AWFUL AND DESTRUCTIVE CONPLA-
GRATION.m
Charleston City inftuini.
Wo have melancholy news to communi
cate to our readers this mornirfg, The city
of Charleston has been visited with an aw
ful and most destructive fire.
A slip from ,lbo, office of tho Augusta
Chronicle, dated April 28th, 0 P. M. fur
njscs the following particulars
"Wc.learn with tho deepest regret, by
passengers from Charleston, who arrived
here this evening by tho Caroline Railroad,
that the ciiy of Charleston has been visited
Ly one of the most awful and destructive
fires that has ever visited any city in the
United States, "Cno thircfof tho city was
laid in ashes at die departure of the cars
this morning at'G o'clock, and the fire was
raging as if it' would at least cousumo one
third more. -
The fire broke out , last jiigjhfaf a quarter
past eight o'clock", in a paint store, on tho
western side of Kihg.'strect, corner of Ucr
esford at The wrifd blowing strongly from
the south west, blew the flame's diagonally
across King street, and at the time of the
departure of the cars, the, whole section of
the city abovo Bcresford street. up to" Socie
ty street, and cast of King street, to the
Bay, was burnt down or burning. From
Ucresford to Society are four streets from
King street to the bay about as many, or
perhaps more. The fire had also extended
four or five blocks west of King street, and
was' still pressing with tcrrlflic rapidity up
that street in the direction of Boundary st.
when the cars left. Our informant believes
it impossible t(f calculate what will be the
ultimate extent of the fire, as it scorned in
no way checked at 0 o'clock this morning.
Among the buildings consumed are a
number of churches, tho now theatre, the
splendid new hotel recently erected, and
the whole market except the fish martfet.
Nearly all tho large merchants, in tho cen
tre of business, on King street, were burnt
out, among them Parish, Wiley & co. and
G. II. Kelsey & co. llorcam & co. and all
in that neighborhood, and the largo store
house of Miller, Ripley & co. on the corner
of King and Society streets, was catching
the flames when out informant left. The
Merchant's Hotel, formerly Miot's'had not
caught, but it was believed' .to be Impossi
ble to save it. At Norris' Hotel, still high
er up King street, and on tbo west side,
Ihcy had removed all their furniture and
bedding, in almost certain anticipation of
being burnt out.
A large number of houses had been blown
tip, to no purpose; All the powder in the
city was exhausted, and all the water in the
pumps': the people, wearied with a whole
night's incessant and unavailing toil, found
themselves this morning, able 'to make Gut
a feeble resistance to the still raging and
devouring flames, A number of persons
had been killed by the blowing up of hou
ses and throwing furniture into the streets.
The steamboat Neptune, lying in the Bay,
caught on fire but was fortunately extin
guished. The trunks directed , to this office and to
the Constitutionalist office, from the news
paper offices in Charleston, failed to conic
this evening, as we presume no papers were
printed there last night; and as tho regular
mail was closed last night before tho fire
broke out, no other information has been
received here than that from passengers,
which is necessarily limited as to particu
lars. This is indeed aihournful catastrophe! A
flourishing city laid in' ashes, her people
burnt out of home and subsistance, and
millions of property destroyed in a single
night! Tho Insurance Companies1 of
Charleston, we learn, are of small capitals,
and will, every one, no doubt, be ruined,
and still be unable to make good but a small
portion of the losses. Hundreds of fami
lies must bo utterly ruined by this general
calamity. Years cannot make Charleston
wnat stie was,
STILL LATER.
Letters and slips by the Express Mail
inform us that the firn r.nrpil
ble fury for sixteen hours, and oxhausted
itself about oxri. V. M. tin ilm oriI. it
The cxtentof- tho calamity is frightful in
deed. Thirteen hundred buildings are destroyed
with their contents supposed' tcr.bo worth
85,000,000! The flames vffira visible for
20- miles. Tho noble Hotelf called the
"Charleston," worth, with its furniture1,
saoo.flOO,- is a heap of smoking ruins !
Tho Masonic Hall, a Methodist Episcopal,
and a. methndist Prnlpslnnl r"!liiirli Cl-itlin-
lic Chapel, and Hebrew Synagogue, are
uuauuvu, iiu many oi me nauusomesi
houses in the city.
Colonel C. J. Stedman, Mr. F. Schnier-
te, Mr. 1'ieut, anU Capt. Puff, of the ship
ncrniu, nave lost their Hve. Many are
dreadfully injured by tho falling ruins, and
their lives despaired of.
Nearly 1500 families are entirely without
a homo, and many even without shelter.
The distress and suffering are inconceiva
ble, About 2,000.000 are-said' to bo Insured'
partly in New York.
Tte firo had broken1 out afresh in two'or
three places before tho last accounts leftj but
it was subdued.
In addition to the above, a slip from thV
Charleston Mercury, dated april 29th, rc
dorJa the death of two colored men'employ-
ed to blow1 up some houses to prevent the
sprcadof the fire.
A slip from tho Patriot says that several
nerrons mill n mill nttn fintr It ml flier rl Knnn
killed by the explosions: nnd that at least
iuuu uuuuings aro acstroycu.
FURTHER FEARFUL PARTICULARS
OF THE TKniUIILE STEAMBOAT DlSASTr.lt.
Cincinnati, April 20.
We have just returned from tho scenes
of horror occasioned by the explosion, and
tho accounts before published, instead of
oeing in me slightest uegrco exaggerated,
(as has been intimated by si fcvVialls short
of the dreadful reality! The fragments of
numan uouics aro now lying scattered along
the sljoro, and we saw tho corpses of a
number sojnanglcd and torn,, that tlioy bear
scarcely ..any resemblance Iq the human
form.., Wo also saw several with their
heads and arms entirely blown olf, others
with only a part of their head destroyed.
and others with their lower exlrcmiltesshivr
ered to an apparent jelly. Fragments of
ine Doners, and other portions of the. boat,
were thrown from fifty to two hundred
yards on the shore,' sonic of them haying
passed entirely over the two rows of buikV
ings on the street, and a portion .of the boil
ers tearing avay tho gable end of a stable
sifuated'Righ'up.tho'dtcep hill in rearof the
houses, .at least 200 yards from tho boat.
Othfe'r parts of tho boat were driven entirely
through a largo houso on tho street, enter
ing through tho window on one side, and
passing out at the other. It is positively
stated that one man was picked up this mor
ning on the Kentucky side, having been
blown completely across the river.
There was no doubt more persons lost
than wo have stated. Wo conversed a while
ago, with Mr. Broadwell, the agent of tho
boat, who says positively that there were
95 deck passcngcis, whose names were en
tered on the boat's register, at Pittsburgh,
Wheeling, and other towns on the river a
hove this place, for L'ouisvillc, St. Louis,
and other'places- below. Here then arc
on'o hundred and thirty passengers that
must have becn'on board, exclusive" of the
very large number who' took' passage at
this place, The boat was, nnusially crow
ded, and Mr. Broadwell thinks the whole
number on board at tho time of tho acci
dent, cannot be little, if any, short of three
hundred persons! From the best informa
tion we can gather, it does not appear that
more than thirty or forty of this number
aie known to have been rescued. It is
therefore probable that the whole number
drowned or destroyed, is somewhere in the
neighborhood of two hundred, or two
hundred and thirty or forty persons! It is
impossible that any accurate detail of tho
dead and missing can ever bo made, or the
precise number ascertained. A very large
portion of them were deck passengers,
whose humble sphere in Jiff, will pre
clude tho possibility of finding out their
name's.
ANOTHER STEAMBOAT EXPLO
SION. We are indebted to our neighbor or tlio
Post for the following particulars of another
disasterous steamboat explosion:
The Oronoko, Capt. Young, eolapsed a
flu e near Vicksburg, on her passage to New
Orleans, and from forty to fifty persons
were severely scalded, eight of whom are
since dead,- Several persons on board at
the time of the accident, arrived'herc this
morning on the Monarch,-who- give Hie a
bove information. -
The explosion of tho Oronoko scents 'io
have occasioned much greater injury than
staled by us yesterday. Our fi lends of the
Express kindly sent us a proof slip about
half past 1 o'clock to-day, containing fur
ther particulars, obtained from a passenger
on the Oronoko. Tho slip came too late
for us to publish to-day, and we havo only
time to say that the number of persons be
lieved to be killed and drowned is not less
than from 70 to 90. No' names aro men
tioned:" We' shall publish tho account on
Monday, uhlc3sr' something still more au
thciitfc shall reach- us in the mean time.
The accident was caused by imprudence
and carelessness!; Cm. U'his'
INTEMPERANCE' AND lYfimDER.
On Thursday last tho 3d ins't; an inquest
was held by Isaac T. Dodson, Esq. atNcs
quohoninp, over the body of Mrs. A. Coylc,
wife of Thomas Coylo, who suddenly died
that morning under suspicious circumstan
ces. The facts as elicited by the inquest
were that Mr, and Mrs. M'Nally, in whoso
s'tantce Coyle and his wife boardedtho
whole of whom were addicted to intempe
late habitsthat on Sunday evening tho
29th of April, Coylo being' absent, Mrs.
M'Nally in a fit of jealousy and intemper
ance struck Mrs. Coyle several times on
tho temples with a jiro poker inflicting se
vere contusions Coyle returned that night
and commenced a series nf hrntnl n,n,.,fm
on the person of his wife, and repeated
., , , . . ""w" wiiuiuus
wife was found dead m thq morhlngv
Wo forbear nddinir nnv fnr-ifi iuFii..l.
lars of this inhuman affair, as it will be ro
ferredto the proper tribunals, to whose1 de
cision wo will leave the suhim. V ,U-
this in order that no prejudice may be ere-
..v.i, ij -luiui imuaubc limy (IB UOI1C lo
nnv of the parties concerned. Pm-io M'
Nally and wife, andi irormnn ivlm mnr..
sent, werodulycompiittwd to wait, their trial
at tho next sessions. ' ' '
Mmch Chunk Couritr.
From die N. Orleans Courier of April 11.
LATEST FROM TEXAS.
,v By the fastrunning steam packet Colum
bia, Capt. Wright, in 39 hours from Gal
veston, we have received our files., of Hous
ton papers to the 7th April, but they con
tain' not ono iota of news, if wo except a
reported skirmish between a party of Ca
inaiichcs.and Lapincs, in which, tho former
were defeated with the loss of eight war
riors killed.
W. C. Quick, for tlifS murder M. W.
Brigham, and David Jones, for the murder
of Rladied Woods, were executed at Hous
ton on tho 28th March. a few minutes pre
vious to the execution nf Quick, he addres
sed the by-slanders' from tho gallows as
follows: ' i
MH IxwiCiVaml fellow-ciilzw: I re
quest your attention for a sho'rt period! I
trtist.you will listen for a few moments to
the words of a miserable arid unfortunalo
being about, almost instantly to' be launch
ed into eternity; and I most earnestly hope,
my dear audience, that w'hat may fall from
my lips, will make upon your minds a deep
and lasting impression. I havo little to
confess little' to state as regards tho events
of my past life which is novel, or calcula
ted lo inteicst those whom I sec around mej
but I may possibly give utterance to some
thing that may prove beneficial to the rising
generation. My life, for upwards of twcJii-
tV VCarS. has benn snnnt in n stilf 9nn milho
' " ...
distant from this country; almost every act
nf iti.i, i:r iin i ".. i r. i
w. .i.u. uiu iuo uucu jiuiiuriuuu in uroau
day, within the sedpo of the public eye,
before the wliolb community. Whatever
of evil'I have dono has been done openly.
I did commil tlie outrage which lras'p'Iacod
ine ill my present situation; I hvc . been
ln6d for it and cnnrfi'inneil. anil" nm nnu n.
bout to pay the penalty which" tho laws of
my voumry anu uic interests ol society de
mand. Whmi. limvm-pr. T hivn nnil llin
penaltywhen I havo yielded that retribu
tion which Is demanded on cailh, and mv
body has ceased 'to exist, may the Almigh
ty, into whose presence I am rapidly has
tening have mercy on my soul! J
Had I lime, I wou'ld addrbss myself par
ticularly, and more at length to the youth
of this generation. I havo been an absen
tee from mv father's house sinr'o X ivn 10.
years oi age; previously lo that period
l
had been for a considerable time the inmate
of a boarding school. I afterwards entered
and served some years in the United States
army.- 1 then emigrated to the southern
country; then to Mexico, and last to Texas.
I am well known: I have tr.ivnrsnd nn nvioii.
sivc pmtion of this comment, the world at
lairo is well acnuaintcd with
neut act of my past life. I have perpetra
ted no secret climes, and havo nothing of
that kind to communicate to this nsapintilv.
I. have inflicted death in more than" on'o in
stance, bulit was dune nublicly; and I pray
iiiyHeucenicr io pardon me lor the
heinous ci-imcj Mingling with the dissipa
ted. CVCn though ill Lint nrpsnnt pnsn linl I'nr
a short lime, has placed me where you now
uenoiu mo. i o all young and old I say,
shun such company and the nlacea ihisv
ffpqucM. Avoid the slightest approach to
tflCm'. and to CVcrV .limismnnnl llmt moi.
have' f tendency to bring yod within tlieir
IIIUUUIICC
I came to this city with as good inten
tions as any man; business called nlc hero,
and I . tried day after, day but uiiavailingly to
get that business finished. I wanted to re
turn io my home, out could not for amuch
1 i tt r
ruuueu a uay or iwo ueiore; and as it was
to bo my last night in Houston, I thought I
Would risk' oho 810 hill nl ll.n
That ten dollar bill enunciating the Words
in iuw mm uecpiy imprcssivo tone, and
casting his eyes1 upon tlie gallows that ten
dollar bill cost me my life!
Ihad'heaid that nothing but dirk's and
bowie knives were used in Houston, but
was never mystm in the habit of canying a
weapon of tho kind. Tho man whom I
killed was a total stranger to ui6 I'h'ad
never before seen him I slew him in the
heat of passion I had no malice or hatred
to him' in my heart but I did the deed! and
(pointing to the'platform) there I' am about,
as fin as this Woild is concerned,' to expiate
the offence.
The prisoner hero arain" mlilrrss'pil Jiim.
self to tlio young, entreating them to trcas-
11K Mrili. .irfi,l..A rk... i .1 l . ,i t
nm uuinc (jivuii io ilium oy mc UCl-
ler members' of the community, and let his
falo bd a warning add landmark to them.
Much 'of his time" (he said) had been spout
in tlie Instructions 'of youlh; ho had fre
quently eiven'advlco to oihi-rs: Imt imM n.r.
er, unfortunately, been able to take' if him
self. To not having doiie'so he mi it
1. . I 11 .1 . . o'-
iiuvH irutuu an mo evns no Had endured
through life. Ho repeated he had nothing
to communicate in relation to unknown
crimes. Ho had been unjustly persecuted
in regard to this particular. Tho" newspa
pers stated that ho had killed six or soven
persons. Of this chargo ho was innocent!
I killed a man (said tho prisoner) in Mis
sissippi, four years ago; but the act was
not dono secretly; it was committed pub
licly; the circumstanco was well known,
antl I was tried for it in the state whose law
I had violated.
The prisoner concluded by again humbly
imploring tho Divino mercy for himself and
,,y,li;"ou companion, i am about
(said hejto die; and I am concious that I
go to my grWe 'uiitcretfed, uninqurnod. In
all probability not an1 individual who now
heats mecpmm.stferftcah the slightest de
cree mv fate: but I trust ilmi tin. nil
siorjateTGod will have mercy upon bursouls,
w,"6 mk ui iivsua Vlirisl, our
oaviour. ,
At tho court bf Ov'er and Terminer,
WlllC l held Its RP.qqinu in iliio
week, Archibald M'Clariy was pot upon
bis trial for tho murder of Johrj Nicely.
I ho trial occupied the entire atfentlon of
tno court Irom Wednesday till Saturday
ovening, when tho case was submitted to
tho jury, who, aHcra very brief consulta
tion, found tho prisoner guilty of murder in
tho second degree. He was sentenced by
tho court, to a solitary confinement in the
Eastern Penitentiary for tho period of nine
;" WKIC JJt-IHULl III .
From tho Union Times
,. . . A FALSE ISSUE.
It seems to. havo become a settled habit
with, the opposition to falsify and inisiepre-
oiii ijitfj iiiuuauru anu inicnuoil 01 tne
uerteral Administratioii,; Fpr instance, up
on tho subiect of the Cnrn.nKv. Mr u;,i
die iys in his last manifesto, that
"Tho credit system of tho.ljnhcd S'tatcs,
and. the excluslvo metallic cuiTc.ncy, aru
now fa.irly in the field, face to faeet.onb or
the other must fall. There can b'c noioth-
er issue. It is not a question of, correcting
errors or reforming abuses, but nf nlwnTmn
destruction: not who shall connuer. but
who shall survive. The present struggle
iiium iiu uiiai.
jl ins laise issue which Air. liiddle is' so
anxious io make ami wbii-li ia ro.nnlmntl !..
all his whelps throughout the union, is thus
. 1... hi. Vi ' -.j:
uiui uy mi. uruiuiy a senator irom Ten
ncssec:
" AS tO 311 exclusive mnfnllii nrrnnnv
boillfr nnnpil nt hi ilm mlmi hielmr'tnn .. .1
. "j uuiiMiiidiiauuii uuu
its friends, I consider the charge as wholly
fcidiimuuB anu uniounueu. A sound metal
lic basis for paper issued upon it, and a pa
per ai an nines convertible into specie, is
all I have heard contendml fnr. Tim imil.
is wo are charged with being for an exclu-
SITA mrlnllir nitrrnnm timi..nn i"
- "ikhhiiw ,wtvui,jr uuuatf w arc
n6t in favor of nimer nnt mrivnrriMn in
to specie. It is true, many of u, mVself
.uiiuii iu uuiiiucr, aro in lavor ol hanish
iiig small notes from circulation, that their
places may ho supplied by specie for the
ordinary daily transactions of life.
I have said this was an extraordinary let
ter; and it seems to mn tlmt i.vn iin'i, i.
tending and connected with it n.-irlnt-PM nf
ttlP CUIlin filinixmln. T '. - n.1.1 I . .1
uuii.u xnuiavKi i, ii is uuuressuu 10 1110
lion. Jolih Qi Adams, wjioso opinion upon
this whole subject. Ifaij again and again been
-....wou, i,uvii viniuiiiaiuutus uiucu more
favorable to the bank than those which' now
extsf. In a written address made to some
oi ins constituenta. nnmei ntftv nfi.i. ii.n
suspenstoirof May last, when speaking in
reiercncc to this same bank. Jio snvs. T
incline more stronnlv in ilm
j,ihe suspension of specie payments by sucl
w,w.u.w ua Ull 1111-
mediate forfeiture of its charter, but be made
a penai oiienco in tho president and direc
tors ol the institution. Tim vinlni;,... r
' lUluilUII Ul
moral pnncin e comimitnd liv n ivmb-
suspending specie payments is, in mv esti
mation, not infer fnr in tlmt
... v itUUUUIVIIki
uanKruptcy m an individual;"
Jl Snrintt Mormnir. To wMt
among rural scenery on a fine sunny morn
ing, is to ramble in the templo of Deity.and
itiLiioaa mu bicauvu JITUCCSS. lVCTy IKIJ'
almost every hour, witnesses some change
l....'l 1.1- I 1 n
u u u s , uiuaauius, iuaves anu uowers are wo
lnnrrpr nprinrl itmn T nvnnnfiil T t.1
:. r-""- .itoiuu. x iniu u- i uuus, uiuaauiiis, iuavL-5 anu Uowers arn vn.
voided the gambling houses till before von by unseen hands, painted by invisible
I fixed t6 leave tho city but I liad been artists, and perfumed from ' vials full of o-
rrtnnAfl O 'lHf fW i r linl'ni.i ,1 .1 " . '.
dors oweet' we look upon ihcrii in tlm
morning wun surprise and pleasure, w'vili
the first dp. vv nml Anivlinnm n.n ..::i:n. i
What' an admirable and perfect taste .niiist
no navo viiu pcriorms all this ! There, is
no noise, no useless display. Tho Creator
therein teaches modesty to Id's creatures.
.w wuu.iaa io uij3U VI3IUIU UB U0SS0II1S
soon perish," but their hue and frarranco arc
viiu uiuiuiuiiga oi a nenevoient mind. Look
anno muiuiudeol little heaps of sand that
lio in the paths, arid suffer vour eye lo rest
lor a moment upon the busy and apparent
ly happy insect that bringd out his grairi'of
sana. iNothing seems too minute and ihsig
Vificant for the Almighty to put his jiant
upon and invest with faculties of intelli
gence and happiness.
Jl Printer's Jlnccdyte It used to be re
latcd of Corporal Nymn, a printer,' well
known for many years in this town as be.
ing more lemarkablo for his odd humor
than thclongth or his purse, that while he
was travelling from Lowell to Boston, ho
was met by a highwayman, who politely
(as is the custom of those gentry) demand
ed his purse.
' My dear sir,' quotli CorporaT Nymn,
I perceive you dout know mc
That is nothing to tho purpose, sir, give
up yournurso imniniliiimlv in.n...u.i
higjiwayinaii.
1 ho Corporal repeated with an earnestness
yhiEli could not be misunderstood, ' posi
tively you don't know mo I'
Well, theiij'said tho highwnyman.somc
what surprised at tb
ral, who (ho dev 1 aro vonl'
4 Why, I'm a printer.' . .
' A nrintor' did vnn nv? Wl,n,i ' ii
rr ,i , ; . ' . iiw.vi iiu
off d d dry picking.'
Governor Can
, , Miiin.cfiici mid m
sueii u proclamation for the raisinir of ix
...v.. uuMij.mncoiu voiuiitee.- iniantrv, under
tho requisition of Mninr cipnn si...i .
serve m the Cherokee country,
Many (
and i
Jl iummary.Accov.ntefthcftnt discovt
VJ "" America. t
innANPEii iv. cuno.xotoaiciL onri.
ISoitli Amcrifa -tTBS discovered in ih0 nB J
tr ii.vfr '!...., .. ",u reign of
.... " ".".ncci
Had m.lUO VCfV COIimilprnliln nm.v., 1- n.
nnv nf llin Hr.l n.1.A..l. . 1
' " iuicm werotnen of gCi,iu,
learning, and were careful to
, "uuirnue
records of such of their proceedings as would bo n.
tcresting to posterity. These records nftord amnio'
documents for Americau historians. Perhaps no
people on thp .globe can trace the history 0f tlicir
origin. and progress with so much precision as the
inhabitants of North America ; particularly that pan
ofthcin who inhabit tho territory of the United
ytntcs.
The following will show the chroiogWf order in
which tho firist settlements wcio maJi. s
, , i una
America.
nines of places. When settled. I)v wlmm
Quebec, 10(58 By the Frenrh
Virginia. 1610
Newfoundland, 1610
New York, 1012
New Jersey, 1018
Plymouth, 1020
New-Hainpshire,' 1023
Delaware,, ,
Pennsylvania",
.Maryland,
Ucn'riect'icut,'
1627
lC3i
1635
Rhode Island, Jtf35
Now Jersey,
ICG
South Carolina.
Pennsylvania.
1C09
1082
Nortn Carolina, 1710
do. do.
1727
1732
Georgia,
Territory south of
Ohio, about 17."0
Kentucky 1773
.Vermont; nbout' 1771
Territory N W.
oi uiuo river,
Uy Jiord do la War.
Dy Governor John Guy,
By the Dutch af Albany.
By do. at Bergen.
By part of Mr. Robin
son's congregation.
By a small English colo.
ny near tlie mouth of
Piscataqua river.
By thcSivcdcsccFinj.
By Lord Baltimore with
a colony of Komau
Catholicu.
By Mr. Kcnwick.atSay.
brook near the moutli
of Connecticut river;
By Roger Williams and
his persecuted breth
ren. Granted to the Duke of
York, by Charles IL,
and mado a distinct'
govcrnnjaiit, and set
tled sometime beforo
tills by tho English.
"By Governor Sayle.
By William Pcnn.witha
company of Quakers.
By a number of Palatines
from Germany.
Erected into , a separate
government.
By General Oglcthorp.
Bv Col. Wood and others.
By Col. Daniel Boon.
By Emigrant from Con
necticut and other
parts pf New England.
1787
Tennessee,
do.'
1789
179G
By the Ohio and other
, companies.
B'ccamo a .scparato gov
ernment many years
before.
Became an independent
state.-
The above dates are generally from the ncriodu
when the first permanent settlements were made.'
. . New York Evangelist.
The following decision of Judcc McKinlev. which
we copy from the Mobilo Mercantile Advertiser, is
likely to have an important bearing thould it bo
sumameu uy tne Supremo Court of tho United
tt'tates
Important Dkcmiox. A nucstibn'oJ'oTes'i im
portance, camo up yesterday beforo tho. Circuit
Court of the United States, now sittinir in this city.
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and was decided bv tho Court. JduVo" MeKinlcv. of
tho 'Supremo 'Court of tho United Stales, presiding.
The Carrolton bank, a bankinct comnanv chartered'
Srj' Louisiana,' purchased in Mobile, through an
agent, a.uiu ot eicnangc, wiiicu being unpaid, tho
bank brought an aciion against ono of the parties to
the bill. The Court decided that a bank corporation
of another State could not make a contract in this
State for want of capacity to contract; and, there
fore, that the bank could not recover on tho b'll.
The case will so up, as wo undcistant, to tho Su-
nrpmn rfnurf nf llin TTntlnfT &lnl i..l.n.n .,..
w .("f. wmivu umiii.D iviitiu mu ijuta-
tioti will. bo settled;
The abovo decision has produced ercat excite
ment hero, and Is tho subject of general converts-
tion and alarm. lis ruinous conscquencca, ifitbff
sustained," can-hardly bo imagined.
JPotmirf.. Tho Czar, of Russia, has issued air
ukaso abolWlinc tho distinct elstncn nnd the namo-
of Poland: abjorbing the klngd'orn ihto Russia, and
incorporating tho Polish troops with his own barba
rians. 'I ho following is the ukare, I. The boun
daries of tho governments of tho kingdoms of Po
land &.LUhuana,ancichtry incorporatcdlwith Russia,
havo ccase'd to exist. Tho inhabitants can pais
from ono cduntrV to tho other without askinir for
passports at Warsaw or St. Petersburg; there are lo
uo no more custom houses between the government
of Russia and Poland. 2. The term of military ser
vice for tlfe Poh'sVrccruits is to bo 23 years' as-in
Russia' Tlih'rlilMr... .,( i.i!...-". i
, ".. ui 1 11 ill 1 1 (1 BU1U1L 1 J UIU .v
belong to tho government, and aro to Be. placed fn
iU' military scliobls. " The'jibcrty ' wh'ic'h the Polish
peasants enjoy of changing their domicile is aljolkh
od: tlicy aro to submit to iho tamo rules as RusHsn
peasants.
Amonirst the nnmos nf tlmcn 1.-illiil nn
:- board theMoi!llc, aro Patrick Thompson
anu iiuwaril 'I'liompson, or Cumberland
county, Pa. and ofthe Tho'inn-
son, of tho same county. '