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Tfa* steamship Mo Taylor, with * l"* 8 *■“
te” of passenger-. $1 16.'! 817 in specie, and late
aal ittereet.ng intelligence from California, the
Stale* fciver gifod mine- and Central America, ar
rived at New Tort on Wedneeday.
V%j\ CaUJOwnia-—To* following <*xtras we
’aha from the summary of new? prepared for the
San Franeisoo SwMrfw,
The Sunday law. parsed by the Legislature at ire
last ae-sioo. bar been detTa*ed by th* Supreme
Coart of California to be unenr.st itoiiooal ana void.
Thu law bad excited rnu'-b indignation among the
.orehrn residents of the Stale, and the He hr *w?
and its abrogation by the Supreme Court t.ae been
railed by them with great manifestations of joy.
Our judges decide fhet such a statute is in contra- j
ventr m to the oon*tituti.,nai guarantee of perfect
religious liberty.
WtUiam Carroll was kiUed, ot the 20th Jw>*. at
North San Juan, H w-r county, by E. V flatfie'o I
The people in the Southern Counties of the Sta'e
are s'ili busied with hunting cut and hanging th* I
momberr of a band of banditti that has long infest
ed that region, and committed numberless mu rd *r? ,
and robberies These miAcrear'? are principal, y
Mexicans headed by a fan u ’ American despera
do, cai ed Jack Towers Seven nave been already
captured and hung—and others have been driver, j
away.
The shipwrecked Japan een- “earner, who were
brought to this port by tb* B-ir sh chip Caribbean,
were carried away ags:o by the ea; veseei. the
captain of which and the English Consul assn it g
oar<yiil**or that they should be im ediateiy C”n
ducted to Japan, whne here, they were treated
w.tb every kindness and hospitality.
From the Summary of the Aita California wa i
copy the following items:
Toe Pinto Indians have got up another quarrel ,
wl’h the Aparbee, and have muste'ed upward „fa
thousand warriors to glye lt,em ba'tle Tte P a.-oe !
nave always been a peaceable and industrious reo.
pie. eat have ever Oeen t*u ioh irieods of tlie Am--
-loan-. I’ is the determination of the Pm© u>
“wipe out” the Apaches. < r,as they expressi', *o eat
them up erit reiy, which is a ccnaummaiioc devout
ly to be wished
Wages of workmen in every trade as well as
those of the strictly liboritg classes, have re*!)
twenty Bvs per cent since the outbreak ot the Era
2 *r river tever. Very many of our foreign popnia
tlon are leaving for the North.
Krom the 15th March to the 93 i June, tbirt • vee
eels h-d cleared from this port for Puget Sound.
Oee bandied a-td fifty ‘rn* ps brought up on tb*
last trip of the N-na'or trom Bao Dreg I*ft the city
for the score of I etian disturbances in Washington
Territory, on the st-r.ma; P mama June 28.
Fmu ,T wt cut -a - A fire br..ke ..u’ in the
Mu sact usetts House, a lart© two story building on
B‘ U'trado s'ree', ha f pa*t eleven o cl ck r igbt of
July 3i. Ti efl itneti e| r-ad repklly on both rides
of the street tiU they reached the fire proof store of
Nash 4r. Rearms, toward Mam etreei, and ‘he hrick
e*ore of Marspe dt Lawson toward the levee They
than crossed fr.,m the rear of the Mawacbusettr
House to Hnn'er street, destroying a budding u*ed
by Bowen At Hr.,, as a storehouse By ff. - gsllant
efforts of fl-emeu and citizens, the oot.fl-gratiotr
wee here checked. Tbre was no wind etirnng at
the time , bad ‘here been, nearly ell the block would
hove t een destroyed.
Losses as far as known ■ A. Gall, Mvaschnsetts
House and confectionery, $11) IS) William Ward,
butcher shop $i l"JO; Icecream -ojor.n, Bag fac
tory, and China washhouse. sil<ili, Bowen X
Br ,’s storehouse, tfi'M Mr John Andrews, i-asc
ot the Massachusetts House, lost all the furniture,
etc., m the house, tors not ascertained.
At Orcvii.le—The portion of ibe city occuc.ed
by the Chinese inhabitant? was destroyed by fire
on the 9d of J uly About one hundred bondings
were burned, involving a lose ot property estimated
at shti IKIO.
At Cffek Placerville —A Lre broke out in
the dwelling of .dra Clatk, in Washington street,
which communioated to the huildiag formerly t.o
----■ upied as a Store by Coltan X Cos., on the South,
where it was stopped by the firenrocr brick store
of C W. Brewster On the Not hit spread to the
residence of Mr. O is, and C. W. Brewster e barns,
where its progress was stayed
From the San Francisco flu Hr tin, July 5.
The Frazer Kivru. Excitement —The steamer
it Spu'd ic arrived here last night about 7 o'clock,
from Viotoria, V. 1., and neighboring American
Sorts. Mb* briigi the Victoria Gazette ol 95tb
une. • ur regular cuirespondent's letter brings up
toe news of that place to Juue 38th. The steamer
brings large orders for goods and provisions. The
miners art- Hocking to Whatcom for provisions, flush
with sovereigns, the Hudson s Bay Company buy
ing the das. at sls per ounce and payiug them in
such coin. Prom the memoranda of the Republic,
•which vessel reports oily fourteen cabin and steer
age passengers,) we extraef the following which
aptti m ses the latest news from the Northern wa
ters r
The steamer .Surprise had made four successful
tripe up Frazer river, and sailed again on the 310 h,
oany.ng with her quite a number t.f our passengers.
The river had fallen from lour to five feet
Mining reports <x ntinue a- favorable as ever.—
None is contradictory— all tell the same story. Bel
lingham Bay and Viotoria are building up rapidly
Cboioe lots bring enormous prices. Twenty-rioe
o rats and canoes left Bellingham Ray on the 2S b
Jane, bound it r the mine?.
Tb- first regular number of the Victoria Gazette
appeared ■n9s h June. We condense the news.
From Fuzzes Rives —Lewis Dior, jus’ down
trom the mines, says that Frazer river is falling ra
pidly—water being now four met below high water
mark. The miners are not and lug much now, but it
Is confidently expected that a great number will be
able to get to work within ten days or a couple of
weeks ,The claim, of which Mr Dorr is one of a
company In posee-slon, is located on a bar about
• Mien ile above Fort Yale, and it is thought it will
yield handsomely as s< on as the river (alls.
Pro isioM cannot be hau wit! out paying the
wins’ exorbitant prices, tu -h es ssn per barrel f r
td ok fl ‘ur. At V rt Hope got dfl >ur is worth f 6';
sugar hUontsper pound, and other a tide in pi o •
portion. At F rt Yale there i? little or nothin : to
be lad lor love or mousy. Mil ing and cooking
itet si's are v> ry scarce, and ouormous prices aie
remained for them The U nison s Bay Company
not! se'Zel the mining implements of e ms miueis
on Mill'” Bar, for violating the law in regard to
treffi \ng, which exc ted ensidr rable indiguatioo
among'b* m ners Mr, Dorr thinks the best way
U> reach she diggings on Frazer rivr is by water,
•wd Dot the trail as tl e Frz-rriv*r will be naviga
bir for canoes witbio a week or two.
The Sa'eUitc, oo 31st June, nvtrhauled il canoes
ooctairiug miners, and aecerts u-d that all were
prove ea with licensti before allowing them to pro
ceed on ibeir my.
VlCTOel*. June 28 —T.e Bepubiio brought a
large load -f passengers, m arty allot wh. m have
laned here; the first uccuirenceof ibat character
*hat hrs'asen pl-ce M ot ihe passengers wa'k
ed across from E qulmslt— the road tei g i ned
#)lh them, and, cl i acking more or lese baggage,
it tare tu-ious eii t.
The Burpree alro a-rived yesterday morning
from Fort hope. She confirms the nows <f ‘he
railing of thenver. In three >ta>? it had t llett eight
fa*t. As muoh mere ot a tall wl'l lay the best bars
bar* Then 10. k oat for ti e duet
F our i- *"H a barrel, at F, rt Hope. Here it can
be\vd for S9B.
Muvfir who go cp frrm this port to the diggw.ga
in their rs,wn Heats run great risk of belt ‘ attacked
by the lua'isns at punts where they s'op on the
way Sevefa! parties have been a’tai ked recently
and lives have been lost; hut no further particulars
are ven m ihenot'ounte I have heard.
Trade la in a gunc3 condition here. Sometimes
tte Company .- prior* are slightly above those of the
fcw traders hete end et others far below them
When flour was $35 a barrel, larg* wave? of bread
war* furniehedat the Company's b.kery at 25
oeuta fetch Traders in provieious, tinware, coot:
ing utensils, crockery and furniture could do well
bore now.
The unanimity of iipii. on in regard to the rich
ue* of the dgg ugs is perfectly Wonderful. No one
, -omlug or writn g rtm ihere seems to have adoubt
Oft the eui )a<-t. f saw last night acme gold brought
doWW on tb* Surprise fn'in Thoaip.?u s river, it
r-e.irhrf California g Id m'-r* than any I have
1 * c/m"’hd 9fth June, one thousand miners’ been
sea had been it sued here, and three hundred at Foil
Langley. 1 h’- is a remark-bly rmnll nnmber
wire 1 ci mpared with the number of (minis.rants
Th Po tleud (0 T j Times of the 19th May.con
tains the following letter i
OhlMTiz.W. T June 13,186S
1 have teen several }>eraon9 recently, from the
new g->M fields,and but one opinion prevails, the /
ail agree that ihe mines are rich and believed to be
extensive They brougui with them hrillant ovi
•ieooe* ot it existence in abundance j have been
abowa many parcel* w..icb rewmbie very insich that I
of the Feather river mines, only a little otamer and
not quite so brilliant.
8. Gartie'd—Receiver in the Lttm rjfice at this
place—who rviarned from Bellingham Bay on Wed
nesday last, (9th June) states that he eawtwtlve
fhouraod dollars in dust taken out by five men in
six weeks Mr \Y H Woeds.au intelligent young
man, who arrived here on W edm ?aay ias’ from the
mines, and who is regarded by the c.lijen-’ here a?
avery way reliable, gave me this luuoir.&fion
wlger* he mined, at Biikrr s Bar. about lon ties
above F, rt Yale, two men In fen days, lo.A oat one
thousand *• veil hundred i oilers that two or three
m-ies b- low Fort Yale about Tin) pence.-’ ‘•ere min
mg TfiOv were making from three to eigui .>unees
CO the t. <kc> p* r day. and alt doing weil The rir
*r had then lafien about sis een or twenty feet; il
l- now ririug again. He saw three Freocfcuiri'.
who had remained i t the mines through the w\n
car. and had about fifteen thousand dollars They
report the mining good the greater portion of the
winter
He was there hiaweif ab'ut two awntfce wotked
uaday trom morning liil night, but had be wotked I
tte day through, hi? av-rage would have been
about two entices per day A? h ■ came oat of Fra
zer river, a few days *itv>e, the Indians told hue 1
Jtur irere mining within three miles of the moutfc
ol thenver, he believe* cbe former, but does nc
know the loiter to be corn et Provisions arc dea. ■
Ur the mines, and the river difficult to ascend above 1
Tort Largley, when high. The travellers have to 1
take a trail oo the sountaias. The trail from Bel {
uogham Bay is not yet open, and fear? are ecus
by many of its soceess. On the American
eiAeot the line, three miners aad ps--ed down l*ake
an outlet to Fraser, not necking much, la w
r-ver, by ffie operation.
RxsL £ mi is > iCToRis —Mr F O Brier,
late chief if , oiwe in Sacraufn>o, writes thus Li
p, M-’cury. trom Beiliptham Bay
Vfot, rV’ Is ore of tbo me St desirsbte site* >n be
world lew'a beautiful city Lots id by 190 feet,
which we'd .■eli n* a week be ore at $59. *cr* a
•Teasing 195 per day in v'u acd a eompv
ty of Specuisto-S .bad purchas and ali tbe iown u.
Imcrov ed Improved re..ideDC-?. of wtHoa uc?re
are a number, are hsid at so m $5 t)W to $lO Ow
I am toid that a motrh fig- 1 they tvu'd have so-en
bought at from SSO” to )*’ loutyed men cat
purchase and make mom . bat Americans cannot
•ease tbe prvuerty t any price; net tew se there
, f any law agaii st it, bur from a notion that we do
a At and will Del ke*p • 111 oec tract.-.
A oorrespoodcut of the San FrancieiO £slleX*
fays:
ibnve never see* in n y Ct'i nn experience- I
k* wig'ntse in pness d< mai ad by ->cnlt’ rS
for prop- ry.as it ha case so-re now Yrs to day |
the Hudson s Bay C-otnpai y is mrkog vs arc? no
quasi sae, (rooeni g a?po>:t* for lots wb-cc are
to bs ch< sen in older of p-firity of ail, :cs i
sent time fiance wb-uri-e pl-ts are triad* out
and they •Cy ask one huedr.d dollars a lot These
lomeismbroritf c, urse. to those alreaiv -o and : I
fcal this di parity :a Dot c< D na-a v ie to raa’fo-l
iwa ■ the pro-rot ihe *i*c>Vorß Ddtne (fom- I
pany Ti* buyers of thstowu iols are so-med in j
an*s at tsdoot o* the F >rt, as in tte San Fra- ci?- j
oo Pet • ffl ■* exc!:. meets, at--’, a* lh fi.j- c-mer? j
have tbe first cho c*, it is r l sjipri-ng that many ■
were at to? ir po-'sa- day igt:—wuieh, in this iati
tads. o. oars at ij o’clock.
I heard it asserted oc pretty good aurbori-y, teat
•oMtif tls earlier •'perat.ua in pn perty a: this
pltenara Ikely'o ‘f I 'h’cugti” m their so*ccia
tfoMtoan the h.tl# fort that they have purchased
trom ‘be Butson's Bay C- mtanv, with ut regard
to tte provt.-o that bu-ldlngs were to be erected cn
the W s within a given time As jet, ‘be o ly i !
Canoe? o owner,-hip some jf Vfiam peas a• re tbe
noelpt for mcn-y paid. O- e indiv dual, well
known In ten Francisco, who reo*fit'y teos-ne
sroptiefor ol 96 acres on YaoOoaver Din and, parch
teUdtn tkl* *ay,andasnomdii:urobasb.tnts
wued for tbe property, (which iusUnnent oonta ns
7\r uros so in qn*stK.n ) and tbe gentlema- has ta
katf k trip to the East, u is nrt impnasibla that the
prop Mi y may revert to tte Company before his re
tan.
Cortstpwedsste of the Alto California.
Victoria, Judo 26, IBN-B-e.el canoe? writ
*^.•7have arrived tro • Fort Hope, on kraaer
?',7 The river is staled to be slowly foi lug, and
” “ ai, oanies are making small wages on the
81 of tb# bare. Some eight hundred men
Ujpcr pmzv Tee new? tx -he dry digtlUE*
rfl, Ore mao I as $.• berg at. are
j| 'JZjZfJZkbK* tromhwf a dollar toUlf an
Hudson Bay vZlZw'r
jis expected back every hour Toe steamer Sea
, Bird is hourly expected. Bui,dings are rapidly go
1 ing up at \ ictona. and some few at E qiixnaU- —
Provisions ot all kinds are hivh. Flour i? selling at
I s2t> per bar ei, lumber a - S4O. We have Dews
from B*„irgbam Bay to last evmirg. Ihetreil is
I not yet through. S ms excitement about tbe*'te*t
j tie trail 1 Ptrop,* are tael coming over from W bat
’ com to Victoria
Victoria, V. I, June 97, 1858.
I This pkwe improves on me on acquaintanoe i
I There is plenty of fi-h in the Bay -both Arge and ;
- smoQ are caught from tbe brides- , T “' re !
! variety of pleasant walks ini tte neighborhood We
: went about six mile? to the Sound shore. It is a
1 curious beach, aui consists ot of
pebbie? from tbe rise of an egg down to peas and
| pean-- They are used a great deai in town for the
I s'ret ts, and in gardens for walks, and wherever
I there is much travel. .
I In two minutes wa'k from the t-ort, you are in
I ,p e fieide. and toe grounds are covered with ripe
I strawberries and bla> k berries. The wild rose bush
es ar in mil bloom There is an abundance of
young oaks, aspin and other shrubs, on np to the big
| ...d <ak and lofty pine The ground is not a dead
level, but just uneven enough to make it pretty;
and ihe biueh and trees are so thick th-.t it is a plea
eant walking among*! them. The temperature is
just right for wa king, and the prevailing wind from
Mount O ympus and the Coast Range make the
Otherwise too great war-nth delightful y bracing
After two weeks experience, I give a decided
preference lo the ehn a e here, and the scenery is
fully a? pretty in the foreground as any I hive ever
?e*n—but toe Winter I Ahl •• th-re s the rub.’
Hiw it iii com: off, remains to be seen. We etroi
led through tt.e beck C iuutry, and northerly, beat
and waiked through Woods about twelve milts there
and back. I should say that it cannot be rome much
of an agticu.turai Country. The wheat v. abort and
thin, though toe ears are pretty fu'l \ but, for rais
ing stock, it is unexceptionable Cattle, sheep and
pigs lo k after themselves, and are fat The mut
ton, which is our principal meat, is de'icious Taeir
wool i- very heavy ; in faC . I shou and think no mo e
cou and grow upon a given space.
On our r. turn we came to a lake nearly circular,
s-y bait am It in diameter. I is about four miles
rod’ town, and aboundin’ in fim—safmoo and trout,
calf as lung as your arm
Victoria, June 98th, 1858
This place is growitg fike wild fie, and every
man is as bu y as a be* ana has tO-ucdy time >o
b.eatoe .deny ar* going to tbe diggings on tbe
r v*r, w ich ate bejoad ad. übt, and wiii stagger
■ Galiforniaaa when >h*y b*ar of the rich • trikes be-
I l-.w ani about Fort Yiie. I bav* seen and tlked
with men from ibe and ggings, a-,d wheu 1 expressed
my doubt at the extreme richness of the rive*, ib y
go angiya’ it Tbeir opinion is, tbet more gold
and m r* rn b e r kes will be made il i.- b imaier on
the fir 7. : river tnan were ever made in Caifornia.
Tb-bara are, undoubtedly, tar above those of
Calif, ria As an iuttanceol it, I would state that
b lb Capt. iiuniingdou end Purser Welch 0 1 > me
) at on rais ng the ancoi.r o'th- Surprise, near F.,it
H pe. there was considerable dirt clinging to it, and
ui ws.si.iiig that they got one dollar a-ici a had oft
whst w.-iS brought up on the flukes. Think of that
ye Cai forms miners.
The river has reached its highest roiut, and is
now receding, and toon I ezpecr wesha l have mil
liuus of dust washed out, and on lbs way to Cali
for- ia nail the East.
ts, m Central American.—The Frnxer river
fever appears to have reached the llhuius, when
large parlies were leaving for the new m nez
Aru rig them were several per -ms in the employ
of the Puna na Rail Road, who occoroing to the
psuarna Star aid Heta and were diaatitfisd at a re
du ition made in their salaries.
The anui versary of American independence was
duly celebrated at A-pinwal. The Panama Blar
says:—
I Not the least pleasing feature of the celebrations
I waH tee fact that tfo y wer not only participated in
by all Americans but by all tbe British and other
foreign e-n-lems, with a hearty good will, many of
whom kept open house. During tbe three days
feast we taw no row-lyisu, nc OrunkeDDes*, nu par
ty fe-.iing about uanunaliiy, but everything went
•ft with a harmony and good fellowship* that does
honor to the occasion and confers the highest credit
upon the people of A-Diuwal!.
I’te health of tbe I tbmus is stated to be good.
Durn g the fortnight previous to tbe departure of
tb* Moses Taylor unusually heavy rains had pre
vailed.
I iloriostion had been received at Panama, in ad
vance of the . rrival of the mail from Bogota, that
the Cuss Uerran treaty had beeu rejected by the
New Granadian Congress. A bearer of dispatches
had arrived at Carthagena on his way from the cap
ital to Washington Gen Mutquera had been ap
pointed to the military command at the Islhmtt3.
The steamship Columbus arrived at Panama on
6 h mst . with advices from San J rse d* Guale i ala
to tbe 27th , Acaiulla to the 38lh; La Urioli to the
Jllih, and Punta Arenas to tbe 3d of July.
‘The cholera Lad nearly ceased its ravages, the
disease remaining in a severe form only in £ quint
!*, where some ot the most prominent citizens have
fallen victims.
Mr. V. Wyatt, who had been deputed to eximiue
the harbor of ?an Jose with a view to the couatriio
tion ol a pier, had mads a report in favor of an iron
structure 900 feet long and 9” feet broad, at a com
puted cost of $174,000 including light house caves,
railroad track, &c.
The cochineal crop had been gathered and was
computed at nearly tweve hundred oeroons.
In Nicaragua a decree had been passed in favor
of cultivators of enfl’ee, to be in lore© tor twelve
years, it exempts them partially from military ser
vices; from the payment ot direct taxes on the
plantations, and titles, end from duties on imports
to the value of their coffee exported, calculated at
the rate $lO per quiutal.
Honduras, in reply to the Nicaragua circular, has
expressed its willingness to join in any measures
e leulated to oecurethe safety aud stab lity of the
Centra! American republics.
Tbe collee ctop of Cos a R ; oi, according to the
custom house return is 63 950 quintals
A decree . f the Isih of May permits the imports
tion of fl u\ barley, rice, in ize, and other grain of
which bread can be made, free of ‘duty for rx
months. The sec -nd article of the decree grants
the sane exetnpti uto bread manufactured, cereals,
mea . fish aid lard.
A decree of tbe 17th of June enacts that all mer
ohaudie© imported into Punta Arenas must pass
throi gh the custom hou-e fi-r the purp iss of pre
venting the smugg'ing of tobarc • and gunpuwder.
Chalk Trexs.—An acquaintance with the theory
of aibo-tcultuie or any practiod kn .wlc- gn upon
ti e •übjent is more than we can b ast of, and, ex
c*pt so for as an appreciut on at the pi sent seas m
otthe grateful shade effoided bv the trees which
foresight, good taste or accident may have plained
in our summer peth. or udtniiatioa of their beauti
ful oims as ih. y stretch upwards to tbe iky as if
in aspiration to route nobler realm, we have but
life expel ieu ein regard to them. It is no doubt
the same will the m j -rity of pet sons Few are so
stolid as not to ad mre their, aud none but willingly
accept the prob ctiou t hey • ff=r fn m the sun's a- dent
rays a', this period of the year, yet few consider that
they have any duty to p*rtonn in the prem'ees or
that tbe su'j ctofehade trees cjuo-rne them any
further. Nowthutth* ‘rees are clo lied in their
rich st verdure and wlrls they aie attrao’ing the
aitection and adudratiuu oi every lover of na'ure.
it ir.HV notbenmnsto urgetlielr claims. Il has
been lastly said, “wy tew owneie of real esta e
even in country towns have auv i-tea of the c m
metciel value of eh ide trees,” and yet if they w,ll
open tbeir eyes they will see that on • piece of
go ui and, peiiisf* not v,ry eligibly I,stated, cou
n:sade a higu price, while anothe belter situated
is u t wauled, simply because it has no attractive
shade trees and is repulsive in its bare, denuded
appearance In sue cities slree'S, which were
neglected and unsought for as building l. cati> ns by
reraons of uieass have b-c- me popular, and tbe
Is ou them have i creased in value twenty five
pc: cent, by the growth and attractions of shade
trees juoici u?ly planted Thus even in th* crowd
ed oity, perhaps* there more ihau anywhere in re
spect to their beneficial i flueuce npou the public
beahn, apartfr in their beeu'yaud convemence,
onade trees have ar. ai. tangible, marketai le value.
Among some larmers there exists, strange to say,
a singu ar prejudice against frees, unlee- indeed they
produce tiuit of 6ome description which can be
grb red and sold, and then th*y are rather permit
ted to exis; than planted and cared for. Dpon one
occasion in --ur younger years we recollect spending
a pleasatif two weeks at a plain and secludtd farm
Lons*, which stood near ’he r -ad. directly opposite
ou a tocky kuoll was a growth ot trees and bu?aes,
f irmir g an egrecabie • b’itct to the eye, and within !
the shade wb-re> f we passed many an hour, read
ing, musing, drea-i ing and drawing in tbe delight?
of mete animal ex stenCe in repos? At night we
often watched the dark shadows of the trees bend
ing their branchesacr< e the m-adows in the night
breeze, aud almost thought them animated crea
tures. Iu short that knoll with its green oornal
f-irnred one ot these scents in our mind which never
die to memory. After a iapee of *oma two years
we again visited the spot. Iu place of the old
brown bouse, eesy, spacious and comfortable, stood
a targe two story building, in glaring white, storing
at us out ,7 its green biit.d windows. The auu
poured dow on it, but there was not a tree about
it \V •- locked lor our lavorite, the old accustomed
knoll, with its crown of trees, bat could scarcely
recogi jze tbe locality; there was the meadow
swaie,there were the rocks and the hill but they
were bare, the trace were gone; not a sin ub or bush
was left.
yv'e smothered our astopisfimeot for the time, but
it exploded Stun the tann r afterwards requested
us to notice the improvement be bad made. “He
had no thought it worm the while to do it before,
but after he had built his new house he was > ot go
ing to have those hushes and trees there any lon
ger ’ So he had had th*m a’l diligently cleared
away, ana sow wee gratified with the view of some
heaps of bare rooky All resident? of the countiy
fortunately are not ?uen a? our larmtr
friend. I'r.ey wou'd nor perhaps deetrov thebeau
tibl work-.bich nature had completed to tbeir
baud, but iheye is too generally 8 want ot .arts or
incl nation to do anything active y. They selfish
ly rfiiuk it is too much trouble or takes so lot g for
trees to grow Let them remember that their trou
ble is amply paid forin tbe increased value of their
land, teat trees will not grow unit ss they are plant
ed * tber by the hand of nature or of man. and tfifit
the soonr they are planted tire sooner they will
g mw —Balt. Amer.
Conversatisw if Fkse Masonry—The New
Orleans Bail© in remark.'concerning the Masonic
fraternity of the Cnited States.— -
‘-Hers is a body of men, composed of ail clasres
and professtois, entei taming every kind of opinion
upon religion and poll-ice, and exit ing in every
| tkate of the Cuioi), who r or together and exhibit
I among -iesnselves tbe utmost Harmony of freedom
;ai and action. So noia of opprobinm from j
j the lip.< of ary ope to lCbUit aud the icollß|{B
lot acuther N * fie r ce &Dalhem& ot tecti<>c?a is h^syd.
! extravagance is i col/ed in
J in order. Everjtiims? i-* quiet,genii* * I
, manly, aspect ful, dig n u*d. Tae bitteiet political !
j eueiiiits oitet uja lo lace, and you sha.l never |
i know by ihe;* adieus oj that they do not !
j Le.oag ome same party. & B Ug;onit the most op- I
I peer* each t lher in she exalt- !
led charity i*'aiivtjcis o duds ao entrance idu; if-?
i moiety of he brcL.r t ood. Not a wave of discoid |
! and Hiiil)? ths WEltri us t w inner teirplr.no p ui te t
! info iUo *.byss o! a'Leisai. ram. kwlcesueas, shoks ?
\ ’b*m<rai f<uc ©1 naLkiid No **Yolutivuary i
hydra oo®r ap fe-orn beneath to bieak up tn tcuo- !
; uik>D of order tod ihe tamado over lb jair j
| kce of society w . . _ . . , ,
It then a way it is that Ckrstyac camcnet dc
i rotprodt ty ihe ex-unpla tfS.-r- e iceis by ihie
i LUi-iuiov. ; o iraicriii'y, aud cont-aoes
j Waat sec et if tb i utauiaity, of
tbeir harmony, O’ tiu biotfeeri) Wve.oi the
fi *ya’ive trout which wttbotf £ treir- r. ihey main
g|d4 iblrWMiilonxnD''t)oo, aid fa
cat curs’ aftw-n- aronndtbeu, i It fotfosi, V
j. ex.- to ei-'kl as, is one wotA—UXratwn.
Uncle Sam's Live Oas-An J Mro !. Ti L T a Srs
JrCT - A leis- c Ju’ 1 shea in th- Nr* t ‘k H*rs.U
t * w United St4’e >t-au.< r Dvpttcb, r<:u**c*’ a.
Ju'y 13, cakes mroti * of s .üb) ’ wh ei ought to !
retw’ve tbe iu.-tafi* art r tion <** ihe Government
T e wii'er ah\s !bet Cud* Sam's —n ficeut jve
o-ik which have u.aae our g werement ---“eis s > ]
a-Inured rt.r ugh tfi* W”rid. i.- epirt d• ft trom lie
osti.i sl rwwrves by wo. e U ; that uere is ro
xiitbon?y p-ovu ei to wc’nteroepr the roo j
ba-ry. tha it ietrard'roped o Frenoh ba’kfi tpiin ■
cip* ’y) fiom # p*-aud £ -iu>*>orrf, wio inke a j
(rood u mgt! i f ♦ t iat tfeonruida of *ons o* Utfib *r* I
RDtvs lie rut and taady ; that tt> federal aatbou- j
Uce have wan ed i org&’ xe a (rce *o_ r ake pt a I
se*-*i c of it, and that l filettce has j
thrown <v*ld wat-r on *he prj-i-t laxe things i
i ought to be looked into, end he tinest live ok in j
i tb- wo*ld riaved t *t the Government, before it id too |
j iat e.—Rck Lritr.
|
i Prc-ea #. rs Ittei Arel the young ui\i > j
l wh • dei berex'e y ehol and ki.ua two oti Ds near i
i Cal A ,in liiat bta'e, a few ea a wutout pro
j v car on. boc-am-, acm* time siacts, a convert to j
I * Spiritual: m,’ aud that h\* waeac io< aider orders •
• fr m the ■ Spirits’ whefi he murd .red Ira v c ‘ms, ]
j aud wn ictouding, re he avowed, to kin tour more
; per Sues bring io ‘iat vicinity.
!, AXiITERaI Air Castle—Sfo'ser, Use a oßAut,
! LAs got a Lew idea in his E-aO, whiou he propers
ropar in p-sc’ic - cc the oocssion • t tbe State fair et
i Byiacne* tfiis f*TL He infeeds ‘O have budta eoiaH
honae. ray afi. a: t*n seer sq ure, and capable of
] robta mtg ic coaf rt roar or five pert ns. which
Li b it* occupafi’s, is to be f.uug te .eaih his la ge
baiioou “Ptor or the West” and taken sp into the
■ r™- i
From the Mobile Refteter, July 20
Secretary Fieyd ■< Gen. Walker.
We copied a few days since a paragraph from the
Waruington Uoion, flatly con'radicting a staie
meot which General Walker has on serverai ooca
sions made in his speeches to the public in regard
to certain communioatioGS and overtures made to
him by a member of tbe cabinet- We intimated at
i toe same rime that it would behoove General Wal
ker in view of this contradiction, to produce the
evidences upon which he based fiis statem*nts.
i Tais has called forth a letter from the Genera! to os
I on the subject, which, iu justice to him. we lay be
fore the pubic. In this letter General Walker
a.trge© facte and circums'ancee whioh, in his
o, infon, warranted him in making the statement
wan h he did. and which the Union has contradicted.
We leave the matter to be farther parsed between
the parties concerned, as they may deem nece?*ary
for the vindica'i nos t’e truth, and to get them
eeives right in the premises.
M.bile, July 19th, 1858.
Editor MrbtU Rrgitter :
Sir: Ga returning to this city a day or two ago.
I read in your j ureal an extract from the Washing
ton Uniun deujing certain statements which, it
was r*p tried, I had lately made iu a speech deliver
ei at New O leans. Ihe writer ic the Union has
been uusiuformeG as to the fact of the sneech said
to have beeu ntade by me et New Orleans ; but as
tong ag >as tbectonth of Jassary last I publicly
made cere, and since then elsewhere, statements
which are analagcue iu nature, though not entirely
iden’ical, with those a tribu edtome by the Was 1 -
iugton newspaper. As you suggest the proprie y
of pubiieting the eviaeuoe on wi ich tries? stats
; ments were made, I hope you will not deem me in
j irutive if I furuish you with the facta of the case
Iu the mouth ot October las’ 1 was in New Or
j iear.s, preparing to return >o Nicaragua. Abou- tne
j m ddic of tbe month General Heumugseo arrived
1 from Washington, aud soon a ter we met he in
j formed me that he had important news to oommu-
I nicate. He then pr ceded to state that whiie iu
j Washington he had he and several conversations with
i tue Secretary of War; tnat in the course of one ot
1’ ineimerviewf the Secretary had i- formed him ot
th© de eimn a'iou on the part of the President to
arrert tue expeaiiion to N caragua, adding, at the
Same time, that the a. qa sitiofi to Cuba ouriag nia
ad oiui-'rarion was an objeC dear to the heart ut
Mr. Buchsuau. Tbe S-crerary artherpreoeeded io
s * v , according to Gen-rai H 1 neingeen s report, that
K we would turn our attention to Mexico-nd enter
into t e service o f Uomonfort, we should have tae
support ol the Cuit*d S'atrs goverim-nt; that
W, 1 e iu the .Mex.oan service we mignt by some act,
such as tearing down tbe flag of Spain, bring about
j a wa wnh Spain, and l üba then might be seized
by the former p iwer Tne Secreta-y, aoyording to
the report I received, iuf >rm-d G-neral Hemiing
s- n that means would nc t be lacking tor such an en
terprrse, and wheu press.d by tbe General t • sta'e
how the mean? oouid be had, he replied ‘ I have
g ae tne leog'S “f my tether; before I can ?ay
more it will be neces-ary lor me to see a person
above me.” In the next interview the Secretary in
formed tha General that he was not authorized to
g.,1 tur:h r. but taut he might rely imp icitly on the
iii-ans being provided if tne euterprize were under
laken When General H*nningetn made tug com
mumcation to me I wae shocked at its usture, and
remarked that the government ooulu hardly be in
earnest. He said that he had been authurized to
place before :t e the character of the conversations
held with tbe Secretary ot War, and to ooromuni
cite them t.fro to a friend of the Nicaraguan cause
residing in New Orleans.
Ihe foregoing are face which I have substantial
ly detailed in speeches made here and elsewhere
I have oeen oareful always to state the source of
my information, and I need hardly to say that I am
finely convinced of the truth and accuracy of the
report made to me iy Geu. Henniugsen. I have
ev.r found the General to be a man not only of
strict iru h and honor, but also careful in his use of
language, aud particularly accurate in the reports
be makes about public matters. In controversies
of such moment as those I have narrated, I would
rely on his statements as implicity as if I had heard
myself what passed between the Secretary aui
himself.
In the recent trial in New Orleans, I endeavored
to place these facts in the shape of legal evidence.
Gen. Henmugsou waa summoned by me as a wit
ness tor this purpoee. Bui when tbe question was
put with a view of eli. iting these facta, the District
Attorney immediately objected, and the presiding
Justice ruled out the question without waiting to
hear the object I had iu trying to elicit the teati
motiy.
Permit me to add that l have beeu driven to
speak of these matters by the oourse the govern
ment has t ursu-d towards me. Not satisfied with
taking from me the rights and the property I held
in Nicaragua, high federal officers have attempted
to deprive me ot my honor also The good name I
have inherited trom my fathers has beeu the object
of attack by those whose position should have raised
them a rove the indulgence of personal abuse. At
the advocate of a cause, I know rhat the conse
quences of the enterprise wtiich l, an humble in
-trument in the hands of a H14tl Power, have inau
gurated, will be felt and appreciated when ihe
name? of the rnoet illustrious of my trailueers shall
have passed into obfcnrity, if not into shame and
ignominy. Asa man even th ugh I had none of
toe charity “which suflereth loi g and ia kind,” I
would not so far stoop as to cherish any feeling of
personal enmity towards those who, forget Ini cl’
their stations, do not hesitate to malign me and my
motives. But when, through me, high functiona
ries aim a biuw at a mighty movement, justice to
the cause I have tspoueed requires me to rape, the
attack. Under such circumstances I scorn the
counsel oi those who advise submission to wrong;
because the arms raised to smite arestr ng and be
long to p iwers high in authority ; and wo be to that
individual or to that people with whom such slavish
counsels prevail
Your obd t serv’t, Wm Walkeh.
Discontent.—Tut Liuli poet asks, whence it
comes that no cue is content with h's lot? The
merchant, boweve-successful, bewails tbe vicissi
tudes of trade, the lawyer the arduousness of his
studies, the physii ian his privation of rest and case,
the ar 1880 the uncertainty and unprofitableness of
his emp'oym.nt, and the farmer the chenges of the
weather and the disappointment in his orop. Can
it, Ire that there is something in our nature which
fortrds us to be sathfi and with that which so appoint
ed for u<. and always makes us pine for suinetl ing
ireyona uur reach 7 Philos iphy teaches us to make
the best of hat we pose es, instead of looking to
the p ssesfr m of something beyond our reach,
which, even if obtained, would in all probability
turn out a “OU'CP of dir comfort. I io true that the
merclitut must expect miscbai ce, but it is so mixed
up wiih a fondant blessings that the sum of comfort,
will sh w him largely tbe gainer. So also, although
the lawyer and the physician may each have to con
tend with lab’ r aud loss ot rest, tbe good which they
may confer upon society, and tbe con-ciousuesa of
being u-efnl in tbeir vocafrons, should reconcile
them to tneir pursuits and make them thankful f r
bring tbe instruments of sogreat benefit. By Ihe
same course ot reasoning woul 1 every cal'ing in life
present o the well oider.d mind a redeeming ad
van lag* suffi ieut to ou*weigh any objection con
nected with it, and furnish as cause of gratitude to
the buneficient Being unner whose appointment
i life is chequered with its alterations of good aud ill
I Among the various situations iu life une is more
: frequently attended with regret and repining than
tha; of the agriculturist, when, if we mistake not,
none ought to afford ess cause for the indulgence of
a grumbling di-posltion The tiller of the soil, al
though bis lot may not be cast io the midst of bril
liant enjoymenlj, has perhaps a greater share of
bio’s e iiniorts than tbe mass of those be is disposed
to envy Withdrawn from the never ending tur
m >il and bustle ot a oity life, he dwells upon his
farm.eu rounaed by most of the ees -utials oacu-
I lat- dto render exit-tenon desirable It so true, that
I to him ihe gorg* ou3 spectacle aud tbe splendid rout,
I the gay en< haotniente of lasbioiw aud its round of
i amusil g insipidities are known only oy description,
I but in tneir stead he possesses tbe free, whoi.eome
air and the bright sunshine of heaven, aDd enjoys
tbe oompani. n.hip of na'ure in its i.-veliest attire
To him each day ib3t passes is ft aught with pt.asurg,
the r-petitinc of which brings no satiety, and the re
sult ot which is health, mental aud physical. Un
aunoyed by feverish excitements and artificial
wants, he uas but few neods, rave tb< se which the
fertile eoil supplies at the demand of judicious in
dustry. His fields and his flocks furi ish him where
on to he f*d, and wherewith to be clad, and though
his tare may be simple and his clothing plain, they
are all thut ia required f r support and protection.
In tb9 at) ence of thoss falsely styled pleasures
which madden and exhausr, bis gratifica'ioni are
the more delightful from the peculiar aptitude of en
i joyment which they produc*. Let ibe currency be
as it may, let trade languish aud improvements
cease, to him they are matters of secondary impor
tance n't involving more of his comforts than may
be dispei sed with easily, and with slight sacrifice
of tee ing. Sn-'Uid plague, pestilence, or even fam
ine .pread their influence, over tbe land he can
look on with o mparative oomposure, for he feels
aware that to him aud his household the woes that
wait upon their presence can never be more than
theoretical Immediately dependent on a knd
Providence for tbe blessings he enjoys, be id taught
to rely with confidence on ihe great First Cause lor
the reward of h s toil, and to him the seasons of
se, d-tune and harve-t are but alternatives of b >pe
and fruition. Assuredly then.ol alllots that of the
tiller of the soil is the most il dependent, and conse
quently the most enviabl*.—il t't Amor.
Tas Indian War in Oregon —Tbe Washington
correspondent of tlit- N- Yo k Herald , says ;
The President has received a communication from
a ’ate Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Oregon
Territory, *bo Las h.d a long experience of the
tribes now engaged against Col. Steploe in that re
gton, suggesting tha* the war tb aid not be forced
on but ipat the troops should be withdrawn at once,
and throwing scute new light oo the causes of trie
difficulty. This communication states that the
Snake Indians were nut engaged in the sttai tcn
Cos! Steptoe; the Snakes are Corfi ’ed ‘o Utah and
the regi. us immediately- ‘truth ot it. Tbe Spokane
Waila-Wa las, Ntx Perce? and other trihee now in
a hujiiie attitude, are a docile, friendly people, with
whom there is no necessity for any truub e. The
real cause oi the drffi ‘ulty is tbe presence of the
troops at Fort Wai'a-Walls. The Indians are joa!
ous of them and fearful that violence is going to be
used towards them. In Juie, 1851, the then Super
in'endeut of Indian Afiairs for Oregon called a con
yention of all these tribes at Dallas. Delegate? from j
£&c*b, exc -pt oae, were preaefct.
Tory stated that they were informed it was the
intention of tbe whites to drive si! the red Rten
from the rising to tie setting sun, and that now
einoe they w. re set'led on the Pacific coast, they
intended to drive all the eiekty and hostile Indian?
from the lower couu ry into their lands, whioh th>y
would ret submit ta IT they were not mole-ted ,n
the enjoyment if their country, and other tribes
were not forced upon them, and ibe army was kept
away, they pr mlsed that tbereshould be no trouble
with them i that they would obey the government
in ail thing?; that the whites might trade and travel
machg them aud they would guarantee protection
totiioi,’ fives aud ptopery. Iu 1851 there were five
military pus- in Oregon, trom which, at the Super
iuteuaent s suggest.oo, ihz t;cnps were withdrawn
for three years, curing which tide not a dollar was
spent by government tor any Indian trouoiea whai
! ever. .. . ... .. .
I It is urged upon the President that it is a mistake
I tu enter u on a war now ; the true policy is to send
i a peacemaker cm ‘ng the Indians, to redeem'he
i promises mace them of pres.-uts us agricultural ire
i plements. and to withdraw the army. Mr. Buchan
an is e**ured that the cause of the present bos.fiity
j so not the non rs'ifictti -n of any treaties (as stated,)
j because tbe m j r ty ot the Indian? do not waut the
treat'** raufiew and this tact has been stated to the
I g vertHrent by the suo-agent. Mr. Craig, in his iast
j Th e number of Indi&us wi ; b CoL Steptoe
j bss bet-n grraiy exaggerates by p&rti-s intfsated
in troops in that locality for the purple ot
speeUxa-iu* in fanrsbmg supp it-e, &c. In tbe
! w ‘le range of bvib an Washington Terri*
j €sa ys the Cascade M untain.- there are not
, *ltog*U>er x ,BOO wa rior*, ana the whole camber if
i Io rans iu Du-h Terr; ores. women and nbibreo in
j eluded, coee not amount to &2.U00. With the ex-
I cepti cos a smaii band of K. < kitau 4 ip ia be
moQLtiiEs, &s. “he tribe* ar*? fitndlv to ihe whiles
: There ts no oecees-ty for troop* a Fort M afia Wat
, ia at all. Tfitlr (TeseLca there is the cause of all
| th* tr able It tue indigos are driven to a war it
: wi I be a protracted and . xpeosive one , for these
j tribe? are very wealthy, ami can keep -.beoeelves
wm supplied with arms ad amurunition. Tb*y
I raise Ur usa2d? of horse-, which th y seliin tbe Ter
| ritorirs for from ssu to $ 100 a piece ; and *bey have |
plenty of money
Tsi- O’ mmuucalion has created so.re sensation
\ tn ir,g Cablue', a-d has rather puxsled them as to
; what their Indian poucy should be in the present
i emergency.
The East India? Arar—Under the India bill
wh o has lately passed the .House of Commons,
: act pro babiy. by this tim-, the Erase of L >rds. a
’ comni-aion of twelve members—hree rffireraof
I ;b, Queen’s army, three of h- lud an army, three
j duoiugaisr.tdc.vUians, and trie Commander in-Chief
I of the B i i-h army ‘he Secretary of State tor War,
j and the new Indiin So, retary —is t* be appoiated
i tor the purpoee r.f remodeling the led an army , de
-1 L*raui ing to# proportion which the European force
’ sbouid.bear to the native tore©, and h >w tte Rest
’ India Compauy ? army ia tc oe transferred to the
1 Crown— Kick. Drop.
The New York Fire Commissioners nave resolv
ed that ol! person? running with an engine shall
’ wear a badge of membership, ani ail others taking
| hold of its rope shall Oe arrested and banded over to
tne p iioeautaontiae.
Quick Dispatch —lt is said that upon the first
disc-very ot gold ia qranlitias upon Frsxer nver.
an express wa* sent lo England (via Boston in 92
| Osya) try Indians, through tae Canada*.
Demo rratic Economy.
The Washington corre#pendent of the Philadel
phia mertcan, fiurc ishes that paper with the sol
ing data, copied fromcffisial documents, illustrative
of tbe much boasted economy of the Democracy.—
We hope thspeople vriil read the letter and treasure
it up for future relereuje. It ii certainly a beautiful
and characteristic . ‘mnentire upon Democratic
economy:
V* vshington, July 26-1868.
After patiently writing here through the dog day,
for the purpose of seeing the drift of several impor
tant questions of public interest, aud ascertains the
pre ise appropriations mad* at the last seesion. I
am now ‘able to present the recapitulation a', the
cl.ise of tbe official document prepared under the
direction of the Clerk of the Huuse of Bepreeenta
tative?, showing what the specific appropriations
are, and under what heads they are distributed. —
Here ‘a the statement in the exact word? and flgu
res of the document:
RECAPITULATION.
Legislative, exscut ve, judicial ana
m’scellaneous --$19,790,646 42
Diplomatic and Consular 912,190.00
Indian department,revolu jonary, in
vilid and other pensions 3,4fi7,15f 85
Arm v fortifications, military academy
and mil tary r0ad5................ 25.683,610 46
Sava! service 14 s'B 354x3
P wt Office Department 19,047 456 -0
Ocean steam mail service 1461.750 04
Col.ection of the revenue 3b''o ouooo
Treaty with the King of Denmark 4”8 ‘3l 44
Total $ai,az4,8204
The figures represent nothing more ihan the
spectfio appropriations The indefinite appropna
Uucs, including claims and the like, are variously
estimated, an by a statement put f tth under the
; n-p ration of the Treasury Department at $3,500.-
00". I assums but $2 000,000 Th? interest ou the
pnblic debt is provided fur in the bill? authorizing
the loans or noies, aud hence no annual appropria
tion is made. That item belongs to the permaneu’
class. At tbe hazard ot repeating some oi the facte
of my U-t ietier, it is desirable to recite tbe prom
en fi.u.es, that they may be remembered in the
d'e u-sioua which are to arise in regard to the
financial condition of the government audits ad
ministration.
Total of epee fi ‘ appropriations, as shown in Mis
cellaneous Dccu ent. No 137.. - $31,894 895 40
I: definite appropriations, ror claims,
allowances, &o , estimated 2 000,000 00
Interest on public debt, which exis
t*d orior to acts December 93 and
June 14 1,445,314.30
Interest ou public detotot $40,00(1,000,
c eated by acts Decemoer 93 and
June 14,says 2,000,000.00
Balance a propr a. ion. ia?t vear, ap
plicable to present Sec’y Treasury
report, December 8, 1857 16 586,588 35
Total appropriations for fiscal year $103,856,79810
Whatever balance of unemployed appropriations
may exist at the end ol this year, must be p'ac.-a
to its credit, but no particular ba auoe can bear
sained now. 1 have endeavored to moke this state
meat us fair as possible, and to present tbe cfficia
data wherever they were accessible. The estimate
ol the Secretary oi the Treasury for the current
fiscal year, was $64,004,755 97, including the bal
; ance of the appropriati-ns winch'apped over from
! the preceding year, and $7,165,994 49 for indefinite
I and permanent appropriation
i It is pretended by those who are interested in
: reducing these inexorable figures to their own con
j venient ocale, that full appropriations have not
i been made heretofore, for the post effioe service,
■ and therefore, that the difference between the re
venues and receipts should oniy be charged. This
is entirely a mistake, as will be seen by the re
capitulation of the appropriations for 1857, which
•hall be directly prouuced. Tbe gross revenue ot
this department last year was $7,353,951.76, and
the Postmaster General estimated the income < f the
current y ear at $7,795,188 from ail sources. B / the
acts of March, 47, auu March, ‘sl, permanant ap
propria'ions stand to the credit of tns departmer.t
for $700,090, for the transportation and delivery ot
of franked matter for the government.
In order that tbe public may have an opportuni
ty of comparing the pre ent with the appropriation?
ot the pre’. eding year, I give the recapitulation ta
ken from the document, issued by the C erk of tie
House, after the aqjnurnmeut of the third session ol
the 31th Congress.
RECAPITULATION CF 1857.
Legislative, Exe-utivc and Misoellantous. 547,695,290 98
Diplomatic and (.on.-ular l.lej.otO 00
Indian epartment, Revolutionary, Inva
lid and other Pennons 5,052,205,71
Army, Furtitcatious and Military Acade
my 19,426,192 49
Naval Serves 13,262 560,71
Post Office Departraf nt 14,475 130 00
Ocean Steam Mai, Service 1,120,350.00
Total Appropriation? $72,112,280.12
This subject has invoked much comment, hereto
fore, upon imperfect, partial and one-sided exhibits,
conjectural estimates, and perverted figures. The
offioial statement of the Clerk of tbe House, in re
gard t tbe specific appropriations, and the indefin
ite atd permanent, as collected from other sources,
together with the balanoe admitted in tbe Treasury
report, give ?11 the information which can be ob
tained or relied upon. Little partisans may attempt
to explain away some items, but they cannot deny
that the appropriations s'ated have been made
by a Democratic Congress, without impeaching tl.e
integrity of their own offioia's. No comment is re
quired, in the presence of such speaking facts. Au
intelligent people will rn> ke their own application,
without aid from any quarter.
Correspondence • f the Heir York Times
Nicaragua Affair?—G< n. (-* > Dispatch lo
Mr- Ln roar,
Panama, Monday, July 19 ; 1858.
By tbe steamship Columbus I have received the
following letter ou Transit matters, and toe Cass-
Yrissari Treaty, dated Managua, June 29, which is
from a source that may be relied upon. My cor
respondent has seen Gen. Cass’ dispa ch on the re’
fusal of President Martinez to sign the Treaty, and
quotes the substance of it as follows :
‘‘Y,.u (Preside t Martiurz) have insulted this
Government by wi hh"lding the treaty, after pledg
ing yonreelt to Gen Lamar that you sent it by a
speoial m-B?enger. aud asking the General to ex
pedite hi? journey by sending him on the Fulton, if
he were too late lor the A.-p nwall steamer. You,
also, induced the messenger io believe that he bore
tbe treaty. You after wards assigned as a leaeon
tor not having sent it, that you had written an
autograph let'er to President Buchanan, asking him
to submit to certain modifications to it, which letter
you ney er wrote. We eniaDd, as the only repara
tion you can make, the return of the treaty at rati
fied by tbe Assembly.
The fact is further known that Martinez, even
sent a Certificate to Yrisrari that the treaty had
been ratified, but telling Yriesari to get amend
ments, if po-eible, and if not, to promise that tbe
ratified treaty should be sent on in four weeks. He
said his political feelings being with the people ~f
Nicaragua, depended upon a radical change in tbe
treaty, ss they were all opposed to it, and would
use it to his ruin, and much more of the oame sort,”
As regards ves ed rights ot American citizens in
Nicaragua, GeD. Cass told President Martinez that
trie Government of the United Stntes would not
submit to any arbitrary action of Nicaragua—that
! ss tbe e ‘Untry was dev id of adequate tribunals,
| tbe Cabinet at Washington bad no other resource
but to decide there matters fur themselves; aud for
tfiis purpose a proper naval lorcefiad been dispatch
ed to both sides st the Isthmus.
Tbe White Company has succeeded in fixing
three things:
Pirst The Asse t'bly will, wiih the understand
ing of the G.vernmeiU, disapprove of ail slid every
act ic has done in relation to tbe Transit matter
with Vanderbilt, and enable it thus, by decree, to
get out of tbe o,.mprumise The Government will
then send a special Commission to the United States
with fu'l powers to ae'tle the dispute between the
Stiip Canal Company and the Government ot Nica
ragua relative to tbe extension of time. If tbe par
ties cannot agree, the questions at issue will be
submitted to arbitration, in accordance with Arti
cle 32 of the primary grant, an amended by Article
Bth of tbe 19th of June, 1857. Gen. Jerez, I have
reason to know, has beeu offered this mission, both
to the Government of the United States and to the
Company, and will acoept it, acting in conjunction
with Yrissari, or under his direction.
Should there be positive news of the intention of
Vanderbilt to open tbe route, then there is but one
way left, and that is to deny him the right of the
land transit.
By tbe 15th of August next, all these matters will
be settled.
The transit road from La Virgin to Sad Juan del
Bur is in good condition, aud wUI be kept so by the
agent of the White Company. Scott is fixing np
ihe river boats at San Juan del Norte for Vander
bilt. while Miller is working for him at Castillo, lo
couple of days President Martinez gees to Cas
tillo, and will take the lake steamer Virgin again in
possession, and bring her up to Granada.
Tbe San Carlos, the beat like steamer, is still on
Ibe sand-bank, where she went ashore on the 97th
of February. It is believed h- r boilers, bed plates
and engines will have to be taken onl before she is
raised on blocks for repairs. F. W. R.
From the Memphis Bulletin, of 98 th.
Steamboat Acetdrol—Two Persons Rilled—
.■ Several Wounded-
At one o’clock, P. M , on yesterday, a serious ac
cident occurred to the steamer New Falla City,
Capt. Wood, which resulted in the instant death of
two perrons and the rerions wounding of three or
four others The accident o. eurred at about one
o’clock, P. M about one mile and a half above
Commerce: Mitforty nfiles below ibis ci'y. The
piston rod otthe larboard cylinder broke and blew
out forward, carrying away the stand and breaking
the mud receiver. By this accident several persouß
on the Falls City were blown into the water, and
two are certainly known to be drotyned; th 6 r
names we codld not learn There were also two
others badly eealded. who cannot presibly recover.
The steamer Langley, Capt Warman, was only a
short dis’anee behiud the Falls City at the time of
t'ii* accidtn', and hastened with ail speed ro her as
sistance When the Lang ey arrived at tbe scene
of tbe disaster only one o: the three persons blown
overboard by the explosion was visible above the
-urt'&oe of the water. This one was struggling man
tally with tbe dangers that surrounded him, but was
well nigh exhausted with his efforts Seeing him in
this situation, 8 cabin boy on tbe Langeiey, by tbe
oame of Thos. Thomas, seized a line and throwing
himself boldly into the surging waters breasted bis
wgy to tie place where the man was struggling for
fiis life. The line was given him by Tnomas, who
swam back to the L&ugiey.
The Lang ey came up a few moments after the
accident, and took od about fifteen passengers from
the Fails City all she had room for.
The persons blown overboard ‘rom the Falls Ci
ty are supposed to have beeu deck passengers, who
were st nding forward at tbe time ot ‘lit accident.
The Falls City had nearly two hundred passengers
iu her cabins’ none ot whom were irjare i by the
explosion. She was left by ‘.he LaDgley at the place
where tbe accident occurred, and will probab.y be
bare to-day.
PasseEgers on the Fails City who came np on the I
Lane ley say that tnree persons were b'owc over
board from the Falls City, two of whom were j
drowned and one rescued bv the Langley
Insurance. —Tne importance ft insurance against
lotsee by fire and water may be seen at a glance by
the toliowii g figure? ; There were 322 fires m the j
Cnited Sta es in 1857. and the amount of property
destroyed was $i4,5b2,00U. In 1856 he amount ol ;
pr perty destroyed was upwards cf $3,001),COO j
greater T> emire lost by marinejfra.ter In the
month if DtOsmber last wa? $9,306 735. Tne above
ameunt included thirteenetea i ers* forty-two ships,
thirty-two barques, twenty-two brigs, ad fifty sev
en schooners. If this prup-rty was itooreo, as the
most of it undoubtedly was, many thousands per
haps millions, of persons bore the lose, each one suf
fering a hole, whereas if no insurance _&d been es
fected many persons would have suffered a busi
ne-s ruin, while others would have been serious y
cr pp ed in their affairs of We.
Launch of the Sloop or War Brooklyn
The United States steam stoop oi war Br.xk yn, the
first ot tbe five which was aa borized to be built by
act o’ Congress of Marc h 3, 1857, was launched from
the Westervelt ship yard, foot of Homston street,
E R , yesterday morn ng abcut li o o'oek Avery
targe concourse was preset, to witneee the specta
de, aad the event was oelebrated by the firing of
oancoa at and the cheering of the multi'n e. She
wa? towed to t h e dock aojoinlDg the Fulton Iron
Works, iPease A Murphy’*,) where she iii receive
boilers ana machinery. She will be rfeady for her
tr.ai trip probably in about four mouths She ie
pronounced pj be Tbe strongest built shto hi c h wss
eTer launched in N-wfo-rk—A7 York Times, 26th.
Law in New Y joa.—a. Keeper of a bouse of in
famy, in New Tor*, which the girls were kept as
prisoners, was sentenced for two mouths’ imprison- 1
meet. Two of the poor vicinu of this u *n' cupidi
ty received a sentence o* six months, as vagrant*
Tne newepape*? of New York ai! land the Court
whieh oouid be found independent enough to give
tbe “infiaentiol'’ rascal (he tel made SIOO (Xxj by
his beasriy business) even * two months term.
A Lose Pa'TOKaox —On the ‘27lh of June. Rev.
Dr. Buell, tenior pastor of the First Congregational
Church in Noth Brookfield, Maes-preached * dis
course appropriate to tte day, aa the sixtieth anni
versary of his settlement. He ia now in hia • ighry.
fourth year, and tea lived to see all the church**
over which he waa settled in hia youth, swept away
by death.
EI EL LIG&NCE.
l^HteElKf 'PA
Halifax. sta smshipEuropv, which
left Liverp<xil ar nodVrt the 17th inst, a"<l pasted
Cape Race at 3 311 'tjf on 8 unlay, the 25rh ins'.,
arrived at M of Tnesdav, th? 27th.
lue Atia'it'c Fi w- re appointees to
leave i r effort ou .Wo -lay
tbe 17ui. ibe Company having
resolved at a meSBSr on the 14th that it was de
sirable that a renewed attempt, hou’d be f>r hwith
made, the English government issued orders ac
cordingly.
Tne London Times aud DaV N errs publish
graphic descriptions from their oorxsspondeni? of the
onus? of the Agamemnon, showing the fearful peril
that that vessel wss in, and the Tines says in its
editorial remarks on the subject that the Agamem
non is clearly unfit to l?y the Atlantic cable. If th?
suggestion of the Great Eastern is not thought
w rth notice, or proprietors of that ship are
not ready to that ohject, lot as ip be
built for the ouee. Waether i; succeeds
or not at the firsnßlTit wi 1 find sufficient occtpa
tion either in renewiflt the attempt nr in laying
down additlonabie cable hereafter.
Great Britain —On the 15th, in trie House of
Lords, after some deba'e upon the Intlian bill, du
ring which characterised the
bid as one of gratuicuous ac-ia of truckling
to the temporary of the House ■ f Commons
the govern be guilty of, the ibiii was pass
ed to a second reiHg.
In ihe Cos proceedings, which were of
merely locai important*, inoluded the introduction
ot a bill by Mr Disraeli, providing for the purifica
t o of the Thames, and the draining of London, toe
government to guarantee a loan of three mJlions
for the purpose
On tns 16 h, in the Lords, th” Indian bill was de
feated and made good progress ia committee
Iu the Commons, the Jews bill as received from
the Lords, was passed to a second reading.
It is authoritative.) - announced that the British
government will take no furth -r steps against Thos.
Ais< p, who w?s implicated in the Jin mry conspi
racy against Nap tleoo, and withdraws the offer of
a reward for i is apprehension.
parliament was expected to be prorogued on ihe
31st of July.
Ibe Earl of Malmesbury, in repi; to the represen
tations ot the Liverpool Criamber of Commerce in
regard to tne forced loan in Mexico, says tbe sub
j-ct was under the consideration ot tbe law officers
if the Crown
The number of pe'sons more or iess injured by
the recent firemmks explosion in L >ndon, is stated
as high as three hundred. One or two had died,
and < there were not expected to recover.
: Tbe Loudon Timee’ City Artic’e, in ?ome lengthy
remaiks, attributes the inactivity in a 1 kinds oi Se
em ities to mistrust as to the tuture peaceable inten
! tione if the French government, and says the finau
cial world are entitled to demand wnetber Mr Dis
raeli R ill not ou their behalf turn his oortfid- mial
position with the Emperor to account, and bring
about an understanding fora general return to the
peace standard, which may enable them to procted
in their accustomed track, and enjoy on ah sides a
renewal of prosperity.
It was rumored that ‘he Panama route is to alter
Date with the Surz route tor the fornightiy mails
between England and Austria.
France.—The prominent topic was the visit of
Pi'iro-Napoleon to tbe great industrial exhibition
at Liim gts, and the flattering reoeption accorded
him there.
A model in relief of the works at Cherburg is lo
be presented to Queen Victoria.
Tne Marine Department have cvntrated for a
supply of six barrelled revolvers for the Navsi ser
vice.
The Paris papere generally deny the assumption
of the L indou Times that the fortifications at Cher
bourg are intended as a menace to England.
Paris, Friday—lt is said that orders have bsen
sent to the commandant of the French Naval divi
?iou in China to despatch two ships of war at once
to the Red Sea
The French Admirai on the Greek atari oc ie order
ed to Canada.
Beloiom —The Belgian Chambers are convoked
for the 26th July, when the fortifications of Antwerp
will be discussed
Spain—A Madrid telegram says that Spain has
addressed the threatened energetic remonstr nee on
the eutjsct of the insult? offered her in the English
Parliament.
pRCBciA.—It is said that the health of the Prin
cess Fed ri< k William will not admit of her meet
ing her mother at Cologne, and that Victoria con
sequently goes to Potsdam.
Italy —The elections in Sardinia to fill the va
cancies, were generally favorable to the Govern
ment.
Russia. —St Petersburg letters say that the mili
tary chrracter t f the administrative system tor
Poland is about to be Bupereeded by anew system,
in which the o'vil element will pred iminate.
Turkey—Private despatches intimate that the
Turks had attacked the Montengrius.and that after
three ootflics the latter retreated to the mouatain3.
The s'ory lacks confirmation. A general • fficer of
the Turkish Army had been ordered to pr csed to
Jeddah as Imperial Commissioner with directions
to punish the parties implicated in the recent mas
sacre, according to martial taw.
Arabia, etc —The Turki k Envoy at Paris had
received a telegraphic deppvca fro m bis Govern
ment promising ali the sa'fofac ion in i's power for
the mts?acre at Jeddah, and that the Arabs shall be
severely punish and. It is affirmed tuat the place
will be occupied by a French aid English force
When the news ot tne ma-acre rea.hed Mecca the
Mussulmans held a rejuriing.
Further outrages in Turkey against the Christians
are reported.
From Athens it. is Btated that a terrible reaction
by tbe Mussulmans against the Christians has taken
place in Candia. .
The European consulate? in Candia and the
Catholi ■ Church had been attacked, and the Chris
tians were quitting the city
There was considerable agitation at Suez againtt
the Europeans. ‘Troops had been sent to prevent
the movement.
The Paris correspondent of the London Times
says that advices from Constantinople announce
that tbe Porte haseeut 2000 troops to Jeddah to in
flict exemplary punishment on the murderers of the
Cbris'iane.
India —The Bombay mail cf Juue 19th had ar
rived at Alexandria on the U'th July.
On the first of June an engageinant took place
between the Calpee rebels and ihe rebels Mahara
jah Soindia near Gwalior The right and left divi
sions of Sc,lndia’s toroe gave way, and joined the
enemy. The centre, composed of the Maharajah's
body guards, fought well, but was beaten wiih coo
Biderable lots Soil din fied to Agra. Therebels had
occupied the fort at Gwaliur.
General Rose's brigade was half way to Gwalior
when tile fall of the place was heard of. Gen Uee
from Calpee, Col. Hicks from Jhanse, and B- ga
dier Smith from Sepree, were to meet before Gwa
lior ou tbe 17th ot J une. The strength of the enemy
was rated at 17,000.
The rebels were in great force around Lucknow,
and interrupting o.iminuuications with Cawnpore.
Another dispatch Bays the people at Lucknow
were beginning to coma in.
In Rohilcund tine* the Doab ail was quiet.
Sir Colin Campbell was about to join the Gover
norflaperai at Allah bad.
pro ceeds quietly on both sides of India
The fffetrmed Sepoy R -giments in Bengal had.been
discharged in small parties, the Rajah o’ Riueee o
palace aud town had been plundered by the rebels
The rebel garrison of Humeapor, numbering 6000
with sou guns, escaped pur uit.
At Bombay the markets w- re dnl Mpney was
easy. Exchange 2s |d. Freights slightly irnprov
ed.
The Ca'cutta mail of June 4th had reached Eng
land Letters repot t that tbe beat produced great
sickness among the t oops aid wiih all tbe rein
forcements sent out, only 26,0u0 Europeans could
be mustered.
China.—Shanghai letters give rumors among the
Chinese that the torts north of the Peiko had been
captured, but there is no authentic news of such an
event.
The Allied Fleet off the month of the Peiho num
bered nineteen men of war
TheC S. steamer Powbattan arrived at Hong
Kong, May 12 h, and proceeded to the North.
The sloop of war Germantown was at Hong
Kong, and the steamers Minnesota, Mississippi, anu
An'clope were iu the Gulf of Pecheli.
Halifax, July 27.—The Europa sailed at 7 A.
M. tor BostO", where she will be due to-morrow
afternoon. Wind light from S. W. Weather over
cast.
Latest by Telegraph.
London, Saturday.—The Times’ city article re
ports an improvement of an eighth in the funds yes
terday, but that they were rather less firm at the
close.
Tbe Daily News reports the market firm owing
to recent bona fide investments. But rmall quanti
ties of gold were taken from the Bank for the Con
tinent, owing to the non delivery of the Austrian
arrivals.
The Shooting Star from ‘fleibourne has arrived
bringing £166 000 in gold, making the receipts of
the w*"k £7lO 000. Two othershipsar© aboutdue
with £400,000 more.
Th* case of Lady Lytton Bulwer had been ad
justed to tbe 9a'isfactiorj of all parties, and on tbe
special report of her ladyship s oonditi m, Bhe had
been set ai liberty.
It elisions.
Revival in Atlanta —A very interesting revi
val is going od at tbe fr'nity Methodist Church in
this city. Prayer meetings are bp and at 8 o'clock
each morning, and there is preaching every night
Many surround the altar as seeker?—some uav>
proreseed and joined the church The bflienceis
deepening and widening, and while sirin'ra are be
ing awakened, the church is being revived. The
church has been crowded with attentive and anx
ious listeners for nearly two weeks— American.
Revival in Hancock County.—Quite an inter
esting meeting, we ieam, has been going on for
several days past, at Bethlehem, a Baptist church
in this oounty. Twelve persons were baptised on
last Sunday, and several others yet to be baptised
who had joined the cnurch but were not prepared to
receive the ordinance at that time Our inform
ant states that great interest prevails among the
people in that vicinity, and that quite a large num
ber of persons presented themselves at the afrar for
prayer on Sunday. The meeting ha- been disoon
tinned for the present. —SandersnlJe Georgian.
Revival at Union Strings, Ala —A series of
Cuion Meetings commenced in the Presbyterian
church in this place last week, and have been con
tinned daily since. Quite a number have been
awakened and a few are now rejoicing in tbe bum
ble hope that their sins are forgiven, and their per
bods accepted c f the Father through'he graced
our Loi and Jesus Christ These meetings, it is ex
pected, will be continued for several days to come.
—Union Springs (A/a ) Gaz-ite.
A You no Woman Frightened to Death
Emma Evans, a girl tom teen years of age, died
suddenly in Nev York on Snnday evening from
fright. It appears that on the evening named, de
ceased went with her father and others to a saloon
to get supper, and on returning to Mr. Mar in?
h use she went in the basement way, followed by
her father. A? she entered the bail the servant girl
cafred oat “ha'l Vor something that sounded like
that word, aid Ml-? Evans become suddenly frgb
teued and fell to the flogging. Every effort wa?
immediately made to restore her, but she con
tinued iu a sworn and died in a few minutes Dr.
B uton made a post mortem examination of tbs
b dy and found that a blood vessel in the brsin bad
been ruptured, and the jury rendered as follows t—
"That deceased came to her death by a abr ok to i
the nervous system in beiDg frightened by ‘Linking ‘
she perceived some strange shadow in the base- i
mens above allud'd to “ In Baltimore, Tuesday j
night, James Shannessy,a lad of 15, in passi:ga :
Loose was ra.hedupon by a dog, which so high- j
tened him that he staggered and fell to the ground !
dead. The emotion had burst an artery of th*
heart.
The Discover or Frizer 3 River—Frazer’
nver was firs', known in 1793. and reported to the j
ii'o by Alexatd-r McKenzie. In !
S mon Fraser, (spelled with an a.) an j
attacbeof the Hudson Bay Company, traced thenve>
Oown for about ix hundred miles to its mow b, in the j
irot ur ®?° r ßi a ’ From him t takes its name. It
I®* 7 ' Mr Epriliai Simpson ?u-veytd the rive- care
tuiiy from its m. uh to Fort Langley,in the Hu'sot
Bay Company's schooner Cndb. ro, the said vessel
being now extant, and the navigation of the river
to that point is no new thing.
®‘*- LT I* 1 w lec-sPlea;ed with E 3 Nxw Home
CoL 8. M Kutherti rd. Seminole Agent, says the
Fort Smith. Ark., Herald, arrived here during the
wttea from his Agency. The Colonel b&*> m'ormed
c* tnat Duly Bowlegs aad party were weii pleased
with thetr r-aw homes. For or five of the lod.ans
died while on their way up.
Launch cr a W.r Vissel.—The new U 8.
sloopref war Brooklyn, was successful! ? launched a*
New York.Taesnay morning. Thie vessel is one
otfiveauuxmzed oy act ot Congress, approved
March Jj, 1857. The others now bulking are tbe
Hartford at Boston, the Lancaster at Philadelpb'a,
me Richmond at Norfo.k. and the Pensacola at
Pensacola.
Who hay oo to Naflei.—A gentleman from
Boston, *bo ia travelirg in Europe, purpo-e? via t
ing Napes, but was inf. rmed by those in anthoritj,
that his name appearing as o- e of tbe saber fibers
for the cannon pr&ente to Soidinia from tiseiti*
zees of Boston, he could not bpermitred to “s •
Nepiee and aie” in eatacy of delight, as oth r
‘•rangers have been reported to do. AU tlag-n
----tisman’a exptaaa'kma ana rwnoastrano* e wei# una
vailing, and be Waa feted to go another wag.
WEEKLY
(%mtklt & Sentinel.
AUGUSTA, GA.
WEDNESDAY JIORMMG, Al'G. 4, 185S.
flr. Brown and the Banks.
Gov. Brows bet? published his proclamation, de
clares that th? fofiowin; named Banks have not
made their late returns, in accordance with the re
quisitions of the law of the last Legislature: because
the Presidents end Cashiers have not sworn that
the law has not been violated in any respect, by
their respective Banks. Hence the Governor pro”
! claims that the biils of these Banks will not be re-
I csived at the State Treasury in payment of any
| dues to the State. Here is the list;
The Bank of the State of Georgia,
The Planters’ Bank ot the State of Georgia, at
Savannah.
Phe Commercial Bank of Brunswick,
The Bank of Commerce, at Savannah,
The Merchants and Planters’ Bank, at Savannah,
The Mechanics’ Savings B ink. at Savannah,
The Augusta Insurance and Banking Company,
The Marine Batik of Georgia, at Savannah,
Toe Bank ol Columbus,
The Bank of M:d le Georgia, at Macon,
Toe Bank of the Empire State, at Home,
The Union Bank, at Augusta,
The City Bauk, at Augusts,
TheT mber Cutter',, Bank, at Savannah,
The Mcohanic's Bank, at Augusta.
wild cats.
The Cherokee Insurance and Banking Csmpanv,
■ at Dat'on,
The LaGrange Bank,
The Planters end Mechanics’ Bank of Dalton,
The Bank of Greensb irongh.
The Exchange Bank of the State of Georgia, at
Gr fliu
Tots f ilmina’ion of the Governor against the
sound batiks of the Stats exoites no surprise, and
will produce about as much effect toward prejudic
ing these ins'itut ons, as whether the wind blows
from the North, Eist, S nth, vVestor any other
poiutofthe compass, on the first day of January
next. The people know them to be solvent, and
have much more confidence in their ability to pay
• their liabilities than they have in Gov Brown’s
knowledge of banking and book keeping.
The following Banks have in the opinion of the
Governor, complied with the iaw and their bills will
therefore be received in payment of any dues to
I the S ate:
The Central Railroad and Banking Cos.
The Georgia Railroad and Banking Cos.
j The Bank of Savannah
The Bank o c A u rusts.
The B ink of Pulton,
ifhe Sink of Athens
j The Manufacturer's Bank at Macon.
WILD CAT.
The North-Western Bank at Ringgold
W hat a beautiful commentary upon the law of
I the last Legislature, that the bills of the Bank of
the State of Georgia, (and other equally sound
banka,) in which the State owns a large amount of
stock, are rejected at the State Treasury and the
bills of the Ringgold Wild Cat received ! The
one has the confidence of every man in the State,
and ail those out of it, who know any th'ng of our
bank'ng institutions, and the other, (the Ringgold
Wild Cat,) has the confidence of no one, in or oat of
the State. Such is the effect of democratic cur
rency tinkering. Huzza for the currency tinkers !
Organizing Juries.
| A correspondent of the Savannah Georgian, as
cribes the frequent homicides and general lawless.
! ness of the day, to the fact, that the offenders go
| unpunished; and very properly attributes this to
i the juries, the organization of which, uuder our
present law he justly regards very defective. To
remedy this dafeot, he makes the following sugges
tion:
“That a law be enacted by the Legislature, re
quiring that tales, jurors (having exhausted the re
gular pane!,) for the trial of criminal cases shall be
drawn by the Judge from th? jury box, in open
Court. This strikes at the very root of the ev 1,
and forever eradicates it. Then it will be in no
man’s power not even in the Judge himself, to ex
etcise any influence over the empanelling of a ju
ry.”
| This is a very good suggestion as far as it goes,
j but it falls far short of reaching the root of the evd
1 of our present system, which is not only defective
,tse!f, but based upon an error and seems to have
been designed rather to aid the esoape of criminals,
: than punish them
We have said that the basis ot our system was
error. It is a most egregious error—and absurd
fa'laoy, to suppose that ail citizens, between the
ages of twenty-one and sixty years, who are enti.
tied under our laws to vote for mem cere of the
L°g slature, are competent jurora for the trial of
cases civil or criminal. The framers of our form of
g ivernment could not have committed a greater
absurdity than this, and yet it is the foundation
s’one upon whioh is reared our jury system in
Georgia, as the law is almost universally administer
ed. For instance, the proper authorities, the Clerk
and the Court assemble to organise aad arrange the
jury bolts. For this purpose, a list of persons, be
tween the ages of twenty-one and sixty years, i B
furnished by the Tax Collector of the oounty, and
Rom this list the Court aud Cieik proceed to select
those persons best qualified to serve as Grand
Jurors, and the names of the remainder, without
excluding any, are deposited in tue Petit Jury box.
Hence, a3 there are numerous persons in every
county, entitled to vote for members of the Legis
lature, who are not competent intellectually to adju
dicate cases as jurors, it follows as a matter of
oours* that such incompetent men form portions of
every Petit Jury whioh is empaneled. Here lies the
great error and this is the root of the evil. How
shall it be remedied l
This is a very grave and important enquiry, up
on the saocestful solution of which, in a very gret t
degree, depends the well being ot sooiety in Geor.
gia, so far as that well being is to be promoted by j
the punishment of criminals, and the consequent
suppression of crime. W'e have given the subject
cons d< rable reflection, and wo will submit our rent
ed / as briefly a possible, lor the consideration and
reflei ton of the publie.
The Constitution of Georgia, which was adopted
in 1799, Srotion 6, Article 4, readi thus: “Freedom
of the press, and trial by jury, as heretofore used in
ikit Suite, shall remain inviolate, Ac.”
Before, therefore, any radical change can be
male in the system in Georgia, this article ot the
Const tution must be altered and amended, so as to I
gua autee the right of a speedy and impartial tria 1
by jury in all cases, civil and criminal, leaving out !
the words, “ as heretofore used in this State.” This
do e, the Legislature would have power to enaot a
moreenlig tsned and salutory system for the organ 1
ization of juries, for the trial of criminal otfences.
Ttiat sj stem, if our suggestions be adopted, should
be this: It should be made the duty of the Inferior
Court, the Shi riff, and the Clerk of the Superior
Court, (all being first sworn, every time they entered
upon the duty of organizing or revising the jury
box, to discharge their duty impartially, without
favor or affection,) to Belect from the tax books
of the o mnty, those men, and those alone, between
the ages of twenty-one and sizty years, who are
au herised to vote for Governor, who from their in
to ligenoe, and character for honesty, morality,
and integrity, are best fitted and most competent to
serve as jurors These names, when so selected,
shoo'd be entered in a book, and upon ballots, and
p aced in the jury box— all in the same box. Then,
in and awing juries, the first twenty-four names drawn
from the box should be summoned as Grand and
8 ecial Jurors, ani the succeeding forty-eight, a
Petit Jurors, and in the trial of criminal offences,
the talesmen sh< uid all be drawn from the box.
This is onr remedy for the evils under which the
country now labors, by reason of the facilities af
forded for the escape of criminals. We might
elaborate it to a great extent, but we have not time
to-day, nor do we deem it necessary, as it is set
forth sufficiently clear ard distinct for the compre
hension of every intelligent mau; and we do not
doubt, that ail such will concur with us in the opin
ion, that under the operatio-. of 3uob a system, the
punishment of criminals would be more certain, and
grimes therefore much Isas frequent. Let the lovers
of law and erder, and those who have the well being
of society at heart, give this subject that considera
tion its importance demands; and see to it, that
something be done.
Grapes—A Goad Suggestion.
The suggestion of “A g'ape Eater,” in the sub
joined communication, is well worthy the considera
tion and adoption of the Grape Growers in the oity
and vicinity. If adopted it will be a matter of
great accommodation to the public, and will oer
tainly secure the sale of a much larger quantity of
thie delicious fruit than by any other plan :
Mr. Editor In your issue of yesterday, you
made my mouth water by au article headed Grapes
Please use your influence, to induce producers to
have ripe. Grapes left for sale at some central point,
every morning, so that the dust-choked citizens,
who are not foitunate enough to own a grape vine,
may be able to procure some of this president of
tru ts, (that is a butter word than king,) wherewith
to refresh themselves. Suggest that a reasonable
price be asked so that alt can buy, and while it
will fi 1 the pockets of producers, it will do much
for the health of the ciy. A lew me to suggest,
that the Augusta Seed Store, would be a good
looation, provided the proprietor would have no
objeotion, and a liberal commission would make it
an object to him to give the business bis attention.
A Grate Eater.
Fire.
The roof of he shed which covers the Gas Works
was partially destroyed by fire Friday morning,
between ‘en and eleven o'clock. Damage incon
siderable. The engines were eoon on the spot and
prevented the spread of the flames.
The Weather.—The mercury in our thermome
ter Monday rose to-ninety-three degrees—the high
est point reached this summer. .
Harters Masa2i.se —The August number has
been received and ie ready for delivery, by Geo
A. Oates & Bro The “ Romance of Wyoming,”
and •• A Winter in the South,” both illustrated with
numerous engravings, will be found highly inter
esting. There is a large addition*! amount of en
tertaining matter.
Large Watermelons*
Mr. L T. Short, residing in tne vicinity of this
oity, sent us yesterday two Watermelons weighing,
-ogetner, seventy iu pounds. Mr. and. will please eo
cept our thanks for tee oomplimsLt.
A Rogues Galcikt —A contemporary ft;tee
that the polios ot New Tork are having phi tographs
taken of all tb- graat rogues of that mttrope is. be
g nning with the burglars and th-eves, ire ud ng
bank swindlers and pnse fighters, and ending wth
highwaymen and members of the Common Council
Mammoth PumTxin.—M r J- A. Pool, of tl is
ci‘y, raised in his garden this season, a pumpkin
(variety not known) weighing sixty-three pounds
and measuring four feet eleven inches in eireum-
Ihm—s
Judge Bennlrg—The Nupieme lourt-That
Scene.
Some day’B since, we copird from the correspon
dence of the Savannah Republican, an account of
a scene in the Supren-e Court, while e iting io Ms
-o>n, in whioh Juige Benning was a very conspicu
ous, ana we think, if he values his repu'ation ft r in
tgrity on the Bench, a very unfortunate actor.—
The report of the scene whioa we published, as ait
others that we have seen, was vtry t net and con
! sequently imperfect and partial. We are, tht re
fore, happy to have it in our power to publish a
more full and entirely correct report of that transac
tion. which we deem it due to the cans? of public
justice, to lay before the country, and to invite es
pecial attention thereto.
We have always been the unwavering and zeal
ous advocate of the Supreme Court, sod it is be
cause of that advocacy, that we desira to see it
maintain a character free from the slightest euspi
cion of the taint of corruption. Whether it will es
cape such suspicion, so far as Judge Bennino ib con
cerned, the public must decide, after carefully read
ing the followiD ; report of the transection in Ma
con, which has been fnmiobed us by a genri-man of
kig!> character, who was present, and who furnishes
it to correct the erroneous impressions width the
pub iehed accounts wore caicu ated to mat- on the
’ public mind. We repeat our request, that it be
I oarefully and attentively read by every oitizen.
Erasmus Brail, vs, A. J. Robln-on.
BEFORE THE SUPREME C.BRT.
This case of Eras nus Beall, vs A J. Robinson,
to recover of him as a stock holder of the Planters
A Mechanics Bauk if Columbus, certain bils o;
that Bank hell by the Plaintiff; having been cal ed
in its order. Mr D. ugherty arose and obj-oted to
Judges, Mo Do. aid and Bentnng presiding in that
oase And, as the grounds of otrjection to Judge
McDonald, stated—that, before the election to the
B mcii of the Supreme Court, he (MuDotiad) had
been consulted, either by some of tlm stock io! ier*
or their counsel, sto the question of the statute of
limitations, as applicable to these Bank cases, end
had given a writ en opiuiun adverse to the bill Qoid
ers—aud that opinion ha t b,en read as a gum-nl
by Col H It, in this Vi ry case on a former beer i g
betore this Coutt, when be, Judge McDona'd. was
ab-ent. Mr. Dougherty sent thai he bad in bis p >s
i session a copy of that opinion, bad furuiohed Ju ge
’ McDonald witu a copy, and supposed Col. Holt tmd
the original.
i Mr Dougherty also stated, that the statute of limi
tations teas the mam question iu the ca.e bet, re the
Court
Mr D. then stated that be considered Judge Ben
ning’s po ition much more disqualifying than that
of Judge McDonald.
That Judge B-lining, betore his election to the
Bench, was counsel lor Daniel Mi Do tgald, in his
life time, and afterwards tor his estate iu a number
of Bank cares That he had, before hts election,
united with the counsel for the etockh -dels general
iy, in the preparation and and fenoe of these oases
(as was common wt'li them,) the canes all depending
on fne sumo legal question
That it was understood that he, Judge Bennirg,
ortho firm of Joues A Benuing, had aided an i
1 contributed in constiucting the lengthy argu
inent read by Col. Holt, at Airerious, in the case of
Lane vs Thornton, reoorted in 1> v, l. Gsoreie Re
ports on Statutes of Limitation, the main and im
portant question in the case ab ut to be triad.
That he, Judge Benuing, had pledged himself before
his election not to preside in any of those cases in
which he had been employed as counsel. That a sim
ilar case again t the estate of said McDougald had
been tried iu the Court below, before tne oase now
before the Court, when Judge Wo nil,conforming to
a practice, commenced by Judge Iverson, and eua
linued by himselt, announced that he would not
try any more of these Bask cases at that term, as
tuey ah depended on the same questions; and that
the sett ement by the Supreme court of vliois ques
tions in the case that had been tried, would control
the other cases.
That this course was objected to, and Coi Jones,
as a ground of objection, stated that Judge Beii
ning had been OJUusel tu that case, and oo tid, or
would not, preside on its trial in tbeSupr, me Court)
and that the counsel of the srockh Iders desired the
trial o. a case in which there would be a full Court,
meaning, of course, one in which Judge Benning
would preside.
That the case before the Court was afterwards
triAd, and brought to this term, wlii st. the o'her,
alt 1 ough tried first, if carried to the Supreme Cour.
at all, wi 1 be re urued to the uex January Term.
Mr. Dougherty then proceeded to show', that it:
co sequence of Judge Lumpkin’s adhering to the
former decisi. nos the Supreme Court on the
Statutes ol Limitation in these cast s, that no judg
ment would be pronounced in this case on I bat
question, if Judge Benuing did not preside; but that
it be did preside, judging from what he held in this
very ease, on a former tria', and the writ en opinion
ot Judge McDonald, ajudgment would be render
ed lata! to the bill-holder; and that the judgment so
rendered might c mtrol aud govern the case against
McDougald s estate, returned to next term; but
would deoide also a number of ethers. psnd'Dg iu
tb-Court below against tbs’ estate, invo’vings me
S6O OtiO or $7l),(lb(); and that he, Judge Bouniug,
had just as well preside in all those cases against
his former clients a) in the one before the Court,
the result so far as the bill-bc der is concerned, bo
ing precisely the same.
When Mr. Dougherty came to that part of his
Statements in relation to Judge Beni log o pledges,
Ao ,the Judge became very much excited, and as
med the truth of that portion of the statement, and
stated that he had never made a pledge to any one
not to preside ir. any case whatever Mr. Dougher
ty then referred to certain statements mate by
Judge Benuing, when objections were maue to b o
presiding in these Bauk case*, some time since, at
Decatur, whioh led to a son o’ Conver-rh ional dis
cussion between them, in which Judge Banning ad
milttd. that be d.d state on ’tie ocea rou referred t >
—and lhat it was true—that bis connexion as Coun
sel with these Bank cases was made aground of
objection to his eleotion. Tuat he cams to tne de
termination not to preside in any of these cases, in
which he had been employed as Cou sel, and an
nounced hiinseif that determination in Mtlledge
vilie, and lhat h ; s position and course in regard to
these cases, it eleoted, was Weil kuowu and uuder
ftt-. od betore his election.
Mr D. expressed himself satisfied with the ad
missions of Judge It-iming. Stated that the only
difference between them wss, as t what constitu
ted a pledge, and that he would have it o be Oeter
miued by otheis, whether wbut Judge Banning hud
admitted, did u..t, under he circumstai oe , amount
to a pledge on hts p rt, not to preside in tne Bauk
caeei in which he had been employed as Counsel
There was no denial by a y one of any portion of
the statements made by Mr. Dougherty, except as
ab ve stated.
Col. Jones made a short explanation. Col. Holt,
and Barnard Hit), Etq., argued t.t soma lengt.a
against the Buffi'.ieucy of tbs objections urged, to
prevent either . f the Judges from presiding Mr.
D. replied to Messrs. Holt aud H 11, alter _ which
Judge Henning announced his determination to
I preside in the case, and gave ids reasons therefor,
i He was followed by Judge Mt Dona and, who an- I
nuunced Irs determiuat.on not topicside, and gave ;
his reasons for that course. Mr. I>. then expressed ‘
his entire willingneis that Judge McDonald should
preside, and Uniie in deciding alt toe other quo-- i
tions in the case eioept those in which lie had given !
written opinions. With this understa. ding tile ar
gument of the case proceeded.
Reader, now that you have carefully read he I
report, of the transaction, as given by a reliable
eye witness, we desire to oall your attention to a
few facts. The charter of the Planters and Me- j
chanics Bank of Columbus made the stockholders
! liable ior the redemption of its bills. The Bauk hid j
swindled and robbed Ifce people of hundreds of thou- |
[ sands of dollars, and these suits have been brought by I
the bill holders to recover of the stockholders, and
1 moat of them have been progressing in the courts
j for years. Iu the first cases, Jones A Bennino
| (the present Judge Benmnq ) were attorneys for The
| stockholders. Bennino was elected Judge of the ;
Supreme Court, (his election zealously urged by his
clients in these Bank ca-es,) and Jones continues to .
act as counsel. Bennino Is tue son-in-law of Jones l
and whatever enriches Jones may enrich Bennino ;
and the fees in these cases may have been condi- j
t'ional, and very large in the event the cases bs ,
finally decided in favor of Jones A Benning’s
clients. It was known to J ones that Bennino was
pledged, or had “premised ,” if you please, not to I
preside in a case in which he had acted as couneei j
Henoe it would not uo to take the case w ileh Was ‘
decided, in the Superior Court, in Columbus,agains
McD-.CGALD.thclormer client of Jonis A BesninGi
up to the Supreme Court, because Bennino bavi g
bsen counsel in that oase would be prevented by
hispledgis or promise, from deciding it. It was > \
therefore, arranged to try the case of Beall vs. i
R bisson, well knowing that, before Judge Wor i
bell, tbs verdict wi uid be in favor of Beall; bnl i
in that case Bennino had not been counsel, and ,
wou'd deoide it, although it involved the very same
questions as the other cases, and in deo ding lhat, j
he virtually decided the cases of his clients. Wo ;
ask the people to reflect upon these facts and then
determine whether Judge Bennino has so deported
himself as to escape the suspicion of corruption. If
not, be should for the honor of the State, and the
character of the Court, be requ : red by the unani
mous voice < f an Indignant people, to retire from
the Bench forthwith.
A Loan Expected.— Mr. P. G- Van Winkle,
President of the Northwestern Virginia Railroad,
states that Mr. Foweii, the representative of the
British stockholders in the Marietta Railroad, has
re urned from Europe from a success ul negotiation
for a ioaa of money wherewith to build the connec
tion between Varkersburg and Marietta,and pkoss
the road in good order. The loan, it is said, amounts
to neatly STOU,IOO.
From St. DcMingo.—By the arrival at New
York of the schooner California, Cap West, we have
received advice? from Puerto Pla'a to July 14
Business was very dqiL The market was over
stocked with all kinds of merchandise. Supp yot
provisions on baDd sufficient to last four months
tjpeoie very scarce i in fact nonets be bau, he
people losing confidence in the paper m.ney issued
by the government, and exchanging the same at
one hundred and fifty for one dollar of specie.
Inveterate Chewers. —A St L air paper says
that the grasshoppers have eaten up the entire
crop of tobacoo in Frankling ouunty, and the lart
that was heard from them they were seated on the
corners of the fence begging every mart that pissed
‘or a chew. #
The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser says the
Lake commerce of that c :y, thus far this season, far
exceeds that of any previous year, and “we have
every reason to expect to reoord at the does o
navigation an increase of at least one-third in the
Sour and grain receipts over those of any other
season.”
The Weather in Europe—A letter from Pari
of July 10, says that they were then eiperincing
wet, cold weather that would do no discredit to the
month of March, in plaoe of the blazing sun of a
few weeks previous.
The London Times os Cuba—The London
Times eontLues to speak in lavor of the annexation
of Cuba to tne United States. We ston'd attach
mote importance to ihe views of the Times if they
were dispassionate convictions of princip e and true
policy, instead of retaliatory fulminati-ns against
the vaporing and ncnsencim press of Madrid.
The Cass-Heron Treaty -This treaty it is
stated, has been ra’ified by New Granada in an
amended form. It indemnifies American suff rare
by ibe Panama riots to tucb extent as u ay be set
tled by arbitrators, bnt refuses to gunrai.tee the se
curity of Amerioans while on the Jstbc. us. The
rstifir anon in this form ie said to be equal to its re
jection.
A Good Eeo —The Newoast'e, Pa, Ite r- sys,
tome men recently Sinking a Weil in P ain Grove,
Luurenoe oounty, found a hens egg firmly imbed
ded in the sand 33 feet below the snif.o) ei I •
earth. “It was broken, and appeared tresh, but
spoiled short y after exposure to the a;r.
We learn rom the Washington Star, that ti e
Commissioner oi Pensions decides that the bounty
land warrants will go to the heirs at law, as | rovi
ded for by the late act of Congress, only when than
i is no widow of minor Ohfidreo.
Ji! ‘ge ttenmug Again.
Although the following latter of the Hon. Wil j
liam Dougherty, contairs nothing newt” those .
of our readeis who have rend ’he account already ,
P'lb’ia''ed by u->. y*-t, it appra-.s over the nsmoof j
‘he ritir, who is known t. roughont the Sta’e for
hie eter-iiig int-giitv and bgh chsrac’er for vsracl ‘
•y- L certA'nly planes Judgo Bennino in sudd- I
enviab'e position brt- re the country, and we think 1
all candid, hou at .aid im; a tint men will unite ill x
the opinion, that he has made the most pilpsble
effort to prostitute judicial power, to the protection
of fraud and wrui-g. that has ever ooctur-d in
Georgia:
a . „ ~ Columbus, July 2<th.
Editor Savannah Rrp'tb tcan .-
Dear Sir: —l notieadin y >ur pipe -of the 20i.h
inst., a let er written from Maohii p irp iring to
give en account of a •‘scene,” whioh trsn-pired be
fore the Suoreme C >urt, n Sato day last. The
statement of your corre-p -ude it i- mads, avowed
iy.on the iii ormati./U if o h r ; rni to that cpuso
may be attributed its inaocuraoies and omission*;
and wb : ob it is my purpose to corroot by this c un
tnnnication.
Your c-rre po idecr, says, “that the ol j -c'ion* to
Judge Benniug weye that he had been o -uesel to
one ut the cases brougnt a -.ins Ihe Lank, Ac”—
No such objection was u-g-d. Ano hc was “lhat
he h and made promises when in M lledgevilie during
his election, that h* would not Bit in an/ case lie
hsd been counsel in tile tower 0 uit* ; and that he,
Judge Penning, indignantly deuied ever havieg
made *ny prion sea o ; any kind to anybody v we
by bis conduct as Judge inight be Uifiu need.”
The objection urg-d wa*'hat Ju igo B-nuittg
bad pledged himselt not to p -eside m any vs tiie
b : k caies in which be had been engaged us coun
sel.
The deDia! was, that lie tad made no pledge j
woa'ever. lot to preaid •in aiy pari ice. .r oase or
class o’ O'se*. The diff-retioa beti-eeo rile tw„ is,
I admit, not very important. Inthe o'jeO km, as
stated by your corresponds t, tie mokes the pr uni
sea apfTcWe to ali c si*; as made in the o mrt it
wg confined to a paniouhtr class of c i’es, to-wit:
Bank cases, as they are termed. The term promi
ses is use lin the one all t p eigt iu th* other Ido
tout deem ibi*atat> materia , for, I thick, adhere
used, they are syuonv tnous.
Bu the great error of your co-respondent'-r Hi !
inlortna t, is iu omittos to stale >h*t occur- |
red alternoirds One would “uppo-e f.om rra'lngl
thp aoouu t given in your paper, lhat the matter I
olosed wiih Judg- Beunnig s <Viunl, Ac Suoh wss j
nottheo se A oouvers non b*tween Judge B-u !
ning and mveeU, iinmed ateiy f'flowed in whcli, i
was diseles-d tact.- showing,’ as I think, that the i
charge that Juige B ntrng before his election had I
made plegee Ac., is substantially, if not literally, I
true.
Iu that onnversstidD Judge [limning was under i
Stood to admit, a-id such is ne tact, that during his
canvass before the L-g s'a’ ure objection* were I
made to Ids eiic'ion.on ibi ground of h s ro mec
lion with these Bnk ca-es, -s coiiun-! Toat hoi
came to the deter n t a'i It not to preside in nv in
whioh lie had been employed,and tiiat ho announc
ed iu Milledgevillo, betore hts e! cti m, that cetor
mtnation, an i that his p tsition and o <uree if eleoted
in regard Io tloae ea*es was well known and uudr
stoudiuen. D “-a n- t tins, under the cirouuistau es
am mut to a p edge 1 I then thought and yet think
that it does- Judge Banning thinks lhat it does not.
Our and ff* ret Cos was net as to s hat oatispired in
Millsdgeville bes re hi* e'eciion, but as to lire name
try which it ought t* be called. For the purp- se
for whiol: it was intr dazed iti'O • tits on rover iy, it
is wholly iinma eiinl wnet her it be Called a pl dgs,
promise, aspesineut nr Uh'l-r.rtind ig, or by a.iy
other uama. It is evident that these things were
done w.th some ( urpea —Unit they meant s one
thibg—that expec a hm* -v<*re ra'sed which would
be dirapp.ioted if Judge Benuing was to preside iu
Lhat eloui of oases.
I then proceeded to show—end I think I did so
conclusively—that by -J ge Hennihg’e presiding in
the case then before the Court, he would as effect
ually decide lhat c'as. ; of rases, to wit : the Bank
cases, against his former client, sail heprrs.n-d
on their trial. This i • aieo entirely ourilUd iu the
otatemeu given by your e irre pendent.
This is not all; three out 11 live o’ the objee ins
to Judge Banning at em l mentioned at all. It was
stated as an objrC iou to h m, that whilst at the bar
he united with the other cu-ise’ f.-r thastovk ioid
ers, iu tt.e preimra'i n and defeuo- of their Bunk
cases generally, i hat he, or Jotit-s A Uouttii g aid
ed and contributed largely in constructing the long
a’gumeut, uied riy ‘Jo! 11 a; a': Arne icus some
yeats -ioce io one ot ttnor Bauk case*, tne question
of the S a ute* of L n at* to . th- main question iu
the case betore the Court Aud alio t-at tie-are
caked had been tried in the Court below, and
brought to this term of the Supreme Court, with to
avowed purpose that Judg- Benuing ut girt pres de
in it; a'a ihat a similar case against tnersrateof
Daniel MoD ugald had been tried at toe ea-uet nn
iu the CL u i b’ loiv. nnd if ca ritd to the Supreme
Court would be retained to the next term, whin t
this cast, although ti : and la*f, Is brought to this term
It would have been fair and j lit tu a 1 parties, tba’
all the ground of objection so mid have tieen given
|hb they'were urged, am. mole especial y when not
ous ot them was denied or Controverted except the
| one in regard to the pledger ot Ju lie Henning,
j Ij this reßpeot liie statement uiadc t yur cor
respondent, re enbles that ui ide by ice i-.iito;* of
the Utorgia Tel graph, and tuns to (oofim the
su pinion mat ino information given him and your
Goriaßpoudenf, came Ir in ihe same source. Ills
to be regretted that be, oenuptit : so i oporta -a
position as to become iha source of iufor na ion fur
the pr* *a wamoun rs fortunate in comprehend
ing and rsooileOtiug unit wbion he attempts to corn
mumcate. ,
In r-gard to ihe rn na k ofyour correspondent, as
to the manner en 1 ext. nc which Judge li nn:’
o uirse is sustained by ‘he if-u, 1 know no Jung end
can have nothing to say. But wo bout intend ng in
the least to impuuee ihe ooireotue sos the BlU'c
meni, f Wonlil sugsest that it may be possible, ;ba
tha portimof the Bir with whom jour correspon
dent was tarowu m coimn iu c ition, night have
been c*U’ißel for the Blockh cl ra, as Ih -V are nu
iUeroUa, aad generally ub ut ihu Court when their
case are Up lor heui log
My conueuiiou with ihi,* aff-nr wi I, I hope, bs
deemed a eulficimt apo.ogy n>r -ug*es!ii g lire er
rors and supplying tne omissions lo the a Count
given of it by y’ Ur cnrrc-spou-Jeui, and tuat you will
as obuerlul y punish tr.u correoiious as you did the
original SI itt-meirb.
Very respeotiuliy, years, Ac,
W, Doughertr.
Another Uiudgec vts tui Upper Mississippi
—Tire ciirccfois oi the Galena nnd Chicago Rai road
have decided to commence Ihe coin traction of the
Fallon Bridge across the Msssippi Tver, to e n
neet, their read with the two railroa is fi in Clinton
and Lyons, in lowa, as eoon as rhe stockbo'den
vote their appi'.v.J of it. Tile plan proposud is
that it be built by an independent company, but
under Ihe control and supervision of the Galena I
Company, and when completed to be leased to them !
at an annua! retal of eight par cent, on the cash !
cost. The Gzieua road muet have the privi ego of j
i purchasi g tiro bridge at cost at any time within j
j five years on giving one ytar’s prr viou i notice.— !
; The bridge is estimated to ecs $3011,(1110 aid w.th
j expense cf management and rep-, is the rental of
i the Galena Company will be ab, u SIO,OOO ptr an
\ ntim. It was etateu that Ihe revetUa of the old
I Rook Island Bridge, for the last two years has
‘ amounted to about ibis turn. Aipec’el meeting ol
the Btnckho ders is ral cd to meet n Ub ctgo on the
i filb of October next, to c'eei e whit .er the pr-pc ed j
plan shall be carried on or tu t.
Quite Right —The D infury Times says ti at a
j Worn in who has been divorcs from her 1 nsOsnd on
! account of Lis drit.kim; ] r. te*ri and consequent
crue.ty, marriid 11m again on Isnfjrmtt n du
ring the great revival. But the l usbanifel i to
his old habi'o, and, a short time c;j,o, iu a Ut of n
toxica ti on, return -■ to the hottsa - ‘ the woman he
had tw:oo married, and col nlltcd to t ie f].,mes .
every urtiulo of her wearing apparel upon wit ah he 1
could lay hi. ban- . For the betrayal of hrr rust ;
: in this and other act*, she no;? positively declare* .
ihatsuo wiii never marry him again.
The LtoCABiN Burned.—The “old Log Cabin,” |
so famous in political history, has gone as last I It ■
was ibe reeitfenos ol G-;eral Uarriaonat North)
Bend, alien J6miles below Cincinnati, wleuhe j
was nominated for President, nnd was made ta- ’
m us by a thousand song? in the campaign of 1840 j
It took tire ami was totally consumed on Sunday
morning lad. It wus or upied by Colonel William i
H H.Taylor, (who married a daughter of Gemral !
Han Lon.) ana lainiiy, and it wnsetate t that such j
wus the rapid progress of the fire and so late .ts
disoovary, that the aieinberso! the househo.d bartly j
escaped iu their nig! t clothes. Os course notLii g j
was saved in the way of ;u.'nitu:e or doeumuits, ’
and the probability is, that r auy va'uable paps s,
left by President Harrison, together wit r articles
Cherished at reli a of the Ol 1 Hero, aud of the e>.riy ■
hi-tory of the West, nave been destroyed with, the j
building.
Bear Hunting in S-uthek* Georgia.—The
Albany PatrX't of Thursday ia t.fCpsr vVe have
just returned from ibe Br-ar range, and of course j
have heal'd ail about it. Wo bad i o time for per- ,
sonrtl tip-r'tnc- in tho “port On Wtdn- iday of i
last week, Joab Qil-L-s, Eq, one of a company of I
hunters, killed n Heariu Chickasawhatehee Swamp
v.hioh weighed five Luud/ed pounds. On Tu day ;
last, II Campfield, Eeq , one of a cumpe.uy, hum- j
iug in Cornwall-.-13 Seam!;, allot and wouude Ia Bear j
which wan not oaptured. It was j isti, gly said by
one of the Company, Ifcat if the (r e fr m wh ch the j
shot was made, hod not been quite so tall, the Bear
might have been k lied. There Waa a B;sr hunt in
l)jickaoa batches Swamp on Tuesday last, from
which we IraVe not beaid. Mr. l’op: wLy is over
seeing for Mr, h. W Woiktr, caught aycungiu
whion be is domesticating.
Next Saturday a oompary is to start from the
plantation of Geo. Wt k r, h q, on a Bsai hunt in
Colawabee Swamp, s x miles from Albany. Here
is a chance lor volunteer buut-.rv. Heirs era nu
meroua in the swamps’, auo are destroying som*
corn.
Fire in Columbia, S. (j—We learn from tin
Columbia, (S C ) papers, Iha- afi e uccurr-sd iu that
city on Fiday night last, wbi b destroyed the ca:L
douse and baiksmitii shop if C Back, the livery
stable, buggies, provender, See , of Greene &
Bailey, and a email stable acj doing. The lose n
estima ed at so 4JO. on wh en there was lose ante
to the amount of $1 310, iook-ng a citar toss of $4,
lUO.
The Hon H K Jack on, the United Btates Min
iater to Vienna, was one of the passenger on b oar
the Northern Light, from Liverpool, waioh reached
New Tork on Monday ni-zht last
Large Cargo —Tne sn-p Regulator, cleared frorr
Mobile, A a.,a few days since, for C.dt* Spain
witn a cargo of 272,161 stave’, and 233 hickoi;
handspikes, vaiusd at fib,133.73, said to be the
largest ca-go of staves ever snipped from that p-r
none vessel.
The Cost of Reaching the Frszek Bivei
Mines -A letter to Le New York J’ mo - 1 01 u “
nerce states that ti e price <d passage by the tiene
er from San Fiancif.ee to Victoria, Bflmgham Bay
it 0., is on tie avertge $-b :0 t*'’ ‘ , ' = ” 0 ,tj ’
s *0„ and -ir river pas-age en the sreamerSu,
prise, er by ranee to Foil Hope, il i. o say, tba
ato ner.rogo fro,i W > rai.msco to t rarer rmi
mins”, wautsa j aaL2-o u r ts’ casu to enabi. ,
him EUtoesslndyfo rtaci the nines ana to precur.
tie ri q irffe outt;t
----• kwill FElgNfr-R.” —Ihe most senijble sugges
tOB wui h Is* been inees up-n tl/s-c ou tar lui
att.es of Nv Yirk. was i \, Ltto uoed by ‘AI
j ,iui--n ‘iucksr, in the Board < 1 Am. man o i a
u; i y, t.at ait me vtiic’es encased : and etx bu Eg
m k from he distil rry Seb'eisioald be lebe eo
Fad Milk,” so tba t e i v>-rs of tl at p a t o
alar beverage would kiow w era t fin l it a a
g anoe of the eye. Thli t- anexos ent ropos t<n
acd will enable everj\oiy who want, ihe po S) 0
the iia-.iilSr.ca to take it iu its pure aid j a pab e
ter*.
SoinrbYdy Hit.
The Dsmooratio Washington conreipondent of
‘ lie Baltimore Sn,in Ihe f J'rw'rg letter hits aorrr.
ody a very s *vere blow about the North-weetein
boundary, th* ‘'St, fdorfign” qu a'.ion, o’ whioh our
readers ice beard in day* gone by. It is certa'n-
: y very unkind ii the wr le-, to be thna kicking V r
u ol.K iu hi’ grave, whob ickei aid fe lid eobeautl.
-ally on ibis question. But he is a deid Donkey
row, and ‘ there are none ao pocr as to do him rev
reuse.” But yesterday, when he had the spoils to
di*pense, all shouted his praxes to the echo, and to
- ay he b ruthlessly classed by his own partisans
among the < ©graded class of “ demagogues. 7 ’ But
to the letter:
Washington, July 26—The course of the British
Cos! mial Secretary, S r K. B Lytton, in regard to
rh<- pta'e ot things which has arisen at Vancouver’*
I iand and t o adjaO'-Lit main land, in consequent*
.if ihe guid discoveries on Fraitr river, appears to
be cnligti'ened and liberal. His instructioi sto Go
vsrini’ D uglas, and also the projeot before Parlia
:Eti,t for a proviuoial government so. New Caledo
nia, are said t > have riven muoh aatietacil n b*re.
fney pr. mise free scope for the snterpiisug sprit
of our people, who wi be thereby encouraged to
.•ave Cali lorn ia and Oregon, and build up an im
port nt British colony on the Baaifto as an i ffset to
the R issiau estah'isuinen s, naval and commercial,
ou riis Auroor. A* s,.on ns the government ol New
Caledonia shall ba established the provisions ot the
Catia uau revipr ci ytrea'y wfil, doubtless be applied
tin. Thu* will bs carrisd out the declaration of
the Colonial Seeretaiy that tbs intereota of com
mtree aud civil;xatiou must be preferred to those of
ami ui.polv tike the Hudson’s Bay C mpany. We
.ave no consul or commercial agent at Vancouver’a
Isis .and or on Frazer a river. Tliere would seem to
tie a prrs-ing net usion for the appnii tmeut of one.
Vein r. grets are expended upon our lues of the
rol leu region* of NewCalsdonta by the Oregon
:ie*ty. It is very true that our right to Ihe Terri
tory ds far north a* fifty-four f irty w tsjust as good
as >o forty-nine, and not ‘ unquestionable” at that
—tiiough Mr. Polk had, at he “Ut*et of hisalmlnis
tra ion, to deslartd it Wo lost the territory—that
h, e • tar as we could lore what did not belong to
,—by our own p-eoipitauey iu giving uotioe to the
I B iiish government of the termii atiou of the |"int
n oupancy of the same. If <ur demagogues had
h ti, content to let well enough alone, the inevita
ble result, ia iho course .of rime, would have been a
1 ‘ya'em&tic and thorough out squa'llug of the Brit
-1 -ehoeouparoy in Iho whole territory, and we wood
ave had it up io “fifty-four forty ‘ without th*
I ‘’fight.” However, we chose to aisposees* our-
Ives of ihe adva, tage by the treaiy limit of the
j torty-uin h parallel.
The National Intelligencer copies a portion of
j this letter aud very pertinently adds;
, It is some s&jsiactiin to peroeive that tha lessons
“f tune and ex eiieitce are not wholly lot upon
j our Democratic trends, though it is a matter of ro
et that their enlightenment should dime too late
give the on try the practioal bemfftof their
retrorpective wrd m. Tue polioy of “a masterly
uactivity” in relation to Oregon and its occupation
u’dS advocated by t e Whigs, and by a few Demo
era s uuder the lead if Mr. Calhoun, during the
ton'roversy <m Ibis -ut jsct.
But the ’’demagogues “as this Dsmooratio au
th- rity now enti he them, would have their way;
they ti s s-td on “giving nntioe” to Great Britain,
t se ted the il*bt f the U sited 8 ates to be “olear
aud ui q lestionable’’ to “me whole of Oregon or
i o e,” end touk fur their party watchword the al
j I 'erarive slogan of “Fifty four Fury or Fight”
How the clamor ttius raised was spent for naught
v.'e 111 eu ho- parti ulariy recite, as its linonncemcnt
is i-utfi nearly read In tie bmtorio fact that m c .nse
rutnee nf the s-ttlemettt then effected, it came to
i ass ttiat Frazer’s and Vtiomp,on ’e rivers, with ail
tdeir appu tenant “bars,’’ “piacers,” “gulches,” aud
other Uepoi itones nf golden wealth, (which are in
t te latitude ot 494 ) foil into the hands of our Brit
ish cumins, finch b undeting can now be repaired
r- e t-uppose, only by a “suof ssful revolution” in
N w Ca'edonia; tir9 possiullity ot which is already
ml mutt ed in certain quarters, aud whioh it r ff oted,
would pto'iably revive the Dsmoora Io irsd lions of
I 'a* campaign. f 1814 in favor ot the “re-occupation”
and 1 rt-aunexati. n”of Oregon.
Great Sale < r Qu.cKsii.viK ar Spain.—The
Spanish Consul at New York has announced that
his Government will sell at auotion, on the tilth of
Jb-ptamber nut, deliverable at the warehouses ol
Atarazanas, at Seville, iu Spain, 16 OtK) quintals (ot’
ll.lj pounds eaob) ot qu’okci vnr f.-om the mines of
Almaden, put up iu iron fla-ke; and in like manner
will s* 11, on rite same day, Ihe stook of quick iiver
t aat m iy ex st at the London docks, put up also in
Iron fi alts, and which is estimated at 6.UUO quintals
of 109 pounds each Proposa's and neg tiations
are to bs tffseted in due f.nm either at Madrid or
London.
An Old Salt —The Pe e sburg (Va; Intelil
gencer, noticing the death of Ei. Ctocktr, boat
a.vaiu, U. S N , a’ Portbmuuth, says :
lie wss a native of that plaoe, and whan vrry
joung eeleted lor duty ou bo rd the UhlortU'ibte
Ctiesoi eake, aud was n t* at vessel when the mise
t able o >l.- ion with Ibe Leopard took place. Afier
wards he serveo on board the Constitution, under
t is comuiai dos Itomm'dure Hull, and took, au ac
l.ve part iu the fight whioh ir-tulted in the capture
•if the Gierrif re ; one r f the mutt important naval
battles ever fought. He was also one of the orew
“f old Ironsides, when she escaped from the British
fi e’., out ol Long Inl&a 8 uud ; and in the same,
ve. sel parti'-ipated in tl a fight with the Java, in
n ich she became a prize to ti e American*. For
his i< n* aud meritorious eervi en he was promoted
o the *th ;t wtiich he held at tLe time of his death,
by President Monroe Iu bis dec ining years he
iir<fts*'d rt- igiun, and btcme a member of the
Prssby teriau Lbuicli.
Terrible Deaih - A negro woman, be'ctiging
to Lutlu l otiirau, living borne ten m'les eoutheas c
of Panola, Jlltss , was etrmk ty lightning last week,
vide sittLd ng near a tree under which she had
token shelter during a storm. The lightning ttruek
the tree and pasted down her body, opening all tbe
3-amsof her drees, and twitting the skin of bar
ody once or twice around her. She died In a few
hours.
The Florida Indians.—Capt. Shaw, of tbe U .
S aUamboat Ranger, who arrived at New Orleans
on Friday ‘aat, from Tampa, Fla, states that Capt
McNeil, who was iu charge of the party endeavor
ing to open communication with the Tal'ahassee In
and aos, had ata k with two of the ohieis, who in
| forrnid h’m that they would get ready to emigrate
j in the I*ll, provided Billy Bowlegs would return and
| have a talk with them. It appears ihe Tallahasseet
j were not aware that Billy had already emigrated.—
In all probability they will soon come in.
A meteor was observed at Bnffalo ey A Monday
i night. Itn proportions wero cxtrems'iy large, ap
pearing to be at least half a mile length and ex
ceedingly brill ant. Its coarse, was eastward, in a
zig-zag manner, and for fiveTniuutei it was plainly
vis ble, whan it exploded, treating as fine a display
ot tne works as oouid b't- desired to be witnessed.—
Toe wuo saw *,aq phenomenon describe it as par
ttou'arly S usndiJ.
j Ca?t, be Riviere.— ihe editor of the Peoria
; (In.) Tru script fays :—“We are assured by a gen
Ueurau who has reoently returned stem New York,
where he saw Capt. de Riviere, the impudent and
in fifatigable foreigner of large pretensions, who
has lately distinguished b.mself by running away
from Mobi e with tbe wife and daughter of a
wea thy lawj er, that he is the identical Bignor Don
Pedro P L. de Moreto, who turned the bead of all
tbe Chicago belles a year ago, bought a thousand
; dollar horse with borrowed money, got np a mag
nifleent excursion fir Hyde Park, which was pa
crouized by the wives of a diatinguisheu Senator and
a well known Chioago lawyer, and. finally, becom
mg surpee’ed, vamosed for parts unknown, leaving
behind a large number of anxious creditors, sevw.al
broken hearted young misses, with mortified, and
; disappointed mammas, an astonished city, haff-e
----i dozen happy local newspaper reporters, and two
runk3 tilted with ditty Itneu at and cravaka.”
Tbe Ga’latiu (Tenu ) Examiner, </ the 24 h say*:
1 “The Wheat of this county may j probably, turn
j out about one-half an average crop. We are in
| dined to think that this erMuneTe is full high. Th*
Ovt crop is a total taiiux*; Vjere will not be any
i thing like eeed saverb fl <wever, there is a good
I dea “f the old crop on hand. We may look (os
j big prices for seed nrxt season The Cirnup to
be present I m has promised a large yield, but we
lave braid f -u. au iuteliigenl farmer, a few days
j -luce, that Le hsd observed eometbiig ia tbe ap-
I pearance ot the Com resembling the rust upon OaU.
I f° l9 i3 anew 1 kluk’ in Corn matters and deserves
attention. Our farmers bad better be watching
dusely ibis new pbencmenon, for new it certainly i.”
Seizure or a au f.cied Slaver at Kit
IVkst—lhe K y West Co-respondent of tbe
Chari aton Courier says ‘ The bark Lyra, Dlok.
ay, has besn seiz and lor alleged complicity with tb*
b ave Hade. Her crew and those passing tb*m.
; lives -ff a* ua*engers, bave left tha bark, and
Capt. Dickey, after helping himself to all the ready
r-a h, fe me $7 00(1 <>r SIO,O 0,) hr* taken bis exit
A warrant for his arrest was issued to tbe U. &
riarsbal, tut too late to catch him. he having sailed
at 12 o clock the night previous in a boat for Tam
pa-”
Gold Production for 1857—The production
of gold io Australia for th * past year ia eat down
by the best E iglieh authorities at ona hundred mil
lions of dollars. The production in other countries
is es i uated s frilnws : -California, $66000,000;
Uu*si i and Siberia S2O 000,000; other parts of the
world, $15,000,000 ; to'nl SIOO,OOO 000.
Jn a letter from a p rsou jt tue highest poeitioc
uear ite Emperor Napoleon, to a member of the
diplomatic corps at Washington, it is stated that
ihe •‘entente cordiale ,” so c Jled, between tbe Elm
eror and Eagland exl ti undisturbed. But, ae
‘as ad ted by this sagacious diplomatist, it is but
he “entente ’ ot pollLiool eonvemeoo*, and a few
years will prove it. The “entente'’ exists, but the
eordatU’ does not.
The Heat Abroad —Latter# from Europe and
India speak of tie remarkable beat of the season*
The accounts (To n India reported that the Intense
heat of the country appears to have a fatal effect
ujon tie English troo s. In the 36th Regiment
eiglty four deaths of apoplexy were announced.
Tw London tLestres have been deserted on ac
count of the great heat, and several persons are re
norted to have died from the same cause. The
irougbt throughout Franoe is excessive. The
geii.e is reported to be nearly as low as it was in
1719. In England the crops are reported to be
very pr--mining, except in districts where the
ironght has affected them. In Spain the harvest ie
very tine.
The Cattle Disease.—The TbomasvlUe Be
o trier says ibit the disease among the deer and oat
t.e appears to be abating in that section.
1 ie reported that the Administration at Washing
on Lave given the contraot for the iron pipes for
.be new water works in the ftderal capital to a firm
ii Scotland. The Tukhill Standard barns the fao
rom a gentleman reticent in the vieinity of Fish -
ud.
Among the Americans at Paris from June Mto
July 4. were Messrs. J T. Henderson, Va H
& uehardt, and W. ii Saudi, of Maryland.
Thesoient fio txpeditioo under Col htylee,wfaktt
Gar;ed for New Maxioo and ariaona *■ -Tn* mon-ha
tt**, hai been hear I from, h tv>ng reaobel Ei Paata
nr yla Juns. It was to proceed immediately he
t ie bilve* dta-riots of Arizona.
The Winchester Tenn., Home Journal is In ooov gs
a lidy who kLows. teat a b-g “ro iter” oauK ,w
ye,seeu at the W nob ester fiprlnge oil owed by ay *ng
of little chichtna who! he hato-ed Limos and
which he is now raising wth ad tbe Under,raCn>-
uonate wre that qiaracttziath ft natural m