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EDITED AMI PUBLISHED WEEKI V, BY
W .11 . IS . 11 A K it I S O A ,
C 1 T Y VIII .V 7 E it .
from the .Vcic York Weekly Mirror
What’s that Knocking.
The Tribune recently published a mar
vellous report of certain supernatural rev
elations that have been frightening West
ern New York from its property, which
is calculated to revive the faith of the sup
erstitious in “Witchcraft,’’Haunted Hous
es, ” “Ghosts, ” “Hobgoblins, "and other
mysterious “apparitions. ” We copy a
portion of the “Revelation,’ which is sign
ed by E. W. Capson, of Auburn, and
George Willis, of Rochester. Though
we are skeptical in all such ghostly mat
ters, yet \vc cannot not let this wonderful
statement pass without suggesting that
the phenomena of the rapping may bo at
tributed to the vagrant spirit of some dis
embodied vagabond, who can find no bet
ter employment than to bother the living
by his “supernatural visitings.
The sounds were first heard about two
years since, and have not yet ceased, but
srem to be spreading from one place to
another,and gradually claiming tiie atten
tion of the public mind. When first heard,
they were manifested by a simple hollow
sounding rap upon the lloor and house. —
This rapping continued eery night, for a
long time and finally commenced ill the
day time. It was at first entirely unintel
ligible to the inhabitants of the house.
At length a little girl said “Now do as
T <lo.’ and snaped her linger three tiines.-
SlO was answered by three raps. On re.
peating it she found that it invariably re
peated tiio number she made herself.—
Another person said, “Nowcount ten,* dttd
it was done. “Now count the age of—
(o le of the children.) It was done correc
tly. Another was tried with like success.
As it began to display signs of intelligence
the family became alarmed and the fem
ales all left the house at night. The neigh
bors were called in but there was no ces
sation of the sounds. The excitement
became intense, and atone time it is said,
nearly or quite 300 persons assembled to
discover from whence the sounds proceed
ed. r l ho house was thoroughly examined
from garret to cellar, but while the sounds
continued, no one over discovered the op
erator. At length it was discovered that
when a question was put that required
an affirmative, a rap was heard for a ne
gative—no sound.
Ihe question was put “Are you a spir
it • ’ Ihe answer was by rapping—three
raps. By this means they found that it
purported to be the spirit of aman. Many
expedients were restored to by which to
find out the name of the man whose spirit
was making these manifestations. At
length a stranger asked, “If l will call
the Alphabet, begining with A, will you
rap when I come to the first letter of his
name 1” the answer was affirmative.—
He then commenced “A, B, C,” when it
came to C, there was a rap. Again he
went on, and it rapped at H, and in that
way lie spelled the name ofCharles Rasme.
As before started, these sounds have from
that time been heard in various families in
that place and the cities of Auburn and
Rochester and various parts of the coun
try. Although confined to this rapping
sound, the mode of communication has
gradually improved so that many very ca
rious astonishing sentences have been
spelled by the use of the Alphabet. It
no longer purports to he the spirit of one
man or peason, but when an individual
made the enquiry “who is it that wishes
to communicate with tne,’ they will gen
erally get the name of some friend or rel
ative—a mother, father, sister, or brother
who has passed from visible existence.—
Many persons have made the trial and
have had names spelled out to them of
their friends, unknown to any person
present. Strangers have tried the exper
iment, had their names spelled out before
any person present knew it or where they
came from.
The communication adds that three or
four different committees, composed of
the most inteligent and scientific men of
Rochester have spent some time in inves
tigating the mystery without being able to
account for the rapping. The report in
the Tribune winds up with the following
irritation of the “bump of wonder'’ :
On Friday ovening. after the lecture,
the Committee, viz., Hon. A. P. Mascall,
L>. C. McCullum and William Fisher,re
paired to the house of a citizen and pursu
ed their investigations further. There
were nearly a score of persons present. —
1 lie members of the Committee wrote
many questions on paper, which no person
present knew tho purport of and were
answered correctly. At times they asked
mentally and would rocieve the answers
with equal correctness, and they were ful
ly satisfied that there was something pre
sent manifesting an intelligence beyond
the person visible.
* * * *
Thus the matter stands at present, and
whether it is only a remarkable pheno
mena that will pass away with the pres
ent generation, or with the persons who
seem now to be tiie medium of this extra
ordinary communication : or whether
it he the commencement of anew era of
spiritual influx into the world it is certain
ly something worthy the attention of men
of candor and philosophy.
£3jT It is calculated that, in 15.30, ful 1
five hundred thousand emigrant, willnr
i ive at t ho port of New 'toi,. i. nnbeyond
seas. Quite one-fifth will land pentv j
unable, from want of means, .go
Bfciuto the interior.
From thr Haiti more Patriot.
election of Mpcakcr.
Washington. Dr.<\22, 24 P. .M.
Mr. Toombs continued at great length
and with great violence to denounce the
resolution prohibiting debate, declaring
it to be unconstitutional, inoperative and
tyrannical, amid cries of “order,’’ “order,”
and demands to proceed with business.
A motion to rescind the resolution was
adopted—ayes 120, nays 97.
The resolution for electing a Speaker
by a plurality vote was then introduced,
and is now under consideration.
5 o’clock, 55 m.
After much confusion and excite
ment,
Mr. Stanton of Tennessee, offered a reso
lution that the House proceed to a viva
voce vote ; and after the fourth succeeding
ballot, any member not receiving a majori
ty of the whole House, but the highest
number, if a quorum lie present and vo
ting, he declared elected Speaker.
This resolution was passed by yeas 113,
nays 106.
The House then proceeded to ballot,
with the following result:
Ist. 2d. 3d. 4th.
Winthrop, 93 95 97 100
H. Cobb, 75 93 99 102
The following wasthe last vote referred
to :
For Mr. Cent', —Messrs. Albertson,
Ashe, Averett, Bay, Baylv, Beale, Bing
ham, Bissel, Bocock, Bowden, Bowlin,
Boyd, AlbcrtG. Brown, William J. Brown,
Buel, Burt, Cabell, George Alfred Cald
well, Carttcr, Williamson R. W. Cobb,
Colcock, Daniel, Dimmick, Disney Dun
ham, Edmunson, Ewing, Featherson,
Fitch, Fuller, Gerry, Gilmore, Gorman,
Green, Hackctt, Hull, Hamilton, Ham
mond, Haralson, Harlan, Ilarmanson,
[sham G. Harris, Sampson W. Harris,
Thomas L. Harris, Hibbard, Hoaggand,
Holliday, Howard. Hubbard, I“gc. An
drew Johnson, R. W. Johnson, G. \v . i
.Tones, Kauftnan, LaScre, Leffler, Little
field, Job Mann, Mason, McClernand,
McDonald, McDowell, McLanahan, Mc-
Lane, McMullen, McQueen, Me Willie,
Meade, Miller, Miilson, Morris, Morse,
Olds, Oi r, Parker, Peaslee, Fetter, Pow
ell, Richardson, Robbins, Robinson, Ross,
Savage, S iwtelle, Frederick P. Stanton,
Richn'd If. Stanton, Stetson, Strong,
Sweetser, Thomas, Jacob Thompson,
James Thompson, William Thompson,
Venable, Walden, Waldo, Wallace, Woil
born, Wentworth, Whittlesey, Wildriek
and Young.
For Mr. Winthrop. —Messrs. Alexan
der, Alston, Anderson, Andrews, Ashrnun,
Baker, Bennett, Bokec, Bowie, Breck,
Briggs, Brooks, Burrows, C. Butler, T. B.
Butler, J. P. Caldwell, Calvin, Campbell,
Casey, Chandler, Clark, Cleveland, Clittg
man, Cole, Conger, Conrad, Corwin, Cro
well, Deberry, Dicker, Dixon, Duer, Dun
can, Alexander Evans, Nathan Evans,
Fowler, Freedly, Goodenow, Gott,Gould,
Grinned, llallowuy, Hampton, llay, Hay
mend, Hebattl, Henry, Hilliard, Houston,
Hunter, Jackson,.!. L. Johnson, Kerr,
Daniel P. King, Geo. G. King. James G.
King, John A. King, Levin, Horace Mann,
Marshall, Matteson, McGaughcy, McKis
sock, McLean, Meacham, Moore, More
head, Ncs, Newell, Ogle, Otis, Outlaw,
Phoenix, Pittman, Putnam, Reynolds,
Risly, Rockwell, Rose, Rumsey, Sackett,
Schenck, Sehermeilmrn, Schoolcraft, Sil
vester, Shepherd, Spalding, Stanly, Ste
vens. Taylor. John B. Thompson, Thur
man, Tuck,Underhill, Van Dyke, Vinton.
Watkins, White, Williams, Wilson.
For Mr,. Wilmot. — Messrs, Allen,
Booth, Dutkee, Giddings, Howe, Julian,
P. King, and Root,
For Mr. Stephens. —Mr. Cabell.
For Mr. Strong. —Messrs. Cleveland,
Doty, and Peck.
For Mr.Coi.cok. —Mr. Holmes.
For Mr. Morkhkail —Messrs. Morion,
Owen, Stephens, and Toombs.
Fou Mr. Ddrkek.—Air. Wilmot.
For Mr. Potter.— Mr. Wood.
For Mr. Bovn.—Mr. Woodward.
The Clerk then prepared to declare
Howell Cobb of Georgia to have been
elected Speaker of the 31. t Congress;
when
M. Stanley offered the following resolu
tion :
JlcsolvctJ, That Howell Cobb, a represen
tative from Georgia,be declared duly elec
ted Speaker of the House of Representa
tives for the 31st Congress.
Mr. Root, declaring his belief that the
resolution of the gentleman from North
Carolina[Mr. Stanly j was unconstitutional,
demanded that the yeas and nays should
he called thereupon. [Great confusion
and uproar, many members calling him
to order.]
Mr. Schenk protested against calling
the yeas and nays, Mr. Cobb having al
ready been elected the Speakeir of the
3ist Congress. But amid groat confusion,
the roll was called on agreeing to Mr. Stan
ly’s resolution; and the resolution was
agreed to—yeas 149, nays 33, as follows :
Yeas.—Messrs. Albertson, Anderson,
Ashe, Ashman, Baker, Bay, Beal, Bennet,
Bingham, Bissel, Bocock, JJokee, Booth,
Bowden, Bowie, Bowlin, Boyd, Breck,
Briggs, Albert (!. Brown, Win. J. Brown,
Buel, Chester Butler, Caliel, Geo. Alfred
Ca : .oil, Jos. l\ C dJuej, Carter, f. -v,
C'luigmati, V niatnion R. W. Cobb,
Conrad, Comm, Deberry, Dimmick,
Disney, Dixon, Duly, Duer, Duncan,
Dunham, FJ.non n, A. Evans, Nathan
Evans, Ewing, Ei .li, Freedly, Fuller,
G-iry, Gilmore, Gorman, Gould, Creen,
GriiHiel, tlac'.ett, liall, Hamilton,
Hammond, Hampton, llaraL >», Har
lan, Harm. »n, i.;liam H. Hart is.
Sampson \v\ Harris, Tims. L. Harris,
Hav, llaymuud, Henry, Hibbard, Hotig
land, I : <u : it • .vv ; : . .
! Johnson, James L. Johnston, Robert W.
.(..Imson, Jones, Kaufman, Kerr, George
G. King, James G. King, John A. King,
LaScre, Lelller, Levin, Littlefield, Job
Mann, Marshall, McClernand, McDon
gald,McDowell, MeKissock, McLanahan,
McLaue, McLean, McMullen, McWil
-1 io, Miller, Miilson, Moore, Morris,
Morse, Newell, Ogle, Olds, Orr, Otis,
Parker, Peaslee, Phmnix, Robbins,
Robiuson, Rockwell, Rose, Ross, Sav
age, Sawtelle, Schenck, Sberraerhorn,
Shepherd, Stanly, Frederick P. Stanton,
Richard H. Stanton, Stetson, Sweetser,
Taylor, Thomas, Jacob Thompson, Jas.
Thompson, Jno. B. Thompson, Win.
Thompson, Thurman, Van Dyke, Vin
, ton, Walden, Waldo, Watkins, Went
worth, White, Whittlesey, Wildriek,
Williams, Winthrop, Wood, and Young—
-149.
N.vvs —Messrs. Alien, Andrews, Av-j
erett, Bayley, Burt, Cabell, Camp-j
bell, Colcock, Crowell, Daniel, Dur-I
kee, Feathcrston, Giddings, Hilliard.
Holliday, Holmes, Ilovve, Hubbard,
Hunter, Julian, Preston King, Mc-i
Gaughey, -McQueen, Morton, Outlaw,
Owen, Boot, Alexander H. Stephens,
Toombs, Tuck, Venalde, Wallace,
Wilmot, and Woodward—-331
M A~C ON, GA .
SATURDAY MORNING, DEC. 2", 1 - ID.
O’ Our readers will please remember that
next Tuesday is New Year's Day, and, in keep
ing with a time-honored custom, we shall pre
pare an Address for our Carrier. Wo bespeak
for him a liberal reception.
President's Message. —We received a sy
nopsis of the President’s Message by last night's
mail.
Ti e President recommends the substitution of
specific for ad valorem duties, .-nil an increase
in the Tariff, lie recommends the reception of
California and New Mexico as States, —also a
reduction of postage, and appropriations for
coastwise and harbor improvements ; a modifi
cation of the sub-treasury laws ; the establish
ment of a branch mint in California ; tho con
sideration of the great Pacific Railway. The
Message breathes an ardent desire for the per
petuity of the Union.
Death or an aged Ship Master. —The
Charleston Courier says Capt. Oliver Fuller, for
fifty years a highly respectable ship-master and
ship-owner of that port, died on Wednesday,
evening, at bis residence, in Meeting-street at a
very advanced ago. Captain Fuller bad been,
for some years, inspector for the Fire & Marine
Insurance Cos., previous to its dissolution, raised
by the great fire in 1533. The flags of the
shipping in tho harbor were displayed at half
mast yesterday, as a mark of respect to his mem
ory.
O’ An eccentric old bachelor who lately died
at Madras, lias left a sum of £I,OOO, tiie inter
est of which is to be divided annually into four
portions, to be distributed at the discretion of
tho minister of St. Cyrus, Kincardineshire.
One portion to be given to the tallest woman
that lias been married in the parish during the
year, and one to the shortest. A third portion
goes to tho eldest woman married during the
year and the fourth to the youngest.
O’ A romantic youth, promenading on a
fashionable street, the other afternoon, picked
jup a thimble. He stood awhile, meditating on
j tho probable beauty of the owner, when he
I pressed it to his lips, saying, “Oh, that it were
j the fair cheek of the wearer !’’ Just as he hud
j finished, a stout colored lady looked out of an
! upper window, and said, “ floss, dis please to
flow dat limbic of mine in de entry—l jist now
drapt it.” The man is said to have fainted.
Great Yiei.d us Gold.— The Editor of the
Richmond \\ big say s that lie seen thirty-seven
burs of gold from the Booker Mine, in Bucking
ham, the average weight of which was 195 pen
ny weights each. It is valued by the proprietor
at 5y6,.i00, and is the result of thirty four davs
labor, with thirty bands. As the expenses are
rated by him at twenty dollars per diem, the clear
profits of the 34 days work, are upwards of five
thousand dollars !
ID By the decease of Mr. William Long, of
London, and his sister, Mr. Fowler, the .Society
f>r the Propagation of the Gospel lias come into
the immediate possession of about £27,000,
winch was placed in too hands o! trustees some
two years since, to become the property of the
Society in case of the above events. An anony--
inous donor lias alsogiven £4,000.
O’ A country merchant having procured a
new cleik, waked him up the morning after he
was hired, at a most unreasonably early hour,
by calling out that “ tho family were sitting
down to the table.”
“ 1 bank you, said the boy, turning over in
bed to adjust himself for anew nap— “thank
you, but I never allow myself to cat anything
during the night!”
A Steam Man! —A mechanic in Russia is
said to have succeeded in making a steam man.
It is probably one of the most interesting inven
tions ever offered to the public. It is a colossal
statue, the feet of which are placed upon wheels
upon a railroad, and as lie goes thundering over
the course, the steam comes puffing oir. of his
nostrils in a manner to give the appearance of
Satan as pictured in Revelations.
A iliMiims Heroine.— The U. S. mail
steami r 11. riuaiin arrived at New York on Sat
urday, having on hoard a number of the Hun
garian patriots, among the m Mndetnoisel’c Apo
loni.i Jagella. This Jady, we are informed
served us Lieutenant in one of the Hun<*,.rian
re, i nents of < a airy, ad subsequently held tho
office of Adjutant of the Army in Uomorn,
while that fortress held out out against the Atis
trim forces. She is at the Irving House, where
•-•hu receives iniu-li consideration in ,I i■ -peet
:i"in the woithy host and his boarders
Latest !>y flic Hibernia
I’abis.—The French Government has sent or
ders to Rome to send home that portion of the
expeditionary army for which it lias been im
possible to find barracks,’and who arc ill lodged-
The Evenemcnt announces that M. de Perligny
is about to proceed to flerlin on a special mis
sion. The Estrenle mentions a report, that the
President of the Republic will grant a general
amnesty to all the political offenders on the 10th
of December.
Letters from Lyons of the 271 h inst. state that
ilie overflowing of tiie Rhiue lias caused much
damage in that city. The houses, quays, and
adjoining streets were completely flooded, and
j the inhabitants obliged to move with their prop-
I erty.
The proposition for the sale of the Grown
Jewels is rejected. Twenty-three members of
j a secret society were tried on Wednesday; fif
teen acquitted ; the others condemned to peri
ods of imprisonment not exceeding two years.
The reports that the President lias signified
liis intention to stand a second time for the
Presidency is contradicted.
Bank or France. —Returns show improve
ment in Discount Bills of 2.J millions francs—
-2,000,000 more of notes issued—while specie
not increased. Paris Bourse—Fives, 86 65;
Threes, 56 90.
Vienna, 21th.— Levying of troops in the
Crown Lands proceeds with rapidity, and the
contingent is almost formed.
Prussia. —Government lias informed Den
mark that correspodeneo must be entered into
with the Government of Holstein, or the Prus
sian troops will be withdrawn and negotiations
for peace on the part of Prussia broke off, leav
ing Denmark to settle the matter herself.
Aesen and Sonderburg are to be put on a
footing of war. Quarters for 10,000 men have
been bespoke. Tho Elbe was almost impassable
at Hamburgh, on the 27th November, from the
accumulation of ice, and should the severe frost
continue for a few days, the navigation may he
considered closed. Business at Hamburgh in
active and markets dull. No change in prices.
A Committee of Naval officers has been ap
pointed by the Adtilin'litv. to consider the most
advisable ineaus for ascertaining the fate of Sir
John Franklin. It is expected tho report of the
officers appointed will be made early on Monday.
Indiana Debt. —The debt of this State is 11,-
045,000 dollars. The holders of $0,563,000
have submitted to the terms proposed by the
Legislature. The others will have to come in,
or get nothing—so we infer from Gov. Dunning’s
message. Tho revenue for the year amounted
to $131,650 und the expenditures to $74,470.
Tho taxable property lias increased $4,458,070.
From tins, it would seem they are able to pay.
(FT It is common for girls, when they give
their consent, to say to their lovers, “ Go ask
my father.” A bachelor recently got acquain
ted with a pretty woman, to whom lie very soon
popped the question, to which she replied, “Go
ask my husband!” lie supposed her to be a
spinster.
The Bridge —The Augusta Constitutionalist
of the 18th inst. says :—lt was rumored in this
city, yesterday, that the Legislature of South
Carolina had granted to Ilenry Shultz, the right
of collecting toll on the other side of the Bridge
leading from this City to Hamburg. We ran
hardly believe the report. In the first place, we
cannot see what right the South Carolina Leg
islature has to legislate on a question which is
brought into litigation in the United States
Court by Mr. Shultz, and is as yet undecided;
and in tiie second place, we do not think the
Legislature of that State would commit so suici
dal an act against the interests of the South
Carolina Rail Road If they have passed such
an act, all our city authorities have to do, to
prevent a serious difficulty is, to collect double
toll on all produce passing through.
iur.xtco. — llic rumor is prevalent of an ap
proaching revolution in the distracted State of
V ucatan, having for its object to overthrow tho
Governor, Sarbachano. The insurgent Indians,
who at one time threatened to exterminate the
white population from Yucatan, and to capture
all their cities, have fallen outainong themselves.
In consequence of this, they aro now making
their submission to the federal government, and
availing themselves of the amnesty which has
been offered them.
The government of Ilcrrcra is involved
in great financial difficulties, and has not money
to carry on its affairs and pay its employers.
The minister, Iturbidc, proposed to put the
three millions of United States money at the
command of the executive, and resigned in con
sequence of Congress not acceding to liis propo
sition.
Mr. Calhoun on a “ Bust.” —Editors are of
ten guilty of tale-teiiing to tiie injury of private
individuals, hut when they come to slandering
public characters, it is really too bad. A
Charleston paper says Mr. Calhoun—the great,
immortal Statesman is in that city on a “ bust!”
And more than that, the distinguished man is
placed up in public for exhibition, in that dilem
ma ! Shame on the Temperance folks of South
Carolina !
More Indian Murders. —News from Santa
Fe has been received at St Louis, to 30th Oc"
tober. Information had been received that
thirty-six California emigrants had recently been
killed by the Indians near the Copper Mines.
The troops stationed at El Basso bad started in
pursuit of the enemy, but at last accounts bad
not met with them. Three Mexicans had been
killed at El Basso, on the Gth of October, and
several others were reported to have been mas
sacred near Santa Fe. The Indians were daily
committing Iresh depredations, and had become
quite hostile to tho emigrants. Five \pnchc In
dians had been taken prisoners, and offered in
exchange for Mrs. White and daughter.
The -Mormon Delegate. —Mr. Babbitt, tho
Mormon delegate, insists that he has been regu
larly elected ad ''‘gate to Congress from the
Territory of Desei t, and designs claiming his
seat as soon ns the House is organize and. Ho
bases liis right to a scat upon the precedent set
iu tiie case of Minesota, which at the time was
regarded san unsafe one, and which wili lead
t l ' so in , uiilu.-.ra.'smcnt in tiie tli.-;-. .itiuii of Air.
Babbitt s claims.
Comi*i.iment ro Georgia. —\Ye are always
pleased to read surh articles as the following
from our cotemporaries in the Sister States.
The Mobile Daily Advertiser, says: “ Among
the States South of Mason &. Dixon’s line, none
are at this moment more prosperous and flour
ishing than Georgia. Her Legislature lias fos
tered and cherished a judicious system of Banks
and credit, the influence of which lias perva
ded every department of trade, and giveu life
and vigor to every industrial enterprise and pur
suit- Her citizens under its genial effects have
awakened to activity and thrift, which have
produced, and are still producing, a degree of
wealth and aflluencc extending themselves iu
the remotest corners of the State, and promoting
those noble enterprises which have strechod
their iron arms to every desirable point in the
surrounding States.
“ Nor these alone. She is rapidly becoming
the great manufacturing State of the South.
South Carolina envies her noble progress,and
sinks beneath tlie strides and idoinitable encr.
gies of Georgia. In sound institutions, in in
creasing manufactures, in a healthy trade, in all
the advantages of Rail lload transportation in
developing her resources, in a thrifty, industri
ous and happy population, and iu sound and ju
dicious views of what constitutes the elements
of her future growth, greatness and prosperity,
she is far outstripping all her neighbors, and now
presents a spectacle, tiiat our Legislature now in
session, may well contemplate in views of the
labors before it.”
High Handed.— The Saturday Post, says:
“ U’e recently noticed that the island of Tigre,
had been ceded to the United States by the
government of Honduras.
“It now appears that Mr. Cliatfleld, an agent
of the British Government, disregarding that
cession, has taken possession of the island in
question, torn down to '.he flag of Honduras,
and run up that of Great Britain. It is also
stated that the British have seized ail the islands
in the Gulf belonging to and San
Salvador, as well as the ports of Truxillo and
Moro.
In answer to a remonstrance from Mr. Lquier,
the American Consul, Mr. Chatfield declared
that Honduras had no right to cede any portion
of her territory, because, first, she had not even
the right to a national existence! And, second
ly, lie is understood to have said that she had
no right to dispose of the Island of Tigre, be
cause he (Chatfield) had intimated liis intention
of placing a lien upon the Island. Under these
circumstances, it is reported that the Ameican
Consul iiad demanded the evacuation of the Is
land within six days.
“ These high handed measures have naturally
created great excitement and indignation in the
Central American States, and, conscious of
their own weakness, they have appealed to the
Government of the United States for redress.
“ Judging from a late article in the London
Times, it is probable that Mr. Cliatfield’s con
duct will be disavowed by the British Govern
ment. If it should not be, this affair may fur
nish grounds for a serious controversy between
the United States and Great Britain. Believ
ing, however, that the government of both coun
tries are sincerely desirous of doing what is just
and right towards each other, we cannot appre
hend for the present any interruption of the
amicable relations between them.”
More Indian Outrages.— A party of traders
have arrived at Independence, (Mo.) bringing
additional accounts of Indian outrages. Seven
whites, of whom four were Americans and three
were Germans, had been attacked and murdered
by a band of Indians, had been attacked and
murdered by a baud of Indians, at a place called
Point of Rocks. The Americans who fell vic
tims were James M. White, Mr. Caloway, Ben
jamin Beausman and wife. Mrs. White and her
daughter were carried off. The Governor had
sent out a party of Puebla Indians, to effect, if
possible, a ransom for the female prisoners.
Idlers at the Mines. —A Mr. Becket, of
Boston, who went out [in the ship Capital, in
February last, returned in the Crescent City.
Although he did not go to the mines, lie accu
mulated s.>ooo at San Francisco by trading, lie
represents the lion Ith at the mines as tolerably
good. There were undoubtedly many deaths
but no general sickness prevailed. lie thinks,
however, that there will be great suffering this
winter among the crowds that arc daily arriving
by sea and by land. As to the prospects at the
mines, Mr. Becket states that an active, indus
trious man, who sticks to liis location can make
from $lO to $25 per day, but that there were
hundreds of lazy follows hanging about, who on
ly digged when necessity urged them, and from
whom most of the complaints that reach this
country emanated.
A California Writer’s Prospects. —A cor
respondent of the New York Courier, writing
from the gold regions, draws the following
gloomy picture. No doubt the hues of liis own
feelings have somewhat sobered the picture:—
“ I wrote very disparagingly of the mines in my
last correspondence, but the homeward emigra
tion for the next three months, will fully sub
stantiate my opinion. The sufferings in Cali
fornia during the present winter cannot be esti
mated. The first heavy rains will drive thou
sands of miners from the mountains into the
cities, in hopes to procure shelter and employ
ment. By the middle of December, the aven
ues to the mines will he closed, and,of course
the demand for labor will nearly cease during
tho rainy season. Imagine, then, the condition
of u crowded population, dependent upon their
labor, receiving daily accessions to their num
bers by fresh arrivals, unsheltered, sick, idle,
and with too fair a prospect of a general failure
in provisions and hreudstulls,and you may draw
your own conclusions.”
1 V The fi,st electric telegraph was a wo
i.i..n s heart. Lver siuco the days of Adam , she
has extended her influence from pole to pole.
Yen ha\ e been forced to alloc her all degrees
' t latitude , and i ,r loiigiliiu. , females must
e.en speak for tin in clves, as chronometers
vary.
ffj- A countryman being in Buffalo | atc |
and after being shown the sights by a friend
suddenly asked, “ But where is the Bufulo Pl u .’
form?” The gentleman accompanying
explained, with some difficulty in restraining
liimsclf, that the staging put up on that occasion* 1
had been taken doicn after tire performance ua’
occr !
A Marriage Story. —The story which \ VP
gave last week, that a farmer had married a
young emigrant girl at the office of tb e p ou _
missioners of Emigration in New York, having
never seen her before, lias been spoiled by | at(r
accounts. It apprars the girl thought the mar
riage was only “ in fun,” and refused to go wii|,
her new husband.
O’ A London paper says that a curious accj.
dent occurred to the electric telegraph at Berlin
and Stettin the other day. The communication
having been found to be interrupted, search was
made for the cause, when a mouse’s nest, with
a little brood, was discovered in the guttaper
cha tube ; and it appeared that the little animal
had contrived to gnaw through the wires.
Pleasures of Gold Digging. — A corrcg.
pondent of the Newark Advertiser, writing from
North Fork, Sacramento river, complains sadly
of the difficulties of digging, but says that lij
has made from S4O to S6O a day for three neeks.
He adds —“ \V expect to go to the dry digging
very soon. If you iicar of any one corning to
California, tell them they had better stay at
home. I thought I saw the elephant coming
around the Horn, but it was not the real ‘Simon.’
He lives here. When the gold hunters come to
climb mountains from two to two and a half
miles high, then they will realize what fools
they were in coming to California- Every night
we hear the low growl of the grisly bear, the
wild scream of the catamount and the barking
of the grey wolf and kioties. This is all the
gold digger hn» to cheei him in his loneliness—
except tiie Indians, whom we hear every night
yelling and whooping on the topis of the moun.
tains which surround ns. But we do not care
for them, for one white man is more than a
match for a dozen savages. I went out the
other day with a companion after deer, and fell
in with eight Indians, whom we went after on a
full run. Sucli scampering you never saw : J
thought they would break their logs jumping
over the old pine logs. They are in great terror
of white men, and think a gun will shoot all day
without loading.”
ITEMS.
Dates from Chihuahua to the 30lh Septem
ber, represent the cholera as raging fearfully at
that place. Not less than 72 to 100 deaths were
occurring daily.
Tiie cost of Congress while in session is a
bout S3OOO per day.
C. C. Langdon, editor of the Daily Advertiser,
has been elected Mayor of Mobile.
lion. Win. L. Hunter, L L. D., died at New
port, R. 1., on the 3d inst. lie vtas elected a
Senator in Congress in the year 1841, and con
tinued to represent Rhode Island in Senate da
ring the ensuing nine years.
The Dundee Advctiser reports the death, at
Kinnordey, Scotland of Mr. Charles I.yell, the
father of the eminent geologist.
Gold is not the only large product of Califor
nia. One of the natives is noted as the father
of 36 ch ildren, 20 of whom were the result of
his first marriage, and 16 of liis last.
Milinnn, the Poet, and author of the Tragedy
of the “Italian \\ ifu,” has been appointed Dean
of St. Paul’s London—a very high clerical tru.q
having at least 25,000 worshippers under liis
ecclesiastical control.
The Arctic Expedition and the position
of Sir John Franklin, continue toform a fruitful
subject of comment in the London Journals.
Strong Itopes are still entertained, in intelligent
quarters, of the missing navigator.
Commodore Joseph Smith, for several yeui's
past Chief of the Bureaus of Yards and Docks at
the Navy Department, is soon to repair to tho Pa
cific, to assume the command of our naval for
ces on that coast.
A writer in the Boston Medical Journal asserts
that the mortality of the free people of colour of
the United States is more than one hundred pei
cent, greater than that of the slaves.
Tiie Mannings, convicted of the horrible mur.
dcr of O Conner, in England, were hanged on
the J4tli ult.
Tho cause of the splintering and disruption
of trees when struck by lightning, is ihc-snddtn
expansion of the sap that is converted into va
pour by the electricity.
r I lie New York Mirror speaks favorably of a
newly invented machine for carving metal or
wood, now in operation in that city. It is said
to work with rapidity and excellence.
France, with an army 0f500,000 men,
lieutenants, whilst England, with little mot*
than 100,000, has 2,353.
Rev. Bcter Rogers, aged ninety-nine years,
four months and ten days,died in Waterloo,.lll,
on the 4th ult. He was one of Washington s
Life .Guards, in the war of Independancc, at 4
perhaps the last of of that noble band.
The religious order of Dominicans has bee*
officially reinstalled in Baris.
It is calculated that since 1800 more than 20,-
000 human beings have been killed in the coJ
mines of Great Britan.
Randall grass is the name of what is said t<d !C
anew grass found in the mountainous regions' f
Missouri, and recently brought into culti vation
for pasturage and hay, with much success.
M. Luvini of Turin states that by placingco!
ored glass between the eye and the
a telescope, the effect of a fog in obscuring
jocts is very much diminished.
Rats, they say, will venture in no barn ° r
house whore elder bushes are scattered about"
This is anew and valuable discovery.
The Right lion. James Grattan, eldest son ol
the late Henry Grattan, the great Irish orat (,r
and patriot, has sold out Irish property, and 111
tends settling in Virginia, in which State lie U ,s
purchased five thousand acres of land.
Rev. John Andrews, of the Presbytery ‘
IM,io, who died at an advanced age, on the >
ult., at Pittsburg, is said to have been the ll ’
vv ho originated a religious periodical west'
Mleghativ Mountains.