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BT THK ARABIA.
The Royal Mil *teau*fcip Arabia, Capt Stone,
J'-oTi Liverpool at 1 o'clock on the afternoon of lb®
,r3t . arrived at Halifax at 10 o'clock on the
jii.cnioj? of Wednesday. toe *ot- wt.
1> p.-rew wtei* ship City of Manchester left
Cos n o; * n, ‘or New York, with 350 pa^een
-1 T * j-aar iteamohio Sxxonia left Southampton
•u ; L 5 and tin United States mail steam*tap
> -,'urti •>•it b, for New York.
The following were the main point# of their news:
i ue K .;>b Cabinet had decided to dissolve Par
‘.an.ee- and appeal to tha country rather than re*
c -. L rd. Derby announced the the fact in the
eot Lords on the 4th, and in his remarks ee
.< keo lrd John Kuaseil’s course, and
r .. . aed L rd Palmerston s recommendation
. H -r*-', k amendment be accepted by Mmis*
- a* ad i eet intuit. lie rejoiced at the gener*
• support ins G j vein men t had perceived, and ex*
, * o the conviction that there was no cohesion in
opp witioo and that It would be dissolved the next
i*- . • by the rot dieting opinions of its various
The Cnbinet bad resolved to dissolve
P: ... : at as soon as the public bustceee permit
. ow.anse they thought the country ought
o b * nsuhed at the present cri-is, and because
i ut peace would suffer from a change of
Mr. Disraeli made a corresponding announce-
ia orexeeded u itd its usual business,and
n date Lad tie b fixed for the.dsolution, although
w.'* expected to uke place before E aster.
X/,,* -u"/; tot me proposed eubnidy to the Gal-
4i L‘: vs: debated in the House, audita ex
j t-ticy ‘died in question, ac well as* the injustice
i, .f* Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia
< irr uny u making the contract. The Iriet mem
--/celonded the project. A copy of all the cor
rt... .. .iie on the subject aas ordered to be pro-
Continental affairs had undergone no change. It
v. that Austria will uernand that Pied
lr. , -Li.-idd disarm before the opening of the Con
■ re**./* Military movements continued.
• Tue Australian mail, with Melbourne dates ot
February 15, w tut telegraphed. Imports were ex
i -■{ y da l, wool dearer, and the production cf
go-.d increasing.
Tid B unbay mail of March 1 was telegraphed.
T-.ijii iopee had disappeared, and bis foilowera
we;< dispersed. The Bombay imports market wa*
in uesive. Exchange The finan
. i.i. embrra*emeLt of die Indian government was
wo.si severe, and a panic pervaded the money mar
1 lie r edition trial* at Belfast resulted in the disa
greement and discharge of the jury
Gk xa t Bhi t aib.—l n the Bouse of Commons on the
f, L;rd Pal mere on detended biasaif from the im
j. i- * ,u* u- on bun by Ministers, and criticised
Lord Derby u course.
jyr J Parhiogton replied, and reiterated the as
-.-itiofi tuatL/Cd Palmerston had made the direct
Mc i. ?Ua Ume Crown exercised its right to dis
,l. pauiamoiit the House mignt refuse the tup-
O. speochee were also made on the subject,
i). , *u. -i.ll -u-.coi L*rda tnelndian sev
,.ii . m. w passed to a second reading.
Xj : u. of nut it* u>.i iis o i i it Loid Derby dal a
’ .at next a vote of thanks would lc proposeu
f .. ..c oii.r Uli riais in and that a form o
thnnAfgivlug lor lbs restoration of peace would be
1 I . ho Hou-.e of C * rnoi-u Mr. Disraeli, iu reply
u, bn t/ C. Lewis, al‘ r deprecating being called
u—. to make partial flnaaci • -tateUicnts. said that
~,‘was hi* inienuou to pay off two millions pounds
>* the Exchequer bills 1 Xing due in May, and that
he aid not c .atempiate there would be any necessity
of borrowing tor that purpose.
On the H.u in the IN.use or Lords Earl Malmts
buiy said that he hoped to be able to make a state
niwnt to the House before the prorogation which
would show that the Government had done all it
c juiato pi tHsrve the peace of Europe.
I:, the House of Commons Lord Paltner*tjn had
given notice of a question respecting “oui foreign
relations and the affaire of Europe,’ 5 but at the ur
gent request of Mr. Disraeli he postponed it.
Mr Disraeli announced that in a day or two he
wou and make a . tatemem. on the eubjeot.
Mr lieauii h a. ked the Secretary of the Treasury
whet htr, S;r Samuel Cunard having < ffered througo
a deputation which waited ou the Admiralty and
Tr* ury Departments, to convey the mails weekly
In een an Irish poit and America for the sum of
the voyage, out and home, it was the inten
tion of the Government to persevere in completing
the con.racit for jC3,OWO for service fortnightly be
tween Galway and America / lie demanded on
the part of the public that this offer should be duly
considered.
,Str S. Northcote said that the offer of Mr. Canard
was to call at Cork on the way trom Liverpool to
America and on the return for £SOO.
The Gaiway offer involved a third American ser
vice in addition to two now undertaken weekly, but
n* the Gaiway service was only fortnightly, there
would be three services in one week and only two in
another; this was felt to be inconvenient, and it war
li,tvt >re proposed to a*k the American government
■ to umieruku h service iu alternate weeks, net
comprised in tl;e Ualway seivit e, and ii America
declined, it was proposed to make a similar oiTer to
ttuuard. It was tberofora the intention oftiieGov
ernmeut to complete a ooutract with the Galway
Ims. The subject was lurllier diecussed hy many
members /irv and contra. The merits of Cork and
Galea* are canvassed, and the demand was almost
general 1 hat Uio Governmuut should not make ajn
tract without the ‘.loosent of the House. Mr. Dis
raeli said it would be a lew precedent to have con
tracts iu the that instance submitted to the Lfuase,
... un-Hi..; weie oci. tantly grant-d without previous
tender. lie recalled tue lacts of the Galway under
taking ; the Company offered peculior facilities for
tue transport of troops for the Government; he,
therefore, thought it right to adopt, on it* own res
pousaiiUty, a policy it felt to be advantageous and
in accordance with duty. The amount would, as a
matter of course, appear in the estimates before
any money can be paid.
No date had been tiled for the dissolution of Par
liament. The i auuidales were flooding the country
Wii.li addresses to their constituents. Lord Palmers
ton. lo bis address, averts that the simple question
at issue is the merits of the Government Ustorm Bill,
ile deprecates the aotiun of Ministers in dissolving
.uiont at this critical junctuie in European
affairs. ,
It -positions to Lord Stanley and Mr. Thomas
Baring, to come forward for the City of London in
tbs conservative interests, were being numerouely
signed.
A private meeting of Lord Derby s supporters
bad been held at the Premier’s house. He address
ed them at considerable lentil.
•pile Ballot Society weie agitating their principles,
anil had issuer! an audress to the electors.
Tue l'iiiie* comment upon the remarkable omia
ion n the addresses of Lord Palmerston. Lord John
Russoll, aud Mr. Disraeli, on the subject upon which
the whole contest begun, that of the future Reform
B !, aim says the pieat popular cry lias beoome a
taunt. aud not a Coast.
At tjaoi n Victoria's Levoe. Senator Ciingman,
of Norm Carolina, was presented by Mr. Dallas.
UieUAsr, April-.—The trial of the membersof
the Phieuii Society, resulted like the first, in a dis-
Kgraenian! and discharge of tile Jury. The prison
ers wore held over till next Assizes on renewing
their bail.
flio Stock Market was quiet and steady ou the
<>:h and Till, bur on the Slh wo weaker aud lower.
The Daily News’ City Aitiele, dated Friday
evening, says. A general heaviness prevailed to*
day. especially this afternoon, a fresh fall on the
Paris Bourse and the urs-'isfactory character of po
litical advices tr.ui tho C ntineut, aud the autiuipa
tion ot lue In nan and Km - pin Lonnie as well as the
uuiavorable Bank Returns combined, created an
unfavorable teeliug
Che funds presented a further decline of Jdj per
Cent. Toe dtsoouut market was acitve at the mini
mum ra.e ot ‘-j per cent. The Austrian Exchanges
ave agaiu risen, owing to the preva ling distrust.
The Tunes City Article ot last evening saye the
uuds opened at comparativr ly steady prices, but
bcavi.y aud lower undc-r dull aeconuie lrom
Paris.
h a.cM K. —The movement of troops ana war ins*
serial in France continues on a large seals.
i. .. p\,ris correspondent of the L -ndon Herald
sac* t-1-.t about a5,001* men are on their way to re
suforoe the army of Lyon*.
r P.uie ooirrspoudeut ot the ‘i irnee writes that
i!u* question of peace or war is still left to oonjec
.ure Piedne-nt trai-iiast-r no intention of disarm
- Austria u-sis s upi i this stop as a pie
,i.i.. .ary c. . dmon ;o the Congress.
i -ceil g that win* is inevitable prevails at the
t-i.-.ah P i sign Othor, aud is shared hy some of the
1 igt rt fundio: anes
Count Cavnur is reported to have said that lie
nvn .! any time app.y tlie match to the materia s
t o, rji igration at hisrommand, and force France
to join him.
The tinny News’ corresp-ndet says order* have
been scut to Toulon tha sixty-eighf vtsatis, which
have m eu loug preparing there, should bo ready to
put to sea upon a vtay’s no’i-e, if required Eight
ves,. . nave also been ordered at once from Brest
for Toulon.
A i Marseilles vfsieb in the Adriatic are return
tug home, cou-iib'riiig tines waters unsafe, and that
no froi-'tiis IVom Trits'e are now to be had.
Prince Gortschakeff, the Russian Minister for
Fore go Affairs, presided at the Conference on the
Affaire of the Principalities which opened ou the
7th. The Ottoman Plenipotentiary set forth the
reasons which induced the Sultan to submit the
question of the election of Conza to the Conference,
it was thought the Protocol would be signed ou
Saturday. There seems to be no doubt that the
rir üble election of Couii will be sane Honed.
The Paris Bourse on the 6th was iirm and higher.
Thrers closing at 68 30, on the ?ih declined ouc
quarter and cu the Bth further declining one half,
. losing heavy at 67,&b for Money, aud 67.50 tor ae-
\vtria. —An analysis is published of Count
Bou’s reply to the Russian proposal lor the Con
tuse lie declares ihe whole difficulty is to be
rou-id in the policy of Piedmont, and resards the
Coiwreaa as the means of pulling an ed to the
danger widi which she threatens Europe. He adds,
should other question* be mooted they ought to be
stated beforehand, and that the clash of arias
ehoald not accompany negotiations. Piedmont
will disarm Austria will do to likewise, l it:, the
preliminaries are settled Aes'ria may relax but will
„ 0 t suspend operations—her troops wiil oontinue to
inaoh towards Italy. , .
Advices trom M iar. state that the following oi.er
cf the day has beeu posted iu the barracks in that
own:
•• Austrian Soldier*, the Emperor calls you round
his banners to beat down for die third dnie the pride
pieduroi't—to expel trom their den those fanatics
wiiodes'rov tiia war,qnility of Europe. Advance
s aL’-t the’ enemies who have always lied before
vnu JJamember the victories cf 18 and 1849
“erne übe’ Naveva, where y. at fees were dispersed
a"d i"no :,ar*d. Let our watchword be • I'rra
j .• t ‘ our rights forever
Samu v a —T* i twudrJU Morning Pret publishes
akrcu’ and imnwtani memorandum presented by
... n-.-i itoTemmeut to that of Great Britain.
‘i‘‘heco not Italy.* It - oated Turin, March
* • ’ ,ud is in answer to interpellation* of the English
<{oV. rnmeut. It point* out the chance by winch
darger of var or a revolwttoa wou.d be warden
c ff. and the Italian question at least temporar.lv
.•aw’vsd It is now asserted that Count Cavuu. is
anything but satisfies! with the result of his trip to
Pari-, and has rest confidence in the tu.tuiment oi
‘"VfldT, Friday.—St dames Uadson, the British
Amba > idor. left here to oay foe Donaon
1 r alv. The correspondent of the Tales at home
revs tuai tee general opinion there is that to. lon-
Vi. s-unply wm. but cannot prevent i,
btfcauM it wul not efffeoniaby eettietbe Italian
question. , n .
it w ooctte-Uly stated that
Govertioiem uoctfce KiQ£ ot Napiee will send re
prove illative* to T-be Congrt>3.
Tie Iniiepeuct-nce B says that toe Kintf oi
Xapi i* rapidly axkm*c OUier accounts repre
iuin better, but not out of danger The
leu?: tc eg rani says five of his phyeiciaLS have de
clared bun incurable.
The Papal 1? >venstnem u? preparing an o&Cal
r. A9 relative to the proposed >*, to be ad
dre*. to the Great Power?
Pi xi?t*AL. — The Grovemi’ieat has autho..*ed the
free aduAis-ooD ot Inoiau corn.
St P teraburg telegram of tbed:b
•cays linpem- okaet lor aio&r. cf x 12,000,000,
a * ;bree per e*U . w*s published that uey. It
state* that the l.Us been oonclmted through
,
M Magner. hanker, Cl the first inetamrent, paya
Die on the Bth ot May. .. .
India.— The linn My Mallei Mat.v j-*th reached
El;, .ud uti the 6th The news >® by.
leu graph Tantia Topee and other
w e biding under false names.
Tr.e > uudings taken by the steamer Cyclops jn
lue lied Sea tor the Indian Telegraph tad been
ye rte. tiy successful.
11, way i : U< - ait is reported that a famine was
fnevailmg in the Souti > r part of China.
Latest.
Vienna Friday Even n, —The Vienna corres
pondent of tile T unes telegraphs as follows :
The iong exp, ( led crisis is at hand. A corps of
*, ty ihi u-ai.a men goes from tins cily to ita.y to
il otrow, and on the following day another corps ot
oAty tboui&nd m=ais to be assembled here. A
reserve corp* of seventy thousand men will be
p'aced in Bohemia and Moravia. The reserve of
the army in Italy; and of the corps about to leave
‘.his city, have been called in.
Livirpool, Saturday. 1.15 P. M—The steamer
zEtca has just arrived from New York
Consuls in London at I o'clock were 95*94i for
rnenev and account.
Earl Malmesbury's remarks are construed into
an admission that there is no hope for peace.
CcrrctponJmce of Ike Alta California.
The Great Volcanic Itrupilon in the Hand
vrlcta islands.
Hokolulp, Feb. 16, 1851'.—The tine clioner
•obooiier Ka left Honotulo ou the ’id cf Feb
ruary, with a email party to virit the new eruption
of Maaax Lou, on Hawaii, and after a ibort ran of
twelve fc >urs, arrived at Lahaixa. where they were
joined by anther dmail party, in ail about
firteen or eighteen pereone. Starting with a
free breeze, we were eoon ecuddin*? over the wa
ters aud a- the daylight ffocn laded the jet of lava
that wa* poured out in a beautiful cone-iike form,
served for our beacon light, and wax our guide
through the night.
Morning found us off the eboree of Hawaii, and
no daylight brought more distinctly to view the
osarit senary. We observed beautiful light, fleecy
cloodfi. wfcicb we found on cioee examination to be
caoaed by the steam produced by the lava flow,
thit had reached the sea. which took place on Mon
day morning. Janua r y 31et, at about four o’clock,
and described by thoee who saw it to have been &
right that beggard description. At 3P.M. we en
tered the old harbor, of Kailua, and a committee
having procured horses, etc., we landed and estab
lished ourselves in quarters owned by His Excel
lency Kapeau, Ex-Governor of the Dana. Here |
commenced our initiation into cemp-life, and a ;
right merry party we had Again, as ni-fct let her :
dark curtain fall, the eastern sky was brighriy illu
minated by the glow lrom the furnace, stimulating j
us to rising at an early hour.
When the early morning breakfast w'(*a dispatch- |
ed. we mounted and were off up the mountain. Our
ride waa up the 6teep eides of Huaialai. through a
very fertile country, all clothed in the freshest ver
<ihre. We noticed the golden orange in allies ripe
ness, the mango, bread-fruit, p&pfci, coffee, kukui,
etc , while the vines and fern? grew most luxuriant*
jiy on either hand We eoon reached the upp-.r
I road, and had a fine canter for several miles through
! a rich and productive region; while two thousand
I feet below us the coast was dotted with native
i hamlets, and here and there a canoe resting on the
calm water.
! Leaving this pleasant scene, we turned abruptly
at right angles, and commenced our ride over the
“government road,” over the hill, and through the
| thick woods, amid which nature luxuriated in wiid
! At ii Y M we issued from the woods, and
| tad a sight at the smoking crater, far above ue. on
j the right, while the enow crowned head of Maura
i Loa rounded its magnificent outline against the
i rky. At 4P.M. we made Johnson’s Camp, where
we found two foreigner** and their families encarnp
| ed, who had been spending a week in beholding
I the mighty movement We selected a place a little
j beyond them, and found one of the btsL spots t r a
i camp in the neighborhood, which was named
I * Sleepy Deli,” while a high rock rose directly in
| ‘he r-ar of the camp was named “Prospect Hill,”
! aud from which we enjoyed our finest view.
The enthusiasm of some of the parly caused them
I to forget fatigue and everything else, and hastened
!on fee the fTw that Lad passed down past the
camp ! wt* days bo ore. There was xnuen to inter
at in the visit, though it was soon forgotten in the
grandly magnificent view ‘hat met our eight as the
sun went down. A l ug line of lava stream was
pouring down the s de of the mountains like molten
run from a furnace, arc pushing its way through
the woods, a mile in front of the camp, iickiug up
’he woods and grasses like a fire on the prairie
; The r,niy thing we cou.'d liken it to was an im
| in- Lae railroad train al> on fire, drawn by a power
ful locomotive, throwing out clouds of steam, while
c very few minutes a heavy report came booming
toward- us Ike the saluting gun hailing its arri
val. It was a right that will i* t k>od be forgotten.
Tired at las:, and thoughtful ofs rength for the
morrow, one after another tougl.t the blankets;
but sleep was another thiDg; the drowry god was
effectually scared away, and the most nmuring
scene of the trip was to see one after another quiet
ly emerge from the tent to the catr.p tire, stepping
softly, lest he ehould wake his n< igh- *.r, wh- n it
appeared that scarce one had been able to sleep
from excitement and the cold— for*it was < <>V, o. and
indeed. Replenishing our fire, we calk-o n the
cook , she soon furnished us with & cup oX Lolling
hot chocolate, which, under the circumstances, was
adjudged to be the best thing going.
At four o'clock, A. M , while yet dark, we start
ed on foot to reach the flow, that was paesing ua.—
Picking our way over lava, rocke, and through the
bushes, we came in front of the mighty flood, and
here, I must confess myself at fault for words to
describe it; there is nothing like it, and only an
approximation can be attempted. The stream of
lava was flowing at the rate of eight miles an hour,
sweeping everything in its way. The sides were
fifteen feet in height, rising at an angle of ninety
five dgereea; the width was nearly half a mile, and
came running ou with a force irresistible, that w T as
awfully impressive of the mighty power that urged
it on. It wan glowing at ar and heat, while occasion
al openings would give an insight to the inner mass,
heated to a fervent heat.
On, on it came, and we were glad to keep well
in advance ot it. tut becoming more and more ac
customed to its flow aud power, one alter another
ventured to approach and thrust our walking sticks
mto the glowing mass. Ab daylight came to show
us our ground to retreat over, the desire to procure
specimens was too strong to be controlled, and we
succeeded in getting them from the very foot of the
advancing stream.
Sabbath wae mostly spent in camp, resting from
’he excessive fatigue pud excitement. In the even
ing weaga'n were favored with another view of
thia novel and grand sight.
The source of the flow appeared to us to proceed
from a fissure that had been made in the side cf the
mountain about 4 ,000 feet from the summit—nay
10,000 feet above the sea. The throwing out of the
lava had formed a craler, rough and jagged, from
this rose a jtt of lava of glowing red, at an average
height of from 250 lo 300 feet—at times reaching as
high as 500 feet—the base about two-thirds the
neighth. This was ever playing like a fountain
risiLg and falling—jets shooting up and falling off
like the play of water—ever varying, ever attrac
tive ; and our last look was the most interesting.
On Monday morning we broke up camp, leaving
our flag tiymg on Prospect Hill, and with three
hearty cheers, left the ground, having enjoyed one
of the most pleasant and interesting excursions we
have ever had. Leaving Kailua on Tueeday, we
reached home on Thursday, having been gone only
a week.
The JnpuneNe JliNKion.
Lieut. Habersham, in Lis correspondence with
the Philadelphia Ledger, gives the following parti
culars of the preparations for the transportation to
tiiis country of the members of the Japanese Mis
sion. Lieut. 11., it will be recollected, has been
appointed to conduct the Japanese priucee to Wash
ington :
U. S. Steamer Powhatan, >
Hong Kong, Feb. 15,1850.
Now is the longest stride about to be taken to
ward “the opening of Japan.’ Y’esterday the U. S
steamer Mississippi steamed out of thia harbor aud
pointed her head for the Japanese port of Simoda,
aud after the arrival of the next mail, (say about
the 25th instant.) we, in the Powhatan, will follow
her example. The object of this double movement
ia to put a Japanese Minister and suite in a fair
way to reach Washington by the first of June next,
aud i: is expected to be accomplished iu this way.
We reach Simoda about the sth proximo, take on
board Mr Townsend Harris the next day, aud
steam for seven hours up the bay of Yedo, until
arrived at Kanagawa anchor, (this ship and the
Mississippi,) aud commence the ball. About the
20th proximo the minister and suite, in charge of
one of our Lieutenants, arrive on board of the
Mississippi, and steam away at once for San Fran
cisco, (probably via the Sandwich Islands,) thence
to Panama, Aspinwall, and New York The object
in proceeding via San Francisco is a double o* e—
partly to let the Japanese see what a fine country
has sprung iuto existence under our flag during the
last ten years, and partly to replenish with coal I
causes now these quiet Japanese thrust suddenly
Sul** the streets oi San Francisco—it will be a
healthv warning of the crowd which will doubtless
assemble upon the New York battery to greet them
uLon their arrival there 1 caa see als the surprise
that will bs awakened in the American public by
‘he polished manners, and native good breeding of
these simple Islanders
Take my word for it, they will be calm aud self
possessed, in spite of the novel’y of the scenes
through which they will pa-e for the first time. Th3
treling rmong the higher classes iu Japan io now
unusually strong towards ihe United States aud
Americans, and should they received with even
a moderate amount of good wili aud attention, it will
be haidly possible to measure the amount of good
w eh will result to us after their return. Nine
Priucee out of teu in the whole Empire wil> hristen
to Yeddo to see their relumed Peers, and to hear
them expatiate up n ihe strange countries aud
people over a hich they will have passed, and with
whom they will have been thrown in contact. Then
v. Ah a still stronger feeling in favor of our country
men, American energy and enterprise will receive
their warm support and encourage inland Ameri
can capital will How into J p..u in the sbapa of
steamers, steam engines for eh re purposes, light
cotton fabridh, Ike ,&c, to the .*1 o-t certain ex
clusion of tha! ot lees favored natio s
Have you yet heard in the United S'ates iff the
promising trade which has already *,l . ud *e
tweca Nangasaki (Japan) andShanghaef N • le-s
than twenty vessels nave visited the forn.tr te-rt
during the last four months, and exports t>. “tich
m re abundant than was deemed pcsatble. V g -
table wax, ginseng, lacquer ware, china do , vege
table oil, hemp, rice, soya, silks, etc., are the prin
cipal articles, and upon many of these the mo t ex
travagant profits have been realized. Upon the
vegetable oil in particular does money promise to
be made. It is said to be abundant, very cheap,
and answers lor mixing paints as well as burning in
lamps. Sheet copper also promises a large supply
at an unheard ot eoet. A quantity of it. already
landed in Shanghai-, paid a [refit of several hun
dred per cent. These things ail considered, 1 very
much fear that myself and every one else have
hitherto very much underrated the internal resour
ces ot Japan, or rather the amount of exports that
would be found ready for our shipping. I would
•not now pretend to say of how much value the
commerce ot Japan may prove to be to the world
at large at a tut me day
From Paraguay. —Everything relating to Para
guay is now of interest, and we therefore, give be
low an extract from a letter received in Washing
ton from an officer of the navy. The letter is dated
Asun.ioa, January 26:
I was ashore yesterday, and can assure you that
this is not a fine city by any means, and falls far
below my expe. rations, the houses are low, general
ly of one story, with brick or ciay doors, and filled
with vermin’ The men wear very wide white
pants, coming to ;Lo knees, from wL.ch a fringe ex
tends to the ankle, and the women generally wear
only a chemise (it that is the naute of it,) which
se e-s very well for wbat it is intended, viz : free
v The people ere very polite, taking ofi
their ha’s when meeiurg us, and extending every
courtesy. Lopez has a iarge army, say Id,ooo men,
all dtessed in white pants and sea shirts, and mak
ing a fine appearance. Both the men and women
here are remarkably good looking, and t-e latter
have the most beautiful eyes, hair and teeth I ever
saw Their eyes are large, intense y black and
brilliant, hair very long and black, and teeth regu
lar and of pearly whiteness.
AtP. M., on filet., we passed the great tort call
ed Humaita. Ween we got up to it, we came to
anchor, and sent Gapt. Drayton and Lieut. Mur
daugh ashore. We were ail at quartet? and expec
ted a fight. I felt glorious at the prospect of it, but
was disappointed. [ had been afraid that 1 should
fee! nervou?. but did net when the time came. Hu
maita tonsiets of some eix torts, lying near each
other, only ucts of which, a casemate battery of
fifteen very arge gaits, would have given us any
trou: le—the others are ail e*noeed. In fact, we
would not be atratd to see the Fulton arone engage
iicmaita. with all its eighty six or ninety guns.—
tour clever.-inch would play the with them.
Our plan wouid be to stand off and shell them from
behind the hiil ntsi by. We would find it pretty
hot work no doubt, but not remaikably dangerous.
\y would land no men to s'orat this for: trout the
rear, as it a protected by a dense swamp.
Valcabli Autographs. — There are at present
three, and so fa- as is known only three, complete
ss-s of- .tographe of the signers of the Dec.arat on
of Independence. These be.ong to Jiev. Dr.
Sprague cf Albany, Kev Dr.Kstiies. of Liverpool,
ana a South Cat ena gentleman. They were com
pleted by a curious piece of good luck. Some
years since, each of these gentlemen lacked one
au'ograpb. which was nowhere to be found. Bat
in fettling an estate, the South Carolina cchrctor
-ame her. s turee rece ptaof bills signed by this
very One he kept for himself, and sent
the other two o I>r- Sprague and Dr. Bsniss. Dr.
Karnes has bis in a beautiful bound volume, ana
values i „■ as he woull? ate famous Kot t-coor.
A wealthy BosAivt merchant once introduced him- j
-ell to him iu tje street, and requested the pr;vi
lege of seeing this collection. He then told the
doctor that be wished to make a pw*Qt to his na
tive city, and baa s en nothing which so cleased
him for that purpose as this set of autographs, and .
asked if there wa- any stun which would induce
...in u> part with it. ’ihe Liverpool doctor, bow
ever, who is wealthy, and Uestdos considers a first
rate autograph a luxury greater than a miser's gold j
heap, jra# not to be tempted.— Netcburyptrt Herald. .
Cruise •( ihe Harriet I.aue—The Paraguay
Treaty.
The New Y ork papers furnish some interesting j
details of the cruise of the V. S. steamer Harriet I
Lane, ol the Paraguay fleet:
The Harriet Lace left New York on the 9th of j
October last, arrived at Barbodoee on the 20th, j
’ here tbe Fulton end Water Wi*ch were already
at anchor. Left on the 26tfc for Pernambuco, but I
being ?hort of coat had to put back 600 miles, and
reached Maranham on the 13tfc of November, enter
ed Rio Janeiro on ihe 28th of November, and dis
covered that the St. Lawrence, Falmouth and Perry
had left for the river. Having repaired engines, |
left for Montevideo and found severe! vessels of j
the squadron there assembled; were quarantined j
there twelve days ; took on uoard heavy guns ai*d 1
a draft of maimefc and men from the flag-ship, aud
left os the 21st for Rosario, where s. e arrived on i
the 4th of January. On touching at Corrientes, a j
few days afterward, learned that President Urquiza ,
was at Asuncion forwarding the negotiation of a ,
treaty between the United States and Paraguay.—
The points of this treaty are already known to our
raadere.
Commissioner Bowlin’s willingness to settle the
dispute was highly unsatisfactory to the partisans
of the Navigation Company, ana to the friends and
sympathizers of Consul Hopkins. Some of the
warmer supporters of the iatter and his cause went
ao far as to say that the importance of the treaty
difficulty and the Water Witch affair were pu.poee
ly magnified by the Consul, in order to induce the
United States Government to use summary mea
sures in obtaining indemnity for the losses of the
Navigation Company. It ie alleged that the Com-
reason for not insisting—which he was
empowered to do—on forcing Lopez to pay all the
demands of Hopkins, arose trom the very confused
nature of tho?e demands, from the acknowledgment
made by some interested party that remuneration
for losses alone would not be by any means aecep
table, as tbe destruction of a splendid income for
several years ehouid he recompensed, aa well as the
mere capital sacrificed by the jealousy of the Para
guayan President. Lopez's organ had been very lo
quacious about a loan of SIO,OOO to Mr. Hopkins,
but at the negotiations the matter wae only men
tioned incidentally, and then not by President
Lopez. The latter wae in mourning for the death
of his brother, who was & bishop.
We can state, on undoubted an’bority, that
Commissiuner Bowlin returns to the United Stated
impressed with the idea that tbe Government has
been grossly deceived by Air. Hopkins, who, Bays
our authority, (a distinguished naval officer.)
“beais.a very bad character in all South America.”
Judge Bowlin actually stated that he would not
believe a single word spoken by the Consul on di
plomatic matters, and nays that he is furniehed with
incontrovertible proofs that our relations with Pa
raguay have, from the first, been grossly mis-repre
sented by Consul Hopkins.
Ail these things will be laid before the public
very soon 1 Vut.Kenahaw who bears the new treaty,
went to Washington last evening to submit it to
Mi. Bu- hanan.
A ship had been wrecked in Montevideo, and
Lieut. Giliia of the Supply shoved off in a boat and
saved the crew, for which he was highly compli
mented.
The complimentary *ntertaimneDt given by
President Urquiza to the officers cf the squadron
took place at San Jose on the Uragu&y, and was
honored by the presence of Commissioner Bowlin
and the gentlemen attached to the Fulton aud the
Water Witch—the other vessels continuing tbeir
course down the liver by order oi the Commodore.
At the banqret & senes of complimentary toasts
and speeches was delivered congratulatory of tbe
success! ul efforts of the President of the Argentine
Confederation and Mr. Bowlin to avoid the horrors
of war.
When ail the vessels were concentrated at Mon
tevideo the Cuminacder-in-Chiet and the prominent,
officers proceeded to iesue ordera for the deposi
tion of the equadron. In view of the new system
of arranging United States vessels ou foreign sta
tions, it was thought advisable to order home all
ships that cbuld be dispensed with, and to leave
the duties on the coast of Brazil to be performed by
three cf the smallest crafts of the fleet, the brigs
Dolphin, Com. Stedman, acting flag-ship until the
arrival of one from the States, the Perry and .he
Bainbridge. The Commander in Chief next trans
ferred bis wide flag, the band and hie general suite,
j from ’he temporary headquarters on board the
Fulton lo the frigate Sabine, and officially ordered
:aeh of the commanders to make all convenient
haate in returning home. The Sabine was to leave
for N. York on the 20th of March, the St. Lawrence
had already left, and will be due at Boston about the
15thoi May; the Falmouth, Preble, Fulton, Wattr
W teb, and aii tbe chartered steamers, are ordered
to different points on our seaboard
The Caledonia’s machinery wts so ricketty that
fears were euiertained ior her safety; the Western
port was also shaky, and it was believed tbel a
general survey might L>9 considered necessary be
fore these steamers could be dispatched from Bra
zil. As reported, the result of a survey on the Me
tacomet demonstrated her worthlessness, and she
would be sold at Rio or Montevideo. Tbe machi
nery of tbe M. W. Chapin was also found to be unfit
for sea.
A private letter from a gentleman connected with
tbe Paraguay expedition, received by tbo Harriet
Lane, and dated Montevideo, March 28th, 1859,
contains tbe following paragraphs ;
“After getting all our vessels iu fighting order,
we left for Gorrientes, which was to be our rendez
vous ; but before reaching the place we met tbe
Commissioner and the rest of bis party cornice
down, the fuss having ended in negotiation Lopez
was much frightened, and therefore grateful that he
was approached civilly and treated with considera
tion. The affair terminated not only in such expres
sions as the Spanish language aiune is capable of.
but in a bugging match between Lopez and Judge
Bowlin. Tbe last was n scene worth seeing; Lopez,
who isjabout the same beam a* keel, attempting to
reach tbe shoulder of the Commissioner with bid
Ehort fat arms, while the Commissioner vainly Btrove
to embrace what must have seemed to him a huge
rotund hogshead. Our people, nevertheless, w ere
highly delighted with the resuit, especially the
Commissioner, congratulated himself on having
amicably terminal ed by Ids diplomacy and address,
wbat might have been a bloody war.
Without our nine and eleven inch guns, however,
he might as well have whistled jigs to a milestone,
as attempt to bring Lopez to terms. It is under
stood that, by the terms of the treaty, Capt. Page’s
expedition will not be interfered with, but that it
will be allowed to proceed. For the man's family,
who was killed on board of the Water Witch, the
full demand of ten thousand dollars was allowed,
and the money is paid. Lopez offered to indemnify
the co npany to the amount ot $240,000, and pay
the money on the spot; but as the sum lalls short
of what was asked, the matter i3 referred to an ar
bitraliou, which is to be held in Washington, he
appointing one arbitral or, our government another,
and the two choosings a third.”
From the Sydney (Australia) Herald.
Horrible Cannibalism.
Tho Chinese passenger of tbe St. Paul, who was
rescued by the steamer Styx, and arrived on Tuee
day, ha* iurnished ua the following account of the
massacre of the Chines a passengers by the St.
Paul, wrecked at Rossel Island :
“ The ship went on shore duriug the night, and
when she struck the passengers all rushed on deck,
making a great outcry, upon which the captain
drove them all below again. When daylight broke
we landed by means of the boats on an island,
where we remained two days without any waterj
when some of us went on board of ihe ship again
to get some, as also provisions. The captain left
in his boat with some of his crew, aud we were not
disturbed by the natives for a month after he wo
gone; then they came over from the ms inland, dis
tant about three quarters of a mile, ana made an
attack on us. Some of us had double-barrelled
carbines, but we got frightened and threw them
away. Tbe only white man left with us after the
departure of Capt. Penuard was a Greek, who, hav
ing armed himself with a cutlass, fought desperate
ly aud killed a great many of the natives before he
was overpowdered. They then took all our clo
thing, &c , which they partly destroyed. Any val
uables that they found, such aB sovereigns, ring*,
&c., they placed in a net-bag, which each .nan carl
ried around his neck. A watch particularly ex
cited their attention, as they were continually
opening it to observe the reflection of their laces iu
the glass. At night we were placed in the centre
of a c.tar piece of ground, aud fires lit in several
places, the natives keeping a regulaj watch over
us ; aud duriug the day they would select four or
five Chinese, aod, after killing them, roast the flesh
and eat it; what was not consumed being deposit
ed in their nets. Their mode of proceeding was as
follows : The victims being decided on they were
taken out, beaten all over, (excepting tiie head,)
and then dispatched by ripping the stomach open.
The body was then cut up in sm ill pieces aud di
vided, the fingers, toes, and brains being eagerly
sought after; the boues were then collected, and
either burnt or thrown away. I saw ten of my
fellow passengers *.iiled in this way.
“On one occasion some of the Chinese took a
beat which belonged to the ship aud went over to
the main land at night to get some w ater, but never
returued, so we thought they had been tilled.—
Eve y day they brought us oocoanufs or some wild
roots to eat, aud appeared to be quite triendly with
us. This state of things continued uutil I was ta
ken off the island. When I left there were only
Lur Chinese and the Greek alive, all the rest hav
ing been killed. I saw these five tbe day the steam
er came in eight, but when the natives saw tue
boats coming on shore they took them to the moun
tains. I was sick aud iame, aud they would not
carry me, so that I watched my opportunity and
contrived to conceal myself among the rocks until
the boat came on shore. They are very numerous
nut do not appear to have any chiefs among them.
Tory five ou cocoanuts, of which there are large
quantities, aud a kind of yam, which they roast
btfore eating : but, beyond a few dogs, I saw neith
er animals nor fowls of auy kind.”
Stipulations op the Nicaraguan Treaty.—
The National Intelligencer learns that, contrary to
the intimations of certain corresponden.s of the
Northern press, the Nicaraguan Treaty makes no
provisions for the landing ot United States troops in
Nicaragua with a view to expel any filibustering ex
pedition that may have effected a descent upon
that State, but does contain a provision allowing
our Government to i&ud torces within its territory
in order to protect the persons and property of our
citizens when in danger. The treaty also contains
| a provision permitting the United States, at their
; pleasure, to send troops and munitions ot war
across the transit routes, with the reservation that
they shall not be employed against any of the
States of Central America, which are in amity with
Nicaragua. Upon these points we learn that the
treaty coneeds all that our government has asked
or could desire. We are also pleased to be inform
ed that a good anderstanding continues to prevail
between our own and the Britisu Government in
respect to the most feasible mode in which the long
standing controversies have arisen with regp.rd to
Central Ame-ica, under the Clayton Bulwer Con
-1 veuticn. should be brought to an amicable and sat
isfactory terminat.on.
Sharp Practice.—/ New York broker under
! taking to . torn a dishonest penny, lest week, was
I “hoist by his own peiard.” A man offered him
| SY!**. in go'd dust, which he sad had been stolen,
tor naif its value. The broker eei-ed the opportu
nity. weighed the dus . fourd it all right, and paid
ever the money. Almo it immediately a professed
policeman came in, said he had ascertained that he
was in possession of a certain parce. of gold dust,
and mu?t arrest nun and seize the duet. The bro
ker was much alarmed, and dually offered the offi
cer eight hundred dol.ars in bills to release him ana
keep mam. The offer was accepted and the money
paio. The broker then concluded it was best to
get rid of the gold as soon as possible, bnt on at
tempting to sell it found it was only copper filings.
The p. liceman was also bogus, and the broker
finds himself minus f0.300. which should be a
caution to him not to deal hereafter with stolen
goods.
Judge Wilson. —Judge W iison, the indexible
and excelien* Judge of the U. S. District Court for
Northern Ohio, has drawn down upon timsek the
complimentary hatred of the abolitionists for con
signing to jail the fanatical Oberlin crew, concern
ed in rescuing a slave from the officers of the law.
The denunciations of the enemies of society are the
highest praise that art hones* man need desire. —
Oberlin is the great nursery of abolitionism and of
every other ■?. in the West. It is a college in
which male and female. black and white, are all re
ceived, and mingle indiscriminately. Many years
ago, De.ezon Smith, one ot the students, withdrew
horn the 1: stitnticn, and published a revelation of
its mysteiies. entitled “Oberlin Unmasked.” It
was a horrid recital cf crime and hyprociay, enough
to make a man blush fur his species.
It is not surprising to learn that the sain.ly pro
fessors cf this institution, whom Judge Wiiaon hts
sent to j il, are making martyrs of themselves, and
endeavoring to cheat the public with the idea, that
they are like Paul and Suae, and other apostles,
when cast into prison. They forget that one of
those apostles declared that it was no glory to a .
mac if he suffered as a thief, or a busybody in I
other men’s matters. Tee apostles never stole ser- i
vauts, cor resisted the law, nor preached abolition, j
but on the cohtrary required obedience to masters, 1
to the laws, and declared that the “powers that be [
areordamed of God, “ — R,, K L>up
Tea and Coe fee.—According to the New York j
Courier, in the last nine years two hundred and
eighty five million pounds eftea were imported in
to ihe j olted S’ates. the consumption being about
one pennd and one fifth for each person The total
consumption of coffee in the United States last
year was two hundred end ffi-y million pounds,
over eighty pounds for each individual.
From the Columbus Enquirer of Saturday.
Georgia Baptist Convention.
This body assembled in the Baptist Church yes
terday morning (22d} at 10J A. M , the Rev. C. D.
Mallory delivering the introductory sermon from
let epistle John v. 21, ‘ Little children, keep your
selves from idols: amen.” His subject was divi
ded into three parte: 1 A precic us epithet for
Chretiens —tfg-y were the children of Chri-t. 2.
An important demand, “to keep themselves from
idols.” 3. An important prayer in a eimpie word,
“amen ” Tbe speaker alluded to the idolatries of
the age among mankind genera.ly, warning h ; s
congregation to keep aloof from all such ; and his
Baptist brethren in particular should beware of the
idolati yof denominational sentiments, denomiua
toinal success, and denominational amicipationa.—
Tbe sentiments were not theirs, but Christ's ; tbe
success was rightly a causa for rejoicing among
thetn=elvee, bat the glory was God's; and to Him
alone must they look for future results. Besides
many fair and candid allusions to important tenets
of the Church, this opening sermon contained much
statistical information of interest to the Baptists of
Georgia. Presuming it would appear iu print, we
look no notes of any portion, but were struck with
tbe intelligence of the numerical success of the de
nomination every where, especially in Georgia—
where, starting with a single Cbm eh, the Baptists
are now more numerous taan ihe whole number of
members in all the States sixty yeare ago. For
this success tnere we- additional reason for becom
ing like “little children ‘ in hum.lity, for obeying
the “important command” of the text, that, like
Christians, they might heartily respond to its em
phatic prayer. ■ Amen.”
At the conclusion of the discourse tbe Chair, on
motion, appointed a Committee on credentials—
consisting cf three members, when tue body ad
journed until 3 o'clock, p. m.
Committee on Credentials. —B. M Irwin, T. J.
Barney and J. H. Devotie.
3 o'clock, p. m.—Opened with prayed by Rev
Mr. Gann.
Committee on credentials reported the following
delegates.
Apalachee. —G. A. Mathews, J. VV. Jackson, D.
H. Montcrief.
Bethel —C. D. Mallory. E. W. Warren, C. M.
Irwin, J. O. Cumbie, W. L Crawford, D. A. Vason.
H. C. Hornady, T. Mute, A. P. Mitchell, J. F.
Ddgg, R. Thornton, D. W. Cowdery, W. N. Chau
dom, W. L. Mansfield.
ColumJus. —C. D. Willis, W. I). Atkinson, Jas.
Perryman, John Howell, J. H. DeVotie, w. J.
Wellborn, C. C. Hillman, B. L. Ross, T. H. Mur
phy, T. J Miles, Isaac Hart.
Georgia Association. —Tbos. Stocks, P. A. Mell,
N. M. Crawford, K. Gunu, T. J. Beck, T. D. West,
L. G. Steed, Win. Williams, H. A. TupDer, S-. D.
Durham, J. R. Young, K L McWhorter, W. P.
Steed, J H. Stockstou, J. T. Wingfield.
Central Association.— J. L. Warren, A. T. Spal
ding, J. B. Walker, J. H. Corley, A. E. Cloud, H.
Cogburn, T. J. Birney.
Ebenezer Association —A. 11. Bunn,W.D, Horn,
L Solomon, B. F. Jessup, Geo. Walker, G. R. Mc-
Call.
Flint River Association —A. Sherwood, J. H.
Campbell, W. G. McMiehael, A. E. Marshall, A. D.
Montcrief, S. S. Campbell.
Middle Association— N. M. McCall, W. Cooper,
E. W. Solomons, G. W. Moore, J. C. Edwards, J.
Middleton. J. R. Cooper, G. W. Cooper.
Rehoboth. —B. F. Tharp, W. C. Wilkes, S. Lan
drum, H Powell, T. E. Langley, S. F'elher, J. H.
Clark, J H. Mason.
Sunbcrry Association —S G. Danille, H. E. Cas
siday, A. S. Morrell. J. W. Rabun, R. S. Hardwick,
L J. B Fairchild, G W Davis, J Brewer, W. F.
Chaplin, G. S. F'rierson, P H.Befcn, J. S. Marlin,
G. D. Daniels, James Hunter.
Western Association —H. Carmichael, W. A.
Calloway, J. Culberson, E. B. Teague, J. Rainwa
ter, H. E. Brooks, J. B Davis, S. W. Bartley, G. R.
Moore, A. F. Kendrick, James Calloway, U. B.
Wilkinson, J. E. Robertson.
Hepzibah Association —J. E. Kyerson, W. Sapp,
G. W. Evans, G. Stapleton, John Jenkins, W.H.
Davis, D. 15. Piumb.
Houston Association —J. B. Dravers, E. VV. War
reu, Abner Bunam, Samuel Boykin.
Rock Mountain —A. T. Holmes, J. T. Clark, S.
Root. F. Uaygood.
Southern Association —W. B. Daniell, H. Ander
son.
Washington Association. —VV. J. Harley, VV. M.
Verderee, J. R. S. Jenkins, O. C. Pope, A. C. Ed
wards.
Sarepla Association —A. Chandler, J. W. John
son. P. P. Butler, J. 11. Gcss, S. W. Stephens, J.
G While, I). G. Johnsan, T. B. Moss, R. B. Eber
bait.
Antioch Missionary Society. —Wm. Edwards, W.
Jewel, Lemuel Edwards.
White Plains Miss. Society. —J. H. Kilpatrick.
Madison Miss. Society.— G. Y. Brown, E. E.
Jones, W. Stokes.
Houston Bible Society. —ll. W. Holtzclaw, W.
F. Felder.
Mitledgmlle For. and Dom. Miss. Soc. —J. C.
Whitaker, I>. B. Stedson.
Mercer University Miss. Society. —U. W. Wise,
A. B. Sharpe.
Bairdstown Miss. Society. —J. G. Holtzclaw, C.
D. Kimbrow, J. H. Kimbrow.
Greensborongh Baptist Miss. Society. —T. J.
Brown, V. Sanford, S. B. Jackson.
Young Men’s Miss. Soc. Penfietd. —N. M Mc-
Call.
Columbus Miss. Society. —3. E. Dawson, T. B.
Slade, R. W. Denton.
Augusta Bap Miss. Society. —ll. 11. Hickman,
If J Sibley.
Augusta Sabbath Schcool Miss. Society. —R. M.
Reed.
After a short session in devotional exercises,
Convention elected H. H. Mel! Ai iderntor, J.F.
Dagg Cierk and C. M. Irwin Assistant Clerk.
Ti e following Committees were appointed ;
On Preaching. —Bro. T. J. Burney, P. W. Evans,
J. W. Rabun, J. H. DeVotie, J. K. Redd.
On Business. —Brethren Joseph Walker, J. E.
Dawson, G. R. McCall, T. Stocks, N. M. Craw
ford.
On Finance. —R. L. McWhorter, U. P. Wilkin
son, S. Root.
Received the following correspondents: From
the Alabama Baptist Convention— Brethren J. T.
Ticknor, J. F. Bie. soc, J. W. Williams, W. Hill, C.
Battle, H. H. Bacon, J C. Foster, W. B. Jones, R.
Fie, J.T. S. Park, J. M. Russell, C. A. Stanton, S.
Hendereon.
Cherokee Convention. —Brethren Barrow, W. H.
Dyer, W. H. Roberts.
Carey Association. —Brother Bockom.
Noon Day Association. —Brother Robert.
Domestic Miss. Board at Marion, Ala.— Brother
It. T. Summer, Cor. Sec'y.
Oeorgia Baptist Bible and Col. Association. —
Brother S. Boykin.
S. B. Publication Soc. Charleston. —Brother J.
J. Toon.
Union Asso. —Bro. VV. Williams.
For. Miss Board, Richmond, Va. —Brother D.
G. Daniel.
Invited ministers of our denomination to seats
with us. Accepted by Brethren C. Kennedy, R.
Webb, C. S. Gaulden, V/. H. Clark, J. E. Sharp,
M. B. L Binion, J. O. Soriven.
Received the report of Executive Committee and
referred to a special Committee.
Appointed the tollowing as the times of bolding
the Business meetings of this Convention ; Morning
Sessious from 9A.M. to IP. M. Afternoon Ses
sions from 3 to 5.
Saturday Morning, 0 o’clock.
Opened with prayer by Brother A. T. Holmes.—
Adopted the report of the Committee on Business.
The pastor ot the Baptist Church of Columbus
presented a package of * cards for the use of dele
gates on their reluming home by railroad, which
was accepted with the thanks of the Convention.—
Instructed the Moderator to feign these cards.
Ou motion of Brother DeVotie, reporters of the
city newspapers were invited to seats at the clerk’s
table.
Appointed the following standing committees:
On Education —Brethren A. Sherwood, 11. M.
Holtzclaw, Thomas B. Slade, J. L. Warren, W. M.
Verderee.
On Eabbath, School— Brethren E. W*Warren,
J. E. Kyerson, J. T. Clark, J. H. Goss, Wm. Cooper.
On Missions— Brethren C. D. Mallory, E. B.
Teague, A. T. Hoimes, A. Chandler, J. li. Camp
bell.
On Nominations —Brethren Thos. Stocks, D. A.
Vason, J. W. Johnson, Frierson, Stevens.
On Deceased Ministers —Brethren N. M. Craw
ford, W. D. Atkinson, W. H. Davis, L. R. L. Jen
nings, J. B. Deavors.
Received Report of Board of Trustees of Mercer
University, and referred it to the following commit
tee: Brethren Tupper, Moss, A. S. Marshall, W. J.
Harley, W. L. Stephens.
Race ved Report of Index Committee, and refer
red it to the followiug committee : Brethren, W.
Williams, D. G. Daniell, D. H. Moncrieff, C. M.
Irwin, G. W. Evans.
Received the Report of the Treasurer, and order
ed it to be printed with the minutes.
Appointed Correspondents, a3 follows :
To the Alabama State Convention, Brethren
DeVotie, J. E. Dawson. J>. B. Teague, T. J.
Brown, W. A. Calloway, W. M. Vederee.
To the Florida Convention, Brethern Hornady
and J. 11. Stockstou.
To the General Association of Virginia, Brethern
J. E. Dawson, P. H. Mell, C. M. Irwin, L. R. L.
Jennings, W. Sapp, Wm. Edwards, J. R. Cooper,
W. J. llarley, O. C. Pope.
To the Cherokee Convention, Brethern J. Rain
water, J. Walker, A. T. Holmes, D. G. Daniell, J.
H. Corley, W. Sapp, G. W. Evans, T. J. Burney,
Stapleton, J. Howell, A. T. Spalding, J. W!
Jackson, N. M. Crawford, H. C. Hornady, S.
Root.
To the Union Association, Brethren N. M. Mc-
Call, W. Cooper A. B. Sharp, G. R. McCall.
To the South Carolina Convention, Brothreu T.
J. Bowen, A. S. Morrall, S. Landrum, N. M. Craw
ford.
Agreed to open correspondence with the East
Alabama Convention, and appointed the following
Brethren to attend the D-xt meeting of that body :
J. 11. DeVotie, A.T. Holmes, W. Williams, T. B.
Slade.
On motion Brother Dawson—
Rexolrerl, That no appropriation be made to de
fray the traveling expenses of our delegates to the
Southron Baptist Convention.
On motion Brother Mallory—
Resolved, That in appointing delegates to the
Biennail Convection, we be not restricted to the
members ot this Convention, but to the bodies re
presented iu this Convention.
On motion Kev. J. B. Walker—
Resolved, that a committee of one from each
association repiesented here, be appointed tonomi
nate delegates’ to the Southern Baptist Convention.
The Chair announced the following as that commit
tee:
Brethren J. B. Walker, G. H. Mathews, C. D.
Mallory, W. D. Atkinson, J. H. Sfockton, Geo.
Walker, A. Sherwood, M. N. McCall, B F. Tharpe,
S. T. ltaburn, Jas. Culberson. D. B. Plumb, A. t!
Holmes, S Anderson, O. C. Pope, P. p Butler.
On motion Kev. Landrum, adopted the following
preamble anti resolution:
Whereas, individuals are contributing tG sustain
brother J. H. Campbell as an Evangelic- in Geo-gia
for one year, and whereas we are pleased wkh tbe
movement—therefore:
Resolved, That we cheerfully commend Kev.
Campbell to the confidence and kind regards of our
b.e'Lr.n gt-neraily.
By provision of the Convention, brother E. YY.
Warren in behalf of the Tallahassee Church; breth
ren Sherwood and Mar.in in behalf of the Bruns
wich Church ; mother Sumner in behalf of the
Domestic Mission Board, in Marion, presen‘ed the
o.aims of the objects upon the sympathies and be
nevolence of the Denomination.
Adjourned until 2 o’clock, p. m. Prayer by broth
er Beck.
Three O’clock, P. M
Opened with prayer by Bro. E. B. Teague.
Brother D. G. Danieil, Agent for Miss. Board,
mace an address in fcehaif of Foreign Missions.
Appoinisd Brother N. M. Crawford to preach the
next Introductory sermon—Bro. Wm. Williams
his alternate. Brother H. A. Tapper to preach the’
Educational sermon—Brother A. T. Holmes, bis al
ternate.
Elected the following Executive Committee for
the ensuing year : Brethren Tkos. Stocks, T. J
Burney. J E Wiilet. Wm. Williams, D. E. Butler!
T. D. Martm, K. M Crawford.
Elec’e 1 brother T. J. Burney, Treasurer.
Authorized the delegates who may be in atten
dance at the biennial convention to fill any vacan
cies that may occur in their number.
On motion of brother Joseph Walker—
Km. nd. That ffiJO of the amount received from
tbe Christian Index be passed over to the General
Purpose Fund.
On motion brother Dawson—
Resolved. That t e Executive Committee be in
structed to request the Southern Eaptist Publica
tion s *cieiy. to procure for publication a copy of
Bro. Mallory’s sermon, delivered yesterday.
Adjourned til! Monday morning, 9 o'clock. Pray
er by Bro. Cowdry.
The Truth abhut Herculaneum. —The sup
position that tne destruction of Herculaneum and
Pompeii wes due to a shower of stones and cinders
from Vesuvius has been called in question by a
Frenchman, M. Dufrency. He finds closely cover
ed cellars into which the cinders could not have
fallen, their covering being perfect, which are filled
with tttfa. He supposes that this could have been
deposited only by water. An additional proof is
that the tufa itseff is composed mainly of matter
which most have been deposited by water.
Singular —lt is generally observed that persons
of about forty years, especially young ladies of that
age, are very forgetful of those with whom they
were acquainted in childhood. 1 his remarkable
dimness of memory has been appropriately styled :
“The darkness of the middle agee.”
GEORGIA ITEMS.
WEEKLY
Chronicle £ JientindL
AUGUSTA, GA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, AP’L 27. 1839
A .Mirror for Democ rnis
The letter of Gov. Wise, which we publish to
day, wili afford democracy an opportunity “ to eee
themseivea as others see them,” and as the mirror
ia held up by Governor Wise, one of the leading
spirits of tbe party, we presume no goed Democrat
will object to its truthfulness. We commend it to
their caiefui inspection, as it teaches a lesson by
which all patriots will profit, while demagogues,
party hacks, and camp follow o rs, including nearly
or quite all of those old line Whigs, who have sold
themselves and their principles for “a mess of
pottage,” will see nothing in it to shake their con
fidence .
Rain, flail, Ac.
We were favored, Friday morning, with a fine,
refreshing shower, which, though hardly sufficient
to meet the wants of planters, effectually laid the
dust in cur streets, ana was universally welcomed
both in town and country.
About five o clock in the afternoon another show*
er came up, accompanied by a high wind and a
heavy fall of hail, which did considerable damage to
shade trees and shrubbery, tearing off* limb3 and
nearly stripping many of the trees of their verdure*
Fruit trees and vegetable gardens were also con
piderably injured. Many of the hail-siones weie of
enormous s.ze but difficult of comparison with any
kiren object, on account of their very irregular
shape. The largest shaped one we
saw, was fully the size of a pigeon's egg, but many
of the irregularly shaped ones were much larger,
seme of them nearly three inches in length—ap.
parently formed of ma* y chrystalized drops, group
ed together into the moat fantastic ehapea, more re
sembling pieces of rock-candy than anything el e
we can compare them to. One of the larges l
pieces, on being placed in the scales by Dr. Har
kek, was found to weigh one-fourth of an ounce-
The fall of rain, though of ehort duration, was very
heavy, and the streets were deluged in a few
minutes, the drains in some places being insufficient
to carry off the flood of water.
Between six and seven o’clock another brief,
heavy shower of rain fell, accompanied by a very
high wind and almost incessant thunder and light,
ning, and another fall of hail though smaller and
not so heavy as the first.
The Atlanta Firemen iu Aufcaitu.
Mechanic Fire Compaq, No. 2, of Atlanta,
passed through this city Monday last, ou their way
to Charleston, to attend the Firemen's Annual
Celebration at that place on Wednesday. They
were received at the Depot of the Georgia Rai 1 -
road on their arrival by a large delegation of
our Fire Department, amid enthusiastic cheers.—
A neat and appropriate address of welcome was
delivered on behalf of the Augusta Firemen, by
W. H. Wheeler, Esq., who was responded to by
Dr. W. T. C. Campbell, for the Atlanta Firemen
in a graceful and felicitous speech. The united
Companies then formed in line, cur own “boys”
gallantly manned their machine, aud the procession
moved up to Broad street, escorted by the Atlanta
Band.
After partaking of a collation at the Augusta
Hotel, they proceeded to the South Carolina Depot,
leaving for Charleston at 8 o’clock, in the best of
spirits. May they have a good time! ,
They will return on Thursday at 1.15 P. M., and
remain as the guest3 of our firemen during the af
ternoon and evening of that day.
The Match.—The second game of the
Telegraphic Chess match between the Augusta and
Charleston Chess Clubs was concluded on Wednes
day evening last. Charleston, at their forty-first,
move proposing to draw the game which was ac_
cepted by Augus'a. We give below the moves in
the game .
B LAC K—C H AULKSTON
1— V to K 4
2 P to K K 1
3 K B U Q B 4
4Kt toQ 113
5 -K to B square
6 Q Kt takes P
7 to K 2
8— K Kt to B
9 Q Kt to K Kt 5
10— K B takes Q
11— Kt to KU3
12— pto 4
113—Q Kt takes P
14— Kt to Q 3rd
15— Q B *o Q 2
16— K Kt to K 5 check
17— B toKB 3
18— Q R to K square
19— Q R to K 2
20— K to K square
21— P takes Kt
£2—Q Bl* takes
23 B to QBII
24 P takes B
25 Kto Q square
2*i—K R to K square
27 K takes R
28— R takes Kt
29 R to K 2
30— K to Q B 2
31— to Q K 4
32 KtoQ Kt 3
33 R to (} 2
34 —P to QB 4
35 — P takes P
36 K to Q B 3
37 K to Q 3
33—K to QKt 2
39 II to K 2
40— K takes R
41— K to K3.
W Hite—Augusta.
Pto K 4
Ptakes P
P to K B 4
Q to K R 5 check
P taVes P
P to Q B 3
K to Q square
Q to lv 2
Q takes Q check
K to K square
Kt to K B 3
P to Q 4
B to Q 3
K Rto K B square
K to K B 2
K to Kt square
B to KB 4th
Q Kt to Q 2
Q R to K square
Kt takes Kt
Q B takes Kt
B takes 1*
13 takes 13 check
Kt to Q 2
Kt to K 4
Kt takes B
Kt takes K R
i* to K It 3
R to K B 3
K to B 2
P to K Kt 1
R to K 3
P to QR 4
P takes P check
K to K 2
P to Q B 4
P to K R 4
P to Q Kt 3
R takes R
K to K 3
The third and iast game of the match was com,
menced on Saturday evening last, White (Augusta)
having the first move, and was concluded Monday
evening, Charleston winning tire game. At Biack’s
(Charleston’s) tenth move, Augusta resigned, and
proposed to begin at once the next game, as, by
the English rules, a drawn game is no game, and
therefore only one of the three games proposed had
been played. Charleston, however, declined, con
sidering the match closed:
Black —Charleston.
PtoK 4
Pto Q 4
P toK 5
P to Q B 3
Ptakes P
I K B to Q B 4
j K to B square
I K Kt to B 3
| Kt to K Kt 5
| B to K B 7 check.
White—Augusta.
1—
2 P to K 33 4
3 K P takes Q P
i-KB to Q Kt scheck
5 P lakes P
6 B to Q B 4
7 B takes K B P check
8— to K 2
9 B to Q Kt 3
10—Q to QiS 4
Richmond Superior Court. —The April term
of the Superior Court for thia county met and was
organized Monday last, Judge Holt presiding.
Death of Ex-Governor William C. Bouck.—
lion. William C. Bouck, of Schoharie county, New
York, died at his residence in that county, on tlie
morning of the 19th iuet., at the age of 73 years. He
lived on the same farm occupied by his father and
graudfather, and which was a part of the tract on
Schoharie creek patented by the latter and others
from George the 11, in 1755.
The Press. —The Abbeville (S. C ) Banner lias
just closed its fifteenth volume. It enters upon a
ewyear with flattering prospects.
Personal.—A. D. Bache, L.L.D., the distin
guished head ofth9 Coast Survey, and Lieut. J. N.
Maffitt* U. S. N., were at Charleston on yester
day.
Georgia Military Institute. —The Marietta
Patriot demurs to our 11 soft impeachment” of the
Military Institute, as “ the greatest humbug of the
State.” This did not surprise us, for we never ex
pect a miller to complain of.a customer who brings
a good grist to bis mill. The Patriot, however, ad
mits that “the Superintendent of the school is in
competent, (that’s the State’s misfortune,) and
hopes the Institution may yet see belter days;” alj
of which affords abundant ground for our desire to
see the State wash its hands of the concern.
A Friend of Long Standing. —The Editor of
the Savannah Republican felicitates himself, as
well he may, upon a visit from a subscriber re
siding in the Southwest, who dropped in to pay in
advance (his fifty-sixth year's subscription to the
Republican. The Editor adds : “We have several
on our books of from forty-five to fifty years’
Btanuing, but the above mentioned is the only name
that has not been changed for fifty-six years. May
our old friend prosper and live to be a subscriber
for fifty-six additional years ?”
New York Cheating Boston.—At the late
meelingof the Shoe and Leather dealers of Boston
ana vicinity, “a letter was read, in which it was
stated that a lot of one hundred sides sole leather
was purchased in New York, which, when receiv
ed, fell short in weight 52 lbs. After being dried in
a loft it fell short 190 lbs., or about 11 per cent.
Many similar statements were made. One gentle
man said he believed that, within the last year, the
manufacturers of Massachusetts had paid more for
water than the whole amount of the State tax for
the present or the last year.”
So it peems that Croton Water is applied to more
uses than are dreamed ot in some men's philosophy,
who are not engaged in the shoe and leather trade.
The remedy for all such frsuds is easy, and honest
dealers should ax-ail themselves of it without hee.ta
tion ; that remedy is to publish to the world the
names of the houses and firms, by whom such
frauds are perpetrated. The same course will cor
rect immediately the fraudulent practices in the
packing of cotton and every department of com
merce.
Meeting of Shoe Dealers and Manufac
turers. —A large meeting of Shoe Dealers and
Manufacturers was held on tbe loth Inst., at the
Shoe and Leather Exchange, Boston; and, after
discussion a committee of nine was appointed to
confer with the New York Dealers, wita a view of
procuring a more accurate inspection cf sole leath
er.
The Mail Screw Steamer New York, Capt.
Von Santen, left New York Saturday afternoon for
Bremen via Southampton, with 101 cabin passen
gers, and 81 in the steerage. She takes out $179,-
000 in specie.
Canal Navigation —The Aioany Argu3 says
that the Navigation i? uninturrupted, and boats are
peeing East and Wes- The first laden boat from
the West this season, belonged to the A trier'cm
Transportation Company. She had on board 9,000
busoels Chicago cats, and had keen ice bound all
winter at Schenectady.
A Philadelphia Count. —An American was
recently married in France under the the title of
Count Alfred de .Montgomery. He has sued the
Paris Counter for libel, in admitting a letter declar
ing him to be no Count, bat the son of a (Quaker
grocer in Philadelphia.
Saluting the U. S. Flag. —A letter from
Buenos Ayres states that Commissioner Sbubrick
had ordered the steamer Water Witch to proceed
from Corrientes to Asuncion, in order that the Para,
guayan batteries at Humaita (honld salute tbe
United States dag in honor of the peaceful settle
ment of all existing difficulties between the two
republics.
Mr. Soule on the Deniocrary.
Opr readers are already advised of the recent
demonstration made against the Administration by
the New Orleans Democracy. Prominent among
the actors on that occasion was Mr. Soule, one of
the leaders of the Democracy of that State, who
has enjoyed in an eminent degree the confidence of
his party. While the committee on resolutions
were absent, Mr. Soule entertained the meeting
with a speech, in which be spoke t f the Administra
tion party in the following strain, which is certainly
not very complimentary to their patriotism, how
ever it may be to their love of the “loams and
fishes,'’ which Mr. Randolph said long ago, were
the only principles of the party ; a sentiment which
Mr. Calhoun fully endorsed, in his celebrated re
mark about “the cohesive properties of the public
plunder.” But to the extract from Mr. Soule’s
speech—here it is :
“ There be those among them who have all their
life fattened on party preferment and patronage,
who blush not to hne and cry against office seekers.
There be those who, having stained their hands, nay,
steeped their arms to the elbows in tLe most dis
graceful transactions, perverting public trusts into
engines of spoliation and robbery, dare still speak
of honesty and virtue; and those who, having
transformed Legislatures and party Conventions
into open marts where robust ana daring votes
might be put up af auction and sold to the highest
bidder or into gaming houses, where timid and
bashful public servants might be stealthily enticed
to gamble away their conscience at a faro table,
will talk of patriotism, and aspire to have their
names inscribed among those of a Washington, an
Adams, a Jefferson, a Monroe, a Jackson!”
The intelligent reader, we thiuk, will agree with
us, whatever his position politicaiiy, that this is a
very graphic and truthful picture of the Democratic
party. Mr. Soule is evidently an artist in his iine,
and as be Las long been a member of the party, one
of the ‘ head men and warriors,” who is familiar
with the whole macuiaery and history of the cor
| rupt organization, may be expected to speak from
i pieilive knowledge He cannot be said to be a
disappointed office-seeker, for he has enjoyed the
highest honors his party in Louisiana could bestow,
and was subsequently trade Minister to Spain by
the Pierce Administration. A man who enjoys
the confidence of his party to such an extent rnuet
be presumed to know of what he speaks.
t.ov. Wise vs. .11 r. Buchanan.
In a recent letter from Gov. Wise to the Hon.
David Hubbard of Alabama, he thus speaks of the
President:
“The President bids high. To filibusters he
offers CubajAnd the isthmus and North Mexico—to
the West, a Paoitiu Kailrod to tne North, protection
to iron and coarse woollens—and to the great com
mercial centres, the power ot centralization by
envious uses and abuses of a bankrupt act to
State banks. Yesterday Biddle was a mon
ster, and to-day a few Wall street bankers can ex
pand and contract upon us more like a vice than
he did—and what would they not do if they could
toree the poor provinces when they please into
bankruptcy ? I have written this right on, and
you may do what you please with it.”
Yours truly, “ “ Henry A. Wise.
“The President bids high,” says Gov. Wise. —
What does he mean ? Does he mean that he is
seeking a reuomiuation, and is therefore bringing
the inlluence of his office, backed by the Spoils, to
bear upon the issue ? What else can he refer to 1
ft is, however, not material, for the declaration and
charge imply that the President is using improper,
if not corrupt meaus, to accomplish his purposes,
whatever they may be; and this charge is openly
and boldly made by the leader of the Virginia De
mocracy.
Democratic Harmony in Virginia.
In one of the Congressional Districts of the Old
Dominion, bordering on Tennessee, there are three
Democratic candidates for Congress, and one old line
Whig or American. These candidates are Floy)
brother of the Secretary of War, Hopkins, the pre
sent member, and Gov. McMullen, Democratic,
and Martin Opposition. These would-be Democra
tic Congressmen, are a fair specimen of the harmo
nious Democracy of every other section of the
Union, and afford an apt and forcible illustration Os
the harmonies of the “National Democracy !” That
the reader may see we do them no injustice, we
transfer to our columns the following sketch of the
race, by a special correspondent of the N. Y. Herald >
Who says:
“It is a remarkable fact that no two out of the
whole number agree upon any leading principle as
reflected by the present Administration. Mr. Me
Mullen, I understand, is in favor of the several re
commendations of the President in his hist mes
sage, save the Cuba policy. Hopkins is understood
to be opposed to these, while Floyd, as is supposed,
favors all save the tariff policy. Hopkins aud Mc-
Mullen are directly at issue upon Hie Pensiou Bill,
the latter being opposed to it, while the former
voted for it. Mai tin oiffers with all. His hobby is
distribution, to which, it appears, all the others are
opposed. In this state of things there is every
reason to apprehend a serious division in the De
mocracy of tile district, which will result in the
success of the Opposition candidate, Martin. This
eonffiot is unfortunate for Mr. Letcher s prospect in
the district, for it appears tLat each one of the can
didates is at issue with him upon some point or
other. McMullen differs with him on the Pacific
Railroad question ; Hopkins on the Pension Bill;
Floyd on ihe Pension Bill or Cuba Bill, and Martin
ou distribution.”
Cnlboun Monument—Floral Fuir.
The subjoined notice of a “Fioral Fair,” to be
given by the ladies of the “ Ladies Calhoun Monu
ment Association,” we take pleasure in laying be
fore our readers, aud inviting their attention there
to. The fame of Mr. Calhoun belongs to no par
ticular locality, but is the property of the whole na
tion, although South Carolina may, with exultant
pride, boast of his citizenship. We feel an abiding
confidence, therefore, that in every section of the
Union, may be found those who will most cheer
fully contribute to the noble work of rearing a
monument to his distinguished services—his devo
ted patriotism and revered memory; and wo shall
be pleased to know that Georgians, are aiding the
noble sisterhood of Carolina in so worthy a cause :
The ladies of the Calhoun Munnment Association,
will open a Floral Fair at the Institute Hall, in
Charleston, on the evening of the 10th May. Be
lieving that the people of the City and State ap
prove and wiilsu3tiu their undertaking, they invite
contributions of Handiwork, Flowers, Refresh
ments, &e., either useful or ornamental. They
hope to receive the oo operation of all in this pa
triotic work of raising a suitable memqrial to Caro
lina’s greatest eon. Donations may be forwarded
to either of the undersigned.
Mrs. George Robertson,
President, No. 1 Smith st.
M rs. M. A. Snowden,
Treasurer, No. 9 Church-st.
Death ok Mr. E. K. Harris. —We regret to
learn that Mr. Edward K. Harris, far the last year
or eighteen months local editor of the Daily Tri
bune, died in this city on Sunday morning, of ty
phoid fever. Deceased was a native of Shelby
county, was about twenty-five years of ege, and
a most exemplary young man. Extremely modest
and retiring in his manners, he was, nevertheless,
very active and efficient in the discharge of his
duties, and contributed his promising talents suc
cessfully to the local department of the Tribune.—
Though absent from his parents and most of his
kindred, he was kindly and patiently attended to in
bis fatal illness, by friends who knew his worth and
admired his moral character. — Mobile Adv., V.Hh.
The Tribune also chronicles the decease of Mr.
Diego Alvarez, an old citizen of Mobile, aged
about CO. He died almost instantly, while sitting
in his chair, of disease of the heart.
The Flood in the Mississippi—More Cre
vasses.—We take the following gloomy intelligenc
from the Vicksburg True Southron of Sunday last:
We regret to have to record two more crevassee
in Madison Parish; the first occurriug at noon on
Friday, at the plantation of the late John L. Harris,
and the second at the Culbertson place, about one
o’clock yesterday morning. Both these breaks are
a few miles above Young’s Point, and the water
rushing through with great force and violence.
The crevasses at the Culbertson place let in a vol
ume of water at least fifteen feet deep at the out
set. This crevassee is about thirty yards wide and
increasing hourly. The break at the Harris place
was not quite so wide, but this, like the other, is
constantly incarnsing iu width. These two crevas
ses will about complete the overflow of all the cen
tral and lower portions of Madison Parish, and if
the levees give way above Milliken’s Bend, an
event now anticipated momentarily, the whole
Parish will be submerged.
The immense levee at Diamond Island Bend, a
few miles below this city, a break in which was re
corded in these columns some time since, is gone
to the extent ot five o i six miles! This msut pour
an immense flood of water down on the Parish of
Tensas and produce great damage in that wealthy
and productive Pariah. We sympathize with our
overflowed friends, but we fear their troubles have
not yet cessed. Our own impression is that nearly
eveiy ievee on the river will be swept off by the
rushing watee.
The Cass-Ykiasirri Tkeatv.— The Washington
correspondent of the Baltimore Nun, usually well
informed in reference to the progress of events at
the Capital, Bays:
The President will not accept the ratification with
the modification adopted by the Nicaraguan gov
ernment, whether the same modifications have been
assented to by the British Minister, in the British
transit treaty or not.
It was one of the chief objects of this government
in negotiating the Cass-Yrisarri treaty, to secure to
the United States a right to land an armed force on
the Isthmus for the protection of American inter
ests thereon, and also to transport troops and muni
tions of war across the Isthmus when occaaion
might require it. But it would seem that the treaty
as ratified contains no stipulation allowing the Uni
ted States to land forces at ail, except for the pur
pose ot suppressing filibuster enterprises, and it de
nies to the United States the right of transporting
troops across the Isthmus, except with the consent
of the Nicaraguan government.
At present, therefore, the Cass-Yrrisarri treaty
must be regarded as having been repudiated by
Nicaragua. The treaty was once ratified by the
Nicaraguan Congress, and was rejected by Marti
nez. The only course left for this government to
pursue is to consider the treaty as ratified, and ex
ercise all the rights which it proposed to grant to
the United States.
A Misans trom Japan —The National Intelli
gencer says :—A letter from an officer of the United
States steam frigate Powhatan, dated at Hong
Kong cn the 14th February, states that the steam
frigate Mississippi had been detached from the
squadron by Com. Tatnail to bear the Japanese
Commission to this country by way of the Pacific.
Lieut. A. W. Habersham, senior lieutenant of the
Powhatan, has been appointed as the escort to the
Commission, who will probably cross the Isthmus,
and thus arrive at aa earlier day than by the usual
sea route. The Powhatan and Germantown will
remain in the Chinese waters, awaiting relief, which
will probably reach them the middle of September
The arrival of the Japanese embassy will be an
event of more than ordinary importance in the an
nals of diplomacy.
A Procession Obstructing the U. S. Mail.—
We learn from the New York Tribune that the
“Order of Ancient Hibernians,” during their cele
bration on Saturday last, formed across the street
at the junction of Broadway wiih Union Square
and by so doing obstructed the passage of the U. S’
Express wagon containing the mail bags for New
England. The procession made a bold stand for
some time and refused to let the wagon pass, and
also made an assault upon those in charge of it, but
by threats and entreaties they were finallyflnduced
to give way. The parties implicated are under
arrest.
Breach of Promise.— Miss AlmiraM. Bartlett,
of Charlestown, has been awarded S3OOO for breach
of promise from one Bewall Packard. Sewall is a
widower, and thinks the bill for courting two nights
a week for a year and a half, is too high.
The .llllliar; Inaiiiute.
The late emute in the Military Institute has elici
ted the following comments from the Marietta Ad
vacate upon the management of the institution, and
its past and present condition, which will be read
with interest. That the people, the parenta aud
gnardainr, who have sent their sons and wards
there, are beginning to bear the buz of the hum
bag, is clearly evinced by the withdrawal of the
students, and affords a favorable sign ;
Georgia Militay Institute. —This Institution is
now the property of the Slate, bought with the pub
lic money. Hence it is as much the right and duty
of the press to discuss its condition and manage
ment as the condition and managem-nt of any other
State property. It is very jprobable that the next
Legislature will be called upon to appropriate mo
ney irom the Treasury to make up the salaries of the
faculty of the Institute. If the State is to support
it or retain it there should be a re-organization. It
will devolve upon the Legislature to decide i pon
the necessity and propriety of a reform. We know
that it is the opinion of some, that the present an
therities will be able to revive the Institution and
bring it into a flourishing condition. This is barely
possible. But it will require a long time under the
existing system and with the present state of affairs.
We learn that there are now in oonneotion
with the Institute twenty four Cadet Officers, and
twenty-nine privates. Another statement gives the
total number of students at fifty-six. The number
is probably not higher than that last mentioned.—
There are now in the first class, none, in the second,
as we have been informed, ten, and in the third,
fourteen, the remainder being in the fourth, or low
est class. If any of these numbers are incorrect,
we will most cheerfully make the proper correction.
We have turned to the last catalogue published for
aud after July, 1858, and find that there were at
that time in what should now be the first class,
seventeen, in the second, twenty-four, and in the
third, forty. We find thus that there has been
in the first a decline from* seventeen to noth
ing, in the second from twenty-four to nine, and in
the third from forty to fourteen, and in the whole
number from 112, in July last, to 50 or 60 now.
We make these statements to show that the re
duced number has not resulted entirely from the
wholesale dismissions which the Faculty have
thought proper to indulge in recently. The Insti
tute closed in December 1557, sixteen months ago,
with 128 Cadets. Ih July last, nine months ago,
there were 112, in December last about 90. The
highest number the present year has uot exceeded
90, and is now 50 or 69. Thus it will be seen that
the decline, which has caused the impression in this
community aud abroad that the Institute must go
down under the present officers is not of recent ori
gin. Whether tire decline is tue fault or the mis
fortune of the officers, whether it is owing to the
defects in the system or in its administration should
be decided by the next Legislature, if the State is
to retain the property.
The Louisiana Demockacy.-“Tli6 New Orleans
journals bring us an account of a large and enthu
siastic meeting of the Democracy of that city, held
on the Ith instant, for the purpose of re organizing
the party aud adopting preliminary measures for
the selection of delegates to the Demoteratio State
Convention to be held at Baton Rouge on the fourth
Wednesday of May next. The meeting was presid
ed over by Col. Maunsel White, assisted by eighty
seven Vice Presidents. A committee was appoint
ed to draft resolutions explanatory of the aims and
purposes of the New Orleans Democracy participa
ting in this movement. During the temporary ab
sence of the committee, the meeting was addressed
by the Hon. Pierre Soule, in which he was severe
on the ‘Federalists of Democracy,’ and declared
that they (the Democracy of New Orleans) ‘mean to
disentangle ourselves from the thraldom in which
we have been kept for years by an unprincipled
gang of political speculators and blacklegs; and we
are here to vindicate our rights, and exercise the
inalienable prerogative ot self government.’ Reso
lutions to the same purport were unanimously adop
ted. The demonstration was evidently aimed at
the Slidell, or Administration wing of the Demo
cratic party in Louisiana.”
The Washington correspondent of tho Baltimore
American has the following oomment3 of the pro
ceedings of the Louisiana Democracy :
“The recent demonstration in New Orleans,
headed by Mr. Soule, is aimed personally at Mr.
Slidell and his humble follower, Mr. Benjamin, beth
cf whom are known to have been benetitted mate
rially by Congressional legislation. It was only a
few weeks ego when the Post Office Appropriation
and Ocean Steamer bills had failed, and no provi
sion was made lor Tehuantepec, that Mr. Benja
min succeeded in getting an Indian treaty bill sad
dled with an amendment of a quarter of a million
for this route, in which he admits being interested.
No regular mail has been carried, and in the face
of an empty 1 reasury this money is shamefully
squandered.”
It is not long since we published an expose of
Mr. Slidell's conduct, in securing tho passage of
an act by Congress for his own benefit, in the pas
sage cf which Mr. Benjamin was a prominent ac
tor, and now we have the disclosure of similar con
duct on the part of Mr. Benjamin himself, for liis
immediate benefit. Vetily, Louisiana has a worthy
brace of Senators, if these statements be true.
A Letter from Mu Clay. —The National In
telligencer has received, from a subscriber in
Louisiana, a letter of Henry Clay hitherto unpub
lished. He gives these “as some of the principal
objects which eugage the common desire and com
mon exertions of the Whig party,” namely :
Ist. A sound national currency, regulated by the
will and authority of the nation.
2d. An adequate revenue, with fair protection to
American industry.
3d. Just restraints on Executive power, embra
cing a further restriction ou the Executive veto.
4th. a faithful administration of the public do
main, wiLh an equitable distribution of the proceeds
of the sales of it among all the States.
sth. An honest and econou icai administration of
the Goneral Government, leaving public officers
perfect freedom of Hit light and ot the right of
suffrage, but with suitable restraint against im
proper intiuencesln elections.
6th. An amendment of the Constitution limiting
the incumbent ot the Presidential chair to a single
term.
Crime in London and New York.— The London
(March 25th) correspondent of the Philadelphia
Inquirer says that, whilst one sees more wretched
ness aud destitution in Loudon in twenty-four
hours than he would meet with in New York or
Philadelphia in a l'le time, yet, during nearly seven
months that he has lived in that city of three
millions, there has uot been a public execution, nor
is there at this time a single individual in London
under sentence of death. The crime of murder b
far less common there than in the large cities of the
United States. The New York Express gives an
account of fifteen murdert and attempts to kill in a
single week. Even since the execution of the
Baltimore murderers, there has been more blood
shedding in that city. The certainty ot punish
iehment in England, without regard to social posi
tion, operates as a preventive of thousands of offen
ces. (
Concealed Weapons. —The police’of Cincinnati
have been directed to arrest aud bring in all such
persons as the shall find with concealed weapons.
This order is given by the Mayor under the law
passed by Ihe last Legislature, and which took ef
fec on the first of the present month, which makes
it a misdemeanor to carry a pistol, howie knife l
dirk, or any other concealed weapon, under the
penalty of a fine not exceeding S2OO, and imprison
ment not more than thirty days for the first offence,
and SSOO fine and imprisonment for three mouths,
or both, at the discretion of the Court, for the se
cond offence.
A Gigantic Telegraph Enterprise. —On the
Ist of March, the first line of electric telegraph in
the island of Porto Rico was inaugurated at Arroyo,
under the direction of Prof. Morse. The authori
ties of the town gave a public breakfast, at which
there were present a large number of civil, clerical
and military dignitaries. In replying to the toast
in his honor, Prof. Morse announced that an extend
ed line of telegraphic communication was project
ed by a powerful company. The route, he said,
would be as follows :
“Starting from the European coast at Cape St
Vincent, in Portugal, a sub marine cable of 480
miles would be run to Madeira; thence to Palma,
in the Canaries, 240 miles; thence to San Luis, on
the coast of Africa, 700 miles; thence to Bonista, in
the Cape de Verdes, 370 miles ; thence to the island
of San Pedro, 900 miles—the longest section of eub
marine cable that would be required on the whole
route; thence to Cape San Roque, in Brazil, 180
miles.
Having arrived on the coast of America, a sub
merged cable of 500 miles along the coast would
reach San Luis ; from there another cable of 680
miles, crossing the mouth of the Amazon, would
reach Cayenne, in French Guiana ; from thence 210
miles to Surinam; thence 180 miles to Demerara;
thence 375 miles to Bar badges; thence to Martin
ique, 125 miles ; thence to St. Thomas, 450 miles ;
then to San Juan de Porto Rico, 105 miles ; thence
to Jamaica, 570 miles; thence to Havana, 390
miles ; thence to Florida, 100 miles, there connect
ing with the. great network of telegraphs that ex
tends all over the face of the United States and
Canada, and including in the whole extent of the
line, from Cape St. Vincent to Florida, 7,000 miles
of cable. This great enterprise, said Professor
Morse, is under the direct on of persons who enjoy
the highest reputation, and who are distinguished
for their probity, honor, ability, experience, perse
verance, and pecuniary power. Among the moat
prominent of them are my friends H. J. Perry, Esq ,
late Secretary of the United States Legation m
Madrid ; Sir James Carmichael, Bart, London, and
John W Brett, Esq , the father of the European
Submarine Telegraph. I confidently hope that this
work will be accomplished within three years, and
that these beautiful islands will be telegraphically
connected with the rest of the world.”
Mexican Guano.— At a recent meeting of the
Boston Natural History Society attention was call
ed to the corrosive properties of Mexican guano. It
was stated that this substance in a few hours will
destroy the bags which contain it, in a day will
render a cask rotten, and in the course of a short
voyage will desolve out the oakum used in caulk
ing vessels, aa to render them exceedingly leaky>
as has been proved in several instances to the
knowledge of P. A. Stone, of Boston. It has been so
altered by the action of rain and sea water that it
presents an excess of phosphoric .acid, in the form
of eoluble acid phosphate of lime. Whether this ac
tion is owing to free phosphoric acid, or to the pre
sence of the animal matter with it, is not satisfacto
rily determined. The ammoniacal guano, such as
that from the Cbiccha islands, has no such effect on
cloth ot wood. This fact is worthy the attention
of insurance companies.
Taring and Feathering at the U. S. Naval
Academe.— The court of inquiry ordered by the
Secretary of the Navy to investigate the particu
lars of a late difficulty between certain pupils at
the U. 8. Naval Academy, adjourned on Thursday,
after having made their report to the head of the
Department. The contents of the report have not
transpired:
It appears that a pupil of the academy, from the
State of New York, had excited the animosity of
his classmates by his general conduct, which, in
their view, was not “becoming an officer and a gen
tleman,” and was regarded by them as discredita
ble to their eiprit du. corps. Their indignation to
wards their fellow pupil was so strongly felt that
they determined to inflict upon him a disgraceful
punishment. Accordingly, one evening as the pu
pils, after tea, were leaving the dining hall, some of
them threw a shawl over the head of the obnoxious
individual. He was then forcibly taken to the gas
house of the institution, his clothes were removed,
and a plentiful supply of tar administered to his
person. The contents of a couple of pillows (sacri
ficed to the occasion) were then bestowed upon him,
until he presented the appearance of a feathered
biped. This act of insubordination, of course, be
came a subject of official investigation by a court
martial; and no grounds of justification, (if any ex
isted or were pleaded,) it is Supposed, can save the
principal aptors in this breach of discipline from
punishment. The decision of the court will, proba
bly, be known in a few days. In the meantime, it
ia understood, the developments made before the
court of inquiry were of such a character, in rela
tion to the object of the aseanit, that he has been
dismiaeed from the academy.
Another Letter from Artemn* Ward.
It will gratify his friends and admirers to learn
that Aktemus Ward, whose success in the “Show
Biznis has been somewhat prejudiced by the ad
miration for Shakepear, and the rage for “Poplar
Lecture, contemplates resuming “bizuis” again
in the spring, with a show “ekalle-i by few and
exoeid by none.’ He announces bis purpose
to the Cleveland “ Plaindealer,” in one of bis
charat teretic letters. He says :
“By bein virtoous I've one a repartaehun far
honisty whitcb few showmen (alars. alars fu the
perfeahun!) injoy & by atteudin stnckly to biznie
I’ve amarsed a hunsum cumpetuntiy, & my slow
is tkaiied by few & exceld by none, eubracin as
it does a wuuderful culleckehun of liviu wild Beets
Snaix, a endiis variety or wax figgere of life else &.
the only traued Kaugeru in Auierikv—the most
amuzin little cuts ever introduced to a discrimina
ting public
“St why am I sad? metbinoks I heer yn ask, Jen
tie reader. Uecawz I feel that the Show Bizuis,
which Ive stroven to oruymeut, is bein usurpt by
Poplar Lecture, as tney air kalled, tho in my pinion
th y are poplar humbugs. Eastern individwalls,
mos*'y Boating, who git bard up, embark in
the lectnr.u 1 ‘ ‘a. They cram theirselves with hi
sounai.. 11: . ir—'l up their hare, git trustid tor
a soot of black cl, , cum out West to lectur at
50 dollars a pop. 1 hay amt over atockt with
braues, but they hav brass euuff to make suffishunt
kittles to bile alt the eope that will be required by
the eusewm sixteen ginerashuus. Peple dock to
heer urn in kiowds. The men go becawa its poplar
St the wirniu folks go to see what other wirnin folks
have ou. When its over the lecturer goze and re
gales hieself with gin and eugur, while the peple say;
“What a charming lecturer that airwas!” etsettery,
etsettery, when 9 out ID of urn dout have no more
idee of what the lecturer sed than my kangaru has
of the sevunth speer of hevun. Tbares more infur
mashuu to be gut out ot a well conductid noosepa
per - price I seuts—than thare is out of 10 poplar
lecture 25 or 50 dollais a pop, as the kase may be.
These same peple bare iu mine, stick up their nosis
at moral wax figgeis and 3agashus beests. Thay
say these things is low. Geutz, it greeves my hart
in my old age, when line in ‘Sheer and yeller leal”
(to cote fiuui my Irish trend Mister Mcßeth,) to
see that the Show Biznis is pritty much plade out.
llowsomever I shall chance it agane iu the Spring,
line negeehiatin with the hirst Joory in the Hiram
Cole kase Aif I kin git them remarkiblelivin cu
riositya I think 1 shall make a payin season of it. 1
•Sensible Remarks*
The Editor of the Savannah Republican, in notic
ing the receipt of the “Medical & Literary
Weekly” which has just made, its appearance in
Atlanta, takes occasion to append the following
sensible remarks:
“While we wish our medical friends every suc
cess, and have no personal know ledge of, or allusion
to, themselves, we cannot resist the conviction that
physicians would do better to stick to their physic
aud let newspapers aud new medical ooileges alone.
The whole thing, however, works in a circle: the
large number of medical colleges augments the
number of doctors beyond the wants of the country,
and the latter, being compelled to live ill some way,
for lack of patients get up more new colleges for
the purpose of making themselves lecturers, or go
into the newspaper or periodical business,—all tend
ing to make more doctors, who are destined to take
the same direction for a living.
“We think the experience of nearly every com
munity will sustain these remarks. This itching of
young men for the learned profession is a great evil
in tho land, and should be discouraged by all who
have an inlluence to b 9 felt in the creation of public
opinion and direction of the economical systems of
society. Let parents look closer to the welfare of
their sons, and instead of qualifying them for pro
fessional losfers and drones in the industrial hive,
place them in someone of the thousand active em
ployments that will prove productive to themselves
and useful to their country. The day has passed
when the professions were considered alone res
pectable; and a man’s position in sooiety now
depends rather upon his moral worth and intelli
gence, and the degree of excellence he has attained
in bis calling, than upon the name which the latter
may happen to bear.”
Tho special correspondent of the Philadelphia
Ledger writes from Hong Kong under date of Feb.
15 as follows : “Have you yet heard in the United
States of the promising trade that has already
sprung up between Nangasaki (Japan) and Shang
hai ? No less than twenty vessels have visited the
former port during the last four months, and exports
seem much more abundant than was deemed pos
sible. Vegetable wax, ginseng, lacquer ware, china
do., vegetable oil, hemp, rice, soya, silks, etc., are
the principal articles. Upon many of these the most
extravagant profits have been realized. Upou the
vegetable oil in particular does money promise to
be made. It is said to be abundant, very cheap,
and answers for mixing paints as well as burning in
lamps. Sheet copper also promisee a large supply
at an unheard-of-cost. A quantity of it already
landed in Slianghae paid a profit of several hundred
per cent. These things all considered, I very much
fear that myself and every one else have hitherto
very much underrated the internal resources of
Japan, or rather the amount of exports that, would
be found ready for our shipping. I would not now
pretend to say of how much value the commerce of
J apan may prove to be to the world at largo at a
future day.”
Democratic Reform.— “ The Board of officers
sent to New York by the Navy Department, closed
Ita proceedings a few days since. In its own quiet
way it made more discoveries than the celebrated
committee at Washington. The newest humbug
exposed is that of dandy writers, clerks, &c., em
ploying men at a small salary to do their business
while tehmselves were taking matters cooly aud
applying for an increase of salary. The real work
ere wore bonked as laborers and mechanics, aud
paid by goverement of course.”
This we suppose is a part ot the eystem of “Re
form” always promised by tho democracy pending
an election. Does any sane man wonder that the
expenses of the government have run up to eighty
millions of dollars.
Illness of Bishop Doane.— The Newark Ad
vertiser of Thursday evening says : Wo regret to
learn, by telegraphic despatches from Burlington,
to friends in this city, that Bishop Doane’s disease
has changed for tho worse, and hie physicians re
gard liis recovery as doubtful, and almost hopeless-
Lucky. —Wednesday morning, says the Peters
burg Intelligencer of Friday last, a wealthy gentle
man residing on Bollingbrook street, while search
ing in his cellar lor some missing articles, in turning
up the loose earth, had the good fortune to find a
SIOO note, on the State Bank of Georgia, and da
ted nearly forty years back. The brokers have
pronounced it perfectly good.
Trade with Japan. —The London Timos says :
—“Despite the proclamation of our government,
and in breach of all dictates of sound policy, the
impatience of the European merchants has not al
lowed them wait upon the tardy Bteps of diplomacy
Anticipating the ratification of the treaty, and even
the dates at which commerce to the new ports of
China and the seaboard cities of Japan shall be
come lawful, they are pouring in their merchandise
and shipping their return exports. We have now
before us a list of exports and impoits which have
passed between Ihe ports of Shanghai and Nagasa
ki within the short space of two months, and the
catalogue is much greater in quantity and more
extensive in items than we should have expected
from this Japanese trade, even in a more developed
state. It is yet, of course, contraband, bntit shows
what can and will be done. One of the large Hong
Kong houses has placed a ship of 600 tons in per
manent station between China anu a place on the
east coast of Niphon. The example lias not been
disregarded, and we are informed that large sums
of money have been already realised by specula
tors in wax, vegetable oil, and in articles of food
which have a common relish to the natives of Japan
and to those ot the Celestial Empire. Moreover,
ships are going direct from Singapore with cargoes
of Straits produce. It is quite clear that a race has
begun for this newly promised commerce. The
merchants will not wait.”
Another Failure in Cotton Cultivation.—
According to the Paris correspondent. of the New
Orleans Picayune, the French Government has
decided that hereafter the premiums paid for the
cultivation of cotton in Algeria shall be abolished.
Although the Moniteur boasts that while $1,014,000
pounds of cotton were grown in Algeria in 1854,
and 1,560,000 pounds in 1857, and the crop in 1858
will be still larger, there seeins to be little question
the experiment bus proved a costly failure, and the
Government regards money epent on this crop as
treasure thrown away. The decree hints the Gov
ernment will soon cease to buy the cotton grown in
that colony; at present it is under obligations to
buy all the cotton raised there. Therefore, in a year
or two this experiment of the French will share the
fate of their other costly experiments.
Accident to the Steamship James Adger.—
The Charleston Courier of yesterday says :—“By
the arrival last night of Pilot Boat No. 3, we learn
that the steamship James Adger, Capt. Adams
from New York, on Saturday afternoon for ibis port,
when off Georgetown on Monday afternoon about
hall-past five o’clock, broke her shaft, which pre
vented her arrival on Monday night. We also learn
that the agents, .Messrs. Miieroon & Cos., received a
letter from Capt. Adams, by the Pilot Boat, request
ing that a steamer should be despatched to tow the
James Adger into port, therefore we may look
for her arrival during the day. When our informant
left she was lying at anchor.’’
The Coal Fif.lds of the United States
Professor Rogers has famished hia long expected
work on the “Geology of Pennsylvania,” and it is •
issued in the United States and in England. The
English reviewers appear a little astonished at the
immense cou! fields of the United States, besides
which their own are diminutive. The coal fields of
Great Britain ure in extent about 5,400 square
miles. Those of the United States are 196,850 square
miles. Whiie the amount of workable eoal in
Great Britain is put down at 190,000,000,000 tons, that
of North America ia set down at 4,000,000,000,000,
or twenty-two time* greater in amount than the
mines ofGreat Britain. An English paper com.
menting upon the facts, says :
“When we reflect upon what has been achieved
by the produce of the eoal fields of Britain, and then
endeavor to anticipate the mining of the vast fielda
of the United States upon an extensive scale, we
are led to forecast a future of almost buucd'oas en
terprise for that wonderful country.”
A Philadelphia Count.— An American was
recently married in France nnder the title of Count
Alfred de Montgomery. He has sued the Pariß
Courrier for libel, in admitting a letter declaring
him to be no Count, but the son of a Quaker grocer
in Philadelphia.
The Flood in the West. —A private dispatch
to a gentleman of Columbia, S. C., from Vicksburg,
on the 18th inst., states that the Arkansas river is
high and rising, and that the Mississippi at Vicks
burg is eighteen inches above the highest mark of
last year, and still rising.
Bt. Louis Fire Department.— According to
the report of the Chief-Engineer of the Fire De
part nent of St. Louis, the expenses of the Depart
ment has been $55,900 for the year—that of the old
system of hand engines was about $30,000. But
the losses by fire have fallen from $1,302,250 to
s2ll,623—showing a saving of over a millioD of
dollars to the property owners and tne insurance
companies. The companies have reduced their
rates or Insurance one-fourth, and have purohased
and presented to the Department two steam fire
engines, at a cost of SII,OOO. So far as the expe
rience of St. Louis is concerned, the great superior
ity of the steam fire engines over the old system is
decisively established.
GEORGI A ITEMS.
The Bank or the State of Georgia, it will be
seen from their notice in our advertising columns,
have just declared a semi annual dividend of six
per cent.
Railroad Btock._ The Savannah Republican of
Thursday says that sales of Central Railroad and
Banking Company stock were made on Wednesday
at sl2ls, and some holders are asking $125.
New Patents. Among tho patents issued from
the U. S. Paten. Office during the present month,
is one to W. C. Holmes, of Barnesvilie, Ga., for an
improvement in plows. Also, a patent to Wm. J
Griffies,oi Marietta, Ga., for a like improvement.
The Georgia Baptist Conveetion met in Co
umbus on Friday last. The first day’s proceedings
embraced the examination of credentials, appoint
ment of Committees, &c. The Columbus papers
announce a very large attendance.
The Marietta Patriot, heretofore a Demo
cratic paper, has changed editors, and ita politics at
the same time. The new editor is B. A. Grist,
®eq , who truly says the speedy downfall of the
Democratic party is so plainly written upon the
wall that it requires no Daniel to interpret the in
scriptiou.
Brunswick St Feorida Railroad.— The lieraid
says the Brunswick St Florida Railroad Company
have resolved to continue their road beyond the
junction with the Main Trunk, to Albany, provided
a proper spirit of liberality is exercised by parties
residing on the route. A corps of engineers left
Brunswick Tuesday last, for the purpose of survey
ing the line.
At the late term of the Superior Court of Haber
sham county, a young man named Martin stole a
pair of shoes one day, aud was sentenced the next
day to three years in the penitentiary, upon l,is con
fession of guilt. His father was sent there for life
some years ago.
If he had taken the life of a fellow beiug, he
would probably have escaped punishment. Suoh
is the administration of the laws In this country.
Precautions against Small Pox.—At a meet
ing of the Common Council of Columbus, on the
16th inst., called for the purpose of taking precau
tionary measures to prevent the spread of the Small
Pox in that city, by the steamers; a resolution was
passed, to the effect that such steamers should be
compelled to stop at or near the City Hospital, or
at such other point as may be deemed necessary er
convenient, and remain there until visited aud
examined by the City Physician, andouly bo allow
ed to prooeed to the wharf with his written permit.
Killed - We learn that the storm on yesterday
morning, blew down a dwelling house a lew miles
below this, near the Chattahoochee river, and kill
ed a woman and child.— Marietta Patriot, of Hat
nr day.
Fire —We regret to learn that, the dwelling
house of Peter W. Hutchinson, Esq., in the neigh
borhood of Watkinaville, was burnt on Sunday
evening last. The greater part of his household
furniture, we learn, was rescued Horn the tiamee
nut in a damaged condition.— Athens Watchman. ’
Decatur Superior Court.-—The April term
will commence on next Monday morning Aside
from the cases of the State vs. David P. Locke for
the murder of a negro boy, and the Statu vs. two
negro men for murdering a white lady, them is ve> \
little business to bo Iran-acted.— Hainbridge. Gear
gin n, ‘Fid.
More Recruits. —At the late Sumter Superior
Court, Jos ph McMath, convioiod of manslaughter
and a man named Sellars, convicted of forgery
were sent to the penitentiary, the former for three
years and the latter for ten years. Jesse Moses was
convicted, at the same term, of “uttering base
coin,” for which the penalty is penitentiary confine
ment ot from four to ten years.
Another Homicide.—On Inst night two young
men, on their return home from the city, by tne
name oi Gann and Collins, fell out, and a desperate
conflict ensued. Gann proved too powerful for his
antagonist, and cut him all to pieces with a knife
Collins was found dead on the road side this morn
ing. Collins, is a youth of 17 years—Gann’3 ago
is uot. known to us.
Uhuu was arrested to-day about 11 o'clock and
18 safely lodged in jail. This, we understand, ie
another result from the use of intoxicatiutf drink
Marietta Patriot ,
Execution of Isaac Freeland.—This unfortu
nate mao, convicted of the murder of Claiborne
Vaughan at the March term of Forsyth Superior
Court, was executed on Friday the 15th inst. We
understand that he declared under the gallows
that if he killed Vaughan he was ignorant of the
fact, as he was intoxicated at the time the murder
was committed. He addressed the crowd assem -
bled to witness Ihe execution al considerable length
—warning all to shun Ihe use of intoxicating drink.
It is estimated that some three thousand people
witnessed the execution.— LawrenceviUe Nni-s.
Homicide —As wego to press, we regret to learn
that Eaohariah Brantley, of this county, lost his life
at Isabella, Ga., ou Tuesday evening last, in a reu
oounter with John Giles, John Howell and James
A. Hot. Giles and Hoy are in the custody of the
Sheriff; Howell made his escape, ran off Heeding,
and ie supposed to have died iu the woods.
The wounds received by Brantley was with a
bowie-knife. One In the back, another in the pit
of the stomach and tho other above the right knee
Not being informed ot the circumstances which led
to this melancholy afi’air, we withhold any comment
[Alabany Patriot, 22 d.
A Painful Affair.—A most painful and me
lancholly accident occurred this afternoon at tho
machine shop of Messrs. Pitts St Cook, ou Mariet
ta street. A young man about 18 years of age.
whilst endeavoring to adjust a band on one of th-j
wheels of the maohiue, was caught by the arm ay, j
immediately carried round by the wheel, his ’ ight
arm was torn from the socket and hie whole body
otherwise dreadluily mangled. Physicians being
called in, gave it as their opinion, that he not
survive. We learn the name of the young man
was James Studdard.— Atlanta Confederacy Tues
day.
The Wanderer.— The movements of this ves
sel was the subject of considerable curiosity and
remark -on the streets, Saturday. She cleared
Thursday morning and took her departure, aud all
supposed she tad put to sea, but it was ascertained
that as late as Saturday, she was quietly anchored
in lybee roads. Speculations were numerous as to
the cause of her detention, though nothing definite
was assigned.
P. B.—Passengers by the Alabama say the Wan
derer was not to be seen as the steamer entered the
rirer yesterday ; so we presume she has proceeded
on her voyage to Havana.— Savh. Repnb. of Mon
day .
Coroners Inquest.— On last Tuesday we atter,-
dea an inquest upou the body of a negro worn AII
who was found drowned on “a small Island
Flint River, immediately above Dickinson’s jf'errv
ten miles South of this place. The negro v „ i’
parently some 30 or 40 years of age and nV out (lye
feet four or five inches high. She wore a striLDed
homespun dress ; had her limbs tied together just
above the knees, also p string ax’ , U n3 her waist
w.th smoothing iron attached. Tv, bot iy shows no
external signs of violence Aff', r going through
he customary examination (by ”, r Jamed A. Butfit)
tbe jury relired and made v.p t h e following verdict!
“We, the jury, are of the unanimous opinion that
the negro woman, Mir e not known, name to her
death by <trou.mng,''~.jj alnliridf , e aeorgiau, Fid.
Harris County—Superior Court.—The Su
peilor Court amounted on Saturday, the J7th
Three ciimma! cases were tried.
Wm. Harwell, charged with attempting to pro
® are ,f negro to commit a crime, to-wit: poisoning
Verdict “guilty’’—sentenced to seven years’ irn
pneonment in the Penitentiary
Sarah, a slave, belonging toB. Wihiame, cliarg
°d 7,r0 ‘Poisomg” Mr. Williams’ tamily. Verdict
guilty sentenced to be hanged on i'7th of May
next. J *
Sarah is the negro whom Harwell attempted to
procure to commit the crime. After his own con
viction, he rwnfessed, to putting Persian A Veenic
,1!“* S,l 7 tbnme ln . a well-bucket of water at Mr.
Williams on the night before the poisoning occur
asavistt’
ErKSSSS? “■
Perry Scott, for the killing r,f a negro man he-
ZiTa? w r ’ “I'"* “-SW The killing oc
. Mr - bcoti, who is a high -
ly respected oitizeD of the county, and a worthy
man, came, forward voluntarily,’and demanded
‘ lore , evidence against him, except
bin own confession. Mr. Scott stated the facta to
fr i W , h v! a o r l ’ mou,h - The case was sub
*rvX? d Vk he - 0b * r £ e 0f the CoUrtl a,ld without
argument The jury, in a few minutes, returned a
verdict of “not guilty.”
lows* 0 eubstanott i* l6 testimony was about as fol-
Ephraim, the negro killed, came to Mr. Scott’s
house on Sunday morning, sober; in the evening,
l?, e r ,deat B, b' nß of having been drinking.
Mr Scott, who has negroes of bis own, was anxious
to find out where Ephraim procured liquor In at
tempting to arrest him for the purpoee of carrying
him beiore his master, Mr. K„ Ephraim made very
forcible resistance, when Mr. Scott picked up a
B f he.?! a TL ry Ke . V" 6 ’ and Btrurk him across
the head. The negro fell, and Mr. Scott called one
of his own negroes to bring him a cord, the cord
b . r ° n “ ht ’ aDd °“ l*king up the Degree's hands
to tie them, he waafound to be dead. Mr. Scott on
ly struck him one blow.— Columbus Timet,mh.
Kailrond Meeting in Madison.
A meeting of portion of the citizens cf Morgan
county assembled in the Court House, Saturday
mimmg, for the purpose of appointing delegates to
a f. rid a convention to be held in Eatonton on the
•JUth instant.
Reese was called to the Chair, and S. J
naflold, Jr., appointed Secretary.
, B ° n Jo * hu ® tP explained the object of the
meeting to be for the purpose of appointing dele
gates to attend a convention to be held in Eaton,
ton on the 30th instant, in order ?o confer with the
th Ba,d " ln a P d counties, in refer
ence to the construction of a railroad from Madi
son to Eatonton. It was moved that tan delegates
be appointed to represent this county in the con
vention, and that each delegate attending shail bar e
the power to fill any vacancy which might occur
said delegation. The motion was carried, ep and t L”
Chair anpomtaa the following delegatee, via .
Hon. N. G. boater, C. B. Bairow, Ken., ‘ r u
banm 9’ homing Jordan, Jr., C. P. tsr oemafcer 0 emafcer
i> ob x> Jfrougton, Thomas Harris, Jr 0 Paachai
P R. Thompson and S. J. Safibld, Jr 1 aschal
Uili m,rt n r l T W o ,hen addre 'edDV Hon. Joshua
mil and C. B. Barrow, Esc i u forcible and im
the advmT eCh ?’ tka necessities forced
of the madL* ,V * d by ’ the
The Democracy Indicted.
The Savannah Republican prefers the following
bill and specifications against the Democracy :
First: Ifilheir last two national platforms, indeed
from time Immemorial, the Democracy have pledg
ed themselves, m a most solemn manner, to the
people, to give them, if elected to power, “an eco
nomicai administration of the government.”
Secondly: That ior the last two presidentiai term
the government has been in the hands of the De
mooracy—that the President baa been Democratic,
the Senate Democratic by a large majority through
out that period, and'also the House, with the excep
tion of a single Congress, thereby showing that the
P e 2P‘® had confidence in those pledges.
Thirdly: That notwithstanding all these profes
sions, the expenses of the government, during the
period named, have been gradually augmenting
until they have gone up from forty to over eiek'y
millions of dollars— an amount, aa testified by M>-
Stepbeus and other good Democrats, double the
actual requirements of the government, thereby
proving most conclusively that some forty mil
lions, or more, of the people’s money, have been
annually, for years past, stolen or squandered by
the Democrats.
Our fourth proposition is a corollary from the
foregoing, to wit: that the promises and pledges of
the party, after such notorious practices, are utterly
worthless, and will be trusted by no one except
those who desire to be bamboozled and deceived ;
and furthermore, that those who make them insult
the people by presuming upon their ignorance and
gullibility.
Death of the Oldest Graduate of Harvard
Univeksitt. —Dr. William Ktwyer died in Boston
on Monday. He had reached iris eighty-ninth year,
and was the oldest living graduate of Harvard Uni
versity, having graduated in 1788. By his death,
Hon. Joeiah Quincy, senior of the class of 1790, be
comes the oldest living graduate. Os the olasa of
1796 four only are now living.
The receipts at the Patent Offios last month are
stated to be about $14,000 over the expenses.