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ti ■ M-!-.., character, which Mr.
■ i . M-;K pre m : ■ aadiiiK as a student an.l
* ii owe lime in the above Iu
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lu iuJ:, o n ”,n^nti;
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! . n in .then ;o:rVAhoiuay wish to favor j
• ■ - , the -.(..id MONDAY in
T • - ■ i 1 : ieun,cf*.M wot-ks $24
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l mi* K*male i>•}> n < ent will he under the Miperin
u. M - •! ! DKAUINO, a giaduafo of the
I: JANE
Ills* lr. i- I . Terms as usual Each
! r|* * * - • ; ' ! ■ 1 r.n, ipal, at Thompson, (la
< r JtIOIiAKDH, Principal,
•>. I • s HOITIKH, Associate Principal.
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‘wo - .;•••! 1.. it’ !.!•: N-. it MACKEREL,
1 .. I- rm rind Pa’III CANDLER
J.- iIU . ! For sale by
l .EM\\ JENNINGS A 00.
- . . uILLA OOMPOLND, OK
i*i-; N’ts aetekativk,
For D IJvt aid for put tffing ike
I- ■ iparilla, the Hydro Al
I son • . . m(Silltiugia); Wli tc
The
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ve oi laxat•• e Io Urg
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• : . Liv or (ii MM
the! io to Mettmwd
me 11 “tie . in.ii .1 uiiprovrnien in the general
roved oi by emteeftt
ai-e W. 71 known to be good,
i h. pabli
• c • , • - t 1. 1 , the b. ure -oaiuundatiou that
i. tV . •■:I ■• ■ i il ; t-s tor diseases of the Liver
;i . I. that can be obtained. Pro*
NOTE LOST.
. It. ft. SON are hereby no tided not to trade
•/, l . • ‘ ■ . .. i .'. Si: ui. i l.i-b. nr r!assaill Note
pi, 1 . . .’.u-i. JNO. SAMUEL
(M \ II . J.-iii - lS'-s .jit !* wit
i’WENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
* > \> V W \ Y ; • -uh.enher, nt Macon, on the
.
’ Ibenjo pl:>er
.... e ! i .. ’i v. Va Iw id gve the
.•.c, . • -.dm jail ho that 1 get him, or d
,WM K ELTON.
, n t Winchester, Ma. on c*x,Qa.
B \ .US’ HAW K S : LANDS ! LANDS!!
4 | ,j a > <>t if ■> lu st Planting and Farm
r a.'..s to Mill purchaser*. Also.
, , . .. , ;ov*t T sas l auds, with clear
. i \ , dVi -,:-g at \ cry sow rate ;at the the Georgia
A 1 .. s,ivaan:.!i, AtU.uis, and the
. .. • u-p.M. i* 1 Hants, wtl beta
.. a.- \ "t a’ par va m* Ns* roes will be taken al-
h*.lc li pri.ivi allowed.
1* , .. . , . r i.uh: settlements, or making
,; A ; . . UN ,. :,ts. . i lind ato their Interest to rail at
. u Offn . Warren Uattge, Augusta, (ta.
JAMES M DAVISON,
i ■ -i Agent and Real Estate Broker.
; V.t ROV v X) EAd r ,E COTTON GIN.
I > ATI’ ‘*.11% lK& t'O., the manufacturers of thi*
- . ~< i ‘ introduce it to the attention
.= ... .. They It eve been in extensive use
\. Mi.-- ip pi, and Arkansas, for
- •*, : \**.; .. \* i. .. y ;.\ UUtVCISaI satisfaction,
r. m’ . :.ir.l.v| the !u t itms made, both for speed,
i; ... vu.i.i . .'■ •>•"-u the Cotton. A specimen
.t !• AN l IGN.VC. KVANSA
. ii !• ‘.nters ire invited to examine.
* , iM HA TF.S.ItY 1)E A CO.. Bridge
N. -e pr*mi*;ly atuj.idodto, jels-tt
TOR SALE,
V. i. C- > T!o\ ‘i n .*< 1 *ooacres Land, well
t ; i. v * „* a -u .eared, and produces the best
: • I . a.l 1“ *vis r*’ of all kinds. A good
. . . ...taiv.jjg seven rooms, w ith four
• IVv. •* K chin. Smoke House,
t.* c •• ff.u . (J n House, aud other buildings,
.... s With a VV* ot gix*d water, a due
•
m i,i, e abi:*.• lan V uiore hi • thy, pleasant location
~ . t ‘ • and *tt Southern Georgia. Further par
. i-by application to the subscriber
*. . • V WOOLLKY
PLANTATION FOH SALE.
ft’ II R ‘i iber offers tor ‘.vie his FA KM, coutaming
k * • V v mU* from Turkey Town
I* • : •* > i both sides of Coosa River—on
wluch -Vh: -; <i’ I. u;ng weekly from and to
K uie.tia. ito V “ the j~v o h comfortable Dwell
rvF.ro- -a- >• :ves. Cribs. Gin House
:iC. •’ “ s„ -v.l with the Farm. Mules,
lion H r .Cow atm w>.a:evwr Corn and Fodder I
t: y ha*e ‘ •e* • “ ale Possession given
JOHN M BLOUNT.
FOE SALE.
I ( u \TiON i Oil A in
A ‘ .v.v u t far trctu Augusta.
A : ; : •, .■ ’a. : oa. with a good eomtaodi
l.uit ree ‘ 7 nti*wuer who s %practising
.e<ir. .1- ;• e. ewe-;, w.u >eli a bargain. His practice
g,H>.i a. . guc.ght ■•". -i l\-rfu. tber particulars, ap
EUREKA OIL
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1 iv.*k\ * m.vr:. a u *!cr in sUvea. m efforts to meet
hj'.m y ccv.'at the c.irtV*rent ills and aches
■•a ; . > -c wc.-e *-.iv ui tto fr. m the various ex
• ~a,.M-.-r*. • s ‘ iv'iorasjve and healdmg vir
,c’ “ ,Tv u- : 7he k7v. K> , \mat ‘ m ,‘ NennS^
I! ad A 1.0. To r. At.be. Ihvne IMU-u- Tetters, Pa;ns,
■ n i w i vi’ iii an
iir luaM -A,,'’ Cramp *r P,.u m the Stomach,
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or Cm s. . n . - j i\ er s- u v Scald l cad. Freeh
<.s au-.1 A .. . , rau-s n the Lunds and Joints,
v .., : , n Fee; and Ankles, Bums,
• . v r.’ i ‘ v * - the w orkings of this great
s.v • ?.ni s in the healing ait. of I
?7 ‘ v ■ ; ! •* ll p ui i
e. >ta ■- tnd 5. 5 -.p l*". here iTbaT bWn istx^>
dte*; \Vc .; t.e r, . . i>r the production of its
#-.|U.C n■■■ -’ t g ‘• >-r the healing arc It would
seem nip ii . v a the wonderful cores pro
do* ed in a very tew ; t > >, the streets of Coiumbos,
Ga w;* : ; am* ■ • a h- r> judged to be dying
wL.-n a:’.L.= ’ •Y : •* ‘ ‘UtN-ring greatly wttk colic.
- 7. -a. • 7a, X. i V Daafcrth, Nagel
A >'■ !•■■!. .. : *■■'•* AC. Hr ,4s A Chip.
S.V.IA Wat*. A K Aver
i- .l.v U.euvy.l A-.:ire*
U . y lyi'i ■ , WKLLS. Urus.-'v'. wbjwUl in
gsvt-i. in t' -i •■ u- bottle, if Csed sti.ctlv as direct
ed j ■ * • i ah. *e .I>,'as For Coughs common
ai <. li t LUBEKA OIL ba, no equal. 13
or . .... os ... vat<r three or m-..*re t-me> va the day, the
-a; • i l no charge will in* made for the
o*l . ; .niirn 1 Chili and Fever, if rub ed well
. v *• s, ; ~t*-'. and n*k .a ume of fever,after
the it-rex a tvtit.uuatiou of tho same application, and
t*r. t; ; -p.s ;.j vrati i every tive hours, till the time for
L •• r > b< - properly directed, with cenidcates at
a he- J . 1 ifcutei* need no otlk i doctor on their planta
tions ver Ki.r**kaOil. Trv n—it is no humbug. Half
the quantity tor chddren *
dcJ ts W CROFT a OO , Atlanta, Ga
\> *1 A 1,1. lot of UATJs in store and for sale by
decs* M W WOODRUFF
Cferonitle & Sentinel.
F I U O P E AN INTELLIGENCE.
BT THK EUftOPA.
The steamer Europa arrived at New York on
Sunday, Liverpo<d date* to Saturday, the
Ihv Europa brings no tidings of the Ariel, the
safety of which is now involved in eericra* doubt,
from the tact that she was never regarded ae a
thorough tea-going vessel She was built for the
CnUforniA trade, and scarcely capable of contend
•g with the gales reported by the recent
arrivals.
The general intelligence trom Europe is the most
important for several months, emorscing India
news, important financial and commercial intelli
gence and the decease of a number of promitieuL
pemmugm.
Tin accounts from India say that Windham's
division was lately cut up and retreated with the
-vh ot all the tents of three regiments. Colonel
Campbell on ie&rning of the disaster immediately
<jL.itted Lucknow, and oii the 7th of December to
dly defeated the Gwalior mutineers, capturing
their guns, baggage, etc.
‘1 \n women and sick fiom Lucknow reached Al
lahabad iu safety.
A loan for the East India Company is spoken of
on the meeting of Parliament.
A rtill further reduction of bauk rates is antici
The Hank of Helgium has reduced the rate of die
count to i'i per cent.
i he marriage of the Prince of Prussia has been
prolonged three months, owing to the King's con
tinued iiiness.
The Hank of Prussia has reduced its rate of dis
count to 5| per cent.
The news trom China is meagre. The attack on
Can!on had not taken place, but it was expected
ti. Pis that France and Spain will make
a <i* moustraticn against Cochin China.
IMtes from Melbourne to the 17th of November,
and JjxJOO.OOO of gold, hau reached England. An
au JiNona! sum of j£7iN),OUU is known to be on the
way. Huffiness continued depressed.
Correspondeitce of the London None*
Thf. Eartikjuakk in Naples—Scenes and In
N •I- lan. 7—l proceed to give furth
er details from the provinces regarding the all ab
sorbing subject of the earthquake. The official
journal of Wednesday night enumerates f>l places
wn'oh had suffered in I heir buildings, and many in
th-ir population. Under the name of each place is
given a description of the disaster, and this last re
port alone gives the number of several—say, -1,000
or. >ooo additional known to have suffered. Then
are described the other casualties, people maimed,
(rushed, others drawn out alive, after a fearful sepul
ture of eight days, reminding us of how many more
might have been saved had proper exertions been
made. The latest accounts, too, awaken consider
able apprehensions of further disaster. The whole
di.- iict of Sala is agitated by continual movements
of the earth, stronger by night than by day, aud
ti.* . e are preceded by detonations. Moreover, about
o’clock p. m., of the 138th ult., and 0 and half-past
7 p. *n., ot the 211th ult., throe strong shocks, lasting
10 to 17 seconds, were felt, followed by others leas
intense.
In I’otenza, too, on the evening of the 20th,
about a quarto- to 7 o’clock, a strong undulatory
shock was felt, and o her light ones during the night.
No ii jury was done, but the population all rustied
out into some open space. Here in Naples it is said
that since the IGth ult., we have had, up to Christ
mas eve, El shocks, aud it may readily be believed.
Ahnost every one finds some trace of them in his
house ; the shocks, too which were felt in l'otenza
on the evening ol the 29th were felt in Naples, and,
iu some cases, created great alarm. However,
every one looks to Vesuvius for safety, and on that
uight it was iu violent movement. People who re
s’mio at Resina tell me that during the whole night
the shocks from the mountain were of a most vio
lent and continuous character. Every three min
utes it appeared as if a desperate man were trying
to wrench open the door* and windows. Nothing,
however took place.
! have also reports to give you from private per
f i who have visited the scene of ruin. They de
-oribc the country in many places as crossed with
L- are which at tirst had beeu very wide, but now
!ml much closed. During the whole time of their
va if the ground was heaving betiea'h them There
v.tw< universal panic and grief, and no light part of
it tire from the fact that there was no one to
- a< h beneath the ruins or to bury their dead. I
-peak of the 71dt aud the 22d ult.—that is to say, of
.-i\ days after the date of the disaster. Letters from
Brietrsa of the 21st ult. say that no relief had been
aa yet received. My informant*, in wauderiug
through Polls, could get no food, and even bread
was wanting in many places. Those who were dug
out alive—some after six or eight days of living
burial—awoke to famine and death. The details
v\ isich I receive ate more horrible than can be easi-
ly conceived.
Any one who ha*< read my narrative attentively
must admit either the indil'erence, or the iudolence,
or the maladministration of the government, and,
in fact, the public voice is very etrong on the sub
ject. No member of the royal family has gone
down to the atllicted neighborhood ; yet such is the
state of pupilage in which the nation is held that not
a leaf can move w ithout the will or even the com
mand of the King, and the King shuts himself up iu
Uaeta The Intendenti of Salerno and Potenza,
who have acted with great energy on the occasion,
have remonstrated, and the former has been up to
Naples several times. Yet lam credibly informed
that bread has beeu wanting in many places, though
most of the atllicted spots lio within a radius of 100
miles of Naples and a railway traverses nearly thir
ty miles of the distance. Again, the smell from
* Ik* bodies was so pestilential in some places that
Signor A joss is said to have recommended that the
surface of the grouud should be covered and lev
elled instead of being opened, but this w r as not per
mitted, and ouly on the Christmaa eve were per
aous sent to bury the dead. As, however, instru
ments, carriages, and provisions were wanting, the
work could not be continued. The Hoard of Health
cent down 12 persons only to dLinfeot a province,
and to give orders for the public health of 100 com
mimes. Two persons, also, were sent down as ‘ se
pellitori,’’ to superintend the burial of the dead—no
one else, no military or civil authorities, with the
alter ego of the King, not even au extraordinary
commission.
{Since writing the above, other aud more afflict
ing details have arrived of the desolatiou occasion
ed by the earthquake. Laurenzana, Tito, Brienza,
Marsicanuovo, have almost entirely disappeared. —
The King himself says that upwards of 15,000 have
perished, ami from what I have heard, says my very
Htmsible informant, the real number must be nearly
double. People who have come from the spot re
port that the groans of the sufferers were heard from
beneath the ruins several days after the disaster,
and that, horrible to relate, on some birdies being
taken (ut, it was found that they had devoured a
portion of their arms. There were none to aid them,
none to excavate the dying, none to bury the dead,
none to give bread to the tarnishing. Thousands of
oldiers are maintained at the expense of the State
to support “order,” but the v could not be sent to
save thousands from perisLing. Many steamers
were lying in harbor,the expensive toys of the sove
reign ; but, with one or two tardy exceptions, they
have remained nuug in port. People cannot re
chain from comparing the tardiness displayed on the
present melancholy occasion, with the promptitude
displayed iu the month of June last, when rebels
landed in Sapri. It must have been late ou the
night of the 27th, perhaps not before the morning of
llie 28th, when the intelligence arrived at Gaeta,
yet two steam frigates were immediately despatch
id with troops, aud at half-past 9, A. M., of the
morning of the 29th, the Cagliari was captured.
The KuropeauTimea savs the Indian news star
tled the whole couutry. Annexed is the odicial dis
patch :
“Malta, Jan. f. — The steamer Caradoc has ar
rived w ith important intelligence from ludia. Gen.
Havelock died on tiie ‘26th November, of dyseute
ry. brought on by exposure aud anxiety. On the
•27th November an atVair took place near Cawnpore
be, ween Gen. Windham’s division and the Gwalior
mutineers, in which the British troops retreated,
with the total loss of the tents of the sixty-fourth,
tl <* eighty-second and eighty-eighth regiments,
three thousand in number, which were entirely
burned by the euemy. The sixty fourth regiment
is reported as nearly cut up.”
A message received by the Governor-General
from Sir Colin Campbell, on the Bth of December,
contains an account of the previous action, fought
by him. with the Gwalior contingent, near Cawu
pore, iu which the latter was totally defeated, with
the loss of sixteen guns, twenty six carriages of
different sorts, an immense quantity of ammunition,
stixre.s, grainp bullocks and the whole baggage of
their force. The British loss was insignificant. One
officer only was killed, via:—Lieut.. Salmon. All
ttie women, children, sick, fee., from Lucknow,had
arrived in safety at Allahabad.
The Calcutta Gazette Extraordinary contains a
deeply Interesting detailed account of the defense
~f Lucknow, being tl.e official report of Brigadier
Knglish. The privations eudured by tlie heroio
garrison, aud particularly by tbe ladies, were fear
ful.
The London Gazette, in reviewing the above
news,says : ‘The Gwalior contingent is knowu to
have been the most formidable body of troops in
arms against the British government iu India. It
was a disciplined, effective force of 8.000 men,com
plete in organization and details. The blow’ which
as been struck by Sir Colin Campbell has proba
bly scattered this formidable force, on which the in
surgents of Central ludia chiefly relied. The com
mender in chief will now be enabled to onerate
tgainst the Oude insurgents, of whom he willuoubt-
V.-.s give ai good an account as he has of the Gwalior
mutineers.”
i ue papers contain extended obituary notices ot
G:- Havelock. Radetzky, Besckid Pacha, and
M tdame Rachel. The latter died at her estate ot
( Mines, aged thirty-eight. Shortly before her de
* ast* she divided her fortune equally between her
children and her parents. Her funeral took place
. t Par is on Saturday.
Field Marshal Hadetzky, the Wellington of Aus
:ra. died at kMiian ou the fitlh, of paralysis of the
::X', aged ninety. Keschid Pacha, Grand \ ivier
Turkey, died of apoplexy on the sixth. The
Tunes says that in bis death Turkey lost an able ad
strater—one who was capable of retrieving her
finai.-es, extending her commerce, and whose nigh
p on made it easy for the cabinet to deal with
the rival preti oeiooe of European powers.
A hopes of the recovery of the King of Prussia
iad disappeared. He has lost his ini effect, and ru
ior says ;.e will abdicate in favor of Prince Fred
rick, as the latter is about to marry the Princeas
Royal of England She will, in the event of his ab
dication, become Queen of Prussia.
1: is rumored that an Indian loan of six to eight
millions will be proposed immediately on the assem
bling of Parliament.
T .< total bullion in the Bank of England K £12,-
1 llv 00. and a reduction of the rate of interest to
tve per cent, is shortly anticipated. The London
Tunes of the 9th says that choice paper is negoti
c.ted at 4j do per cent., and loans on government
j-ccunt es at o per cent. Cousois had advanced I
. c-r cent, during the week. There were no failures
i c nnection with the American trade, and few
anywhere.
Ti e continental advieee were very encouraging.
The produce markets iu ail direction* were ac
live, at higher prices. Cotton closed leas buoyant,
in consequence of Manchester not responding fully
to the improvement at Liverpool.
M m’ Market, Lor do.*, Jan. B.— The money
market La* been quiet. Money is abundant. Con
s-ois for account J 95j. and
Bul’.i m in the Bank of England has increased £l,-
190.1*00.
The liank having reduced iu rates to 6 per cent-,
the effect was encouraging.
London Markets. —Haring Brothers quote:
Wheat is firm at an advance of 1 ? 2d. Sugar has
advanced I<3 2s. but closed heavy. Coffee is firm,
and aH qualities have alighilj advanced. Tea is al
- ightly dearer. Bice a firm at fid ala advance.
Koein is firm. Torpentine steady.
The Lalett.
Saturday. —Cotton haa a declining tendency.
Sal*’ to day estimated at 4.500 bales—quotation*
barely mmutained. Stock in port J9U.tHX* bales, in
i tudii;g 190 .CK.H4 bales of American cotton. Bread
are quiet and steady. Provision* close ouiet.
Lond. s, noon.—Consols 94J for account, and 94$
for money.
Foreign Item*.
A> E.vtenaive Fraud.—Letter* from Aus
tralia to day reveal an extensive fraud which
r is fearrd will meet with further rocce** be
lore its perpetrators can be arrested. The Australian
Joint Stock Bank at Sidney received by poet a
communication purporting to be addreeeea to them
I trom London by Meeeni Baring, Brother* h Cos.,
nominating the bank their ag( nts at Sidney, and
requesting a credit for £15,000 or £20,000, to be
opened in favor of a Mr. Francesco Antonio di
Miranda, for whom the same mau brought several
letters addressed to the care of the bank This Mr.
Miranda was at Sidney at the time and duly availed
himself of the credit, drawing £20,000, a!i d giving
the bank bills ou Baring's for the amount T!;e
w r Lole operation was & fraud. Messrs. Baring have
never addressed any letter to the Australian Bank
at Sidney, and that which the bank received must
have been sent by some accomplice of Miracdi's in
London. Evidently, therefore, a deliberate and
long prepared scheme is on foot which will be furth
er carried out at other places. It appears by the
present advices that Mirandi, who is assumed to be
a native of Portugal, stated his intention of proceed
ing from Sidney to Mac&o and Hong Kong, whence
lie would return to London and Lisbon.
trom the London Timex.
Death ok Mademoiselle Keciiel.— Many of
our readers who, till within the last two or three
years, have been accustomed to regard the perfor
mances of a aeries of characters by Mademoiselle
Rachel as one of the regular events of the London
season, will be shock’ and to learn that on Sunday
last she departed this life at her estate iu Cannes.
That her illness would have any other tiiau a fatal
reaultfew indeed ventured to hope, but, neverthe
less, death whenever it comes is sudden in its as
pect, especially when it brings w ith it a change of
’astee and of habits.
Mademoiselle Rachel was of bumble origin. Her
tather was a kawker, of the Hebrew persuasion,
and she was born on the 24th of March, 1820, at
the fcw’Uw village of Muns while her parents were
engaged on a professional tour. The family after
wards settled for some time at Lyons, where the
eldest child, Sarah, pursued the vocation of a vocal
ist at the various eafe* y while Rachel, (the future
actress,) collected money from admiring connois
seurs, In 1830, Paris became the residence of the
Felix family, and little Rachel, rising from the mere
ly financial department, joined with her sister as a
singer at the cases on the Boulevards. While thus
employed, it seems she attracted the attention of M.
ChoroD, founder of the Royal Institution for the
study of sacred music, who at once took charge of
her fortunes. However, he soon discovered that
she was more suited for the dramatic than ti e
musical profession, aud he accordingly placed her
under the tuition of M. St. Aulaire. Tn 1836 she
was admitted as a pupil at the Conservatoire And
from this time forward her history aud triumphs ou
the stage, are familiar to every reader.
Her first appearance in public as au actress was
in April, 183/, at the Gymnase, when she played in
a piece called La Vendeenne } without making any
particular sensation. It is from her performance of
Camille at the Theatre Fr&noais, on the 24th of Juue
1838, that her European reputation is to be dated,
and to the end this character has remained the most
celebrated in her repertore. The mere reader ot
the tragedy will, indeed, regard the Roman father
m the Driucipal personage iu Is* Home s, aud look
upon Camille as a comparatively minor part. Hut
to those who have seen Mile. Rachel, and know how
elaborate a superstructure she taised on the small
foundation afforded by the poet, Camille is the char
acter with which she will always seem identified,
notwithstanding the superior grandeur of her Phe
dre. A series of characters, esteemed of the high
est rank by the critics and annalists of the old
French repertore, followed immediately upon Ca
mille, and Defore the season of 1838 was ended, she
had attained a reputation rarely gained upon the
modern stage. Notwithstanding the value ol tra
dition, the classical tragedy, which during the last
century was regarded as a national glory, lias now
but slight hold on the French mind, save when it
becomes a vehicle for the display of an except ional
talent. Such a talent was found iu Mademoiselle
Rachel, and the old tragedies remained ou the French
stage as her exclusive property. New plays were,
indeed, written with the vew to illustration by her
genius, and perhaps the Adrienne le Coiivreur of M.
Scribe was the work in which she drew the most
money to the treasury of the St. James’ theatre.—
Nevertheless her impersonations of the old classical
characters will retain the longest hold on the memo
ry, and that wondrous combination of the highest
finish with every appearance of a thorough aban
donment to the passion of the moment will for years
be looked upon as a marvel to which few artists
could offer even a proximate comparison. The
Greek heroines of the playbook seemed artificial,
courtly creatures, decked out in roeco attire, but,
animated by Mademoiselle Rachel, they became in
tensely naturally figures, inspired by those strongly
defined emotions that are so conspicuous in the my
thical personages of antique Hellas.
Although of late years her London performances
were confined to the St. James’s Theatre, where
her engagement usually followed a series of French
vaudevilles, her first appearance, which was iu
1850, took place at Her Majesty’s theatre. However,
her permanent position aa a regular London “Star’’
began at the more western establishment.
After her last engagement in this country, which
took place in the year 18. r >s, ebe paid that visit to
the United States, which brings the record of her
professional life to its close. Keports of declining
health or of convalescence formed the staple of in
telligence respecting Mademoiselle Rachel since her
return from the other side of the Atlantic, uutil con
jecture was dissipated by the melancholy fact re
corded at the head of this article.
From the Times’ Paris Correspondent , 7th.
The remains of Mademoiselle Rachel are expect
ed this evening in Paris. The body, which is em
balmed, is accompanied by her brother, Raphael
Felix, her sister Sarah, and the Rabbi who was
called from Nice to attend her in her last momenta.
There gis no truth in the statement of an Italian
newspaper, that the deceased had conformed to the
Roman Catholic faith on her death-bed.
The Tribune, in its obituary notice, says :
“Considering her origin and early association,
Rachel’s life off the stage is perhaps more remarka
ble than any of her performances before the foot
lights . W hile she was yet a girl, almost a child, she
was received and courted in the truly ‘best society’
of Paris ; and never, either then before titled dames
and high church dignitaries, nor later, in prensence
of royalty, did she appear otherwise than in her na
tural place; a modest, graceful dignity never for
sook hoi, noi was mere auy or me uavoua agitate..
which embarrassed, and sometimes almost convul
sed her at a ‘first performance’ throughout her long
theatrical career.
“Among her fellow actors, she was often imperi
ous and unreasonable ; yet none of them could quar
rel with her to her face unless she chose. She had
not many real friends, but whenever she chose, the
witchery of her attractions was irresistible. Al
though her education was defective, and her literary
tastes but little cultivated by study, her letters are
often admirably turned, and her conversation was
charming to men of judgment as well as to men of
wit. This was due not only to her own quickness
and brilliancy of repartee, but to a singular justness,
wisdom and breadth of understanding, which she
knew how to exhibit.
“ The fatal malady of which she died was con
tracted in this country during her visit to Boston in
the autumn of 1855. It was greatly aggravated at
Philadelphia, where she played a single night in a
cold theatre, the performance being followed by a
violent pneumonic attack. Her last appearance on
the stage was at Charleston, S. C., where she play
ed Adrienne Ixmcouvteur. A lady in the audience
on that occasion, wrote the next day to a friend in
this city, that Rachel would never act again—a
prophecy but too exactly fulfilled.
“She died a tenacious adherent to the Jewish re
ligion, though it has often been reported that she
had beeu baptized in the Roman Catholic Church.
A rabbi from Toulon attended her death bed ; and
she was to be buried in the Hebrew Cemetery at
Paris.”
The Wise and Ridgway Difficulty. —There
is nothing more ridiculous than an attempted casti
gation, unless indeed it be an abortive duel. Both
of these ridiculous things they have had lately at
the good city of Richmond. The dramatis personae
of the pair of farces were Mr. O. Jennings Wise, a
son of Gov. Wise and Mr. R. Rid way, Editor of the
Richmond Whig. Both parties have issued their
bulletins, portray 1 ng therein their individual pos
session of any quantity of bravery and coolness and
claiming stentoriously the victory. Mr. Wise says
he w ent to Mr. Ridgway's room aud gave him a
substantial thrashing. Mr. Ridgway says he did
not know Mr. Wise and only received one blow
when he caught hold of the intruder and struck him
several blows with his fist. That not wishing to
hurt the young man, who he thought was drunk,
and who even then had not made himself known
to him, ho called for assistance and he was ejec
ted.
Mr. Ridgway then having ascertained w ho his as
sailant was, sends him a challenge, blood thirsty
and valorous enough in terms to frighten any
nervous young man. In his challenge, Mr. Ridg
way says :
“I propose that you aud I select only one friend
each, and with one pair of pistols, w'e shall all meet
in either your office or mine, at an hour to be here
after designated—that after thus meeting and the
door being locked, you and I shall be securely
blind-folded- that then the seconds shall load one of
the pistols and leave the other unloaded—that they
shall next determine by lot the choice of pistols—
that the pistols shall then be handed to us, and that
your* shall be placed directy against my breast,
and mine against yours—that, next and finally, at
the giving ot the word, we shall both pull trigger,
and let the consequences take care of themselves.’’
This proposition Mr. Wise, Jr., is quite too sensi
ble to accept, aud he says in his reply declining the
challenge :
“Whenever you shall send me such a challenge
as I can accept consistently with the just sense of
honor and propriety recognized by established
usage, I shall then be authorized to accord to you
the satisfaction which you may desire. Such a
challenge must not include conditions invasive of
my right as a challenged party, nor must it embody
propositions inconsistent with the usage which pre
vails among gentlemen of honor.”
Mr. Ridgway rejoins that Mr. Wise, by his con
duct, has placed himself without the pale of the
code of honor, and declines meeting him ou any
other terms, and thus ends the correspondence, a
great waste of ink and paper aud a happy economy
of powder and ball characterising the whole affair.
The day for duel among sensible men has gone by,
school boys may sometimes indulge in them, but
editois and legislators though they may occasional
ly aspire to the eclat of a challenge, rarely run the
risk of meeting in deaily conflict. They generally
find it so difficult to agree upon the terms and pre
liminaries.
The Gold Coinage of the United States
Since the establishment of the Mint, in 179*2, ao
cording to the American Almanac, the amount of
goldcoin isßued,tothe close of 1849, was $89,923,20*2;
From 1850 to the close of 1857, it was $4 25,889,738 .
making a total gold coinage of $505,81*2,940.
At the commencement of 1850, the amount of
specie iu the United States was estimated to be
$114,000,000; the amount of gold received from
California, to the close of 1857, has been estimated
to be $630 000,000; the amount of specie brought
into the country by immigrants during the last
years, is estimated to De $100,000,1)00; making
a total of $844,000,000. Within the last eight years,
according to the Report of the Secretary of the
Treasury, there have been exported in spaefo (less
import*) $*200,983,860 : leaving the amount existing
at the present time, in the failed States, in the
shape of coin, bullion, plate, jewelry, dec , of $643.-
016,140.
__ Prior to the discovery of the California mines, the
United States were importers of the precious me
tal* but since that event the position has been
reversed.
Forgeries at New Orleans. —Soiye startling
forgeries, committed by a man of high standing,
have been detected in New Orleans. The papers
do not mention the name of tbe guilty party. The
Crescent, under date of January 14th, says :--“Con
siderable excitement was evinced to day at the dis
covery of some twenty-five thousand dollars of fic
titious paper being in the hands of four of the banks
and some private parties The perpetrator of the
forgery has left the city. The heretofore high stand
ing of the party, and his connection with some of
our most respectable citizens, have caused much
wonderment and more astonishment The causes
which induced the deviation from rectitude and in
tegrity are only oonjectured—suffice to say they are
tracea to the same sources a* thousands of case* in
other parts of the world, the fondness for the gaming
table and its attendant requirements.*
The Delta says: —“For some time it had been
hinted that considerable paper purpoiting to be
made by high parties, and negotiated by a party
who bas’fceretofore held a high standing, has prov
ed to be fictitious cr forged. This morning the mat
ter became known to the public generally, and has
caused great astonishment. The high standing of
the person implicated, the unblemished reputation
which hie father held in our midst during a residence
of over forty years, and which it is thought had
fallen on the derelict one, the high commercial con
nection* of the firm with which he was connected,
ha* caused much unpleasant feeling The guilty
party ha*, we learn, left the city.’
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY IMO iNING, FEBRUARY 3, 1858.
Important Di*patrhe from Utah—TerribleSuf
fcrime ol itio A&itij.
The dispatches received at the War Department
from Colonel Johnston, dated Nov-rinber 30th con
firm the previous reports of excessive sufferirg and
great loss of draft animals by snow storms, a Id aud
starvation. A sufficient nutnuer of oxen, though
poor, bad been saved to supp y part rations six days
of the week, and there was on band enough of ba
con for one day of the same period for seven months
also flour and small rations. The storm deal! rough
ly with Col. Cock*B command. He lost half of his
horses, beside a number of mules.
!• urther advance toward Sa t Lake City cannot be :
made without anew supply of such animals ; to j
procure which Capt. Marcy had been dispatched to j
New Mexico, for their use early in spring, when the
army, with a volunteer force 2,000 Htrou*'. u i re- !
sumeits march as soon as supplied with horses and j
moles,and when the grass on the mountain s is sufli ;
dent t > sustain them.
Two volunteer companies have been mustered in
to the service for nine mouths, and it is exj>ected
that in a tew days two more will be mustered in.
The troops have borne the dangers and privations
of the march with patience aud cheerfulness They
are in fine health, although some of the regiments
are still suffering from frost bite
The following is the report of Col. Cooke :
Camp Scott, U. T , Nov. *29,1857.
Dear Major I left you on Black’s Fork, sixteen
miles from Fori Bridger, on the 7th inst., after one
day’s march from the point of uniting the commands
by Col. Johnston. You noV/ find us in this camp,
named in honor of our cherished chief, whose fore
thought end action has placed us in winter quarters,
under excellent shelter, without the blow of an axe.
Our first day’s march was over a dreary waste,
made more desolate by the fall of snow two days
previous, and the driving storm of snow arid wind
which met us in the middle of the march, miies
from wood, water, gnvs or shelter. To return was
destruction; to advance wa s , apparently, to court
it. The number of animals was insufficient to move
cither our mu’ or contractors’ trains. Still we
struggled on, iosiug strength hourly by the destruc
tion of our animals, and ou the evening of the Bth
we prepared for the contest again. On the morn
ingot tne 9th a portion struck camp and advanced
to the next place of shelter, there, while awaiting
the arrival of the rear, to have our animals struck
down by cold, hunger and thirst The rear (sth in
fantry) could not make a march of five miles in a
day to overtake us without leaving the supplies be
bind. Without sustenance for animals almost starv
ed before we joined the. main body, almost without
fuel, that regiment, and the trains it escorted, pass
ed the day travelling agaiust one of the most severe
storms of snow aud wind I have experienced for
many years, and camped in a dreary spot, open to
the full blast of the storm, with the thermometer at
fi deg below zero at • a. in., where we were under
shelter of bluffs. The orders will show our march.
It was one magnificent struggle from the beginning
to this place. One more day’s match aud our meat
ration—beef, horse and mule—would have been di
minutively small for the winter. The last company
of the 10th infantry, escorting the last of the sup
ply trains to Fort Hridger, reached this camp at 10
p. in. on the 22d, thus requiring six days to move
our little army and its supplies loss than six miles.—
In its limbs the giant’s strength was expended; but
the will which moved this force, and the spirits which
gave this will vitality, were brighter and stronger
as the constitution became weaker; and if ho ha<i
said on, on we would have gone, feeling that what
he would direct would be light.
The assurances you gave me of confidence in my
commander have been more than realized, and he
now lias, I believe, the unbounded confidence of
the army. You will a*e from his letters and orders
how he grappled with the difficulties in his path,
and I hope the spring will see him the conqueror.—
This little army is in fine health and in cheerful
spirits. The men have borne tln-ir trials without a
murmur—duty is severe upon officers and men ; but
not a word of complaint have I heard. We have
all endured alike, and the fact that Col. Johnston
has on the march “footed it,” as did the men ; suf
fers the same exposure, and will not permit the offi
cer to receive more than the soldier, lias endeared
him to ail. We are now in camp, nicely housed ;
the most of us iu wall-tents ; the men all in “Sibley
tents.” The latter save the necessity of huts, and
are the only suitable tents for the men. The wall
teut, with a stove, is the only cne for an officer.—
The tents furnished (Sibley tents/ are very inferior,
especially those made by the quartermaster—infe
rior in material and make, and small ami unequal in
size. One tent is allowed to eighteen men now, but.
in a few days they will be issued at one to sixteen ;
even that would be insufficient were not the men
on guard or other duty. Our animals are all absent
except those needed for police purposes and for im
mediate consumption.
This place (Fort Hridger) is admirably located;
timber abundant close by for fuel and building;
grass can be cut within 200 >ards of the garrison ;
water at the door ; and it commands every road
leading into llie country. The Mormons burned the
buildings of this place and Fort Supply; at the lat
ter they piled up their grain and set lire to it ; left
their potatoes, turnips, &c., in the ground. The
w r alla of Fort Hridger are standing ; they were built
for defense last fall— (> leet through at base, at
top, Iff feet high, and 100 by 110 on one part, 100 by
75 ou another. They tried to fire the grass, but
snow tell and extinguished it. Our snow was our
salvation. When the gras.? was burned the flames
scorched the trees GO feet high. Had the command
advanced sooner than it did the animals would
have starved, aud the army could not have found
or reached a j lace of shelter. Our grass is eaten
up for three miles around us; but we have animals
on Smith's Fork, (three milea off.) and there is grass
enough theie for the whole bund; but no shelter
and insufficient wood.
This va ley ia warm, wooded and watered, and
welcomed us. Our legs are untied, or fast getting
so; and when spring comes, a more devastating
swarm of grasshoppers will never have swept that
valley of Salt Lake than will this army be if our
progress is molested. This people disign our starva
tion, our destruction; and there is no device man
can resort to which they will not practice—from as
eassmation, murder, lire and flood. The robbers
find assassins will scalier *and form bands of gueril
las, ana no pa> iy, no uam, uu L.um n cattle will
pass to the valley if they can murder, burn or run
off. The Mormons have great fear of mounted
men, and had not Col. Johnston brought up the two
companies of the 2d from Laramie, (companies
which were to be called to Kearney, aud which ui
rections had been given to prepare for at Ky.,) from
the negligence of guards and the watchfulness of
the Mormons, we would now be struggling by hand
to get here, and without meat. Had the 2d dra
goons been sent at the time directed—telegraphed
—not an animal would have been lost by theft.—
The army could not, however, have entered the
valley without leaving its supplies behind. The
Mormons are a set of cowards, like all assassins and
bullies, and I fear their leaders and those who have
no claims in the valley will runaway, requiring their
deluded followers to destroy their property, lest it
may benefit us. The leaders rely on such conduct
as was pursued by Congress in the Kansas ques
tiou. I hope Congress will declare the Territory in
rebellion aud call upon all governors and command
ing officers to arrest and keep in custody all per
sons leaving the Territory, and especially the
leaders, unless accompanied by a safeguard or
passport.
One Month Later from Utah.—Mormons Pre
pared for Resistance Guerrilla Warfare.—
The New-York Times has private advices from
Great Salt Lake City to the 10th ult., being one
month later. The Mormons had completed tlieii
preparations for resistance to the troops ; not in
tending to risk an open fight, but purposing to un
dertake a guerrilla warfare. Former intimations of
this plan of operations arc fully confirmed. We
quote from the news in the Times :
The sufferings among the United States troops,
was, naturally enough, a subject for congratulation
in the city, when friends met. The people believe
in the entire destruction ot the troops now at the
foot of the mountains, ami as many more as may
join them in the spring ; not by the superior human
force that may be brought to oppose their entrance
into the valleys, but by the exeiciso of “ the Al
mighty’s power.”
The Mormons see no possibility of the troops ever
getting iu, though tiie valleys should be besieged
on every side. Ihe narrow defiles must bo passed,
in which bodies of men can be awtully harried by
guerrilla parties, and for that business they seemed
ready and well skilled. Tiiey have strongly forti-
Eciio Canon —as the trooj s are now in that direc
tion ; but every other entrance will be made a place
of defence before the summer. Every able-bodied
man will be under arms as soon as they have put in
the spring crops, aud they say that iu the time of
harvest —if the men cannot return —the women and
the rising generation, toge her with “ the fathers in
Israel,” will lend their aid. Many of the women are
not over-delicate in frame. Many of them natives
of Europe, have been accustomed to lue work of
the field and factory, so that, under the act ual su
pervision of Brigham, there is little doubt that much
of the harvest, it not all, will be Secured.
An open fight is not counted upon, but every
other means of crippling the army will be resorted
to, if once it becomes a matter ot life and death.—
There is, however, a hope prevailing among the
Mormons that the admiuistrat.on will yet call off
the army. They count somewhat on popular feel
iDg for arresting the President iu the course he has
taken against them. They believe that however
prejudiced the people may be against Monnonism
audits peculiar institutions, Congress would not
sanction extreme measures against them without
their being heaid in the defense of the course they
have taken. The majority of the men are for war.
In fact, their leaders Lad great difficulty to keep
some down who were restive and panting for a
light. Brigham told them that “he would exercise
faith that toe troops should be kept away, and he
wished all to do the same, instead of wishing them
to advance.”
His orders were imperative not to shed blood, so
that if another course should be adopted by the ad
ministration towards them, the feeling of revenge
should not hinder tne establishment of peace. While ;
our informant remained in the city he heard of no
dissensions.
A permit from headquarters was required before
parties leaving the city were permitted to pass.—
The yield of the crops in Utah has been enormous,
so that the Mormons will be well provisioned. A
number of Mormons are known to be in the camp
of the army, and accurate information of the move
ments of the troops was daily received at Salt Lake
City. Mauy of the Indians are on good terms with
the Mormons.
The Mis sing Steamshit.— Considerable anxiety
begins to prevail ou account of the non arrival of
the steamsiiip Ariel. Bhe is now in her ‘2sth day ou
from Southampton.
The agent ot the line does not think that she left
Southampton on the day reported, for the reason
that he has received letters stating that ou the 30th
she was off* Havre in & dense fog, unable to get into
that port. The despatch from Halifax by the
America, is quite positive however on this point. 11
says :
“The Ariel left Southampton on the 31st Decem
ber, having been detained a day behind her usual
time on account of a dense fog at Havre.”
The Ariel has on board ninety-eight passengers, a
heavy cargo, the English. French aud German
mails, and j£l .006 in specie. As severe gales have
been reported by recent arrivals, she may have
been disabled in her machinery and put
back, or come on under saih in either case we may
not hear from her in a week yet. — Bail. Amer.
Fire in Charleston. —A fire broke out la?t
night, betw?ea twelve and one o’clock, in the pub
lic stables at the corner of Broad and Friend streets,
owned by Mr. Josiah S. Payne, and kept by S. D.
Iloiloway, a free colored man. The fire spread
rapidly, and in a few minutes the whole building
was in flames. The firemen were quickly on the
ground, however, and prevented the spread of the
nre to the surrounding buildingß. The stables, to
gether with eight or ten bales of hay, were burned.
The horses, however, with one exception, and the
private carriages, were saved. The loss is there
fore not large, and it is believed that the bunding
were insured, though we were not able to learn for
what amount. The fire is thought to have been the
work of an incendiary.— Courier.
Accident on the Albany and Gulf Railroad.
—We learn that the passenger car on the outward
bound train of Monday morning, was thrown from
the track a few miles tills side o: the Altamaha riv
er. The recent rain3 i.ad w ashed away a part of
the embankment, bnt not sufficient to attract the
attention of the engineer, and the locomotive and
baggage car passed over in safety, but the track
spread before the passenger car got over and threw
it off the track. No one was inj red and we hear
that tue damag-* is trifling, and will cause but little
delay It probably is entirely repaired by this time.
— sav. Rrp.ff&tk tn*t
TFc Fifn-h Have Trade.
Under the caption of “Napoleon's defence of the
new slave tradeof France,’ appeared in the Paris
I Constitution©!, of Dec. 29, some views, which indi
i cate the progri s a of opinion, in relation to the im
portance cf supply ing to foe agricultural districts of
the world, (where there oxist3 a scarcity,) an abun
dant supply cf agricultural labor from Africa. We
present our readers v ith some of the important
poilKa of the article in question. Few sensible or
well informed persons will be disposed to doubt the
premises of “Napoleon’s defence, ’ w hatever opin
ion they may have as to his conclusions :
The planters have not been free to procure labor
er io continue and extend the cultivation of the
soil. This is or.e of the principal errors the Aboii
tionists have committed. In Europe the supply of
laborers has always exceeded the demand. In the
colonies, on the contrary, the demand has exceed
ed the supply. The popuaati. nis insufficient, and
it never cau be augmented by a European emigra
tion. In the tropics no European can venture to
cultivate the soil. To him it yields but deadly
emanations, while its richest products prodigally
b ‘ ow.-d repay the labor of tiie African or Asiatic.
The white mau may, without dauger, carry his
capital and his industry to the colonies, but his con
stitution is unfitted to endure great physical fatigue
there.
The colonies could l ave procured laborers from
Africa and /Via that could not be surpassed, if the
Abolitionists had consented; but this they wouid
n >! do, and with their usual mode of reasoning,
claimed to act forth© interest of the slave, while re
fusing to this reform the indispensable elements of
success. So effectually have they opposed Indiau
and African emigration, that in the English West
India Islands, the cultivation of the soil has been
left to ihe caprice of the creole laborers, who, en
joying an undisturbed monopoly, naturally abuse
it by charging high for a little labor.
Ir is the business o! Great Britain to bring these
fanatical Abolitionists to reason. But tbe conse
quences of their false doctrines have effected us.
Our colonies hav suffered from lack of hands, as
well as the English colonies, and it cannot be any
longer endured. If oiir neighbors choose to
submit to the consequences of their abolition theo
ries, the rest of the world is not obliged to adopt
them as its law of conduct. Their code of philan
thropy is not a law for us. Thus, our government
having recognized emigration as at once useful and
moral, has authorized Irandera to engage laborers
in Asia and Africa for the French colonies.
Up to the present time Asia has furnished a very
small number of laborers. Will the supply be more
abundant in future ? We know not. India is not
a French colony. It that vast territory w*e possess
only a few establishments of very limited extent.
Emigration has not been viewed without jealousy
by the Anglo-Indians. The intolerance of the Abo
litionists has been made use of there to injure and
i etard cur operations. As for China, it is so distant
that we cannot, look to it for emigrants ; the expense
wouid be too great. Besides, the unsettled condi
tion of the Chinese empire is an obstacle that must
not be over-looked.
But Africa erntinues to be the source whence the
colonies first drew t heir laboring population. It is
convenient to our American possessions. Its inhabi
tants are gentle, rebust, sociable, and inclined to
agricultural pursuits. Then, in addition to this,
they are oppressed and subject to the horroi sos per
petual aunarchy iu their own country.
Are not these reasons sufficient to induce us to
lock to Africa for laborers lor our colonies ? And
our planters, authorised by a government careful of
their interests, have turned their attention to that
quarter. African emigration has commenced ; it is
pursued with energy, and we hope it will continue
until our colonies revive.
But it is a great scandal to the superanuated so
ciety which was accustomed for twenty-five years
to behold the world bow before its decrees in mat
tera of philanthropy.
What! lay hands on Africa, the holy ark which
has been guarded w ith such an extreme jealousy,
and defended still mors by the prestige which it has
acquired ? Yet the Tunes thinks the present oppor
tunity fortunate for seizing it again; and, thanks to
its proceeding, Parliament already resounds with
the declaration of grievances, the most grievous of
which is that they cannot have laborers from Africa
except they purchase them again. It is a natural
result of the social state of that country. Slavery is
the general condition of its working population. As
it is a not among the merchants, the mechanics, nor
the landed proprietors that we find emigrant labor
er here, so in Africa we do not seek among the free,
who enjoy a ceitaiu degree of comfort and authori
ty, for laborers willing to expatriate to a foreign
climate. African emigration would be reduced to
the smallest proportion if it were restricted to those
only who are free ; but it- becomes serious when
it falls on those who have been redeemed from
slavery.
But, say the English, when you buy slaves from
the African chief you encourage those chiefs to pro
cure others by means of incursions, and thus perpe
tual • intestine wars in that, unhappy country. Un
fortunately, the barbarism which reigns in that
cont inent is exercised indepently of all outside prea
sure. When an African i hies does not sell hia slaves
he kills them.
To deprive Africa of contact with civilization,
under the pretext of preserving peace among her
tribes, is to act like a quack, who, to cure an erup
tion, kills his patient by the internal concentration
of the disease. The African chieftains have no
motive for making war ; they do so out of pure in
stinct of destructiveness, and by this aloue they
prove themselves savages. The poor negro cap
tives destined for human sacrifice on the occasion of
some public festival, or ou the tomb of a-warrior,
would hardly call it philanthropy to leave them to
their fate under pretext of a humane objection to
their purchase for emigration.
Bible societies have undertaken to submit Africa
to a regime of preaching, distribution of edifying
tract? and saintly communion. Nothing more de
affable. Christianity, under whatever banner it
may be propagated, is always a benefit. But what
ever their object, the efforts of these societies have
not yet been crowned with any very distinguishing
aTet^?oiY-ilmL ‘leagues square, in which the
words of the missionary are listened to ; but what is
that iu the immense extent of the African continent?
Why will they then not leave us to assist in the
work of civilization by means which iu our ideas,
are more efficacious /
In any case, we cannot see why the ultra Aboli
tionists should impose their particular! views upon
us. 18 not Africa au independent country 1 Is it
confided to the tutelage of Bible Societies? And
France—cannot she act according to the dictates of
her own conscience 1 There exists in this respect
ro international engagement that can limit her ac
tion. The conventions relative to the right of search
have been suppressed. Engagements entered into
since then have been abandoned.
The landed proprietor is then rid of every incum
brance. Following the times, the philanthropists
have made some stupid blunders, which should force
them into private life, or at least teach them to
speak with becoming modesty in future. In this
situation of things, when it has been proved that
the system has utterly failed, is it astonishing that
we should try another. This would at least have
two good result?. It would give new activity to
colonial productions, and withdraw thousands of
negroes from a miserable condition.
Washington Items.— The California combina
tion for carrying on the Mormon war from that
side of the mountains, has effected its object. Gen.
Scott will start for California this week with full
powers from Government to organize in that State
an army for the invasion of Utah, if the latest ad
vices from Salt Lake City, which lie shall receive
in California are such as to warrant the prosecution
of hostilities. In that case he will employ the regu
lars now on the Pacific side, and will also call upon
the Governor of California for volunteers. He ex
pects to reach Sait Lake in June, simultaneously
with Col. Johnston. It is a part of his plan of ope
rations to conduct the army up the Colorado river,
which is believed to be navigable for three hundred
miles above its junction with the Gila, and in the
exact direction of Utah. An officer of the army is
now engaged in surveying tin river, aud so far as
it has been yet examined, it has been found a deep
stream, without shoal or falls, with a current of three
miles an hour.
The estimates to supply deficiencies iu the appro
priations of the present fiscal year for the army, and
which will be included in the General Deficiency
Bill, to be reported from the Committee of Ways
and Means, amount to $6,700,000. The estimates
for the Post Office deficiencies, amount to $1,469,-
173. Other deficiencies sum up the total amount
to ab<m $9,000,000. These estimat es for the army
provide not. only for the services of the present fis
cal year, but also for service in the fiscal year end
ing 30th of June, 1859. Subsistence and means of
transportation, reinforcements, &c , for the army
for Utah, must be provided for early operations in
that Territory next spring. The deficiency in the
post ofiice service show's that that branch of the
Government is anything but self-supporting.
The Republican members of the House held a
caucus on Friday evening to make preparations lor
the struggle which will shortly ensue upon the ques
tion for the admission of Kansas into the Union un
der ti e Lecompton constitution. They expect to
defeat the measure. Mr. Blair, of Missouri, is to
iead the opposition in this important parliamentary
pitched ba'tle.
A Naval Court of Inquiry has been ordered to
meet id Washington on Tuesday next, composed of
Capts. Henry A. Adams, Andrew’ Harwood and Ed
ward G. Tilton, as members, and J. M. Carlisle as
Judge Advocate, for the purpose of inquiring into
the conduct of Commander Edward B. Boutwell
whilst in command of the John Adams, ou the Pad
sic station, during the years 1855-6, and also as to
his return from his command without being regular
ly relieved.
The steam frigate Wabash will be ordered te the
Mediterranean as the flagship.
Thirteen bids have been received at the Navy De
partment for the steam machinery for the newsloop
of-wrar building at Boston. They are from New’
York, Philadelphia and Boston.
11 is confidently stated in the diplomatic circles
that a war between Mexico and Spain is inevitable.
The latest advices from Mr. Dodge, our Minister to
Spain, state that it is the generally received opinion
at Madrid that Spain wiii shortly make ademonstra
tion on Mexico, England and France to the contra
ry, notwithstanding, and that active preparations to
that end are now in progress. Intimations of Santa
Anna's complicity iu tiie contemplated invasions
are also mooted. The government has sent strin
gent orders to tiie Captain General of Cuba to have
the Spanish naval forces in America put at once in
the highest state of efficiency.
The Senate Committee on the Pacific Railroad
have voted down the Southern route for the great
higuway. The war between the advocates of the
various routes is as hot as the heavy pecuniary in
terests involved can make it.
The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations have
unanimously agreed to maintain the Neutrality
Laws intact. A portion of them will report in favor
ot construing these laws so as to cover the pursuit
of violaters on the high eeaa
The gross amount of expense incurred for the
public- print Dg. binding, engraving, Ac., o: the thir
ty-third and thirty-fourth Congresses has just been
ascertained. The account stands as follows :
Thirty-third Congress $2,800,000
Thirty-fourth Congress 1,600,000
Total in f< -ur yeais $ 4.400,000
The sum ot $7‘.4),000 ie. called for to make up the
deticiences in the appropriation for this branch of
the public work.
Amount of balance in the United States Treasury
January IS, 1858 $1,699,989 20
Amount of receipts from Ist to 16th... 1'666,971 93
Drafts returned paid *‘ “ ... 1,803.573 54
Diafts issued * “ ... 1,981 ,‘IBB 48
Reduction $314,716 55
A Hard Customer.— A friend who haa been
traveling recently in South Western Georgia, heard
of a man now living down in Lowndes county,
whose career has been remarkable for mere “hair
breadth escapes,” aod **imminent dangers,'* than
usually fall to the lot a of one individual. When a
boy. he was caught in the woods by a panther,
dreadfully lacerated and covered up for dead by the
animal, which then wen: in pursuit of another boy
who w&i with him at the time. His comrade, how
ever. escaped and brought succor to him. Next he
was bitten by a rattlesnake and recovered. Then
he was struck by lightning and tor a while laid out.
Afterwards he was partially ground up in a sugar
mill, but though bad.y mutilated, survived the casu
alty. Subsequently he got into a quarrel with a
inan and killed him, for which he served out a term
in the Penitentiary! He is now’ waiting to see what
wiii “turn up” next. Our informant says this is no
fancy sketch, but positive facts, though they may
not be stated exactly in the order of their occur
rence.—Macon Citizen
The Kctic'i ami Bar of Georgia*
We are gratified to learn that Mr. Miller’s Me
moirs and Skrloiits on tins tuSjeet. with a Memoir
oi Gen. I >avid ltlachshear has beeu issued from the
press iu two volt, octavo by J. U. Lippiucot! it Cos.,
Philadelphia. We bespeak for the publication that
iavor aud patronage which the work, from the con
tiuued labor for a series of years of the gifted and in
dustrkms author, demands.
The work as published embraces Itiographical
Sketches of the following members of the legal pro
fession : -
George I). Anderson. liobert Augustus Head. John
Macpherson Berrien. I'M ward J Black, Duncan G.
Ch mpbell, Augustin S. Clayton, Paul Coalson. Wal
ter T. Colquitt, William 11. Crawford, William
Crocker, \Y illiain C. Dawson. Seaborn 1 >elk, John
M. Dooly, Peter Early, John Forsyth, Thomas V
hoster, Charles P Gordon, Robert P llall, John
Houston, James M. Kelly, Cueing (, C Cainar,
Jacob Martin, Andrew J. .Miller, Thomas D. Mitch
ell, liobert Raymond Reid, William S C. Reid. Ro
bert Rutherford, Eli S. Shorter, Christopher B
Strong, William H. Torrance, George W. Towns
Riehard 11. Wilde.
Several of these gentlemen have an established
national reputaliou, and others less widely known
are introduced with facts in their personal history
to abide the public judgment. In the memoirs a e
necessarily interwoven many topics deserving pre
servation, aside from the light they shed on individ
ual character. A number of valuable documents
and letters relative to Georgia allairs, have been
produced to the public for the lirst time.
In the Appendix to the first volume is a Memoir
of Geu. David Blackshear, compiled from original
papers in the possession of his family, in which are
included connnunicat ous from Governors Irwin,
Jackson, Early, Mitchell aud Rabun—from Ollicers
of the Army, and from Members of Congress, and
other public ineu with whom he was connected in
military aud civil einplo, ments—all affording in
formation on the History of Georgia never before
ul 1 shed.
Taese Memoirs of Statesmen, Jurists and Advo
cates, have been prepared iu a manner to interest
readers generally : and to the legal profession espe
cially they cauuot fail to prove asource of lively en
tertainment. Much of the matter will be found use
ful for reference.
To the second volume is also ail Appendix, set
tiug forth the name of the Judges ot the Superior
Court, and of the Attorney and Solicitor Generals of
Georgia, from 1791) to 1857, with the date of their
commissions. There is likewise a collection of
“Fragments/ which no doubt will be received with
lavor.
Memoir of Gen. David Blackshear, including let
ters from Governors Irwin, Jackson, Mitchell, Ear
ly and Ruban, Maj. General Mclntosh, Brigadier
General Floyd, and other ofiicers of the Army of the
War of 1813—1 1, on the Frontier and Sea Coast of
Georgia, and also letters from Members of Congress,
Dr. Moses Waddel, and others—with a Muster 801 l
of Troops under his command, by Stephen F Mil
ler.
In examining the papers of the late General
Blackshear, for letters w hich it rvas known he had
received from Gov. Early aud other.-, who were to
be noticed historically in the work on “The Bench
and Bar ot Georgia/’ which the author had in pro
gress, a number of documents and communications
were discovered of a highly interesting character.
The author at once determined to make them
available, aud was permitted to take copies, which
are attached to the Memoir of Gen. Blackshear,
with explanatory remarks.
The Muster Roil shows the names of the Ofiicers
and Privates iu service at Forts Mitchell, Pike,
Greene, Laurens, Twiggs, Jackson, Adams aud Mc-
Intosh, and of the Exploration Cavalry, aud also of
the Spies employed on (he Indian Frontier. It
further includes alist of the killed and wounded at
the battle of Cau lib-be, (January d7th, 1814,) in the
following Companies:
Captains Adams’s, Barton’s, Broadnax’s, Brown
ing’s, Butler's Cleveland’s, J. Cunningham’s, J. T.
Ford’s Hamilton’s, Hay’s, Heath’s,
King’s, Lee’s, Little's Merriwether’s, Myriek’s,
Owen’s, Park’s, Ssndridge’s, Smith’s, Thomas's
Ware’s, Weathersby’s Yawn's.
The Military Rolls attached to the Memoir will
enable parties to avail themselves of the legislation
of Congress, granting Bounty Hands to those who
served in the war of 1812-15, and with this view
they have been prepared for the edition now offer
ed to the public.
News from Hon. W. B. Rkep.—Hong Kong,
Nov. 18.—Mr. Reed, our new Minister, has at last
arrived, and seems in very good health aud spirits;
and if a cordial welcome from his countrymen, and
.strangers, too, can encourage him, lie ought to be
able to go to work with some zeal. 11 is not eusy
to Bay what he can do, for until some movement in
advance is made by the hostile powers, or some
dreaded concession be made by the Cantonese,
things are at a dead lock here. Lord Elgin is heie
iu a private steamer, in the harbor, and Baron Gros,
with_ the French squadr n, is near at hand. The
Russian Minister, Admiral l'otiatine, is expected
every hour, it being understood in outside circles—
for these diplomats manage to keep their real se
crets very well—that lie has been waiting at Slian
ghae to hear of Mr. Reed’s ai rival before coming
here; for, as we all know, there is no love lost be
tween the Russians and English. The reception cf
our Minister has been everything that the country
men could desire. Every civility aud courtesy
which could be extended have been, both by the
English authorities and the officers of other for
eign services. It is not known what course Mr.
lteed will take, or whether he has yet communica
ted his arrival to the Imperial Commissioner. It is
evidently the wish of the Allies that he should not,
but the impression outside generally is, that lie will
pursue a direct course, and ignore, as far as possi
ble, the complication around him. In one respect
he seems very decided, and though a personal aud
domestic matter, some importance is attached to it.
Mr. Reed makes his home on board bis ship, and
under his Hag. The Minnesota is crowded with
visiters, aud is the admiration of ail who come,
from Admiral Seymour downwards. No such ship
has ever beeu in these waters. Great sympathy is
felt aud expressed for Captain Dupont’s affliction,
ter'day."’” “ f “ .
November I t.—The Russian steamer America,
with Admiral Potiatine on board, has this moment
anchored close alongside ot the Minnesota, aud sa
luted ttie town. —Philadelphia Press .
Washington Items.— Mr. Secretary Slantoii Las
arrived at Washington, and says that Gen. Calhoun
may be expected there in a few days with the Le
compton constitution. Mr. Stanton represents the
election frauds as monstrous, open and admitted.—
People at Weston, and along the river, admitted to
him that young men had gone over in hacks and
voted as often as they chose without opposition.—
The President, it is said, lias prepared a message
on the Leeomptou constitution, setting forth his
views, which will be communicated to Congress as
soon as a call is made upon him for any additional
information he may have in reference to the elec
tions recently held in Kansas.
The bill reported to the Senate by Col. Davis,
from the Military Committee, for the increase of
the army, is described as a measure of much greater
importance than it appears to be without a careful
examination, By the latest published official re
port, the army ( onsists of 17,8!) 1 officers and men,
when full as authorized by law, and had ail actual
strength of 15,562 officers and men. The bill re
ported from the Military Committee p. oposes to
add two companies to each regiment of cavalry,
dragoons, mounted riflemen, and infantry. The
army consists of the following corps and regiments :
The staff consisting of commissioned officers, the
engineers, topographical engineers, and the ordi
nance ; nine regiments of dragoons, two regiments
of cavalry, one regiment of mounted riflemen, four
regiments of artillery, ten regiments of infantry.
Each of these regiments, except the artillery, has
ten companies. The artillery regiments were raised
to twelve companies each. The bill proposes to
add two companies to each regiment of the other
arms of the service, so as to place them on the same
foot as the artillery. There are fifteen regiments to
be thus increased, requiring thirty additional com
panies, equal to three full regiments of the present
strength. The additional officers to be provided for
these companies, if raised, is thirty captains, sixty
lieutenants, and thirty ensigns. Adding to the ag
gregate oi this number fitteen assistant surgeons,
proposed to be added, and there will be 155 new
army commissions to be bestowed.
It is also proposed to raise the strength of the
companies from 74 to !)6 men in all arms of the ser
vice, thus providing for an addition of 5,250 men to
the old companies, equal to an aggregate addition
to the force of the Army of 7,150 men, and raising
its authorized strength to 25,024 men.
Mr. Beriihisel, the delegate from the Territory of
Utah, seeks a peaceful settlement of the difficulties
between the Mormons and the United States Gov
ernment. lie alleges that, had it not been for the
troops which were sent to that region with hostile
ntentions, there would have been presented now
*‘no horrid front of civil war j” that tbis exasperated
Hie people there. If a Commissioner weie appoin
ted to go to Salt Lake City, he believes that ail ad
justment would be accompliphed. It is hardly pro
bable, however, that any adjustment the Mormons
would be willing to make could be more than tem
porary, and that the horrible results of their creed
and system would soon again bring them into colli
sion with the government.
If the Senate bill allowing the President to rein
state upon the active list of the Navy any of the
officers stricken pown by the Naval Board shall be
come a law, it is understood that Com. Stewart
(“Old Iron3ide”) will be the first to enjoy its bene
fits.
The Grand Jury of the Distiict of Columbia, after
along and tedious investigation, have refused to
find a bill aga'mst Gen. Cullom, late Clerk of the
House of Representatives.
The Molasses Market in New York has become
quite active, as we learn from the Post, a number
of distillers having made their appearance. This
activity baa been brought about chiefly by conces
sions on the part of holders. Muscovado Las reach
ed to 18 cents for common qualities, and ID a 20
cents for better grades. The highest price ever paid
forMolaeaes in the New York market was in April
last—63 cents for Muscovado and 85 cents for New
Orleans. New Orleans arrives quite freely, and
was selling on Monday at 21&25 cents, a compara
tively low price. The crop of Louisiana now com
ing forward will be comparatively large—estimated
according to the Post, at about 17,000,000 ga r on3;
equal to more than one half of the total consump
tion of the country last year; but at the present
currency it is reas- -liable to suppose that this year’s
consumption will be in excess of the quantity de
livered last year.
A Starving Woman. —A lady passing down
Broadway, near Fourteenth-eteet, a few daya|*ince
when opposite a butcher's stand, was startled by
the excited appearance of an intelligent-looking
woman rushing toward her, with clasped hands and
a look of despair, exclaiming “I am hungry, lam
hungry !” Stepping inside the store the Jady pro
cured for her some potatoes and a piece of meat.
The hungry woman quicklyjgathered the potatoes
into her pocket, then seizing the bloody meat, put
it to her lips and ate it to the bane ! then saying,
* I must take tills home to Eddie,’* rushed wildly
from the store, leaving the salesmau and the lady
astounded. Incredible as this seems, we have
every reason to believe it true.— . Year York Times.
Business Improving —The past week has been
one of the most business-like which our city has ex
perieneed this winter. Our streets have been
crowded with carts and wagons, loaded with the
great staple of the South, at and our stores have been
thronged with customers. This sudden improve
ment is consequent upon the late rapid advance in
the price of cotton. The Griffin market went up to
10* cents, and large sales were effected at these and
corresponding figures, according to quality. The
great body of the farmers seemed to be willing now
to seil at these prices, ana therefore their stocks
were freely offered at the above named rates. The
heavy pressure upon all the markets had the effect
of depressing the prices, and a decline of \ to sc. was
the result. The latter part of the week witnessed a
re-action, and business fell off to a considerable ex
tent. We earnestly hope for another advance, so
that the cotton may go forward and the country be
relieved from its present embarrassment. We are
still of the opinion that the present crop, if sold at
10 cents, would be sufficient to afford ample relief to
ail classes, restore confidence among business men,
and produce a healthy state of trade throughout the
country.— Griffin Empire State.
The Weather —Several captains of vesae re
cently arrived at New York, state that the Half
Stream runs this year forty or fifty miles near* r the
American coast than hitherto. The fact is men
tioned as accounting for the extraordinary miMr.ess
of the winter weather thus far
From the N. O. Picayune, Jan. 25.
Iniporlnm from .Mexico—Martini i.mv nml
Bloodshed nt the Capitol.
We are again iu receipt, by the steamship Ten
nessee, of the most exciting aud important news
from the Mexican Republic. The worst fears en
tertained since our last have been move than fully
realized. The capital is barricaded and iu arms:
file blood of citizens has already been shed therein,
and a universal civil war seems now to impend up
on this distracted and unhappy country.
Ibis movement at the capital was as sudden and
unexpected, as it was violent. The attention of all
was turned at the time to the formidable coalition
organizing in the interior; Comonfort seemed strong
in the support of the garrisons and people of the
district; and none for a moment dreamed that eveu
then two other revolutionary plots were fully ma
tnred and only waiting their opportunity. AH at
once, ou the evening of Sunday, the !>tli, the city,
was thrown into commotion by the appearance of
two distinct programmes, proclaiming resistance to
the new order ot things, and calling the people to
arms. One of these was lit the name of the ex
treme radical or “ Ultra Puro” party, of which the
\ ice-President, Juarez, now out of prison, is chief;
the other is that ot the Santa Anna party, now
headed, singular enough, by Gen. Zuloaga, the very
same man who inaugurated the recent roup Petal
tn the name of Comonfort.
1 lie people responded according to their attach*
ments and prejudices, or perhaps ttie circumstances
of the moment. Theso ranged themselves on the
side ot the uttra Puros; those under the ancient
banner ot Santa Anna; tvhile the remainder stood
faithful to Comoufort, or took no side at all. The
Santauuists were fortunate enough iu the begin
ning to get possession of the citadel, the Convent ot
San Domingo, aud that of San Augustin; the Radi
cals adopted a guerrilla sort of warfare, with a free
range of the streets, which they barricaded as oe
casiuu might require; while the government party
held the balance of the city. Business, of course,
was suspended, most ot the shops closed, aud mar
tial law at once proclaimed.
There appeared, however, at first a sort of hesita
tion to come hand to hand. Firing was kept up
all over the city, from the streets aud the house
tops, but no combined movement was made. The
.SaniauuisU contented themselves with fortifying
their position, and Comonfort hesitated ; iu the
meantime the Radicals seemed to fan the flames
of popular fury by intemperate appeals to the Mex
ican people.
Fighting Commences in Earnest.— ln this way
things stood till about ttoou the 15th inst., when the
Government troops moved forward to the vicinity
of the Convent of San Augustin. Fire was at once
opened upon them, and returned with a will. This
was serious work, and the alarm now became
great throughout the city and the fighting general.
Two cannou shots were tired from the Profesa up
through Die Calle del Espiritu Santo aud Celia
Puente del Espiritu Sauto. From the tower of the
l’rofesa, also, a low shots were directed upon San
Augustin, aud musketry was to be heard iu every
direction, from the citadel, the custom-house, Santo
Domingo, aud, in fact, pretty much all over the
city. Balls were hissing through the air in every
direction. The firing lasted until dark, aud forty
eight lives were reported to be lost in the vicinity
of San Augustin aloue—l9 government troops
and 29 prouuneiados. The former were suceesslul
in taking the Hotel Sau Augustin and other points
contiguous and important to dislodge the pronunoia
dos in the convent.
The Second Day’s Fighting. —The lighting was
not renewed the next day, Saturday, the Ifilh, iiil
about IP. M. It commenced, says the Extraordi
nary, in the region ot Santo Domingo and the Cus
tom house. From hen the action extended to
Sau Lorenzo and the Santa Clara, and soon mus
ketry and small Held pieces were blazing away
from the towers of the Profesa, and San Augus
tin.
The fire of t he pronunciados in the Custom house
and Santo Domingo was returned by the Govern
ment troops from the cathedral, the palace and
other posts iu range. The fire of Snu Lorenzo was
returned by Sauta Clara, and the Profesa turned its
fires upon the San Augustin and other points held
by the pronunciados. Other points took up the
fire, and from half past two to five balls were Hying
in every direction over the house tops. The
number of deaths by the action <sf Saturday is not
reported.
At about 10 o’clock in the evening firing com
menced from the Citadel and some points more near
gained by the pronunciados, upon the position at
the Convent of San Francisco.
During the night barricades were erected in front
of the bull-ring, and heavy cannon commanded the
Paseo Sunday morning. This was to defeat any
movement that might be made by the pronunciados
in the Citadel.
The Hag3 of different nations were waving from
1 lie residences of their representatives during the
firing of Friday and Saturday.
Incidents ok the Fighting.— Phe Extraordi
uary, whose editor, Mr. Moran, we are glad to sec
free again, and Who seems to have been a careful
observer of these strange scenes, has jotted down a
number ot incidents during the week, which we ar
range in order of their dates :
Tuesday our printing office was for a great part
of the day closed, by order of the guard stationed
in the calle de la Independence. This order, coup
led with the firing of shots against the windows,
proved enough to leave our paper helpless when on
the eve of going to preps.
Wednesday President Comonfort examined in
person the different cuartels of the city, occupid by
the faithful troops of the Government. lie was
everywhere received with the warmest demonstra
tions of friendship and devotion. The troops re
maining faithful are believed to be reliable.
I*. S.—Troops for the Government have arrived
in the city this morning from Toluca and Puebla.
The number of these troops we do not exactly
know. Gov. Arteaga, of had arrived
at and passed Arroyozarco, with the vanguard or
troops from the interior. This force numbered
2,500 men.
It is reported that President Comoufort purposes
aeking the foreigners to form a legion for the pro
tection of foreign property in the event of affairs
becoming more desperate.
iorGfc ,VH rifty announcecf Dy a general
jubilee of the bells. He at once arranged himself
under the banners of the pronunciados.
Same day the pronunciados closed all kinds of
business in the Calle San Augustin. Among other
noble feats of valor they broke up the printing
office of our worthy ootemporary, the Ileraldo.—
The type were scattered, the form broken up, and
books, manuscripts, &c., scattered and destroyed.
On Friday morning, as Mr. Torres, editor of the
Monitor, was passing near the Convent of San
Augustin, he was fired upon three times. We are
informed that he gallantly returned the lire with a
Colt’s revolver. No harm was done on either
side.
A gentlemanof our acquaintance, who was moved
by curiosity to speak with an officer at one of the
diaffected posts, after listening for some time to his
dissertation upon the wrongs the country was suf
fering, &c., asked him abruptly :
“YVell, my friend, what are you doing here ?”
“Sir,’’ says he, “we are fighting for—” and
here the poor fellow broke down. He had not been
informed by his leaders what object exactly was in
view. But looking wisely at our friend, he said :
“We are lighting for—we are lighting—for
Vopinion !” (the opinion.)
An attempt was made on Friday to enter the
house of a foreigner by a detachment of one of the
contending forces. The foreigner resisted, and
successfully carried his point by threatening to fire
on them if they did not desist.
The most melancholy sight to our minds is the de
plorable apathy that pervades the great bulk of the
native Mexican inhabitants of this capital. During
the heat of the firing on Friday, the saloons, cases,
the protected balconies and the shady sides of the
streets, were crowded with well dressed and gentle
manly looking men, who whiffed their cigarrets and
dealt iu such topics of conversation as were most
interesting. But few manifested any great interest
except what might be prompted by fear or curiosi
ty. The number of genteel looking people who ap
peared to take a real interest in what was trans
piring was really very small.
A correspondent of the Picayune gives the f6l
lowing as the very latest intelligence from the City
of Mexico, announcing the cessation of hostilities
for twenty-four hours :
City of Mexico, Jan. 18, 1858.
Eds. Pic. —The uncertainty of an extraordinary
leaving here to morrow morning at 9, induces me to
drop you a line by a special opportunity afforded
by the diligence at 4 of this morning.
Enclosed you will find strips from the Extraordi
nary, giving the news up to an early hour yester
day morning. Since that time the conditions of an
armistice have been published. The armistice is
to extend until 7 Y. M. to-day. One of tie con
ditions is that no new works shall be made by eith
er party during the armistic. This, of course, is
no more than a stroke of Mexican diplomacy , for it
is well known to me that, at the hour I write (14
o’clock A. M.), both parties are at work building
barricades, endeavoring to bribe the soldiers of the
opposite party, <s*c.
Tee opposing parties had a conference to-day,
through their leaders. The Comonfort (now Pnro)
party proposed to the pronunciados that their lives
should be spared if they would lay down their arms
and the leaders agree to go into exile. On the
other hand, by way of bunging things to a settle
ment, the Tantanintas proposed to the Puros that
they would forego the anticipated pleasure of hang
ing them, t he Puros, if they would surrender their
forces to them and the Puro leaders agree to go in
search of knowledge in other countries.
You will, therefore, perceive the end has not
come yet. There is to be another conference to
day, but I have no idea anything definite will be
arrived at, and, therefore, twenty-four hours hence
we may expect to hear the air hissing with passing
balls.
From what I learn from the interior, the current
reports are by no means reliable as to the forces re
ported to be marching upon this capital. The San
tanlstas say that there is not a man on the road
from any place interior, to assist the Puros. Ac
cording to the reports, Gov. Arteaga with 250(1
men, should be here this morning. It is exceeding
ly doubtful in my mind if he come.
The condition of affairs in this capital, as you may
conceive, is most deplorable. Everything like bu
siness is closed up. There is nothing doing except
building barricades. These are in every street, and
guns are planted in preparation for the ending of
the armistice.
What do you unsophisticated, half grown demo
crats in the United States think of the style we have
adopted here to express our opinions ?
Really the United States must do something for
or with Mexico. The United States has interests
here in commerce ; your government has manifest
ed its desire to have more to do with Mexico ; but
how can you expect your commerce to grow, with
this naturally most gifted country on God’s foot
stool, if you do not protect those who have been
robbed, murdered or insulted?
There can be no question but Mexico is rapidly
reaching a point when foreign nations will be forced
to step in and protect the interests of their subjects.
It is a melancholy confession to make; but if for
eign influenca does not soon show itself heie, in
some shape, the condition will be awful.
Washington Items. —The official and other in
telligence received by the President and War De
partment proves Brigham Young’s purpose to be
hostile. It is believed that be can muster 8,000
men. Extensive ramifications of organized Mor
monism have been discovered in Texas and Cali
fornia, embracing men holding responsible official
positions. No apprehension is felt here, however,
aa to the result ot the conflict.
A stroDg opposition, it is said, will be developed
in the Senate to the confirmation of Gov. Wright,
of Indiana, as Minister to Berlin. The ostensible
ground of opposition will be his unfitness for office,
but the real ground will be because he s under
stood to be a friend of Senator Douglas.
Mexico ia reported to have made overtures to
ward the sale of Sonora and other territory to the
United States. She asks a price, however, which
the Administration is unwilling to give.
Up to Saturday there had been issued from the
Treasury Department 248 Treasury notes, of the
denomination of SI,OOO ; and 119 notes, of the de
nomination of SSOO, have been issued to satisfy land
warrants. We also learn that 288 of the SI,OOO
notes, have been taken up on exchange of private
individuals. Army and Navy warrants to the
amount of $2,500,000 are now on the Treasurer's
table, to satisfy which Treasury notes will have to
be employed. It is estimated that by the end of
this week, notes to the amount of $5,000,000 will
have been issued.
The Government of Peru has paid $40,000 to this
Government for the benefit of the sufferers by the
outrage at the Chiucha Glands, when several Ame
rican Captains were pushed with bayonets over the
side of a Peruvian frigate into the sea.
The Supreme Court will shortly adjourn to the
Bth of March following
VOL. LXXIh—NEW SERIES VOL. XXII. NO. 5.
From llw l.un Jon Times.
Death of Gcncl-nl Havelock.
The gallant British General Havelock ia no more.
As will he seen by the latest news from India, I e
died at Cawnpore, on the 25th Nov., fcm dysen
tery, brought ou by exposure and anxiety. Major
General Henry Havelock, C. 8., was born at Bish
opwearmouth. in 1795, and educated at the Charter
House. About IStJ, in consequence of advere for
tune, Ingress Park, his father's properly in Kent,
was sold to government, and Havelock was enter
ed of (he Middle Temple, and attended the lectures
ot Chitty, the eminent special pleader, wltere bis
most intimate associate was the late Sir Thomas
Talfourd, the author of “Ion.” An elder brother
had distinguished himself in the Peniustilar \\: r
and at Waterloo, and Henry, yielding to the mili
tary propensities of his family, endeavored to ob
tain a commission. A mouth after VY titerloo lie was
appointed second lieutenant in the rifle brigade
(the Sloth,) where bis military training was as isted
by Captain (afterwards Sir) llarry Smith, the vic
tor OtAliwal. Havelock served for eight years in
England, Scotland and Ireland, and having at
length exchanged into the 12th light infantry, em
barked for India in 1823. Next year the Burmese
war broke out, and Havelock was appointed depu
ty-assistant adjutant-general, and was present at
the actions of Napadee, Patanagolg-aud Paghan.—
At the close of the war he was associated with Cap
tain Lumsden and Dr. Knox on a mission to the
court of Ava, and had an audience of the “Golden
Foot,” when the treaty of Y&ndaboo was signed.—
in 1527 he published the “History of the Avu Cam
paigns,’’ and in that year ite was appointed adju
tant of the military depot formed at Chinsurah by
Lord Couibermere. The Chinsurah establishment
having beeu broken up Havelock returned to his
regiment. He subsequently visited Calcutta, and
having passed in the languages at the college, was
appointed adjul ant of his corps by Lord YViliiant
Bentiuck. In 1838 he was promoted to a compa
ny, after having served twenty-three years as a
subaltern. Au army was now collected for the in
vasion of Affghauissan, and Havelock accompa
nied it on the staff of Sir Willoughby Cotton, lie
went through the first Affghancampaign, was pres
ent at the storming of Ghuznce and the occupation
of Calul, and then returned to India with Sir YV'il
loughby Cotton. Having obtained leave to visit
the Presidency, he prepared a “Memoir ot the Aff
ghau Campaign,” which was soon alter printed in
London. He returned to the Punjaub in charge of
a detachment, and was placed oil the staff of Geu.
Etphinstone, as Persian interpreter. When the
Eastern Ghilzies, having risen, blockaded Cabul,
Havelock was sent to join Sir Robert Sale, then
marching back to India, and was present at the
forcing of Kltoord Cabul Pass, at the action of Te
zeeu, and all the other engagements of that force
till it reached Jellalabad.
In the final attack on Mahomed Akbar, in April,
1812, which obliged that chief to raise the seige,
Havelock commanded the right column, and defeat
ed him before the other columns could come up.
For this tie was promoted to a brevet majority, and
was Companion oi the Bath. He was then nomina
ted Persian interpreter to Geu. Pollock, and was
present at the action of MomooKeil,and the second
engagement at Tezeen. He then proceeded with
Sir John M’CaskiH's force into the Kohistan and
had an important share iu the brilliant affair at Ista
liff. Next year he was promoted to a regimental
majority, and nominated l’ersiau interpreter to the
commander-in chief, Sir Hugh Gough. At the close
of 1813, he commanded the army to Gwalior, and
was engaged in the battle of Maharajore. In 181 I
he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel
by brevet. In 18-15 be proceeded with the army to
meet tiie invasion of the Sikhs, aud was actively en
gaged ill the battles of Moodke, Ferozeshah and
Sobraou. At Moodkee he had two horses shot uu
der him; at Sobraou a third horse was smitten
down by a cannon shot, which passed through his
saddlecloth. On the conclusion oftlie Sutlej cam
paign, he was appointed deputy adjutant general of
the Queen’s troops nt Bombay. The second Sikh
war now broke out, and his elder brother, Col. YVm.
Ilaveiock, was killed at Ramnugger. His own re
giment, the .<3d, having beeu ordered into the field,
lie quitted his stall’ employment at Bombay, In ol
der to join it, aud had proceeded as far as Indore
when his further progress was countermanded, and
he returned to his post. Twenty-five years of in
cessant and laborious service now began to tell on
his constitution, aud his medical adviser, in 1819,
sent him to Europe two years for the restoration ot
his health. lie returned to Bombay in 1851, and
was soon after made brevet colonel, aud appointed
through tiie kindness of Lord llardiuge, by whoso
side lie had fought iu tiie three battles of the Suilej,
(Quartermaster Geueiai, mid then Adjutant Gene
ral of the (Queen’s troops in India. ()n the dispatch
of the expedition to Persia he was appointed to the
second division, and commanded the troops at Mo
hammerah, tiie glory ot which action, however, re
served for the naval force. On the conclusion of
jeace he returned to Bombay, and embarked in the
Brin for Calcutta, iu which vessel be was wrecked,
iu 1857, offtlie coast of Ceylon. Five days alter lie
obtained a passage in t he Fire Queen, and, ou reach
ing Calcutta, was immediately sent up In Allahabad
as brigadier general to command the moveable
column.
His subsequent career has been so recently the
subject of public admiration, that we need do no
more than recapitulate the leading incidents. With
the greater portion ot the ti lth and 78th regiments
he lirHt attacked the mutineers at Futtypore, on the
12Ui ot July, and, on the 15th, at Aoung, and at
I’audco Nuddee ; ou the Kith, at Cawupnre lie had
a horse shot under him, ard the enemy lost till guns.
Advancing from Cawupore ou the 29 th, he captured
Oonao, Busaeerul Gunge, and I'J guns. This posi
tion he was obliged to give up, but re took it on the
sth of August, indicting great slaughter. On the
12tli August he again defeated the mutineers, and
on tiie loth attacked them at Bitbour. Eventually
receiving reinloreements under Sir James Outram,
he entered Lucknow on the 25th of September, and
held bis ground there until the garrison was finally
relieved by Sir Colin Campbell on tiie 17th Nov.
f. Sundekcano, Tuesday evening.—Tiie news ot
General Havelock’s death reached this, his native
town, (of which Bishop Wearuiouth, forms the
southern part) this morning, and caused a very wide
spiead feeling of Bororw. The minute bell of tiie
and the union jack ‘waS'lidisteddifilt’ ifihs/’KHgli Bfi
the tower. A proposal has already been public y
mooted for erecting, by subscription, a monument
to the deceased here, on Building-hill a picturesque
emineuce overlooking tiie public park of the bor
ough.
lli-ulli of Jlai-Nliul mlelxky.
Marshal Kadetzky, who has played so prominent
a part in the history of the Austrian empire during
the last seventy-five years, recently expired at the
advanced age of ninety-two. He was looked upon
in bis native country witli much the same feeling as
the English viewed the late Duke ot Wellington—
with respect allied to enthusiasm.
His death took place on tiie stli of January, after
un illness of a week, its immediate cause being
paralysis of the lungs.
Kadetzky was horn atTrebnitss, iu Bohemia, iu
1706. His predilection for military adventures was
early developed, and he commenced his military
career on the Ist of August, 1781, as a eadet in a
cavalry regiment. Austria was a! war with Tur
key, and Lieut. Kadetzky first distinguished him
self at the siege of Belgrade.
Iu li'JJ Kadetzky’s regiment served against the
French, and iu 1795, as Adjutant to Generui Beau
lieu, who commauded tiie Austrians in Italy, lie
met Napoleon, then in his li7tli year, on the field of
battle. At the battle of the Trebbia, Kadetzky lmd
a horse shot under him, and from tiie coolness and
bravery he displayed ou that occasion he was ga
zetted as Lieutenant Colonel.
Ou the 15th of August, 1799, Kadetzky led tiie
Austrian attack iu tiie battle of Novi. The battle
terminated iu tiie complete defeat of the Flench.
Iu Baron Melas’s despatches the name of Kadetzky
is the most honorably mentioned. The result of this
campaign was that nearly tiie whole of upper Italy
fell into tiie hands of the Austrians.
Napoleon returned from Egypt towards the end
of 1798 and stood as First Consul at the head of the
French Republic. Napoleon joined the army in
Italy in person in May. On thebtli of June, (180(1)
the sanguinary battle of Marengo was fought. Na
poleon’s star was again in the ascendant.
We will rapidly pass over the next ten years of
Radetzky’s career. Astor the peace of Luneville
(1801-1805) he enjoyed temporary repose. Ou the
renewal of hostilities in IBo.j we again find Kadetz
ky in active service. The battle of Austerlitz led
to negotiations ; on the 96th of December peace
was concluded at t'resburg, and Kadetzky, with
the rank of Brigadier, enjoyed a few years’ repose
at Vienna.
Hostilities were renewed in 1809, and Kadetzky
was appointed to the command of tiie avant garde
of the sth corps d’armeo. Prussia was humiliated
at Jena and Friedland, and short ly afterwards Na
poleon dated-liis dispatches from the Palace of Scbon
biuun. From the opening of tiie campaign on the
Danube until the memorable battle of Asperu
and 2dd of May) Radeizky was scarcely a day with
out fighting the enemy. During this campaign he
was opposed by Napoleon, Davoust, Oudiuot, Mas
sena, ftloiter, Lafebvre, and Liannes. Vienna capi
tulated on the Utli of May. Then came the battle
of Aspern. Six times was Asperiqtakeii and re
taken on that day, and on the night between the
21st and 22(1 the sent inels of the hostile armies were
in sight of each oilier. On the 22d Napoleon heat
a retreat. Ibis was the first time he had been bea
ten in open field, and the sensation was iinmeu-e
throughout Germany. Kadetzky was promoted to
the rank of Lieutenant Field-Marshal in June, 1809.
On the Ith, sth, and oth of July following was
fought the battle of Wagrain. Iu that saugunary
Contest Kadetzky commanded the cavalry.
The great battle of Leipsic (18th of October,
18111) sealed the fate of Napoleon in Germany. In
this battle Kadetzky, who commanded the Austrian
cavalry, was wounded. On the escape of Napoleon
from Elba, Kadetzky again took the field, but he
was not present at Waterloo.
In 1831 Kadetzky was appointed Commander-in-
Chief in Austrian Italy.
When Mastai Ferretti succeeded to the chair of
St. Peter as Pius IX., and initiated his rule by libe
ral reforms, a thrill of nationality ran, like the elec
tric fluid, through Italy. This was in 1815. In the
following year the movement was almost brought to
a crisis by tiie Austrians placing a garrison in Fer
rara.
The sequei ia well known. Charles Albert was
no general, and he failed at Novara. The Pied
montese fought as they fought at the Tchemaya,
with the greatest bravery. Charles Albert and his
gallant sons were everywhere in the hottest of the
fjght, and the old marshal, for the last time, led on
l.is Austrians. At seven o’clock in the evening the
King still lingered on the field, in hopes of retriev
ing the fortunes of the day. The fabourgs of Nova
ra were taken by the Austrians at. the point of the
bayonet. Gen. Durando seized Charles Albert by
tiie arm and removed him from a post of danger
‘ Let me die, General,’’ said the broken-hearted
monarch, “my task is done.” He abdicated that
night in favor of Victor Emmanuel, the present
King, and died shortly afterwards in a foreign land.
This short and brilliant.campaigi), which lasted only
one week, added a fresh lustre to the honors of the
Marshal. The young Einperor, Francis Joseph, sent
the Archduke William of Austria to Milan expressly
to thank Radetzky aad present him with the Order
of the Golden Fleece.
An attempt at insurrection was made at Milan in
February, 1855. Radetzky put it down with a
hand of iron, and confiscated the property of those
i,ombarda who had become Sardinian subjects.—
This was not only unwise, but illegal.
In hie 90th year Radetzky still maintained a clear
intellect At the visit of the Einperor last year (1857)
to Milan, Radetzky, no longer able to mount his
horse, tendered his resignation to his imperial mas
ter, on the plea of failing health.
In stature Radetzky was below the middle height,
with broad shoulders and a clear piercing eye; he
possessed that attraction attributed to
Frederick the (treat and to Napoleon. Among a
hundred officers, though simply dressed in a gray
i-urtout, Radetzky would command the attention of
all. Toe statue in bronze at the Great Exhibition
of 1851 is an excellent likeness of him in his 80th
year.
Radetzky was married in 1767 to the Countess
Fanny Strassoldo, by whom he had five sons and
three daughters. Os these only one eon and one
daughter survive him. llis son is a staff officer in
the Austrian service—his daughter is married to
Count Wenkheim.
Death of Renchiil Purlin.
Dispatches from Constantinople announce the
death of Reschid Pacha, Grand Vizier of Turkey.
The death occurred on Wednesday morning, Jan.
6th, and was the result of a three days’ llncss,
which had seemed, until death was imminent, to be
of but slight importance.
Reschid Pacha was one of the most eminent po
litical servants of the Ottoman Empire. He was
born in 1802. He was twice ambassador to the
Western Powers, and has held several times the
appointments of Grand Vizier and Minister for For
eign Affaire. H's successive administrations have
been a series of struggles to realize the Taoziinat;
but it must be owned that in this be has only vory
j mperfectly succeeded. His foreign policy has been
I directed above all tilings to tiie maintenance of
peace. He was not in power wheu Prince Men
schikoff visited Const an! inople . but when the Rus
81,11 envoy presented to the Sultan a disgraceful
convention, the sovereign appears to have felt that
toe. tune was eorne to make an end of the intrigues
which had excluded his ablest servant from power;
a " l f Resellid Pacha was again called to direct the
uflairs of the empire. In the spring of 1855 he
again lost ofiice, still, however, exercising an influ
ence on the government. Rescind Pacha was well
versed in history, French, and logic; very much
attached to Europeans, and ever ready to attend to
their suggestions. He was a very moral man, dis
countenanced Hie Turkish habit of keeping a harem
and was the husband of one wife, by whom lie had
a family. His chief fault was, that lie was too mild
and tender-hearted ; ami not sufficiently energetic
for the trying times in which lie lived, and the leck
less adventurers that ever surround tiie court, lie
was of middle stature, had a handsome counte
nance. good eyes, and a fine head.
From the London Times.
In the death of Rescind Pacha, the Ottoman
Empire has met with a great misfortune. It is the
happy distinction of free and settled Stal-s that
they are nearly independent of individual influence.
They are not exposed to the chances of life and
death ; their fate does not hang on the tarn of an
illness or the successful result of a surgical opera
Iron. They honor and gi ieve for an able citizen,
but they have a perfect confidence that the laud
which bore him will produce others, and that the
machine of the State will act regularly, even though
another pre-eminent genius does not immediately
appear. But a country like Turkey can ill afford
to lose its ablest mail. The Ottoman Empire has
just passed through a rude trial aud lias come out
victorious, but still weak and exhausted. Several
years must elapse before it is able to combine ener
gy and tranquility, so as to lake its place among
tiie thriving communities of Europe. In this state
of transition we had hoped that Rescind Pach would
have lived to guide its counsels and administer its
government; but Providence has decreed other
wise, aud our hope must uow be that among those
who have acted with him someone may have ac
quired enough of his character and policy to man
age tiie helm of State with equal skill.
Rescind Pacha was not an old imui, yet he bad
formally years tilled tiie highest functions at the
Poite lie was one of the first of those Turks who
iu tiie time ot the late .Sultan Mahmoud was iudu
euced by European habits and education, and lie
early look a part iu tiie reforms which that slrong
minded monarch introduced. From the beginning
ofhisreigu the present Sullau seems to have felt,
tiie highest respect and affection for Rescind, who
bore a chief part in the promulgation of the Haiti
Soberin’ of Gulhane, an edict of toleration and re
form which, though its provisions may not have
been fully executed, has yet been followed by no
mean results, and still remains as a standard of po
litical principles, to which there must yearly be a
greater tendency to conform.
The Koyai. Marriage. —All England was in a
flutter of admiration and congratulation on Monday
over the marriage of the Princess lioyal to Prince
Frederick William, (lie presumptive heir to the
crown of Prussia. Englishmen in this country will
participate in the emotions natural to such ocoa
eion, young ladies of all nations will lie interested in
the ceremony, the trousseau, the toilelts, and the
attendant fetes, and good natnred people every
where will wish the young princess a kind husband
and a happy married life. The Princeees is the oldest
child of Victoria and Albert, and was horn on the
-let ot November, 1811), mid is consequently now it
little ov or seventeen years of age. The bridegroom
was born in 1831, and is ten years olderlban the
bride. Tiie match is said to be one of genuine af
fection, as was that of Victoria herself. The royal
marriage act so; bids alliances between members of
the royal family and British subjects, while it also
forbids marriages with foreign princes and princess
ess who are not Protestants. The consequence is
that all tiie English princes and princesses of mod
eru times have to find wives and husbands among
the German Protestant royal families, and these
keepup a supply of marriageable young men and
women that is quite equal to the demand. The
London Court Journal of late date says.-
Among the many magnificent presents in prepa
partition for the Princess Royal, on the occasion ol
her marriage, is one which, though simple iu itself,
possessscs a peculiar interest. It is only a riding
whip, but it is a memento of a very favorite horse.
The bull is formed from a iiieee of the hoof, set iu a
hoof of solid gold. The shoe of this golden hoof is
formed of diamonds, the nails being represented by
fourteen beautiful rubies: I lie whole ot Hie bottom
of t lie foot is a mass of small diamonds. The handle
ol the whip is formed from one of the horse’s bones,
most highly polished, round which is twined a sei
pent in brilliants.’ A more beautiful or characters
tic souvenir it is impossible to imagine. We hear it
is the intention of her Majesly that all the metropo
litan theatres shall be open to (lie public gratuitous
ly on the evening ol the marriage.
The Queen lias not only retained a considerable
portion of Clai idge’s and Parlance s botel, but wo
believe if is her Majesty’s intention to retain a third
In tel in SI, James’ street, in order that the most am
pie accommodation may be secured (or tiie Conti
nental visiters who are .xpected to arrive in order
to be present at the feteH in celebration of the mar
riage id the Priucess Royal. The Empress Eugenio
is said to take especial interest in the marriage of
the Princess ltoyal, and great talk is held concern
ing tiie wedding presents to lie despatched from the
Tuiileries on the occasion. We have heard of a eer
tain veil to he worked by the religious ladiesof Cain
bray, which is said to lie a marvel of taste and
skill. The value of tiie piece is beyond calculation.
Some idea may be formed of it when we mention
I hat it was commenced more Umn five years ago,
ami lias been on hand ever since. Two of Vernet’s
pictures, with Delacroix’s masterpiece, have al
ready arrived at Beilin, as offerings to the youtblul
menage on the part of the Emperor. The little
statuette of the Empress kneeling on the day ofher
marriage at Notre Dame, executed in silver, is also
on its way to ornament the boudoir of the Priucesn
at Berlin.
from a lady in the course of a quadrill.)—“Weil,
I’m sure! What next, I wonder! But it's like you
men. Inquisitive creatures ! Talk of woman's cu
riqsiiy ! What is it to you, sir, why I wear my
crinoline ? Getting up statistics, are you ? Well,
if ynu’ro really serious—now promise you won’t
laugh—l don’t mind telling you my reasons why I
wear it. Yen, by all means, if you like. Take your
pencil out, and write down from my lips just as 1
tell you.
“I wear crinoline,Mr. Curious, because Madame
de Flouncey assures me it’s the thing. Who's R 1 a
dame de Flouncey 1 O, she's my French dressma
ker, and tier establishment's in Bond street, and she
makes for Lady Dressiugton ; and so you see, she
must ithow. Besides, siie assures me it so much
improves one’s figure—especially when one’s slim,
as every genteel person should bo. And then, as
Madame de Flouncey says, it gives me such an air,
(no, it’s not, you wretch!—it’s not blown out with
the bellows !) and looks so distinguished. Though,
to be sure, now one’s own servants, as you say,
have taken to it, there’s not so much distinction in
the wearing—but there ought to be. Still as Madainc
de Flouncey Hays, it certainly does set one off, and
ftH that dear, deal Empress Eugenie doesn’t mind
the maid-servants, I don’t see why we need.
“Besides, you know, everybody wears it uow, and
one most do as everybody else does ; one looks so
horribly affected else. And, I in sure you gentle
men admire it. O, yes, you may vow you don’t,
but I’m positive you do. There now! And then,
you know, it’s the fashion. Only look at the fash
ion books, aud see whit lovely wide dresses are
drawn for us to copy in the pictures of Le Follet.
Folly? No, Mr. Ignoramus, not fully at all. (Jo
and iearn your French, sir!
Hides clumsy feet ?’ How can you be so [rude 1
Ladies do not always like lo have their aneleH star
edat. 0,1 dare say you meaut nothing personal. But
I’m sure it’s very disagreeable of you, asking one
such questions ; and I’ve a great mind to stop my
earH, and not speak to you again, you odious wretch
you!—taking down ones words, and then taking
one up so. Yes, you do. And I wish I handn’t
said a word to you, you horrid man 1 Now, don’t lie
so absurd, sir—let me take your arm. There’s that
Miss Jiggleton, I know, is quizzing us abominably.
* ’ * O, how lovely cool it is! Ido so love a
conservatory, don’t you ? But I haven’t told you
my real reason, yet. You’d like to her it? Well,
then, if you'll promise not to tell—l wear ray erino -
line, Mr. Inquisitive, because I choose, sir f Them
now!”— Punch.
Til K Tai.i.aiiassee Tournament.—' Tiie Tallahas
see papers give a spirited account ol the Tourna
ment which came off near that city Wednesday lasi
Ten Knights entered for the contest. Three tilts
were run, when Knight Bonce DeLeon (Jno. li
HayueJ was declared victor, and Knight of the Re
gatta, (A. J. Dozier) assigned the second place in
tiie picture. Then followed a contest among the
remaining Knights for the appointments of 2d and
fid Maids of Honor, which were won by Knights of
the Round Table, (Jas. J. Hart) and Lone Star,
(N. W. Holland.) Miss Victoria Bellamy, of Jet
ferson county, was crowned Queen of l-sive ami
Beauty, and Miss Letty Shepherd chosen Ist Maid
of Honor, Miss Fannie Epps 2d, and Miss Margaret
Bradford fid. The Floridian says : “The carriage
Containing the Queen and her Maids was escorted
to town by tiie Knights in true courtly style, and
thus ended a morning replete with pleasure and
gratification to all whose good fortune it had been
to witness the performances.’’— Savannah Jtepvb
lican.
The Serfs of Russia.— lt is stated that the re
script reoei tly promulgated by the Emperor of Rus
sia, only carries out the principles announced in an
Imperial decree issued immediately after he ascen
ded the throne. The rescript was dated on the 2d
of December last, and addressed to the Governors of
Vilno, Kovno, and Grodno, in which provinces it
seems to have been determined first to make trial
of the reform. Dist rict committees are to be ap
pointed in each province, composed jointly of intel
ligent landholders and of nominees of the Crown,
who are to devise plans for their respective districts
for the abolition ot serfdom. The main conditions
of change are to be “the maintenance of the right of
property in the soil, and the option to the cultivators
to purchase at a redemption price, the permanent
ownership without rent of the allotments or en
closures in connection with their habitations.” The
serfs are further to have, within certain limits and
conditions, the right to hire as farms certain portions
of land, for which they are either to pay a labor or
or a money rent. In fine, the old system of compul
sory labor is to be entirely done away with, under
the milder and more enlighted rule of the present
Emperor.
Hogs. —The season for the transaction in live hogs
Las now closed, and the following statement will
show’ the number packed here, and the number
shipped over the road as compared with last year :
No. slaughtered in 1857. 1858.
7800 5900
Transported over the road, 25,355 26,790
53,155 32,690
Showing an excess received at this point last year
over this, of 465 head. This deficiency] was proba
bly made up in excess of weight, this over last year,
and the amount for the two seasons may be said to
be about equal. The weather during the wkole
season has been very unfavorable for the safety of the
products, particularly for those slaughtering South
of this, and much of it is damaged.
The quantity of bacon and bulk meat on hand
here is much leas at this time than at the same time
last year.— Chattanooga. Advertiser.
The St. Louis Democrat gives the following com
parative statement of hog killing :
1857. 1856.
St. Louis 87,300 67,000
Alton 3,000 21,000
90,000 88,000
Excess this year 2,300. About 10,000 more are
to be killed.
Timiiek Cutters’ Bask.— At aa election, held
yesterday, the following gentlemen were chosen Ui
rectors of this new institution ;
John Cooper, John Kntherford, H. W. Hollister,
C. V. Spencer, D. D. Spencer
At a meeting of the Board, John Cooper waa
unanimously chosen President. Mr. I*- S. IJeLyon
was chosen Notary and Attorney. All the capital
/200 000) has been taken, and the first installment
oi twenty per cent paid in. Tiie Bank will go into
operation about the 20th proximo.— Savannah Re
publican , of Friday.
A Good Bized Pi.ank —There is now on exhibi
tiou altheMerchants’ Exchange, in New York, a
red w ood plank from the Mendocina saw mills, Cali
fornia. 11 measures 12 feet long, 6 feet 6 inches
wide, and 2 inches thick.