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OODTXMBTJS:
Tnc(U}’ Morulngt July aa, 1856.
LAIIOISST CITY CIRCUJL.ATION.
Railroad Bridge Burnt.
On Tuesday evening, 16th inst., the Bridge
over the Chichasahn river, neur Quitman, Mis
sissippi, on the Mobile and Ohio ltnilroad was
burned by incendiaries. It was tired at both
abutments, and fell into the river.
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Trial of Engines in Mobile.
1„ u contest between two lire companies in
Mobile last Friday—the Torrent No. 6, and
Phoenix No. o—for a silver trumpet valued at
SIOO, the formertook the prize. Each engine
played through an inch nozzle —No. 6 throw
ing 188 feet one inch; while No. ti only made i
174 feet 10 inches.
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From the Cleveland Herald, July S.
The Diver and the Treasurer—True Histo
ry of the liaising of the bale of the At
lantic.
Our readers were several days since highly
amused by the fanciful relation of the Detroit
Advertiser of the raising of the safe of the
steamer At’antic, sunk in Lake Erie, Au
gust HO, 1852. This morning wo were favored
with an interview with E. I*. Harrington, of
Westfield, New York, the successful rescuer of
the Base, and give the items of the occurrence,
which, if it be devoid of wonderful meetings
with ‘•beautiful ladies and children,” is never
theless very interesting and true. Mr. Har
rington lias had three years’ experience ns a
diver, and during the past winter lias been en
gaged on the Mississippi in his business. As
sociated with him in this undertaking were
Martin Quingley and Charles 0. Gardner, of
Chatuuque, New York, and William Newton,
of Detroit. They proceeded in the schooner
Fletcher to the locality of tho schooner Atlan
tic, which lies about three miles from the ex
treme point of Long Point. They arrived
there ou the 18th of June, and that day was
used in preparations.
On the 19th, Mr. Harrington encased in
Wells & Gowen’s submarine armor, made his
first descent. This armor is made of two layers
of canvass, and one of India rubber, the rubber
occupying tho middle. It is loose and flexible,
and of course resists no pressure. From in
front of the mouth proceeds a tube composed
of nine alternate layers of canvass and rub
ber, with a copper wire coiled inside to pre
vent coliapso. This is inflexible too, and being
as long as the depth to which the diver goes,
and the upper end being in the open air, se
cures proper respiration. The npperture is
three eights of an inch in diameter. A wreck
line had previ6usly been dropped and rested
ugainst the side of tho steamer.
Dressed as above described, with leaden
shoes, and with leaden weights attached to
his body, amounting in all to 284 lbs., with a
rope around his waist, by which he could be
raised to the surface, and a check, or signal
line in his hand, the adventurous diver com
menced his first descent. Ho was governed by
the wreck-line and struck tho promenade deck
about forty feet aft of tho state-room where the
Express Company s safe was, which was in tho
third state-room aft tho wheelhouse ou the
on the larboard side. Ho remained on deck
but one minute. After descending from 50 to
70 feot, depending upon the clearness of the
air above, nil is dark to tho diver, and he is
governed entirely by feeling. The romantic
sights recorded by the Advertiser, aie there
fore without foundation.
The greatest caution as to entangling lines
must bo used, and Mr. Harrington went each
time outside of the stanchions, moving as ho
advanced, his wreck line, so that with each
dive he advanced nearer the state-room. Tho
second dive he was thrie minutes upon deck;
the third four; the fourth seven. Ou the
twentieth he made four dives, and the time on
deck was respectively four minutes, 7 do., 3
do., and the next or eighth, six, at which time
he reached the state-room. Previous to this
he had all the time been groping about, and
twice was on the hurriean ueck, and once near
tho main deck. Tho twenty first he made se
ven descents, time respectively, 4,6, 5,3, G
and 8 minutes, and during which he was busy
in breaking the room window, and breaking
down the work on the side and below it, and
succeeded at last in getting a line fast to the
r.ng in the lid of the safe, but finding tho ap
erture he had made too small to allow the pas
sage of the safe, ascended to wait till the com
ing day.
On tho twenty-second the sixteenth dive,
being the first that day, he was on deck seven
minutes, during which time he sawed through
the casing and panel work, and tried to break
it off with his hand, but could not. The se
venteenth he was on dock nino minutes, in
which he fastened a line to the wood-work,
and by it the men above pulled it off. The
eighteenth nnd last uscent lie was ou dock ele
ven minutes, and during it ho succeeded in
fastening a line to the ring of the safe, and
helping it out of the aperture, it was raised to
the deck of the schooner. The perilous work
was done, and tlio adventurous men, upon
opening tho safe, or rather iron chest, 28 by
18, by 17 inches in size, found themselves the
possessors of about $5,000 iu gold, and $31,-
000 in bills, a small portion of which wero
unless from the notion of water and insolven
cy of batiks, and watches, two of which were
valuable gold ones. Tho chest contained pa
pers for which the American Express Company
paid a handsome salvage.
Tho Alantio lies careened, her Inboard side
being 185 feet, and the water on her starboard
IGO leet deep. Tho safe was about 157 feet
from the surface. Upon her deck Mr. llar
liugton found a light sediment of three or four
inches depth. 11 o could, as we have said
above, see nothing, and encountered nothing
but the wood-work, cliaius, glass and tho chest.
The water was very chilly, nnd Mr. ll.’s hands
were so numb that he could not by mere feeling
distinguish glass from wood. It was oulv
by the former’s breaking that he knew its ma
terial. He thinks that his strength below was
not more than one-tenth that he has when in
open air. He suffered but little from pres
sure, except two or three times, when such
was the rush of blood to the head, that, ns he
says, he saw “bright Hashes in his helmet, like
electric sparks.”
We have been thus accurate, from justice to
Mr. H., who lias thus accomplished a feat nev
er before, wo believe, successful. He is a
candid, fair-spoken man, and is not n little
mortified that any ouo should have so misre
presented the matter to the editors of the De
troit Advertiser.
In the Senate, the other day, at four o’clock,
Mr. Toombs got the floor to make a speech on
tho action of tho Naval Retiring Board. The
Senators being hungry, showed symptoms of
disgust, and attempted to stave off Mr. Tootubs.
lie took it like a philosopher, and spoke till
nn f p ,st, say ing that he did not ear* for the
k euators, but he hoped the reporters would
eep their seats, as the speech was intended
lor the country more than the Senate. This
is a piece of goou sense on tho part of a mem
ber of our highest legislative body, tho more
refreshing because it is exceedingly rare.
TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.
From Washington.
Jui.v IG.—The Pennsylvania delegation arc
preparing a call for a Lnion Convention ot
Republicans, Americans and all other ele
ments opposed to the Administration s policy
and the Cincinnati platform, to meet at Ilar
risbuag on the second Wednesday, lor the pur
pose ot forming an electoral ticket which shall
represent these interests fairly, and concen
trate all efforts in otic practical direction.
This movement finds favor generally, and
inspires a confident hope of ultimate success.
The recommendation is already signed by
most of the experienced members.
The Committee on Waytcs and Moans are
waiting for statistical information before pre
paring the report relating to the proposed ex
tent of the free list. The necessary facts
cannot be obtained at the Treasury. New
York has furnished her quota, and returns
from Philadelphia are daily expected.
The present inclination is to admit wool not
exceeding fifty cents, and not below fifteen or
sixteen cents per pound, free, and to reserve
the existing duty on qualities we produce be
tween the limitations. These figures are not
fixed, and can only yet be regarded as approx
imations until all the required knowledge is
produced.
The Congressional Democratic Caucus, call
ed by the Natiaiiul Committee, assembled in
the Senate Chamber this evening, Mr. Hright
in the Chair. ’The meeting was merely for the
purpose of free interchange of opinion con
cerning the Presidential election, and compar
ing notes relative to the prospects which those
present considered to be decidedly favorable
to success.
Washington, July 17.—1n Congress, to-day,
nothing of importance was transacted. The
Senate confirmed the whole list of appoint
ments in the place of those suspeuded by the
Naval Board.
July 17.—Mr. Herbert’s trial is progress
ing, and great interest is felt in the result.
July 17.—General Gadsden, our Minister
to Mexico, has been recalled, and Mr. Forsyth,
of M obi Jo, will bo nominated to-morrow to the
Senate as his successor.
July 18.—No business of importance was
transacted by the Senate to-day.
In the House resolutions were passed that
neither Allen nor Archer is entitled to a seat,
and that a vacancy therefore exists in the sev
enth Congressional District of Illinois.
John Forsyth and Walter Fcarn, both from
Alabama, wero nominated Minister and Secre
tary of the Legation to Mexico.
The Herbert trial has been postponed on ae
couut of the illness of a juror.
The petition for the admission of Utah into
the Union will not be presented to Congress
this session.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Accident.
Philadelphia, July 18. — The Philadelphia
conductor of the down train committed suicide
by taking arsenic, in consequence of the late
collision. The engineer has been arrested,
and committed for trial.
Further from Boston.
July. —Williams, the escaped slave from
Mobile, as brought before Judge Metcalf of
the Supreme Court at 3 o’clock on a writ of
habeas corpus that had been issued, and no
one appearing as a claimant against him, he
was told to go free. An outbust of applause
greeted this order, which the officers and
Court in vain tried to check. In the mean
time the colored man was seized by his friends
and hurried out of the Court room. He was
taken to the house of a colored citizen and
thence put on board the first train of cars for
Canada.
Capt. Pillsbury of the bark Growler, from
whose vessel Williams was taken, did not ap
pear in Court. The affair caused great ex
citement.
Another Caining Affair.
New York, July 10.—At the Metopolitan
Hotel to day, Bashford W. Vicks, of South
Carolina, beat with a cane Jacob Stanford, of
Massachusetts, for saying that the attack on
Mr. Sumner was a brutal and cowardly act.
The parties were separated, and Vicks ar
rested.
Corvention of Old Line Whigs.
Richmond, Va., July 10.—A State Conven
tion of Old Line Whigs met at Metrapoliton
Hall in this city at 10 o’clock this morning*
and temporarily organized by calling Win. H.
McFarland of Richmond to the chair. R. 0.
ltidgway of the Richmond Whig and W. S.
Peters of Lynchburg were the Secretaries.
Forty-one counties and four cities were repre
sented by 131 delegates.
A resolution offered by Mr. Harper of Au
gusta, that the Convention was composed of
Whigs, acknowledging no other political ties
or affinities, was referred to the Committee on
Permanent organization.
Several speeches were made, among them
one by Mr. McFarland, and another by Alex
ander Rives, brother of the Hon. W. 0. Rives,
who spoke strongly in behalf of Mr. Fillmore,
and declared that the Democratic party was
not National, but had been scctionalized by the
Cincinnati Convention ; that its platform was a
filibustering one ; that the Whig party was the
only true National party, and that after the
Presidential electiou the “American” party
would find it necessary to fall back into the
traces of the National Whigs.
The Convention then adjourned till 5 P. M.
Ji'ly 18.—The Whig Convention last night
passed resolutions denouncing the Republicans
and their candidates; disapproving of the
course of the administration in disturbing the
Missouri Compromise for party purposes ; also
denounced the Democracy and Buchanan, sus
taining the Compromise of 1850, and consid
ers Fillmore the most suitable person for l’re
stdont at the present crisis, but disclaims
adopting the principles of the pat ty nominating
him, and concludes by calling nil the States to
join in a National Convention at Baltimore, on
the third Wednesday in September, and then
with great enthusiasm adjourned.
Judge Ormond, of Alabama.
Wo see by the Tuscnloosa Monitor, that at
a meeting addressed by Mr. Yancey in Tusca
loosa last Wednesday, Judge Ormond, an old
line Whig, arose after Mr. Yancey had con
cluded. nud declared himself for Buchanan.
The Monitor says of Judgo Ormond:
Be has been a veteran Whig, and it was a
matter of astonishment to many thnt he could
desert Fillmore whom he once so cordially
supported. We, ourself, had been surprised
at it, but we no longer felt so when we heard
the Judge brondly announce that he believed
that Millard Fillmoro himself would soon de
cline the races on 1 come out in favor of Bu
chanan ! We could no longer be surprised that
one whose powers of reasoning could achieve
this brilliant logical prediction, should give
his support to Buchanan. The gist of the
Judge’s argument was “sectional issues,”
“ South in danger,” “ Buchanan the only
safety,” “ Fillmore not available,” &c., &c.
The Lowell Courier states that the deposits
at the Five Cents Savings Bunk in the. :ity,
on Saturday, roached $207,000. Niue thou
sand dollars were deposited Saturday after
noon. The smallest sum deposited yets five
cts. The lnrgest, one thousand dollar's.
Power of Conscience.
Our readers will generally remember the
case of Sydney V. Howard, the interesting
and pious young gentleman who so ingratiated
himself with some of our best citizens ; that
lie secured a position intheSiateliank, where
by be was enabled to steal fourteen hundred
dollars. He was hunted with a good deal of
energy and perseverance for some months, but
be managed to elude all efforts to capture him.
iu the apprehension that he was being pursued,
he traveled over nearly the whole country,
sometimes, lie says, in the very cars with
those hunting for him, and after nearly two
years of this unhappy life, went to St. Paul,
Minnesota. Worn out with dread, he went to
the Marshal of the Territory and told his case,
and asked to be arrested. The officer remon
strated ; told him he had no authority to make
an arrest; that the affair tvas foigotten, and if
he intended to make remorse good for any
thing, lie had better set to work and earn the
money he had criminally got and spent, and
pay the bunk and those be had swindled ; that
it would be better every way than going to
the penitentiary. But Hotvard was resolute
to be arrested. The officer wrote to this city,
and a requisition was procured, upon which
he was brought here on Thursday afternoon.
We believe an indictment is pending against
him for the larceny.
P. S.—We learn that Howard was sent to
the penitentiary, on Saturday, for two years,
lie plead guilty. —lndianapolis ( Ind. ) Sentinel.
Mechanical Ingenuity.
Mr. Thomas Stamp, a citizen of our place,
has invented a water wheel ou an entirely new
principle of action which must be of immense
benefit in the mechanical world. This wheel
was exhibited at tho Fair in Montgomery last
fall, and received the endorsement of Daniel
Pratt nnd Mr. Dußois. Its name indicate its
mode of action and its advantages over any
other wheel now known. It is the Horizontal
Sliding Current Wheel. Its horizontal posi
tion will enable it to give great porver from a
small current of water, and it slides to suit all
stages of water. Back water nor high water,
nor low water will not effect it. This wheel
is so arranged that it can be placed in the wa
ter and made to turn machinery at a distance.
All needed for a perpetunl power, is a bank
and a current. Mr. Stamp has applied for,
and will receive a patent, when this wheel will
be tested in our river. Should it be success
ful (and any one who will look at the model
cannot doubt it) there will be no use for canals
to run machiery, for the river will suffice for
all puposes without any canaling or darning.
A Point.
A noteworthy incident transpired in the
House hall yesterday, immediately after Mr.
Edmundson concluded his speech. We refer
to the tacit acknowledgment worked out of
Mr. Campbell, of Ohio, that the publication of
the ex parte and remarkable affidavit of Senator
Sumner made before the House Select Com
mittee, in advance of the Committee’s report,
was the work of that gentleman himself, or
someone immediately in his confidence—not
of any member of the Committee or their
Clerk, who alone had access to the copy* of it
in their possession. What renders the act of
Mr. Sumner in thus seeking to get before the
public au ex parte statement in a case where he
was personally involved the more reprehensi
ble, is the fact that the testimony of other
Senators and gentlemen, subsequently taken
by the Committee and delivered in the ’Senate
in the course of the debate on the matter, com
pletely exposed the utter want of foundation
of many of the most important things stated
in Mr. Sumner’s testimony thus surreptitious
ly and improperly put before the public by
himself or his confidants. The truth is, that
act was but a “shriek for freedom”—a trick
all truly honorable men must condemn—a
trick on a par with the policy which has mark
ed much of the Congressional canvass for
“freedom in Kansas,” —Washington Star.
Kansas Meeting at Lowndesboro’.
Messrs. Baker, Johnson and Jones (says the
Haynesville Chronicle) were at Lowndesboro’
on the 10th inst. A meeting of the citizens
was called, and on motion, Y. W. Graves, Esq.
took the chair, and C. W. Williams acted as
secretary. The meeting was then eloquently
addressed by Dr. Jones and Mr. Baker, in fa
vor of aid to Kansas.
The people generally had forgotten (!) the
appointment, and there was consequently but
a small audience; yet $142 were immediately
handed over to aid the good work.
On motion, a committee of five was appoint
ed to solicit further subscriptions.
We learn that S7OO were subscribed in Ben
ton.—Montgomery Journal.
A Large Defaulter.
Richard Metcalf House, alias Richard Stan
ford Graves, was brought before the Chief Jus
tice of the Court of Common l’leas in Toronto,
Canada, last week, under the Ashburton Ex
tradition Treaty, charged with being a defaul
ter to the State of Mississippi in tire amount
of nearly two hundred thousand dollars. He
was formerly Treasurer of that State, and
has lived in Toronto for fifteen years. After
n full ezamination, lie was discharged, the
Judge holding that the Treaty does not provide
for cases of embezzlement. He has been a
magistrate in Torouto for ten years, and owns
considerable property.
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Norih East and South West Railroad.
The following items of information in regard
to the progress of our N. E. and S. W. Rail
Road will give satisfaction to the many friends
of the great enterprise. Much of the success,
which up to this time, the project has met
with, is owing, in a great measure, to the un
faltering industry and perseveranco of the
Chief Engineer and General Agent, Col. San
ford.
All tho grading in Sumter and Grocne except
a very small quantity of light work which it is
not intended to let out for eighteen months
yet, lias been taken by contractors of the right
kind, who arc abundantly nble and willing to
complete their contracts in the time specified
(8 years.) The $09,500 mile in Sumter, the
heaviest on the whole road, was taken by Mr.
Jere. 11. Brown, one of the wealthiest citizens
ol that county. Up to the time of the discov
ery by “Gtcene,” of anew light onrail roads,
that no more than a dozen hands could work
on this section, it was found very difficult to
let it out to contract, but as soon as it was
known that it was a small matter any way, Mr
Brown took it as a job merely to pass his leis
ure hours in completing.
Nearly all of the grading up to the city of
Tuskaloosa has been taken by contractors also.
The work of excavating and filling up will
soon commence and all kinds of business wiU
go on right merrily. There is no longer a
doubt of the success of the enterprise. The
readiness with winch contracts are taken gives
nil idea of the confidence of the people in the
project.
As has been stated heretofore, there are
propositions before the Directory to grade the
eighteen miles in Mississippi, one or more of
which will, we suppose, bo accepted soon and
that part of the line placed undercontract also.
—Eutaw Whig.
GENERAL ITEMS.
J. T. Cady, formerly connected with the I
Louisiana press, and latterly a newspaper cor- |
respondent in Nicaragua, died at San Juan del
Sud, of cholera.
Col. John L. Stephens, a worthy and promi
nent citizen of LaGrange, and half brother to
Hon. A. 11. Stephens, died suddenly, of apo
plexy, in that place, \V ednesday last.
Miss A. Kimball, of East Hartford, says a
Connecticut paper, lias a common native hen
that lays very large eggs, a single one meas
uring 7| by 6) inches iu circumference.
The first bale of cotton of the new crop was ’
received in New Orleaus on the 15th inst. from
Texas. It is from the plantation of R. B.
Wofford, DeWitt county.
Very extensive improvements in the United
States Mint at Philadelphia have just been
completed. Tho refining and coining depart
ments have both been enlarged and new ap
paratus introduced.
Arrisou, the torpedo man, is being tried at
Cincinnati the third time for the murder of
Isaac Allison, at the Marine Hospital iu that
city, by means of an infernal machine.
Hon. Oscar F. Moore, the present Republi
can member of Congress from tho lloss dis
trict, in Ohio, has declared himself against
Fremont, and will take the stump for Fillmore.
A letter from Kanses is published in the
New York Staats Zeitung, a Democratic Ger
man paper of Ncyv York city, in which the wri
ter says, that to a man, all the Germans in the
Territory go with the Free State party.
William Waring Habersham, Esq., lias been
elected Secretary and Treasurer of the Savan
nah, Albany and Gulf Rail Road —in place of
Mr. G. Grant, resigned. The salary is twelve
hundred dollars.
0. J. Victor, Esq., one of the editors of the
Sandusky, (Ohio) Register, a gentleman of
fine talents and some reputation as a poet, and
M iss Meeta Nictoria Fuller, a very well known
literary lady, have recently been married.
Anew daily paper, to advocate the cause of
Buchanan and Breckenridge, is to be started
in Netv York city within a few days, with a
supposed capital of SIOO,OOO. The names of
George N. Saunders, and other eminent demo
crats are mentioned in connection with its edi
torship.
A servant girl in London has been fined 40
shillings, or one month’s imprisonment, for
pouring a kettie of boiling water upon a cat
that was trespassing on her master’s premises.
Under the same law, cruelty to animals, Lieut
Craven, of the Life Guards, and his groom
were fined sls for killing a horse by over
driving.
The vote for President, on board the May
flower resulted in the election of T. Cod, Jr:,
when the following resolution was adopted :
Resolved, That T. Cod, Jr., is the pathfin
der among rocks that we have never seen or
expect to see, and this entitles him to be the
President of the United States.
The London Weekly Times says that Thacke
ray complains of the flunkeyism he met with
in New York, more especially from one editor,
who always dropped in at the Clarendon Hotel
just as he was going to dinner ; he b_red the
author of Fendennis so, that he was resolved
not to come to America again till he hears of
his persecutor’s burial.
The Havana correspondent of the New Or
leans Delta says that, according to a recent
census, tho population of the six tobacco grow
ing districts of Dinar del Rio, Consolacion del
Sur, San Juan y Martinez, Guane, Mantua,
and Baja, is 45,139 blacks and whites. They
have no less than 3,101 tobacco plantations,
and export 100,020 bales of superior tobacco.
The population of Cuba is estimated at the
present timo at about 1,000,000. Os these,
050,000 are white, 750,000 slave black, and
about 200,000 free black. By a royal order of
12th March, 1837, free colored people were
prohibited from landing in Cuba on any pre
tence whatever.
There are in Sweden two thousand four hun
dred noble families possessing landed proper
ty, estimated at $28,035,053 44—an average
of less than $12,100 for each family. It will
therefore, be understood that many of the
Swedish nobles are extremely poor ; yet so
great is their pride, that as a class, they repu
diate all commercial or industrial pursuits.
The Utica Telegraph contains tho following
marriage notice :
By , Mr. E. Davis to Miss M. Morris
—all from the Lunatic Asylum.
The editor says, it came in a queer note,
and may not be genuine, but the quarter en
closed certainly was.
The European times closes an article on the
Crainpton case with this language: “But the
fact is undeniable that Mr. Crampton blun
dered in his mission, and according to a great
er diplomatist than Mr. Crampton, a blunder
is worse than a crime.”
A letter to the St. Louis Republican, of July
14, from Palermo, Kansas, says: The Kicka
poo Indians have had a serious difficulty
among themselves caused by the free use of
liquor. Several were killed. The letter also
states that Gen. Lane had entered the territo
ry with several hundred men, and had been
heard to say that he would take Kansas or die-
The New York Herald, publishes a list of
twenty one vessels, six barks, two brigs and
thirteen schooners—that have been fitted out
for the slave trade and sailed from that port
within the last year. The trade must afford
a profitable investment for northern capital.
And then the philanthropists engaged in it
only enslave the negroes whom they steal and
sell, and they do not hold them in bondage.
Twelve hundred tribes, it is said, now ac
knowledge the French authority in Algeria.—
Eighty thousand hectares are every year plant
ed with cotton. Tho harbor of Algiers will
contain forty men of war, besides merchant
men. Most of the ports of the country were
in a delapidated condition when tho Turk
ish Government handed them over to the
French, and it will cost 80,000 franks to put
them in order. The French are already en
gaged upon the work.
Mrs. Keating.
A report has been circulated that the wife of
Keating, who was shot at Willard’s Hotel by
Mr. Herberl, had died of greif. A Washing
ton correspondent writes under date of July
10, as follows:
1 havo just returned from the residence of
Mrs. Keating. She is a very pretty little Irish
woman, and of real Irish life. She informs
me that the house she lives in has been dona
ted to her by gentlemen since the death of ljer
husband.
Executions in (Botth Carolina.
M. M. Chaney, copyicted of negro stealing,
was hung at Lancastervillc op Friday, lltli
inst. He persisted to the last iu his innocence.
Moses Gossett, convicted of she same offence,
(negro steeling) expiated his crime on the same
day at Unionville.
A Palpable Hit
In some parts of the country preach*,
sionally speak from a home-made t * l *
preacher of this sort, in the , 1
arose before his cougiogaUuu, at \ w °‘JIh;,J 1 h;, J
appointment, and slated, that instead of “ 1
ing us usual, ho would address them- ‘1
subject of “currying.” Said he: *
“ 1 have three horses to curry—have
curry-comb and lam a first rate hand ■
business. The first horse is Episcopalian *
the second is Presbyterianism; the ,i,u ,
Metliodistism.” 111 11
He proceeded to the process of cum
each separately, which he did with vuite „n “■
of triumph ; and in concluding his reman-' 1
extended an invitation to any preseu w l v 1
fit to reply. ’ 0 su ”
A methodist preacher—something of a v
happening to be in attendance, was not a ji
amused at the affair, and walking from his * U<
to the neighborhood of the pulpit, he thank 1 ’
the worthy brother lor his courtesy, and
he should like very much to makea few
marks.
“But my situation,” said he, “is soiueui,
j embarrassing. Ido not stand on equal groun i
with my friend who has just spoken. i n tl ‘
first place, I am not used to the business
currying—he is. In the next place, my CUu .‘
comb is a dull one—his is sharp and p o i u te
In the third place, he has had three horses t
curry, while 1 am under the unpleasant neeei>’
of currying, not a horse, but—a jackass’ \
my curry-comb is dull, it will be necessary J!
me so bear on pretty hard, during which I i, O , W
the aforesaid animal will neither kick nor n “
away.”
He had not proceeded far before his p V eu t .
cessor rose to intevupt him.
“ Woa! Woa!” said the speaker—and tun
ing to his audience, added, “ 1 was afraid l,
would kick.”
Presently, unable to stand it longer, theniiu.
ister first mentioned took up his hat indignant
ly and left.
“ There,” raid the witty Methedist, “ J Wils
afraid ho would run away.”
Public Debt of the United States.
The National Intelligencer, of the Dth'insi
says:
From a report just made by the Register ( >
the Treasury in regard to the present condition
of the public debt of the United States, wee!.,
tain the following information :
Amount of United stock originally issued of
the loans of 1842, 1843,1840, 1847,181s
includingl'exas debt and indemnity, and tlit
debt of corporate cities $78,797,816
Amount redeemed up to March 4,
1863 7,142,359 U
llcbeemed from March 4, 1853,
to July 1, 1856 88,917,894 29
Total amount redeemed 46,060,254 03
Amount now outstanding 32,737,562 Bn
A Decision in the McDonogh Estate.
Judge Cotton, of New Orleans, has render
ed his decision in the case of the Society for
the Relief of Destitute Orphan Boys vs. the
Citizens of New Orleans and Baltimore. This
was a suit instituted by plaintiffs to recover of
defendants an interest in the McDonogh es
state to the amount of $400,000, in accord
ance with a provision of the will of the late
John McDonogh. The argument of the case
embraced many nice legal technicalities, ami
occupied the attention of the Court for an un
usual length of time. It was submitted a few
weeks ago, and the judgment now rendered is
in favor of the plaintiffs to the full extent of
their claim.
A Reverened Politician Roughly Handled.
They had a regular fourth of July celebration
at Clarksville, Mercer county, Pa., which wa<
participated in by citzens of all parties. There
was nothing to mar the festivities except a po
litical tirade introduced by a Rev. gentleman
We extract from the Western Press :
“He commenced a.regular abolition, disunion
harangue, and so thunder-struck were tie
citizens that he had proceeded some minutes be
fore they could decide what course of action to
take. He went on so far as to speak of the
‘murderous villain who now occupies the chair
as chief magistrate of tho country,’ when a
simultaneous yell of indignation rose from all
parts of the assembly, and intimated to the
reverend reviler that he had exhausted their
endurance'—Cries of ‘knock him down !'.
throw him off the platform!’ &c., followed, an 1
for a time it seemed as if the disciple of the
meek and lowly Jesus might find what he
would call ‘murderous villians’ nearer home.-
llis few friends vociferated loudly about the
“freedom of speech,’ but the citizens present,
without distinction of party, were competent
to distinguish between ‘free speech’ and free
blackguardism, and compelled the worthy ex
emplar of Christian love and charity to -it
down.”
A Singular Peat of a Horse.
The Count Lauscome made a bet a few day
ago, that he could make his English hunting
horse, John Bull, trot a distance of one kilo
metre backwards in six minutes. The feat
was undertaken between the Round Point ot
tho Champs Elysecs and the Obelisk of the
Place Concorde. From the Round Point to
the Grand Entrance of the Exhibition the
Count walked his horse, but here he commenc
ed to trot, and from this point to the Obelisk
he gradually pushed him faster and faster un
til he arrived at the end, in five minutes ami
27 seconds. The last twenty rods were ac
complished at a rate of speed which put to
the test the full trotting powers of some of the
horses mounted by the witnesses? of this sin
gular feat.
Liberia.
Ex-President Roberts of Liberia,-is in Bo>-
ton seeking to make arrangements for estab
lishing a college at Monrovia. His stay in thi
country will be short, as lie intends to leave
some time in August for England, where he
will join his family, and proceed with them to
Africa. President Roberts speak very favora
bly’ of the state of things in the new Republic-
The New York Clipper contains an account,
from a correspondent in Watertown, Conn., ot a
fight between a hawk and a hen. The hav 1
seized one of the hen’s chicks and made oil
with it, upon which the parent immediately
took flight after the thief, which she overtook
nbout 100 feet from terra finna, and gave him
such a drubbing that he was glad to let fall the
chick and escape with his life.
Shower of Toacls.
During the heavy raiu accompanying the
thunder storm, on Sunday afternoon,. Comb
Square and the City* Ilall Yard, Boston, wet e
pretty well peoplpd by little toads, which more
than n number of the very credulous were tnm-’
believe had conic down from the heavens ‘"h*
the rain. Several took up specimens of the
“critters” and bore them liume as curiosities.
Doubtless they had been driven outof the < >0
Garden by the fUpyrpit.
CHICKENS, EfcitiS AND BI TTER
HIGHEST MARKET PRICE, in Cash or Goods. C'“--
for CHICKENS. EGGS. 11 UTTER,
Produce.
June 20 W r °’