Weekly Journal. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, May 13, 1853 Page: 2 of 3
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ta our
morning, during one of
i rtw citjr, observing the door
*e wete somewhat as ton-
improvement* and altogether
that our little theatre presented
In fact, Messrs. Crocker
ire spared no expense in making
establishment acceptable to the citizens of
It is now turned into a comfortable,
pectahle place of amusement, suiting
the taste of the most fastidious. Wé would pre-
fer not to speak of the company until Vé hare
together. Howeve*, wewill say thaft
from a thcaife that sta'ndtf among the
'•est in the Uniteé* Slates." Mr. Dor.áUix)ñ ar-
rived on the Louisiana from New Orleans,'and
from vl.at we hare seen of him we take him to
be a gentleman, and one who will use his best
rade^/ors to cater frr tl e amusement of his au-
dience. We hope our citizens will encourage
this enterprize of establishing a first class theatre
hi their midst. " In 'oor advertising columns will
he (bund the br.1 Tor the op ning night. '• • -
'* 7 • i ■
Ciriila* presents its readers with a new
in addition to the new dréss it Recently as-
We congratulate our neighbor upon the
improrement in i to typographical hp
loan.—We had the pleasure a day
* meeting our honored cotempora-
of the Indiano]a
fcj. XI. Cushing, of the Colum-
Mr. Brown left on the Mexico
terday for New Orleans.- The
Bulletin is one of our favorite exchanges in
which we always find something which we are
pieased to transfer to our columns. Mr. Cush-
ing has been visiting our city on business con-
nected with his excellent paper. Thé'people of
Brazoria a^ipuid be prdud of such a paper as the
Democrat. Messrs. Brown anil Cushing are
both intelligent and accomplished gentlemen,
worthy the profession to which they are at-
Sbreveport and New Orleans
4ph Line.—The agent of the above line;
'".Esq, who recently visited New Or-
purpose of meeting With Messrs.
, the contractors, returned to our
last boat. The amouht of stocjc ne-
forward the Texas pofliofn of
. (there to connect with the
I Red River tine now in process
p construction,) being nearly made hp, Mr. Clute
by Messrs. Smith & Ward, to ap-
in June next for a meeting of
Crockett, for the purpose of
he company, and getting the work
under way. We understand that
call the meeting about the
acquaintance we have re-
fer whose experi
confidently vouch, wBl
meeting, and assist in the or-
The line will be
months
We Have
it be tide that Baron Rothschild has
a letter to one ot our fellow-citizens,
expressiaMiis regret that the plans their hou°e
entertain with reference to the Galveston and
Brazos canal, have prematurely transpired, yet
corroborating, in the mhin, oor previous state-
ment in regard 4o'their design to i**1" an in-
vestment of some seventy or eighty odd millions
in the canal, and extend it, via Santa Pe, to Pa-
get Sound, with a view to secure the North Pa-
cific and Arctic trade.
If such a letter has been received, we think it
due (a an enlightened public curiosity that its
Contento be disclosed. The correspondence ot
foreign capitalists with distinguished citizens of
oor State, an subjects of this' nature, may surely
be diem-d to possess an interest not altogether
private aid individual.* ' ' '
Moreover,' we are persuaded that letters of this
kind, like the Houston and El Paso Railroad, to
bS' appreciated only to be seen.
We eail for the production and publication of
this Rothschild letter, for several reasons. Fiifet:
We scent mischief in this sodden rush of foreign
cápitál into our Sthte. What does it mean, we
ask, that the Barings and Rothschilds and several
distinguished Northern bankrupts are so zealous
to truild railroads and canals on our frontier? As
we cannot divine their object, nor where the lat-
ter derive their capital from, we fall tatck upon
pruderice and fear the worst". " •
Secondly: We aré decidedly opposed to the pro-
jected extension of this canal. No experiments
baVe yet beeu made, satisfactory to our mind, to
determine the relative levels of Puget Sound
and the Qulf of Mexico. What the conse-
quences of opening this artificial communica-
tion might be, we are not prepared to say. We
can easily «conjecture very disastrous ones, espe-
cially to any work in which the Barings might
be largely interested. So much water-power, in
the hands dF a rival interest, might not be per-
mitted to be unproductive of results. However,
this is the Barjt)gs' business, not oursfc and we
merély throw Out the suggestion for their consid-
eration.
Thirdly: We are of the opinion that foreign
bankers and domestic bankrupts are a dángerous
coalition, and that their plan of operations in
this State cannot be too closely scrutinized. Our
readers are ají aware that'Texas is, at this par-
ticular time, considered by shrewd men arare
field fbrr speculation. The rtcént lobby attacks
upon 'our Legislature indicate the manner in
which some of these shrewd ones are attempting
to realize their designa. Now this sort of spec
ulation, which goes to the Legislature and gets
Itself represented there, ^requires capital to start
upon. Hence the necessity erf something in hand
the while, with immense bankers for a prospect
in the distance. It also requires men, who, hav-
ing nothing themáelves, have learned to make a
little go a great way. Hence the fitness of bank-
rupts, who are notoriously the ablest financiers we
have, and are álmost invariably chosen for sec-
retaries of treasuries, State and National—wheth-
er to preserve'the public fortune or mend thfeir
own, we can only judge by the usual result in
such cases: r ' '
We can thus see how natural and mutually
advantageous is thf combination of bankers and
bankrupts, when a speculation upon the public
is to be effected; and lor this very reason, when
we see the combination we apprehend the specu-
lation, and wish, if possible, to defeat it. It is
our privilege to drag it forth from concealment
and examine it by sunlight. We therefore call
for the production of this Rothschild letter, for
the purpose of ascertaining whether any North-
ern bankrupt is interested in this canal exten-
sion. If so, we shall unhesitatingly pronounce
the scheme a humbug and a private speculation.
competent engineers will satisfy us
that there is ho danger of an overflow from the
>the following well deserved com- ^
notice of our neighbor oTthe Civilian Pacific. We offer our columns gratuitously for
the públicátlon of the letter
i
Antonio Ledger
'.—The appointment of this
• Gellectorsfaip of the Port of Qal-
Piercé; seems to meet with
,' hot only wfth the 'editorial
i of the people through-
. S. has long been connected
sustained his position as
ith much credit to himself
I to his readers and the public.
T high sense of honor, of in-
TJhe- writer of this
acquaintance more than
when they were both fellow
. and we have the best ev-
and honesty ot his heart,
id to learn of his appoint-
t credit upon the new ad-
conduce to the interest of the
Antonio Ledger learns from
F, that gold has been discovered
of country som^'thirty mi Vés east of
Gillespie county, in' this Státe.
3 or 400 persons working in
tare encouraged in their efforts
out portions of the precious
" are on the Sandies creek, a
Colmado.
-■
i.—The Ledger says the
: permanent contracts with
r and ample means, for the
of cross tiesj of live oak,
miles of the road, to be per-
W. Scott,
! Agent of
i Monument
have just re-
i the Colo-
certainly
The Trinity.—The HuntsviUe Presbyterian,
of the 7th inst., says the Trinity rivér, at Cincin-
nati, is now out of her banks and'rising An
extensive overflow is anticipated.
The Kate pasted down on Wednesday last-
ran from Tryan'a landing by 3 o'clock. Reports
a heavy rise above. Brazos going doWn—looked
for hourly.
Another ship saded from New York for Aus-
tralia, on the 1st inst., with over 200 passengers.
This makes a total of about 600 Australian emi-
grants from that city within fifteen days.
R.'G. Barnwell, Esq., pf South Carolina, who
goés to Europe on business connected with the
establishment of a continental depot for cotton,
has become connected with the Baltimore Cotton
Plant as co-editor. '
The President's Visit North.—It is understood
that the "President, after opening the Crjrstál Pa-
lace in New York, will visit New Hampshire.—
The Common Council ót Boston', on the evening
of the 2ftth ult., by a unanimous vote, extended
the 'hospitalities of the city to the President on
his passage through On his contemplated visit. f
The Southern Agricultural Convention—The
delégales to this convention assembled in Mont-
gomery, Ata. The Advertiser and Gazette says :
The attendance on this convention though very
respectable in numbers and especially so in talent,
is not so lafge as we had anticipated. Georgia;
Alabama and Mississippi are represented.
President Pierce's Personal Habits. — The
Washington corre- omlent ot' the New York
Courier says oi'Gen. Pierce,''that he drinks no
wine, and Chose who enjoy an intimate personal
acquaintance with' him,' say that the bereave-
ments and affliction^ of his later years and the
pressure of onerous puhljfc duties since hiá elec-
tion, have impressed him with Vcfeep sense of
religious responsibility, and given a tinge óf
gravity to his character which forms an observa-
ble contrast with the arlor and vivacity of his
temperament at earlier periois of his life."
The Gardiner Trial.—The Washington cor-
respondent of the N. Y. Journal of Commerce,
in his letter Of the 20th ult., says:
The trial of Dr. Gardiner is approaching to-
wards a termination. The rebutting testimony
on the part of the Government is still to be offer-
ed, but the opinion is now b ecoming more general
than heretofore, 'that Gardiner cannot be convict-
ed on the change of perjury, upon which he is
indicted: "
The stockholders in the Alabama and Florida
Railroad met at Montgomery and the company
was organized by the election of a Board of Di-
rectors
Alabama.—We learn from the Montgomery
Journal that a stranger in that citv, whose name
has since been ascertained to be J. P. Arnot, of
Texas, walked into the court-house and delibe-
rately blew out his brains with a pistol charge.—
No cause is assigned for the act.
Gov. Hebert has appointed a -very strong dele-
gation to represent Louisiana in the convention
to be held at Memphis the first of next month.
It snowed all day on Sunday, April 17th, in
Plainfield, Hampshire county, Massachusetts.—
The snow that day was three feet deep in the
woods fifteen miles west of Plattsburg, N. York.
The Pittsburgh Gazette says the dry goods and
hardware jobbers of that city have increased
their sales this spring 25 to 50 per cent on former
averages, which is attributed to their railroad
connections.
The recent appointment of storekeeper for the
Navy Yard at Portsmouth, Ya., has caused so
much ire among a portion of the Democracy,
that a meeting of them was assembled, and the
" hickory pole," raised during the late election
canvass, formally cut down.
Maj. Howard, Indian a^ent, has pollected the
Deláwaré tribe of Indians on the head wátersof
the Llano, prepárátbiy to their removal to the
territory assigned them in Western Missouri.
Printing Establishment Wrecked—Mr. E. Percy
Howe's printing establishment, designed for start-
ing a paper at Goliad, was lost by the wreck of
the schooner George Lincoln, ón Mustang Jsland
shoal, on the 21st of February.'
Texas Wheat and Fiour.—We learn from the
S. W. American, that Geo. Glasscock; Esq., of
Williamson county, has ground at hfe mill dur-
ing the past eight months, upwards of six thou-
sand hashers of Wheat, grown principally in that
and Bell' county. ' The estimated crop within
reach of this mill, last year, was twelve thousand
bushels, Thjs year it will be quadrupled. Col.
Merrill, of Travis county, bar, this season, 8Q
acres of promising wheat, which he calculates
will yield three thousand bushels. Wheat has
been selling at $1 50 per bushel.
Indianola Shell Road.—The Texan learns
that $15,000, iu stock and work, have been sub-
scribed by the citizens of Indianola for the con-
struction of a shell road.
Western Texas has recently been visited with
refreshing showers, which the crops very much
needed. ;
Another Mail Robóery.-^Cól. Gooch, special
mail agent for Texas, informs the Texan that
. . Robert Corfe, assistant postmaster at Springfield,
in place of Major nmestone county, has bees arrested for robbing
t° ih, ,he ^
Is now lodged in jail. ^ ■
The Victoria advocate says:
••We see everywhere in our country, the most
gratifying evidences of increasing population
weiltn and industry. Our own county has hac
a large accession to its industrial resources with-
in the last few months, and every neighboring
county we have yet visited presents the same
signs of improvement and progress.
The planters express high hopes of good crops,
w that everything revived by the late rain, is
with such vigorous promise.
of the mail failures, the
ARRIVAL OF
FITS BAYS LITER
By the arrival ot th
Cápt. Smith, Tuesday n
Orleans dates to Sunday
TÉLBGK
ORLEANS.
Louisiana,
have New
, the 8th inst.
Cunard steantobip
that the cotton mar-
ye been 40!000 bales.
V |d., with art active
ARRIVAL OP THE 'RAMER ASIA.
Pecltne fi itton*
New Yobs, May 5.—'
Asia has arrived":
Advices by the Asia re
kef has declined |á: '
The sales for the weel
FairOileans is quoted
market. r
Stock on hand, 793,00kles.
In American stocks ti market is active and
prices have advanced.
Havre rkets.
In the Havre cottoi larket' prices had de-
clined and a fair businc vas doiug. The sales
for the week have bee: ,000 bales. The im-
ports since the depart : dt the last steamer
were 3,000 bales. Sto on hand 67,000 bales
Continent Markets.
tThe other continent; markets are less active,
wuh'a downward tend* y. '
Ei tod*
The Canadian Cfer bill* has passed its sec-
ond reading in the Ho s of Lords.
The budget of the íancellor of the Exche
qoer proposes a tota bolition of duties on a
large number of Amet an articles.
The impression is lining ground that the
Ministry will be oblig< tq resign on t her'discus-
sion of the budget. 1 • r
F^nee,
rep
or and Empress have.ilea resumed.
The Emperor has laced three millions of
francs to provide che p lodging houses for the
working classes.
The futfds have tídiied in consequence o
the tenor ot advices fr&Constantinople.
It is understood that t e proposed transatlantic
steamship lines have b< abandoned
Ho land.
Tbe Cabinet has dis áved in consequence of
~ ■ Roman
the attempt of the Pope to reestablish the R
Catholic Hierarchy in íat country.
rAuitr*®-
noasin
rioleit
Cer^:
ive three or
. alt, or else
to do any good
in general.
I
tfuU the vV ilmingtoo and Manches-
ter Railroad, North Carolina, will soon be com-
pleted, to the great relief of travelers between
the North and the South, so long forced to take
sea-boat conveyance between Charleston and
Wilmington. There is only about thirty miles
wanting to mfeke the connection complete with
the railway chain of South Carolina.
The ship Meta arrived at New York en the 26th
ult., from B'emen, with one hundred and forty-
six cases of goods for exhibition at New York
Crystal Palace.
Tickling.—In Troy, N. Y., a few days ago, a
young man was fined three dollars for tickling a
married lady. The man pleaded common usage
in justification; but the lady argued (and she had
&e best of It*) jhat if it was common usage, it
was not common right, and that every lady pos-
sessed &e right of choosing her own tickler.
The Alabama Democratic Convention, assem-
bled at Montgomery bn the 2d inst., nominated
John C. Winston', Esq!, of Mobile, for Governor.
It is reported that ex-Secretary Conyin, on his
return from his approaching continental tour, de-
signs locating, for the practice of his profession,
in Louisville, Ky having made arrangements
to reside in the immediate vicinity of that city.
The purchase of Cuba will insure the extinc-
tion of slavery in that island, so says the New
York Tribune. We observe that the abolition
papers generally are not averse to the acquisition
of the Q,ueen of the Antilles,
Thb " Arrangement."—The resignation of
Mr. Slidell, as Minister to Central America, and
the appointment of Mr. Soule as Minister to
Spain, have given rise to considerable specula-
tion In the public prints. The Washington Re-
public says:
"By the letter of our. Washington correspond-
ent, in another column, it appears that there has
been no little changing and swa
in Louisiana. Mr. Slidell and Mr. Soule have
managed to shelve poor Downs in the Col lector-
ship of New Orleans—about as respectable an
office as any Union Democrat seems likely to at^
tain under the present .administration. This ac-
complished, it is understood that Mr. Slidell has
exchanged his diplomatic appointment with Mr.
Stale for the place of Senator of the Ui
States. If the Democratic partv of Louisiana
are the mere beasts of burthen of these high con-
tracting parties, we suppose they will carry out
¡meat. Wc rcgwJ this trad? of Messrs.
Soule as about the most marked dis-
for a people or a j
tinder our observation. We hope
the arrangement as remains in
It i i very much to be re-
could not be found in the whole
, any other than a professedjU&ws-
iouist to represent the United States
court."
Republic, of the 9th, in
ratner confirms the
at ; in the forego
Anuria.
The oppressive m«*asires of the Austrian Gov
ernment are core violeit than ever.
Republicans of Han
Mall Items.
The Boston Journal says there never was iu
that city such a demand for tenements, and at
such high rates, ai this spring Such is the in-
crease of business, that many streets, which ten
years ago were filled with the aristocratic resi-
dences of the rich, are now crowded with spa-
cious stores and warehouses.
Skip Building for Lake JBrir.-The shipbuild-
ers all along the shores of Lake Erie a^® ^av 'n§
_ busy season of it. The Buffalo Express says
that nearly 40,000 tons of neW shipping wil1 J*5
brought out on the lake this season. Over 13.-
000 of this will go from Buffalo; and among it,
four steamers 1,800 tons each, besides one small-
er steamer, ten propellers, and several sailing
vssels. The whole new fleet of this season will
consist of eight new steamers, twenty propellers,
and seventy-three sail vessels.
Hon. Mike Walsh, recently reported as recov-
ering from his severe illness at New York, has
had a relapse, and little hope is now entertained
of his recovery.
The Tennessee Democratic Convention, held
at Nashville on the 27th ult., nominated Andrew
Johnson for Governor. The Whig Convention
nominated Gustavus A- Henry for the same of-
fice!
The RJilwaukie News, of the 20th ult, says.
We understand that eases df positive lunacy
have occurred recently near the villages ol East
and West Troy, in Walworth county, in conse-
quence of excitement about the spirit rappings.
One lady has been sent to an Eastern lunatic
asylum, and two men are kept in chains. Seth
Paine, the spiritual banker at Chicago, has re-
tired to his farm in McHenry county with a
spiritual wife, leaving his own family at Chicago.
A report on the question whether ship fever is
contagious, has recently l)een made to the Mas-
sachusetts Legislature. *£he conclusion arrived
at in the report is that ship fever is identical with
the true typhus of Great Britain. Tt is not iden-
tical with the typhoid fevers of Prance and New
England, but an entirely distinct disease. It is
most fatal in its secondary forms. And lastly
that its contagious properties may be greatly
controll d, if not destroyed, by suitable sanitary
measures
Mr.
Mall Items.
Buchanan, it is said, has solicited
and Uuin'erous arrests
and it is be
A conspiracy amoíig
over has been discover
have been m^le.
§pitn
_ The new Ministry is
lieved that it \^ll soon bfea'k np.
Turkey.
Affairs still re\ain a warlike aspect. A num-
ber of war steamurs are stationed along the coast.
Fifteen Christians havt been killed in riots.
Constantinople have been re
Dispatches froci
ceived to the 11th
There was gre
quence of the su
gation would wit
way.
Tr
excitement there in conse
sition that the Russian Le
iw unless the Divan gives
Hon John Appleton.a prominent ex-member of
Con gres* from Maine, to accept the position ot
Secretary of Legation at London.
A first class ship sailed from Baltimore, on
the 25th. for Liberia, With a la ge nuriiber ot
emigrants.
The expedition to expiare the China seas and
Behrings* Straits is getting ready tosail from
the Brooklyn navy-yanl. The Vincennes has
her stores and most of her seamen on board.
She will carry one hundred and seventy men, in-
cluding officers and seamen.
The number of hogs packed in Ohio in 1P3-
-'53 was467,2$l; in Indiana 498,580; in Illinois
170,718; in Missouri 71,000; in Iowa 20:000; in
Kentucky 31G.300; in Tennessee 36 500.
" Thj Utica Gazette learns that there are no w
iu the lunatic asylum in that city about thirt)
patients, whose insanity is traceq'ble to the spirit
rapping delusion, and thai the whole number ot
such patients in the United States are estimated
at no less than six hundred. What good have
the "spirits" done, to counterbalance this fearful
evil?
Cooky Labor in Cuba.—A. good deal was said
on Change, on the 27th ult., in New York, aboiit
the introduction of Coolies into Cuba. The
Herald says:
The result, as far as English policy or Eng-
lish philanthropy has gone, has been to abolish
black slavery, "and redace another racé, less
adapted for such labor, to a barbarous servitude
in its place, more intolerable than that of the
African race.
The tractor.
There are certain requisitions, elements, if we
inav so term them, whjcb form necessary com-
binations to make up the model tactor. We
were about enumerating them, but a writer in
the Charleston Courier, who, we inter, possesses
experimental knowledge ot the subject, sums up
the qualifications in a troth!ul, comprehensive
•jtvle We flatter ourselves that a large number
at our factors come chock up to the standard.
They «tTieially confine their operations to tha
sales of one particular branch of the agricultur-
al productions of their country, such as a cotton,
factur a rice factor, a corn factor, a fiour factor,
etc His Business is to receive consignments of
produce, take charge of them, and effect sa'es oc-
casionally under defined limits either of tune,
of sale or price, bnt generaíly these are submit-
ted to bis judgment. And this last, in most in.
stances proves to be advantageous fothe p.a nter,
as his factor being on the spot whpre t^ sale (s
to be made, gives him, H a man; of good Judg-
ment an opportunity to avail himself ot ajavo -
' L, The fluctuating nature of
1
roops were bejng collected at Constantino
pie, and the Turkish squadron was ordered to
Salamito.
Rio Coffee Market.
Baltimore, Maf 5.—All the letters from Rio
report the coffee narket as active, with an up-
ward tendency.
Rhodti Island Senator.
New York. Mty 5.—Philip Allen, Democrat,
has been elected U. S. Senator from Rhode
Island without opposition.
The Revenue.
The revenne receipts for the present year from
all sources will fxceed $60,000,000.
Election of a Bishop.
Charleston, May 6.—The Rev. J. S. Davis,
of Camden, in this State, has been elected Bishop
of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of South
Carolina.'
* - r Inspector General.
The Massachusetts Legislature has passed the YoRK. May 3.—Capt. Scott, «on-in-law
— «- « ^ ■ - —™iwtPT1
' p Consuls.
The following cónsuls have been appointed:
Robert A. Frazier, Halifax; John T. Bacon, Nas-
sau, N. P.; Amos S. York, Ionian Isl. nds; J. A.
Pleasants, Minatitlan, Mexico^ G. W. Fletcher.
Chagres; Isaac Giddings. Laguayra; Alexander
Thompson, Maranham; H. B, Dency, Para.
Arrival of the Empire City.
New York, May 4.—The Fmpire City has
arrived. She brings no news of importance from
Havana. It was rumored that six hundred more
slaves had been landed near Matanzas.
Death of Robert G. Shaw.
Robert G. Shaw, an eminent and wealthy mer-
chant of Boston, died to-day.
Massachusetts Convention.
The Massachusetts Constitutional Convention
has organized and elected Coalition officers.
Steamboat Burned—Lives Lost.
New York, May 2.—The steamer Ocean
Wave has been destroyed by fire, near Kingston,
Canada. By this dreadful disaster twenty lives
were lost.
The Mesilla Valley Affair—Ex-Commis-
sioner Bartlett's Statement.
Mr. Bartlett, late chief of the Mexican Boun
dary Surveying Commission, has published a
communication in relation to the proposed seiz-
ure of the Mesilla valley by Gov. Lane, and the
Governor's charge against him of having, by his
neglect, lost that territory to its legitimate owner,
the United States.
Mr. Bartlett denies the most important state-
ments of Gov. Land's proclamation, and asserts
that the Valley ha¿ always been in the undispu-
ted possession of Mexico,
France, Sandwich Islands, United States—
Another Call for Protection,
The King of the Sandwich Islands has ad-
dressed another strong appeal to the President of
the United States tor the protection of this coun-
try fo be afforded hint against the designs of
France.
He alleges that these designs will lead to the
subjugation of his dominions.
Terrible Railroad Accident.
New York, M* y 6.—The eastern train, which
left here at 8 o'clock this morning on the New
Haven Railroad, ran off the drawbridge at Nor-
wich, which had carelessly been left open. Fif-
ty lives are reported lost, and another car full of
passengers is entirely submerged.
National Typographical Union.
Baltimore, May 7.—At the convention of the
rational Typographical Union, at Pittsburg,
Gerard Stith, of the New Orleans Picayune,
was, on the second ballet, elected president of
that body for the ensairg year.
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The editor of the New Haven Journal has
seen a lobster weighing twenty-two pounds! One
of his claws would make a meal for a good sized
family.
The Philadelphia Inquirer says that private
letters from the Old World state that the move-
ment toward the New is likely to prove extraor-
dinary within the coming six months. It is esti-
mated that some 200.000 men, women and chil-
wili leave England and Ireland, and that
vast army will be increased to nearly half a
from Germany and other portions of Eu-
Railroap Occident.—A telegraphic dispatch
in the Louisville papers, from Chicago, dated
April 27, says:
"A terrible collision took place last night be
tween the Michigan Express and Central Rail
road emigrant train, at a crossing near Chicago.
Dispatches from Adrian state that a getleman ar-
rived from the scene of the collision, and reports
twenty dead and a large number injured. Fif-
teen bodies had been brought in. During the
confusion of the accident the mail bags for Bos-
ton and Albany were robbed."
Three ladies, Mrs. Bailey, of New York, Mrs.
Brown, of Texas, and Miss Brown, of Cincinna-
ti , are attending the lectures of the Eclectic Med-
ical Institute, Louisville.
Virginia.—The grand jury of Tazewell co.
has presented the late Legislature as a nuisance.
Three companies lately left Frankfort, Ky,
tor California, by the overland route. One com
pany consists of thirty-one persons, and will
leave Independence, Mo., early in the present
month. They will take out eight hundred head
of cattle, twenty hprses, fifteen to twenty mules,
and six wagons. Another company is about thir-
ty strong, and will take out about 700 head of
cattle, all of large size, steers and working oxen.
Another consists of a dozen persons, and will take
out about 400 head of cattle.
Mr. Gales, the veteran and accomplished editor
of the Washington Intelligencer, has recovered
from his recent illness, hut is still suffering from
its effects.
'«mm.
The Limerick Examiner says that* there was
remitted to Ireland last year, through the Pro-
vincial Bank of Ireland, by parties in America,
pany
go on the arrival of the express train of the
Northern Indiana, Michigan Southern and Mi
chigan Central Railroads. This road is open to
La Salle and £eru—one hundred miles. By
this route, the time from St. Louis to New York
is 75 hours.
Excitement in Cincinnati.—There was a great
deal of excitpment among the citizens of Cincin
nati, on the 25th ult., in consequence of the
Mayor having prevented tb,e Rev. Mr. Kirkland
formerly a Catholic priest, from preaching in the
market place, on the day previous, on the ground
that his discourse would tend to provoke a breach
of the peace. Some of the papers of that city are
taking strong ground against the action of the
Mayor, and denounce his action as a suppression
of the freedom of speech.
The Effect of Railroads,—The sales of real
estate in the city of Indianapolis, Ind., during
the past three months, are stated on good author-
ity to average a million of dollars. The city of
Indianapolis is improving very rapidly, and large
amounts of property are changing hands to new
settlers. Railroads have had the effect of in-
creasing the business of that city, within the
past four years, ten-fold.
We learn from the Memphis Eagle, of the
29th, tnat the Hon. Valentine D. Barry died in
that city on the day previous. He had held sev-
eral public stations in Tennessee, and was a law-
yer of ejqinent ability.
A People's Washing and Bathing Establish
ment was sometime since established in New
York, at a cost of 840,000. Its success has been
most satisfactory.
Memphis and Little Rock Railroad.—On Sat-
urday, April 30th, the people of Memphis voted
a subscription of $350,000 to aid in the construc-
tion of the Memphis and Little Rock Railroad—
a work that, once completed, will be of immense
service to Artransas and the whole West. The
majority in favor of the subscription was seven
hundred and twenty-tun votes. A noble majority,
worthy Memphis, and the ¿Teat interests at stake.
Ohio—Cist's Cincinnati «Advertiser gives an
interesting table of the "Nativities of the People
of Ohio." This table servesNo both point out
dist inctly that the foreign population, outside of
the principal cities and towns of Ohio, and
doubtless so in other States in thb Union, is ex-
tremely small in numbers. One-sevpnth of the
English, one-fourth of the Irish, one-seventh of
the Scotch, one-thirteenth ef Welsh, and two-
sevenths of the Germans, in this table, reside in
Cincinnati alone. Almost one-fourth of this en-
tire table of foreigners are residents of that city,
and while the foreign element in Cincinnati
forms 46 per cent., or almost one-half, the same
element in the State does not constitute 12| per
cent or ooe-eighth of the whole; and the propor-
tion is constantly decreasing, under the influ-
ence of the natural laws of progress and popu-
lation. The proportion throughout the United
States of foreigners to natives is little more than
to emigrate thither,ootaí 1 Ohio it Ú almost ni-e to
.J. *4 n,nety or a? ™ the general average
Madagascar—\x is stated that the death of the
Prime Minister of Madagascar has introduced a
iMm
The reorganization of the Census Bureau, as
now completed, embraces an equal number ol
Whigs and Democrats.
There are 134,783 children in Wisconsin who
go to school, or nearly one-third of the whole
population. The number of school-houses in
the State is 1,730. Volumes in libraries, 11,957.
In Cincinnati almost every portion of the hog
is put to sOweuse. A distinguished philosopher
of that city is now trying some method to turn
the squeal to account
First Ocean Steamer.—The American steam-
ship Savannah "was the first ship of this con-
struction that undertook to make the voyage
across the Atlantic." These are the words of
Marwade's (Liverpool) Commercial Report,
which chronicled the arrival of this vessel in
Liverpool. The same writer adds that her ap-
proach to port, unaided with a single sail, dis-
played the power and advantage of the applica-
tion of steam to vessels of the largest size. .
The first British steamer that crossed the At-
lantic was the Sirius, from Cork, which arrived
in this country on the 23d of April, 1838. She
was followed four hours after by the British
steamer Great Western from Bristol. The voy-
age of the Sirius was made in eighteen days;
that of the Great Western in fifteen. The Sirius
was consequently the first British steamship that
arrived in the United States direct from Eng-
land, and the first that arrived from any quarter
as a regular trader.
Improved Railroad Car VentilaJor.—An ap-
paratus that serves the purpose both of ventila-
ting the inside of railway cars, and also of ex-
cluding the dust, has been invented by Samuel
Sweet, of New York city, who lias taken mea-
sures to secure a patent.
A project has been started in Philadelphia for
the construction of a continuous railroad from
Harrisburg to that city.
The Bourse.—Every trans-atlantic steamer,
says the Boston Bee, when Paris matters are
touched, has somet ing to say of the Bourse.
What is the Bourse? it is plainly, what corres-
ponds to our exchange— he gathering point of
— -f -—mil*, nnil—BlraOtY.mf'jL
able moment. The"fluctuating nature et lar#
articles of produce will sometimes deceree thi-
most acute, but « here the planters have general
tv found their factors successful in heir sales,
anunhappvone should not weaken their confi-
dence. Those who make the most frequent
changes, are, in the long ruu, the least success-
ful. Fortune, for their fickleness, it we may so
speak seems to direct thein to that issue, lo le
a good judge of cotton, requires an acute and
practical eve and a fine touch; the diticreiit shades
of color and variety of fibre, make these requi-
sites to the factor, as well as the purchaser, in-
■ The factor has a doubje duty to perforin.
Durchaser as well as the planter has claims upoij
E for fair dealing. Overreaching mw „„c!
ceed once or twice, but in the long run meet
with its reward, but this is as applicable to al
other kinds of business transactions as to that,
and should he strongly and permanent un-
pressed on the young mind destined lbr any of
the transactions" of active life. A habit of nar-'
row and mean dealing will lead to misfortune, as
they are termed, that will press those who prac-
tice them into acts that will finally become ruin-
ous to both their business and their reputation.
The fair, honorable dealer has nothing to fear—
everything to encourage him. The purchaser
comes to his place of sab with confidence, qiid
makes his purchases with satisfaction, whether
they be of a cargo or a package; a carpet or a
coat; a pound of tea or an ounce of spice. Char-
acter is more often built up and retained from
honest pence, than from grasping pounds, mote
frequently destroyed by small meannesses than
larger aberrations; the former, too, lead on to the
lat ter. The factor should never speculate him ■
self, in produce, and especially in such as he
sells himself, though he should purchase fhe ar-
ticle from another, as, if it should be known to
the pla nters, they would have reason to suspect
that he had become purchaser as well as seller
to the market—a position incompa ible with lair
dealing. When sales have beén made, all fac-
tors Will see the necessity of promptitude in ad-
vising the planter of it, as a day may effect b
change in the market, and if that change should
be in advance, his sales would go forward with
an unpleasant accompaniment.
In fine, the factor as well as al} other tndes-
men and occupations, is built up ánd sustained,
or crushed down, more by himself than others.
If he be honorable and attentive to his business,
careful of, and watchful over the interests confi-
ded to him, and of liberal spirit and open man-
ners, he will have nothing to feár froYn competi-
tion; nothing to lose by opposition. The world
is wide enough for all who are industrious aud
act correctly, and will always be so.
N. O. Bulletin.
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sums under £i, and av-
| eraging £3 9s.—the price of a past
JUations Necessary for a Printer's Ap-\
..—The Lafayette (Ind.) Cornier adver-
to |he printing business,
ment, which
may soon be <
It is said thati
the island
i now going on against
of Kossuth, will
Tfte lady i«,
authori-
on which it is situated, is something like State
street, Boston.
The Bourse is one of the beautiful structures
in the great metropolis. It is 212 by 12G feet
and is surrounded by a range of 66 Corinthian
columns. Although commenced in March, 1808,
it was not completed until 1826, on account of
the vicissitudes of intervening time.
Illinois Central Railroad.—The St. Louis In-
telligencer furnishes interesting information as
to the progress of this great enterprise:
The work on the -various sections of this road
is pushed forward with an energy which prom-
ises a speedy completion of the whole immense
line.
The Central road will be finished to Blooming-
ton very speedily, and it is hoped that by Sep-
tember we can go from Alton on the rails to Chi
cago.
About 8.000 men are now employed on the line
of the'Central road, and the number is rapidly
being increased. The company has sent agents
to New York and New Orlea
procure laborers.
Iron is being landed "at Chicago, and 1 hence
to Lasalie by canal; also at New Orleans,
thence to CaiÁ. Five thousand tons are to be
landed at the mo.uth of Big Muddy river, ta go
up during this'high water, and to be laid this
summer in Jackson, Washington and Perry
counties.
Cuba.—Mr. Erastus Brooks, of the New' York
Express, whose arrival in our city we noticed
some time since, wrote from Havana several
very interesting letters to his excellent journal.
From a letter, dated the 14th of April, we take
th • following extract, which may not be wholly
devo:d of interest to those engaged in the sugar
culture in Louisiana:
"The export of five hundred thousand hogs-
heads, or one million five huudred thousand boxes
of sugar per annnm, could easily be multiplied
four or five fold, and would be, if the country be-
longed to the United States, and labor could be
procured."
The question arises, and it ought to be dili-
gently considered by all concerned, directlv or in-
directly, in the sugar interests of Louisiana, how
much will those interests be worth, ia the event
of the annexation of Cuba to the United S'ates
and the consequent multiplication of the produc-
tion of sugar five or eight fold That is the
question, and on the principle that "charity be-
gins at home," let our planters attend to and
consider their own affairs. The bulk of Lou-
isiana sugar finds a most excellent and a grow-
ing home market, and is protected in a greater or
less degree. But bring in Cuba, with her al-
ready immense production, capable, too, of an
almost illimitable expansion, and where will be
the sugar interests of the State?
We have thought proper to make the above
remarks, without saying anything in regard to
the acquisition of the island, as an abstract ques-
tion. That the future must and will settle. In
the mean time, our BUgar planters would do well
to contemplate the prospect, and see how thev
like it.—N. O. Bulletin.
The following are some of the latest growl in gs
of Diogenes, the recently established London ri-
val of Punch.
English Contributions to the New York Exhibi-
bition.—An Irish laborer. Intended by way of
contrast and competition with a well-fed Ameri-
can negro,
A chancery suit. Exhibited as a specimen of
our glorious institutions.
A 120 guafship-of-war, modeled after a wash-
ing tub in possession of the lords of the admiral-
ty.
A model of the national gallery; shown as a
specimen of English "ornamental" architecture.
Liquid manure—a glass of Thames water, as
ordinarily drunk by fhe inhabitants of London.
Bgd River Raft.—Col. J. B. Gilmer has j ust
returned from Washington City, and brings news
tnat the contract for the removal of the raft was
awarded to a gentleman of Missouri, whose
^ 1101 *earn- He obligates himself to
and destroy the raft, and keep it open for
— for the amount of the appropriation,
thousand dollars. He has already
his bond for twenty thousand dollars,
to the requirements of the War De-
of course, he is bound to do-
remove the raft
anuary, 1856, and the num-
" icb he is to keep it open,
' Oa
ohei
"Circumstances Alter Cases."
The Washington Union, of the 7th ult., allu-
ding to the detention and difficulty at Havana,
to which the United States Mail Steamship Ohio
was subjected, on her recent trip from Chagres
to N*ew York, remarks:
"It is much to be regretted that under existing
arrangements between the two Governments—
the Captain General of Cuba having hodiplo-
malic po..' ers—such disturbances of the friendly
commercial intercourse of the two countries can-
not be adjusted, except by the very slow and te-
dious process ot a reference to the Spanish au-
thority at Madrid. It is certainly on every ac-
count desirable, and especially to Spain, thai
some understanding should be entered into by
which such differences can te nfr re promptly
and easily settled." '
irmr, wmitmi TKiyiug anything for or against
the policy that the President's partiaaus have in-
dicated for him, so far as our foreign relatic*-
and the rights of our seamen are concerned,
may be permitted to say that the Union's
graph isas strong an exemplification ot the (
saying that "circumstances alter cases" as any
ever se^n.
Had such an occurrence happened under Mr.
Fillmore's administration, he would have b*n
denounced in the bitterest terms, and the patriot-
ic fury of the Union would have overboiled in
the intensity of its heat. "Fillmore slavishly
truckles to foreign powers," -Fillmore willingly,
sees our flag insulted," "Fillmore cares nothing
for the honor of the country," would have been
the terms used, had such a thing taken place un-
der the wise, prudent and firm administration of
the predecessor of President Pierce. And one
ot our eloquent cotemporaries, not a thousand
miles from New Orleans, would have ejacula-
ted^" Again is the star-spangled banner tram-
pled under foot by the minions of a foreign des-
potism; again are the rights of our seamen in-
fringed up >n; again is the honor of the American
nation tarnished; again our eagle hides his di-
minished head, and weeps over the disgrace pot
upon him. But Fi'lmore is insensible to national
disgrace. Nothing can be expected from him.
He will point no cannon, he will order no armies,
he will not even direct our gallant seamen to
strike for satisfaction!"
Such were, substantially, the epithets hurled
at Mr. Fillmore by his oppon nts, under circum-
stances very similar to the one we have referred
to.
Now, however, the tune is changed, and "it
is," says the recently indignant Union, "much
to be regretted that, under the existing arrange-
ments between the two Governments." etc., ref- (|
erence has to be made "to. Spanish authority at
Madrid." The Union, and all other assailants
of Mr. Fillmore, two or three months since, ap-
peared to be entirely oblivious to the necessity
than then existed for precisely the same "refer-
ence!"
Well, "circumstances alter cases," and we
suppose it will be shown that Mr. Pierce is en-
tirely right in doing what was denounced as in-
famous in Mr. Fillmore! It won't be the first
time that such a somerset has been witnessed.
N O. Bulletin.
Sfavery in the Territory of Wisconsin.—"Ion,"'
the Washington correspondent of the Baltimote
Sun, says: "The new Territory of Washington,
so fertile and salubrious, and so inviting to ag-
ricultural enterprise, is opened, by the liberality
of Congress, to Southern immigrants, with their
slaves. A considerable number of citizcns of
Missouri and Kentucky, and probably Virginia,
will avail themselves of the boon, and of the op-
portunity thus unexpectedly offered tor the intro-
duction of another great slave Slate into the
Union.
Mr. Chase, Mr. Hale and Mr. Sumner were
wholly engrossed by their admiration of the
works and triumphs of Mrs. Stowe, that they
suffered the bill establishing the magnificent
Territory of Washington to be passed without
the usual recognition of the ordinanceof 17b>-~
or the Wilmot proviso."
"I DIGEST!" Soch Is the true meaning of tbe
, PE?SlN," or of the two Greek words from which it
derived. This it the significant and appropriate tille «
the True Digestive Finid, or Gastric Juice, prepw*1 b*
Dr. J. s. HOUGHTON of Philadelphia, from the tow®
Stomach of the Ox, for the cure of Indigestion
pepsin. It is natnre"a own remedy for an nnhesMM
Stomach. No art of man can equal its curative po*®"'
It renders Good Eating perfectly consistent with heal®*
See the figure of the Ox in another part of this p*p®r
The largest retail clothing establish-,
MENT in the United States is at No. 34 ~
architecture. ®im^nM,to^^doñe^this€°*''
bles the i
tomers a'
of Fashionable
As U would be impossible to enumerate in
ment the different articles, suffice it to say, the *—r-— foe
is complete in every particular, embracing all size
Men, Youths, Boys and Children.
New Goods received by every packet and i
from New York
JO* One price for Good —No deviation.
ALFRED MUNROE & <
34 Magazine st., corner oft
Store and Manufactory in New York, No.
12: [?
tHINN & BOLTON, corner St.
) Tnoro's Row, New Orleans, t
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