claimed ‘ha*, tney -v -i liable.
The owner of theme- / iDugi’’ uit.at.d !.,e Judge
decided that the pioj.i. o-rs were liable for the
amount.
Three Thoi: , t'i cOur of Employment
at Louisvn le. -At i j. ,i mechanics held
atMaeoni ; ITsi! 4 .--turday night, the
startling ‘< • w... . * ee thousand in
dustrious p..~. n: employment in conse
quence oi tor money j,, --here. With a long win
ter before thorn, they arc becoming anxious—not
for charily, but for work. A committee was ap
pointed, under instructions to confer with the cm
jiioycrs, the banks and the merchants, as to the best
method to obtain it, and when ready to report to
call a meeting—an earnest, peaceful meeting— of all
the business eiaaaes, and of all branches of industry
in the city, to hear it, and to deliberate upon it. If
that committee find that the present employers can’t
carry on work and furnish the needed employment,
then the moneyed men wiil consider how and on
what terms and by what system of agency the ne
cessaries of life can and will be furnished to the
unemployed and the needy.
Coin in France. —The coin in France, until re
c utly, has been almost exclusively silver, very lit
tle gold being seen. Within two or three years sil
ver has been bought up ail over Europe, at a pre
mium, for shipment to India and China, and gold
has consequently been forced into circulation to sup
ply the place ot the departed silver. Asa conse
quence of this, it is Stated that in the manufacturing
towns of Franco silver change is so scarce that
there is not enough to pay the workmen with, and
manufacturers are obliged to pay them in groups—
in other words to give five or six ot them a gold
niece among them, which they must afterwards
chanee into silver, or agree to spend together at the
stores The great estaolisbmenta buy silver coin of
the retail dealers at a premium, just as a premium,
used formerly to oe paid on gold. The government
has resorted to a large Circulation of gold coins of
the value of five frai ce. They cannot go lower.
Excitement in Chicago— The City Sexton
Robbing the <lrenes —Great excitement has been
produced in Chicago by the detection of Martin
(Quinlan, thec.ty sexton, in the act of rifling the
graves ot the dead and shipping them off in wagons,
Eli York, aincdical student, who resided in South
Illinois, was arrested at the same time but Dr. Brai •
nard, the President of the Medical College, becama
bail for him. It is supposed that been
for a long time in the practice ot robbing graves
and selling the bodies to tbe Medical College. As
long as two years ago, a stra ger having died in
Chicago with considerable money about him persona
afterwardscame on to recognize him,but on opening
his grave it was found empty. Supposing they had
opened the wrong one, another was tried and so on
till nine were opened, and all found empty.—Cin
cinnati Gazett.
Unhappy Marriages.—A singular mode to pre
vent unhappy marriages has been suggested in Illi
nois. It is proposed to amend the law of marriage,
so as to require that the prospective husband and
wife, on any given cay, enter in the office of an
officer legally empowered to do such a duty, aud
file a written declaration of intention k to become
man aud wife. From that day, for one year, they
muy associate as loverr, or break the engagement
if they choose . then, at the end of the year, if they
again express their determination to become bus-