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HTJjrsaj'sS&i EDITED AND Pl'Bl .ISIIF.D WEEKLY, BV n ji . u. 11 a iiiiisox, city vni .v 7 i: n . [CUKKISPONDEKt K OK THE SOUTHERN MINI! M.| Millkuof.vh.le, Ucc. 14, 1549. 1 herewith send you the Report of the Finance Committee, by which you will perceive that there was a balance in the State Treasury on the 22 J November, 1549, of $503,164 70. In the House this morning a Resolu tion was passed providing fora recess from the 2Cth of December until the second Monday in January next —yeas 70, nays 49— and was forthwith sent to the Senate for its concurrence—its fate there is con. sidered doubtful. Up to the present time 463 bills have been introduced in the House and about 160 acted upon. \ou will thus see the business that is before th e Legislature, and the prospect of an early adjournment. The bill creating anew Judicial Circuit in Cherokee is lost. The bill to repeal the 3d section of an act to authorize the connection ol the Rail Roads at Macon, approved 291 h Decern ber, 1847, has passed the Senate by yeas 28,nays 6. The Resolution of the House to request the People at the next election for Gov. ernor, &c. to endorse on their tickets, so as to determine how the Judges shall hereafter be elected—*l3y the Legislature’ or ‘By the People. BILLS TASSED. To prescribe the manner of creating Trustees in personal properly. To declare the lien of Judgments upon equitable property. To regulate the certifying of bills up on causes for the Supreme Court, where the presiding Judge and Counsel or party cannot agtee as to what transpired, and to prescribe a remedy—with amendments. To prevent Judges of the Superior Courts within this State, from making cer tain charges or giving their opinions to de fine the same as error—with amendments. To change and point out and regulate the maner which the returns of the sever al Banking Institutions of this State shall hereafter be made. To define the rights of complainauts in Equity, in certain cases. To prohibit the Reporter of the Deci sions of the Supreme Court of this State from incorporating into such reports the arguments and briefs of counsel, further than a statement of the poin's made and a brief of the authority referred to by said counsel. T authorize the legal representatives of intestates, and testators of other States to sue in this State. To regulate the testimony of Attorneys at law. To regulate the fees of Attorney and Solicitors General. To amend several Acts, in relation to the Georgia Rail Road & Banking Com pany . To provide for safe custody of persons convicted of any capital offence after being respited by the Governor. To amend an act to incorporate the Louth Western Rail Road and for other purposes. To revive and m ake of force an act to in corporate the Thomaston and Barnesville Rail Road Company, with power to con struct a Rail Road from some point on the Monroe Rail Road, at or near Barnesville in Pike county, to the town of Thomaston in Upson county, and to punish those who may wilfully injure the same, and to confer all corporate powers necessary to effectsaid object, assented to Dec., 23,1539. To compensate Petit Jurors in the coun ty of Houston. A bill to be entitled to an act, to amend the 11th and 13th sections of the 6th divi sions of the penal code. A hill to protect the people of this State from vexatious prosecutions, in cases where Grand Juries may hereafter refuse to find true hills. BILLS INTRODUCED. By Mr. Fish of Bibb, a bill to provide for the encouiagement of the arrest and ap prehension of persons committing Homi cides in this State. A bill to revive an act incorporating the Madison and Macon Railroad. By Mr. Nelson of Cobb, from the com mittee on the Penitenciary. A bill to re move a portion of the convicts to Atlanta to be employed on the Western and Atlan tic Rail Road. Also, a bill for tire better government of the Penitentiary. By Mr. Woffmd ofCass, a bill to regu late the action of Magistrates upon peace warrants. Also a bill to appropriate 2290 dollars to the county ofCass, for services rendered the State in preventing the spread of the small pox. By Mr. Riley of Lumpkin, a bill for the construction of a road from North Caroli na line to Atlanta. Also, a hill to prevent careless shooting towaujs the highways and other roads in this State. A bill has been introduced to add the county ofScriven tothe First Congression al District; and Butts, Jasper, Jones and Wilkinson, to the Third; Harris and DeKalb to the Fouitli ; Luiion and Lumpkin to the Fifth ; Newton to the Sixth ; Hancock, Washington, and Lau rens, to the Seventh ; and Elbert to the Eighth. A hill has been introduced to organize in part the Senatorial Districts as follows : 2d District—Liberty and Tatnall. 7th District—Bulloch and Scriven. Stli District—Effingham and Bryan. 9th District—Burke and Jefferson. 13th District—Early and Randolph. 14th District—Stewart and Muscogee. 15th District Lee and Baker. l*itb District—Troup and Harris. 17th District—Houston and Pulaski. 18th District—Marion and Macon. 19th District—Dooly and Sumter. 20lh District—Twiggs and Jones. 2Lst District—Washington and Emanuel. 25th District—Putnam and Jasper. 26th District—Monroe and Bibb. 2Sth District—Meriwether and Talbot. 29th District—Heard and Carroll. 30th District—Campbell and Coweta. 31st District—Fayette and DeKalb. 32d District—Butts and Pike. 33d District—Newton and Henry. 36th District—Franklin and Madison. 37th District —Oglethorpe and Elbert. 38th District—Clark and Walton. 39th District—Gwinnett and Forsyth. 42d District—Hall and Jackson. The above bill was made the order of the day for Tuesday next. Postmaster General’s Report. The report of the Postmaster General has been published by the Ledger, of Phil adelphia, in advance. It is an able docu ment, but the details of it would not inter est out readers. We append the follow ing synopsis of it. The report states, that the whole num ber of Post Offices in the United States, June 30, 1849, was 16,747 ; 921 new ones having been established and 333 old ones discontinued, within the present year. There were 6,333 Postmasters appoint- j cd within the same year. The effect of the Post Office laws of 1545 have been such as to reduce the ex penses of the service, though greatly in creased, within the income derived from postages. The cost of the Mail service previous to 1845 was 8 cents 1 mill per mile ; now it is 5 cents and 6 mills per mile. There were 4,943 mail routes, compri sing in all 167,703 miles, up to Ist July, 1849, and 4,190 Mail Contractors. The whole cost of transportation on these routes was $2,428,515. The mails by sea cost $255,692 additional. The gross receipts for the year to 30th June, 1849, were $4,705,176. To this add appropriation by Congress of $200,- 000, and we have the whole revenue $4,- 905,176. The gross expenditures were $4,479,049, leaving an excess of revenue of $426,127, to which add the amount of appropriation by Congress not used $265,- 555, showing the sum of $691,682 balance unexpended of the revenue of the past year. The estimates for the coming year are thus set down. The probable revenue from postages, &c., will he, for the year ending June 30, 1850, $4,592,176. Add to this the pre vious balance on hand, $691,682, and the appropriation for free mail matter, and we have a gross receipt of $5,753,545. The probable expenditures are put down at $4,750,138. This will leave a balance to the credit of the Department, June 30, 1850, of $1,033,710. So that, even at the present low rates of postage —rates that, it was thought, at first, would bring the Department in debt every year, there is a rutt profit to be expected of a million per annum. The carriage of the mails on railroads and in steamboats, averages a cost of nine cents per mile. Where it is carried on horseback and in coaches, the cost ave rages three cents per mile. The increase of lettei postage last year was 15 2-10 per cent., and the whole in crease was 14 1-5 per cent. It is not thought that such an increase will occur every year. Only 9 per cent, is consider ed the natural increase. The number of letters paying postage, last year, was sixty-two millions ! This is an average of over three letters to every man, woman and child in the country ! The postage collected on these letters was $3,882,762. On newspapers and pamphlets, $819,016. The letter postage lias to pay not only its own expenses, hut most of the expense of carrying the news papers, &c. The franked or free matter that goes through the mail is enormous. For the year ending 30th June, 1849, the free matter received by the Public Depart ments, would have paid $250,353. The amount sent was, at least, equal, making a sum 0f5500,767. This does not include the franked letters and documents, and speeches of the Houses of Congress. The extra number of pub. docs, of the two last sessions of Congress, was 370,350, weighing 467,762 lbs.; printed speeches, 6,682,500, weighing 411,511 lbs! And this does not include the letters sent or received by the members of Congress. The whole amount of free, written and printed mail matter sent and received by Congress, during the year ending June 30, 1849, is put down at 5,320,08, which should have paid a postage of $792,700. Besides this, $95,161 has to be paid to postmasters to deliver this free matter. And this year all the blanks, returns, and correspondence used in taking the census of 1850, will travel free also. Three thou sand reams of blanks are already engaged. Congress appropriates $200,000 per annum, to pay for the whole of this extra expense, leaving the post office to pay the other half million and more outof its pro fi s ! This is unjust. The Report intimates that it is good policy to keep the newspaper and pam phlet postage at their present low rates, and ud\iaeo a reduction of letter postage. Five cents for all single letters, whether within or over 300 miles, is suggested as a fitting price. Os the fifty-two millions of letters trans ported last year, fifteen millions are sup posed to have paid the double price often cents. Had they been carried at five cents, the post-office revenue would have been diminshed $775,000. The profit of a mill ion last year, will more than justify such a reduction. The railroad mail routes, this year, are 6,13S miles, an increase, within two years, of 1,149. On these routes the mail is now transported 5,749,040 miles annually. The railroad managers refuse to subject the time and departures of the trains to the order of the Department. This occasions trouble. The foreign mail service does not look so well. The receipts for postage to and from Europe was, from June, 1847, to October, '4S, $29,082 ; from October, ’4B, to October, ’49, 871,114. The cost is $200,000 per annum. The mail from Charleston, via Savanah, to Havana, has cost, since October, 1848, $35,086. The mails between New York and New Orleans, via, Chailest'-n, Savanah, and Havana; that between Havana and Chagres ; that between Panama and Cali fornia, Aracross the Isthmus of Grenada,are alluded to. The latter are said to be not under the control of the Department and very badly managed. The Postmaster General objects to this service being called mail service, and states that if the immense expense be put upon the Post office, it will seriously embarass the Department. At present, the sea-postage between here and Europe is due almost entirely to England; and though it swells our receipts here, has to be paid over annually, when demanded. The American mail steamers being built, will soon alter this state of the accounts. A Postmaster was appointed at San Francisco. The income being insufficient, he resigned. Other agents have been ap pointed and promise to regulate mail mat ters there in a short lime Provision must be made, it is thought, for mail accommodations in California, Oregon, and New Mexico. Present ar rangements are wholly outof the question. The expence is vast —the reciepls tri fling. The report insists on the necessity of having additional Clerks allowed the De partment, by law. Delay embarrassment are occasioned, it asserts, by the increased business and the insufficient number of as sistants. In the Dead Letter office 2,100,000 dead letters were opened anil examined last year, of these 4,964 contain $32,069, and 998 inclose other articles of value. The number of supposed depredations for the year is put down to 1226,supposed to include 8169,107. Twenty-nine depre dators were arrested, and $77,779 were reclaimed or accounted for. To show the great increase of service, and the consequent damand for the in- I crease of the foice in the Department, l the following comparative statement is made. In 1537, the number post-offices 11,707 now 17,164 —471 have been made since June last. Numbar of dead letters in 1837, 900,000 now 2.100,000. Number of quarterly returns in 1837, 48,000-now 73,- 000. Number ol mail contractors in 1837, 1682—now 4,190. Length of routes it! 1537, 141,1-42 —now 167,703. Annual mail transportion in 1837, 32,597,0uG —now 42,544,069, The Repott then alludes to the duties of the Auditor of the Department, and praises the energy and success of the sys tem pursued. An Unlucky Gun. —Several years ago, says a Virginia paper, Mr. Benjamin F. Miller, who resides near Washington, in Rappahannock county, had a favorite negro boy with him in liis hunting excursions. On a certain occasion lie took his gun out to shoot birds near Ins father's house ; the boy followed him as usual ; and ci ther forgetting ornot observing the boy, between whom and his master were some thick bushes, he shot the bird and killed the boy at the same time. “In November last, a manby the name of Johnson, also of that county, had baited some wild turkics, and bad concealed himself amid the limbs of a fallen pine tree near the place to await their arrival. Another gentleman, named 1 letcher, who bad by some means possessed himself of Johnson’s gun, was bunting turkics in the same neighborhood, and passing near the tree under which Johnson was concealed, and attracted by a noise among the branches, catching a glimpse of Johnson’s head, on which was a black fur cap, lie fired and the unhappy man fell, exclaiming Lord have mercy on me ! and immediately expired. “The unlucky gun was purchased from Mr. Fletcher by a gentleman named Curran, who resides near Flint Hill, Rappahannock county, and a few weeks ago it was again the instrument of death to a human being. Mr. Curran was hunting turkics near the dwelling of his broth er-in-law, Mr George W. Compton, and com ing to some thick bushes, among which were grapes, and seeing something which lie supposed to he a turkey, without taking a closer observa tion, he fired, and the unfortunate object proved to be the daughter of Mr. Compton, aged nine or ten years. She lived until the next day and expired. (FP Anew calculating machine, invented by Colmar twenty years ago, and to the improve ment of which the inventor has devoted his whole time, is now exhibited at Paris. By means of pegs moved back and forth, any calcu lation on the simple rules of arithmetic can be performed. Mr. Colmar has taken out a patent. Hard up. — Mr. D’lraeli says, on the author ity of a London attorney, the amount of the mortgages of England is £400,000,000, produ cing at four per cent., £16,000,000 a year. The landlords of Scotland are at least as deeply mort gaged as those of England, and undoubtedly squires are in a still worso condition. M ACON, GA, SATURDAY MORNING, DEC. 15,1849. Important Telegraphic Intelligence. We received last evening at 6 o’clock, the fol lowing interesting intelligence, dated Montgomery, Ala., Dec. 15,4 j o’clock, P.M. —At 45 minutes past 1 o’clock to-day, the State House was discovered to be on fire, and the flames spread with such rapidity, that all at tempt to save the building proved unavailing, and it was burnt to the ground, lenvingonly the walls standing.— A few years ago, when this building was being built, the plastering fell and killed several persons. It is strange, how this fire should have occurred, as the Legislature of Alabama is now in session. Washington Citv, Dec. 14, 54 o’clock, I’. M. —Previous to the adjournment of Congress this afternoon, a Resolution was adopted closing all debate until the Speaker should be elected. On the last ballot Lynn Boyd received 82 votes; Stanly 49; Winthrop 27 ; and Potter 22. The Masonic Journal. —We have received the December number which closed the first volume of this interesting work. The editor Dr. J. B. Randall, says that each number of the next volume, commencing in January next will be one,-third larger than those of the present year, and the price of subscription will be $2 per annum. It is neatly printed, and we re commend it to the patronage of the Fraternity. Published by Messrs. Hunt & Campbell, Ma rietta, Ga. Acquitted. —Talbot Combs, mentioned in our last as having killed Patrick Barrett, under went an examination on Saturday last before Justices Brown, Wood and Reid, and was ac quitted. Another Homicide. —On Saturday last, a difficulty arose at Mr. Brown’s in Rutland’s Dis trict, about eight miles South of this City, be tween Brinkly Bishop and Turner Smith, when the former shot ihe latter with a pistol, which caused his death immediately.—An Inquest was held on the next day and a verdict rendered that the deceased came to his death from the effects of a ball fired from a pistol in the hands of Brinkly Bishop. An examination took place before a Magistrate’s Court in this city on Turs day, when said Bishop was committed to jail to await iiis trial for the offence at the Term of Bibb Superior Court in January next. On Thurs day Thomas Smith, a brother of the deceased, whoso pistol was used in the killing,was examin ed and also committed to await his trial at said Court, as an accesory to the crime. Counterfeiter.—Hardin Hopper was ar rested and committed to jail at Augusta a few days since, for passing counterfeit money. He had ,SBO in S2O bills on the Commercial Bank at Columbia, and slo's on the Bank of Charles ton. A hill of the latter description was detected at one of the Banks in this city recently—tlicv may be distinguished from the genuine notes bv the obliteration of the letter A in the word Charleston by the head of the female figure. From California. —The ‘"Crescent City’’ has arrived at New York, from Chagres, bring ing dates from San Francisco to 2d ult., and 160 passengers, and $1,400,000 in gold.—Bo,ooo per sons were at the mines. The Constitution of the State of California had been adopted. Fires. —The extensive Pork Packing F.sl?.b lishmcnl of Messrs. Stagg & Shay, at Cincin nati, was recently destroyed by fire. Their stock of hams was heavy, but insured. Puga &. Cos. lost 3,000 hogs. A great fire broke out on Saturday, 24th ult., at Baton Rouge which destroye property to the amount of $75,000. The new paper iniii of Messers. Robertson &. Rinhart, at Delphi, la., was destroyed by fire on the morning of the 9th ult. It was insured for $25,000. ff~P Dr. Parkman has left, it is understood a fortune of some $700,000 nr SBOO,OOO ; and the timely discovery of the body will enable his re latives to administer to the estate, which other wise might have been kept in abayance, proba bly for years. Scientific. — Professor Kollcnati, of Berlin, has propounded a theory that men shed their skins as animals do their coats, and that, like them, they assume a thicker or a thinner cov ering (a natural skin) according to the climate in which they- reside. When this change is ef fected, a man is said to he “acclimated.” IT’ The Presbyterian Church at Bethesda, Montgomery county, Md., was destroyed by fire a few days since. Baltimore. —The Cumberland (Md.) Civil ian says, that from the sth of November to the 6th of the present month, 52,472 hogs were car ried to market from this place over the Balti more and Ohio Railroad. Steamships.— The New York Commercial Advertiser says : “Wm. 11. Webb will lay the keel of a steamship in a week or ten daps, and a second some time in January, to take the place of the steamships Savannah and Tennessee, re cently sold from Sam’l L. Mitchell's Savannah line to Messrs. Howland and Aspinwall, for the Pacific mail line. One will be launched on or before the Ist of April next, and the other about the Ist of June. Then are to be built in a su perior manner, at an estimated cost of $175,000 each. In their dimensions they will he similar to the Tennessee, viz : 212 feet on deck, 35 feet beam, and 214 feet deep. Their model will also be precisely similar. The aprons, night heads, inner sternposts, counter tables, and ends of kelsons, arc to be all of live oak. The latter will be coaged to the timbers, and bolted edge wise. In these and other respects, the con struction of these vessels will bo such as to place them among ths first in pointofexcellence. “Wm. Collycr lias commenced building a steamboat to be placed on the route between New York and Keyport, in place of the John Hart, which is to be removed to Southern wa ters. She will be 170 feet long, and 28 broad.” Terrible Affair in Boston. We are indebted to Scott’s Weekly Paper, published in Philadelphia, for the following synopsis of the lamentable tradedy in Boston : The disappearance of Dr. Parkman, well known in Boston for his wealth and eccentrici ties, and which was mentioned in the papers about two weeks since, has resulted in the sup position that lie was cruelly, brutally and wantonly murdered, and his remains, or a por tion of them destroyed. The good city of Bos ton lias been harrowed by the details of the sup posed murder. Up to Friday, of last week, the most frightful rumors were circulated. All sorts of reports had been flying from tongue to tongue, and the police were dragging rivers and scour ing woods in search of him, when of a sudden it was asserted that he had been murdered by Professor Webster, of the Medical College, and his remains partially burnt. The high standing of the parties—their social position, moving in the most fashionable circles of Boston—their advanced age, the victim being 60, and his sup posed murderer 55 years of age—all tended to increase the excitement. Suspicion had rested upon Professor Webster by persons employed at the College, owing to the fact that Dr. Parkman was known to have called there about a note of the Professor’s, for $425, which he held. Dr. Parkman was not seen to leave the College, and a Mr. Littlefield stated to the other professors that Mr. Webster had been locked up in his own room fora length of time that aroused his suspicions. A secret plan was laid to search the apartments, which was commenced by breaking through stone and brick walls under the chemical room, occupied by Professor Webster. There, in the well of the water closet, was found part of a human body—the intestines having been taken out. The search was continued, and parts of two legs wer* discovered. The head, hands and feet were gone. In the ashes in the fire-place, par tie'es of gold, teeth, &.c., were found, which were identified by the dentist, as those belong ing to I)r. Parkman ; this was confirmed by the discovery of a jaw bone. A pair of trowsers belonging to Professor Webster, with blood upon them, was also found, and in a tea chest, cover ed with minerals, other mutilated remains; a saw with which it is thought the head was rut from the body, was alsofunnd. Os course, these evidences being found in the apartments op Prof. Webster, to which only himself had ac cess, were sufficient to cause his arrest. The of ficers of the law proceeded to his house at Cam bridge, and there found him bidding adieu to a gentleman who had been visiting there. The officers told him they wished him to proceed to the College and aid in searching for the remains He complied readily, hut instead of conveying him to the College, the carriage in which he was placed, proceeded direct to the Leverett street jail. This seemed to surprise him, and he asked the officers the meaning of it.— lie was informed of what had transpired at the College, and the effects upon him is described as appall ing. The next day he was conveyed to the College, to witness the putting together of the mutilated remains. Various stories were pub lished of his manner on that occasion, hut the truth is, he was perfectly calm, though quite fee ble from the effects of his arrest, and having passed the night in jail. In addition to the foregoing, we find in the Boston papers of Monday, Tuesday and Wed nesday, long accounts of the state of things there. They do not, however, contain any ad ditional particulars, further than that the family of the late Dr. Parkman had taken the mutila ted remains found in the College, and had them buried with due ceremony—satisfied of their identity. Professor Webster was arraigned on Monday, and committed by the Court to await the decision of the Grand Jury for the January term. He was attended by iiis counsel and triend, franklin Dexter, Esq. He is represen ted to have regained his equanimity, and to con verse quite freely with his friends. II is family, at his residence in Cambridge, consist of a wife and three daughters, the youngest of whom is 16. His eldest daughter, aged 23, is married to M. Dabney, the present Counsul at Fayal, and is abroad with her husband. Those at home are merged in the deepest despair, at the posi tion in which the father and husband is placed. Those who best know I’rofessor Webster, do not believe him guilty of the crime, and suspi cion has occasionally rested upon others, but upon examination it proved to be unfounded. Others assert that if the remains were those of Dr. Parkman, they were placed where found for the purpose of entraping Professor Webster Hehas not, however, attempted an explanation and we confess, from all we have seen, appear ances are strongly against him. The supposed remains of Dr. Parkman were buried from the residence, No. 8 Walnut street, on Thursday morning. A large concourse of persons were present, mostly attracted by curi osity. The funeral proceeded to Trinity Church Cemetery, where the remains were deposited in a vault. Danger of using Chloroform. —A melan choly accident, which occurred in Glasgow, Scotland, from the use of chloroform, is related by the London Medical Times. Dr. Adams, resident physician to the Clyde-st., hospital, having occasion to use chloroform, inhaled it himself, to try its strength, but with any serious consequences; repeating, however this experi ment, and incautiously increasing the dose, the effect was fatal; he fell back and immediately expired. Telegraph Plough. —The New York Ex press says : “ This is the age of invention, and when there is a necessity, there is an invention. We have just been shown a species of a sub marine plough, which will plough a furrow un der the bed of a river, to put the telegraphic wire in, and cover the furrow. The wire, so to speak, is sowed in the furrow by an ingenious movement in machinery. All looks practica ble, and if it works, there is a way found out to put telegraphic wires under rivers, safe from an chors. Gold. A gold mine, yielding fifty per cent, has been found in Columbia county, Ohio. THE ICE-BOUND VESSEL. One day, as we were speaking of the North seas, of the third expedition of Captain P a ' and of the dangers of polar navigation, oia Capt Warens, who had passed the greaterp art , his life in the whale fisheries took his pjp e ffo ° his mouth, and placing it on the table, said “l found myself, in the month ofAuj u , 1775, sailing towards the 77th degree of nor( |' latitude, when, one morning, about a mile f r - my vessel, I found the sea entirely closed t ice. Nothing could be seen, as far as the could reach, except mountains and peaks eovf ed with snow. The wind soon abated, and I, mained two days with the continual prospecib fore me of being crushed by that frightful m JS which the least wind could drive upon us We had passed the second day in alarm, towards midnight, the wind rose, and we hear' the horrible cracking of ice, which broke up and crashed with a noise resembling claps of thunder. That was a terrible night for us, b ol in the morning, the tempest becoming allayed by degrees, we saw the barrier of ice that was before us, entirely broken, and a broad channe extending to the horizon, between its twosidea the sun shone brilliantly, and we were propell ei f by a light breeze from the north. Suddenly we saw appear the masts of ares sel; but that which astonished us still more *„ the singular manner in which her sails posed, the dismantled aspect of her canity the strangeness of her manoeuvres. She cod tinued to advance for some time, then coming in contact with a mass of ice, she remained mo. tionless. I could no longer resist my curiosity; | das. cended into a boat with a few of my sailon and directed our course toward the singularaliip We saw, as we approached, that it was greatlv injured by the ice. No men appeared on iW deck, which was covered with snow. We hail ed it, and no one answered. Before goingon board, I looked through a port hole, and saw a man seated at a table, on which were all the lie. cessary articles for writing. Gctling on deck we opened the hatch and went down into the cabin, where we found the purserof the vessel, seated as we had seen him at the port-hole ; but what was our astonishment and our terror when we saw that he was a corpse, and that a green and moist foam had gathered on hischeeks and forehead, and veiled his eves, which were open! He had a pen is his hand, and the log-book before liim. The hit lines lie had written were these;—“Nov. 14, 1762. It is seventeen days since wc have been inclosed by the ice. The fire went out yester day, and our Captain h*.s tried to relight it, but without success. His wife died this m ruing There is no more hope ” My sailors fled, affrighted, from that corpse, which appeared to be alive. We then entered the ladies' cabin, and the first object we noticed was the body of a lady lying upon a bed man attitude of anxious and close attention; one would have said, seeing the fresh ness of her complexion, that she was living; only the con traction of her limbs showed us that she was dead. Before, her was a young man, seated on the floor, holding a steel in one hand and a flint in the other, and having before him many hits of tinder. We then passed into the forecastle, where we found several sailors lying in their berths, mail dog stretched out at the foot of the stairs. It was in vain that we sought for provisions and firewood ; we discovered nothing of the kind. Then my sailors began to say that it was an rn. chanted vessel, and announced to me that they would remain no longer on hoard We left af ter having taken the log-hook, and came back toour vessel, smitten with learnt the thought of so melancholy an example of ‘.lie danger of |»- lar navigation, in so high a degree of northern latitude. When I returned to Hull, I made my report to the Admiralty, ami from the documents I had, showing the name of the ship and the captain,l learned that the vessel had been lost thirty years before, and had consequently been ever since enclosed within ice.” Alter Captain Warens had censed speaking, we still continued to listen, such was the pi"- found and terrible impression that bis recital bad made on us. Remarkable Fatalities. —The Montro# Standard furnishes us with the following'*- markable circumstances : Ahull belonging to Mr. Campbell, farmer, Nether Obnie, Auditor gaven, died a few davs ago ofpleuro-pneumoniii as was supposed. A neighbor was sent fur to skin him, and whilst engaged in this work be scratch his arm a little with the hones of tbo animal. Mrs. Campbell, who was assisting/ a little scratch on her chin before engagingm what has turned out to be a most uuforlunat'' business. In a few days the scratched arm b o ' came swollen and inflamed, and the most ener getic medical measures were requisite to d' the progress towards mortification. It is r lo * hoped that the arm may he saved; but we haw to odd that Mrs. Campbell has fallen a vic“" ,ll> the strange poison of the dead carcase. She hud touched the scratch on her chin whilst as sisting her neighbor to skin the hull, and i" 3 sow day-R inflammation set in, and medical skill was powerless to arrest the fatal progress of il' e disease. A dog, cat, and a pig, which had ea ‘ ten of the offals, have all died. Germans going to Nicaragua. —The G*‘ man Colonization Society is at present active! engaged in collecting emigrants for Nicaragua in South America. A pamphlet, just publish? by its president Mr. Benlow, says that cosk e and indigo can ho cultivated there with g ri “ ! success, and offers this among other induecin enl! ' for emigration. The Germans have been grating in groat numbers to different p orls . the world, for the last ten years. About <W> have gone to Australia, 60,000 to South An» crl ca, and innumerable hosts to our country-"- to Europe, one can scarcely find a village ! '‘ France, Greece, and Southwestern Russia * lll Turkey, when German emigrants are not sc ‘led.