The New York Herald Newspaper, May 21, 1853, Page 2

snc re nr NA NR RI NN RN A Sn I = es sacar Our Turkish Correspendence, Gandara, shrewd and energetie man, Additional from ‘The Nerwalk Calamity. NEWS BY THE MAIL, cihdeen nate seek cun, dhcatemitorstorghcomiiaed, | wo tie hens IMPORTANT SUIT AGAINST THE NEW MAVEN RAIL- CongrantinorLe, April 16, 1853. | Fa.’Shways been able to keep in the » ‘The two Permitted to translate the following pas | tn) .y COMPANY —HBAVY DAMAGES OLAIMED— Our Queb ¢ Correspondence. Establishment of a Bank of Exchange and Dis- | tormer (ray Jore Aguillar and Fernando Cubillas, sages from a private letter received by a Cuban gentleman RAILMOAD LIABILITY FOR DRATH: Qursac, May 13, 1853. count at Constantinople—General Monctary | were but creatures of his. Hoe made Aguillar resign when | ie this elty from his friend and countryman in Vera (irom tne Bartford Times, May 10,1 - * . by A - < his term was but baif expired, in favor of Cubillas, Enow- | Cruz, Frequent allusion has been made by the New York A Woman Murlerd by hr Husband at Kama-| Transactions—Full Explanation of the Pending | ing fall we)l that the Mexicans require constant change. ‘This is a wild and inbéspitable coun papers to the want of la uate to reach the late rowska—Tn Murderer with his Accomplice, Sen- tence to the Peni n'iary—Opposition to Capital Pumnishment—The Fisheries and Clergy Reserves —Viclent Thunder Storm—A Female Killed by Lightning—The rest of the Family Injured Seri usly. A man and woman were brought up from Kama- rouska a few days since, who had been found guilty of ‘the murder of the wife of the former; but so strong was the feeling of the people there against capi- tal punishment, that the sheriff was unable to carry the sentence into execution, and they have ‘been committed to the penitentiary for life. I hap- pened to be on the wharf when they were landed, | and more miserable looking objects I think, I never | saw. It so happened that a guard of honor was -drawn up on the quay, awaiting the embarkation of Major General Rowan, who had been here on the an- nual six months tour of inspection, and the poor | people must have been under the impression, that it | ‘was a body of troops drawn up as an escort. The chairman of the Committee on Fisheries has moved that his report, which I sent you last week, be referred to the committee of the whole, and in- tends moving that encouragement be afforded to the fisheries when carried on by inhabitants of the pro- vinees, leaving the manner in whick it shall be be- stowed to be determined by the government. The | House of Assembly is still engaged in discussing the rewolutions introduced by the Secretary of the pro- vince, for reconstructing the Legislative Council and making it elective. ‘The weather came on very sultry on Sunday and yesterday, and last evening we had a thunder storm, with very vivid lightning, which struck a house not far from St. Roch’s suburbs, where I reside, and killed a female about Ee of age, who was kneeling at her bedside addressing her Creator, when she was thus unexpectedly summoned into His presence, probably never better prepared to meet her judge. There were seven other individuals in the house, all of whom wew so seriously injured by the fluid that they have not yet sufficiently recovered to be able to give any account of the particulars of the occurrence, This was discovered by some persons passing who perceived the house to be on fire. Had this event happened in the upper town, where there are so many objects to attract lightning, I should not have been surprised ; but while the elements were | dealing out destruction, comparatively so near me, I was enjoying a sense of security, conceiving that the Destroying Angel, if he were out on that occa: would pass over my head and leaye all in this yici- nity unharmed. p s It is supposed the Legislature will not be prorogued fora month, it being anderstood that the govern- ment are awaiting despatches from England, commn- | nicating the passage of the act by the Imperial Par liament giving the Assembly the power to dispose of the clergy reserves. Some excitement was created lust week among the French Canadians by a report that a clause had been inserted by the House of Lords, giving the colonial Legislature anthority also to deal with the public lands which are appropriated for the support of the Roman Catholic Caourch, but which is now understood not to be the case. The | principle, however, is admitted ; and when railroads | and the introduction of a large body of new settlers shall bave Anglicired the lower province, the same result will follow, when a majority shall be found in favor of the measure. I still think, however, that the French Canadian members will vote against secu- larising the reserves. WwW. Our Halifax Correspondence. Hauirax, May 10, 18: Suicide by a Respectab'e Merchant—Cayntalists and | Meoneyed Wealth of Hatifar—Want of Public Spirit—Particulars Relative to Arthur Spring, the Philadelphia Murderer—Arrival from Sable Island—No Wrecks there this Winter—Dwelling house of the People Destroyed by Fire. One of those tra; once in a while startles a community, occurred in our midst on Saturday morning. W. B. Taylor, Esq., of | Liverpool, N.S., who for many years represented that place, committed suicide hy blowing out his brains, in the neighborhood of Hon. Enos Collins’ residence. He was a person of gentlemanly deport- ment, quiet and unobtrusive, and un ally respect-,) ed. The loss of a lawsuit, in which the large property | left by Mrs. Gorham, a pious old lady, to tue Congre | gationalist body of that town, was involved, and to | which Mr. Taylor considered himself entitled, with | other reverses, produced melancholy, which bas re- | sulted thus sadly. j T enclose the memorandum you asked for, descrip tive of the moneyed men of Halifax. In every instance, | Ihave gone under the mark, by which you will | perceive that the wealth which is concentrated among some thirty-three individuals amounts to upwards 0 | six millions of dollars, whieh, with the exception of what is owned by Mr. Cunard, might most of it as weil be at the bottom of the ocean, for all the benefit | it is to the community in the way of enterprise: Besides this class of persons, there are from two to three hundred traders and merchauts—-some of whom have retired from business—owning property worth | from twenty to forty thousand di 3 each, which may be estimated ut seven or eight millions more. Berha § you are not aware that Arthur i the Philadelphia murderer, wos once a res! Halifax. On his being transported from Newfound- land, where be was implicated in the murder of Mr. | Snow, by his wife and another accomplice, and on which occasion he atone of the three escaped being hanged, he came to Halifax, and resided in a house immediately in the rear of Mr. Richardson, in Holl street, to whom be was a continual source of ann ance, and at whose servant girl, be on one occasion fired a gun through the kitchen window, for which he was arrested, and would have been punished but for Mr. Richardson's leniency. He afterwards carried on business on Fairbanks’ wharf, where he fuiled, owing, among others, a debt to Mr. Joseph Fairbanks, who sued him and obtained judgment, the record of which I was looking ata few days since. There caa be no doubt of his being the same man. 3 ‘The government cutter Daring, comman Captain Daly, bas jnet arrived from Sab Captain D. reports no wrecks, but that tt howe of the island people, with all their clothing and necessaries, had been destroyed by fire, leaving them eutirely destitute. The fire occurred when the men were on the other side of the island looking for wrecks. G. Our Texas Correspondence Avetix, May 5, 1853 A Gentle Hint to Barnum and the Spiriteal Rappers—The Golds Diggings—Advice t Railroad Speculators—Look out for Texans with Railroad Charters in their pockets a the World's Fair—Candidates for Gove nor and Con gress—The Indians Peaceable As you are always on the look out for news, and as your paper is read by every body, I propose to trouble you occasionally with an item or two. It iz an old, and I believe a very world is governed by humbug; you wh in the reach | of the immortal Barnum can best tell (buinbog’s) on (he pockets, end as you are cx spicitual rappings you can tell its effect on body and mind; but we | whe live within a day’s ride of the new diggiogs, and have | our statutes loaded with r an speak per: | hape as knowingly as you © esaid humbags. | Here we have py in by hundgeds to dig | gold; and it takes a li ct them than they | find to return home left their en (whieh was the true gold) to «4, and fiad when trite saying, that the harters, lroad he afor Farmers they get to the diggings tha! they are all o«y-eon asa | But the railroad 4 ug is, r 1 | corned, fectly ha-mles | you to caution your rea against this +p ulation. Various persons have here! fo divers and sundry railroad charters, ni worth more than his daily broad with at You will, [say, have daring the Worll’s I railroad Texans ‘with charters in their pockets, am advise you to keep a look out; don't believe a word ther say about the extraordinary value of the lanid and still less of our citizens’ subscription; it is all gam mon; the Janud has to be got, aul out South worth over IZor 15 cents per acc; and as for the mousy, | our merchants are oor only eapttalists®aad they without exception nead all their fuads pasiaes:, The fact of the business is, tieve #1bseriptions are all on paper, and if five per Was 1 it would break the party. We in Texas ngs to be facta, and with very few excey ant that Texan improvemen + be endangered A word to the will dcop atinely Northern eompin not buy charter Austin next session of posit @ forfeit, aud the agis now on our sta out paying anything, which shall be less thao St, Nicholas for the same » ‘We have no news here of iis doaen cantidates for Governor The Indians are more perce t ia that they wil be sertlad on Keaganted, ig their spoarsand to 08, en ahelr own ving a» ond T hope you ay thst any can book: aeta a Chater (Cor a batter one) | customer, ¢ and unfortunate events which | | one and the Geueral in command of the other force, | Effendi, th | holder Negotiations Baween the Porte and Russia and Lustria—Extensive War Preparations of the Russians to Enforce their Demands—Insult to the Grand Vizier by the Russian Ambassador— The Turkish Fleet too much Occupied to Despatch @ Steam Vessel with Articles for the Crystal Pa- lace as Previously Determined on. | The Ottoman govermuent has established a Bank of Exchange and Discount at the capital, which bids fuir to be of much benefit to the government and country. The exchange on Europe, (London and Paris,) being greatly against this place, {it,has flac- tuated from 110 to 130 piastres to the pound sterling, within the last six months, greatly to the injury of commerce. The Spanish dollar has, within the same period, varied from 23 to 27 piastres in value. All foreign coins—and there were few others in the place —daily varied in value—to-day the shop keeper told his customer that the $1 was worth only 24, and to- morrow he took it for 25 or 26 piastres. Bills paya- ble in pounds or in dollars could scarcely:be fixed, and it was quite a chance whether the holder re- ceived for £100, 1,100 piastres or 1,300. The new bank engages to keep as many bills on London for sale in the market at 1.0 piastres to the pound, as may be necded by commerce. All other foreign coins—dollars, francs, and roubles—have, in con" sequence, now # fixed value, The Sultan has three currencies: one in pure gold and silver— rather scarce—one In a baser metal, and one in paper, The latter is three per cent leas in value than the metal, and the same fixes the standard of all tiree. Invoices are usually made out in metal currency, on account of the paper money not circulating out of the capital. Great apprehensions have been excited here by the two missions to the Porte, from Austria and Rus- sia. The former succeeded but partially in its de- mands, and it was believed that the Porte got well rid of Count Leiningen. He threatened very ex- tensively; and there being no foreign ambassador on the spot to give countenance and support to the Sul- tan’s government, it negotiated with him with care and prudence. The Minister of Foreign Affairs at this time, H. S. Fuad Effendi, a man of very superior tal- ents and tact, negotiated with the Austrian envoy; and whatever credit is due to the Porte for the satis- | factory manner in which it cased itself of an ugly is dueto him. Scarcely was the envoy gone, than a worse and | more formidable foe menaced him, in the persou of | Prince Menscikoft, Ambassador Extraordinary trom the Emperor of Russia, whose demands are of a na- | ture to excite the worst alarms of the Porte. It is | said that he demands the restoration of the “ Holy Places” in Syria to the Greeks, to the same extent as they posesessed them previous to the favor shown to France; that the Patriarch of the Greek Church of Constantinople be hereafter confirmed by the Synod of St. Petersburg as well as by the Sultan, and that his office be held during good behavior, (which means, you know, for life;) moreover, that he shall not be removed without previously consult | ing the wishes of the Emperor of Russia; that a strip of land at the frontier of Circassia and Turkey | be ceded to Russia, it being esseutial for the subjuga- tion of the Circassians, and to the preveution of suc- cess,in the shape of guns and ainmunition being | sent there from Turkey: that the treaty of 1434 be | again renewed, and an alliance, offensive and defen- sive, between the Sultan and the Emperor, bind them eternally together as friends. The chief object of the extraordinary mission is said to be the | restoration of the ancient friendship and alliance which in former years bound the predecessors of the Czar and the Sultan, and which, i? now renewed, | would cut the latter off trom the friendly relations | which have animated him, trom the period of cession up to the present time, with the more liberal and constitutional governments of Western Europe. | The character of the Ottoman government has, for some ten or fifteen years past, Leen so “liberal and | enlightened” that tlie world would see it return, } finally, to long discarded absolute principles with | regret. The newly arrived British and French ara- | bassadors will doubtless prevent the Sultan, at least, from yielding to force, and there is not much cause to believe that he will forsake lis liberal principles s placed ali the nav twelve line cf batt! eight iriy fa some other sm: and a corps d’armée, near Odessa and in Bes-arabia, on the Danube, under the orders of Prince Measchi- . So as to effect this with certainty, he brought with him to Const jople the Admiral of the besides a large number of oflicers of both services, The Prince Ambassador comn ed negoti Ly Iting the Graud Vizier, ou wl tof wnitorm, and by refusing to eail upon finiscer of Foreign Afftirs, at all. This | imade a very grave impression upon the whole | government and upon tue Sultan, and the impor- | tance, rank, and number of the m ; no doubt, have given rise, in Hurope aad America, to | rumors of “dire intent” on the part of the Russian Emperor. | ‘A new paper, published, I believe, at this place, | bas, | observe, an article about the Crystal Palace of | New York, and remarks with much satisfaction, that he catied the government of United States having heard | that the Sultan had intended sending a steamer to the | Exhibition ad uppropriated $20,600 for | extending te the hospitalitie of the | Union. From the nature of the article, I believe, the appropriation must have made a very agreeable | 1 here, but [ do not know whether the mer will be sent. I mention this, be- e, before reaching this place, [ had heard, in | Syria, that the war of egro, and the distur- | lances among the Druses, bad caused the tan to | abandon the plan of ecuding a steam frigate to the United States. | I hope soon to be in Greece, from which place you will next hear from pon us, from custom with our ta special object of of gold now being rth in diferent pacts ave enting that In view of y to become is perhaps 29 r quantity hao iu nora, ar y of mu b ta to be # hill or sierra bu a8 of the precious metal, silver being by far the most pleatiful. To give our readers some idea of # examples the truth of thase la the mine | of Le Purisatme Co n, near the town of Huspacs, onecf the,piliars of the is twelve yards © and fou 1 » floode such quanti s ts e the taies of an intelligent and enter exhibited rich spe ianabar, | that | of the cities | mines are known to exist, | Ovr readers will naturally as! then, do not the nhsbitants work them, and use ther io their advantaget The reasons are numerous. First. because the State is | outinually torn by political and c entions, and uo security for life or property ea uated on.’ Next, beeaure the sneh a are xorked at all, are worked | n confermi'y with the old 9 mining Jaws, noother | mode being bermit he Apache Tndiaas are | ® of and eilectually prevent wd and panic etrieken Inhabiants from undertak- | because the Mexican race | ment of the ago that they | tage’: | enovation and | y would rather live on ag they do, t 1 ing the operation are 50 far beh nd | | | which they are s ine, c1 jovista, or share. 6 exenpt in ac laws ot to kaock clare, amorg other things, that aay n the pillors of a mine, fo: feits adit hecomes the property of any The form, aad plan e, are la forfeits the The politieal affairs bloody wars aro of fre the State ent 0¢ generally arise from foruily ¢ for place and power The So eon General Urrea and Manuel @ entions b ween the rival va almost ¢ t in blood. No quarters are given, a prine:pal part of the figh ig doe by what acc tome, Apache 1 one or two tribes. The house of 4 also that of wityaod hae ver b 008 ely ri | ral, which sball place them in possession of such data as bi _ | man bap wore to California, | | which may be fourd ia the writ | The transgressor will n ‘At the time of the Count Raouxset de Boulbou, Gan- dora armed his tbree or four thousard Yacki Indiaus, and under the ples of driving out the Freaeh bas again seized the government, such as it is, ‘The State is in the most defenceless condition possible. ‘The Apaches roam unrestrained over nearly the whole State, murdering. burning, plundering, and carrying cap- tive wherever they go. Hundreds of ones douri-bing and rich ranchos are now in ruins, and the silence of the dead reigns shere populous und thriving towns and | villeges formerly existed. The inhabitants are panic- | stricken, and they see thelr wives and children carried | off from before their eyes, and regard it as a matter of course, 60 familiarized have they become to these depre dations. Morality is almost unknown amongst them, and in the cities the public mind is kept excited y the Pharasaical pomp avd circumstance of their religion, which bas an opportunity for full display in the nume- rous holydays of their church. ‘The people are perfectly Priest ridden, and the little the masses possess takea from them under some one or other exeu-e of the padres. Sonora possesses almost every diversity of climate, from the torrid zone to-the arctic snows; and as the roil in the valleys and on the table lands ia very fe.tile, it is capable of produeing all the fruits of the earth. Large qvantities of the sugar cane aro raised in the extenrive valley, from Arispe to Ures, and from Ures nearly to Gvaymas. But the ignorance and inetfble aloth of the inhsbitants limit the manufacture of the juice to any thing but miserable sample of pillonceo rugar. Iu the meantime, they pay enormeus prices for decent sugar, manufactured in Sinaloa. Yet these people possess every opportunity and advantage for making as good on their own extates. Corn. wheat, and grain of all kinds, are easily raised, and return enormous yields, with their modes of cultivating. How much more might it not produce if :he ground were properly tilled ! Some portions of the State are xdmirably suited to the production of coffee and cvcoa; and for the purpose of raising stock, we venture to assert that there not a better [saga rion ia the world. Notwithstanding all the foregoing advantages, there is no country under the sun where the inhabitants are in & more miserable and wretched condition than ia Sonora. Chinese Laws, Customs and Commerce. {From the San Francisco Times and Transcript, April 7.) ‘The march of enterprise which led to the vesupancy of this western coast, the developement of its resources and inexhaustible wealth, and the orgauization of a State go- vernment, by which recurity and protection were secured to the enterprising, bas resulted in a wore direct comamu- nication and intercourse with China than has ever be- fore been enjoyed cither by Americans or by any of the nations of Europe. Russia, it is true, has had a more extended intereburre with Chios. than'any other nation, and this through the means of her trading ports extended along the eastern shore of ber empire bordering pn Man- churis, and she has met with great success in intro | dueivg’ her manu’actures into all parts of the Chine ¢ empire. But it is also true that the Chinese never emi- grated to Russia, nor any other country, as they have to the state of California, thus evincing @ desire for inter- course with outside barbarians, as they style all other rations, The Kin Snan (literally Guld Mountain, the pame by which Culiforpia is koown to Chinamen ) began to attract the attention of the people of the Tien Chan (Celestial Empire) some two years since, and we now have amongst us from twenty {0 twenty-five thousand of this singuhir and erratic people. An interest in there strangers has sprung up amongst our own peo- pie, and we feel well assured that there is a desize in tke eciamunity to know more of China, its govern ment, the manners and eurtoms of ibe people, the wealth | aud resources of the Empire, both agricultural and mine- heretofore been almost unattainable. We are aware thata few of our citizens have been to China, and have resided there for Kot mice but they could only have become pa: tially acquainted with the inhabitants ia cer- tain localities, their pureuits being exclusively commer cial; being almost entirely ignorant of theic language, and bu® partially acquainied with what is called in China Cantoa English, which is English in Chinese idiom. Tis jargon is only understood by those who have resided with foreigners, and is the result of the Chinese endeavoring to accommodate themselves to foreigners for the purpose ef securing employment and making money, whilst the wasn Of vur citizens know nothing of China aud its peo- ple, except what they have learned from the short inter ecurre they have had with those now in our midst. We Rules, therefore, to comineuce a series of papers on ina. und to continue them from time to time as we may be enabled to do so. The government of China, in its inesption aad strue- ture, was unquestionably patriarchal, and has always | been considered to be so: but the madus operandi of ita | | Krowlton, of the senior theologics! class in the Nineteenth century, and there is road neither a libe- ral government nor enlightenment, Already Santa Anus has thrown himeelf into the arma of the monarchist psr- ty whi gi He bes been now ten days in power, and given us some dictatorial baces, extinguished tue liberty ‘of the press, extinguished the National Guard, treats of establishing perpetual corporations named by the gover nors, and bas a8 Mipister of State Don Lucas Alaman, who isa Mettermich—a Radetzky—a Haynau. As to the court of law, there are a few persons here who are the only ones who have eases, since salely to be a foreigner would brimg on you the anathema. There is throughout,the whole republic such en exclusivism, sueh a netivism, that Bus'ris himself had not Pe antipathy to him who was born out of his islaud than have here sll—all—all. It ia enough to tell you that the celebrated Pena y Pens, one of their eminent men, ia a work on public rights, uses the words of Seripture to preve that even God had said, “Do not permit the stranger to re age ee loyed, still is but oneven were employed, still every salary is bu ne minal: and they would pay you in five dollar instal ments, so that I have refused @ judgeship lest I should die of hunger. The general character of the people is that of the primitive natives—suspicious and pert a5 whilst you should become a Cato the day on which you had to become a stranger—an adveaturer—a fereigner— which are the three sacramental words. Why would you come to take refuge in this Pekin? Look at their consti: tution, and you will see that even to the most petty of- fice it is necessary for the official to be a Mexican cf in birth. ‘They believe that they do us a great favor in a mitting us, and henee the quality of Habanero (Cuban) a distinction which is placed even on the portfolio of those high in office. Why would you come here? If Hsten to my advice, ecmmit suicide first. No; in ever other part of the world one lives he lives anaong eivi lived people. Baptist maton esy: Union. The following is an abstract of the thirty-ninth annual report of the American Baptist Missionary Union, pre sented to the Board of Managers, during their session at Alesy, en the 19th inst.:— Mr. Nehemiah Boynton has been elected a member of the Executive Committee, in place of Mr. G. S, Shipley, deceased, Rev. 8. Peek, D.D., the Foreign Secretary, and Re James N. Granger, of Providence, R. 1, were appointed a depntation to the missions if Burmah, to visit also those in Siam and Chiva. They left this country in October, and arrived in February at Akyab, (Burmab,) on their way to Maulmain. ‘The service performed in nize districts is nearly equal to that of nine men 113, months each, The sgeuts have fervor lly presented the claims of the missions to about {£00 churches and public meetings, besides correspond ence aud other less direct efforts. ‘The publications of the year were, 2,000 eapies of the thirty-eighth anual repert and the monthly issue of 5.700 copies of the Missionary Magazine, and 36,500 of the Macedonien, Both periodicals have a larger circulation than in 1851, and defrayed from their receipts the ex- penre of their publication and distribution, The Memoir of Dr Judson is so nearly finished that it will be published the coming autumn. Missionary appointments have been given to the Rev Jucob R, Scott, lute pastor ef the First Baptist Caurch ia Portland, Me , and to Messrs. Robert Telford, of the seaior class im the Rochester Theological Seminary, Miles J. ladicon Uai verrity, und Abraham Snyder, of the senior class ia New- ton Theological Institution. ‘Rev. Jo eph G. Binney has been re appointed. He is expected to resume his place in the Maulmain Karen mission, as teacher of the Theological Seminary; Mr. Scott is designated to Frauce; the others, with the Rey. J. 1. Douglass, appointed the preceding year, are expected to rail the proseut year, to missions in sia not yet designated ‘The Union now embraces 4,182 members, constituted by the }ayment of $100 each. MAULMAIN BURMAN MISSION. Two etations, i out stations; 9 missionaries, one a prin- ter; 9 feruale assistants; 8 native assistants. MAULMAIN KAREN MISSION, Two stations, 16 outstations; 4 missionaries, 6 female assistants; 45 native sesistants. Miss Wright arrived ia this country June 29. The work of the mission has been disturbed by the war. Sone of the churches have suiter- ed greatly by the same eause, and others by epidemic diseases, but such as were free from these evils have been senerally prosperous. Exclusive of Rangoon district, the baptisms were £9, and the present number of members is 861. The theological echool was taught only ove regular machinery proves it to be one of the most absolute and urmitigaied rystems of despotism upon the face of the earth. The people have no voice or influence in the choise of their supreme rulers. Each emperor names his | successor, nor is the name of a successor known until after the death of an emperor. Exch emperor writes the rame of the pe:son he wishes to eucceed hic upon a slip | of psyer, depositing the ame in rome safe and secret de- pository known only to himeelf and to whomsoever he pleare fo make it known, On the death of an Emperor, this payer is opened by those who possessed his conti: dence, and his successor becomes kn#n, 8 cends the throne, and is acknowledged by the people. The Ewyeror is the supreme head of the nation; ali | power, both over the lives and groperty of his +ub- | jects, centes in him-elf Hs lu natural conse- quence, all power, rank tinction muet, and do, | emarate from him. Hix will 1s the suprem> law of ne lard His fet cannot be opposed without the pger of lors of life und the coufiscation of property. | inkcown by & bumber cf hizh eounding but fulsome | Tien Whang, Celestial. August One -Shiag | i Ani rh d August, Infinite in Knowledza wud in Virtue—Tien Tsze, Sen of Heaven, ke. He is acdresred, when approached ba@ithes highest officials, ) with titles equally abeurd and ridiculous, ws Was-Sui ya, | Sire of Ten Thewand Years, and Pichia, Beneath the Foot | stocl xecompanied with prostrations The present dy- rasty. ‘Tartar, ie called the Ta ising, the nasty und be preseat Emperor, Hum Fusg. tbe s who lis reigned under this dsnesty, is a young man | ¥o and twenty years of age, who asceoded the on the death of his fa:her tre lote Emperor fan | Twang. who died ip 1861. Some icea may be formad af | his tmperia! establishment fror: hix having attacked to it an extensive harem and some Gve thousand euauchs to surerivtend it and do the work of menials. | The concubives who compore the harem are the daugh- ters of Mancbue, and afditions are made to it about every third year by the Emperor himself, selecting from amoug the dauchters of his nobles and officers such of thexn as may please him, who are over twelve years of age. The parents of the children consider it an advantage if not honor to have thetr chiléren in the imperial harem The harem ia composed of evec legal concubiaes, and an un- | limited number of illegal ones The illegal ones are re stored to liberty at the age of twenty-five yesrs, unless | they have borne children to his mejesty, in which ease they are retained in the harem, doubtless for the purpose of rearing the ebildren they have borne. ‘The table of bis majesty supplied with thicty pounds of meat, seven pounds served up in soup; lard butter, ore avd one-third pounds each ; two shecp, two fowls, too ducks, the milk of eighty cows, and seventy rarcels ¢f tea, The toble of be ety is supplied with thirty four pourds of meat, thirtees of them boiled with vegetables, | one fowl. one duck, tweive pitchers of water, the milk of twenty five cows, ¢nd ten parcels of tea. Her Majesi walds end the concubines have their fare minutely spe fied. If the possession of unlinited power and @ sty eburdanee of the good things of this world could make a paturally suppore the Emperor piest mortals living. The details erial establishment at Pekin, with a mass of rintere-ting ‘nformation, may be found in a work called the Hwni Tien. ‘The Chinese bave a wyitien onde of laws, the germ of gs of Le Kwei, who wrote some twenty centures rfncs, with which have been inorporated from time to tice the ethics of Keng- fu-tre, Corfueius, and Mang fx tree Mene'us others of their ancient rages the revcripts of mary E pre. ent code of laws t: and reseripts re dynasty, a new edition of which is pub of China ¢ ished by ® every five yeas e was revived about the middle of the under the kmperor Sanche. [Suncha | we after the Tater conquest of 1646.) An apparent paternal soli f his Majesty for thu good government of hir subj act from ihe preface of the revisi A numero 0 ntes was aesem)t pital at our a] code forrverly in for ane of dige-ting the same jon of such parte a8 were ction of others which wer ttainment of justice. and the genera of the work. Tho res r labors baving by the various matt cted « select number of vf My to revise the whole. for the purpore of makin: » alterations snd amendations as might fourd requisite, Wherefore, it being now pul let it be your great care, officers aud mi interior and exterior devartments of our empire, d ly to observe the sam igeat and to forbear in future to give any decision or to puss any sentence according to yor private rentiments, or upon your unsupported authority. | Thus shall the magi-trates and people lock up with awe and submission t they find themeel the justice of those inetitutions, ay + respectively covcerses in therm. fail to suffer a strict expiation of lis crimes, and will be the instrument of deterring others from similar miseondu and, finally, both officers and people will be equally seeared for endless generations in the enjoyment of the happy effects of grent and noble virtues of our Mlustriows progenitors ‘This code of law» is arranged under seven hea General, civil, fiseal, rituel, military and eri Unfortupately, tha execution of the laws of the is committed to’ men whore ruling passion ia cup and whose main dim is self i aod hy the people are oppressed by wild be their gnacdians and protectors. Thomas Francis Meagher. ‘rom the M. p (Ta) Ba 1 The German Turners « most brilliant style that lind, of liberty in Germs: ¥rancia Meagher. with which the young re ‘miration of him. as they bad previously h gher, ibrough his secretary, Mr. " vith the following noble sentiment clf always and everywhere and + 5 for é own forcible words, * Americaniom ageinst Austrian | ‘The fraternity of nations § { and in the enjoy ment “ Hurrah! for human freedom! God send it soon, That glorious noon. Hurrah! for human freedom: 1. May the Marrelliise soon summon agaia all the na tions of Furepe to the war against thrones, also cree and idols. , 4 May the sovere'gnty of the people be restored in Europe, and forever, ax it stood eathroned iu 1843 for a short but glorious hour 5, Vie la Repurtigne 1 | the Burmere of Sandoway, sailed in Sepremb. | the gospel. | foD reeumed theii | government bas shown marked hi | extending into row | rance of sever: term, with 28 ierel The normal school has bad an at tendsnce of £0; 34 of the pupils are members of the church. 7 having been baptized during the year, The | two Karen boaiding schools at Maulmain had 80 pupils. In Rangoon, Mr. Vinton began laboring as soon as the city was taken by the English, and, with his native assis- tants, bas found abundant reward fer evangelical effort. The people are eager to hear, and not a few believe Sixty nine have been baptized since July, and « school of 185 pupils has been gethered. TAVOY MISSION. Twostations, 17 outstations; 7 female assistants; about native assistants. ARRACAN MISSION. Tyo stations, 2 outstations; J missionaries, 4 female astistants; 8 vative assistants. PANDOWAY MISSION, ‘Twe stations, 44 outetations, 5 mis sistunts, 45 nutive assistants | Mr} rived at Maulmaix in January. Mr. Whitaker, desiguated so the Karen department, sailed in January. Mr. Abbott. in impuized health, embarked at Calcutta in January, for he United States.’ The reports from the churchss, ba outtreak of war, exhibited them in a prosperous ressive +tate. 288 baptisias wert reported. the commencewent of hostiliiies, the mi ndoway. Busse having been t Merore Abbot: and Van Meter reps Beecher ns had eadured ‘om the Burtava who treated them enemies, Many lind been swept away by cholera, sory them five native preachers. While hostilities con: tinned, they fought in seif defence, and their bravery waa commenced by the English, Multttudes flocked to the misrionaries for instruction A large population wait for Peace having been restored, the mission has 2 wider field ard brighter prospects than ever before. AVA MISSION. One station, 1 outstation; 2 missionaries, 2 female as- tistents, 4 vative astistants. Messrs. Kincaid and Daw- residence at Kavgoon as soon as it*was entered by the Evglirh forces. For several months anarehy and violeuce agitated the country, but the work of the mission wert on with little interruption, MISSION To SIAM Oue station, 2 outstations; 5 missionaries, 4 fernale as- sirtunts; 3 Chinese assistants. HONG KONG tiou, 4 outstation: Mission ;2 missionaries, 4 mative as One # wistants, NINGPO MISGON. tation; 3 missionaries, 3 female assistants; 2 na- istants, One tive as xrssi0 Three stations; 7 mis native assistant aM ries, 7 female assistants; 5 SION TO. THR THRO: One station: 2 missionaries, 2 fe: tive assist: MISSION TOVTHE BASSAS Two stations; 2 missionaries, 4iemale assistants; 4 na- tive arsi-iants. Fourteen ap istants tants tations, 0 outstations*2 missionaries, 2 female ordained pa ers avd 13 other native assia- De. Devan has withdrawn from this mission. The tility to evangelical Jal Ubupels have bem closed; fines ard imprison- ments threaten the brethren aud have been inflic:ed upon seme of them, ‘But the work has goue forward, even in the pr sent, Sixteen have been bapti. tment, und seventy-ti the influeffce of the mission gious. Mr. Willard is mneh ea- aged m theological instruetion. The young men under his charge are promising, MINSIO uth a TO GERIANY jovaries and 2t other native Mr. Oneken has visited this si tae ith. and on the next day pro aig! personal iaju: il which proved fatal to many. ‘The in’ ernments has contioued to a mission injuriously, but assurance has been given more liberal po iey toward the churches ia Pru Will have an influence favorable to those in oth Foity stations; yreachiers and as from a p parts of Germany. She choreses in Prussia, nembering 14, have 1.606 members, 191 were bipticed ducing the year, Ia- Cividuals in Kiussia and Lithuania are believed to been converted thro: i) is fluence: from some of eo The at Hamburg bas received fifty those in Bremen and the Grant Duchy prosperous and efficient. In Elber nity, ud in Cologne, an int i Promises invch for noemeat of truth, ral nspect of the whole field is encouragtug, BIPSION TO GREKCE tuissionaries; ® Three «tations; % female assivtants; 1 native ageistant. INDIAN MISSIONS, stiocs; eleven stations, ning outstations RRCAPITULATION. The number of missions proseented under the direc tion of che Hoard, is 19, embracing 88 stations and Lil cutetations, besides 059 places ol stated preaching in France. Ce fed with the missions are whom €0 sre preachers, aud thers are 8 missionaries and 11 female a ions. The number of 8; toin) of ries ore under appointment. 4, having an estimated membership of 14,250, of which about 1,200 were added by baptism the past year. The nurober of schools is 81, including 24 boardiag schools, wish 1,080 pupils. Tbe namber of pages peinted ia two of the missions=-Maulmain and Ningpo--was 4,494,800 Tk i prep Svicipy or mbered that the y at Atwater street, in March last, was ¢ ced of wanslaughter, and sentenced to the Houso of Many believed he waa not so vicious as the ter- ch he war guilty would reem to imply. rince be has been in the House of Re tends io the contrary belief. About a week ago he w intoa violent parsion on some slight provocation, and sesterdey he evhibited himself in all his native mcral deformity, After indulging in pravka in violation of the roles be rat down on the work bench and refived to go to work, as ordered by the keeper. He was told he -he replied he woutd not, aud on being gently taken by the keeper, he r#i@ he would cut his thront tefore be would work. In a moment ie sprung out of p of the keeper, aud made for a desk, where he of asbarp shoe knife, with which—the keeper agein seized hold of him—he made several in- | atiempts to cut his throat, and but for the have succeeded. Whon excited xceedingly sullen, and so much un ¢ pressions, as to be quite beside him: elects heeper would ¢oubtle reprevented a6 control of by 4 Me dicherter Leamcerat, Moy 18, th | February’. ilrcad disaster at Norwalk, allowing damages to the rurviving relatives of those who were killed. The New York Hexavp, of the 17th inst., remarks as follows on subject. beep : trange anomaly in the law under which dami of or twe thoasand dollars, may be seeu " ae d crippli ‘a patsenger on road, aoe eee cr widow aud her orphan. child woos sole dependenee for their daily bread was their husband and father, who may have been crushed to atoms or ly drowned in the prison house of » submerged car — ‘that for them there is no indsmnity, no editors of that city appear to dabor under the same impression with regard ty the wbsence of all legislation adequate to meet this case, But the impres- sion is altogether a mistaken one, If they will turn to | the (syope ‘Btatutes of their State, enacted during the | sevsion, of 1847 and 1849, “they will find that laws were pasved for the express purpose of providing redrees and dawages for the relatives of persons killed by railroad, steamboat, or other casualties. The statute enacted in | New York’ in 1847 provides that if any person shall Le | Killed or die in consequence of the default or negligence of any person or corporation, the widow or next of kin whosur- vive maysue and recover damages from such person or cor- poration, in the same way in w the injured persons might bave sued for 8 if their injuries had not proved mortal. The statute of 1849 is similar to the statute of 1847 in all respects, except that it restricts the amount to be Teeovered, in case ef death, to a sum not exceeding jive thousand dollars. The object in thus modifying the statute of 1847 was to guard against those vindictive and excessive dama- es which juries, under the influenee of passion, or in- famed by the artful appeals ef advocates, will sometimes ive. This restriction will save the New York aud New ven Company—provided they are adjudged to have been guilty of # want of due care—many thousand dol- lars; for without it mapy of the deaths at Norwalk of sicians and others would have oost them $15,000 or ie lor the te damages will be very h t is, the aggreget ages very heavy un- der this statute, if there has been avy negligence in nut providing sufficient sufeguards—for the contract of paxasge having been made in New York, and the com. pany being a New York as well as a Connecticut corpora. tion, there is no question that they are liable to be sued under New York laws for deaths, just as they have bee heretofore sued there for injuriea,received upon their road in Connectieut—the remedy being a civil one, and therefore am. Now, the result of this matter requires andid and & ‘action on the part of men and eapitalists ‘thro ut seuthern Southern road and He edie sat rapulling th Rigg tone iy Res ree er section mit to the trade of the city of New York, 10 whteh city our business most naturally 8, The Grand River vi Jey, with “ber thriving population,” will give her trade and business an outlet through this rection of and to York, rather than via Port Huron to in case an outlet is made Sisoegs the Grand River valley from the road of southern Michigan. It requires, then, the attention of thore interested im the presperity of southern Michigan to see to it that so great a prize—s prize which nature seems to have placed within their easy resch—is not wrested from us. The legitimate and cer- tain means of defence seems to us to be the speedy com- Foes of the railroad from this city to Jackson, and rom thenee, by the way of Lansing, to Grand Rapids. GREAT NORTHERN RAILROAD. Welearn from the New Orleans Pi of the 34 inst., that the stoekholders of the New Orleavs, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad Company hel » méeting on Seturday, to vote upon the aceeptanco of the act ef in- corporation lately granted by the Legislature. Nine- teen thousand nine hundred and fifty-nive shares were re- presented, which is more than three-fourths of the whole number of sbares subserlbed. A unanimous vote was cast in favor of accepting the charter. RAILROAD TO LAKE WINNBBAGO. ‘The amount subscribed on the 5th inst. in Milwaukie was sufficient to organize the company. There is no | longer a doubt that the road will be put under contract during the course of the next three months. Responsi- ‘Winnebago in two years, but the eorporators think that ‘they can get the tiie reduced to eighteen months. OPENING OF THE ROCHESTER AND LAKE ONTARIO RAILROAD, ‘The first link, says the Kocheuter Advertiser of the 12t!: | iast., connecting Lake Ontarie with the great ehain of railways through the centre of our State, was oj on | the 11th ipst., and the first lecomotive and over it, to the Charlotte landing, a distance of al seven miles from Rochester. This read follows the of the Niagara Falls Railway for the distance of « or s0 northwest from ita starting point, at the dey them branches off on « curve, Daseing saat half a weet of the House of Refage, and of Lake View, the Erie Canal, at the head of Rowe street, and the o Road a little west of the farm and residence of L. Langworthy, Keq.; and thence on an easy grade, nearcely sie ‘any descent, until it rerches the mouth of the river. : | _BOBTON, CONCORD AND MONTREAL RAILROAD. | _ The annual meeting of this corporation wiil be held in iil ERE not, like a criminal action, restricted as to the locality of the suit. If the facts sworn to at Norwalk are true, it is certain that the managers of this corgoration did not ue care of the most dangerous place on tbeir lino, re therefore liable to pay to the kindred of all ths dead the full amount allowed by the New York satute. | This lay was enacted for the purpose of meeting a de- | fect in the common law which, absurdly enough, allows heavy duinoges to be recovered for injuries, but for the greatest of all injuries, death, absolutely refuses all re- dress or compensation. This is one of the many hum- bugs too closely copied by American judges fram the common law of Great Britain. Under the operation of this exquisite legal absurdity it has been caeaper for railroads and steamboats to kill & thousud passengers | than to wound one, This glaring defect in the common _ law bas been recently remedied in Mussachusstts and | New York, and one cr two other States, by statutory enactments, to which all corporations, belonging wholly, | or in part, to either of those States, are amenable. | We thould acd, perbaps, that the New York statute expresrly provides that the benefit of all damages re covered for death rhall go to the window or next of kin This would probably not allow an action to be sustained for the benefit of any ereditors of the deceased or of ia- | surance companies. ‘the relations of those whore lives | were insured are entitled to all damages which may be recovered as well as to their insurance, | In Connecticut, also, there is a statute which meets this | case, though very few even of the legal profession have | heen aware of as existence, owing to the fact that siacs | its pasrage, no previous case has occurred for its applica- -| tion, and conequently their atiention has not been | called to it substantially in the following words:— | Actions for injury to the person, whether such injury re- | sult in death or not, shall survive to the execator or admiu- istrator, provided not more than one year elapso between the injury and death, and provided also the cause of action shall have occurred subsequently to June 27, 1848, | ‘No person has heretofore hud occasion to bring an ac tion under this statute, but it is manifest that its plain | common: sense construction authorises the executora of | any person injured or killed through the neglect or de- | fault of ang jer-oa or corporation to recever damages, and without any restriction as to the amount, Under | the New York statute, the damages recovered against | the New York and New Haven Company, for those who were'killed at Norwalk, (provided they are liable at all,) | would amount to $255,000, and the damages for injuries | to persons and destruction of property to $50,000 or $60,- | 000 more. Under the stutute of Connecticut, the dem- | ages for the dead might rau up to $400,000 or $500,000. | We are informed that one suit has already’ been commenced by the surviving relatives of am cminent deceased physician ‘or $25.00, and another ly the friends of one of the de- | ceased Boston pas: ‘or $100,000. “Such being the | state of the care, it is evident that no further legislation | is necessary so far as the money remedy is concerned. Rallroad Intelligence. | THE NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY. | The Albany Journal of tue 7th inst. The Rail | road Cozsolidation Committee, to whose meeting we | aliuded on Thursday, closed ite sitting yesterday. We understand that the details of the proposed consolidation | agreement were finally arranged on substantially the | jerms agreed upon at the meeting at Syracuse, and that | the committee recommend that tae diresturs of the re- | spective companies should meet on the 17th inst., to | execute the agreement, avd that the stockholders meet: | ing to ratify the «ame shall be held on the 20th of June | next, at such places as the respective boards ehould ap- | point. It wus agreed thet the new corporation should be | called ‘The New York Central Railroad Company,” and | that the first election sbould be held on the sixth day of | July next, at the Ci:y Hall in albany. | i THE BINGHAMTON AND SYRACUSE RAILROAD. | The work ou the Spreouse and Blughamton Ruilrond | hax progressed so rapidly that the laying of the rail will | probably commence by the cars wi!l be running ALBANY AND SCHENECTADY RAILROAD. The receipts for the month of March, compared with | thore of last year, were as follows:— | ‘1853, Ma 24,539 33 | 1662, © 17,606 91 Increase forty per cent, or.......... $5.952 47 | The returus for the first three months in 1853, whea | compared with those of a corresponding period last yaar, | exhibit about the same increase. We aunex the figures: — | January $14 3 $19,718 66 17,761 99 24530 88 xt September, and before winter | March ., “I 17,605 91 $44,518 LL $62 020 03 Total increase forty per cent, OF... ...466-817,701 92 | The balance sheet for April is nat yet completed, but | we are perinitted to take from the passenger book the | returns for this month. They are as fot! The nuin- | ber of passengers conveyed over the road during April | 1852 were 25,437; and April, 1853, 30,840. Increase, 5487, or 22 per cent. The freightinz business of the road during that month was large, and the returns whea | complete will nearly, if not quite, equal the increase of | the previous mont | AMUBRST AND BELCHE | N RAILROAD. | We learn from New London, Conn., tuat the Amberat | and 9 Delchericwn Railroad wiil be opeaedon Monday, May 9, Trains will berun in connection with the train on tie | New London snd Vulmer road, leaviog Palmer at 10 A.M. ond 6.15 P.M, and Amberst ut 4.30.4. Mf. and | 1.10 P. M. LEBANON VALLEY itivere of RAILROAD. Neading are teking a deep interest in | and appear determined to use the most ener- | to build it without delay. They are urging the city corporation of Reading to subsaride $200,000 worth ‘of the stock The individual subscriptions at | Reading kad ve that amoaueat the last dates Ia | Lebouon. also, public meetings have been hald, and the | fiends of the rood ace working actively and earnestly (o procure subscriptions. General Comeron has pledged | himself to subscribe $10,600 if the people of Lebsaon | ds it, and he adds th at | county willdo thelr duty tows if Lebanon does make the start he can get $100,000 of | private subscriptions in Dauphin county. | The vote in the city of Watertown, on the 2d inst., | 1 on the question of extending its credit to tHe ) nkee | and Watertown end the Watertown and Berlin railroads $50,000 to the former, and $40,000 to tne latter—was | as follows For the railroad Against the railrou 381 » for (he loan 370 | ; CENTRE, AND SPRUCE ROAD, | ¢ ‘axton, rays the Lewisburg, Pa., Chronicle, | ninet.. with the ohief engineer of the Catawires | Railroad, and reme capitaliets from w York city, were here week, to look atter the proszects of the contem- | plated railway from Lewisburg, through Centre coun’ to Spruce creek, on the Juniata. On Wednerday after took a drive through a considerable portion of Buffalo vi'ley, aud expresesd (lemselves highly ploare with its beauty amd fertility, Its exteat also proved to | be much greater than they bad supposed. Aside frora ity local trade, the prineipal vaiue of this road lios in tne | faccthat. when completed, it will forma a highly im | pertant, and, indeed, indiepensable link, ina direct com i vatween New York city and . The held whieh the | the trade of the Norv. | est. ie demonstrated by the | single iemarkablo fact, thet the distance from Cieveland, Onto. io New York by way of Pittsburg, Sprace | creek borg, Cetiwives, end Kaston, ia sixty tro | miles less than by way of the New York and Erie Rail | the difference over | read me ealeulations mai pinets miles, | The route from Ne York, by this road, to | sleo more direct and feasitle than any other | line that ean be found. To stow the cha- sie of the route. ia other respects, | may “re add, that the grade from Lawis- burg to Spruce creck, eeventy miles, is understond to be highly favorable; and from Lewi on the Catawisen read therets a9 ¢ thirty three feet 4o the milo. From the Summit th one hundred and ten miled of level or descendiog grado, | via Tainequa andthe Readiog Railroal to ihily Fiom the fame Suromit, there ix sixty n deceending grade to Easton; and thenee to N there is 1 lo higher than thirty-three feet to tie | ar the Summicany amount of coal tov | oli times at hi i, and freight trai from the dd per cant to | ve power. N. zg tt Port Haron the Port Huson | n Tiiilroad. Opposite Port Huron, it will be | ved, fy the termination of the Grand Trunk Rail- | rowd, and that the New England “tates trade and travel, [ as well ax that of the British provinces, will be over this road, fo the Northwest, Wisconsin sud all the Northwest, indeed, will find outlet by thin re ‘The way trade and | trove) of Northern Michigan alone (says the Adrian, Mich. | r) will be grent, will more than evap! Noutbern Michi | of that part of the route. It was enacted at the session of 1848, and is | + | waukee river end | shout twenty 1 crense the congregat Faverhill, N. H.,on the 30thinst. The grand | celebration, under the auspices of the eitizens | River, will come off at the same time. LOCATION OF THE MISSISSIPPI CENTRAL RAILROAD, The Oxford, Miar.. Flag. of the 23d of April, seys:—~ Phe Airectora of the Misslssipp! Central Deiiedhd have | 1ecn in sersion at this place since the 20:h instant, and | have made a Jooation of the southern di mn of the line | from Canton, or rear that point across Big Black river, | near the mouth of Doak’s creek, thenee up the valley of the river near Sbongalo, *hence up the valley of Hayes’ Coan near Middleton, to the northern boundary line of Carrol county. The northern division is lccated from the north- ern boundary line of Carroll county through Granada by Coffeeville to Water Vailey. From Water Valley to Holly Springs remains unlocated. From Holly Sorings north- east, pear Maj. Thoma’ to a point on the State line not yet designated, We also learn that the location bet weer Water Valley and Ho!ly Springs is suspended for the pre- sent for the purpose of reviewing and correcting portions The board of directers appsar to be disposed to do full justice to the stockholders and the community generally.” ILLINOIS RAILROAD ENTERPRISE. The citizens of Hancock county, Ill., are to vote, on the 20th inst. upon three propositions submitted to them by the County Court. Siret, the subseription of $30,000 to the capital stock of the Warsaw and Rockford Railroad Company; record, $60,000 im the capital stuck of the Mis- sissippi and Webaxh Company; and, third, $10,000 in the Augusta and Warsaw Plank Road Company. Bonds to be ed bearing eight per cent, and psyable in twenty The Mississippi and Wabash road is a new enterprise, commencing at Lafayette; Indiana, and termizating on Mississippi at Warraw, or between that point and Keo- kuk. It is nota mere fancy road, but itis in the bands of men who have rerolved to build it. It is nearly an air | Ine road, and ie about two hundred and fifty miles in length. A meeting of the corporators was held at La- fayette, Indiana, a few days since, at which the whole plan was matu and assurances given that the money could and would be raiced. At Bloomington money been raired to put a party of engineers on the route, and to survey it to the Mixsissippi; and we notice that several perscns are traversing the country, stirring up the people to the importance of this road. NORTHEASTERN RAILROAD. We have great satisfation, says the Charleston Mercury, : a of the 14th inst, in being able to state that the ment between the Northeastern and the Darli: Cheraw Railroads, as to the point of junction, has been happily adjusted.’ The peint fixed upon is about midway between the termini originally selected by the two compa- nies. The preliminary difficulties are overcome, and the track is clear for effective work. In the meantime the Northeastern Railroad has not been allowed to rust during there preparations. The work at the terminus on Cooper river, (@ most Ge ie part of the roid.) is actively presced forward. For a small interval near the eity the right of way has not yet been secured, but beyond that, for about twenty miles, the g ading is under contract, and | we understand there is a growing readiness to take con- tracts, which relieves us of all doubt as to tho work bsiug prshed on without icterruption. From Kingstree to the icKown juxction, nbout thirty eight miles will be ready to be let by the middle of June. Everything promises the early completion of this valuable enterprise, and those who have the wost carefully examined the resources of the country through which it will pass, speak mo:t confl- dently of ils prospects as a profitable venture. THE PACIFIC RAILROAD. This road, aya the St. Louis K lican of the 12th inst., bas been opened to Kirkw thirteen iniles aud end half. Yesterday « large number of persons went over. the line, which worked admirably. Owing to the late Lael Giri and thelr effect upou the embankments in the vicinity of the river Des Peres, the engine was worked slowly but with perfect safety. We had the plea- sure of witnessing at Kirkwood the first movement of the turp- table, with the locomotive and tender upon it. It worked admirably. With a few weeks of dry weather the road will be opened the full extent of the division— thirty-nine miles. A LUCKY RAILROAD. ‘The following is the closing paragraph of the last an- nual report of the Directors of the Vermont and Massa- ehusetts Railroad, issued in February last :—The Direc- tors are happy to say, at the conclusion of their report, that not a person has’ been injured in sny wanoer upon the road during the past year. The trains have been run vith all the regularity and exactness possible; and it is ™ remarkable end very gratifying fact, that neither a the passengers or employes bas a single case of personal damage occurred. RAILROAD REGULATIONS IN MASSACHUSETTS. In the Senate of Massachusetts on Saturday, Mr. Daven- port. from the committee on railroads, pre: ented the fol- lowing, Mill, which was read twice and ordered to be printed :-— An Act in relation to the Mode of Crossing Railroad Bridges— « Be it enacted, &e., Sec. 1. Ne engine, car, or train of cars while ia uso for the traneportation of passengers, on any railroad in this com- nwenlth, shall be allowed to pass over any drawbridgo on such railway ata greater speed than at the rate of six miles per hour, and in eppronching any drawbridze on any such railway, and before crossing the same, euch engine and cars ail in'all cages to brought toa full stop at a distance not ise than one hundred foct, and hot exceeding three hundred wet from the draw of such Lridge; provided, and curs shall not be required to stop ns A: the draw of any Lridge and railroad depot, Gistance between ruck draw and euch railroad depot shail not exceed three hundred fect. See. 2. If any engiveer or other person, having for the time being charge or control of any enzine connected with any passenger car or trein of cars, shall violate any provi- rion of the preceding sectfop, he shall on conviction be sub- ct to a fine not exceeding Gve hundred dollars or to to ‘imprisonment in the state prison or house of correction for a term no} dling three years, and no person convicted ag afororsid herca‘ter be employed by any railroad cor- al th poration e running, mansgement, or control of ite i orany of them, in any railroad bridze shall at any ‘til such draw shail be closed, ono or 1 with proper signala, shall’ be stu 8 of,auen brilge: whose duty it shalt be to give notice to any approaching train of cara that nuch draw fs open or about to he opened Sco. 4. It shall be the duty of every railroad corporation in thi commenwealth to give cloar and distinct instrac- tions, conformable to the provisions of this act, to all per- rons having charge or control of the running or motive power on its railway; and if any such co-poration shall hegleet or to such instenctions 1.9 aforesaid, or time y mere persons, prov tioned at the extrer. Co.ploy any person eontvary to the. provi- ad rection of this act, shall neglect or tail to keep pe tioned as provide! in third see corporation Lb & for eseh tion of this wet, 6v¢ cifence, to a ti lara. nalty Lot excerding five thousand dol- 11 No construed Militios of any we of this com: werlth. SCELLANEOU! The Wheeling exten.ion of the Cleveland and Pittsburg aihead was let at Well-ville, Va., on the 11th inst, for 1,(00, The ertimated cost was $281,000, The work of gradice the Penobscot aod Kennebec rail- road, in Maine, was commenced on (he 16th inst. The injunction granted by Judge Birtley, to restrain the Mad River and Lake Krie road from using the new read frota TifBn to Sandusky, has been dissolved by Jadge Corwin, at a sitting held at Urbana ‘The citizens of Hancock county, Ul Sth inst upon three propositions, by the County Court. First, the sab: the capital stock of the Warsaw ond lwekford Railroad Company ; recend, $60 000 in the capital stock of the Mix- sissippt and Wabash Company; and, third, $10,040 in the Avgurta and Wariaw Plank Road Company. Bonds to be issued bearing eight per cent, and payable in twenty ais. ‘The directors of the La Crosse Railroad have adepted a route for their road, running up the valley of the Mil iu'd Creek, through Granville, German- town, Polk, nnd Hurtford, It 1s stated that (he track of the Camden and Amboy Railroad will be red at Camden, in order to allow the Absecom Railroad to pass above it. A railrord convention i# recommended to meet in Tal- Jahasere. Viorids, on the first Monday in June, with a. view to harniauice on # planof operations. are to vote on the ibmitted to them sription of $30,000 to Lowen, Massacuussrrs.—On the 10th of May, 1058, the Genoral Cow t at Poston, granted the petition of ns from Woburn and Concord, ‘to non Merrimack river nesr the Paw- eo her (west) side of Conoord river’ == an “a very corotortable place to ac- any of God's people npen ; that may nnd assistance, live comferta®ly upon, and do gord hat place for’ church and common. wealth Thi nt was the foundation of the city of Lowell, Maskacharetts, erect a pew pls: tucket, yi RELIGION AND Potrrtcs.—The Prodoricksburg Dawe ts informed, on reliable authority, t) nday last, at the White Oak Church, in Staitord county, Virzi- ious services, G rer * the pia, after the reb democratic candidate for Congress, ¢ op which was there a:serob ed.