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M ONItOE
FOIALE UNIVERSITY.
18S9.
IAOIt * it tlii* jr<?4Pnt * rgnizati-n,
1 .1 .a. , v institution la . ♦*njnyed the increaiv
iDK contiu -.ii and support of aa inic.iigent public. Its
• ■ ,/1.l to command the highest reaped. This Institution
HVE GKNKKAL DEPARTMENTS!
i A GOULK/JU DLPARTMKKT, which embraces
f nUngtOtiM branches
oi • i.-ure ur< < >*ry to n:ak*. Young Ladies thorough
a*d acf AtUJpiUhed ’ hoiar ■.
II AN AOADKMIG DEPARTMENT, in which pu
.< a r * i rr i*ri v t repared tor Coin ge, end a good basis
Jnid fir th< rotn ii N'holarsbip
111 A .V t -iC *BPA RTMENT, with tried teacbera,
.„m . .* iDHtruf tion on the Piano Forte, Oui
• It , A. ‘ A‘lv■• i
pnj.ii, ar* fan/ht to tv ..poH<; Mu-Jc, if desired Prof.
* IV, AN Oil's A>: ST A IsOKPARTMKNT, in which
pup | a*, ui'i, • ['luoting m Oil and Water Colon, (Ire
rUui P • • rie • Painting Penciling, Kooochro*
ma i*- f rawi ig, Wax Fru land Flowers, Crape Work,
KinLroi lery, Paper K.owcr, Koain Fruit, Ac,
V A DOMESTIC DEPARTMENT, in which pupils
areUugli’ tbe elementary and Practical Principles oi Do
ri.i .i ■ At ... i Two hours on every Tuesday, Thurs
day ai . l y will be devoted to this Department.
The time ihusemployed will not in the least interfere
with the l it rary D partincnt.
This lu: Cos 1* g<- in Georgia giving attention to
thi uioal easfiA.'.al part of Female Kducation.
TL<- Board of Instruction are thorough scholars and
eaperiin.f fd tn< lu'ra, three of whom gradual and with
1,0,101 Kl A BCNKVoLbNT INSTITUTION
is where the daughters of Ministers of the Gospel of
moderate meat are educated WITHOUT CUAHGE
FOR TUITION , moreover, worthy indigent orphans
and daughters of needy Ministers will be boarded from
i5 to :*u. per cent lean than the uHual rates.
Pup ii are here taught Economy. Extravagance is
not allowed Jewelry is not w ru, A pupil s dressing
for a year, need not cost more than from (JO to SSO.
IIOAIID OF TKI STKP>.
Rev. ADIEU 81IKRWOOD, D. D., Griffin, Pres’t.
Rev SYLVANUS LANDRUM, Macon.
Rev ELI JAH .1 PANNAL, LouUvllle.
Rev. WM. 0. WILKES, Forsyth
Hon CINOINNAT• M PEEPLES, Forsyth.
Hon JOHN T. L'RnWDEII, Monr ie county.
Oi.’. JAS H PINCKARD. Forsyth.
F.DHNTAYULt, Ksip, Coieparchee.
ill LAIN F PONDER, Esq., Forsyth.
JOSEPH J.CARtON, Esq , Maon county.
DANIEL SANFORD, Esq , Forsyth, Secretary.
Col. JOH T. STEPHENS, Forsyth.
GEO A. CABANlSH,Esq.,Treasurer.
FACULTY.
Ilev. WM. 0. WILKES, A M., President.
Prof It T. ASBURY, A. M.
Dr. GEO. T WILBURN, A M
Prof. WM. FISHER, A. M.
Mrs MARY A WILKES.
Mrs. KATE ASBURY.
Mrs. MARY A. LAND
Mil JULIA A. STANFORD.
M i . i ROX i K A. OH A P PELL.
Ml.ms LAURIE E LfND.
Tuition from sl6 to SSO per year ; Music, $!V0; Board
$lO per mouth, exclusive of lights and washing.
The Spring Term wid begin on the 17th JANUARY.
Fur further information, address any member of the
Faculty, or Trustees.
WILLIAM 0. WILKES, Pres’t.
RICHARDT. ASBURY, Sec’y.
Forsyth, Ua., Jan Lt, IBSD. iau. r >
ONE nun;: BELOW TIIK
Ml ( II VM<S ItVMi.
IN my Block of Goods, b Might of the Executor of the
Ute Mr It E Ohow, there are a great many articles
which are out of the line of basinet which 1 carry on,
and which I<t >nottntei dto keep in future. Amougthe
articles are the following:
I,AKOK H XILBOAD, DEEP WELL AND h OROE
PUMi’s iKN MILLS, STRAW CUTTERS,
MANURE PORKS. CARPENTERS TOOLS,
CROSSCUT, SAWS BRADS, C. S.
S .U'K an<i PLASTERING TROW
ELS, DRAWING KNIVES,
El IMS. RASPS, At
fit all pi riiona \>i king to buy any of the above men-
Ijoucti .irtUhM 1 will Ht’l them cheaper than ANY
OTHER HOUSE in Augusta, and tor less than was
paid or them iu New-York.
I hare now In store a very tine and fall stock 01
llouTe‘;eepiiv: Hardware, Tin Ware; Cook, Parlor ami
Box Stove* , Cistern and Hydrant Pumps, with Block
T u Lead and iron Pipes and a general as
tor ment of ev< ry at .icto in the U>use Furni hing line,
amt shall be r gularly r< c- iving additit us to it
My tt • us aud the public are respectfully invited to
give e a call, and satis y ihomaeives that lam selling
them at very moderate pr tits.
,v wtf . J. BUCKMABTKR
ititwesi cnuit
Fp 111: :derigu-dprofesses to cu.e Dropsy of every
1 to * iption. lie can be ecu personally five miles
„mti ot Umoa Point, or addressed by letter to Uniou
P. mt. Gr. m* county. Ga. The in dicine can be sent
anywhere by rai n> and, with directions for giving it; or 1
wi’l at*cud personally, if requested. and paid for my
trout. * I will buy iiejioes nftiicted with Dropsy, or
cure them, as the owner may preter. Rem t me Ten
Dollar and 1 w ill send medicine enough for one month.
MILES G. BROOME.
This i to certify that my father had a negro man at
dieted w;th Droj sy iu he had been treated by
several physician w ithout any cure, when he applied
to M. G. imnune tor his remedy, which cured him. He
is still living in good halth.
H. Champion,
Greenesboro’, Ga, Jan 21st, 1858.
This is t > certify that I had a negro woman badly al
tUctcii with Dropsv for a considerable time She was
alien led by aeve wl pfcj steh ns . tl ej failed to make .
cure 1 hoard of G J• Broome and put her under his
treat un* and in than a year she wts thoroughly
cured ot Dropsy. JAMES Davant.
Pen field. Ga mhfi wu
LOOK JIERE.
Farmers, Planters and Keepers of
HORSES.
Keep voui Horses iu Good Condition..’
imiii'sirs
mm VEEETIBLE HORSE ffflSEB.
t-xtraoMipary v'rt-.-.eaof the celebrated GER
MAN HORSE POWDER, are attested by thousands
who have used it It is composed of Vegetable Roots
ami Herbs, aud is highly recommended for tbe cure and
11 rev ention of all the -ediseases to which that animal —the
)j orsk ._ > oab’ect: a* Distemper, llide-bouud. Drowsi
ness. Los* of Appetite, Inward Sprains. Yellow Water,
Fatigue from hard exercise or work, Inflammation of the
Eves. Debility. Wasting of Flesh. Ac. It carries off all
hmuois. prevents horse* from becoming stiff or
foundered, purities and cools the blood, and improves
their general condition. The constantly increasing de
mand fsr this celebrated ’ HORSE MEDICINE - * is one
of those unuiUtakeable proofs of its worth. In cases ot
Hide-bound. Loss of Appetite. Drowsiness. Fatigue,
Distemper. TntlamxnaUou of the Eye*. It improves the
condition of the Skin, imparts a fine glossy coat of
Hair ; t m a universal Condition Powder. Farmers and
Planters should not be without this valuable Powder.
For sale wholesale and retail, by
fisher a heinitsh.
Columbia, S. Q.,
4 by PLUMB & LEITNER,
MTS and Retail Druggists, Augusta. Ga
tuvw 1 y __ .
BANKS! BANKS ! LANDS! LANDS! !
ALAKCK quantity of the best Planting aud Fann
ing LANDS iu southern Georgia and elsewhere, is
Tracts of 450 to 4,000 acres to suit purchasers Also,
ten t ’ fifteen !eagur> of eiect Texas Lands, with clear
titles, i-s now t'ffenng at very low rate* at the the Georgia
Land Office, in Augusta.
Bills of the Augusta. Savannah. Athens, and the
Charleston and Hamburg suspended Bank*, wit l beta
hen in payment at par value. Negroes will be taken al
.’ and the*; gheat cash price* allow ad.
Person- desirona of forming settlements, or making
safe investments, will find it to their interest to call at
our Office Warren Range. Augusta, Ga.
JAMES M DAVISON.
Land Agent and Real Estate Broker
octl7-dlwlwtf
<**•*<•
I?VKKYBODY who likes good Horses, good Cattle
J or C-.. 1 Sheep should lake the AMERICAS
STOCK JOURNAL, published monthly at HO Fulton
Street, Ne-’ York, at $1 per year Specimen copies
gratis —send and get one. fet6-wtf
(•jiit is ‘;. S “s> s> rs ts “h ‘s >l l ,■& i> *> (*•>
TOR SALE.
w - A ACRE!* Pine LAND lying each side of the
l i)U Georgia Railroad. *wo miles above liertelia
150 acres of which are in cultivation, the remainder well
timbered. T here is on the place a good Dwelling and
outbuildings and a spVnd and Wei! of water. 1 have also
Cattle, H orse - Mules, H cgs and Plantation Tools, which
1 will sell with the place. Address
_ „ H_ A MERRY,
jsnit wtf Berselia. Columbia couaty, Ga.
FOR SALE,
1 ACRE!* of LAND On the I .and is a fine
1 q new House. Kitchen, r moke House, and other
outhouses. Mtua'.d 400 yards from Mxxey's Depot, on
the Georgia Railroad, Oglethorpe county —a good loca
tion for uerchau ‘ixlng Possession glv.n Immediataly.
Enquire or th premises. C. A SPERRY.
febi-s-i
$25 REWARD.
R ANA WAY from J H ALFORD, Augusta, Ga.,
a boy about 44 years old. 6 feet high, named JOHN
SON, formerly belonging to Thos. Carr, near Athens
G r|p Athens Banner please copy and tend bill te this
tfioe. febd-wlMt
Chronicle Sentinel
Senator Crittenden.
The following patriotic and characteristic *ecti*
mentfc were uttered by this and vene
rable statesman just before the vote was taken in
the bena-eon the amendment of Senator Hale, to
repeal the reatricrion to the Kansas bill, passed at
the last They are commended to the con
sideration of men of all parties :
Mr. Crittenden. I must be governed in my vote ;
on this ocean.on by the influence which it will have
on me. Solar as respects my vote, the repeal or
refusal to repeal the law wiii not have the slightest
effect. I must act upon my own conviction, then,
about it. lAm no Democrat, and you know it. I
am no Republican and you know it. I therefore
strive fur no party victory on either aide I want
the buiineas done and proceeded with , and I would
if I could, take any course to avoid the agitation of
this slavery question What good has it ever done ?
I ask those who would propagate slavery ani those
wto would propagate anti-slavery, w at effect have
ail the fftrugt'les which have eo affected this country
produced ? Dock back to the one and the other,
and see if you can claim one .-pot of territory that
ha- been consigned to slavery, or one spot of terri
tory that has been redeemed from it by it
Mr Uurkee. We made Kansas a free State.
Mr. Crittenden. So, sir; Kansas is an exem
plary instance of the contrary. The one or the
other party have sought to accomplish objects
there ; but they did not effect them. Now, air,
efier twenty years of slavery agitation, what has
either party elf-cted ? I a-.k gentlemen candidly
to review the history of the pant in this reapecr.—
The question of slavery has been determined by
great na'ural causes, and so it. will be Mighty ef
forts have been made about Kan-.as. Is it not
exactly the way it would have been by the natural
course of emigration and of population ? It is ex
actly the way it would have been ; and yet, we
have had a world of trouble and a world of national
dissension about it. 80, on the other side, I might
a*k. what has been gained ? Nothing at all. Efforts
hive been made, and have been fruitless. The jus
tice of the American people, the influence of the
constitution, and natural causes, control th s ques
tion, and have always controlled it. Nothing has
been done , and I regret, sir, that we are d< omed
to the perpetual resignation of this question of
la very.
lam no party man. I simply want to proceed
straight-forward m the business of the country ,
and rny ardent wish would be that gentlemen on
all sides, laying aside that bitter feeling which par
ty spirit has engendered, should come toge'her >n a
spirit of more nationality. What have aJI theee
party strifes, your organizations, governments with
in governments, a democratic government within a
grert constitutional government, organizations,
parties, plans, caucuses, conventions, and so on,
dr ne for the people ? The people of ihe country
are to a great measure, it seems to me lor sight of.
What have the people, for instance, to do in the
election of a President ? A parcel of gentlemen get |
themselves elected to a convention ; they go thsre,
anti a few leading men hover about the outskirts
and dictate all that is done, and then fcet up a plat
form, and that platform is infallible for four yeais.
Here, in the debates of the Senate of the United
States upon great national questions, the platform
is quoted, and gentlemen are held to that platform.
The people taught that they must vote for the
nominee, and can vote tor nobody else. The peo
pie and the constitution are in danger of being su
perseded in this long strife of parties.
An honorable Senator has r’aid that parties ought
to cease the moment they cease to be useful to the
country I think that time has come. The coun
try is regarded as the theme to serve parlies. The
country is the prize aud the prey of parties. That
is the condition iii which we are placed. I trust
that this thing i. j uot to last much longer. I want
to the people regain their rights. I want to
see the constitution regain i 4 * supremacy. I want to
hear ro more of platforms instead of the constitu
tion, or of conventions that are the masters of the
people That is the state of things which long par
ty strife has created. It u well for the people and
tne country that there should be an end to it. It
engenders nothing but bitterness, civil strife, and
hardly deserves the Lime of generous party contro
versy. It hao well been said, that this sort of par
ty spirit is the madness of the many for the good of
the few.
I come back, eir, to the question, for I do mt
mean to prolong thi> debate. These are thoughts
that had arisen in my mind upon witnessing the
scenes for the lai.t few days that engaged the atten
tion of the Senate, and now to this tune of between
eleven and t welve o’clock at night. The question is
simply whether we shall repeal a law or refuse to
repeal it, which is to operate nothing. 1 shall vote
against the motion to repeal. 1 will not send this
important bill back to the House of Representa
tives with a sting in it, with a cause of debate and
agitation aud controversy there. It is better for
the country that we should have no such debater.
They produce no good—none whatever. I shall
vote against the amendment.
XlrmilioM of Democracy.
The Montgomery Mail thus describes the in on
gruities of this remarkable compound :
A correspondent in the Advertiser urging the
claims of Mr. Dowdell, admits “ it is well known
that they are now divided into Conference Bill and
Anti-Conference Biil men—into advocates and op
ponents of Gen. Walker’e Nicaraguan enterprise—
into Leaguers and anti-Leaguers—into Admir.is
tr&tion and anti-Administration part zans—into
State Rights Democrats and National Democrats.’’
The Advertiser itself says, “ no Democrat can de
fend the heresies promulgated by Mr. Buchanan in
reference to our tariff duties, nor can he defend the
Paulding outrage, nor the Knnsas settlement, nor,
in fact, several other prominent measures of this
Administration.” The Confederation “ differs with
the President about specific duties, the Pacific Rail
road, aud possibly one or two other measures of
even some importance,” but supports him “ upon
the great measures of the South —slavery in the
tairituiiea ; the acquisition of Cuba; our foreign
policy generally.”
The Washington States says, “ the country re
joices at the defeat of the Pacific Railroad, Protec
tive Tariff, Military Dictatorship in Mexico, Thirty
Million linkery Bill, (for the acquisition of Cuba,
which the Coniederati n supports,) and the aggran
dizement of the Execu ive by the addition of the
war making power,” while the Union,
Mr Buchanan’s organ, is indignant because Con
gress declined to adopt the.se Executive sugges
tions.
Judge Douglas, of Illinois, holds the doctrine of
squatter sovereignty as a pari of the Democratic
oreed, while Mr. Yancey aud other Democrats re
pudiate it.
Mr. Brown of Mississippi, demands of Congress
a “Slave Code, ’ to protect slavery in the territories,
while Mr. Pugh, of Ohio, denounces it as “a mon
strous demand, in violation of the plighted faith be
tween the Democracy of the South and the Demo
cracy of the North, again, aud again, and in their
legislation ami iu their platform.
Mr Letcher, the Democratic, Abolition candidate
for Governor of Virginia,repudiates Mr. Buchanan s
Cuba policy, while the Confederation supports it its
a “ great measure of the South”
Tne Richmond Enquirer, the leading Democrat
ic paper in Virginia, threatens that if Mr. Letcher
does not repudiate Mr. Buchanan, it will repudiate
Mr. Letcher.
Mr. Brown, of Mississippi ‘ wants Cuba for Hie
extension of elaveuy.” The Washington Union
“wants Cuba, not because it will extend slavery ;
for (says the Union) it will, in our hands, effect
no such end. It will limit and circumscribe slave-
ry.”
Such are only a few of the many differences of
opinion now existing in the Democratic party. It
would be ns difficult to find the head of that party
proper, as it would be to ascertain which party is in
power iu Mexico. We prefer, then,to remain where
we are, rather than to associate ourself with such a
motley crew. We are opposed to this hidro, and
intend to war upon it—to expose its corruptions,
extravagance, and utter distitution of principle.—
The Confederation may sue for an “arrangement
to avoid a contest iu this district,” but it wiil be in
vain. The Advertiser may invitees to the ranks
of Democracy; that, two, will be in vain. The con
test is inevitable. Their sins will be laid at their
door, and they will have to answer for them. They
may ciy “Botts and dark lanterns,” but this will
uot satisfy the people, whose money they have
squandered a"d whose government they hs-ve cor
rupted. Botts lias said and done many things
which we do not endorse, but it does not lie iu the
mouths of th, as who are now supporting an avow
ed Abolitionist for tho Governor of a Southern
State to oondemn him. Let them first purge them
selves of their own iniquities before they cast the
fiist stone.
/ A Spot eh from Y 1 r. Put.
There is a queer genius in the Lower House of
ti e Missouri Legislature—au original—who oc
casionally makes very funny speeches, one of which
we have been much amused by. I’ is so good that
we give it to our readers. A bill to repeal tbe
penalties for holding to labor, in Missouri, slaves
belonging to persons residing iu other Slates, was
under consideration, aud a motion had been made
to refer it to the Judiciary Committee, when Mr
l‘itt, the gentleman we have referred to, rose and
said:
Mr. Speaker : I was just enjoying a delightful
snooze. wueu the voioeofthe gentleman from St.
Charles (Pulliam) smote my ear, acd sieuiedto
s*y, “Sleep to more.’’ Is this the gentleman l eee
before me, with eyes severe and beard of formal
cut, full of high laws acd model institutions,
(Laughter) talking ••nigger 1” And he is against
the bill! His senses must have surely gone wool
gathering , yee, nigger wool gathering. Gentlemen
will pardon me for using an absolute expression,-
but a ■ ‘change has oome over the spirit of his dream
Wbat do gentlemen want? Is com so dear acd
hoe-cake so swe t as to be purchased only at the
price of having the state garrisoned by onr enemies?
Forbid it, Jeremiah! Do you want the institutions
of your State reduced to the condition of affairs
away down in Georgia, where a plantation consists
of two overseers and one nigger ? (Laughter.) As
the poet says. “I'd rather be a long mangy strange
yaller dog with a bob tail and bay at the moon,
than to say, this ;s me own, me native state.”
(Great applause ) Audi wid defend her institu
tions so long as grass runs and water grows (Re
newed applause.) Gentlemen pret. nd such a love
for the institutions of the State, but when you go to
test them on such a question,they areas tender
footed as a chicken on shot griddle. (Laughter)
Come down, gentleu en. and don't be everlasting
ly on the poetical nen-reost; show your quills. If
you an't for us, you are against us; you can’t fol
low John C. Calhoun and Jim Lane, or Montgome
ry—not by a long sight. Don't be intimating that
nigger property Is not safe in the State cf Missouri
1 say it is safe, and if it ain t we will make it so !
(Applause.)
Gentlemen talk about free labor Weil I know
something about a certain kind of it, that will work
for two dollars a day during the uarvest season, and
get drunk on the proceeds the remainder of the
year. It may be a very industrious population,
but the Southron is too much of a gentleman to
maif a white man work—it takes a blue-bellied
Yankee to put ’em through. (Laughter) Let us
wipe this restriction from our statute book, and say
to the whole country. “ Gentlemen send on your
darkies we have broad fields for them to cultivate,
acd we will pay vou a big price for their hire. ’ Let
Old Virginia sendee many as she pleases. so she
keeps her precious F. F. V sat home they have
most too much starch in their shirts. As has been
•.-aid of them, like stars in the water, they womd
not be there bat for their bright original m heaven.
New 1 eay in conclusion, let us fodow the foot-steps
of those bright originals.
” And the star-spangled in triumph shall wa* e
o*r the land of the free and the home of the brave
(Prolonged applaree.)
As our readers can easily imagine, this was a.set
tler The motion to refer had no show, the previous
motion was sustained, aud the bill was passed. It
is not the first time that the eloquence of a Pitt tas
proved all poweriuL
AMERicas Engineer.s is Brazil —Col. Chas. F.
M. Garnett,of Virginia, engineer iu chiei, and W. S.
Ellison, Esq . superintendent of the Don Pedro Jd
Railroad, in Brazil, have, it is stated, been dimissed
for political reasons. It appears that two directors of
the road were bitter enen iee of the two Americans,
and being men of great influence, promised three
candidates for the Congress ot Brazil to secure
tbeir election if they could succeed in ousting
I Messrs Garnett and Ellison. Subsequently the
three candidates managed to have themselves cho
sen directors, and thus consummated the bargain.
A former English contractor on the road is said to
have been at the bottom of the affair.
John Dickson died near Zanesville, Ohio, last
week, aged 110 years
From the London Times,
Corruption in the United States.
When thing* go wrong in any of our public de
partments we are told by a certain section of politi
cians to look at America. We are recommenced
to observe the economy and integrity of Adminia
trations insured by Democratic institutions, and to
contrast the operation of a really popular govern
ment with the results of the system prevailing at
home. This advice has lately been taken to some
purpose, though with consequences rather different
from those which were anticipated; and at the pre
sent moment we can act upon the euggeetion with
very good effect indeed. We have got into a bit
of a scrape with our Navy. After spending enor
mous euma of money, we are somewhat snort of
ships ; we are in doubts about the established eye
tem of management, and are investigating the
question with a view to reforms. The Americans,
* it happens, have been doing just the 3ame thing.
They a iso 1 ave appointed an “investigating com
mittee” to inquire into various branches of their
naval expenditure, and into the general conduct of
affaire in their d<jckyarde ; but here, we feel thank
ful to say, the analogy of the two cases abruptly
tejmicfttes. Whatever be th*; constitutional
fauit? of toe British Admiralty, it is ce tainiy not
charged with any political corruption a3 has been
lormaiiy alleged against the corresponding depart
ment in the United States. The American Com
mittee has finished its investigations, but, not being
unanimous in its conclusions, it has presented two
reports. One of these, signed by three members,
wade admitting the vices of the system in opera
tion, exonerates the officers actually concerned; the
other, signed by two members, directly implicates,
not only the Secretary of the Navy, but the Presi
dent of the United States himself, and charges these
high officers with proceedings dangerous to public
safety, and deserving Parliamentary centure. —
That these remarkable conclusions may be com
pared and appreciated we priut both sets of reso
lutions in another coltuftm of our impreesion this
morning.
The form r.ken by the original accusations was
manifold it WB3 alleged that the Brooklyn Navy
Yard —an establishment corresponding witn our
Portamoutn Dockyard—was so managed in its se
veral departments that electioneering jobbery was
‘-uffered to override ail exigencies of the public ser
vice . that the contracts made for the supply of
timber and coal were regulated by political consid
erations, to the damage of the public purse ; and
that in a particular negotiation for the supply of
marine engines the interference of the President
was solicited and obtained on grounds of party
feeling. The reader, after comparing the rival
reports on the subject, probably Lave littiediffi
culty in arriving at a general conclusion; but it is
important to observe that in any estimate us the
case the action of electioneering politics u; on the
large manes of workmen in government establish
ments proves tc be infinitely mor: ecanda’ous in
the land of Democracy and the ballot than it i= in
this country We hear now and then of political
influence at Chatham or Portsmouth, but nothing
lias evf r been imagined of the kind now reported
from America. The departments of the Brooklyn
Navy Yard were all colly distributed, as the Report
of ihe Minority assures us, between the Democrat
ic members from New York, the Secretary of the
Navy being a party to the arrangement. One
member had the master carpenter as his perquisite,
another the master painter, another the master
olucktnake.', aud eo forth. Each of these master
workmen undersToodte whom he and each of his
fellows owed their places, aud not only were they
liable to removal in case of political defalcation on
the part of tbeii patrons, but they were held to ae
oount by theee patrons for the appointment of the
artisans working under their orders. We are
even treated to a documentary specimen of
the kind of privileges claimed. A member of Con
gress, in a note produced bpfore the Committee,
tells the master caipentei, “I will have my propor
tion of men under you If you do not give them, I
will lodge chargas against you.” In another case
the master painter, having refused to reappoint a
wor. man discharged iu disgrace, was told, “You
may set it down as a fact that I will have you re
moved, if 1 can, if you don’t put that man on
again;” aud having persisted iu his obduracy, he
was removed, surely enough, two or three months
afterwards. We ask if anything in cur elections
make? any approach to a system like this ?
Os the coal contracts we will only say—and we
take the description of the case from the more fa
vorable report—that the fuel for the United Slates
Navy is supplied by a coal agent, aud that the
agency was conferred upon Dr. Hunter, a practis
ing physician at Reading, iu Pennsylvania, wto
paid no sort of attention to the duties of his office,
but left the management of the business entirely in
The hands ot a large coal firm in Ph.ladelpLia, one
of the partners of which was nearly connected with
the Naval Secretary. The case of the marine en
gines, however, deserves greater attention. Seven
of these machines were required last summer for as
many sloops of war, and tenders were invited for
Ihe supply i*i due form, aud in due form sent in.—
What follows we extract boldly from the minority
report:
“Before the Secretary had passed upon any of the
bills received, the following letter was sent by Col.
W. C. Patterson, of Philadelphia, to the President;
Philadelphia, Sept. 13, 1858.
“Dear Sir : I venture to suggest to you the im
portance of awarding the contracts for the ma
chinery of the sloop now buildiDg at the Navy Y'ard
at this time, and if it can be done without preju
dice to the public service, to Merrick & Sons.—
Theirs is the only establishment in the First District
which employs a large number of mechanics —at
this time 3‘JU , when in full work, 450.
“‘The managing partners (Mr. M., sen , being
absent in nad health) are full of energy, straining
every nerve to keep their force during this depres
sion. and in so far as I know, the only old Whigs of
any influence in that district who are in favor ot the
re-election of Col. Florence.
“ ‘I know, from former experience, the value of
that influence, and feel pprsuaded that it is the in
terest of the Democratic party to increase it.
“ ‘The First District will, I hope, be carried in
any event, but with that shop at work full-handed
two weeks prior to the election, the result would, 1
think, be placed beyond all doubt.
“ ‘With much respect,
• ‘The President, “‘W. C. Patterson.’
“This letter was sent to the Secretary of the Navy
by the President, with this endorsement:
“ ‘Sept. 15,1858.
‘The enclosed letter from Colonel Patterson, of
Philadelphia, is submitted to the attention of the
Secretary of the Navy. “ ‘J. B.’ ”
The bidding of Messrs. Merrick & Sons, for the
Philadelphia was $102,000 ; that of another
large firm in New York was $08,5u0, but Messrs.
Merrick obtained the awaid. The remark* made
by the Majority Report on this transaction are to
the effect “that Merrick & Sons are not politicians,
and never undertake to influence their workmen;”
that “two out of the three inclines to the opposi
tion ;” that their plan for the engines was unani
mously approved ; aud that the President really
took no part in the matter at all, but merely refer
red a common business letter by a common and
usual endorsement to the department which it proper
.y concerned. Assuming ail this to be true, it is
easy to discern how very much still remains with
out qualification or excuse. A colonel in the Army
does not hesitate to address the highest personage
in the Union in the moat overt and unscrupulous
terms, recommending that political usefulness may
be taken into consideration in determining a com
mercial contract for the public service. The Presi
dent sends this communication to the Secretary of
the Navy, if without approval, at any rate without
protest, aud the contract is ultimately assigned to
the parties on whuse behalf interest had thus been
made.
Now, we take upon ourselves to say that, to
whatever extent personal exculpations are to be
admitted, it would be utterly impossible to find in
England any such coriuptions of system as have
been thus exposed in America. No person can
doubt, after reading the Reports proceeding from
the Committee of Investigation, that political in
fluence is allowed iu the United States to counter
balance all other qualifications sot the public ser
vice Nothing in this country makes any approxi
mation to the system there pursued. AU the in
fluence or intimidation here practised absolutely
vanishes iu comparison with an organized policy
under which everything, from first to last, is re
ferred to electioneering utility. In this point of
view, the palliations offered in the favorable report
only make matters worse, for if they exculpate in
dividuals it is only at the expense of the entire
oommuuity, to which they ascribe a eim’lar laxity of
political principle. We may indeed well pause be
fore we introduce into England institutions like
theie. They would certainly not tend to financial
economy or to public morality, and from the illus
trations here given it must be equally clear that
they would uot conduce to the freedom or indepen
dence of any class of the body politic whatever.
Senator Jlnilorj’ on Luba and the Slave Trade.
Iu the course of some remarks of Senator Mal
lory, of Florida, on the acquisition of Cuba, he al
ludVs as follows to the influence of the slave trade
on slavery in Cuba :
Cuba is but a degree South of Florida, where
our statistics show the negro is healthier than iu
any other portion of cur country.
The Sou - hern keys ot Florida are in a latitude
tM- 33’, and Cuba lies South-east about ninety
four miles from them ; and while Florida is but
little elevated above tide water, a backbone of
mountains traverse Cuba from East to West.
With similar treatment, the plantation negro iu
Cuba would be what he is in Florida—the freest
from diseas? and care, the happiest and the most
enduring of his race ou the face of the earth.
But it must be remembered that, so long as the
slave trade exists, increase by bi/tli is discouraged,
not only by the interest of the planters, but by
the prejudices.of those in cities owning domestics.
The trader finds tae expense and trouble of
bringing females equal to that of bringing males
from Africa, and as the males is worth only about
one half or three fifths as much as the fema’e of the
same age, but few females’ are brought, the propor
tion being about one to six. Hence we find scarce
ly a femal on some plantations, except a few do
mestics about tfco houses.
Now, sir, annex Cuba aud abolish the trade, and
the females would be sent from the cities and towns
to the plantations, their places would be supplied
by the coolies, or tbe Islani&s, and the domestic
slavery of Cuba, like the island generally, would
soon be Americanized.
I trust that 1 do not shock the prejudices of any
of my friends when I say that the continuance of
the African slave ‘.rade is the greatest curse that
could have been inflicted upon Cuba; for to that,
and that alone, is she indebted for the deathly pail
that wraps her in depotistn to-day.
Fugitive Slave Case is Philadelphia— Sow
Account of the Fugir ire.—An alleged slave was ar
rested this morning, at Harrisburg, by United States
Deputy Marshal Jenkins, under a warrant issued
by our new Commissioner, Mr. Cook Longstreth.
of this city. The case, it is understood, Is to be
tried before that functionary this afternoon. Able
counsel have been retained for the alleged fugitive,
and it is to be hoped for the sake of humanity, that
he will be allowed ail the benefits that the tender
mercies of the Fugitive Slave law accord to him.
The alleged fugitive, upon his arrival in the city,
was taken to the itfiee of the United States Com
missioner, at Fifth and Chesnnt streets, where we
-aw him this afternoon with his wrists encased in
handcuffs. He told us that hte name is Daaiel
Webster, that he is about twenty-five years ot age.
and that he has been living at Harrisburg for nine
years past, where be was employed at fence ma-
king.
Upon being questioned concerning his domestic
relations, he said, with tears in his eves, that he had
a wife living at Harrisburg ; that he has bad two
children, the last of whom was buried yesterday
week. He said that he had many friends at Har
rieburg, and that if he eouid have been tried there,
iusteao of being brought so far from home, he
could have been able to prove his right to liberty,
but at so great a distance from home and among
strangers, he had no chance.
He states that he was arrested while attending
market at half-past 6 o’clock this morning, on pre
tenee that he hau committed some crime.
The officers who made the arrest, say that there
was a disposition to rescue tbe fugitive, and for that
reason handcuffs were put up on him at Harrisburg.
The gyves were removed in the care and again put
upon him after their arrival in Philadelphia.
• It is understood that the alleged fugitive is claim
ed by a parry in Virginia, who say that he escaped
from bondage six years ago. Daniel, upon the
other hand, declares that if he was at Harrisburg,
he could prove that he had lived there nine
years. He is a good looking stalwart man, with an
inoffensive countenance This is the first case un
der tbe Fugitive Slave Law in Philadelphia for se
veral years. — Phdatiflphia Buucttn.
Thackeray will lead the author of the Mount
Vernon Papers—a London publisher give* him up
wards ot s£>,(loo for two years’ work . he will have
more to do, however.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 13, 1851).
From the Baltimore American .
Lectnre of ihe Hon. Edward Everett on ihe
early days of Frankln,
Delivered at the Maryland Institute, for the benefit
of the Union Protestant lnjirmary .
The lecture of the Hon. Edward Everett, on the
early days of Franklin, delivered at the Maryland
Institute last night, for the benefit of the Union
Protestant Infirmary, drew together a very large
and highly respectable auditory, more than half of
whom were ladies. The Volandt Band was iu at
tendance, and preluded the appearance of the ora
tor of tae evening with a number of excellent pieces
of music. At eight o’clock, the lecturer escorted
by the Hon. Thomas Swane, Hon. John P. Kenne
dy and others, and the committee of the associa
tion, appeared upon the rostrum and was received
with warm and continuous applause. Among the
distinguished gentlemen upon the platform, were
Hon. Anthony Kennedy, George Brown, John
Hopkins, John W. Garrett, Samuel Sands, the
Rev. Dr. Backus, Dr. Morris, Rev. Dr. Reese, Rev.
Dr. Durnap, Rev. Dr. Wyatt, Rev. George D
Cummin, Rev. Griffita Owen and other?.
The applause having subsided, the Hon. Thoma 3
Swann came forward and eaid : Ladies and Gentle
men, twelve months ago, it was my pleasing duty
in this place, on behalf of the Association for the
amelioration of the condition of the poor ot our
city, to announce that the eminent citizen who is
this evening to address you, had kindly consented
to lecture before you in aid of the objects of that
Association. His effort on that occasion wiil be
long remembered by all who had the gratification
of hearing it, and I am sure it must be gratifying to
know that the results of that effort contributed in
no slight degree to the alleviation of the distresses
of many deserving objects of charity. lam here to
night, to perform a similar duty. The same bene
volent inspirations in behalf of another meritorious
institution, brings him this night before you. These
are acts of devoted charity £nd expansive bene
volence on the part of our esteemed and honored
friend, which must for him be their own reward.—
They cannot fail to add lustre to his renown, and I
am sore they wiil ever be held in grateful remem
brance by this community.
Mr. Everett then came forward and was again
greeted with spontaneous applause which he mute
ly acknowledged. He said ladies and gentlemen,
I am happy to appear before you in behalf of that
meritorious and charitable institution upon whose
invitation lam now here. Its praiseworthy chat
tel needs neither eulogy nor comment, and its ob
ject will excuse any short comings or delects in my
effort to night. Mr. Everett here introduced a
thrilling apoatophe to that charity which has for its
object th ; relief of the sick and suffering. He tnen
adverted to the circumstances under which the lec
ture had been prepared some year since for delive
ry before the Franklin Medalists of the schools of
Boston. These medals had been founded by a be
quest of Franklin as rewards ot merit for superior
scholarship.
liiness had prevented his perfecting it at the time
an i it was therefore but an imperfect treatment of
the subject. He introduced the immediate matter
of Lie lecture by a description of the old Granary
burying ground at Boston, where a granite obeli-k
marks the grave of the parents of Franklin. At
that time it was beyond the limits of the city, but
now it is iu its very centre, and surrounded by
splendid buildings. Eleven noble elm trees, plant
ed about a century ago, by mnn who for that act
dee ’ vo the gratitude of posterity, gurround the sa
cred spot. The ground was for a long time neglec
ted, but within the la3t thirty years it has received
appropriate attention, and is a-orned with a variety
or trees. The speaker gave an eloquent and high
ly imaginative desorption of this ancient resting
place ot the dead, in language poetic and exquisite,
and with a fervor cf manner that ean be apprecia
ted, but rot reported.
The lecturer then gave some account of the hum
ble parents of Benjamin Franklin, Josiah Franklin
aud Abiah Folger. They reared a family of thir
teen children, of whein Bcnjamm was the youngest
eon, end they died without either having experi
enced a day’s sickness, except their last, one at the
age of eighty, the other at the pge of eighty-four.
Fra klin had caused a simple marble slab to be
placed over their graves. It had decayed by time,
and iu its place the citizens of Boston had erected
a granite obelisk with the original inscription upon
it, the iragmeuts of the marble slap being placed
beneath the corner stone.
‘The lecturer then traced the father of Franklin
back to bis home in England. The families of
Franklin aud Washington came from the same
county, Northamptonshire, in the central part of
England, and for three hundred years Lad dwelt
within thirty miles of each other. The lamily of
the Washingtons belonged to the landed gentry.
The Franklins’ were blacksmiths, and iu addition
to that trade tilled some acres of leasenold land. It
was eingular that two of the most remarkable men
of our revolution should each have sprung—though
from different spheres in life—from the same dis
trict in the mother country.
Mr. Everett here read a portion of a letter from
Carlyle, the author, sent to him with an old manu
script, being au old tythe book from 1640 to 1700,
containing notices of th3 family of Benjamin Frank
lin, blacksmith, and also gave an account of the
emigration of the father of Franklin to this coun
try. On his arrival at Boston he started the busi
ness of a Bilk dyer, and afterwards that of a tallow
chandler and soap boiler. The spot where stood
the house in which Franklin was born, a small
woodee tenement, is now occupied by a substan
tial granite structure, upon which is inscribed in
bold letters the words “ the birth place of Frank
lin.” At eight be was sent to school, his father in
tending him for the church, but that determination
was changed, and after but two years schooling he
was taken into his father’s establishment as errand
boy. At twelve years he was bound apprentice to
his brother to learn the trade of a printer. At sev
enteen the tyranny of his brother drove him forth a
wanderer to seek his fortune.
Tho lecturer drew a striking picture of k the youth
of Franklin, his character and his inspirations, the
want of appreciation under which he labored, and
the perils from which iu youth he narrowly escaped
shipwreck.
The lecturer described in a spirited aud vivid
manner, the scene at the inauguration of the Frank
lin statue at Boston, and his emotions upon that
occasion, concluding with the sentiment that occa
sion taught, that whatever of calumny, detraction,
personal comments, envy aud hate the good and
worthy may encounter iu lifo, there comes a time
when justice at last is done, and death secures the
honor and veneration which nmy have been de-
served.
The lecturer concluded with an apostrophe to
Franklin, which was chaste in diction aud magnifi
cent in thought, and of which a mere sketch can
render no adequate idea. The lecturer was listened
to throughout with intense interest and absorbed
attention. It abounded in eloquent passages in
which a vivid fancy, beauty of diction, and grace
and impressiveness of manner produced the most
thrilling effects.
At the conclusion of the lecture, a magnificent
basket of flowers was brought forward and placed
upon the table, when tbe Hon. John. P. Kennedy
rose and addressing Mr Everett, said :
Sir :—At the request of the ladies of this Associa
tion, I rise, sir, to tender you their thanks for the
valuable aid you have bestowed upon it. But, sir,
you have won the hearts of those ladies by the
graceful allurements of your eloquence no les3 than
by the generosity of you* efforts in behalf of the
Institution in which they are interested. I know
you, sir, well enough to know that you find as much
gratification in doing a good work, as in the ap
plause ol au admiring auditory.
I tender you their thanks, a* (! I take upon my
self also to say the thanks ol all present for the de
light your lecture has afforded, so brilliant iu fancy,
so exquisite in eloquence and so able in sentiment.
They feel as the whole nation feels, a pride in pos
sessing a citizen and a scholar of such rare aud
brilliant attainments ivith the good will and gener
ous zeal to employ those gifts for charitable and pa
triotic purposes. Sir, lam commissioned by those
ladies to present this basket of flowers, their bloom
is but a fleeting type of their regard aud their fra
grance but a faint emblem of their gratitude.
Mr. Everett then said, in substance, that his voice
was too much exhausted to indulge the expression
of his emotions at any length. He could only say
that if his humble efforts in the cause of patriotism
and philanthropy were gratifying and successful,
he would be more than rewarded. Entirely retired
from tbe struggles and expectations of political life,
be was free to confess that he did find a high satis
faction in doing all that could be done to promote
good feeling between the various sections of our
common country, aud in the advancement of patri
otic or charitable objects. Aid that he was grati
tied at having been permitted as fat as his bumble
powers allowed, to promote the efforts of tht : e no
ble women who are interested in behalf of this most
noble and Christian charity.
The audience having again manifested their feel
ings, by another cut Durst of applause, then dis
persed, highly gratified with the effort of the dis tin
guished orator.
Fraud in Government Contracts.
For several months past an examination ha
been going on at New York, before United States
Commissioner Betts, in which the defendant, Mr. I.
ChurcLill Woods, is charged with making a num
ber of false vouchers which were presented to the
Secretary of the Interior for payment. One of the
vouchers was a receipt purporting to be signed by
Silas 11. Handy for $444.u7, in payment for services
alleged to have been rendered in the construction
of the wagon road between El Paso, Texas, and
Fort Yuma, California; another, purporting to be
signed by Bertbrd do Cos., for $lO5, and another
purporting to be signed by C. F. Whitcomb, for
services rendered to the superintendent cf the
same expedition, forst>33 ; another, purporting to be
eigned by Charles Smith, for seivices upon the same
matter, tor $237,60. It was proved that the signa
natures of Handy, W T bitcomb, and Smith were close
imitations of tbeir handwriting. Handy had given
a genuine voucher for sll4 37 less than the imitation
which was offered, the latter being substituted in
place of the genuine. C. F. Whitcomb never gave
any voucher at all for any sum, and several items
charged in the voucher, purporting to be signed by
Whitcomb, were for travelling expenses and board
bills at places where Whitcomb haa never been. In
the case of Smith, who had given a genuine vouch
er for $l3O, a false one for $437 60 was substituted
in its place, the genuine being destroyed. The
voucher purportiug to be signed by Berford & Cos.
was not signed by any member of that firm, but
by Woods, to cover au alleged arithmetical error
in the account stated in a genera! voucher eigned
by that firm.
‘The Secretary of the Interior has taken a great
interest in the case. The Government finds itself
with vouchers covering an expenditure of nearly
$200,000 on this expedition alone, a large portion of
the expenditure being made on the frontier. It
turns out, upon the examination of these vouchers,
that many of them are wholly forged, some of them
in part so, by being falsely tilled up, and that tbe
answer made, when inquiries are pressed in the
matter, is that these false vouchers are made to
coveractualexpenditures, when it was inconvenient
or impossible to get true vouchers. The Govern
ment feel that if such a defence as that can be
made successful to forgery, it is entirely at the
mercy of the persona disbursing the public moneys,
especially those who are at a great distance from
the seat of Government.
On h riday Commissioner Betts rendered aD
elaborate opinion, concluding as follows :
“I therefore hold the deiendant for trial on the
four vouchers which are recited above. It is due
to the defendant to state that the offence seems to
have been committed by him partly tnroagh mista
ken views of the law, partly throegh heediessness
of tbe means which he adopted to accomplish an
end which he considered proper. He was not to
derive any profit from the transaction, directly or
indirectly. Ido not consider that he intended that
Government -nould be called upon to pav any more
tnan they justly ought to pay. But he aided in pre
paring papers to substantiate the claim upon the
Government, which were untrue, and calculated to
deceive, ana were contrary to law. Government,
in trusting large sums of money, as it must necessa
rily do, to its disbursiag agents, is entitled to the
use and protection of all the safeguards which the
law gives it. One of the moet reasonable and es
sential of theee is, that a 1 vouchers presented shall
be genuine—shall correctly recite the items of the
expenditure for which they account, and shall be
signed by the parties whose signatures tney bear.”
Mr. Wocds has been arrested and held to bail in
the sum of |lo,ooo.—AVtr York Evening Pott.
The Cause of Death.—lt is stated tha
young lady who died in Troy last week fro
effect ol having her ears pierced, instead of placing
silk in the wounds, as is customary, used colored
Uprated, which was probably the cause of her death.
Sent to the Hocse or Correction— Horatio
Field, the oldest and perhaps the largest iiqnor
dealer in the county of Bristol, Mass., was taken to
the house ot correction at New Bedford, on Wed
nesday, on three different indictments for selling
liquor. His sentence was thirty days on each,
making ninety days.*
The Eogli*b Attempt nt Cettots-Growing in
Africa.
The editor of the Utica, N. Y. Herald, who is now
travelling to Northern Africa, In a recent letter to
his paper, gives a full account of the English expe
riment of cottou-raising in that ct Y* e an
nex some extracts, which will be matter of interest,
at least to our eoutkern readeie :
Tunis, (Barbsry fetAte.) Jaa. 15, 1851).
You know England is just cow irakicg strenuous
effort to grow cotton on her own book. Her pres
eut sbject dependence upon the Southern states of
America for that important staple, coupled with
her loud profession of hostility to slavery, places her
in the rather equivocal position of being, in spite of
herseif, virtually one of the strongest backers cf an
institution she affects so cordially to hate. To es
cape. if possible, from this dependence, she has set
to work to plant cotton fields in India, and postlftna
of Northern and Western Africa. An association
in Manchester, obtained some two years ago. a
grant of land from the Bay of Tunis, tor the pur
pose of trying the experiment of cotton growing—
an experiment which has since been prosecuted
with that energy for which the Briton is so distin
guished The necessary arrangements were made,
agents were eeut out to Atrica to set the enterprise
in motion, and some eighteen months ago the first
crop was planted.
The tract of country selected is some erteen miles
west cf Tunis, in the heart of a level and extensive
plain. It is watered by a considerable river, whose
waters if it shall be found necessary, can be used
for the irrigation of the soil during the dry season.
Many difficulties were of course, encountered in
the beginning. The eouutry was wild, and the in
nabitants were comparativaiy barbarians. It was
difficult to get laborers, and even those who were
employed were iazy and ignorant, of the work re
quired. The Arabs roundabout > are egregious
tnieves, who etol- all they couia lay hands on, and
even threatened the personal safety of the white
superintendent. Tnr. ugh a blunder, or something
worse, the seed failed to arrive until the season was
far advanced. The ground was, however, prepar
ed, and something like a thousand acres planted
the first year. At first it promised well, but dry
weather setting in sooner than usual, aud the sea
son characterised, it is said, by so ne other unfavo
rable characteristics, the crop proved a failure.—
Some seven bales only were harvested. This, lam
informed, is of lair quality, though by no means
equal to the best or even second owe, of our south
■ u cjUon. Most of it is uun eoverttarned like the
Egyptian coiton, auu would tuerefore be quite
wurchlese for the more delicate fabrics.
The association, by no means discouraged by the
faiiure of last year, have planted a second crop,
using, I believe, different seed and somewhat cur
tailing the amount of ground. The experience of a
year has taught them how to avoid many difficul
ties, and they profess, somewhat coulidenliy, to be
able to give a better account cf themselves next
year. The difficulty, however, of obtaining the
right kind of plows ; of commanding l'el'abie labor,
the long drought of cummer aud the inoeesant rains
of winter, render the success of the enterprise, to
bey the least, dubious.
After stating that the management of the plan
tation is in the hands of a firmer citizen of Louis
iana, named Kcse, who bad spent many years in
the business on Bed River, tne wriier goes on to
give some of the difficulties he has had to encoun
ter, as follows :
Mr. Bose his, of course, had many difiicullies
to contend with since coming here. Ignorant of
the language aud customs of the country—sur
rounded by dishonest and uns rnpuious men—
compelled to guard the interests of Ills employers
against the rapacity at once ot ihe Arab mob, ajd
the Government officers—annoyed in a thousand
ways by a people who looked with distrust, it not
with indignation, upon the introduction of Euro
pean enterprises into their midst—his position has
been such as few men would covet. Nor is this
all. He tiuds ihe theories of his employers con
stantly opposed io his experience as a practical
cotton grower. Men who never saw a cotton field
in their lives, dictate from their snug offices what
he must do. It is in vain he teiii them he knows
how to raise cotton; they must be perpetually
meddling, interfering, dictating and setting all his
plans topsy-turvy.
Some time since he told his superiois that it was
impossible to do anything with the plows they gave
him, and suggested the propriety of getting a few
from America. The proposition was hooted at;
what! could they not mase better plows in Eng
land than any where else in the world ? But as the
present ones would n't work, they finally commis
sioned him to order two of American make. They
airived a short lime since, and were found to work
to the admiration of even’body. The Arabs
Uocked from all quartern to sie the newly arrived
wonder. The country was iu a ferment. Nothing
else was talked of. Finally it reached the ears of
the Bey, who couldn’t sleep until he had seen the
phenomena with his own eyes. He hastened to the
scene of action.; saw the piowawork; declared he
had never seen anything so wonderful iu his born
days ; got so excited he “could n’t hold himself; ’’
took off his coat; rolled up hs sleeves; and went to
plowing himself! Nor is this ail; he has just order
ed one hundred American Plows to be used on his
big farm, the Kingdom of Tuui9!
• Fbef. Negrcs. —Writing on this subject, the
New York Journal of Commerce says “It is a
fact, according to the Census Compendiam quoted
by “Wiibeiforce,” that the colored population of
New England and New York was 72,ti88 iu 1810,
and only 7:2,090 in 1850. Showing a decrease in ten
years of 598. It is a fact that in all the free States
and Territories, taken together, the colored popu
lation in the same ten years increased from 171,857
to 196,580, or 14.38 per cent.; and that in all the
slaveholding States the free colored population in
creased only about 11 per cent. It is a fact that
within the same period the slave population of the
United States increased from 12,487,445 to 1,204,3X3,
or 28.82 per cent, (just double the ratio of the color
ed population of the free States.) It is a fact that
the whole population of the United States within
the same period, increased from 14,195,695 to 19,-
553,068 or 37.74 per cent. It is a fact that an ag
gregate of less than 400,000 slaves imported into
the United States since the first settlement of the
country (see Census Compendium, pp. 83 4,) have
increased to 3,638,808, including tho3e now free.
In other words, there are nine colored persons now,
for every one imported.
It is a fact (see Carey on the Slave Trade, and
Census Compendium, pp. 83-4) Lhat 700,300 negroa
imported iuto Jamaica prior to 1817, had diminish
ed to less than half that number in 1833, including
free colored persons; and that of 1,700,000 negros
imported into the whole British West Indies in the
course of years, only 600,000 remained to be eman
cipated in 1833. Add for tree colored persons 100,-
000, and we have a total of 700,000 survivors from
a stock of 1,700,000. Surely, if Englishmen, after
killing off aud utterly annihilating a million negros,
besides perhaps half as many more who perished in
the “middle passage,” have any thing to say about
slavery to Americans, who trom a stock of less tiiau
400,000 slaves imported, can now show, of their
descendants, 4,638,808, it should be said ’ll a tone
oi deep humiliation and self-abasement.”
New Wise Converted into Oi.d. —lt has been
frequently observed that wine ripens more readily
on the coast than it does inland. The reason of this
has been a fertile source of speculation. It has
been conjectured that this effect arises from the in
fluence of the sea air, a small quantity of which en
ters the bottie3 in the process of eon. ing ; but the
samereaton would not apply to bottles tilled and
corked elsewhere and brought to the coast to ripen.
A similar result happens to wine carried sea voy
ages ; this has been attributed to the continual
shaking of the wine in the bottles. But if that were
the reason, why should the same remit happen to
wine strred iu cellars by ‘.he sea side 7 In consider
ing this point, the methods adopted by the wine
makers for ripening l heir wine may be noticed At
Madeira to hasten the ripening of wine, they cover
the'bottles with horse dung. A similar method is
practiced in the Cote a’Or, and in the department
of Saons et Loire. M. Verguette Lamotte, a wine
maker in the Cote d’Or, tried in 1848 a method pre
cisely to the reverse. He congealed instead of heat
ing hia wine, aud it is said, with success. M. Kruger
proposes two methods, one similar to that of the
vine-growers of Madeira, and w-hic-h was the prac
tice of the ancients, that is beating the cellar by
means of pipes, and the other suspending in the
heated cellar plates of iron over the exposed sur
face of the wine. The iron, Le contends, when iu a
state of oxydatiou extracts the oxygen from the
wine, and produces maturity more speedily. M.
Odart de la Doree, the author ot the “Manuel du
Yigneron,” sndoftbe“AmpelograpliieUniversalle,”
indicates; a process older and still more rational,
which is to heat the bottles. The ancients, we
know, were careful to heat their amphoraa. He ad
vises us simply to heat the bottles, taking the pre
caution not to fill them quite full, to prevent their
bursting. They are next to be placed in an o ten
some hours after the bread has been withdrawn, and
left there from twelve to twenty hours. They are
then taken out. filled up, recorked, and the opera
tion is complete. The wine, it i3 said, will speedily
attain maturity. This process appears to be the
simplest and best of all. — Bulletin of Art.
The Gun-Boat Story.—Some of the Washing
ton correspondents have been giving currency to a
etcry that President Jefferson, during his adminis
tration, intended to make a forey upon Cuba, with
a view of annexing it to the United States, and
that the real object of the adoption of his gun-boat
system, so much ridiculed then, but since put in
successful operation by England and Frauen, was
not to serve as a coast guard, but to assist in ta
king Cuba. This statement, it is said, rested upon
the evidence of a written letter from Comrnc dore
Stewart. That letter has been produced and is
published. So far from sustaining the idea that
president Jefferson entertained the robber princi
pie of filibustering, it shows that the anticipated
aesuit upon Cuba rested upon the contingency that
Spain declared war upon the United States, which
at the time was imminent, and then the gun boats,
some of which were built for the Tripoli war, but
since then had been used to guard against smug
gling, were to be used for an attack on the island of
Cuba, as the most efficient means of blockading all
her outports, and for the attack on her protecting
batteries. Getting ready for honorable warfare is a
very different affair from secretly preparing to
steal territory.— Balt. Amer.
An American Naval Captain.— Captain Hud
soo, of the Niagara, was once, says the Jamaica
Long Island Farmer, a baker boy in Brooklyn.
One day he chanced to be in the navy yard at
Brooklyn, and the thought struck him that he would
like to enter the navy. So, going to tbe proper offi
cer, he applied for admission. The novelty of see
ing ajlad alone, boldly asking for a place so often
secured by political preferences, or by the entreaties
of influential.friecde, attracted at once the attention
of the officer, and he inquired, “What can you do V’
The reply was prompt and decisive : —‘‘Anything
that another boy can He was told to call again,
and a few days passed, and the place was given to
the enterprising lad. Scarcely in his position, he
began to show marks of genius and aptitude which
outdid his associates, and step by step the baker's
boy rose to influence and rank, and to day he stands
among the highest in rank and moet influential in
power cf the great ones who compose the United
States navy. Such, is brief, in the career of Wil
liam N. Hudson, commander of the United States
steamer Niagara.
State Prisons in New Y'ork.— lt appears from
a statement in the Albany Evening Journal, that
there are now in the male department of the Prison
at Sing Sing, 1051 convicts, with only 991 cells to
accommodate them, and not shop room enough for
all to work in. In the Female Department there
are stated to be 119 convicts with but 85 cells for
them. Tbi3 makes in all the unprecedented num
ber of 1170 prisoners. In the month of January,
alone, 56 were received, 46 of whom were from the
City of New York. Nor is Sing Sing alone in its
inadequacy to hold the convicts whom the law or
ders to be confined in it. From Anbnrn in the same
State, it is reported that the prison is fuller than ever
before, and last week it was said that but four va
cant cells remained. Clinton prison is fall. It looks
as if crime was increasing so rapidly that an en
largement of ail theee institutions will soon be ne
cessary. Measures looking to the enlargement of
one or more of them have already been introduced
in the Legislature. Statistics, however, show the
encouraging fact that although crime increases, it
does not increase so fast as population. The pro
portion of rogues to boneet men is less than if was
a hundred years ago.
Fatal Collision on North Biver, N. Y.—On
Monday night, tbe sloop Stephen Baymond, of
Hastings, N. Y., was run into and instantly sunk,
near that village, by one of the “up ’ boats, sup
posed to be the steamer North America. Elijah
Conklin, master; Peter Datzal, mate, and Wm.
Hagan, a lad of 17, comprising tbe crew ot tbe
sloop, are believed to be drowned. They all be
longed to Hastings.
I A Surgical Mosstrocitt. —A Philadelphia
correspondent of the N. Y - . Tribune tells the fol
lowing remarkable story:
A surgical monstrocity was recently dissected at
the Jefferson Medical College, the like of which is
unknown in tbe annals of human deformities. A
child, seven months old, was brought to the College
Hospital from the western part of the State, hav
ing appended to its left cheek a large mass of flesh,
somewhat resembling a tumor. This mass grew
mere rapidly than the child itself. At birth it was
no larger than an apple, but when brought here last
month it was nearly a foot long. Its surface was
neither smooth nor regular, bat was divided into
several globular masses, while pulsation was dis
tinctly perceptible, regular aud uninterrupted, from
forty to a hundred beats per minute. It was tra
versed by a large artery, showing that it was large
ly supplied with blood The tumor was connected
to the child’s cheek by a peculiar caul-like mem
brane, pierced with holes, and its presence was a
source of constant irritation to the child, though
supported by the mother’s hand. How to remove
this huge tumor without destroying the life of the
child was the great surgical problem. The parents,
warned of the danger, were yet extremely anxious
to have the frightful parasite’ taken off. Dr. Pan
coast, under whose charge the patient had been
placed, decided that the use of the knife would re
sult in a fatal hemorrhage, and determined to di
vide the caul like membrane by using a French
surgical instrument, the ecraseur, which, by forc
ing down the skin, and brasing the vessels thorough •
ly before the ebain of the instrument cuts through
the mass, effectually prevents all serious bleeding.
The operation was performed in presence of an im
mense assemblage of medical men, students and
others.
The child was placed under the influence of ether,
when all pulsation in the parasite was observed to
cease. The instrument being applied, the chain
was rapidly worked until the parts were well com
pressed, and afterward very slowly. In fifteen
minutes the tumor came away with the instrument,
the chain having worked through the connecting
membrane, while scarcely a drop of blood followed
the removal, and but one small vessel required a
ligature. The surface left on the cheek was about
two inches square , and the tumor weighed two and
a half pounds. The whole operation was entirely
suecesslul, and the child lives and has fully recov
ered. But the extraordinary part remains to be
told. The tumor thus taken off was found to con
tain a hying child, imperfectly developed it is true,
but still a living child. B'ingers were seen, and a
portion of a rudimentary arm. The intestines were
w ell developed, and no doubt was entertained of
ts being a male child. A body, presumed to be the
heart, contained, imperfectly formed, auricles and
ventricles. The mesenteric arteries and viens were
of large size. The dissecting knife came repeated
ly iu contact with the osseous matter of a rudimen
tary skeleton. Fat was found in lorge quantities
everywhere. It was in tact a repetition of the
Siamese Twins, only less perfectly developed.—
Ttess results were received with profound aston
ishment hy the crowded audicni. whi witnessed
the operation. The ce.se is said to be unique in the
atmais of human malformation.
Cotton in India —The last pamphlet of Peter
mann’s geographical contributions, (G'‘rmaa.) just
received the first of this year, contains some valua
ble information in refer-noe to the agricultural pro
ductions of India. An admirable map accompanies
this, on which the areais of wheat, indigo, cotton,
opium, saul tree, [Shorea robusta,) leak ( tectonia
grandis,) localities adapted to tea, coal regions, iron
ore quarries, tin aud sail mines, are laid down with
care. The navigable portion of file rivers and the
railroads iu operation or construction are also
shown ; so that the entire map emSracea the vari
ous matters of interest to the agriculturist, and to a
considerable extent also these of importance to tire
miner.
We naturally here in our part cf the world, are
moot prominently interested in the distribution of
the cotton area, out some slight notice of the re
gions occupied by ihe other productions may also
be worth having.
Commencing m the north, we have first a long
belt of tea region, skirting the Himalaya Moun
tains, from Assam west to the Punjaub, from
twenty to forty miles in width. In the Pun
jaub, Delhi and Oude, we have the great wheat
region of Hindostan. extending over the entire
headwaters of the Indus and Ganges. Tow ards
the mouth of tbe latter river we perceive a broad
extent of indigo country, on the nortli side, and of
opium on the south. Both of these are in Bengal,
iu which also occur the coal and iron mines north
of Calcutta. Similar mines exist also iu central
Hindostan, in Nerbudda. Opium is grown near
these, at Serange. Salt is obtained in the Punjaub
aud at Lake Sambur. Teak forests abound chiefly
in western Hindostau ; and cotton, to which our
chief inquiries refer, appears to bs cultivated over
a very extended region.
Beginning iu the east, we have first a strip of
cotton region on the coast of Burmah, opposite the
mouths of the Ganges ; then, higher up that river,
we meet with a wide body of cotton lauds in Oude
and Delhi. Another is seen near the mouth of the
Indus ; again another in Gusserat; while still more
extensive cotton regions are found in central India,
in Nerbudda, Berar, Nisam and Misore, on the
waters of the Nerbudda, Godavoiy, Tungabudra
and Cavery. These names are but little familiar to
our ears, although reference to a good map will
easily indicate the regions alluded to.
From the accompanying letterpress contribution,
we discover that in Bengal the entire cotton crop is
consumed at home. Yet it is there stated as hav
ing been asserted that the entire coiton supply de
manded by the British market could be furnished
by the cotton lands of Nizam, Nagpore and Berar.
As yet, however, the presidency of Bengal bas ex
ported little or nothing in cotton. The presidency
of Madras has already furnished a small quota; still
it cannot have been worth considering, for in the
year 1851—’255, the entire region planted in cotton in
that portion of India amounted to 917,374 acres,
one and a third million acres being Ihe estimated
extent of the entire region adapted to cotton. Os
the presidency of Bombay, a very different account
must be given. Nearly three millions of acres
(more accurately 2,890,279 acres) or one thirty-fourth
of the entire area, is there cultivated ip cotton. The
district of Guzerat produces the most, for, although
its area is only one-hundredth of that of entire India,
it already yielded in 1850, fifty-six per cent of the
whole cotton crop of that country. During the five
years from 1849- 50 to 1853-’54, Bengal yielded
only 10,573,653 16?., Madras only 43,993,473 lbs. for
the British market, while Bombay exported 598,-
2X8,675 lbs. The following table shows the ex
portation of India during these years, in the arti
cle referred to:
Year. To Great Britain. To other pointa. Total.
1849-50 110,690,357 lfc. .54,974,863 165,66.5,220
18.50-51 141,446,798 85,026,885 226,473.683
1851- 81,104,223 172,448,608 253,552,831
1852- 181,360,994 81,547,180 262,908,174
18.53-54 138,183*429 59,578,336 197,761,765
During this period, Great Britain imported alto
gether 4,021,067,832, lbs., of cotton, ot which 652,-
785,801 lbs., were received from India, so that the
latter country furnished about one sixth, o, sixteen
per cent, of tho entire amount consumed. It is true,
that probably the whole of the cotton furnished to
England by India was again reshipped in the shape
of goods. ’ Dr. Wighte, indeed, asserts that tile an
nual consumption of cotton for each individual in
Hindostan does not average lets than twenty
pounds. This would amount to a local consumption
of about 3.000,000.000 pounds. For India to fur
nish England with all the cotton she now consumes
would, therefore, it is stated, require only an in
creased production of one-fifth to what is now made.
Almost all of this cotton is .native, and hence well
adapted to the country. Oi American oattoa, only
2,320 acres were planted in Madras, and in Bombay
52,313 acres, in the last year to which these data re
fer.
In our part of the world, we are well aware that
India has to contend with difficulties of productien
iu the way of laboring forces, which are foreign to
us. Still the statements here given are worth con
sidering. especially as we may rest assured that
England’s pretended philanthropy will never check
her in the prosecution of measures of importance
for material comfort. Is it not time, then, to pre
pare ourselves to cope with this growing competi
tion by all active measures likely to insure contin
ued prosperity 7 The recent difficulties in India
may somewhat retard their cotton production; but
wnn tbe exception of the last year, concerning
which these reports treat, a gradually increased
production iB visible. We do not believe in the
value cf artificial encouragement of any pursuit,
where natural circumstances oppose ; but yet they
may become ol impo: tance when the latter are suit
ed for the purpose, and we know that there is a
strong desire in England to stimulate the Indian
cotton production. It is not supposed that they
could ever drive us from the market, or cope with
our best cottons, but they might materially reduce
the price of the inferior kinds— Carolinian.
French Movements in the Gulf.— The N. Y.
Herald of Friday says :
Our Honduras correspondent makes known a
fact of Some interest, in connection w.th other
French movements in Central America, viz.: that
the French government baa made the fine Hay of
Fonseca its naval station on the Pacific; that one
vessel had e'ready arrived, and ,hat two others
were expected drily. Besides, being the Pacific
terminus of the proposed Honduras railway, this
hay commands the three Statr sos Nicaragua, Hon
duras and St. Salvador, all of which touch upon it.
A fleet stationed here can be reached from Europe
in half the time it would require to transmit orders
to Valparaiso; and this movement will compel the
United States and Great Britain to make a corres
ponding change. It is not generally known that
the French have lately had a \ery careful survey
made of the whole Pacific coast of Central Ameri
ca, by Captain De Lapeiin, of the frigate La Bril
liante, the report of which has just been pub
lished by the department of Marine. It says of
the Bay of Fonseca : —“ This vast and magnifi
cent Bay, studded with islands, which stretches
into the “land between the volcanoes of Cousegui
na and Conchagua, has no rival on the entire
coast of the Pacific, whether as regards its extent,
its beauty, or its naval and commercial position.”
Americans in Paris. —The Americans at Paris
have a bit of enjoyment in the way of Yankee gos
sip, furnished by the Law Courts, wh re Berryer
made a grand speech to obtain an insertion, by de
cree of the tribunal, in Gallignani’s columns. The
row was about a citizen of Philadelphia, named
Montgomery, whose marriage in Normandy was
chronicled last January twelve month, under the
name of Count Alfred de Montgomery. A letter
from his brother Henry appeared in the Courrier de
Paris, stating his relative to be no Count, but a
mere citizen of the United States, their worthy
father having been a wholesale grocer in the Quaker
City. This letter turned out a forgery. Henry
brings an action against the Courrier, which was
pendiDg at our latest advices.— Chat. Cour.
Marine Losses for March.— The New York
Courier’s Monthly Table of Marine Losses for the
past month, shows an aggregate of forty-four yes
sels, of which seven were ships, five barks, eight
were brigs, twenty-two were echconers, one a pro
peller, and one a wnaek. The total value of proper
ty lost was nine .Hundred and thirty thousand four
hundred dollars. This is the value of the property
totally lost, exclusive of damage to vessels not
amounting to a total loss. Among the vessels lost
were the following:
Name. From For. Loss.
Pro. D. F. Schentfelder, of Baltimore JMjjjj}
Ship Agamemnon Liverpool, Baltimore.-70,000
Brig Harriet Ann, (Br) CarribeanSea, “ ...10,000
Schr. Damsel, Mataozas, “ ...
Schr. Richmond, Boston, “ 4.OCU
Potato Speculation. —A Cincinnati paper says:
—The partial failure of the potato crop in the west,
last year, Induced numerous adventurous persons
to make pretty extensive shipments to this market
and New Orleans, in order to take advantage of
the anticipated scarcity. The result shows that
this is a pretty extensive country, and its agricul
tural resources varied and comprehensive. The
speculation, as far as New Orleans is concerned,
has turned out rather uniortnnate, a flat-boat load
having been sold at 85 cents per barrel, just about
enough to pay freight and chargee. On the lath,
two steamers arrived here from New Orleans, with
827 berrele. The potatoes having spent the winter
in the sunny South, are sent back to the North to
five them a little of their native air ; about 3000
arrels more are on the way.
Fortt-Focr Thousand.— The net increase of
the Methodist Church South the past year, we gath
er from the General Minutes just issued, was 13,398,
making the total present membership of the Me
thodist Episcopal Church South, 699,175.
Pugnacious Relatives. —A man arrived at
Pittaford, ill., a few dayß since from Elwood, Kan
sas, his sole errand being to thrash his brother-in
law, who had maltreated his wife. Having finish
ed the business tc the satisfaction of all concerned,
he returned home.
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
RY the steamer new-york.
The Bremen steamer New-York, Capt. Gutzen,
brings three days later intelligence and three hun
dred and fifty-five passengers.
In lat. 47, lon. 46, and also to 48, saw several ice
bergs.
April Ist and 2d, when off Sable Island, encoun
tered a severe Northwest storm, and 430 in the
latter day, lost two men from the bowsprit. The
engines were stopped and life-buoys thrown over.
One of the men was saved; the other was not after
ward seen.
The steamer Canada arrived at Liverpool on
Monday morning, March 31, and she had on board
the crew of the brig Agnes, of Glasgow, ran down
by tbe Persia.
Tbe Royal Mail steamer Magdalena, from the
West Indies, which arrived at Southampton March
20, brougnt home Capt. Laing, of the British bark
Ithurial, of Liverpool, laden with a general cargo
from New-York, which foundered in the gulf
stream. The Sir W. Eyre, from Melbourne on the
25th December, arrived at Liverpool March 20,
with 11,740 oz. of gold.
From the London Times, March 21.
Italian Affairs.
We are happy to state that a Congress of the
great Powers will meet either at London or Berlin
to take into consideration the state of Italy and the
complications to which it has led. Although we
may all have become somewhat tired of Congress
es. yet there is no doubt that this solution is the best
under the circumstances—in fact, the only one,
considering how far each of the two sovereigns
principally concerned has committed himself, and
Low much a retreat would detraot from the preten-
sions of either.
The recent conduct of the French and Sardinian
Courts is not calculated to insure a happier fortune
tor Italy, but we trust that, now the settlement of
that unhappy country has been committed to Eu
rope, the Great Powers, and especially England and
Prussia, will make their voices heard in favor of hu
manity and good government. France and Austria
have called a congress not only to decide the points
iu dispute hetweeu them, but to take counsel for the
permanent tranquillity of Southern Europe.
To Lord Cowley’s mission the meeting of the Con
gress is immediately due. The Emperor of Austria,
haviDg regard to the interests of peace, and willing
to take every excuse for an aggression on the part
of France, has stated his intentions respecting Italy
fully and frankly. He declares, what we can well
believe, that he has not aud never has had any de
sign ol attacking Piedmont. The aggressive attitude
has been througuout on tbe side of toe weaker state,
encouraged by the hope of French assistance; and
the alledged designs of Austria have beet, a mere
pretext to cover armaments intended for an invasion
of Lombardy.
The Emperoi of Austria is quite willing to e vacu •
ate the Papal states simultaneously with France,
and if the result of such an act chanches to be the
exposure of the Pope to danger from the revolu
tionary party, he will not regard with jealousy the
return of French troops to Rome, should such a
step be taken bona fide for the purpose of support
ing his Holiness. As to the seperate treaties with
the Italian states, Francis Joseph declares that
they have been only a burden aud iiiudrar.ee to him,
exposing him to constant importunities from the
different s vorigns, and that he is willing to consider
a plan for placing those states on a more satisfactory
basis
This is certainly all that could have been asked
of a powerful Sovereignty like the Austrian Empe
ror—ail that he conld have yielded with honor to
himself and justice to the people he governs. It
removes the last excuse for war which can be urg
,ed at Paris or Turin Every avowed grievance, at
least, is settled by the Austrian Emperor’s reply.—
Whatever may be the aspirations of french and
Sardinian coteries, no one has jet proposed in
Francis Joseph that he should give up his Italian
dominions, nr that a throne should be erected for a
Bonaparte in the Duchies which are the reversion
of Austria.
Diplomacy has restricted itself to subjects whioh
it dares to-avow, and the complaints of the Empe
ror Napoleon, when definitely stated, were confin
ed to tfie points on which Lord Cowley has received
assurances at Vienna—namely, the designs of Aus
tria against Piedmont, tbe occupation of the Lega
tions, and the control exercisea by means of treaties
over Tuscany, Parma and Naples. As the answer
has fairiy met the demands, there can be no further
excuse for a warlike attitude.
The partizans of a war of conquest may be dis
appointed, but decency and morality cannot be too
grossly outraged. The dispute enters into tho phase
of negotiation, and Europe may breathe freely, af
ter nearly three months of suspense. It is indeed
to be hoped that the Emperor Napoleon will not
hesitate to retire from his false position over the
bridge which Lord Cowley’s mediation luys down
for him. Nothing can be more plain than that of
all his errors this last has been the greatest and the
most dangerous.
Austria. —A report of the conversation between
Lord Cowley and the Austrian Minister is elsewhere
given. Notwithstanding the peaceable tenor of
those conversations, Austria appears to continue
preparations for war or for defence, as the case may
Ue. The Vienna correspondent of the London
Times, writing cn the 18th of March, says:
The Emperor will soon leave tor Verona, as he is
resolved to see with his own eyes the condition of
the army which is now concentrated in Lombardy
and Venioe. Some of hia Majesty’s saddle-horses
were sent from Vienna yesterday, aud a part of
the Court Gendarmerie has received orders to be
prepared to go to Italy. The day before yesterday
no fewer than 100 heavy guns were conveyed from
the Leopoldatadt to the terminus of the Southern
Railroad. Persons who saw them taken across the
bridge state that there was an extra carriage to
each cannon. Yesterday a tremendously long train
left Matzleinedorf, the first station on the Southern
Railroad, with ammunition. “All the vans” says
an eye witness “were filled with cannon balls,
shells, rockets, &c. The fourth battalions of the
regiments in Italy and in Vienna are already under
arms, and a fifth, or depot battalion (two compa
nies,) is being formed. The army no win the Lom
faardo-Venetian kingdom and in the Papal Lega
tions consists of about 140,000 men (22,000 men be
longing to Italian regiments have been removed to
Bohemia,) but by the middie of April it will be
200,000 strong.
A telegraphic despatch from Vienna, however,
dated at noon on the 19th of March says :—“With
in the last few hours things have assumed a much
more favorable appearance. Both France and
Austria display a very conciliatory spirit. It is
stated that there is to be a Congress in some neu
tral place.” Another despatch says that the five
powers have agreed upon this and that the Con
gress wiil probably be held at the Hague, or Lon
don or Berlin. The Ost Deutche Post, however,
warns the public not to place too much reliance
upon peaceful reports.
Sardinia. —What is true of the preparations in
Austria, is true also of the preparations on the part
of Sardinia. A letter from Turin, dated March 18,
says :
Preparations here are not neglected. On the
contrary, they are carried to an extent that can be
accounted for only by a presumed profound con
viction—not to say a complete certainty—on the
part of this Government, that war is at hand. One
daily sees and hears of military movements, all in
the direction of the irontier. A number of pon
toons were sent off yesterday ; three batteries of
artillery left this morning
I am informed that the artillery at the Venaria,
an artillery depot not far from Turin, is under orders
to move; the garrison of Turin is under orders to
march Eastward, and the military service of the city
will be performed by the National Guards. In
conformity with the law recently paessd, a selec
tion is being made from these for tbe purpose of
mobilization, which means that those who can best
be spared from their homer, single men, aud those
fitted for such duty, will be sent to furnish garri
sons at points whence it is intended to withdraw
he regulars.
In short, according to all appearance, every train
ed soldier that Piedmont possesses, with the excep
tion of sick, and perhaps of a small detachment
here and there, will soon be in the vicinity of this
frontier. The artillery that left this morning, com
manded by Major Fenova di Revel, a Deputy, goes
to the neighborhood of Alessandria, which place is
full of troops. General Cialdini has betaken himself
to Cuneo, to organize the volunteers there assem
bled into some sort of legion—no very pleasant
task, but one which that officer, who has had con
siderable experience in several services, is doubt
less extremely well qualified to perform.
India. —The overland mail from Bombay had
been telegraphed. It brought news to the 25th of
February. The Rohilla rebels had heen finally dis
persed by Brigadier Hills, and their Torts had been
captured without a blow.
Tantia Topie was still at large, and was believed
to be in the neighborhood of Deesa.
From Oude and Nepaul there was no news of
moment.
The Bombay import market wa3 dull, with a de
cline of prices. Business in exports very limited.
Additional Foreign Items.
Great Britain. —On the evening of March 21,
in the House ot Commone, Lord John Russell moved
the amendment tc the reform bill, of which he had
given notice. The House was densely crowded,
and the liveliest interest was manifested in the dis
cussion. The amendment was to the effect “that
it is neither just nor politic to interfere in the man
ner proposed in this bill, with the freehold franchise
as hitherto exercised in the counties of England and
Wales ; and that no re-adjustment of the franchise
will satisfy this House or the country which does
not provide for a gi eater extension of the suffrage
in cities and boroughs than is contemplated in the
present measure.”
He considered that the first eight lines of the bill
contained its whole principle—namely, that the suf
frage in counties and boroughs should be uniform,
or, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer expressed
it, identical, and that all freehold residents in bo
roughs, who had hitherto voted for their county
should vote for the boroughs alone. This was a
complete change of the constitution, a destruc
tion’of rights which had been enjoyed for a great
number of yearn, and without any crime on the
part of those in possession of it. This change
was not only unjust, but it was a great public
injury, as it would deprive the counties of the
liberal character they would otherwise possess, and
a power would be obtained by which small bo
roughs might be flooded with votes, and nomina
tion boroughs be revived, to the practical repeal
of the reform act.
His objections to the first clause, therefore, were
that it would be injurious and unjust ; that it
would lead to great discontent on the part of the in
habitants of towns who were freeholders, and to a
great power of nomination in boroughs, and that the
only remedy for the evil it would create would be
to resort lO electoral distr cts. In discussing the se
cond part of the amendment, Lord John explained
the views he had entertained on the subject of a
limitation of the franchise, and put it to ihe House
whether there should not be a reduction of the limit
in towns, bo as to admit the working classes, sug
gesting that it should be not according to rating,
but to annual value, as in the reform act.
Anticipating the objection to his amendment, that
it was irregular to propose this resolution upon the
second reading of the bill, believing the bill was of
a moet noxious, unjust and dangerous character,
hie reason, he eaid, was that there were matters in
the bill which he approved and supported, such as
the £lO occupation franchise for counties. But
that was not the chief feature in the bill. its chief
feature was contained in the first clause. As to the
apprehension of a dissolution, he held it to be un
worthy of that House to be frightened from a per
formance of its duty by such a suggestion. He
should not be afraid, be said, to appeal to the peo
ple upon this question. Let the government go
with this bill in their band, and hold it up at every
hustings in England, Whatever might be the con
sequence of such a measure, however, upon Her
Majesty's government they would reet. And with
respect to pariy or personal objects, it was his duty
not to attend to such* charges, but to pursue the
course which, in his judgment, was best adapted to
promote the welfare of the country.
Lord John Hassell concluded a v e ry long speech
by declaring his most determined hostility to the
bill, that he should oppose it at every step, car v
less oi any imputations which might be cast upon
him, and that having detended parliamentary re
form when he was young, he should not desert it
now that he was old.
Lord Stanley replied, that if this amendment
prevailed the result would be that there would be
no legislation on the subject during the present ses
sion of Parliament, adding—
No political party was now against reform. Since
1851 bills had been repeatedly promised, but it was
only under the present government, after eight years
of promise, that a vote was asked to be taken upon
the question. The object of the resolution was to
prevent the House from expressing an opinion upon
the second reading ol the bill; it was framed inge
niousiy so as to catch the largest number of votes.
The question it raised was not whether the bill
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should pass into a law, but whether political power
should pass into other hands. That was the real is
sue. He asked what was meant by the working
classes, and what was meant by saying th y were
excluded ? He contended that many of these Claes
es would come within the scope of the biil, which
was more favorable to them than Lord John s own
bill of 1854.
The difficulty of admitting working men to the
franchise was to find s principle of selection. There
were two tests—education and a low personal pro
perty qualification. Upon the subject of the di >
branchlsement of small boroughs, he observed that
a large disfranchisement would give rise to tlieque?
tion of the distribution of aud to other diffi
culties. The identity or unitor city of the franchise
for counties and boroughs was objected to ; but un
less it was adopted there would ahvajs be a discon
tented class, and the tower the franchise in boroug. 8
was carried the larger would be the discontented
class. He asked upon what principle the distinc
tion between the county and borough frauohise
rested ? The one, it was founded upon property,
and the other upon occupation; but it ignored all
forms of property except real property ; the Cii.an
dos clause made the inconsistency greater, and the
distinction now rested upon no dear aud intelligible
ground. The bill, lie observed, could he amen led
in the committee. He believed that, looking at the
subject iu a practical point of view, the choice lay
between a comparatively small aud moderate bill
and no bill whatever.
Several other members took part in the debate,
aud tho discussion to be continued on the fol
lowing evening
The Neapolitan exiles arrived at Bristol on the
evening of Saturday, March 19 The banks of the
river and all the landing quays were crowded with
spectators, who cheered them on their way up to
the city. It is estimated that 10,000 persons turned
out to welcome them.
The Earl of Devon died on the 191 hof Novem
ber, after a very shorts illness.
It will be remembered that when tbe jury on the
trial of the members of the t’hoenix club (Ireland)
failed to agree upon a verdict, the Attorney Gem*
ral called for a prolonged assize, to which the Judge
assented, the effect of which has been the postpone
ment of the Cork trials until the Autumn arsizes.
Meetiugs in opposition to the proposed reform bill
coutiuued to be held iu England.
France. —The correspon enls of the English pa
pers represent that trade iu Paris is almost paralyz
ed by the long uncertainty about w r or peace, and
that considerable discontent is felt in consequence.
A cimilar feeling, though to a !e J i xtent, it said to
pervade the provinces. While trade generally is
thus depressed by the uncertainly of the continu
ance of peace, flour and provisions generally re
mained firm under the possibility of wav.
The Moniteur publishes the returns of the cus
toms’ duties received during the month of February
laat, amounting to 13,823,832f , showing au increase
ot 209,5811'. as compared witii the receipt of Febru
ary, 1858, aud a dehciency of 336,181 fas compared
with the month of February, 1857.
The Debats (Paris) has the following remarks
upon the debate in the English House of Commons
oil the navy estimates:
“The great fact to be remarked is the immensity
of means commanded by the English navy. To add
in a single year to the fleet 26 large vessels, of
which 15 are line of battle ships, is an extraordina
ry exertion which England alone is capable of ma
king, and which eon “ 1 ot be executed by the dock
yards of all the other powers of the old and new
world, were they even to combine their efforts.—
The French steam fleet comprises splendid vessels,
which can bear advantageously any comparison
with those of England, and the First Lord of the
Admiralty spoke perhaps wi'li greater truth than he
suspected when he admitted that met in full Par
liament ; but he laughs at the public when lie pre
tends that the number of these vessels causes him
alarm. He is too weil aware that in this respect
England still possesses no rival.”
Italian Affairs.— The following letter from
Vienna, dated the 16th of March, appears in the
Memorial Diplomatique, anew weekly Paris paper,
edited, the Pans correspondent of the London Times
says, by one ot the ablest political writers of Paris
The same correspondent says that he has reason to
believe the letter came from an excellent source.
“The leading topic was Italy. The most delicate
question, the occupation of tho legations, had previ
ously passed, and was almost resolved, diplomati
cally. It was known that France aud Austria were
equally disposed to withdraw their troops so soon as
a demand to that effect should officially be address
ed to them by tbe Holy See. It wa3 known that
this demand was on the point of being presented to
Paris by Cardinal Antonelli, as it wsb, in fact on the
22A of Slay lest. This point, therefore, was com
pletely settled. The question of reform came next.
Lord Cowley alledge-U that the improvement of the
internal government, of the Roman, as of the other
states ot Rally, would present the best guarantee for
future tranquility. Count Buol, while sharing this
opinion, maintained that the indispens'ble conditions
of progress of this kind would be the concession of tbe
provoeaiions of Piedmontese policy, aud the proof
that England shared this opinion ia found in the des
patch recently communicated to M. Cavour on the
part of the English Cabinet.
“Passing next to the particular treaties existing
between Austria and the divers Ita ian states. Lord
Cowley did not dispute the right of the Vienna
Cabinet to decline all discussion of the principle of
the validity aud character of those treaties. He
even admitted that in a practical point of view the
treaties with Tuscany, Parma, and Modena might
be more than useful at the moment M. Cavour
sought to shelter himself under the mgis of France.
‘lt is not merely a respite whioh is wanting,’ obser
ved the Moniteur in its article of the sth; ‘it is se
curity for the future.’ Relying on t his declaration,
Count Buol aud Lord Cowley could not but ask
themselves where could this security be found with
the provocations of Piedmont before them 7 Could
the Catinet of Turin, sheltering itself under the
good will of France, continue that system which
imposes on Austria and on every one else so many
sacrifices ? Or shall France use its l ight acquired by
its defensive alliance to bring back the Government
of Piedmont to more prudent principles 7 The re
signation of Prince Napoleon was hailed as a favor
able sign.
“But for peace there was wanting the assurance
of Piedmont that she contemplates nothing against
cither Austria or her allies. The armaments must
cease aud the policy of the Turin Cabinet must
change. To theee categorical declarations, Count
Buol joined the assurance of the most conciliatory
disposition, and the most sincere desire to come to
an understanding. I can assure you that in con
sequence of these explanations the Cabinets of St.
James and Berlin have placed the Sardinian Cabi
net in a position to give explanations touching the
positive grievances it may have against Austria.
The despatch of the 25th from Count, Buol to Count
Appony has been regarded by every one as a suffi
cient evidence on the part of Austria of her love of
peaoe, and of her firm resolution to abstain from
every aggressive measure.
“As for the Danubian Principalities, which closed
this confidential and friendly explanation with Lord
Cowley, Count Buol limited himself to declaring
that Austria would abstain from aiding in any vio
lation of the treaties which have regulated the con
dition of those Principalities. This proof of pru
dence, moderation and conciliation was appreciated,
as it ought to be, by the British Ambassador You
see, from what is here stated, that the accord which
already existed between England and Austria on
the different questions before the mission of Lord
Cowley cannot now become otherwise more inti
mate and more solid. It now remains to be seen
to what extent the Cabinet of Turin will associate
itself with it. Every thing depends on that. We
may be permitted to beiieve that the high wisdom
of the Emperor Napoieon wilt soon correspond with
the general expectation, and in a satisfactory man
ner.”
The London Times on Aincricnn Government
The London Times devotes a leader to the system
of Government in America, in connection with the
proproaed English Reform Bill. It contends tim‘-
our State and federal legislatures, are rathe “ low, in
a moral view, but show the effect of some wiße
heads in them, by legislating in the end, sensibly
and for the benefit of the people. It goes on:
No one can read the proceedings of these bodies
without perceiving that there ie generally a lower
tone of manners and feelings than exists in our
House of Commons. We instinctivelly recognize
that even the politicians at Washington reeemble
more the vestrymen of a London parish than the
representatives of a great confederation. Look at
the newspapers, and you will at once come to the
conclusion that politics are exclusively in the hands
of an illiterate class. The nomenclature of the par
ties is perfectly unintelligible to a stranger; every
politician has his nickname, every article or speech
is full of catchwards and slang; accusations of
cowardice or disnonesty are bandied from one par
ty the other, and the impression you receive after
halt'an hour’s reading is that there is a low standard
of political life and or political morality.
According to the testimony of Americans them
selves, the spoils of office are the chief inducement
for man to meddle in politics ; wilh a change of Ad
ministration everybody is turned out, from the Min
ister at St. James’ and the Tuilleries to the pettiest
clerk in a Government office. While in England it
would not be tolerated that a laborious official
should be driven from his post for political reasons,
the people of the United States see the whole ma
chinery of administration put out of order that a set
of rapacious place hunters may be paid the price of
their unscrupulous electioneering. Yet the people
of ihe United States are advancing in wealth and
refinement, and though their education is more
hasty and superficial than ours, they must have been
capable cf supporting in Congress the reputation of
the country, flow is it that such men are not re
turned? There used to be a higher order of poli
ticians in days when America was a young State
just struggling into existence ; now, when she has
obtained the rank >f a first rate power, we have
nothing but mediocrity.
The cause may be partly in tire constitution of
the men themselves, but the principal reason no
doubt is that with the growth of large and turbu
lent constituencies, the more gifted natures are
unable to compete in the popularity with the course,
rough qualities of the stump orator. The leaven of
rodyism has increased from year to year, until now
it has leavened the whole lump. This great evil
is the cause that the educated and refined stirink
from political life, and the man of wealth and leisure
who might devote his time to public business, now
fiiss across to Paris to find in pleasure that exercise
for his energies which his own country denies him.
If the result be lamentable in America, what would
it be here, where the House of Commons not only
deliberates on public affairs, but actually adminis
ters them ? It is easy to get together a body of
men who shall represent the opinions of the country
on gome broad queetion, such as Free Trade. The
metropolitan members do this efficiently enough.
On the great majority of questions, they vote on
the side which public opinion subsequently declares
to have been the right one. But something more
than this is required of a member of the House of
Commons. We have a right to demand that the
electoral machine should be so constructed as to
give us men ot originality, genius, official ability,
in the prime of life, and willing to devote them
selves to politics as a calling. Our urbane constitu
encies are certain of a much higher class than the
mobs who vote their respective “tickets” in Ameri
ca : they are not likely to return adventurers or
men of indifferent character to the House. But a
Parliament of elderly manufacturers would be al
most as great a calamity. If theory could be re
conciled with good government—if popular rights
would give U3 men of ability and energy—we might
be content with Manhood Suffrage and Electoral
Districts ; but, as there is little chance of that, it
may be better to bear with our present anamoiies.
The War F’eelino in Italy.—A correspondent
of the Newark Daily Advertiser, writing from Nice,
describes the popular excitement in relation to the
war question as of an extraordinary character. —
“One thing is said to be certain, Sardinia is deter
mined upon war, if she can affect it- All her mea
sures are directed to that end, and until a certain
point Ehe undoubtedly had the confidence of F ranee,
her imperial ally. Counting upon the friendly sym
pathy of England and Russia, and the neutrality of
nearly ali the German Slates, the Sardinians thought
to make short work of Austria and confidently
calculated upon realizing the long dream of the
Kingdom of Northern Italy. Such was the pro
gramme But (eontinues the writer) the unexpect
ed opposition of England and Prussia, the all but
universal resistance of public opinion in F ranee, the
natural alarm of the numerous smaller sovereignties
of the German league, and the formidable timely
provisions ot Austria have materially disturbed the
dream, and may entirely defeat its fulfilment. The
friends of peace and progress trust so at least, Bince
the people have nothing to hope for from a war of
ambition.’’
Why is twice eleven like twice ten ? Because
twice eleven ia twenty-two, and twice ten is twen
ty too.
Suspected Vennliiy ol’ Member* ol'Congre**.
The Washington correspondent of a New Yolk
paner says.—" The fact is notorious in Washing
ton that various members of both Houses who came
Here a few years ao in needy crcumstannes have
suddenly acquired large fortunes, just as it is the
subject of remark not a few maintain extravagant
establishments during the sessions, which cannot
be supp rted by any visible means of these owning
them It is constantly asked, where does the money
This is a subject well worthy the attention oßthe
country, lu the days of good old Nat. Macon R was
a conceded fact that he was the only mau who made
money by going to Congress., and that * .
compensation bore a much larger proportion .0 t
price of living than it does at the present time, n
order to do it, though, it is said that old taslnoneu
Republican lived in the plainest style, and never
once took his congressional suit from Washington
until his tiual retirement from public life.
It is a notorious fact that most men who have
been to Congress iu late years, for any length ol
time, have either drawn regularly on their private
income for a support, or retired from the service
it:erly bankrupt iu fortune. The truth is, an hou
est pool mau cannot afford to go to Congress. Ana
yet we see many, in needy circumstances at home,
spend a tew sessions at Washington, living in the
best of style, and tinally come home with fortunes
in their pockets. There can be no escape trom
one conclusion as to how these results are brought
about. o
The vast amount of private claims aud specula
tions that have to be passed upon by Congress, with
the institution of what is known as the lobby sys
tem—that is, agents to attend at Washington and
by flattery, good dinners, intrigue, bribery, or indeed
any means necessary to accomplish the ernl in view,
operate upon the opinions and votes of members—
have thrown a temptation in the way ct our rep
res9ntativee to which a man of easy principles aud
avaricious nature very readily becomes a victim.
The investigating committees of late years have
clearly established this fact. Money is spent by
hundreds of thousands, and the only difficulty lies
in puttiug your Anger upon the guilty parties. We
thiuk the man who grows rich in Washington should
at once be set down as arnoug them. Senator
Toombs declared on the floor of the Senate, a few’
months ago, that ours was the most corrupt govern
ment on the earth, and that the most corrupt por
tion of it was the legislature department. He has
long been in Washington, is a shrewd observer, amt
doubtless bases his opinion upon facts that have
con e to hit knowledge.
This is a humiliating exhibition of lh a morality ot
our country, and the fear is that matters will be
come worse instead of better. The remedy is only
in the hands of the people. Let them send to
Washington men of character and long tried integ
rity, instead of ambitious political thiuib.e-wiiggers
and disgusting demagogues, and the work of reform
w ill have commenced. The proscriptive character
of party organisations has done much to originate
and aggravate the e\ il, and it will always exist, bo
long as fawning sycophancy and partisan service
are made to take the place ot manly independence,
exalted talents and morai worth, as evidences of
merit. The great danger of the present corrupt
system is even more to be dreaded at home. among
the people, than for any pernicious effects it may
have upon the legislation of the country. When
men find the ollice of representative a profitable
one, pouring gold into their pockets and rapidly
buildiug up their fortunes, they will not readily
abandon the field of such lucrative labors. There
is no scheme so corrupt or detestable that they will
uot resort to it to override the free will of tiie con
stituent and retain their places in the public coun
cils.
The consequence is, the people themselves are
defiled aud debauched, and our becoming a nation
of knaves is but a question of time. Tho honest
man of the country know what we say to be true.
Tuere is not one of tuem who has not seen this ini
quity going on, while many of them have them
selves been approached with tho “ thirty pieces ot
silver” in one form or another.
Let, then, the virtuous aud patriotic men of the
couutry go to work and eradicate this curse before
it shall have plunged the nation into a slough ol
moral putrefaction trom which it will be impossible
for anything short of Divine interposition to extri
cate it. We look forward to the breaking down of
old and t ffete parties aud the construction of new,
as the first step 111 the inauguration of this work of
reform.— Sav. Rep .
The Fights with the Camanches. —The Sau
Antonio Herald of the tilth and 25th ult, publishes
the official reports to Major W. H. Emory, com
manding ist cavalry, made by Lieuts. Powell and
Stanby, of their recent successful conflicts with the
Camanches.
First Lieutenant J. E. Powell, Ist infantry, left
Fort Arbuekle, C. N.,on the morning of the 23d
February, with a command of detachments from
Companies D and E, Ist cavalry, and some of the
13t infantry, accompanied by 27 Wichita Indians,
who volunteered as guides. On the 24th, when
about 31 miles from the Fort, and advancing on the
new road to the Wichita Mountains, recently open
ed by Major Emory, the guides came back and re
ported Camanches ahead. The pack mules were
left with the infantry; aud the cavalry, riding rapid
ly forward, soon caught eight of a band of mouuted
Camanches, and instantly charged them.
The pursuit lasted for about two miles over bro
ken hilly ground, until the Indians were lost sight
of in the thickets and ravines. After a fruitless
search for a few momenta, another baud of Caman
ches was discovered to the rear of the troop3. They
were pursued for about three miles, over a country
intersected by deep and precipitous ravines anil
covered with rocks, until the Indians, having
abondoned their horses, took refuge iu a narrow,
deep and crooked ravine, fringed with a dense
growth ofvines and briars that completely sheltered
them, and made an approach, under the fire of a
concealed enemy, exceedingly difficult. Lieut.
Powell dismounted a part of the cavalry, and after
a desperate defence cn the part of the Camanches, .
who were closely concealed under the banks, be
carried their posi ion. Some of the lnfsntry came
up and did good service.
The Indians were followed until all traces of them
were lost. The command encamped near the Wa
shita. Lieut. Crittenden with E Company of Ca
valry was sent from the Fort, with Assistant Sur
geon Quenslen, to help in bringing in the wounded
men ; Privates Henry Swager, severely, aud John
Bradburn, slightly, Company D; and Private
George Holland mortally, Company E, let Caval
ry. Five of the Camanches were left dead on the
field. The soldiers behaved very gallantly.
Mr. Emory, on the 27th of February, sent Lieut.
S. Stanley with fifty-three men, Company I>, Ist
Cavalry, aud three Delaware guides, in search of a
party of Camanches who had been robbing settlers
near Fort Arbuekle and shooting their animals, the
night previous.
The trail was found with much difficulty, and led
to the Washita Mountains. For five hours the
guides, with wonderful sagacity, traced the trail
over the rocks. At three P. M. they reached prairie
level and galloped for an hour, and then came
again into rocky ravines. Suddenly they came on
fifteen Camanches. The war whoop was raised,
and the soldiers went at them pell inell over the
rocks Five Camanches were soon killed one des
perately wounded, and the rest escaped in the night
after a running fight of three miles. On returning,
two Camanches were discovered by the quick-eyed
Delawares, in the rock a half a mile off. An exci
ting steeple chase of fully two miles, over the ra
vines and high rocks, followed, and the two Indians
were killed. Lieut, Stanley praises highly the con
duct of the troops. None of the command were in
jured.
A Mystery Explained.— Our readers will re
member that in June, 1851, Mr. F'rancis Bourasso,
of the firm of Bourasso & Pruyo, left this city on a
voyage to Europe. A few months afterward news
came to hie family, that be had been drowned near
the coast of Fiance while out in an open boat en
deavoring to catch the Bordeaux steamer. As he
had a considerable amount of money with him at
the time, it was feared that he had been murdered,
and as years passed and nothing wr.s heard of him,
his friends settled down to the conviction that such
had been his fate. t> ithin a few months a suit was
commenced by bis representatives against an In
surance Company which had iesued a policy upon
his life, and the cause was to have been tried at the
next Circuit court.
A few weeks sinoe, Dr. Richard Bloss, of this city,
received a letter from New Orleans from a stranger
inquiring after a family by the name of Bourasso.
Dr. B. answered the letter, giving the writer the in
formation he desired, and he soon received another
communication from Mr. Bourasso himself, giving
assurance of his safety. Dr. Bloss started with this
letter in his pocket to the residence of Mrs. Bouras
so, but on his way was thrown out of his carriage,
the letter was lost, and Dr B. remained in a state
of insensibility for a long time and unable to com
municate the glad tidings to the persons most in
terested. He was at last enabled to make known
these facts to Mrs. Bourasso, and a correspondence
followed in which mutual explanations were made
between the long separated husband and wife. It
seems Mr. Bourasso became concerned in some
Government difficulties and was imprisoned in
France. On his escape ho heard that his wife had
married again, and was never disabused of this
erroneous impression until recently. Mr. Bourse: o
will be in his former home again in a few weeks.—
Troy Wh ig, April \
Shocking Outrage on Christians in India.—
The caste disturbances in the Madras Presidency,
springing as is alleged out of the faulty translation
of her Majesty’s proclamation, still continue. The
facte of the Tinnevelly riot have received no farther
lucidation, but in Travancore most serious ouirages
have been perpetrated by the Sudras upon the na
tive Christians of that province. The disturbances
that have occurred have been chiefly in the south
ern part of Travancore. The population is com
posed mainly of two classes, the Sudras (Nairs) and
the Shaners. The former are the chief landholders
and monopolise nearly all offices under the Sircar,
to none ot which be is a Shatter, however intelligent,
ever admitted. In Southern India it is the custom
for low caste females to go naked from the waist
upwards, and the Sudars have thought themselves
justified, under the terms of the recent proclama
tion, in attempt to force Christian women of the
Shanar caste to conform to the general practice.
The attempt was very properly resisted, under the
advice of missionaries, and the consequence is that
many of the mission chapels have been burnt down
and an attempt made to strip Shanar women in pub
lic. The Resident’s bungalow at Nagercoii, some
houses of Shanars at Tittoovilly, north of Nagercoii,
amongst others that of the Resident’s gardner, have
also been burnt. But the worst affair that has hau
pened is the burning down of between 70 a-d 80
houses, inhabited by Homan Catholics, at Kotar,
near Nagercoii. A woman and her child are said
to have perished in the flames. — Bombay limes.
A Butcher’s Shop in Paris. — A considerable
crowd some days back, pressed around anew butch
er’s establishment at the corner oi the Rue Tron
chet and the Rue Neuve-des-Matburinß, Upwards
of thirty metres in length, it is entirely tilled up
with white marble on supports of porphyry. The
counter is also of w*te marble on silver caryatides.
A fountain of water, six feet in diameter, plays m
the centre of ;be shop, and vases of dowers and
shrubs are dispoeed about with a certain degree of
taste. Thirty nine persons are employed in the ea
t blishinent, which offers each morning for sale 20
oxen 20 calves, and 60 sheep. The great novel
feature of this establishment ie that, while profess
ing to sell cheaper than any other shop in Paris, it
delivers with each parcel of meat a ticket which
enritles the buyer to a share in the profits at the
end of the months It is reported that thrifty fathers
ot families are now forcing their appetites to eat
enormous quantities of meat, in the idea that they
are thereby laying up portions for thsir daughters.
I have not sufficiently verified the calculations up
on which the newsy stem is based to be able to Bay
whether large customers will pav nothing and get
something to boot—but this result is expected.
Not Much of an Outrage After All. —The
lake and river boats whose seizure by the Nioara
’ guan Government was reported the other day,
were not the old boats of the Transit Company, but
new ones sent out a few months since by the new
Yelverton-White Company. They were seized on
the supposition that the United States elcop-of war
Decatur, which had come in sight, was a vessel
loaded with filibusters. Under that impression, the
Nicaraguan authorities placed the boats under the
gurs of F'ort San. Carlos, in order to keep them safe
from the supposed filibusters. The real oharacter
of the Decatur becoming known, the boats were
next day restored to the agents of the Company—
Rich. Disp.
It is said that titty Editors, in Maine, recently
went on an excursion; they made a common puma
and bought a box of t ardiues for dinner. Iu couse
quence of that reckless extravagance, forty nine of
them have since taken the benefit of the bankrupt
act.