The New York Herald Newspaper, February 6, 1851, Page 2

2 EE Our Parts Panis, Jan. 6, 1351. Interesting Letter from a Champrom of Freedom— Release of Political Prisoners in Rome—Praise- worthy Conduct of Mr. Cass, c. I am not an American, but | wish to record the @onduct of one of your countrymen, which, to re- publican hearts, in these days of evil auspices and mournful presages, is like water in the desert to aim who is pensming of ‘hits: The facts which I am about to narrate were communicated to me by | manufacturers can make. In Australia they will | have to deal with our own countrymen and our own territ a relative of the commanding general of the French forces in Rome, who has just arrived in Paria from the Eternal City. ’ tn the Roman dungeons of D’Anzo and Saint Angelo, are contined thirteen prisoners, whose in- expieble crime consists in having participated in the Yate revolutionary struggle, which had for its ob- 5 te secure to the inhabitants of the Poati!!’s the inestimable rights of representa- thom, together with other constitutional reforms. | ‘They are not of the class of fanatics or factious de- manogues who have defiled our noble cause not fees ip ftaly than in France, but men of high ehbaracter and lofty ciples, who, in the good Sight for the benefi: of their children and their chil- dren’s children—of those who are to come after shem—hazarded all, and lost all. Among them are tive counts and one marquis, of ancient blood, whose linea! descent goes back, without break or uaterruption, to the middle ages. They have been declared forever incapable of halaten, property, of whatsoever description. For seven long months they have languished in loathsome dungeons. ‘There they lie, sading with dandits,and felons, and | brigande,; and day after day the{prospect of their liberation, so far from becoming brighter, growe only darker and more hopelees. There they lie those noble, noble gentlemen, weary of life, am suck of this most base world, with no spot, or stain, or blemish on their reputat.on save the sin of hav- ang struck for liberty. The government will not veiease them, for the dissemination of repablican sentimenis is fatal to its very existence. Neither ean it exile them, for no country in Burope will arbor such propagandists. Now, what has been done ior them hy, Mr. Cass, your Minister, jhas proposed to the Papal authorities to send them to California, himself exzeging to pay, three thou- wand dollars for their expenses in a French ship, which will leave Bordeaux for that destination in the mouth of February. The Cardinals have ac- cepted this proposal, agreeing to liberate these gen- diemen nine days prior to the departure of the ves- eel in question, which ailords them just sufficient | time to reach that seaport. Llonor to your Minis- ter and to the glorious land from which he comes. iis conduct has elicited deep adimuration; and well it may. Tome, and to menlike myselt, hounded from country to country, whose dream for long years has | been of liberty, whose sole aspiration is to pursue | the example of your incomparable republic, itstands | out like a beacon of light to the despairing ma- | mner, when night and tempets have osed arouna him. If you have more ef his breed, sead them, I pray you, to Naples, and Vienna, and Milan, in the dungeons of which the desolate champioss ot liberty, abandoned, in manacies, and bowed | own to earth, are praying for death as for @ re- | ease. God! is it always thus to be! In this nine- | teenth century, when toleration is the boast of | every land, are men whose only otience consists in having contended for truth and right, to be thus branded with infamy and hunted down like beasts f prey? But the day of retribution is coming, | Sad coming fast, when al! that has gone befure— | every revolution that has fae taken place, is bat as the feeble starlight to the brilliancy of the noon- day sun. Liberty is not dead. It survives, though sorely drooping, in the hearts of millions, who are pining for education and social improvement, | yet left to quffer the bitterest consequences of neg- | lect, ignorance, temptation and crime. Bora ia Gibraltar, | was a British subject, and, as sch, entitled to the protection of the government of Great Britain. This was denied me, however, ona criical eecasion, and three years ago l re- nounced my allegiance to that country. la com- mon with many others. | have suffered much, and | Jost much, but I shall never regret it, if the conse- | quence be to prepare the people to do their duty at every sacrifice of personal feeling. | firmly be- | hieve—I will not sufler myself to doubt—thai the | aets of oppression and violence of arbitrary go- | vernments, which every day brings to our kaowl- | edge, will, ere long, by the reaction they must ia- | evitably produce, be productive of lasting good to | more than one unheppy country in Europe } The Produetion of Cotton, | [From the Londou Mercantile, Jan. 7.) : | The supply of raw cotton for our manufactures is every day becoming a subject of greater interest end onxiety in thie country; and it is really extra- ordinary—Where cotton is known to grow almost spontencourly in so many regions of the earth, | where to many soils and climates are suited to its | eultivation—thet we should still be dependent upon a ema!) portion of the United States for the greater part of the supply Which we require. It is strange ubat neither Southern or Western Africa have ever been thought of as countries where this shrub could be cultivated to almost an unlimited extent. Only a few days ego, a specimen of the wid cotton plant ot Western Afnea, which was plucked within fifty yards of the shore, with fuil bolis, was exhibited in the Exchange-room, at Liverpool. The Ltver- | pool Journal enys:—* The quality is fine, and this specimen shows that there would be no difficulty in cultivating cotton where it was gathered.” We quite believe it. We believe in the possibility of growing cotton ad /tbttum in this district of Africa; indeed, we have reason to think that both cotton and coflee are indigenous along the whole line of coast from 15 deg. N. lat. to the Equator. Ia Prince's Island, lat. 1 40, and in the Istand of St. Thomes, which lies under the Ejuator, coff grows abundantly, and we think it will be fe that the climate, which is stitable to the cotice plant, will also grow the cotton shrub. Indeed, the former island prgduces not only cofice, but seger and rice. he pertinacity with which the manufacturers of Lancashire continue to look to India as the only country which can relieve them from their depen dence upon the United States, is, in our opiaien, injurious to the object they have in view, as it Withdraws their attention from other couatries where they would have tewer dillicuities to con- tend with than have hitherto met them in [adia. It iw, however, quite time that they looked more extensively abroad, for there are many reasons why their reliance upon America should begin to be on the wane. According to the Liverpool statistics of the cotton trade, which will be found in our jour- nal of last week, it appeara that the deficiency of cotton in that pert, compared with the correspond- ing period of 154%, is estimated at 100,000 bales, and thet an equa! deficiency exists in Manchester The /tverpoo! Alinom, from the statistics it presents to ite readers, comes to the conclusion that we ere beginning this year with a considerable deticiency in the known stock of cotton, while at the same time there is a short crop in the United States. It rtain that, as the manufacture of cotton is an- ly on the increase in America, there will be a ‘tet home demand for the raw material, leas of icle dipowaple for exportation, and, coase- y, an enhenced price put upon it in the coun- We think it is evident that the present execu- ind the party in office = uy tive of the St wish to encourage theirown manutactures. thing of this kiod is hrated atin the annual state- ment of the Secretary of the Treasury, which has te, me- lately come tohend. In this document the system of ad valorem duties is strongly objected to aa in- jarious to domestic industry, end itie recommended ‘as highly necessary that the present rate of d should be increased on a variety of artic! Whether manufectured cottons will be included ia gory remains to be seen ‘We would not discourage the manufacturers from looking to India ee one country from which they can be supplied with cotton, but we certainly would discourage their looking to itas the only couatry for this purpore. The report of the Select Com- mittee of the House of Commons, which sat, in 1348, to inquire into the growth of cottoa in India, feaves everything in doubt and uncertainty. It does, indecd, conclude with a paragraph expreasing an opinion, “ that under the continued encourage- | ment now afforded by the government of ladia, and | by teking full advantage of all the resource are still within reach, there may eventual 4 be opened to the manufacturers of this country a large | and regular supply of cotton, of a quality large 4 | consumed by the British manufacturer, which will, by giving them additional sources of supply, ren- der them more independent of the failure of crops, and thus have the double effect of equalizing the rice of the raw material, and of lessening those actuations in the t which have occurred for some years pest, and Ouely on the energies of our manufactaring popu- Jation.” The nothing very emcouraging in this, particularly known, as the re 8 that—‘ For sixty years past the Court of Directors ve token ag interest in thie queetion, and have expended considerable sums in various attempts to stimulate the growth of cotton in the countries subject to their rule.” This may be very true, but, at the same time, it is very depressing. Sixty years, and considerable sums, have been almost fruitless!y epent; Americans and Americangins have been sent to India ; experimental farms have been established there; notwithstanding which,ourmanufacturersare still without a supply of cotton from that country “* The Court of Directors still adhere to the opiniv that the obstacies which are supposed hiv have retarded the extension of cott im India, may be overcome.” We opinion, but it promises to be a wo difficulty, unsuited to the exigene and the anxiety of those engaged in We have said that there are many other coun- tries whege cotton may be grown; why, then, wat for the eventuality which ie promised by the report of the committee’ We should like to see the energies of the manufacturere directed to @ coent t me rade, | | where they but little colonies, action which no other country offe! India, to the same extent, and it is a couatry to Ww easily induced to betake themse!yes. We believe | that the government of '.a1a will give every pos | sible encouragem, | of cotton pyres And stimulus to the growth | ry of erie to | did not give pp until he eucerei+d. y would mest with no diffic Wes, and t country is our Aus. uia In these colonies they have ‘a sphere 10° rs, not even American cultivators of cotton could be 4 country, but the natives are a | ae With whom agricultural improvements are low growth; nor, in our opinion, are they at all likely to be stimulated by any exertions which our itory, and we think the rest may be safel; left to British energy, aided by liritish capital: all | that is required is to set the machine in motion, when it will be found to work well. The Great National Contest. [From the London Atheneum, Jan. 4.) In an ege like this, when the real rivalries and contests of nations are carried on not so much by regunents and frigates as by means of the shuttle, the railway and the steambeat—it 1s curious an important to note the progress of different coua- tries in those practical arts and sciences which more immediately promote these friendly national couteste. European statesmen have all watched with wonder, and not a few of them with alarm, the tremendousaccession of power which the rapi developement of railways, telegraphs, aad steam navigation in the United States has giveu to the people of North America: an accession of political and material influence in the affairs of the world, | which seems to stand in a!most startling dispropor- tion to the mere weight of the masses oi popula- tlon. The Brazile, by nature far richer than the northern States inal! the raw materials of have no more voiee in determining the dire great historical events than a petty Ci ftalian principality. Belgium, covered with ral- | ways, and dotted with manufactoriee, has already more active influence in © he once pow erfuland magnificent Wogdor 3 multiplies the resources of netous in ad €. dinary degree; and older games of araut far gone out of modera fashion, ‘he: statesmen, with the true rstinets of ihe future about them hope and fear of more close his impriconment, which he had. to pass under the Es ey arrest, and liberty, were the most horrible , ans that he could only support i the example of the and devotion of his id. His strong beck ha ha; 7ot white and de. ude ter = @NG pedpié wno saw aim in Ediaburgh rated , the man of thirty-four years, to be fifty years of age. Another year, and he would have en hus life as a manic, in the workhouse. pote Music and the Drama. Mr. G. V. Brooke has performed at Cheltenham to crowded houges. Mr. James Wallack, jun., will shortly make his début at the Haymarket. At the termiaation of Mr. Macready’s performances it is whispered that Mr. G. V. Brooke will appear. Mr. Sullivan's comedy, it is said, will shortly be produced at Drury Lane. Mr. Webster read the last act of his new drama on Thursday; it will be produced next week, under the titie of * Belthegan, or the Mounte- bank.” Mr. Webster wiil appear in it, in con- junction with Mr. Wright, Mr. Bedford, Madame Celeste, and all the favorites at the Adelphi. lis the intention of Mr. Copeland, lessee, not to open the Scrand Theatre until Easter. The losses sustained by the Execuuve Com- mittee of the National Concerts, durmng their brief management, amount to little short of £9,000. Annie ‘Tyrrell, or the Tempter and the Teaipted,” is the name of the new domestic play, by J. T. Searle, Lsq, ponies at the Surrey. All the resources of the theatre are brought into requisition, in order to give fuil effect to the pro- duction. Mr. Cherles Marshall has been for several engaged in getating @ great moving dio- strative of the fasmoneble tour of Europe. tis one of great interest, and is to be a: the great concert room of her Ma- The subje exhibited jesty’s Theatre, now styled “ The Tourist’s Gal- jery; itis undergoing various alterations and im- provements for the pfirpose. Mr. Henry | pas engaged for a limited period e at conductor, is creating an the provinces. The local press are jess and less abou: drilling regiments, and | more aad mol bout promoting trinds of streng! this noble con:esi | chiefly between the two great divisions Anglo-Saxon rece. fngland by insular postion, and America by er geogiaphical rcmmotenes d tolerably free from the wear of of material means which are da‘ly seen in the litical struggles of con: nta! | urope: and they are, es regerds each © therefore, on egaal and fair terms of corupetiuon. With Eng land might be conquered, even wh oak defied the world. A Srencharmy onthe coast of Devonshire or Kent might prove « passing evil— butac pn of natural and mechanical ad- | vantages dto the workshops of the Cuited States, would be utter aud irretrievable ruia. the shuttle of Manchester beats the of Lowell; bitherto, tie steam vessel of | Liverpool has outsped that of New York. But the forces ere so nearly matched a3 to lead all the charm cf an t rtain issue te the strugele. 1 peciely is this the case with the ocean steamers. in river, lake and coast navigation, America has long carried away the paimof victory. The boats on the Rhine, the Elbe, the Clyde, the Thames, and the Scheldt ere pot tor a moment to be com- pared with the **floating palaces” oa the Iudson, the Delaware and the Potomac, either for rate of sailing or for magniticence of fitting up. We have been credibly told of vessels steaming dowa the Mississippi at the rate of twenty-tivesimiles an hour! But in ocean nat tion, longer practice and equal still keep us slightly ahead of our eaer- endants. Weare proud of our rivals—as they are proud of our rivalry. To the general reeder at home, it 1s next to impossible to convey on adequate idea of the interest which the con- tests between the English and American maila ex- cite in Boston w York and Philadelphia Each run is carefully noted and compared; fears are ex- cited, hopes raised, by every Voyage; and half a dozen hours in the length of a trip of three thous- and miles is thought a considerable variation. The etroggle for mestery at th’s moment lies be- tween the English mai and the American mail Atlantic; and the recent voyage of the Asia was the quickest ever yet performed. This pas eage from New York to Liverpeol was made in ten days four hours and five minutes, being four hours and fifteen ates less than the best voyage | eastward made by the Adantic. The New York- ers ere building etill more powerful vessels for this line of cervice. The prizeis a great one. The fleetestvessels must cerry out letters, orders, news, government despatches; having the prestige of scientific excelience and success, will generally command # choice of the passenger traf- hi In this rivalry the Americans possess a grea’ advantege over us, in being less fettered ia their action by goveroment jobbing and moaopoly. ‘The Irish Exties. The fo'lc wing extracts from a letter written by a cen leman residing in Van Dieman’s Land, must Le interest to the lamiles, friends, and admirers of the exiled Irish leaders:— Inyour last you inquired anxiously for Meagher. ] musi now teil you that we ere on the most iati- mate terme with all the exiles. We have met Meagher, Martin, and Mitchel. The two latter re stefioned but a few minutes’ walk from this. | As to Meegher, we went twenty-five miles to see him, to the Jakes, the trysting-place, where the three districts meet; but, after ail, were disap- pointed ems hard of the government to con- fine eech e district after they had given their parole not to escape. However, they do not ad- bere strictly to the wishes of the government. Soon afier our excursion to the lakes Meagher viewed Bothwell, with his friends Mitchel and Martin. We then made his scqueintance. He has been getting a fine boat built, to beguile his time on the lakes. and he is about building a her- mitege on one cf the islands, where he purposes residing. He asked Miss-——., a friend of miae, to go up and christen his boat, which is to be called Sperenza, in compliment to the fair poetese; but as we all agreed that the weather is too cold for ladies to travel, we deferred the christening till spring. Smih O'Brien, who, you know, refused his parole, is confined to Ma: ja Island, but is now ellowed more liberty than at first, having a horse to ride ebout the island, which is a beautiful one. Mitchei’s cou ence ie very hne, has great variety of expression; he hasthe stamp of a leader. Hie health is much improved by the elimate. Martin iss grea‘ favorive with us ali—he is so hind, frenk, humble, end honest—his health is also good. They ere on most friendly terme with all the neighborhood. Three deys never pass that we don’t see some of them. A few days since we agreat laugh at them: they got tired of their ings (anything but comfortable) took a cot- tage, and kept house three days exactly. The id poured out their house- he next they went to nd Mr. Mitchel de- clared he could stand§it no longer, and returned pag ond beggege to his former housekeeper, de- claring that no house could be kept without a women & subsequent letter contradicts the report of Mr OC’ Brien’s attempted escape, for which the writer seys, there is not the least ground ‘The Liberator of Kinkel, Transiated from the Cologne Gaxeite | A few notices about this maa, who has crium- han ly completed the task of liberating (iodfrey ' j \ipkel, may not be disagreeable to our readers Charles Shurz, eat of philology and history, at the University of n, before 1548 was always considered one of the best schol of hinkel. Temperate in life—for he never ok of wi and had no incliaetion or passion for the common pleasures ot a student's if, only living for hw studics—he soon becaine the most enthusimatic ad- mirer of hie preceptor, whose views so much coin- cided with him arch, 1=4%, brought him into the same motion with K nke In the year 1a, after the misforiunes attending the ineurrections on the Khine, he left for the Paletinate, whither Kinkel soon followed Sim. He became aid-de- camp to the stofl of Tiedeman, while tered a8 pri eoidier, and Shurz was sener io the fortress of li astatt, as one of the implicated in the defence. He was sure to cted, and he escaped the execution only by a dering flight, which he ef jew tallow. prisoners, by boring with their hands a paesage in the subterranean gang ways of the fortress. Charlies Shurz escaped juckily to Switzerland. He had ecarcely arrived there when he turned ali hie at- tention to the liberatica of \inkel, of whoee horrid fete the public papers hed informed him. Elis first plane were directed to Naugard, but they were foiled by Kinkel’e abdociion to Spandau's walle Shurz knew wellthat he must risk everything, and he waa determined to do it. [le went to Spandan himeelf—the fogitive who belonged to the hands of the military executioners entered the lion's den. He lived there for weeks and montha in dis- guise, and always in danger of being betrayed \t the firat attempt to realise bie undertaking, he had the misferiane (o fall, and got severely burt. It was at first believed his leg waa broken bat it was only sprained, ond he wee confined to hie bed for reveral weeks. Scarcely recovered, he commenced anew his operations. He had to y, being discovered by some former fellow. dents, bot soon returred in new diaguise, and Hia admmrable everance, his cow h on who bave not been entirely blinded by party spirits etetain from edmiring sueh gailaat frend. hipeeersrty. He even had to leave his parents in perivet uneertaiaty about hia fate, and his place of sejourn, thongh with a heavy heart. In the begining of lecember, the two friends arrived at ‘i afer astormy praeage. Kinkel wr bog rt ation, t weeks and Gay , ‘England, being engaged fora Concer gviag teur in the pro: » in Which he willbe sccoispanied by Mdlle Angri, Signor Sal- ator Temberia, end M. Stockhausen. Herr dimst hae undertaken again to lead the Beethoven CQuarlettes The nations: “Serenata,” Ry re finished. Mr. Loder’s 's “*Walpv Nigat,” Ralfe's benefit were nccd, and notome event concerts ann eed came to pass. Miss Catherine Hayes does not intend to come to America nil next autuma, and will sing dunag the coming season in Loudon. There is an increesing dearth of Euglish sopraai competentio take first-class occupation. The ub- sence cf Mise L. Pyne himiis choice to Miss Bireh and to Mrs, Sims Reeves. A lady from the north of England, witha very five soprano voice, is at present studying with Sir George Smart. Itis said that Messrs. Bunn and Balfe have completed a new opera, with an eye to Drary Lane becoming a musical theatre, and falling wader the former gentlemen's management After many year’s of uitra-montane practice, Signor lvenciThas re-appeared at the [talian Opera of Paris. In the Journal des Débats, M Lieléclaze commends him as singing with increased power of voice, and with increase, too, of art. It is difficult to make out by the coilation and balancing of eri- ticism whether Signor Golini, the new baritone, has sueceeded ornet. A new opera, by M. That- bere, will be brought out at her Majesty’e theatre, by Mr. Lumicy, early in the season. Halevy and Scribe’s newest opera, “La Dame de Pique,” is a success for euthor, singers, aad composer. The latter is said to have entirely mo- ditied his style, to suit the locality where the scene of h‘s drama is laid—which is Kussia. Mr. Hamilion Braham, who, it was understood, Was stud) ing composition at Leipsig, hascome out there as a barit singer, andis about to ay z as Leporetio, in “Don Juan. Herr Deesauer’s “Paquita”’ is about to be pro- cuerd at Vienna. Few writers could do the world of singers better service than Herr Deseauer. His “Ouvrez es incomparable among boleros = his “Eari’s Daughter” is among Eaglish bal- jade. A recent number of the Gazette Musicale men- tions Mdile. Drusilla Mugaaui as an Italian song- stress from whom much is be expected. At Dresden, a Mdile. Emmi de Grea has beea mak- ing her début, the eame journal assures us, with bniliant success. There is no tack of these good beginnings; the want of sequel being vexatiously emphesized by euch facts as the triumpls of Pasta ardof Persiana, after inauspicious commeace- mente. i The taste for private theatricals appears to be _os smong ell classes of the community. he exemple of Windsor Castle has excited dra- matic emulation, not only in the old baronial halls of Knebworth and Woburn Abbey, but ia quarters which ere generally supposed to lie too remote to be acted on by any such iniluence. JETTY TREPFZ. From the Masical World.) Jetty Tretlz, or rather Henrietta de Th—d, for Trefiz is only the name of her mother’s femily, and the nom de guerre assumed in her arlisnhe career, which has now, indeed, become celebrated, was born at Vienna on the 23h of June, 1°26. Her father, a Polish gentleman, was an officer in the Austrian service. Her mo- ther was daughter of that beautiful Laura Schwan de Manhiem, who was loved amd eung by the greatest poet of Germany, Frederick Schiller, but who, undazzied by the poet's fame, and untlattered by bis muse, preferred the less brilliant attractions of the Professor Trefiz, and espoused him. Jetty’s mother was possessed of a considerable fortune, end was determined to have her daughter educate: in the most poey manner. Unfortunately, the gre part of her fortune was embezzled by a ne- hari tutor, to whose keeping it was entrusted when Jetty was only thirteen years otage. Ne- verthelese, it was most probably to this circum- stance, 80 much to be deplored at the time, we are indebted for affording us an opportunity of admir- ing @ talent of too rare an oceurrence to suffer it to he buried in the dilettantiam of private life. The Prince Guizeppe Poniatoweky, an enthu: in the cause of music and a composer of no mean ac- quirement, who had long been on intimate terms with Jetty’s father, was the first who discovered the great talent of the young girl. Jetty had re- from nature a mezzo-sop:ano voice of able beauty and flexibility—powerful, eono- and of unveual extent. From her earliest days, peseionately fond of music, she joined toa rillient imagination an esprit facile and penetrat- ing, end @ memory singularly retentive. Addedto these, Jetty possessed a face and figure the most preporsessing, and promising those graces and at- Uactions which are now her acknowledge: rights. Such was Jetty Treflz when Prince Poriatowsky firet discovered her latent talent and counselled ber parents not to allow it to go uncultivated. Signor Gentilhuomo, an Italien professor of sing- ing, wes suey firet master. After fifteen days of study, Mercelli, the director of the Italian Opera at Vienaa, wishing to have in his possession a young girl whose future he could not but foresee, engaged her. Jetty immediately applied herself to her studies with enthusiastic zeal. Among her in- structors at this time, we would partienlarly me tion Monsieur Charles Koent, a professional musi- cal critic, and a singer of taste to Jetty’s chew and disappou burned to ¢istinguieh herself on the stage, Mercelli detained her a whole year without giving her a single pert to play. She threw up her engagemeat in conse quence, and departed for Dresden, where in her fifteenth year, ¢! character of Juliet, in the “ Momtecchi ¢ Capu- letti.” The celebrated Senrader Davrient was the Romeo. Jetty’s success was triumphant. The (lueen of Saxony, charmed with the grace and talent of the young délwiance, commeanued her ia- tendant, the Haron de Luttiehaw, tw present Jetty to her, in. her box, the same evening. But her mejesty of Sexony did not ed here. At herown t her immediate inspection, Jetty seona from the famous singiag master riachi, and from Scho der Devnent, the best model of which she could have found in ail Ger- many for the mimic art. There were, however, veral .ittle intrigues on the part of this great which determined her pupil, who now com- enced to become her rival, to quit Dresien, after twelvemonth's sojourn, during which she had ren consiantly distinguished by the queen, and plouded by the public, on ail occasions, with the greatest fervor. From Dresden went to Leijsic, where she had the good fo meet Mendelssohn, Who took the liveliest inte restin her from the first mement he saw her. lie mede her study his own gs with him, ard subsequently, when she engaged at there |brilient entertainments given in Leipsig, under the name of the Gewandhaus concerts, he composed expressly for the last ef these concerts, the beautiful and popular chansonelle, “ is ist bestime in Gottes Rath,” which Jetty sang for the firet me, with the moet deafening demonatstions of fover from some thousanda of listemers, is little dowbt but that itis Mendelssohn to whom fetty is mainly indebted for that delicate apprecia- tion, thet profound sentiment, that touching e: pression. end thet fascination of style, which so hably distinguish her as @ singer, Bat in hereelf had ohn could have found no difficulty in eultix a eoil eo fertile and so siettieg. torn from Leipeg to Vienna, Jetty was engaged at the Hernthnerthor theatre Twn yenra after, when Pokorny organized an operatic company, which wee eupertor to eny other in Germany, she cong at the theatre Ander Wien with Standiat and and Mesdames Marra and Jenny Lind, mad of come Weeks employed in reeping @ sehe ih made her debut inthe | to | There | At the latter town she ‘@ round of cha tere, el bellies wh immense success. ler mi e and correct ‘ bined with a veneration for the works of - grout Mozart, rendered her performances $0 interesting that the public were fascinat by the superior talents of the young artist. Some time afterwards, Jetty Trefiz achieved new triumphs at Balfe’s operas, the ** Four Sons of Aymon,” and the “Bohemian Girl’ She sang nearly two hundred times in the first opera, and more than one hundred in the latter. The revolution of 1848 interrupted Jetty’s brillient and rapid career. Art in general, and the dramatic art in particular, had nearly received their death blow on the continent. Jeuy then recalled to mind the brilliant successes she had obtained at Leipsig, as a concert singer, and went to London, where she made her gébut at the concerts of the Philharmonic Society—with what success need not here be told. Immediately afterwards Jetty was invited by (Jueen Victoria to ting at the concerts at Buckingham Palace. What foliowed, is well known. Fere! Literary Intelligence, Mr. Sheba paptabes in ieaeroree Eve of the Deluge,” by the Hon. and Kev. i. W. Villiers Stuart. The “ Wife’s Sister; or, the Forbidden Marriage,” 3 vols., by Mre. Hubback. ‘Lieut. Hendereon’s :xcursions and Adventures in New South Wales,” 2 vols. The ‘* Baron Prochazka’s Revelations of Hungary.” A new and revised editionof Mr. Shilunglaw’s ‘* Narrative of Arctic Discovery.” * Dr. Berncastle’s Voyage to China.” Capt. Albert Hervey’s ‘Ten Years in India.” “* Ryan’s Adventures in California.” ** Sirr’s Cey- lon and the Cingalese.”’ ‘* Capt. Reid’s Rifle Raa- ers’ ‘*Napier’s Southern Africa,’’ and the fourth edition of Scenes of the Civil Warin Hua- ar : Mi: Colburn has recently published:— Pepy’s Luary,” cheap re-issue. “The Life and Reign of Charies 1;” by I. Disraeli—a new edition, revised by the author, and edited by his son, B. Disraeli, MP. “llistorie Scenes,” by Agues Sirickland, avther of * Lives of the Queens ot England,” &e. ** Lives of the Princesses of England,” by M. A. Everett Green. ‘Capt. Crawford’s Remini cences of a Naval Officer,” with Sketches of Ad- rairals Sir Edward Owen, Sir B. Hallowell Carew, and other distinguished commanders. ‘* The Creecent ard the Cross;” dy Ehot Warburton, Esq ; the eighth edition, with illustrations. * Gere mania: its Courts, Camps, und People,” by the Baronees Blaze de Bury. * The Rev. lt. Milman’s Life of Tasso.” “The True_Religioi by the celebrated John Evelyn; now first published from the original manuseript. ** The Year- Book of the Country: or, the Field, the Forest, aad the Fire- F by William Howitt. And the following new works of fiction :—** Merktand: a Story of Scottish Life;” by the author of * Passages in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland, of Sunny Side.” “Time the Avenger,” by the author or * Emilia Wyndham,” * The Wilmingtons,”” &e. Love and Ambition;” by the author of ** Rockingham,” aod * Populer Tales and Traditions of Huagary,” by Madame Palszky. é Mr. Bentley published in January—“ A Year on the Punjab Frontier, 1n 1848-49,” by Major Hel bert Edwardes. ** The Golden Horn, and Sketches of Asia Minor, Egypt, Syria, and the Hauraao,” by Ckarles James Monk, M. A. * Narrative of the Second Sikh War, in 1843-49," by Edward Joseph Thackwetl, Esq, late Aid-de-Camp to Gen. Thackweil. ‘Tne Two Generations, or Birth, Parentage, and Education,” a novel, by the Earl of Belfast. “* Rambles Beyond Railways,” Wilkie Collins, J merous illustrations, by H. C. Brandling, Esq. * Helen Charteris, or Sayings and Doings 1: a thedral Town,” by Mra Ward, author of * Five Years in Kefiirland ;” and “ The Bridal and the Bridle, or Our Honey-Moen Tiip in the Last, in 1960.” echt ia, M Trade between Canada and the United States. From the Hamilton (Uanada) Spectator, Feb 1.) ‘he Ministerial orgsn of Thursday, contains the following modest but sigpincant announcement :— “The ion. Francis Hincks returned from Washing- ton on Tuesdey, where he bas been for some weeks on Thus end a!] hopes of obtaining reciprocity, and thus are fulfilled our predictions for the last two years. The mismanegement and incapacity of the Canadian government are well illustrated by the manner in which they conducted the negotiations. Intense anxiety openly avowed, and constant journeys to Washington, created surprise, and rurprise engendered distrust in the minds of the statesmen of the Ucited States, until a measure which once stood a very fair chance of adoption, is now opposed quite as warmly as it had at aay time been supported. The question ef a reciprocal trade has latterly excited a great deal of attention, both in the United States Canada, and the advantages aud disad- vantages of the scheme have heen eatensively dix cussed. The whig party, which are now in power in the neighboring republic, have constantly turown obstructions in the way of a foreign trade, and advocated the adoption of such a tarifl as would prohibit, to a very great extent, the importations of goods or manutactures. We are not disposed to condemn this policy. Under it, the United States have attained a prosperity almost unexampled, and our neighbors cannot be blamed for retaining an efficient system until they are fully convinced that a better is offered them Still we are of opinion that, in refusing the offers of our government, they have thrown awey the opportuni y of secur- ing a boon for their Western States, which can never be obtained except with the fall consent of the people whore overtures have been rejected The free navigation of the St. Lawrence is of the utmost imporwnce to the enormous and yearly in- creesing trede of the West. The Ene canal is now used to the fuil extent of its capacity, al- though the western country is yet in its infancy; and it is evident that some other outlet for this trade must be found. Nature has provided that outlet, but it can only be rendered available on conditions, Which the Southern and Last- es do not with to comply with. Thus one erction of the country is compelled to suffer for the prejudices of another—a state of affairs which — be perpetuated successfully for any length of time. But the disadvantages arising from an exclusive trade and tarifi, will not be confined to the Weat- ern States. The shrewd people of the Last miy find they have overstepped the mark of prudence, and that in compelling the Canadians to adopt a mode of retaliation, they will greatly curtail their own field of operations. The last report issued by the Secretary of the United States Treasury, cou- tains the following valuable information :— ‘The exports to Canada for the year ending 30th June, 1850, were $6 900.841, The isnports, exclusive of specle, $3,565,101, showing @ balance in tavor ot United States of $2,072.720, The exports to exceed those to any country tradiag with the U Those to Cuba pain to Chima, $1,605,217; |. $2 604.665, to the Hanse Towme, $5,206 622. porte to England raw materials for manulacturing purpotes, for jy of which these countries are depen pited Btates. Of the exports of domestic nufactures from the United States, by far the largest amount Is seat to Capeda, a wuch greater variety of articles than ' country. The exporte of manufactured e ad ery nearly « « razil, Mexico da took. in the year ending ¢t ne. 1350, $8, ct Cuba, $1.014.190 ; Mexico, $1.(06193; China. $1,257,809; Breall, $;75004. It is, however. impo he balance between the im- rezil, and Cubs, very largely execede to there countrive. i | that the totel exports of manufac. tured m the United States for 1860, exceeded a of 1840 by $5.098.157. and that th exports to da for 1850. exceeded thoee of 1 so that the increate under ibe bead of under which it ls te ‘Was $811,909 in 1850, cottons, $145,801 in gaint $74,000 in 1849 Hams, $22,771 im 1950, against $14,744 in 1840, Medicinal drugs, $68,208 in 1560, agaimet $25.600 In 1949. Manufactures of copper and brass, $5514, against $2967. Household furni- | ture, $26 298. against $16072. Leather manufactures, $2062, againat $01,007. Bop and candles, $13,000, against $4674. Tobsceo, $150,500. against $160,259. And with regard to manufactures of tobacco, it may be remembered that Canada takes @ larger amount r any other country, the vaine of the ex; to Enzlend, whieh is the next highest, being $126,235 How,with these facts before their eyes, the man- vfacturers of the Eastern States can wate 4 threw obstacles in the way of this trade, it is diffi- cult to understand; but that they are generally op- poeed to reciprocity is beyond question. The firat inquiry to be made by the Canadian people, after refeeting upon the enormous and incre: trade which we have with our neighbors, is, whether were notina position to manufacture for our- selves the greater portion of the article for which we are now indebted to the United States. By the adoption of a retaliatory system, which is now ab- rolutely forced vpon us, we can do mach toward developing the resources of the Province, and at the same time bring our over-selfish friends on the other side of the line to their senses, Mr Hineks, | ina letter addressed to the chairman of the com- mittee of commerce, points out very plainly what the Americans are rejecting, and the course which itie true policy to pursue. He says Itie areumed, and ae perbeps it may tura out, unfor- author of * Antonina,” with nu-_ | the undivided halfof the stock of goods tunstely assumed, by ponents of the ity Bit ened tn the great of tee ot the will maintein her commercial policy, end continue to frade of the United Brater, oe It ie very desirable of the state of publ thon. comi baying bad, ia my import that you should be fully aware lie in Canada on this ques: Having myself been a strong advooate for free intercourse with the United States, and res etl Geant nist in rata yorates of # restrictive policy, Tam thoroughly acquain.-* "ith the views of all nar- ties. Ihave no hesitation in stating that the adyo- cates ofa retaliatory policy arerapidly seening ssnnd. Whether all or any of the plans ested will be car- ried out, it is, of course, im: ible for me tosay; but it is certainly pigs desiral le that. in erriving at o very important decision, you should be fully aware of the probable consequences. The re imposition of the differential duties, againet the United States manu. factures, has been strongly urged. Buch a measure should be most acceptable to the commorois! inte- rests of Moy und Quebec, whose trade was severely injur: by their repeal. At the close of the last session of Parlisment, an influential member of the opposition, a gentlemen,who held under s former administration, the office which 1 have now the honor to fill, gave notice of his intention to intro- duce a bill during she next session, to re impose these duties. Leading organs of the opposition hav. adv such @ measure, no doubt can re tained that it will engage ousideration of our Par- dey. Sheuldit be adopted, the United Btates would have no just eause of complaint. The: er invited Canade to repeal the differential duties, and their rejection of the Reciprocity bill would of course be looked upen asa deliberate rejection of the Canada trade. In England the re-imposition ef dit- ferential duties by Canada would be viewed most favo. rably, and thers can be no doubt that the effect would be to stimulate the efforts of those who are ceeking to obtain some modification of the present Corn law. Another measure ofretaliation which is beginning to engage attention in Canada, is the Soslng aD of all the canals to American vessels, Should ti policy be adopted, a mest serious injury would be inflicted on the of Chicago. Cleveland, and other lake porta; hand the New England railroad mm, Whitehall, and New York ‘The Canadian revenue derived frem tolls would, of course, suffer; but as tha forms an insignificant portion of the resources of the province, the loss would cause no inconvenience for this policy, the ‘estern products which now find their way b Ogdensburgh to New York aad Boston, an American bottoms, would be diverted to th St. Lawrence, and that the entire inland trade would be in British bottome. It is affirmed that the tonnage of Caneda, with what could be epered trém Nova 8co- tia and New Brunswick, would very soon be sufficient for the increased trade. I have stated the views which are entertwined very extensively by influential parties im Canada as to her future commercial policy, in th ‘of the rejection of the Keciprocity bill by Con- however, unauthorized to announce the Canadian goverament: indeed, its policy bes uot yet been determined om. Kince the accession of the present administration to otfice, in 1948, they atching with anxiety the proceedings in Congress regarding the Reciprocity bill; and my ob- ject in visiting Washington at this time, was to tain, if possible, the probable fate of tnat m the government must be prepared, at the rersion, to meet Parliament with @ def 8 policy re- garding our commercial relations withthe United Btates. Among the most notable features of this letter, is the change which has taken place ia the opinioa of the people of Canada, ag well as of the ministry, on the subject of free trade. Oa every hand our experimentatiats are met by restricuons and mono- poly—they are effectually thwarted wherever they attempt to give effect to their policy—and it is oaly natural that they should adopt a different plan, when their theory cannot be carried out. Mr. Hincks is correct in saying that the supporters of a retaliatory system are increasing. liven our nighbor of the Journal, an inveterate free trader, now talks complacently of a difierent policy bein, forced upon the government. We feel convince: that at the present moment five-sixths of the ia- habitants of this province advocate the adoption of differentia! duties. In fact there is no other course open tous. The St. Catherines Journal, the organ ot Mr. Merritt, may talk of ** a free wade policy so generally approved of by the people,” but how, in the name of common sense, can free tdrae be carried out, when nobody will meet us! The | visionary notions of the late Commissioner of Pub- lic Works, will find few supporters in the country, and his resignation of office aflords a prety good guarantee that his colleagues are not prepared to coincide with his peculiar fat 4 : We presume that little time will now be lost in calling Parliament together, for the revision of the teriff. Of course Mr. Hiacks has not re- turned without a perfect knowledge of the inten- tions of the United States Congress and govera- ment; endas ell our approaches have been met with contempt, we can only give the Americans the benefit of their selfishness, by meetiag them with their own weapons. The figures compiled in one of their depariments, which we have quot- ed above, will give them an idea of the injury they inflict upon themselves by inconveniencing the Canadians. Sixevrar & rox Tux Recovery or Pao- rerry IN New Orveans.—A suit has lately been instuiuted in the Third District Court which dis- closes no little novelty and romance. It appears that Eliza Delamour had, by her savings esa house keeper in Varis, France, become poesessed ot 2,200 trancs, anda lotof furniture neceesary for keeping homse. Ja 1829 she became acquainted with Auguste Vincent Rogers, a journeyman bar- ber, who had et the time not over 500 france, and they egreed to get married and buy a stock for the hair-dressing busine and to connect with ita little shop for the sole of perfumery, brushes, &e. She eccordingly purchased a shop of thi: kiad No. 1 Gretua street, Paris, for 1,700 francs, and took the unexpired lease of two rooms above it, and commenced to live with Rogers as his wife. Soon after, the purpose of marriage wes abandon- ed. They egreed, however, to live together and carry on their business in partnership, she being charged with housekeeping end selling the goods in the store, while he attended to the hair dress- ing business. After the revolution in July, 183), business connected with all the industria! pursuits being greatly diminished, it was agreed that Ro- gers should go to New Urleans, waere his trade cflered greater inducements, and after some years ebould return with the proceeds of his industry, while she should remain in in charge of the Rogers eccordingly arrived in New Or 1831, and in 1832, having been prosper- thie trade, establiched a shop here. fet en wrote for his partner, who eold out her shop aad came to jon Rogers in this city, They continued living in New Orleans until 1836, when Kogers, with the funds of Delamour, established a fancy and variety store, which, in isz, he sold out ona credit fo 500, and they both returned to France. During their stay, however, in New Orleaas, their business having been very prosperous, they made urchases of 1 estate and slaves, aod built ouses, expecting to live in Franee on the reve- nues ofthe some. The payment for the stock of es of the fancy store not being complied with y the purchaser, ogers returned to New Orleans in 1844 ard took it back, leaving Delamour in Paris. He again vold out in 1847, for $3,000, and returned to Varis, The purchaser absconded ehortly after, and Rogers returned again to New Orleans, and re-commenced the business. Duriag all th’s time Delamour bore the name of Madame Rogers, and while in Paris continued to purchase merchendise for the store and forward it to New s Orlea All the title deeds were put ia the name of Rogers . on account of the social position of the parties. Mrs. lLogers avere that in Jaly, 184%, the said Rogers commenced living in New Orleans with a free woman of color, oamed Tlugenie Fa- get, by whom he pow has a child. That since that time his conduct hae entirely changed to- wards her, and that he now refuses to acknowledge her juet rights, and seeks to deprive her of the property acquired by her by many years of indus- try and devotion to business. She now sues for the store corner of Chartres and Conti streets, and also for the undivided haif of some fourteen lots of ground, two honses, and alot of aegroes.—~New Orleans Picayune, Jan. 2 Nover Cask on a Question or Faeepom.—A caee of some novelty and interest was tried duri: the past week, in this city, in the Henrico Cirouit Court of Law. It was a suit for freedom, brought by a family of eight negroes, claiming their free- dom under a deed of manumission exec by their former master, about twenty years ago, in the city of New York. We learn that the evidence was, that they were the children and grandchil- dren of their former master, who carried them to New York and there emancipated them, to evade the law of Virginie, which did not allow him to emancipate them here, without sending them out of the State; that he brovght them immediately back with him to Virginia; and they were never molested in the enjoyment of their freedom since his death, which occurred about 15 years ago, watil they were arrested last summer by the Sheriff, at the ins of his next of kip, and claimed as slaves. The question of a sui ae sucha deed to confer the right of freedom irginia was very elaborately argued. The Judge, upon a full attentive consideration of the arguments and thorities, delivered an opinion, evincing much ability and power of discrimination, allowing the deed, boy beg the other evidence, to go to the jury, who found a verdict in favor of the negroes, after the case had occupied the attention of the " six days.—Richmond (Va) Dispatch, 0. 2. Important Discovery in Makino Grass — We learn that Mr. E. White, of Honesdale. succeeded in constructing a furnace by h glass is manufactured with no other fael than anthracite coal. The result is 80 completely satisfactory that the proprietor of the giass works of that place has dismissed all his wood. choppers, intending as soon as the fires are extinguished for the coming season to rebuild hia fornaces upon Mr. White's plan. Anthracite coal has never lore been used in y part of the world in the manufacture of glace. Times, Feb. 4. Affairs in Texas. ENCOUNTER WITH INDIANS=-NAVIGATION 4P THE BRAZOS AND GUADALUPE RIVERS—-THE CoM~ ew Or! lcayune, . 28. We have received files of Galeton parore to tog inst., besides papers from other parts of ‘exas. We learn from the Galveston Civilian that a party of Capt. McCullough’s company of Rangers, stationed in the vicinity ef Copano, came Tndian trail on the 26th of December, betweem the: Medio and Aransas, which they followed for some hours, overtaking the Indians about dark. They fired upon them, killing two. returned the fire, wounding Lieut, King in the breast with an arrow. It being dark aheavy rain falling at the time, the lodians escaped without further loss. Capt. McCullough took the trail on the morning of the 27th at daylight, with a party on fresh horses, and pursued the Indians over twenty~ five mile, their route being marked by the articles thrown away in their flight. The chase must have been rether an interesting one for both parties, the Indians for life, the Rangers for vengeance. They came in sight of the Indians, as they were leaving their horses, on the edge of an extensive and dense chaparral, into which they escaped, it being impoesible for the Rangers to follow their on horse. The Indians lost everything—horses, provisions and arms. It is understood that some of the felons a: Huntsville are greatly enraged because a negrv has been sentenced to the penitentiary. They re- gard thisas a gross insult to the white convicts there, and complain loudly of the legislators who have thus placed the white felon upon the same level with negroes. The Washington Ranger publishes a correspon dence between the Secretary of War, (the Hon. C. Mi. Coarad.) (5 oar) Ee BOware, sad Gol rt, of the Topograp! Ungineers, the result of which is that on order has been transmitted t» Col. J. E. Anderson, of the Corpe of Zopogeceical Engineers in Texas, directing him to a vey of the Brazos and (ruadalupe rivers. But to what extent the survey ig to be made is not stated About $800 worth of articles from the steams! Palmetto were so!d at auction at Matagorda on th > Doth inst. ee _ The Brazos river is very low; the Trinity is fine navigable order, and was rising. ‘The citizens of Datles county have determine i * meet st the reft_on the Trinity river, on Monde the 2d day of December, for the purpose of a-- voting a few days’ labor to the clearing out of tn river. The total vote on the Pierce bill, as officially «+ ported, is 9,250 ayes, 3,366 noes. A wang of twenty or thirty negroes, under Mr W. Ward, have been engaged by the Colorado Na- vigation Company, and are at work on the raft- the great obstacle to the navigation of that beauti- ful river. . The Houston Telegraph states, as a singular fac! that since persons have quit briaging oysters to that city every appearance of cholera an se res sembling it have vanished. We think this is rather a slander on the bivalves. There were but seventy deaths in Houston for the year 1850. The corporation of San Antonio have been au~ thorized by the vote of the people, to take stock in the contemplated railroad from that city to some point on the Gulf coast. Oregon and her Prospective. The Alvany Argus has a iewer from Captain L. Jones, U. S. A., from Fort Vancouver, under date of October 20, of which the following is an extract:—** Many portions of Oregon are truly beawtiful. The valley cf the Columbia and of the Willemette Riyer, Puget’s Sound, and Astoria Bay, which | have seen, and many other localities, which | hear from the description of my friends. Everything here is rapidly progressive; even ge the year tuat | have been here the changes an improvements have been very great, and in nothing more then in the intercommunication with the Aulantic States. * * When we arrived here im Uctober, 1849, we glided along this river in bat~ teaux, or in their snake-like canoes, hugging every hook and bay, to avoid the strong currents. Now the passing of the steamers warn ua of “ye viener Los Yankees.” Towns are born of a day, and so rapid are the chenges about us that we seem to exist in a panorama. A very few days since, there set upon my piazza, gazing at Mount Hood, covered with snow, Colonel Smith, Major Ogden, and Captain Leadbeater, engineers; Capu:. Goldsborough and Van Brunt, aud Lieut. Bla: U.S.N., and some dozen junior officers. The U. 8. steamer Massachusetts and mail steamer Carolina are moored within twenty rods of us. A month since we dined on fresh salmoa from Puget’s Seund, and had for dessert a watermelon from Honolulu, ae large as # half bushel. We are now issuing to our troops po'atoes from New South Wales (Sydney), bought by the Quarterma: because so much cheaper than could be purchased of the farmers here. Four hy d emigrant wagons have arrived ia Oregon this fall, end six hundred more ere on their way. ‘The surplus pepoulation of California is also tending this way. There is no measure to the misery existing there now, and the only alterna- ive to the disappointed gold seekers ‘who are destitute but indus:rious, ie vpon the rich farming ‘These ands are easily cu:tivated, and the market for their productions the best, at this time, in the world. There is no such thing as quiet in Oregon life; all is excitement. Everybody is seeking wealth, and nobody values it after it is acquired. PE LATE Neyo “Xow Onteays.— Yee lay morning, Mr. Win. Montgomery, premdent of the Bank of’ Louisiana, and ‘te its ’ the ae count clerk of the institation, made an etlidawe be- fore Recorder Genois, the former set yorth tha Victor St. Vietor, late paying teller the bank, had suddenly departed, lea’ a deficl’ in bie cash account of about $70,000; the latter prayi for a search warrant (0 examine th» prem ses of the teller, where it was presumed that some of the money could be found. It appears that the direc tion of the bank had come to the conclusion to pea- sion off St. Victor, in consequence of his age and his increased liability to make serious mistakes, (such as poyagce: the other day a forged che sk for $5,971,) and with this view had agreed to pay him a retiring salary of $1,000 per anaum, and to place another person in his ttead to pertorm the active duties of the office. Mr Davis, the cashier, acquainted Mr. St. Victor, at 8 o'clock yesterday morning, With the resolve of the directory, where- upon the latter evinced much agitation, and in a few m nutes afterwards left the bank. Noi return- ing, suspicion became aroused, and on examining the money drawer, it was found to be deficient in the sum above mentioned. This gentleman hae occupied the position of paying teller in the bank for five years past, and has always borne an irre- proachable racter. He had attained the ad- vanced age of 72 years, was coasequently infirm, and not exactly fitted for the arduous aa respon- sible duties of the office. He was very fragal iv his style of living, and moreover of remaraably regular habi Certain facts that have come to our knowleage render it more than probable that he has been unsound in mind for some days past, ard we are disposed to 1 some credence to this suppositioa, more especially since the payment, on hus pert, of the forged check referred to, and which we know was paid in error. Added to this, his sus- cepubility on being removed from office, and wo knew him to be very tenacious on the score of hie position, and it ie not surprising chat his intellect may have become momentarily de: |. e heard at a late hour last mght, that $10,000 of the money had been found, but cannot vough for the Correctness of the statement. We believe that the bank is partially secured, sayin the sum of $50,000, by the securities of Mr. Si. Victor. Late in the —s wheter hey that three-fourths 0: e amount alrea a .— Ne leans Bee, Jan \25. " ee INDIANA AND & & Naorogs —On the 2ith of January, the Constitutional lteform Convention of In concluded their action in regard to the free negroes of that State, as follows —The first section, providing that no negro or mulatto shal? come into or settle ia this Stace after the adoption of this constitution, was adopted by & vote of yeas 94, nays 59. The second eection, providing that all * contracts made with negroes nad malatiocs coming into this State, f the firet section of this article, all persons who shall employ, or otherwise encov~ e such negroes or mulatioes to remain ia the shall be fined in any sum not less than ten, nor more than five hundred dollars,” was finally adopted by a vote of 78 yeas, nays 59. The third fection, providing that © ali fines collected for the violation of this article, or which may be imposed by the Legislature to carry it oat, shall be appro priated for colonization purposes,” was adopted, yeas 106, nave & The fourth and fifth secuons, providing that the Legislature shail pass laws to carry out the actioa of the Coaveation in regard to free negroes, and that the article shall be sub. mitted to a separate vote of the people, were thew adopted—the last by @ vote of ives 42, nays 54. Darina Feat oF a Finewan.—The Albany Jour nal of the Ist inst., speaking of the fire at the house of Dr. Boyd, ot that city, says:—Dr. B. was absent when his house took fire. When be reached home, the tlames were raging with great fury in the second story, where he had a sum of money and his valuable papers He attempted to reach them, but was unable todo wo. The fact was communicated to Charles Pohiman, and the locality of the bureau containing them described as tully as possibie. Mr. P. proceeded at once, almost literally into the very midst of the amoke and flames, and, after groping about for some mi~ nuter, finally reached the deposit, rumaged in ths draerwes tint! he placed his hands upon papers and a ($400) and escaped, wo red, with the ogee: Ma at ike ta papers were a whes ¢ got hold of them, but the: © mostly legib and available. ‘ ae ee ee &