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Cjtrmticle £ Sentinel.
The State Koart— A Rcmiainrenre.
As the present and past management of the State
Road has recently been the subject of discussion, in
connection with the report of a Democratic legisla
tion committee, we have thought the following arti
cle ; which appeared in the Chronicle Sp Sentinel, in
1855, might prove interesting ; especially as the
American party then charged tbe corruption which
a Democratic committee has since developed.
Read it:
MR. COWART AS I) GOT. JtHSSO.V AGilti.
Mr Editor. —My attention baa been oirected to
a communication in tbe Southern Recorder of 21st
of Angust, in which Gov. Johnson is reported to
have eaid, n a speech in Lee oounty—“Wadley.
and Cobb thought it to the interest of the State to
appoint one, (Commissioner) and continue him in
office at a salary of $1500; that this commission
had a secretary et SSOO, and employed counsel to
each an expenditure of money, that it amounted to
some twenty five hundred dollars , that be thought
some of this money might be Baved tbe State, and
employed an Attorney, Commissioner, Se< i etary
and all in one individual, at a salary of S2,UUO, and
a saving to tbe State of at least ss<lo.’’
Here is a deliberate statement made to a public
audience, by the Governor of the “Empire State
cf tbe South,” and Gov. Johnson knew, or be did
not know, whether this statement was true or false.
If he knew the facts as they exist, he has deliberate
ly and knowingly misrepresented them. If he did
know that this statement was not true, he ought not
ts have made it. He says it was thought to be
“tbe interest of the Stete to appoint a Commissioner
and continue him in office at a salary ol SI2OO. ’ —
Thu u not true. It was not thought advisable to
appoint a Commissioner and continue him in office.
Col. Karries was appointed fjr no specific length of
time. Nor was he appointed at a Balary of SI2OO.
He was appointed to examine into and report upon
the claims against tbe Road, at tbe time of his ap
pointment, aud was promised a reasonable compen
sation torthe service be might perform, to be judg
ed of after the work was done. The first year
(1852) he was engaged nearly the whole year and
received for his services $1,250. The next year
(1853) be was engaged but a part of tbe year and
received, for the. time he was employed, at the rate
paid him in 1852. Col. Farias’ employment in tbe
service of the Road ceased, because tbe claims
against tbe Road Lad all been examined into and
either allowed or rejected, aud there was no farther
use tor him. Now, look at the difference. Col.
Farisa was appointed when the whole road, from
Atlanta to Chattanooga, waa out of order, and it re
quired all of Wadley'e time and energy in putting
the Road in order, equipping it, building depots,
&.C., and there waa really work for Farm to do
Wadley having no tiiae to attend to it. When
Cowan was appointed the Hoad was in (food order
from oue end to the other, and there was nothing
for Cowart to do ; and if there had been, the Super
intendent bad time to attend to it. Again : Col.
Farias was paid ioT the work he actually done and
performed , nothing more. Mr. Cowart ge s two
thousand a year, whether he does anything or not;
and Gov. Johnaon keepa him in office over the head
of the Superintendent.
But. Guv. Johnaon says, that the appointment of
Mr. Cowart “Attorney, Commissioner and Secre
tary,” savea to the State “at leaat ssoo.’’ I deny
the troth ot this statement Bear in mind that Guv.
Johnson aaya that the expense ot the Commissioner,
Secretary Hud Attorney, was some twenty-five hun
dred dollars per annum, during Gov. Cobb’s Ad
ministration, and that Mr. Cowart ia now doing the
work of the Commissioner, Secretary and Attorney,
and thus saves to the State SSOO a year. I am
amazed at the recklessness of this statement. Let
faclt speak and Gov Johnson blush, if it is possible
for him to feel ashamed. First, then, Mr. Cowart
lias received in one year, more money than Col,
Farisa received during the whole time of Gov. Cobb's
Administration In the next place, Cowart does
not do the bootees that was done by Attorneys
while Varies was in office. On the contrary, many
mure Attorneys are note employed in the service of
the road than were engaged when Cowart isos ap
p tinted. Col, Akin was employed by the road,
doring Gov Cobh's Administration, to attend the
cases for and against the road, in the Cherokee Cir
cuit, and be alone attended to all the cases except
two. tie is still attending to all the cases he was
engaged in when Cowart was appointed, aud be
sides hun, there aie now in the ainpl.ojrment of the
road, in the Cherokee Circuit, Underwood, Smith,
Milner and Brown. Do these five Attorneys work
for nothing . or dues Mr. Convert pay them out of
Lis salary f If not, how does his appointment save
to the State $501) a year 1 And besides all thise,
there are other Attorneys employed by the road,
who live out of the Cherokee Circuit. Will the
Discipline, at Atlanta, please publish their names l
Then the people will begin to see how much is
eared to the Stale by appointing Mr. Cowart At-
torney for the road
But, Mr. Editor I wish you to remember that
Col. Farisa was paid only for the time he teat at work
for the road. Whatis Mr Cowart paid for 7 It
matters not whether he works one day or not, he
gets his two thousand dollar). Heisgojng about
making political speeches aud electioneering ‘or his
employer, and, for every day he thus spends he is
paid out of the people’s money five dollars amt forty
seven centt. Yea, every day, since his appoint
ment, Sundays included, fce bag received $5 17,
and how many days of the whole lima hqs he been
employed in the service of the road,? I doubt
whether he has averaged one a week. He is now
riding on the road tree of charge, and receiving
over live dollars a day to aid in Governor Johnson’s
election, llow many speeches has ho made fi r the
road 7 How many oases has lie brought fog it 7
How many has he prepared for trial, for or against
the road T If he can show one case that he has
brought for the road, or one that he has prepared
for tiial, either foror against the road, he will sur
prise me. How many old claims against the road
has he examined ana allowed or rejected 7 I shall
look for bis report on thi* subject with some interest.
While he is travelling over Ls o*>t*ntry working for
Governor Johnson, other attorneys fire at worjt for
the road, and doing the very service £or which
Cowart is paid.
But, Mr. Editor, there is a principle involved in
this matter ot tar more importance to the people of
Georgia, than simply the amount, of money expend
el (lov. Johnson has put his hand into the l’rea- I
jury of the State, and taken therefrom two thousand
dollars a year, and given it to a partisan without
any authority of taw. No well informed person,
w o has any regard foi truth, will deny this state
ment.
Mr. Editor, If there ia anyacrorh; s.nyting I have
elated, let it bs ithown, and I wH Whc pleasure in
acknowledging it. But if any oue douota froth
of what I have written, let him place Jameti if.
Cooper, Mr. ’Wadley, Mr. Yonge, Col, Akin and
Col. Farias, on the stand, and examine them folly
touching the whole matter; let him interrogate the
Judges of the Coweta, Blue ltidge and Cherokee
Circuits, rs to the) ases Cowart lias intended to for
the Bond; aud I aui of opinion that the publication
of their testimony before the election, would make
the supporters of Johnson feel tad. _ l have just
read a letter from oue who knows stating the facts
of Col. Farias’ appointment, and hotv ho was paid,
and this letter can be forthcoming, and the writer
with it, if necessary.
Has the Constitutionalist accepted my propiisi-
J W'ili it or any other respectable Journal 7
Como, Col. Gardner, what say you 7 Col., I have
written the truth— and yon certainly cannot be
afraid for your subscribers to read it. Will you
publish this on Ui derma proposed in my last ? Wo
shall see. Justice.
P. 8. Will the Southern Hexonte-r publish the
above for the benefit of its Lea Corrjspondeut.
From the Savannah Republican.
The Poor Poorer—The Klrh Kicker.
Ur. Editor—lS a poor man be allowed to speak
a word on the effect of tho slave trade, I would
like to have that jvnvilega through your columns.
Y'ou have based your opposition to it up,on its il
legality—good. My opposition to it, springs tram
interest. Here are my reasons ; If we are to have
negro labor in abundance, where will my support
come from 7 for 1 say it with ali bitterness and re
gret lam poor, very poor. If my labor is to be
supplanted by that of negroee, how can f Jive 7
Negroes will drive drays, negroes will load and an
rOWt ooiton, negroes will work in the cotton presses,
oegrrsis will load ships, negroee will build railroads
In short, with an abundance of negroes, a poor
white man walgfand no chance at all to make a
support . aud to make it still harder on us we will
have to pay more for hit. shoes and all thi
necessaries, which poor men a l '* negroes use alike.
It wont affect the price of turkeys, ban.?, loaf sugar,
broad cloth, steeple-crowned hate—but the
of existence, hog, homony and homespun would go
ap, and the poor would glow poorer while the rich
grew richer. ... ~
I was bora ;n Georgia and lore her as my moth
er ; but if the labor market is thus to be glutted by
the importation of Africans, it is clear to my mind
that the negroee already Lev will be promoted to
the places now filled by poor while men. In that
eeant, which I believe certain, we who iiajte our
bread bv the sweat of our brows, will either heye
to strata c.r seek new homes, leaving my beloved
old State a monopoly to the rich and their slaves.
If you will put U.U note in your paper, I may try
and aeud you some moo : ‘noughts on the same sub
ject. yormno Laid Up.
MixTiae or rut Stockholdirs or rmt bhe-f •
COLA ASDGsoBoiAIiAiLROAD Company, atMalil
aos C. H.. Dec. Jtith, Usß.—The annual report of
the Board ot Directors w*a read by E. C. Cabell
President. . *
From this report, it appears that L~t entire road
is under contract to the town of Alligator, at which
point it connects with the Jacksonville road, wiaah
Is all graded, fifteen miiaa finished, and iron bought,
and mostly in the State, to eow plete twenty miles
more, leaving but twenty-five miiei of that road to
be ironed. Except for about thirty-live miles, the
grading is done on the whole of the Bene acorn and
Georgia Railroad from Tallahassee to Alligator, ilk)
miles An efficient force is at work on the un
finished work, to ensure its oooipleuoo m the course
ol the next twelve months, and cocttaou made for
cross-tie* and track laying. Twenty five mneflof
the road is in operation ana doing s lair busuieas.
The indebtedness of the Company is a little over
•annuo The assets are, county bends on hand
imd unpaid subscriptions, $172,000; one half inter
est In the Tallahassee Railroad to b’- Marks ;as
miles of rose u.operation, with a superabundance
es rolling stock lor present purposes ; 46 miiee more
graded, and the balance 35) under contract, to be
paid (or in lands. 250,0v0 *ures of land unappro
priated, $61,000 Internal Imptor<-mect bonds on
hand, and Authority to issue $lO,Mv per mi.e of In
ternal Improvement bonds for purchase of iron and
equipments.
The bridge across Us# Suwannee river is under
contract, acd much progru made in ita construc
tion, to be paid tor in bonds.
The raoet skeptical cannot now doubt that St.
Marks will be connected by railroad, through Tal
labaeeee, with the ai Jacksonville and irer
oandina.
The President s report was referred to a commit
tee coowhpg of Gen. Waddy Tboaipeon, Judge
McGehee. Kev. K J Maye. Dr. Eppes. l>. S, Wal
ker, Lawrence Took®, Carraway Suiitfc, and S. 15.
Thomas. Esc*.
The Committee reported to the meeting the next
day, concurring in tee opinion that th* assets of the
Company were amcie tor oi’ the road.
They recommended a eaie of the Company’s e&aJj
and that the Directors use ad the resources of the
Company to pay off their indebtedae** X hey re
commend that tie assent of the Comply t* ‘a,
on fair terms, to aconnection with It road from
Georgia. East of the Alapaha, and to a road from
the vicinity of fjuincy to the Georgia Sine in the
direction of Bainhridge, with a yiewto a connec
tion with the Southwestern Kauroad , but that if
the “Main Trunk’’ is built on the lower surveyed
route, “Florida abouid never consent to a connec
tion with Georgia at any point. There were other
lees important recommendations. .....
TheCommittec'ti report wae concurred in by the
A letter was received from Mr. Cabell, tendering
his resignation as President of the Company.
oTmouon of Col. Pone, the thanks of the Com
o-ny were tendered to Mr. Cabed for the emcipnt
jnanner in which he bad conducted the affairs of the
Company.— raZAaAosfc* fiandui,.
Two young men were discussing woman the other
day at the Hotel, and one was endeavoring
to convince the other, eomething of a mieogniat, by
tha by, that to the fair sex man owed ail hi* com
fort. “They are, indeed,’’ be remarked, the prl ;
meva! cause of buuian happiness. “Mo doubt,
was the rejoinder, “they are the prime evil them
selves.’—Cm fiey.
From the Colnmbut Sun.
The Late Muscogee Railroad Disaster.
Not being able to obtain anything like satisfacto
ry or definite inior.nation as to the extent of the
train disaster which occurred on the Muscogee
Railroad, eixteen miiee from tbia city, on Friday
morning, we went to the scene of tbe wreck on
Saturday. . M
The height of the bisks of the creek is about oh
feet, the crossing to wh ch is secured by a culvert
of atone masonry wbic-b baa been standing some
three years. Tne only person a-ived who was in a
position to know how the accident happened, was
the negro wood pas3er. He aaya nothiug appeared
to be wrong, and tbe train was moving slowly over
the culvert, and that when the eDgina approached
the lurther bank be felt the works sinking and Ibe
engine heading up, about which time he was knock
ed or thrown off on the upper side, afid somehow or
other escaped contact wito tbe falling tra n or worha,
and swam aaoore. The train consis ed of the en
gine and tender, a box car in which was Pryor's
celebrated race horse Moidore, William Newby,
Stepney (a negro trainer belonging to George La
mar of Augusta,) and Jordan. race rider, belonging
to Major Eaaeiy of Cas3 county, in charge of the
Horae ; nex’ the br.ggagecar, and last the passenger
car. From the width of the creek, we think the
engine and tender only were on the culvert when
it fell, and that as the other cam successively ap
proached the precipice they fell on top of tbe engine
aud trucks of the tender; and that the passenger car
going over last and fading on the mass, broke the
ooncussion which such a tall would otherwise have
occasioned, aud accounts for those in it not getting
seriously hurt. The passenger car, in its descent,
broke off the to; arid spilt its contents in the water ;*
aud from tbe c‘* amatance of ite going down the
creek a great ai-uance, we think it must have pass
ed over the others to the stream below.
The box car, in which wasjthe horse and bia at
tendants went entirely to pieeer, aid falling when
and aa it did, the wonder ia how the three parsons
in it escaped being crushed to death. The boy waa
scarcely hurt, the uegro man had a large splinter
run into bis hip and bis head slightly injured, and
the white man was but slightly hurt. In the bag
gage aud mail car waa four negro passengers, con
ductor Snell, and W. H. Snell, train band. This car
broke in two, undone portion now rests on the engine
and trucks of the tender, about 40 feet below range
of the track of the road, end the other portion sets on
tbe bank where stood the abutment of a bridge,
which was carried away. None of the negroes in
this car were hurt; W. U. Snell waa killed, it is
supposed, by an injury in the chest; conductor
Sneil received a severe wound oa the nose, and
waa otherwise bruised. He could nut awim, but
waa floated down the stream some four or live hun
dred yards, he don’t know how, with a heavy o ,er
coat on, and finally caught to the limb of a tree,
where he remained suspended in the er several
hours before he was lound ana uscued.
To go and view the scene of the wreok, all won
der how so many escaped a violent death, u.u r i to
none is it a greater mystery than to those who were
the actors.
At the time of the Bad occurrence there waa a
heavy rain tailing, and it was so dark that no ob
ject waa visible.
Number of persona ion the train thirty six, of
which twenty five were saved.
.Saved, — Leroy A. Williams, Merriwether county,
Ga ; John M. Grandbery, Harris oounty, Ga,
sightly injured ; VV'm. P. Dupree, Houston county,
Ga.; W. G. Middleton aDd Dr. Charles Paillips,
Putnam county, Ga.; Wm. Jones, Talbot county,
Ga.; James B Bulloch, Palmetto, Ga.; George
G mmon, Taylor couty Ga , slightly injured; Ben
jamin Frazier, Sumter county; Dr. A. M. Walker,
Columbus, Ga , Mr. Guy, Buena Vista. Ga.
Thomaa S. O'Brien, Charleston, 8. C.; Thomas
Leverettß, Rapides Pari h, La.; Cupt. Eugene
Lambert, New Orleans, La ; H. F. King and H. H.
Dikeman, New York city; G. A. Fickelbergei,
Miss. , James Smith, Texas ; conductor Soell, of
thU city, and six negroes, one of which, Stepney,
property of Geo. Lamar, Augusta, was slightly in
jured.
Killed or DaowNup—Mrs.Thomas Leverette
and three children, Rapides, Pariah, La.; two
Misses Guy, daughters’ of Thomas Guy, Russell
couuty, Ala.; Mrs. Smith, an old lady from Texas;
Henry Miller, engineer ; M Bouche, file.nan, and
Wm. H. Snail, train hand, Columbus, Ga.; A. E.
Ely, 78 Bookman et ,N. York.
The bodies of tbe two Miss Guy’s were taken to
Salem, Ala., on Saturday, for interment; those of
Mis. Smith gud Mr. Bouche wore interred iu this
o.ty on Saturday, those of Miller and Snell, yes
terday—the former with tri.) honors of the I. O. O.
F., of which he was a member. Sirs. Jjevtrette
and three children, and Mr. A. E. K : y, werj brought
to the city yesterday evening. Mrs. L. and ouil
dreu will be interred in tbe city cemetery to-day.
Mr. Ely Las been taken charge of by his friends,
afid ril} be Expressed home.
Mr. Leverptts and family were on their way to
AmeticUß, Ga., and Jjre Smith and bar nephew
Jamea Smith, of Texas, werp o their way to visit
her relatives iu Houston county, fyu.
Great credit is due to the persons ia tbe iuimp
inediaU neighborhood of the wreck for their vigi
lant exertiouii in assisting in rescuing the dead
bodies from the creek, end espacially to Mr. Wim
berly and Messrs. John and JaJLk Odom, who threw
open their houses and gave every attention that
could conduce to the comfort of the unfortunate
passengers.
What caused the giving way of the culvert, is
more, we think, than any one cap positively say.
The foundations stand on solid rock and of course
could not have been undermined , neithor is there
any sign of water baring searched its way behind
either wall. The centre of the wall on the west
side is gone to near the foundation, while the lower
and upper corners stand and the north or upper
aide of the archremainn unbroken. We came to
the coficiusion that it was the result of bad mason
ry in a portion of the grpb which the freshet had
little to do in destroying.
We heard several interesting iopidents re'ated of
passengers by persons, in the course oif their etrfig
gles in attofifptiag to rescue themselyes from the
stream. One passenger, when be discovered some
thing was wrong with the ear, Jaj/i hold of his car
pet bag, in which was fcis money, u number ol val
uable papers aud clothing, and held his grasp uni:!
he bad floated some two hundred yards down the
creek, when finding from its accumulated weight
that one of two things was inevitable, that either
Ufo or his treasure had to go; he let it loose aud
eoon found the shore. When Dr. Phillips had se
cured the gfasp of a limb, ho heard floating near
him a voice calling fop fceip, and reaching out his
hand at arms’ length, be cafighf the boy Josrdan,
aud j eacuod him from a watery grave, jjr. Finite!
berger, of Kiss., had fifteen hundred dollars in bank
bills in s roil in a pocket of tis pants, and the pock
et pinned up but in the scramble for life in the
stream, a naughty limb had to thrust it-eli into bis
pocket, ripping it open and discharging its contents
into the stream. He also had eixteen hundred dol
lars in gold belted ar >u:td his body.
OoRRXC riON. —When we were at the wreck on
Saturday niid were viewing the broken culvert, we
asked Whit s?rt of foundation the work rested on,
and were informed by fho Superintendent that it
was solid rock. It was this ir.ofi) wMtsh we drew the
very natural conclusion that the lauit %ap j u the
masonry. The Superintendent cow informs us tuid
on examination of the foundation, on Sunday, alter
the water had receded, it was lound that tbe foun
dation on which the wail that give way was ori
ginal!” set, had given away from water having
fouuditf way through the crevices below, causing
the foundation to yiuß. T his accounts lor only a
portion cf tia culvert falling in ( and relieves the
atajon from the suspicion’ of pot paving done hia
duty. The Superiiiterdentjuiforuis ua that y crow
bar can now bergn down three feet iu that portion
of the foundation, while t!;e rest appears to be as
sound as the day on which the work was put on it.
Snobs. —The English satirist, Thackeray, has
given the world a piece of his mind on the subject of
Snobs, and with even more than hia ueitai nee-ti
muw and yigor. He seems totakeespeci.il de'ight
in impaling riivtfi poor insects, and bolding them
up to the laughter dnj s ontempt of sc- istv. The
manly character of Thackeray to the admira
tion which people entertain for the wit and scholar.
Such a keen eye for shams aud honest contempt
for all pretence, are not otten found in a raoe, one of
whose great foibles ia its servility to rank and its
morbid aspirations for social position. How he
lashes the eLminttot'S and illiterate cockneys, whom
England sends in pucu 6iir,ms to tbe continent !
What sharp, binning arrows he hpilsufonthe
tuff hunters, who live, move ami have’ their being
fn aa stmosphere of flunkeyism 1 He is a Due so
cial republican, and bolds with Burns that “the
rank is out (he guinea's stamp , the mao'e the geld.’’
If snobbery is coatomptible in England, where
there are estab! shed ranks and gradations ofsocie
ty, how much more so in this country, srijeye no re
cognised aristocracy exists ; where moral and intel -
lectual worth is confessedly the only st&udard of
superiority which all men acknowledge: where
men are taught from their cradles their equality
with yio.Vea end princes, and to walk the earth each
as m’V-L a so:, y : r .vn in bis own esteem os tbe most
powerful poienfatp of Europe. Y'et, probably, iu
no land the sun shines on, is more deference paid to
wealth and rank than in the great corn'mcrc-a,l cities
of tbe United States. In tbe rapid accumulation'of
fortunes on this side the wattr, the parveoue of
yesterday becomes the patrician of to-day, and
apes the manners and fashions of the great, with an
imilativeness and alacrity equal to those of the ne
gro „ud monkey on the Atrican coast. With the
accession offegtone comes a crowd of sycophants,
tawning, flittering m-b worshipping the golden
calves with an absurd and'degrading idolctry But
it ta only when a foreign celebrity, a FYeLfiti count •
or an English noble, visits the country, that the
Snobs show themselves in full feather aud make all
toaet men blush for their country and their race.
We h*vc men who are never so happy as when at
taching thenueLVOs to the tail of British lion, who
would rather be a burr in the lion’s tail, and. in
that goodly company, be whkkcd about in the faces
of the crow a nd. than stand upon the foununtiop .of their
own manhood ; nor can it be doubted that they arj
judicious and discreet in their preference. Servility
to rank is infallible proof of conscious weakness
and inferiority <*i p soul which nature herself has
made plebeian and me.ia!, end which is very likely
as corrupt aa it is imbecile —hick.
A M r RDk B Revealed bt a Dream —A miracu
lous discovery of a horrible murder is related by a
Belgian journai of 0 recent date, of which we make
a summary;—Two brother.;. Jews, set out from
Geek with a view of placing their tar; daughters at
a’boarding school in the town of Grosewardein.
During toe night of their absence, the youngest,
daughter age-Tten, who was left at home, woke np
her mother suddenly during the night, and crying
b tterlv deejared that eke taw ol father and uncle,
ami all being murdered. The moths., fpreome
time took no notice of the child's aeoiarnrion. but,
as she persisted, and would not be panned, ohe be;
Tan to be alarmed hereeeif, and the next morrnng
took the child before the Mayor of tbe town, to
whom she declared her dream, stating at the same
time that the murderers were two meu living m the
neiukborho-id, whom she deliberately pomted out,
and ahead that the munier wae committed at the
entrance of tbe forest, on the road to Grosswarcein.
The Mayor, after receiving _tbi3 revelation,
thought it prudent to make inquiry ariw >r e ;
neighbors indicated by tbe child, when, singula,
they were discovered to be absent from
home suspicious circumstance induced the
Maror to diepetoh some officers to the foreet allud
ed to bv theohik. eb“ discovered toe bomb.e
spectacle of five bodies eAxanried on toe ground.
irMc-h were those of the two urotogm. ’be two
d&tiviiDrs and the driver of the vehicle in weigh
toeTil tl'Ueir departure. Tt- corpses appear
ed To have afl boefi “et on fire so as to destroy them
identify and the vehiN. WM nowhere discovered.
This horrible tragedy led toe ameers to examine the
whoD neighborhood, when they fortuity pounc
ed udou uig two neighbors at & fair not -ar diaUu-t,
asSEJ were in toe very actof changing some notes
on which some spots of Mood were visibls On be-,
ing seized they immediately confessed theur crane,
and on toe child's dream being revealed to them
acknowledged the finger of I rovidetuo in
capture. This wonderiul dream on the part ui tiu.
chud, and its fulnlment, excited an immense eenaa
tiou ia the neighborhood.
A Man Impp.isosii> for Havisu his Pooket
Picaxo—The picking of the pocket of Henry hand
ford, the Kentucky drover, of $-2,400, at Woods Thea
tre, night before Last, we have mentioned, and now
bave anew phrase of the case to present Sandford.
after his return to Covington, told the Btory es his
mishap, which was not believed, and two persons,
one his brotner in-law. to whom he was largely in
debted. declared that he had trumped up the tale
to deceive people and defraud hia creditors.
Making affidavits to this effect, Sandford was :
arrested yesterday and placed in the Covington
jail. He still asseverates that he lost his money, as
we have stated, and that imprisoning him for his
misfortunes is an outrageous persecution. How
tb# afiair will eventuate a day or two will deter
mine.—CiMrnvoSs fnjtrtrer.
aIUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 12, 1859.
Extracts from Correspondence Ball. American.
Affair* at Washington.
Washington, Jan. 2,
It is by no means certain that the reception of
Mr. Prefetcn at Madrid will not be attended with
some obstacles. Sufficient time has not elapsed to
understand the impreeoion made by the M©3SA*;e
there, but enough ia known of the previous temper
to be asaurdi that no cordial welcome can be ex
tended to him, whatever formalities may be per- ;
milted. And there is reaeou to know that he has
been informed here that any overture for the acqui
aitiouof Cuba wou’dbe followed by the delivery of
his passports, since <iuch a step, after previous ex
periments, would be considered &s a deliberate in
dignity, w hich could be answered in no other way.
Under these circumstances the opportunity for Mr.
Preston to distinguish himself on ‘.he held of diplo
macy must be limited.
Tiie last advices from Paraguay indicate very
unmistakably thst more opposition is to be encoun
tered in cur movements th.re than was at first an
ticipated. It is of coarse impossible to foresee what
effect the presence of Commissioner Dow m will
produce upon President Lopez when he tenders a
settlement by negotiation rather thar. by broad
sides But if that experiment should unhappiiv
fail, it is very plain he has both power and the incii
nation to give us a great deal of trouble, and to pro
long the contest into a coet'y and complicated ope
ration. The ascent of the river may be prevented
by filling the channel with obstructions, which cm
neither be detected nor easily removed while the
stationary forts and military works will be augmen
ted ineffectiveness at these points. We have rush
ed into this business without estimating the possible
contingencies or cousequencies, but canuot now so
easily rush out of it.
Mr. Hulseman, the Austrian Minister, will leturn
home in a month, and close his establishment here,
owing to the death of a brother. It is not yet cer
tain whether he will resume the mission again. His
principal diplomatic notoriety was derived from a
memorable ietter, addressed to him by Mr. Web
ster, the paternity of which, since his death, has
been ascribed to Edward Everett. As tiie tact is
an historical one of some moment, it may not be
out of place now to say in this connection, that the
letter in question was not written by Mr. Webster
or Mr Everett, but by William Hunter, the modest
and able chief clerk of the Department of State.—
The original draft of that paper was submitted to
another before it was ever peen by either of tl*e
parties whose names have been so habitually asso
ciated wi.hit in the public mind, and though it may
have received, and probably did receive, oertain
finishing touches and turns ot phraseology from the
haDd of Mr. Everett, it is now tubetantially what it
was when it left the possession of the real author,
who never permitted even a pretension to be sug
gested, when the production excited so much com
ment and tdroirati ju, nor since then. The informa
tion came to me by jiiere accident, and ib now dis
closed without the possibility of any *kuowledge on
the part of the person most interested. It ia thus
that the fame of public men is often created by the
tuperjor intellect otthe unseen subordinate, or tbe
toilsome struggles of unrewarded genius.
An effort is making to ~si*e a clamor against the se
members of the Opposition who voted for the recent
Pension bill, and without just occasion. There is
little doubt that tbe scheme was originally designed
by its projectors for home ooneu nipt ion, expecting
to appropiiate it as a measure of political profit to
the Democracy, while intending at tbe camp time to
prevent it from becoming a law, by an understand
ing with the party majority in iho Senate. The’
Oppceitiou were not to be caught in any such trap,
a* assuming an odious responsibility for the benefit
of Democratic demagogues. 1 hey thought too the
meu who had fought the battles of the country were
entitled to & recognition which heretofore had been
limited tf> particular classes, and that they might at
least claim eoj&e consideration, when so many mil
lions had been lavished by democratic votes upon
an army of contractors in Utah for &o Ugftgiuqry
war. They therefore voted iu good faith, and are
ready to provide the ways and means to exec ute
the iaw, while those who were most conspicuous in
urging it forward, never had the least idea of doing.
The last mail from Oregon fully sustains the opin
ions expressed in this correspondence a few days
ago, iu regard to the population of that Territory,
when commenting upon the extraordinary letter of
Gen. fj*pe, claiming 90,000. Following so swiftly
as tiiio GzpoL<ure does oa the heels of the aseeriion
of the Territorial delegate, it to open the eye3
of Congress o tiie objects which tue at the bottom
of this movement.
From the New York Courier.
3lniine IsOMMCM foi* December*
We publish below our Monthly Table of Marine
LOASgfc tOf tjip past month, showing an aggregate of
fifty five vriU, Li TS'b’ujitpn were ships, six were
barks, seven were brigs, thi*iy oub werp BC|}ooners,
and one a steamer. The total value of property
lost was eight, hundred and fifty-two thousand two
hundred and seventy-four dollar* for the twelve
months ending to-day, eight million eight hundred
and forty-nine thousand six hundred and sixty five
dollars, and as compared with the year 1857, show
ing a falling off of eight million seven hundred and
sifty five thousand fourbuadred and thirty five dol
lars.
This is the value of property totally lest, exclu
sive of damage to vessels not amounting to a total
loss and of partial losses of cargo.
The vesiejs reported in this list are chiefly Ameri
can, although some foreign are included—when
bound_lo or from an United Statpe port, or known
to be insured in tills country :
Total losses fir January 15 $443,000
do.
do March 33 813 £OO
do. April (corrected)..33 951.010
and. May 33 711,000
do. June 2ti 814,401
do. Ju1y...... 540,700
do. August 18 200,750
do. {September 20 1,128 200
il). October 30 534.500
do, November 41 GH3,500
(10, December... 55 85 i, 274
Tefal foi’ tjyolve D)onf.h3 355 8.81)7 065
Samp period iu 1857 558 $17,307,100
Vessels marked a are abandoned those
marked 0 burned ; ttioae marked m mjssing, sup
posed lost, and those/fouudeied
Str. Lizzy Lake, from Victorle, Tex., Pow*rhom-sio,ooo
SHIP:*.
Alice Monroe,Liverpool, for New Orleans 93,000
a Child of the Keg’t, from Cftllas, for Cowes 85,000
Lucas, from Victoria, V. L., fur San Francisco.. y,OOO
/ Margaret Tyson from N. Y., for San Francisco. 94 0 0
Kestorian (Br.) from Liverpool, for Savannah... 30.000
if Miftiades, from St. John, for Liverpool 30,000
a St. Petersburg, from Glasgow, for Bombay.... 12,000
John Bennington, f oin Boston, so: New Orleans. 35*000
Fortitude, f om
Nile, from N. York, so; 1 Acapulco ‘i s ,ot)o
BARK*.
Ann Harley, (Br ) from Pensacola, for Hull, E... 15,000
Columbus, whaler, of New Londen 20,000
a Elizabeth llall. from Boston via Portla-d, for
Grand Canary 16,000
in Tyrin'ham, from Shields, for Boston ... 18.000
a E-. K. Ivaue, from Richmond for Rio Janeiro... 53,000
iwanona, from Humboldt Bay, for Sau Francisco. 5,000
BRIGS.
Fidelia, from Ba’t’more. for fooby Island 3 000
Bello Poule, from New Yurk for Galveston . . 15,000
Coquette,, Ff , from Boston, for St. Pierre, Miq. 10,000
a Cost Zee, (Dutch,) ffolfi Rdtteidam, for Phila
delphia I/S.O'K)
Samuel Otis, from Jacksonville, for &t Croix 9,u00
Maggie, (Br.) from Boston, for Charlottetown, P.
El 5,000
Martha Gilchrist, fron. f'eusaeola, for Fori Jeffer
son 15,000
SCHOONERS.
Connecticut, from Jacksonvil’efor Falmouth, Ja. 8,000
Uhampicn, fm Satilla River lor Charleston 5,000
David Smith, lrom Philadelphia for New-York... 5,000
Geo. Luff, from Alexandria for Boston 8,500
Geranium, fisherman, of Gloucester 1,100
(* lide, fropa Plymouth for Boston 2,000
Gazelle, from Portland for JJoatou 4,000
Gov. Butler, fm Georgetown, S. 0., for Chariesf’n 1,800
Halcyon, from BaDgor for Boston 3,000
John Bell, from Rio Hache fur New-York 8,000
j/zLouis Ernst, (Fr.)fm St. Pierre, M:q., for N. Y.. 6,000
Leo, from Jereinie for Boston 4,000
Mary Elizabeth, from Eli/.abethport tor Harftfotd. 2.000
r/tMargartt, fisherman, of Marblehead 3 000
N. Y/. Smith, fm Baltimore for Charleston 12 000
oOstrich, fpOm Elizabethport forTauuton 1,500
Only Daughter, fm New Xork for Baltimore D.OOO
Premium, fisherman, of Gloucester.. 1,137
m Portia, from Caraccas for Baltimore 10,QG0
Patriot, of Rockland 3,000
Fally Badger, from Pittston for Boston 4 000
/tSt Stephen (Br) fm N. York for St. Stephens 10,000
Sagamore, from Philadelphia for Providence 2,00)
Village Belle, fisherman, lor Gloucester 3 237
Wm. C from Wilmington for Boston— 15,000
Welcome Retifm , trom Port Ewea for Boston... 5,000
W. O. Newell, from Mobile for Powderhorn. 9,000
Abigail, lrom Boston for Ellsworth 3,1)00
Almira, from Moratico Creek for Providence 5,000
Balance, fisherman, of Plymouth 7,000
gf.nner, from Providence for Barnstable 1000
Type* T r p* Making.—The Cincinnati Ga
zette, in describing the branches of manufacture
represented in Cincinnati, remarks ;
We propose to devote a short chapter to the man
ufacture of common newspaper types and in a sub
sequent number speak of the electrotype prooees.—
P ain newspaper and book types of different 6izes
are known by different names, and these sizes are
uniibrjp pr pearly so the world over. The first in
order is called “’inca,” yrhiph ia derived from Cice
ro, and so named because it was in print
ing the writings ol Cicero. It takes abc*t gi* of
them placed side by side to make an inch. The
sizes that are larger than pica are called lwo line
pica, three line pica, &o. The this pa
per, at the top of the first page, is four line pica.—
The next size smaller than pica is c 1 t-d “ Bm.il
so named from its being emailer than pica.
The next is size below this ia “ Long Piimmer.”—
The aext om&lh&i- ‘ BocLrgois, ,: named after a
Frenchman, who was uiaß*.er dt pointers when it
waa first introduced. “ Brevier - is ihe nokt ei y e,
and sc* named besaue it was first used iu printing
the Breviary, a book containing the daily service of
the Roman Catholic Church. The next in order is
“ Minion,” which means tender, gentle, a darling,
or favorite so named because it was the smallest
ana most delicate iz use at that time. The next
smaller is “ which means a discovery
not to be surpassed, and evidently shows that the
manufacturers supposed that it was the smallest
that could possibly be made. The next four sizes in
order are Agate, Pearl, Ruby and Diamond, named
from the Q*xeiou3 stones, because they are very del
icate The last two named are too
small for newspaper work, and pearl is seldom used
except in book work.
Type metal is composed principally of tjn, lead
aud antimony. These constituents are varied in
their relative proportions by different founders. The
types were formerly cast by hand, or the metal
poured into an ingeniously contrived matrix held in
the hand, but typo casting machines are now pred
which do the work much better, and more rapidly.
The moulds are made of tempered steel and re
quire iq bdst£ed very neatly, there being but few
men skUlful to perform this work properly.
The dies which form tn£ of the type, and which
gives the letter its form, are made of Copper, and
:he impression of the letter ia sunken in by means
of a punch upon the end of which the letter has
been cut or engraved. To cut tbe€e letters requires
great skill. Stewart, of Scotland, is acknc Pledged
r obe the best cutter living, and most of the finest
dkj punches used in the world are cut by him.
Brace, of Lew York, has also received much praise
for his skid in this rare accomplishment.
After the types leave the mouldy they are taken
to the finishing room, and any roughness
have been caused in the operation of moulding, is
obviated by tubbing them upon a perfectly flat
2tone. The types are then set up in rows, each kind
by itseL, and placed upon the dreasing rod, which
ia a fiat strip of hr*** about one yard long, and
having a shoulder on one edge, and so constructed
as to hold the type firmly while the bottoms are
planed off precisely the ngh't length, which is the
;<yne the world over, and a smaii groove cut in the
bottom which prevents any tendency to tip over or
lean in the form. The types are then passed to the
next, who examines each cne separately, through a
magnifying glass, and picks out every one that
shows any imperfection. In finishing, very skillful
operators are required, because if the slightest va
riMkn in the size of the type occur, they are wholly
epoiied.
For the information oi such of our readers as are
unacquainted with types, we would state that the
caption of the above article is 4 '®et up ’’in 4 * bold
face,’’ and the entire article in “nonpareil,” Uie first
two lines having “leads” between them, which give
them e more open appearance.
Tezth Mislaid.—The Lewiston Me. Advocate
relates that a citizen of that place, upon waking one
morning, missed his teeth—a false set—and having
keaid that such articles had sometime* been swal
lowed he made an examination and found them, as
he supposed, sticking in his throat Two doctors
were sent for. but they oooid not raise them, and
proposed cutting a hole through the outside. He
then set about making his will, and his daughter go
ing a p stairs for the stationary found the teeth in a
bureau drawer.
U Ten Brack Course.
tNsdat, Jan. 4tb— First Day.— Yesterday was
the opening day of the anuual races over Ten
Br . i Course. The weather was very fine and the
i track in admirable order. The attendance was
i not so targe aa iu nrevious years, bat there was a
j fair collection of persons, most’ of whom were
strangers. In the company wera a number of la
dies. and tve are pleased to say not a single thing
occurred which could in the slightest degree ofl'aud
them. Tne collection was quiet and orderly and
everything conducted in the most agreeable and
pleasant manner. For the first race, Colt Slake
for three year old—mile heats—there were {fifteen
entries, only two horses appeared, however, at the
tap of the drum : Socks aud Planet. ’
First Rack—First Heat.— They made a good
start, Socks in the lead and Ptauel closing in ra
pidly until they were neck aud neck, but Sorici in
advance winning l he heat in 101. The betting
was greatly iu tavorof Planet up to this time
when his friends seemed a little m >re cool after the
first heat, as he appeared rather tired aud consider
ably punished by the spurs of his rider.
Second Heat. —Both horees came up to the stand
looking game, and had a first rate start; Sock<
slightly in the lead, which was overcome by Ptauet
who gained upon his opponent so greatly as to dis’
tance him. Time 1:52J.
Second Rack.— Jockey Club Purse s3oo— Mtle
Heats.
Entries Don Juan and Charley Ball. Both came
up at the tap of the drum, and made a fine start.
Charier Ball slightly in the lead, Don Juan grad
ually shortening it and getting in advance, where
ho kept throughout a very closely contested heat,
winning by a saddle girth, in l:s'3j.
Second Heat —Charley Ball displayed, on oom
ing up, more spirit than Don Juan —the la.-ter giv
ing evideucs of having been trained too severely
tbs former appe ring fresh, while the latter looked
worsted. At the start, Don Juan, waa held iu by
the rider, but as Charley Bail showed his mettle,
Don Juan's lidt-r let him out, and, under their best
speed, they we it nearly the entire mile without any
perceptible advantage to either, uutil coming down
the quarter stretch, Charley Ball mended his pace
anil led his opponent by a length. Time 1:51 J.
Third Hcat.—i ioth horses came up to the scratch
looking well, and made a good start. Ckurrey Ball
iu the lead and on the inaido track. The rider of
Don Juan, by skillful jockying, made a rush and
obtained the Inside, and for a little while the chances
seemed in his favor, but Charity Ball showed his
bottom aud made up the deficiency in hie rider, and
won the heat, and the race, in 1.5(1.
The following is the programme tor to day :
Jockey Club Purse $250 — Two Mite Heat.
Thos. Paryear enters b. h., by Glencoe, dam
Millwood by Monarch, 4 years old; rider’s dress
fancy.
John Cambell’s, ch. m. Laura Spillman, 6 years
old, by Wagner, dam Lavinia; rider's dress, fancy.
John Hunter, ch., g. Nicholas Ist, by Imp. Glen
coe, out of Nannie Rhodes, by Wagner, 5 ys. old;
rider’s diess, blue and buff. — Sack. Rep.
Wednesday, Jan. s.— Second Day. —Yesterday
was not so codas the day before; there waa not
as much wind, and towards noon, the weather had
moderated considerably. The turf was in fine or
der, and although eight horees had been entered fur
the first race, only two pf them wero saddled and
ready for the start at the tap of the drum for the
mile haats-=-these wtre “Congaree” end “Tallu
lah,” named after two rivets, the one o f Carolina,
and the other of Georgia The start waa very
pretty, both horses jumping off at the tap, Talutah
taking the lead, and then they “went it, neck aud
neck the first aud eeoond quarter; betting about
even. Upon the third quarter, Congaree com
rneuced gaiuing, coming in and passing t he Judge’e
stand about two lengths ahead of Talutah, making
lime in 1:54. The betting up to this time had been
about even and the auxious looking faces ot the
friends of both seemed to indicate Borne doubt as tu
the final result. After the usual resting spell, the
horses started for the second heat—this was quite
exciting, Talutah taking the lead and keeping it,
until, coming in on the third quarter, Congaree
with seeming ease, caught ap, gained upoD, and
passing his opponent opposite the stand about half
a length ahead—time l:s7j—thus winning the race.
Skconu Rack. —Jockey Club Purse $550 —two
mile Heats.
Now came an intermission of about half an hour
prior to the second race of the day, during which
uiauy bets were made. Nicholas against tbe held.
Pools were made and drawn for, The bugle
sounding, the horsse wore brought up saddled and
Mr. Puryear’s, (unnamed) inside, Laura Spillman
in the middle, and the noble Nicholas upon the out
side. The start was considered a bad one. Mr.
Puryeat’s colt being about three lengths ahead,
Nicholas next, aud Laura Spillman behind. This
was a fine race. Nicholas gaiuing on the third
quarter, coming in first and making his first mile in
I. Mr.Puryear s colt next, and Laura Spill
man behind. Nicholas ahead on the second mile,
making it in 1 st, thus making his two (first) miles
in fi.56 j
The second boat, the horses starting as before,
raised among tho crowd intense excitement. Hur
rah! for this horse, hurrah! for that. Pet on
Nicholas ; bet on the bay, Ac. Everybody on
tip-toe to see the coming in ; and here they come,
Nicholas and the punamsd passing the ladies’ galle
ry (what, else shall we call it?) almost neck aud
neck. Another mile, whip ana spur freely plying ,
Nicholaa'c iming in ahead aud ms (ring his time, the
last two miles, iu 3)sl—and winner.
We have seen many races, good horses and more
of them at the same time, but never any more ex
citing or interesting thau was thjs last.— Savannah
RepttfiUciw. „
Tiiififr Day.—Yesterday was a oooler and more
pleasant day for tbe races than either of the two
which immediately preceded it, and the course was
crowded in spite of the prosoects of rain, which,
early in the morning, were threatening.
The first race was for tho Jockey Club Purse of
ssol)—three miles liea’s. There were three eutriee—
Uharley Ball, Gov. Wickliffe and Lizzie McDonald
(Sut Washington.) Lizzie was the favorite, and
beta were made in her favor, in some instances, at
large odds Th hotoco were all iu doe condition,
and came up to the stand promptly at the call.
A fair stall was made, Charley Ball inside and
leading, the marg bepopd and Wickliffe last, jn
the (prat (.wo mi'ieg, the contest between Charley
Ball and Lizzie was close, and the chances seemed
to be about oven, but on the last mile the mare be
gan to gain sensibly, and finally led the others.—
Charley came up, bowever, closely contesting the
home stretch with her, Lizzie winning the race by
about a length. Throughout the heat Wickliffe
was held in by his rider, and some fears were en
terrained that he would be distanced, but he came
up handsomely in tho last quarter stretch, aud saved
his distance without difficulty.
Bets were still in favor of the mare, but thp
friends af Charley Ball appeareff mors confidant.
In the second heat, Charley Ball led aain, Wick
liffe and the mare running Bide by side for a short
distance. For a little while, Wickliffe led, but
Charley Bali ca ne up handsomely, and they passed
the Judges’s stand at blose of the first mile in the
following order : Charley Ball—Wickliffe—Lizzie
McDonald. The contest waa close in the second
mile—particularly tbe last half of it, the horses pass
ing the stand at its close nearly abreast. Wickliffe
fell back in the last mile, and tbe conteet was be
tween Charley Ball and the mare. On the last
quarter, Wickliffe came up handsomly, saving hiß
distance without difficulty. The last quarter was
closely contested by the two foremost horses. Char
ey Bad winning tbe heat by ajl'ull length.
Bets were now considerably divided between
Charley Ball and Lizzie McDonald, and a number
were made in favor of Wickliffe, who, it wae be
lieved, had been saving himself for the third heat.
A good start wasjmade on the third heat, Charley
Ball again leading. Wipkliffe kept up pretty well
through the first mile, which was closely contested,
but it was soon evident that the brush would be
between ‘ the mare qnd pharley 8011. In the lagt
half of the urst mile the u;a,e got qhead mu] led for
some time, but tbe distance wastensib'y shortened
iu the fi: st half of the second mile, and toe raoe was
a close one to the end of tho mile—(he mare being
about a throat-latch in advance when they narsed
the stand. In the last half of the last mile, the
mare gain again, aud though the home
stretch wae closely contested by Charley Ball, she
came in about a leDgtb ahead, wincing the heat
and the race, Wickliffe being distanced.
VVe append the following summary ;
Thos. Puryear’sch. h. Charley Ball, dan Mag
nolia, by Glencoe. Rider's dress fancy 21 2
11. C. Caftey s cb. h. Gov. Wickliffe, 4 years
old, by Glencoe, dam Motto, by Barefoot.
Rider 8 drees red Jacket and cap—’—* ii 3 It
Jno. Campbell’s ch. m. Lizzie McDonald, 5
years old. by Revenue, out of Sarah Washing
ton, by itiingaree. Rider’s dress green and
red....! lfil
5:57—5:57—5:56*
There were three entries for the second race—
Jockey Club Purse of s3llO, mile beats, best threp
in five". They were Don Juan, Socks and Jenny
lose. Jn the beginning Don Juan seemed to be
lie favorite, and fiefs pf two to one were made on
him. The friends of Socks tgere sangqine, how
ever, and after the first heat, bets pf two to one
were made in hia favor.
The horses oame up for the first heat in good
style, and seemed impatient for the contest—Don
Juan inside, Socks second and the mare outside.
A good start was made. Socks aud Don Juan lead
ing the mare ponjiSerably. The conteet was a sharp
one between Socks and Don Juan, the mare pok
ing up on tbe last quarter stretch and saving n K r
distance. The last quarter was closely contested,
but Socks came in about a length ahead, winning
the heat.
Too horses came to the stand for the second heat
in rather irregular order, Don Juan making a false
start, and running about a quarter before he could
be pulled up. A good start waa finally made, how
ever. Socks leading and Don Juan - behind. He
came up handsomely iu the last half mile, and
closely contested the race with Socks, the latter
winning the heat, however, by a full length—the
mare saving her distance.
Several false starts were made before the horses
got fairly under way in the third heat, but a fair
start was made atlast, Don Juan leading and Socks
bringing up the rear. It was soon evident that the
race would be between Sockß and Don Juan. The
first half mile was sharply contested, but in the last
half Socks got the lead and kept it to the close of
the mile, winning the heat aud the race by about
two lengths.— Sav. News.
From Mexico.— The telegraph from New Or
leans reports that the city of Gnadalaxara had again
fallen into the possession of tbe partisans of the
Zuloaga government, tbe Liberals having been de
feated and foroed to retire. By mail we have ad
vices from Vera Cruz to December 22d. Varous
rumors had been received from the capital, none at
all substantiated. Among them is tue statement
that Mirsmon had beea defeated near Guadalajara
by Degollade. It is also said that the iSuloagists
were preparing for fiight from the City of Mexico,
the clergy having refueed to contribute lurther to
toe support of that faction, and a triumvirate was
talked of. A ic. r K amount of silver bullion had
been found in the quarters recently occupied by
Mr. Forsyth. It was supposed to be the property of
Benor Loperena. the protege of the Minieter, though
alleged by Mr. Forsyth’s enemies to be the proceeds
of the robbery of the Cathedral of Morelia. Dr.
Sauntoy, who left the city in the retinue of Mr. h or
syth, having returned, had been arrested, but was
subsequently released. The Vera Cruz Progreeo
speaks with PTeat satisfaction ot the message of
Mr Buchanan, but with rpgard to iu reference* to
a Territorial occupation, expresses its dubefief that
the Senate of the United States can be brought to
sanction such a measure.
From Texas.— The Galveston Civilian of the
28th nit., has a paragraph from the San Antonio
Ledgei, stating that an express msesenger to Gen.
Twiggs bad arrived in that city, asking for protec
tion against the Indians, and stating that on tbe
night of the 20th inst., a band of Canianchee, seven
or eight in number, came down to within 14 miles
of San Antonia at Torry's Ranch, on the Campe
Verde road, and drove off and kiUed several homes
and cattle. The Ledger adds:
When the messenger arrived Gen. Twiggs bad
not at his disposal a single mounted man, but with
his accustomed energy andpromptitnde.be imme
diately dispatched in pursuit a party of Capt. Hill ■
Company “M‘ Ist Artillery, stationed at this place,
mounting them in the best way he could mount
them at Buch short notice.
A good anecdote of Professor Agassiz is told in a
new volume in press at Boston. The Professor had
declined to deliver a lecture before some Lyceum,
or public society, on account of the inroads which
previous lectures given by him bad made upon his
studies and thought. The gentleman who had been
deputed to invite him continued to press the invita
tion, assuring him that the society were ready to
pay him liberally for his services. “ That is no in
ducement to me,” replied Agassiz, “I cannot af
ford to waste my time in making money ”
| .EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
(BY THE AMERICA.
1 J l A . LIf ' AX ! Ja°- 2—The steamship America, which
Br P°°l on Saturday, the ISth ult.. arrived at
Uistam at a o'clock this (Sunday) morning, the 2d
An extraordinary genera! meeting of the Atlantio
t elegraph ComDauy was held in Lmdon t. the
• ■Jtli. Ibe Hon Start \V<*tley presided. T'e re
port slowed that the total receipt* „t the Coi pany
ou its capita] aecouiit bad been £ : !37,47:> „ t] io
! I i’ < ; n , C :" Uro i;;i6l '" Ui 'a balance oil ham! of
i I’m.- ags i? ut which there aie various outntnnding
liabilities, tree shares, to the value of jL'7..,0t10.
had been issued to projectors, in the purchase of
toeir original rights aud privi.eges. The Chairman
ma.e a lengthy explanation of the condition of the
Company s cable It bad been underrun for a dis
tatice of eleven miles from Ireland, and .found per
il?'. lUe dlrec:, ' rß - for want of funds, were un
able to carry ou further operations. They had ap
pealed to the government ior a guaranty of 1J per
cent, on A530,000 of new capital with which *to
construct aud lay anew cable, but no decision had
oeen received. He urged upon the proprietors har
monious and enorgetic scion as the only wav to
insure success, and moved the adoption of the di
reclors report, whioh wae carried unanimous y.
Mr. Whitehouse, the late electrician of the Com
pany, called attention to the establishment of anoth
er Company tor establishing telegraphic communi
cation with America by means of a southern route,
and having half of its oapital subscribed He had
been instructed to state the conditions under which
a fusion ot the two companies might be effected
Several shareholders suggested that such a matter
could not be entertained by the meeting, and tbe
Chairman said that, pending the negetiations with
roe Government, the proposition ought not to be dis
cussed Mr. Whitehouse withdrew the subject, and
an ad.ournmeut until the general meeting in Feb
uary wa > unanimously oarried.
The London Times, taking for its text Mr. Bu
chanan s letter to the meeting in celebration of
the capture ot Fort Duquesne, oommeuts on the
desponding tone in which the President speaks'of
the fulureot the Republic, and brings into contrast
the language of public men on tiie future prospeots
of England, who deem that England's evils are
passing away, white the tone of American society
indicates that those of the New World are increas
tdg.
The reform movement waa progressing. John
Bright had addrssed another great meeting at Edin
burg and at Manchester. A Reformer’s Union had
been termed by the Bright parly
r-An influential meeting of English shipowners
had been held in L indon to take into considera
tion the ruinous condition of British navigation
Resolutions were , adopted attributing the cause to
the repeal of the Navigation laws, aud an address
to the Queen was adopted praying that the ships of
non reciprocating countries may be placed on as
nearly as possible the same footing as British ships
are placed in those countriea. r
In regard to the recent arrests in Ireland of the
members of the Pluioix Club, the Cork Constitu
tion says - The treason was carried much further
than was suspected. There were daily and nightly
drillings. Pikes were manufactured, arms import
ed from America, aud the use of them taught
lue Government was not a m’nute too early in in
terfering.’’ J
A body of military and militia have been distil
buted through the western portion of the oounty of
Cork, to prevent an insurrection
t J t h ? ® Bl . fMt . M * r f n ;y “ay .there is little doubt
that the Club is entirely seditious, and
made ap of the dregs of Young Ireianuism.
• B “ v6 " ,e<! ' l Pf™ 009 hA d been arrested at Belfast,
in addition to those at Cork.
The government mis expected to issue a special
commission for the trial of the prisoners
Mr. Guprnsay, arrested by the government for
stealing tbe lonian dispatches lately published in
the Daily News, has been tried an acquitted.
r T n' V , rote 'i“ t . A ! ,,ance memorialized
Lord Malmesbury to intercede with Rome in the
case of the Jewish boy Mortara, Lord Malmesbury
rep.ied that, while the government was indignant
at the outrage it did not think the interference of
a Protestant Power would do any grod after the
failure of a Catholic Power like France
A prospectus has been issued in London for the
Madras Irrigation and Canal Company. The capi
tal was fixed at ij-2,OUI),(IOI), 0 f which £ 1,000 (lOU is
to bo first issued, the ludiau Council having’ gua
ranteed five per cent, on that amount. The object
of the Company ia to carry out an extensive system
of irrigation, particularly in the districts adapted to
ootton.
, Tim prospectus has also been issued of the Cana
da Landed Credit Company, with a capital of i)2UO,-
to Canada 01 ba ' UK toenuo fl*’ a 8 e a flow of oapital
The Government of New South Wales had de
puted an agent to visit England and confer with
the Colonial Office, incoujuootion with other repre
sentatives of the colony, on the best means of estab.
fishing a mail service via Panama.
At a meeting held in Paris, for constituting the
Suez Canal Company, it was positively stated that
bona Jidc subscriptions had been obtained for the
full amount of the capital.
Tho Palis Bourse had been heavy, but subse
queutly improved, and the Three per Cents closed
at 73f 3ffo.
The Bank of Holland reduced the rate of dis
count j per ceut,, making It 3 per oent.
The Italian correspondent of the Daily News
says : ‘‘lt is not easy to get authentic intelligence
from Rome, Cardinal Antcnelli having declared
war upon tho foreign correspondents, stopped their
letters and threatened to turn them out ot the city ”
A letter from Turin states that the condition of
Italy grows every day more serious. The impres
sion io general that a political oriels is at hand. It
is from a high source that rumors of a warlike ten
dency proceed. It is also believed that Piedmont
is euoouraged by the Tuilleriee.
The Venice correspondent of the Times says
that, notwithstanding the inclement season of the
year, men who were on a furlough have received
oidere to join their regiments in Lombardy and Ve
nice, and notice has been issued that tho military
authorities desire to purchase horses for the cavalry
and artillery. The necessary supplies were also
being sent into the fortresses in Italy, so that if the
attack should be made on Austria, she will not be
taken by surprise.
A powerful party is said to have been formed
among the nobility of Russia, to frustrate the Em
peror’s emancipation schemes. They have a pro
ject for diminishing the power of the Emperor and
increasing that of the nobility.
The Porte has addressed a circular to all the Turk
ish Legations, in consequence of tho American fri
gate Wabash havirg passed through the Dardanelles
in violation of the Treaty of Paris. The rulo is laid
down that the fight vessels qf-war which are placed
at tho dispq-alof Legatiqns are tq be excepted, but
these aye to obtain a Turkish note of authorization
to pass through the Straits.
Tiie London Tirnos iu its leadiug article gives the
di tails of the progress at Shanghae of Lord Elgin
and the Cbiuese Commissioners. The demeanor
of the Court ot Pekiu is resolved to carry out the
provisions of tho treaty witli entire good faith.
The progress of the tariff negotiations already
promises an early and satisfactory termination.
Thero is every reason to anticipate that the vexed
question of the opium trade will be settled upon a
basis which will prevent its becoming the cause of
future difficulties
It is probable that the exportation oi’ coined oop
por and i c-exportntiou of rice will fie legalized up
on equitable terms.
Mr. Reed, the American Minister, was working
harmoniously with the British Commissioner upon
the tariff questions.
The Latest.
The Times of Saturday, in its City Article, says •,
The funds opened at lower prices on Friday, and
Boon exhibited a lurther tendency to depression,
and finally closed qt fine eighth below the official
qfiotatifiDS The weakness of the market was gen
erally attributed to speoulattive realizations, capital
ists at the same time being properly sensitive with re
gard to tbe effects to be apprehended from an ab
sence of disposition to keep the demands of India
aud the colonies within reasonable limits. Money
is in active demand, and the minimum rate in all
quarters wae 2J per cent. At the Bank applica
tions continue to increase. There were no gold
operations at the Bank on Friday. B.xmmnge with
Russia has suddenly become much less adverse for
that country, the difference in the week being
about 3 per cent. Rumors of an approaching Rus
sian loan have consequently become current. Sil
ver ie In active demand. The steamer of the 29th,
for the East, will take out £324,000.
The Dai.y News City Article says : Tbe funds
showed a drooping tendency, notwithstanding the
purchases of Consols by one operator, to the ext ent
of £IOO,QOO, and cor tinuefi investments by tbe
government Brokef. Thq qiqrket closed fiat. The
increase demanji for money in the discount market
threatened the introduction of new projects, and the
drain of silver to the East excited discussion. Mean
while the Bank returns show a further increase in
the enormous unemployed resources of the Bank.
In some other departments of tbe Stock Exchange,
heaviness likewise prevails; but, considering the
depression of Consols, ihe market for British Rail
way Stocks exhibits steadiness. A fall in the lead
irg Canadian Railway Securities formed a feature
of the r ay. Some Raria letters mention a report
that a reduction in tbe rale of discount of tHe Bank
of Fiance of 2j per cent is not improbable.
THg NORTH A)[ERIf A*.
Halifax, JaD, a.—The steamship North Aineri
can. from Liverpool at ili o’clock on thp morning of
the 22d nit., bound to Portland, put into Halifax on
tbe afternoon of the sth inst., short of coats. She
experienced boisterous weather during the whole
passage. On tbe night of the first, during a heavy
snow storm, the North American struck a rock
ofl Cape Race. She is leaking considerably, and
her fore compartment is full of water.
Great Britain. —President Buchanan's Mes
sage was printed in full most of the leading English
journals, and varionsly commented upon.
Tb® Times says“ There is something in the
Message that can be called me t e than usually inter
esting. Whether the Chief Magistrate of tbe Uni
ted Btates discoseee tbe domestic or foreign affairs,
we hear only what we might have expected -, at
home material progress, ana abroad visions ofter
ritprial aggrandisement, make up (be substance of
his communication.” It then briefly criticizee its
prominent points, and says in regard to external
affairs; —“For a peaceful nation the United
States are certainly most unfortunate in their
Solitical relations. A quarrel with the United
tatee on some subject or other, ie a matter
pf course ; without one, a President’s Mes
sage would read tame and meagre. Mr. Buchanan
therefore evinces a laadabte anxiety to keep one in
reserve. Great Britain having given up the right
of search, Mr. Buchanan pays us many complifirentA
upon our moderation, but declines to suggest any
mss ns by which Spanish or South American ships,
hoisting the United States flag, can be interfered
With.” It then refers to Mr. Buchanan s feference
to the slave trade, and his original proposition for
iu suppression, and says that his arguments in re
gard to the cession of Cuba are such as Haman might
have used, when he wanted to purchase the vine
yard which was nigh to his palace, and that it would
be superfluous to point out the exquisite force of the
argument. The Times then sketches the Presi
dent’s views in regard to Mexico and Central Ame
rica, and concludes as follows :—“lt is evident that
the utter decrepitude of the (Spanish race both north
and south of the Isthmus s about to lead to tbe vir
tual supremacy of the Aoglo-Americans in the whole
qf the tropical regions There is no need of affect
ed moderation on their pact, and philanthropy
which few will oredit. The fact is plain enough,
that Mexico and Central America, and tbe great
Spanish Island, will soon be under their sway, di
rect or indirect. For our own part, we see little to
regTet in the prospect except the extension and per
petuation of Slavery in Mexico, and the other new
territories. Bnt that the Americans might gain in
the end by forming States under the Equator, we
de not believe. The European race becomes not
only enfeebled bat demoralised by a residence be
tween the tropics, and the Republic has already suf
sered enough trom men of the South to make it cau
tious bow it turns tbe Spanish Main into the home
of American citizens.”
The Daily News reviews the Message in cennec.
tion with Mr. Buchanan’s recent letter to the Com
mittee at the celebration at Pittsburgh. It argues
that the President's policy in regard to Cuba and
Mexico is intended as a conciliation to the South,
and predicts that nothing will )be done at present
toward the annexation of Mexico. It takes excep
tion to the view takeD of England’s supposed con
cessions about the searching of suspected slavers,
and oonclndee by hoping that the people will ac
oept the admonitions in the Pittsburg letter, not by
holding their tongues about a particular form of
danger, but by dealing with the (causes of disunion
and corruption, and by recovering the principles
and spirit of their Constitution, rather than false
idolatry of its form
The Morning Post confines its remarks to the
President's policy in regard to Cuba, and denounces
it in strong terms.
The Star refers to the Central American question,
deprecates the President s request to be allowed to
employ force iu the protection of the transit route,
and doubts whether the European powers would
quietly permit the exercise of an exclusive protec
torate by America over the Isthmus.
The rest of tbe Loudon papers comment on tbe
document with a mixture of satisfaction and dissat
isfaction.
The Manchester Guardian in objecting to the
proposition that the President should be armed with
power to use force iu the protection of the Isthmus,
says: “That between the expeditions of Walker
and his filibusters, and the proposed invasion of the
regular forces of the United Stales, there is not a
pin to choose, so far as the independence of Nicara
gua is concerned.” Tho same journal likewise con
demns the effrontery of the President iu regard to
Mexico.
The Liverpool Albion characterizes the Message
as dishonest iu tone, and tilled with braggadocia
and filibustering.
The Times, iu an article ou Submarine Telegraphs,
says that since the laying of the cable at least eight
or ten fresh plans have been put forth, and draws
special attention to the “Great Ocean Telegraph
Company,” which proposes to submerge a cable
direct from the Lands End in England to Halifax.
It is proposed that the cable shall ne constructed ou
Allen 8 system, which does away entirely with the
outside ooveiiug qf wire, and makes the conductor
of the cable its main strength, tnereby reducing its
weight to ten cwt. per mile.
The excitement in Ireland as to the arrest of the
members of the Phumix Club is dying out. Two
or three additional arrests have beau made, but
nothing of moment transpired.
A Club is said to have been established in Kerry
bv. person engaged in the Smith O’Brien affair of
The London Times, in its City Article, remarking
upon Mexico, eays that no one entertains the small
est doubt, but that the Amurioan claims on Mexico
wifi be obtained to tbe last dollar, and asks why
should not equal reliance be felt by European credi
tors.
It says that the foreign debt of Mexico is ten
millions, of which probably more than three.fourths
is held in England. If tbe United States are to
seize a materia! guarantee, what, it asks, is to be
dene by England, whose wrongs and demands are
of so much greater magnitude 7
France. —lt is stated that a contract has been
signed bet ween the Marine Department and a firm
at Marseilles to supply the islands at Guad&loupe
and Martinique with 29,000 free Africans suited tor
agricultural labor before tbe let of January, 1863,
and that similar contracts have been entered into
with other houses, whioh Prince Napoleon, as
Minister of the Colonies, ia resolved to avail him
self of.
Paul Morphy, the American ohess champion, has
been confined to his room in Paris from indisposi
tion and conseqnently has not been able to com
mence bis match with M. Acdersseu, who had reach
ed Paris lor the purpose of encountering him.
The Paris correspondent of the Daily News says
that it was confidently reported that the French
squadron on tiie Western coast of Africa was about
to oe re-inforced by several ships.
The London Advertiser’s Paris correspondent
writes that the French Foreign Office had beard
with some surprise Mr. Buchanan's notification of
the desire cf the American Government to purchase
Cuba. This part of the Message is oousidered more
strange as the French Government had previously
notified to the American Minister its determination,
in conjunction with England, not to tolerate the
cession of Cuba to the United States, even were
Spain to consent to such an arrangement.
The Paris Patrie announces the re-call of the Por
tuguese Minister at the French Court
Paris, Tuesday.—The appeal of Montalembert
was heard to day at the Imperial Court. M. Dee
faure, on behalf of the appellant, spoke first; the
ProcureurGeneral replied. M. Berryer followed,
and the Procureur General again responded on the
whole case. The Judges, after two hours and a
half deliberation, aequittod Montalembert of the
charge oi attaoking the principal of universal suf
frage and the rights which the Emperor eDjoysfrom
the Constitution, but considering the other charges
proved, they confirmed the fine of fiOOt! franca, but
oommuted the sentence of imprisonment into three
instead of six months.
The Bourse was rather heavy to-day. The Three
per Cents closed at seventy-three for money, and
seventy-three twenty-five foraoeount.
Switzerland. — A telegram from Basle says that
detachments of French troops having penetrated
into the Valley des Coppes and advanced on the
Swiss territory, the Federal Governments had de
inanded explanations at Paris.
Great indignation prevailed in Switzerland, and
the Press was usiDg strong language on the subject.
Prussia. —The Bank oi’ Leipsic has reduoea the
rate of discount from 6 to 5 per cent.
Sr ain —An animated debate had taken place in
tho Senate, touchiug the dispute with Mexico, the
incentive being an amendment to the address to tbe
throne, offered by Gen. Prim, condemning the
course of the government. The amendment was
ultimately rejected almost unanimously alter sun
dry explanations had been given by the Minister.
Italy. —A Wurtemburg paper asserts that the
Neapolitan andßomau Governments have proofs
in hand that the agents of the Frenoh Government
aie endeavoring to bring about a movement in Italy.
Russia. —The introduction of anew Russian
loan on the Loudon Stock Flxchange at no very re
mote period is considered almost certain, and the
impression was that it would probably amount to
eight millions sterling.
The Bombay mail of November 25th reached
England on the ISth of December. The letters and
papers detail at length the operations of the milita
ry, but there is nothing of striking importance ad
ditional to the nows already telegraphed.
Tantia Topee and his followers were making to
wards Guzerat, where it was feared they might do
much mischief.
The Very I,alest.
London. Wednesday Morning. — TheDaily Nows’
City Article dated Tuesday evening, says:—-The
Funds to-day were heavy, and dosed at a reduction
of one-eighth per cent. The approach of the holi
day season and the threatened introduction of a large
mass of new securities of various classes, havo an
unfavorable effect on the market. In the other de
pertinents of the Exchange general inactivity pre
vailed, but only in a few instances was any reduc
tion of prioes establisbed. An active demand for
money is still experienced and a good business con
tinues to be done at the Bank. About £25,000 in
gold ex-Africa was Btut into the Bank to-day.
E 137,700 Australian gold by the Niagara was
purchased to-day for the Continent.
There was no general alteration in the Foreign
Exchanges this afternoon.
The Times’ City Article ot Tuesday evening says
the English funds remain without the slightest symp
tom cf revival, and in every description of Security
there is inactivity and heaviness.
There was again a less demand for money in the
discount market to day.
Some transactions took place at 21 per cent., the
general minimum being 2J to 2 l il. At the Bank
ot England, however, applications were numerous.
The Times explains that M. de Montalembert
having prosecuted his appeal to an issue, the result
has been that the original sentence has been in
great part confirmed, although the penalty has been
somewhat mitigated. The actual decision is that
he stands acquitted on the charges of attacking the
principle of universal suffrage and the constitu
tional rights of the Emperor. In oonsequenoe of
thia modification of the original sentence bis term of
imprisonment has been reduoed from six to three
months, but the tine of 3000 francs has been main
tained.
A Pioneer Going West.—The following pic
ture of a family travelling to the “new countries,’’
we find in the Evansville Journal .-
Near the saw mill, on the banks cf the river in the
lower part of the city, was moored to the shore, on
Sunday evening last, a wretched raft, about ten by
twenty feet in area, constructed of a paroel of old
plank, the surface of which rose not more than two
inches above the surface of the water. Qn this frail
structure the occupants had raised a ridge pole
about five feet high, aud placing against it a small
piece of board, apparently picked up from the drift
in the river, had formed a roof with a kind of dog
kennel beneath of about six by ten feet on the floor
of the raft. Into this hove), on a little straw and a
heap of old rags, were crowded in a most forlorn and
wretched condition, a mas, woman and four child
ren, one at the breast, and the eldest, perhaps, ten
years old, The only household goods were an iron
skifiet, a pot, and two old barrels ; not a seat, a ta
ble or a dish was visible.
On the bow of the raft, on a pieoe of old boiler
iron, raised a few inches above the plank, was a
blaxing fire of drilt wood, which, fortunately, is
abundant and without price. Around tbis that
wretched group were huddled, presenting a scene of
squalid poverty and destitution seldom seen in this
country, and sufficient to moye the compassion of
the most selfish and penurious. How they endured
the pittiless rain storm that followed in the night,
With no shelter but a roof of a few loose boards
leaning against a pole, the reader can oonjecture.
They have navigated the Qbio, on their frail
structure, from the mouth of the Kanawha to this
point, in a voyage of about six weeks, during which
there has been an uninteirupted succession of oold
and cheerless storms. Every wave washed over
the wretched raft, and rain must have penetrated
every part of the miserable roof; they have passed
towns and cities —the abodes of luxury and pro
fessed Christian benevolence—and no aid has been
tendered them but a few crumbs from tables that
were covered with abunuance, which have kept
them from starving
In spite of all this wretchedness and suffering the
woman was well and robust, and the children were
hearty and cheerlul, and as full of sport as if in the
midst of plenty and comfort. The father was a
cripple, and fold a short aacf simple story of misfor
tune. He was a teamster at a saw mill in the up
per part of Kentucky, and had his leg crushed by a
log rolling on it. Unskillful surgery bad left an in
curable sore. His sickness had reduced them near
ly to destitution, when their calamities were made
complete by a fire thatconeumed tbeirdwelling and
all its contents. Without a cent in the world, he
had gathered a few refuse plank from the river and
constructed his ratt, and on it placed his family for
a voyage down to Arkansae, where he intended
to sqnat on public land, raise a small nr tn patch,
and rely on his gun for the other means of living.
The hearts and purees of a few generous persons
who visited them, supplied their immediate wants.
Clothing for the women apd children we saw going
on board, with a good supply of bread and meat.
If any one be discontented with his jot in life, and
disposed to grumble at the dispensations of provi
dence, let him visit the wretched family upon the
raft below the city and he will return a contented
and grateful man. ,
Wonderful Escape.—Last evening, about 6
o'clock, as the train on the Jackson Railroad was
dashing along at full spsed towards the city, at a
point seven miles from the depot, the fireman was
suddenly startled by the apparition of a man stand
ing directly on the track facing the engine, and with
his arms raised. It was but a moment and the en
gine was on him, and be disappeared.
The alarm was instantly given, the bain stepped
in a very short distance, and ail hands got (Town
with lanterns aud hurried back to lock for the man
gled body. Presently an old bat aud one boot,
soaked through with rain, were found on the track,
bqt no mangled body. The search continued dili
gently for some time, but still no mangled body.—
where could the unfortunate man be 1 or was there
any unfortunate man, at alii
The fireman, piqued, we presume, at the insinua
tion, then determined to look around the engine it
self. The party gathered round the iron horse, and
lo and behold, to every one’s wonder, there, on the
cow-catcher, sat the unfortunate victim, bolding on
to his dangerous seat like grim death, and looking
the very picture of mingled dismay and bewilder
ment His face was streaming with blood, hie head
bare, and only one boot adorned bis netber extremi
ties.
A dozen arms were stretched forward to his relief
and the doctor was called for. A doctor was fortu
nately in the train, and in a few momenta he bad
taken possession of the man. It became evident
soon that the adventurer was what is familiarly
termed “deed drunk but what astonished every
one, was that be was not materially injured Hi
face was cat here and there, his teeth were loosened,
and Lis mouth a good deal bruised ; but otherwiee
. w *? , not , UQr *- Hia broad brogue gave intirna*
tion of the land of his birth, but he was so stupefied
with liquor and Ktunned by big oollieion with the lo
comotive that he oould give no account of himself.
— Picayune.
The number of deaths In Philadelphia for tbs
year 1858, was 10,902, showing a decrease of forty
eight from the mortality of tne previous year. The
number of deaths in Boston in 1858, wai about
3,800—a decrease of 125.
VOL. LXXIIt— NEW SERIES VOL.XXIII. N0.2.
Lons ol of, a l„ Mnuij
nnl other Doc 11 in
South West Key, Glover, r kkk ,
Honduras. Deo 21 la&rt ’ 1
To the Owners of the B*san * >
Gentlemen— lt is my dutv to report to you the
total loss ot Ihe sohooner Susan, under m'v com
rnanu.
We had been forced ou this coast by adverse
winds ; the veajel not proving at all wear her! vin the
heavy head sea then running. At 3 oYI. ok’ \ tii
on the 16tb inst., I discovered from my position oil
the poop, breakers cn the lee bow, and immediately
ordered the helm to be put down and the yaids brac
ed sharp up. The man at the helm, in bit fright and
confusion, put the wheel hard “up.” which brought
tbe ecboouer before tbe wind, and before there was
time to remedy his error, the Susau went stem on
to a sunken coral reef, with eight knots headway
In a very few momentssho bilged and broke in two.
The foremast we cut away, and the mainmast jump
ed out of the step, carrying with it the mixz-u top-
mast, aud throwing with Mr Van fllycke (acting
2d officer) into the breakers under our leu. from
whence be was fortuuatelv rescued by the gallantry
of a seaman named Jos. Wittgenstein.
Daylight revealed to us a jagged reef of coral
rock, the northeast point of Glover's Reef, lat. Ili-*
54’ N., long. Si- 1 4ff 8 Sec W. Two pieeengers at
tempted to cut away the bo it but were dissuaded
by a revolver, and lbs most rigid discipline was
maintained. At sunrise we discovered a small key,
covered with ccooanut trees, bearing S. S W., dis
tant sixteen miles, to whioh I dispatched the mate
and four men in our only boat, with two daye'ra
tions, to seek assistance. We then got overboard,
(having beaten into tour feet water,) aud weut to
work to construct a catamaran, or raft, capable of
taking off all hand.-. Bynoonthe next day. (Thurs
day, 17th,) we had, by securely lashing spars across
empty water casks, made a very strong aud buoy
ant raft, whioh would hold all hands, (112,) together
with a week’s provisions and water. The passen
gers worked cheerfully, most of them being ip the
surf twelve hours at a time. At 1 P. M , just ef.er
having completed our raft, wedesoried a sail bea'-
ing up inside the reef for us, which proved to be the
sohooner Wasp, of eight tons burthen, belonging io
a family of turtle lifliera who inhabit. Middle Key,
on this reef. They had been brought to our aasis
tauoq by Mr. Carr, tiie Ist officer, wnom I bad Heut
off in our boat. We immediately commenced
freighting the Wasp with provisions and men, no
easy task, aa everything had to be transported
through tbe surf. Tho meu were embarked in ca
noes. without confusion, each stepping over the rail
as his name was called.
This day we succeed in sending off about fifty,
iu charge ol Col. Anderson, with some of the Su
san’s sails, wherewith to construct tents on the Key.
They were safely aud expeditiously landed, and the
A ‘Wasp'’ sent back for more. This was continued
until to-day, (2tst,) when the lost man was landed
without aocident. You will observe, by comparing
dates, that the last party was ou the wreck nearly
six days, exposed to the surf, which constantly
broke over them, aud they were for the list thirty
hours without food or water. As commander of the
vessel it waa my duty and my privilege to be the
last to leave her; so, whon every soul had beeD
safely taken off, I took my flag and papers, and
left iu a con e tor the “Wasp,” where I wae re
ceived with three hearty cheers from our high spir
ited and undaunted passengers. Upon our arrival
at Middle Key we fouud a feast prepared for us by
our friends in advance, and did ample justice to
the oonch soup, fried plantains, yams, coffee, A c
which wero set forth to regale ns.
To the steadiness and good conduct of the pas
s-ugers under these trying circumstances we must
attribute the extraordinary good fortune of having
lost no lives. 1 had no crew nor officers belong
ing to tbe vessel, all having deserted the night we
left Mobile, and the vessel was worked entirely by
volunteers from among the passengers. They all
seoonded my efforts, aud submitted to my authori
ty without a murmur.
We are all now in good health, encamped in a
grove ot coooanut trees, teastmg and limking mer
ry over past hardships, aud the knowledge that
not a fife lias been loot, in a great measure con
soles tne for the chagrin of having lost my vessel.
To-morrow Col. Anderson and myself will pro
ceed in our small boat lo Belize, Honduras, for the
purpose of chartering a vessel to oonvey our party
to their original port of destination.
Accompanying tbislotter you will find a chart of
ths reef on whioh wo were wrecked, and auab
straot of our log.
Very respectfully, your ob't serv’t,
Harry Maury.
On Board H. M. 8. Basilisk, )
Carribbeau Sea, Dec. 28, 1858. ’ (
To the Owners of the Susan .
Gentlemen— ln my last letter I wrote y.,a that
Col. Frank Anderson and myself were abou’ to go
to the Belize lor aseietanoe. After a pa-sage of
two daye, in whioh we narrowly escaped swamping
in a gale, aud wero entirely without food, we ar
rived at Belize on the morning of the 24th instant
Upon our arrival, we weut to the office of an Arne:
l'lcan merchant, (formerly our Consul,) named C
Hempstead, who readily assisted us in our off.irts to
charter a vessel to convey my passengers to their
port of destination. We finally succeeded iu effect
ing an arrangement wiLh a Mr. Ucnderside, owner
of the brig Kate, Goodspeed master, bat no sooner
had wa made the agreement, than Capt. Goodspeed
refused to go in the vessel if she took us. He Bald
that he had been in New Orleans when we left Mo
bile, and knew all about our fighting tiie revenue
cutter, aud subsequent escape, and in short, gave
such an account oi my passengers that we were un
able to procure any vessel for love or money, aB
Capt. Goodspeed assured every one that we would
oertaiuly seize any craft we got ou board of. aud
run away with her. Thus you see, our only ob
stacle was an American shipmaster, trading be
tween Rattan Island, Belize and Orleans. Captaiu
Bates, of tbe American bark Honduras, kindly of
fered a passage to New York to Col. Auders- n, my
self, officers aud orew of the Susau , but of course
we relused to aocept any propositiou which did not
include all hands. The whole town was suon iu
commotion; merohauts hurrying to and lro, eyeing
us as they passed, with mingled tu.ioaity aud dis
trust. New Orleans papers wero in demand ; and
as they had dates up to the 13th mst., they soon (as
sisted by the wretch Goodspeed) possessed every
particular of our d'parlure from tho States.
While we were in his unpleasant dilemma, Hie
Excellency, the Hon. Frederick Seymour, Gover
nor of the Bay Islands, sent to request me to call at
the Government House, which 1 did with many
misgivings. H received me with great courtesy
and kinduesß of manner, asking, with a smile if I
were the master of the famous “Susau” of Mobile.
On receiving an answer in the affirmative, he ir“
qnlred, with an appearance of interest, into ihe
condition of the passengers, and if any arrange
menta bad been made for their refie?. As soon as
ho was made aware of the awkward turn matters
had taken through the offioiousness of Good
speed, he remarked that if we could do no better,
aud shoffid desire to return to the United States, he
would tffer ub a passage in Her Majesty’s steam
sloop Basilisk, six guns, Captain Phayve, and gave
me an hour to look around aud consider upou it
As I was taking leave, he inquired kindly after the
fate of Lieut. White, and seemed pleased to leHru
that he had beeu sept back in the ship Oregon, )|e
then remarked that, as to who we were and what
might have been our original ffitontiuns, he chose
not so inquire ; that we bad violated no law of
England, and he regarded us Bimply as shipwreck
ed citffienß of a power with whioh his Government
desired to cultivate the most friendly relations
and said that he would assist us lo the extent of his
means.
Alter consulting with Col. Anderson, and making
Borne further unavailing efforts to fielp ourselves,
we accepted, in proper terms, the very liberal
offer of His Excellency, thanking him warmly in
the name of the passengers, tor the prompt and
kind wanner in whioh ho oams lorward to our as
ajetanco when it was really so much needed. No
econer had we made known, through Mr. Hemp
stead, our acceptance of the proposition, than the
latter received the following note :
December 24,1858.
Dear Str: I shall start for Glovers Reef ffi I
U. .91 8. Basilisk at half past two o'clock tLig after
noon, and shall be happy to give a passage Capt.
Maury aud those who accompanied bimto Belize,
if they will call at tbe Government Home at that
tour. The Basilisk will proceed to Mobile with tbe
wreoked American oltizens after dropping me at
Key Bokel. Yours very truly,
[Signed.] Frederick Beymour.
C. Hempstead, Esq.
In fifteen minutes the Basilisk fired a muo and
hoisted the “Blue Peter,” a signal for “all boats
and officers.” Smoke was seen issuing from her
chimneys, and at 3 M. w were gayly steaming
out from Belize, with the British eustgn floating
over us; a novelty to some of us. Capi. phayre,
Mr. Broaderick, the Ist Lieutenant and, in fact,
every offioer in tbe ship, eeined determined to
make ua forget our troubles, and eudeavored to an
ticipate all our wants; and their courtesies were
shown to those who will not readily forget them.
At about 2 p. m. on the 25th (Christmas) we an
chored at 8. W. Key, and Capt Phayre, accompa.
nied by Gov. Seymour, Lieut. Holmes, Secretary to
his Excellency, Col. Anderson and wyssif, proceed
ed in the gig to M>d<fi® Key, op which our men were
encqmped, distant about four and a half miles N.
N. K , The boys met us on the beach very curious
at the sight ot tbe ensign flying in tbe Btern of our
boat, and as soon as they recognized Col. Andeizoo,
in the party, testified their joy by prolonged cheer
ing. Gov. Seymour requested Aa-krifon and my
self to step ashore and exDlaiu to the passengers
the position of whilst be, Capt. Phayie, and
Mr. Holmes, remained in the boat. A few mo
ments sufficed to acquaint them with what waa
going on; after which they were drawn up and
were offered by his Excellency a passage home in
the Basilisk, at the same tinqt assuring them that I hey
were free to do as tbuy chose, and that If they went
on board, hp desired them particularly so under
stand that they were there in the “Acred c . -.ratter
oi guests. The boys responded with three cheers
for Gov. Seymour, aud three more for the captain
and officers of *ha Basilisk. His Ex.coilency then
proceeded to ascertain if the islanders had aught to
complain of our conduct, and It there bad been any
lack of hospitality 03 their part towards as. No
complaint was mode on either aide, aa our men hud
Dot broken a pocoanut without paying for it, and
tbe islanders had been as kind as they could ha
After careful inquiries into oar comfort, tbe Gov
ernor, with Capt. phayre and their pnriy returned
to the ship. The same evening we sent off iu the
ship’s boat most of tbe storey we bad saved, aud oa
Sunday 26th, embarked alt hands for borne.
Next morning (27tb) landed tbe Governor at
Key Bokel, and got under way for Mobile ; since
which the entire officers and crew. ifotn the captain
to the cock, have been most untiring in their attaa
tions ; and wu are, barring our disappointment,
more comfortable now than at any time since we
left home
Before leaving Belize, I app-anled Mr. Hamp
stead agent to setlie up the affairs of the wreck,
instructing him to be liberal in his compensation to
tboee who saved as, and to take care of whatever
may be useful saved from the wreck From bis
well known character and position, as welL as his
friendliness aud inteiligen *, we are extremely
fortunate in having oar affairs left in his hands.
In justice to myself, I request that you, as tba
other owners of the Susan, will take pains to oreer
tain from those who were on board, the oUcum
stances attending and causing her lose.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
Harry Maury.
Sweet Deeinition.—A sprightly schoolgirl who
attends the “Central High,’’ where the teachers
have a way of inciting the pupils to understand
what they say in the olasses, was reading the ‘'East
of the Hoggermuggers,” aud stirred by the spirit
of inquiry, stimulated by her teachers, if not by
natural feminine curiosity, asked a boy cousin of
hers, the meaning of buggermugger. . John looked
thoughtful for a moment, and then said—“lll show
you,’’—and hefore the incipient weman had time to
make any further remark, Jobphad his arm around
her waist, and subjected it w a gentle pressure—
“ That’s kug ger . and this /putting his lips to , hen
in affectionate collission) k mug ear ! ’ \ es, earn
the not more than half displeased tarah Ann- anu
this is the taU of th uuggermuggers-for ii you
ever attempt to give me another snob definmen.
I’ll box vour ears. I've a great mind to tell Mr. ,
Hall as go to school, what sort of dictionary you
freeing about you all the tune.’ -Ratio*
Tramcrif!.
He**v Failures in London.— A large failure
has just occurred in the leather trade in Ixindon.
tW firm is that of James Davis A. bos, exporters
of boots and shoes to Australia and the other colo
nies. Their liabilities are equal to $1,000,000, of
which $350,000 are unsettled. The suspension ot
Hicks A Gadsden, an American bouse in London,
for about $250,000, is said to have been caused by
large purchases of cotton at very high figures,
which is now coming forward.
The Foundling Hosnitnl* of If iisnlu.
One of Bayard Taylor s • tiers from K oe to
Ihe New Yoris Tribune, contains a noteworthy op
position of the extent and oiiaracier ol louoUi ug
Hospitals in Knssia, where the/ appear to be Con
ducted on a vast scale.
The hospital at Moscow it an iinmmse quadran
gular building or collecti >n of buildings, whose
white front towers high over all Hie neighboring
part cf tbe city, and quite eclipses ill its imposing
appearance every paiaoe, church, military barrack,
or tuber public building whatever, ltcanu ‘t be
it- ssUntil a thousand feet i.i leiig'h, and at a rough
estimate is three times as large as ihe Capitol at
Washington. The Governership of tho institution
i) always conferred upon a nrbl *man of high rank
aud a'taiuinents. The annual expenditure of the
hospital amounts to the enormous sum of five mil
lions of dollars. X poitionof t.h i Government reve
mte is set. aside for its uee, in addition to which
successive emperors and wealthy persons have
richly endowed it. The entire property devoted to
the foundling system ot liuseia is said to reaoh five
hundred million of dollars.
ihe institution at Moscow was founded by Cath
arinei 11. in t,n“ Eight years afte wards eho eetab
hsiicd a branch at St. Petersburg, which haeotit
grown the parent concern, and is conducted on a
sti! more magnificent scale, hi foe summer ail the
chi,cron are -cut into the oouulry. There is a vil
lage near Moscow whoee inhabitants devote them
selves entirely to the work of bringing up these
foundlings. The institution last summer had under
its care twelve hundred orpan children ol rtiicere,
who enjoy some privileges over the foundlings and
poorer orphans. The boys are taught some praoii
cal science or profession, and not uufrequently re
ceive places as officers iu the army. Tbe girls re-
ceive an excellent education, including mus’c and
the modern languages, aud become teachers or
governesses. Signs of decided talent iu the chil
dren are noted ai.d developed in the proper direc
liou, by ineausof which many poor children have
risen to wealth and distinction.
‘lhe apartments of the hospital aro remarkably
clean and neat. Eaoh infant lias & separate nurse,
aud in every ball there is au overseeress. ‘lhe num
ber ol children confided to its care iu 18.'i7 was 1 i,-
000, aud the entire number received sin a the foun
dation of the institution is 330,000, to witch may bo
added 00,000 more born in tho lying-in hospital du
ring Ihe same period Including those taken at foe
St. Petersburg!! branch, the number of children re-
ceived by the government yearly is 30,000. A vety
large proportion of thsin are the offspring of poor
married people in all parts of the country. The
children may afterwards be reclaimed hy the Ba
rents, on certain conditions. Tho child i) taken
without question, and therefore no reliable statistics
of the puhlk) morality can be obtained fruit this
source. The office is open night and day, and no
living child is refused. The only question asked is
whether it has been baptised; if it has not, the cere
mony is immediately performed Its name and
number are then entered iu the ollicial book, a card
containing them and ihe date of its arrival is at-
Inched is i’B neck, and another given to Ha mother,
so that it may alterwards be ideutillad and reclaim
ed. Very frequently the mother is allowed to be
come ire nurse, in wl ioh case she receives pay 1 .itt
tlie other nurses. After six wet ka or two months in
the institution it is sent into the country, whore it
remains until old enough to roceiv-- inetruotion.—
The regular nu'ses are paid about s‘>ll a yean, in ad
dition to then- board and lodging. If the parents
pay a sum ttpral to $“5 on tile aeposlt'ou of the in
fant, tliey are entitled to have it btcught up exclu
sively withiu the Walls of the institution, where it
is more carefully atteuded to than elsewhere. Thn
payment of SJI 0 procures for it, if a boy, the rank
of au officer. The parents are allowed to see their
children ai stated times, but the greater number do
not avail themselves ot this privilege.
Connected with the Moscow institution is a beau
tiful church. AU parta of the building are careiully
and substantially constructed, with admirable ar
rangements for heating and ventilation.
The St. Petersburg!! establishment covers twen
ty-eight acres of ground, aud employs over live
hundred teachers, many of them at high saiaiies.
and u iwards of live thousand nurses, servants, n\A
similar employees. The boys aud gii Is, both litre
and at Moscow, are taught separately. The cost
of their education is more than ft. 000,0110 annually
Besides the soldiers, common iii'Chanies , and fan
tory girls, which the children of merely ordinary
capacity become, the (lovevnment has, of late
years, established many of them as farmers and
colonists on the uncultivated crown lands.
I.lie in New York—Horrible I'iino ol'Dettlln
llon nml Dcnlli.
On Friday evening a horrible oaso of degr&dtaion,
misery aud death was brought to light in New York
by the police. A MrH. Hughes, said to have been
formerly a lady of wealth and standing in that city
aud Uoßton, was found dead in a low den in Mul
berry sir re". The body was entirely naked, the
head resting upon a bag of shavings. Her little
son, eight years of age, shabbily dressed and bare
f icted, was also found in the room, but alive. Tho
Express eays:
The body was placed ou a door aud carried to the
Gth ward station-house, and laid out in a cell by it
self. Tho boy was also iaken to the station-house,
wlieu Capt. Dowling kindly procured him some
food, which be devoured, being-evideutly half star
ved. The boy lias a slight frame, light hair, a well
developed head, and gave his nemo aB Tommy
Hughes. l!o appears to have a remarkably good
memory, is viry intelligent, aud told tbs following
stoty in relation to his parents, wnioh, were all its
harrowing particulars known, would prove of moro
terrible interest than all the tiction ofthepopulai
writers of ttie days
His father was Col. Thomas Hughes, of Boston,
former'y of the United Stales army. He was at
torwards contincd in a lunatic asylum in France,
for insanity, where he cut his Ibl oat and thus end
ed Ids life. Tommy recollected going with his moth
er to see Ins father at the “Craay House when n a
father said “Emma look at this and at t'.ic
name time lie pulled a great long Dutch knife but
of his shirt bosom ami attempted to out bis in6th
er’s Ihroat. Tommy said Ids, “lather Col Jjugbeß.
was his inert tier's second husband, her former name
being Emma .lane Terrance He could recoiled
when liv> mother kept house. Shu then sold her
furniture and boarded at the Prescott House, am)
went from there to the Metropolitan Hotel, (about
a year ago, as nearly as hu con'd recollect) when she
commenced drinking Holland gin. Subsequently
she left the Metropolitan Hotel and boarded in Molt
street; tlierq she commenced to drink brandy, and
finally moved to Mulberry street, where she wa
found dead.
He says that she threatened to kill him at one
time, but he escaped by screaming, when 111-, neigh
bo s came in and saved him. All the money she
could get into her poeaeasion she used to buy rum
with, and neglected to procure provisions, and he
had notbiag hut a crust cf bread and water or a
little coifee daily to oubaist on. According to hie
account, his mother at one time had Iriendo, nmoic
whom he mentioned Charles Gilbert, No. ÜBBread
way; 11. J Tibbetts, Trinity Buildings, and Win
J. Haskett, attorney. Mr. Haskett bad given him
money at times, which his mother had taken for
drinking purpoees. Mr. Tibbetts, he Baid was in
some way related to hie mother. At one time she
sent a man named John Burden to Mr Tibbetts for
money ; Tibbetts gave*ld, $1 of which Burden
used and gave bis mother only sfl. Little by little,
she sold aud pawned every article of her clothing
and everything she possessed to satisfy her craving
for driuk.
The little fellow says that his father has consid
c r able property, of which he should receive a part
aud that it is new in a law suit. He ha) a half
brother, who, lie says, ran away from hits mother,
and is now living with his grand mother, Mrs Ter
rance, in one of tho Western States. Tommy a'sn
gave a miunie acciunt of his mother’s death, wliiqii
took place on Thursday evening. About 5 o'clock
while ehe was lying tm tbe floor, :-b‘‘ commenced
groaning as if in great pain, raying at tlme&“Oh’
Thomas, Oh! Thomas!’’ He asked her went. wa
the matter with her several times before sbo noticed
him. She then asked him to draw he: hear the tire,
which he did after great exertio'U. After this eho
slept about an hour, and then waking, asked turn
where he had been, and ccnuvienoed staring wildly
about her. He repliet’ “by you, mother.” Site
said, “no you wast’o.’ Immediately she comment’
ed shaking, which soon ceased. She then intinia
ted to him by sigus that blib wished him to kies her,
which to. vtia. She thren drew her limbs up and lay
quint. Shortly afterwards a woman came int i the
room aud said, “But I guess your mam’s dea l.”—
He then plscied hie hand on her heart, to feel its
beating, and aft irwards placed his ear to her nviut h
to bear whether ehe breathed. Shortly afterward-
Captain Ifowin { came and took tie b idy to the,
station house
The Art or Pleasing.—A modest and virtuous
voungman on lirst going nto Bociety, is apt to he
sorely perplexed upon the question, how to make
himself agreeable to ladies. lie need not be asham
ed of his perplexity. Washington Irving, in one of
hie early sketches, confesses that a well dressed
lady was an object perfectly “awful” to his young
imagination. We were ouee acquainted with a
gentleman of distinction In public life, the father of
several accomplished daughters, who could not,
even to bis fiftieth year, enter a drawing-room when
ladies were present, without painful embarrassment.
It is certainly a good sign in a young man to stand
!u some awe of the beautiful sex. A person ol
coarse and vulgar mind, who thinks raoreofbiin
aelf than his beet frieudu think of him, and who
knows little the worth of a good-woman’s heart,
rushes tearleaely in where an Irving or an Addison
w„uld fear to tread.
How well we remember a little incident of our
early days, which helped us to overcome our bash
ful dread of the society of ladies I Seated by the
side of a beautiful girl of seventeen, and over
whelmed with a consoioußuess of our inability to
pay anything to ber which sbe would care to hear, •
we nhanced to observe that she, too, was trembling
with embarrassment. What a comforting discove
ry ’. We felt ao e. coward feels when he finds that
bis enemy is more completely terror-stricken than
hi in self. Addressing ourselves to the task of di
verting our lair acquaintance, wc soon forgot our
own leare in sympat iy with fcers. Bear this in mind,
young gentleman, who blush and stammer in the
company of ladies: The girls are as muoh afraid of
yon aa you are of them!
You are awkard in your manners, you thinks.
If you think so, it is likely that your lair friend
think otherwise; for the really ill-bred fellows
that, we have known have never euppected their
ill breeding. Ant, alter all, what is good-breed
ing but habitual good nature ? Tbe pimple tact,
that you ri*A to please is a proof that you possess,
or will soon acquire, the power to do so. The
good heart and well informed mind will soon give
grace to the demeanor, or will bo abundantly atone
for the want of it, that its abecence will never be
noticed.
Besides tho girls—that is, Ihe looet of (hem—like
a man who is simple in his manners, provided they
see that there is substance arid worth in him. Grace
fui manners and rendy wit are good so far as they
go. But be sure ot this, O bashful, blushing youth,
that, both in the society of ladies and of men, you
will pass in the long run, for what you are worth
no more—no lees. The Art of flensing, therefore,
nothing more than the art of becoming an houeet,
kind, intelligent aud high-minded man. huch a
man, be he graceful as Chesterfield, or awkard as
Caliban, all worthy women trust and love.
The filibuster leaders in Washington are reported
to be very much chagrined at the untoward result
of the voyage of the rohoouer Susan. They are not
sc rmieb disheartened, however, at the wreck of
their vessel and the return of their men, as at the
fact that it has been the means of prematurely dis
closing their plans—though they profess still to hope
that other vessels have succeeded in reaching Omos,
the port of debarkation, with a sufficient number
of men to carry out tbs original intention of cross
ing the country to Leon. Meantime Lord Napier
has received despatches from Mobile, announcing
the arrival Ihere of the British, war steamer Basilisk
with the shipwrecked filibusters on board, though
the Administration lias not yet been notified of the
fact. _
From Chili.—The into ccuHagralion at Valpa
raiso, mentioned a day or two ago under our tele
graphic bead, occurred on the 13th ot November.—
It destroyed the entire rar-geof t uildings from the
l’aesie Edwardo through the Plasa del Orden to
the de Ban Juan d>- Dios, being a large
part of the city. If originated in the Union Club,
about ten o’clock in the morning; the wind was
blowing fresh, and heavy lain fell during the entire
| time the.fiames raged. Bevetal firemen were kill
ed, and about thirty wcuuded. The losses are esti
mated as follows :
Keel estate $1,000,000
Merchandise 2,000,000
Total $3,000,000
Ou which there was iniurauce to the
j amount of. $1,726,101}