Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 27, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 8, 1857 Page: 1 of 4
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I HKKRY BKOWH.
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■Mand City, Capt.
and the following
Brooke, Harnero,
~ Horre, Phillip,
Adam , m£
one , Oldham,
I ohildren, Mr.
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GALVESTON, TDK!
r ■ orwrner. . jj.
I n^roM?°mb, Co1" MoriM'C1,urk' 9
• morning's mail, we received no ad-
í worth noting. Up to «he 22d
ratberuer had not given the
county, beyond the town, and
«r ight have occurred elsewhere,
tie Clerk', office would «apply
It still remains un-
as we can learn, whether^aylor or
(elected Judge of theft! Diatriet. With
i the District, neither his soaroely allu-
ded to the .abject."
In the Palestine District, it remains in doubt
whether Beeveaor Hayes is elected, the vote being
very oIom. i,
Most f the counties in our regular table an
¡liy te u by the respective Clerks, Chief
", without which not one-half
I have been heard from to this
o* turn Market—Marshal Heed this
' suctioned the usual lease of the market
of the
, " «8,276
and lighting tbe market to lowest biddeT
We learn from Mr. Hooper that the dredging
" Clopper's bar has been finished, and that
hereafter pass through the ohannel
the State oontraotor.
. . ' ' . ■
' The Telegraph say that the Bav. Mr. Bye ,
r elected pastor of the Presbyterian Church
rived there last Saturday, and will
future hold regular service on the morning
«ad «veiling of every 8unday.
r fcf" Various paper in the State are urging the
neoeeelty of a geological survey, to be provided for
by the incoming Legislature. We have advocated
it for years, and have no doubt It will be suooeqfful
at this session. *
HT The Tessa Banger advooates tbe eleotion of
Br. Anson Jones to the United States Senate.
■ .
Galveston Cooxrr.—We obtain from Mr. Wil-
li Thomson.our county Assessor and Collector,
the following statistics of the value of property in
Galveston county, as assessed this year:
TriwTwTlo'^ *M®,<>88
.. Negroes,.?!^.4!?..!!!*.!!'.
.. Horses,
.. Cattle,
.. Merchandise,
.. Money %(interest,
... Miscellaneous pro
property,.
2,661,822
48 ,170
28,000
88,896
420,24
69,860
142,084
Total value, $8,978,999
SUte Tax,........|. #a,9 7.73
County " 2.998 8S
Poll " 284,60
Total tax, $9,281,08
i_whole tax, it will be remembered, was relin-
ounties for the two current years.
. Mr. Thomson has completed hi assessment rolls
and performed his whole- duty in a most creditable
Houston Packets.—The steamer Island City,
Capt. Sterrett, having been overhauled, has re-
sumed her place as a mail packet, leaving this port
on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Tbe
Eclipse, Capt. J. P. Menard, wiD, for the > resent
make semi-weekly trips, dlso carrying the mails.
The San Antonio is now repairing and will shortly
resume her place as a freight boat, under Captain
Blakeman.
pr We have been requested to throw a few
bricks at such persons as are in the habit of bath-
ing in thegulfin front of the eity, during dayligh-.
Tbe beach is the only pleasant drive near the city
and is daily resorted to for that purpose by scores
of ladies, who must be denied the pleasure, unless
persona cease bathihg except after night. Certain*
ly no gentleman would persist under such circum-
stanoes, «elees prepared with suitable clothing for
tho purpose. , Within the corporate limits all
■och person* are subject to fine, and need only bo
oomplained of to be prosecuted for bathing in a
nude state between sunrise and sunset.*'
BxWi.BC.—We will give a quit claim deed to
lofjnwkLubbock'* shorthorn two year olds
do* anno*) to any one who will furnish
ü tho oficial vote of Fort Bend (county, located
somewhere up on the Harrisburg rail road. Wheth-
er the malla pas through it, mutt be doubtful—
hence tho liberal reward offered.
Stock.—Quite a number of bets were made in
this city on Runnels having 10,000 majority. The
parties now are considerably exercised. Runnel^
so far, (Monday afteraooa,) has 9,214. Tbe ques-
tion now is, will the foil vote of 21 counties and
•8 reported aa full, givo him 786 more ? If not,
Democratic funds go to console Enow Nothings.
If not, the needful of our E. N. friends must jingle
ia "unwashed" pockets. Our opinion is, if our
figures from the 98 ooonties in our table are as oor-
not u we have reason to believe, that Bunnels
will hardly make the X,000. He may do it, like
jMifth fallen wider went to Heaven, by a "d—d
^i-ht squeezebut the probability ia, ho will fall
1, 2, SOO votes short. The exact result
will depend proi«bly on the true state of the vote
in El Pa ", of which wo have two verdona, differ-
ing about 160 rotes.
The mti1 arrive before we go to press may
throw more light on tho subject. In the mean
q,. snxioue friends bad better read the ele-
venth commandment—"Thou shalt not bet, unless
'—' ' bagging the game."
i used in tho United States, is
k town Of Bethlehem, Penn., and still in work-
It was built in London in 1689, and
Philadelphia, where it was in service
^Tmis—until the manufacture of domestic
¿¿o modernized "mersheens" was established,
i it passed into the hands of the Bethlehem*
who now greatly revere it as a memento of
kag syne."
i above appeared in our paper of Saturday.
1 by an old fireman, that the
r ia the oldest fire association in
i a member of the
i indicates
¡Ü ~
ft i believed next Congress will establiah
rrttortal govi snt for Arizona, the Gadsden
Purchase or Mo Valley Country. It extends
from the Bio Gri to the Colorado of the Weet;
ia some 600 mi on* and 60 wide. There i a
great deal of dec tad within Ha limita, but alao
a good deal that able, and great mineral wealth.
It is doubtless paltby aa any portion of the
globe, and lies jtly on the southern railroad
route to tbe Pao The greatest obstacles to its
settlement are tl >aohe and Yuma Indiana, and
a scarcity of pai to for stock. Americana will
settle in any oot where stock can be profitably
used. -•+- ■ r
Should a govei nt be established the territory
will soon aettle i as to overoome the' Indian .
The MttlemenU of necessity be confined.to the
fertile districts a mob isolated from each other;
but eaeh stream icupied will so far inorease the'
srfety, comfort ■ dvautages of tbe lapd route
from Texas via ] so to California.
Texaa is much rested in this measure, and we
trust our memb a Congress will be active in
carrying it oot. leed every settlement to the
west of us, eltbe this or the other side of £1
Peso, must benef zas. The early «abjection of
the wild Indian Id induce thousands to locate
in that vaat, almoBlimited region lying between
San Antonio ánAifornia. No country on the
oontinent appealanger to tbe in valid, of what-
ever diaease, to 4 and inhale its pure and
bealtb-restoring Apbere. it may be regarded,
Indians out of the}, as the land of youth.
Captain A A. Hbxxbbxts, of the U. 8. Topo-
graphical Engineer Corps, makes the following
«tatement aa to the com] " " ' " ' *
proposed route by the 8
the 86th line:
The distances from Port Smith and Fnlton to the
Mississippi river by railroad building and pro-
jected, measured on tbe railroad maps, are respec-
tively, 870 and 160 miles* Tót the route of tbe 82d
Ah Animated 1 jtx appears to have sprang
up between the a officers and contractors on
one aide, and the ( etor Of Customs for tbe De-
partment of Paso (forte on the other, about the
introduction of floi d grain from Mexico for tbe
use of the Army. ' officers and contractors con-
tend that the Coll r (Sherman) has no juris-
diction over the ooi of EÍ Paso, Texas, as said
oounty haa been del id from the revenue district
of Paso del Norte ¡he aot of Congress passed
the '8d Maroh, 1861 id they refose to pay him
duties er acknowlec bis authority in any way.
The Colleotor (Sh« n) left Franklin (port of
entry) for Washing! úty, on the 17th July past,
for the purpose of llg tbe whole matter before
Mr. Secretary Cobbf he army officers and con-
tractors appear to suLe that the law in question
re-annexes EI Paso tie "Distriot of Texas," of
which Galveston ia f*ort of Entry. This law
says "that so much o ¡ aot oreating a Collection
Distriot in Texas and w Mexico^ approved Aug.
2d, 1864, aa. include, i county of £1 Paso, in
Texas, be and the sao i hereby repealed." The
prevision thus rspeale ads as follows: "That
the oounty of El Paso, the State of Texas, and
the Territory of New ico, and they are.bereby
orea ted a Collection Di it, which shall be ealled
tbe Distriot of Psso de rte, and Frontera within
said county of £1 Paso hereby made a Port of
entry and;delivery for i Diatrios." The Colleotor
is required to reside at; itera. The Ü. S. Court
for New Mexioo, by tho; (of 1864) has jurisdio-
tfon, in cases arising t r the revenue laws, in
the whole Distriot. 3 effeot of the repealing
olauae above quoted, we >uld think, would.be to
place tbe oounty'of El so back where in was
prior to the passage of t tot of 1864. By the aot
establiahing the District aluria, approved Maroh
8,1867, "all that part o ixa South and West of
tbe counties of Matagorind Wharton," and in-
culdiag said counties, is ached to said Distriot of
Saluria.
i.-Che din
Tax Ashland Dnnrxx.-Che dinner by James
B. Clay, on the 12th Auguio the Democrats and
Old Line Whigs of tbe AsVid Distriot, Eentuoky,
was one of tbe grandeet aiffl of the kind for many
years. The enthusiasm ^ unbounded. Speeohes
ere made by Vioe Precnt Breckinridge, Gov.
Willard, of Indiana, Preai and Holt, of Louisville,
Talbott, Andersan, Sme<^, Porter and other nota-
bles of Eentuoky and Qana. Tbe Teport says
that when Mr. Clay rosek was introduced by Mr-
Breokinridge— j
"Tbe orowd seemed teoome perfectly frantio.
Shout after about rent th v, until men were hoarse
from hallowing. Evenie ladies clapped their'
hands, and some hurrahtfor Clay. Alter thank-
ing them for tbe kind máer in wbioh he had been
received, be said that tineas a proud day to bim.
That it was not a day of de connected with him-
.self personally, but to th( noble hearts of the Ash-
land District who had tained him in his late
struggle. That when hap the old house, the old
trees, and the old men to bad gathered around
him, that his heart wa|ull of gratitude for the
manner in which they h stood by him. That
under the circumstances feould not have lived in
the State without making); race, after tbe man-
ner in which it bad bee tendered to him. That
he had gained nothing bais own efforts, but the
noble hearts who had rail to bis support and sus-
tained him, did all. Thai had not invited them to
roam underneath the Skadef Alhland to r^jotee over
the name of Clay, but to ngratnlate each other
upon the victory gained o Endw-Nothinglsm;—
The Union, the .ConBtitnt and the maintenance
of tbe law is the doctrine I have upheld. Here
I stand to-day surrounde&y thousands of those
who sustained the man <£&shland in hi day .of
might. I was but a plainarmer when I was put
forward, and they .aid 14a to be scalped—to be
destroyed. But thank Goftbere was a party that
stood by me, when those o should, deserted me
—even deserted the oxen a| the oatUe, whioh was
better blooded than some er stocq^ "They have
placed me in a position wfe the bound of party
may bark at me is muoh Ébey please, for they
had as well "bay at the m a, . Any one can at-
tain bis position. Thefe it ) mother here to-day
who oannot say to her chilape highest of all is be-
fore you. I intended not téaake a speeob, but to
welcome you to the shades (Ashland.
If one oan judge of the tti whioh Clay ha up-
on the hearts of the peopliy the manifestations
made in hiseloquent remark in whioh I have done
him great injustice, It is ajgrm and as lasting aa
that possessed by his father, f his was an off- hand-
k® 1® *^11 worthjbf tbe oratorical name
"yJT1 The people were u rilling for him to atop,
Si2£fby introdnoin*
Among other things Gov. Tillard said-
He had come to congregate the men of Ken
tucky, to congratulate his oojktry, that the sunlight
m broken into dark'den of Enow-
Nothingiam in Eentuoky. Ws come under the
shade of Ashland to mairy le national Whigs and
the national Demoorats, so ¿t their posterity may
be found battling together fie glorious Union and
a oommon oonntry. He wr-*-? *- ------ >--
ohild of the sage of Ashla;
the stern and rugged D<
position where he can be .
oonntry. We have reoruii
most of its brains and ami
tbe young men he said, a
upon you."
xr^ of th
B, makes ^
,rative advantages of tbe
[parallel over that along
ively, 2? -mm I
parallel, we have-from Fulton to San Diego 1,648
mile ; estimated cost of railroad $69,000,000; and
distanoe from the Missouri river to San Diego 1,698
miles. From Fnlton to San Pedro, 1,618 miles;
estimated oost of railroad $69,000,000, and distanoe
from the Mississippi river to San Pedro, 1,760.—
From Fnlton to San Francisco, 2,040 milea; es-
timated cost of railroad, $98,000,000, and distance
from the Mississippi river to San Franolsoo, 2,160
miles.
It would, therefore, appear from all that has yet
been measured, or demonstrated as certain, and
even allowing all the possible reductions, in the
lengths of tbe other routes, that may result from
future surveys, that the route of the S2d parallel is,
in the language uaed by Secretary Davis in his re
shortest and least oostly route to the Paoiflo, but it
is the shortest and cheapest route to San Francisoo,
the greatest commercial city on our western coast."
Further, the great belt of uncultivable country over
wbioh all tbe routea must pass is orossed by tbe
route of tbe 82d parallel on tbe shortest line. It is
probable, from various indications, that the eastern
limit Of the uncultivable region is found fbrther
west on the route of the 82a parallel than on any
other; but setting, this aside, until it is fully demon-
strated, snd assuming the arid district to begin on
all the routes at the 99th meridian, we have from
that meridian to the Pacific slopes (the western
limit of the uncultivable region :) '
By the route of the 82d_parallel—To the
summit of Warner's Psss. 1,160 miles.
To the summit of San Gorgonio .1,218 "
By the route of the 86th parallel—To the
summit of the Cajon Pass.. .....1,400 "
To the summit of Taheechay pah Pass. .1,460 "
Thus the distanoe acros9 the uncultivable region
is, on the route of the 82d parallel, 280 miles shorter
than on the route of the 86th parallel. . «
Comparison of theSoutee of the 82dand 86th parallelt.
Route
35th ||
So..
Do..
Do
Ktdll
Do..
Do-
Do..
Do..
Do.
From
Ft Smith
Uln river
Ft Smith
Mis. river
Fulton...
W.. river
Fulton...
His. river
Fulton...
MIm river
San Diego
Do
San Pedro..
•Do
S Francisco
Do
Length
Cost
Milts
1,820
2,090
2,099
2,360
1,548
$92,000,000
1,400
106,000,000
l,fi0
69,000,000
1,160
1,618
1,760
2,040
2,190
69,000,600
1,218
93,000,000
1,218
Th. Soutnern Route.
John B. Bartlett, Esq., who was tbe commissioner
appointed to run the boundary between Mexico and
the United Statea under President Fillmore's ad-
miniatration, in the years 1860-1862, has written
an elaborate paper, which appears in the Providence
Journal, in whieh he takee decided ground in favor
of the Southern line, near the 82d parallel of
latitude, whioh has been eeleoted by the Postmaster
General for tbe overland mail route to California.
Mr. Bartlett gives this route the preference on ac-
count of the many advantages wnioh be says his
observation assures him that it possesses. He
traveled with seven loaded wagons, many pack
mules, twenty-five oxen and one hundred and fifty
sheep* over a considerable portion of tbe line, and
may, therefore, lay claim with good Teason to know
its characteristics* He thinks the Southern line has
a narrower belt of woodless and waterless region to
traverse than any other; while the summit level,
at El Paso, is only 8800 or 4000 feet above the level
of the sea, while the summit level of the central or
Albuquerque route, near tbe 86th parallel, is re-
ported to nave an elevation of about 7000 feet.—
Between the Bio Grande and Colorado water was
always found—if not visible on tbe surface it could
be obtained by digging for it—and the whole extent
was passed by the entire train without orippling a
wagon. This region Mr. Bartlett pronobnees ad-
mirably adapted for a wagon road.or railway.
Beyond the Colorado íb the California deeert,
having a breadth of about 100 miles, whieh must
be crossed. ThiB i very hard and level, with oc-
casional spots of sand. It is entirely destitude of
wpod, and nearly so of grass. Water in the dry
seasons oan only be had by digging; but it could
probably be obtained in any desirable quantities
by opening large wells, and by providing reservoirs
to catoh the overflowings of the Colorado. Carisa
oreek furnishes water in tbe dryest seasons. From
this point to San Diego water is found at convenient
distances, and also an abundance of grass. Emi-
grant parties from Eastern Texas, in large numbers,
itM
met numerous parties upon the road, and in one
instanoe a flock of 17,000 sheep, all bound for San
Franoisco. He appeals to hie published reports and
dispatches to support his present statements, aad
asserts that, although the region through which
this road passes is no paradise, and is poor in many
respects, yet it is infinitely better and presents more
advantages for a great national highway than any
yet discovered to California.—Picayune.
It has lately been auggeated that the fever and
ague might be avoided, in distriots scourged by that
terrible disease, by setting out rait kly growing plants
between the infectious marshes and the points en-
dangered by the miasma. At the National Obser-
vatory, in Washington, the experiment was tried,
the last summer, of planting aunflowers at the foot
of the lawn, so as to screen the house from the
marshes, and with signal suocess; for though the
fever and ague prevailed everywhere around, it was
absent from tbe observatory, for the first time for
; rears. The experiment is to be repeated this year,
i n a better manner, in order to demonstrate whether
the exemption was merely a coincidence, or more.
Lieut. Maury, who suggested tbe trial, assuming
that the plants caused the exemption, attributes it
to the consumption by the sunflowers of the deleter-
ious miasma evolved by tbe marshes. This may be
so, though tbe suggestion would be more philosoph-
ical, if tbe miasma originated in the decay of animal
matter. Experience has proved, moreover, that any
sbelder, such as a belt of woods, an intervening
high ground, or other obstruction, will protect a
particular spot from intermittent fever, though all
the neighborhood may be ravaged by the disorder.
Ire to rejoice that the
id been oaught up by
iraoy and placed in h
ful to himself and hi
from the Whig party
tty of its virtus. To
of hope has dawned
doae had
the law or of public opii
suoh morality is verywel
not been
ublio i
suoh morality is very i
parable of" The Wolf oi
lay at his last gasp, and i
"It is true," said ha. T
Sxur-Siearxevsifxss.—Its no ancommon thing
for mento flatter th.mults that God cannot be
atspleaaed with them beoaxe they have omitted to
deedajrhioh they would have
wen «trained by the fear of
In. The sonndnera of
exhibited in Lessing's
I Death-bed." A wolf
. - JP> and waureviewing his past life.
... "®> "i «na sinner, but yet 1 hope
Í21 1 hve done evil,but I have
uÜ?i? ii. j 0n« I remember a bleating
lamb that had atrayad fro its flock oame so near
kiíwi." throttled it, but I did
««¥ *0 all that said his
m na,ttefta, who was hlping him to prepare for
Ttt^'Perfeíly all theoiroumatanoes.
^".fo^thaUm. wen you were so dread-
bo* in jour throat. -TA«
fc" heen adopted with the
«fcaaJSBSliB
lil?SL Jat^er fljunty gives 400 majority
ni w! «Sí? ?®' haUlmost unanimous against
o lia throughout the State,
subject. n of Western sentiment upon this
in New
It is now xe
Mortraa <fc
are to cer-
t how soon
WEDNESDAY, !
7,600 bags,
about 14,000 bags.
" 18,000 bags.
" 200 tons.
" 200 tons.
126 orates.
yar the bark Truman came in yesti
tbe bar. She is at St Cyr's wharf di<
Stáplx IicroBTs.—Messrs. EauSman A
in their annual olreular, thus enumerate the im
tation of leading artlelea from foreign countries, in-
to the Port of Galveeton, for the year ending 81st
Awnst.
Coffee imports from Bio
Coffee,' in all,
Salt, from Liverpool,
Coal, "
Iron, "
Crookery, "
Swedish Irán Bremen and Gottenburg 70 tons.
German manufactures to the value of $80,000.
That Brick thrown by our junior at those
Who go down into the sea without ship , on the
Gulf side, is liabls to be returned, wet and heavy.
Whenever we hear oomplainits made of boys who
are found bathing whan oamjú*8 come by on the
beaoh, we think of the boy'swswer to the irritable
man , who wished to know why young Amerioa was
halloing when hi senior .went by : " Why do yen
go by when I am hollsrinl •Carriage riding on the
beach ia doubtless pleasant and healthy { but it is a
luxury every body oannot afford. Bathing is equal-
ly pleasant and invigorating; and within the reaob
of all who oan better afford to walk a mile than pay
from one to three dollars for a ride. It is easier
for those who ride to strike the beaoh beyond the
city limits, than It is for those who walk. For
young America to oarry a bathing dress into the
Gulf is like taking a shower bath on an umbrella.
0" Maj. Ben MoCullooh's accounts, as U. 8.
Marshal, for the first term, have been adjusted at
the Treasury Department, and all balanoes claimed
by -the United 8tates paid into the Treasury. The
business of the offioe appears to have been kept in
a olear and satisfactory manner.
Chanos or Mjji Maitsk.—The'Postmaster of
this place informs us that he is now receiving
nearly all the mail matter from Eastern Texas by
the mail steamer Betty Powell, from Liberty, and
thinks that the time gained by the change, is about
24 hours, over the route by way of Houston.—
New*.
To the above we would add that for several
weeks past most of our letters and papers from
Eastern Texas have come by Liberty and in Bhort
er .time than formerly. The papers from Marshall,,
Busk, Henderson and other points now reach us
WING SEPTEMBER 8
- "" i -
L8S7.
office with great fidility and dispateh, Post mas-
ter Andrews has for several months opened the
office at 7 instead of 8 a. m., greatly to the public
convencience and those of our profession particu-
larly. We cannot, either, withhold from Mr. An-
drews and his polite assistants our thanks for their
kindness in facilitating our desires for early delive-
ry since the eleotion.
Fbisxdb.—Some people complain that they have
no friends; but they might as well complain that
they have no olothea—they have simply worn them
out! Dr. Johnson said, "aman should keep his
friendships in repair"—and he spoke like a philo-
sopher, as he was. QuevoulezvoutT would you eat
your oake, and yet keep it! Would you spend yonr
shillings, and still hear them jingle in your pocket?
Would you use your friends up by incesant and un-
reasonable demands upon their good w ill, and still
have as many friends as before! Tbe idea is pre-
posterous ; and yet you oomplain of the fickleness
of friends, and the instability of human affection 1
Judge Olin, of Vermont, being aaked the secret of
his great political influence in that State, answered.
"By rarely using it." And that's the way a sensi-
ble man keepa his friend —by seldom using" them.
He keeps them lovingly and carefully, as he would
a precious old coin of gold, which he esteems not
merely for its market value, and only uses in the
last emergency.--Botton Pott.
Wobxino Powers ox the Pbxbidxht.—a Wash-
ington correspondent of the Philadelphia Press
writes: •
As Mr. Buohanan attends to all important mat-
ters himself, giving even to details hi. personal at-
tention, he will have hard work, now that he has re-
turned from Bedford, Pa. During his long and
active life, he has been remarkable for a regular
habit of increasing toil. Even in his retirement at
Wheatland he was a close student and early riser.
ng his residence at the British Court he per-
formed the heaviest duties himself. The number
of letters'and papers he writes without the aid of an
amanuensis new is legion. Beading without speo-
taoles, and giving to every subject prompt and oar-
ful attention, he i a wonder to his cabinet, several
of whom knew very little of him till thus thrown
into connection with him. Bising almost at dawn,
and toiling late, he gives to his high offioe the con-
scientious fidelity and patience which have marked
his care r from the day when, nearly forty years
ago, he took hlaseat in tha national oonnoils
Volcanio Eruptions.—We learn from a gentle-
man who left the Sandwich Islands about fifty days
since, that just before he took his departure, new
wasreoeived that tbe voloauo of Mouna Lea, on the
island of Hawai, had again become fearfully aotive;
and as the lava discharged at th8 last eruption, ap-
proached within about seven mile of the the vil-
lage of Hilo, filling up the unevennees of the sur-
face down to that point, a distance of sixty or seventy
miles frem the crater, there was apprehension that
the present eruption would either bury that village
entirely, or undermine it and carry it into the sea.
This last apprehension resulted from tbe actions of
the lava at the last eruption; it having, in several
instances, appeared to stagnate for a while, but af-
terwards burst out loweylaH$h« mountains, and
carried all before it.* 'IHftsls were broken down by
it Bke bullrushcs. The visage of Hilo contain a
population of about 600 petsMs, inoluding, perhaps,
a dozen whitefamilies. It ia situated on the north-
easterly side of the ¡¿land, and such íb tbe surface
of the ground, that if the lava ever find its way to
the sea, it must be apparently over the ruins of,M-
village. Tho «wsát eruption is from
George Wilkins Eéndall givee another favorable
report of his experience ia Chinese sugar oane,
writing from his farm near New Braunfels, to the
Picayune. He says that his ooro crop, on that
was almost another total failure, from
oane did well, while at his other place,
tl
Of#:
nick of a good crop, and an im-
mense crop of ChiflKaogar oane considering the
amount of land planted. He says :
I hardly dare say hotrifflllHH^fipi I think I
can raise to the acre, while tbe amounl
prodigious. Áb I iOokat it, and am d
to save it, I cannot }ielp thinking of th
who wiiñ th elephant in a raffle—he found-he
got joo much, of a good thing, and did not know
what to do with it.
and Mary Smil
the 19th of
yews
sippi territory,
west, where a soaking shower
•- duration, coming just in the ^
Erastus Smith, (known aa Deaf Smith,
hewaa hard of hearing,) waa tbe son of ChUiab
ftQ 87.
JBfBS!
.sssassi:
That the 8orgho Snore stands a drought batter
't all question ;xproved it
than anything else ia,
last year, and this year I have'double confirmation
Bows of it are now standing in my corn field even
here, with well-matured, ripe heads, where the
other grain has come to nothing. All that it wants
ia moistuVe enough in the ground to bring it up,
(le.shower to give it a start, and it
and the;
will go on' and'mature when every thing else
fails.
Many of my friends in this section are sangnine
that this newgrain or plant will drive all others
out of the ground, or that it will- at least effect a
perfect revolution in the way of farmingln Western
Texas. They are savinguw^eed to plant and. for
bread; they, are making syrup and sugar of the
jniee of the stalk, they are feeding ,-it out as green
fodder, and saving it up for dry. No part of it'is
wasted ; cattle, horses, sheep and hogsoat it olean,
from the ground upwatdB, when the stalk is ripe
and gain strength and now fat upon it. An im-
mense quantity of it will be planted next year.
Singular Escapes.
By the mail yesterday we received a letter frotn
a relative at. Bristol, Bhode Island, stating that—
" Mr. and Mrs. £., our mutual relatives, &o.,
were op board the steamship Metropolis, the other
nlgbt, when she came in oóllisioñ with and, sunk
the Propeller J. N. Harris, on Long Island Sound,
by whitib 16 or 20 persons on board were lost."
This brief announcement suggested to us several
instances in whioh thia couple had escaped ship'
wreck or other casualties, more than often falls
to tbe lot. of one person, la the first plaoe, tbe for-
mer husband of Mrs. E., while oomiiaanding a
whale ship in tbe South Paoifio, was killed by a
whale. Several years later, in 1862, Mr. and Mrs,
E. were wreeked on the steamship Independence on
Matagorda bar; on their return, while ascending
the Mississippi, the ateamer took fire and narrowly
esoaped destruction. On the same trip their carri-
age horses ran off with them in Indiana, upsetting
the carriage and landing Mr. and Mrs. E. in the top
of a small tree, shrouded witbgrape vines. During
was born in New York, on
1787. At the age of eleven
til his pareats to tho Missis-
near Notches. Ui. pa-
members of the Baptist
such moral and intellectual
trainings the circumstances sround them would
permit. He first cipie to Texas in 1817, perhaps
with some of thejktriot forcea that were constant-
ly arriving at that time in the province. He soon,
' ever, ret^nted home; but, in 1821, he came J
mTew , for the purpose of making it his
never leaving it. Ho
* bW* * "
■i .« s..:i .
to be by
menced at
company; but it"
long, but. proceeded'to San Antonio, w
married a Mexican lady, by whom he had sevi
children. He had a fine property at Grand ~
Mississippi, but he did not attend to it.
sons, Trinidad Travis Smith, was edui
Martin, Esq^ of Baldwin, 11'
mith died at Fort Bend, Nov<
« was a man of remarkable graviig, and of
words. In fact, he seldom answered at all, except
in monosyllables. When lie did speak, it was said
to be to the point. His coolness in danger and
battle was affirmed to be unsurpassed. The Texan
army was greatly favored in having his services as
a spy. The country had no truer Mend.
W Tbe ateamer "Island City,'
arriikd last night from Houston', withx
cotton, 2 hides, 2bbl tallow, and the
panengers:
Cramer, Cathoart, Faby,Bloomfield,
Manly, Dudley, Trigg, Woodword, Thom;
Stevens, Green, Phelps, Constantino,
Phelps, Froah and son, Preston, Bingon
Cu hing, Gurney, Bell, Boeener. 3
Fisher and daughter, Mrs Phelps and 8:
Miss Phelps, Miss Cobb, McGuire and
Sawyer, Lewi , lady and 4 children,
regularly by the Liberty mail steamer. ; ,
While upon the subject, we take the occasion
to say that while generally conducting the pest *he ®ame se ,on' they had similar accident in
H " « tl.. 1 «.1
Poihtxbs and Sxttibs.—A correspondent of a
New York paper pitches into a (%ss of pertons,
(discribed as "bar room sitters,"J^JWio frequent the
drinking saloons of Gotham, and are pointed out as
"a growing scourge to the fair fame of New York,"
in this, that
"The sitter may be known by h's invariably tak-
ing his position at the end of the bar at some, or
any of tbe numerous cheap whisky mills which
abound in this vicinity. His modus^operandi is as
follows: The morning paper (or, if that be engaged,
that of the preceding day comes as agreeable to
him, for he does not read but looks over the top
for a victim,) is*seized and forthwith monopolized
to the detriment of those frequenters of the bouse
who pay. Their inroads upon the crackers and
cheese, so bountifully supplied by the proprietor,
are beautiful to behold, and only to be fixceUed by
the voraciousness with which they are devoured,
The writer seems to think that landlords are
partly responsible for this class of men, who assist
the house, by sponging upon those who treat. He
goes for kicking the sitters to such an extent as to
make the occupation of their positions uncomfor-
table; but this measure is evidently impracticable.
The writer who thus points the slow, unmoving
finger of scorn at tbe sitters, seems to tbihk that
there is a wide difference between such pointers as
himself and the objects before him. Among infe
rior animals, it is true, that the distinction between
pointers and setters is always kept up; but, with
those who frequent drinking saloons there is an
evident tendency of one class towards the other.
Their noses (unlike those of their canine brethren)
are apt to grow alike; and whenever, from long
service tbe human pointer loses bis last (b) cent,
he inevitably becomes a sitter.
A Diasbax, exhibiting the variations in tbe Gal-
veston cotton market for the year just past, has
been issned by Mr. L. Froah, one of our merchants
who has made ootton his study (a not unprofitable
one, we believe) during that period. As we have
not space to oopy the table, .wo must content our-
selves with an attempt to convey an idea of its
signification by saying that the fluctuations in
middling cotton have been between 11 and 15 cents
per tt- Dividing the four oents between \hese num-
bers into eighths, we have 82 points or stairs, for
ascent and descent. Starting at 11 cents, cotton had,
by the 6, of October asoended eight stairs, and got to
12. By the end Ofth# month it oame down to llj^.
By the 10th November it had gone up to 11%. The
next week it fell baok to 11%, when reoovering it
wind,it moved ateadily up to the beginning of the
Christmas holidays, when it stood at 12%. The
idleness and dissipation of that season caused it to
lose a quarter; but, recoveringjita former good habits
it then went steadily up until the ides of March,
where it pauaed at 18%.
This trying period, to cotton as well as Boman
heroes, set it baok an eighth; but by all Fool's Day
it bad recovered a half, and was enabled to pass that
tricky period without any stop in it progress, and
went en to the 19th of the month v where it rested
on 18JK cents until the first of May , when it rose %
with the mercury, but having become too muoh
elated during that festive season, Tumbled down
three steps to 18%, where it lay but a moment ;—
regaining its former position by the beginning of
Jnne, to fall baok again the 21 t, where ¡treated
but momentarily on 18%, when it oommenced get-
ting up stairs in earnest, and never lost a step un-
til the end of the year, oomming out evenly on 15
oent., with an upward tendenoy.
' Letters state that Gen. Jas. Pinckney Hen-
derson is dangerously ill, at Nacogdoches.
' The Crocket Printer oontinúea its portraits
of distinguished living editors. The last is a well
executed likeness of Caldwell, of the Fanfield
Pioneer. Imagine old Harry gazing at you through
a cluster of brambles and briers and you will have
a fair conception of the picter. Prof. Dalton should
establish a school of Art—a. a true Southern man
he is bound to do it, as one of the means of vegeta-
ting the slumbering genius of tbe South. Come,
Professor, when your oonntry calls, you should no
longer yield to that modesty which has so long
time averted the admiration of mankind.
Conneotiout. Two or three years later, they were
passengers on the steamship Bay State, on Long
Island Sound, when that terrible explosion took
plaee which destroyed so many lives; and now we
find they were on the Metropolis at the time of the
late disaster. These are hardly half of .their mis-
haps within the last few years; yet, they have hot
met with the slightest injury in any case, and oon-
tinue to travel durilig the hot season wherever in-
clination prompts, as if dangers were unknown to
them. ••
James C. Wilson, Esqr., in a letter to the
State Gazette, withdraw, his name from all connec-
tion with the United States Senatorship, and inti-
mates his withdrawal from politics altogether, indi-
cating his intention, under a sense of duty, to follow
other pursuits. It is supposed Mr. Wilson designs
becoming a minister of the Methodist Church, of
which he ha. heretofore been a member and exporter.
The Evening News omnot get over its hostility
to the foreigner . It calls them ugly and ignorant,
and for these reasons it thinks they ought not to
exercise the right of suffrage. The editor of the
News ought to be tender on these points, for one if
not both of these reasons, if put in foroe, would ex-
clude bim from tbe polls. But why harp upon
this subjeot longer) The Demooraoy could give
the Know Nothing, every foreign vote in Tennes-
see twice over, and then be in a majority of five
thousand at least. This prejudice against and
abuse of foreigners, is a monstrous poor basis for a
political party. It Is revolting to. charity, sound
morals and good taste. It is not calculated to en-
dear the foreigner to our country and its institu-
tions. It is not calculated to enlighten them or
make them better citizens, but has directly con-
trary effect. Because a man is born in Ireland or
Germany, it does not follow that he is a dog to be
kicked and cuffed by every self-conceited and bigo-
ted native-born American.
The News moreover urges that because foreigners
have not the oapaoity of maintaining free govern-
ment in Europe, they are not qualified to do so in
this country. It does not refleot that the chief
obstacle to free government in Europe is the stand-
ing armies of the despots who rule there, and that
many of the best ideas upon which our government
i. based, were derived from foreigners. The best
evidenoe to us that our foreign born oitizens do
know how to maintain free government, is that
they generally vote with the Demooraoy; and this,
no doubt, is the secret of Know Nothing hostility
to them.—Memphis Appeal.
Oob Naval Foboe on the Afbioan Coast.—Lord
Napier is urging upon the Government the sending
of more vessels of war to the coast of Africa to as
sist in suppressing the slave trade. By the Ash-
burton treaty we agree to maintain eighty guns
there, while at present we have but sixty-tbree.—
This is caused by the faot that several of the vessels
have been obliged to come home from the expiration
of the term of enlistment of their crews, and the
Secretary of the Navy has not had any vessels with
whioh he oould replace them. Indeed, he finds
himself in no small degree perplexed by the constant
requirements upon bim for vessels to supply the
necessary work for the navy. Our present force is
in fact, fai below the wants of a peace establish-
ment, and would be very insignificant in the event
of a war.
The reoent Southern Commercial Convention
passed a resolution advising the withdrawal of the
whole of the United States fleet from the African
ooast.,
Little Bbody" understands the science of flnan-
oeering as well as some of her larger sisters. It ap-
pears from the returns that there are ninety'eight
banks In Bhode Island, with a paid stock of twenty
millions of dollars; yet the specie actually in bank
is put down at only $826,724, while their circulation
of bills under five dollars is over one million
•how how muoh depends on public oonfidei
Thx Explosion a* Do port'. Powdi
despatch dated Wilmington, Delawa
gives the following particulars of the i
■ion at Duponfi. Powder J"" '
i the 1
' the '
Igkland.—A paper was 1
HPitM I,the I
i of Ioeland. Theg
the j
I aa explo
Mechanical Triumphs.—Mechanical triumphs,
contributing, as they do, to our most immediate
and pressing wants—appealing to the eye by their
magnitude, and then by their grandeur, and asso-
ciated in many cases with the warmest impulses of
humanity and personal safety—the labors of the
mechanist and engineer acquire a cotemporary
celebrity, which íb not vonohsafed to the re.ults of
soientific research, or to the productions of litera-
ture and the fine arts. The gigantio steam vessel,
whioh exj edites and facilitates the intercourse of
natibns—the canal, whioh unites two distant seas—
the bridge and the aqueduct, which span an im-
passable valley—the harbor and the break-water,
which shelter our vessels of peace and of war—the
railway, whioh hurries us along on the wings of
mechanism, and the light beaoon whioh throws its
d recting beams over the deep—address themselves
to the secular interests of every individnal, and
obtain for the engineer who invented or who
planned Ihem, a high and well-merited popular re-
putation—Macaulay.
Native India Pxebb on the Mutiny.—'The Bom-
bay Times publishes the following translation of a
poition of an article in the native India press on
tbe recent mutiny. It was written by a Fareee,
hitherto most friendly to the English power:
Oh, Lord I the English have now seen aspcoimen
of thy power. To-day they were in a state of high
command ; to-morrow they wrapped themselves in
blood, and began to fly. Notwithstanding that
their forces were abont three lacs Strong in India,
thsy began to yield up life like cowards. Forget-
ting their palanquins and carriages, they fled to
the jungles without either boots or hats. Leaving
their houses, they asked shelter from the meanest
of men ; and, abandoning their power, they fell
into the hands of marauders. * * *
Oh, Englishmen 1 you little dreamt that the
present king would ever mount the throne of Delhi
with all the pomp of Nadir Shah, Babor or Tamer-
lane.
Ebdption of Vesuvius.—The ernption of Mount
Vesuvius oantinued at last aocounts, though it had
lost much of its violence, nor had it any plaee
broken out anew. The course of the lava is in all
oases the same it took two years ago. There is this
peculiarity, however, in the eruption, that it is un-
accompanied by the belohing forth either of ashes
or flames. The lava in all cases issues from the
t'sside at tome distance below the apex,
, without the usual explosion, it pursues it
onward way quiet and unruffled, till arrested by
change of temperature, a steady stream of liquid
fire.
Thx FrLLiBurrxBs.—The actual number of men
V. Accessory Transit
Company of . Charles Morgan & Sons, was no lea.
than 7000 men shipped up tbe San Juan river, and
8600 received from California. Mr...'*' "
Secretary of State to General Wal* '
oan prove by documentary ev""
than 6700 fillibustera have '
Nicaragua.—National M>
, Capt. N. P. Spoors,
1 last night from Houston, with 8,000 feet
■ and the following passengers:
Hamilton, Haidman, Bo is, Trabo,
, Tucker, Burke, Angel,Wi"
Droyer, "Mrlfahan and
|y The sloop Maggie Jane, Capt. Charly, ar-
■ rived yesterday from Sabine, with 16,000 shing-
Ahebioan Horses in Enolamd.—Gilpatriok, the
rider of Prioress in the raoe for theiGoodwood Cup,
furnishes the New York papers with statement of
the reasons why the American horses were beaten.
He declares that they were both in very bad condi-
tion, and that he so informed Mr. Ten Broeok, who,
however, paid no attention to his statements. He
says further :
On the morning of the raoe, my orders were to
make a slow, or what English jokiescall "a waiting
rape," of it—further, not to take the lead, or force
the running, if I oould help it, with Prioress.
The start took plaoe; we all went at a bad pace
for the first half mile; Prioress, unlike ordinary
horses, when put to a gallop, from her length of
stride, oannot go slow, and the pace was so bad
with the others, that in spite of myBelf I was foroed
to take the lead., whioh I maintained to the seoond
turn going out, up to whioh time I had kept the in-
side of the traok, the others taking the outside. I
then gradually bent across the track, as had been
agreed upon, which brought me a little outside of
the others, who retained thsir original position.—
We ran in this way, at abad paoe, tothe top of the
bill; when we are here the mare appeared to be very
fresh, and I thought would make a good run home.
The pace now began to inorease. I kept with them
to the turn into tho straight run in, when a still
greater improvement in speed took plaoe. At the
half distance they began to quit me, and when with-
in a hundred and fifty yards of the stantt, I found
the mare give way; and in a few strides more she
was "gone all to pieces," whioh I imagine every body
present perceived. Here was an end of the race—
the mare being physically incapable, from want of
oondition, of doing any better. As to Pryor, with
neither speed nor bottom, he had not tbe ghost of a
chance in any part of tbe race.
I have been acoused of losing ground in the race.
If I did so, it was in compliance with Mr. Ten
Broeok's directions as te those portions of the traok
to be taken to suit the mare, and whatever ground
I may have lost in this way, I more than made up
subsequently. The simple tact is, the horses were
worn out withlong and useless kind of work. Dur-
ing nearly a twelvemonth previously they had never
even had a sweat (so they boys told me) from the
time they landed, until I arrived in England. The
oonsequenoCs may be imagined—namely, want of
all condition, and absolute need of rest—they were
full of fat—burnt up inside—leg-weary—and had
no vitality in them.
In oonolusion, I have no hesitation in asserting
that had our horses been properly taken care of
from the commencement—carefully trained, and
brought to the post in anything like the oondition
we have seen th"m exhibit at home—either of them
could and would have won the Goodwood Cup
easily. •
" Sax" Sued in Kentucky, and Pleads That
He Is Dead.—On Friday, a suit was tried in the
Cireuit Court of Campbell county, Kentucky.
Judge Moore presiding, which was brought by
Shipley & Brothers, engravers, for Beals engraved
for the Know Nothing Grand Council of Eentuoky,
and other Councils of that State, agalnxt A. D.
Smalley and Major Caldwell, who were the agenta
of the Connoil ordering tbe seals. Ira Boot and B.
M. Webster appeared for the plaintiffs, and John
W. Stevenson,(recently elected Democratio mem-
ber of Congress,) for the Know Nothings.
A large amount of correspondence between the
ligitants was read, all very affectionate, commenc-
ing " Dear Brother," ana ending ' Yours frater-
nally."
Mr.Stevenson,counsel for the Know Nothings,
contended that, as Sam was dead, the suit should
be brought against the administrator of Sam's
estate, and not against the agents. The Court,
however, overruled this, and gave judgment against
the dfeendantB for $892 50. Tbe original bill was
for $850; the balance was interest.
Death ox Pbinoe Chables Bonafabte.—A letter
dated Paris, July 80, says:
Prince Charles Bonaparte, Prinoe of Canino,
eldest son of Prince Lucien, brother of the first
Napoleon, died yesterday at his residence, in the
Sue de Lille, in Paris, at the age of fifty-three,
having been born in 1808. He had married the
PrincessZenaide, only daughter of Bonaparte, King
of Spain. The deceased Prinoe has been a widower
since 1854. He leaves eight children, of whom tbe
eldest, Prinoe' Joseph Lucien Charlen Bonaparte,
serves in the army, and the second, Prince Lucien
Louis Joseph, has embraced the clerical profession.
He is one of the Pope's Chamberlains, and is ex-
pected soon to be promoted to the purple. The
news of Prince Charles' death, which was caused
by dropsy of the ohest, and from which he has long
suffered, was at once sent by telegraph to tbe Em-
peror at the camp of Chalonsur-Marne. The Prince
of Canino was a distinguished eavant. He was cor-
responding member of the most learned academies
of Europe and America, and his works on natural
history, and particularly ornithology, are spoken of
as some of the most valuable contributions to
soience.
The Difficulty between Spain and Mexico.—
The reported acceptance by Spain of the mediation
of France and England in the settlement of her
difficulty with Mexico, must doubtless be received,
with qualification. The last Madrid papers, indeed,
noticing the statement, deny its truth
sense. As to the actual progress of the ne;
tions, the España, 81st ult., says:
We Understand that Senor Lafragua the
Envoy, has presented a "memorandum" in ji
tion of the course his government has pui
reference to the difficulties pending between the two
countries. We do not know tbe reasqes set forth
in his paper, but it appears to us Seutir Lafragua
will meet with difficulty in eiplainingthe dilatori-
ness of Mexico in the chastisement of the assassins
of San Vicente and the breach of the treaty of 1858.
This document !Is without doubt the last that the
Envoy will present previous to his speedy departure.
ragua bad bad a subsequent inti
Pidal, at which, how
to an understanding.
Other papers are U> the same effect. The Dte-
cusion furthermore states that the government had
definitively determined to send an army of 26,000
men to Havana,! which, it was belioved, would
bring the offending republio to terms.
The steamship Opelousas, Capt. Elis, ar-
rived this morning from IndlanolS( *ith the &
Mail. The Opelousas has on board 80 Horses and'
80 beeves for New Orleans.
She will leave at 1 o'clock p. m.
The steamer Texas, Capt; 8peers, arrived
this morning from Houston, with 19 bales ootton,
96 hides and the following passengersMeans.
Bowman, MoDonald, Clark and Boaoh.
HT Mesare. LePert <fc Deaderick have taken'the
store formerly occupied by Ballv Hutching. & Co.,
where they have opened buainess as General Com-
mission, Beoeiving and Forwarding Merohante.
Mr. LePert is an old citizen of Galveston, and well
known to the business publio. Mr. Deaderick-
comes well endorsed from the interior, and both
give first-rate references in their bnsineas card.
They will doubtless add materially to the business
life of the ensuing and succeeding season .
Fbix Negroes are tbe best practical commen-
tary on abolition. The great negropholist, Gerritt
Smith, who tried the experiment of what negroes
would do if furnished with lands and the means of
profitable labor for their own benefit, has been
compelled to admit that, left to themselves, ne-
groes, as a general thing, are idle, thriftless, and
dissipated. Even Black Bepublican Iowa has
again decided that they are unfit for the exercise
of the elective franchise. Illinois and Indiana have
laws to prohibit tree negroes from settling in those
states, and in the latter the law i now rigidly en-
forced, as the influx of free negroes has proved an
intolerable nuisance.
w Tbe New York Sun sheds a benignant light
on the solidified milk of our old friend Gail Borden,
jr., and beams upon the inventor, himself as fol-
lows: "He is one of the few men who would sooner
sacrifice a right hand than adulterate his goods,
or deceive, however little, in any dealings with his
fellow men." Mr. Borden's meat biscuit also re-
ceives a cheering glance. The Sun by favoring
Gail's, adds speed to the progress of inventions
for the benefit of the inner man. This is the milt
of human kindness.
District Judoe.—Wo have received says the
Palestin Advocate, what purports to be the offloial
returns of the several counties composing this Ju-
dicial District. From these returns our readers
«rill see that B. A. Beeves, Esq., of this place is
elected Distriot Judge by a majority of sixty votes.
We give the majorities by oounties that each can-
didate obtained : ~- -
Majority for Beeves.
Anderson 489
Henderson 97
Kaufman 228
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. addressed
atchez, on
■■■ the Col
world-ol
_ aotical and matter-of-faot
lishes, tttahe satisfaction of his
lowing important propositions:
1.' Spinning the raw ootton from
Its value. „
2. The spinning apparatus,
can, under the instructions <
must be previously informed,
without any additional foroe, on
other than the old women
in tbe open field, and bo;
encounter all kinds of '
wards compressing it in
ment, so mats together aad
that, before it can reaoh the
the Factories, it must go througl
wasteful Picaroon., before it can
exact state it was in 4rhen it w
wind-mill of the gin. The Pil
teen per aint., or one bale in
staple to thevondition it was i
4. This lous, as well as the fi
duoed pi *"
gives to
..the
Majority for Hayes.
Houston 166
Cherokee 202
Smith 809
Van Zandt 76
Majority for Beeves.
SXPABATINO THX SlXXS IN SOHOOI On this
point Mr. Stowe,a celebrated Glasgow teacher, uses
the following language:
The youth of both sexes of our Scottish peasan-
try have been educated together; and as a whole
the Scotch are the most moral people on earth.
Education in England is given separately, and we
never have heard from practical men that any
benefit has arisen from this arrangement. Some
influential individuals here mourned over the pi
dice on this point. In Dublin, "
girls turned out badly who hadbeU-^^—p..
until they attained the age of matum^™ *l°n«
those who were otherwise brought up; th<
tion of the sexes has been found injurioi
may repeat that it ¡is impossible to raise
as high, intellectually, without boyB as tój,
and it is impossible to raise boys mor,, „ hi b'
without girls. The girls morally elfVKte the bova-
and the boys intellectually elevate' t\e g¡rjs ¿ !
more than this, girls themselves aremoraílv efe
vated by the presence of boys, and Jo™ are intel-
lectually elefated by the presence of ¿Via. Girls
brought upirith boys are more positi-ew'moral •
and boys brought up ip schools with tb, .¡rlg '
more positively intellectual, by the 8often¿¿
ence of Áe female character. In thaN&m¿¿ gg.
minary ¿¿Glasgow, tbe most benefictaleffe^gfcave
resulted from the more natural course. Boa as(j
the age of two or three years to ^
ten
nal
New 1
Ing no
that thed
to cruel !
Conov
The in'v
bat Mr.
I
any el
pom
licitea
. or fifteen, have been trained in the
* .. . 3-, _
l room, galleries and play grounds, wit^ plantation, with a slave, it
npropriety, and they are never separated, exo.pt trils of all Beecherdom.
t needlework. ,,
Without pretending to be informed on this sut> Wjlbhinoton.—Qj¿ an(j
ject, we publish the above as a subject worthy d tbi
serious consideration in our country. We have
occasionally come in possession of facts which
strongly sustained the views of this Scotch teacher,
but yet never felt prepared to discuss the question.
On one point, however, mixed schools have presen
ted strong claims to favor in our mind. We refer to
the fact that tbe women of the Great West of the
preceding generations to ours-women distinguished
for their substantial excellencies of character re-
eeived ail tbe education they ever obtain^ in mix
ed schools.
boxing andlÑííw w^'er wet* i¿
her in a cr * Mu"'—'
one or two
vious to her death,
kioked her with his
a lad seventeen or eH
he never kn8w «until «H
relative of his, and that
o«A v ant.
of H¿?eor8'r0I5,t!,e e*idenoeift.t was a >
and ^though tre4a very *>
haa not beenamfcSa!^1* °®8*sion .'.. Dr.C
If such a case as this
she was a
W only a. a - -
•tot)
terview with Senor
had failed to come
Fearful Coulixry Explobok in England.—
A London létter, of Augnetr gth', says;
One of the most fearful o.lliery explosions wbioh
ever took place in England has lately occurred at
Ashíbn-under Lyne, by which upwards of fifty
persons lost their lives, In addition to several more
have been severely wounded. This deplorable
t happened at the Hey'a colliery, belonging to
Jno. Henworthy &' Brother, situated within one-
half mile of the Asfiton Town Hall, where the vib-
ratión of the Bhock was distinctly felt. There are
threejahafte, one opcast snd two downoost, and the
deptflkbout 670 feet. Tbe explosion shook* every
house in the neghborhood, shattered both men and
machinery to atoms, and finally cast up sheets of
flames aooompanied by thick cloud of dust and
smoke, resembling in its character and magnitude
rather an eruption of Vesuvius, than the fire damp
of a coal mine. Its immediate cause is as yet un-
known, as On descent all tbe safety lamps were
found nnopened and uninjured ; but the gas could
have become ingited from many casualties.
Moxx than Two Hokdrxd Million Dollars xor
Education.—At the last monthly meeting at the
Connecticut Historical Society,. Hon. Henry Bern-
ard, the President, presented an interesting paper
relating to the amount of donations, bequests, £c.,
made for educational, literary and scientific purpo-
ses in the United States. The whole amount of
land appropriated by tbe general government for
educational purposesJy^e 1st of January, 1864,
stated to be 62RK0.TO..acres: which, at the
.living in one Of.the Ii
ite, copies from the London 1
■ FebruarvjlSOO, the follow!
racter of Washington, and
kit. It gives uSpleasure to
[ues\
''fd>W the December, t
KmiaJWn the 68th year of
AWNofa, late President of '
irica. \ man superior to
ility has im
rank. He
iy ft
at,
i his
TZKMSAtdbx OX
e during the-,1
tS~ An Amerioan company—tbe Collins—have
instituted prooeeding. against thirty-six merchants
and manufacturers for using their " mark" on the
axes and other edged toqh wild in England. The
partir* proceeded agaiaafcfo not deny theexistence
of the praotice for the lagR&rarteen years, and plead'
its notoriety for so long ffppriod' as a justification.
They complain, moreover,'that the Amerioan ma-
nufacturers have, for a great number of years, been
in the habit of using the mark, of English maker,
upon their goods without-any proceeding, being
taken against them in tlgr American court..
t3T" It will surprise many persons, and _.
those who look on Great Britain and tbe Unil
States as the most flourishing communities in tbe
world, to learn that France, if we are to judge by
her export., i getting rich faster than either of her
rivals. Since 1847 her annual exports have ruf
from about one hundred and forty million,
dollar., to three hundred and twenty-fii
an increase of one hundred and thirty
tbe same period, those of Great Britai_ ..
up from two hundred and niuety-tbreé mi
five hundred and seventy-five, an increase of
three per cent.; while tbose of the Unite'
have risen from one hundred and fifty-(
lions, to three hundred and twenty-six. •
of one hundred and sev - .' v oent.
OnxoxthxWa
Post, referring-
duced in the'
vidual com
"We wan
siciansj ev«
day, bu<
they w
were b.
tion >f he:
to hate been
then
of a ptbple, w'
thropie, witV
freemen a E'
firm mind, ada
equally iiacces
the .uggestions
grand pnnolj,
religious attat
He was on.
can be cool win
indifference—wk
portant end, are
and fluctuations
him even fame, g
'in
box
tes of
which
e deoora-
ho seemed
idence for
dene"
w t the i
an assemblage or
' .laves. Hi
task assigned him,
wait for that rew* ■
tude, whioh w
potter &*&•<'■
the qnaliti
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