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I • tin .•:/ in preparation* fur a forward
. i:r bu>'ired ‘ ecruits arrived iier * a few daye
Ts eactiv ty a.’ thi* po-t for the early starring of.
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j .-ven hiea arrived here iiuil night from Camp
Lake C*ty via Echo Canoe, but will
•. • that the Mormons will pursue an active,
; vcrir.g end deUrmined guerilla warfare, aiM
’ oy to advance into Great Salt Lake City, but ai!
t v .r provision* wil, bar* to be advanced from the
warfaii* ijcbaud aid oepaoralize the (rcopw. Nor
v . ai; <i.pu to * edlice the soldier* from their duly
- vV ,‘h i Ztn VnriuuTfi.ur “huadred VS
> rter to t>* h.- i. The only apprehenniun* of
, .. to be inregard tohiaaimrite*.
i b’ l wr;: . i hiui th;f he (Col. Johnston) 1
: Jj. * .-lU . 1. . Jo laat hia comma: l dtj 11 the |
•’ ,‘lh , and not on * day longer. Upon the ba
i it! .. : ter; being iimdtv to send
,i a ; j . nos i ■uiioiien toCol. Johnston ae early as
<. . Su Ut; .V will probably have started be
• • ii. . o . .-n. nu. uiCi the ’Oih infantry and
u p.i i 4 o (< • inpanics F and K o the lat cav
- nd * • pcunos of the fith infantry) wuioh
, Ti;v. .1 • . t expected to arii ve at Fort
. > m .the tiratßupphes on
. ; bui wM probably arrive to . late to
V. rim it wagons ot forage and provision*. Col.
• ♦ He/intea •• j
C. ii l: •. • Hitiv st Fur
..v and th ■<t * Camp Scott one-third ra-
Tbei e are t wo traiuo of corn and other etorca for
troop* lay i r ou the road betw*rfa*n Fort Kear
n • i K rt Lothm ! . they could not be got up to
* • iaat . , -•'d it is txptcL-d that Col. I Urn
i.lie adv. nee. It h expected that Captain
icy. m . h hi* supply ot bast and animals from
. , iieo, wi'l i rive * Fwrt Laramie about the
J. they will then auvni <*e together to Camp Scott.
>;-i 1 x Waddell will start their trains now as
iii nap*.*.-■i <• Fv*ur of their ox uainj will pro
. i ?t .rt u morrow. The gras* is quite greeuon
prairie, the soring being more ttian a month
• iwiUti .• was lust year . .o in two or three
• i ; - •• IKO-.mdwrt gras* for the an turnip
! our army. Cali who do not work can now
.-i the prairie very well. By tlie middle of eud
April Uie ivm- ircemeid* of the Utah army may
v here without auy hiudranee,.*o far a* the
i-. oencemed. I wiU not, however, iu all pro
liilctcHting (eogrnpliira! Exploriuiuni* in j
tondurim . hr I.tikc of Yojon.
vs. find the following interesting account of an
v i ‘luir.; ry mountain Uke in Hioiduras, in the
Nkw York. April‘2, IS.S. |
One of the mod interesting, but hitherto almost
i. ..own, geographical features of Ceniral Atueri
i, : TmMM) in Bondurftfl. !
s . thi.'.dii.feii in Builv'* map of Central I
\n.mi k, published in IH.'(), in winch it was laid j
c. wr. 1 • flv. ou;lc*s—two flowing eastward into j
live. Humuvn. two running northward and I
the Ki* Hlauco, aud one Bowing
u ... Barbara It was after j
■ ui'licated iu my ow:i map of liondura*. in j
’ wi* . a single out!•:♦, the river Blanco, which 1 j
’ odeerbed r. flowing, for a considerable die j
I time i greatly distrusted the existence of two or
r outlets, in different directions, although they
j etoiiUy affirm ands exist by the natives of the
Wlien 1..-u‘. Col. Stanton, K K , and j
i Am.iry K ward*. Vice Prepideut of the
II p-.'ura* Uni.wity Company, sailed fur llondaras
i , , |>,. . nibcr I .*t, I diicited tl.efr ntteutiun to this
1 ai.e. “"i!i ih view of *.certaii.inK the truth con
, . In co. •• r *, ‘l>““ ‘icntleu.en vied
■ i. iu Kebrnarv last, nnd nmdc a rapia survey.—
, found a,at .! is about twenty-five miles lou*.
tr.cn three to broad, with an average d-pth
i four fatbouu, and that in point ol fuel, it baa
me cuticle—two at its southern extremity, viz: — j
•V crsJaUiquo and t<arana, and one at its north- j
I rn <xtren.it'-. the river Plane,.. These features,
fa -v. r, are suttici.aitly e*plained in lue lollowii. K ’
i ra, • from a letter directed to myself from Mr. I
I I I,card dated Puerto Cortez. Keb. 17, IKSB
We left Cotnayaifua on the thi iu-t, and reached
1 -—unt. “roue on the lid. after overcunynft oue of |
! .. “ et I think, t at I ever saw. The
a", ot Siituoteneque surpasses any I have ev r
1 in beauty. 1 has an elevation of 0.50(1 test
, ove the . -a. and is about thirty miles tou K , by
•m three w ciiht broad. frin K ed with pine trees,
1 ich so in, iiu.es eiu roach upon ;i, conveying the
# U a park. The *r ss wh.oh covers the plain is
, In variant, and tbc soil is rich. It willproduce wheat,
. !a- es. nd i; m rally the fruits of our climate
’ • •„ ■ i ■ 111. iviVust, bramble, or on-blßckberry, iu
ti... and ot th. greatest perfection. We cross j
! .. this plain iu a direetidn nearly northwest, and |
h tl -> c vtl'-ce of Taulebe, situated in a valley
‘. UD dby hi . I son ‘eel above the sea. We
.ed tier.’ -v, days, and then took the road due
. rea. hints a larce str<*niu, which here, coming
.... ;1,, bowed west, aud 1 was surprised to
• that it was one of ii,-. outlet-; of Lake Yojoa.
t t\ t ol’owt'.l up ti.i* c-tream, which i*- c alled thtj
ii tiijUf, for ab*'Utten milen, through a forest of ma
| i** log Torop, eituaied oji u *iight elevation fn a
\t ;*'• * TH>int in tlie river we found several canoes I
• l v our mu*ual friend Don Francisco PineOa. |
Wr at once emWked. myself steering the boat.
i -'•er.tl'in; against a strong current for about half a
V. we entered the ole r waters of the lake. The j
! • ; was frenh from the north, and we tied up to j
we started up the lake due
• r; ti h> live hours we reached the hacienda ot j
Xelavas. ta Agua Aaul.a point about mid way !
’ ahf. on its rig*t Oi eastern shore. We j
; . . tM tine photographich view*. The |
i*-v 3 a i? a very fine one It derive* its name |
- .n an immense .'i“Ticg, seventy-five feet in diain
i v ... v M , , .ti.,- ~.H d bom Oiuoato Comavagua. I
* ige* are all covered with pine*. The two
trn . letc* otjlie Ske. Jaitique and Sarapa, |
n, nure irom Lhe lake. The latter, at a distance j
nnci. rimxigh which it flows for upward* of a
i The Kio Bianco, as you are aware, enter* a
) ilarchannel hah a mile from the lake, through
j .h it How* for a mle and a half. Wo found by
* 71.nke Y >aj? v feet above the sea.”
! ri -sietfie first authentic acci'unt which hae yet
j given of Lake Yop>a. It i* certainly a pecu-
i uioet interesting feature of llonuurss, and
! \* hioti approat.-hee within twenty miles of it* shores,
•si bei-ome a point of attraction to travellers and
| own of science. E. G Sst ixn.
Torpiuo Explosion.--A diabolical attempt to
ke iit* occurred at Ciuiiouati on Friday *o*l, by
w .u Prior P. l*ee lb* engineer of the Cincinnati
Type Foundry was severely injured. Mr. Lee wae
hI • e m the cottar, ai.*i had ju*t commenced clear
• ■ £ u: the rubbish underneath a work bench used
r :l* manufacture of type boxes. when an explo
a took piace by which be was forcibly proeirated,
id on recovering hiuise'l found that he was bteed
j profuse?v from the abdomen, and that his left
• ~.u was badly shattered. His clothes were on
lie Finding he could not extinguish the tlat-iee
r rushed up stairs and one of the workman daehed
a pail of water over him.
An examinationo! the b■lament, showed tat the
• xp v *• had been caused by a torpedo apparatus
mu factored from a piece of gas tipe about eight
h-vhe* in length a dac inch ic ammeter. Parts
; it w ere iound about the shop. The ends of the
: pe tad been tilled with plugs of solid iron, over
which other pieces had been welded, and about the
id and he there had evidently been a hole through
which the explosive material had probably been in
tr du> cd. Whether it was clied with anything more
taaa powder, was not ascertained. Pieces of the
pipe were driven into the work bench to the depth
!•:* half an inch or more, and ulacirto boards against
a wail adi inn g. and one piece about six inches in
Irngth, a as blown a distance of some sity feet, into
the area under c. .i the sidewalk, where it made
,-ui imprevssion upt'n a board a quarter of an inch in
depth.
. • i, examicAOOD of the of Mr. Lee, showed
j that hie left hand had been almost completely blown
w'.Vear.v to the WIUL leaving the bcmesjmd mus
i clt-.- dc*shtesc He a*so received two or thr*? gashes
ucrofe? the abdomen, and was badly burned. It is
trooghu, however, that his injurioa will not prove
. *. Xo clue to the perpetrator has ■‘ •eeu obtain*
ed. v
Mxßtßrfa, Apr I —The seventy-fir*t anniver
sary of- e *‘rreut of Ohio wae- celebraltKi to
day. ,-T‘ie H- n Tbomas Ewing delivered the ac
idres-s Ihev u y survivor of the party ot forty
n who arrived * here n 17*7 was present, as were
nh*o several who wtre born in rise hnd block vg
!x>uao> bulk iu Mariatta aud Belpre, the three oldest
living uatives ot Ohio, and n large nnmberof
their deece*.,oants and soldiers. —
Speeches were qptde by Gen. Goddard aud others
.* ;£OPKAN INTEULIGENTE.
RV THE IXDIAK.
! Vn’ h dat.fii to March 24th. |
B
j, Lord Derby announced that the Hocse would
h\- r Holidays. Hea’sosaii in reply to Lord
- ti. w tl-.e Yagraiit act recenby passed b/ the
: i’ : >nla! office, and was unde#cons!deration, lie
It: • bill upon the fable before it received the Boyai
j that it partial!y revives Slavery. In the House of
i (’ointn n. j , Gen Fee!2?aid it was not the intention
! *f Government to embody any more regiments of
J : I; in. Mr. D’lsraeli gave notice that he would
R
j oath* bill was debated at length and an amendment
Vviik-h cont ilined the exclusion of Jews from Par
luiment, was refected bv a vbte of two hundred and
ninety-seven to one Lundred and forty-four.
The third rending wi fixed for April 12.
1 On the 23d, in the Lord Ellenborougli ex
j plained the desire of the Government lo enlis: into
I the Indian Army Kromen or, the coast of Africa,
I but .said the plan bad been abandoned on account
j c-ruor-General of Jndia had on his own responai
oiiity cjiifiijcated and annulled the Principality of
Thar.
Mr. Monk ton Mimes celled attention to the vexa
tions to which British subjects were exposed by the
alterations ia the French passport system, ana
I moved fjr the production of the correspondence on
I trie subject. After con?iderab!e discussion on the
merits of the whole question, assurance w&3 given
ondhp part of the Government that they had con-,
ritlei cd che best mode of providing a remedy, and
it was contemplated to establish offices at the-prin
eipai port*, and to reduce the price of foreign office
Leav.t was given to bring in a bill to legalize
marriage with a deceased wife’s sister, by forty
three majority.
A Polish.bookseller in London, named Tehorew
*ki, had been arrested, charged with publishing a
pamphlet recently written by M. Pyat and others
advocating the aasusbina*km of Napoleon.
The London Times’ city article hope* that the
p. ejected abolition by the bar ks of New York of
allowing interest (n cuirent deposits will give addi
tjonal impulse to the consideration of the point in
England.
It was expected that the iuvitatian* would be ia
,-ued for the India loan on the day the Indian sailed.
It was rumored that they would be in four per cent
debentn ven year*. Tue firot
amount to be raised would be £5,(8)0,000.
I The Funds exhibited a general steadiness, aud
I 1 *ed firmly on Tuesday at a slight advance.
Gold continued to tlow into the Bank of England,
and a further reduction m the rate* of discount was
anticipates.
Mr. Henley, President of the Board of Trade,
had promised a deputation from the Mercantil • Ma
rine that if the present Government remained in
office, they would deal with the question of passing
toll Band local charges.
India. —The dt tails of the Indian new*, via Bom
h, added nothings of importance to
the tele graphic a vices, but rise to the hope
tiirtt decisive intelligence would be received by the
nex ! mail.
It wa* rumored that Nena Sahib was wandering
about the country with few followers.
The of Lucknow was expected to
ope;, wu ihe 22d of February.
Sir Colin ( ampbn.!! i.ad one hur dred and sixty
Numen.u* successful encounters with numerous
bodies ot Mutineers were reported.
A fresh attack on Qsig Outrun, at Alumbagh,
i;ad a!. been reported but no details received.
I China. —Advices from China via Bombay de
scribe trade as almost paralyzed, and state that
I luporie* <?re accumul .* ngtobuchan extent u* to
rend- *• i 1 difficult to procure storage
The lotai export ot Teas for the year to Great
Britain *hows a decrease of eight million pound*.
The Times’ Canton correepoudent reports the cn
tire re eeta’ liuhment of order there.
The Chinese loea during the late attack was not
believed to exceed 200 men.
The English and French it was eaid would pro
coed Norik nearlypossible. .
The Cima mads lUtenaedfur tneiotr steamer Ava
had leached England.
Toe bluckabe >f Canton was to finish en tue 10th
of February. The city wiU then be accessible to
toieiguer* under certain condition*, which will
shortly be promulgated. Tiie state of siege is to
continue during the period of occupation. Immeuce
and • cii of Mina had been discovered. Tue Alies
hou ut atioyed the rs;.:aioder of the tortifieationß.
j tie Urge town oi Eoachow and Keang Chang
had been retaken by the Imperialigt*
Fear* were entertained for safety of tue 3hip
John Taylor, which left China October I?th for
England, aud insurance were being effected at 30 a
40 per cent.
Latest.—The Calcutta mail steamer, with no
later news from India, but with the China mail to
Feb 17th, arrived at hues on the 17th of March.
Yeh, a prisoner on board the Indexible, was at
lit ng Kong on las way to Calcutta.
The blockade of Canton was raised on the 10th ol
February.
The Americana and Eusaiuiis had joined the
Lrniieh aud Eui;i.sli iu a .lemend ou the China Guv
Brume, t. The h-lters of the four plenipotentiaries
hail (June up to Shanhae, and by the middle of
March it would be known what lino China would
take.
Trade had reopened at Canton.
The 70tl. Sepoy ltegimeut had arrived, aud was
quartered within the walls of Canton.
France. —Count l’trsliiy's resignation of the
English Embassy, ban been accepted. The Duke
dt 41*laltod (Peussier) Las been appointed bis sue
cessor.
The accounts from various parts of France com
plain of uudne se erity with respect to passports
It vrae said tha’ iu cous.quenoa of dispatches
from the French Admiral, orders b .and beeu given to
ill out anew division of gunboats for China, and
that the operations of the allies would lie extended
| as far as Pekin.
11 was ri ported that Count Walewski had re
ceived anotbercheck. on the subject of refugees, that
I he had applied to the Portuguese Government to
expel some French refugees from Lisbon, but had
been met with a direct refusal
| Commercial affairs throughout France continued
I greatly depressed. The railway receipts for the
week were the worst tnat bad beeu known.
The goods trains had absolutely nothing to cv
j J(, is said that an hour before the Bdnperor’s arri-
Iva! at the opeiaon his recent visit, all the houses
I on the ltue Le Pelletier, opposite tha Opera House,
I were scare lied by the police.
! Tiih Municipal Commission of Paris have resolved
j on commencing the public works ou a large scale,
t so as to give employment to the operatives.
! The Daily News’ correspondent says it was rumor
j ed that the Count de Clmuibord had resolved to ab
dicate all his rights and claims in favor of the Couut
I de Paris.
The Paris Bourse had been firmer hut declined
j slightly en Tuesday. Breadstuff's were dull and
! lower.
. The transportation of the parties arrested under
’ the new public safety law had eomtneuced, and be-
I tween 50 and (10 of the proscribed individuals had
[ beeu sent to Africa
! All sailors froni.2o to 10 years of age, who had rot
I completed their four yeats of service, had been or-
I ed to join their ships immediately,
i The Par s correspondent of the London Herald,
1 gives a rumor that the Empress is eneiente.
. s\vrr/.KKt.AND —According to a Swiss paper, the
affair of the refugees is nearly terminated. It is
I proposed to the Federal Council to give a fixed resi
deuce in tue interior, and to expel forty one persons,
j Among the Frenchmen, twelve had already left for
England.
Spain. A telegram from Madrid says that seve
| ral ships of war were being fitted out for Havana,
1 and that ‘demonstrations against Vera Crux were
| spoken of.
j Italy —Discontent in Austrian Italy is said to
be daily increasing. .
| On the ‘-Hlth, the Court at Genoa gave judgment
i in the political trials which took place ii consequence
| of ti- events of Juno.
I Mazzini aud five others were tried in their ab
: seiice, and in onteinpt of Court sentenced to death.
! Twenty nine were acquitted and tweujy-eight were
-eutenced to imprisonment for terms varying from
seven to twenty years.
I Humors a: e again current of approaching settle
! mens of the difficulties between Naples and the
; Western powers.
! KcastA. A despatch from St. Peter-burgh says
Hussia is watching with great interest the relations
! of*Kngl&nd and France.
Th- Kursiau navy is to be fuhy manned aud ship
! building largely increased. Russia has no intention
I of accepting Eug.ish and French Consuls In the
I ’ All suspicious vessels on the Circassian coast will
j be seized.
i Tnun A letter states that in case the Turks
! shall not be able to suppress the insurrection in the
I Herxetorina, that the Austrain government will
I the Sultan w ith a division of troop s. and that
iu such case the Austrians will occupy Bosnia for
I d °Per contra, the London Poet’s Paris eorreepon
i Jen’savs. tnat the Austrian Government wilt not
, mierfer’e tilths affair? of Montenegro, and that Aus
! { r ; a w ji-l oniy draw a military cordon towards hsr
I own frontier.
The Alexandria correspondent of the London
I v -av- that Mr. de Leon. United Slates Consul
| at that place, bad returned from the Mission he un
dertook to Syrm.’in connection with the outrage on
! a tan_i!y residing near Jaffa, thsdetansof which
I have already been published. The Turkish autho
ri'te* bad yielded to the indignant remonetraoee* of
\ Mr de Leon, and arrested tour ot the partie* to the
1 outr&ff*. They had all been convicted, and were
I vii * in Iron*, avaitior confirmation of their se2-
[ tence from Constantinople.
1! >I!£ : ’em Pax* for It —At the execution of the
negreii Jeuuy. a few days ago, at Alexandria,
tK iue man kiudiy luruithed a ladder by which a
large number of the outsiders were enabled to mount
ihe ,ail wall and witness the execution. I bis was
all very weil, but the wall audience, after the sight
:,ad been seen, on turning about to descend again
-i u-rra nrma discovered that the ladder uaa been
removed, leaving them big:, ana dry and in an ex
oeediugly unpleasant position. The man with the
ladder to.<d a sh irt distance off enioymg intensely
the predicament ot i-> captives, which no entreauy
Os theirs, or threats either, would induce !nm to re
eve Tue boys looked down with an eye to a des
perate lean, but alas !-dhe distance was too great •
knd only then did it occur to them to try the effect
cf silver to induce the ladder-man to come to terms
-This was precisely what that gentleman had
been wait.no for, and when he heard the word
“money*’ he consented to negotiate teims, which
were, that he should receive the email fee of ten
cent* a head, and that the pay be in ad
vance. The dime* were accordingly pitched down
and gathered up, when the ladder w&e again placed
against the wall. but the eccentric and speculative
‘manager’* performed a sudden exit, to the unboun
ded chagrin of hie victims, who had fondly hoped
to “get eveu with him ’ as soon as they should
reacii the ground _
Compliment use. a Wife— Raikeeteil this story in
h ; Diary : The Marques dt . eldest son of the
Duke, is married to a handsome wife, and both are
sincerely attached to each other. Xo union can be
more happy. Tne other night they had dressed for
a ball to which they were invited, and at the mo
ment of departure the lady made her appearance in
ueh a bewitching toilette, and looking o divineiv
beautiful, that the husband was seized with a sud
den fit of jealously, and without any feeling of re
sentmsntorUl wuUohiswife.bat merely to pre
vent others from the enjoyment ot such a sight,
be very- deliberate y tore-fcer gown m pieces from
her back Many Laglish laaies would ha've sued
bow the young French
Marquise bore the disappointment. The answer
was.—She was nattered beyond measure and
proud of this proof of her husband's admiration ;
tnd in tact.” .aid the. uarrat,#. “there was some-
thug beautiful and ,- in this Sash of sen.i
mei.t.’ I Lad so littie poesie in my nature that it
sTtiok me as very ill-bred, cruel, and exceedingly
eertisa. •
PoRTi.iSB, Me., April”. —Jedediah Sewell, the
repubiicon candidate for mayor, has been elect ed
by -tit) majority.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY .MORNING, APRIL 14, 1858.
* —1 .
The Fort Defiance and Colorado Wagon Hoad
—NnrcfM. of the Camel*.
The following intere-tine report of operations has
b-fen received at the War Department from Mr. E.
K.a.%▲.* City. March 23, 1858.
Sir: 1 have the honor to leport my arrival at
this place,.after a successful and winter
journey ever the road winch I explored last sum
mer, in obeoience to your orders.
As I informed you in my iaet despatch, the ob
jec f ot the journey was to satisfy m>seif fully as to
tee practicability or impracticability of travelling
Le contemplated road in mid-winter. With tins
view. I left the Tejon Pa-8, iu the ISierra Nevada,
on the 2d of January, and traveling leguureiy* ar
rived al Albuquerque on the 24th of February,
having passed the heart ot the winter on the more
elevated portion of the road.
From the Colorado to Sabredas Spring, we
found no snow whatever. From the ialter point to
Silgreave* mountain we found it occasionally, in
patches, w here it was sheltered by bank* and ce
dar trees from the sun. From Sitgreaves moun
tain to a prnali hill lying to the eastward of it, we
found snow for the first time so deep as to cover
the ground. This continued for a distance of threfe
miles, and was a foot in depth, and sometime
on the lev i. It was only occasion on which
we found the surface of the earth covered.
Crossing this, which is the highest .point over
which the road passes, to the Roux spring,we
gradully descended to the little Colorado, finding
snow only in small patches, aud that rapidly melt
ing away. On the Little Colorado there was none.
On the 12th February snow fell, but melted - almost
ae soon as it reached the earth ; and. all hough it
snowed ail night, there was not a trace of it to be
Been on the succeeding day. Timber was every
where so abundant that our camp blazed every
night with cheerful fire* ; and, although I brought
tent* for the use of the men, they were never used
on a single occasion—the men perfen ing, a* well a*
myself, to lie in the open air.
The thermomete , of which observations were
taken at sundown, ut four o’clock in the morning,
and at noon, will give you a better idea of the cli
mate than any deac iption; the coldest night we ex
perienedd being on the sth of Febt :ary, when the
thermometer stood at 18 deg. at four o'clock iu the
morning. Grass we found as abundant as ou our
previous journeys and neither men nor animal*
suffered in the least from cold during the journey
homeward.
In a previous letter I informed you that I had
sent the camels back to Fort Ttjon from the Colo
rado river, in the charge of my clerk, in order that
they might be used in the campaign against Utah.
1 parted with t uc&e no Die brute* with much regret.
A year of hard and almost unremitting labor with
them had attached us all to them with feelings
stronger, I think, than any one experiences for
either the horse or dog. It is to be hoped that the
Government will continue the importation of this
valuable animal, until sufficient have beeu obtain
ed for the use of the whole army. It is cheaper at
first coat, lives longer, and is infinitely stronger aud
hardier than the mule, while its capacity for work
is four times greater. For military purposes, I re
gard it as invaluable, in a country where forage ta
difficult to obtain. In all of the wars of the j£ast,
in ancient days, it played a conspicuous part; and
not nnly in ancient but also iu modern warfare, its
excellence has been displayed. Sir Charles Napier
attributed much of his success in his brilliant cam
paigns of Scinde to the < fficiency of the camel re
giment, the organization of which enabled him to
transport his men with their provisions and arms to
great distances, over what had been hitherto con
sidered an imp-iesable country. H>s artillery was
dragged by them through the sandy deserts over
which he passed.
I quote the following extracts from the biography
of Sir Charles Napier, lately pv’-toned, which will
doubtless be rexd with interest by those interested
in the experiment:
“My plans are fixed to march as far as the desert,
or as far as water can be found; then encamp, ae
lect nve hundred of the strongest Europeans and
natives, mount them on camels, and lead all my
other came'e with water, except a few to carry half
ration*. My camel battery, also, shall go, and as
many irregular horse as it will -be prudent to take,
and slap Einaurn Ghan in the heart of the desert. If
it surrender, good ; if not it shall have such a ham
mering as shall make the fire flly out of its eyes.
“ ’Tw&s a strange sight, that midrflghl mar k—
with the long strides of the patnels, with English
soldier* mouifted ou them, calm,impassive, and re
liant, ss they always are, the camels drawing the
howitzers.”
In reference to the preparations for the battle of
Meeanee, “ the Scinde horse are on the left; be
hind are the baggage and baggage guard; the
cameis are squatted in a circle, with their noses
turned inwards, aud the men lying between their
necks. With them go the famous
camel corps, the organisation of which must not be
omitted. Each camel carried two men, one armed
with a carbine and sword, the other with a musque
toon and bayonet. One man guided the animal,
and fought from its back; the other was to act as
an infantry soldier. Ou the camels were carried the
men’s packs, cooking utensils, and beds—the latter
forming part of the saddle ; aod thus a body of sol
diers, capable of acting ai infantry when required,
having no tents, baggage or eommisaariat to em
barrass them, could make marches of sixty .miles in
twenty-four hours, over a country which had hith
erto been considered unpayable. * * * This
body gave to the solidity of the English troops the
mobility and rapidity ot Arab cavalry.”
At this very time, when the terrible results of the
mutiny or the native troops iu India has made if.
necessary to forward regiment after regiment w r ith
extraordinary despatch,-we see them sent on cam
el*, two and four men to the animal, and marching
day aud night. The impression seems to have ta
ken hold of cur people, however, that the camel is
incapable of withstanding the cold of our winter
weather. There is no greater error than this
Wherever man can live, there can the camel live
also. Nature has beeu bountiful to him beyond al
most auy other animal,in clothing him with a heavy
coat of warm hair, through which, an Arctic blaat
cannot penetrate.
[Mr. Beale here quotes at considerable length
from the “ Travels of Father Hue in Tarlary,” to
show that while horses, oxen, and mules, died from
the extreme cold, the camels stood the severe wea
ther without, injury.]
But better than the experience of Ctllt!' 4 * a that
of our own. The camels are now living, fattening,
and thriving in two feet o‘ snow on the summit of
the Sierra Nevada, in California.
From Tcxhh.
Tiie New-Orleans Picayune, of Sunday, contains
news from Texas to tiie 30th uit., as follows :
Galveston was visited with a squall amounting al
most to a tornado, about 1 o’clock ou the morning
of the 30t.h uit. The Civilian says :
In thunder, lightning and rain, it was all that Mac
beth's witches could have desired, to say nothing of a
sharp patter of hail, by way of improvement. We
hear of no damage from its effect*, further than the
drifting ashore of some of the small craft Used in bay
navigation. This morning the face of nature is as
calm and smiling as if no suoh nocturnal revel had
taken plat e.
The Galveston Civilian furnishes the following
news paragraph :
Gen. Twiggs accompanied by Dr. McCormick,
left San Antonio on a short furlough, and before liis
return may visit New-York aud Waahiugton—ex
pecting to return som,: time in the month of April.
During his abserce Col Henry Wilson, 7th Infan
try, will have command of this military department.
The prospect for the grain and fruit crops in
Western Texas is repotied as remarkably good.—
The San Antonio llerahl says that more than two
weeks ago, on the Medina, there were fields of com
more than a foot high. The stands are remarkably
good. The peach and plum trees are overloaded
with young fruit, The last frost did no damage.
The San Antonio Herald announces the departure
of a company ofyoung men, citizens of Bexar coun
ty, “for some remote region, in searoh ot gold.'’
They were to join another company from Caldwell
county.
Iu a severe bail storm at New Braunfels, on the
15th uit., several hail stones were picked up weigh
ing, it is said, one and a quarter pounds.
The Austin Intelligencer learns that Capt. Ford's
company have scouted ail through Brown county,
without finding auy Indians, and have come to the
conclusion that there are no Indians there.
Grasshoppers, the Austin Gazette save, are very
bad in the vicinity of San Antonio, and in fact m al
most all the counties southwest of Austin. Serious
apprehensions are entertained by the planters tiiat
the crops will be destroyed.
They have had a tremendous rain in Austin late
ly. For four days the sun was hid behind the dense
duds, until at last, on the night of the -3(1 uit., the
rain aud hail came down amidst flashes of lightning
aud roars of thunder, with a violent wind, com
pletely deluging the city. The river rose a foot
during the night aud six feet the next day. Trees
aud fences were blown down, and also the houses
ot Messrs. Dorse aud Barnes, some eight miles to
the north of the city.
The Palestine Advocate, of the 24th uit., reports
the Trinity river out of its hanks, and still rising
There was considerable cotton on the river bank
awaiting shipment.
A Kentucky Heiress cuts on Boy’s Clothes
AND RUNS AWAY WITH HER LOVER. —Love Will
laugh at guardians, as it has ever has at locksmiths.
An in-1 Alice in proof came under our observation
yesterday. A young girl, between 17 and 18 years
of age, an orphan, was sent from Louisville, or near
that city, to Cincinnati, to be educated at a board
ing school, and had remained in tbe institution for
some time. Previous to leaving her former home,
however, she had been wooed and won by a plain
young K.entuok : an, neither over-stylish in personal
appearance or dress, nor yet heavily laden with
gold, stocks, or mortgages. The guardian of the
young lady, a prominent citizen of Jjouisville, was
opposed to the association, and forbade, not exact
ly the bans, tor he had no idea matters would reach
that climax, but the attentions of the young gentle
man, and posted his ward off to her lessons at
school.
But “ where there is a will there is a wav, is a
remark which the young lovers proved the truth
of. The Kentuckian visited the city, and managed
to obtain communication with his affianced, who
was closely watched and guarded, and a plan was
finally arranged for elopement. On Monday after
noon the lover went to a well-known clothing estab
lishment and procured a full suit of boy's elotbes,
from cap to boots, aad sent the bundle to the lady’s
house. Posting himself at a convenient comer, he
soon had the satisfaction of seeing her emerge from
the budding unattended, and admirably disguised
in her new suit. Forthwith, through the aid of
friends somewhere the hearts’ wishes were grati
fied, and the two made one.
About 9 o'clock in the evening, two young gentle
men inquired for rooms at the IV aicut Street House,
ana registering their names as “E. W. 6nd A. K.
Dewey. DtKalb,lll,” were shown to a double-bed
ded apartment, jiisterious circumstances in the
morning led to an enquiry by Judge Sweeney, t ie
landlord, when the fact was exposed tha* Mr. “A. K.
Dewey - ’ was a tcoman! An explanation followed,
and the history of the affair was given about as we
have related it above, the gentleman giving his own
name, that ot the lady and her guardian and such
references as satisfied mine host tnat it was an “o’er
true tale ’of love and elopement. What adds still
greater interest to the romantic runaway is the fact
that the young lady is heir to a large property in her
own right said to be at least $l 00,000 as soon as she
arrives at a legal age. The happy couple left by
river yesterday, on a honeymoon trip, to remain be
\ o and the reach of guardian until the heiress shall ar
rive at the age of eighteen, of which period she
tacks some five or six mouths — Cm. Crazettr.
Dslightfci Simmer Travel. —The Presidents
and Superintendents of the Tennessee, and Virginia,
and Georgia Railroads, assembled in Convention
a , (de office of the Western 4t Atlantic Railroad, in
this citv. on yesterday, and arranged Through
Tickets’ for S. Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Ten
nessee. Louisiana, Mississippi. Arkansas and Tex
as to the Virginia Springs via that delightful coun
*™ the Italy of America —the valley of Tennes
see and Virginia. Travellers will do well to avail
themselves of this iacUity. and mus not only enjoy
th easiest, but by far the most pleasant route to
the various watering plaves, and summer reeorti ot
Tennessee and Virginia. —'Atlanta InUUxgentr of
Tk u rtdoy. m
Esd of x> Exciting Aft xir— It will be remem
bered that quite a seriuus excitement took place at
Goidshorougb. N. C., some months ago, gsowing
out of an affray in which Dr. Davis, a man named
Odenheimer and others figured Last week the
parties were tried and found guilty. Dr. Davis
was fined $25. Chas. Spatb fiued $2” and imprison,
ed one month, and Qdeuheimai fined s2a and un
prisoned five months. _ Dr. Davis retuacd to proee
cure the case, ana after Spath waa in
interceded m hi* behalf, and secured the temission
of the fine,
From ()te St. L/ntis | RepmMtrmn ; to/ tn*f.
Amttier Terrible S.teanAont Dfnrc>‘,
We hav* So record anotb er terrible steamboat- dis
aster, whichxa* resuited in the loss qf from fifteen
to twent. lives, aud tJhe tptai destruction of a
boat and valuable cargo, a From the officers o ; the
False City, and passengers o£ the ereauaer* Great
West ana James Wood. wLich boat*‘arrived subse
quently, we teave obtained.tin* following part cu
lar* of the^b liming of the steamer isultau, and the
ioss of niahj£ of her passenger* and crew.
The steamer Saltan. Captain Phil. E. Haniium,
ieft this port for New Orleans anout date on Thar*
day evening, the Ist iust,-.hav|ag on” board about
lifteeu passmigera, and near ode thousand tons of
dour, pork, wheat and lead, malting a very large
and valuable cargo. *
When she had gained a point about five miles this
=dd j of St. Genevieve, at 3J o'clock on Friday inora
teg, flames were discovered issuing from the w afeh
maa’s locker, by the eugineer’on watch, which'EK>n
enveloped the whole boat. The fire is supposed to
have originated from the accidental .combustion, of
campheue. which the watchman, was using at the
U ne, probably in filling a lamp. The alarm wa*
given, and the engineer iinmedfotely commenced
uncoiling tlib hose used for washing’decks, etc-, for
the purpose of turning a stream of water on the
fire ; but before he succeeded in arran ing the hose,
the dame* Had spread the whnlffiieck and engine
room, and wjj e communicating stowed
there. •
i'he boat was under way at the.time took fire,
and when the alarm became general was a short
distance above tee head of St. Genevieve Island.—
Win. Gray', Ihe.-pilot on watch, immediately mint
ed her for thelteore,. which she reached and was
made fast to a fallen tree A large plank was
launchedJbut.before any of the or crew
could get ashore the line parted aud the burning
boat drifted down with the current. Auo; her report
says, that by some Mistake, in the excitement, oue
of tee engines was not stopped, but backing, and
this, togethe/yith the force of the current, tore up
the boat's We also letp-n that the plank
was out and tee boat at shoee long enough for many .
to have ew&pcd had it not Utn Use the genet al de
sire to save baggage.
Iu this dilemma the only chant and left the passen
gers and crew fpr escape was to jump overboard
rrom the burning wreck All aieept the officers on
watch were fa&t asleep at the time of the alarm, an
the confusion end consternation which ensued was
indescrible..; .
The boat’s yawl being at the srern was inaccessi
ble, from the ragiiig of the flames and ships, aud
could not be brought to the rescue. Accordingly
stages, life boat*, planks and other light articles
was thrown overboard, and carried away then bur
dens of living freight.
There were about fifteen passengers in all—six
ladies, aud nine gently men, and they all rushed fit
ward and jumped Overboard, some on the life iterate
aud planks, and others into the water. Os the fif
teen pas*engJ! , d'“bi)ly“ , two ladies are certainly known
to have been .saved. * Others may have reached the
shore in safety, and not since been heard from. The
Fall* City, which came up about tfcfee hours after
the disaster, and while the wreefedwas still burning,
.'the crew, but not a single
passenger. Tvvo of the ladies hafl been seen by one
of the crew who came up on the Fallc City.
A great deal of uncertainty stills* envelopes the
fate of the and many now m/esmg and
supposed to have been lost may have reached shore
in safety.
* One report eay* that jail, or yery nearly all, the
cabin crew were .lost. Theyrivere asleep in tlietex
as and would naturally be latest in receiving tbe
alarm. Neatly the whole *of the ceek crew—fire
men, deok ect —were jjaved. They probably
rook ihq alarm, anq the best means of getting ashore,
it is possible that many of them spiang ashore when
tbe plank was out and the boat made fast.
It is estimated that there were from sixty five to
seventy persons on board the Sultan, including offi
cers, passenger* and crew, and tha our of this num
ber from fifteen to Twenty were certainly lost, and
nearly as many more missing
TH£.L (> st -AND Miss^o.—Henry Ely, one of the
pilots, was picked up. from the river neat St. Gene
vieve, andnitd shortly after he reached pfrore.
Capt. D. D. Moore, the clerk of the bo it has no
been seen since the disaster, aud is supposed
have been {ost.
The bar-keeper—name unknown—is lout or mi s
ing. t r •
The wat item an. Joseph Bla teburn. is lust; also
Martin Rix n, secopd steward, together with fhos*
Cannon and Deunie Callaghan, pantrymen.
Ten others of the crew—names unknown—are
among the and are supposed to been
•ost. Amoug them was thechambermaiu, a eolojre
woman. None of the male passengers on board
have been heard from, and some of- them are doubt
less among the victiurj. It is impossible to ascer
tain, as yet, the number certainly lost, as thoso sav
ed were scattered 4br several miles along the r ver
Capt. to. E. Hannum Btooa at his pott, like the
hero of the burning deck, until the flames had ea
veloped the hurricane roof. He then made Ida es
cape by climbing ever one of the wheel-houses aid
jumped overboard at the stern. He ia now at St.
Genevievf, badly burned about the face.
The burning boat floated down to the head of Qt.
Genevieve laiaud, where it lodged, and was still on
fare when the last arrival passed up. The wreck lies
about oue mile above St. Genevieve. Boat aqd
freight are oue mass of cinders.
The Sultan was owned by McAllister & Cos., of
this city, three-fourths, and P. E. Hannum, her
commander, one-fourth. She was valued at
000, ana insured for SL,frOO. Her cargo was in
sured, we did not learn for w'hat amount, but he
freight list was not.
Incidents —We beard a report that the walcli
man, Joseph Blaekimr , wa? killed iu the following
maimer, but will not vouch for the hath of the
statement: The boat's barber, a oolored man, had
two ladies on a plank with him, taking them to
shore. Blackburn, being in the water, caught hold
of the pianlf, and insisted oq getting on it. The
barber told.him it would not bear another person,
and ordered him to let go his hold, which Black
burn not obeying, the barber took out his knife aud
stabbed him. Report says, the ladies were saved,
and the barber took conveyance for the South.
Mr. Brickey, of Brickey's Landing, Baw the boat
in flames, and he and another mail put out. iu skiffs
to tiie rescue. Mr. Brickey, who got aboard the
Bleamer Great West at Little Rock, stated to the
offi< ars of that boat that lie aud liis partner saved
frci.” ♦ wenfai.fiyqjto twenty-seven persons in their
skiffs, one lady being amonjr the number.
The pilot, Win. G>ay, and engineers Ira M Bless
ing and K Harman, are said to have behaved witii
great courage and manliness during the whole
scene of the burning, and remained at their posts
until driven away by tiie heat.
The officers of the Falls Oity treated the crew of
the Sultan, which they brought up, in the most hos
pitable manner.
We have stated all we have been able to learn of
this melancholly disaster. Arrivals from below to
day may bring more new?, which will lie anxiously
sought by those of onr citizens who had friends or
relatives aboard the Sultan.
The Lnte Gnlc at Fnuclial.
The Washington States publishes tbe .following
extract from a letter written by au officer oil board
of the United States ship Cumberland, to a gentle,
men in Washington:
Funchal, Madeira, Marcli 7, 1858.
It is through God’s mercy, my dear , that X
am enabled lo address you again. Ou the morning
of the sth a gale came on, rapidly increasing and
blowing directly on shore; and, for a time, it was
the general opinion that we would be driven on the’
rocks. If we had, probably not twenty out of the
the three hundred and sixty souls on board wquld
have survivedMd'-Jell the story. About 11 A. M.,
our cable parted, and we were drifting by tbe wind
—sea directly towards Lhe shore. Two more anch
ors were let go; but still we dragged. A fourth
brought her up just in time to prevent the destruc
tion of a barque, near which we had drifted—so
near thht I could have touched her with my hand.
We had been lying outside the other veef els iu the
harbor, but had dragged past them all, tearing away
tbe iibboom of a brig as we passed.
It was a fearful moment when, oue anchor gone
and two others useless, we were drifting helplessly
on towards a precipitous and rocky shore, to strike
which was olir death-warrSnt -Only ten minutes
between time and eternity—when our last anchor
was let go; and, thank’God! It held. The gale
was then at its height, the waves rolling mountains
high, the angry sea dashing even over tbe Loo rock,
eighty feet in height, the wind blowing furiously,
and the ship pitching and rolling so that it was im
possible to stand; the water a foot deep on every
deck, and pouring in through every port-hole. Then
came the dull booming of a cannon from the Loo
fort, warning all vessels to go to sea immediately—
a thing it was impossible for us to do.
We could but watch and wait. Another heavy
surge carried away our jibboom and flying iibboom
aud other important spars and rigging. Then the
cry of “ Man overboard! 1 ’ startled ns. and an old
man, named Henderson, was seen wildly struggling
in the raging waters: but the next sea, providen
tially, threw him on board again. The cables were
now strain ng so severely, that four guns were
thrown overboard to lighten the Bkip- A second
gun from the fort announced the wreck of a brig ;
and Btill a third, in quick suocessihn, usheied five
souls more into eternity from another brig. It was
with a painfully sad interest that we watched these
vessels break from their anchors one after another,
and drift hopelessly ashore, till three had gone.
At last, at about 4p. m., the barometer, which
fell In a fearfully short time lower than it had ever
done before, began to rise. Hope revived. Every
thing had now been done for onr safely; the royal
and topgallant raa-ts and ah the yards sent down op
deck, topmaets housed, mast? ready for cutting
away and guns for heaving overboard, so that, if we
did go ashore, we might be driven as high up as
possible, aud now we could only wait idly for what
ever fate Providence’ had in store for us. But the
gale began to break and the sea go down, aud, for
tbe first time in those terrible hours, our eafety
seemed assured. And so it confined : the appear
ance of things gradually grew better, until, at 11
o’clock, weak, exhausted, wet and hungry, (for
nothing could be cooked,) I turned in to pass a rest
less and sleepless night.
The next morning, though the sea was still
very high, all danger was over. We escaped won
derfully well; two men got overboard, but were
both recovered, and several others were more or lees
injured. From a bark near us four men were wash
ed overboard aud lost. On shore the destruction is
frightful. The inhabitants say that so terrific a gale
was never before experienced here, nor the barome
ter ever before so low. Os the vessels driven on
shore, two were dashed to pieces within five min
utes after striking, and not a vestige of them re
mains i and the other lies high and dry upon the
beach, a complete wreck. The anxiety on shore
was painfully intense ; for if we bad struck the lose
of life would have been six times greater than that
of all the other vessels in the roadstead combined.
For fear of a repetition of the scene from which
we have so providentially escaped, we are going to
sea tor a short cruise as soon as the ship is in fit con
dition. After the month the harbor is perfectly safe,
and we shall probably be back again in time for the
next mail.
A Dead Boot Packed cp is a Barrel and
Sent et Bailroad.— This morning considerable
excitement was created at the Kailroad Depot, cor
ner of Canal and Washington streets, by the suspi
cion that a certain barrel which had arrived as
frieght. containing a human body. About half-past
12 o'clock Coroner Hills amveo %> the depot, and
after ordering the bead of the ‘ -ek to be knocked
in discovered the naked shoulders of a man, from
w -ij the head and arms were severed, and pask-’
ed beside them. The face which was turned up
ward, exhibited an expression ot horror, and seam
ed to be that of quite a young person. The bail el
came over the Central Kailroad, and from the
freight bill, it appears to have been sent from are
mote place.— Y. Erpreu.
Imports of Drt Goods. —The imports of foreign
dry goods at the pert of New York for the month of
March are $3,600,110 less than for the same period
of last year. $5,145,689 less than for March 1856,
and only $©*0,235 less the-verv small total received
in the same period of 1855. The withdrawal from
warehouse are twice as large as for the same period
of either of the previous two years, while the entries
for warehousing have been very light. The total
receipts of foreign dry goods at the port of New
York, since the Ist of January, are $lB 1.168.911 .ess
than for the same time last year. $14,822,718 less
than for the eorrespoodiug three months of 4850,
and $2,413,574 leas than for the same parted of 1850.
The total receipts of foreign dry goods for the nina
months of the current fiscal year are $58,699,558
against $78,834,428 lor the same period of the pre
ceding year, and $68,184,032 for the nine months
ending April Ist, 1856.
Flood in the Miwflssippl—lmmense I.om of
Property.
We learned the following particulars from a friend
resident ill Bolivar county, Mississippi who came
‘ U ’ 7 U the. Nebraska last evening.— Memphis Ap-
Tbe break which occurred in the levee at the foot
of the lsla!ld Sixty-Six, of which we heard a day a
or two since has resulted much more disastroiwlv
than was as first anticipated. It is now-believed so
Lave been the work .of design
Our inform ut states that some days ago, having
occasion to tl-t Canons Landing wtd his family
(Ins residence is some ten mdes from the river.) to
procure passage fur a female relative upon some
ascending boat, as far as Memphis, he found bis
return suddenly cat .ff and himself completely
hemmed m, by the rapid influx of water, consequent
upon the breakage of the levee above. Iu a short
time the whole country for miles in extent was
flooded. Large plantations, valued at fifty dollars
per acre, were completely covered, and nearly all
ih- live stock swept away, all, “in fact, save the
leu who congregated upon little patches of rising
ground here and there, of some few feet in extent.
11l many places private dwellings furnished shel
ter aud protection to “man and beast. ‘ As incases
ut double tenements somewhat elevated, whites oc
cupied one end of the building, negros the other
wtnle in the intermediate porch cattle would be
huddled as thick as they could stand. In very
many instances, however, the houses themselves
were deserted, the owners having been compelled
to betake themselves to dugouts, boats aud rafts or
whatever came first to hand.
Tiie suffering aud distress of the inhabitants Is
described as having been severe in the extreme.
Our informant states ifott up to the time he left
tears were entertained that the levee would give
way in other places below the first break, •Rnd all
who could render auy effective service were busily
employed catching driftwood and piling it upon
the levee, aud using all other moans in their pow
er to raise it so as to curb the impetuous flood.
Our informant was detained at the lauding two
days before he could get a boat to send out a yawl
for himself aud family, aud they finally had to take
the lugomar (bound lor New Orleans) as far as
Napoleon, where they waited fur the Nebraska.
Arrived at Napoleou, he found tbe citizens boating
through the streets, that worthy burgh having also
beeu inundated.
The damage done to the fertile country, covered
by this overflow, cannot be easily estimated, as, in
addition to the actual loss of property, tb<a land is
rendered totally unfit for tillage during the present*
season. Moreover, it is highly probable that this
influx will cause tha waters of the Yazoo to back 1
up so as to flood that rich delta likewise. Aud if so, 1
a material curtailment in the great staple, of which
.Mississippi is the chiet producer, may be expected 1
for the coming season. i
A private letter from Memphis, dated the 2d iu- 1
slant, which appears in the Charleston News, says ■
of the flood in the Western rivers ; “At this time 1
a 1 the levees are broken on iue Arkansas, from Pine (
Bluff down, and iu many pieces ou the Mississippi <
it is the highest wa’ er we have had since 1844, and I
within eight or ten inches of that memorable fresh- I
et. Great damage will bo done to farms below the *
mouth of the Arkansas, and may have a bearing on 1
cotton interests.” ’
The Memphis Bulletin says :
“Many portions of the counties bordering the
river ou the Mississippi side have been overflowed
during the present high water, and much property
destroyed The counties of polivar, Sunflower, Co
a.ioina and Tunica haye suffered most by the fresh
et. gome parts of the levees ou the Arkansas side
have given way and much suffering occasioned, but
the destruction of property has not been so great as
on the other side of the river.
A few days since we spoke of a break in the levee
at the toot ot island This break hae fesulted
most disastrously, and ia now believed to be the work
of some vilhan to gratify private malice. The whole
country, for miles in extent, i* flood, live stock
swept away, and, in many instances, houses desert
ed and tbe occupants compelled to betake tiiem
selves to raft* aqd boats to reach dry land.
At Lewis’ Swamp, in Coahoma county, the levee
has given way, and the water i* pouring down into
Sunflower county. This break will absorb a great
deal of the surplus water, and afford some relief to
the inhabitants below in Bolivar county.
We find the following items iu the Coahoma Citi
zen of Saturday laat;
Tfie levee at Lewis’ Swamp, about thirty miles
from h riar’a Point, to the lower part of Coahoma
county, was cut a few days since by some unknown
scoundrel-supposed to be the work of raftsmen,
who did it to enable them to run their timber from
this swamp. There is no doubt about it having
been cut, aud if the scamp is discovered, he will be
very apt to streten hemp. If would be well enough
to make an example of the geut, if caught, by hang
ing him. It would then be no longer necessary to
keep a guard by clay and night upon our levees.—
Damage to levee by this cutting is from $25,600 to
$40,000. ’
Again. —On last Wednesday some fiatboatmen
were attempting by brlock and tackle to draw their
boats over the levee into the Yazoo Pass, to the
imminent danger of destroying the levee. The
alarm spread through the country, and iu a short
time a number of the citizens, armed cap a-pie, ar
rived at the scene of action and dispersed them.
Crevasse.—The levee near the plantion of Col.
Trotter, in Tunica county, has washed away, and
the river is sweeping through the country, passing
through Phillip’s Bayou into Moon Lake, and from
Moon Lake into the Yazoo Pass. The water from
thit? opening in the levee will inundate a *;reat ex
tent of country, and cause the destruction of a great
amount of property. The damage to levees alone
will be very heavy.
If the laborers can keep the levees intact a few
days longer before Coahoma, the water being at a
Btiiud here, it cannot rise much higher. The news is
favorable from all the upper streams, aud all welcan
say to our friends below, is to keep a stiff upper lip
and work on.
The recent break in the levee at Carson’s £and
ing, we learn, is affecting the plantations below very
seriously, but now that the water is falling, we hope
the damage may not be a much as it was apprehend
ed would be the case There is no break, a* far as
we can learn, below Carsou’s Landing, but we wait
flirt her advices with a good deal of anxiety.
Letter from .11 r. Gretts.
Kai.mia, March 30, 1858.
In the Ktlitor of the Evening .New* :
Deak Sir : —My atteution has just been called
to an article in your journal of 20th inst., calling on
Mr. Jna H. Taylor for an explanation of certain
quotations made by Mr. Hamlin, in answer to Gen.
Iljunmond's Bpeech, also, to your paper of 22d with
Mr. Taylor's reply, aud some remarks from you in
reference to myself.
As to my birth place, Mr. Taylor is right. My
father was a citizen of South Carolina during the
Revoluiionary war, and was attached to the militia
as a soldier in the defence of Charleston. After its
surrender, on his march as a prisoner to Ninety-Six,
in Abbe ville District, he escaped from the enemy
and moved to the State of Virglni i, where I was
born. I have beeu a resident of South Carolina
for thirty four years. Ido not know Mr. Hamlin,
and have never had auy correspondence with him.
1 presume lie quotes from my address to the
South Carolina Institute. The essay was deliver
ed in Charleston, and first published in the Evening
News lam satisfied that its re publication entire
would relieve me from the reproach which that gen
tleman’s garbled quotations might bring upon me,
aud afford conclusive proof of my patriotic inten
tions and desire to promote the best interests of my
adopted State.
The e say abounds iu proof that Gen. Hammond’s
position is correct, and shows what a powerful and
independent people we should be were we to add to
our great staples the mechanic arts, and embrace
the other elements of natural wealth and greatness
that abound amongst us, and how entirely inde
pendent we could render ourselves of a people who,
since the delivery of that address, have shown them
selves to be our bitterest enemies.
You will find the easuy republished in De Bow’s
Review, July, 1851, page 123.
I page 133, I use the following language :
“From the best estimates that I have been able to
make, I put down the white people, who ought to
work, aud who do not, or who are so employed,
as to be wholly unproductive to the St te, at one
hundred and lwenty-five thousand.”
In this estimate, I inteuted, of course, to include
male and female, old and young, all the country
people, w.ho obtain from the Boil a mere living and
no surplus, besides the middle and educated classes
who would be stimulated to action by the introduc
tion of other branches of industry than planting cot
ton. Tlmt class would embrace those who are
educated at our miliitary echoolß, to fit them for
carrying on the arts and commerce of our St te,
who now have to emigrate to other States to seek
employment. Every cotton factory operative calls
into action at least three others, to carry on the
various branches of industry that spring lrom that
source.
Mr. Hamlin couples the above quotations with
another passage in the essay, (page 135) where I
speak of our poor sand hill population who occu
py the barren lands of the State, and who are in
reality bat little in advance of the Indian of the
forest. They constitute but a small portion of our
white population, and being almost wholly unedu
cated, would be elevated and made useful by fac
tory employment. Respectfully,
W Gregg.
Extensive Swindle.—For some time past, says
tbe New York Times of MoDday, complaints have
been made to the Mayor of an exsive awind e
prapticed upon country cierchaata by parties de
signating themselves “Oliphant, Bartlett &■ C 0.,”
o(l8 Broadway, avid representing themselves to be
tbe proprietors of a West India Coffee manufacto
ry. The matter was given in charge to Sergeant
Birney. On inquiry it was discovered that a man
named Bradley about a month ago applied to
Messrs. Tappan & McKillop, Marcantile Agents, to
send fifteen thousand circulars, signed “Oliphant,
Bartlett & C 0.,” to merchant* in all sections of the
United States and Canada. The specified number
of eirculars were sent. The circulars announced
that the writers could furnish three different kinds
of Coffee to country merchants, on terms enabling
the latter to derive on the sale a nst profit of over
59 per cent. Thousands of merchants at once sent
their names, offering to become agents. Certifi
cates of agency were forwarded to these merchants
and invoices .of a sample of the goods. A request
was sent with the invoice that the amount might
be forwarded by check or bankable money, with a
promise that on all future orders eight months
time would be given. The money was solicited on
the plea that it was necessary to enable the firm
here to meet the heavy outlays of advertising and
otter expenses.
Owing to the small amount of the required re
mittances, the merchants at onoe sent on the
money. The sample of Coffee never reached their
promised destination, however; the whole affair
was a well-concocted and gigantic swindle.
On inquiring at the Post Office it was ascertain
ed that over one hundred letters arrived daily, ad
dressed to the firm of “Oliphant, Bartlett & Cos.”
By lying in wait the Sergeant on Thursday arrested
a young man who called for the letters. The offi
cer took him before the mayor, where he gave his
name as George Phelps. The young man stated
that he had Seen in the employ of Bradley, who
represented the whole firm and who was at the bot
tom of the swir rie, for about three weeks. During
this time the receipts daily had averaged fully SI,OOO
—of which Dot the shadow of a return bad been
made to the victims. In default of SI,OOO bail he
was sent to the Tombs.
On Friday, Sergeant Birney visited the head
quarters. No. 208 Broadway, and found that the of
fice was at No. C, a small room containing two
chests, two chairs and a bag with about three
pounds of coffee. He waited several hours, but the
proprietor failed to appear. A large number of
merchants, just arrived, called, however, express
ing a wish to become agents for the coffee. It is
believed that Bradley has taken the alarm and fled.
He is said to have been concerned in a similar swin
dle about seven years ago.
Sad snd Distressing Caslaltt— By a letter
from a friend, says the Jacksonville Republican of
the Ist inet., we have received the melancholy in
telligence of the.death by drowning, at the Ten Is
land Falls in Coosa Kiver, of Mr. Abraham Unman,
an estimable . young man aged about 21 years, on
Friday evening last- He had been boarding a few
days with Mr. \V. J. Whisenant and on Friday
went over the river to Greensport on business
After completing his business, he made an attempt
t/v re-cross the river alone, in a small canoe ; bat
being unaccustomed to managing a water craft, he
was, after long exertions, driven down the rapid
current of the fails, and disappeared beneath the
rolling waves and neither he nor the canoe have
ever been seen since
r From the New York Albion.
Au Intercepted Letter.
I From one of tie Turknh AdmiraTt mite at New
tinop/e° COU ” n ’ Chibouk Ejt'endi, at Constan-
We shail not explain how the subjoined commu
nication found its way to the Albion printing office
. . we g?t,any one into trouble; but as we perceive
m it nothing offensive to the R—ss-n Minister or
other powers that be, we have consented to give it
place. The impression of a foreign country, made
upon strangers whose views and habits are dissimi
lar to those of the people whom they visit, are
sometimes instructive and amusing. Without forth
le, therefore, we lay before our readers
’ terVmSfo* 1 ett * r ’ keepmK dark ou! y <“ to the wri
h*vehad things of us—Obeloved oou
dwtlhug upon th. s ope of Tophana. from the
despatches of his Exoelleney to the Capuda Pacha;
and it will be my care only to put down, as you re
quested me, such comments upon this curious land
as might notplease the Commander of the Faithful.
And venly 0 friend of my youth, ho who s’ayeth
at home and readeth wise Wjks docth well; but he
**“ own eyes the woudert of the
L and w th .L et . lcr ’ The Uervishes, who taught us
tnat the North Americans are painted and feathered
f,t\u ff fll were hol Y men i but they neglected to tell
us that these poor Indians have been all devoured
by the h ranks in these parts, to which act of can
nibalism may be attributed the white faces which I
see and the prevalence ot unsound digestions
Otherwise, these Franks much resemble the trou
blesome creatures of that raoe who dwell in Pera,
and who swarmed in the streets ot Stamboul whilst
the buitan whom God preserve, was upturning the
stones of Sebastopol. 6
, We * e lodged in a vast caravanserai. From our
hall ot audience we look out upon the prinoipa,
street, wherein the vehicles are more numerous
than the arabas that ply in Galata, and the bazaars
are open night and day. At the other side of the
building are our sleeping apartments, whence ia a
prospect of the street of the men-milliners. From
my own window I can see, O my eeusin, a large
harem-for this peculiar peeple, though they pre
tend to restrict themselves to one wife, yet support
some of their women in separate establishments.—
However, I have not yet learned why in the care
of them they are so remiss. You know with us
how sacred the harem is from the footstep of mau.—
Here the guardians must be b ind ; the unfaithful
enter in swarms, though altogether at night. Even
the kervashes or watchmen may be seen hovering
about the doors, and sometimes—as the local ga
zettes express it—make a descent upon them. You
see that I have mastered the mysteries of their
tongue.
But I ought to have told you of the greeting that
awaited us. It-was altogether novel We were re
ceived on landing by a deputation from the Halter
men and Common Sooundrels. Do not lift up the
hands of astonishment, or gyrate the finger of de
rision around the nose of scorn! It is thus with
these Western nations. They commence with the
scum, and work their way up to the elect. By and
through the refuse of the city, we shall presently
reach the Grand Vizier Cass who keepeth the se
crets of State, and shall even a tain the presence of
the Sultan’s Brother, the Lord of the White House.
These subordinate officials, without slaves, or
horses, or caiques, or any insignia of rank, have
made us eat dirt before the people. If it is, I say,
the custom—well; the grand reception will come.—
If not, his excellency Mahanuned Pacha will knock
at the gate of the President. And, O cousin, re
joice with me, that certain of our institution* flour
ish here under different name*. The bowstring in
deed is only used by thieves, who are called garrot
ters because they live in garrets; but beheading is
the ordinary punishment inflicted upon refractory
subordinates of the government. Do not think lam
mistaken. I send you a New York journal, in which
you may read that lhe President once had a “party,”
and that certain rustic postmasters presumed to
leave without permission. The offence does not
in our eye appear very hehious; we should but
have ordered the bastinado to be laid upon the feet
of the out-goers; yet the unfortunate men were
“decapitated.” And yet, O cousin, the Pandits
here aifect to be shocked because we have sacks
aud Bosphorus. Is it more easy for a Whole body,
ora headless trunk, to enter the gates of Paradise ?
The executioners throughout the country are nu
merous, and bear many expressive names, such as
Killers, Shoulder-hitters, and Plug-Uglies ; though
neither my English Dictouary, or my Treasury of
Useful Knowledge, define their peculiar functions.
I have not yet seen any Bakers with their ears
nailed to a post. The natives are more particular
in their drinks. It ia common to shoot a dealer who
refuses to supply a proper article, in saloons and
bar rooms. The localities I cannot explain, though
you remember that iu Eastern Europe we were de
sired to associate the one with Sultanas, and the
others with men of the law.
The Theatres here are considered to be schools,
wherein are taught the events of past history and
the political occurrence of the day. At the School
of Music we saw, a tew nights since, a great battle
between two sects of the Giaours—may the holy
Prophet confound both of them! The You-go-nots
kill and are killed to the sound of martial drum'*
and trumpets, arrayed by one More-beer, a Ger
man. The spectacle would have been tedious, had
not some dancing Houris been introduced. They
exposed their faces to the crowd without hesitation.
With reference also to a Page eaid to be a Houri, I
overheard some remarks upon her forms which I
desired to transmit to you ; but the play ljill con
fused me, for therein I found Herr Formes taking
au old span’s part. There are irregularities in all
languages. Ido not find Turkish epoke with the
correct accent
But to returu to the Theatres. There is one of
those Academies devoted, as I have said, to instruc
tion in serious matters, which greatly pleases us.
The plays they produce at it are called by the
clumsy title “pieces of circumstances:” but they
are easier to comprehend than books. Just now
the slaughter of our Mahommedan brothers in India
is shown to crowds, who are delighted to hear Nena
Sahib s unanswerable argument on behalf of killing
tigresses and cubs, when it is thought fit to rid the
jungle of tigers. The head-master of this school,
one Boßkycolt, enacts this part; and he does it so
well, that people Bay he waa born in Ireland, and
gets all his ideas from France: you reoollect that
those two countries are inimicable more or less to
Albion. I have only to add, by way of proving
how completely this school is turned to political pur
poses. that iu allusion td'the pending difficulty in
the Danubian Principality it is called just now
lYallach s, though the people in their ignorance per
sist iu substituting a k for au h. To-night another
Dervish, named foodies, gives auother lesson in
modem history. His subject is the Coup d’ Etat.
in 1851. In consideration of the reputed father of
Louiß Napoleon, I am told that this is intended as a
compliment to the old Dutch families here resident.
Still, one thing puzzles me. 1 hear much of the
animosity between slave-owners and those who
unluckily have no slaves. Why then do these in
fluential families persist iu nailing themselves,
“Nigger-brockers I” Why, O cousin ?
Theuext“piece of circumstances” is intended to
do honor to a semi-Mahommedan high priest, Biga
my Jung. lam glad of it. This is far better than
acquiring information through stupid newspapers.—
After this at one of the cavalry schools a play is to
be done entitled the “Fall of Pam.” The principal
part will be entrusted to a famous rider celebrated
for the number of sommersaulta that he can throw,
alighting always on his feet.
The city is lull ot churches, but so far we have
found only one Mosque. It is built after the pattern
of Caliph Omar’s Mosque at Cairo, in striped ayers
of stone, white and red. The Mollah is in some way
connected with the political Academies to which I
have just alluded. He has commanded them to the
faithful whom he exhorts.
You perceive that I have said little about the hu
miliation inflicted upon us by tbe Haltermen and
Common Scoundrels. This is because I have leam
to love this people which is a strong people and a
kindly. Bishmallah! could you but Bee them drag
ging their tire engines through the sonw and mud,
with a roar and a rush like a park of Omar Pasha's
Horse Artillery—or know how they snatch the help
lese ones from burning dwellings—you would respect
them as I do! Therefore I say let the’j who pub
licly set before us swine’s flesh, sand-witches and
forbidden wine, be but as burnt jackasses. The
Lord President will soon send us his tray bearers
with kabobs and sherbet. We are even now expect
ing a visit from Field Marshal Rynders, the Com
mander-in-Chief of his army in New York.
Many more things have Ito tell yon, O cousin,
but his Excellency is just awaiking from his siesta,
and Imu t empty for his benefit my abundant
stores of knowledge. I commend you to Allah.
Washington Items.— The Deficiency bill con
tains about tsn millions of dollars, viz :
For the Army $8,000,000
For the Post Office service 1,400,000
Miscellaneous 250,000
Amendments calling for *52,500,000 will be pre
sented.
Lient. Beale, of the Camel Wagon-road, Expedi
tion, has arrived and reported himself at the War
Department. The success of the Camel experiment
has inclined the Administration to further use of
them, and Congress will be asked to make an ap-
f location of $25,000 to purchase additional supplies.
‘artial arrangements are already made, and a con
tract agreed on by the Secretary of War. It is also
determine to appoint a Commissioner to go to
A rica and make a treaty by which permanent
supplies can be procured from that country instead
of Arabia.
It is rumored that Allsop, the English fugitive,
has arrived here, with the purpose of ascertaining
what the viewß of the Government are on his extra
dation, if demanded.
The weekly statement of the Treasury is as fol
lows :
Amount subject to draft— $6,570,009 08
Decrease from last week 311,072 54
Receipts 943,552 29
Draftspaid 1,131,718 47
Drafts issued 1,26*1,624 33
Washington, Ap il3. —Lieutenant Beale, writing
to the War Department from Kansas City, on the
23d ult, —having just arrived from bis exploration
of the Fort Defiance and Colorado wagon road
reports the complete success of the expedition, and
of the practicability of traveling in mid-winter.
The friends of the administration are sanguine in
the belief that they can yet carry the Lecompton
Constitution in the House. On the other hand, the
united opposition speak confidently of success. The
administration party, backed by the administration
will have to work more earnestly than heretofore,
and not rely much on appearances or quasi promises
or they will be again defeated. Had the democrats
worked with the same zeal in keeping up their or
ganization as Douglas and his friends have to form
one, the result on Thursday would have been differ
ent.’ They are, however, I believe, aroused at last,
and the Lecompton Constitution may yet be car
ried.
I understand the President will appoint Commis
sioners to proceed to Utah to endeavor to induce the
Mormons to yield obedience to tbe laws, in order to
avoid, if possible, tbe shedding of blood. The Com
missioners will represent the determination and
force of th<* government to reduce them lo subjec
tion, and will endeavor to impress upon the museless
ness of opposition. It is said that Gov. Powell, of
Kentucky, and Major Ben. McCulloek, will be the
Commissioners. .
Negotiations are now going on between the Uni
ted States and England for the abrogation of tbe
Clayton-Bulwer treaty. The Senate and House
Committees on Foreign Affairs will shortly, by a de
cided majority, recommend it* immediate abroga
tion. The English government, through their Min
ister here, professes to have no objection, provided
onr government will make certain concessions in
Central America. The President is determined to
act promptly in this matter.
There is no truth in tbe report that tbe President
contemplates sending a biilicose message t o the
Senate in reference to Spanish affairs.—Herald Cor
respondent.
Death of Dr. Mitchell.— The Philadelphia
American of yesterday says ; —Philadelphia has
lost another well known citizen, in the person of
Dr. John K. Mitchell. Dr. Mitchell enjoyed for very
many years a large practice in this city, and has
long been connected with the Jefferson Medical
College, as a Professor of the theory and practice
of medicine. He was of quick and versatile tal
ents, possessed of a ready wit, extraordinary tact,
and elegant manners. There were very few
branches of knowledge to which he had not given
some attention. He had lectured in this city on
chemistry and physiology, both of which aciencee
be cultivated at one time witb much relish. His
verses and contributions to general literature have
been extensively read and admired. Tbe health of
Dr. Mitchell has not been good for a year or two
past. But he continued in the discharge of many
of professional duties, and last winter delivered Us
accustom cu course o/ lecture* 0,1 Practice,a .u.
luatitution of which he was a “ e
hlew which baa now fallen oomes suddenly and un
exggSd© by the family and needs of tbede-
VOL. LXXII.—NEW SERIES VOL. XXII. NO. 15.
ADDRESS OF THE
RIGHT REV. STEPHEN ELLIOTT, D. D.,
BISHOP OF GEORGIA,
Before the Young Men's Christian Association,
of Savannah, in the Independent Presbyterian
Church, January iild, 1856.
Gentlemen of the
Young Men's Christian Association :
As one of the citizens of Sivannah aud as one of
the ministers of the Gospel, whose lot God has cast
m this place, I congratulate myself that your Asao
elation has so successfully reached its first anni
versary. Although muqfostill remains to be done
.o render your organizaWn complete, much ha*
been done to prepare the way for future and in
creased usefulness. The principles of your Associa
ion have been defined and put into active opera
tion-the various means of improvement for four
selves aud of beneficence to others have bee i de
vised and arranged—a spirit of Christian good-will,
such good-will as should pervade the follower? of
our common Lord, has. been generated—acquaiu
tauees have been formed that are fast ripening into
Christian friendship, and those who have hitherto
felt isolated aud powerless are becoming aware of a
fellowship of which they were ignorant', and con
soioue ot a strength which they had not recognized.
\\ hata year ago wa* begun as an experiment, ie now
established a* an abiding institution—what then wa*
only a de*ire%nd a hope in the hearte of the good and
the charitable, is now an Association, with it* officer*,
it* committees, its library, its reading room, it* respec
table roll of active and associate members. While*
it has not intruded itself upon the public notice, it
has been silently working it* way into effioient pow
er ’ P lac ©B itself before the eye of the
world that it may be known and recognized a* one
of the agencies whereby our young men—the pride
and hope of our country—are to be elevated, and
purified, and refined; whereby our city is to be
treed from the reproach of au effective Christianity.
I am proud ot being the organ of this aunuuciation ;
still more proud at making it in the presence of *o
respectable an auditory.
Was your Association merely a charitable one, a
combination of the Christian gentlemen of our vari
qua congregation? for the purposes of visiting the
-sick and relieving the poor, aud comforting the af
flicted, it would beau instrument of vast and per
inanent blessing. An Association for these purpo
ses was very much needed among ns, for none such
has hitherto existed among the gentlemen of our
Churches. The Chrietiau women of our flocks
have alwayß been active aud effioient intheirchari
ties—have always done what they could to relieve
the misery of the world, and to cheer the hearts of
the.suffering aud wretched ; but woman’s sphere is
limited and cannot reach numberless cases of the
most acute unhappiness. She cannot intrude her
selt into the sick room oi the young and friendless
stranger and minister to his wants—she cannot visit
the victim of sin and vice upon bis bed of foul dis
ease, aud make- his anguish less intolerable—she
cannot reoeive into her pure bosom the confessions
ot the criminaLand the repentance of the returning
sinner. This'lnuet be man’s work, aud should be
the work of Christian men. And this is manifest
from the crowd of benevolent associations which
has, of late years, sprung up outside of the Churoh
of Christ, aud which have been doing the work ot
the Churoh to her discredit and dishonor. The or
ganization of Odd Fellows, the Howard Associa
tions of our various cities, the guilds aud brother
hoods of our foreign emigrants have all grown up
out of this want of Christian association for benevo
lent purposes, and are a warning to Christ’s people
to take heed lest the appropriate functions of the
Church of Christ be taken out of her hands by those
professing ne allegiance to her dootrine or discip
line. And this reproach can never be wiped out
from Christianity except by an association like
yours, and of which, I trust, yours is the germ. No
subtle distinctions between doctrine and practice—
between faith and works—will avail anything with
the world. “By their fruit ye shall know them,”
stands prominently forth as the teat of Christ’s dis
ciples, and the world knows how to at.piy it, and
human nature how tode< ide upon the justice or in
justice of tbe application. So long as these merely
benevolent associations oan appeal to their self-de
nial, to their bountiful charities, to tbeir devoted at
teution their sick and afflicted members, to their
fearless disregard of “ the pestilence that waiketh
in darkness and of the destruc. ion that wasteth at
noonday,” the poor and the afflicted, and the suffer
ing will feel that they owe to these voluntary aud
worldly organization? that gratitude which the
Church of Christ should havoclaimed, that devouoti
which might have led them on from the reception of
mere bodily benefits to the reception of spiritual
truth. It is impossible lor the ministers of religion
to fulfil this duty unaided and alone. It is beyond
the power of individuals, and would over-tax the
energies of the most active body, aud the most
willing heart. For true benevolence consists not in
the mere giving of alms—that is its very least and
lowest work. Personal attention—interest in the
concerns and business of the poor—sympathy witii
their feelings and their difficulties—the helping baud
of influence and of power—the.advice and guidanco
of the wise and the experienced, these are the ele
ments of truest benevolence, these the duties which
should place the civic crown upon the brows of
their dispenser, for often do they save from ruin the
citizens of the Republic, aud give back to her ser
vice her rescued children. These most important
parts of benevolence, a minister, loaded with liis
own pastoral duties, weighed down by the constant
literaly effort that is required of him, having, like
other men, his family aud his domestic affairs to
watch over and manage, cannot attend to except to
a very limited extent. Unleßß the Christian laity
will consent to lend him their time and their influ
ence, they must remain unperformed, aud the
Churo li of Christ lose her richeet opportunities of
charity. For this reason is it, that I, in common
with tbe ministers of religion who surround me,
hail thiß Association as the beginning of anew era
in benevolence among us, when we eto.ll know
where to turn for help in time of need, for help upon
the principle? of Christianity, when wo shall feel
strong iu carrying on our work of love, having at
our baoks tbe zeal and activity of youth, moderated
by the experience and wisdom ot mature life.
Waa your Association merely a literary one, a
combination of Christian gentlemen upon Christian
principles, for the purpose of intellectual culture,
it would deserve the warmest approbation of all
who have at heart the permanent well being of the
community in which we live. We need sadly a
more decided literary development, and we need it
only because no pains have been taken to have it
otherwise. There is among ur abundant material
for literary society—men of high education, of
sound learning, of cultivated taste, of reflned man
ners. We are behind no community at the South
iu the learning of our bar, iu the skill and science
of our physicians, iu the attainments of our clergy,
in the varied knowledge of our merchants Our
planters are, almost without exception, well read
gentlemen who could throw their acquirements into
the common strife of literary collision, aud give and
receive lasting benefit from tbe interchange of views
and the strife of opinion. But all this ia thrown,
away, because at the .South we are not gregarious.
Each individual is trained, owing very muoli to life
sparsenesß of our population and the nature of our
institutions, as aa unit, and bo each mind partakes
of the iudependauce aud the reserve of the indi j
vidual. Sir Charles Lyell, in his travels in the
Southern portion of the Union, was struck with this
feature in our social fife, and expreSnes his astonish
ment at the ludicrous contrast which continually
met him between the log cabins in which he was
welcomed, and the literary attainments of his beet;
between tbe rough appearance of everything out
side the house aud tbe elegant refinement wbinh
entertained him within. Aud this character has
stamped itself upon our whole Southern sooiety—
has crept from the country into the towns where
there exists no necessity for it, and has caused us
to be considered an ignorant and illiterate people.
How exceeding difficult is it to maintain anything
of a distinctly literary character among us, aud
simply from this “evil habit of social reserve and
pjroud independence. Our Societies all languish
for want of support—ouf lecture rooms can be filled
only when some very distinguished stranger may
make bis advent among us, and our public fife is
oue entirely of business or of politics. This condi
tion of l hings ought to be remedied—to be remedied
for our cnildreii'e sake and for our own fair reputa
tion. And if it can be remedied through an aseo
ciation bound together by Christian principles, so
much the better, for all literary society needs now
a-days to be watched and guarded. 8o free is pub
lic opinion—so unshackled is the expression of all
sentiment, and the publication of alt views—so ram
pant is the irreverence whih would destroy all that
is venerable because it happens to be old, and dese
crate whatever is Bacred because it chances to be
revealed, that Christian men of learning and of
ability must be vigilant over the fountains of intel
ligence, and take care lest poison of the rankest
kind be imbibed in the nourishment which ia given
to the young. To provide, therefore, for their in
tellectual guidance, books of ucknowledged learn
ing and right principles—the Bible being tbe stan
dard of those principles—to establish reading roomß
where their enquiring minds may be fortified against
the infidelity and licentiousness of the age—to af
ford them the opportunity of meeting men of ma
tured minds ana disciplined understandings, is in
deed a work of highest Christian usefulness, and is
one of the main objecte ot your Association. Should
your numbers increase as they deserve to do, and
with them your zeal and your influenoe, this faith
ful effort of yours may be the beginning of a higher
literary development among us, may be tbe means
of raising our social standard, at the same time that
it leavens it with the truth and blessings of Christi
anity.
Was your Association one of merely social influ
since upon the youug and friendless stranger, it
should be worthy of our highest admiration and our
most fostering care. For in a country like ours,
where there is no suoh thing as entailed property or
hereditary right of primogeniture, and where al
most every one is forced by necessity to make his
own way in the world, there are always crowding
into our commercial cities well-trained but inexpe
rienced young men, who are compelled thus early
in life to run the risk of wrecking virtue and char
acter in their struggle for support. They come,
very often, from Christian homes, with a father’s
blessing upon their heads, and a mother’s prayers
following their footsteps, and yet are thev peculiar
ly liable to evil from tbeir ignorance of the ways oi
the world, and from the confidence they have been
accustomed to place in the truth and virtue of all
around them. Man has been to them, in the reli
gious circle in which they have moved, what he ap
peared to be, and they enter upon the battle of lite,
prepared for its difficulties and its hardships, but
not for its smile of treachery. They have been
taught tbe necessity of laborious industry of strict
integrity, of faithfiiiness to their duties, but not the
equal necessity of being guarded against the ad
vances of seeming friendship and pretended in
terest. They have come nerved against cold and
heat, against disease and pestilence, ag-unst priva
tion ana want, but not against the seductions of
flattery and the allurements of the werld. Young
men born and educated in a city can scarcely ap
preciate the extent of their danger, would find it
Lard to estimate the numbers who are its annual
victims. Guarded as they have been by parental
guidance while growing accustomed to the wicked
ness es a city; warned off continually as they have
been from the haunts of vice, while their passions
were yet stronger than tbeir reason ; accustomed as
they have become to tbe value of the world's ap
pearances, any risk to them must arise from some
radically perverted taste, or some obstinately cor
rupt propensities. Besides, they have their social
circles in which they can spend their hours of lei
sure and wile away their unoccupied moments
The gentle influence of home is always upon them ;
the watchful eye of parental solicitude marks their
footsteps; the devoted affeotiou of sisters casts its
spell of purity about them; a warm fireside wel_
domes them to its comfortable circle ; a group* ol
cheerful friends makes virtue pleasant to tnem, ana
they need never go to the seat of the scorner or in
to the dens of iniquity for the lack of comfort or of
society. But not bo with tbe vast numbers ofjoung
men who are pouring into our cities from _ r H’
r&l homes, without friends, without
come them, with no reeoun e- eUher of amusement,
or pleasure save these which may lie upon the ear
face of society, and whieb are always the snares set
for the unwary and the inexperienced. I know no
picture more touching in th whole experience of
life than that of an ingenuous youth cast in this
friendless condition into the boiling cauldron ol a
„reat city without a guide, without a counsel t,
without a comforter, with nothing bnt his good
principles and his God. I know no anxiety that
inuat be more heart-rending than that of parents
who are forced to place a son in this position, no so
licitude more overwhelming than that with which
they watch him as he buffets his way amid the
temptations of the world ; and therefore I know no
chanty more beantifnl, more Christ like, than that
which opens its arms to reoeive these sons of Hope
and of Prayer to its protecting bosom ; whioh pro
videe lor them companions, friends, counsel, com
fort, everything they need, which gives them a por
tion of their own domestic happiness; and recogniz
ing a brother in ike ohild of a Christian, divides
with him that which is far more valuable to him
than -old and silver: the sympathies and the af
fections o the Heart. Wheifctbe news of this As
sociation shall be cjarried to the Homes of the Stata
now many prayers w„i ascend from the lips of pa
rents for its prosperity—how many blessings will
me neaped upon the heads of those who conceived
“2 In Bavin g one youth, you preserve
to hit God! * >arent8 ’ a zell to hi® country, a soul
lint while your Association is all these, a Bene /o
lent a Literary and a Social Institution, and while
it, therefore, may be expected to work out lilt
benefits which belong to these phases of its oharae
ter, it aims at still higher and nobler purposes—lt
plumes its wings for the spiritual as well as for the
earthly. It not only undertakes all these officM
but it undertakes them upon the highest of prinol
ples—those of Christianity, and with the determina
tion, God's grace assisting you, of carrying them on
in connection with your ow n spiritual improvement
aud that of the recipients of your kinlmess. Aad
in this you are true to the example of Him whoee
name you carry. The earth-life of our Saviour la
ibe chart of our practice, and while never refused
to turn aside from the great work of redemption in
answer to the cry for mercy or the supplication for
help, He never tailed to crown his work of love and
chrity with a maxim of truth or a lesson of heavenly
wisdom. The service which he worked for tha
body was only introductory of a higher blessing
which he designed for the soul. Aud this is one of tha
leading purposes of your Association to render all
your labor of charity and sympathy subsidiary to
he advancement of evangelical religion. By tha
;race of God you have been made personally sen
-1 ■ le of the value of the soul, and as Christians you
cannot consider any work as well done unlesilt
terminates in a knowledge of God’s mercy through
Christ. Hence the admirable means which you
have a iopted for preserving the faith of the young
w ho may come among us, lor invigorating the lao>
s > ns of piety which they may have brought fttf
their homes, for confirming their good habits, ftr
bringing them under the dropings of the sanotualf!*
And iudeed the times upon w hich we have faMl
demand all this care and watchfulness. They soM
to be strangely out of joint, when men of educatM
and of learning are giviug themselves up to folltai
past reasoning with, and to delusions which a a al
most incredible. What then must be the hazard gs
a youth when cast into the midst of the uugodly a|i
the unbelieviug, where the faith of his fathers Isl
eueered at, and his practice of piety is ridiculed,
aud all around him seem to consider Christianity as
a fable and personal religion as a weakness ! How
can one so weak, so immature stand up before thill
ridicule of companions aud associations, or main
tain his belief against the sophistry of the practised
ooutrovereialist,or the audacity of the unblushing
infidel 7 Shall it be possible for him to preserve hut
Christianity aud his innocence 7 It may be possi
ble, for nothing is impossible with Goa, but tha
chances are all against niiu, unless his character be
one of uncommon dimness, or his piety of unusuui
depth. But very different should be his condition,
were he met. upon his entrance inty our city, by
young men of position, of high character, of ac
knowledged talents, who should welcome him as a
Christian, who shou and let him see aud understand
that there were some faithful to Chrißt in the midstt
of the general unbelief, some not ashamed to oaJ
Jesus their master, and to walk in his footsteps be
fore a sneering world. The struggle would be com
paratively slight for him under this Christian sym
pathy aud support, and he would rise above th.i
temptations to faithlessness and to sin, and becom
ing strong in the Lord, would add another to the
band who serve him in sincerity and in truth.- -
Deeply important therefore is’ this part of your ar
rangements—important for the Church of Christ
important for the souls for which Christ died.—
Brought into connexion, through your agency, with
the pastors of the Churches in which they may’ hav*
been trained, finding in this Association compan
ions of their own age aud of like principles, recog
nizing in Christianity a bond of sympathy which
they had not before realized, the chances become
entirely reversed, anti the probability is all thrown
upon the side of truth aud virtue.
But besides this effort for the spiritual improve*
ment of others, you have made provisions for your
own growth in Christian knowledge. While wa
tering others, you have wisely determined to bt>
yourselves watered with the dew of God’s holy
spirit. While laboring to kindle the love of other*
into a fiame of active devotion, you have placed
yourself in au attitude ot watchfulness over your
selves, that so the tire may not go out upon the altar
of your own hearts. You have taken to yourselve*
the solemn warning of St. Paul—a warning which
he applied toUmself, to beware “lest when he had
preached to others, he himself should be a cast
away.” And if this be necessary in a minister, one
whose whole thoughts and life are absorbed in re
ligious thing*, whose very business it is to be occu
pied in the sanctuary, whom feeling aud habits aud
the opinion of the world separate from worldly in
fluences, how much more necessary for you who
must preserve your consistency in the midst of the
most adverse influences and maintain your princi
ples against an unceasing and often maglignant
antagonism. You have indeed demand for all th*.
grace which you can derive from earth or heaven ,
need for all the strength whioh may be procured by
reading, and meditation, and prayer, and Christian
communion.
But as a faithful friend I must warn you, in thin
connection, against an evil which may arise out ot’
the very midst of your devotion, and that is to take
heed lest you permit yourselves to groar up into an
institution outside of the Church of Christ. Your
own power aud the benefit which you can confer
upon Christ ianity will depend upon your close con -
nection with the churches of which your are respec
tively the members. Your work is, as 1 have
shown, a most important one, requiring just suchau
agency as vours to perform it, but it should be don*
ip subordination to the appointed ministry under
which you miy each be enrolled. Watchfulness
upon this point will prevent all collision or jealousy
between you, and tie regular means of grace es •
tabliched by Christ in his Church upon earth. Ancl
1 merely touch upon this point in passing, because
it is the rock upon which all voluntary Association*
are prone to be wrecked. Beginning their caree *
of usefulness in connection with and in subordina
tion to the Church, they have gradually assumed an
independent position, and forgetting their original
principles, have often endangered the peace of th*
Church, while they have most surely destroyed thei .*
own rightful influence. While performing therefor*
the legitimate functions which, as laymen, you hav<i
undertaken, beware lest you overstep and embai
raas, instead of support the ministers of the goepei.
All this benefit which has been detailed as tbt*
result of your Association will depend, gentlemen,
upon the zeal and earnestness with which you shad
; carry on your operations. It is not enough that
> you declare and publish your principles, that yon
! elect your officers, that you appoint your Commit
\ tees, that yoir fill your treasury; you must see that;
; the active practical work which you have under•-
t taken is fully performed. It is too much the casn
| in matters which do not involve personal interest
and pecuniary results, that associations satisfy them
j selves with adopting a satisfactory constitution,
With passing resolutions about whose truth no*
• nobody can dispute, and then with Hmmosmg tl*it
scmehow or other the constitution ltsefi,
aL t the resolutions carry themselves otßw Let tbi t
not be your sin! The ground whiohgrcu haye oc
cupied is too sacred and too holy to tr
abused. You have pledged yourselves before the
Churches to attend upon and relieve the sick, to
seek out and support the poor, to welcome the youDjj
stranger as he enters the gates of your city, to fur
nish him with companions and with friends, to pre
pare for him intellectual and spiritual nourishment
of a wholesome description. And the Churches will
look to you tor the performance of these tbiugs.—
You have voluntarily associated to wipe away tha
reproach which the superior assiduity of wordly ai
sociations has laid upon Christianity, and we shall
depend upon you for its fulfilment. We hail it as a
most auspicious augury when we find the younj
in* nos our congregations boldly and fearlessly com
ing together upon Christian principles, separating
themselves from the world, aud planting a higher
Standard ol gentleness, of purity, and of truth. You
need fear nothing but yourself! Your principles
are those which God has revealed as the truth, tha
life and the way ! Your purposes are those which
Christ honored through his whole life, and then con
secrated by his death ! Your power is supernatural
aud unearthly ; it is the same which nerved*th#
Apostle when he said “1 can do all things through
Christ that strengthened me.” Only be true to
yourselves, to your principles, to your purposes, to
your divine power, and blessings will spring up
along your pathway, and the “well done good ana
faithful servant” of your Saviour will weloome you
to the rewards of eternity.
The Collins Line of Steamers.— The New
York Herald says that the Collins steamers, it ie
understood, though sold under execution, have been
bought in for the Browns, in connection with Mr.
Wetmore, another member of the old firm, and Mr.
Corcoran, the banker of Washington ; and they
will soon be on the ocean again, though likely to
become—what Capt. Nye said it was when he dis
connected himself trom it —actually an English liu*,
though under an American name.
The Loudon Chronicle has an article on tbe with
drawal of the Collins line, which contains soma
facts worthy of attention in this country, and whic<i
we doubt not set forth some of tbe real causes of
Collins’ want of success.
“Most of the ocean lines/’ says the Chroniole,
“ would pay well without mail contracts, if they ran
at moderate speed. As it was tbe pace which used
to kill horses in mail coaches, so. it is the pace which
wears out steamers and ruins the owners. When a
line of packets obtains a mail contract, tbe packets
are tasked at a high speed. This, oi course, sm
cures the most profitable traffic, and the non-subsi*
dised lines on the same route. If they do not run aj
fast, are ruined. The wide difference in tbe cost ok’
working steamers at high and low speed is easily
proved. Collins’ ships were obliged to run fourteen
miles an hour by contract; bat to do this each ship
burnt 128 tons of coal daily. Now that same ship
could run twelve miles an hour, and only consume
eighty tons of coal daily ; and sixty one tons a day
omy would actually drive her eleven miles an hour.
Thus it took mo-e than double the quantity of fuel
to increase the speed by three miles n n hour. Tb*
truth is that the power of coal necessary to produce
speed must be increased in the ratio of the>oube < f
velocity. But not only is the coet of fuel enormous
in fast steamers, but the wear and tear of sue i
ships must be very great. They must be find bu> t
with great etrengtb, at an extra expense, of course.
After running six years Collins’ ships cost in repa'i I
more than the original outlay for building them,
and yet, notwithstanding those repairs, the shq
would not last above twelve years. Every trip c J
one of Collins’ steamers to England and back again
cost upwards of £IO,OOO. Every six years tba
boilers have to be renewed, at an expense of
000. Collins’ last ship, the Adriatic, oost in build
ing £170,000. Her speed has not yet been properly
tested. Next to the Leviathan, she is the finest
ship in the world.” ,
Other causes of the failure of the Collins line at*
also mentioned, the inferiority of the steam machi
nery tthat of English make, and the hulls not m
strongly built, so that they break down oftener,
besides the di&calty of working with fewer steam
era than English lines. Collins has built m all, five
ships, two of which were lost. By avoiding tha
causes of his failure, American hues could easily
compete with British, hut let us have no more go*,
ernment subsidies to purely Northern interests.—
Richmond Dispatch.
Ontonagon. — A project for carving anew Stat*
out of portions of Michigan and Wisconsin is moote 1
in the Northern papers. It is proposed that tb*
portion of Michigan lying west of Lake Michigan,
and known as the “Upper Peninsula,’, shall t*
joined with the northern part of Wisconsin, border,
mg upon Lake Superior, tbe two to constitute \
new State, bearing the title of Ontonagon. Michi
gan passed legislative resolves last year reooui
mendiug the project, and similar resolutions are now
pending before the Legislature of Wisconsin. Tbq
new State would have for its southern boundary **
line drawn from the Menominee river, near iA
•mouth on Green Bay, westerly till such line Intel -
sects the western boundary of Wisconsin, near 11 uu
sen on the St. Croix river. The line will not be far
from tbe 451 h parallel of latitude.
The State will contain 40,000 square ] miles, nearly
„Tnd Michigan as well as that of Congress, is r*
: aired before the “ew State can baiormed Even
’ Wisconsin does not object the consent es Cos v
i retjs is doubtful.
i T .u.maz.-rF Th© stagnation of business and
dearth of*employment ixTLwrence, Mass., is greit
fr mil any £*nutacturing town of New Bcgumi
Twelve months ago , he population was reckoned *t
15 "(So* by the fi.st es >’ “ will not exoood K',ooo.
— Boston Ledger .