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OTbvxmulf & Stntiiul.
Cos ~rr. point. Ht~r of Ikt B.iUimort Ameruan.
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IN SENATE Mey22
Mr. Hsyne La* !;*■*.■ a appointed on tbe Military
ii.>*do* Mr lvt-raon.
Mr i,, ~ r -,i, r.■ Committee on Finance. “>*
of sn,oee,ouo.-
u a resolution to pay extra
atiVto >b-t>rk* of tbe Senate, which
. .m.[ e -i: u • l j —CM ioo Tbe aeoec ot the
S*a'e ‘• ■ Jrvr,'-: and finally it was laid on
Vbe II tiiie taad lal aaa tek-n up.
Mr t i ir an ir. ved as an amendment, that a
wnrrai’ b r li J ’ <■*■:? be granted to each head of a
family Mr <;iiiigoiao poke to hi* amendment,
saying that he was iu favor of retaining taeee lande
in the Pahl'C Treerory, but if they are to be given
away he w rued 1 , eu) to be Oirir'.buted equally.
Me-- r Hayne. H id, Ontteodgn and Houaton,
~pp< red the b> and ane-unineut,and Meeara. Hale.
Ourhei vd D jeitile, in twswr of it
Without coming to anfaction the Senate adjourn
ed.
HOUSE.
Tt ITnu‘ renmf->. tLc cousidsatinßriheMin
uesnift e ec'ior
Mr is ot I tin . e, fry req'foiO'rif thgCwogiil’
tae of E cti >ne. r-.bmilted ‘he heorge
L. Bf. r, ,itO .v Meds.ry ba< <fl*e -vereo In
the c.trK’ oSi -e while !-e king over ‘<* papa’s
I hero Afebj, ■< rlr r? <i > v M-dairy apd .1 wepn
It B iv**** of the can ts-f,"-. paying that Meeara.
Htelj fsW-Kiv’ acgh ruo-ived the highest norn
!>er i.f vot'-e and letrtri g to Oreely’s Almanac
for tii* figu re Mr Harris said the Committee
ucdo.rt <*i that they were instructed t/j inquire
Hlmpyii, •! ■ priiria facia right of Messrs. Piielpe
and Kavansugh, b aving their eeat* open to con
test.
Mr. Marshall, of Kentucky, wished to know which
of t he two of the three parson* elected they were to
Mr Hafria replied that Mr. Becker s certiViate
was ir ver preenoted for tue examination of the
“committee. g ,
K.n iliy after rr :;>* debate Messrs. Phelps ana
Kavapmogii were asMart'-cd nnd sworn as members
from M mu. sofa
The'■'B..'i.derofp!eeen wm ocoopied with
4e c i..-!c - . i. c! the Unio contested electjon
case. Adjoumeo.
I!*-!. At? May ai.
Mr (* 1 ir. i-etnorial from Captain
Cof.i. -, ek rj e.* c i<fo r the survey of tbe
. .... . jMjfcfcgrfffiU’ - on fdr.mmercq, re
S jjoried of the Mismat
f krai'C r'l^
f)r D u bill for facilitating com
matin i-ieJßet so u the AU .ntlc and Pacificoia’eri
by 1,4*
\s r I) 1 s also lntrH<lacd thejoll >wing impor
bill b-a* ug reference ♦ quailyio the British
;Vlfx f-nt; nggr*■ entitled *A bill to restrain
HD(I r<ire**a ‘•■.ilnig. a upon the flag and citizens ot
the United *S a t?** Beit ♦meted, etc,, that in caee
of a H m,r violation *>l the laweoi nati*>na bvout
ratf m u'ft fu tbe .Kt *'d or citilenaof the United
.Mat or Ujioji thc-r property, under oircumdtancee
requiring proa p* and when iu the opinion
of Ui*. K. od* *• . delay would b** with
the ic.nor and dignity the UepubSic, the Presi
dent hei >y nu’iioiized to employ such force
hh he may deem necedbury to prevent the perpetra
tion of tsuch (iu,r-j t w and toobta n juat redrew and
atiH m :i n for ihe attOie when perpetrated , and it
oba:i he the duty to l the lac:a of each case to-
with the reason* lor hia ac tio a iu the pre
nU’ H bt-f re at the earlieat practicable
i ’v.- • Jcr each further action thereon &a Con
rr■ .Any r'-irtct.
i ti •. tit laillion loan bill waa taken up, end
hi • debate, wi’th ui coouiiig to any action
tii sie>i),the adjourned.
HOUSK.
The HffUf*o proceeded to the considera’ ion of the
relnt ii.g to the District of Columbia in ac
Mr. G("h!* movent hat be bill from the *S*inate
fr tbe of a Fire Department in the
city of Georgetown ODd ol Washington, be put on
ita paeange.
Mr i ri id, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee
lor the i)i ‘r.i.t of Columbia, off. red a aubctiiute,
prop fi. < to m**p*4> e with t!ie voluntary and to
nub? Hu;*- a pani j-tem, appropriating slb,o(W for
the puah ii”- of four a:eam tiie engines, and
00 1 >r a.* alarm and police telegraph.
The b U, U gether wi.h the suTm.itute, was refer
red to the c> aiuttee of the whole.
The ii* tt-e then wmt into Committee Os the Whole,
Mr li ,pk..na n the chair, aud considered the bi.l ,
‘ Jf>{ { $3,000 i year for fire yeanfor the
beii-& of liie Columbian Institute, in the District
<*f Cobonbitt, l.f thv deaf, dumb aiM blind. It wan
laid etude io be reported to the House, with a re
commen ia*'“i tiot it pat*. ....
The tjoiiiiniitse pro tided to the consideration of
ths e Liil toVtguiate the municipal elections
iu tliecny of W us.■..: gton. It proposes to repeal so
much ot a former law *n divides each ward into
two electmu precincts, and thnt every free white
male resiMit, * i the uge of twensy-one years, ( x
inaie ictwiiii,
cepting p rtfiis non comptz mentin , vagrants and
felonei who s’ eh have resided iu Washington one
year immediately preceding the day of election,
a.d a citizen ol the United States at the time he of
j,. r3 to vote and hail have paid the school tax and
.
t vote in ihe ward m which he snail have resided
:i days before the election, etc.
Mr. Marshall, of Kentucky, offered an amend
ment in •lbct to require a person—-a citizen of the
Unit and S-u t;o—to l ave raided here for a year
piior to offering to vote. The bill allowed a man of
foreign binh to vote n the day that ho completed
bis tern ol naturalisation.
Mr. Harnett said tuat every point of his collea
gue’s tpfifth witi wai • a adopted oMmm. 11h
<*olle’igu~ had a fnauiaon the sutjec.t of foreigners.
He (Mr. Burnt tt; expreteed his gratfication that
the tell fpiutol lans iciem, or K.uow-Nethingism,
was burir-d rodeep that the sound of resuirecliou
cannot reach it
Mr. Davi-, of Maryland, conteudecl that the cor
poration ollicers w‘.*ie vicious, oonupt, and unfit for
the plao< they hold —the fixating temporary Gov
ermiaent vole, elected them, lie ailucedtothe
. • *! fltl -ugly condemned the
calling out Ot tbe Marines.
Mr Burnett iaid tliat the r r rumentof the gentle
man was, that n ne but property holders should
vote.
Mr Davis replied that he did riot say sx
Mr Burnett mgu and that the positiou of Mr.Davis
wns Hir’-inst tLt> priori lto ol republican govern
and h s- ul we have tallun oil strange times
wh . o In* was to become the leader of a reform in
Washing** r> H*, ( >lr l)avi) had better first purge
Ilia own oily of h -n—imui u an;l not".
Tlie (JobHla waa In M.. r ooutmuod. after who'll
the bill we* laid (.aMn fnr futureatliOß, and the
Uouar pat and Ihe bill lor tbe relief est be ColumbUu
lu’tilnte
Adjourned.
IN SENATE May 25.
The bill fnr the of the harbor of
Chicago wow debated.
After some debar, w ithout action, tho bill waa
laid nenie and the loan bill waa resumed.
Mr Simmons’ amendment, proposing a home val
uation on imports, waa debated for the remainder
1,1 Meur'io T n.lw and ( iittenden to. k occasion to
Comment on the Uii.i.-h oUlrage* on American V -
eel - anj.i.;; n ‘..ug terms that the national honor
must be euetaiued. Adi’*irned.
yousE.
Mr. Grow asked, but did not obtain, consent to
offer aren,.lotion that when Congress adjourn ou
the 7th o; June . be lili the l:h of November,
linen ; a leiwtmg to the District of Columbia WRB
1 Jill” iloi-V passed the bill ap ropriating ft., HH)
lor ligbtiig with g* the street across the mail, and
laid up. n ti e ui.le ihe j unt resolution appropriat
mg dl” for the election of lamp poets oo High and
. Ge.” getown, and the bill sppropnat
ir g *in b'.’o lor the . i struction of a road from the
Navy V din tt.. lu-aue Asylum.
The bill reguiaUi.g uiun cipal elections iu the
ally of Was’ i. <iou eaa taken up A motion to lay
.1 upon ihe t .ble was to. i- yea- 8o . nays 91
Mr Ptiri tui Vfj \ rikt out the quelibCHtion
of the r .tuut ut ct the . chi ol tx aud all other taxee.
Tina waa agttwd to-yeas Klo ; nays 52.
The bi i was th, u p.ts d—yeas lt'2 nave .'I.
The ? *ll to reiiul urse the Corporation of George
town the m n y advanced for the o mpletion of
the • Kml'-* l.;cge wae laid upon the table.
Avea 74, not P ti-.
The blit to estab ; :’h a paid Fire Depart mat tn
tbec ; * • of VN a-, it gton ami Georgetown, appro
plain g 1) ad ibnovf JI...WU for jotir st.am en
gines. and JlJ.iiCO ter a polk sand tre telegraph.
W l?he Senate bi’l to incorporate the National Monu
ment S ■ i-'y was laid upon the table.
Toe Hi e e then te k up the Ohio oonteated eleo
'"hlr *Slarhall, of Kentucky, had < ffered a reso
u’iou u tflVo't t. | ing the further ootwidera
tum the r obi* dt ii t:*: fir t Monday in Decern
—rinxt but li.is was , : ected by na\s 118, yeas'J'.
r l<- House ien ot.-d oil and rejected the reso
luti. ui ,„ „ po ‘ion of tha Committee, declaring
that Mr l t. ell is entitled to the seat. Teas 91,
nays 116.
Tbe House then adopted, by I msi.inty. the reso
Iniion sc..united by Mr Lamar,./the Committee
of Kiectke s. ■ M r . ..ri;. r haiu entitled to
the s. at. and by tee •• “ , ioiity ncresd to tbe
original r.:ui e.u <o Mr. Hari.r. f Illinois, (which
declai and ::.e , va.anti as thus amended by Mr.
Lamar’* resolution.
Mr VuHandigliam wm then sworn in.
Tti* II me pi,-std the bill giving to a private
couipsi. tn* priv..ege for i wenty years of a passeD
ger rain,-an en lVim-*’ ’vanlaavenue.
Ou mo Kiuot Mr. Glancy J. ma the House acted
on the S naie’s a oeii men's to the executive judi
rial, an stive appropriation WIL
Tbe lb u e spent seme tune in the consideration
of th tortifi-an “i bill, with nodefi'ite a.'i in, and
then weut into Ooi. .. ;>-• of t e Wno’.e for general
debate only, and will be ‘’ seeaioa till a late hour.
IN SENATE May 26.
The S'nate. al'te r n.e Imneacl; nos some uiinn
portal! b-i* 1 ’>'k up t!.e Cb.eager Harbor Itn
provemeii’ bil . w |c.’h wes passed by a v. te of 26
ayes to l” ui.es. T is vote beii g regarded a* a
test as to tii • qnes ,n of miking appropriations
far Internal I nprovemeuts. nnnreroue other esti
mates f r the maistenaiioe lroui decay ot public
works will !< ■ -ow.
The nav* were Messrs B-own, C.av, Chngman.
n-v. K:. i Hammond. H .ustou. Hunter, Iver
..f r*nn . Mail. rv. M von.Polk. He.d
Smell T.H'iiiba. Tar absentees were
u,.,i i; , B-w-rd. 80. Cameron. Clark.
Gre n Gwi Bale. Hayne. Ifaodere.ro, Jobusem
of A.ka; .-.1-'. Pear e Keid. Bme. Sumner and
TViniiwon. •’ Kv Paired, . : eers. Pugh, xuiee.
!> xou. aud Kuspstri.k
Mr Bell K- hl. day ou th L ‘•o Biu aad^Mr
Tu<* Dili wa< fiu i v by a vot of aye*
nay? 14, when Itc * *i ‘urned.
HOUSE.
The Hew*#, immexiifttclv after iH-gacixanon. pro-
w vole on tbe u u to oo*tcur in tho re
oMpniwi ita tone of i UoiLuiittee of the Whole cu
the Suo* -i u.e Ui ioo, ccUK*erau>r tbe Senate
ftmei rluH-into . • he Executive, Judicial and
lative appropri * i!L
Tt~ H ..:3 by a vote of yea-* nays 86, atruck
r • t acting I suit ot th * Fortifioatkw Apprt>-
Potion Bi-l.: i- defen-ir / it.
Mr Hur:iit>. t.’- ii- ihe f c-ctcommittee appoict
•dto exaiM/.e f - dT. . < 1 the two
riol; .H . jo— Mt Darling and Hack
n i > made ai ~ r‘ thereon, concluding with a re
•olu’.ioc i? -a cuio ihe d>*iibu iou of public
docuuui ‘ . t-ivrrect abu** in the folding
room. A ‘ . II ase have oo jurisdiction over
these ex- thocra, lb* commiUee make no recom
meuda io;
Mr. J G vsy J it*. ~m the Committee of
Wayaand M aae. rep> tad a bill auth the
loan of fiftt-tu Ui . ik.; -of do Imv. a bill oinking
an appropriation b*J>*>ifg the expcuee for col- I
Voting tha revenue from cu-jtome.
The C oerai* -u tre, in ;he Fort Snell
icg cue- was puitp •’ e l un f ‘**day next.
Tie II -use t t n proofed, in C >osaltKM of tbe
WurJevKi tbe taTeo! Jhe l pc. to the consider a-
t*f the Navy •' r pr-'pn •*’ ft b ;. and also of tbe
R C* i!cticn and r sUffif Appropriation
bu* they were ix*’ definitely acted upon
Ii K tbs c- bate, J Gu cm Jonet ad that tbe
TrX-ts M.u: • • be n quirrd. but that the Secre
tary of W r w ’ t> call ou: t**e uUwr two unless
abeotate'y r c -esary.
Tbe ibcgsoionmed
IK SENATE ““r 27
Mr g .1 iu rods ed a bill this meruit* to pes
■ • i.'vv *.t i.,Bare ifer F. Smith, which
W Ts-k-w7’i. . Harbor Appropriation bill was
tha h- ilcl.t no. and .* now Uing debaterl.
■5 n-Hilt bill as finally postponnwi until
ne,'Janaary.
x • li .raid Rivrr Improvement bill was
del*’- p tolhcht ur of aci-cmment, without
. ou.:: g a W.e.
HOCSE
T i* bill appropriating tour millions of dollars for
the sprues* of tv'Uectjng tbe revenue was passed
Mr Stantor made a report from the Tarifflnves
tiea’ing Committee. The report and evidence wa?
to be printed ard the cammit'.eedißChargei
from further cocaideration of the subject.
The Houae acted oo the amenwmenta to the na
val appropriation bill ae reported from the Com
njitte of tbe Whole on the ot the Union—
bn* non concurred in that for filling in the new pur
cha at the Bror-klvo Navy Yard
The bill waa finally passed by a vote of 110 ayes
to 97 nays.
Mvrs Moore and Pnrviance, from the Tariff
Investigating Committee made minority re porta,
which, together with tbe report of the majority,
were ordered to be printed, with *he evidence.
Mr. Cavanagh offered a resolution, which waa
adopted, directing the Committee o! Elections to
inquire and report aa to the right of Mr. Kingsbu
ry to retain a •e*t here a a delegate from that por
tion of toe Territory of Minnesota outside of the
present State limits.
Tbe credential.'* of Mr. A. G. Fuller, asking to be j
admitted aa a delega-e from Dacotan, were referred j
to the Committee on Election*.
The Poat Office. Army, and Ocean Man Steam- j
or Appropriation bill was ©vorilercd in Committee j
of the Whole on the State of the Union, ana report J
ed to tbe lloue. ‘fffe previoue was orde%* i
ed, pending which the House adjourned.
IN SENATE May-JjHB
A communica ion was received from the ;
dent covering a Cjrreapondenoa renpectiog fibe t- :
reel of Wiliiaoi Walker, which wa laid ovfir to fie ;
printed. i
Mr. Seward presented a’ reaolution to extendtife .
ion to the 21ut of Jane. Laid over. j
Mt, Ma on, from tbe Committee ou Ftwateft Re j
lationa, % ti wbum ww referred tbe refloltraoc eft
qu rij-g whether additional iegtriaUon wjhj
ry to place |xwer in liAphanda of tue PreaideD*,
submitted a report of which the eubgtanee ia, that,
official etatemente anow a euceeerion of actn of pt?
grtaeion by Bfitiah erntoera in tbe Gulf of Mexico,
bo marked and extraordinary a>* oa* awajjawed the
indignation Ufthe country. * \lgyfciajjgwer our flag,
pursuing lawlufcommerce, fired into and
stoppea and interr< gated aa UpJfteir cargo, dee* ma
tioii. crew, A-c. No lew thiyrmlteen Aineri’ an ehipa
m the harbor of S gua ia- Grande, and eix on the
high beat l , are officiaiiy reporied, each arrival bring
ing additional aggreerioui; of the game power on our
U has hitherto happened in isolated cajee, where
Himilar aggrerniona Lave occurred through mit*con
ception, the United btft'ta has been contented to
await a dtociaiiner of intent, bat the continued and
p laevering Cu&racter of these outrages is such ae to
arouhe the Utdigna in of the countiy, and to re
quire ua to erreot at once, to end at once and
fjr ever, the cout cuance (* •• *.
The Hlave trade is a ‘eged ae th - excuse, but this
thy Com i ittee will r otdificiui. The United States,
tiiougri often invoked, refuses to recognize the right
of poi:ce—:hey real upr>n the principl that the ma
rine under our cunot be visited or questioned
without their consent, and tbe Committee deem
tn h a fit • ccasion to declare it ae a principle ol the
United Bra Tee, admitting of reaerve or qualification,
and to be ma'utaii.ed at ariy coat. They admit ot
no right or visitation, far less of search. Bach have
no iouudatioo ip law cr country, and cannot be to
lerated by any sovereign power without Lbe dero
gation ot her sovereignty.
The infraction of sovereignty cols ’fits in the visi
tation. The best Amei icSu and English authorities,
Sroweli, for instance, so decide, founding their
views on two principles—first, the equality of all
independent S ates—-ficcondly, the comity of the j
seas os a highwa
Ind gi.aut h- American people are and ought
to be at lbe*e i ssions, yet their occurrence will
afford an opportunity to end them at once and for
ever, aud ihe Com .-ittee refrain from recommend
ing further legislation only for tliy reason that the
President has already ordered all the available
navy to the infested waters with orders to protect
our flag.
It is believed that tbi3 measure wili be servicea
ble for the preeent iu stopping the outrages. The
subject has also been brought to the notice of the
tSending Power both through our Minister at Lon
don ana their Minister at Wuehmgt n. The Com
mittee, cannot, therefore, until a reply is received
from Great Critaiu, decide on measures that wiil be
a guarantee for the future—for nothing shorUd that
will satisfy the American people.
The Committee, therefore, while refraining from
recoinmeuding any present legielation, have unani
mously
Resolved, That American ships at eea, under our
11 ig, remain under the jurisdiction of the country to
which they aud therelore that a iy v sita'ion
or molestation is au infraction of the sovenguty of
the United States.
Resolved , That theeo aggree&ions demand eu'*h
unequivocal explanation as shall prevent their re
currence forever mluture.
Resolved, That tho Committee approves of the
action of the Executive, and are prepared to re
commend such luture legislation as circumstances
may require.
Thi resolutions will be considered to-morrow.
After some unimportant business the Senate ad
journed. % *
HOUSE.
The House this morning, immediately after or*
gauiziug, proceeded to vtfte on the Post Office, Ar
my nnd Ocean Mail Steamer Appropriation Bills*
which were passed.
Ihe House at:* passing seventy-two Houae and
seventeen Senate bills of no public iu’erest, ad
journed.
I.iuer from Utah—CJovemor Cninming il Snli
l.nkc.
We publish this morning a letter from Fort Bridg
er, dated April 10, which is four or five days later
than any other advices published by the press that j
we have seen. The letter was written to a triend ift !
this city by an officer in the Utah army, and was
not intended for publication. We have, however,
had the privilege of giving our readers extracts
from previous letters by the same writer, in whose
veracity we have full confidence. The statements
of the preseut letter re brief, but are confirmatory
of the most of the recent advices reepe tii g the
departure of Cumiuing for Balt L&kq
City.
Tue new fact of importance which it announces j
\s, that Governor Gumming teas publicly welcomed
m a Mormon assembly by a speech froyi Brigham
Young, and that he replied in an appropriate and
feeling manner. The significance ot this is still fur
iher eub&uced by a statement ot the general expec
tation in the army that Col. Johnston would move
forward for Salt Lake valley in a short time. As to
the reai desigu of the Mormon authorities aud the
feelings and movements of the people, our co-ree
pendent says nothing—which, we presume, is about
all that is definitely known of these things by the
men in our ranks, or by any outsiders as yet.
Correspondence of the Boston Journal.
Fort Bkidokk, U. TANARUS., April 15, 1857.
Feeling anxious that my Bosfon friends should be
apprised of ihe earliest intelligence relative to mat
ters in this country, aud as the express leaves to
day, I hasten to furnish you with the latest news.
A United Si a tea Commissioner. Mr. Kane, tirriy
ed here about the 25tb of March, front B’llt Luke
City with despatches. He alter ward returned to.
the city, where he remained a few days, and ou the ;
sth of April returned to this Fort, and after a short
interview with Governor Cuinnmif-, the latter
agreed U) accompany him to the capital on the
“Tlhuklv on tbe 6th, Gov. Gumming, attended
only by Mr. Kane, and hm carriage driver, took bis ,
departure for the Holy City, intending to go through
ill iwo days He did so, aud entering t lie city on
the Bth, found a latge hall ready and beautifully fit
ted up tor his reception. Brigham Young received
him w tb an appropriate speech, which was respond
ed to by tbe Governor iu a true Democratic and
feeling manuer. lam eorry I canuot furnish you a
copy but will do so by uexi express. W e look dai
ly for his return. He was treated with the utmoa. .
civility aud respect. We look daily for Colonel
Johnston to issue orders for entering the city ae the
road is now passable. , ,
The condition of tbe troops here is quite deplora
ble, the rations are getting very short, ihe men only
receiving thirteen ounces of flour per day, aud the ,
meat ration ooueists of the fewjold surviving work
oxen who lived through the winter after hauling cur
supplies to this place. Beans, rice, coffee and su
gar, at much smaller allowance., than, prescribedl by
law, serve to iuruish th® balance lbe men, alter
experiencing a winter almost unparalleled for se
venty, remain quite weak iu buddy strength, but m
the best >•’ spirits, ready aud anxious to complete
tbe march agamst the city, even with tenfold odds,
and a moment s warning to obey our country’s call,
and only await the “ fortune of war ” . j
The prices demanded by the traders in this teiTi
tory have become seriously alaiming. .Flour is ;
now selling at $1 per pound ; bacon, sugar and col- ;
tee at #1 per pound: aud salt'.very scarce) at the i
famishing price of#4 per pouud , tobacco (very iu j
ferior) ar $2 per pouud ; tea $3 : saleratus $7, aud I
everything else iu the same proportion. j
A duel came off at this fort on the Ist of April be- i
tween Mr lilessiugdale, of New-York city, a clerk !
of Livingst.ru h Kiukead, sutlers, and privato ,
Michael Fiynn, ofCompany C, 2d Dragoons-die- ;
tioce twenty paces. They exchanged three shuts ■
with Colt's revolvers. Blessingdale was badly i
wounded. Flynn also was badly wounded iu the
1 g so badly that amputation was nece. sary, which
t„7k place on the 4th inst. by Surgeon Mills, D. 8.
Army. The patient proved too weak, aud death
ensued. Flynn was au o'd, tried and trusty soldier,
much beloved by all his companions, and his Com
pauy has su-'ai ed by his demise a heavy loes.—
U leasing dale has fled.
Olllclnl Swindling inTennes.ee.
The investigation now being made by the Com
mittee appointed y the recent Legislature, teia
tiye to the affairs of the Comptroller's and Secreta
ry of S'ate s . lb e, shows an am unt of fraud and
rascality unprecedented in the history of our State.
We should not feel at libeity to speak of this mat
ter until the Committee had made their r. pi rt it it
was net generally understood and tuily canvassed
on the streets.
Q 1• e Secretary of State's office ehows a detalca
tumon the part of that efficer to an amount exceed
ing fdil.iKN’— money paid to him. as Internal Im j
provement Commissioner, by the different Turnpike |
Companies. i
The largest amount of rteai.ng has been in con- j
neotion with the bonds belonging to the Exchange j
Bauk at Murfreesboro’, whiou are sad to fall $123,- [
(UK) short of the amout of its circulation. That j
hai.k has not now a single bond on deposit, aud i
ihose who hold its notes have not the va.ue ot one
eon’ representing them If they are ever redeem- ,
ed it must be Ov the State. The mystery of this .
,’ast swindle is still uurevealeti. In order to guard .
against such a state of affa.rs as this, the Legi-.a- j
ture of 1855-’56, passed an act to reguiat- the busi
ness of banking, embracing the following sections .
See. 14. Be it further ciacied. I'hat the bonds
required to be deposited wiih the Ouiuptioiler by
virtue ot tuis ot and ihe act which this is intended
to amend, stulii be priced upon deposit m the Bonk
of Tennessee, and that-no be eovnter-
Sea-. 15. Be it further enacted. That Ihe bonds so |
deposited shall be subject to the order of the Comp
tro ler. onlf for the purpose of carrpinsr into ejie.t j
The spirit and intent of this act have not bees ob
served bv the Bank of Tennessee or recent Comp- |
trolter. The Comptre-lier bos been permitted by
the Bank to keep a box iu Us vaults containing the
bends of the various Free Banks, but tho Cashier
of the Bank says that he took no control over them :
farther than this, and made ne. minute of the amount,
cumbers, or anything of the kind, and required no |
receipt from the Comptroller * ben token off, but j
permitted him and his Clerk to have free access to
i hem at all time aud for all purposes There has i
,-ertam v been very great neglect n the part of the
Comptroller and Cashier, to say toe leas! of it. The |
question now occurs, woo go! the toude ’
The Bank does cot bel eve that they were ever j
deposited. The former Comptroller, Mr Lutreil. i
srems to know very iijtie about it, having left the
control of his office under almost the exclusive ccn- ;
trol of bis Clerk, young Moeeby. Mr Spence, the j
President of tb? EicmW Bai.k tbfti tbe i
twods were paid over by him. but there navmg |
been some very improper oonduc! between Mr 3. j
t nd the Comptroller, he has been subjected to the j
s uspioien in tlie minds of many, ot having blamed (
1 is Circulation without the proper amount ot bouds. |
‘.Ve shad not pretend, at present, to express an |
. pinion be'ween tbe parties. It lies between the
Exchange Bank, the Comptroller, and the Bank ot ,
I Tt-anefi-ee _ m 1
Ycimjc Moseby, tii© Clerk under Mr. Lutreil, con*
t ■ bftvii'g taken out o: tb© Bxck and appro- t
} to bin own ia*e, fi vea of “the bonds belong- .
iqf two other b&iik?. We have no idea ibat this :s j
a f tbe raecah:y that ba bron oocimittod. but tbe |
c mmittee may not be able to ferrit it out. Vi e |
t i*ik it due to x r LxreU towy that public opinion j
iiolmee to reheve him of any diaiK>nety, aad io *
cect-ure him for inefficiency and general u?gWct cf :
Trcx PoLiTFNXse.—As to pcditenes?. many bare ]
attempted to define it. 1 beiieve -it beet to be
known by d?ec:tptivn—defit.itioo not boiag able so
romprwe it. 1 would, however, venture ;o call it j
benevolence m tnte,” or the preference of o!b !
cr* tocurvelvee in little daily, hourly occurrence? I
i:i the commerce of kfe. It tea perpetual attention !
to the wants of those with whom we are, by which
attention we either prevent ch remove them Bow
i'\g, ceremonies, formal oc aplimentf. stiff civilities, j
v i!l never be politeness—that murt be ea?y, na-y
----ia , unstudied, manly,noble , and what will give
t m but aJiimd bemt?vulent and perpetually attentive :
to el -r riiat amiable dapoeition in tr.flee to ail ycu j
(OUV.JW asu Chatham |
EIKOPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
BT THE AFRICA.
The steamship Africa with Liverpool dates to
Situ'day May 15, arrived at New-York on Thurs
day.
Great Britai*.— Parliamentary —On the
132. of May the Lords didnotsit. In the Commons,
Mr Bail! c-. in response to an inquiry, denied the re
ports that S r Conn Campbell hod lately asked ur
gently for reinforcements, and that the East India
Company had declined for the present to find trans
ports for the troops ready for embarkation.
Mr Disraeli, in reply to a question, said that Lord
E.leiiburongh laid his resignation before the Queen
wi'bout the knowledge even of the Prime Minister,
and that had he consulted his colleagues, they would
have unanimously requested him to withdraw his
resignation.
The bill to extend limited liability to Banking in
stiluiions, was debaredatid passed to a second read
ing : and the bni for the abiiition of Church re'es
l was passed threugii■committe4*nd reported to the
li. nt. am. P-1 hiud .XTo.
Do taw 14tt, in the House of Lords, tile Ear. of
’ f i off.* bury moved bis vote of e ensure upon <ge
1 9.,vFpn.u;. -tur.&sfr to the Goverwr
i D touohiag liis proc. amot ion to the
’ pe>‘ t aod urged Its mieption at •CUE
borough reiterated his assertion that
Bheeioae was retponeibfe for theffaMaroh in ques
: :n,n, and defended the prirg ip-ei-kna down in it.
lot Dwiesif Argy.e, Si.ms'Set and Newcastle,
; anils'..ls Cramw'uin audwey, spoke in t a vox of
.. ..- ot Carnarvon and
.ed the government.
j *4 ae Eari q 4 Derby justified the despatch and con-
f -A iac A-eckk l Cf* l/Cl l_ V loeilliCU t-UC axca ■ • AA
j dtiimefl \&4 want o( clemency on the part of Lord
Chuijtef£ io con&catiiqc the whole territory of Oude.
j ocprf-<!atfed ihe conduct of Mr.'Vernon Smith in
-rwithholding from government the private letter re
j oeived from Lord Canning in which explanation of
the procUmatwii were*pr raised. He denied that
I Government as a body waa responsible for the pub
lication of the defiuatcbea.
A ter Home r-marka from Lo’-d Granville, the
1 House divided, the vote being 158 for the resolu
j iad 167 against it—majority in favor of the Go
vernment,9. The announcement waa received with
-cheers. , „ • ,
In the House of Commons, Lord Stanley stated
; that no change had taken place in tbe position of
Britain relative to France or the Un ted States
! with regard to the Newfoundland Fisheries, nor
| hfirU the British squadron been increased on that
Mr Cardwell brought forward his motion of cen
-1 ture upon the Government for tbe Indian despatch,
and advocated ni3 views at length.
Mr. Sergeant Deaey seconded the resolution, and
| ihe peakers in tavor of it included Mr. Lowe, Mr.
Vernon Smith and Lord John Russell, the latter of
: whom gave it his strenuous support, contending that
i Government had acted disingenuously towards Lord
Canning, and atguing that either Lord Canning
must be pronounced incapable of continui- g in his
: high position or Governmeu’ rous? be censured,
i Toe speakira iu defence of Government were
j the Solicitor General, Mr. Lindsay, Mr. Baillie,
Lord .Stanley, and others- Some of the liberal mem
j hers spoke in favor of Government, because they
j expected to gain more from the present Government
j tlif+n ever they gained from the Whigs,
j The debate was adjourned till Monday, tbe 17th.
Miscellaneous. — Reports were current that
: Lord Stanley would succeed Lord Ellenborough aa
: prescient ot the Board of Control, and that Sir Ed-
I ward Bulwer Lytton would be a'ppointed Colonial
! Secretary in Lord Stanley's place—his re election
‘ to Parliament being adverted by hia advancement
to the peerage. Another report is that Mr. Ker Sey
mour will bucceed to the Colonial Office.
Another rumor waa that Mr. Baillie would retire
from office.
A meeting of about 200 supporters of Lord Pal
merston was held at the residence of that nobleman
on the 14th, and it is said a cordial feeling in his fa
! vor was evinced.
The experiments which l.ad been made with the
new telegraph machines of Professor Hughes, upon
1 t e Atlantic cable had been quite successful. The
1 instruments transmitted iLe?sagee through the whole
length of cable.
Mr Cyru3 W Field called, on the 13th, upon Sir
John Packing ton, the first. Lord of the Admiralty
and explained to him the situaiion of the Atlantic
Telegraph Company, in regard to a paddle wheel
steamer to act as a tender upon the Niagara in place
of the Susquehanna, which the United States Gov
ernment was prevented from sending on account of
! the yellow fever having broken out on board of her.
i The Admiralty at once granted a steamer in place
of the Sui-quehanna. The liberality of the British
Government in placing four of their best steamers
at Lhe disposal of the Atlantic Telegraph Company
to assist in laying the cablo this year, aud at a time
when they are chartering merchant steamers for
their own service, shows the deep interest they feel
i in the success of this great international enterprise.
Confidence in the success of the undei taking ap
peared to be daily increasing iu England.
Tbe London Times details at length the plans for
laying the cable, and says:
The greatest efforts to insure success are being
made and no precaution has been neglected and no
suggebtioii worthy of at teution has been ignored.—
! The experimental trip to start ou the 24th or 25th
May, is expected to occupy from six to ten days,
j During this, about 160 miles of condemned cable
| will be used in ascer ainiugthe efficiency of various
buoys, laying down and under running the wire,
&.C., and when all doubts aud theories have been
practically solved the squadron returns to Queens
town makes its brief final preparations, and starts for
the great attempt about the 10th of June, thereby
taking advautage of the most favorable time in the
w hole year.
At the centre of the space to be traversed by the
cable, which is about 32 deg. West of Greenwich,
! the splice between the two halves will be made
w ithout lose of time. To overcome the difficulty
caused by the two portions of the cable having their
lny or twist of the outside spiral wires turning in
different directions, aud forming right and left hand
screws, the splice will be secured to rods of iron
loaded with a weight in the centre; in fact, an ap
paratus of the same kind aa that by which railway
j carriages are coupled together. By this the
j tendency of the different spirals to untwist each
j other will be overcome. There are 1,50(1 fathofhs
water where this join must be mude, and both ves
sels will remain stationary until the splice has well
settled on the bottom
The depths to which the Niagara will have to sink
hej portion vary quickly and irregularly from 1,500
to 2.500 fathoms or ironrli to about 3£ miles; and
this is the case also with the Agamemmou’s portion
of the distance. But ou the American side the water
shoals easily and gradually towards Newfoundland,
whereas on the British portion of the ocean the
Agamemnon will have to surmount a ireineudous
ridge, which may be called the Andes of those vast
submarine plains of the Atlantic. It commences at
about 15 dig. west longtitude, and in the course of
a few miles the water suddenly shoals from 1750
tathoms to 550. Up this vast rocky precipice—al
most as steep as the side of Mont Blauc—the cable
must be laid with extreme care. This difficulty
once overcome, the way thence to Valentia becomes
comparatively ufnu
Alter effecting a epHce middle of the Atlan
tic and safely sinking the wire to the bottom ot the
sea,(a depth of 1,500 fathoms,) the Niagara will steer
for New Founoland, and ? he Agamemnon for Ireland -
each vessel steaming as fast to her homeward desti
nation as is consistent with safety to the great un
dertaking. - Incase of dangerous weather arising,
the first consideration will be, of course, the safety
of the cab ie, and no matter how advantageous any
course of action may appear, nothing will be done
by which the sou ess of the undertaking will be
jeoparded or even left to chance. Each vessel is
p.ovi *ed w ith reels of strong wire rope, which can
be attached to buoys made in the manner of ordina
ry fishing floats, though capable of sustaining a
weight of several tons Provided with this appara
tus, the cable may be cut without reluctance, if the
weather threatens, and the end of it (firmly secured
to the rope and buoy) ailowed to rest almost upon
the bed oft he ocean, to be hauled up directly the
storm has passed. Proper pecautions have also been
taken to make the flouting ends of the buoys cou
- picuouß and easily found iu tbe case of the ships be
i iug driven from them.
j In regard to the electrical part of the under
j taking, the Times says :
! A number of experiments have recently been
made with a view ot increasing the rapidity of work
ing signals through tbe entire length of the cable.—
! These experiments, in which a variety of inventions
‘ and applications have been employed, have been
; conducted by Professor Thompson, Mr. Hughes, the
American electrician (whose printing telegraph is
I likoly to revolutionize the present uncertain ays-
Item,) Mr. Heuly, aud Mr. Whitehouse. The result
though on the whole far more satisfactory than was
at first anticipated, shows indubitably that more
i than one submarine cable will be required to do all
! the business likel to be transacted between this
j country aud the New World. Such a result, how
ever, need disl:eai\en no one, since none but those
unacquainted with the subject have for a moment
J imagined that one working cable would be sufficient
; or do more than show the w'ay which others will bb
. soon ready and anxious to follow.
| If it is only for the purpose of counteracting the
| disturbing influence of those mysterious magnetic
! storms, it will be necessary for the Atlantic Compa
ny to lay down a 6tcind wire as soon as p*ssible
that is, to have a complete metallic circuit for the
letuiu of the electricity along the outer wires of tbe
second cable, instead of being discharged by the
earth. Formerly the signals were worked through
tbe Atlantic coils by means ot a Smee’s battery of
18 large cells with large induction coils, constitu
ting probably the most powerful battery ever con
structed. How the insulation of the cable with
stood the severe teat is an enigma. It has, how
ever since been ascertained that an ordinary batte
ry of six cells transmitteu the signals with the same
facility, and that, iu fact, the quantity of electricity
generated by the enormous power of the first batte
ry checked or charged the wire.
It is sated that Hull ;s to be the great intermedi
ate station of the Transatlantic and British and
Irish Telegraph Company for the transmission of
messages between America aud the continent of
Europe. A tour wire cab'e is now being laid in the
neighborhood of Hull for this purpose. London,
Live* pool, Manchester, and Glasgow wiil be placed
| iu direct communication with Hull, as well as with
j Valentia, on the Irish coast, whence messages will
j be received from America. Communications in
i tended for the continent wiil be forwarded direct to
j Hull, and theuce along the cable now about to be
| carried via Withemsea to Spurn Point, where it
j leaves the British Isles aad passes directly across
| the North Sea to Cuxnaven, at the eutrar.ee of the
Elbe, and thence by laud to Hamburg, the princi
j pal terminal station Ooi the continent. Mr Powell,
one of the Company ‘s engineers is now in Hull pre
j paring for the transmission of messages by sound,
i the vibrations being produced by strokes upon a
fine toned bell, entirely dispensing with the use of
the needle. It is expected that the communication
between New York and Hull wiil A>e completed by
July next/’
Mr. Layard, the distinguished traveller, had ad
dressed a large and influential meeting in London
on the ass airs of India, whence he had just returned.
.rd that ihe cause of the mutiny was mis
government. The London Times takes issue with
him.*
Tue British squadron in the Mediterranean bad
been summoned back to Malta fiom Corfu by tele
graph, aud was cruisiiig in the Haifa roads.
A violent storm of wind and rain, amounting al
most to a hurricane, had visited London. Con
siderable damage was dore on the Surrey ride of
the rhem-s, aad the >ain fell in such torrents that
it is *aid the water in some of the roads was ft r a
brief interval over a foot deep.
A regular race across the Atlantic is said to have
tsken p act- between the steamers Aragoand Saxo
nia, which lett New York simultaneously on tbe Ist
o,i May. When they had been at sea lour days the
Arago got ahead and fired two guns in triumph :
but in a tew days the Saxonia resumed the lead and
fired three guns in triumph The Saxonia finally
reached Cowes four hours ahead of the Arago.
The new big beii for Westminster has been suc
cessfully cast, and is estimated to weigh about four
teen tons.
France.—The Paris correspondent of tbe Lon
coo Limes says that M de Sartiges, the French
Minister at tt aehington. is about to come to France
on leave of absence The French Consul-General
a: New York will act as Charge d’Affaires.
The weather in France had been very u use as on
able, and spow had falk s : r i me sections.
The Three per Ceote, closed on the Paris Bourse
on the 14th at 69f 70e.
Orders are sai l to have been: eceived at Brest to
The Abbe Dumage. parish priest ot Tavaux. states
; in a letter to the Surname du Yenn&cdois, that on
; ibe morning of the lbth of April he saw a cross,
tbou’ 30 teet long ti >atiLg in the direction of the
! gun. but much higher!
Turkey — The Paris Moniteur, in an article upon
the crj u.e between Ti*-key arcM ctenegro.says :
•* Turkey threatens to invade Montenegro The
French Government, in order to avoid a conflict,
invited England to 00-opea:e and prevent hoetiii
tie It has .been decided to send commissioners
there to arr&uge the difficulties. Tue article con
riudt-s bv hot rg that Austria and Russia wiil join
iu the wt ikof reconciliation.
X.. r. :.ad be n s battle between tbe Turk* and
M. ire , grins stOrabova. in which the latter had
£ftv teen titled at-d eerent} wounded The toes of
the'Turks is net stated. Grahova was burnt by its
Isnio.—Bombay mails of April,24th reached
Sues on the 9th ol May. .
The Indian news is of no special importance. Sir j
Cotin Campbell had an interview with the Gov j
ernor Generai at Allahabad, and on,the 2(>th of Apm
was to start from Lucknow for Rohilcund, aceem ,
ponying a column under Gen. Waipoie.
Tbe bulk of the army remained at Lucknow. \
Lord Canning was about to return to Calcutta I
Baril’.y and Calpee were stilt in the hands of the
enemy, and at the latest date no attack had been
mane upon either of tboee places.
Tbe rebels were said to be in force along the riv
er near Futtebpore, and near Benares.
I’p to the 18ih of April Sir Hugh Hoes remained
at J hanei and it is said large bodies of tbe enemy
were ad'voncing from the East with a view of get
ting in hie rear.
The Kotah garrison, 5,000 strong, were at large,
but without artillery.
Aziingbur was expected to be relieved about
the2orhof April.
Tbe Punjab and Scinde remained quiet.
Tee Nepaulese were reported to De falling back
upon their own frontier to protect it against the
Latest by Telegraph from London to Liverpool.
London, May 15, A. M.—From the Doily News’
City Article. The funds to-day were very dull,
but hot lower. The closing quotations were the
same as those of yesterday. The embarrassment
of the Ministry-formed a prominent topic of discus
sion, but itmay perhaps be found that even an ad
verse deeyfan in Parliament has been to a conside -
rah* tuttent discounted in the Stock Exchange.
Ts aoticipation of an unfavorable Bank return
,*fas counterbalanced this afternoon by an impres
sion that the drain of gold will for the present be
ohecked- In most of the other Slock Exchanges
great dullness prevailed and the tendency of prices
‘was generally droop ng. The amount of gold with
drawn from the Bank to day for exportation was
only Jj 10,000. For the moment the Continental
demand is met by a supply of newly imported
gold, and the ireßh arrival of £388,000 in specie an
nounced this afternoon is calculated to allay uneasi-
ness.
At the Bank to-day the demand for money was
as languid as last reported.
In the open market a fair amount of business is
going forward, and discounters alo less disposed to
take even high class bills below 2j per cent.
From the Times’ City Article. The question as
to the probable fate of the Ministry has been the
sole topic of diecußeion to day. Tne amount of bu
siness in tbe Funds has been limited prices gene
rally have been dull.
In the discount market and at the Bank to-day
there ovas an increased demand, partly, perhaps, in
preparation of the large amount of India and China
bids which fall due on Monday. In the Stock Ex
change advances on good securities are still offered
at 2 per cent.
India and China. —Tbe mail has arrived with
advices from Calcutta to April 10th, and from
Hong Kong to March 29th.
The Calcutta correspondent of the Times says
that we have n,w a hot weather campaign upon
our bands.
The Sepoys, some 3,000 excepted, having es
caped, are -v, arming Vrohilcund aud lhe provinces
east of Benares. Baiilly overflows with them.—
Nena Sabib i.as, it is said, a strong body of cavalry
iu which he reposes great confidence, some 25,000
Sepoys and an armed rabble.
The Commander-in-Chiet has 8000 men, 0,500 of
them Europeans, in Lucknow, under Sir H. Grant.
Goruckpote, Cawupore, Benares, Allahabad and
Dmapore have been weakly garrisoned, and the re
inaiumg SUtiO Europeans and 25,000 Natives to pro
ceed to the North West, that is to Kohlicand. The
head quarters are transferred to Cawnpore, and Sir
Colin Campbell is expected to command the great
attack in person.
The news by the mail has lost much of its interest
as the Foreign Office telegram, received yesterday,
contain intelligence a fortnight later.
Miscellaneous. —The change of wind has had
the effect of bringing forward some large supplies
of tustralian gold.
The Swiftsure has arrived eff Falmouth from Mel
bourn in 77 days, with 80,051 ounces of gold, worth
about £320,200.
The Tnames has also arrived from Geelong with
10,550 ounces, worth £42,200.
The Ministerial Crisis. —The Post antici
pates in the beginning of the article a triumphant
vote which will restore the Liberal party to offioe
and power.
Tne Daily News, after remarking that the object
of Mr. Caldwell's motion is avowedly to drive the
present Ministers from office, asks what prospect
these L of a more liberal and stable Ministry, or of
one more able and willing to adopt a generous aud
liberal policy.
The Star complains of tbe course taken by some
of the independent libt r. 1.. whose votes will, it says,
raise the anticipated majority in favor of Mr. Card
well's motion to 30.
The Chronicle says: Tho scene in the House of
Commons last night was very exciting, if the debate
was not.
The division is not eipected before Tuesday.
The Palmerston party predict a majority of 40 or
50 iu their favor.
The Advertiser states that a meeting of liberals
was held yesterday. The number present was 25,
of whom 14 voted for a motion requesting M. Cald
well not to proceed wi'h nis resolution.
The Advertiser anticipates a majority of 60 in the
Commons.
The Times, referring to the division in the Lords
last uignt, says : The Commons will probably take
another view of the question, and one which will
leave Lord Derby no other choice but to share the
resignation, which lie has sanctioned in his col
league.
Washington Items. —The Committee on For
eign Kelations, in the Senate, bad a full meeting on
Tuesday mormug and considered the proposition
from Mr. Slidell to abrogate that clause of the Ash
burton Treaty which requires a naval force to be
maintained on the Coast of Africa. After some dis
cussion a formal diviei.n was taken with the follow
ing result: Yeas—Mas< n, Slidell and Polk. Nays
—Foot, Crittenden, Douglas and Seward. Thus
the movement was defeated by one majority.
It is said that Mr. Mason is engaged in preparing
a report ou the right ot searrh, which will be sub
mitted from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, as
its answer to a commentary upon tbe President's
Message communicating the British attacks upon
our merchant vessels.
The Secretary of War has issued orders for the
establishment of a school at Fort Monroe, for theo
retical and practical instruction in artillery. The
regulations for’ its government have been adopted
on the recommendation of the General-in-Chief of
the Army. The school for the present is to be com
posed of the officers and companies composing the
garrison of Fort Monroe. Hereafter, when the
state of the service pel-mils, the number of compa
nies will be increased to eight, selected from the
four regiments of Artillery. The companies are to
serve at tbe school for two years, at the expiration
of which time one company from each regiment
will be relieved by another from tbe same regi
ment. The Artillery graduates of the Military
Academy are to serve one year at the school before
joining their companies.
The Special Minister from Venezula, Sir. Breceno
sent here to attempt a settlement of the reclama
tions of American citizens, founded on their expul
sion from Avis Island, familiarly known as the
Shelton or Bird Is'and claims, has presented letters
of recall aud will return to Laguayra by the next
vessel. Breceno, had previously been dismissed
by the President, for a breach of diplomatic privi
pampblet ‘statement’of tbe case as viewed by’ hie
Government. This was rega-ded by the President
aud Gen. Cass as an appeal to the people from the
action of the Executive, not to be tolerated. Sir.
B. was therefore dismissed, as M. Poussin, Mr. Mo
lina, and Mr Crampton were, but, perceiving bis
error, the Minister apologized, and was permitted to
present letters of recall.
The House Commi’tee on Post Offices have de
cided to report a bill for the ocean mail service. It
will embrace the following schedule:
1 Collins line to be authorized to run to South
ampton instead of Liverpool.
2 Tbe Havre Hue to be contracted with for ten
years, at $2 per mile.
3. A line to Gluckstadt, via Plymouth aud Rot
terdam, for ten years, at (2 per mile.
4. A Pne from New-Orleans, via Havana, Ber
muda, F’ayal, and Santander (Spain,) for ten years,
al $2 per mile.
The expense of these lines is not to exceed $700,-
000 per annum. This sum is stated to agree with
the amount reported by the Committee of Ways
and Means, on the 10th May, for this service for the
fiscal year. The estimated receipts of postages by
European mails for the year, is just this amount.
All letters by private ships are to be charged the
same as by mail ships, aud no letters are to be sent
out of tbe United States but through the Postoffice.
The Committee on Territories of the Senate will
at its next meeting, agree upon a bill for the organi
zation of the territories of Arizona and Dacotah.
Washington Items —The House Committee on
the Judiciary made a report on Thursday on that
branch of the President’s message, recommending,
iu the passage ot a bankrupt law, to include banks
in the same. They take the ground that Congress
has no power to pass such a law, for the reasons
that its exercse would be an in fringement of the
rights of the States j that even if it were within the
undoubted competency of Congress, it would be
productive of no a vantage whatever, while it
would, beyond all question, give rise to many very
great and permanent evils, that the evils growing
out of the present system of banking require a re
medy, but that this can only be looked for from the
States. The report concluded with a resolution
that there be no further action on the Presidentls
recommendation.
The naval appropriation bill contains items ofs2,-
850 000 for the wear and tear of vessel in commission;
$1,350,000 for the five steamships heretofore au
thorized ; $52,200 for the con .ruction and comple
tion of the works and enrren repairs of the Ports
mouth, N. H., Navy Yard sri>9,soo for the Boston
Navy Yard; $769,500 for ihe New York Navy
Yard: $97,200, for the Philadelphia Navy Yard ;
$99,000 for the Washington Navy Yard ; $86,000
tor the Norfolk Navy Yard. $247,000 for tbe Pen
sacola Navy Yard $318,000 for the Navy Yard at
Mare Island, California.
The Military Committee of both Houses are ex
amining the Washington aud Oregon war claims
with an anxious desire to ditpoee of them at this
session. The House Committee demur to charges
of $2 per day for each horse used by the volunteers,
and $2 per day for each enlisted recruit in the terri
torial militia.” Gen Lane and C4ov. Stevens are to
heard before the Senate Committee. The claims
amount to $6,000,000.
Mr. Douglas has been authorized by the Commit
tee ou Territories to prepare bills, with certain con
ditions, establishing governments in Arizona and
Dacotah, to be submitted at another meeting. In
di- ii aggressions constitute the reason for reconsid
ering the former decision
Mr. I. -w:3 Cass, Jr, has resigned his mission at
Rome, the resignation to take effect when hia suc
cessor shall be appointed.
Great Rais Storm in Ohio. —The Cincinnati
Gazette says that one ot the most violent storms of
rain, aceompar ied by a heavy wind, which has visi
ted that section of the State in many years, com
menced on Monday forenoon last, and continued
throughout most of the day with unabated severity.
During tbe evening the storm abated somewhat,
but commenced again about one o’clock, and from
that time until daylight, a perfect flood of water de
scended, overflowing streets, culverts, the eana
banks of the creeks and rivers, carrying away
bridges and dams, and doing an amount of damage
that it would be impossible to estimate.
The Ohio River rose more rapidly during Tues
day than has been known since the great flood of
1847. During the forenoon, tbe water advanced at
the rate of about one foot per hour, requiring the
greatest activity on the part of those having freight
lying upon the levee to get it farther ap the bank
to escape the flood. The total rise at Cincinnati
was about ten feet.
The destructions of banks along the Whitewater
Canal is supposed to have been immense, and the
loss sustained by the flood very great. At two
points near Cincinnati! the bonne bank was washed
into the river, in one place for a distance of perhaps
fifty, and at the second near Sedamsville, five hun
dred feet. and ty a depth below the canal bed. An
extensive land slide occurred near California,
about four miles from the city, whieh filled up the
turnpike road, on the Kentucky side for a consid
erable distance. Another elide occurred at Step
stone seme twenty miles distant, by which large
fields of grain, trees and fenceswere carried into the
river. A third occurred nearly opposite New Rich
u ood, and a fourth just above that place, on the
Ohio side, which carried large quantiti -a ot earth,
grain,into the river. Two other slides took
pl-.ce near Yeatman’s, west of the city, of a less dis
astrous character.
Pilgrims at Jerusalem —A letter from Jerusa
lem of the Ist nit., in the Paris Cnivera, says : Nu
merous caravans of Christian p-.ignms from diffe
rett parts of Europe asa toe Empire have
arrived here, and ,be Greek, Armenian, Copt and
Latin convents are so crowded as to be unable to
afford accommodation to all Crowds of people
throng the sanctuary from morning till night, aud
the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is never empty.
The number of foreigners here is estimated at from
15.006 to 16,000. On the 19th of last month a cara
van of 23 pilgrims arrived from Franee, and after
beiDg welcomed by the Latin patriarch, obtained
cordial bo-pitality from the Franciscan monks. A
week efier a German caravan arrived, consisting
of thirteen laymen and eight priests. One of these
last is the Canon Strauss, president of the society
of the Holy Sepulchre of Cologne, which raises sub
scriptions for promoting Catholicism in tbe Hoiy
Land. Up to this day the services at the Holy
Sepulchre have passed off without disturbance be
tween tbe Greeks and Ch- ’ -s
The Agesot Tries —Tbe Newburyport ‘Mass)
Herald says that among those trees whose ages
have been ascertained, the elm baa been known to
live more than 350 years, the chesnut, 6oo ; the
cedar 800 ; the oak, from 1000 to 1500: and some
of the woods of the tropics for 3000.4000 and 5000
years
Report of Mr. Mason on the Aggressions upon
our Coro merer.
The Washington Union of Saturday publishes
the following report made by Mr. Mason, of Vir
ginia, in the United States Senate, on the 28th
instant: , *
Tfc* Committee on Foreign Relatione, to whom
was retired lhe resolution of the Senate instruct
ing ‘hc?c ‘ to inquire whether any legiajation is ne
cessary to enable the President of the United States
to protect American vessels against British aggres
sion in the Gulf ot Mex.co or elsewhere,” and to
whom has &L?o been referred the message of the
President of the United States* communicating, in
answer to a resolution of the Senate, information
concerning the recent search or seizure of Ameri
can vessel? by foreign armed cruisers in the Gulf of
Mexico, fcavo had the same under consideration,
aud now
report :
Tbe documents accompanying the message of the
President shows a series of aggressive acts on the
commerce of the United States in the Gulf of Mexi
co, andpff tne West India Islands, by thenaval forces
of Great Britain, of a character so marked and ex
traordinary as to have.fixed the attention of the
country.
American vessels purauiflg the paths of lawful
commerce on the high seas, or passing near the
American coast from one domestic port to another
under the flag of their country, have been pursued,
tired into, and compelled to stop by the public force
of a foreign power; questioned as to their destina
tion, their cargo, and the character of their crew ;
required to submit to an examination of their sea
papers, and to a scrutiny into the objects and pur
pose of their voyage.
In other instances, American vessels anchored in
the harbor of a riendly power, at the port of Sagua
la Grande, in the Island of Cuba, have been sub
jected to a police inqui ition by the same foreign
power, and in like manner required to exhibit their
papers, aud to submit to questions as to their desti
nation, the cau eof their absence trom home, and
the number and character of their crews.
It would appear trom the letter of the Consul of
the United States at Havana, (a documeut accom
panying the message,) that no less than fit teen
American vessels lying in the harbor, or in port f
Sagua la Grat-.de, were made to undergo this humi
bating system of espionage ; whilst six veosels on
the high seas in the Gulf of Mexrjo, bearing their
country’s flag, were, as above stated, by actual
exhibition and use of force, endangering, in some
instances, the lives of those on board, compelled to
stop and submit to detention, until a boarding ofli
cer waa satisfied in such questions aa it was hia
pleasure to put
Besides the instances above cited, officially com
municated with the President’s message in reply to
a call of the Senate, each successive arrival from
the infested quarter brings intelligence of new aud
additional aggressions of like character, committed
by the same power, on vessels bearing the flag ol
the United States.
It has occasionally happened heretofore, under
circumstances of misapprehension, or misconstruc
tion of orders, or from other arid like causes, tha’
vessels of the United States have been subjected
by the armed force of a foreign power to visitation
and search, in violation of international law, and in
derogation of the independence of our flag, and in
such isolated cases the honor of the country may
have been sufficiently vindicated by a disclaimer of
intended wrong or by rebuke of the offierr offend
ing. But the continuous and per serving charac
ter of the aggreissions now brought to tne notice of
the country , committed by a power with whom we
are .at peace , and almost within sight of our snores ,
is sufficient to arouse the just indignation of the
country , and calls, in the opinion of the Committee
for the most prompt and efficient measures , to ar
rest at once , and to end finally and forever , the com
mission of like indignities to our flag.
The documents accompanying the message dis
close the fact that these acts of visitation and ex
amination of American vessels were sought to be
justified under the plea of necessity for the suppres
sion of the slave trade, supposed to be or actually
carried out between Africa aud the island of Cubi.
The committee will not go into any inquiry iu re
ference to such alleged necessity. It is sufficient
for them to know that the assent of the United
States, although often nvoked, has never been
yielded to any such system of police on the seas.
They rest on the position, not to be controveried,
that by no principle of international law can a ves
sel under the flag of its country be visited or detain
ed on the high seas in lime of peace by any foreign
power under any pretext or for any purpose what
ever, without the consent of those over whom the flag
waves.
Without going at large into the queelions here
tofore involved as to the rights of independent na
tions on that common highway of the world—the
open sea—the committee deem this, nevertheless,
a fit occasion to declare the principles always main
tained by the United States as regulating the use of
the open or high seas in time of peace, and from
which are derived rights U> the people of the United
States admitting no restraint or qualification , and
to be maintained al whatever cost.
There is no right of visitation, far less of search
to be exercised in time of peace by any nation on
the ships or vessels of other nations, nor can there
be so long as tho laws of the civilized world touch
ing the freedom of the sea are respected by
civilized men. Such claim, therefore, having no
foundation in law or iu the comity of nations,
can never be tolerated by an independent power but
in derogation of her sovereignty. Neither is there
any distinction to be drawn in the claim of right
between visitation at sea by the the armed vessels of a
foreign power when unattended by examination
and searrh, and such visitation when so attended.
The offence and violation of public law consists
in the visitation, without regard to its purpose,
when ci-inn*d as a right against the will ot the
parly subjected to it. Were it otherwise, there
would follow, of course, the correlative right to ar
rest and detain the vessel until the visitation is ef
fected-
The committee find these principles admitted and
enforced by the opinions and the decisions of tbe
most . ioal non a judicial authorities, both in this coun
try and in Great, Britain.
[lhe case of the “Manna Flora,” in the Supreme
Court ot the United States, reported in 11 Wheaton,
page 1. And in England, the case of “Le Louis,”
decided by Lord Stowell in 1817, and reported in
Dodson’s Admiralty Reports, vol 2, page 210 ]
are founded in two simple elemental prin
ciplesof public law : First, in the equality of all
independent States ; aud, second, the common use
by all recognised States of the open sea as a high
way in time ot peace.
{Such are the rights and immunities of our citi
zens navigating the ocean, which have been fla
grantly violated and outraged by armed vessels of
a foreign power in time of profound peace, and in
some instances almost within sight of our own
shores.
Indignant as the American people are, and ought
to be, at the character and persistent repetition of
such aggreßßiona, yet their occurrence and gravity
will opportunely supply the occasion, and to end,
now and forever, all future questiou as to this right
of visitation at eea between the United States and
offending r , committee refrain
legielation as would be most effectual to protect the
commerce of the country trom aggressions of the
character thus brought to the notice of the Senate,
from the fact that tue President (as shown by the
letter of the Secretary of the Navy accompanying
themeasage) has already ordered all the disposable
naval force of the country into the intested quarter,
with order* “to protect all vessels of the United
States on the high seas from search or detention by
the vessels-of-war of any other nation.” These are
preventive measures only, . nd temporary iu their
character, but, in the judgment of the committee,
go to the full extent of the power of the Executive
in the absence of legislative provision. It is be
lieved,‘ho v/e ver, they will arrest for the present fur
ther like offences in tbe quarter whence they have
proceeded.
It appears further from these documents, that the
altered state of the relations between tho United
States aud Great Britain, which must arise from this
aggressive conduct of her armed vessels, has been
already brought to the notice of that power, by
communications from the Secretary or State ad
dressed both to the British Minister here and to the
Minister of the United States at London.
It cannot be known until the result of these com
munications is laid before Congress, how far tbe
acts in question w ill be avowed or disclaimed by the
government held responsible. It is the earnest hope
of the committee that the course that government
may adopt will be ot a character to satisfy the just
demands of this government, and, at the same ti ne,
to furnish a a uarantee against the repetition of the
offence. Nothing short of this, in the opinion of the
committee, will be compatible with peaceful rela
tions between the two countries.
In the present posture of the affair, therefore, the
committee forbear from recommending any addi
tional legislation to enable the President to proiect
American vessels on the high seas from the aggres
sions ot foreign powers. But they will not forbear
the declaration, that such legislation must be
promptly supplied should the result show that it is
needed to afford instant and full immunity to ves
sels engaged in lawful commerce on the high seas
from all arrest, molestation, or detention, made
under any pretext or from any quarter.
In conclusion, the committee recommend the
adoption of the following resolutions :
Resolved, (as the judgement of the Senate,) That
American vessels on the high seas, in time of peace,
bearing the American flag, eraain under the juris
diction ot the country to which they bekmg, aud
therefore, any visitation, molestation, or detention of
such vessels, by force, or by the exhibition of force,
on the part of a foreign Power is in derogation of
the sovereignty of the United States.
Resolved , That the recent and repeated violations
of this immunity, committed by vessels of war be*
longing to the navy- of Great Britian, in the Gulf of
Mexico and the adjacent seas, by firing into, inter
rupting, and otherwise forcibly detaining them on
their voyage, requires in the judgment of the Seriate
such unequivocal and final disposition of the subject
by the Governments of G< eat Britian and the United
States, touching tbe rights involved, as shall preclude
hereafter the recurrence of like aggressioLS.
Resolved. That the Senate fully approves the ac
tion of the Executive, in sending a naval force into
the infested seas, with orders “to protect all vessels
of tbe United States on the high seas from search
or detention by the vessels o! war of any other na
tion,’’ and it is the opinion ol the Senate that, if it
become necessary, such additional legislation should
be eupplied in aid of tbe Executive power as wili
make such protection effectual.
United States Navy.—The U. Slates have only
78 ships of war in all, of which but 50 m*y be re
garded as seaworthy whilst 30 are in commission.
This is a small show, and even of the few ordered to
the Gu’f. several are inefficient and almost worthless.
The Washington correspondent of the South-Side
Deane:.-, paystbat the little Arctic and Water
Witch, lately added to our Gulf squadron, are
neither of them fit for the work, and in the event of
collision, would add to the disgrace of our situation.
He adds that of the entire British fleet in the Gulf,
there is not one vessel which is not far superior in
fighting rig to either of them, and the Styx can whip
both of their ***gether, unless they are armed with
more efficient batteries than they have yet carried
or than they are t upposed capable of sustaining.
Even the practice eloop Plymouth, lately ordered
to the Gulf, is not as efficient ae she mis;ht be, if pro
vided with a screw. With that addition, she would
be perfect. W’ith Capt. Dalgrheen, the Dalghreen
gun, and Dalghreen’s men. she coula whip any thing
that floats. Screws ought to be put into all our
line of battle ships, and most of our frigates, and a
hundred gunboats, the cheapest and most effective
of all vessels, be built at once.
Nevertheless, small as our Navy is numerically,
we are not as weak aa we seem. The strength of
our Navy, remarks the Washington correspondent
of the Petersburg Intelligencer, like that of our
army, consists, in a great measure, in the latent
patriotism and energy of our people, who are al
ways ready to volunteer regiments on land, and
vessels on eea, to the utmost requirement of the
Government. Already, in consequence of the Bri
tish outrages, are offers of vessels and seamen
pouring in to the W T ar Department from ail sect.ons
of our Atlantic sea board, and, before the ides of
September, if necessary, the United States could
command a thousand bristling men-of-war.— Rich.
Dispatch.
Circumstantial Evidence. —The fallibility of
human testimony ie such that it must be acknowl
edged we cannot beli.ve our own eyes. A case
very similar to one which occurred some months
since at Poughkeepsie, N Y , in which a girl posi
tively identified the remains of a deceased person
as those of her sister, and on the strength of which
a young man was arrested for murder, but in which
case suspicion waa averted by the reappearance of
the supposed murdered girt, has occurred at Joliet.
Illinois.
A body of a female was found in a ravine near
Joliet; a farmer testified to tbe finding of bloody ;
clothes near the spot: four families testified to the :
hearing of screams from tbe ravine on the n'gfct of
the supposed murder, and that tbe cries were those
of a female. A woman named Cook lecogfzsd the j
body as that of ber daughter, who wn, missed on |
the very night of these screams, and knew it was j
her daughter because one of her front t eth were i
gone. Sbe also testified to improper intimacy be
tween her daughter and a Mr. Rieh&rdeon, and he j
was arrested for the murder, and some three hun- f
dred men were about taking th® tt® ir own
bandri to lynch Richardson, fearing tnat justice wou.fi .
not be done by a regular jury.
The girl finally waa found m Chicago and pro- )
daced in Joliet. The body found was finally prov
ed to be that of an elderly gray-haired lady, who
had died a natural death, and whose body had been
disinterred lor dissection. The girl is only eighteen
year* of a Cleveland Herald.
WEEKLY
Cjitomcle & Sentinel.
AUGUSTA. GA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 2, ISSS.
Right of Search—Report of the Committee.
To-day, we publish the Report, made by the Com
mittee ou Foreign Relations to the Senate, on Fri
day last, and cheerfully and cordially commend its
careful perusal to every intelligent and reflecting
reader. The tone of the report is dignified and
manly throughout, eminently befiting the occasion
and the subject. There is nothing like bluster or
vapoi ing about it—on the contrary, they speak in
a tone, which shows very conclusively, that they
know their rights and are determined to maintain
them at whatever sacrifice. This is the true posi
tion, and the American people will glory in sustain
ing that position, even though it involves a conflict
of arms, a result always to De deprecated, when it
can be avoided with honor, but not so much to be
deprecated, as the submission to insult and wrong.
Swan &: Co.’s Cutleries.
To give place to the advertisement of Messrs
Swan & Cos., who are desirous of giving publicity
to the opinions of the Press, we have to-day yielded
much ot our space. When the matter was first in
troduced into our Court, we did not allude to the
presentments of the Grand Jury, because we deem
ed it more proper to leave the whole question to
the Court to adjudicate and settle ; and we ehculd
have adhered to that course, had we not found a
very full, and what seemed to us, in some respects,
(opposed as we are to Lotteries,) a vindicative re
port ot-the whole matter in the New York papers.
This report, wi ll such corrections, erasures and
emendati ns as we could make, without consultation
with any one, we felt it our duty to republish as an
item of news. We therefore deemed it due to
Messrs. Swan & Cos , who have been thus paraded
before t!re public under arrest, and have given am
ple and satisfactory security for their appearance at
Court, to test the legality of their acts,, to let them
b e heard, as they thick most proper.
Feeling confident, as we are assured, that their
acts are legal, they will seek the earliest possible
opportunity to test before the Courts
of the country; and to facilitate that decision, will
admit the sale of tickets and the drawing of Lotte
ries under the Charter, which they have leased for
a term of years. They will not seek to avoid any
just responsibility their acts may have incurred, but
their purpose is, to have settled at once and forever,
the legality of those acts by the proper tribunals.
An adjudication which they as earnestly desire, as
any member of the community.
The Next Legislature.
The Supreme Court, iu deciding that the mem
bers of the last Legislature hold over for the next
session, decided also, that elections must be held for
Senators and Representatives in each of the new
counties ; and also in the old counties, where a mem
ber had been cut off into anew county.
Mf.dal ok St. Helena. —We are informed that
Dr. A. Baudky, of this city, Knight of the Legion
of Honor, has received, from the Emperor Louis
Napoleon, the “Medal of St. Helena,” which is
conferred only on those who served in the “Grand
Army,” under the immediate command of the Em
peror, and in fulfilment of the will of Napoleon the
Firet.
Carrying Concealed Weapons. —A man was
sentenced iu St. Louis, recently, to the workhouse
for six months, for,carrying a concealed bowie knife.
The Penitentiary would have been a nors Ap
propriate destination, for him and all others who are
in the habit of weariug concealed weapons, when
they do not apprehend personal injury;—and if a
few examples were made in every State, the cow
ardly practice would be very generally abandoned.
It is to this cowardly praotiee, and the non-enforce
ment cf the laws, that we are to ascribe a large pro
portion of the homicides daily perpetrated in the
country. Nothing is more common than for men
to aim themselves with bowie knife and pistol, and
deliberately essault a man, who, if he resents the in
sult or injury, is stabbrd to the heart or shot through
and the cowardly murderer goes unwbipt of justice.
A farce of a trial terminates the tragic drama.
Mercer University.— N. M. Crawford, D. D.,
has accepted the Presidency of this University, to
which lie has lately been elected by the Board of
Trustees.
WE clipped the above from one of our Exchanges,
to express our sincere gratification at the re elec
tion of Mr. Crawford, and our earnest hope that
he has or will accept the position, and thus be re
stored to his native State, wnieh greatly needs his
services, and the bosom of his friends.
Russell’s Magazine. —The June number has
been received, but we have found time only to
glance at its contents. There appears to be more
than the usual amount of light reading, but it will
all be found agreeable and fascinating. This Maga
zine should receive a cordial and hearty support
from the South—especially from the many who are
eternally prating of the lack of enoouragemeut of
Southern literature.
Charleston Standard. —The publication of the
Charleston Standard is suspended for the present,
and that journal, with the'outfit of its office, is of
fered lor sale for a settlement between the proprie
tors, and on account of some difference as to views
of editorial policy.
It will be offered at public auction on the 2x!d
June, if not disposed of sooner, by application to
x*. w. rressiey, E5q..... q.ictL, ...,,
Shocking Affair in lowa. —The Muscatine
(Iowa) Journal, of the 19th, gives an account of a
terrible affair in that city the night before. The
wholesale grocery of Mr. J. T. Brown was, about 11
o’clock on the night of the 18th, found to be on
lire. Persons breaking in and removing goods,
found Mr. Brown on the floor of the store, gagged
with a handkerchief and badly injured. He was
insensible at the time, but recovered. He had
visited his store alter returning from church, and
found within it a party of burglars, who overpower
ed him, thrust a handkerchief down his throat witli
a knife, completed thoir robbery and set fire to the
store, leaving him, a3 they supposed, to be burned
with it.
A Judge Indicted. —Judge Nelson, of Campbell
county, Ky., has been indicted in the United
States District Court for the district of Kentucky,
for a-eia'ing a soldier named Beck to desert from
the gairison at Newport.
Receipts at New York. —There were received
at New York in the forty-eight hours ending Mon
day evening, 10,000 bales cotton, 28,000 barrels
flour, 132,000 bushels wheat, 53,000 bushels corn,
3,000 barrels rosin, 20,000 sides leather, 3,600 pack
ages tobacco, and 1,582 boxes starch.
The Blue Ridge Railroad.— The work at the
Stump House Tunnel, on this road, is progressing,
as we learn from the Pickens (S. C ) Courier, most
satisfactorily. The energetic contractors, Messrs.
Humbird, Hitchcock & Cos., are constantly increas
ing their already large force. They are making
fine progress, much better than during the previous
month. The tunnel is complete from the eastern
end to shaft No. 1, with the heading driven a con
siderable distance beyond. These gentlemen are
also working in the Dick’s Creek tunnel, in Geor
gia, with their usual success.
The heavy work in South Carolina and Georgia is
all under contract.
Congressional Morals Improving. —There is
hope for the country yet. Our Congressmen are
improving in their morals. The Hon. Joshua Gid
dinga, the oldest member of the House of Repre 1
sentativeß, writes that there has been, in the pre- j
sent Congress, less intoxication and predbpositi o I
to vice than in any Congress with which he ha ;
been associated.
Counterfeit. —The Montgomery Confederation
has been shown a counterfeit ten dollar bill on the
Bank of Hamburg, S. C., .which is so admirably
executed as to deceive almost aDy one. The diffe
rence between it and the genuine is, the Cashier's
name (J. J. Blackwood) is engraved, as is also the
year in which it purports to have been issued, 1850,
and the month, November. The name of the Pre
sident, and the figures in the number and date, to
gether with the payee, are all in the eame hand
writing. The centre vignette is very imperfect
It is nevertheless a dangerous counterfeit, and
should be watched for, as there may be many of
them in circulation.
Mail Robber Arrested. —Col. John W. Minor,
special agent of the Postcflice Department, arrived
in this city on Saturday, says the St. Louis Repub
lican, of the 17th inst., having in charge William
Manning, accused of robbing the mail about the sth
inst in Wayne county, Mo. A portion of the mo
ney stolen has been recovered. A great mar.y let
ters were destroyed. As yet there is no telling the
amount of toes sustained. His guilt is well estab.
lished. He is only seventeen or eighteen years of
age-
St. Mart's Ba.ii.road. —A meeting was held at
St. Mary’s, Ga., cn the 4th inst., to take into
consideration the propriety and feasibility of con
structing a Railroad to connect Fernandina and
St. Mary's with some point on the Savannah, Al
bany &. Gulf Railroad. A resolution was passed
that the corporators named in the charter granted
by the Legislature “be, and they are hereby urgent
ly, requested, by this meeting, without unnecessary
delay, to open books of subscription, for the capital
stock in the St. Mary’s Railroad, and that the
corporators, aforesaid, be further requested, and
fully authorised by this meeting, as eoon hereafter
as is practicable, to employ competent Engineers to
survey and locate the said Road from St. Mary s to
the nearest point on the Savannah, Albany A Gulf
Road.”
The Richmond Whig learns from a reliable gen
lleman, recently f-om the South, that in the last few
weeks there has been opened at what is known as
Puckerson gold mine , about two and a half miiee
from Altona, G torgia, a vain of gold of richness
equal if not superior, to aoy ever discovered in this
country. The vein has been penetrated at three
and fferent point", and exkibi s the most astonishing
richness.
Weekly Lise or Americas Steamers.— The j
New York papers state that Mr. Vanderbilt has de !
termined to run a weekly European line of steam,
ships at bis sole expense and risk, between New j
York, Southampton, Havre and Bremen. He now
advertises the regular days of sailing of his fine j
steamers “ Vanderbilt,” “ North Star,” “ Ariel’’ !
and •• Northern Light,” and is rapidly driving to
completion his magnificent new steamer “ Queen of 1
the Ocean” to-take a place in the same line These |
steamships will form a connection between the old |
and new worlds which for safety, speed, comfort j
I and economy, it is intended shall not be surpassed- j
Georgia Gold.
Yesterday, we were shown by Messrs. McCor
mick and Broomhead, three pieces of gold, weigh
ing together four thousand one bundled and fifteen
pennyweights, which had been taken from the
“Columbia Mine,” (the original Griffith Mine, in
Columbia county,l in eighteen days, by thirty six
hands, old and young, large and small. This has
been accomplished by an improvement in the ma
chinery, whioh has developed the astounding fact
that heretofore the Company have lost nearly or
quite cn e-half the gold contained in the ore. The
improvement consists in what Mr. Broomhead,
the inventor, calls a Condenser, through which the
sand passes from the machine heretofore used by
the Company for separating and collecting the gold,
into an amalgamating machine, known as the
Chilian machine, where the gold, which has escaped
from the first machine, is collected end secured.
The improvement is the Condenser, which is said
to be very simple and durable, aud which is run at
an expense of .twelve hundred dollars per annum.
To its great value, we need only mention
tire fact stated by Messrs. Broomhead and Mc-
Cormick, that of the gold exhibited to us to-dey,
only two thousand one hundred r.n! eighty p nuy
we’glits were collected by the fiist machine, and the
remainder, one thousand nine hi n lied i.nl thii ty
five penny weights, was secured by the improve
ment, which would have betu tu ir*ly lost, but for
?ta use.
These facts establish very ccm’usive’iy the value
of this invention, which will ceita n y woik a great
revolution in the m ning opera ioD3 of the world ;
for it has long been a well ascertained fact, that the
most approved machinery has fallen (nr short of
collecting all the gold in quartz ores. The subject
is one ael! worthy the attention of Miners general
ly, and as the invention ills not, and will not be
patented, it is optii to all who may desire to use it.
Hence, there can be no motive for misrepresenting
or exaggerating*its advantages.
Freshet in the Ohio—The Western Hivers.
There appears to be no prospect of the early
abatement of the disastrous floods in the Western
rivers. The following dispatches show the state of
affairs at latest advices :
Cincinnati, May 25 —The heaviest rein ever
known fell last kight for twelve hours The river
and creeks are rising with frightful rapidity. Rail
way bridges wefe carried off in all directions. The
Ohio has risen lime feat iu the last twelve hours.
Sr. Louis, May 25.—The liver has risen about 5
feet since Saturday, and is now more than 3 feet
higher than before this spring. All the upper
streams are rising. The upper Mississippi rapidly.
Lou isville, May 25.—River—six and a half fei f
on the rocks oiler the tails—a speedy roe is antici
pated from above. -
Memphis, May 25.—The river is still rising here,
aud is now within about 15 inches of the late rise.
Another Great Fi,ood in the Western
Rivers. —Dispatches from St. Louis announce an
other rise in that quarter, and the Illinois again at
flood height—even higher than ever—and over its
banks in every direction. Tiie Pittsburg Chronicle,
of Tuesday, says :
The Wabash liver is higher than ever was known,
and spreading all over the country in the vicinity of
Vincennes, where the river was ten miles, wide.
This is a w orld of waters, indeed,.which, when add
ed to the flood in the Mississippi, will be very apt to
deluge the lower country iu earnest. White, now,
is equally as high, aud over is banks in all direc
tions, and the Ohio and Mississippi railroad is much
damaged and obstructed, as well as the Illinois
road, thus interrupting travel to Cairo.
For miles the water is on a level with the track
of the E. &. C. railroad. The grain erop3 of the best
farmers in the country are ruined past redemption.
We learn that (Ke river at Terre Haute has risen
four feet since the rains of Friday evening, aud w as
still coming up at the rate of an inch per hour.
Three bents of the tall bridge had given way, aud
hundreds of the citizens had assembled on the banks
momentarily expecting to witness The destruction of
he whole superstructure. The foundation of one
of the piers of the T. H. and Alton rairoad bridge
was washed away, and the tresrie-work, about
three quarters of a mile west of the liver, ftas also
giving way ; Ibe danger bad become so imminent
Thai the trains bad been forbidden to pass.
A Word in Favor of Moderation. —The Bos
ton Traveller, in referring to what it deems a pre
mature attempt to “warm to blood of the nation,’”
veutnres a word in favor of moderation. It makes
the following sensible suggestion: .
“The occurrence of any thing to cause ill blood
between the United States and GreaPßritain at this
time, if growing out cf Government action, affords
a singular contrast to the numerous instances of
friend-nip that Americans have experienced at the
hands of Englishmen during the last four or five
years. The manner in which the sick crew of the
Susquehanna were treated, spontaneously by Eng
lish naval authorities, may well be allowed to offset
a dozen exhibitions of power by ignorant men act
mg under orders which they do not fully understand.
The conduct of the Herefordshire towards the John
Gilpin is another noble instance of English huinfini
ty developing itsdif for the benefit of Americans.
When the San Francisco was a wreck, aud an
American regiment was in danger of being lost with
her, it was a British ship that stood by her, and
gave that moral encouragement and active assis
tance that worked to the’saving of so many Ameri
can lives. It is a short time since the commander
of a British man-of-war threatened to bring hts
guns to bear upon a town in San Domingo if the
aulhorilies of it allowed any injury to be done to
Americans. Other instances might.’ be named of
the same kind, all showing that the Engiiah do not
bear themselves hostility towards us, but as breth
'rim.”
The Southern Matron. —The distinguished
editor of the Louisville Journal, while on Tv visit to
Richmond in February, made Uie acquaintance of
Miss Cuuningham, “the Southern Matt oil,” who so
nobly heads Ihe movement for the purchase of
Mount Vernon. In speaking of i er, lie says :
“Miss Cunningham's voice is as sweet as a bird s,
her heart, as fresh as a Bpring flower, her spirit cheer
ful and jnthusiastic, and her conversation, rotonb’
upon her favorite theme, but upon ail utters, glow
ing and at times eloquent. We have Lived to
to her words of lofty patriotism!. Bom and reared
in South Carolina, and related to so &i: of the most
tVIoiAA. H ..*..k._,i .iiaiMjMkMiatii lAma f-.ntii &} fOitlv
contracted the Southern contagion, and longed lor
nothing more ardently than for t e secession of her
native State, even if it should secede alone. But,
when she became deeply interested in the charac
ter of Washington, and began to dedicate herself
to the sacred work of securing his tomb and the
home of his living years as a national shrine, where
all the pilgrims of liberty might be free to linger
and worship, anew and loftier spirit took possession
of her soul, and she gives to the whole country the
love and devotion that she gave to a section. She
earnestly believes that the Union, if saved at all,
must owe its salvation to that deep love and reve
rence which the general movement throughout the
United States for making Mount Vernon a national
Mecca, must tend to in-pire in the hearts of our
people for the character of Washington and his pa
triotic counsels.
Sickness in Jeffernon County, Ala.— The
Ely ton Alabamian , of the 21st instant, says:—
There i3 more sickness in this community and vi
cinity at th : B time than there 4fcas been for many
years. It is principally flux and typhod fever, and
we regret to state that more or less new cases are
occurring every day. As yet there have not been
many fatal cases, though most of them are severe.
The weather is favorable for an abatement of these
diseases at this time, and we may reasonably hope
for a more favorable state of things soon.
“Pure Country Milk” iiv Boston. —The New
England Farmer, (May 22,) epeaking of the adul
terated milk sold in Boston, says the value of the
milk annually brought to the city, as it comes from
the country, is about one million of dollars, and
that, as it is sold, out to the consumers,, it has swol
len to the sum of one million two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars ! —the two hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars being the charge for carrying ihe
Cochituate water through the streets and peddHug
it at six cents per quart.
American mechanical skill has for some time at
tracted attention abroad. Many instances have
heretofore been given. Here is another:
“The barque Champion has been for several days
at the Worcester railroad wharf, Boston, taking on
board a number of cars manufactured to the order
of the Viceroy of Egypt, for use upon, the railroad
of that country. The rare are from an establish
ment in Springfield., and consist of four first snd six
second-class cars of the same pattern of those used
in this country. They cost, the former about
i $3,500 and the latter about $2,800 each. They are
1 packed in compartments, and are to be put up iu
Egypt by workmen from this country.”
Protestantism in France. —We take the fol
lowing from the Paris correspondence of the New
York Commercial Advertiser:
The lon r expected consecration of the American
Protestant chapel in this city, look place on Sun
day last before a crowded audience of Americans,
English, French aud German Proles-ants. The
now pastor, Mr. Seely, preached the consecration
sermon, and was assisted in the services by several
clergymen of the Protestant faith from other
churches of the city. The occasion was an ex
eeedingly interesting one. Service will now take
place regularly every Suuday in the morning and
afternoon. A sale of “ sittings’ 1 takes place in a
few days.
An Important Vote.— ltis stated that the com
mittee on foreign relations, in the Senate, had a full
meeting on Tuesday, and considered the propoei
Hod from Slidell to abrogate that clause of the Ash
burton- treaty which requires a naval force to be
maintained on the Coast of Africa. After some
discussion a formal division was taken w;tb the
following result: Yeas —Mason, Slidell and Polk.
Nays—Foot, Crittenden, Douglas and Seward.—
Thus the movement was defeated-by one majority
A weather prophet, writing to an agricultural pa
per, says When you wish to know what t.e
w’eather is to be, go out and select the smallest
cloud you sec; keep you eye upon it, and if it
decreases and disappears, it shows a state of the
air which will be sure to be folio atd byline
weather; but, if it increases in size, take your great
coat with you, if your are going from home, for
falling weather will no* be far cfif. The reason is
this ; when the air is becoming (hanged with elec
tricity, you will see every cioud a. u acting ah leaser
ones towards it, until it gathers into a shower
and, on the contrary, when the fluid is passing off
or diffusing itself, then a large cioud will be sees
breaking to pieces and and ssolving.
The Tender Passion. —Thackeray says, that
“when man ik in love with one woman in a family,
it is a tonisbiug how fond he became of every per
son connected with if. He ingratiates himself with
the maids ; he is bland with the butler; he interests
himself with the footman, he runs on errands for the
daughters i he gives advice and lends money to the
young son at College, he pats little dogs, which he
would kick otherwise; he smiles at old stones,
which would make him break out in yarns were
they uttered by any one but papa ; be drinks Sweet
Port wine, for which he would curse the steward
and the whole committee of a Club; he bears even
with the cantankerous old maiden aunt; he beats
time when darling little Fanny performs her piece
on the piano , and smiles when wicked, lively lltt e
Bobby upsets the coffee over his shirt.”
Billy Bowlegs Gets an Answer.— The famous
Indian, Billy Bowlegs, has received the following
telegraphic answer to a message he sent to Presi
dent Buchanan
-The President returns the greeting of the great
Indian warrior, Billy Bowlegs, and w;-hts him long
life, health and prosperity in his new home ” Billy
left New Orleans on the 19th, with his warriors,
women and children, on board the steamboat
Quapaw, under charge of Colonel Rector, lor bis
I new home.
From Havana nn:l Key West—The Outrage
upon the Ship Clarendon.
The steamer Isabel, lrom Havana and Key West j
on the 25th inst, arrived in Charleston on Thursday •
The Havana advices contain nothing of general
interest, except that “the yellow fever does rot ap
pear to be spreading with its u?ual rapid'ty or
fatality.” Capt. Bartlett, of the lo6tship Claren
don arrive^ in Charleston by the Isabel. The foi
lowing letter from the Key West correspondent ot
the Charleston Courier gives a more complete and
detailed account of the outrage upon the Clarendon
than has yet been published :
Key West, May 25,1858.
Captain Bartlett, ot the ship Clarendon, has
furnished ‘As with the following particulars of a
grosa outrage, perpetrated upon himself, bis vessel,
and the United States, while he lay at anchor in the !
outer harbor ot Sagua la Grande, the 2d of May, by
11. B. M. steamship Buzzard :
My vessel was at anchor three miles from the
port of Sago a, in the outor harbor, receiving caig ■
lor New York. At about 10 o’(l ok iu the morning
of the 2d of May, the steamer Buzzard hove in sight
seaward, and rapidly approach* :1 the harbor and
cast anchor half a cable’s length from my ship
Very soon after, a boat, in charge of a m idship
man, came alongside. Mounting the side and ap
proaching the captain on the quarter deck, the offi
o r a.-k-d, “Are you the captain Receiving an
affifmative answer, he says—“l was sent on board j
by the commander of her Britaunio j
steamship Buzz rJ to examine the papece of your i
ship.” He was answered, “This is an America , j
ship—l do not recoguise your commander’s author!
ty to m i ke any such request.”
Midshipman— Dbnt you know that ice have a pass ;
from your Government to examine your vessel l
Capt. B.—iJ was not aware of any such authority
having beeu given your Government; bn? show
me the pass aud 1 will show my papers, not before.
Midshipman—You will be made to show them.
('apt. I> —Not while 1 have charge of the ship. .
The Midshipman now returned to the Buzzard.
Soon alter the Spanish national ting \r s hoisted on
board the steamer. Fifteen minutes elspied when |
a gun was tired aud another boat left her side and i
headed for the- ship The otlic riu c mmand jumped
on deck and approached Capt. Bartlett, who had in
the interval of tne visits got opt his armament—six j
dilapidated*muskets and on unloaded Colt's re |
volver—in a popip u maun r declared himielf to
be theoommander of H. B. M. steamship Bazzard,
and sai : roughly “ I wau’t to see your papers ?” j
Capt B. replied—l do rot recognize jour iigh f j
to make any such demand. Ido it ?t know whelk r
you are au Engidh or Spanish ir.an-of war. You
show the colors of both oar ions.
Commander —I can set any colors 1 choose* Eng
lish, Spanish or American. Why didn’t you set \
your colors wlim you taw a man of war approach- j
mg ?
Capt. B.—l did not know whether you was a man
of war or not. I should judge you to be a pirate
from your actions.
Commander, pointing to the gold bands on his
sleeve.—Don’t you see the insignia of my office
litre ?
Capt. B.—l have plenty of such stuffin th% cabin
—that don't signify much.
Commander, in an imperious, haughty tone.— If
you do not show your p ipers lnstauter, 111 put you
in irons, take your vessel as a prize, and carry her
to New-York.
Capt. Bartlett.—That would suit me exactly. 1
have been m Cuba four months looking for freight,
and have “ taken up” at a iow figure. A voyage to
New-York, under “such circumstances, would put
money into my pocket ana that of my owners.
•The Commander then lett in high dudgeon, and
went back to the Buzzard. Great confusion seem
ed to prevail on board ; drums were beat., call
ing th men to quarters. Bulwarks wore removed
—guns brought to bear upon* the ship—the great
launches carried upon the wheel houses lowered in
to the water, and the cutters brought to the gang
ways.
Into them poured a stream of lieuteuauts, mid
shipmen, marines and eailois-revery man armed
with a musket, a cutlass, and a brace of pistols
This formidable flotillas-four boats, as many offi
cers, and 100 men it battle array—approached the
Clarendon, and, as they came up, the marines were
ordered to load.
Capt. Bartlett now concluded to show his colors.
His armament had been got in'readiness, aud up
went the 6t ars and stripes. (The flag had been
laying upon the deck during the former visit.) *An
officer from each boat tljen came on board. The
Captain waa asked if he was ready to show his pa
pers? “There is my flag,” eays Cqpt. B. “I re
tuse to sliow n\y papers, under any consideration
whatever.” “Your flag,” they said, “has been
hoisted too latq. W e h RV ® ciders from our com
mander to take hargp of this ship, and we shall pro
ceed to execute the order.” The commander him
self now came off in another boat, the crew of which
were armed hke the rest. He made the Fame de
maud, and received tho Faoffe reply. Capt. Bart
lett, lurthernaore, said : “I am in a Spanish port w
under Spanish protection, and have a Spanish Cus
tom House officer at this moment on board my
ship.” “This will avail you nothing,” says the
British Captain. ‘ I sha 1 now take the ship. ’ He
then directed an officer todhierthe guard on board.
As their heads, appeared above thtf rail, Captain
Bartlett drew fris unloaded Colt, and declared he
he would blow the brains out of the first man who
came on deck.
Things now looking beligerent, the lien hearted
commander countermanded h:s order, and said, “I
will haul the steamer alongside.” Capt. Barlett
said, “If you come alongside I shall give up my
ship with the greatest pleasure.” The commander,
now at a loss what to d*, held a consultation with
his officers, one of whom remarked that he thought,
there was force enough already to take the ship
wit hout the steamer’s assistance. The commander
askt.d Capt. B. if henadany objections to giving
his name. “Yes, I have great objections.” “Who
are your owners r* “That question I shall not an:
swer.” “Who are your consignees?” “That is
none of your business.” Similar questions were
asked Capt. Barlett, who refused to give any satis
faction ; when thinking that the farce was about
played out, he approached the commander and
bluntly told him he .did not know his duty “I
don’t, hey?” “No yoq don’t, or you would never
have come on American vessel at anchor,
receiving cargo in a foreign port and demand to see
her papers.”
He theiwemarked, is tHeee an American Consul
ashore ? at the same time asking the Custom House
officer the name of the port. Captain B. answered.
“ There is not “ Ja there a Commercial Agent?’
“ There is a person who acts in that capacity, but I
have never seen his commission.” “Has he your
papers ?” “Tjial is none of your busiuness.”—
“ Well,** says one of the. officers, “this is the rum
miest, customer we have ever fallen in with.” The
Commander of the Buzzard guys to the first mate
of the ship, “ Lower down your steps, ho that thi
officers cau get into the boats.”, Capt. B. re ini; ’*• ’
him that lie was master of the s!ip, and says, “ Do
you order me to tower the lander or do vouask me.”
He replied in a humiliating tone, “ Will you lowei
it, if you please, sir /’* “ Ye*, with the greatest,
pleasure.” Then the YJolhmander of 4he Buzzard
aud his officers went doyvu tiie ladder and into then
oJuuj, and returned somewhat o©ot-mlleu to their
ship.
Th i Clarendon was subsequently wrecked, prov
ing almost aitolal loss, as will be seen from the ex
tract of the Key West marine correspondence of
the Courier:
The ship Clarendon, Ca* t Bartlett, from Sagua
la Grande, bound to New York, wit It 1000 hhds. su
gar, ran upon a ledge of rocks six miles 8 W. of
Double head Shot Kt-y, the night of 9th. Captain
B , after striking, got out anchors, but could not
move her ; sent, to the lighf house for aid, but could
procure none. The first mate and four men then
took the long boat afid came to this city and en
gaged three wrecking vessels tlje ship as
sistance. While the inato was absent several vcb
flels passed,, but Capt. B. could find none billing to
communicate with the Naussau wreckersj whose
•assistance he desired. The pumps, in the mean
time, were kept agoing, and on the 12th the water
gained upon them; the’ eame evening tLe wind
shifted to 8. £., causing a heavy sea. when the ship
bilged and filled, her stern being in 30 feet and her
bows in 14 feet. The ship now lay over very much,
and, it seemed, was about to capsize, when her
masts were cut away to ease her. The cabin stores,
&.C-, were sent to the light house. The mate re
turned the J4tli, with assistance, and some fit) hhds.
“feugar and a large portion oT the materials of the
ship were saved. The U. S. Marshal eold the cargo
and materials on the 18th. Sale amounted SSOOO-r
----value of vessel and cargo $I4(U)00. Consigned to
A. JP:Tift.
Horrible Deed rN St. Louis.—The St. Look*
Republican records the murder of a man named
Hugh Downey, in a Barber-shop. Thu employees,
three boys, aged from 15 to 17 years, are the perpe
trators. The following as to the manner of the mur
der, we copy from the above named pup.tr :
“The boy Theodore confesses that on Sunday
night, ■ little before 9 o’clock, Downey went into
the Barber-ehop and was shaved. He had visited
the shop on two other occasions, anfl hud conversed
about mules, horses, &e., bo as to give an idea thafr
he was a mans considerable wealth.
“Upon the evening in question, (to pursue Theo
dore's statement,) atter shaving, he limited Nicho
and Antoine to go out and take a drink ; when
they came back, Antoine persuaded him to be
shampooned, and Downey took a chair for that pur
pose ; Antoine then dienthed his hair ir; the fluid
used for cleaning the bead, and purposely let some
drops fall into his eyes, thereby blinding Him effec
tually; while this was going on, Nicholas took a
halter, which had previously beeu prepared for tjie
purpose, put the noose around the neck of the vic
tim, and drew it so tight that the very life was
clk ked out of him in a few seconds.
Theodore says he struggled but little, and gave
but two short, nervous kicks before his life was ex
tinct; when the rope was put upon his neck, An
toine took hold of liis hand- and “kept them tight
in hie grasp. A boy, named James Comisky, who
stands in Curran's grocery ard liquor store, next
door south from the shop, about this time, went and
looked through the g!a. s doors, eeeing which the
young murderers >-but off the gas, and waited to
da kness until 12 o’clock, when they ail three'drag
ged him out and pitched Ijirn into the cellar, where
he was found next morning.
Theodore says that < he booty which rewarded them
for this horrible deed was SSO in m- ney, a silver
wa ch with a black eilk guard, and a set of gold
“shirt buttons. He further stAtai that on Thursday
night foliowirfg, Antoine and Nicholas took the
waich and threw it into a sewer. He himself car
ried the dead man's coat and the fatal rope to the
lumber yard, where, next day, they were discover
ed. Downey’s hat was put into the stove and burnt
U P-
The Illinois Tornado.— Tough Stories. —The
stories told of the freaks of the late tornado in Illi
nois are quite as astonishing as the hurricane must
have been to the frighteaed inhabitants. The Peo
ria Transcript is responsible for the following:
“At Kappa, two ladies were blown away and
haVe not eince been heard from. They probably
wore hoops. At Chenoa it demolished a hou-fe com
pletely, and yet left a book-case that way in it with
out a scratch or broken pane of glass. It carried a
large mirror sixty feet and laid it down unbroken.—
The next morning after the storm a ir.au was eeen
to crawl from under a barn, wbo, after being ques
t-ioned, stated that as he was coming across the prai
rie, the wind picked him up and carried him a half
mile, setting him down in a pond of water foifr feet
deep ; he waded out and got on a little rise of
ground, when the winitook him again and hurried
him with violence against the side of the barn, un
der winch he crawled and spent the night.
“ The most wonderful feat of ail, however, oc
curred at Cheoos. A farm house was blown at
two jumps no leas tiian 300 feet from where it stood,
and set down to eaeiiy that the plastering was not
cracked or the dishes knot ked cff the table, which
was set for supper. A similar occurrence took tda-e
at Gil i an, where a kitchen ws hluwri from tb
side of the house into a sough without a plate be
ing broken, and when our informant foil, the in
mates were journeying back and forth on a rait to
get the cooking ntenaiis lor breakfast.”
The Locusts in Claiborne County, Miss.—
The Port Gibson Herald, of the 21st inst., says :
In taking a ride the other evening, we were sur
prised to see perfect swarms of locusts on almost
every tree. We believe they are tke seventeen
year locusts. There seems to be hut little fear,
however, that they will injure, to any great degree,
the fruit crops, or anything else.
At Pensacola.— On the 16th, a man by the name
of H. A. Nanes, shot William Waters, from the
wounds of which the latter died, leaving a wife
and- twelve children. On the same day a man
named Thompson was killed by the husband of a
woman with whom Thompson had attempted to
slope. Mr. Mahoney on Monday, while in a state
of intoxication, died from exposure. The lame
week Thompson Taylor fell into a bayou and was
drowned. ,
The wife of Mai. li. _K. Halsay, died suddenly in
Petersburg, Va.,on Wednesday iast.
Singular Amalgamation. —The Hightstown
(N. J.) Excelsior, gives an account of a log contain
ing three different kinds of wood—white oak, maple
and hickory—all grown together in the moet perfect
manner.
Outrage on she .Ship John nnd Albert.
Captain C row ill, of the ship John and Albert
whioh arrived at New Orleans on Monday last,
gives the following account of the outrage on his
B hip by one of the British cruisers between the
coasts of Florida and Cuba, a brief notice of which
we have previously published. We copy from the
Picayune:
May 17th, 1858, at sea on board ship John and
Albert, of Boston, 11. Crowell, master.
At noon. Stone Key Lighthouse, Cuba, bore 8.
W., about 12 miles distance, a great number of
vessels in sight, eteering different courses. Ob
servrd a two topsail schooner standing out from
Cardenas, as I supposed, aud bound for Havana,
as there are two schooner propeller packets in that
trade.
I At two o'clock she was a little forward of our
be am, steering the same course, and rather going
ahead of U3, as the breeze was light, not more than
six knots per hour. I occasionally locked at her, but
saw no colors or pennant flying. The latter could
not be seen on account of tier top gallaut sails be
ing hoisted up close under it, and her colors on ac
count of her quarter boat, as 1 afterwards found
out. I still took him to be that packet and none
other, aud hid he chose he could havo come within
hailing distance. Even it he could not he could
have fired a musket to attract our attention toward
him. 1 should have had the American flag flying
as soon as possible, in answer to any nation s flag,
i whether man-of-war or not. But so far from doing
i so, he allowed his drogher looking schooner tp go
! ilciig aiue and side for more than an hour, until the
| tuvtze freshened to 9 nine knot breeze and more.
! YY e passed and lett him about the same distanoe
| astern, when he fired a gun. 1 remarked they were
; having a jubilee on board or cleaning their eigual
; gun. Tins was about 3 o’clock. Iu about ten or
. ur eeu iniuutes we eaw him swing her off, with hia
b oadside towaid us, and tire again, the shot stri
km, about sixty yards astern or us, nearly in a di
reo’ line. 1 immediately ordered the colors to be
1 tioisred. Had got them bent on and was hoisting
when he tired another gun, the shot falling farther
j tfl’ than the firs , as we were h awing him very fast
j astern. When he kept off to fi e the second gun 1
j caught siglit of a blue flsg dying b .iwceu his quar
-1 ler boat and square maiut-a t n > flag-staff at her
I stern. But to tell what it, was, with the imperfect
I view I could get, was impossible, the distance be
j iug so great. I had the colors set lor some ten or
! fifteen minutes, and thiukiug he was satisfied had
j hem hauled down.
! lie again swung her off and gave us another gun,
1 which shot fell a tong way short of ns. The last
I one was at about, three hours forty-five mmutes.—
1 So(>n utter we saw him haul up his square iiuiu-ail,
j .slidsaw coming from his smoke stack. She
j was then almost hull down, as she was very deep
j .md low in the wat, r.
! After four, the breeze began to leave us again,
j and he was getting up steam fast and began logaiu
on us. I had the American fl-ig hoist &ti aud kept
flying. At halt past five we vveut to supper. At
fifteen minutes of six the officer of the deck report
'd that he was keeping off to tire again, aud that we
had got a strong breeze, which breeze he brought
along with him, which w as the occasion of his com
mg up so fast, lie fired his gun, the shot striking
close alongside to windward.
1 had the ship brought to the wind immediately
studding sails set below and aloft on both sides, and
viid the wind blowing a ten knot breeze with tacks
of courses down. The royal and studding sails,
halyards and tacks a flying,courses half hauled up
aud every tiling starting enough to take the spars
out of the ship. Atterwarda had to cut away hal
yards and braces to get studding sails clear. While
,u that position, hove to the wand, he closed to us
l.e* fired another gun, the shot passing over our heads
and striking iu the water close to leeward. It musi n
! ave gone just over the bulwarks aud forward of
;be mainmast to have struck iu the water so close
to leeward. She then rounded to and sent a boat
with two officers ou ooard.
As they came on aboard, one of the offiers ex-
Lpuded his hand. 1 told him I did not shake hands
with pirates. They said they were no pirates, but
belonged to a British man-of-war. 1 asked them
it’ they called that drogher a man-of-war. I saw foi
the first she had a pennant flying, as they were fur
iiug the top gallant sails. They asked for the ship’s
papers, look A over the register and crew list, noted
down where from, aud bound, and then left, with
ut going or coking under deck. I might have had
the ship lull of negroes or filibusters, and they none
‘lie wisci. They left looking very much as if they
ad done a very uugeuilemanly act, advising me al
ways to keep my colors flying when in company
with a British man of-war, and said I ought to thank
tii jin for their forbearance in not dismasting us,
hen went over the side, leaving their note book
behind diem. The steward handed it to them. They
in their boat without telling me I might
till away until I they were going past
’ the stern.
As I filled away I saw a steamer- ahead, coming
toward us, (it was about 7 o'clock,) shortly after a
large steam-trigpte passed close to us, went a little
ways, and hove to aud made signals with lights for
ihe schooner to come to her which she did, and hove
to under his lee, a lew moments afterwards we lost
. ighr of their lights. 1 expect the steamer heard
the tiring in the Havana, as we were no more than
thirty miles off, aud came to the rescue.
- Affirmed to aud signed by myself, officers and
crew, on. board ship John and AI jert, at sea May
21st, 1858.
M. B. Crowell, First Mate
Georoe Wilson, Second Mate
The ( ropH.
A correspondent, writing-from Talbotton, Ga.,
under date of May 2(i, says : “We have lately been
iavored with fine rains, and the corn and cotton ol
ihe county, though small, looks well. The wheat
crop is much above an average one. The oat crop
was promising a short lime ago, but the tarmers
ray that within the last week the rust (a very un
usual thing iu oats) is injuring it seriously. The
health of the community is good.”
A correspondent writing from Greenwood, Fla.*
May 25th, says:—“l enolose a Cotton bloom, the
first of the season 011 my place, it is of the ‘Boyd’s
Ifrolific’ variety, planted about the first of March.
(Iropa in this county, (Jackson) are very promising.
both Corn and Cotton growing fiuely. The grass
hoppers threatened to do much damage, on the
Hammock Lands, but are now disappearing. We
have green corn in abundance.”
Too Much Rain. —The news from Illinois aDd
Indiana is that these States are pretty much
drowned. Tne prairies are full of wafer, aud the
nfius have beaten down the grain, and rendered
corn planting impossible. Ohio is not much better
off.
Weather and Crops —For some time past we
have had fine weather/or,the growing crops, and
we learn troin well informed planters, that the
proGpwfi for a good yielu is most excellent. A
yet nothing has suffered from dry weather in this
bectiou On Tu<?edffy night lnnt w# had a fine
rain, since which time the weather bus been ex
cessive y warm. The wh?at crop in this vicinity
premises an abundant yield.— West Point Citizen.
The Wheat Crop.— Wheat in tliis vicinity is
now really ripe. We have examined some fie ds,
but have not observed any of the bad effects of the
rust, about, which so rnuph has been said lately in
the papers of this State. We think the farmers
bouts will gather at least, the usual yield,
whatever losses may be met with in other locations
| Madison Visitor.
Sickness on Board a United States Vessel.
—A letter in the New York Times from Poit Praya
announces* the arrival there of the United States
ship Dale, on (be 11 tb of April, in 33 days from
Monrovia, with eighty cases of fever on board.
Lieut. T. Lee Walker died on the puarage, and
was buried a4, Port Praya with appropriate honors
on the J 2th. During the passage the Dale was
short of provisions, and the only two remaining offi
cere (two-lieutenants having been dispatched to the
States in a prize) being alternately upon the sick
list, the boatswain and two~seamen from before the
.mast, were obliged to do the duty of lieutenants, as
officers of the deck, with scarcely a sufficient num
of men to work the ship.
Resignation.— F. N. W. Burton* Secretary of
State of Tennessee, und£f a charge of defalcation
to the State, has resigned. The matter is now un
dergoing investigation. John E. R. Ray,of Mem
phis, has*been appointed to fill the vacancy.
The steamer Persia left, her wharf at New’ York
at Wednesday, noon, for Liverpool, but did not fi
nally go to sea until Thursday night. She was de
tai/Ted in order tfl carry out dispatches from the En
gligh Minister at Washington.
It is said that the Committee on Territories of the
Senate will at its next meeting, agree upon a bill for
the organization of the territories of Arizona and
Dacotah.
The French Navy.—The French naval con
structions are now being pushed with such rapidity
that in the course of next year it is expected to have
afloat a fleet of 150 war steamers. Their capacity
will be thus divided Ships of the line 35 (29 will
be constructed this year and 9 of these will be of a
speed beyond anything in the English navy, frigates
45, corvetts 40, sloops of the first class 30.
North Carolina.— Governor Bragg, of North
Carolina, has issued hia proclamation, fixing the
fir.it Thursday in August as the time foi electing a
successor to Mr. Ciingmau, late member of the
House of Representatives.
Passengers, travel now, from New Orleans to
New Yoik,by wsyof the Memphis and Virginia
Railroads, in a little over five days. When the
railroad connections are completed, the trip will be
made regularly in four-and a-half days.
Sentence# to be Hung —Two men were sen
tenced to be hung by the Criminal Court of Now
Orleans on Saturday—Heinrich Haas, for the mur
der of hia wife, and Joseph Lindsey, for the murder
of the mate of the ship. Rideout.
At Boston on the 4th of July, there will be a re
gatta, a balloon ascension, aud a display of fire
workg at the qjty’s expense.
Jacob Amick, Esq., an old citizen of Wheeling,
undertook to bleed himself oi> Monday, but cut an
artery aud bled to death.
Encouraging Good Husbandry. — The Class of
1857, iu Hamilton College, N. Y., instituted a fund
ot SSO, to be expended in the purchase of a Silver
Cup, as a prize to the first boy born to any member
of the class.
Privateering.— On Sunday night last astaunc
clipper-ship left New York without taking out any
papers. She had on board forty five
picked men. Her destination or business is not
k own, ljut it is rumored that she will act as a
privateer. This is taking time by the forelock.
The Prize of 5,000 francs offered every five years
by the Belgian Government for the best literary
work which lias appeared during that period, has
been awarded to the poet of M. Andre Van Hasset-
A clerk in a drug store in New York city was
committed to answer a charge of caueing the death
of an infant by putting up laudanum in place o
paregoric, which had been ordered for it.
A comparison of the grand lists of Connecticut
for the yeais 1847 and 1857 shows an increase of 60
per cent, iri the wealth of the Stale in ten years.
No Wonder they Emigrate.—The working
days in Swi zeriand, are trom 14 to 19 hours. Wa
get for c lidreu, U cents per uay , women, from 16
to 30penis; mefl, from 40 to 50 cents.
The Stamford, England .Mercury says that the
working classes in that parish-sfiend for opium and
laudauum not less than f 1,000 a year.
A New York policeman and a New York doctor
have been caught manufacturing quarter dollars
Other “quarters” were provided for them immedi
ately.
Charles Horn, the vocalist, has been divorced from
his wi fe, in London.
Mr. Bancroft, the historian, has come South on a
visit of a few weeks. °
An old toper was overheard, the other day advi
sing a young man to get married—“ Because then
lay boy, you’ll have somebody to pull off your boot,
when you come home drunk/’ * ta
The overflow of the Mississippi, it is ealonl.ro,!
will effect the next cotton crop to the extent of
bably 900,000 bales, and possibly over that amount
On Tuesday night the lightning struck eleven
ricks burg P v* “ vicinity of Freda,