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Speak Gently.
Speak gently of th* erring;
Ye know not all the power
With which the Hark temptation eauio
lu some uijg’jaWctl hour;
Ye Way not know how earnestly
He struggled, or how well,
Until the hourot weakness came,
And sadly thus he fell.
Speak gently of the erring:
Oh d<> not thou forget,
However darkly stained by sin,
Ho'is thy brother yet.
Heir of the self-same heritage,
Child of the self-.same God ;
lie hath hut stumbled in the path
Tkf"! hist in weakness trod.
S[wak kindly of the erring;
For is it not enough
That innocence and peace arc gone
Without thy censure rough ?
It surely is a weary lot
That sin-crushed heart to bear,
And they who share a happier fate
Their eludings well may spare.
Sjtoak kindly p? the ening;
Thou yet mny’st lead him buck,
With holy words and tones of love
From misery 's thronged track.
Forget not thou hast siunod
And sinful yet must be:
Heal kindly with the erring one
A** (Jod hath dealt with thee.
Family Jars*
Jars of jelly, jars ct jam,
.Tars of potted beef and ham,
dars of etwty gooseberry nice,
J-.ife of mincemeats; jars of spico,
Jars of orange marmalade,
Jim of pickles, all homo-made,
Jars of cordial, elder wine,
Jars ofhoney, superline,
Would the only jars were these
That occur in families.
Ifhstelliuicoiis.
Cass'defence of lilmselfnnd his
doctrines.
Wei find, in the -V. Y. He nth l. an
elaborate defense of himself and Ids
doctrine, against the attacks of the
•Richmond Enquirer, by (ioncral Cuss,
being the substance ol a speech re
cently delivered by him at Detroit.
In these perilous times, when the
great body of our northern fellow citi
zens have been drawn into the mael
strom of abolition fanaticism, and the
politicians of the school of General
Cass are being overwhelmed because
•of their supposed friendship for the
South, we cannot -comprehend, much
less approve, the policy of holding up
Mich men as General Cass before the
Southern people as lit objects of pep*
.lar odium. There are, in the North
ern States, millions of men who are
much bitterer enemies of the South,
and precious few warmer friends, than
General Cass, as wc shall proceed to
show.
In his recent defence of himself he
uses the following emphatic language:
*• As American citizens, you (citizens
of the free States) have nothing to
do with the question of slavery out
of your own States, except to carry
into effect the provisions of the consti
tution for the surrender of the fugitives
from labor, and faithfully to observe
its stipulations respecting the princi
ples of taxation and representation
connected with that institution." When
it is recollected that his language was
used at Detroit, the capital of Michigan,
and in the midst of the tornado ,w Inch has
just swept over the North prostrating
every man whodid not bow before it, and
while smarting under the virndent
abuse of Southern editors, it certainly
gives General Cass some claims to be
H eated with candor, if not leniency, by
Southern editors when discussing those
issues upon which he differs with the
South.
General Cass regards slavery as a J
social and political evil. So does every i
politician residing North of Mason and |
J)ixon’.s line. President Pierce has ;
given utterance to similar opinion.s— !
Put General Cass does not regard i
a very as a moral evil, as does the j
•great body of Northen politicians. — j
In his Detroit speech lie says: “1 |
was reported to have .added that slave- I
ry was also a moral evil. I did not I
say so. Ido not think so, under the eir- i
cumstanees in which it exits in the !
.Southern States. Such an assertion I
wotlld have been inconsistent with the!
main position I assume—that the pre- j
sent inhabitants of those States were not j
responsible for the introduction ofslve-a j
ry, nor did 1 see how it was possible !
fur them to abolish it.”’
General Cass is ah advocate of Squat- ]
ter Sovereignty. So, also, is General j
Pierce, as are also must, if not all, ol I
the jiceuliar friends of the South in the |
Northern States; and if llic advocacy j
of Squatter Sovereignty is an unpar- j
•donable otVense, then it is high time j
that the Democratic party were deSolv- j
ted, as that doctrine is held by the whole j
Notherli half of its members. Now
we do not regard Squatter Sovereign
ny as the most odious heresy of the
-lay, though of course we condemn it.
It, at least, denies the authority of
Congress to interfere with slavery in
the Territories, where the decision will
be necessarily against the South, and
gives the South an open field and a
jair light for their occupancy.
yj/l conclusion, we would suggest that
our Dempcrntio eotemporaries canjind
plenty and lit subjects, at the North,
in the ranks of our avowed enemies,
lo pour out the viols of their wrath
upon, compared with whom General
Cass is as Hyperion to a satyr. —Times
and tienthid.
An iron theatre, ninety feet by forty
•to be transported to Australia, is being
built in Mauchestfr, England'.
VliOM Till-: CASSVUXK STAMUUD. >
English Women and American
Ladies. m
There,are few things conducive*,to
health, So much neglected by Ameri*
-can ladies as exercise. Many of them
sit and sew, or read hour after hour,
until their cheeks grow pale, audtheir
bipod circulates languidly, arid their
spirits become depressed, and then if
questioned in regard to their indisposi
tion, they profess? to utter ignorance
of its cause and origin. The English
women have rosy cheeks, and spark
ling eyes, and well rouudej dforms, and
they carry these characteristics of beau
tv with them into old age; but the
American lady begins to fade at twen
tv live, and at forty she is withered
and old. The English woman is sel
dom ton ml without a pair of stout.walk
ing shoes, and a dress which she is not
afraid of soiling—the American lady
trips along daintily in soft cloth gai
ters, holding her silken skirts up as
if fearful of contact with the dusty
street 'The Englishwomen walks two
or three or four miles and back again
;—tlu* American lady shrinks from the
fatigue of a shopping expedition. —
The English woman if asked about it,
will tell you the who!* 1 economy of our
bodies is calculated lor constant mus
cular exertion—the American lady's
thoughts have never taken such a com
mon sense practical view of the sub
ject; indeed she will tell you that she
has never thought much about it any
wav.
"As hale as an English matron”
has passed into a proverb; ‘‘as silly
and weak as American ladg " will even
tually become, we fear, an adage too.
0. W. Ik
The Laws and Journals.
Inquiries hayc been recently made
through the Savannah press, as to the
probable time of the publication and
distribution of the Laws and Journals
of last session, to which no satisfactory
response has been given from any
quarter.
The condition of things in regard to
this matter for several years past has
been not very creditable to the pre
sent system of publication as it pre
vails in Georgia. .It is now more
than twelve months since the assem
bling of the last .Legislature, and near
ten months since the final adjourmetit.
Vet, its proceedings are still almost a
sealed book to the public. During
all this time, we have been living un
der laws that few have seen or know
any thing about. This is almost as
bad "as the state of things under the
Roman Emperor, who hung his laws
up so high on the walls, and printed
them in characters so small, that it was
almost impossible to read them.
These delays, which have occured
not for the lirst time this year, have
had. and must continue to have, great
influence on the question of annual
sessions.
We may consider a recurrence'to an
mud sessions, however desirable in
other respects, indefinitely postponed.
For the people will reason, why
have anew Legislature meet before the
people know what laws the old one
has enacted. By the time they arc
in print, they might be no longer in
force. The process of repeal might
be already complete, and new laws
enacted, which in turn, would take
twelve months to reach the public
eye.
In contrast with this system, we will
state that a lew days ago wc were in
the State Library at Millcdgeville and
there saw the Journal of proceedings
of the Council and lower house of Ptali
Territory for 1853-4 published at (ircat
Sail Labe dtp. It contains among
other interesting documents, Gov.
Brigham Voting’s Message. The Leg
islature of that distant people adjourn
ed January 20th. 18-51, arid yet we
have the Journals of proceedings at
tlic Capital of Georgia, while the pro
! eecdings of our own Legislature which
adjourned a few days later only, are
still awaiting publication.
W e also saw at the same time and
! place a copy of tfic Law's passed by
j the Legislature of Connecticut, which
adjourned on the 23d of last June.
\\ e leave comment to the public.
[ Cbnsl it'Uion a list.
CnuoisS Trap. —A farmer who had
bought a calf from a bucher, desired
him to drive it to his farm, and place
it in his stable, which lie accordingly
did. Now it happened that very day
that a man with a grinding organ and
a dancing bear, passing by that way
began their antics in front of the farm, i
Alter amusing the farmer's family for
some time, the organ man entered his
house, and asked the farmer ii he
could give him a night’s lodging. The
farmer replied that lie could give the
man a lodging, but he was at a loss
where to put the boar. Alter musing
a little, he determined to bring the calf |
inside the house, and place the bear in j
the stable, which was done. Now the
butcher expecting the calf would re
main in tie stable all night, resolved
to steal it ere morning, and the far
mer and guest were in the night awak
ened by a fearful yelling from, the out
building. Both got up, and taking a
lantern, entered the.stable, where the
farmer f< >und, to his surprise, the butch
er of whom lie had bought the calf, in
the grasp of the bear, which was hug
ging him most tremendously, for lie
could not bite, being muz/ied. The
farmer instantly uuderstoodd the na
ture of the ease, and briefly mentioned
llie circumstances to the owner of *fhc
Bruin, who, to punish the butcher for
his intended theft, called out to the
bear, —“Hug him Tommy!” when the
bear embraced him so lovingly and
earnestly that the butcher roared most,
hideously with the pain. After they
thought lie had suffered enough, they
set him free, and the butcher slunk
away, glad to escape with his life, while
the uuner and Ids guest returned to then
beds, in great glee.
Advertising is the oil which the
wise tradesmen put in their lamps, and
the foolish ones neglect, to use.
Mr. Douglas’Slave Plantation—How
he came by it.
The Clevekmd (Ohio) Leader of Oc
tober 3d is responisble for the follow
ing statements with regard to Mr.
Douglas’ individual connection with
the slavery interest of this country, and
which are mado in reply to an Ohio
paper, which had denied that ho was,,
the owner of any slaves, or was ever
guilty of profane swearing. The Leader
savs the facts were obtained “from a
personal acquaintance of Douglas, who
had them directly from his own
mouth.'’,.
The wife of Douglas, whom he mar
ried about, twelve yours ago, was the
heiress expectant at the time, with a
sister, of a worn-out; North Carolina
plantation, with its 150 negroes and
some Bf>o,ooo of bank stock. Subse
quently toher marriage, the father-in
law purchased two tracts of land in
Mississippi and stocked one with 80 and
the, other with 40 negroes, the residue
of his “peculiar property ’ remaining at
the dilapidated homestead. A lew
years afterwards the farther-in-law ot
tered to make a gift of the larger Mis
sissppi plantation to Douglas. But
fear of public sentiment in Illinois and
the North deterred him from receiving
the “livestock*’ in his own name. Ite
suggested to the old man that, under
the ci renmstances, it was better that
the negroes should be settled upon
his wife, which accordingly was done.
By the deaths of his lather-in-law, his
wife’s sister and his wife, another planta
tion, with4oorsofield handsand a num
ber of family slaves, fell into Douglas
charge—though a portion of the prop
erty is incumbered by the life estate ot
the widow
Douglas derives the rents and prof
lits of both the Mississippi plantations,
! and annually pockets the surplus earn
ings of 100 <>r more slaves. He visits
his plantations frequently, and gives
his negroes a grand barbacue once a
vear: inspects Iris crop of piceaninies
bf African or American paternity:
gives instructions to his overseers, as
well as receipts for the cash extracted
from the toil of his human chattel dur
ing the preceding year, lie will be
legally entitled to repeat his barbacues
and ■collections for fifteen years to come,
when his eldest son will come of age
and relieve his father of one-third of
the profits derived from the slaves. —
Douglas does not technically own the
Mississippi slaves but be owns their
usufruct, as a lawyer would term it,
which means, “the right of enjoying a
thing which belongs to another, and <>l
deriving from it all the profit or benelit
it may produce.”
Vidsrn'DESoF Fortune.- —A wri
ter in the London Economist sums up
a very able article on Napoleon 111, as
follows:
“The same man who landed at Boul
ogne in 1840, with a single steamer
and a Jew friends, on a desperate
and abortive expedition revisits it in
1854, to review a vast army and re
ceive the homage of countless specta
tors. The same man who, six years
ago live<l in obscurity in London, scarce
ly able to pay his tailor's and quite un
ahfo to pay flip? horse dealer’s bill—
whom many looked upon as stupid, and
whom none looked upon as wise, of
whom few augured well, and whom
few would trust much, we have just
seen receiving the visits and compli
ments of the consort of our Queen,
entertaining three royal guests at his ta
ble! one of them the son-in-law of the
very monarch whom he had succeeded,
and admitted beyond all denial into
,the social circle of royal personages.
Nor is this change in his singular for
tunes the only one. nor perhaps the
greatest. Wc can imagine him smil
ing with even a more grim satisiaction
as he contrasts the language of the
English press regarding him in 1852
and now—sitting with the Times or the
Examiner, of December,' 1851. or of
August, 1854, before him, and mar
velling ar the metamorphosis—the un
j measured abuse which was showered
: upon him then and the decorous respect
and cordial praise with which he is spo
I ken of now. The ‘swell’ and t he sanguin
ary and audacious ruffian is now the
i polite and sagacious Emperor, and tetc
a-tetc with Prince Albert and King
j Leopold.”
A Tame Whale. —An eastern trav
eller, in a newly published work, en
titled “NotesofTravel,” relates the fol
lowing singular fact which came under
his observation at Muscat:
‘‘No visitor to the harbor is better j
welcomed by the natives than “Mus
cat Tom.” Thisname has been given by |
sailors to a male finback whale which j
has made an habitual practice for over
forty years to enter, feed, and frolic
about the cove several hours in each
dav, always leaving before night.—
Sometimes a smaller member of his
tribe, supposed to be a female, aeeom- j
pained him. His length may not be
less than seventy feet, and that of his |
companion fifty feet. Sine,e his arrival
signalizes the departure of the sharks
which infest the harbor to the preven
tion of sea bat hing by the natives, the
most strenuous caution is observed not
to interfere with his pursuits and di
version. He shows no fear ol such
vessels as trespass upon his watery
Held. One day as lie came rolling
leisurely and jollilv along side of a
vessel at anchor in the harbor, and on
board of which I was, one of the crew
threw with considerable impetus a
stick of wood into his open month, as
lie raised his head out, of the water. This
breach of the good treatment which he
had bye ii wont to receive did not draw
any sign-of displeasure from his whale*
slujr, although more loan one maledic
tion was bestowed upon the impru
dent tar by the exasperated natives
who had observed, his censurable eon
duet..
Joel T. Deadly, the author is chosen
to the New Vork Assembly from the
Newburg District, Orange county, by
19 majority. He was the independent’
Maine Daw candidate.
C urtouh Pit ehictto^.-—lfr|. Swiss
hclin furnishes the following:
Six years ago we hoard Rev. Dr.
Wilson, then of Alleghany City, and
Professor of Theology in the-Reform
ed Presbyterian Church, sav that in
less than ten years a war would break
out in Europe between Russia and the
Western Powers— a war which would
be one of the most terrible ever record
ed in the annals of history, and which
by its wholesale slaughters would car
ry the name of Christendom With a
thrill of wonder to the most remote
fold barbarous nations, awaken a curi
osity about civilization tliat would pre
pare the way for the of
the Bible and Christianity, into those
benighted lauds, whose people Avould
be taught by the rumors of this war,
to respect and tear the arts of civiliza
tion. This declaration was made again
and again in public from the pulpit,
and was the result of a life-time study
of the prophecies of the biblc. The
war, then unthought of, is now begun,
and the aged preacher always said the
Western Powers would be victorious;
that the teeth of the great Bear would
be forever broken, and with them the
powers of the Pope. We heard this
same man predict the Mexican war
years before it begun, and tell the
great tire of ’45 in Pittsburg; and we
incline to think his gift of second sight
was more reliable than that of the
maker of this old statue, and that the
Russians will be masters of Constanti
nople. From the first word about
proposed hostilities between Russia and
Turkey, W'C have been in the habit of
telling our friends to buy their flour,
for it would be fifteen or twenty dol
lars per barrel before it would be live
again, and so wc still think it will be;
for we are of opinion our preacher
saw far into the prophecies already
written, he said this war would take
place- —would be very terrible and gen
eral, and that it was the last war be
fore the universal peace of the Millen
nium.
Farmers. —Adam was a farmer,
while yet in Paradise, and after his
fall was commanded to earn his bread
by the sweat of his brow. Job, the
honest, and upright, and patient,
was a fanner, and his endurance pass
ed into a proverb. Socrates was a
farmer, and yet wedded to his calling
the glory of his immortal philosophy.
St. Luke was a farmer, and divides
with Prometheus the honor of subject
ing the ox for the use of man.—
Cincinnatus was a farmer, and the no
blest Roman of them all. Burns was
a farmer, and the muse found him at
the plow and tilled his soul with poe
try. Washington was a fanner, and
retired from the highest earthly sta
tion to enjoy the quiet of rural life,
and present to the world a spectacle of
tinman greatness. To these may be
added a host of others who sought
peace and repose in the cultivation of
their mother earth; the enthusiastic La
fayette, and the steadfast Pickering, the
scholastic Jefferson, and the fiery Ran
dolph. all found the Eldorado of con
solation from life's cares, and troubles,
in the green and verdant lawns that
surrounded their homesteads.
.V private letter gives some amusing
particulars of the gathering of the so
called Know Nothings at Cincuinatti.
The first fact that appears is the pre
set, re of a number of’ I Yhig leaders.
I liman, of New York; Conrad, of
Philadelphia; Sugar, of Richmond;
Raynor, of North Carolina ; Davis, of
Kentucky, are among the list. Ao
prominent Henmcrat is on the (/round.
how full of significance is this! The
Whigs, finding that a number of Dem
ocrats have been entrapped into these
Know Nothing lodges, now come forth
to take charge of an army already re
cruited to their hands,, to divide the
offices among themselves, and to carry
out the measures they cannot consum
mate alone. Tliat such an organiza
tion can last is impossible. The mo
ment these Whig leaders are shown
to be at its head, thousands will aban
don it, and return to their former
friends and to their old belief. Thus
will another evidence be furnised to
the world that there is but one endur
ing and indestructible organization in
this country, and tliat is the Democrat
ic party. — Washington Union.
A Woman’s Magnanimity — .A
miller’s dog broke his chain ; the mil
ler ordered the maid servant to tie him
up again. She was attacked and bit
ten by the dog. On hearing her cries,
the miller and his people ran to her as
sistance. “ Keep off," said she, shut
ting the yard door, “ the dog is mad.
[ am already bitten, and must chain
him alone.” Notwithstanding his bi
ting, she did not let him go, but chain
ed him up. and retired to her chamber,
and with blest resignation prepar
ed to die. Symptoms ot hydrophobia
soon broke out; she died in a few
days. The dog was killed without do
ing further mischief. — Home 'Jour
nal.
To Preserve a Bouquet.— -A flor
ist of many years’ experience gives the
iollowing receipt for preserving bou
quets for an unusual period, which may
be useful to our lady readers : first get
the bouquet, which is not very easy to
do just now, but when you get it,
sprinkle it, lightly with fresh water.
Then put it into a vessel containg soap
suds, which will nutrify the roots and
keep the flowers as bright as no nr. —
Take the bouquet out of llie suds ev
ery morning, and lay it sideways, the
stalks entering first,” in water. Keep
it there a minute or two, then take it
out, and spiinkle it lightly by the
hand with water. Kepi ace it in the
soap-suds, and it will bloom as freshly as
when first gathered. The soap-suds
need changing every three or four
days. By observing these rules, a jbou«
quet can be kept bright arid beautiful
for at least a month, and will last lon
ger, it is very possible ; but the atten
tion to the fair, but frail creatures, as
directed above, must be strictly obsev
ed, or the last rose of summer will not
be faded alone, but all wilt perish,
The Kbow Nothings*
If {lie reader will fast Lift evS over
the list of know-ilothings in the differ
ent States, lie will find that those who
are notorious ns its leaders are also no
torious as abolitioists, with inconsider
able exceptions. Every member of
Congress elected by the know-nothings,
exclusive of some anti-Nebraska demo
crats, is also pledged to the abolition
plan of admitting no more slave States
—of a repeal of the fugitive-slave law
—and the restoration of the Missouri
Compromise line. It is so in Maine.—
It is so in Massachusetts. It is so in
Now Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio. In*
diann. Illinois, Michigan, and Wis
consin. Even in New York, where
Scwardism took ground against the
know nothings, the know nothings have
| not elected a single national man to
Congress,but the reverse. To strength
en this array of facts, it is only neecssa
ry to state that the leaders of this or
der are all notorious for their hostili
ty to the South. 1 low many of those
now in session at Cincinnati, apart from
a few southern wings, who are al
ways ready to unite with faction to
put down tile democratic party, are the
allies of the abolitionists? Take the
new mayor of Philadelphia, who is
probaly the ablest and most powerful
enemy of southern men in the State ol
Pennsylvania ; take the new governor
of Massachusetts, Mr. Gardner, who
j unfurled the flag of know nothingism
; and abolitionism at the same time :
but the roll might be indefiinitelv
extended. Such is the New York
Herald’s national party. The organ
ization whien is to protect the rights of
the States based upon the idea of assail
ing the rights of the citizen ! The or
ganization which proclaims and exults
in the most violent intolerance, to be
put forth as the champion of those con
stitutional guarantees which arc based
upon the broadest principles of evil
liberty and national union !-- Wushincj-
I ton l /non.
1)K ATII PI! E FERUED TO 1) IS TTONOIt.
During the Irish reign of terror,
in 1703, a circumstance occurred,
which in the days of Sparta would
have immortalized the heroine; it is
almost unknown—no pen lias ever
traced the story. AYe pause not to
inquire into the principles that- inlluenc
ed her; suffice it that she, in common
with most of her stamp, beheld the
struggle as one in which liberty warred
with tyrany. Her only son had been
taken in rebellion, and was condemn
ed by martial law to death ; she followed
the officer on whose word his life de
pended, to the place of execution, and
besought him to spare the widow’s
stay : she knelt in the agony of her
soul and clasped his knees, while her
eyes with the glare ot a maniac fell on
the child beside him. The judge was
inexorable, the transgressor must die.
But taking advantage of the occasion
he ottered life to the culprit on condi
tion of his discovering the m Tubers ol
the association with which lie was con
nected. The sou wavered : the mother
arose from her humiliating position,
and exclaimed : My child, if von do.
the heaviest curse of your mother
shall fall upon you, and the milk ol
her bosom shall be poisoned in your
veins.” He was executed: the pride
of her soul enabled her to behold his
death without a tear : she returned to
her homo—the support of her declin
ing years had fallen; the ties that
bound her to life had given way, and
the opening of that day that saw her
lonely and childless, left her at rest
forever. Her heart had broken in the
strue'uic.— Mackenzie's Gazetle.
BEALTIFI'L.-Here is a beautiful sen
tence from the pen of Colerige. Noth
ing can be more eloquent, nothing more
true:
“ Call not that man wretched, who,
whatever else he sutlers as to pain, in
flicted or pleasure denied, has a child
for whom he hopes, and on whom he
doats. Poverty may grind him to the
dust, obscurity may east its dark man
tle over him, Ids voice may he unheed
ed by those among whom he dwells,
and his fanev may be unknown by bis
neighbors ; even pain may rack his
joints, and sleep Jleo from his pillow,
but he has a gem with which lie would
not part for the wealth defying com
putation, for fame Idling a world's ear,
for the highest power, lor the sweetest
sleep that ever fell on mortal's eye.’’
Mi) PC AT I ON. —Above all, children
must not be taught too much, nor too
soon. Knowledge A sometimes a hurl
ful burden; too much of it in propor
tion to the natural powers destroys
originality and substitutes an unreal
and insipid taste, an unconscious hypo
crisy, If the. dialectic faculties are la
ter in their development than the emo
tions, the memory, the Imagination, and
the apprehension of the senses, it can
not be disputed that the young may
best be influenced by personal author
ity and personal example; nor that the
study of languages naturally comes
first in order, next the events of his
tory aud human life, last of all the ab
stractions of Philosophy: first iconls
then things lastly ideas. —Forth Dr disk
Review.
Is This Liter vhv Fame? —Oh, des
tiny! what a capacious weaver of for
tunes art thou! Cervantes fought and
suffered, lost an arm in battle, and was
sold as a slave for eight years. Then,
having aikido the Spanish name forev
er illustrious in literature, lie was left to
die by the Spanish nation, pobr and
friendless, in one of lanes of his na
tive city. Cannons served his coun
try and fought, her battles' bravely
during a period of forty years of a
lonely and unhonered life ; then wrote
a poem that makes the best literature
of Portugal synonymous with his
name. Yet lie died in an alms-house,
blind, poor, starved, and miserable—
one faithful negro slave the only friend
by his death-bed, the only mourner by
his grave.
LA TP R ¥R 0 M E U ROP E.
A Kill S' Mi OF THE
STEAMSHIP BALTIC.
The United States mail steamship
Baltic Capt. Comstock) has arrived at
her wharf in this city from Liverpool,
which port she left on Wednesday the
Loth inst.
Com MKhciAb Intelligence.
The Liverpool Cotton Market--
Cotton, after the departure of the Can
ada, on the 11th instant, was firm and
in fair demand. The sales during the
three days ending on the I.4th instant/
comprised 27,000 bales of which ex
porters took 2000 and speculators #OOO
bales, leaving 22,000 bale's of ydl des
criptions to the trade. Brown
& Shipley quote the markgf quiet, at
previous rates, with fijdl supply.—
On AVcdhesday the loth/instant, 8000
bales changed hands ’previous ‘to the
depart i ire of the Balt/fc, but former prices
were scarcely maihtai nod.
The Liverywolflireadstuffs Market was
quict. Fiouy had declined Gd per bbl.,
and Western cahal was quoted at 43s
and Ohio ait 40s per bbl. of J 96 lbs. — |
Corn had declined Gd per quarter and
was at from 45s to 46s per 480 lbs. — !
Wheat lml advanced 2d per 70 lbs.
The London Money Market. —Consols 1
closed at 02 5-8.
General Intkli.ic;e nce.
The news from Marseilles of the
destruction*of the Light Cavalry, un- !
der Lord Cardigan, in the action at
Balaklava on the 25th vilt., lias been
confirmed. They charged a battery of
thirty guns, and lost four hundred men. ;
()nl v two hundred returned. Since then
there has been almost incessant san
guinary fightings. The Allies are al
most overpowered, and most urgent
requests have been sent for instant
reinforcements. Fifty thousand French
will be immediately sent to their as
sistance, and every available steamer
has been taken for their transpotation
to the Crimea, including the Enropa,
Alpx\ Indiana, Xew-York, and others.
On the sth instant a terrible combat
took place, which lasted from daylight
until four in the afternoon, and both
sides claimed the victory. The Eng
lish took a few hundred prisoners, and
the Russians stormed several batteries
and spiked the gnus. The loss ol the
Allies was reported at 4000, and that
of the Russians at 8000. The battle
was resumed by the Russians on the
the 6th i list., but the result had not
reached England when the Baltic sailed.
It is said that the Allies were prepar
ing to storm Sebastopol before the
Russians could recover their losses, but
other accounts state that the Allied
forces were greatly reduced, and must
abandon the seige unless large rein
forcements speedily arrive.^
Tiie Fry Libel Case.
Xew-York, Nov. 25.
Anew trial has been refused in
the Idol ease of Fry to. Bennett, there
fore James Gordon Bennett will have
to pay the 810,000 damages awarded
by the Jury against him for the articles
inserted in the lb raid prejudicial to
Mr. Fry.
Arrival of the Marion.
Xew-York, Nov. 25.
The l . S. A fail Steam Ship Marion
Capt. \Y. J. Foster, arrived at her
wharf in this city at nine o’clock on
Saturday morning.
Later from California.
Xew-York, Nov. 25.
The Steam Ship George Lav r has
arrived with California advices to the
Ist inst., and $1,500,000. She has
brought no news of importance.
Cos i.us ion in Boston Harbor.
Boston, Nov. 25.
The British and North American
steam ship Canada, From Liverpool
via Halifax, came in collision, in our
harbor last evening, with the steamer
Orean, bound to Hallowed. The lat
ter had a stove upset and caught lire.
The boiler then exploded. Eighty
passengers were rescued and three were
killed.
Tii e Kxow-Notiiino Convention.
Cincinnati, Nov. 25.
The Know-Nothing Convention has
adjourned, and adopted anew ritual
and made important alterations in the
constitution. The Presidential ques
tion was not considered.
Later from Mexico?
New-Orleans, Nov. 25.
Thy steam ship Orizaba lias arrived
from \ era Crux, with advices from
the city of Mexico, to the 19th inst.
Among thepasseugers were (fenoral
Paroxc mud Babael Rafael, the new
Consul General to the tfuited States.
There is Jittle news by this arrival.
The papers report further successes,
over the Revolutionists. It is report
ed that,,,Seuor Cergisas, Editor of the
Ins, and a number of others have been
banished for political offences. The
New-Orleans Delta and Dec, arc pro
hibited from entering Mexico.
New-A ork Market.
New-York No?. 24
Cotton is dull and declining. Middiin,
Orleans is quoted at flora | to 9
'cents per lb. Flour is unsettled and
Ohio is worth from $8,87, to $9,37 j ier
Nevr-York Nov. 25
Cotton is easier, but not lower. M;,j
dliny Uplands is quoted at from 85-s
to 8 3-4 cents per lb. Flour is Ull .
changed. Spirits of Turpentine is .lull
but Crude is stead v.
(
s New Orleans Markets, A<\
New-Orleans, Nov. 25.
There lias been a large export .1,..-
maud for Cottoli to-day, and the sal.-s
have comprised 9000 bales at from
8 1-2 to 8 5-8 cents per lb ; for M;,i.
dliny. The- sales of Rio CoffCe durimr
the week have amounted to 5500 bags
at from 91-4 to 9 3-4 cents per lb,
Rice was dull, at §6 per 100 lbs.—
Flour was worth $8,50 per bbl., amt
Corn 90 cents per Bushel. Mollasses
commanded 18 cents per gallon. Mrs*
Pork was quoted at $22,50 per bbl.
Freight for Cotton to Liverpool ruled
at 3-Bd. per lb.
The barque Lowell, Captain Bixlyy,
lias cleared for Charleston.
New-Orleans, Nov. 25 —1, I*. M.
Cotton is unchanged, and the sab*s
up to noon comprised 5000 bales.—
The stock on hand consists of 150,0<.m)
bales.
Mobile Cotton Market.
Mobile, Nov. 24.
The sales of (’otton during the week
have comprised 13,000 bales, at 8 1-2
cents per lb. for Middling.
The investigations by the agent of
the Treasury Department show a defal
cation by Ex-Collector Russell, of
Cleveland, Ohio, to the extent of about
#IOO,OOO in duties not accounted for.,
Russell was indicted for this embezzle
ment last spring, and recentlv deposit
ed with the United States District At
torney securities to the extent of about
SBO,OOO.
The t>\ lanish Minister at \\ ashing
ton was thrown from his carriage on
AYcdnqsday afternoon, and so severely
injured as to lose his senses for a
while. He soon, however, reeeverod.
and proved not to be seriously injured.
The accident was a result of his horses
taking fright and running awav.
The ship Ely! n</ Cloud. , supposed to
have been lost in the China seas, ar
rived at New-York on Eridav from
Hong Kong, after a long and hazar
dous voyage. She brings tv full cargo
but no news.
The New Brunwick papers state that
the loss by the freshet there is estima
ted at <£ 100,000. The full details are
not yetjcceived.
Tiie Know Nothings in Louisiana..
New Orleans, Nov. 28.
At an election for State Senator,
the Independent candidate, supported
by the “ Know Nothings.” was elected
over the Democratic nominee, by twen
ty-three hundred majority.
New Orleans Market.
The sales of cotton to-day wore
5,000 bales, at previous rates. lti<>
coffee commands 9 1-2 cam its.
Later from Havana.
The steamship Crescent City has ar
rived with dates from Havana to the
21th inst. Private letters say that a
rising was expected to have, taken
place on the 19th, but that the day
passed off quietly.
Later from Texas.
By an arrival from Texas, later
dates have been received.- The Gal*
veston Times says that Governor Peaso
has determined to issue proposals for
another contract to build the Pacific
railroad.
New Orleans Cotton Market.
New Orleans, Nov. 29.
The New Orleans cotton market o u
Monday was dull under the steamer's
news, with sales of 1,500 bales.
Health of New Orleans.
The weather is cold. The deaths
ironi yellow fever, for the past week,
amount to fifteen.
The Conrricr tits Ktats I nis has an
other version of the Soule, affair* lh*
was not interdicted from France, abso
lutely, we are told, but was re
quested to wait at Calais 21 hours, till
the Bur can of Passport there e< mid
communicate with Paris. The instruc
tions are said to have been as follows :
“In case Mr. Soule shall declare his
intention to enter France, to tarry a
long or a short time, he must be noti
fied that his sojourn in France is for
bid.
“In ease the Minister of the United
States to thoOourt of Spain shall simp
ly demand to traverse France, in order
to reach his post, vise his passport.”
This is considered in New York to
be the probable version and explains the
alleged “backing out” of the Kmpci
ror -Napoleon,