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lQn?.cteaitev*nd.at low rates of.'lnterest. i k
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donstruotion of thiS.EbadJtnd areUtnong ;tb£'
and fertile la the world, Theyextend
from &>rth-£ast and- North-Weirtl through' the tbtdflle
of;tfce State, to :&?'extreme goufh;im4 Invade, etefy
-variety of climate and production* found between r tho*e
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' prairie, Interspersed with-fine grbVes, abd 5a tfcemtddla.
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tlontf eortoftrantportatton te a popetuaVUi 6s the
latter, wbteh Jhutt be borne by .the producer, la tjM'te*
ducedprlwle receives for his grain. &c.
TheWste perfecti-and when tha find payments are
are executed by the trustees appelatedey ;
the Stftte, Ami In.whom, the title hi jested; to*tbwf PWtv
chasers, whichdonv«r to them absolute titles in fee sim
ple, frbe and clear bfewery InfeUhibrahce, lien ermort-
prlo«s are frwa sBto‘s3ointerest only fiperet,
twenty per ct, will be deducted from the price for cash.'
Those who purchase on long credit, gireuoteepiyable
in two, three, four, fire and six yoars after date, and are *
required id Improve one-tenth .annually for fire years,,
so as to hare one-half the land' underctUtitatlbn tt the.
. end of that ■; - v Vy,; <-o’* ViyS-y,: >■ t;
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borhood of.the Railroad. Lands, throughout the
also the of cattle, expense of har
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. will be cheerfolly on applicStlanieitherperaohilly
or by letter,in Rngllsh, krench,,or German, addressed
• to " ~-h •' - 'johnWilson.*
Land Commissioner of the Illinois Central B. B,’ Co.'
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The tree-must' he' known by Its'fruits. My
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'Wili'demand ; ,patient .industry, large expendi
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sonal fq myself, hero in Pennsylvania, and
el.ietvhero, inspired tile with additional confi
dence. Intis’ Success. The- agreeable relations
X jhatj, fenttalufed - , to ’most of those engaged in
journalisms during iny long 1 Connection with
.that profession; reminded me that this, if not
abyuysjthe, most lucrative'. avocation, was, at
Ifijsrto lay. own mind; thei meat acceptable,
because it- rfiroponed.a fleld of independent
:Mndii, and;Jtard > hpt.,e|iil!Riug.toil. An enter,
prise founded-uppn s.uclvmotives cautiot fail to
prosper.;.! have inyested'.in it.ull that I .have
in’the. world, and eyery effort and energy of
-wltiph I am capable, shall bo enlisted, to render
ri.deseryblg of fipprpbj Uon arid support.. .. .
.. . Tub PKEsa will speak fbr itseli'-on all ihe
..jgreat.auestieM. of’the' Idhy./’r have tiiready
:anriouneed(what;’ indeed; was universally and
justly anticipatcdi) that' the political depart,
meut ofi riiy paper should be'conducted upon
Domocratio principles. ! -It is’ equally Well-'
fcdoivn that tho measures and the men of the
present! Administration 'at Washington’ have
my heartiest approbation. 1 I have known the
great Btatesman,row at the head of the Govern
ment, and acteo. in concert and confidence
ywith hiln, ever since-my first youthful as
sociation in’ politics and editorial lile. The
most agreeable’ services',which it has fallen to
to. my lot ,to perform,’were those given to his
cause,. : My attachment tp him grow not more
from admiration-' of hW pure and upright
character than flomaprdfound regard for his.
intellect, experlence and patriotism. It was
: my goojd fortune, with many'good men, to
assist, not obscurely nor inefficiently, in crown-
Tngalifb mf ulsefolness and'distinction to his
■cOUntry.flnd himself with the highest honors in
■,tbeworld.v TheAuits.of.that result are already
ripening for thoFuturc.' The wisdom, of tho
popularTchpjcp.iSibeing'dally,,vindicated by the
quiet arid. content which, pave followed the
..stormyscenes of,last,yegr,as tho sweetsun
shmo , follows the . destructive tempest., Had
Mr! BuokAsax. he was, my first
.choice for President; and yet’ approved himself
worthy of the high trust confided to his hands,
by regardipgfrespecftrig, '.and protecting the
tightsotthe citizen sndtherightsoftbe States,
P should have done everything that one man
could do to'npholdandto strengthen him, and to
gather around him a united public opinion.
Tho performance ofthUtduty becomes a proud
satisfactionj however, when the consistency,-
dignity,’ and ability, of his. administration, are
so many proofS thatho well deserved the per
severing aufi enthusiastic preference .of thoso
gallant pish who 'fiava clung.-to ..hia fortunes
through good report and through; evil report,
dun tig so many-long years,*
lam not writing as . a partisan—l am not
ambitious of {jnnting a meroj>arty paper j tor,
While,w(th flrp faith and unfaltering footsteps
I will.follow constitutipnal'principles to their
logical and*legitimate conclusions, I shall at
‘the satup time seek'to cohvirice those who may
differ front'me, by reason, hot Recrimina
tion—by argoment rather than by declamation.
And I am 1 confident 1 that rib 1 man,-looking at
Mr.'BubsAuArfs administration,'Up to this
m'oihOhf, with'dtsinterested’and. elevated, mo
tives, r will deny that that statesman has
achieved the Presidency, at .an suspicions,pe
riod forj his own fame,‘and ;at..a fortunate
have been at work a quarter of a century.
Now, iq all that time, what good have'they
done? 'Where is it'to bo seen ? they bare
produced no good result for the slave —they
have done nothing for the free black. On the
contrary, wo have the evidence of aorae of the
moßt respected Southern statesmen that the
slave has been injured, and wo have the facts
before us in Constitutions of several of the
States, to show that the free colored persons
are worse off than they were.
That ,is the case as to the colored races.
.What have been the effects of slavery agitation
in the country? It has arrayed onojbody of
I States against the others. It has created hos
tilities, heart-burnings, and all manner of bad
foeling amongst men who should live together
as brothers. It has disturbed the general
business of the copntry. And finally it has
brought almost to the verge of destruction the
best and wisest, and happiest nation that eyer
existed on the face of the earth. Wo put it
to the common sense and consciences of our
readers,’ whether a party that produces no
good for any,'and so much evil for all, should
receive their support. Upon these points we
present from the Legislative history of the
I the.-remarks of two eminent states
-1 men delivered years ago, and what waß true at
I that time,, is ten-fold the truth now.
BUCHANAN AND BENTON ON ANTI-81AVEEY BO
a < { /> OIETIEB IN 1836. ■ ’
Mr. Buchanan presented the memorial of
the religious society of “ Friends,” in the State
of Pennsylvania, adopted at their Cain quar
terly meeting, requesting Congress to abolish
Slavery in tho District of Columbia. He said
the memorial did not emanate from fanatics,
endeavoring to disturb, the peace and security
of society in the. S -rnthern States, by the dis
tribution of incendiary publications, but from
a society of Cimstians, „whose object had
always been to promote, good will and , peace
among men. It was entitled to respect, from
the character of the memorialists; but lie dis
sented from tho opinion which they expressed
and the 'request which they made. The Con
stitution recognized Slavery; it was found
here when the District Was coddd to tho United
States; the slaves here were the property of
the inhabitants;-and he was opposed to the
disturbance of their rights. Congress had no
right to interfere with Slavery in the States.
That was determined in the first Congress that
ever sat-;in. the Congress which commenced
in 1789,and ended jnl79l—and ,in,the first
session of that Congress. The Religious So
ciety ■ of Fricnda tneh' petitioned Congress
against Slavery,, qpd it was resolved, in an
swer to'that petition,'that Congress had no
authority to Interfere in tho emancipation
of slaves, or with their treatment in any of the
States, ahd that was the answer.still to he given.
He then; adverted to the circumstances under
which the memorialwas presented. Anumber
of fanatics, led on by foroignincendiaries, have
been scattering firebrands through the Southorn
States—publications and pictures exciting the
slaves to revolt, and to the destruction of their
owners. Instead of bonefltting the slaves by
this conduct, they do them tho greatest injury,
causing the bonds to - he drawn tighter upon
thein; and postponing emancipation even in those
Btales tohich might eventually contemplate it.
These were his opinions on slavery, and on the
prayer of this memorial. He was opposed to
granting tho prayer, but was in favor of re
ceiving tlie petition; as the similar one had been
received in 1790,and giving Itthe same answer;
and he had no doubt with the same happy effect
of putting an end to such applications, and
giving peace and quiet to the country.”
* • • * *
“Mr. Benton rose to express his concurrence
in the suggestion*of the SenatorfromPennsyl
vnnia (Mr. Buchanan), that the consideration
of this subject be postponed until Monday. It
had come up suddenly' and unexpectedly to-day,
and. the postponement would give an opportu
nity for to reflect, and to confer to
gether, and to conclude what was best to bedone,
where all were united in wishing the same end
namely, to allay, and not to produce excite
ment. He had risen for this purpose; but,
being on his feet he would say a few words on
tho general subject, which the presentation of
, these petitions had so suddenly and unexpect
edly brought np. With respect to tho peti
tioners, and those with whom they acted, he I
had no doubt but' that many of them were
good people, aiming at benevolent objects,
and endeavoring to ameliorate the condition
of one part of the human race, without inflict
ing calamities on another part; but they were
mistaken in their mode ot proceedings, and
so far from accomplishing any part of their
object ; the whole effect of their interposition
Was to aggravate the condition of those in
whose behalf .they ; were' ‘ interfering. But
there was another, part, and bo meant to speak
Mi the abolitionists generally, as the body con
tain the'.part of which bespoke; there was
another part whom lie could not qualify as
igood people, Seeking benevolent ends by! mis
taken meins, bitt.as incendiaries and agitators,
with diabolical’ objects in viow, to be accom
plished'by, wtekfa and deplorable means. Ho
did not’ go Into the proofs now to establish
the correctness of ids opinion of this latter
class, but lie presumed it would bo admit
ted that every attempt to work upon the
passions, of. the: .slaves, and to excite them
to murder their'owners, was a wicked and
diabolical atlympt,, and tho work of a
midnight .incendiary. - Pictures of slave de
gradation end. misery, and of tho white
man’s luxury arid cruelty, were attempts of
this kind; for they were appeals to tliovou
goanee of slaves, and not,to the intelligence
or reason of those who' legislated for them.
’*tolo 0 0 '
But it was- nett pictures alone that operated
upon the passions of the slaves, hut speeches,
publications, petitions presented iu Congress,
and the whole machinery of Abolition so
cieties.: None of these things went to the
understandings of the.slaves, but to their pas
sions ; all imperfectly, understood, and In
spiring vague hopes, .and stimulating abortive
and fatal insurrections. Societies, especially,
were the foundation of the greatest mischiefs.
Whatever might be their, objects, tho slaves
never did, and never can, Understand therii hut
in one way—as allies, organized for action and
ready to inarch to their aid on the first signal
ofiiimirrection. ;It was thus thitt tho massacre
"of Sail Domlngb Was made. ' ' * *
. Mr. B. weut on to say that these societies had
already- perpetrated more mischief than the
joifit remainder of all their lives spent ip
prayers of contrition could over atone for.
Tlifey had thrown tlio state of tho emancipa
tion question fifty years back. They had sub
jected every traveller, and every emigrant,
from the non-slaveholding States, to be
received with coldness, and viewed with
suspicion and jealousy in the slave-hold
ing States. They had occasioned many
slaves to lose their lives. They had caused
tho deportation of many ten thousands
from the grain growing to the planting States.
They had caused the privileges of all slaves to
be curtailed, and their bonds to be more tightly
drawn. Nor was the mischief of their con
duct confined to slaves; it reached the free,
colored people, and opened a siidden gulf of
misery to that population. In all the slavo
States this population lias paid tho forfeit of
their intermediate position; and suffered pro
scription as the instruments, real or suspected,
of the abolition societies. In all these States
their exodus had either been enforced or was
■impending.
Having said thus much of tho abolition so
cieties in the non-siavehoidfng States, Mr. B.
turned, with-pride and exultation, to a differ
ent' theme —the conduct of the great body of the
people iti all these States. Before he saw that
conduct, and while the black question, like a
p'ortentjous cloud, was gathering and darken
ing on tho Northeastern horizon, lie trembled,
not for tho South; but for the Union. He
feared that he saw the fatal work of dissolu
tion about to begin, and the bonds of this glo
rious confederacy about to snap; but tho con
duct of the gTcat body of the people in all the
non-slaveholding States quickly dispelled that
fear, and in its place planted deep the strong
est assurance of the harmony and indivisi
bility of the Union, which ho had felt for
many years. Their conduct was above all
praise, above all thanks, above all gratitude.
They Had chased off the foreign emissa
ries, silenced the gabbling tongues of female
dupes, and dispersed the assemblages, whether
fanatical, visionary, or incendiary, of all that
congregated to preach against evils which
afflicted others, not them; and to propose
remedies to aggravate the disease which they
pretendpd to cure. They had acted with a
noble spirit- They had extended a vigor be
yond all taw. They had obeyed the enact
ments, not of the statute’hook, hut of the
heart; trad while that spirit was in the heart,
ho cared nothing for laws written in a hook.
Ho woiild rely upon that spirit to complete
' it has begun : to dry up these
separate the mistaken pliilau
the reckless fanatic and the
iary, and put an end to publica
tions which, whatever may be
m have no other effect than to
ject which they invoke, and to
)vil which they doplore,
leso extracts at tbo present, mp.
lo.—u .—-—■>—-i.i. ■—
, than twenty years ago, they'
pertinent and as just at this day
vd only yesterday been uttered,
part of Col. Benton’s speech
seems to refer to the union of patriotic men
which eleoted Mr. Buouanan President. Tlint
union reflected not only the highest honor
upon them, but it opened the door to every
other man, who, while thinking uud acting
ditferenjly in 1856, may now behold the true
and the solid safety of bis country to consist in
a hearty co-operation with those who achieved
that great victory. Every aspect of politics
is in proof of the fact, that an immense body
of our countrymen have decided to act on this
motive.
ROYALTY EXPENSIVE.
There is something magnificent, to some
people, in being liberal, and even profuse with
money not their own. John Bull particularly
rejoices in such a thing as this. He seems to
think that, having got a Royal Family, there
is nothing more fitting than to take every op
portunity of heaping gifts upon them. If John
Bull himself does not do this, his Parliament
docs, which ought to be (but is not) all the
same.
The annual allowance to Queen Victoria is
close on $2,000,000, in hard cash. She has
other advantages, such as being exempt from
house-rent and taxes, having her different
palaces kept in repair, and so on. She has
the income of the Duchy of Lancaster, which
is about $ 160,000 more. She has appropriated
to hersejf, since his birth, the Prince of "Wales's
$126,000, from the rental of his Duchy of
Cornwall estates. In a word, she is very well
provided for, it must be admitted. Her hus
band has a Parliamentary life-dower of $160,000
per annum, and about as much more accruing
from various lucrative appointments, which his
affectionate wife and generous sovereign lias
heaped upon him. It does not cost him a
cent for the expenses of living, for the Queen
provides all of that. Victoria and Albert
receive, between them, some $2,500,000 a
year, and probably save a third of the amount.
Fortunate people i They evidently were born
not with silver, but witli golden spoons, in tlieir
mouths.
They have what the Irishman would call
“a large small family” of nine. The eldest,
not yet seventeen, will soon be mnrried to a
young gentleman, nephew and heir presump
tive to the bibulous King of Prussia. The
Prince of Wales, if he survive his mothor,
(which is doubtful, as ho is a puny lad,) will
yet be King of England. The rest of the
family will bo quartered upon the British pub
lic, as soon as ever they become men and
women, the usual allowance to a Prince or
Princess of England being about $125,000 per
annum for life.
Victoria and her husband have laid by con
siderable portions of their income in the
course of seventeen years. Report runs that
a good deal of thisis carefully invested in good
American'securities, and that the Queen of
England, in another name, actually possesses
considerable real estate in New York. (It is
believed that they apprehend a revolution,
which will drive them into exile, am! that they
have provided for a reverse, very largely and
prudently.) Bo this so or not, certain it is
that, a few months ago, the Queen sent mes
sages down to Parliament, announcing the in
tended marriage of her daughter, with a mo
dest request that they would provide her with
a dowry.
In ordinary cases, when man and ivifc have
a family, with a fixed income, terminating at
their death, they cither save money, to portion
off and provide for their children, or prudently
resort to Life-Assurance to secure that pro
vision. Victoria and Albert have saved
several millions—but, so attached are they
to the British people, that they preferred
using the public money to disbursing
their own. Accordingly while English tax
payers were grumbling, as well they might,
over the expenditure of $600,000,000, in two
years, over the Russian war—in which Franco
got the glory and gained the influence—Lord
Palmerston, pleasant wag thathe is, aßked the
British Parliament to vote $360,000 by way of
outfit, with an annual grant ol $40,000
during the life of the young lady. Her aunt,
(the eldest daughter of George III.,) received
like dowry, on her marriage to the King of
Wurtemburg, without the annuity. The young
Princess, thus placed in a state of Royal Pau
i perism, comes from a very long-lived family,
PHILADELPHIA, FRI
•Sind, is likoly to live halt a century more. There-'-
fore, from the annuity alone, she will probaK
receive some $2,000,000 in that period, with(
rookoning the interest. With a slight show
opposition from Mr. Rouutr’CK, this grant u
unanimously passed. ’ We liave thrown awr
on various occasions, largo sums of pubi
money, but any such lavishnicut as this wou
Well-nigh cause a revolution. We arc ouroV
sovereigns,-electing our own Chief Magistral
and we may be grateful for nofebeing burihew
with. Princes who want pensions, Princesr
who demand marriage-dowries, and Quectis wl
put their hands into the pockets of their u p(
pic.”
The mutter does not end here. Scvei
thousand pounds, the outfit of the Princt
Royal, is a sum of money larger, we honesl
believe, than has ever been at one time in t
treasury of any. of the petty princes
Europe. There are, it in calculated, some hi
hundred German princes, eligible for ini
riage, with unquestionable certificates tl,
they are strong Protestants—an importai
consideration, when we know that the Ho;
family of England are legally precluded lYc
intermarriage out of the pale of Lutheranism.
Besides the , Princess Royal, who is disposed
of to Prussia, there are four, other., English:
princesses, unwedded—respectively * ranging
from the ago of fourteen years to four months,
Already, on the golden hope of rich dowry? 1
the German bachelor princes arc ortger\J
looking to Euglund with matrimonial views.
The Queen of Holland, whomusthe a pretty:
considerable sharp and wide-awake matron', Ids
not lett you under her feet., Queen
second daughter, (Aliob Maud KAav,) w«/
fourteen last April, and the Dutch Queen lias
already arrived in England to make up a mar
riage between that child and one of her own
som. This Is-pretty quick.work. The Dutch
Queen visits England as the Countess Yak,.
Buj.en—whether she claims jjgnnuxiop with
the family of our ex-President is unknown.
The Prince of Orange, her eldest son, whom
she has proposed as a suitable husband for the
English Princess, Aeice, is only seventeen.
Bjpr Majesty .evidently is in favor of early mar
riages, for her own age is only thirty-six.
The melancholy part of these royal mar
riages is that they are almost wholly unions of
convenience. The matches arc often made
up before the parties most deeply interested
have ever had a glimpse of each other.
Royalty lias its drawbacks, not the least being
the necessity of continuing iu « single blessed
ness,** unless corresponding rank be the
wooer. No English Priuco or Princess cau
marry a subject—not even the eldest son of a
Duke.
Luxuries must be paid for ? if people indulge
in them. John Bull piques himself on Ids
“duty, devotion, and loyalty” to life sovereign
rulor, and ought not grumble, therefore, if
Princes, Princesses, ami so on,are more costly
than other mortals. A\ r e know a land, how
ever, where the idea of pensioning of a large
family of royal children would be received
with a strong mixture of contempt and indig
nation.
CORRESPONDENCE .
FROM UARRIMiURG.
fCorreipouilenc* of The Prusß.j
JlAitßisnt ao, Augupt 4,1807.
7<ssterday tho Dauphin County Convcntkm as
sembled in this place. Tho different olcction dis
tricts were tally represented, and the contest for
some of the nominations was animated andaotive,
bnt all passed off harmoniously, and tho eandi*
selected give very general satisfaction.
Tbo county of Dauphin is one of the few in P«
aylvanhv which are weddod to the Idol of Rr
lipantan. For rsfttiy years it
preatigo of the various isms fi»s Neon waning,
it will not bo n great while until the boosted
strength of fanaticism will haio yielded to the
light of-truth nml reason. It may be that our
wholo ticket will be Again defeated this fall. If
this should be so, I venture to predict that it will
be by Idm than 800 majority, and that the Demo
cratic) party will havo every reason to be proud of
tho roHult. Thero arc nmuy intelligent men hero
who united with tho Democrats last fall in support
of Mr. Buchanan, and these men will not soon go
back to the party which now RUpports Mr. IVilmot.
Thoy bare too muoli patriotism to join any sec
tional movement, no matter who heads it.
Mr. Buekalow's reply to General Packer’s letter,
submitting Mr. Wihuot’s “challengo,*’ is certainly
u luoidnnd forciblo document.
Tho August interest on the State debt of Penn
sylvania has been punctually puid,*and a large
balnnco yet remains in the Treasury. Financially,
the condition of our State was never bottor, and if
our law-makers will only lot her alone, it will not
be innuy years until.tho incubus of debt will be
removed from her.
I met Mr. Walker, the Fcorctnry of the State
Agricultural Society, this morning, and ho in
formed mo that he was on his way to Philadelphia
to make arrangements for the next Fair. It is the
design of the Society to render this Fair one of tho
best ever hold in tho State, and it will doubtless be
of much poouuiory benefit to your city.
Tbc weather is remarkably pleasant here now,
and we have' no sickucss prevailing whatovor.
There is not a more pleasant town in Pennsylvania,
during the Summer season, than Harrisburg.
FROM WASHINGTON.
[Correspondence of The Press.]
Washington, August 4th, 1857.
In compliance with tho Seventh Sootion of the
Naval Appropriation Bill, approved Marek 3d,
1857, which directs tho Secretary of the Navy to
have prepared, and to report to Congress at its
next session for its approval, ft codo of regulations
for the government of the Navy, which shall em
brace such generul orders and forms for tho per
formance of all tho necessary duties incumbent on
thoofficors thoreof, both ashore and .afloat, in
cluding rules for tho government of courts mar
tial, and courts of inquiry, as well as to establish
tho rank and piecodencc of ouch grado of officers
in tho line of promotion, and tho relative rank
and precedence, ashore and afloat, botwcon them
and nou-combatants, and betwcon officers and
petty officers of all grades not in tho lino of pro
motion. Tho following Board of Ofllcers will con
vene for that purpose, at Wrtshi»gton,on Monday,
tho 10th inst:
Commodore W. B. Shubriek, Lieut. Col. John
Harris, Marino Corps; Purser John Hcßree,
Commander James L. Lardner, Lieutenant W. L.
Maury, Surgeon Chaa. D. Maxwell.
Captain Georgo S. Blake has preparatory orders
to relieve Captain Goldsborough iisSu|K>rintendent
of the Naval Acadomy, on tho 15th of September.
Captain Win. J. McCluney has preparatory
orders to succeed Captain George P. Blake, in
tho supcrintendency of tho construction of Stevens’
War Steamer, at New York.
Courtof Inquiry, No. 3, having conoludcd the
ease of Commander Win. Green, (furloughed by
the lute Retiring Board,) will, probably, beginning
with Thursday, take a recess for four weeks.
A Now York correspondent of tho San
Francisco Bulletin , discussing the sub-At
lantic telegraph question, thus speculates on*
some of its effects on the journalism of this
countryßut tho public have not thought
that they are about losing their accustomed
side-dishes of scandal, gossip, and persiflage— .
the letters “ From our own Correspondent,”
in London, Paris, and other European cities.
These epistles, if continued, will inevitably
be about a fortnight late. That is, suppose
that Louis Napoleon were to die on the first
of the month, the fact would reach us, by sub
marine telegraph, on the day it occurred.
Whereas ft letter from Paris, written at the
moment, with details, would he from eleven
to fourteen days in reaching New York, by
which time the Imperial demise would have
been pushed out of interest by later and other
incidents, and it would not be worth any edi
tor’s while to publish particulars of such an
out-of-date matter. It is easy to see that t!ic
foreign correspondence of the American
papers is likely to fall into abeyauce, under
the now regime. Such part of it ns is quietly
composed in the editorial sanctum must share
the fall. The New York Sunday Times, a
highly respeetublo journal, which has long
been popular on account of its lively home
made correspondence, ought to go Into mourn
ing when the sub-marine telegraph Is com
pleted.
Tiie Administration op India.—On an
early day next session, Sir Ersktne Perry will
move u That tho facts disclosed by recent events
in India, the embarrassed state of its finances, tlio
mal-adminiutration of justice in its provincial
courts, and tho innumerable ties which make our
Indian possessions an integral portion of thoßnush
empire, render it oxpodiont that the Government
of that country should bo transferred, in name as
well as in faot, from the East India' Company to
the responsible ministers of the Crown. ’
, AUGUST 7, 1857.
JUI . -=
NEWS.
jrtji Knowing this Warm
temporary says thatono pound of
mating seven cents, dissolved in
1 and poured down a privy will
itrnte and destroy the foulest
* closets aboard ships and stcam
land other publio places, there
to cleanse places ns simple green
under the bed in anything that
md thus rendor a hospital, or
the sick, free from unpleasant
rs’ stall*, fish markets, slaughter
wherever there are offensive,
iolve copperas and sprinkle it
fdaya the smell will pass away.
ju.se dies about thonouao, and
jnsive gas, plnco some dissolved
on ve?3ols nenr tho plnco where
d it will soon purify tho atrnos.
.SBADLT AND ROBBERY.—We
oston Daily Express that throo
tors by the name of Hall, nnd a
ynamo of Skillrnan, residents of
who passed through Easton on
with n drore of sheop, wero vio
>n Saturday night last, near the
illo, in Lohigh county, und rob*
circnniatanoes of the oaso os wo
as follows: They stopped in tho
v'iile for tho night, nnd went to
rn the village to mnko some pur
-10 loose change about them tho
i a largo roll of bank notes and
ii.oy went from the store to the bo
opposite, to refresh themselves. A
'fwijty&jj-fbar men who were in tho store at the :
tithe Odjy made the pure huso followed them out
at tho hotel until they camo out,
attacked them with clubs and knives, ;
them in a brutal and murderous i
z&nnVt&labbed thorn of the roll of notes nmount
|)K t<Lf#tfO. Upon their arrival in Easton on Tues
day PbrjfunDdo a statement of tho facts and had a
warrant ifetted for the arrest of tho landlord of the
; betel} l&cC'H ifl believed, know tho patties and can
give tofeony against them. Constable Lewis
up-to servo tho warrant. One of tho dro
vw Witf severely injured about the head and had i
a deofLgaah in his leg inndo by the knifo used in I
his pantaloons |
‘Wojtern papers complain that railroads have I
dhrmors so independent that thoyhavo !
t.frrle&.tbe prioo of beef nthomo to suqli n standard |
Gatjjjqbjjnng man can scarcely afford to indulgo
Rtfe rt pi;ly a cow belonging to a Ihrmor named
Koehler, Some distanoo boyoud Lath, Lcbigh county,
‘gtvq birth to a curious amalgam specimen of calf
-apdehoep. Tho entire body up to tho neck is ty
picaior,the Bhcop, and is covorod with a coat of
lonammck wool, and tho nook and head is natu
rally figurative of tho calf, and covered with
'tanofihjiair. The “critter” is about six weeks
uldJrpgr dovolopod nnd healthy.
■ %&, Cumberland County (Pa.) Agricultural,
Sootiry-wHI hold their annual Harvest Home
Mcdiag on Saturday, tho loth ult., at the Grove,
ne&VOatlisle.
pSife: counterfeits arc in circulation, of the
dpipmiaatiou of $2O, on tho Farmers’ and Drovers*
RnkVr\Ynynesbure, Pa. Tho engravers name
ifUmperfeot, and the letters in tho “Stato of
J P|hosylVania” are also imperfect.
[Hie soal shipments from the Lehigh region
I b’ and railroad for tho week ending July
124 amounted to 60,033 tons. Total transits by
! bj|b,ti‘v*unijc3 for tho sea,sou, 640,103 tons.
| Japjain George S. Blake Ims received pre-
orders to relieve Captain Gohhborougb,
odth»il6th of September, as superintendent of the
, RUM Academy, nt Annapolis, Maryland.
j Jbutfng the heavy storm on Tuesday aftev
; nparjast, tins barn of Mr. John Edoliuan, near tho
Bath, in Lehigh County, was struck by
li/htning, und n dnughter of Mr. Edchnan, and
t%>.#ws instantly killed. Tho daughter was ut
tfj.timo of the occurrcuco engaged in the barn
talking a cow, und At thoinstuut of the shock, uus,
; vjtH'dhe cow she was milking, struck dead. Tho
! licensed was about Uenty-three years of age.
|htr. Htmtsberger, who was run over hy a
fkkht train, near Altoona, died on Tuesday. His
wero taken to Harrisburg.
jit is -stated that efficient protection iroin
sovstroko muybo obtained by filling the top of the
hit with cotton. A remedy so simple deserves to
!><ktmrn more generally.
(Thi 'authorities at Steubenville, (Ohio,)
kijvo iffered a reward of $2OO for Henry Pratt,
wfyfcUurdorod Michael HalJoran in that town on
SatUrdiv night last. Tho murder was of a most
unpfpttped oharaeter, and perpetrated on an in-
Pratt left tho city about noon on
’''co been heard of Jfois
•eet, five foot five or six
black curly hair, block
rue, and worked at the
io of the papers gives a
in, in which it is stated
poundsor Tvmnnwir>-
. tho&nit<?d m***.. ... the hoop fashion camo
in vague, and this was soiling at about sixty couts
per pound. Wwc January M, 1857, the Imports
of tfis article reach one million eight hundred
thoiparul pounds, yot there is now little or no
stoat in the market. What remained in the sea
boaid cities has been nearly all bought up at $1.20
porpound. •
Railroad Matters. —The Directors of the
Pitjshurgh and Erie Kailroad Company hud a
melting at WestQreem ille, Mercer county, on the
23(/ult-t at a committee of the Directors of
thiMoudvillo Company were present, and a com
mittee of conference was appointed by the Penn
syl’aniaand Erie Railroad Coinpunv, to confer with
then, concerning the transforof the branch load.
If this transfer should bo made, it is understood
theimmns will soon bo raised to build tho road from
Meulville, through Moreer, to connect with the
Gnat Wosicrn and Atlnntio road at Orangeville.
Arothcr’ meeting of the Board of Directors and
Stckholders is to bo hold about tho middle of
The board had before them tho matter of
couploting tho north ond of tho road from James
torn to Mercor.
the regular monthly term of tho Circuit Court
of Virginia, commenced at Wheeling on the
3dinst. Tho justices have been summoned to re
la; tho levy for 1857, whioh hml been superseded
by the judgment of tho Circuit Court, and also to
determine as to whother the Court would again
lc T y to pay the interest ou the bonds of tbo county
gi/cn for its stocks in tho Heinpfleld railroad com*
piny. Tho caso was argued by Major Good, tho
Cunmonwealth’s attorney, for tho levy, and by Mr.
J»coh in opposition. Thomas Swcenoy, Esq., a
Drcctor in tno Hompfiold railroad, was then called
01 by the Court to explain tho aflairs of tho com
piny. The vote was then taken and the question
decided affirmatively by 18 to 8.
In Cincinnati, on Sunday evening, a young
man named William Kent, about twenty years of
no, son of the lato lamented Mrs. Kent of theatri
cs celebrity, wont to tho rosidouce of Mr. Win.
Srires, his brother-in-law, ? nid himself down upon
tie sofa in tho parlor, pullod a pistol out of his
Swkct and shot himself through tho head. He
,'ed two hours afterwards. No cause is assigned
ftr tho melancholy ocourronce.
New Collection of Antiquities. —The
British Museum is soon to bo enriched by a now
collection of antiquities. Those, tho fruit of tho
instituted atßudrun, the anciout Hali
cirnassus, by Mr. C. Newton, her Majesty’s Con*
nl at Mitylene, have just reaohod this country in
the stoamor Gorgon. They all bolong to the ro
lowpyil sopulchro of King Mnusolus; many slabs
from whion, found worked into tho walls of tho
nodern town of Builrun, have already been for
anno years in tho national collection. Tbo new
icquisitions aro said to bo both nmuorous and valu
able, and particular mention is mtido of a colossal
itatuto of a horso, weighing nearly seven tons.
Tub European Harvest. —Another week’s
btebly fhvorable wenthor, with some refreshing
rain, has brought tho country to the very verge of
larvcst. As respects wheat it will bo rather over
m average in this country. Ituports are still uuiro
looided from nil purN of France as to there boiug
a great crop on tho ground. It is tho same in
fspainj,ltaly, Algeria, Egypt, the Principalities,
and SwiUhorn Russia; whilo all Amerioa confirms
iho prospects of plenty. Southern Europe, too, haa
.favorably commenced; but tho grout bulk awaiU
jts maturity and final ingatherings.
' Lo Novd, of Brussels, states positively that
the Emperor and Empress of the French intend to
visit tho Queen of England at Osborne in tho first
weok of August. Thoir will, however, ho
short, ns they must be hack in Paris before tho
15th proximo, fur the fetes which will commence
on that day.
It i.s said tlmfc a convention is to be signed
between the Sovereigns of tho Italian States, with
tho exception of the King of Sardinia, to guaiuu
teo each other ngoinst revolutionary attacks.
A shocking affray occurred at Cold Spring,
N. V., on Tuesday last, between Michael Tulleii
and John MoKoaren. The former is married to
the sister of tho latter Tho wife hud boon shuiue
fully ill-treated by her brother, and the life of her
husband threatened by him. TalJen, to insure his
| own safety, “swore bis life’’ against him Me-
Kearon, hearing of this, went, on Tuesday morn
-1 ing to Tulluu’s liuuso, armod with ft knife, with
tho intention of putting his threats into execu
tion, and whilo in tho uet of stubbing him, 'fallen
drew a pistol and fired, tho bull entering the
breast, pawing through tho lungs and coming out I
at his buck. ft is impossible for him to recover. I
Tailon gave himself up immediately. !
Dejmo S. Miller, Esq., Ims been elected
President of the Stiumhbuig (Pa.) Bank, and Jus
11. .Stroud, Cashier.
The Executive Committee of the Lehigh
Agiioultural Society mot ou Saturday Inst, and
agreed upon tho schedule of premiums for the
next fair, to ho held on tho last days of [September
und tho first of Octobor.
The Boston Journal lias a letter from ft
correspondent »t Leuvonworth, Kansas, giving an
account of tho arrival at that place of a party of
ono hundred Mormons, who had tied rioin the
tyranny of Brigham Young and the degradations
of Mormonism at Salt Lake.
An Encampment of Volunteers will be held
at Norristown, commencing on the 25th of August,
to he oallocl Camp La Fayette. The command has
been tendered to and accepted by Major General
William 11. Keim.
The oxpress train between Rochester (New
York,) and tho Niagara Suspension Bridge, re
cently accomplished its night trip in one hour and
twenty-five minutcs~a distance of 76 miles. This
is a fraction over a minute to tho mile. In Eng
land tho mail trains run regularly CO miles per
minute.
The office of tho American Express Com
pany, at Quincy, was entered on Friday night last,
and ono of tho safes rifled of over $3OO.
Miss Lucy Horton, residing near Rye Cove,
in Sool t county, Va , committed suicide a few days
since by cutting her throat with a razor. Sho had
boon much afflicted in health,
The Cincinnati Commercial of the 4th says:
—A destructive fire occurred in the village of St
Paul, on the line of the Indianapolis road, yester
day, by which two stores and seven houses wero
dosioyed The damage cannot be much under
525,f1u0 The fire is supposed to have been set by
u notorious charaoter by the name of Barret.
Mr. Perkins, of Dover, N. 11., recontly
made a bet that he could haul a wagon weighing
two hundred and thirty pounds, with a man in it
weighing one hundred and seventy pounds, two
miles in twenty-five minutes. Ho accomplished
the feat in twenty-two minutes.
The Salem (Mass.) Advocate is iuformed by-
Mr. Dudley B. Davis that, since the first of last
March, ho has boiled at his establishment 320.-
000 lobsters, which at $331- por thousand will make
the snug little sum of ton thousand six hundred
and sixty-sovon dollars paid to lobster men in the
employ of Mr. Davis. There are other establish
ments in Salem where great numbers are boiled
most of whioh are carried into the country daily
many finding their way over the railroads to dis
tant parts of the State
On Saturday last a lad numed Sherman, who
was vi*iiting his uncle at Rahway, N J., in com
pany with another boy, went out in a small boat*
and during tho day wore seen several times, but
since thou no tidings has been received of them
It is supposed thoy wero drifted out to sea and
lost, or perhaps thoy have beon picked up by some 1
outward bound vessel.
Tho Grand Jury, now sitting in Louisville,
Kentucky, have returned true bills of indiotment
against Mr. Prentice, of tho Journal, and Mr.
Durrett, of tho for carrying concealed
weapons, and for personal attacks made upon e'aoh
other in the street
Advices received by tho Indian Bureau from
the Indian agent on the Texas frontier, stating
that tho Indians in that region were quiet and
well contented.
The schooner Flying Cloud, at Gloucester,
Mass., reports that Charles Miley, of that town,
and John Crosby, of Yarmouth, wero accidently
drowned at Harbor Lacou. Thoy wore both young
mon.
The tallest man in our army is a Georgian,
standing 6 feet, 6} inches.
John Zeller was murdered at a card table
in Harrison township, Hamilton county, a few dayt
since. Ho had a dispute with his partner, Lewis
F. Bender, and knocked him down. Bonder arose
and drove a bowio knifo into the brain of Zollor,
killing him instantly. It appears to have been
done in self defence, as Bender was admitted tb
bail in the sum of $5OO.
/ Edward W. Allen, Esq., of Tom’s River,
N. J., one of the Judcea of tho Common Picas, of
Oecun county, was killed a few days since, by being
thrown out of his wagon.
News mow the Wagon Roads.—Tho
Washington States has private advices of tho 22d
and 25tn ultimo, from a gontlemnn connected with
tho Fort Kearney South Pass wagon road, who
Ytaaen route to overtake the trains. He reports
having fallen in with Col. Alexander's company,
numbering 'some 900 men, with 90 wagons, on their
way to Utah, near Riohmoud, Kansas Territory.
Tho Fort Yuma and El Paso trains loft Little Rock,
Ark., about 20th ultimo.
There was a serious riot in Johnstown on
the 4th inst., Two persons wore killed and some
injured. Tho participants wero principally Welsh,
and wero employed in and about the Cambria
Works. Tho riot originated in a dog fight, and re
sulted in the death of a man named Wertz, and
one whoso nnme is unknown. Great exciteiuont
prevailed nil evening Soiuo are seriouoly injured.
_ Tho notorious burglar, Rand, who abstracted
$5OOO lrom the office of tho Belvidero Delaware
Railroad Company, at Lambcrtrille—for which he
was confined in tho Flemington jail, and made his
escape tbenfroiu—has been arrested at Frcderiek
town. How Brunswick, for tho robbery of the bank
in that place.
Tho city ofEuading, Pa., employs Philadel
phia dog-catehcrs.
There was a number of rows at the election
polls in Louisville, Ky., on Tuesday. The Know-
Nothings resorted to all kinds of outiagen and
tricks, and in a number of the Wards prevented
tho Democrats from voting 1
A correspondent of the Prairie Fanner says
that while travelling in lowa a favorite dog was
bitten by a rattlesnake. In tho course of five
minutes ho could not travel. Some vinegar, mixed
with gunpowdei was applied to the wound, and the
swelling was stopped, and in a quarter of an hour
ho was able to proceed.
Tho Vicksburg (Miss.) Sentinel, of a Into
date, announces tho death of Colonel Thomas M.
flreeii, of time city, who was a veteran soldier un
der General Jackson, at New Orloana.
On Monday last some fifty new recruits ar
rived at the Carlisle Garrison. Most of them
were enlisted in this city and New York.
American aud English Agriculture.
At the recent meeting of the Itoyal Agri
™l!i£ l i’s ou ‘ °f England, Lord Portman
United States, to the 'amlienceV
who w.|s well received, said his mission to
England was principally agricultural, and ha
had left his own country with that Yankee
spirit of inquiry to spy out the land elsewhere.
In two months lie had observed carefully dur
ing that time the differences that were mani
fest in this country between its agriculture and
that of America. He observed a more
thorough, a more systematic course of agri
culture, a better system, a more profitable,
a more money-making system. That differ
ence was the result of certain facts which
ho would point out. The first was, that land
in America was very cheap, it could be
bought there for live shillings an acre.
Land being so cheap was not so well culti
vated, and was generally worked for present
profit, and as soon as the present profit ceased
it was left, and a new piece of land was pro
cured. Another fact was, that for the labor on
the land 2s. was paid in America for Is. in
England. The price of labor in .New England
was ss. a day, that was, he thought, the lowest
estimate, and he thought that was double the
average price paid forlaborinEngland, so that
they would see that the Americans were em
barrassed in their operations by the price of
labor, but from the mode of cultivation they
could not afford to lay out the kind of labor
that was laid out in England. Ho might be
allowed to boast a little, as they had, ho was
glad to say, taken tho first prize for mowing
machines; that was a proof, not that they had
superior and better genius, but another illus
■ tration of that maxim that “ necessity is tho
mother of invention.” If they had been
obliged to pay 7s. a day for mowing their hay,
as he hud done on-.hjs farm in America, he
i thought, like Yanjeos, thoy would have set
, themselves down thought a little inoro
sharply upon this subject.
Tho Yankee sat do&h* thinking he had got
7s. a day to pay, and phis acres must be out,
and so ho set to work’to-' construct a machine
and beat all England. The position of agri
culture in America might be illustrated by tho
case of a person who laid no money, and whoso
only capital was a tolerable ho
could read, write, and cypher, or “calculate,”
as tho Yankees call it, and lie goes into tho
wilderness. Uo could not sit down and read
books; bis business is with tho question of how
bread is to be provided. 110 cannot consider
what is best for posterity and what is the best
system of agriculture? but the question is,
bow can he get maintenance for next year for
liis wife and children. Then he must build a
bouse, and if he has any neighbors they help
him to build a log bouse, and it is built in a
day, which answers his purpose very well.
Then he had uu occasional fight or brush with
the Indians, and, further, ho had u variety of
MAtteis to attend to, such as making his
fences, and by and by bo gets settled, if lie
dues not go west, as he generally does two or
three times, and so he goes on improving tho
land. The farms in America are one vast set
tlement, and how much land taere was he did
not know, but when he loft home there were
thirty-one States, und how many there were
now he really did not know. To give an in
stance of the mode ot progreess, twenty-five
years ago there was a place where there was a
wilderness in which there was nothing but a
few fishing bouses, and the other day the in
habitants numbered at least 110,000. Then,
too, they made roads—the farmers pioneer—
and in the State of Illinois, according to a
recent statement, there were 2000 miles of
railway in that one siugle State; so that get
ting the land gradually cultivated they had a
couutiy witii tho Atlantic on one side, the Pa
cific on the other, the Gulf of Mexico on
another, and the very best kind of neighbor,
in Canada, on the North.
Sir Isaac Newton calculated that the heat
tho comet of 1680 ought to have experienced in
its through tho perihelion, was two thou
sand times more intense titan that of red-hot iron.
De Quincy tells an anecdote of a man who
on being threatened with tin assault by eighteen
tailors, cried out—“ Como on, both of you.’’
A clergyman was censuring a young lady for
tight lacing “ Why,” roplied miss, “ you would
not surely iccounnend loose habits to your parish
ioners
It i.s said that Cardinal Wiseman has com
promised the action brought against him by the
Abbe ltuu.Y.
The Hon. Neal Dow has been lecturing on
his sriiemo of compulsory temperance ut Carnarvon
and in other parts of North Wales.
M. Czerny, the well-known composer and
pianist, has just died at Vienna, aged fllxty-aix.
Not having any fumily, he haa just bequeathed his
fortuno, which is coiuiderablo, to the Conservatory
of Music of that city, and to charitable societies.
It is said that Miss Louisa Pyne haß taken
the Lyceum, London, for the purpose of English
opera.
The Astor Library is closed for the ensuing
three months. The additions to tho building
will bo completed next July, and there will be
no departure from tho architectural style al
ready adopted. It is expected that several
rooms at the back of the Library will be roofed
on the expiration of tho interval during which
tho Library is closed.
Beranger, the Poet, has departed this ife.
Ha waa 77 old.
TWO CENTS.
THE BURDELL BOGUS BABY.
DR. CATLIN TURNED STATENS
EVIDENCE
Testimony of Augusta Cunningham,
We conilnuo, from the New York papers, of yes
terday, the most important of the evidence and in
cidents in this singular and astounding case.
Bhortly after three o’clock, yesterday afternoonj
Miss Augusta Cunningham entered the court
room, and sat down in a corner, covering her face
with her hands. She seemed overwhelmed with
misery. To the few words of sympathy addressed
to her she was unable to reply. Her sobs checked
her utterance. It was pitiable indeed to witness
the intensity of her sufforing.
Hisd AUGUSTA CUNNINGHAM ON THE STAND.
Mias Augusta Cunningham, sworn—Beside at 31
Bond street; am the daughter of Mrs. Emma
Cunningham, or Burdell; was at home on Monday
last until after three o’clock; went away in aosr
riago; was with my mother nearly all the time,
until I went away; she did not go with me; have not
seen her since that time; mother complained of
being unwell on Monday; she did not say what
was the matter with her; she was not very well a
few days before, for she refused to go out in a car
riage with me; mother spoke to mo about her con
finement about two weeks before, and told .me
what doctors she would have to attend her: she.
named Drs. Uhl and Catlin; I was not well that
day, and told her I did not want to hear
about it; I advised her to get our family physician.
Dr. Freeman; I never heard her speak of the ohild
with which', she was confined as that of D*/Bui
dell; I wwu to apeak the truth nervous system
has been so unstrung since the affair in Bond
street, that I have been compelled to keep to my
bed every day, tnorfi or less, since its occurrence;
whenever my motheT spoke to mo about her situa
tion, I told her I was in too feeble a state of health
to pay attention to such matters, and told her I
did not care about hearing any < thing about such
matters; I slept with my mother sometimes; I
could not say that I noticed any difference in her
appearauco, when dressed or undressed; I have
spoken to Mrs. lYiit about my mother’s approach
ing confinement; at the time I spoke of Dr, Uhl
she said she did not believe what Dr. Burdell had
said against him; I then told her she might use
her own disoretion, and that I would have nothing
more to say about it; I am not awaro of any in-
Tant’s clothing having boon dono up in' the house,
nor of any being sent out to be done up; I was
not present at any interview between Dr. Uhl and
my mother; I cannot say how often Dr. Catlin has
visited tho house within the past month; I have
now stated all I know in relation to my mother’s
situation and condition.
MARY MURPHY’S EVIDENCE.
Mary Murphy, sworn—Was formerly in the em
ploy or Mrs. Cunningham; left her last November;
I saw her last on Sunday afternoon; in our con
versation I said, your daughter Georgiana has
told me of your approaching confinement; she
Batd, yes, it was all right; she could not say ex
actly when,” as all ladies would say; she asked
mo where my sister was, when I told her she was
living with me; she asked me if she would not
llko to come and take care of the baby; she said
ehe was afraid some one might kill it, and wanted
some one who would he careful with it; I did not
notico her particularly, and could not tell whether
she looked like a woman soon to be confined.
AFFIDAVIT OF DU. CATLIN.
The following affidavit, made by Dr. Samuel H.
Catlin, the Brooklyn physician, who it was alleged
had assisted Mrs. Cunningham in the fictitious
child-birth, was then read:
Second Police Court, City and County of New
York:, —Samuel H. CatHn, being first duly affirmed by
Justice Davison, deposes and says in the first person*—l
am 33 years old, and a resident of Brooklyn, in Court
street, No. 223; I am a physician by profession; I am ac
quainted with the accused. Mrs. fimrna Augusta Cun
ningham. calling herself Bordell; I have been so for
about ail years; I have been for the years 1851,1852 and
1853 very intimate with the family of Mrs. Cunningham,
ami was its medical attendant during that time; Mr.
Cunningham deceased about June, 1854, as near as I con
now recollect without referring to memoranda; thefamily
Boon after moved to New York, and I ceased to attend it;
I thereafter saw Mrs. Cunningham but three times be
fore she waa arrested for the murder, or about that nnm
ber of times; after she, Mrs. Cunningham, was arrested,
I wiw her in the Tombs prison. I saw her there about
a dozen times on different occasions. 'Whilst in the pri
son she told we that she was with child; I have no re
collection of any positive statement from her that she
was with child by the late Harvey Burdell; but that was
my inforence from her conversations: I then firmly be
lieved the fact os she stated it; soon after her acquittal
l noticed that her appearance corresponded with the
fact of her statement, and thereafter I noticed that she
increased in size pretty regularly; some time in the
mouth of June I was formally requested to become the
medical accoucher by herself, - and I consented; about
J»la time, speaking of the child of which she was preg
nant, she said Judge Dean told her that if she had a child
it would be heir to the property, and she hoped il would
lire; I cannot state that 1 have a remembrance of her
saying It waa the child of Dr. HarveyJJiinifil'
I> I* mt-j* wy ml ■ t
w<4 not more explicit as to this, bat as I knew theioetf-'
Ityof rooms in the house she needed not to be ippre par*'
tfcular; on Monday, the Sd of August, Mr. Wilt called at
my office between 7 and 8 o’clock in the evening, and said
they were sick at Mo. 81 Bond street, and wauled me to
come over; I made the acquaintance of Mr. Wilt at 33
Bund street; I went over alone shorly afterwards to New
York city, and arrived at 31 Bond street about half-past
9 o’clock; Georgians Cunningham let me In; I then went
up stairs into the frost, second story bed room, over the
parlor; leotered the room; I sawhersister, Mrs. Barnes,
and Mrs. Cunningham; Mrs. Cunningham was on thebed,
Mrs. Barnes was moving around; Mrs. Cunningham was
undressed and In bed; she said she was sick and was
suffering a great deal of pain; I examined her tongue and
pulse, aud was satisfied she had had cholera morbus; I
gave ner an emetic; I did not then see any child; a few
minutes later she vomited green bile; I soon after exa
mined her person; her abdomen was in a nearly natural
state; J sate she teas not in anywaywith child and had
not been: the first I saw of the child, I saw it brought in
by the sister, Mrs. Barnes; 1 mean as a medical fact that
she was not with child; the child was dressed when 1
saw it first; I saw the after-birth, it was quite an old
one; I took bloody sheets from under Mrs. Cunningham;
they had been wet with blood from a pail of blood brought
there by I know not whom; I heard Mrs. Cunningham
remark about the child, that it hod Buoiell’a nose, but
her eyes and color; Mrs. Bell was brought into the room
after the child was there to Bee it; 1 think she said it
was a very bright child; if Mr*. Cunningham allege*
that any childbirth took place that night up to the tfirte
I left and tvat arresttd , it is not true; during the eve
ning I gave her about au ounce of paragoric, and before
icivlug I gave her a dose of calomel.
SAMUEL H. CATLIN.
Affirmed to before me this sth day of August, 1857.
"WiLUASt S. DATiaos, Police Justice.
On tho margin of the affidavit was the following,
written by Mr. Oakey Hail:
Thia affidavit of Dr. Catlin’s U taken by mo after be
vrafl sworn by- Justice D&Tison, and he is by my consent,
on bis own proposition, a witness for the State. 1 have
merely taken a statement of a few Important facts in a
statement he has made me, and he has carefully revised
the affidavit himself. A. OAKEY HALL,
District Attorney.
Tho case was then adjourned to ten o’clock this
morning.
inis. share is the bubdell
It has been slated that if the Surrogate should
decide tho question of Mrs. Cunningham’s applica
tion before him for letters of administration upon
the estate of the late Dr. Harvey Burdell —which
decision depends entirely upon tho qaestion of her
marriage to tho her favor, that she
would receive, as widow, one-thinl of the estate of
Burdell. But according to law she would receive
more than that, vix: one-half of tho estate of the
deceased, for when a porson dies intestate, leaving
a widow and no issue, tho widow is entitled to
one-half of the entire estate of the deceased.
But as Mrs. Cunningham's ‘‘baby” cannot in
herit Dr. Burdell’s estato, and as Mrs. Cunning
ham is presumed by the recent little affair to have
damaged her chances for her “thirds,” who the
legal heirs uro is a matter of some public interest.
Tho estate is estimated to bo worth between
$40,000 and $50,000, and comprises the houses Nos.
29 and 31 Bond street, with some real estate id
Herkimer county and Elisabethtown. The leading
heirs aro AYm. Burdell, a^ brother of Dr. Burdell,
who resides in Ohio; Lewis Burdell, a brother, re
siding in New York; James B. Burdell, a brother,
residing in Wisconsin, and four children of John
Burdell, u brother deceased.
uns. Cunningham's counsel.
Judgo Dean, who was placed in rather a ludi
crous position by his points presented before tbe
Surrogate on Tuesday, urging tho Court to decide
iu Mrs. Cunningham s favor for the sake of estab
lishing the legitimacy of her child, claims to hare
been greatly surprised when he heard the true
state of affairs. He says that ho has acted entirely
in good faith in the matter; that Mrs. Cunning
ham told him sho was tnciente some months ago,
and that he never doubted the truth of ,her state
ment in the least until the late exposition. He has
determined not to act as her counsel in the present
case, though he will continue as suoh in the case
before the Surrogate. He is now about leaving tor
Washington; to be absent for some time.
Mr. Clinton just returned to the city on Monday
last, from Sharon Springs, Schoharie county, New
York, where he has been rusticating for a little
while. Ho states that he understood from Mrs.
Cunningham, some months ago, that sho was en
eiente, but he has never spoken one word on tbe
subject on any occasion, in the murder trial and
in. the case before the Surrogate he considered it a
matter entirely independent of those otaes, and
consequently mado io reference to it. It was a
contingency which he thought it would be time
enough to notice **hon it really came to pass. He
has seen Mrs. r .aingham very littte during the
last two or thr r onths, and not at all during the
last month. 1L legal causes did not require him
to sco her more during that time. He still im
plicitly believes that she was married to Dr. Bur
dell. The statement in one of the papers of yes
terday, in regard to an arrangement having been
made with him by Mrs. Cunningham, to pay him
his counsel fee out of the estate, no declares to be
entirely false; he does not do business on that
plan.
Mr. Clinton does not consider himself Mrs Cun
ningham's counsel in the present cose; he will not,
under any considerations, net as such; but as re
gards the case before the Surrogate, having been
committed to that, he will continue to act as coun
sel for the claimant when suoh aettoa is required.
If the statements which have appeared iu the pa
pers in regard to the late criminal attempt of Mrs.
Cunningham prove to be correct, Mr. Clinton says
he will not act as counsel for Mrs. Cunniogham in
any cause or causes under any inducement what
ever.
THE WATCH KEPT UPON HRS. CUNNIXaUAH.
It has been surmised that the entire failure of
Mrs. Cunningham’s schemes for the possession of
the Burdell property, the debts in which she has
become involved, ana the ridicule and exposure to
which her recent acts have subjected her, might
so far work upon her mind as to induce her to
make an attempt upon her life. But this she could.
not very well do. Captain Dilks has wisely pro
vided against the possibility of any such occur
rence transpiring, and night and day since the
arrest officers have been constantly stationed in
her bedroom to watch her movements. All means
by which any such attempt could be made on her
part have been placed out of her reach; oor ( is
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there any reason to believe from- her conduct,
which has been self-possessed throazhbut that she
would do anything of the kind. She is a woman
of too many resources for that.
It is also generally supposed that Mrs. Canning
ham will bo compelled to submit to the examina
tion of the physician, but this is cot so. She can,
refuse, if she will, and there is no law to compel her ‘
to submit to an enforced examination. Her refusal
to do so would of course have its own eonstruction.
THE BLOOD IS THE PAIL.
Captain Dilka yesterday seutoff Abot&faUaC
the blood found in the tin pail in the eloeet adjoiar'
ing the bath-room, (on the door pf whioh thabiood
ofi>r. Burdell was so plentifully sprinkled,} to be
analyzed by Dr. Doreaus or Dr. Cmltom It is be-'. *
lieved that it is neither bollock’s blood nor lamb’ll
blood, but that it will turnout to be hog's blood,
THE GIRLS AUGUSTA AND HELEN CUSXbfOXAX. •
These young ladies gave their testimony yester
day. Of course, as far as it went, it bore cut their ’
mother’s theory of a confinement. <Bat wkztwaN.
observable about them, and what would have moved -
any beholder to pity, was their sorrowful condition, .
their apparent Broken-heartedness. It was with -
difficulty that at any time they could refrain, fsnc -;
bursting into tears. The traces of care and suffer- ~
ing were graven on their countenances. Augusta' '
(wno had b?en staying in Lexington and
not in the country, as was asserted) buried her face
in the sofa, and wept bitterly. Helen; though for ' -
a long time she preserved the appearance of calm- ‘
ness, after her evidence waa concluded, andahs l -
had signed her testimony, burst into a violent fit
of sobbing and shook eonvylsirely. Augusta’s eyre,, -
while ghing her evidence, were red with weeping,' ~
bat she answered the Justice's interrogatories wun
firmness. She complained of the shock which her
nervous system had undergone, and said ghe had -
begged her mother not to speak-to her on any sub
ject connected with Dr. Burdell.- Whereas she
formerly manifested extreme hardihood and>k*r«*r,
she it at the pmentmoment completely prostrated
and unnerved,'giving answer? to the various ques
tions propounded her in a slow and unwiHitog man
ner. ; ■- * - - - ■* . -
The officers who had her in ohhrgeremarked lids
change,and one and all sympathized With her is her
evident mental agony*.; It was stated by some pat
tips, professing to he-well informed, that she haa
opposed Mr mother’s ednrse ever since the conclu
sion of the trial; and than officer, who propcaed to
lead her to her inbther and sisters; she replied’
that she desired to return to her aunt's, in Lexing- J
ton avenue, 1 for that she would never enter the
house, No. 31 Bond street; again, bo long u she
lived.
THE BABr.
The “baby” at ‘ Bellevue has been a centre of
great interest. Itself And mother have been the
sole attraction in the lying-in-ward, and sot r few"
among the' visitors have been physicians, -‘ifiese
latter gentlemen discuss -the conditions of child
birth bearing on this case,, and tome of them ex
press doubts as to tho sufficiency of the ‘evidence to
prove that Mm. Cunningham was not eac£*n/e. It
has been suggested to the mother that her baby /
should be named Emma A., in commeihoratron of -
this singular event, but she Ims- given- it her’ own
name, Elizabeth Ann, saying she would have
nothing to do with so wicked a woman as Mrs.-
Cunningham, or any such stupid body as blind
oldJuatitia. ” * ■
NEWS OF LITERATURE & ART.
The Biography of the late Dr. Kane, the
martyr of science; announced as-In-prepara-'
tion by our distinguished and.able townsman,'
Dr. William Elder, will not appear until the .
fall. Dr. Elder, in a4dition to haring been a -
personal friend of the late Dr. Kane, has had
access to his journals and papers, and various ‘
other sources of information have been thrown'
open to him by the kindness of many others ‘
who were intimately connected with Dr. K.
The delay, l which will be slight, is caused by .
Dr. Elder's determination to present a thorough
life of the adventurous Kane, to complete
which, he had to make 1 researches at a" dis
tance. The book; though handsomely ■ got up
and illustrated, will be published (by J. B. Lip
pincott & Co., of this city) at the iow.price of
one dollar and a half.
In a short time two volumes of an Encyclo
pedia of American Eloquence will appear, pub
lished by the Appietons of New York, and
Void exclusively by subscription. They will
be illustrated by numerous portraits handsome
ly engraved on steel. We havq , seen an
early copy of the first’ volume, and fiom,_
personal knowedge, we' can state' that it '
will be a standard library work. Mr. Frank'
Moore, who edits it, has supplied biographical
sketches, illustrative notes, and a copious ana- • ;
lytica] index. The name of the work indipaTea
its purpose—to present a complete collection
of the best and most celebrated speeches and'
addresses, forensic and parliamentary,'of the
leading orators and statesmen of this country.
Amqrm the less known contents will h»-ah—«
fitutw <>S Kuii’ ml flltyimt ilSe reprjnjea in
Amenta, and hitherto almost totally unknown;
all tiff speeches' of Patrick Henry; John Dick
inson’s speech, in 1765, before the Pennsylva
nia House of Asae@bly, and the Declaration
of Congress on taking up arms, 1775; the
speech of R. Y. Hayne, of South Carolina,
and Mr. Webster’s celebrated Reply, as well
as many other of that distinguished statesman’s
forensic and parliamentary efforts; Chief Jtis-'
tice Marshall in the casB of Jonathan Robbins, 1
and his speech on the Federal Constitution;
the best speeches of Mr. Clay, and selections
from the eloquence of Red Jacket, Tecnmseh,
and other Indian orators.
Mr. Etouracau, the. author of “Les Mor
mons,” has just published a new .work about
the United States— “Pari* au Nouveau-Mondt
it du Nouveau,Monde a Parts.” It la the his
tory of ten years travelling.
Messrs. Lippincott, of Philadelphia, 'an
nounce Smiles’s “Life of George Stephenson,
the Railway Engineer Thompson Westcott’s
“Life of John Fitch, the Inventor of the
Steamboat;” and a new book by F. B. Good
rich, (“ Dick Tinto”) called “ ilan upon the
Sea.”
The Harpers of >New York have just pub
lished Mrs. Marsh’s new novel,“ The Bose of
Asburst,”and announce “A School History
of Rome,” by Dr. Liddell, of Oxford, *
The Appletons of New York have nearly
ready Whewell’a “ History of the Inductive
Sciences,” and Buckle’s “ History of Civiliza
tion in England.”
A new ftve-cent weekly to be called The
Scottish American, was commenced at New
York yesterday. In addition to other matter,
it will contain original tales and sketches of a
humorous and romantic character. The an
nounced contents of the first number are the
commencement of a story entitled “Wander
ing Willie, or the Itinerant Vocalistj” “The
Nightcap,” a humorous sketch of Scottish life;
“ Royalty on Deeside«lnternational Policy
of Britain and Americaj” “Scottish Jury
Trialsinteresting notices of the Madeleine
Smith caso? extracts from, her letters j sketch
of hoc counsel, &c. We doubt the propriety
of making a “ feature” of such unmitigated
obscenity as the details of Miss Smith’s trial.
THACKERAY’S DEFEAT.
Playing at elections has now become the
favorite pastime of all impoverished debauch
ees, faded fops, discarded flunkeys, and used
up, dandy litterateurs, who have influence
enough to procure a brace of fools— one
to propose, and tho other to second them, on
the day of nomination. There was a time
when it was a just reproach against the English
aristocracy, that if there happened to be in the
family a thorough bred fool, an arrant sneak,
or a perfect imbecile, he was sale to be devoted
to the Church. The same principle wouldnow
seem to be acted upon in regard to tbe House
of Commons. And no doubt it is the knowl
edge of this that has encouraged all the varie
ties of tbe “incompetent and improper” to
aspire to the dignity of a British representa
tive. A more signal instance of the preva
lence of this pernicious notion in regard to the
duties and qualifications of a member of Par
liament, than the candidature of Mr. Thacke
ray for the city of Oxford, it wou3d be impos
sible to imagine. Mr. Thackeray has.been de
feated; and erery man who believes thpMhere
is any truth in politics, and that the reprase a-.
tntive system is capable of being of any use to
the people, must rejoice that Oxford has not
sent this precious candidate—this compound
of the cynic and the sybarite—to a house which
is already overstocked with the dandies, dilet
tanti, debauchees, and destroyers of the nation
Of all the aspirants to parliamentary honors
that we have ever heard tell of, this literary J
Barnum—this censor of the dead and syco
phant of the living—is the most preposterous
and unfit. Mr. Thackeray is a gentleman of
easy (political) virtue. He has no principles
of his own, and will, therefore, do whatever
his constituents may please to dictate. He
will vote for an extension of the suffrage, al
though he does uot expect any benefit to result
from such a measure. He will vote for trien
nial parliaments, although he is at a loss to see
how the change could be productive of the
slightest, advantage to the people. He will
support the ballot, although he considers it a
mean, sneaking, cowardly, dirty, and despica
ble manner of voting! Verily, a most rare
and accommodating candidate! After such a
confession of faith on his part, is it a wonuir
that wc should not regret his defeat ? Bis sue
cessfui opponent, Mr. Cardwell, is an aristo
crat and a Feelite—in our eyes, two very ob
jectionable qualities. But he is also a man of
intellect, who believes that there is something
real in politics,—that legislation is capable of
conferring blessings or curses on the commu
nity, just as it huppens to be wise and benevo
lent, or selfish and stupid, in its spirit. Now
such a man, whatever be his creed, or on what
ever side he ranges himself, is always to bo
preferred to the sneering skeptic, who does
not believe in the existence of any virtue; who,
because he, himself, has travelled from tho
Dan to the Beersbeba of human' dissipations,
and found all barren, therefore pronounces that
God is Action, man a miscreant, woman a de
lusion, truth a dream, patriotism a pretence,
virtue a sham, life a scramble, and sincerity a
sign of silliness,—ifeyiwW London Awspapcr*