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CITY OF AUSTIN, TEXAS, SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1855.
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NUMBER 25
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>*rthe IrMi Bar*
'—4 inclose you the-eon*
uf u argument made by an "Irish
in betwJ* of a elieuvMcNeowira,
lis eow stolen 6y * '"'iniscreunfc kc-
"Sesuit to recover tufcow was
o : a " small court^ in thejute-
rior of the '-Emerald isle," add repqried by
H,
The Fall of a Historic House.
The oldest house that was
standing
The Nicaragua Expedition.
This is a more extended and ramified en-
euston, on Saturday last, is now a mass of; terprise than most people anticipate; New
ruins; it was a log building, in the rear of j York being the paint of concentration or
the Telegraph office, the original City Hotel,5 principal place of rendezvous and eaibarka- j
and one of the most historic buildings in the 1 tion, it is considered, in consequence, lather 1 Tiue he lias unformlv recognized the leaders
It bad stood for nearly ewcuty years, J'a local affair. This is not so : there wi'l be j of factions, as the priests of principles—he has
" - ' * " * ~ " honored men, rather than measures. True he
rd while traveliug there. btioiHO yuu
ct ft* worthy an iusertion in yoifr p 10-
srte and spirited journal, it is at jour
disposal.
Tours #r, Fides.
: Btft to return—You have no doubt remark -
ad. eeotleiiien of the jury, on your jdurney
hfiher, a ne t Rttle inn, by the sigh of the
" Salamander,"—-nany of y*u, perchance,
have wffoieed at the cheapness of the charges,
and congratulated yourselves on Our national
hospitality. There-wVviviality smiled u
its guests; Wit, elnrened by
draught, shot its irradiabow
fcsti«t;bo«d. and the sanies '
Sketches of a Man of Fifty. (
BY THKUDOEK S FAT.
Thirty years ago 1 was penniless and with-
out a friend. 1 bail eiij^aued unsuccessfully in
two or thieS forlorn speculations, in the Course
of which I wandered about the State with a
reckless independence, sometimes mourning ...
over the past, and sometime* anticipating the j „ .. „ . , ... . .,
bleak andi.-ioomV future. At length my funds | and ,"na".v <el1 down from very age and ,de- 111 the expedition, representatives from all
and every 'invention to ineiease them were e.\- erepitude. It was erected in the wiuter ofj parts of the Union—bold adventurous spir-
hausted. and s!in;ming all society, I spent a | 18oG-7, by Maj. Ben. Fort Smith, one ofi its, tired of the monotony, dullness and uu-
" '' * 1 l" 1 L" the. first settlers in the city, and an early profitableness of home life, in these "piping
pioneer of the State. ' It was the Hotel par
excellence of the Capitol, and commercial
metropolis of the glorious old Republic-,, At
its boards were daily fed the Preside&t .'and
his Cabinet, the Senators and Representa-
tives of the first and second Congress^ aregi
ment ofjrmy officers, and foreign Ministers,
Pearce and of tlie Texas Press. An Unlucky Present.
'•T.ue, he has uniformly violated every pro- j It is related in Hie 'Jngoldsby Leaends' that
raise in ii's noble mausural. True he has se- , an old gei&leiuan, a merchant in Bush Lau«,
lected a cabiueJ*t>therewith a view to perpe- London, had an only daughter p>ssessed of the
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tuate his own power, than ttie time honored
piinci; les whose exponent he promised to be.
n
our uatioAl
around the
conversation
Maomri ilBlbe irreg%*ion of the meandering
The playful host mingling
week in devising plans by which 1 was lo be
arrested from my embarrassment. I wrote tu
j a friend who was proprietor.oi an academy of
i some renown, and offered my services as an as-
! Mbtant.v They were kindly accepted. His an-
swer enclosed advance money to a considera-
ble amount: and in a few days, as I were but
the image of orae changing' dream, I found
myself away from the wide areeu hills and a
shadowy wood of the country, pent up in a
small room with a .class of boys whom 1 was to
initiate in the mysteries of geography and as-
tronomy.
The first lad was-adull, singular looking be-
ing. of a most uiipromising exterior. Judging
from appearances, the probability of teaching
times of peace," who are anxious to try
their fortunes in new and unexplored fields
0/ enterprise and speculation, 'lbeir leader
is the very man to head such an expedition,
a pushing, daring and indefatigable spirit,
fond of adventure, and regardless of dangers
and difficulties, he is very c-ertaiti to secure
and a corporal's guard of plain Misters, a ' success if success be attainable. We know
class that in those days were in the feeblestof no one of more energy, perseverance and
The Moat Popular Pint lk
World.
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tias fiiraot the J'essaus taught by the Fathers of j after two or three pi
the Republic, * and gone astray niter strange j positively f r thejk
Gods, paiticiilarly tiie great whore of Romish ■ take place on Thurfl
The Execution. |
The execution of Frank Hill, which has
been looked forward to with so much interest, j There is no plant whose hiatal? shell* «•
highest attractions, moral, persiaial, and pecu- t00^ P'306 on yesterday in the presence of: many vicissitudes as that of the Tobacco*
mary. She was engaged and devotedly attach- i a"aut twenty-five hunored persons, the larg- j (Nicotiana tabaeum) imported from Aaseri-
ed to a young nwn in he r own rank 0! life and 'est crowd, by far, that we ever have seen in ca soon after the discovery of continent,
in every respect worthy of he: choice. Alt pre- i ihe State, and composed of residents not only it was received into the* old world with •
li.ninaries weie arranged, ami the inaimge j of this but the surrounding towns and conn-! species of enthusiasm. It was not long, hrr
ever, before some of the evils and incooveni-
On tlie precoilii
elecM (who was to hav
ery, on his vreddiug d
£2.000 on his falher-i
endurance, with a mind more active and '
more fertile in tesources and expedients to
foresee and lueetemcrirencies. Col. Kinney
_ ter ,of considerable doubt. I strove several
his illuminated frce| 'imes for a glimpse of iutelfigerice in his mind
Ufl thev sank en-'vai . it was like the labor of the Braziliau
there funeath ttte I slava digaiugin the sand for diamonds.
. 4l,.i « 4*\\ here is Asia 5 7 1 asked.
Cut on tne lUtn ot He reddened, put out his underlip, cast down
his eyes, and at length found words to say: •
'-On the map, sir."
'■ Point to its real situation."
- ..." He stuck out his clumsy handlike t he fore-
fnime'of magnanimous Mc- i paw of a dancing bear, and pomte I in a direc-
Hiisruish of his asonized ab"uf ,we,lt>" 'degree above the horizon.
,I
ftr «i -rfeefes,' gentleuien, «uch was his j „ What causes the night?"
hiswd, be wild- i '• The moon, sir."
Jhae tiii* paradise was blasted, and turned
by the murderous machinations of
th* miscreant McLpgzrty. Who can paint
lie heart-harrowiBs sorrow that convulsed the
minority. Gen. Rusk, who was a great man
before the Republic, was once glorified at its
i tables with a sacrifice of fat things—fowls at
§6 a pair, butter at §1 a pound, eggs at S3 ; will be sure to retilizc the objects- of the ex-
his "young idea how to shout!; seemed a mat-1 a dozen, and Chan.piigne at §40 a basket.— : pedition as he avows them to be, and as we
-1-' —V!- 1 '* T -* ■ The diuner if we remember rightly, was partly j think? they are.
intended to bring about a reconciliation be-j It seenre, however, the authorities of the
tween Rusk and Houston, and must have re-: Government are not so confident that his in-
sulted fovorably, as the former pronounced ' teritiotia^re as peaceful and innocuous as
thKV.be forgot to yv
noth- ' I was quite satisfied as to the extent of his
his tWe ^w-fawds-fecame I5w, his ; abilities, and passed on.
BC«s.uu«-™-iefiBed tolrtBt him for milk, his j The nest had nothing to distinguish him
eofiee' was blamed, aisd bis spirits rose to his ; f«wn boys in general. His countenance was
SS^hfe guests^ beaten; and either left oneoflhose "0m,0°" fa,:es wh:ch "ever
one <
notice.
- oum.tr. He had pins stuck in the sleevesef his
, - , ^ i coat, and twine hanging ont of the corners of
s, few and far be- pockets. His stockings had slipped down
over his shoes, a-dth* strings trailed along the
floor. He fiJgetted with his buttou hoie, and
tween But what was inost exasperating in
inshti, and'melari^ioly in" turpttudc, when
-y
. application of the sliiilelah'produced an ex
' —• e—7citent's epidermis. My client
' broken headed and- broken
hearted, blood mingling witji tears thfit flow-
ed from^hBTdi^racef ahd his eyes, the once
hilarity, now sur-
t and swelling protuber-
ances,looked like our Einptald Isle, amid the
storms of the ocean. His wife calling him
coward, he beat her, and she went to live
w^fe the defendant. ,.
entlemen has Barney McCJafferty
KcNarmira ^^destructive,"dead-
ly, demoniacal deluge of .deviating devasta-
' tioBt..dbeonipanied with one combined cata-
hftue of concatenated conse^u^ees, and he
relies npon year justice for vengeance and
redress. Deeds snch as th% are not indige-
aoos "to our Irish soil, for aongh prejudice
• may multiply oar blunders, and fenaticism
aotff at onr religion, still it remains for our
ewn action to stamp upon our characters the
impress of dishonesty. The genius of Ireland
spurns with an adamantine foot the demon
of dishouor! Stretching her eagle pinions
with cneigetic evolutions of intellect, she
wings her way through crowds of tyrants and
affrit hted fiends—placing ,her head on some
bnrsting volca'no, she lights on the summit
of an eternal Etna, and while the flames of
'revolution play around her head, the lava of
ion drivek at her feet, and the cinders
[ation liafct upon her robe. She loolrs
in conscioi^-
-'tnhtlfect
thrust it into his pocket, which stuck out from
) bis body as if it contained the whole anwunt
cf his personal estate. I desired him to empty
it upon the desk, and forth came a meflley of
school-boy treasure: isinglass, slate pencils a
a ball, chewed ludia rubber, pupar bwits,a top,
and among the rest a fly-box, containing a
most unfortunate prisoner, who, without jo !a%
o' jury, had"been summarily condemned—his
wings stripped from the back, and he banged
by a hair rope on an Hppropria'e pine-wood
gallows, which my friend had manufactured
tor the occasion. .
The next was a clear-coinplexioned, noble
looking fellow, with large, dark eyes and glos-
sy h*ir, which gracetutiy curled about his high
temples; his full lip was red like a girls, and
his voice sweet, as music. He hail a correct
knowledge ol what he had gone over, and a
facility in learning What was placed before
tl.im.. 1 lie few simple interrogations 1 put to
Imn Were easily replied to, till at length he
mi-sed several in succession. Then came a
shadow over his mcurr.iug face, and the tears
wtul£ upsoltly in his eyes, ami hum; upon their
lashes trembling 1 could not Int wonder to
myself it he had a sUter or a cousin who re-
sembled Ir.m; but what was that to me ?
So I weiit on.
The other was an awkward, lubberly, over-
arnwn cieature, with a pair of ureen eyes that
looked like a cat's. His hairs-tuck ■ ut straight
on eveiy side like a cat brush; he had a liune
nose that occupied a t: int of liis f.ice. and he
sp ke with a voice that had a< little ol"melody
m it as the tiling of a saw. He sat upon the
bench witii as littieanimation as if he had been
made out of | ut'y; ami tin ugh he Oid not ans-
the toast, "Houston, with all thy fault" I love
thee still." Texas had great men in those
days, and their name was legion. It was an
insult to take a man for anything but great,
brave, chivalrous, and even rich. Everybody
they arerepresented to be, for, much to the
a'nuoyance and embarrassment of thegaMant
Colonel, the District Attorney in New York
holds him iii durance vile and will not per-
mit him and his adventurous comrades to
was rich, or in the army, or navy, or public carry out their well eoncoeted plans for set-
sei-vice, which was the same thing. The i tling a portion of Central America, with
City Hotel had a bar room* one of perhaps j haidv, industrious, enterprising colonists,
twenty that- flourished in the town, where j .who would be the progenitors and producing
steam was kept up at the explosive poiut, | stock of a*race thr.t will develop and improve
and the collapse of a decanter, pitcher or j the resources of a rich and prolific but be-
tumblcr, as it came in contact with the brains nighted and comparatively unknown couutry.
of some unlucky devotee at the shrine ol
cvivalry, or brahado, or some of the kindred
virtues usually worshipped "when the wine is
red iu the cup," was no uncommon occurence.
Those were the days of duels, bowie knives
and pistols, poker, keno and faro, where
ten, twenty, or fifty thousand dollars would
be lost and won of a night. Texas was the
prophecy of California, and Houston a very
paiticiilarly tiie great
Babylon. Ha has usurped the power to control
the political opinions of those who hold office
under him, and allows no sacre-iuess in State
Bights. He lias led our foreign affairs to Alarcy
and our domestic affairs to John Hughes, ami j was hope he soon
contents lymself with the peurile diversion of
making and uu-making viilage postmasters.—
We are, as a nation, kicked, snubbed and^ptt
upon by Spain, Holland, Paraguay, and every-
one horse power simply because of Franklin
Pierce—a Piesidentin uame bat uothiug else
—L^Crzr.ge Paper.
Huht.-ville Convention.—Rich! We invite
our readers attention to an article iu the Texas
State Gtfzette. The Gazette in speaking of tiie
Sjttg, and doings of the democratic convention
recently held iu Huutsville, says the conven-
tion reaffirmed the Baltimore platform of 1853.
All light-'-no objection to this. But what next t
He says the committee, passed resolutions
warmly approving the acts ot President Pierce.
All right. And to show the beautiful consis-
tency, they give an entire resolution upon the
subject of his having sent a fleet to Cuba, tie
says the democracy is a unit in Texas Does
the writer know the democrats of Texas ? We
think he does not, for we have too hijtu an opi-
nion ofthem to tnink they -arc all satisfied with
the course of President Pierc. The collar men
of course are. not many others, however can be
found. Now for consistency. When the dele-
pates in the convention find that Commodore
McCauley was on the Island, as the close
friend and visitor of the Governor General of
Cuba. Concha, ruling and viewing the Cubau
Soldiers in the carriage of Concha with his , a|1 ni ht ia e0IlSeqnence of our foolish
this cxii- dit-o-i and th^is nno ,f ,1,, P!^ur 'f ? ller ,han, landing iast ev^.„g. Pray pardon
^t t !] 7 + T fit K • i rsdref f!°m he 10 1 y,a,!,ny ,r ? "?, T I me, and in token of your forgiveness, deign to
why we do not believe it to be a filibustering | provoked and unavengedinsults, what will ths a<^)t fU a(.compa,iyi:1_r oress, aud wear it
was fixed j ties. The prisoner was brought out at 11
ving to j o'clock, accompanied by the Sheriff and Jail-
^ Tl,« T> o' ^ . ,L. „
The Government has exhibited unusual!
sensitiveness and suspicion in reference to }
ridegroom
10.000 dow-
furtiier sum of
dyint—as there
a little jeaious
squabb^inir with his inteuoed at an evening
paitv. The "tiff" arose in consequence of tiis
paying more attention than she tiiuught jurti-
tiable to a young lady with spaikling eves and
inimitable ringJe<s. The geutlem-aii retorted,
and spoke slightly of a ce.tain cousiu, whose
WHistcoat was the admiration of the assembly,
and which it had been darkly hinted had beeu
embroidered by the fair hands of the heiress ill
question. Headded, iu couciusiou that it-would
oe tuna enough for him to be schooled when
they were married; that reader, pardon the
Anavuidabie question', taat she was putting oil
the breeches too soon 1 .
After supper b6lh the lovers had become
more cool; ice.I champagne aad cold etiickeu
had done their work, and leave was taken by
the bridegroom in posse, in kindly and affec-
tionate, it not insucti enthusiastic terms as had
previously terminatedtheir meetings.
' On the following morning the swain though
with some remorse on the angry feelings he.
had exhibited, and the cutting saicasin with
which he had giveti it vent, and as a part of
the amende honorable, packed up with great
care a magniti?ent satin dress, which he had
previously be.Npdfteii for his beloved and winch
had been sent home to him iu the interval, and
transmitted it to the lady with a note to the
following effect:
" Dearest , 1 have been unable to close
or. The Rev. Mr. Seat, at the special re-
quest of Hill, preached £is sermon. In a
very impressive and solemn manner, he set
forth the evil associates aud influences which
had forced the doomed man through a reck-
less and unhappy life to the ignominious gib-
bet. In the conclusion of his sermon, he bid
ences involved in the use of it began to ip-
pear, and a host of enemies were rated «p
against it. Theologists pronounced it ai l *
vention of^atan. which octroyed the tffwcj
of fasting. Councils forbade it to all moIvi-
sties under their control. Popea Urban
VIII. and fcnoceot XI. punished the naa of
it witn excommunication; Sultan Amurath
the prisoner, in behalf of himself and those IV. with the mast cruel kind of death; Shak
assembled, a-solemn farewell, after which the j Abbas II. wifli penaltiea almost
prisoner arose '.nd spoke to the assembly at - - -
considerable length, setting forth his forlorn
and ueglected youth, his orphan condition and
the danger of hardening dependents by bru-
tality. He]reiterated to Weed, who was pres-
ent, the accusations which he made against
him ou the day he was sentenced, but dis-
closed nothing important. Wc hope this sad
Michafel Feodorovitch Tourieff offered a
tinado for the first offence, cuttirg off th#
nose for the second, and the head for the
offence j Prussia and Denmark simply prohi-
bited ; and James, of England wrote against
it. Finding, however, that no penaltiea,
however severe, could check the indulgence
in a luxury so highly appreciated, Soveteign*
delegates say-all _r ght ? tV hy ye^ ot cou.se. , f ^ sak(j 0, V(.u"r ev:er^itectionate
As General Pierce was nominated by a demo- Havi r writt^n the l)ote he gavB it to his
cratic convention, he cannot do any act that is sh )marfl0 lleilVef with a patCeL but as a pair
foray on Cuba, as many imagine it to be.-
The prosecuting officer of the Government j
is throwing every obstacle in the way to stop j
The first step tak£n was to seize the ship in |
San Francisco. No mines were dug, but gold j which the men were to embark, the steamer
was plenty and men managed to live without United States. After a judicial investiga-
swealing their b.ows. If a man Worked st: tion beiug made,, she was released, and was
Mil, he earned his §8 to §10 per day, but pre- J advertised to sail on the 7th inst. The next
cious few worked at that. Buck Pettus and
Jeff. Wright were the practical jokeis, Judge
Shelby was on the bench, and was indicted
by his own Grand Jtfrp for playing back gam-
mon with his wife. Gus. Tompkins, fertile
in expedient but fractious, with his large
brain and small body and lightning impulses,
was the terqgr of evi.-ioers. Felix Houston
step taken was to arrest the leader of the en-
terprise, Col. Kixnky himself; and in order
to obtain delay,'and embarrass the parties
implicated, the prosecuting officer has been
attempting to stave off the trial until after
thesailing of the steamer, so that the accused
would be deprived of' the testimony of his
issociates who have taken passage iu the ves-
commanded the turbulent army, Commodore ! sel. The court, however, saw the- unreason
More had not come to Texas then, and the j ableness of the course of theVprosecuting
navy was divided with several competent but I officer and fixed the trial for Monday, the
less ambitions commanders, not least distinj> ! 7th inst.
uished among whom was our old friend Boots It is the current opinion in New York that
a conviction is Altogether impossible. There
is no testimony that will go to show that a
military organization was contemplated, or
other noble spirits, whose lights have long anything other than a peaceful organization.
Taylor, a very Chesterfeldjjn. manners.
Carnes and Teel and -Morehouse and Deaf
Smith lived in those tiuieS" with a host of
since gone out. We notice a feW' survivors
of those glorious days still among us. Col.
Frank Johnson one of the heroes at the storm-
ing of San Antonio and the surrender of the
Mexican garrison under Cos, sat with us on
This can be proved by those who have en
ga^red to go out with Col. Kinney, with the
avowed and premeditated design to embark
in a peaceable, justifiable and, as they be-
lieve, a money-making enterprise. This we
■■ ■H i be .esl jbtte4 m .aiiie{Jbut
e! titan mijri:
uerness of the world, at
kings shall erumblc, and realms
wy, and around wlrose head suns shall roll,
' and Si: tellies revolve. This deed, «rent!em"cn,
not the offspring of necessity, nor was it
an act of deluded ignorance; it might have
been that a hungry helpless family called for
bread, that a lovely wife was starving, and
' that the preservation of this cow was the only
hOpe on which he could anchor bis existence.
Oh! gentlemen, in sueh-a ease we could al-
most deprecate the sentence of the law, and
consider the crime as the convulsive struggle
of' suffering humanity. Mercy would tear
'the^bandage from the eyes of Justice to pitch
the breeches of the ragged wretch. Perhaps
a' heart cf openness and a heart of weakness
were^he instruments of practical deception
in the place of knavery. But no! there was
no sueh palliation. He cannot plead want,
for he has five cows. It was an act of cool,
deliberate, calculating turpitude! The thief
etetping from his hovel Hke Sntan from
Pandemonium, with a serpent's guile, and the
serpent's wickedness, entered into the yprd
;to n b it of its cow as he did into Eden to rob
it of its happiness. And now, gentlemen,
having finished thi3 melancholy detail of my
elieat's wrongs, 1 beseech you. in the name
of my conscience and uiy country, as kinsmen,'
as Jurymen, as owners of wives, herds, and
other cattle, to wipe out, by a vindictive
jawMaa ^ _ _
■i^n t.f g;"ie! tKSn migfeMntWewnrselecf«J iir'j JJ„vyjon Telegraph
a yawn lhat opened a mouib.of most uppalliug j •'
dimensions.
Now maik the caprices of fortune. Thirty
veais have gone with the wind. 1 have taken
■iu interest in Watching the progress ol my lit-
tle cla.-s. The last mentioned 'jjrew up to a
poet. He has written sc.me of the most de-
lightful stanzas I ever leid. 'ihey breathe a
soul ot the highest uature, aud a heait stored
with all that ennobles aud sweetens life. The
dunce whnru I first examined, at this instant
holds an office iu Ihe United Slates, where bis
knowledge of human nature, and bis powerful
talents, have made bis name familiar to every
ear as his praise will be to future aenerations.
a log under the very eves of the old building I-know to be the belief and understanding of
tne very day before ^frfell, and with hiui was j some who are connected with the expedition,
another survivor, Honest Bob Wilson, *who f and who expect to embark fropi this port,
was expejled from the Senate of the old lie-1 and with whom wc have conversed ou the
public, and re-elected by an indignant people subject.—A7". O. Bulletin.
jand borne upon their shouldete in triumph j — —' ,. ,
I back to the aupitol. Such were the days of " The AvesT Lnd. 3i.ost person^ thinu
I the old -'City Hotel'' whose fall wc chronicle, j thst the re; son why the west-end of London
empl^eull traps in the way of resolutions writ- i
ten ocre by small demagogues, hoping in time
to catch a minnow. Let the peoj.le speak and*
act for themselves—no danger—aud if thej
speak loud and long for old Sairwre are satis-
fied.—Star Spangled Banner. \
What Jobs have we in council ? Whatwise
men of thi Easf'couucil '-peace and §ood will
toward men!" Yes. verily, we say "Peace,"
while our kindred liuve .been slaug^^red, iu-.
suited, searched, kicked aud beatiiil^Miie ve-
riest curs ot humanity L Yes; peace ?wneu our
ships are searched and our flag is disrespected.
Ye-, peace ? when our treaties are beiug vio-
lated, and the law of nations disregarded—
when open Roasts are made that they have
frightened us—and when the people of her de-
pendencies have been treated worse than gal-
ley slaves, and yet they council peace!
But the pcupte /-"-what do they? Action!
Action ! ! is heard throughout the length a it A
breadth of our land. Long enough have we-
waited. Our patence is great, but it will not
do to trifle with it." Government may feel that
the people rule. It may have cau->e to repent
its inactivity. It may find there are; beans—
young and tuatdy hearts, with wi41 and body,
who will not brook the Jaws'delay,- but whose
*uls, smaiting.at the repealed intuits to their
oilor, will gird ou tin* sword oi vengeance,
aiid chastise the insolent foe. We woA:t be
satisfied with the>liifliMg bluster of a weak and
t'netiieienl chief.
Our worthy President, with his cabinet of.
i*Soloiis, throws himself back m his "easy chair7
| and a report is sent iii ih'at the Spaniards have
I committed aa outrage upon one oi our mail
siecuuers—the Jii Dorado. The Daniel \\ eb-
wl
iA
•Wit
[£
ago. Three of theui were sent from Lorain
couuty for tiie crime cf burglary, and one
f.otn Perry cownty for passing counterfeit
money. 1 wo of them, were sent for seven
He m whom I fnuud not'-iug to distinguish him j years each, aud the others for three year:
Irom ci mmun lR.ys but his sioveriy appearance, j gac.jj
is now ot-e of the neatest and wealthiest mer-
chants in the city, and universally beloved fur
his intelligence aiii! viilue. and theolher wlmse
=>veet face and biiliiant mind won mj affec-
tiuus immediately anil awakened the liveliest
hopes of l.is future eminence, sleeps iu the
"rave.
bit written. ia niuro f.ihiuitybh^thaii tlie c-it, is Ji">thi^f
tk?n ihe topognifJifcfTSmfguration of
the capital. But the Academy of Sciences
TTSie Jack. SJjeppaid of Olifo. at Paris, in its hist sitting, pronounced this
Under this caption the Columbus States- i opinion to be a delusion. Iu the first place, j
man gives an account of tin? exploits of a no- j it nppears that it is not only at London, but!
torious convict. named Archibald Bantes, j at Paris, Vicuna, Berlin, 'lurin, fct. Peters- j
who nas recently been restored to the Ohio j burg, and almost every other capital of Eu- j
penitentiarv, from which he had escaped. j rope—at Liege, Caen, Montpellier, Toulouse, i jui0 notice, irom its etiornnty, is tlu: one <i Dr.
"Barnes'is one of four brothers^who were ! and several other lanre towns—wherever, in [ Peck, a case surficieutly strong luitseli to cause
sent to the Ohio pehiteutiary about two years fact, there are not great obstacles—tne ;en-
descy of the wealthier inhabitants to
hiniself of the oppoif unity offered of his servant
having to pass the tailor's shop ou liis way to
Bush Lane, and desired him to leave them,
packed in another parcel On his road.
The reader foresees the inevitable contre-
temps. Yes, the man made tha-fatal blunder
—consigned the robe^j Mr. Snip, and lett the
note together with the dilapidated habiliments,
at the residence of the lady. Her indignation
was neither to be described oi appeased ; so
exasperated was she at.what she considered a
determined and deliberate affront that- when
her admirer called she ordered the door to be1
closed iu his lace, refused to listen to any.ex-
planation aud resolutely broke off the match.
Before many weeks had elapsed, '.means were
found lb make her acquainted with the history-
of the objectionable present; but she never-
theless auhered tiimly to tier - resolve deeply
lamenting the misadventure, but determined
nut-tu let the burden ot tae lidicule. rest upon
her.
Wm. Pens's View of Runaway Slaves.—
A curii-us itbcumeut'has recently been brought
to light I3v C.-L. Ward. Esq., ot Towai>da,"Pa.,
by.whieh i| shown that- Wm Penh, the Quaker
did not believe iu harboring aud keeping run-
away slaves, when their iry.sters demand it..
• Mr. Ward t.hus prefaces the letter:
'• llelore I proceed to reail it—( e was repl)--
ing to a toa,^t given at a dinner iu Oswego N.
Y. to the county of Bradloid, Pjijn.j it is right
pel haps, that 1 should aec>iuut for its possession
Iu the course,of a professional examination in
line of our public offices, aiming our early ar-
chives—I met, accidttiiaily vviih ajiaper mark-
ed on the outside, '%iii. Peuu to the Susque-
hana Indians-" Either ot those nao.es was
luleresl iu one ever uiive to
ster affair causes him some slmht emotion—
h" "asCi.nade.-sJ Fittv Aurencans are de ■ . ..
• . ,■ «, - f enough to excite
Ciareti puates by Spain, ana sl.ot uiioout triai. j |J-ci,tenU ot e^ireflust.iry. arid ~i poii- j
1 ue voice ot tne nation is heariy iu 4eep la- I •
trag-% will dmw more general attention to | ?nd their socii found it o«h
thd treatment of indigent orphans, and Cf£3tc \ iwit advautiigeopf tontum it into • soorotof
a sympathy in their behalf whieh w«l lead to rcrenue; and^e cultivation and miTnufteturt
good results. At about half-past 1 o clock,
the drop foil, and the measure of legal jus-
tice was full.—Gonzales Inquirer.
Rio Blanco Bluffs, May 8th, 1855.
Editor of the- Gonzalez Inquirer:
Sir: Please give this notiee a place is.
your paper: I am opposed and shall vote
against the law passed by the last Congress,
for the payment of our public debt. 1 view
that law as unwarrantable and dangerous in-
terference between Texas and her creditors,
virtually repealing the law of 1848, passed
by our legislature to ascertain the debt of the
late Republic of Texas. Changing the mode
as laid down in that law, .we have the right
to pay our debt in our own way, which I shall
contend for at all hazards. I will now ask
your attention to Governor Pease's, letter, to
the Galveston committee of date of April Sd,
1855. I am opposed to taxing the people as
the Governor proposes, and will oppose all
such que^tiams whenever they couie up. I
am oppose?3fca change in our Constitution
as the Governw proposes. Remote the res-
trictions of the Legislature to borrow money
upon the faith of t' e State, in a greater
amount, than.the present Constitution author-
izes, and who can foresee and limit the
amount. Begin the system of borrowing
and taxing, of taxing and borrowing, under a
Constitution w:tbout limit, and where will
it end ? No one can foresee, under the pres-
ent feverish mind upon the subject of Rail-
roads.; before w<; can have xailrAds, wc must
put our own hands to £he wheel. Governor
Pease deserves well of bis country, for- the
stand he at last took in regard to the bonds,
as required under ihe charter of the Pacific
railroad. I have other objections to Gover-
nor Pease's letter^ which 1 will pass over fo^ t^the United Kingdom
.the present. , I am frequently (adled upon to
become a candidate for re-election to,the
State Senate. L have thought proper to
make the above reinar^. It is not my wish
to be a candidate for re-election. There are
others in the district bettor qualified, (or at*
least a^ well as I am,) whoso services can be
ptocurcd. I now return through you, my
heartfelt gratitude to my fellow-citizens for
their support in my election to the State
Senate.
Very respectfully, 4
Your friend and db't. serv't
C. KYLE.
Candidates* "Ftiii the Legislature.-
emulation, weeping for- her brave sous—out
nothing is done. The^lliiuois is brought tu on
Ihe high seas, a..d searched tor •'tiliibusterus."
'11,lee American sailors are cast in the dun-
geons of Havana upon suspicion of bemg lili-
LUjter.-. Ami the ia lcase that has beeu brought.
reading it, 1 was so struck with its tone andj General Tarrant is a candidate for the lower
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teifor, that 1 made a careful and Uteial cop), 1 branch of the legislature, iu the District com-
whicii 1 here offer you. It has not, >'^! posed of Tarrant and Ellis.
iy into tne published u Archives" ! ^ ~
Lit" oui Slate,
l'onud its way info tne lubli.-hed "Archives- I u' He has as yet
but having recentlv called the 1 n0 opposition In the Representative dis-
trict, composed of Collin add Denton, Dr. J.
each.
" Archibald and his "two brothers arrived
at the Ohio penitcntiary.on the first of March,
group
themselves to the west, is almost as strongly \
marked as in the '-great metropolis." lr. 1
the second place, at Pompeii and other an- j
cientUowns the same thing may be noticed;
and in the third place, where the local fi«ura- ;
tion of the town necessitates ap increase in |
a different.direction, the moment the obstacle |
1853, and were there but-a few days when j ceases, houses spread towards the west. Ihis-
the former feigned insanity, and so comple- j
tely did he act the maduian that he deceived i
both the physician of the penitentiary and j
the superintendent of the lunatic asylum.— j
He was on the 14th of March removed to
a rupture with any other government but Spain.
The President and his cabinet have liao ail
these cases presented to them, and many more
not mentioned here, but alter a slight move-
ment of their stately bodies, they.rela, se into
ihe chairs ol State—gape, yawn, aud suore!—
Batirap Adccrtiscr.
Tub Americas Ouder.—We ir.sert to-day
ail editorial nuder this heading, taken from the'
last number ot the Texas State Times, the
attention ol that indefatigable collaborator, 3Mr.
Hazard, to the subject, it is possible it may ap-
pear in some future volume.
'•My Good Friend.-—The people of New
York, having a ain wrote earnestly to me
about those prisoners taken by you, especially
ye woman and ye boy. faying mat they bought
tlieui fairly from the Governor of Carolina, who
sold them lor slaves. And.they being very
good friends aud neighbors, and alt under the
same King, 1 must therefore desire you tii de
I ver the said woman and boy to tne bearer
W. Throckmorton is a candidate, as yet
: without opposition. In Fannin Capt. R. H.
j Taylor is a candidate for the Senate. Maj.
j Bagby it is supposed will oppose him. In
| Lamar a number of candidates are in the
i field for the Senate, Gen. W. T. F. Coles,
j Cross, Esq., of Lamar, and probably Hon.
I Johnson Wren, of Hopkins ; for the House,
! W. H. Millwee, Esq., Col. C. K. Holman,
W. N. Peacock, Elbert Early, Gen. James
Mr. Mat and His Sister, the Nun.—
Mr. William B. May, of Koxbury, (Mass.) ! the asylum, and in a few days made his es- j
Who accompanied the famous nunnery com-
mittee on their famous visit to Roxbury,
stated on oath to the investigating commit-
tee, that he had a particular reason for wish
fact may, it is stated, be particularly observed
at Rome, and, to a certain extent at Edin-
burgh. When, then, all cities and towns
have their best districts in the west, it is pret-
ty clear that the causfe of it must be some
general law entirely distinct from local situa-
" It arises from
leading democratic paper iu the SJnte. whose
editor is now the Piesident ot.the Democratic j and by so doing, yon will greatly oblige
State Cent rat Committee. We publish this : Your very good friend and brother,
aitide, tu show how leading democrats who
know, and have a right to speak, regard the
American party It is a complete refutation
ot ihe cantnii; crj, so often heard on ou: streets
that the order has 1 een gotten up by the ene-
mies of the democracy, and lhat it is a whig
ingto scetthe inside of a convent, because
he had a sister in a convent in Emmittsburg,
cape. He was retaken in Lorain county, j tion. What is that law
and returned April 26, 1853. On the third i the atmospheric pressure," answers the Aca- j trick. We have never faltered iu devotion to
of October the same year, having by some j demy of Sciences. " When," it continues, | our principles, and as long as ,ve lmd ourselves
means procured a suit of citizen's clothing, " the barcmctic column rises, smoke and j
and false whiskers, he walked out of the prison j pernicious emanations rapidly evaporate in |
in open daylight, without being recognised j space. In the contrary case, we see that j
Maryland, whom he Lt ticrcd he should not be by the gn-trds. He made his way toLaporte j smoke and pernicious vapors remain in apart- j
verdict, this foul dishonor, and restore the fallowed to see if he should attempt to, and i county, Indiana, and in about three weeks j ments and" on the surface of the soil. -Now,;
value' of the Innkeeper's cow.
'If. - B.—It will be a matter of interest to ; as a nun against her will. The Boston Daily
know that the Jury rendered a verdiet for j Advertiser,. however, makes the following
plaintiff without leaving their seats. * ' ' - 1'T ' "
\
Sword for General Wool.—a resolu-
tion was approved by Congress, January 24th,
1854, providing
sword to Major General
tion of his gallant
ieo, aBd especially at the battle of. Buena
Vista. The edkor of the Baltimore Patriot
has seen this superb present, and sives the
following description of it:
The work of manufacturing it, was, after
due deliberation, entrusted to our well known
.-townsman and distinguished artist, Samuel
Jackson, Ijsqr., No. 194 Baltimore street.—
After being completed, the sword remained
in his store for several days, until this morn-
ing, when Mr. Jackson conveyed it to Wash-
ington in pe^jon, for delivery to the parties
"*by whom it will be pnsented in due form to
n i w I fr.„ M-.io ;« !,;-t,. i -tni
whom he had reasou to believe was detained j was there arrested for passing counterfeit every one knows that of all winds, that i
ludRey, found guilty, and sentenced to the! which causes the greatest ascension of the j
Indiana penitentiary for eight, years. ! barometric column is that of the cast, and
statement, which puts a very different face! "In the meanwhile his whereabouts was that whic-h lowers it the most is the west,
upon the matter. ascertained by the officers of the Ohio peni- j When the latter blows, it has the inconveni-
" Within a few days past, however, this ' tentiary, and Mr. Watson, Deputy Wardeu, | enee of carrying with it to the eastern parts ,
where procured a requisition on the Governor cf In- j of a town all the deleterious gusses which it j
in cu'mpany with such democrats -as the editor
of the Texas Stale Times, we have no fears for
our cithodoxy being successfully questioned.—
Ctarksville Messenger.
The Statk Times.—We acknowledge can-
didly that we aie gratified to-see an aificle i.i
tiie "State Times, published in the city of Au>-
"in, headed the " American Order." Tne Times
ereol, Sylvester, who will carefully cariy j Recor(J, Bonuer, Esq., and perhaps others,
the .. lo New Ca tie and H ere put them ou fion w g gt0Qt ig lor the genate
board a vessel bound uiiectly tor i\ew \ork— , ;n Red RJver and Bowie. He wiU probably
be opposed by Hon. H. R. Kunnels or Hon.
J. H. Burks. J. J. Dickson, Esq., is a can-
didate for Repre; entative. ,
WM. PENN.
Mr. J. C. Brecki.nridge and the Span-
ish Mission.—The Washington Star says:
A Washington correspondent writes to the
New York Tribune that Mr. Breckinridge
was deterred from accepting the mission to
Madrid by a letter from Mr. Soule to him,
explaining the difficulties he would have to
encounter in Spain, the utter impossibility of
his accomplishing anything there, &c., &e.-
farce
called
drama has recently been enacted in St Albany,
Vermont, which may be denominated 44 A
Husband for a day." A few evenings since,
as we are informed by a correspondent, a lady
husband has been in California about
in, ueaueti rue - ame ic.ii, wu c, x uC , first bo,ausc his
has done the order justice, and to five all our i , . , ,
leaders an opportua ty to judge for themselves j <^hcate health and he
we copy tlie article entire. It is well known ! ced to have lett her at
I wIIoss
Mow we have'b" say'that ertTis^ not a Sipgle | ™ Jf« wf \urP"se,d $ the u"'
i word of truth in this story. Mr. Breckin-1 expected return of her better half, as she
i ridge declined that position, like a sensible I supposed.
of tobacco was gradually subjected
everywhere to fiscal regulations or mon6poikfe T
Tobacco was in "such general use in America^
when first discovered, .and is there so widely
spread, that it is di&cuk to conic to any con-
clusion as to whjit precise part of that vast
continent u its native country—-probably
sonic portion of the Mexican empire. As to
the precise dates of. its introduction into Eir-
rope, it has been already, stated that it M*
lowed clpsely uponthgdkicoveiyof Amerifla.
The Spaniards under Columbus had scarcely
landed in Cuba in 1492'when they began to
smoke cigars; but they could
preciate its luxuries when, in !~
Cortex occupied the island Tobago, where the
plant .was found growing in great abundance.
Hernandez, the naturalist, was, it is believed*
the first who brought j&into Spain from Mex-
ico, in 1539. tt was introduced into Porto-
gal from Florida by one Flamingo, and into
France by Father Andre Thevet. or by some
friend of his, although the more eommoa
opinion is that the first seeds received there
were those sent aboht the year 1560 to Queen
Catherine of Medicis by Jean Nicol, French
Ambassador in Portugal. It was probably
raised also in England a few. years later, bet
received no notice till its well known intra*
duction by >Sir Francis Drake, from Virginia,
in 1586. In Tuscany it was first cultivated
under Cosiuo de. Midki, who died ia 1574,
having been originally raised by Bishop Al-
fonso Tornabuoni from seeds reeeived from
his nephew Monsignor Nicolo Tornabuoai,
* Next to salt, tobacco is-the most generally
consumed of all productions. Tne anneal
consumption here'is on an average 16-86 .
ounces, or considerably et«rc than a r«end
weighttoeveryman, woman e«d child through*
Moreover, this
consumption is gieatlyoi the increase. Be-
tween the years 1821 and 1831 the increase
was at the pte of about one ounce per head;
during the next 10 years it wjs somewhat
less than an ounce; bat-from 1842 to 1S51
it was three gunces; nmiring aa ir crease of
nearly 44 per cent, iu proportion to the popu-
lation within the last 30 years. In Denmark,
exclusive of the Duchies., the average con-
sumption in 1851 was cearly 70 ounces p--r
head. But this is noriiie - to what it used in
warm countries. If tb<- population of the
| earth be taken at 100§ millions, &i!}i ihe eon-*,
i sumption—sa ajaa ■ to that of Dei.
i p«r he;.i -nt. prsiace ol
\ the whole world will amount to nArly two
millions of tons (1,953,125) a "year. The
value'of the quantity tfcus reckoned, at 2d.
a pound, amounts to abave £36,000.000
sterling.—London paper.
The London Postal System.—The
London Postal system oiubraees a principal
office and not less than £vc anudrtd branch
offices within the arcs covered by the city.—■
Carriers with light spring ea;"ts call at the
receiving offiees almost i oyriy. and-deli renes
are thus made easy at inter vug of Uw hours
at most, in every part of a "ty. Frequent
deliveries is the life of the system, and the
vast accomodations it tfiords for messages
requiring prompt answers, secures a use of
' the postoffiee to an extent which haa no par-
j allel in our slow, old foshioaed method.-—
The statistics of the British postal depart-
; ment sIkjw that the people of England write
five times as many letters as our people, aad
' :s: lence ia
greater
every one
that the proportion of the. English people
who know how to write is much less than of
the American. The letters mailed ia lxib-
don alone are close upon one hundred mil-
lions a year, as many as in all the office* of
the United States. " The proportion of let-
ters annually to inhabitants in that inetropo-
r
He wore a hcavv beard and mous- lis, is foity-onc to one; while in this oosatlj,
gentleman has visited Euimittsburjr,
smoke and miasma, but
gentlemen,
wish to
not only the;;
LjO Oil,
own
c-oin.
purreaders that
if the
COI
her
sued
pri
her of®
Catholic nans are made
irrevocable ^praleTsiiw of the civil authori-
ties, but this, of course, is net the esse in the
G'eneral Wool. The blade is thirty one and fnitcd Sta^s' ,Even if,h.e rulef °^TT'
a quarter inches lon^ofthe finest cast steel, !her™ f strmirent as is pretended they
and emblazoned with national devices. The iC™ld nct '.gainst the process ot the re-
hilt is of solid gold, and is a specimen of ^1 ar cou 0 aw.
rare workmanship. The design is an ear of Depreciation of Gold The United
corn, ha'i concealed by the leaves of the shuck 'States Economist estimates the amount of
surrounding it. The upper part is a spread fllrnisbed to the commercial world dur-
eagle, on the breast of w iich is a shield bear- ! jnj; the six years, since the new mines were
ing the words, "Buena Vista, Feb. 22 and . discovered at 8400,000.000. The'iufluence
23, 184<- The eyes of the eagle are dia- i0f these vast gohi supplies is proved to be
Jgl effecting anit put two padlocks to the chain. Barnes
[t corpus is- ! waited until near daylight, when the Marshal
d at once fell asleep; he then wrenched a clothes-hook
Bpfg to restrain from the wall, unlocked the chains, tiavc the ; z.jii it uiay arrive; and it may be
^#ill. In some i Marshal a dose of chloroform, put ou his (the • as the west winds arc those wl.ie
nations which it cannot drive to the west.
Consequently, the inhabitants of the west re- j
ceive pure air from whatever part of the hoi i- '
nd it may be added that, j
' ' h most fre-;
Marshal's) cloak and hat, opei.ed the door! quently prevail, thev are the first to receive
when the boat was landing, and stepped on ! the air pure and as it arrives from the conn-
shore. lie next went to Jo 1 avis county, i try." After thus explaining why t.'ie wes-
lllinois, and tiunht school near Elizabeth,' tern parts are the best, tlie Academy makes
and went under the name of Charles F. Drake, j these recommendations :—1. Tlip persons
"At this point he was seen and recognised who have their liberty of choice, and especi-
by a young man living in 'Wisconsin. The ' ally those of delicate health, should reside in
it because his wife was in extreme
would have been for-
e copy tlie amcie enure, it is wen kiiowh : w at home to take care of
thronglidntthe State that Co!. Fonl is rt clear- ; his children, who are numerous and young;
headed democrat as well as a clear-headed j next, because, if he left Kentucky and re-
write!-: he is known to be a bold chivalrous j turned after an absence of years, it would re-
lureot^nacqnain-J ;re y0ars 0f labor for him to obtain the
ind Davidson per- j practjce jtI his profession he .would have been
and may you and yours I compelled to abandon He is a young meu
I of little property, and has very recently won
way to professional fame, so that he is be-
ginning to make money, and is too sensible
e up his present prospect for accuuiula- |
than any other county in the State, or we guess j ^'^Jnf^recollected that as American for-
wide ot the mark. Give tiiein "a little more ... ., . - .
.rrapa Capt. Bra-S.r—Banner. elS" ministers are paid, not one in ten can
' ~ , ,,, , j lay up any of their compensation from bc^
A Fearful Tragedy.—The London Times ; vernment. Certainly no gentleman like Mr.
lays tie torts* ils reatters the particulars of a tior- | Breckinridge can do so in any such position,
r.l'le affair vvhich recently occurred near ttie as he has a large family to.support, and is a
Dutch settlement of Transvaal at the Cape of liberal liver, but without being extravagant, it obtaining money, &c., under false preten-
Goovi Hope, and which we think can only be ! AVe conversed with him frequently on thesub-
paiallelledinalrocityamongtheachmvemeiits |iec d know that fce was „overned bv the
ot modern titues, by the exploits ot Marshal
The revenue of the
tache, and was familiar with many incidents 1 'l is fourteen to one. t)
of their early life, and so fully established j British office from " drop letters, so caUM,
himself in the capacity of her husband that ■ f'131 is letters mailed and delivered J®
he passed an agreeable dav in her compauv, j same town and locality is upwards }-
and obtained possession of some S300 previ-1 000,090; while the revenue from
cusly renutted for her use. The happy pair | description of letters in the whole
were receiving the congratulations of their \ States is less than §10,000, and n
neighbors during the next day, when loland ; n,ous difference arises wholly froa
L.L.IJ iL . I O xl_ . l..J_ ' JJ__1 I 1
behold, the joy of the lady was 'suddenly ; l'iat 'a an English town a crop le J
chartered to bitterness by one who had recently : uniformly be answered tn from two
returned from the gijld region, and who prov- j hours—i.ever more than four , ■
ed to her satisfaction that the would-be-hus- [ cities, one is lucky if an answer be -
band was nothing more or less than a good | ed in twenty-four hours. Afitr urircmMdsm
Ons \
1847
monds. The
crass of the hilt is the Mesi-
vcry different from the anticipations of many
«in coat of arms, the serpent and cactus, vciy ' financiers, who predicted a p eat immediate
h«ivtly wrought-, the eyes of the serpents be- \ depreciation. The relative value of gold to
inggarnets- The scabbard is of silver, thickly silver by the £nglish law of 1816 was 1
young man did not make himself known to
Carnes, but wrote a letter to the Warden of
the Ohio penitentiary, who immediately fin-
warded to the Sheriff of Jo Davis cojinty a
description of his person, and lie arrested liiiu
the same day he received the letter, ile
contended tin t he was an innocent man, - ml
was not the person, and even after MeKwen
arrived at Galena and recognised tiim, did not
acknowledge until Mac made him take off
the western parts of towns. 2. That all es-
tablishments from jvhich emanate pernicious
vapors and gasses should be placed to the
east. -1. That ill building a house in a town,
and even iu the country, the kitchens and
other departments from which pernicious
emanations may arise should be placed to the
ea:t. The members of the Academy who
have announced the preceding discovery, and ,
made the preceding recommendations, are
St.AniH.id in Aimers, when he smoked and ! we suggest above; though we must do
burned to death thousands ol his barbarian op- hi in the justice to say that had his sc. vices m
ponents who had sought refuse in a deep ami Spain been absolutely necessary for the well
spacious cave, fn the case at the Cape ot Good being of this eountry, he would have made
Hope. 1 lie Calf re- Indians had murderfdjii Or- j aUy sacrifice of his personal interests, aud ac-
ober last, under circumstances of great bar- I Cepted
more or i n
imitation of the geuuine article—-bearing the j
same form aud features, and having been an | _ * _
intimate friend of the true one. The marital j .-Villi-Slavery ton* j. i{ -
impostor has been arrested, and now awaits | ^he Cincinnati Ga^tte ha^ the blowing
his examination for (so the indictment reads) notl(!e 0 an. 11"|", avel? thrrp del*
"assault and battery." ' ln sess'on ln that dunD« ***
fl I I'l TP Ap i* • , V.
Assault and fiddlesticks! We should call j „ Thc li?hte of tbc party, such aa
Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Fred. Donglm,
! Lucy Stone, Mr. and Mrs. Foster* were net
Dahlias.—Lord iin attendance. Thc chief persons of. anl
ces.
of Indiana,
One op Pharaohs . , , „ ,
Lindsav states that, in the course of his i wl10 Part were _ r* u, ,l ' d-v
wanderings amid the pyramids of Egypt he | ^ Brown, Ccolored%)ami U.e
Wiiiioeriii^s aiuiu py.um.u, oi m ^ ^ ^ doubt es4«dingly
stumbled on a mummy, proved by its biero- . Antoinette 15 r;)nsp hts been
.-t. under eiicumsti;
I'an'y, ten or twelve men and women ol the
Dutch settlement. Immediately general Pre-
loricus raised an army of five hundred meo and
accompanied by Commander General Pi ieter
proceeded on an expedition to revenge the
blood ol the victims. After au abseuee of se-
veral weeks they reached some remarkable
subterraneous caverns,
glyphics to be at least 2,000 vears of age.— : whether the
Iu examining the mummy after it was Iln- ! aided by what has
, - .■ ~j — to his coat and show some marks which were j Messrs. Pelouze, Pouillet, Boussingault and ' . fi hnndrpd width ^raiho".^'
with goldand ornamented with solid , 14,2875, and the actual value has been as not known to the Sheriff before. j Elie de Beaumont—all of theiu of European a
rl?f8' j e e. ,t'1® sca^}" follows: In 1861, 1 to J5,1399; in January, j "The brothers were all raised in the State reputation as lavants.
jfc ofebltd gold and ot unique design. 11855, 1 to 15,1599; in March, 1855,1 to of Vermont, where their father now resides,
The sword wis made after a design froifa Lt. 15,232(1. It will be seen, that as compared who is reputed to be a worthy and highly
Benton, and cost ?1,500. . j with silver, gold has been constantly increas- respectable man, and gave his sons a good
— ' i ing in value. This anomaly is attributed to education. Archibald, in particular, is a
Washington.—M. de Tocqneville, reply- i the great demand of silver during a period of eood scholar. There is no doubt but that he
ing a few weeks ago to an invitation to attend war in Europe and China, where thc silver iiad accon plices outside of the prison who
a banquet given by Americans in Paris to the standard is retained. The increased supply aided him in at least two of his escapes.—
memory of Washington, wrote: \ °f gold has scarcely been sufficient to fill its How true it is that the 'way of the transgres-
plaee, and consequently ttiat metal has not SOr is hard.
There is no grander name in history, and
if it was permitted me to choose a place only retained its value but shows considerable ,
ameog the*great men who have left eternal appreciation. The Economist thinks that j The Liverpool Times has an article
memorials, 1would choose, without hesitation, jwhen the war is ever, silver will find its way expressing the hope that, if a war between
the place of Washington, and I believe that; back and gold will necessarily depreciate. Spain and the United States arises out of
alt who can appreciate moral beauty and are j ► ; Cuba, England will not take sides with either.
Jfe?" The latest folly enjoined by the god-
des.-i of fashion upon her abject devotees, the
ladies of New York, is the wearing ot the
bonnet ribbons four feet long. Ihe bonnets,
meanwhile, continue to recede from public
observation. They have long been invisible
to the naked eye of the wearer; and they now
threaten to run entirely to ribbon.
capable ot being enamored of it would com- i On Wednesday, a curious incident Jtsays that such is the universal sentiment of
pete for hie place. May it please Godtopre- happened in the Supreme Court, in Boston — ■ 1 " *■ 1 -■ -
• .t * *i . .1 il. _ - .Tinltrn mnn
serve both the spirit and thc works of th^t
i man.
Judge Shaw was on the bench, and at the
commencement of the docket, number one
was the first called, but it appeared that it
Judge Lobing's Removal Vetoed.— wes not ready for trial. Upon this the Judge j figr
The Governor of Massachusetts has vetoed arose and stated that he himself, as counsel,
the removal of Judge Loring. This step is had entered that suit long before he became
reeeivad here by all the right-thiukiug as a a judge. He has beeu ou the bench more
glorious and honorable rebuke of fanaticism. ' than twenty-three years
A CanijssSviciih:. The Trenton (N. J.)
State Gazette Says that a valuable slut, be-
longing to si gentleman in that neighborhood,
had a pup, which it was found necessary to
drown. The slut showed signs of violent
grief, and finding the body of her offspring,
she fished it out of the creek, and laid it on
the poreluof her owner's residence, looking
reproachfully in his face. She then went to
rrl_ Z, -wl k, ^ ! the cteek, walked in and deliberately drown-
ihe Linperorot the rrench has oner-j e(j
England—even of the aristocracy—and that
its sympathies, in such a contest, would be
with the United States.
es had entrenched themselves. Upon his
arrival atthisspot, GeneralPretoriousattempt-
ed to blast the rocks above the caverns and
thus crush the savages beneath its ruins. Tiie
peculiar character of the stone however ren-
dered this scheme impractible, and he-then
stationed his men around the mouths of the
caves, and built up walls in front of them. Alter
a lew days many of the women and children
were driven from their hiding places by the
hunger and thirst, and were allowed to escape,
I lit every man who came forth was shot d-aU
with their lifles On the 17th «■! November, at
tlie close ol a seige of three weeks, the beseig-
ers, seeing no signs ot iite, entered the caverns
and the silence together with t"e horrible
ordor arising trom Ihe bodies of tlie dead, told
how effectually their ol ject had been accom-
plished. More than i:iue hundred Caffres had
been shut down at the mouth of tlie caverns,
and a. much greater number had peiislied by
slew degrees, suffeiing all the horrors ot starv-
ation in the gloomy recesses.
ed 1000 guineas, open to Great Britain and
Ireland for a perfect broke charger for thej
Empress. Who is she going to charge—the j
Russians.
First Lieut
Artillery, has resii
army
D. N. Couch, of the 4th
ned his commission iu the
A Tall Woman.—The Adrian' (Mich.)
Watchtower states that a tape-worm has been
taken from the intestines of a woman ninety
feet lonj
Traveling.—Every day marks some ad-
vance in material improvement, and hardly
in anything more than in the facilities of in-
tercommunication and the conveniences and
comforts of the traveling public. Those who
remember the " slow coaches," or even the
fast coaches of former times, could hardly
realize as a fised fact the railroad speed of
these days, but they have come to see so many
things next to the impossible conquered that
they go into the opposite extreme and begin
•to think that uothiug is impossible. We had
almost come to the sajue conclusion when we
read the new Schedule of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, inserted in this paper. Think
of being transported—almost, without the feel-
ing of locomotion—from Washington to the
Ohio river in lets than a day, and to St. Louis,
in the far West, in two days, and on thc
route crossing the chains of the Allephany
Mountains, Et an elevation of ficcnfi/stirii
hundred feet above the Washington Station,
with as much apparent ease and indifference
as if those toweling and romantic regions had
been totally rased and obliterated..—Nat. In-
telliijenr.er
The Administration is again down on
tho Know-Nothings. Mr. Josiah F. Polk, a
cousin of the late President, was dismissed
from a third class (SI,600) clerkship in the
Second Auditor's Office at Washington City,
fharged with being a leading Know-Nothing.
Anti-Slavery cause _
is dobe or said. The
,.. , j . j continued attacks 9t infidel speakers upon
wrapped, he found m one of its closed hands , ««*«££ • ^ gcri t^res and the
a tuberous or bulbous root. He was interest- ° - ^ .u ;h
Divinity of Christ, the proclivity _
for running into eitremes and advrncing a
turd and impracticable measures for attaining
cd in thc question how long life could last; 1 "ivinuvot uuns,. tue n—""V
and he therefore took the tuberous root from
S,=2aDrinSPLri'i onf Ve^"
to descend upon it, and in the course of a few ; tttnent of the ^
weeks, to his astonishment and joyjthe root by 5Tdi«ff, scn« by folly,
burst forth, aud bloomed into a beauteous Jin? ia ^ to be« the
3 ,a j character of a Convention of cbirttian w"
gtn„ A Doctor returned a coat to a tailor and women, assembled for the purpose
because it did not fit him. The tailor, see- doing good to their follow-mortola.
in^ the doctor at the funeral of one of his thc three days the meetings have been ry
patients, said: i poorly attended daring the d.iy. If W
Ah, doctor, you are a happy man. i niug sessions have bad a much iaiyr
Why bo? asked the doctor. 1 dance."*
Because, replied the tailor, you never have ' 1"""" f.fc Al*
any of your bad work returned on your bands. \ Capt. Henry O. Grafton/ et tne •
* -i ted States Army, and who seiwd gall|ptly
Fanny Fern.—'Ihe London Weekly jn tj,e Mexican war, was rec«itiy strMtea
j Chronic
j Literature, describes f anny rem as --a areau- J)aVenport
j fill person—a species of idiotic Mrs. Trollope. )
possessing all that lady's want of refinement, i
1 but without an atom of her wit."
onicle, speaking of reprinted American <jown wjth appoplexy, and died suddenly at
•l-ature, describes Fanny Fern as '-a dread- j Davenport. Iowa.
A Speck of Wae in Utah.—By the laat
account fjorn Utah it 6eemsthat the Mormoa
Legion and the United States troops eame
. . . . . . very near* collision. Brigham
granted I writ of error in the Case of Amson, a ]on?- manifesto, in which he olw-
and suspended the sentence of death impend- j indicates his purpose of canyii^ out hi*
" 1. Vl-Kf k!* n*n WlllAV
The District Court of Cincinnati has
ing against him.
Large Haul of Shad.—There were 4,-
000 shad taken at one#haul at Maryland
Point, on the Potomac, on the 24th ult.
own points and establishing his own policy.
5<3- Lieut. Henry F. Walter has resigned
1 his commission in the Fifth U- 8. Infaetiy;
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