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MORNING NEWS.
»Y JOHN Id. COOPER.
T. THOMPSON, EDITOR
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IhUALOY PROF. JNO. W. WEBSTER,
[Telegraphed to the Baltimore Sun.]
SIXTH DAY.
Boston, Monday, March 25.
The Judges and jury entorud the court
promptly this morning) at 9 o’clock, and the
prisoner entered simultaneously and took his
seat nt the bar. The latter looks rather worn
down, but Is still self-possessed. His appear
ance indicates intense anxiety, coupled with a
good degree of self-possession, but there is no
Expression indicative of either innocence or
guilt.
The publlc'interest is as great as ever, und
there is an increasing desire manifested to ob
tain either a sitting or standing position inside
of thb,court room. The officers at the barri-
cede ere offered money quite freely to pass gen
tlemen in as members of the bar.
The couit was opened a few minutes past
nine o’clock and the testimony for the prose
cution continued.
Miss Sarah Buzzed,, sworn—Knows Mr. and
Mrs. Littlefield ; is a connection of Mrs. Lit
tlefield’s ; visited them 19th of November and
went away 27th; belong in Medford ; benrd of
J)r. Parkmaa’s disappearance in the afternoon.
/ Question—Did you hear of it on Friday, or
1 that it had happened on Friday.
Dr. 1’arkmun. Webster then wont away. Just
afterwards, Littlefield came out and said he
should bo through the wall in an hour or so.
In about an hour afterwards, Littlefield cume
up and said lie had found Parkman in the vault,
and that he was going for Dr. Bigelow. He
went off, abd I went into Littlefield s house, in
tending to go down to the cellar to see the re
sult of liis discovery. Mrs. Littlefield gave ine
a lamp and opened the cellar.door. I went
down and looked Into the vault, through a 0 0
in the wall; saw parts of a body
heretofore. The witness here detailed the
bringing of Professor Webster down to the Col
lege, and went over the story about the keys as
detailed by Littlefield. Professor Webster ap
peared to be confused in the bqck room, but
was more agitated while down in the Labora
tory. I remember the inquiry being made
about the bones in the furnace; it was while
Webster was in the room. The nurty then
passed out to review the remains. Mr. Adams,
Mr. Rice and myself remained that night in
charge of the building; I remained there, ex
cepting a few minutes, until after Sunday. - No
instruction was given in regard to Littlefield or
nny other person. The place was properly
and securely guarded. An oversight in regard
O Littlefield was excused. Enquiry wasvnade
for the hatchet, and Webster said it was in the
sink; search hud been made for it before; I be.
lieve Littlefield found it.
Erastus Clapp was next sworn, Hu said, 1
have been Connected with the police since 1826
Witness was shown two mortgaged notes of ac
count, and a memorandum of the 5th Decem
ber? 1 was directed by the city marshal to go
to Cambridge end get a Cumbridgh officer
and search the house of Dr. Webster, with offi
cer Hopkins. I went to Cambridge, procured
the aid of officer Sanderson, and searched the
Court had adjourned or not. It was too late,
however, to wait for further detail.]
A Light House sunk.—A Now light house,
in the course of erecting on the Bishop’s rock,
about twelve leagues woslofLand’s End, (Bug.)
totally disappeared in the early part of Fcbnia-
—it Is supposed by tho violence of" tho wind,
e sea not being particularly heavy. The cast
iron columns of the edifice were broken off a
foot or two above the surface. The building of
this light house was commenced in 1847, and it
was to be completed during the present year.
1 that it had happened on Friday. 1 , g' c > lid Sanderson, and scorched toe
1 Answer—I heard of it on Friday; I heard Vuseof I’rpfessor Webster. 1 he two officers
ft
them talking about it on Friday afternoon, be
tween lour and five; was sitting in the kitchen ;
Mr. Littlefield was lying down, and Mrs. Lit
tlefield was away. When the front door bell
rung I went to tho door; as I could not get the
door open, I told the gentleman if he would
go round to tho other door I would go down
and call Mr. Littlcfiold; 1 learned afterwards
that the gentleman’s name was Perre; I went
down, and met Mr. Littlefield coming out in
his stocking feet, and told him a gentleman had
eallei to see him.
Cross-examined.—Had not heard of tint dis-fj f 10 ’,® 8 ,
appearance of Dr. Parkman until after 1 went
to the door on Friday.
Mr. Preston sworn—I am ast ident of med
icine; have attended the lectures of Dr. Web
star; saw him about six o’clock on Friday
evening, Nov. 23d, after his lecture, just out
side of the college building, going into the
shed; do not know whether lie entered the
collage or not; I was passing out of his dis
secting room, and passed him on the sidewulk.
I am perfoctly confident that it was on Friday
evening, November 23d
Cross-examined.—Don’t know that I spoke,
but Dr. Webster bowed. What fixes tho time
In my mind is that I was going to meet two
meatcal students in Hanover street. I after
wards mentioned, about Thanksgiving time,
that I had seen Dr- Webster that night. I
fixed the hour bocauso I have teu at half past
six o’clock, and was to meet the students at
seven o’clock.
Direct examination resumed.—I never saw
m so lata before; never saw him after his
tare before.
The cdurt then adjourned until 3 o’clock in
the afternoon. ’ , *
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The court egain assembled at 3 o’clock, and
the case was prodeeded with.
Mr. Calhoun was next called to the stand
id testified. He said: lam acquainted with
r. Littlefield. I was will) him talking on the
Sunday after the dieappeartmee uf Dr. Turk
men. 1 saw Prof. Webster in North Grove
street, opposite the College. 1 think it wus
about 4 o’clock. It was clear enough to see.
He (Webster) came up to LittlefHlu and said
to him, “Did you see Parkman last Week ?”
Littlefield said he saw him 6n.Friduy morning
v toward* the College. Webster asked where
Littlefield was when he saw Parkmun. Little
field replied that he was standing at the front
door of the college, but did not see Turkman
when ho went to the college, as he laid down
on a settee, at a distance from the door. Web-
■tei 1 asked at whot time on Friday afternoon
Littlefield had seeq Parkman going towards
the oollege. Littlefield replied at huif past
■ " one o'clock, P. M. Webster said that’s the
T* »y time he had paid him $483, to discharge a
mortgage, and that the Doctor grubbed the
■j money aud run off us fast as he could, and as
he was going, Prof. Webster suid to him, “Now
f o to Cambridge and discharge the mortgage."
lid not see any thing remarkable in the ap
pearance of Webster at the tiinq.
Dr. John B. Jucksoir was next called—I am
'essor of Physiological Anatomy at Harvard
allege in the city of Cambridge. Mr. Little
field had an interview with me on Friday, nt
the College, at 1 o’clock; lie said that he could
not go into the street without being told that
Parkman was within the* walla of the Medical
College, and that he meant to dig to the privy
vault and examine it; I told him to go in and
if be discovered anything to go to Dr. Bigelow
first and* then come to n.e; I enjoined strict
secrecy upon him in cave ho made no discovery,
and pledged myself to the same. When 1
Mwcame home that evening I found Littlefield at
; jmmy place; don’t know whether Webster used
anatomical subjects in his department or not.
T. W. Trenholtne, policemun, was next call-
*4-—He said ha never knew Littlefiold; that
he knew Webster; saw Webster on Sunday af-
\ ternoon, after the disappearance of Parkman;
?, was standing talking with J. H. Blake, when
he came up; Webster said to me, “what about
> that twenty dollar bill!’’ I told him I did not
know anything about it; he then told the story
* of an Irishman offering twenty dollars to change
for toll of one cent; Webster came up, spoke
10 Blake, and said the first he had heard of the
disappearance of Parkman was the evening
before; he said he had read an account of it in
the papers- Webster slid that on the day of
Packman's disappearance ho had paid him $483
and some odd cents to discharge a mortgage,
and that ho (Webster) had come to the city to
tell his (Packman's) friends. Did not see Pru-
fessor Webster during *the inteival between
that 8undmy and the Saturday of his arrest.
. Littlefield told me, on Friday afternoon, about
4 o’clock, that he had jiold the officers that
place in the college had been searched
L that, (meaning tho privyy) and he meunt
to penetrate the walls and sec ir there was any
thin* there. Littlefield haa felt the walls of
the Laboratory were very .hot some time be
fore* l foil of the walls and did not feel any
heat there then. Wobster said the City Mai-
slial had got a hill from the toll-man, and hud
Sent for him to idoutify it. Professor Webster
said be did not identify it as one paid by him to
(Saturday Morning, March 30,1850.
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went up stairs, and I, went down stairs. This
was not the first senrcli. I did not roceive
directions what particular packages of papers
to search for. I asked Mrs. Webster if she
had any packuge orbundles given to her by her
husband. In a short timo the^e papers were
brought down by Mr. Sanderson, they not be
ing named in the search warrant, I requested
him 10 go back and put them in the trunk where
he found them and bring it down.
I then requested Mrs. Webster to take cer
tain" papers out of the trunk and hand them to
pie, os 1 wished to carry it to the city Hall.
I told her that I wquld give a receipt for them,
which I did. These papers uro : first—a note,
dated Bustun, June 22,1842, for $400, in fifteen
mouths, signed J. W. Webster. The second
was a note, dated January 22, 1847, for $2,232
payable in four years, .with interest. A quarter
of the capital was to he paid yearly, signed J.
W. Webstar. The witness was ,Charles Cun
ningham ; on the opposite margin of this note
written as follows : On payment to G.
Lecture on 1’oetry.—We learn thut Mr.
Emmanuel V. Scherb, of Switzerland, is at
present in Savannah, and will deliver u lecture
on Pootry, at Armory Hall, on Monday evening.
Mr. Scherb has, during tho past winter, been
engaged in delivering a course of lectures in Bos
ton,where he hag given the highest degree of sat
isfaction to the public, and elicited tho marked
commendation of the press. He is here, as we
understand, by tho invitation of Bishop Ei.lioTt,
at whose request he goes to Montpelisr to de
liver a course of lectures before the pupils in
the institution over which the Bishop presides.
By the solicitation of several gentlemen, ho has
been induced to repeat one of his popular lec
tures in this city.
profei
Colie
Parkmun of $832 of this note, and interest.
Dr. Webster’s other mortgage and note, dnted
Jpne 22, 1842, are to he cancelled. The sig
natures were erased from both notes ; black
marks and cross markp on the face of the notes;
On the first note was inscribed in pencil, in Dr.
Turkman’s lmnd ; This note to be given up on
payment of Webster’s interest, dated July 22,
1847. This note bus an endorsement, July 10
1845—interest is accounted for by rent todate,
and $7 as the principal, leaving due $393.. The
second endorsement, October 10, $75.
Nathaniel D. Swain, sworn.—I "am an ex
press man between Cambridge and Boston; been
in tho habit.of carrying things for Prof. Web
ster; during the week after Friday, Nov. 23,1 re
member bringing in two bundles, which I should
call faggots, cuttings of grape vines, from his
house ; it was Monday, the 26th; I brought in
also u4>ox and a bag uf tan; the box was
about a foot and a half square, liko a soap box;
brought them from Dr. Webster’s house in
Cambridge ; ’Dr. W. directed me to leave them
in Mr. Littlefield’s cellar, and said to me, 1
will take them into the laboratory, lie never
gave me such directions before; I had carried
things to the medicul college perhaps two hun
dred times before that; I always previously left
^hem in the laboratory below or above; I usually
found a key in Mr. Littlefield’s kitchen, with
which I unlocked the door; this time I thought
I had perhaps misunderstood the Professor,
and would set the things into the laboratory ; I
tried tho door but found it locked; then I went
into the kitchen to get the koy, and could not
get it; found both doors of the laboratory lock
ed. On Monday, Nov. 28,1 wont their again ;
earned two boxes, the largest about two und a
half foot high and one and a hulf wide, one 10
inches deep, tho other 1J feet square. Thelarge
one was empty, the other had something in it.
I left them when I left on Monday in Littlefield,s
cellar. There was a piece split off ,the cover
and 1 saw insido a checked handkerchief. I
saw there the box and the grapevines I carried
on Monday, but not the tan. I went to the col
lege after the arrest of I’rofessscr Webster, for
the boxes. It was Saturday or Monday. I
found only the small box that had the cloth
ing in. It was marked with red chalk, J. W.
Webster; the boxes were of pine.
Cross-examined.—I have often carried pack
ages to the Medical College. Dr. Webster
did not toll me that the door was locked, when
he told me to leave the packoges in Littlefield’s
cellar. (The knife found in the tea ohest was
shown to witness.) I first saw the knife in
Dr. Webster’s hands on the 17th Nov. He
was in his .gurden. trimming his grapevines.
Ho find cut his finger, and I said to him “Doc
tor," (witness checked) I am positive as to see
ing the knife.
Erastus .Clapp, resuming continued—The
second noto had.^wo endorsement's, of $187
euch, by Charles Cunningham, signed G.l’., and
had the word paid written twice on the face of
it. At Bemis said he should show the pris
oner’s handwriting. Three pencil marks on
the nctes to the effect that only the sum of
$832 was owed to Mr. Parkman, and the bal
ance to other lenders. The third paper wus
in the for^i of a letter, addressed to Mr. Web
ster, signed C. C., and gave a statement 6f tho
Doctor’s debt to Mr. Parkman and others. It
was endorsed on the hack, in the prisoner’s
handwriting, “C. Cunningham, on debt to Dr.
Parkman, April 25th, 1849. Balance due Dr.
Parkman $456 27—interest $25 37—486 64.”
I obtained the largre memorandums above de
scribed, in Doctor Webster’s wallet, given mo
on the night of his arrest; also another memo
random, in the prisoner’s handwriting, stating
particularly the history of hit transactions with
Dqctor Parkman up to" the time of his paying
him $483 64,at half-past one o’elock on Friday,
Nov. 23d. It detailed the conversation with
Dr. Parkman. His ar.gry state of feeling and
his promises to go over to Cambridge, and can
cel the’ninrtguge.
Another memorandum wag found, containing
in the prisoner’s hand writing, only the words
“forty-five."
[At this point in the proceedings our des
patch broke off without staling whether the
Pomarede’s Panorama. — This truly fin-
ishei^jiroduction of art is attracting large au
diences at Oglethorpe Hail. An exhibition at
once so innocent, interesting and instructive,
deserves, and will receive the patronage of all
classes of our citizens. The following extract
from the New Orleans4)eltn, will show tho
estimation in which it was held in thut city.
This magnificent scenic painting was re
moved from New Orleans yesterday. We un
derstand thut the enterprising proprietors in
tend to tako it to Mobile for exhibition. Truly
we wish them success. But not alone do we
wish it, because they carry with them a work
of art, grand, beautiful and faithful in its delin
eations—but because, in addition to this, they
have manifested a feeling of generosity in our
city, which has won for them “golden opin
ions from all-soris of men.” They gave a ben
efit to the Female Orphan Asylum here, from
which over eight hundred dollars woro reali
zed. They also gavo one to the Male Orphan
Asylum, the proceeds of which amounted to
about four hundred dollars ; and, from an ex-
hibition whitm they gave for the benefit of the
Odd Fellows Cemetery, not less than six or
seven hundred dollars were obtained. These
are facts which will speak for themselves.
From Washington.
The Washington correspondent of the Balti
more Sun, under date of 25th inst. says—
To-day. in the Senate, Judge Duugluss, chair
man of th® committee on\erritories, with tho
ununimous assent of the committee, brought in
two bills, in substance agreeing with what I
stated nearly a fortnight ugo, to he the plan of
compromise likely to succeed during this ses
sion. Judge Douglass has given the subject
his whole undivided attention, and the two
bills reported to-day, with trifling amendments,
wilt most unquestionably pass the Senate, and,
in my humble opinion, also the House of Rep
resentatives.
The flrst of Mr. Douglass’ bills provides for
tho admission of California with her present
limits. It is clear that the North cannot
fight on that bill, on the very principle of non
interference with the will of the people, which
is embodied in the second bill, which provides
for creating two territorial governments from
the residue of the tomtory acquired from Mex
ico, to wit: The territory oi Utah and the
territory of New Mexico, which bills are in the
usual form of territorial bills without any
proviso on ihe subject of slavery.
The territorial bill also provides for the set
tlement of the Texas boundary, by a pecuniary
consideration. The sum is left in bank, but
is understood will be filled up with $10,000,-
000 or $15,000,000.
The report of Mr. Douglass was, as 1 have
just said, mude with the unanimous assent of
all tho membors of tho committee, with this
exception only, thut in regurd to one or two
unimportant points, in regard to which each
member is permitted to offer amendments, two
members of the committee, who consider them
selves under instruction from their respective
Legislatures, muy ask leave to avail themselves
of that privilege.
Another correspondent says—
Some members of Congress now say that
they will admit California, und pass other meas
ures with which it may bo connected, in 1
month from this time. They would be safer to
soy three months. We have one sign of progress
in legislation on these subjects, and thut is in
ihe report of bills, by Mr. Douglass, from the
committee on Territories, to provide territorial
governments for Utah and Now Mexico, and
also to reduce and fix the limits of Texas, with
her consent. This project together with the
California bill, and the fugitive slave act and
some' act for regulating the introduction of
slaves into this District, will put at rest all the
present agitation.
Dkserxtand the Mormons.—a
tou letter writer says thut there j s ,l 5‘
some difficulty in the wuy of legali ? j
Mormon government of Deseret. I]/ ''
Deseret is a Mormon word, and that there'*' •
prejudice uguinst Mormonism in all t h e N() U ' I
westom States, which would compell I"' |
Northwestern members to vote against« "nV I
Mormons, soon aiter the death of Joe j* I
vided, the Mormons remaining in the 8tat' I
the Union, being violently opposed to the M
mons ol Salt Luke, and charging the Salt Lak'
Mormons with having taken an oath of e te *
hostility to the government of the
States ; pledging themselves to overthrow thi,
government whenever they shall have 4
power to do so. The writer says there an many
patriotic Mormons in the States of \\'i m '
sin,Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana,Ohio an j
Pennsylvania, who have formed many chuid.
es, and who aro all firmly believing th al 4
Suit Lake Mormons have taken the oath or
hostility to the United States. A vote, th ttf
foie, approving the acts of the Mormons on
the Salt Lake, by adopting their government
and its namfc, would be deemed an approval
of this doctrine ; und for this reason the name
(Doseret) us well as the government itself
must be discarded.
The Georgia Citizen.-r-The crowded state
of our columns has prevented us from noticing
before this handsome sheet; the first number
of which was issued on Thursday last, in Ma
con, Geo. The Citizen is. a very large and
handsomely gotten up weekly, and the number
before us is well filled with interesting and in-
stvuctivo matter, original and selected. The
editor has adopted for his motto, “ independent
in all things—neutral in nothing,” wh-'-;h in so
many words defines the position the paper is to
occupy. We wish him all success. L. F. W.
Andrews, Editor. Terms $2,00 per annum.
E3?? The Northern papers contain further
details of the news by the Niagara. The poli
tical news is of so little interest that we omit
it. Tho commorciul intelligence will be found
under the proper head.
New Grounds of Divorce.—The Kentucky
Legislature, in addition to making the publish
ing a wife or husband ns a deserter from bed or
board, has also just made acts of gross liccn-
tiousness before murritige (or rather the results
of such,) and habitual drunkeness, good ground
of divorce. ...
Experiment.—An experiment is about to be
made at the Navy Yard, New York, of sinking a
Hollow iron cylinder, intended for the shuft of a
well by atmospheric pressure.
The Palmyra Tragedy.—John F. Wise
indicted at Palmyra, Mo., for the murder of
Hart, his wifejs seducei, has obtained a change
of venue to Monroe county, where an effort
will be made to get him out on bail.
New Fort —Two companies of the 1st in
funtry, under command of Captain Plummer
have been ordered to the Nueces river, in Tex-
as to establish a Fort to He called Fort Merrill
near tho Rio Frio.
Payment or the Galpin Claim.
Washington letter says, that, - the Gulpi
claim for interest <m the sum of forty thousand
dollars, directed to be paid by act of 1883, wus
the other day paid, under a construction given
to that uct by the Attorney General. The i
tcrest amounts to one hundred and eighty thou
sand dollars.
Governor Crawford, the present Secreta
ry of War is, we believe, the principal person in
terested in this claim, and receives the money
froth the government.
S3F President Taylor attended the trial o
Reynolds’ self-sharpening plough, in the pub
lic mall an Monday last. A letter writer says
the President look the plouglj und turned the
furrows in a manner that showed that lie was
used to it. Every one expressed groat satis
faction at ,tho performance* of this improved
instrument.
Mr. Calhoun’s Health.—It will be seen
says the Charleston Mercury, by the fallowing
extract of a letter from a gentleman in Wash
ington, whoso opportunities make him the
best authority, that there has been a decided
improvement in the health of Mr. Calhoun.
His illness has been the topic of constant and
anxious inquiry among our people, and his re
covery will diffuse a universal joy.
Washington. March 24.
Yesterday a great change took plare in regard
to the health of Mr. Calhoun. He is better—
decidedly better, and I have no doubt but thut
he will recover. His fover has left him. hi
appetite has returned, and he is' gaining
Strength slowly but surely. As soon as he feels
well enough to travel, he will* leave this city
for Lynchburgh, Virgtna, where he will re
main until his health is completely restored,
when he will return and resume his seat in the
Senate. .
The Giri-s in Male Attire.—The ladies
ut Philadelphia, says an exchango, are rapidly
adopting the male habiliments of dress. They
now wear standing collars, and the girls readi
ly supply themselves from their brothers’ as
sortment. More than one lady has been seen
in the streets with collars so stiff that they
could not turn their heads to look round at their
beaux. No matter, so long as they don’t at
tempt to wear the jvhal-d'ye-call-’ems.
The Rochester Knockings.—Theseamuse-
ments, says a writer .in the Rochester American
were suspended for a short lime, for the follow
ing reasons. The performers aro three sisters, a
Mrs. Fish and the two Misses Fox, Mrs. F. being
the eldest. Visitors deposited money in a box
The sum thus accumulated, after joint expen
ses of improving their attire, <Sx., was taken
possession of by Mrs. Fish The younger ?is :
ters objected. Tho parties quarrelled, and
about three weeks since the Misses Fox left
their sister’s house. Tho rnppings ceased. A
reconciliation was sought and effected. The
rappirtgs recommenced, and the public were
admitted tj the preformance on the same tends
as formerly.
Another edition, a rival entertainment, is star
ted at Honesdale, Pa. .
BP The Louisville Journal of Commerce
of the 21st inst. says that an extensive negro
trader left that city on tho night previous in a
steamer bound for tho. South, taking with him
some forty-five negroes and leaving acommer-
cial firm minus about $50,000.
Mormonism.—A Mormon Conference vua
held at Covington, Ky., on the 6th instant.
Bill Smith, the brother of the Prophet J01,
was in attendance. Since the Mormons hew
taken possession of the immense tract of com.
try in California, they are becoming very pop
ulur among tho free-soil, free-thinking, free-
living and free gabbing people in various sec
tions of the country.
Tho Baltimore Clipper relates the following
incident which 1ms just occurred in that city.
The Clipper says—
“ We understand that a man, named Albert
N. Hosmer, who has become a monomaniac on
the subject -of Mormonism, deserted his wife
on last Friday and left the city for the North
via Philadelphia. It seems that he wenthome
on Friday, and told his wife he was going to
take his childieh out riding. His wife fixed
them up—four in number, two girls end two
boys, the eldest child ten, and tho youngest
thiee yeats old—when he took them oil'ins
carriage, since when they have not been seen.
He has become 'perfectly demented, it is said,
imagining that he will live a thousand yean
and raise an hundred children. His wifo, who
is a fine, intelligent lady, is almost crazed at
the loss of her children, and the police have
employed all means to recover them. She
applied, she states, to one of the chief Mor
mons in the city, to learn her husband’s where
abouts, and was informed that she- would pro
bably hear from him at either New York or
Albany, whei-e, if she , chose, she could join
him. These (anatics are said to be prosely
ting very largely in the city, several of their
leading missionaries being located here. Hoi-
mer is a well known member of the Odd Fel
lows, standing six feet six inches in height."
California.—We have befoie mentioned
thattheHon. Thos. Butler King, had submit
ted his California report to the President,
correspondent of the Baltimore Sun says the
report has been read in the Cabinet, and that
the information which it contains is truly sur
prising. The writer says—
To form an idea of the vastness of the min
eral treasures of California, we must look at
the fact that the quantity, formation &c
rich in gold, embraces an area of three thou
sand square miles. The depth to which the
veins may extend may, be imagined from the
fact the region rises gradually to the elevation
of four thousand feet.
I do not think the amount of gold to be piros
cured in the two years of 1851 and 1852,
over estimated by Mr. King nt a hundred mil
lionR, when we consider that regular mining
operations, which can bo conducted at all sea
sons of the year, will soon bo commenced.
Tho emigration into tho State of California
during the next year may bo estimated at two
-hundred-thousand. The supplies needed from
the Atiunticports, will be six millions of dol
lars worth of lumber—four millions in flour'
and other articles to-the amount of two millions
There is no limit to tho extent ol commerce
and navigation which California is destined to
create. Two hundredthouannd head of cattle
must be sent out into tlio country, and a larger
stocjf of sheep. The pasturage is very rich
and extensive, and aburtdant crops of wild oats
are prod need.spontaneously. Mr. King’s sug
gestions as to the regulation of the gold jand*
are very good—beings both pmcticublo arrft
promotive of the devoloperaenppf the mineral
resources of the country, and productive of rev
enue to the United Slutes Treasury.
BF*The London Punch says that if the mem
bers of tho English Pa'rliament were to meet
earlier and not continue so late, it would be
mtich more rational. It does appear strange,
not to say ridiculous, that some 600 gentlemen
should sit up all night to talk about the nation,
when all the nation is in bed.
Our devil agrees with Punch, and think! the
principle maintained by that philosopher should
hold good in printing offices as well as in
Houses of Parliament. He says when the
Nation is lying comfortably snoozing in its bed
at midnight, it never dreams of the poor print
ers, who are working their finger's ends off,
with bad copy, a worse light, and an empty
case, to enlighten it in the morning before
breakfast, on all the great and interesting
topics of the day.
The Board of Health of the city of Ne ff
Orleans, published a card on the 22d inst.it
which they allude to the report in circulation,
that the cholera has fe-appearod in that citv-
The card does not deny the’ existence of chol
era in the city, but states th0t tho Board i<
engaged in investigating-tbe whole matter, and
will be enabled in a few deya to-publish all the
facts on tho subj-'et. The Board remark
“The slight increase of sporadic cases dur
ing the last few days, may be justly attributa
ble to the metorologieal changes of ourcUm» t, 'r
and the sudden increase of temperature, which
are always calculated to augment diseases 0
this character.”
Variable Tbmperature.— At New Or
leans, on Thursday morning, 21st inst.,
thermometer, at 8 o’clock, stood at 74 degree''
at 8 P. M, f at 68, but during tho night sunk w
37, the lowest temperature of this month.
Expert Firing.—A cadet writing
West Point to a friend in Mobile, says (hat a
one of their drills of a six gun battery, 1 e
command was given—“fire two rounds of c-' r
tridges." The piecies were dismounted
wheels of the carriages taken off—handspike
displaced—in fact every thing token apoit
and the $uns laid on tho ground. The c- 11
riages were then put together, tho g un8 ^
mounted and tho two rounds discharger
whole interval, from the command gi' 0 ” ^
the final discharge, being in the case of 0
gun, 40 seconds—and tho whole battery c01 ”
pletcd the two discharges within the mi n
What do you say to that, gentlemen of t>
Chatham Artillery? -
Th* Sonatk or Omo.-^The Ohio Su
Jourqal says that the senate passed <>n e ^
4red and twenty-frv® hills on the foreno" 1
the 20th mat.'