I.sual lover's declaration. Happily the ad
venture was only at Aa c. The essential
hind was to prevent it going, on to z.
M. Rabic considered how to turn the flank
)f the enemy.
•This Monsieur Raoul Dutreillis,' said he
Lo himself, 'is an impudent fellow. I should
like to chastise him: but in my position, to
make a noise about it, wont,' be at once
dangerous and. ridiculous. What !shall I
M. Ruble studied the Position until he
hit upon the following plan: On the same
flour lived a widow of about thirty two years,
who wa, % cry anxious to abridge her tt idow
hood. lie sent the rose and the incendiary
lone-letter to her. Nest day when lt,toul's
emrunissionaire re-appeared with a second
note, M. liable said to him—
'You are v,ro:1;::: tliat the Tor—oppo
EMS
Meanwhile thou: was in tile seventh
lieaven. His hillet, were reeeitcd and read.
He tike saw the Baron Lo‘ietTel. Ile
found Lint * lna sm.tl l hut elegantly furnished
room. Ile was a large Mall, Wrapped in a
ncLemire rube de eltanthre, Nt Lich gave hint
an air of distinction. ltanul Leg,an to apol
, Disc profusely. The Larun stopped blin at
tutee, and assured hint that he was harpy to
make ids ziquaintattee. Once put upon this
f,oting, the eutiver , atiun iweante s totfly in
furiate. The baron Wie4 of the same age as
iris ti,itor, They very soot becante confi
dential.
'd atn tilont,' said the baron. `to found a
company, net only European, but universal,
fir the purpo , :e of quarrying marble front
eta Peak of Tenerife—a marble superior to
that of Greece or Italy. Millions of money
are to lie made Ly it.' The count opened a
.drawer of his de , k and showed a plan of
.the place. 'I shall allow only my intimate
friends a choice of the original shares, but
you ehoose you may hate the, advantage
&Ai being among; the first subscribers.' Next
morning Raoul waked from a dream in
xxltielt he It wd been the pe,etsor of millions.
_l bout a week after, as he was standing
on the steps at Tortoni's he heard a little
.taan fatnutts fur Li, lueky speculations, pro
nounce thr wen: 'Marble Vumpany of the
Peak of Tenni
•Is it then ncii a line chance?' he a.ke.l.
'..Maf2,-rillieier.e. In ten year , half Paris
will be 'unlit el.* it.'
The same evening Raoul called on tin
liana Lowe Tel and took two hundred thou
-and francs of stock.
;Raw months Winter came.--
Paris was in the midst of 'the season:—
At one ul the 'fete,' of the time. Raoul en
..ountered again the beautiful brunette.—
Jle enoeged her for a quadrille. During the
dance he thanked her warmly fur accepting
Jtis boquets..
'Above all, madam.' he said, 'have yen
noticed the Tiger-Ruse of Japan, the Power
Iviiich creates lON e.'
'I assure you I du not understand you,'
replied the hidy.
'Yuu do hut tuuler%tarl me' :•aid
kith more energy than eautiun. 'Why tide
Al uuilativn?'
that indefatigable Argue, was
near by. ile I.ift a group of gentlemen to
svhom he w•as pretending to listen, and ab•
raptly mingled in the conversation between
itimul and his wife.
'Sir,' said he 'my wife rcolly doe , not un
derstand you, lint there is a her -on who doe.;
at the same time pointing to the inidille-aged
widow, who tea , maje.tically seated on a
56fa near by. She hell ab.o in her hand a
botopiet, In the centre of which appeared a
Tiger lie of Jo Finn. This widow, coin
.ed by four months' attention., had
hrother mint was a captain of , dragoons,
noti the hest swor , l-man in the army. Ra
oul mas at his wit's end. to know what 31.
11.11, 1.1e.1.111, viten the enittain walked up
Luid trpp-1 Litt lam the shoulder.
'Sir,' 'did he. idengitig at otter a 2nolias
* 1 :1111 C.ll/tnio rerehantry, the brother
of the vsi.l , ,vr t wlndn cnn 11,41 e teen send
ing Japilnese Tiger R , ize- Idur months
pat.t
'Wen fir what i your Ini , illo , s with ale?'
,rho captain of dragoon, made, a fencing
21 - I.l,:ter ' s im)tion with ht, right arm.
, ai.l 110, 'that you marry my
nAster, ..: t.t.st , l c.,ll , tcel. Church. or grave
nn a nymont', rcnection, repliod.
'On mature cc,likidcrati,m, Hit . , I aecept the.
,L.ngest term uf pattaishment: I will marry
Ler.'
ISM
. .
A fox minutes rifler this little scene a : that the next intelligence concerning the
friend lin,ught 1:noul the evening -paper_ expedition will lie that it has been cared for
at the expellee of Nicaragua, Costa Rica, or
•For a year past the !we Leen look
:ng fur an adroit sn hid ;or named other Spanish American cramtries. the
reception of the invaders what it may, the
Landru, who ailed himself the' lilaron Low
comfort, of the nation calls for a strict sur
,frel. Just ne titet- were on the, point of
valance of our coast, and neceessary men
,:xing him, thi s : iiiingeroul rascal has left
and embal Led at Haire for the New 'IV
`tires to prevent the return of (len.illiam
Walker. We have got him out, now let us
World. 11c takes' Milli him large sums of
Pioncy, out of which he has swindled keep ldin out.
_ _ _
apes, by ineans - of a I uLi i i Marble Cum- D^ 3 eThe following resolutions were passed
pany of tl.o al: of Teneriire." at n meeting of the Columbia Fire Company
'The pruterb right; isabl [limn! misfor- held Nov. Gth,
tones rie‘ or single. I 10-u. a Nvoman Rtvo/r,./, That this Company will never
whom I could hate woridiipped, and marry g o out of ,entice so Ling as it has any per
:at, w hom 1 ,blest, t the s ame ti me j an , tion of it , apparatus in working order.
Rirob,k That the contributions of Hone
r-,Lbel of I of my fortune. It will
ran - Members he appropriated exadu.ivelv
toed a largo 410 , 0 of illusion to make ow be- ta the pun-ha-42 of hu-e. and the repair of
again that Ja!eane , o Ti-or ere- tl.c apparatus.
rommittee will visit property holders
and other., to solicit contributianQ.
a Nr , ung female wears. a flat
srnlar
PUSEY, .`_: , rretarq.
•1 le-curl un each temple—when she _
hate spoken claw here of the want of
aalks ‘,1:11 n mal , •, not arm in arm, but
futols i on the part of the Fire Companies,
at at ug.tim-• ti.e 1, o•k of her , --and •t% hen
anal s ince the artiele was written, the above
rho say , - Y , ••:" ttl, the note of interromr
iiini van are in her were handed us for publication.
We hope that the effort on the part of the
au hat wage, gets. trial 011 a the "Teller"
Iva. you s.at, her pith.. "Colombians" will meet with encourage
‘
merit, and that they may no longer base the
ME
yws,'The "Co! 'net - Duncan. I S. A., paid right to complain of want of interest on the
to have gone in command part of those of our citizens having most at
Wail; er's urtillory. is merely a :1111bn-ter ,take.
('olonel. n...t a 0)101101 in the army of the
United State nllo ed Yom) We learn that Peter Graub and Cyrus
:, g
patch writer , in the f..lllha.tering intern-t. , Strickler, Loth of whom we reported as be
ing
~,,.k : ,t
lost
I.y bein7 cru.hed between . the
Many sears ago he was a Ikaterant in the
i week. are doing well, and in a
srmy of the United anu more re
fuir
x‘a3. ha' TPCM ery.
rently a civil employee of the iosernment _
Ti' Y Ft, r D.- 2 111f; of Andrew
aiKent the new custoin house in New Ot
Ho became somewhat notorious years Grant,. drowned in the Susquehanna and
since for fillihm,tering in Ilesico in coniune- 'ilk Water Canal, on WoLln,;Aps night of
tionwith Co rsvnial. So fsay , ‘ the Waching- last week, was recovered on Sunday after-
A l
S'ar. mon, and i.reught home for interment.
Gilt eubnntia
I PENNSYLVANIA ;NDEPENDENT JOURNAL.
COLUMBIA. PA.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1857
- NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.—ThOMOS Welsh,
Justice of the Peace•; A. 31. Rambo, Fresh
Groceries &L..; Thomas Groom, houses for
Sale; Columbia Fire Company, Meeting;
National Safety Trust CO., Curd.
.ACQrITTED.—B. C. Bachman,
late President of the Lancaster Bank, was
to quitted last week, at the Court of Quarter
Sessions for Lancaster county, where he was
tried tin the charge of embezzlement. The
Lancasterians make much noise over the
verdict, freely anathematizing judge and
jury, though from all previous experience
in Lancaster law, when applied to default
ing officials, the result of the trial must have
been pretty clearly foreseen. By the ac
quittal of Bachman the trial of his colleague,
David Lonenecker, indicted for the same
oife,nce, was so unmistabably shown to he
useless, that the prosecuting attorney, Mr.
Dickey, moved the release of the latter from
bail, which was granted by the court.
In this matter we are happily free from
personal interest. Not being among the
sufferers by the wreck of the bank., and our
intercourse with Mr. B. having been con
fined to casual meetings at pleasant by-gone
cotillion parties at the old "White Swan,"
on which occasions we only remarked in the
gentleman a tendency to shortness of breath,
intense respectability and dignity, and gen
eral clumsiness, we cannot be accused of
undue bias from our social or pecuniary
connection with the party, either one way
or the other. We therefore boldly assert
our unbt.unded confidence in the intelligence
and moral rectitude of the court and jury.
lint it seems a clear ease to us, that some.
body should be brought to punishment.—
: The voice of the people cries fur some vindi
cation of outraged justice. Spite of the
above verdict, ill natured people will be
found who decline selling Lancaster Bank
Notes at a ruinous discount, and whisper
ji.aud. Fur the satisfaction of the commu
nity, the officers of the bank being so con
clusively proven innocent, we suggest that
other parties less intimately connected with
the defunct institution, be brought to the
bar. Let the note holders, depositors, and
stockholders be tried, and if convicted, pus
, ished in proportion to the amount of their
se eral claims against the Bank.
WALKER An.:.1.1N.--It appears that we are
never to have done with this restless, reck
less: filibuster. Ile has again eluded (!) the
vigilance of the U. S. officials at New Or
leans, and set sail with some four hundred
men for :Nicaragua, where let us hope he
may find a warmer reception and a longer
home than on the occasion of his previous
invasion. Our government has most sol
emnly protested against Walker's insane
scheme of conquest, and announced most
positively that stringent measures had been
taken to prevent the sailing of another pi
ratical expedition from our coast; yet in the
face of this extreme solicitude fur the honor
and integrity of the laws of neutrality, our
filibuster puts off from one of our first sea
ports without an effort to arrest or punish
him. Had his army, or colony, or whatever
may be the designation of the muster of ad
venturers accompanying hint, rendezvoused
at a northern port, the expedition would
most certainly have been broken up, with
much self•glorification on the part of Uncle
Sam's ever watchful officers, but whether
the law would have dared to lay its profane
haad on the sacred persons of the despera
does is quite another question. Knowing
that the entire sympathies of the South arc
so notoriously in favor of Walker and his
filibustering acquisition of Central Americo,
a ne4lect to sufficiently guard against the
sailing of this lawless horde, which was
not recruited in secret, argues at least a
winking on the part of government or its
agents at Walker's departure. Possibly a
spirit of sagacious economy evoked by the
universal hard times, suggested to our rulers
that the cheapest way of disposing of this
troublesome party was to allow him to slip
off to Nicaragua, to which favored r:g.;on
the panic has not vet extended. In this light
the "masterly inactivity" of the New Or
leans Officials was Wise indeed. We trust
ANOTHER Flar.—On Monday night, about
ten o'clock, a fire broke out at the boat yard
of liarford Fraley, on the canal basin below
the out-let lock, which consumed the sheds
and fixtures, together with a new boat; the
loss being about one thousand dollars. We
understand that there is some seven hun
dred dollars insurance on the property.—
But one engine, the Columbia, was got into
service, and the exertions of the firemen, who
worked faithfully, only availed to prevent the
spread of the fire to the inflammable mate
rials surrounding the boat yard.
This is undouhtedly another case inccn
diarism; but whether the work of malice or
of a reckless spirit of rowdyism, it is diffi
cult to decide. There is a lamentable de
gree of supineness exhibited by our citizens,
in neglect of measures which should be
employed to apprehend and bring to punish
ment the lawless crew of scoundrels which
has selected Columbia as a field fur all man
ner of iniquity and violence. There is
scarcely a week passes which does not bring
an item for the columns of the Spy, which
we would gladly, for the honor of the town,
dispense with. This is the third fire within
a few weeks, that we have recorded, and in
fiery instance there has been a narrow
escape from a most destructive conflagration.
Had the wind been more directly from the
north the danger to the bridge would have
been imminent.
We desire to make another appeal to our
citizens in behalf of the fire department, or
rather in behalf of themselves and their
property. The firemen very justly complain
of a want of means to render efficient ser
vice in cases of fire. All the companies are
deficient in hose, and the expense of renew
ing it will fall too heavily on the active
members. They ask that it shall be pro
vided fur them, and we think the demand a
reasonable one; but at the same time con
sider that an assurance should be given
citizens that the apparatus will be kept in
good working order, and the companies not
deg,enerate into rowdy gangs, whose chief
business is to create false alarms, and in
vite collision between rival "crowds." The
hose must certainly be procured somehow.
Without it we are helpless, and although our
firemen, one and all, exert themselves un
flinchingly, in eases of danger, their efforts
are so crippled from the want of which we
speak, that they have the mortification of
seeing their labor, in a measure, thrown
away.
There has been much complaint that at
the fire of Monday night, the engine that
was expressly provided fur service on the
river shore, the Susquehanna, was not on
the ground; and on an effort being made to
bring her into action, she was found "out
of service." Not only were her wheels off
but the burrs had been carried from the en
gine house, and were not to be found. From
her peculiar build, one section of hose would
have rendered her most useful on this occa
sion, and the fact of her having no hose
does not justify her being in so dismantled
a condition as to render her perfectly use
less. We do not wish to be understood as
hinting at any disposition on the part of her
members to shirk work; they have always
shown themselves ready and willing and
able to equal the best in time of need. We
suppose they have what they consider good I
reasons fot remaining "out of service," but
we must nevertheless protest against any
apparatus being entirely laid up because of
partial disability. We are as anxious as
any member of the Susquehanna, or other
fire company in the place, to see our fire de
partment placed upon a good footing, with
every perfection of organization and appa
ratus. To the end of bringing the matter
more prominently before the people, we in
' cite any fireman or committee of firemen to
prepare a statement of their wants, for pub
lication. We will cheerfully give it inser
tion, and urge, as we have done, every pro
per measure fur securing the necessary con
tributions. A plain statement of the con
dition and requirements of the companies
may be of service, and can do no possible
harm. •
Since setting up the above, we learn that
there are reasons to believe that the fire was
not maliciously kindled, but resulted from
the carelessness on the part of some strag
gler "bunking" in the boat.
THANKSGIVING DAY.—Thursday was very
generally kept as a holiday throughout the
town, the shops being closed and business
suspended, &nice was held in most of
the churches in the morning. The after
noon was celebrated in a novel manner by a
number of citizens, of all ages, who engaged
in a stirring game of ball on Walnut street,
and afterwards in one of the fields adjoining
town. Town Ball, Foot Ball and Shinny
were all in full operation, and much genu
ine sport was the result.
The games were conducted most too much
on the every man for himself principle, and
wanted a little organization of the rival par
ties to render them thoroughly enjoyable to
any but the "stout of limb." We heard of no
serious disasters, however, and from the
good humor displayed by all hands we think
ball•playing, in its varieties, if properly 'in
troduced and regulated, would prove a pop
ular institution. It certainly would afford
healthy amusement.
EDI:cm:m:11 REllEn - .—We acknowledge
the receipt, from Messrs. Leonard Scott
Co., the enterprising American republish
ers of the English reviews and Blackwood,
the Edinburgh Review for October. Its vaL
noble and interesting contents are, Sped
ding's Complete Edition of the works of Ba
con; 'Napier; The 'Mediterranean Sea; Henri
Martin's History of France; Landed Credit;
Lives of the Chief Justices of England; The
Highlands—Men, Sheep, and Deer; Har
ford's Life of Michael Angelo; The Indian
Mutiny.
OITGENATED 13ITTER5.—No other medi
cine has ever given such astonishing proof
of its efficacy. In case of Dyspepsia and
General Debility it acts in the most agree
able manner, restoring health, when all
other remedies hare failed.
terThe diferenee between a fool and a
bore is this—one don't know how to speak,
and the other wlien. Avoid both 419 you
would a club loaded rith ;lead:tan.
siaa'An incident of much interest to the
officers of the Niagara occurred some time
before their departure from Plymouth.—
They received an anonymous letter inform
ing them that in one corner of the old church
yard of Plymouth lay the remains of Lieu
tenant William Henry Allen, the commander
of the United States brig of war Argus, at
the time of her capture in the English Chan
nel during the war of 1812, and who re
ceived a fatal wound during the hard fought
contest, which ended in her falling into the
hands of the enemy. This letter stated that
the inscription on the tombstone was almost
effaced, and that the officers of the Niagara
would have an opportunity of renewing it
at any time they might desire. It is almost
needless to state that they lost no time in
doing this, and the visitor to the old Ply
mouth churchyard will hereafter have no
difficulty in reading the record which tells
that he whose remains lie beneath, died
bravely, in defence of his country's flag.
Sacred
To the memory of
WILLLtM HENRY ALLEN, Esq.,
Aged 27 years,
Late Commander of the
United States brig Argus,
Who died August 18, 1813,
In consequence of a wound
Received in action
With 11. B. M. Brig Pelican,
August 14, 1813.
Also, in remembrance of
RICHARD DELPHY, Midshipman,
Aged 18 years;
U. S. Navy; Killed in the same action,
Whose remains are deposited
On the left.
Here sleep the brave.
Rei?nired by the officers of
the U. S. ships Sasiuehanna. and Niagara,
September, 1857.
The kindness and hospitality with which
the captain and officers of the Niagara were
treated during their stay of six months in
England, seemed to know no bounds. The
people vied with each other in their courte
sies and attentions, and thevisit of the ship has
done more to bind closer the bonds of good
feeling which exist between the two coun
tries than all the efforts that diplomatists
could make in a century. Let them succeed
next year in establishing the telegraphic
connection, as there is no doubt they will,
and they will have accomplished a work
whose results, not only to England and
America, but to mankind, cannot be esti
mated.
Items of News
The Democratic newspapers of the North
are divided in sentiment concerning the
Kansas constitution. It is denounced by
the Chicago Times, Providence Post, Albany
Atlas, Philadelphia Press, Buffalo Courier,
Rochester Union, Seneca Observer, and
other organs of the administration party.
The suggestion that Congress impose an
excise tax upon all bank notes of a lower
denomination than twenty-five dollars, meets
with great favor as being the most feasible
method of effecting a currency reform. In
looking over the lute proceedings of the
Tennessee Legislature, we find the follow.
Resolved, That our representatives in
Congress be requested, and our Senators in
structed to use their best efforts to secure
the passage of a law which shall impose a
tax on all hank notes of any . State of the
United States of a denomination below $.25.
[Lies over.]
The Toledo (Ohio) Commercial advises
the people of that county to get up and for
ward petitions to Congress in its favor.
The New Orleans papers received by the
Southern mail bring late advices from Yu
catan and Texas, The town of Cam peachy
still holds out, but the ability of its defen
ders to continue its defence is doubtful.—
The besiegers are committing brutal exces
ses in the suburbs, and the Republicans are
making reprisals on the Island of Carmen.
A conspiracy has been discovered in Meri.
do, comprising ninny of the first citizens of
the town. Late dates from Mexico state
that the government troops in Cuernavaca
had been surprised by an ambuscade, and
massacred by the revolutionists. In the
1 fight General Gonzales was killed. Bands
of Indians and robbers are committing dep
redations throughout the republic. The
Texas papers furnish details of Indian out-
I rages committed in Comas county.
A telegraphic dispatch from Washington
to the .New York Daily Times says that
Governor Walker's family have received
advices announcing that he is in Missouri,
on his way to Washington. The Lawrence
c - ...respondent of the New York Tribune
rlso says that Walker has left Kansas for
Washington. The Free State Executive
Committee of the territory has issued a call
fur a Delegate Convention, to be held at
Lawrence, on the 2.(1 of December; but it is
said that it was subsequently revoked, on
the promise of Secretary Stanton, as Gov
ernor pro km., to call an extra session of
the Legislature, to which body the free
State men were willing to leave matters.
From the tenor of tho advices from Wash
ington it seems tolerably certain that the
administration is preparing to take ultra
ground against our existing bank note cur
rency, and to force it to the test of constitu
tionality. .
Crawford's bronze equesterinn statue of
Washington has been landed at Richmond,
Va.
The Mobile (Ala.) Register, of Sunday,
says that, in addition to the 400 fillibusters
who sailed with 'Walker from that port,
about 350 have gone from other ports of the
United States on sailing vessels, thus mak
ing the total between seven and eight hun
dred men, well provisioned and prepared to
meet the hardships of the expedition.
The Legislature of Alabama met in con
vention, and on the first ballot elected Ilan.
C. C. Clay, Jr., to the Senate of the United
States, fur six years from the 4th of March,
1859, when his present term of office ex
pires.
The Legislature of Mississippi has re
elected the Hon. A. G. Brown to the U. S.
Senate. He received 111 votes out of 116
cast, notwithstanding that he was violently
opposed by the Hon. Jefferson Davis.
Col. Orr, of South Carolina, will, it is
said, be the Democratic candidate for Speak
er of the 11. S. House of Representatives, and
as that party has twenty-two majority over
all opposition, he will, no doubt, be elected.
Though hailing from South Carolina he is
said to be opposed to sectionalism.
Late advioes from San Domingo say that
the partizans of the President still held Sa
n.ana, where they were well provisioned,
and prepared for a long siege, but the con
quering Santana, revolutionists were about
to despatch an additional force against
them.
Gov. Walker has arrived at Washington
city, from Kansas.
Jas. G. Birney, the anti-slavery candidate
for the Presidency in 1844, died on Tuesday
evening at Eagleswood, near Perth Amboy,
N. J.
On Wednesday the remains of Gen. Worth
were interred in New York city, beneath
tho monument erected to his memory, and
the funeral pageant was one of the most
splendid ever seen in that city. All the
flags were at half mast, the church and
alarm bells were tolled, minute guns were
fired, immense crowds of spectators throng
ed the streets and the millitary were out in
their full strength. The latter were re
viewed on the Battery by the Governor.
On Tuesday night the Hannah More Fe
male Academy of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, at Reisterstown, fifteen miles from
Baltimore, was destroyed by fire, but the in
mates escaped safely.
Later advices from Mexico say that the
country was in a most distracted condition,
another general revolution impending, the
fidl of Comonfort regarded as certain, the
sacrifice of his life probable and the return
of Santa Anna being negotiated for by the
revolutionists. IVilliam Moran, editor of
the Mexican Extraordinary, has been
thrown into prison for publishing an article
against the Governor of Zacatecas.
IMMX2
By the arrival at New York of the steam
ship Atlantic, from Liverpool, we have later
European and Asiatic news.
The financial and commercial troubles
are increasing all over Europe. The West
ern Bank of Scotland, a Glasgow institution
doing an immense business, having a hun
dred branches and six million pounds ster
ling of deposites, has failed, in consequence
of reckless discounts to insolvent overtrading
dealers in Glasgow and New. York. The
great firm of Dennistoun & Co., with branch
es in New York and New Orleans, has also
failed, having liabilities reaching two mil
lions sterling. Other heavy mercantile
failures are also announced. The Bank of
England had raised the rate of discount to
ten per cent. A similar raise has been
made in France. There is a panic also in
Hamburg, where all bills of exchange were
unsaleable.
We have also further news from India.—
In the final attack on Delhi the British lost,
in killed and wounded, one-third of their
force. The old king end his two sons had
been captured. The former was spared, but
the latter were shot at once. Gen. Nichol
son was killed at Delhi, and Gen. Neill at
Lucknow. which place had been captured
by Gen. Havelock, with a loss of 450 men
killed and wounded.
EMM
By the way of Cape Race we have three
days later news from Europe, brought by
the steamship Vanderbilt. On the day after
the sailing of the Atlantic a fearful financial
panic occured in England. All the Banks
refused to discount in any shape, and many
failures occured. In the midst of the hub
bub the Royal Treasury Department issued
an order suspending the charter of the Bank
of England, (?) and authorising the issue of
small notes to any amount. Immediately
the panic ceased, and joy spread through
out all the commercial cities in the kingdom.
The British parliament would meet imme
diately. The Bank of France had raised its
rate of discount to 10 per cent. By the
wreck of the English ship Dunbar, off Syd
ney, Australlia, 140 passengers and all of
her crew have been lost. We have further
news from India. The mutiny of the Gwal
ier contingent had been subdued by cutting
off their supplies. It was reported that
Nena Sahib, with 50,000 rebel Sepoys, had
again besieged Lucknow. All the city peo
ple found in Delhi wore bayoneted by the
British troops. Many Europeans were
found in the city fighting in the ranks of the
rebels.
Mo:4;rsz.—The lecture of this some
what celebrated and notorious woman, drew
together an intelligent audience at Fulton
Hall on Friday evening last. The fair lec
turer was dressed in exceeding good taste,
and read her lecture—or part of it—in a
careless off-hand and indifferent kind of
style. There was nothing in it particularly
edifying, and we apprehend the majority of
the audience were drawn M the hall, more
through curiosity to see Lola. herself, than
to be benefitted by anything she might say.
Lane. Examiner, Nor. 25.
siiirThe Tampa, (Fla.) Peninsula says
that the entire military force, now in Flori
da, has been ordered out on active service.
It comprises about two thousand men, it
seems probable that they will be able to
conquer the Indians. The Peninsula pith
ily remarks: "Our country expects it."
The Mormon Rebellion.
Colonel Alexander, commander of the
vanguard of the Utah expedition, was with
in thirty miles of Fort Bridger, which place
is occupied by Mormon troops, when he re
ceived the following letter from Brigham
Young, through the commander of the
"Nauvoo Legion:"
GOVERNOR'S OffiCE, CTATI TERRITORY,
Great Salt Lake City, Sept. 29, 1857. 1
To the Officers Commanding the Forces 2/OW
Invading Utah Territory:—
Sir—By reference to the act of Congress
passed Sept. 9. .1.50, organizing the Terri
tory of Utah, you will And the follpwing:—
Sec 2. And be it iurther enacted, that
the executive power and authority in and
over said, Territory of Utah shall pe vested
in a Governor, who shall hold his office for
four Tears, and until his successor shall be
appointed and qualified, unless sooner re
moved by the ProSident of the United States.
The Governor shall reside within said Ter
ritory, shall be Commander in Chief of the
militia thereof, &c., &c.
I am still the Governor and the Superin
tendent of Indian Affairs for the Territory.
no successor having been appointed and
qualified, as provided by law, nor have I
been removed by the President of the United
States. By virtue of the authority thus
vested in me, I have issued and forwarded
to you a copy of my proclamation, forbid
ding the entrance of armed forces into the
Territory. This you have disregarded. I
now further direct that you retire forthwith
from the Territory, by the same route you
entered.
_ .
Should you deem this impracticable, and
prefer to remain until spring in the vicinity
of your present encampment—Black Fork
on Green River—you can do so in peace
and unmolested, on condition that you de
posit • your arms and ammunition with
Lewis Robinson, Quartermaster General
of the Territory, and leave in the spring as
soon as the condition of the roads will per
mit you to march, and should you fall
short of provisions, they can be furnished
you upon making the proper application
therefor.
Gen. D. 11. 'Wells will forward this and
receive any communication you may have
to make.
Very respectfully.
BitiotrA Yorso.
Governor and Sup't of Indian Affairs
The following is the proclamation referred
to by Brigham Young:
PROCLAMATION BY TILE GOVERNOR
CITIZENS or UTALE—We are invaded by a
hostile force, who are evidently assailing us
to accomplish our overthrow and destruc
tion. For the last twenty-five years we
have trusted officials of the government,
from constables and justices to judges, Gov
ernors, and Presidents, only to be scorned,
held in derision, insulted and betrayed.—
Our houses have been plundered and then
burned, our fields laid waste, our principal
men butchered while under the pledged
faith of the government for their safety and
our families driven from their homes to find
that shelter in the barren wilderness and
that protection among hostile savages which
were denied them in the boasted abodes of
Christianity and civilization.
The constitution of our common country
guarantees unto us all that we do now or
have ever claimed. If the constitutional
rights which pertain unto us as American
citizens were extended to Utah according to
the spirit and meaning thereof, and fairly
and impartially administered, it is all that
we could ask—all that we have ever asked.
Our opponents have availed themselves of
prejudice existing against us, because of our
religious faith, to send out a formidable host
to accomplish our destruction. We have
had no privilege nor opportunity of defend
ing ourselves from the false, foul and unjust
aspersions against us belbre the nation.
The government has not condescended to
cause an investigating committee or other
person to be sent to inquire into and ascer
tain the truth, as is customary in such cases.
We know those aspersions to be false; but
that avails us nothing. We are condemned
unheard, and forced to an issue with an
armed mercenary mob, which has Leen sent
against us at the instigation of anonymous
letter writers, ashamed to father the Lase,
slanderous falsehoods which they have given
to the public—of corrupt officials, who have
brought false accusation against us to screen
themselves in their own infamy, and of hire
ling priests and howling editors, who pros
titute the truth for filthy lucre's sake.
The issue which has thus been forced
upon us compels us to resort to the great
first law of self-preservation. and stand in
our own defence—a right guaranteed unto
us by the genius of the institutions of our
country, and upon which the Government
is based. Our duty to ourselves, to our
families, requires us not to tamely submit
to be driven and slain without an attempt
to preserve ourselves. Our duty to our
country, our holy religion, our God, to free
dom and liberty, requires that we should
not quietly stand still and see these fetters
forging around us which are calculated to
enslave and bring us in subjection to an un
lawful military despotism, such as can only
emanate, in a country of constitutional law,
from usurpation, tyranny and oppression.
Therefore I, Brigham Young. Governor
and Superintendent of Indian Affitirs for the
Territory of Utah, in the name of the people
of the United States, in the Territory of
Utah, forbid,
First—All named forces of every descrip
tion from coming into this Territory, under
any pretence whatever.
Second—That all the forces in said Terri•
tory hold themKelves in readiness to march
at a moment's notice to repel any and all
such invasion.
nird—Martial law is hereby declared to
exist in this Territory from ann after the
publication of this proclamation, and no per
son shall be allowed to pass or repass into
or through or from this Territory without
a permit front the proper officer.
Given under my hand and seal, at Great
Salt Lake City, Territory of Utah, this fif
teenth day of September, A. D., eighteen
hundred and fifty seven, and of the Inde
pendence of the United States of America
the eighty-second.
_
Bamnsm You:sm.
The following is Col. Alexander's reply
to Brigham Young:
headquarters Tenth Regiment of Infantry, )
• Camp Winfield, on ham's Fork, 1.
October 2, 1857.
Brigham Young, Esq., Governor of Utah
Territory.
Sim—l have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your communication of Sep
tember 29, 1857, with two copies of a pro
clamation and one of the laws of Utah, and
have given it an attentive consideration. I
am at present the senior and commanding
officer of the troops of the United States at
this point, and I will submit your letter to
the General commanding as soon as ho ar
rives here.
In the meantime I bare only to say that
these troops are here by the order of the
President of the United States, and their
further movements and operations will de.
Pend entirely upon orders issued by cunpe•
tent military authority.
Very respectfully, E. R. ALEXANDER.
How run Monsto linc.Artn Baton,tm
]'ors.;.—Thero is no man upon the earth
has a greater influence over any community
than Brigham has over the Mormons. His
word is law. By anti-Mormons he is rep
resented a tyrant; by friends he is loved as
a father. Before the public, Brigham is the
"Lion of the Lord;" in private—at home—
he is represented as a hospitable gentleman.
He must be very wealthy, as he is engaged
in much business. He is come-nt.able by
the poor and generous to the unfortunate;
but he is hard upon loafers. His sermons
in general arc intended to convey instruc
tion for the world that is, as well as for the
world to come, in which he will instruct the
husbandman and the housewife on the oper
ations in the field and in the kitchen, as
well as the elder or priest on the preaching
of salvation, He has labored much to build
up Mormonism; and wo to the man whose
conduct hrimgs reproach upon it. No man
is spared by Brigham. An Apostle who
has got out of the traces or done anything
contrary to the interest of the church falls
in for the lash as readily as a humble mem
ber. His best friends get a turn as well as
his enemies. In fact, the man who gets a
terrible thrashing from Brigham is generally
considered a good man, or the Prophet
would not have taken the trouble to speak
of him.
Whatever may be thought of Brigham by
outsiders, it is impossible to associate with
Mormons without perceiving that he is
deeply reverenced by his brethren. A Mor
mon in full faith would go to the ends of the
earth if Brigham only told him so. Brigham
has spread Mormonism over the face of the
civilized world. Since his inauguration as
President he has sent some hundreds of mis
sionaries to England, Scotland and Ireland.
Others he has sent to France, Switzerland,
Italy, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden,
to Africa, China, the East and West Indies,
to Australia, to the islands of the Pacific; in
fact wherever there was a possibility of
sending an Elder with any chance of being
heard, there some one has been sent—and:
all at their own expense and with the assist
ance they might pick up by the way.
What story the future may tell of Brigham.
Young, the past certainly shows that he is
an extraordinary self-made man.
Gov. WA LKER.—The Union authoratively
contradicts the report that Gov. Walker has
purchased lands in Kansas or elsewhere,
and adds that no part of the reservation at
Fort Leavenworth has been sold.
MUD VOLCANOES ON TILE COLORADO DESERT.
—A correspondent of the San Diego herald,.
writing from "Mud Volcanoes," on the Col
orado Desert, in July last, says:
Here I am, in the centre of the Colorado
Desert, and in the midst of the most diabol
ical hubbub and tumult that old mother Na
ture ever got up in a small way. It is in a
short, a convention of volcanoes, spouting,
sputtering, steaming, puffing and tearing.
A hundred hillocks varying from four to ten
feet in height, each one a miniature Chim
borazo, send forth jets of steam and smoke,.
and now and again vomit volumes of mud
and melted sulphur. One sends up a col
umn of bitter and scalding water some thir
ty feet in the air, falling in hot rain on every
side, rendering an approach rather hazard
ous. Ile is President of the convention, or
mayhap the orator of the occasion; he spouts
well, any how. On each side of hint a huge•
caldron, 150 feet in diameter, and sunk
about eight feet below the surface of the
plain, boils and "flobs" with a thick paste.
of mud and water, like the witches'
"Ilell broth, thick and slab."
I imagine Shakspeare had been here the•
day before he wrote Macbeth. Now and
again these witch-kettles boil over, and the
but slime runs off in a sluggish stream in an
easterly direction, following the slight incli
, nation of the plain. On every side the little
mounds vie with each other in throwing
mud and spouting hot water upon the un
wary visitor. You approach a quiet and
unpretending little mound; no steam or
smoke or any fiery indication gives your
warning of danger; you bend over it to peep•
into the miniature crater, when slap goes a
hatful of hot mud into your face, and in
stantly twenty other little volcanic devils
pitch in, and while one washes you with.
slime, another plasters you with mud, and
you retreat beat out, like a poor candidate
for office who does not belong to the party.
The space occupied by these mud-spout
ing politicians of the desert, is about 400
yards long by 250 in width, every 50 feet
square containing one or more of them.—
Some seem to be forever in action; others
intermittent, bursting out every few hours,
and others again, perhaps, have slept for
months. A hot, suffocating vapor renders
breathing difficult, and the smell of sulphur-•
etted hydrogen can be detected for several•
miles before you reach the spot. The water'
ejected is extremely bitter and sulphurous.
Around the vent of the principal one of
these styrroni are beautiful stalagmitic con
cretions, tipt with lead, and looking like a
mass of corals. These masses are conical•
and tubular, and from cach a little jet of
steam issues with a whizzing noise. I ob—
tained a specimen with much difficulty, in ,
consequence of the hot shower falling like
a magic circle around them. The ground
frequently trembles, and rumbling, subter—
raucous noises tell of "fires down below."
A Moom.ExAmINATION.—The curtain rose'
and the man arose. Making a step or two
forward, he folded his arms, raised his eyes
imploringly, groaned
painfully, bowed aw
fully, and spoke. Oh! spirit of Schmidt,
surely thou must have been around and
about inspiring the man. Be said:
"Ladies, I pleve you all wants to make
von shkool? Very Tell, den, you moose
youst dell me all de tings vat I axes you.
and den I rill find you von Mace for you to ,
make do shkool. Speak out lout and plain,
and pe no frait."
"Now doll me von vas ie vito pear tish-
covert?"
No answer
"Tat ish too hart. Yell, con you goes in,
de market and pays a dime of sour krout
for a picayune, how moosh shango yon
moost have?"
No answer.
"Tat ish too hart, too. Vell, how yoti
shpell croomsher, mit English readin?"
"Potato," said a pert little miss of fif
teen, who had doubtless obtained her di-.
pima a.
"Coot, fooshtrate. Now dell me rat isli
de name of de shtick vat goes troo der mit. :
tlo of der vorld to hang him oop on?"
No answer
"Von more und Ipe finish. Der haf one
pook, vat makes dor boeples talk fooshtrate,
und pe prout und say nice tinge like dee
preacher, Vat ish dor name of dat pook?"•
"Grammar," said our little miss.
I "Coot; coot as clabber ahem, und per
cause you ish der shmartest und dur poot
iest, und der nicest treat, and percause you
ish mine cootyrinde ter peer man's taughter.
you may make von shkool; mid all dem TILEI
don't know null; kin yust co home und laarn
some more."
This of course put and end to the per t
formance, and all left, we for one feeling
that we had never witnessed a play better
worth the money.