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SAVANNAH. DAILY MORNING NEWS JULY 8, 1850. the morning nevs. BY JOHN M. COOPER. willxam“t7'thompson, editor- TERMS: Daily Paper,........$4,001::::Tri-weekly,... All new Advertisements appear in both papers. 92 00 » EXTRAORDINARY_CONFESSION PROF. JOHN W. WEBSTER OF THE Murder of Doctor George Parkman II Thrilling Acccount of the Murder by the Murderer! • ' Boston, July 1, 1850. At the meeting of tlio Council this morning, the cose of Prof. Webster was referred to a conpnitt, e. Before the committee, at 12 o’clock, appeared the Rev. Dr. Putnam, the spiritual adviser or the con demned, with u petition tor commutation of punish ment, together With a confession thut he killed Doct or Parkman. „ , . The reverend gentleman prefaced the statement by a few remarks relative to the manner in which the confessions were made to him. He stated that he had no previous acquaintanceship with Prof. Webster before being called to act in the capacity of his spirit- uni adviser. In the first few weeks of his visits he sought no acknowledgement of the prisoner. At length on the 23d of May, he visited him in hie cell, and demanded of him, for his own well-being, that he should tell the truth in regard to the matter, and ho acceded to the request, by making the statement which was now submitted for the consideration oi the Council It was in substance bb follows. The Confession.—On Friday, 20th November, I sent the note to Dr. Parkman, which it appears,.was carried by the boy, Maxwell. I handed it to Little field unsealed.- It was to ask Dr. Parkman to call at my rooms, on'Friday, thc22d, alter my lecture. Ho had beoome, of date, very importunate for his Pay. He had threatened mo with a suit; to put an officer in my house, and to drive me from my professorship, if I did not pay him. The purport of my note was simply to ask the conference. 1 did not tell him, in it, what l could do, or what I had to say about the payment. 1 wished to gain, for those tew days, a re lease from his solicitations, to which I was liable every day, on occasions, and in a manner very disa greeable and alarming, and also to avert for so long a time, at least, the fulfillment of recent threats of severe measures. I did not expect to be able to pay him when Friday should arrive. My purpose was, if he should accede to the proposed interview, to state to him my embarrassments and utter inability to pay him at present-to apologize for those things iu my conduct which had offended him—to throw myself upon his mercy—to beg for future time and indul gence, for the sake of my family, if not for myself, and to make as good promises to him as I could have any hope of keeping. I did not hear from him on that day nor the next, (Wednesdey,) but I found on Thursday he had been abroad in pursuit of me without finding me. I ima gined he bad forgotten the appointment, or else did not mean to wait for me. I feared he would come in upon mo at my lecture hour, or while I was prepar ing my experiments for it; therefore 1 called at his house on that morning, (Friday) between eight or nine o’clock, to remind him of my wish to see him at the College at half past one—my lecture closing at 1. I did not stop to talk with him, for I expected the conversation would be a long one, and had my lec ture to prepare for, for it was necessary for me to have my time, and. also, to keep my mind free from other exciting matters. Dr. Parkman agreed to call on mo as I proposed. He came, accordingly, be tween half-past one and two o’clock, entering at the lecture room door. I was engaged in removing Borne glasses from my lecture room table into the room in the rear, called the upper laboratory. He came rap idly down the step, and followed me into the labora tory. Ho immediately addressed me with grtmt ener- gy “Are you ready for me, sir ? Havetyou got the . money V f I replied “No, Dr. Parkman,” hnd waa then begin- ning to state my condition and appeal to him, but he would not listen to me,and interrupted me with much vehemence. He called me a scoundrel and liar, and went on heaping on me the most bitter taunts and opprobious epithets. While he wae speaking he drew anandful of papers from his pocket and took from a- mong them my two notes, and also an old letter from Dr. Hosack, written many years ago, congratulating him on his success in getting me appointed professor of chemistry. “You see,” he Baid, “I got you into your office, and now I will get you out ot it" He put back into his pocket all the papers except the letter and the notes. I cannot tellhow long the torrent of threats and invectives continued, and I cannot recall to memory but a small portion of what he said; at first, I kept interposing, trying to pacify him, so that I might obtain the object for which I sought the inter view, but 1 could not stop him, and Soon my own temper was up; 1 forgot every thing, and felt nothing but the sting of his words. 1 was excited to the highest degree of passion, and while he was speaking and gesticulating in the most violent and menacing msnncr, thrusting the letter and his fist into my face, in my fury I seized whatev er thing was handiest, (it was a stick of wood,) and dealt him an instantaneous blow with all the force that passion could give it. I did not know, or think, , or care, where I should hit him, nor how hard, nor * what the effect would be. It was on the side of his Head, and there was nothing to break the force of the blow. He fell instantly upon the pavement. There was no second bloW ; ne did not move. I stooped down over him, and he seemed to be lifeless. Blood flowed from his mouth, and I go;a sponge and wiped it away. I got Borne ammonia and applied it to his nose, but without effect Perhaps I spent 10 minutes in attempts to rescuscitavc him, but I found he was absolutely dead. In my horror and consternation, I ran instinctively to the doors and bolted them, the doors oUhe lecture room and of the laboratory below. And then what was I to do ! It never occurred to me to go out and declare what had been done, and ob tain assistance. I saw nothing but the alternative of a successful movement and concealment oi the body on the one hand, and of infamy and destruction on the other. The first thing I did as soon as I could do anything, was to draw the body into the private room adjoining, were I took oft' the clothes, and be gan puffing them into the fire, which was burning in t lie upper laboratory. They were all consumed there that afternoon, with papers, pocket book, and whatever they contained. I did not examine the pockets, nor remove anything, except the watch. 1 saw that, or the chain of it, hanging out I took it and threw it over the bridge ns I went to Cambridge. Mv next move was to get the body into tho sink, which stands in the small private room ; by setting the body partially erect against the corner, and by getting up into the sink myself, 1 succeeded in draw ing it up there. It was entirely dismembered. It was quickly done, as a work of terrible and desperate necessity. The only Instrument used was the knife found by the officers, in the tea chest, which I kept for cutting corks. I made no use of the Turkish knife, as it was called at the trial. That had long been kept on my mantelpiece in Cambridge, as a curious ornament. My daughters frequently cleaned it; hence the marks oi oil and whiting found on it. I had lately brought it into Boston to get the silver sheath repaired. While dismemboriug the body, a strenm of Cocliit- uate water was running through tho sink, carry ing off the blood in "a pipe that passed down through the lower laboratory. There must have been a leak in the pipe, for tho ceiling below wus stained immediately around it. There waa a fire burning in the furnace of the lower laboratory. Lit tlefield was mistaken in thinking there had never been a fire there. He lind probably never kindled one, but I had done it myself several times. X had done(t that day for the purpose of muking oxygon gas. The head and viscera were put into that lumaee that day, tmd the fuel heaped on. I did not examine at night to see to what degree they were consumed. Some of the extremities were put in there, I believe, <-n dint day: (he pelvis and some of the limbs perhaps, were all put under the lid of the lecture room table, in what is called tho well—a deep sink lined with lead; a slrcum.of Oochituate was turned iuto it, and kept i milling through it ull Friday night; the thorax was wot in to a smaller well in the lower laboratory, which i filled with water and put in a quantity of potash, which 1 found tbrre. This disposition of the remains dr its not changed till after the visit of the officers on dnudny. When the body had been thusall disposed d away al! traces of vvhathad been done. I k the stick with which the fatal blow had been 'sick proved to be a piece ol the stump of a large vine—sav two inches in diameter and two feet e of several pieces which I had car- ibrhtgO Jong bef'o'e, for the ptirpor- flee: vi err tom cloraita) fluids in c ig nosoroeo mm the penes. t vf.rr pjrvrfj weed. vv< Another long stick had been used as intended, and exhibited to Hie students. That one had not been used. I put it into the lire. I took up the two notes cither from the table or the floor, I think the table, close by where Dr. P. had fallen, I seized an old me tallic pen lying on the table, dashed it across tho face and through the signatures, and put thorn in iny pocket. 1 do not know why I did this rather than put them in the fire, for I had not considered for a moment what effect either mode of disposing,!)!' them would have on tho mortgage,or my indebtedness to Dr. P. and. the other persons interested, and 1 hadnotyot given a single thought to the question as to what ac count i should give of the object or result of my m - terview with Dr. Parkman. I never saw tho sledge lisinmor spoken of by Littlefield i never knew of its existence, at least I have no recollection ot it I left the college to go home, as late as 6 o’clock. I collec ted myseff as well as I could, thut I might meet my family and others with composure. On Suturduy, i visited my rooms at the College, but made no change in the disposition ofthe remains, and luid no plans as to my future course. On Saturday evening, I read the notice in the Trans cript, respecting his disappearance. 1 was then deep ly impressed with the necessity of immediately ta king sonic ground as to the character of my inter view with Dr. P. for I saw that it must becomo known that 1 had had such an interview, as I had ap pointed it first by an unsealed note on Tuesday, and on Friday lmd myself called nt his house in open day, and ratified the arrangement, and had there been seen and had probubly been overheard by the man servant, and I knew not by how inHny persons. Dr. P. might have been seen entering my rooms, or how many per sons he might have told by the wuy where ho wus go ing—the interview wouldin all probability be known, and I must be ready to explain it. The questions ex ercised me much, but on Sunday my course wus ta- ken. I would go into Boston and be the first to de clare myself the person, as yet unknown, with whom Dr. Turkman had made the appointment. I would take the ground that I had invited him to the Col lege to pay him money, and thut I had paid it. Ac cordingly, I fixed upon the sum by taking tlio small note and adding interest, which it appeurs I cast erro neously. If I had thought of this course earlier, I should not have deposited Pettee’s check for $30 in the Charles Iliver Bank on Sunday, but should have sup pressed it, as goir.g so far to make up the sum which 1 was to have professed to have paid the day before, and which Pettee knew I had by me at the hour ot interview; it had not occurred to me that I should ever show the notes cancelled in proof of it, or I should have destroyed the large note, and let it be interred that it was gone with the missing man, and l should only have kept the small one, which was all that I could pretend to have paid. My single thought waa conaenlment and safety ; everything else was incidental to that. I was in no state to consider my ulterior pecuniary interest—Money, though I needed it so much, was of ito account with me in thatcondition of mind. If I had designed and premeditated the homicide of Dr. Parkman, in order to get the possession of the notes and cancel my debt, I not only should not have deposited Pettee’s check the next day, but should have made some show of getting and having the mo ney the morning before. I should have drawn my money from the bank and taken occasion to mention to the cashier that I had a sum to make up on that day for Dr. Parkman, and the same to Henchman, when I borrowed the $10; I should have remarked that I was much short of a sum that I was to pay Parkman. I borrowed the money of Henchman as mere pocket money for the day. If I had intended the homicide of Dr. P., I should not have made the appointment with him twice, and each time in so open a manner that othor persons would almost cer tainly know of it; and I Biiould not have invited him to my rooms at an hour when the College would be full oi students and others, and an hour when I was most likely to receive calls from others, for that was the hour, just after the lecture, at which persons ha ving business with me or in my rooms, were • always directed to call. I looked into my room on Sunday afternoon. After the first visit of the officers, I took the pelvis and some of the limbo from the upper well, und threw them intojthe v.*ulg and privy. I took the thorax from the well below, and packed it in the tea chest, as found. My own impression has been, that, this was not done till after the second visit of the offi cers, which was on Tuesday, but Kingley’s testimony shows that it must have been done sooner. The perforation of the thorax had been made by the knife. At the time of removing the viscera, on Wednesday, I put on kindlings and made a fire in the furnace be low, having first poked down the ashes. Some of the limbs, I cannot remember which or how many were consumed at that time. This was the last I had to do with the remains. The tin box was designed to receive the thorax, though I had not concluded where I should finally put the box. The fish hooks, tied up as grapples, were to be used for drawing up the parts in the vault, whenever I should determine how to dispose of them, and get strings enough. I had a confused double object in ordering the box, and making the grapples. I had, before, intended to get such things to send to Fayal; the box to hold the plants and other articles which I wished to protect from the salt water and sea air, and the hooks to be used therein obtaining corralline plants from the sea. It was this previous ly intended use of them that suggested and mixed itself up with the idea of’the other application. I doubt, even now, to which use they would have been applied ; I had not used the hooks at tho time oi the discovery. The tan put iuto the tea chest was taken from a barrel of it that had been in the laboratory for some time. The bag of tan brought in on Monday was not used, nor intended to be uoed; it belonged to a quantity ob tained by me a long time ago, for experiments in tan ning, and was sent in by the family to got it out of the way. Its being sent in just at that time was ac cidental. I waa not aware that I hud put the knife in the chest. The stick found in the saucer of ink wus for making coarse diagrams on cloth. The bunch of filed keys nad been used long ago by me in Fruit sL and thrown carelessly by into a drawer. I never examined them, and do not know whether they would fit any of the locks of the college or not. If there were other keys fitting doors with whieii I had nothing to do. I supposed they must have been all duplicates, or keys ot former locks left there by the mechanics or janitor. 1 know nothing about them and should never be likely to notice them amongst the multitude of articles, large and small, of all kinds, collected in my rooms. The janitor had furnished me with a key to the dissecting room, for the admis sion of medical friends visiting the college, but I had never used it. • The nitric acid on the stairs was not used to re move spots of blood, but was droppad by accident. When the officers called for me on Friday, the 30th, I was in doubt whether I was underarrest, or whether a more strict search of my rooms was to be had, tho latter hypothesis being hurdly less appalling than the former. When 1 louud that we went over Crngies’ Bridge, I thought the arrest most probable. When I found that the carriage was stopping at the jail, I was sure of my fate. Before leaving the carriage 1 took a dose of strychnine from iny pocket and swallowed it. 1 hud prupured it in the shape of a pill before 1 left my laborat jry t ii the 23d. 1 thought I could notbear to survive detection. I thought it was a large dose. The state of my nervous system, probably, defeated the action partiuliy. The effects of the poison were terrible beyond description. It was in operation at the College, and before I went there, but most severe ly afterwords. I wrote but one of the anonymous letters produeod at the trial—the one mailed at East Cambridge. The little bundles referred to in the letter destined by the jailor contained only a bottle of nitric acid, for do mestic use. J hud seen it stated in a newspaper that I had purchased a quauitty of oxulie acid, which it was presumed was to bo used iu removing blood stains. 1 wish the parcel to be kept untouched, that it may be shown, it there should be occasion, what it really was that I bud purchased. I have drawn up in separate papers ,ati explanation ot the use 1 inten ded to make of the blood sent for on Thursday, the 22d fast, und ofthe conversation with Littlefield about the dissecting vault. 1 think that Pettee, in his testimony at tlic. trial put too strongly my words about having settled with Dr P. Whatever 1 did say of tho kind, wus in the hope I entertained that I should be able to pacify Dr. P. mid make some arrangement with him, and was said in order to quiet Pettee, who was becoming restiv under the solicitations of Dr. P. After Dr. Webster had stated most of the facts re corded above on tho 23d Mny, this question, with all the earnestness, solemnity, and authority of tone that Dr. Putman was muster of, was addressed him : “ Dr. Webster, fa all probability yonr days are numbered ; you cannot, you dare not speak falsely tc me now; you must not die with a lie fa your mouth so, prove to yourself that your repentance for the sins of your past life is sincore—tell mo the truth, then—a confidence to be kept sacred during your lifetime, and as much longer as my regard for the happiness of yonr family shall seem to me to require, ODU the interest ot troth and justice to permit- Search to the bottom 61 yonr heart lor the History yonr motives. and fall mb, before Cod, did it never occur to you, before the decease ol Dr. Pal kinan, that his death, if you could bring it to pnss, would he of great advantage to you, or nt least that persouul in jury to him might possibly be the result of your ex pected conference with him J As a dying man, I charge you to answer me truly and exactly, or else bo silent—had you not such a thought? ‘•No, never,” said lie, witli energy and feeling “as I live, and as Clod is my witness, never I I was ho more capable of such a thought than one of my innocent children. I never had the remotest idea of injuring Dr. 1>. until the moment the blow was struck. Dr P. was extremely severo and sharp—the most provoking of men—and I mil irritable and passion ate. A quick-handed and brief violence of thmper has been a besetting sin of my life. 1 was an only child—much indulged—and I have never acquired the control over my passions that I ought to have oc- quired early, and the consequence is all this. “But you notified Dr. Parkman to meet, you at a certain hour, und told him you would puy him, when you had not the money. “No,” he replied. “1 did not toll him I would pay him, and there is no evidence that I told him so. Ex- cent my own words, spoken alter his disappearance, and After I had determined to take the ground that I paid him, those words were ot the miserable tissue of falsehoods to which 1 had been committed from the moment I had began io conceal the homicide. I uever had a thought of injuring Parkman. This was accompanied by the statement in which Professor Webster attempts to explain as to seeing Littlefield, sending for the blood, and of inquiring about gusses from the vault. After reading the state ment Dr. Putnam proceeded to argue as its truthful ness, saying that it was made when the writ ot error was still pending. Also, that Professor Webster s es tate was worth several thousand dollars, nud that he was not iu such a strait as to commit such a crime de liberately. _ , . . The previous petition from Professor Webster, protesting his innocence and prayinffjfor absolute par don, be said, was got up by ins family, who were un wavering in their belief in his innocence, until his confession was communicated to them about a week since. He^concluded in asserting his belief that the confession‘was true. BATFAKrsyiMEQ Monday Morning;, July S, 1850. (3^ The Office of the Daily Morning News is re moved to the building formerly occupied by the Marina Bank, No. 115 Bay-street. Further Intelligence by the Fnciflc. England. The vote of Censure. The following is the solution pfoposeil by Lord Stanley, und affirmed by the House of Lords. “That while this House fully recognizes the right end duty of the government to secure to her Majes ty’s subjects residing in foreign States the lull pro tection of the laws of those States, it regrets to had, by the correspondence recently laid upon the table by her Majesty's command, that various claims •against the Greek goveruinent,doubtful in point of jus tice, or exaggerated in amount, have been torced by coerceive measures directed against the commerce and people of Greece, and calculated to endanger the continuance of our friendly relations with other powers” The motion having been put, on a division there appeared for it 169—against it 132—majority against government 37. Tho statement that the House of Commons had also passed a vote of censure by 300 majority, was incorrect, as according to all accounts received the Ministry are sustained by the Commons. The Cuba Question.—The London and Liverpool papers are still amusingly ferocious, on the Cuba ex pedition, which they will have it, was countenanced in some way, by our people, and Government. Thus the Courier, of Liverpool, says : We aro spared the necesssity of further discussion on the subject of the disgraceful outrage committed fa Cuba bv unorganized body of American citizens, the so called expedition having, up to the present time, ludicrously failed. * * * * When tliis military ruffian was discharged after his mock arrest, he was loudly cheered by the pop ulace. For the present this michief 1b rrrested. Butthe question will now have to be ngituted among all the nations of the world, whether the United States shall be allowed to continue in a position which enables the government to attack friendly states by con niving at the misconduct of its own subjects. Tho United States, unless the system be changed, must be excluded from all diplomatic and political connexion. Terrible Steamboat Disaster—Loss of the Orion, of Glassgow—Fifty Lives Lost.—The'Liverpool Cour ier, of 19th, fa a postscript, states that the steamer Orion, sailing between Liverpool and Glasgow struck on a rock off Port Patrick, on the evening ofthe 16th, on her passage to Glasgow, from the effect of which she immediately suck. It is stated that there were about latitpassengera on board the ill-fated steamer, and acoqKang to inform ationfreceived fifty of them are said Tube drowned, including Professor Bums, of Glasgow. The Orion when she left Liverpool, had an unusually large number of passengers on board, all her cabin berths being engaged, and several Parties, including some gentleman who had arrived I'rom America by the Europu, were unable to obtain berths, and fortunately for themselves were detained at Liverpool, or went by another route. Private Dispatch. We are Indebted to a commercial house for the following private dispatch, received at Saturday, da ted— Charleston, July 6—P. M. Cotton. The sales to-day have reached 1400 bales. Prices full. A lot of Good Middling brought 12jc. I5P The U. 8. Treasurer's statement shows that $9,819,492 are in various depositories, subject to draft. Z'fF Judge Sharkey, of Mississippi, is outin favor of the Missouri Compromise Lino. rr- The Washington Southern Press, of Wednes day morning, lias the following announcement rela tive to the Texas excitement: It is rumored here that a dispatch was received last evening, announcing the march of Texan troops to Santa re. It is rumored that a special Cabinet meeting on the subject has been held. A Govomor of a Southern State,—said to be Gen. Quitman,—has sent a telegraphic dispatch to thiscity, stating that he is ready to march with 10,001) men to the support of Texas. Tlie European News. Tho political news brought by the Europa is inter esting. The British Ministry and the House oi Lords are fa open rupture. The Ministry will not resign ns long ns they are sustained by the Commons, and treat the House of Lords as auseless appendage of the gov ernment. This conduct is denounced by the Times and applauded by the Commons. In other parts of Europe things move pretty much as usual. The attempt to shoot Louis Napoleon excites no surprise. Frenchmen are used to such tilings, and are not sufficiently good mnrksmen to njnke the practice dangerous. The saliary of the President of France is to be increased, and it is very likely tho attempted assassination was gotten up with a view to secure tho adoption of that measure. It re quires money to corrupt the people, and French Re publicanism is in the market. The King of Denmark is going to abdicate, which, it is thought, will settle the Schleswig-Holstien trou bles. The Pope continues to grow unpopular. Nearly all the Roman youth have emigrated, been imprison ed, or are under suspicion. The finances are in a de plorable condition. Poland threatens another insurrection, and numer ous arrests have taken place. Liverpool, June 21. Savannah Pitch Pine, at auction,20d per foot; New Orleans Pine Staves, three-inch, $95 per 1000; Fine, $13 to $17; Hogsheads, £13 to £15; N. Y. stout oak ■Hogsheads, £14 13s. The market freely .supplied with staves, but not the most saleable description, be ing deficient in quality and substance. Good, stout New Orleans Hogshead Staves, forty-two inches long, are wanted. Our Government and Spain.—Positive Demand for the Prisoners, (fc.—A special dispatch from Wash- ington to tho Philadelphia North American, dated on Friday, says: “ Authentic advices of the latest dates from Cube aro not of a satisfactory character. Gen. Campbell had not received an official copy of Mr. Clayton’s in- ( structione of the 1st of June, but was in possession of a copy sent by telegraph to Mobile, which was imper fect. Upon this unofficial copy and others fa the no wspapers,he had made a requsst for the release of the Contoy prisoners, which has not been acceded to. “ Unless an arrival should, within a few days, bring news of a change of purpose on the part of the Cap tain General, after the receipt and presentation by General Campbell of his official dispatches, the Pres ident will make a positive demand for th'eir libera tion. The Vixen is now being fitted out for that pur pose, and Commodore Morris, or Commodore War- renton, will be sent out to assume tho command of the squadron, • “ The President will not permit New Mexico to be overrun or taken possession of by Texas until Con gress has decided that the territory does not belong to the United States. “ Measures will be instituted, and doubtless indict ments found against the Cuban expeditiontsis fa New York, as against those of New Orleans. Df.florable Affair.—A Bride Shot! A couple named Anthony Putnam and Catharine Soumeyer, were mnrried in Cincinnati, on Tuesday, and while returning to the residence oi the father of tho bride, a duelling pistol was fired at the party by a young man named Richard Overbeck. The Commercial says: Some sixty shot entered the bride’s face, neck and bosom! Some shot passing her took effect in the face of Joseph Linenkugel. Both were much injured, but the young bride is in an awful situation, und it was feared she would die. It was impossible to ex tract the shot, as they were deeply imbedded in the flesh, and so near the jugular vein. Some, it was found, bud penetrated near the brain.—The young husband, when our reporter saw the couple, was wiping the blood from his wife’s woundB, as it oozed out. The wife was in great agony: a crowd of Borne three hundred persons were standing rouud. The fellow who discharged the pistols had fled to Ken tucky. Dr. Cooper attended tho unfortunate people. There were little hopes of tho recovery of the wife. What a sad affair. EFTo make room for Dr. Webster’s confes sion, which will lie read with interest, wo are obliged to omit much other matter prepared for this day’s paper, among the rest, our synopsis of the proceed ings of Congress. The doings of that body for tho past few days, however, possess but little interest, as the time hus been mostly consumed fa the discussion of the compromise in the Senate, and tho Galphfa resolutions fa the House. On Monday, in answer to the Senate Resolutions, a message was received from the President, stating that - all the orders and correspondents relative to New Mexico and Texas have heretofore been communi cated; and that the Executive had not yet received an official notice of Col. Monroe’s proclamation calling a Convention. On Tuesday nothing of interest transpired in either house. On Wednesday, Mr. Cass’ Resolutions to prohibit military officers from exercising civil functions, was taken up in the Senate, when Mr. Houston spoke in opposition to Col. Monroe’s course fa New Mexico and the President’s pdftiy, which had always been hostile to Texas. He spoke in favor ofthe adjustment of the difficult questions before the country, and de precated the President’s interference as calculated to embarrass it. He adverted to the Nashville Conven tion and the solo and self appointed delegate from Texas to it, and entered his solemn protest against its proceedings. Iu the House, Mr. Holmes made an ineffectual ef fort to introduce a resolution instructing the Com mittee on Foreign Relations to inquire into and re port upon the expediency of placing at tho disposal ofthe President, so much of the naval force of the U. States, as may be necessary to enforce the just claims of the citizens ofthe United States against Hayti. Renewed Demand for the Conte u Pri... rial telegraphic dispatch to tho Nant,'* — A «ne. ted Washington, July 1st*C war steamer Vixen sailed from it,i to<1 States for Havana, with Commodore MWrisJl° rt Agent ot tho Government to make denZS S^al American prisoners captured hv for tlio off Coteras and Contoy. It iYZ Com. Morris shall supersede Com* Park" 1 ^ ‘hat In-d If.rnlds/ya’ ft C1m ® Southerner has furnished his boat with hiawb »»t number of plank to support. oSe taL* s "« 6 ta>t people. In each plank is inserted lnon ®fr rigging and the& boards olsafetyZ °> rr S about the boat so as to be ready at a motnent’s'^Z' 1 Increase and Movements of the a Large Boun ties for Privates.~The Searotnn, . has given official notice that, ngrec®y to th° f ' Var sions of an act to increase tho rank and file Of e ,? rovi ' my, and to encourago enlistment, apnrovJ , ar ' 17th, 1850. the companies of light artillery wi ,, creased to sixty-fou r privates each. He rise W that the several companies of the army servi <Urecta military posts in Texas, New Mexico, Calif, 46 Oregon, as well as those stationed at Forts %‘t? 1 " 1 and Gaines, on the Upper Mississippi, at Forts K ™ 8 and Laramie, on the route to Oregon and be established on the Dcs Moines, Canadian and*!/ 01 per Arkansas rivers, will each be increased to Up ‘ ty.four privates. Portions of the infantry comnT,,?' in Texas and New Mexico, and at the Canadian^',? Arkansas posts, where there may be no remdsT “a d valr C y e ’ The Secretary further directs that the bountv authorised by tho 3d section as an equivalent for th transportation and subsistence of a recruit from fa 6 principal recruiting depot will apply to enlistmrata made at or fa the vicinity of the posts at which the companies are to be increased to seventy-four nri vates, and will be allowed und paid at the followin ' rates, to wit; 8 For enlistments made at or near any of the on* or stations in the 8th department, a bountv of Ss in the 9th department, of $52; in the ?Sffi d,2 ment, $117; m the 11th department, $142 ■ atnrnZ Fort SnelUng, $23; at or Mar Fort Gaines, *27^ or near the poet on the Ddr Moines, $23 • at nr Fort Kearney, $34 ; at or near Fort Laramie' $48 or near the posts on tho Upper Arkansas, $37- a tnr near the post on the Canadian river, $28. ' The above bounty tobe paid fa unequal instalment, at the end of each year’s service, in the foUowiav proportion:—One-tenth at the end of the first year's service; one-eight at the second vear; one-Bixth at the third; one fourth at the fourth'; and the remain der at the expiration of the enlistment. The telegraphic report to the effect that 600 troops have been sent to New Mexico to protect the people of that territory against the alleged aggression of Tex. as, is without foundation, having grown out of the above movements. The correspondent of the Phila delphia North American says: Two hundred man have been detailed to escort the parties composing Mr. Bartlett's commission from Son Antonio to El Paso; and five hundred, destined to increase the companies in New Mexico, have been directed to porceed thither via Fort Leavenworth, the object being to protect emiganta on their rout, and the inhabitants from the prebatory attacks and inenrsions of hostile Indiana. The movement is not fa any regard to the boundary question. JTp" The Washington correspondent of the Phil adelphia Bulletin says, the case of the schooner Jden. Taylor from Chngres, which was boarded by armed soldiers whi^e cruizing off Cape Antonio, was brought to tbc attention of the President on Tues day, that Mr. Clayton has had directions to enquire into the matter without delay, in order thatthe facts may bo laid before Congress fa anticipatiota of the callthat will he made upon the Departiuent. PASSENGERS. . Per steamer WmSeabrook, fromCharlestofiRMfsF Rouk, 2 Misses Baynard, Messrs Gouidsmith, Luke, Caruthers, McDonald. Ripley, Miller, Armstrong, 1 A Shaffer, J Shaffer, M Haines and srvt, Capt Hagadon, Furguson, Williams, Alley, T J Mell, W BMell, Din ner, Glenn, Canuet, Jones, Baynard, Norton, Hook, E Baynard, Braddock, Adams, J S Glenn, Pomroy, «nd 7 on deck. ■ Per steamer Wm Gaston, from Palatka—Dr Bali- win, lady and son, Mrs Fox, Miss Curtis, *C A Magill and lady, Miss Dixon, Miss Harrison, Mr Harmon, Mr Green, Mr Fanning, Col C Dubignon, Col R Nor- riss, J Gimmer, Mr Burt, Mr Solomon and lady, Mr Baker, CC Bimey, and 3 on deck. Per- steamer Metaraora, from Charleston—Mi» Postell, Mrs Bender, Mrs Averfield and Son, Mrs. Quiuby, Mrs Shaffer, Mrs Boy and Servt, Mrs iBXoy, C D'Lyon, AJIall, P Jacobs, M Gallie, E. Baitey.S P Whitehead ,W Stratton, G L Palmer, JMcMa;r,W Cumfaing, P J Punch, S E Habersham, P McKinley, W C Freeman, D Webb, B F Grinnell, E B Crews * child, J M Cockrane, T Taylor,S Brown and 11) aoca Bobbery and Attempted Murder—Two men were arrested on Sunday at New York, whilst in the net of robbing Mr. Claude II. Laurent, in his room, at his boardinghouse, wheretheydiad culled on pretence of having private business with him. They demanded his money, which, on being, refused, they knocked him down, and bad drawn a knife, apparently to murder him, when the officer providentially came to his rescue. He hudinnbclt$275in gold, and a certificate of deposit of $3,406 in one ofthe city banks, which the robbers were endeavoring to obtain. They had secured $4 from ilia pockets, nud were using a knilb to cut the belt. Very Important Discovery.—The London Chrono- Thermalist for June, announces the discovery of a substitute lor the sulphate of quinine, which is re presented as veing even a heller medicine, and can he bought for one-tenth the price. 11 we remember rightly, the French Acudnny bus offered a liberal re ward for such a'discovery. Profits of Steaming It is said that tile steamer Sena tor, running between San Francisco and Pacramento city, lias cleared for her owners $60,000in one month. Price oi passage $25: state room $10, meals $2 each ; time down ten hours. The Senator was originally one of tile Long Island Sound bljats, and run one season betweou Boston and Eastport, anil is owned by Mr. Cunningham of Philadelphia. Stic is certainly doing a first rate business now. a The cholera is prevailing in the cities of Cin cinnati and Nash Villa, 'lltere were 15 dentils in 'the fatter city on the25th tilt. Table Rock. It appears that there is some truth in the report of the fall of a portion of this Rock. A letter from the editor of the Buffalo Express to the New York Ex press, gives the following particulars : Clifton House, Niagara Falls. June 29th—9 P.M. About half past one o'clock this afternoon, the large ma6s of rock known os Table Rock, gave way and went tumbling into the river below. The mass carried away was about six rods in width and twelve in length, and fortunately no one was injured. Not ten minutes betore the occurrence a pnrty of some twenty or thirty were standing on t)te rock but hap pily had just left. A gentleman was sitting in his car- riage on tlie rock when it commenced giving way ; he leaped from the carriage and was saved ; the car riage went down with the mass of rock. A portion of tho surface of the rock has shelled off and fallen, which is, however, a very different thing from the falling of tho Rock itself, tho foundations of which are as deeply and firmly fixed as those of the eternal hills. Professor Webster’s Confession. In another column will be found the confession of Prof. Webster, the murderer of Dr. Parkman. The Baltimore Sun, from which we extract the confession, contains also Professor W’s petition for pardon, which had been laid before the Governor und Council, but which was withdrawn by the advice of his friends. In this paper ho most solemnly de- flares his iuiiocenceoithe death of Dr. Parkman, ofthe truth ot which declaration he says "the Searcher of all hearts is a witness'."’ He attempts some explanation ol his conduct on the trial, and of the testimony ugainst him, and charges “a foul conspiracy,” in which he endeavors to implicate Littlefield, ns being induced by the hope of reward to testify false ly against him. Fdr our own part, we never, from the time when the testimony was first given to the public, entertain ed a doubt of the guilt of Dr. Webster, mid though we would gladly do so, we cuunot noxv divest our self of tile belief thut the murder was premeditated Laic from Havana. The British steamer, at Mobile, brings dates from Havana to the27tii ult. The Contoy prisoners still remain iu close confinement. It was thought they would shortly be released. The Cnpt. General was in iavor of giving them up, but Armero, General of the marine, was fa l'ayor qf extreme^ measures, fa which he was sustained by the populace, who W-te very indignant tit the letter of our Consul to Mr. Clayton, in which the former spoke so dispar agingly of the Havana rabble. The subject has pro duced a division of parties fa Havana which came near causing a violent coliiaion. AbmeRo and Alcoy, are very hostile to each other, and tilings are evident ly upproaching a crisis. 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