The New York Herald Newspaper, November 30, 1848, Page 1

MORNING EDITIO he Fi e" Kemble Divorce Case. Ree rene raiagantarta; Nev, 30, 1808, before the argument This moroing he po! joum: which attended the writing of the | i sone sent by Mrs. Butler to her husband, previously to her finally leaving his house, The first lof there letters represents her conditioa suchas to render her situation unpleasant, and her life unhappy, ‘and praying for an alteration. ‘That letter remained cha | for ten days. Finally, after writing again wer, she leaves the houre, declaring that the condition of her coming there had been vivlated. She is not followed by any intimation from him that she should return, nor was her absence followed up by y offer to reeeive her back. It appears by the cases ed, that where a wife leaves her husband criminal- in consequence of an offence, not committed by the act of leaving, it is the duty of the husband not to leave her exposed to danger morally and physically; but here the offence gonsisted in the ‘act of leaving; not merely leaving, but against his will In Holland, Prussia, and other countries from which our system is derived, the husband is required to make an attempt to win back the wife who has deserted his habitation. During the last eohebitation, the course of conduct of the li- Dellant was such, the position of Mrs. Butler was 0 ntageous, and the clroumstances which sur- roun. her co huwiliating, t! they were short of legal cruelty, the? were such as to justify an infe- rence of legal indignity, and justified her in leaving bis house In other words, there are cironmstances not sufficient to authorize a divorce, but sufficient to found allegations of defence, which may be set up in answer to a libel for divorce Here, they are sufiicient to entitle her to a divorce, if she were inclined to reek ons. Mrs. Butler alleges that she has been subjected to such cruelties and indignities as rendered her condition intolera' and her life burthensome. We are now told thi the English rule must be adopted, and striet cruelty proved —the cruelty which endangers the life or person. But let us apply ourselves to the act of mbly upon which this proceeding is founded. It jot eay that : it saya, absolutely, the reverse of that. We have gone from state of judicial feeling which obtains in England, d which holds that nothing but a physical suffering is a cruelty. have adopted the belief, that in a olvilized and enlightened community, there are mental sufferings which are more painful than the most aggravated physical injury. Hence, ourlaw recognizes that there are circumstances which will render the condition intolerable, and life burthensome. is a difference betw in injary and an indignity. In the advance of civilization, the day has arrived when an indignity affecting the mind is considered more painful than the Co ered personal violence which could be offered. We do not undertake to show personal injuries to the respondent ; but we show such circumstances of indignity as to render her life burthenseme. We are not to repeal this part of the act of Asssembly. What may be fcon dered an indignity to one, may not affect another.— There is a difference in the mind. and it is for a jury to find the fact, whether the condit'on of the respondent was such as torender her life intolerable and her condition burthensome. The Eng- lish courts now feel the pressure of the doctrine that nothing but e personal violence is a cruelty. In Fif- ton vs. Fifton, 1 Hagard, 758, they appeat to labor un- der the difficulty which makes it the doctrine of their Jaw, that the suffering person must be besten. In that case it iseaid that an attempt by the husband to debauch the female servants in his own house was rong indignity to the wife. In the case of Durant Durant, eame book and page, it is said that the untrue charge by the husband of a want of ebastity upon the part of the wife and turning her out of doors, which were not personal injuries, were strong circum- stances of orue'ty. in D’Aiguler vs. D’Aigular, in the same book, spitting in the wife’s fece by the husband was held to be a streng circumstances of cruelty. It is for such personal indignities that our act of Assembly provides. The modern harsh form of the English law is one fit for barbarous times, but is not fit for the pre- tent. The English courts are nevertheless going back to that original state of the law that existed before the middie ages. The harsh and severe doctrine that nothing but personal violence is a cruelty, was one which sprung up in the interval of barbarism, when there was a retrogade from civilization ; between the time when enlightenment pervaded Eu- rope, and the time to which it is to be hoped we are returning. It is said by the counsel ndent, there are here no circumstances of are now told that all these circumstances are nm ; that it is mothing that the husoand should refuse to answer his wife’s q' He in disposition of his childre: read head, er; nething to pul joverness over her Sedat ment, instructive nd care of her e; not to ree those on whose friendship relied; that she was not to see those whom ething that when she refused to renounce to ber dower,a matter which the law says of her own free will and accord, and from her husband;” she is told, “now, to interfere with my busine shail not go tothe Darby farm, where the chil All these acts, we are told, are no indigniti such a6 to render her condition tolerabl doubtedly pleasant. Is there no indignity in placing the wife at the rame table. with no permission to speak to her husband, end constraining her to place all her communications fn writing? All these circumstances are such as te render the condition of the wife intole- rable, and are such as, under the act of Assembly, give her a right to go before a jury. Mr. Meredith having concluded, the Court was ad- dressed by the Hon. Rurvs Croats, for the resvond- ent,Mre, Butler. lie rpoke of the present condition of Mrs. B , and the fact that in enother and distant commonwealth she found friends who are willing to aid and patbise, To those friends she fied for helter, and the severity of her afflictions was juch as to induce them to assist her in this, the sharp- est trial of her life, It was at the desire of her, and by those friends thought not undesirable, that there should be tome one engaged in the matter whose functions would be not to assist in the interpretation of modes cf practice—not to instruct your honors in the law of this ancient Commonwealth—but to convey to you eome indication of the feelings cherished to- ward her by those to whom she looks alone for sympa- thy, in this the day ofher adversity. An alien by birth, now @ resident of anether State, litigating in thi: court with a citizen of this State, her coun: Ido ie de S x4 apy thing upon the or any law which is no! tie same a Rome or Attica,’ and shall not stop te ave here the form of the ecclesi- ter the Reformation. The pro- positions to which | shall confine myself are easy, and my purposes humble. It is to tak answer as laid before you, and I will submit what I shall say upon that answer, taking it ax it is, supported by outh, amd ex- hibiteand contradicted by nothing. I therefore propose to take up thesubstance of the facts im the answer, and the saberance of the issue presented, and next it in the law applicable to those facts. I, therefore, am prepared to show that there bas been no desertion of the habitation of the husband, because, in the au- tuma of 1843, two years before that de ure from the libelant’s house, which in the ground of the pre- gent libel, these parties establ'shed such a relation be- tween themeelves—a relation, practically, of rey ration—a termination of the united life—which involved a Hccnse each to the other, and certainly from the husband to the wife, to go whither she would. where she would, and when she would. We will show that there was no desertion, because, in No- vember 1843, the parties established this relation, which remained until the dey that she fled from his habitation with a broken heart. We hold that there bas been no derertion, a5 ‘ter of law ; because Mrs, Butler left by the express consent of her bend. fonnd in his express command that she would 0. We hold that rhe was licensed to go, b: tsand eclarations which were designed to leave her ia no doubt that he desired her absence. And we hold, lastly, that there was no desertion within the meaning e statute ; because we submit that she was justi- fied in withdrawal by a cor of indignities, ascend- ing or deroendirg, which tended to make her life bur- thenro! nd intolerable greeiment of October, 1843, clearly established the right of Mrs. B. to go where and when she would, with a distinct intimation on his part, that he would rather she would seek any 3 other roof than that which sheltered her children.-- | Under such conditions desertion became impossible. This continued uctil the moment of departure-~ | on that day in which she recognized that ths con. jngal Jove had become extinguished; by the terms of that recognition the connexion ceased, and the re- i came toan end, They were no longer to live as husband and wife; they were separated and parted, and there was an express authority to her to go whither she would. Mr. Choate then read extracts from some of the letters passing between r it fi members of the Sedgwick family, aad, Butler, In tion.”? 8," ae to, I shall toake no ition to her desire;”’ and in another, “I said she seara live im this house or nny other, Ladhere to that determination, subject to this condition, that she shall not go upon the stage.” Mr, C, commented Jengthily pon .he circumstances of the case set out upon the record, a applied to the position that the pena had, by the reparation, agreed that she should go whea and where she would. He then passed on to an elimination of the arguments upon the point that Mr. But- she was commanded to go, and deduced this from the | ciroumstances attending hix sending the children to the “farm,” his declaration that she should not ae- company them, when he knew that she bad only come into the houee in order to be with them. When he deprived her of this, the only object which Drought her there, it was, im fact, taken in a command In regard to of license, the circumstances of her final al were minutely commented upon, When ounced that she was about to deprive him of tociety which he should have held more precious all his estater—when the announced to him that she was about to withdraw —not to speak was to be lent forever, ‘He that can forbid, aad does not for. connection with the circumstances, to her to leave his habitation the point withdr she bid, commands.” If he krew she was about to go, and was silent, it was a fraud, That silence was a Hoonse. To furnish her the means of going wa! an approbation of her going. ae furnish iy veleg hy p jatides of temptation when away, ie prima facie @ pe sor her-to go. To suppose thut a husband who gives his wife leave of absence, can take advantage of those ippore a state of things which is recognised by no code on this side of the deserts of Algeria. The husband who sanctions the absence of his wife, by such sanction deprives himself of the privilege of ob- jecting, or before he can maintain a proceeding for de- sertion, must unequivocally demand ber retura, o rivilege which it seems this libellant does not desire. t regard to the question of cruelty, any mat which are injuries to feelings and seasibilicies, are cruelties. The court will reject the doc- trine that the series of enormities so diszrace- ful, miserable and transcendant, which are digest- ed and contained in these volumes of ecclesiasti- cal law, must be ruffered. before a wife will be entitled toleave her husband. Is enlightened Pennsylvania such doctrines cannot obtain. Indeed, although these reports are disgraced with them, they are not the law,evenin England. In that country they do still pretend to reverence the barbarous doctrices which have obtained in past ages. [tis not for the judges sitting in state, with ermine upon their gowns, and wigs upon their heads, to disregard or show @ proper want of reverence to the sages of the law. They still hold in respect all their maxims—they reverence them; bot, they evade them. To get rid of the difficulties which they feel as Christian men, by the pressure of doctrines inapplicable to civilization and enlighten- ment, they resort to a course which is really whipping the unmen’ one round the stump, They say the law is, jes, Insulta and fojuries, which have been heaped upon the wife, short of violence, are not sufficient to authorise a divorce; but they show a wicked animus op the part of the husband, so great to prevent his getting his wife buck We say that. under the law of Pennsylvavia such injuries to the feelings and sensibilities are indignities tending to render the wife unbapp; nd her life burthensoms ; and we claim the right given us by the act of Assem- bly, ofgoing before a Penneylvania jury, in order to meke out the acts of indignity which we have 80 s0- bi averred {It is impossible, in this sketch, much of which had necesrarily to be written whilet the argument was pro- ceeding. to give any thing like a correct idea of the atrength of Mr.Choate’s arguments,or the nervous pow- erand beauty of hislanguage. His address was listened to, by an audience compored of the most distinguished members of the bar of Philadelphia, a bar wnich it is boasted is second to none in the Union. All pre- sent were struck with admiration at the strength and briliianey of Mr Choate’s address, and the remark ral, * If he speaks this way while addressing what will he do when he gets before a jury.””} the argument to-morrow. The Beongntsen. of the Rep of Liberia y France and England, [From the Colonization Herald.] It will be seen by the following extracts from the letters of our associate, that the expectations held out on a former occasion, a8 presented in our last num- ber, have been realized in the most satisfactory man- ner. The republic of Liberia is now fully recognized by the gonrempnts of France and England, {n terms of marked courtesy and cordiality, and accompanied by such offers of substantial aid as rreatly to enhance the value of the act. Throughout, President Roberts bas acquitted himself of bis arduous and responsible charge in a way to elicit and retain the highest opi pion of his judgment and skill in the minds of all thore, both fanctionaries and others, with whom he has been brought in contact. The administration ef General Roberts will consti- tute an era in the history of Liberia, to which suc- ceeding generations will Jook back with allowable pride. He who in times past, has contributed. both as civilian and soldier, to the anization of t! State while a colony, and to expel the alave deal and their retainers, will not fail, now that he is clothed with additional authority and reinforced by the ships of friendly powers, to sweep the entire coast of these worre than barbarian The conduct of the English Government, by its frankly reccgnizing the new republic, we are bound in a spirit of common justice, to say, gives proof of the sincerity and ultimate good intentions which ac- tuated it. whem not long since the eommanders of English ships of war protested against the anomalous state of things in Liberia as one to which they could not become parties. Reference is here made more eepecially to their refural to acknowledge the validity of the enforcement of certain home duties by the co- lonial authorities. The correspondence between Go- vernor Roberts and"the English commodore and cap- tain on that occasion, was, of course, read in Down- ing street. and must have prepared Lord Palmerston to receive the envoy of the new republic with a consi- deration due to his acknowledged diplomatic ability ‘and his recognized position among his countrymen. The pleasure which the intelligence we now commn- picate has caused among the philanthropic in the United States, is Paar by the reflection that our go- vernment did not anticipate the action of both France and England It is the firstit istrue, to senda con- sular agent (Dr. Lugenbeel) but a more distinct formal ack: due to the young State, which le ig and been nurtured in its infancy through the untiring efforts of American citizens; and in whore bebalf sympathy has been officially declared to be felt in the letters of Secretaries of State at Wi ington, (Messrs. Ubrhur and Webster.) and by the then resident Minister at St. James, (Mr. Everett), We shall not refer to, nor animadvert on the prejudices which have interfered with a plaia, manly, and nation- al course of conduct, because we bel that they must yield to the force of trath, embodied in the shape of lucrative commerce adorned by benevolence. For once in the history of the world the two races will now reciprocate, to th jutual advantage, kind officesand amtial services, without misconception of mo- tives, or fature embarassment to either. Ocroner 12 1848 —President Roberts has returned from Paris, where he effected with the French govern- ment al) be desired—the full and complete acknowledg- ment of the independence and sovereignty of the republic of Liberia. This act was done by the French government inthe most complimentary and liberal manner, and orders have been given to the French naval commander on the coast of Africa. to put at President Roberts’ disposal two or three ships of war, whenever he wants sel up on an expedition, to put down barracoons and break up slave-trad- ing parties, and otherwise promote the interests of humanity upon the coast of Africa, It is truly won- derful bow succersful Mr. Roberts bas been. The most skillful diplomatist would bave considered himself for- tunate, under ordinary circumstances, in effecting in tix oreight months what Mr. Roberts bas accomplished inas many daye. ‘ays:—Mr. G Ww. fay ton of the old General, was most indefatigable and in- rerve him; and it is mainly owing to him that he succeeded so fully and so early, Ever affectionately yours, GERARD RALSTON, Ocroner 26, 1848, My Dear Frirnp—I am very happy to inform you that President Roberts procured the acknowled, ment of the independence and sovereignty of the re- Fg of Liberia by the British government, which jas been granted in the most free, liberal, and com- imentary manner. It is impossible that it eould jave been done insmore gracious manner, except, po ibly, the French government may have done 80, aemuch as it anticipated the British government by afewdays, But it must be acknowledged, in justice to the British government, that Lord Palmerston as- tured Mr. Roberts, before he left here for Paris, that there would not be the slightest difficulty about recog- nition—that he might go over to Paris with the fail understanding that when he returned he would find the act accomplished— signed, sealed, and delivered— in short. be might consider the thing as done. Lord Palmerston has been as good as his word. Mr. Ro- verte is now engaged in negotiating a treaty of com- merce with this government. He showed to G 6 ‘Lhompson and me, last night, the draft of the treaty in the handwriting of Mr. Labouvhere, the President of the Bovrd of Trade. The treaty is a mort liberal one— bated on perfect equality and reciprocity between the two States—Great Britain and Liberia, Mr Roberts thinks in a very few days more this treaty will be signed, tealed, and delivered also, and then he will be ready to g0 back to Liberia, having succeeded entirely in the accomplichment of the objects which brought him to Enrope. Lord Palmerston told bim, that a portion of the Britich equadron should b» employed to assist bim in putting down the accursed slave trade. [ have already informed you that Gen. Cavaignac assured him that orders should be sent out tothe commander of | the French squadron on the Coast of Africa, to aid him (Fresident Roberts) by all possible means in euppress- ing the slave trade, Rerors oF Peisinent Ronenrs,—We learn from Mr Paieton, as will be seen in the ubjoined extract of a letter to Mr Cresson. that President Roberts is proba- bly now on his way to Liberia. You will recollect that | introduced Mr. Roberts to Mr. Samuel Gurney. This gentleman bas introduced him to s house that trades with Afiica, which will most probably prepare a cargo of merchandise suitable for the Liberia mar! , and thus give to Mr. I. and his two ladies a passage home, Thus you see Mr. Roberts is enabled to accomplish every thing that is desirable, He bas been eminently successful in Europe. | am mortified, beyond measure, that he was so wnsuc- ceseful With the American government, and that he obliged to leave thé United States without the nowledgment of the government to the independ- exce of Liberia, Horrinie Murper ann Ronvrry.—The St. Jo- seph (Mo.) Gazette, of the 10th inst., gives the following account of the horrible murder of an esteemed officer of the army, and his famlly:—‘Just as we were cing to press, we received information that Major Singer, Paymaster of the U. 8S. army,was murdered and robbed, in Saline county, a few days since. He had in his possession $160,000, and was on his way to the up- per part of this State, to pay the volunteers their three monthe’ extra pay. lis wife and sister-in-law were in | company with him, who were also murdered, It is sup- | poved they were murdered by the soldiers who were acting a4 an ercert fu contraire, the St We are satistie Louis Republican of the 19th from a conversation with a oi- im tate, that the re- | port which we published yesterday, of the murder of Major Singer and his family, in Salina county, ix in- correct, ‘The report coming to us im the St. Joseph prevalent at Lexington some days ago. It probably originated in the fact that Major S. deviated from the route whioh he had originally propored, and failed to make bis appearance at certain places appointed for the payment of the troops. The California Gold Region. (From the Baltimore Sun Wasninaton, Nov. 26, 1848, It is reported. with truth and reason | believe that Colomel Mason, of the army, commanding our forces in Cetifornia, bas sent an official account of the extra- ordinary gold and quicksilver mines of California to the Secretary of War, and that rimilar accounts from officers in the navy tly reached the Secre- The jous reports that all other digging for gold is deserted, is confirmed, and the extraordinary price of flour which is said to have risen to $50 a barre!, maintained to the latest period. Solid lumps of gold hi found, equal to $4000 in value, or almost a: those found on the White Hall estate of Major Heiss, in Virginia. The mines, with the exception of the propeity be- longing to Messrs, Forbes & Suter, are on the pudlio lands of the territory, and their value is,! believe, os- timated at a thousand millions of dollars! From thia, of course, an equally enormous discount must be made, Gold and silver, like every other product of the soil, requires labor, and if that labor, as is stated in the ac- counts, is now remunerated at the rate of $20 a day, the profits even of there wealthy mines must be limi- ted. Alexander Von Humboldt has proved that the poor silver mines of Saxony are more profitable than the rich silver mines of Mexico, furnishing the silver doilar16 cents cheaper than it can be furnished in Mexico. The gold region of California is said to extend on both sides ot the Sierra Nevada, and to embrace u sur- face larger than that of the State of New York. if i these discoveries are really of the importance these statements lead usto infer, they will probably be em- | bodied in the respective reports of the Secretaries of the Army and Navy, as otherwire Congress itself will institute the inquiry, and demand an account of them, It is indeed astrange and mysterious fact, that whue all other countries are involved in great national «is- asters, every thing reems to prosper in the United States. beth inwar and in peace, andin our foreign and domestic relations, Ifthe above accounte, which resemble, {m more th: one respect, the Arabian Nights’ entertainment, are correct, the Gorermarsilp of California may prove to be a more desirable appointment under Gen Taylor than a membership of his cabinet, and some “ disin terested’’ politicians will, no doult, insist on the re- moval of Gen. Lane. Col Jefferson Davis is already mentioned in connection with that appointment, too, but it is thought by many that Gen. Taylor will insist | on haying at least one intimate, private, personal | friend in his cabinet, and that friend is Col. Davis. Wasuincron, Noy. 25, 1848. Ilearn that highly important and ‘interesting dis- patches have just been received by the War Depart- ment, from California, in relation to the gold region of California, The facts communicated justify the opin- ion that the region is remarkably rich and productive of the precious metal. The documents will be laid before Congress among those accompanying the Pre- sident’s message, The progres of settlement in California will be very rapid. Besides the population which will resort to it for mi ime purposes, adventurers will be attracted in great numbers, by the unparalleled richness of the mineral districts. Already, as | learn from some gentlemen who have just arrived here from Mexico, arrangements have been made Kage company of New Yorkersto build up a city at San Diego; ard it is supposed that the speculation in lote, &e. will be very brisk. Refore the next Congress will have done talking about a bill to establish the territorial government of California, the people of California will be ready to de- mand admission. asa State, into the Union. They will have the requisite population in two years, and it is provided by the treaty with Mexico that they shall come into the Union Curlous Letter from Ex-Governor Seward, [From the Albany Journal } Avunurn, August 26, 1848, My Dear Sin—On my arrival here this morning, after spending two weeks in Livingrton and Seneca counties, 1 had the pleasure of finding your letter of the 234 inst. ‘The contents of that communication excited my surprise. Having happened to be in Albany two weeks ago, or perbaps three, Mr. Weed showed me a letter from you, containing the agreeable information that the political discontents in your county had subsided, and that the whigs were rallying to the standard of the Gozette, is altogether too round about a way to give | it any plausibility. by paper said, on the 18th: On making some | inquiry last night, we learned that euch a report was cau Your letter to me is so full of despondency, that it makes me hope it proceeded from only ression of spirits, naturally enough produced by the inappropri- ate and unseasonable letters of our candidate for Pre- In the whole State there are scarcely any per- hose correctr ess of judgment upon pelltical Ju I shall deem your appre- hensions worthy of profound consideration, if you con. tinue to indulge them for any period of time. But you will excuse me for raying, on my part, that | do not find reason to distrust the success of our candi- dates in this county, and erpecially in this State, in the events which are passing before us. I perceive, as o you do. the mischievous effects of the letters to which you refer. But I am obliged to acknowledge that I expect the disorganization of the locofoco party will in some degree impair our own organization. | fear. also, that there may be some districts where this evil may jeopard or otherwise ruin local ascendancy. Yet, on the otber hand. there seems to me no room for doubt that the state of things so peculiar will result in giving to our candidates in this State a very large majority over each of the opposing candidates—while in other States the result will be same where circumstances are similar, and quite as favorable where they are diffe- | rent. If you answer me that these local losses cannot | be borne, I reply that, in the first place, they must be | prevented, if porsible; and, in the next place, they are | qui ‘ain to be balanced by gains elsew I have the pleasure to add, on this subject, that so far as my communications extend. I find our friends engaged with zeal, and with certain confidence of suc- cons: For more then ten years past, I have looked to the day of ripening of conscience on the subject of slavo- ry, towbich you refer, and have endeavored te do what was in my power to prepare the whig party to peat by it, not for mere personal or patibin ends, ut forthe benefit of the country and humanity. You | know that every concession to or for slavery by the | whig fe ast, has been a triumph over us. ings, neither of which I can ever do. The one is, toshare the responsibility of any | euch concession ; the other is, to oppose @ candidate ofthe national whig party. ‘All the whigs of New York (towhom I owe so much) could not oblige or in- bs bette ts one or the bs of yn acts. Any | other duty they ma; juire at my hands, will be | cheerfully rendiea bs s | Ihave abiding faith that the whig party will be suc- ccseful in the State, and in the nation, thiefall. Ihave | abiding faith that this success will favor the non.ex- tension of slavery. But even if we should fail of suc- | cess now, I abate not a particle of my confidence that all that is ever to be done for freedom must originate with the whig party, and, in point of practicability, must be accomplished by it. | Very respectfully, your friend, WILLIAM H. SEWARD. The Finances or Austria, and the Roths- childs. [Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun.) Wasuinaton, Nov. 26, 1843. In 1833 a new 5 per cent loan of forty millions of florins ($30,000,000) was made by the four houses, Ge muller, Rothschild, Armstein, and Eskeles, (of which the former, in 1842, broke all (Mr. Buckingham’s Lecture on the Middle | @ qualificat on indispensable to those who assumed the | colleger, endowing schools, becoming themselves teach- to pieces;) the debt then amounting to 774,000,000, or $357,000,000. A new loan was made by the same houses in 1835, amounting to 30,000,000, or $15,000,000, besides a forced loan of the bank amounting to $5,000,000. A lottery loan of 25,- 000,000, or $12,500,000, had already been made in 1834, payable in 1860, and another was made in 1889 consisting of 30,000,000 florins, or $15,000,000, payable in 1870. The whole debt of Austria, national and provin- cial, amounted in 1842, to 942,000,000 florins, or | $471,000,000—inclusive of the loan made on the | sth July, 1841, the interest of which 1s not to be | reduced before the year 156. Since 1812, new loans have become necessary {é meet the interest due onthe old ones, and the expenditures of tue State have continued to in- creage. Since the commencement of the last | Polish revolution, the Austrian eredit was mainly | upheld by the Rothschilds and in Vienna and Frankfort; but the revolutions in France, Italy and Germany have again doubled and quadrupled | the expenditures, and diminished the revenue by the almost complete stagnation of trade and ma- nufactures. It the Emperor returns to a city in aches, which up to that period had been distin- | guished by the loyalty of its inhabitants, he will | find neither wealth nor courage to give value to | his possessions. Huis vactory has sealed the fate of his dynasty and of Ausiria. Vienna was the central power of the huge conglomorate of nations forming the Austrian Empire, and with its fall the cohesive attraction of the provinces is gone forever. Windishgratz is in Vienna ; but how will the Em- peror pay his troops? Alas, poor Rothschild! — | Arrams at tue Wrst.—Capt. Belger, Assist- | ant Quarter Master U. S_ army, arrived at this place last night, en route to Port Leavenworth, with a train of 1,200 mules—government property. Capt. John Benge, prosecuted for the murder of George Fields, was tried in Skin Bayon district, last week, and acquitted. Mart. Benge and Tom Starr wore in thie place on Sunday night, the 22d wit , and crossed | the river into the mation, They were not recognized | soon enough, or they would have been arrested b: | come of our citizens. Fort Smith (.Irk.) Herald, Nov rf Hian Freieur.—The low stage of the Missouri has caused a very considerable advance in the price of transportation and freights on that river. Wheat is now charged from 36 to 400. per bushel, and pound freight $1 oe 100 pounds, from any point above Glasgow to this city, ‘The steamer Mustang arrived | Her net ag apne | oes, in con- @ of there being bardiy suffoient water in the for them to come out with the little they al- ready had on board,— $¢, Louis Republican, Nov, 20 | was in falling off in the receipts of the custom-house. | The w | which will N----THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1848. Ages. Mr. Leicester F. A. Buckinc nam delivered, on Tues- day, at Clinton Hall, the third lecture of his course on literature, learning and religion in the middle ages, ‘The highly favorable impression produced by the pre ceding lectures, evidenced itself in the augmented number of the auditory present on this occasion, and the intense interest with which the lecturer was lis- tened to, d the warm applause which greeted him, when he concluded, gave ample proof of the gratitica- tion afforded by his discourse. Having discussed, in the last lecture, the means which existed for the pro. duction of books in the middle ages, and the labors of the monksin their multiplication, Mr. Buckingham proceeded to consider their exertions in the dissemina tion of knowledge, and the nature of the facilities which then existed for the diffasion of education among the public. He noticed the statemen, ef Hallam, that the church placed no restrictions on the ordination of illiterate persons; and proved, by the citation. of the decrees of va- rious councils, that this assertion is whelly in- accurate, and that the most careful vigilance was exercised to secure the possession of competent stare of learning by those who were admitted to the riesthood. The obligation of learning was equally Roumbast upon the monks. The various monastic rules declared most emphatically that knowledge was habit of religion; and many incidents recorded in monastic history. prove that the rule thus prescribed was constantly and rigcrously enforced. The stand- ard of literary exeellence, too, was then far higher than we have been accustomed to suppose; and those who fulfilled the requirements embodied in monastic rules and canonical decrees, must have arrived at a high degree of intellectual cultivation. In reference to this point, Mr. Buckingham noticed some of the false statements put forward by various modern his- torians with regard to the monks and clergy of the middle ages, and clearly demonstrated thely entire opporition to .historie truth. Dr, Robertson has declared that, from the ¢eventh to the eleventh cen- tury, the clergy were so ignorant that they could not read the Breviary; the fact being that the Breviary it- self did not then exist, having been compiled abcut the end of the eleventh century; and ample evidence remaining to show that not only the power of reading, but the porrestion of a very extensive amount of knowledge~ and Dr. Henry. as an illustration ot epis- copal ignorance, has recorded a very fanny story con- cerning the blunders of Meiniverc, Bishop of Pader- borer, every word of which is proved to be false by a simple referenne to the writer whom he cites as his authority; while the Bishop himself is proved to have Veen # man of considerable learning, a generous patron of education, a liberal founder of schools, and a warm epcouroger of learning in all within the circle of bis influence. In answer tothe assertion constantly reit- erated, thatthe monke were not learned, Mr. Bucking- ham proceeded to draw attention to two cironmstances, having an \mportantibearing upon this division of the rubject. In the first place. it must not be forgotten that the monasteries were not originally established to serve as academies of human learning. They were designed rather for purposes of religion and charity, than for the promotion of education ; and the monks would have been guilty of no deviation from the rule of their founders, if they had been as iittle versed in secular knowledge as has been asserted by their antagoniate. And in the second place, it must be remembered that the views of learning prevalent among the monks were very different from those which are accepted at the present day. The classics, which are now so highly esteemed, and an acquaintance with which is regarded as an indiepensable part of a learned education, were looked upon by them with aversion; they deemed them not only useless, but pesitively pernicious in their ten- dency; and they Depleted them altogether, that they might devote their time and energies to other matters, of far greater interest and importance. But that the mouks did really encourage learning, according to the views which they entertained of its real character, Mr. Buckingham clearly demonstrated by a lucid and eloquent review of a few of the facts attest yy the records of authentic his- tory. In every monastery, there was almost invariably school for the education of youth.— In earliest monastic establishments, founded by homeus, this was a prominent feature ; and in 8, this custom was everywhere retained and encouraged and commended by the canons as ® most laudable and necersary practice. In all these monastic echoolr, education was gratuitously afforded to all who sought it ; and the monastic libraries were freely open to the public, and students were permitted not only to read the books in the libraries, but also to convey them to their own homes. The parish priests, too, were instructed to receive all chiléren whom the pa- rents might desire to commit to their charge for edu. cation, and to train them in all useful knowledge ; and they were strictly prohibited from demanding any payment for this instruction. There were many other schools, too, besides those in the monasteries ; not only cities and towns, but even the smaller hamkts, appear to have possessed such estsblishments ; and Pope Alex. IIT. directed the French bishops to prevent the teachers of these schools from making any charge for tuition, since knowledge ought to be freely given to all who sought it. The universities were well supported; many of them boasted a number of students, which presemts &® mort striking contrast to their present condition; and the clergy and temporal rulers exerted themselves, both by Lees and by practical action, in promoting the spread of knowledge among the people—founding rial the ers, and inculcating upon those un uae pursuit of learning. Inconelusion,Mr. Buck- ingham noticed the objections made by Mr. Hallam and Dr. Henry to this favorable view of the means of education inthe middle ages. Mr. Hallam rts that the schools were exclusively religious; but xami ns tion of their hist "y, shows that the courre of educa- tion pursued in them embraced a vast variety of branches of recular knowledge, and Dr. Henr; rms that learning did not promote the advancement of those who possested it; but a reference to the pages of his own bistory affords numerous examples of the attainment of dignity, in both ehurch and State, on account of | tuperior learning ; and such instances are abundant | in the basking! of the middle ages. We have been, of course, able to peg only a bare outline of the views maintained in Mr. Buckingham’s lecture ; {t would be vain to attempt to place before our readers the vast amount of curious evidence by which he sustained his various propositions. The testimony which he adduced yas clear and convincing, and amply demonstrated the accuracy of his conclusions ; and those who lis- tened to his ableand eloquent lecture will be inclined hereafter to smile at the stale denunciations of monk- ich darkness and ignorance which have been hitherto fo much in favor with a certain class of fanatical and ill-informed historiang, On Friday evening, Mr. Buckingham will proceed to the consideration of the diffusion of the scriptures in the middle ager, a point upon which his views ai as much opposed to popular prejudice as on the other vestions which he bas already discussed. The re- ligious public will feel, we are astured, much curiosity to hear the evidence by which it is proposed to prove that, inthe middle ages, the Bible was assiduously studied by the monks and clergy, and rendered by | them accessible to the people; and the philosophical student cannot fall to be gratified by the discussion of a question of #0 much importance, as affecting our views of the charact nd position of our ancestors, their sway the 1 look with much curivsity to ating the positions which he is to maintain on Fridsy evening. Revenre or Canapa.—The Canada Gazette of the Isth instant furnishes an abstract of the returns of the gross revenue for the year ending October 10, | 1848. ‘The following table will compare the result with that of the preceding year :— 1847 1848, | Quarter ending Jan. 5.........$628080 $617 472 Do. Apl. be... 202. 104748 "215,560 | Do. JUV Besse cee. 854 961 659,042 | Do. Oct. 10. . + 734,922 558 455 | Total... esse $2312 718 $2,045,529 Deorease in 1848, $266 180, cf which amount $231,496 Ciosing or THE Canats.—During the last seven years the canal has closed but once as late as De- | oe any estimate of expenditure. | enee, grace of carriage, and courtesy to City News. ‘THE FIVE POINTS.—SKETCH OF A NOCTURNAL INTRO, DVCTION TO THE ORGIES OF THAT FAUNOURG OF HADES. * Better dwell in tho midat of alarnay, Jan reign in this horrible place.” In his conversations upon the rock of St. Helena, | Napoleon, on one occasion, recurring to his native island of Corsica, remarked that he knew it so well that, blind-folded, be could walk over it in any direc- tion. An observing traveller, with a tolerable nose, after a month’s sojourn in Gotham, could, at noon of a day in July, just as readily identify, ina rapid drive, with his eyes bandaged and his cars hermetically sealed, his invasion and evacuation of the Five Points, by the ‘smell ;” though the streets of New York are no where deliciously aromatio as the winds from the Spice Islands. At noon, or in the afternoon, of a m{d: summer's day, with literal justice, Orange street | might exclaim— filled with the filthiest fluids, are, by the action of the fun after a thorough stirring by the pigs, reduced into & sort of pulp, ot the color of turtle soup, which» seething, bubbling, fermenting, and exhaling in the intense heat, diffuses in the surrounding atmos phere a etench most execrable and revolting ing in the genial blaze, and luxuriating in the slime, ever and anon turning the wot ,side up which, as seized by the evaporation, renders him bat dimly visible ina cloud of steam, Groups of living ca ricatures of humanity, bloated, blistered, raged and seabby, mildewed and greasy, half insane, or som|- Atotio, line the ragged side-walks; and the doors all open, disclose at every step shackling shelves, full of alcoholic poisons, cellars populous with specimens of jiving putrefaetion, and stair-cases hideous in their filthy blackness, leading to dingy dormitories, whose air is rancid from the contagion of filth and disease, and from which often a rough coffin comes down at night- ¢fll, with the decomposing ruins of some poor wretch in it, making rocm for some other wretch to crawl up and die among the contagious rags in the vacant cor- ner, Oocastonally,in the feculent slime of the gutter, nome inflated termagant, oblivious in beastly beatituie from excessive potations of the vile acrid gin ob- | tained at the next door, lies perchance heads and tail® with a venerable and well-behaved porker, and as dead as her companion to all sense of the jeera of the drunken negroes, discussing the oharms of the sleeping beauty. The children that crawl out from their sepulchral holeg underground, or that creep down trom their mephitic cages from the diseased aud dying in the garrets, rickety, seald-headed scorbutio, or dropsical,are equally the caricatures of thelr generation, Like plants which are sprouted in a charnel-house, they draw thelr brief existence from eorrupting bones, and die in the thick darkness which ushered them into life. ‘Their first words are profanity; thelr earliest sports are exhibitions of their wretchedness, to extort a penny from the passing stranger, or of a precocious ragacity in crime, ‘There are but few to be seen, and the inquiring visiter might learn the plot of rome dark tale of shame ard derertion, in the history of most of them. Perhaps the mother of that scald- headed boy is the besotted widow of some drumken emigrant who died on Black- well’s Island; and that shadow of a little girl, whose opthalmic eyes can scarce endure the twilight, may be the daughter of some confiding damecl lured from her father’s cottage in the country. and driven by shame and despair to cross the threshold where ‘eath follows clore upon the initiation—where the horrors of exisg- ence too often drive its victims to hasten its dissolution —where all the plotured agonies of eternal perdition are overwhelmed by the actual terrors and the foul discords of the palpable fie and faries that surround them Horrible. indeed, the scenes from which the victim plunges into eternity, with the hope that even in its direst punishment there can be nothin; counter! Look at this (solgotha of the Five Points. at this place of skulls, there barracks of Potters in the light of da: were as unwelcom: cavern where bats and owls. and half torpid reptiles had for ages occupied it in uninvaded darkness. The dingy, grimmed,and decrepid shanties, squeezed into each other by the compressing walls, and standing only because they stand together—the dark holes under ground—the wretchedelusters of mocking misery that swarm in them to overflowing—the brothels, the grog- geries. the old clo’, the place for drugs, and the depot of ready made cofin in ominous convenience to each other—the reeking pestilence in the streets, and the constant brawls of blaspheming thievos tbat swell in chorus from the cellars, depict the locality aud its hideous soeiety and associstions as things to which the day is an intruder, and the light of the sun an abstrac- tion of thus much time from the business of the place. For objects but little less despicable than the scones ortrayed, the “ mysteries”? of New York have been erped upon tilleven the most morbid appetites are surfeited, Yet the greatest mystery to a stranger.in pass- ing through the Points by daylight. is the mystery of their exemption from a fire sweeping them from the face of the earth. Over espace of perhape a hundred acres, the buildidge crowded together to suffocation are as id drunken , Yet elawa °f safety, are exempt from con- flsgration, while whole squares of fire-p.-of *4ifices are consumed in other quarters of the city. Strange as this exemption may appear, we think the reason is obvious. portion of the inhabitants of every cellar, room or gerret, on the Points, are always awake—a number of them are always in the streets. They thus form—not from organization, but from the accidents of pecersity—a corps of sentinels, at all hours and at all seasons; and ifsome miserable creature sets fire to the straw, an she falls into her torpid sleep, there are, from want of room to lie down, several of the hybrid family yet awake to extinguish it. Thus, the demoraliz- ing excesees which are tho ruin of the deplorable population of this infected district, are, in one respect at leart, the secret of their protection. A ruggestion for the public good is never out of place. There is @ project on foot for an enlargement of the Battery at » heavy expense to the better expedient for the public be purchase of the sink of the Five Points, conversion into @ public square of fifty or a hundred A margin on the four sides, sold out in lots for eto., might half redeem the costs of the enter. prize; but the contribution to the health and chara ter of the city would compensate it for the outlay, be- But our purpose to tell of a nocturnal visit to the One Saturday evening, not long ago, escorted by Captain Mangus, of the police, (for whose kindness we extend him our hearty thanks.) three respectable looking men might have been seen at about ha'f-past ten P, M., making a deecent from the Tombs into the Points. Your writer. for whose comparative stranger to the ‘ my: of the Empire city, the expedition one of the trio the £ pelled to hang up their fiddies at tweive o'clock, from a regard to the Sabbath, forced upon them by the municipal authorities; whereas, om any other night in the week, “They danced ‘Till Broad daylig! And slept off the gin in the morning,” Passing into Orange street, our conductor knocked at night 6 organized, was | Our guide observed it was not avery | twelve years past, and has had more officers nd men good night for the visit, as the revellers were allcom- | lost in the service. than any other Here | and there @ capacious grunter lies broadside, bask- | | | | \ , two campaigns in Florida, was one of the fir | of, and revolting to see. | 80 and 60 in number, | Wednesday evening, westward bound. Tho followin TWO CENTS. gu» of bloated white women, mostly, from their ogue, the outcasts of the old world, were sitting smoking their elay Pipes, and ‘‘jist waiting, my dar- lint, for ye to coom In and thrate us toa saxpence.”” Some of them had their eyes bunged up and blackened, or their swollen features seratched most awfully, or their rage half torn off their discolored limbs. or their disfigured mouths bleeding from the fracture of the two or three remaining snags in their jaws in some fierce encounter with other tigresses who had fare! no better, Their charms, such as they were, were offer to their distinguished visiters with such arts of per. suasion as but made them the more repulsive and re- volting, and particularly if the eyes of the officer were for a moment diverted from their shocking blandish- ments and ridiculous attempts to personate the cojaet. ‘The old Brewery wound up the distroasing detour of the mght. Since the visit of Dickens, it has under- | hat the occupants call a"great improvement ; floors are appropriated..to liquor, wholesale Barrels of gin, new whiskey, and brandy «uafortis, are ranged in a formidable row, pro- miring, from{their capacity, a supply of burning alco- holie poirons. as plentiful as the allotment of Crotom water to the neighborhood Clusters of maudlin wo- men, with thick and husky voices, oozing nostrils, and blood shot eyes, lay in confusion around the stoves, while conttant applications at the bar. of men and wemep, rome pleading for just @ mouthfal for two cents,” clearly established the fact that there were @ “ few more lelt of the eame sort.” Such was the exhi- bition below. From an upper floor came down the in- fernel screams and blasphemies of awoman under ® peroxysm of delirium tremens; and from a howe oppo- site, similar cries made midnight, in this losauty of thieves, completely hideous. We have raid h. We are sick of the theme, We have harrie] ovwe it as atask to bedone. It is av hackneyed aad thrend- bara as the vagrants portrayed. It ia disgusting to think But if the presentation of the picture will inany degree lead to open the eyes of our consoript fathers to the imperative duty of dlean- ing out this reat of pestilence in the heart of the ity, we shall bave gained the object of our reluctant toatl mory against thein, for permit'ing a nuisance so mon+ rtrous, to remain undisturbed ao long, Crance ov Anstaactine Levtens.—A man named Joha Lynch was arrested yesterday, by deputy taarchal Smith, on a charge of opening letters and obstructing the correspondence of Wiiliam Mulligan. The matter stands over for further investigation, avorinxy.—Mr, Jaceb Sockman, one of the New York pilots, was attacked with apoplexy, ye-terday morning, while piloting the United States transport rhip Rhode Island into port. Strong hopes for his re- covery are entertained. | Acciwetar Deatn.—The coroner held an inquest | yesterday at the City Hospital, on the body of ‘Timo- thy Birney, aged 15 years, a native of Ireland, who came to his death from the falling of a barrel of flour from the 8d story of the store corner of Greenwich and ‘Thames streets. The deceased was. passing at the time, when the barrel of flour struck the cellar door, bounced off. and fell upon tne deceased, injuring him mortally. He died shortly after being taken to the Hospital. Verdict accordingly. Axoture.—The coroner held an Inquest yeaterday in 44th street, near the th avenue, on the body of John Stieden, ive of Germany. aged 62 years, @ carpenter by trade, who camo to his death by the full- ing of the scaffolding on a new building erecting im 42d street, near Othavenue. It appears the scaffold was badly erected, giving way and failing to the ground, killing the deceased, and wounding Philip Skinel, who likewise fell with it, so severely that but little bope is entertained of Als tecovery Verdict as- cording to the above facts. The deceased has left « wife and four children to mourn nis loss. Finw.—The light house at the entrance of Esopus Creek, North river, was consumed by fire on ‘T'ues- day morning. Law Intelligence, Wasnrncton, Nov 25 —Imronrant Least 1on,—The Cirevit Court of this district made cision on Tuesday last, which is very impor persons who transact bueiners with the government or agentfor claims. Congress, by an arbitrary act, pro- vided, some years sgo, that no money should be paid by the government upon any power of attorney of » date prior to the act for the payment ofa claim. An may make contract with « claimant to prose- cute his claim for acertain contingent fee, tobe paid from the sum recovered. Iie may, under that con- tract, spend his time and money in presenting the claim before Congress, or the depar and yet, when he applies for his power of attorney to receive it, the |: cancels his contract and bis power of attor may refuse to pay him any compenration. #0 happens that successful suitors forget their solioit- ors, as convalescents do the doctors, Generally, in- deed, the agent is cheated out of his pay. Ina recent ‘an agentapplied to our court for an injunction against the Secretary of the Treasury to prevent his peying a certain sum to a claimant, a portion of which sum the agent was authorized by a contract and power of altorney to draw and receive, as his compensation for obtaining the amount claimed. Theoourt decided that they bad no power to direct the secretaries in the discharge of their duty—that they were executive ¢fiicers, and could exercise discretion. —Baliimore Sun, Interestixe Case —In Cumberland count; sylvania. last week, wac tried the oase of a ot State of Maryland, against Daniel Kauffman, of Cumberland county, for siding the escape of and herboring 13 rlaves, claimed as the property of the plaintiffs. A gr 8 were produced by the plaintiff's o that the slaves were brought 24th of October, 1847, to the barn of Kauffman, and after remaining there part of ight, were taken in across the Susquehanna ri jeveral wit- re called. who were iinmediate neighbors of Kauffman, and nately refused to answerany ques- tions or inquiries propounded by the court or counsel. Being apparently determined to keep silent, they were iven into the custody of the sheriff and conveyed to. jail. But after remaining there ashort time. they con- cluded it was better to come forward and give evidence. The defendant's counsel took the ground that a case ofthis kind did not come under the jurisdiction of thi court The jury retired, and after being ont rome Kuen LOUre, revurnea & verdict of $2000 42™ag0a gorthe plaintiffs.—Philad Ledger. k Religious Intelligence. ‘The Rev, Edward Meyer, | minister of the Lu- theran denomination. was Lancey, to the Holy Order of Deacons in the Protos tant Episcopal Charob, at Trinity Church, Geneva, on Sunday, November 19. He preached his first rermon’ as en Episcopal clergyman, last Sunday afternoon, at St. Luke's church, in this city. Mr. M. has been for some months a reai- dent in Rochester. and is well known to many of our citizens as a teacher of the German and Frenea lan- guages mber of witness- whoproved ening of the Army Intelligence. Another emali detachment of U.S. t oops, between ased through this city on is the distribution of the force comp infantry, along the northern fronti of the fourt! Detxort-—Col. William Whistler, commanding the | regiment and port; Dr, Tripler, Surgeon ; Ist Lieu’ Maloi djatant of the regiment ; i A Lient len, Ist Liewt. Jones, 2d Lieut, Henry, 28 Lieut. ins Sackerts Hannox—Brevet Lieut. Col Lee, com- post; Ist Lieut. U.S. Grant, 2d Lieut. Hunt. o—Brevet Lieut Col. Wright, commanding port ; Ist Lieut. Augur, 2d Lieut. Paine. Foxt Gratiot—Brevet Major Alvord, commandi: ost ; Ist Lieut, Montgomery, 1st Lieut. MeConnelt 4 Lieut Rusrell This regiment has performed more actual service this It has performed ¢ to land at Corpus Christi, and was in every general engage- ment up to Monterey, was one of the firet to land at Vera Cruz, was present in every general engagement, frem Vera Cruz to the capture of the city of Mexico, and also, was one of the lart to leave the country.— Buffalo Advertiser. he U. 8. traneport ship Rhodew*land, Capt. Free- a blind dcor!n a blind recens, and his “open sesame”? | horn, arrived yesterday from New Orleans, having at onee ushered us, by the black janitor, intothe sanc- tum of Pete Williams's assembly rooms, fcended from the pure African race; but has all the strangers, of anaccomplished dancing master, ‘Walkin, gen- tiemen; glad to fee you, captain,” Pete, perhaps, was acting ‘the diplomat, and told any thing but the ure at this meeting. There were fift; nd mulattoes in the room, of bot! Joven white men, of the class of “tho | cember Ist, and that was last year. Judging from the tate of the weather at present, it will be later in freez- ing this year than it was lest. Yesterday was clear and pleasant, and one ot two boats, heavily loaded with pork, cleared for New York. A boat loaded pith fleur clesred for Alhany on Sunday—freight 75 cents per bbl if it got through, and at the rate of 62 cents | if it failed to doeo, Alarge majority of the boats have stopped rupnirg and are seeking for comfortable moorings for the winter. It is possible that the waters may not freeze for a week to come, and those | boats that cleared yesterday may get through, though it is hazardous to ship produce at this late season ber yesterday was far more favorable than for several days previow! ‘The packets on the Erie and Geneasee Valley canals have stopped ranning. They made their last trip on Saturday, aud yesterday they were put into a condi- fon to go into winter quarters, with the exception of the little beat thatruns to Brockfort and Holley, ontinue to make its regular trips until the canal freezes, The season that haa juat olosed has been a prosperous one for all the lines of packets runping to and from this city. at least we should judge so by the number of travellers wha have chosen that mode of conveyance, The boats™ind their captains | willecme out in the epring thercughly recruited and r pay Nt another brilliant season.’’— Rochester .2m., Now, 28. Great Fine ar Hiaainsrort.—We leam from the Maysville Herald of the 21st inst., that a de- structive fire occurred at Higginsport, Brown county, Ohio, on Tuesday night last, which burnt five build- ingr, and the contents of one store a and of another partially. It caught in the of Elliott, Gardner & Co. The other store was owned by Mr. Anderson, Entire loss probably $11,000, of which $9,000 wee ineured om Mesers, E, G, & Co,’s stock, | laboo: . engaged in the sports of the evening—the | b’hoys' monopelixing the best looking of the colored wenches in the dince. An orchestra of three Kthio- | yean musicians, on a platform, aid up the music to créer, The company were orderly—all euficiently | tober to recogtize the guardian of the peas end the importance of showing olf to vantage, in his presence, in dread of th ‘They appeared to bo in high gle; and when a slender young buck, Hill Coolie, was called | forward for a break-down, the movement was an ni. mous to make way for him and his wonderfal superior- ity in the multifarious gyrations of the double-shufle He continued for balf an hour, to the utter emaze- ad. | | went of the crowd, to ply his fest upon the floor with | the ra pldity of a French drummer beating the »appel; and when he finished with agrand flourish, in which his legs were invisible in the dust, he was greeted by | | euch exclamations as © De Lord, ‘ehile, how he flings hit boots to de fiddle!” “D—n good!” © Gib de boy rome licker.”’ But there appeared to be no liquor in the cavern. In @ recess, lighted by one tallow candle, fat an old negro before a table, rattling his dice over a sweat cloth, free to all comers, Our company went in and hararded a fow cents upon the figures, and the | nonchalence with which the old Congo swept the stakes into his baal ol practitioner ai easury, however, of his pg but a emall business in the il way, the money market in the Points being al- ways remarkably tight ete Williame’s assembly rooms, it must be recollected, comprehend the aris tocracy of the yuarfier, who, although vile women and rkulking thiever, are yxt above the meanness f rob- bing a stranger by @ combined assault in the ball. lly with an officer of the police present intrude: ubterr: saloon of the polite Pete passed into reveral deus redolent of the fumes of bald-faced gin, onions, and tobacco, where | made the passage in twenty-four days Pete is do- | the companies A and E, Ist, and On board are 2d artillery, with the following officers and passen, — Ist Liwmanee B. Ricketts, Ist artillery. commanding ; Assistant Sor gecn R. H Coolidge, U.S. A.; Brevet Major J. F. Rey- nolds, rd astillery; Ist Lieut. A. Doubleday, ist a tillery ; 2nd Lieut D. M. Beltzhoover, Ist artiller: 2nd Lieut, O. H. Tillinghast, Ist artiller: Brevet 2nd Lieut. J ©. Tidball, 3rd artille: Coolidge and children. Lieut. Russell bas opened a rendexvous for the en- Metment of recruits to Col. PF Smith's regiment of Mounted Riflemen, which is under orders for Califor- nin, at Buffalo, Col. Kirby, of the army, passed through Buffalo, on | Friday last, on his way Kast. The command of the sixth military department, ea- | hecdquarters at Jefferson Barracks, which has beoome vacant, by the death cf General Kearny, has been assigned to General Twiggs. Gezeral Worth has been arsigned to the command of the eighth and ninth military departments, previously under Gen. Twiggs. Captain Jobn WH, Barry died at his residence, in Boston, on Monday. During the command with | Mexico, Csptain Barry was in command of company bi, | Mareachueettt Volunteers, Miscellaneous Political I Migence. The native Americans of Boston have held prelimi- nary meetings. and intend to prevent indepeadent candidates at the municipal election. Gen Hernandes (whig) has been elected Mayor of Augnstine, Florida—the first instance of the kind, The Van Buren party, in Boston, have nominated Bradford Sumner for Mayor of Boston St Merorr in West Jersey.—George Wiggins a worthy colored man, of considerable property, was killed in Salem 1 'y. also colored. ‘The two were in company. Gray having a gun which he was ewinging in a nner to endanger the safely ofthe other. He was requested to desist.and in re« turn struck Wiggint ® blow on the head which killud him immediately Merver. Timothy Whelen, an Trishman, w. shot dead on the 24th of October, near Fort Gibson, Arkansas, by Charles Griffin, a Cherokee. The murder was deliberate, wilfal, and without proyocatioa; bat the murderer wae drunk,