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DKTAIL* BT IMF. AMERICA,
j Tis i‘>.'.‘rw\ng dcApatchee from the America, at
j *l/. i\ witii I/verpool to the 13th instant,
I were* ceived at New York:
j r i• A • *•!■; t cxperi ;ncfed heavy weather during
[ he w !e pa--*nge, and was detained for nine Lonra
- - *?2‘ t.f. n-*t of hable frland by ice.
I i .* e i<•* report* Feb, 14th, off the Old Uead
i * Xrt \ - pa, from New
N . i'rL.\-rpnl; \ feb s:7th, at 2 A M , exchanged
. • wiiL a ate&roes. bound East, euppoaed to be
Niagara front Halifax.
T ii.-'eiiin. N< rth American, from Portland,
-‘vj- i i,ut at Hp.M of the Jlth. At about two
I -V rg r, the moaning of that day, she came in col
i , . ■ . 4 ! uf-tm and Uolybead, with the bark
I ijt-p. ii-’”- : Hath Maine, bc.und from to
O * v a ema!! cargo of salt. Tbe bark
; i tw- iniiijres. Mr*. Curtis, (tbe captain’s
| v r -cond mate, and eight eeameu were
| ; / i The captain and eleven other* were
i j, r* e ru p.u.tr, which slightly dam
j i,. i Hkitaiv—ln the House of Commons,on
j ,■ J* in-taut. Lord Jhu bill modifying
;*a . entary oaths, so as to admit of Jews taking
i- debated, and read a eecond time,
j <;■ m 1> . inst., in the House of Lords, Earl
j ! narvon a-iked when the Government intended
l . ?r- • nee into the ILmse of Commons their new
Itefoan Pill.
1.-i : Gta .ville siid the bill would be introJuced
. of the f s*ion, but he was not prepared
! •f r the dat* Due notice, however, would be giv
i •’! the Hone of Commons.
E-si'l Grey presented a petition from the East In
fTa Company, against any change at preeent in the
*’ - veminent of India, aud gave his concurrence to
♦ v lews entertained by the petitioners.
E*n Granville and the Government’s only wish
was to place luuia under tiie direct control of the
.r i, -an independent Council would still be re
•* ailed.
Jn the House of Commons, Mr. .Bright presented
imti fi in JsDOU citizens of Birmingham in favor
i Parliamentary Reform.
L . i I’nliiu rfUn, intimated that it was not con
*< op iated to appoint a Minister of Justice, and that
■eps had lgf>*-u taaen for the establishment of a
system of public prosecution.
’ A ti, r ;r ove tbe distinction between joint
- rock nar ks and joint-stork companies with refer
• lability of partners was read a first
hrr J-?hu Pn kington, in a long speech, moved
’ . h -id dre -be presented to her majesty fora
mmirsion to inquire into the present state of popu
. educ ation in England, and to consider and re
: ort ♦}.’ changes if any are required for the exten
ound and cheap elementary instruction to
aH (1m a. The motion was agreed to after some
On the lrith inst., the proceedings in the House of
Iv-rde were unimportant.
I ri. House of Commons, Sir Geo. Grey, in re
/i : e to enqubioe, said that the evidence offered
< Frenci! Government of the complicity of
v /./.4j)i. Ledi u Rollin and others in Pianora’a at-
I'-mptou the Emperor’s life, was in-uflicient tojus
i .j,.. ( i iing-r against those parties, and that the
i, ii u Government had declined to interfere.
L*>r<i Palmerston explained that sr far from Louis
Xv , having paid tiie legacy be(4Ueathed by
j\ : . .u ,c first to Cantillon for an attempt to as
• The Duke of Wellington, an application
: id been rejected on the ground that the tes
. ..r must ha* e been in a etate us mental aberra
i. x w 11■ . r he made the bequest. A part ct the be
<jut • w.% paid under the Bourbon regime.
Lord Palmerston moved for leave to bnng in his
nrw India bill, to transfer the government of India
trot: .h< India Company to the crown. lie ex
plained that the Lull proposed was confined to
i hang'. ji the administration and organization of
h Company, which it was intended should in future
1, cenired iri the Imperial Government. The alte
• , ions proposed were to be as little as was consis
tei. h the object the Government had in view,
namely, to make the advisers of the Crown respon
f*iol i r the Government ot India. It was proposed
n ah ‘ * i ihe Court of Directors and in lieu thereof
•jj ablieh a Council to l>e mainly composed of per
son. w i.o had been in India, or who knew Indian af*
r iirs weil ; the council to consist of eight persons to
40 out in 1 -union every two years; the President
- the council would be appointed by the Govern
rn. it; thepowerof the President would not ex
tend to matters ot finance. In such matters the
President w uld have the assistance of four couucil
lor? , the Pr. eident would be one of the Secretaries
-t Siate, with a stipend accordingly. Palinerstoii
further explained the provisions of the measure,
>;nd urged ihe House tocon©ent to its iniroductiou.
Mr 1’ Baring moved as an amendmant that it is
in.: at present expedient to legislate for the Go vein
ment ot India.
The matter was then debated at some length, but
without arriving at any result.
Trie Bank of England has reduced its rate of dis
count from three and a halt to three and one elev
en! h per cent The movemeut was anticipated, and
is effret was slight. The rate has not been so low
~r five yenr. j . The applications at the Bauk slight
ly increased after the reduction.
M apperlon, Findlay &l Cos., of Glasgow,
have suspended.
Ihe London Daily News says that a meeting of
t Shareholder* i t he Illinois Central Railroad
ah.- held on the llthhist. M . Osborne, President
o ihe Comp&uy, was present. The appointment
•f Mr. h her as Auditor, who is now on a visit of
inspection to the. United States, was confirmed.
Resolutions were passed recommending the Di
lectora not to enter into any fresh engagements
without previously submitting them to the Share
holders in public meeting.
\ ft’ious explanations were given by Mr. Osborne
• .tive to itu-po i'ion of the Company, and were
received with satisfaction.
ihe Loudon Police Department offers a reward
jC . > for tbe appehension of Thomas Allsop,
who 1 charged as an accessory to the conspiracy
against the Emperor Napoleon’s life.
France —The Daily News’ Paris correspondent
h :e*\.-s that Marsha! Vaillant, Minister of War,
lift-* resigned, and will be succeeded by Gen. Neil.
Count \VaU*w>ki will probably re-ign the Ministry
of the Foreign Affairs and go to London as Am
bassador. Count Persigney has returned to Paris
i • i. his h-f in the new Privy Council. The
eigl •. 1 - 1 will nndmbly be Drouyu de
‘! Huys De Rayneval’s death leaves a vacancy
i.r Hi ‘Airabas-y to Prussia.
Th new Minister of the Interior had received
nu.m-icms nilUtary deputations which attracted at
tention from the novelty ot the jfroeeeding.
The monthly statement of the Bauk of France
shows a gain of nearly thirteen millions of francs in
the Lull) .n held in Pans, and again of nearly nine
teen millions ill tbe country branches
A late telegram from Paris to the London Post
a)s there is no intention of making further modifi
radon* in the French Ministry.
Gen Pellisaier, it was expected, would be appoin
: I Commander in Chief of the army in Paris iu
plat • ot Marshal Magnan, who is spoken of as Am
ba.'sador to Russia.
The Times’ correspondent says that Espinosse,
11,0 m u Minister of the Interior, who is known to
- the Emperor s confidence, will uot only at
t end Cabinet Councils, but will wait on the Ktnpe
ror every morning to reoeive his orders direct, in
hit; double capacity-of M nieter of the Interior aud
kd -:e ( amp The threes closed dull ou Friday at
Si- al. .—Tiie revolutionary movement announced
l>y ti e last eteamer a having been discovered, is
Mid have been uu insigniticant affair, and the prin
cipal person arrested had been liberated.
The Senate voted an address in reply to tbe
Queen’s speech by HI to 16.
Itsi y —The trial of the prisoners charged with
complicity in the Cagliari affair was progressing
,on ly One of the English prisoners is said to have
become insane.
lr is said that the King of Naples has consented
to submit the question ot tbe ownership of the Cag
o the arbitration of a third government.
Report is again current of an early resumption of
diplomatic relations between Austria and Sardinia.
I*kl ssia.—Tbe Times’ correspondent says, in re
gard to the reception of the Prince and l’rincess
Frederick William at Berlin, that no similar event
in Prussian history has been celebrated with so
much real enthusiasm of the heart as that*W tiich has
just passed.
Dknwakk A motion has passed by 41 to 7, in
thr l.i-g!s!ative Council ofl>eumark, for the instant
fortification of Copenhagen.
Swkdkn —The Swedish Chambers have rejected
tin, proiect of the Government for the fortification
c S ekholtn. and also the project of a law for in
creased religious toleration.
Ki ssia.—-A letter states that a violent earthquake
as u t a Yoroutsk, a town situated to the west of
Lake Baikal, in Siberia The shock was so great
-i extruded as far as Kiakahta, on the frontiers
el China.
Tiie i .umais of Moscow contain a list of 501 land
ed p'oprietors, belonging to the order of the No
ble-se. who have given in their adhesion to the
nbet a. measures rt the Emperor respecting the
,-n ;.in ipaticu e. serfs, which it was expected at one
time they would oppose.
Tar alleged submission of Schamyl is not con
firmed by the latest intelligence.
i’t KKXY. —The revolt in Bessergovina is said to
;i,ve terminated by the Christians laying down
.. -ing
! Fuad Pacha is to be the Turkish Plenipotentiary
a* the Paris Conferences.
i Imua. —Further, but unimportant details of the
j i , n lahr-n out bv Wednesday s steamer, had been
puli .shed, but nothing later bad been received.
1/iUU from London to l.tret pool.
1 h > > Saturday Morning.—-The Times’ City
! \r’i. . mv? —The’ ’Funds have steadily maintain
, and e fir m quotations of yesterday. Tbs transac
ii . wore rot numerous, but there is a general
. ,ngto an increase of animation. In foreign ex
: ?tl - afternoon, the rate of Hamburg was
u while Paris and Amsterdam w ere about the
. uat elas post Nearly £Bo,Booin gold
, aaen to the Bank to-dav. part of which was
i nali er of tbe speoia by the Australia. No
i further orders have been given for the Continent,- —
| The denars by the Mexican packet have been dis
-1 posed of at sixty pence, being a decline of a jof a
! penny.’
The Daily Sews’ City Article of Friday evening
mv- —"T.’.e funis to-day were stationary in price
„ j ~tUe busmes- In the Discount Market this
I afternoon there was a sensibly increased demand,
bv: f ’dass bills w ere still readily negotiated at
v ; ..a.f per cen: In exceptional cases transac
pk* place at lower rates. The Bank of Hol
d has reduc ed its rates of discount from 4| to 4
.•c- ; Ihe Bank of Frankfort has also lowered
. ra te v 3 per cent., and the Bank of Bremen
1 from 5 to 4 per cent. ...
‘l - Journal de Frankfort states that the crus m
>t t’ ,1 sburg has caused several failures with lia
! tits? from fitly to two hundred thousand silver
( ommereial Intciligcßce,
t ? Most. Mckmt.—The London Money
- k,-; wa.-? : y easier. The Bank of England
ha i reducnl i .. rate of discount to 3 per cent. Con
-■ - >ed tor mi r.ey at HfigsWJ, and for account at
■ Tbe Bniiicu tu the Bank had increased
. ‘ ”Messrs Baring Brothers quote Bar Sil
ver at ■? 1 ,1 I'lsrs .1? Earles 7fis-’id.
A • .'x ■? ‘.n tr?—Messrs. Baring Bros.,
teport Amencasrstocks geceraliy slow of sale, but
pru’es unchanged.
Messrs. Be A Co.report the steamer's news had
•ootr..- ot. ’nt m ke- f s Sixes. 1807, 101 a
I*'. c do Bond?, IS*-?, lot jicgj. MarvlandFives
B U - Ist Mamat'hasetta Vivm Bonds 101 and
la!, Peonsvlvaum Five* 75 *77 , do do Bonds
‘ - > 1-JSI 1 - Alabama do Bonds 82*81
V giaJbdo. iSbS. St #B*i, Mwvi* Centra! R. K.
?’ v, . :?i cl s dc do bt-v ens tv IC vd do do
‘ixe.- ‘ t ?■ Michigan Central ffs, 1889, 67 * 89.
and chi Suaces ’hu 65 Erie K K 7’s. Convertible*,
‘fe S.s N T. Centra! c’s 84 Bfi . do do 7’s 92*
‘I E . UK S’ccki3u2s. do do_< Conveni
ae- fi:*i iodo 3d Mo'tgage •• o*o. do do
a.nr cc . • Pennsylvania Central Sixes,
t Isf Mortgage,Bfi a BS.
London papers report sale* on the lith met. of It*
, ltn.’.s Central 7’s, 1860, at 8c
SraTrov Track is Manchester. —The adv ce*
from Mai.’ ester are favorable ; the market sym
pathir ing with Liverpool, was active and buoyant
The Leviathan —Cant. Harrison, who is to com
f mand the Leviatuan. wnte that ke is in hopes to be
m Portland with bis veasel in the latter part of tbe
, month of June, and that be proposes to remain there
i with her Se ven weeks
Luteal from Utah and the Utah Expedition.
We have some interesting accounts from tbe
Utah expedition to the 9lh of January, at which
time the troops under Col. Johnston were in excel
lent condition, in good health, and blessed with fa
vorable weather. Tbe extemporaneous court or
ganized by Judge Eckels, iu Green county, had
found bills of indictment for high treason against the
following Mormon leaders :
Brigham Young, Heber C Kimball. Daniel II
Well.-. John Taylor, George D. Grant, Lot Smith,
Porter Rockwell, William A. Hickman, Albert Car
rington, Joseph Taylor, William Stowell, Lewie
Rjbinson, Joshua Terry, John Harvey, Daniel
Juues, PL means Young, William Young, Robert
Burton, James Fergu on and Ephraim Hanks.
The Mormon Legislature met. as was mentioned,
at Salt Lake City on December 14th. The Coun
cil organized by the choice of Heber C. Kimball as
president, and the House of Representatives elect
*6 John Taylor speaker. On the 15th Brigham
Young sent m a message. After alluding to the
condition of the Territory as regards agriculture,
•he mechanic arts, mining, education, the policy
pursued towaid the Indiana and the mail contract,
ie discuasea the difficulties of the S* nta with the
Gentiles. Having received no official notification
of the intention of the government to supersede him
in the gubernatorial office nor of the dispatch of
troops to Utah, Young affects to regard the army
ct Fort Bridger aDd the civil authorities there as an
o ganized mob. against which he has already ful
m ated a proclamation to disperse. This procla
ma on the army (or “mob - ’ as he calls it) refused
to o .“y. He thus adds :
“ L ider these circumstances I respectfully sug
g st ti at you take such measures as your enlighten
ed judgment may dictate, to insure public tran
quility, and protect, preserve and perpetuate invio
late those inalienable constitutional rights which
have descended to ua a rich legacy from our fore
fathers.
“ A civilized nation is one that never infringes
upon the rights of its citizens, but strives to protect
and make happy all within its sphere, which our go
vernenant, above all others, is obliged to accom
plish, though its present course is as far from that
wise and just path as the earth is from the eun.—
And under the aggravated abuses that have been
heaped upon ua in the past, you and the whole pee
p!e are my witnesses that it has more particularly
:*llen to my lot and been my policy ana practice to
reetrain rather than urge resistance to usurpation
and tyranny on the part of the enemies to the con
•titution and constitutional laws, (who are also our
enemies aod the enemies of all republics and repub
licans,) until forbearance under such cruel and il-
treatment cannot well be longer exercised.—
No one has denied or wishes to deny the right of
the government *0 send its troops when, where and
as it pleases, so it is but done clearly within the au
thorities and limitations of the constitution, and for
the nafety and welfare of the people ; but when it
sends them clearly without the pale of those authori
ties aud limitations, unconstitutionally to oppress
the people, as is the cose in the so called army sent
to Utah, it commits a treason against itself woich
commands the resistance of all good men, or free
dom will depait our nation.”
The Legislature thereupon passed resolutions ex
pressing their entire confidence in Brigham Young,
and their determination to sustain him in the rebel
lion It also passed a law attaching Green county
to Salt Lake county, with the view, probably, of
nullifying some of the proceedings of the Uaited
States Court which had opened there by Judge
Eckels.
The following are three of the resolutions:
Resolved, lhat we hold ourselves, our means and
influence in readiness to sustain his Excellency Go
vernor Young in every act he may perform or dic
tate, in accordance with the constitution and consti
tutional laws of tbe United States and the laws of
Utah, for the protection of the lives, peace and
prosperity of the people of this Territory.
Resolved , Tbat neither the present nor any other
administration of the general government shall en
force profane, drunken aud otherwise corruptofficials
upon us at the point of the bayonet, aud that the at
tempt so to do by the preeent incumbent of the
executive chair of our nation has incurred that con
tempt aud determined opposition of all good men
which such an act of usurped authority and oppres
sion so richly deserves.
Resolved , That while we deprecate the bitter
hostili y manifested towards a most loyal and inno
cent people by the present administration of the
general government, we will continue to resist any
attempt on the part of the administration to bring
us into a state of vassalage by appointing, contrary
to the Constitution, officers whom the people have
neither vote or voice iu electing ; nor shall any
persons appointed to office for Utah by the present
administration either qualify for or assume and dis
charge within the limits of this Territory the func
tions of the offices to which they have been appoint
ed, so long as our Territory is menaced by an in
vading army, (for such an army cannot have been
sent to protect either the citizens or *he passing
emigration, but is manifestly sent to aid in tram
pling upon American liberty,) nor so long as such
appointees are pusillanimous as to require a numer
ous armed force to attend their beck to enable them
to carry out tbe traitorous designs concocted for de
priving American citizens of their indefeasible aud
vested rights.
It is supposed Judge Eckels’ court will indict
every member of the Mormon Legislature who vo
ted to sustain Young. They had been reconvened
specially for tbe purpose on the 4th Jan.
The New-York Tribune has a number of letters
from Camp Scott, Col. Johnston’s headquarters.
Wo copy the following items :
Three prisoners, who have recently been released
by the Mormons, say that the latter are preparing
an expedition for the interception of Capt. Maroy
ou his return from New Mexico. Their object is to
seize his mules aud break up the escort. One of
the released prisoners states that many of the ‘Mor
inon troops have been withdrawn from Echo Ca
non, and estimate the number remaining there and
in its vicinity at 1,000. lie confirms the fact that
there is a series of little posts along the main road
from Salt Lake city, the nearest bemg within forty
miles of this camp By means of these, new 8 of
every movement in our army is conveyed with great
rapidity to Brigham Youog.
Dr. Hurt has writteu a letter which charges upon
the authorities of the Mormon church a variety of
outrages of almost inconceivable atrocity.
Christmas and New Year's Day have been cele
brated by the army with as much gayety as if they
were in cosy cautonments instead of under canvas
roofs. The mornings were devoted to the discharge
of holiday courtesiers; by calls upon all the ladies of
the principal civil aud military officers. On Christ
mas eve the non-commissioned officers of the sth
infantry united to give a ball, and New Year’s eve
was celebrated by the non-commissioned officers of
the 10th in the same manner. The ball-room of the
latter was constructed from five large hospital tents,
aud was decorated iu good taste with flags and
bunting. Atmiduight the regiment baudsmadeatour
through the civilian settlement and the camp, se
renading Col. Johnston, Col. Waite, Col. Alexander,
Gov. Cumming, Judge Eckles, and all the ladies who
accompany the army. The utmost good order pre
vailed.
There was a very welcome arrival, a few days
ago. of 1,000 pounds of salt from Fort Laramie.
The quantity dispatched from that post was 3,000
pounds, but many of the pack mules perished in the
snow at the Rocky Ridge, only 16 out of 46 reaching
camp. , ,
The lunettes designed to complete the fortifica
tion of Fort Bridger, the work on which has been
superintended by Lieut. Webb of the sth Infantry
and Lieut. Kensee of the 4th Artillery, are com
pleted.
John Thompson, a Mormon elder, was found
loitering about the camp and taken prisoner. He
was disguised in soldier’s clothes. Lt. Grover, of
the 10th infantry, was immediately after the arrest
appointed provost marshal of the camp.
William Stowell, the principal Mormon prisoner,
was arraigned January 3d, in the District Court,
upon the indictment of treason returned by the
grand jury. At the instance of his counsel, Chas. M.
inith, (formerly of Front Royal, Va., aud at one
time editor of the Washington Sentinel,) his trial
was postponed.
Scurvy is prevailing at Fort Laramie and has
made its appearance at Camp Scott.
In the Los Angeles Star, of the 16th January, we
find some important news from Salt Lake. The
Star says;
A pkrty from Salt Lake city, under Col. Atnala
Lyman, had reached the crossing of the Mohave,
and encamped tor the purpose of procuring sup
plies of provisions, clothing and dry goods. There
w ere twenty wagons in the train. It is reported
that great destitution exists in the city, and that or
ders have been given toprevent further emigration
from San Bernardino. There is a large encamp
ment at Mohave—about 100 wagons. A great num
ber have lately moved out on the road, Colonel
Lyman does not intend to come into San Bernardi
no, but to send for his supplies by some of the late
residents. Those of the encampment who had
supplies, immediately forward them to the assis
tance of tiie suffering brethern in Salt Lake, intend
ing to procure others from the Gentiles here. The
reports are not doubted that great suffering exists
iu the valley, but the brethren aud sisters are still
desirous of pressing on to Zion, so that they may
obtain the‘‘endowments’’and be considered worthy
to suffer for and with the church.
Tbe camp on the Mohave cannot be so devoid of
the comforts of life, after all, as it might be supposed
to be. We have beard it stated by several that
since the camp was established there has been no
fees than fifty marriages, the young men of the party
agreeing to take charge of all the youDg ladies, to
which the tatter freely consented, thus securing pro
tection through the long journey. Not only have
marriages been celebrated wholesale, in orthodox
Mormon style, but the married ladies have contri
buted largely to the hilarity and pleasures of camp
life by adding to the population, there having been
no less than twenty-five births.
The names of two of the five unfortunate gentle
men, an account of whose cold blooded murder in
the Mormon settlements we copied some days since
from the Placerville Argus, were Aik on. They were
brothers, and at the time of their leaving the lower
part of the State they had from $4,000 to $6,000 in
gold. This accounts For their representations in Car
son Valley. They were afterwards heard of as be
ing iu prison in Salt Lake City, where they had
been robbed of all their funds. The next and last
that was heard of them was the murder of all but
one who wa mortally w >unded.
Boiled Corn is a staple food in a
majority of families, during several months of the
year, and in most cases the cooking may be gTeatly
improved. The two chief errors are, first, in not
cooking it long enough; and second, in losing a
large proportion of its nutriment We always pre
fer it prepared as follows: Soak in warm, not hot
water test long enough to take out all excess of
salt. Thau cover it so that the steam will condense
upon the under side of the cover and fall back.—
This will prevent boiling away, and also the loss of
much of the nutriment, which, in an open vessel,
goes off with the steam. Boil the meat several
hours, or until it is so thoroughly dOBe that it will
not hold together to be lifted with a fork. If there
be any bones, take them out, since, if cooked
enough, the meat will separate from them readily.
Pack the meat by itself in a deep dish, mixing well
together the lean’ and fat portions. Next, skim the
fat, and boil the liquor so that when poured over
the meat it will just fill the space* between the
pieces. Then lay over the whole a flat cover, which
will fit into the dish, put on a dozen or twenty
pounds weight, and let it stand until cold. Several
flat-irons, ora large stone will answer for the weight,
or if convenient, it may be set under a
Prepared in this way, the poorest piece of tough
corn beef will be made tender and juicy. Boiling
down and using liquid saves the most nutritious
portion, which is usually thrown away. The gela
tine of the condensed gravy, when oold, forms a
solid mass with the meat, which may then be cut
up into slices for serving upon the table. If tbe fat
and lean portions be mixed, when cut up oold the
pieces will piesent a beautiful marble appearance
Corned beef prepared ib this way. will not only
be eaten with a superior relish, but it will not, on
account of its toughness, be swallowed half masti
cated* it then produces irritation in the stomach,
and yields only a portion of its substance as nutri
ment. Over the common process, there is only the
extra trouble of the additional boiling and pressing,
which are amply re paid by th 1 saving of nutriment,
a cheaper quality of beef will be rendered whole
some &ad profitable. Try this mode, and you will
no- willingly go back to the hard boiled “ indiges
tible salt junk. ’ — AgricnUuriit.
txKKNEss in Houston. —Daring the last two or
three months a disease has been prevailing in a lo
cality about fifteen or twenty mile* below this city
and near the Ocmulgee river, which in most case?
b&S .Pr tas *l 1’ is designated by the physicians
** , “jwpelk*.” but the symptoms vary materially
with different persons, and to a great extent have
bamed tne science of medical practitioners. From
tony nve to fifty have died of the disease within the
&D&C? ox & tow mile*, &Dd among them, several of
the most prominent and estimable citizens of the
•otmtT — Macon Mttt
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY JC tNING, MARCH 10, 1858.
From the Boston Traveller.
From the Cape of Gocd dope.
By the arrival at this port of the baik Young
Capt. Lewis, from Town, Cape of
Good Hope, Dec. 29,;we have received Cape Town
papers of the latest dates, for which we are indebted
to Mr. E. Boynton, of this city.
The people of the Cape are gratified, after various
taiiuree of English Steam Companies, at tbe splen
did voyage of the steamer Ncrmsn, of the new Unio
Comp ny, which had made the passage from Lon
don to that place in three and a half days less than
the contract time.
We gather from the papers that England, in addi
tfon to her Sepoys trouems in India, is also puzzled
-is to the disposition to be made of tbe Kaffirs, who,
though subdued in the field, are yet active through
out the country, as guerillas and plunderers. In
he latter part of December the steamer Celt arriv
ed at Table Bay from Algoa Bay. with one hundred
and forty Kaffir prisoners, among whom were the
three notorious chiefs Vi&como, Vadanna and
sba, who were ail in chains. The Cape Argus
the following interesting description f these wor
thies :
Macamo presented a very picturesque appear
ance , ne was dressed in a duffel jacket, fustian
trowsers, and wore an old battered white bat upon
uis heid; he leaned over the quarter alternately
eating apricots and smoking a dirty black pipe
He is an old man, apparently betweeu sixty and
seventy ; his woolen locks are besprinkled with
gray. There is nothing peculiarly striking in his
features, which are as much like thoa * of an'ordina
ry looking South African as can be met with among
the coolie gangs or Cape Town. He leaned list
lessly over the side ot trie steamer, as if indifferent
to what was going on around him, but he freely an
swered through the interpreter any questions that
were put to him.
Macomo in his better days has hob-nobbed with
Her Majesty’s Representatives. I r . is understood
that he is to be transported for life, but how that
understanding has been arrived at we do not yet
know. We are not informed either of the nature of
tbe charge beyond that which mere hears-ay gives.
We are told that, in two or three weak moments, he
lias asked whether it is likely that they will make
him work. He appears to dread the idea and says
he is too old.
His appearance on arrival did not betoken much
mercy on the part of his captors: the chains on him
were heavy enough for a ship’s cable, but be did
not eeern to care much about them. He is accom
panied by one of his wives—the youngest. She sat
on the after hatchway and talked freely to Vadan
na beside her. She has rather a pleasing face, nice
teeth, sharp, well set eyes, and not a very large
mouth,—apparensly about thirty-five years of age.
She must have been pretty in the plump days of her
youthfulness. Macomo is said to pay her great at
tention. Whenever he got a glass of grog ou board,
she always had a full half of it. To say that Maco
mo is fonder of his wife than of his grog is saying
pretty much. Near her sat her youngest son, a
very fine youth of the most pleasing aspect. Mas
ter Macomo does not appear to have shared any of
the privatious that his people have undergone. He
is iu most excellent condition and laughed and chat
ted in the coolest manner possible, never shrinking
for a moment from the gaze of those who surround
ed him. He had nothing but a blanket to cover
him.
Vadanna sat ou his Haunches upon the hatchway
and scrutinized the visiters with a most malignant
scowl. He is a most repulsive looking villain, with
a cast of countenance unlike anything we have
ever seen. His sac eis deeply indented with hard,
coarse lines, which traveree every feature. Hiu
irons were very heavy. They had been put on
without much care, and in two or three places were
inarka of skin having been rubbed off’ and healed
again. He pointed out these immediately we came
up to him and curled his lips scornfully, as if to let
us know tbat he will take it out of ua if he ever gets a
chance. He appears to take the whole affair to
heart much more than any of the rest of his asso
ciates.
He sulkily there open apricot after apricot and
ate them much in the same way that he would relish
the “chawing up” of a settler. On being asked how
he felt, he supposed he was being questioued for
some purpose and answered that he had nothing to
say now—bib time would come. He was unprovided
with any clot Les ; his blanket was tin own careless
ly over bis shoulders; he frequently lifted his ohaine
to a more convenient position The chains of all
of them were taken off previous to their being
landed.
Quesha is the liveliest of thu party, aud is thought
the least of. There is very little intelligence iu bri
features ; he is uot so old looaing as Vidauna, who
we should judge to be sixty. Os the prisoners who
lay about the decks forward, there was a little
noticeable, beyond that all the men looked haggard,
and as if they were not nearly recovered from the
effects of starvation. They all, however, appeared
thoroughly contented. The females, among whom
were one or two that may be said to be pretty, were
ranged along the shore, side of the ship, all at break
fast. There were several children gambolling about
the deck.
Nearly all thefema es appeared to be married ;
most of them had children by their sides. Their
inode of breakfasting was not very elegant, nor did
their general appearance impress upon us the truth
of the proverb, which eels forth that “beauty
unadorned is adorned the most.” They care little
for anything except animal food, and this they take
between their fingers and gnaw moat voraciously.
Their eyes sparkled with delight as they shallowed
the fat and delicious morsels of ‘:junk” and fresh
beef that were ungrudgingly supplied to them.
When they had finished eating, two or three of them
threw off their blankets, and greased their neck and
shoulders with the grease which had accumulated
on their hands whilst eating, and evidently con
sidered that they “shone” when they had completed
their operation.
They were all landed in the course of the day.
Macomo aud his wile, with Vadanna and Quesha,
are lodged in the Cape Town prison. His sou and
his councillors are in the Amsterdam battery.
Extraordinary Suicide —From the California
papers we learn that Adolph F. Brands, a native of
Norfolk, Va., and employed as confidential clerk by
the house of Macondray &. Cos., of San Francisco,
committed suicide on the 520th January. He hired
a horse, went to the Lone Mountain Cemetery,
wrote a letter, directed it to Mr. Macondray, placed
it together with a ten dollar piece in a handkerchief,
and tied the bundle to the horn of the saddle. He
then turned the horse iooße and it returaed to the
stable in the city, where the bundle was opened,
the letter found and sent to Macondray. in it lie
confessed he had wronged his employers by embez
zling ihe funds aud avowed his intention io commit,
suicide. His body was aflerwards found in the
Cemetery. By his side was found a small vial, con
taining about four grains of strychnine, and scat
tered on the ground were scraps of paper torn from
a memorandum book. On these pieces of paper de
ceased wrote disjointed sentences with ape; oil, ex
pressive of his leelings and the thoughts uppermost
in hia mind after swallowing the deadly substance.
The character of his handwriting as the time pass
ed aud as the poison operated on the system grew
more tremulous and indistinct. Both sides cl the
paper are written ou, except the last scrap, which
contains only these words, “ I am dy”—probably
put there at the moment the deceased fell iuto the
first paroxysm. The sad fate of Branda presents
one of the most singular cases of suicide 011 record.
On the first piece of paper deceased wrote :
Yet the thoughts of my poor mother keeps my
heart warm, or rather hot, for 1 feel I am her mur
derer. God help me.
How slowly time passes; it seems to me nearly
half an hour since I took the fatal - ose, yet 1 do not
suffer. How chilly it is! I feel stiff from the cold.”
Number two: —
“ It is fearful to die thus alone—to Icok around,
see the hills, hear the roar of the ocean. See your
fellow- beings moving in the distance, yet die alone.
“ Just after my third dose a man passed and told
his friends I was crazy. God forgive me. I hope
I am. What terrible suspense this wailing for
death.’’
Number three: —
“ —For science—half of the bottle 1 have taken,
four doses of the starch—at intervals of about three
minutes, yet do not suffer. I feel nervous, but will
note the time ou the back of this.”
“—I think it has been fifteen minutes since I
took the first. lam cold and chilly. May some
good result from my death.”
On the fourth piece the writing is without auy ol
der. The words are spread irregularly over the pa
per length-wise and diagonally. They are as fol
lows :
** —fully half an hour. I am dying. God help
me A. T. B ”
Number five: “I am dy—’ *
Trial of an American in Prussia. — A letter in
the New York Herald, dated Berlin, Jan. 27, has
the following:
A case was tried the other day in the Criminal
Court of this city, in which a young American was
involved —a law student by the name of Sprigg,
who hails from the State of Louisiana The affair
it refers to occurred an early as last October; but
the course of justice is so tardy in this country that
the trial has only just come ou. On the evening of
the 10th of October Mr. Sprigg was stand eg w-ith
some of his fellow students at the corner of the
LeipzigerStrasse, when a Prussian officer, Lieut.
Von Holleben, came along in full uniform, engaged,
as it is stated, in the performance of his military
duties. In passing the group of students, hia ears
weresaluted with something resembling a hiss, aud
he approached them to inquire whether this sibilant
sound was intended for him. The tone in which
Prussian lieutenants are c.pt to address civilians is
not exactly what Americans, and especially South
ern gentlemen, are used to. Instead of answering
the inquiry, therefore. Mr. Sprigg asked him. in re
turn, w'hat he meant by such a question, aud pro
ceeded incontinently to seize Von Holleben by the
collar, whereupon the latter drew his sword and in
dieted a severe cut upon his antagonist’s arm, and
another upon his forehead.
You will imagine, perhaps, that it was Mr. Hol
leben who was tried for this assault; but things are
managed differently here, and it is the unlucky Mr.
Sprigg who has been prosecuted for attackiug an
officer in the performance of his duty. The public
accuser was of opinion tbat three weeks’ imprison
ment was the very least he could be sentenced to
for such an offense; but, in consideration that, as a
foreigner, he was not sufficiently aware of the high
and mighty character of the personage he had to
deal with, and, finally, that the lieutenant himself
had consented to drop the prosecution, the court ac
quitted the defendant. It should be mentioned, by
the way, that a Prussian officer, who always gees,
armed cop-a-pic, is justified by law in drawing hie
sword on an unarmed adversary, if personally insul
ted by the latter, and that he is not answerable even
for fatal consequences that may ensue in such a case.
It appears, however, that Mr. Sprigg s wounds were
not of a serious nature, and he is now quite recov
ered.
Arrival or the Thomas Swann — Ship Ashore
and Passengers Rescued. —Tbe steamship Thus.
Swann arrived here from New-York at- an early
hour yesterday, considerably behind time. Captain
Post reports that the delay was occasioned by hav-*
ing to lie, for thirty-alx hours, aiongs de the steam
ship Atlanta, which had gone ashore on Wimble
Bh(*a.B about twenty miles north ©f Cape Hatteras.
while bound from New-York to Charleston. The
accident occurred on Monday, the *22d tilt., and the
passengers remained in that perilous position for f.
whole week, when they were taken off and brought
safely to this City by the Swann. They left las:
evening for Charleston by the steamer Gordon.
Their card will be found in another column, in addi
tions which they complain that they were passed
by the steamship Columbia, bound from Charleston
to New-York, soon after their vessel went ashore,
but that vessel took no notice of them. I‘ was j
thought, by proper efforts, the Atlanta might be go:
off without serious damage —Savannah Repub , of j
Thursday.
A Steamer and U S. Mail Lost.—Talcahca- ‘
so. Chili, Jan. 14.—1n consequence of the loss of
the British mail steamer Valdivia, belonging to the
Pacihc Steam Navigation Company running be
tween Valparaiso and this port, carrying the mail
and passengers, t which took place on the morning
of the 11th December, by striking upon a rock about
one hundred miles north of this port,) the whole
American mail, for points south ot Valparaiso, was
lost— not a letter or paper was saved. Passengers
and crew with a portion of the freight, were saved, j
Tbe Valdivia had on board all the American mail
matter which had left the United States between
the sth of October and the sth of November last.
Our community has been in suspense in regard to
the ioas of the mail during the last hfteen dap, or
more, but by the last arrivals from Valparaiso, and
the land mail via Santiago, all doubts are removed
— do portion of it was saved. She had on board
the maii for Constitucion. Tome, Taicahuano, Con
cepcion, Valdivia, and Chiloe. and all other, and-in
terior places south of Valparaiso — Correspondence
Jour of Coo l.
News from rhe Sonlli Pacific.
The steamship New Granada arrived at Panama
on the 7th of February, with the South Pacific mars
and passengers. Tbe'dates are—Valparaiso 15th,
aud Callao 27th of January.
Cailo (Jan 27} Correspondence of Panama Star.
Peru.—Tbe revolution that has distracted this
country for the last year doubtless soon be
bio'-gnt to a c.ose. Oil the Chilian
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* ‘.hi.- 4 “!.n*”\
al; !•'■* measures have their operation
aa* beeu felt, beneficial, amrn is greatly to be re
gretted.that the country was not prepraredfor so
liberal institutions. The food was too strong for the
ch id, and their spirit was met in accordance with
the limited views of a bigoted priesthood. That the
church is tt the b ttOiii and the principal director
of the present revolu.ion, there cannot exist a doubt.
Tuey counted upon assistance t f all the members of
the iar-t administration (overthrown by Castilla,)
but were deceived: only a few joined them, and the
rest received a moiety oi their pay monthly to save
them from want. Gen. Castilla, amongst the many
noble acts connected with hie name, has recently
added one more that entitles him to be called “Cas
tilla the* Just.’ By a decree just published, he or
tiers that all of the officers of the last administration
who have remained neutral during the present revo
lution shall be restored to their rank and again re
sums their respective commands. This is extended
to both branches of the service. The measure has
been received by all with joy. This action is noble,
and it will call to the side of Castiiia many brave
aud experienced officer*.
A few nighta ago some of the officers of the war
steamer Ucayali, attempted to run away with her.
but the Captain escaped through the stern window
and swam on board the Loa, and gave the alarm.—
A force was sent on board the Ucayali, and theoiffi
cers arrested. Their intention was to join the revo
lutionary party, but were disappointed; the officers
will be court martialed immedi
Ine .s.,uth ‘ aaeu -
< 4 -o"k price we-’i ali i
L'r.t revolutionary force's on the^^Bfost , which re
sulted in the defeat of
patch is brief, as follows: On the 13th inst. the flow
er of Vivanco’s troops, infantry, cavalry and gue
rillas, came outside the city. Castilla ordered his
troops to advance, cross the river and attack the
left wing of Vivanco ; a bti?k engagement
Vicanco'a troops retreated, leaving their dead upon
the field, .after which Castilla returned to occupy his
old position. The engagement was conducted by
Marshal San Roman.
Tiie contract for supplying the United States with
guano has been given to tbe Peruvian house of Zar
racondegui & Cos. .he French contract will pro
bably be closed within the next fifteen days, but
with the clause tacked on that all charters and con
tracts made by the former contractors, Monta. ie &
Cos., are to be recognized by the new contractors.
Anew Cabinet had beeu formed in Bolivia, aud
the army was being reduced. The alpaca wool
trade was very low. The administration of Presi
dent Linares was producing very good effects. In
Chile the government and the opposition were both
preparing for a severe election struggle. Money
was much more plenty. The crops were excellent,
and promised a very full yield. The merchant
steamer Catapilco was wrecked off Picbedanguion
the Bth of January.
From the Plate provinces we have news dated at
Buenos Ayres 24th December. The frontiers had
been placed in a state of defence against hostile
Indians. It was believed that Buenos Ayres would
unite with Brazil in the event of a war with Para
guay, but hopes were entertained that Paraguay
would be emancipated from subjection to the clergy.
A political reaction against the government was
commencing iu Montevideo Provisions were
scarce at Buenos Ayres, but a plentiful harvest was
hoped for. Hides had fallen in prices.
The Homes of the Poor in New York.—The
Tribune says it is estimated that in the first, second,
fourth, fifth aud sixtii Wards only, of this city, there
are about 450 lodgiug houses ot a very inferior char
acter. The average number of male and female
lodgers every night throughout the year, is said to
be about 25, or a total oi 11,250 persons.
Three thousaud pay as high as 3 cents per night
for the privileges peculiar to a lodging house at that,
price ; four thousaud pay 6 cents, aud the remain
der 12 cents per night. Thus, about S9O fur three
cent beds, $240 for six cent beds, and SSIM) for 12
cent beds—or a total ol SB4O is paid every night lor
the meanest k ind of accommodation iu the name of
lodgings. The amount annually, excepting every
seventh night, which, in most cases, is thrown in
by the magnanimous proprietors, is not less .ban
$264,000. More than half of this sum, or at least
$150,000 of this amount, besides large quantities of
clothing and victuals, are procured from people
who pay more than a shilling 1 night lor their lodg
ings or rents.
A large number of the three cent places are under
ground ; the accommodations being “a kind of fire
in some corner or other,’.’ “several shavings covered
over with fabrics of questionable character, the
relics of a chair or stool, aid mayhap, a table of in
calculable origin.” The light of the world'’ is occa
sionally admitted by a door, or if anything should
steal or otherwise abstract the bnndlßof shavings
from the window, then for a lime 1 ght gets in by
its legitimate channel. The ventilation of the pre
mises need uot be described.
Jn the sixpenny houses shavings, straw, and va
rious other collections of material constitute the rest
ing spots for lodgers. In many of them the aspect
is much the same as that pre.-Auted by the forecas
tle of an English vessel, excepting the absence of
decent white wash. Hammocks may be observed
slung between the sides of the apartment, while
regions of darkness lay beyond human scan, the in
terior of which the boldness of exploration only
would be able to describe.
The shilling, or twelve-cent houses are generally
on a more respectable scale. The sheets ou the
beds are not allowed so be clean ofteuer than once
in six weeks. Not more than four persons are ex
pected to sleep in one bed at the same time, and
five or six such beds may be found in some rooms
large enough for two persona only, uuder ordinary
circumstances. In many of these house rum is
sold, much to the sacrifice of the peace of the com
munity.
Loss of Schr. Magyar, of Belfast, Maine.—
The schooner Magyar, Capt. Havener, sailed from
Baltimore, October 26th, for Antigua, with a full
cargo af flour, coin, Stc., and no tidings since re
ceived until the present, which were brought bytho
last steamer from Havre, whither the survivors had
arrived. They consisted oi the mate, Eldndge S.
Thomas, John Edwards, seaman, and a boy named
.John Siccaro. Capt. Havener, and the etewarfl,Juo. *
Winder, of Baltimore, were, washed overboyd and
drowned, aud later, two of the crew,
and John Lindsay, died from exhaustion.
From the protest which was received here to-day, j
it is stated that the schooner on the 7th November
encountered a violent gale from N. E., were ob
liged to scud the veeeel under reefed foresail; same
night was throw 11 ‘on her beam ends in a sudden
squall, and to right her cut away the mainmast; the
gale continuing without abatement, the foremast
was cut away to prevent her being again thrown
down.
The sea was running high all the while and break
ing over the vessel in all directions. All hands
1 ried to lash themeeives to avoid being washed over
board, notwithstanding this, the captain, mate, (El
dridge S. Thomas,) steward, (John Winder,) and
John Siccaro, (a boy) were washed overboard, and
Captain II iveuer and the steward drowned, the
mate and boy succeeded in getting on board the
wreck again, where they remained for twenty eight
days.
During the last fouiteeiy|flfeK without anything
to eat, at this period in getting in
to the schooner's hold and bags of
corn, though completely with salt wate**,
and on which they days. In
the meanwhile, John Lind.-av, sea
men, tbe only ones who washed over
board during the gale, long suffering ,
they died late iu November.
The only water that was drank for a period of
twenty-eight days was that received during one day
when it rained. Several vessels passed during this
long period, but without perceiving them. On the
4th December the French bark Pauline, Capt. Le
pentais, from Gonaives, bound to Havre, hove in
sight aud ran down to the wreck, rescuing as above.
Eldridge S. Thomas, mate; Henry Edwards, sea
man, and the boy John Siccaro, and landed them
atHavre, Jan. 22.
The Magyar was owned in Belfast, Maine, and
uninsured. Her cargo was shipped by Messrs.
Knox &. Cos. of this city, and is covered by insu
rance in New-Y’ork. —Exchange Reading Room
Books.
Two More Victims.— Mr. James Francis Geary,
local reporter of the Leader, and Mr. Elihu Hayes,
died yesterday morning, at the Sisters’ Hospital,
from injuries received at the Pacific Hotel fire. •
As soon as Mr. G. discovered that the building
was burning, he rescued his wife by leading her
out, and then went back ior his daughter Florence.
In returning he was obliged to go through the
flames. On reaching hie room he threw a matress
out. of tbe window to the balcony below, and let tbe
little girl fall upon it, jumping after her. In the
descent one of hia feet was badly cut, so that when
a ladder was placed against the balcony, in attemp
ting to get upon it he tell to the cellar, where he re
mained until he was taken, to a house
on Seventh street. He was y taken to
the Hospital. Mr. G war not to have been
in a dangerous condition evening.
The bruises he received, though severe, were not
fatal; but it was ascertained that his lungs had
been injured by inhaling hot air, and this was the
cause ot his death. He leaves a wife and one child.
A despatch was yesterday received from his bro
ther, Joseph Geary, dated at Pottsville, Pa ,re
questing#that the body be kept until he cau reach
here.
Mr. Hayes died of concussion of the brain, brought
on by a fall. His condition had been such that
from the tiret he was uot expected to survive. His
wife has arrived, (from Boston, we believe.) and
will have his remains removed thither.— St. Louis
Repub., 2bth. _
Gov. Walker on Lecompton.— The rumored
change of opinion on the part of Gov. Walker in
relation to the L compton Constitution is refuted
by a long letter he addressed to the anti-Lecompton
Democratic meeting held at Indianapolis on Tues
day last. It arrived too late to be read to the meet
ing, but made its appearance in print, in the India
napolis Journal. It is long, strong and bitter, and
disposes of the rumors that be had become recon
ciled to tbe President, and was faltering from the
detiant position he was understood to occupy some
weeks since. He says of the pledges to see fair
play, snd have the Lecompton Constitution submit
ted as a whole, to the whole people of Kansas, that
the President and ail his cabinet well knew of them
at the time they were made, and that any abandon
ment of them on his part, people had ac
cepted tie in and acted would cover him
wf;i isiianiy a:.d d;.-..- they shall ‘be re
dreme-i by hi hour of ms
• H '* and r “P r -f
be
anu ••• “ Toward
tne close of the letter
“le thi* the 82d year of^ mm Independence, or is
it the first year of American Monarchy , that is now
dawning upon us ? Lrt the people— let tbe mass
‘ p 8 composing the true Democracy, arouse from
I their slumbers. Let then break the chaise which
i would fetter tE.eir free thought and opinion, and as-
I sort their blood bought rights, and especially tbe
I great indefeasible s‘verp’gn right of self gov era
j ment We have fallen up-n evil times. Theliber-
I ties of our country are in danger. Let the people
I in every town, eoualv, and State rise in their ma
; jesty to the rescue.”
! Civil War in Sonora. — Accounts in tbe Caii
! forma papers from Sonora, state that Gar.dara bad
1 collected a large force of Indian? and commenced
i war against the authorities of the State. Th*-y j
i make rhe wa- support it-eif. andpillage the peacea
ble inhabitants. On the l©tb of December a party
j of the rebels numbering defeated 3GO govern
ment troops in battle and immediately after made
| an attack on Guaymas. There were 180 efficient
; soldiers m tne town but they fought bravely, and
i after two days’ flighting the assailants were repulsed
| On the the approach of the rebels the women and
I children and many of the private citizens of Guay
mas to the number of more than f,OOO iu we p*
off to the island in the bay and rennuned there nntil
| the fighting was over An attack on Capt- Stone e
j surveying party was apprehended
New-York Money Market.
Monday Evening, March f.— Tte Bank state
ment for the past week shows a very strong position
on the part of the Banks of this city. There is very
little change in the aggregates for the week, com
pared with those of the previous week. From all
we can iearn, the banks of the interior are also
much strengthened; but they are not inclined to
consider favorably the proposition of Governor
K:ng, backed by the opinions of several of our
leading bankers utre, to maintain at all times and
under all contingencies, a specie deposit equal to *25
per cent of their liabilities exclusive of circulation.
The proposiiiou has reference, however, more to the
city banka than those of the country ; although we
IKU3I say that the policy hitherto adopted by the
•e.tter has been a very untafe one tor themselves,
and prejudicial to the community. If the banks of
ti. city of New-lork can be induced to maintain
the specie reserve indicated more consistency of
action most follow, and leea liability to expansion,
and to revulsion Whatever course New York
pursues,is promptly followed by other cities aud
States—whether of expausiou or contraction.—
lleuce the urgent.necessity of preaeiuj- upou New
Y ork a conservative and strong policy, not tiom
choice merely, but by force. New-Y’ork has to Bus
tain a commerce of eix hundred millions per year.
Foreign Exports and Impoits ..Sdsc,Coo 000
Coasting trade (estimated) SStl.’oottOOO
itustaining 800,000 people annually 100.C00.000
Total... 8600.000,000
In fact the commerce of the whole country turns
upon New York city. A large portion of the busi
ness of every State in ihe Union is connected, di
rectly or indirectly, with this city. Henoa the ur
gent necessity that we should pursue such a course
as shall eneure consietency and uniformity in the
monetary and commercial affairs of the country at
large. Whenever New Y’ork can expand millions
of dollars per week, as iu June and July, 1857,
other cities wilt follow suit, aud all thus be subject
to violent reaction soon after.
Owing to the late favorable advices from Europe
and to the probabilities of money being yet more
abundant, the Stock Market took a decided upward
:no\ easement, with advances ranging from i to 5,
and from i per cent, to U 5 per cent, on present
priceß. There was some resistance shown, and
large lots were offered at the ruling prices, so that
towards the ciose of the First Board there was a
slight reaction without, however, materiallv lower
ing prices, and this was more plainly manifested at
the Second Board. The sales iu some of the leading
Railroad Securities and in some of the Fancies were
larger than ever made before. State Stocks were
not in much demand, being compaiatively over
look'd in the blind speculation for stocks that
ptomhes larger returns. The aggregate sales were
only ?■’ 11,000, of which $51,000 were Missouri Sixes,
at an advance of 1 over Saturdays sales. Tennes
see Sixes sold at 89J, $ advance. Virginia 925, |
advance. Ohio Sixes sold at 1011. California
Sevens at 83, the former price. Indiana Fives sold
at 85.
Railroad Bonds were in moderate demand. New
Y’ork Sixes sold at 90,1-2 advance ;do Sevens 101 ;
Bonds of 1870, 97 1-4. Harlem first mortgage 83, 1
advance. Milwaukie and Mississippi second mort
gage at 80, 2 advance. Reading Bonds 71 1-2,1
advance. La Crosse Land Grants 39,1 advance.
The principal movement was iu Railroad securi
ties. New York Central opened at 931-2, an ad
vance of 5 1-2, and closed at 93, with sales of over
4800 shares. Erie opened at 30, an advance of 3,
and closed at 35 7-8, with sales of 6,500 shares.—
Hudson River opened at 35, au advance of 2 1-2,
closed at 37, with sales of 2,500 shares. Harlem
opened at 16 1-2, au advatri e of 1, aud closed at 16,
with sales of 3000 shares. The preferred stock im
proved 1; Michigan Central sold at 74 1-4, an ad
vance of 414 over the last sales. Reading sold
21000 shares, opening at 65, an advance of 2 1-2
aud closing at 64 1 2 Michigan Southern opened at
32 1 8, and closed at 33 1-4, an advance over Satur
day’s sales of 5, w’ith sales of 2500 shares. Preferred
stock improved the same. Cleveland and Toledo
advanced 2, Panama 1 3-4, closing at 107. Illinois
Centra! closed at par, an advance of 112; Chica
go and Rock Island advanced 4 1-2; Milwaukie
and Mi,-sisßippi3 1-2; Galena and Chicago 2 5-8; La
Crosse 18; Delaware and Hudson 1-2; Cumber
land Coal Company 1-4 ; Penn. Coal Cos. 1 1-2 over
last sales.
At the Second Board prices declined with much
duller market. Missouri Sixes declined 1-2; La
Cross 14; Erie 1-4, with sales of 1700; Hudson
River 1-2; Harlem 1-4; Michigan Central 1-2; Michi
gan Southern Preferred 12; old stock 38, New
York Central improved 1 4, with sales of 1600
shares
The receipts at the Custom House to-day, amoun
ted to $79,552 08. Tire receipts at tire office of the
.Assistant Treasurer $92,810.13, of which $61,000
were from Customs; the payments were $425,279.78,
of w'hich $15,000 were for California drafts—reduc
ing the balance on hand to $3,089,492.02.
The lowa State Loan of $200,000 was awarded to
Cook &. Sargent, of Davenport, lowa, at par, for a
seven per cent. bond. The State debt is limited by
the Coust tution to $250,000.
Tuesday Evening, March 2.—There are no
changes in the money market to note. Rates are
unaltered, but more disposition is shown to loan at
present rates on paper having 90 days to run—it
being generally considered that the probabilities are
in favor of money being even more abundant. First
class paper is sought after at 6to 7 per cent; 2d
class, without any definite quotations, ranges from
Bto 9 per sent. Call loans from sto 7 per cent.
Treasury notes are scarce, and the prospects are
that they will range at par, their present quotation
for small parcels, while money continues abundant.
Domestic Exchanges have become regulated,
and a return made to the old prevailing rates.—
North and South Carolina, being under suspension
yet, are exceptional—rates for those States being up
to three per cent. Philadelphia and Baltimore
funds are in demand; New Orleans funds promise
soou to be at a premium, and as things regulate in
a measure our Western excharges, it is probable
the current of-epeeie will be from New-York for a
short time.
There is a light demand for Foreign Exchanges to
day, but no very material alteration in the figures.
The largest transaction, bankers’ bills on London,
are at 109, but in some cases at 108$ ; Commercial
names IUBj to 108}. The shipment of specie to
morrow will be light and form but a small ratio to
the California receipts.
The following are the quotations for Foreign Ex
change ;
60 Day.-,’Sight. Short Sight.
London 1085 ‘w iO'IJ tuiij® UOi
Y Y-,--’- 5 . lßi ® s U ’i S JO @5 084
Ibe Mock Market shows ns invariable re action
after an unhealthy excitement and an extreme ad
vance in prices. The sales to-day were much less
than thosci of previous days, with a decline in prices
ranging from 1-4 io 2 per cent. The business in
htat.e btocks was moderate, being in the aggregate
about $72,000, Missouri Sixes closing at 84 1-2, the
ruling price yesterday, with sales of $26,000 ; Vir
ginia sixes declined 1-4; California Sqvens ad
vanced 2, closing at. 85. Bank Shares were not in
great demand, but remain firm at form r prices.—
The sales in Railroad Bonds were as high as $70,000;
Illinois Central Bonds closed at 95, the former price;
New York Central Sixes closed at 90, Sevens 101
s*B , Hudson River Ist Mortgage, 98; La Crosse
Laud Grants 37 1-2, l 1-2 decline.
In Railroad Shares the sales continue large, but
much Below the aggregate sales of yesterday. New
Y’ork Central opened at 94, au advance of 1 over
yesterday's price, but was sold down to 93 3-8, with
sales of 1 600 shares ; Erie opened at 351 -4, a decline
of 1-2, and further declined to 35 1 8, with sales of
3,300 shares; Hu ‘son River opened at 35, but ad
vanced to 35 1-8 later in the day, a decline of 1-8
on yesterday’s closing price—I,6ooshares were sold;
Harlem opened at 15 1 2 and closed at 157-8 against
15 3 4 yesterday ; preferred Stock advanced 1-2
sales of the old stock 1,100 shares, and 650 shares of
the preferred; Mich gan Central declined 1 1-4 ;
Michigan Southern 2; Reading 1 1-2, with sales of
1,500 shares. Cleveland and Toledo declined 5-8,
Panama 1-2, Illinois Central 1-2, Mil. and Mias. 31-2,
Galena and Chicago 7 8, LaCros e, Del. and Hud
son, and Cumberland and Pennsylvania Coal Com
panies, closed at former prices. Chicago and R. I.
advanced 1 1-2; Pacific Mail Steamship declined 1
Canton Cos. 3 8.
At the Second Board, Missouri sixes declined 1-2,
dosing at 84, with sales of $26 000 Virginia at former
price. New York Central sevens advanced 1-2 ;
Cumberland Coal Cos. 18; Canton Cos. { ; New
York Central declined 3-4 ; Erie 1 1-4; Hudson
River 1, Michigan Southern 1£; Galena and Chi
cago 3-4 ; Illinois Central 1-2; Mil.and Miss, closed
at former price, Cleveland aud Toledo advanced
3-4; Chicago and Rock Island 1 2.
The receipts of the Custom House to-day, amount
ed to $75,332.96. The receipts at the office of the
Assistant. Treasury were $72,300.49, of which $59,-
I M)0 were from Customs; the payments were $37,-
823 97,—increasing the balance on hand to $3,123 -
968.54.
Statement of the exports (exclusive of specie)
from New York to foreign ports for the week and
since January Ist:
1857. 1858.
Total for the week $1,137 202 $811,944
Previously reporled 9,436,512 8,047,546
Since Jan. Ist $10,573,714 $8,859,490
The Philadelphia Banks by their Weekly State
ment to the Ist inst., show ample specie reserve to
meet their liabilities. Their Loans, Specie, Depos
its and Circulation for January and February, were
as follows:
Loans Specie. Deposits. Circulatn
Jan. 11 $21,302,374 9,770,701 11,465,253 J 011,033
Jan. 18... - 21,068,652 4,018,295 11,512,765 1,046,545
Feb. 1 .. 20,4 ‘3,704 4,475,693 12,195,126 1,096,462
Feb. 8 20,359,226 4,668,085 11,904,519 1,293,046
Feb. 15 20,071,474 4 62:4,909 11,887.:*2 1,559,218
Feb. 2*2 20,161,260 4,934,906 12,0:4,604 1 686,609
Ma ch 1 29,251 066 4 993,936 11,’ 30,532 1^898,731
The last statement received from the New Or
leans banks is as follows:
Feb. 13. Feb. 20.
Loans $14,937,307 sl4 890,353 Dec. $46,954
Specie 11,1*0,763 11.065,597 Dec. 45,166
Circulation 5,100,916 5 254,181 Inc 153,265
Deposits 15,652,544 15,914,974 Inc. 262,426
Exchange 6 624,657 7,124,377 Inc. 499,720
Due distant b’ks 1,2:3,6C9 1,274,034 Dec. 9,575
Illinois Banks —We have before us a copy of
the January statement ot the Bank Commissioners
ot the State of Illinois, from which we make the fol
lowing abstracts, which will be of interest to our
readers:
Number of banks 66
“ n liquidation. 27
“ doing bnainefs 39
M -souri bonds 82 99L000
Ail other bonds 3,10*399
Total 86,098,*99
Circulation 5 0;>2,377
Excess of securities - 81,005,022
There is that excess of securities, if the bonds are
at par ; which is not the ca3e with Missourrs. All
others can be sold for their nominal value, or at a
figure very near it. On the whole, we think the
statement is eminently satisfactory eo far as the
eventual payment of the bill-holder is concerned. —
Cour. 4* Enq.
A lady who was in the habit of visiting the poor
for benevolent purposes, took her little daughter
with her. The child saw, heard, and was interested.
But there was something the child could not exactly
make out. So on the road home she said, “Mamma,
when you are out visiting the poor, you always taik
about Jesus Christ to them, but you don’t talk about
him when you are at home.’*
Fatal Accident.—On Saturday evening last a
most singular and fatal accident occurred at the
Eagle Factory Boarding House in this city. A little
some twelve yearn old, by the name of Geor
gians Howell, the daughter of a poor widow, in a
playful mood was running from a sister, when she
tripped and fell, and having in her hand and old
r-aae knife which had been wronto a point, it entered
her neck, severing the jugular vein, causing her
i death almost instantaneously.— Columbus Sun.
A Rich Man.—A few weeks since Monsieur
! Grefiulhe, of Paris, deceased. He owns a whole
street there, which he built, and called Rue Gref
! foihe, after himself. He is eaid to possess more
I gold and silver, on special depoeit at the Bank of
I France, than any other banker in Paris. It is not
; known what is the present amount of coin at bis
’ credit, but when the revolution of February oecur
-1 red ne had $8,000,000 in gold and silver in the Bank
I ot France. His mania is to have his specie deposit
i in coin, while the Rothschilds and other bankers
j keep their deposits in gold or silver bars or coin, i
; The head of the English Church does not seem to
be a very good charchwoman. Jhe London Times
complains, “Her Majesty is no safe guide. Her <iis
r regard of Lent is proverbial. And now she ha* held
1 brr first royal drawing room alter her daughter's
j marriage, on the day of the martyrdom of the >,;eaß
- King Charles I.” Many rejoice, however, ai her
disposition to sweep away this and other memorials
of anient party strife.
The Pacific Hotel Calamity. —Charge of
Murder and Arson. —We have already staled, upon
information by telegraph, that a man named Tay
lor, now said to be Sanders, or Sanders Taylor, or
C. Sanders Taylor, had beeu arrested ou suspicion
of setting fire to the Pacific Hotel to conceal robbery
aud murder. Since this statement was made an
investigation has been in progress before Captain
Cozzens, tire inspector of St. Louis, and as the re
sult of the first day’s inquiry notbiug was edueed to
substantiate the suspicions directed against Taylor.
We gather from the St. Louis papers some of the
suggestive facts and inferences which have led to
the arrest of Taylor and the peculiar line of inquiiy
which is now going on. The St. Louis News says:
It appears that Mr. Doane, one of the unfortunates
who was supposed to have loct his life by the fire,
and whose remains were recovered from the ruins,
retired to bed about 10 o’clock, in the room adjoin
ing that usually occupied by a man named Chas. L.
Taylor alias Sanders, and separated from it by a
board partition, reaching only part or the way to
the ceiling. About 1 o’clock on the morning of the
fire the watchman of the Pacific Hotel met Tayior
in the street, and, in conversation with him, Tay
lor stated that Doane had $4,000 in his room with
him.
At 2 o'clock the same morning Taylor went to
said hotel and went to bed. Ar a quarter past 3
o'clock he went to the Towueley House aud took a
bed for the night and slept there He had no boots
on at the time. In the morning the bed in which he
slept w*a3 found considerably stained with blood,
and no wound was on the person of Taylor. The
room at the Pacific Hotel occupied by Doane was in
a part ot the building affording the best chance of
his escape had he been alive. When his remains
were recovered they were upon the bed on which
lie had slept, and it was saturated with blood. There
were other unmistakable indications that he had
been murdered.
Taking all these circumstances iuto considera
tion, suspicion rested so strongly upou Taylor that
he was arrested on the charge of murder and arson.
Ihe Bt.. Louis Leader has the following state
ment :
The facts adduced which particularly impressed
us, are the following : Taylor, alias Saunders, met
af the City Hotel, on the night of the fire, with a
Mr. Doane, whom he recognized as an old friend
iroin Chicago. He advised Mr. D. to change his
quarters to the Pacific, accompanied him thither,
and introduced him to Dr. Strader, one of tbe pro
prietors of the at the same time informing
the latter that Doane bad a large sum of money—
some two or three thousand dollars—in a belt
around his waist, information which he also subse
quentjy gave to the porter. Strader showed Doane
to bed, leaving Tayior standing in the street, and
whom he did not see again that night. Taylor was
a boarder at the Pacific, and occupied the room ad
joining that into which had beeu placed by
the proprietor. He occupied it (so says the evi
dence) every night, but on that night he sie t at
another hotel (the Townsley House) where it is sta
ted he arrived, without either boots or shoes on, at
3 o clock, aud there slept till late in tbe morning.
The body of Doane, when an inquest was held
upon it by the coroner, differed iu appearance from
all the others which had beeu burned. The head
had beeu consumed; the neck was charred, the
extremities were partially burnt; the shirt was satu
rated with blood, and upon the chest was a large
accumulation of coagulated blood, which bore evi
dence of having been acted upon by fiie. We
saw the body yesterday afteruoou at the establish
ment of Smithers Ricords, and found it to cor
respond with the accouut given at the coroner’s in
quest.
Dr. Strader has been placed under arrest, and one
or two other persons, pending the investigation.—
The papers contain various imputations respecting
the life and career of Taylor, Dut they seem to be
mainly rumors. In the present stage of the pro
ceedings it is but sheer justice to allow the proba
ble innocence of the accused, as the crime, with its
obvious consequences, is so diabolical as almost to
surpass belief. We trust, for the credit of humani
ty, that suspicion may be entirely removed from
parties attainted with so terrible an offense.
The Hawker’s Literature of France. —Few
even among the best informed readers of the litera
ture of the day will be prepared for the fact, that
side by-side with the known productions of the
press of Paris, there has existed from time immemo
rial in France, another, and, in its own sphere, hard
ly loss influential literature, addressing a totally
different public, enjoying separate and peculiar cir
culation, and possessing an organization, both lor
production and distribution, almost entirely inde
pendent of the ordinary machinery of literary com
merce. St 11 less will they be prepared to learn that
the number of volumes thus annually put into cir
culation throughout the length and breadth of
France, amounts to nearly 10,000,1)90, at prices
ranging from a franc down to a bous ; or for the still
more extraordinary fact, that among this enormous
number, with the exception of a few of the modern
novels, hardly a single volume—at least in the form
in which it is circulated by the hawkers—is the pro
duction of any writer whose works have ever at
tracted the attention of our readers. So that we are
led to the singular cor elusion that a substratum of
publications of enormous extent supplies# the de
mands and feeds the curiosity of the lower orders,
utterly unconnected with the higher creations of
French genius, coaeer in form and in substance, and
very slightly affected by the vicissitudes of taste
and opinion. —Edinburgh Review.
Honorable Conditions. —Many, years ago, in
what is now a flourishing city m this State, lived p.
stalwart blacksmith, fond of his pipe and his joke.
He was also fond of his blooming daughter, whose
many graces and charms had ensnared the affec
tions of a susceptible young printer. The couple,
after a season of mutual billing and cooing, “engag
ed” themeeives, and nothing but the consent of the
young lady’s “parient” prevented their union. To
obtain this an interview was arranged, and typo
prepared a little speech to astonish and convince
the old gentleman, who sat, enjoying his favorite
pipe, in perfect content. Typo dilated upon the
fact of their long friendship, their mutual attach
ment, their hopes for the future, and like topics,
aud, taking the daughter by the hand, said: “I
now r , sir, ask your permission to transplant this
lovely flower from its parent bed”—but his “phe
links” overcame him, he forgot the remainder of liis
rhetorical flourish, blushed, stammered, and flnal'y
wound up with—“from its parent bed into my own*’
The father keenly rel shed the discomfiture of the
suitor, and after removing hia pipe and blowing a
cloud, replied : “Well, young man, I don’t know
as I’ve any objections, provided you will marry the
gal first.’' —Granite State Register.
A Fortunate Man. —lt was rently noticed that
the great “ Iloumas” plantation, near Donalds
ville, La., had been sold to Mr. Burnside, of New
Orleans, for $1,000,000. The Un on, Monroe cotin
ty (Va) Democrat says :
Mr. Burnside is a member of the great dry goods
house of J. Burnside <fc Cos., and wan formerly a
merchant in this place. After his arrival in this
country from Ireland, he was first employed by a
man by the name of Robert Wiley, a merchant then
in Fincastle, Va ,as a “store boy.’ He honestly
served his time in that capacity, and then came to
Union to clerk for Col. Andrew Beirne, which he
did for several years, and then became a partner In
the concern, and made one of the most popular, en
terprising and substantial merchants this country
and community ever were blessed with. After the
expiration of five years he went to New Orleans,
where he and Col. Beirne engaged as partners, in a
wholesale commercial establishment, which has re
suited in enabling him to purchase the most desira
ble and extensive property of the kind, iu the Uni
ted States. So much for early tutoring, business
tact, and untiring application to business.
How to Cut Glass with a Piece of Iron. —
Draw with a pencil on paper any pattern to which
you would have the glass conform; place the pat
tern under the glass, holding both toge s her with the
left baud, (for the glass must not rest on any plain
surface,) then take a common spike or similar piece
of iron, beat the point of it to redness, and apply it
to the edge of the glass, draw the iron slowly for
ward, and the edge of the glass will immediately
crack ; continue moving the Iron slowly over the
glass, tracing the pattern, and the clink in the glass
will follow at the distance of about half an inch, in
every direction, according to the motion of the iron.
It may sometimes be found requisite however, es
pecially in forming corners, to apply a wet finger to
the opposite side of the glass. Tumblers and other
glasseamaybe cut or divided very fancifully by
similar means. The iron must be reheated as often
as the crevice in the glass ceases to flow.—Scien
tific American.
The Chinese.— Bayard Taylor, the well-known
traveller, thus speaks of the morality of the Chinese
It is my deliberate opinion that the Chinese are
morally the most debased people on the face of the
earth. Forms of vice, which in other countries are
barely named, are in China so common that they
excite no comment among the natives. They con
stitute tbe surface level, and below them are deeps
on deeps of depravity, so shocking and horrible
that their character cannot even be hinted. There
are some dark shadows in human nature which we
naturally shrink from penetrating, and I made no
attempt to collect information of this kind, but there
were enough in the things which I cou’.d not avoid
aeeiDg and henring—which are brought almost daily
to the notice of every foreign resident—to inspire
me with a powerful aversion to the Chinese race.
Their touch is pollution, and, harsh as the opinion
may seem, justice to our own race demands that
they should not be allowed to settle ou our soil.
Failures in the Cities.— The business men of
Baltimore withstood tbe late financial panic better
than those of the commercial cities of Philadelphia,
New York and Boston. With its 2,000 business
houses, Baltimore showed 58 failures to 915 in New
York, 280 in Philadelphia, and 253 in Boston.—jV.
Y. Rost.
Contributions to the Mount Vernon Fund.—
The following are the contributions to the Mount
Vernon Fund in Montgomery, Alabama, 22d Feb.,
1858, so far as we are advised. But for the very
bad weather, the amount would have been swelled
to SI,OOO at least:
Alabama Fire Company, No. 2 $60.00
Sons of Malta 5000
Montgomery True Blues and Citizens 140.0 b
Total $250.00
The Masonic Lodges of the city had previously
resolved to contribute one dollar for each member.
— Mont. Mail.
Real Imported Port.— A great eensation has
been caused at Oporto by the discovery of exten
sive frauds in the wine trade. It appears that mix
turea to represent port wine are manufactured in
Engiand and Hamburg, and sent out in ships to
Oport->, when, by means of falsified certificates, the
mixtures are imported into Engiand as port wine.
About 3000 pipes of these mixtures are now in Lon
don. Ten pipes of the mixtures have been seized
by the customs at Oporto on board a ship from Kn
gland. The captain declared he had the pipes on
board merely to give the wine the benefit of a sea
voyage. The mixture has been tested, and found
to be a composition of bad alcohol, molasses and the
essence of tar'. The Portuguese authorities refuse
to give up the ten pipes. There can be no doubt
but tnat they would have been imported into En
gland and sold as the veritable production of the
Douro shipped at Oporto.
Sepoy Atrocities.— lt turns out that the horrid
tales which were published in the English journals
of mutilations and nameless outrages committed
on English men and women, by the natives of In
dia, were grossly exaggerated, if notin most ca*ea
who'ly untrue. It has been ascertained that no
mutilated subjects have come down the Ganges, or
found their way to England. Lord Shaftesbury,
who gave currency to the statement at a public
meeting, intimated that the highest lady in India,
meaning of coarse, the wife of the Governor Gene
ral —had spoken of the mutilations in her letters. —
His lordship has been applied to for additional in
formation, and the result shows that Lord Shaftes
bury made the assertion on mere heresay evidence.
f.V. Y. Sun.
The Russians in Palestine. —A late letter from
Jerusalem, says :—Numerous caravans of Russian.
Greek and American pilgrims have arrived here
►from different parts of Russia aDd Turkey. The
Greek Patriarch is at the present time making ex
tensive purchases of houses and land, both inside
and outside of the city. Russia is also making con
siderable purchases for the purpose of constructing
religious establishments of different kipds For some
time, past, tbe Greeks have been making use ’’
all means to become sole or part proprietors o •
ruins of the old habitation of the Knights of ot.
John of Jerusalem, at a short distance from the
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
VOL. LXXIL—NEW SERIES VOL. XXII. NO. 10.
From the Memphis F.agh: and Enquirer.
Spring Days.
The Spritg’s child days are hefe,
And underneath my window low
Hfrpale and tender grasses grow, •
And the children’s laugh I hear.
My soul is in love with tbe world thua-fair,
And all the day in the sun-warmed air
1 dream this beauty is everywhere,
Aud my childhood's home seems near.
Seems a-near, though a thousand miles away
Toward where ye see the death of day.
’ Tis always Summer in the land of ii: ams,
And 1 hear the sleepy sound of the si. ‘ams-
The talk of the swallow, tinder theca cis,
And feel the odor of the strawberry loaves,
The golden wealth of the dy.'ng day
Sheds glory on the head of t ne child at play
From east to west—from the *ky to the ground,
Is a liquid of sunlight all around
Till the night comes down with a dewy haze
On the rustling leaves of the Indian maize
Aud l awake in the midnight lone
With a f vered brow, and a fever mo in.
To know that marks of the year’s death da
Op every \ lace where I used *o roam—
That strorg north winds through the great oak tree
t tome booming down to the door of my home.
For the old Winter King reign steru aud dumb,
And the Spring Queen has not dared to come ;
Life has pictures shaded, and pictures bright—
l carenot for shadows, 1 love but the light
Like these dream-land views of my far off homo
Shall be my hopes t the great To Come.
From burial ground of the past I will turn,
And surely, well lessoned, my soul shall learn
To tangle no raoi e tbe braidings of life,
And smile on ilic yesterday of strife.
But she comes and whispe s to me alone,
With a spirit-presence and a spirit toco,
How “the wet) of life that promises fairj
May be crossed by a woof of dark despair.’
The right has come agaiu,
And the darkness is overhead .
Another day’s sweet hopes are dead,
And my heart is full of pain.
Far down iu the west is the Moon-Queen new
With her train of tais iu cloud-land blue ;
The night hour comes, aud the night wind, too,
And it sings a sad refrain.
From (he New York Commercial Advertiser.
European News.
Robbery by a Clergyman and his Wife. —
We have had a previous account of the arrest of
the Rev. S. Smith, a clergyman of the Church of
England, and his wife, on a charge of highway rob
bery, uuder very peculiar circumstances. We now
have the details ot their examination aud commit
ment tor trial, without bail, on the charge of feloni
ous mai l ing We abridge the report in the London
Times of Feb. 12. The examination took place at
Lawford's gate, near Bristol: —
Mr. Gaisford opened the case, and gave a brief
outline of the facts. Mr. L aoh was formerly in the
employ of Messrs. Swan and Edgar, the well known
silkmercers of London, with whom Mrs. Smith at
that time lived as a domestic servant. She left, them?
in 1849, and took a similar situation iu Tottenham*
court-road, where she appears to have formed the
acquaintance of her present husband, from which
time up to January of the present year the intima*
cy between Mrs. Smith aud Mr. Leach had entirely
ceased.
John Leach, the prosecutor, whose head was
bound up, being sworn, deposed—l live at Shirley,
in the parish oi Croydon, Surrey, and am a contrac
tor. I first became acquainted with Mrs. Smith in
December, 1846. Her name was then Sarah Mills.
She was unmarried. I was then living a; a porter
at Messrs. Swan & Edgar’s, Piccadilly. S irali Mills
was a kitchen maid in the same establishment. I
iiad been living there four years. She came after
me. After being there about two years aud a half
she left, and went to a similar situation in Totten
ham-court road. I visited her there. The first time
I saw Mr. Smith was when going there for her. My
acquaintance with Sarah Mills ceased in a few
months after I saw Mr. Smith. This was ou Good
Friday, 1849, and my acquaintance with her ceased
on the Christmas following. Betweeu the Good Fri
day and Christmas 1 saw her at the seaside. 1 wa’
married in about two years afterwards, aud became
a widower in March, 4857. 1 received the letter
produced, No. I, on the 23d of January last. It is
addressed to Mr. John Leach, Jun., and is as fol
lows :
Jan. 23.
My Dear Friend —I am u w living in the country
near Bristol, a widow’ w’ith fnree children. My bus
band treated me more kindly towards the last; he
has left us £I,OOO. If you have not forgotten the
promise you made to me on the night when we were
together by the seaside in 1849,1 should be glad to
see you once more, if you ai e not engaged. Write
to S. M., care of Mr. Laebnry, bookseller, Park
street, Bristrol, to say if you can come, and I will
write again to tell you where to meet me.
1 remain yours sincerely, S. M.
Mr. John Leach, Jr., Croydon, near Norw’ood,
Surrey.
At this time I was living with an uncle named
John Leach. I replied to that, letter. I cannot
swear to the handwriting or the letter No I; it is a
remarkably good imitation if it is not Mrs. Smith’s
handwriting.
J afterwards received a second letter, which is
Iso very much like the writing of Mrs Smith, but
I will not swear to it. It is dated Jan. 28, and is n _
follows :
My ever dearest Friend—Having come into Bris
tol to-daytwith my friend, Mrs. Isaacs, with whom
lam now living at a farm house in the country, 1
was pleased to find a letter for me from you, as I
feared, not having heard from you for such a long
time, that you might be gone from your old home to
some more distant part of the country. It being
market day 1 came in, as I often do, to buy a few
things for my dear children, and I shall be coming
into Bristol again on Sunday, the 31st, with my
friend, and I shall be returning again by the 5 min
utps before 7 o’clock train by myself to Wapley,
where 1 live, and if you still care for me as you say,
I shall be glad to meet you at the Bristol and Bir
mingham platform at a quart, r to 7, and then you
will see with >our own eyes that 1 am your own dear
old friend Sally; tlien you can come on with me aud
stop in the village all night, and we c m talk over
matters together, and if you still wish to be honor
able to me 1 shall be very glad to see yon and to
be yours forever , but, mind, there must be nothing
improper. I was sorry to hear poor mother was
dead, and more so Helen; I suppose you married
her. I think you might have seen, by the circum
stances 1 mentioned iu my iast noie, that it could
be no other than your old and sincere Iriend Sally ;
therefore I siall subscribe myself as before,
Same address. S M.
P. S.—Please write directly on receipt of this and
get it posted in London ou Friday night if you can,
as I shall call for the letter as Igo through on Mon • j
day morning. Good bye for the present. If this
does not reach you in time to write again come the
Sunday following, Feb. 7, or fix some other time
and I will endeavor to meet you.
I replied to that letter. I received another letter
of which the following is a copy :
Jan. 31.
Dear John—l was glad to receive your kind let
ter this morning, though 1 must say 1 was disap
pointed that you did not come to-day. 1 long to
bear tiie romancing stories you have to tell me, and
to talk to you about our future prospects 1 have
not much time to write to day, so shall only say that
I wish you very much to come by the l o'clock train
from Paddington next Wednesday, the 3d ol Febu
ary. It gets here at half-past 5 and I will meet you
at a quarter before 7 at the Bristol and Birmingham
station, as I said before. The trams on Sunday
will be inconvenient, and they may be altered in
February, ho you must, inquire about that and be
aides next Sunday all the Isaacs will be at home but
on Wednesday next they will drive into the circus,
and won’t be back iu the country before 12 o'clock
I can come with them and return by the train I
have told you of, and we can have a chat to our
selves over all we have gone through since last we
met. If you W'sh you can get something at the
hotel by the station. Dear John, as you don’t say
anything about marriage, and you know we have
had a great many troubles before I should be glad
if you would bring my letters w’ith you, aud we wi![
at once settle it one way or the other as we must
not trifle any more. You will get this to-morrow.
Write directly, and I shall get it on Wednesday, as
before.
Yours ever affectionately,
In haste. S. M.
Mr. John Leach, contractor Shirley near Croy
don Surrey.
I replied to this third letter. Having received
the three letters and replied to them, I went to Lon
dun and proceeded to Bristol on Wednesday tbe
3d inst. In the evening, a little before 7 o’clock, I
went to the Bristol and Birmingham station. 1 had
a small parcel of wearing apparel with me and an
umbrella. After I had been there a few minutes I
saw a gentleman go into the waiting room, and I
thought bow much he was like Mr. Smith. 11l a
miuute or two afterward I saw the person I had
known as Sarah Mills, coming up the stairs dressed
in widow’s weeds. 1 went part of the way dwn
and met her. I Bhook hands with her. and asked
how long Mr. Smith had been dead. She replied—
“ Six weeks.’’ I said it was very strange, for I had
just seen a perebn go into the waiting room, who, I
thought was much like him. She replied—“ How
could you think that! He has been dead six weeks.”
I asked where she was going, and she said to Yate
station. 1 1 hen went down and got two first-class
tickets for Yate. She remained on tbe platform. X
was away for about five minutes, as I was too early
at first to get the tickets. I met her at the foot of
the stairs, when I went back. Witness here iden
tified the female prisoner, and proceeded. We
went on together to Yate. I got out of the train
and helped her out. 1 was going the same way 1
saw other people going, but she said she wished to
go by tbe common, as her friend Mr. Isaacs was
coming to meet her in ease I did not come by the
tram as was expected. Before I got the tickets I
walked up and down the Bristol platform with her
several times. 1 only saw the person I thought
like Mr. Smith once at the Bristol station. We
went to find the gate or steps leading to tbe com
mon after leaving Yate station, but it was very
dark and we could not find them. Mr. Suf
folk, the station-master, came to us with a light,
and said it would be impossible for us to cross
the common on so dark a night. I proposed
that we should go by tire road, or have some con
veyance, but Mis. Smith said she should know tbe
way across the common as soon as she found the
hedge, and that she wished to go that way because
Mr. Isaacs was coming to meet her. Mr. Suffolk
lighted us on to tbe common with a lantern. I
went on with Mrs. Smith about ISO yards, as near
as I could judge, but we could not find tbe hedge.
I said I thought we had better return, and go by
the road, but Mrs. Smith made no direct reply, but
called out that we were lost. I believe her exact
words were, “We are lost.” I was at that time
groping for the hedge, which I supposed to be in
front of me, with my umbrella. I should think Mrs.
Smith was abou’ three yards from meat that time.
Having said, “ We are lost,” a man’s voice replied,
■’l am lost, too.” I turned round, looking in the
direction from which the sound came, arid thought
I saw the shadow of someone approaching.
Almost immediately I received a heavy blow at
the back of the head. I turned around and saw a
man armed with a bludgeon about LI or id inches
long, and of a light color. It was too dark-tor me
to recognize the man. I afterwards received three
or four blows on tbe front of the head from the same
hand and weapon. I closed with the man, and
seized him by tt/e collar with my left hand, and with
my right I caught aim by the left wrist. I threw
hi n and fell upon him. I held bis left hand out
quite straight, and kept bis head down with my
left hand. I noticed that he had something in his
left hand, which I supposed to be the bludgetmwitb
which he had struck me. IcaHedout ’help and
’murder!’ I was not able to see Mrs. Smith at that
lime: she did not come near me. Two of the rail
way men came to me after I called out. Ine >
them took me off Mr. Smith, the person who attack
ed me. I held by the person who took roe on, as;
found I could not stand when he got me up- a
that time tanother pemons came with a hghL >a
I ihen recognised Mr. Smith as the P
that I.had seen in the waitiug rcom a Brsto. l the
Witness f t first Identified
k Ou the prisoner being desired
to hesitated and would not swear
itmMuaa p , * h q continuedl told the
to atop the m an “ho had attacked me, but
no on** did; I observed that he walked away with
ra Smith ; he put hia hand on her back ai if to
make her move on. I lost the parcel and umbrella,
I had with roc in the scuffle, I have since found the
umbrella, and have seen the contents of tiie parcel
iu the Lands of Police-constable Windmill. I paid
my addresses to Mrs. Smith from 1840 to
do not know that she wai married to Mr. Smithln
July, 1849. Between August and.September. 1849,
I ascertained from Mrs. Smith that she was married.
I had no correspondence in writing with her be
tween Good Friday and the trip to the seaside; if I
had it was b< mht left town, and while I believed
she was a single woman. I never corresponded
with her in the name of Smith. I don’t know that
she is married now. It was in consequence of a
1 itf*i that I received that I took the trip to the sea
side. 1 have had a dozen of letters so n her when
she was living in Tottenhain-court-ro&d. I never
saw Mr. .Smith above twice in my life before the 3d
of February. 1 know a placo at Whit triable; that
H the place where the night was spent at the sea
side.
Mr. Suffolk, station master at Yate, proved the
arrival of the male prisoner at Yate on the night of
the 3J, by the same train which brought Mrs. Smith
and Mr. Leach, and corroborated the statement of
the prosecutor, adding that he eaw a man whom ho
believed to be the prisouer going after Mr. Leach
and Mrs. Smith shortly before the assault was
committed. On going to the spot after hearing the
cries witness said—l found the prosecutor all over
blood; he looked like a red man. Just before I
got up e person turned off and a lady seemed to
join him. I did not see these persons so as to recog
nize rtiein, but to the best of my belief the man was
the same that I had eeeu going after Mrs. Smith and
Mr. Leach. 1 did not make any attempt to arrest
the man I. saw ie:/ealing. I went with Mr. Leaoh
to the Railway Hotel. Some of the railway work
men I bsliex e, went after the man imd woman
when they had obtained assistance. I produoe a
six-barrel revolver pistol, which was given to ma
next morning by Charles Heaven ;it whs loaded
with six balls and capped.
Charles Heaven, foreman of platelayers at the
Yate station of the Midland railway, after describ
ing the position in which he iound the prisoner aud
lUe prosecutor on going to the spot after hearing
I'm cries, said that a woman came up and tried to
pull the man who was uppermost off; he could not
say who that woman was. When the man who was
under got up he searched about with his hands and.
feet upon ihe ground near the spot where they had
een struggling. The woman ran up and caught
hold o&bis arm. When the under man got on his
feet he had a great bludgeon in his right hand. Mr.
Leach told me (continued the witness) to stop that
man, for he had almost killed him. Mr Leach held
me by the arm. a3 he said he should taffdown. I
! ried to make an attempt to catch the other man
but he said, ‘‘it. - first man that molests me I’ll blow
his brains out.’’ The stick whs about as big as my
arm at the top of i!, and tapered down toward the
handle ; the man had the small end in his hand. The
man and woman escaped, and walked off toward
Westerleigh. On the next morning I went to the
place and round the pistol, which I gave to Suffolk,
the atationmaster.
Ilenry Tilly, railway porter at the Yate station,
identified the male prisoner as the man who follow
ed a lady ami gentleman who arrived at Yate by
the mail train on tho evening*! Wednesday, the
3d iiiet., and tinted that he was the person he*after
ward saw at the spet where the struggle had taken
place under Mr. Leach. The witness also identified
Mrs. Smith as the woman he saw near the spot on
the night in question; was quite positive she was the
same person, as he turned his lamp on full in her
faoe ; saw the male prisoner pick up a parcel which
he took away with him
John Beall, coal merchant, living near the Yate
station, produced the widow’s weeds found on
Yate common on the morning of Thursday, the 4th
instant.
A girl named Aplin, a heusemaid in the servloe
of the Rev. S. Smith, proved that on the 3d her
master and mistress took tea together about 5
o’clock, and appeared to be on the most friendly
terms. A little before t> o’clock her mistress went
up stairs, aud shortly afterwards bath Mr. and Mrs.
Smith went out. They returned about 1 o’clock
the next morning, and were on the same friendly
terms as when they left.
Sergeant Russell, of tho Gloucestershire county
constabulary, depoee that on the 4th, in company
with Fear and Windmill, of the Bristol force, he
went to.Mr. Smith’s house at Clifton, and appre
hended him on a charge of assault, with intent to
murder, and highway robbery. Mr. Smith asked
the Hergeanffdr his authority, and he eaid he had no
warrant, but apprehended Mr. Smith on suspicion.
Mr. Smith then asked permission to go up stairs ami
change his coat, which was granted, tho efiioer fol
lowing. While in the bed room Smith called his
wife, who was taken into custody on the same
charge. lie said to her, “ W hatever questions they
aak you, make no reply.” Both prisoners were ta
ken to Bristol central station, and the officers re
turned aud searched the house, where a parcel was
found containing wearing apparel which was pro
duced, and identified by Mr. Leach as his property.
Mr. I*. I). Leman, surgeon, of Shipping Sod bury,
deposed that he was called in to attend Mr. Leach
on the 3d, and found him suffering from two scalp
wounds, one in the front, the other at the back of
the head; the wound at the back was 2J inches in
length, and extended in depth to the membranes of
the skull. The front, was of a similar character, but
not so extensive, being one inch in length.—
Witness did not consider ffieso wounds dangerous
to life, but thought if they had not been speedily at
tended to erysipelas might have supervened, aud
fatal results followed. They were apparently in
Hide I by heavy blows with a stick. 1
Gellard Lock, a pupil at Mr. Smith’s school,
proved that on Lie 23d of January he was instruct
ed by Mr. Smith to go to Mr. Lasbury in Park-st.—
Had a card giveu him with the initials “ S M.”on
it. This card he was told to give to Mr. Lasbury,
and tell him that it any letters cauie there so direct *
ed they were for Mr. Smith Witness called again
a day or two afterward, but there were no letters
there then, lie called u second time aud found
two, one directed “8. M.’aiid the other, “M. S.’ -
Took both letters, and told Mr. L.-sbury that if eith
er was wrong it should be brought back. Gave tho
letters to Mrs. Smith ; she detained the one direct
ed “ S. M.'* and the other was returned.
Robert Neville, apsistanfc to Mr. Gibbs, gunsmith,
Corn street, Bristol deposed that on the 23th of Jan
uary Mr. Smith came to his master’s etiop about 8
o’clock in the evening, and asked to look at some
pistols. He was shown several, but did not buy
any, and said he would call again. On the 2d of
February, about 7 iu the evening, he came again
and purchased a six-barrelled revolver, which, at.
his request, witness loaded with six bails, but did
not cap it. He asked for a receipt, and on the as
sistant inquiring in what name the account should
be made out, the prisoner gave the name of Hicks.
Noticing his clerical appearance, witness asked
whether he should say tho Rev. Mr. llicks. The
prisoner replied, “ uh, no.” The account was then
made out to “ Hicks, Esq.” The pistol produced
waa’the one sold, and was iu the same condition,
with the exception that it, was now capped
This being the whole of the evidence, Mr. Stone ad
mitted that an awsault of an aggravated nature had
been committed by Mr. Smith; but contended that
his wife, having been coerced, aud acted under the
orders of her bush . id, was not amenable.
The magistrate, however, considered both liable,
and committed both prisoners on charge of felonious
maiming.
Particulars or the Collision and Loss op
Life off Holyhead.—The follow ing narrative of*
the dreadtul collision mentioned by telegraph, which
took place on Thursday morning, the 11th, off Holy
head, is furnished by a pubseu *er :
‘•The Leauder was a fine ship of 900 tons, and
sailed from Liverpool for New Orleans, with a fine
southeast breeze, at 9 o’clock on Tuesday morning,
having on board the captain, his wife and son, one
passenger, two mates, steward, cook and fourteen
seamen. She was in light order, having about 300
tons salt, and 150 tons ballast on board. We made
Point Lynas at 3 o’clock Skeriea at 5, Holyhead,
.itfi; having run all this time eight and nine knots
an hour, with afresh breeze, and all plain sail set.
“All went on well until one or two a. m. on
Thursday, when I was awoke by a terrible crash of
timber, and the firs: impression was that the ship
had been struck by lightning. I arose and tied on
my life belt, and tried to open the state-room door,
but it waß jammed fast. 1 heard the mate’s voice
cry, ‘Run to the passengers’ room,’ and immediate
ly he and the captain's son burst open the door, and
the mate broke the window and got out, I foliwed
him that way. Going forward to the cabin, which
is on deck, with a slightly raised walk round three
sides of it, I found the capitain’s wife, son, and se
cond mate. 1 then knew we were run into and cut
two-thirds through the deck, just abaft the main
rigging, starboard, on the lee side. The captain’s
wife exclaimed, ‘The ship is sinking ; oh, save me
somebody!’
“It was true; and while she spoke the ship set
tled fast, in the water. I went aft again to the bin
uncle. A man rushed paid me, put the wheel down
and jumped overboard. I took one look forward
and saw the waves rise on every side, and then
pour in like a cataract. Then I was carried far
down with the ship, and came up to struggle wi:h
the waves, with the others iu like circumstances.
The time of these Occurrences must, be counted by
seconds, as not more than five minutes elapsed
from the first, shock until the ship went down. The
steamer that run us down was a short way off, and
in about twenty minutes I was picked up. She
turned out to be the Noth American, from Portland
to Liverpool.
“ When all saved were mustered we numbered
twelve, viz: the captain and his eon, mate, stew
ard, co k, six men and myself; the captain’s wife,
second mate and eight, men being lost. The case
of the second mate was peculiarly distressing. He,
was the only son ot bis mother, and she is a widow.
Wo had every kindness shown us on board the
steamer, and the passengers raised money enough to
give the mate £5, and the eight crew £1 each.
How the accident occurred I know not, nor who
wai to blame—this will, no doubt, be investigated.
All I know is that some are saved, and that rt is of
God’s mercy that auv of us are alive to tell of it.
“ James Kerr, Liverpool passenger.”
Great Britain —For the erection of the propos
ed monument to General Sir Henry Havelock, in
London, governmeu’ Ijem granted a site on the op-
Sosite side of the Nelson column to that of Sir Chas.
lapier’s statue.
The Liverpool Mercury says of Mr. Allsop, tor
whose apprehension government has offered £2OO
on account of alleged complicity iu the plot against.
Louis Napoleon:
Mr. Al'sep was a member of the London Stock
Exchange, a man of cultivated intellect and be
nevolent disposition, but of extreme opinions in re
ligion and politics. lie numbered amongst hia friends
Coleridge, Charles Lamb, Landor and others, and
his country residence was an open house for politi
cal notabilities.
The Mormons and Their Policy. —A eoirespon
dent of the New York Times, writing from Sacra
mento, gives a detailed review oi tbe Morman dis
content and its origin, down to the present time.
He was for many year3a resident of .Salt Lake City,
and only left it when the Gentile population were
driven out. lie believes that, unwis'* and ilijudged
appointments by the Federal Government fi st ex
cited Brigham Young and bis followers to rebel,
and that to the excesses committed by Col. Steptoe't
command when quartered in Sait Lake City auring
the winter of 1854 and 1855, is to be attributed the
present hostile attitude of the Mormons, and tbelr
determination to allow do more troops to dwell*
among them. It is his opinion that the Mormons,
it driven to it, will oppose by force of arms the
further advance at the United States troops, but in
the summer they will migrate, either to Sonora, or
Northward toward the British possessions. The la
test advices from Utah,exhibit two important facte
Col. Johnston, who commands the United Siatea
troops, has avowed his determination to take no
step backward, but to carry the war directly into
Salt Lake City, should tbe Mormons manifest a dis
position to resist, and with arms in their bands.—
And, iu tbe second place, Brigham Young haa inti
mated a willingness to permit Gov. Cummings and
the civil officers who accompany him,to pass quiet
ly into the city, provided the Unitea {States troops
shall remain at a distance. But this attempt at
compromise ia not likely to be aeceodod to, and if,
in conformity witu the opinion expressed by the
above writer, ibe Moruiorfs will oppose by k.rce of
arms the further advance of the United States
troops, a coiifi ct would seem to be inevitable. The
relative forces may be estimated at about 2 500 on
one tide, against at least 12,000 Mormons But the
former are regular troop-, thoroughly drffied end
disciplined, whi’e the latter, however fufl ol fanatt- ’
ewio, enthusiasm and fight, would, in all piobabiliUr,
suffer very severely, ar and after one or two skirmish
es, either yield or. ctreat.
New and Important Meteorlogical Discove
ry.—Lieutenant Maury has addressed a etter
tbe Secretary of the Navy in regard to e piaitbv
which i is probable that disaster on our lakes will
be rendered less frequent. Ile-saya thatProi. Rays
illat, o: Holland, has made a meteorological die
very, which can be applied to the navigation of
the lakea.
Prof BaLat claims to have discovered a r uiffoai
cal relation between the force of tbe wind andtb*
difference ot simultaneous parometfc pressures at
certain stations. From riiifl relation be bae teelT
enabled to deduce rules by which every morning
the maximum force of the wind during the ffiiy may
be predicted; and Consequently outwhud m und
vessels may know iu the morning if ifc*wopd ha
wale to put to sea at upon or iu the evening. This
is done in Holland, and Prof. Bailat says that du
ring five years tin? force of the wind haa in no
Instance exceeded the force hia rules inciioarifd —~
Washington States.