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"The Will of the People Should Rjile."
PROPRIETORS.
VOL. XIII.
GALVESTON TEXASTUESDAY JUNE 17 1856.
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GALVESTON NEWS
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IV RICHARPSOit fc CO.
W.EICHAEDSOS ..J. EICHAEDSON.
Dmmou General News. Jre"d pomjrtjc to
the Commercial Intellictn"! (rom U I5"J
Market of tho nortd. to the AsricoltOTl ldmu
or the coontiT; to the Improrcmecu J d joorerlw
that mar be made cotnludfe to onr Africoltnral ana
Si.wpcritrttoroUUoarw&rjm.
n nut mcanmot Gorenmieni are thereby aOfccl-
td?w lllaertlaneomanHn In nlaamu onr raj
thla aod other connlriea. w Anecdotes ana Taa ol
an I to personal reflectioni on private character
never .m-mc
OyCorr.pera:.nRSfe;.tijoDthB00
- - ertrovrars. in advance ... . ?UU
A Oodnctlin of so per cent will be al owea reit Mil
tcAwtoctaacn alnprorartal snbscr'pUons and
mffioSS!cri.dlstcow.ttl.e!ea:
nxie Ither mike t remiuaneeii. at onr riit bv inalL or
SSaachSrlvaie ronrancesasthcr mar have
conndence In a belnr both rait ana eipea.""
ADYERTISIAa RATES :
For each mnsre or ten linen or frafjon"?1;"!-?;;
dollar fcfthe Bra Insertion and tilt? centa breach
AT.?ntrdVr.?S?rSocUo u made -mta.
menu Inserted for three all. or tivehc tnonUia.
Uook ami .Tob Printing
BIAHKS. BILLHEADS CABDS CTECtlLABS
SXEJLhliJUAi. r i jwi" -
Exiled with ncatnesa. and on the moat liberal
terma.
TueJobncnartment of thl.OTtas.la kept cnllrelr
BPDarate. It Iiaa been recently nearly doubled In Its
ViSSt.r materials. P-ff'.Sl "
r.re.M-a or dlnerent aije. and UnuamtilUTeiit
d-criptlon. or wort beridea a. large power prea.
VebcUeve this Job Offlce. win now compare (Jvorablj-
wltiiir in the South in point of enent and ysrletr
JtSateHilaa well a J in Its superior style f wort
v V Jt. JTTlrr.fc j.. vhti.ii it I. .teemed. Prieea
h2 l TO atMBr wdw brtpe nrelr. if
We invito a comparison with other ofllwa in and out
of tne State. In all respects.
TUESDAY JUNE 10 185G
D?"iir M D Heeeing of Waco returned
tills morning from New Orleans where he has
been conducting the defence of the heavy land
suits in the United States Circuit Court in
which Lapsley is plaintiff and a number of
persons in Texas defendants One of the vcits
Senator Sumuer and Hr. Brooks.
The following editorial from the Boston
Conner stands in striding contrast to the fu
nous proceedings which have taken place
throughout Massachusetts and m Boston upon
the occasion of Mr Sumner s chastisement
Ths Conner is a paj er of the highest charac
i .pcrr. v.--..-.. 1. . i tcr and reflects the opinions of the old coner-
(LiirsLEr s Mitchell and Dew) resulted ; '
W t ma alo remark thatthe Courier TOAin
tuns its petition is an oil Welter Whig
journal and this .s u confirm ition of what ire
have I -fore said namely that the Old line
inn wis trial and will come up agaii fori
re hearing in .November The other ca.c. go
upto the Supreme Court on frnts of error
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Cincinnati Convention The mail from
New Orleans brings no later intelligence from Whigs of "New England a elsewhere are gene-
Cincinati Uc learn that the telegraphic rnl'1 dpced to leave the question of slavery
wires wire down between Xew Orleans and " dipoed of lj the slate States them
kksburg which accounts for the absence of
further advices
Wearcali.0 informed that the despatches 1 c" aad Southern Stites on the fioor of Con-
alrcati) ii.rehedEO far as they relate to the
prospect of the several candidate? are not
considered reliable
fiehes and hence they do not justify these per-
sonal and moulting itticl.5 140.1 Southern
The PsKsirEiTiAL Vote. The Bichmond
jrJ ig- has the following Items
We learn that Mr Stuart Inha speech be-
fore the Staunton Convention made an esti-
mate and claimed as certain for Mr Fillmore
the electoral jVCcs of the following States
VIZ
Massachusetts .13 l-Tennessc -
Rhode Island
cw York-"
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
aMarvland -
Kentucky'
North Carolina
Loaisiana
Missouri
California
Delaware
Florida
12
- 10
.- C
. 9
.. 4
.. 3
3
w.h.ch mates a total of 157 11 more than is
necessary 10 aa ciecuuu-
1 t
Dr. Have and the Feanklin Expedition
rtr kan has (.M-ltned totaVe the command
of Lady FranUnfs new expedition to find if
uossioie me remajna o. ir uuauauu .uu mi
relics or his ships. He does so from inability
to get his previous engagements off his hinds
.0 ab to be ready 111 season to set sail
That Bet On Monday last w-. mentioned
that four thousand dollars had been deposited
with Mr Bain at the Gait Houe to be warr-
ed that Kentucky would not go for Mr Fill
more We have since learned that on Monday
there were more than twenty applicants to
take the bet but the tragencas inrArfnti-K.
hontsvttle Journal 23
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A member of the present House or Kcprcsen
tatives from one of the Western States was
once so poor that he paid for his tuition by
ringing the college bell at the session hours
Be literally " rung himself in " What a for-
cible illustration of the sentiment " Honor
and fame from no condition rise w
Dallas IhtDatlat Herald roticcs ome
substantial improvements in that town " Be-
sides the new Court Home now steadily pro
greasing several other good and substantial
buildings are being built on or near the Tub'
lie Square A large bnek hotel is projected
and will probably be commence 1 soon 1 v Mr
COCKRELL"
The same paper says
The farmers are still engaged in harvesting
the wheat crop The yield wc are inclined
to believe will be considerably greater than
has been generally expected
Pkogkess in Eqtpt Or the capital stock
of the Suez Canal forty five millions of francs
was reserved to be subscribed in Ejrypt ind
ma. me iceroy tool in an some niiccn mil-
lions The remainder was entirely subscribed
in three days by the public and one million
nine hundred thousand of the amount was
taken bv three native Fgyptians of the
ancinnb race bjiig th. fir known m-tantc
of the participation of that people in an in
dustrial enteipme 0f a national or corporate
character
The Massachusetts Pj:konal LiBErn
Act The Masachusctts House of Reurecn
tatives w hich a few day ago had ordered to
a third reading a bill repealing the persona
liberty act enactd last year reversed their
action on Tuesday and passed a substitute
embracing the odious and unconstitutional
features of the original bill Thi of course
is intended as a retaliatory measure for the
attack upon Mr SrMNEB The Altertiscr
however a highly influential Boston paper
referring to the matter says
We arc much disappointed in this action
and we think that the Representatives them
selves will regret the result as soon as time
shall allow reason to regain the place now
usurped by passion It is unfortunate that
.uassa cause. is cannot sum in tne proud posi
Lion of a State allowing to the citizens of her
sister States their full constitutional right
while demanding from 'nem reject lor ner
Hale o the Bbooxs ajd Scjinee Afi aik.
A Washington correspondent says ma. ocna
tor nale re marked upon hearing of the cudgel
ling of the Massachusetts Senator that he
was sorry for Mr Sumner but that nine out
of every ten Northern men would be 1m
proved by a similar application f
m
The German Turners one hundred and e
en in number who were implicated in the riot
at Covington Ky. a few days ago have been
held to bail in $1000 each to appear for trial
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The ladies out West have a passion for
onions but the effect upon the breath is so
disagreeable as to be an insuperable objec-
tion to its gratification They nave hit upon
the idea however of giving onion parties at
which the only refreshments are raw onions
and alum salt. This arrangement is on the
principle that "in the dark we arc all of one
color
Tnv Kvattiesof Moemomsm The Mor
mon creed not only permit polygamy but
marriage between inooa rciauons. iraei
r it"iru) ihat he has met with numerous cases
of men who had married both mother and
daughter One bishop married six wives all
sisters and his own neices. ubicham iocm.
recently built a stone harem for his ninety
wives but they all revolted anl wonldnt go
into tne cage. wneiy women were iou uiuwi
for one man and St Bmgham was obliged
to give in
A Raft Indeed' A modern traveler m
Germany gives a description 01 one of the
immtnseratts which occasionally descend the
Rhine He says "it was nine hundred feet
long and two hundred wide on which was
tiniHA villsffft for the accommodation of the
boatmen and the pascngera. consisting of
about one thousand persons mere wascai-
fiA Tmire a&a other animals on board and
also a shop where the passengers could be sup-
piitu wiiii e.erj ucwsm.ij m wt.it
m m
A Postal Tkeatt with Mexico Gener
1 .:..! -..Un tt f t. A broneht with him an im
portant postal treaty one of the provisions of
which Is that .Mexico and the United States
shall pay $76000 each per annum towards
.iarnHnTth.'rn?n6eofiiteam communication
between the two countnw along the Gnlf or
Mexico
Chicago seems likely to become a second
Amsieraam tne ci.y i uuim bv ii.v.t BUU..
the level or the lake that a part of it is in the
procew of being raised to secure better drain-
age A company has lately purchased a tract
or 150 acres at 4000 per acre through which
will be constructed seven canals each one
hundred feet in width with streets 80 feet in
width between the canals each street to be
nmnded with railroad tracks. This improve
ment will give great increase to the water
front 01 tne city ana gresi laciuiy or tue i
pcditiou shipment or landing of goods
Ktbe5TI!.g from Rio A letter from Rio
to the 3d nlt says there was a good deal of
ickncs amongst tne men-01 war in me nar-
lusr The United States incite Savannah
hA Burfntv rases offever onboard She had
jailed from Rio on a cruise for the benefit of
the health or her crew
1 Tuirtion of the six thousand Chinese
laborers contracted for by the Imperial gov
ernment uaa arnvea ai x.10 xney were 10 uc
bound for a term of fifteen years and are to
receive six thousand dollars a month
The Captain of the American brig Mary
Smut who had been apprehended on a charge
of slave trailing aico on me iia ui juaixu
nt I la hi 3
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The X.w York JUTrror states that Mr Chas
s ft ii!it formerly connected with that office.
has received the appointment of Consul for
Nicaragua under tne waiser luvas uovern
mint
sri tvc-Iir LI1.E BETWEEN NTEW OkLSANS
and Boston bill was introduced in the
Massachusetts benatc on the 23 iginstant in-
nrnoratinc the Boston and Jtfvr Orleans
Steamship Company with a capital of $1000.
000
The terrible accident on the Panama Rail-
road is attributed bj one of the eye witnesses.
to me vans uciu& jfMiu vusiu ihha: iUU
ning ia the same direction without being
properly tici togcincr
AmrtTif the late arrivals at one of the St
Louis hotels ib one that read1 "F Smith and
four wives Salt Lake
Col Parker H French Late Nicaragua n
vtn.cipr P!eninotentiarv to this countrv. was
arrested in cw York on the 22d.intant for
an old dcut.
Dr Hugh F Rose a Virginian and nephew
or ex rresiacnsiuauisoa uicum inpwutuuu
ty Tenn. a few days iince
The Dallas (Ala ) Gazette announces the
death or 3lxs Alary uidd in ner win year
She was the wife of the first Governor of Manama
The alue of csbels has depreciated at N cw
ork fully - per cent wncemeisi 01 Jan-
uary as established by recent sales and the
latest charters have fallen off at a correspond
ing ratio
An active discussion is being earned on
among English scientific men as to whether
or not the moon rotates
Professor Owen has been appointed super-
intendent of the department of natural history
and science in the British Museum; salary
ffiOO
Lord Wodehouse the British Under Secre-
tary for Foreign Affairs who has been ap-
pointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary to Russia is but 30 years old.
The English papers represent that this is a
very popular appointment
Part of the Spanish expedition for coloni
zing Fernando Po sailed froaTencnffe on the
15th of April It consisted of a governor
300 soldiers anl laborers and 50 priest
Sir Wllham Hamilton the great Scotch
metaphysician died at Edinburgh on the 6th
inst He had long suffered from paralysis of
his right side
.Tbe Dublin Nation announces that Mr
Charles Gavau Duffy the late proprietor of
thatpaper Is to receive a present or JG1000 in
Australia for the purpose of giving him a
qualification to enter the Legislature
IS:8?. .orcoan-erfeiters was arrested
in Detroit Michigan on the 12th ina Eight
Sl0nietlEhlbQDdrcd dollar8. Principally on
Canadian banks were taken from them
The people of Hopkinsrille Ky are maklne
jrenarationa tn vA.im ..- ? rrr.
Fkou Washiv&ton Vie Brools aiul H7f-
on dtficulty Mr Brooks has given notice to
Gen Webb through tio Aiken that his let-
saw 1 Troe.lof a r'MiHi.nojr.uMH. tsnne.
ivi vu itv'uj 0 bvtiritf at rs 4(4tif ci 1 t3 ai
tonally inofllnsive
All excitement appealed to hatcccased. ex
cept that which is connected with the chal
Ienircof Mr Brooks to Senator Wilson
The following are the main features of the
correspondence between Messrs Brooks and
Wilon .
Mr Brooks complain- in a note borne bv
Gen Lane of Oregon that Mr Wilson spoke
of his attack on Mr Sumner as cowardly and
says " I thc-cfore hold myself at liberty
Lj this note to request that jouwill inform
me without delay where and when outside
of thi district further note will reach you '
General Wilson replies. "Icharactcnzcd on
the floor of the Senate the assault on my
colleague as brutaL murderous and cowirdly
I thought so then I think so now and ime
no qualifications whatever to make with re
gard to thoc words I have always regarded
dueling as a relic or barbarous civilization
which the law of the countrv has Lrandtv. a
a cninc. While therefore I religions! be-
lieve in the right of self-defence in the broad-
et sense the law of my country and the con
viclwitteof uiy who! lue forbid me to meet
vou for the cnroosG indirativt in vnnr lottor "
Gen Webb telegraphs to his pafier. the X
1 . Courier and Enquirer of the 30th ult
Gen W jlson s refusal to fight Mr Brooks
on the ground that dueling is contrary to the
laws of God and man is approved but there
are those who conaemnhim for inviting the
challenge while entertaining such sentiments
and thick he has lot ground by the aflair and
that Mr Brooks has been benefited in the
same ratio For some hours after this corrcs
pondence had passed a street fight was ex-
pected as Gen Wilson was well armed and
was surrounded by armed friends Mr
Brooks however said he designed no violence.
and it was agreed not to bring tile subject be-
lore me iiouse jur urooivs ieu ior uincm
nati this afternoon ind Gen Wilon will go
North to-morrow
Foreign Xews m the fbica In a dis
patch to the Richmond (Fais- of the 29th nlL
we find a few interesting items of foreign
news brought by the steamship Africa which
arrived at New York on the previous evening
with Liverpool dates to the 17th ultimo We
extract the following.
The political newB Is nnimjiortant Parlia
ment was not in session Politics were quiet
and there was no eTcitement on Central
American affairs
An English journal in the Government in-
terest explains Clarendon's letter respecting
the offer of two thousand rifles to Costa Rica
by saying that the British Government have
large quantities of old muskets for sale and
will be glad to meet other customers than
Costa Rica
The sittings of the Crimean Board of In-
quiry were within a day or two of termina.
tion
A pension of 5000 has been granted the
Marquis Dalhouse by the East India Company
on the ground that he annexed the four king-
doms to Great Britain
The trial of Palmer the alledged poisoner
was progressing in London attractinc much
attention. Eminent members of the 1 nglish
bar arc employed on both sides
A congress of " reformers of all nations '
has been held in London Robert Owen pre-
siding Petitions to Parliament and a me-
morial to the Queen were adopted
The continental news is without interest
Wemtdc such comments is occurred to us.
jccrday 111 regard to the assault upon Mr
Sumner Weureno friends to violence and
especial. are we unable to justify the mode
chosen to Mr Brooks for his attack or to find
any apology for his selection of a place which
should be kept sicred from such ?cenc It
must be admitted however bv ill who ore
disposed to regard the subject rcisonibly and
dispassionately mat me portion 01 .Mr bam
ner s speech which prompted the act of vio
lence and which we published to-day is ex
ces-irely insulting and provoking and not
only hiphly indiscreet in sentiment:rmA15n
guage bnt unjustifiable in any view in which
it can be regirdcd We shoul 1 despite the son
of Massachusetts who could hear his native
State arraigned in uch a temper without fee
ling an 1 manifesting his indignation and it
woul 1 be strange if a South Carol man did not
resent the arrogant and contemptuous tone
which Mr Sumner saw fit to indulge towards
South Carolina
In rcrard to Jitdzc Butler inasmuch as his
expressions were more pointed ind ncr&onal.
they would be likcl to excite even keener re-
sentment Mr Butler is an old mm long a
member of the Senate an accomplished gen-
tleman and a most amiable and honorable
person Of course he entertains extreme
southern opinions on the nubjcct of slaven
bnt bis character deserved! stands -.ery high
he is u gentlcmar of urbane and courteous de-
meanor anl is universally beloved esteemed ;
and respected Mr Sumner s peroudl ittack
upon him was in onr opinion unmanncrl an 1
indecent in the highest degree and none tTic 1
more to Mr Sumner s credit that it was made
in Mr Butler s absence from hia place and
from the city of Washington
No person can reasonably suspect us cf a
disposition 10 cuecv me ireeuom m dctite
What debate i conducted upon just and fair
principles is another question w hich we will
not uiscuss now But m our judgracrt no
man woo proiesses me uectnncs 01 i-cace uas
a right to employ that kind of language which
inevitably provokes war and then undertake
10 smem nimseii uemnu u s non resistant tic
fences And if he finds himself dragge 1 out
and made to suffer the penalty of hia intem-
perance who can he blame 7 " He has volun
tarily put himseir upon a par with the intem-
perate and the violent and must submit to tha
coneqnences -Esop informs us that a trumw
eter who was once taken prisoner in battln.
claimed exemption from the common fate of
pisoners 01 war in incient times on the
jrrounti mat ne earned no weapons and was
in fact 1 non-com ha tant. "Non-combatant
said his enemies pointing to his trumpet as
the prepared to nut him to death "whv. v
hold in your hand the verj instrument uhich
males our foes to ten fold fury against us
For ourselves we are sure we hould not
have made a speech of the description of Mr
Sumner s were we disposed to do so without
counting the cost We should have prepired
ourselves therefore for our defence and in-
stead cf being surprised as Mr Sumner was
and taken unawares the first principles of
logic woall have instruct? 1 il that the ad
vanct of Mr Brooks must 1-c hostile and that
w e m i-t tin 1 nn and abide the issue W Info
we cplorL therefore tho public outragt and
the condition of public affairs wluch haspro-
uuicu mu uuunijpy consequence1 ai me seat
of government and while we parti-nlartj re
grct the place and mode of this unlawful act
we are not at all surprised that a speech eo in-
temperate and ill judged as Mr Sumner s has
provoked some sucn relation a has ensued
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(!wt!iTcst0tt JHtfos.
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THURSDAY JUNE 12 1856.
fX7Col Osgood contractor for th. Pan
Antonio and Gulf Railroad has returned to
Port Lavaca
K?"Mr V Mabsciialk Sris about to
start an independent newspaper at George
town Williamson count)
OSTine BrxTON sentenced to the peni
tentiary for two years at the lite term of the
Distnct Court for Liberty county has leen
despatched for llautsnll properly guarded
o--t
The Choii Our Information from the
country represents the crops as greatly in
want of run The growing corn is suffering
much fromJJrought
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GPWc learnfrcm Mr Ivgiuham who has
arrived this morning from Port Lavaca that
there are now about one hundred hands on
gaged on the railroad and that the nnmber
of hands Is gradually increasing They have
already graded about two miles
Mr CoorEB the undertaker of the Artesian
welhw;Auiluihad reached the deph of aae
hundre 1 and thirty four feet on the 4th ultimo
The last twenty four feet is bored through a
bed of hard marl one foot per day being as
ranch as can be excavated
ll? By recent orders from the W ar Depart
ment Maj Chapman stationed at Corpus
Chnsti has been ordered to the Pacific and
will be snccecdcl by Capt P T Tcenlei
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K?-Mr IIfnttA Maltbt (Democratic
candidate) has been elected Miyor of Corpus
Christi
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Dbowned V soldier or government em
ploj ee was drowned at San ntonio while
bulling on the list ult
LT-The members of the San Antonio bar
liave recommended Judge DEviNEto resign
that he may be re elected and receive the
benefit of the incretc of salary provided for
it the Ute session of the Legislature 4
9-9-9
Hi?" The frit-nds of Nicaragua in Houston
have hell two or three meetings and some
twenty men of the "right stripe' purpose emigrating
- - ' --Ep-MissMArr
H Gordon has been chosen
to take charge of the Female Department of
the Free cadcmy at Corpus Chnsti
03" We observe that the Hon P 11 Bell
has introduced 1 bill in the United States
House of Representatives diriding the State
of Tc-sas into tw o Jndicial Distnct
For Nicaragua Another meeting of the
fnends of Nicaragua was held last night at
theTremont House
We understand ten men whose expenses are
defrayed by subscription leave on the steam
er this evening for New Orleans en route
for .Nicaragua where they will doubtless do
good service
Our Iintrlct Court.
The suit brought by Hayme & Co of
Lagrange against J B Root Postmaster of
this city was yesterday decided in our District
Court This BtUt was brought to recover the
snmbr$200 charged to bae been sent to;
mail to 5fcssrs Dean A Cramer of this cit
sometime last Fall It was proved that the
letter containing the niontj confuting of two
one hundred dollar WIN was registered It
aUo appeared in testimon) that the letter
with a blank receipt arouu 1 it was placed in
Messrs Dean A Cr A lur.s letter box or
rather it was proved that the Chief Clerk
handed the letter to another clerk wuh the
blank receipt to be put into sai 1 box and that
the latter was seen to go towards the box for
that purpose 1 1 was also proved that Messrs
Dean t Cramer sent a small boy to get their
letters as nsual from their letterbox anl
that the boy took all their other letters with
the said blank receipt to Messrs Dean A
Cramer but that the sai J letter with moncj
was not among them Messrs Dean A Cra-
mer thinking all was right and that the
blank receiptwas pat In their box for them to
sign signed it accordingly and sent it back
to the postoffice expecting to get the letter In
return H appears however that one of the
clerks having got the receipt kept It and the
boy returned without either letter TJrrccept
Mr Dean then went to the PoBtolhce himself
to get the letter but was told that it had been
put in his box and that someone having his
key must have taken it He then asked for
his receipt but it was refused; and there
upon this suit was commenced It houl 1 1 a
stated that Mr Root was himelf ibcnt ai
the time
Judge Bell charged that unless there wju
wilful neglect in the Postmaster he was not
responsible Deputy Pestmastera arc sworn
officers of the Postoffice Department ; and un
less it coul I be shown (which was not done by
the testimony) that the Deputies were not
responsible persons in no instance is tae
Postmaster responeib'e for their acts Ver
diet was given for defendant
Day before yesterday was decided the uit
of Kirchoi Fti. A Woodward against E. B
Nichols A Co This suit was brought to re
cover the value of goods consigned to defen
dants for shipment to Magnol.a on the Trin-
ity amounting to about S9.000 which goods
were lost on the steamer Jack. Hays by htr
sinking the plaintiffs charging that ucfei
dants had been ordered to insure the goodi
anl had neglected to do so The proof did
not in my icspect sustain the charge but
on the contrary It wasprovedthat defendant
had done all that could be done to protect tic
interests of plaintiffs having made every ef-
fort to get insurance even without express o-
ders to that effect. Verdict for defendants
We understand that Judge Bell is endca-
onng to get through with the docket this
week so as to adjourn on Saturday but it is
doubtful whether this can be done
Central mcricau Affairs.
HEidVGE FRO-I THE PRESIDENT ON THE TKO-
TOSITION TO ARBITRATE
The President of the United States sent a
message to the Senate on the 29th ult on the
proposition to arbitrate the Central American
question but it was not opened It appears
that the message merely enclosed a letter from
Mr Mai cr to Mr Dallas dated the 21th of
May on the subject of the difference of opin
ion between the British Goernment an 1 that
of the United States regarding the construc-
tion and effect of the ion ention of the 19th of
pnl 1S50 and the subject of Central Ameri
ca generally and stating to Mr Dai las the
views which the President entertains of that
quattun as it now stands in order that he
ma communicate the same to the Earl of
Clarendon The substance of Mr Makl s
letter to Mr Dallas is thus set forth m u de
spatch from Washington to the New xork
Commercial Adcrrttser
There has been no direct communication be-
tween the two Governments on the main sub-
ject since the letter of Mr Buchanan to the
Earl of Clarendon m September last and his
lordship's reply of 23th of the same montb.and
the bnef rejoinder of Mr Buchanan on the 4th
of the following October
The President it appears would have been
better satisfied if in expressing his convic-
tions all obstacles to the sitifactory adjust-
ment of the controversy might with concilato-
ry spmitm ooiu sides oe overcome.
The New Orleans Riot Mr Genois of
New Orleans having been charged with par
ticipation in the riots which took place at the
election on the 2d instant publishes a number
of affidavits exculpating himself from the
charge and going to prove that he acted the
part of a peace-maker The following extract
from the affidavit of Y Forties one of the
injectors of election at the Eleventh Pre-
cinct explains the origin cf the Orleans street
riot
" U the time the not began that is about
111 or 12 o clock Mr Genots who had spent
the greater part of the morning at the stand
was not then present that about that time a
voter presented himself to vote and on being
questioned by one of the Commissioncra of
Ivection as to the time he had been exercising
his nght of voting in this precinct he answer
cd two years but being misunderstood by the
judge3to mean twelve years from the fact
that he had but an imperfect command of the
French language he was corrected by a by-
stander who was about explaining to the
judges that he meant twoyeair Obowing two
of his fingers) when the latter was struck by
Mr Hubbard who accompanied his blow with
the observation that he had no business to
answer his (the voters) questions whereupon
the person struck drew back to defend him-
self when a stray pistol shot was il-cd which
was the ongin and cause of the disturbance
which rcsult-d in bloodshed and murder "
The Antecedent. of Brooss The New
lork Sun sajs Preston Brooks was severe-
ly wounded m a duel with one Wigfall of
South Carolina before going to Congress
Both Brooks anl W lgfall were wounded in this
duel the former severely W lgfall not satis-
fied afterwards challenged the father of Mr
Brooks. The old gentleman refused to fight
and Wigfall posted him as a coward A young
relative of Mr Brooks Mr Bird attempted to
tear oown the placard and was shot dead by
Wigfall who had previously said he wouldkill
any one who would attempt it
Wt are acquainted with all the above par
ties but the transactions referred to took
place in Edgefield alter we left there and we
cannot therefore pcak of them from personal
knowledge but we belictc we may safely say
that the above statements are not correctly
made though our recollection is too imperfect
to enable us to make the correction
Senators Seward andScmnek. The VI
bany Argus says in allusion to the statement
of Senator Douglas that Mr Sumner's
speech was deliberate! wnttcn out and re-
hearsed before delivery
-Senator Sew.irJ was present at the rehear
sal and listened with regret to the extrav-
agant provocations with which it w.s filled
He entreated the Massachusetts Senator to
make it less offensive and advised him to cur-
tail those very pabsages and to stnke oat
those accusations which proved afterwards so
offensive to the Senate and the public
We regret that the advice of the New xork
Senator was not hecued. It might have aver-
ted an occurrence for which it is true there
was no justifiable provocation but which can
only be regarded as a calamity
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a Presidential Nomination The Na
tional Convention of Radical Abolttiomts met
t Srrai-nse. New York on the 23th ult.. and
nominated Garret Smith of New York for
President of the United States and Samuel
nMMHii;. . .7 ""-ij-tiB matins I rreaiueu ui iuc umnu uw " ---.
tSSn whlfw2 id ?e 8qaare in McFarland of Pennsylvania for Vice Pres.
... it; un.lnjj-pQ ny lire i nem
Si EC IM EN OF SUSsNEl S SrVLL Tho
following is the style in which Mr Sumner
assaued Messrs Douglas and JIason
Mr Summer The Senator from Illinois
sweltering In lenom had broucht forth state
ments utterly without foundation heamne:
upon him (Suirncr) personalities an 1 obloquy.
No person with the upnght form of a man
"Here iir bnmnr paused
Mr Douclas Say it say it
Mr faumn"i I shall tar it No nir.nn
with the upnght form of a man can be allow-
ed to ditcharire from his tongue indecent per
sonahties The noisome nameless inimal.
whose nature it is to diccharre cnom. is cot
a proper model for an American Senator
t 111 uic senator take notice '
Mr Douglas I shall and certainly shall
net imitate you in that respecL ILaughter j
"Mr Sumner Ah the Senator nirain
switches his tonxuc and a pain fills the ben
ate with onensivc odor Alien turning to-
narus ur reason uu continued 1 would
simply ta to the Senatar frcm A lrgima that
hard words arc not arguments nor do scowls
oeiong 10 -emionai uuty
"Mr Mason was understood to sa the
Senator Is certain! non comjios mentis
Laughter
"Here the war of words ended The gal
lenes were densely cowded T
TnEDiFFictLTiEswiTuGRSAT Britain
Ihe-Acw lork Journal of Comrierce of the
29th ulL in noticing the dismissal of Mr
Crampton remarks
The elistmcnt question maybe consideredat
an end the difficulties connected with it o far
as tbe British Government is concerned being
happily removed by the explanations and dis-
avowals of Lord Clarendon in his recent let
ter to Mr Marcy The reply of the latter
gentleman which went out In yesterdays
steamer for Europe may be presumed to have
expressed as much as this It is also rumored
that the Central American question is m a
fair wa to be amicibly adjusted
--
Tender Mercies of Abolitionists The
following item from the Detroit Trtounc
well illustrates the treatment received by nc
groes at the hands or those Northern people
who keep up a continual howl on the subject
of slavery
An orphan negro boy nine years old died
at the house of Mr John Allen near "ipsi
lanti last Fnday An inquest revealed.no
very flattering array of circumstances lie
had had the rhoopmg cough all winter and
before the snow was off the ground he was
et to work out of doors barefooted When
taken sick he wa removed to the barn and
put m the hay with nothing but a qoilt for a
bed covenng.and he was unattended either
by doctor or nurse
The following is attributed to nn eminent
personage perhaps the most eminent of the
rench Lmpire V lad was dcclamin- in
his presence against the use of tobico"aud
prayed that he would arrest the enc-tathment
of a habit which has grown to be a vice
" V vice may bp Madame was the answer;
but find meavirtue which yields the treasury
one hundred ind twenty millions of francs 1
year
Texas Coal. Col R. II Hill has handed
us a lump of Coal from a deposit on his place
The specimen before us is from the top or the
vcinwhich is very extensive and has been ex
posed to the atmophereuntil it assumes the
appearance op cannel coal It burns with great
facility and there can be no doubt that the
entire region of country abounds with a supe-
rior article of anthracite whicn only requires
a geological survey of the State to be de-
veloped Bastrop Advertiser
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The largest water wheel in the world is at
Troy 1 Its power t equal to one thous
and horses It drives machinery which works
up anually 10000 tons of iron into horses
fehocs tpike- nails etc
9-9-9
The Amencan Tract Society during the
past vear received not less than &913 10 in
broken and coanterfcit bills through the con
tnbution box Some people ore liberal
Gen Rusk Is still at home He has had a
ver severe attack of illness since his return
which together with the effect of the sad be-
reavement he has expnenced will prevent
his carh return to Wahincton Vt one time
hislifc was dipaired of but wc arc happy
iu hay mm ue is non convaic-ccni iiflcoe;
doches Chronicle Zdtnst
Capture or a Slavei A lette" to the
Philadelphia Ledger dated U S ship St
Loui. at St Paul de Lonado. West Coast of
Afnca March 3d say the brig Gen Pierce
of New York 13 lying there having been cap-
lurea ny me x oriuguese ana condemned as a
blaver The captain and crw were in pnsoa
awaiting trial
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Southern Emigration to Kansas Col
W F Wright recently stated in a public speech
in Pike county that during his sojourn in the
Terntory of Kansas which was one month
150d southern emigrants armed and onl 300
abolitionists If this ratio of emigration is
continued for the balance of the year the pro-
slavcn parti will be immensely in the mi.
jonty Aususta Ga) Constitutionalist
Ice Manufactori At the Cuyahoga Lo-
comotive Works Cleveland Ohio there is an
ice manufactory where this article 13 produced
in merJiantible quantities by purely artificial
means By means of a steam engine and
sundrj condcnserscther is driven from a retort
containing about three hundred and fifty
pounds between a double range of iron plates
through which the water is pumped and by
the ether i3 converted into ice The arrange
meat is not yet completed bat even now ice
can be manufactured with the thermometer
at CO at a cost of not more than half a cent
per pound ExcJiange paper
a--
EX Got Reeder flnd Mr Vnnr Sorrtiturv nf
the Kansas Investigating Committee arrived
b vuiiiigu on me auernoon or tne -vm uit
Gov Reeder says that he made a narrow cs
cape with his life in passing through Missouri
He addressed the citizens of Chicago on the
same evening in a very inflammatory style
Ql ick Trip The Government schooner
Utsayons left this port for Brazos Santiago a
week yciterda morning having been gone
butCdas Lieut Stevens went for the par-
po-c of inspecting the lighthouses and on h s
return he touched at Aransas and lndianola
This is the quickest tnp we have ever heard
of Lieut Stevens informs us that there is
nothing new on the Rio Grande Busmen is
dull and since the Nautilus lias laid np for
repairs they receive the news only by way of
Galveston and by transient -chooners The
Federal court in -ession at BrownviIIe will
prvnubly ljuurii m about a week It is
reported that a pilot boat from this place will
be sent for to bring the court and jury back
provided the Nautilus doc3 not complete her
repairs in time The lighthouse at Aransas is
about half completed and the work is pro-
gressing steadily
EC?" The Cabinet of Russia has assented to the
scheme proposed by Denmark of compound-
ing by a single payment for all future claims
of Sound dues The English Parliament is
recommended by the mercantile interests to
follow tbe example of the United States in re-
pudiating these dues t present the Bntish
merchants trading with the Baltic pay about
70000 a year as sound dues Denmark offers
to compound for all future payments by the
immediate payment of 1200000 It is added
that Sweden and Norway are desirous of com
ing to a similar arrangement with Denmark
but ire waiting for the final decision of Eng-
land The only nation that has positively re
fused to entertain the Danish proposal is the
United States of America
An English Fillibuster Rewarded
The British East India Company has just voted
Lord Dalhousie late Governor General of
Indn 1 pension of 25000 a jear as a mark
of its appreciation of his services during his
administration by which four kingdoms be-
sides lesser terntones were added to the Com
panys possession and an annual tribute of
twent millions was imposed upon the inhab-
itants One of the English journals speaking
of this matter attempts to gloss this act of
fillibustenng by showing that raisrnle and
revolution had mined the country and that to
save It it was necessary to appropriate It "A
wrong was done bnt a great benefit was con
ferred r Vfter the aowal of this doctnne as
good political morality we expect says the
Philadelphia Ledger that the Bntish journals
will begin to praise Walker His conduct is
certainly more justifiable than Dalhousie's.
for Walker was invited into Nicaragua by
the people and he assists them to maintain
their own government whereas the rulers of
Pnnjaub Pegu Nagpore Oude had to be con
quered before their territory was seized upon
K7"Inourlastpper an editorial ofouru.
in relation to in article in Vtw Railroad St.
cord contained several errors that entirely
destroyed tne sense We will merely give
two sentences supplying the omissions of our
compositor They are as follows
Now. we intcn 1 to demonatmtp mm unnn
that our State can bmld her mad for nn.
thrdless than any companies possibly can do
it and we think we can show by facts that
other States have constructed public works
ior auuuk one intra tets expense man tneir
own companies"
By the State Plan the neonle will sa. e from
fifteen to twenty millions of acres which nn.
der the corporate plan will be forever lost to
them The estimate which the companies and
the Record itself has hertofore placed upon
those lands even long before the roads are
completed is from four to five dollars per
acre and all our expenence abundantly
proves that this is a low estimate when the
reads are made to reach the lands It follows
therefore that under the corporate plan the
State will have giten away about twice the
entire cost of all the roads Ac
9-9-9
The Paui-ic Rulwai Col A B Gray
has just arrived in our city from a rcconnols-
sancc of the upper country from Shreveport
towards the Colorado of Texas with a view
to a more full understanding of the Southern
Pacific Railway Col Grai has heretofore
established the entire practicability of the
Atlantie and Pacific railroad through Texas
His present exploration Is of the upper coun
try of Texas towards the Colorado He has
fixed the latitudes of the crossings of the
Sabine the Tnnity and the Brazos nvers
with reference to the parallel at 32 degrees
North latitude having previously fixed the
crossings of the Pecos and Rio Grande He
has obtained good observations for determin
ing the latitudes and longitudes of the cross-
ings of the Sabine the Xechcs the Trinity
and the Brazos rivers with reference to the
parallel of 32" He has also fixed the posi
tions of the county towns of Marshall Tyler
Corsicana and Hillsborough the county scats
through which it is proposed the Pacific road
idiall pass Other matters of interest will be
furnished in Col Grav's report which will
soon be published
Col Gra informs us that the whole coun
try from Marshall to Fort Graham a distance
of near three hundred miles is rapidly im-
proving The lands are everywhere worth
from S2 50 to S3 00 per acre Dunng this
whole distance he was rarely out of sight of
corn or wheat fields and never toppcl at
night without having abundance of milk eggs
and chickens Col Gray is now proceeding
direct to Washington City to report to the
Company
ff?"The following isanother extract from
the wnter in the Civilian who proposes that
the State shall borrow ten millions of dollars
to be loaned to railroal companies
In making loans to railroad companies I
would suggest them to be made m materials
for the construction of the roads purchased
and furnished bv state acents. and that the
receipt for the value of the matcnals thus
loaned and furnished should operate as a lien
upon the road for the payment to the State of
the amount so loaned as money A judicious
selection of the most important routes for rail
roads should bo selected as the bencficiancs
of the loans
Here It is proposed that the State must have
its agents to make purchases of material
take receipts Ac The State plan is objected
to on the ground that the State will have to
employ agents and tlut tha State will be
swindled by them. How doe it happen that
the agents to be employed under this loaning
8 stem will not also swind!t)ie State' Will
thcTlnr-inaldruu UmiimU&ZTJ lOT tUC tCilO
pames at the expense of the State' Or may
they not become directly interested with the
companies' The truth is the loaning poycy
as here proposed will make it necessary for
the State to have quite as many officers and
agents as the State plan itself for the Stale
must not only have agents to buy the iron &.
but agents also to rcccire it here pay the
wharfage freight and duties on it and take
charge of it paying storage and dehvenng It
to the companies from time to time
But the iron cannot of course be delivered
without some evidence of the nght of the par
ty to whom it is delivered to receive it
This evidence should hi the certificate of the
State engineers to the eflect that the grading
of the road has been completed and the ties
Acall properly laid ready for the iron as re-
quired by law before the company is entitled
to receive iron This shows the necessity for
the State to have a chief engineer as well as
local and sub-engineers to supervise the work
ss it progresses on the different roads. It
itnkes us also that this system will require fi
aanctal agents to negotiate its bonds abroad
as also to disburse the funds at home It ap-
pears to us therefore that this system is lia-
ble to all the objections that have been urged
igainst the State plan from the necessity of
laving State officers agents and employees
Indeed wc think the State plan is much the
most simple In this the State has nothing
to do with the details of the work nothing
do with the grading or purchasing or deliver
ing iron paying duties freight Ac All she
has to do isslmply to give the contract to the
lowest bidder to complete the road including
grading iron depots bridges Ac till it is
ready for tho cars An engineer Is then ne
cessary to examine the work and state
whether it is done according to the specii-
cations in the contract Upon his certificate
with such other vouchers as may be required
by law for greater security the State Treaa
oxer would be authonzed to pay the contract
pnee It is worthy of remark that whenever
the advocates of the loaning policy go intodc
tails to show the working of their plan they
show It liable to tbe very same objections they
have made to the State plan They objected
to the State plan because they said it would
involve the State in debt and they now pro-
pose to involve the State in debt expressly
for the purpose of loaning to companies they
also objected to the State plan became it
would require a State engineer and periaps
lome few additional officers by whom they
assumed the State would be swindled and
tley now propose even 1 larger numbei of
Sttte officers and employees under the bating
pofcy. assuming of conrsc that these em
ployees will be hoaest ind beyonl the reach of
pecuniary bnbes or that the companies will
be too honest and conscisntious to offer such
bribes
B--9 j-
Washington American Mt W J Pen.
dleton has joined Mr Crawford in the ed
Itorial department of the IVasftitgton Ameri-
can and they will issue a Camjaign Paper
until after the Presidential clectun
-- 1
IE7" The Xucccs Valley sty tie mail from
Saluna for Brownsville usually rcnains it Cor
pus Chnsti from five and half t seven days
The schedule time for the dep.rture of the
mail from Brownsville to Corms Chnsti
vhould be changed irom Fndays t Saturdays
The Earl of Clarendon had not been pleased
to indicate the means which in his view
were calculated to produce so favorable a con
elusion and for want or this the President
was left to conjecture the precise lJea of her
Majesty s Government
He could not be certain that his conjecture
conccrnlnsr it was well ronndeu. out was in
duced by certain collateral accidents which
have occurred to inrer it was by arbitration
by a third power of the difference between
the two Governments relative to Central Ame
nca
Mr Marcy says it would be superfiuooa to
dwell on the regret which the President enter-
tains that a proposition of this nature which
her Majesty's Government indeed as a final
one was not presented at the commencement
in such a shape as to have attracted to aad
fixed upon it the attention of this Govern-
mam
Lord Clarendon seems to assume that the
difference between the two countries is merely
in interpretation ' of the convention of ISoO
but that is no: so understood by this Govern-
ment which does not understand that at the
date of the treaty Great Britain had any pos
session or occupied an terntory in Central
America unless it was tbe Bntish establish-
ment of Belize with its dependencies the
same as ire defined by ber treaties with Spain
to be considered as Bntish possesions or tern-
tory in Central America
That is the only possible construction of the
declarations exchanged between Mr Clayton
and Mr Balwer at the time of exchanging
the ratification of the convention After re-
viewing Great Bntain s pretensions Mr Jlar-
cysays "and if His now contended by the
British Government that in tbe name of the
Mosquito Indians Gnat Britain may take
with military force and hold San Joan del
Nicaragua or any other point in Central Ame-
rica such pretensions would be totally Irre-
concilable with all idea of independence or
neutrality of the Isthmus as to render the con-
vention worse than nugatory to the United
States
"Instead of submitting to arbitration the
pretensions involving bucu consequences or in
any other way consenting to restore effect to
the treaty with such possible construction it
would in the judgment of the President be his
duty to propose its annulment so as to release
the United States from obligations they thus
incuncd upon the supposition that absolute
reciprocity of restriction was incurred by
ureat untain
"The President says he cannot do anything
which could be taken to admit either directly
or implied that there is 1 question in his
tmna relative 10 true construction 01 mat con-
vention and he feels bound to take care that
in entertaining the present proposition of ar-
bitration he shall not be understood as actua-
ted by the slightest feeling of distrust regard-
ing the treaty rights of the United States but
the President is not prepared to say that some
of the questions offset concerning which the
twouoiernmenLsuiner may no. uc couvcui
cntly determined by arbitration or by some
analagous method
"Of this class of objects of inquiry 13 the
question what are the nghtful limits of estab-
lishment at Belize on the side of the State of
Honduras the question whether the Bay
Inlands do or do not belong to that Republic
and the question as to what extent of country
is embraced in the term "Mosquito Coast"
or is in actual occupancy of the Mosquito In-
dians considered as Indians and with such
tcrntonal nghts only as that description of
persons are entitled to claim according to the
established public law of Great Britain and
the United States or of the independent
States which have succeeded Spain in Ameri-
ca rsmembenng that no power exists on the
part of Great Britain and the United States
to dispose of the sovereign rights of Nicara-
gua or of any other State of Central meri
Suit for Texas Lands.
We conv the followinir report of another 1m"
portant land suit in the United States Circuit
Court Aew Orleans irom me irue ueita
From the latter part of Apnl until the 4th
instant this Court has been engagedto the ex-
clusion of all other suits except the Marshall
H Kendall case in the trial or eleven Texas
land cases. As these cases involve some three or
four hundred thousand dollars worth of prop-
erty and also pnnciples of vast importance to
tin riti2pnt of Texas we propose trivinc a
brief statement of the facts as evolved and of
the matcnal points as charged by tne court on
thctral of tbe same
The plaintiff John W Lapsley instituted
said buits in the Federal Court of Texas in
ISol There they remained and various or-
ders were made by the presiding Judge John
C Watrous until 1835 when by an order of
the Coart they were removed to the Fifth Cir-
cuit and Eastern District of Louisiana on ac-
count cf the interest of the presiding Judge in
the land in controversy
The first case tried at the present term of
the Court here was that against Ehphas Spen-
cer which resulted in a mistml It was
again and immediately set down for trial by
the Court when Spencer made a strong appli-
cation for a continuance which was overruled
by the Court Spencer then offered to amend
his pleadings by filing a pbia in abatement
verified by his affidavit wherein he averred
"that the apparent legal title to the land in
controversy was fraudulently conferred upon
and vested m said plaintiff by collusion be-
tween said plaintiff and the Hon John C Wa-
trous Thomas M League and Thomas J
Frow in order to litigate and establish said
J"raiilo!cntgTantbefore the Federal Court of
Texas presided over by the Baid Hon J
C Watrous." Vnd Spencer further averred
in said plea that said Wa'rous and League
were citizens of the State of Texas and were
the parties in interest with said Frow a citi-
zen of Alabama at the time of the transfer to
said Lapsley A number of interrogatories to
the plaintiff touching the ract3were annexed
to said plea The defendant s affidavit stated
that he cud not know nor had he any means
of knowing the facts alledged until after the
filing or nis onginai answer
Upon a hcanng the Court refused to allow
said plea to oe mea .1 seconu inai nas men
hid. nnd a verdict returned for the Plaintiff
All the other cases were similarly disposed of
by agreement of counsel or record except tne
one against Mitchell A Dunn This was
strongly contested and as it elicited all the
material facts and rulings of the Court we
proceed to give a bnef statement of it
The plaintiff produced in evidence a conces-
sion to Tonus de la Vega made in 1833 a
deed of conveyance by Samuel M Williams in
1840 wherein he says be has a power of attor-
ney from Tomas de la Vega to sell the land
granted to him and another regular mejne
conveyances to him All of which were re-
corded In 1851 except the concession or grant
which by the evidence waadeposied m the
General Land Office in 1S47 He also pro-
duced on tnal a nower of attorney sirned 2b-
vias Vega executed in 1832 fully cmpbwenng
The Great Walker Meetkg in the
Park at New York We clip tie following
from the New York Evening Ulnar of the
24th ultimo-
The boomiog of one hundred gins with tho
promise of heanng several dstinguished
speakers drew a large crowd uncall sorts of
people to the Walker meeting lcld in tho
Park last night Elijah F Purdy presided at
the meeting assisted by numerousvice Presi-
dents and Secretaries A scnes of resolutions
were adopted approving the recognition of
the Walker Rivas rule by our Government
condemning the barbarous Costa licans and
warmly endorsing the whole Wdker move-
ment The resolutions pledged to sustan Walker
and to put an end to foreign Interference with
the affairs of this continent Synp3thisiDg
letters were read from General Cxs ex Gov-
ernor Smith of Virginia Hiram Walbridge
General Cazneau and T F Magher and
speeches were made by Govern o Price of
New Jersey Captain Pollard M- Peek of
Michigan Captain Rynders Jud Phillips
Mr Busteed Councilman Wild aid others
The meeting held to a late hour
.
The Xew Albany (Ind) Ledgd says the
wife of Gen James H Lane the persecuted
hero and martyr of abolitionism )btained a
divorce from ber husband at the lite term of
the Dearborn Circuit Court on tht ground of
abandonment desertion and ohcr legal
causes She avers that he sent her home
from Kansas among strangers unpoviJed for
unprotected and without money b pay her
traveling expenses She Is the mother of
several of his children and has be a for some
time supporting herself by keeplrj a board
lag house
Mr Marcy concludes as fellows
' All those questions of political geography
regard in the first instance the sovereignty
and jurisdiction of the independent States of
Central America. Great Britain and the
United States have no pretension thus to in-
tervene except for the purpose of defining
their own mutual obligations ansing out of
engagements tney may nave contracted in
order to assure how far they concerned the
neutrality and independence 01 me mencan
Isthmus
"Regarded only as collateral considera-
tions affectinffthe construction of the treaty
between the United States and Great Britain
they are questions which if not determinable
by agreement between the two Governments
themselves the President would not decline to
refer to arbitration
"He is aware of the existence of many
practical obstacles to the adjustment of any
international differences of this nature by
arbitration of which difficulties Great Britain
and the United States had experience in the
attempt to settle by such means a previoos
controversy on the subject of the boundary
between the United States and the British
provinces in North America
"The President does not doubt that any
one of the powers of Europe which should
consent to undertake the task of such arbitra
tration as 13 now proposed would perform the
duty with perfect impartiality but to apply
to any power to do this would be to ask of
them an act which if granted would add to
their own domestic duties the labors and bur-
den of settling tho complicated differences of
oth er G 0 vernments
" He would greatly preier mat in a contro-
rrrsv like the present tnm.ns: on points of
political geography the matter should be re-
ferred to some one or more of those eminent
men of science who do honor to the intellect
of Europe and America and who with the
previous consent of their respective Govern
ments might well undertake the task of de-
termining such question to the acceptance as
well of her Majesty s Government as that of
the United States
"You are instructed therefore to enter
into communication with Her Majesty s prin-
cipal Secretary of Foreign Affairs in relation
to Central Amenca in order to ascertain in
the first place whethr the existing differences
cannot be promptly terminated by direct ne-
gotiation and if they cannot then to discuss
the conditions of arbitration upon those nomts
of difference as to which alone this method of
settlement seems requisite or applicable it
being assumed that other points of difference
would after that yield as a matter of course
to conference between the Earl of Clarendon
and yourself conducted In the spint of cor-
diality and rrankness which belongs to your
personal relations and which is dictated by
the true Interests both of the United States
and Great Bntain
I am sir respectfully your obedient ser-'
vant " - jiarcv
Geo M Dallas Esq Ac London7
--
Navigation of the Galdalufe The
Victoria Advocate refcrnng to the accident
which happened to the steamer Lizzie Late
says
Our Town Council has transferred to Capt
Dycus Mr Montgomery s contract and he
has undertaken to carry it out He has en
tered into partnership with Capt Gwarney of
.New uricans- a gcniieman 01 experience in
the business of navigating rivers and they
arc determined to put into the trade as many
boats as shall be required to do the business
. 9
Asking Damages CoL Eldndge lessee cf
the hotel at Lawrence arirea at ci LiOuis on
the 20th ult en route East It is said he will
make an eflort to recover damages from the
Government for property destroyed.
Fight with Indians A correspondent of
the Nueces Valley wnting from Laredo on
the 2Sth ult says
"On the 21st inst the report reached us
that a party of red skin thieves were in our
vicinity when six of our most respectable
citizens started in pursuit resolved to door
die " They came up with the Indians (fifteen
in number) on tbe i 1th near Roma when and
where a sharp and sanguinary engagement
took place which resulted favorably to our
Earty. notwithstanding the dispanty of num
ers Six Indians were made to bite the dust
sent to the spirit land and three others
were taken prisoners All the stolen property
was also recovered Our party had one killed
(Juan Gonzales) and two severely wounded
Inhalation The test appears to have
been pretty throughly applied to Dr Hi nteb s
cure of consumption by inhalation and tbe re-
sult has well nigh demonstnted its complete
success
The Now York Impress says
Dr Hunter In answenng the appeal to the
bill of mortality reeularly published in his
journal the Medical specialist points out a
mrmer aecrcae iu mo uc-atus irum consump-
tion m New lork reaching now to the ex-
tent or thirty one per cent decrease for a
comparison of three months just passed with
the corresponding quarters of the previous
years. For three months ending March 1S54
the number of deaths from this disease are
given as 843; for March 1855 tbe number
was 766 and for March 1856 the number is
580 a decreasc.of two hundred and sixty-
three or nearly one third
said Williams to sell the leagues of land to
which the granter Tomas Vega was entitled
from the Government or Coahuila and Texas.
It dil not appear in evidence that this power
nad ever oeen recoruea or ueposueu in me
Land Office It was proven by the deposition
of Jos Hcwitson taken at Galveston in 1855
witnout notice 10 me aeienuams or mcir coun-
sel after the date of the order of removal and
before the filing of the case here It was not
retained with the deposition of Hcwitson bat
was identified by the writing of the witness
name thereon and then delivered as the
Commissioner s certificate states to the agent
of the plaintiff It was objected to tbe read-
ing of it m evidence as the document mention
ed by the witness It should have been return
ed wim me deposition 01 wmess 11 was not
properly identified and other objections were
made
Mr League was then sworn and testified
that he received the power offered in evidence
from tbe Comuiiaioner that it was the same
mentioned by witness Mr League disquali-
fied himself by disclosing his Interest with the
plaintiff Thereupon plaintiff's counsel was
sworn and stated that he was present when the
deposition of the witness was taken by tbe
Commissioner A M nnghes; that he recog-
nized the power of attorney offered in evi
dencc as the same delivered by the Commis-
sioner to Mr League just before tho last term
of this Court and that since that time it had
been in his possession or on file with his of-
nee papers
Witness Hewitson testified that he was ac-
quainted with the hnd wnting of Juan Gonza
les and that all the body of the certificate and
signature thereto of Juan Gonzales(tae officer
before whom said power purports to have been
excepted in 1832 in Leona Vicaro) was In the
hand writing of said Jaan Gonzales ; that he
was acquainted with the hand writing of the
witnesses Hose Nax.OrtU and Jose M Moral
and that their signatures were in the hind-
writing of said Ortis and Moral
In order to impeach or discredit tbe testi
mony of the witness defendant's counsel of-
fered experts to prove that the body of the
document and signature of Juan Gonzales
were not in fact in the same hand writing
which vas apparent to the most simple and
casual inspection and farther that the hand-
writing of the v-itoess Moral and the power
incln ling the certificate were the aame The
Court would not allow experts to be sworn for
the purpose
The defendant Dunn Bet up claim to one
lejgueofland under a grant in 1635 to Wil-
liam Dillard a colonist in Robcrson s Colony
He connected himself by regular conveyances
with said croatee. all of wh ch were executed
in 1835 and properly recorded in 1S37 save
the deed to himself which was made in 1850
and recorded in Ivi lie alo pleaded gene-
ral issue ahenace. fraud and forcerv. which
last plea was venfied by affidavit and aver-
reu tuai surveyor e n. jonnson. wno pur
ports to hare made the survey never did in
Let make the same and that it was not re-
timed by said Johnson
It was admitted in evidence that the lanl
In controversy was located in Robinson s Col-
ony that said colony was subsisting in fall
fo-ce and effect and as such recognized by the
Government of Coahuila and Texas at the
time when Lessassier extended the title of
possession and that said land was in the ju-
nsdiction or mnmcipalty of San Antonio
It was further admitted in evidence that
said colony of Robinson was granted to Aus-
tin an 1 Williams by and through the fraudu-
lent representations of said Austin and Wil-
liams; and on account of these fraudnlent re
presentations their right to said colony was
forfeited and it was restored to Roberson
The deposition of Francis W Johnson who
purports to have made tbe survey showed
positively that he did not make it and exclu-
ded the presumption that it was made by any
legally authorized deputy There was no tes-
timony establishing the surrey The fact of
an actual survey when the title was made was
negative! by all the evidence The order of
survey was issued on the 3d of October at
San i elippe de Austin 150 miles from where
the land purports to be located and the title
is extended the very next day at San Felippe
describing the land by refernce to the survey
made and returned by Francw W. Johnson
which the officer issuing the title saj3 u at
tacked on the reverse side of this despatch All
the orders and evidences of autbonty mention-
ed by Lessassier by virtue of which he acted
m the extension of title are referred to as
being attached at blank pages These facts at
once arouse suspicion suggests fraud and
becloud the title
It was in evidence that Thomas de la Vega
never uul reside in the Republic or State of
Texas It was also in proof that Lessassier
was Alcalde of the Municipality of San Felip-
pe de Austin
The Court charged "that the responsibility
of a correct decision of this cause rested
mainly with tha Court and if the Court errs
there is a triounal to correct it3 errors The
facts of this case are few and unimportant end
tne jury nave one nine to oo.
Tbe Court charged substantially that all
the defects and irregulanties in the issuance
of the title upon which the defendants relied
as evidences 01 iraud were or no importance
and "that the title was valid and sufficient'
and that "Lessassien was the proper officer to
extend tbe title
The Court did not consider the testimony of
jounsonoi any importance 11 me lanu could
do oenneu or asceriameu oy reserving tne
calls of the survey and running from any
known object callel for in the grant it was
sufficient
The Court chareed that ths power of attor
ncy executed by Thomas Vega by virtue of
which Williams conveyed the land in contro
versy was sumciens ior mat purpose tnat tne
evidence was strong that Thomas Vega and
Thomas dc la Vega were one and the same
that Thomas de U Vepa petitioned for the
laud in 1830 at Leona Vicano tbe place where
the power was executed in 1832 under which
Williams had located the land for the grantee
and that said grantee in the documents apper-
taining to the despatch or title is called Tom-
as Vega and Tomas de la Vega
The Court charged that the regsitartion laws
of the Republic of Texas were inapplicable to
this cae that as both plaintiff's and defend-
ants title were denred from the Government
of Coahuila and Texas the Court sitting as a
Mexican tnbunal must be governed by the
laws then In force and charged the jury that
the plaintiff's title was not prejudiced by its
non reinstratlon under tbe laws of the Repub-
lic of Texas
After the jury had been considenng of their
verdict a short time they returned into Court
and asked if they were satisfied that there was
fraud In the grant if they would have a right
to find for the defendant? To which the
Court replied that in this case fraud Is a ques-
tion of law and the responsibility of deciding
it is with the Court; and then charged that
there was no evidence of fraud in the issuance
of the title The jury again retired and soon
after returned and wished to know if the
Court charged that Thomas Vega and Thomas
de la Vega meant the same person and if It
wa3 a question of law for the decision of the
Courtor a question of fact.for the finding of the
jury The Court then repeated the charge on
this point and commented elaborately upon
the evidences of identification but left the
fact for the jury under the Instructions given.
This was the only fact submitted all the
others having been determined as questions of
law either in whole or in part so far as they
had any bearlntr upon the respective nghts of
the litigants The jury were out five hours
and as there was no probability of a verdict
were then discharged. It has since been
ascertained that ten were in favor of finding
for the defendants.
Umted States Circuit Court In the
case of John W Lapsley v3 Ellphas Spencer
decided at the present term M. D Herring
Esq of counsel for the defendant has applied
for and obtained a writ of error to the
Supreme Court of the United Etatts.
ew Hooks.
Salad forthe Social. DeWitt A Daven-
port Publishers New York for sale hy J 31-
Jokes Strand.
This is a volume which is worth j reserving.
It is a collection of good things from old au
thors well told and which an extensive ac
quaintance in the "highways and by ways of
literature" was needed to compile Them
gredients of this dish of salad are placed
under 'the following heads Bookcraft; The
Modern 3Ioloch ; The Toilet and its Devotees ;
The Mistenes of Medicine The Cycle of the
Seasons The Humors of the Law; The Mate
Creation; Pulpit Peculianties and the Lar-
cenies of Literature
A Defence of toe America Policy
DbWitt A Davenport Publishers; for sale by
John M Jones The work is from the pen
of Hon. Tnos R Whitnet of New York
and is pronounced by several distinguished
gentlemen an able vindication of the Ameri-
can party We make the following extracts
from the publisher's circular
"This volume Is written Tor the people of
the United States whether Native or Foreign
Protestant or Catholic It affords a review of
tbe five prominent elements in the political
atmosphere of the present day tiz Vmencan-
Foreign Influence Protestantism Romanism.
ism and State vereignty."
"The object of this volume L td present
such exposition and afford a candid rew of
the dangers to which our free lustutions are
exposed through the defotenous innovations
of foreign influence the encroachments of
the papacy an 1 the recklessness of dema-
gogues As the Presidential canvass waxes warm
we presume there will be a demand for this
book It probably furnishes arguments for
the Americans which the Democrats should
read in order be prepared to meet and refute
-
Oil. Hunts Merchants Magazine fur-
nishes the following table showing thesteady
and rapid falling off in the supply of whale
oil
ToUlamotuitofwhaletjil taken In lVT8wi323ViIibI(
" 1S.T9 JJT'Sl -
" 1340 - 2.7 JUJ
IS41 JOT-US
.... . !! . WWu
And again
TotAlainoantorFpernioilUtciiiiilJlIwaslOoJJSSUiIs
- 1&43 rr.917
This decrease in the supply of whale oil has
continued in about the same ratio to the pre
sent time notwithstanding the nnmber of
whales has constantly been increasing The
effect has been an enormous advance in p-ue.
In 1843 the pnee of sperm oil was 63 cents per
gallon while it is now quoted at $215 In
1340 whale oil was quoted at nineteen cents
per gallon and now bnngs ninety five cents
per gallon. This advance in the pnee of an
article of such necessi y is operating very op-
pressively upon the public But while the suj I
ply of oil has been thus falling off the demand
for its consumption has been increasing even
in a greater ratio The consumption on our
railways is immense 100000 gallons being re-
quied annually for every 500 miles of railroad
othat the twenty odd thousand miles of rail
road in the United States requires an cxpeu
diturc of more than fonr millions of dollars
annually for oil
Great efforts have been made to find a sub-
stitute for whale oil but it was not till 1847
that these efforts proved successful In that
year Mr Lewis S Bobbins of New lork made
the discovery that the roam of our Soithern
pine furnished C2 per cent of oil resembling
sperm oil in many respects and answering as
a substitute in nearly all its uses while its
cost Is said to be less than one-fifth that of
sperm The apparatus for its manufacture is
remarkably simple and cheap and the busi
ness can be carried on by common hands or
negroes. This discovery must be of incalcula-
ble benefit to the South. It at once gives vast
productive value to the immense regions of
Southern pine which have hitherto been
of scarely any use and this product may be
said to be literally inexhaustible for the rom
is obtained without destroying the tree and
the same trunk is replenished another year
This discovery is thought to be of greater
value to the South than any ether that has
ever been made The machinery and appara-
tus for the manufacture of the rosmoil can
all be made at the South and the oil prodncetl
for market entirely with Southern capitol and
labor There has been a great demand for
this oil for export and this demand must In
crease rapidly The inventor ha3 now eight
factones for the manufacture of this oil in
this country and one in I lverpooL Last
year he furnished from these factones over
100000 barrels of oil exceeding the amount
of all the sperm oil taken from the ocean.
The X O Picayune informs us that a com-
pany for the manufacture of this oil has been
formed in that city having purchased the pa-
tent for the whole state of Louisiana s
regards the adaptation of this oil for lamps we
suppose we can speak from expnence for
we have been using tbe Symc oil (this being-
as we understand only another name for rosin
oil) for tbe past two or three months and it
appears to us to give as good a light as the
best sperm oil The lamp for it3 use has
however to be differently constructed. W e
have not yet seen any small hand lamps for
the use of this oil '
The "K-;ock Dowx Abgcmext The
Pittsburg Gazette after indulging la much
virtuous indignation at the rough treatment
received by Mr Sumneb for his abusive
speech proceeds as follows to recommend that
hereafter no more non-combating can Iidates
should be sent to Congress from the North
But the editor should bear in mind that the
argument of force with all the aid of Sharps
nfles was first resorted in Kansas by North-
ern clergymen and others and has so far
faiiM of success. If what is called the "nght
of free discussion ' means the nght to insult
the South on the floor of Congress the Ga
zette is certainly correct in the opinion that
such right can only be maintained by "strong
nght arms and a determination to use them."
"It Is time now to Inaugurate a change It
can no longer be permitted that all the blows
shall come from one side If Southern men
will resort to the fist to overawe and intimi-
date Northern men blow must given back for
blow. Forbearance and kindly deportment
are lost upon these Southern ruSians. It were
as well to throw pearls before swine as turn
one cheek to them when the other is smitten
Under the circumstances now prevailing nei-
ther religion nor manhood require submission
to each outrages Northern men must defend
themselves and if our present representatives
will not fight when attacked let ns find those
who will. It is not enough now to ha re back-
bone thre must be strong nnht arms and a
determination to use them. The voters of the
Free States In vindication of their own man-
lines will hereafter in a Idition to inqumng
of candidates will you vote so-and-so have to
enlarge the basis of interrogation and de-
mand an affirmative answer to the question
Will yon fight ? It has come to that now that
Senators and Representatives cannot enjoy
the nght of free speech or free discussion with-
out being liable to brutal assaults and they
must of necessity arm th"mselres with sword
canes or revolvers lo thiuk of enduring
quietly such attacks as that upon Mr Samner;
is craven and pusillanimous. These cutthroat
Southrons will never learn to respect North-
ern men until some one of their number has o
rapier thrust through his nbs or feels a bullet
in his throox It is lamentable that such
should be the case; but it is not in human na-
ture to be trampled on.
PRESEVTATIOX OF PLATE TO PBBXTICX.
The American party of Louisville hAT rw
sented Prentice of the Journal with a service
of plate consisting of a silver pitcher six Kil
ter guuieu ana a stiver tray as a testimonial
of approval for his exertions for the partp
HP" The negro of Judge Stamps; whowa3
injured by the accident on the Houston raH-
road the other day has since died of his inju-
ries. -
C-The Black Republicans of New York
held a State Convention at Syracuse last week
for the purpose of appointing delegates to the
National Convention The resolutions passed
by them were made up mainly of vituperation
of the South. The Xew York Commercial
says
The resolution were prepared bv a. mm
mittce of which Mr Horace Greeley was chair-
man one of which calls for fcubscriptions for
the maintenance of "the orphan children of
thoso who have been cr shall be put to death
by 31iaSOun3n or other Southern ruffian now
devesting Kansas. Indeed all the resolu-
tions are echoes of the Tnbune't editorials for
some time past ; in our judgment too much
so for the interest of the party for they are
too violent in language too epithetical and
partial to influence thinking men and com-
man 1 their confidence.
-
A law against sweanng just published by
tho police of Jlodena contains the following
provisions
1 Sweanng by- the holy name of Mana
will be punished by a fine of $30
2. STearmg by the name of other saints
25 and
3 Sweanng by the name r God will be
punished as a still greater crime
The young ladies of Lagro Indiana hav-
ing adopted a resolution in temperance meet
ing not to receive the addresses of any young
man addicted to cups the young gentlemen
publish a pledge signed with their proper
names stating that they will not keep the
company or any young women who are mem-
bers of this society
.
CoL Parker n French has been again
brought into court this time at Rochester A
Y. on a charge of debt Persons who know
French say that the only debt there 13 any
likelihood of hi3 ever paying is the dbt of
nature
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U S District Court at Bbowxsville.
We copy the following from the Brownsyille
Flag or the 23th ult
The spnng term of the Federal Coart is now
in session in this city having organized 00
Monday last The following gentlemen com'-
pose the two junes
Grand Jury- V.Parr (Foreman) T Kinj
F. D Allen Henry Gardner Henry Myers J
Berleth John Hickmott W P Smith JGoode
J Perry. J League C. Franklin. J- Macgran-
agbam Mr McCafferty M Cahill and J Wil-
liams Petit Jury John English J KrauseS IL
Purnell Alexander Edgar Mr Neville W
Cherry Thomas Patterson P Gnmes Am-
brose Crane J. R. Parker Mr Hatch and J.
Wngley
The entire jury of this Court we believe
comes from Galveston and though we do not
think this wholesale importation of jurors
very flattennr to our populous Valley vet:
judging from the fine personat appearance of
the gentlemen we doubt not they are as com
pctent as our own citizens The Court will
doubt less remain in session several weeks.
Sumvers Bloody; Shirt The Washing
ton Sentinel learns that this garment has
been sent by careful hands to Boston and
facetiously recommends Parson Beecher to
prepare for the occasion of the shirt demon-
stration by reading Marc Anthony's speech
over the dead body of Cesar. i
9-9)-9
Noble Game A moose was recently killed
in Croton Vermont which measured fourteen
feet around the body ; was seven feet high
and his hair was seven and a half inches in
length. He had been followed for several
days by men with their dogs but he tired
them all oat save one Carlston who remain-
ed steadfast until the monster game fell after
receiving seven balls
In the United States Senate on the 2Sth alt
the committee to investigate the assault npon
Mr Sumner reported that in their opinion
the Senate had no farther jurisdiction than
to complain to tho House The report wat
adopted and transmitted to the House The
House passed a bill granting one million acres
of land to Louisiana
Decency or the Press The Evansvillg
(NY) Journal alluding to Kansas affairs
calls the President of the United States a
"villain a "traitor a "creeping crawling
sycophant" a "murderer and 'the most
infamous man "
Rufus Choate Inquires about Gutta
Pebcha Sticks The correspondent of tbe
New York HeraLl says
"I ought to have mentioned that the com
mittee of arrangements Tor the Saturday
evening meeting waited upon Rufus Choate
and asked his presence. He without any
answer to the special inquiry asked 'Will a
gutta percha hurt much Vn
There is a report afloat that the Emperor of
the French will visit Ireland in July
The Washington Star says the Senate has
confirmed the following nominations vix.
Peter Parker of Massachusetts to be the
Commissioner of the United States to ChicaJ
vice R. 31 MeLane resinned. James Riley
or Texas to be United States Consul at Sc
Petersburg Russia n W m. I. Winans re.
signed.
9 0-9
Land Warrants The passage by Con.
cress of a bill granting large quantities of
land to the State or Iowa for the construction
of four railroads has had the effect to create a
panic In the market for land warrants. As
this measure will almost close the land offices
In that State warrants arc expected to fall
below one dollar per acre Purchasers are re-
luctant to go much beyond that rate at present
So we are informed by a dealer of this city
Wazkirfgton National Intelligencer 15(A
"cmong the passengers by the Africa at
New Ttork was Mrs- Fanny Kemble who
returns after a protracted visit to England
where she has been giving her dramatic read-
ings with very great success.
9 9 i
Luxurious TRAVEtiNfi Tnn.T.i r
newly invented train for the Empror of the
French was tried on the railway hoe between
Pans and Tours. It consists of five ran m-a
communicating with each other by a gallery
There Is a drawing room and bed room in
tact a complete apartment Anotherney car-
riage for six people was also tried It con
tains eight beds. A ticket with the use of a
bed wilt only double the ordinary fare
j
A good anecdote is told of AH Pacha the
Sultans Grand Viser now in Pans A lady
to whom this gentleman was introduced at a
soiree hazarded tbe naive question "Is the
Sultan married? "V good deal 3Iadam "
was the Turk s reply
LG" The New York Journal of Commerce
says in relation to the latest news from Kan-
sas "We withold comments until wc learn the
facts only remarking that a worse policy
could not have possibly been pursued than to
make a mighty flourish of Sharp s nfles and
cannon defying the Border Ruffians to
come and take them and then when the hoar
of tnal arnved run away or surrender at
discretion leaving the nfles to the enemy
Wc do not say that this last has been done
but the story of the Tnbunes in'ormants
clearly impli-s it When Eastern clergymen
undertake to play bowleknife and pistol with
"Border Ruffians they are pretty sure to get
worsted Their strength lies m the arts or
peace and principles of religion nad they
stack to these and had the emigrants done
so likewise the present troubles wonld not
have existed. Th pnde and passions of the
South nnd Southwest wonld not have been
roused and Kansa3 would hare been peopled
by an overwhelming majonty of Free State
men Who can doubt it ?
9
A letter to the Xew York Post dated Bos-
ton says Strange as it may seem there
areactually men among us who rejoice over
the assault that was made on Mr Sumner
and whose regret is that It did not have a
fatal termination. Some have said as much
9
The London Times Cnoean correspondence
makes a feature of the enormous losses sus-
tained by the Russians in the Cnmea and
argues therefrom that the Russians would not
have been able to sustain themselves much
loncer had not peace been declared. Their
losses In and around Sevastopol are set down
at 8G.00O men while 100000 perished of fa-
tigue and disease After all this is no more
than the Allies lost.
. e
Wc see it stated that the government of
France has not only lately increased the differ
ential duty on Hoods Imported in Amhrjn
ships trading to French ports but has increas-
ed the tax levied on ships for hospital purpos
es low i:e vciiw Aiic grouna ior mis increase
is the falling off in the receipts of the lazer-
etto at Marseilles.
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It is a common opinion that cold is alwavs
found in the greatest quantities in dnft in
the deep still corners of rivers and their eddies
but it has not thus been round in California
On the contrary it bos been found most abun
dantly in the npples as they are called those
parts of streams where the edzes of the pn
mary gold bearing rocks have been most ex
posed 10 me action oj moisture anu me atmos-
phere Gold Is found in scales and suggeti
or pebbles of every size- Its appearance I
that of having once been combined with the
pnmary slate rocks and then separated by
superficial actions of air and moisture By
the aid of moisture and the absorbing action
of the roots of large trees going on the edges
of gold beanng roefcs many of them have
been gradaaUy disintegrated and decomposed
leaving the gold behind precipitated and ag-
gregated into masses.
The Kissing Polka is said to have beenre-
w.t-0rt in Pant and to have taken more Tlolent
possession of the fashionables In that gay
capital than ever It is all the rage in the
saloons of the elite.
n s novERSMBxr Fixancxs. The Texas
debt is now rapidly being audited at the Treas
ury Department am asningwm. ncryjih-
nsinff seven millions on this score including
interest there wUL it is said be a surplus at
the close or the fiscal year on the 13th or Jane
estimated at over $17000000
a n-rnccxTY We Ieara from th M-
baIliZir;rithata difficulty occurred ln
Harrlsorco between CoLAlpWd on one
side and J. cl Bently and Buck .
other which resulted In the death of Rally
TherewBOintottMttiM-
Alphord deliverer nimseu m ".
demanded tnal.
Wnx SOT Accrrr-Tie qor
Presidency ir tendered to teem.
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