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fated into Gorman, and is published in the Wash
ington City Spectator, a German paper print
ed In that city.
Melancholly.—Tho Camden Journal comes
to assays the Charleston Courier, clothed in
mourning, for the loss of Mr. Jus. M’Knin, his
mother, Mrs. Elizabeth M’Knin, citizens oftlmt
town, and Mrs. Vaughan, and Miss Virginin, her
daughter, formerly of that town, and on their
way to pay a visit to^heir former place of resi
dence ; all of whom lost their lives by the
destruction of the steam boat Orliao St. John,
on thq Alabama river— an account of which
was published in our paper on Monday. Tho
body of Mrs. M’Kuin has, ns is learned by a
telegraphic dispatch,' boon recovered, having
been found neur^hc sfc'eno of disaster.
Death of Chancellor Caldwell.—Chan
cellor James-I. Caldwell, of South Carolina,
died at his resideneo near Columbia, on tho
Jlthinst. Chancellor Caldwell was a’dis
tinguished jurist and worthy gentleman, in
whoso death the staid has*sustaihed an irrepara
ble loss.
Cy Tho U. S. ship Raritan, Com. l’ago, ar
rived at Barhaduos on the 29th of January,
jpd and sailed for Martinique on tho 12th of Feb
ruary.
GP* The Falmouth (Barbadoes) Postnoticos
tho reception of two samples of cotton 'grown
on a plantation nour that pluco. !
Arrest or B. F. Brown.—Tho Washing
ton correspondent of the Philadelphia Ameri
can, states that Mr. B. F, Brown, who it isal-
lodged wos recently tho recipient of large 'sums
of monoy from the Treasury, obtained through
theagoncy of forged and fraudulent pnpcrr,ha|
been arrested in Michigan, and is now on his
way to- Washington, tu answer a criminal in
dictment, width was lull
on Friday. W ^
id before the grand jury
Seadoarp and Roanoke Rail Road.
Norfolk bridge Proposition Rejected.—Tho
first locomotive on the “Seaboard and Roanoke
Rail Road” passed through ‘Pdrtsmouth, (Va.)
on Friday, amid the rejoicing of its citizens-
On Friday, in tho Virginia Hoi so of Delegates,
osition to connect the flail Road wjth
lity of Norfolk, by bridges across the
th and Eastern btjmehos oftho Elizabeth
liar, was debated and defeated.»
JisVaEssiNG Occurrence.—On- Friday of
Inst week Mr. Knrr, toll-gathor’er on Mayo’s
bridge, (Richmond, Va.) while attempting to
s rescue his little daughter, who had fallen from
tho bridge into the river, was carriod beyond
his depth by the rapidity of tho current, and
both father and child were drowned.-
Robbing the Mail.—Horace S. Allen was
arrested in Lynn*. Mass., on the Gth inst., on
suspicion of havihg rubbed tho Manchester (N.
H. 1 ) "mail on Saturday week, on its way to Bos>
ton. He was hold to hail.
California Countie8.-*-TIiu following are
the names of the counties, as sot forth in the bill
subdividing tho Stato into counties, and estab
lishing the seats of justico therein :
San Diego, Los Angeles, Suuta Barbary,
Sr\n Luis Obispo, Monterey, Branciforto, San
Francisco, Santa Clara, Mount Duiblo, Marin,
Sonoma, Solano, Yolo, Mendocino, Sufmmon-
to, Column. Sutter, Bute, Yuba, Colusi,Shas
ta, Trinity, Calaveras, Tuolumne, Muriposu—
twenty-five in numlirr.
Foreion Seeds.—Tho American Institute
at New York has received n package of seed
from Tipper and Lower Egypt, consisting of
lentils, sesame, linseed, beans, und seeds of the
black, Egyptian cotton, for which they aro in
debted to the kindness and attention of Lieut,
James H Rowan, U. 8. navy. The seeds will
be distributed ul tjio next meeting of the Far
mers’ Club, which will ho held at tho Reposito
ry of tho Institute on the 19th inst.
Mr. Webster’s Speech was published oh
‘Monday last in pamphlet form by the editors of
the Washington Republic. The editors says
that orders for upwards of forty thousand
copies had already been received.
New York University. Medical Depart
ment,—Tho annuul commencement of this
popular school wns held on the 8ih inst. The
graduating class numbered 95 young gentle
men, among whom wo observe the nnmesof
M. B. Bryan, H. L. Battle, E. M. Grim* s ,
R. Iverson, A. M. Pitts and A. H. Saf-
fold, of Georgia.
Cincinnati, March 11.
The range of stables belonging (o Mr. Itoss-
v4!lo, were burned last night, nod twunty-nm-
Jjurst-s.perished in the flumes.
[Correspondence of tlio Dally Morning News.)
Drcndfnl Tidings from Cockapur !
Tho following thrilling letter from our espe
cial correspondent wns brought to us fast night
by the fast sailing Fishing, Smack, Cockle,
winch reached,our prharf fifteen minutes be
fore 10 o’clock, Wo have no time to transcribe,
but givo tho document in its original shape.
[Ed. Morning News.
Terrible cnt^nlcr ’with the Sea Sprpcnt!—
Great Fannie on the coast! ■'—Three- Nig
gers and one White Man swallered alive!!!
CoCKSfuit, March the 14, 1850.
Mr. Editor : Dear Sir:—I tnko up my pen
to inform you of one of tho drendfulost entas-
terfys that ever tuck plnco on this const. I
wish some body was here to write it out, for I’m
so flustricatcd by wliut has jest lock plnco here,
that I cant hardly git my ideas together; but
bein as I am tho only ono left alive to givo a
account of tho circumstance, I will try to give
you nil this porticulnrs I can of one of tho
drendfulst and most nstonishin tilings tlmt ever
happened in these parts.
You know we’ve "bnd considerable rniny
weather for moro’n a week past. Well, as Is al-
wnys the ense in rniny times, we’ve had somo
terrible heavy fogs ([own here,sometimes so thick
that you couldn’t see Yibee light not moro’n
a cable’s length off, and so you couldn't tell day
light from dark without lookin ut your watch
to find out when the sun ought to rise and set.
Of courso this kind of weather has prevented
our doing much, as it was impossible to haul tho
sain, or set out lines when abody couldn’t hard
ly find himself in tho dark without feelin- about
awhile. But yosterduy uflurnoon a smart little
breeze blowcd up From tho land, anti pretty
soon the lmpk of fog hauled off to tho south
west giving the daylight a chance ognin, and
jostafore night the weuther begun to look a lit
tle more favorable for opprnshuns. So Munky
Joe and I turned out tho hands and got the
smack ready, and taking advantage of the
wind, run out over tho bnr, whar wo cum to'nn-
kcr, within til mornin,'when wo was gwinc to
cruise nceordin to circumstances.
Well, wo snugged up everything and 4iung
out a light so nothing wouldn’t run into us, and
after taking a littlo something, Joe and I turn
ed in lcnvin, tho nfggors apiojectin about,.eat-
in ther suppers and riggin out night-lines for
■drum. Old Pave had brung a shark hook wl.at
ho stol^'from a brig what was lyin down to the
Lazyrctto last week, and had a lifie to it about
fifty*fathom,Tand strong enuff to hang n whale.
Old Dave always had a monstrous avarsion to
sharks ovory senso ono tuck his brother Termi
nation’s leg off, and ho baited good for ono and
laid out his lino to luward, bound os ho thought,
pore old feller, to have a shark afore mornin.
Well, nothing uncommon didn’t happen til
near aitout daylight, when tho fust thing I
hoard was Dave n singin out tp tho other nig
gers to help him to haul in. -“Ki, ho\v him
hold,” sos Dave. Thoy all got hold, und then
I heard-MuNKY, Joe, say, “Its foul, you cussed
fool!” “No,” sos. Dave,“no, um nint,for I done
feel um jerk jest now, same like a sturgeon.”
Then all the niggers and Joe made a terrible
fuss payin away on the line, like they was
tryin to weigh the best bower of a seventy-four.
“Gosh-».pighty!” sos Kill, “um hold hard
•for true!" ‘Ht foul, I tell you,” sos Joe, “on
some oyster hank or something.” t *
By this time I mndo out to git to whar
they was, hut tween ther boin no sun and the
fog, what had. como back in tho night, it was
so bominablo dark that 1 couldn’t see my hand
aforo my face; so I had to feel about some time
before I could git a hold of tho line. “Yare
he como," ses Dave, “Yaro he como!” and
shore enuir,' jest then tho lino hauled in clear
about fifteen foet, and then it hung agin.—
“Hung to um, Mussn Jos. Wharyer harpoon,
Bill,” sos old Dave. ’ AH hands paid away
ugin, but it never moved a peg. Thinks I, wlmt
in tho name o’ thunder can it be to pull
thut-n-wny. Jest then I heard u hissin sound,
something liko a steamboat’s whistle, blow in
ubunt twenty yards to luward. “Da,” ses Joe,
“Itulo you hinijfoitl. You doi/fe cotch do Ogle-
top or Stone, or somo of detn steamboats wtd
yer shark-lino. Dont you hear him blow his
steam.” I begun to think Munky Joe wns
right, shore cntifT, and ses I, “let hqr clear boys—
lob- go the lino.” But tho lino was tangled
round Dave and Silves’ legs, and while thoy
wus tryin to git clear, it fetched a jerk that tuck
’em both right over tho side into tho water.
“Git clear tho boat Dave,” sos I, and us soon
as wo could git her loose, Joe jumped
with Nigger Bill, and I lowered uway. By this
timo tho hissin was louder and n'curcr, and
sounded different front anything I ever hoard
afore in all my life, and between ltoarin that and
the cries of tho niggers who was tryin to holler
with ther mouths full of water, und tho terrjr,
bio splashin, I was so turrified that I didn’t
know which eend I stood on for about two
miuits. “Wahl Oh my—’’something, sung out
ora Davy, hut the last part of tho word sound
ed like it wnssaid under water or down in a well
Then ther was a teit ihlo hissin agin, and tho
noxtthing I heard Munky Joe say “Oh Lord!
Quick* haul in Jones." Then tliar wos a splash
in and hissin so I couldnVheur nothin. The,.
I heard Bill give ono terrible squall, and Joe
tryin to say something like no was chokin.—
I hollered to ’em and ax’d ’em what was tho
matter, hut no body didn’t answer n word, and
the fust ‘thing I sofid was two great red halls
of firo mtn up along side tho boat, with a his.
sin sound tlint almost deafened me, and the ter-
rildost smell I over smelt in' all my life. Then
slop went something agin the must, jest gruz : n
me, and down I tumbled, fiat on tin- bottom uf
the bout
I must havo stunned myself, 1 suppose, fog
I didrf’tknow nothin for somo time, nml when
I cum too the fog was nil gone, and it was light
asdny. But never till the longestday of my lift-
will I fo»git the awful spectickle what met my
eyes when I looked out on tho water. About
forty yards from tho boot was tho alfiredest,
mpnstrouscst lookin vnrmint that ever human
man sot eyos on, with its heat raised, fifteen
feat opt of the water, and pore old Davy’s
shark-lino ltangin out of his mouth, ns much as
to .say, its owner und his companions was all a-
bnard. The body of tho infernal thing quit-led
away behind him, about a hundred and fifty
feet, all covored with bumps and humps, and
away heyant that agin his tail stuck up about
ten feet, with a great big hnrppon head on the
eend of it.
I never had sicli terriblo feelins in all -my
born days, and jest sot down on tho bottom of
tho boat and blowod like a porpus, while the
groat bigdrnps of sweat rolled out o’ mo liko fat
out of a crackiin. I seed then, plain enough,
what had becum of Joe and the niggers. That
terrible monster, what had tuck Davy’s bait,
had swgllcred the whole pnrty of ’em, and
now it wns waitin to make a breakfast on me.
I was darst to move for fear ho moughtsoo me,
and then he’d jest pick’d me out of that boat
aforo I had timo to say my prayers.
I laid close, and watch’d him, my hair
standin on eend liko bristles, all the time, and
my teeth rattlin in spite of oil I could do.—
Sometimes tho cussed thing would turn his nli-
gutor-lookin head round towards' the boat, and
snap his big red eyes, and run out his tongue
liko a streak of forket lightnln. And when
he seemed like ho was cornin’ towards mo my
breath wquld fool liko it didn’t cum moreen
a inch down my throat. Sometimes he would
take a shy round, nnd stretch himsolf out full
lebgth; then he would squirm all about, shake
tho ugly gray lookin main what hung down on
tho back of his neck, and wiggle his tail for a
while, and thon duck his head under water, or
go clour under and stay a minit or two and
cum up in another place. I expected every
minit to see him cumin right up under me.
But bimeby ho turned his head down South,
and sailed olf’at tho rato of about twenty nots
a ower, with his head lootnin up like tho smokc-
pipo of a steamship, and old Davy’s shark-
lino trailin off behind liko a pieoo of buntin on'
tho top-mast of a man-of-war.
When he was well out of sight I didn’t lose
no time, you may depend, in gettin under way
forCockspur, whar, thank gracious, 1 ariv safe
and sound this afternoon.
Every body hero s*s its the Sea Sarpont.—
The nows bf the dredful circumstance has ntado
a terrible pannick in theso parts, and tho niggers
is afraid to stay on tho Island, for fear tho sur-
pent mought come along and sarvo them like it
did Munky Joe and Dave and the rest of out-
crew. . V ,f
I hope you wijl put this in the News, so that
people may tako warnin by their fnte, and I
think tho Governor ought to order out the mi
litia to protect tho inhabitants down hero.' Sich
a varmint ought not to bo allowed to ho gwinc
about swallerin people, four or five at n crack,
this-o-wav. SAMUEL JONES.
Nola Demy.—You people up to Savannah
needn’t expect to seo much fish till something is
dono about it.
* i "“
to remain free to all nations* or to he enjoyed
only l>v citizens of tin? United States, are
the questions to be solved.
Harmony, it is snid, is restored to the Cnbi'
net. Mr. ClSyt5n is in n good humor, nna
the administration is relieved from tho ap
prehension y of tlomcstic trouble. They are
waiting for tho storm to pass awny, and expect
then to seo some attention paid by Congress to
tho measures which thoy liuvo recommended.
UNION.
[Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Washington, March [2, 1850.
Tlterfi is as much difference of opinion here
as ever on the questions [tending between tho
North and South, but there is no longer much
excitement in relation to them. An excite
ment tends to a certain height, Which is now
reached, and then it must subside. Tho Sen
ate will, to-day, decide whether to try tho con
templated Solect Committee of Thirteen us o
means of coming to somo adjustment, or wheth
er to go on talking upon the general questions.
If Mr. CaliiounIs speech was, by implica
tion, a disunion speech, Gov. Seward’s was,
plainly nnd unequivocally, an abolition speech.
Mr. Webster's truly conservative views’
ought to ho, and, ns many supposo, will be tho
basis of somo ultimate adjustment.
But Mr. Seward, in hisspeuch, utterly re
jected all Mr. Webster's concessions to tha
South ; uttd particularly the recognition of the
compuct with Texas for the admission of new
States with slavery, .and thd enforcement of
the constitutional compuct for the surrender of
fugitive slaves. Mr. Seward went further in
support of abolition principles than uny Senu-
tor Inis ever gone before. w
Ilis speech is to bo ciicuiated through the
flurti), for the purpose of counteracting the
effect of Mr. Webster’s.
Mr. SewarP proposes to admit California
with her ussumed boundaries, nnd either do
nothing else, or puss tbo Wilmot Proviso.
Tito House is a very pcculiur hotly, and apt
to run from one extreme to another. It is a
mutter of choice wliut they will do.
They would, if thoy could, admit California,
and without rendering any equivalent to tho
South,by recognizing the compact with Texni,
or by possiftg the fugitive skive act. But the.
obstinate resistance which the minority oppos
ed to this course has b«d a very good effect.
The House is quite perplexed, und uncertain
flit to do.
Mr. Thomas Butler King has not yet fin
ished his report upon the condition, resources,
nnd-wnntj iff California. His illness lias very
much' shuttered his constitution. Tie is to re-
c4f$rtmond to the government some schema, for
the dj*jiositi{||j of the gold and other mineral
Tatfflsjn California. Nearly all the vumahle
lands are government property,, Whether they
’are to he sold or leafed, and whether they are
[CoCrcppowlence of the Morning News.]
New York, March 11, 1850.
Th6 abundance of news from Europe, Cali
fornia &c.,&c.-,has occupied the public .mind
for the post <[av or two; although it possesses
no particular features either of interest or im
portance. Cotton speculators urn rather down
in the mouth; nnd naturally so, for the large
sums, in their “minds’ eye” to bh realized from
their spoliations, nro likely to bo “all in my
rye," and no where' else. Wc have no lack of
Californiaites in the city just now—they are to
he seen eveiyXvhere, and Appear very desirous ron '
of being singled oat from umong tho crowd,
and to that pnrposo assumo a peculiarity, a sort
of I’ve-boon-nt-the-diggings manner, and convey
ing tho impression that their pockets are fall of
rocks. There is n fine chance now for a rogue
with a small capital to realize considerable from
it, by tnking advantage of the general, hut er
roneous impression, that every body coming
from El Dorado must of conscquenco he
wealthy. If a fellow could only pretend’to
havo just arrived, go it very strong, and create
the belie) - in his immense wealth, his credit
would be unbounded, and some fine morning
he might bo found among the missing to the
surprise ar.d loss of innumerable creditors. I
am surprised that somo adventurer has not al
ready tried it.
Wo are to have a general “pow-wow” in tho
l’urk somo day this week, when, it is announc
ed that tho “Phantom of Disunion” is to be
burnt. It is intended to construct a gigantic
figure of a man .encircled with tho insignin of
each state, joined together in union. The fig
ure, (fitted with slow combustibles,) will he
represented ns straggling with his outstretched
arms to brCSk the bond of union around him. It
will bo carried on a car drawn by six horses,
from Union Squ&rc to the Park. A scaffolding
will bo erected, with an iron chain to suspend
the figure and its encirclement. Tho figure,
allegorical oftho embodiment of disunion, .will
be burned nnd tho encirclement of the union of
the States will remain unharmed.
Whether this figure is to bo an effigy of any
particular person, I um not aware, though it is
whispored about that it is intended for Matty
Van Buren. Poor Matty! “Van, Van, is
a used up man” indeed, nnd I don’t think that
Prince John even, bneked by his rowdy friends
and clients, can ever turn tho current of public
favor towards his fallen parent. Thq truth is;
that father and son are pretty much in the same
predicament; the Wilmot Proviso will sink
all the party, and it must bo many years before
tho leaders can, by sincere and heartfelt re
pentance, redoem tho pust, and ho raised ftom
tho ashes, in which, in snckriloth, they are
doomed to mourn their great mistake. As to
the proposed bon-firc, of course all Now-Yptk
almost, will bo present to see tho sight.
Tho expedition in sda'rch of Sir John Frank
lin leaves hero in May; an agent has gone
East to purchase two vessels suited for the ser
vice. A Lieutenant and passed Midshipman
are to take the command.
Some of tho editors in Philadelphia and else
where, are endeavoring to send tho impression
abroad that there is cholera in New-York, nnd
thus deter merchants from coming hero to make
their Spring purchases. The story is entirely
untrue—not a case is reported by the City In
spector this week. The few that did occur
were among emigrants recently arrived, und
incuutiously sent to Wurd’s Island. The city
is remarkably healthy; tho deaths last week
numbered 2G8.
Tho Hudson River is now open to Albany;
a bunt succeeded in gotting through on Friday
night. Tho Canal will not bo opened for sev
eral weeks.
Tho reply of Mrs. Forrest to her husband’s
petition for a divorce is exciting a great deal
of attention. Of course, all the feminines are
on her side; nnd, nsynt, I have heard hut one
opinion with respect to it from tho other sex.
The reply was written by tho colobrated coun
seller, Ch\s. O’Connor, of this city. It is
proposed, I understand, to raise sufficient funds
to enable tho lady to defend thtf application, if
necessury. But, even should tho Legislature
grant the decrett prayed for, it would he wholly
inoperative, and therefore she denies the right
of that body to interfere in the matter, while
explicitly denying tho charge against her. It
is tho crowning act of Fokrest!s folly, or I am
much mistaken. Ho 1ms placed himself in
such a position, that it is equally dangerous to
proceed, or to turn back.
The Cherokee arrived hero this morning,
front Chagre.-t, put with no lutfer intelligence;
Tho journeymen house carpenters of this ci
ty, have struck for higher wages, and are out
to tfay in procession with music and banners,
to tfte number of four or live hundred. I should
suppose ns there is so much building going on
just now, they will probably gain their object.
As news is senreo to-day, I’ll closo with a lit
tlo Theatrical gossip. Tho Olympic closed
Saturday night with, Mary Taylor’s benefit.
It was a jam. Mitchell’s farewell was short
and sweet, lie has abandoned the idea of the
tavern business, 1 learn, and very wisely too.
BthiToN, they say. has' taken . the Theatre ;
probably with the view of preventing '
Opened by nqy One else. A eoiluplhrteninry be,!
eftf.is to be given to Mr. Ri fhu* Blake of t h!
Broadway, on his departure for Now Orlea n ,,
takp the stnge management of Placidk’s Tli t - a
tro there. Mrs. 1); is 1’lacidks’s sister
Brougham lcnvCB Boriton in May and goes to
Nint.o’s, together with Lynne, a good, stcrlin-
actor, Mahy Tayi.oii, Miss Nickerson, Mss/
Nickerson & Walcott, (all of the Olympic
company.) Thoro Will he a first rato com,//
there. Lester, (son of the Jos. Wallacr \
loaveiMAMiarN, and goes to Burton. He'
ono 6f tho best light Comedians in the count/
I'ETer Richings, it is said, will.jEuceoc.l'
Blake, at tlio Broadway, hut Mr.W. H. Flf.m
ing fa to bn there in sotno capacity, I hear
They say that Forrest intends building i„
Broudtytiy an Americnn Theatre, in which Am.
ericun Actors and Actresses only Will he p or
milted tb perform, nnd of which CHAu Ur
Thorne is to bo managor. I dont think it ft
possible to carry out the plan. But nous « cr
I dont know what Bass intends to do—
chance of success at tho Opera House ft Vc ^
slim indeed.
C. W.'Clark, I lesrn, has boon engaged U
Mr. Barnum to manage the new Theatre crcci-
ing in the Museum.-
The Grave of Ockola.—The Clwrlciton
Courier replying to a correspondent who com-
plains of tho desecration of the grave of the Sen,
. olo chiof, Occola, who it will bo remember'd
died while in captivity at Fort Moultry, says
A. head and foot stono, it appears, had ben
subsequently erected to murk the spot when:
tho bones of this noble chief wore suppdfed to
repose. Theso stone*, which had been procur
ed by subscriptions made by officers of [he
rison nnd citizens, had in process oT time ben,
so mucli marred by the idle nnd curious who
were desirous of obtaining a memento of the
deceased, as to induce the commanding officer
of the Fort, to direct tfte head-stone, whichnlonc
remained ill any thing like its original state, a,
bo removed within the ordnance yard, nml s
stonecutter employed to restore it, as far at
practicable, by renewing the name, &c., with[
the intention of placing it under tho shade of
a weeping willow, in that incloghre, that it Might
remain ns a monument to tho memory of the
noble chief, who ended his days at that militmy
post. So much for the information of our cor
respondent, ir. regard to the desecration com-
plnined of. But we ure also requested, by tlio
same authority from which tho above facts nro
obtoined, to stnte, that none of the bones of
Oceola rest neat- the spot whore theso stones
were erected, ns the bpdy wus exhumed, und
taken away for aimtomicnl purposes, the nigh;
after it was committed to its mother earth.
Wo were pained to read tlwr fart sentence;
wo knew Oceola well, and a nobler specimen
of his race dit) not’exist. Ho was every inch a
brave, and was entitled to decent sepulture by
his conquerors. Hfa futo' was hard enough—
to bo Bubdued and made captive by a powcifut
enemy wn* enough. It was this that Lrok»V\
heroic heart. But could ho have known the
desecration .that was to follow—could he him
known that his vory bones were to be made a
commerce of, his ravage nature would Lovett-'
volted at the thought.
—e
The endless Bridge Case.—The vet
eran litigator Henry Shultz, is out in the N.
Y. Herald in a card, in which he make*known
the merits of the Bride Case as he understand,
them, nnd says that it will again ho taken before
tho United States Supreme Court. Ho ft net
satisfied with the decisions already made and
after thirty years of litigation fa a* ready at -
over to try it again.
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Gold Dust.—The amount of California
gold reccivod by tho steam ships ^ourgia ami
Empire City, just arrived at Ncw^iork from
Chugres, is confidently eatimatod ’ns being in
tho neighborhood of $1,509,000. Thcutcara-
sliip I’hiiudclphia, wlioso arrival at New York
is looked for some timo this week, will bring r
bout $750,000 more. The reason assigned for
tho small receipts of gold dust is, that them |
lias not been any intercourse £otwcenSanFn»-
cisco and tho mines for several weeks, in con
sequence of tho great height of rivers.
Depopulation by Ottdt.Er.A.—Tho N*lch"
Free Trader, ef the 27th ultimo, announce#lie
entire depopulation of the thriving village c- I
Trinity, in Lou’siann, about thirty mile d' i ' I
tant from Natchez. It says :
That awful scourge, tho Asiatic cholera, df -
acceded upon the population with a fntality
almost unheard of. Toil or twelve pliysfai 01 **’ I
resident there, or called in from the adjacent I
country, worn scarcely ahlo to save a
who had boon taken sick. Flight was the om! I
safety for the well, and death only reigned t* I
Trinity. Mr. Snyder, formerly a resident I
Natchez, kept a boarding limine them z"* |
twenty five or thirty hoarders, all nfwhom,
did not run awny, died. Mr. Snyder stay l
and took care of them until tho lust one die -
then dpscended to the mouth of the,Red th’’ 1 '
and wq ure sorry to add that ho too died oa
the stetimer Cincinnati going to Natcthoz.
Free. Negroes in Virginia.—Tho
of the bill, by the Sennto of Virginia,
nn appropriation of $30,000 per year fi |r 1
removal of t(ie free negroes of the c<n' ,nu ^
welth, was cnnrfYminieated to the House j--
Saturday, together with nn amendment t’} '
Sennto levying n tax of one dollar in ad' 1 v
to the appropriation already made, upon ** ■
free rn-gro of tho age of twenty-one, and UB .
that of fifty-five years of ago. The House
agreed to tho amendment, hut tlio Senate P
sisted. The House then tnado an anion ^
-imposing the tax only on males and * en ,
bill back to the Senate, hut no aclion was ,a
on it in that body.
The Du 1 '
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Destruction of'a steamboat
fulo Commercial has n despatch stating
[impeller Troy was burned to tho watet a 1
at Erie, on Thursday last—loss enlimtcd 11
eight to ten thousand dollars.