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PERSONAL.
Gen. Sam Houston has been elected Gover
nor of Texas.
Wjt Gilmore Simms has control of the Litera
ry Department of the Charleston Mercury,
A sister of Robert Fulton, the inventor of
navigation by steam, is said to be in the poor
house of Monroe county, Indiana.
Carl Maria vox Weber's works, with bio
graphical notice, is soon be to published under
the supervison of his son.
Arthur Napoleo.v, the Pianist, was, at last
accounts, giving concerts to fine audiences at
the Palace Garden, New York.
Senator Douglas and Vice-President Breck
exridge have been elected honorary members of
the Athenaeum Society of Bowdoin College.
Paul Morphy has determined to make New
York his future residence, and to enter upon
the practice of the law.
Theodore S. Fay, our Minister to Switzer
land, who, it is said, will soon be recalled, has
not been in the United States for thirty years.
Mademoiselle Axdree is the name of the
Swedish singer who is creating sensation at
Stockholm, and promises to be another Jenny
Lind.
It is said that G. P. R. James, Esq., the nove
list, has determined to leave Venice and re
turn to Virginia, for the purpose of making that
State his permanent abiding place.
Hox. Jeff. Davis, a few weeks ago had an
operation performed on his eyes, which has
greatly improved his sight, with the loss of
which he has been threatened a year or two.
Gen. Lamar, our Minister to Central Ameri
ca, arrived at New York, by the Northern,
Light, on the 31st ultimo, accompanied by Mr.
Wells, his secretary, and Manuel M. Mallerino,
ex-President of New Granada.
The Dr. Winterbottom who was reported to
be “the father” of the Medical profession in En
gland—his name standing first in the new medi
cal register—has died, at the respectable age of
ninety-five years.
Mrs. Margaret Fuller, mother of the
Countess d’ Osseli, and the Rev. A. B. Fuller, of
Boston, died at the residence of another son,
Mr. R. F. Fuller, in Way land, Mass., on Sunday
evening, aged seventy years.
We see it stated that Mme Jenny Lind
Goldsmith is to visit Ireland in the autumn, for
the purpose of singing in oratorios. She in
tends giving the “Messiah,” for the benefit of the
Mercers’ Hospital, in Dublin.
Mr. George Loring, the absconding Grand
Master of the Odd Fellows in England, has
turned up in Clifton, C. W. It will be recollect
ed that, before leaving England, he stole $20,000
of the funds belonging to the Order.
Robert McKnight, Sr., now working upon
the Unionville (S. C.,) Journal, is in his eighty
seventh year and has worked at the case over
seventy-one years. He has never been out of
the State of South Carolina.
Lieut. M.F. Maury, of the National Obser
vatory at Washington City, has accepted an in
vitation from the Agricultural Bureau of Tenn
essee, to deliver the address at the State Fair to
be held near Nashville on the 11th of October
next.
Nicholas Loxgwortii, the Cincinnati million
aire, was sitting on the steps of a drinking house
the other day, with his hat between his knees,
waiting for a friend, when a passing stranger
dropped a quarter into his hat, thinking him a
beggar!
John Howard Payne, author of Home, Sweet
Home, is buried at Tunis. The following lines
are incribed on his tomb :
Sure when thy gentle spirit fled
To reams beyond the azure dome.
With arms outstretched God’s angels said.
“Welcome to Heaven's ‘Home, Sweet Home!’ ”
Ox the authority of a private letter, which ar
rived by the Persia, from an intimate personal
friend of the novelist, it is announced that
Charles Dickens will visit this country during
the ensuing autumn, and give the readings from
his own works that have been so successful in
England.
The Rev. Dr. Gregg, of South Carolina, the
newly elected Bishop of the Diocese of Texas,
for the Protestant Episcopal Church, has not yet,
we understand, given official notice of his ac
ceptance of the office ; but there appears to be
no doubt that he will accept. He will not be
able to’enter the scene of his new labors, how
ever, until after October next. — N. 0. Picayune.
Miss Florence Nightingale, (says the Lon
don Court Journal) is so extremely ill that the
worst results are apprehended. Her strength is
diminishing sadly. We are told, that last week
she had strength to move from Highgate to Lon
don, but could not do so now. Wo should al
most hesitate to pen the painful news, but that
there are so many thousands of hearts that have
learned to love her, and seem to have a right to
know of her condition.
Ix stature, Shelley was slightly yet elegantly
formed; he had deep blue eyes, of a wild,
strange beauty, and a high, white forehead, over
shadowed with a quantity of dark brown curl
ing hair. His complexion was very fair; and,
though his features were not positively hand
some, the expression of his countenance was one
of exceeding sweetness and sincerity. His look
of youthfulness he retained to the end of his life,
though his hair was beginning to get gray—the
effect of intense study, and of the painful agita
tions of mind through which he had passed.
The New Orleans Picayune, of the Ith inst.,
says : Among thg recent visitors to Mobile was
Col. Thos. Eastin, the publisher, as we learn
from the Tribune, of the first newspaper in Ala
bama. It was called the Halcyon, and the sta
ple of its first number was the treaty of peace
with Great Britain at the close of the war of
1812. CoL E. was brother-in-law of the late
Judge Gayle, He was originally from Nashville,
and was at one time in Jackson’s army with the
rank of quartermaster. Tho Halcyon was pub
lished at St. Stephens, a small village some one
hundred miles north of Mobile, on the Tombig
bee.
* Col. Herman Thorne died in New York on the
31st ultimo, in the seventy-eighth year of
his age. Col. Thorne’ was, in his early life, a
purser in the United States Navy, but a fortune
falling to him, he retired from the Navy, and left
for Paris, where he resided some twenty years,
and was, during the reign of Louis Phillipe, high
in the then fashionable world. His horses, his
equipages, his dinners, were at one time the
theme of Parisian writers and American won
der. Mr. Thorne returned home some ten
years ago, and built himself an elegant estab
lishment in Sixteenth street, near Fifth Avenue,
New York, and where he has lived in compara
tive retirement.
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FUN, FACT, AND PHILOSOPHY.
A little three year old girl was riding in the
cars with her mother, a few days since, when
a lady remarked. ‘‘That’sa pretty baby!” The
little girl’s eyes flashed fire as she drew herself
to her fullest height, and replied, “I ain’t a baby
—I wear boots and hoops!”
Ax Old Bible—Old English.— The Rochester
Union has been shown an old copy of the Scrip
tures, printed at Geneva, by John Crespin, in
1568. The title page and first eighteen Chap
ters of Genesis are missing, though otherwise the
book is in a good state of preservation.
The heart of a young girl is like a nest where
the little swallow chirps, shows its head, tries
its wings, and watches the favorite moment to
fly.
We may owe it to our enemies to forgive;
we owe it to ourselves not to forget.
“Why is a lawyer the worst sleeper in the
world?”—“Because he first lies on one side,
than he lies on the other, and is wide awake all
the time!”
France and Russia have agreed to restore
the Holy Sepulchre at mutual expense, and to
institute alternate Latin and Greek services.
Half the secrets in the world are disclosed
in order that those who possess them may let
their friends know that they hold them.
“Gads! who’s that?” exclaimed a young
man as he entered the Bowling Saloon at Lake
George.
“ ‘Tis-I, sir, rolling rapidly," replied a fast
’young lady, as she sent a ball whizzing down
the alley.
Oregon has adopted a State seal. The es
cutcheon is supported by thirty-three stars and
divided by an ordinary, with the inscription of
“The Union.” In relief, mountains, and elk,
with branching antlers, a wagon, the Pacific
Ocean, on which a British man-ofwar |is de
parting and an American steamer arriving.
The Second quartering with a sheaf, plough,
and pickaxe. Crest—the American eagle—
Legend— the State of Oregon.
The longer I live the more certain I am that
the great difference between men, the great and
insignificant, is energy—invincible determi
nation—an honest purpose once fixed—and tho
victory.
“Little boy, can 1 go through this gate to
the river?” inquired a fashionably dressed lady.
“P'raps so; a load of hay went through this
morning,” was the horrid reply.
It is asserted that a man’s fingernails grow
their complete length in four months and a
half.
Thy ignorance in unrevealed mysteries is the
mother of a saving faith: and thy understanding
in revealed truths is the mother of a sacred
knowledge. Understand not therefore, that ye
may believe, but believe that thou may’t under
stand. Understanding is the wages of a lively
faith: and faith is the reward of an humble
ignorance. (Quarle.)
Listening to a lady who was pouring out a
stream of talk, Jerrold whispered to the person
next to him, “she’llbe coughing soon, and then
we can strike in.”
“My brother’’ said Benjamin Franklin, “had,
in 1120 or 1121, began to print a newspaper. It
was the second that appeared in America, and
was called tho New England Couriant. I re
member his being dissuaded by some of his
friends from the undertaking, as not likely to
succeed, one newspaper being, in their judgment,
enough for America.”
If tiiou hope to please all, thy hopes are
vain : if thou fear to displease some, thy fears
are idle. The way to please thyself is not to
displease the best: and the way to displease the
best, is to please the most. If thou canst fash
ion thyself to please all, thou shalt displease
Him who is all in all. (Quarle.)
When Erskine was in the full tide of success
as a barrister, some of Ins fellow lawyers, wish
ing to annoy him, hired a boy to ask him, as he
was going into court with his green bag stuffed
with briefs, if he had any old clothes for sale.—
‘No, you young rascal,! said Erskine ; ‘these are
all new suits'
East and West. —East of the Mississippi
there are twenty-six States and one District,
containing 810,000 square miles 25,000,000 of
people. The total area West of Mississippi is
2,081,000 square miles, and total population, 2,-
131,000.
In literature and in love we generally begin in
bad taste. By experience and observation we
become sensible to the charms of the simple and
the unaffected, both in belles and in belles-lettres.
The earth is a tender and kind mother to the
husbandman ; and yet at one season he always
harrows her bosom, and at another plucks her
ears.
Recently, at a marriage at Leeds, after the
ceremony, the bride burst into tears; whereupon
the bridegroom, a stout, six foot fellow, follow
ing the example, blubbered like a calf, and on
being remonstrated with, roared, “Let me alone;
I feel as bad about it as she does!”
What is a Legal Tender ? —The following
are the provisions of the United States law pre
scribing “a legal tender Gold coins and sil
ver dollars for all sums ; half dollars and smaller
silver coins, for sums not over $5 ; and three
cent pieces for sums not over 30 cents. No
provision is made for cents, which may, there
fore, be refused.
When bent upon matrimony, look more than
skin deep for beauty; drive further than tire
pocket for worth, and search for temper beyond
the good humor of the moment.
A well known author tells his fair readers,
with emphatic unction, “that it is one of the
moral duties of every married woman, always to
appear well dressed _in the presence of her
husband.” And one of his fair readers suggests
that similar advice might, with equal unction
and propriety, be volunteered to every married
man.
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We have generally observed that a man bit
ten by a dog, no matter whether the animal is
mad or not, is apt to get mad himself.
Tennyson received five hundred dollars for
his poem, “The Grandmother’s Apology,” pub
lished in Once a Week.
One of the very best of all earthly possessions
is self-possession.
Real difficulties are the best cure of imagin
ary ones, because God helps us in the real ones,
and makes us ashamed of the others.
The Way Some Critics Find Fault.— They
bully a rose, because it isn't a lily; though a
rose is a good thing, just as a cutlet is a good
thing: yet people must run about and sunb the
waterfall, because it is not a precipice, and the
blonde, because she is not a brunette.
CHESS.
A small periodical entitled the Philadorian,
lias made its appearance in Charleston, S. C-
It’B editors are two amateurs W. P. J. and 0. A-
M. We wish it speedy growth in size and pub
lic favor. It’s cost is only five cents a number;
and its address Box 408, Post office, Charleston.
Another more important periodical devoted to
this game is promised or about to appear at the
North. It is to be entitled by a very pretty jeu
de mots “American Chess-nuts.” Its object
will be to establish American equality with
Europe in the conception of Chess problems.—
To this end it will contain at least one thousand
positions printed from a new Chess-type gotten
up for this work expressly. It will be illustra
ted by portraits of the principal American play
ers with biographical sketches of each. The
Editor, Mr. E. B. Cook, has a high reputation as a
problem-critic.
Tiie eight pieces of smallest value on the
Chess-board are called Pawns in English, the an
cient spelling being Panne. In the middle ages,
the French used a multiplicity of terms, such as
paon, paonnet, paonnes, ponniers, poons, pocmnes,
and pionnes, until at length, the word arrived at
its present orthography, namely, pion. In one
old French romance they are styled “garcons.”
The learned Hyde erroneously derives our
pawn from the Spanish peon, or French pion,
which he thinks a contraction of espion, a spy,
or of peton, a footman. Douce correctly deduces
all the foregoing terms from pedone, a medieval
Latin term for foot-soldiers, which the pawns
actually and appropriately represent By the
Italians the pawn is named pedone, which is an
evident proof of Douce’s etymology. The Rus
sian and Polish designations also signify foot
soldiers. But the Germans, Danes, and Swedes
have converted them into peasants. The word
in German is hauer, and in Danish and Swedish
bonde. The Icelanders, however, derive their
term directly from the above mentioned barbar
ous Latin word, and call the pawn ped orpeth.
In the East the important piece that we call
castle or rook, is more appropriately called ele
phant ; that animal being used in war as a sort
of moving castle. And what we called Queen,
and the French Dame (lady) the most efficient
piece on the board, is in the East much better
called Vizier or General, the King’s most effi
cient military officer.
Revolutionary Chess Anecdote.—At a
meeting of the New Jersey Historical Society,
at Newark, N. J., Gov. Price, in response to a
toast, made a speech, in which he related the
following anecdote:
“On the day preceding the night on which
Gen. Washington had determined to cross the
Delaware, and attack the British in Trenton,
an Englishman in the neighborhood dispatched
his son with a note to General Rahl, to warn
him of the approaching danger. The General
being deeply absorbed in a game of chess when
the note was presented, without withdrawing
his attention from the gume he thoughtlessly
put the note in his vest pocket. After the battle
next day, when General Rahl was brought in
mortally wounded, the note was found unread
in his pocket.”
The June number of the Berlin Schachzeitung
contains a lithographed portrait of Mr. Morphy.
It is a curious fact, that while the first book
printed in England was a treatise on Chess, the
first vellum-printed book in America is also a
chess-work.
A correspondent of the Savannah Republi
can suggests to the chess players of the South
the policy of holding a Chess Congress at Mont
gomery, Ala., on or about the 20th of december
next.
Dr. Duncan Forbes is to enlarge his articles
on the origin of the game, inserted in 1854-55
in the Illustrated News, into a book. The work
will be worthy of his reputation as an Orien
talist.
In tiie memoirs of Count Grammont it is re
lated of Louis XVI., that having a dispute at
chess with one of his courtiers, no one present
would give an opinion. “Oh,” said lie, “here
comes Count Hamilton, he shall decide which is
in the right.” “Your Majesty is in the wrong, ”
replied the Count, without looking at the board.
On which the King remonstrated with him on the
impossibility of judging before he saw the state
of the game. He answered. “Does your Ma
jesty suppose, that if you were in the right, all
these noblemen would stand by and say noth
ing?”
We BORROwfrom the N. Y. Saturday Press the
following Problem, by Max Lange of Berlin :
but before giving it, as our office is not supplied
with a diagram of the chess-board which would
present the Problem and position of the pieces
to the eye of the student, let us describe the
mode of lettering and numbering the chess-board,
so that the game niay be played with facility by
each student on his own board.
Rule for lettering and numbering a chess
board :
Place the board, open, before you with the
white corner-square at your right hand.
Along the margin of the board, next you,
close to the first row of squares from left to
right, place the letters A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H.,
so that the left hand corner-square shall be call
ed A., the next to the right 8., the next C., the
next D., Ac., the white right-hand corner-square
being 11.
Place the same letters, in the same manner,
near the squares of the last row, on the oppo
site side of the board, so that A. be exactly op
posite A., B. opposite 8.. Ac.
Now, along the margin of the board, near the
eight squares composing the row between the
letters H. 11., place the figures 1,2, 3,4, 5, 6. 7,
8, so that the white right-hand corner-square be
called 1, the next square from you toward 11. be
called 2, the next 3, and so on, the opposite cor
ner-square being H- 8.
Place the same figures in the same man
ner, near the squares of the last row, on the op
posite side of the board : so that 1 be exactly
opposite 1, 2 opposite 2, and so on.
Now, the eight squares between A. A. are
called respectively Al, A2, A3, A4, A5, AG, A7,
AB, and all the squares between B. 8., are call
ed 81, 82, Ac., and so of all the other like let
ters.
Problem, by Max Lange of Berlin.
POSITION OF THE PIECES.
White.
Bishop on B 2.
Pawn on G 4.
King on C 6.
Knighton C 8.
Bishop on E 8.
Black.
King on E 6.
Pawn on G 7.
(White moving from 1 to 8.)
(Black moving from 8 to 1.)
White to play, and mate in four moves.
NEWS SUMMARY.
Reduction of the State Tax. —The Milledge
ville Federal Union learns, that in consequence of
the large increase in the return of taxable prop
erty to the Comptroller General, the Governor
and that officer have felt authorized to reduce
the per cent, tax to six and a half cents on the
one hundred dollars, this percent, being consid
ered sufficient to raise the annual tax of $375,000
required by law. The per cent last year was
seven and a half cents, on the hundred dollars.
The return of taxable property this year over
last, is about Sixty Millions.
Interesting Experiments with the Cable.
The Western Union Telegraph Company have
purchased ten miles of the Atlantic Telegraph
Cable, at $250 per mile to lay across rivers and
bays. The first laid was across the Mississippi
at St Louis, 2,700 feet. This worked well at
first, but was a total failure at the end of twenty
' days. It was then underrun from shore to shore
so as to see every inch of it, but no defect was
visible. Another 2,600 feet piece was laid which
worked two days only, and failed also; yet
there is no defect visible, externally.
Still another was laid, which has now worked
well for six days. About thirty sub-marine
cables have been lost there by snags,t anchors,
Ac.
The Company now propose to make one large ca
ble composed of seven of the ocean cable strands
with stout strands of common post wire laid in
the interstices, and all well bound together.—
This, it is thought, will be proof against snags
and anchor; but it will still be exposed to the
interruption which has destroyed the two un
broken cables; and what is this?
New Cotton Arrived. —The first bale of new
cotton was received here yesterday on the steam
er Duke. It is from the plantation of Mr. L. P.
Bradley, of Lowndes county.
The first bale of new cotton last year was
from the plantation of Mr. Jeremiah Austill, of
Washington county, and was received here on
the 4th of August.
Mobile (Ala.) Register, Aug. 12.
New Cotton. —A correspondent of the Col
umbus Times, in a letter dated Montgomery,
Quitman county, Ga., Aug. 9th, says : “The first
bale of new cotton was received at this place
to-day, grown on the home plantation of Maj.
J. M. Stark, of this county. Weight 450 pounds,
class middling, and sold at cents.
The wool clip in Michigan this year is very
large. Already, since the Ist of June, the
amount brought by the different railroads to De
troit has exceeded 2,250,000 pounds, a much lar
ger amount than was brought in during the
whole of last year.
Idolatry.—An exchange says that the Chi
nese have a temple in San Francisco, which cost
$20,000, and have imported an idol from China
at a cost of $30,000. It is the image of a man
who figured in China three hundred years ago,
and was a great statesman and warrior, as one
said, “like your Washington." The only efforts
in California to Christianize the Chinese are by
the Methodists at Sacramento. The law poliibit
ing Chinamen from coming to the State is pro
nounced unconstitutional, and their number, now
sixty thousand, is rapidly increasing.
Decision of the Secretary of the Interior.
—Congress, by an act of September 28, 1859,
granted to various States the swamp and over
flowed lands within their limits. Tho duty of
setting apart these lands having been by law im
posed upon the Secretary of the Interior, the
Secretary, guided by counsels of governors of
the States to whom tho lands were granted,
adopted the field notes of the United States as
a basis for setting apart the granted lands. To
this decision the practice of tho department has
conformed. Gov. Randall, of Wisconsin, has,
however, recently claimed that the United States
surveys in the state previous to 1850 had not
been very accurate in showing the land unfit for
cultivation without artificial drainage or embank
ment; that consequently, Wisconsin is entitled
to a further amount of lands; and therefore
suggests a re-examination. The Secretary of
the Interior has decided adverse to the proposed
change, as tending to unsettlo the whole land
records of the government. He remarks that
Wisconsin concurred in the policy adopted, and
has received 1,G00,000 acres of swamp lands
under it; that the field notes of the surveys
previous to 1850 were the best knowledge Con
gress possessed of the public swamp lands, and
may btf regarded as indicating the special lands
intended to be granted.
Washington, July 31.—The construction of
the Washington National Monument, after a
suspension of several years, is about to be re
sumed. Systems to raise funds for the prosecu
tion of the work have been put in operation, and
it is proposed to request tho postmasters
throughout the country to give aid to the enter
prise by placing boxes within their respective
offices, for the reception of contributions, and
forward tho returns to Washington. A few
cents a month, from the thirty thousand post
offices would suffice, in a few years, to raise the
shaft to its intended height. The postmasters
of many of the principal cities, including those
of New York, Washington, Boston, Brooklyn,
Baltimore and Charleston, have already ex
pressed their readiness to lend it a cordial co
operation.
Auraria City, Kansas, July 21st. 1859. —
Messrs. Editors; —In compliance with a promise
made you some time since, I again favor you
with a short communication respecting the mines
and miners of this country.
I have just returned from ttic Georgia diggings
some thirty-five or forty miles from this place,
where the miners are operating in the quartz
veins and hill diggings, which are yielding to
most all employed, very handsome profits.—
New “leads” are being developed almost every
day, and what a few weeks since was supposed
to be a mining district of narrow limits, is now
fully proved to be quite extensive.
Dahlonega Signal.
Hon. J. F. Cushman has been appointed Min
ister to the Argentine Confederation and has ac
cepted the appointment.
The President has appointed Frederick B.
Wells, of New York, Consul at Bermuda.
Judge Bowlin is spoken ot as the Minister to
Nicaragua, in place of Mr. Lamar.
A Washington City dispatch, of August 13th
says : Gen. Cushing, "who is now here, has been
tendered the mission to Central America, but
his engagements are of such a nature as to ren
der his acceptance of the appointment impossi
ble. The Administration regards the position as
of great importance under existing circumstan
ces.
Stock of Pork.—There is probably now, the
largest stock of pork held In the sea board mar
kets, ever known in any previous season, and it
I must certainly seem strange to those who hon
estly believed last winter that there would be a
great scarcity of the article this summer, where
these immense supplies came from. The exhib
its for the Ist of August, as regards New York
and New Orleans, stand as follows for a few
years back:
New York. New Orleans.
1556 49,815 11,(WO
1851 34,40* 12,700
1858 $8,182 17,487
1859 90,500 ' 34,020
As regards the stocks in the Western mar
kets, we have no reliable data, but parties inter
ested put it at 30,000 barrels, which may be con
sidered within the mark. The stock of Cut
Meats, particularly small, in the West, and as
large by one-tenth as they were this time last
year, perhaps, but as regards this, nothing can
be obtained beyond a vague estimate, as it is ab
solutely imposible to obtain an accurate report
from holders at any time.— da. Price Current.
Greenwood Cemetery, near New York city,
was founded in June, 1840, and from thatmonth
up to the 23d ult., 69,040 bodies have beetK
buried there. Greenwood will, in the end, out
strip New 'York, and, ere many years, will
count its dead by millions.
A homcepathic medical college is to be estab
lished at St. Louts. It will be opened on the first
day of next. October.
There are now sixty-five whaling vessels in the
ports of New Bedford and Fairhaven, of which
about thirty are fitting for sea. Since January
Ist, twenty-six whalers have sailed from those
ports and sixty-eight have arrived. Some twen
ty more are expected to arrive before winter.—
The close of the war in Europe causing a great
decline in provisions, will enable ships to be
fitted out much more cheaply than heretofore.
On Sunday, 24th ult., Mrs. Samuel Hawk was
found hanging to the limb of a tree in a solitary
spot near Lykeustown, Pa. Marks on her throat
and other parts of her body led the jury of in
quest to infer that she had been murdered and
afterwards tied to the tree, in order to make it
appear she had committed suicide.
The St. Louis Zeitung says that the capital em
ployed in the St. Louis beer breweries is nearly
$20,000,000. The number of breweries in the
city is thirty-five. They produced last year
115,000 barrels of lager, and 74.000 barrels of
common beer, which, at $8 per barrel for the,
former, and $6 for the latter, amounts to sl,-
366,400.
The Congregational Church worshipping on
Union Square, New York —Rev. Dr. Cheever’s,
proceeded on ‘Wednesday evening to cut off, ex
pel and excommunicate from church fellowship
and connexion, Rev. J. L. Hatch of Brooklyn,
for heresy, in doubting and denying tho Divine
appointment of the first day of the week as the
Sabbath, as also for his persistent efforts against
the enforcement of Sunday laws in the communi
ty. Fourteen out of the seventeen members
present voted for his excommunication, und three
only voted against it.
Ex-Fhesidext Pierce had passed through Liv
erpool, en route for tho lake district. He was
expected to sail for New York in about a fort
night.
The “Great Eastern,” or Leviathrfn steamer,
is so far completed, in England, that steam has
been applied to try the accuracy of the bearings.
Os her six masts, the first, fifth and sixth are in >
and rigged. In a short period the Great Eastern
will be coaled and provisioned, and ready to
take her trip to sea. The steamer, when it com
mences running, is to go to Portland, Me.
The taxation which the British Parliament im
poses this year, for the support of government,
amounts to the enbrmous sum of sixty-nine mil
lions pounds sterling, or four hundred and forty
five millions of dollars. Os this sum, over twen
ty-eight millions pounds sterling go to pay in
terest on the national debt, and over twenty-six
millions sterling are required for the army and
navy. This taxation, it is said, exceeds the cost
of our general government and of all the States
and municipal governments of the Union com
bined.
Mr. Dimitry, the New Nicarguan Minister.
The Washington States, of Monday, says:
Mr. Dimitry will leave Washington, at a very
early day, perhaps next Saturday, for Central
America. He will be instructed not to present
his credentials to the Nicaraguan government,
unless that government expunges the obnoxious
articles in the Lamar-Zeledon treaty, which no
doubt will be done long before Mr. Dimitry
reaches Nicaragua,
Paris, Aug. 3.—The Mouiteur announces the
dissolution of the army of the Rhine, though
camps Cinalents and Elfant remained established.
The Times' Paris correspondent says the Em
peror is anxious to satisfy the European powers
of his pacific intentions, and before many days
the European powers will be invited to unke in
a Congress where the solution of the Italian
difficulty will be proposed, which will deserve
support for its liberal character.
Italy. —Garibaldi has issued the following,
dated Levere, July 39th:
"However political affairs may go in the pres
ent circumstances, it is the duty of Italians not
only to not lay down their arms and manifest dis
couragement, but to swell their ranks and show
Europe that, guided by the heroic Victor Eman
uel, they are rqady again to confront tho vicissi
tudes of war.
“He declares that his army is ready at aDy
moment to continue the war.”
The Times' correspondent, writing from Rome,
says that great dissatisfaction exists there, and
the presence of the French soldiers alone keep
down a general outbreak.
The Jesuits have been driven out of Paleuza,
Ferli and Ferrara.
The Bologna Gazettee published a declaration
that the provinces of Komagua have shaken off
the Papal yoke never to return to it again, and
express a wish to be annexed to Sardinia.
The Tuscan army had taken up its position be
tween Modena and Reggio.
The Milan Gazette states that the French
troops were constantly passing through Milan
on their way back to France.
Tl-rin, July 30.—The Dictator of Modena has
convoked popular assemblies. All persons com
petent to read and wnte, and above twenty-one
years of age, are entitled to vote. Perfect or
der prevails.
OBITUARY.
Died, at his father’s residence near Augusta, Ua., July
20th, 1859, Milo 11. Sckiveb. aged nineteen years, three
months, and three days.
The deceased was a native of Canada East, bnt for the
last five years a resident of this city. Os a generous and
affectionate disposition, an only son, and beloved by a
large-circle of friends, his death has occasioned deep sor
row to many hearts, whose only alleviation is in the hap
py consciousness that their loss is his eternal gain.
“It is blessed to go, when so ready to die.” T,
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