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TIIESDAY,IANUARY 19, 1868.
Alupp naAck&ziNEs.
is Oaf difference, in America And
4 1 , .9 11 "Pe/Ak.A.P::-.Zaaliper - Of itlagaiine-publica
#9l"n Paris and in London, the last day of
each MeOlfitidgie . ,earlieat upon which a copy
ef,May,inagazine can be Obtained. 'ln London,
it 45 'Called is Magazine Day," from the fact
that abOnt tiovcii,ei - eight loading booksellers
Collect and disperse several thousand copies of
various-magazines on that day. Magazine-
Putdisherk, in England,, have no steicseribers;..
but- in' Prance, the-habit prevails, as it does
hero, ,PeraOn who resides in the country,
arid wishes to take R. magazine, goes to a coun
try bookseller, and' orders It from him—the
said rural hibliopolg
,i3ntering the party's name:
labia - hooks, -for the, particular period he do-,
'alarm tek'tetleij it, and Merely; in his next maga
zine-older to ..I..cndZa, *Ring, eleven instead
of :ten after the 'name of the particular maga
ilne;
.'50,,,0n, With others. Sometimes more
- , sometinies leis; but the, average circulation
of all the periodicals is kept up pretty well.
The:tonatin 'hook-Piiblisher, mho receives
his magazineordere at-least two days before
Magazitieday, lends anote to the =cosine
'NM briefly : mentioning the amount of
'the-supplyte shall need for the now month.
F,xantly - six o'clock A. Id., on magazine
day, thettill-tsle of that: order is delivered,
until the ivarthonse is piled up with heaps and
he pof monthlies ' Gradually, the pile al
'milnialies; as the: Magazines are distributed,
first' wider, the head of localities, such as
Glasgow and Liyerpool, we will say, or per-
Sonallyi as regards Bnowle, Joss, and Roam
:sidr, the hookvendors residing there. By
abed one o!clock each man's collection of
magazines is called - over, checked, and placed
ready for being . put up into parcels. Now
the bulky porters pause, and go "from labor to
iekr*itihreicint," devouring liege dinners at adja
cent; nook-shops,. (principally indulging in
corned beef and cabbage, to tho extent of a
couple of pounds or so' of the former,) and
assisting digestion by a quart or so of XXX
stent 77 reat London porter of triple strength—
drank out of 4 , .161 native pewter."
inner man thus invigorated, the brawny
Porters return to their work, and pretty - hard
work,it is. From some six or eight principal
booklatores In-London, have to be despatched,
on Magazine-day, some' 20 000 parcels, made
tip in-triple-packing. paper, securely tied, and
so compact and_firnit that each parcel might be
thrown over the _limed and not put out of
shape nor ,erailied by the fall. By seven
o'clock all. these parcels aro delivered at all
the leading railway termini of London. , They
leave London at 9 P. H., and, the transmission
is so rapid; that the .clinbuigh parcels are de
livered, after a journey of over four hundred
Miles, to the Edinburgh booksellers before
nine o'clock the next morning. The stout
porters,-when all. the-work is done, have a
pepper from their employers, each, man playing
-s - wonderful knife and fork.
The variation in the circulation of British'
_Periodicals _is :Only trifling: Such a novelty
as, anew novel by BULIYER would probably
:give .Blackwood a spring of about 500 new
:purchasers. ; Not even the Quarterlies are
distribitted by Subscription; Mr. Idnewar an
*urinate theta new 'number of the Quarterly
Will be Published on` such a day, and, exactly
iwontY•," holirs before: that ; ay commences,
nearly every copy' printed has been in' the
'hands of the Pateinester Row booksellers, who
thet country, boOksellors; and, Indeed,.
_tire called their "Liunion Agents."
thht-'conntri, - .. - from: our
,vast extent of
territery,a different veleta be and is
In operation. If the-Magazines were not h
oned until the last day of the month, Harper'i
and Godey's (which have the greatest circula-
Lion of all) would not be in their readers!
Ifands,'ln many instances, until long after the
middle of the 'month, and thus be nominally
old before they had had time to become known
as new. -As it is, they are Issued a fortnight
in advance, so that while we in Philadelphia
had the pleasure of receiving Harper's Maga
zine-on Friday lad; and Godey's Lady's Book.
on Saturday, very remote readers may have a
- ehatice'of receiving them, about the first of
yelfruary. •
In. America, the mode of subscription go.
nervily prevails. About Chrietmas, in parti.
, culitr, the 'dollars come rattling in, in large
- sums, from all parts of the country, to the
various magazine publishers. Even the late
panic, : we are well informed, has not much
atfeeted this branch of the book business. In
deed, in many.places, the Magazine is to the
female portion of a household what the news
paper-. is, to the male—a groat necessity.
American Magazines are distributed, through
agents; in many . of
. tho more populous cities
and towns, who supply the smaller traders,
but the subscription modo is very much ap
proved of .by all par . ties.
Aftertids prethce, we turn to the small pile
upon our table: Harper, Godey, Peterson's, Gra
ham's, and e ar [Mgr's, all sent in (with the exeep.
tion of the first named, of which we received a
duplicate from PantlY & MCMILLAN) by
-PETERSON & .13iteruEns.'
The illustrated portion of Harper is not so
good SS lomat LIVINGSTON & BANTU have
been almost overdone, in magazines and news
paport, though we cordially recommend their
books, as recording a new chapter in the his
tory of geographical information. Mr. PRIME,
in book,' magazine, and newspaper also, ha
given us so much of the Bast, that we yawned
over. ((Au American in 'Constantinople." The
abstract of "Soyer's Culinary Cam paign" is
better. By far tho most striking paper herelin
'an original story by Warmi COLLINS, author
of 4The Dead. Secret," '(stich more mite
of .:a Man as said Comm is!) written
with wonderful - skill; power, and truth. It is
called" A Marriage Tragedy," and, if ho had
never written another line, would stamp Cot.-
Lurtfas 'ft man of decided genius. There are
Anther chapters of CHARLES REALM'S now
,talo, lack of all Trades,". describing tho
voyage,ooDttletnolsolle D'jek to the United
States, with a little' erdsode• in Philadelphia.
Lastly,,there is a continuation of "=The Vir
ginians?..-is usual, Mr. THAOKENAY Con
fuses time and place, but ho makes a readable
'story. Bvertlit:England, we perceive, Mr.
Truax:R . llAT has got some severe hits for the
disparaging view he takes of WASHINGTON.
Ile gets him with four duels on his hands at
'one time, and thus clumsily gets him out of
them: '
There,: then, stalked the tall young Colonel,
plunged in dismal meditation. There was no way
,out of. his ono° but the usual cruel one, which
the laws of honor and {he practice of the country
ordered.
Goaded into rely by the impertinence of
a boy, he had, used Insulting worda. The young
man had asked for reparation. Ire was shooked to
think that . George Warrington's joaktuey and re.
map should have rankled in the young fellow so
lung; but the wrong had been the Colonel's, and
he was - bound to pay, the corfoit.
-0 * • • slr * * * *
"0-jar! - 0 Golly ! - Hoop! Here day come.
Hurray !".. Anhorue of negroes rises.up. " Here
derail+ !" Lt, Dempster and Mrs. Mountain have
clattered into the yard; have jumped from their
horse's, have elbowed through the nogroes. have
rushed into the house;' have run through it and
'across thefiorolOrhere the-Dritiah (Moore are sit
ting in muzzy astenithment ; have run down the
Maio to the garden where George and- Harry are
Walking, their tall oneiny stalking opposite to thorn;
and almost era 'George Warrington has had time
sternly to sae, - "what do you do hero, madam 1"
Mrs. Molintam has gang her arms rimed Ms neck,
and "oh George. my darling! it's a mis
take ! 'a mistake, and is ail my fault !"
ullTbit'in mistake?" asks Geor g e ,
majestically
separatingrmself froth the embraie
trembic. "What , Mounty?" ories ]Larry, all of a
That'papor I took !outof ids
portfolio,
that
paper, I picked- up, children ; where t h e
olonel
sari hole going to marry a widow with two chit
ilt`On. Who should Who but c;tt i, , , children, and
irliti should it be but your mot he r?"
•
it's—it's not your mother. It's that
11416'1 , 1M0 - 1r flustls whom the Oolonei is going to
marry: It'd ohm - ye take' a rich one; I knew he
trouldv 'ltla not Mrs. Rachel Warrington. HO told
Modem so to-day,jot before he was going away,
and that the marriage was to come off after the
DainPa!gu.' And—and your mother is furious, boys.
kottrrhencame for the pistols t and told ttio
whole house how you were going to fight, I told
him to fire the pistols off; and I galloped after
him and I've nearly broken my poor old bones in
Coming to you."
"I have a mind to break Mr. Sady's," growled
George. "I specially enjoined the villain not to
say a word."
' "Thank God he did, brother!" said poor Harry.
" Thank God he did !"
." What will Mr. Washington and those gentle
men (Usk of my servant tolling my mother at
home that I was going to fight a duel?" asks Mr.
George, still in wrath.
"You hero shown your proofs before, George,"
says Harry, respectfully. "And, thank Hea
ven, you are not going to fight our old friend
—our grandfather's old friend. For it was a
mistake;
and there is no quarrel now, dear, is
there? You were unkind to him under a wrong
impression."
I certainly noted under a wrong impression,"
owns George, hut—"
"George. George Washington !" Harry here
ones out, springing over the cabbage-garden to
ward tho bowling green, where the Colonel was
stalking; and, though we cannot hear him, wo sea
him with both his hands out, and with the eager
ness of youth, and with a hundred blunders, and
with love and affeotion thrilling in his honest voice,
we imagine the lad tolling his tale to his friend.
There was a custom in those days which has dis
appeared from our manners now, but which then
lingered. When Harry had finished his artless
story, his friend, the Colonel took him fairly to
his arms, and held him to his heart; and his Volpe
faltered as he said, "Thank God,. thank God for
"Oh, (soorgo," said Harry, who felt now bow
ho loved his friend with all hie heart s how I
wish I was going with you on the campaign!"
The other prened both the boy's hands in a grav
of friendship, which, each knew, never would
slacken.
Then the Colonel advanced, gravely bolding out
hie hand to Harry's older brother. Perhaps Harry
wondered that the two did not embrace, no ho and
the Colonel had just done. But, though hands were
joined, the salutation was only formal and stern on
both sides.
. . . .
" I find I have done you a wrong, Col. Washing-
ton," George said, ,"and must apologise—not for
the error, bat for much of my late behavior which
has resulted from it."
"The error was mine! It was I who found that
paper in your room, and showed it to George, and
was jealous of you, Colonel. All women aro
jealous," cried Mrs. Mountain.
"'Tie a pity you could not have kept your eyes
off my paper, madam," said Mr. Washington.
"You will permit me to say no. A groat deal of
misoltief has come, because I chose to keep a secret
which concerned only myself and another person.
For a long time George Warrington's heart has
been black with anger against me, and my feeling
toward him has I own, seam been more friendly.
Ail this pain might have been spared to both of us
had my private papers only boon read by these for
whom they worn written. I shall say no more now,
lest my feelings again should betray me into hasty
words. Heaven bless thee, Harry! Farewell,
George ! And take a true friend's advice, and try
and be less ready to think evil of your friends.
We shall ;neat again at the camp, and will keep
our weapons for the enemy. Gentlemen! if you
remember thiS scone to-morrow, you will know
where to find me." And with a very stately bow
to the English officers, the Colonel left the abashed
company, end speedily rode away,
There, we have engrossed more space than
the subject could well spare, and must make
brief play with the remainder of the Magazines.
Godey has some capital engravings, and any
amount of fashions, for the „instruction (and
envy) of female readers. Graham, besides the
plates and fashions, has a variety of good
literary matter, among which we notice some
fine translations by Mr. 0. G. LELAND, from
the German. Peterson's maintains its high
character as an admirably conducted ladies'
magazine, rich in original literary matter, and
very neatly illustrated. -draw.' s Ladies'
Magazine has a tine steel engraving, in the
line manner, by A. L. DocK, and the usual
amount of literature and fashions.' There are
more Magazines to conic in, but wo shall not
wait for them. By and bye, the Atlantic
Monthly will follow, and, last of all, the
Knickerbocker.
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
From an Occasional Correspondent ]
• Nsw YORK, Jan. 10, 1858
During a flying visit to the Empire City, I made
a few observations and comparisons, which I throw
'down as straws which float upon the stream.
First, New York is in an unexampled stabs of
cleanliness. I saw it wet, I saw it dry, and still
arrived at this opinion. It would be well If other
cities were equally clonn.
Next, the Croton water was drinkable. It is
filtered through. - tt ;huge deposit-of gravel, apt•
therefore comes out bright and clear awl Sparkling.
Is some other cities, I believe, it is colored with
mud, which does not improve its looks, by any
means, evon if it should give it any medicinal
value.
Third, Scarcely any theatre in New York does
more than pay expenses; some not that. WM
lack's, for example, where a " Moso" mete-drama
(stolen from Barnum's, who stole it from the Lon
don stage, which plundered it from Prance) has
been running for several weeks; and though fine
Refinery and strong puffing made it popular at first,
"The Poor of New York" is n groat failure.
There is a Circus at Broadway Theatre, and
even Niblo's pretty Theatre (which ho insists on
calling " Garden," without an inch of land or a
single flower) is about becoming n harse-exhibi
tion, in the hands of Dan Rice. Whero Sontag
and Alboni once waked the soul of song, a horse
stud is to flourish, with the molanoholy resurrec
tion-jokes of the sad creatures who do the " clown
in the ring."
At Burton's, where Charles Mathews is now ono
of the stock company, a now extravaganza, by
John Brougham, tidied " Columbus," has been
lately brought Out. Splendidly put upon the
stage, with beautiful scenery and a magnificent
finale, this piece can scarcely be called success
ful in a literary point of view. " Pocahontas "
was unmitigated fun, all through—with wit and
humor sparkling in every lino. In " Columbus"
there is very little wit, the humor is heavy, and
tho author is didactic. It has been brought out
with groat expense, for Burton novor starves any
piece on soli ich he means to rely.
It is a curious fact that, in Now York, one-half
of the theatrical critics aro also theatrical
writers. You will, perceive, at once, how this
double profession is very pleasant and advan
tageous. Who can know so much of a new play
as the man who wrote it? Who can write a more
satisfactory criticism upon it than the-author?
Tho autlor-eritics aro good friends, too—with a
alight suspicion of handsomely writing cash other
up.
The Busulay Courier, of Now York, has a
dramatic-critic, however, who is not an admitted
member of this mutual-admiration society, for he
has a knack of saying what he thinks of a now
piece, oven though another critic may bo tho
author. When that painfully absurd fares "My
Wifo's kfirrol" was concocted simply by tag
ging-on a few local allusions• to the translation of
"Lo lifiroir du Diable," and puffed almost every
who're, particularly by the author, as a dramatic
diamond of the first water, Frederick Watson, of
the Sanday Courser, was the only critic who
pronounced a just judgment upon it.
On Monday evening, a now play culled 4 . The
Bachelor's Wife," with eomethiug like a now idea
running all through it, was brought out here.,
Watson wrote it, and though it deserved and met
with groat success, I dare venture to assort that,
in his awn paper, to-morrow, he will not have more
than a single sentence announcing the fact of its
production. It is by far the best original play
acted in Now York for the het ten years. The
author is a small, intelligent, well-educated, clear
headed Englishman, worthy of a better position on
the press than ho now holds.
It is pretty certain that Ullman will be able to
bring his really fine opera troupe to Philadelphia,
in a few days. It was not his fault, , l can tell you,
that this was not done before. Lost night, " Don
Giovanni" was brought out, with such terrible
force of Instrumentation and chorusation that ono
might have fancied noisy, brassy Verdi the com
poser, insteadof quiet, subdued Mozart. However,
the result was remunerative, though the rain
fell heavily. Ullman made a groat splash, in the
advertisements, of having three orchestras playing
in this opera, at one time. Bless the man's soul !
It cannot he very great in such a small body—(Ull
- is about the smallest man ever aeon in public !)
but there always are, or ought to be, three bands—
one in the garden, one playing the minuet on the
stage, and a third in the orchestra.
Miss Williams, who foolishly allowed herself to
be advertised as " The Welsh Nightingale," had a
concert on Thursday evening. She got water
logged at starting by going to Barnum's, and
a had agent did not help her at Philadelphia. She
singsballads, in several languages, with skill, sweet
ness, and spirit.Slitlilas an idea that frequent
change of costume, in the course of an evening, is
half the battle, and that her own genius was dra
matic. Sho lea concert singer, anti nothing else.
Mr. Tiemann, the new Mayor, seems to be a
quiet, harmless old gentleman, who means well,
and has an ordinary share of common semis. Ono
report says that Fernando Wood means to devote
a year or two to foreign travel. Acotber assorts
that he has commeneed praotioe as a real estate
agent. Now that the matter is gone and past, a
person moy say that Wood was badly used by the
State Legislature at Albany. The city of Now
York reelected him, in November, 18511, as Mayor
for the next two years, and the State Legislature
pasted an act which made his tonutb of office end
at the end of the first year.
The banks here have an unusually largo supply
PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1858.
of gold. Business lc dead, with an expectation of
a resurreotion in or about the end of March.
As for building—put that down as dofunot, for
the present. The first-olaas hotels are suffering
terribly—all but the Astor and the New York.
The second-olass hotels, whore you pay for your,
apartment, and take your meals where you plotise,
are thriving. = This is bore called " the EnropOart
plan," but is no moro European than I am Etta.
opian. ' LYNV
FROM HARRISBURG. ,
(Correspondence of The Preen.]
lannishußO, ion. 10, 1808
As I predicted, Henry S. Magma was renomi.
natal for State Treasurer by the Democratic
caucus, last evening, and will bo re-elected on
Monday in joint convention. The official term of
the other heads of Dopartment is throe years. and.
it would bo rather invidious to mako on exception
of the treasurership, particularly in a oase where
the incumbent has made so intelligent, faithful,
and upright on officer as has Mr. Megrim. There
were ninety gentlemen in the caucus. The first
and only ballot stood :
FOR I[ENRY S. MAORAW—Messrs Abrams, AT.
thur, Aekin, Bierer, Bower. Brandt, Coihoun,
Christy, Donhert, Donovan, Dunlap. Ebur, Gilli
land, Glatt, Hamel, Hay, Hillegas,-11101% Houtz,
Irwin, Jnokinan, Kirkpatrick, Lowman,' LloyiL''
Lovott, Mangle, Nill, Powell, Rhodes, ' Sharp,
Shields. Smith ((of Cambria,) Spykor, Stuart. War. ,
den, Weaver, Weller, Wells, Wharton, Wilcox,
Wolf. Yearsley (of the Hotise,) Brewer, Bell. Criss-
well, Ely, Fetter, Ingram, Knox, Randall, Sahel,
Straub, Torney, Wilkins, Wright, Welsh (of the
Sonata,)-56.
Fon Hymn- S. Mort—Me.tere. Ent, Garrett,
Goepp, Grittrnan, Jenkins, Nnninuelter, Rupp,
Stephons, Smith (of Berke,) Turner, Westbrook(
Woodring (of the House.) 'Craig, Evans, Limbach,
Steele, (of the Senato)-417.
Fon imix J. Mtaay—Messrs. Armstrong, Don
nelly (J. 11.;) Donnelly (James,) Evans, McClain,
Molloy, Owen, Ramsey, Will (of the hence,) Mar
seille, (of the Senate)-10.-
FOR War. WORKMAN—Mow. Donohoe. Hodgson,
Kincaid, Smith (of Wyoming,) Longaker (of the
House,) Buckalotv and Miller, (of the Sonata)-7.
The proposition to appropriate $lO,OOO to buy a
house on Front street, in wbioh the Governor may
reside, was reconsidered, but upon a toot veto ft
failed to carry by a tie-44 to 44. I think it will
bo revived and carried before long I repeat,
most of those who oppose the pleasure aro in favor
of building a palatial building on the public
grounds, rivalling the White House at Washington,
and which will completely throw in the shade all
private residences in this borough. If such a
thing is done, it will require that the salary of the
Governor ho raised to at least $lO,OOO per annum,
if lie would live In keeping with such a building,
Are members prepared to inaugurate any such an
era of extravagance ? I hope not. Tho best way
to prevent ouch a consummntion is to buy for his
use a plain, substantial, and comfortable home-,
ono that would !mecums 'the successors of Simoii
Snyder or any other republican executive. *
FROM UTAH.
•
Correspondence of The Prose.]
HEAD -QUARTERS of Army, for Utah Tor., 1
" Camp Scott," Nov. 29, 1857.
I arrived here five days ego, with Col. Cook's'
command, and am likely to remain here until next
May or June. Our camp is lis miles from Salt
Lake City, end perhaps a thousand miles from
every other civilised locality. The main army
isconeentrated here, numbering, including wagon
ers, merchants, cloths, civil Territorial officers, and
sporting gentlemen, nearly four thousand men.
Col. Cook's command is 30 miles in advance,
on account of gram and wood. Col. Johnston
is the commanding officer of this army, and in
every respect qualified for every oontingency that
may arise. There aro troops enough, but not
means to convey provisions and ammunition ; snow
and cold, scarcity or no corn at all, and no grass,
have ea used many animals to die, and disabled
nearly all from doing service. Officers - and men
are anxious to proceed to " Salt Lake city." The
Mormons have expelled all Gentiles from Salt
Lake valley—all but ono person, Yin California,.
Mr. Jones, who was sent t his direotion, blindfolded. -
Nearly all the grass bas been burned about
bore; also, seventy-two wagons loaded with
_pro
visions for Oa army, and belonging to Messes. Rus
sell at, Major; the irons and other lumina of
these wagons I saw myself. Chief Justice Eckels,
of this Territory, has the documentary evident*,
obtained from Mormons taken prisoners by John-
Stan. The orders to. destroy Government pre,.
poly emanated from the authotities of Bait
Lake City. All the civil officers for Utah Territe-
MartOlorkszdAlailoverner' will in a few_ tinyes,
organise tne Territortarcreverninowq an/Fls .
reedy sent Ex-Governor Young his proOlama- I
Con, enclosed in a friendly but firm and indepen
dent letter. The Mormons aro in a hostile posi
tion and have been busily engaged blockading the
roads. All you have heard in the East of Mormon
depredations and daily overt nets and doingo aro
true, and indeed no one but who comes in close
proximity to these deluded people can conceive the
real truth. Capt. Van Yliet, of whom I spoke to
you in a former letter, written at Fort Laramie,
and who I mot at Fort Kearny, had informed ma
of all that be saw and heard et Salt Lake City, will
give the Administration the first information
they will fully rely on of the doings and
intentions of the Mormons. Many queer
things have transpired since Van I'llet
left Salt Lake city. The weather hes been ex
cessively cold. As we approached the Kooky
Mountains it got very cold ; these tnountains are
well named; we passed mountains several hundred
feet high and almost porpendioular, and have the
appearance of solid rock, without a blade of grass.
It gradually got colder as we approached the
"South Paso ; ' two days before wo got to it, we
encountered a severe snow storm ; but for the
troops wo could not have got along; they and the
wagon beat And broke the road. li'er three to five
days after the snow storm several hundred mules
and horses died, mostly frozeni; many wagons bad
to be abandoned, and it was withgreat difficulty
we made this point; we could not have travelled
fifty miles further. After we passed the " South
Faes," the weather got more mild, and f, r ten
days it has been comparatively pleasant, espe
cially for this region.
Some of us aro building cabins, which we will
make as comfortable as raw materials will permit
All the civil officers aro located together a short
distance from the army. Camp life is to me a
strange and queer life ; so very different to what I
have been accustomed all my life, that it requires
time to get familiarized. But lam happy to in
form you that my health has boon improving, and
I am now better Gam I have been for Wpm years.
This was my main object for accepting the appoint
ment.
I am now fully . convinced that the present and
preceding Administrations have bad s and have,
very incorrect views of tho true condition of things
in the Western territories. A false system of
economy has cost, and will require millions to
square. , Good' and reliable men have asked for
Government contracts and office. These men have
been overlooked,. and knaves have succeeded.
The present Administration, I um pleased to say,
has boon more fortunate—the civil (doors aro all
true nod good men.
Monday Morning, Nov 30.—1 am writing in
my carriage, with gloves on my hands—the ther
mometer below sore. The above I wrote in a
tart, full of smoke and mon. All those inconveni
ences will be sufficient excuse for bad writing, do.,
&a. To-morrow we will get into our new houses,
The Eastern mail leaves this evening—my letters
for this mail are therefore, written under ovary
I
inconvenience. am messing with the Marshal
and Attorney-General, Mr. Ilookordy. Wo have
sopert4o offices in our new hones.
It will bo ineredtb`o to ono who has not wl --
newel the fact, of the dead animals along, the road,
for some distance beyond and for a huntlred miles
on this lido of the "South Pass." When I say to
you that in an hour's travel I counted over a hun
dred deed oxen, mules and horses; It is a low esti
mate. Soveral transporting parties are forward
big in this mail to Washington bills of damages
and losses, for oattlo stolen by Mormons,
and for detention in consoquenoo of Marmon
hostility, but I fear that their freight is
taken off their bands at this point, and full freight
allowed to "Salt Lake City." It r, however,
sruo that noorohants and transportation parties,
and private individuals, have sustained and are
sustaining losses, in consequenoo of these Mormon
hostilities. But most of those parties have em
barked on thaw enterprises with a knowledge of
this adverse condition of things. It is said by
those who I think know, that if Colonel Cook had
bean in advance, instead of in the rear, with his
horsemen, or eves. twenty days earlier, that we
would now all be In "Stilt Lake City." There is
evidently mismanagomont stnnowboro—not with
the officers in command.
I had intended to say a word of the civil °Moors,
but have not room or time. lam truly grateful
for the kindness extended to me by civil and
oflioers. I will write by next mail.
[Correspondence of The Prow]
STEAMER ARKANSAS, NEAR LITTLE ROCK, /
Jttn ry 3, 1858.
Knowing you desire to receive all news items
of interest, and as the present movement of the
Government for the removal of the fieminoles
trom Florida is looked upon by - the people of tho
Union with much solicitude, this will Inform you
how the work is progressing.
Maj. Elias Rictor, superintendent Indian affairs
'est, is on board with forty Foutinoles, old war
riors of the Everglades. Alex. Tus-te-nuga and
John Jumper lead them, names well known
in Florida history. Also, six Creek 'lndians, led by
their old war chief, Tuekabateh Mick°. A more
quiet, orderly set of Italians than these Seminoles
I have cover seen. Col. Sam Rutherford, their
agent, an old veteran in Indian service, and clever
gentleman, accompanies them.
They go direct to Now Orleans, and from there
to Tampa ; !Loma thence they will scatter into the
everglades, and endeavor us soon as possible to
find Billy Bowlegs and Sam Jones. This movement
being entirely under the control of able tiovern
ment officers, the Indians feel much confidence in
being able to induce their brethren to emigrate.
Perhaps, in all the negotiations attending the
Seminole war, norm have taken place under more
favorable auspices for their peaceable removal
than this.
The Govermannt is fortunate in having the ser
vices of n gentleman like Major Motor, whom
energy of character, long residence near the Indian
frontier, and perfect knowledge of Indian chai
actier favorably fit, him for Um Important dutieu
entruBtutl to him, B.
THE. LATEST FROM MEXICO
lilieniontert in Trouble—Prospects of a Civil War.
[Prom the N. O. Picayune, of January nth.]
The Tennessee again brings us important and ex
titling noun from the Mexican Republic The
recent rovolutionosy proceedings at tho capital
have boon moat unfavorably received in ninny
erts of the interior; a large number of States
we declared violently against the now order of
.twinge. Even a number of the principal towns, and
Aiziong them Vern Cruz,'Nrilich at first pronounced
,111 favor of it, have since repudiated it. A fermi
ilible military • coalition is already organizing
zl, ,nine. it ; troops are in motion in many parts of
1 e Republio, and aclv,il war, or another change in
0 executive power, seems to be imminent. We
snot, perhaps, give a better idea of the die
liAoled condition of the Republie than by a chrono
logies I narrative of events that have transpiled
Since our last.
.
DIANIPEATO OP Tun COMlnosis.
M atte! violent breaking up and dispersion of the
leder:al Congress was tollowed by an equally vio
lent manifesto or protest on their part. It opens
Ath the most exciting and intemperate language:
'`.`" The Mexlean Republic. has just seen consent
united the most scandalous orinie recorded in its
:national annals. The second stendianbboarer of
'the revolution of Ayutin, that man in whom the
'tenon reposed the utmost confidence, placing in
, r hands He present and its Cuture—the mile, tn
.' oed, who, but fifteen days ago, swore before the
. dprome Being, and before the nation, to be the
Agthful guardian of 10 institutions—that non has
tiaddlonly exchanged the honorable title of the
sif.
qtitutional chief of a free people for the miss-,
'te de ono of n vulgar faction. A renegade to his
an eceflonts, a traitor to the national will, entire's@
to his own oath, he has turned against the bosom,
aids country the very arms which she gave him
Pr ter salvation and defence. ,
..'el_ In slow of so unparalleled Xi attempt against
thtf tenth:amble rights of the nation, the reproson.
lttives'of the peep!e would be unworthy of the
sursuiers, witb,"which it honors them if they cow.
irMy kept silence. Driven as they are, at the
~.14* nt. of the tiasonet, from the legitimate exercise
i sots functions, dissolved as a national tepee
non, the Chief Justice, the President of the
ogress, and some of its members thrown into
Biten like miserable bandits, and others perse
tslted, it is but the duty of those who are still free
enounce to the nation the crime colonfitted
at, Must it, and to protest before the civilized world
ifgVnet the tyranny of fordo."
;Alio Congress then proceed, singular enough
sr this valiant opening of their case, to state
r grievances, and to recite their past brief
Jittery, very much in the style of apologists, to
Au
I Ot
Ow that they had done nothing to deserve
I C'lreatment ! They grow valiant, however,
!lain at the ohm.
'Returning, then, to their homes, with tranquil
nktoiences, the representatives of the Mexican
plo protest in the most solemn manner, before
;the world, against every act of arbitrary power of
thclover kind, whether committed by citizens or
Aireigners, and hold all, both the chief and those
, • co-operate, with him, responsible for it. Fi•
ial ly, they would appeal to the Governors and
'lst i gisAtures of the Republic to remain faithful to
tr promises and to the welfamo of the nation, to
!kidnap the revolutionary plan proclaimed rit
Waltham and to lend the forces of their several
tates for the preservation of constitutional order."
'is curious document was signed by eighty-Mix
'4liitties, loss than a quorum, - but many names
, 'ye since been attached to it, doubtless as mem.
loads ,
ill, ) their thut . minds lt
l,
otoo
followedtlilo sides bya with m a t
n h
i ls .
Ste from the newly created dietator himself,
1
t- -
eomossour's MANIFV.BIO
~,,
.11$ is a very long, very dull, and very temper
doeliment. It is very modest withal, and
- Od " the citizen Ignatio Comonfort, Provisional
' sidont of the Republic, to his compatriots."
i e ll
pe following is the gist of it :
s)sis•t , ./ifter two years of obstinate strife, raising
*mita, expending large sums, and struggling in
VI directions, Government could no longer doubt
1 / 2 1 1 ._ °ha r nett r of that opposition, whose vmgorcould
putt ,be vanquished either by fortune or force of
•asms. The moment at last arrived in which time
constitution was only sustained by the compulsion
,et Dies authorities, At * * In such grave ditli.
- spisMitles, and looking on the future midst so many
:doubts and the most terrible forebodings, I adopted
lite resolution to make a last effort, which I thought
3xfight possibly save the Constitution, presenting to
•Oongress the initiatory sere:manitch allconsidered
Xligent, and which I judged might oontributo to
olixlm the minds, tranquillize.the oonsoiences. end
=uniform opinion; but the desire of change kn.
i/revetment, and welfare, less confident than' I of
ho paciflo end slow means which I had proposed
,le' adopt, less hopeful of the result whirls I still
Anmeolved to bo possible, made that my co-opera
lion ithetild not be solicited, and without any fur
lits, programme than the few ideas consigned in
,t i lte plan of Tacubaya, the troops stationed in this
:opital, and other places of the States of Vera
,Crus, Puebla, and Mexico, resolved to adopt the
TAM measure to which it is appealed, when opinion
his so long subjected and convulsed.
‘• Perhaps this has booms un untimely step. The•
'stole° of the troops who have initiated this move
iinent is not the echo of a faction, nor dogs it pro
. Odin the exclusive triumph of any party. 'rho
1 MAIO repudiated the now Constitution, and the
,troops have d u ne nothing but submit to the M
itt 2131 WIWI.
Xl ,-- 1411 4 -leek'aettti that Comonfort ham taken the
reteitlott tilut'mks furetil tipmy• Aim
somewhat',ftgainst ttis wiir - mte - thatittitate eve
eludes :
If Previdoneo, who rules the destinies of na
tions, protects the good intentions of which Imu
possessed, I trust that the acts of the Provisional
Administration shall justify, more than my multi,
the conduct which the urgency of eirommtences
bee obliged mo to adopt to stvo the Republic from
ruin, and society from dissolution."
The first voice from the country was a manifesto
from the State of Guanajuato, pretesting most ve
hemently against the usurpation at the capitol.
It is conceived in the following terms, and signed
by Governor Doblado :
1. The State of Guanajuato declines to acknow
ledge the revolutionary Government called into
being by thy Brigade of Zulega.
2. It calls upon the other States of the Confede
racy to form themselves into a league for the pur
pose of re-establidiing constitutional order.
3 And to this object it mimes the Gen Anasta
sio Parrodi, commander-in-chief of nil the forces
of the State, giving him the fullest authority to
dispose of them as may seem to him beat
4. It invites to this city tnajuato) the sove
reign Congress of the nation, that it may hoe
continue the exercise of its functions, interrupted
by a seditious army.
S. All who co-operate with the revolutionary
movement at the capital, or in any other way sup
port it, shall be treated as traitors.
This manifesto was followed by others and 811111-
tar ones from the States of Quasi, taro, Jalisco, (la-
Jaen, Aguacalientes, Zacatecas, Nenvo Leon, and
Coahuila, and finally by Vera Clio:, nhich at first
gave in its adhesion As this last is a most im
portant ono, we give its substance, premising that
it %vas preceded by a proclamation from General
Inglesias, of the Federal Garrison, declaring civil
war imminent and calling upon the troops to main
tain themselves faithful and loyal.
Whereas, The object which prompted uc to giro
in our adhesion et first to the plan of Taimbay a—
that of preventing the reign of anarchy—has not
boon attained, inasmuch as a number of the States
repudiate this plan, and oven a portion of our own
people have raised their voices for the re-establish
ment of constitutional order ;
. . .
Who ars, under the present btate of thinv, the
liberal principles of the State of Vera Cruz cannot
be maintained;
Ilrhereso, oven if the Constitution of 1537 should
meet with re'stunee, it can, neverthelet,s, be made,
by adaptation to eireumstanees, to servo as the
bond of the union ;
Whocas, the dangers ullich threaten tho Re
public, according tai our last European advices, im
porativoly demand that the union of the States be
preserved, and that all Mexicans make common
sacrifices upon the altar of the country, do. :
Therefore, be it Reaolred, The State cl Vera
Cruz dims not recognise any other centre of the
Federal Union than that designated by the Consti
tution of the present your.
This manifesto was signed by nil the principal
officers of the State, of the Federal Uarrison, and
the National lluards, and if we may judge from
the papers before us, to the general satisfaction of
the people. .
I:=3
Meanwhile appears the manifesto of General
Parrodi, who signs hinthelf " General-in-Chief of
the Federal Army," but who is styled among the
opposition papers "General-in-Chief of those
States which have resolved to preserve constitu
tional order." It calls upon all the Governors and
Legislatures of the several States to repudiate the
revolutionary Government of Comonfort, and resist
bi the last rho usurpation at the capital, and makes
the following levies of troops:
'the States of Zacatecas and Guanajuato, each
1,000 infantry, 400 cavalry, 100 artillery, and 4 to
0 pieces of cannon, with munitions of I.var in pro
portion—this force to bu maintained during the
whole period of the campaign.
San Luis Pottri and Michoacan each 800 infan
try, 300 cavalry, 50 artillery, and 2 to S pieces of
cannon.
Aguacaliontes and Queretaro each 500 infantry,
200 cavalry, and 25 artillery.
The State of Jalisco will furnish 2,000 mon in
all and 11 pieces of artillery.
At the time this manifesto was issued, the action
of the Stato of Vera Urns, and others who first re
cognised the Dictatorship, wee not known. How
far the opposition have responded to it we have
no means of judging. It would been', however,
that the coalition is already very formidable, and
daily growing more so. A despatch to Vora Cruz,
the morning of the 7th, states that the garrl , on nt
Devote had also followed the example of the for
mer city.
The Eastern (Miss.) Clarion states that at
the remut term of the Circuit Court, in Jones
county, three men named Lynes were indicted for
larceny. In order to dispose of the principal wit
nee, against them, It man uturted Charles larialraln,
the accused employed a ruffian named llitower to
murder him, agreeing to give a daughter of the
elder Lynes in marriage and a considerable amount
of property. On the night of the l tar ult., llitower
went to the hoarse of tae victim and shot him with
a ride while sitting at his own fireside, summed
ed by his fondly. Circumstances caused the guilty
parties to be suspected, when they were arrested,
and Ilitower made a clean brenqt of it, telling of
the agreement above stated. lie and the Lynes
were all committed to jail to await the action of
the grand jury at the next term of the Circuit
Court.
An extensive fire occurred at Marion, Ala
bama, lately, tchicit destroyed property to n largo
amount. The Commontera/th Oleo Was burned,
with most of the printing materials belonging to
it, but, Monis-like, it is out again, looking but
little the worse for its fiery ordeal. That paper
says the loss by the fire has been variously esti
mated at from $50,000 tosLoo,ooo in buildings, and
front $lO,OOO to $20,000 in personal property.
There was no insurance on anything burned ex
cept the drug store of Wallace S Edo,
Unfulfilled Predictions—Reda!'*flan and the
Credit System
[From 'amuck'. Ilazriaburg Union of lewd ghat:allay
The extra session of the Legislature was called
by Governor Pollock at the commencement of the
financial oriels, before the onuses that produced It
were fully developed. In the excitement and con
fusion of the moment, with but a few days tdorig
inate and adopt adequate measures of relief, no
preventive means could bo effectively passed to
swerent the recurrence of commercial panics in
future. Since that time the subject has been fully
investigated, the ravngos of the panic distinctly
traced, and the public mind (dearly determined in
requiring a reform in the banking system of the
State. This duty will devolve upon the prevent
Legislature.
At the time of the extra session the cloud was
heaviest and darkest, since which it has risen, and
disproved the gloomy forebodings of those zealous
bank advocates who predicted that if the period for
resumption was not extended beyond April, untold
disasters would be inflicted upon the country. We
have now all the pretended causes without the , ill
effects. It was contended at that time that the
banks could save themselves, draw in their dis
counts. and shape their affairs to resume sped,: pay
merits only at the expense of the whole bu4nees
community The published statements of the banks
for,lnnuary, as compared with their November re
turns. show this fact—that they have withdrawn a
large proportion of their circulation, realized and
contracted their discounts, and increased their
specie, without bringing destruction to the business
of the State. The contrary Is evident—that busi
ness has been slowly and surely recovering from
the depression of the panic, and on a bettor basic
than it was previous. Although the banks have
curtailed or entirely stopped discounting% they
find many of the parties who wore dependent
upon them, out of the way. - The speculators and
fancy operators, haling entirely upon fictitious
capital, have been 'compelled to' close up, while
the eubstantial have weathered the storm, and
are now able to keep their heads above, water
without the =dant* of the bulks.
This Mate of itiluirs iiluetrates the wisdom of the
majority that refused to allow suspension to tan-
Moue Loynd April. No doubt stow exists that at
that time every bank in the Commonwealth which
is net rotten, will resume specie payments. The
present Legielature eon resist en extension with
the full facts of the case before them. At the ex
tra session members were in the dark. The peti
tion of the banks for time was cunningly mane in
behalf of a suffering people. Now, no such appeal
can be effective, when it is evident that bank con
tractions have done their worst.
. .
This is the time for reform. Expediency can
have no farther demands to make. Tho revulsion
has already expended its force. A glance at its
rava'es n will attest this. According to a circular
issued from R mercantile agency in New York, the
losses sustained by the defalcation of absconding
and swindling debtors in the United States during
the past year amounts to no less than $3,222,505
In addition to these swindling losses, it Is esti
mated that there is due by suspended finial which
will pay nothing, $20,000,000, while there are con
cerns owing $200.000,000, which will not pay more
than forty or fifty per cont. of their liabilities.
This immense fabric of credit, which suddenly
tumbled down about the ears of those who helped
to rear it, is one of the effects of bank expansions
111111 the system of unlimited credits. The country
is this day better off than it was before, Red th e
banks of Pennsylva - its been permitted to keep up
their liberal discounts, business would be perpe
tually on the verge of the precipice, anti the way
'mid not be, as it now is, clear for the applica
tion of adequate reforms. With this work fully
and firmly accomplished, business will revive upon
a sure footing, and not be so entirely dependent
upon the banks as to languish whenever they be
come involved in rash speculations.
From the Utah Expedition—Late and Favor•
able News.
From the St. Louis Republican of .Tan.
We have received late intelligence from Utah.
The army went through the South Pass on the 2lth
of September, and on the 25th hostilities on the
part of the Mormons commenced. They tired on
the picket who were guarding the mule 'herd, and
then attempted to stampede the mules. The move
ment, temporarily successful, failed, as the entire
herd was recovered ou the same day. No cavalry
being on the ground, however, the marauders
escaped.
Nothing more was soon of them until the 27th,
when, approaching Green river, come five or six
wore observed, but they fled before the advance
guard could roaoh them. On that afternoon there
was a rumor that the company under Lieut. Desh
ler would be attaoked ; ho had but thirty men, and
had in charge some of the supply- trains. The ad
varlet) guard started at night to his relief, and
made a forced march of twenty-two miles, to find
Lieut. D. and his train safe.
The army concentrated at Ham's Fork, and on
the :hi October the Mormons burned three supply
Stains containing some of the oommiesary stores.
They else succeeded in running off the oxen. 'On
the 2d and sth, they burned the grass, but the
army succeeded in extinguishing the flames before
they reached the camp.
On the 11th the party started up Ham's Fork to
go to Salt Lake City, the train of mule and ox wa
gons stretching out some etc or seven miles, COM
kuontly moving, slowly. When within a mile of
the Oregon road, a party mounted. cu..trouips was
sent to prospect a road overtonenry's Fork. 'Ms
r e.ote x..ll.tts. .itai.e.t. , ....t. , e...Larxrione.oe h alog to-
Irma the camp. Captain Marcy, who was in cud
mend of the prospecting party, approached neat
enough for speech with their leader before they
wore recognised as American troops, when they at
once made off—no harm brin k , attempted toward
them, each being the iwtructions of Colonel Alex
ander. A party which start•: later in the same
direction, numbering eight men, met the same par
ty, put them to flight, ato a comfortable breakfast
the party had cooked, but left in their haste to fly.
and brought two mules of the routed party into
camp. The Mormons being mounted on ponies
they outran the mules of the soldiers.
The first eOVOTO snowstorm was on the night of
the ltith of October. Snow lay on the ground on
the 17th fully eight inches. It had drifted into
the tents which had been pitched for n north wind,
while the storm came from the south, up the vol
ley of the creek.
Col. Johnston took commander thoarmy on the
3d of November; n day or two after which Sibley
tents wore issued, to tho great comfort of the men,
who by dint of care are enabled to keep warm, al
though the thermometer hud for some ton days of
December boon at 20 degrees below zero. On the
6th Col. Johnston started for salt Lake City, the
train stretching out 15 miles. On the sth 300 head
of nettle wore run off by the Mormons, who also
took a number of mules belonging to the Govern
ment. The death of between two end three thou
sand oxen, and the majority of the horses, ren
dered movements slow, and it was not until the
17th that a distance of thirty miles was made.
Salt is short and vegetables aro wanting, while
the oxen are being butchered as fast no convo
nionco will allow. On the 27th a hundred bushels
of vegetables were brought into camp and turned
over to the hospital department.
On the 15th of Not ember Col. Cooke caught up
with the main army, a ilk six companies of the
Second Dragoons. He had 10 , 4 nearly all his
horns, awl thoqo that wore left him aro unfit for
service. Governor Cumming and hi' wife came
up with hint, as did also the mail. Mrs. C. had
her foot frozen while crossing the mountain, and
still suffers considerably from it, but is otherwise
well. Governor Cumming is also well and hearty.
Thule are three other lathes in comp, being Mrs.
Col, Canby, Mrs Tyler, and Mrs. Burns. They
arc all as comfortable as oiroumstances will allow.
Colonel Cooke left the main body on the 26th for
llenry's Fork for grazing for his horses. Captain
Marcy loft on the 27th November to proouro salt,
horses, mules, end cattle.
Mr Hartnett, of St. Louis, is well, as all the
party aro reported to be. The doctors not being
Paid by the number of patients under treatment,
have pretty easy times.
Tho main body is about ten miles above where
Smith's Fork empties into Green river, being about
two miles above Fort Bridger, which is on the
same stream.
CITY POLlCE—Janueur 18
Itteported for The Press
A WAtottsc; To Mosnr-Bonnowsms.—Jacob
Ligham, a youth of nineteen, came from Bucks
county, last Wednesday, with the intention of try
ing his fortune in Philadelphia, Besides what was
necessary to board and lodge him for several days,
while ho was seeking employment, his fob con
tained a single gold dollar, which he resolved to
devote to innocent recreation, by escorting to some
place of publio amusement the fair daughter of
the matron with whom he had engaged boarding.
Por this purpose his spare dollar was just sufficient,
and on Saturday afternoon the idea occurred to
hi m that he would be unable to treat the lady and
hinvelf to some fried oysters, which Jacob re
garded as a very important feature in the evening's
festivities. Ile was taking a stroll along Eighth
street when the com-cioneness of this chilling diffi
culty came over him, and, while ho paused pen
sively before a window, he ejaculated
011, that I had some high-souled friend to
whom I could apply for the loan of fifty cents !"
Hero a bland %oleo addressed liim,with"You ap
pear to be in trouble, sir; can Ido any thing to
assist you ?"
Raising his eyes, Lighaut perceived a showily
dressed individual, the expression of whose coun
tenance might be called a cross between a lynx and
bull-dog.
"You might assist me, sir," dubiously answered
Jacob, "but the fact is, I was wishing that I could
borrow half a dollar of somebody, and or nurse
that would be too touch to expect of a stranger "
" My dear boy," cordially replies! the straoger.
'name not such a paltry sum as half a dollar.—l
should be delighted to lend you a whole one, if you
could change this two-dollar note."
"Ith! I have just. enough change to do that. ex
claimed the delighted ],ghats ; " but I couldn't
have treated my sweetheart to no oyster rapper
had it not been for your amazing kindness "
The banknote, in a moment, was in Jacob's
pocket, and his gold dollar cons quickly fobbed
b,y the stranger, who then politely took leave of
Mr. Lighttut, wishing Idin much pleasure. and a
suece..4.l termination to his courtship.
complaeently soliloquized Jacob, as he
walked homeward. "they say in Bucks county
that the city floks are apt to be stingy, but either
that's a lie, or I amt confoundedly in link."
But, alas! Lighato's next adventure woe much
Its agreeable, as it consisted in being arrested for
attempting to pass a counterfeit two-dollar bill.
It beeinne evident that the unfortunate youth had
been more sinned against than sinning, and be
was discharged, having puielnised for his dollar a
lesson against accepting too readily the kindnesses
of suspleious-looking strangers. W.
The Virginia louse of Delegates has appro
priated $2,000 to pay the expenses of inaugurating
tho Washington statue,
TWO CENTS.
The Tragedy at the St. Lawrence
Trtm of Thoma■
.Weehloven Smith ter the
Murder of Richard Carter
CLOSING SCENES—GREW EIICITEIYEPIT
3IIDGE•S CHARGE, ke.
PESTERDAyr 5 PROCEEDINGS
[Reported for The Preeal
OYER am) Tanaiman - -Judges Allison and Lud
tow.—This exciting and interesting trial has been
nearly brought to a close, and In our next issue we
may calculate on announcing the verdict of the
jury. There was more anxiety to obtain an en
trance into the court room yesterday than almost
upon any preriods day, in consequence of the pre
sumption that the case would-have been disposed
of by a verdict. Mr. Brown made .an able ad
dress to the jdry for the prisoner, and stake until
12 o'clock. Mr. Loughead concluded for the Com
monwealth in a speech of remarkable power and
pathos, which elicited the commendations of all
the critics, and was very gratifying - to Mr.
Lougheact's numerous friends. It was character
ised by a high tone, and was in excellent taste.
Judge Allison's charge, which we give entire, was
an admirably-written, well-delivered, and impar
tial document, and evidently made a most serious
Impression on the jury. About quarter past five,
P. M., the jury retired, having been informed by
the court that they would-remain in session until
six o'clock to receive their verdict. About six
o'clock an intimation was received. from the jury
that if the court et.tandwithe time, they might be
able to bring in'f ai-verdlet. Tho Court remained
open 1114111,81ftiasrraii. when :no fur); arriving, It
was adjoin-nod until thla morning at 'ten 6'0104-
The numerous friends of the prisoner who have
surrounded him front-the first, still - cling to him
with unabated devotioi_..- The great_est anxiety
and interest was taanifeat o a by-them when i t was
announced the jury iieriabontie come into court,
and their dieappointinefit - was extreme when they
found they hod to wait another day for the result.
AbOut that result there aro now very conflicting
opinions, although a week back public opinion
seemed to be unanimous.
RPLECK OF MR. BROWN
With deference to your Honors-0 en tle men of the
Jury: After a painfully. deeply interesting, and pro
tracted course of investigation, you andl'are about
to separate. Your time has been well bestowed,
and that patience and attention which you have
exhibited have been well etnploygd. On this ease,
time and toil, properly considered, are of little
comparative value, when they.,:,,are regarded to
the importance of eternity. Time is nothing—jus
tice, pure and undefiled, is everything. Justice is
much talked of, but not well understood. In her
human administration—l say nothing other celes
tial properties—she is calm mild, moderate, and
even merciful. She bears a sword. It is tree; of
fenders must be punished ; but even when she in-.
i
filets the blow, it s for salutary, notvindictive pur
poses She mingles her sighs with the victim, and
returns him groan for groan: While she bears
the sword with one hand, she holds the scales
with the other, and weighs the actions, vices
and virtues of men, and vrhen equiponde
rate, she drops a tear into the scale of the
prisoner. Some thirty-five years ago—perhaps
before your honors were borrw—l had the dis
tinction, being then a very young man, indeed, to
discuss a ease of homicide in this court, and at that
time I observed an emblematical figure of Justice
placed over the judgment seat. In one hand she bore
uneven scales, and in the other she bore an Naive.,
cal sort of implement, which resembled a frowel
or a butcher's cleaver. Instoad of wearing be
white and immaculate robes, she was covered front
head to foot with gift. In Woking at this now, I
find the scales and the cleaver taken away, - There
has never been a case in which there has been such
undue severity and against a defendant who is
struggling for his life; but notwithstanding this,
we will maintain our posts, and stand by the life
of the defendant, even thongli our lives be the for
feit. If I had represented the case of the Com
monwealth, I would at once, after hearing the tes
timony, abandoned the case. • In the course of the
trial, the Commonwealth, soot depending alone
upon her own strength, was surrounded by repre
sentatives from Tamaqua.
Tho speaker then defined the respective positions
of counsels and jurors in the trial of thin cause, and
said if a professional career df more-than forty
years should he closed by the suocessful vindica
tion of the prisoner At the bar, it would be the
crowning point of a long and.laborions life. Ha
man minds are so constituted that in proportion as
their responsibilities, anxieties upon any one sub
ject may be great, so in proportion are their abili
ties impaired.
Mr. Brown then took up Mr. Carter's connection
with the CAM. and narrated, in the moor elegant
and graphic language, the studied system of de
struction pursued by Carter towards the victim
of his perfidy. After solicitous and repeated im
portunities to the father of Miss McCauley to give
hits his daughter that he might make her a
finished lady, she araworrnanded and -taken train
her home an artless. budding glut la.or .114.
unpolluted. even By the 'atmosphere of worldly so
ciety.
And be does finish her! so far na any useful
work or purpose in this world is coneerned, and if
her temporal condition in any way offeetagsar eternal
welfare, she is finished forever. Her eternal sal
vation di imperilled or blasted ! 110 places her at
College in an adjoining State. where she remains
until he sends for her as her guardian, her protec
tor. Sho conies to this city and they remain at
Jones's hotel together. And one night, she being
unwell, as she beraelf says—and 130 man shall
doubt her word, except the Attorney General !
left her deer unlocked. And then, gentlemen, this
man of forty-eight years of age, this foreign ail.-
venturer. who has come among us and arisen to
wealth and position; this man, the guardian,
father, and protector, steals into her room with
Tarquin strides, and commits an offence—what
shall I call it ? Why it was almost a rapt,! It
must have been, co to overpower all resistance of
virtue on the part of this young, unsophisticated
girl. In short, he begets a child upon her body.
Richard Carter did this, and ought it not to be
said of a man who could commit this vile—ineeet
it might almost be called—
Never pray more; abandon all remoeo;
On horror's head horror. accumulate ;
Ito deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amazed,
For nothing ein'et thou to damnation add
Greater than that n •
Mr. Brown then proceeded to describe the elm
rooter of Smith, youhg, ardent, impulsive, and
buoyant, as he met Miss McCauley for the first
time. Bo had been South and he bad been North,
and ho had determined that in choosing a help
mate for life ho would not take a Northern or a
Southern lady, but one from the Keystone State.
Well, ho sees Miss MoCauley and she makes a fa
vocable impression on his susceptible heart. Brit
ho goes away shortly, and the next thing whic;i
brings her to his remembrance is a message through
his sister td the effect that she has written to him.
fro has never received the letter, but the recollec
tion of her beauty is brought back to his mind by
this indication that there is ono person in the
world besides that sister who yet clings round him,
to whom his welfare is not indifferent.
Now sec the delicacy, the inborn gentlenaanli-
Ilea of the prisoner. Ile does not write directly to
Mi , 3 McCauley. but under care of Richard Carter.
to be forn:trtled to her
In brief they met again, in company with 311. i
Smith and Richard Carter. They become engaged
to be married and all but the day is fixed. Rich
ard Carter acts with consummate skill in pretend:.
leg that he willies the wedding put off until Christ
mas in order that his presence may giro it greater
form and ceremony. Carter also writes to Miss
McCauley that oho had better not marry "in her
present situation." And pray did he not learn her
situation. The other side may contend that he
was ignorant of it, but what can we gather from
this letter?
This letter is shown to the defendant, but he,
supposing it to refer . to her pecuniary condition,
shows hid independent spirit by the manly way in
which he declares that he marries the lady for
her Wealth of affection alone, and that he owes
Richard Carter no subscription.
The speaker then with n powerful hand, yet
with delicate and graceful touches, drew pictures
of the married life of Smith, both when with his
wife in Philadelphia, and when away from her in
New [York, when, according to the evidence, ho
is seen kitsing t her miniature again and again,
and uttering Joyfuljemiltations over hie happi
nes&
Have you looked, can anyone look at the picture
of the idolatry felt by Smith fur his wife—his
world—his all—his one " entire and perfect cryso
lito," without a pang of pity! Then, when symp
toms of his wife's being ill appear, h ow excited ho
becomes for her safety. Not one nerve, but one
excoriated nerve does ho become. Ito rushes for
his friends, for the nurse, for the doctor, thus un
consciously gathering a cloud of witnesses to his
eternal, undying infamy.
Air. Brown pictured ruostgraphically the circiim
stances attendant on the birth of the child, the
dawning consciousness of the prisoner that his wife
was false, and the utter, boundless, soul-rending
grief and agony to which the prisoner surrendered
his entire heart and being He spoke of the pri
soner's sending for his slder, and of her touching
courts at comforting his desolated heart; of her
offers to expatriate herself with him, if in any way
it would tighten his bunion. The demeanor of the
twane prisoner up to the time of the murder and
beyond it was also minutely discussed, and the
speaker enunciated his views on the general sub
ject of insanity is P h great clearness.
In alluding to the rebutting evidence, Mr.
Brown said that the prosecution would hardly
choose to remember a fact which had boon brought
out, not by the will, but by the blundering of the
prosecution. It was the very important fact, that
the prisoner said to a police officer, when he was
being conveyed to prison—" And he (Carter) said
he It'll 3 going to visit icy mater." That must
have been the provocation which Great the maga
zine. De oar 'muds on the other side remember
this ? Do the jury remember this ?
Here District Attorney Mann (interrupting),
said—l do not remember nnv nett evidence.
There was no such evidence given that I remem
ber.
Quito a sensation ensued in the court-room ; the
Attorneys rustled the pages of their notes, and
even the Judges looked over their notes. The
spectators all jammed together, relieved themselves
by , a change of position.
Air. Brown went on. Why, it is in the evident°
of ono of the Commonwealths own witnesses. Lieu
tenant
Mr. Thayer, interposing—Dickhan.
Mr. Brown—Yes, Lieut. Diekhart, who conveyed
the defendant to prison.
Mr. Loughead—Yes, it's in the evidence.
Mr. Thayer—Yon admit it, do you ?
Mr. Mann—Yes, hero.
Mr. Brown then rennued the thread of hi. re
marks.
Ti tE m sill not permit us to :Tat Mr. Brown in
NOTICZ TO coaszoirompralvi
•
ocrismients for a Yn human, will pliortekbar
talent the following ruler:
Event, carnal:Wedier; nnurt be soonopectid by tide
name of the writer. In order to *nue earrwi4aeee4
the' typegrapity, hut one aide of sheet eheald be
written upon.
We elm be greatly ebliged togrntleston in ..R!anygl
vailis and other State. for contribution lilting the cur
rent news of the day in their particular limalitiaa, the
resources of the iturouading cavalry, the thanes* of
population, and asp inAtrutatien that : will be interesUng
to the general realer. .
full. Re was veri severe on the Commonwealth he
reference to "their eaveritr and their feeble cerpo
rars guard of witnesses who gave evidence to re
but the charge of the prisoner's insanity, and
raised a laugh at the expense of the COMMlX
wealth several times. Re then spoke of the cir
cumstances which make this ease peculiarly wild
in the annals of criminal practice. The horrible
ciroirostaneesef this young mateadiehonor by so
infamous a man as Carter,-his betrayat . by the one
be loved so passionately, fling a pall peer this ease
more dread, more awful than 'tiros* which hung
over the gloomy heads of the doomed house of
Alms- •
Mr. Brovrnapoke of the conduct 14 Smith, feel
ing like Own; and wandering abort seeking
death everywhere to take the _brand font off his
forehead. lie tress worse .and .weas• and ha
gives himself up to this horrible thought he goer
to Virginia and Yortheast, and we have shown
his wild conduct while there. He tetanal about
October, and reaches the city on the-4th day of
November, and we find him at Murphy ,t Davie;
and we prove hit exact position and insanity ; ant
en that fatal AY be presents Idling at the St.
Lawrence Hotel with (weapons whisk, he always
carried with him; be takes„ik neat on the sofa
and talks to Carter, when Carat- said, "I intent?
I le go 14 4 ace Year sister :” this Swathe:del the officer
who took him to prison. These words -ware the
match by which tba magasine was explintixl; Peel
denlY Carter aprinp up, and recalies the ban of
Smith; - whose eyes glow luridly, and basso I will
net give myself Up to an other than an °goer,
He was then a monom crasy man. Mr.
Brown reads from Shelford on Lunatics, page 60,
showing that love, intemperance, or allowing time
mind to dwell too much on one point, either real
or imaginary, will produce insinity ; so also with
Joy and grief_-
The Commonwealth bring up two or three rebut
ting witneasea to .show that Smith was perSeedj
sane, who did not see him ten minntee at any one
thne, bat Infog none to showles had' any Went in
terval'. The , seretehed elfrsrs they did make was
a total failure. ,
,
also incites the - ea/re' of John Bidden, who
killed the keeper of the Reentry penitentiary, in
which he was confined, astlalso that
thins, who was tried tor all. assault 'and battery on
Dr. Kirkbride. - for baying kept Mei la a hustle's
cell for one year. . .
This latter prisoner, as was the former, was ac
quitted. and their acquittal shows clearly the
opinion of the court. that because a tan man reason
it is no test that he is sane. Po in the present case,
in a certain degree; the prisoner was able to rea
son, but fur all that his niosoznenia was such as
utterly overtopped and eontrelled his wilt.
The speaker then gathered op the.poiuts made
in his progress, and closed with &roast pathetic app
peal to the jury to acquit the prisoner. 'althotgli
it Atould !teem demi more merciful to
„re-
Dore him from a wretched existence which musk
ever be fern* hopeless, and unhappy. - -
Mr. Brown - closed at about a quarter attar 1k
o'clock, and waufollowed by Joseph P. Loughesd,
Esq., in a speech of great power and pathos.
'For Judge Allison'stherge to — the jury, tee
Woad page.]
GENERAL NEWS.
We learni z rom the Mendota - Press, that the
-Minas Central Railroad have been getting a snow
fence from Galena to LaSalle.- The portion of the
road from Dunlieth to the former point does not
require that proteetion, owing to the nature of the
sulfate. The fence has been set for seventy-eight
mites, on an average ;shoat ten hoards high, and
will cost when completed, in the coming summer,
about 5130,000. The yams are of oak—very
heavy—set three feet in the grosodi and the
boards are put on with regard to permanently. It
is believed that the fence will stand for foryyeara.
Above La Salle, we learn, little tionble &ppm
handed from snow-storms which sometimes pr rail
in this region._
The following we elip from the Itafpro as's
Journal, printed at Clearfield, Pa. On Saturday
evening James Carley and William =lir, she
are servieg ant Sentences of imprisonment, having
been allowed the privilege of going into the jail
yard, scaled the wall and vsmosed. Miller le ft s
note informing the aberilf that haled gone borne
to aimed to tome affairs, and that ha - would be
back the next evening. Curley ersollY moved
around "to see what was going on in town," anti!
about nine o'clock, when he returned to the jail.
and, all the doors being locked, had to rem the
sheriff to get in. On Monday evening Miller also
came back. •
On Saturday morning of last week - afire
occurred at Lynchburg, Va., which consumed the
extensive tobacco factory of. William D. Miller,
consuming a large amount of sugar, licorice, rum,
90,000 feet of box timber, owe hundred bOxea,of
common tobacco, , and three thousand pouids
of very superior manufactured tobacco., Mr. Mil
ler suffered to the extent of $15,000, on which he
bee au insurance of 612,400. The small factory
of James V. Knight was also consumed—loss/MO.
The steamer Post Boy exploded her. thiee
boilers near New Orleans on the 9th instant, kill
ing two II remen, - and injuring the engineer and
pilot, "The boat sank within three manatee after
the explosion. Fragments of the wreck were scat
tered an every direction, large portions of her
boilers being thrown a 'distance of three hundred
feet, and twisted into all manner of shapes. _
The question which the sheriff mat as he
I.sunched the condemned into eternityk James P.
Donnelly. do yen liver , was lu aceordatoe with
the law of New Jersey.it The iiint requiree that the
question shall be asked, and the culprit 'shall re
spond " Yes," to show that he is alive when the
preparations for execution are complete.
A letter from Fort Smith informs no of the
death of Captain Humber, United States army.
He died in the garrison near that place. He bad
just returned from the Utah expedition. His
health failed from the day of his arrival. Captain
Humber was universally esteemed by those who
knew him well.
Oliver Philbrick, who bee been connected
with the navy yard at Portsmouth and Kittery for
forty peen, thirty-six of which he has served as
porter, has crossed the Piscataqua river in a boat
ten times a day on an average daring that time,
snaking a total distance travelled of 140,000 miles,
equal to nearly six times round the globe. _
On Wednesday last, Jan. 13, a corn field
was flanked near:New Bedford, (Mug.), the soil
being perfectly pliable and the ploughing as easy
as in the but season. Pansies are still in blossom,
and the bads of the cherry tree have started a•
little in some exposures.
In the Court of Common Pleas for Norfolk
county, Massachusetts. Michael Sullivan, a boy
fifteen years of age, convicted of the crime of
arson. was senteneed, on Thursday last, to impri
sonment in the State prison during the term of his
natural life.
The Greensboreugh (Ala.) Beacon says that
Colonel Isaac CroOm. of that place. has subscribed
$25,000 , for the proposed —University of the
South;' for the endowment of a pagealorehip of
scientific and practical agrieulture.
The steamer Flying Cloud, which left St.
Louis a few days ago for New Orleans, was sunk at
Lower Island. The boat was valued at $25,OtN,
and insured at Pittsburgh for $18, 1 300.
An Inspector and a Canvasser, elected last
November, in one of the wards of Brooklyn, both
write. their names thus, X.
Thomas Winans, a well-known engine
",builder and railroad-contractor, is dangerously ill
at his residence in Baltimore.
A man has been arrested at Frederick, Md.,
elarged with stealing a photograph likeness of
Gov. Hicks,
A writer in the Napoleon (Ark.) Planter
suggests Gon. T. B. Flournoy for the United States
Senate.
Mrs. Merchant, the well-known actress,
die'd suddenly in Charleston, S. C., on the 14th
just.
SHIPWRECX.S.
[Translated for Tha Press.)
The journal of the Sociiti des '..lrts gives in
its last number an analysis of the statistics of
the wrecks whioh occurred upon the coasts
and in the seas of the British Isles in the year
1856 ; we in our - turn take from this analysis
some figures whieb are worthy of attention.
First let us look at this list of the serious acci
dents, wrecks, and collisions of the last five
years :
Lines
Years. ITreeks. Cearoloas. Together. Lost.
1852 958 , 57 1,015 620
18.53 759 73 .832 964
1854 "3 94 967 1,549
1855 ...... —.694 247 1,141 469
1654 54T 310 1,153 521
This shows that the number of collisions at
sea has regularly increased in a proportion
truly frightful ; from 67 in 1832 it became 316
in 1856, or five times greater.
For the year 1856, the number of wrecks
and collisions is distributed monthly as fol
lows : January, 149 ; February, 154 ; March,
96 ; April, 74 ; May, 57; June, 32 ; July, 46 ;
August, 61 ; September, 98 ; October, 99 ;
November, 129 ; December, 166 ; total, 1,153.
The tonnage of these vessels amounted to
229.936 ; the number of men employed, to
10,014, of whom 521 perished.
Of the wrecked vessels, 314, or nearly one
third thd entire number,
were employed solely
in the carriage of coals. The coal trade is,
then, for England the most dangerous of all
that which causes the greatest loss of life, no
doubt because the vessels employed for this
trade are badly selected, badly commanded, in
a very bad condition, and, indeed, often quite
unseaworthy.
506 of these wrecks occurred on the east
coast, between Dungeness and Pentland-Firth;
307 on the west, from Land's End to Green
ock; 119 on the south, from Land's End to
Dungeness; 155 on the coasts of Ireland; 12
upon the Isle of Scilly ; 11 upon the Isle of
Lundy; 5 upon the Isle of Man ; and 36 upon
the isles of the north. Orkney, &c.
Of the causes which lead to these losses, no
count 148 wrecks from storms; 17 abandoned
on account of unseaworthiness ; 37 'sunk on
same account; 10 losses from absence of pro
per signals; 33 from fogs and currents; 5
from defective compass; 3 from imperfect
charts ; 6 by error in calculation of the point ;
12 by error of estimation ; 7 by error of pilot;
3 through absence of pilot ; 31 by neglect of
soundings; 2 on account of drunkenness; 9
on account of general negligence; 10 by ne
glecting to heave to ; 1 by coming iu contact
with a foundered vessel; 4 by fire; 4 by cap
sizing i 7 by causes unknown.