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THE BLESSINGS OF GOVERNMENT, LIKE THE DE7S OF HEAVEN, SHOULD BE DISTRIBUTED ALi
UPON THE HIGH AND THE LOW, THE RICH AND THE POOS.
EBEiYSBURG, JANUARY 3o'
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YOL. 3. iYO. 15.
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Til
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TIIK FAM.ES IHitE.
Arc wc not all of the same great rV.terT.ity,
Members alike f the Human Fraternity I
Whether in youth oi
All swept alike i: t
Havo wo our wcvik:
us!
Unspotted aud pure
of US !
.er materity,-
futuritv '
-yea, every one of
.ict a mother a dear s -n
i.-r
Il-re is a b
(YOU Lis
Ties tin.; hi;
("-:.;-:-
roiher in meekness r.n.l checrfah
would J' II'
with iLu-ful-
tue gutter s at
. f hi lK-rfeCt
ipi:
rity.
urify!)
humility;
:l of ability!)
there needles:
rs-
jiu! i.iur ve no
he
Pa-. iih; ( l.iur.i oi your brother Lck1 heed
IeW ;
Ixnd Lr a ha
Seak tj iiii'.i !
Trample 1 "mi n
i, hi !p a fellow unfortunate
mgly l.i.i I!y import tmate ;
for Li i dreadful insanity,
S iJly true type is he of fiad hun.:iity !
Dave yo to t.u!:t hi;;j, !kloeil Society,
Of genteel behavior and Christian sobriety?
You make the pit (but you don't like to thi
of it!)
Then, with your sauvity, lure to the bind;
it :
of 1
nuiulr
c.ls
c.it-npe
A tl
e Human l'ratornit;
Tkousuii
g o dowii the
larK fit to i.ter::
Go to h:m, brother
1
man-
to :.:m T-
Ur
J '
Tc'l him you care for him kva him exceed
ingly; Then let the deed be the pi ;xf of tinccrify
Trustily point him the way to prosperity ;
btoop to the
clay from your mushroom u
vanity,
A baud and a word to dej
ted humanity.
Ilis
n;j ineia'.
' v:.:l, :i t'.o.i'-T.t ir :i e:i(
him
No eye to slit
Oae gleam oi
oil ms pathway 01 learlu
hop--ii.l:a:s one ray of
ness,
checr-
fulness ?
Will not the hand of beneficent holiness
Keach to uplift him from indigent lowliness?
O that mankind were not blind to their parity
That selfishness miht be less common th.i
charity ;
Oh, that the world Lad more Christ-like hi:
mility,
And good deeds increased with increase e
ability ;
That the Image of God could be shorn of i:
vanity,
Aud righteousness rule in the breast of h ti
mamty
A.
THE EIGHTH CF JANUAF.T III HEW !
The Anniversary of General Jackson' c vic
tory ui Now Orleans has been celebrated with
great enthusiasm in many places ; but at 2ew
York with unusual pomp and magnificence
Civic and military parade, orations, the firing
of canon, the shipping in port, theatres aud
public houses decorated with the ieltar Span
gled Banner and other emblematic devices,
' commemorated the glorious occasion. The
evening cf the day was devoted to festivity.
Amongst others we notice a splendid Demo
cratic Banquet at the Metropolitan Hotel, at
which several hundred gentlemen, assisted,
and veterans of the Democracy were present
from all quarters of tho Union. Our atten
tion Las been arrested by tho speech made by
our townsman, William J. Rose, Esq., re
sponding to the tenth regular toast :
' The Press: t.'te Vfe J Freemen the
Death of Turants."
piUhic " The Devil and Doctor Faustus."
William-J Kose, Esq., of the New York
Daily News, responded to this toast.
Mr. Rose, upon rising, apolo-ized for even
answering tuc call which had been so flatter
ingly tend,rcd him by the President and
members of the National Democratic Club
It was with unfeigned diffidence that ho felt
himself standing there iu the presence of
men whose eminent talent and political as well
as forensic and literary ability had been tried
in bo many fields of brilliant achievement,
.and, while the hall still rang with the rever
berations of eloquence worthy of the Forum
and the Agora, when genius of that kiud gov
erned empires, and won the homage of the
world jt was with earnest misgivings that
he stood there to offer his feeble words in re
sponse to a sentiment so important and so full
of meaning as the one which had just b.vu
prrt,..uT:.- A, nore especially, as there had
betti neither time nor opportunity at Lis coni-
maii.j to ii.ape a syllable of his
s reply ; yet be j
had thus selee- f
Lasted to t hit L-ir.lrnv ulur-fi
teJhiui among so many abler aud more expe- i
rienced gentlemen now present, and connec
ted with the profession lie had the honor, for
a moment there, to lepresent, to bear with
him an instant and to hear him "for his
cause." He felt in this society that he was
at least encircled by tho intelligent e and the
consideration which must ever distinguish
Americans professing the principles he saw
emblazoned upon their political escutcheon,
and assembled to commemorate a victory won
over the assailants of their country, while
from the breathing canvas placed against
these walls, the eyes of their hero immortal
to fame though dead to earth seemed to craze
I down upon them a subbmo approval as they
I offered up together their common vows upon
t the altar of a common and national patriot
j ism. And thus surrounded, though as pro
i found y sensible of the responsibility devolved
i upon him, Le would not like a raw and timed
j recruit while scarred veterans looked on,
j shrink from the demand of duty. If the
j steam engine be a Democrat, the Press is the
very leader the Jackson of Democrats and
! while it, in its high mission ever assumes the
responsibility, it, in no circumstance, allows
I its subalterns and co workers to falter. The
mission of tfie Press he had said was lofty
! its history had been the history of accelerated
i human progress the stroke of the first rude
WOGdCU
type impressed on ruder paper by the
eager zeal or ttie poor Liorrnan carver naa
seemed like the signet of Providence itself
cfa.ii pod i:i a visible character to mark the
close of a dark era passed, a
nd the
a n
w uoox on whoso pages t:ie records ot liu-
maniiv were, thenceforth, to be written inlet
ters or Jiving ligut.
the ciuaint Trutonh
Fi-oni that period when
fancy mingled the won
der workings of that rough imprint with the
mysterious pranks ascribed to an incident per
sonage, who shall be nameless, and his repu
ted private Secretary, Dr. Fau.-t, and enrich
ed their romantic poe.-y with fresh material
for these dreams which ban? around the foot-
rcps of scientiiie discovery, as mists environ
the approach of day, from that odd period-
the ruvIQ end oi modern history
down to our !
own taemiug time, the 1'ress has traveled on
its silent way, its little emissaries leaping,
with certain aim, type after type, from its ex
baustless armory, beating down the barriers
01 error and letting in the light 1 f truth upon
the stagnant places cf the human mind, or
gathering here and ihero and everywhere a
particle of knowledge, has built up from the
very deeps of ignorance new and glorious
worlds for the abode of f he emancipated gen
triitlon.). As the Assyrian monarch blenched
when on the arches of his palace, the strange
writinsr rrleamed out which none could read (
but he who here with him the inspiration from
on high to solve it, so has tyranny faltered
and trembled on her throne where those mys
terious characters have risen before them,
mirroring her misdeeds and summoning her
to a reckoning with the people she has crushed
and scourged. 5-uch has been the story of the
1 ress, ana u tae nours si;
claims iJi laoor
a war nmcc voice,
did not utter, and even now
miirat call up m
review an array of the
splendors which have tkiMied along her on
ward pathway that could scarcely fail to daz
zle and confound but while we here utter
cur mutual congratulations on this -proud an
niversary, ve
iCCu.
but look around upon the
realm ot treeuom we lnnerit, ana the privile
ges we this night cnioy, to comprehend how
far the press has aided in
th
ch" acouisnion,
ana now 1
is worKiiig on, tor tneir perpetua-
tion
on nunureus or thousands
of win its
iho good worda this night, spoken
here, the patriot!'.
sentiments so eloquently
uttered, the admonitions and encouragements
addressed to our brethren in the faith, the
stern reprobation of error and the high, man
ly assertion and defense of truth will be Hying
over our vast laud : aye, and even over the
rant rossiii'' seas taat 'iru it and image 111
with the Protection of their Winter storms
the freeman's home, bearing healing a far aud
good tidings to millions who are looking forth
to gicet their coming. Applause. Y'es,
all this the quiet agency of these Uttle leavas
scattered here ( pointing to some blank papers
on the table,) ha adec-ted and will cfioet to
wards the great consummation we are all toil
ing for, let us hope, iu the various pursuits,
to which fortune, bind of churlish, has as
signed us. And do not forget, gentlemen,
while you sit in the midst of the glow that
high success has cast in such profusion around
you, while you enjoy the rich remunerations
of wealth and eminence that merit has won
from the hands of men, do not forget that in
chambers aud rooms nearest to the cellar
or the roof, in narrow streets, remote from
the avenues of luxurious abode, and buried
in an obscurity which but the eye of the keen
and thoughtful intelligence can penetrate,
there are oilier men laboring aael laboring
again with diligence that never tires, and an
enthusiasm which nothing can exhaust, to
help on these wheels cf progress and to add
their mlie to the triumphs of their natbn and
their time I
The speaker continued to trace the severe
duties cf editors and others engaged in the
conduct of the press-, their toils, their conso
lations and their rewards, claiming for them
the credit of faithful soldiers in the cause of
freedom. Leading from this to a political
consideration of the pcrlexi and the land in
which we live, he warmly asserted the mag- i
uin.ee nt mission to which the National Domoc- !
racy is called, plead for the exile who comes !
to us of every creed and clime, and referring 1
to the elevated statesmanship manifested in
that flauc of the Dcmocratio address uttered
at Syracuse, August 23, gf5, which made
me jeuiocratie
form so broad that all the
nations of the earth might rest secure upon
it ; said that if the Democracy remembered
j tue struggles of their brethren ia Europe, as
j veil as. 011 the Yv'estcru Continent, and boldly
j asserted tho true doctrine of American lle
j publicanism as they had thus far done, their
victory in November next would be not only
the rescue of our own glorious confederation
but another triumph won for all humanity.. j
In every distant land, where freedom has a
friend, the hearts of men would turn to us
and bless us ; and we should have but begun
the higher career of our republic that would
inaugurate the reign of liberty . and cluster
around its standard the coming glories of our
race, giviug to it all that human genius has
hitherto wasted at tho feet of tyrants :
" Yes, in that generous cause, forever strong,
The patriot's virtue and the pott's song
Still as tho tide of ao roils away
Shall charm the world unconscious of decav."
Firct Trip cf the First Locomotive in Amer
ica. William Wurts, Esq., of Carbondale, Perm' '
communicates the following paragraph, clip
ped from an old newspaper, to the Carbondale
Transcript. This paragraph confirms the
statement of It. F. Lord, Esq., putlished in
the Port Jervis Union, a few weeks since,
and apparently settles the question as to
whom belongs the credit of having run the
first locomotive steam engine on the Ameri
can continent.
The Trul Titrr of the Fmsr Locomotive.
Major Horatio Allan, the Engineer of the
Xew York and Erie Railroad, in a speech
ma.'e during the recent festival occasion, gave
the following account of the first trip made by
a locomotive on this continent.
When was it ! Who was it ! And who
awakened its energies and directed its move
ments ! It was in the year IS1I8, cn the
banks of the Lackawanna at the commence
ment of the railroad connecting the canal of
the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company
with their coal mines and he who addresses
30U was the only person on that locomotive.
The circums tances which led to my being
alone on the engine, were these. The road
had been built in the summer, the structure
was of hemlock timber, and rails of large di
mensions notched on enps placed far apart.
The timber had cracked oad w-irped from ex-
posure to
sun.
Lflor
dred feet of straight line tas road c-rossou the
Lackawanna Creek, on trestle work about o(
feet high with a curve of i"0 to 400 feet radi
us. The impression was very general that
this iron monster would either break down
the road, or that it would leave the track at
the curve and plunge into the creek. luy
reply to such apprehensions was that it was
too late to consider the probability of such oc
currences, there was no other course than to
have a trial made of the strange animal, which
had been bronght here at great expense ; but
that it was not necessary that more than one
should be involved in its fate ; that I would
take the first ride alone, and the time would
corn
when
I should look buck to the
incident with great interest.
As I placed my baud on the throttle valve
handle, I was undecided whether I would
move slowly or with a fair d'-grec cf speed,
but believing that the road would prove safe ;
and preferring, if we did go down, to go
handsomely, ana without any evidence of ti
midity, I started with considerable velocity,
passed the curve over the creek safely, and
was soon out of hearing of the cheers of the vast
assemblage. At the end of two or three miles,
I reversed the valve, and returned without ac
cident to the place of starting, having thus
made the first railroad trip by locomotive ou
the Western Hemisphere.
A Buy Supposed to Lave been lulled by his
Cvn. Father and Erothcr.
Intense excitement was created in the city
yesterday morning by the intelligence that a
boy had been fouud dead in hLs bed, under
circumstances which led to the suspicion that
ho had been killed by the violence of Lis rel
atives, during a state of intoxication. The
boy's name was Carey, aged thirteen years,
and his parents, Thomas and Mary Carey,
have frequently been before our police court
for drunkenness and disorder. They resided
in Spring street. From the evidence given
below, the Coroner's Jure- returned a vertlet
in accordance with the sucpie-ion mc-naoted
above. It appears that on Wednesday night
his father, mother, and brother had indulgtd
in a drunken orgy ; yesterday morning the
boy was found dead on a pallet, laid on tin
floor, (where his father and brother had als
blept,) in the corner of a room, the only apart
ment occupied by the family, where thoy liv
ed in squalor and wretchedness. His head
and body were covered with bruises. Near
his bed, and about his height above the floor,
was an indentation in the wall, apparently
made by his head, as if it had been violently
jammed there. It seems quite probable also
that he had fallen down stairs, but whether
accidentally or by bciag pushed, is doubtful;
the phj'sicians. however, who examined the
body, testilied that his deatluwas not caused
by the injuries so received. Coroner Downi
was called in the morning, and Dr. J. IS.
Coleman having been summoned to make aa
examination, a jury was empanelled, and tie
adjourucc
to permit tins to be
uCljO.
-i.i;er Hearing tne testimony, tue jury venuor-
ft i- 1 - Y . . . 1
1,.
ft,.
cd the following verdict : That Johu Cary,
the deceased, came to his death from injuries
received at the bauds of Thomas and YvTilikm
Carey, iu a manner
unkuown to the iury.
Trenton. Gazette of the 'loth
An Incident tuat Bium its own Com
ment. Isaac, a boy servant of Gc-n. Quitman,
arrived home a few da-s since. Shortly after
tiie General reached Washington city, Isaac
expressed a great desire to return home to
Mississippi. Upon being pressed for his rea
sons for so sudden a wish, ho told his master
that ho had been repeatedly beset by two
white men from Boston, who urged him to
accept their aid to run from bis master. He
stated that he was afraid that he would be kid
napped into freedom, as ho believed the two
men were capable of auy atrocity. The
General gave Isaac a pass, with which he
safely reached home, to his infinite satisfac-
tion. Xatchez (Miss) Free Trader, J,ui
V ashington.
Li tter of Lord John HitsstU or. Central Am-cr-'ican-
Affairs The Central American (Ques
tion, Important Ofieial Corre$irnJ ncv.
Washington, Jan. 21, 1S5G.
I send you the annexed correspondence up
pon Central American affairs. You perceive,
by the proceedings of the Senate, that the
subject therein discussed will be taken up in
that body on Monday next, when an import
ant debate will in probability ensue :
L0I1D JOHN UCSSELL TO MR. CHAMPION .
-. - - London, Jan. 10, 1S53. -
Sir In treating of the affairs of 3Iosquito,
I must in tho first place refer you to the
despatch of Lord 31almesbury of the Gth of
July, 1S52, upon this subject. It is evident
that since Great Britain first assumed the
protectorate and defence of the Mosquito In
dians, the position of all parties has changed.
First Spain, instead of exercising absolute
sovereignty over Central America, and pro
hibiting all commerce on tho coasts under
her sway, has entirely lost her dominion from
Cape Horn to Florida.
Second The Mosquito Indians, instead of
governing their own tribe according to their
own customs, furnish a name aud title to
Europeans and Americans, who carry on
trade at Creytowu and along the coast of
Uosquito, according to the usages of civilized
Rations.
Third Crcat Britain, instead of having
an interest in the defence of tho Mosquito In
dians, for the sake of rescuing part of the
territory of Central America from Spanish
control, and obtaining an authority for her
commerce, baa no other interest in Mosquito
than that which is derired from an honorable
regard for her old connexion with the Indian
nation of Mosquito.
Her Mjesty'.5 government has for several
yci.rs c-itdeavoreu to suit her emnu'emonts to
the altered circumstances of the case; but
every proposal that has made with this view
has encountered some insuperable obstacle.
The contentions in Central America between
Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Honduras ; tho
absence of any authority with which any
permanent agreement could be made; un
founded jealousies of Great Britain, aud
various other circumstances, have prevented
the settlement of this vexatious question.
Iu conformity with the opinions stated Li
Lord Malmesbury's despatch of July 10, to
which I have already referred, I have to state
that the committee of government of Grey
town are in f?ct the real power that exercises
autiority in that part of Central America.
To her Majesty's Government it would be a
ma.ter of indifference whether that authority
was exercised in the name of the King of
Mcpquito or in the name of Grey town itself
Bu it is desirable that what Ls apparent should
be uadc to con form as far as possible with
what is real. What is apparent is that the
KiDg of Mosquito exercises sovereignty over
Grytov.n. What is real, is that he has no
authority there whatever, but that the com
mittee of Europeans and Americans carry on
the government of that port.
Vi'hat her Majesty's government, therefore,
should consider a good and fiual arrangement
wu!d be First, that Greytown should be a
frte and independent port, connected with
Misquito by such relations of friendship aud
aliiince as may be agreed upxm. Second,
that indemnification, or advantages equivalent
to those laid down in the project of convention
of the 13th of April, 1S52, shall be assured
to Mosquito iu return for its withdrawal from
its present position with regard to Greytown.
Third, that Great Britain and the United
Staies, without guaranteeing Greytown, should
be ready to act iu concert to defend the inde
pendence of the free city or port of Greytown.
froai whatever quarter it might be attacked
What is essential and of immediate import
ance is that the authorities of Greytown
should ba really to assume either unqualified
independence, with an engagement to defend
Mosquito, or qualified independence, owing
allegiance and support to Mosquito. For this
purpose, some person qualified to treat should
proceed at once to Greytown Whether a
naval oieer ot uer -'lajesty s service or a
t uer -'lajesty s service or a
lbea fitter person to be en-
is mission, I must leave you to
dd be desirable, if the govern-
civil one, would be a
trusted with this
decide. It would
mcnt ol tue Lmitod estates snouid concur in
vhesc views, that a new convention, iu place
ox the unaccepted project of agreement of
April, 1852, should be proposed and conclu
ded, and that a person similarly qualified
should be sent by this government at the
same time and for the same object.
I have only further to say that indemnity
to Mosquito might possibly be not made iu
money, lut in greater security, for certain
fixed territory within which the free port of
Greytown, assisted by her JIajesty'a ships of
war, might manage to defend tho Mosquito
nation. The Governor General of Cauada,
and authorities in other of her Majesty's
. TT , tit.. 1 1
North American possessions, have made, from
time to time, agreements somewhat similar.
President of the United States has fre
quently made conveutious with the Indians to
the like tifect. The peculiarity of this case
is that certain neighboring ot;tes djuy alto
gether the ia-Jepeiiueuca of Mosquito, aud
the Mosquito nation are liable, every day, to
new incursions upon their tenitory.
We can make no complete provision against
this danger. Our policy ia to do all that
honor and humanity require in behalf of the
Mosquito nation. But we intend to adhere
strictly to the treaty of Washington of the
19th April, 1850, and not to assume any
sovereignty, either direct or indirect, in Cen
tral America. J. RrssELL.
MEMORANDUM IN MR. EVERSTT's HANDWRITING.
Mr. Crampton authorized ine to communi
cate this to Congress in :tny way I thought
proper.
Interesting' f roi
Patriotic Sentiments.
tFov. Medill, of Ohio, closed his message
wordsLegislature in the following patriotic
" Cenu
republics, amiien is the greatest danger of
er the motive Vest euch a tendency-, wheth
intercst or the grau.idvanccment of special
mosity, the American pVyj of sectional ani-
V '. - 1 j. ,
oarrier more secure man moan estaiuisu no
ion of political power defined bjrable
le divis-
Sunders
c-OTw
of our institutions.
" Nor is it necessary, in order to c-otu
sippi will tolerate any doubt ot the perpetuity
of our league of States. Yv'ith our relations
to the lake, river, and gulf coasts of this
mighty basin, any scheme of dismemberment 1
which sectional infatuation may engender can- !
not bo received otherwise than with mingled
L-
scorn and indignation by the patriotic commu
nities of the West.
"Let it bo understood that the centre of
our republican empire will soon reach the
shores of the Mississippi, constituting the vast
region diained by its tumultuous tlood and
innumerable tributaries, the natural arbiter
never a belligerent in sectional controver
sies. And as long as the a&hes of Andrew
Jackson are inured among the Western peo
ple, so leng will we cherish, iu sentiment aud
in action, his stern and patriotic utterance
' The Union it must be preserved.'"
Casualties for a Year.
It is not surprising that in these days- of
travel, aud of peril by land and by sea, the
chapter of accident and casualities for the past
year should be long and sad. We have gath
ered from reliable sources the facts and S rures
which are appended, although it is highly
probable that the number of deaths by fatality
of travel is somewhat greater than Is here rep
resented. During the year 1855, the number of rail
road accidents in various parts of the country,
resulting in losses of life or of limb was 12,
by which 11G persons were killed, and eUi
badly wounded. More than GO employees of
the railroad companies are iucluded in this
number of the killed, of which 20 were cngi
neers, and 0 conductors.
The steamboat accidents have not been so
numerous, amounting to 27, but resulting in
17u deaths, an increase of GO over those caus
ed by rail.
The loss of property occasioned by destruc
tive fires has been enormous, amounting to
more than $13,000,000. This is the esti
mated loss of abot 200 extcn.-ive conEagra
tions ; the figures do not embrace the vast
amount of property destroyed by almost innu
merable smaller fires.
Disastrous as these results seem to be, they
are happily far less in magnitude tLau those
of the former year, 131. During that year
the railroad accidents numbered 51 more,
while
of the
year.
the number of tho killed was 70, aud
wounded 50 greater than iu the last
1S51 were 43,
ie hi Led were
dimiuh
bed
in 1S55 to 27 ;
o87, diminished to liG; the we-undeu 22e,
diminished to 107.
The number of fires in 1854 was 223, which
decreased by 30 iu 1855 ; and the loss of pro
perty amounted to $20,000,000. which was
reduced to 13,000,000 during the last year.
TheRcssians in Northern Sevastctol.
We read in tho jrcsse d' Orient, under date
Sevastopol, 18th ult: " The Russians, en
camped on the north of tho bay, must feel
rather uncomfortable, for they have not one
half of the tittle conveniences we enjoy. As
far as we can judge, with the aid of teles
copes, their installation is most deficient and
incomplete, and their supply of wood very in
sufm icnt, for we frequently see numbers of
their men seeking fuel amid the brushwood of
Inkerman and on the hites of some ruined
houses close to the bay. They have become
of late more sparing of their gunpowder and
projectiles. Seeing that we never respoud to
their provocations, they fire less frequently ;
nevertheless, when they perceive a horseman
or a pedestrian, they cannot resist the tempt
ation, and salute him with a cannon ball or a
-.1 11 1'.' !...-. ,..,...,...,1
. , , ,
considerable mc
fr J,cb
Jasou must hi
considerable movement in the Russian camp,
is inferred that Prince Gort-
have received reinforcements.
The works intended to blow up the docks are
nearly terminated. An officer of the Engi
neers told me the day before yesterday, that
tight chambers were realy for the purpose,
but not 3-et loaded. The destruction of the.se
gigantic works will not be the least curious
cpiso'le of the great drama we La-e been ac
ting hers for upwards of a year."
Effects oy Goon Engineering. We per
ceive that the Delaware division of the Penn
sylvania Canal, has, for the last year, pro
duced the large sum of 392,073, an amount
which, after deducting all expenses, will pay
ubout 20 per cent, ou the original coct of the
Canal. Up to 152, the utmost capacity of
this work scarcely exceeded ,200,0o'0 ; but
about that time the Canal Commissioners tnen
in ofiice, Messrs. Gamble, Morrison, and Clo
ver, appoiutod Mr. James Worrell, the pres
ent able Engineer of the Uuiou Canal, to su
Tierintend some improvements which they
thought were needed. Under Mr. Worrell's
skillful management, ami at the small cost of
about 100, ('00, the work propo.-edwas com
pleted thereby nearly doubling the value of
the Delaware Division to the State. We
have no doubt that this is the most produc
tive of the State improvements, and might
still be enhanced iu value by a judicious
though comparatively nnall expenditure.
JtST'The Managers of the Maryland lotter
ies havo issued a card, cautioning the public
"against the numerous swindlers who circu
late by mail acd otherwise, fraudulent Lottery
Schemes. " The safest way is to bay neither
the spurious ncr the cccuiac.
the public approval of these fundamental pri. ! , . V-y 00 ue:ayed omc davs
ciples, to add any appeal in behalf of the ITnv" , "patoa mat it will contain
ion. No citizen of tlm valley of the Missis- .J,UULL nt nor refusal, but will
Arrival cf the Africa. "
T, ' , . , .Xeu' I'obk, Jan. 2d.
. f -;3"P Africa has arrived with Liv
erpool dates to the th inn
Her
news cousins merely of the extension
OI tUO Peace nimnra r.i. I 1... .1. . 1 .
e . 1
vaj "i, vjf iuc is?: arri.
The Ftoamsbln 7? e x . t- ,
"T, at. VrrI on the morning of the Sth.
. ; v,1 TWr t? Propositions could
UUt P'J! I'o expected before the lot J,
T . i -...., 1 1. ..in .H'w 101-ic. ur-
before the loth, but
longer.
neither
name
by renewed
1 iii
warlike, an.
in England
continues to ho
again becoming
so.
ine
iiJssians ai
araticns for the Fr.rin, a .
n, . . 1 -7111 in mcir
prcp-
imiu is iiuiuiiig 01 imjw,n
The docks at Sevastopol crcrbS1 tLe
the French on the 22d of December. v .
AlTairs in Asia ia present no new featu'L
The news from G reat Britain is not of much
importance.
The Grand Council cf the allied Generals
has been opened in Paris.
The Conference in relation to the Sound
Dues has been postponed indefinitely.
Sweden is making active warlike prepara
tions. r 1
THE LATEST.
The Berlin papers speak not unfavorably
of the disposition of Russia to consider the
Allied proposals
SECOND PE? I'ATCIf . J
THE LATEST FROM LONDON,
By Telegraph.
Loxpoy, Jan. 0. The English funds yes
terday experienced a rally of at the open
ing cf the market, but a relapse subsequently
took place, and at the close the prices stood
at the rate of the previous day.
The money market was easy, and the de
mand good at 5 percent.
At Paris the 3 per cents, cloned at J.a' de
cline, but foreign exchanges were generally
better. J
Asia
The Russian army took up its position iu
Kars on thz 3 1 of December. The troops aro
being quartered in the town, leaving a small
detachment of Cossacks to occupy the fortifi
cations at Sohanly Dagh.
At Yeni Keni, a village on the road to Er-
zeroum, the Russians had collected
largo
stores of provisions
The Rusf
A
Russian General is apprehensive of an
ipon Kars by Sclim Pacha, and has
attaclc upon
consequently concentiated all his available
force at that point.
Selim Pacha was encamped ia the moun
tains of Derch Boynou.
An attack on Erzercuai by the Russians is
not
considered probable at the present time.
in consequence cf the exhaustion of the troons
and the state of tho roads
The Peach Proposals.
Nothing cf a defJriitc character has as yet
transpired at St. Petersburg, aud the specu
lations are ss contradictory as ever. An in
terview has occurred bctweeu Nesselrode and
Esterhazy, but the main question has not been
discussed.
The most that is expected from Russia is a
modified couuter proposition, such as may in
sure further negotiation and consequent de
lay. In the meantime, the tone of the French
Government is more warlike, while the Rus
sian preparations to continue tho convict aro.
larger and more formidable that; ever.
Bavaria sends a special envoy to St. Pe
tersburg to support the Saxon envoy.
Omar Pacha has arrived at Batoum. Hi
army suffered much for want of pro Lions
before reaching Kutais, and being unable to
proceed, deemed it most prudent to return.
The fall of Kars lias rendered Omar Pacha
very unpopular at Constantinople.
(ten. Williams had arrived at Juniiri.
The Council of War at Constantinople id
directing all its efforts to the defence of Erzo
rcum and Trebizoude.
Acstria.
It i again confidently asserted that Aus
tria will submit the peace propositions to the
German Diet' and call upon the Diet to sap
port thelu.
The Cr.iME.i. -
The dates from the Crimea are to Christ
mas day. The French Ld blown up one of
the docks at Sebaslepol.
The Rus.-.Lins Lave increased their fortifica
tions over Inkerman and unmasked new bat
teries on the left of the Tchernava
j General Pollcsier remains in the Crimea,
j and General Martempre o ts as Lis proxy at
I -1... M ,f ?. r.
ine ouuuca c ar progressing in 1 al ls.
The recent storms had occasioned no injury
to the cssAa of war.
Russia.
Advices from Okholck state that the Allied
fleet had quitted the Gulf without finding tho
cannon buried tht-re by the Russians.
The Grand Council cf War assembled at
Petersburg!!, is principally engaged in
(luestion:
iciaung to the fortifying the strat
egic points throughout the empire.
The fortifications at Kiew will be finished
before- the close of tl
nc wmter
The railroad from
cow to St. Peters
burg!! is t) bo protected by redoubts placed
at intervals ahmg the line, and each to be oc
cupied by a buttwlioii of iufuntry militia.
Persia.
A letter from Paris, alluding to the recent
report that the United States had made a
treaty with tLe Shah of Persia, guaranteeing
the ter.i.ory on the Persian Gulf, says that,
although no sue h treaty has been made, yet It
is certain that the most friendly advances have
been made, and it is unfortunate that at the
moment when both Ilussia and America nr.?
j intriguing with the Shah, a suspension of th
j diplomatic rcbuivng of P.'p-ja with England
i sL'jUiJ Lave taken i-laee. .
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