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: sire Ja ylfilt*any of our public- iuAtiiutlons, wo. publish
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‘ * PUBUO PLIOBB OP AXWaßrißH'f. " '
u. : Academy of Music. (Operatic.} corner' of'Broad and
.« <\n> "ii >
Arch Stroetklheatre.Archd above fithatreefc. ;
Pvkiiuioo'sQonJfin,Chestnut. abovoTeulb. ; •
. National Theatre and Circus. Walnut* abovo Eighth.
Eleventh, below
Market. * ' ;
vWdLdhtßtren Theatrd: northeast corner Ninth and
>'»• ■ '*■ -• i ■
Varieties; fifth and Ohestmit;
Thou M-s Opera Houns/Ateh/below Seventh;
, .-t • .iAar»>ND.SpißKCt*a,- : : , i
„ 'Academy pf.Naturalßclencoa.cornor of*Broad and
George streets. r v , . .
. ..Academy,of Fine Arfe, Qhestntit. above Tenth.
. AttUtd: fond Hall JChestnut; above Tenth. .*•* *
/franklin Institute;No. 4 Sonth Seventh street, i : ’<l
-' VJ. i. i J BBimVOtEHT ISSTITOTIO.SB: - 1 I
Almshouse (FrlendM), -Walnut street, above Third.. - I
./Association for th© Employment of Poor Women, No. |
292 Green street «
Asylum for liost.phlldren. 'No. 36 North Boveath
jtfrtet- v'"' 1 ~ >' u ’ •'■/'* " • *
■ -Blind Asylum, Twentieth street.
-i* Christ Qhbreh Hospital.' No. 8 'Cherry street/
u.iOiWHoapital.Nlnetoentb street, noirCoatea.
SlfelpmnVHeH; No. 163 Oheryjr street. ,
(spencer/. fifth. belpw Chestnut street.. •/ ,
... female Society for the- Relief and. Employment of the
’Ffori'No. 72 North Seventh street.
Guardians,of the Poor, office No. 50 North Seventh'
' 'yy,*-'” w'--« -/v i•>* - , ,; 5
; 'German Sdclety Hall.* No'; BgoUtH Sevdditi'etreet. .
U Homecfott friendless Children; ■BUttohwOoA 1 ' street.'
1 .iv',.-.,-.
'■«. 4?#l®?.tWldowi’ and Single Wontett’o Society, Cherry.
east ofKlghtoenth Btreot. ~ ~ , .
-:• Masonlq.Han, Chestnut* above Seytjmth fifcrqet...
pf Bacejand'jTwenty.flrrtj
tsollSmiiigGarden aW&et, -- J
Orphans* Asylum Tfhffteenth street, near'
CallosrhiH. - - .;,vn , \ :>/
Oddfellows HaU } St*ttUsMi Maine* street, -
. - Do. 1 do. B.B.oornerßroidand Spring Gar
,\denetreete,.,,
tk>- • do. .Tooth and Sooth streets.
, Do. . , do.'.’ThthraodßfOffn.etreets., - ' •
4. ; . -!?:■^■lSge'BpedlheloovWaUace.
W<w» Eighth
■ DeiloßylTanfalnßUtote for the Instruotton of the Blind,
eorner Ba» aod_Trentleth6treet. ■ , i
..PmwylTepia, Society for, Alleviating the Mieeriesof
Public. Prisons, Sixth and Adelphi streets.
. PeonJjlvania Tralnlng School for Idiotic and Feeble-
Minded Ohildredl' Schodl I Hotaeo Dane. Germantown',
office No.’,l62'Walniit fiteet. ' . : - \
:• Philadelphia Orphans, Asylum, northeast cor. Kirk.
(teenthandOhetry! h.-i ■ ,-'t: i. :. ■ i ,
■ Preatonßetreat, Hamilton,; near Twentieth street.
ProvidtncoSqeietj-, Prune, helow,Sixth etroet.: :
S?'i tl l?!£j > ! B £*,«SOTi-So, 98-Shippon etreet.
Union Eenerolent .AsKodatioi,, N. \v, cornor of
Sort nth and SanßCioetroott, ■' I'■’ r J .m . ,■
t enthnU iU* c£ U Eighteenth andNlne-
Girard avenue, between Fif.
1 tcientif.and Sixteenth. - 1
'■ Dpitcopal i Ifospiut, Front street, 5 between Hunting,
don and Lehigh aretmes,: - , .... 8
Phlladelnh& Hospital for Diseases of the Chest. 8. W.
comer of Choetnot and 'ParX sirecta, West' Philadel-
P W »- „y-.,r..-. . id ,
~. ... ~r t*Mq neit-wsos, - I,
’. Cnetorn House, ChcstiHit street, above Fourth.,
Cbenti’Pn'xinJPiaeynnit road belowEced. , ’
' S \i r Werebonse Doeihiid Spmce streets.
o.OltyController’s Offioo, Girard Bankr second story, ..
i Commissioner .of City Property, oEm, Girard Bauk,
Girard Bank', seeond story.
City Opratnlgslotier’s Omce.'Statt House. '
' - °« c ®- bel<’* Walnut.
:Fi»aSol&«^‘ tt !v 14 corl!er
.. ;ifaihneiurtWttt«i* Work*,- Pairmbont on the BchuyU 1 *
rkdu.V .Mitr'if? n,z ;
whore Seventh. , i j, .
tS^W^^?|^u^try r Btreet, • .
corner, poplar and Wilßajp;' '
Brown.: ’
f S°OJW Btuh HUU ~ 1 ' ' '
n ° s T lt f 1» Graf’s Perry road,-belevr‘ Soath
'irwSE ? potner. fifth and; Chestnut
tween
f Northerai Liberties Gm Works. Maiden, below Front
StreiiV-’ t.- .* J; •. ?ut • a. - ■ s
No,* 237f*Dock ; street, .opposite. the Ex-
Kgmilpgtoh, Praakiord road, below Shacka-
Garden, OalloWhiilpnear Bighth
'UjTbUmtogiiaißxehange,- corner Thinii 'minnt and
Office,
J&Aft *?t«nth atwetv, . .. j ! ;
' P I f ,tltuto for Degf (md.Doinb, Broad and
.Bonn’s Treaty Monument; Beach;above Ehaekamaxon
street. • **'. ■ ■ ■■* _ * /* 11 *' l • '*»• *. • * 1
i v-Pablie Jjlgl 1 ' School,' S; B; Corner Broad and Green j
> gnblta Normal Sehool, Bergbani, above Ninth;
; lf^OMd^»s. office4*No. 0 ffice 4 *No. 8 State House,east wing.
street, between flfth. and Sixth
' |herifT» Steteiirth street
ihpnldn -Tempehuito '.Hall, 'ohristtan; aboVn'Ninth
States Mint, comer of Chestnut and iivnlper
Bawl, near Fede-
near Booth streot. .
er f
■’ 5f .OOM.KOM.io . i ;
Co le« OtPjWOTaey, Zauaatreet, above,SevontH.
■ E'f ll t c S 1 5, , *? d !f al Oo)lpge,H(atnea street, West of Sixth.
. I0!ul 90,1 College Avenue.
Medical college, Filbert street, above
■’JegerMoMediesi College; Tenth etreetJbelmr Qcoiwe.
. ’ Medic.l Inctilnto, xbcust,’’above Eleventh street.
.. Polytechnic. College, corner Market and-West Penn
50nar5.,..,,,;• u,,,
. /PowylyanJa Medici College, Ninth. Street, below
Coliego,' 'rttlh' street’,' belpw
4 ’ Female Mediiai COliege; 229 Arch street: , ’
Hniversltyof Pennsylvania, Ninth'etreet, between
Market and. Chestnut. 1 .
NMSArr&St’* Wdietas and Popular Knowledge,
l; *'V ,V?f' ‘•’..fcOWJIQH QF OOnaiß,- ’ ' "i ,
W.SS'M. B^ 6 ? C l r™'‘ *"d,DLafr|rt : Courts l . No. 24
Fifth street, helon.Ohestnht. \ • "
'j<reSe ?mo OO ' lrt ' Of Pec P{ l ™ ,a t Fifth and Ohestnut
Court of Common Pleas, Independence Hall,
.hpistrict Courts,; Nos. 1 and 2;.corner of Sixth and
.Chestnut strata. -o
Court or tfciarter Sessions, coiner' of Sixth and Ohest
nutstrpets.) , . , : . ,
’ r j£ .’niiioioua iiBTiT<moKs.'/7 : •
American Baptist • Publication' Society, No: 118 Arch
street, >'>• ' r > ■-< i " ■ -
American and Foreign Christian Union, No. 144 Chests
nntstreet: 1 , ~ ,
./ Ajoerlcsn Sunday School Union, No. 816 Ohestnut
street,, ...
’.American Tract Society, new No. 929 Chestnut.
.Menc.nlst, Crown street, below OallowhUl street.
Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Bible Society, corner
.Of Beyenthahd Walnut streets.'
viPresbyterisn Board of Publication'; No. ' 266 Chestnut
,SWBet.na!-:)i;: V'.J •- n .’i ‘i /
. Preshyterlan Publlcation House, No. 1334: Chestnut
Street, ~
street”*'" T ' ls 4“t!»I»«on, No.;i62.Chestnut
“a;Perjodical (I,
M B^rG , et j first house below
,®ra»fllerV;®mbe.
! wfBAUiBOAD LINES;
(tniutl Olnlral 8.-fl.-uDstat; SloHnth m 4 Mailwt
* MtiliThsiri forPtttslwrgh andtfae Went.
PM5P,M.,fa»t Line for Pittsburgh and the West.
?■?£?' : S'’^? r .and,Columbia. , •
£" add Vine,
rJO A , M;, BisressTraiA for PMtrrlUe, WilKamsport,
3.W E/M./a* shove (Ni|ht^pres&!Tra?ri.)’
I f-M;,rromKeMiu )r t<m > yla Jersey OitT. . . \
6 A. M., from Camden, Accommodation Train,
8 p! M.i m oatodfin, AocotiimodiSS Triilfl.
6P Sf.,via GamdenandJerseyCitryyMail,
6P,M;jVifi Camden And Amboy, Accommodation.
■ b . fioflMCting Lints.
BA. M., from Wslant street for Belvidere,Easton,
Water Gap, Scranton, Ac.
8 A. M., for Freehold.,- •
f T:^ n^ B h eot T^ rr > .■•
2.30 P (M.yfoi*Monat.Hdiiy, Bristol, Trenton/ Ac.
f Ppfiogtoo,' Borden town, Ac. ‘ ", *
jaa£ido?e,.EjMi<m* AcJ; from Walnut stMet
4 l , i > GpHy, BnrHngtou.Ac. V. . .-.
Prime..
t-AMi, tor Baltltoore/Wljmlitfton/ New Castle, Mid
. -dletowriiDdVetfaftd'Beaford: ' ,
*£' H-Jotßaltltoore. WUtolhtftori, and Newcastle. '
i. 15 P;M., for. WamSngton, New castle, Middletown.
■« .Dover,and sword.. I *. ■ ■ ,
•11 «*;»«% ft»lwmow a*?d Wilmington.
Front and Willow.
Sm Wadch Chunk, Ac.
S’-fid'H", sd#5 d #£ ,l J o*ni' 0 * n i' Accommodation.
;3iiAP. M., IW Bshfcon/Mauch’Ohank, &o.
4P. M.jfor Doywatowii, Aooontoodatlotfi ■
6.85 p. JC4 Accoannedailon
, street wharf.
7.30.4* M>, for Au/urtloolty. 0 , ,
for fladdonpeld. 0 ;
1 4P7M./tor AtUntliCity. \ ' r*
4145 P. Jl./for Haddonfleld. 1 ,
1 .-jf Qr Wes{chestcr\ "•
By Columbiaß:R'. pnd Weftchestor Br&nch.
From Market street, south aldo, above Eighteenth
Leave Philadelphia? A, M., and 4 P>if...
“ WestchMUr 6,80 A'. M., ahd 3‘P. J!
v-. ' ?< oh Sundays <* !
Leave Philadelphia* ? A. M
.-> -j^FeßtchestetB J?.M,
•WwV'hfister Direct Railroad, open to Penneiton, Grubbs
Eighteenth and Market streets.
*'*s/,* PWliMWlphia«, and BA. tt., 2,4, and ft P. M,
, -1 .Penneiton. Grubbs Bridge, ?; &, and U A. M, and
' > f -Aond'fiP, Sl. “
vn arturdayslirt train from Ponnelton at 7 A. M.
V‘ '’i;--;:- ’ • 1 • Os SOiTDA7S’ !
Philadelphia 8 A. H.-and 2 P.-M.
" A.M.andOP. M.
tf«OTfl»low*iA WorriflDton.B. R.—Depot, 9th and
- - Green. -. ’ - • ' * '
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Ctutty — 6 A. M. and
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: ; .44 A. and 4P. M*,jfor.Taw, BtorUnK
r,, ton. Mid Bristol, frour Walnut street wharf,
i v .ft.SO DelftwftEO. Boston, and Kennebec, for c*pe
; j ’ May,‘ first pier below Bprnee street. , •
1 3, andft P; M., John A/Warati
. ;■**i i and Thomas A. MOrgan, for Bristol, Bar
' ~ 8-80 A; M.; General McDoaald.. for Cape May, every
i<‘. i .?<#«* Arch'Street wharf. . ;l . < r
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1857.
THE NEXT NEWS FROM BRITISHJNMA
. A correspondent, who feels, considerable in
terest in the present precarious situation of
affairs; in British India, Jequests us to inform
him at what period further authentic intelli
gence may be expected, and to state our opin
ion upon the supposition that the revolted
poys have been encouraged in some way by
Russia. /, • ■ -
The first question involves a matter of fact)
the second, of Speculation.
■ There are' two transmissions of the Overland
mail'from India and from England every
month—precisely as there is a bi-monthly
communication between New York and Cali
fornia. , As,we are able to calculate, with that
accuraoy,'which is the, offspring of experience,
the time; within a few hours, when tho mail
steamer from ASpinwall May be expected at
New York witii the mail fVom California,
so it is known pretty correctly ’at what
time each Overland mail will arrive in England.
Somo.days, however, before the letters tbom
solves can reach London, the news they liring
is anticjpated hy 'tho agency of that patent
mentis of rapid ‘.communication, the Eleotric
Telegraph! The steam vessel, bringing! the
Overland mail always/touches at Marseilles,
whence there Is telegraphic communication
with England. ’ Sometimes it also touches at
Trieste, which is another telegraph station.
Tho last news ft om 1 India, for example, was
telegraphed from Trieste, and arrived in Eng
land somo days in advance of the Overland
mail itself. This line of communication from
Trieste, tho most rapid and! certain of all,
.originated with the conductors of,the Times
newspaper in London; who, in tho autumn of
1840, (when tour of tho European presses
!combined in warfare against Mkiiemet Ali,
.Pacha of Egypt, to dispossess him of Syria,)
found it necessary to " make , arrangements
for securing prior, intelligence, and, haviiig
stationed; ageqts both at Marseilles and
Trieste,; found that their couriers could
convey despatches; in less time and with loss
trouble in travelling, from Trieste than from
Marseilles!-. This was beforeJProfeßsor Morse
jiadjhtrodiicjod iho ulcctrlc telegraph, which
putomm'd onflows! by special
couriers, and the. Austrian Government,bearing
in mind ilie Times’ report on the .convenience
of Trieste ns a telegraphic station, have made
it one. :
' Tie overland mail route from India, which
was due in England- on or about the 12th of
August, might be antieipatedbythomall steamer
from Australia, which usually makes a detour by ‘
Ceylon and Bombay 1 . From the latter place she
nilght bring news of a date between those of’ two*
land.marts. The last accounts from England
indicate that intelligence by these means was
possible. The regular arrival on the 12th
would ifeelf be anticipated, by tho telegraph,
from Marseilles dnd Trieste, so os probably to
reach England by the 10th. Two mail
•steamers would leave England on the 12th of
August—the Cfly of Washington, from Liver
pool, and the North .Star, from Southampton.
The latter, as the more' rapid voyager, would
probably arrive at New York abont the 25th.
But the Canada, leaving New York on the
16th, might arrive at Halifax even earlier than
either of tho others, and would probably bring
details of the latest occurrences in India. We
may safely predicate that between the 25th
and 28th of this month such details will ,be
received in this country. With the deep
rooted antipathy of the Hindoos to the Govern
ment of England—the widely-spread disaf
fection'which,, almost in one day, nearly anni
hilated - British supremacy in India—and tho
paucity of British force in Hindostan, favora
ble* intelligence from the East is scarcely to be
anticipated for some time. This revolution is,
by far, the most disastrous incident ,id British
history for ceninries.
On the second point, whether Russiahas aided
tho insurgents in any way, considerable doubt
prevails. - Some stress has been laid in Eng-'
land on whataßussijin diplomatist is reported
to have, said, when the treaty of peace was
signed, after the Turkish wars, that one of tho
great powers which had humbled Russia might
soon have occasion to know what reverses
were. This is supposed to have hinted at the
revolt in India, then looming in the future, as
dt did not break out until May, 1867; whereas
the peace treaty was. signed in April, 1850.
But a Russian agent would have performed his
fhntions very inefficiently had ho allowed him
self to allude to any coup then in contempla
tion. It is not likely that any such hint,
amounting to almost a threat, was given.
At tho same time, independent of Russia’s
feeling great irritation at tho hostile part
England acted during tho late war, slui has
many reasons for wishing to diminish, if not
wholly extinguish, British rule in Hindustan. A
glance at the map will show Russia to be ? her
Siberian possessions included, the mistress of
about' ono ' half the entire territory of
Asia.' Her occupancy there, includes an
area actually greater than that, in the
aggregate, of Hindostan, China, Arabia, and
Persia, allcombined. Russia’s influence in the
East' has been undermined and greatly dimin
ished by the vast supremacy which, within one
hundred years, England has established in the
great Peninsula of Hindostan. During tho war
with Hyper Ali, It was suspected that Russia
supplied him with arms and engineers. So, too,
in the contest with tho Mahratta chiefs, (Scw
diaii and Holkar) 1 } with Tippoo Sultaun ; with
the Aflghad find Cabul leaders } and oven only
a few mouths ago,, with Persia. Tho troops of
the Shali were drilled and partly officered by
Russia; Herat was garrisoned by Russian
soldiers—and,even now, when Persia reihses to
surrender Herat, as bound to do by tho treaty
lately signed at Paris, that fortiiled city is be
lieved,to be defended by the,force of Russian
Soldiers and the shill of Russian engineers.
•r ) 'i
There are numerous grounds for tho belief
that Russia has given aid, in some manner, to
the revolted Sepoys, In their minds, no doubt,
,ha!d long smouldered the embers of discontent,
at seeing their princes beaten down into mere
stipendiary dependants oni England, and their
country gradually denationalized. Such men
would be found by Russian emissaries quite
prepared to accept the advice not any longer
to Submit to .the yoke which pressed them thus
sorely. , And Russian emissaries are more
-huiperops, not in India alone, but all over tho
.world, ‘than is generally supposed. Astute,
persevering, and pushing/ these men—in vari
ous ranks of life—are busy in every civilized
country, doing their employer’s bidding, and
ah.ininutbly ascertaining whatever njay bo
Great Inducement*’to Clubs!
"iB5Ti
learnt . respecting ,'the condition, defences,,
weakness; force; and resources,of each placo.
In China, where they have the ear, of the Em
peror—Russia is 'this billy European power
allowed to,have an embassy residing in Pekin—
iheir influence has always becii antagonistic'to
England.. .' ; . ~ | : ,i.i
NAPonEOKsaid, at St,.Helena, that flic blow
which England mast one day receive 'in Asia
would be struck by, Russian force. Will; all
her vastness of territory, Russia is defloiejit in
what makes , a great maritime powor-r-“ good
water privileges,” as they say down ;EaSt.
The Caspian and tho Aral Seas are only lakes
in the interior. Constantinople holds tbd key
of the Biaek Sea., The weather, daring four
months of the year, prevents the 'Russian
navigation of the Baltic,, and an English] fleet
could lock up tliat sea with very little trolibie.,
All its other ports, in Europe and Asia, are too;
tar North, as well as too; remote, for practical
commercial purposes. What Russia needs is
sitch an accession of territory as
with its lino ports:in the Bay of Bengal! and
the, Arabian Sea, Whence, if desired,I the
Whole commerce of l the East might flow.'
Prussia, which has'looked ahead for 'several
centuries towards the “annexation” Of Tur
key, can wait a little for. her share of Hiddos-'
: tnh!; It is imp6ssible;,'oyCn'wCre;theEnglish
driven .out' to-morrow, that Hlndostan i can;
again he broken i)p info: petty!
Some strong hand; would speedily coHeot;an(l
gather up the reips,'apd'iftnssia may eneourage
the revolt now in progress, in order to hasten
Such acopsiphination fas this.
CORRESPONDENCE.
THE. SCIENTIFIC CONVENTION,IN MONi
' TREAL. ’ ’' ’
[Correspondence of The Press.] ... t
MoKTRkAL, August 17,1857.
Thoclty is so full of strangers that'about'two
hundred a day have been refused admittance at
me of the principal hotels. Iho Amorioon; Asso
ciation for tho Advancement of Soionce is holding
its eleventh'meeting here, quite folly’attended,
most of the prominent members bffonner yearsbfif
ing hero, besides alarge accession of newmemiors.
The next meeting will probably bo hold at Balti
more. ‘ , ~ ,i ■
Yesterday Dr. Haro, of Philadelphia, delivered
a short address on storms, which pleased land'
amused a large audienoo, and overy one concedes
to him the ability to disouss with precision and
force every branch of experimental science which
he had mastered provious to his more recent inqui
ries in a supernatural direotion.
Professor J. W- Bailey, of the Wost,Point Mili
tary Academy, was to have boon Presidenfof the
Association this year, and having ip the meantime
departed from among the living, an official tribute
to his memory was paid on Friday in an
appropriate address from Dr, /l- A. Gould, of Bos
ton, tbe distinguished physician and concbolojgist.
The scientific circles hero are discussing, In con
versation, the oloim of Dr. Winslow to. a discovery
which was claimed for Prof. Pierce (pronounced
Purse) by a correspondent of tho Christian jJS#-
aihiner—- namely, that the direction of moantnin
chains lias been influenced by tho notion ot tbe
sun. Tn an articlo in the Montreal Herald, of
Augußtl4th, a correspondent (understood to bo the
Boy. Mr. Hill, of Waltham, Moss.,) states that ho
has a letter from Dr. Winslow in which the discov
ery is conceded to Prof. Pierce; and it may be ne j
cessary to place this letter before thqpublid,[that
it may be compared With Dr* W.’s article iq the
Now York Tribune , ~ ' t I
, Professor Coak> of New Jersey, presented an in/
toresting article on thb subsidence of the coast of
New Jersey, deduced from submerged forests,
which* however, 4id notconvinco all the geologists..
The principal facta have appeared in tho geologi
cal report of New Jprspy, and also in tho newspa
pers. The following fhets aro interesting: '
“Tho occurrence of timber In tho marshes (and
water below tide-level was common along thoir
whole Atlantic shore. Almost overy one familiar
with shore-life had observed the remains of logs,
stumps, and roots in such places, although they had
been looked upon generally os tho remains orireos
torn from their original plaoa of grqwtb by; tor
rents, or by ths necessary moving of the ah&rei,
and deposited in the'places where They were fOuna-j
by tbeordiuaryfcoUojrof tho water./ Botetotw ex
amination made it evident that they grow upon the
spots where they are found. The stumps remain
upright—their roots are still fast in tho firm loamy
ground which underlies iho marsh, and their back
arid small roots remain attochod to them. . The lo
calities in which they are most abundant are Such
aa are least liable to be affected by tho violent ac
tion of the water or of storms. . Thus they wore
by far tbe most abundant on the low and gently
sloping shores of Lone Island, Now Jersey, and
all tho States farther South which are protected
from the violent action of the surf by a line of
sand benches, at tho samo time that the numerous
inlets allow free acoess to the tides. In Uioseipro
tooted situations hundreds and oven thousands of
acres can be found in wliioii the bottom of the
marshes and bays aro as thiokly set with stamps of
trees as in the ground of any living forest, i His
own observations were chiefly mime upon! the
southern port of New Jersey, following tho shores
of Delaware Bay from its bead down to Gape' May,
and tho Atlantfo shore from Gape May norfh to
Great Egg Harbor, and thence eastward at several
points along the south shore of Long Island/ In
the ditches in the marshes, above Salem, groat
numbers of the stumps and trunks of trees are met
with at all depths, quite down to the solid ground.
At Blsinboro’ Point, a little farther down oq the
Delaware Bay shore, the cutting away of tho marsh
by tho water nos left great numbers of stumps ex
posed, whero thoy can 'seen at overy low tide,
still firmly rooted in tho hard ground. j
“At several places in Southern New Jersey an.
enormous quantity of white cedar timber.is found
buried in the salt marshes—sound and fit for use—
and a considerable business is carried on In mining
this timber and splitting it intoehingles for market.
At Dennisville there is a largo tract of marsh un
derlaid by cedar swamp, earth, and timber- ! By
probing tho marsh with an iron 1 * rod, the workmen
find where tho solid timber lies, and (ben; re
moving the surface rods and roots, they manage
to work In the mud and water with • long bue
banded baws and cut off the logs, which then! rise
and float, as the timber is not water-logged at; all,
but retains its buoyanoy, and the removal of that
nearest to the surface releases that whloh Is below,
and it rises in turn eo that a new supply is con
stantly coming up to tho workmon. In this way a
single pieco of swamp, which is bolow tido level,
has been worked for fiftyyoars past, and still gives
profitable returns.” [
The members of tho Assodation have been hand
somely entertained by tho citizens with receptions,
parados, invitations to visit places of interest, Ac.
On Saturday evening a steamboat excursion *waß
taken to tho Isle St. Helen, a military station,
where the buildings and arms were subjected to
inspection, and the airs of God Save the King,land
Hail Columbia, were heard alternately from a
good military band, whilst the American flog'was
and Is flying in honor of tho occasion. On Sunday
the soldiers marched to enurch to tho ordinary
military musio.
It is difficult to tell how many members are here,
but there wore 265 names registered during, the
first day.. Tho prinoipal cultivators of science in
the country are presout and several well-known
publio characters—a Judge Harris, of tho
amiable ex-Prcsident Fillmore, who is much ad
mired by tho ladies, and Senator Cameron.
AFFAIRS IN BALTIMORE.
[Prom tho Baltimore'papers of the 10th,7
Moms Caup-Mertinos.— Tho camp-mooting at
the old ground, near Shrewsbury, which for noarly
fifty years has boon tbo fay onto location for, tho
annual pitching of touts of ,tho Shrewsbury oirjmit.
commences to-morrow. It will bo lurgoly attended
by tho Molhodist congregations of this oity. Among
thoßo from this oity who oro ©xpeoted to have* sta
tion tonts on tho ground, arc tho North Baltimore,
Broadway, Whatooat, Strawbridge, and Emory
Chapel station's. It Is supposed tho number of
preachers in attendance will bo noarly fifty, both
from Maryland and Pennsylvania. Tho camp will
bo conducted by the Rov. Aquilla Reese, presiding
older of tbo district, and Roys. Henry Furlong and
F. K. Crover. Tho spot is canopiod oror by a beau
tiful grove, and surrounded by springs of excellent
water.
Sad Accident. —Mrs. Koonor, living on Bond
street, near Baltimore, was seriously injured by
falling down tho stairs of hor residence. Sho got
up at a very early hour, before it was entirely light,
and started down stairs for tho purposo of talcing
some medioino, having felt unwell all night, and
missing the first step, foil to tho iirstflGor, brooking
both hor arms and bruising her severely. She was
found soon after by the inmates of the houso, and
propor surgical aid woe called. Bho is about sixty
years of age, and .it is feared her injuries may
prove of a serious character.
Drowned.— Yesterday morning, about half-past
ten o’olook, while some fishermen wore on tho
county wharf, discharging their cargo for the
Broadway market, one or thorn, named George
Longloy, accidentally fell overboard and was un
fortunately drowned.
Health of the City.— The report of tbo health
commissioner, Dr. Jacob W. Houck, shows' the
mortality in tho city during the week ending yes
terday morning to have been one hundred and six
ty-five. Of this number fifty-three .were under
one year. The past week was one of the severest
upon health ever known, when there was an ab
sence of every kind of contagion or epidemic, be
cause of tho intense heat of the, weather. Except
among,tho juvenile portion of the population, the
health of the city is excellent, and with that eloss
some of the prominent physicians attribute it to
the use of Improper food.
. pßAßonv Continentals.— I This is the title of a
new military company forming in this oity, .which
will make its firsv parade on the o<sca&ion ofihe
laying of the corner-steneof the Peabody Institute.
The uniform will be after tho style of that worn in
tho daysof.tho wvolntion. , ~, ,
Condemned.— The United States steamboat in
spectors for the district of Maryland,' after making
a survey of the hull and machinery of tho steamer
Herald, have condemned her as unseaworthy.
JOTTINGS OF TRAVEL—NO. 11,
BY J. W.
RECOLLECTIONS OR THE ENGLISH HOUSE
/ <, , OP COMMONS'. '
Ittho summer of 1851, on a dismal, drizzly
night, when, after having exhausted “ tho night
London, with its casinos, Cool Hole, and
merrjj Vauxball, looking at life in its worst phases,
and studying the unatomy of misery and vicons
it before mo in every lane and
Alley 6f the great Babylon. that I bethought, as St.
BridO’i tolled the hour of midnight, of looking in
upop, |ho House-of Commons. I called to tho driver
of a-sfUtary jhaneom oc the corner, and was soon
whirling along dark Pall-Mall, past deserted
Phasing Cross, and down 1 empty White Hall. It
was irffcOdd contrast; the silent streets, and the
busy, bustling soon©, alive with life and light, to
‘which’? waS hurrying, at midnight. Mighty Lon
don putting its pulses to rest, but the heart—
.ih'e' Senate— was pumping away the sustaining
blood of the nation, in the fur corner of tbe Thames.
I turned into Palace Yard, crammed withfour-
a»d horses, aud grooms.. The new House
and the old House were in a blaze of gas. I passed
cryertiw stone, floor of the Old Hall of Rufus and
Hostihgi, my footsteps re-echoing iny tread. West
minster'Hall was’ empty, and I had no time
R With’ the ghosts of departed wor
tMea 'wbo have held high revel here, and some
of havo passed out from its,'arched
wjjtjr the edgq, ojf the dismal nxo
them, I-had no time to call up
these spirits from the “ vasty deep” of the past,
nor d«| \ khotf whether they would have come if I
had dalled'them. Crossing St. Stephen’s Hall' at a
rapiis&, I wss soon in the Strangers’Gallery,
ahd idbltfog down upon the House of Commons.
Tho ‘ was. 1 quite full. A man of rather a
youthfuj;appearance had. juat taken hfs place, to
therigqtjjOf the Speaker, on , a front bench. He
.seats, himself rather carelessly, and with legs
and hat pressed close down upon the
brow,yearns to t>6 lost in doep thought. That is
the Right" Honorablo Mr. Gladstone, her Majesty’s
ChandollOr of the Exchequer, and loader of the
Commons." Presently ho lifts his hat somewhat from
his brow-jjarid ootamencos a conversation with a thin,
man, on his loft, who boars a marvel
lous resemblance .‘to Robert J. Walker, now Gov
ernor of This latter personage is Lord
John Ruasell, On the Speaker’s right muster those
who with the Government—Ministers, with
( the bending orators on their side, occupying the
front benches. - Tho opposition occupy the benches
On the deft of tho Speaker. The debate of tho
evening'wbb opened by a country member on the
sido of thb opposition, who made a short dash at
ministers* in reference to tho mismanagement
of tho war at that time deluging the Crimea with
blood.. He was followed on tho same side by Wort
ley Afontflgue, a descendant of Lady Mary’s, and an
exooectfngly,graceful speakor. Lord Jehu Russell i
rose in reply. This celebrated statesman is rather
a pocket edition of humanity, with clover restless
eyes, wrinkled cheeks, rathera low but broad fore
head, and a complexion of a sallow huo, contrast
ing shockingly with a ludiorously high and very
white shirt cellar.' He held a preposterously largo
hat fW'tfabti a head, In one hand,’ whilo tho otbor
was stuck deep in his broeohes-pockot. His mode
of sppaking htruok mo as singularly pointed and
copious. He appeared to talk as a man of busi
ness to men of business, and yet there was a
eoldnesS about it that ohillcd tho sensibilities
of an American usod to tho placid, florid stylo
of home speaking. The frigid sharp voice, the
didaotiQ tone, the reserved and Cat-Uke gesture,
consisting, tof cautiously placing his hand on
the table, and then withdrawing it, ware all
father shilling to an American, who cannot under
stand b'Ow So'cbld and formal a speaker could ever
have become a leader. It was during this speech
lilrßt.hcMdj the English legislative cry of Hear!
jptear 1 is done by reiterating tho word
jbeor until #ll hods© of hearing is utterly at an end.
It begins with a distinct but faltering Hoar! hear!
but soon the syllables roll and jostle each other, until
it resembles the emptying of small stones outof a
cart, or the ekofo of pebbles on the sea shore rol
ling affcif'il‘retiring billow. At last it fades away,
closed byV few lagging hoars, like tho lingering
shots of of our volunteer companies.
. TlototeilJttWjt dpon Lord = John taking his seat,
D’lsruelixaet'ui. reply. -He stood directly facing
GtedStohs/mUihia speech was evidently aimejj ’ at
the then frfej Chancellor of tho Exchequer, Ijjnor.
ing Lord John altogether. Gfaqatono anil
tiro the two men of the times—triod in that wonder
ful assembly df tho pleked men of England, where
real manhood and veritable brain aro ulono cur
rent, and where they pro brought to nn account
with a rapidity that ruins all but the unmistakably
genuine. D’lsruoli has much of the Jewish
physiognomy, but none of that remarkablo beauty
which the earlier portraits of him givo you reason
to expeot. He has a haggard, way-worn look, and,
when his features aro at rest, is certainly fur from
handseme. Tbe House was silent as tbo grave
when he rose. He began very distinctly but very
quietly. Perhaps tbe ari of compelling a hearer
to listen to every word spoken by an orator was
never carried to greater perfection. He had not
intended to speak, but there Was a reason why ho
should. It would bo disrespectful to his Sovereign
(os h» had been Chancellor of tho Exchoquer) if
he did not offer a few observations. After such
generalities as tho above, ho prepared himself for
the attack. Tbe House was requested to go
back ‘ a few months. Tho history of the origin
of th« war was then tracod, intermingled with
sUngisg innuendos, and sarcastic comments upon
the state of the Budget, and the grievous er
rors into which Gladstone had fallen. When ho
threw off a bitter sentence, he would sometimes
turn Ms head toward tho country gentlemen that
they night hear it and laugh. He charged Glad
stone with having endeavored to capitalize a little
popultrlty by pahdoring to party whims. And
this aeasure before tho House was but a link in a
long shain of unconstitutional practices, for which
impeachment would bo too mild a penalty. As
ho approached the peroration he spoke slowor,
aud appeared muoh more serious and solemn. His
voice, however, preaorved that pure artistic tono
I noticed at' the commencement, and, with a capi
tally constructed oloslngsentonco.of which the last
syllable rings in your cars as distinctly as the first,
he took his seat.
D’lsraoli was originally a liberal in politics, but
ho deserted nume and O’Connell some twonty
years ago, and instantly proceeded to make an at
taokupon his former allies. O’Connoll replied in
his characteristic style, and, after charging his as
sailant with charlatanism, apostaoy, and ingrati
tude, wound up his vongoful diatribe by a sar
casm which went straight like a poisoned arrow to
tho vitals. “I cannot,” said the Irish orator,
“ direst my mind of the belief, that if this fellow’s
genealogy could bo traced, it would bo found that
he was, the lineal descendant and true heir-at-luw
of tho impenitent thief who ntonod for his crimes
upon a cross.”
For awhile tho aristooraoy of tho Houso snubbod
tho Jow, D’lsraeli—but by his transcendent
admirable tact, ho has risen, step by
step, until, in bis position of Gbanoollor of tbo Ex
chequer, ho took a full and sweot revenge on all
who
° Spat upon bis Jowish gabordino.”
Gladstone roso to reply, and, after some prepara
tory sentences admirably calculated to win utten
tiimuud disarm opposition, bo commenced a defonoo
of tbo Budget, in a clour, calm, practical, and com
mon-souso speech ; soizlug upon D’lsruoli’a strong
points, rotating thorn one by one, and at intervals
dc&ling him some treraondous blows with grout
success, if applause was any ovidenco. Qludstouuis
candid,argumontativo and dignified. His knowledge
of tho minutest points of detail is marvellously
elaborate, and yet ho appears to havo tho faculty
of not lotting bis hoavers sink urnong details.
His spoeah was a sort of Soorotary of tho Treasury’s
report, ornamented with classic allusions, and inter
spOTSod with passages of gonuino eloquence. It is
impossible to listen to Gladatono without admiring
the beauty of his language, tho stately march of his
measured tones, and the porfect mastery ho pos
sesses over all tho resources of tho languago, which
never allows him for a moment to be at a loss for a
word. As a model of eloquence he stands next to
Macaulay, the most finished orator in tho House.
Tho speaking of the House of Commons differs
from that of our Parliamentary bodies in this, that
it is muoh more practical, business-like, and to the
purpose. There is no effort at display. No man.
I think, could ever make tho lloubo of Commons a
platform for hia own glorification. Arnan who does
not work there soon finds his level. A man who
should talk to the galleries as our speakers do
would insult tho self-love of tho House, and they
would snub him incontinently. To an American
this business-like air, this como-to-the-point stylo
of legislation, is in striking mortifying contrast
with tho hurrying, ramble-soramble style every
thing is done in tho legislative bodies of this
country.
There are many other points in which we might
profitably Imitate our English cousins in improving
our legislative, system. Tho absence of desks iu
the House of Commons is a great feature for imi
tation. Therein no opportunity afforded to mem
bers to be doing anything else than what pertains
specially to the business of tho House, and bonce
that air>of fixed attention which marks the House
during tho progress of a debate. This is in painful
contrast to our own legislative bodies, where some
are writing, pome rending, and where the noisy
hum pervading tho assembly must be exceedingly
annoying to A speaker.' The establishment of the
tribute; is used in most of the Continental legisla
tive bodies, would also be a oapital improvement if
adopted by.,our own. A man rarely mounts so
conspicuous an elevation as the tribune unless he
has something" to ssy, and to the purpose. We
would have fewer speeches for mere effect, and to
please tho popular ear, and our legislative bodies
would soon become arenas for the transaction of
business, and not for the manufacture of public
opinion, and localities, where politicians and Presi
dents are too often made.
BuuniNQTON, N. J., August 15th.
THE pulpit:
(Reported for Tho Press.]
CHRISTIANS WARNED AND ENCOUR
AGED.
This was tho subject of a sermon preached on
last Sabbath morning, in the Green Hill Presbyte
rian churoh, in the absence of tbe regular pastor
Rev Mr. Street, by Rev. Thomas H. Stookton.
Tbo text of Soripture selected for the occasion
may be found in the closing words of the tenth
chapter of St. Paul’s Epistle to tho Hobrews—as
follows:
, “ For ye have need of patience, that, after ye
have done the will of God, ye might receive the
promise. * * •* * Now the just shall live by
faith; fyut if any mau draw back, my soul shall
have no pleasure m him. Bat we are not of them
who draw back unto perdition; but of them that
believe to the saving of the soul.”
These words constituted the basis of the dis
course : nevertheless, the olaase contained In it,
“ the just shall live by faith" was designated by
the speaker ns constituting the principal feature
to which he' hoped to direct the attention of his
hearers.
Thoanaiyticalc&dl of mind, so characteristic of
Mr. Stockton's productions generally, was finely
indioated in bis opening of this discourse.
In opening, he remarked that there were three
things which distinguished those who neglect tho
Bible: these were condemnation, degradation,
and perdition.
The first of theso— condemnation —being conse
quent upon violated laws, was political; the
second— degradation-being the resultof criminal
indulgence, was personal; whilst the third—perdi
tion— being' the final infliction of an affixed
penalty, was retributive.
The counter, Or antagonistic of these threo dis
tinguishing characteristics, and whioh were tho
resultof obedience, justification,sanctifica
tion, and redemption. Now, the first of these—
justification-?by which wo are freed from the
law like condemnation, was political; the second
— sanctification— whioh elevates and hallows our
wholo constitution, like degradation, was personal;
whilst the third— redemption —like perdition, was
retributive, but it was the retribution of immortal
beauty.
The first of theso two classes had tamed their
books upon perdition by acknowledging the right
tpumessot tho law which condemned them, and
re, through the meroy and grace of God, had at
tained unto justification; at which point sanctifi
cation domraenced, and continued through lifpa«-
rotding to the faith that is in ns.
The two great facts whioh made this subject most
impressive and important, wore, first one utter
depeddence upon Christ, and, secondly, that this
dependence is entirely voluntary ,
In order to illustrate the first of theso proposi
tions—that our justification is dependent upon
Christ—various passages of Scripture were quoted
aud happily commented on. “ Tho just shall live
by faith” was the language of the text; and the
edict had gone forth, that “ if any man draw back
from the faith ho shall perish.” >
Christ had corno into the world to communicate
life to them that believe in him. “I am the bread
of life. ”***■*« Ye will not come to me
that yo might bavo life,” wore among His recorded
declarations. “Coming to Christ,” continued tho
speaker, “is life;" continuing faithfully with
Christ is everlasting life.
Tho beautiful illustration of this doctrine, as
given by the Saviour in tho fifteenth chapter of
John, in whioh Ho represents himself as *» the
vino,” and his disciples as “the branches,” was
here taken up and dwelt upon with great force
and beauty. “I am tho true vine, and my Father
is the husbandman,” was tho beginning of this in
imitable passage. “ Truly He is the vine and we
aro tho branches," continued tbe speakor; but
then, pausing for a moment, as If under a
most Bolemn conviction," he continued: “{Yet
the branoh may perish without being severed
from vine. it,might
havo; but, unless there’ wiis nn interior circulation'
of tho sap of life, its rind would become crisp, its
color would fade, its leaves would sere, vitality
would oo&se, and, for all practical purposes, it
might as woll bo Severed from tho stock and 1 cast
into the fire. If, however, on tho other hand,
there was this necessary circulation, the branoh
would not only live, but be fruitful; and while it
thus continued to live, the grent Husbandman
would continue to pruno ami dress it to enrich its
products—a beautiful typo, truly, of that pruning
which tho members of Christ so constantly need
for their spiritual growth, and the meeknosa and
submission with which it should ever bo received!
For us spiritually to abide in Christ, wo must
necessarily be in constant communion with Him.
If the question was asked “ Horn can we abide in
Christ?” bis own following declaration would en
lighten us:
“If you abido in me, and my words abide in
you, ye shall ask wh&t ye will and it will be (lone
unto you.”
The words of Christ it was, then, that consti
tuted this circulating life-giving element. His
words wore spirit—they were words of life— a
characteristic whioh did not apply to any other
words in the universe. “ Herein ulono,” eiol&imed
the speaker, “is ample material for a thousand
sonuons!”
We may hero remark, en passant, that Mr
Stockton has heretofore, in various way 3, given
peculiar evidence of his enthusiastic admiration for
tho matchless magnifleenco of God’s Word; a re
cent instance of which we have in his undertaking
—now in progress, of publishing tho sixty-six books
of tho Bible in so many different volumes—nn en
terprise, we believe,. entirely original with him
self. Is not this another corroboration of his ana
lytic proclivity?
The speaker now approached tho second main
division of his discourse, viz.: That our depen
dence upon Christ is voluntary. As, however,
considerable 'space bos been devoted alrcudy, a
brief allusion to the close of this eloquent sermon
must suffice.
It was not enough for us to come to Christ, and
thus secure a temporary justifioation; but to go on
in tho work of sanctification, it was necessary for
us to continue steadfast in Christ to tho end; and
to do this or not to do it, was left to our voluntary
choico.
Wo might, if wo would, grasp tho left hand of the
Almighty, whilst in his right wore hold the thun
derbolts uplifted to protect us from harm at the
hands of our enemies; or we might, if we would,
desert that hand, and risk tho terrible consequen
ces of baoksliding to perdition.
Tho grandest feature of this latter part of the
discourse consisted in a pioture drawn, represent
ing a sinnor on tho road to destruction, roscued on
his way by tho hand of Providence, brought into
tho fold of Christ, but who ultimately deserted
and was lost forever.
This descriptive flight was indeed thrilling and
poworful. A man of tho world, it was said, might
imtreh steadily on, down, down the broad road,
heedless of tho future, enveloped in tho sulphu-'
rmiß smoke of perdition, ovon until the very bil
lows of hell surged beneath hU foot; and yot at
tho vory vorgo of that fatal future, bo suddenly
stopped in his course by an interposing angel of
mercy.
Then his eyes would bo opened, his rouson would
bo restored, and himsolf made conscious of tho doom
to which he had boon tonding, and that too,
utidor tho sad delusion that ho had been travel
ling through Eiysiuu fields on his way to
paradise. But the angol hurried him to
his rofugo with flying velocity through the
sulphurous air, shivering at every bound, until
Sinai, like a volcano, now roso across his path ;
but ho saw the cross erected at its base. Rushing
to the blood-stained symbol, he clasped it in his
arms; Isrnol’s camp lay before him in tho wilder
ness ; the angel of his rescue looked upon him for a
little while, then onward passed to other works of
love. llut will he enter into the pro mised rest f
would now bo the question cohood from every heart
Has ho patience, courage , faith enough to endure
tho trial i
lie cun decide right, if he will, he is
free; hut will ho do It ?
To answer this wo could not; to hope, we might,
and so we might rejoice in tho privilege of being
able to remlor him some assistance in his onward
journey.
But, alas'. that allusion to the wilderness, in tho
figure just drawn was'sadly ominous when we re
member how tho bones of tho Israelites whitened
tho desert! How solemn, then, this passage onward!
Tho mark of tho high calling of Christ Jestia was
set beforo him, and all the promises of the Uospel
united in ontrenting him to , press onward to the
goal of Eternal Redemption.
But will ho do it? He may, if he will, re-enter
the path that leads to perdition, until those smoke
clouds shall curl over him again, and every angel
shall bo holdback from his rescue; when tho jaws
of hell shall again open to receive him, and he
shall take the final plunge ; whon his doom shall’
bo sealed, and the gates of oternal despair be shut
down upon him forever! Suiting the action to
the word, the speaker, in conoludiog this terrible
TWO CENTS,
.vision of a lost soul, brought bis foot down on the
floor with a perfect crash, and thei), for at least
the space of two full minutes, stood—his pole visage
and whitened looks as much resembling a marble
statue as a living form—with hU large eye, looking
the very bewilderment of awe, fixed with painful
intensity, as if upon some unfatbomnble abyss, far
down in the depth beueath us.
The foolishness of men rejecting salvation as it
is offered in the Bible constituted his concluding
topic, and formed a very appropriate peroration to
the sermon, of which, of course, the above is but
a meagre synopsis.
[From the New York Daily Times.]
THE RETURNED FILIBUSTERS,
Their Wanderings from the Day of Leaving
Walker until now*
A STORY OF SUFFERING AND ADVENTURE.
Among the deserters were several commissioned
officers in Walker’s army. We have had Inter
views with most of these gentlemen. Wo find them
telling one straight story, and not at all ashamed
of having deserted a cause tweniy-eight days be
fore its “ chosen man of dostiny ” himself deserted
it, though after all reakmable hope had desorted
him. That they shonld be obliged to desert, they
say, does mortify them; bat for the reasons that
thoy elsewhere set forth, there was no other way
unless they consented to bo sacrificed—not for the
cause, but to the stubborn vanity of a leader who
already foresaw that he had lost all.
Captain Walker, and flfty-oue men,
left Walker at Rivas on the sth of April Some two
hundred and fifty others left within three days
after, and joined Captain Walker’s company
These constitute mostot the party that the Tennes
see brought to port yesterday.
Captain Walker, with seventy-four meu, had left
San Francisco on the 20th of February. They
landodon the 7th of March at Rivas, and were
joyfully welcomed bv the fillibuster chief, who
named them the Rea Star Guard. They were in
tho battles of Rivas and San Jorge, and were re
ported at the time as doing good service, but before
they had been there a month it was evident that all
was lost. Official oirculara from the Government of
Costa Rica had been issued, inviting the disaffected
to leave, and offering them tempting inducements.
It was on the morning of the stb of April Captain
Walker sent a note to General Walker, requesting
that sufficient rations be furnished his men; that
if they were not fed they could not fight—in short,
unless they were better rationed they must leave.
General Walker read the note, but made no reply
to it. The same night ten men wero Bent from the
company to see the Costa Rican General, Mora,
proposing to desert on condition that the Costa
Rican Government would forward them to the
States. General Mora pledged his word that the
terms should be kept. That night the whole com
pany, excepting eleven men, went over to the
enemy. Of tho eleven that wero loft, some were
sick in the hospitals, & few badly wounded and
unable to travel, and three or four said they
would stay by their General—die with him,
if that were his fate. General Mora, on their
arrival in his camp, gave to Capt. Walker
twenty-five dollars, to his Lieutenant ten dollars,
and to each of the men one dollar and rations.
They all agree in confessing the kindness of the
Costa Rican authorities, who kept their faith per
fectly. Joined by other deserters, some three
hundred of them were ordered to take up their
line of march to San Jose, the oapital of Costa
Rica, and accordingly embarked at San Jorge,
(two miles from camp, on Lake Nicaragua,) on
board tho onemy’s steamer—the same which hod
previously beon captured from Walker—and dis
embarked at a small town called Tortugas, about
forty miles distant. Thence, being provided with
Mro plantains apiece for their subsistence, they
started on foot, without a guide, many of them
crippled, wounded, and sore, over a wild, rugged,
mountainous region of country, fit only to be trod
den by goats and mules, to Punta Arenas, a dis
tance of about ninety miles. Here they were
f[uartercd in dirty barracks, guarded by soldiers,
or several days, and allowed a reale (twelve and a
half cents) a day for their subsistence- The in
habitants of Punta Arenas, fearing nn outbreak
from so formidable a party, complained to the au
thorities, and all tho well men were, at the end of
three weeks, pressed forward, over a tolerable
road for Co3ta Rican enterprise, to the capital, dis
tant about seventy-five miles the sick and
wounded only remaining.
Their reale a day bod done them tolerable ser
vice while at Punta Arenas, though scarcely fur
nishing as decent & subsistence as a shilling would
furnish a docent stranger in New York. Still, by
messing, buying up their rice and plantains by
tho quantity, they did not suffer from hunger. A
few of the boys had got work there in the harbor,
repairing old hulks, painting on shipboard, assist
ing in stowing and discharging cargoes. On the
route to tho capital the men were allowed soldier's
fare,.a scanty allowance, but complained ef nothing
except that they were guarded at every Btep by a
file of soldiers- At San Jose they were quartered
in a building used jointly as a .hospital and apri
son, fed on worm-eaten beans and a sort of hard
bread, called buisevehe t and lodging upon the,brick
floors, half naked, with tho thermometer down
•ahrert'<fcvih«il!w«sing. poiuW;,.
shelter gave rfso to universal complain ( } and, a i k
palliation for this treatment, two realty a day
word allowed each man, to be used as he saw pro
per. Some poor inducements were held out for
theta to remain in the country. Thoy were offered
labor enough, of the most menial sort, at the
customary rate of the country—two reales (twenty
five cents) a day.
The prison or hospital was so lousy, Indeed
the whole town wore such a languishing appear
ance, that many of tho more spirited proposed to
the Government, that if they were provided with
passports they would renounce all claim upon it,
and wend their way the best thoy could to San
Juan del Norte or Groytown, taktog their chances
for a passage home on the first vessel that might
arrive. But no greater punishment, say they,
could be inflicted upon man than to pass over this
route, especially without money. The road is not
only rough and mountainous, but in the low
grounds tue mud Is knee-deep at every step, and
the houses or stations from ten to fiftoon miles
apart. Rain was falling in torrents almost every
day. Nothing disturbs the monotony of the scene
but the chattering of Congo monkeys, the bellow
ing of mountain cows, and the croaking of macaws.
But few had assumed tho risks of this gloomy
journey. More than two hundred and fifty of them
remained at San Jose, and, during the two months
they remained there, other deserters had arrived,
swelling the number to three hundred. Two
reales a day were furnished each man. There was
but one restaurant in town, and there the charge
was a dollar a meal. But, at the windows of the
poor Spanish housekeepers, for their two reales
they could get a piece or perk, a cup of coffee, and
a slice of bread—two scant meals a day. Half a
mile outside of the town thoy might have lived
like priuces, for nothing—bananas, plantains,
cocoanuts, being plenty for the picking; but they
were under guard, and, os a matterof course, could
not be allowed the privilege of straying.
While here, news came on that the Transit Route
bad been given to Messrs. Harris (who represented
the Morgans) and Webster; and that one of the
conditions of tho grant was, that all of Walker’s
men who desired it should be taken to New York,
at the expense of the New York Company—that
tho Tennessee would be at Greytown on the 25th
to receive them.
General Mora appointed Captain Walker cap
tain over the company of deserters, a post to
which be was soon aftor elected by the men them
selves, and gave him ordors immediately to con
duct them to Greytown. They left Sau Jose on
the 13th of July. A half, at least, of every day,
while they were on the route} it rained. The mud
was from two to three feet deep in everything that
pretended to be a road, while frequently they come
upon swamps, so deeply submerged that they had
to swim across They htul no baggage but what
they carried on their backs—a package for each
man of hard bxead and jerked beef, as much as he
would consent to take.
Reaching Scrapiqui they were disappointed at
not finding either a steamer or a fleet of bungoes to
take them down the river. There was nothing to
do but to construct rafts. But they had no hatchets
or axes, thoy had only their machetes to fell trees
with. Out of such cork-wood trees as they cut,
and the timber of some deserted shanties, as they
arrived in parties they built rafts that would carry
each from two to ten men, and launched thorn.
About half tho company, however* unable to find
tho lumber for tho purpose, pushed on along the
bank. Two of these died, exhausted with their
tedious journey, six others wero never heard from
again—whether they perished in the forest, or at
some lower point on the river constructed a raft,
and losing tho way, were carried down the Colorado
to the ocoun, tho survivors never knew. Butthose
who hail taken to the rafts at Scrapiqui had adan
gerous journey of 13j tuilcs to make down a tor
tuous, rapid stream, and without guides. Ar
rived at Greytown, a nmull Bteamer wus provided
to push up tho river and pick up the stragglers.
It would have beou u hard time with them at
Greytown but for tho presence of an American
tloop-of-war in tbo harbor. Colonel Cauty. the
distinguished oommaudaut of tho Costa Ricans
at that point, they say showed no disposition to
provide supplies for them. A few got work, chop
ping wood, gardening, fishing, or building fences.
The mayor of tho city did what ho could to aid
them, and several speak of S. S. Wood, Esq , a
Now York merchant at Greytown, as having fur
nished material aid to those who needed it But
to the officers of the Saratoga all unito in express
ing tho luostheurty thanks Salt pork, beef, beans,
molasses, Ac.,wero sent to shore in abundance, and
nsuit of cowfortabJo clothing for every man. It
was two weeks that tho company were detuinod
here.
The Tennessee arrived at Greytown on Satur
day, the Bth of August, and in two days after left
lor New York, bringing all the deserters from
Walker’s army, and some four or five others who
had been taken prisoners by the Costa Ricans
during the war There was a good deal of com
plaint on board of abort provisions, but no more
than thoy were disposed to excuse wheu told how
suddenly tho Tennessee had been ordered off.
Most of the deserters aro, perhaps a third of
them, Western men; another third Southerners.
Captain Walkor was originally from Indiana. H©
bears his siege well, looking tough and hearty, as
if ho had just come from a victory. He is a small
man, with blue eyes, black hair, and a frank and
open countenance. ife was, though only seventeen
years old, with Colonel Fremont for eight mouths,
in 3848, in the Rocky Mountains, but went off with
Kit Carson whon Kit and the Colonel separated.
Ho left, homo for California in 1850, aud was iu
speotor In tho custom-house, but was removed and
out of busiucss when he took charge of the fillibus
tering company, which he led from California.
Captain Wright, another of those who arrived
yesterday, has a father who is a colonel in the
United States army. Lieutenant Kanp, a rugged,
tough-looking specimen of tho filliouster, was a
printer in New Orleans, and we should judge from
tho talk of the men, a sort of pen for the company
—tho literary man. The late Lieutenant Clara
had deserted earlier than most of them. He was
captured by Walker’s men, and was expecting to
be shot when at San Jorge. Walker being very
short of help, despatched him to take a piece of
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artillery from the enemy. He took the piece, but
was wiser than to return with it to Walker. He
WO3 one of Adams A Co.’s express agents in Cali
fornia. 6
Captain Edward Brown, whose speech we give
below, is only twenty-four years of age. He is a
native of Michigan, where his parents now reside.
He left for California when fifteen-yeare of age,
and was quite successfulinhisgoldeeeking. Much
of his earnings he sent to his parents, with whom
it is safe. So much of it as he brought to Nicara
gua took onto itself wings most speedily. He left
Sacramento for Nicaragua in February last, in
command of a company of young men, and since
that time his life has been one or great hardship.
He is fearless and outspoken, and seems a gener
al favorite with his poor companions., fie will
e !fn i^ e tome of his parents to-day.
P. Bostwick, Walker’s seo retary of State, who,
because he left before the treaty was signed, was
reckoned among the deserters, embarked on the
Tennessee, butleft her at Key West.
ft f nve d yesterday are sick, though some
an( v are sore their old woan&T
W hue on their voyage homeward, the men talked
over their hardships and their wrongs a good deal,
as might be supposed. Thetoughsstof tj teir
they agree, w that they must hereafter bear the
stigma of haying deserted, though they say before
they left their chieftain deserted them. They re
fer to those who remained*, and to their utter ne
glect upon their arrival in New York, by General
Walker who was the lion of the theatres at the
time, in justification of their obedience to the in
stinct or self-preservation.
INCIDENTS IN THE PIBK.
There were a number of affecting scenes in the
Park yesterday. While the collection of funds
was going on in front of the Hall of Records, nwell
dressed and rather pretty young lady, apparently
about eighteen yean of age, approached one of the
returned fiilibucters to make inquiries for & brother
who was in Walker’s army.
In the features of hex face the expression of hope
and fear Were alternating; but ail the hope was
soon gone, and tears of anguish rolled down her
cheeks oa she gave ve&i to the feeßngs of anguish
caused by the announcement that her brother was
dead. Many a tear-wet eye followed her form as
she went away.
Just as the crowd were leaving the Park in the
afternoon, a poor old widow, who resides at No. 349
Greenwich street, and whose name is Isabella
Chartres, come up and addressed Officer Brooks.
She was weeping bitterly; a son of hers had joined
the Nicaraguan army last year; he was her only
support, and with three boys was sedueed away;
she said he was a good boy, and behaTed well to
his poor mother. When W alker was here, die ap
plied to him for information concerning her eon; he
of course knew nothing of him, but directed her
to write to New Orleans; she did so, and received
the following telegraphic despatch:
New Orleans, June 25,1857.
To J. Cnx&T&sa Patrick G. Chartres died at Rivas.
Feb. 3,1857. JOHN V. HOFF.
The sight of these poor fellows opened her
wounds afresh, and the fount of sorrow, which was
almost dried up, buret forth again. “An’ share.’’
said the poor creature, “Mirther Brooks, dartin’,
what matther if he was like these, itself, if I only
saw him wanst more—its a mother’s heart would
worum to him, and be proud. to have to close
her ould eves, when she was lavin’ this wur
rild forever.”
In answer to a question from Offioer Brooks she
said she was not earning her living by washing,
but “ I’m alone as those," said she, “ I'm alone;
the branch iswethered, dartin’, and theculd thronk
left.”
GENERAL NEWS.
A drunken vagabond named William Taylor
murdered his wife in Rochester, N. Y., on Sunday
evening. He beat her in the most outrageous
manner during the day, and threw his child, only
six months old, out of the third-story window!
Taylor says he is about fifty years of age. and a
man Above tho medium rise. He says he was bom
in the north of Ireland, and came to this country
twenty-six years since. He has resided in Roches
ter sixteen years, nine of which he lived oa Jack
son street. Ho has been twice married, and his
first wife left no children. His wife’s maiden
name was Margaret Brown, and sb6, too, was a
native of Ireland. She was about thirty years of
age, and had been married about two years.; The
only issue of the marriage was the babe six
months old.
The Cumberland (Md.) Civilian states that
Lloyd B. Smith, the collector of State and county
taxes, who recently disappeared, is a defaulter to
the State to the amount of $5,400, and is alleged
to have committed forgeries on various ettiiens of
the oity and county to the amount of about $9,900.
Besides which, he had incurred debts to the amount
of about $B,OOO, which are held in notes endorsed
by friends, whiob, of course, they’ will have to
pay. His total liabilities are estimated at 525,000,
though at present the certainty of the amount can
not be ascertained. His assets arc estimated at
sfi,Qoo, which is held by the an security
against his defalcation, in the non-payment of
taxes he received whilst collector. * '
- The Pittsburgh papers aUte Satur
day a mail-carrier named Williamson, on the But
ler, Freeport,’and Greensbajg route, was arrested
at Freeport, upon acapieion of having robbed the
' *
Sballcwss,' special mail agent has recovered and
forwarded to the Philadelphia's post office,'taome
letters and envelopes supposed tohpve been token
from the cars about the end of last March, at Crest
line, O. Among them is one from John Fleming,
of Allegheny City, to some person in the West, the
envelope of whieh has not been recovered.
John Seigenfoos, Sr., of Bridgeton, Buck*
county, Pa., died very suddenly on Friday last.
He was engaged collecting paving stone in the
Delaware river, opposite Narrowsville, when his
boat suddenly sunk in the current, awl he was
obliged to swim for bis life. He struck out for the
Pennsylvania shore, which he reached in safety,
but much exhausted by the exertion. He died in
a short time afterwards. His sou was present on
the shore and witnessed his father's straggles in
the water.
The tire at Point Levi (Quebec) previously
announced by telegraph, brolte out atone o'clock
on themorningof the 15th, in an unoccupledhouse.
The alarm was not given till the flames had made
great progress, and in the meantime some eighteen
houses were destroyed. The buildings consumed
were nearly all wooden, and the principal sufferers
arc poor people, few of whom are insured. 1 The
fire is supposed to be tho act of an incendiary.
Miss Elizabeth Gates, a handsome young
lady of nineteen, of Rochester, N. Y., the other
day eloped from that city with Vim. Henry Lee, a
man who had been exhibiting a large Illinois pig
and a black bear under canvas on Main street. A
Rochester paper says that a magistrate united the
couple in marriage, and they left by the cars for
the eastward, wire, pig, bear, and all, by the same
train.
A young lady, residing and connected with
a very respectable family, living in the lower part
of Orchard street, Newark, X. J., committed sui
cide, last Saturday morning, by taking poison, and
was buried on Sunday. Deceased waa a beautiful
and accomplished girl, a teacher in the Sunday
school of one of the AI. E. churches, and the cause
of her self-destruction is said to be her betrayal by
a married man—a member of the Baptist Church.
There is an old squaw among an encamp
ment of Oneida Indians at Saratoga who is aged
one hundred and nine years, and named Honoria
Dacotbarer. She was employed during the Revo
lution os a messenger and a spy and look-out. She
was born at Oneida Castle, in 1748. Her husband
fell at the battle of Saratoga in 1773, and her three
sons at Lundy’s Lane and Chippewa in 1814. ■
Tho State of Ohio counts among her honors
that she opened the first female college; intro
duced, or rather created, the culture of the grape
in America; discovered the true method of taking,
magnetically, the ascension and declension of the
stars; invented the steam fire engine, and gave
birth to a noble series of painters, poets, sculptors,
and men of science.
On Sunday week, a duel with pistols, at ten
paces, was fought near New Orleans, between
Messrs. Lalland Ferrier and Jules Arnault, the
latter being the challenger. On the first fire, Mr.
Arnault fell, the bail of his antagonist haring en
tered his right ear, shattering it badly, and passing
out at tho oase of the occiput. Mr. Ferrier wa3
unhurt.
The Paducah and St. Louis packet J. P.
Tweed sank on last Friday, about 12 o'clock M., at
the foot of Goose Island, in the Mississippi river.
She was bound from Paducah to St. Louis, loaded
with grain, feathers, Ac., and the boat and cargo
are, from accounts, a total loss. One deck-passen
ger, name unknown, was drowned.
It is stated that a large number of leading
railroad men have culled a convention, to assemble
in New York city September let, to discuss matters
relating to economy m railroad management, and
to arrange for a national exhibition and trial of
railroad machinery about the Ist of November.
On Wednesday last Mr. Thomas "Walsh,
whilo at work on the road near Gorham, N. H.. waa
fatally injured by tho falling of a derrick, which
struck him, breaking his back. Ho survived buda
few hours after the accident. Ho belonged la
Montreal, whore he loaves a wife and children
Governor Ligon, of Maryland, on Tuesday
appointed Jonathan Pinkney, Esq., of Annapolis,
Secretary of State, in the place of Nathaniel Cox,
Esq., resigned. Mr. Pinkney qualified and entered
at once upon the discharge of his duties.
Gideon Bently of Constants, in Oswego
county, attained the one huodred and seventh rear
of his age on W ednesday. He still enjoys good health
and retains his memory and faculties remarkably
well
The Asheville (N. C.) News says that
George Blackwell, sheriff of Polk county,, was
murdered last week, while attempting to levy an
execution on some property.
Secretary Floyd and several other members
of the Cabinet, it is said, contemplate a vitit to
Old Point Comfort. Four hundred guests are now
at the Hygeia Hotel.
PERSONAL.
Gen. Mirabeau B. Lamar, of Texas, was in
Texas on the 12th. Gen Lamsr has lately received
the appointment of Minister to Buenos Ayres from
the United States, and he was en route for Wash
ington to make preparations preliminary to start
ing for bis mission.
A letter from Camden, Ark., dated August
6. announces the death of Judge A. A. Stith, of
that place. It took place on the evening of the
sth. He was a Virginian by birth, and has near
kindred in New Orleans.
Charles HufTnogle, Esq., Consul-General of
the United States In India, returned bom© on the
10th irntant, and is staying at the residence of his
brother, Alfred Huffhagle, near New Hope, Pa.
Ho has been absent about two years.
David Prentice, L L. D., of Geneva, K. T.,
died ih that village on tho 34th inst. Dr. Prentice
passed the longest portion of his three-score years
ten as a teacher, and for considerable time was
a professor jin Geneva College.