The New York Herald Newspaper, November 4, 1852, Page 3

‘Phe Fine Arts. THE BRYAN GALLERY OF PAINTINGS. Bome people, who, if we may be forgiven the rude- ess of the expression, ought to knew better, are fond of talking about the American school of art, and deplering what thoy are pleased to term the corrupting influence of foreign models. They would have Amorican painters eschew all that has gone before them, and found a new school, as distinot from the Italian as from the French, as far removed from the Flemish as from the Spanish masters. They would pem them up in the narrow field of American history, and bid them iuvent some now dovice in celoring, some unheard of truthe of light, to distinguish their works from all others Jn the * eyes of those critics, Rome, Madrid, Dresden, Ant- werp, Paris, ought to be studiously avoided by as- pirants to fame; they ought to look to their own | fancy alone, for embellishment, and trust to thoir | intuitive knowledge of art for excellence of tone and atylo. With all due deference to the exuberant pa- triotism of theee “masters,” we must be permitted to observe, that when art eeases to be universal, it | -oenses to beart. If you confine the soujle devin te | a@ country ors city, it may be clever, iagouious, Promising, but it can never rise to the dignity of art. If our American painters aro to attaim an equal degroe of ominonce with tho masters whose works | have been the admiration of mon of taste ever since the revival of art, they must carefully study those * who have gone before them. They must ponetrate tho secret of Raphael’s expression, of Reubens’s fresh- nees, of Titian’s depth and warmth of color; and, combining so much of the excellence of all three ag they can borrow, must constantly recollest that until they have achieved a near approach to these Great men, originality is dangerous and unsafe. They must learn to copy successfully, before they can trust themselves to invent. What thoy havo wanted hitherto is an opportunity of studying | the works of the old masters, without a voyage | whieh is beyond the means of most young artists. Mr. Bryan is one of the first who has attempted to supply the deficioncy. His collection is a living history of modern painting, and contains works by almost all the great masters. Ten years of an active life, many voyages, and we need hardly add, very Considerable sums of money, have been expended in acquiring the two hundred and tweaty or thirty paintings which fill the three rooms occupied by the gallery. Mr. Bryan’s chief object appears to have eon to procure at least one work of each eminent painter, commencing with the oldest Italians, whose remains teatify alike to the natural talemt of their authors, and to the infancy of art in their time, and terminating with the Vernets and one or two other living artists. This must account for the presence of several of | those old fashioned paintings on wood, that one sees | in cloisters and medimval chapels in ltaly—s “Holy Family,” with a couple of angels and a braze of bishops, by the Byzantine Cimabue, the Cadmus of painting, in all his native stiffness, and with but little of his power ; a ‘‘Tournament,” with knights in fancy costume, by his pupil Giotto; several | works by his disciples; two by Simon Mennue, the friend of Petraoch, and the feunder of art | { | moved from the market merely by throwii at Avignon; two by Taddeo Gaddi, whose repu- tation now chiefly rests on Vaseri’s praise of | his freeeoes—three by Stephano, or Giottino, whose deviations from the conventional rules of the period eared for him the epithet of tho “Ape of Nature”—ono distych, and half of another, py the wit Buffalmaeo—a sketch by that Andrea del Cas- | tagno, who assassinated his friond Domenico, in r to be the cole possessor of the secret of psiat- ~ing in oil; and several other works of tae thirteenth, | fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries, which neither challenge notice on their own account, nor on that | of their authors. In truth, accustomed as we are | to venerate whatever bears the stamp of antiquity, | We must, for once, give license to our tongue, and | boldly pronounce the whole work of the Italian | ‘ters, antecedent to Perugino, paNeetay, of the | umblest place in the temple of art. Wich tho single exception of Giotto, in a few of his latest | juetions, all the Italian paintings of # prior date | to 1500 are wretched in drawing, ill-conceived, and | worse painted. The mechanical department of painting was rude and utterly inadequate. Artists were untrammelled by conventional rules equally foreign to nature and good taste. When an attempt ‘was mado by a rising genius like Stephano, to copy from the former, his independence made him the butt for sneers, and destroyed his business pros- pects. At a time, in fact, when a painter's bill contained items, for wood, colors, oil, and | . gilding, and when these vastly exceeded the sum | allowed him for his handicraft, we cannot wonder | that picture making was a mere trade, below tho | level of sign painting bitgpe & The peculiar object which Mr. Bryan had in view is, perhapr, o suf- ficient excuse for the presence of the unsightly re- mains of these ancient eee but if his collection | is to remain permanently in the country, we should be better pleased if these and the works of the con- temporancous Flemish artists were consigned to a feparate chamber, instead of being thrust upon the | view of the admirers of the genuine masters. } Fadi “cto something more worthy of atten- | tion—Mr. Bryan has a large work, by the first of the long series of Italian painters, Perugino. It is one of thoce curious assemblages of the infant Jesus, bis mother, saints and angels, which, by a special license enjoyed by the painters of olden time, re- gardlees of anachronism, were deemed an appro- ‘te theme for the pencil and the brush Though from ranking with Perugino’s ter works, | Such as those sed by the galleries at Florence, | Bologpa and Rome, there is enough in the expres- | sion of the countenance of the Babe, to reveal the ees of its author. His il is less fortunate: | he fantaatic picture entitled “Tho Birth and Re- | surrection of Christ,” is either spurious, or one of Raphael’s early and least valued pieces. We inctine to the latter belief, and regret that our oommon- sense habits of appreciation will not permit us to applaud a great name when the work itself doos not justify eulogy. The copy of Raphael's “Madonna and Bambino,” (No. 26), was probably made by one of his pupils, and is a work of far greater merit. American painters would learn much by studying the outline of tho features, and the expression thrown into the eyes of the Virgin. Nor can we al- low 8: rrato’s copy of the ** Dance of Cupids,” | 2 pretty little picture, with vory little that is Ra- haclic about it, to pass without commendation. e Bryan gallery contains nothing of Giulio Roma- no. or Perino; but we ought, perhaps, to class » with the school of Raphael, a fey Given eed a “Procession with Banners,” by the Milaneso Gau- | denzio Ferrari, who, as is known, owed his eminence | to the example of his early master, Raphael. We imust admit that the attitudes and drapery of the Fi Sen leave much to be desired ; there is a stiffacss about all Gaudenzio’s works, whieh betrays tho fatal influence of the Perugino sehool, but the countenances of the knights are well executed, and do Bie to the artist's fame. 0 Venetians are represented, first, by = couple of excellent pieces by Giorgione; Family,” remindiog ‘us not a conv. model of angelic beauty ; a ‘very remarkable rait of a ‘ Peasant,” which explains how ly Giorgione approached to Titian. A singular painting, called a ** Concert,” in the catalogue, and representing a female reslining, ea dishabule, beside some men better protected agains the weather, is suppoeed to be a copy of Giorgioue ; | but we.sce little to justify the sapposition If tho | “* Holy Family,” numbered thirty-three, had been eredited to Poussin instead of Titian, we should have felt less for it approximates more closely to the style of the former than tho latter. There is in it none of Titian’s warmth of color, or his cna of design, but a close analogy to Pous- | sin’s bright hues, with a large ,, of that | blue for which he was famous. lt has, besides, a ~ freshnees about it which casts grave doubts on its | authenticity. The gallery, wo regret to aay, con- | tains nothing of Paul Veronese. Leonard da Vinci is represented by @ couple of “St. Johns,” one-of which is in his softest, most delicate manner, and bears traces of that pathos which hag raised him to a level with Raphael. His example. if not his hand, may also be perceived in the “ Virgin and Child,” by his pupil, Luin. Judging from the outline, it might readily bo as- cribed to the master instead of the disciple “Another Bae who, in our estimation, cannot be to ighly extolled for the grace wud beauty of hia faces, aod the exquimte finish of his details, Cor- regio, has furnished # very good sketch, and an excelient painting, to Mr. Bryan's gallery. The | | premoters of joint stock schemes, wi which, theagh obnexious to criticiem, on the the costume, is Aroumplasof tha As cam he the infaat Jesus Tilly painted, but put Tho ‘* Ascension of ‘St, Paul,” by softer im tone than most of the master, and unites moat of his | compensate us for the absence of Guide and Guer- schine, Mr. Bryan offers us an anonymous ** Magda- leno ina Trance,” which is a fair imitation of the bright coloring of the former, with me inconsider- able share of the power of the latter It is un- doubtedly a work of high merit. The celebrated Artemisia Gentileschi, whose ** Judith” has been the admiration of every connoisseur, figures in the Bryan gallery, a8 the authoress of a ‘Christ Reasoning with the Doctors.” Though her Christ nore of the attributes of divinity, tho is very artistic, and the painting mit : ibed to Measiataeiaa withers injury to his fame Our nearest approach to Michael Angelo iss por- trait by his imits Agnole Bronzino, which is marked by his master’s hardness of outline, without nis energy or expression. Salvator Ross, as the sole representative of the Neapolitan school, has a very fair landscape, with his usual overhanging roupil | cliffs and rugged outline: the figares are unworthy of the scene and the author. Wo cannot understand hew Rub: the celebrated Subtermans, came among the Italians His residen t Florence did not surely naturalize him? Howevor this be, his portrait of Galileo Galilei is well worthy of him probably the best in the galler unites, ia tae most perfect manner, the noblew ‘hich Subter: maps always found means to impriat on his por- traits, with the most sorupulous Gish and aocuracy * countryman, be can sod | of detail. Velaequex and Sebastian Llanos y Valdes would convey but an inadequate idea of the Spanish schools, were they alone in the gallery. The land- scape which is attributed te the former is, in all prebabllity, an original, but by no means a master- piece. Fortunately, Murilio, by far the greatest among the Spaniards, saves the credit of tae coun- try. His “Adoration by the Magii” is as fresh and as life-like as any of his paintings in the Leuvre er the Escurial; aud the deep, intense feeling with which the ‘* Vision of St. Francia” is portrayed, has been attained by few besides himself. How Mr. Bryan cau reconcile his conscience to classing the ‘* Adoration of the Shepherds,” from Mar hal Soult’s Gallery, as a Murillo, we are utterly at a logs to imagine. If it be an origi shows how great painters are ofton unli ke t! 4 Speculations in Eur: w—The Revival of Joint Stock Enterprises, {¥rom the London News. Oct. 19] We have on several cocasions drawn attention te symp- toms of the moncy market, indicati f joint-stock enterprise, and within the further developement of this spirit has taken place to exteut which deserves especial notiee, as it aiready forms the subject of conversation in commercial ani circles. As far as can be ascertained it ap estimate to fix the total amount of capital required by the new projects that have made their appearance since the autumn of last year at about £30.000.000 sterling ($150.000,000), excluding, however, from this list such schemes as may be presumed to have proved abertive, from their never having beem heard of in the market be ‘ond the mere istue of prospectuses and a little agitati in the way of Crickets. 8 It appears to be conceded all hands that joint st speculation, consideri: great inducements held out, has up to this time be traordinarily quiescent, and that the eapital requ these new enterpi ises is as yet a met fie. compared with the capabilities of our money market. Yet, at the same time, cautious men of business are ing to observe that there new projects are coming out very fast, and to counsel moderation It is obvious, however. that to at- tempt to form an estimate of the amount of capital re- ng together the fums required by new compsnies, and them striking total. would lead to very inaccurate conclusions; as on 1 introduction of a new s , to require a ceri: amount of capital is one thing, but to obtain it is an. other. Indeed, it would be somewhat difficalt to point out a dozen of these new associations that huve really ob- tained the entire sum required. or that have even secured from lona fide applicants the entire of the first instal- ment, where the calls are spread over a period of time. A few of the French railway companies that have secured | w government guarantee, two or three of thi ning companies that first made their appearance, ndry of the banks and railways lately started stand, bability, in this enviable ostalogue. but in the majority of instances the case is far otherwise. It is within our knowledge, tor instance, that more than one of the gold mining companies, theannouncements of which were so publicly paraded, actually did not obtain a fifth, nor even & tithe of the nominal amouns of their capital. ‘The nominal capital of all the gold mining companies for California, Australia, and New Granada that have been started since the Agua Fria Company took the lead last autumn, including only those that have taken their place on the official list of the Stock Exchange. is £2 160.000. By a rule of the house, no company can obtain @ settle- ment in its shares unloss it has at least two-thirds of its capital subscribed for, but it is well known that a settle. ment has in several caves been secured without this pro- ae having been by any mesns reised—in other words, y the adoption of various subi familiar to the have found the means of ‘& goodly show cf subscribed capital at the banker's. If we reduce our estimates of the money raised by these companies to £1.500,000, we shall probabl be nearly correct, but even of this sum a consider: ortion has been raired abroad, asin the casesof the ouveau Monde and other companies. There are in ad- dition several gold mining associations, Californian and Australian, which have mot yet taken their lace in the official list, owing’ to their not javing obtained the requisite amount of capital aad for other reseons. Making due allowance for the sums raised by these latter, it may still be fairly asserted that the entire capital taken off the market by the min- ing mania. as it was termed, was considerably under two millions sterling—a result that our readers would proba- bly have scarcely anticipated after the prominence that has given to their issue nnouncements during the iast twelve months, n_ be. in fact,no more conclusive Vgc! the distaste of the public to specula tion up to the present period than the reception accorded to these gold mining enterprises. Immediately after the first novelty of their fesue had passed off. the premiums vanished with surprising eelerity. and if we take the pre- rent market value of the entire capital embarked in this branch of adventure, we find that it is now actually at a heavy depreciation. And wo hear it generally observed that the speculative movement has so far been mainly confined to a Ly mint wf small number of persons, the general public having taken little interest in it. According to the best information pears very improbable that the sui the whole of the gate to anything like thirty mitlion: will go far to calm any feeling of anxiety that ma: ve been gpgendered. On looking at the class of w ings #hat have presumably engaged public favor am P- port, we are at omce struck with the variety of objects contemplated. The cry is not. as on former oceasions, in favor exclusively of either f¢ mines, foreign ioans, x home or foreign railways ; the contrary, the asseci- ations are of an extremely het bracing every variety of conveyause companies. such as railways, steamboats, and even cabs and omnibuses ; pro- jects for docks, banks, telegraphs, mines. breweries, em\- 3 it ap- tually raised for yunts in the aggre- consideration that | gration, insurance. canale, reclamation of land. improved | candles, improved fuel, roads, cutt and preservin; timber. improved light, chemical, ani 4 other manures, | emelting works, stone quarrying, engineering improve ments, besides a variety of other schemes. too numerous prising even ® Crystal Palace d an Opera Association. There has also been @ sprinkling of foreign loans, but they have all beon of small amount, and, with the single exception of the Austrian. have proved so sigtally successful, that it needs no prophetic capacity to foretell that we shall have many similar epplications. As regards the future tendency of speculation. there is an evident bias im favor of foreign railways. At home our iron net work sys'em has been very extensively carried out, and the oxample is at | length being actively followed by various States both of the old and new world, the governments of which are alive to the Smportance of encouraging raflway enter- rise, even with liberal guarantees of interest. Thus ‘rance and the United States have already secured the astistance of English capitelists to a considsrable extent, and many other States are following in their wake. Por- tugal, Spain, Norway. Russia, Brazil, Peru, Switzerian 1 Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Sardinia, Naples, Hollun Belgium, the Roman States, aud even Turkey, stood to be looking to our market for the means of im- proving their system of communication. and the list of Btates that are also bestirringtbemselves in the same sense, | cusses all the points which Chivela charges mo | employées of Garry, by way of appeal to are under- | Dut in a less degree. would be still more tengthy When a | foreign Hne is introduced into this market with good traffic prospects, and a fair dividend guarantesd by a #ot- vent government, there can be lit:le doubt of the capital being obtained under present ciroumetances at least, but alchough the investment may be good, and tending directly to the encour: that of other States, betides giving a stimulus to our iron trade, it is still im connection with these foreign under- Lown that apprehension is chiefly entertained. must be borne in mind that if, as in our former expe- rience. an inordinate amount of oopital is sunk in earth- work and stone and brickwork at home. the mo is, in fact, turning in a circle, the laboring olasses, and many branches of our trade and manufactures, reaping ® sen- sible direct benefit, whereas when our capital iy des- patched abrond, there accompanying benefits are expe- rienced in a minor degree only, while the prejudicial effect on our moncy merket and trade is groatly increased. Under these circumtsiances. and in view of the numerous ad undertakings of a mi:cellaneous character that are beti projected in connection with the United Kingdom a | the colonies looking elvo to the fact that our home rail- . first purports to be the origiaal sketeh of that | admirable ‘ Saint Jerome” for waich Corcegio was paid forty-reven segnins, (aboat $105) ani which the Duke of Parma tricd in vain to ransom from the I’rench, at the enorm us price of $200,009 It is indeed an exquisite work o' ars. The oxprocsion ig tenderly soft, as Corregio alons could pains it, and is cniy equalled by the womanly fare o1 the Virgin in the other painting to which wo havo al- luded. Andrea del Sarto is less fortunsye. We have only = “Virgin and Child” of his, and it is certainly unworthy of his famo. It is cold fa volo, and the expression of the countenance of the infany and the avgels is positively silly. An ‘Adoration of bissetvol is also deficient iu intonsity of tone, but higher merits as a composition. tlis aisolples Robartiane del Piombo. has aontribwtod » | Gut ‘of the ticuse, whem he’ easiest he way enterprise. as might bave been anticipated, is re viving it may be doing good rervicw to suggest caution in connection with the applications for money preferred by foreign States, ¢ither for railway or other purposes Unters ‘his caution is obrerved. we may certainly look forward to & period, by no means distant, when our money market and as an inevitable consequence our trade and every class of the population, will sensibly evffer ‘The progress of enterprise Is at present watchod With great imterert by those best able to read the money market, aod the whole subject is one deserving of peens liar wtteation, Provaste = Moerpre. Barko was reverely nnd we believe intally wou Monday evening, by another named Cornelius ( f the Org te Kinet and Grand streets. Thery ed arke quarts ween thr parties, and © dour sep she alteration was contin urowley struck Burke on ced with an eee ete his ekall by the blow. man named Daniel ded op toy“ | Buike lived through (be Bight, bat, we are Informed, | died yesterday morning §=Orowley rays that Burke tn- enited him and bi wife's slster. and fore hia attack. Te hae beew etvested and lodged tn jail —Vew Haven pty oe Cini Caen vy knee wo tho dows,” | Courver, Nov. 6. | Inent wes willing to grantto tho British what it ment of our own country, by promoting | It | | i | Reece” eres sar documents which pass through his hands, and I ‘The Tehuantepec Grant. Dacron, Ga., Oot. 23, 1852. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NERALD. I have just received « slip from s recent namber of your paper, (date net given), containing a com- munication, under the nom de plume of Chivela, oom- menting on my letter im relation te the Garay Grant and Tehuaatepeo troaty, which appeared ia the Bega.» of the 5th inst. Chivela undertakes to answer my argument, by charging that I have ‘‘wantenly and designedly falsi- fied the fact,” ting that ‘“‘a dosument, commu- nicated by the President of Mexico to the President of the United States—oconstituting an important part of the correspondence, and indispensable to a right undorstanding ef the issues between the two governments—was suppressed im the communication from the Department of State to the Senate.” Chivela says:—‘Now I protest that ticre was | nothing—nething whatever—in the possession of the State Department, relating to the articios as abeve cited, which was suppressed from tho Senate But the numerous suppreesions at that departmont, of which he has endeavored to induce the beliof, con- ist in the single extract from Arista’s letter to Prosi- dent Fillmore, which is as followa:—‘The true history of this affair, traced from the fountain head and sup- ported by authentic documents, you will find in tus accompanying report from the Minister of Relations, the perusal of which I recommond to the onligkton: ed wisdom and prebity of your Excellency. In it you will find everything — absolutely everything—fer none of tho facts have been loft out | or even exaggerated. The truth appears inal! its simplicity avd nakedness, every page bearing ovi- dence that, if there is any cause of complaint, Mox- ico, whe has been the victim of every kind of out- rage offensive to her character and derogatory to her rights, alone has the right to complain 18- peat that I recommend its perusal to the important consideration of tho first magistrate of the nation, whose duty it isto decide irrevocably concerning | the preservation of friendship with Moxioo, se thus | by reading it, without bias or prejudice, he shall | say, on closing the last Page, whether his convio- | tions remain unchanged. We are both of us acoount- able to God and to the world for the use we make of the power entrusted to our hands.’ “Immediately following this extract, Mr Green aaya:—‘I cannot characterise this whole transac- tion more strongly than b: ply referring to the fact, that this document, thus manis to Mr. Fillmore by tho President of Mexico—constituting ao important a part of the correspondence aad in- dispensable te a right understandi: f chi between the two governments, was tae from the Department of State to the Date “Now, Mr. Editor, what will be Chought of a man who has so wantonly falsified a fact, (and, too, with the proper doouments before him to correct himself, as he certainly had, for he reade another quotation from the same document, ) when I raention the fact that President Arista’s letter and the extract quoted were not suppressed, but were sent, with ail the rot of the correspondence between the two governments by President Fillmore to the Senate ?—the truth of which can be accertained by referring to any one of the Senate committee, who had the matter uader consideration, or by referenco to Kix. Doc., Ne. 97, page 159, and from the extract quoted from the same communication, page 161.’” T have quoted Chivela’s language in full, and at tho risk ot being tedious, and now reply to hin— not because I doubt that the intelligenoo of every reader of your paper will suffice, without my as. sistance, to detect the shallow artifice by which Chivela seeks to misrepresent me—but because I desire to call the attention of the people of the United States to the Kft of deception and mis- representation of which President Arista complains, in his letter to President Fillmore, and by es those whom Garay has enlisted in his servize fre seeking to mislead the people of the United States into a disreputable and iniquitous war upon Mexice, for the purpose of forcing her to submit to the un- just claims of Garay—himself a Moxican citizen. The Lobos affair, and the private letter from the So- cretary of State to Captain Jewett, was bad enough. But that was intended to promote an American spe- culation. Let not the pecple of the Uniced States make war on a weak neighbor like Mexico, nor compromit their honor and interests to aid a Moxi- oan in his speculations on his own country ! The most careless reader will observe that Chivela | seeks to induce a belief that I said that Arista’ letter to President Fillmore was suppressed, and | then endeavors to convict me of wanton falsehood, by mar a that I had mysolf quoted an extract from that letter, which is given in Ex. Doc , No 97, of last session, page 159. I did not say that Arista’s letter was suppressed; but I did say, and now repeat, that an important document, communicated by President Arista to President Fillmore, to wit: the report ot the Minis- ter of Relations, made by Arista part and parcel of his correspondence with Mr. Fillmore, was suppress- ed. I gall the attention of every honest and right- minded citizen of the United States to the language of President Arista, above quoted—to the earnest- ness with which he repeats his request that that document, containing ‘‘the true history of that (Garay) affair, ti down from its fountain head, and supported by authentic documents,” should re- ceive the ‘important consideration of the first magistrate of the nation, whose duty it is to decide irrevocably concerning the preservation of friend- ship with Moxico;” and I ask, why was this docu- | ment withheld from the Senate and people of tho | United States? i When I first read President Arista’s letter, refor- ring in such terms to the report of tho Minister of Relations, I examined Ex. . No. 97 carefully, and not eee he Minister's report therein, I ap plied to the Secretary of the Senate, and to the clerk in charge of the document room, for it, aud was much surprised to learn that the Ex Doc. No. 97 contained all thathad been communicated to the Benate on the subject. I then applied to the Mexi- can Legation and obtained a copy of the Minister's rt, published, I believe, by the Mexican Consul at New York; and I have since learned, on what I believe to be reliable authority, that this suppres- sion of material documents—no new trick at the State Department undor the present régime—was made the subject of complaint and remonstrance by the Mexican Minister. I wish here to remark, that I do not attribute this suppression of documents to Mr. Fillmore. I[t is impossible for him to read or examine all the | | | confidently hope that when his attention is called to this subject, be will relieve himself of the respon- sibility by causing the suppressed document to be sent to the Senate immediately on its re-assembling As to Chivela, Icannot stoop to bandy charges of falsehood with him, nor would [ notice his com- munication, but that I desire to excite inquiry, that the peorle of the United States may find out the trut! This vas will find in the suppressed report of the Mexican Minister of Relations, which dis with having suppressed, and shows conclusively that, in the language of President Arista, ‘if thero is any cause of complaint, Mexico, who has been valid, it requires no toaty to make res fact thi yan . rts at intimidation and etherwise, te part of Gara, w, and never has been, a valid our obedient servant. Ban. E. Queen. Admalssion and Promotion tn the Navy. 70 THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD The public press of the country has for somo time past been pointing out the existing dvils in the navy, andit is now generally admitted omovery hand that something must soon bo done to reno- | vate and raiso it to its origina! and high standard But aa yot no thorough reform bas been proposed, or, at least, decided upon, thatis likely to be agree- able to the majority. Woe ask the question; why not apply the samo system of admission and pro- motion a8 is now applied, with such manifest ad- vantage, to the engineer corps of the navy ? It will certainly not be deniod by any competent to judge, but that the corps of naval engincors has grown at en unprecedented rata, in ability, intelligence and usefulness, since the present system of oxaminations was adopted. This corps is comparatively new in orgarization, having only been authorized by Congress in August, 1842. At that date, neither the rapid increase of steamers, nor an en- Jarged sphere of duties for the naval engineers, such aa has since taken place, were contemplated, and the orgauization was accordingly made al:ke with other corps of the navy. Threo yoars had but elepeed before it became absolutely necessary to ro- organize the corps on a ditferont basis, i. ¢.; ea tablish a system of admission and promotion by merit. Accordingly, the first Board of Chief Wa- ineers was conveued at Washingten City, in July, fous, for that purpose, bofore whom all the en- gincers thea in the navy were ordered, aod thoir rerpective merits ascertained. As might have been uppesed, many of these in the higher grades, (as now oxist im other corps in the navy,) were found incompetent for the lower grades. They were, of ocurse, passed according to their ability Since that period no person has been admitted or promoted ivto the engineer corps of the navy until pronounced qualified by a board convened by the Secretary of the Navy fur that purpose. The corps is divided into four grades, and not only befvie admission to the lowest, but before pro- motion afterward to cach higher grade, tho can- @idate must pass a rigid and scru‘inizing ex- amination, extexding sot only to his profes etonal attainments, but to his moral aud so0- cial character and general aptitude for and energy in business There are thus four ox- awipations to be passed at stated intervals, each exceedivg the other in stringency, and with the important advantage of having tho character and ability of the candidate under- stood from the experience of his service in the grado from which ho is to be promoted. Further, by this system of exsminations for each grage, the corns is purged of ell members unfitted, morally or professionally, for the discharge of its «@@4s, because any candidate, whatever be the grade he may have attained. if he fail to pass for the next grade, is dis- missed from the service, and his place filled by the next best qualified. An engineer my thus been in the servioe for many years, and dischargad all the duties of the lower grades with credit, but on failing to pass ior the highest he is dismissed. As in exch general examination, the standard ef quali- fications is greatly raised, it will therefore be seon that it is impossible for an engincer ef the navy to remain stationary; he must advance and keep pace with the progress of the arts and sciences, as ap- lied to his profession, or he must leave the corps ence, in this system there is the widest field forcom- petition; for promotion taking place as it does accord- ing to merit, as determined by the examinations, one examination may reverse the relative standing of members of the same grade from what was ostab- lished by the preceding examination; thus, talont is Jeft continually untrammelled to strive for a still higher elevation ny person desiring to enter the engineer corps of the navy, between the ages of 18 and 25, has only to send his name and addreas to the Secretary of the Navy, when it is placed upon tho list, and at the next examination for admission ho roceivos perm' sion to present himself before the Board of Exami ers, composed of chief engineers of the navy, who, having attained that grade after tho laborio progreesive climbing through the inferior g are vatura)ly disposed to guard it with jealousy It will thus be seen that the composition of the engineer corps is eminently republican, the field being alike ogen to the sons of the blacksmith and sene- tor, no influence of any kind being required to get permission to be examined, and when onoe before the examining board, the fate of the candidate is determined purcly on his merit. Although but seven years has clapsed since thé engineer corps was organized on. its present basis, the members bave already entored upon a wide and very responsible range of daties, combining all of the theory and practice known in the extensively ramified arts and sciences, making up @ thorough knowledge of the principles and practice of marino steam engineering and steam navigation; a know- ledge which—it is believed it will not be contested by any comprtent to judge—demands quite as much natural ability, united with as deep study, and long practice, as are required for any profession. The engineers of the navy now decide upon and design the various complex machinery for the war steamers, furnishing first the working drawings, in the most complete detail, then superintend and direct their manufacture at the various establish- ments, afterwards its erection on board the vessela— finally, they operate this machinery at sea. The | machivery eo desigued and superintended is some- times of the largest, most complicated, and costly description, frequently amounting, in first class steamships, to hundreds of thousands of dolla and at the various establishments where it is co1 structed. the naval engineers are the sole guardiat of the public interest, where the expenditures con- stitute a formidable fraction of the naval appropri- ations. The amounts and kinds of labor done are determined by and paid for wholly on their certi- ficates. Again, after this costly and complex ma- chinery is erected on board the steamship, its servation and judicious management rests al with the engineers; on them depends not only effective eperation of the machinery, but the safety of the vessel and all embarked in it; hence it is an ebvious fact, that on board a steamship the steam machinery must necessarily be the important and essential feature, to which all others are sub- erdinate; and as a necessary corollary to this, it follows, that the services of those who control it are the most valuable, and their responsibilities the greatest There is a strong probability, which will scarcely be contested by any who have bestowed the proper reflection on the subject, that in twenty years henve thero will be no naval vessel unpropelled, in whole or in part, by steam or other gases. The in- troduction of motive power for all marine war pur- pores will be compelled by necessi:y and the pres sure of ciroumetances When this change shall be made, which is now in rapid progress, the engineer the victim of every kind of outrage offensi' her ebaracter and derogatory of her rights, alone has | the right to complain. ' Chivela says that the Garay grant, having been | recognized by the Mexican government as valid while in the hands ot the British, ‘* was purchased by Americans from the British holders, and after- wards declared invalid by Mexico.” This assertion has been frequently made by the | dices and passions of the American people. It is | vnoandid and untrue, of a piece with the rest of | Chivela’s statement, to which the author might well be ashamed to affix his own name. His purpote in reproducing this mis-statement ts | to preduce an impression that the Mexican govern- was unwilling to coycede to the United States. Lhe | reverse of this is the truth. The suppressed report of the Minister of Relations proves, by *‘ authentic documents,” that the Garay | grant, originally invalid, was forfeited by the gran- | tee’s failure to falfil its conditions; and having been | thus forfeited, was subsequently, by a collusive and | feigned transfer, assigned to the British Consal- General in Mexico, in the hope that the power of tho British government would intiinidate Mexico into | submission to Garay’s pretended claims; and th-* ( as soon as the Mexican government was infor: this pretended transfer to British eubjecte, j* Te to recognise it, and publicly declared the grantshe tinct and void Then, and not till then,.; (the British Coneul-General announce to Mr the dis- British government having shrunk.fs scheme of jonor o' ie » oF y Mr. Gray The honor of becoming an accomplice irs of the enter | tho wind: chair manufactory of imi ie Ve f ods of the former were rescurd, and the intimidation) that “the headqw United States. fo ‘ : . prise bad been transferred tenis tranefer was not | And itis worthy of note t? fide sale, but by @ power | made by purchase and¢ioan citizen, accompanied | of attorney, to an jon, subjecting him expressly | by a letter of imgiie to the orders and control of in wll his ope not the documents now with mo, Garay. 1,2 prosent to comment on this teature of nor time put I invite the attention of the carious the of” transfers, ae given in Ex Doo., No 97, and tovmmend them, a8 curiosities of law and diplo macy, to the careful perusal of the Committee of F elations. : pegs iets Trepeat, that it waanot aftor, bat before, the pretended transfor of head Gasser to the United States, and while British eu eee rare oleiming the so-called Lining grant, that Mexico <9 it invalid and extinct " ‘ oe add but ono word. Tho complaint against i i the refuses to mako # treaty reoog~ | service, let them go out, af. been pronounced two “or. It broke out in the buek shop of Monsra. | oon Ban & Iymas, manufactures of fav Weral previous attempts had been made to fire the place ‘of ) fhe flames ¢pread to and involved the rear and upper Tase’| portions of the old frame and rou, 1 dings pated with some of them are interesting Revolutionary apd other reminiscences. Hall Clothing Store of the Messrs. {navrancer Meseez, Schureman & Hyimas occupied No. v9 shout $500. Both per to Mr Bennet. of the u Market etreet, and are insured The lower part of No. | + in the ceoupan y of Jenkins & Co., elothtors. and | officers will be as numerous, and their duties as im- portant, a8 an aggregate te the whole navy, as all the officers in we have no hesitation in saying that the same sys- tem of admitsion and promotion should at once be se to the sea officers of the navy. Let a board of twenty officers be selected from tho grades of cap- tain, commander and lieutemant, and those of known abil i. and the whole of these grades, to- gether with the paured midshipmon, undergo a rig’ and searching examinatioa, not only into theinp- | fertional qualifications, but their social pgrades | character; and if captains aro found ¥ waft for tains or commanders, Sehr day case in the which they are Gt to dll, and, *ho officer in any \ ) bag pee’ ey thergird of examiners; then raalife My i apiece Whore of the imbecility and Ge sball bear mors teers. euaeee | Fire tN Pur Aven rata.—-Between olock this morning. a cestruotive fire Dagycirie, pouth aide of Second street. below Litthe cy ehairs. 2ufen ix believed to have been the re-nlt of Coctga, 0s | pecan Douitaings, Nos 7, 179, and 181 fronting on Seoond street. aa iW ‘among the oldest in Philadelphia. and con- In No. 177 was the Loxley Harvey, and ‘Their lows over apd above their incurance will be roperties, No 177 and 179 belong ‘ower Hall clothing establi-hment, wekers The books and stock of Messrs. Jenkins & Co. were enved. Costello & Co. were severe sufferers A cab- inet maker and ee were also among tlie sufierers. Some of the adjou! properties were in danger, but the strenuons efforts of the firemen, aided by the rain. pre- served them The boltiding No 181 was owned by the Mises Pringle, three Indies of Pine street. The property was not insuced.— Philadelphia Bulleuen, Nov. 2 Fiona Lxarstators —The Legistature is In consideration of these facts, | f Calcutta to Kedgoree was that or | Hooghly. A chaly off | ends into beads | vel bod landed the Kin per portion was occupied by Costello & Co, chair- | The Blectric Slane in India, serablo parsimony te which The mii parsimony to which its advocates and thereby prostitute the name of economy, is showing itself in various ways in overy act of our legislation. Its spirit breaks out ia all our couneil debates, and measure is valued as it oan be made to chow that by it money is spared; its offoot ” inslating the sources of wealth aro lost sight of toy er Whon these principles govern the proceedings ef the peoplo and their rulers, the advocate of expundt- ture can scarcely expect to be listened to; but as it has happened before to-day, taat truta chough it may be apparently confuted or overlooked wd will eventually receive recsgnitiva, there us task of opposin, orroveous opinions which appear to be envertain by a mojority The Kast India Company’s government has boon condemned for the small portion of its revenue which it returns to the taxpayers in the form of ia ternal improvements, in comparison to the large amount expende ita army and in carrying out its plan of territorial aggrandizoment. Im this re- spect, speaking by comparvon, the Ceylon gov mept bas done far greater justice to its subjects. gladly de wo witness to the circumstance that itis a recogbired article of the politica! faith of this gev- ernment, and not am occasional boon wrung from & closed hand. But whilst public opiaion there, as far as it can gain expression, desires to opoa the hand, here it exerts itself to keep it closed eking to diminish the supply down to that paint where ecopomy ceases and parsimony begins A laic number of the Mind of India reminds us, by desoription, of an invention, the adoption of mbich is begu ning to be nearly uaiversal, end bes alrealy received the pawenage of thas siow government, the Direotors of the Hast Iedta Com- | pany—we mean the electric telegraph. Our read- | ers ure wol aware, from former oxtracta, that the eleorrie telegraph bas been laid dows, and now { one milos, besides another branch tine of eleven 3 fiom Bishlopore to Moy- apore India ia inde’ to Dr. O'Shaughnessy for introducing this wonderful and wonderfally usofal invention And well way the Fiend say, that:— “Since tho derpatoh of after the battle of P asscy, epuouncing the conquest of the three coa- bubs, which was the foundation stone of B: powe: in the t,n0 document, equal in interest or importance hase equalled the report presented tothe Bengal government upuouncing the completion and succeesful operation of tho telegraph from Caloutta to Kedgeree ” ‘Tbe revult of the experiment has been, that Lord Dalhousie has adopted the bold and judicious p' of deputing Dr O’Sbaughnossy to K the simcement before the public autho; tho text of the Friend, to sul his proposal for the es'ablishmoat of the tele- graph throughout the country. Inerder to connect the various cities of India by a series of electric telegraphs, so that communication may be held between places the most remote from each other, iv a few hours, we appear to require the following distinct lines :—Caleutta to Agra, £00 miles; Agra to Simlah, 300 miles ; Simtak to Lebore, 340 wiles ; Agra to Bombay, 750 miles ; Bow bay to Madras vis Hydrabad, 830 miles ; Cal- cutta to Moulmein via Chittagong and Sandaway, aerors Pegu, 940 miles ; 8,800 miles Say 4,000 mw Jea, at 550 rs_the mile, or 22 lakhs of rupees, to which if we add three lakhs for river crossings and contingencies, we shall have a total outlay of a quarter of lion sterling for the moet importaut and the most magnificent undertaking that was ever contemplated in Asia from the flood to the present time Tho oest of working the lino is oal- culated at 500 rs. a month for each station, of which it is proposed to place one on aa average at the distenoe of a hundred miles. Forty such esta- blishments will, therefore, require » sum of 20,000 rs. @ month, or 660 rs. a day for the whole of India, end es Dr. O’Shaughpsasy proposes to fix the obarge for private communication at the modorate rate of sixteem words of two syllables oach for the rupee, we shall only require 600 such mossages a dsy from the entire community in India, from Moulmein, Calcutta, Agra, Lahore, Bombay and Madras, and the intermediate stations to cover this «xpense. Is not the community more likely to re- quire a ‘ thousand messages a day?’ ”’ id Our object in noticing this grand undertakin; ‘0 chow what difficulties there were and how they were overcome, the cost of the exporimeat, and pro- bable cost of these undertakings generally. We qill therefore appond these as we find them im the Freend:— “From Calcutta to Rajmooila, the conductor is laid under ground, in a coment of melted rosin and sand, apd it isa five-oighth inch rod. From that village through the remaiuing distance to Kedge- ree, it is carried over ground on bamboo poles, fifteen feet high, coated with eval, tar, and pitch, and strengthened at various distances by posts of saul wood, teak, and fron wood from America The bamboo posts are found to reaist storms which have uprooted treos the growth of centuries In the storm of of the 23d October last, which drove two steamers ashore, the bawboos bent gracefully to the elements, ana then resumed their erec: position Though the bamboo soon decays, yet its amazing cheapness makes the economioul than that of more dural and moro costly materials. The branch road from Bishlopore to Moyapore passes through a swamp; thecountry is little less than a lake for months; the conductor runs on the foot paths between the island villages, and for some miles ¢rosses rice swamps, cree! ‘and jeels on which no road or embsnkment exists. The most difficult and objectionable line was selected to test the practicability of carrying the conductors through swampy ground, and it has been perfectly suocess- Tee, a distance of se vent, ful. The Huldeo river crosses the Kedgeree lino balf-way, and varies in breadth from 4,200 to 5,800 feet gutta percha wire, secured in the angles of ain cable, is laid across and under this river, and the chain is found to afford perfect protection from the grapnells of the heavy native boats which are constantly passing up and down The overground lines differ totally from those in in tbis important respect—no wire is used. In- stead ef wire, a thick diameter, one tonto a milo, is adopted—the heaviest wire elaewhere used being only one cwt. to the mile. The advantages of these substantial reds ara those —they postess a completo immunity from gasts of wind, or ordinary mechan'cal violence: if acciden- tally thrown down, they are not injured, though passengers, bullocks, bufialoes, and elephants may trample on them; they are not easily broken or bent; ewing to the muss of metals, they give so free &@ passage to the electric currents, that no insulation is necessary; they are attached from bamboo to bam- boo without any protection, and they work without interruption through deluges of rain; the thickness of the wire allows of their being placed on the post, without any occasion for the straining and windicg apparatus, whereas the tension of wires oxposes them to fracture, occasions expense in construction, | and much difficulty in repairs; the thick rods also admit of rusting to take place, without danger, to an extent which would be fatal toa wire; and lastly, the rods are no more costly than thin wire, and tho welding occasions no difficulty. On several oce> siens. one village forge, carried by two coolign. ® been found sufficient for welding & mile of ptKely | werking day The rods, moreover, Co eae ad | to be iujured by crows or monkep*!0ug! the kites aaa srows perch oa the Ji“ corrospon- swamps, but they cause no r - dence Ales through their olg Parent § ee though on one occasiongery of the superiority of the wet rod, and kifally appreciated in a coun | truth | ute in England aud America, or any other country, | iron rod, three-eighths inch | utinterruption, | ia need would be little better ing sehool for office farnitere, | seamed acest trons Dr 0" bnoasy is to affirm past experience, that the future o' fll be as the rate f 350 premier returns from edgeree line were orignally osloala- 200 rupees a month; but they have beem jonnt ‘o made either Galle ‘0 the centre of an immense ocean traf- the reeults of the latest improvementa employed in o nter: ith the whole wor!d beyond our shores eet TOW conlings coutentedly re adopt pone of the improvem | is enriching other countries * w t Shall these next years, following the parsimonious example of their predecessors, curtail, iu the abused name of ecoae my, the intercourse between one part of the coum- try end the othor. We believe tho difficulties to be evercome iu carrying on the electric telegraph are on the whole lesa tham there encounte: by Dr. O'Shaughnessy in Bengal; taking his extreme figures at 45 per mile, it is very easily shown what it wight be expected to cost to Gd down s comple system for this little iatand. Giving the lines im order of their importance— PIRST SCTAME Miles. Galle to Colowbo.. ™m Colombe te Kandy. 72 Kandy to Trinocmales NB alee to « 196 | au a4 1% 80 bo to Rarnap 56 uses to Kornegallo. a Colombo Negombo Putlam and Ma: ws Totel milos........ sae At £45 per nrilo. £39,780 a Ne SCHEME. sland embracing nearly every atation. ... 698 Joining Colombe, Kandy, Trincomalie, a Total miles. » Lew At £45 por mile... 610,686 THIRD SCHEME. Join Galle and Colombo, 72 miles.........+ £3,240 Colombo, Kaudy, Trimoomalis, & Jaffaa 322 14,499 $17,630 Bhail wo adopt any ef these, if it be simply the line from je to Colembo, at a cost scarcely ox- er shail we continue our spari ll the world go past us? The mos wo have propounded would not cost above £45,000, or one-eighth of the presemé annual expenditure, or say one-third of the revenue derived from the customs. An inorcase o| cont om that branch o! revenue for tho year, or 18 per cent for two years, would suffice to provide the needful sum. Or, if woe take the following together —Custome, £126, land revenue, £43,000; salt, £36 000—total, £: 00. Twelve per cont addi- tional on these imposts for twe yoars would raise @ sufficiency to complete the whole. How small am impoat would be required te give us one of the minor sohemes of telegraphic communication indicated above, docs not require to be shown. The St. Domingo Movement. [From the Turks Islands Royal Gazette, Aug. 25} For somo time past rumors have been in siroula- tion that a third expedition would sail trom the United States for the purpose of again invading Cabs. ‘These rumors have at length ti tangible form —and the information tha: another grand expedition is preparing to leave the shores of the United States, to be directed to St. Demingo, is now confirmed. Our information is derived from an undoubted source. This powerful expedition is fitting out im the United States, under the pretext of availing themeelves of the emigration decree just passed by the Dominican Congress, which certainly Senor Buez did not intend tor tho Americans, but for the French—it has opened the doors to the American adventurers who project the establishment of a feot- hold in 8t. Domingo, where the expeditions might sssemble, and thonce concert their attacks more conveniently upon Cuba. ‘Their intentions are to land as immigrants, under the protection of the law, with assumed professions also of assisting the Dominicans against Soulouque. The drift of the object contemplated is to subje- gate both the Duminicans and Huytions, to compel all the blacks to Jabor according to the code rural, and ultimately to fleod the country with a white population. Cuba is to be troated in the same maa- ner, aud the Auericans hope thereby to establish @ monopoly of tropical products, such as they now enjoy of the articie of cotton. No doubt great num- ed ae blacks would also be transported to the ands. An association or company has been formed for the purpose. Messrs Green, father and son, latter recently an especial agent of the United States at St Domingo, Colonel White, celebrated in the Lopez expedition, Mr. Picket, late commercial agent of the United States at these islands, and various others, are partners in the ssheme. The assooia- tion intend to employ chiefly steamers, an order to ccnceal the euterprise, have ‘ot the Le- gislature of Georgia to grant an act of incorpora- tion, in such a manner that the sailing of these steamers with proposed Het sind from any of the American ports cannot interfered \~ A 0 of Wells is said to be figuring mt of the Dominican repub- lio, to give the scheme an air of reality. The Spanish government seems to be informed of those measures, ond the Spanish minister at Waeh- ington has communicated to Mr. Webster that the expedition, on leaving the American coast, will be closely watched, and if their course be dirested towards St. Domingo, Her Catholic Majesty’s sr vernment will be compelled te take possession of St. Domingo, which she would have every right to do, as she bas never relinquished by any formal aot her dominion over the eastern part of the island. It is robable that Spain in such a case will throw @ arge force into St. Domingo. he immigrants, it is said, will be accompanied by four cr five thousand Texans, Kentuckians, &e., to protect the ‘‘settlers” against the stray of the Emperor Soulouque, who seems deters’ upon an invasion. The British consul at ts Kim to Prinoe has strenuously endeavored to in* vain He give at least es ya but by those feol- 14 just now much irritated, it is ish remarks - a Eco del £ “dive, threatening the invasion of his territogntion of the We beg to call theddition of thes islam to the defenoelesaes sail of St. Dominge, where Within a twelvestile parties are in constant’ = int readi- at present tweary movement, at an neas for 8« may take place, when, if the vietorious =| | engageould follow up vigorously its su pancho van juished, these islands may t oe cane one with refugees to an alarming extent ; or the ‘uban invaders, who have threatened to include our islands in their next expedition, may at an unexe foan moment present themselves. And what force have we to meet such aggression? We have ® emall body of regulars, who aro no doubt well disciplined and well accoutred, but which after all but a handful of men; wo have also & local militia, but, as all well know who reside here, it ie both unarmed and undisciplined, and in tae of @ mob. importance of SW teen, Pet | |, Truly, something should be done and that some- | pe te ore witences, tepanted by. rare heer pore i ie Siertslevdons ea Kft | a, wie men. Tho lines must therefore Or. rode se a0 this is secured by the use of | , Honnrmue Munven wean Troy, ASAT inurdors theding ‘are | The most difficult experiment on if i iret lnid across the river, which wil BINGE Ties over fale sae 2ette Is being Frlaay night, 1 i tbree m! Il, doubtless, sink in ee ean following letter, rays tha Nn- vue ust “Tallen vo our lot. to Fecord:—Oa las several flatboats anchored in the river ies below this place, on account of tae morning it was noticed that had the reach of anchors, where the | tned atanchor A man {roms pet 2 at cote muds but there will bo coutiugencios | Sy ipavena orm peeing ae in shi and sotng ome in which ships must drag their au | man, asked him why the remait x endanger she continuity of the chain Pre: | crew had ‘down to scund the Co iter y caution has been taken to prevent iaterruption, but be a source of s to know that | there will be no danger ori jnterruption on f the other rivers in India. | "From the day when the electric telegraph was definitively opened to tho d jate of tho report, there | has been no interruption in this river crossing must always | apxicty Jt is, however, gratifyin Seed gter “dong nae On Qlet of March, at Bishlopore station, ig a es ide porib-westee, a flach of lightning struck the Hine at half past eight PM, traverse the instru ment, made its wires red hot, and melted thoir In less than ten bare Lee Todd, the signaller on duty, had placed another aS dn’ the wear, and reported by telograph at Calcutta what had occurred in tho office. Night correspondence bas been carried on in urgent cages with astonishing certainty and ae ity. On the Mth he at sa a eS | the superintendent of marine ¢ | Hic: Phlegethon steam ves- offico to learn if ge, ie cry om nt Dis ithough all the signallors were io a the t me, the suswer was obtained The instraments used on the line struction After having tried mond harbor, | bed and asleep at o four yt i onc { e sity, | the Sus comptio ted Englishand Amerioan toni ments without euceces, Dr O'Shaughnessy contriv “4 the little single needle horizontal telegrap Nar which he bas Geen able to work in all went! ag | without danger of interruption. It sometimes be~ comes ‘aiaoeaareds but is changed, replaced, or “oured’'in a few seconds by the signaliers on duty, and if totally destroyed, the loss does not exceed three rupees. The total cost of instruments of overy kind for one station, including battery, reverser, rrongly democratic, he Senate stands 12 democrats to Twain: Howe, 26 demoerats, 14 whigs. Majority om ballot. 17. | Two seers ago. the demoeratic majority members telegraph and alarm, with a dozea reserve tolegrapis, doer not exceed 100 re. f - 7 tire expenditure an thia axperimental line. | eet was Th Te pen gzatle 2891 eer ce ine cont experimmeate for tne train | Webster | terday evening, | poat, and the cabin floor spol | that there is at prerent aa @! | treights to New Yor jay. Sun remained there on eae ine On the shore, not Luded to go and baving seen any one ole on eta no one om the seo what was the matter ey ith bl ood; tbe bedi ‘ing ‘and found to be saturated with blood also; nd bair on them, a@ both blood a1 was €: tthe bed elt te sk C a ‘roken open and rifled. They next ogee some irom hooks and d the river, when eed, succseded in drawing up the bodies of thres men who boon mur- dered, Fach of their bends had boem split open —itaret- ly chopped to pieces. Ovo bad been sunk s Heam belonging to a pair of scales; another by he of the seme, and the other by an iron noe were tied to them severally. They were wit coats, a) or shoes. showing that they must bave been murdered inquest is now holding over their be sleep, A coroner's he boat isladen with flour, whiskey, fenton ke and {9 is suppored was fitted out 4 pati. From some papers found om board, it Gwnere’ names were Miller and Gardner, So far there ie Another boat passed by this it seid they had bees in company morning. Themen on with the same boat above this pleee, and that seven men on it then. fae Seancrry ov -Sinerixe ar Savanna —We desire to call the attention of a te A ees : (400 bales more of cotton veosele in a gonad for frvignt a constwhie re ate DoW here than at tho rame (eal ee With eet hm in port rome feegtte ws New Yo kare 37340 per LOO Lbs. orpool, 7-20 to od. ERAY annak Republican, Oct. i cemis last yoar To Live ngainst 3d last yeur.—Sar Masonte Prateenrry.—The one ‘hundredth, anai- Wi {the foitiation of @ Daterity of Masons, will be celebrated to to the in mearty Bae Shon in Boston hee every ey fa be Union The celebiatiive death of Mix, heron yore