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The >fHkiflrtt on lb#* Plain-..
\\\ i . iA U:i .'i ouj Loe to the 24th j
< ir‘ • and fr.ni 8&o to the l?th of |
l : . -r • iiionto. Tbm tew? i* exceedingly impor- j
’ 1 !.• of the late has been fully
Ti>-j number <*f person* eiaughteied by
1.0. ..-. we* i Is, of wuoui •fifty sixty (56/ were
’ richildren were taken ba* k to
t r if- -rf w!:orn. not one wan .over six years
It w reported that one Indian wa killed
f . -prevailed in Los Angelos on the an
! l .r<. n ii‘ obonly tfte r the receipt of the news,
w p e wore in town who corroborated all the
oeie that liad been previously made. A public
i.i ‘ vVirf railed, and the persons referred to at
auri made rtateineuto —a condensation of
_* e Their name* are Geo. Powers, of
! L I* . Ark . and PM. Warm, of Bergen,
a,.-. county, New Vork They had lately
i'n her. Like City. Mr Powers, in his
V, -itmJ*;} r- Mormons making determined pre
U i ficii’ iLe (Totted States troops, when
j :b‘-y may arrive fkj our way in we met three
i • ho. I C. on. hundred men each armed and on
•. *oward the pass over Fort Bridger I war
• o hi i-V-rt Bridp*-r that at Fort Supply. 12 miles
•fir- <.S kor* Bridgcr, there were fmir hundred
Indiana availing orders; they also said that
. ueredO.Ofo pounds of flour stored at Fort
• n-r f.., -he up of their army We found com-
r l **** erdiiog every evening in the city. The
j do .or : deciarod to u- *bat no United States troops
i er ( TftM the mountain*. And they ta'ked
! i jetfcd a-* if they w-r’ willing to take a brush
viih 4 (’note Sam
> vN ■. , ( iiiained in Sail tive days, and then
J j <>• *-d oi . hoping we might overtake a larger train.
| wi/ad Marled ten days ahead of u*. and which
I j n.v uto h: the train that w*s massacred. We
j h • on Die Buttermilk Fort, near the lone cedar
] ** land red and seventy-five miles, and found the
.’ eu. greally enraged at the train which had
j ! i t j i •and, declaring that they had abused the
I !• rsr -Ti women calling them w — j, Sc c., and
1 .mg on about t,be men. The people had refused
I mat train any provisions, and told us they
j v • • M.rry they had not killed them there ; but they
j i.i. v, it wou'd he done before they got in. They
ed farther that they were holding the Indians in
• eck until the arrival of their chief when he woul
: ■) me train and cut it to pieces,
‘J next place where w<; heard of the train was
:r *. ival at Beaver. 230 miles from Sait Lake.
! I’ *, we learned :hat when the train ahead was en
i i.i'ip uat Corn Creek, which was thirty-tive miles
| and at which plain we tound the Indians so
.idly, au ox died, and the Indians asked for it.—
J i ■ ! wv given to them, a Mormon reported
-i i.. j aw an emigrant go to the carcass and cut it
| . h ! :.h knife, and as he did so would pour some li-
I t■ •ut from the phial. The meat was
j. by !iie Indians, and three of them died, and
more of them were sick and would die. The
, ; 1 . Beaver seemed also to be incensed against
‘i ii, i >rthe same reason as before reported. I
. T dan I i.an, at Beaver, if there was any truth
ui - pui-oned meat story ; he replied, in English,
licit hr did not know that several of the ludianw
iad died, end several were -ick He Maid their wa
‘* mi* ons liad made them all sick and he believed
tha* the MiaumiiS had poisoned them.
< in L riday, the IXth of September, we left Paruw
.r.d arrived at Cedar City, some eighteen miles,
•ce i- clwk. During the afternoon an ex
, ai * v U from the Indians, stating that one of
h m. ri.rs had run up and looked into the corral
■A.‘i ■ ec.opo cd that * .*uly five or six of the erni
i aid. w .-rr killed yet.’.’ These were the words of
• xpi. MMinan. The r-aine night fuur men were
; n; out iiom I‘aiowan tu g and learn wiiat was
la:- of 41. ha:;, and,as they pretented, to save,
b pissit>lc, some of its members,
j I ■ uni • and Lo mention, in the proper place, that
Piivvtn, bfenoed,
ti.ii’ the attack un the train commenced on
r * !• y th I tth of September I asked him if he
oi raise a company and go ont and relieve
m b, itfged liaiu. 11c replied that he coil'd go
nd iaki thoiu away in solely, l>ut he dared
l -he dared not disrit/ey council
< in Saturday at I*! o’clock, we left Cedar city.—
M” t tt;. min 1c ■: th.-afternoon we met the tour
! ho v. r • sent out the night previous return
i at w agon. Matthews and Tanner held a eouu
| 1 thlh- ni apart, and when they left, Matthews
i ;tt tl < entire train had been cut ofl’, and, as it
\ diuigeron*to travel they lmd con
•u ! v.o:s better for U 8 to pass the spot in the
! U e t uliniied on, without much conversa
It. ‘ iibo dusk met All. Dame, (i did not
j > hia! he had left Cedareily,) and three other
j * 1 ’ • e coming frmnChe scene of slaughter, in
. Hny w Mh a baud of some twenty Indian war
-1 Hi* <*f the men m company with Mr. Dome
| Mi Haight, Fi -sideut of Cedar city. Air.
• i * < >.d they had been out to see to the burying
j the thu bit the dead weie not buried From
; ‘ .oil- trd, 1 believe the bodies Were left lyiug
j • .u i upou :lie ground, having bsen stripped of
| •ii ••’toihiiig iy the Indians These Indians had a
I hoi,. wagon, tilled with something I could not
< blanket i were carefully spr.-ad over the top.
I'l *'..gon was driven by a white man, and beside
in, ihei - were 2ot t Indiana iu it. Many of them
ad .dmw id, and bundles of women s clothes were
dto their saddles They were also well supplied
iff j*ufc orpietols, IH-.-ide bows arid arrows The
. vl Indian- were driving several head of the
,iants cattle Air. Dame and Mr. Jlaight and
: !-• iie u -ecined io bo oil the bent of terms with
’ *• I miiaiH. and they w ere all in high spirits, as if
were mutually pleased with the accomplish
i iof Home desired object.
11 .* r* a tlmt may be assigned for the massa
! t i l l ain is, that I was known to be iu pus
| • ii el imiftiderable valuable property, and this
.x< i• and the cupidity of tiie Mormons. It was
|.i I tli they had over four hundred head of stock,
i He ir.uh -, iVe They were well supplied with
! m. auuainnunnimi, au c'.emeut of gain which en
• e-lirgeh into ail Mormon calctilations. The train
. i.* e. tuposed of families who all seemed to be iu
v .. <| i BetiinstHiices. and as they were moving to
i .•iimnia, their outlit indicated that they might be
.{, i on of Ci iisiderab’e funds. The men were
i y in speaking of the Mormons , their con
do. it aid to have been reckless, and they would
ii upt little acts of violence for the purpose of
I v.-kin , the heeling perfectly sale iu
arr* n ud numbers, they set-med to set at de
i . -• n I the powers tliaf could be brought against
i!:, to And they were not permitted to feel the dan
f.i that surrounded them until they were cut ofl*
Horn all h*pe fl relief.
Mm> Oi iiim.v us iu. Plains— A few days
h i the above meeting took piece, Mr llouea. of
\ k .nsn.M .■irinvJc! Los Angelos from the plains.
I . traiu in which lie came they were subjected
ith ant and hnrrassing hi tacks from the Indians
i ■ i tnce they leti Salt Lake City. They were
I, hind tie-(lam winch had been so cruelly ma>sa
. NiTiiai larn onaoa. Two m the men be
■i;. ngio li e train whu h Mr. llouea accompanied
~ • uouoded in a figt)t with the Indians, and 826
| ...lit ,-artle driven off* No one who reads the
i ~i"im ni givim by Mr. Honea. savs the Los An
I Stir, ua ■ for a monte l l doubt the complicity
Mormon h-aders in these scenes of crime and
E i. ’ The iiumenee sums paid to the iuterpre
•’ 1 liteii refusal to fulfil the terms of their con-
Ii to say what is very plainly charged
! them by our Informant—that they conspired
I 11 the Indiana to commit the depredations and
;uplained of—would alone convict them
j • a p u-tie patiou in these murderous assaults.
t .mu tiu- ini.inent published by Mr. Honea, w©
•‘xtrnot <Lo following
\\ i ! the e • < ption of an attack by the Bappaho
**u the Arkansas river, on the ‘JOthof Jure.
, i*i luipany ol Capt. Henry, ol Texas, who lost
i ifhiny ol frifcsveat occurred on
! i <urncy, nor Uni they pcroeive any symptoms ot
I P dtion. or of armed bands, till they came to
I t Bridger, ii Utah Territory. Here they eaw a
; *antitv - : provisions stored, a considerable
liuiulu i ot llimans encamped all round the fort,
. i hurd the people generally apt filling of making
pi . ‘ mon to go out and .neet Qen. Harney. At
H: idger, was told by a merchant tliat at Fort
I Supy’; ver t"<> Indians were encamped awaiting
! .*.•••* to e.tiaek the railed States troops. About
li'j r.ai* - from Fort Bridger met three companies
generally mounted, and all well armed,
> ."lance of b tgg&ge, their wagons being
I if, im be red in messes
1 (in the 17thof August passed through the city of
Snl; i. ke. Remained only three or four hours.—
. . a conversation with a merchant —a Gentile—
>. -i*.ied that on the previous Sunday. Brigham
i out g had declared, in the Temple, that henceforth
iii w as a separate and independent territory, and
wed no obecieuc© or allegiance to any form or
’ .u tj hut those of tH-rir own enactment, and called
iiu • the. people to stand together and support
imin i : tv nminc the cause of God and the church.
Nt-.\i mormiig th© ludiaus sent down an order by
Bishop of Beaver, demanding cattle from us.
\Vhd* n consultation on this demand, intelligence
vis rt ivsd that tive of the Coin Creek Indians
arid inane down, and the Bishop went off with the
i tars, without wailing for our answer.
1 * me a : vised us not to pass where the other! rain
1 been :.n saercu, but to take a left hand trail,
wi <i w finally did. having first proposed to go
bmy cur deceased country mo u but the inter-
Iu: i-? objected, gay ing that the l ndiaus would
! m rve ns the same way. Here we met the two horse
t :ews. irw brothers Young, who stated that the
•a.- werr* very troublesome on the Muddy, and
j u? to hire additional interpreters, especially
‘ ‘ Wo hired Hatch and four others, paying
j • “ t *ti advance
While \ e> were with us, they made us give
v- ‘ :o tli In.cars on the Santa Clara, and aI
---* v ‘ not :<> swear before the Indians, as they
v ttlo am*w us to U- Ameneaus, and probably kill
passing down tue Kw Virgin we had to give
beevr to the Indians, who stole a horse from
if the company We lost several head of cat
i ‘ e Hamblin, the interpreter, sent Indians to
. eat. who drove them back to Hamblin’s
;aoi cat te strayed off, and were unme
et’ kmeii by the Indiana. On the Virgin. Mr
> . nue Weeks Uwt f'■\ 50 from his wagon. A
. u * . ugh search was made in the train, but it could
.b* found. The opinion was tiiat the iutei pre
stoleu it. as nmst id* the company knew of
i iu .ue\ being ’here.
Flocked* i abvat eight oi uu miles along tha 04-
, .. T*.’ t ide were in advance of our wagons
u jail a mile. Ti.e cattle were stopped to
w: r> u* come up. While w aiting,
i . *ti Alaiubhn on ihe top of the hill, apparently
■k; g i Indians He came down from the hill,
* this tmw the wagons had joined the ad
vane*- party, ana tee train moved on. Before this.
..’.vine. Hamblin baa a conversation with a
l. ta w h ioc ujspiu,icd us from the Muddy
w . n opt :o L*ai where the Indians were
hi? *eie we s ailed on, the Indian asked,
Nvaie trierc was none in any of the vessels
, v . -a ran in advance of *be cattle and gave
. . w , o The vaidugthen became general along
e ,ehtre previously nr could no: perceive
Indian At this time, three of the f var
lerc- wMren amed with us were in the
1 >,s .f the train*
The ‘her advised the captain* to foil back and
. vlb* eat Ja ana guard the wagons with the wo
• a v. v odreo This was dono, when a large
C lndi.'Uii, ovt: :wo hundred, made a descent
V inxi.e. wwd ran them eff to the number of
- *d ai- I B\e i.or*cs Seme of the party pre
} > 1 to tire on the Indians, butthe interpreter
srdibem wo would ali be killea. He
v m vunougthe Indians, and soon returned,
a* -hi they had sent word if we wanted to
on H© requested to go again to
u. he arkedto exchange an old gun
iV * ~ U 'T revolver. It was given uim.
* ’■ f ' r ’ •: mpaoy with some of the
< jd.tioi; that, if uanger threaten
* - ‘ ‘ fb© ptoot, which would be the
*• • o return to the He fired
p v v h\l the interpreters left thr train, and {
Ta-tia. which had been no
vv ndrr lhe oharp of oaptain Bakar, faunfiarly j
wn as l Due Jnk. irom Carroli county, Ar- I
“ bdwarus and William Ik.ker. son of I
vapm.a, an aiso known to have in th
A. Lco&r t. *iy. Mr Houea saw President I
Htt . ** * r ’* d! bav uorst- which be recogwaad j
. ng be : t Mi Si.as Ecwards. was iu
’ t-a by Hatch mat young Be her had an op;-or- I
’.v • and ap*cg and went a ahoft diatance. but i
turned, wac tt'crwaid w\ uaded in the arm,
v cu * m fmui the w> iKSkarre. and had proceed*
• .1 ab<>ut i-n onitst* ii i ? the Muddy wbeuhemot
I ‘ h© I ungs. who !; and in aped from San Bernardino
He was adviaed to i©toru to the Muddy, which he
j did, when he was met by Hatch and the Indian.”
and by them cruelly murdered.
To fctive an idea of the fraud and extortion prac
ticed by the Mormons on emigrant*, Mr. Houea
state- that their company paid to interpreters, six in
j all. the enormous smnof $ 1,815 The duty perform-
I ‘*<i by these guides and interpreters was conduct
j the company from Cedar City to Cottonwood
Spring” a distance not ovtr three hundred miles
yet this contract was not fulfilled, although pav’
; merit was made in advance,
j Fran, tke San Frn nn.ro Herald, Nor. .V
! Thk Mokmuss and tha Cate Massacre. Three
; emigrant families arrived yesterday in Sacramento
; rjy the Carson \'a!lf-'Ut.e. They report, says the
l oion, many sad • . -ee of outrage and murder
at difl-rent points a, rag the route, particularly iu
the vicinity of Gooer Creek. Near this creek their
attend ,n wae attracted by the appearance o( a hu
man foot protniding from the ground, and on exam
ining the spot the remains of three murdered men
were found buried only three or four inches below
the surface. Upon another grave there lay two
dogs, alive but much emaciated, and bo pertina
cious in retaining their lonely resting place that
no effort conld eutiee or drive them from the spot.
Their master was, most probably, the occupant of
that grave, and their presence there, under such cir
cumstances, wa3 a touching exhibition of canine in
stinct and devotion. A few miles further on, they
came npon another scene of murder, where upon
lhe ground were strewn a few bones, and also knots
of long glossy hair, torn from the head of some ill
lated woman. Xear by were the remain” of three
head ot cattle, with the arrows still -tickine in
them.
Reports brought by these families tend strongly
to corroborate the suapicionalready existing agaiwt
the Mormons as the instigators, if not the perpetra
tors. of the recent wholesale massacre of immigrants
at Santa Clarr canon. Mr. Pierce, who came by
way of bait Lake, and joined the other two families
at the biuk of the Humboldt, reports some five hun
dred Indians encamped near Salt Lake, who, as he
learned from the Mormons, were retained as allies to
operate against the troops sent out by the govern
ment. lie was also assured that these Indians h and
been instructed uot to moleat the emigration this
year, as preparations were notsuflicieutly complete
to enable the Mormons to make a stand against the
United bt&tes.
In the city itself large crowds of Mormons were
nightly practising military drill, and there was every
evidence of energetic preparations for some great
event. Uefore ins family left Salt Lake vague de
clare’ ions of a threatening character were made, to
the effect that, next year, “the overland emigrants
must look outand it was even insinuated that
the last trains this year might be destroyed. From
the Mormon train which recently left Carson Val
ley, and which these families met on the way, simi
lar statements were vaguely communicated, oue
Mormon woman even going so far as to congratu
late an old lady in one of these families upon her
safe arrival so near her destination, and assuring
her that “the last trains of this year would net get
through so well, for they were to be cut off.
A Patriotic Speech.
We sometimes hear from Massachusetts senti
ments which would have done honor to her revolu
ternary era, an.i which present a refreshing contrast
to the sectionalism and treason of modern days.—
Webster, Choate, and Winthrop, it is true, have
been put under the ban of popular displeasure, for
refusiug to give the countenance of their illustious
examples to a crusade against the Constitution and
the Union, and traitors and demp-gogues have been
encouraged and rewarded by the highest official
honors. Hut the spirit of true Patriotism is uot yet
extinct, and it sometimes finds a manly and fearless
voice among the orators and public j'ournals of the
State. A friend has placed in our bauds a speech of
Arthur W. Austin. Esq., of West Koxbury, Mass.,
which, iu its eloquence and intrepidity, would have
done honor to Daniel YVebfeter. We rejoice that
Home eueh men, of patriotism, of soul, and of courage
are left in Massachusetts, and that tln-y are not all
Wilsons, Summers and Parkers.
Mi. Austin touches upon several points in which
his countrymen have been wilfully deceived by sec
tional demagogues. Keferring to the stereotyped
< liarge of a disposition on the part of the South to
make aggressions upon the North, in defiance of the
Constitution, he says : “After careful examination
I, a citizen ot the United States, residing in Massa
chusetts, standing ground, emphatical
ly d uy t!i at there is any foundation for the charge
I claim simple justice for the South, and assert sim
ple truth when I say that the South, as a body, has
never consented to anything derogatory to the
North, has never interfered with the rights of the
North, or In the domestic of municipal affairs of the
North, either before or since the adoption of the
Constitution. It there have been aggressions, they
have been made by the North, and the South has
either acquiesced, or acted simply iu the defensive.”
Mi. Austin then refers to the noble cession by
V'rginia. for the common benefit of the Union of
all the North west territory, from which five large
AStates- Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and
Ohio—have been already formed, containing in
themselves about ftuir times as many square miles
as there are in all New England, and in which the
sons and daughters of the North have for more than
hall a century revelled. Virginia might have re
tained this territory, and colonized it with blacks
innd or free, thus relieving herself of their support;
or, in ceding it, she might have insisted that the
whole territory should be erected into one State
and then there would have been but two United
St-nttH Sanators instead of ten, as at present ; but
she put no bounds, and affixed no conditions to her
princely munificence. The government of the coun
try Ims received from the lands ceded by the South
to the Inion, immense sums, wiiich have gone to
relieve the people of the North from debt and from
burdens. Mr. Austin contrasts the penurious and
contracted course of Massachusetts with that of
Virginia. He says. “Massachusetts owned large
tracts in Maine , which she-never ceded for the 1 com
mon benefit; but. when Maine was made a Stale,
she claimed her proportion, and from tl has not.
f/et ceased to realize. ’ The only aggressions which
the South has made upon the North, have been
aggressions of kiudi and munificent liberality.
Mr. Austin, with noble enthusiasm, exclaims:
“Ever generous, ever disinterested. Virginia! She
lias always been ready to make sacrifices
for the public good—for the common beuefit. I
have scarcely been within her borders—l nui but
slightly acquainted with any of her sons, but from
chilhood my heart has always expanded, reflecting
upon her patriotic sacrifices, and her noble history.
Ever glorious Virginia! She has given to the
world the model of a warrior, a statesman and a
patriot. She has given to this Union statesmen
whose disinterested devotion to the interests of our
whole country, has never been surpassed—never
been equalled in the annals of a world.”
Mr. Austin then reminds his Massachusetts audi
ence of the returns which a portion of the North,
with headquarters in New England, have endeavor
ed to make tor the fraternal and generous conduct
duct of the >outh. He says: “It is within my own
knowledge and observation that for more than a
quarter of a century, constant, continual attempts
have been made by a portion of the North to carry
the torch of the incendiary to the dwellings, and
the knife of the assassin to the throats of those who
arc of our common race and common blood, and
who are living with us under the same political
compact.” Mr. Austin mentions the singular fact,
as marking conspicuously the ungrateful spirit of a
portion of the people ot Massachusetts, that the
largest votes given tor Black Republicanism came
from those localities which have received the most
benefit from commerce with the South, and without
which those localities would be necessarily depopu
lated! Abingtou, Lynn, Danvers, and the towns
engaged in the leather trade generally, illustrate this
assertion
Mr. Austin warns his hearers against the vain
imagination of supposing that the Union can be
peaceably dissolved. He says : “The same mad
ness that would dissolve the Union would drench
the country in blood. There will be a bloody con
flict, in which the Union w’ill be more fully estab
lished by the patriotic, the sagacious and the wise,
or the whole hopes of man crushed by a willing sui
render to despotism. I have no fear of the result
of such a contest. If it must come, Great God, ever
bountiful to me, grant that such contest come
in my day—before this eye shall be dim—before
this arm shall be nerveless. 1 wish to leave no such
contest a legacy to my children.” “Provoke not
too far ; there is such a thing as reaction and retri
bution for the ungrateful spirit that is now rife. If
retribution come not until you have excited a civil
or a servile war, it will then come in terror and in
storm. The longer delayed, Ihe more terrific. A
just Nemesis may overtake you, and if she come —
she shall come—she w ill come—not only with the
point of Achilles, but with the tread and crash of
the Titan.”
A refreshing contrast such a speech to the whin
ing. canting and cursing of the frautic herd of abo
lition traitors from that big bull of Basham, Senator
Wilson, down to’the sophomorical rowdy. Howadji
Curtis.— Rich. Lisp.
The Portuguese Colonies in South Africa.—
In consequence of the representations of Dr. Living
stone, tlie African traveler, of the capability of 4 he
eastern countries of South Africa for affording pro
ducts suited to the maintenance of a beneficial com
merce with England, particularly iu the pro
ductiou of cotton, the British government has taken
measures to obtain from the Portuguese govern
went regulations securing the free navigation of
the Zambese river, and freedom of commercial in
tercourse with the Portuguese colonies, both on the
eastern and western coasts of South Africa. A de
putation from the Leeds and Bradford Chambers of
Commerce lately waited on Lord Clarendon, the
Foreign Secretary, requesting him to use Lis influ
cnee with the Portuguese government for attaining
this object. Lord Clarendon gave the deputation
that the government entered fully into
the views of the applicants, particularly in regard
to the importance of encouraging the growth of
cotton iu those regions, and of developing the re
sources both of the Portuguese colonies and the ad
joining native districts. He said that Dr. Living
stone would proceed to Lisbon, with the strongest
rec*'mmeudaii''*ns both to the King and government
of Portugal, and that he would receive the hearty
support of the British Minister at that Court, in his
efforts to secure the free navigation of the Zambese
river and the utmost facilities for eommerial inter
course with the interior of Africa.
Another deputation from the British Association
has also had an interview with Ixird Clarendon, to
represent to him the importance ot the government
sending a vessel to survey the entrance of the Zain
besc. and to ascend the river as far as it is practica
ble for navigation. Representations from other
quarters have also been made to the government,
urging an exploration of that region for the promo
tion of the interests both of commerce and of
science. The month of the Zambese is in about 20
■ degrees of south latitude, on the Mozambique chan
nel. and opposite to the island of Madagascar.
The discoveries of Dr. Livingstone have attracted
earnest attention to that region of country, as hold
ing out encourageireut to the opening ot and ad
vantageous intercourse with it, especially from Us
adaptation to Lhe growth of cotton
A FitARETL Spectacle.— The Russian line-of
lAttie ship LeVrt. which lately capsized in broad
noonday in the Bay of Finland . when closely sur
rounded by numerous \ easels of the fieet oq their
way from Revel ♦<. astadt, has since been ex
amined by English rs at the order of the Rus
sian Government. It wiL probably be still in the
recollection of our readers that the vessel bad in
addition to about SH) troops and crew, full 40U pas
sengers on board, chiefly women aDd children, who.
with Quantities of bulky house furniture, occupied
tbe whole ‘tween decks Out of consideration for
these unwonted passengers, the port-holes of the
; man-of-war had been left open, and when a sudden
squall came on could not be closed in time and eo
when the wind took her, the vessel heeled over, fill
ed, and at once capsized. Such persons as were on
deck at the time were of course at once washed
away, bu! the divers found no less than 1.100 corps
es in the cabins ‘tween decks, and in the hold of the
vessel, all clinging to some portion of the timbers
of the ship, or a> each other. The horror of this
fearful eight appear* to have been aggravated by
the eircau..’ .-;nc that the todies were already for
gout in decompi rition. and, with few exceptions,
ihe eyes of ail the corpses were wide open and gla
-1 ring.* The effect of this dreadful spectacle on the
I diver* whs such, that one of them was totally uc
ab.e iu* i * y days to recount the ghastly scenes he
bad witneascu wn in that hive of putrifying
corpses, and on fit* persistent rttusal to repeat his
visit there was sent borne.
A> Indl sthioi s MatroU —Sume months ince
a lady etoi’ped ai tbe Madison Home, Coviugtou,
Ky. with ber hue baud aud thirty-four children. —
Since then the iudoetriotu haa added another
to the number She eapreeaea great , oohdeuce
u her ability Iu produce one more. May ber hoped
e realized Three daaen!—we pan
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER !), 1857.
Lntrr from Havana California, Centra! Ame
rica, Arc.
By the armaJ of the Daniel Webster, at New
Orleans on Saturday last, we have late and inter
esting intelligence from the above places, which
we condense as follows, from the Picayune •
The California mails were brought down on the
Pacific side by tbe steamship Golden Gate, which
left San Francisco the - r >th inst., and arrived at
Panama the I9tb. with COO passengers and $2.000,-
000 in treasure. The passengers were detained on
the Isthmus some forty hours by the baggage train
running off near the Summit.
The Webeter brings to this port f 198,.'71 in specie
on freight $200,000 from New York $11,731 from
Havana: and $366,350 from California, and 220
passengers.
Our files of Havana papers include the usual
commercial review. The Prensa reports a further
decline in sugars of ito \ real, but adds that the
market is so irregular that it is quite impossible to
fix upon anything like general quotations. But
little has been done during the week. Sales have
been small in all cases.
Stock on hand at Havana 150.000 boxes; at
Matanzas 20,000 boxes and 2,000 hoghsheads.
The receipts from the interior still ccntinue very
small—only 1097 boxes during the week. Exports
of the week 8070 boxes. The Board of Brokers
quote White, inferior to regular, 12ra. .good to
superior, 13ra
Money is still very tight. Exchange on London
ldj&ll per cent, premium ; Northern cities 2] 33
J>er cent; New Orleans Ba 9 per c*nt. premium foi
jhort paper.
5 There is no political news at Havana. The grand
Tfcsuval of the 15th passed off in the happiest man
ner.
From California.— The most exciting event
which occurred shortly before the departure of the
steamer of the sth, was the suspension of the bank
ing house of Messrs. Drexel, Sather &■ Church.
The mail steamer Join L. Stephens arrived in the
harbor of San Francisco on the evening of the 2d,
at 10 o’clock. Upon the fact of the protest of the
drafts of this banking bouse in New York becoming
known, considerable number of attachments were
issued and at 1 o'clock on the morning of the third,
Messrs. D., S. Sc C. opened their doors, and com
menced payiDg their checks and certificates of
deposit. At 9 o'clock, however, tl.ey closed their
doors, and suspended payment. The attachments,
in all, amounted to $112,000, taken out on the 3d,
and about $30,000 on the following day Messrs.
D. S. &l C. having made an assignment, publish
ed a statement of their assets and liabilities, wnich is
as follows :
ASSETS.
Bills receivable, in the hands of J. B. Roberts.
.Samuel Merritt and T. H. Selby $342,000 00
Checks on other banks, in the hands of
Roberts. Merritt &c Selby 22,000 00
Due for advances to gold dust correspon
dents 50,000 00
Real estate in San Francisco 50,000 00
Total $464,000 00
DEBTS.
Due depositors on book account $133,000 00
Due on certificates of deposit 1119,000 00
Assets over the amount due the deposit
ors and the certificates of deposit.... 222,000 00
Total $461,000 00
All special deposits are iu the vault, and will be
delivered as soon as possible. Mint certificates for
collection, and notes left for collection, are not in
cluded in the above statement.
The shipments made by each steamer will ba ap
plied iu payment ot the drafts drawn at the date of
the shipments.
Os the bills receivable, the bulk of them will be
due in thirty days. They are good, and mostly se
cured by collaterals. Sather & Church.
Ou the day previous to the departure of the
steamer, their paper had sold as high as 90 cents,
and it was generally believed that no loss would be
met with by the holders.
The news of the financial troubles iu the Atlantic
States had not otherwise than in the suspension of
Drexel, Sather Sc Church, seriously affected San
Francisco. There was a steady run on the bank
ing house of Messrs. Tallaut & Wilde, and indeed
upon all the banking houses on the 3d ; but as they
paid all their paper promptly upon presentation,
the excitement soon subsided. The press of San
Francisco assumes the position that the inevitable
effect of the financial difficulties in the East, would
be to drive capital, population and business to the
Golden State.
An immense mass meeting waa held in San Fran
cisco, on the 31st of October, for the purpose of
making an expression of feeling in relation to the
loss of the steamship Cental America. The place
of meeting was crowded to excess, and a series of
resolutions were adopted strongly condemning both
the Atlantic and Pacific Mail Steamship Companies,
for the employment of unsea worthy boats, and for
the general neglect of the comfort and” safety of
passengers. A number of suggestions were made
by the meeting in relation to turther legislation by
Congress, for the security of life and property upon
sea going steamers ; and after speeches by Col.
Crockett and others, the meeting, after appointing
Lafayette Maynard, Esq., os messenger to take the
resolutions, and any memorial upon the subject, to
Washington, adjourned.
Vefy strong corroborative evidence has been re
ceived in California that the massacre* of the one
hundred and eighteen emigrants in the southern
portion of Utah, on their way to California, was
the work of Mormons. The Alta California, of
the sth, says.
Mr. George Powers arrived a few days since at
Los Angelos, from Salt Lake, and reports having
heard many Mormons threaten to kill gentiles pas
sing through their country. He met a mixed party
of Mormons and Indians going toward a Mormon
settlement from the scene of the massacre, and
they had in possession bundles of clothing and other
articles, apparently the spoil of the murdered ; and
the whole party appeared to be on very friendly
terms with oue another, and to be iu high spirits.
This Mr. Powers also states that in San Bernardi
no he heard Capt. Hunt, a man of authority among
the Mormons there, say he was glad for the massa
cre, and believed the hand of the Lord was in it,
whether it was done by the whites or redskins. P.
M. Warn, of Genesee county, N. Y., who came
through about the same time with Mr. Powers, be
lieves also, from numerous facts observed by him,
that tfie Mormons are guilty of the bloody crime.
Messrs. Abbott and Fine, two gentlemen who have
lately been at San Andies, from the Humboldt riv
er, report great hostility ou the part of the Mor
mons towards the immigrants coming to California
by the South Pass, and great friendship with the
Indians, who had made attacks on the immigrants.
Both Mr. Abbott and Mr. Fine know of cases where
trains were attacked in the Mormon country, by
Indiaus led on by numerous White men, supposed
to be Mormons. Mr. Abbott says five hundred im
migrant*} have been killed this year, on the road be
tween Salt Lake and California, by Indians and
Mormons, but this estimate is ceitaiuly very much
exaggerated.
Avery important piece of evidence in the Li
raantour case is published in the San Francisco pa
pers. which has had a decided tendency to renew
the sinking hopes of claimants under the city aud
other opposing titles. At the request of two of the
opposing attorneys, Geo. Davidson, Esq., a gentle
man who has been engaged in the astronomical de
partment of the U. S. Coast Survey during the pa6t
twelve years, made an examination with some very
delicate instruments of the impressions of the seals
on the Limantour grants, and a comparison of them
with seals of similar purport and character upon
other documents, known to be genuine, and the
conclusion to which he arrives is, that the impres
sions upon the Limantour documents, and those up
on the others, could not have been (although pur
porting to be) made by the same seals. Mr. David
son has made a deposition to this effect, in the U.
S. District Court.
The disturbances between the whites and the In
dians in Honey Lake Valley had ceased. Col. Hen
ley, the Indian agent, had sent up a large supply of
blankets and provisions, which had a happy effect
upou the natives. It is established beyond a doubt
that they were instigated at first by white men.
Judge Crane, tha delegate of the people of Car
son Valley, who issant by them to Washington lor
the purpose of endeavoring to secure the partition
of Carson Valley, and a considerable portion of the
western territory of Utah, extending as far south as
the Gila river, from the Mormon dominions, left
San Francisco on the sth, and has gone to New
York in the Northern Light. The judge was for
merly Editor of the Richmond Southerner, and is an
old resident of California.
The expected compromise, between the State of
ficers and J. C. Palmer, by which it was supposed
the State would recover at least a portion of the
amount of which she was swindled by the State
Treasurer, has fallen through, and nothing further
will be done about the matter, until tbe assembling
of the Legislature.
Geo. li. Morris, formerly an auctioneer in San
Francisco, and who had gone to Lower California
for the purpose of locating the “Goicura grant,'’
had been kilted by the Indians of the territory.
Agostine Harauthy, late melter and refiner in the
U. S. Branch Mint, has been indicted for the em
bezzlement of $151,000.
Sam'l Brannau has issued a prospectus of a bank
ing institution about to be started in San Francisco,
to be called “ Samuel Brannan's Bank.’ Mr. B.
has deeded a tract of land, two miles square, near
Sacramento, together with various lots in San Fran
cisco to trustees, for the security of his depositors.—
Branuan was formerly the leader of the Mormons in
California, and is supposed to be very wealthy.
William F. Pinney, Public Administrator of Tuo
lumne county, committed suicide iu Stockton, on the
01st of October, by shooting himself through tne
head. He had been guilty of a small defalcation,
and the fear of its discovery so weighed upon his
mind that he determined to destroy himself.
The crops of wheat and barely in the counties of
of Alameda and San Joaquin a on-: will exceed, the
present year, ten millions of bushels.
A Stockton paper says.
A few days since, at Chinese Camp, a Mexican
approached to where a couple of men were stand
ing. and without saying a word stabbed them both
and tied. One of the men. Darned Ainbrain Coons,
aged do years, has since died.
A man named Caleb Holiday, bad been shot dead
near Quincy, by a man named Stephen P. Shores.
The murderer made his escape.
Filly-six pounds of potatoes were taken from a
single hill in Calaveras county. The largest weigh
ed two end a half pounds.
Some very superior tobacco has been raised in
Los Angeles.
The emigration is nearly all in, and it is supposed
that at least fifty thousand persons have eroesed
the plains to California during the past season.
Another grove of mammoth trees has been uie
covered in Mariposa county. The ordinary size of
these trees is 300 feet in height, aud from ten to
thirty feet in diameter.
Miki.Su News—The rainy season had fairly set
in, and tie mineis in every portion of the State
were anticipating a golden harvest. For several
days previous to the departure of the steamer the
rain had been pouring in torrents, and throughout
the whole mining region the miners ha.l been ma
king extensive preparations for it. Huge moun
tains of golden earn, were piled up waiting for the
rains to come, that the gold might be washed out.
The usual number of “ rich -trikes’’ are reported in
the California papers. At Pacific Hill, in Placer
county, two men worked five days, and one day
three men, in getting out pay dirt, which, when
washed, yielded one hundred and twenty-three
ounces.
In Tuolumne county, a; the claim of Cai linell,
Bixeil & Cos., the company have constructed aad
are running, an arastra. which is ennd'mg from three
hundred tu four hundred pounds of quartz per day.
It is estimated that the rock will pay SIO,OOO per
ton.
A large number of quartz mills are in proves* of
erection in Mariposa county. In Atu&dor a lead
mine has recently been discovered which yields $7 5
to the ton : and ail over the State mining app ears to
be in an exceedingly prosperous condition. It is
estimated that atieaat one-third more gold wil be
taken out ikiring the coming winter than in any
previous season.
Special Correspondence of the Ptcayun
LaurFruli Costarica—Panama. Nov. loth.
ISs7.—The Cronica of Costa Rica, files of which are
only up to Oct. 24, do not contain a word on the
war with Nicaragua.
By private letters from a very intelligent source,
dated at Punta Arenas, Nov. 5, X learn tnat the gov
ernment is despatching troops to reinforce Canty,
on the riv er, and that the possession of tbe transit
route will be held by President Mora, at ail hazards,
at least untill all danger of filibueterism is pasted.—
Costa Rica was not willing to trust Nicaragua with
the key to the territory of the former, knowing that
as soon as the election of President of Nicaragua
should be decided, the defeated party wouid instant
ly make war on the successful party, leaving Waik
er to ehp in while they were engaged in pummeling
each other The fact is, therecn never be any per-
niNLeiit peace between iue Leoii and Gtanada sec
tions of Nicaragua. Neither would the tmiun of
Coste Rica ami Nicaragua into a single republic
teud 1” ..ear- Nicaragua, numbering tiuO.lHK) per
sons, while Costa Sica counts onh 150.000, couid
en-. y outvote her. that Costa Rica would be
<■ me a colony of Nicaragua,.instead of her master,
bv a union. The original pianos dividing Nicara
gua, Salvador, or (Honduras} taking the western or
Leon section and Costa Rica the river, lake and
Granada section, was the only feasible one, conduc
ing to a permanent peace.
I‘resilient llora is acting with great energy to
meet the crisiß of Walker possible return. Deem
lug that every one owes his mite to the preservation
of the national eovereignty. and for the protection
of his property, he refuses to graut passports to any
to leave the country pntil he has contributed -oiue
thiug towards these ends, addle he eutoicesnass
ports upou all who evince a dwpwitian to stir up
discord.
The celebrated or notorious W. li. C. Webster,
accompanied by -Hr. Allen, Vanderbilt's sou in
law, came nut in lhe Northern Light, four days
since, and went to Costa Bica on the Columbus,
to negotiate a joint grant from Presidents Sloia cud
M - ‘irit; for tire transit. Mr. Webster is offered a
certain premium on such a grant, if it can be had
at a I'easouaple price, by V anderbilt aud Horace
F. Clark, and he also bears letters trom personal
and political friends of Mr. Buchanan, pledging
themselves that the U.S Government will guaran
tee the trsnsit from filibusterism in ease such a
grant is given. In case this guarantee is uot given,
then the grant is to be considered as nuU. It is not
at a:l improbable that when Nicaragua finds she
lias been deceived in the belief that the United
States would interfere in her favor agains - the Costa
Rican laimjshewill be inclined to come to terms
with President Mora. At any rate the prospect of
an early opening of the Nicaragua route is not
very favorable. F. W.E
Lvtek most Nicaragua.— Panama, Nov. JS,
lNn.—The newspaper dates are from Granada to
October 31, and lrom Managua {seat of Govern
ment) to the fifth. From throe,, and from printed
circulars issued from public cfflbes, I translate tor
you all the important <K>oum< i.ts relating to the war
with Costa Rica. Neither at Kealejo or at San Juan
al bur did the people know nur care about the
war. At thß latter place is living Mr. Priest, U. S.
Consul, Dr. Flint, Mr. Green, the tavern keeper,
and two or three other Americano, and a half dozen
Dutchmen or other whites, besides a tew miserable,
half Indian men and women. They had been living
principally on fish, but having broken all their
h'” ks, a deputation visited the Columbus to beg a
new supply. The wooden shanties of the trausit
company-times were all tumbling down, and in the
harbor were only the old coal hulk and the remains
ot Walker’s schooner Granada, that smashed ou
the rocks. The transit macadamized road is much
injured from the war. The bridges are out of re
pair, aud heaps of dirt, wood and stones thrown up
in various places for barricades. The rolling stock
of the company, comprising their fine passenger
and baggage wagons, harness. &c., is nearly all
lost or much injured. The large bpats ou the Lake,
oue of which (the San Carlos) eo.t $0,0*11), are all
much injured, and several of the river boats have
been stove up.
Win. Carey Joucs was down from Nicaragua to
San Jilan del Sur on the fid inst. He was believed
to have incited the war between Nicaragua and
Costa Rica, as he is the bitter enemy of the latter
country on account ot late private events there, iu
which he had part. He loudly assorted that his in
structions were from Washington that Costa Rica
was not to be considered as having any ownership
in the transit way, and that the United Slates would
take the part of Nicaragua in the quarrel. Mr.
Jones was v ery urgent to obtain au United States
flag from the Columbus, but did not succeed. He
then offered “ almost anything” for the Consul’s
dag, but with no better success. He avowed his in
tention to go down to San Juan del Norte toobtain
the interference of the U. S. sloop-of-war Saratoga
against the Costa Rican blockade, and professed
that he wanted the flag to wrap himself up iu, as
Kirby did, in passing the Costa Rican battery at
San Carlos or Castillo.
The steamer San Carlos is anchored off’ Fort Sau
Carlos, blockading that position. is. W. R.
Asimnwai.l, Nov. fil, 1857.—The British steam
ship Thames arrived here from Greytown on the
lffth, with dates from that place to the 17th. The
river being closed,she brings nothing from the inte
rior. She has a report, however, that :SOOO Nica
raguans nad come down to Fort Sau Carlos to at
tack the Costa Ricans, but the truth of the report is
liable to a great deal of doubt.
The Escape prom Utah. —The following narra
tive, says the Leeds (England) Mercury, is from the
pen of Mr. John Davis, a yoi.ng Welshman, who
em grated to Salt Labe, with his family, about two
years ago, from Measteg-, South Wales. It is taken
from a private letter, dated Council Bluff's City,
lowa, June 29:
I guess yon are anxious to know the reason why
1 lelt Salt Lake. I shall try, iu the first place to
inform you what a man must do to be a Mormon,
lie must give himself, his family, and all his posses
sions over iO Brigham Young, aud then he’ll have to
give the tenth ot all fiis income—the tenth day’s
work—and he must keen from two to ton wives. If
lie don't agree to these things, he had better quit;
by doing so he is in danger of losing his life every
minute, for they would rather kill him than let him
be the means of letting the world know how things
are in their midst. Many have been shot down iu
trying to escape. I have seen dozens shot down in
the street; aud three days before I left I saw three
persons killed, merely because they intended to es
cape ; they were shot down iu a place called Spring
fii Id, while preparing to leave. This took place
about 8 o’clock on a Sunday morning, within fifty
yards of the gates of the city. The first was a young
man named Wm. Parrish ; lie received seven balls
in his body, the second was liia’ father, and the
third was a man called Potter, whose body receiv
ed as many as fifteen balls. The old man was
pierced iu the bauk, and his Ihroal cut in three dif
ferent places. I saw them lying down, aud I could
name the persons who killed them.
Brigham Young lias got men for this purpose.—
Their number is 100. They are called the “destroy
ing angels.” Thier captains name is William Hick
man, aud the second iu command is Porter Rock
well. The walls around the city are fifteen feet high,
and they are surrounded by a deep wide moat. The
city is entered by four gates, which are watched in
the night. The gates are so narrow that only oue
vehicle can pass through at once. The “destroying
angles” go out on the plains in the spring in order
to interoept those who may escape from the oity.
Many left on foot last January. They sleep by day
ar.d travel by night. I know of men and women,
who have travelled this way—the men dressed as
women, and the women as men. I came across
some who were very short of food; the little they
had they gave to the women, and the men were
principally sustained by the women’s milk ! I left
Bait Lake City on thel7thof April, in company
witli two Welshmen and au)Afriean. The'few Mor
mons who knew of our intention said we should
never reach the States alive, but I told them that I
was determined to try, whatever might occur.
Ou Saturday (the day after we left) we had trav
elled 80 miles from the city, when we saw three
men following us. They Were sent by the author
ities of the city to catch us. The name of oue was
Patrick Lynch, an Irishman by birth, and Secreta
ry to Brigham Young. This man fired his revol
ver at me, but the ball went by without hurting me.
They then came near us on them horses, and in
quired our names, and when we refused to tell
them, they swore that they would blow “our d—d
brains out) ’ With that one of them raised his re
volver, as if he was going to use it—he had oue on
each side of his saddle. I then took out my re
volver aud told him to fire if he liked. I had six
rtvolvers with me and a rifle, containing in all 87
balls. Another bail waa then fired at me, which
whistled by my left cheek. I then fired at him,
and one ball hit him on the leg and another on the
sboulJei. (My friends by this time had run in the
woods, and I was left to tight it out myself.)
“I then lost my footing, undone of the men ran
at me with a knife and cut my belt, and took four
of my revolvers. I had tbe other two hid in my
boots. I got hold of one of them and fired, anil
succeeded in keeping teem off for some time, till
I had a chance to run to the woods, where I got the
assistance of my friends. We continued to travel
that day and the folloving night, and succeeded in
leaching a place called Fort Bridger, which is 113
miles from the Valley. The number of our pursuers
had increased to 2U, aud we had to put to the woods
again. We traveled all night, and were so fortu
nate as to meet a host of friendly Indians, whe gave
us bufialomeat to eat. The next day we overtook
a number of wagons, known as Mrs. Babbit’s
train, in number 2s. I was hired to drive one
wagon, which was drawn by mules. We had
some trouble with Indians called the ‘Crow tribe.’
They were well armed, and about 1,000 strong
About 600 shots came into our tents. We killed
about thirty Indians, aud they killed five of our
men.”
From Central America. —Tee Panama papers
received by tbe Northern Light, at New York, con
tain the proclamation of Martinez, General-in Chief
of the Nicaraguan army, dated Oct. 23d, declaring
war against Costa Rica. The General declares that
Nicaragua will preserve the whole line of transit
from oceau to ocean, also the district of Guanacoa
to. Tue Costa Rican General has made a formal
demand for the surrender of the fort of San Carlos.
The latter is reported to be on the Lake in a steam
-ei, aud had been fired upon by the Nicaraguan
troops. -.
Martioez, iu au address to the people of Nicara
gua, says -
■•The government of Costa Rica, with the osten
sible view of assisting Nicaragua in the defence of
the independence of the country, possessed itself of
Castillo Vieio ; it turned out from that poinl the fis
cal employee that tbe government had there it as
sumed the sovereignty of the waters of the river and
the lake, under the trust of tne Republic, for the
purpose of blockading the fort of San and.
iastiy, it captured the boats that conveyed Nicmr
guan passengers to San Juan del Norte it placed
forces in Tortuga and threatens to occupy the neigh
boring town, to consummate the complete usurpa
tion of the transit line, and hand ii over to \\ ebster,
Harris & Morgan, the filibusters, who are the great
est friends of Walker.
“ The Governments of the other States, being
made await of these circumstances, tnat of Salva
dor has offered its mediation, which that of Nica
ragua accepts, with the hope of procuring a pacific
termination to the present question and the Com
missioner is momentarily expected, who doubtless
wi ! bf. to a certain extent, listened lo by tbe Go
vernment of Costa Rica, because all the Slates have
mi equal interest in preventing all disturbances that
might afford the nlibustermg party the desired op
poi tuniiy to strike a decisive b :w against tbe in
dependence of Central America.
“But if Costa Rica doe: not retrain herself at the
imperious voice ot reason and uaiinual policy it is
necessary that the Nicaraguans reprees her auda
ciousness and arrogance, and defend the dignity of
tbe Republic “
Subsequently appears tbe following decree:
Tiu Supreme Gotirnm iU of the Republic of Sica
ragua to tie 1 nkabitanis ■■
Considering that the deference of the Govem
men of the Republic has not been sufficient to re
strain the intentions of that ol R>c&, am. the
hostile operations undertaken to seize the river San
Juan, the Lake, and the entire Isthmus between
San Juan del Slt and Virgin Bay, witn tbe view of
the entire transit rou'e into its power.
In view of the deepatob. dated August the sth,
by the Minister of Relations of that Republic, re
! using for its government the cession maae by Nica
ragua of the District of Guaoacaeta. and the right
bank of the river San Juan, from within two miles
below Castillo Viejo to Point Castillo.
The captain of tue steamer San Carlos, Sr. G.
Canty, having announced the blockade of the Fort
of SaL Carlos, and demanded tbe surrender of the
force that garrisoned it, all by the order of the Cap
tain General of the Republic of Costa Rica, ae is
shown by the note which tbe said Captain addressed
to the commander of the said fort, wnieh is publish
ed herewith—Decrees:
Art. 1. Nicaragua accepts the war which the
government of Costa Rica makes, and will vindi
cate its rights, treacherously outraged by the con
duct of that government.
Art. z. Tne Republic of Nicaragua wiii preserve
in fact its rights to all the line of the transit, by the
river and lake, as far as San Juan del Sur, as well
as that which it has on the District of Guanacasta,
its lands, wood, and rivers.
Art. 3. It will proceed to raise the necessary force
to carry into effect the dispositions of the present
decree.
Art 4 Communicate it to whom it may concern.
Given in Managua. Uctoner 13, 1857.
Thomas Martikez,
Maximo Jerez
The Happy Family,
, .mm,M U! ML fe L he bacl ii l 801116 dt> sree satiated the
nakL in h' 9 . —l' y hun *” ‘R**- 1 stuffed mer
sm P * :P -''‘ not iu H *t“ r * s tian mood)
-at mmseif down tomveut anew pleasure The
idea was worthy of the enlarged phiianthrophv the
bul U 4m “Sum
t hem to live together in seeming harmony So long
as lhe eye of the master wa; upon the heterogemf
one colle.Ron, it might well be called a “Happy
hamily; but let that one* be withdrawn, and Te
eat would east a furtive glance upon the’rat and
the dove would cower beneath the perch of the
flank Even when the utmost sympathy prevailed
the timid shrinking of the weak, and the occasional
glare and unsheathing of the ferocious, taught that
education might tame, but could not create—and
iuugafedu directed, could not be entirely
W e thick resemblance is very striking, if not
complete, between Barnum's “Happy Family” and
whht is called “National Democracy.” To hear at
times the mingled sounds of joy and anguish, the
squeaks of despair and death, and the triumphant
notes of victory—to see the timid cowering and the
fierce springs and swoop*, the rats running for dear
the beak and talons of the hawk red with
the blood of the dove—to hear aud see all this, oue
igno anfc of the powej of discipline would certainly
think that the family was anything bpt happy ; but
let the master appear, and all is as silent and de
mure as a schoo: of boya just whipped, when the
teacher suddenly appears, in their midst. The rats
issue from then holes, the monkeys cease to put their
hands into their neighbors’ trenchers, and even the
sly cat and sanguinary hawk “roar you as gently as
sucking doves. The keeper with bountiiul hand
scatters his meat, hisgraiu and his nuts, and once
more for a t?me the lamb aud the lion lie down to
gether, and the timorous hare seeks her form be
neath the folds of the boa-constrictor. The por
cumne the prairie-dog and the rattlesnake, all are
huddled in one common bed.
Is not this a faithful portrait of National Democ
racy Here are the protective tariff men and free
traders, the internal and anti internal improvement,
the State rights and cousolidationists, the banks and
anti-banks, the slave owners and freesoilers, the
‘ r ai , Uc hanan, and Buchanan without
• all ready to devour each other—but in
, P 8 master, who scatters a few crumbs from
the public crib, and lo! ail for awhile is quiet. The
old Jackson lion, who roars “union U* eternally, and
w hose thick skin is impenetrable to secessions thun
der and lightning seven times heated and hurled,
his “porcupine' 7 brother to his bosom until
tears ot joy roll iu commingled streams down their
fraternal cheeks. The “porcupine’ 7 ceases ‘O be
rretiul ana refuses to shoot flis quills, and all of the
Happy r amily move on together—provided, al
ways, the maßter supplies them with food at the
regular eating hours.
. In illustration of the different instincts and hab
its of the animals which compose the present Dem
ocratic ‘Happy Fainily } ” we contrast the following
resolutions passed unanimously by the Alabama
Legislature now in session, and the laudations of
Walker by the Philadelphia Press, tiie confidential
organ of Mr. Buchanan. Here are the resolutions
in full:
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- \
sentalivess in General Assembly convened, That :
Robert J. Walker, the governor of Kansas, has i
plainly, palpably and dangerously violated the prin
ciple of non intervention contained in the Kausas
bill: First, By taking sides in his inaugural ad
dress against the introduction of domestic slavery
into that Territory, and enforcing his views by an
argument, thus abandoning, at the very outset of
his administration, the rectitude and impartiality
which befitted his station, and upon which every
section ot the Union had a right to insist, and
throwing the weight ot his official influence against
the rights and interests of the Southern States
Secondly, In undertaking to serve the cause of
freesoil, which he had thus officially espoused by
proclaiming that the constitution of Kansas, after
being adopted, should be submitted for ratification,
and bv prescribing the class of voters to whom ou
ly t should be so submitted, when the people of
Kansas, aetiLg through their legally appointed Con
vention, alone had the right to settle these ques
lions tor themselves; ’Thirdly, In assuming, with
out authority of law, to interfere with the returns
of the late election, aud thus, by a naked usurpa
tion, changing its result, and giving the ascenden
cy. in both legislative houses to the party of fanati
cism over the party of the Constitution—that for
these unjustifiable and flagitious acts Robert J.
\V alkor deserves and receives the unqualified con
demnation of the State of Alabama.
Resolved , 2f/. That the people of Alabama profound
ly regret the lailure of the Administration to remove
Gov. Walker, aud are wholly unable, upon the facts
now in their possession, to reconcile such failure with
fidelity to the principle of non-intervention em
braced in the Kansas bill; but from extreme reluc
tance to believe, even upou such evidence, that an
Administration, elevated to power by the votes of
fourteen Southern States, can present so flagrant an
example of bad faith as an endorsement of the course
of Gov. Walker would exhibit, they forbear express
ing HDy censure or condemnation in advance of the
opportunity afforded the President by the approach
ing meeting of Congress to explain the causes of his
apparent continued acquiescence in the etrocious
policy of the Governor of Kansas.
Resolved, 3 d. That the State of Alabama recog
cognizes, and in common with her sister States of
the South, will maintain, to the last extremity, the
right of the people ot Kansas, acting through their
legally appointed Convention, in spite of interfer
ence or dictation from any quarter, to adopt a Con
stitution with or without submitting the same for
subsequent ratification, as iu their judgment may be
proper, and to be admitted into the Union as a State
with such constitution, so adopted, upou the sole
condition that it is in its form republican.
Resolved, \th. That a copy of these resolutions be
forwarded to each of the Senators and Representa
tives of the State of Alabama in the Congress of the
United States,
Now, aiidi alteram partem / Forney takes issue
with his Georgia and Alabama friends, and speaks
thus of Gov. Walker :
“The public mind, in reference to individual acts
as boldly as it doed iu reference to great parties.—
Take the case of Gov Walker. He was more ma
ligned by northern factions than auy other getleman
sent by the General Government to the doubtful
and difficult theatre in Kausas. His personal char
acter and his public history were alike misrepresen
ted. The meanest fabrications were uttered against
him. This was only a few months ago ; ana now
we behold an acclamation of applause in his behalf,
coming from men of all parties, even from those
who were the iirst to oppose him. If there is au ex
ceptiou to this remark, it may be found on the part
of certain politicians of the South, who while con
demning his last great exposure ot fraud, are com
pelled to admit the frajid itself, and to shield their
protest under legal technicalities.”— Columbus En
quirer.
Suspension of the English Bank Act. —The
news from England by the Vanderbilt shows that
the struggle in financial and commercial circles
which was pending at the previous dates, on the
question of suspending the provisions of the bank
charter act of 1814, has resulted in accordance with
the desires of those who so vigorously pressed the
measure as one of alleged real necessity for the re
lief of commercial and manufacturing interests.
The London Times had opposed the measure with
ability and vehemence, arguing that the advanced
rates of interest would be sufficient to accomplish
the purpose so much desired—that is, the checking
the exports of specie—while at the same time that
paper alleged that all sound parties could thus get
all the money they really had need for in their busi
ness by paying the increased rates.
Other influential journals, however, quite as ably
combatted the position of the Times, on the hypo
thesis that the high and advancing rates of the bank
were entirely inconsistent with the allegation of a
sufliciencv in the supply of money equal to the de
mand. The demand must necessarily exceed the
supply, else the price of money could not by any
possibility attain to such high rat s; and, in addi
tion, the action of the bank was but increasing the
panic among the community, locking up means and
creating distrust. The views and the interests of
controlling classes have triumphed in the decision
of the matter. Tfce relaxing or suspension of the
bank charter act actually removes all restrictions
upon the issue Bank of England notes, and a
treasury order was issued in London to that effect
on the 12th iuat., authorizing the issue of notes to
any amount on approved securities.
We give the annexed ‘n regard to the bank char
ter of 1844, and the bullion and representative prin
ciple:—Ball. Bun.
1844.—This year, in reviewing the bank charter,
Sir Robert Peel m%le several important modifica
tions in it. The chklf features of the new act were
t hat it restricted the bank from issuing notes on se
curities beyond the fcforteen millions to which it was
ordinarily limited, and that it provided that every
note issued beyond tliat sum should have its repre
sentative in an equal amount of bullion. By this
bill the banking and issue departments were sepe
rated, and various other alterations were made in
the arrangements and machinery of the bank. The
government, in the last clause, reserved to itself
the right of repealing all privile. es of the bank not
abolished by this act, upon twelve months’ notice
being given at any time after the Ist of August,
1855. It should also be mentioned that the act
granted to the country banks the privilege of draw
ing bills not payable on demand within the sixty
five miles limit at less than six months date.
Cotton is King. —The New York Herald says:
—At all events, whatever change the virtual sus
pension of the bank may cause, it is quite evident
that nothing can for the present restore to England
the control of the commercial affairs of the
world. That control has been vested ia the United
Stateeby the force of circumstances. The priority
of our revulsion here, and the suspension of New
York banks, the sudden aggregation of specie here,
and the stagnation of trade, have placed the United
States in a position to command the world, in a
commercial point of view. We can exact specie
for our cotton, and Europe cannot do without it;
we can keep all our gold, and England cannot take
: t from us. If our banks play their cards with ordi
nary discretion this crisis will crown the commerce
of the United States as the controlling power of the
world s trade.
Thus it it —Cotton it King ! It is universal mo
narch. It is cotton that prove? the sheet anchor to
the United States in the financial storm. It is cotton
that makes Europe dependent , and in the midst of
these amazing monetary convulsions, offers to our
hands the aceptce of the world. Cotton, which could
not be cultivated without slave labor, proves itself
the salvation, financially and materially, of the whole
country.
Nena Sah*b’s Proclamations. —The Biston
Courier has received copies of the following procla
mations, issued by the leader of the insurgents in
India. They are both dated the Ist of July. The
first reads thus:
“As by the kindness of God, and the ikbal or
good fortune of the Ernperor, all the Christians who
were at Delhi, Poonab, Satarah and other places and
even those 5,-000 European soldiers who went in
disguise m*c the former city, and were discovered,
are destroyed and sent to hell by the pious and aa
gac “os troops who are firm to their religion; and
as they have all been conquered by the present gov
ment ,'and as no trace of them is left in these places,
it is the duty of all the subjects and servants of the
government to rejoice at the delightful intelligence,
and to carry on their respective work with com
fort and ease/’
And the second ia like unto it, being as follows •
As by the bounty of the glorious Almighty
God and the enemv-desiroying fortune of the Em
peror, the yellow-faced ana narrow-minded people
have been sent to hell, and Cawnpore has been con
quered, it is necessary that all the subjects ahd land
owners should be as obedient to the present gov
ernment as they had been to the former one ; that
‘dl the government servants should promptly and
cheerfully engage their whole mind in execution of
the orders of the government; that it is the incum
bent duty of ali the iyots ana landed pt oprietors of
every district to rejoice at the thought that the
Christians have been sent to hell, and both the Hin
doo and Mohammedan religions have been con
firmed ; and that they should, as usual, be obedient
to the authorities of the government, and never to
suffer any complaint against themselves to reach
the ears of the higher authority.”
Railroad Convention.— The Richmond Whig
says that a convention is to be held in that city on
Tuesday, the Bth of December, of all the railroad
and canal companies of that State, to consider any
matters of general interest, and endeavor, by con
cert of action, to adopt measures for making rail
road investments remunerative to the stockholders
The Wreck of the Flying Cloud.
From the one surviving sailor of the ill-fated
schooner “Flying Cloud,” on Lake Michigan, the
following thrilling particulars of her ioes are learn
ed. We condense them from the Chicago papers ;
The Flying C cud left Chicago last Wednpsilnv
webk for Cleveland, with a cargo of 10,000 bushels
of wheat. She had proceeded down the lake some
titty miles with a fair wind, and was near Racine
when she encountered a r iolent gale, accompanied
with snow; her sails split and small boat swept awuv
and she was rendered completely unmanageable
Suddenly the wind changed to the northwest, aud the
vessel was headed for Chicago. The weather was
intensely cold and the sea made dean breaches over
tfte vessel She was driven at the merey of the
3Sr-%S3S. u,e head of the lske ,lumi * the
“twa rt l’ t f t - eno el . OU , kon Thure<i ay a blinding snow
storm set in, and about two o’clock in the afternoon
the rocks at anl °‘ d d 7°i ‘A“ e Beaso “.*Mie struck on
tfte rocks at a place oal.ed Grand Calumet a wild
toT’t t ’° Ve! ' e i d ‘ rith BUOW ’ auil uo friendly
hands to reuder assistance. The captain aud crew
edaHdaT iiidat W®**?
ea an day, and at night came down and spent the
mght on the quarter deck, lashed to the spars In
he morning two of the men were found dead’ and
the captain scarcely able to articulate. ’ and
The whole of the crew were already nearly frozen
aud unable to swim. They consisted of une ner
sons, mostly belonging to Cleveland, viz Akx
hherwood captain George Guidon, first mate -’
l aul htedd, second mate ; John Fiauders steward’
(shipped m the city from bark Morgan ) ’and John
buiafl, George Gnmley, Watt Bain, Francis Fox
and Henry Coleman, crew. The captain, steward,
John Small and G orge Granby were soon so badly
frozen that they were unable to move The cap
tain wanted to jump overboard, but was prevented
by the others, as he would have drowned immedi
ately, though he was only to die by the more lin
gering death of freezing,
At 9 A. M. the mate, George Gordon, jumped
overboard and swam ashore. On reaching it he
perceived two men dragging a boat down the beach
to their shanty at the mouth of the river He was
subsequently found within twenty rods of the shan
ty having mistaken the path, cold and lifeless A
sailor bv the name of Bain followed the mate over
board, but fell within six rods of the vessel where
his body wus afterwards found. Both froze to
death and are now on the beach dead. Another
seaman by the name of Franklin Fox was the next
tojnmp over, and was fortunately met by the men
with the boat, who directed hiip to their shanty a
mile and a half from the creek, while they labored
to rescue the others. They succeeded in saving a
boy by the name of Henry Coleman, but on takin
on another, the boat was swamped and broken to
pieces, aud the unfortunate man was drowned.
The captain was so chilled as to be unable to
stand, aud could not avail himself of the efforts to
rescue him. Fox was badly frozen and*crippled,
was without auy clothes, and after being supplied
by some shingle-makers, went to Miller's station,
ou the Michigan Southern railroad, three miles dis
tant from the wreck, and came to Chicago. The
boy Coleman managed to get ashore alive, remain
ed at the shanty near the wreck, badly frozen. On
the arrival of Fox at Chicago, a subscription was
set on foot, and a handsome sum oolleoted.
Mr. J. Barney and William Hea immediately pro
ceeded to the scene ot disaster and found the vessel
broken in two, with tha captain and two others en
veloped ill their icy shrouds, in the position in which
death overtook them, upon herdeok, but having no
boat, were unable to take off their bodies. The
bodies of the mate aud Bayne were found lying
where they fell.
Capt. Hea and Mr. Barney returned from the
wreck to Chicago on Thursday, with three of tha
bodies that ot the mate, George Q&fdner, and
Watt Bayne ar,d Qeorge Qrimley, seamen. Bayne
aud Grimley beloug in Cleveland, and Gardner at
Port Huron. The bodies were terribly frozen aud
distorted, showing the intense agony the victims
must have suffered ere death released them. The
bodies of the captain, cook and boy are still on
board, and can be plainly Been from the beach. It
was impossible to get them ott'ou Thursday, the sea
running mountains high.
The captain leaves a wife and ohild, aud George
Grimly a wife. The rest are unmarried. The Fly
ing Cloud was owned by Jlayney, Corning & Cos.,
of Cleveland, and was insured for SO,OOO.
American Commerce and Christianity in
Turkey. —We make the following interesting ex
tract from a Constantinople letter in the New York
Evening Post;
“American commerce continues to increase with
this place. Large quanitles of American furniture
is being brought out for sale. American carriages,
and especially harness, sell well here. The furniture,
however, is of au inferior quality, whilst good ma
hogany settees and setsof chairs would command an
iomiediato Bale. It has already a high reputation iu
Constantinople. Large quantities of Yankee stoves
are iu the market, and sell well. American ram
and brandy (?) of the most villianous kind are im
ported by shiploads, and sold for the benefit of the
wretched. Intemperance is fast takiDg hold of the
higher, even mole than the lower classes, and the
poison imbibed is generally the aforesaid ram, some
times converted into baki.
“Some person in the United States is certainly
hoaxiDg the credulous with accounts of the extensive
conversion of the Mussulman population of Constan
tinople to Christianity. Some of the American pa
pers have even contained the tale of the Bible being
read in almost all of the mosque here I The truth is
that in the last twenty years that missionaries have
become Christians, with their families, while during
that period hundreds—it might even be said thous
ands—of Christiana have become Mussulmans and
the feeling of animosity aud hatred, aud contempt
of Mussulmans against Christianity is a; deeply seat
ed as it was one hundred years ago. If any change
has taken place in this feeling, it must be attributed
to fear for the late presence of the allied troops cer
tainly lias imposed somewhat upon the otherwise
fanatic Turk. The cases where the Bible is read by
Musselmans must be few, and in the mosques none,
and the assertions otherwise are as incorrect as they
are indiscreet.”
Greenwood Cemetery. —A correspondent of
the Portsmouth (N. II.) Journal thuß “hits off oue
of the “features of this splendid cemetery
There is one feature, in that part of the Cemetery
appropriated for children, which is to Le regretted
good taste does not correct. It had its origin iu this
way. Someone threw a rattle, or some other play
thing, upon a child’s grave. The idea was rather a
poetical one, and if it could have remained a solitary
instance of the kind would have done very well, but
the story got into the newspapers, aud the notion has
been carried to a ridiculous extent. All sorts of
absurd playthings are scattered upon the graves,
and on some of them are two story glasses baby
houses, tilled with a general assortment of the most;
ludicrous articles to be found at a toy shop. The
kneeling and winged figures among the graves are
objectionable ; being merely plaster casts, they be
come weather stained and crumble to fragments by
piecemeal, losing their legs, arms, wings, &.0., one
after another, until they become hideous to the
sight. Some of the angels, with their eyes knocked
out, look as if they had been engaged in personal
encounters with each other. Such exhibitions of
lack of judgment on the part of thoße W'ho place
such things there need correction in some way by
those who have the regulation of the grounds.
Rau road Accidents.— -On Wednesday last,
about five or six miles from the city, Mr. A. P.
Blood, conductor of one of the freight trains on the
Memphis and Charleston Railroad, accidentally fell
from the platform of one of the cars while the train
was in motion, and was so severely injured as to
cause his death in an hour and a half.
On Thursday evening last, as the train on the
Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad was coming up
from Panola, a young man on board, eldest son of
Gen. Whitmore, who was standing on top of one of
the oars, came in contact with a crecS beam at Tal
lahatchie bridge, by which he was very seriously
injured—so much so as to cause fears of his life.
Ou Wednesday evening, a short distance from the
city, an Irishman, while attempting to get aboard
one of the cars of the Charteston Railroad, was
thrown off and the wheels of the car passed over his
thighs, severely injuring him. He was taken to the
hospital.— Memphis Bulletin.
Probable Loss of a Philadelphia Vessel
with all on Board. —The barque Ala, of Philadel
phia, Capt. Andrew Davis, sailed from that port
oound to London, on the Oth of September last.—
She left the Capes on Sunday morning, September
oth, at daybreak, and has not since been heard ot. —
Capt. Davi- was an old and experience ship-master,
and has been sailling out of Philadelphia for upward
of forty years. The following is a list of the officers
and crew :
Andrew Davis, master, Philadelphia; G. Petter
son, mate, Norwegian—family in Baltimore; John
Nelson, second mate, Norwegian; Cyrus Laws,
steward, American , William Walford, cook; Ame
rican.
Seamen.—George Lilly, Swede; David Craig,
Norwegian; John Graffin, Hanoverian; George
Mills, Irish; Charles A. Cookson, Swede; John
Brown, German; John Bunker, German, J. J.
Francis, English.
Ordinary Seamen.—Robert Thompson, Sunder
land England; Wm. Samson, American.
Her cargo consisted of 1,426 bushels of wheat,
3,439 bags of oil cake, 970 bushels of corn, 531 bags
of peanut cake, 113 bags of cloverseed, 5 hogsheads
of molasses, 50 hogsheads of lampblack, 421 barrels
of rosin; 113 tierces of beef shogsheado bark.
The Ala belonged to Messrs. Thos. Richardson &
Cos., and Messrs. Leuig, and was engaged as a packet
between Philadelphia and London. She was asu
perior vessel, and was built at Newbury, Mass., in
1851. Registered tonnage 463 66 95, was caulked
and coppered in August laet, and well found and
provisioned. She was fully insured.
Melancholy. —Weregret to learn of the death of
Mrs. Elizabeth Keller, wife of Mr. Paul Keller, of
this county, who shot herself in a fit of mental de
pression on Sunday laet. The deceased was betweeE
fifty and sixty years of age, and had been foi some
thirty years a member of the Baptist church, in good
standing.
Mrs. Keller had recently been afflicted with a dis
ease resembling erysipelas, which at times caused
in her great depression of spirits, and evidently af
fected her mini!. A short time since, while in a fit
of temporary derangement, she attempted to de
stroy herself, which induced her friends to watch
her. On Sunday last, while her husband was ab
sent from the house for a few minutes, she made an
excuse to Bend her attendant —a young girl, into the
garden, when she seized a gun, which had been
loaded with buckshot, and discharged its contents
into her Bhoulder, inflicting a wound from which she
died in a few minutes. — Sav. Morning Newt.
Varioloid. —A case of Varioloid of the mildest
form has been reported to exist on the premises of
Mr. George-.W. Winter, in Wynnton, one and a
half miles from the city. The disease was brought
from Baltimore, as we learn, by a servant of Mr.
Joseph Winter—and as soon as the nature of the
case was ascertained, the proper authorities took
immediate stepß to have a guard placed around
Mr. W.’a residence, to prevent any member es the
family from visiting the city or elsewhere in their
neighborhood. Hence there can be no danger of
the disease spreading beyond the limits of the
locality where it first made its appearance.— Colon,
bun Enquirer
Deathof_a Revolutionary Veteran.—Jera
tbiel Doty, a soldier of the Revolution, and the last
survivor of the Body Guard, and escort of the gal
lant Lafayette to his native country, departed this
fife early on Sunday morning, the 14tb met., at his
residence, at South Walingferd, Vt., aged 93 years.
When the Alliance was sent by the Continental
Congress to convey Lafayette to France and to
bring back the negotiated loan of five millions trea
sure, Jerathiel Doty was one of the picked escort to
take in charge the noble treasure out, the patriotic
Lafayette, and the much needed treasure in return,
to replenish the exhausted national treasury. And
on their return, in the desperate encounter with the
British cruiser, when the scuppers of the Alliance
ran with blood, the old hero was foremost in the
fight until wounded, as was supposed mortally, and
was carried below.
Novel Newspafer TilfiJL.
prietor of the Newbury port Herald
ting the 75th anniversary of their J™** 1 * ’
and the2sth of their daily, on the 17th of January,
the anniversary of Franklin’s birth-day. They pro
pose calling together every l.ving printer who served
an apprenticeship in their office, and every editor or
proinment contributor. The list embraces the names
bf quite a number of distinguished gentlemen, who
now honor the various professions of life. An ora
tion will be pronounced by an eminent statesman,
and the occasion will be one of great interest
VOL. LXX.—NEW SERIES VOL. XXI. NO. 49.
Lous of ike StcnniKhip Ceulral Amerirn.
From the testimony, cal and written, voluntarily
communicated to the committee by several -f the
surviving officers aud passengers of the late United
States mail steamship Central America, belonging
to a company having a contract from government
at an annual pay of $290,000, it would appear that
the vessel had not, at the time of her departure
from Havana for New-York about 10 A. M., on
I uesday, the Bth day of September last, any mate
riai defect either in hull or machinery, but it is crene
rally questionable whether the pumps and other ap
puanoea of the donkey engine were in good order
11 13 ‘t u,t ® certain thatthc ordinary stock
re not *?• That about sixty houra after
w e htor ana Bh L e ?' iou " tered a 3evere adverse
gale which increased m violence, producing a heavy
head sea. that so long as there was a sufficient
quantity of steam to keep the vessel under steady
head way she maintained her course and weather
eu the storm; that ou the morning of the 11th
about kalf-pa*t?,the ship labored heavily—in fact’
to such an extent as to alarm the passengers ami
arouse the captain and chief engineer, who were
at that tune iu their berths or state-rooms ; that
about noon, the gale still increasing, she fell off
trom the wind, aud it then appeared that the
“res in the engine-room had by some unexplained
carelessness, been allowed to go down, and had be
come so low that the engines had gradually slowed,
and finally stopped working; and the headway of
the ship being consequently checked, she fell off’ in
to what is termed the “trough of the sea,” and
partly on her side. An attompt was then made
to ,| th K°V ,eCt e pa, tially e “ ei ’ted, again to get steam
in the boilers, but not more tliun half a dozen revo
wer3 aoc *~ l" Plished by the engines before
they stopped entirely and forever.
It may be inferred from these statements that the
wafto\h 8U *’ X tb , al Wluch le,ltoth e catastrophe,
was m the neglect, above stated, to keep up a suflß
“: , r aUd . Co “ t \ UUOUa beadot steam, and, when it
was tound to have fallen so dangerously low, in
there not being greater and more fr.mely efforts ex
erted to replenish it by supplying the furnaceß with
fuel, ot which there waa abundance at hand. Up
to the stopping ot the engines, we do not find that
any water of consequence had reached the engine-
room, nor was there any reason to apprehend such
a result so long as the tires were properly kept up
and the duties of the officers and men in the en
gineer s department faithfully performed. It does
not appear, from the testimony, that there was auy
serious leak iif the bottom of the vessel, or fracture
or break of any part of the machinery ; but that
the engines, as already remarked, were prevented
from working, only by want of steam, and that the
water insidiously and slowly entered the vessel (as
she was lying upon ner side or very much keeled)
by some of the air ports wlii h were either inad
vertantly left open or imperfectly closed, as also by
the opening at the paddlewkeel-skaft, and through
the probable open seams about the guards and
other parts of the upper works, thus accidentally
immersed. J
.. Tke water gradually increasing, was washed by
the motion of the vessel against and into the ash
j.ans and furnaces, extinguishing entirely the fires
and 1 eudering it impossible finally to raise steam in
the main boilers. All hopes being’ exhausted of
further using the main engines, and the pumps con
nected with them being of no avail, resort waa had
to the donkey (minus, and after raising steam in the
boiler by using the cabin doors, &0., for fuel, these
also proved to be defective, and notwithstanding’
the efforts made by the under engineers and others
to remove the difficulty, they ’could uot get the
lumps to work to any advantage, and subsequent
y the further use of them was altogether aban
doned.
The regular deck pumps also proved to be out of
order, rendering them of little or no avail, and iu
the attempt to construct temporary box pumps by
some of the passengers, neither the requisite mate
rials nor carpenter’s tools could be found.
Whilst the ship was lying in this helpless condi
tion attempts were made to bring her more to the
wind by setting the mizen ; but this failing by the
blowing to pieces of the sail, fruitless efforts were
made to get her before the wind by setting the reef
ed foresail and one or more of the head Bails but
these also were destroyed by the wind, and, as a
last resort, the foremast was cut away and a drag
prepared and put overboard in the hope of bring
ing the ship’s head nearer to the wind, and thus re
lieving her.
Meanwhile, parties were organized for bailing
and passing buckets, and other means of removing
the water were resorted to ; blankets were used for
checking tiie leaks whenever observable, especial
ly about the shaft and air ports, so that notwit ft
standing the defecti re working oi the pumps, the
water gained but slowly, as was proved by the
length of time the vessel floated after the com
mencement of the leaks—a period of about thirty
hours. There being now but little chance of saving
the vessel, means were adopted for the safety of as
many of the passengers as the boats would accom
modate, and some progress was made in the con
Btruction of a raft. The committee have thus sta
ted all the essential facta and circumstances which
have been brought to their notice. The investiga
tion has beer, conducted with the sole desire to eli
cit truth, and not to criminate any one, but rather
that their inquiries should lead to the adoption of
such measures as may tend to the improvement of
the existing navigation laws, aud the establishment
of a more efficient system in the general manage
ment of ocean steamers, aud especially with refer
ence to the greater safety of passengers.
It cannot and should uot be concealed that the
testimony before the committee goes to show that
the Central A morica was not found and equipped
as she ought to huve been; that her crew was not
sufficiently numerous; that she was without a
carpenter or suitable carpenters’ tools, and, what
seems to the committee a most serious defect, being
common, it is feared, ill many of our passenger
steamers, there was a want of proper organization
in regard to the relative authority and duties of the
officers and . rew of the vessel , each department
appearing to be independent of the others, instead
of being strictly subordinate and responsible to the
captain, as the legitimate superior and chief; and
this independence of action was the more observa
ble iu tiie department of the engineer.
But the committee have no desire to dwell upon
the melancholy incidents of the past, and iu turn
ing from the foregoing recital of facts, as explained
to them, they enter with greater freedom upon tho
discussion of a more congenial branch of their in
vestigation, the necessiiy and improvement iu the
construction, equipment and internal organization
of ocean steamers, the consideration of which will
form the subject of another report.
M. C. Ferry, Chab. H.Marshall
E. Nye, J. D. Jones,
F. Lathrop, Alered Seton,
A. A.Low, Alexander V. Fraser.
New York, Nov. 28,1857.
Uoiiiinerce of the United Htntca.
The commerce of the United States witli foreigu
nations and their colonies for the fiscal year 1857,
ending 80th June lasi, will soon be reported offi
cially to Congress by tiie Secretary of the Treasury.
The New York Times anticipates the report at
length liy presen ting the following condensed fig
ures :
GROSS EXCHANGES OF TREASURY YEAR 1857.
Imported in foreign goods : $818,128,842
Foreign specie brought in 12,461,792
Total $360,890,141
Exp’d in produce of U. 8. .5278, 906,718
Foreign re-exported 14,904,509
Remitted in Am’can gold.. 00,078,352
In foreign gold auds fiver.. 9,058,570
V
Balance m favor of United States.. $2,059,003
The total imports of foreign goods for the year as
above $1348,428,342
Os whieh re-exported 14,905,509
Left for American market $333,522,833
Left for American market in 4856 295,650,938
Apparent excess $37,871,895
We may he. e note t hat nearly if not the whole of
this excess waa held in bond at, the close of the fis
cal year, June 30. The amount bonded in New
York alone was then $37,054,152, or an excess of
twenty-six millions over the amount in bond at tiie
close of the previous year ; and the amount in
bond has since b3en increased for the leant of a
market.
general classification of f.xforts.
1857. 1856. .
Cotton $131,575,859 $ 128,882,351
Bread and Provisions... 75,069,634 77,046,828
Tobacco 20,260,772 12 221,843
Products of the sea 3,739,64 1 3,356,787
Ofthe forest 14,699,711 10,694,184
Os the factory, &.c. 33,054,556 34,236,051
Total $278,400,176 $266,438,058
SEPARATE comparison of bread and provisions.
Vegetable food. 1857. 1856.
Wheat $ 22,240,857 $ 15,115,661
Flour 25,882,316 29,275,148
Indian Corn ... 5,184,606 7,622,565
Indian Meal 957,791 1,175,688
Rye Meal 115,828 214,563
Rye, Oats & other small
Grain 680,108 2/18,620
Biscuit or ship bread —. 563,206 497,741
Potatoes 205,616 153,061
Apples 135,280 143,884
Onions 77,048 83,742
Rice 2,290,400 2,390,233
Total Bread $58,333,176 $59,390,906
Meats, Lard, Butter, &o. 16,736,458 17,665,922
Total $75,069,634 $77,046,828
The export of domestic produce for the year, as
above $278,906,713
Against the export of 1856 266,438,051
Exccbs in export of produce 12,468,062
The gold and silver exchanges of the two years
compare as follows ;
In 1856 remitted in American gold.. .$14,148,279
And in foreign specie 1,597,206
Total specie sent abroad 45,745,48.)
Less foreign specie entered 4,207,622
Netspeciesent out last year 41,536,863
In 1857 remitted in American gold 60/178,352
And in foreign specie * 9,058,579
Total specie sent abroad 69,1.46,922
Less foreign specie entered.-..- - 12,461,799
Net specie sent out this year. $56,675,123
The classification of the domestic exports is inter
esting, as showing first that, notwithstanding the
falling off in the export of grain last spring and sum
mer, the products of agriculture sold abroad neatly
equal the great export in this line in 1856; and se
condly, that the planting interest derived the largest
sums total from cotton and tobacco known to the
history of our foreign commerce
Loss of the Central America.— We publish
elsewhere an interesting and important report
from the Committee es Exports, headed by Com.
Perry,U. 8. N., to whom was intrusted the investiga
tion of the causes which led to the appalling discs
ter that befelthe steamship Central America. The
report states clearly and succinctly what, in the
opinion of the Committee, caused this sad disaster.
Negligence and want of proper organization of the
crew, together with the independence of the several
departments of each other, and lack of a proper
head over all, were at the bottom of a caUmuy
which resulted in the loss of the steamer
sacrifice of so many lives. There appears .
been no material defect in the vessel or ni _ -j7
-the leakage being k ‘“°tde"'those
deck pumps were not m working e>were jn R
connected with the donkey *
questionable condition _*
ro.nnv at Pebryvilme. Ala. —
A Terrible at Perryvilie on Satur-
A which knives were freely used by all
’ The men concerned were Lowry,
& Pierson ; the two latter received horrible
’ . o. rr, Tsiwrv and when our informant left, they
live. One blow cat Fuller's
almost off and entering his side cut through his
ribs—the other victim was also cut through the
rit \V e K ot the above from a gentleman from Perry,
who came down on the train yesterday to telegraph
for the arrest of Lowry, who escaped immediately
after the horrible tragedy.— Selma (Ala.) Eeporhr
A Destructive Insect. —A small white ant has
been introduced iDto the I Bland of St. Helena, by
vessels from the coast of Africa, and is destroying
everything in the shape of wood, provisions vege
tables ana clothing. They eat into the wood-work
of houses, and then eat up all the inside, leaving a
mere shell. New buildings in lees than two years
will fall to ruins by their destructive operations,
which entail a loss to the inhabitants of thousands
of pounds annually.
Miscellaneous Foreign Item*.
Americans and Spaniards.— The Madrid Ga
zette of the 14th, publishes a copy of a despatch
- rom Mioister of Foreign Affairs at Washington
to the Minister of the United States at Madrid, ex
pressing the thanks of the United States Govern
ment for assistance rendered on the 23d August last
by two Spanish war steamers to two United States
steamers, the Illinois and the Empire City, which
were in danger of being wrecked near Havana. The
despatch says : ‘‘Such acts of intertional courtesy
are very agreeable, and tend to efface at! souvenirs
of differences trhich may have existed between the
United States and Spain,” (these words were in
italics in the Gazette,) “nations which, if their future
or their past be considered, have reason to draw
closer the ties of friendship. It is incontestable that
the tire of a liable generosity and the chivalrous
humanity so characteristic of their ancestors, still
burn in the heats of the Spaniards of these days.—
No other conduct than that observed on the occa
sion referred to, could have been expected from the
a die era of her Catholic Majesty. Such is the char
acter of the Spaniards.”
Ferouk Khan. —The Persian Ambassador Ex
traordinary is still residing in Paris ; failing to create
a sensation in the capital, he new and then condes
cends to astonish the provincials. A few days ago
lie visited Rheims, where he met with great success.
He was invited to a grand concert, was introduced
to the Cardinal Archbishop and was cheered by the
mob. A laughable scene occurred at the railway
station, where carriages had been sent to meet the
noble Persian and his suite. These carriages had,
however, been constructed iu an anti-Persiausense ;
that is no room had been left for the high-peaked head
dresses of these interesting foreigners. The conse
quence was, that on entering the vehicles the face
of the ambassador and the faces of his suite disap
peared under these gigantic hats, to the intense
amusement of the spectators. The coachmen were
at once stopped, the heads of the carriages drawn
up, nud the dignified appearance of the visiters then
restored.
Persecution of Christians in Cochin China.
—The Moniteur de la Flotte contains a statement
of the persecution which is now carried on against
Christians at Touquin, formerly an independent
kingdom, but now a province of Cochin China. Ac
cording to accounts recently received, churches
have been razed to the ground, missionaries arrest
ed or driven away, and the Christian schools all
closed. A Spanish bishop Mgr. Diaz, vicar apos
tolic of Central Tonquin, hat been arrested and im
prisoned with a chain round his neck, at Nam Ting,
a town situated near the coast. This unfortunate
prelate, who had been condemned to death, was
still alive on the 15th of July last, in the prison into
which he had been thrown iu the midst of all the
malefactors of the country.
A Case for Legislators. —ls Igo intoa grocer’s
shop and steal two or three pieces of sugar, I am a
thief. But if the grocer sells me a pound of sugar,
and there are one or two ounces short, he merely
sells things by false weight. lam imprisoned. The
grocer is fined a few shillings and escapes. I am
guilty of but one theft. The grocer, it may be, ia
guilty of a thousand, for he robs .every person to
whom he sell* goods with those fa-se weights. Now,
can you tell us by what strange anomaly of the law
the greater thief is allowed to get ofl’so much more
cheaply than the lesser ? Why shouldn't there be
the same law for both ?— Punch.
The Late Massacre ok Emigrants in the Mor
mon Settlements. —An officer of the army who
was stationed nearly a year in Utah, and who
passed over the Spanish trait —from Salt Lake
City to Los Angelos in command of a detachment
of United States troops in 1855—informs us that he
camped for several days at Mountain Meadows, the
scene of the late horrible massacre of over one hun
dred emigrants, and that there is no room for the
shadow of a doubt but that the Mormons were cog
nizaut of and instigated this horrible butchery. The
Indians in the vicinity of Fillmore, Parowan, and
all the southron settlements extending to the Virgin
river, are entirely under the courol of the Mor
raone ; the chiefs are recognized members of the
Mormon church, and missionaries ere constantly re
siding with them. lie further informs us that it
would be impossible for the Indians to plan an at
tack upon even a single train, for years no small
party of Americans has over been safe in travelling
this route. Asa matter of necessity, all small trains
have assumed the name of Mormons to travel safe
ly. These Indians are well armed with rifles, aud
supplied with ammunition by the Mormons, and at
the time of the passage of the United States troops
through their country in 1855 every effort was mane
by the Mormons to induce the Indians to attack them
—and they were only prevented from bo doing by
I he superior strength and great precaution shown by
the troops. This fact was communicated to the War
Department at the time in an official report.— N. V.
Jour, of Com.
TheN. W. Whale Fleet. — Important Russian
Measures. —The Paoifiol Advertiser, (published at
Honolulu,) of the 18th of October, in noticing the
arrival of sundry vessels at Honolulu from the North,
deems the news from the whaling fleet in the Ochotsk
sea quite unfavorable, in consequence of the ice hold -
ing out so long in July. But the most important intel
ligence derived from that quarter is tlie following,
which we copy from the Advertiser : “Besides the
drawback of ice, we learn from Mr. Dougherty that
the Russian authorities have forbidden the capture
of whales by foreign vessels in the bays and among
the islands of their Asiatic possessions, and iu order
to carry out their intentions, have sent War ves
sels to protect the grounds. The information was
derived from the captain of the Russian war steamer
Voetock, and is doubtless reliable. If so, it will
seriously interfere with the success of the Ochotsk
fleet, for the favorite resort of whalers is iu the bays
over which the Russians can exercise jurisdiction.
That they have a perfect right to carry out this
policy no one can doubt. The United Stales and
England protect their own fish.ug grounds, and
Russia can do the same. But unless the whaling
grounds arc visited by the Russian ships, it seems to
be little else than a ‘dog in the manger’ policy to
rive away American and European whalers.’’
Death OF Andrew Milne.— We regret to an
nouuee the death of Mr. Andrew Milne, one of our
oldest and most esteemed citizens. He died quite
suddenly yesterday morning, at the age of seventy
four years. Mr. Milne was a native of Aberdeen
shire, Scotland, but. early in file, came to this coun
try, of which lie lias been a resident for the last
fifty-four years. He first came to New Orleans,
where fourteen years of his life were spent in the
Cotton trade, as a member of the firm of 11. Mun
ro & Cos., and in connection with large houses in
Glasgow and Liverpool. During his residence ill
New Orleans, the war of 1812 broke out, and Mr.
Milne, like a good and brave citizen, responded to
the call of his adopted country. Vincent Nolte, in
his memoird of New Orleans, speaks of Mr. Milne
os standing shoulder to shoulder with himseli in the
famous defence of that city, under Jackson, and
says that his cotton formed a portion of the bar. i
cade which gave shelter to the American troops.
When afterwards he came to this ijtato, lie was first
engaged in mercantile business, snd subsequently
and latterly, devoted Ilia attention to agricultural
pursuits, lie leaves a widow and two adopted
children to mourn his loss, and his death will be re
gretted by a wide circle of personal acquaintances
and friends.— Chen. Courier of Friday.
The Corn Exchange Draft Swindle.— About
a year since, drafts to a large amount were put.
afloat in several Western cities, drawn by Win. B.
Brack, a private banker at Rochester, New York,
on the Corn Exchange Bank of New York city
Several parties were engaged in the operation, and
the drafts were sold on the same day in the various
cities, and of course were never paid. St. Louie,
Chicago, and Milwaukie bankers suffered to the
amount of some $75,090. Several of the parties
were arrested for swindling, but the one who it. was
supposed was the custodian of the avails, Thos. C.
Gilman, of Rochester, New Yoik, made his way to
Europe. Week before last lie returned, and as we
learn from the Rochester Union, was arrested on a
warrant as a fugitive from justice in Missouri. He
was in custody awaiting examination at our last ad
vices.
The overland mail line now in operation from
San Antonio, Texas, to San Diego, California, car
ries passengers through. On the sixth trip west
ward, four were thus convoyed to San Diego. The
way mails are much increased. The entire roud
is now stocked with four hundred animals, twenty
five coaches, and seventy-five men, (messengers
and guards) With this outfit they can accoiritno
date six passengers. Further arrangements are be
- completed to accommodate passengers through
to New Orleans by this route. The fare from San
Diego to New Orleans is $209, which sum includes
meals ou the route. The eighth mail from San
Diego was to have been despatched on the 23d of
October, with a full complement of passengers.—
The schedule time for the trip of this line is thirty
days.
Heavy Thunder Shower and Damage p.y
Lightning —The Belfast (Me.) Age speaks ■f a
heavy thunder shower which passed over that city
on the 20th ult.., and states that the lightning struck
the house of Mr. Abner Harmoud, in Northport,
and completely demolished it It came down the
chimney, bursting it asunder from top to founda
tion, carrying away one of the gable ends of the
house entire, ami shattering every room it con
tained No one in the house was injured. A look
ing-g'asß in Mrs. Harmo'nd's room, close by her
bed, was shattered to atoms, and parts of it were
found the next day in the cellar. An ordinary
case-knife, which was sticking in a crevice near
the window in the pantry, was found several feet
distant, driven through a portion of the head of a
flour barrel, which had been opened the day pre
vious.
Loss of the Schr. Northern Light.— The
schooner Northern Light, Cousins master, of Buck
port, Maine, from Norfolk, Va., forßarbadoes, with
a cargo of staves, sailed from Hampton Roads ou
the 29th October, and on the 9th of November, lat.
23, lon. 62, experienced a heavy north east gale ,
and, at 12 o'clock that night, while under double
reefed canvass, the schooner capsized ; at 6 o'clock
the following morning, after cutting away the rig
ging, both masts were carried away, and the schoon
er righted.
J. C. JenkiDß, cook, a native of Cape May, N. J.,
was washed overboard and lost. He was about 55
years of age, and leaves a family. Remained on
the wreck until Nov, 24, when Captain Cousins and
four men were taken on, and brought to this port
by tbe British ship Star.— Char. Com .
Fires in Athens. —On Saturday evening last,
the stables, crib, &.C., of our townsman, Dr. Joseph
B. Carlton, the worthy Senator from Clarke, were
consumed by fire—together with a quantity of corn,
fodder, &.C. It is said that some little boys started
this fire with crackers. This is a vile practice, and
should not be any longer tolerated In the streets.
Our new fire company happened to bo “exerci
sing” about tbe time the file was discovered, and
promptly repairing to the scene of disaster, save’
the contiguous buildings from destruction,
as a portion of tbe Doctor's corn. , , „
We regret to announce that our esteemed fellow
furniture’, wo regfet°to^earn, wa/also
Watchman.
Operations of the U. S. Mist. —The deposits
.iihe Philadelphia mint during October amount
ed to $1,423,599 in gold and $383,149 in silver. The
Jiinage’ during the same time, consisted of $2,198,
(26 in gold, $700,999 in silver, and $16,200 in
copper cents. Os the gold coinage $ 1,899,400 was
in double eagles, S72,O<H) in eagles, $80,340 in half
eagles, and $56,686 in dollars . and of the silver
coinage $340,009 was in half dollars, $229 000 in
quarter dollars, $35,000 in dimes and $26,000 in
half dimes.
Dress at the French Court —The progress of
extravagance in dress has provoked a slight counter
demonstration on the part of the French Court.—
Last year it was understood that no lady invited to
Compiege could appear twice in the same dress.
This season it has been intimated that the re ap ■
pearauce of a dress once in the course of a week
will not only be tolerated but approved. The con
sequence iB that ladies invited to pass a week at
Compiegne Fpaek up only eight dresses iustead of
sixteen.
True Benevolence.— The Delaware Republi
can says Itis stated that Dr. Meggs, of Delaware
county, Pa., met with Mr. Samuel Riddle, a manu
facturer, a few dayß ago, when he asked Mr. R.
how many families on his bank would suffer from
want be tore they would make their condition knowu.
The answer was, “a large number.” The Dr. then
told Mr. B. to give them their living, and make out
his bill, and he would foot the samo in the spring.
Mr. R. had the bell rung immediately and set all
bands to work on full time, the mill haying been
running half time for some weeks. By thisoouduct
many families have been placed in a comfortablq
situation for the coming winter.