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• • ; . - . , ~- - - - , POBLIOgLAOIII OP 41101111/1101e, 1
-Amami of Mule, -(Operatic,) corner of,Broad and
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,Locust streets. • .. .- - , , i
'' 'Archltreet Theitrii, Aroh, shave 6th atreet,_- I
Parkinson , ' Garden , Chestnut; abovii Tenth: • ' • ,
National Theatre ems Circus; Walnut, above Eight h,
Sanoford',B Cala 110969, = (Ntidatian,) Bleventh, below
Markatl. • , %4. " ‘
Whit threet biratrti, ifiwthMit 'album. lintl" a i ti!
Walnut. -
Thommita poitieties., Mfthand Chestnut.' . 1 ...
Thomas's Opera Haase, Arch, below Seventh., ! ,
AXIS Ale 110111thile: '" • • '''
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i it c , 44B ge 74 1. , ,T e 'l.,Nataral , Soleocee, corner of Broad aad
' '" - Adademy a nd Pe Art k, Chiiiiiiiit, *bore Tenth.
;., p.! , Axttetit F llalltOlimtunt, above Tenth. • • ,
..3; ;Prenklinolnstitute, Na. 9 South Seventh Wed. i
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lIINZMILBAT INSTITUTIONS.
" . Alutidicuunti *est eide•of Schuylkill, oppoilte South
:street. ~. I,' • . .• •, ...• " ' ;
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Almshouse (trlends , ), Walnit "Wet, abrot,Thb'd i j o . '
' Ass'imiation fdr tho Bmployment of POO Wawa, .
MN Green street - . ,„ ~..0.- i., ,• ,i , 1, , . t... I ,
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Altritien fet.l.oet , ffi:kiidrinvi - ffin ' •';* 4,lllo vestb;!
-5- 'lilind:Aiyliiii;ltans; riestitiiiimiletfinikeetl -- ';--' *
t;- -', Christ Church Hospital No. 8 Cherry 'strest.. - 1 I
- Pity liespitali Nineteenth-a:Mat, near Ik:tater, , „
• Olarkeon'i Hall; No. lift Cherry street. , • -
• - Diepenmry; gifth, below Chestnut-street' , , ---• '' -.
= 'Wale Society for the Belief and' I/mg-quaint et the ;
boor, - ;.: N0.,72 North Seventh street. , f
Guardials of the Poor , callim.No,! 69 1 Nerthilituranarti;
Girlie& Siitliti Mil: No. 8 Sliith itiliciiiikaretist. •
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Honie for -Friendless, Children, corner tfirsety-th
- and Brown greets.' -- ; 0 - •,''t - • - ~,
• •;'- 'lndigent-Widows' and IllnglXWOnienhi lloolety, ,
Cut of - Eighteenth street. i $ - = “ • • - ,
,•i Maeonlc Hall, Chestnut, above Seventh street. i
Magdalen-Asylum; corner of Race and Twenty.
• Northern DiOpensary, No.l ilpring Garden street. -
Orphans' Asylmm, (coloredi)" Thirteenth street,
• Cellowbill,- , . - ,• - • , , - • :'; -
- Odd Felton! - , adio Si x th end 'titles' Wa., ist
~,,,.- Do.; do; ILEA:oyear Broad end Sprimg -;
• Do. do. ,Tenth and South stream:
Do. , - , do, Third and Brownstreets. -=-
..- - - Do. --; i do. Ridge Mad; belawitallmia.• i
. , Penneylvanis,Homitil, Pins itructibeiwis! , rlueltb.
and Ninth. , • ' -, -- • •.
- . p PinineylMinialutitatefor thelndamation Of the 914,
• Adrodr lace and Titedtdeth street.. - • , ,„:.
„• - •
-,.:4 = ftittrinayirania -Society-for Alleviating: ths . ?Wert of
- • Pabas,Prisonii Sixth and Adelphiatteeta, -- , -
: - - Paimsylvania Training School for Idiotic and Yee ere;
~- ? •- l tinded-.13hildren„, School _Hansa Lans,,tlermtatinyn, ,
- Mee fio,,ffillMstuntetest 7-• -, ; '-- - • ' • !
- • : , Philedeati3Orghenei Asytins, -- , nertieset eet ; . High.,
_Primula' li,e ,megiffitint,'near Twentieth street
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Providence Soidety; Prime, lieloWlextli sheet. - - -
Stathein Dispensary; lo: d 8 Ship Pin Street.' '
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Union Benevolent, Asiloebitiet4--H. , WI - , eat er of
•' ; Seventh and &mom street". 0, - ' ,"' ' ''''' - ' -‘i
, Will's Hotital, Reed, between Sightesittit *Nine-,
- tenth .
; • r tit. - jodeph; Hospital; Giiind- rivenne; - birtirkin IN;
- • locum. end Sixteen th : , ..- • . '... • ,
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~' -.ffiplseopei Hospital, Trent street; between Hunt
~ don and... Wag% avenues." - "
, •_•:;.;: - '41 , hilsdelphialloepital for Diseasesof thorniest, S. -'
ti.-;:ixorner of Chestnut ant Park - ate," West' Philedelp s
-4.,i,Vm z-'-" fr. ":-.'. ' 'rostra nornornos.
'f• - •g•'.,oitstoinSionse,ilitestinit strbet,aboritifourth ,
;'' - ' , l - ' ,- -Csmi',Rtison,•Pseryen,t road; below peal. . ,""
• . • '-•
Olt*, TO Dor* and Spruce "timbal'
•:.,-,. City Controller's Maas, Girard Bank, wand storyi
' • Cosiddissioner 'of' .Property °Moe, Girard Bank,
= 0 -City Tressurtuds OEM, Girard Bank, twortilitory. 1,
: City Ocimmiisioner's Ofilottratidslimme. --' 0.- - p,
' City &O'Hara 01904. - Pittlij beleetWaliut, t- ,
' - - City,Wateting Committee's OW) Southwest dOrlie!
.: . Fifth and Chettent; •,,- -; - - , -,', , •
' ' ` ton • • / N ui 7, l4 s W#T W4kili ?Ilzt n ll
- .hs ~S ;
Chard Trust Presort:me" Oflios;iitittaberi ii 'delimit '
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• Mush othidualu7, Oritharicie, above Strreitth, , ,••
- ' Home of Industry, Seventh above Arch stied: 1 t, '
^,,,, F: liduee offfiefuge, (rhits,) Perrish, ,betwiten•Tvienty
31inteond and Twenty-third "Wet. - - 1
,t....; - t., - • Moue of Refuge, (c olor e d,) Twenty-fourth, betwaen I
I , aritish and Poplar streets. ,
m. ; , Health Oiled, corner, of Sixth and Sworn .
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==, - House of Correction' Dish Hill.. ' ' ' 1
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Marine Hospital, Gray's Fero' road - below Solari
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.-- - Mira ‘OlBOO, S. -W. • corner Fifth'. mid Chestrut
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.., Merc•Penitintlary, Coates street, between. Twenty
: Jiro% Mid Twenty j seeand etmiets. J -
, - M al lard, quthe Delaware , corner , Brent end 'Prime
fierthe
• rit - Liberidee file Mcnte;Melderi, beioirlf nt
meet.' "tV
• ~ P artlOkee, ' No: SST Dock • street; opposite th" .lem I
ermine. -- - - ' • . '
, Poet iMice, Rewingtoni Queen itnsttP 9 tOlownigili 6l / 4
• moron street.. .
Poet Office, Spring Cirden, Twenty-fourth street nod
-.- mil - rants Avenue. ' ^ ',, ' "
A . - F u hlfadel hie' Rschang•,./lorner Third,. Walnut
~ oakatreets
, Vbitsdelet4essWlirlm;TrientiethMillartie‘'o cm,
'No. 8 8. Seventh atmet: t,- =-- 0
, • . Pennsylvania Institute for Deaf and Dumb, Broad tied.,
Pine streets..- , , - , .
- .0 - PennWiTreaty. Monument, Beich,,nbure • Hanover
ttries.- i,. -
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Public; Minh Saliord;fl. M. corner Broad and Green
-i- -Public Normal School, Sergeant, above Ninth., , ..,„
•,-.l . ,Olectorderht Oltica, , No: S State House east Wing. :
.. 4.1 1 .14te House, Chestnut street,befirein Fifth and Matti ,
- . .fikerill's Office, State Moues, near Sixth street., , '
' Spiing tided"' ooninibuilenor's. Hail, - Spring Gail:n
. ~ ri-ThirMeitth "treats., ,
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-, Wen --NrimPerlinc• flfidl, Christian,:. store N tti,
;,skeet., :-, i .
;•-• c ~,,' , , -. ~ -`• 1 .. '‘ ,
,• 7 'United Matra iMmt, Omer of Cheetnnt and Jan r
-• :greet*. - ~'-, ~- ;; --• ~ , f.,..,.. •,i , rs ~,..;
, Milted Metre Aren d , Gray's Terry amid, near / ". 1-
-- , nil street., " - '
' , , =Naval Asylum, on the SchnylklU,soar South amt. ,
t :,., United Suites Army and Clothing rriqulpage, earner or
• ~ , , 'T- t ralftri tind (Mind "'Meta. -, o_, 1
- United State" Quarterameter's OCSiiii Mall of
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-Twelfth and Girardetreets. .. .. i ;,, ri o", ; -'
- ,•,..,00t.utori. _ , t .', I, ' ',i
, I College of Pharineo7., Sane adMilli abate Seventh:
~ > • ;robotic Medical College, Hainan elreel p wsel of Slifti , r 0
--, °herd Pollees, Ridge road and College Avenue. i
Momeeopatide Medical:College, 'Jibed Moist, above 0
„; Moven*. , t. ....' = - _,: - ~.. -L.., I i...
;,/rdffinenalleedireltiollege,Tenth streetibelow George.,
. , Polyteihnlor °envoi corner Market and Weld P)mo
eg rmin . sylvania Medical College, Ninth strut, 44 1
Locust. , ,i - ,
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Philadelphia M edica l College, !nth street ,
-dote,
;Walnut.' - - • ' - - - i , .1
. ' ''. -Female Medical C ollege , 229 Arch street. '', , , '•• I
- ' -', ' 'University or Petupylvents, Ninth 011414, ,be ' 1
;•: Market and Chestnut..,. , . ,_.
. ' Vagrantly et, Yreelledleino r atill "FoluGar Low p;
0 No, 68 Atch' OWL.' i-. , , • ,
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Unit SiataMr..m. , . it mut lyrist: Conite,;;No Si
rink strest,betweltestant, .-. ' , • ' r ,
:.. hinpreinir Ctiurt 'et, Ibennlyimails, piftli and oh ;
-49tit ' attoMintin Plate,.Lidebrnidenea {tilt:-- :,
"Ililitilot Courts; ffoi. I, end S, *Aar ontlitit •
, " Ohsatuntetreeti: ' ,-,. ~ `.,—
Court of quarter Beeelont, earner of biitta sad et. ,
Rummest restitutions'. - •.' il '
.. " Ameriata Baptist PublicatiOn Society, No. 118 li
American and Foreign Christen Union, No.ld4Cliestt'
,`• :Mit street; - I. , , ,„ . .0i -- ,• ,-0 .
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• -. , - AMMiattn, - • Sunday, School : Union I;( 119, 01 No; ' 22
f..- . Chestnut streak' JO .. . • .', , ~.. • . '• ~:
.•American Tract Society (new), N0:929 Chettatiti ~,
4-.70 Ittnionist, Crown streetibelow 0410101111 "Wet. .
- " - • Pitmisylvania. and Philadelphia Bible Soctietneornar
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Lewis Deindostowati/ A. M. firm IP. 24 •
STEAMBOAT LI 140.
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TOitTEICOMING
ItAkatMotineed, in'the London newspapers,
that on November 1, Mr. WILLIAM MAKE
PIAOM4 TnAi:nil - ear will commence the publi.
'; of 'a 'serial, to be entitled gc The Vir
ithdoulla IC/dip be:Completed in twenty-f Our
;MOuthly payts. ',AnY new work by such a cab.
Tttior.EßA:v, is certain to
eitelte , siteithin; wherever the English lan
guage, is spoken; fad the promised storyi , is
liketylo ` make partic'ular stir in this country,
It being' understood that the two heroes are
At n etican; that tie time ,is that of our War
of IndOiendetice; and, that Considerable por
tion: of the action will take place on American
Mr: MACZEIZAVEI amour propre far exceeds
the final vanity of "authors: Me is so Os
ratised:witliiidthiratioli of hia own creations,
;thatlui'repeata Ahem, over and over ;again,
;various works. Thus the Mar
gt9yne . `figures in; " Pendennis "
'as ''vtell:46` - - ;to Vanity Fair,"—Pendenbis
„ ,
s apPeari,'Upt ordy,irt the book to which his ad
ventures give the 1111190, but - also (in a very
.cluniWaild'tniartiatiCal manner) is put into
!fit 1i9,}1, - ihrOomes,'"'first as rominal editor, and
next, as a principal character. Old General
figur9„i te,Pendetinia," as well as in
PAtr4 idaptain Costigap, who loOms
out so largely. (with a very strong flavor, of
,whlskey iMach*and . ,Welsb rabbits)
dennii," ,is alio dragged, by the head and
abonldirt4 into ;" The' Meweomes." The
' ' g
„ 9 9ra o, De ye ace, my Lord Bareacres,
.and the tart of .Crabs are regular stack-in
hide through most" of the Thacker,ay novels,
from ,f,trie, ,Tellowplush Paperai? down to
'"Puniletalic"z Even in the latter, as web as
is ;"(phe Mewp9mes," we have Mr. Warring
cadet;,;af the family into which
Miss Rachel' Esitiond, only daughter of that
mirMed Ool:.Esmond whose adventures Mr.
giVo the world, in three volumes
ago.„
t'-"This'fact world seem to be that Mr. Truest
'lne.T: 'Ogreihi'seolptor.,Yrho bicame enamored
,statiro *Mettle'himself had made) has
'a Tittered ant even passionate admiration
ofhts,',W.o„`Creations. Onne'that ho has intro
dueed auharecter,,worth any thing, ho never
likbe :Part with 11AOKEIlAY is in love
with hie "
awn mitring,
.because he is on the ad i ery
best tertnitnith'hivself,.
examination of his bead,
And a, psychological inquisition of'his brain,
*tad' 'probably ascertain 'two things: First,
thattriiietineiX Rota constructive power ;
andineib; that he :has. not a creative power.
Xxi.4otri'ff The Lick Barry Lyndon," per
hilsi 'the )east known, 'though the best exe-
Outodas far as the story-telling goes,) his
Ploti are ‘ veitbald:, ..sOniost frOm the first, the
reader knows how it will all end. Then, as to
thersiterri,le 'does not invent—because that
i'swliatOenini dies; and Trreosenex possesses
only, Talent; hut, he keenly, observes, like a
`'cyrde - ' and, throWis the result of many
phservations! together, tp blend into ono cha
ncier Which represents a class.
:been noticed,' (end With force, be.
einse `trUth,) that Ti aorretter has a
peaebeq,„fer dr,ayelog very indifferent
,charac
ters., ,Looklng.ibsck threugh his numerous
,WeriteiW g 'it dis Cover " very few whom any honest
man would like, to .associate with. 'Where
they are not somnps , and &storms, they are
,dOea;4 l l, Among all the characters
drams ibt hini, 'there' ia only ono real, true,
honest geptleman—and he has very little
teUlnii,,tholigh:his„heartia . greet and good—
nazireltfeeleneltNetscome.. As for his usual
o'F'liiidv,i;Oerrii*hiere; cheats, forgers,
.94 1 1 1 reri,ire; durl;il4disColinters—he exhibits
fir too laity ofitherm , We can account far it,
*F.": thifiy;"; ! .. is 'Understood that, ere
he:United, ,ituthor, lis.e.cstunex himself did a
littit , e' bill-dlseciunting line, and In
perhaps, in the enthusiasm to
Arlait ^lithe haunts of great authors, may turn
ctitehpilthia- r deini to,'the ` little office, '(in
`, I ` •
Fenton' gusto, Haymarket, London,) where
,TwxozwalritiOd to 'do ':bills,, for necessitous
3 **OV I ailalit`:tioin' en' the Usual terms
:which +Maenad', eit obtain 'under such cireurn
if,tiiltlec#2'., Ali i lU.:hrs ',fertile characters, they
:aric,MTirlOili.,'Arkedi,oi,'foolleh, Init. among
'theity-protninentit appears,. with her green
,IfIll';;Al4 . (ip§,".el4 iitulieolored hair,' that
I ,Woriderl4:ereetniii , Seolly, ),3harp e• lie may
I write no9l Doomsday, (and h$ is'likely to
te!feli,,lfiktirne; enly fifty-three
;yoArs.old,itbough be, modestly owns to no more
ifY,44T9,) 'bit he never can bring on the
4Upii i the leg* of the, immortal, Becky. In
his new book, he will be unable to introduce
siny.of Kissel& etock-in4rade characters, which
Will liniiede him.'
_-,lt 4 tev;cltreaul t erei l * , Wonder what 'sort of a
book will this new Jane - of.TRAOKERAY'S be.
Eirlf r apei,ii i ii'e.an Olt ,them-though it may be
Mraltinel:te Critielik a work not only before it
Is published, tut hetiiie it it even written.
4clffffe,'Ts'a, historical Tonneau', called
winds up, as every novel-reader
knifes With theMatriage of Colonel 'Henry Es
jOrart4 4(` - ;(4ikrager Lady Castlewood, a lady
who r es far as can beljudged from various in
-016, tl ( ii4 4 ' seti tte, red throughout the story, must
love f ieaohecttheMuttrure age of forty-eight or
liereabida4,s'Esniona had been in love with
@plrilc,:,tlia 'daughter, and, when she jilted
141M4felltaek lapin the mother, who, it seems,
bad keerriultiVe l :Wlth,hiiii,' and Jealous of her
'ow l ; 046 A ii,ineirect, a sort of triangu
lar loy,taffidr,payelitch, very - little delicacy is
(exhibited b, =ref thoparties.-
's. tffie:wifeleave the old country,
pities called Castlewood,
iriVtrgirils; 'abe retheoto ((Esmond," dated
jt64;;V:il*DileXitoTeritber B,' 1778,"
.twrMl4tive,Xeadoei,lo . 4einember the, exact
dritel,tiefeSses ton4iaTO 'been written by Es
t:l44i,
fi r ,
i 4 ;
- 4 g! ter nye, Abet , her mother
61 Ltrli 7B4 4 and. that she herself, the only
221tflifiii,-ive . lit ! tolie educated in
* 9ll a,,eree#4to gide, her own words,
3, 4 l fite i r e ,Ahijeflusilibinbo 'of Mr. Warrington,
sauron'tivier fair: ' When it pleased
heaven, the Meow of his youth, and after but a
row months of a most happy union, to remove him
soul ime, I owed reoeverx from the grief which
that erdamity caused me, mainly to my deareA
father's' tenderness, and then to the blessing
vouchsafed to me in the birth of my two beloved
boys. I know the fatal difference which separaMd
them in polities never disunited their hearts; and,
as I can love them both, whether wearing the
King's colors or the Republic's, I am sure they can
love me and one another,"
Here wo learn that Mrs. Warrington had
two sons—that they were twins—that they were
posthumous children, born after their father's
death—that, residing in Virginia when the
War of Independence broke out, they were
probably thirty-skx years old at the time, al
lowing their mother to have married four
years after her mother's death—and that they
took different sides in the contest of the Ame
rican colonies with their English step-mother.
These men, Henry and George Warring
ton, are cc The Virginians." Wo understand
that THAOIKERAY'S design, which is very capa
ble of being worked out into a truly stirring
historical romance, is to trace the career of
these twins, on opposite sides of the great con
test which ended in our becoming an indepen
dent nation.
Now, some matter-of-fact reader may ask,
How do you get at the Christian names of the
twin-heroes ? We are Indebted to . tbetr com
municative mamma, for tbat;ttliti'otheiinf+
mation.'• 'already cinold
from' Preface, describing Esmond,' says :
" He was of rather low stature, not being abo'o
tivis feet seven inches in height; ho used to laugh
at my eons, whom ho called his erutohos, and say
they wore grown too tall for him to lean upon.
When the French came to this country with td0,41-
steer ltochambeau, not ono of his officers was slide
rior to my Henry, and he was not the equal of my
poor George, who had taken the king's side on
our lamentable, but glorious War of Indepen
dence."
There can be no mistake in all this. Wo.
have as last hold of the heroes of the new ro
mance, it seems to us, as TUACKSBAY himself
has.
Tho question arrises—How will he do justlce
to the subject? On a discussion of this point,
it was generally conceded that, exercising the
same laborious fidelity which gave such vrai
semblance to "Esmond," it was probable
that THAOKEDAY would avoid any very great
blunders in the historical part of his story, but
that it was by no means to be expected that he
could sketch the eighty years' past manners 'of
the American provinces, and particularly ofVir
gird a, with that accuracy which would make
the book valuable—such accuracy, for ex -1711-
pie, as has been exhibited by SCOTT in " Ivan
hoe," and "Quentin Durward," and "Tho
Talisman;" by RDLWER, in "Harold" and
"The Last of the Barons;" and, coming much
later down, by CUARLES READE in his charm
ing French revolutionary tale, w White Liei."
Our own opinion, formed on no hasty 'or
superficial examination of the premises, is that
TUACKERAY is likely to make • a terrible mess
of the historical part—in fact, unless some
well informed American carefully revise :it,
this story will enable him, like Dogberry,;to
say, "Write me down an ass."
We judge this, as our readers may, from the
before-mentioned Preface to Esmond, in
which every allusion to America is wholly and
palpably wrong.
Bearing the date of November, 1778, it
brings on the War of Independence as a thing
which had recently ended—whereas it con
tinued for nearly five years after the above
date.
It mentions, cc when the French came to
this country," as if it had occurred some time
before—the fact being that the French force,
under D'EsTertra, first appeared off Newport,
in August, 1778, under the treaty with France
of February in the same year. Now, an
event which took place—and such an event
toot—in less than three months from
_the date
of Mrs. Warrington's pseudo Preface, could
never kayo been referred to as remote.
Again, under date of 1778, we have Mon
sieur NOOIIAILISEAU mentioned, and his alders
having fenced with George and Henry War
rington Is dwelt on by the loving mother, vtith
natural complacency. But the plain truth is
—Monsieur ROORAMBEAII did not arrive, in
America until 1780, which, unfortunately
,for
TITAOKERAVR accuracy, is fully two years
after the date of the Preface.
We have sufficiently indicated, from evi
dence involuntarily supplied by himself, what
are TRACRERAY'S qualifications for writing
American history. We expect a pleasant
book of blunders. There is another point
worth notice—of course, Mr. TRAOKERAY will
have to introduce General Wham:Trott. How
will he garnish and serve him up.
In the second chapter of "The Neweines,"
we find THAORERAY, speaking in his own per
son as author, using these words :
" When pigtails still grew on the books of the
British gentry, and their wives wore cushions on
their heads, over which they tied their own hair,
and disguised it with powder and pomatum ; when
ministers went in their stars and orders to the
House of Commons, atul orators of the Opposition
nightly attacked the noble lord in the blue ribbon;
when Mr. Wastu moron was heading the Americans
with a courage, it must be confessed, worthy of a
better cause, there came up to London, out of a
northern county, Mr. Thomas Neweeme,"
Attention was drawn (originally by the wri
ter of the present article) to the somewhat'dis
paraging towns in which WA:mutual and the
cause for which he battled was spoken of, in '
the above extract. Mr. TILAOKERAY consider
ed it worth his while to defend himself, but
could only say that, whatever the words might
appear to imply, they, with every other part
of the paragraph, were sportive and fanciful.
But, in 1780, (the time in question) the
British gentry did wear pigtails, and their wives
did tie their powdered and poraatinned hair
over cushions; Lord NORTH, in office at the
time, was notorious for sitting in the,House of
Commons, in full dress, wearing the insignia
of the Order of the Garter, and in Parliamen
tary language, was always mentioned by the
Opposition as "the noble Lord in the blue
ribbon." Here aro plain undoubted facts—,
the pigties, the cushions, the powder, the po
matum, the star and orders worn by the Minis
ter, and the actual words of contempt which
the orators of the Opposition applied to bias.
Nothing but facts here,—nothing fancifl, and
then, as another and culminating fact, intro
, (Weed to point the era when Thomas New4ome
cc came up to London, from IC northern cloutl;
ty," Mr. TRAOKERAT further mentionedithat
Mr. WASIIINOTON Was heading the ATROI4RTO3,
patronizingly confessing that he did so "with
a courage worthy of a better cause."
From this quotation, the obvious meaning
of which cannot be mistaken, (though he en
deavored to back out of it when he sate that
his sneer gave offence,) we candidly confess
that we do not expect that air. TUACKEKAY,
in "The Virginians," will show any : very
great sympathy with, or do any particular jus.
Lice to, such a groat historical and personal
character as WASHIROTON. We shall see.
THANKS TO HON. MILTON S. LATHAM.
Thanks' to Hon. MILTON S. LATHAM for a
copy of his splendid oration, delivered in San
Francisco at the LA FAYETTE celebration, on
the 7th of September. While the old States
allowed the anniversary of the hundredth birth
day of LA FAYETTE to pass over without recog
nition, it was reserved for California, a State
conquered from misrule and despotism, by the
same free spirit which sent the young French
man hither to assist in rescuing the Western
World from the fangs of oppression, to hail
that anniversary with' such a demonstration as
has rarely been witnessed, even in a State re
markable for its popular manifestations, Ex
tracts from Mr. LATHAM'S oration shall bb laid
'Wore his old friends in the old States at our
earliest leisure.
We notice among the persons who partici
pated in the display alluded tod". P. 114. van,
Esq., as chief marshal, and Justice //camas-
TER, who presided over the ceremonies, besides
many others familiar to the people of this and
other States.
A Montreal cotemporary states that aO,OOO
sterling bills drawn by the Grand Trunk managers
here on England, and sold to the Bank of Upper
Canada, have been returned under protest. - The
bills in question were protested for non-accept-awe,
and not for non-payment, on aoeonnt of some ir
'regularity. The bills were drawn at sixty days,
and arrangements have been made to meet them
when due. The necessary funds will be made in
England before the bills mature.
PHILADELPHIA, TUODAV, ' OCTOBER 20, 1857.
THE CRISIS IN OTHER STATES.I
Tho question which 'now
of
financial
circles is, as to the means of bringing forward
the enormous amounfs of produce whiCh . littio
been gathered in the produce depots of the
West. The `want of means for this purpose
also affects the bringing forward of the eott4n
crop, which has accumulated iu'Vast quantities.
If these two objects could be effected holle
the winter falls in, relief would be certain a d
Sure. Intense anxiety is felt for the arrival pf
every steamer from England, inasmuch as the
supply of cotton in the British Manufacturing
cities is small, and it is anticipated that herch4,
lean efforts will be made by the British ca I:•
talists to supplythemseives with cotton for t,e
approaching winter, so as to keep their multi
tudes of workmen engaged, and so ward off a•
troublesome 'winter of sufferinvitervatioil,
and possibly revolution. Meanwhile, the toga
lar arrival of the steamers from CaliforniagiAs_
great confidence to monetary circles, and one
more attests the invaluable importance of to
acquisition of California to our commen,millit:
try and the world at large. , Suspension
equalized domestic exchanges betw,e,lo4,q,
great cities South, East, itt43laS
already had the offeet.of stoppitig the eiportsv
tion of oueSpecie and of living a end On
check to foreign importations. fielOW will he
found the speculations of the :leading South- .
ern, Eastern, and Western papers on the pre
sent phase of the monetary'crisis.
"It is Darkest Just Before Day." I :
[Prom Montgomery (Ala.) Mall,Oct,j9.l , ; ;
~
; the rgloom Which overshadows the bieriness of
the whole country is very, very , deep. Men in
ovary departinent of trade seem weighed down in
spirit, and no man pretends to say when a brighlfir
.day will dawn. A little while bagir; plenty of
hopeful prophets said, " Yet a little longer, a d
; this will blow over" Mkt the, , 4 littleJonger" , 3
sped will
and the dark , 'heavy_ cloud still iv is
heivily on the entire horison: North, South, &It,
Wes—nothlng,but gloom. ' ;
Our own community has, thus far only, been
Wooled to,a limited extent: Money tightened for
a while, and , then it disappeared altogether.
There le a general startation—no - cotton selling.
But we have bad no failures, and we can truly say
that our business mon are in as good condition to
meet a general storm as any' mercantile amain*
city can ho. Still, the storm may be so oontinued,,
violent and ruinous; as to pull down the strongoet.
Our banks very prudently decline to Allsoonnt;
there is no money in private hands; cotton can-,
not 801 l ; and planters oannotlay; up. If our imir
chants can stand such a state of things for 90 days,
wo may safely oonolude that nothing can hurt
theta.
The Kentucky Banks
[Prom the Louisville Courier, 14th.)
It will be soon, by comparing tho condition of
our banks to those of New York and New Orleans,
that ours are really in abetter condition than those
of hither of these commercial, 'emporiums. It is
true, our banks have not as much specie in propor
tion to their ("insulation, but they owe much less to
thei4 depositors. The sum of the eireulatiOn and ,
deposits of the New York banks is $75,899,759;
and that of tha.Now Orleans banks is $17,789,237,
while thatof thwKontuoicy banks is only 11,9111;-
017, • The proportion of specie to the circulation
and deposit account in our banks is, therefore,
greater Mon in New York or New Orleans, and
our banks really stand upon a better basis than
those of either of these cities. In addition to this
all-important foot, our banks have bills to the
amount of several millions, maturing this Month
and next, in Now York and New Orleans, which
will bo as good to them as the gold and silver.
Indeed, exchange is now preferred to spool°, and
we do not seo any prospect of a state of things
rapidly occurring, in which it will not bo pre
ferred.
Of course, the day of settlement, which is at
hand, will boa terrible day. It will sweep away
merchants, and manufacturers, and meobanics,
and bankers, end banks, and business men, and
speculators in wild lands, and buyers of corner lots
in fancy cities, and dealets in Woke, and drivers
of fast horses, and dwellers in lino houses, and all
men of more show than 'real means. A few, of
every class will stand firm amid the geneval wreck;
but prices in everything will fall with the rotten
concerns of the day. We now have 10 pay too
high fur everything wo buy—provisions, clothing,
lands, houses, and stooks. .Ali must come down to
their proper standard, and that is tbo only good
that can come of the revulsion with which we aro
now threatened.
flank Suspensions at the South.
" Banker Virginia" iluspenael
specie payments yesterday. It wee the but to yield
in the present 01 4 / 1 18, though holding out only
about twenty•four hours longer than the other
banks of this city. We may now say that all the
berate in Virginia have tiespendeC epode pay
ments.—Birrimetut Enquirer of Thursday. ,
NORTU Cenowtra.-,—The eoufirmatlon of the de
plorable financial affairs in New York, where the
main resources of the banks and merchants of this
place aro located and now looked upi has been the
means of driving three of the banks of the town of
Wilmington into 'a suspension of specie payments.
The branch of the Bank of the State, located hero,
yet stands unsespendod, awaiting mil/ices; we pre
sume, from the mother bank at Raleigh. All the
rest—the Bank of Wilmington, the Bank of Cape
Fear, and the Commercial Bank of Wilmington—
suspended this looming, We .have a report that
the Bank of Clarendon, at Fayetteville, suspended
yesterday. We do not give this information as re
liable. But,,we think, from the, present appear
ance of things, that there will bd a general suspen
sion of the banks throughout the State,—lVil
minyton Journal of Thursday. ,
Tho New York Times has a 'mournful triumph
in tho realization of its predictions to the final re
sult of the suicidal, policy of the banks, in their
leek of firmness and unity. It says:
" They have shown throughout a timid, nervous
apprehension about their own safety, and a ease
anent indifference' to the safety of the great busi
ness community upon which they were absolutely
dependent. They have thus exasperated one class
of business men and alarmed another. Their fe
verish anxiety about themselves created corres
ponding distrust on the part of the public), and
this has been grewing from day to 'day, under the
stimulus of the failures which were constantly oc
curring among the merchants, and' which were
charged to the selfish contraction 'of bank accom
modations. It is said that the banks could not ex.
pand with safety to themselvea; but their safety
depended throughout, far more on the confidence
and forbearance el* their creditors than upon the
amount of their indebtedness. * * *
‘' The adoption of the country airoulation for that
of the State at an early day would have aocom•
Oohed the object . —but neither that nor anythillA
else was done, or even attempted by the banks.';
Tho Tribuno holds' the following oboorful tone in
regard to the afoot upon the people, and the intrin
sic solvency of the banks :
"Every dollar of tho UAW of our banks will buy
more of the necessaries pf life to-day, when they
are said to be broken, than it would have done
three months ago, when they were regarded as
perfectly solvent. It is an abuse or language,
therefore, to regard the hanks as failed because
specie redemption had become impossible. If all
the gold and silver on earth had .yesterday been
annihilated by an act of God, the banks and their
notes would nevertheless be good, So long as
there is twice as much as they owe duo thorn from
men able soon to pay in anything but specie; and
so long as their notes will buy whatever is desired,
they have not failed,"
The herald says :
'Considering the tremendous pressure brought to
boar upon these banks, this course is, perhaps, the
best which could have been adopted. But for the
overwhelming demands by mercantile depoditors
of the' speculating and overtradlng class, resolved
upon forcing the banks to an expansion or a' sus
pension,. this alternative of substantiallmspension
of specie payments might have ;been' avoided.'
The rosult,ns it• is, will probablysbe equiv
to the direct low of a hundred millions to the
business community of ,this metropolis, from the
inevitable ,reation of this movement upon, the
banks and the financial and commercial . interests
of the Union." '
Great Railroad /*allure.
[prom the St. Louis Itepablioan.]
The Illinois' Central Railroad his tailed and
made an assignment. This le the greatest among
the great fairures of the passing day.
The Illinois Central is the longest railroad in the
United States. It is 704 miles long. At the last
accounts it had mot over $23,000,000. Its gross
receipts at the last yearly return were 02,470,000 ;
its nett receipts wore $1,031,000. On the 12th of
September its stock stood at 04, and its late as last
Saturday stood at 71.
As - every one knows, this road' was ` richly en
dowed by the State with lands granted by Con
gress. The grant was 3,840 acres to every 'mile.
So that the whole grant was over Z 700,000 acres of
land. Those lands were appropriated by the com
pany in manner following ; 2,000,000 of stores were
mortgaged as security for money to bo raised for
the construction of the road The money expected
to bo raised in this way was $17,000,000. The
bonds bore 7 per cent. interest, payable on the let
of October and April in New York; 250,000 'wires
wore to be held subject to sale, so as to a fund
for the payment of interest, until the receipts of
the road should pay interest. The balance—some
400,000 aeres—were to bo sold from time to time
to "meet KWh demands as the exigencies of the
company may demand."
The minimum value of the 2,000,000 acres
(mortgaged. for oonstruation) was set down at over
$18,000,000 The company also created steak to
the amount of *2,000,000.
The lands and the road were conveyed in trust
to, Morris Rotohurp, of New, York, and to ,John
Moore and Samuel b. toBekwood, of Illinois. / The
trust thus created was to 'swum the construction
of the road, and those who loaned money on, the
strength Of its lands and road
' The bonds, called conitruotion bonds, to the
amount 0f , 517,000,000 have beeniestied.- Besides;
$3,000,000 of 7 par cent. bondsi, secured by lands
other than those set apart to secure the eenStrue.
Hon bonds, have been issued,. Those ;3,000,000 are
called free-land .bonds.
At, the mtctintum valuation, put on the 2,000
acres which were mortgaged teseoure the construe.
tton bonds, the whole land property may be eon.
eldered worth $25,000,000 The last sale of the
bonds was 05.
So sanguine were the proprietors of thie toad
that the proceeds of the bonds and the lands sold.
would put them autPlY in fund!, that they madeat
a condition of the construction bonds that the
company might at any time purchase those bonds,
or any of thorn, by, paying, In addition to Oft
regular interest, the prltcolpal; with tiventY
cent. added. In fact, few supposed that such a
road as this, endowed as It was, could fall of being
ezeallent property. It had $2,000,000 'of capital
aubiloribed. It bad such proceeds in money /to
near'7oo,ooo (WITS of land would yield to pay in
termit aa,well as for construction. And it had the
proceeds of the $17,000,000 ()obstruction bonds
The post is set down by the Railroad .Tournal
at, a 8 wo have stated above, a little over $23,000 -
000, :Tb o oonstruction and free-land bonds amount
to $20,000,000, if they have all been sold, Thu in.
tercet at 7 per cont. on these bonds is $1,400,000.
.The nett receipts of the road at the lest yearly re
port ware given at $1,031,000, end the gross at $2,-
470,000. Of the gross receipts, 5 per cent aro
Paylatl,e, into the Illinois State, Treasury, as tho
bonus agreed on for the land grant. Five per
cent. en the gross receipts lest year wore over
$123,000. And if the sine above given us nett ro
coipta . 1 1 ' what is left after deducting merely run
ning expenses, this $123,000 must ho deducted from
these receipts, thus leaving the sum upplicable to
the payment of interest from the receipts at $007,-
,200, which would fall short of the interest supposed
to be duo over half a million of dollars.
The lands sold by the company amount, to about
300,11,00 acres, at near $l4 an acre. Should all the
land granted sell at the same rate, the aggte
gate would be between thirty and forty millions of
dollars.
The lands And roads willnow, in the regular
eounteige into the hands of the bondholden9, or be
sold fOr their benefit. The suggestion that the road
will be no longer operated cannot, we suppose, he
krene4iinil in any! knowledge . of - the inteotioos 'of
theldcwho control it. - '
ie-:"
CALIFORN lA. I NTELLIGENC E
,y.ARON WASHINGTON.
WAsturnorort,'Octoher 19, 1857.
Tito jlOll, Wu. M. GWIN is now in Wash
ingtpn, where ,he is welcomed by his numer
ous friends. He has taken the fine residence
'belonging to Marshal HOOVER, situated in the
First:ward, occupied last winter by the lion.
'Wu. AAKEN, Of Smith Carolina. He is bill ,
rounded by Ms interesting family.
'C. idoKinacß, who arrived in
Philadelphia on Saturday last, is expected in
Washington this evening.
Iftin. , J. C. DEttymt, the efficient commis
sioner of 'Millen affairs, who gives great satis
faction in the, discharge of hit duties, has just
returned from a, tour in the new Territories
for the purpose of protecting the Indians from
the rapacity of speculators and their own
neglect.
. The numerous friends of SCRatOT DAVID C.
Bnimantoic have been very much disappointed
at his non:arrival In the last steamer.
The attktement that Mr.l3nonEnnix. has taken
ground agniiist the Administration has been
fullY contradicted. Ho is a Democrat of too
high sthnding, and has madti to many sacri
fices for the principles of the party to allow
his disappointments in reference to office to
affect his relations to our great organization.
The North Carolina Whigs aro exceedingly
indignant that Hon. EDWARD STANLEY should
have hint himself to the Republicans in 'Cali
fornia: Mr. STANLEY an able and HMO
plifikted debater, but was always a violent
enemy of ihe'Deinocratie party While in
doitgress he was 'ready to take any course in
opposition to' tha r t Party. , His late tendency
to piety is said to have prepared him for the
notions of Abolitionism. The North Carolina
American papers have been much crowed over
hy,the Democrats in consequence of this last
soineiset Of Mr. STANLEY.
BILLY BURR', who rescued from thS wreck
of tho'Ceutral America the San Francisco
RCM loiter for 4; THE PRES 4," the only news
saved containing full details of California news
'by that ill-faed steamer—which news, you will
remember, excited so much attention in Phila.
'dolphin and New York, especially that part of
it which referred to NED MCGOWAN'S narra-
tive—this Binv BIRCH Is playing to delighted
; Crowds Baltimore, and is everywhere wed.
poined as a curiosity.
It is represented that Purser Levi D. SLAMg
will kV promoted as chief of the Bureau of
Frei'ldiom and Clothing, vice BRIDGE, whose
four years' term will shortly expire. It is also
stated that Surgeon J. ill. Petvz of P ennsyl
walla, is to be ; placed at the head of the
Bureau of Medicines for the navy. Both these
fent*in tiro Well, known in California.
the hard tithes will prevent the usual libe
ral to California during, the
ensuing , winter,. and Dr. Gwta, will have to
tnrn_his energies to some other objects for the
- asslitance of his constituents. We have no
doubt he will find ample occupation.
PRIVATE BANKING IN CALIFORNIA.
The business, of banking in California—that
is, of discounts and deposits,bUt not of issue—
is in the hands of privrite bankers. A late
writer in the Cincinnati Gazelle, whose views
we have noticed, but not by way of approving
them, makes the following reference to paper
money and private banking, which will not be
uninteresting to our readers in California :
"But the true test of the effects of the currency
is to bo tested by the active circulation. Lot us
look at that. Por,tbis wo must deduct from the
coin the amount retained by the banks and sub
treasuries. Then we shall have the money at the
command of the people, though not necessarily in
active business. The result for certain periods is
as follows, with the amount per head of the popu
lation:
Active O'er head
• Circulation. ot. Population.
In 1811 $13,000,000 .70 00
In 1810 , 05,000,000 11 00
In 1830 70,000,000 5.60
In 1830 148,000,000 11.00
/n 1865 205,437,257 12.00
In 1856 300,000,000 13.60
In 1867.... ~ 302,000,000 13,00
Tlikis table tliapola all mystery. It shows the
ra
pid expansion of the currency in proportion to the
populatitin, uniformly occasioning an expansion
and reaction. But this is not the result of paper
any more than of gold, or of gold any snore than of
silver.
Let us look at the relative increase of specie and
paper. From 1818 to 1856 the Maltase of specie
was two hundred and fifty millions, while the in
crease of paper was but ono hundred millions. In
1816 the paper currency was about eight to ono of
the inhabitants, but in 1856 It was six to one. In
1816 the coin was throe to ono of tho inhabitants,
and in 1856 it was nine to ono. These fuels era
conclusive that it is no increase of paper money
which has caused these financial disturbances Wu
have gained in hard money at a most rapid rate,
and we have gained in the last four years, although
wo have exported in that time ono hundred and
fifty millions in gold.
The-history of banking in the last five years
proves that what is called private banking, in the
manner in which it has boon conducted, is more
dangerous, both to the piddle and the banker, than
any corporate banking we have had. This com
parison will show that the loss to the public has
been the greatest, and the advantage least.
Tho truth Is, the vast expansion of credit pro
ceeds from the very prosperity of the country, end
is ono of the evils attendant on a plothorio state.
We must reduce our extravagance—we shall soon
decrease our debts.
nom , HAVANA.—The eteamehip Black Warrior,
Zaptain Smith, from Now York 28th ult., and
'Havana 4th bud., has arrived at New Orleans
The sugar market has declined, and the losses to
holders of auger will bo heavy. Money continues
at Ito per cent. per month. Exchange on. New
York. par ; London, 110 per cont. premium ; Now
Orleans, 3 per cent. premium. Tho Americas,
slaver Muma has .been brought to Havana by a
Spanish war steamer. It is generally believed
throughout the island that Captain General Con
cha will be retained. The health of Havana has
improved. The Black Warrior landed at Havana
$402,000 in Spanish gold. The yellow foyer was
decreasing, but was still violent. At the last dates
there wore two hundred and twenty-two patients
in the hospital of San Juan do Dios, and one hun
dred and four in the hospital of Paula.
We have received by this arrival Havana pa
pers of the 4th inst., but find no news of import
ance in them.
,The last news from Havana represents tho Coolie
trade as going forward with Increased avidity.
Five hundred and ninotpnine free colonists from
China have been lately set ashore from two vessels,
one of which lost sixty coolies by death on tho pas
sage. They came by way of St. Helena Fourteen
thousand eight hundred and ninety-one Asiatics
bad been eat ashore during the year up to the 28d
of September, anti two thousand three hundred and
four others had died .on thp passage. It ie repre
sented that the treatment of these poor wretches
on the plantations is cruel in the extreme The
following circumstance is related in a letter from
Havana, dated Sept. 22, and which our Nerthein
Abolitionists should reflect upon at their leisure :
A wealthy Creole family arc the proprietors of
several sugar estates. One of these is tilled almost
altogether by Asiatics, who are, in derision I
suppose, called free colonists. Upon this estate
recently, for several successive days, three or four
of these Asiatics committed suicide. The number
that did so at length attracted the attention of the
authorities, and an investigation was entered into,
BO as if possible to ascertain the cause of so many of
these unhappy men taking their own lives. By ex
amining the persons not only of the deceased, but
also Him of the living Asiatics, it was discovered
that they were covered with mars caused by the
whip, from the napes of their necks down to their
very ankles---that no negro had ever been more
cruelly whipped."
A Seotehmam named John Swenson, was
murdered in the Tenth avenue, Now York, on
Baturday night, by three rowdies, between eighteen
and nineteen years of ago. Tho murdered man
was tbirtytwo years of ago. Ile was steady and
industrious, and leaves a wife and family. The
polio° are on the track of the murderers.
Joseph F. Ferry, a real estate agent in New
York, and the present bail of Mrs. Cunningham,
has been nrreated in that city on the charge of
being 'searched , it a gang of Counterfeiters
'HO was and $1.2,000 in counterfeit
money was found on his person. Ho was com
witted for examination.
COMMUNICATIONS.
THE RELIEF DILL.
[For The. Preva
Tho Legislature has at length presented the
people of this Commonwealth with the results of
their combined wisdom, in an not professing to pip
vide for the resumption of spools payments and
the relief of debtors. . 1
A greater outrage upon the Constitution, or
grosser ignorance of polities—a more utter disie
gard of national honor, of private credit, and : of
the laws of honesty—has probably never boon 4.-
hibited. One instance only occurs of deeper deg
radation within our knowledge, and that is in be
found, if the statement be true, (which we hope,
for the honor of our common country, it is not,)
of the deliberations and determinations of the
judges in a neighboring State „to disregard their
oaths, and to violate the Constitution because its
imperative commands are inconvenient.
Fiat justitia rata rerlum, the proud motto !of
the judiciary, must be construed henceforth with
the qualification that the heavens in falling shall
not prove inconveniently oppressive. 1
What are the two first sections of this stat 'te
but the legislative declaration that our financal
rotten, system is and that the
,matauftutturers of
1
our currency may continue to extract their profit
without the necessity of returning to the corn u
nity whit they bargained for as a consideratln
for their franchisee—a medium cenvbrtible i to
coin. What is it but proclaiming that laws pas,ed
with deliberation, and with a view to an evil, may
bo disregarded, if but unanimity in the violation
eon be brought about ?
Admitting, however, that the present statel of
things is a natural and inevitable consequencti of
the banking system—but, that, with its evils, we pito.
for to retain it—what defence be made for Ilie
third section? Was ever cc absurd a contrivadoe
resorted to—so monstrous an outrage on those baks
&
who desire to act prudently ? Compel a ere or
11
toleeeive the promises of another to nay ! Nei It
or leaving him the option of not dealing no of
i o
using his own judgment, on theOredit of the per n
proposing to be his debtor! and this, too, whoil it
is notorious that the issues of many of the badlis
wore at the time of suspension not availablei as
currency because of the universal discredit they
wore under—nay, when ono of the city banks bid,
for months before, been unable to meet its si-
I changes, and had been, privately, as much dis. ,
honored as the merchant whose note were she
tested. And this is to restore confidence!
But if thets were necessary—if the community
had got to that pass that they must defer their own
judgments in their private dealings on credit to
three creatures of the Governor—if it was neies
sary to evade the constitutional provisions regal r
leg payments in gold and silver only, and forljid
ding the tampering with contracts—lf it was right
to say to the depositaries of the money of the rtee
pie, You may keep what you have got, and laf
fie with it, and we will not allow , the law or the
owners to trouble you—was it necessary to ',de
grade our Commonwealth below a pimp, by mak
ing sate of her prostituted justice' ,
, Yes, wo.—our representatives—our chosen men
sworn to support the Constitution and laws—hale,
for one quarter of ono per cent., extracted from,the
debtor, whose necessities they are relieving, fold
the right to swindle the individual citizen Can
!
degradation in a State go beyond this
glut the sixth, eleventh, and twelfth sections are
des : erving of special notice.
The sixth is n model for wisdom and justice.; if
you apt pay you need not. If you can't. what
you have shall ho torn from you. ‘• Prom him
i hot
hath not shall be taken away oven that whic he
seemoth to have " Did it ever occur to thesen
tlemen—these honorubles — that there are twos des
to a contract; that creditors are, themselves,.
times debtors, or if not, that the fruits of t. sir
past'toil aro essential to moans of getting brew'
Were they not sworn not to impair the obi
tions of contracts ? and is a contract for toino ,
in nowise hupaircd by being changed into on
a year hence? Yt is immaterial that ilia dia
tion between the right and, the remedy has
fumed upon our courts. No honest man bell
ho con take my property on his promise to pa
hour hence, and perform it by paying ono yea
torwards.
But what becomes of credit, when tho mea
enforcing it are taken away? Is not ibis no
moat destructive thing to confidence e And
a lesson of niorality le not the lee , of the
the standard for thousands? And, here la's fo nal
legislative declaration that when you hove, the
means to perform your promise, for that verydea
son, and on that condition ; you need not do it.
And how aro the debtors relieved? Why, of eonrso,
at the expense of the community—debts aro' not
diminished by delay. Is it the insane del lion
that something will turn up? And were thy so
grossly ignorant• of history as not to know that
every day's delay does nothing but increase the
trouble when pay-day arrives at last ? Le 4 the
history of 1819, 1841-2, be read and considered.
Tho provision respecting mortgagee is no the
less flagrant in its violation of every rule of honor
and honesty, and it is probably even a /twat viola.
lion of the Constitution. It deliberately takes from
the security ono of its mostprominent advantages—
it attempts to make paper money a legal tender, by
denying all redress according to the contract, if
that is refused.
The cruelty of this section is on a par wi h Il i
stupidity. When it is remembered that the Mtn
savings of the day laborers, the small me bett
ies, the seamstresses and maid-servants, and all
that class of industrious, honest people amimgst
us, who have in the day of prosperity made pro
visions for these times of adversity through the
savings funds, and that these institutions where
they are not, as too many aro, more schemes So de
fraud the poor, have always resorted to this t,ocu
rity as the only safe one—can anything be Moro
iniquitous than thus to deprive them oe, the
means of being honest? But the stupidity of the
act passes bounds. Hundreds of individuals :have
put their all—the savings of a life of toil—into
these securities—and for the time they are jest as
available as a note of the most arrant speculator
in the funds. Contracts must be broken, honored
names dishonored, disgrace and infamy cover our
State—not by misfortune, not through war, fu
ming), or even imprudence, but because our Go
vernment cannot be trusted to administer justico—
to onforeo obligations, but turns our whole people
into a pack of chartered libertines, against whom
there is no law.
As to the section prohibiting the sale of collate
rats for six months, it would be diffioult to decide
whether knavery or folly was most concerned in
its conception—knavery in thus deliberately pro
hibiting the use of property, and the enforcement
of a contracted right; and folly in thus sacrificing
the rights of the creditor without distinction be
tween collaterals which can exist for six months,
and those which the lapse of time will destroy.
What if the collateral is a cargo of' fruit?
Tho legislators of Pennsylvania have thus per
manently fixed upon themselves the brand of gross
ignorance of the customs of trade, for which they
wore framing laws.
But if the things aro not perishable, price! are;
and what plea can even a stultified consoience
make : for compelling a contracting patty thus to
increase his hazard ?
Happily for justice, the clause in question is so
literally within the constitutional prohibition, that
we supposo no ono but a drowning stock-jobber
would clutch at it.
There is ono ray of hope loft. Within three
months a new Legislature will assemble. The
Deinoeratio party has shown itself true to the
Constitution and the laws; they have in vain en
deavored to root out the curses of the country—
paper currency and the credit system; let' them.
show themselves once more true to the State, to
public honor, and to private honesty, and wipe off
from the escutcheon of our Commonwealth the
stain and the reproach with which it has been pol
luted by this abortion of iniquity, ignorance, and
folly. ' H.
Tou tcco.—Tho inspections of tobacco in Lynch
burg, for the your ending September 30, amounted
to b , ibl hogsheads, being a decrease of 2, 8. 1 8
hogsheads on the previous year. The Lynchburg
1' ro ' inian, which publishes the statement, adds :
"So far as we can ascertain, the prospect of the
crop next year is a good one. A great many more
plants than usual have been set, and the cultiva
tion of it is extending into Montgomery, IVythe,
Meteor, Floyd, and other counties which have
been mostly engaged, heretofore, in the raising of
grain and stook. If the weather hold good, and
frost do not come too soon, there bids fair to be a
heavier crop next year than ever before. The
high prices that have ruled this your have stimu
lated planters to extra exertions, and next year
the effects will ho visible in increased inspections."
The total export of cigars from tho port
of Havana the present year, up to the 20th of Sep
tember, were as follows :
United States, 34,032,000 Trieste & Venice, 4,018,000
Hamburg and Belgium - 1,815,600
Bremen - 18,951,100 Russia - - 1 , 838 , 0013
°rent Britain - 16,300,000 Rolland - 844,600
10,312,000 Mexico - 233 , , , : ,
South Miseries 3,798,000 °°°
s Y r rlti n en -. ...
~
0,021,000 Other points ..,6..,,
~,
Total
Hon. Edward Everett announces his inten
tion to make a winter tour through the South and
Southwest, accepting various invitations; to deliver
his address on 'Washington.
A few days since we published a case of
supposed suspended animation in Now York State.
Th e boy has since been buried, it having been
Fll tisfa u to y useertained that she was dead.
A letter from Madagascar allirme that Queen
Itanavale has ordered all Europeans to leave the
Madagascar coast. •
TWO CENTS,
The Northern Light on a Coral Reef.
[Yrom the New York Tribude of the 19th.]
The Northern Light, on her passage homeward,
was in setae danger of sharing the Lite of the Cen
tral America. 'l'wenty-three hours out, she ran
one coral reef three miles from Old Providence, a
small Wand in the Caribbean sea, in lat. 13 deg.
21 min. N., and about a hundred miles east of the
Mosquito coast. The steamer lay do the reef some
eight or nine howl before she succeeded in getting
off. The sea was perfectly calm, and the shore was
nigh, but the passengers, who had just before
heard of the loss of the Central America, could not
but contemplate with some. apprehensions the eon
tnigency, should a storm arise, of a similar tate.
The purser of the ship,' for some reason orother,
seems to have kept this ecoident to himself. We
subjoin an.aceount furnished by a passenger:
We left Aspinwall at 8 o'clock P. M., on Mon
day. October 8, having just heard ihenews of the
lOU of the Central America. We had beautiful
weather, and at noon ,ou Tuesday had made one
hundred and otir way to Havana.
We were then its la: /2 deg. 15 min. north, lon.
80 deg. 46 min. west. The afternoon pealed 'off
pleasantly, and ,we were making twelve knots an
Lour, when, at a few minutes before seven in the
evening, we were startled by , the ship's thumping
five distinct times upon, what proved to be a coral
reef. The engines were immediately stopped, and
the sounding lines throtrn'ovei.. A' boat was soon
lowered away, and welfound but about 14 feet; of
water all around the ship. Rockets were thrown
up, and were answered by the arrival from
the' bland' of Old Providence, about three Isles
distant, of •twe dug-outs, maimed g -outs, maed Iv, the Wm 1 ,
tants, but having with them the captain of a coal
ship in the company's "seirvied, which' had been
*reeked near the semeplasonghtineks previork
ly. ills teen went tq Aqpinwall,ia open boats, took
passage in the Central America home, and were
lost in that unfortunate steanfer. — lfe informed 'll3
that, there was plenty of water and provisions on
the island, and a goad bettor, on the opposite side,
where three five-bon schooners were than lying.
Wh then sent the second officer with a boat to in.
duce the schoenen te, come .4of the steamer, hut
there .was no wind, and one only reached ,us
aboit 7 o'clock' the next 'morning. in (the mir
tine,' the ' engines • were !started every w
minutes, and the passengers sent, tram stem
to stern and from larboard to starboard, that their
weight might assist in moving her: At midnight
unanchor was dropped ahead, which, by the help
of ,the windlass, canted the ship to swing almost.
round. The bows were'elear, but she still Beericd
to be fast, from midships taster's. About 30'01 .Ic,
in the morning four boat-loads of passengers w, ra
sent on shore, and thirty tons of water discharged
from the boilers. The' Welted now risen. A strong
pull des made upon the eachor,both wheels were put
in motion, and at 4 o'clock she went off into deeper
water, having been on the reef all night, Guns were
then find to recall the boats, which were all hoisted
on board. by 7 !o'clock, and the steamer stood on
her course. At that moment the steam-frieMto
Wabash, which we had left at Aspinwall, to sail in
twelve hours, remain 'sight, and fired two gdns,
which we did not answer, na :we no longer needed
assistance. Just as we got off, the lady passengers
were all preparing to go on board the schooner
which was now approaching us. After the first
panic, which was yery, great at first, perfect order
prevailed on board. The captain was perfectly
cool, and showed' a great deal 'of seamanship in
getting the steamer off. lie had been examirting
his chart just before, but was on deck when, we
strack. The sea was calm, and while we lay', on
the rocks the ship made no water, as was proved
by trying the pumps." ,
h 7g'bw:l7L.,l.ana the President aa„. lUtioti
Appplatmirnt!.
, SIB.. DCIUQI.AB I'o NR. BUCHANAN.
. . . .
PHICI4O, September 4, lat
Sit Mr Dean S :- I enclose to you, for your per al,
a letter which' / hays just received from J, N.
Granger, Esq.,
who - holds the position of recorder
of the General Land Office. I will not conceal the
deep mortlficiation that I feel in. having any re
spectable gentleman believe that I would Inr a
moment consent to the removal of Gen. McConnel,
or any other good Democrat, in order to make
hem fen any of my family relations. It is true
that I should feel exceedingly gratified to see my
father-in-law promoted to' the comptrollership,
provided it was the voluntary act of the President,
superinduced byl the conviction that his high
qualifications, his irreproachable ,character, and
his long and faithful services in that bateau i in
dicate him as the suitable dad appropriate man for
the place. But iC his appoint-mont is to be placed,
upon the ground of his relationship to me, and is
to be considered 'as Canceling any portion ofl the
claim which Illinois may have to her just portion
of the Federal patronage, Ido him no more t,loan
juitiee in assuming that ho would be as prompt in
declining as I would bb in withholding my went
to hie 'appointment on those teams. .I.,kno* my
ybligations to the people of Illinois, and recognise
the gratitude I owe her Democracy too well to allow
Any ties of blood, or family; or friendship, on ids
of. her limits, to paralysie or impair my efforts to
secure a just and fair share of the Federal appoint-
Clients for theoitizene of My own State. -
I rejoice to saylhat, so fee as I knowfl have,but
ono relation, from any State in the Union, holding
office under the Federal Government, and hewas
appointed through the influence of the late in.
L-Iforey; front the State of New York, weer he
wasborn p_nrii4 hatialway7 resided . I now desi eto
t
say that if Mr. 'Granger s appointment to office. or
his retention in office, is dependent upon or affect
ed by his reltion.shiß to me, or ii taken .intei the
account when the claims of Illinois are preeedted,
I feel' bound to protest against' the iniustice One
to me and to the people of the State I represent.
Under past Administrations I have. felt keenly, and
deeply the neglect and injustice with which Illinois
was treated in the distribution of the patronage.
Other States could receive a Cabinet office, foreign
missions, and several bureau appointments, all at
the same time; while Illinois—a State which' has
never' deserted the Democratic banner—has been
treated, with in neglect which could not fail to
wound the pride,of all her working Democrats
hence, I feel bound to say to you, in all franhness
and kindness, that any appointments you may
make or persen you may . retain in, office, tither
than the citizens of Illinois—no matter how hear
and dear they may be tome—must not he consi
dered as any compensation ter the omission tb ap
point such Democrats as I, in common with' the
rest of the delegation, have or may recommend. I
have not yet felt inclined to complain of the tippa
rent neglect of the just claims of this State in the
distribution of the patronage under your Adminis
tration, having full faith that you would do us
justice in the tutors appointments ,
I have the hgnor to be,
Very truly, your friend, ,
S. A Detritus.
Hon. JANES BUCHANAN, President U. S. ,
for
OR. BUCHANAN TO NR. DOUGLAS
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7, 1557.
My DEAR Slit: I have received your letter of the
4th inst., by whichyou seem to apprehend that
should I appoint Mr. Cutts Sublet Ccmptceller.
thin appointment might be charged to Ilimoi
You need entertain no apprehension on the sub
jeot. Should I make the appointment, which is
not . lteprobable, it will ho my own individual ap
pointmont, proceeding entirely from my regard
for Mr. Cutts and his family, and not because
Senator Douglas has had the good fortune to be
come his sen-in-law.
From your friond, Tory respectfully,
JAMES NoutostoN
lion. S. DOrCILAS, Chicago, 111.
Children Murdered for Money.
[Prom the Detroit Advertiser, leth.)
A. gentleman named Johnson recently moved to
Fentonville, with his family, consisting of a. wife
and three children—the oldest of the latter but
eight years of age. Not having got. all hiu beds
up, the wife remained at the hotel over night
while Mr. Johnson went to his house with the
children, and was accompanied by a boy named
George Colwell, about seventeen years old. About
8 o'clock in the evening two young men canto in,
asking for Mr. Johnson; saying that they were go
ing to his father's house, a short distance strom
there. On receiving a very pressingiinvittition,
they . consented to remain over night , and go with
him in the morning to see the old gentleman. ; Mr.
Johnson that night slept in a best with his two
small girls; the little boy slept with Colwell, and
the young man bad a bed made up on the floor, be
tween the other beds.
Daring the night, Mr. Johnson heard one if his
girls cry out " Pa!" and at the same time received
a blow on the side of his head: He was partially
stunned, and the next he remembered, he woe run
ning after a man who was attempting to escape by
the door. The man turned again, and struck at
him with some instrument. Mr. J. followed the
fellow for some distance without being able to
overtake him, and therefore returned to his
hoist°. On entering the room where ho had
been sleeping, a horrible sight met his eyes—one
of the little girls and the Colwell boy lay dead be
fore him, and the other little girl and boy insensi
ble from the effect of their injuries. The ago
nized father screamed "Murder," and called in
the neighbors. Several came in, and, on exa
mination, the following particulars were! dis
closed :
The first body examined wits that of young Col
well. Ile had received a blow, apparently from
an axe. Ms skull was split entirely open, and his
brains hail all run out. The little boy whh lay
beside Colwell had been struck twice in the head
by an axe or hatchet, and another in the abdo
men. One of the little girls who slept with her
fLther had received several wounds in the head
and body from a similar instrument. She was
dead. The other girl had a out in the head, ap
parently from a slanting blovifrom the axe, which
had taken off a portion of the scalp. The father
himself had received two blows on the top of the
head, and a severe cut inside of his nand. The
little girl is doing well, but at 4o clock last night,
when our informant left, the boy was not expected
to recover. Suspicion rests upon two young fel
lows who bad recently had some difficulty about
some gambling operations. fir. Johnson had
about $4OO, and it is supposed that they were
aware of it and took this means of gaining posses
sion of It, killing the children that there should
be no evidence against them The whole tragedy,
as we learn it, is one of the most heartless and
cold-blooded we have ever known of, and the per
petrators deserve no mercy if proved to be guilty.
THE WEETE REGISTER rort 1856.—1 n accord
ance with the practice which has been observed
for some years past in the Life-Boat (Eng ) Jour
sal, we give in our' current number a synopsis of
the wrecks and casualties which have taken place
during the past year on the coasts and in the seas
of the British Isles. "
The following list gives same details of the work
of destruction during the past five years:
Wrecks. Collisions. Total. Total lives lost.
1852...958 57 1,015 829
1853...769 73 832 989
1854..393 94 987 1,549
1856...894 247 1,141 469
1866...837 318 1,153 621
T019.1..4,811
105,220,000
Thus we find that no less than two hundred and
twenty ships were totally lost or stranded in 1856
from errors, 'anseainanship, or drunkenness, or
other preventible causes, in addition to those from
stress of weather.
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GENERAL NE 1 VS.
The Richmond Whig, in alliniing'tothe rob—
bery of the custom-house in that city.; of cries U 3
that a man, who registered his mime as W. Sum
merville," was arrested at. the Powhatan noose,
in that city, on Saturday morning, by an c4beer
front Washington, on suspicion of .beingeonueeted
with the recent robbery of the eastern-house. Ile
is an accomplice of Robert Wheeler ; alias Pullen,
who was arrested in Washington on Friday. They
were both stopping at the Exchange lintel at the
time the robbery was committed, and, it is said,
were out the whole of Monday night, rolurniaz to
the hotel very early in the morning,. The sum of
$213 in gold was found on Summerville's person,
and a valise, claimed by Pullen, found at the Fred •
ericksbtag depot, contained .31..1ic0 in $d gold
pieces. Pullen is known to the Washington police
as a notedeafe-blower, or ••eracksman," and the
circumstance of his being here in company with
Summerville at the time of the robbery is very
suspicions. The examination before the Mayor on
Saturday revealed sufficient indications of guilt to
justify . the Mayor in committing Summerville to
jail for a further hearing, which will take place
after Pullen is brought to Richmond f MEd Wash
ington.
On the Bth ult., died at Bainbridge, Cuya
hoga, county, Ohio. Mrs. Hiram Cole. From her
husband's conduct, an inquest was held. The pest
mortem revealed arsenic in the stomach. The hus
band fled. Officer J.W. William.. of Cuyahoga
Palls, was despatched in pursuit of him. Ile traced
hits to'Hamilton,"Canada ; thence to Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania; thence to Allegheny City, and
thence to Kalamazoo. Michigan. There all trace
fora tints failed, but it, was at length learned that
Cede had left Hartford, Wisconain, for Fon Du Lae,
and been captured at Iforican, by Mark If. Pome
roy, editor of the Iforican ,Irgeto_, and another
person. But he had given them the slip, though
hand-cuffed, at the Tarris house, Chicago. Mr.
Williams had ridden pore than 2,000 miles by day
and night, in chase of the fugitive, end on several
occasions barely missed him. On Wednesday morn
ing the ,Indefatigable officer, as we learn from the
St. Louis Democrat, arrived in that city and
, platted a daguerreotype of Cole in the hands of
Capt. Kick, of the day police. The Captain ar- -
rested Cole on Thursday. He was placed in the jail
for safe keeping, and has since been sent to Cuya
hoga county, Ohio.
The Rochester (NI T.) Daily Democrat
furnishes us the following mysterious affair:
" Some time since a negro who had been employed
at thellansion House, in Albion. was arrested and
Bent to the workhouse at Rochester. Before ho
was arrested, he left a trunk in the village. It
was opened on Tuesday by Officer Whitcomb, and
found to contain papers and a vest which were
identified. as well as the !rank- no belonging to
Leander Howard, who suddenly disappeared teem
Rich's Corners about four years :dues.
Howard recognised the trunk as ono he had' sold
to his brother. Among the papers was a policy
of life insurance issued to the misting man. From.
the fact that no traces were discovered of Howard
after he was missed, and the circumstances of this
trunk, surmises of, foul play somewhere are cur
rent. The matter will be looked into."
Lefevre, a wealthy sugar-planter at La
fourches, La., died recently without issue, leaving
estatoof $700,000. liatf was left to a nsphew
and WI to a brae". in New,Orleam., who had
transacted Mr. Lefevre's business. The broker
was astonished to find himself the recipient at"
3350,000, but refused to receive the money co snehl:
terms; so went before a notary public and re-
it
nounced the whole legacy, making over in favor
of the relatives of the deceased in France, consist
ing of nephews and nieces, to the number of twenty ,
or thirty, and all humbly situated in life It seems -
the deceased had previously made a will in which
his French relatives were handsomely remembered;
but on returning from a visit to them, not long ago,
for some reason known only to himself, he tore the
will to pieces and wrote a new one.
Among the creditors of the Ohio Life and
Trust Company are Messrs. Bell k Grant, of Loa
don—a most respectable firm, who :littered severely
from the New York crisis of 183 i. At that times
they lost the greater part of a handsome fortune,
but, with a solid and respectable business, they
have since regained a position of great stability.
It is an unhappy fact that the persons in this
country who surfer most from American defalca
tions are those who deserve most from American
people, since they are led into their position by a
friendly preference which blinds them to the dan
gers constantly predicted by less amiable lookers
on.—N. Y. Com. Adv.
A tragedy took place about eight miles
north of Olean, N. Y.. on Saturday night. An
Irishman, named David hlcLane, who has for a
long time been quite intemperate, and has been
in the habit, while intoxicated, of whipping his
wife, lin Saturday purchased five gallons of whiskey,
and took, it home. It is supposed that be drank
eo much in the course of the night as to become
helpless; when his wife, with au axe, cat off his
head, and oat several large gashes in other parts
'of the body.
The shipyards in Maine seem to be doing a
pretty good business. A ship of 575 tons and a.
barque were launched at Sennebunkport on tho
2d irist.f and a ship of 650 tons and a 200-ton brig-,
will be launched in a few days. A barque of Lau
tens Was launched at Rockland on the sth; a ship
of 1,150 tons at Bath on the Sib ; =a 3eoAcei brig at
Frankfort on the sth; a 106-ton brig on the 10th;
a 1,200-ton ship at Thomaston on Inc Id, and an
SOO-ton ship at Woolwich on the 15th.
The Colonization Society ship Mary Cam
line Stevens will sail from Baltimore and Norfolk
about the first of November, for all the ports in
the Republic of Liberia. Letters for the Liberian
settlements and for the United States African
squadron will be forwarded, if sent in season to
care of Dr. James Hall, Baltimore, or to Mr. Wil
liam Coppinger, Colonization Rooms, 009 Walnut
street, Philadelphia.
Suicides are getting as common in Cincin
nati as they were in Paris. During the past week
quite a number of unfortunate persons have shuf
fled off this mortal coil" with the help of hemp,
laudanum, strychnine, and other potent doses.
Tho latest are James Andrews, who killed himself
with laudanum, and John Fitzgerald, who did
the same thing with the aid of whiskey.
Mr. George Southall, of Wilmington, N. C.,
on Wednesday night last, prepared a small vial of
a chemical composition, of which nitric acid was
the principal ingredient, and while conversing;
with a friend this vial exploded, scattering the cor
rosive fluid into the face of Mr. S
' a portion en
tering one of his eyes, instantly depriving it or
sight.
On Thursday, at a special term of the Mon
mouth court, holding at Freehold, N. J., James . P.
Donnelly was sentenced to be hung on January 8,
1858, for the murder of Albert S. 31oses, at the
Seaview House, Highlands, N. J. The prisoner
addressed the court in an emphatic and eloquent
speech, asseverating his innocence in the most po
sitive terms.
It Is Stated that within a week protested
drafts to the amount of $lOO,OOO have been re
turned on the tobacconists of Richmond, its., by
commission merchants in New York. The Rich
mond papers intimate that it is the intention of
the manufacturers to hold meetings and authorize
the banks to sue their agents upon each draft as
it matures, and not have them returned.
On Tuesday morning Douglas Maguire, one
of the oldest citizens of Indianapolis, Indiana,
died. He went to that city among the first set
tlers, and in 1823 established there the Western.
Censor," which was the first paper in that place.
In 1825 he changed its name to the "Indiana.
Journal," which it still retains.
The grocery and commission house of Branch
& Rives, at Petersburg, Va., was robbed on Thurs
day night of between five and six thousand dol
lars. The key of the safe in which the money wax
contained had been left in a drawer. The latter
was forced open and the safe unlocked.
The Annapolis (31d.) Republican. states that
Deputy Sheriff James W. Parkinson, on Thursday
morning last, captured in South river scltioner
" Wren," for an alleged violation of tho oyster
law.
The Sioux. Indians at the Upper Agency, in
Minnesota, are doing extremely well. They have
a large surplus of corn and potatoes. There is an
abundance of buffalo on the Sioux river. and
around Big Stone lake.
Mrs. Burton Despard died at Clarksburg,
Va., last Tuesday from the effects of taking a pre
scription of belledonna, or deadly night-shade,
compounded by mistake for confection of serm,.
Rain fell in torrents at Wheeling during the
whole of Friday, causing the river to rise very
rapidly. On Friday night there were nearly nine
feet of water in the channel.
Senora Carmen Lopez de Santanna de May
ard, daughter of General Santa Anna ,c -Pr.sidene
of Mexico, died recently at Turbaeo, the residence
of Gen. Santa Anna, near Carthagena.
In a recent affray in Terrell county, Ga., be
tween Andrew Goro and John Sullivan, brothers
in-law, the former was killed and the latter badly
wounded.
Richard Taylor, Esq., only son of the late
President Taylor, is the Democratic candidate for
the Senate of Louisiana in the
_St. Charles dis
trict.
The Providence and Worcester
Railroad does not owe a dollar of floating debt.
Happy company, and lucky stockholders'
Two or three unsuccessful attempts have
been made lately to rob the PhilliNharg bank, in
Warren county, N. X.
We hear that the theatres all over the country
are suffering severely from the tiunneial panic.
Mr. Charles Mathewshas bean playing at the B o ,_
ton theatre to pretty good hou,ea considering tho
condition of State street.
A Richmond (Va.) paper .says that Nagle. mane -4
ger of " Nagle's Juvenile Comedians, - departed
clandestinely from the city, leaving the proprietor
of the United States Hotel, and several printers,
minus of various sums of money.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hale, Louisa Reeder. the
sisters Ilenrarde, Maria Duckworth, and Mr. Mc-
Donough are members of the stock company at
Crisp's Gaiety, New Orleans.
John Brougham, Mr. and Mrs Walla, k. the I er
forming elephants, And the Ravels and Marti t
tis, are announced to appear during the st ason at
the St. Charles, New Orleans.
At the Boston theatre, Mrs. A. II Davenport
wins high praise for playing Fanny Itt,emary in
the "Curates Daughter."
3. IV. Wallach, jr., and wife closed an el:gage
ment at Pittsburgh last week. They g e shortly to
California.
Murdoch is at the Front street theatre, Bal
timore, and Gabriel Ravel troupe at the Holiday
street.
Miss Kimberly bad a farewell benefit at Roche::
ter on Friday.
At Vanueehi's liweum, New Orleans, they are
exhibiting Mrs. Cunningham and baby in wax.
Miss Fanny Morant was at the Richmond theatre
last weak,