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MORNING NEWS.
Air JOHN M. COOPER.
W. T. THOMPSON, EDITOR
TJERMS :
DAILY PAPER $4 00 | TRI-WEEKLY $2 00
All New Advertisements appear in both papers.
[Correspondence of the Daily Morning News.)
New York, April 22d, 1850.
I am sorry that I cannot afford your readers
a little exciting food in this letter, hut inas
much, as it would be necessary to draw upon
my imagination for it, which would, doubtless,
honor the draft in any reasonable quantity, 1
have too much regard for truth to do so. I
. leave tbut to penny-a-liners, and less veracious
correspondents. Talking of penny-a-liners,
rominds mo that wo have none of that class of
writers for tho press, in fuct, in this country,
though careless and unreliable scribblers are
frequently termed so. Hut in London, that
vast worlfT in itself, men get a. good living by
actually receiving a penny a lino for such arti
cles ns the editor seos fit to publish. These
generally consist of “ dreadful accidents,"
•awful conflagrations,” reports of various
meetings out of the ordinary routine of the
regular reporter*, etc., etc. Many a man who
has since attained literary and legal fame, com
menced by penny-a-lining for the London press.
I well remember when Dickons was but an
occasional reporter, and hud no opportunity of
exhibiting his peculiarly strong descriptive
powers, that nt length attracted public notice-
Indeed, I doubt vory much il lie knew nt that
time that h.r possessed them. lie was an un
mitigated cockney, and talked incessantly, and
whether it was owing to tho obtusenoss of his
companions [ know not, bat certainly, I, for
otto, never detected any indications of those
wonderful powers that burst suddenly upon
London in tho “ J'tcwick Papors." Ho had
previously written soino sketches, which wore
published, I think, in tho Herald, of "Places
about Town," in which ho described celebrated
taverns, and the company frequenting them—
they were good natural but personal hits, and
wefti not much liked, particularly by those who
figured iu the sketches. It was these, however,
that directed tho attention of the London
publishers to him, and led to his engagement to
illustrate cerlaian sketchos by Seymour, of the
supposed adventures of Mr. Pickwick and
friends; so you seo the idea is not original with
Dickens. No matter, however, who originated
it, it is a work which will bo read by succeed
ing generations with gusto. I can ulways take
it up, and no matter at what point I open it,
enjoy, a hearty laugh. By tho by, tulkinr of
books to mako you laugh, I believe I mentioned,
in a former letter, one just issued by tho pro
prietor of tho “Evening Mirror," culled "Tho
Trippings of Tom Pepper,” by Harry Franco.
As I only get tho “News" very occasionally, I
don’t know whether you published it or not.
Nevertheless, it, will bear another puff, anti a
pretty strong one, too, for the book has consid
erable merit. Harry is a wag, and in his humor
runs a vein of quiet sarcasm, but so ingeniously
covered that it is not generally observed—
where the objects at which it is pointed are
known, however, they cannot" be mistaken by
the parties themselves, or by those acquainted
with their peculiar characteristics ; ihe book
must become immensely popular, for every
body is delighted to see his neighbor shewn up.
Bui even if they ure unknown, it does not
detract from the enjoviibility of tho work,
which is full of rich scenes, ludicrous descrip
tions, and is, withal, a highly interesting
narrative.
The foreign news by the America, has crea
ted sonio stir in the markets. Tho Cotton
speculators smile again, and flour factors look
Anticipating. Political news has a squally look ;
but what I most desire to seo is, Russia and
Prussia, have a regular Kilkenny fight; it would
break up a most unholy alliance, and might
lead to great results; probably to the restora
tion W Poland. Napoleonjis playing a description
game—he has a great deal to do, and a short
time to do it in—but I dont think ho will ac
complish his aims and be proclaimed Emperor.
To be sure tho French people are a vacillating
uatiotf f but then every revolution has had the
same object, tho erection of a Republic, and I
dont think they can be inducod to got up anoth
er revolution to restore monarchy.
the city continues healthy—the deaths lust
week numbered 240, but no disease in. particu
lar prevails. No news yet from California, but
we expect it hourly.
The Atlantic left here on Suturday for a' triul
trip, and was to proceed as far as Cape Henry
and along tho Delaware coast. - She was ex
pected back this morning, but has not arrived
yet. She went down the Bay slowly, and look
ed remarkably well, but her speed was not test
ed. I trust for the honor of America, that no
accident will happen to her machinery.
The Hermann took 135 passengers on Satur
day, and a mail comprising 7063 letters for
Bremen, and 5096 for England. There were
$94,239 of specie shipped from tins port, du
ring the past fortnight. Totul for tho present
year, $657,548.
Emijipnt* are becoming plentiful; about
3000 of them arrived here last week.
The “ Torpedo trial” has gone oft' until the
June term. Wilkes of the Police Gazette, lias
sued Bennett of the Herald, for libel iu con
nection with this affair, in publishing the affi
davit of Bristol Bill, stating that “One-eyed
Thompson” made the box, and he Bristol Bill
and Wilkes conspired to fix it on Drury. They
are all a precioqs set of scamps, and the.State
Prison yawns for tliein. CllARLEMAC.
Saturday Morning, April 27, 1850.
LARGEST CIRCULATION!
The Daily Morning News has now a circu
lation larger than that of DOTH THE OTHER DAI-
LIES TOGETHER, and consequently is the best
advertising medium. We state tliis fact in justice
to ourselves and for the benefit of the advertising
public.
Seo firPt P a 8 B I° r our rates °* advertising.
JOgP Advertisements should be handed in at an
early hour, to insure their uppeurmice in the paper ol
the next morning.
Fire Alarms.—It lias often occurred to us
thut the practice of firing pistols for tho pur
pose of communicating the alarm of fire, is a very
bad one, and ought to he abandoned. 1 bis
opinion was never morn forcibly impressed upon
our mind, tlinn during the alarm on Wednesday
night. On the first alarum, a strunget would
have thought the town was in tho possession
of Emperor SoLouquE or Billy Bowlegs,
and would linve jumped into his trowsers with
a vivid’prosentiinnnt of death by bullet, toma
hawk or knife. Ilud such been tlie case—had
an insurrection raged in our midst, our veteran
citizens, those "native here and t.o the matter
born," would not have suspected the fuct, un
til they found themselves in the midst of the
melee unprepared to meet the foe. Ever since
we saw tlie elephant in tlie Florida wars, we
have felt u sort of instinctive aversion to the
report of fire-unns in tlie night—bullets or no
bullets—and when we are startled from our
slumbers, by the report of u—horse pistol with
in ten feet of our chumber window, we are apt
to think of any thing else but a peaceful confla
gration. Besides, as appears by tho accident
which occurred on the night of the last fire,
there is danger in tlie practice. If the firing
could bo confined to tho watchmen alone, the
danger would not be bo great. But so long
as they resort to the discharge of fire-urms to
give the alarm, other persons will do tlie same,
and in the haste and excitement of the moment,
when guns and pistols riro caught up and fired,
often without any knowledge of their contents,
fired in the dark too, when it is impossible
to use the proper precaution in directing them,
there is great liability to accidents.
‘ If good lungs and the common watchman’s
rutile, aided by the bells of the city, will not
suffice to give the alarm, w hy, let our guar
dians of tho night be supplied with tin-horns,
French-liorns ram’s-horns, or any other wind
instrument that may suit their taste, and let
them blow until they crack their checks, or
"fright the city from its propriety;” but let
them save their ammunition for sterner and
more legitimate service. •
The Isabel.—This steamer the regularity
of whose trips have been the theme of general
admiration, waspreventod from communicating
with this port, on Thursday owing to a strong
wind from the N. E., which she encountered
off our bar.
By her arrival at Charleston, we are in re
ceipt of our regular correspondence and com
mercial loners, which will be found under their
proper head.
The Isabel left Havana on the 22d inst.
She brings one hundred passengers—seventy
cabin and thirty in the steerage. The following
is a list of her passengers.
Mrs. Gordon and children, Mrs. Hadden and
two Mrs. Haddens, Miss L. Johnson, Antonio
M. del Valle and family, John J. Taylor and
family, Capt. Goo. J. Curtiss and Lady, Mrs.
Hart and Miss Hart and servant. Messrs.
Tomple, Ferrott, Hadden, Barry, Holden,
Reed, Ross, Agirt, Mila Z. Minte Meyer. Dana,
Fish, Hogan, Nadal, Arliz, Carlier, Estepnni,
Chaver, Vinagerns, Alvaro, Arma, Fowler and
Bro. Honorable N. Appleton, Jewett, Deacon,
ltiseins, Dodd, Davidson, Cueto, Delnrtro and
Bro. Reed, Fairbanks, Sicnrt, Munne, Johnson,
Curtis, I’orrez Taylor, Bentley, Murti, Winter,
Symington Young, Bovill, Fowler, Curry and
Servant, 30 in ijie Sieerage.
The New York Commercial of tho 22d inst.
contains the following letter from a gentleman
on hoard the sleamet;,Georgia. It gives anoth
er version of the failure of that vessel to con
nect with this port. Our citizens have heard
both sides of tha matter, and have, doubtless,
formed their own conclusions. However, they
may differ in opinion ns to whom tlie blame is
attached. All agree that such disappointments
ure excessively annoying, and should bo reme
died in future:
“Steamer Georgia, off Savannah, >
April 16—74 P. M. £
“We are off from this port again without tlie
California mail.
“After receiving the mail from the Charles
ton boat, which was cruising oft 1 shore some
six mites for us, we proceeded on our wny for
Savannah, and not finding the mail-boat outside,
wo received a pilot and run in over the bar, and
came to anchor within a mile of the mail
steamer, which is as near as tho pilot would
take us. No notice wbs taken of us, and as it
was impossible for a boat from the ship to com
municate, on account of the strong tide run
ning, wo waited till this time, and have just
got under way.”
Later From St. Pomingo.—Intelligence
from Port au Prince, to the 31st ult.,states that
tho Emperor still delights in show and parade.
Every morning he rides around the city, atten
ded by the Govenor and some of the principal
officers, and a body-guard of drnggoons. He
is received by the citizens with uncovered
heads as he passes. It is reported that he in
tends lb march against the Spanish part of tho
Island. lie has forced all tho young men of
the place, (with few exceptions) to become sol
diers. His Majesty "has bought two more large
brigs, for ships of war, the Danish brig Otto
und a Swedish brig. '
[From our Correspondent.)
Havana, April 22,1850.
About three weeks ago, several cases of
sicknessg occur red at the Militury Hos
pital, outside the city, which somewhat, re
sembled Cholera, and since then there have
been further cases ninong;tlie troops in that Es
tablishment and in some of tho Barracks. A
mong the rest of tlie population however, only
twenty-seven cases have occurred during all
that period, of a similar sicknees, many of
which are considered very doubtful, while oth
ers uresuppo.-od to have proceed from other,
causes.—There is also u great difference of
opinion on the part of medical men, ns to
whether the eases nmong the troops were of
Cholera or not. The environs of the Military
Hospital in question are considered unhealthy,
and the Barracks within the city were probably
in general not quite so spacious ns might be
desirable, during tlie hot weather. The'author-
ities immediately adopted ve-y judicious
measures by removing the troops to more rortmy
quarters, and lmve likewise instituted many
salutary regulations in regard to drainage, the
elennsing streets, &c.. and have caused suita
ble local nrangemonts to he made in the several
districts of the city for tlie accommodation of
indigent persons that might be attacked. These
measures have been attended with great suc
cess, ns tlie disease has been checked nmong
tho soldiers,and the city nppeuis to be very
healthy. Many well informed persons suppose
tlie sickness which manifested itself to be Jail
Fever or some malady of that, nature. It
seems most probable that ilis not Cliolorn; or
whatever it may he, its visitation is. not ip. the
form of an Epidemic.
The Ohio brought only about fifty passengers
from Chagres. The mails from California had
not reached the Isthmus when tlie Ohio left;
therefore she udded nothing to our previous
intelligence from that quarter.
The Georgia took, us we understand, nearly
eight hundred passengers to Chagies. We
have no local or other news of importance to
add. Yours respectfully, &c.
A Broken Heart.—Coronor Reilly, of Bal
timore, held an inquest on Wednesday last,
over the body of John Wsddman, about 40 years
of age, who had died suoaenly at his residence
in that city. The deceased lmd no family but
his wife. His wife had been sick for some
time, and suffered very much from an ovarian
tumor, for which un operation, hud been per
formed. Her life could not be saved however,
and she died about 2 o’clock on Sunday morn
ing.* Wnldman was deeply grieved at his wife’s
illness, and for several days past had scarcely
tasted food. On Sunday, whilst conversing
with several ladies, about noon, he suddenly
fell from a chair in which he was sitting, and in
a few moments wus a corpse. Two of tlie fe
males in the room, overcome by their feelings at
the sight, fainted, and were curried out; and
still more singularly, two men who were sent
for nnd came in hurried, were seized with
vertigo, one fuinting and tlie other saved from
it by being removed into the open air. The
jury, ufeera patient investigation of tlie case,
rendered a verdict of death from apoplexy.”
(LIP’ We see by the Charleston papers, that
next week will close the Theatrical season in
that city. Tlie Managers have made some ac
cessions to their corps, and are about to pro
duce the popular dramatic sketch, entitled
Dombey and Son, nnd the petite domestic com
edy of Major Jones' Courtship, or Plantation
Scenes in Georgia. The company will return
to this city on the closing of tho theatre in
Charleston.
St. Louis is a rocky place. The last
Journal of Commerce contains the account of
two rencontres in the market place of that city,
in one of which a woman cow-hided a man for
aspersing her fair fume—in tlie other, a man
for bestowing u kick upon a Woman, wus by her
knocked down with a “ rock.”
From Chagres.—Tlie N. O. papers have
date.- from Chngres to the 9th inst.
Tlie steamship Philadelphia arrived ut Cha
gres on the evening of the 8th. in eleven days
from New-York ; had encountered heavy gales
off Charleston, lost foremast and bowsprit, and
sustained other damage.
Tlie steamship Telegraph was detuineri by
tho U. S. Consul.on the plea that she wus not
seaworthy. The officers and crew had signed
a protest, and a survey was to he made by tlie
engineers and officersjof the stenmship Ohio,
which was hourly expected.
EjP The Republican learns by advice re:
ceived from Mr. Sheriff Prendergast, now ic
England, that tlie Schr. Abel, on which the
absconding Cashier of the Rail-Road Bank
took passage had not arrived ut her port of des
tination when the last steamer sailed.
Claims on Portugal.—A letter from Lon
don to the Philadelphia North American, says
that the claims of tho American government
against Portugal continue to be noticed by the
correspondents of the London Journals. The
correspondent of the Times under date of Lis
bon, March 29th, writes that tlie President’s
message has had tho effect of making the gov
ernment look into these claims. Count Tojal
has proposed a reference to some other pow
er, and furijished such documents as will hard
ly allow . Congress to vote coercivo measures
without accepting the proposed arbitration.
The French Republic.—-The French De
mocratic Republicans in New York have de
termined to celebrate the aonivenm-y of the
proclamation of the French Republic, on tlie
4th proximo.
Washington Gosaiii.
I ho Washington correspondent of the Balti
more Patriot, tvriting under date of 21st inst.,
soy*:—
The Gnlphin Committee are still iig session,
laboriously investigating the “factsand circum
stances" in connection with the allowance of
the claim. It is runfbrod that it is tlie inten
tion of tho Committee, which is composed of a
majority of Locos, to endeavor to implicntd
three members of tlie Cabinet in tho transac
tion. This rumor does not mention names.
1 lie Compromise Committee wore in session
on Saturday, which promises an enriy termina
tion at their labors. It is whispered that a re
port, which it is supposed will do substantially
adopted, is already iu the hands of Mr. Clav.
If so, it may be brought in, and tlie discussion
on its adoption muy commence before tlie re
turn of the I unernl Committee.
I ho correspondent of the New York Com
mercial, under date of 22d inst., snys :—
1 he Nicaragua treaty it would appear, is not,
after all, definitively arranged. It is not signed
but it is believed that all its essential provisions
are agreed upon, and that it will soon bo con
cluded. It is conceded on all sides that the
British Minister near this Government had full
authority to net forhis Government.
I here are now threo committees of investi
gation in active it not successful operation.
1 he first is conducting the inquiry in relation to
the Galphin claim ; tlie second is arranging a
statement of the difficulty between Messrs
Benton and 1' oote, and tho third lias in chavge
an examination into certain charges against tlie
door keeper of tho House, Mr. Horner, which
lmve been set on foot I presume, with u view to
oust him from his office, und to place therein a
Democrat.
The same writer says—
It. is a prevailing opinion that the President
and his Cubinet officers agree entirely with Mr.
Phelps and Mr. Webster, in the opinion expres
sed by those distinguished Senators yesterday,
thut the select committee of thirteen called
the compromise committee, will not be able to
effect anything uselul or satisfactory to the
country.
The main objections taken to this committee
are of a character To have great weight at the
North. They are that the subject of admission
of California 1ms been unnecessarily and im
properly connected with tlie slavery controver
sy, and that the committee has been constitut
ed in a manner not fairly to represent tho feel
ings and opinions of both principal divisions of
the Union.
Further Intelligence by the Steamship Ame
rica.
The utmost exertions are being used night
and day to complete the Arctic expedition by
the 24th of April, relays o( workmen being em
ployed upon the two steam vessels, which are
progressing very fast. It is confidently expected
that the ilotilhi will clear the Shetland by the
first week in May.
It is probable that tlie success of the Social
ists, at tho late Election in France, may change
the situation of the Pope. Many suppose that
he will go to Ancona, and at once place himself
under Austrian protection.
Tho Madrid Gazette publishes a qovtil decree
granting tho Minister of Marine'a supplemen
tary credit of 30,000,000 of rials, applicable
for the immediate construction of six steamers
and two transports. Tho frigate Esperanza,
44 guns, was under sailing orders at Cadiz for
Havana.
At Madrid tho suine alarm exists on the ques
tion of Culm; arul it is even said that if any
real danger be found to exist of a separation
lioin tlie mother country, the Captain-General
of the island has orders when matters come to
the worst, to let loose the slave population,
and set fire to tlie towns rather than let it fall
into the hands of the Americans,
The reports of approaching reconciliation
with England, are confirmed.
The French nowspapers arc filled with ac
counts of serjeafits and corporals who lmve
been reduced to the ranks, and sent to Algeria
for voting for the Socialists.
The President of the Republic whilst on
his road to Vincennes, April 1st, was insulted
in tlie Fuuburg St. Antoine liy a number of
drunken men, who followed him for some dis
tance, and used menacing gesticulations.
Letters from Mods state that a terrible ex
plosion lias taken place in one of tba coal mines,
by which seveutv-five workmen were hilled.
A Constantinople letter of tlie 21 st contains
the important intelligence thut Russia, in dr-
fiifnce of the terms of the treaty she lias so
loudly promised to fulfil, still keeps military
occupation of the Damibian provinces, holding
there an army of 35,000 men. Diplomatic re
lations with Austria had not been renewed.
The steamer Teviot, lately arrived at South
ampton, with the West India and Pncfio mails.
She had on freight £946.878; British coin,
value £896; 500 ounces gold dust, 859 ounces
old silver plating, platina, value £180 sterling.
Of the specie on board, about $200,000 is in
gold dust from California, received via Pana
ma.
Spain bids fair to rival California. Gold
has been found on tlie banks and in the sands of
the Douro, in Grenada. The inhabitants of that
region ore engaged in digging and washing for
the precious metal.
The latest accounts from the Cape are to the
17th of January, at which period the long ex.
pected final decree of Earl Grey had not ar
rived out. In the mrnntime tho colonists con
tinued to.manifest a quiet, uniform, but firm and
resolute determination to resist the funner or
der of his Lordship by every legitimate means
within their power.
Several ships under temperance rules have
arrived at Aden, their crews suffering severe
ly from scurvy. The medical officer in charge
suggests to charterers and owners of vessels
the propriety of allowing a portion of spirits
daily, and that the quality of the provisions
supplied to the ships be strictly attended to.
According to u recent Parliamentary paper,
there were, in the year 1849, 42,798 acres of
land in Great Britain under the cultivation of
hops. Tho duty.on hops in the year amoun
ted to £145,693 4s. 9 3-4.
Tlie cholera has been committing ravages in
the remote parts of Kerry, (Ireland,) without
attracting much attention elsewhere.
Daring Attempt to Murder
learn from the; : Liberty (Mrf.) TriuJ'T"'
5th, thut a daring attd niftvdefou*
made on tho person of ait estimable |.i . W ° s
place, Mrs. Col. Aildn, on the „ig) lt J
Hint. Ule ‘st
Mrs. Allen was aroused from l,or,| Cpn ,
'low oil her face tram a sharp instuaiont V byt
mg from her bed, she rushed into an ■ J- P ." n 6'
room occupied by her two sons, when a"'" 5
tomid that a deep and dangerous ' .
been inflicted, nppnrcntly with nn nx " nd ’if 1
wound, it was thought, would ‘“be
No clue h*iB been ^covered
of this diabolical attempt to im,rder „ n i ' ,i!l" r
sive and much esteemed Indy.
Benton and Foote.—MTF^lni! „ „
tnct Attorney for the District of Coining Dls '
informed Mr. Benton that he will lav
ter complaining that Mr. Foote had d!!!
nistol on him, before the Grand Jarv fu"
Criminal Court, which meets on the third M
day of June. Mutt
The Millenium^ has Come C-TVd -
Christian Register informs us, that "the r*
dox. the Baptist, mid tlie Unitarian sL-
held a union meeting on Fast Day
the ministers of each denomination’Ji
their hearers. This is the greatest S 1
the Nineteenth Century, anrfwe lionet ° f
good an example may find general j m - . *°’
Execution Order—At at '° n '
or and Council, alter a full hearing 0 f a° V ® r, ‘”
ties, have ordered the sentence of d»I.k p,r '
nounend upon Daniel H. Pearson, hv u V
premo Judicial Court, for the murder of?"'
wifo and two children to he carried im„ «■ " s
Friday. July 26, was 6xed for tlie dnv
cation, which will take place in tlie J„n , T'
East Cambridge. me Jail yard at
[Correspondence of the Morning News.)
We beg reference to o»?Iteport ofethtot^
when there has been nn nctive inquiry ' SDl,p
firmly sustained prices, nn.l in some instance,
rates were given, particularly for Whites wX®
intelligence just received from Kurnn,. . 1 ? c
March, being unfavorable the demand inttyVriif
ed tor tlie moment, and the rates may beenm..
what easier. We place our quotationsTfnlbT
according to the last transactions Fine Whn
a 10) rials ; good nnd fair Whites : 9 a 91 win ’
dinary Whites, 8) a 8$ rials , Yellows -6 alt
Browns, 5) a o$ rials ; Cucuruchoe, 411, ’
We quote Muscovados 4) a 5 ruils for 0 i£L .
middling ; 5) a 5* for good to prime to
There has been a continuance of rains throughout
the Island, which has interrupted grinding £
the most valuable period available lor that prt"“ 8
On the South side, it is now ascertained, that the Dm
duction will tall short ot lust year, und in eev3m
portant Districts on the North side, a nunifer of
estates yield much leas than was anticipated. Thi
injury sustained may be partially counteracted if
the weather should be much drier than usual, durin
the period tenned the rainy senaon, but it is beyond
all quesbon that the total yield will show an imoor
tant deficiency from the estimates of production mails
some time since:
MOLASES has been sold nt 1) rinls at some of the
outporta.
'1 he prices of coffee are quite nominal, and indeed
tlie quantity- lett ot tliis article is too insignificant „
merit notice. -.
IMPORTS.—A cargo of jerked Beef was sold at 9}
rials, and there nre four curgoes on hand. Very lit-
tie Fish bus come in lately and we liavfe merely to
notice the sale of n small parcel of Boston Cod utSti
rials. Lard is about the same in value ; the stock is
equal to 10,000 kegs ; this latter package enjoyancar-
ly as much favor as barrels in regard to price. The
heavy stock of rice lius moved out of first, hands; 6
cargoes which were hero- some time, consisting of
about 9000 casks, were tuken at 10 rials, nnd one car
go ; which arrived a few days since, realized 10.1 rials,
file dealers have consequently, a large quantity in
their posseaeiott, nnd three curgoes are known to be on
the way. No more W. P. Lumber has come in. A cargo
oi P. P. from Mobile, Btenm-sawed, well assorted, was
placed st $94, one cargo from Wilmington arrived
on contract, nnd there is a parcel of River Lumber
and Timber from the same port for sale. Box shouks
stili eontinun dull, although supplies arc checked;
some transactions to a small extent occurred at
rials for cash and on credit. There is an increased
demand lor Dhd. shocks and we ndvanco our quota
tions for molassess, which are obtainable however,
only for moderate quantities. A sale was made of
400 bfolasses shooks of very superior qunlity at 18 rk
Hoops continue vory scarce and are higher. Empty
Casks have defined, a sale having been made at id
rials and there being a large quantity iu store.
There is less inquiry for tallow candles, as is usually
the case during tlie summer, but Sperm are fully
maintained in value. Whale oil is lower, as die de
mand for the use of plantations is diminishing, where
the article is required during the period of grinding.
Sperm oil is scarce and supported iu price, with the
probability of continued enquiry in consequence of
the scarcity of Spanish oil. Several cargoes of Span
ish Flour changedTiauds at our quotations.
FREIGHTS arc lower to Europe, vessels arc very
abundant, and the demand nt the moment restricted.
The last charters were nt £9.6[:i to i;9,10[ to Cowes
and Falmouth and a market; £2.11[ to Cowes and
St.l’eterburg; £U.10[ and 2.12rfi to Antwerp; £2.15(
it Xti to Trieste. Coastwise Freights are nt $1 per
box Sugar nud ©2 a ©2) for molases ; the latter rate
being from distant outportsfor small vessels.
KXCIIAN(i K.—'The llist transactions in Sterling
Bills were nt 10 a 10) p o premium.
Naval.—The Secretary of the Navy has ap
pointed Copt. Chii8. S. McCauloy to the com
mand of tlie Pacific Squadron, in the place of
Commodore Thos. Ap G .Tones; also, Captain
Isaac McKeever to tho command of tho Bra
zil Squadron, in the place of Commodore
Gonrge W. Stores. Lieut. H. Ingersoll has
resigned. The U. S. ship Ohio wus expected
to arrive in Boston by tlie 26tli inst. Tlie chole
ra broken out on board of her prior to her sail
ing from Havana.—Pkilad. Ledger.
OBITUARY.
Tlie portals of the tomb have terrors to those who
have used this world as if it were their abiding plow
forever. But to the humble Christian, rejoicingin the
promises of n merciful Saviour, those portals disclose
only a pathway to eternal file—a future fellowship
and communion with Saints in Heaven. When tmj
child, doated on for its infant prattle, or the beloved
boy, winfting by his bright and hourly developed
genius, more and more, our unpurchasea love, yield*
to death, and tlie pallor of his parents exhibits the
desolation which has stricken the parents’ bosoiu,
there is a grief which oppresses the iieart, but the
placid smile of tho Christian mother, like the ewj
after an April shower, illumes the countenonce. and
causes bereaved parents to feel a joy, that their chit,
is among those, of whom the Saviour said, “Of sMk
is tho Kingdom of Heaven.”
But wllel? oue, who during her fife of pure and ex
emplary piety, has illustrated the filial excellent* o>
iui affectionate daughter, the sweet and beautiful it
tuclnneutof an only sister, and 1 the unwavering de
votedness of a confiding wife, blended with a molber *
holy love for an only child,—when such aoneu r®
led to her last, her eternal homo—we who 8ur "™'
feel that though lier’s ia not a sleep eternal, we pj
been deprived of a friend whosesmile often irradisw
our pathway through this vale of teal's. Having™,
nearly twenty years, enjoyed an acquaintance W1
the deceased, the writer of tliis passing and tee ^
tribute to her memory, cun truly say that she * .
graced with all those lovely and matronly virtue-i a
accomplishments, which adorn the true ChrUn&n ,
man. Her humility ns u disciple of the Saviour ot
ful man, was only equalled by that cuthobc dmnij.
which ever refused to scan tho fuults of others,
health or in sickness, sho was ever the happy and *
ling matron of her hospitable home, and thongs »“
fermg for years from a disease which preys upon
body, while it seems to beautify the soul, her firm -
resolute spirit seemed to smile ut the ravages u?P
hor lovely frame, and appeared, ut times, aun
winged for a flight to a better world. VVho can *' ,
mate the loss ol such a wife—mother—sister—'o'
—for “ none knew her but to love her." Thi r P a ”.. u
sufferings-her li oly resignation—her triumphant^®
to a world where her presence conferred pm* ,
upon ail, and where she left to other friends a da
ter, to thread without the sweet counsel of a
the muzes of a fife more or less perilous—e'ijnc
clearly evinced, that her heart was with her »a't
God. _ a ie
This imperfect tribute is laid, by a friend, upo ^
S ave, but recently closed, of Mrs. MAROAnn
1NOLD, wife of Dr. Richard D. Arnold, and d« u t j9
ter of the lute John W. Htirk, Esq., who deparwa ‘ ^
fife on the 21st inst., nnd was next dnjr lo110
her “narrow house” by many bereuved ana ej - r |
thizing friends. Her earthly remains Hrt '. r v,
beneath the venerable oaks of Evergreen Le ■ ^
lit Bonaventure. Her immortal spirit rests a
bosom of Gqff, who clothed it with beauty 0-