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HOME INDUSTRY!
A MW ERA!
M KNDJSN HALL’S
NEW and improved
I I Aa\ I) LOOM!
Patented in 1857.
ri'IIIH 1,001! 1 -ip . ‘ t’lantr s’ ••
1 and nay In? . t -ulwi-d w. I, ail. ~at; ■ and profit
•; n eeery Kanin . and Pn U^t*
t-a.'ui)- dvr to thirty yards’ pet
ley, w it. more facility And a*e than eight yarda can
ire produced on the old fashioned ii on..
■I b” Mar lone i-f the the Mhipert ™'nn-t.ou,^tt.e
n<l can l>- k- ,t m perfr* t order ith *lr- lest imagina
ble ear**. It i Mttiijr pHa'fcd, rq: ,r:mr but tv o
dMM-’t th© hand, withtto- ay or La ■t. to tfar w t e
“LnttL. pen-t.’- the. t art: - .take . u tin rtoih. .wd )t
-J!b. \ irmlliti naniewcb, aa<i the a:.erAt-ns r©
qutrtui i lab.to can be in de in a
Single Plain, Double Plain, KOll
- Jeans, Satinet, Heiring
Bone, Blanket Twill,
Seamless Bags, &c.
(Jan to readily prod u-rd Tl> e con 1 1 v the most
usefin and denirfl>il* .’ hri ■.
Thin Loom wax Patent, and, to January 1857, and may
,b Horn la operation at the store of W. ii Griffin,
liro.uUtreet, Ur whem or trie undersigned ad orders or
•enquiris* uniat be addressed WILLIAM HILL,
an U Ma - IUB
FOB SALE,
I ULI'ABLL PLANTATION
Belongirg to-thr eatl- of John H. Milner, deceased.
Three and a lialf ni le .w< at o Zimin, 1 ike county,
Oa , and lonrtoee mh- ’• <•; *>
m THODSANI) ACRES,
Ab*. tOOof wuidi f.itoiu land w.. hii . • ncrly
illtcUeJ, <.uld be worth <‘•'3o per .. r Aco ‘■..toivbla
ami that which* • been In cultivating has proven to be
well u tapt and to the growth of cotton oon , Ac
The entire t net * lev 1 and is bordered on the East
and Mouth by Greek, and the Farm inter
cattle tow tormvf*r ‘iJ expense.
On tliewholo. it is no© ot the >.• t l imitation. in Mid-
Jle Georgia and as Executor., vri- to soil it durmg
• :he present year, pt.rcha ers are ! * t 0 C ‘ U tud
EARIA WIUAIS
SiX-LR.
\\J K cffr lor oeie K.iteea 11.-mired Acres of tin t
V* ~ ,u.iy Oak a. ,t Hick cy and .i.'i LANDS,
right nmeatrom lHUely,... the Onthh. rt toad, joining
laudnot Mr rnd. (!iit and li e late M*.or J .l^Lraw-
II and) i Kesbelt .T p'*;.?atii n. 1 hreo hundred l<i filly
of cytntLy >
t'luvciiumd and leiMl'ty ot sol'. J in* ..a U an m
I. vel. w ater good and abaudant good Gin House and
Kirew . eight comfertabla new uogro Cabins , Cri b,
MUbiea and Lot. tog*t hor wpU aU^oth er w. . r.ary j t-
JjloTl’ autatlon, to cme ad see ours.
Itx i Kiti Nt'Ki Ccl. t*. W. Dudley, D t . E. Craw
tforJ, Atten u. Da , Col. Wtn. K OeGrafTcnried, M =
..-on/ua , and Col. M. M. Stafford, B’akely. Geo.
W> a!t.t i f<r . ie the ll TEL AND TABLI -*,
u the tow nos Ji ako y, nw oi vUt id by Janus ii
Hrowu. , ,
Cos: particulars, eddntaa the proprietor, rt Riakely
aa Price and payment will be made t* -unt the pur
uihae:‘. for ary or all of the property • fie red.
j„j, an /.. \V . i.1.l cw HOTUKKS__
EXECUTORS’ SALE.
fit IIK Pillowing property, comprising the whole ca
I tat* of Mai Joel Crawford, daeeased, )at* of Early
counti Ba, will bo sold at public ain't,ou on Weduos
,ly, the Ifitbof DBUKMHERnoxt, unless disp sod of
>r*v oucily, bv privets contract, to wit:
JHOO aero of Oak aud Hickory LAND, ou Spring
crook. In (he tih district of Early coonty—looo acres
no.: acres ol I'. ~ i. AND, lnclud ag Mdl and Real
,l, ace ou ('oleiuokce creek, In (he . r >th district of Early
-about 300 acies cleared.
jjt l acres in ihci.l district of (Minor county, consist
ing of Lots No ;in the llth district and 319 in the doth
dirtrU t of said section.
Also, mo NMIRoEa. and the othc personal estate, t
deceased , ......
Terms of sale - .One-third on delivery, one third m
one year, and rue thud in iwo years—the too latter
hearing interest tr, ui date of delivery.
JAM KS bI!C IIAXON, ( y. i ra
I'HAS P. CHUWroKI), 5
May W, 185 C. wSn>
NOTICE.
IT being the opinion of -ouie ol the cit irons (• our
community, that ouo KIOHOLAN LOhif. row de
,-eta*d. lataof this county, and lornurly of Augusta,
Ua, of considerable ptx'pt rty, tbai
u leti lh# same in obscurity :
Ntmii+d. Th* our Ordmaiy, for the jmiios. ot o o
aouiti. n tiuj Albany Patriot, aud one oi u;* ; j*|k pub
in tha city oi A’ jruj*ta, publish a L'tice yi tao
t ovf and forward copi * of the saiuc .a* th;- iv -t.vcs o*
Aw aid iehoia i Lou* that they have an tppo: tun.ty cl
> nvesiigatiUg the affair.'of saui thitate^^
Ordinary Dougherty ct*unty
On as. h\ Mam aky. Foreman O. J ]*&* 4w
;ranaway
IAKO.tI the atthscriher, on the -with inst,u:> Nc.ro
4 Man, Ai SUN. wo • eut fitly four years old —
tils complex tan is b.tuk; height live feet ten .acne*;
weighs abont ene Uiuid.ed a.ititty pounds; w i.L a
from to. th out Had on, when leas .ug, a dark colored
bombaiine Cost, patches on the d-.00.e.er, and a htph
cruwu hat anddar* paj la.u la 1 a.'u give, ue ‘
I,very to uie, ou niy pianlaiion in tvairen e- ’n . ’ ’" !
t'owoit.m. Ten Dollars, or u lodged m any .* e
where 1 may get him and will give Duty -I ars
. Ottod in the possessionof any white tutu • , . .
teuutui,* u uiakf off with bun, with suiDv i-ut t’ > '•
t -onwl <uiv such Mva,or persons. o the stay.
HKNA.MIN F. ROuLtCvS
Powetlon, lieo,, Ai*u >7. ,. yJ w,im j
>i, AN TAT ION FOR SALK
I tilth ‘iibsct iber is off or in g for sale h;s PLANTA
TION m Olay county. Ua, contain. g About T.’
icti>9 —about 250 aerea cleared, good Dvrcii ug. U a j
sHouu • and *i new, and lyutgoo C * nver about
b or s uiaet above Fort Oliaw
% wtf bßif.lt. j
rOK SALE,
A PLANTATION . ontaiaing Ui.Oacrca Lan, J . weii i
. timbered'; Sts) acres cleared, and produce the b- .
8m Island Oouon and Provisions ot asl tun.- A ,
two story Dwelling, coaUuamg seven rooa s.
•re-places. and 40 feet Dias: a Kitchcr. hi ••>ac .-.
wo-story Cotton House. Gin Room.an- otsoreouo.g.,
are on the premise*, wu?‘ aV ’ i t>t w* ‘* • *■ j, ;
rang*for Hogs and Cattle ; I :sh and Ots-cs . _ <
Au large abmntance Am ; e h-- A-.uijr* V -i ‘ •
U uot ui be found tn Southern Cioorgin.
icalars can be obtained by appsicaitou to _ Cs
at Savar.uaU. v ’ H ‘ uuW ‘
iMTl3*wtf .
DROPSY CUKRD.
|MI tC ucder*ir3od proposes to C> KK DROPSY of
L dMCTipltoa. lie caa be e pent \
milead.aru oi l’u..>n Point, or -r ei y. e e
Fuon iVint, Gtvene connty. Oa Ihe Medic oe cac
te sent anywhere by rauroad, with dsiect oa n:
g’.viug u, or, 1 will ntteuti *• y, a r+q c?.-
ed. and paid for my troab*e. 1 w | bu v .>
ait. t%i w.isiDroi>6>',orcur • them, tLe j*s_or iay
prvier Sa..diyktorr references g' v on. :
v ‘ MILLS G. BRUv‘ME.
Simte of GtorgiA, Grtttu c#untf :
This is to C rt n iba nv totharhad a ne?ro w *-■
dieted W.uDrey, u ‘fill; hr had been treated ov *
wrai v _y>u'iAr> *. ho liv curt wtei tc s, . ; * ‘
j. ‘ Brx>uie ior u wt .1. cured 11 *-
’’Vh and Lagvo health.
Jmi n HFMiT Champion.
Union LW. w A P ril
ap **w an la.--
- Vsitisi avT'Es : LANDS : LANDS ! !
* l lßht “nartny-of the best Planing and > arm-
A ingiataw a ttth.-*"*• and. -ewhere.in
rr Ti cir
SC H now vyTow ra-es a, the the Geoigia
orthe tSSJIt Savannah. Athens, and the
or .ak,g
Mfe uvesimenta. will dud it to Amur uiteeaett* eat. M
oar OtSee, Warmu Range, Jj d.VVISON.
Ljuid Ag**ct and Real Estate Broker.
o<tl74lw4wtf I
STRAYED OR STOLEN,
I'HOII the .ahs rlher. about the i- ” P v' u Vark*Tw
r year old red Seerel MARE tXJLT. N
collect. 1. with the exception a white -pot m wiU .
A-.y perron tak>ng up raid Fi y. rot a ‘ f.R
he rewarded ROBT. N. HAf M..'BhROBR.
Wasdiagtoa. W Ikcsco., Ga, Jane 19.
le-ei e l- - ,
JUPBOVEB E'iilhE OOTTtiir Ollf. ■
Hi¥EH,BVBK <k t’ O the nianafar -.nrers of iJii*
ImwrovedOm. destre to tatpodnee it to tfie aUensseo
planters. Thev hrve been in extensive use
a Aiahama, MU...-si e p„ ami Arkau.-as f.-r
vear- w .‘'ere thev rive universal saiisfa* I ‘on,
a irshili* ,s-d thr fineness ul U*v Oeaton A spie imttt
he secn"at the ofiice of D ANTIGNAC. EVANS A
•>* * , T which Planters are invited to exam. lie.
E co BriafC
w,^,r' r M
PATENT MEDICI N S.
The Liver Invigorator,
j a dbteaaed Live'.
| ike powers of tbe >® heC*’v
j ‘ r :proper performan.-e of Z
I ,l;l ■: Snl'r >V *U-n ‘■*£:** ~iu COt*L
•it Tfff ’ f>? one’* r-r a- t’ hiver -fcavscg ceaxod u, I
I A . I)■’ ‘ i ■S’ ■ •it'idy, ir. a cl I
1 .-. i ir.'.-hd . a m+iu^ fonnad by dumuTiui^iM
j ■ ■ irXr ,., “'1 Cff J,
. H P °°-.
;. r ;, ..
era Horbuu, l-A a prerf\rentive of Cholera.
1
y era the effect 3 ! of medi ne alter a long sicken
> V)ne dLo tr. ner.‘atno* tli!?/ be tore cairn*’ gives
visor to the a? petite and Vmaki.-i. food digest welL
LXj Ibsomt and bow
> V ):a- or two do. ft* ar. hf v.tacks canned by worms,
r V r “' ,rm * ,D . f 111I 11 :’ rH r ® n ’ th *7f ,B ifnever faita
1 >J‘. Znl’ /vxi iv A > ,'thU | the,
are plain, sober facts, that we can give evidence
to pro. e, while nil who-w. are “iving their uuac
U.::n.ony iu i: ®.uvor.
We take inftni‘c pleasure iu recommending this medi
c ; ae as a preventive ft r I<rer and Ague, Ll
rnd ail Fevers of a Alliens type it operates w*h -er
Uiaty, and tbooaa.:ds are will tog to test fy to it? won
* of Liver Remedies now offend
to the public, there ar none we can so highly recom
mendaii DR. SANFORD’S INVIGORATOR, bo gene
rally known now throughout the Union. This pre;,ara
tion / ’ t*r invigorator, producing the and
b .ppy rca.its on,all who ime it. * Almost innume able
a v/e know *, to be*he bes*^preparation new before
ti- a pr.idh;. —U’nn son Cf-vxty Democrat.
PRIGS ON® DOLLAR FB*’ BOTTLE.
41 AN FORD &e CO.,
Propi tr rs, :i45 Brosxlway, New-York.
I'LL MB Sc LEiTNER and W. H. TUTT, Agents to
Aug o:ta. H Id by Druggists generally.
Bocrhave’s Holland Bitters ‘
Boerhave’s Holland Bitters .
Boerhave’s Holland Bitteis !
Boerhave’s Holland Bitters!
Boerhave's Holland Bitters!
Boerhave’s Holland Bitters!
Boerhave’s Holland Bitters!
TilK Of-M-.BKATED HOLLAND REMEDY KOR
DYSFIT’SIA,
DISEASE OF THE KIDNEYS,
LIVER COM PLAINT,
WEAKNESS OF ANY KIND,
FEVER AND AGUE,
An 1 lie vars ns affections con :i<qscnt upon disordered
STOMACH OR LIVER,
Such as Tndigc Aci lity of the Stomach, Colicky
Pai Heartburn, L sf Appetite, Despondency. Cos
g P les. Is all Nervous,
Hi •-mnatie, and Nf-ura’g c A itertions, it has iu nmuerouß
i xr. ■ * proved highly beu* Ada), and iu others effect
This is a pu ely vegetable c unbound, prepared on
tt-< fr, : t succ-ei ki m- sr ‘ f the European Mates, its in
tri*dnction into the United States was iut ndd more
success among I now ofSr it to the
At • ii a p ili , know ngthat its truly wonderful me
di nai virtues miis; b * acknowledgtd ‘
o°n uhV! U 'ordrllt^drHs.'or V” Vnns ien.
Gener. Dv instai tfu e us to effect, *.t finds its way di*
re-My t the sea- < r',i:<* th 1I::ik amt quickening every
nerve, raia'.Mg tip the drooping spirit, anti, iu fact, infusing
will be dinappi iiH and ; but t > the sick, weak and low
up i ited, i: will prove a grateful aromat c cordial, pos-
CACTION!
T \c popularity of t i delightful Aroma has in
ducod many imitation*, wh : h the public should guard
mrainat purcbaalug. B** not iicr.*uaue*i to buy anything |
e no until yon have given Boerbave’s Ho”and Bitters a i
fair trial One bottle will convince you bow infinitely j
tup rior to ail these imitations.
tr sol,: at 61 per bottle, or ix bottles for %>'. by the j
s,i, Projuu to:-*, BENJAMIN PAGE, JR. &. CO, j
M. uufacturiug Pf armaecutistoand Chcmlsis, Pittsburg, |
I odd in Augu-ta, by
MAY-LAND, CHICHESTER & CO., i
PLUMB & LKJTNER,
WILLIAM II TUTT,
and Drugg* - - generally thn aghout she State. J
JACOBS CORDIAL. I
CALL AT OUB S'f’OßH
< all KT OUE STORE
I CALL AT OUK 8^01?H
CALL AT OUR STORK
1 AND GET THE PRICES j
AND GET THE PRICES i
AND GET THE PRICES
SO OUT T'iiC RICES i
GET TUB PRICES
AND GET THE PRICES !
OF JACOB’S COB DIAL,
OF JACOB’S CORDIAL,
OF JACOB’S CORDIAL,
OF JACOB’S CORDIAL,
OF JACOB’S CORDIAL,
OF JACOBS CORDIAL.
THAT GREAT REMEDY,
THAT GREAT REMEDY,
THAT GREAT REMEDY,
TH AT GREAT REMEDY, 1
THAT GREAT REMEDY, j
1 HAT GREAT REMEDY,
GREATEST OF ALL REMEDIES.
GREA'I EBTOP ALL REMEDIES,
(Dtr \TEST OF A- L It- MKItiKS,
C A LATEST OF ALL REMEDIES,
GREATEST OF ALL REMEDIES,
GREATEST OF ALL REMEDIES,
IN DYSENTERY AND DIARRHEA, j
IN ll’ MiNT KY AND DIARRHEA. !
I\ 1 SENTERY AND DIARRHEA, ]
jN ox xKNTEKY aND DIARRHEA, j
JS NTEBY AND DIARRHEA,
IN Dl 81iN I I.KY AND DIARRHEA,
RY THE DOZEN,
BY TllK DOZEN,
RY THE D >ZEN,
BV THE DOZEN,
BY THE DOZEN,
BY THE DOZEN.
BY THE GROSS,
BY THE GROSS,
BY THE GROSS,
BY TUB GROSS,
BY THE GROSS,
BY THE GROSS,
RY THE TEN GROSS,
BY THE TEN GROSS.
BY THE TEN GROSS,
BY ‘1 HE TEN GROSS.
BY THE lEX GROSS
BY I’HE TEN GROSS,
BY THE HUNDRED GROSS.
BY THE HUNDRED GROSS.
I.Y TANARUS, E HUNDRED CROSS.
BY V y. HI NDRED GROSS.
BY THE HUNDR’ D GROSS.
BY THE HUNDRED GROSS.
HRVIUND, CHICHESTER & CO.,
Wholesale Auguftta,Ga
jeli dtw&wlia
I YOU HAVE DYSPEPSIA,
Use t'ae Columbian Bitters
If you have i IKAPACRE.
I se ti e Columbian Bitters.!
If you have GIDDINESS OF THE HEAD,
i <e the Colombian Bitters |
| if you have DEPEESSED SPIRITS.
I se the Colombian Bitters.;
If yi'U have PILES,
l >e the Columbian Bitters.!
; Jf vet htve SO APPETITE,
Ise the Columbian Bitters ;
‘t yoa have PAIN in SIDE and BACK,
Use the Columbian Bitters, j
If yon Live SICK s j. MAC;',
Use the Columbian Bitters.
If yon Ist* JAUNDICE,
Use the Columbian Bitters.
f year I.ITKR IS DISEASED,
Use the Columbian Bitters.
v you are subject tu COSTIVENESS,
Use the Columbian Bitters.
i Sold at FIFTY CENTS* Bottle, by .Merchants
j CHICHESTEB & CO.,
\VM H. TUTT.
PLUMB & LEITNKB
jelß-dA '3in Augnsta, Geo.
SALVE vs. LINIMENTS.
DR. CAVANAUGHS
CrREEN salve.
Ai a an-v—a- v ‘VILT REREDT. exceeds Its
y article ever offered • the xt
i rufretloos, and every of ire,
attest to * s merits.
tum ITS EFFECTS AND TEST THEM.
It Will tike the are out of x BURN or “OLD
f, „ni n.'.le- j.- .t- i g i > HOI T A .-CAB.
■ggw Teeegkvifiixtftx inhxndxef Agcr.u -
Vwce SOceu: - fc.4 i*du per 1-ox. For s!e by a.l
Dr a'. and dealer. r. H CATAKAUGH. *
Proprietor, M Lonis. Mo.
Aec- :-H.nnU LKITM i. CLASH WELLS
* M-KARb. HAVILASD. CUfri-ESTRR A CO,
W II TUTT, B 1 PAbKBR. Aognxtx. Ok A. A
At FTANDKK end Dr. SMITH. Atixntx. G-. and
; n w A H R. J LONG, Athens Ox
1 ‘ gjxto'Sc-dAwIV
■
j Later frem rnlifernia-The Defeat of Col. !
■ teploe < on Ii l ined.
‘ By the &vrivai of the Isabel at Charleston, we
| ;sve San Francisco papers to the 20th uk. The j
Frazer River go!d excitement eti 1 contmuee, and •
e7.i :ra . - were leaving California in Urgennrnberg I
for the new £1 Dorado:
F/om the Oregon Weekly Times of May 29. we 1
cor : Lr;|&tion of the complete defeat of I
: - to-r from an officer engaged inDe eondict.aod I
ia!r^ fo a o ; i k ; yT,,D “- Ic |
On the ft h last, Col Stepioe. with C, E Rod H I
cocijumtes of Ist <Sra?oone, ar.d 75 men of 9th in
f -..try, with two mouLtain howitzers, left Ft. Wella
V aiia f/’ Coivilie. The cificers of the command
wt-re CoL Step toe. Cap (air e Winder and Taylor,
L euteiiant j Wheeler, Fleming, Gatson atd Gregg.
Ai;e: marching eight days, we reached the Pelouse
r ver, and w’ert about into the Spokan coun
try, when we were inf*r aed by Indians ti.at the
Spokane v7uu;d re.hst our entrance into their coun
try. The Spokane have al ways been regarded as
Liendiy to the white?, and when we left Walia Wal
, i.o • .e thought of having an encounter with them,
I or any other Indian? < u th” march.
On Sus. f.'j morniog, the l>.b, on leaving camp,
were ready 10 sigh us. Not tbL’ urn
i-'-Vic;. was Continued until ab ct eleven o’clock,
when we sou and oarac lves in the presence of six
ifiindred warriors in war costume. The command
was halted ior the purpose of having a talk, in which
’ he Spokar.3 announcsd that they had heard v/e hod
gone out for the purpose of wiping them oat, and if
at w vi the case, they were ready to fight us, an i
that we should not cross the river. The In
-o:aiifl were well mounted, principally armed with
rifle', ana were extended eh- g ov.r flsnlt ni the di>-
t -.i. eof one hundred yards. After some talk, the
Colonel *•- i u that w r e wou and have ;o fight, and we
immediately put ourcelvee in position to move to
better ground, determined that the Spokane sh mid
lire the first gun. After marciing a mile, we reach
ed a sheet ol water —it was decided to eocauip and
J. id another talk with the Indiana. Nothing result
fed from this except the most insulting demmstra
tiond on their part. We dared uot dismount, and
were kept in the saddle three hours, until the setting
of the sun and speit-ed the Indians.
On Monday morning we left camp to return lo
Die Pelouse, iiiarching in the f-Ho wing order: II
CM'npany in advairLe, (J in the centre, with the
packs, and Ein rear. At 8 o’c’ock, the Indians
appeared in great numbers about the rear of the
column, and just as the advance was ciosaing a
email stream they began firing. In twenty minutes
the firing became continuous. Seeing that we must
fight, and that the action must become general I
was ordered to move forward and occupy a hill timt
the Indians were mak.ug for, arid upon which they
would have a close fire upon the head of the column.
Alter a close race I gaiued the hill in advance, on
seeing which the Indians moved around and took
possession of one commanding that which I occu
pied. Leaving a few men t 5 defend the first hill,
and deploying my men, I charged the second and
drove them off.
At this time the action was general, the three
companies, numbering in all abo 1110 men were
warmly engaged with 501) Indians. The compa
nies were separated from eacti oilier nearly a thou
stud yards, and fought entirely by making short
charged. At. llo’c.ock I was re-inforced by the
howitzers, and the two companies began to move
towards the position I heia, the Indians prtssiug
closely upon them As Eco npany was approach
ing, a large boiy of Indians got between it and my
comp ny, so that having it be ween two fires, they
could wi* eit out itt once. Gaston perceiving this,
moved quickly t( wards me, having the Indians iu
his front, and when near enough, and I saw he waj
about lo charge. I charged with II company. The
reruit wop, that our companies met, having the In
dian.’ in aright angl?, in which angle we left twelve
dead Indians.
Alter getting together, w • kept up the fight for
h'di r.n Fur, and again started to reach the water,
in > /i: g l.a l a : ile under a constant and raking fire,
under which our comrades Taylor and Gaston fell.
We finally reached akiii near the water, andoc
cu-.tod the summit, and the Indians now comple e
j etc. unde j ii, we dismounted and picketed our
boner* close together on the centre of ihe fiat iu
c’ined summit, and posted our men around the
crest, making them Fe flat on the ground, as the
Indians were so close and eo daring as to attempt to
ch'.ige up the hill, but, although outnumbering us
eight to one, they could not succeed.
Towards evening, cur ainmumti-n began to give
ou:, and our men, suffering so much from thirst and
fat gue, required all our attention to keep them up.
To move from one point to another, we had to
crawl on cur Lauda and knees, amid the howling of
the Indian?, the ;-:r >ai sot the dying, and the whist
ling cl” bo lb andarrovs. We were kept, iu tins
position until 8 o’clock, P M., when, as night cams
in, it became appa< ent that ou the morrow we
must “go uuder,” and that not, one of us would ea
c ipe. ft was plain that, nearly destitute of ammu
j.iii .n, we were compieUly surrounded by six or
eh.bt hundrtd Indians, and the most of these on
poiiits which we must pa to get away. Therefore
it wus determined to run the gauntlet, eo that if
possible, some might escape. Abandoning every
thing, we mounied and left the hid at 9 o'clock, and
a't*. r a ride of nicety miles, mostly at a gailop, and
without are !, we reached Snake river, at Red
were met by
our fri ndo, toe N•/. IV ic. s v* had two officers,
five men and three friendly Indians killed, and ten
men wounded. Sergc- nt Ball, of 11 Cos npany
missing The Sergeant distinguished hi:7:self very
much curing the action, we ail hope he will yet
come in.
J.;pf. Taylor \ as shot through the neck, and
Lieut. G ‘.on through the body; they boh fell
lighting gallantly. The companies fought bravely,
like true nu n. VYe brought our horse? back in
goi.d ccmiition, except about thirty, which were
shot during the fight ‘ The Indians made no cap
tures B. fre the battle was near over, the In
dft.napiok- and up niic. of ti.cir dead ; bow many of
them w-re killed ie not known, but I can count fit
teen. They acknowledge having forty wounded.
lr, will take a thousand men to go into the Spokan
couutiy.
And the following from a friend at Vancouver to
• a friend in thi city.
Vancouver, W. TANARUS., May 27th, 1858
! Dear Sir :—From the letters received here bi3t
; n*giit, it is evident iba* Col. Step too did not antics
| pate any i: itility on the part of the Spokane, and
Spokan
j i i< \ At tho “talk” with them on the 16th, they
I roused to as Lt, or even allow him to cross ; and,
j beirg witb at means or sufficient force to do eo in
j the ii: a of such cumbers, be was compelled to fall
! back The seventy of the fight ou the 17th, shows
I that his estimate ol their strength and intentions
! was correct, and to have attempted the pat-sage,
j under such circumstances, would have ensured the
I destruction of his entire command.
I Capt. O. 11. P. Taylor was a graduate of West
I feint of 1840, and Brevet Captain “tor gallant and
I meritorious cc-nduot in conflicts in New Mexico.”
I it isbut a few weeks since he returned from the
} Ea. t with si w ile and children, who are now wid
I owed and orphan dby this sad affair. Lieut. Win.
j Gatson was a graduate oi 1856, and au cflicer of
| great promise.
Very rt spectfully, yours, B.
In giving its version of the battle between Col.
j [Sfoploe’a command and the Spokan Indians, the
j Standard adds:
A we have paid in another article, theie are al
rtf dy on the way from the Dalles, en route lor the j
nin by way of this Indian country, more than
tv. . undred well armed miners. About one han
dled more will start forthwith, for they are by no
moans disheartened by the report of this battle. On
the other liend, they si em eager to breast these In
dian difficulties, and In the event that the troops
have met with a rtpuVe, we may rest assured that
these miners will become au important auxiliary to
the troops in routing the whole force ol the Indians
from the upper country, HD d making the entire
roc.ri; tn ui toe Dalles to Thompson River free from
depredations and that too in a very short time.
Should the next steamers trout California bring
up a !• w 1 uudred more ot theee California miners,
they will find it oily tun to push their way on
through the. Indian country in defiance of all Indian
attu’ k . We 1.-arn that tot a man of the fifty miu
ers wbe went up on the Mountain Buck oa Mon
day morning, was in the least deterred front hia
purpose to proceed by the report of this battle
With the mines north of there Indians.andhun
.dd of eager miners south desirous of advancing
to them, tiie poor, deluded Indians will fiudditficul-
i; attacks which they little ex
pect. Again, the Indians have not been disposed
to molest miners in travelling through their coun
try, while they ate unwilling that United States
troops should make expeditions among them.
Cot.. FkIMOXT’S CITIZSNSHIP —VSRDICT OF THE
J try. —The following is the verdict rendered in the
cate of John C. Fremont vs. the Merced Mining
Company, on an issue as to the ( itlz- T .'t : p of plain
tiff. The trial occupied the United States Circuit
Court three days, and was brought to a Cos nclusion
last evening at half past five o'clock :
Copy Verdict. —The Jury in this case unani
mous’.y agree that Charles Fremont was not, at the
j ooir'ineucement of this suit, on Sih May, 185t> a
j citizen of the State ot- California.
X. J. Pariiee, Foreman.
This settles the right if CoL Fremont to sue in
he Federal Cot■ to
j Advices from Oregon to the s>th of June tjive tae
! \ wn ~ in reference to the tight with the Indians :
\Ye have positive and reliaole information that
: ,h re were more than one thousand Indians engaged
| in tie attack upon Col. Steptoe's command; that
i the Indians had planned an ambata mto which, had
i t e command been led, his whole force would nave
I b en utterly lost ; that he suspected uie device, ana
I varied bis course in order to avoid it, wheu the In
; dians commence! the attack; that the warriors, the
fijjhtirg men of the >pokafis, the Cmur u A.enes,
the Fiat Heads, were main participants in thehgh .;
that Father J seph, the Coeur d'Alene priest, roae
up t.l Coi. Step'oe just previous to the ous.aught
I at and told him tha’ the Indians were exasperated, and
resolved upon fighting, because they had heard a
road was to be laid out through their country tr.m
I W alla Walla to Fort Benton, one that they would
1 massacre every w die man who attempted to pass
though tl'.eir country on such a mission. This, then,
is the acknowledged, ascertained catue of the as
sault. and it is infiisputabl. the cxaJ purp-eee o.
Indians to prevent, if possible, any transit
i whatever acres? tfcr.t coo-Dtry.
i T e mislcrtune, deplorab eas it is, is vet not so
great since rt will have been the means of saving
! Lieut. Mu'. *n and p<rty, wi.ich was on the eve of
I starting. u- to open the road,and would otutrwLe
I have been mr.s:, ,-c ,
I The assault w„e a united and preconcertea move
| meat or. the part , f the savages ergtged m it. Lol.
} S:: (h?’ c-lumanu e- aped alin.-si miracuiou'iy,
• filer figntiug them and to hand for an entire day.
U. tua-ie aa nnbeS'dof aud unprecedented,y rapid
and safe retreat, hiving made a distance of eighty-
I live niiieg wriffn Its* than tweniy hour e tince, kcu
j i a’ wiiLout ti e ioss oi a cr an aniaial. Pre
6um:iig he w-aid b<; hotly pursued, he threw away
ever. *. ‘.ul to er ‘’umber hi? and
cocsequeDtW thtr# wac a necessary sacrifice of
some baggage and other pri perty.
Sad Affair. —We learn that two young men,
sors ’ol Mr. Joseph Gh >dden, residing near this
pace, were killed icstantanoously by the ears on
the Nashville A Chaitai ooga Kailrcedat or near
the coal mtnee, on Saturday last; aud we further
leirn that their mortal remains were interred at
Pettit* creek .church ceme'ery near this place on
Monday evening lss:. The particulars we have
not learned. — Cartertviut Express.
The Wheat asd Oat Crop.—ln the aud the
adjoining c-utr”- sos Cher-ikee Georgia, the. W heat
crop i* utiLsaaliy i-'tt It was sert-.wly mtured,
both bv the fret, fly and rns’ Art ie Bras the in
ferior duality ot the * heat, there cot over half ot
an usaaivieid. The Oat crop is a toatl faflitte
thro-rg ou; his region, being entirety destroyed by
tee met. We have no idea that there is enough ot
oatd rfhed to paw pu oroin&rv crop the incv-micg
s£&mhi. —Caikott ((/<.) Platform.
T>:e Wool Te.ade.-Ii is stated that the wool
trade ofWasflSnefon county. Pa. was vety active
last week,-at prices moving from tweutv-five to for
ty cents per pound. One buyer purchased e.gut
huudr-d iounde in a single days'ride among the
farmers Ttepnces this year arc from ten to fif
teen cents per pound lower than last year.
A la-ger beer picnic ie to take place near Ne
wsrk, N. J ~ on the doth uIL, aud a prize of SSOO is to
be awarded to the manufacturer of the best larger.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY *2l, 1858.
Trom Cuba—The Coolie Trade—Fourth of
July—New Route to Cuba—Attempt lo Bribe
the American Vice-Consul, Ac e
The eteamer Isabel, from Havana on the 10th
inst., touched at Savannah ol Monday. We copy
i the following paragraphs from the correspondence
j cf the Savannah Republican :
i On the J6:h uit.. there arrivsd under the English
flag 235 Cbices©, consigned to Messrs. Morale &l
Cos.
j On the Ist inst. the ship Swaliow, of New York
| arrived with 641 Ch’nese. She had but eight deaths
|oo the package, w\ ■I i . Uh ip irSk but lit
i tie more than one the number of Cninese on
board, had thirty-one deaths on the passage. This
i lac: speaks volumes in favor of the bet er trwt
J ;;; nt the Chinese receive on board an American
l than on board an English ship. There have been
j no loss tuan 31,589 of these poor wretches brought
| to this lr land. When arrive here they are
sold like cattle in the ket far a term of, T be-
I lieve, eight yea r ß, during which they are, to all in
tents and pu>poses, the slaves of their masters, re
ceiving four dollars per month w r agea. At the ex
piation of the term of their “contract!” unless
they produce a certificate of good character from
their master*, they are not to be permitted to re
main on the Isiana, but are to pay their pa-sagee
to any other c-. untry they may select. Addod to
all which, there is not a single lemale among them,
which facts leaas them lo the commission of acts,
which produce insanity, during which they commit
suicide.
The ship Competitor arrived sth inet. from Swa
tas, via St. Helena, with 225 Asiatics, li of ic horn
are females She had the large number ot 157 deaths
on the pa?s j *ge. *.
Tho “Glorious F uth!” passed very agreebly
with us; there were several dinner parties at the
h ;uses of citizeij9 of the United States, where, I
hear -fir the state of my health render it
possible to leave my quarters, onr that day—there
were the customary patriotic speeches made, good
fare amply diecuesed, and the usual fesls of reason,
&C &C , foil.
Captain Tuck r of the ship Swallow, obtained
permission from His Excellency lb 9 Captain Gene
ral, wbo gave him a Span 8a flag, which was hoist', and
at the -‘main’ ol the Swallow, and a national salute
was fired at 12 o’clock ami the U S. Sloop-of-war
Plymouth, outside the port, did the same.
Never before Las such a thing been permitted iu
this port, and no stronger proof of the liberality of
ctonDinent that pervades the breast of His Excel
lency, the Marques de la H abac a, than tfie kind
manner in which he at once responded in the affir
mative to Captain Tucker when he asked permis
fiioD to fire the eaiute.
A gertleman named Quines W. Bryant, of Flori
da, waa recently ia this city, w-ho proposes to es
tablish a line ni steamers between‘lndian River,
Florida, and Mantasjzas. He met, I hear, with eve
ry encouragement from the Supreme Authority
From Indian River, I believe, there is inland navi
gation to Savannah, and this scheme, if earned into
effect, would lead much ol” the trad l from the United
states tufthis Hand, to pass through Sivannah, as
the tea voyage from Indian River to Mantanzas
would only occupy between thirty and foriy hours.
Tho brig C* Perkins, of New York, cleaved at this
port ou the 25th October last for St. Thomas and re
turned on 30th May, being reported as having coire
from Oampeachy. Reliable information was re
ceived at the Uuited Sta 03 Consulate in this city,
that she had been to the coast of Africa, brought
and landed on this Island a cargo of negroes; and
liiat ii was designed she should return to the coast
of Africa Lr another cargo, so when application
was made at the U S. Consulate for her papers it
refused to give them up. Ou Monday last a Span
iard called upon Thomas Savage, E<q., acting U.
8. Consul General, to iuduce him to
give up the brigs papers Mr. Savage replied, that
ue could only be induced to give them up by the
production of eatiefactory evidence contradicting
the information that had b<-en previously received
at the Consulate. “Wellsir,” replied the Spaniard,
presenting a large letter at Mr. Savage, “here ia a
part of such evidence;” thou bidding a hasty
“adios,’’ marched off in “double quick time.” Tc
the surprise of Mr. Savage, on breaking the seal of
the letter, he found it contained a blank sheet of
paper and a bank bill for one thousand dollars !
Drawing the attention of two gentlemen, who
chance to be present, to the fact of the letter hav
ing contained the bai.k bill, Mr. Savage hastened af
ter the Spaniard, but failed to overtake him ; he was
however, alter wards f >uud by the oh rk of the Con
sulate, who could not induce hi3 return, though Le
promised to call there in half an hour, W: ieh prom
ise, of course, was not kept. Next morning, a little
before 7 o’clock, the C. Perkins keeled over and
sunk in the harbor. Doubtless holes had been bored
in her during the night, and filling with water die
sack. The Spaniard who thus audaciously attempt
ed to bribe Mr. Savage and induce him to swerve
from his duty, uusiook his man, w'e who are well
acquainted with Mr. Savage know him better.
On Monday morning last we were all thrown in
t > asliAe ot leverish excitement upon learnii g that
Don Miguel de Etnbil, the wealthy Creole Banker,
had been arrested and thrown into prison. It alarm -
ed a number oi” us, because the cause of the ar
: eat wait not known, end it brought back to memo
ry the recollection of by gone days, the events of
which W3 would fain forget. It is a matter ot con
siderable difficulty to ascertain here the causes of
the aiv at of a man, under such circumstances; in
deed 1 have known instances iu which the paities
arrested were kept in ignorance of the charge pre
ferred against them.
However, with some little trouble, I believe I
nave ascertained the cause of the arrest cf Don
Miguel do Embil. He presented a memorial to his
Excellency, the Captain General, complaining o:
tae heavy taxes imposed in this Island, in which
mt moriai a fact was stated (which is easily proved)
that the white inhabitants of this Island, each,
annually pay a considerably larger amount towards
the suppott of the Government of Spain, than do
any of the inhabitants of that country themselves.
The language used in the memorial was not deem
ed e. ific ent.!y respect ul, and it was returned with
out any answer Senor do Embil then presented
a second memorial, said to l ave been couched in
language yet more offensive and disreapectiul than
the previous one. Thi. l second memo ial was referred
to an Aica(ie ; w'Lo endeavored to induce M. de Em
bil to withdraw the effeueive expressions, but fa led ;
the result was the afreet of the banker and his com
mittal to the Tacon jail.
This event :s deeply to be deplored, we were all
getting on so quietly and comfortably, and none can
paliate the imprudence, to speak mildly of the ccif
du tof M. de Embil, who, having the management
of the property of many persons, should have been
the las: to have placed himself in a position which
gave any man, no matter how lofty or great, the
power to effect his downfall. I would not be a
prophet of evil, but I fear this is but “the beginning
of t‘ e end.” Unless Spain relents, I think 1 see in
the horizon a small cloud, not perhaps larger than
the plum of a -nan’s hand, hut which will inoreaee
iu size and strength, until when it bursts it shall des
troy all present things amongst us. Is this what is
called “manifest destiny ? ’
SIBONEY.
I\ S.—There lias been a terrible < arthquake at
the City of Mexico. More than 20 lives were sac
rificed and property of tho value of two or three
millions of dollars destroyed. 1 have no time to
give you further particulars. S.
Letter from (.'apt. Diarcy.
The following interesting letter, descriptive of his
journey fi\ in New Mexico to Camp Sfcott, has been
received at the War Department from Captain Mar
cy: a
Camp Scott, Utah, June 10,1858.
Major —ln conformity with the directions of the
General commanding, lhave the h nor to submit
the following memorandum of that portion of the
route 1 travelled on my return from Mexico, lying
between crossing of the North Fork of the Platte
ii.ud Green rivers. This route strikes the Platte up
on the Cherokee trail, about two miles above Bry
an’s Croesing, and is decidedly preferable, for the
reason that the bluffs upon the East eide are much
lower, and the approach much more shallow at the
Cherokee Crossing It was, when I passed about
seventy yards wide and four feet deep—was rising,
aid I dale say it is now above a fording stage. We
left a flat boat upon the high bank on the West side,
which has sufficient capacity to carry the largest
wagon, with its load.
Good grass and wood are abundant here. From
the Piatte the road passes over a rolling country,
without grass, until it strikes a branch of Sage
Creek (12 miles,) where there is a limited supply.
Sage is loui.d everywhere a'.ung the road, and con
stitutes the only fuel between the Platte and Green
rivers. Camping places may be found upon ail the
t hree branches of Sage Creek, but llie grass is ra
ther scarce tor a large number of animals. Bryan s
i oad passes uo the most Westerly branch and leaves
our route. ...
The first camping place after passing Sage Greek
is upon a small branch running to the East, thirteen
mi es from Sage Greek. There is a sparse growth
of bunch grass near the stream, but two miles furth
er upon the old road, there is a spring branch, along
the botdert of which there is a good supply of excel
lent glass. Following down the branch, about a
rniie below the crossing into a canon, there is a large
spring.
Our train leaves the emigrant road at this place,
aud bears to the left arouud the mountains, passing
over a very barren seetion for ten miles, when it
enters a valley, through which runs a small creek,
upon which we found very good grass. The water
here is sweet and palatable.
Our next day's march was over firm ground, but
without water, until we arrived near camp. Here
we found some brackish ponds of muddy water,
which, I was informed by our guide, can always be
cepeuded upon in toe nty-esi sea™-
The grass is abundant and good in the hills to the
Xor hos there ponds. We again intersected Evans
Hail at this point. It makes a very great bend to
the North around the mountains, aDd our guides,
who have travelled both, are ot opinion that our
road is some fitly miles shorter.
From tLeuce we follow Evans road, passing two
ponds at about three and eight miles from our last
camp, and encamped on the Eastern border of an
extensive flat, where there are several ponds of
brackish water, with good grass on the adjoining
hills. Indeed, in a;l the hhls upon this part of the
read, there is abundance of grass.
Tue flat is des.iiute of grass, with a red clay soil
which was firm and smooth when I passed it, but
w..uld probably become soft and boggy in a wet
season. It is six miles across this flat by the road,
and there are several pends of water near the Wes-
tern border, with good grass near.
From thence to the next w ater the distance is
fit.een mi'es. This is a small spring branch that
ru.,a into Bitter Creek, aud at the head it has suf
ficient water for the largest government trains. —
The water is slightly brackish, but quite whole
some.
Oar route strikes Bitter Creek at the mouth of
this creek, eight miles from its sources, thence
down the right back of Bitter creek, four miles to
our camp. ,
Bitter Creek is a narrow ana deep stream, with
high abrupt clay banks, making it very difficult to
or >ss or approach with animals. The water is
brackish, but animals drink it eagerly. There are
but few places ou the creek bottom where any
grass is seen, and it is only here and there that it
can be found on the a iacent hills.
Oar camp near the Rocky bioffs, that come nea.
the creek, is the last accessible grass until i caching
a low range of grassy hill;, which slope down to the
cretk on the cppoeite eioe. Here there is a good
crossing for animal, and by camping at this place,
the be-* grass would be secured. From thence to
cur camp is seventeen miles along the bank of the
creek. Here we found only tolerable grass m the
t : Is on the South sine ot the creek.
There is a fine sulphur spring near the road, at
the point where we leave the creek. Thence our
r ad passes round the hills, aud at four mires cr.s
Sts two small spring branches, which issue from
very elevated kills upon the right. The water from
these springs is excellent, and the grass here cannot
be surpassed. The road from thence turns agam in-
to the valley of Bitter Creek. which it follows to its
confluence with the Green Rriver.
Hi-ter Creek is enclosed u jon both sides by very
elevated bluffs, that are cut up into numerous ca
ll- -ns and arroyas, rendering it almost impracticable
to pass wha wagons, except direct y upon the
North bank, where the road already runs.
I am. very lespectful.y, yourobd't serv t,
ibtgned; K B. Makci,
Captain Fifth Infantry.
Mai:-r F. J. Porter, Adit. Gen. Army Utah, Camp
Scott.
To Make the Hair Ccrl. —At any time yen
may make your hair cur! the more easily by rub
ting it with the beaten yolk of an egg washed off
afterwards with clear wa.er. and then putting ou a
1 pomatum betoreyou put up your curls. It is
w-il always to go through this process when you
t hange to cur is, after having worn your hair plain.
From Russell's Letters to the London Times.
Scenes in India.
The March into Rohilicukd.—Camp at Tin
gree, 21 miles north oi F'utteghur, April 27.— As one
of the soldiers last night, “We’re a dissipating
lot, the whole oi us-turcing night into day, like
Don ny brook fair.” Having halted a day and sime
odd hours at Futteghur, the s
camp was ordered to make a torc*-'d a||^^^^T:;i
----•r rur departure, tie
p ile, near Aliygimr or Allegnnge, on 9(HpKgun
ga, being directed to march to the same Htoe, eight
or nine miles off, that Sir Cohn Ca npWi might
ak * the command qf :he force ia pers m. As the
tent-i were all struck, we slept “sub Jove caltdo ”
A Night Pictcke of the Ganges, &c —Flight
of the People —The headquarters camp was
some distance outside the fort, and in going out,
about 11 o clock to the ree under which I
slept, one of th s grand spectacles which can only
be witnessed in Indian warfare met my view.
The m shone brightly on the Gauges and on
white sandy plains beyond its waters—it iigh‘ed up
the briJg l of boat*, which trembled and heaved
and fckrieked under the pressure of a steady line of
camels, elephants and oxen, which went with eoft
tramp across it, and were lost iu the distance in a
small black streak—it brought out in sharp outlines
or into deep shade the ruined houses, the fort
mosoues of the city, the bazair camp, the figures of
the huge animals, which passed soitly, like black
clouds—aid it revealed the masses of aid
escoited by tLf wild Eikh
itouLd;
motion v/i*h ut souud, except a the
tumult bn the bridge, and an occasional^will flour
ish on his flexible horn by an elephant who was anx
ious to tell his friends hePwas going to battle.
March of the Troops—A Picturi of the
Elephant. —AS the soil was sanay and heavy at
the other eido of the river for several bailee, the
march had to be made on the backgot i! -se grand
old creatfires three of i which we're watiniim the fort
for the ctftef, Gtn Mansfield, aud th3 aid ‘-de-camp,
and others were detailed for the use officii quarters
camp I had not been long asleep under my
tree when I was awoke by Ceh Fakenham oklik-g
out, “Where is ray elephant ?” very much in the
same tone of voice qs a man in a club would aek
the waiter for his hat. The elephant were punctual.
At the" Word of the Mahout the ancient pachyderm
who was to cany th** Quartermaster General, Col.
McPher on, Major Stewart, Deputy As-istaut Adju
tant General, Dr. Alai kincou, surgeon to the head
quarters. and myself, knelt down with infinite con
descension, ana permitted'a ladder to be placed
against his s de, by which we mouuted to a con ri
vanc.ftjust l.ke the body or an Irish jaunting car,
strapped over his back
We preferred that mode of mouutiug to the more
usual way of putting one’s foot ou the animal’s pro
boscis, aud holding on by the lower flap of his huge
India-rubber-looking ear, while he, by a gentle curl
upwards of hiß omnificeut s our, raises Ihe rider to
his back—or to the equally popu’ar mode of seizing
Ms tail, and putting our foot against his hind leg,
which the animal elevates at the word of command
till the biped is high enough to scramble to his seat
in the bowdah. We sit, back, /two at each side,
nicely balanced, and, having undergone two smart
shocks of an earthquake while cur friend iu two
great heaves, fore and atr, got to his feet, proceeded
on our journey, I cannot say, notwithstanding the
honor and glory of the thing that the elephant is an
animal which inaks a favorable impression as a
means of locomotion. Tue only thing to which I
aau compare the pitching fore and att, as he rises
end tails in his stride, is the riding of a light collier
brig in a tideway. One of our party was soon
sickened, aud the others were engaged, with great
s verity of aspect, in holding on to the sails of the
vessel ‘ like grim death to a backstay.”
We passed along above the dust with a nightmary
sensation, and before two o’clock iu the mo ning
cur line of elephants had del cateiy picked their
way by tbeir noses over the bridge of boats, and
were in Rohilcuud, plodding through the crowd of
animals of an inferior order—man and beast—to
wards their destination. And t o we went, on till
dawn, very sleepy, and vory tight apey and noddy
We mused up to au attitude of attention at the
right of a broad aud deep looking river, winch lock
ed anything but inviting under the combined rays
of the setting moon ami tho rising eun. This was
the Rarngunga, and the bridges of boats a few
yarda above us were those which had been secured
by the victory at Aliaugange, after the sad affair at
Rhadamow. The Lord Sahib's elephauts were just
crossing tiie bridge,and bo ours were driven to the
ford, and at t nee plunged into the stream. As these
sagacious and highly intellec ual beings are horribly
loud of practical jokes, we watched the depth of the
water with some acxieiy, lest our elephant should
avoid the trouble of swimming oy the simple ex
pedient ot letting his feet drop and walking on the
bottom, while the top of his proboscis, held above
water, supplied him with air; but the stream was
not more than six or sevfen feet deep, and we cross
ed|witbout an inyoluritaiy ablation.
The Enemy’s Camp. —We were still in a sandy
plain, but a few miles more brought us to the sigLt
of the enemy’s camp, and of Walpole’s, aud good
we came on traces of the tight, hideous bodies,
bloated and discolored, lyiug all over the plum, with
flicks of vultures puil ng out their emrails, and
dugs crunching tfieir bone3. Sometimes these hor
rid creatures crept inside the hollowed corpse to
pick at their leisure, and by their movements gave
tho dead a revolting imitation of life. These man
lying far apart, had fallen by the sabres of llagart’s
Cavalry, and the lire of Tombs’ and Remington s
guns, aud for two or three miles they marked the
line of our pursuit. Our route lay by several vil
lages. The houses were roofless and mined. Not
a toul was visible in the streets. This must have
been the work of tho insurgen s, for our troops had
uever set foot in Rohlicund since the outbreak of
the mu iny. About five o’clock we came on the
riege train, and poor Tod Brown, in charge of it,
working like all the Browns in England together
one maa with 600 carts, thousands of bullocks, shot,
obeli, powder, and natives to look after, anu all with
only cue Land to help bim.
The Heat. —Then arose th dread clamor of the
baggage, which always becomes m i-y about day,
end from our serial State we looked down pityingly
on the baggage master, Captain Morland, struggling
like Jupiter and the Titans, with elephants aud
camels, aud hackerie. At last we pick up the rear
guard, aud the whole plain before us expands itself
into one vast sea of animals—all for an army of 6,-
000 men. F’ar in the distance some tents rise abi ve
the dark eea of agitated life, white and p acid, and
we press ou with vigor, for the mess tire is lighted
by the roadside, and thtreis already a group under
a tree hud around the teapot. The elephantexe
cutes a little morceau on his nose to signity that he
is quite aware it is time for his breakfast and for
our departure ; he kneels down, and we part with
mutual satisfaction. Tingree is rot a desirable
plaoe—sandy and hot. Here Walpole’s division
had just arrived, and our canvass city soon rose up
Jn the sandy plains, and most of q3 turned into our
shade of 106, 107, and 103 degrees, according to the
site of our teDts, for a little repose. Colonel Sisted,
78th, and Col. Leith Hay, 33rd, wifl act as Briga
diers. The army are cautioned against plundering.
A Deserted Village. —Jeilalabad is a small
country village iu the roidst of a rich district., domi
nated by aa old mud fort, which the enemy roust
have been repairing up to yesterday morning, as
there were fresh spade marks in the scarp ol the
ditch. It is said that the Moulvie was there, but
that he could not get his followers to stand, and that
he was obliged to fly to Shahjehanpore. Our camp
was pitched in a magnificent and extensive grove
outride the village. Ou going into the village which
contains one or two large houses of some preten
sions, a couple of mosques, &e., it appeared as if
the inhabitants expected to be plundered, for they
ha shut up their bouses, and a very few people
were to be seen in the streets. Our sentries were
placed at tho outskirts to prevent plundering, but
the S kbs are all but übiquitous, and scarcely do we
pitch our tents than these active gentry are miles
away, looting all they meet. The fort, which is
built on a high mound, (probably of remote artifi
cial construction,) is a quadrangular work of mud,
with the walls externally at least 40 feet in height,
and a deep, dry ditch, which the enemy are making
still deeper. Each side is about 150 yards long.
The parapet is broken aud recedes in places, so that
it could be BCaled with little difficulty.
A Mussulman Prisoner.— The terreplein (if it
can be so called J is high above the level of the
ground outside the ioit Inside the fort there is a
kind of keep in the centre, some houses aud rude
barracks, and the ruins ot a large building, which
was formerly used as a government school. There
were freshly made embrasures, without guns, and
many articles of dress showed the recent flight of the
owners, and loose ropea, and bed3 and papers were
lying in the court yard, which contained a tine deep
well.
As we returned through the deserted streets, we
met an English soldier, with a sword aid shield on
his arm, behind whom was walking a tall, gaunt
Mussulman, with bis elbows fastened behind his
back by the folds of bis urban. “ I took him, sir,
because he had this sword and shield, and he’s a
suspicious looking fellow,” said the soldier, “ and
I’d like to know what I’m to do with him.” There
was something very piquaut in the notion ot thiß
good fellow, who was quite unarmed, having tak> u
a much larger man who had a ufa>rd and a shield,
and the m: user in which he asßed us what to do
with the prisoner, swaying, as he spoke, a captive
goose by the neck, was very ludicrous.
Looting —We recommended the Provost Mar
shal, and rode into camp just m time tosee Sir Colin
iu great wrath with a camp follower brought in for
looting, and gave him some hearty wbache on the
back with the flat of his sword before he sent him
to get a dozen from the functionary who is now
such request.
Two small deputations of Hindoos, poor looking
Villagers, came fut„ —. .I .. .a,-..”
gratulations to us on their own delivery from the
Mahometan rule. They told us that our faces were
bright, that they lived once more in seeing us, aud
altogether were exceedingly polite, offering, more
over, to kill all Mussuitnen, it we would keep them
to do so.
Sir Colin is going to mark all the honses belong
ing to famines who have relations iu the enemy ‘s
cavalry, and threatens that if any attack is made
on our posts, he will cause all those houses to be
pulled down. jr
Life in the Camp.— Kadm April 20.—Again
that dreadful first bugleat lmwA At , the trumpet-
ing of elephants, the nammeriog of tent-pegs, the
guggling and roaring of camels, the neighing of
horses aud the myriad voices of camp rising up
through the night, till jackalis and wolves cease
their concert to the moon, and fly off to have it out
undisturbed in more distant and siient topes. At
the usual Lour, J A. At., the whole force was moving
off towards this place at which we are now encamp
ed. The country, like ti.at through which we have
already passed, was one vast plain—a series of com
fields, cotton aud sugar plantations, without hedge
or ditch, and covered in ali directions with rich
timber. The crops have been cut, and the sharp
stumps of the cotton are dangerous to horses’ feet
and horrible to men's legs. Hence my Eyce was
lamed, and hence, at oar first halt, your correspon
a, ir. was lamed by a severe horse kick, for the
eyce, on account of the cotton stumps, oomd not
come up to hold hie horse, which was given to a
eyce who had another to take care of, and when
our half hour's sleep ou the ground was over, and
“Prepare to mount I mount I roused us up, your oor
resp ndri.t, going over tr- his quadruped, which
was backing towards the other horse irom the syce,
received a kick between the hip and knee which
sent him reeling over, and obliged him to flu sh the
rest of his journey on the carriage of one of Toombs’
guns. For two or three days to come, if notmore,
he in us l be content to write in a dooiy, rising his
note boo* and pencil.
The little towa outside which we pitched our
tents wa deserted, and the yii ag-s along our line
ot march were destitute of inhabitants. The strict
est erders are issued agaimt plundering, and, in
deed. I saw Bir Colin Campbell make a c-narge at
Some camp followers who were refreshing them
selves in a vegetable garden, and give them vi
cariously, by Major Metcast Bstick, a sound thrash
ing ; bat, as the Commander-in-Cnief says himself,
“they swarm like flies, and are just as hard to keep
out of a p:uc.” They defy p ckets and elude pa
trols, although the iaah resound; forever in the
cimp, and tfc;- tout provoets are thinning rapidly,
owing to the state of incessant activity and exer
cise in which they pass their days; the camp fol
lowets are not to’be intimidated from the pursnit of
tLeir lawful calling, and the development of their
natural and almost solitary instinct. This is a se
rious evil, for the dry of distress of those who have
been robbed resounds throoghtne land, and empties
villages at our approach ; on* fellow Bhouting out
that Le has been plundered depopulates a village.
We learned that the elemy had occupied the
town, which of course, boasts a fort till they beard
of our ap, roach two days ago, wneu they began to
bolt; oniy 150 were left in the place yeeterday, and
they went off at night. As the tclaireuri of out
army, the Quartermaetei-Geueral and his few
troopers, entered the place, they spied two sowars
making off a > fast as they could, which wa9 of
couree faster than we cou’d Mow. Allour Rohil-
C !j l 41X6 Uc3U ‘ inaDS and, as they proclaim
ed a holy war against us. they are naturally alarm
fi- ° Ur roac h but. it is distressing to find the
Hindoo villagers afraid of us. Perhaps they are
conscience stricken. They did not, however, ill
treat our fugitives f>om Shahjehanpore—but let
them continue their flight, till they met with their
murderers of the4ist Native Infantry. We en
camped for the day, of course, at Kantli Hour
after hour came in spies aud letters, or as they must
b’ called in ludia, “chi‘s,” from Shahjehaupore, all
agreeing on the great fact that our energetic anu
resolute but fugacious opponent, the Moulvie, was
there, and that two regiments aud tour guns had
come in from Bareilly yesterday.
They were said to have 800 or 900 cavalry, and
to have placed guns to command all the roads’ so it
looked like a fight. Great hopes were expressed of
catching Moulvie, but that holy man has a wonder
ful acquaintance • nth the first law of nature. \V hen,
indeed, one spy brought us intelligence tha: the
sowars and Mahometans of the place were taking
many oaths to each other on the Ka on to die—l
nearly wrote “game”—or conquer, the old I diaus
near ms brightened up amazingly, aud said it was
a good sign they were iu mortal fear, aud would
run away if they could. Tue spies were mostly
Hindoos—some of them led to inform by love of
gain, others from hatred to the Moaelm—one be
cause he had a fight with his oousin, and hoped he ’
would aid him to oust his obnoxious relatives from
certain property. The chits were written in the
Persian character on small rolis ot paper, adapted
for concea ment. It was curious to watch these
spies—tlieir shifting, unHteady glances—their keen
quick lilting of the eye at every sentence to see
* La’ effect it produced on the Sahib, * hile Hindoo
and Mahometan servants stood around listening
unmovedly to the intelligence which might be fatal
to the cause of the rebels, with whom we eav they
all sympathise.
Curious, too, was it to watch the calm, hc.ndsome
face of the Mussulaaui Moonshee of the Quarter
Master General, as, standing erect, barefooted, in
his loose white dress and tuibac, he chanted rather
than read the chits for his master, as if he were a
p.eie machine, who oared neither for Nazarine or
Fate Believer. In uo other nation or aggregate jf
nations could such indifferent ism apparent, but cov
ering beneath it the most furious bigotry, be found
for the sake of rupees. Ail the chuprasses or mes
sengers of the head-quarters camp are Brahmins or
Mussulmans, but they are steadfast ia their alle
giance to their god “Rupee.” As the day wore on
the stories brought to us became nearly unamiinous
The sowar’s horse were ready for a start, the guns
were limbered up for a flight, our uu i.bers had been
exaggerated, the enemy believed the country was
full of our troops, and they said to each other that
it would be folly to stand in an open city to resist
such torces with such materiel and guns of prodi
gious size.
Late at night—that is for camp life, about nine
o’clock —a letter w*&s brought in announcing the
flight of tho Moulvie, and the evacuation of the
ci y, but this news was accompanied by two state
ments not quite so agreeable—the first that the
Moulvie and his followers had taken the road to Mo
huindee, iu Oude, instead of that to Bareilly; the
shcond, that all the Mussulmans and most of the
Hindoos had abandoned their houses and hidden
themselve3. The weather is now so hot that it is
death, or great risk of it, to an European to stir out
after ten o’clock in the morning, aud, as it is, our
men suffer much lrom the sun in their Lents, where the
thermometer often stands 116 deg. Tnere is more
fever aud small pox than one likes to think about in
the force, and Sir Colin is racked by anxiety to get
the men at once under cover.
Camp Shahjehanpore, April 30.—The informa
tion w© received was indeed true. The enemy fled
from Shahjehanpore without firing a shot. The co
lumn left their camp at 330 this morning, and ar
rived outside the town at 6 30. It was found to be
only partially inhabited. The Moulvie went off
yesterday to Moliumdee, with a few hundred fol
lowers aud four guua. Neua Sahib was here with
2<‘o cavalry, till eight or ten days ago. lie went
off to Bareilly, but before he did so he gave direc
tions that the church, cantonments and government
stations should be destroyed, in order that our troops
should get no cover, aud his instructions have been
faithfully executed.
May I.—lt has been found necessary to halt here
to day. The iucreaseof small-pox has attracted at
ten* ion, and Dr. Tice has recommended the revac
cinat ion of the soldiers. The disease is propagated
by ihe camp followers, who will not permit vacci
nation The counsels of Nona Sahib have been so
far successful, that instead of placing our troops in
cantonments here, we are obliged to encamp the
force left to watch the town under a tope, and a
party of Sikh Sappers aro now at work around our
camp, throwing up intrenchments.
Singular Instance of Spontaneous Combub
tion at Sea. —The London Times publishes an ac
count of a fire on shipboard, caused by the sponta
neous combustion of oilskins :
On Sunday, the 24 h January, when ia latitude
19:35 north, long. 21:11 west, pome of the second
class passengers of This good ship perceived a slight
smell as of something burning, but this was passed
over by one of the “stewards remarking that it
arose from the oil cloth on the table having become
heated, from having the sun's rays directly upon it.
However, about 4 A. M. the following morning the
passengers were all aroused from their slumbers by
an alarm of fire. No time was lost in removing the
after hatches, when, to the horror ot all. the smoke
came forth in such volumes as left no doubt as to
the sad reality. The captain, officers and crew
were soon at their duty, and worked with that cool
ness aud gallantry characteristic of Englishmen, the
passengers assisting as beat they could, now giving
relays at the pumps fore and aft, or giving a hand
at the ropes; or some were endeavoring to quiet
the children and comfort tho women, or such as
could be of no service quietly stood off, so as not to
impede ar interfere with the work going on.
The tiie was extinguished by about BA. AS., and
- without accident, beyond Ihe removal of the first
officer lrorn the hold in a state of utter insensibility
from the effects of the smoke, but on exposing him
to the air, aud using the usual restoratives, he
soon recovered and resumed bia post. The origin
of the fire is soon explained, and that beyond
doubt. It arose from the spontaneous combus
tion of some cases of oil skins, cr water proof
macintoshes.
At first there was some doubt a3 to these being
the cause, but ou shifting the cargo, after throwing
overboard such things as were rendered worthless,
another case of these water proof goods was discov
ered pei feet in appearance from the outside, but
inwardly the contents were in a far advanoed stage
; of spontaneous combustion, and it was only the heat
ofthe case, when handed from the outside, that
led to its discovery.
Porter, the Sunday School Defaulter. —A
correspondent of the Boston Journal says: “Mr.
Frederick W. Porter, the defaulting agent of the
American Sunday School Union, whose fall made
such a sensation a short time since, has at length
made a full and complete confession of tho great
wrong he has done. He stood very high iu the So
ciety and iu the Church, aud he w*as almost the last
man who would have been suspected to be guilty
of so foul a deed. In a letter recently laid before
the Board of the Sunday School Union he has made
a complete confession. He begau his wrong doing
nineteen years ago. The plan was the same that
he pursued to the last. His temptation began with
the mulberry and silkworm speculation nineteen
years ago, and under the barb of religion he has for
that long time carried on his dishonest plans. He
allows that at the start he knew it ww wrong; but
he hoped to be able so meet the notes as they ma
tured. But as he was unable to do so, he was com
pelled to renew his notes and pay a heavy bonus.—
Thus, lor nineteen years, he has been trending the
thorny path of sin, praised for virtues that he knew
he did not possess, and taking of the sacrament,
which according to his own professed faith, was ad
ding damnation to himself with each unworthy re
ception. He defrauded the society out of over
$80,000; but the Philadelphia broker who aided
him to the dishonest gain, promptly paid all the
notes that his name was on, and the loss was lessen
ed nearly $40,000. Mr. Porter confesses that in the
nneteen years of fraud, he has used the name of
the society to the large amount of $600,000, by re
newals and re issues No wonder he is a sick man
—one whom, if the law does not reach, the grave
will soon cover up. Nineteen years of fraud and
crime, and perpetrated in the name of religion—
with despair looking him iutbe face—exposure wait
ing for him at the corners of each street—with re
morse gnawing at his heart —and the worm that
dies not hastening to bis repast! Mr. Porter’s con
fession will soon be made public.”
Bloody Affair in Maryville East Tennes
see—Man Shot. —On Monday afternoon last, our
citizeuß were arroused by the sound of fire arms
and other noises in East Maryville, and on repair
ing to the spot, found that officer B. W. Thompson
and his poxsee, had had a dangerous and bloody
conflict with two desperate fellows, who were re
sisting him in the execution of a legal process. It
seems that Thompson had gone with a writ of pos
session, to turn a man by the name of Young out of
a house he had been living in. While there, Young
and a brother in-law, named Barnes, came to the
place and swore that the < Uicer should not execute
his writ. Armiiig themselves with exes, bludgeons
and other dangerous weapons t hey closed the doors
and refused the officer admittance. Thompson
summoned additional assistance and made his en
trance but was met by Barnes and Young with axeß
and clubs in hand and compelled them to retire.
Barnes made a stroke at Thompson and one of his
company with an ax, and but for rapid and timely
movement on their part, would have been cut
down. As they went out of the door another ax
™—■ * n..,-r, which i .eased immediately
over their heads. Several shots were fired during
the rencounter, and a man by the name of Thus.
Cates, one of Thompson’s party, was Bhot through
the head, the ball entering immediately above the
right eye and lodging somewhere in the back part
of the head. At this present writing, Thursday, he
still survives, but no hopee are enrertained of his
recovery. Barnes and Young made their escape,
but were apprehended, brought before Justices
Pride, Henry and Duncan, and committed to jail
until next term of the Circuit Court.
P. 8 Since the above was put in type, we learn
that Cates has died He expired this morning
(Fridayj about 11 o’clock.— Maryville Eatt Ten
nesseean.
Naval Intelligence The Miunesota m Chi
na.—Aletterfrom an offi er on board the United
States frigate Minnesota, <ft Woosung, China,
dated April 10, 1808, to the Philadelphia Evening
Journal, slates that nothing had yet been accom
plished towards the treaty. The American Minis
ter. Mr. Reed, lett on the lOtfc of Anril. on board
the Mississippi, lor Pei-ho River, where, with the
English and French, he expected to effect some
thing with the Powers at Pekin, The reports that
the engines of the Minnesota were failures are pro
nounced wholly untrue. On the contrary, they
had come fully up to their highest expectations, and
are said to be equal in the beauty and efficiency of
their working to aDy engines in the Navy. During
a typhoon wuicb they met in the China Seas, they
were the salvation ot the ship. They were used
from Anga Point (Island of Java) to Hong Kong,
13 days, and from Manila to Wooeuug, 11 days,
without letting down steam. It further says : “Her
best speed, under sail alone, baa been 16 knots ; un
under steam and sail, 12 and 13 knots ; and under
aione, 10 knots, which is /ery fast. The San
Jacinto lett her a few days since for Hong Kong,
where she will take in provisions, &c., and make
the best of her way to New York, it is rumored
that we are to make Manila our winter quarters
this year. I believe we will be in the United States
by July or August of 1859. It is not yet settled
which route we w ill take on the homeward passage
but it is generally supposed that we will make the
cruise around the world. We will follow Mr. Reed
to the Pei-bo. Short y afterwards we are to go to
•Japan, where we will cruise for some lime and af
terwards return to Hong Kong, then home.
Brother and Sister.—A Sort of Romance
The Staats Zeiturg has the following story :—Some
years ago, a young man was living in New York
city on a high scale. His name was Win. Frazer.
He bad a large business, good connections, and was
so much engaged by the world's glitter and dis
play that he had no time to look after his sister, at
that tune a p,ot teacher in one of the boarding
schools of New York ; and by-and by he forgot* her
entirely. Some days ago an aged man was arres
ted near Baltimore, and brought back to Morris
town, N. J., where he broke out of the cell be was
confined in, to await his sentence for counterfeiting.
It was William F'razer. The once poor teacher
lives now at Paris, in the Palais Eiysee Bourbon,
on the Champs Eiysee, and is the wifs of Lucien
Murat. She may dream every Dight of kings and
crowns, while her unfortunate brother is awaiting
his sentence to the State Prison.
Special Correspondence of the Picayune.
From Mexico—The Forced Loan-Earthquake
—The Revolution, dkc.
Vera Cruz, June 26,1858.
Messrs. Editors —As the bark Brilliant leaves
here to-day, I hasten to drop you a few lines of the
latest news. By the Tennessee you doubtless learn
ed that Mr. Forsyth had suspended his relations as
American Minister with the Government of Mexi
co. By gentlemen just down from the capital, I
have learned the particulars, which are simpiy that
the collecting officer of Government compelled, at
the point ot the bayonet, the collection of the forced
loan, or contribution, from an American citizen
against the payment of wbiehyou have already re
ceived Mr. Forsyth’s protest.
The individual was a Mr. Megill, a jeweler, a
Russian by birth, but who married a New Y’ork
lady, and who is himself a naturaized American citi
zen. lie has lived in California for some five years
but during the last year or more he has resided in
the city of Mexico. The amount of bis contribution
was s7l)t), which he refused to pay—whan the col
lecting officer not only took from his store by force
ten times the amount, but his passport was handed
with orders to leave the Republic, (by way
of Tampico,) in forty-eight hours. Mr. Forsyth de
manded the re call of this order, which the Minister
of Foreign Relations refused to accord, whereupon
Mr. Forsy.h at once broke off the relations of his
Legation with the Government, and he now awaits
the instructions of the Government at Washington
I hue stand matters now.
M Megill being very wealthy, and having many
friends, did uot go to Tampico, but was smuggled
m the stage for Vera Cruz and he is now here. The
above is his statement ofthe affair.
The British and French Ministers at Mexico &and
vised tbsir citizens to pay the forced contribution
under protest, which it is said they are doing—but j
they are very bitter against their Ministers because
they did not act with Mr. Forsyth.
There was a severe earthquake throughout Mex
ico, so tar as heard from, on the morning of the 18th
ot this month. It was very severe in this city, but
did no damage. At the city of Mexico it threw
down several houses; and it is said that some thirty
lives were 1 jst, and that several persons were woun
ded. In
in the interior the shock was veiy severe—the
sevt rest it is said, that has been experienced during
the past half century. In the city of Mexico many
houses are so cracked, and in such a falling condi
tion, that all wheeled carriages have been prohibi
ted iu the streets—so say the above mentioned pas
sengers.
In Vera Cruz all is as quiet as iu a convent. The
vomito has played sad havoc among the soldiery
quai tered here, who are from the interior and uu
acclimated ; but among the citizens there has been
comparatively no sickness as yet.
Business is prostrate—more so than usual at this
season of the year, on account of the revolution.
There are only four or live loreign vessels iu port
and they will soon leave in ballast, as there is noth
ing here for exportation. * # *
The Picayune condenses the following additional
items from Mexican papers :
Tbe Progreso states that it was reported that Mr.
Forsyth had demanded his passports after closing
the legation. Tbe ground for this step is stated to
be that the government, in the decree ordering the
expulsiou ot foreigners, had stated that the refusal
to pay the forced loan was not supported, directly
or indirectly by any of the accredited foreign repre
sentatives, that Mr. Forsyth expressed his surprise
at this statement, and categorically requeird its cor
rection, protesting that he should retire if the un
true statement were not corrected, and that the re
ply not being satisfactory, he accordingly adopted
the course he had declared he would.
Gen. Eeheagaray’s forces had retired from the
Puente Nacional towards Jalapa, instead of narrow
ing the circle of the seige of V era Cruz, as he had
been ordered.
Cobos has ordered all the inhabitants of the de
pirtment of Cordoba to take out a permit of resi
dence, without yrhich they cannot remain, and
which will be granted to those alone who declare
allegiance to the Zuloaga regime.
The political chief ol Jalapa had published a de
cree that all persons found with anps or munitions,
three days alter its date, instead of having sur
rendered them at hia office, as required, shull be
shot.
A despatch from Gen. Vidaurri to the Constitu
tional Minister of Government dated Monterey,
Miy (I, recording the operations of his forces and
announcing his iutontions, sta r es that during the
month he would organize a section of 1500 riflemen
and ten pieces of artillery, with which he would
join Gen. Garza, and then march for the capital,
with every ctrtaiuty of getting easy possession of
San Luis Potosi.
Gen. Vidaurri says that his operations have not
obliged him to incur dsbt abroad to the amount of a
single cent! alibis resources having been raised
iu the States he governs, and at the frontier cus
tomhouses.
The payment of the contribution imposed by
Zuloagn, has been ordered to be stringently enforc
ed at Jalapa.
The French residents of Mexico have made an
energetic protest against the annulment of the law
of desamortization, by which they have suffered
heavy losses.
Iu Guardalajara the liberal cause was being pro
secuted with the greatest vigor and success.
Gen. Blanoarte had issued an address in which
the Constitutionalists are denounced in the most
approved style of Mexican invective.
The Progreso publishes lull particulars of the de
claration of troops at Jalapa in favor of the Consti
tutionalist cause, of which we had accounts by the
Tennessee. They elected Don Miguel Contreras
Captain or Cavalry, and Don Ma>imo Alaniz Cap
tain of Ar tilery.
In connection with the subject matter of the
Picayune's Verb Cruz correspondence, we find the
following in the Charleston Courier , of yesterday :
W e received a call yesterday from Mr. Solomon
Migel and Mr. C. P. Garcia, American citizens, for
some years resident in Mexico, and who have been
expelled from the country during the present politi
cal troubles which are distracting that unhappy
Republic.” They came in the Isabel from Hava
na. Mr. Garcia is a bearer of despatches from the
American Minister at Mexico, to our government,
and with Mr. Migel, left yesterday afternoon in the
Northern train. Before his departure, however, he
favored us with the following brief statement of the
recent experiences of himself and his fellow outlaw
from Mexican jurisdiction and protection.
Mr. Migel has been established for many years,
six, we think, in the jewelry business, at the capital
of Mexico, on a very extensive scale, and he also
carries on a heavy pearl fishery on the coast of Ma
zatlan. The capital employed for this business
amounts to $200,000. He was expelled from Mexi
co by the Government party now in power there at
the capital, because he aid not pay the tax levied
on him until he was forced to do so by an armed body
of men, who went into his house and seized property
belonging to him to the amount which they thought
would be sutficient to cover the amount demanded.
He thinks that in making this resistance he strictly
followed the instructions which he had received
from the Aineiican Minister. Mr. Migel was allow
ed but thirty-six hours tor the settlement of his busi
ness before his departure from the country; and
this of course leaves his business in a deplorable
state of neglect, from which he must consequently
suffer heavy losses. He leaves a wife and family
in Mexico exposed to the circumstances of the
ohangea that may occur until he be allowed to return
to the oountry.
Mr. C. P. Garcia was arrested, with four others,
Mexicau merchants, at his place of residence, San
J uan de los Glanos, while peaceably employed at
his ordinary vocation as a Director of a College and
a planter on a small farm. He has been treated in
a most brutal manner by the Conservative party,
into whose hands he fell. He was forced to inarch
on foot for several days, following Gen. Echerza
ray’s army, on then way to Orizava. As an in
stance, he was made to march, together with other
prisoners who were with him, in front of tne assault
ing party whilst they were storming a fort (St.
Catarina ) on the left of the position held by Gen
Echerzaray’s party. Had the enemy not run, it is
but probable that all the prisoners would have been
slaughtered t here, lor whenever a private was
wounded near the prisoners, whose bodies they used
as a breastwork against their enemies, their lives
were threatened, and they were exposed to all man
ner of insult. The day after the battle Mr. Garcia
was thrown into the common jail at Orizava, to
gether with the rest of the prisoners. He there met
Mr. Sidney Coolidge, an Ameiican citizen, former
ly of Boston. Tney were kept there a week, in
company with all the raaca s, felons, and highway
robbers, who were oonfiued at the time. They were
then sent under a strong escort to Puebla, where
they were again thrown into the common jail, and
kept there until Mr. Forsyth, the American Minis
ter, obtained their liberation. Mr. Garcia was not
taken in aims, nor has he had anything to do with
their politics, and he has not as yet been able to as
certain why be was arrested. Notwithstanding the
demand which Mr. Forsyth made that he should be
tried, he was set at liberty without a trial. Mr.
Garcia’s College must be broken up, and he has
not been able to plant his grain, as he generally
does. He also leaves at Mexico a wife and famil /.
The Collins Line of Steamships —The New
York Tribune says :
We learn that there is some probability of the
Collins line of steamships resuming their trips be
tween this port and Liverpool or Southampton on
the 17th instant.
As far as we can understand the position of affairs
in this matter, it seems that Brown Brothers, who
held a mortgage for $500,000 and other claims
against the ship by virtue of which they were final
ly sold, also owued stock in the line to the amount
of $600,000; that according to the conditions of the
charter, stockholders were liable to double the
*- - £ c*nr.\r respectively held by them ;
that, under these circumstances, tuo
have, Since the sale of the steamships, offered to
sacrifice their shares of stock and give up the ships
on payment of the amount due them from the Com
pany at the time of the sale, provided they are re
lieved from all further connection with the . team
era and liabilities on their account.
The principal stockholders on this side of the At
lantic are said to be anxious to avail themselves of
this offer, provided the Poet Office Department at
Washington will sanction a change of the terminus
of the route in England from Liverpool to South
ampton, and this they strongly urge on the ground
that the great bulk of transatlantic travel is in sum
mer, and that the majority of those who travel du
ring that season are pleasure seekers, who either
desire to proceed to the Continent of Europe direct,
or it they visit England, go to London with as little
land travel as possible; that but very few think of
going to Liverpool except those having business
there, at Manchester, or some other place more
convenient of access by that route.
Should the Department favor the proposed change
the new organ zation of the old company are pre
pared to re establish the line a once, and send out
one of the steamships, now lying at the foot of Canal
street, on the 17th mst. On the other hand, should
the Department not consent to an immediate or
early change of the terminus from Liverpool to
Southampton, an offer made recently for the pur
cna-e of the steamships composing the line, by par
ties in F’ranee, through Captain Comstock, who
returned from Europe a few days since, will be ac
cepted.
Grain Trade at Chicago. —The Chicago Times
states that during the week ending on the 28th ult.,
‘■there were received at this city, chiefly by rail
roads and canal, 7,287 barrels flour, 522,415 bushels
wheat, 486,181 bushels corn, and 18,816 bushels
oats —equivalent to 1,225,597 bushels of grain. The
total receipts of the season, thus far, are 214,279
barrels of flour, 4,536,098 bushels of wheat, 2,469,012
bushels of corn, and 1,081,724 bushels of oats—equi
valent to over nine millions of bushels of gram
(9,371,299 bushels j There has been shipped hence
during the last week, 5,931 barrels flour, 300,580
buetels wheat, 408 682 bushels corn, and -41,0 re
bushels oats —equivalent to nearly a million bus -
els of grain (977,095 bushels ) The total eMpment.
of the season, thus far. are 175,460 bbls. 0 ’
5,079496 bushels of wheat, 1,941,763 bushels of corn,
and 822 827 bushels of oaU-eqmva’ent ho nearly
eight millions of hushele of gram, I’ 821,
Price of Land Warrants. -The demand for
lard warrant is steaoiiy increasing in conse
nuenern said, of an ac parsed at the last session
of 1 Congress, authorizing land warrants issued under
the act of 1855 to be received in half payment for
£od on the railroad fines held at $2 50 per acre,
heretofore only payable ie gold. This is an impor
fiin-law and hasadvanced the new warrants to the
M.e value as those under the acts previous to
1855 Advices from the laud offices at Council
Biuffa and from Kansas state that the government
received litter money for its lands, land warrant*
being almost the only predium of payment. The
prices of warrants at the land offices rule at about
f l per acre for the 80s and 160, and 95 cents for the
320 b.
VOL. LXXII.—NEW SERIES VOL. XXII. NO. 29.
Account ofYoruba, Africa,
From a communication by Rev. Mr. Bowen, lonq an
American Baptist Missionary there, made to the
American Ethnological Society.
Such of our readers as have seen notice of the
groat viotory over the dreadful King of Dahomey,
in 1851, at Abbeo Kuta, will peruse the following
with the greater interest, when informed that the
tacts are derived from him, as he is known to have
given directions to the operations of the defenders
on that occasion, which secured them the viotory.
While in this city early in the present year, and
unable from sickness to write, he communicated to
the Recording Secretary of that Society, a paper, I
from which we are permitted to make the following
extracts.
The country of Yoruba is bounded on the North
aud the East by the Niger, in the lower part of its
course ; on the South by the sea, in the Bight of
Benin, and the West by Dahomey. It forms a
large peninsula, but the inhabitants call it an island.
It contains about sixty thousand square miles, and
two millions of inhabitants. The people are all of
one race and laugusge, both of which are entirely
different from those of the Dahomeys, who are
strongly marked as Guinea negroes, with flat noset
The Y,Tubas are well proportioned, with heads and
taces weli formed, some ot them remarkaly beauti
ful according to our standards; aud though black,
such are also their traits of mind and heart, that, after
becoming acquainted with them, I seemed to forget
their color, and regarded them exactly as if they
had been white. They have traditions of migra
lions from the east. There are no traces of any
written language or picture writing among them. A!
though several thousands of them are Mahomedans.
through their constant intercourse with the empire of
Haoussa, there is no learning whatever even among
that portion of the people. The line of Haoussa is fif
teen miles distant from any house; aud the capital
almost 350 miles. I resided at Ogbemoshaw, 160
miles from the sea, at au elevation of 1305 feet
hbove its level, by the barometer. The people
there aud throughout the whole country, are perfect
ly friendly and kind; so that I never fasteued our i
doors, or felt any insecurity. I kept arms by me,
as a precaution m case ot danger. 1 had a rille and
a revolver, but never had occasion to use them,
even in traveling. I was the onlv one of all Hu>
met ouaneu wnu aepi arms oi any kiuu, and
was remonstrated with on account of it. 1 thought
it a duty to be prepared to protect my life, iu c&ee
of danger.
The people of Yoruba believe in a Supreme
Being, the creator of all things, and place far superi
or to the those imaginary divinities to whom they
raise shrines and temples. Os these they have three
of high rank whom they regard as incomparably
above all the numerous others. They are Obbatalla.
EtV.h, and Shamgo.
They call “God” only the one Supreme Being ;
and the most intelligent profess to reject the idea cl
worship, in all the observances of respect which
they practice toward all their other divinities.
The temples are quadrangular embrasures, with
walls of clay, like those of houses in all that part of
Africa. Rooms are formed all around within, with
doors opening upon a large court, which occupies
the chief part of the enclosure. The rooms are cov
ered with thatch, as is a corridor which runs in front
of them, but the oourt is open to the sky. The walls
are thick, and although made only of clay, temper
ed by knead ug, and gradually built up by adding
the material in lumps, will endure for ages, it pro
tected from air, which is effected by the great pro
jection of the roofs. All the shrines or holy places
(within the temples) which I saw. have their entran
ces from the west. The doors are made of phink,
usually two being put together, and these are cov
ered w ith carved panels, the figures on which have
relation to the divinity of the temple. In the in
terior of each temple is a shrine, Welch is kept cov
ered wiih a veil of native cloth, usually dark col
ored and striped with red. L have seen only two of
them, for the natives are so jealous of strangers in
those places, that I gained access only by the favor
of particular friends. The temples are under the
general charge of the king or head man, and the
particular care of the chief priests, the chief of whom
is a high counsellor, especially iu religious matters.
S jme of them are in charge of women, but not ex
clusively the temples of female divinities.
Obbatalla, the principal one of the three chief
divinities above mentioned, has a name expressive
of the character ascribed to him, viv : King of Puri
ty. iI is worshippers we r a white cloth, (the sign
of purity,) and refuse to drink palm wine, the only
intoxicating drink they know. Their principle is to
keep cool and quiet. That divinity is considered
the great ferment of all things. The door of the
temple of Obbatalla is divided into panels, carved
with emblems. On the first panel is the figure of
Obbatalla on horseback, holding a spear. On the
second, below it, a serpent, and the next afn : h and
on the remaining panels, successively, a tortoise,
(like those of the country,) a leopard, a email but
distinct emblem of the phallic worship ; them a fe
male figure, with but one hand and ones ot, and
long hair hanging down to the loins, with a ball at
tbe end of it. What is particularly reraaikable in
this is, that no woman with long hiar has ever, un
til lately, been seen in that country within the mem
ory of man, and probably not for many age . On
the last panel is a leopard, with his tail turned over
his*back, and rising over his neck.
On the right hand side of the temple door, out
side, is au image ot a woman, sitting on a stool, re
presenting the wife of Obbatalla. Her name is
Ivangba, or the Receiving Mother. On the left
side of tbe door is a small image of Obbatalla, on
horseback, with hia spear, the figure being about a
loot and a half high.
To these idols the natives make offerings of dif
ferent kinds, chiefly food, which they place before
them, and leave to be devoured by dogs, buzzards,
or any other animals which may come to eal them,
They appear not to be taken by priests or other
persons. Atrican idolatry seems not to have been
understood. Whenever a missionary speaks to
them of their serving or worshipping or regarding
their idols as gods, they disavow and scout the very
idea as one which they cover entertain, and utterly
reject, as senseless and absurd. They claim to use
them as symbols aud memorials, to bring before
their minds the beings whom they represent.—
Whenever I began to argue witu them against
worshipping a tree or a stone, they began to
laugh, and disavowed the practice, apparently with
scorn.
Among their divinities is the Thunder-God, who
they think throws hia bolts to the earth ; and these
they collect, and place in the temples devoted to
him, aud also those of other idols. 1 was surprised
to find these bolts are stone hoes or hatches, exact
ly like those often found in the soil in different
parts ot the United States, concerning the use of
which there are some different opinions. They are
rudely shaped, with a dull edge at one end, and
without any groove. They are not very common.
I have seen in all about a peck, collected in the
temples. They are the only kind of stone imple
ments I ever aw in Africa. I never saw or heard
of arrow or spear heads, or any other wrought stones
such as we consider Indian implements in Ameri
ca. The natives have no knowledge of the origiu
of those objects, and never shape stones, or use any
stone implement, except the mill.
What is a Ton ?— The question as to what quan
tity of merchandise constitutes a ton, is frequently
the subject cf discussion and sometimes of dis
pute. Congress having control of the subject of
weights and measures, has provided tha‘—
“The Avoirdupois pound, which bears the Trop
pound the ratio of seven thousand to five thousand
seven hundred and sixty, shall be divided into six
teen equal parts called ounces ; the hundred weight
shall consist of one hundred. Avoirdupois pounds,
and twenty hundred weight shall constitute a ton. —
The Troy ounce shall be equal to the twelfth part
of the Troy pound.”
In the absence of any special contract, 2,240 ids.
may therefore be considered as the legal weight of
a lon. But in the matter of freights this is genei al
ly an item ot special contract. Thus dry goods are
stated in bills of lading as “per ton of 40 cubic feet
feet.” Champagne is taken at a special number of
baskets per ton, and other leading articles of freight
have a variety of significance in weight, and are
almost universally agreed upon.
The European standard differs from our own, and
in the United States there is a variety of considera
t ions involved in the matter. The legal “ton” in
Europe and the United States may be set down as
follows :
For grain, Amsterdam, dry capacity 3,94655 bushels*
For lime, do. do. il,0J!)86 bushels-
For beer, do. liquid capacity 41,54144 gal.on=-
Do. Antwerp, do. 41,26848 gallons
For gin, shipping do. do. 237,76 gallons.
Shipping measurement, China and In
dia, solid 50 cubic feet.
Do. and >. England weigbt224o poands.
Do do. Maryland io. t;000 pounds.
For coal do. do. *2240 pounds.
Do *at the mines, do. do. 2470 pounds.
Do. U. States g< nerally, do. 2240 pounds.
Shipping measurement, do. solid, 40 cubic feet.
The Boston Board of Trade have the matter un
der consideration, as will appear from the following
extract from their last Annual Report;
Quantity of Merchandise to Constiutk a
Ton.— This question has been before tbe Board of
Trade since November, 1855. Investigation to be
thorough, and to justify fiDal action, should embrace
‘a full knowledge of facts and of the usages of other
cities of the Union, and of the world.” The object
to be attained is, some standard of compulation
when goods are transported by sea at a given rate
per ton, and the parties fail to make a special agree
ment. The importance of a fixed rule is obvious.
It is desirable, also, to adopt uniform regulations
with regard to commissions, to weights and tares,
to rates of storage, and the like. A committee
have all under advisement, and a report may be ex
pected soon.
Marriages.— More than four sevenths of the
marriages in Massachusetts are among the foreign
b >rn. is it ? For the most simple of reasons
—the foreign-born can afford to get married, and
the native-born cannot; and this muat, be so long as
UU) of lifo continue. In social
life, there never was a people tending to deeo r
and more destructive social corruption—and that
is most evident from the records of ail the c urts,
and the columns of all the newspapers—than Ame
ricans. Our fathers used to tell of the profligacy of
Paris; their children tell of the mysteries of New
York—a city not far behind any in Europe. And
making proper allowances for size, how far is
New York ahead of other cities and towns ? Once
was the time when a wife was a “help meet,” now
in a thousand cases, you can change the “meet” to
“eat,” and make it read more truthfully.
We boast of our system of education ; we have
female high schools, female colleges, female medical
schools, and feinaie heavens. Our girls are refined,
learned, and wise ; they can eing, dance, play pia
nos, paint, talk French and Italian, and all the soft
languages, write poetry, and love like Venuaes.
They are ready to be courted at ten years, and can
be taken from school and married at fifteen and di
vorced at twenty. They mak<‘ splendid shows on
bridal tours, can coquette and flirt at the watering
places, and shine like angels at winter parties. But
Heaven be kind to the poor wretch that marries in
the fashionable circle: 1 Wnat are they at was -
ing Hoots f Oh, we forgot! nobody has bare floors
now ; how vulgar that would be! Wbat are they
at—making bread and boiling beef . W y.
thoughtless we are ! To be sure, they will board, or
“whSfSfth* at —mending old clothes 7 But
there we are agam ; the fashions change so often,
19 i.d Plum,.* aplt-df Row.,™ 7
p yjssas asrwa arias
shaving Children auout her now ? or, if she is so
* fßrTm.Ate don't she put them to wet nurßes to
Seginw to kod boarding-schools afterwards? We
repeat we have come to a pomt where young men
hesitate and grow old before they can decide whether
Ihev can marry, and afterwards keep clear of bank -
ruptcy and crime What is the consequence ? There
are more persons living a single life—are there more
living a virtuous life f It is time for mothers to
know that the extravagance they encourage is de
structive of toe virtue ot their children ; tbit all the
foolish expenditures making to rush their daughters
into matrimony, are, instead of answering that end,
ten ling to destioy the institution of marriage alto
gether.
Rachel's Son. —It is said that during a recent,
visit of Louis Napoleon to the Chateau d'Etioles,
the Emperor at once, upon entering the parlor, no
ticed a youth fifteen years, interesting nd hand
some in appearance, with a well formed and elegant
figure. The Emperor approached him kindly:
“What is your name, my little friend?” “Walewßki,
Sir.” “Count d'Ktioles,” answered Ihe Emperor,
smilling and placing hit hand on the boy's shoulder.
This young man is the son of Madlle Rachel and
Count WaleWtki, who has always token care of him
and attended to his education. He is acknowledged
to possese independently of remarkable personal at
tractions, a cheerful disposition, generoussentiments
add unusual intelligence. He will bear hen .eforth
the title which the Emperor thus bestowed upon
him.
Interentinx from Utah*
St. Louis, July 12.—We have despatches from
Leavenworth to the 9th inst., by steeamer War
Eagle to Boonevillo, whioh say that letters have
been received by the Bt. Joaep'h mail from the Ar
my.
An officer writing from General Johston’s camp
oil Bear River, June 16, says the Army would re
sume its march next day.
General Johnston had received an express from
the Peace Commissioners, informing him that the
army would be received peaceably by the Mormons.
The General did not, however, feel any increased
confidence in the peaceful attitude ot the Saints,
and the army was kept in rediness to repel any
treacherous dispositions
A proclamation had been issued to the people by
General Johnston, in which he tells them the army
is as ready now to afford them assistance and pro
tection as it was to oppoee them when in rebellion
against the Goverumt-nt. It was thought this guar
antee would cause many Mormons to evade the
despotism of Young, who has sedulously inculcated
the belief tl at the army was particularly hostile
to them.
The troops were in fine condition and glad to be
released from inactoiu.
The garrison at Fort Bridger consisted of Capt.
Ileudrieksou’s and Lieut. Smith’s companies of the
(>th Infantry, and Captaiu Stewart’s troops of first
Cavalry.
Col. Hoffman had lost niuety mules, but only one
horse, in his march across the plains.
The St. Joseph Gazette, of the Bth inet., noticing
the arrival of the Utah mad, says that Gen. Har
ney was eucamped just beyond Fort Laramie. —
Col. May’s commaud was met 35 miles this side of
Laramie. A large body of infantry was at Ash
Hollow. Maj. Emery was encamped on the Big
Blue, and another commander (name not given)
was at Fort Kearnoy. The provision trains were
progressing finely. The Sioux ludians were mat
tered all along the route, but were friendly. There
was a heavy fall of snow at Fort U r idger, June 10.
A dispatch from St. J s?ph, dated 7th July, by
the United states Express Company, to Boonville,
’ays that the Salt Lake mail of June 19 had arriv
ed. Gen. Johnston and his command was met at
Brigham Young and his followers were still at
Provo. Young had been to Salt L ike City to con
fer with Gov. Cumming and the Peace Commis
sioners, but the result of the conference was not
known. It was the established opinion that the
Mormons would offer no resistance.
Col. Hoffman left the commaud of Fort Bridger to
Capt. Maicy, and accompanied Gen. Johnston
Every thing regarding the future movements ol
the Mormons was veued in mystery. Rumors were
Btitl rife, however, that they meditate au occupancy
of Sonora.
Conjectures were numerous in the Valley that the
United States Government intend to purchase the
Mormon improvements on the South Platte.
The roads were very high, but good. The mail
party neither met nor sawauy ludiauson the plains,
but met a great mauy traders at diff *rnt point* on
tbe road. The mail was nineteen dayi, going from
Salt Luke to St. Joseph s.
The same dispatch says that Judge Sinclair, re
cently appointed Juu*e ot Utah, would leave St.
Josephs on the 10th inst., accompanied by Mr.
Dodge, District Attorney for Utah.
Our Leavenworth correspondent, under date of
tbe Bth inst , suys an t xprtss airiv* and at Fort Lea
veinvoith this o*orm g inun Fort Kearney, passiDg
the Utah mail for S ; . Joseph.
It was said that Gov. Cumming and the Peace
Commissioners had concluded a treaty of peace
with the Mormons.
Gen Ilamey was in camp nine miles beyond
Fort Kearney on the 3d lust. The express with or
ders for him to halt, must have overtaken Mm on the
6tn inst.
The U. S. steamer Mink leaves the fort, to-inor
row, with Capt. Lovell’s and Lieut Lee’s Compa
nies of Second Infantry for Fort Randall. She also
lakes recruits for the same regiment
Judge Cato has resigned his position as District
•Judge.
Fire in Chaulelton.— Our readers will remora
birthat, some months ago, a tire occur ed iu the
Cotton store-house of Messrs. James Adger &. Cos.,
on Adder’s North Wharf, by w’ ieh two sections of
the building, together with a large quantity of Cot
ton, were destroyed. The store-house wrh suhse
quently repaired, and last evening, at a little past
ten o’clock, auother fire broke out in the name build
ing. When first discovered, the second aud third
stories of the middle section of store were on fire,
and it is impossible to tell in which of these tbe tire
originated.
Our firemen were quickly on the ground, and
with their manly and energetic efforts and the ready
supply of water irom the docks, the flames were
soon uuder control. The sections of the building
being separated by fire-proof walls, the second a a
third stories and the root only were burned, and the
lire was not allowed to descend to the ground floor.
The second story of the store contained about
eighty bales of Cotton, which are a total loss. The
lower story contained about forty bnlea of Hay,
which were eaved. No other damage was done.
The greater portion of the Cotton was owned by
Messrs. Reeder &c DeSauasure, aud with the build
ing, is believed to be covered by insurance.
The fire is thought to be the work of au inejn
diary.—Courier, 15th inst.
Fishes Traveling nr Land.— Dr. Hancock, in
the Zoological Journal, gives a description of a fish
called the flat-bead hassar, that travels to pools of
water when that in which it has resided dries up.—
Bose also deecribes another variety which is found
in South Caroliha, and, if cur memory serves us
well, also iu Texas, which, like the flat-head leaves
the drying pools iu search of others. These fishes,
filled with water, travel by night, one with a lizard
like motion, and the other by leaps. The South
Carolina and Texas varieties are iurnished with a
membrane over the mouth by which they are ena
bled to carry with them supply of water to keep
their gills moist during their travel. These fishes,
guided by some peculiar sense, always travel in a
eti aight line to the nearest water. This they do
without the aid of memory, for it has been found
that if a tub filled with water is sunk in Ihe ground
near one of these pools, which they inhabit, they will,
when the pool dries up, move directly towards
the tub. Surely this is a wonderful and merciful
provision for the preservation of these strange kind
of fishes; for, inhabiting, as they do, oniy stagnant
pools, aud that too, in countries subject to long and
periodical droughts, their races would, but for this
provision, become extinct.
Jenny Lind. —Madame Jenny Lind ( Goldscbmidt
resolved, p*s is well known, a long time ago, after
she had given up her projected journey to Russia, to
leave her present residence, Dresden, and settle
in England. This intention she has now carried
out. After all her furniture in Dresden hud been
disposed of, no in considerable number of packa
ges, with articles of value, dzc., were forwarded
last week, via Humburg, to England, where Jenny
Lind will repose in retirement on hr laurels, at a
villa near Ijondon.-Niederrheinische Musik Zeitung
Foreign Adventurers and American Girls.
—Onu ot the most vexatious troubles among the
wealthy families of the United States is tbe attack
ments which their daughters form for unprincipled
foreign adventurers, who come over here for the
purpose of bettering their fortunes or gra ify ing
their love of social intrigue, by makiug the acquain
tance ot romantic young ladies connected with weal
thy families. At the present time several diatin
guishfad citizens are chasing some of these whisker
ed adventurers who have run off with spoiled and
silly giila.
The New Link or Steamers between Gal
way and New York. —Mr. Lever, the projector of
the new line of steamers between Galway and
New York, had been entertained with a public din
ner at Galway. Mr. Lever announced in h s speech
that his second steamer, the American Empire,
would soon be completed ; that, she was a laige,
first-class ship, and that she whs expected to make
her plages in less time than they have yet been
accomplished.
Jekrold ■ Mother and the Duke of York.—
Jerroki’s father managed a very small theatre at
Sheerness, in Kent, and his mother, who acted as
treasurer and check taker, used to **it at the door
and receive the entrance money’ Upon one occa
sion, tbe late Duke of York, uncle ii Queen Vic
toria, had been solicited to patronize a benefit, and
promised to attend. Appearing at the paying place,
and finding that ho had Jorgotten bis ticket, he in
formed Mrs Jerrold that, in changing bib dress for
dinner, he had left the ticket in the pocket of the
coat he had taken off. Mrs. Jerrold, calling out to
the door opener, in a loud voice, audible all over tbe
thea re, said. “John, ’ere is ’is K ya! Tghnees, tbe
Di ke,of York, who ’as left ”s ticket in ‘bother coat
pocket. H admit ’is Royal ’lghneiS.”
Death or Lieut. Magruder. —lnformation has
been received of the sudden death of Lieut Ma
gi uder, of this city while on his way to Great Salt
Lake with the Utah army. His death was caused
by another man, a quarrel having arisen between
them, which resulted in the shoo u Lieut. M
His parents reside in this city.— Washington Stales
Lord John Russell recently, at a public school,
after recommending the study of grammar, advised
them to read Defoe h Robinson Crusoe, kb a mode
of clearness and simplicity of style.
Life Insurance. —Judge Yeger, of Vicksburg
Mississippi, in the case of Mille &, Adams vs. Mar
tha E Jackson et al , decided that a policy of life
insurance is not subject to attachment, either in
jaw or equity, to satisty the claims of creditors.
Instrumental Music in Church.— The intro
duction of a inelodeon in the Front sheet Methodist
Espiscopalchurch, in Trenton, N J., has caused
the withdrawal of some twelve persons, who allege
themselves conscientiously opposed to having i*
atrumental music in the church.
Hogs in Kentucky. —Returns from 15 oouutiee
in Kentucky make the aggregate number of hogs
over six months-old 472,374, against 628,184 in the
same counties last year, aud 475,335 year before
last
Artesian Wells.— There are about one hun
dred artesian wells in Iroquois county, Illmois.
Their average depth is about 125 leet, and their
cost about S3OO.
An Item Worth Saving—lt is stated that the
London Times is about to be printed “” beet root
naner at a saving of something like sloo,Odd per
annum. This is toe inventio nos Dr. Lollyer, who
is so well known in this country.
Three young noblemen from Senegal, of the
brightest- bony tmt, have arrived in Baris from
that FYencii colony, and have entered the military
academy ol S r . Cyr.
The Portland State of Maine intimates that the
Democratic candidate for the next U. 8. Senator
ship in that State, will be the Hon. John Appleton,
now Assistant Secretary of State.
Mrs. Mary F'olger, wife of Captain Mayhew, F’ol
ger, of Nantucket, the discoverer of Pi'caim’s Is
land, died in Massillon, Ohio, on tue 28th ult., aged
81 years.
Rev. Dr. N. 11. Hall, a Presbyterian clergyman
of Columbus, Mo., died in that place on the 6to mst.,
aged 97 years.
The Washington Daily Globe has been suspended
until the next meeting of Congress.
Wm. Gilmore Sims, the novelist and poet, is
named for U. 8. Senator from South Carolina.
President Hitchcock, of Amherst, Mass., and his
corpa of assistants, are prosecuting their geological
survey of the State of Vermont with all possible
speed. Mr. Hitchcock is now exploring the islands
of Lake Champlain.
Among the recent arrivals at Montreal are men
tioned Senator Brown of Mississippi, Hon. O K.
Singleton of Mississippi, Hon. John Wentworth
of Obicago, Illinois, and Sir W. G. Gore of Eng
land.
M.Delange, the new French Minister ‘belli-
or was the son of an artisan of the Department
of toe N?eve
position in Paris were severe, but his talents ulh
fi lately prevailed over all obstacles.
I. s.b nlatad that a fluent speaker utters be
.** S 7 OOO aud 7500 w ords iu the course of an hour s
tweeL 7000 a . Many orators ot more than
u "i“ -?<J utterance, will reach HUS I and even
S” But 125 words a minute, or 7,500 an hour, la
a fair average.
The German Universal Gazette contains an on
ditto the effect that Prince Alfred of England will
shortly arrive in Berlin, and enter the first regiment
w-ith the Prussian military service.
The New Orleans Crescent estimates the grow
ing sugar crop of Louisiana, provided the weather
hereafter proves favorable, at 350,000 hogsheads.