The New York Herald Newspaper, November 19, 1852, Page 2

The Great Commercial Movements of the Day. YHE JAPAN AND EXPLORING EXPEDITIONS, | WHE PREPARATIONS FOR THE DEPARTURE OF THE EXPEDITIONS, Bey drwy dee m tothe Pacific. teiligencer, Nov. 18. To prepasing the following arti we have thought it due to importance of the subject, that the informa. ton — it — should be full as las hepa fl not 1.) We have been at some pains, pce to obtain ai the material points embraced in the plans and objects of tne expedi ion. (Ce sgy aca Pediat erg Cxpedi:ion will de. part from the port of » Kk. for the performance of im- Vertent aud arduous duties in the far-off seas and islands of the Paeific oceav. Ite objects will be to survey por- tions of the (hina and Japan seas. the route between ‘China and Oslifornia, and ths North Pacific ocean in the region of Bebiing’s «traits. It may probably also asoond the Sea of Tartery. to make some examinations, neoded for the advantageous prosecution of commercial enter- prises in thore comparatively unknown waters In the north, however, it will no doubt find a very wide field for its operations, in making uch investigations as are desirable for the furtherance of our important im- ferests in the whale fisheries. ‘The Sandwich Islands will, fer a timo, be the principal rendezvous of the vessels of this expedition; but it is uot wnlikely that its arti vai will be #o timed as to make it available in facili An Expedt [From the National ting the efforts of Commodore | , whore fleet will tarry a considerable time in the | vicinity of those islands, This expedition will consiet of—first, the sloop-of war inggold. with Lieut, Vineennes, Commander Cadwaladar R ¥. A, Budd, and cther officers not ignated, and 176 wen. This sloop ix now at New York. Sooond, the steam propeller John Hancock, Lieut John Rodgers ecmmanding. with sixty men. She is now undergoing thorough repairs at Boston, Third. the brig Porpoise, Lieut. A.B Davis commanding. with sixty men, wow at New York. Fourth, s tender, to be called t wit ut twenty men, is not yet chosen. ‘The pasred midsbipmen, midskipmen, and many other officers are not yet designated The moet eminent medical ekill in the service will be @etailed, avd scientific men in every department will be selected with referenco to their high reputation and eimi- nent ruitableness for the duties in view. The crews also will consist alone of young. healthy, vigorons, and effi- cient seamen; men capable of enduring Sabor and privations, and intelligent enough to appre- ciate the importwuce and salutary results of the mission upon whieh they are to be rent In every particular this expedition will be thoroughly prepared for the work before it. The vessels will all be peculiarly adapted for it in their construction and equip- went. All the late and well-established improvements in ‘e believe her commander 1 the requisite | | southern hemisphere to look southeast, the northeast erease there of a thousand-fold and more. Corn, too, may be planted at any time, and ia three months is fit for gatuering. Thus the bus ndman there may gather four crops of corn ® year. Its seasons are on everlasting summer, with a por petual round of harvests 4 It is the policy of commerce, and commerce is the policy of there United States, to open that river to steam, and its valley to settlement and cultiva- | tion, and its earth, air, avd waters to the business the machinery of steamers have been introduced into the | John Hancock; and the boats have been constructed in the best manner, with special reference to the contem- plated surveys In the selection of the requisite armaments efforts haya macce-#fully made to obtain the most perfect of every Kind, and such as wilt prove eflcient in theis appropriate uses. Thus Bharp’s breech loading rifle. with Maynacd primer, and Colt's improved revoiver, wiil occupy theit | places among the smeil arms. In the fcientitic departinents the samo circumspection fe manifested. The astronomical instruments are obtain- ed through the National Observatory at Washington, and are of the very best quality, Mauy of them, we uader- stand, have been made in this city, under the supervision of Mr. Wunderman, and possess the advantage of all the pes ldetorcd suggested inthe experience of the coast and topographical surveys, and of the naval service. We are aseured. indeed, by those who are competent to judge of their merits, that instruments so perfect and ro well adapted to their ures could not elsewhere be obtained, eather imthis country or in Europe. Scientific and miscellaneous libraries, for the uses of both the officers and men, have also been provided; and thus the best means of preserving order aud discipline, | and of seeuring improvement. wil! constantly be at hand. ‘The means of collecting information in natural history have been exceedingly well cared tor, even to the most minute particular, insomuch that a complete photograph- ie apparatus will form part of the implements supplied In the stores of these vessels the same particular re- gai d to all the possible wants of the journey. thing adapted to the many viciseitudes of the varyiag elimaies; food of the most wholesome aud fitting kinds; preventives and remedies for the scorbutic affections to generally attendant upon long voyages—thase and all other precautions, suggested by experience and benevo- Yence, have been provided so liberally as to give every mecurance of the safety and welfare of the several crews, ‘We understand that this expedition will probably con: wame three years in the eccomplithment of its varied and iepportant work, ard in returning to the Atlantic coast, Ym this time it will traverse the waters of many of the hitherto unfrequented regions bordering upon the Paci- fie ocean. On the ove tide are the coasts of California and Ore j on the other, the regions of Kamschatka and the islands cf Jepsn; in the north, toa very high degree of latitude, the scence of our adventurous whalers; ‘end in the south, the countless islands of the ovean, so imperfectly known@o the civilized nations of the earth, Yet many of them inhabited by human beings whose con- @ition ebalienges our pity, and whore characteristics in- vite the scrutiny of the learned and the curious One of the m ost rein ble, and. to us most interest ing island groups in the w is the Sandwic' ‘They form the natura! rtopping place for all the vos plying between Chios cr Jspan and the coasts of Calif mia They are already tho established rasort of whaleebips. six hundred of which have already t harbor there within a single year. and not a few of thea. with the meagre facilities now existing, transferring their wargoes at there ports. In the lipse of but a few years more, they will constitute the great commercial depot of many nations Through them will pass the tidings from hina. that will be thence received a2 news in London some twenty or thirty days jater At present a sail vessel can make the voyage from Can- ton to Zan Francisco in foriy-tive deys; but itis thought ‘that ccean steamers. which must vec-ssurily tonch al the Sandwich Islands. will accomptish it in fourteen days xteen. or even The pastnge from San Francisco to Pana- ma Rew oscupiestwelre days. When the railroad shall ‘de completed the sixty miles transit across the Isthmus Will be made in three hours, and thence to Now York in t days, But bow long willthe Isthmus bs the way of tranrit from the Pacific to the Atlantic shores? Who ean tell’ The Western States of this Union are neither listiess nor idle They arealive to their interests and full of enterprize They will soon eounect their mercan- tile cities with (he ports of the Pacific by ratlroad telegraph wires Atlantic coasts, within sixteen or’ eighicen days afcer theoccurrence of the incidents at Canton but chests of tea and bales of filke. by the same conveyance asross n & few brief d i ‘I be the city of cost prodacte of the contidently pre i of time to enable read the despatches of his village amidst the wi d divergence for dicted by many, the merchant of New Yor correspondents at Canton In view of such important probable facilities of inter. eourse with China. Japan sod the great iatermadints depot of trade in the Sandwich Irlands. how important is it that our national vesse}s should a! ouce make our tlas 8 familiar object in every inlet to the great I How necessary is it that eniightencad aad se gators rhould lead the way through the mazy ladyr Of the clustering isies, anil that clear and arcurate ch should be made ofevery cliunacl to be plougted by the keels of our ships and oceun st t Congress has appropriated for this expo lition one han- dred and twenty-five thousand dollars; s large eum, to be sure. but how small when con‘rested with tac megni tude of the work to be asvemp!iched! Our g : derives from i's import du'ies about fifty milli 04 Jars per empum, avd this uncer perbaps the lowert prac ficable tariff of dutive. The commerce that thus rustains ‘the govervmert asks but lit'le in returm. For the want of ruch information as it is the present purpose to obtain, ewhele rhip of four thousand barrels of sperm oil was lost not long ago, tho Memnon, with a freigh’ worth $256 000, perished im like manner; and more recently the Hantress was jost in Bering’: cea by running upon pre viourly unascertained shouls. Those losses, all of whic might have been prevented if faithful charts hal exivted to guide the navigators aright. exceed in amount five times: cost of the present important enterprise. How unertingly. then. doce true economy guide us to @ liberal system of appropriaiions for pucpoves se ulutary and s0 ficen*! Yct, limited as ovr wavy is, how pleasing is to percoive tbe gen scquiescence of our Governmen. and people in th+ d tieu of important “portions of it to purposes eo wholly subservient-to the pursuits of peace, as to banish from ‘our minds all other considerations than fuch us relate to the business advautages to be promoted. Sush an exhi- bition gocs further toward ennobling and elevating our conceptions of man than the record of the most dazzlivg and sanguinary conflicts. We are gratified in being enabled to s'a'e, in coanexion With this subject, that the preparation and! equipment of this expedition hae proved to the present able sud accom- pilsbed Secretary of the Navy a highly agreeable task and that be bas mabiferted a prompt and commendable ap- jation of the project, and bas evinced the utmost iberality, and mors resolute determination (0 have every. ‘thing executed and provided in an acceptable aadeffisiont MABLer ‘The command of the expedition aleo devolves upon one ‘whore courage, whose ability, whore past rervices and whose humane feelings and generous and elevated har. scter Pafford fan ample guaranty that ruocess wil! attend Ais efforts, and that hie inbors will prove worthy the ad. miration and gratitude of his oountrymen The Amazon and the Atiantic Slopes of ss Sonth America, _{Erom the Washington Union Nov 17.) The “policy of commerei not the ** polie; , policy of conquest,” is the policy’ of the The epiric of tho age, animated by private enter- bse is every Gey seeking new fields for it 1 triumphs, and commorce can aesomplish th ough- out the world no achievement like those which note its coming and ite marches up and down the Amv gon and other great rivers of thot greatest of wator- the Atlantic slopes of South America Men may talk about Cuba and Japan, bat, of all the diplomatic questions of the day, the froe navi- gation of those majestic water courses and their tributaries is to this country the most valuable and important. It eorpasees them ali It is paramount he country that is dratned by the Amazon. if reclaimed from ihe savego, the wild boast, and ths reptile, and reduced to culsivation now, would be capable of supporting with ite produce the popula tion of the whole world It is coun The common yield of rice is forty forone. tis reaped Sive months after planting, and may be planted at any time of the year Thue the farmer may plant one bushel of rice to-day; in five mouths hence he will gather forty from it. Planting these forty, he may in another Hye months gather siateen hundred , o'ber leaves just putting forth United States. | bushels. In ten months the earth yields an in- | | and wants of trade and traffic. There, upon the Atlantic slope of South america, in the valley of the La Plata and in the valley of the Awazon, | nature in all her ways bas beon most bountiful. There the vegetable kingdom displays its forces in their most perfect grandeur, and in all their might; and there, too, the mineral kingdom is most daz- vling with its wealth opened co navigation, its forests to settlement, its pampss to caltivation. What commerce has done for South America nothing to what it willdo. It has fringed only the fea-coast of that continent with settlement and cultivation. The great interior has never been tovched; the heart of the country is a commercial blenk; nor isit to be reached oxcept through tho | powers of steam, and the free use of its majestic watercourses It is of this country, of the importance of settling | it up, of sending there the immigrants, the steam- beat, the axe, and the plough, with the messengers of commerce, that we wish to speak. Letus therefore first see where it is, how far off it is, and what ite actual condition, and then wo will | be enabled the better to judge as to the true couree of policy which it would be best for the commercial | nations of the earth to take with regard vo it. The | semi-continent of South America is very nearly ia | shape that of aright angled triangle Its hypothe- | nuse rests on the Pacific; one of its legs extends from | Cape Horn to Cape St. Roque ere the right angle is formed with the other leg, which extend from Cape St. Roque, in latitude 5 degrees south, to Cabo La Vela of the Caribbean soa, in latitude 12 degrees north. ° | The longer leg is that between Capes Aven and | St. Roque; it is 3,500 geographical miles in length, The other leg has only 2,500; but the hypothenuse | which stand: on the Andes ard rests on the Pacific is more than 4 000 miles long. | This configuration exercises a powerful influence | upon the climates of South America, especially as regards its heitograpby. The great rivers of that country, the mighty Amezon and the majestic La Plata, are resultants of this configuration. In consequence of having the sea front which rests upon the long leg in the and the southeast trade winda, asthey come across the Atlantic filled with moisture, go full charged into the interior, dropping it in showers as they Bp: | until they reach the snow capped summits of the | Andes, when the last drop that that very low | temperature can wring from them is deposited, to | melt and feed the sources of the Amazon and the La Plata with their tributaries. | The northeast trade winds commence to blow about the tropic of Cancer, and, coming from the | quarter they do, they blow obliquely across the Atlantic. They evaporate from the sea as they go. and, impinging at right angles upon the South American shore line that extends from Capo St Roque to Cabe La Vela, they carry into the interior the vapor that forms the clouds that give the rain which supplies with water the Magdalena, the Oxo- noco, and the northern tributaries of the Amazon. The volume of water discharged by these rivers | into the sea is exprestive of the quantity which those northeast trade winds take up from the sea, and, carrying in the clouds, precipitate upon the water shed that is drained by these streams. They are but pipes and gutters which nature has placed under the eaves of the great water shed that has the Andes for a ridge pole, the Caribbeansea aad North Atlantic for a eisiern. The taade wind region of the North Atlantic af- fords the water pis ee when the evaporation is carried on tbat supplies, with rains, dews, and | moisture, New Granada, Venezu ela, the three Guy- | anas, and the Atlantic slopes of Ecuador. On the other hand, tbe southeast trade winds commence to blow about tho parallel of 30 or 35 degrees south. They come, too, obliquely acro: the Atlantic, and strike perpendicularly upon the South American coast line, which extends from | Cape St. Roque towards Cape Horn. They pass into the interior with their whole Joad of moisture, every drop of which is wrung from them before they | cross the Andes. The quantity of moisture which is taken up from the sea and rained down upon this wonderfully frnitful country, may be seen in what the La Plata and the Amazon discharge back into the sea. Now, there is no tropical country in the world which has to windward. and so exastly to windward of it, such an extent of ocean in the trade wind region; consequently, there is no intertropical coun- try in the world that is eo finely watered as is this great Amazon country of South A merica. Along the Atlantic coast of the Unite] States, along the coast of Chinaand the east of New Hol- land, the lead trends along with the direstion of the trade-winds of those regions. These wiads, with their moisture, travel alopg parallel with the | land; they do not blow perpendicularly upon it, nor push their vapors right across it iato the interior, as they doin South America. The consequence is, none of these intertropical countries can boast of streams and watercourses like those of South | Anicrica. The skore line of Eastern Africa is arranged like thet of the South American wazer shed, but it has not enough to windward to supply the vapor to feed eprings enovgh to muke largs rivers The southeast trade winds, when the monsoons of the Indian ocean will permit them to blow, strike perpendicularly upon the east coass of South Africa, as they do upon that of South America. In the Aucrican case they blow perpetually; in the Afsi- can case for not half the year. Thoy therefore cv not give Africa half as much rain as South America receives. At Cape Guardafui the right angle of the African coast line med, a3 it is at Cape St Roqas for America. But the winds which cross this line bo- tween Cope St Roque and the Isthmus have tr. versed the Atlantic ocean aud Caribvean hence they reach the 1. wh sen, éripping with moistur ensin Africa the northeast trade winds, whic the coast line from Cape Gurrdafui to the isthmus of Suez, have susked up vapors from the Red Bea only; therefore the quantity of moisture which these winds carry into the interior of Africa is not by any means so great as that which thoss of the Auantic carry over iety South America. The difference iz ag great ea the difference of the eva- por g surface exposed to the northeast trade- winds, by the Atlantic on the one hand and the Red Sea on the other. The two systems of trade. the southenét, meet in th nda, the northeast and te South Ame- somewhere between the equator ana the Isth- This place of meeting is a place of calms, here it iz there it is ramy. nd other meteorelegisal agents divide the in the northern portions of Soath America, ezpecially the valley of the Oronceo, into the rainy and the dry; six months of constant rain, six months of blighting drought. Not so ia the valley of the Amazon. There the weather is agreeable all the year rouv3; end though more rein falls there in come months thaa in others, as it does hers with us, ttill there, a8 bere, it may rain and does rain avy dey in the year. | Now, I think that any one who has followed me with @ map, will perceive why this intertropical re gion of South America, or that port of ite water shod, which, from Panama to the parallel of 30 degrees or 35 degrees south, slopes towards the Atlantic, bas and ought to have the most remarkable climate in the world. We have geen that Eastern Africa, and Eastern Africa alone, resembles it in configar: tion of shore-line alone; for the evapora ing surface | and the supplies of vapor are wanting, aud thore- fore South Africa cannot be nearly so well supplied with rains, and consequen'‘ly with rivers, as is South America In all otber intertropical regione of the world, in India, in Western Africa, New Holland, and Poly- nesia, the year is divided out into tho rainy season andthe dry, during the latter of which little or no water fails, eprings go dry, and cattle perish, and dead bodies pollute the air. Then, too. stalics forth in those countries ‘the pestilence that walketh in darkners.”” In the valley of the Amazon no # exists There the fall of water, tho the river Amazon isthe rain guage—is not com- preesed within a few months nor accompanied by the terrible hurricanes and tornadoes whish rage at the change of seasons in India. | Because the Amazon is in a tropical country, the public is disposed to judge of its climates by oom- paring them with the climates of other tropical countries, as India, for example; but for the reasons stated, aud becaure there are no monsoons or other conditions to cause the valloy of the Amazon to be parched with drought at one reason, and drenshed with rains at another, as India is on one hand, and the Oronoco country on the other, there is no more | resemblance between the climates of India and the Ainazon than there is between the climates of Kome and Boston. And any one who wou'd infer similari- ty of climate from the fact that Boston and Rome sre inthe same )atitude, would not be more oat than he who infers similarity of climate between India and Amazonia. ‘Now, what ought to be the condition of an intor- tropical country whoge plains are watered with frequent showere, unascompsnied by a single drought during ages of perpetual eammer! Why, fertility and salubrity, for in such a climate aoything and everything ‘will grow. The rapid production and constent decay of vegetable matier that have been going on there for thousands and thousands of heen must have made the soil rich with vegetable nould. _ The fant that vogetation there is in perpetual ac. tivity ; that there is no period of vegetable repose ; that as fast as one leaf falls and begins to decay, absorb its gases, | | on the arrival of | the 26th of October, and the gentlemen designated | While it was so important in determining future pro- | ceedings, that, acting under the advice of their | affair to the goveroment of Nicaragua direct. The | from home, he i ntil makes the valley in the Amazon one of the most salubrious and delightful of climates. Having shown that the climate of the La Plata and Amazon country is a climate without droughts, and that it is a cuoist and warm climate, I have ¢s- tablished enough to satisfy any one that the soil there, whatever be the substratum, must have upon it arich vegetable mould, which the decay of the most rank vegetation during ages must have formed In my next I shall proceed to show what travel- lers and men of science wko have explored various portions of this wonderful region of country say 94 to its productions, its commerce, and the naviga bility of its water courses. Mie a Tran Company. COMMUNICATION FROM THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS An article in the Evening Post of yesterday, headed ‘Nicaragua and the Transit Company,” has | surprised many of its well informed readers, as much as it may mislead those who, though ignorant on many of the points referred to, are not the less in- terested in knowing how far they are to be relied upon. Trhe whole matter rests upon the question whether Mr Marcoleta is or is not authorized by his govern- | ment to appoint arbitrators for the adjustmont of accounts 7 It is far from correct that a controversy of a seri- ous “nature has been for some time going on be- | tween tke government of Nicaragua and the Accessory Transit Company.” The company has received no notification from that government, nor from any other source, as to the forfeiture of its charter, nor can it contemp'ate the possibility of such an occurrence while, as heretofore, the condi- | tions of that charter have been not only complied with, but anticipated. The company fea never refused to pay to that overnment the tenth of the profits due her under SO charter; but, on the contrary, and immediately her commissioners in this city, every book of accounts, and every document re- lating to the business, was ushesitatingly placed at their disposal, while every facility was tendered for examination and explanation It may easily be suppesed that, in entering on the first settlement, occasional differences of opi- ‘ion might arise as to what snould be considered profit” Such is frequently the case in arranging the simplest private transactions between individu- als, and was far more likely to occur between tio representatives of a State and # company, inas- much as the first settlement would form the prece- dent on which all subsequent accounts world pro- bably be adjusted. Mr. Mapping, a3 commissioner from Nicaragan. considered it his duty to claim for that Stute cer- | tain sums which Messrs. Snow and White, acting on behalf of the stockholders, considered it equally incumbent on them to decline paying. | So far, however, from refusing to arbitrate the | question, they themselves proposed to Mr. Manning to submit the matter to arbitration, in conformity with the stipulations of the charter; Mr. Manning, though declaring himself authorised to appoint ar- bitrators, declined acting under that authority without first communicating with the government, Their nomination by Mr. Marcoleta waa made on by bim were certainly considered in every way un- exceptionable by the board of directors. It 12, therefore, evident that there was no indiapo- | sition to arbitrate, but it was deemed of tne utmost importance, previous to going into an arbi- | tration, to determine how far the decision would be binding on the State of Nicaragua, by first ascer- taining whetber the power of naming arbitrators | had been delegated by that State to Mr. Marcoleta. | If he had shown that such was the cave, no delay would have occurred; but to have gone into an ar! tration which had every appoarance of being bind- ing on one party only, was certainly not to be lightly entertained; and whatever may be the opinion ot the legal adviser of Mr. Marcoleta, the directors held the question to be so grave its bearings, own counsel, they determined to submit the whole necessary measures for eo decided a step were, con- | sequently, taken at the first subsequent meeting of | the board, where the following resolutions were | unanimously passed:: | ‘That this company and their commissioners, Messra. Snow and White, have never interposed apy obstacle to the prompt and immediate liquidation of the accounts between themselves and the State of Nicaragua, but on the contrary thereof, after finding it impossible to yield to the exactions of Mr. Manning without great injustice to their ttockholders and themselves, they expressed to Mr. Marooleta their solicttude for an immediate settle- ment, and offered to neme their commi:sioners the very dey after the State of Nicaragua should name theirs ; and they distinctly offered to the said Marooleta, that if he would deposit with him any evidence of his authority to hams ecmamisioners for hia State, they would the day following send the names of their commissioners ; all of which will fully appear by the letter of this company, which was addressed to the said Marcoleta, by their counsel. and dated October 27th. 1852. That because of the intemperate language which has hitherto characterized the communications of the said Marcoleta. all further direct correspondence with him is deemed improper, and that for the future ruch oMoers of tbe eompany as are, or may be, authorized s0 to do, sball communicate direetly with the proper officer of the gevernment of Nicarsgua This, in the judgment of this Board, is indispensible, if harmony and ® geod understanding betwech the govern- ment and themetlves are hereafier to pre’ A reference to the foregoing resolutions, as well as to the letter addres:ed to Mr Manning, should | carry conviction to the readers of those documents that eo fer from evading a settlement of accounts or refusing to arbitrate them, the Transit Company was the first to propose the latter meagure, and bas sinee been most urgent for it in order to accomplish the former. A desize that the appointment of the arbitrators shall be reguiar, in order that their decision shall be final, can only be regarded by tho ‘stockholders as a commendable prudence, and for their informs- tion this communication is made, with the sole view of preventing their being deluded by what appears to be so transparent an attempt to depreciate the value of their property. It is perhaps proper to state here, that Mr. Man- ning, who was appointed an agent by Nicaragua to liquidate the amount of ten per cent net profits, was a creditor of the State to a large amount, and was the assignee of all the right and interest of Nica- regua, of. in and to the ten per cent, as repeatedly declared by h meelf. His intereat, therefore, was to swell the ten per cent, 9s he was to be the sole recipient of it, ba; this objection to his competency, as an unbiassed egent, the company waived, as the principles on which the settlement was to bo made were, as thoy conceived, so plain and so well understood. Their surprise may then be imagined, when Mr. Manning insisted that they could not be permitted, in mak- ing up the amount of ** profit.,” to charge the loss of one of their,eteamboats, and the salaries of certain of their agents and officers On these and other simi items the dispute or controversy arcee. demanding tha interposition of commissioners, which Mr Manuing claimed to have suthority to appoint, but refused, as already stated, to appoint, till he should fires communicate with the goverumert of Nicaragua Office of the Accessory Transit Company, Novem- ber 18,1*52. By order of the Bourd of Directors, Jas D. P. Oanegn, Vice President. Isaac C Lea, Secretary. Domestic Miscellancy. ‘The papers continue to report severe frosts in Georgia and Alabems, Ex Mayor Lamb of Norf lk, Va., is dead. Amen named J B. Mbpedgh ape von. from the North-- was arrested in Washington for obtaining nearly $3900 from Meters, Corse & Co, of Alexandria. and Daniel Roeland, of Washington, by moans of altered lottery tickete. The Mormon Prophet Atrang, ie elected to the Michi- gan Legislature, from the Beaver Island district. James D, Garland. late of Adams & Co 's office, in Cin- cipnati, died of cholera at Henderson, Ky . on the 10th inst. onboard the Sultans. Hix body was brought up to Cincinnati, where his family resides, and was interred on the 16th Aneffort is to be m: it the coming session of the ee Legislature, to have Nabant set off from Lyun. ‘The jory before whom Samuel Cowperthwait was tried in Philadeiphia, have found him guilty of murder in the tecond degree, Mr. Charies Forman. s repectable citizen of St. Louis county, BMo., was lately thiown from his buggy, and killed. It is stated in the St. Louis papers that seventeen deaths occurred on the steamer Mount Vernon during her recent trip from New Orleans to 8t. Louls, Aman nemed Hugh Divine was killed om the 16th ivet.. by belmg accidentally canght in the machinery at the Eagle Works, on the Falls road, near Baltimore ‘The Governor has appointed George H. a ta Esq , of Lockport, Canal in romped in the place Nelson J, Beach, Eeq., resigned. John A. Hayward. a brakeman on the Boston and Wor- cestex raliroad was killed on the 16th inst , while on the top of the cers, by his head striking the timbers of the Brighton bridge. A young lady has been discovered In Boston, in man's attire, holding # situation in a wholoeale clothing ware bonse = She had called herself George Green, wad waid she was from New York, where her parents revide. An adopted Oavghter of Mr T D. Cheever of Lynn was found drowned in # reservoir of the Kasvern railrowd compony, on the Mth inst, To ee Execurep —Arch, the negro man who murdered Mre Hinkle, iu Greene county, Tenn.. will be hung to day at Greenville. This is a romewbat singnlar case, Iteppenrs that the young negro, Arch, had been | enduly intimate with this young woman, Mrs, Hinkle, for a yeur or more, but owing fo some cause in June last hie refared to receive attention from bim any longer, | At this he became desperat thet if he could not enjoy ber embraces her husband liould not; and a oer: tain morning when he knew Mr Hf. would be ab od himeelf near her residence nm he | the wh Further from From the New Orleans Picayune, Nov. THE SUPPOSED INTERVATION OF FRANCE. 1 to the erowded state ef our columns, the follow- ing farther particulars of the news from Mexioo were ex- cluded from our lentayeniog’s edition Senor Yanez took mn of the Portfolio of foreign affairs on the 23d wlt, It was eaid tha! Semor Arrayo, the chief clerk of the department. who had been conducting the business, re- signed on the next day. amd that a complete change in the Cabinet was talked of Rumors named Senor Fuente as Minister of Justice ; Malo, of Treasury ; and Aleorta. of War Sevor Yanez being a member of the Chamber of Depu- ties, the vote authorizing him to accept the appointment of Minister was 58 yeas to 20 nays. The Spanish papers in Wexieo are fearful that tha late convention between the governments of Spain and Mexi- co, in regerd to the recognition and settlement of certain #, Will be rejected by Corgress, The Chamber of De- ies had asked for all the correspondence in the matter. The Chamber of Deputies has passed the bill of Senor Soavedra, authorizing the government to order out 5 000 men of the national guard of the district and 5 000 of the vational guard, for the purpose of re establishing order aud providing resources by stopping payments for work on the palace, to officials. to newspapers, and extra war charges of other kind. In secret session Senor Arrayo had been tioned regard to certain diplomatic conventions, in his d fence made use of language very unfaverable to the government, and boasted that he had arranged a!l the old | credits from the year 1810 to thet of isa and that he understood the foreign affairs better than Senor Ramirez, cr any other of his predecessors, His remarks were re- ceived ill by the Chamber, In the Senate, Senor Barcenas presented a bill which Was passed he & suspension of the rules, calling upon the government for information within eight days, na to how much money has been expended in each of the frontier States for defenee sgainst the Iudians; what plan it adopts for the defence of thore States; and what are the necessary expenses of carrying out that plan. ‘This is a preparatory movement to the equal distribuiion among the States ef Boncra, Chihuahua, Durango, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas of eighteen thousand. rifles, murkets and long carbines, in accordance with the lsw of the 2let of April, 1849 Serious differences are said to exitt between the Su- preme court and the government as to the power assumed by the latter to issue decrees and laws. ‘The Siglo Diez Nueve eays.— We know positively that the government of France declines to take part in any albance which shall tend to intervention in in the opening gg Isthmus ef Tehuantepec, Several of the parties which have made propositions for the Tehuantepec grant. inform the editer of the Siglo that they have no objections to the publication of their proporals, but that it now rests with the govermment to publish them. ‘The accusations againat the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Wer, for the banishment of General Wool have been renewed, The escort of » conducta of money from Guanajuato to Mexico, abandoned their charge, and joined the insur. gents of Michoacan. ‘The Unwersal newspaper has been denounced for an epigram against one of the ministers. The Minister of War bas complained to the government of Vera Cruz, that the authorities of Orizabo speak ill of him Acormission has been nsmea by Cozgrevs to inter- vene in the affairs of the war against the Indians, and to | endeavor to incite the government to action therein. ‘News has been received in the capital thet @ pronun- ciamiento, which was to have taken place in Tampico on the lith ult , had been frustrated. Mile. Steffanone received a benefit in the City of Mexi- co on the 26th. which was very productive. From some | personal difficulty, Salvi did not assist in the perform- | ance. The revolution of Mazatlan goes on apace, and the Su- preme government have finally declared the city in open rebellion and decreed the closing of its port. General Mor had been ordered to return and take charge of State of Sinaloa, and assist the commandante inst the insurgente of Mazatlan, The Siglo says thoes measures are now too late. Governor Vandez, of the State of Sinaloa, was at the head of the movement and had proclaimed the plan of Guadalajara with a few un- important additions, and all the public officers had signed with them. Babamende, the commander of the troops of the movement, had taxe: eee ae garrisons surrend- ering. The Mazatlan movement thus ceases to be merely a local affair. The Patria, of Guadalajara, says, that on the 24th ult. advices were received from San Luis Potosi that the de- poe of Tancanhuitz aud &io Verde had pronounced favor of the gus of Guadalajara, and rejecting the authority of the Governor of the State of 8an Luis. In regard to the pronunciamento of Guadalajara we find the following further particulars:— 1 correspondence that leaves Guadalajara is examined bythe Governor. The .sfrea of Lagos, which asserts 8 alzo there is no personal security in Guadala- thi, say | Jara The army and government officers in Gzadalajara have joined the movement, and offered their personal services. Senor Perdigon Garay has been appointed Major General and Quarter Master General to the Na- tional Militta eaviours of the Republic Letters from Orizabs say that the insurgents zhere are in a state of disorganization and could easily be defeated by alarge bedy of troops. They had taken $17,000 in payer from the savings bank of Cordova, and $3.00 from the lottery fund. The Monitor says that it has advices from Cordova, anazouncing that Rebolledo has not second- ed the plan of Jalisco. It was rumored in Mexico that Mr. Lavasseur, the French Minister, had been recalled, The Trait d’Union rayshe some time since asked for leave of absence, and that it is probabie that is the only foundation for the | gentlemen, to yield your license and approbation, not rumor, The Crescent City Affair, CAPTAIN DAVENPORT AND PURSER SMITH. [From the New Orleans Delta, Nor. 10 ] It will be remembered that we mentioned the fact, a few days ago, ofa public dinner having been tendered to the above-mentloned gentlemen by the cirizens of New Orleans. ‘as a fit expression of their estimation’? of the course adopted by them in the harbor of Havana. We approvod. at the time of the resolution of the persons who took the ma‘ter in bands, and considered the cempliment a faizly merited one ‘A formal correspondence bas since taken place, in which the views of those tendering tMle entertainment are briefly set forth aud we now place it before our readers with ‘the rejoinder of Captain Davenport and Purser Smith The cignificant brevity of the former ~clear and decisive as the opinions of an American offiver always should be—and the wermth andjenthusiasmn of the latter, will be duly appreciated by all. They have shown them- selves. by their abnegation of public honors, worthy of the prominence which they have attained. New Oncrans, Nov. 8, 1852. | Liver. Davexrort, U, B.N, Commanding Steamship Cresernt Oity:— Dear Sir—Many of yoar friends and llow citizens of New Orleans. desire to express to you. in some fitting token, their high estimation of your recent conduct, rela tive to the admission of your vessel into the harbor ot Havana. A difficult and delicate duty was asigned to you, Most manfully and gallantly did you mest its re- quirements, and well areured are we, that in your hands, the dignity and honor of our flag can never be assailed with impunity In feeble testimrny of their regard. your fellow citizens in thie city have as*igned us the agreeable task of inviting you to meet them at the festive board at euch | | time as | may comport with your convenience. Hoping tha’ it may | be im your power to aczept the invitation, we are respect- fully, your obedient rervants, LOGAN MCKNIGAT, R. W. ESCLIN, J. L. WINTER New On.vans, Nov, 8, 1852. Wits Smirn, Req., Pureer Steamship Crescent City, New Orleans:— Dran Sin :—A number of the citizens of New Orleans have deputed us. ip their bebalf. to tender to you the henor of # collation at sueh heur, during your stay in the city. as may suit youggconvenience. In addition to the simple conveyance ofMbst invitation. we cannot refrain from touching upon the events which have prompted this | ancient laws, token of our regard, You have, sir, been the object of | the puerile suspicions of the government of Cubs. Your foil and unequivocal denisl of ite charges has been met with a jeelous determination to excluds you from those privileges and am«nities, which the treaties and kind- heeces of cur coustry meke both due and proper to its citizens, It is our desire therefore. to indicate to iho world the high consideration in which “the individaal called Wm. Smith” is veld by hiv countrymen and most emphatically to condemn any courre of Our government ¥hich may fail to vindicate the honor of our ting aud the rights of ite citizens, With every aseurance of our high reepect, we are gous obedient servants, LOGAN McKNIGHE, R. W. EATLin, J. L. WINTER, ~ Committee of Invitation New Onerans, Nov £9, 1852, Gentlemen—I bey leave to acknowledge the recaipt of your note of yesterday. tendering me, ov behulf of my friends and fellow-citizens of New Orleans, a dinner, ‘as @ fit expression of their estimation of my recent conduct in the harbor of Havawa,”? In declining the honor tendered, I desire to express my wormert thanks to my fellow-eitizens for this flattering mark of thoir esteem, and to you, gentlemen. for the de- lionte and complimentary manner in which you have conveyed them. feeling ae I do, that I have done nothing to it it. There was but oneline of duty for me to pursue and that « perfectly plain one. I am very re- #pectfully, your obedient servant, H. K. DAVANPORT. Messrs. Logan McKnight, R. W. Estlim, and J, L. Win- ter, Committee. New Onrrans, Gentlemen:—Your note of yesterday, wrtake of a collation with some of fi ‘ow Orleans. bas been duly received. The oceasion which hae promp‘ed this testimonial of your regard touches my heart very nearly, and I shall never forget the eompiiment which you and your associ- ater pay me. Although constrained. by my peouliar position to de- cline the honor thus tendered, I must beg to thank you very heartily for thin evidence of esteem which I 40 poorly deserve. I am, with great ae ee obed’t rerv't, ILLIAM SMICH. ‘To Merers. Logan MeKnight, R W. Ketlin, J. L. Win ter, Committee, Nov, 9, 1852. inviting me to low-citizens of Discovery or a Lance AmouNT or Brouen Goons.--On the J2th inst, a fice company in Woburn, Mars. had the tables for their supper Iaid in the rooms of an old tavern houve in that town. which for a long tim: has been uninbadited, In the course of the evening, a closet, with the door nailed up was diroovored in one of the rooms. Curiority led the discoverers to break down various kinds, including clothing. cloths, rilver ware. &e., were found. There is no donbt that « gang of thieves had bid their plonder there, im the bope that it would be un- molested until it war convenient for them to reclaim it. It is probably the result of a number of robberies —Hosion Traveller. sca? Liquor SerzuKe at Bancou.—Upon the arrival of the steambont Boston yesterday (Sunday), Marshul Fatnbam and assistants seized seven or eight bo bad liquor. There were quite a number of rexevt, by whom the assistants of the Marsh Pustied about considerably, One of them was driven off , and another was covered with mud, &6 During the excitement several barrels of liquor were rolled off the wharf into the water, and afterwords eith rescued by the owners and friends, or destroyed by knock: ing in the beads.iangor Mercury, Now, 16 the door. when several large trunks, filled with goods of | | the principal pars of the andiences.”” One mai in New Attempt te Exclude the The: from Connecticut. (From the Hartford Oeurant, Nov. 16 ) It is proposed to circulate the following petition in this city during the rent week, and we have been requested to plase it im our columi citizens may have an opportunity to re: being called upon for their signatures: To 1H Honorance Covrr or Common Councus, IN HanrrorD :— | The undersigned have heard with profound con- cern that @ report is now before your body recom- | mending the admission and license of # theatre in | this city. Permit us to say that, in our jadgment, | no question could possibly come before your body in | which the friends of good order and public virtue have a more immediate interest taan ia this. You aro shout to decide upon a matter which involves the character of many a son; which affects the hopes and touches the peace of many a prrent; which shall carry with it consequences that outlast your own lives, and affect your memories in the grave No friends of the dead of other cities would consent that on the monuments of their departedan- cestors it should now be inscribed, ** Here lie the feunders and the fathers of the theatre in this city. Regarding the theatre in the light of its own unam- biguous history— viewing its uniform character and its unvarying effects since its first existence in civi- | lized society, (a thing which any well read indivi- dual can easily do,) it appears to us that nothing but the most consumm ite misapprehension, or the most complete self delusion, can persuade a patron of the ancient virtues of Hariford to desire the in- | troduction of this gungrene of depravity into the | bosom of this community. The theatre came into Christian society from its esky cae and home- stead, the heathen world. And through its entire course in Christian lands, it has retained the three vital functions which everywhere give it existence | and character. In:pect the theatre in its cradle, in early Greece, and intemperance, obsconity, and gambling, were as inseparable from the Athenian stage; as were the chorus and the actors. Como down to the theatre of Rome, and though many in- cidents and appendages of the stage hai been changed, the three vicos which are the three twin satellites of the play were still present, and wanton- ness. wine, and the game, were as essential conco- mitants of the Roman stage as they were of the Grecian. The theatre was smuggled at length into European society. And ine very continental city and court, during a bistory of ten centuries, the stage of Europe has pertinaciously preserved in its three in- feparable acts, inebriety, obscenity and gambling, its | original identity andfunctions The theatre hashada history of Eugiand. And the British stage has, to this moment, by confession of all who know any- thing of its annals, been the ceaseless seminary of | the three identical vices so constantly attendant upon this mo‘her of the Justs. The theutre came at length to America, appearing in 1750 in the then Puritan city of Boston. But there, as in its first heathen cradle, the stage became at onoe the centre of a scene of unrestrained license, and the favorite haunt of the impure, the profane, and the intem- | perate. And such had been the uniform character of stage actors, stage plays, and stage attendants, | in all Christian times and all Christian cities, that | the fathers of this Now World, with one consent, sought to banish it, as the inveterate and incurable | corrupter of all civilized communities reurayey he | the Legislature, at its session in Boston, in 1767, seed an immediate law, ‘‘ prohibiting stage plays, | interludes, and other theatrical amusements, on the ground that they discourage industry and frugality, and tend greatly to increase impiety and contempt | for religion.” At intervals, and by stealth, My 6 crept into Boston and other cities, till, in 1776, the members of the first American Congress, after voting the Declaration of Independence, passed also the following resolution:— Whereas true religion and good morals are the only foundations of public liberty and hsppiness, Rerolved. That it be and hereby is, earnestly recom- mended to the several States to teke the most effectual means for the encouragement thereof, and tor the sup- pression of theatrical entertainments, horse-racing, ga- ming, and such other diversions, as are productive of idleness, distipation and a general caearey of princi- ples and manners The fathers of the republic differed greatly among themselves on questions of religious faith and prac- tice. But, taught of history, they wore unanimous in the opinion that the theatre could nover be safe- ly accepted among the institutions of a free and virtuous people. Since that time theatres have had = license and a career in all the large cities of the nicn. | And thongh censured and deprecated by all the founders of the State; though condemned and dread- ed by all the moralists and all the divines of the laud; though acting under such stringency of restraints, and after such a scandalous history, the theatre of America has been as truly the nuréery of the three inseparable vices whichcame with it from the orgies | of the first Bacchanalian festivals, asit wasin Greece, in Europe and in Britain. You aro asked, then, to an unknown, not to an equivocal, not to a doubt- fal institute. Ifa tree that has borne fruit for more than twenty centuries and borne in all climates, countries, and soils, precisdly the same fruit, can by such a process establish its character and make itself known, your honorable body may know the character of the tree you are importuned to plant, a Christian hands, in this sanctified soil of Hart- ford. We have presented to you one aspect of the case— have shown you the direct, uniform, and perpetual character of thetheatre Permit us now to draw your attention to another view which is even more iwpoitant and more instructive than that already presented. In heathen society, the uative soil of the theatre, the public conscience was go often outraged by ite obscenities and its license that measures were frequently adopted by magistr and monarchs to restrain and reform this inveterate corrupter of the publicmorals. But it was early demonstrated that on heathen ground the stage has but one law of developement, and that the inexorable Jaw of de- [ah t The theatre was forever growing worse, but it could not and would not grow better. So con- vinced were ancient morualists, legislators, and senates of this fact, that the Roman censors finall exterminated the theatre, because, as Livy says, it was nociturum publicts moribus—an institution fatal to the pubic morals. The gladiatorial amuse- ments of Rome were retained as comparatively in- nocent. The theatre was demolished as in- compatible witu the virtues of a heathen pe ple. And this treatment of the theatre, as a moral puisanee, irresponsible, irroclaimable, and worthy only of urter extermination, had the record- ed sanction of all ibe suges end all the philosophers of antiquity. Aristotle, Mlato, Soloa, Sovrates, | Xenophon, Senecea, Cicero, Livy, and Tacitus, have left behind them a testimony to tue incorrigih'e de- pravity of the stage, which justifies tho severity of and admonisiies the guardians of modern morality. On heathen ground the thoatre could never he reformed. Its actors wero uniformly snd incurably corrupt. [ts piays were habitually and intentie: licentious. Its appendages were ever the ack ledged scminaries of sensuality and vice. It was therefore a well understood doctrine in heathen legislation that tho theatre must ro- ceive cither an absolute prohibition, or an unlimited | license. Following the stoge into that New World, the ear- ly Christian society, wo shall discover what any one who regaids Christisnity as at least composting in its morals, instincts, end virtues, with thoso of heathenism, will expect to discover, that thoatrical exhibitions were at first universally prohibited, the churches, the councils, and the imperial court itself, Frenouncing them Ds he and incurablo. At Jength, however, Christian society in Europe, par- ticipating in the general corruption of the world, consented to receive and tolerate the lias J stage And from that day to this the effort of Christendom has been to keep the theatre, and if pessible, to reform it. But that effort has proved as impotent and as abortive in every solitary experiinent of every Christian age and country as s\miiar attempts had previously been on heathen ground. Accordingly, nobody can point to a reformed etage as one of the actual entities of Christian history. The three inseparable viecs of the theatre are as conspicuous, as vital, a s thameless, at this moment, and have re. mained to against all the futilities of attempted | reform, as they were in the days of tho Second Charles of England, or the Fourteenth Louis of Frence. Attempts have been made, in all tho large cities of America, to rowove the abomianbls seduc- | tions and expel the Bacchanal attendants of the upper tier. And the result bas supplied for all readers of history a lesson which it is perilous now to overlook. That result has beon one of discovery and one of experiment. It has been agcortained, and published over responsible signatures, that all modern theatres provide and arrangs the upper tier on purpore to secure tho attendance of profligste women ; and that in very many instances these tendants are specially invited as one of tho indis- pensible attractions, and like the other actors, are even admitted without cost. It has been farther ascertained, that except for the attrastions and the co-operation of the shameless tenants of the upper tier the theatre cannot be sustained. It is con- fersed by the managers themselves, that a theatro without this appendage is an experiment as perilous Ss wonld be © theatre, withow) stone ft net true even of theatres enjoying tho im ral age cf the Queen of noel Bain, and the nead of English Church aa eect ice appointed to inquire Into the mane | agement of one of the royal theatres in London, and to report on a proposition to exclude abandoned fe- maler, reported “that the measure was overralod under the conviction that if sdopted the institution could not be supported.” Walter Scott has seid “ that except in cases of strong attraction Re the , prostitutes and their admirers usually form er w York made the experiment of a thoatro with- out the tier for the abandoned; and tho instant desertion of tho public, and the prospect of instant and certain disaster, compelled him to resume the ancient usage, ond gather again to his house the entire dramatis persona of the stage. Another, yielding vo the delicate demagd of the semi-virta- | theatre must be what it | counts | injured; Mira. Jno Wivo, badly bruleed; ous, for reformed and moral stago, adopted an analagous plan, and found himself instantly Cy either to abandon his theatre, or abanden ert to improve it The came ‘results have fol- lowed the most strenuous efforts to disconnect the tippling and the gambling departments from tho theatre. In Boston, in New York, and in other cities, attempts of this kind have been total and hopeless failures. Nor have efforts been wanting to accommo- date superficial sage *,and gratifying romantic reform. ers, and under their suggestions to renovate the de- bauched character of stage actors; to bring apon the boards model persous and model plays; to resover and re produce dramas that are an honer to litera- ture ard a study for the chaste. But ne aueh re- forms have ever yet done more than to deceive thetr- sanguine inventors, and then fali powerless to the: ground at the first assault. Ibe cheraster of a yers is so notoriously and go universally de- hed, that Macready hus publiely declared— “None of my children shall ever, om any pretence: whatever, enter a theatre, or have any visiting ac- quaintances with actors and actreses.” And ae to improving the eharacter of the plays to be performed, that is equally hope! Not long since, a journal devoted to the interests of the stage informed its readers that Mr. Hamblin bad, “curing the past weel ated a regular succession of Shakepercan pla; regu- lar succession of empty boxes, but last night ho brought out a new bullet, aud the Park was crowd- ed.” The National Intelligencer says—*We are obliged to confess tha the stage has for the most degenerated, becauss the audiences have ceased to be governed by good taste.” Another journal, of | the same character, says—‘Those audiences which alone can preserve the taste of theatrical amuse- ments, and check its tendencies to vice which the theatre is apt to afford, are drivenin disgust from at- tendance upon it, and it becomes the resor; of the dizsolute, the vicious, and the vulgar.” In the nature of things a reformed stage is as impossible as is a reformed tippling house, or a reformed brothel. They aro dreamers, who imagine that ina community where the most virtuous and intelligent half of the people avo:d the theatre and condemn it for its insepar®@ble corruptions, and where great num- bers of those who have uno religious seruples to deter their attendance, will nevertheless stay away for rea- sons of taste and chastity, a theatre can be sustained. whore attractions shall solicit ovly the virtuous and classic mind. Experieuce has demonstrated that a reformed and irreproachable theatre eannot live even under the smiles of royalty Neither Boston, nor Philadelphia, nor New York, has, or ean have sch atheatre. Experience has demonstrated, also, that in a emall city, like Hartford, none but a most corrupt and pernicious stege can possibly support itself eo long 48 & majority of the people remain Vir- tuousand Christian. A theatre may eorrupt a moral community as a cancer or & gangrene may pene- trate the healthful flesh. But avirtuous community has never yet reformed & corrupt theatre. It isa demonstrated and irrefragable proposition that the as been. To epidis > then, for Hartford, or for any other city in Chris- tendom, a theatre with chaste and classic plays, with pure and temperate hays with- out its threo inseparable lites, the brothel, the drinking saloon, and the gamester’s table, is’to overlook the history of centuries and believe what one desires or dreams Having traced the annals and witneseed the character of the stage since ite origin among the Bacchanal rites of Paganism, and having the testimony of a!l ages, countries and cli- mates to its uniform and unchanging effects, the undersigned deprecate in tho most serious terms, and dread with the moet profound syerebendion. she introduction among us of this mother of the t) destroying vices. And they implore the members of the Common Council, as intelligent students of history, as the parenta of sons who are to grow up, amorg Hartford institutions and Hartford. brag 4 as the conservators of pudlic morality, trustees the best interests, and guardians of the highest destinies of the city, to say, what so many heathen legislatures have seen reason in their light to say before, that a corrupt. irresponsible and incorrigib! institute like the theatre—an institute that has led in its train for twenty centurios, and has led round the world, the three vices that have ravaged society wherever they have gone—shall have no welcome and no licsnse in Hartford. The Milford Monument. The following is the inscription which is te be placed on the ford Monument. IN HONOR OF Forty: six American Soldiers, who sacrificed their lives in struggling for the Independence of their , this Monument was erected in 1852, by the joint liberality of the General Assembly, the people of Milford, and other contributing friends. Two hundred American Soldiers, im a destitute, sickly and dying condition, were brought from a British Prison Ship, then lying near Now York, and suddenly cast upon our shore from a Britieh cartel oe on the first of January, 1777. be inhabitants of Milford made the most chari- table efforts for tho relief of the strangers; yet not- withstanding all their kind ministrationgs in one month these forty-six died, and were buried in ono common graye. Their names and residences are inseribed on this Monument. Who shall say that Republics are ungrateful? Rescue or tue Scnooner EaGie’s Crew, on Laxx Eni: —Captain Hooper. of the schooner Congress, furnishes the Buffalo Commercial with the following par- ticulars of the rescue of the crew of the schooner Eagle, lost im the recent storm on Lake Erie :—The Congress ran into Grand River Harbor on Friday night, while the storm was raging in all its fury. As che went in, the cap- tain heard the cries of distress from the erew of the Ea- gle, who were ail clinging to the rigging. the hull of the vessel being under water. They were some distance from the thore, in the midst of breakers which dashed furi- ourly over them, benumbing them with the cold and pose, Cog to exhaust their strength ia their efforts to retain thelr porition Capt Hooper immediately went ashore and proceeding down the beach incompany with others endeavored to drag the schooner Iamlet’s boat to the rpot where the Eagle lay. aud to make an attempt to get the crew ashore. Their efforts were unavailing, how- ever, until they were joined by Capt. dlollowood, of the steamer Mohawk. who with his crew and passengers vol- unteered their tervices in the rescue. The boat was now dragged slong the beach and launched, a rope being at- tacbed to it and held by those on shore. The mate of the Mobewk and four seawen went out in the boat. When they reached the wreck, which was only accomplished after great exertions, they found the crew almost exhaust- ed snd took six of them off the rigging, Capt. Fyfeld and ope bard remaining until the boat could return for them. When making for the shore, the rope parted, and the boat was immediacely upset in the breakers. The erew of the Engle wore too weak to swim, and Capt. Hol- Jowood and some of his passengers rushed into the water and reseved five of them at tue imminent risk of their own lives, The rixth a young man, was lost, Captain Hillowoed then returned iv the boat and rescued Captaim Fy field and bis companion from the wreek. Bostxrss Carps —The Grand Jury of the United States Court im Philadelphia, has made the following recentment in relation to basiness cards reprosenting Tufted Stutes coin:— There is one subject in eonnection with the forging of coins cf the United States, to which | the attention of the Grand Jury has been especially direc'ed It is, to the various tokens made of the size, and in the simflitude of the coins of the Unit which are put into cireulation as bush sons of respectable character. The but look upon the continuance of this pernicious, and caiculated to be made the means fileting great and rerieus wrongs upon the ignorant unturpecting portions of the community, One instance bas been brought to the notice of the jury, where one of there butiness tokens, in tize and figure resembtin, balf eogle, ireued b; business firm in New York, was actually parsed apon a child attending » store in the lower part of the county of Philadelphia. There cannot be any deubt that passing these business tokens upon the ignorant and unwary as genuine cols is within the act of Congress punishing thoee who pass counterfeit money. It is unquestionably within the mischief of the law, and thore who ieeus these tokens fornish the opportunity te- the unpripeipled to ue them for purposes of fraud, Hence, the Grand Jury respectfully recommend thet the practice alluded to should be discontinued in fature, and that if it be not voluntarily abandoned, Congress should pass rome law to meet the exigencies of the case. Distressina Accrpant—On the 13th inst., after | the first storm bad somewhat abated in violence, the steamer Mohawk, Capt. Hollowood. fired up, with the tention of running from Grand River Harbor, C. W., to Port Stanley, The chief engineer sent the second en- | gimeer to grease rome portian of the machinery near the wheel, The recond engineer accordingly got into the box in which the wheel revolves, when the mate gave or- ders to give the wheelsa turn abead. He was that the second engincer was in the wheel at the time, ard the first engineer set the machinery in motion. Tho oor fellow was whirled round with the wheel and terri- ly mangled, His screams were heard, and the machinery instantly stopped. When releared from his Sag ted tition, ho was found to have sustained dreadful {nj 5 bis head being much cut, his face beaten up, and his lege broken and mangled [le was romoved on shore for im- mediate medical arristance, but died after two hours anf- fering. He retained his senres to the last.—Buffale Com Srrrovs Accipext.—At Cambridge, Indiana, while Robinson's Atheneum was exhibiting, om the 6th inet , the seats gave way, on which two to recs Were collect and. © falling, qul e collected. and, by the falling, qul r of the citizens were badly injured; ©. Luts had H 4 broken, and was badly brut: ol ferent portion: 2 : Feverely fractured, and otherwise seriously in; ; y ‘hm a Jacob Kiemar, two or three ribs broken niel Harter had one of bis legs much injured ; James Wallace (colored man) was dangeroarly hurt by the heavy tin- on falling upen his breart and other portions of his y. them J. in dif- his body; 8. P. Cotton, foot and ancle Covncr, Buurr City.—At a meeting held ac- cording to a notice given for that purpose the inbabl- tante of the town of Kanesville, Towa, decided to call said town hereatter by the nome of Council Bluff City The town of Kanesville not having been surveyed an@ platted. a committee war appointed for thet purpose ; alvon committee to draft s memorial to the Port Department te change the name of the Post Office, to correspond with the name of the olty. They also decided to organize for the time being under the law of Conaresty eying the right of pre-emption to 320 asres of land abebitants of town sites, om the public jands ngt ja ma