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THIRTY-FIFTH
INhEMATE .77. - J “ 17
Ts S-nate Chamber was today crowded to ex
,,, 1.M.! Sei.aior Douglas pronounce a eu.ogy
•') life ei and character of Mi Herrin, of lUtoola,
1 Mr*l£iwar<i present®* the e:edentia!s of Mr.
u “ ,®re elected to the Senate
” * . , , ouMrin* resolution wh eh waa adopted:
*!*>y? ry 0 t the Treasury communicate
. •o'sLr’.t* m luliy ae it may be in bis power to
j ‘f moer of American vessels which are en
| on t |j e |>alni Oil trade on the coast
*’ H af ioa—the average number of tbeir voyage*
A ‘iv tlieir tonnage, the nature and values of
ai iiuany. j ,in r ‘ .Is. ami the amount of dutie®
‘T ‘LI < r .ii iheiu by tbe Treasury of the United
WUL '* , n os Mr Hale, a joint resolution ap
(Joo.modore Stewart senior Hag Officer,
* Mr called th<‘ yeas and cays, and it was
adooted- yeas Hi', nay* M.
Mr li ruglas, to the apparent disappointment of
,j , •• iwO persons who thronged the gallerie* of the
..amber, and many of wfcom had been
■~T”” two or three hours to hear an extempore
<7ratiou, rev.!, in a low tone of voice, a brief eulogy
U Shields and Dawn abo presented eulogies
after which the Senate ad joarned.
HOUSE
On motion of Mr Uhelpe. of Moeoun it was re
. , v(l , i,.; during tbe ensuing two weeks from to
* ah-’ bf iaord*r t*>r tue Committee of tae
\Vuo> urTtlsfe iSLate es tbe Union to take a recede tili
’ etSLSn-r. and that Tuesday, Wednesday
i .; Thor sc ay of the next week be set apart for tbe
„ Jerarion of Territorial businesM.
M M igai; objected, unless a promise be attach
*-d” that rubiest® in regard to the admisstou ol new
■*’ remarked that that would he for the
m.iorityof tbe House to determine.
Mr Morgan, then 1 object to the introduction ol
M M r.i of Illinois announced the death of
Air Harris of tfcat State, pronouncing a eulogy on
the ufiva!” aud puhlii character of the deceased.
Hie crual resolutions of the respect were passed,
when as a further mark of respect the House ad
journed.
IN SENATE J an ,s
At'fer tbe of •■/era! Departmental, re
tnmfl ako various memorial*, etc., a r*ola.
jo: wu paa*-d pf mittiug Harris, Esq.,
toctui ti*)U(Ttl of Japan, and his interpreter, to
a #ol<l ezittf box from the of
_
Mr Pugh objected to the custom of American ofle
<s-rj receiving pfesonta from foreign potentates.
When the oU’ rtion war taken Mr. Pughs Mr
s and one other voice voted no, otherwise tne
■ eso.ution was passed unanimously•
Mr Seward introduced a rseolution, which was
adopted, calling oa the President for all the corree
deuce between this government and Spain relative
to the proposals for the purchase of Cuba.
Mr Johnson of Tennessee, from tt.o Committee
on ind'iau All fir®, reported a bill to enable the Pre
rt iuijt to expend the annuities of certain Indian
for educational and agricultural purposes in
n *>ir behalf The bill was passed.
Huveral resolution.) w*re adopted with reference
t., printirg. the < hject being to limit its extent.
Mr Doottttl® foiled to bring up bis resolution re
ativa to Com Paulding, although he urged the ue
, as heavy suits are pending against that of*
brer in'tbe United feiatss Courts in New York.
The Pacific If ill road bill waa then taken up.
I*i r Hitler e eubatitnte ae bubinitted on Friday
( i| amendment wks adopted.
Mr. Bell, after as peecb. proposed as apariia
lerv way of getting clear of all amendment*
“I*, 1 the bill into shape, to recommit it
**’ M i u ions to anvtrtieo fur full estimates for
tT A (he couatruotion of sac 1 or the three
10 ties, equal to a tirat class road of 54 lbs. to the
7 7v!’ (iwin looped if recomiiiitted, it would be sent
a nw oomioittee to see if a c.ammit eo can he
f .fined li *1 oi (oi.iiii 0 nd a majority of the Senate.
Mr ltavis brought to the notice of the Senate
“ reported a substitute from the minority
• the Co.i nuttee, which, li >wev er, bad not been
l eashed It was for the Senate to decide whether
they wouh’give an expression of their opinion on
it before the raeominittai of the b.U.
h |j. 1J row ii moved that lhu bill bs laid on th 6
,al A7tills p ( int it was agioed that the bill with its
many ataendmenti.be p ited, as it was dillicult to
un .W in what shape i’ stood Adjourned.
HOUSE.
The House passed the benote hill authorizing the
issiung ol registers and to change the names of the
.1 earns hips Canada and America.
Mr Cohn from the Committee on Pubiio Lauds,
reported Ihe trill oot firming ihe aggregate oompen
- u .nos t!io K‘ g!ELJiB ami Knoeiven in tbe Lana
t Mix Its tu. .'jW pt*r annum. Pa^ed.
Mi Cob • i ported a bill to revise and continue
* r w ih,,ut restriction and limitation a-* to
rtLTS bounty lawdaoUof 183S. IM2. uj *•
\! bill providing for repayment for landa erro
. ,’i.ioanld Also a bill authoiixicg persons who
* •i• it *be |6:h and JtSlfa ceciiona of laud before
I ‘ wt re grveyed, to preempt tbe t-aine.
“ ;:> i abfn ■•‘/•auied bULs were *everaily paused, r.R
’ a b.U
mid evtabhub tl* w*tern bounuary of Minnesota.
Mr Sherman ol Okuo, fiainir tu a question of pnvi
lege remarked that be had Mceivea a letter Iron,
vi r it it Alien, aoiu sen of Jkijv lork of high
.taiioing, cl.'-ging certAtnUhoem a.amectod with
Uu Navy Department oC partiality and a waolntiot
of law to the award of oouUaots for navy yaras and
,lochs and for the increase and repair of vessels.
11 se’charges i f true, Mr. Bluirioau said, wcu and in
volve cases oVinipeaohmeut. He ufleiwd a resoiu
tion which was unanimously adopted, providing
fori e appointment of a select committee lo ex
...vie. inti, the bald charges and specdicatione.
p hH .j mw „ ,i IKn resolved itself into a Committee
M l',,,ic on the state of lb* Union, and re
euuud the ojneideiation of the bill to codify the
icvciine lues *f Ihe l ailed B*ates.
Aftur debate th- enacting c.auso was stricken
out. and the noue ooerward ooticnrred in this
a itiou—yea* 108, nays tM
Tim House again went into Conimitlee of the
Whole on the Sfato ot the Union, u.; the President’s
,di . ox of Oh>o, revifewsdour foreign !ie.us,
iicntsi. ing lhat the principle Ihat the weaker na
tion must be absorbed by th* stronger mid organ
ir.nl nation applied to onr lelafions with Central
\uioi The only contest the Government would
have in pusmiiig such a policy would not be with
the people ol llimsm territories, hut with Spain,
h’raice ana especially with England. He looked
the Cuban question iiom another standpoint,
l Uo President had given ample reasons for its an
notation Its geographical position commanded
..dvantage to which Americana could uot he iu
-I ~.,,,1, The coastwise aud Misrijippl trade,
oiiimmtv'ig losome two hundred and liftv millions
i ‘ r* and which before ten years will amount
i, t,ve ; |.jrirMd unllious of dt liars, rqnal to the
whole ran V o! leal estate in tfhio, will pass wdhiu
Us lance oi’ I'ahau caution. Thire was a nocusai
,vto have this Ug-dc properly guarded and pro
-1 acted, but he md not believe that, to the present
..imliliou of the question, Spain would sell Luba,
lor the rrasou that ‘lie ha*iht old Spanish pride
there. He was wdlkqt. however, to vote for the
lull introduced tiy £!r. Uranoh, hut he S •} not par
ticular as to the amotAd appropriated, lv ‘king to
negotiations for the puroCVVpi ( üba, and looking
then to tho orderly seizure oi If Jle would uotuis
cnee the relations of the Govei cme..: with Central
American affairs, hut he would remaik that the
great etumbiing-hlock seemed to he the UuyiOn-
Elulwer treaty—the diplomatic blunder ot tue nine
teenth century The United States must grow with
out or fail within, tor the nation that failed to era
taaoe every opportunity for advancement would
,J* as sureiv fail of its destiny. He contauded that
. Ins principle rlu uld h applied t” Mexico , and, m
. .inclusion, condemned the course pursued by the
Itriiieh mid French Governmaut* towaiMs this Uo-
vroinsntiu tbeetrongeet term*. . .
iin motion of Mr. Put-lpe, ot Mis?onri tue Presi
,.oa; - message ww laid aside, and the committee
look nit Urn bill making apprepiialious for ttieU-in
ralar ami diplomatic expenses of the Government
to’ the year ending June 3*. 1361).
Mr Hickman, of Pennsylvania, discussed the no
comity which existed for a revision of the tarift'.—
I'he House was told that a hotter day was coming,
that the financial revulsion was pasalng away and
oi neperity retaining, The Secretary of the lrea-
Tury was confident there were signs of returning
priKsportte, a large margin for increase of importa
tions but hie estimates for the ocmiug you were
baaed upon the opinion that a inaction in the trade
and business of the oouutry had commenced, which
tie thought) might be but the hope ot the Secreta
r-- sorioinn* from the necessity for recommending
at* i'e vision of the tariff of 18.)". By the Secretary s
eu it.g the revival of the fanners business was at
the \ uetiSG of one fourth of the price of the i om
nmiityt. and there was a general stagnation m
i Oiue iudiistry The National Treasury was vir
tuailv t,.rtv n-Md nos dollars in debt and the corn;
i-y owed five L'lndrwl oiilUoc* of dollara
He earnestly advooaeed ape. tic dutiea in contra-’
distil o ion to ad valorem duties, wl.tcti he oonMid
ed were injurious to thy interests of the whole eouu
tjy This would give returning prosperity and re
lieve the Treasury of the euibtoiaseinents by which
it is surrounded. _
I'Lo roM and the Uocid adjourned.
IN SKNATK Jkn - 1J -
Ou motion of Mr. l*ugh a resolution was adopted
cat uig ou the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish
leturns of ail articles exported to ar.d imported troin
ihe Island of Cuba, to all ports of the United States
curing the past five years.
HOUSE.
it: Cobb, from the Committee on l’ubiic Lands,.
tas ieported a bill reoognixing, ratityiug and con
t untie to the Mobile .V Ohio Kaiin ad Company
iim txauuer of lauds heretofore granted by Cou
riers to these States for railroad purposes.
Tr.e time tor tue completion of the road to be ex
tendec to i ScJ. It was stated m explanation that
such transfer by the Legislatures of Mississippi aud
Alabama had been judicially decided void because
it i- Uig in aci-erdatiee with the act of Corgrees.
sn< e ihe introduction efthis bill to leg&iiae it.
All unsiucce ful motion to table the bdl.was
made, ana further p . feedings were stayed by the
, xpiration of the morning hoar.
The bill was passed.
,M t. Cobb repo; ed a bill amendatcrv of the pro
suiptlon laws. Ho said the object was to prevent
baud’ Sometime* settlers lemaiu ou land only
~u e day aud then se’t it to speculators. The bid
1,, I Hire's them actually to occupy it three months,
~ J is intended for the benefit ot actual settlers.
Mr. Washburn*. cf I.lino s, and Mr. Walbricge.
,-deoted to the ovcsict ration of thesahjwtt at this
nine, as tae bill proposed an eproi-ting and an en
lii- change ct a.ithe pre-emption ,sws.
\lr Grew tffered an amendment that no public
Shsilbe offered for sale by proclamation of
fv di-r*. “ surveys ..rreot shall have
, ten yea
‘l l',- H > as resolved iualf into a Commit the
%y ,1- ea the Si.ate ot the Consular aud Diplouiat
'Hr Carolina addreseed himself
to toe ivt'sideration of the subject of Cuba. He re
k-jico , . ;hs g-x graphical poeitioti of Cuba, ar 1
sa.iit.--.r ill tue hunt's of a strong naval power it
, i : he Ii ltd Icf Mexico a Afire C.ausun *
tio ‘hove Hwe shouiu : t alio w the Island to remain
-a the hands ot any power, strong or oecrepid.
ivtiici, octt'd o-’iiliclour oommeu-o and menace our
* from Adam A Forsyth to ehow that
n* impoi ’Hilo* t” our country had”been recognized
ter otany ye*.? He dilated upon its fertility and
piidu. ivererr. and went into stat stic* to show
iLvt our intercourse wiih Cuba was more extensive
than that of auv otbes power, and asked if every
Ctrl ut the Union was Let interested in that f Ber
tariff wa- .... i. that whits Spain, stricken and
tieggai fas the is. with her etarviug population ex
, v rts t.i teat Island 620.0 T-0 bsrrels, the United
otates solus hat 5 O.fi barrele. Remove the
tariff and wha; would be the interest that every sec
tion of Its Union would have iu the commerce of
Cuba
Ti.e rav gatsoc interest of the North was also
deeply affected. Thera was 3 918 vessels engaged
in theeanyirg trade of Cuba the world over ,of
rinse be United S atee ftrn.shadii.H7U, Spain but
•,t-l Kng rod 1.7, and France 126 and out of a
over StW.wO tonnage, the United States con
tribute one-half- Was no’, then, that portion of the
United States interested us the shipping business
v .iai’-v and deeply interested m the acquisition of
, utu, tor it wai ooiy by its acquisition that they
, s old strike the shackles from its commerce ?
There were two modes of acquiring the island,
nv purchate are the other by i-ooqueet. He
-d uot believe the United States could purchase
, nrst because it was a tooroe of large revenue to
v. defraying all the expenses of her oocenter
> , Amiiiic system on this oc at met, and ae
’ w au-o t.e inveterate and traditional
l ‘ s, ,-ia i’hetradi-iocs ofthepenod when
L , w.de protested
L ’ .. ws wiud woa>d be the n*k of sc
“ r s ', ,Tw * Couid it be dc-ne with
Kdl nave guarantied to Bf * n he.
Gena.. Cuba ans the gathartaa °* t L *' r
Ko g. Ur a.v.t ot tLe Caribboas Set ILo
Golf cf Mexico indicate uo disposition to recede
trim tbifl guarantee
With France we could understand it—Louie Na
poleon. with the relentless ambition which marked
bis diitiufcTiished kineman wishes establish a
eplendid colonial empire in the West Indies —To
create and establish this it was necessary that the
power of the United States should be crippled aud
hemmed in. With his hand upon the very throne
ot’ tropical empire, his army would be invincible,
and his hand would clutch tbe sceptre of universal
commerce, now pae-mg to os, and when be
have consolidated an empire, then the very power
which be had made instrumental in crippling
United Siates would undergo subjugation
The pokey of Great Britain wa. only
upon tbe theory of subservience to*ranee, ii
believed her diplomacy had placed her to tbe grasp
of France, an<f she was now omy moving at the
“whether the gentleman thought j
tie United Slates had a right to take Cute berate
t ev had a government mat we did uot approv eo
Mr Keftf rlpaed Lk,t he did not : but he would |
snr that tb* long catalogue o. oppressi jns a a m
euita received from Spain justified s dec.arata of
war iuui no other government had a right to com
gentleman having concluded his remark, the
consideration of the bii. before the Committee was
resumed The appropriations for missions to Home,
Switzerland and Persia were stricken oat and the
biii wan laid aside.
The President's message was then taken ap, ana
a recess till 7 o’clock, P. Al„ for genera! debatetook
Session.—The Hotue reassembled at 7
o’clock. H. Marshal! of Kentucky, made a speech
against the Republican sectional issues.
Mr. Scott advocated the Pacific Railroad bill
without regard to the route.
Mr. Andrews made a speech against free trade.
Before ‘J,o'clock the Committee rose and the
House adjourned.
LN SENATE Jan.2o.
The House bill for the relief of the Mobile and
Ohio Railroad Company was taken up and con
siderable debate ensued upon the question to pass
it or refer it to the Committee on public lauds. Fi
nally it was laid over.
Mr. Berjamin reported a substitute for Mr. Ma
son's bill which authorized the President to use the
public force* of the United States. The substitute,
which was ordered to be printed, provides as fol
lows : Tbe first section gives power to the President
whenever he has reason to apprehend that any of
the Transit loutes will fce obstructed or closed by
lawless veseels or that an attack is threatened
against the persons or property of oar citizens to
use the land and naval forces to prevent the threat
ened injury on condition that the forces nsed are
wi-hdrawn as so.n as the otject is accomphsned •
The ‘-id section gives power in case of actual vio
lence to the peisous or property of our ci'izens in
any of the American States or in Mexico to use
the land and naval forces in exacting instant redress,
lie forces to be withdrawn as soon as redress is
granted.
.•Section 3d requires an immediate report to Lon
gress of what the President may do under the pro
vis'ons o section one and two.
The Pacific Kailr-ad biii as amended coming u?,
Mr. Davis moved to strike out all after the enact
ing clause, and adopt as a substitute his minority
report, the main features of which is to appropriate
$10,000,000, andaisoten sections of land per mdo
to construct a road, and said ten miiliens of dollars
to be refunded in the form of net proceeds into tbe
trei-sury. No termini are named, and lo monopoly
is given to any special company. The road is to
run from the Atlantic to the Pacific Slates. He said
he believed that the road could be built over a cer
tain route on these terms. He made a lengthy
speech in support of his views, strongly advocating
the Southern Kiiiroad, aud giving large details of
the topography of the route, to show that it iB the
shortest and cheapest, and from T exas to California,
can be constructed for tne sum he named.
It may here be mentioned that Mr Pugh’s amend
men', to terminate the roau at the Eastern bounda
ry of Califor ia, was uot lost, as was erroneously
stated in some papers, but is still pending, although
it was temporarily withdrawn to enable Mr. Davis
to offer his substitute.
Mr. Green, in reply, deprecated the tenor of the
Sanatoria speech, which he considered tended lo
exalt tne advantages of the Southern at the expense
of other routes. As to the Senator's proposal, his
route would commence no where and end at a simi -
lar place. There could be no assurance that & road
would be built to connect with the Eastern terminus
any more than with the Western. Who would vote
ten millions for any such doubtful link 7 Ho, how
ever, did not consider that the road would not be
built. When we arrive at the point when all par
ties will concede a portion of their prejudices under
the coercive power of public sen .fluent so as to
unite on a road to suit all sections, then, and not
till then, will the Pacific Railroad be built.
Mr. Doolittle spoke in favor of taking three esti
mates for contracts. The first for a road north of
Ip ■ tho second between 47 J and 43 , and the third
south of 37 ‘. The President is to send all said esti-
mates to Congress for actioD.
Mr. Iverson stated that he stood to every word
he had uttered in favor of two reads, on sectioua!
aud political grounds, and in addition, bßd his views
fortified by other evidences. He read a letter from
a citizen of Canada, who had passed many winters
m the interior of this continent, and pronounced the
Northern and Southern routes favorable, but Ihe
central impracticable from the drifting snow pecu
liar to that region. He also handed to the Secreta
ry, not lo read, but to be printed, a lengthy scien
tific paper by Lient. Mauiy, of the National Obser
vatory, lo tie same purport.
Sir. Brown again epoke to the constitutionality of
tbe question.
Mr. Mason here moved to adjourn.
Mr. Gwin rc-monetiated, aud called the yeas and
naya, bu s fruitlessly, eo tue Senate adjourned.
HOUSE-
The Speaker e.miounce.d Masers. Bhermau, of
Ohio, Bocoek, Ritchie, Groesbeck and Ready as
the Select Committee to investigate the charges of
alleged corrupt oua in connection with the Navy
Pepgrtrsc ut.
The bill amendatory of the pre-emption lfiwa, re
ported yesterday, was taken up.
Mr. Blair offered the Home lead bill ae an amend
ment, but It waa out ot order.
Hr. Grow offered amendment, which was adopt
ed—yeas *7, nays 83—providing that from and al
ter the passage of this act, uo public lands shall be
exposed lor sale by proclamation of the President
ijuiees tbe return of the surveysshali have been duly
tiled in the Land Office I'ur ten years or more.
Several ineffectual eff'jrte were made to lay the
bill upon the tablo.
The House, by a vote of yeas 91, nays 9."), refus
ed to order the bill to be engrossed for a third read
ing.
The House went into Committee on the Presi
dent’s message, and immediately took a recess till
7 o’etook.
Evknin/O Session.—Mr. Purviance made aspeech
advocating an increase of the tariff aud epecitic
duties.
Mr. ‘I koinpuoii aspeech for tbe Union.
All tfoci! amt true men woulu, he said, go with tbe
Republican* iu future election*?. He also advocated
the protection of home industry.
Mr. Phelps, of Minnesota, advocated the amend
ment of the pre-emption lawd to prevent fraud.
Other speeches were made, after which the com
mittue roee, and the House adjourned.
SliN AlK.e., * e JM. 21.
Air iligter preseated u uiemorial from citizens cf
Penney 1 vania, urging the imposition of a special
aiipy ou iron.
On motion of Mr. Hooter, resolutions of inquiry
were adopted, inquiring whether it would be advi
sable to transfer the revenue cutter service from
the Treasury to the Navy Department. Also, if a
plan cannot be devised to sell the old military posts
and do vide the proceeds towards orectmj; now ones.
The private calendar was taken up.
Ten private bills were passed, including the
House bill granting a copyright to the work on In
diana to Mr. Henry Ji. Schoolcraft.
Ou the discussion ot another bill, asking $14,500,
interest t inea 170-1 ou a fb,ooo claim, Mr. Clay was
severe ou the claim agents, some ot whom, ho said,
hover around the capitol like birds of prey, to fat
ten on the legislation of Congress. Some such agents
buy claims as a matter of speculation, perhaps at
the rate of l cent on the dollar, and theu urge them
in the name of the original claimants.
The bill referred to was dually passed, but much
curtailed.
Adjourned till Monday.
HOUSE.
Mr. Farnsworth asked lea\e to offer a long pre
amble setting forth the importance of our possess
ing all the British American Provinces, concluding
with a resolution instructing the Committee on Fo
reign Affairs to inquire into the expediency of in
stituting measures to secure them by honorable
treaty.
Air Garnett and others oljeoted, and the House
preoeedeu to the consideration of private business
The bill tc indemnify citizens of Georgia and
Alabama for losses sustained by the Creik lndiaim
was discussed, but to definite action was had, and
ta* House adjouraed. _
a>Mprene Court*
Tuesday, Jan. iSth, 1859.
The Court pronounced judgment in the following
048*8
Philips vs. The owners of the steamboat Chsrles
Hart ridge—From Chatham—Trover for lit) hales
of ootton burnt on board defendant's boat. After
plaintiff closed his testimony in the Court below,
the presiding Judge granted a nonsuit on the ground
that case and not trover was the proper action.
fhli (Banning, J , delivering the opinion,) that the
Court below erred in granting the nonsuit under the
evidence.it should have left it to the jury, to de
termine whether there had been a tortious taking
and conversion on the part of defendant. Judg
ment reversed.
John Hines vs. The State—From Richmond.—
Judgmeut of the Court below reversed, upon the
ground that the punishment affixed to and for a
second offence cannot be inflicted by the Judge be
fore whom the prisoner is tiied, unless thera be
proof of such second offence submitted to the jury
by whom he is convicted. Judgment reversed.
G. Carrie, ei. al. caventors vs. H. 11. Cuminiug,
ft td. propomiders—From Richmond. Judgment
affirmed.
James Ncwinau.Sen., vs. The State— From Rich
mond. Judgment reversed. The Court holding
that the verdict was clearly against the evidence.
Thomas L. Moore vs. Thomas J. Morris—From
Emanuel. Judgmeut reversed.
James V. Graves vs. Samuel Warner—From
Burke. Judgment affirmed. The Court holding
that the affidavit sworn to before a Deputy Clerk,
by a party that he is unable to give the security,
6ic. % is good.
Joseph B Ramsey vs. The State—lu this case
on motion of the Attorney General, McLaws, the
■ tudgment of the Court below was affirmed, without
argument.
Cases Hkari).—Abner Sutton vs. Duncan Mc-
Loud. Argued by **lr. Gauideu for plaintiff in
enor. Messrs. Shewmake aud Jenkins contra.
John Johnson vs The State. Argued by E J.
Welker for plaint ff in error, Attorney General Me
Laws centra. — Sark. Rep.
Cuba and the President s Message.—lt ap
pears from late Cuban journals that protests against
President Buchanan's pro; osed purchase of Cuba
have bee n sent to the Queen of Spain from twenty
one cities and towns of the island, besides the bishop
and ecclesiastics of Havana . the governor and the
ecclesiastics of Santiago de Cuba : the ladies of
Havana. Malarias and Bejueai; the University of
Havana . the tconomica! societies of Havana and
Santiago; the battalions and squadron of volunteers
of Havana, and the army ct Cuba; the Bank of j
bpaiu and Havana Processors in the preparatory
aud the special schools of Havana; the colleges of
awyers aud notaries of the same city, and tribunal
of commerce of Matanzas
T. e Moaarauia cf Madrid, cf the dlst ult., the
ed tor of which having been military secretary to
Gen. Nurta Anna, thinks he has acquired consider
ate knowledge ot American affairs, says, in refei
ence to Mr. Buchanan's speech:
Our readers may now ser confirmed the prophisiee
which we have so often uttered corcerning lire !
grasping policy cf the North American Union, which
will not t>o contented t:ii its riag waves from Cana
da to Paragon a. Rivers of blood wi.l do doubt
flow in Cuba in defence of that land, because the
question for Spain is above aU one of honor but
neither tears nor blood will prevent the unbapp)
even: which we sbaii have to deplore, and Europe,
which will have her hands full at heme, will net
m!erfere except in words. If, therefore, we have
ncihmg to oppose to the perfidy of our enemies but
ike coble breasts of our soldiers, let us be assured
that the eunnin- end the strength ct our adversa
ries will prepare for us days ot mourning and bit
terness.
Tri kgrathic Conciseness. — At the celebration
of Frankiin s birtfid&y in New York. Mr. .H.
Fry responded to ike toasts of the Telegraph, the
Peu and the Press In speaking of the telegraph,
he said he thought it wtuli have a beneficent
effect in correcting our tenceccy to verbeseuees.
A friend of his w-nt the other day to St, Louis, and
winking to be espeo ally endearing, sont a dispatch
to his wife asking “What have you tor breakfast,
and how is the baby ?” She telegraphed back,
Buckwheat cakes and the measles.”
Arrival or the West Indian. —Tte brig West
lud.an from Port au-Pnoce, of the Ist has arrived
at New Orleans He’ passengers confirm the in
surrection in Hayti. Gen. Gtffard, the leader w**
the c&ief of Bo:v>uque’a *taff. Gefifard had raised
2,1*00 men Soloque left Pcrt-au Prince on the 27th
to attack Goff&rd Ail was quiet
•lee where
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
BT THE CITT OF WASHIKGTOIt.
The steamship City of Washington, from Liver
pool on Wednesday. sth met., arrived at New York
on Wednesday. The newe from Europe will be
found interesting and important.
Great BritalxV. —The annual returns of the
British navy, showing its condition on the let of
January, reports that it coneita *jf 52J vessel? -r
every description, exclusive of 167 gun-boats. The
number of vessel* in commission and doing duty ia
all parts of the plobe ia 176. There are also eleV#-n
hue-of-battle screw steamers, of from 80 to J3l
guns each, in course of construction, with 15 oth
er screw kiteamera in various stages of progress.
The Navy it reported as in a moat efficient state,
both as regards the number of vessels and the man
ner in which they are equipped.
Tte number of emigrants who left Liverpool dur
ing 1858 was 70,466, a decrease of 71,456 as com
plied with the year preceding. Os these emigrants
| neariy 41,000 were bound for the United States.
The London Times, in an editorial upon the re
I cent correspondence which has been published, in
regard to the affaire ot Central America, the steam
er Washington, &c., thinks that the American gov
ernment and its officers are pushing matters very
iai indeed, and by no means responding to the fra ok
and friendly manner in which the practice of visita
tion and search was entirely surrendered by the
British government. It adds:—‘’lt really seems to
come to this—that uo English naval officer canjgo
on board an American ship, however conciliatory
hii’ conduct, however unassuming his demean *r,
cowever unwilling or unab!e he may be to apply |
c impulsion, without giving to the United State a
caaus belli agaiuet this country.'*
A staircase in tne Poiytechnic Institution, Lon
don, gave way. when a large number of persons
were upon it. About titty people were more or
le?a injured and one chi and waa killed.
In the city article of the Times attention is direct
ed to American policy in regard to Mexico, as also
to the efforts of France and Spain to obtain redrees
for injuries sustained, while the British govern
ment is censured lor its apathy in the matter.
The London Times’ city article, alluding to the
corroboration by the menacing and impertinent lan
guage addressed by the Emperor Napoleon to the
Austrian envoy, which caused an instantaneous fall
of r per cent, in consols on Monday, and which ex
cited extraordinary comment, eays’that capitalists,
notwithstanding the phrase that the “ Empire is
peace,” are cispcsea more than ever to question
whether a peace that is attended every three
m- nths by some manifestations that put all neigh
boring nations on the defensive ia almost a3 bad as
actual hostilities.
France. —The usual levee waa held at the Tui le
ries on New-year’s day. The diplomatic corps ni-d
all the great functionaries were in attendance, and
during the picsentations an event occurred wLic i
occasioned quite panic on the Paris Bourse, and
a heavy fall in the funds at London and elsewhere.
The Paris correedocdeut of the London Times, writ
ing on the evening of the Ist inst., aay3 :
I have just heard that during the levee to-day,
the Emperor told the Austrian Minister, Hubner,
that h** regretted their relations ( rapports ) were so
bad, but that his pertonal sentiments for the Em
percr of Austria were tne same as ever. 1 may add.
t at a rumor circulates (but for the truth of which I
no not vouch) that Marshal Vailant Minister of
VV'ar, went up subsequently to Hubner, and said to
him. “I suppose 1 must not give you my Land
after that.”
’ihe same correspondent, writing on the following
day,says:—
The few words addressed by the Emperor to M.
Ilubner, the Austrian Minister, during the recepi iou
c; yesterday, a;.d which loommu jeated in a post
script. a re. 1 lind, literally correct. They were
Bp k n with a more emphatic tone of voice and
animated gesture tran the Emperor generally ein
ploys, and reminded some of the listeners of a sc n
between the first Consul and the English Amba-s*-
d„r of that day, previous to the rupture of the tree,
ty of Amiens. They are commented upon in
various ways in all circles where politics are the
topic, and 1 learn that in the higher financial re
gioua where they are known they Lave produced an
effect which it is difficult to exaggerate. I will n.t
indulge in speculation an to wh?i r they portend. It
ii well Luown thd r ihe Emperor keeps ihe greatest
gua and over himeeb, and never allows an unguarded
expression to reveal his real thoughts, but it ia cer
tain that on this occasion he betrayed an excitement
which could not pass unnoticed by the diplcmatic
corps. If the Bourse were open to day I have no
doubt that the effect would be severely felt. I think
it right to add a few words of explanation on so un
usual an occurrence. For the last two or thrts
months negotiations have been going on between
Austria and Francs on the subject of Italy.
“The Emperor expresses himeelf very anxious
that reforms should be introduced there, and par
ticularly in the Roman States. The Austrian gov
ernment has been urged to use its influence with
tho Pope and the King o* r Naples for that purpose,
Ciud the Emperor Napoleon has, I am assured,
agreed to the withdrawal of the French troops from
Rome on condition that the Austrians should a’ao
evacuate the places they hold. On both these poiut3
tho greatest opposition is met from Austria, though
it is a fact beyond dispute that the Italians are
more discontented than ever with their rulers, more
inflamed than ever by hatred of Austria, which no
merits of her representative or her generals will
over mitigate ; and as ready a3 ever toiLe against
those they look ”pon ;n their tyrants. Whatever
be the real motives of the Emperor Napoleon,
whetner he finds that the continued occupation oi
Rome exposes him to odium on the part of the
Italians, or irem whatever other views--! e ia fully
aware of this exasperated feeling, and of the conse
quences which may follow, and which perhaps, ho
would wish to prevent. In the midst of ail this
comes the Servian complication, and the probabili
ty of an Austrian occupation there also. This, it
appears, the Emperor Napokon moat decidedly stU
his face against.
“He will listen to no occupation except a joiut
one of Servia, and under the authority of the Row
era who signed the treaty of Paris. We have every
day new accounts of tbe effervesence that prevails
in Italy, and the sympathy which Sardinia ebows to
the discontented, ae welt as of what is passing in
Servia. All this has produced its effect on the Em
peror’s mind ; and thus notwithstanding his habitu
al reserve he could not but show it yesterday when
the representative of Austria stood before him. This
I Ihinjc, you will find pretty nearly the true state of
the case. The feeling against Austria is very bitter,
and I cannot say it is ULiieaerved. Whether it will
go to the length which all seem to apprehend, I
cannot say.’’
“M. Hubner, the Aussrian Minister, it appears
was not the only member of the diplomatic body
that waa snubbed at the Imperial levee at the Tu 1-
leries on Saturday, The Papal Nuncio left the le
vee disconcerted at the coldness of the reception he
met wish from trie Emperor—a fact which harmo
nizes with the reports that his Imporial Msjeaty has
been baffled and opposed in his Italian policy by
Austria aud the Pope, and that the latter has be
come the obedient friend of Franz Joseph. Napo
leon is evidently angry, and either cannot or does
not choose to conceal his mortification. It is true
that the P&trie tries to calm the apprehensions of
the Bourse by authoritatively stating that ‘no new
circumstance’ justifies tho rumor’ of dissensions be
tween France and Austria; but people begin to
fear that the old circumstances may be enough 10
justify the report, and that the extraordinary “con
duct of the Emperor to the Austrian and Papal
Mi feist ers may be just the signal for which Italy was
waitfog in orc'or to convince her that, in any move
ment against Austria, she may depend upon French
aud Sardinian aid.
“Another complaint of the prosecution of the fro
restants of France has been published. A corres
pondent of the Times, who signs himtelf “Eve
YVitoesß,” states that the Prefec of the Haute Vien
ne and hia Departmental Council have come to the
decision to allow no Protestant Schools within their
ju’ isdietion, so as to avoid danger to public morals.
ts Ti e Bullet in des Lois publishes an imperial de
cree, dated December IS, formally ordaining that
the Cathedral of S! Penis shall be the burying
place of the Bmperors of the French. It ie known
to be the wish ot the n*!nperor to remove the remains
of his uncle from the luva ; ides to St. Denis, but
Prince Jerome is opposed to the measure, and in all
probability the splendid tomb iu the Invalides, of
which he is the guardian, will not be desecrated as
long as he lives. The Emperor thinks it would be
more “dynastic” that hi.iamily should be buried
among the ancient Kings of France, and he wishes
particularly to place ihe body of Napoleon I. on
that very spot which—aa all visitors to St. Denis
w ill have remarked—he is represented in one of
the painted glass windows as selecting for his final
i eating place.
Ou Monday, the 3d, there w:i3 quite a panic on
tin- Bourse, the decline in tue funds being equal to
fully one per cent.
ihe Paris Patrie, alluding to the report in the
Bourse, to the effect that dissensions exist between
France and Austria says:—“ We are authorized to
plate that no new circumstance justifies the rumor
in question.”
The Paris Constitutional, of the 4th, contains tex
tually the words the Emperor to M. Hub
uer on the Ist. The Emperor said : “ 1 regret that
our relations with your government are no: so good
as they were, but i request you to tell the Empe
ror that my personal feelings for him have not
changed,”
It is stated that despatches had been received
from Algeria, positively announcing that the tribeu
in the mountains were dtiil iu full insurrection
Though no fears were c-xpre;sed for the safely of the
colony, reinforcements were demanded in order to
resume the offensive.
Prince Napoleon had appointed a commission to
report on the evpediency of establishing a service
o French steamboats between Sut/*. the Island of
Reunion, China, Cochin Chiua and Japan,
The Mcuiteur publishes a series of decrees ma
king numerous promotions aud nominations in tLe
army and magistracy.
A further decline took place on the Paris Bourse
ou tld? 4‘h, the 3 per cents. elusiDg at 71 90 tor mo
ney, and 71.80 for account.
Fram e and Rome —The Turin correspondent
of the Times says I —“ The official gazette of Rome,
date cf the 24th of December, denies that
theie is any misunderstanding between the French
and Papal Governments. For all that, the pr.vate
letters I r ceive from ii iiuential and well informed
parties residing in the Eternal City assuie me that
a coolness does exist between Cardinal Antonelii
and the Duke of Grammont. The latter, who had
taken up the case of the boy Mortara, is extremely
mortified that France's remonstrances and entrea
ties should have been eo fruitless. On the other
side, the Pope no longer affects to conceal the an
nnyar.ee occasioned him by the reinforcement of
the French gam?on, a step he had opposed, and
which has been effected iu defiance oi his wishes.
Another came of the unpleasantness between the
two governments is the fortifying of Civtta Yeccbia
which the French are very seaious about, but which
i? n eyesore to the Pope
“I wrote you word some time ago that the French
plan at firs* v. is to form t military camp, but the
Pope, backed by foreign diplomacy, interposed his
veto. Now, under the preiext of the town’s increa
sing size, th -y wan to connect the new walls with
some military w. k, which is identical with what the
Austrians are doing at Ancona A few days ago
General Guyon presented to PioNono the plan of,
new works approved by Mareal Vaiiiant. The*
Holy Father refused to sanction it, saying that he
had been ECvU-tomed to affix Lis signature in com
pany with those of other sovereigns, sometimes, in
deed, at their head, but never yet by tue side of
a marshal's. In Rome, also, the rumors of war are
rife and excite apprehension. In the Romagna the
exultation is very grea*. ana. as the Government
cannot check it, they eou eider ate iy let matters take
their course.”
Spain. —The semi-official Auto
fir a fa states that the Spanish Government has been
informed official y ths: complete satisfaction has
been gran ed tu for the exactions, ot which
the Spaniarda Lac been the victims at Tampico, in
conformity with the demands of the authorities of
Cuba.
A Madrid :e g am of the I :-t inst. to the Daily
News, say.- —’ Che Ministry declare that Spam
will never sell Cuba, and protest against the insult
ing fcypo'.beri :o the contrary implied in the Ameri
can President's message. Olozoga has brought
forwaid a morion supporting tee Ministerial declar
ation, which is ucaniir.cusly approved.”
The Spanish Government it caid to have address
ed the Cabinet, of England and France, on the
subject of Mr. Buchanan s remarks in regard to
Cuba.
The State o Italy —The Times, in a leader,
states its opinion that the Italian question has
reached a crisis Whether this crisis z&s been in
any way hastened by the French Emperor for the
purposes of his own ambition may be urcarrain,
but that it has arrived there is no doubt. Oa both
sides there is an expectation that the ensuing spring
will bring fc rth eocte important oven*.
In tee ramora which cave arisen no one knows
whence, and spreads no one knows how. during the
last few weeks, there is a cccsateccy which shows
a basis of reality.
In France it is witnessed that the Emperor will
not be sorry to divert pn: . c attention, by appear
ing as the champion of Italy against hie uncle e old
foes
In Piedmont the create?- excitement prevails. In
Lombardy the I al.ans retuse conciliation and pre
serve their attitude of hostility, and openly tali of
the day ofengeatce which draw? nigh.
Unless mean? be taken to prererve the peace of
Entope, a collision must some day take place be
tween Austria and piedmont. Austria has never
recognized France as an Italian power, and even
now looks BDgrily at the occupation of Rome.
Vienna has tberei-re refused to join in any alliance
of reform with Xapolecn in Italy This decision
was the cause of the outbreak of new year day,
which has caused such uneasiness throughout Eu
rope. At the first glance every man must be dis
posed to condemn Austria, but the rejection of the
Emperor e offere by Austria is no doubt the result
of a feeling that the French Eniperor’acj-operatiou
would not be sincere and friendly.
The Times trusts there will be no tampering with
the peace of Europe. The world has had enough of
French armies of liberation, and Lombardy would
gain nothing by exchanging the despotism which
reigns at Milan for that which is enthroned at Paris.
Nor is there any necessity for foreign interference
if Itaiy be, as her friends allege, fit for self govern
merit, and ready to unite in a unanimous effort
for independence. Sardinia has a noble army as
a nuoleua for Italian patriotis. There are 24,000,-
iKX) of Italians, and at the utmost 100,000 Austi ian
soldiers.
The state of public feeling in Austrian Italy
continued very unsatisfactory; the army in the
Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom had been reinforced
by four regiments, and all the men who were on
leave of absence had returned to their poets.
Telegraphic communication by the submarine
wire between Cagliari aud Malta continued sus
pended. The cable waa being under-run.
The King of Naples had, in the moat decided
manner, refused to grant the application of Russia
for a coa*iog station in his dominions.
The Turin correepacdent of the London Times
atatea a mixed commission, composed of military
aod police, had been established in Lombardy for
the prompt and summary judgment, without regard
to the ordinary forms of proceedure, of rioters, in
surgenta and seditious persons. This is almost tan 1
tamount to the inauguration of a state of siege.
Tl© Globe's Paris correspondent say* that the
news from every part of Italy is pregnant w ith
alarm.
Turkey —The Court Journal says We ave
been told by a gentleman connected with the Tur
kish Embassy that the principal reason for such
unwearying research after the dead body of Ali
Uhahb P&sha, lately drowned in the Bosphorus,
was owing to the Pasha having on his finger at the
time of his embarcation the splendid diamond ring
sent by Mahommond as a signal for the massacre of
i the Jan ssaries.
Bavaria —The Bank of Bavaria bad reduced
their rate of discouut from 5 to 4$ per cent, for bills
of exchange, and from 5$ to 5 for loans on deposit
Austria —Rumors were current in Vienna of
the discovery of a formidable conspiricy in Cracow.
Numerous arrests had been made aud some of the
prisoners are said to be Russians. One of the re
ports states that tbe fortress ol Cracow was to have
been surrendered to the Russians. There ia be
lieved to have been considerable exaggaratiou in
the rej orts.
A Vienna telegram of the 3d says : —“The report
that Austria is likely to send troops to the fortress
of Belgrade has caueed a panic here; but you may
be sure she will not do so, unless with the consent
of the other parties to the treaty of Paris.**
India.— The Bombay mail of December 9, arriv
ed at Suez on the 2lst, and the news ia thus tele
graphed:
Tne amnesty waa slowly but surely thi- ning the
anks of the rebels, and there was good reason for
believing that the whole country will be restored
to peace, without much additional bloodshed.
On the *24th November, a force commanded by
Lord Clyde in pereon, having marched 61 miles in
60 hours, completely deteated Bainie Madhoo Sing
and a large army or rebels at Dundeca Kara, near
ly opposite Futtehpore. The euemy was driven
out of the dense jungle, and afterward chased four
miles by guns aud cavairy. Their loss was enor
mous. Many were drowned in the Ganges. Bainie
Madhoo escaped down the river Oomrao, and Sing
lied toward the Cawnpore road. The rabble threw
away their arms and fled to the steep ravines.—
Madhoo is said to have reached Dooleemow
Ghat, on the Ganges.
On the 28th of November the Commander-in
chief arrived at Lucknow. The health of the Brit
ish troops was said to be excellent.
On tho 21st of November General Grant recroes
ed Goomlee. The rebels in considerable numbers
disputed the passage, but were forced to tiy with
great loss. Six of their guns were taken.
Tantia Topee continued to avoid tbe ingenuity
of his pureuere, and is eaid to have entered Guze
rat.
Genera* John Jacob, who played an important
port during the war, died from an attack of brain
lever.
British Code oy Morals in India—Legaliz
ing the Trade jn Infant Females. —Six months
ago Mr. Toogood, magistrate at Monghyr, dis
covered that the Cazee wero in the habit of regis
teriag the sale of girls to brothel keepers on legal
documents. Three girls in particular had been so Bold
to one Aineeruu, by deeds prescribed as deeds of
lease, but which assigned over the girls for ninety
years, and all their children. The woman was en
titled to “exact any hind of service whatever,”
and was bound to furnish only food and clothing.
Mr. Toogood committed both Ameerun aud the
Cazee for trial. At first it appeared as is his imagi
nation had for once not played him false. The
facts were all clearly proved. Ameerun admitted
that she had hired the children. She admitted that
they were to be prostitutes. One testified that she
followed that trade. Another, with a naivete which
hats in in it even a deeper touch of horror thau
Ameeruffs lraukness, eaid sue was young, but
waa being brought up to it. The Judge, seeing
these facts, considered the prisoners guilty of a
misdemeanor, and sent the case up to the Sudder
Court to pronounce sentence.
The Sudder Court reviewed the evidencs, admit
ted tho facts as proved, acquitted the prisoner, and
censured the magistrate for interferring with which
he had nothing to do. The reasons assigned for the
verdict are as extraordmary as the verdict itself.
The Cazee who signed the deeds is acquitted at
once. He had only lent the aid of his judicial office
to bind little girls, British subjects, for life to com
pulsory prostitution. As to the brothel keeper,
opinions were divided. The first two judges, Mr.
Money and Mr. Bayley, would have punished
Ameerun. The latter held that a lease for life waa
loyal, but that the present leass, involving tbe lea
see’s progeny, was beyond life and illegal. Being
illegal, the hirmg of a girl for immoral purposes was
also au offence, aud, as an offence, punishable.—
He, therefore, inflicted a sentenoe ot two years im
prißonment.
Tbe two judges not agreeing as to the extent of
punishment, the Q&se was referred to a third. Mr.
Colvin held Hint the proceedings were ab initio null
aud void. The crime was “not a serious one,” and
the magistrate had no power to interfere. The
charge should have been made by an individual.
Mr. Sconce went further. He held that Ameerun
was rather an injured individual than otherwise.
Hiring a child, he remarks, does not “constitute a
crime.” —Friend of India , October 28.
Justice in Russia. —A St. Petersburg letter, in
the Emancipation, of Brusseis,relates the following
curious story :
“Prince Leon Kotchoubey, of a rich and ancient
family, a man of an imperious character, had Jong
employed as his land agent, an Austrian carried
italtzmann. About a year ago, when they were
alone together In the Prince’s cabinet, a warm dis
cussion arose about some account. A pistol was
suddenly fired, which wounded the agent in the
side. When some of the household rushed in to see
what had token place, the Prince accused Saltzmanu
of having Iked the pistol at hiune-’f in a spirit of re
venge and to drag the Prince into a oriminal trial.
On the other hand the agent asserted that Prince
Leon had fired at him in a fit of rage. The medi
cal men who were called in declared that the wound
could not have been produced by the man’s own
act. The case caiue before a police tribunal, pre
sided over by a General Pool, The influence brought
lo bear on the Court led to the declaration that the
Prince was innocent, and the unfortunate Saltz
mann, being declared guilty of wounding himself,
was thrown into prison. The setenoa, in due time,
received the confermation of the Governor of St.
Petersburg, and the affair seemed at an end. Ihe
wife of the imprisioned man, however, waa a woman
of energy, and she went about from door to door
with her four young childred, imploring every one
to aid her in obtaining justice. She was at last
called to Tearskee Selo, and also imprisoned leav
ing the children to bo provided for by any one who
might have pity on them. Public rumor brought
the oase to tho knowledge of the Emperor, and he
ordered an inquiry to be instituted oy the Senate
whose decision no one doubts of. The following
are said to be its disposition First, Saltzmann,
having been unjustly condomnd, ha3 a right to fix
the indemnity which the Prince should pay him;
secondly, the Governor who confirmed the sentence
cannot be reached in his person, as he is dead, but
aia memory shall be branded with reprobation ; and
thirdly, General Pool is to be tried for injustice,
and his two assistants in the affair shall be similarly
treated.”
Cil'T. H aktstein. —ln the proceedings of the
Senate, Friday last, we perceive that a resolution
was unanimously passed allowing this gallant offi
cer $1,(108, extra exnenses incurred by him in the
delivery of the bark Resolute, ot the Aroti c fleet,
to the English government. The facts which are
not generally known, are as follows : Our Govern
ment, it will be recollected, upon the rescue of the
bark Resolute from the Arctic seas, fitted her out
in handsome style, and os an act of national oourtesy
and good feeling made a present of ber to Great
Britain. Crpt. Hartsteiu was charged with the
pleasant duty of taking her over and making the
tender in due form, yet the authorities at Washing
ton seemed to overlook the fact that a becoming
discharge of the trnEt would be attended with ex
pense, and aoonrcingly omitted to supply him with
the necessaiy funds. On reaching England, not a
little to his surprise. Capt. Hartatein was informed
that the Queen would receive the present in person,
and would make him a visit on board for that pur
pose. Here was a predicament. Beyond hio pri
vate parse, the Captain had no means ‘for making
Ihe necessary preparation for the reception of her
Majesty, but resolved that a reflection should not
be cast npon bis nation. He accordingly made the
neceißary provision at his own private expense,
relying upon the government to refund the amount
npon a representation of the facta. On his return,
he presented the account but it was refused. More
recently he applied to Congress, and we are gati
fled to see that it has promptly responded tos just
a demand. —Savannah Republican.
Naltoanl Agricultural College*.
The following are the provisions of the bill, now
“ending in the Senate, for the estab'isbment of a
National Agrieullur.il College in each State of the
Union :
Section 1. Enacts that 5,920,000 acres of land be
apportioned to each State in quantity equal to 20,-
i UUU acres for each Senator and Representative in
’ Congress to which the States ere now respectively
; entitled.
Sc. 2. That the *aid land, alter being surveyed,
shall be apportioned in sections, or subdivisions of
sections not less than one-quarter of a section ; and
wherever there are public lands in a State worth
$1 25 per acre—(the Governor to determine the
value) —the apportionment Bhall be selected from
such lands. Where there are no public lands of the
value of $1.35 per acre, the Secretary of the Interior
shall issue ledo scrip to the amount of their distri
butive shares in acres, said scrip to be sold by such
State and the proceeds applied for the purpose of
this act. Prci idcd, That iu no case shall any State
locate its land scrip within the limits of any other
Stale, but their assignees may locate their scrip on
any unappropriated public lands, subject to private
entry.
Sec. 3 Ail expenses of management and dis
bursement shall be paid by the respective States,
so that the entire proceeds of the land shall accrue
to the college.
Sec. 4. All money from lands and scrips shall be
invested in United States, or other safe stocks yield
ing not less than 5 per cent—which sums invested
shall constitute a perpetual fund for ever, undimin
ished, of which the interest shall be inviolably ap
plied to the maintenance of at least one College in
each State where the leading object shall be with
out exciuding other scientific or classical studies,
to teach such branches of learning as relatee to agri
culture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as
the legislatures may prescribe, in order to promote
the liberal and practical education of the industrial
classes in the several pursuits and professions in
life.
Sec. 5 Details various financial minntise, and
permits 10 per cent of the grant to be expended in
purchase of site for experimental farms. Au annu
al report shali be prepared by each College and be
sent to every college constituted nnder this act,
also to the Smithsonian Institution and the Agricul
tural Department of the Patent Office. This bil.
passed tee House of Representatives, April 22, ‘SB
A Ksowisg Dog. —A somewhat curious example
of inteljgence in a dog is stated to have occurred a
few days ago at Touiouse. Some mischevous boys
fastened a tin kettle to his tail, and the poor animal
in great terror ran off. closely pursued by them.
In spite of his terrors, the dog, it was noticed, looked
in a peculiar way at the houses he passed, as if
seeking for shelter in one of them, and at last see
ing one in which was the office of the commissary
of police, he rushed into it, entered the effice, and
quietly loy down, as if certain of obtaining protec
tion. If the local newspapers are to be believed,
the reason why the deg selected the office of the
commissary in preference to any other was that his
mistress, an old and somewhat eccentric lady, hav
ing a few days before bee n persecuted by the same
boys, went to the commissary and sought and ob
tained his protection. Tue dog, who was with her
at the time, remembered, the local journals remark,
the effect produced, and in his tom took advantage
of it.— GaUenam.
Fatal Accident. —We learn from the Ocala
(Fla.; Companion, of the 11th inst., that a fatal ac
cident occnn-ed on the stage between Sumpter and
Brooksviile, on Friday evening, the 31et ult. A
gentleman from South Carolina, by the name of
Vermillion, who was travelling In the etage, had a
pistol in one of his pockets, which, by some unex
plained circumstance, went eff; and the ball grazing
his body and entering his thigh, so far inhp-mg the
man that be didd on the follow ing Wednesday
WKKKLY
AUGUSTA. GA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JAN. 26, 1859.
New Steamboat. #
Th £ Excel, a new boat, belonging to the recently
established “Excel Line,’’ now running in connec
tion with tbe “Swan Line,” made her first appear
ance at our wharf on Friday las , from Johnson's
Landing, where ebe was built. The Excel is a side
wheel boat, of light draught, (eighteen inches,/ and
her building and appointments betoken carefulness
and judgment. Her length is 103 feet, breadth of
beam 26 feet, overall 42 feet, depth of hold 5 feet,
between decks 13J feet. Her capacity is estimated
at one thousand bales of cotton. She has two
boilers, and two fifteen inch cylinders with six feet
stroke. She ie also furnished with a large doctor boil
er and several steam pumps. The following is a
list of her officers :
C. R. Powell, Captain.
B. K. Killingsworth, Mate.
T. W. Lund, First Engineer.
H. Ditciy, Second “
H. F. Russell is the Agent for this city.
She will start on her first trip to Savannah to day.
An Enlightened Editor.
The Griffiu Empire Slate, chargej us with apply
ing an “indecent ’ epithet to Gov. Brows, in
speaking of him as “his puissant Excellency !’’
“Puissant,” according to Webster, means “pow
erful, strong, mighty, forcible.”
Verily, the Governor has a most appropriate and
intelligent defender, in the enlightened editor of the
“Empire State,'’publishedat Griffin, Georgia. Suoh
men do honor to journalism ’. however they econo
mise truth.
Fire. —A fire occurred on Saturday night last
between nine and ten o’clock, (after our paper had
gone to press,) in the upper part of the city, whioh
destroyed a one story brick building, occupied as a
carriage shop by Mr. Crittenden, together with its
contents, consisting of buggies, tools, See. The
building belonged to the Rev. Mr. Harrison, and
was insured for SI,OOO.
Southern- Wine. —The Still Catawba Winei
made by Mr. Axt, of Crawfordville, Ga , are con
sidered very pure and superior, by tho beet judges;
and all who drink wine should purchase these in
preference to the adulterated mixtures from abroad.
See Mr. Axt's advertisement in another column.
Delaware Slave Trade.—A Mr. Jacobs in the
Delaware Legislature, proposes to repeal the law
prohibiting the traffic in slaves between Delaware
and other States. The Washington Republican de-.
nounces the proposed measure, and says the repeal
of the law would double or quadruple the value of
the slaves and hence many would engage in breed
ing them to supply the Southern planters aud others
with laborers.
Singular Occurrence. —A few days since a
arge bald eagle caught a wild dusk in the river
Susquehanna, near Dunoaunon, Pa., aud carrying it
to a cake of ice, commenced eating it. During tbe
operation his feet and feathers troze fast to the
cake, which was aground, and being unable to ex
tricate him3elf, he perished. Several attempts
were made to capture him, but his locality could
not be leached, on account of the great mass of
floating ioe between It and the shore.
Narrow Escape.— On Monday even ng last, the
ioe in Boston harbor broke up, and one piece
floated off with twenty-two children on it. A gen
tleman named Haslem rescued them in a boat, at
an imminent risk of being swamped.
The Four Tongues.— Some years ago a bold
essayist in the Dublin University Magazine prophe
sied that in the course of time there would be only
four languages spoken In th* world : English, Rus
sian, Frenoh and Germain.
Morphy, the Amerioan chess-player, who has
beaten the beet players in Europo, has again chal
lenged Staunton, but the Englishman has nonotioD
of enoountering so formidable a rival. Staunton
criticises Morphy’s play, but does not like to meet
one whom he effects to consider his inferior as a
player. Morphy offers to give Staunton a pawn
and a move.
Cattle Killed bt Eating Sorghum.—lnde
pendence (Iowa) Guardian gives an account of the
destruction of seven head of cattle belonging to
I. G. Freeman, Esq., from eating tho refuse Chinese
Sugar Cane, after it had been compressed iu the
mill. The outer coating of the stalks is of a very
vitreous character, when thus broken up and taken
into the stomach, it operates like broken glase, cut.
ting, and in some cases penetrating entirely through
the coats of that organ, prodnoing violent inflamma
tion. A post mortem examination in this case, re
vealed this as the cause of death. This important
fact should be made known to every farmer, as it
may be the means of preventiug a serious destruc
tion of their stock.
Death from Carelessness.— On the loth inst.
near Goldsboro, N. C., John Baden, a little boy,
waa burnt to death. The pereon iu charge of the
house went out, leaving the lad asleep, and locked
the door. While absent, the building took fire, and
the child not being able to get out, was consumed.
A neighbor ran to his assistance, and after opening
the door, saw the child fall in the flames, but was
unable to get to him in time to rescue him.
The Sugar we Eat.— Acoording to the Shipping
List, the imports of foreign sugars into the United,
States during tho year 1858 amount to 244,758 tons,
against 241,764 in 1857, and 265,293 in 1856, of
which 241,758 tons went into consumption, to which
added the crops of Louisiana, Texas and Florida of
143,734 tons, make the aggregate consumption
equal to 388,494 tons, against 280 765 in 1857, and
378,760 in 1856.
The llon. Theodore Atkinson, formerly one of
tile wealthiest men in New Hampshire, and who
died at Portsmouth iu 1799, left a legacy of about
one thousand dollars to the Episcopal Church at
Portsmouth, to be expended in bread, to be die
tributed on Sunday to the poor of the parish. The
distribution of more than a dollar's value in bread
every Sabbath has now been regularly made for
about sixty years.
Preparation kbr New Year,— The women of
Washington, lowa, forevrarned by the unpleasant
experiucee of Christmas, of the reckless frolicking
to be expected of men at New Year's, made timely
preparation for that holiday on the previous Tues
day, hv destroying all the liquor for sale in the town.
A memorial has been signed by about fifty naval
officers praying the United Btates Senate to alter
the act relating to the performance of divine service
on board ships-of-war, so that Roman Catholics,
and other gentlemen wishing to absent themselves,
may not be obliged to attend. The word “invite”
is requested to be substituted for “cause.”
Railroad cvkr the Isthmus or Suez. —The
Railroad across the Isthmus of Suez is completed—
and the first train crossed from the Rod Sea to the
Mediterranean, on the 3d of December, with a large
number ot passengers including some from Australia-
A heavy freight of Indian silks was brought ovor-
As usual, a number of the passengers were Ameri
oans, two ot them coming from China.
Queen Victoria’s Skates— Queen Victoria
skates. We subjoin, as of some interest to the sex,
the annexed deecriptlon of a pair of skates just
oompleted for Qneen Victoria :
“In lieu of straps across the instep, each skate is
provided with a pat ent leather boot. These boots
are firmly attached by a strip of plated silver to
the clogs, which are of satin wood, highly polished.
The skate irons terminate in front in the appropriate
and graceful form of a swan, and both sides are ele
gantly chased. The cup that forms the reoeptaolea
for the heels is silver-plated, and chased with the
design of a rose, shamrock and thistle. The same
design is embroidered in white silk upon the black
catent leather, to which it forms a pleasing contrast.
The size gracefully corresponds to the email foot of
her Majesty, and when mounted on them, tie said
■he looks elegantly.”
New Atlantic Telegram. — The Paris corres
pondent of the Boston Journal says that in an in
terview a few days sinoe with several English capi
talists, the Emperor expressed his confidence in the
proposed layiog of a telegraghic cable between
France and America, the termination of which is to
the city of Boston. The company is being formed,
and the whole affair will be carried into execution
as rapidly as possible.
The Balt Question Decided.— The packers of
pork and beef at Chicago, Illinois, have decided
that Syracuse salt answers their pnrpose better than
imported salt. This decision agrees with the result
of some experiments made by order of the general
government, some years ago.
Effects of Extreme Cold.— The Salem (Mass.)
Register says that during the late cold spell the
earth and ice cracked frequently with a loud re
port, and in one instance a large linden tree on Ol
iver street was split from th e roots to the top of the
trunk, with an explosion like a piece of ordinance.
Bask Agencies in Florida. —The Tallahassee
(Fla.) correspondent of the Savannah Republican,
under date of the 14th inst, says:—A Bill relating
to Bank Agencies of other States, has passed the
Honse, and may go through the Senate though it ia
doubtful. By its terms six months after the estab
lishment of a Bank, ail agencies within fifty miles
of it are required to redeem their bills in specie; and
on failnre, to be restrained from the exercise of
their functions, by writ ol injunction issuing out of
a court of chanoery.
The Missing Mail Party.— a despatch from
Independence to the St. Louis Republican, says
that just as the New Mexican mail was leaving
Santa Fe an express arrived announcing the Eale
arrival of the missing Neosho mail party at Albu
querque.
A no ve! and unique exhibition is afoot by the peo
ple cf Wolccttvilie, CL, who, on Thureday evening,
Jan. 20, gave an entertainment called, “The Old
Folks Kitchen,” with the eoetumes, furniture,
spinning wheels in motion, and other features of
the oid times of 100 years ago.
Sir Philip Sidney says—“I am no heraid to en
quire of men’s pedigrees ; it sufficeth me if I know
their virtues.” Sir Philip was one of the few
wise men of the world, and a true Christian.
A Valuable Discovert —A German physician
named Beck, at Dantzic, lately discovered anew
antidote to drunkenness. It consists of a metallic
eubetance, covered by an olive, which it is said, not
only destroys the effects of alcohol instantly, bn
also prevents every further result on the eonstitu
tion. Experiments had been made on a Poiander
named Badevidel, who, being dead drunk, was
perfectly eo bated after eating three of these prepased
olives
New Books.
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Sir E. Bolwir Litton, Bart, author of “My
Novel,” Caxtons,” “The Last of the Ba
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To those who have read “My Novel,” or “The
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“ What will he do with It 1” is written in the same
polished, easy style, possesses the same original and
powerfnl creations of the fancy, and will doubtless
be as universally read as others by the same author
have been. We can only commend it to the lovers
of fiction, with the confident assertion that they will
enjoy its perusal.
For sale by Thos. Richards St Son.
Sylvan Holt’s Daughter. By Holme Lee, au
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Brothers.
The agreeable and entertaining productions of
the pen of this ready writer have not yet obtained
the popularity which they merit. “ Kathie Brand”
and “Sylvan Holt's Daughter “ the only two of
Holme Lee’s works we have seen, will both be
found to possess infinitely more real worth and
genuine interest than nine-tenths of the modem
works of fiction.
For sale by Thos. Rich ards St Son.
The Comedies of Terrence. Literally translated
into English prose, with notes. By Henry
Thomas Riley, B. A. To which is added the
bjank verse translation of George Coleman.
New York : Harper &. Brothers.
For sale by T hos. Richards St Son.
The Lady’s Manual of Fancy Work. By Mrs.
Ppllan. New York : Dick St Fitzgerald.
This is a very handsomely gotten up work, con
taining a large number of tDgravings, besides eight
choice pattern pistes inoolors,and embraces minute
instructions for the execution of every known spe
cies of needle-work, lace-werk, embroidery, wire
work, crochet, knitting, knotting, netting, tape
work, transferring, bead-work, Berlin-work, braid
ing, St o., &.C.
Whether these instructions are practicable, or
not, the ladies must determine for themselves. If
they are, the work will doubtless be found very
useful.
It is for sale by Geo. A. Oates 4 & Bro.
The Florida Bank Agency Bill Passed. —A
orrespondsut of tbs Savannah Republican, writing
from Tallahassee, says:—The Senate has surprised
me by passing, nearly unanimously, the bill requir
ing the agencies of the banks of other States located
in this State to redeem their bills in specie. So it
only awaits the Executive sanction to become a law.
I have already, in a few words, given its provi
sions ; hut as some of your home readers may feel
nterested, (the Marine Bank having an agenoy in
Tallahassee, to say nothing of other Georgia agen
cies in other quarters.) I will simply repeat that
the aot goes into effect against agencies not until
six months after the establishment of a local bank
within fifty miles of such agency. And oven then
there is no penalty for a refusal to comply with its
terms ; the only effectof failure being to expose the
agency to injunction from a court of chancery
restraining tbs exercise of its functions. There are
here, besides the agency of the Marine Bank of
Savannah, agenoies of the Bank of Columbus and
of two Charleston Banks.
The Prensa of Havana publishes an address which
the ladies of Havana have resolved to lay “at the
royal feet of Her Majesty Isabella II.,” to protest
against the idea ennnoiated in ths recent message
of the President of the United States on the subjeot
of the purohase of the Island of Cuba.
A Liquor Case in Maine. —At the late term of
oourt at Machlos, Thomas Gilpajtrick was prosecuted
for the value of three tons of hay destroyed by fire
by persons intoxicated with liquors sold by him—
and the jury gave a verdiot for the plaintiff, in
another case of the same kind the jury did not
agree.
Anew romance by W. Gilmore Simms, “The
Casaique of Kiawha,” is shortly to be published by
Redfield of New York,
Thomas Colley Grattan, Esq., late her Britanic
Majesty's Consul at Boston, has published two oc
tavo volumes at London on ths “Civilised America.”
The young man who cast his eye on a young lady
coming out of church has had it replaced and now
sees as well as ever.
Why are ladies the biggest thieves in existence?
Because they steel the pettiooats, bone the stays
and crib tbs babies.
A tailor, who, in skating, fell through the ioe, de
clared that he'd never again leave a hot goose for a
cold duck.
The Russian organ published at Brussels, in
speaking of the President’s hankeriug after Cnba,
says :
The war whioh might result from it would be far
more disastrous than ths Crimean war, which has
cost bo much gold and blood to the world. It would
be a war with a nation whose products are the first
element of industry in all parts of tbs world, and
whose commercial intercourse makes an important
branch of income for moet governments. It would
be a violent rnptnrs of all ths arteries of commer
cial oirculation , it would be a fatal separation be
tween Europe, which needs America, and America
which oan dispense with Europe. Take from Eng
land the gold of California and ths cotton of Lou
isiana, and her industry will at once be stopped in
ils prosperous action. We sincerely hope that suoh
a terrible occurrence will not take place.
Female Sedition.— The British press are very
distressed with forebodings of the destruction of
the American republic, owing to its oorruptlon, Its
furious partizau spirit, and its low morality, al! evils
incident to universal suffrage. At the same time,
we find the British authorities in Ireland moved to
an extraordinary degree of vigilance and alarm by
a secret meeting of twelve or fifteen Irishmen in a
tavern. Remarking on this, the Philadelphia Ledg
cr says :
A meeting of one hundred times fifteen Irishmen,
in secret or openly, would scarcely be noticed in
this country, aud certainly attract no attention of
the government, beoause no apprehension of mis
chief is felt where a government rests upon popu
lar suffrage. Iu Ireland, and even in England,
it is very different, and the slightest popular move
ment is guarded against as an impending evil,
threatening to overturn ths government aud the
social Institutions of the oountry.
The most curious feature in this Irish ferment is,
that a young lady, described as “extremely deli
cate,” has been committeed to prison on a obarge
of writing seditious letters. A government that can
be endangered by the literary effusions of a weak
and debilitatedgirl, certainly shows more symptoms
of weakness and decay than this young republic
where men and women may speak, write and print
as much abnse of the government as they choose, a
privilege they are by no meaue backward in exor
cising, or we should not have so many lecturing
Jeremiahs travelling around the country, lamenting
over the deoadenee of public patriotism, nor read
so much lugubrious twaddle in the newspapers of
the decline iu public morality and private virtue.
These have been declising ever since senility and
censorioueness found, in a free press, a ready vebi
ole through which to make tbeir complaints heard
llow is This I—A correspondent of the New
York Commercial Advertiser—now a Republican
paper, writes:
“It ie mentioned as a singular incident that
Mr. Seward held a seat before Mr. Iverson, while
the latter delivered his disunion speeoh, and when
he closed, took him oordially by the hand, and
congratulated him apon his eloquent effort: where
upon the two agitators aforesaid laughed inconti
nently at the pranks they were playing/’
A Singular Cass.—The overland mail brings
Intelligence of a singular case lately tried in New
Mexico. The Santa Fo Gazette thus reparts it:
The oases that excited the most iterest were those
of the Territory vs. E. N. DePew and vs. Priest
Peter John Monnicum. Mr. Barry sends as the
charge to the jury in the latter case, in whieb the
Judge appears to review the entire evidence addu
ced upon the (rial. The deceased and the prisoner
at the bar were at the time of poisoning, 3d of Au
gust last, both officiating clergymen of the Catholic
Church at Moro, in this diocese. The former, fath
er Abel, upon his death bed persisted in aceusing
the prisoner as bis murderer, after having been re
peatedly warned by one of the witnesses of the im
portance of such en accusation. The bottle of wine
containing the fatal poison wac that used at the
Holy Sacrament or in saying mass at the altar, and
the dying priest declared that no one but himself
and the accused had or could have accees to the
wine. It was established, however, that though
this was very probably true, the contrary was pos
sible. So fixed did tbe belief appear in father Abel
that father Monnicum was his murderer, that when
latter was suggested as the priest to officiate at the
death bed, the former replied that he “did not want
his murdererer to administer to him"—that he “did
not want Monnicum s name to be mentioned to
him, for that tbe person who had poisoned him was
unfit to administer the sacrament.” The evidence
was entirely circumstantial, and we understand
that in the opinion of most persons who heard the
trial, it was not at all conclusive of the guilt of the
prisoner, whom the jury, after a Bhort absence,
found not guilty by the following verdict: “Noso
tros, los miembros del pequeno jurado, unaniments
hallamos sin culpa al acusado.”
Manufacture of Turtle Soup.—A Key West,
Fla., correspondent of tbe Charleston Courier
says the manufactures of green turtle soup there
during the past year has been considerable. One
firm alone manufactured 200,000 pounds. He adds :
Their business employs ten vessels and about fifty
men. They have besides, ten engaged in their fac
tory. During the summer and fall they have
shipped to London, Havana, New Orleans, Mobile,
Charleston, Montreal and other cities, about 900 do
zen cans of 2 lbs. each, of the value of *I,OOO. The
busLuess may be considered in its infancy. It will
expand and no doubt become an important article
in our exportations.
Bonner s Next Card —A Union of Journalists.
—Bonner is evidently determined not to let the
public forget him ; he has hardly played out one
trump before another is produced equally calculated
to awaken surprise. Having, by bis donation of
*IO,OOO to the Mount Vernon Fund, allured Mr.
E verett into the ranks of his contributors, he has
tried his seductive art with tbe same success on
euojeets still leas susceptible. In oiher words. Mr.
Bouner s paper, to be issued on Monday next, will
contain contributions from three of tbe prominent
rival lournahsts of the New York daily press—
namely, Bennett of the Herald, Greeley of the Tri
bune, and Raymond of the Timee, who have been
—for at least one week—to lay aside their long
standing hostilities, and write for the New York
Ledger. Bennett furnishes four poems, one of them
an effusion of youthful sentiment, entitled “An An
gel Smile, another an apoetrophe “To Mary Ann
Greeley, a characteristic article in prose, urging! un
employed young men to leave the city and go to
farming i Raymond, an interesting reminiscence of
foreign travel, relating incidents of “A Visit to the
Home of Jane Eyre ; ‘ while two other journalists
Morris of the Home Journal, and Prentice of the
Louisvffie Journal-throw in their quota to the con
tents. In audition to this list of attractions, there
u an article entitled “A Canon Ball in the Hat,”
belonging to a series which, judging from the inter
effL- e r V wt n< ifo^W i V&gUe rumora to the same
trf}: we wenbe to the pen of Henry Ward
Beecher, although the authorship is not acknbwledg.
*d by the publisher. These, with a sprightly Mount
’ ernon sketch by Mr. Everett, of his railroad expe
nenee in a Bleeping car, certainly constitute an in
viting bill of tare— N. y. Evening Pott.
A Suspected Slaver.—The bark Laurens, of
New York, has been seized at New London, Conn.,
on suspicion of having been fitted out for the slave
trade. The character of her cargo and fitting out
gave rise to the suspicion, and when it was found
she had cleared for an African port tbe seizure was
made bp the D. S. Marshal.
A .Model Nprerh fn the Missouri Legislature .
Among the proceed lugs of the Missouri Leg’ala
ture, now in session, we find the following report of
a speech delivtiedby Mr. Pitt a few days ago. The
St. Louis Democrat thinks that Mr. Pitt resembles
Lord Chatham, at least, in the particular of having
“two legs and a head with a uose on it
Mr. Pitt offered the following:
Resorted, That the Speaker be authorized to
cause to be printed aud posted one hundred bills an
nouncing the Bth of January, 1859.
Mr. Abney—l move to lay that resolution on the
table.
Mr. Pitt—Mr. Speaker, this House passed reso
lutions, sir, to celebrate, in au appropriate manner,
the Bth ot January. This is a resolution simply ask
ing that notice be given to the public of that day.—
We have declared an intention, and now when we
come do publish it, some gentleman is suddenly
seized with the “retrenchment gripes,” and squirms
around like a long red worm on a pin book.
[Laugter.] Gentlemen keep continually talking
about economy. I, myselt, do uol believe in tying
the public purse with cob-web strings, but when re
trenchment comes in contact with patriotism it as
sumes the form ot “smallness.” Suoh economy is
like that of old Skinflint, who had a pair or boots
made for bis little boy, witnout soles that they might
last the longer. [Laughter ! I reverence “the day
we celebrate.” It is fraught with reminiscences the
moet stirring ; it brings to mind one of the grandest
events ever recorded in letters of living tire upon
tbs walls of the temple of fame by the Btrong right
arm of the god of war! On such occasions we
should rise above party lines and political distinc
tions I never fought uuder th - bauuerof old Hicko
ry, “by the eternal” I wish I bad. [Laughter and
applause ] If the old war horse was here now he
would not know his own children front the side of
Joseph’s coat of many colors,—Whigs, Know-Noth
ings, Democrats, hard, soft boiled, scrambled, aud
aud fried i Lincolmtes, Douglasites and blathers
kites 1 I beloDg to no parly , lam free, unbridled,
unsaddled, in the political pasture. Like a bob
tailed bull in fly time, I charge around in the high
grass and fight my own flies. [Great Laughter.)
Gentlemen, let us show our liberality on patriotic
occasions. Why, some men have no more patriot
ism than you conld stuff in the eye of a knitting
needle. Let us not squeeze five cents till the eagle
on it squeals like a locomotive or an old maid. Let
us print the bills aud inform lhe uountryfthat we are
as lull of patriotism as are Illinois swamps of tad
poles. [Laughter.] I don’t believe in doing things
by halves. Permit me, Mr. Speaker, to make a
poetical quotation from one of our noblest authors:
“I love to see the grass among the red May roses,
I love to see au old gray horse, for when He goes, he
poses”
[Convulsive laughter ]
After the above speech the House refused to lay
the resolution on the table.
The Explosion at Wilmington. —The explo
sion of Dupont’s powder mill, near Wilmingtou,
Del., on Thursday, was sensibly felt at Philadel
phia, thirty milss distant, aud was at first supposed
to be an earthquake. The shock was tremendous
at Wilmington and caused much excitement. It
was feared that the loss ot life would be heavier,
and hundreds of persons hurried to the scene , but
the number of hands employed iu the yard at the
time, was fortunately not large. The characteristic
benevolence of the owners of the mill iu such cases,
has been manifested on this occasion. It was
thought the preparations whioh have been made
since the last fatal event, when one of the firm was
killed, would tend to advert the occurrence of these
distressing disasters, but it seems there is still a
wide field for improvements in safeguards.
Sending Newspapers and Pamphlets to Eu
rope.—Persons who send newspapers aud pamph
lets to Europe, should be carefnl not to enoloee them
in wrappers, as it subjects them to letter postage,
generally so high that the papers are refused by the
persons to whom they are directed. A gentleman,
just retutped from Eoglaud, informs the Philadel
phia Ledger, that he saw baskets cf American
newspapers and pamphlets in one of the English
Post-offices, which had been on this
aocouut. If ths newspapers are tied around with a
pises of twine or cord, they will go as well as if in
a wrapper, and the postage is then the ordinary
price for newspapers. The fact that many news
papers and pamphlet! fail to reach persona in Eng
land and France, to whom they are directed, may
be accounted for in this way.
The Mobile Tribune relates that a gentleman,
long a resident of the South, but now a citizen of
Philadelphia, was induced while he resided South,
to purchase an old negro woman, who was so muoh
attached to him that she would uot leave him, even
at the nrgent solicitation of the Agents of the under
ground railroads. On one occasion, after being
muob importuned to leave her master and go to
Canada, she is reported to have addressed them to
the effect, that if they would give her one thousand
dollars in cash, and a handsome white husband, site
would go. They excused her.
The Allbded Cuban Revolution. —The New
York Express of Friday contains a translation from
the Oaceta Official de Habana, in which it appears
that a person styling himself Brigadier General N.
8. Roneau, of Memphis, Tennessee, wrote some
time ago to the Captain-General, asking him to be
come the chief of a revolution in Cuba. Iu some
way Keneau seems to have flattered himself that
he could bribe theCubau authorities ; but the Cap
tain-General, it appears, has treated the Brigadier
General as a madman. The story is not very im
portant, but it suggests that the Brigadier General
has deoeived the President cf the United States by
his political joke, and that seems to be the cause of
the application of thirty millions of dollars, as initia
tory steps for the acquisition of Cuba. The whole
scheme must now appear supremely ridiculous, un
less ws oan get a more solid aspect out of it. This
is a fine ending to the Ostend Manifesto, truly.
A Railroad Seized by its Employees. —The
Chicago Herald says the Chicago aud Alton Rail
road property has been seized by tbo employees of
the Company. The men employed south of Bloom
inftton *truolc on Friday for wagee and the pftnio
extended north to Chicago. Althongh the receipts
of this road have been from SBO,OOO to $125,000
per month, the mechanics have not been paid for
nearly sixmouths. The wages owing to machinists,
engineers, brakesmen, firemen, and others, is for
services extending from four to eight months. See
ing no chance of obtaining their rights by asking
for them, they have refused to run the cars further
south than Bloomington rntil they receive two
months’ pay in oasb, and several notes at three and
six months for the balance. There is between -100
and 500 of them.
A negro duel is noticed in the Kanawha (Va.)
Republican, as among the incidents that occurred
in and about the Salines on Christmas day. It was
rather a bungling affair. The preliminary arrange
ments appear not to have been according to tbe
provisions laid down in the Code of Honor. We
do not understand the parties felt any particular
stain upon their honor which they desired to wipe
oat by the fashionable appeal to the duello. The
affair seems to have been a kind of trial or practice,
preparatory to a leal duel. But so it was, they
stood off at measui ed distanoe, and shot at eaoh
other with muskets loaded with blank cartridges.
In tbe exoitement, one of the combatants, in draw
ing the ramrod, left the button or head in the gun,
and the reenlt was he killed biß opponent by shoot
ing him through the breast. Tbe negro shot was
free, the other was a slave. These are the facts in
the oase as reported to ns. We do not know that
there has been any legal investigation into the affair.
Virtues of Red Peppers.—The Scientific Ame
rican says: Pul three or four lumps of sugar, with
- half teaspoonful of cayenue pepper, in a tumbler,
and fill up with hot water : when the sugar is dissol
ved, drink. It is not only pleasant to the palate,
but warms tbe whole body more effectually and
quioker than spirits. In India, priests who have
made a vow to wear no clothes, rub themselves of
oold nights with red pepper. This gives a glow
equal to the “warmth of several blankets.”
A Profitable Boarder.—The St. Paul (Minne
sota) Minnesotian says there is a lady now residing
in Minnetonka, who, for the past two yearn, has
lived entirely without eating. Her age is 28 ; she
is the moth er of three children, and eDjoys mode
rate health. She has tbe use of all her faculties, is
not emaciated, but apparently robust, and yet she
does not take into her stomaoh a particle of food of
any description, save a cup of coffee, which she
drinks three a times a day ; this, her only subsis
tence, she sips slowly, usually occupying the aceus
tomed time with others at the table.
Later prom Port au Prince.—Adviceß from
Port an Prince (Hayti) to Jan. Btb, state that the
most perfect order reigns there, and there are no
signs of disaffection in the army. The insurrec
tion at Gonaives was treated as a mere temporary
hit,{and at last accounts the insurgents who had oc
cupied a position on the river Ment Reins, had fled,
leaving their ammunition behind them. Solouque
bad issued a proclamation calling his subjects to aid
him, and announcing his determination to lead the
army personally. Gonaives was declared to be in
a state of blockade.
The Western Hog Crop.—According to a sum
mary of the Louisville Commercial Review, based
on the actual observation of messengers who have
visited nearly every packing point at the West,
the hog crop of 1858 will show an increase in num
bers over season 1857 and ‘SB of t>8,760, a decrease
in average weight of 13 37-100 lbs. per hog, or
115,749 bogs of 200 pounds each, making a net de
crease of hogs from last season of 86,989.
From Buenos Ayres—The bark Swallow,
which arrived at Salem from Buenos Ayres, reports
that the Hon. B. C. Yancy, United States Minister,
with his family, arrived at Buenos Ayres Nov. 15,
and proceeded to Parana on the |2oth. The
Swallow brings despatches for the United States
Government
The Milwaukie fugitive slave case was before tbe
United States Supreme Court on Wednesday, the
Attorney General moving the oourt to reverse the
decision of the Supreme Court of the State of Wis
consin, which had pronounced the fugitive slave
law unconstitutional. Wisoonsin did not appear by
eouncel, on tbe ground, it is said, that tbe State
does not recognize the authority of the Supreme
Court of the United States in the matter.
A letter from Kingston, Jamaica, states that a
most terrific shock of earth quake was felt in that
eity on the morning of the 23d, at half-past one
o’clock, causing some damage. The shock is de
clared to be the most severe ever felt in this island
Bhower op Berries.—The wife of Mr. Berry, of
Portsmouth, Va., on last Sunday presented her
husband with three fine babies —two boys and a
girl.
An Old Man's Advice. —The Rev. Daniel Wal
do, late Chaplain to Congress, says : “ I am now
an old man. I seen nearly a century. Do you
want to know how to grow old slowly and happily f
Let me tell you: Always eat slowly—mastioate
well. Go to your food, to your rest, to your occu
pations smiling. Keep a good nature aud a soft
temper everywhere. Never give way to anger.—
Cultivate a good memory, and to do this you must
always be communicative; repeat wbat you have
read ; talk about it. Dr. Johnson's great memory
was owing to his communicativeness. You young
men who are just leaving college, let me advise yon
to choose a piofeeelonin which you can exeroise
your talent ue beet, and at tbe same time be hon
•st.”
A Double Trnged.v—Murder ot n Yonujr Lull?
ny Rejected Lover—His Subsequent suicide*
The telegraph has noticed the fact that in South
Franklin, Mass., on Monday night last, about 12
o clock, Mies Susan Whitiug, while returning from
a surprise party was shot through the head and in
stantly killed, by Jonathan Wales, aiejecled lover,
who immediately after blew out bis owu brains
Miss Whiting was only lfi years of age, of highly
respectable family, and a eohool teacher by profes
sion, and bad for sou* time encouraged the atten
tions of her lover. Wales was 28 years old, the
sou of a well to do farmer, and a youug man of mild
disposition aud peaceable character. The Boston
Traveler says:
The parents of the young iady were very much
opposed to the match, and urged the inequality of
age between them as au important objection, for
bidding, her keepiug his coropauy. They were un
. doubteilly engaged to each other at one time,though
Susan denied the fact to her mother. But it ap.
pears that they plighted their vows to each other,
an.3 knowing the opposition which would De eul
countered from her friends, agreed to wait two
years aud to form no other attachment during that
time. Before they were engaged, Wales had made
her small presents of jewelry, and afterwards he
presented her with a gold watch and ciiain. They
also exchanged miniatures.
About six or eight weeks since, an estrangement
took place, probably caused by a change in her
feelings, or a sense of duly to comply with the wish
es of her parents. He wrote her a note, requesting
the return of her jewelry, and she at once returned
all bis gifts,—the young man who was with her at
tbo lime ot the murder, being the messenger.
That evening he appeared changed and unusual
ly sad A portion of a soliloquy, “God knows what
1 know,” convinced bis friends ,tha: his feelings
were deeply pamed. He gave the watch aud chain
to his mother, requesting her to keep it to remem
ber him by. lie also distributed the other gifts,
giving a locket to oue sister, a chaiu to another, and
a ring to a young lady friend. From this time he
began to change, acting listless, aud growing hag
gard in appearance. Soon after, visiting Boston!
he purchased a five barrelled revolver, and since
theu has frequently practiced in the woods: this
conduct led his friends to fear that he meditated
suicide. Al oue time after he had been shooting,
he called at the echool-house, and requested to see
her at the door, but she refused to go. He was at
oue time heard to say that this and similar slights
caused him more pain than the single aot of reject
ing him as a lover.
About a fortnight since, at a meeting of tbe South
Franklin Lyceum, several young men, who had
beard the circumstances of the rejection of Wales
by Busan, willing to sacrifice his feelings to tbeir
love foreport, arranged to have a discussion on the
subject—" Resolved that a married man should be
teu years older than his wife” —and to complete
their plan for amusement at his expense, managed
to have him speak on the affirmative. The school
house was crowded, and, as was intended, the dis
cussion soon assumed a personal’ oliaiaoter, aud his
affairs were alluded to with suoh freedom as to ex
asperate him greatly. Alter this he was frequently
joked on the subjoin, and it is thought that this dis
regard for his tiueet feel-ugs caused the deliberate
commission of the double crime.
Last Wednesday evening be met Susan in the
stieet, having waited tor her to puss. He accosted
her with “Howdo you dot” and immediately threw
her a note, which was merely folded, aud without
an envelope, and then left her. The following is an
extract:
“O Susan,da have feeling for me, I ask of you in
the name of God, for it 1 can’t have you I care uot
how soon lam out of this woild of trouble, for my
enjoyment aud happiness will be blasted forever.
O, do not bad me thus far aud then quit me, I ask
of you. I will have you, Susan, any day when,you
will me. Now, will you go with mo right off, with
in a few days, I ask you, and we will be married if
yeu will. 1 will always use you well, if you will go
with me.
“I will tell you a way we C3U do and the folks
will uot mistrust anything about it a! all. Do right
by me, 1 ask you Susan, and you shall have a good
bouse, and be free from the control of your folks,
for they will never be willing for any of you to
have anybody that you know, if they can he p it.
Remember me as a true lover. Let all old affairs
pass away, aud all things become new, ami all
things right. Forgive and be forgiven. Yours
truly; please answer this and hand it. to me.
Jonathan Walks “
The following lines are written after the signa
ture :
“U, how I wish you had gone home with me that
night from the school house. How much different
this affair would have been than it is now. Your
not goiDg hurt my feelings very much.”
By this time both families had been led to soar
that he intended violence, and on Sunday after
noon laßt Mrs. Whitting, while in church, was so an
noyed by bis appearance and the manner in which
he watched her daughter that she left the church ac
oompaniod by her.
Last Monday evening a surprise party was given
at the house of Mr. Nathaniel Hawes, about 100
rods trom her father a house, aud she was anxious
to atteud, but her mother had a premonition of
trouble or danger, and refused her consent. She
finally granted it on condition that she would ride
home with her uncle, Mr. W. Whiling. She went,
and Wales was also at the party. He appeared
gayer than usual, and laughed and played with the
rest, but was noticed to keep his eye riveted on her.
At about ha'f-past 12 o’clock she lelt the house in
oompany with a youug man named Ephraim Fol
iar. They had scarcely proceeded fifty rods, and
were nearly opposite the house of James MoPear
son, when Walee, having crossed a field from the
house of Mr. Hawes, oame up behind them. They
turnod a little one side to allow him to pass, but lie
deliberately walked up to b,er, and, raising tbe pis
tol, discharged lhe contents of one barrel, wilh tbe
muzzle nearly touching her right temple. He in
stantly climbed over tbe fence, and disappeared
over the hill by the roadside. The young man with
her felt her lean on hie shoulder, and then drop.—
He was much frightened, and ran to the houee for
aid.
Assistance soon came, and the wounded giri was
removed to the house. She never spoke or recov
ered her senses afterwards. Dr. King, a skillful
physician, wai promptly called, but only to eee her
life ebb out with its purple flood. She died about 2
o’clock, surrounded by her friends, almost laid
prostrate by the blow, with agony of grief.
Eariy yesterday morning a party proceeded to
trace the footsteps of Wales, who, it was anticipated,
had committed suicide. The father had been pro
vius!y advised of the murder, and had expressed
the hope aud player that his son might be found
dead They tracked him for about a mile through
swampß and pastures, to Bald Hill, where they
found the body at 8 o’clock, in a piece of young
woodland, flooded with blood, and with the pistol
lying at the feet. lie had removed his clothing
sufficiently to plaeo tho muzzle of the pistol direct
ly to hia L-'Cy -withouMuJurlng Uio ciuUilug, and i.u.o
thus discharged it just below the pit of the stomach.
He had evidently worn a poorer suit of clolhts thau
usual to the party, to be prepared for the event. —
Ho looked perfectly natural, and wore a smile even
in death.
A singular coincidence in regard to the sad affair
is tho fact, that r some months past au aged rela
tive of the deceased young lady baa frequently ex
pressed her almost certain fear that “something
dreadful” was to happen to her family “which they
would never get overr.” How -fatally her piedio
tion has been realized!
The Produce Markets. —Advance in Tric.s.
—There seems to be a general upward tendency
and increased activity in the produce markets.—
The Cincinnati Prio9 Cufient of Wednesday says :
A general upward movement in prices of most
articles of produce bus taken place here during the
week. Flour advanced 15®20 cents per barrel
Whisky 2J cents per gallon, but lost 1 cent of this
at the close. Rye advanced to sl, with a good de
mand. Me s Pork advanoed 50 cents per barrel,
and bulk pork ) cent per pound. The feeling in
the provision market, on the part of holders, at
the close, was decidedly strong, aud they manifest
ed unbounded hope in the future, and seem to be
lieve that much higher prices will be realized; buy
ers, however, are timid, and seem at a loss to know
what to do, and do not exhibit any disposition to
speculate, but are buying sparingly, and with refer
ence to their more immediate wants, The demand
is chiefly from the South, and is oonfiued to mess
pork and bacon.
The New York Express of Thursday evening
says:—
The advance in groceries continues, and coffee,
teas and sugar are held with firmness at higher
prices. Sugar has risen J c&nt upon tbo lowest quo
tations. The sales of coffee a:e larger, and there is
a speculative feeling in tbe market such as has net
been shown for a long time. Breadstuff’s are also
attracting continued attention, and holders show no
inclination to sell at the advanced quotations.
Freights to and from the East arc active, and the
Sound steamers, including the propellers, are una
ble to bring the produce of east* ru milts, or to take
the raw materials and the merchandise going East.
The Fall River Company Eend to New York this
morning an extra steamer to free the line of a part
of its accumulated freight.
Dead Heads
relates a “good one” about the Editors’ Convection
thet met at the Wadded House in that city, last
week. After attending to matters of n.inor impor
tance, says tjie Review, and passing a resolution of
thanks to the city press for “courtesies,” the great
business of the Convention came up for considera
tion. This was the preparation of a puff of “gigan
tic proportions ’ for rhe landlord who had generous
ly “dead headed” them, and affording an opportu
nity of visiting the city at very little expense. The
compliment: ry resolution was reported by the com
mittee on resolutions. It was handsomely worded,
and spoke with flattering emphasis of the “hospita
ble landlord,” of his house being “unsurpassed,”
and a variety of other thiDge. leading to tha conclu
sion that the eaid landlord “could keep” not only
“a hotel” but the best in the “United States and
Canadas.” The Convention adjourned.
The members, full of bright anticipations of “free
passes” from the Captain a office, confidently (top
ped up to the clerk and asked for their bille. The
clerk with a fascinating smile made out the same,
and vouchsafing a bland remark upon the coldness
of the weather, coolly deposited the editors’ dollars
in ihe till. Those who stood back expecting to see
their friends “passed,” looked with blank faces
upon these business-like proceedings or the “gen
tlemanly and accommading clerk ,’’ and though one
or two escaped the payment, the majority of the
Convention were mulcted to the full amount of their
bills. We notice that the newspapers of those edi
tors who paid up, omit the 7th resolution compli
mentkry to th; “hospitable landlord.”
A Newspaper Editor.—A newspaper editor
must, like tbe poet, be born to his calling, as in the
majority of instances, no amount of training will fit
a person for such a post, unless he have a natural
taste and aptitude for that description of literary
labor; for, although many persons are able to write
“leaders” or “literary articles,” for a newspaper,
few can be entrusted with its editorial control, few
can scent out the libel which lurks in almost every
communication, few can distinguish the report in
tended to please the speaker iustead of informing
the nation, and the letters written to serve private
interests, instead of public ends; still fewer who
can tell at a glance tne kind of literary or political
material whicn will promote the circulation of the
journal—in fact, a good editor’s great difficulty is not
as to what he should put in, but wbat he should keep
out of his columns. Successful editors have not
been great authors, but men of good common sense,
and their good common sense has taught them to
write but little themselves, but to read, judge, se
lect, dictate, alter, and combine tbe writings of oth
ers.— Chamber*’ Journal.
The Sailor Prince.—Y’oung Prince Alfred, of
England, having chosen to enter the naval service
has recently made bis first voyage as “middy,” and
has received royal receptions and other welcome
demonstrations at various ports where the ebip in
which he sailed has touched. The English press
take exceptions to such Lonors being paid to one ae
bumble as a middy. Tbe London Times expresses
its desire that the Prince, instead of being a straDge
compound of “Mr. Midshipman Easy and of the
princely hero of a Court Circular,” should become
a skillful and self-reliant seamau ; and adds —“He
was sent out to be trained to salt water, aDd it is
upon rose water that Lis first lesson in navigation is
taking place. Whet Las a young middy to do with
royal receptions, and ruyal salutes, and royal fiuuie
faddles of every description ? If he be treated from
the first as the Queen’s eon, and not as a miasnip
man of the Euryalus he may be nominally promoted
in the service ae an incident of his birth, but be will
never be bt to take the royal yacht across from
Portsmouth to Osborne, without a real sai.or at his
lbow.”
Heat prom the Stars —Doctor Lardner says
“It is a startling tact, that if the earth were depem
dent alone upon the sun tor heat, it would not get
enough to make the existence of animal and vege
table life “POD ite
enoughln thfcourse’ol a year to melt a orMtofice
75 feet thick, almost as much as is supp led by the
sun This may appear - Image when we consider
“‘ ‘“..f.uv small must De the amount of
tZ rSd f omany one of these distant bodies.
when we remember that
the whole firmament is so thickly town w.tb .tars,
that in some places thousands are i rowded together
within a space no greater than that Wttpled by the
foil moon.’’
GEORGIA ITEMS.
Luther J. Glenn, (Dem.) was elected Mayor of
Atlanta on Monday last, 17th inßt.
Emanuel Brown, a respeoted and valued citi
zen of Washington county, died on Wednesday
night, 12tli inst.
I* ire in Eatonton. —Ou Tuesday morning last
about ten o’clock, the kitchen and a servant house
of Edmund Reid, Esq., were consumed by lire.—
His dwelling was saved by the timely efforts of the
citizens.
A Mammoth Turnip —Mr. L. W. Pou, residing
near Shady Dale, Jasper County, Georgia, sends
us a turnip, which, when first taken from the ground
weighed eleven pounds- measuring 34 j inches in
circumference.
Accident on the Etowah Railroad.— A man
by tbe name of Mcßary or McCraevy, was killed
on Tuesday last, in attempting to couple some cars
together, on the Etowah Railroad, running to Coop
er's Iron Works, in Cass county.
The Negroes’ Crop.— Tbe Columbus Sun aays :
A friend has reported to us a sale, Tuesday, of a
crop of cotton belonging to tbe negroes of Elijah
Cook, of Harris county, Ga., amounting to $ 1,42196.
\ erilv, Southern slavery is a horrible institution (?)
as compared with Northern slavery.
Cuban Telegraph —This work is progressing
v\ eaneeaay ev em D g laat.—fc’ai?. &cp.
KIRE AT WaTHoUrVII I V TANARUS! .. } . .
veoentlv erected nt w ... eilew but
ecenuy erecu + ( * at yVuahourvi e, by Mr H H
P.ckpockets Again—\v 6 , ...
youth whose name we did rot learn ‘ ,\ 1 , j .
extracting from the pocket of u •V,‘ntV l nan i ,B
auction tho other evening, the sue- i V ‘mi 8 / 1
dextrous youth, thanks to the vigil a „ r ,,
lice, has taken rooms at the Hotel de C„’nh
await his trial.— Atlanta Intel, cf Wednsday ‘
King Caucus.— The Georgia Platform savs •
“Without the direot endorsement of a Convention
B. 11. Hill would beat Governor Brown or any oth’
cr Democrat not backed and supported bv a con
volition.”
The foregi i;tg is a candid confession, certainly
Aud yet the people tamely submit to be wheedled
and lashed to vote against their holiest, convictions
by King caucus.— Maton Mess.
Sad Accident.—On yesterday morning us lhe
down train ou the W. & A. K Road was ’ pa B u,„
the four mile station above this city, a jcung man
by tho name of Anderson, a train hand, m at with
the misfortune to fall from the top of (he cars and
was ran overby the same, crushing his leg aud
arm, the latter of which, was amputated on lust
evening. His sufferings are intense. It is thought
the irjuries received are serious, to and will ueuU f
tally.— Marietta Patriot, 18//,
Counterfeiters.— A letter to the Southern R
rordcr dated Laurel Mill, Ga.,Jau. 14, say.::
I desire through your paper to caution the cia
zer.s of'Georgia aud sister States to be on the look
out for 6ome gentlemen that are traveling through
the State, saying, that they c.euom Tenne tee
with some very sorry boreeu, t ..i drovers’
They have been detected iu thi? com ty of poplin J.
counterfeit money, fiftien on the • -in K&i, i^ oai j
and twenties on the lJark o Han burg, ft (;
They generally get it off at sine., , r where’ they
stop at night. They will buy some sutad article
and spy that they have uo small change They had
when last heard of, six horses. They had separatee
but it is genetally supposed that they are to meet
in Louisville, Jefi'ersou county. They eav then
names are Ashley W. Covey, Win. Brown, Willson
and Brown—again the gentleman Covey said that
they were all related and lived in Jacksim county
Tennessee.
$6900 Made for thf. State.—We are informed
that Gov. Brown has concluded an airangement
with the liauk of Savannah, which is n iitually
beneficial to the Treasury of tbe State nuj the
Bank; by which the Bank tiikes the SIOO,OOO of
school fund which is not, under the Statute,’ to be
paid out till 3d Monday in November next, •aud
pays the State interest upon it till that time, at the
rate ofeeven per cent pc-r annum. This will amount
to about S6OOO of iuterest. In consideration ot
other deposits whioh are at all times subject to the
draft cf the Treasurer when needed, the Bank also
binds itself to furnish the State during the year at
par without premium, all the Northern Exchange
needed in payment ol tho public debt, Sea. By this
arrangitieut the Bank is benilitted by the usaof tbe
deposit, and the increased circulation ofiis bills
aud the State makes $6,000 clear money, whioh is
as much as the w hole sum paid the Gove’, nor for hie
salary for the present two years term of office. The
money has heretofore been unproductive to tho
State after if was paid into tbe Treasury till paid
out. The bank men have said the Governor did
not understand book keeping. He seems to under
stand how to make and how to save money for tho
State.— Federal Union.
Academy Burnt.—Trenton, Ga, Jan. 17
The Academy in Trenton, Dade county, On , was
discovered to be on fire about 1!) o’clock P. M., ou
Friday J-lth inst., which iu an hour aud 1(1 minutes
was razed to the ground. This was a two story
framed building aud had been for several yearn
used for Academy, Court House, Church, Masonic
Mall, Town Hail, eto., etc. It is not certainly known
how the fire caught, the probability is that, n stove
pipe that was let through lhe ceiling into (lie ohim
ney, was the cause by which the tire was eominuni
cated to the wood. The citizens have called a meet
iug to come off ou Wednesday next lo take some
steps to build another Academy.
The Masons hud prepared anew Hall and rentes
to it before tbe burning of tho Academy.
R. 11. T.
Since the above communication v.uh received
we hear that while the fire was “razing the Acade
my, Court House, Church, Masonic Hall, Town
Hall, etc., etc.,” the negro who was confined in
Jail, near by, and who was to be hung on Friday
next, took fright, burst the bonds ot her prison
house, aud scampered off lo parts unknown.
[Chattanooga Advertiser.
Installation Services.— On last Sabbath morn
ing, the Presbytery of Flint liver, met in the City
Hall, forthe purpose of installing the Rev. J. 1-,. i{ ( ,
gers as Pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church
of this oily. A very largo congregation was pie
sent, and the services were of a tnoek Voleum and
impressive character. Avery eloquent rind appro
priate sermon was preached by (;,. v |{
Mioi.l-, -a Griffin. The CGnstif.itimw.l questions
were proposed to the Pastor aud congregation, by
‘ l e ® ev ; ’ h - Wilson !) D, Rev. J. c. Patterson,
w to the Pastor, and the
Rev. R i . Marks, the charge to the pp'mjo
These charges were worked by more than ordi
nary ability, and sat forth in a most impressive
manner, the mutual duties of paetoi and people -
lhe occasion was one ot great interest,and ell pre
sent seemed deeply interested. From lhe cordial
greeting extended to the pastor by all Ins people
at lhe conclusion of the services, wo predict a
peaceful and prosperous future h r this new and on
ergetic church, and bopc the tutored bonds now
formed botween them and (heir pastors, uiuy grow
stronger as each year rolls round.
We learn that this church has undei w ay, a very
commodious and handsome house of worship which
will be completed in tho oourse of lhe coining sum
mer.—4tlauta Intel.
Minister Forsyth.— l The enemies of this gentle
man seern determined to find some cause of uyeusa
tion against him. Since the story about the stolen
silver bars found on his premises in Mexico wna
satisfactorily accounted for, a Vera Cruz eorreepon
dent of the St.. Louie Democrat further charges Mr.
Forsyth with having accepted a i.ribe of $14,0(10 to
procure the escape of a criminal, and sidii g wit],
the despotic and American hating parly. N,, body
who knows Mr. Forsyth will give a particle ol credit
to the s 1 dement.— Savannah Republican.
Counterfeiter Arrested.—A man calling
himselfM. D Bostick, who had in his possession a
large amount of counterfeit $11)0 liauk notes, in
eluding $2700 on the Bank of ttie State of Georgia
was avreßted in Mobile on Friday. The Tribune
says tbo money could be detected as (pariouß by
the imperfe.otly executed platr-B. In addition to the
noths, he had in his possession draffs on different
parties, a lot of jewelry, and skeleton keys The
Tribune says he attempted to utlei some of the
bank notes in that eity. He said bu was from
Gainesville, and had engaged psfeege on a fleam
boat for Montgomery when arrested Columbus
Sun, 18//,.
The Maoon and Brunswick Railroad.— -We
learn, Just as we are going to press, that the n (er.de
of this enterprise held a meeting in Marion, ’( wives
county, ou Tuesday last, wLicli was adduced by
the President, Judge Cochran, Cnpt. Ijarilemau
of our city, and D. G. Hughes, Ksq. of Twiggs’
The meeting was not us large as we bad expected
CD account of eeveral deaths which bad taken place
in two or three of the most uum-zrous and influeu
tia! families in the county, and the further fact that
from the short notice, it wan cot generally known ,
ye the meeting wr.a well attended, and by a large
number of the best and moot substantial men of
Twiggs, Pulaski and Laurens , the best kind of
feeling prevailed, and libtral subscriptions were
made. We understand that near one hundred
thousand dollars of stock h, and already been sub
scribed by the citizens of those three counties, and
wo doubt not, from what we know of the good
sense and patriotism of the people of those counties
that the balance of the two hundred thousand dol
larH necessary to the commencement of the work
will be taken up by our friends before the ineetiDg
of the stockholders on the 4t.h proximo When the
necessary steps wii! bo taken to pul tins great and
gloiior-d work in operation, we cannot believe for a
moment Hint the intelligent and wealthy county o!
Twiggs will allow this great enterprise to here
larded by tailing to make up her quota ot tha stock
by that time. —Macon Slate Per
Susfected.—The Spanish bark Acgolita v:as de
tained at this port yesterday by Collector Boston,
on suspicion of beiug fitted out for, or eimngsd in, the
slave trade. This bark arrived here on the 30th ol
October last, and is reported as having come from
Matanzas with a cargo of fruit, consigned to mas
ter. Since that time, she has been in the Dry
Dock and has been overhauled and coppered Pr. .
viouatolrer arrival, Mr. Boston had received com
mnnications directing his attention to her as a bus
picious craft, and he was instructed by the govern
ment to keep a strict watch on her, which was
done. She subsequently appears in the paper <
consigned to Messrs. Selveß dr Mares, a Spanish
house, who have acted as her agents in procuring
her cargo, the bulk of which was easily obtained,
as we bear she has taken on board a large quantity
of water and a very small quantity of lumber, witli
a fez- other articles. Mr. Selvas applied for a oiear
anee yesterday for Porto Rico, which Mr. Boston,,
taking all the circumstances into consideration, fell
justified in refusing, and immediately placed tw .J
custom-house ofllceiß aboard of her, who will v, m
mence to examine her cargo to day, to sea ‘if the
grounds of suspicion are just. Messrs. S. & M
seem but little disturbed about tbe matter, feeling
confident that the investigation will shov/ the bark
entirely free from all complicity with, the traffic
She has nothing of the appearance of a slaver, is old
fashioned, and six or eight knols au h o ur, we think,
would be her very highest speed, with every tiling
in her favor. We heard ou tb'j Bay, yesterday,
that she cleared at Matanzas .or Porto Rico, biff
was injured by a stress of weather aud had to make,
this port lor repairs—somewhat out of the way.
perhaps, but it is possible she may have been dri
ven this far out of her comae.— Savannah, hepubh
can of Thursday.
The Christian and the Turk at Jerusalem.—
The following letter, dated Beyrout, tbe 9th De
cember, has been received : “On tbe sth of this
month I was witness of a tact which demonstrates
a progress in liberal ideas here. Monsignor Valor
go, the Latin Patriarch at Jerusalem, solemnly
baptised a Turk aged twenty-five years, and with
out causing any protest against an act which in
former times would have excited the anathema ot
the Museulmans. On the evening ol the same day
the prelate proceeded to the chapel of the French
nuns, where M. Depperc, one of the Lazarist Mis
sionaries, delivered u sermon on charity, which
gained him the compliments of the Freaeh Consu 1
and of the entire auditory. A letter received here
from Alleppo states tha*. the Lazarists have ob
tained great success in that town, as well as at Da
masrus, and that they have penetrated as far a-
Diarbeker, the ancient Mesopotamia. As to the sir
ters of charity the Mussulmans regard them
‘daughters of heaven.’ 1500 Turkish troops lave
arrived here from Constantinople, which the 9iva
dispatched to put an end to the disturbance i in the
Linanon. Affairs have been in a bad my there,
for the last two years.”
Interesting Electrical
a sheet of coarse brown paper, and after Whling i
before the fire until it is perfeotly dry, fold* up into
a long strip of about two inches wide. ‘!>. megnel
is now complete. To exhibit the attract ® powe',,
cut some strips of writing paper about Jiee Inches
long and about as wide as one of these/nee ■, tilace
them upon the table, three or four tog/her. Now.
take the magnet and draw it briskly the ail/,
two or three times ; its stism ie kj
stantly developed, and becomes Apparent When
held over the small strips of writ’s paper, for they
fly up toward the paper magti., heritably by thu
win#* Ot lighting. S'\