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MESON ACAD KM Y,
LEXINGTON, GA.
ri'HK Exfreinc t o/thi* Academy will b* reunmed
] again e-n t • **. oil MONDAY In JANUARY.
The s’ rv:c* of Mr TIIOS. H MOSS in the Male,
and r-f Mind C. MMKBNZIB in tr - Female Depart
ment of this Institution have been secured for another
Board can he obtained on r aaonable term*.
For particulars addrestu) tber oi the Principal*, or
GkOKGE R. GILMER,
Chair man Board of Trustees,
<feclf>w4t Lexington O'o
SITUATION WANTED,
A* I EAC HER, by a Young lady, s graduate of one
„ of tt*. ion* hern'Female Colleges, who can come
well recommended a. lo moo arnbip, and has had Home
ex peris no Ju ‘1 caching Apply to
LOU 18 K. HOLCOMBE,
dec'Jl-w-lt Madison. Geo.
MOM t< >E
miui: UNIVERSITY.
xase.
I ‘Olt elyln years, unde’- this present organization,
/ nourish mg Institutiou ha- enjoyed the increas
ing confidence .ud support of au Intelligent public. Its
nairoiiM are ot that ciaH who .* opinions on education
ought to command the highest respect. This Institution
FlYi; (iKM;UAL DEPARTMENTS !
I A COLLBGBDBI'AHTMKNT. wWrh embraewi
a four yea/s’ course of studv, including .VI the branches
of science t ecesssry to make Young Ladies thorough
1 II AN ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT, in which pu
pit ware pmperfv : rcar.-i for College, and a good bads
laid for thorough scholarship.
111. A MUSIC LEI'AKi MENT. with tried teachers,
competent to give instmetmu on the I‘iauo Forte, Gui
tar Harp, Harmonium, Violin. Flute. Ac Advanced
pupils are taught to compose Mode, if desired. Prof.
ITHIIER is an admirable composer
IV. AN ORNAMENTAL DEPARTMENT, in which
pupils are taught Painting in OH and Water Colors. Ore
-ian Painting Oriental Painting, Penciling, Monochro
matic I rawing. Wax Fro t and Flowers, Crape Work,
Embroidery, Paper Flower-, Rosin Fruit, Ac.
V A DOMEB ITCDEPARTMENT, in which pupils
aretaugh* the elementary and Practical Principles oi Do
mestic Affairs Two hours on every Tuesday, Thurs
day aud aiurday will be devoted to this Department.
The time thus employed will not in the least interfere
with the Literary Department
This is the oulv College iu Georgia giving attention to
this moat s senbal part of Female Education.
The Board of liiHtruci ion are thorough scholars and
experienced teachers, three of whom graduat and with
honor at Mi ner Un vers ty.
A BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION
this Is, where the daughters of Minsters f the Gospel of
moderate uiea .s,are educated WITHOUT CHakGE
POE IT IT OMi mori—r w rthy intiynt orphaaa
and daughters of need/Ministers v-Ul be boarded from
j 5 to 50 per cent less than the usual rates.
Pup'U are here taught Economy. Extravagance is
not allowed. Jewelry 4 is not w- ru, A pupil’s dressing
fir a year, need nut cost more than from S;U) to
BOARD OF TRUSTEE*.
Rev ADIEU NIIBRWOOD, I) D., Griffiu, Pres’t.
Rev. SYLVAN 118 LANDRUM, Macon.
Rev. ELI fAH J PANN AL, Louisville.
Rev WM. C. WILKES Forsyth
;ion OINOINNATUH PEEPLEB, Forsyth.
Hon JOHN T. CROWDER. Monroe county.
Col. JAS 8 PINCKARD. Forsyth.
EDEN TAYLOR, Esq., Colei archeo.
TULA IN U PONDER, Esq, Forsyth
j TSF.PH J. CAR ■ Esq , Ma on county.
!>a\NIEL SANFORD, Esq., Forsyth, Secretary.
Ool.JoH N T STEPHENS, Forsyth.
GEO* A C.4BANIBB, Ksq., Treasurer.
FACULTY.
Rev. WM C. WILKES, A M , President.
lrof U T. AS BURV, A. M
Dr CFO r WILBURN, A M
Prof. WM. FISHER, A M
Mrn MAKV A WILKES.
Mrs KATE ASH’ RY
Mr*. MARY A LAND
XU* JULI A A STANFORD
MUaUOXIEA. CHAPPELL.
Mias CARRIE B. L\ND.
Tuition from $Ui to 850 per year; Music, SSO; Board
810 per month, oxelu<ive of lights aud washing.
The Spring Term willb g nonthr 17th JANUARY.
For further information, address a*y member of the
acn x>, ot Lr , AM 0 RILKES, Pres’t.
• UICUARDT. ABBI RY, Sec y.
Forsyth, Gt., Jan lt. 1859 i*n. r >
MIME AND LEARN!
T nr Fx.rn .HO. rn.VKRTON ACADEMY will
I o vanned JANUARY I7lk, 1859, under th* charge
0 , t MIOUKLUY nr.i Mia* K. UVINGSTO.n.
Kradiia'*-* Sm*hrrn Ollrfft” Th*y teach all tLe
man hen .dually taught m tte hpat hipb school*, an
t ua ( * prove, by their diligonce, that their School is not
Th.* A cal t*u>y l* in a healthy locality, and one cf the
very b *st ouu n s in tbe State ; where every attn
\\ \u will be j;iven to the moral and literary trainiug of
the pupil Board aud tuition are low. There are
For forth, i Prt‘ >SHOCKI EV „ r
It C UULVKR
OnlvHrton, Hnciwk ronp<y. On. _ <t‘C.“ i
ELBfcinUN male: academy.
14 II l* School will open lor the reception of Pupil*,
the t’CCv ud MONDAY in JANUARY neat. Term*
for Boaruaud Tuiuon, *an e a* last year. For further
particular**, apply to tbe Priucqiai. He will ond eaia
logue to any uos’irtnu it, containing full information.
Those n ho wish C. mr sous’ uiorai* looked to, out es the
uchool room matt board them with the Principal.
declM'U Ji'RNA TRKNOHARD Principal.
~ C \A IU iOLTON
MASONIC INSTITUTE.
JOHN K. I.KAK. A. H. t President.
PHE next Terra c.f this tntion will open on the
L first WKDN fM)AYiu Ja NU ARY. 1859. It is iu
*fiwishing eondiiL.u. numbering * hundred stndtuts
ih first Il I.As a iarr-‘ Buitdingand an able Facul
ty The course of study is thoi. ugh. embracing aft that
. usuaily taught m thy Male and F*mal. Oofrcgea. The
society water aud Loaithfulucs* ofthe locality arc un
eurnasaed in Georgia Board, f- per month ‘ Tuition,
reasonable For mrther particulars, address the Presi-
W M MHKRELL, W. M.
J T MKADER, S W
B M LONG. J W
Carrollton. Georgia. Oct., it-.Vv net 1? w3m
LOOK. Ji ERE.
Farmers. Planters ami Keepers f
HORSES.
■ Keep your Hciscs in G-ocd Condition..’
iiimrsirs
MW VEKTABLE HOfISE fflffi
ex'.riordm*. v vm.tsof Sb celebrated GKK
MAN HORSE I*o WORK. are attested by thousand
wbo have aaed it. it • cotnpoad of Vegetable Root*
anti Herbs, ands highly recommended for the ctire and
prevention of ail lho*e crease* to which that animal—the
Horse —is subject: as Distemper. Hidebound, Drowsi
■ess, Lv H*of Appetue, Inwant grains Yellow Water,
Fatigue iroci bard exerciser work, inflammation of the
Kyes. Debility. Wastinf of Flesh, a* It carries off all
fftahamors, pravante horses from becoming siiff or
foundered, purifies and eooU the bloody aud improves
their general condition. The cos.-tant'.y increasing de
mand for this celebrated ‘ HORSE MEDICINE” is one
of those unmistaheaWe pnot of it* worth. i n cases of
Hide bound, I- -<* of Api elite. Dro*. ue... Fti S ne.
“Distemper. Inflammation of the Eyes It imposes the
eonditiun of the Skin imparts a fine giM>y cost of
Hair it i* a universal Conditio* Powder. * inner* and
Planters should uot bo without this valuable Powder.
For.ale.whol.utisandpeußOg HF.INITBH.
Oolumb.a, S. C,
* T PLUMB & LEITNER,
Wholesale and Retail Druggists, Augusta, Ga.
1 y -
PROLIFIC COTTON SEED.
PLANTERS Are Informed that 1 hire succeeded in
producing a PROLIFIC COTTON’ that yields more
-..i the eudA :uac any 1 have ever seen. Being fend of
-experiments, I biee tried, for the lasi twenty-five year*
wvery variety of cotton that pi-omised a large vie*d, and
have found n’ cmg that equals my present stock of
Heed. It i* a hybrid of the Boxd’s aud other Proiifioa
with the Petit Gulf. 1 have stacks now in my office,
Four fee: high, w ith 155 boils on it.
Three feet high, with 125 “
Two feet high, with 15 “ 44
As many as two hundred and fifty bolls and forms have
beet- counted on a few large stalks. Every person who
has seen my crop pronounce it the heavies: billed cotton
they ever mw One Planter pulled off a limb twelve
inches long, having nine bolls on it- As this Cotton doe*
not limb a- long as Petit Golf, it can be planted closer in
the row and drxr s thus securirg a greater number of
•talks to the acr.
a^?fr >for *e*d ONE DOLLAR AND
“ LMHIJK CENTS PER BLBHEL, sacked in
new cotton sack*, db a vexed la Augusta, and for
warded as directed. Address
* GEORGE SCHLEY,
nov6-wtf Angusta, Georgia.
DOWNING HILL NURSERY.
r K H E subscribers beg .vav* to call the attention of the
A public to their extensive collection of
SOUTHERN RAISED FRUIT TREES
embrcing All the best v Ariel :<* that Te been ted in
the Southern cxlznate.
Also. A due collection of ORNAMENTAL TREES
And SHRUBS.
CAUlogaes sent by mail, free of charge, to All’ ippll
•ants.
Address PETERS, HARDEN A CO ,
novll-w4m Atlanta. Qa.
“omorT seats.
WE bATe received a very eoperior supply o( ONION
SETTS, which Are fine And dry.
novfi PLUMB Sc LBITKBR
j Chronicle & Sentinel.
T-'K following line*, written by a little girl four
teen years of age, were handed to us a few days
My Blue-Eyed Brother.
Tte pet of all our household.
The idol of toy mother,
1* a gentle, little pa e-f*. ed boy—
My darling b.ue-eyed brother.
Tkoagb pale his face, his smile la bright;
Lie looks just like my mother—
The pet, tte darling of us all,
Is my little bine eyed brother
1 lore to wa> ch beside him
When we re alone together,
For he is all the worid to me —
My gentle, blue-eyed brother.
Oh : how be loves to ding beside
Ills sister and his mother
We bless the God that gave to us
My angel blue eyed brother.
Interesting from Jupas-Tragic Death of the
Emperor.
A correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger wri
ting from Naugaaaki, Japan, on the let of October,
gives that paper the following interesting account of
the death of the Emperor:
In No. 15,1 aisogave yen an account of the trea
ty lateiy made by ue with Japan. Let me now
ted you of some tragic as well as interesting events,
which a r e said to have already flowed from it. You
must first know that, though “out of the world,”
while cruising along these unknown .-Heals, we have
stili an occasional European maii, by some wander
ing ..hip, and (while anchored here) a semi-weekly
maii from Yeddo. This latter comes overland by a
special messenger, who sometimes rides, sometimes
walks, aud again proceeds by water. A few days
after oar arrival, one of these “Post” came in and
the next day the interpreters gave our Dutch friends
of De-.ima the Yeddo news; they, in turn, passed
it over to us. It was said that, after the signing of
our iest treaty, (29th of July ult.,) it was sent by the
Tai'Koon. or Imperial E nperor at Yeddo, to the
Mikado or Spiritual Emperor, at Miaco for hie ap
proval. The latter, however, who is said to be a
young mau of tigh ten, aware of his rights aud
power, and determined to enforce them, reiu,ed his
approval upon the ground that be should have been
consulted previous to ihe signing of t'-.e treaty, end
departing boldly from the timid policy of his more
lmiuedh.le predecessors, imitated that of the “old
regime, 1 ’ and notified his “great ruler' 1 (or Ti koon,)
that in obedience lo Ike law* of Japan, tire tune had
come for him to commit “Hari-kari.” The Great
Euler, therelore stabbed himself in the bowels, re
ceiving at the same moment a severe blow on the
back ot bis neck, from a friend and relative, which,
d:s!oci>t ng the vertebra, predat ed instant death
Thus bold stand upon tbe pait of their Mikado, who
Lae been treated by late Tai-Koons more as as a
puppet than a master, has start ed the Japanese,
aud caused them to expect some great changes
What these are to be, however, they do not say.
The above is the news by one poet. Another
says tt at the Emperor was poisoned, and that three
ol the greet Princes composing the Senate of
twenty, who actually govern Japan, had been dis
graced for the part they had taken in tbe treaty ;
while a third arrival varies tbe news by stating that
tee Tgi Koon has simply been deprived of bis of
fice lor a tune, and that he will return to power after
a lew years. The three PriDces, it was farther
stated, I.ail been dismissed from office by the
lai Koon previous to his own removal, in the
hope that tbe Mikado would consider that a suffi
cient reparation, and consent to stop farther pro
ceetiii.ge. This iatter was accepted by us as tbe
most natural, and consequently more likely to be
true, than any other ; but yesterday all doubt was
removed by tbe publication of the following gov
ernment order:
“ The Tai-Koon is dead! All the people will,
therefore, commence the rational mourning on the
Ith of October, and continue it through the follow
ing fiity daye As usual, none but necessary work
will be allowed.”
Thus it is certain, that the Emperor is dead,
though whether by Harikari or poison, is not known.
It is, however, equally certain, that it has nut re
sulted from nalural causes, and our Dutch friends
say that Harikari is the most probable.
On the Ud instant, the Flag Officer was official
ly notified of the death of the Emperor by the Gov
ernor ot Nagasaki. We were informed with all
the gravity in the world, that ha had been sick
lor six weekd with pleurisy, aud that he had finally
succumbed on the 14th of September. I subse
quently said to the interpreter, “ you once told me
n.at it “required forty days to get news from Yeddo,
and now wheu it is only eighteen days since bis
death you know all about it. Ido not know what
to beUrvewheu I talk to you Japanese ”
“Oh!” he replied, “oh ! wheu the Emperor dies
tiie post comes very last—in seven cays some
times.”
“Well, now, I want to know how he diedg!” I
saiu naturally.
“Howl lie died of bad cold. I have speak
Commodore.”
“Yes, bu 1 you know that is the outside account.
What I want is the inside one!’’
“No! this not outside. Outside, inside—all same
uow ”
“Perhaps he has committed Hari kari!” In fact
I know he has!”
“Oh, no !” he laughed with evident amusement.
“That uot so. That cannot be ! Never Emperor
or Great Prince make Hari-kari—only Governors
and small Priuces.” Thus I place the assertion of
the Interpreter against the belief of the Dutch—
myself inclining towards the latter. The interpre
ter, however, was “Yashero,” a remarkably boneet
aud talented man.
The day after being officially intormedof the Impe
rial deaththe Flag officer sent his Flag Lieutenant to
tbe Governor, to say to him that he wished to honor
his master's memory, by firing 21 minute guns, just
as we should for our President, or for the bead of
a European power, were we anchored in one of
their ports. The Governor expressed himself high
ly (Uttered by the attention, but replied that as it
was the custom in Japan to mourn in silence, un
less the Admiral was anxious to fire it, be begged
he would not. So we saved our pow der.
The same correspondent says that upon the ap
pearance of cholera in Japan, the belief prevailed
that the English had poisoned the springs and adds:
This disease had, it seems, broken out with great
violence shortly after our departure, a month pre
vious, carrying off as many as fifty ot the Japanese
daily, and originating a feeling of wide spread
alarm throughout the whole southern por t of the Is
laud of Kin sin. It was not attributed to natural
causes by the lower classes, but to the working ol
a devil, who it was asserted had been thrown over
board from one of the English ships lately visiting
the port, aud who had then swam on shore to de
stroy Ihe people as a punishment for the spirit of
“ free intercourse with foreigners,” which Japan
had manife-ted by signing the late treaties. It was
also asserted that “ the English had poisoned the
waters ,” and ihe existence of such a conviction
among the lower orders is scarcely to be wondered
nt. when he redacts upon the superstitious nature of
their religion ( I) aud upon the acts of some English
saiiois, which evidently gave rise to the belie:. It
seems that one of the English vessels gave liberty
to a number of her crew . that two of these wan
dered into the ooun'ry end that during their walk
thev passed several sprmge. Af'er slaking their
thirst at one of these, they wantonly stirred it up
with their sticks, and the coneequanoe was that for
hours tbe families that were supplied by that spring
had to cany their buckets to others. Thus was
originated tie idea of the poisoning of the waters.
Two officers of that uation, while strolling through
the country, were attacked by a crowd, and forced
to fiv to avoid being overpowered by numbers.—
The Kussian officer, who had beets left here by Ad
miral PontiaUu iu charge of a number of sick men,
was attacked in the streets of Nagasaki itself. And
tbe Hutch Doctor of D.-sima, who baa been among
them for years, aud who as is generally the case
w.tb medical men among a semi civilized people,
was a great favorite on account of hi* numerous
cures, was atoned while enjoying an evening ride.
Elopement of an Iletree* with a Negro.
The Detroit Free Press notices a marriage, which
took place near that place a few days since, which,
it is likely, will prove a terrible warning to those
Northern fathers who advocate amalgamation. It
says :
A young girl named Sarah Judson, whose lather
lives on a fine property a mile or two from Pontiac,
eloped on Saturday, aud came to Detroit. Tne
partner of her flight was a black man, who has been
m the employment of ber father for some time in
th. capacity of farm hand. The first intimation the
father had of the intention ot the parties was con
veyed by tho fact of their flight. They immedi
ately crossed over to Windsor, upon reaching this
city, fully sensible that they could never aocom
plrih their unnatural design on this side, as no offi
cial or clergyman cou id have been found who would
have so far tran.-gressed the bounds of decency as
to unite the couple, the appearauoe of the girl being
each a- would forbid the union in the mind ot any
sensible man, to say nothing of the law in the case.
Some individual wee found in Canada who per
tormed the ceremony, however, ani the two were
made one. They are now in Wiudsor, enjoying the
sweets of the honeymoon.
The father of the giri is a red hot abolitionist, of
the whole bog or nothing, nigger as good as any
body styie par a long series of years he has dis
gusted Lis neighbors with bis ranting on abolition
and amalgamation, of which he was disposed to
abate not a jot or a title from itr utmost limit. In
order that he might not be said to preach what he
did i ot practive. he made it a point to treat the nu
merous oob red individuals whom he from time to
time employed as on a par with bis own family
These doctrines be inculcated upon tbe understand
lrgs of his children, aud he has the supreme satis
faction ot Witnessing, as the practical results of his
teachings, bis own daughter in the embrace of a
trigger The brother of the giri came on the next
day. arriving here on Sunday, and ascertaining their
whereabouts, went to hr and implored her to return.
Sue content, however, loved her ebony bait,
and couldn't tb nk of going buck Tbe emotions of
a brother at such a eight can better be imagined
than described
The jftrl is about eighteen years old. The family
are said to have occupied a position in society
which was first class, and the blow is consequently
a terrible one. The father is rich, and the girl an
heiress which makes it very nice for the African of
her choice. The matter has caused an intense ex
citement in the neighborhood where the parties are
well known, the girlhaving been born and brought
up where her parents reside. It is difficu,t to im
agine any train of circumstances by which a young
aud intelligent girl could be brought to form a coo
uection so repugnant to all jthese senses , yet the
facts exists. A more complete retribution for the
crime of fanaticism we never heard of. The least
we can wish is that the lither, undoubtedly well
cured of his oelwfe by this time, may be able to save
his young daughter from the terrible future which
now opens to her.
The Detroit Advertiser of the 6th instant, an
. noanoee that the g;ri’6 father has succeeded in per
suading her to return home with him.
A Ct’RiOi’s Ctre — A correspondent of the Clin
ton Courier, in M estmore.and, relates a very singu
lar cure : “Mrs B-, some two ywars since, was
thrown from her horse, and sustained an iniory to
her hip, which, from that day to this, hs bafißedtfce
skill of the physicians o! this vicinity , gradually
her limb shortened, so that standing upright her
toes touched the floor, and by the aid of crutches it
was barely possible for her to take a dozen steps,
perhaps, each day. From panning her severely only
at intervals, she came to be at Last in constant
Baud at night it was only by her husband
g his feet around her foot, and pushing the
limb towards the foot of the bed, that she could ob
tain rest. About three weeks since, as her husband
was relieving her in this manner. ae was his won.,
the limb suddenly gave way Mrs. B. uttered a
fearful cry of pain, and the bone slipped mtoits
socketl For two years she had been suffering trom
a hip out of joint. The lady soon regained the use
of her limb, and is now almost ae well as ever.
The Grais Trade of Chicago.— During the
past year there were received *t Chicago 510,04*-i
barrels of flout, against 443,631 in 185 r. The re
ceipts of wheat reached 9,666,689 bushels against
10.063 833 in 1858 Os corn the receipts were 8,-
065.664 bushels. The total receipts of all kinds of
gram, including flour, reached 20.338,696 bushels,
an increase of I 330,09# over IB9f
Tne Bodv Snatching Excitement in Tray,
New Yark.
The telegraph has noticed a mob in Troy. X 1.,
which destroyed a house on tbe 2d inst., in which a
“resurrected” body was contained. The body was
that of Michael Price, a moulder, who died ot con
sumption. It bad been interred in St Mary's Ceme
tery. The Troy Times of the 2d inst. says :
Oa Wednesday nigfct laat, the person in charge
cf the graveyard was epprised by the barking of a
dog of the presence of some person on the grounds,
but he did not get up and go out. On Thursday
morning, an investigation was made by him, which
resulted in the discovery that foot prints leading
from over the fence, terminated at the grave of
Price. Tnere was every appearance of the remo
val of the body from the grave—the earth being
thrown off and piled away in a peculiarly careless
manner, the snow ’racked down, aDd some marks
ot blood being visible nearby. Investigation was
made, and resulted iu finding only the broken pie
ces of the coffin and the shroud, which had been
carelessly dumped in and covered up. Tbe body of
Price was gone.
Intormatiun was conveyed to some friends of the
deceased, and inquiries privately set on foot in tbe
matter. Tbe parties having knowledge of the af
fair managed to keep it well lo themselves, and
thus prevent any interference with their plans. On
Friday, information was obtained from a person
who bad been in a measure concerned in the “re
earrection” that led to a suspicion that the body
might be found in the room over tne store of A. B.
Grant, on Congress street. This suspicion was
soon confirmed into almost positive assurance
There was some thought on Saturday of moving in
the matter with tbe aid of the authorities , but the
idea was sbaDdoned. and a resort to “higher law”
determined upon.
Last night, about half past six o'clock, a force of
about twenty strong men—friends of tbe deceased
and under the lead of his brother—assembled at a
place that had previously bsen determined upoc,
and marched down Congress street. Mr. Grant,
who occnpieß the store underneath the suspected
room, was called upon, and gave the crowd every
facility in his power, assuring them that they should
be afforded an admission. Before the person who
had the key could be reached, the impatient crowd
resolved upon forcing an entrance , and they did
so. The door was unlocked with a crowbar, and
tbe room was instantly filled with indignant men.
Their suspicions proved correct. The body of
Michael Price was found upon a dissecting board.
It bad been operated upon but little. His brother
first recognised the remains. In addition, there
were other fragenente of a human body that had
been pretty ‘horoughly ditssoted. Several medical
books, cases of instruments and articles of clothing
with names upon them, were found in the room.
A wild scene of excitement followed this startling
discovery. Cries of indignation rang from the
crowd. Immediately au attack was made upon the
articles in tbe room. Everything movable was
carried to the window acd thrown into the street.—
The casings were torn away and thrown out. The
outside staircae was somewhat broken up. The
destruction of the building was then proposed.—
Maddened and impulsive as some of those in the
< r iwd were at the moment, it is more than possible
that this very unwise and improper course would
have been resorted to, but for the wiser counsels of
some of the cooler headed ones, who temporized
with the others, and persuaded them Dot to perpe
trate aDy violent acts that might ieflic*. great injury
upon innocent parties.
Mayor Itead and ltev. Mr. Haverinans were in
formed of the facts, and some made their appear
ance. Their presence had much street in quieting
the passions of the turbulent crowd. They assured
the noißest of those on the ground that there was a
law to punish body snatching, that the same would
De enforced, and that any riotous do nonstration
would only re4iect discredit upon themselves, re
sult in the destruction oi property, for which the
city would have to pay, iiftict damage upon in
nocent parties and perhaps result in the loss of lite.
To the credit of the crowd, which by this time num
bered nearly one thousand persons, this advice was
taken in good spirit, and in a short time the major
portion of those who had been foremost in propos
ing summary measures, quietly dispersed and went
to their homes. About one or two hundred remain
ed in the vicinity until about ten o'clock, but there
was no renewal of the attack upon tbe building.
In tbe melee, one or two men were somewhat hurt
by tailing misfiles, and two or three chouked, under
the impression that they were madical students.—
Several guns and pistols were fired in the air.
The Gi-eut Southern Route.
The great route from the Nortli through this city
and Danville, to the South, must become the most
popular thoroughfare for through travel between
the North aud South. It passes through the beauti
ful aud salubrious champaigns country, which lies
between the head of tide water and tbe Mountains
—is free from swamps, malaria, and dreary nine
barrens which infest the coast line, and irom deep
cuts, short curves, tuouels and numerous bridges
which lengthen, retard aud increase the risk on the
transmontane and piedmont lines further West.
Atlanta is assumed to bo the great point of Rail
road connection in the Southwest We announced
a few days since that the 8 uth Carolina Legisiaiufe
had chartered a company to build a railroad from
Columbia to Hamburg, a distance of fifty miles.—
This will diminish the gap between Columbia and
Atlanta, and greatly facilitate our connection with
the Georgia system ot railroads. But, a yet shorter
line is chartered. An air line road from Atlanta,
Ga., to Anderson Court House,S. C., is authorized,
and the company is organized, and a recent meet
ing determined to go on with the ecterprize at an
early day. They also determined to confer with the
South Carolina air line Railroad Company, in order
to co-operate in their labors By this road to An
derson Court House, the Greenville road to New
berry, and thence by another chartered road to
Chester, and thence by the Charlotte and South
Carolina Railroad to Charlotte, we have a nearly
oireot line. This will be the most, direct line that is
yet proposed from Atlanta to the North, and the
route will be in ail other respects the most agreea
ble.
There is yet another route that must add immense
ly lo the travel and the business of this line This
route is the North Carolina road ohartered to di
verge from the North Carolina Central either at or
about Salisbury, and pass west south weatward’.y
towards Chattanooga, where it will connect with
the roads terminating there.
Without tins last, however, the roads authorized
in South Carolina, will, with the gap between Dan
ville and Greenebor. ugh, N. C., filled up, make tbe
shorte t line for through Southern travel. Tbatthia
gap will be tilled up. and Ihe South Carolioa and
Georgia Air Line Roads already authorized be
built, we have not a doubt. North Carolina may re
fuse her consent fer a time; but she will ultimately
yield to the dictates of a sound policy aud the de
mand of public convenience. This measure will be
necessary for the reteution of tbe through travel
upon her roads. She has lost largely already. The
Virginia and Tennessee Roads have diverted an im
mense travel from her Wilmington route, and no
one thinks of tbe crooked route by Raleigh.— Rich.
Disp.
Tlie Yankee Dentist.
Mr Brewster was irom New-York, a dentist of
remarkable skill, though that skill had not been ap
preciated in New-Yirk He wentover to Paris,
and there amused himself until his funds were ex
hausted. Asa jemody for an empty purse, one of
his friends suggested that he should open a den
tist's room. He did so, and procuring handsome
rooms, he rose into eminence at once as the most
fashionable dentist in Paris, charging what prices
he pleased. He soon had the mouths of all the
rank and fashion of Paris under his control, and as
he really was agooddentist, hedeserved the praises
he received. The most important event of his ca
reer was hie summons to St. Petersburg to attend
to tbe teeth of the Emperor Nicholas. The Coun.
tess Lieven, a famous temale diplomatist iu tbe pay
ofthe Russian government, during her residence iu
Paris, wrote to the Czar, reoommending Dr. Brew
ster's skill, aud was herself the messenger to com
municate to the dentist the request of Nicholas.
Here was manifested the Yankee self estimation
and independence of the Doctor. He assured her
that it would be impossible for him to leave Paris
until the fashionable season was over ; that he
oould spend but one month with the Emperor, as he
must amuse himself during the holidays at his own
residence at Dieppe ; and that his terms were, all
expenses paid ana fli.lHHl placed to bis banking ac
count before he left Paris. That was snot her
“ Yankee trick” of his—to be well paid, aud that in
advance. He felt himself to be as high in his own
department as the Czar was in his.
The Yankee dentist went to St. Petersburg, had
the u e of a splendid palace assigned him—was at
tended by a numerous retinue, went to all the Court
balls and parties, and gave magnificent entertain
ments in his own palace, all at the Emperor’s ex
pense. Iu the meantime he ha 1 au immense prac
tice as a dentist, the Empress and all the Court be
ing hie customers. He declined to receive money,
but ws amply remunerated by rich presents.
The month was near tbe end aud beyond that
month he was determined not to remain He bad
written to the Emperor, stating that his month was
nearly up, and that he could not stay beyond it.—
The reply of the Emperor is reported to have run
thus :
“The Emperor laments that he has caused the
slightest uneasiness to Dr. Brewster, dentist. Tbe
Emperor has been prevented from seeing him pro
fessionally, by the pressure of affairs, almost as im
poitaut, he believes, as any Dr B can have to at
tend to at Paris. The Emperor will receive Dr.
Brewster at 10 to-morrow, it entirely convenient to
him.”
Brewster attended, of course, and after a hard
day s wotk. left the Emperor's teeth in fine condi
tion. The Czar, being highly pleased, begged his
acceptance of an order ot SISOO in addition, saying
to him that if he bad not been an American, he
should have offered him instead the Order of tte
Black Eagle. Brewster told the Emperor he pre
ferred the order. 1 ankes like, he knew that at Pa
ris and elsewhere, it would earn more money for him
tnun the SISOO. The Emperor gave him both.—
Brewster went back to Paris, wearing his order and
adding to his sign and cards, “Dentist Extraordinary
to his Imperial Majesty. Nicholas 1., of Russia ‘
Ot’R Progenitors. —We copy below a piece of
important news : anew fact just brought to view
by the aid of a “Drummond light” thrown back
upon our past history. This important part of the
••Genesis” of the new world will startle some of
our readers, who have been self-complacent enough
to suppose that their pedigree could not be Raced
back to Newgate. We commend to the attention
of ail this interesting piece of history, brought to
light by an English savan of the present day. Mr.
Drummond, a distinguished member of the English
literati, in a pamphlet review of Mr. John Bright's
speech on a reform of the English constitution, says:
—Richmond Dispatch.
“You conclude with a long panegyric upon Arne
rioa, and ask why, sinoe we import cotton from
America and wine from France, we should not im
port constitutions also T Are you going to reform
the English constitution, or to manufacture anew
one ? It cannot be the English constitution that
you w ant to import, because it is here already, and
was here many centuries before ice sent outof Roc
gale to America tketr first Adam and Ere.”
A Montmekt to Dr. Kane.— We learn that the
erection of a monument in honor of the lamented
Kane is in contemplation, and a design has already
been prepared by a Committee of Artists, consist
ing ofElbor. Huntington, Hicks. Kensett, and
Boeeiter. Xt is proposed that a statue of the great
explorer “bail rest upon a fluted column, and the
Central Park is suggested as the most suitable lo
cation. The Albert Freestone Company have al
readv made an .offering ot $3,000 worth of stone. To
raise’ the necessary’ amount of funds for the suc
cessful prosecution of this patriotic enterprise, a
course of Lecture* will shortly be delivered at the
Cooper Institute.—-V Y Cour. A Enq.
Religious Toleration is Swedes.— The Prince
Begent of Sweden has made a move m favor of re
ligious toleration in that kingdom by granting his
sanction to meetings for worship being held else
where than in the parish churches, provided they are
not opened at the same times they’ are set apart for
public service by the clergy of the district. Per
mission is also granted to laymen to address such
meetings under certain restriction*.
In a letter received from the Hon. William B.
Been to a friend in Philadelphia he states that he
expected to leave Hong Kong on his way home on
the iat of December via Bombay, and then take
the overland European route, so as to reach Ameri
ca in March next. At the time of writing, Mr.
Beed was engaged in arranging the revised tariff in
connection with Lord Elgin and the Chinese Com
mieeioner. Mr. Reed had tost returned from Ja
pan. and speaks of that country ae surpassingly
beautiful, and the people conciliatory and agreeable
in their intercourse with strangers —Udgm.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 19, 1859.
Jlassitrhtiseifs—Governors Message.
Governor Banks was inaugurated on the 7 th inst.,
and delivered bis message to both branches of the
Legislature. It is long, exclusively oonfined to
sta'e matters, and gives an encouraging account of
the materia! progress of the commonwealth.
Tte bank retains show, tb&t the specie in banks
has been increased to eleven millions one hundred
and twelve thousand seven and fifteen dollars,
against three millions, six hundred and eleven thou
sand and ninety seven dollars last year.
The loans have been increased iu the same time
from nicety two mdlions, four hundred and fifty
eight thousand five hundred and seventy two dol
lars, to one hundred and one millions, six hundred
and eixty-two thousand, nine hundred and forty
seven, indicating that the ability and confidence
derived from a larger amount of specie, has en
abled the banks to increase the amount of loans,
from which their profits are derived.
The expenditure of the past year for educational
purposes, was onemiliion four hundred seventy-four
thousand four hundred eighty-eight dollars.
The number of children betw *es five and fifteen
years of age is two hundred and tweDty three thou
sand, three hundred and four, of whom two hun
dred and eighteen thousand, one hundred ninety
eight have been in attendance upon the schools du
ring the year, showing au increase iu the attend
ance of fifteen thousand, one hundred sixty-seven
pnoils on last year
The school fund from which tbe system of schools
is supported, is about one million five hundred
thousand dollars.
The Governor recommends the school fund to be
increased to three millions, from tbe sale of latid on
the Back Bay.
The public debt is one million, three hundred a* and
fourteen thousand, for the payment of which, as it
becomes due, the most ample provision and security
has been made.
Tbe message recommends retrenchment moonnty
expenditures, especially in Suffolk county.
The Governor makes no aliusion whatever to
national politics.
Mkssaok ok the Governou or Maine —Gov-
Merrill, in his message delivered to the Legislature
on the 7th inst., adverts to the fiacncial condition
of the State, and says it demands tbe most exact
economy in the public service. The expenditures
have been constantly augmenting, until the ordinary
receipts are beyond the annual demands, and the
annual expenditure now averages $161,000 over
the annual average of ten years ago. This increase
is attributable to the more wise and liberal policy
for tbe promotion of education, agriculture, etc., but
there is still great vigilance and watchfulnesi need
ed. The receipts of the year are estimated at $368,-
000, and the expenditures at $131,000. The Gov
ernor urges a large reduction in the legislative ex
penses, aud recommends biennial sessions. He then
speaks of the needs of the agricultural interest and
the capacities of settling lands. He refers to the
Aristook emigration, but, without any definite re
commendation as to State aid, he leaves the matter
to tbe Legislature. He rec jmmends a State Nor
mal School, and also a renewal of the authority to
the land agent to grant permits to cut timber on the
public lands. He referß to an official investigation
of the alleged fr auds in tbe recent electi m at the
Madawaska settlements, and suggests additional
legislation to preserve tbe purity of the billot box.
He closes upon the subject of Federal relations, and
says that State rights should be vigilantly guarded.
He regards the new poiioy of tbe Federal Govern
ment upou the Slavery question as injurious to the
rights of the Free Sti tes, and calls upon tbe Legis
lature and people to maintain their resistance to the
extension of Slavery.
Indianavoi.l3, Ind., Jan. 7—Gov. Wiliard de
vered his message to the Legislature on the after
noon ot the 7th inst. He recommends the erection
of suitable buildings for tbe use of the State efii
ces for the Judges of the Supreme Court, aud for a
depository of the public records of the State. He
says that the revenues of the Wabash aud Erie
Canal have greatly diminished . that it is feared
they will prove inadequate to keep the canal in re
pair ; that the bondholders are unwilling to sustain
the work by any other meaDs than those derived
from the revenues, having already investtdhslf the
entire debt of the State iu the work itself, besides
SBOO,OIIO for its completion, and that they have in
formed the Board of Trustees of their determina
tion to close the canal and abandon tbe work when
ever the revenues become inadequate. He callß
the attention of the Legislature to the necessity of
increasing the salaries of the Judges of the Supreme
Court, aud the Governor's salary. He says that
the laws of the State in regard to the qualifications
of voters and eleorion officers are inadequate, and
that a iaw should be passed inflicting severe penal
ties on election officers who decline to receive legal
or admit legal votes. He recommends also an ap
propriation to be made for the enlargement of the
insane Asylum.
Message of the Governor of Pennsylvania.
—The annual message of the Governor of Pennsyl
vania was sent to the legislature of that State on
Wednesday last. It is a model in the way of
brevity. We give the following condensation of its
contents :
The actual debt—funded and unfunded—is $39,-
268 111.16, against which the State holds bonds to
the amount of $11,181,990, received from the sale
of the public works, thus leaving a surplus of debt
of $28,087,111 16, which, the Governor thiDks, may
be reduced, during the current year, one millien of
dollars.
The Governor then proceeds to narrate the de
tails of the sale of the canals to the Sunbnry and
Erie Railroad Company for $3,50U,U00 in bonds of
that corporation, secured by mortgagee. Tne
Governor considers the sale ot all the public works
most fortunate, thinks the State happily ridtf them,
and would regard it as a calamity should she again
become tbe owner.
The Governor calls attention to the system of
common schools, which, in the State comprises 628,
291 pupils, 11,281 schoo s, 13,856 teachers, and cost,
during the last school year, $2,427,632 41. lie
urges the organization of a separate department of
public instruction to have charge of theee schools,
and aleo the supervision of all the literary and scien
tific institutions of tbe State. lie considers it a
startling faot that of the 12,828 teachers outside of
Philadelphia, only 5,087 are reported as qualified,
while 5,387 are returned as “medium,” and 2,313
UDfit, so that of the 569,090 school children outside
of Philadelphia, only 230 009 are under proper in
struction, while 240,000 are receiving insufficient in
struction from interior teachers, and 100,090 are in
charge of persons unfit. Os the 12,828 teachers,
10,889 are under thirty years of age, and 10,946 are
natives of Pennsylvania. Twelve normal schools
for tbe training of teachr-rs have been authorized
by law, and the Governor suggests the passage of
au act guaranteeing the payment of a moderate
sum to one such school in each district. Up to the
present time Pennsylvania has appropriated S6OO
- in aid of her colleges and academies. The
Farmers’ H'gk School aud the Polytechnic Col
lege are both alluded to iu ootnp imentary terms.
Then follows a declaration againet any further in
crease of banks or banking capital under the pre
sent syetem, and, from the tenor of the subsequent
passage, il would seem that the Governor wants
the banking statutes amended so as to provide
that each bank shall deposit with the State trea
surer enough State script to secure its note holders,
or that this p ovieion should be put in anynew
Charters.
The erection of the monument to the dead of the
Pennsylvania volunteers in the Mexican war has
been postponed in consequence of the inadequacy
of the appropriation. Tbe Governor says that the
work cannot be done for less than $30,000, and re
commends the increase of the appropriation to
that amount. Some additional safeguards upon
the treasury ate recommended, and the Governor
ooncludee with an argument on two national topics
—the Tariff and Kansas. On the first he coincides
with President Buohanan's message to Congress.
On the second he takes ground in lavor of popular
sovereignty, and can never subscribe to the theory
of CoDgresiional intervention as understood and
supported by the opponents of that doctrine.
Kansan Legislature—Governor’s Message.
The Kansas Legislature has adjourned to Law
rence city. This action has met with the sanction
of the Governor.
The following is a summary of the proceedings
thus far :
The Committee on Contested Seats reported in
favor of Messrs. Lewis Graham and Allison Steven
son, from tbe third distriot, and Mr. Neale from
Marshall county.
The Secretary was requested to administer the
oath of office to tbe members so reported, which he
refused to do ■, when the Secretary pro tem. was
authorized to perform the duty, and the oath was
administered.
Mr. Holliday, of the council, gave notice of his
intention to introduce a bill, asking Congress to
annex to Kansas all that portion of Nebraska which
lies South of the Platte River.
Tbe following bills were introduced in tbe House:
One to repeal bogus statues; one to abolish eiav e
ry.
The message ofthe Governor was received and
read. The Governor regrets that there is a growing
disposition to over rate the number of votes obtain
ed by means of a “corrupt ballot.” He say* “to
the victors belong the spoils, I 'but they are the
spoils of patronage, given to power for the public
weal. No one has a reason or the right to complain
of the successful party distributing poslß of favor
among its political friends. He hints that Kansas
will he likely to get more liberal favors from Con
gross by continuing as a Territory, tLan b/ imme
ciately becoming a State.
The Governor strongly reprehends the conduct of
the persons who are creating excitements among
the inhabitants of Linn and Bonrbon counties. He
says he is prepared to unite with tbe Assembly in
the most cordis! manner, for the adoption of such
measures as shall reetore order, and will bring to
their aid all the power placed at his discretion by
the Executive.
The Report of the Commissioners appointed to
auait claims shows
The amount ct claims presented $301,000
“ “ awarded 254,000
Tbe claims awarded were thus divided:
The amount of claims classified as pnblic $39,000
“ “ “ as printed 215,000
Comptroller’s report shows
The amount of taxable property in the Ter
ritory #25,000,000
Tbe number of acres of land sold and pre
empted about 3,000,000
Several papers received here from Southern Ne
braska state that the public sentiment in that quar
ter is almost unanimous in favor of its annexation
with Kansas.
COTTON.—There is a moderate demand to-day, at
yesterday’s figures.
An Atlantic Cable Operator Returning to
England —Mr. Charles Gerhardi, one of Mr. De
Sauty's staff of telegraph operators at Trinitv Bay,
came to New York from St. Johns, N. F., by the
Pacific, and takes passage on her to day to return
to England, himself and odb or two others of his as
sociates having been ordered home by the directors
for some purposes, as yet unknown to them, in con
nection with the Atlantic cable. The feeling among
the operators and others who are well acquainted
with the situation of the cable is one of much con
fidence that it will yet be put in a condition to
Transmit ms usages without difficulty. Four or five
operators, including Mr. De Sauty, are yet remain
ing at Cyrus Station, and day and night duty is
kept up” the least deflections of the galvanometer
are carefully watched, and will be reported to the
directors. When Mr. Gerhardi left the station, on
the 16th of December, there were constant evi
dences, by currents passing over the cable, that it
was unbroken, although they were not sufficiently
intelligible to be made ont. Mr. Gerhardi expreeses
the greateet confidence that if the present cable is
not restored to a condition to be used, another ca
ble will be laid down at no distant day. He also
certifies with much earnestness to the entire willing
ness of Mr. De Sauty to communicate whatever!*
of the slightest interest to the public relating to the
line, in proof of which he cites several instances in
which he has volunteered to notify the New York
telegraphic agent of the evidences of the existence
of continuity in the cable—A. Y. Times.
Sydney Smith says : “A joke goes a great way
in the country. X nave known one last pretty well
for seven years. I remember a joke after a meet
ing ot the clergy, in Yorkshire, where there was a
Rev Mr. Buckle, who never spoke when I gve his
health, saying that he was a buckie without a ton
gue. Moet persons laughed, but my next neighbor
sat unmoved in thought. At last, a quarter of an
hour after we had all done, he suddenly nudged me,
exclaiming: ‘I see now what you meant. Mr.
Bmith—you meant a joke.’ ‘Y’ee, sir, said I, ‘I be
lieve I did.’ Upon which be began laughing so
heartily that I thought be would choke, and was
obliged to put him on the back “
The President's .Message In Cuba.
OUR TROUBLES WITH SPAIN—THE SPANISH VIEW
OF THE QUESTION.
Translated for the Savannah Republican from the
ZHario de la Marina, of Havana, Dec. 19tA, 1858.
It is not necessarv to devote ourselves to great
historical inveetigarions, iu order to embrace the
whole of the period ot relations, between tbe United
Sta es and Spain In fact, it does not require bere
any search among the archives—it is to the memory
of men to which all those events belong, when
Spain, giving way to the most generous impu'ses,
pluugea into a most disastrous war with England
in order to contribute her share lo the existence of
that nationality,(of the U. S.) But already, iu the
first hours altoi the birth of that nation, au aggres
sive and quatrelsome spirit began to manifest itself,
which, duriDgtbe last few years, has been eorudely
developed oa the part of the American Federal
Union towards Spam—a spirit which Talleyrand
sufficiently designated by attributing to it the sys
tem of “winning concessions by way of diplomatic
quarrels”
It is therefore not to be wondered at that Mr. Bu
chanan's message, in its parts referring to Spain,
contains in our eyes so little new. Not mentioning
that there is scarcely a sentence in it which is not
almost a literal repetition of what was said by his
predecessors, and principally those famous libels
which Mr. Pierce sent into Congress during hts
Cays of aspiring popularity. Mr. Buchanan, alrea
dy, in the very first words, Bhows himself possessed
of the same spirit, and thereby proves that it can
only in this sense be nndersteod when he begins by
saying that “the relations with Spain are not in a
satisfactory state 1 —while soon alter he recollects
that already, in his last message ot December, 1857,
he informed Congress that the Ambassador Extra
ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of iheUoited
States at Madrid bad demanded his recall; while
it is a notorious fact that he has since asked a hun
dred distinguished persons not to suffer Mr. Dodge
to be replaced, which certainly would not have oc
curred if Ihe difficulties of a mission to Spain were
such as not to be faced by an illustrious patriotism ;
while Mr. Dodge, whoeq patriotism has so far neither
been accused by any “body of lukewarmness, (te
pidity) enjoyed in Madrid a signal esteem by all
public men and by society in general; aud while,
lastly, nothing has occurred during the laat year, in
negotiations, which would indicate to us those in
extricable difficulties, from which would arise “a
state so little satisfactory of which Mr Buohanan
speaks. More we shall say by and bye.
After assuring us that at lost a distinguished citi
zen was found willing to accept of the mission which
so voluntarily was deserted by Mr Dodge. Mr. Bu
chanan tells us that “the Spanish employees who
are under the immediate orders ofthe Captain Gen
eral of Cuba, have insulted our national flag and
repeatedly, Irom time to thus, inflicted injuries on
pertons dud property ot our citizens.” Mr. Bucha
nan adds that this gave rise to numerous reclama
tions, the morits of which have been diecussed be
tween the two governments, but that only in one
case, that of the Black Warrior, practical’ results
were attained. Mr. Pierce, in his in ssage about
this last event, and when he had not yet even the
mosi imperfect reports about it, said also to Cou
gress : “In the course of the last few years the Cu
ban authorities have committed equal aggressions
on our commerce; they have violated the rights of
American citizens and insulted our fieg, while our
exertions lo obtain reparation have resulted in noth
ing more than endless aud useless negotiations,”—
to liich one of the most distinguished orators of
Congress replied : “Where have these aggressions
been committed, those violariona and insults I
Have gentlemen tolerated them 7 Have the repre
sentatives tolerated them 7 the Executive and the
Government 7 where, when and how 7”
Such is in fact the first meditation wliioh natu
rally oecured to us in reading the message of Mr.
Pierce, and such are suggested by the words of Mr.
Buchanan, though from the beg lining, we knew that
the gravity of such expressions is only calculated
to weigh on the mind of the multitude, not to in
fluence reflective and punctillious people, who
could not submit to the idea of having for a long
time swallowed constant insults and borne great
damages, without having claimed and received
immediate aud solemn reparation. Would the
great American Confederation thus have suffered
lerself to be continually insulted 7
The case of the Black Wan io’-, says Mr. Buchanan,
“would have justjiei an immediate appeal to war.”
Os what cbaiacter may have been tbe other “in
sults,” whioh have not even merited such notice as
frequently have been conceded by the federal cus
tom houses to cases with foreign steumerd 7
But our memory is good enough to ieoolleot some
of those which the administration of Mr. Pierce re
capitulated : n a volume emoodylng whatever of
fable had occurred to a certain Amerioau citizen,
who took it into his head to convert himself into a
creditor of Spain, demanding satisfaction for dama
ges and injuries. The authorities of our island tri-d
tor political crime an individual notoriously knowu
as a filibuster, but who called himself an Amerioau
citizen, and they tried him submitting him to the
same lawe|aud theeame forms established for Spanish
subjects, and here we have a grave case of insults
and conaiderable damages I Jackson executed in
Florida some English mbjecls without a jury, aud
only on suspicion of their being allied to tue In
dains. At tbe eoutfi they lynch persons for being
suspected as abolitionists, and they are hung tia treu
as soon os taken. McLeod ie imprisoned on euspi
oion of having taken part —years ago—in the burn
ing of the Caroline on the Niagara; and neverthe
less Spain or her representatives cannot exeroise a
Bimilar right in trying a person who comes to her
territory to conspire openly against the safety and
order ot our Island. The authorities of Cuba arrest
the steward of a merchant vessel; who, conveited
into an sgent for the filibusters, comes to eproad
amongst us pamphlets and incendiary workß which
they take from him in the presence of the consignee
of the very vessel. Visitation, outrage to the Hag,
damages and injuries are claimed for this American
citizen, who, notwithstanding his flagrant cr.mes,
is put at liberty out of magnanimous commiseration.
The authorities of Cuba give the Americau Con
sul aud consignees the aid which they ask from
them against tbe Captain of a vessel, who wants to
discharge her on her arrival without respect or con
sideration to their orders, or the rules and customs
of tbe port—another insult, another outrage to the
flag, new damages aud injuries I And the Consul
remains in hie p jet and the very rYmerican press
characterise, as an iosubordinate, this Captain,
whose pretensions it ridicules; but his claims are
added to the chapter against Spain I
The Spanish government at last re establishes
certain curies, whioh the local authorities altered
subject to their approbation I Outrages, damages,
indemnification, or war I And the American Con
gress vote how, and when they please ; the tariff
is immediately put in force, causing, as in 1842, an
immense injury to the Cuban trade, which in the
same day saw in New-York aud Boston a different
tariff applied on sugars, from that in New-Orleaua
aud Charleston. But-he Americau Union has the
exclusive privilege to qualify, as outrages, what
she herself practices, enforcing by the hour what
her Congress approves, though the foreign com
merce has to sustain the immense damages, which
the protective tariff of 1842 imposed on Cuba.
Now, here we have represented, in all their truth
and in tbe most prominent cases, the claims of
which Mr. Pierce spoke, and to which Mr. Buchan
an refers ; compialniDg that her Mijealy’s govern
ment does not hasten to grant them the favorable
consideration, which the Presidents of the Union
think just, only because they are claims of Ameri
can citizens, or of some who pretend to be such and
seek shelter under their tl eg. And Mr. Pierce and
Mr. Buchanan speak with scandal of the delay at
tributed to the change of ministry, whilst they must
confess that they have yet to comply, notwithstand
ing the application made to Congress, the indemni
fication granted to owners of the schooner Ainistad,
of which the Chairman of the Committee of Foreign
Affairs of the House of Representatives, Mr. C. J.
Ingersoll, iu 1841, said that “In spite cf the laws of
treaties, of the law of all civilized nations, and of
the fundamental principles of universal jurispru
dences, these foreigners have beeu robbed cf ibeir
property, and the pirates, who by booty, assasina
tion auU robbery, deprived them of it, were libera
ted.”
Weil now ! contradictions so palpable in the ap
plication of principles of universal morality, aud of
the elemental rudiments of justice—such flagrant
exaggerations of trifling events in prejudice of tbe
respect due to a nation, whose name au Anglo-Ame
rican never should pronounce without th at species of
reverence which gratitude inspires in honorable
hearts; a desire so manifest to wound iu tbe m.,st
vital part the feelings cf a people, whioh besides
opening the doors of the New World to the Euro
pean races, is the one who planted in it the flag of
Civilization and Christianity, and is the same who
oreated the greater part of the nations who popu
late it—such unpardonable forgetfulness of what all
honor ana feeling demands,—could this fail to wound
deeply the chivalrous men, towards whose bosoms
those missiles are thrown directly, and to their coun
try which is their idol s
This is the reason why we can pronounce loudly
without going into any further examination of the
message, that it came to raise again the old pride
of om people ; that it produced in the entire mon
archy tbe solemn outburst of chivalry, acd patriot
ism of the Spanish cation.
Terrible Shipwreck and Lose cp Liee.—The
bark Azor, at Providence, B. 1., from Fayal 15th
ult., reports having brought home Wm. Kennedy,
the man picked up at sea by the schooner Dread,
from the house of the ship Margaret Tyson, Capt.
Morris, from New Y'ork for San Francisco, before
reported lest. He states that the ship capsized in a
gale on a Saturday night—does not know the dale,
latitude oi longtitude—and lay on her beam ends
until Sunday morning, when she was settling very
fast. Capt Morris then called all the men aft and
told them to look out for themselves, as he should
go down in the ship ; she soon had every appearanoe
of sinking. The ship had six boats, three of whioh
were stove by the drifting spars about the deck.—
Two were stove alongside, and the sixth was
launched in safety. Five of the crew jumped into
her, but she was capsized soon after by a heavy
sea; four.of the men got on her bottom, and the
fifth—the man saved—caught a rope hanging from
the ship and hauled himself on board again.
He then stripped off part of his clothes and swam
to the ship's bouse, which bad become detached
from the wreck. He found two of the crew on it.
and was soon after joined by two more, who had
been floating on portions of the wreck. At this
time the ship had entirely disappeared. Two men
soon died irom exposure. The third man became
delirious on the ninth day and jumped overboard.
The fourth died two days before Kennedy was pick
ed up He says that he caught seven small fish
with his hands, and occasionally caught water when
it rained. He accounts for bis being seventeen
daye on the wreck from the fact that the last man
who died told him that they had passed three Sun
daye on the wreck. He does not know what date
the ship was lost. He is an Irishman and not very
intelligent. Letters from the captain of the Bchooner
Dread state that it was in longitude 40 that he
picked up Kennedy. .
Kennedy's statement is not very straightforward,
but it may be accounted for partly from bis igno
rance and partly from not having recovered irom
hie sufferings yet
A Win Suing porßer Lord.— We have heard
often of wives being restrained by their parents
from their husbands, but seldom of husbands being
restrained from their wives. In the New York Su
preme Court, a few days ago, Mrs. Elizabeth Sin
clair brought suit against her father-in-law, John 8.
Sinclair, to produce the body of her “missing” hus
band. It aanears-that a young man named James
Sinclair, still in his minority, entered into the silken
bond* of matrimony with Elizabeth. Four days
after the ceremony theyoung bridegroom informed
Elizabeth that be feared detention and constraint on
tne part of his father, and charged her to take im
mediate proceedings to recover his liberty should
he be missing. Her petition states that her father
in-law detained her husband, and refuses to allow
him to visit or live with her; that John 8. Sinclair
has declared bis intention to keep his son away
from her at all hazards, and will, if necessary, send
him out of the country to prevent them from living
Sinclair made a return that his son
was a minor, domiciled, up to the date of the writ,
in his house, and wholly dependent upon him ; that
he was not restrained of his liberty by force or con
finement, but only commanded under pain of the
parental displeasure not to leave the premises for
a previous disobedience and disrespect for the com
mands of his father. In conclusion, he states that
his son had already left ‘-he control and ouetody of
his father with the coneent of the latter, who conse
quently could not now produce him as required by
tne writ. , , , ,
When the case came on for hearing, both parties
not being ready, an adjonrnment was granted.
An obeerving friend remarks that Bonner’s Ledg
er is posted more promptly and regularly than moet
New York ledgers On investigation he finds the
interest aooount kept up when Mver-it becomes due.
— N. V. Evening Post.
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
RT THE AFRICA.
The Royal steamship Africa, which sailed from
Liverpool or Saturdac, 251 h ot December,arrived
at New York on Suudsy, 9;h inst.
Buknino of the Ship Isaac Wright.— At
twoo’ckek on tbe morning of the 23d iJ’imo, a
fire broke out in the hold of the stip Isaac Wright,
as she was lying a 1 anohor in the Mersey river. Shs
was about to sail for New To k, and had ou board
about two hundred passengers. On the alarm of
file being given, great consternation prevailed on
board, but as some steam-tug- and ferry boats were
quickly alongside, the passengers were all rescued,
many of them only half clad acd leaving all their
property behind them. Several paieengers were
neatly suffocated in their berths, but thanks to the
vigilance of the officials no fives were lost. After
the rescue of the passengers, the Vessel was towed
up the river to the Sioytie, and run so near the shore
tbat at low water she was left dry. Shots were
fired into the vessel below the water-line, from a
man-of war, in order to assist in sinking her before
the tide receded. Several engines continued to
play on the ship for hours, but the flames were not
fully subdued until tbe following day. The cause of
the fire had not been ascertained, neither is the ex
tent of tho damage mentioned.
The cargo consisted of flue goods and about 890
tons of iron—aud it, together with the vessel is said
to have beeu fully insured.
Board of Trade Returns.— The returns for
November and for tbe 11th month of the present
year were issued yesterday. They exhibit the im
portant increase of $1,690,621, tr about 20 per
cent, in the imports, as compared with November,
1857, when the monetary crisis was beginning to
depress the trade. The comparison of the Uth
month shows, however, a decrease of about 7 per
cent.
The important revival of the export trade here
indicated iB partly occasioned by the shipments of
cotton goods to India.
(.The intelligence from the Continent is generally
uninteresting, and we emit it, to make room for the
subjoined comments of the English press on the
President’s Message.]
From the London Times, Dec. 22.
A PRESIDENT WITH THE VOICE OF JACCO AND THE
HANDS OF E A7.
The Message of the President of the United States
occupied eight columns aud a half of the Times.—
Os these half are devoted to foreigu and half to do
mestic politics, a proportion rafrier startling to us
iu England, whose habit it is to look at boms first,
and only devote to foreign affairs so much attention
as we lave to spate after maturely and minutely
considering our own. We must’ in fairness re
member, however, that a large portion of the do
mestic affairs of the United States does not come
uuder the jurisdiction of Congress ; but stiP, after
ail due deductions made, the proportion of foreign
to domestic business is not a little striking. How
comes it that China, Japan, Nicaragua, Costa Rica,
Spain, Brazil, Paraguay, and Mexico, should occu
py the atteution of Congress, to the exclusion of in
terests muoh nearer home, and so much more val
uable to a people wtose occupation is to increase
rather than to conquer 7 The President alludes to
a deficit in the Post Office, and attributes it mainly
to the fact that it iB overburdened by tbe cost of
transporting tbe mails, and towards a recommenda
tion from the Postmaster General that the postage
on letters should be raised to five ceDts, or two
pence halfpenny, on a single letter. This eubjeot
is despatched with great brevity, compared with
that of the foreign relations of the Republic. Yet,
surely it is better worth the attention of Congress
than many which are discussed at greater length.—
In the state ol its Post-Offioe Department may be
found au excellent example of the reason why
things go wrong uuder the present system of Ameri
can government, w hen Government undertakes
to carry letters it really enters into business, and
can only succeed in that business by adopting the
ordinary principles of success—that is, by using
skilful ageu s, aud obtainiug the utmost regularity,
punctuality, and celerity; but, according to the
pressut maxims of American party politios, there is
a regular turn out of tbe Post Office as well as of
all other officials on each change of Administration.
People give themselves little trouble to master tbe
duties ot a situation which no assiduity on their part
can rer der permanent, and the public is continually
being deprived by these rapid and sweeping chang
es of the benefit of such skill and knowledge as
have been forced upon its servants during a four
years’ tenure of office. The result is what might
be expected. The Post-Office of America is discre
ditable to the civilization ot America; there is little
punctuality or regularity, and utill less security.—
Instead of trusting everything to the poet, aswedo
in England, people do all in their power to avoid it,
and this is one among other causes, of the great de
velopment of the electric telegraph system in Ame
rica. We have mentioned this as an instance of an
important subject cursorily passed over to make
room for obscure auarrels and doubtful claims, and
as an illustration of the manner injwhich the Ameri
can people, with 80 much requiring amendment at
home, are laught and encouraged by their states
men to concentrate their attention on matters of
comparative little consequence abroad.
Tbe message, or rather manifesto, of the Presi
dent is studiously moderate in its tone, but still,
somehow or other, we should think that the inhab
itants of the petty Republics with whose interests
it deals so largely, cannot read it without some in
ternal tremors, it presents certainly a curious phe
nomenon. Here ie a mertial aud ad venturous race,
spread over an enormous territory, disposing of un
limited naval and military resources. They profess
by their President that except by fair purchase, as
in the case of Louisiana, or by free annexation, as
a little more doubtfully in the case of Texas, they
will never acquire any accession of territory. They
breathe nothing but kiudnees and gLod will to all
their neighbors, success to Mexico, prosperity to
Costa R.ca, and more strength to the elbow of New
Granada. Did the world ever see a picture of bo
muoh strength tempeied and adorned by so much
moderation? Nor is this all. The United States
have had losses ; they 1 ave been robbed by Mexi
oo, cheated by lirez 1, laughed at by Spain, despoil
ed by Paraguay, aud grievously tormented by Cos
taliieaand Nicaragua. Yet, still the great Repub
lic opposes her patience to the fury ot the wasps
and hornets of these fiery latitudes, and calls gods
and men to witness her patience, her forbearanoe,
and her tenderness. It is a m iving spectacle, and
our first teeliug on witnessing it is, how unworthy
the sulky, perverse, domineering natives of these
distant isles ara to be the progenitors of a race
which exceeds us as much in the milder virtuee of
conciliation and toleronce as it does already in the
extent of its territories, and will shortly in the
amount of its population. When we come, how
ever, to look a little further, we see some symptoms
that he quarrelsome spirit of the English has not
wholly died out in their descendants. The old
grievance of the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty is still
kept hanging over Great Britain, and we do not
see that our trank concessions in the matter of the
Right of Search have inspired the President with
the slightest wish lo meet ue iu a corresponding
spirit. He burns with the purest desire to ext n
guish the Slave Trade ; nay, in a trarsport of holy
zeal, he would snatch Cuba from the bauds of Spain
in order that he may at once put an end to the
Siave Trade from Airies, or rather may confine it
to Virginia aud the other breeding States of the
Union. But when Great Britain proposes to him to
devise some means to replace that power of check
ing the Siave Trade which search and visitation
gave her, he is unable to devisa any expedient, and
tells us frankly that any plan she may suggest is
sure to lead to grave embarrassments. To hand
over Cuba to America is his only remedy, and he
will hear of no other.
Spain, too, has behaved extremely ill. Bhe draws
out her negotiations to inordinate length, and seeks
to compound her obligations at the rate of six and
elghtpence in the pound. America has borne it all
with patience, and even now the only revenge she
seeks is the purchase of Cuha. If Spain will not
sell it, the President contemplates the seizure of the
island under the imperative and overruling liw of
sell preservation. Os the existence and application
ot BUoh a law, America herself is to be the judge
Mexico cannot keep the peace on the frontier, she
has levied contributions on American citizens, and
her lawless tribes impede tbe passage of the Cali
fornia mail. Therefore the United States should
assumes temporary protectorate over two of her
provinces— Cb huahua and Sonora—and hold them
till a good government can be established—a ten
ure certainly amounting to freehold, and very pro
bably to feesimple. Nor have the States of the
Isthmus, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, reason to ac
cept too litterally the professed moderation of ihe
President. They are told that if an arm of the sea
ran through their territories uniting the Atlantic
with the Pacific, they would have no right to ob
struct tbe navigation of all nations through it; and,
though there is no arm of the sea, but only u road
leading through their domains from one ocean to the
other, this makes no sort of difference. The appli
cation of this principle needs no comment. The
claim if this easement over a neighbor's land draws
with it the right f enforcing it, and that right the
President requests he may be empowered to exer
cise without the assent of Congress. Paraguay iB
to be compelled at the sword’s point to give Just
satisfaction.
We na\ e said auougb to show that we c ught not
to tie too much dazzled by the modera'i nos the
Praeident, and that if his voice is the voice o‘ Jacob
bis hands are undoubtedly the’hands of Esau. We
willonly add one other reflection. Can it he that
the whole American Continent has entered into a
lie conspiracy foment, despoil, and ill use the
United State”; that the weaker is in allcaeestbe
aggressor, and the stronger in all cases the attacked
and injured 1 It is not, at any rate, very icmarka
ble that the United States should be at this moment
provided with a tasut b-lli against almost every
State from the Gulf of Mexico to Cape Horn, and
that, though in a spirit of tolerant moderation they
oontent themselves for the present year with merely
seizing two provinces of Mexico, taking armed
possession of the Transit Route from ocean to ocean
and sending a flotilla up the Parana to invade the
dreamy repoee of Paraguay, they have grievances
and claims in store for any number of Presidents’
Messages and for auy number of strictly defensive
expeditions 7 Is the wolf always so entirely in the
right 7 Are the lambs always so completely in the
wrong 1
From ike London Daily Newt, Dec. 23.
A PRESIDENT FORSAKEN, REJECTED, AND FOILED.
The President’s Message is interesting to Europe
for other reasons than its treatment of questions of
foreign policy. To everybody it is of more impor
tance to know whether the American Republic is
likely to continue to exist io its actual form, than to
understand what it means to do in regard to any
eiternal relations. The large space devoted to the
Kansas topic ought, therefore to fix attention,as the
one which, according to Mr. Buchanan, imperilled
the Union a year ago, and which according to every
body else, was the mere embodiment of a danger
whicb is not less bnt more urgent than it was twelve
months since. If the President had been as well
satisfied as he declares himself to be in reviewing
the whole transaction, he would have said less about
that satisfaction. After all his assumptions and loss
es, the narrative will be told as barely in history as
in tbe newspapers of 1858. People know well
enough on which side the “lawful authority’’ was;
and more generations than one will appreciate the
action of the Kansas eettlerß in rejecting the great
bribe, the valuable gift of lands, offered on condi
tion of a sacrifice ot their constitutional liberties.
At a time when tbe President himseif rebukes the
political venality of the citizens of older communi
ties, the spirited, ambitions, wronged Bettlere in
Kansas have preferred their republican principles
to the moat tempting sort of wealth : and if the
President cannot appreciate tbe act, and even treats
it as a sort of rebellion, the world at large will ren
der better justice. As for the evanescent character
of the controversy, the world knows better than
that too. At this moment Mr. Buchanan stands
alone in regard to political position—forsaken, re
jected, foiled; and it is this very controversy which
has ruined him. ....
The sections of the Message which treat of Spain,
Mexico, Cnba, and the Central American Stateß
are of value as instructing tbe Allies of the Repub
lic, and affording points for concentration of opinion
to the citizens. It is quite another matter what the
issue will actually be in each direction. One such
confirmation of wnat bad seemed incredible as the
Message affords ia tbe instance of the claims on Ni
caragua and Granada for compensation after W alk
er a invasion, is valuable as a lesson, however
mournful as a disclosure of tbe spirit of Govern
ment. If any Executive cannot reetrain its own
subjects from aggreeeionin the territory of an ally,
it is mere insult added to injury to demand from
the aggrieved neighbor compensation for the deaths,
wounds, and losses caused to tbe immigrant coun
trymen of tbe marauders. Yet this is now tbs
claim urged against some of the Central American
States It had been heard of before ; but it oould
hardly be believed. There is an immediate oppor
tunity tor obtaining credit with the world for a
higher principle and policy than have been as yet
bsen ascribed to Mr. Buchanan's administration
In proportion to the thoroughness with which Cen
tral America is spared the inooreions of American
filibusters with other allies put faith in Presidential
professions ot meaning nothing but peace and good
will in obtaining powers to carry war along the tran
sit route, in case of need, without concert with Ni
caragua or other allies. Till it is clearly known that
W aiker and his coadjutors are effectually restrain
ed, the W ashington Government cannot reasonably
quarrel with any vigilance which can be shown,
abroad or ai home, about the professions of tho
President, and the objects they are intended to ad
vance. * * * *
A more serious consideration than even this is—
how the publio money is spent. Mr. Buchanan him
selt points enquiry in this direction, in his lamenta
tionsoverthe venality of his own party. The money
which is spent in the aggressive wars, and in an
ever-extending patronage aud functionaryism, is a
shedding cf the very lifeblood of the Republic;
whereas any expenditure required by the develop
ment of the country, and the advancement of science
and the arts of fife, is seed cast into the ground to re
appear iu abundant harvests.
Before we can hope to see such, the Americans
muff show e series of Presidents more like theearli
er ones, who will produce manifestoes higher in their
tone, more guileless in their spirit, and more manly
and genuine in their style than those of Mr. Buchan
an. It must be remembered that the American peo
ple have recently and emphatically disclaimed him
as the representative of the policy of their country.
From the Manchester Guardian.
The grounds on which America seeks to get hold
of Cuba have often and jHstly been compared to
those which the late Emperor Nioholas alleged for
grasping at the possession of the “sick man” at
Constantinople. The island is so viciously admin
istered by its present owners as to constitutue it a
moral eye-sore to the universe, and, besides, it
would be particularly valuable to somebody else.—
President Buchanan mixes tip in admirab’e confu
sion the pleas of national self interest and of zeal for
the welfare of humanity in the message which he
has recently addressed to Congress. Cuba is the
only spot m the civilized world where the slave
trade is tolerated. While it enjoys this shameful
distinction, it prevents the light of knowledge and
religion from penetrating the dark abodes of the
African savage; and to its intense naughtiness in
this respect it adds the geographical offence of
commanding the mouth of the Mississiopi, aud ex
posing an important part of the trade of the United
States to imminent danger of being destroyed in
time of war. Were it in the possession of the Uni
ted States, the last vestige of the traffio in humau
flesh would disappear, aud the Republic—which is,
ot course, a matter of secondary importance—would
be enormously aggrandized.
From the London Star.
Whenever the poiioy of America with regard to
Cuba, begins to assume a substantial form, we may
expect apolitical complication of do ordinary kind
wtieh it will be well to watch lest it embroil us in a
trans-atlautio war. No doubt were Cuba to pass
into the possession ofthe United Stateß, the slave
trade would be at once abolished, and this would ba
so inuih gained to humanity. The Cubans them
selves have everything to acquire by the transfer,
for it is soarcely possible a people can be more op
pressed and over-taxed than they are by the nomi
nees of Spanish corruption. The slaves would be
at least as well off uuder their American masters,
and that m .st awful system of immigration which
augments their numbers would probably experience
the same fate as the traffio in negroes. That the
commeros of the island would be immensely in
creased, admits of no doubt; nor oan there be a
difference of opinion that the position ofthe United
States, as a maritime nation, would be greatly im
proved. What is there to set against these proba
bilities 7
First, that the slave power would be strengthen
ed. Much as this would be deplored, Spanish
slavery would at least be extinguished, and the in
stitution be confined to the Southern States. It is,
therefore, a difference without a distinction, and
we have so abiding a faith in the vitality of free
dom, that we should anticipate a more rapid over
throw of this species of despotism were it ooufined
to one country. Secondly, British interests might
suffer, and the security of our West India oolouies
be jeopardized. This, howevei, would be trus
only on the assumption that toe United States would
be prepared wantonly to assail our possessions un
der the impulse of sheer national cupidity, an appre
hension which, if it be worth anything, is still more
applicable to Canada. And surely, no nation has
a right to hazard all the evils of war—which would
most certainly be the case if we bound ourselvea to
resist under any circumstances, the Amerioan ac
quisition of Cuba—merely to provide againet a re
mote and barely possible contingency. But what
chiefly concerns the people of England to know at
the present moment is, in what manner and by
what right the French and our own GovernmeUs
are to interfere to prevent the United States from
acquiring Cuba by purohase, if Spain be found
willing to sell it. It appears to us, we own, that in
no case can it be our business to interfere in this
matter, aB in no case can our interference be pro
ductive of anything but danger and mischief.
From the Dahlonegah Signal.
The Finite River Gold mines.
Jtlessrx. Editors . —Having just returned from the
Rocky Mountains, and supposing it would be in
teresting to some of your readers, I have oonciuded
to give you a few brief items, or, in other words
give your readers a detail of our tour to the Rocky
Mountains, commencing at the time we started
from Leavenworth City until we returned. We
lett Leavenworth on the 7th of May with four
wagons, 17 men, and provisions for 6 months, some
mining implements, also guns and ammunition
plenty. From Leavenworth we traveled 125 miles
up the Kansas river, thence south west to the Ar
kansas river, a distanoe of 200 miles, where we
joined the Cherokee Cos. We then traveled up |he
Arkansas 250 miles; leaving the Arkansas, we then
turned Notth, travelled 109 miles and stopped on
the South Platte river at the mouthof Cheery creek,
the 21th of June. Here we commenced prospecting
for gold. The Cherokee Company after a few days
became discouraged and left us, also some of car
own Company, reducing our number to 13. We
then proceeded up the Platte some 7 or 8 miles
whore we remained for several days prospecting ;
the banks of the Platte, the ravines ana creeks we
also worked a few days, realizing from 3 to 10 awts
per day to the hand.
Wetheu left our wagons with apart ofthe com
pany and proceeded up the Platte with a view of
prospecting the head waters ot it, but ow'mg to the
roughness of tbe country and want of provisions we
were necessarily compelled to give it out and re
turn to our camp. After a tour of 12 days in the
mountains, we then moved south to the head of Cher
ry creek, a distance of 40 miles, prospecting the
creeks, branches aud ravines—found them to pay
from 3 to 8 dwts. per day to tbe hand with ordinary
labor. We then left Cherry creek, gomg north,
with a view of prospecting the North Platte and
the Blaekhills ; but upon reaching the Medicine-bo-
Mantan, a distance of 225 miles, it began to snow,
consequently we turned back on the 6th of Septem
ber aud took upon our winter quarters ou the South
Platte, four miles above the mouth of Cherry creek.
Alter staying until the 16th of October three of ub
left for home, making Leavenworth in twenty-four
days.
After giving you a true, though very brief ac
count of the gold mines, so far as my experience
authorizes, I will now give you in brief eome items
relative to tiie game, the water, and also the cha
racter of the soil:
The Buffalo is the first game to be found alter
leaving Leavenworth. We find them in numerous
herds scattered, or, almost ODe continuous herd, for
159 miles. The next game we find are Antelope
and Deer, in abundance. We then on nearing the
mountains found Bear, Elk, and Mountain Sheep.
As regards the soil, we found extending from tte
base of the mountains a scope of land from 50 to
75 miles in width, some 290 miles iu length, well
timbered on the water courses, and well adapted to
agricultural purposes. W. G. Russell.
Paul Morphy Still Triumphant I —The Paris
correspondent of the New York Express states
that tour games of the great chess match between
Paul Morphy and Herr Auderssen had been played.
The first was won by Auderssen, the seoond was
drawn, and tie third and fourth won by the Ameri
can ohampion. No doubt exists in Paris and In
London that Morphy will easily win the match.—
Bets of ten to one are offered in his favor, with no
takers. The fifth game is in progress, with an ex
cellent prospect of Morphy’s success. In the mean
time, the excitement outside increases, and bets are
now offered that Auderssen will not win four games,
before Morphy will have gained seven. Whoever
wins the first seven games is the victor.
In consequence of the indisposition of Morphy,
tbe game takes place at his lodgings instead of at
the Case de la Itegence. The players meet every
day, at the Hotel; and, as the game proceeds, the
moves are Bent at short intervals to the Cqfo near
by, where three or four chess boards qre constantly
surrounded by an eager through throughout tbe du
ration of each garr;e,
Auderssen is a pleasant looking man, about forty
five yearn old. lie is professor of Mathematics at
the University at Breslau, and visits Paris express
ly to meet the young American. The only stake
for which the two play is the honor of winning.
Harwitz has played his eight hiindtolded games.
His antagonists were all players of very inferior
rank, the strongest being one of tbe worst who
played against Morphy, when the latter performed
the feat whicb so excited the emulation of Harwitg.
Os the games played, Harwitz won six, drew one
and lost one. They were all wretched, not one
brilliant move having been made. The Prussian
will presently have another opportunity of imita
ting Morphy's example, but it is hardly probable
that he will make the attempt. As soon as tbe
match with Auderssen ia concluded, little Paul will
play publicly twenty games of ohees, without see
ing the boards ’
The “Minie” Rifle. —The term Miuie rifle has
led many persons to conclude that them was some
peculiarity of construction belonging to firearms
whicb went by this name. The faot, however, is,
that every rifle in which an expanding bullet is
used is a Miuie rifle ; the invention is embraced in
the character of the bullet, not the rifle. It was
always well known that rifles were more deadly and
destructive in warfare than plain bored muskets,
but owing to the difficulty et ramming down a bul
let in loading a rifle—because it is made a little
larger thaL the bore, to fill the spiral creases in the
barrel—soldier’s could not load and discharge rapid
enough in line ; this was the principal reason why
the old musket kept its place so long as a weapon
of human warfare. To France, certainly, belongs
credit of first rendering riflrs capable of being load
ed as rapidly as muskets, and of first introducing
them into her army, and subsequently into the
British and other armies. This was accomplished
by tbe use of the expanding bullet by Lieut. Miuie,
of tbe French army, and who has generally been
supposed to be the first inventor. The British
Government, however, has awarded to N. Greener,
a mechanic of Birmingham, England, £I.OOO as a
prize for being the first inventor of the Minie bul
let. It appears that in 1836 he brought the subject
of such bullets before the War Department of that
Government, in 1841, in a letter published in one
of the London papers, and again in 1842, before tbe
government.
The Wages of African Coolies. —The French
government has provided that the term of servioe
of the 20,000 free Africans to be obtained on the
coast of that continent, and transported to Gauda
lonpe and Martinique, shall be Bix years. Tbey are
to be bound to give 26 days work for every month,
and their wages are to be $2 37 a month. Women
are to receive $1 19 a month, and ehlldren, from 0
14 years of age, 59 oents a month. One-haU of the
wages is to be paid at tbe end of each month, and
the other half at the end of each year. They may
allow ten per cent of the wages to remain with
their masters if they choee, which shall entitle them
to be returned home at the and of the six years’ ser
vice, if they sc desire.
Wepsters Courting. —Daniel Webster mar
ried the woman he loved, aDd the twenty years
which be lived with her brought him to the meri
dian of hts greatness. A anecdote ia current on this
subject, which is n t recorded in the bocks. Mr.
Webstsr was becoming intimate with Miss Grace
Fletcher, when a skein of silk, which he was hold
f°r her to wind, was getting into a knot, Mr.
Webster assisted in unravellin/ the snarl—then
looking np to Miss Grace, he said, “ We have un
tied a knot, don’t yon think we coaid tie one 7”—
Grace was a little embarrassed, said not a word,
but in the con-re of a few minutes she tied a knot
in a piece of tape aud'handed it to Mr. W. This
piece of tape, the thread of his domestic iay>, was
found after the death of Mr. Webster, preserved as
one of his most precious relics.
It is an economical reflection, that when garments
are too short, the difficulty may be remedied by
wearing them longer.
VOL. LXXIIL—NEW SERIES VOL. XXIII. NO.:L
Address of Vire-I'resideut Breckinridge,
ON the removal of the senate from their old
chamber.
Senators —I have been charged by the commit
tee to Whom you confided the arrangements of ‘hid
day with the duty of expressing some of tbe r* tleo
t rions that naturally occur in taking final leave of a
Chamber which has so tong been occupied by the
r oec&te- In the progress of our country and the
growth of the representation, this room has beoome
’ too contracted for the representatives of the States
now existing and soon to exist; and accorcingly
you are about to exchange it tor a hall sff udirir
accommodations adequate to the present and the
future. The occasion suggests many interesting
reminiscences; and it may bo agreeable, in the first
] place, to occupy a few minutes with a short ac
count of the various plaoes at whioh Congress lias
1 assembled, of the struggles which preoeded the per
’ maueut location of the seat of government, and of
the ciroumetances under which it was finally estab
lished on tbe banks of tbe Potomao
The Congress of the Revolution was sometimes
a fugitive, holding its sessions, as the ohances of
war requi ed, at Philadelphia, Baltimore. LaDoas
ter, Annapolis, aud York. Pa. During the period
between the oonclusionof peace and the commence
ment of the present government, it met at Prince
ton, Annapolis, TrentoD, and New York.
After the idea of a permanent Union had been
executed in part by the adoption of the Artiolee of
1 Confederation, the question presented itself of fix
ing a seat of government, and this immediately
called forth intense interest and rivalry.
That the plaee should be oentral, having regard
< to the population and territory of the confederacy,
was the only point oommou to the contending par -
ties. Propositions of ail kinds were offered, de
bated, and rejected, sometimes with intemperate
warmth. At length, on the'thof Ootober, 1783,
the Congress beiug at Prinoeton, whither they had
been driven from Philadelphia by the ineulte of a
body of armed men, it was resolved that a building
for the use of Congress be ereoted near the falls of
the Delaware. This was soon alter modified by
requiring suitable buildiDga to be also ei eo ed near
the falls oftlie Potomac, that the reeideuce ol Con
gress might alternate between those places. But
the question was not allowed to rest, aud at length,
after frequent and warm debates, it was resolved
that the residence of Congress should continue at
one place: and commissioners tveieappointed, with
full power to lay out a district for a federal town
near the fails of the Delaware, aud in the mean
time Congress assembled alternately at Trenton
and Annapolis; but the representatives ol o her
States were unremitting in exertions for their re
spective localities.
On the 22d of December, 1784, it was resolved to
remove to the oity of New York, and to remain
there until the bni'ifing on the Delaware should be
completed: and accordingly, ou the 11th of January,
1785, the Congress met at New Y„rk where they
continued to hold their seesions until the confedera
tion gave place to the constitution.
The commissioners to lay out a town on the Dela
ware reported their proceedings to Congress, but
no further steps wero taken to carry the resolution
into effect.
When the bonds of union ffere drawn oloeer by
the organization of the new government uuder the
constitution, on the 3d of March, 1789, the subject
was revived aud discussed with greater warmth
than before. It was conceded on sli sides that the
residei.ee of Congress should continue at one place,
and the prospect of stability in the government in
vested the question with a deeper interest. Some
membeie proposed New York, as being “superior
to any place they knew for the orderly and deoent
behavior of its inhabitants. To this it war answer
ed that it was not desirable that the political capital
Btiould be in a commercial metropolis. Others ridi
culed the idea ot building palaces in the woods.—
Mr. Gerry, of Massachusetts, thought it highly un
reasonable to fix the seat of Government in such a
position as lo have nine States of the thirteen to the
northward of the place ; while the South Caroli
nians objected to Philadelphia ou account of the
number of Quakers, who, they said, ooutinually an
noyed the southern members with schemes of
emancipation.
In the midst of these disputes, the House of Re
presentatives resolved “that the permanent seat of
goveroment ought to be at some convenient place
un the banks of tbe Susquehanna.” On the intro
duction ot a bill to give effeet to this resolution
much feeling was exhibited, especially by Southern
members. Mr. Madison thought if the prooeediug
of that day had bees foreseen by Virginia, that
State might not have beoome a party to the Con
stitution. The question was ulluwed by every
member to bs a matter of great importance. Mr.
Scutt said tbe future tranquility and welt being of
the United States depended as muoh on this as on
any question that ever had or could come before
Congress, and Mr. Fisher Arnes remarked tbat
every principle of pride aud honor, and even of
patriotism, was engaged. For a time, any agree
ment appeared tp be impossible; but the good gen
ius of our system finally prevailed, aud on the 28th
of June, 1799, an aot was passed containing the
following clause:
“That a district of territory on the river Potomao,
at eome place between the mouths of the eastern
branch and the Connogocheague, be, and tbe same
is hereby, accepted, for tbe permanent seat of the
Government ot the United States.”
The same act provided that Congress should hold
its sessions at Philadelphia until the first Monday in
November, 1890, when tho government Bhuuld re
move to the distriot selected on the Potomac. Thus
was settled a question which had produced much
sectional feeling between the States. But all diffi
culties were not yet surmounted ■, for Congress,
either from lndiffereuoe or the want of money, fail
ed to make adequate appropriations for the erec
tion of publio buildings, and the commissioners
were often reduced lo great straits to maintain the
progress of the work. Finding it impossible to bor
row money in Europe, or to obtain it from Con
gress, Washington, in December, 1796, made a
personal appeal to the legislature of Maryland, whioh
was responded to by an advanoe of $100,000; bat iu
so deplorable a condition was the credit of the federal
government that the State required, as a guarantee
of payment the pledge of the private credit of the
commissioners.
From the beginning Washington had advocated
the present seat of government. Its establishment
here waß due, in a large measure, to his influence;
it was his wisdom and prudenoe that computed
dispuesand eettled conflicting tides; and it was
chiefly through his personal influence that the funds
were provided to prepare the buildings for the re
c jptiou of the President and Congress.
The wings of the Capitol having been sufficient
ly prepared, the government removed to this dis
trict on the 17th November, 1890; or, as Mr. Wol
cott expressed it, left the oomforte of Philadelphia
“to go to the Indian plaoe with the lung nemo, in
the woods on tbe Potomac.” I will not pause to
deseribe tbe appearanoe, at that day, of the plaoe
where the ci'y was to be. Cotomporary accounts
represent it as desolate in the extrema, with its long
unopened avennee and streets, its deep morasses,
an l its vast area covered with trees instead ot
houses. It is enough to say that Washington pro
jected the whole plan upon a scale of centuries, and
tbat time enough remains to fill the measure of his
great conception.
The Senate continued to occupy tbe North wing,
and the House of Representatives the South wing
of the Capitol, until the 24th of August, 1814, when
the British army eutered the oi y and burned the
public buildings. This occurred during the recess,
and the President immediately convened tbs Con
gress. Both Houses met in a Brick building known
as Blodgel’s Hotel, which occupied a part of the
square now oovered by the General Postofßoe.
But the accommodations in tbat house being quite
insufficient, a number of punliti-spirited citizens
erected a more commodious bunding on Capitol
Hill, and tendered it to Congress; the offer was
accepted, and both Houses continued to occupy it
until the wings of the new Capitol were completed.
This building yet stands on the street opposite to
the Northeastern oorner of the Capitol square, aud
has since been ocoaeioually occupied oy persons
employed in different branches of tbe public eer
▼ice.
On tbe 6th of December, 1819, the Benate assem
bled for the firet time iu this chamber, which bae
been the theatie of their deliberations for more
than thirty-nine years, and, now the strifes and un
certainties of the past are finished, we see arouud
us on every side the proofs of stability and im
provement ; this Capitol is worthy of tbe repablio;
noble public buildings meet the view on every
hand; treasures of scienoe and the arts begin to
accumulate. As this flourishing city enlarges, it
testifies to the wisdom and forecast that decided
the plan of it. Future generations will cot be dis
turbed with quest one concerning tbe cenUa of
population or of territory, siuoe the steamboat, the
rail-road, and the telegraph, wiade communi
cation almost inetantausyug. The spot is sacred
by a thousand re,emeries, which are so many pledgee
that the city of Washington, founded by him qpd
Rearing his revered name, with its beautiful site,
bounded by picturesque eminences, and tkp broad
Potomac, and lying within view o’s his borne and
his tomb, ehall remain fojetfer the Political Capitol
of tbe United Btatpa
It woffid be interesting to note the fpwdua) chan
ges which have occurred in the i/atioal working of
the government since the adoption of the Constitu
tion ; and it may bo appropriate to this occasion to
remark one of the most striking of them.
A,t the origin of the government, the Rebate
Seemed to be regarded chiefly as an executive
Council. The President often visited the chamber
and conferred personally with this body ; most of its
business was transacted with dosed doors, and it
took GomnavaUvely little part in the legislative
debates. The rising and vigorous intellects of tbe
oountry sought the arena of the House of Represen
tatives as the appropriate theatre lor the display of
their powers. Mr. Madison observedsome oc
casion.. that being a young man, and desiring to in
urease his reputation, he oould not afford to enter
the Senate ; and it will be remembered, tbat so late
as 1812, the great debates which preceded the war
and aroußod the country to tbe assertion of its rights
took place in the other branch of Congress. To
such an extent was tbs idea of seclusion carried,
that, when this chamber was completed, ua seats
were prepared for the accommodation of the pub
lie , and it was not until many years afterwaids that
the semi-circular gallery was erected which admits
tbe people to be wiinessee of your proceedings
But now, the Senate, besides its peculiar relations
to the executive department of tte government,
assumes its foil share of duty a eo-eqaal branch
of the legislature; indeed, irom the limited number
of its members, and for other obvious reasons, the
most important questions, especially of foreign poli
cy, are apt to pass first unde; discussion in this
body, and to be a member of it is justly regarded
as one of tbe highest honors which oan be conferred
ou an Amerioan statesmen.
It is scarcely necessary to point out the causes
of this change, or to say that it is a concession Doth
to the importance and the individuality of the States
and to the free and open character of the govern
meut.
Iu connection with this easy at,d thorongh tran
sition, it is worthy of remark that it has been effec
ted without a charge from any quarter that the
Senate has transcended its constitutional sphere—
a tribute at once to the moderation of the Senate
and another proof to thoughtful men of the compre
hensive wisdom with whieb tbe framers of the Con
stitution secured essential principles without in
conveniently embarrassing the action oi the gov
ernment.
The progress of this popn’ar movement, in one
aspect of it, bas been steady and marked. At tbe
origin of the government no arrangements in ibe
Senate were made for spectators in this chamber
about one-third of the space is allotted to tfcu jmblip,
and in the new apartment the g aliens, cover two
thirds of its area. In all free foßntnes tbe admis
sion of the people to w itnees the legislative pro
ceedings is an essential element of public eonfi
dence do 4it is not to be anticipated that this
wholesome principle will ever he abased by tbe
substitution of partial and interested demonstra
tions for the expression of a matured and enlighten
ed public opinion. Yet it should never be forgot
ten that not France, bat the turbulent spectators
within the hail, awed and controlled the French As
sembly With this leeeou and its consequences be
fore us the time wifi never oome when the delibera
tions of the Senate shall be swayed by the blandish
ments or the thunders of the galleries.
It is impossible to disconnect from an occasion
like this * crowd of reflections on our own past
history, and on speculations on the future. Tbe
most meagre account of the Senate involves a sum
m ary of the progress of our oouutry. From year
to year you have seen your representation enlarge ;
time and again you have proudly welcomed anew
sister into the eonfedraey j and the occurrences of
this day are a material and impressive proof of the
growth aDd prosperity of the United States. Three
periods in the history of the Senate mark, in etri
king contrast, three epochs in the history of the
Union.
On the 31 of March, 1789, when the government
was organized under the Uoaetituticn, the Senate
was composed of the representatives of eleven
States, containing three million people.
On the 6th of Deoeraber, 181!), when the Senate
met for the tirat lime in this room, it was composed
of the representatives of twenty-oDe States con
taining nine million people.
To-day it is composed of the representatives of
thirty-two [States, containing more than twenty
eight million people, prosperous, happy, and still de
voted to Constitutional liberty. Let these great
facts speak for themselves to all the world.
The career of the United States cannot be mea
sured by that of any other people of whom history
gives account and the mind is almost appaledat
the contemplation of the prodigious forco which has
marked their progress. Sixty-nine years ago, thir
teen States, containing three mil ions of inhabitants
burdened with debt, and.exhac.sted by the long war
of independence, established for their common good
a free constitution, on principles new to mankind,
and began their experiment with the good wishes of
a few doubting friends and the derision of the world.
Look at the result to-day; twenty-eight millions of
people, in every way happierthan an equal number
in any other part of the globe! the centre of popu
latiou and political power descending the western
slopes of the Alleghany mountains, and the original
thirteen States forming but the eastern margin on
the map of our vast posseesiora Sih besides Chris
tianity, civilization, aud the arts given to a conti
nent; the despised colonies growu into a Power of
the first class, representing and protecting ideas that
involve the progress of the human raoe; a com
merce greater than that of any other nation, every
variety of olimate, soil, and produotion to make a
people powerful and happy; free interchange be
tween the States—in a word, behold present great
ness, and, in the future, an empire to which the an
eient mistress of the world, in the height or her
glory, could not be compared* Suoh is our coun
try—aye, and more—far more thau my mind could
oonceive or my tongue could utter. Is there an
American who regrets the past? Is there one who
will drr.de his country's laws, pervert her Constitn
tion, or alienate her people? It there be such a man,
let his memory descend to posterity laden with the
execrat ions ot all mankind.
So happy is the political and social oondtdon of
the United Statee, and so accustomed are we to the
secure er j lyment of a freedom elsewhere unsnown,
that we are apt to u idervalue the treasures we
possess, and to lose, in some degree, the sense of
obligation lo our forefathers. But when the strifes
of faction shake the government, ana even threaion
it, we may pause with advantage long enough to
remember that wears reaping the reward of otnev
men's labors. This liberty wo inherit! this admi
rable Constitution which lias survived peace aud
war, prosperity and adversity ; this double scheme
of go\ eminent, State and Federal, so peculiar and
so little uuderstood by other powers, yet which pro
teols the earnings of industry, and makes the lar
gest pi rional freedom compatible with ptiolio or
der. These great results were cot acquired without
wisdom aud toil and blood. The touching aud heroic
record is before the world ; but to all this we were
boru, and, like heirs upon whom has been oast a
great inheritance, have only the high duty to pre
serve, to extend, aud to adorn it. The grand pro
ductions of the era in which the foundations of this
government were laid, reveal the deep sense its
tounders bad of their obligations to the whole fami
ly of man. Let us never tdrget that responsibilities
imposed on this generation are by so much the
greater than those which rested on our revolutionary
ancestors, as the population, exteut, aud power of
our country surpass toe dawning promise of its ori-
RID. \
It would be a pleasing task to pursue many trains
ol thought not w'holly foreign to this occasiuu. but
the temptation to enter the wide field must be vigo
rously curbed ; yet I may be pardoned, perhaps, tor
one or two additional rest actions.
The Senate is assembled tor the last.time in ‘mis
ohamber. Henceforth it will be converted lo other
uses; yet it mult remain forever connected with
great events, aud saured to the memories of the de
parted orators und statesmen, who here engaged m
high debates, and shaped the policy of their country.
Hereafter the American and the stranger, as they
wonder through the Capitol, will turn with instinc
tive reverence to view the spot on which so many
and great materials have ao -umulated for hietory.
They will recall the images of the great aud the good,
whose renown is the ootumon property of the Union ’
and chirfly, perhaps, they will linger around toe
seats once occupied by the mighty three, whose,
names aud tame, associated in life, death has not
been able to saver; illustrious men, who in their
generation sometimes divided, sometimes led, and
and sometimes resisted publio opinion—for they
were ot that higher class of statesmen who seek tin,
right and follow their convictions.
There sat Calhoun, Mr senator, it,H*xibl, austere.
oppressed, but not overwhelmed by his deep sense
of the importance of bis public tuLouone, seekiuv
the truth, then fearlessly following it—a man u- mi
unsparing intellect compelled all his ecu ion „ to
harmonixe with the deductions of hit vigorous logic,
and whose noble oounteueuoe habitually wore toe
expression of one engaged in the psrtormeuce ot
high public duties.
This waß Webster’s seat. He, too, was even sacti
a senator. Conscious of his own vast powers, lie
repusod with confidence on himself; and sooru
ing the contrivances of smaller inon, he mu, and
his peers all the greater for toe simple dignity of
his senatorial demeanor. Type oi Iris norther ,
home, he rises befers the imagination, in the grand
and grauite outline of his form aud intellect, like u
great New Eogland rock, repelling a New KnvUnd
wave. Asa writer, his productions will be cherished
by statesmen and scholars while the English lungun
is spoken. Asa senatorial orator, his great effuiis
are historically associated with this ohamber, whose
very air seems yet to vibrate beneath the strokes of
his deep tones and his weighty words.
On the outer cirole eat Hoary Clav, with his im
petuous aud ardent nature untamed by aye R U rl
exh biting in the Senate the earns vehement pa
triotism aud passionate eloquence toatot \.re n,e.-
trified the House of Uepresontatives and the ooun
try. His extraordinary personal endowments, ins
ooursge, alibis noble qualities invested him with
an individuality and a charm of character which, in
any age, would have made him a favorite of history.
He loved his oouutry above all earthly objects. He
loved liberty in all countries. Illustrious man!
orator, patriot, philanthropist—his light, at itsmaii
dian, was seen and felt in the remotest partß of the
oivilixed world , aud his deoliniiig sun, as it hastened
down the weet, threw baok its level beams, in hues
of mellowed splendor, to Illuminate aud to cheer too
land he loved and served so well.
All the Status may point, with gratified pride, to
the services in the Senate of their patriitio sons
Crowding the memory, oome tbs names of Adums
Hayne, Mason, Otis, Maoou, Binckuey, and fhs
rest—l cannot number them—who, iu tbe record ot
their acts and HLtoranoes, appeal to thsireucosssorn
to give the Union a destiny uot unworthy of the past
What models were these to awaken emulation or to
plunge iu deepa r 1 Fortunate will be the American
statesmen who, in this age, or in suoceediug times,
shall ouutribute to invest the new hall to widen we g,
with hlatorio memories like those which duster here
And now, Senators, wa leave this memorable
Chamber, bearing with us, unimpaired, the Const!
tution wo reeieved from onr forefathers. Let us
cherish it with grateful acknowledgments to tb“
Divine Power who controls the destinies ol empires
and whose goodness we adore. The structures
reared by men who yield to the corroding tooth ot
time. These marble walls m9t moulder into min
but the principals of constitutional liberty, guarded
by wisdom aud virtue, uulike material elements, do
not decay. Let us devoutly trust that another Sen
ate, in aocther age, shall bear to anew and larger
Chamber this Constitution vigorous and inviolate,
and that the last generation of posterity shall wit
ness the deliberations of the Representatives ot
American States still united, prosperous, aud free
In execution of tbe order of the Senate, the body
will now prooeed to the new Chamber.
The Submerged Vessels at oebabtopol.-wA
letter from one ot the engineers engaged by tho
Amerioau company in raising the Russian war ves
eels submerged at Babastopol gives an interesting
description of the huge vessels when they came to,
the aurfaee again. It says ■
The soene presented when one of these tebmen -
ed veaele reappears to the light ot day is Worihv 1
being witnessed. One raising the vessel to the- an -
taoe she is pumped out and floats barself, and this,
al who have a moment to sport, taken survey ot
things within. The deck iu generally kneecap
with mud, in which you wfil probably find a score
of Russians dicing, all covered with tho tame
and probab y laugh ng at some companion, who
“* iai on hia back io the mire, with
which h*s bespattered his neighbors around,
of course, a sufficientcause for a quarrel
tv that the nearest will give him a pat over the
head with his shovel for hie trouble. Wading
through this mud to ike companion- way. you de
scend to the oAptaiu’s cabin, where you will find
every thing ioi&a place. There bang the lamp and
oosupacafrom the telling, and around are drawers
and closets of all aorta foil ol instruments and pa
pers, From here, going forward, you will next
ooine Io the officers’ cabin, with ita chairs and
taoiaa, all covered with mud. Next oorres the apo
thecary a ahop. The doctor ia not at home, but there
etenda bh bottles, aide by aide, in tbe beet of friend
amp. A little farther on and you enter the übe
tween deoka, ‘where tiara of boarding pikes and
gun rammers dangle ovei head. Then a few steps
more through the mud will bring your excursions to
a close, by precipitating you to the ahouldera iu
;*ome tank, to which your cries will draw some
gOe>d Samaritan’’ to fish you out, when your limbs
will give undeniable proof of tbe neighborhood they
have visited (which wan probably spoiled peas or
beans,) which will make even a Russian hold his
uoae, and your dearest friend run from you to the
furthest end of the ship, ducb are the eoenea which
occur at one part of the works, whilst scenes os
another character occur at the blasting* opera! ions
but of these 1 have not now time to write. W are
now blowing up the fifth vessel, the Grand . Duke
Constantine, 120 guns.
Purchase of Luba—What the Spaniard*
woulii Do Tha Havana correspondent of the
Savannah Republican says :
1 was vastly amused on the evening of tbe day
st< £ m f h, p Black Warrior last arrived
e from New \ ork at the following circumstance :
_ D K m y accustomed evening stroll upon one of
the promenades of this city, I came up with agroup
ol opamarda, who surrounded a Creole who was
translating into Spanish an article in tbe New I ork
Herald, advocating the measures introduced into
Congress by Mr. Branch, to place a million of d'A
iars at the disposal of tbe President for tbe purpose
of re-opening negotiations for the purchase ot this
Island. I paused as I drew near the group, with
several of whom lam on terms of intimacy. Ino
ticed one of tbe Spaniards was much annoyed as
the Creole prooeeded with his translation, which
was soaroely concluded when the Spaniard burst
out to tbe following effect: “Hub! were the Gov
ernment of Her Majesty, or were the Captain-.
General, to consent to such a thing (tbe sale of t',t
Island) 1 would set my properties and those of my
friends, all over tbe Island, on fire, and we would
all then return to Spain l” To this violent excla
■nation, the Creole, with a s&rcarctio stride upon his
countenance, replied : “That would be doing just
what tbe Americans desire—tbey wish to get rid of
ail you Spaniaras, aud have the Island clear of all
yoor works, so that they may have tho pleasure of
re building and altering every thing to suit their
own taste. It was with difficulty 1 avoided burst
logout into laughtqy, at hearing tbi- sarcasm, so I
lighted asegar ay the one of an acquaintance, said
‘•Adioe,’’ ripi oontinieH •• f--.il
American Tract socieit -me receipts of this
Society for the month r.f December were $93,121 85.
In nine moatbs ending December 31, they have
been, Sot pubiicatione sold $164,127 31, and in do
“S' 0 ™ legacies $7(6899 54, making a total of
8 85, beiDg $7,J17 40 more than in tho cor
responding months of last year.
Tax Shower Batr. The State Prison Inepec
tors ot New York have made a report upon the
c e of the oonvict Moore, who died recently from
the effecte of the punishment of thd”shower bath ia
Auburn State Prison. The inspector* exculpate
omcers of the prison from blame for intentional
reckleaeneee or eruelty, bnt in view of tbe danger at
tending the use of the shower bath as a means of
punishment, have directed ita discontinuance.
Pos tings.— An lowa farmer, on being asked i/te
ever done much fanning before, replied, “No, but
last year I farmed considerable behind /”
The Boston Poet recently published Phillips,
Sampson dt Co.’s “L s st of New Juvent'e Book*,'’
the first named being “Audubon’s Quadruped* of
America,” 3 vote, folio. Price |W>. Young Athe
nians, must be difficult to amuse, and expense e
withal 1
A rustic wbo pronounces French wsrdsastbey
are says that tbe Mortara case Is that of s ‘Jeu
d'esprit! (Jew desperate')
We groan over the mud in come of our streets.—
Only think ol the lady in a Western city, wbo. at a
crossing, was seen to loose first an overshoe, then a
gaiter, aid iaatly her stocking, escaping barfly with
her foot—thy latter being well fastened on!