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African Imnuaration.
!•* KcpreatntAtive br&och of the Louisiana
L- ‘, ; i'latiireoo W eduegday last Mr. Wright, on be
hnil of the Committee on Agriculture, reported that
: Comnii'.tee wag un&nimoueiy in favor of the bill
granting the authority of the State to import 2.j00
iree b ! a<‘k labcreni. It providoa that the laborers
is reported shall be indentured upon such Urme a*
p.ti be agreed upon between the importer and th:
emj oyee, but for no less a time than fifteen years
-1 e ru!<-4* being pended, the bill went through
an ts readings aLd by a vote of 46 to 21.
| ih- Nrrw Orleans Picayune, in its issue of Friday
U:'.ri ;,.g. ♦akes strong greuad against the proposed
and tui’ U one which will probably elicit
i e.-tioti and discuenion throughout the Union,
> v, give be! *w the article of the Picayune :
i The THaeATENFD African Immigration—Oar
. ; z -a. :q> i*.e a‘artled by the telegraphic an
i.< i.. j.t, >fe-t.rclay m* rning, of the passage,
r > ‘ i one houne of the Leg’H : Hture, of a bill au
./ r.g t imporlation of 2,S‘NJ negroes from the
( / A'ri a into this btale, to be indentured for
. r r.n not less than fifteeß years. It has been
. ‘ r >me such project was entertained at
ri -on H-cge. and Lad some advocates out of it, but
i •-•rbf cl thought there was a serious inten
* ; • i: through, or any prospect of its finai
W- believe tiat if it had been supposed
’ at 1 1: re v. as any dinger of the Slate’s embarking
;. •< -me to revive the slave trade, by indirec*
o.d bi mgtng into Louisiana, gangs of pagan
i.-. :r -it from the bloody and barbaric wars
• African coast, there would have gone up from
1 - city a protest, speaking the utter repugnance of
rive rixths of the population.
We cannot speak of the project in detail as it has
’i.us tar hut Oercnbed as it is to us,as as
-n.e for importing under the fallacious designation
• fme immigrant** the wiid negro of Africa upon
Jyiu s ana plantations, it will have our decided op
l -;tion ou every ground of expediency and princi
i that no* -o much on any humanitarian
ground, for the sake ot the imported negro, as upon
j .i, :derations of the iuterests and the hqnor of the
V\ e d*j not doubt that nineteentwentietbs
o’ i e negroes any wherein Africa would be posi
tively benefited by being transferred from their
,’ivm land to tLe Sou*hern United States , from a
• ondition ot want, igno ance and constant sufiering,
M bl ‘i a! slaves, to one of assured
ii. rt, protection and abundance, as dependent
i.ti con nted laborers under the mild sway of a
. 1z- j and (.orint an race hut there are means
•>r lining iliia about which are abhorrent to every
• what is ri bt and what is merciful, and
• rx.a. t.xe slave trade a horror to many who
c, or'ientiously uphold t e institution of slavery as
it exists among ourselves. A direct proposition to
-•v ivo the African slave trade would meet, as the
i- onal suggestions have already met, a strong,
; .and we believe, a predominating opposition in the
Southern slave holding States, on grounds of policy
nd r* .1 mterest as much a of conscience. The
w project tor importing “free ’immigrants into
L juismna is. term it as we may, a traffic in slaves,
-• <-ne of itv~ features i? that it is a traffic in slaves
from the coa*t for making them free negroes here.
J ■•plan is, in substance, the same as that re
-i iy >“•< much debated, which the French Govern
m-i.t has authorized and s s prosecuting, through the
J’ contrai-t, for providing uegro laborers
:•< m r., ae for the uee of her West India pos
Hut the French Government does not
dbguie’ the fact that it deals in slaves. All experi*
‘pon the c ‘litract for voluntary emigrants
tv *!t/ved lailures. The negroes can only be
. “j'.t. . from the native s ! ave dealers, and are sold
to the French contractors at so much per head—just
be sold in the old times of the trade
ni. .Spanish and Portuguese
ave dealers. There is no such 1 Ling to be had on the
A trican coast as a negro willing tocontract, and able
t c. itract, understandingly, for a free Is borer. The
; • .nr . s a drive for !he chiefs, who mono*
• ‘i; traffic, and whom the now French mar
k< • • - : • ite*< to new wars for the purpose of get
ting captives to be sold ou the coast, or made “free'*
tractors. The
i indeed, defend their system ou the ground
!• •■*! s’avery —brutalized and absolute—is the nor
i of the native African, and that their
tr- -• immigrant piau is an emancipation plan—a
c.a t withdraw ing of the savage from the
ol hi native master and making him a
the W< i Indiee, after he is prepared
•• cond .ion by some years of preparation iu a
ve of legalized servitude.
i this State, when they examine the
’ b. aribgsot these projects, will hardly consent to
! o- lntiodii tion among their own well trained and
i population ot a multitude brought here
j directly from ihe lowest aud most depraved state of
! arbarism and lawlessness, as “free” immigrants.
policy of* all the laws of the State, for many
years, has been to repress the growth of the num
ber . I bee negroes—to restrain the power of ernan
. mu, 11 id lo demand the exodus from among us
Io: allot the tree or emancipated class who have
special claim upon our good faith, or some
. xempt them from the operation of
cl ji-ceHsary State policy.—
H u m b ipolifcybe recoi ciled with the scheme
! • . autii- 11 zing the entry into the State, in the as-
“free** negroes, cf the untamed
•ind untaught pagan, clothed with rights of which
they cannot be divested but by new acts of legisla
t ;ou which change his character and convert him
directly into a slave.
There is no demand by the individual interests of
Lou is is a, for the increase of her laboring popula
: lion, by such means, ot such a class, and with the
■ op vitaoie mischief* that must follow. If they are
■ tree,** but the oontract is to
| be made a d~\ ice, b/ which the slave trade is to be
’ . overtly practiced under the authority of the State
I of Louisiana—a mere evasion of the laws of the
Un:*ed States against the African slave trade—it is
It i d;y less objectionable in its character, will be of
dou-.itul success under the definitions of the statutes
which i- the laws of the land, and is not worthy of
io-tu! •!< sand loyalty which ought to pervade
gi-a'mnot a sovereign State, or the good
1 ./a v. iilch in maintaining her rights does not shrink
from the honorable and punctilious fulfillment of
I her obligations.
1 1 ii ri tins African project which has been endors
• i by the House of liepresentativea, we hope there
m tune tor re c msideration, or that the Senate will
put its face against such innovations.
CiiiroPn of ItitNcnl* l.utKled in Americn.
M, Ji.l.n Mitchell, in the Southern Citizen, refers
’ to the great grievances which the United States are
; euflk-PLg from the sweepings of the English and
Continental workhouse*, poor-bouses, and peniten
* iar v.. ch are poured upon our shores; aud as for
criminals, just read :
YVc* krto .v that cargoes of IlaliAua and Germans
; are s.-nt over with an intimation that they are‘po
i ‘nltb v.ders ‘ Who knows that they are politi-
Their governments at any rate are
i ft • o. and knowing that togain
u,. a i Noting upon these shores they must at least
* nil them political offenders; but they may be
• evicted for the worst human
I crime* It >o, they wili not themselves let out the
I secret. The wonderful organization of the police
i h'i.i luneuts iu European countries is little un
: .!* rctood lu re. Every rutlian, burglar, cut-throat
j j u ;.n- in Naples is well known to the police,
i , oau i meeting of them at any lime,
iinselect o&es not selected f r
can wots them an offer once for all,
I t it t would save thempelve* from the galleys
. r gallows* they shall have a free passage to a land
! of liberty as Car bona r or Red Re/jui/luiarjs.
i one more direct, constant aud co
- pious fit wof criminals into this country from the
i- Herntuda lies nearly oppo
: elite to Chat lest oil, about seven hundred miles off.
i t > jtre always coutined upwards of two thousand
miscreants m all creation—accom
house-breakers, bank robbers,
j . , gam* Their numbers are kept up by
f; n England, but as the terms of
. . respectively expire, what is done
u colony prohibit them
’ •.. .; * within the islands The very
t ..g'n.c government would think of, s to
I bring them back to England.
• N v Bermuda has a constant traffic with the
] t ■*, cf America. It has uo wheat or other grain,
! ; • rt t.ni .i no matton save what it imports from
j Ai.d.,,1 I . e! re, its waters are always full of
; -m . Amt • cau vrsse.s. In these the criminals are
Ii rgularlv sh pped as they become entitled to their
j i t>< lorn, s metimes hj many as four or five iu the
r passage Is Mid bv tto Bngtish
gi.verimn'iit, and they carry tneir virtues and ac
l . ... . aouts to give strength and glory to the
tw .Siic. lhai this was a practice a few
is a matter ot tact, which we assert; pre
>i is Mill. And altbougb the transac-
I t *a;wa>s a seciet one, no doubt researches
• t* owners of coasting veesoU in Philadel
d Baltimore would bring to light the fact, if
not its whole amount.”
j The New Vork Express says it has the most sub.
! . rial reasons for believing that Mr. Mitchell is
• correi. iu his aliegatious, aud expresses thn opinion
! . . , eC :mi .-'iner ot Immigration are in pos-
J -n ol Mels corroborating his statements. The
i um> .gable proofs have beeu published from
t : nu . to time o, ihe newspapers that it has been, if
i ;i h* not now, a comuwa practice of some of the
j E i an. governments to get rid of their paupers
I aiul i r'.initials by giving them a free to this
There must have been a large
thert . :'uudrels here ou the 22d. The
. cs j‘iriug nt and immediate legisla
{ o', by Ceugress. j
\v Incikdiary Dktkci id.—Thu Cleveland
Oi. • i Herald, of the 24th, sa>-, Mr. Hinkston, a
I of that place, wealthy and bearing a reepec
•,b% .. • -.-actor use been arrested for designing to
! .*et hi? property od hre.
i V: •, lu iding* owned by Mr. H. are in the centre
. . v.., hi, vk of wooden structures, and had he
| carried out ti- design, the conflagration would have
| : , r'.-itit part of the village in ashes. Ou
■ c-tan:'* o ion of the premises under the direction
t informer, it was foundthat Mi H. lad made
! bu'iKiii into a net work of combustible mate
| r . :. m cedar to garret He bad bored holes in
• -.tt wa If. inserting small balls of waxed ends envei
, ~ie paper, and he had connected these
1 . .. s ;o story, so as to thoroughly fire the
: Ic toe partitions and introduce the rtamss nn
t - r the nla-’eriDg. and by all imaginable contrivan
i * s .i b-.f diabolbL-al plans so as to flasb his
. . uii instant biaie. Near this
■ t>- -•- tin- was Lis own family atui that ofa broth
er and manv other*. When the plot was dSoov
- . -d tne Dutchman t-dd Mr. H. bow taithfuny
I ; ... Ivi W- .bed him Mr lliLkston made a clean
i -> io’ :mauer. aad oonfesued that it bt*
; of.jra nre bis bu ding and tbus secure the ineu
| rai ?
Slatiri Exciiemkm —Amaee meeting of oiti
lew et Taylor county, Va., was beid at Boothes
V . -i.tr Bth UL, at which the following, among
oitrT reevslttiikHi? were passed unanimooely :
i >* Cv<- C v r* an Advocatat. pub*iahed ‘n
N-\t Y- rk. Pituburg, Cincinnati. St.
L ‘-' i - go, bavirg become abolition sheet?
;t- raub - t character. we ask our commonwealth's
a*: irney atid postmaeter* to examine them ; and if
. nr.: to be of an unlawful character, to deal with
them aid - the laws of our State direct
T we v-Ji a? a special favor of tbeM. E
Chur h. North, and all other churcbe* that may
o : ? .der tiii? i ottnty a part of their moral vineyard
♦.r tte tuture, setsd among us only such ministers
as have wisdom and grace enough to enable them
. 4 , the Gospel without meddling with the
| e vil institutions ot our cou try.
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Factorib* l> Mississippi.—Some UtUe progress
1 -nanu.ai *uru g euterpriie has been made in Mis
j Ms-jpp; The Mirsiseippi Manufacturing Company
! ;,ave a factor? in Choctaw county. about forty-five
;..ri Irvin Orenida. Its capita! is SBO,OOO. It
| was e*tabUued in 18+8 Its dear profits for the
j ast four year* have not been leas than thirty per
j Cent, per annum on the capital invested. Its chief
I operations arc in making cotton yarn, cotton oena
burgs. and Lneeys. The construction of the Cen
iral Ra:h-oad, connecting New Orleans with the
raiiroad system of Tennessee, it is believed, will
develop* large manufacturing enterprise in this
neighborhood
Why (;eor*ia bai* Become the Empire of
the
Under this caption, a correspondent, of the Rich
mond Whig gives the following interesting re
miniscencte of the early struggles of Georgia in the
cause of internal improvements. The facts stated
will be new to many of the present generation,
while they will refresh the memories of the old, and
be read with interest by all: — Savh. Rep.
In the year 1825, the Legislature of the State of
Georgia established a Board of Public Works com
posed of possessing high qualifications for
performing the duties assigned them, and unsur
passed by any iimiiarly constituted body within
the Union. The late Gov. G. was its
sole President, and amongst uS|knembers was
James Hamilton Couper, Esq., whose practical
knowledge and highly scientific acquirement en
abled him to co-operate with the Chief Engineer,
Hamilton Fulton, Esq, in devising plans for the
future internal improvements of Georgia, which
Lave, in part, been subsequently adopted, partic
ulariy the most important tine connecting by Rail
roads the Tennessee river and the eealxiard. Mr
Fulton was the esteemed friend of the celebrated
Engineer Telford, and likewise, the associate of
Sir John McNiel, noth of whom derived their skill
while acting under that great Engineer.
Gen. Bernard s coincidence with Mr. Fulton’s
plan for opening & new inlet between the Ocean
and Albermarle Sound is an evidence of the capaci
ty of the latter as an Engineer in devising impor
tant undertakings. The Legislature of Georgia
passed an act that two iinea should be surveyed tor
operate Canals but uniting them. One called the
transverse line between the Savannah river at Au
gusta and the Flint river, passing transversiy to the
water courses, but communicating with them where
steamboats reached from the seaboard. The other
line was to connect with the former at a point acces
sible also for steamboats, and the Tennessee river
at or near where Chattanooga now stands. The
Chief Engineer, upon examining the ground for the
first time, found its undulating character to be too
great for can&iing purposes, but at an enormous ex
pense, he therefore recommended the adoption of a
railroad survey. The survey of the central line for
gonnecting the T nueesee river with the head of
steamboat navigation on the Atlantic slope, although
not entirely completed, was so far made as tojusti
fy the opinion of its practicability for canaiing pur
poses, and the summit eievation found to be about
800 feet above the head of steamboat navigation at
Macon, on the Ocmulgee river.
The ridge dividing the eastern and western water
in Georgia does not present so formidable a bar
rier to improvements as the Alleghany mountain to
the northeast. The entire distance of canal would
have been 260 miles, the bottom width proposed
was 16 feet, with 4 feet of water, and the estimate
made on 140 miles was $1,507,000, or neatly SII,OOO
per mile. No land damage was included in this es
timate, lor none would have been demanded. As
au instance of the liberality of the land owners for
the right of way upon a southern line of railroad for
130 miles, only 12 1-2 cents, (and this, under pecu
liar circumstances,) were required, while all the
timber necessary for its contribution, was given
without compensation.
The following is an extract from Mr. Fulton’s re
port to the Board of Public Works of Georgia, in
the year 1826:
Some men of eminence have advocated the use
of railroads so strongly as to aseert that under all
circumstances they are superior to canals; but it
appears to me this is carrying their predilection iu
favor of railroads further than would support it.—
It has been considered that the expense of a double
iron railway is equal or nearly so, to that of a canal
for 7 feet beam of boats, when no locks are re
quired, and where the soil is favorable for cutting.
1 should therefore be inclined to give a canal the
preference where the country is level, an 4 particu
larly when it would be constructed to subserve the
purpose of travel as well as the transportation of
goods. When produce requires to be transported
From a mountainous or hilly country, and where the
trade is a descending one, or in other words, where
the greater weight is to be carried down than up,
which will be uniformly the case when the articles
for transportation consist of raw materials, iu such
situations railroads appear to to me to have a great
superiority, as the immense expense of lockage is
saved and none incurred in obtaining a sufficiency
of water to supply the lockage, leakage and evapo
ration of a canal.
Railroads ought, in my opinion, to be adopted
instead of canals in a Southern climate where stag
nant waiters are certain of producing sickness, they
are likewise better adapted to climates subject to
severe frosts as they can be as well used in win
ter as summer.’’
Let it be remembered that when Mr. Fulton
wrote the above, no railroad had beeu commenced
in *. his country ; nor had the wheels of a locomotive
once turned round, and that it was written some
years before the improvement of the locomotive en
gine was effected in England, and which decided
the greater superiority of railroads over canals.
The following is taken from the report of Mr.
Couper, as chairman of the committee appointed to
prepare a report upon the proceedings of the Board
of Public* Works, to be laid before the Legislature
of Georgia.” The advantages which result to a
Government from the construction of roads and ca
nals when the object is solely the purpose of foreign
trade through its territory, is confined to the profits
which proceed from the tolls, the expenditure made
during the transportation and to benefits of a com
mercial character. But, when these works also
subserve the purpose ot facilitating the conveyance
to market of the production of the country, another
advantage is obtained of a character vastly more
important. Every saving in the cost of transporta
tion becomes a positive profit to the producer, and
is an absolute accession to the capital of the coun
try.”
Although upward of twelve hundred miles of rail
road have been consrimctod in the State of Georgia,
only 138 miles have been done on State account,
the balance having been completed by its enter
prising citizens, at their sole cost. And it is doubt
less to this extent of railroad that Georgia is the
Empire State of the South.
Commerce of New York.
The imports at New York from foreign ports du
ring the month of February were smaller than for
any previous February since the year 1850, not
withstanding the fact that the harbor has been free
of ice and navigation unencumbered. Before giv
ing the details it may be interesting to compare the
totals for the last few years:
Foreign Imports at New York in February.
Year. Imports. I Year. Imports
1847 $7,409,687 1853 $17,481,920
1848 9,757,900 | 1854 11,095 580
1849 8,564,226 1855 12,081,482
1850 8,829,821 1856 16,036,283
1851 12 054,403 1 1857 25,524,492
1852 9,249,577 | 1858 9 209,043
Nothing could furnish a better illustration of the
extent to which the recent convulsion lias been felt
than the above comparative summary of the value
of the imports landed at that port during the month.
The details of this comparison, as far as our space
will admit them, are as follows:
Foreign Imports at New York in February.
“j 1856. j 1857. 1858.
Enter’d for coum n•512,521,622;518,508,939 $5,840,256
Entered for wareh’g. j 1,486,259 3,543,996 1,330,623
Free goods j 1,956,155 3,447,839 1,798,105
Specie and bullion. -1 72,247 1,023,715 240,059
Tot’l ent’d at the p’t $16,036,283 $25,524,492 $9,209,043
Withd’nt’ni wareh’e) 2,047,067 2,501,696 4,733,706
The total receipts of foreign goods at New York
since January Ist are $27,216,462 less than for the
corresponding two months of 1857, $14,299,585 less
than tor the same period of 1856, and $7,712,547
less than for the same period of 1855.
Foreign Imports at New York for two months , from
January Is/.
j 1856. 1857. j 1858.
Ent’d for cons’m | $25,078,260 $33,808,973 | $L0,010,273
Ent’d for ware’ll I 3,111,513 5,513,262 I 3,240 071
Free goods 3,297,963 3,298,762 1 3,514,787
Specie bu.lion | 126,611 1,910,227 | 549,631
Total ent. at port i $31,614,347 $44,531,224 $17,314,762
with’dfm wareh’l ,4,392,675 5,175,451 | 9,238,297
We have also compiled, as a matter ot some in
terest, a comparative table of the imports at the
port of New York since the commencement of the
fiscal year. The total of the first six months show
ed a relative gain ; for the eight months the total is
$22,782,509 less than for the corresponding eight
months for the previous year, but $5,476,308 more
than for the eight months ending February 28th,
1856, and $15,418,058 more than for the eight months
ending February 28th, 1855 :
Foreign Imports at New-York for eight months of
the fiscal year ending February “28th.
j lest! j | 1858.
Six months.... I $-9,918,809! *105,854 740 *109,688 702
January. ---I 15,578,064 19,006,(38 , 8,105.19
February 16,036,283 ! 25,524,492 9,209,043
Tot'Jforßmth'fij* 12i,527,156j * 149,785,964 \ *127,003,464
M'he revenue received at the port bas of course
fallen off in as great a ratio as the imports, but the
month now under review will have no fellow in res
pect to the greatness of the difference during the
whole of the year :
Duties received at New Yoitefor eight months end
ing with February.
“| 185 l j 1857! j 185a
Six months ; gd0,087,36U: $22,978,1241 $16,345,553
January.... 3.683,654 j 4 ( 537,3781 1,641.474
February ! 5 t 117,249 | 2 063,784
T-.lxl fore mo ths 8Jt.a47.93hl s:■?■ 75--‘i X).Ca g!3
Turning now to the exports we find no sueh com
parative aifference as has been sbown in the im
ports . the total, including specie, is larger than for
the same month of any previous year ; and, exclu
sive of specie, it is only $1,765,209 less than for
February, 185 T. $1,432,632 less than for February,
1856, and fo9J ,514 less than for February, 1855.
Compare with the previous fiscal year the total
exports of produce and merchandise from New
York to foreign ports curing eight months show a
decline of $10,853,700 ; there is also a decrease of
$7,467 , 411 as compared with the eight months end
ing February 28th, 1856, but an increase of $4.212,•
402 as compared with the corresponding total in
1855: , , .
Szports, acJusice of ipe- u, from .'nr-Fort to foreign
ports for eight months, ending tcith February
j 1556 j IBSL j 1858.
Six months $39,915,729 $43 596,501 j 534,703 441
January 5,511.330 4.884.170 4.689.739
February 5,606,309 5,9118,786 4,173.577
Total for 8 months..! $51, 033, 168[545.419,457 ;$43.560. .57
[Journal of Commerce.
Paris Itkrs —A Paris letter says A report
spread rapidly here a few days ago that Mazzini
had been seized at Kehl, in Baden Baden, across the
Khtne from Frauce, and had afterward been trans
ferred to the French side and lodged in the prison
of Strasbourg. The police are now less certain that
the individual seized is the great Italian agitator.
If it should prove to be him. his days will soon be
numbered Alisop, the Englishman concerned in
the late attempt on the Emperor’s life, has escaped
from England to America—eo we learn from Eng
land. He is supposed to be the man who lent
Oreini his name and his passport. The tiial ot the
conspirators it is said win take place at the end of
this month.
Another man is dead from a wound received on
the night of the attempt on the Emperor’s life—one
of the city guards, named Dalhen. He submitted
to several painful operations, but at Last succumbed.
I saw this morning the wound of a man who had
just escaped death. A piece of one of the bombs
massed through his i*g. carrying away pieces of the
two bones of the leg. He had a compound fracture
aid a serious inflammation which for some days
threatened his life, but is now subsiding
The company of lancers, which formed the
mounted escort which surrounded the carriage on
the night of the attempt, was ( ailed to the Falace a
few days ago. into the presence of the Emperor and
Empress. U> receive rewards for their gallant con
duct on that night, and for the suffering they have
undergone since with their wounds. To each of
the officers his Miyesty preeentea a gold watch,
with a crowned Non the case, and to each of -he
men. twenty-five in number, a silver watch, similar
ly decorateil
Emigration. —The number of emigrants arrived
at this port from J anuary Ist to March 3d. of this
year, was only 4,757. which shows a large falling on
mom the number. 10,211, landed here during the
corresponding period of 1557. Vessels that, in pros
perous seasons, bring from 300 to 500 emigrants,
now come in with scarcely more than 30. The rush
will probably set c again next month —.V. Y. Jour.
Com.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MOANING, MARCH 17, 1858.
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
BITAILS BT THE ELROPA.
The steamship Europe, with Liverpool dates to
the 20tli February, arrived at New York on Satur
day.
Amongst the passengers by the Europa is his Ex
cellency Mahotned Pasha, Hear Admiral of the
Turkish navy, so long expectedjin this city, attended
by his suite.
Consols closed in London, on the evening of ltJth
ult., at 97 J a 971 for money and account.
Lord Palmerston had been granted leave by a
large majority to bring in his bill to alter the gov
ernment of India.
There is a week's later news from India, favora
ble to the British in its general character, but con
taining nothing of great importance.
We have no later news trom China, but the details
of the news beiore received show that Canton was
virtually in possession of the British.
The London Times, in reviewing the Kansas
question and Mr. Buchanan's message on the Le
compton question, adtn Is that the President’s posi
sition is a strong one, and suggests that it would be
best tv admit Kansas under the Leeompton con
stitution, and for the free State inhabitants of Kan
sas to then take steps to have the constitution
amended.
Capt. Dunham, of the American bark Adriatic,
which lately escaped from the French authorities at
Marseilles, has BO:d his vessel either to th Russian
government or a Russian firm, aud was making his
way to England.
The trial of the directors and managers of the
Royal British Bank for conspiring, by false pre
tences, to defraud the shareholders and the public,
was commenced on the 13th of February in the
Court of *he Queen’s Bench, London, before Lord
Campbell and a special jury. A groat array of legal
talent was engaged iu conducting the proceedings,
which were continued from day lo day up to the de
parture of the Europa. In obedience to a request
from the Bench, the English journals lefrained irom
making any comment during the progress of the
trial, but reported the evidence at length.
Numerous meetings had been held in London and
elsewhere against Lord Palmerston’s bill in regard
to conspiracy to murder, aud a demonstration
against it was to take place in Hyde Park, London,
on Sunday, the 81st of February.
A French refugee, named Simon Bernaid, had
been arrested by the London police, charged with
being au accomplice in the recent attempt on the
life of the Emperor of the French. At tiie prelimina
ry examination of the prisoner sufficiently con
clusive evidence was produced to warrant his being
remanded for trial under the existing laws of Eng
land.
The election at Limerick, Ireland, which thearten
ed to be productive of a serious riot, passed off with
comparative quiet, and resulted in the return ot
Major Gavin, the anti ministerial candidate.
The returns of the British Board ofTrade for the
month of December show a falling off in the value
of exports of £2,897,185, as compared with the cor
responding period in 1855. The reduction was
chiefly iu Manchester goods.
Concessions are to be made by Belgium to the
demands of the French government, particularly
with reference to the press.
Advices from Russia mention a very general
rumor that the government contemplate anew
loan.
It is stated that the Germanic Bund is about to
request, in the form of au ultimatum, that the
King of Denmark will change the constitutional in
stitutions of Holstein aud Laueuburg so that they
may be in accordance with the federal laws of Ger
many. It is also said that the tenth corps and armee
was about to assemble at Hanover, nominally in or
der to make arrangements forthe usual manoeu
vres, but iu reality for preparing to occupy Holstein
and Lauenburg
The British Parliament —On Monday, tbe
15th of February, in the House of Lords, the Duke
of Cambridge announced the receipt of dispatches
from Sir Colin Campbell, exonerating General
Windham from all blame in regard to the defeat at
Cownpore, lauding the gallantry of the General,
and stating that he was inclined lo recommend him
to a higher aud more important command.
In response to au inquiry trom Lord Eleuborough,
Lord Granville said that the policy of the govern
ment in India would be a lenient one.
Mr. Bailie, in moving for the production ol cer
tain papers, called attention to the causes which
have led to the rebellion in India, which he attrib
uted mainly to the annexation of Oude.
A lengLhy debate, involving a review of the gene
ral policy of annexation, ami an attack aud defence
of Lord Dallionsie s administration, ensued. In the
course of the debate, Geueral Thompson brought
down some indignation upon his head by question
ing the truth of some of the charges against the
Sepoys, and characterising the slaughter of the
native princes of Delhi as the foulest murders on
record.
Lord Brougham’s bill for amending the bankrupt
cy and insolvency laws was read a first lime.
France. —The five ministers appointed to the
treat military commands had taken the oaths to tire
imperor, but are not to take possession of their
commands until the month of April.
Marshal Pelissier was expected to be appointed
Governor of Paris, a post which existed under the
first empire.
The fact of an intimate understanding between
France aud Austria is regarded as probable.
It is said that a determined crusade is lo be car
ried on by the Prefects of Departments against all
persons entertaining republican opinions.
A notice from the British Foreign Office says that
no person is henceforth to be permitted to land in
France without a passport.
There is a rumor of an intended meeting be
tween the Emperors of France and Austria early iu
the spring.
M. Emile Oliver, in speaking against the Safety
bill, in tiie Legislature, is reported to have made
use of the following Btrong language :
“No liberty exists. The greatest of all, that of
the press, is aunihilated, aud yet you come to ask
for laws of public safety. Do you not fear that the
couutry may say, I have sacrificed to you my liber
ty, my franchises, my traditions, the conquests of
my blood—all that has made me glorious among na
tions —for the sake of a little tranquility, aud now
you ask for more. Where will ycu atop I”
Affairs in China. —There is nothing late from
China, but the correspondent from Canton gives
ample details of the bombardment of that place.
The assault and capture of Gough’s Fort took
plaae Just as the mail was leaving, so that no parti
cularsare received. AU the hill defeneesof the city
we ein possession of the English and French The
whole of the operations had been concluded with a
view to occasion the smallest possible sacrifice of
life. At the last moment the Chinese showed no
signs of surrendering, but continued lo tire at their
adversaries from the tops of houses. The position
of the allies was such that they could entirely des
troy the city in case of continued obstinacy.
The official despatches from the naval and mili
tary commanders-in-chief report that tbe oity was
escaladeu and captured with trilling loss on the
morning of the 26th of Dec.
The War in India. —We have news from India
dated at Bombay ou the 24th of Jan.
The capture of Furruckabad and Futtygher by
Sir Colin Campbell is confirmed.
Tbe Newab fled across the Ganges into Ruhil
cund, whither Sir Colin was about to follow him;
and after the subjuration of Kohilcund, tbe comman
der in-chief was to advance again upon Lucknow.
she Rajah of Kotah is said to be anxious to make
terms.
All well tbe in Punjab, and in the Madras andßom
bav presidencies.
On the 12th and 16th of January, Sir James Out
ram, at the Alumbagh, was attacked by the rebels,
who on both occasions were driven back with great
slaughter. In the last engagement the leader of the
rebels was taken prisoner.
The Bhowal Contingent were disarmed at Lehore
by Gen Rose, and 15U of the mutineers were tried
and shot.
The Governor was said to be on bis way to the
Northwest Provinces. Strong forces were marching
on Sangor and on Rajpootana.
Tiie Indian papers state that the country all over
was being tranquilized by degrees, but that a vast
amount of work had still to be performed.
The Lucknow heroines had arrived at Calcutta,
and were received with great enthusiasm and a sa
lute from the fort.
There are no authentic accounts of the enemy in
and around Lucknow, but it wa- considered no; un
likely tbat they numbered 100,001) men.
The Bombay import market had improved, but
exports were dull. Money was rather tight. Ex
change on London 2s. Id. for credit bills.
The Atlantic Telegraph Enterprise. —The
annual meeting of the shareholders of the Atlantic
Telegraph Company was held iu London on the 18th
of February, and passed off very favorably. The
report of the directors was received and unani
mously adopted, and the gentlemen proposed there
in as the Honorary Directors of the company in
America were duly ratified as such.
The following, amongst otter resolutions, were
proposed, and carried with unanimity:
‘ Resolved, That inasmuch as it is expedient that a
farther length of cable be at once ordered, the capi
tal of the company be increased by the issue of 3,750
new shares of £2O each, and that the directors be,
and they are hereby, authorized to dispose of such
additional Bhare capital at a price not less than par,
under the powers of the company's act, to such per
sons and at such times as may appear to the direc
tors to be expedient for the interest of the company.
Resotred, That the directors be, and they are
hereby empowered to make an arrangement with
the projectors of the Atlantic Telegrapii Company,
for extinguishing the rights and privileges of ‘.lie
projectors under their previous agreement with the
company (dated October 29,1856,) by a commuted
payment in shares, the entire compensation not to
exceed the sum of £75,000, and the shares not to be
sold, assigned, or transferred in anyway, until after
the laying down of the cable.
Resotred, That for the puipose of the previous
resolution, the capital of the t ompany be further
increased by the creation and issue of 3,750 shares
of £2O each, and the directors be, and are hereby,
authorized to apply so many of the shares as may
be necessary to satisfy the arrangement with toe
projectors under the terms of the foregoing resolu
tion.
Resolved, That the warm and hearty thanks of
this company be tendered to Mr. Cyrus W. Field,
of New York, for the great services he has render
ed to the Atlantic Telegraph Company, by hie un
tiring zeal, energy, and dcvot.on, from its first for
m&tion, and for the great personal ta'ent which he
has ever displayed and exerted to the utmost in the
advancement of its interests.
A shareholder writes to the London Times com
plaining of the large amount of ermpensation to be
paid to the projectors of the enterprise, and object
ing to it as altogether unprecedented The Times
in its City Article defends the f rincipie, and argues
that projectors generally ought to tie encouraged
and most libera iy rewarded. It says:—
With regard to the most active agent in the en
terprise, Mr. Cyrus W. Field there can ap arently be
little doubt of the extensive nature of his services.
It is believed he has devoted his time and means
for some years to the undertaking, to the serious in
jury of an old and respectable private business;
and sacrifices of this kind, to say nothing of any re
ward for the spirit which induces ardent minds to
imitate such undertakings, are not to be repa and by
the stinted allowances teat would be granted to a
it ere agen-. whether as saiary. travelling expenses,
or in any other form. Moreover, it is the business
of a projector, as of every other dealer, to get for
his wares as much as he can. If ne has a concession
to otter, or a firs! plan for putting into practical ope
ration either anew or old idea, or a name or mnu
ence which renders his association valuable, he owes
it to himself to demand the best possible price for
whatever advantages these may convey.
From the Liverpool Tima’ (City Article.) Fib. 20.
London Money Market.
Money still keeps most abundant, but there does
not seem the inclination to use it for commercial
purposes. At the Bank the applications continue
tiiniteff In the discount market high class bills
continue to be negotiated at 2i to 2j per cent
The amount of notes in circulation is Al9c> | 3,-
865. being a decrease of £100,556 and the stock of
bullion in both departments is £17,331,101, show
ing an increase of £756,504 when compared with
the preceding return. ... ,
The market for British securities has been in a
most satisfactory condition daring the present week.
Consols have daily continued to advance in value.
Yesterdav they were first quoted, ior money, at 97
to 97 1, whence there was an improvement to 9, :
for both money and account, which was steadily
maintained. Bank stock ieit off at 226 to 227; new
Three per Cents. 97 J to 97 j; India stock. 220 to 223:
India bDds, 255. to 30s. premium. Consols were
strong nearly the whole of to day. advancing to 9. j
buyers, but giving way a little at the close to 97j,
rather seiiere for money ; for the account, they were
at 97 J. Exchequer bills were last quoted at 3to 5
premium ; Bank stock, 225 to 227 . Three per Cents,
98i to 98£
A more than usually aetive demand has existed
daring tbe week for foreign securities, which have
steadily risen in value.
There has beeu a good business in the bullion
market this week. Both bar silver and Mexican
dollars have be<.n taken readily at the quotations,
and the Continental exchanges are growing more
favorable for shipments every day. Gold is now
being freely bought for export. American eagles
have been* sold largely for that purpose, and are
quoted a shade higher. The total shipments forthe
Continent this week was about £400,000.
Tbe Ba k of France have lowered their rate of
discount from 4£ per cent, at which it was fixed on
the 6ih inst., to 4 percent.
Our London c writcc: —A rumo
was current that the interest on the March Ex
chequer bills, abour to be called in, would be re
duced from 2jd. to lsd. per day.
It was believed that the projected India loan
would be reduced from ten to eight millions ater
ling.
Messrs. D. Beil, Bon & Cos, say-.—During the
week there has been a very active demand for the
various descriptions of American securities. State
-locks have been in muchrequesf, and transactions
nave taken place at generally higher prices. Rail
way bonds and shares have also been iu good de
rnand, and our quotations in most caes are mate
rially higher.
The Daily News’ article says:—‘‘The funds open
ed to-day with increased buoyancy, and afresh rise
of 4to z was obtained. Towards the close a reac
tion of one-sixteenth took {dace, mainly in conse
quence of a decline in be Paris bourse, which seems
to have revived under the feeling es uneasiness late
ly excited by the repressive policy of the French
government. Attention was also directed to the
continued decline in continental exchanges, which
calculated to direct to ihe continent the bulk of the
gold importations. Indeed, the demand for the con
tinent already absorbs nearly all the parcels offer
ing.”
By Telegraph to Liverpool.
London, Saturday Morning.—The Times says
that tbe real question in Parliament last night was
whether Lord Palmerston had or had not maintain
ed the honor of the country in his recent communi
cations with the French government, and the House,
by 19 majority, has for the present decided that he
had not. The consequence of the division last night
must be serious; probably more so than the majori
ty has thought fit to estimate We forbear to an
ticipate the decision of the government on a point
which happens to affect an imperial interest of un
speakable imfTOrtance, bUC K plain that unless
motives of paramount duty should oolige Palmers
ton to retain office, the simplest course would be
for him to resign, and leave to the ladical and tory
faction (who, though diametrically opposed to each
other ou the bill, have united for the purpose of de
feating its purposes.) the task of deciding by which
of them the government of the country shall be car
ried on.”
The Daily News accounts for the mijority against
the government by stating that the contempt for
the pusilauimity that could permit Count Waiew
ski’s first dispatch to remain unanswered is all the
more natural, and ha3 sought and found vent in the
more recent discussion and vote.
The Herald expresses the opinion that tbe amend
ment proposed by the member for Ashton was cen
sure upon the ministerial pblicy, and that the only
recourse for Palmerston is immediate retirement
from Parliament. It has virtually censured the
ministry, and for them to attempt to retain authori
ty would bo mockery and degradation.
* The Star congratulates Mr. Gibson on his dex
terous move, which defeats the conspiracy bill and
destroys the government.
The Advertiser remarks that though the amend
ment did not take the shape of proposing an abso
lute and immediate rejection of the bill, it yet
comes practically to the same thing.
The Post says that the meeting of the cabinet
would be held this day, at which ministers will de
cide on their future course.
From the London Times’ Special Correspondent.
China —Romlmi'iituent of Canton.
Canton River, December 19.—1 t was on Satur
day, the 19th of December, that I had my first near
view of Canton. In the dark and drizzling night
of the previous day 1 had left our watch tower at
Macao Fort and steered right up the reach toward
the vast suburb and those ruined Shameon forts
whereof we had taken so many four-mile-distant
surveys from the top of the pagoda. We went on
aud on till the confused mass of lights separated
into individual twinkles. We were so close hat I
could see a Chinese lantern through the sight of a
rifle when we dropped anchor and the ship swung
round to the tide. The splash of oars and the hail
of the watch aud the lights dotted here and there,
told that other ship- 1 , were aroud us; but nothing
more of this mysterious enemies’ country was visi
ble through the murky night. We wrapped our
selves in our blankets, aud fell asleep wondering
what the morning’s light would show us
Day dawns, up sleepers, up. or the buckets of the
deck-washers will souse ye We rub our eyes, and
he first sensation is to expect to hear the swish of
a shower of grape. We are in the middle of ihe
hostile city; we are anchored, it is true, off the
Westein point of Ilonan, ju?t where the river
breaks into two streams to form the island. We
look down the channel which divides Honan from
Canton. But Honan anti Canton banks are almost
equally covered with buildings; the channel is not
really 300 yards wide—it does not appear to be 20
feet. A thin, meanderi g line is all the water we
cau see ; the rest is covered by boats—not boats
such as we see on the Isis at the bottom of Christ
Church Meadows, nor even barges such as we see
upon the Thames, but wooden house-like structures.
Some are gay, flaunting flower boats, bedizened
with paint and hung within with lanterns and lus
tres. Some are Mandarin passage boats, with high
poops and elaborate carvings. The great mass,
however, consists of floating huts and houses, some
two stories high, and covered cargo boats. The
habitations of 100,009 people are crowded in this
river, and give our poaitiou the appearance I have
already described, as being in the very midst of the
hostile oity.
Our little squadron steams and fumes (situated
just as if we were a dozen vessels in Chelsea
Reach, and the river towards London bridge crowd
ed as I have said,) and the Cruiser, in obedience to
a signal from the Coromandel, detaches herself, and
proceeds into the little thread of channel. There is
a flutter and a panic among the dwellers in the w’a
ter. The outside boats cast off, and the strong tide
drifts them rapidly away before our steamer. How
it happens that the channel is not hopelessly block
ed, we cannot imagine. But the current is very
swift; down they go, and the channel is wider by
their removal. Then another tier, and another, and
another is detached, and the tide sweeps them still
more rapidiy away. Surely all Canton is going to
vanish down the river. Houses that looked firmly
established on the land detach themselves slowly,
and then send off. Give them time—why should
we hurry these poor people? An hour, and an
hour, and the channel suburb of Canton ha3 remov
ed itself without molestation or injury. They are
gone to seek a safer shelter in the numerous creek3
which the Chinese only know. Perhaps some of
them are gone round to the back of the city. If so,
I fear that we shall have to disturb them once more;
but there arc thousands of backwaters and ditches
and canals iu which they can find safe habitation.
And now the channel is clear. We have an unin
terrupted view along it. It is not nearly so wide as
the Thames at Wapping, and moreover there are
no bridges to interrupt the line of sight; but the
buildings on each side are much of the same char
acter as those at Wapping and Rotherhithe—the
warehouses of Honan on the right, the low buildings
of Canton on the left. About half a mile up there
is a wide interval, covered only with heaps of build
ing rubbish, but having no structure standing but a
heavy built Chinese gateway—a sort of triumphal
arch, whereon is writ iu Chinese characters. “ The
site of Hog Lane.” Beyond this interval, as large
or larger than the Temple Gardens—an interval
which will be readily recognized as the location of
the destroyed factories—there are ruins. High,
square, brick-built pillars start up from the debris
of their fallen roofs. These are the remains of the
hongs and warehouses, battered or buried during
the retaliatory attacks of the British fleet. A little
further on, where the stream slightly widens, there
is an >slet in mid-channel. It is covered with the
wreck of masonry. Stones tnd brick work are ly
ing about iu shapeless masses ; but nine trees,
which have survived the deed of violence these
ruins tell of, rise iu the interstices and shake their
leaves and offer shade. This islet shuts in the view
and closes the vista. It is the site of the Dutch
Folly Fort.
The Cruiser has paused before the melting, float
ing city. Now it ia gone, she passes on after it.—
We watch tier witli intense anxiety. Will our
friend Yell suffer this ! Or shall we have the con
tents of those 200 guns whicli he is said to have
brought to bear upon this channel down upon our
decks ? The excitement among the Chinese is not
less than that among us. The roofs of the houses
are crowded They know that we are not going to
tire, ior our proclamations have told them that un
til the time given to Yeh lias expired we shall only
iire in defence. But the steamer is nearing the
Dutch Folly, the scene of the last operations, and
the Chinese spectator, are as uncertain as we are
whether Yeh wiii ahow the presence ot a British
man of-war within 300 yards of his own yamun.—
Never do to day what you can put off till to-mor
row.” Surely this maxim ia to be fouud in Confu
cius, for in righting or in yielding it ia a Chinaman's
only rule of conduct. Yeh, although he has reject
ed Lord Elgin’s demands, 13 determined to take hie
full period of respite. Not a soldier appears upon
those smail patches of the walls that are not hidden
by the houses. Even the guns are, as our glasses
show us, clumsily concealed by matting and wicker
shields. The steamer passes througn and otheie
follow. Tney cast anchor in mid-e! roam and make
themselves snug ami comfortable, as if they were at
Spithead. Imagine a. row of ships of war moored
siern and stern broadside to the shore at the Tower
stairs and half a-inile up and down t he stream, and
you will have some idea of the position of the Nim
rod, the Hornet, the Cruder, the Bittern, the Ac
toe ill. and the Acorn. Half an hour afie they had
anchored the gunboats were running up and down,
and the gigs, and cutters, and dingeys were rowing
to and fro, and the Chinaman were going from boat
to boat with oranges and bananas for sale, as though
we had been settled here for a lifetime.
Monday, Dec. 28.— 1 t is five o’clock in the morn
ing, and the north wind whistles through the shrouds
and it is thick darkness as we climb the ligging to
the maintop cl her Majesty’s ship .
Yeh knows what must happen at daybreak. It
has been told throughout the fleet, it has been in
tentionally allowed to be known to the bumboat
men, and all who have communication with the op
posite shore, that the bombardment will commence
at daybreak. The frequent reconnoissance on the
eastern side have also told them that the attack will
be on that side, and we know they have taken the
hint, for two new embrasures have broken ont yes
terday, and guns mounted.
Before the first streak of daylight every glass is
directed upon the berth of the green passage boat.
We call it Howqua's boat, moored on the other side
of the river, and used to carry messages to and iro,
and always having a white ttag flying The boat
and flag are sail there, but she does not move. No,
sne does not move. I must use the seaman s more
practised eyes to tell me so, for I cannot yet distin
gu:.-h objects, sorely, surely, these men will yield
while there is yet time. There seems to be no
thought of such a thing. Had there been, it is now
too Ate. A cheer tehs me that, not in the dawn bat
in the less thick darkness, up goes the white ensign
to the main of ihe Acieon, and at the same moment
a yellow flag flies on the main of the Phlegethon. —
I expected at ihat moment to hear a concussion
that should have shaken the earth. Not so. A
dropping lire, gun by gun, runs along the ins. I
famy ihat the Cruiser, which has the guns from the
bastion in front of Yeb’syatnun pointed down upon
her neck, fires a broadside to anticipate them, but I
may be mistaken, for I am some way off, and the
puffs of smoke are already wreathing about Some
minutes elapse, and tbe light strongmens. Then off
goes one of the mortars upon Dutch Folly. It is
fired upon Gough Fort. The whistling sheil speeds
high over the cuy, just ss I have often seen them
and heard their plaintive whistle over the heights
of the Tehernaya, or from the earthworks ou the
north of Sebastopol harbor. It does not reach its
object. At its highest e.evation— tar, far away—it
puffs torth in a thin white cloud. I can now see
the dark fragments failing, and in the cold, cloud
less morning sky that little cloudlet hangs —
As though au angel in his upward flight
Had left his taant.e floating in mid air.
Strange fancies seize ns in these highly wrought
moments—the angel of mercy has fled from the
doomed city.
biow and oontinous, with a sombre monotony,
iike tbe firing of minute guns, the cannonade con
tinues. No broadsides, no quick firing, no excite
ment . Every gun is accurately pointed, after mall y
minutes care, to strike or sweep the appointed wail,
and to avoid the habitations. The shells are not so
obedient as the round shot. What the opposing
guns are doing we cannot see, for the smoke gathers
thic& below us. and the big guns seem to have
brought down tbe wind. Vainly do the mortar
shells strive to reach those hill forts, which seem to
be sleeping in tranquil security against the cold
grey sky. They ail foil short. That red, five stori
ed barn, which is called the five storied pagoda,
and which is said to be tiie barrack of five hundred
Tartars, was nearly touched. A shell burst half way
up the Kill. But Gough Fort has never yet been
approached. Some who must have keener sight than
I Lave, say that the Chinese are ende .voriDg to
bring their monster guns to bear this way. Hie
strength of the armament of those forts was placed
to bear upon the eastern face when we reconnoiter
ea them on Wednesday last. But it is useless, even
if practicable, to change the bearing of those guns.
If we eauuot reach them at this, nearly 4,000 yards
range, with our mortars they will never reach us.
The morning wears on and the smoke thickens, and
still this dull monotonous minute gun sound con
tiuues. Still no sign of surrender. These strange
Chinese actually seem to be getting used to it.
Ssnpans aud even cargo boats are moving down
the river like London lightermen in the ordinary
exercise of their calling, people are coming down to
tbe bank, and watch tiie shot and shell fly over their
heads Even the great kites which hover about
here ail day have returned, and are circling above
the smoke.
Now the gun-boats have their stations, embark
the tioops, and hurry down the river to the landing
place at Kupar Creek. I also change my position,
and dot down these hasty memoranda as 1 fly. A
strong body has already landed, and through my
glass I can distinctly see the geueial and his staff,
protected by a party of bluejackets and red coats
—either marines or 69th, I can't distinguish which
for they are crouched on the ground—pushing a
close reeonnoissance to Fort Lin.
Half-past-twelve—No signs of surrender. The
embarkation ot the land forco continues, and the
bombardment goes on.
Before Canton, Dec. 29, 1857.—1 broke off my
first despatch while the bombardment was still pro
ceeding, while the troops were landing at Kupar
Creek, and while the General was prosecuting a
close reeonnoissance of the East (or Lin's) Fort.
So near did the reconnoitering party advance
without any appearance of defenders that we ima
gined the fort must be deserted. I suppose, how
ever, the general bad reason to think otherwise, for
the 59th aud the Artillery were ordered up, and
posted in the broken ground to tiie left, while some
of the Naval Brigade aud Marines who had now
formed upon a hill-side, were advanced into the
village on the right of the fort. Immediately this
movement took place some matting which covered
a square building on the top of the round stone fort
was removed, aud three guns from the lower em
brasures. They continued their fire, however, with
great pertinacity, until the nine-pounder tield-pteces
were got into position, aud battered and Bhelled the
place (from tiie village side and across the t avine
which separates the village from the fort) at close
quarters. A storming party was now formed, but
the Chinamen had had enough of it, and after tiring
a general volley at the advancing column, they ab
sconded in some mysterious way, and were seen
swarming up the hill towards Gough Fort; a mo
ment after, and two men appeared in the embra
sures waving the English and French flags.
My view ot the operations was from the other
side of the fort. What happened afterwards I saw
leas distinctly. About , an hour after the fort had
been in our possession it blew up with a loud ex
plosion. The occupying party, and also the trot ps
encamped on the hill side, were put in motion,
ascended the bill aud descended on the other side.
I saw Capt. Maelure’s and Capt. Osborne’s men,
conspicuous by their white gaiters over their blue
trousers, gather on a little *uinimt and disappear
into the valley beyond. There we lost sight of
them. Volleys of musketry and flights of rockets
continued in that direotion for several hours, and
there was all the appearaece of an obstinate tight,
which lasted till sundown, but whether this was oc
casioned by the discovery of some unknown fort
commanding the east fort, and rendering it neces
sary to blow up the latter, or whether some body
of Chinese troops had come out into the open, we
shall uotkuow until we can draw out the separate
threads of this widely spread entanglement.
Then came the night—and such a night. The
ships almost ceased from their filing, but the city
soon became like our own Shropshire iron coun
tries at night—a plain of lire. At first it appeared
as though the besiegers were bent upon reducing
the place to ashes ; but littie by little, as I gained,
by a change of position, some idea ot the scene as a
whole, the destruction was not without a plan.—
There was a great blaze at the northwest angle of
tbe city. The gate there is surmounted by a Chi
nese guardhouse, with the usual grotesque upwar .
pointed roof. Shells aud rockets were poured in
valleys upon this structure, and it soon became a
sheet of flame through which tils root, the rafters,
and tiie walls stood out iu dark outlme. By con
slant showers of rockets the flame wan led up and
down the city wall, aud iu an incredibly short time
the long, thin line of fire shot high into the heavens,
and then subsided into a smouldering smoke.
While this was still ra#ing those vengeful rockets
described anew parabola. They came hurtling
through the moonlight along the line of the eastern
wall. They sought out the three spots which have
been marked as the objects of the triple assault of
the English and French troops to-morrow. As
those dreadful 21-pouud rockets flew, flames arose.
They seemed to lead the fire about as a tame ele
ment, precisely as they willed; and, strange to say,
it never seemed to spread inwards, or to stray from
the line of the oity walls. I expect that when, at
some more convenient Beaeon, l come to see the in
terior, I shall find that all the conflagrations we have
beeu watching to-night with au awe-stricken pity,
have destroyed only that line of old iiouses which
leant against the inner side of the wall, and afforded
cover to those jiugalls whence all our great losses
in affairs with the Chinese have arisen. I may be
wrong, for I pledge myself to nothing that I write
in thiscoufusion of showering roeke.s and crashing
roofs. If lam wrong I can coirect my impressions
hereafter.
Tuesday, Dee. 30.—1 mark the change of days,
but they are not divided by repose. AU night the
city was girt by a l.ne of flame. The approach ot
morning was indicated by a suspension of tiie rock
et practice, aud by the re-opening of the mortar
battery with redoubled energy. As the day broke,
the flames sank down, and the suu rose upon a per
fectly smokeless city. It is necessary to describe
the conformation of a Cninese city more accurately
than I now have time to do, to account for the ra
pidity with which the wall side houses perished.
For police purposes, the city is divided into walled
departments of some 50 yards square, with gates
that can be closed. The houses tbat lean upon the
inner walls are, in most cities that I have seen, di
vided from the rest by a mound or a ditch; they are
encroachments —hovels made by squatters—wood
and thatch, that blaze and vani.-li.
The oharges of powder must have been increased
in the mortar batteries, for the shells now flew high
up to the hill forts. One of them at day break
burst upon an embrasure of Fort Gough, and anoth
er vvent right over it. The ships that had been enfi
lading the eastern wall now ceased firing. It was
the moment for the assault. In the neighborhood
of the east fort the three divisions formed aud tiie
rush was made. For two hours nothing is visible
but smoke, nothing is heard but tbe rattle of mus
ketry aud loud cheering. What deeds are done
among this broken ground—among these trees and
brushwood—on the tops and in the interstices of
these grave-covered hillocks —how fare these forces,
spread over more than a mile of attack, what divi
sions are first, who fall aud who survive, I must tell
hereafter. At eight o’clock the wall was gained,
and I see the blue jackets, English and French, ra
cing along it northwards. Gough’s Fort gives out
its fire, let U3 hope without effect, but well-eerved,
its guns might sweep the wall. There is a check and
silence for half an hour. X can r ecognize the blue
trousers of one of the divisions of our naval brigade.
The leaders are probably teaching them how to take
that five-storied pagoda upon the northwestern
wall. Along the city wall, and protected by its bat
tlements, they pass, I thick, unscathed, the fire from
Gough Fort away to their right, and come in front
of a gleaming white battery, newly-built, and full
of guns erected upon a ledge of tbe rock upon which
the wall and five-storied pagoda here stand.
If tiie assailants would only go to a proper dis
tance, how these guns would riddle them. But
with a rush and a cheer a detachment strikes from
the cover of the wall, which the guns do not com
mand, and houses itself safely at the foot of the very
rock which bear the battery. Nota shot can it fire.
The riflemen from the walls now ply this half-moon
for minutes, and in a quarter of an hour the detach
ment at the foot of the rock has gone round and
taken the position from behind. Believed from
these guns, which might have swept them dowii by
hundreds, our men in serried masses are now swarm
ing along the wall. The five-storied pagoda
(which is no more a pagoda, according to our no
tion of pagoda, than it is a bum-boat, but an old
square red building divided in stories) is carried by
the bayonet, and the French and English colors are
hoisted simultaneously. Now (rough's Fort opens
out sulkily upon its late ally but the assailants, not
waiting to reply, hurry along the intervening wall
westward. 1 can follow them for sometime from
my position, and I hear them cheering, when I lose
them in the hollow. A few minutes of sharp fusil
lade, and hlue-jacketss emerge from the trees and
buildings upon Magazine hill A moment after and
up go the two bits of bunting which tell that this
key of Canton is our own.
It is now twenty minutes after ten. In four hours,
therefore the hill defences of this city have been
captured. Gough's Fort yet holds out, but this is a
mere questiou of a few hours or minutes more or
less—the Magazine-hill commands it, and it is with
in point blank range. The whole of the operations
have been conducted with a view to occasion the
smallest possible sacrifice of life, and especially of
the lives oi our own men and of our allies. We may
hope, therefore, that the victory will be a cheap one.
I purposely refrain from repeating any of the ru
mors that are flying about as to deaths aud wounds,
but I may state it as within my own knowledge,
that Captain Bate was killed while superintending
the placing of the scaling ladders. Captain Hack
ett was also killed, and Lord Gil lord i-: wounded in
ihe arm. How many others are lost is impossible
to say. The Chinamen are still shooting at our meo
from the tops of the houses, and if this goes on I
fear it will be necessary to treat the city less ten
d riy than hitherto. While the Algerine gunboat,
Lieutenant Forbes, is with steam up taking the sup
plemental despatches on board, 2 5 P. M., Gough’s
Fort is assaulted and taken.
Capt. Marct’s March to Ml"’ Mexico—Suf
fering and Death.—Thu journey of Capt. Marey
Irom Fort Bridger, the headquarters of ihe army of
Utah, across the mountains, to New Mexico, was
attended with incredible hardships. The party, num
bering forty-three all told, left the fort on the 28tb
of November, and reached Santa Fe about the 25th
of January. The route they passed over bad never
before been traversed in mid-winter. In the moun
tains they encountered enow storms of great seve
rity—storms such as the intrepid Fremont was com
pelled to turn his bac k up- n. Jn one stretch of two
tundted and fifty miles the party waded through
-uuw from two to five feet in depth. For eleven
days they subsisted on mule and horse meat, with
out bread, or so much as a pinch of salt. It is a
marve that, notwithstanding these hardship?, but
one of the men died on the route, though many of
them were badly frost bitten. The animals of the ex_
nedition suffered severely, r orty out of sixty of
them died of cold and starvation. Capt. Marey was
ent to New Mexico to purchase animals for the ar
my. and was to return to Fort Bridger as soon as
his arrangements were completed, escorted by a
force competent to protect him from the attacks of
the Mormon guerrillas.—A’. Y. Herald.
Clearihg Hocsr, is Baltimore.— The cashier
of all the Baltimore Banks met yesterday after
noon, in the cashier’s room of the Union Bank, and,
after a due deliberation, unanimiously agreed to
establish a “Clearing House,” to go into operation
on Monday morning next, at half-past 8 o’clock,
and held daily Henceforward—meetings to take
place in the Union Bank, at the hour above named,
and returns made at 10 o’clock. A. M. This, we
are confident, will be fotmd a judicious move, as
well for the banks as the community, and may ob
viate. entirely, the necessity of further legislation at
Annapolis regarding proposed new bank bills. We
further learn that all the city banka settled their
balances to-day in specie.— Ball. Pat.
Fortcbe Favors the Brave.— Man’s life hangs
upon the most brittle thread—so it is with fortune.
A dime luckily invested has often been the basis of
an ample fortune, whilst years of toil and priva
tion have been repaid with a meagre subsiev .-ce
How uncertain are all things earthly—a beggar to
day, a prince to-morrow. We have just learned
some good news. A friend of our youth—a poor,
God-forsaken printer—has drawn a prize of $16,000
in Swan & Co.’s lottery, Augusta, Georgia. Bob,
you’re a lucky dog I — Afiddiepart {III.) Prtu.
Sectionalism.
After making some very sensible remarks on the
monomania of the Abolitionism of the North, that
sterling paper, the New Orleans Bulletin, admin
isters the following deserved rebuke to those disoi
ganizing spirits whose study, and ah whose efforts
seem to be directed to a Dissolution of the Union.
The Bulletin says:
Practical acquaintance with the subject in the
Southern States, in a great many instances would
effectually cure this form of political monomania,
aL d it is the only remedy there is for it. Hence,
railroads in affording facilities for practical inter
course between those who are now utter strangers
to each other, and each other's habits, opinions and
institutions, will hereafter do much t) correct er
roneous views in different portiors of the confed
eraey in regard to matters existing in other portions
ot it. Political monomania with some manifest • it
solf in the idea that they are awfully oppressed, and
hence they labor with all the ardor of the class to
which they belong toehold up the American Union
as a monstrous engine of oppression! Persons
really afflicted with this dreadful disease are enti*
tied to our profound commiseration for their unhap
py condition. It is indeed difficult to read with a
sober countenance what these peopl i sometimes ac
t aally print, bat their peculiar pyschological condi
tions should excite sympathy rather than mirth.—
One great source of affliction to them is that they
< annot make others agree with them. They see and
leel as clearly as the man in the insane asylum that
ue is sane and everybody else crazy, that they, and
uiey only are right, while the great mass of the peo
ple are blind as bats, unable to discover the de
plorably oppressed condition in which they live, aud
will live so long as they refuse to knock the general
government into political pi. The following para
graph, from an exchange, affords a good illustration
•f the melancholy teelings of those uuliappy mono
maniacs, because the Southern people will not be
equally unhappy with themselves, and because the
said Southern people, being terribly oppressed aud
misused, don’t know it! Read:
“ We confess that we have very little faith in
‘he spirit of resistance among the people of the
South ; aud about the only prospect that we se6 of
getting out of this glorious Union is that one of
these days the North may take a notion from mere
wautouness, and by offering us some new indignity,
to kick us out, and then kick us for being out—all
ot which we will no doubt submit to as kindly as we
have continued to remain in the Union under
every indignity they have beeu able hereafter to
offer us.
“ Only think of the small chance of consolation
which remains to him ! If the North would only
take it into its head to ‘ offer’ some dreadful ‘ in
dignity’ to the South how happy would he be ! He
would then, in the fullness of his soul, exclaim :
‘ Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious by the summer sun’
of disunion ; and to
* Cry havoc and let siip the dogs of war,’
and let chaos come again. Oh, how it would till
him with 1 incommunicable bliss!’
“We say that the real monomaniac should excite
our pity rather than any other emotions ; ajul though
it may be found absolutely necessary to restrain
excesses growing out of monomauia, it is generally
best, whenever it can be done with safety, to let it
alone to die of sheer exhaustion. But there is a
vast difference between monomania and downright
hypocrisy. The former we may pity ; the latter
we always despise. The distinction between these
lwo is palpable, upon the political chess-board of
the couutry just now, to tiie commonest observer.
We cannot stop to point out all the circumstances
of it, it is plainly discernible ; and shall allude only
to one. Some of the sectional presses iu this part
of the country, aware that undisguised disunion
sentiments would be execrated by the people, at
fully seek to instil the poisSn into public mind by
earnestly professing the greatest attachment to the
Union, and at the same time doing everything that
they possibly can secretly, to undermine aud de
stroy that for which their affection is so strong 1 —
They manifestly think, too, that the people will not
see through the disguise, will be deceived through
specious and deoeitfui appearances, and will therfore
not really understand what they are driving at. —
They will find themselves, we think, greatly mis
taken in the estimate they thus set upon the intelli
gence aud patriotism of the people, and the compli
ment thus paid the latter, will we presume, be duly
appreciated.
“These sectional disunionists in disguise, take es
pecial pains to give publicity to the sentiments aud
fragments of speeches of Northern Abolitionists,
giving them ludicrous prominence and importance
which must be as highly gratifying to the vanity of
the said abolitionists as it will be surprising to them.
This indeed is an old device of the seetiomilista of
different parts of the country, in the despicable
work of alienating brethren. They have long been
quoting and elevating each other into importance,
but the trick is now so thoroughly understood by
the great conservative masses of tbe country, that
it is impotent to do harm, as it can deceive nobody
but the most ignorant, many of whom are noi
much in the habit of reading, while others cannot.”
Washington Items. —The amendment offered
by Senator Pugh to the Kausaa-iliunesota bid, de
claring that it shall not be construed to limit the
right of the people to alter their form of Goveriimen
at any time, is now the anxious subject of conside
ration and consultation among members of both
Houses. Some insist that the bill cannot pass with
the amendment, and others that it cannot pass with
out it. Both parties may be light. The question is
embarrassing, but various consultations will proba
bly settle it. The ohief point to be aacertained is
the number of Northern Democratic members of
the House who require this amendment as a sine
qua non The Senate will probably allow about
two weeks more for the Kansas debate, but a Sena
torial week consists of only four days.
Mr. Phillips presented iu the House of Representa
tives, for reference to the Committee on Private
Land Claims, the memorial of the cities of New
Orleans and Philadelphia, for a confirmation of title
t 0212,677 acres of land lying on the bayous Bar
tholomew and Seard, in the district of Washita, in
the State of Louisiana, bequeathed to them by the
late Stephen Girard, to be used by them for purpo
ses of public utility and charity.
The Committee on the Judiciary have before
them the propriety of recommending to the House
the impeachment of Judge Watrous, of Texas.—
This case has been before Congress for several
years. The testimony is voluminous and conflict
ing. The Committee sit every day, and the majori
ty of them have resolved that their report shall be
made at an early day, so that the matter may be
disposed of one way or the other.
The Hon. Jefferson Davis, Senator from Missis
sippi, will not, it is said, be able to to fill his seat in
the Senate for two months. Ilis physicians have
plaoed him under a severe regimen, in a room from
which light is carefully excluded.
The following is the weekly statement of the Trea
sury i
Amount subject to draft $2,969,057 02
Reduction Irom last week 15,787 44
Receipts ‘ 655,264 87
Drafts paid 727,177 18
Drafts issued 701,652 31
The following is the statement of Treasury notes:
Issued in warrants $5,294,700
“ deposits 705,300
Total $6,000,000
Redeemed in warrants $1,054,300
“ deposits 111,600
Total $1,165,900
Outstanding sth March $4,834,100
Gen. Havelock upon Family Discipline.—
The following, from one who enjoyed much person
al communion with the deceased General, will be
regarded as an illustration of the man’s character,
not without significance. During his stay in Eng
land the narrator of this anecdote went one eve
ning to the house of the Colonel, in compliance with
an invitation. In the course of conversational rs.
Havelock turned suddenly to her husband unpaid,
“By the way, my dear, where is Harry ?” referring
to her son, whom she had not seen during the
whole afternoon. The Colonel started to his feet—
“ Well, poor fellow, lie’s standing on Loudon
bridge, and in this cold, too. I told him to wait tor
me there at 12 o’clock to-day, and in the pressure of
business at 1 quite forgot the appointment.”
The father aud son were to have met at 12 at
noon, and it wa3 now after seven in the evening.—
Yet the father seemed to have no doubt that Harry
would not move from his post until he appeared.
The Colonel at once rose, ordered a cab to be called
and as be went forth to deliver Mb son from his
weary watch on London bridge, he turned to his
visitor, saying, “You see, sir, that is the discipline
of a soldier’s family.” In the course of an hour the
Colonel ’ etumed with poor Harry, who, although
he appeared somewhat affected by the cold watch,
and glad to see the fire in the comfortable parlor at
home, seemed to have passed through the little af
ternoon's experience with the greatest good humor
and the feeling that al! was right.— Edinburgh.
Daily Express.
Burning of anew Steamer —The Louisvillt
Journal of Thursday says that on Wednesday after
noon last steam was raised for the first time on the
new Missouri river packet R. J. Lockwood, just
completed at New Albany, for Captain Lamotli
After night, just before 8 o’clock, she started out
from the landing to go a few miles down the river
to a wood yard, and to dry her maceinery. The
boat had barely round and to from the wharf, and had
straightened down stream, when she was discovered
on fire at the stern. In less than five minutes, the
entire stern of the boat was enveloped in flames
and the pilot discovered that the wheel rope on the
starboard side had burned off. He manfully stood
at his post, however, and headed her for the Ken
tucky shore, and succeeded in landing the boat jusi
above West Louisville. The bow of the boat wa
driven some twenty feet out on the shore, enabling
all the people on board to escape, including a num
ber of ladies. There were some sixty or seventy
persons on board. The R. J. Lockwood was jus
completed at New Albany for Captain W P
Lamotli and others, for the Missouri river, at a cost
of $45,000. She was insured for $20,000 in Louis
ville.
British Intervention.— The Washington cor
respondent of the New York Herald makes a state
ment that is important if true. It is that the com
manderofthe British squadron on the West India
station, has received orders “to capture and treat as
pirates, Gen. Walker and all or any other filibusters,
wherever he may find them.” The correspondent
adds that this would have been done before, but for
the fear of creating ill-feeling and jealousy in the
United States , but there is no fear of consequences
since the course pursued by Com. Paulding, and the
English only desire the opportunity “to emulate his
example.”
The “South’ eonsidera such instructions justified
by the act of Com. Paulding, who violated the
“sovereignty of an independent Republic iu pur
suit of'filibuster?.’ ” Our government will be much
puzzled to answer such an argument, should any
question ot intervention by England, on similar
grounds arise. The South asks if the President
wou and submit to the insult, should the British Com
mander treat American citizens as pirates ? It
does not hesitate to answer the interrogatory in the
negative, but it considers that Buchanan would feel
somewhat awkward in such a juncture of affairs. —
Rich. Dispatch.
Accident and Loss of Life. —Yesterday morn
ing about ten o’clock, five of the deck-hands on the
St. Francis No. 2, were in one of her wheel-houses,
repairing some injury which she sustained in break
mg a shaft, wnsn the wheel aecidentially revolved,
and submerged them in the water, when four out of
the five were drowned. The one that escaped saved
bis life by clinging to a piece of plank until he was
Picked up by the yawl. The boat was just above
’resident's Island at the time the fatal accident oc
curred, and was running on one wheel. We un
derstrand that none of the bodies were found,
though effort was made to recover them.— Memphis
Eagle, 9 th irtst.
Sinking of the Steamer Arkansas. —The
steamer Arkansas, from Fort Smith, Arkansas,
bound to St. Louis, having on board Companies G
and K, 7tb regiment U. S. Infantry, which passed
up the river on Saturday last, while backing out of
a wrong chute into which she had accidentally got
ten, near Plum Point Bend, ran against a snag
about eight o’clock on Sunday night, knocking a
hole in her Btera, and Bank to her main deck. ?
troop? and all hands on board were taken off by
tbe Alodzo Child, and brought down to thu> tyto
be embarked on the first boat to St. Louis. The
troops will probably be sent torw&rd this evening
on tbe steamer Editor, which is expected down.
They are destined at present for Jefferson Barracks,
Missouri, and ultimately forservise m Utah.—Mem
phis Bullettn.
VOL. LXXIL—NEW SERIES VOL. XXII. NO. 11.
From the Plain*.
The St. Louis Republican publish the following
letter, dated Westport, (Mo.) Feb. 23:
Mr. Kitchen, freighter, arrived here ou 22d in
stant, having started from Tecalote, New Mexico,
on the 20th January.
He came down the Cimarone route, affording
good dry grass for animals and willow twigs for
tire. At the Upper Cimarone Spring he met about
150 Kiowas. They were friendly, wud after a short
interchange of good relations, passed on up the
river where the great body ot the nation was en
oamped.
Ai the lower Cimarone Spring he met a large
war force of Camanches. Along Indian talk en
sued. They express the best feelings for their
white brother. Said they had heard there would be
a heap of trade carried on by the white man across
the plains next season. So far as their people were
concerned, the trains would not bo disturbed, nei
ther would any demands ever be made again upon
the white people. If the Great Father chose to
send them on presents they would gratefully re
ceive them, but would not think hard if they were
neglected.
What seems to have softened down these Indians
was, that they had heard much “big talk'’ about
the white soldiers going to wipe out the Mormons.
Coming on the Arkansas river, and when within
fifteen miles of Pawnee Folk, he suddenly met
about 250 Arapahoe warriors, all armed with lance,
gun and pistol. Never were Indians better equip
ped. He was ordered to halt, which he dnl with
despatch. Storm, the chief, with a few choseu,
gathered around on the ground, lit the calumet,
Kitchen in their midst, and then talked ala savage.
Storm related that he had just had a big tight with
the Pawnees, on Pawnee Fork, the day before.—
The contest was a bloody one. Ten Pawnees were
killed, some taken prisoners, and almost everyone
who escaped was wounded. Ten bleeding scalps
were displayed by Storm to prove his assertion.—
Storm also displayed a letter writ eu by Wm. Bent,
a trader, in which he was endorsed as a popular and
brave Indian in the Arapahoe trioe, worthy of the
bounty ot travellers.
Mr. Kitchen was thus politely compelled to re
lease himselt of a great part of his provisions. He
was then permitted to pass on. That night he camp
ed at Pawnee Fork. Some of the boys, in hunting
wood to build the camp fire, found many dead
horses lyiug about, dreadfully gashed, and also pick
ed up two Pawnee Indian hands that had been lop
ped off'in the tight. It was the battle ground de
scribed by Storm.
Mr. Kitchen found in tbe Little Arkansas river,
further on, ten dead Pawnee bodies. Some of them
were submerged in the water and life-like, others
ou the verge were in a state of putrefaction. It is
supposed they were killed by the Kaws.
The weather from New Mexico to Pawnee Fork
was summer-like—from theuoe to this point cold,
snowy, and extremely disagreeable, but lost no
mules.
From the N. O. Picayune , of Monday.
Later Freni Mexico.
By the arrival of the schr. Elizabeth Segar, at Mo
bile, from Tampico, we have a copy of ihe Union,
of the latter city, ot the 18th ult. We gather from
it that the garrison of the famed Santa Anna de
Tamaulipas had decided in favor of the Zu'oaga
government on the previous day. Col. Moreno had
called a meeting of the chiefs and officers of the
Tampico battalion, that each might freely express
his opinion, says the published proclamation, with
respect to the events passing in the capital ; and
they unanimously resolved : 1. To support in all its
part the plan of Tacubaya, reformed in the city
Mexico, on the 11th of January last, and conse
quently recognizing the supreme government es
tablished in the capital of the Republic on the 22d
of the same month of January. 2. To give noti e,
by this proclamation, to the Supreme Government
ot the nation, and to the Governors mid Cominau
danta Geueral that they have adopted the said plan
3 To nominate aud recognize as Commanderm-
Ciiief of the forces of the city and its dependencies,
aud as Superior Political Chief, 1). Rafael Moreno,
who will take possesion of both offices. This, how
ever, will apparently mee with some lesistauoe ;
for Senor Giaza has demauded possession of the
Plaza and the Gefaturia. The Union, neverthe
less, says the act of the garrison is widely approv
ed.
The decree abrogating the law of de&amortiza
nioHj and others in the same spirit issued by the
Zuloaga Government, are published in the Union.
Sr. Parrodi is said to have appeared in the vici
nity of San Luis Potoai, and after a fruitless con
ference with Sr. Othon, to have prepared for a bat
ie; but to have afterwards retired iu consequence
*>f two expresses having arrived lrom the Juarez
Government,juforiniug him that his assistance was
needed to meet Osollo, who was approaching
Guanjuato with two brigades*
The Picayune also contains the following letter
from a correspondent at Tampico:
Eds. Pic. —Uuder separate cover I send you u
newspaper, by which you w ill perceive that this
place is now under anew form of government. On
the night of the 17th u!t., it was discovered that
Gen. Moreno h and entered into negotiations with
Gov. Garza, to make an amicable surrender of this
gentleman, when the troops deprived the old Gene
ral of his command, and declared for the reform plan
of Tacubaya.
Thus far all is quiet here. Yesterday Gen. Moreno
and the late Collector of the Customs were per
mitted to leave the place, theformer under a mili
tary salute, in accordance with his rank.
The threatening attitude of Gov. Garza and his
adherents leads us to the conclusion that a despe
rate effort will be made on the part of that function
ary to obtain possession of this port.
Fatal Affray in Darlington District, So.
Ca.—We have learned from a private source of a
most unfor: unate occurrence, which took place at
Cartersville. Darlington District, on Thursday last.
It appears that on the Monday previous a man
by the name of Windham, known to be a dealer in
liquor and trafficker with negroes, took from the
Depot at Cartersville three barrels of whisky,
which he carried to his shop. This fact being com
municated to the Vigilant Committee of that place,
twenty-seven of them met at Windham’s on
Wednesday, for the purpose of seizing and destroy
ing the liquor. They were met., however, by a
larger number of Windham’s friends, who bid them
defiance; and they concluded to withdraw, notify
ing the other party that they would return the next
day with a force sufficient to accomplish their ob
ject. On Thursday at 10 o’clock, some seventy
five men of the Vigilant Committee, well armed,
met near Windham’s shop. They were formed into
three companies, with necessary officers, and march
ed to the rear of the house and halted.
One of their oldest and most respectable citizens,
whose name wo have not learned, went up and re
moustrated with the opposite party, assembled in
front of the shop, armed with guns, pistols, sticks,
knives, &c., but to no purpose. l{e told them that
it was not the desire or intention of the Vigilant
men to do them harm if it could be avoided, that
they would not shoot unless they were fired upon
first, in which event they would be killed in their
tracks. The defenders of Windham and hie liquor
3* ore that they would shed their last drop of blood,
and if the Vigilant men entered the shop it would
be over their dead bodies. The companies were
ordered to advance, one on the right, another on
the left, and the third in the centre. A halt was
made near the door, and the men stood ready to
tire If necessary. Another remonstrance was mace
by the Vigilant party, but to no effect. The door
was ordered to be opened, and a fence rail applied
for the purpose.
At this juncture one of Windham’s party singled
out an officer among the Vigilants, saying, “you are
my man,'’ and tired, the shot brushing him and stri
king another man, but not killing him. In an in
stant the man, Freeman, was shot dead in his tracks,
and general a rush made at his party, knocking them
down with the butt ends of their guns, bi caking
them in some instances, and fracturing skulls, &c.
Our iniormant states that two or three of the Wind
hams are dead, or will die soon. In the affray Mr.
A. Nelßon Stuckey was badly, if not fatally, stab
bed, with a Mr. Robertson, the man who was first
shot. These were the only two of the Vigilant Com
mittee injured. The shop was entered; but not
finding the whiskey, the corn crib wan searched,
and it was found there and destroyed.
These are the facts, as we hava*them from a per
fectly reliable source. We have given them
as they are furnished iu a letter to a friend by one
who was present and saw it all. We have not the
disposition now to comment on this most unfortu
nate and deplorable occurrence. It is shocking in
its character, and gives us pain—is abhorrent to our
feelings, and must be deplored by all. —Camden
Journal.
Thrilling Scene —Fearful Experience of a
Lightning Rod Man —His Ascent to the Sum
mit of a Cathedral Spire. —Mr. Thomas King
ston, who for several years has followed the busi
ness of putting up lightning rods, which, of course,
requires steady nerves and a firm brain, met with
an accident recently, by which, but for the most
singular presence of mind, or rather supernatural
instinct, he would have fallen from a dizzy height,
and been dashed to pieces. He is compelled to
climb roofs, over chimneys, and up epires, and fix
a rod, with pertect coolness and precision, hundreds
of feet above the level of the earth !
On the occasion to which we refer, Mr. K. had as
cended to St. Paul’s Cathedral, whose spire is about
two hundred and thirty-five feet high, near the
Broadway, and gone to the very top, where, having
left his ladder below, he cluog by his arms and legs,
fastened the last foot of the rod and attached its
point—quite a heavy piece of metal—securely, as
he supposed, to the cross surmounting the steeple
He had just completed this difficult and dangerous
task, watched by a number of persons in the street
below, and while looking at the work and experi
encingthat satisfaction which results from hazard
passed and labor accomplished of a sudden some
thing heavy struck him and made his brain reel
until he could hardly see. Instead of losing his hold
a* once, as would seem to have been the nature
-icd inevitable result, he clung with a power beyond
himself and a will superior to his own, closer and in
stinctively to the spire. He knew not what had oc
curred, and to his confused senses it appeared that
he steeple was tumbling; or that some strange
‘tause was about to bring the vast structure to the
ground.
Some forty seconds—an age to him—must have
elapsed before he sufficiently collected bis scattered
thoughts and subverted consciousness to know tbai
the entire upper part of the rod had fallen upon Li
head, causing the blood to trickle over his forehead
and nearly blind him. He was in a dreadful per
plexity and most dangerous position. He feared, it
he moved, he would go cleaving the air to a terri
ble death upon the stony street below—and at tbe
same time he knew he could not, in the disordered
state of his nerves, and his increasing weakness,
retain his grasp, more the result of fate than ot feel
iug, much longer. If he stirred he might fall; if he
remained he certainly would; and so, determined
to make at least an effort for his life, he put one foot
very cautiously, then his arms, and then moved the
other foot, and alter half a minute of exertion, and
the greatest danger, be touched the topmost round
of the ladder, and in a few seconds more was inside
oi the steeple and safe.
Then it was Mr. K.’s great courage and strength
forsook him ; his nerves and muscles relaxed ; be
grew sick unto death; his knees gave way ; his
vision swam, and he sank upon the platform mo
tionless and insensible. He must have lain there
half an hour before he could rise aud walk, and he
did not recover from the shock for more than a fort
night afterward.
Tbe pe pie, gazing up at him from the street, de
scribe the scene as painful and exciting in the ex
treme. When they observed the rod fa.ll, a thrili
of horror ran through their hearts, and two wo
men swooned away, for they expected to behold
him the next moment dashed to pieces at their >ee
Destiny had ordered otherwise, and Mr. 11. stli.
pursue!’ his dangerous avocation ; but he says if be
were to live a thousand years he never would target
the inteuse horror of those ceutury-like moments
when he seemed to hang upon tbe air more than
two hundred feet above tbe earth and to be mo
mentarily descending to a dreadful death.— Cm.
Enquirer. f
Philadelphia Items.— The Female School o.‘
Design which was incorporated by the Legislature
in 1863, is now in successful operation in our city.
The object of the institution is a very praiseworthy
one, being nothing more nor less than teaching wo
men tbe art of designing wood engraving or prin l
catting, and already many females have becom*
so proficient, that they are now earning for them
selves a handsome livelihood. Many of the design
for wall paper used in this citjr are furnished by
pupils and graduates of the institution.
The numi er of deaths during the past week was
217, an increase of 21 over the week previous.
I Marriage of Cousins. —The Cinciuati, (O.)Daily
Gazette states that a bill has passed the .Senate ot
that State, prohibiting the intermarriage of first
cousins. The Gazette says that public sentiment u
in favor of the measure.
Silver in France and India — lt was estima
ted some years sines that the amount of silver m
France was generally about $600,000 serving
mostly as a currency, or about sls to each inhabi
tant. Mr. Newmirsb, of England, estimates the
silver in India at $-*,000,000,000 or more than three
times the aggregate m France, but at the estimate
of 180,000,000 of population, on'y sll per head.—
The love of ornamente j 9 very great, aid silver for
coin, as well as trick* ts, alone finds favor with that
people. Those regarded as authorities in Indian
matters state the personal property or floating caoi
tal of India has been largely developed under Bri
tish rule, because, among other reas ms, the ruthless
rapacity of native rulers has been restrained; but
that increase of wealth has taken the shape of sil
ver to a large extent. The treasury of the Indian
government held last year $16,000,000 in silver, and
usually holds as muob, the revenue being $160,000,
000 per annum.
It is computed that $750500,000 in silver has been
ser.t to India in the lasi century, and remains there,
comprising more than one-third the amount esti
mated to be held. The wear and te-sr or abrasion
of coin and ornaments is estimated at one per cent,
which would give a demand fi r $20,000,000 annual
ly to keep good the stock ; but ot course coin and
ornaments are not remodelled every year to restore
their waste. Nevertheless, the quant ?y of eilver
sent to India lrom Great Britain from 1851 to 1857
has been S2OO 000,OuO, halt of which went in the last
v ear. To meet thiasupplyt.be reserves of France
have been largely drawn upon. The official returns
to January, 1858, give the import and export as fol
lows :
Import and Export of Silver in France.
1855. 1856. 1857. Total 3 yrn.
Import.. £ 4,821 749 4,377 097 3 6 i3,096,166
La port.. 12,722 042 15.740 072 18,3'’ 652 40,f37.966
Ex. ex’pt 7,897,293 11,362.945 14,4.9 ii 33,7-16.763
The nett export of silver for three yca;s v expi< as
ed iu dollars, and compared with the nett import f
gold for the same period, is as follows:
Nett export of silver $irC,426,020
Nett import o‘ g01d... J5i,652,31*
Nett loss of coin, 3 years io,us.> 6To
The high prices of goods and produce in the past
few years, tUe loss ot silk crops and the cretrac
tion of railroads iu ludia, have all facilitated nc de
mand for silver there. The change w hioii io now
taken place in respect of prioes is counteracted by
the expenses of the ludiau government to c&.ry on
the war, but the drain of silver may be expected to
be less.— New York Economist.
Washington Items—lt is rumored that the
steamer Despatch has gone to Pearl River, Miss.,
to look alter the New Orleans Delta's slave-traders
The Delta’s story is pronounced by Southern geu
tleraen to be a superb hoax.
It is stated that a movement is on foot to bring
up the tariff tor revision so soon as Kansas is out of
the way. The tariff of 1857 has not had a fair trial,
in thejudgment of the Administration, and they
will oppose any modification of it, at least during
the present session.
Despatches from Mr. Forsythe gives the impres
sion that the present state of affairs iu Mexico is
transitory. The report that ex-President Cornon
fort was on his way North is an error. He has
taken a house in New Orleans, and waits the issue
of affairs.
The Tariff Committee of Investigation will report
about three weeks hence. It has not accumulated
much evidence. Mr. Wolcott’s contumacy pre
veuts the developments for which the inquiry was
ordered. If he persists, it* whole object will be de
seated, and the guilty will escape.
The Monkey and the hawk. —The cook of a
French nobelmau, whose chateau is in the south of
Fiance, had a monkey, which was allowed the free
range of the kitchen, and which was so intelligent
that by pretty severe training, hia natural propeu
sity to mischief had been subdued, and he was oven
taught to perform certain useful services, such a&
plucking low s, for instance, at which he was un
commonly expert. One fine morning, a pdir of
partridges was given the monkey to pluck. The
creature took them to an open wind wof the kitob
en, which locked directly upon the park, and went
to work with great diligence. Ho soon finished
one, wltioh he laid on the outer ledge oi the window,
and then went, quietly on with the other A hawk,
which had been watching his proceedings from a
neighboring tree, darted down upon tiie plucked
partridge, and iu a Gamut* was up the tree again,
greedily devouring bis prey The consternation of
iho monkey at this untoward adventure may bo
easily imagined. He know ha would be severely
whipped for losing it. lie hopped about in great
distress for some minutes, when suddenly a bright
thought struck him. Seizmg tie remaining par
tridge, ho went to work with great energy, and
- t ripped off the feathers. He then laid it, on the
ledge, just where he placed the other, and closing
•no of the shutters, couoealed himself behind it.
The hawk, which by this time had fiuished his m<*ai,
very soon swooped down upon the partridge ; but
hardly had his claw touched the bird, when the
monkey spurg upon him from bebiud the shutter
The hawk’s head was instantly wrung, and the
monkey, with a triumphant cbu -kle, proceeded to
strip off the feathers. This done, he carried the two
plucked fowls o his master, with a confident aud
self satisfied air, which seemed to say,‘ He e are
two birds, sir; just what you gave me.” What the
cook said on finding one of the partridges converted
into a hawk is more than we are able to tell.
Increase of the Standing Army.— The Wash
ington correspondent of the Richmond Enquirer
says that the Administration will not accept the
services of a volunteer force, even should Congress
authorize the President, to call th< m out. So bitter
is the war of the regular against Ihe volunteer sys
tem, that the military outposts are to be stripped in
order to reinforce the army in Utah, leaving the
frontier exposed to attacks from the Indians, and
endeavoring to throw the responsibility upon Con
gress because it refused to increa e the army. The
responsibility, su-h as it is, will rest upon the Ad
ministration for refusing volunteers, quite as much
as upon Congress for refusing mercenaries. There
is no earthly danger of Indians, or, if there be, be
tween Indians, than a large standing array. The
Indians area standing humbug, always used to en
force every demand for an increase of the United
States forces, when, iu point of fact, as Senator
Toombs showed iu his speech, it has not been possi
ble for any Indian tribe or combination of tribes
within the United Stales to bring warriors enough
into the field to stand for five minutes before two
thousand soldiers. Ah to the Mormons, no doubt
Brigham Young and his rebel crew should be re
duced to submission, but that can be as well done
by a mixed force of regulars and volunteers, as by
the former alone. The Mormons themselves have
only militia; their officers are mere militia officers,
their only warfare a guerrilla warfare, for whioh
volunteers are better qualified than any other force
Even were it otherwise, we would rather see that
old rascal, Brigham Young, escaping the reward of
his crimes, thau to place in the hands of the fed i
al government a club whioh may be hereafter Uotd
io break the head of the South. —Richmond Dis
patch.
ANew American Union.— The proposed new
confederacy of the British American colonies would
consist of six Provinces and three Territories, at
follows :
Square miies. Populat’u
Canada East 201,989 890,2(11
Canada West 148 832 i)C SfU 1
New Brunswick 27,700 193 8 *0
Newfoundland.... 35.913 lOj’tiOO
Nova Scotia 18,746 S ’/ 17
Prince Edward’s Island 2 135 f>2,6. r 8
Total of Provinces 435.314 9,476 lt>o
Hudson's Bay Territory. ..2,480 uOO 180,000
Labrador ‘ 5 {‘oo 100,000
Vancouver Island 8,000 2.000
Totals 2,928 314 2,758,460
With a territory nearly equal to that of the United
States, it has a population almost aw great us the
State of New York; aud although the soil and cli
mate of British America may be less inviting than
those of other portions of the continent, it is des
tined to support an immense population. —Delicto *
Press .
tm
Movement of the Earth.— The mildness of the
present season has drawn forth many curious
speculations as to the causes. A change of the
currents of the ocean, and the approach of the Gulf
stream, by fifty miles or more towards <ur coast,
have been announced as remarkable facts, which
may have some relaiion to the suhj et. We will
now add another still more curious fact for the con
sideration of our readers: “The British Astronom
er Royal, in his last annual report, relers to certain
mysterious changes of level and direction of one of
the instruments, one occurring with changes of
temperature, the other at the equinoxes, aud be
imagines some movement of the earth itself to be
the c:iuse of these remarkable phenomena.” Those
who aie acquainted with the perfection of the io-
Htruments used in great Observatories, the per
manency of the direction of the transit and equato
rial instruments and the accuracy of the measure
ments, depending on their accuracy, wilt understand
that these mysterious changes alluded to, are in the
highest degree important and astounding- Is the
earth changing the inclination of its axis ?
Painful Retribution, if True. —The Newport
Spectator says there is a young man in a town of
Vermont, who caimot speak to his father. Previ
ous to his birth some difference arose between his
mother and her husband and for a considerable time
she refused to speak to him. The cifficulty was
subsequently healed—the child was born aud in due
time began to talk—but when silting with his fa
ther was invariably silent It con inued so till it
was five years old, when the father, having exhaus
ted his powers of persuasion, threaten ad it with pun
ishment for its stubborn©**. When the punish
ment was iufi cted, it elicited nut long but sighs
and groans, which told but too plainly that the lit
tie sufferer was vainly endeavoring to speak. All
who wer* present united inthis opinion, that it was
imjtossible for the child tQ speak to his fathei —and
time proved their opinion to be correct. At a ma
turer age its efforts to converse with its parent
oould only produce bitter sighs and groans.
Outrage of an American Missionary at Jaf
fa—Movements of the Frigate constellation.
—The correspondent ol the London 1 lines, writing
from Alexandria on the 6th ot February, says ■
The United States oorvette Const© lation, alter a
sojourn here of about ten days, has taken her de
parture for Messina. It was at one time thought
that she would first steer for the coast of Syria, in
order to give the support of her presence to the
American Consul General, who left tor Jaffa, a few
days ago, lor the purpose of making an investiga
tion into the circuLQ&'anceb attending an outrage of
a most ruffianly nature, of which an American mis
sionary, stationed at Jaffa, and his family l ave late
ly been the victims. This gentleman's house was
broken into during the n'gLt, he himself stunned by
a blow on the head, his son-in law killed outright,
and bis wife and daughter subjected to tbe grossest
indignities at the hands of the assassins. The atroci
ty has been asenoed to an outbreak of Mahomedan
faraticism, but it seems as likely that it was merely
an aggravated case of burglary, and Mr. DeLeon,
;be United States Consul, will o doubt find the
Turkish authorities fully disposed to second him in
bis efforts to trace out the author* of the crime, with
out the necessity of the threat that would be implied
by the presence of a ship of war.
Washington Items —Mr. Harris, from the Kan
sas Select Committee, wiil, it is said, report to the
House the proceedings had in theii special meetings
irom time to time, together with the resolutions
which were voted down by the committee, and will
ask the House to increase the committee to seven
teen. Mr. Harris wi.l name one American and one
Republican, which, should i hey succeed in electing
!.hera, will give them an anti Lecompton majority.
It was their intention to have made the move to
ay, but they failed in some of their arrangeinc-nts.
Aa soon as this movement is made Mr. Stephens, of
Georgia, is prepared with his majority report to
move as a substitute, which will bring th wuole
question before the House. Other rumors are to
the effect that a resolution will be suomitted by
Humphrey Mart-hall or some other i -racn oofta n
lug instructions to the effect that sev* r, u-. iub< re o:
■be committee be autoonzed to obtain any mfc*-
mation and to summon witnesses in tje prcaeculion
,i the pur; oses of the inqu.ry ordered, me ques
tion will then anse whether this oe a p.iViitgea pro
position, and upon that a test will o_ mjtd.
The Committee on Fore gu Allaire, of the Louts*,
have r solved to report in lavor ol .Ihe T.etiawLa
recommendation in respect to toe <X;e*i!.g difficulty
between the United States and the Republic ol
Paraguay. Their report wiil authorize the u. eof
the na val and military force of the United Stata
for the adjustment of that difficulty.