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MONDAY, -AUGUST 81, 1857,
the first page will he found an edito
rial on the star System—two very interesting
letters from Nebraska and the Indian Country
—and a report'of a sermon by the Rev. Mr,
Chahbebs. The fourth page contains another
number of “ Jottings of Travel.”
THE GREAT REVOLT IN INDIA.
The British Government have fairly got the
wolf by tile cars. Tjrey dare not let go, and
it is dangerous to hold on. The affairs of In
dia have ripened into a peril of monstrous
magnitude—portending, in any event, a cer
tain great loss of human, life on all sides, and
on Expenditure of millions of money. The
wolf of revolt has become unmanageable. He
may be hold in restraint, but by the last indi
cations he was on the eve of breaking into the
bloodiest excesses.
‘. This war inlndia opens a volume in which the
student of history can learn some valuable les-
sons. Itisabookfilledwith admonitions to Go-
vernments and to men. It tells us not only of
the strength of England, but also of her weak
ness. - It exposes to the gaze of the world the
misrule which has brought “the most consider
able part of her empire” to the brink of a
fatal disruption from the Crown, and holds up
to civilization the extraordinary means resorted
to to keep that extended dominion within
her grasp. It foreshadows, in all probabil
ity, the march of the great western hordes to
new conquests in British Asia; and discovers
to those nations over whom England has ex
tended her protection the important secret,
tbatshe has need for her statesmanship for her
self, and that her armies and navies have abun
dant occujjation in keeping intact and whole
those mighty regions, which called forth the
figure of Webster when speaking of Greatßri
tain: “ Her morning drum r beginning with the
sun, and keeping company with the hours, cir
cles the earth daily with one continuous and
unbroken strain of the martial airs of Eng
land.”
It is in a crisis like this that we realize the
value of the vigor of the British press, and feel
the contrast furnished by the muzzled journal
ism of France, where editors write either with
moral fetters on their wrist 3, or with a prospect
of iron fetters in their dungeons.
Punch declares that the East India Com
pany—“ John Company,” as thatmerciless ex
ecutioner of public men describes that vast
corporation—is at fault, and openly 'demands
that he should be blown up; carrying its criti
cisms so far as to illustrate its notions by a
caricature in which a British artilleryman is
setting fire to the priming of a great chnnon,
loaded to the muzzle with the rotten combus
tibles of, the Company, while the explosion
scatters to the four winds such sacred relics of
mal-administration, as “Avarice,” “Misgovern
ment, 5 ? “Blundering,” “Supineness,“Nepo
tism,” interspersed with the fossil fogyisms of
the East India House, viz: spectacles, gold
headed canes, memorandum-books, and ple
thoric bags of gold.. But Punch is not content
with this sort of partisanship. Hear him
speak:
How to stake an IkdiAn Pickle.—-Intrust the
selection of materials and the Whole management
of affairs to a commercial company, like (for in
stance) tho East India Company. Allow them to
' make tteo of as mnoh corruption as they please.
Throw in various green things, each as incompe
tent judges, cruel tar-gathorers, and overbearing
military officers. Stir up the above with a large
spoon of the Elienborougn pattern. Mix the above
with native superstitions, and by no means spare
the official sauce. Allow the above quietly to fer
ment for several years without taking any notice
of how mattors are going on. When you eome to
look into the state of things, you will find that you
have as fine an Indian Picklo as you could wish.
You need not trouble yourself about the-jars, for
-they will bo supplied to you afterwards, gratis. For
further’ particulars, inquire of the great Indian
Pickle Warehouse, in Xeadenhall street. If. B.
No Pickle is genuine, unless there is the mark of
“John Company” plainly visible on the face of it.
Reynolds's Newspaper says:
" ** Spread op the Indian Be volt. —The news
from India is decidedly unfavorable. Delhi holds
out; and if tho rainy season, whioh is dose at
hand, surprises General Barnard before, the cap
ture of the city, be will, in ail likelihood, be com
. pelled to'raise tne siege. The mutiny is rapidly
spreading,, and ns proof of the "panic raging
amongst the Europeans, money, can soarcely be
obtained, and Government securities are failin'.
Within a few days the ministers will have digested
their Greenwich whitebait dinner, and the first
session of the new Parliament have dosed. It
■ - cannot be said that the session terminates under
the. most cheering or happy auspices. On the
contrary, never, perhaps, was the. English
Parliament dispersed in faoe of such a
threatening ana lowering perspective. Even
* the success of the Crimean campaign was not of
'such vital importance to England as is the sup
pression of the revolt in India. The difficulty of
our position there exceeds that we had to encoun
ter on the shores of the Blaok Sea. When prose
cuting the Crimean campaign we knew where to
conoentrate our forces, for it was before Sebastopol
the struggle must inevitably take place. Oar
troops, when landed at Balaklava, hod, as it were,
reached their destination, and arrived at the
scene of action. The climate of the. Crimea was
■ congenial to the British constitution. Wo were
supported by a powerful ally, whose proficiency in
the art of war is an admitted fact. All our ener
gies, all our power, all our aggressive might, were
concentrated within a few miles. How differently
.' are we situated in India?
“From whatever point of view we examine the
Indian revolt, it persuades us that Eugland was
- never bofore engaged in such a perilous and all
important encounter. Strip us of our Indiau em
pire, and we atonce sink to the level of second-rate
Powers; our colonios will soon shake off the Eng
lish yoke, our foreign possessions in Europe will
speedily declare thoir independence, and the gi
gantic dimensions of Qneen Victoria's dominions
will—oven during her reign—in all probability bo
reduced to acomparative shadow.”
The same paper talks with great bitterness
of the call for troops to go to India. Khodo
montade as it is, it is significantly free-spoken:
' “ Come, all ye loyal Britons, your Queen requires
your aid! Come yo stalwart navigators, lay by
the pick and spade! Come, and for the Balvation
> of the State, shoulder the rifle, and praotise the
goose-step.
. “ And yo, too, ye grim of aspect, strong of arm,
and true of heart, who swoatand labor at tho forge,
come forth, your Queen and country call, and Bcotch
tho hideouß hydra of revolt; come, and you may
rely upon it that the gratitude of the rescued Stato
. will acknowledge your sendees by conferring upon
such of yon as may have the good laok to escape
the bullets of the sepoys, or the more murderous
sun of India, the munificent pension of not less
than sixpence per diem, which nobody oan deny is
adequate, princely, and royal compensation for the
health and limbs you have lost, and for the wives
and children who have boon allowed to starve
' white yo wore engaged fighting for your Queen and
country! *
- ,l And ye, also, ye swarthohildren of the mine—
ye, who from childhood have daily braved the fire
damp demon, como and defend your country from
the dear allies of your beloved Sovereign—those
' allies, who, now that that Sovereign is in distress, i
look on in silent expectation for the moment to i
snatch some of the jewels whioh are now loosed and
, falling from her crown. Come one and all; come
from the loom, the forge and the field; come, ye
pale-faced,, famine-pinched Spitalfields weavers;
come, ye starved and spirit-crushedDorcheßtorpea
sants; Come, all ye variegated groups of ill-paid,
. oonrse-blad, underfed,.British and 'lrish helotry,
come, and save your gods from perdition. Ye want
novelty, ye pine for exoltement. Now, here, at
least, is something new under the sun. ’ Your
gods are in deadly peril; the exalted, the royal,
and the supremo beings, on whom you have la
vished all wealth and veneration, are now trem
bling for their thrones and their lives. The divine
Olympians are in distress; the earth-born Titans
' are In arms against them; and the celestial divini
ties, getting the worst'd the battle, are fain to
- crave the aid of the poor and despised children of
men. You cannot surely be so cruel as to turn a
deaf ear to the supplioationsof such interesting and
resplendent beings. They sue to you for assist*
ance, for tho red waves of revolt mount higher and
higher; the dry land is rapidly narrowing around
the gods, who, now that they are divested of
' their wings, are obliged to have recourse to
boats, balloons, rafts, or ropes, or such other
vnlgar aids and appliances as mortals can af
ford. .Consider the honor of saving your gods!
The limes, you see, are greatty ohangod. Once
the gods saved men; now is the time for
men to return the compliment. Come, then,
at once, take the shilling, and save the empire
-from the effects of an exotic royalty, an effete no
. bility, a cruel, heartless, and pitiless huckstering
class. Gome, thou ragged Lazarus, from thy lair,
and rescue Dives from the effects of his own beast
ly gluttony; Come, and thou shall be rewarded with
a crumb from the table of the bloated and bursting
‘ \dd Binnar. . The men of purple and fine linen
have failed; they are manifestly and confessedly
unequal to the emergency. They stand Appalled
v and paralyzed in the presence of the ghastly and
blood-besmeared avenging spectre which has risen
out of the blaok, bottomless abyss' of British op
pression.. ■ Come, then, ye English and Irish slaves,
ond save your taskmasters from ruin! Yo can save
a State, though ye are not fit for the franchise.”
Wilhrur $ Smith's European Times talks in
more respectful, but not leas, daring, language.
In that paper of the 16th of August wo find
the. following:
\ ” ; O This complexity,and pbstructiveness cannot be
endured in the face of,the monstrous grievances it
has entailed on the, nation. Foreigners who do
r ‘" * not understand these, distinctions,, and who look
. only to results, are. amazed at the blundering
whioh haa brought abdht this mutiny, and the
n whole continental press is engaged at the present
in the- consideration of the question'
whether we have, the ability to suppress it. -. It
- --.will be suppressed, no doubt,but with what misery
' in ’the maas'-with' what retribution to the offend
-- - etiito Men equal to ihemighty interests committed
s+y!'. : tb their charge, would have done better than sup*
; preariQuoahdd—they would have studied and ef
■ • . .
, qqjejsuppresaiqn of newspapers in India; by
the English authorities, may be followed by. a
\ slmllar decree In England, If this free spirit is
the article of theLondoa Timet, which we
give ia another column, U scarcely less re.
: Vjßarkabie. 'i'hatclvUiredjoumalcalls,Othello-
like, for blood, blood! Every sente" o6
seems to have been written under the go •
Every syllable is a dagger-blow or 0 l ,ls 6
shot. The Times wants Action, a military ■
Governor of India, Reform, ami e o u ge.
Complaining of tho atrocity committed upon
English men, women, and children, by the mad
and mis-governed nitives of India, would it
bo discourteous to ask the Times if it has any
recollection of those British emissaries, the
Indians, who, during the revolutionary and
late wars, ravaged our frontiers, and murdered
our people without distinction of age or sex?
TVe do not wish to bo understood as exulting
over the misfortunes of the British Government*
The events we Comment upon are interesting,
to the world, and, as such, important to the
United States, We discern in these events a
Destiny which Is now visible all ovet the face
ot creation. This Destiny may be delayed,
but it cannot be successfully resisted. England
will not regard the workings of Providence on
these shores, in the spirit of that just philosophy
which she is apt to invoke for herself. She
will not see in our system of slavery, forced
upon us by her example and her treasure, any
evidence but that of our own dishonor.
She will not admit that this system. is
continued as a political necessity, but insists
upon holding us responsible for it, because we
refuse to get rid of it by an act that would be
wrong to ourselves and misery to the negro.
We deal with her India problem more justly.
Wo solve it more sensibly and more gener
ously, In spite of the long years of blunder
ing and plundering on tho part of favorites
who have successively robbed and ruled that
Empire; in spite of the crimes of Clive
and of Hastings and their imitators; in spite
of the absence of all liberal legislation for
India, we yet believe that it is far better for
that Empire that England shoald wield con-
trol over it than that it should be the seat of
rapine and of wrong, of heathenism and of
barbarism; oppressed by warlike chiefs, who
would alternately be the prey to each other,
and remain savage strangers to civilization
and religion. Providence has willed that all
this should be. But it is no less clear to our
mental vision, that, in proportion as Great
Britain seeks to govern India well, so must
she abandon the policy which has produced
the present revolt; and in doing this, while
she \yffl rivet that region to herself, she will be
compelled to liberalize and elevate the white
millions that toil, suffer, and starve at her own
hearth-stone, and whom she now invokes to
bleed, that India may not be lost.
Truth from the Right Quarter.
The Philadelphia North American had an ar
tical on Friday in which the writer says :
“The division of mankind into races, with fixed
tradition?, habits, and thoughts, has rather dovolop
ed peculiarities than promoted strength. Weak
nesses as well as virtues, prejudices as well a*
knowledge, have been perpetuated. The -United
States rose just at the hour when these separate
'strands of a common humanity wore ready to bo
interwoven, and the great whole, when it is done,
will effect the regeneration of the world. The
varying traits of many nations, blended together,
will tend to the preservation of what is worthy of
saving, while the weak and merely traditional will
go into oblivion. Only one component puzzles
us The gentleman from Africa seems out of .his
element among so many white folk, or people at
least un*African, whatever else they may be. The
mixture of African with other blood seems tho
exception to the rule that intermarriages of dif
ferent nations produce an improved stoek. The
pure African or the pure Caucasian is usually to
oo preferred aboro any in whom the dusk of Africa
is changed by a lighter race.
« Those who recognise a Providence in the gov
ernment of the world cannot doubt that time will
show what disposition is prepared of this, to us, in
surmountable difficulty. As the African is never a
voluntary emigrant from his torrid land, and os the
forced deportation of tho people of that remarkable
continent mustonc day ©ease, it may be that the
distinctive colorof tho racowill fade out. Itis not
to be domed that tho dark skin carried with it usu
ally the evidence of both mental and physical in
feriority. There are, we know, notable exceptions;
and there are evidences also of a tractable spirit in
the sable race which gives token of capacity tor im
provement. The full power of advancement of the
African must, however, wo think, be shown in his
own land, and can be nowhere else; for to contact
with the people of any other hue, tho poor black
does not improve; uulees, indeed, the obedience of
dependence be improvement. Nor are his masters
benefited by his service, in any actual sense.”
Emancipation nud the Slave Trade In Brazil.
A writer in tho Richmond Enquirer, sup
posed to bo Governor Wise, says:
“The laws and customs of Brazil are extremely
favorable to emancipation. Any agreement made
by tho master of a slave, either with tho slave him
self or with a third party, for the purchased eman
cipation of the slave, is mado irrevocably binding.
The emancipated negro immediately assumes all
the rights and franchises of a citizen of Brazil;
nor does he find any serious obstacle to social ad
vancement. Tho ‘prejudice of color 5 is almost
tinknown in Brazil, laughed at even in the more
refined oirctes of the Court, as displaying an un
natural fastidiousness. The priest at the altar,
tho general officer in the army, the morchant
on change, the lawyer at the bar, or oven
the officer of the imperial house-hold, may
be, and frequently is, an unadulterated negro,
and in all grades of society the inter-marriage
of whites and negroes is a thing of constant
practice. Nothing tends more to foster this abnor
mal state of social relations, than the continuance
of the slave trade, even when surreptitiously con
ducted. The household employment of Brazilian
born negrocß or of Africans who have lived long
enough in their adopted country to acquire ite lan
guage and habits, quadruples the price of such
negroes, as compared with the market value of
freshly imported Africans. These ‘ now negroes ’
are equally effioient on the coffee plantations, and
the coffee planters make a constant profit by the
sale of Brazilian and the purchase of African
slaves.
“Many of the Brazilian negroes have connex
ions and associations with friends already emanci
pated, who help them to eke out their own savings
carefully hounlod for the purchase of their free
dom, for which every fresh importation of Africans
offers a favorable opportunity.
“ It may also bo mentioned that during Governor
Wise’s misrioa to Brazil, almost every vessel boar
ing the flu?; of the United States, and captured or
condemned for participation in the slave trade,
was found to be tho property of some Northorn
ship-owner. In one instance, such a vessel was
captured, which proved to be the property of a
Quaker in New Jorsey, who abstained, on princi
ple, from the consumption of sugar produced by
slave labor.”
Southern Presbyterian (New School) Conven-
Tltts body assembled in Richmond off Thurs
day evening. There were one hundred and
twenty-four delegates present from fifteen
presbyteries in Tennessee, Missouri, Ken
tucky, Virginia, Mississippi, and Maryland.
There were in addition two corresponding
members from Philadelphia, and one from New
Jersey. The Hon. Horace Maynard, of
Tennessee, was chosen President, and Rev.
Dr. Bell and Philip B. Price Secretaries.
Nothing was done beyond tbe appointment of
one clergyman and one layman from each
synod, to constitute a business committee.
Lieut. Beale’s Party. —lntelligence has
been received during the present week from
Lieut. Beale’s party. They were at Fort
Davis on the 17th of July last, all in good
health and fine spirits. It is a rule of the ex
pedition to encamp early, and to traveltwenty
fivo miles each day. The Lieutenant will put
the party through in gallant stylo.
The Coal Wealth of Western Virginia
Tbe coal fields of Western Virginia, it is stated,
are two hundred miles long by one hundred wide,
giving a working area of twenty thousand square
miles. At the fails of the Kanawha the coal seams
in the mountain aggregate one hundred and twen
ty foet in thickness. The Kanawha Star says:
It is not believed that the quantity or quality of
the coal in the mountains about the falls of Ka
nawha are any better, if as good, as several of the
other localities named. Indeed, the Elk cannel
coal has long boen acknowledged as superior to any,
and the Coal river next to it Taking, one
hundred and twenty feet as the thickness which
has been found to exist, (and much more may be
discovered where none is now known,) and twenty
thousand square miles as the aroa of this Western
Virginia coal field, and taking a squure foot in tho
bans; as equivalent to a bushel of coal after being
mined, we have 66,908,160,000,000 bushels of coal,
which, at two cents a bushel, amounts to $1,338,-
103,200,000. But, to avoid oven the appearance of
extravagance, lot tbe estimate bo made at only
one-h&lpthn quantity actually measured in tho
Kanawha hills, and we have $669,081,600,000 for
the value of these coal fields, without including
the value of the surface os land for agricultural
and horticultural purposes.
AMUSEMENTS.
Academy op Music.— Only two more of those
delightful “Promenade Concerts” can be hoard,
and then the beautiful Academy will closo its
doors for ft while, but only to re-opon them with
additional splendor arid novelty, which will shortly
be announced. Now that it is positively known
that Tuesday will be the last concert of the sea
son, the house will be more crowded than over.
National Theatre.— Barton, whose face is so
familiar to all play-goers, opens the National with
a galaxy of dramatic attraction that has seldom
been excelled since the days of his brilliant tri
umphs at “ Old Drury.” He announces in rapid
succession our fellow-townsman, James E. Mur
doch; the renowned tragedienne, Charlotte Cush*
man, and & host of other Btars. Mr. Bnrton is a
shrewd manager, and has oollected around him a
most excellent compauy. This evening he pro
duces the “Poor Gentleman,” and the “ Wander*
ing Minstrel,” in whioh he appears as Dr. OHapod
and Jem Bags. If you want to laugh, go to the
National and see Burton.
Re-appearance op Mrs. D. P. Bowers at the
ARCS.—This evening Mrs. D. P. Bowers wiU make
her first appearance at the Arch since her reoent
domestic affliction. She plays Mrs. Haller, in the
“Stranger.” Mrs. Bowers nos ever been an im
mense favorite In thls city*-* ‘position she has won
; by her private wefrth, as Bell as by her talent and
intellect as an artiste. Mr. Davenport plays “Wal
bourg,” and we all know he ranks among the best
stock actors in the country. The after-pike is the
“Honey Moon,” in which both Mr. Wheatley and
Mrs. Davenport appear. With suoh an array of dra
matic-talent, the Arch cannot fail to be crowded.
CORRESPONDENCE.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Costa Rica—A New FiiUbuste ring Scheme iu
Nicaragua—News from Kunsus— Stamped En
velopes—Llglit-llouic Appointments—Fori
Yuma und El Faso Wagon Roud, Arc., &c
[Correspondence of The Prei>s.j
Washington, August 20, 1857.
I hovo seen a letter from Central Nicaragua, in
which it is stated that Capt. Casey, who deserted
Walkor and joined tho Costa Rican forces, brought
with him, and had circulated in Rivas and Guana
casta, a pronunciamiento from General Canas, for
the erection of a separate and independent State,
to embraoe the entire transit route and district.
It is added that all duties on imports and exports
are to bo removed. The question nrlscs, then, in
what manner is revenue to he raised for tho new
Commonwealth? Either by sales of land, or by
tolls to be collected on a ship canal yet to bo con
structed; but of this part of the design I um not
informed.
In tho Costa Rican army there are a great
many officers formerly from the United States, and
since Walker’B expulsion, there hns been engen
dered, whether by them or others, a propensity to
filibuster on their neighbors. The effort of Canas
is an example. The result is not at allpro-blom
atioal. The intelligence and onergy of charac
ter of these foreigners in that service must win
them power and control of the stuto. If tho
ohango promise stability and a healthier condition
of public affairs there, it is not one of which wo
oan complain.
General Doniphan, of Missouri, but recently of
Kansas, is staying hero for a short while. He fully
confirms Mr. Perrin’s statement, that the De
mocracy of Missouri and Kansas sustain Gov.
Walker and the policy he is pursuing. It is the
general conviction of rll those who have arrived
from that Territory, that there will be no furthor
disturbance; that the Constitution, when framed
by the Convention, will be submitted to tho people
who have resided there for threo or six months
previous to the day of voting.
As inquiries continue to be made why stamps cut
from stamped envelopes cannot be used in prepay
ment of letters in the same manner a? ordinary
postage stamps, the Postmaster General reiterates
his decision made some weeks ago. The principal
reasons why this cannot bo permitted are: First,
the laws gives no value to suoh stamps, and makes
no provision for their use, except when connected
with and forming a part of the envelopes prepared
under the law, with suitable water-marks, Ac., to
prevent frauds. Second, letters in stamped eneve
lopes may be carried outside of the mail, and,
when so carried, it is believed that the stamps arc
seldom, if ever, cancelled. These are controlling
reasons, and should at onco recommend themselves
to evory reflecting person.
The following Light House appointments have
just boon mado: Joseph M. Lo Baron, assistant, at
Choctaw Point, Alabama, rice Elam Phillips, re
moved. Salary $3OO per annum.
Henry Learner, assistant, at Choctaw Point, Ala
bama, vice Ben. F. Phillips, removed. Salary $360
per annum.
Stephen Francisco, assistant, at tho mouth of tho
Passaic river, New Jersey, vioe Archibald Darrnck,
removed. Salary $2OO per annum.
Granville Lowell, assistant, at Seguin Island,
Maine, vice James Marson, resigned. Salary $250
per annum.
Joseph E. Dcvitt has been appointed a pension
agent at Philadelphia, vice S. D. Anderson, re
signed
Private advices from the Fort Yuma and El Paso
Wagon Road have been received, under date of
Doaksville, Cherokee Nation, August 13, from
which it is loarned that, after having experienced
vorybad weather and heavy roads in Arkansas,
the expedition is now fairly upon the prairies and
in rapid progress. Tho party will go from Doaks
ville, via Preston, Camauche Camp, and Delaware
Crock, to El Paso, and will roach that place about
the Ist of October.
Tho Attorney General has decided that the title
to the site of the contemplated marine hospital at
Wilmington, North Carolina, is sound and valid.
The validity of tho tillo was established by recent
additional testimony laid beforo tho Attorney Ge
neral by the Secretary of the Troasury.
Tho venerable Shawnee chief, John Parkcs, to
day waited on tho Acting Commissioner of Indian
Affairs, Mr. Charles E. Mix, and .presented his
credentials, signed by tho most prominont chiefs
and councillors of tho Shawnee nation, and author
izing him to act ns agent for tho transaction oi
their business with the Government.
The Commissioner of Ponsions has boen informed
of the re-nrrest and confinement in jail, to await
trial, of James R. Buchanan, of Jackson Port,'
Arkansas, for forging bounty-land warrants.
The Pension Bureau has received official infor
mation of the conviction, sentence, and Imprison
ment of Charles B. Miner, at Hartford, Conn., for
forging bounty-land claims.
The Navy Department to-day received intelli
gence of tho death of Commodore Stephen Cassin.
He died this morning, at Georgetown.
Commodore Cnssin boa been in tho naval service
fifty-seven years. He entered in 1800, and wason
the retired list at the time of his death. He com
manded the Ticonderoga, under Commodoro Mc-
Donough, on Lake Champlain, in 1814.
A SUNDAY IN WASHINGTON
[Correspondence of Tho Press.]
Washington, Sunday, Aug. 30, 1857.
Sunday In Washington! A day when the ma
ohincry of Government stands still; a day when
the mighty heart of tho Republic is in repo«o;
a day of relaxation to tho army of clerks; a
day when the jaded Secretary can shut his door
upon audience-hunting office-seekers; a day when
tbe President may commune with that higher
Power upon whose provideneo princes and empires
depend. I wonder that nobody has over yot writ
ten upon it.
The resident population of Washington is abou t
55,000, though in tho Congressional season it is
greatly increased. There are some forty churohos
in Washington, of which four aro Baptist, fivo
Catholic, six Presbyterian, fivo Episcopalian, one
Friends’ moeting-hou3e, seven Methodist, two Lu
theran, one Unitarian, six colored churches.
Crowds attend these different churohes every
Sunday. Tho West-End is here exclusively the
seat and centre of fashion; and you know it is
fashionable to seem to be pious. All the aristocra
tic churohes are crowded this lovely day. In this
quarter, the leading Catholic Church, St. Mat
thew’s, and the leading Episcopalian Church, are
located. The President visits the plnin old
fashioned Presbyterian Church on F street, neur
Fourteenth. I do not know the denominations
to which the members of his Cabinet belong. All
the Secretaries have their families with them in
Washington—the only unmarried member of the
Administration beiug the President. Mr. Touccy
has no children, but Mr. Black, Mr. Cass, Mr.
Brown, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Cobb, have their chil
dren around them. Mr. Floyd' has, I bcliovc, no
children, but has adopted two, ono of whom is, I
think, married to Mr. Hughes, the accomplished
associate of Mr. Ritchie in the editorial depart
ment of the Richmond Examiner <V Enquirer.
Many distinguished clergymen figure in the
Washington churches. Rev. Mr. Sunderland, of tho
Four-and-a-half street Presbyterian church; Rev.
J. C. Smith, of tho Ninth street Presbytorian
church; Rov. Smith Pyne. Episcopalian; with
several eminent Catholio divines, *aro not unknown
to fame-
During the sessions of Congress tho Hull of tho
House of Representatives is occupied every Sabbath
by one or tho other loading congregations. .When
an eminent pulpit orator roaches here, he is gone
rally honored by being asked to prcaoh in that groat
Hall.
At this season, Sunday ovening is probably the
most aotive of any other in tho week. Tho officials
are disengaged; tho workmen on the publio build
ings are at rest; and the great Pennsylvania ave
pue is orowded with gay pedestrians.
THE COURTS.
Tho following sontonces wore passed by Judge
Conrad, on Saturday:
Joseph Hess, for an assault and battery on Warren
Dickerson, fined $6O and costs.
Ann Ward, for roceiving stolen goods, 2 months
in the county prison, and pay tho costs.
George Johnson, for keeping a tippling-housc,
was fined $B5 and costs.
Fronfield Gaskill, for an assault and battery on
Debora Gaskill, to pay $1 and costs.
William J. B. Mills, for an assault and battery
on Elisa Pepper, was fined $lO and costs.
John Mahoney, for an assault and battery on
Timothy Regan, was fincdslo and imprisonment for
ten days.
Henry Harman, for an assault and battery on
Jane Craig, was sentenced to pay tho costs.
James Patten, for an assault and battery on
David Curry, to pay $5 and costs.
Riohard Cushing, for keeping a disorderly house
and sellingt iqnor without license, to pay a fine of
$lOO, give security in $5OO, and bo imprisoned for
ten days.
The Tavern License Forgeries.—-Mr. Theo.
T. Derringer camo into Court on Saturday morn
ing, accompanied by his bail, Alox. Cummings, of
the “ Evening Bulletin.” The bail demanded was
$5,000, which was promptly entered. As Mr. Der
ringer conceives himself greatly injured by the
statement of Lowry, be asks of us to give his ver
sion of tho affair. Mr. Derringer states ho had
very little acquaintance with Lowry, but met him
reoently up at Fort Washington, where Mr. Der
ringer’s family have boen staying during the sum
mer. Lowry ingratiated himself with _ Mr. Der
ringer by his attentions to Mr. D.’s family at Fort
Washington, and when MoAllistor called at tho
office of the Clerk of Quarter Sessions, Mr. Dor
ringor hearing the name of Lowry mentioned in
connection with the forgery, wrote tho note, a copy
of which we gave in our issue of Saturday last.
The oabalistlo words “ Dingus—Haines,” Mr. D.
explains by saying they are the names of two gen
tlemen spoken of as delegates from the Twenty,
third Ward, whose names he had just put down on
the piece of paper upon whioh the note was writ
ten. Mr. Derringer states he imagined this Lowry
to be in some way conneoted with procuring li
censes for parties before tbe Board. Mr. Derrin
ger Informs us ho desires the promptestinveatiga
tton into this affair, as ha believes it has been con
cooted to injure his political prospects. ,
Quaint old Fuller says: “Let him who expects
one class of society to prosper in the highest de
gree, while the other is in distress, try whether
one side of his faoe can smile while the other is
pinched.
THU PUKSS.~HHll;Al)l'iu‘fflA,
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH
New School Presbyterian Church.
Ku'HMdMj, Aug. 20.—The Now School Presbyluian
Convention reußsembled yesterday, in tlna city.
A committee on icholutions won appointed.
It was stated, in debating on a resolution of orgaima.
tiou, that u number ot churches which sympathized with
tho convention were not represented, from motives of
delicacy, bocauso the body was presided over by a New
England clergyman, but these churches, how ever, had
sent members to express their sympathy, and after tho
action of this body, they would provide directors who
would sympathize with the objects of the convention.
A debate ensued of au unimportant character.
The committee ou resolutions reported in effect
that:
“Whereat, The relatiou of master and servant, in
itself considered, does not properly belong to the
church judicatories as the subjects of discussion nnd in
quiry : Therefore,
Resolved, That, in tho judgment of this convention,
the General Assembly or the Church lias no power to
fronounco sentence of condemnation ou a lower judica
ory, or ou Individuals, for any cause, unless they have
been brought beforo the Assembly in the way prescribed
by the Constitution.
Resolved, That tho convention recommend all Pres
byteries, opposed to the agitation of the question of
slavery, to appoint delegates to tho Assembly to meet at
Knoxville, on the third Tuesday in May next, for the
purpose of effecting tho organization of the General
Synod, under the name of the “United Synod of the
Presbyterian Church in America.”
Action on the resolutions was postponed until to
day. ,
Death of Lieut, Cheevor, of the U. S. Navy.
Washington, August 29.—Tho Navy Department
has received intelligence of the death of Lieutenant
Cheover, of Maine, on board tho St. Lawrence, at Brazil
station.
Ebcnezer Slocum has been appointed postmaster al
Fall River, Mass., vice Morton.
The Next News from Europe.
New York, August 29. —The steamer Vanderbilt,
which will furnish later intelligence from Europe, will
not be due at this port till Tuesday next, the time of her
departure from Havre having been altered.
Recruits Wanted for Nicaragua.
Auoosta, Ga., August29.—Haudbillsare in circulation
in Upper Georgia and Tonuessce, for volunteers for Nic
aragua, promising $25 per mouth, aud a grant 0f125 acre B
of land.
Norfolk, August 29.— Tiie United States sloop-of
war Falmouth has been ordered here to be docked, and
will return to Rio immediately.
Army Inspectors Appointed.
Washington, August 29.—The following appoint
ments were raatlo yesterday at the War Department.
John Hughes, Inspector of Clothing for the Army at
Philadelphia.
J. B. Montague, Inspector of Boots and Shoes at
Philadelphia.
The Official Vote at the Missouri Election.
St. Louis, August 29.—The result of the election fqr
Governor, which was held in the early part of the
month, anti upon which there has been so much specu
lation, caused by the contradictory returns received,
has at length been determined by the official report, R.
M. Stewart. Democrat, being elected over James S. Rol
lins, Emancipationist, by 354 majority. The official
vote stands:
For Stewart.
“ Rollins
Stewart's majority.
FOUR DAYS LATER
THE ATLANTIC AT NEW YORK,
THE TELEGRAPH CABLE
POLITICAL AFFAIRS ON THE CONTINENT
State of the Markets, Ac., Ac.
New York, Aug. 30.—The steamer Atlantic a
rived this morning, with Liverpool advices to tb
19th inst., four days later than by the America.
The steamer Asia arrived at Liverpool on tb
16th inst
The Atlantio passed tko Eurona on the 20th inst;
the Persia on the 24th, in lot. 00, lon. 41; and tb
Fulton on the 26th, off Capo Raco.
The vessels comprising the Telegraphic flcot bd
arrived at Plymouth, and the dircotors of ue
company were to assemble on the 19th at Lonck'J,
to determine upon future proceedings. It is te
licvod that the company will tuko immedice
stops to recover the lost portion of the cale
Fully ono-half, itisthought,can be saved, and tat
tho ultimnto loss to the company will not excod
£25,000 sterling.
■ The recent storms and floods have occasion'd
much damage to tho crops in England, but to
weather has somewhat improved.
In tho House on Monday, the restriction of 10
liberty of tho press in India was referred to by hr.
Disraeli, as was also tho despatch of the Govornr-
General, explaining the reason for this means.
Mr. V. Smith undertook to produce the papa,
and the subject dropped.
The Houso subsequently went into comniitteen
tho Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Bill, rcsumig
with the consideration of the 30thiolau8e. 'je
discussions woro, for tko moil part, a repruCt««im
of the old, and possessed no public interest. F .
It is generally thought that, should thepretat
dry weather continuo, tho effects of the ite
stormy weather on the crops will be much de
viated.
Tho report of tho commission for inquiry (to
the purchase of commissions in tho army 'as
published to-day.
The Quoon of tho Netherlands left Englandm
Monday.
The chaplaincy of tbe House of Commons becocs
vacant at tho end of tho session.
THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.
Tho real cause of the accident to the Atlalc
cable appears to have arisen from some wanof
skill on tho part of the man in chugre of ie
break. Tboro were two men on hoard ie
Niagara who hud charge of tho breaks n
turn, under tho superintendence of Mr. Brig,
tho engineer. Tho first and best brakesim
bad retired from his task, and tho man vo
succeeded him did not sufficiently account >r
tho pitohing of tho vessel and putting the h«d
on, and when tho stern of tho Niuga
was in tho trough of the sea, tho suddenness
the recoil broke tho cuble. 11 is now thought tit,
in any futuro experiments, relays of brakesim
will ho necessary, so ns to avoid the eliaoce of thr
being overworked or becoming exhausted. !t
is estimated that tho outside Toss the comply
will sustain inconsequence of tho failure will a
$25,000. Tho oxpenmont, us un experiment, Is
given general satisfaction. It is fully oxpecll
that at least one half of tho .3115 miles now in fe
Atlantic will ho roooverod. All that is within 4)
fathoms will be got up, but thut part in deep n
at 1,701) fathoms will mall probability not be i
covered, as it is considered that the strain ft
on by tho friction of tho water will be greater mi
the cable in the deep sea could bear. Thoeiiji
will, £it is understood, bo forthwith hauled jj
It is feared that tho season has now too f&yrt
grossed to warrant a renewed attempt to ft tb
cablo this year ; tho equinoxial gales will oi
us before tho necessary preparations could biwell
perfected, and it would not certainly be prJont
to engage in such operations in tho Allan! in
October or November. The Directors oitht*
Company aro to hold a special meotiiv on
Wednesday next, at which tho question wl be
determined. j
This day a general mooting of tho Atlantiqelo
praph Company is to be held in London, f<tho
purposo of determining the course to bo piuod j
under existing difficulties. The newspapermen)
with suggestions and commentaries, somo aerso
to the undertaking, but the grout majority fora
blo. Public opinion, however, appeals to no fbut
unanimous against a roncwul of tno attempt link
tho oablo until after tho coming winter.
Tho intervening time ean be well and protbly
employed in experiments and improvements the
paying out machinery. Wo believe that them
porarv check interposed will serve to stiftato
activity and watchfulness, and prevent any roti
tion of ibo acoident hereafter. For the fir re
suit we certainly entertain no gloomy appion
sionft.
The fetes given by Napoleon on tlio 15th jsod
off very well, though marred by wet weather;
It is announced that Franco intends to dfcnd
the extradition of Lodru Rollin, and that} is
übout to leave for America 1
It is stated that Franco is about sending ajvnl
expedition to Cochin-China, to demand satiation
for insults to hor flag.
Tho Journal des Debuts contains an artt on
tho Sepoy revolt, in which, without question! the
ultimate triumph of the British arms, it oxwses
disbelief in the speedy suppression of tho reblon.
We extract tho following passages fronthis
article :
Occasional,
It is possible that the insurgonts will defeghe
walls of Delhi as long us they possess immomu
racricul superiority; but little more can be e>ct
ed fiom them. They havo probably wastethe
considerable stock of war material conhed
in Delhi, in the same manner ns they pillagecnd
wasted the treasures on whioh they kaveiid
hands. They uro incapable of ropluoinghis
material. War, suoh as Europeans wajj it
at tho present day, demands no lcs-id
ministrativo ability than bravery or streth.
Ono single caso may bo mentioned fr).
The weapons or the Sepoys, and those contain in
the magazines, aro all percussion muskets; wn,
therefore, they have consumed the stock ofps
that may havo existed in Delhi. Itow will oy
procure others 7 This is a very trifling detailut
it is sufiieiont to show how improbable it is thaho
revolt can ovor assume tho proportions of a [at
and serious war. In this respect the English |o
rals of tho day will have an easier task thnmo
commander who waged war against the indopoint
monarchs of India; but in another point of >w
their tasks will bo more difficult and more disjr
nging. Clive and Wellington always had tool
with rogular Governments, which,Jafter dofoufeft
tho country in an organized etato. Sir Pa}k
Grant or Sir Colin Campbell, when they HI
have defeated the insurgont anny, will bo n
polled to pursuo tbe fugitives, who, having notig
to hope and everything to fear from the conty
ors, will continue in tho iungles a war of Dilb,
whioh is repugnant to the sentiments 01 E>-
peans, and most fatiguing to tho soldiors. }r
the moment the revolt has not renohed that pt;
it is concontratod in Delhi, and the first task to
drive it from thence. Everything loadsus, \f.
ever, to believe that this deolelvemow will nue
struck so speedily os many persons imagine. 0
may be mistaken, and perhaps by one of thosfo
oxpectcd blows—ono of tlioso heroic acts wkioU-e
not the history of British India—tho Enjh
flog may now float over tho smoky ruins of Di;
but this wo do not believe to be tho enso, anln
our humble opinion, pH that can bo oxppd
from General Barnard is to maintain his post 1,
in spito of tho immense numerical superb y
of tho insurgents, in spite of the rigor of e
season, whioh must oppress his little army. Sh d
be succeed in doing so, he will have mold
the gratitude of his country. It is not probta
that General Barnard will bo able to assum< e
offensive so soon as tho legitimate impatience 0: e
English journals desire; it is oven possible tha e
Anglo-Indian Empire does not yet Know the w t;
but this is not a reason to despair of its desti: 1,
os some organs of the continental press have < j.
With tirno and monoy'England will issue i
umphnnt from the struggle, and neither tim< >r
money fail her.
“Paris, Monday, Aug. 17.—Tho Emperoid
Empress left St. Cloud to-day, at five o’clool )r
Biarritz.” I
.■jtfflr—ll
AFTKRNOQH SESSION
FROM EUROPE
GREAT BRITAIN,
FRANCE.
ir'flNDAVj Atiotwf si, mt
iii nnwiM— UTlitr firf mu iiirmr m iiiTWMiMrffiirraMrtijr^-^^"
RUSriIA. ,
It is announced that Russia is equipping n flo
tilla for the China Seas.
Tho llussuui Imporial Guards has been reduced
30,000 men.
IUtKKY.
Afluiro iu Turkoy aie uuchauged.
It is rumored that Lord Stralford do Rodclilfo 13
to bo recalled by tho British Government, and his
post flllod by Lord How den.
Aftor tho receipt of tho Trench envoy’s des
patch, respecting the Principalities, tho Divan re
mained in oouuoil all night, and in tho morning
returned a. firm and dJgnifiod answer. A short
time after its receipt tho Trench onvoy struck his
flag, and his throe colleagues, to whom the con
tents of the reply had been communicated, fol
lowed his example.
ICoKNIGSBirno, Aug. 15.—(8y telegraph to Co
lognes)—Tho St. Petersburg correspondent of tho
Koenigaburg Gazette announces that u first reduc
tion ct the Guards of tho Russian army, by not
less than 30,000 men, has been ordored by the Eui-
Each regiment is to lose four colonels, and
is to bo reduoed to n strength of eight hundred.
It is very probable that the reduction will soon bo
oxtoadod to tho whole army.
On tho othor hand, wo aro informed thatgreat
activity prevails in the naval arsenals. The letter
extracted above contains a statement, likewise em
bodied in thetolegruphicoxtroct, that tho despatch
of a Russian squadron to tho Chinese Bens has boon
resolved upon.
CHINA.
Singapore, June 28.—Tho French squadron is
now setting sail for Ilong Kong.
June 30.—Lord Elgin has embarked for China.
COMMERCIAL.
On Monday money was in full supply for loans on
Government securities at from 4 to 5 per cent., and
in the discountmarkotat a fraction below tlio bank
minimum.
The Times has some remarkssbowing thatthero
is *o fear that our trade will suffer by tho events
in India.
About £B.OOO in Russian gold wero sold to tho
BApk on Monday.
U&istiniani had offored to compound with his
orelitors on terms which would represent about 5
pel oent. of their claims.
f lhe rate of discount at Hamburg has again risen
to f per cent., in consequenceof further amounts of
ba: silver having been exported to London. At
pryent prices these silver shipments would leave a
it Bt. Petersburg exchange on London ha«< fallen
to37d and 371 d. On Saturday tallow ‘quoted
hijher; quantity shipped to that date 14,000 casks,
agunst 23,000 last year.
it Constantinople exchange nominally 147.
Mviccs from Galatz to the 7th state that groat
prevailed in tho market for Indian Com,
He pneo of which, as woll as of freights, was ra
jidly increasing. Orders were arriving daily from
*ife shores of the Adriatic, whero the crops have
.uffered severely from tho drought.
In Paris on Monday thefunds closed at 67.15 and
<7 20.
MISCELLANEOUS.
There is danger of the French alliance bo
soming the synonym of British dishonor. A few
days ago it wns our unpleasant duty to observe on,
tho deforontial surrender of position by the Eng
lish Government to the Trench Emperor on mat
ters diplomatic; and if the statements in a private
letter from Paris, in tho Daily News of yester
day, have any fqundation in truth, wo are on the
eve of another result of tho Osborne houso Com
pact—but one, happily, which, coming more di
rectly home to the understandings of English
men, roust rouse them at once to a proto3t against
the polioy which would pay court to Louis Na
poleon at tho expense of the English character.
The communication from Paris is as follows:
“ It is generally assorted and bolievod in woll-ir
fonned quarters bore that, in case tho Government
succeed in procuring the conviction during his ab
sence, for contumaoy of M: Lodru Rollin, a demand
will at onco bo made to your Cabinet, under the
extradition treaty, for tho apprehension and sur
render of that individual. No one doubts that a
conviction will be readily obtained, tho intervention
of a jury in such oases not being necessary.
“It is further stated that already communications
on this subject of a private sort have passed be
tween Count Walewski and Lord Cowley. Tho
latter has, it is believed, admitted that such a con
viction would bring M. Ledru Rollin within the
provisions of the extradition treaty. It is added
that M. Ledru Rollin has either already left,
or intends to leave, England for the United
States.”
The Daily News indicates tho importance at
tached to tho letter by devoting to it a leader, in
dignantly protesting against a course which would
so gravely compromise tho honor of England.
“ lve cannot,” says our contemporary, “imagino
that an English Cabinet can oe so far lost to a
sense of what is due to English honor ns basely to
sacrifice an exile, who has dono nothing to forfeit
his right of asyluid, to tho consicnce-inspired fears
of a despotic Government.
“Eron though tho title of the Emperor of tho
Trench to his crown was as clear and legitimate as
that of our Queen to hors—oven though, like lior,
he wero throned in the breast of his subjets—it
would be cowardly and degrading to soek to
oonciliato him by tho sacrifice of a man who has
as good a right to feel himself safo in Britain
as any man who breathes tho air within its con
fines.”
Almost all the Paris journals have leaders on the
statement of Lord Palmerston on tho Moldavian
oleetion question. The Debate says that the course
taken by tho British Government is satisfactory—
of course it is!—and that the conferences at Osborne
have rendered usoless any new conferences at
Paris.
The Gazette Je France arguosthat “the English
Government had only consented to what it could
not refuse; namoly, to the recommencement of the
Moldavian elections, which had been conducted on
too scandalous a mannor. As for the principal
question, that of tho union or of the separation, it
is far from settled.” Tho Courier de Paris thus
briefly comments on Lord Palmerston’s exclama
tion in Parliament, “Were any nation now to take
up an attitude towards England which under
other circumstances it would not assume,that nation
would soon find out its mistake.”
It is impossible to rotroat in a more haughty
manner, or to (lisguiso genuine alarm under inoro
lofty words. That language is not unworthy of
tho minister who makes amends for his orrors
without acknowledging them. We will leave to
others the task of laughing at the illusions and
boasts of Lord Palmerston; wo will show considera
tion to tho selfesteem of our allies, and will re
serve all our severity for tho wily and hypocritical
policy of tho Austrian government.
[From the Liverpool Post of tho 19th.]
Wo have not much nows of an oxciting or into*
resting character to-day. The sum of tho Indian
intelligence Up tho last mail has been already re
vealed. Parliamentary proceedings are confined,
for tho most part, to discussions on the divorce bill,
which suggest nothing very novel or very brilliant.
Tho fctoNapoioon,in Taris.has for tho timo super
seded all notions of political conspiracies or the
dexterities of diplomacy. Homojxditicsare ablank,
and iu local affairs wo have nothing moro important
to point attention to than the dry details of law
cases in our assizo courts. From this summary of
negatives it will bo estimated how inviting some
times is tlio field of journalism.
But though we have no additional news from
India, wo obsorve on all sides preparations for
making nows in that Empire. Arsenal andDock
yurd aio alivo with activity. Sevoral trnnspoits
have departed, and more aro to follow. Recruit
ing goes on vigorously for the lino, und from the
re-ombodiod militia regiments we may expect
drilled volunteers in abundance. Whilst hoping,
thoreforo, for tho bettor, the next mail from the
seat of revolt will not find us unprepared for tho
worst.
The “ undignifiod surrender” of Lord Palmer
ston, on the quostion of tho now ©lections in Mol
davia, has given encourngemont tosovoral orguns
of French opinion to indulge their Bnirit of depre
ciation of everything English.. Thol/mow. amongst
the mitnbor, seizes on tho prayer recommended by
the Bishop of London, to argue on the anxiety of
the British publio respecting Indian affairs; and it
says that the London journals assert in vain that
tho proportions of the revolt have been vastly ex
aggerated, while tho opinion of the public outstrips
them, and does not accept optimism which is con
tradicted by events.
Tho worst of all reasoning is that which proceeds
on false premises; ami tho assumption of ourihyis
contemporary, that tho press and people of this
country aro not fully alive to tho magnitude of the
dangers, and to tho importance of tho interests in
volved, results from a sad ignorance of the state
of feeling in this country. The adverse spirit of
the Union will bo best judged by an oxtrnet:
Wo do not blamo the conduct of tho English
journals; they aot, doubtless, properly in showing
themselves full of confidence amidst universal dis
couragement; and wo aoknowlodgo their patriot
ism in socking to conceal from foreign eyes tho
wounds inflicted on tho power of their country But
it is as well that foreigners should be aware of tho
'real state of matters. Tho conscience of England
must bitterly upbraid her. India is not the
onlv oountry which has suffored from tho policy
and tho proceedings of her Government. Should
present embarrassments convince hor that it is al
ways prudent, even whon poworful, to acquiro the
sympathy of publio opinion, wo should boliovo
that, far from having lost, sho will have gnined-
Thero is a tide of success which is more fatal
than defeat England is now aware of this; sho
Ib, porhaps, about to experience its fatal consc
quenocs. The English claim as a merit the intro
auction of the siuuil amount of civilization enjoyed
by tho Hindoos. Do they not fear to forfoit their
claim by showing themselves as foroeious in tho
suppression of the revolt as tho Indian barbarians '*
In that case thoy would inspire the latter with a
singular idea of tho superiority of Christian civili
zation.
Tho proceedings in tho Lords last night woro
without special interest Thoro was evidenced, in
a brief conversation on tho divorco bill, the
anxiety of their Lordships with respect to its fate
in tho other houao. Tho amendments of tho Com
mons wilt doubtless bo subjected to discussion
in tho Upper House; and this being so, thcro is
hardly acliancoof this measure becoming a law
this session,
The House of Commons mot at twolvo o’clock,
r.nd proceeded with the discussion of the clauses of
the divorco bill in committee. Tho subject was
resumed at tho evening sitting; but ns the pro
ceedings embrace a multiplicity of smalt details,
wo cannot do better than refer to our tolegrapliio
summary.
Commercial Intelligence.
Liverpool, August 18,1837.—Tho American advices
by tho Asia caused an advance of 11-10th on Cotton,
mostly affecting fair aim! middling grades. The market
closed buoyant. Tho sales for the three days have been
26,000 bales, including 4,000 to speculators and a liko
anount to exporters.
Tho Manchester advices are favorable.
Breadstuffs.— The weather has become favorable for
gathering the crops, but tho market still exhibits an
advancing tendency. Flour is active at an advance of
&d.€rlti. Sales of Western Canal at 31*.<t31g. Cd ; Ohio,
35b. Gd.o33rf.; Philadelphia and Baltimore, 30s. Cd.®
31*. Od.; Wheat is firm aud holders demand an advance.
Hiles of red at Bs. 4d oBh. Od.; white, 9s. 4d.fl)]os.
C«rn is very dull, mixed yellow, 365.®37«. : white, 455.
4tlss. Od.
Provisions.— The market is quiot; Beef la dull and
qiotatlonsare nominal. Pork Is quiet. Bacon is dull,
aid is being reshipped. Lard quiot at 71s. 0d.a725.,
aid lots of prime sold at 735.
rALLOW—AII qualities have declined.
aval Stores. —Hosiu is steady. Spirits of Turpon
tho has declined ; sales at 85s.
Pkoduok. —Rico Arm. Tea is slow of sale, but prices
art uunltored. Sugar is quiet.
’jOHdok Produce Market, Aug. 18.—Sugar is dull at
a iccllue of Od.olOd Coffee is dull at a decline for all
qiaHties. Rice is Arm.
.ron.—Sales of pig iron at 09s. 6d.
Yool.— Sales animated.
[•allow.—All qualities have declined
3keadstuffs.— Wheat cloned at an advancing ten
deicy.
London Monet Market, Aug. 38.—The money mar
ko, is easy, and consols for money closed at 91 L'aiOi v
JAMES McHKNRY A COPS CIRCULAR
livbrpool, Aug. 18, 1857.—Provisions.—There is no
chiugo in B&cou; Cheese is Bcarce and rather wanted, at
better prices; in beef or pork no transactions are reported.
Bacon, long middles, rib in, 48s. to 60s. per cwt, bone
lew, 2s. more, short middles 51s. to 53*. e. cut 455. to
48s. cheese, One, 545. to 565. ordinary to fair, 80s. to 40s
beef, new prime mesa, 140 s. to 150 s. per tierce, India
’J 3 - to 20, ‘ more, pork new, do. fiO«. to flfi*. per barrel,
shoulders new, none, lard remain? quiet at 71s. tallow is
again rather dearer, and is worth 635.
RresvlstiiETs.—Heavy rains have prevailed over all Cen
tral audit ehtern England, and have seriously damaged
jnPNMi<-at crops, in consequence prices have stiffened,
hnideis do not meet buyers freclv, Imt «*»!<•* me not ex
euMvc. Hour Inn* advanced «d to Is Indian Corn in
" tv, , m,,c h iitquny at picnoirt pnuv,
W!i*at -White Canadian, 0s to Oh 3il Southern,
Western, Bs. 3d toBs.Gd Southern
ol ]- Hour, Western canal 30s Od to 31s Od.
Od to 32s Od Ohio, 30s. Od to
? o'l.to dss Od. Indian Corn.yol
iol W.t044," M ’ m,ICd > 381 - M - t 0 36j ’ M ' »»“«.
BROTHERS & CO’S CIRCULAR.
U H Ji L -!l h « wo- 18th, 1857.—A favorable change
ih Viv Woat^er * ftQ l with a continuance
of it, we expect that the reports of serious damage to the
crops will in a great measure subside
Holders lrave been somewhat lee, eaev to deal with at
the same time only a very limited trade' has been pa„ine
at prices similar to those of our last for Wheat and Vlour
while Indian Corn lian been procurable at a trlde lesa
money.
Our market this morning was fairly attended • a mo
derato cnnsnmpth e demand was experienced for*Wheat
and one or two parcels taken to holdover, but no im
provement ou tho rates current on Friday could be es
tablished.
Flour iu fair demand at full prieps.
Indian Corn was a shade firmer than yesterday, but
only a very moderate retail trade ensued.
Meal and Oots met a fair inquiry, at a slight advance
for the former, and extreme rates for the latter. New
Tawney Oats sold at 3s 10da i 451bs as in quality.
Latest Money Market.
London, Wednesday, August 19, 1857.—The funds
closed steady at the lato ndvauco The discount mar
ket is active. The shipment of Bilver by the steamer
for the East to-day is £l,2so,ooo—the largest ever
made.
THE CITY.
The Straight-Outs Again in Session*—Robert
T. Conrad Nominated for Associate Judge of
the Court of Common Pleas.— The delegates to
tho American City Convention met on Saturday
aftomoon, at 2 o’clock, in the District Court Room
of tho County Court House, corner of Sixth and
Chestnut streets, Col. John H. Bringhurst in the
chair. In the absence of Mr. William H. Black
wood, tho regular Secretary, Henry Bumm was ap
pointed to act in his place.
After the list of delegates was read, and the Con
vention found to be anything but full, the follow
ing letter from the Hon. David Paul Brown was
read by the Secretary :
To the American City Convention.
Virginia Springs. Aug. 20.
Gentlemen: "While enjoying myself at the Vir
ginia Springs, I for the first time learn that I am ?
indebted to your favor for a nomination to the
Bench of the Court of Common Pleas. Accept my
acknowledgments of this unmerited kindness, and
allow me, in declining it, to say that I trust I am
already too good a judge, at least in one sense, to
accept a judicial position in the Court of Common
Pleas, or any other Court that is dependent upon
tho elective franchise, or political or party feeling.
I voted against rendering the judiciary elective,
and I should be ashamed to accept an appointment
under a law which I opposed.
Very gratefully yours,
David Paul Brown.
Tho Convention was evidently prepared for the
contents of this letter, as it was known that Mr.
Brown would not oeoept the nomination whioh had
been conferred upon him.
Mr. William H. Bell moved that no nominations
be made until Wednesday next. A prolonged and
sharp discussion then onsued on the merits of Hon.
Robort T. Conrad, whioh was participated in by
several members One delegate stated that no man
should be placed in nomination who was not
“straight” on tho American question, while another
declared that “Mr. Conrad had not been drunk for
three yoars.” Sevoral members of the Convention
stated, that their instructions wore “to vote,
under all circumstances, against Conrad,” and
that even if he was nominated, they would
have to refuse thoir support to one whose
political courso had been anything but manly or
upright. They declared'that matters had been
“cut and dried” for this Convention—that those
in favor of fusion had taken advantage of the ab
sence of the ronl American delegates to force the
nomination of Conrad upon the party, but that it
was sure to be repudiated, as the vote in Ootober
would sufficiently'attest.
The whole disoussion was finally terminated by
a motion of Mr. James S. Pringle, of the Eighth
Ward, to proceed at once to a ballot for the pur
pose of nominating a candidate for Associate
Judge of the Court of Common Picas, in place of
Wm. D. Kelley, resigned. Aftor a motion to ad
journ wns made, but not secondod, the question on
the motion of Mr. Pringle was decided affirma
tively, by a vote of thirty-seven yeas to nineteen
nays.
A delegate inquirod who wore the nominees, and
he was informed that they were Robert T. Conrad,
William F. Small, J. S. Collins, and D. S. Soby.
The name of Wm. F. Small was then with
drawn, and the Convention proceeded to ballot,
with the following result:
Robert T. Conrad, - - - 43
J. S Collins, .... 8
D. S. Soby, .... 7
Tho Hon. Robort T. Conrad having received a
majority of all tho votes cast, was duly declared
elected tho American nominee for Judge of tho
Court of Common Pleas.
A motion was then made to make the nomination
unanimous, and was agreed to, although thore
were a great number of dissenting votes. A num
ber of delegates declinod voting when their names
woro called on the ballot.
Messrs. Henry Bumm, James S. Pringle, A. B.
Cooley, and tho President, Colonel John H. Bring
hurst, woro appointed a committee to wait upon
Mr. Conrad, and inform him of his nomination.
Aftor several delegates had protested against the
action of tho Convention, and stated that they
would not voto for its nominee, the Convention
adjourned.
A Singular Act of Gratitude* —At tho time
of tho Abolition Riots of 1838, in Philadelphia, it
may bo romemborqd that tho Orphans’ Asylum for
Colored Children was fired by Borne Incendiary
and barely escaped destruction. Through the ex
ertions of tho Good Will Engine Company, the
building was partially saved from the flames, and
the lives of Us inmates rosoued from a devouring
clement and a furious mob. Among others thus
• preserved, a young boy, then only nine years of
age, has become by his own industry fortunately
endowed, and has lived to assert and provo his
gratitude.
On Friday evening last, a colored man, neatly
attired, ontored tho house of tho Good W r ill Eugine
Company and desired to see some of the members*
Having introduced himself to them, he stated
that nineteen years since, through their exertions,
while an inmato of the Colored Asylum, his life
was preserved. Ho then presented them with a
silvor goblot, valued at forty dollars, as a testi
mony of his undying esteem.
Tho gratitude of the young boy; thus developed
into munhood, is but one of the numerous instances
montionablo of the philanthropic zeal of tho Phila
delphia firemen. This testimonial Is indeed flat
tering, and fully attests the noble qualities of that
body of our citizens whose notions as well as thoir
name provo the presence of a generous good-witl.
Accidents. —A lad named Richard McCabe,
who had been riding on tho car 3 on Broad street,
at noon on Saturday, jumped off at Spruce stroet,
and was run over by an omnibus which was pass
ing at tho time. He had an arm and leg bro
ken, nnd was removed to his residence in tho Third
Ward.
John Mawlin, aged about 14 years, had his left
hand very badly cut by tho hroaking of a pitcher
which he was carrying, in tho vicinity of Walnut
street frharf, Schuylkill. Ho was taken to the
Pennsylvania Hospital.
John Jordan, aged 17 years, was admitted to tho
samo institution, having had his right leg fractured
by being caught in tho coil of a rope on board a
cunal boat, six miles above Heading, on Wednes
day last.
Sudden Death . —On Saturday morning, a
man named Peter Doyle, while walking in the
neighborhood of Thiiteenth and Chestnut streets,
suddenly fell upon tho sidewalk, and expired
almost instantaneously. The deceased was in the
employ of the La Pierre House, and had been for
some time past laboring under an attack of bleed
ing at the lungs A week or so ago the deceased
was told by a fournlo friend that she did not think
ho would live much longer, which so affected his
mind that the thought beenmo a hallucination, and
at the time of his death ho was on his way to the
residence of the priest, with a view of, preparing
for another world.
Mother Prize Fight.—lt was thought by
many that tho leccnt encounter betwoeu Dominick
Bradley and S. »S. Rankin was tho last prize fight
that was to bo board of in this vicinity for some
timo to come. Tho details of that contest, in
which the former was tho winner, were published
to tho world, and woro recoivod by a majority of
persons with feolings of tho strongest condemna
tion. It upponrs, howovor, that prize-fights,
liko other misfortunes, never come singly. Within
tho past fow weeks a number of disgraceful fights,
botweon bruisers of less note, have taken place in
tho neighborhood of our city, ami notasingle per
son hus been arrested for engaging in them.
Yesterday afternoon, botween three and four
o’clock, a prizo fight (for what amount we have
been unablo to ascertain) took ploco on Potty’s
island, in tho presence of a great number
of persons. The professors of the “manly art”
were two individuals not much known in
this locality—an Englishman whoso name we
could not learn, and a rough-looking specimen
ciillod Hughes. Tho fight, which lasted one
hour and seven minutes, was conducted upon sci
entific principles— that is to say, “an eye for an eyo
and a tooth for a tooth.” Unacquainted as wc are
With theslang torohnical of the ring, wo aro unablo
to give that minute description of this affair which
v/ould bo so woll relished by tho “fancy” frater
nity. All wo know is, that *• sockdologers” were
given and takon during fifty-two rounds, until the
brutal soonewas finally terminated by the English
man being declared completely vanquished, amid
the shouts of the mob in attendance, nughes was
carried away in triumph by his friends, while his
badly-beaten opponent received but few words of
sympathy in his deplorable condition. No arrests
were made.
Slight Fire —Shortly before ten o’clock on
Saturday night tho window curtain of a house in
Third street, below Green, took fire from a gas
light, but was promptly extinguished, after an
alarm of fire had been originated.
Another “Strike” for Wages. —We learn
that the journeymen tailors of the city have per
fected tho arrangements for a mass meeting, to be
held this morning at 9 o’clock, at the Franklin
Hall, Sixth street, below Arch, to consider the
propriety of asking for au advance of wages A
laigo number of pcieono are said to be engaged in
this movement
Funeral. —Tlio funeral of Colonel William
Mngill, which took place on Saturday afterneon,
was attended by the members of the /Xypograplii
cal Socioty und a very large number of personal
friends Tho deceased was universally esteemed.
Serious Assault. —At a lato hour on Saturday
night Mr. William Sutters wa* attacked in the
William Penn Hose Company’s house, on the
Frankford Road, near 4 Franklin Avenue, by three
of the disorderly adherents of that company, and
was very badly beaten. William Wilson, one of
tho assailants, wns arrested by Officer Wolfe, and
committed by Alderman Devlin to answer the
charge at court. In this Ward—the Seventeenth—
tho police on Saturday made nineteen arrests.
Attack on a Lager Beer Saloon. —Shortly alter
twelve o’clock yesterday morning a gang of rowdies
went into a lager beer saloon, in Apple street below
Thompson, and amused themselves by smashing
tho glasses, window panes, chairs, Ac. Adam Groff,
ono of the disorderly party of “ smashers,” was ar
rested by Officer Conway. He had a hearing yes
terday beforo Alderman Devlin, and was held to
answer tho chargo at court.
Probable Homicide. —At an early hour yes
terday morning a difficulty occurred in a lager beer
saloon near Oxford street, on the Germantown
Road, during which a young mau named Philip
Miller was stabbed in tho face by another young
man named John Felker. The wound was a very
severe one, tho knife entering the face near the
loft eye, and laying open the flesh to the chin
cutting off a portion of the unfortunate man’s
tongue. Officer Roney, who was in the vicinity at
the time, arrested Felker and took him beforo Al
derman Devlin, who committed him to await the
result of Miller’s injuries. The attending physi
cian entertains doubts of his recovery.
Disgraceful Conduct. —On Saturday night,
about 11 o’clock, a party of disorderly young men
made an unprovoked attack upon two Germans in
Fourth near George street, and were busily en
gaged in assailing them, when officers Ackley, Nol
lan, and Moore made their appearance and arrested
three of the offenders, who gave their names os
Joseph Miller, Thomas Young, and James Coyle.
They were held in $lOO6 bail each by Alderman
Devlin to answer the charges of assaulting the
Germans, riotous and disorderly conduct, and as
saulting the officers.
The Boot and Shoe Trade . —ln this trade
in thi3 city theve is a healthy activity, though
there is every indication that the height of the
season will be later than usual. This is accounted
for by the fact that the increased facilities for the
transportation of goods from this city, renders the
presence of purchasers unnecessary at so early
a period as wa3 formerly actually required to ena
ble them to receive their winter stocks in time to
supply their customers. The trade at present is
fully equal to that of former years, and the stock
: on hand was never better, either us to qn&ntity or
quality. The manufacturing interest is increasing
rapidly, and prices continue steady. Thero are no
material changes in the rates for leather. Good
upper stook ia very scarce, and oak tan sole leather
is Bcarce and high
What it to be Done with India?
[From the London Times, August 15.]
The time will certainly arrive when a tremen
dous inquisition will be held on the unparalleled
atrocities which darken the pages before us. Eng
land must and will spare no labor, no cost, no
military force, no judicial vigor that may be re
quired. to hunt down the perpetrators and award
them the penalty of their crimes. In this in
stance we have to make examples that shall never
die or decay in Indian memory. But for the pre
sent we must repress our indignation, and stop to
reason on theso narratives. The comments that
we make we feel cannot be 'disputed by the most
captious envier of our Indian greatness. In many
cases the native soldiers, even when conspirators,
and only waiting the opportunity, have acknow
ledged the kindness of their British officers, and
protected them from violence, even at some risk to
themselves. Our personal relations thus come out
dear. We have only been too confiding; wo have
left even too much to the native officers and given
them too substantial an independence. They feci
this. Hence we read iu one instance of their
giving tho British officers and other residents
several hours’ law, offering them the means
of escape, allowing them to carry off their
private property, and even giving • them
money or mounting guard at their houses to
protect them from chance violence. Such par
ticulars are important to the defence of our In
dian rule: for that rule has been a military one,
and we only bold the country as the Homans once
held Britain. Whence, then, these hideous atro
cities ; boat-loads of fugitives shot down, dragged
ashore, and butohered In heaps? Whence the
proportion of victims at most of the stations ? The
answer has its consolation Sometimes a few ag
grieved Sepoys, against the feeling and resolution
of tho regiment, have taken the opportunity of the
confusion to assassinate the objects of their per
sonal dislike. Everywhere, as a natural and in
evitable consequence, the prißon-doors have been
thrown open, and thousands of a class which is
found everywhere, and nowhere in greater num
bers and depravity than in India, nave broken
loose, to follow th&r brutal passions and wage a
natural war with the maintainors of order. Some
times a pretender on the Mahommed&n law of
adoption nas carried out that sanguinary code on
every man, woman, and child of the infidel race
that came within his reach. Sometimesa wander
ing mass of mutineers b&ve taken a wanton ven
geance on a crowd of British fugitives happening
to como in its way. These are all incidents of
sooial chaos. Generally the influence of personal
relations has had a counteracting tendency. No
doubt the Hindoos have only those feelings for u%
altogether that the subjugated usually have to
wards their rulers; and no doubt tho Mahomme
dans have only those more bitter feelings that tho
supplnnted naturally have towards their sup
planters. The religions and races arejOgainst us.
This we cannot help. But we submit that these
narratives, heart-rending as they are, throw a
farorublc light on our personal relations with the
people.
But we will put & question or two suggested by
these details. Can anybody deny that India re
quires a ruler to win the affections of some; to sup
press the ferocity of others; to control religious
murderers and religious robbers; to arbitrate be
tween a creed of exclusion and creed of extermi
nation; to harmonize into one politioal whole races
or 'hereditary priests, hereditary manslayers,
hereditary plunderers, and othor races as distinct
in thoir character as thoy were in tho days of Al
exander? Is it not for tho interest of civilization
and humanity that we who have this charge, and
cun show pre-eminent olaims to it, should grasp it
and maintain it with the whole strength of the
empire? Who else is there that has His foot on
Indian Boil, who oan keep down this volcanic ma.-s
of criminal tondenoies? Who else can ever guard
the prisons that have just vomited out their thou
sands, to the terror of the community 7 Who
else can keep the highways open, and prevent
the necessity of resorting to byways ? Even at
this crisis we feel suro that if the whole
Presidency of Bengal could be polled, the return
would be in our favor, Terrible as the blow has
beeu to us—to those who read of tnassaore after
massacre of thoir countrymen, and have too much
reason for fearing thAt their friends are among the
victims—we have no doubt the visitation has fallen
quite as severely on the civil population. They
look to us to re-establish our name and authority
by the most offeotual means. It is not, then, only
because blood cries from the earth for vengeance,
or because a thousand British families are plunged
into grief or distraeted with anxiety, but for the
more substantial and paramount reason that we are
tho Providential governors of India, that we must
now infliot a terrible retribution and purge tho
land of its or mes. We have done much, if not our
utmost, to humanize the people, to teaoh them jus
tice, and to give them liberty; so may we with a
safe conscience, and no fear of evil tongues, take
exemplary vongoance on the authors and abettors
of this unmerited insurrection.
MATTERS AND THINGS IN NEW YORK,
[From the New York papers.]
The screw steamer City of Washington, we learn,
has not been chartered by the British Government
to tnko troops for India, nor is it the intention of
her owners to withdraw auy more steamers off the
line. The City of Manchester—the one chartered
to go to India—is all they can spare at the present
time-
in tho matter of the Ohio Life and Trust Co.—
Messrs. Foster & Thompson this morning made ap
plication before Judge Peabody, in behalf of alarge
number of creditors of the Ohio Lifo and Trust Co.,
for the appointment of a receiver of the effects of
the Trust Co. Tho Judge ordered the whole mat
ter to be referred to Wm. C. Russell, Esq. No op
position was made to the matter.
The case of the Metropolitan Bank against John
Thompson came up in the Superior Court this
morning for a further hearing, when it was ex
pected that tho defendant would put in additional
affidavits. Mr. Cutting, for the defendant, ap
plied for a postponement until Monday, for the
purpose of giving him au opportunity to examine
other affidavits, which have siuee been mado by
tho plaintiffs. Tbero being no opposition, the
Judgo ordered the matter to stand over until Mon
day at 11 o’clock, with tho understanding Unit it
should be heard then.
The City Inspector reports 613 deaths during the
past week—a deorenso of 87 as compared with the
mortality of tho week previous. Diseases of the
stomach and bowels have taken a favorable turn.
Tho deaths from cholera infantum alone are 52
less. Lung complaints also have fallen off con
siderably.
The barque Express, on board of which were dis
covered upwards of fortv-eight thousand smuggled
cigars on Wednesday last, by the custom-house
officers at this port, was to-day ordered to be seized
by Emanuel B Hurt, Esq., surveyor of the port,
onachurgeof having been caught in the act of
violating the revenuelaws of the United States, in
attempting to smuggle foreign goods into the port.
Sh« is now lying at quarantine, where sho was
detained by tho health officer, and will probably
be brought to the city on Monday by a steam-tug,
which will then be sent down by the United States
authorities after her. Tho goods soijed on board
of her, amounting to several hundred dollars in
value, are in possession of the custom house offi
cers.
The seventh annual Social Turnerfest, or festival
of tho Turner societies, was commonccd this oven
iDgby the roception of guests from various cities.
Twenty-one appointments of deputies and clerks
were mado this afternoon in the office of the Com
missioner of Assessments. The salaries ranee
from $2,000 to [sBoo. The number of applicants
for the places now filled was very largo. The suc
cessful are taken from almost every party, and
the whole affair has a sort of compromise appear
ance.
Cardinal Wiseman, in a lately issued pastoral to
the Roman Catholic congregations in London, an
nounces that within the last twelve months no less
than seven religious edifices have been opened in
his diocese, and others are now in course of build
ing. In addition to this, various institutions have
been founded, and at present a building is being
ereoted. at an immense coat, for the establishment
of “Softools of Compassion.”
The Gila Battles.
{From the Washington Star.]
The following is an extract of a letter fn-tu an
officer of the Array to a friend in this city, dated
Camp Floyd, OiU River, 14th July, 185" -
“ Uor campaign of the last month, for we starte
from the depot on the 13th June and returned
the Ilth instant, has been eminently successful,
.«nd done more injury to tho Apache* than all the
scouU or campaigns together since I have been ia
the country, which has been six year?.
‘‘After much fatigue by night marches a de
tachment from the column, commanded by Capt
Ewell, first dragoon?, captared a camp of nine
squaws on the 22d June. Continuing our march
through deep ravines by day and over plains at
night, on the 27th June we arrived at the Gila,
iust opposite the northeast point of Mount Turn
bull. and there found a large eamp of Apaches
resting in fancied security, and taking their com
fort. A furious charge of three companies of Ist
dragoons, supported by Lieutenants Wbipple and
Steam’s companies of 3d infantry, walked them
up, and they fled to the thick underwood. This
wing of the column crossed the Gila from the north
side and took position on the left bank to cut off
the retreat to Mount Turnbull. They were striving
to cross the Gila when a charge was made on them
by a squadron of mounted riflemen, B and K com-
E antes, commanded by Captain Claiborne and
lieutenant Dubois, supported by Lieutenants
Jackson and Cooke, Bth infantry, commanding I
and J companies of that regiment.
“ This destroyed their happiness, for the work of
death was progressing, and continued until no
more were found fit to die. The battle commenced
about 41 P. M., and ended about 7. The dead,
difficult to find, owing to the extreme density of
the undergrowth of young willows, were, after a
sharp searching, picked out There were twenty
warriors and four squaws. The Pueblo Indians
with us as spies killea two of the latter; one was
shot while bravely fighting with a bow and arrow,
and the other accidentally. There were twenty
six squaws and ohildren captured, and all their
plunder. Nothing saved to tnem.
# “ A squaw captive told me there were forty war
riors when the fight commenced, and that only
three escaped.
“ Col. luring, two days after, on the Francisco,
caught a flying wounded Apache, who said he was
from the battle, and that there were forty warri
ors and only two escaped.
u Lieut. Davis, Ist dragoons, was wonnded iu
the knee by an arrow in a personal rencontre. He
fired his revolver three times at the Indian, and
not killing him—the Indian shooting too, not over
five yards apart—he became enraged and barled
his revolver at the Indian’s head, who firing again,
struck Davis and then ran after the revolver, which
he hod scarcely picked np before he was pierced by
a dozen balls.
“ Lieut. Steen was wounded in the corner of the
right eye by an arrow —a narrow escape. Two
sergeants, two corporals, threo privates, and one
Pueblo Indian wounded—none killed; which seems
a miracle, as the Indians, inside the willows, could
plainly see us without being seen, and did de
liberately shoot at an officer and men at pleasure.
Several of the officers, leading on their men in tho
bashes bad personal conflicts.
“ Lient. Cook, Bth infantry, killed one with the
butt of his rifle by mashing in his skull; Lieut.
Davis, of dagroons, as mentioned, and Lient.
Lazelle killed two—one he shot, and clove the
sknll of the other with his sabre.
“At this place and adjoining we found exteni
sive and flourishing corn fields, which we de
stroyed.
“Marching west to the Francisco river, we found
more corn fields. I supposed wc destroyed up
wards of six hundred acres.
“ On the Francisco] the Indians raised the white
flag, aud sued for peace. One came in, and was
quite eloquent. He exclaimed, raising his eyes
and hands to heaven, ‘lt was God’s act, bringing
you on us to revenge our many ravages and
bad conduct. We want peace—we want to ex
change captives.’ Ac. By accident this has not
been effeoted, much to our regret.
“Irving’s column coming down the Francisco,
from the White mountains, the Indians became
scared, and we could not get them in again.
“Colonel Bonneville acted beautifully through
out. lam convinced ho is the best mountain In
dian hunter in the army.”
FROM NEW YORK.
[Correspondence of The Press.] *
Nxw Yobs, Ang.29, 5 2Q o'clock, P. M.
Saturday Is always a dull day. Although there is no
noticeable change In the rates of interest, there is a
fair prospect of an easier market and a sensible abate
ment of the pressure whieh has continued for the last
few days. This would have been probably felt to-day,
but for the announcement early this forenoon of the
suspension of Messrs. Atwood A Co., bankers,in con
sequence of the pressure of their liabilities, and their
inability to meet them without an immense sacrifice of
valuable securities, said to be more than ample to li
quidate all they owe. There is a rumor this
evening, that they have arranged and are in a po
sition to resume business -as usual on Monday morn
ing. Should this rumor be untrue, the failure
will not be a disastrous one# The liabilities of the
house to the hank* ire small, and their assets abundant,
if they get time to realize gradually. There are con
flicting rumors with regard to the conclusion of the ne
gjtiation for the accommodation to the Erie
ompany. Some say that the banks have actually
agreed to lend the sam required ($600,000,) «ad others,
that the agreement is not concluded, and that the affair
has not yet been submitted to the Bank of America. I
incline to believe from all I hear, that the loan will be
made, but if not, there will be another crash which will
do wide-spread damage. The cash transaction for the
day at the Bub-Treasury were, receipts $166,303.69; pay
ments $178,170.43; balance $12,428,536.78. The receipts
at the Custom-house to-day for duties were, $BO,OOO.
Exchange dull &tlo9#olo9j£ for sterling, and 5.16#
®52 for francs.
There was a farther depression in the Stock market
this morning, at the first Board. New York Central
fell # ; Beading, 1# ; Michigan Southern, preferred
stock. 2 per cent.; Illinois Central. 2% ; Cleveland «««<
Pittsburgh, l# ; Galena and Chicago, lj Cleveland and
Toledo, 1; Chicago and Bock Island, 3; and Miiwaukie
and Miss., stf. In State stocks, "Virginia 6’s fell 2 per
cent., and Missouri 6’s, 1 per cent, with «•!»« of
$24,000 of the former, and $16,000 of the latter. At tho
second Board, the he*vines* evoiiaued, lover
prices were touched; Erie closing at 21 jg; Illinois Cen
tral at 90; Beading at 58£ ; Michigan. Southern pfd.
stock, at 40.
An arrangement has been made, subject to the sanction
of the Board of Directors, between theMlehlgan Central
and Southern roads, by which their business relations
will be placed on a harmonious footiug. Way freights
and passenger fareg are to be raised, and the through
passenger traffic is to be divided, allowance being made
for the road that doeß the most work. Every day new
attachments are issued against the Ohio Life and Trust
Company. An application was made to the Su
preme Court for a receiver, which was referred to Wm.
C. Bussell. The farther hearing of the case of John
Thompson and the Metropolitan Bank was postponed
till Monday, on application of Thompson’s counsel/
Ashes are steady at $8 for Pots and $7.31 V for Pearls,
with sales of 60 bbls.
Breadstuffs,— The market for State and Western
Flour is lower and very heavy, with sales of 6,100 this.
atss.9oas6 for common to good State; SB.SO«|6 50 for
extra do; $5.90®56 for common to good Michigan. Indi
an*, lowa, Ohio, Ac.; $7«r58.25 far extra Genesee,
and $6.75e59.75 for extra St. Louis. Southern flour ia
heavy, with sales of 1.300 this. at 56.3056,70 for mixed
to good Baltimore, Alexandria, Ac.; $6.90«7.50 for ex
tra do; and $7.25c8.25 for Brandywine and Richmond
country and city. Canadian flour is lower, witbsales
of 450 bbls. at $006.15 for superfine, and $6 60tr$7 75
for extra do. Rye Flour is dull, with sales of 200 bhls. at
$3.90a55.25 for the range of fine to super. Corn Meal
is steady at $4.20 for Jersey; and $4,402*4.50 for Bran
dywine.
Cotton is quiet and prices firm at the following quo
tations :
N. Y. Classification. Upland. Florida Mobile NO
Ordinary 13 33 33 13
JBWBnS 15* 15# 15* 16
Middling Fair 16# 16# 17 17
Fair • 16# 36# _ _
Grain—Sales of 40,600 bushels Wheat at $1 40a$l 49
for Southern red; $1.60a51.71# for white do.: and $1 62
for Kentucky. Bye ia dull at former prices. - Oats are
dull at 58e60c for State, and 62a63cfor Western. Coro
is firm at 85«86c for Western mixed, and 90c for South
ern yellow. Sales 67,000 bushels.
Hat.— There is a moderate supply at TOaToc for ship
ping, and 80a95c for retail lots
Hides —The market Is dull. 38.000 Buenos Arres
were sold at 36c, six months.
Iron—The market for Scotch pig is quiet at $29, six
months. Other kinds unchanged.
Lsather.—Hemlock sole is firmer and more active
at26#a27# for light and middle weights of Orinoco:
and 2S#a29# for Rio Grande and Buenos Ayres The
movement for the week is as follows:
Hemlock. Oak.
Receipts..., ..87,800 5,000
Sales 72,000 8,400
Stock 61,300 17,500
Naval Stores. —Spirits of Turpentine are quiet at
47)4 for lots in good shipping order. Crude Turpentine
is very dull at $4554.25 per 280 lbs. Common Rosin is
inactive at $1.95 per 310 lbs, and in finer sorts nothing
is doing; nominal prices are sses7, according to
quality.
Oils. —Crude Whale is inactive at former rates.
Crude Sperm is unchanged. Linseed oil is quiet at
SOaSlc., with soles of 8.000 gallons.
Provisions —The market for Pork is steady at *26
for mess, and $21.75 for prime, with sale*ot 350 bbls.
Beef is unchanged, with sales of 180 bbls at sl7eslB for
repacked western; and $l3 50«519 for extra me?s. Prim©
mess Is nominal at $3Q3$3O 50. Beef hams are inactive
at $23 50c524. Bacon is sold at 15c for smoked westers.
Cut meats are nominal at 13c for hams, and 12cl2kc
for shoulders. Lard is heavy, with sale* of 130 tes and
hbls at 10C16J4. Butter is in fair demand at 15020 e
for Ohio; 170>22 for State dairy, and 22c25 for choice do.
Cheese saleable at SolOc.
Sugars aro very dull, with very few sale* afc former
rates. Refined are exceedingly heavy.
Spirits and Wines.—The market is active for Bran
dies ats4.so2sC 50forCognac; $4 45c?oforChampagne
Brandy, and $3 50®53.60 tor Rochelle. Gin is unchanged
and in fair demand at 87c&$l. Jamaica Rum is quiet at
|1.52)4e5X.60. There is aleo more activity inwines,
but without any material change in prices. Sherry is
sold atsl.oQ«s3j fine Portats3; Burgundy do. atsl.Ss©
$1.60; pure juice do. at $1.45e51.6Q Claret at $2.60®
$3, and Champagne at $9,253*14 60 b&kt. Whiskey
is easier at 27c«27)f. Sales 600 bbls.
Freights —The market is slightly improved.
NEW YORK STOCK’ EXCHANGE SALES -First
Board, Aug. 29,1857.—Virginia 6's, 88 : Missouri State
6’s, 71; Louisiana State 6’s. 75; New York Central R
R. 7's, 94 ; Erie R R 3d Mtge. Bonds ISS3, 77: Terre*
Haute and Alton, 2d Mtge.. 48# ; La Crosse and Mil
Laud Grant 80pd3,35: Illinois Central R R Bonds*
S9>» » of New York, 110; Back of Commerce’
100 k'; Park Bank, 9S; Merchants Bank Scrip 100 • Ohio
Life and Trust Company. 15; Delaware and Hudson Ca
nal Company,ll2. Pennsylvania Coal Company blOMjf :
Cumberland Coal Company, 14; Pacific Mail Steamship
Company, 67 ; New York Central Railroad, b 7: Erie
Railroad JX - Sixth Avenue Railroad. 90: Reading
Railroad,* hi 59; Michigan Central RailtxaJ. b 3 63;
Michigan So. and N. Indiana Railroad. 19: La Crosse
and Mill. Railroad, 201.'; Michipm So. and X. Indiana
pref. Stock, b 3 41 ; Panama Railroad, c S 2: Illinois
Central Railroad, 80; Clereland and Pittstmrs Railroad,
c15«17)f ; Galena and Chicago Railroad. slO 81k ;
Cleveland and Toledo Railroad, b 3 40; Chicago and R.
Island Railroad,7B ; Milwaukie on*llMissis*i ppi R. R.,33
Second Board —Missouri State 6‘s. 71; Canton Com
pany, bl2m 20; Pennsylvania Coil Company, &30 66-
New York Central Railroad, 535 "4: Reading Railroad’
; Erie Railroad. b 39 22; Illinois Central Railroad*,
90; La Crosse and Mill. Railroad, 19)$ ; Galena and Chi
cago Railroad, SQtf; Cleveland and Toledo Railroad
40; Chicago and Rock Island Railroad.76k • Milwaukie
and Miss Railroad, 37; Mich. So. and X. Indiana nref
Stock, 40. - *
PHILADELPHIA MARKETS,
Philadelphia. Aug. 29-Evening.—The Flour mar
ia dull but prices the tame. The only .vile reported for
shipment is 250 bbls. choice at $7 75 £>■ bbl. Superfine,
made from new wheat, is dull at $6 50 The inquiry is
steady for hotne use according to our last quotations.
Rtk Flour is steady at $4 50ami Cons* Meil $4 bbl.
Bark comes In slowly; No 1 N held firmly at $49
ton; sales at this price of 70380 hhds. Cloverseed is
scarce, and wanted at s7<rs7.l2,V 9p 64 lbs. Tijiqtht ia
ruling at $3.50, and Flaxsbsd at $1 95 bushel. Cot
ton is firm, and the stock being reduced, some sales of
Pplanda at &on time. Languor aud in
activity aro the features of the Coal market, and al
though there is no change to note in price* the dealers
have been much disappointed in their expectations as to
business, which was expected to be large this year.
The markets to the East are generally supplied,
purchase” are only supplying their present want*.
The supply of Wheat continues steady, but not much
doing- Soles from 3600 to 4200 bo*hel3, in lots, at $1 45»
$1.50 W bushel for fair and good Southern White, $1.62
for a first lot of Western. Rye baa again declined and
600 bushels of Pennsylvania baye been sold at 85 cents
jn store. Corn M*ai. ip gbod demand, beat much
in market, IQOQ bushels yellow, ia store, sold at 86387
cents. pAt3 are dull and declining. Sales of s3oobushela
Delaware, at 34©34)f cento bushel. Crock
ribs and Provisions there ha 3 been no change. A.
cargo of Soft Plaster was sold at $3 ton. Whskkt
is firm. Small oaks of barrels at 28# and hhd. 28 cto*