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From the Southern Recorder.
Minutes of Points Decided by the Su
preme Court at Milledgeville, May
Term, IW7.
Jetho Arline vs. Sarah Miller, Equity—from Lau-
The heirs at law can maintain suit
against the Executors of a deceased Administra
tor, when there has been a devastavit or conver
sion of the original estate by the Administrator,
and this without taking out letters de bonis non on
the first estate.
2. The statute of limitations is no bar to an ac
tion by the heir at law, and especially if she has
been under the disability of coverture, against an
Administrator who continues in office and has not
obtained letters of dismission.
3. The answer of an Executor who states and
charges a fact to the best of his knowledge and
belief, without any personal knowledge of the
same, will not dispense with other proof of such
fact, although it may he responsive to the bill.
Judgment affirmed.
Rockwell for plaintiff in error; Warren for de
fendant in error.
Daniel Roberts, ITff in error, rs. Thomas M.
Foremau ft. ah, Deft iu error, Ejectment—Lau
rens. Judgment affirmed.
11. Morgan for Pl’ff in error; Wairen for Def’t
in error.
Daniel S. Johnson, Plff. in Error, ts. Robert
Crawley, Deft, iu Error, claim—from Morgan.
1. The judgment of a Court of competent jurisdic
tion, and obtained without fraud, although bind
ing upon parties and privies, is no bar or estopal
to strangers and third persons, who may impeach
such judgment, or show facts to invalidate it, when
ever their rights require it. Judgment reversed.
Starnes for pluintitFin error; Cone for defendant
in error.
Stephen Sampson, PUT. in Error, vs. John C.
Browning, Deft, in Error—Nuncupative Will—from
Thomas, -ft is necessary to the validity of a nun
cupative will that the person making it should call
upon the persons present, or some of them, to hear
witness tnat sueli is his will, or to that effect.
Judgment reversed.
Cole A Daily for p’aintid in error; Harris and
Warren representing Seward A Hansel! for defend
ant in error. i
William 11. Hendrv, Pl’ff. in Error, rs. James «
M. Hurst, Deft, in Error, Guardian's Return— <
from Thomas. An appeal fr>«:n the Ordinary, of
a caveat or protest to the returns and vouchers
presented by a Guardian, the Superior Court exer- <
ciscs all the powers of the Ordinary, and in this
case the return should have been received, and the ]
evidence offered admitted, and the account and i
vouchers as rendered, allowed or disallowed, in 1
whole or in part, by the jury, as the testimony an- i
thorised. Judgment reversed. ,
Cole for mi* in error; Seward A: llansell, by i
Harris, for Def’t. in error. ,
.1. W. 11. Mitchell, ITff. in Error, vs. John IL ,
Lacy, Deft, in Error, Equity—from Thomas. The
answer to across bill, which is filed for discovery f
only, should not be read by the complainant m \
the original bill, as a part of his case, either as
pleading or evidence. .Judgment reversed. i
Rockwell and Cole for ITff. in Error; Seward A i
ilansell, by Harris, for Deft, in Error.
John Hammond, is. E. S. Candler, from Raid- t
win—forfeiture of slaves. It is error to grant a
motion in arrest of judgment, upon the ground |
that it doe not appear from the record that the t
oath prescribed by a particular statute to be ad- •
miitwtcred to the jury, was administered to them. (
Judgment reversed. * t
McKinley for ITff. in Error; Kenan A Harris ,
for Deft, in Error.
Morgan M. Mills, et. N. S. Glover—Possessary |
Warrant from Jones. Where a party has been i
!’.) pos-I's.sii’ii of personal property more than four ,
years, the statutory possessory Warrant will not i
to deprive him of possession, even though the ,
affiant or inovunt was under a disability, which, in |
ordinary cases, would prevent the operation of
the statue of limitations. Judgment allirmed. ,
Nisbet for ITff. in Error ; Poe A Cone for Deft, i
m Error.
It. it. Harrell v... J. M. Mount.—A will, directing |
testator s estate to be divided when his youngest
child conies of age, and in the meantime directing |
that it shall he kept together until that event, and
his children to be clothed and educated out of it, <
and to receive one thousand dollars as they respec
tively come of age. Held, to vest an interest in .
the children before the youngest become of age,
and which was transmissible to the representative
of any child dying before that event. Judgment
affirmed.
K. .Sciirbnraugh fur plaintiff' in error; Killen A
Hums lor defendant in error.
Samuel O. Varner vs. A. Goldsbv. Judgment
aflirmed, with directions.
Lofton and Daily for (duintiffin error; Cone for
defendant in error.
Thomas Willis vs. Robert S. Willis, Adm’r, Ac.,
Illegality--from Baldwin.—When negroes die af
ter the verdict in trover against defendant, but be
fore the time allowed by the jury, to defendant to
deliver them up, such dying ivill not relieve the
defendant from paying the damages rendered
against him. Judgment affirmed.
Kenan for plaintiff in error; McKinley for de
fendant in error.
Janies 11. Holland vs. Jeptha J. Puffin ct. al.,
Debt from Jasper. Judgment alliriued.
Anderson and Hailey for plaintiff in error; Bart
lett for defendant in error.
J. 1). Fitts et. al. vs. Governor, for use, Ac.,
Debt—from Putman, .lodgment affirmed.
Hudson for pluintiff in error; Cone for defend
ant in error.
From tb S, w Orleans Prices ('urrent.
The rollon Crop*
Th* following is an extract from u letter received
yesterday by one of our oldest mid most rcspectu
u*e cotton houses. It is vouched for as having
been written by n highly respectable, intelligent
und observing planter of Jefferson county, Missis
sippi, in whose opinions, founded upon long expe
rience, observation and reflection, the utmost re
liance can be placed:
Jkfkkrsov County, Miss , May 10,1857.
Your last favor contained reflections of nmch in
terest to the agricultural and commercial world,
and 1 agree with you fully, that a large crop of
cotton with moderate prices, would be of infin
ite more service to all those interested with, or de
pendent upon the article of cotton, than a short
crop with high prices. Although tln re may he no
question as to the utility of a large crop, l am,
however, disposed to think, without any disposi
tion to eroak too early, that such an end is hardly
attainable thisj seasion. It is ti ne that it is too
early yet to speculate with any great degree of cer
tainty as to the probable si/e of the coming crop,
but still there are reasonable data to go upon, from
which unfavorable conclusions to the desired end
must be formed. The first und most important of
these is to be found in the backwardness of the
season, at least one month later than the ordinary
seasons.
Iu looking over my memoranda for former years,
I find I was frequently done scraping cotton be
fore this time. Now, 1 have hardly commenced,
and indeed cotton is hardly tit to scrape now. The
first blooms are usually seeu in the open fields
about the Ist of June. They will hardly be seen
this year until the last of June, and not generally
until the middle of July. It then takes six weeks
to the maturity of the boll, which will bring mod
erate picking about the Ist of September. The
cotton'stalk will then be full of sap and green
leaves, with the loss of one month of hot sun to ma
ture it and the bolls it supports. Cool nights and
short days will then soon commence. The bolls
iu consequence will be more tardy in maturing,
and the great enemies of the cotton plant, the
worm ana rot, will have a field of operations. For,
instead of a tough and almost matured boll, they
will find them young and tender, just the sort they
can be most* destructive upon. To overcome
these difficulties, we must have a remarkably tine
season—hot and dry, with very moderate rains
during the summer, and a hot, dry and late fall,
with but very little of the worm or rot. Suppos
ing, then, for the sake of argument that this state
of things will supervene, still there is a difficulty
in the way of picking. No large crops have ever
yet, or can be made when the picking commences
late. Let us, however, hope for the best. The
weather is now, and has been for a week, very fa
vorable for the growth of cotton and corn.
Small Pox.—This distressing malady still exists
in our city. Mr. Sion B. Pritchard, of whose af
fliction we made mention last]weekj,dicd on Sunday
evening, the 17th inst. At the time the notice in
our last week’s issue was penned, the opinion pre
vailed that his disease was only varioloid. Subse
quently, it assumed the most malignant form of
small pox, and terminated fatally, at the time
above mentioned. His two daughters are still
com ned with the disease, but of a milder form,
and the probabilities are that they will recover. No
more cases have ooeurred within the last week.
Griffin Empire State, 20 th inst.
Vouiano.-Wc notice that a volcano has reoent
ry made its appearance in Pigeon mountain, in
Br . cr * an }y*. a “d forming a crater of about one
nunarea yards in diameter, from which smoke&nd
ashes are discharged without intermission. Many
£ the ciUrens in the valley are moving out, fear
ing a violent eruption.
iWJonof* Mountain, Signal, May 15
From the Neva Orleans Picayune, May 17.
- Additional from Mexico,
r Our usual Mexican mail, by the Major Barbour,
came to hand this morning. Our tiles from the
- capital are to the morning of the sth instant —four
t days later.
We are still, however, without positive intelli
■ gence as to the fate of the unfortunate prisoners
in Sonora. Indeed, if the news brought by the
passengers of the Major Barbour only reached the
city of Mexico on the sth, our files, which are only
to the morning of that day, could make no men
tion of it. So we are still permitted to hope for
the best, though we confess to fears of the worst.
Our Havana correspondent learns, by the English
steamer, that the prisoners were all to be taken to
the capital for trial. If this be true, it is possible
their lives may still be saved.
The papers, however, confirm to the fullest ex
tent, the general result of the expedition as before
stated, the attack upon the fillibusters then in pos
session of the village of Caborca, on the Ist ult.,
in which Captain Crabb was wounded, and eight
of his men killed; their subsequent four days’
siege, during which the Sonorians were numerous
ly reinforced; the second attack, on the 6th when
I the two houses in which Crabb was beseiged, were
fired, (exploding two barrels of powder by which
many were killed and wounded; their final sur
render, fifty-nine in number, at discretion; and
the report that they were to be shot on the Oth.
The engagements both on the Ist and the 6th
were severe and bloody, the Sonorians also suffer
ing great loss, especially of officers, which left
them at the close of the first day almost without
command.
Accounts vary both as to the number of the filli
busters and of the Sonorians. According to one
report, the former numbere d one hundred and fifty
men in all, which, deducting the fifty-nine prison
ers and fourteen fugitives, would make the number
of the dead seventy. There was a party of twen
ty-five in the vicinity, near Tubutana, who, advan
cing at the time, had no part in the engagement.
It is stated that eleven of these were taken, and at
the last accounts the remaining fourteen were hot
ly pursued.
The force of the Sonorians on the Ist is estima
ted at two hundred and fifty to three hundred men;
on the last day with reinforcements at seven hun
dred.
Touching the expedition by sea, designed to co
operate with that by land, fetters have been re
ceived at the capital from Hermosillo, dated March
30, which'stateu that five hundred fillibusters had
landed at Lobos, two leagues from Guay mas. It
wps added that great disaffection existed among
them, and that twenty had deserted, and presented
themselves to the American Consul at that port,
who turned them over to the authorities. They rep
resented that they had no intention of making war
upon Mexico, and that they had been deceived as
to the object of the expedition.
The same letters state that five hundred more
fillibusters had made their way into Arizona, and
were encamped in the region of Tucson.
Letters hud been received from General Yanez,
which state that on the receipt of the news of the
rout of the fillibusters, lie had suspended bis match
towards Sonora. lie had, however, sent on rein
forcements and munitions of war by sea.
The parties concerned in conspiracy against the
life of the President have been put upon their
trial. The plot was to seize his pension at night,
at the palace, a work to be performed by Nogueira,
captain of the guard, who was, indeed, the head
of the conspiracy. He is said to have made im
portant revolutions, and to have confessed the au
thorship of the letter, whose accidental discovery
brought to light the whole plot, lie was one of
the most intimate friends of the President, and
enjoyed a seat at bis tabic. The greater part of
the other conspirators have been committed to
prison. Osollcs, the first arrested, has been put
in the most rigorous confinement.
Gen. Ghilardi, who is an Italian by birth, has
resigned his commission, and returned to Europe.
Don Guerra has been arrested at i’uebla for having
concealed in his house fifteen muskets, and a white
ilag, w ith a red cross in the centre.
Senors Montes, Arrioja and Paynoliave recently
been appointed Ministers to Rome, Berlin and
Brussels. They were to have departed for their
posts on the 2d inst.
A revolutionary movement had been discovered
and suppressed in the State of Jalisco.
A pamphlet has made its appearance at the capi
tal, where it has attracted much attention, on the
much discussed rights of the church. The sup
pression 1 f several religious orders is rammed.
The latest Mexican journals do not anticipate
actual hostilities with Spain.
, /’nun the Ijouistills (A r y. ) Courier May\*\.
Sequel to tlie Tragedy ilurial of !
the lour Negroes—Confessions when just
’ Arrested.
After the Coroner’s inquest yesterday the bodies
, of the four men were taken in charge by the city
. authorities and buried in the city grave yard at
I Cave Hill. No undue excitement was perceivable
in..regard to the dreadful tragedy, but all appeared
to submit to the ruling of the mob, though all
good citizens thought aud felt that such things
should not be. No matter how great the offense,
or how damning the deed, the supremacy of the
law should have been maintained, and not entrust- {
ed to the hands of a lawless mob.
The report current yesterday, that the mob offer- 1
ed indignity in any respect to Judge Bullock, is, '
we are informed, without foundation.
Subjoined is the full confession of Pendleton’s !
negro man, Bill, together with the statements of
the two negro men of the Messrs. Samuels. This
was taken at the time they were first arrested and
examined in the county, after various articles of
wearing apparel, money, watches ami jewelry, of
the murdered family, had been found in the cabin
of Bill Pendleton. The examination was made
before ten men, appointed by the Sheriff, and the
subjoined statements and confession were taken
down ut the time bv one of the members of the
committee. When in the hands of his execution
ers, the rope around his neck, and the full con
sciousness that his last moment had arrived, Bill
again said that his previous confessions were true,
and admitted his guilty participation in the arson,
robbery aud murder, it will be read with interest:
Jrf verson Cor nt y, Ky., Dec. 2", 1856, {
At the residence of Mrs. Alex. Stewart, s
The following committee was appointed by the
deputy Sheiifl to examine the four slaves, Bill
Pendleton, Bill Brown, Geo. Samuels and Jack
Samuels, arrested for the murder of Mrs. Bvdia
► Joyce, Mr. Richard Joyce, Jr., Mrs. Louisa Welch
. and her child, on Briar Creek, Jefferson county,
, Ky., Thursday night, Dec. 18,1850:
Simpson Todd, Wni. Green, W. A. Nally, W. N.
Brown, 11. 1). Maloney, L. G. Calvin, Jus. Malona,
Wm. Kennedy, Win. Wright, W. C. Kidd.
HILL I’ENOLKTON S CONFESSION.
The following is Bill Pendleton’s confession.
He is the property of David Pendleton, of Bullit
county, Ky.
George Samuels came to our house on Sunday,
about one or two weeks previous to the murder,
and asked me if I had any Christmas money. I
told him l had some. 1 asked him if he hud any;
he said no, but was going to have some soon. I
asked him how he was going to get it. Hesuid he
was going to burn Mr. Joyce’s house. That occur
red on the day we made the plot. He (Geoige)
had been out gunning with his master’s gun, and
had killed one rabbit. On the night of the mur
der George and Jack Samuels came to the back
part of our field about eight or uine o’clock and
halloed. I went out to them ; asked if they were
going down there; said yes they thought Mr.
Joyce had money; we went down the bill near
Joyce’s house; there Bill Brown met us; tbeu
went to the house, looked in the window ; saw the
family all in bod and probably asleep; all had
clubs; aud Jack had a hand-axe. George then
went to the door, pushed it open a little, found u
chair against it; put his baud in, and moved the
chair. George tirst went in, struck Richard once,
killed him I believe. Jack followed, George turn
ed and struck the old lady, Mrs. Lydia Joyce,
one blow. She fell out of the bed; she got up,
went to the fire place and squatted down ;
Mrs. Welch woke up; Jack hit her with a
club. She came to, went and sat down by her
mother, Mrs. Joyce, at the fire place. George and
Jack went to plundering. land Bill Brown had
been standing out side door all the time to watch.
Bill Brown then went in, went to the fireplace, stood
awhile, theu commenced plundering; Mrs. Welch’s
child woke, who was sleeping between the old lady
and its mother; Mrs. Joyce went back and got iu
bed; Mrs. Welch called, “Mother?” the mother
answered, “What do you want.” Mrs. Welch
said, “you kuow what I want.” Mrs. Joyce got
up, went back and sat down by the tiro place be
side her daughter; the child nsked if we were
making a fire; (no reply,) had got through plun
dering ; then set tire to Richard Joyce’s bed; took
a lot of old newspapers, put them at foot of the
oilier bed, in which the child was sitting tip. The
child smiled, as if it appeared to be amused at the
light; we then went out as far as the yard gate,
when George aud Jack said, “By G—a, boys, it
wou’t do to leave them, they will tell on us.”
George and Jack then went back; Jack went in
first* had hsuid axe; struck Mrs. Welch on the
forehead with it;- George followed; struck Mrs.
Joyoe with a club on the head; she and Mrs.
Welch both fell orer as if dead, they then pulled
the door after them and left. I cot one pair of
pantaloons, one black cloth coat, velvet collar and
*, black buttons, one black satin vest, one black silk
e cravat, with green spots in it, two silver watches
r aQ d steel watch key, one pair kid gloves, two boxes
gun caps, one music box.
George Samuels got one silk dress, don’t recol
s "’hat color, and some other articles, which he
* put in the sleeves of the dress; don’t know what
3 they w <-*re, and one dollar bill, torn half in two,
7 out of a pocket book w hich was in the trunk.
. Jack Samuels got a dress, believe it was calico,
r [be sai( f afterward it was] and other things w hich
he put in the dress, don’t know' what they were, ,
i and about three dollars and fifty cents in money,
> out of Richard Joyce’s pocket book, which was in |
• his pantaloons pocket.
Bill Brown got pair earrings and a breast pin,
. which were in a small box, and that was all he
i got, that I know of.
Cross Eonnirud. —l got the watches out of the
, same trunk that George got the oue-dollar bill
i from, it was setting to one side of the door, and
when George commenced plundering he pushed
. this trunk out in front of the door first, then took
i the shovel and broke it open, took nothing but the
: money, and then went searching other places ; ap
i pcared to be after nothing but money. J then
stepped inside to the trunk and took the coat,
pants, and things out of it. We went about sixty
or seventy yards from the house and stopped, and
the conversation was: “Keep secret, boys—hide
well, Ac.” Jack and George went towards their
homes, and I and Bill Brown went towards ours.
We went about a quarter of a mile before we
parted. Nothing more was said between us. We
threw the clubs in the fireplace. Jack took the
hand-axe home with him. The plot was made*
about one or two weeks before the murder hap
pened. We didn’t know that William Joyce was
gone from home; thought that it was him in bed
until after Richard was killed. We hud no ani
mosity against the family whatever; we knew
them all very well. I cut three hickory clubs some I
time before for the purpose. They were about two |
and a half feet long and about as thick as my arm
Bill Brown picked up a sugar-tree club after we
got to Mr. Joyce’s woodpile. I put the tilings
which 1 got in a bag that 1 had taken along. Win n
I got home I put them all under the floor of the
cabin which I stay in, except the watch, watch-k -v,
two boxes gun caps, and the gloves. The glove.-,
and key 1 kept in my pocket.
GEORGE SAMTKI’s CONFESSION.
The following is George Samnel’s statement. He
is the property of Lewis Samuels, of Bullitt coun
ty, Kentucky.
On the night of the fire, I was out coon hunting:
treed an opossum; couldn’t get it; went home,
got Phil, and went hack, but didn’t get it then;
we started home again ; on the way wc caught a
coon; when we got home Jack Samuels Was there
in the corner a sleep ; I threw the coon in his lap
which woke him ; t asked him what he was doing
there; he said he was not doing anything; he
helped skin the coon, and then started home to lii
ram Samuels; this was about midnight.
Cm** Emmined. —When 1 was arrested T said I
was not going to say that I did or did not know who
done the murder, and if Jack didn’t mind ho would ,
catch himself. I saw Bill Pendleton on Sunday ,
about one or two weeks before the murder. I had j
been oiithiintiug, and stopped thereat Bill’s house; I
1 lmd master’s double barrelled gun, and had kill- j
e<l one rabbit and killed another one after I left
there ; Bill said to me that his master David didnft
want me nor Jack to come about the place; that
Jack had taken a butcher knife from there once;
he asked me if I had any money; I told him I had
a quarter; 1 asked him if he had any, aud lie;
showed me three or four dollars in silver.
jack samuki.’h confession.
The following is Jack Samuels’ state mi nt. He !
is the property of Hiram Samuels, Bullit countv : ,
I went from Mr. Steel’s to Lewis Samuels’ last |
Thursday night, sat down by the fire and went to I
sleep. 1 was w»*ke up hy George throwing a coun j
in my face. I helped skin tin coon, and started
home to Samuels’. When 1 got within '
about one hundred yards of our house, I met Bill |
Pendleton and Dill Brown. We set down and ;
talked awhile, and I asked them where they were ’
going. They said they were going down to tell j
George to keep them things he got from Bill j
Joyce's a secret until after Christmas, and then j
they would go to Canada. I went on home then, j
When I got in bed the clock struck one.
Cross Km mined, —I saw the light of the fire just !
before 1 met the two boys. 1 asked them what
fire it was; they said they had murdered Mrs.
Joyce’s family and set fire to the house to hide the
deed. Bill Pendleton said he had got the coat
and pants of Mr. Joyce’s. 1 never asked them
whether George was in the scrape or not, nor said j
anything about the murder.
The committee also examined Bill Brown, but j
his statements were so contradictory that they i
concluded to make no note of lus confession. He !
would’nt or could’nt recollect any transaction that |
Occurred at the time, until confronted with Bill j
! Pendleton. IJ*> them corroborated heVCrttl of the |
statements of the other, but persisted la denying j
any' participation in the murder.
Cnlturr of the Melon*
There is no fruit that outers so largely into the
daily' consumption of our people as the melon, (
and none that seems to be so little understood or
appreciated in its culture. A tine flavored water j
or musk melon should not be planted within one j
hundred yards of any other melon, or any of the j
melon family. Gourds, squashes and cucumbers j
should never be planted in the same garden or
field with melons, for the volatile nature of the ,
pollen of each will mix, making hydrids of the
next generation, giving the melon a gotmly, «
squashy flavor, and softening the shell of the !
gourd. The melon delights in a sandv soil, and |
to have them in their greatest perfection, the
ground should be deeply spaded or sub-soil plow- 1
ed. The bills should he about ten feet apart. The j
watermelon vine is very subject to injury from wa
ter; heavy and long continued rams givt s the j
vines the appearance of having been scalded,
hence the necessity of planting on hill* instead of
ou a level. Holes should be excavated and tilled
in with well rotted manure, with a mound mu le
over the manure at least twelve inches higher in.
the centre than on the outside; on the centre of ;
this mound, plant the seed, plant some six or eight, j
aud when they have four leaves, thin out to three
I plants in a lull. As the vines begin to run, branch,
and bloom, pinch out the terminal bud, which I
will throw the vigor of the vine into the young j
fruit iust set; as the fruit increases in size, take |
off all but one to a branch, and allow but one •
melon to ripen on one branch vine.
An overloaded melon vine will produce but in- 1
ferior fruit. The cultivator should bear in mind j
that the roots of melons run just as fast ami far as I
the vine extends, and that the practice of laying i
buck the vines over the hills, and plowing deeply |
between the hills, is very injurious to the crop. :
The melon ground caunot be broken too deep be- j
fore the vines begin to run, but it is a positive in
jury to the vine for the plow to go tnree inches j
below the surface, over which the vine has already j
run. Great care should be taken in handling ;
the vines when working among them with the |
hoe. For every tendril broken or bruised on the i
vine, the fruit is retarded in its maturity. Keep
the ground clean around the vines, and as fast as j
the viue elongates a branch, peg it down, so that i
the winds may not blow them about and break
them. If the striped bug is troublesome, mix one
portion of guano to two of gypsum, and dust over
the vine when the dew* is on—the bugs will quick
ly depart.
The first melons that set on the vine will mature
in four weeks from the time of the setting. The
second settings is about three weeks. As the sea
son advances, they will mature in less ihau three
weeks. Fine crops of melons are made by using
brush for the vines to run on and cling to. The
seed of the first melon that ripens should be saved
for the next season’s planting, provided it grew
where no other member of the melon family could
impregnate it.— &>tton Planter and Soil.
TnF. New Periodical Comet.—By the assistance
of C. W. Tuttle, Esq., late assistant at the Astro
nomical Observatory of Harvard University, now
resident of this city, we were able to see this comet
on Friday last with Mr. Grecnongh’s achromatic
telescope. At that time it was ou the confines of
the circumpolar constellation Cainelcpad, near Ursa
Major. It exhibited a round, nebulous mass of
light, slightly concentrated, of about two minutes
of arc in diameter. The elements of this comet
resemble those of the comets of 1532 and 1661,
and if they are identical, then this comet has con
tinued to revolve around the sun once in every ten
vears since, unseen by human eve till the 25th of
February, 1846, when it was discovered by Brorsen.
The dimensions of its orbit are now well ascer
tained. Its aphelion is beyond the orbit of Jupi
ter by more than thirty-six millions miles. It was
nearest the earth on the Bth iust., being then about
twenty millious of miles distant. It is now reced
ing from us, and will not be visible to the naked
eye during its present apparition. This is the
comet which the Europeans announced would
strike the earth in June. But in America it bos
been confounded with the great comet of 1560,
which has net yet appeared. The return of this
comet, according to prediction, may be regarded
as another of a brilliant series of astronsaical
triumphs.—- ffev&urypert SeexLid
Department News.
i Treasury Department. —The Secretary of the
Treasury lias just issued additional general regu
i lations uuder the revenue and collection law's of
i the United .States, including the tariff act of March
3, 1357. Below is the circular letter of the Secre
■ tary:
Treasury Department, April 15, 1357.
In performance of the duty imposed by law on
this department, of superintending the collection
of the public revenue, the attention of collectors
and other officers of the customs is called to the
! provisions of the several acts of Congress, levying
duties on imports, which will be m force on and
after the first day of July next.
The tariff act of'COth July, 1346, having been
modified by the act <7f the 3d March, 1857, “reduc
ing the duties on imports, and for other purposes,’’
the provisions of the last mentioned act are here
to subjoined, to which is added a tariff of duties
as amended, arranged in schedules, under the pro
visions of the act of the d March, 1 >"7, applied
to the ofCfitb July, 1846 ; and, for more convenient
reference, there is also subjoined a comprehensive
list, alphabetically arranged, of all the designated
articles expressly made liable to duty, or exempted
therefrom, with their respective schedules and
! rates of duty, when dutiable, indicated thereon.
As the change in the law' regulating the rates of
duty by the act of the 3rd <<t March last disturbs
but to a slight extent the classification of imports
made by the tariff act of the 3oth July, I - and
is confined principally to a change in the rates of
duty, the construction heretofore given by this de
partment to that act is still in force, and applicable,
except where that law has been modified by the
act of 3rd of March last. Collectors of the customs
will find the decisions of the department, in va
rious cases, presented under the act of 1 ~4C, unbod
ied in general regulations issued by the depart
ment on the Ist of February last.
It will be borne in mind that the provisions of
the 20th section of the tariff’act of the 3th August, I
I 1342, a eopy of which is subjoined, are still in force, j
and furnish a rule of construction to be applied to j
articles not specially designated in the several !
schedules of the act of 3rd March, w>7. These
provisions, properly applied, will aid the officers j
of the customs in assigning articles of import, not
designated in terms in the tariff', to the schedule to
which they are to bo regarded us belonging, in
itference to their liability to duty.
All other unenumerated articles, not ho suscep
! tible of classification, will be liable to the duty of
. ] fifteen p- r centum, as prescribed in the first, sec
! lion of the 3d March, 1857.
j By the fourth section of the said act it is provided
, that all goods, wares, and merchandise which shall
be in the public stores on the first day of July
1 j next shall be subject, on entry thereof for consomp
j tii;n, to no other duty than if the same had been
’ i imported, respectively, after that day. Merchan
dise, in public store ou the first day
| of July next, or in bond under lhe warehousing
i laws, whether deposited in any warehouse nu- j
j thorized by law or passing in transitu, under bond,
’ I from one part of the United States to another,
; will, irrespective of the date of their original im
; ; riation or bonding, be subject on withdrawal
1 f»T consumption, to the rate of duty prescribed bv
the act of 3d March, 1857.
It has been represented to the department that,
under the designation of “galvanized tin pla* ,
| or sheets,” there have been attempts to introduce I
J sheet iron, covered with a thin coating of tin, the :
purpose being to pass the iron through thecus'om- j
house at a lower rale of duty as a galvanized tin. !
The attention of collectors and :n praisersis special- !
ly directed to this subject, and He y will on the en- 1
I try of ull articles purporting to be tin plate- or*
j sheets, galvanized or i >t, carefully inspect the ar- ■
tides, aud admit nothing as tin plates or sheets;
that were not dearly known as such in commert tat
! [ u lance at the pa. .sage of the tariff act «*i ls4B.
f Where plates or sheets of iron or other metal are
j attempted to be introduced in evasion of the law,
I under a false designation, the proper proceeding.'
! will at once be instituted to enforce the forfutun s
i and penalties provided by law ; and in all cast s j
| w here no fraudulent attempt is inanif sted, the J
i duty to which the articles, according to their true !
j character, are liable under existing laws, must be I
j levied and collected.
i A question has recently been presented to the
| department in regard to the exemption from duty !
of certain articles claimed to be “ paintings,” and
jas such falling within schedule 1 of the taritr. It
, is decided by the department that the “painting”
; referred to iu that schedule, os entitled to free en
try, must be an object of taste recognised as a
painting in the usual acceptation of the term ; and
that namtings on glass specially provided tor in 1
schedule C, on porcelains, alabaster, china, marble,
plaster, or similar materials; on plates, goblets,
, vases, or any other utensil; or paintings capable
| of being converted into breastpins, eardrops, or
i other ornaments to be worn on the person, are not
| entitled to free entry under the law.
• Iu schedule 1, it will be seen, there is a provision
j for the admission free of duty of sheep’s wool, un
( manufactured, of tho t«liw of twenty cent* per
pound or less at the port of exportation. The I
question has been submitted, whether, in estima- j
ling the value in such cases at the port of expor- !
tation, the expenses of packing, commissions, und
i*»tb** charges, incident to the shipment of articles
"?»r exportation, are to be included?
> The value referred to in this provision of the
: law is the current market value or price at which
the article in question could be generally pur
! chased per pound, and does not include the
( charges and expenses mentioned, or other charges
! incurred in the mere shipment, or preparation for
j shipment, after purchase.
Commissions and shipping charges are, however,
1 under the laws levying duties on imports, to be
! added to the foreign market value of imports, as
! a part of the value on which duties are to be as
-st d on entry in ports of the* United States; but
they constitute no part of the value in the foreign ;
' mai ket as referred to.
! In regard to the fifth sectiou of the act of the |
s 3d March, 1857. providing for an appeal to this d< - j
i partmeut from the decision of the collector as to i
the rates of duty to which imports are to be sub- j
f iected, collectors are instructed that whenever such
appeals are taken, they Hie to forward at. once to !
tin* department a report of their decision, and the j
grounds upon which it was based, together with a j
i eport in full on the subject from the appraisers, if j
j any, at the port, accompanied by samples, if deem- !
td* necessary, to a fiord a clear understanding of j
■ ihc matter in controversy between the importer
and the customs authorities.
| As connected with the operation of the tariff
1 laws now iu force, the attention of collectors and j
' other officers of the customs is called to the sub- ■
1 joined acts of Congress, approved the 2d and 3d
• ultimo, amendatory of the 28th section of the tariff!
of aoih August, 1842, and the Btb section of the I
I tariff act of Suth July, 1846, aud which went into |
effect at the several dates of their approval,
i In the act first mentioned, it will be perceived
j that the prohibition of the importation of certain
‘ articles is made so comprehensive as to embrace
; descriptions of imports not affected by the law as
I it originally stood, but whose importation, never
| theless, was believed to be within the principle of
! that enactment. The amended act is precise and
j definite in its terms, and obviates all doubt as to
! its scope and intent
The act amending the Bth section of the tariff act
i of 30th July, 1846, it will be seen, makes no change
in existiug'laws. as construed by the department,
except to place dutiable imports, however procur
ed, by purchase or otherwise, on the same footing
as to tho privilege of adding in the entry to the
costs or value given iu the invoice, and their lia
bility to additional duty for undervaluation.
Howell Cord,
Secretary of the Treasury.
A hist or Steamers Between France and Vir
ginia.—Governor Wise, of Virginia, has been hold
ing a correspondence with M. Laconture, in refer
ence to a line of steamships between France and
Virginia. Governor Wise estimates the aggregate
wealth of Virginia at eight hundred millions of
dollars. He says if the French company will make
up a cargo of French goods for one steamer, and
give thirty days’ notice of her arrival at Norfolk,
the Virginia aud North Carolina merchants will
purchase the goods and have a return cargo of
their produce. If this one succeeds, the French
lm» to and from Norfolk and Havana will be estab
lished. If it must have aid by contribution it will
almost be sure to have a mail contract under ap
propriation by Congress; for the southern States
will no longer vote Tor appropriations to any north
ern line to carry European mails, unless equal
amounts are voted to one or more southern lines.
He further proposes, that if European capitalists
will bring their funds V> complete the Kanawha
Canal and Covington and Ohio railroad, he will
recommend to the General Assembly of Virginia
to guarantee a etipulated interest of atlep.st Fix per
cent., and the entire redemption of the debt in thir
tv-four yours, and au appropriation from the State
treasury of two hundred thousand dollars per an
num, to aid in sustaining a line of 6leauu>rs of suf
ficient clas3, or the Europeans to construct the
works, and take them for a stipulated period of
time.
A orusty old bachelor ears that two-thirds of the
married men lock upon home only as a phoe
where they get their grub, and hare their washing
dons
: A correspondent of the Christian. Inda*.
; * writing from Louisville, Ky., on the Bth inst**L
*• j says:
, The wheat crop is good and well, but
. | the seasou is very late. There a "'bite frost
: yesterday morning here, o«d the trees are still
J bare, in many places, almost as w inter. The season j
, :is a full month later here than at Macon. The
i prospect is regarded as gloomy for the coming sum- j
, i mer. The farmers of Kentucky are now buying j
. j corn, and fifty miicsfrom Louisville it is worth one
• j dollar per bushel. The stock are now* suffering |
for provisions.”
, i XST' I* is stated that Secretaries Cass, Core and
1 Toccet, will attend the grand railroad jubilee, to j
I be held in a few days, in St. Louis, to celebrate the j
. completion of the line of railway connecting that j
. city with Cin innati, Ohio.
The following is an extract from the letter of the ]
authorities of St. Louis to their invited guests :
j “The Ohio and Mississippi railroad, uniting j
i Cincinnati and St. Louis, wiil be formally opened !
ion Thursday, 4*h of June next. The Marietta and I
j Cincinnati road, which connects Cincinnati with |
-1 the Ohio river, near the western terminus of the j
; North-west Virginia branch of this company’s road, |
j will also be opened on Tuesday, 2d of June.
“it. is proposed to celebrate at the same time the
| opening of the branch road of one hundred and
j four miles in length, which unites the Baltimore
! and Ohio linear Graften, one hundred miles East
i of Wheeling,»with Parkersburg on the Ohio, nine
! ty-six miles below Wheeling,) and which fat.is an
important link in the direct line between Baltimore
| ami Cincinnati and St. Louis.”
J “ The party embraced under this invitation will
j leave Washington at six A. M., or Baltimore at 6.45
; A. M., on Monday, June l>r, and reach Cincinnati
lon Wednesday morning. On Thursday, the Ohio
and Mississippi trains will start at an r ulv hour
for .St. Louis, going through upon the same day.”
! Cotton* Epidemic in Alabama.—The Montgorn
| erv Aft if, 12th instunt, alludes again to what'it calls
the cotton “tap-root disease” in that part of Ala
bama. Summing up the information it has receiv
ed from several planters, it says:
It is a regular vegetable epidemic, likely to prove
more disastrous to the world than the potato rot.
A short crop this « aeon will be a curse ... all * on*
corned, and a short crop we are bound to have.
The only question is-, are we to have a sufficient stand
with which to make a half crop? ilui! and fresh
ets have spread devastation in the finest cotton re
gion of Alabama, or, of the world; but hail and
freshets are local, and the injury they inflict can
not compare with this insidious disease ot i!»e tup- i
root of the cotton plant—a sort of consumption,
superinduced by cold and wet, under which the
| young plant yields up its life with the first few
| hours of warm sunshine.
Land Speculations.—The Chicago Journal pre
j diets bankruptcy for sp.culators in western lands. .
j 1 1 says:
Such a result is inev. table, sooner • r later. It j
cannot be otherwise. In the newer Hla«es and
j territories lands are held and sold at almost fabu
! lons prices, ami all classes of people are wild with
the land mania. In Kansas, disturbed and agita
j t.-d as that territory i*, town lots are sold at fiun
j tlreds of dollars per foot, and wild lands, scarce!v
I trod by the f *ot of civilization, are held at pricks
i very far above their real value for any practical
| use*. At some promising business points, in the
• more recently organized States, thirty, forty, filly
I and even oue hundred per cent, is ofl- red for n o- ‘
j ney to invest in real estate. It is impossibk that
i >uch a state of things should long exist. Lands j
cannot continue to go up and up. nJ ufini-um. i
| There must be a stopping place somewhere, and i
j when that is reached, they will drop to their real !
j value for practical purposes.
‘ T;iom\s Barrington Micacley.—Mr. Rear,
| the London correspondent of the Ihvrnr**, -ays:
“There is a common pedestrian of Loudon street
i well known to all who are acquaint* I with their
1 notabilities. lie is a short, stout, sturdy energetic
| man. He has a big, round face, and lat -re, stai ing
j and very bright hazel eyes. His hair is cut short,
and his* hat flung back ««n the crown of his head.
; His gait is firm and decided, with a little touch of
' pomposity.
“lie is ever provided with an umbrella, which
he swings and flourishes, and battles on the pave
ment with mighty thubs. Ho seems generally ab
sorbed in exciting ami impulsive thought, the traces
of which he takes no pains to conceal. His face I
works, his lips move and mutter, his eyes gleam
and flash. Squat as is his figure, and not particu
larly fine the features, there is an unmistakable
air of mental power and energy, approaching to
grandeur, about the man. lie is evidently under
inflame* of ihe strong excitement of fiery
thought. People gaze curiously at him, and stop
to stare when he has passed. But l»e
one—seeing, indeed, to~have utwrly forgo ’
he is not alone in his i+ivacy, ana pushes on, un
witting of the many who stare and smile, or of the
few who step respectfully aside, and look with cu
riosity and regard upon Thomas Barrington Ma
caulay.
“Occasionally, however, the historian and the
poet gives still freer vent to the mental impulses
which appear to be continually working within ‘
him. A friend of mine lately recognized nim din
ing in the coffe'M’ocrm of the Trafalgar Hotel, at
Greenwich—a fashionable w hite-bait nou-e, which
it appears, he frequently patronizes. He was alone,
as he generally is, and the attention of more than
one of the company was attracted by his peculiar
muttering and fidgetiness, and by the mute ges
tures with which he over and anon illustrated his
mental dreaming*. All al once—it must have been j
towards the climax of th*' prose or verse which hf* |
was working up in his miud, Mr. Macaulay seized j
a massive decanter, held it a moment suspended I
in the air, and then dashed it down upon the table j
with such hearty good will, that the solid crystal j
(low about in fragments, while the numerous par- j
ties dining round instinctively started up and star- j
ed at the curious aconoclast. Not a whit put out, j
however, Mr. Macaulay, who was well known to j
the waiters, called loudly for liis bill to be made }
out at the bar, and then*pulling, with a couple ot
jerks, his hat and his umbrella from the stand,
clapped the one carelessly on his head, and strode
out nourishing the other.”
From the Leavenworth Journal , B ih inst .
TiiK Books Closed.—According to the census
act, passed at the last session of "the Legislature,
the books of registry were closed throughout the
different counties in the Territory on the Ist inst.,
and the returns have been forwarded to the acting
Governor of the Territory, whose duty it will be
to apportion the representation for each county in
the Constitutional Convention. Every citizen of
Kansas who has resided in the Territory since the
loth day of March last has had a fair opportunity
to register his name as a voter at the coming elec
tion for delegates to the Constitutional Conven
tion, and if any have failed to do so, it has been
their own fault, and not the fault of the Demo
cratic party. We have time and again brought
this subject before our readers, and invited all to
register their names. We desire to have the exci
ting question of the day settled fairly and square
ly. Various objections, we are aware, have been
raised to the bill, but these objections have been
predicated on the assumed ground that the party
in power are dishonest and treacherous, and that
fraud must necessarily be practised at the elec
tion.
But the people are not to be thus humbugged
and hoodwinked. The census bill, even by a large
portion of the Republican party in the States, is
regarded as being eminently wise,equitable, liber
al and inst. By its provisions were made to elicit
a fair, full and free expression of opinion from the
boua tide residents of the Territory, as to the char
acter of the Constitut ion of the future State of Kan
sas—and as we insist that a fair opportunity has
been and will be offered to all so to express their
opinion at the ballot box—no one man, or set of
men, has a right to conjecture or infer that frauds
will be practised, and make this supposition or in
ference a ground for refusing to participate in this
movement, thinking to defeat the object aimed at.
We leave those who resort to lying and exaggera
tion for the purpose of defending their course, to
their conscience and their God!
Official Vote of lowa.
FOR SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.
Maturin L. Fisher, (Dem. candidate)
received 32,392 votes.
L. H. Bugbee, (Rep.candidate) 32,387
Maj. for Democratic candidate.. 505 “ |
FOR REGISTER OF LAND OFFICE AT IOWA CITY.
T. S. Parvin, (Dem. candidate) rec’d. 82,722 “
W. H. Holmes, (Rep. candidate) .. .32,220 “
Majority of Dem. candidate 502 “
FOR REGISTER OF DSSMOIN3S RIVER IMP’t.
Edwin Manning, (Rep. candidate) re
ceived 82,483 “
Gideon S. Bailey, (Dem. candidate) re
ceived 32,259 “
Majority of Rep. candidate . 234
The Fine OU Dutch Gentleman.
I’ll sing you now a l>ietchtn*a song ’bout Hans Von Kron
VoAeSrt*aAajeer bier saloon up in de Bowery shtreet
He c ut de shwinepcef. shpevk un plough un elery kind of meat,
r u i ve ir mit mine g n.t graahus. pou top de people, so much
as a barrel c: -H.urkrout, un two pusheis of lager bier,
eferr morning he rood eat. .
ntw; £..e ■ M Ditutckc Shentteman, or.e of ov p»utt
kind.
B. dt: Sresblove lit ois 'oit: bido.u eftry moniicg he vooe
MU : S'.-tiAr sehnapps dowi try hie »id. un a glass up 'n iat
Un he drinks ills drast, "Ich lichen die Vader
U... you could-t wee »cr«htir f.r le void^ni.'
p.ib'-’.J'itiltf.ua hiii/cu nut de-s. itnegrahdie skipou
retu-dicaicbMishtn." vt.u cou.d--t ci\ understand.
E>'.' 2 e O.t Ketch.-. kLet.ilt-n-uti, von of do good . u kind.
111. noz- or.' red ash a ioUife. yaw !.o d-.nder dat Ish dr 'e.
1! ..ruet! ,'t.Cs -.- e ids ryes verb id-..s ■-*
. .' th t von '«
r, i: dc Maine iickers U. to dake away his lager bi«r
■ rufincou Deitehcn ho vent to ted unn.k c:.ry
l ’ ' \ .. '
| Dough Le v.:s* kilt von two asii six eight U .-.u coup.c- <a v
1 Dill 1 ! « Led was all splittecT opondownhiapack, un denut.
t £•. r.v ;»?.«! j y »u.t licru de eoruuer ml? de shury, ut: v ? ■. L*n
all Ve pretli out. f hi- i-dy. den (ic y priugs in a \t.ai
; g'..--. v. T he dies fri-»u pr&ndy nil vatcr on uo ;ra .
: : . .
Stand from Under; or, the .11 ysterious
Corpse.
The following was t< id us an acir.a- sac by a.
i sailor who solemnly affirmed he knew it t > be. so •
. ' whoever else he was, he certainly must have been a
j sailor of genius :
We were on board a slave ship bound to the c - ast
<*f Africa. I had my misgivings about the business
ind 11 ■ ■ • : * i ■ ■
the Straits of Gibraltar, and w re lying off Uai baiy
one clear bright evening, when i' came my turn to
take the helm. f J he ship was becalmed, and every
thing around was as silent as the day after the
deluge. The wide monotony of water, varied only
by the glancmgs of the moon on the crest, of the
waves, made me think the old fables of Neptune
were true, and that Amphitrite and her Faida were
sporting on the surface of the ocean, with diamonds,
m their liair. The o fancies were followed by the
thought* of my wife, my childn n, and my me;
and all were wildly enough jumbled t*»g. ' \ in a
delicious state of slumber. Suddenly i heard
about my head a loud, deep, terrible v< h • :>'! m.r.
“Stand from Under.” I started ;•> my feel ;< was
.i customary signal when anything was thrown
from the shrouds— and mechanical? 1 sung out
I th.‘ usu,;l nn.-iwr, l.„! go '■ I).:t J
looked up inthc shrouds- there was iea uptime.
1 searched the deck, and found that 1 wa-alum;.
i I tried to think it is a dream; but that sound, sc
dee t , so stern, so dreadful running iu my . .>r .ike
J the bur: ing of a cannon. In the morning 1 t id
I the crew what ! bad heard. They laughed at me;
an . .se all day hug full of tic ir jokes about
| * 1). urning T«.inV* One ft Il«»w among tl • m nr.?
no st unmerciful in his raillery, lie was a«v .: 'by,
| malignant looking Spaniard, who can red muni ric
his ivv and curses on his tongue; a daring and h rd
fv nun. who boasted of crime as if it g..ve him
pn-t.mii:,nee mmug his follows. Ik* laugh, cl long
! c>: and loudest at my story. “ A most uncivil
' goo-;?, Toni,” said he ; “ wh( u such chaps c ine to
| »ee me, i’ll make ’em show themselves ; I’ll not
be sat;'Hed wiihout seeing and feeling as well as
hearing.”
The sailors all joined with him; an 11, ashamed c.f
inv alarm, was glad to be silent. The next night
Hick Burton took thehelm. Dick had nerves like an
ox, and sinews like a whale; it was little he feared on
earth or beneath it. The clock struck one. Dick
was leaning his head on the helm, as he said, think
ing nothing of me or my story, when that aw ful voice
again ■ •ailed out from the shrouds, “Stand from un
de,- ;•» Dick parted forward like an In dim arrow,
which they say goes through and through a buffalo,
and wings on* its way as if it had not left death in
th rear. Ir was an instant or more before he found
presence of mind to cull cut, “Let go!” Again
nothing was seen—nothing heard, Ten nights in
succession, at oneoYlock, the same unnatural sound
rung through the air, making our stoutest sailors
ijuuil as if a bullet shot bad gone through theii
brains. .
At last we grew pale when it was spoken of, and
the worst of us never went to sleep without saying
our prayers. For myself, I would hav- been chain
ed to the oar ail n»v life to have got off that ve .se!.
Bui than* we were. failhfcMt. jfe&Midc »frifcq»ofcan.
•u>d ti’Vl' -I ■ i m j^Hi|ygL lir ’ a .
WfYifcSfc the uuo ter but’Antoniy, the Spa
n our,v fears, and tlmd Satan
him. However, when it came his
turn at tty helm he- refused to go; several times
under the pretence of illness, be was excused from
a duty which all on board dreaded. Hut at last the
captain ordered Antonio to receive a round dozen
of pishes every night until he should consent to
perform his share of the unwelcome, office. Fora
while this was borne patiently; but at length he
called out, “ I may as well die one way as another.
Give me over to the ghost.”
That night Antonio kept watch on the deck
Few* of the crew slept; for expectation and alarm
had stretched our nei vv s upon the rack. At one
j o'clock the voice called, “Stand from under!”
! “ Let go!” scream’id the Spaniard. Ibis was an
swered bya,shriek of laughter, and such laughter’
it seemed as if the fiends answered each othyr from
pole to pole, and the bass was howled in hell.
Then came a sudden cj i. -b upon tlo* deck, as if our
mast and spars had fallen. \) all rushed to the
snot, and there was a cold, sfitf, gigantic corpse.
The Spaniard said it was thrown from the eh: ends,
and when he looked on it be ground his teeth like
a madman.
“ 1 know him,” exclaimed he, “I scabbed him
within an hour’s sail of Cuba, and drank his blood
for breakfast.”
We stood aghast at the monster. In fearful
whispers we asaed what bhouM bo done with the
body. Finally we agreed that the terrible sight
must be removed from us, and bidden in tbe depths
of the sea. Four of us attempted to raise it; but
human strength was of no avail—we might as well
have tugged at Atlas. There if lay, stiff, rigid,
heavy, and as immovable as if it had formed part
of the vessel. The Spaniard was furious, “ Let
me lift him,” said he, “1 lifted him once and can do
it again. I’ll teach him what it is to come aud
trouble me.” He look the body round the waist
and attempted to raise it. Slowly and heavily
the corpse raised itself up; its rayless eyes opened,
itsiigid arm stretched out and clasped its victim
in a close death grapple, and roiling over the sides
of the ship, they tottered an instani over the water
—then, with a plunge, they sank together. Again
that laugh—that wild, shrieking laugh—was k -..rd
on the wiuds. The sailors bowed their heads, and
put up their hands to shut out the appalling sound.
I took the helm more than once after, but we never
again heard in the shrouds that thundering sound,
“ Stand from under.”
A Response prom California. —The citizens of
Sacramento, California, responded in the most
emphatic manner to the President’s patriotic inau
gural at their municipal election lust month. Ac
cording to the Sacramento Ute there were three
tickets in the field—the Democratic, people’s, and
Republican. The following was the vote for
Mayor, which may be taken as a fair criterion of
the*strength of the respective parties:
Mayor. lat Ward. 2d Ward. 3d Ward
Dyer, (Dem.) 087 505 70?
Ellis, (people’s).. .194 199 375
Rowland, (Rep.).. 139 127 233
Total 1,955 785 499
The whole Democratic ticket was elected. Ir.
fact, this election may be regarded as a perfect
Democratic tornado. Both boards of the common
council, and also the school commissioners, are alt
Democrats. — Washington Union.
How. A. H. Stephens.—We have seen a statement
going the rounds, principally, we believe, in oppo
sition papers, that Mr. Stephens had determined to
retire from Congress. We know not what founda
tion there may be for this report —we hope there
is none—and if Mr. Stephens has ever come to any
such determination, that he will re-consider and
reverse it. This is not the time for the strong men
of die South to retire from Congress. Georgia
cannot spare Mr. Stephens at this time from her
delegation ; his place could not be supplied by a
new man, and we believe the people of the Eighth
District will insist upon his returning to tbe pos*-
tion where his services have been so useful to bit
country, and so honorable to himself. No man in
Congress, at this time, can do more service to big
State and section, than Mr. Stephen.-, and we trust
shat on reflection, he will be convinced that it ia
his duty to serve his oonntrv for some time h eger
Federal Union.