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THE rP.ENCH toNsriRACr—THE CHINA NEWS,
i 1. r Lor. :*n Eiprees has received And published
I t copy of the indictment preferred against the pri
j • ! -rg<d w*n the attempt to assa.+'mate the
; hmj ero. J/uia Napoleon, T:.e great length of the
| ’ ment, which occupies tree closely printed
p . .•.•*. j:* us from, publishing the whole
j < umen! . but we extract the following portions,
j •* i r , he the mode in which the plot ia alleged
I* . ivt beeti forced and carried oat. The mdict-
I fw r.* i- K./p.urloae documeot. It commences with a
<ii m r fi ‘ :;.e frartfos on trial, then give# the
■ ’gir . . {. .t. and wkidd up with a description
j vhm -tittnt. Three of the prisoners, as has
I t.trij i. r ".i'iy announced, were sentenced to death
[ -'n.e -.tee* decorations made by the accused
vt present in France, declarations made under
j m ‘ *■ of me aw emulated proofs agaimt
• .:V;.- l* to trace their origin and follow
..**.• ; ?a*ru oi the pio* which ended in the at
■r . .J.'iLictu.y 14. Oreini himself says that he
. r r* fa.wed o’ aasah.duatnig the Kmpei or aa
I >ar ) . ti.ee u.r net cement of 1567. The pro
j • cooiiiiinircateO to Bernard, and to the Kn
:<..naL A. -op, pouie overtures are said to have
, inindo to an Italian, named Carlotti in Jane
•ar (-roiijt/. pa-s.ng through Birmingham,
v ]'urri,aud received from him a letter of recom
’ f; toil hwr Orsiai, wh® was then in London. —
j * p ng i? u> ho true, a* G >mez attirmn, that this
it; * ■ -ion on which ha flaw Ofui, it
•• n- joui* A tuat thirt reojmrneudaiion given
j Pitfrri Wat. connected with the design then ai
•'rnpiatiofj In (October, 1H57, Gomfrz,
t • • < >r*.ui aad Bernard ia a street in Lon
! k. •• •.• h. nr him to call upon him at No.
\ i . < iic fftfc'. During this visit,’ say s Gomez,
ii iti'.ii if.at Prophet, (meaning Mazzi
. i wtc iwniag Llj pow er, and that ail his effort*
l v ii getting men shot to no purpose :
■ i r.. proponed Ur him to join in a plan
t (Oreuii) lied iuveuted, to get up a rising
| in Italy.’”
j Fron. 1 4. 1 - periitd they begiu to consider how to
get •*; sh*:i s made with which to kill the Empe
• r < rr-ioi had a model made in wood by a turner,
’ . being a foreigner, it was feared that he would
i e;.-:iy tind a manufacturer in England who
.. u!d n ike i e real sheik, and consequently, this
J .v. \ elided to : lie Englishman Allsop. Al
.• pi Mr. Taylor, an engineer, at Burning
I* *At ii.!* Ui< ‘at.on ot Orsini, Bernard wrote a
i, , vi. f: r iuotructioiis for Mr. Taylor. Thb
n < . muled (h tober Ibtb, 1857, is annexed to the
; reedisK*. and Uie detai s contained hi it corree
- - i i'y with the descriptions already given of
f > liter w ’e used on January If. Four let
. writ It by A lUp were addressed to Taylor,
o ha ‘• n tt e manufacture of the “models,” as they
w r- < . These letters are dated from Ginger’s
;i ••! where Allsop w*.- staying in London, and
; -lat ti e l?tli, I‘Hfcr, 21st and 23d of November.
i- ‘, |,a eulisequent letter,’ dated November
Au'op ** ij, to Mr. Taylor apostoflice order for
CJo o l _’,ii payment of the work he had done.—
< i iim/., however, appeared to be somewhat mis
•i:i. ■< ii by the leader* of the plot. Orsini sent him
Birni:rigiiauj, where Pierri was to watch him.
I • i Birmingham, on November 3, 1857, Go
. 7. wi< i-j to Ci. -ini.A letter, in which i.e protests
ii and the terms of which, though en
v. : p. i in a certaju diHgaise, -uthciently prove that
h*- (i ly kpew v. hat was to be done. “Now,” he
H-j*d, -i wi j ii to at*k you, seigneurie, if you think
..e -. Hi. ••oily worthy of confidence to fulfill the
.n with which lam charged. Seigneur Orsini
w elt knows that I am not a man to do things for
tie* Mi gam t is not for money that I speak,
b-it ! L *'• e.iiug of love which I have always borue,
,; i, ill bear,forouf common country.” The pri
. •! Budio no U-hs spontaneously offered his con
cur ■ .c* He hahimself explained that, in No
■ nb<*r, f ‘ one Cariofti had asked him for his ad
to giv* to Orsini; who might have need of
bra ,S v* 1 w'-ek passed on without this com
. ; bsritg i .flowed up. I>e Hnaio addiess
.( tu (!m who he thought was at Birmingham, a
v '•<* i*pened by Pierri, who took upon
I. 1.1 -i < a it Pierri’s answer, which reach
dMy m;i Christmas day, recommended him to
i*’ udtoM li mhe would have a visit from
yvjitlei; Be Kudio, on December 29, wrote
!.ri or, intended, doubtless, to inspire more
, : l. i * ii: which he told Pb.rri to be on his
- ii MPist Carlotli, and another Italian, bora at
Pm . i ll* then spoke of solicitations which he
foel received from a “ rival enterprise,” and in the
. r-i’ -<• *f i! * inHlruction lie explained the meaning
- I *- exp essi<ms “ 1 referred,” he said, to
M : 7. /.uii aid j;is Irieu'ls. i had, intact, perceived
t; .".t Al.i ?tri n and oilier well-knowu Mazzini.-ts
wcr’ paying attention to me.'’
A when the coirespondence was going
; ween Piuri and l)e Kudio, Orsini. under the
v i .me of Afsop, had already left England for
Pj . tie f..:d obtained in London a Belgium ms a
i*r j .iin Allsop's passport on November 24,
>ui?f a H'r- iici. \ on the ”Bth. On the 29th, we
; nd him n> Brussel*, at the Hotel de TEurope, Place
Boy ale. No. 1. A lew days later Bernard arrived
•*.: P. i . with n passport for Belgium, delivered
~lb mber 7, by the French Consul in London,
ii it .. \fho had undertaken to get the shells
’iiauuiaeaired by Mr. Taylor brought to Brussels.—
V . i.’ purpose he had reci*urae U) Mr. Joseph
~• .it . brother keeps the Case Suisse, on
place de la .M *nnaie, at Brussels. Joseph
(ienrg. came to Bi usseis by way of Ostend ou JDe
i emlei i', 1357. When he left London, Bernard
ro; ItaiiHedfo hiip !* n Latt shells inTiaui metal; that
•s to say, live shells divided into teu pieces, telling
i an ni the same time that they were part of anew
ly inv no-ii gas Hpparatus, and that an Kuglishinan
vvl.o liv*vl at Liege would come to fetch them at the
l . Su. Georg*.* did, in fact, declare these
.. ut the 0.-t**nd Custom House a gas appa
i • . , hi paid the duty which was asked for; he
•xpeo.cd in \ain the Englishman who was to come
to tA6 ( e Suisse ; but one day Bernard presented
iiiuiM it there and tob#- them away. Orsini (oass
ng ;.* A Heap,) had told Uie people of the Hotel de
Kui ; tl.a: tie was going to Paris, but he wa?
\ ating for a friend. ThH friend was no other than
• ‘ '*u ird, and the m ment he arrived in Brussels,
A!l.-*op pit-pared U> depart, lie had bought a horse
of an officer of the Guides, and he sent the shells to
Pari:’ by the man who took the horse.
A’ the request of Bernard and Orsini, George
meiitit i!td n* nam ol Zeguoro, one of the waiters
a tk Pufeßuis*. Outiiel lthof December, the
hm . having beeu placed iu a box ou the railway.
gu* ow tLr. ju Las wad starting, told by
ii i>i ;•* i*> vie a bag containing ten half shells
irr <pi lion, and to give the hag to the owner of the
on . m Paris. It is thus that the shells, of which
sueli h ei manal use \n as to be made, were intre
duedJ into Frhm * . Zeguero yfollowing the instruc
t.cits lie iwid re eived) declared them at the Cus
tom house as anew kind of gas apparatus; and
t yw, ro thought to beef such small value, that
u> duty was ask and for theiu at the French frontier.
trsim ~wt nt tA Paris by the same train as Zegucro.
On i.vu.g at the Paris terminus ou the morning
l>. . ii l<, Orsini gave a card to Zeguero,
t i-g him tA lake the liorse to a hotel w'hich the
•ii pivbaMy by mistake, says was in the Kuo
ifivoii, hu whieii, nccopding to all probability, niusi
..hv breathe Uotel.dc Lille at and Albion, Kue St.
Honre. 211, where Orsini V ept on December 12.
/- .no deposes that he gave the teiiha f shells to
aw* t in the hotel. and Orsini, in his last ex
nuniiation, Says lhat.ju-t after he entered the hotel,
he mt it -a in the ante-chain her all the nieces of
•ii i out upon a sofa, by the side of liis eurry
•i u 1 r*4 brgih; and that he quickly removed
tkeuft to bis room.
/ guro did m>t stay a night in Pans. He left
Juuseela ou the evening of the 12th, after having
; . and the Jay in visiting various places, without
■ic b* g anything U) a suspicion against
ll* ut-po'ces that a few days after his return
!*> Biu-veD. !-.** saw Bernard and told him that he
. ;aK* t . Lngbshoiau’s horse to Paris, to
wi. iv ii -rd au*wered,*T know that. ’ Orsini
v-iNfionly three days in the Hotel de L’lle et
, \ On December 15 he went to a furnished
| : , • r. • •>. the ground floor of Rue Moothabor,
I N* in. His horse, which had first been sent to a
.. , was at:*, wards brought to a stable be-
Uv. , ‘.mb.- house. Moran aud his wife, the con
, • of; e house, say that he often went out on
1 k. aed that at’first he received very few
vir-dp <Miusn, however, remembers the names
of Out requilt and Hodge, who wiLl be spoken of
■ - pierri soon appears upon the scene,
. Jim. if a German, and then Orsini, passing
r , E:'.ghs!;mi then Gomez, who was brought
\ >rri to be Orsini e servant; and. lastly, de
!i* himself as a traveller tor &
brewer.
* . time nt which these three last named persons
in- uu to join Orsini iu Paris, is most distinct
ly mwi us weil the rouU they took, aud the
i-omi*; u* es attending their journey. Ou Janua
j, v : In Orsini and Gomez led Birmingham to
| Ley stayed m London at Orsini s house,
1 ‘ GWton-strVe: Gomez declares that he there
i re on the mantel piece a shell which at that time j
! v.. w: ->ui cHOM-r nipples Bernard was there.
them. lt. guv . lo (Jouiez the passport
• .it not S*!Uo\ l*rri uad the paasuor! al
t ;uiy t .'--.ded to in which hie ntune had been alter
, r,i t Pi- 1. . At 1 having le t London on January
• rrt ami Gouk-z lauded at Calais at 1.45 A. At.
;-t. , . ..■ English uiaii packet from Dover.
- ned’a'e v li ti tor lot e. vui-rethey arrived
o ,*y tit tl e couree of Ihe moruiujt Leaving
ii. .1.01 m V.lie lor scune hours. Iberri took a train to
i it t-eele. t re hv at rived in time to pass the great
.citL't ■ ‘ the day. Jnslice ha* not succeeded in
e.t.ta . getht-r bow ha paseed hie time there.
. ,A .. that he brought away from Brussels
unit him another shell. !
1 iherri let: Brussels on .lanuary TANARUS, by the spven
■ k P M traiu lor Paris. “Gon.e’i. who was
a., ; ir him at the Lille station, got into the
.. , >0,.: the tirs thing they did on arriving
is- - was gmo Orsiui'e. Kne Monthsboa. No.
K tote has given equaiiy prectae explanations
i .i-- .nse.t The person whom Pieni, iuhialetter
i ■■* i ■•■>■-t ■ I’hrtstmae day. had udd hint would pay
’ . na v - ■ in Isualon. calted mi him on J&uuary .
| Tl - petvon as Bernard ITe introduced himself to
| 1. gave oi Ids told him that he would get
• t a p report, and said thai ne was toiiotd himself
-of, art On January S Bernard paid
•1v - • B id..-, and. not finding him at
t t ‘ w't i • .- wile s note which Undio was to
; take ‘ N.> . tTratloti strsr*; where ue had said Lit at
- .11 s world be given turn. Kudio went to that
„ ■ Orsini and brought away
a to. Inn * pair of gold spectweies, which were to
t soj tra . ogni'idn. The same evenmg Ber
ai and . * a thirc. time W Budio sand gavehiitt
, i. as-. >r; iu the name of Da Silva, which
, a : Seated iu the Hue Moutmartre, as
. ■.- in j a ticket for Pari* for the next
j. A ■ rd.cgiy. on Saturday. January 9,
tig ; ; L u. aderoeiog told by Bernard to
Lue SL'Uthabor. No. 10, as soon as he arrived
I at ?. tc ask for Mr AUsoli. and to show him the
1 m- - in order to make himself known. In
vt ac iol > relay muary IU, Kudio present*
. ; : u-eSrst t ms. at tneKueMonthabor.
i 5 a. . ut nncicE Oraini, but be came again
. -n it day. ami saw him Thus the four pnnei
| i• aro.ee were assembled in Paris, and
t . cd; - sis- jo the < -.me wuich they had long be
] tore inc-ltratod and t r-pera-d
It CH.y thing now remaining tv bo done was to
usi !.e she .he pnu, ipal instruments ot the
i rune to hr *ie. rr ed Ive iuiminatiDg powder euj-
P>. - r ‘.’ is purpose appears to have been made
vVd- i tmteeit. ora: Bast with hie assistance It
-- proved ttukthenad rsjcUcniiL tuguted with a
<rtr . u of chemistry, and that he received from
, ,;> and iiistrueticns. the ooject of which
1t... -..-übtlees. not suspected by the latter Bndio
~ . lust U'-inl alas ye said that it was he him
u. i had invented and tnaoe the faiminatuig
I p, V, .;, wp-i 1. he ueed. Horn** is convinced of the
..us ‘it -g, err,-ugh Orgini nevereaid anything to
■. ~ ,4c i.pjt-,i Ue ado* that the las; time Or
- • • fron London to lUrmingham. the inside
- ,-n .- nuj :be rpsof his Cagvrs were borned
h- a : • p,cm THi h bfti *’t borw by
S bit* *xj tnuurL.-* Oftfini do net him
r.’ h.. :- it .v be Oa&isUtkk-tkrfd the powder He
| prv'i Las tnsi t was made in London dv someone
wh.venamebe will net mention but be ackDowi
eocss ‘-i-at l- nr- u*ini it himself :rom London ut Be.-
giuan a ■ out B-lgium t 0 Paris, and gives a veey
.minis'.lUtia a.-t nut of the precanttona which he
ic- k He p aord mi# aangeruns substance in bis
cai i < t-l'ag alter having wrapped it up in linen and
I ap>-r. which to damped frt m time to time. The
S get ’-Uis Wetted Weighed about ii !be. English.
\\ em me but- Mo;.thanor he dried his fuimhna
. i.g y-owder first by exposing it to the air and then
( a. it did not dry fast enough, by placing it near
the fire. The Alter operation was very daegeroua.
Orsini blo<jd before the fire with his watch in one
hand and a thermometer in the other, In order to
meaure exactly the conditions as to duration of
time nnd degrees of heat under which the powder
might remain near the fire. “I ran the risk,” be
said, m his last examination, “of blowing myself up
and the house too.” The shells having been filled
nearly half full, Orsini closed them by means of a
screw adapted to some holea bored in the upper part
of each projectile. He declares that he was aided
in this work by Gomez, who, having a stronger
wrist than bi, turned the screw better. We come
now to January IT *****
According to his account Kudio accompanied the
other prisoners as tar as the Boulevard, and as soon
as he had got as far the end of the Kue de la Paix,
instead of going to the Kue Lepelietier, he took an
opposite direction, and threw his shell into the Beine
at tbe Pont de la Concorde. In his examination of
January 24. he at last completed his confession
The parts to be played by each were settled before
they left the house, the two largest sh-11s were
given to him and to Gomez, Orsini kept two which
were less, and Pierri had tne fifth, wbicn was of ths
-ame size as those of Orsini. It was arranged that
Gomes was to throw the first shell, Kudio tbe sec
ond, that Orsini was to act next, and Pierri i&st of
all. When the Emperor's carriage approached the
Roe Lepelietier, the conspirators had taken up po
sitions on the foot pavement, in front of the princi
pal entrance of the peristyle, between the houses
and the crowd of upectators. As soon as the first
explosion, proceeding from the shell thrown by Go
mez, was beard, Orsini said to Kudio ‘Throw yours.’
He did throw it, and then instantly took refuge in a
.-mail wine shop, from which he heard the third de
tonation, and from which he afterwards got aw*ay
during the confusion that ensued. On the same day.
January 24, Gomez also made up hie mind to tell
the truth, and with regard to tbe distribution o* the
shells, tbe plan agreed by the assassins, tbe execu
tion ot the plan, an*l the part which he himself took
in throwing the first shell, he entirely confirmed the
declarations of his fellow prisoners.
From the Overland Friend of China of Jan. 15*
The Chinn News.
Taking of Canton—Subjection of the City
to British Rule —The last mail announced brief
ly the capture ol Canton. The following is a sum
mary of events on that aud on subsequent days ;
December:#.—Bombardment continued through
the night until the hour of 9 A. M. General Escalade
earlier than intended ; not half the scaling ladders
provided, being up in time. Determined stand ot
the Tartar troops ; charge and route of them by the
naval brigade and marines Retreat of the braves
from the vicinity of Gough’s and the other forts on
the heights when they saw the five storied pagoda
in our p ssession. Capture of the Nigle Fort and
Temple on Magazine Hill Establishment there of
head quarters and en'rencbment.
December 3U.—Circumvallation of the walls of the
old city, by a strong party, headed by the Com
mander in Chief, Admiral Seymour, the French
Admiral, and Gen. Van Straubenzee , submission of
the people and their evacuation of the citv.
December 31 et —Engaged in quartering the
troops, and in landing provisions for permauent oc
cupation.
January Ist.—G aud procession to head-quarters
of the Plenipotentiaries of France and England
January 2d.—Commencement of wet weather.
Garrison occupied in securing themselves from its
bad effects.
January 3d—Second day of rest. Jan. Ith, con
tinued rain; sth grand coup capture of the Viceroy
Yeb, at the quarters of the Lieutenant-General of
the Tartar troops, Pehquie, governor of the city,
at bis own palace adjacent, and of £65,000 sterling,
in dollars aud ingots of silver at the imperial treasu
ry. Removal of Yeh as prisoner to her Majesty’s
steamer Indexible, on board ot which vessel, at the
Bngue, he still remains, contented and cheerful, be
ing engaged throughout the day generally in con
versation, ou French subjects, with Mr. Alabaster,
or the interpreter attached to the suite of the fallen
magnate.
.Jan. s—Time afforded to Pehquie and the Tar
*r geiieral to consider tbe terms offered them by
t British aud French, viz the issuing of a pro
ci. mation to the people, in which it is stated that
they now rule the province under the protectorate
city s captors.
Jaii. 7.—installation of Pehquie as the re iusta'led
governor of the city, exercising, also, the powers of
the deposed viceroy, Addresses on the occasion
by the Earl of Elgin and Baron Gros, being to the
effect of advicing the uewlv-installed officer to
eschew all treachery or underhand proceedings,
warning him of the consequences of doing so, and
announcing that the protectorate would be continu
ed until satisfactory terms had been made with the
Government of Pekin. Pehquie replied that he un
derstood his position, and would act with fidelity.
Jan. Bth. —The comiuhsionerß, vi z:—Col. Hollo
way. M. le Capitaue de Cheuez, and Mr. Harry
Parks, charged with the supervision of the Govern
ment, took up their quarters with a strong guard at
the palace of the and proceeded to the
work on which they have since been epgaged, viz :
—the issuing of proclamations to the surrounding
country, iuviting people to return, and assuring
them of protection to their persons and property.
From the Bth to the 15th everything has proceed
ed with the greatest sm* othness, aud there appears
to be a fair prospect of the taking off of the Dlock
ade, aud the resumption of trade within the next
week. In all the quarters of the city the people
have established signs of submission to our rule,
aud an apparent relief from the incubus under which
they have so long labored. Jt was expected that
the east gate, the main artery of the old city, would
be opened to-day.
The Installation of the Commissionfor the
Government of Canton.— Yeh being safely caged
in the Inflexible, and the authorities of the city be
iog prisoners, the Plenipotentiaries being afraid
that the city would be sacked by the populace, it
was resolved therefore to formally reinstate Peh
quie iu his palace, aud to assist him with a Counoil
ot three, composed of two English officers aud one
French ojftcer. Pehquie, the former Lieutenant
Governor, i* low Governor of C* D t<>n, the
Tartar General the Lieutenant Governor. The
ceremony of installation took place January 9.
At mid-day largo bodies of trench and English
troops denied into the city. The residence of the
Chinese Governors was strongly garrisoned ; the
Plenipotentiaries and their suites and their uavai
and milita r y commanders assembled in the hall of
audience. Lord Elgin and Baron Gros were seated
on a ort of dais, the naval aud military command
ers were seated on chairs at a right angle vith the
dais, and opposite to those ’ chairs were others left
vacant for the Chinese. A throng of English and
French officers, a band, aud colors filled up the hall.
There were only three Chinamen spectators pre
Bent. When Pehquie came in, the Plenipotentia
nee advanced and received him, resuming their
seats on the dais ; and moved for him to take those
assigned for him. Pehquie demurred, and caused
h scene which lasted some minuteg. Lord Elgin at
last yielded, and made way for the Chinaman next
to him. With great satisfaction the mandarins en
joyed the victory granted to their pertinacity, and
!At ou seats of honor, taking preference of the
English ai)d French admirals aud the Jiritish gene
rals.
Address of the English and French Pleni
potentiaries.— Lord Elgin then addressed Pehquie
sitting—We are asseinbhd here to welcome your
Excellency s return ou your yamuu, aud on your
resumption of the functions of your office, which
have been interrupted. It is proper however that I
should apprise your excellency, and through your ex
eellency the inhabitants of Canton, that the Pleni
potentiaries of England and France and the Com
mander-in-chief of the allied forces are firmly re
solved lo retain military occupation of the city until
all question? pending between our respeptive gov
ernments and that of China, ebail have been firmly
settled and determined between us, the high offi
cere, appointed by our governments as servants,
aud plenipotentiaries of rank aud powers whom his
Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China may see fit
to appoint to treat with us. Any attempt therefore,
whether by force or fraud, whether by treachery or
violence, to divest us of opr possession of the city,
will not fail to bring down on its authors the most
severe and signal punishment.
I am. however, no lees to apprise your excellency
that it is equally our determination, when the ques
tions to jrhich I have referred shall have been so
settled as to withdraw the military occupation of the
city and to restore it to the imperial authorities.
Meanwhile it is cur sincere wish that during the pe
riod of our military occupation the feelings of the
people be respected, life and property protected, the
good rewarded, and offenders, whether native or
foreign, punished. We are desirous to co operate
with yonr Excellency for these objeots. With this
view we have appointed a tribunal composed of
officers ot good character aud discretion to act in
concert with yon We hope that through the ageu
cy ot this tribunal confidence may be restored to the
people and the foundation made of a better under
standing between foreigners and natives, so that
henceforth all may pursue their occupations in
peace, and traffic together for their mutual advan
‘The address of the French plenipotentiary w*a to
the same effect.
These addresses were successively translated to
pehquie.
His address wa interpreted in so low a tone that
the correspondent of the Times could not catch it.—
In his answer to the French Plenipotentiary, Peh
| quit* said that man Yeh has been the cause of all the
troubles.
Ti.t Cii'TLßi: or Yeh.—The longest chase mast
have ai eud. At last the guides catted a halt at the
door oi a third-rate yamuu, which appeared close
ana deserted Ihe doors were forced open and the
blue jackets were all over the place in a moment.—
Il was evident that they were now on the right
sejnt. Tiie plape was fifll of hastily-packed bag
gage Mandarins were run jngaboui, yes. running
about. and at last one came forward and delivered
himself up as Y'eh. But he was not fat enough
Parkes pushed him aside, and, hurrying on, they at
last spied a very fat man contemplating the achiev
ment of getting over the wall at the extreme rear
oftneyatnun. Capt Key and Com. Elliot's eox
.wain rushed forward. Key took the fat gentleman
round the waiit, and the coxswain twisted the au
gust tail of the Impenai Commissioner round his
tist- There was no mistake now—this was the verita
ble Yeh. Instinctively the blue-iackete felt it must
be Yeh. and they tossed up their hats and gave
three rattling cheers.
Y'eh is by no means the hero people thought him
He trembled violently when be was taken; he
strenuously denied bis identity, and it was not till
Mr. Parke's had several times had the satisfaction
ami triumph of assuring his old enemy of his perso
nal safety that he grew composed. As soon, how
ever, as be lelt h mae.fsafe all his arrogance return
ed. He posed himself magnificently m his ohair.
He laughed at the idea of giving up his seals, and
41S0 at the idea of his being led away. He would
wait there to receive the men Elgin and Gros.—
They searched all ins packages for papers, and
found among other things the original ratifications
cf the treaties with England. France,and America,
they were, as he intimated, too unimportant as docu
ments to be sent to Pekin This searcu lasted three
hours. The news of the capture had been sent to
headquarters; Col. Hooker was despatched with a
strong body marines, and Yeh again trembled as
he entered his chair a captive.
At tbe foot of the terTaee. before the great iose
house on Msgaxme tall, off-setting from the broad
steps, is a_coilegiale quadrangle. Here the dons of
the evc.esiastieal institution clustered. Some email
cellular apartments, opening inwards the hili, were
doubtless the private abodes of the bonzes; two
urge rooms, whose windows looked over the city,
were the ban and senior common room. This quad
rang eis a little changed in its uses It is become
tbe British Headquarters. The Admiral and Gene
ra. have appropnateo the hail and common room,
and tne staff are oontrmug poesibi itiesof residence
iu the ceiia. The servants have utilized the small
area—a doxeu Crimean shirts are hanging there
to dry.
About 12 o’clock on Tuesday the eoionade of this
small quadrangle was loose.y thronged bv poet cap
tains and colonels and smaller barbarian manda
rins. The news that the city had been dragged and
all the big fish taken bad spread. Every one was
anxious to see the prisoners brought in.
Pi!St marched Peh-kwei. whom I have already
described, and after him with roiling step, almost
gigantic in stature, and immense in bulk, came the
Tartar Genera!. As he passed by me I measured
him by myself: he most be quite six feet four high.
They were uscered into a small room at the end of
the eoionade. where the General and tbe two Ad-
mirals were aseembisd. Tbe two mandarins took
their seats as though they had come of tneir own
free will to pay an ordinary visit. The Tartar Gen
era.. with bis head thrown back so that you saw
only the inside of the brim of his Tartar cap, looked
not unlike our own Eighth Henry u Holmen shows
hum There is great show of dignity and oourage
about that martial Tartar, butts is only a type and
specimen of the great Impenai sham of which he
terms part. He is an empty imposture. During
the fight he never appeared upon the walla. After
the fight he did nothing to gather hia 7,000 men
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MARCH 24, 1858.
around him. When the French came he made no
defence, but ran from room to room, and wa* drag
ged from a filthy closet. If he had been taken by
Tai-pings instead of Europeans, be would be howl
ing at their feet. Knowing himself persona ly safe
he swells himself and tries to look maj -.-tic He be
lieves he has to do with men more superstiticusl
obdequious to Chinese rank than the Coolies o’
Canton are. so he tries to awe them by his presence
Perhaps he is ii£bt. There is too ‘much of ILL
nonsense. The interpreters catch the mania of
mandarin worship from their teachers and their
Chinese books, and our leadere—predispoa .and by the
truly English deference for high sounding titles—
catch the infectious folly from the interpreters.
What shall we do with these men ? * Send them
both aboard ship.’’advises one interpreter; “Send
them back to resume their functions and to save
tbe city from pillage,” advises the other. Lord
Eigin is consulted, and has the boidne.-s to believe
that the general princ pies of human nature are not
to be extinguished by paper lanterns and peacock
feathers. He advises “Let them both return under
conditions. Let Peh-kwei re-establish his court
under the authority of and in co operation with an
European tribune. Let Tseang keun return under
conditions of disbanding his troops and delivering
up their arms.” “Impossible, they couldn’t do it—
contrary to all Chinese precedent, & “Try.”
The tnal is made, and the indignant mandar ns
laugh loudly at the impudent suggestion. Les. to
gether for a right to consider the matter, they are
found in the morning like pricked windbags, ready
to surrender their inflation under gentle pre sure ;
but 1 am anticipating the events of subsequent
days.
Room for the great mandarin 1 Preceded by
Colonel Hooker, with his sword drawn, accompani
ed by Commodore Elliot and Captain K -y, and
followed by two files of Marines, waddles the great
Yeh himself. He is not ushered into the small room
but into the Admiral’s room. To place him with
the Governor and the Ge ieral would be to confine
a pike with two gudgeons. Peh kwei and Tseaug
keun Bhook at the sound of his footsteps.
Examination of Yeh.—lf he had six headmen
in his train, and if we all stood kidnapped men be
fore him, he could not hold his head more haughti
ly. It is huge, sensual, flat face. The profile is
nearly straight from the eyebr -w to the chin. He
wears his mandarin cap, his red burton, and his pea
cock's tail, but in other respects has the ordinary
quilted blue lunic and loose breeches, the universal
winter wear of this part of China. He seats him
self in an arm-chair, and some inferior mandarins,
who have pressed in after him, stand round and
make him a little court. The officers who fill the
room are passing to and fro upon their duties, and
of course refrain from staring at him. Yet no one
can look upon the iace without feeling that he is in
the presence of an extraordinary man. There is a
ferocity about that restless, roving eye, which al
most makes you shrink from it. It is the expression
of a fierce aud angry, but not courageous animal.
While the long nails of ilia dirty fingers are trem
bling against the table, aud his eyes are ranging in
to every part of the room in search of every face,
his pose of dignity is too palpably simulated to in
spire respect, eveu if you could forget his deeds.—
But no one can look upon him with contempt.
The two admirals end the generals now* arrive
and af:er some saluiionß, which were naturally more
embarrassing to the captors than the Captive, the
English admiral inquired whether Mr. Cooper, Sen ,
was still liviDg. You will recollect the circumstan-
ces under which this gentleman was kidnapped
Yeh buret forth into a loud laugh, which sounded to
every one present as though he were recollecting
and enjoyiDg the recollections of this poor man's
sufferings. When he had finished his cacbinnationn
he replied, “I can't recollect about this man, but I
will make enquiries to morrow, and if he can be
found you shall have him.”
The disgust was at that moment so great, for
many in the room had known and esteemed poor
Cooper, that if the audience could have decided in**
matter, Yeh would have been taken out and hanged.
He was told that his answer was not courteous,
and he replied that it was, at any rate, the ouly an
swer he should give.
After some further conversation, Yeb w r as sent on
board the ship.
Capture of the Treasury. —For six days the
Western gate had been opened, aud exit had been
denied to neither, man, nor goods, nor treasure. —
Burely there coulfl be nothing left to reward the
captors. llow can we strain our minds to compre
hend the stolid, stupid covfidence of these Chines*,
officials ? The Treasury was full of silver, as full
probably as it ever was. As mauy as fifty-two
boxes, which a man could not singly lift, were found
and sixty-eight packets of eolid ingots. There was
also e storehouse of the moat costly Mandarin fur
dresses, lined with sableß and rare furs, and there
was a room full of copper cash. Now a strange
scene occurred. The instructions were to bring
away any bullion, but to touch nothing elf e These
orders were obeyed with a strange and self-denying
fidelity. The soldiers aud officers w*ith difficulty
turned their eyes away from the rich dr. sees. But
how to remove the heavy load of bullion. Crowds
had assembled in front, ani a happy thought occur
red to one of the officers, “ A dollar’s worth of cash
to every coolie who will help to carry the silver to
the English camp.” Ip a moment the crowd dis
persed in search of their bamboo poles, aud in an
other moment there were a thousand volunteer Can
tonese contending for the privilege of carrying foi
an enemy their city’s treasure. With their stipu
lated strings of cash around their necks, away they
truged with the English soldiers and the sycee silver.
BY THE NORTH AMERICAN.
The steamship North American, with Liverpool
dates to the 3d inst, arrived at Portland on Tues
day. The following summary of the most important
European Intelligence was telegraphed to the New
York press :
Great Britain.— Parliament was iu session on
the Ist inst.
The House of Commons after the transaction of
some formalities adjourned to the 12th inst.
Jn the House of Lords the Earl of Derby read Ids
inaugural inioißlerigl speech giving an insight into
his intended policy. After stating the grounds upon
which he had undertaken office and the difficulties
which beset him, he glanced at the state of the army
with reference to the Indian war, aud said there
was yet a most respectable numerical force re
maining within the United Kingdom.
He had no doubt that the exertions of Sir Colin
Campbell and of the troops under his command j
would lead to a successful result, and when the mu
tiny was fully suppressed it would be the duty of ,
the government to undertake the task of pacifying j
and tranuuilizing the Empire.
He theu referred to the Chinese War, and ex- >
j reseed his satisfaction, notwithstanding he con- !
demned the cause of the war, at the success which !
had attended the British arms.
He added, now that Canton had fallen it would;
be :he duty of the Government to make, with the
least possible delay, a safe and honorable peace, so (
that the commerce between the country and Chiua j
might ba re established. He than adverted to tbe \
relations of the Government with France, and urg- i
ed the necessity of remaining on friendly terms. |
lie insisted on the importance to France and Eu -
rope of the Emperor’s life, and indignantly de- ;
nounoed the atrocious attempt Lo assassinate him. i
He made great allowance : or the indignation dis- j
played by the French people, nevetheless he did j
not believe that tLe address lrom the French I
cpioneisgave a true representation of the feeling of
the French army. From what he knew of the Em- .
peror he felt satisfied that it was his sincere wish to ‘
keep ou terms of amity with England.
The “Foreign Secretary (Lord Malmesbury) was
preparing a reply to Count Walewski’s despatch,
vyhich he believed would satiety the public feeling,
4od there was nothing which would prevent the ;
Government from proceeding with the conspira
cy bill, although further action would depend i
on the reply from France to Lord Malmesbury’s \
despatch.
With regard to tbe policy of the government it \
was impossible, having been called to office sudden- •
ly, and not at the commencement of the session to [
bring forward any programme.
Ou the subject of the government of India, he j
thought the time not opportune for any change, but j
in delerence to the vote of the House of Com
mons he was prepared to yield, aud a modified bill
as suggested by Lord Ellenborough, would be pre
sented.
In regard to the Parliamentary reform, his own
opipiou w<.B that no alteiatiou was required, but ;
he nevertheless thought that some modification and
amendment might be made to suit the corn euiences
and wants of the people. All he could promise,
however, was that during the recess, the Govern
ment would earnestly direct their efforts to the pre- !
paration of a bill, whioh would be introduced at the j
next session.
Jn conclusion, he expressed the hope, that when ;
he retired from office, whether the period for which
he held it was long or short, he would not be found
to have left the count!y in a worse position than he
found it.
Earls Granviile and Clarendon defended .the
late government and tbe House adjourned till tiie
Wh.
Sir F- Thesiger assumed the chancellorship as
Dord Chelmsford.
Mr. Blackburn declined the office of Irish Chan
oellor, and Hon. Joseph Napier was appointed.
The papers are occupied in criticising Lord Dei
by’s speech. ‘ j
The Times says it was all anticipated, and that so
long as he doeß exactly what L_>rd Palmerston would !
have done, had he not forfeited his place by that ;
one omission, be may be tolerated, but the moment !
he shows a will and game of his own, it is easy to j
see the result.
The Morning Post urges that Lord Derby not I
only takes the position, but the policy and the mea
sures and sentiments of Palmerston, as au heir
takes an inheritance.
The Daily News describes Lord Derby's policy
on tbe conspiracy bill and the ludi&n bill as weak
and temporizing’ and adds that the weakest and
worst part of his speech was that in which he re
fused to redeem outstanding pledges, which each
and all of his three predecessors had given on the
subject of an elective reform.
It is authoritatively announced that Lord Strat
ford de Kedclitfe has resigned the ambassadorship
to Turkey.
It is also confidently Btated that Lord Cowley
will continue in his present position as Minister at
Paris, owing to his intimate acquaintance with mat
ters to be considered, shortly, by the Paris confe
rence.
The trial of the Directors of the Koyal British
Bank at Liverpool terminated on the 27th ult,
with a verdict of “guilty.” Three of the Direc
tors, vix :—Messrs. Cameron, Brown and Esdaiie.
were sentenced, as first-class misdemeanors, to
twelve months imprisonment, without hard labor.
Mr. Kennedy was sentenced to nine tmonths ,
Mr. Owen to six months, and Mr. McLeod to three
months. Mr. Stapleton was discharged on the pay
ment of a nominal fine of one shilling.
The London Star says the country is to be agita
ted by means of a Parliamentary committee which
is being formed to organize an opposition to any
conspiracy bill which may be introduced by Lord
Derby.
Latest by TeiegrapH from London to Liter pool
Losdon, Marcn 3d. A. M—The Timee’ city arti
cle, dated the evening of the 3d inst., reports the
stock market heavy and inanimate, and says there
was a slight increase in the demand for money,
owing to the settlement on the 4th Inst., but that
the applications at the Bank, nevertheless, were to
a very limited extent. Gold continued to flow into
the bank, but considerable sums likewise were be
ing taken for the continent.
The commercial intelligence from India is regar
ded as satifactory. a fall of from two to three per
cent in the rate of discount at Bombay having ta
ken place.
It is stated in the city, that through an examina
tion of the papers of the King of Delhi, several in
dividuals among the native regiments of good
were shown to be implicated in tbe insur
rection.
The shipment of specie to the East by the mail of
the 4th inst. will amount to £IBO,OOO.
The Daily News city article of the same evening
says: “Lord Derby’s speech exercised little influ
enoe on the stock market, the dullness being occa
sioned by lower prices in Paris The rumor of an
intended Russian loan was believed to be at tbe
least premature.
The Paris correspondent of the London Timee
says
“It is stated that Lord Malmesbury has already
answered Count Walewski's dispatch in a tone and
spirit becoming a British Minister It expresses a
desire to cuiuve the beet relations with France, and
to remain in alliance with her. but declares that the
right of asylum shall be maintained intact.”
Isdla —The Bombay Mail, with a week slater
news, arrived at Suez on the 23d uit
The correspondent of the Timee, at Malta, tele
graphs that tbs commander iu-ehiet was at Futty
gher preparing for tbe invasion of Oude. which
would probably be attempted from several points
aoeut Ue kith of January
His owa column is nearly 15,000 strong, with 100
pieces of/>rdnance/ while at least 10,000 men from
other’pointsAvii: be Teady to co-operate with him.
Sir Rtvs Law defeated the rebels At Banda
The Rajpootua field force, after capturing the
strong fortress of Awah, marched ou for Cotah.
where disunion reign.'. N
Delhi ba= been placed under the authority of the
Punjaub Commissioners; the authority of the civil
power there is restored and the army declared bro-
Ken up. Large reinforcements of European troop?
are atiii required. 1
At Bombay trade was improving. Freights
were on the advance and all public securities were
rising. ,
The Governor General was on his way to the
North West provinces. f
The Government telegraphic despatch .says that
the enemy are fortifying Lucknow iu great strength.
There are about ICO*,OOO of them in arms, but they
are said to be losing heart aud anxious to nego
tiate. / i
Kir James Outraui has been. Wft undisturbed since
the 16th of January. He was reinforced on the 22d
by the 34th regiment fiom Cawnpore with a convoy
of stores. ,
A party of Rifles had taken up their post on the
Luckcow road and another was ou the inarch from
Cawcpdre to keep open the communication.
Cultivators were busily employed everywhere
with their winter crops, and revouue was being col
iected iu tbe district around Delhi as if nothing had
happened.
A despatch to the East India Company says that
advices of ihe 22d of January state that General
Out ram had been again assailed and that an attack
by the whole rebel torce in Lucknow was daily ex
pected
Reinforcements had been sent to General Outram
at Alumbagh.
Ci in a. —There is nothing later from China. Iloug
Kong letters report the arrival there ou the 13th of
January ot the TJ. S. steamer Mississippi, from Sin
gapore.
The United States steamers Minnesota, San Ja
cinto and the sloop of war Portsmouth, were also at
Hong Kong.
France.— The conspirators, Orsini, Rudio and
Pierri, have appealed to the Court of Cassation
agamst their recent sentence.
The Moniteur announces that Generals Caangar
nier andrljcdeau are au hoiized'to return to France.
The abmitionof- the butchers’ monopoly in Paris,
which had been decided on, was expected to gain
the Emperor considerable popularity.
It was reported that Ruclio’s sentence would be
commuted into bard labor for life.
The Court of Cassation was expected to give its
decision*on the appeal of the conspirators on the
4tii inst. !
The penal law on public security was adopted iu
the French Senate by a vote of 135 to I—the single
dissentient U t-aid to have been General McMahon,
who grdujided his opposition on the unconstitution
al character of the law, aud U said to have express
ed strong iegret that the measure, which he regard
ed as ;atal iu its consequences, should have been
brought forward
The Paris correspondent of the London Times
that the rumor that the Emperor would spare
the life of Orsini was not credited at Paris.
The funds on Tuesday were much depressed and
the Threes declined nearly three-eights ou the Pa
ris Hours*'.
From Marseilles it D ahnoqnc&d that the house
of Marc, Piadell & Cos., largely engaged in the
South American Trade, had suspended. Several
other suspensions are announced? amounting in the
aggregate, to abernt twenty millions of francs.
Italy. —Arrests continue to be made at Genoa,
and there are various rurabre of a Republican plot.
The. troops were confined to their barracks, and
held already for instant action. A ship of war had
also taken up a position opposite the Republican
suburbs of tbe town, with shotted guns.
Turkey. — Fethi Ahmed Pasha, grand master of
artillery, and brother-in law of the Sultan, had died
suddenly.
The outrage upon the American mission family at
Jaffa, had been taken up by Mr Brown American
consul and charge d’affaires at Constantinople, and
the Porte had promiseedfull retribution.
Australia. —The Australian mail steamer reach
ed Suez on the 27th u!t. with foifty-eight tnousand
ounces in gold. Tbe ueWB was not telegraphed
European Item*.
A proposal for another Universal Exhibition in
London in 1861, ismow before the Society of Arts,
and is favorably received.
Signor Bnonarotti, the Tuscan Minister of Public
instruction, said to be the last descendant of Michael
Angelo, died a few days ago
Tbe Paris correspondent of the Globe points out. a
scheme alluded to in the Constitutionnel, from which
ic may b** interred that natives from the interior of
Africa are to be tempted overland to Algeria, where
labor is much needed , but they will be considered
as apprentices,, not as slaves.
Interesting Antiquarian Discovery. —Some
tlmt diggers, employed near Oidbury Castle, on
Cherhilldown, Devizes, have just discovered a cine
rary urn of noble dimensions, without doing it much
injury. If will be presented to the Wiltshire Mu
seum. “ Few urns of this size,’’ sa>a a correspon
dent of the Devizes Gazette, “ have ever been
found, and it almost vies with the celebrated Stone
henge urn. It is 16 inches high,-4 inches wide at
the broadest part, narrowed to l2| inches at the
mouth. Its capacity is equal to rather more than
five imperial gallons. The symmetry aud propor
Lions of this urn are admirable, aud really it is a
matter of surprise that such “a large vessel could
nave been moulded by hand into so correct a form
without the aid of a potter, which certainly had not
been used. Its ‘Strength and firmness nr-* very re
markable. When found it wa3 inverted over cal
cined bones and ashes of the dead—a mode of in
terment connected with the remotest times. A bioad
border of rude zig-zag marking running round the
upper part of she, urn. From the style of this orna
ment, aud other features that cannot be mistaken,
a well known connoisseur classes it with those re
mains which carry us back to the Celtic period of
our history.’
Education. —The Emperor of Russia having or
dertd an inveatigatian to be made into the situation
of the schoolmasters throughout the other parts of
the empire, and having ascertained that they were
very badly off, has just ordered that their salaries
shall be increased, aud that other measures for im
proving their condition shall be adopted.
The French Emperor on Repression. —The
Paris correspondent ol the Times continues his ex
tracts from the contributions of Louis Napoleon to
a Freeh newspaper, and quotes one passage, that is
dec’.aied to be worth ol Montesquieu, which de
monstrates the worthlessness of repressive mea
sures. On the 16th of July, 1843, the present Em
peror of France argued that, “Every government
condemned to perish, perishes by the very means
which it employs to save itself.” And in allusion
to the existing government, he said, “The conserva
tives think they can plan for ever, by means of the
fortifications of Paris, their system of peace at any
1 price but tiiey only imitate those Egyptian kings
| who, during their life-time, raised vast tombs, monu
! merits, so colossial for men so small, that they bu
’ ried in their immense vaults with the body the very
: names of their founders.” How wonderfully tbe
| sentiments of the Emperor have changed since the
i time this was written !
; The French Army —The report of the cominit
; tee on the bill relative to the conscription of 1858,
just presented to the Legislative body, proposes that
the levy shall be lOO,UDO iu order to be able to make
1 with facility the army 600,000 strong in the event
of war. The report says, that wi h the levy of 80,
. 000, as was practised from 1832 to 1850, it was only
possible to have, in case of war, an effective army
of 500,000 men, which was always considered by
practical men as insufficient.
Illegitimacy in Scotland. —The Rigistrar Gen
:’ eral’e Social Statistics, just published, show the star
i tling fact that, whiie in Edinburgh aud Glasgow the
| proportion of illegitimate children born in those
; cities is 7 per cent, of the total births, it is 13 per
[ cent, in Dundee, Perth and Aberdeen. The per*
> centage is only 5 in London.
Re arrangement of the American MailSer
; vice. —The accounts from America having confirm
ed the present cessation of the Collins line. X he pro
prietors of the Liyei pool, New York aud Philadel
phia Screw Steamers, of which Mr. William Inman
, is agent here, have re arranged the dates of their
\ sailing. They will start from Liverpool on the al
ternate Wednesdays hitherto occupied by the Col
; lms etean ers. When all the lines were in full ope
l ration, there used to be three departures from En
gland for America ou one Wednetday, namely, two
! from Liverpool and one from Southampton, and
j ouly one departure on the next Wednesday, name
! ly, ’the Collins boat from Liverpool. By the new
j arrangement tile commercial community will still
i nave the same facilities for communication as when
| the Collins bo tts performed llieir service,
j The (Junard boats will sail hence as regularly as
! heretofore every Saturday, alternately for New
I York, and Halifax and Boston. Mr. Inman’s steam
J ere will tail for New York on the Wednesday pre
ceding the Cunard departure for that port, ana on
: the alternate Wednesday there will (when the foit
| nightly summer eei vice re commences) beaCans
! diau boat despatched hence, and an American boat
from Southampton for New York. From New York
the steamer’s of Mr Inman's line will, on and after
tbe 9;h ot April, sail for Liverpool on the Fridays
preceding the Saturdays that would have been oc-
cupied by the Colliiie steamers. It is reported that
the Cunard Company are likely to open a line di
rect between Havre and New York, employing
tbeir large first-class Screw Steamers Jura and Et
na for that service. No doubt these various ar
rangements will prove satisfactory to the commer
cial community until it is definitely known whether
the Collins line will be resumed or not —European
Times.
Marriaok or a Catholic Priest.— At the Lam
beth Police Court, on Tuesday, the 22d, a young
woman in an advanced state ot pregnancy, and ac
oompanied by a little girl of about three years of
age, applied tor relief from the. poor box, under cir
cumstances of a most distressing character. Her
name was Flora Auguste Noiin, and on (joining up
to London, she formed an acquaintance with a
Ftench gentleman, Yl. d'Hasle, to whom ehe was
married in May, 1854. They lived happily until
September, 1856, when his business, the teaching
of languages, faking off, they went to Paris, where
a cousin of hers, holding an influential position,
made some enquiries respecting her husband,
with the view of getting him some employment
and discovered that be was a Catholic Priest, and
thathis marriage was illegal accor mg to the French
law. Her husband, after deserting her for nine
months, returned, and prevailed on her to accom
pany him to Scarborough, where he earned a living
by teaching languages in a public school. Here he
again deserted her. and ehe, in the greatest distress,
had oome up to London to her mother, who was
herself in straightened circumstances. The appli
cant produoed a bundle of pawn tickets by way of
urging her claims and also some letters from her
husband, one of which was conceived as follows :
My Dear Wife—The trouble I see before us is
more than I ran bear, and I see no hope of ever hav.
ing better Ttms it is no use to keep you in misery
any longer. I hope, my dear Flora, that your
friends will take more notice cf you by being with
out me. I return to follow my own profession. In
my conscience I think I am right in doing so ; aEd
I leave you to tbe mercy ot God I hope that he
wifi provide for yon and my dear child, Alice, as
for the one that I am sorry to say ie coming, and is
mine. Good bye. God biees you and my little
dear child Y'ou never will see nor hear from me
anv mole. Your very unhappy husband,
3 C. D'Hasle.
Her answers being deemed satisfactory, a tempo
rary relief was afforded her, for which ehe seemed
overwhelmed witu gratitu:.;. — European Times.
picsL—On Sunday afternoon an affair of honor
came off just over the Mississippi line between
Capt. Ham- Maury, of this place, and Capt H. A.
de Kiviere, ot the French Army. The weapons
used were navy revolvers, (six charges) tbe dis
tance fifteen paces, the terms, to fire at will after
tbe word, advancing or remammg stationary, as
each party preferred. As we are mtormed, they re
mained stationary and discharged two shots each-
Those of Capt de Riviere missing their object while
both of Cspt. Maury's snots took effect. One of
them striking a piece of com (a naif dollar or twen
ty dollar piece, in the vest pocket of Capt. R , the
other passing into his right cheek i ust below the
eye The ball had not been extracted when we
last heard and we do not therefore, know exactly
where it lodged. but we ere glad to .earn that the
snrgeon in attendance does not regard the wound
dangerous. Cspt. de Riviere late last night was
doing very welh— Mobile Register.
Mr S. B. Whnams nas accepted the post of areis
taut cashier at Uj* Marine Bank. He i a
cuan of acknowledged ability and integrity, and wiU
no doujbt. fill bis position with credit to himself and
on to tae stookhoiden and patron a of tbe
bank bath Rep
From California.
The steamship Star of the West, with the Cali
fornia mails to Feb. 20, two hundred passengers.-
acd $1,279,134 in specie, arrived at Xew York on
Monday. The following i a summary of the fort
night's news:
Tne Legislature has done little during the fort
night, and yet it has occupied a large share of pub
lic attention. The Assembly has been busy a great
er portion of tbe tune with the discussion of the bill
for the suppression of mobs.
The Surveyor General of the state has called the
attention ot the Legislature to the fact that large
tracts ot land which are subject to overflow during
a considerable portion of the year—and which he
supposes to have been granted to the state by Con
gress—have been surveyed as federal land by the
United States surveyor, and are being claimed by
settlers under the pre-emption laws J
He says that, in Krezno county, large tracts of
land which are overflowed in consequence of the
rains in Winter, and the melting of the snows in
April, May and June, have been surveyed by the
United States deputy surveyor, when they were
dry, ill the late Summer and Autumn , and the to
tal amount of land belonging to the state, but thus
appropriated by the United States surveyors, is sud
posed to be 2,U00,00U acres. 1
The Saoremento slave case was decided on the
17th iDSt, in the Supreme Court. Arcby was given
over to his would be master, who took him off to
Carson Valley.
Tbe Legislature has adopted a rt solution request
ing Congress to give the fort at Monterey to the’
State.
Two bills have been offered in the Senate to in
incorporate companies to erect telegraphic lines
from this city to tbe Soul hern part of the State : one
company proposing Los ADgeies as a Southern ter
minus, the other San Diego.
Au attempt was made ou the loth iustanttomur
der Mr James Bowman, on his ranch, iu Sonoma
county. While sitting iu a house on his ranch, iu
the evening, a person outside shot at hint through a
window, wounding him slightly.
A native Californian was executed at Monterey
on the 12th inst. He had been convicted as Jose
Anastasio ; the Governor granted him a pardon, but
called him Anastasio Jesus ; and the deputy sheriff",
saying he knew no Anastasio Jesus, hanged Jose
Anastasio.
A party of 75 men have been formed in VVeaver
ville to go to the Gadsden purchase iu March
Great preparations in the way of private festivals
are being made for the celebration of the approach
ing anniversary of Wa-hington’s birth day.
The Sacramento Age says there is more building
iu Sacramento city now than at any time during the
past twelve months.
Gov. Anderson aud Mr. Wialen, sent out by the
Administration to investigate the affairs of the
Branch Mint, have arrived.
During the last Winter the weather was dry, and
there were extensive fires in the tulee in the .Sacra
mento valleys.
The Marysville News eaye that the oounties of
Yuber, Sutter, Yolo and Solauo will subscribe
sboo,t)(Jo for tbe construction of a railroad between
Marysville and Benicia, and it is expected that
$359,000 will be subscribed by individuals.
The Chinese commenced the celebration of their
New Year sat sunset ou the evening of the 12. h in
slant, and continued it until sunset of tbe third day
thereafter. Business was suspended i friendly calls
were made, and an immense number of firecrackers
were exploded.
Oregon. —VVe hav9 advices from Portland to the
7th instant.
The Legislature adjourned ou the 4th instant.
They passed a law to levy a tax ot $ 1 per month on
Ghinese miners. •
It is reported that the Walla-Walla Indians have
made an airangementwi.h some tribeß east of the
Cascade Mountains to capture a train of Govern
ment supplies.
From the Colorauo Surveving Excedition.—
The following extracts of a letter from one of the
party under Lieut. Ives, giving some particulars
of the progress of the expedition, will be found in
teresting. The letter is dated, “U. S. Steamer Ex.
plorer, Colorado Kiver, January
“You will be glad to hear that we are getting
along swimmingly with our expedition. All our
party are at present ou the steamer, and we are
pushing up towards the head of navigation as rapid
ly as possible. We have now reached a point 390
miles from the mouth of the Colorado; aud, al
though the water is lower than it has been for years
before, have demonstrated the practicability ot nav
igatiugthe river with light draft steamers, at least
to this place. The quantity of water flowing iu the
channel is quite as great here as at Fort Yuma, aud
its navigation quite as easy as there. We are to
day fifty miles below the Mohave villages, and
should no accident happen to us, shall soon have
passed ail that portion of the river of which any
thing is really known to the whites.
There is at present every prospect that the ex
pedition of Lieut. Ives will open anew avenue of
approach to the Salt Lake region, aud to all the
country drained by the Colorado river. In scienti
fic mstteis we are endeavoring to make a “clean
sweep,’’ and although, so far, each department has
exhibited an unexpected sameness, tbe materials
collected will include much that is new an 4 inter
esting. I obtained, yesterday, a beautiful aud ap
parently new neotoma.
Some excitement vyas occasioned at Monterey, on
the 12th February, by the execution of a murderer
named Jose Anastasia. This inau was senten ed,
alter a fair trial, to be hung on that day, but on the
19th, a respite for Anastasia Jesus was received
from the Governor, for thirty days. As there was
no man of that name under sentence of death in
Monterey, and as Jose Anastasia was the only man
condemned to die in the custody of the Sheriff there,
that officer very reasonably supposed that the Gov
ernor had intended to respite Jose. He therefore
refused to hang him on the 12th. Jose Anastasia
having been regarded as a dangerous desperado by
tbe people of Monterey, the prospect ot his escaping
the sentence awakened immense excitement—and
it was determined if the hour should be passed over
for the execution, and he n< t be hung, that tbe pop
ulace would rise and hang him themselves. An un
der-Sheriff, however, took upon himself the respon
sibility ot carrying tbe execution into effect, aud thus
prevented a popular outbreak. Jose confessed to
two murders on the gallows.
The Supreme Court of California has rendered a
decision iu the fugitive slave case previously no
ticed. C. A. Stovall lefc Mississippi in 1857, for
California, with a negro body-servant, named
Archy He travelled across the Plains, and arrived
in Sacramento on Oct. 1, subsequent. On bis way,
he stopped at Carson Valley, and there bought a
ranch, on which he placed some cattle he had
brought with him. In Sacramento he opened a
school, aud advertised for scholars. He also hired
out Archy, and received wages for him several
months. Lately he concluded to return to Miss.s-
Bippi, and Archy running off from him, he had him
arrested and put in prison as a fugitive slave. A
writ of habeas corpus for Archy’s liberation, carried
tbe matter eventually before the Supreme Court—
aud two of the Justices decide, that although Sto
vall’s action has undoubtedly entitled the negro to
his freedom according to law, as this is the first case
and Stovall is iu bad health—why, the negro must
be given up lo his master. They say, however,
that Stovall’s case shall not form a precedent—and
that in future they will be governed by the law.
Heavy Suit.— An action of ejectment, says the
Mariposa Gazette, has been commenced by H. G.
Worthington, Esq , attorney for J. C. Fremont,
against tbe occupants of his (Fremont’s) grant. The
number of persons specified in the complaint is over
seven hundred, and includes all those who have im
provements upon, or are ocoupants of thd land
covered by the patent granted to Fremont two
years since. The case will come before Judge
Burke at the next term of the District Court No
further action.it is supposed, will take place at
present; tbe object ot the suit being a maintenance
of Fremont’s rights to the land, which rights would
be invalidated under the statute of Limitations of
this State, approved March 26,1856.
In a letter to the Los Angeles Star from the Gads
den purchase of the 4th ult., the writer says that
“Major Steen, whi.e on a recent scout, some fifty
miles distant from Port Buchanan, was approached
by sixty-three Apache warriors, bearing a white
flag, who declared they wished to make peace with
the Americana. Other bands had been to the posts
ou the Kio Grande lor a similar purpose.” As the
Apaches are tbe principal tribes through whose ter
ritory the Wagon Koads and eventually the rail
road will pass, it seems very desirable to be on
Iriendly terms with them. They occupy a much
longer extent of the route than any other of the In
dian nations.
A Nice Little Fortune,— The Philadelphia
correspondent of the New York Tribune, (not the
beet authority in the world,) writes as follows .
A most, singular story has obtained currency here
within a week or two, which is worth roproduoiDg
fur the information of your readers Mr. Thomas
Allibone, the distinguished financial hero of the
Bank of Pennsylvania, it is said, is likely to come in
to possession of a fortune of two millions of dollars,
in right ot his wife, who is said to beone of tbe heirs
of the great Jennens estate now about to be distri-
tributed in England among those lawfully entitled
to receive it. This great estate, it may be added in
this connection, is not a newspaper myth. On the
contrary, it has long been known that such a fund
existed in Eogianu. awaiting the appearance of the
true heirs. Late English papers announce that the
true heir has at length turned up in the person of
one Joseph Martin, and that an eminent law firm at
Liverpool had obtained administration for the heir
at-law from Doctors’ Commons, to Elizabeth
Bunch, otherwise Jennens, the daughter and heir
of John Jennens of Colchester, who was the last
male heir essential and heir general of the family.
The personal property alone, to which this adminis
tration will extend, is supposed to amount to SBO,-
000,000, while the real estate is even more valuable,
the rental being estimated at $750,000 per annum
The appearance of a direct personal representative
of the Jennenses, and the granting of letters of ad
ministration, has created a profound sensation in a
large circle of high and influential persons in Eng
land, and has ended in the discomfiture of a host of
active claimants and anxious expectants, who have
been for many years seeking to obtain a share of
this almost fabulous accumulation of wealth. As
the owner of all this property died upwards of a
century ago, his heirs have multiplied until the
number in this country is now very large. Should
the rumor referred to prove correct, Mr. Alii bone
will be pocseesed of means sufficient to discharge
his indebtedness to the Bank, and permit it to re
sume business, while retaining ample means for h s
own wants. I give you the story as twaa told
ine, merely remarking that there are parties who
nave the means of being well informed on the sub
ject, who believe it to be true.
Thieves Implements. —An account appeared in
the Loudon papeiy some months ago of a very com
plete instrument found in the possession of a thief
m the metropolis for boring bolee into iron eases.
Since that time a much more complete instrument
of the kind has been found in the possession of a re
turned convict at Manchester, lhe instrument
found in Loudon could simply drill a small hole
through the iron door of a safe ; that seized in Man
chester cutout a piece of iron a? one operation through
which a man’o hand may be inserted. The inven
tion and workmanship are such as might have been
turned out only at one of our first-rate machine
shops. The instrument has been tried by Messrs.
Chubb, Lhe iron safe makers, who found that it
would cut a piece oat of a quarter-inch iron door in
four hundred revolutions ot the lever by which it is
worked, or in an hour ; and it had cut a piece from
a plate half an inch in thickness without being in
the least injured or rendered inefficient for further
use. A singular fact in the case is, that in the shies s
vaiise, in which the latter instrument was found,
was also discovered a cogwheel belonging to the in
ctrument seized in London, and connecting the
person having t be one machine with the owner of
the other. The person in whose possession the ma
chine was found in Manchester escaped punishment
because he was in a dwelling house with it when ta
ken ; had he been taken with it in the streets he
cotnd have been reached by the. law.
He knew the Gentleman.— Rather Sarcas
tic on a Supreme Judge.— A cotempoary has the
following upon one of the Supreme Court Judges of
California
While one of the Supreme Judges was recently
staying in Paris be went to visit a French Profes
sor. The Frenchman asked him a number of ques
tions. and among the rest
‘ Wnere do you live ?’
‘ln California.’
Well, asked the rude Gaul, what is your oc
cupation V
‘ I am J odge of the of the Supreme Court.’
’ Oh ! ah !’ returned the BWohman, then I need
not ask your name—its Lynoh,*b
An American View of Thing*.
The Paris correspondent of the Boston Tsaveiler,
“Spiridiron,” writes under date of February 4th, as
follows r
“The Americans here made tools of themselves
the other day. They joined she chorus of courte
zans who are hallooing tbe hallelujahs which have
been bawled into the ears of tbe last seven troveru
meuts of Prauce. The American excuse was the
crime committed the 1 It.h of* last moif h. Certain
ly, no man holds in greater horror than I do the das
rard conduct of Orsini and his accomplices, and!
am firmly persuaded that the present master of
h rauoe is the best master his nation (which requires
a master) could have; but I do not think it any
business of our countrymen to be inakiug addresses
in their national character on any such occasion.—
Speech-making is the ruin of us . for the sake of
making a speech we would eulogize the plague ?
The government is taking a great many reactions
ry measures, and the public feeling against it is
deep, though it be not loud. It is dangerous here
uow expressing one’s opinion too freely against the
government. A good many persons have been ar
rested lor their tree tongues. It seems Oreini’e
crime shows France covered with an organization
ot secret societies, formidable beyond all belief
They knew ot Orsini’s attempt beforehand, and
were prepared to rise the moment it was successful.
I he object ot the new law dividing France into five
great military divisions, is to give so much addition
al vitality to the government in the event of suc
cessful revolution in France. The Empress and
Imperial Prince might retire to any of the five divi
sions, and march on Paris. This hope will prove
fallacious ft it is tested by the event it is destined
to meet. Paris is France, and what Paris wills
Fiance wills. The legislative bodies are rather
averse to granting the large powers demanded by
the Emperor, although they are willing to go nearly
as far as the government desires ; but all opposition
will be quelled. The measures taken agaiuet the
press are etriugeut, and it is rumored that the gov
ernment think ot goiug so far as to require all editors
to take the oath ot allegiar.es, to allow no evening
papers to appear, the Moniteur to appear about 2
o’clock instead of in the morning. The measures
whispered as in preparation are so stringent, it is
rumored, that La Presse and Le Siecle would be
published out of France if they became laws; they
have certainly beenwarn**d that if they oppose the
government, they will be suppressed
The Press appears to-day, for the first time since
its suspension two months ago, but it is not allowed
to be sold in the streets, and will not be hereafter
allowed to be sold by the newsboys. A warning
has been given to a provincial paper for this phrase;
“The Emperor then delivered his address to the
Legislative bodies, which, according to Hava’s
Newsletter, was loudly applauded.” The govern
ment warned the poor editor that it was impossible
to doubt the Emperor’s speech was loudly cheered!
Is this Franco or Russia/ The government frowns
down, too, all attempts to introduce Protestantism
in France. It alleges Protestautism is anoth r name
for opposition to the Government. The Govern
ment papers have attcaked the Debats for not hav
mg enough enthusiasm at the miscarriage of Oreim’s
attempt, all of the Government papers published the
same article—it was by M. Qrauier de Chassagnoc.
The Independence Beige was not distributed one
day this week, aud none of the London papers were
distributed this morning. Every attempt, is made
here to inflame the French against England.
Under date ofFebiuary 11 our correspondent add*
to his letter the following postscript:
“ You will see what important political move
ments are taking place here. The public funds fell
upon Gen. Epinasse’s appointment, and a great
deal of uneasiness pervades the public mind. 1
have not met a single person who approves the new
policy, and everybody I have talked With thinks
they are bending the bow too much. France is
now literally governed by bayonets and the sword
It is believed that Louis Napoleon is meditating
some measure that will startle the world ; aum*
think he is revolving iu his mind an invasion of
England. The wildest rumors are current here. 1 1
was generally believed the other day that the Insti
tute wus to be suppressed then it was said all the
newspapers except the Moniteur was to be Suppress
ed. Such is the position of affairs t hat every ru
mor will be believed, for at present France will sub
mit to anything. But the old political drawing
rooms of the days ot Louis Philippe are active
against the government, so active, the Constitution
uei had a most menacing article against them a
day or two ago. Another rumor is that JVI Saint
Marc Girardin is. to be dismissed from his profes
sor’s chair in the fcorbonue. The precautions taken
now whenever the Emperor goes anywhere woulu
seem to show that anew attempt is daily expected
to be made upon his life. Where is all this go inn
to end ?”
A Question of Veracity iu the U. !■*. Senate.
During his speech on Saturday, in the United
States Senate, on the Kausas bill, Mr. Wade.alludcu
to the bill of Mr. Toombs, saying that he had a ca
rious history about that. A clause, he said, wut
originally attached to that bill providing for the sub
mission of the constitution to the people of Kansas,
but when, afterwards, it was debated by the com
mittee on territories, at the house of their chief, it
was stricken out.
A Senator—For peculiar reasons.
Mr. Wade—For very peculiar reasons.
Messrs. Stuart and Green and others here rose,
when Mr. Wade, correcting himself, said he had
just been informed it might not have been debated
by the committee ou territories, but by other gen
tlemen.
Several Senators here stated their impression as
to the existence or non-existence of such a clause in
the original drafl of the bill. Most of them believed
that it did not contain such a clause.
Mr. Mason, of Virginia, here interposed a state
ment of the facts. When the Senator from Illinois,
as chairman of the committee on territories, re
ported the bill, since called the enabling act, it con
tained a clause for the submission of the constitu
tion to the people. The Senator from Georgia,
two months afterwards, introduced a bill of like
character, containing no such clause. Bo'h bills
were sent back to the committee ou territories, the
chairman of which subsequently reported the bill
which afterwards passed the Senate.
Mr. Bigler, of Pennsylvania, here rose, considera
bly agitated, and amid some confusion occasioned
by Senators requesting Mr. Wade to go ou, said that
he regretted that a personal defence of himself had
again been forced upon him. What fie said wfien
tfiis question came up some weeks ago, he now re
iterated. [See proceedings of December 9.J He
did not say that the distinct proposition of submis
sion of the constitution to the people was discussed,
but did say on the occasion referred to, that the im
pression was conveyed to his mind that the iuten
lion of the Toombs bill was to bring Kansas into
tbe Union by one popular vote, that one being the
vole for delegates for a convention. Mr. Bigier
again referred to his integrity, saying that he re
presented a proud aud noble people. He reiterated
the statement that tbe impression left on his mind
was clear that Kansas was to be brought iu with
one vote, and that the constitution was not to be
submitted to tbe people.
Mr. Wilson, of Massachusetts, asked the Senator
if he did not make a speech on Kansas last summer
advocating the submission of the constitution to the
people 7
Mr. Bigler—That is very pertinent. I have not
been in the habit of making speeches on Kansas.
Once I did address the people on Kansas, when I
said the constitution should be submitted to a vote,
but had no question in view except that of slavery.
Mr. Broderick moved that Mr. Douglas be sent
for, or that the Senate adjourn the further consider
ation of the subject until Monday. He reme riber
ed very well the circumstances when this matter
came np before. Tbe Senator from Pennayivania
then said that he did not have a distinct recollec
tion of it, but thought such a discussion as alluded
to had taken place, when the Senator from Illinois
denied it.
Mr. Bigler.—He did not.
Mr. Broderick.—My impression, sir.
Mr. Bigler.—Your impressions are wrong, sir.—
He was careful and guarded in the statements he
made. The Senator from California seeks to place
this matter in a false view before the Senate.
Mr. Broderick.—My memory must be very treach
erous if tbe Senator from Pennsylvania is correct.—
He hoped the Senate would adjourn. When the
Senator from Illiuois is in his place we shall know
whether the Senator from Pennsylvania is correct
or not. My impression is that he did deny it. He
thought from the tremor that the Senotor (Bigler)
exhibited when he rose that he was about to take
back all he said.
Mr. Pugh, of Ohio, thought he could relieve the
Senator trom Pennsylvania of some of his *mbar
rassmeot—by stating that when the matter first
came up, he, as the friend of both the gentlemen
from Pennsylvania and Illinois, had brought them
together, and his impression was that he was cor
rect, and that the conversation alluded to had
transpired in another part of the roo n, where the
Senator from Illinois did not hear it.
Mr. Bigler.—What the Senator from Ohio says is
perfectly correct. It may be remembered that, he
(Bigler) distinctly stated on a former occasion that
he did not know whether the Seuator from Illinois
participated in the discussion. For the rest, it did
not become the Senator fro • California to describe
the manner (referring to his, Mr. Bigler’s tremor) in
which he made the explanation.
Mr. Broderick owed it to the Senate and to the
Senator from Illinois to state that some days since,
when it was understood that the Senator lrom New
Hampshire intended to allude to this matter, the
Senator from Illinois intimated he would deuounce
the statement on this floor as a falsehood if the
Senate r did not qualify it.
Mr. Bigler—Nothing of the kind is on record. —
The Senator from Illinois said no such thing.
Mr. Broderick—So this is a question of veracity /
The Vice President reminded the Senators to keep
within the legitimate limits of debate.
Mr. Bigler—The Senator from Illinois never said
any such thing. He is not a man who would do so
Denounce w at, sir, as a falsehood—the impression
on my mind that Kansas was to be admitted with
out a popular vote ?
Mr. Broderick—The Se- ator from Illinois is sick
in bed. If he ever cakes his seat again the Senator
(Biglery will be replied to.
Sea Letters. —The British Government pay*
nearly one million sterling annually for the support
of its foreign steam mail tervice. Whether the re
ceipts cover (or not) this outlay, is not a matter of
consideration. The Government despatches them
selves are promptly and regularly forwarded ; the
correspondence of the people abroad id carried on
with great regularity; the commercial interests of
the United Kingdom are promoted by this appar
ently heavy outlay. Thus directly or indirectly,
ample returns are made for the expense of five rnil
liou of dollars or £I,OOO 000. This sum is disburs
ed as follows for the year 1858 :
Cun&rd Line to Boston and New York. ..£172.000
Southampton and West Indies Line...... 240,000
Southampton and Sydney (and Branch) via
Marseilles 185,000
England dt Alexandria, Ceylon & Calcutta 13J 000
Southampton and Brazil 30,000
Panama, Callao and Valparaiso 25,000
England and West Coast of Africa 21,000
Dartmouth and Cape of Good Hope 50,000
Aden and Bombay 21.000
Miscellaneous 93,0<)0
TotT st'm packet mail service for one year £988,000
A due consideration of the importance-of foreign
commercial interests will *how that this money is
well spent. By this means England augments her
trade with and her exports of domes ic manufac
tures to Brazil, West Coast South Ameiica, In din.
Africa, West Indies, Mexico, &o.
A due encouragement of those capitalists in this
country who invest their means in costly steam
Bhips, for foreign trade, wouid result in more fami
iiar intercourse with other nations. In this respect
we could, with advantage, foiiow the example of
England. The whole mail service of the United
States last year was less than ten miiiions of dollars,
only asm*.llportion ot which (and that piecemeal)
was appropriated to our foreign steam mail service.
— Bail. American.
Steamship Atlanta. —The steamship George’s
Creek, which reached this port yesterday morning
from Baltimore, passed the steam ship Atlanta on
Sunday evening. The A. is gradually worKing to
ward de p water, and Captain Gager thinks that
she will soon be got afloat. Her cargo has all been
landed. —Charleston Courier of Thursday.
Ship Agamemnon —The ship Agamemnon, C’apt.
Goodwin, was cleared at cur Custom House ye**ter
day by Measn-. C Atkinson&• Cos. for Bt. Petersburg,
Russia, having on board a cargo of 2982
baleeof cotton, containing 1,286,999 pounds
exceeds the heaviest cargo ever carried in t e
ship from New Orleans to the extog* °* 1 "; u Vl
pounds. Her stevedore was Samuel Pervis, a co.o
red man— Charleston. Courrur of Thursday.
The Hxoim wwitated at a recent
meeting of the New-York Historical Bociety, that
eighty languages are used w business and social in
tercourse among the inhabitants of that city.
VOL. LXXIL—NEW SERIES VOL. XXII. NO. 12.
From the Southern Christian AdvcrcaU
The Trainiuffof ChldrfJu
Religious Training.— Whatever credit the idea
may obtain, though at the bare mention of it, the
lips of the iufldel may curl with scorn, I have do
hesitancy iu asserting that the Bfoltv—Seriptaral
Christianity forms the basis ot all correct education.
Talk as much as you please about science—philoso
phize long aud learned y upon the powers of reason,
ike strength of intellect, the march of mind, thoim
por tan e and value of literary attainments :*—l have
no war with all this. I love scieuc*. and would be
a3 glad as any one else to see its lig it widely, m*i
versaliy diffused • but still I mud be allowed to-add,
that without the Bible, it would only prove the
ignis fatuus which lures to destruction.
Say what you the learning of ancien’
Greece and Rome ; it \yas not of that kind which
properly “exalts a nation,” —which makes a trciy
wise, a holy..and a happy people. Go, visit those
classic lauds ; view their time-honored monuments,
the proud mausoleums oi their former greatness ;
talk about their literary and scientific attainments,
their military prowess, the splendor and glory of
their restitutions — institutions, whose cherished
memory has been re called by a classic song, im
been the subject of many a claasio peu, has been the
theme of the poer, the sage, .and ihe oi ator; go,
wander iu the land of science*, and gather up the
relicsof the mighty dead ; but let nu. their history
be forgotten. Let it be remembered still, aud re
membered always, that Liberty found a grave
where Science Hung its proudest light'.
Science may shed its lighi upon the world, but
without the Bible, it would be but a false, delusive
glare. Without the Bible, we should be iu darkless
amid its brigbttst lustre, ignorant amid its l most lu
old expositions unhappy amid its countless blessings!
Without the Bible pnUosphy's profoundest research
es, would be little better than a chaotic dream, ami
reason itself would prove a ruinous guide. Without
the Bible, all beyond the grave wou-d be wrapped in
deep impenetrable gloom and fancy’s utmost stretch
could never pierce the dimming vail 1 Without the
Bible, not the frintest ray of light, not one single
“beam of hope,” net one twinkltug gleam of com
fort. would come fronLthe, other world to i lumuu
the darkness of this ! O blessed Bible l Uow much
are we indebted to the, for tho lighi that sUueSupt n
our path way, for the hopes which cluster about our ,
hearts, aud for the peaue, and joy, and happiness
which we realize iu this sin strickt n world ot ours ’.
No, no ; I do not wish to be understood as oppo-
sing science, as disparaging in any degree, human
learning, in so far as its retu tendency is to expand
and invigorate* the mind, aud to accelerate the pro
gress of moral aud religious truth ; but I do assert
boldly and unequivocally, that that system of edu
cation which does not recognize the .Bible, which
seeks to divorce itself from our blessed Christ unity,
by whomsoever patroniz* and and conducted, is de
fective, sadly ana ruinously defective.
And now, permit me to ask. what attention has
been paid to religious instruction ? Alas ! alas ’ the
Bible, that richest, best gift of God to man—the Bi
ble, which is “al ampuuto our feet,” and a direc
tory along the road to Heaven, whioh opens up to
our enraptured vision the ch*'geless glories of the
heavenly world, aud teachc how to iive so as to
make those glories ours, has *u too often discard
ed from the school-room and ti. nursery, as a thing
of little worth, not even constituting the most un
important item in the general course of instruction
given! The prevailing wish has been au imposing
display, a gorgeous parade of mere ornamental
qualifications, the prooi and show of fashionable eti
quette, while all that is useful and valuable iu edu
cation, have been thrown aside as so much rubb U,
lit only for those who move along the humbler
of life ! Thus, those principles ot ostentation and
vanity, gendered well nigh in the cradle,and nurtur
ed in childhood, have “grown with their growth
and strengthened wdh their -at lengthy” until they
have obtained a giant’s proportions; and uothiiig
else is thought,of—nothing cared for, on the par. of
Doth parentis and children, but how those child eu
are lo appear to-the very best possible advantage.
Consequently, the dressing room is visit -d much ol
tenor than the closet, the looking-glass is consulted
much mure frequently than the Bible, and there i
tar more attention given to mere external acccm
plishmenta, than to the cultivation of the mind am’
heart. ‘ Ed neat ton, Morality, Religion, all, all are
sacrificed upon the altar of a huriliil vanity, or ta
ken long only as a fashionable trio to enhance then
respectability iu the eyes of the world !
Mauy parents, either do not know* their duty, or
else they do most wilfully aud shamefully i eglec
it. How often do we tind children, and children
too of professedly pious parents, who are almost on
ignorant of the God who made th lit, and of every
thing connected with their spiritual well-beiug, aw
the uuinstructed heathen. Little or no are ta
ken to instruct them in the way of rightousness, or to
give them any idea whatever of their responsibility
to God, of the duties they ow'6 Him,.and of the ob
ligations under which they are to Linn,as His ration
ai,redeemed creatures. It. appears to be a mailer <i
indifference with some parents, whether their ebii
dren do right or wrong, whether they are moral oi
immoral, religious or irreligious. They scarcely
make auy attempt to supervise their morals, and to
throw around them the wholesome restrain’s of r<
ligion. They are suffered to rove abroad upon the
Sabbath day, over the tields, and through tie
woods, and along the banks of creeks and rivulet*-
with their dogs, dnU their guns, and their fishing
t ackle—they are arrayed in all the glitter of fashion,
rich jewels are seen hanging in their care, encircling
their wrists and fingers, and sparkling upon then
little bosom; they ares ut to the dancing school,
the ball room, the theatre and the circus; are per
milled to engage in any amusements they think
proper, their parents but uufiequeutly sotting them
them the pernicious example ; they are allowed to
form any asu- ciations they choose, and to do
almost auy thing else, it mat; ere not how immdrai
or how irreligious, provided it detract nothing lrom
their respectability iu the view of those who slmp
the manners and customs of the city ; but they are
left, in so far as religiou is concerned to a blind .fa
tuity, aud are eventually introduced into society
with undisciplined minds, and without any correct
views of moral aud religious obligation, to be
whirled around the vortex of fashionable dissipa
tion, or to be carried wbever their uuguided, or mis
guided passions may lead them! And yet those
parents call themselves by the sacred name of
Christians, and sit or kneel with sanctimonious
reverence around the table of the Lord, as the pro
teased disciples and followers of Him who was
“ meek and lowly in heart!” Their children are
never taught to pray —never taught to love and
fear God. No knowledge of God is imparled or at
tempted to be imparted. If they have any notions
of Gud at all, it is a sort of pious dread of that great,
tremendous Being, whose name is used as a scare
crow to frighten them into obedience ! Aud mark
it, and mark it well, for i is a solemn and affecting
truth; many a child has left the parental abode,
with impressions unlavorable to religion which
years have not been-able to efface, with disrelish
lor itn ordinances and duties, which time has not
been able to remove!
Parents, I would w arn you of the fatal conse
quences of your mis conduct and neglect, cali upon
you in the name of God, to do something—all that
you can and the spiritual ‘edification and benefit
of your children. To you has been given one of the
mobt important frusta ever committed to man.
Upon you devotvest the duty of “training up your
children iu the way they should go.” You are to
give them their first lessons. From you they are to
receive their first, their most vivid, their most last
ing impressions. Your hand is to guide them along
the way to Heaven. From you they are to receive
the bias whi- h is to affect them in all their future
course; and yonr conduct, in all probability, id the
model by which theirs is to be shaped. Yours is
truly a solemn, fearful responsibility ! How earnest
ly should you seek direction anff help from above !
and now carefully should you strive to be, in all
your conversation and conduct, just what you would
have them to be.
Recollect, parents, that God has made it your
duty to instruct your cbildreu. to train them up in
tbe way they should go, to “bring them up iu tho
nurture aDd admonition of the Lord.” “Therefore,”
says He, “ye shall lay up the?e my words, in your
heart, and in your soul, and bmd them for a sign
upon your bauds, that they may be us frontlets be
tween your eyes. And ye shall leach them to your
children, speaking of them when thou siltest in thine
house, aud when thou watkestby the way, when thou
liest down, and when thou rises/, np A Deut . xi. 18,
19. Remember that while it is your duty to pro
vide for their tempi rial wants and necessities, it is
equally vour duty to provide for their spiritual well
being ‘Remember that while m nay laudably
enough desire to see them make i decent and res
pectable appearance in life, it should be with you a
primary aud more important concern to beantity
and adorn the ruind—it should be your first chief
care to throw around them the hallowing influences
of our Toly religion, and to prepare them as sub
ject® for the kingdom of God’s eternal blessedness
and glory. VV. Knox.
Texas-Itkms.—’The steamer Gov. Pease, Capt.
Peacock, says the Galveston Civilian, ol the 2d
inst., took tire, the 28th ul ~ on Trioi'y river, hall a
mile below Alabama, and was totally destroyed,
with her cargo -of 1440 bales ol cotton, i tie C£ew
and passengers were all saved, but with difficulty,
as the boat was uurfer headway when the lire brok*
out. The boat was uninsured. Only 600 bales of
the cotton was injured.
A great fire took place at Liberty, the 2Sjh ult,
by which the largest part of the business portion of
the town wan burned. The buildings destroyed are
valued at $10,900.
The Houston Reporter says there is a kind of
Band in the scan Jacinto liver which has proved to
bof the greatest value in the manufacture of
glass.
i he Waco Southerner, of the 20ch ult., Pays
Information ha*
sconding of some 000 Camanebe from th -
Upper Agency, above Fort Beiknap. They bad
jual received their winter supplier, dec. Huh 1m n
r-troDg argument in favor ol civilizing the savage
Indians. Their thieving and pilfering proclivities
will torever be a barrier in the domesticating ot the
wild man, and nothing short ot absolute depemieiiOw
will ever bring about thal reformation desired.—
Thousands and thousaudd of dollars are lavished
yeariy upon the tribes at the frontier agencies, and
yet no particular greatgood has been accomplished,
lint we hear continually of the murders and depre
dations committed every few weeks. The cry
comes from every quarter of the upper frontier to
remove them. _
Neutrality of the Isthmus of Panama.—lt is
rii mored thfit the New Granadian Minister at Paris
has signed a treaty with Frtfote securing the entire
neutrality of the Isthmus of Panama and that he
has aisp concluded a lke treaty with Russia, through
the Russian Ambassador at the Court of France.
It is also said that prior to the recent change in the
Euglirh Ministry, he had negotiated a convention
with England for the same purpose ; but it is not
stated v.Lether it has actually been signed or not.
— Journal.
Billy Bowleos Coming to Terms —A gentle
man pud returned from Florida, tells us that Billy j
Bowlegs came into camp at Fort Meade, last week,
and agreed to leave with his entire tribe, lock ntock- !
aLd-barrel, for the West, on the terms proposed
by the government. life left Fort Mead*; for the
purpose of collecting up his people, and making ar
rangements for a rpeedy departure.
Our mtorniant tells us that an immediate ending
of all difficulties between the whites anti ludmns is
now confidently for in Korida, the latter
having made minds that the government
c m force them to go sooner or later. — Savk. Mpr.
New*.
A Newly Discovered Property of Choloro
>o km.—The AbriUe Medicals reports the ea-o of a
young man who badly scalded both legs by so ppm f
into a cauldron ot boiling water. He was unmejh
ately laid upon a bed, auexaUi* romou dm
i-tered, cod liver oil applied to 0* le**>“ , ,
t wice bled, but the pain m the lew“*!jul jMe.
A liniment of laudanum and o°d Uer oil, wm Uitn
applied, also without effect in alra'ir t 1 L •
Hut chloroform having been
tium, immediate relief d > “
by continuing the name P™“* ““‘’ l r * co ’
Abscosdbd.— Last Thursday a Mr. S. 8. Bellows
to Savannah from Earn, Bryan county, with
, _„r 1 1 Odd in paper money to redeem some
notes and transactor business for the firm of T.
I Lyons & Cos., of Bryan county. Next day he
wrote back to the firm to say trial he had lost all the
money but-that he would go north to bis home in
Massachusetts, raise the arnopnt ayd a lot more and
return. .Since that time he iias not been heard
from, and strong suspicion exists that all things
have not been working fairly on bis part, and that
n Yankee Dodge may be graced in the matter. —
Thos. J. Lyons cautions the public agnins trus'iug
him on the acoount of the firm of which said Be.lowa
was recently a partner. Bellow* leaves hie fairmy
still in Bryan oounty.— %&av Georgian.
Qm House Beukt—Tbe gin house of Warren
W Pedeu, nine mile* north-east from luecumbia,
wee burned, together with eoote dU baler of c -tou,
the let March. Loss hear ffiOOO. The fire wa-,un
doubtedly caused by incendiartsm.-.W/t A aoa
nnan.
New *c-k .Honey Market*.
Saturday Evxn so, Mar oh 13. The Money
Market ehowsa flight decrease in its rates since the
tirst pan 0 f ?i.p SVI ,-k First class paper remains
unchanged at 0a 7 V cent, bat in second cl* a s there
is inure dome ad. and it passes readily at from 8 to
3, while much ot it is taken in b .nfc, whtue it aad
any claim. Call loans range at ,r m sto 7 per
cent , uut the banka prefer firet clasa paper at short
dates.
I'iie Domt .-tit l.xohanjtea in many caam bare
111 ned against this oily. Philadelphia, Baltimore,
and New Orleans funds are in demand, though they
do nut c.'mmand any P aular premium in the street.
Sight drabs on New Voik are eeliiug in New Or
leans at | to £ discount.
The decline in the Stock Market continues, and
the differ* hog bet ween the puces now ranging and
the maxim, in quoin:ions of two weeks previous,
are from 3 fold per This decline, from its
cause*', must be temporary, and the speculationand
appreciation in juices at the Stock Board will soon
be renewed. The sales to day are light compared
with those ot last week, many of the important
chares are w ithheld from the market at present
quotations. The sales in State Bonds are small,
being in the aggregate • -nly $ 12,0410, and are at
comparatively bolter prices than Railroad shares.
The largest sales were ot Missouri Sixes, $21,000,
opening at 81, a deciiue of J, and closing at ;
Virginia Sixes sold at yesterday's price ; California
Sevens declined 1, closing at 90 ; Ohio Sixes closed
at 102 ; New York City Fives, 1875, sold at 97. In
Railroad Bonds the sales were less than $50,000 ;
La Crosse Laud Grant Bonds advanced from 35 to
37, and linaily to 38 with sales of $22,000 in oouae
queuce ot the removal of the injunction, noticed
yesterday , Illinois Central declined Michigan
Centra! Eights The sale of Bank shares was
light, but at former prices.
The sales of New York Central Shares were only
about 10 percent, of the average, showing that
holders keep out of the market at present prices—
this stock advanced L Pacifit Mail Steamships I,
1 linoia Centra! advanced l. All of theothsr shares
declined from ] t<< 3. Erie and, c iued $, with sales of
2.’ l() Tares ; Hudson River with pales of 2,400
■-hares; Reading declii ed !£. iVlicbigau Southern f,
l'r erred Stock 14, ilariem \, Cleveland and Tole
do 2f, Chicago an 1 Rock lMnud IJ, Galena and
’ Chicago j, Cumb-rlaud l-
At the Second Board Missouri Sixes sold at for
mer mtc- 81 end 83", ; L i Crosse Land Grant Bonds
sold at 37, a see ine of 1 li tn the highest price of
lie First Board. A sate of 78 shares of the Union
Bank was made at 108, a decline of 6 since the last
quoted sale.-'; Delaware and Unison Canal Com
pany declined 4. Reading j, Chicago ami Rock Is
land advanced .{, Cleveland and Toledo 4, Michigan
Southern i , Erie 4, New York Central 4.
The receipts * the Custom House to-day,
ambun edto $00,204 83. The receipts at the office
of the Assistant Treasurer Were $73,236 09, of whioh
$30,0(H) were from Customs; the payments were
$111,31586,--reducing the balance on hand to $2,-
964,197 40.
The receipts at the Custom House, and the re
ceipt aud payments at the Assistant Treasury, dur
ing the past week, were as follows ►
Custom House. Assistant Treasurer’s
Receipts. Receipts. Payments.
M’r’h 8.. 87,116 00 68,00132 88 624 06
9.. 127,348 62 112 992 37 100,106 37
“ 10.. 53 899 19 52,696 31 4 ,643 22
“ 11.. 49,658 20 40.41*2 52 66 360 66
“ 12.. 79.186 53 70.030 00 46,807 85
“ 13.. 66,204 83 70,236 09 111.315 86
Total $456,813 37 J$ 426,358 61 $l5B 858 02
Deduct receipts 426 358 61
Excet 8 of payments 32,499 41
The export of specie the past week, and for the
year, was as follows :
Sttnr Cahawba, liavana, doubloons. - - $219 040.00
Brig Fortuna, Oporto, Am. gold 6,234 30
. Tola!Tor the weak $225 2?4 30
Previously reported 9 770 439 37
Total 1858 $9,99671367
Same hum 1857 4,529 991 08
Statement of me value of foreign imports at New
York for the week, and since Jan. 1 :
1857 1858
Dry Goods, for the week... $2,813,688 $1,092,568
General Merchandise d0.... 2,252,024 675,386
Total for the week $5,065,712 $1,707,954
Dry Goods, f r the year $26 985,334 $10,704,798
General Merchandise d0.... 23.120,726 10 2 0,177
Total since Jan, 1 $50,406,060 $20,964,970
The filial import of foreiga goods at Boston, for
file week ending March 12, was :
1858 $256 702
1857 9*4.325
Decrease $657,623
[Cour Sf Enqr.
Monday, March 15, P. M.—Ths decrease in the
sales of Stocks hi the past week has been as mark
ed as the decline in prir-tThe sales to-day are not
over fifty per o-nt. of the daily average sates of the
past month, and the ruling prices are from five to
twenty five*per cent, below the maximum prioesof
the same period. These changes show the fluctua
tions to which the Stock Market is subject, and
prove how entirely speculation governs the piioes
of the whole Stock list, including our most reliable
securities. The fluctuations in prices at the Stock
Exchange of London, and at the Paris B urae, are
very great, but are slight in comparison with those
of this market.
The sales of State Slocks are very sms!!, bei g
in the aggregate only $16,000 Virginia S.xea ad
vanced!. Missouri |, North flaroiina sold at 94,
Michigan at par, Tennessee at 89.
The sales of Railroad Bonds were about $75 000,
including a sale of La Crosse Laud Grant Bonds at
37J, which is the average price of Saturday. New
York Central Sixes sold at 90J, an advance of I, do.
Sevens at 1024 ■ Illinois Central sold at 94, theprioe
of Saturday Erie 3d mortgage sold at 83. Hud
son River 3d do. at 69.
The sales in railroad shares w r ere generally in
email anxuab'. and without any decided change in
prices. New Ymk Dentrulahares advanced J, Erie
I, Cleveland and Toledo {. Cbcago &. R • k Inland
1, Ganna and Chicago 4, Delaw re and Hudson 4,
Cumberland Canton Company 4, Hail mi Read
ing and Hudson River were without change. Mich
igan Central declined 1 $ from last sales, made on
1 lie J Ith inst. Michigan Central declined Illinois
Central J, Lr Cross j, Milwaukee and Mississippi
closed at 31, a decline ot foi .ce Friday.
At the Second Board, Virginia Six s declined J,
New Y>rk Central Sixes sold at 994- an advance of
4, La Crus* Land Grunt Bonds, $26,000 sold at >B|,
and 38, against 37 4 at the find, board, Erie wdvauo
octl, Hudson River 1 4 , R tiding 1-2, Michigan
Southern 1 -1, Cleveland and Toledo 2, Chicago and
Rock Island 1-2, La Cross 1-8, Milwaukee & Mis*
.sissipi I.
The receipts at the Custom House to-day amount
ed to $55,209 05. The receipts at the office of the
Assistant Treasurer were $462,758 83, of which $38,-
000 were from Customs ; the payments wer- $147,-
892 01—increasing the balance on hand to $2,979,-
064,22;
Tuesday Evem.no, March 16.—The Bank Con
vontion at the Clearing-H;use ytsterday agreed
upon a measure heretofore suggested, in let&iuinga
specie fund t<juiv .lent to twenty per esnt. of the
liabilities iiidep ndent oftirculation.
Thus the depcs't., were reported on the 13th (irolu
ding Bank balances, as $90,000,000
Fn.in winch deduct, the. averng i daily
Clearings of the week 16,500,000
will show the actual deposits be about $73,100,000
This would require a specie reserve of $14,700,000
in the Bank vaullß. This would be enough it the
Banks in other States were to adopt, a similar
course, tint as they have m t yet agreed upon such
a plan, New York wiil always be called up n to
irear the burden ol the drain lor specie. Ally thing
under twenty millions of dollars for this city would
seem to be too small, m view of the rapidity
creasing commerce of the country.
More buoyancy prevailed to-huy in the Stork
Market; Erie sbs. advanced t<f 30 3-1 at he First
Board and £b 31 J-2 at the Second Boaid Tnere
were large sales of Hudson Ri\ < r Shares hi 32 1-4 ®
33; Chicago and Rock Island 81 Missouri
Six per cents are again .-el.mg in large sums at
83 7-8&/81 , Kentucky Sixes are quot.:d at 103;
Tennessee 89, Virginia 93, Ohio 4. Com
pared with yesterday’s c'o-ing sab s, we observe an
improvement in Virginia Sixes 1-4, New York Cen
tral Shares 38, Erie I 3-8, R-adu g 1 3 4 Michigan
Southern 1 1-5, Cleveland and ioledo 2 3 4,1! ;noi*
Central Shares l, Mill w auk e and Mississippi 2 12,
Galena and Chicago 3-4
The 1 eefipts at the Cuatom House to-day, amount
{ ed to $70,131 16. The receipt* at the office of th*
j Assisi ant Treasurer were $1,582,284 28, qf which
sll 000 were from Customs; the payments were
$271,215 75, —increasing the balance on hand to
$4 287,102 75.
Sterling Bills for to morrow's steamer have de
clined \a \. First Class Bills are remitted at 8 per
cent. We annex the current rates ou the leading
cities;
60 Dows’ Sight. Short Sight.
London. ..j 107 ® 108 ® 1084
Paris 5 20 15 5 13j3>5 lls
Antwerp 5 17|®5 15
Amsterdam * 41 a) 41 j 7b
liambarg 36 3- 36£ 37 7t 37$
Should these rates ccntiuue, epecie ehipmentß
from tins port will cea-.e and we may look tor a re
turn of some portions of that exported to Europe
i;| January and Febinary.
The Philadelphia Bank • by their Weekly State
ment to the 13 ii inst, show ample spewe reserve
to meet their liabilities. Their Loans, Specie, De
posits and Circulation for January, February and
were as l .flows :
Loans. Specie Deposit". Circulation.
Jan. 11 21 3( 2 374 *3 770 701 H 1 011 (33
Jan. IC--.68 658 4 01(1.205 H. 512.765 3,C4645
Feb 1... 20,4 37 4 4 475 93 12,195, W 6 1 4> 2
Feb. 8 2
Feb. rr,... .21/07! 474 4,- 23 9-9 ‘ t Be7 342 . .559 218
Web M 2),DU ,2 4 934 ‘<o 12,014 04 1986 4#
Ma hU - - -20 531 066 4 933.936 11,830 532 1 731
Mah 8 20 471 -166 5 47 615 12 : 3,282 1 916 352
Ma li 15. .2J 522,036 5.448 514 12,691.547 2 077,^67
Tile present capital of tin Bauktof that city (17
in number) ie $11,300,165 : balances <’ue by them
to country hank- $ 1 782,000; balances due to them
by oouutry banks $1,978,(11)0.
The Exchange Bank at St. Louie cemmecoed
business on the 9th inst. * _
. The earnings of the Erie Railroad for the month
of Febuniry were :
iwr ‘5330,833 88
41
[Cour ty Lnq.
! From Northern Mexico.— The
(Texas) Flag of the 10th :nst., furnis-es t f niow
, irg-Mexican news :
We have dates from Monterey to the 26*h ult
M'-iia a centralist, had been defeated try Gen.*Ar
reagaat Sadta K -sa. All their munition* of war
w re taken and about sis v-two prisoners captured.
Vew'R was also circulated at Monrerey that the stage
running from Mexico to Qaeretaro bad been attack*
nd 6y a band of thieve* under command of a Span
iard named ->’ artinez, who belongs to the forces of
tic; Mejia. The passengers, however, defended
themselves in repelling the banditti and killing one
ot, their numbr?r.
The Monterey Boletin announce* the intention of
the people of SalriUo to do all they can for tne Con
stitutionalists Tne Governor of >U<-’ oadkn baa is
sued a proclamation to the people at thst Sta'e, ap
pealing to their honor and patriotism to tight for toe
defense of their constitutional rights.
Srs. Llave. Alatriste and Gen. Negrete, with four
.1 j .. .. . iL. for Pnuhln I Jen.
thouHaiid men, were ou the march for Puebla. Geo.
Ilueria ha.- in command-two thousand five hudra
Michoacaus ready toattack the enemy. Ocn. Xtur
bide, with near three ihoussnd mec iS etationeA
between Mexico and Queretarc, and Gen. Alvarez
has over two t.emsand men et"ti wd at Cuernaya
oa. With these powerful force. makm K way
towards the capi al, the Government of ZaVoafa
will d‘)ubt’e 3 a submerged before many months.
W wt have heard nothing the past week of the pree
j,re-s of the companies on the march tor San LuU
and Tampico Preparations continue to be mad*
*iof active P nveaaures m lhe States of Nuevo Leon
aD w“ ifare, the New Or eans P^uog
. vv , 1,1,1 ;, u .'ti l n T ,iV() Mu'nnioroswas do
that tin Ue lWh This is the mo*
• clared afr ap ; ti e lto Grande,
importaut
Naval —Too Lmu-u dates innate Miseieaippl,
arrived at Singapore, Deo. 29tb, tionr New \ok,
via Batavia, and eai!e4 ou the 2d January for Hqq
Kong.