The New York Herald Newspaper, June 19, 1853, Page 2

“THE MESILLA VALLEY AFFAIR. Gov. Lane’s Defence of his Course. What the Mexican Press Says on the Subject, | _&e., ae, be. ‘The following official infermation, with respect to the question of the Mesilla Valley, we have trans- lated, as being extremely important and interesting at this conjuncture. The Universal, of Mexico, has published Governor Lane's statement to the Chihua- hoa commissioners, which has not beea hitherto pab- Yished here, and which we give below. The Univer- gal introduces the document in tbe following lan. eo “Our readers are already aware of the offence com- mitted, in the fore pax of March, by General Lane, Govervor of New Mexico, who solemnly declared the territory. of Mesilla, State of Chihuahua, to be part of ize United States. They will also remember p the powerful reasons set forth by Mr. Angel Trias, #9 a communication directed to the said Governor, | manifesting most clearly the injustice of his conduct, and the right of Mexico to the possession of the ter- ritory in question. We now see that the reasoning of Mr. Trias and bis commissioners, instead of pro- ducing any effect upon Mr. Lane, has only been the occasion of a new note from that gentleman, in which, besides the specious arguments which he uses to justify his conduct, the American functionary | speaks in a language so offensive as almost to be in- sulting. “We lay before our readers this communication, the perusal of which is not a little calculated to irritate those who remember the endless offences which the Mexican republic has received from the American | pation, and who have bitterly deplored the shameful resignation with which these have been tolerated for @ period of five years.” ¢ following is the communication in question:— | GOVERNOR LANR’S MANIFESTO. Dona Ana, TERRITORY OF New) Mexico, March 23,1853. To rem Exceu.encigs Messrs. ANTONIO Jacques AND THomas ZcLoaGa, Commissioners of the State of Chihuahua, KE! Paso— GentLEmeN—I have read the communication of your excellencies, under date of the 1th instant, with all the respect due your elevated positions, and the importance of the subject of the said communi- cation. ‘The mere fact, without any other reason, that the President and Congress of the United States have disapproved and repudiated the provisional boundary line which has been ran from the Rio Grande to the Gila, is of itself an ample justification of the act of the government of New Me. in promulgating the proclamation of the 19th inst., and the want of spe- tial instructions from Mexico does not in the slightest Gegree invalidate this official act. Whatever your excellencies may have heard to the contrary from rsons ax ignorant as presumptuous, it is none the less true that my authority is to be found in the laws and constitution of the United States, in the law of nations, in the treaty with Mexico, and in the duties of my cffice as Governor of this territory. I might, in truth, moreover add, that even though this line had been drawn in conformity with the treaty of peace, (and no one, however daring and re- gardless of faith, would venture to aflirm it, still, the government of the United States having refused to recognize this line, this of itself imposes upon every officer, civil and military, and upon every citi- zen of this territory, the obligation of following’a line of conduct consistent with that resolution, 1 am weil aware that.in other places, other opin- ions b been entertail of official conduct, and itisa singular fa od inhabitants of the territory i we been informed of this reached my ear. T have designated as provisi isting from the Rio Grande to the Gila; and, in my 3 inion, it is nothing more. It lexico, with the sanction of Mr. Comui lett, against the consent of Major believe, against that of Lieuten: under protest of Surveyor Gray, wl necessary to make the Nine vata. df your Excellencies and the undersigned, under the mild establish another line jon, (which we could do without aay ir priety.) this would bea provisional bounc ‘with the same authority as the line already run: it would remain invalid until it should re e , that the dispute should ‘cumstance before it er Bart- raham, (and, I Whipple.) and 05 e cuusent was ction both of Mexico aud the United s Your Exe rcies e reminded me of due ‘reaties, and the o! sed by ni honor. Allow me te Ieacies, that the right such admonitions is not re ‘s ment of the United Stu } ner of them has any i e clauses of a nor of the na- i ion of the ledge of the undersigned, has been zens. , In the proclamation I mentioned facts which I be- lieve to be true, aud which I to this mom siderso. It may, however, be my duty to explanation relative to what [ have said in ref to the revolutionary condition of your country. I aesure your exceilencies that nothing was farther from me than any intention of wounding your s2a- sibility; I merely made ment on of a notorious fict (whose evidence is to be found sufficiently conclusive in the extraordinary powers vested in your excel- lencies) as one of the motives of the proclamation, perpetrated by Mexican citi- without supposing that a similar allusion could of- | fend the most delicate susceptibility. Your excellencies will allow me to state that the civil discord which auhappily now predominates in the Mexican Republic, is a cause of sorrow and not of rejoicing for the government and the majority of the nation of the United states. In lieu of desiring the ruin of your country, they anxiously desire the integrity, prosperity and felicity of Mexico, with free trade and friendiy relations. They covet no territory justly belonging to you; and if such were the case oe excellencies are well aware how easy it would be for them to acquire it. The proclama- tion already referred to has been published with an imperious conviction’ of duty, and after legal and competent counsels; and it being the obligation of each one to whom it is directed to dates, any failure 1v comply ewith mich upon the guily the penalty of aw. tent fact should be made known to the iahabitauts of the district in question, for if I may poeta are ill advised as to their duties and fan A copy of the proclamation has been forward Gen. Trias, © M h Ina, begg the territory in questi been forwarded to the ry Other copies have al territory. It is not for me to forestall the decision of the Pre- | sident of the United States in the premises; but your Excelien knew, before the publication of the rolamation, the conduct that would be followed by e military commandant of this department. The course of bis successor may be widely different. It is not my dnty as Governor of ‘this territory to enter into any discussion as to the this question of limits; but as your introduced some of these points in your communica- tions, it might perhaps be construed into a want of courtesy on my part were I not to refer to the same. Your Excellencies have affirmed that the southern Boundary line of New Mexico terminated at New Mexico, twenty-two miles north of the provisional Hine of Mr. Bartlett, while a decree of the Mexican Congress fixes the line at El Paso; this decree has are to my knowledge, been revoked. In your communications your excellencies frank, admit that Chihvahua never exercised its juriedic- tion over the territory in dispute, before the running of Mr. Bartlett's line, notwithstanding it was en- treated by the inhabitants so to do. And why did it not exercise its jurisdiction? 1 will answer for your excellencies—it was because it was well known that the territory belonged to New Mexico, and not to Chihuahua. The error committed by Mr. Bartlett, when he de- fermined the said line, induced Chihnahua into error, pow is now incumbent upon Chihuahua to cor- T here annex a copy of the decree for your infor- Decree or Juty 6, 1824. “ Chihuahua is declared a State of the Confedera- ‘ton, and New Mexico territory, belonging to the same. Dscree pearinc Date Juny 27, 1824. Demarcation of the Territory of the Province of _ Chihnahua. " The sovereign General Congress of the United Btotes of Mexico has decreed as follows: — The territory of the province of Chihuabna will gontain everything comprised between the straight drawn from east to west, from the point or vil- known as Paso del Norte, on tle one side, with the peste Somer it has always had, and the of Rio Florido, in the direction of Durango, = ite reapective appurtenance.’—(see Decree aot 6th. fixes the bonnda: tween Chihua: and New Mexico, and Tae ey convinced the ition of El Paso did not extend as far ‘up as the head of the canal ; cousequently it will be it to your Excellencies that the provisional which [ have songht to establish is north of the bound: laid down by the decree. And when I i onal the line now ex- | | led to ies td involved in | ixcellencies have | nerous disposition of the citizens of the United Etates, leav to the town of El Paso its authority er the , Wich is a matter of vital importance to the interesta of the said town. T have conceded #0 much as to propose, as # provi- sional boundary line, a starting point above the 1 admit that the boundary line, as it is laid down on Disturnell’s map, fixes the limits north of the line Jaid down in the decree; stilt there is little chance that it should go as far as Pace ee if it should reafter bh: that a junta of commissioners thoutd fix the ania fine south of the canal, and the setae cole of the the. Senery After rm = r mature re- flection on this matter, I arrived at the conclusion, snd Sn enamequence svived the head of the depart- ment, who ly despatched orders to the commissioner and surveyor not to present any fur- ther demands on the treasury, for they would not be pass and also to vease all operations on the southern ine of New Mexico. The object of this condition was undoubtedly to prevent the continuation of operations on the south- ting to m whether, under the | surveyor in | cessarily result that the boundary line w | | | | been committed gross and palpable error, « ‘tained and adopted as the basis | | pro tem. take the place of Mr. G inhabitants of £1 Paso be thereby deprived of their anthorit over the same, the fault of This irre; le loss would be imputable to yourselves, and not to the overnment of the United States. Your Exceliencies affirm that the line now exist- ing has been run in conformity with the provisions of the treaty of peace, that it has been duly ratified by the United States, and that the territory situated south of it g®*been formally delivered by the com- petent auth@rities of the United States. In all these statements your Excellencies will par- don me, if 1 assure you that you are entirely in error; and I beg that you will allow me to introduce the testimony of Mr. Commissioner Bartlett himself, in order that your Excellencies may see that it was illegally recognized by him and the Mexican com- Tuission. In a despatch of Mr. Bartlett, directed to the Se- cretary of State at Washington, under date of May, 1861, that gentleman says:— “Tn conformity with the treaty of Guadalupe Hi- dalgo, the presence of the surveyor is necessary in this matter—(that of fixing the initial point on the Rio Grande.) The absence of Mr. Gray placed me in a very delicate position—one, too, the more per- plexing' from the fact that the said treaty expressly declares that the surveyor in chief (no less than the commissioner) shall be appointed by the govern- ment, and no provision has been made for a contin- geucy like the present one. I have not been em- powered to appa @ person to act ta tem. as sur- veyor. This difficulty was expressed to the Mexican commissioner, who ‘stated in reply that all the ‘arrangements had been made on his part to proceed with the work, and that he trusted that we would proceed in conformity therewith. Desirous that no obstacle, that it lay in my power to avoid, should in- terfere with this important matter, I did not hesitate to make known my willingness to take upon myself the responsibility of designating a person who ght, y, provided that the Mexican commissioner would, in the name of his government, consent to this arrangement, and this way cbviate any supposed cause of complaint in fa- ture on the part of the said Republic. To this Gene- ral Cande gave his assent and selected Mr. A’ Whipple to perform the duties of acting surveyor. Your Excellencies will, from this extract, perceive, that Mr. Commissioner Bartlett sincerely admitted a total wantof power to appoint Mr. Lieut. Whipple place of Surveyor Gray; nay, further, that this measure on his part was only taken for the sake of expediency. From this, i terwards run, under the direction of Mr. Lieut. Whip- ple, as acting Surveyor pro tem. of the United States, was a line merely of venience, or, in other words, subject to the approbation or repudiation of either or both Mexico and the United States; and that it has been revoked by the latter, I shall prove to your Ex. cellenc' Th itial or starting point was laid in front of this town Ap 1851, and Mr. Gray did not come within the dis until some time after. On the 25thday of July Mr. Gray protested, in writing, against this point as it had been laid down, as also against the line which had been run to the west from said point, as the ground of there having id ne in- sisted that the error should be corrected, or that ope- rations should be suspended until decisive instruc- tions should be received. With both of these reason- able propositions Mr. Bertlett refused to comply. The initial point is situate at thirty-three degrees twenty- two minutes, while Mr. Gray insisted that it should be laid about thirty degrees more to the south—that is to at about thirtyone degrees fifty two mi which point is situate about eight miles north of the town of El Pasi t >) i will allow me to annex a portion of Mr. Gray's ener- getic protest against the provisional line of Mr. Bart- Jet And now, Mr. Bartlett, having expressed my is subject, and seeing that 1_am the Sur- issioned by the United States perate with you, I would ad- A ion of the work now going on along the line which p M ‘an officers are and thet you inform them that the final ation with regard to that line may vary determ: through the want of the confirmation and assent of your colleague. I hope that my reasons will be clear and conclu- ive with regard to the true position of the Southern line of New Mexico, and shail feel very sorry at the loss of time resulting from the nes y of once more going over this small portion of the line; but is the duty of yourself and myself, (and [ also in the same light with regard to the Mexi- can Co! ner,) if we haye goue wrong, or com- mitted any error from a want of the n ry infor- mation, ¢r from any other cause, and have become convinced of the same, to consider ourselves bound | to correct it. | | | | | | ity, admit t] enture an | it as did, J acted in conformity with the | ! taken from a publish resident of the United States, and to the commander of the regular troops in this | It is a serious and grave responsibility that we have npon us. The two governments have placed their rights in our hands, that we might resolve them legally, and according to the dictates of our conscience. I feel confident that the principles of Mexican officers, as well as the elevated tone hey appear to have adopted in their inter- ith us, will induce them to rectify any error into which they may have fallen. In the attention which I have given to this boun- dary matter, I have not considered the value of one portion of territory more than another. I think that the Mexican represeutatives will be found to have acted likewise. If we should have to suspend for a time the work on our portion of the line, by reason of a difference of opinion, or any other cause, we may go on and determine some other part, so that, in case we should not agree as to the southern boundary line, and | | should therefore have to refer to our respective go- | vernments, the work on the Gila may progress, should it be deemed expedient.” To these reasona- ble propositions Mr. Bartlett turned a deaf ear, and obstinately insisted upon his established line, with- out the concurrence of his colleagues, even though the latter had shown the said line to be wrong. Your Excellencies have read the treaty of peace with care, and will agree that the functions of Com- missioner and Surveyor are indispensable. And that, moreover, each of these fanctionaries must be appointed by his own government, but inno other way. And, your Excellencies having conclu- sive evidence before you that Mr. Bartlett, Commis- sioner of the United States, had acted without the | co-operation and consent of his lawful colleague, aud | against his | igen Excellencies must, in sincer- at his action in the matter: was entirely invVaild, untess subyequently ratified by the Unted a Instead of being ratified they were repudia- ted ne acting surveyor, Mr. Whipple, appearsto have acted merely as astronomer and surveyor, without having had any direction as to the two boundary , but it is evident from the following extract, d letter of his, that he did not ine: — de and longitude not being ty, should not be followed, for y with which the longitude of the yn, it would follow that the in- of those who framed the treaty would be rated.” t El Paso being a point -mentioned in connection with others in the treaty, it cannot be lost sight of, and the intention was that the distance of the northern line should in fact be represented on the map. From the point of beginning there should be drawn a line directly-to the west, three degrees in longitude and afterwards directly to the north, to the point where the line intersects the river Gila. This appears to me to be the most accurate, and at the same time, the most practicable interpretation of the treaty. Colonei Grahem, an officer of the United States, subsequently added to the commission, also repudi- ated Mr. Bartlett. I am, however, unable here to — his expressions, his report not being within my reach. Having thus laid before your Excellencies ample proof that the line was not run in conformity with the absolute provisions of the treaty, same is therefore no more than a provisional line, I shall now proceed to lay before you extracts from the message of the President of the United States to Congress, under date of December 6, last past, in or- der to prove most conclasively that this provisional ine was disapproved and repudiated by the govern: of the United States, and is, therefore, entirely ‘ove of the exist ing are the expressions made by the he United States:— intelligence received from the Commission, it appears that the surveying op 28 ow the river Gila, from !ts con- fluence with the Colorado, to the western line of New Mexico, are concluded; the operations on the Rio Grande are also concluded from ao point situated, ac- cording to the arrangement of the cormissioners, where the said river touches the starting point of the southern limit of New Mexico, to another point situated one hundred and thirty-five miles below the bed of the Aguila, that is to say, two-thirds of the distance, following the river up to its mouth. The appropriation made during the last session of Congress, for the continuation of the said operations, is subject to the following condition:—No portion of the said appropriation siall be employed or spent, unti) it eatéstactorily appear to the President of the United States, that the boundaries of New M are not laid by the commissioner and the surve: the United States, farther to the north of the town knowr as El Paso, than the said line is set down gn Distornell’s maps, which accompanies the tréaty. My attention has been called to this matter by a port of the Secretary of State, in which he reviews ail the circumstances relative to this affair, subgit- ‘and that the | | drew a knife and slashe: | a few days. erm boundary line of New Mexico, relative to which a variety of opinions had been manifested; for it can- not be supposed that there would any difliculty exist with ect to the line which extends along the canal of the Rio Grande. Itwould also be expedient that legal measures should be taken for the fultil- ment of the treaty with Mexico, relative to the defin- and drawing the remainder of the dividiog line between the two countries.” Do your Excellencies desire any farther proof to be convinced that the said line in question has been repudiated by the United States, and that the same is consequently not valid? With regard to the allegation that the district in question was, with due solemnity, delivered to Mex- ico by the United States, I shall “not, until your Dx- cellencies shall have stated when, and by whom, such goer ‘was made, occupy your time with this ques- tion. It likewise appears useless to me to answer the allegation that the Territory of New Mexico never ‘cised ita jurisdiction over the disputed dis- trict; fox, the registers of the courts of justice of this tent of Dita Ana, (to which the portion cut off belonged as a component part,) as well as many ex- isting witnesses, can testify cise of that jurisdiction. tothe fact of the exer- ‘The curate Ortiz del Paso, who was at Meailla (when numbering two thousand inhabitants,) as Com- missioner of the Colonies, and who violently de- spoiled various citizens of the United States of their houses and property, pe others, Mr. Gech, now in this country, and who Teas it is said, ten thou- sand dollars on his 'y,) can also confirm the fact of the jurisdiction of New Mexico. Love of’ country, and respect for the customs of that country are natural and Peneerorehy sentiments; but the sweeping condemnation by your Hxcellencies of the persons now living at Mesilla, or who have been obliged to remove therefrom, and who may happen to prefer the United States as a domicil to Mexico, produces, in my judgment, a somewhat singular effect. For, it is our belief, that the object of a government in general, as well as in particular, affords matter for a variety of sincere opin‘ons; and as our institutions allow the free exer- cise of every zeligious rsuasion, point ovt no test, impore no church punishments nor charges—as they make the priest, the soldier, aud the citizen respon- sible before the seme tribunal—as they insure the right of petition, that of carrying arms, that of exemption from unfounded search or embargo—as they guarantee the habeas sorpas act, public trials | by juries (formed irrespective of rank or station)—as | kis authorize free traffic, and ingress and egress, without passports or exportation duties, it is natural that we should believe that these real blessings should be maintained with zeal, and that other persons should desire, perhaps with reason, to share the same. I came here with peaceable dispositions—with tae intention of accomplishing, an pent? and just duty, and I hoped to. find to find the anthorities of Chihuahua disposed to reason and submission to law, while on the contrary I have found myself expored to | ie demonstrations of an overbearing and absurd hos- ity. One of its officers, too, in the unnatural garb of a belligerent minister of God, had the impudence to come to this city during my absence, and to proffer barbaric threats against my person, in the event of my entering the disputed territory; while, were i to show my face there, this unworthy disciple of Christ sft be the first to fly or to invoke the privilege of his cloth. From the past let us judge of the future. There being but few persons on either side of the Rio Grande capable of translating English into Spanish, or vice versa, and by that, your Excellencies will do me the favor to transmit this communication to his | Excellency Gen. Trias, who, 1am told, is a man of | . igh intelligence, and a statesman of much distine- ion. Begging your Excellencies to accept the assurance | of my high regard, I remain, &c. | (Signed) Wu. Car L. of the Territory of New ¥ Governor Sabbath Amusemen' TBE AERIAL SHIP THAT DID: CITEMENT—GATHERING OF THE MILLION, | [Frou the New Orleans Delta ] Yesterday a promiscous crowdof the unwashed, | streaked here and there with a layer of the fashion- | able, assembled in and around old “Conzo Square’ — now called the *‘ Place d’Armes” to suit the fasti i- | ous tastes of the modern progressives—for the pur- pose of witnessing the long heralded cvent of tho going up of Mons. Petin’s aerialship. It had been | given out that thie mechanical bird of novel plumage would rive precisely at the hour of twelve, plunge | into the ocean of. ether, flap its wings against the | horns of the moon, and, after makiug sundry cir- | cuits of the town, sail Lack and nestle down to the | point of starti The square was densely crowded, | and thousands of the anxious who had’nt the ‘‘ need- ful” to propel them through the gates, stood on the banquettes and lined the strects and all the avenues | of approach to the grand scene of excitement. The | Chief of Police Lad stationed there about two hun- dred of his command, in black coats and white trowsers, to preserve order. Many predicted that eriment would be a failure, as the resuit The upshot showed that this modern , although he did not sail so near the sun as to scorch his wings, yet the sun come down with | such ardor as to melt them. The fact was that the ee of one of his balloons being made of vulcanized india rubber, was melted by the extreme heat of the sun, and the gas escaped. The whole globe meltcd | down, and suddenly, like a wilted cabbage, and in less than two minutes, was as limber as a dish-rag. Atthis unexpected upshot of matters the “ na- tives’ grew vastly excited, and some of the more belligerent threatened blood and wounds, death and | Gestruction to Mons. Petin and all concerned. ‘The police, opportunely on the spot, prevented bloodshed and a general kicking up of dust. Some of the visi- ters were content to take back their money, but a very large and influential party were for having a | right to the “carravan” any how. They crowded | around the gates in immense numbers, kicked up a “muss” generally, and listened to speeches from improvising orators who threw out their wordy in- dignation by the shovel full A man named Aroyo, | an ex-policcman, ened pie in the excitement, | about promiscuously. was taken care of by order of the polite and attentive | Chief of Police, and furnished with private lodgings at the public expense, where he will have leisure to | cool. Finally everything cooled down after the manner of a roasted potato. Mons. Petin promises to renew his experiment in Death of General Riley. GENERAL ORDERS, NO. 1. HEApQUAKTERS OF THE ARMY, ) Nuw York Juno 10, 1863. f ‘al-in Chie’, with deep regret, announces to the army the death, at Buttato, New York. the 9th inst., of Hrevet Major General Bennett Kiley, colonel of the lat infantsy. 2 $ General Riley entered the army as ensign of riflemen, Japuary 19, 1613. and ascended through all the succes- sive grades until he attained the highest—that of Major General by brevet He rerved with high credit on the Nisgara frontier in the war of 1812 with Great Britain, in the wars against the Arickaree, Sauk and Fox and Semi- nole Indians, and the war with Mexico, ia which latter he was highly distirguisbed. He received the brevets of Brigadier and Major General for his gallantry in the bat- tles of Cerro Gordo and Contreras. On the termination of the war, he was assigued to the important commaad of the 10th military department, and was ex-oficio provisional Gove nor of California. Un all occasions in the com- mands with which he was intrusted, he evinced great zeal for the public interest, and has jeft to his bereaved family & reputation of whicle they may well be proud, Ax n tribute of respect to the memory of the deceased, the officers of his late regiment will wear the pro-cribed badge of mourning for thirty days. By eomenad of Ma jor General Scott. L. THOMAS, Assiatant Adjutant Gezeral. Great Fire 1x Loweit.—Between seven and eight o'clock yesterday morning, while the operatives were out to breakfast, Gre was discovered in the eard- rom of No 1 millof the Merrimack Company, which proved the most destructive of any fire which ever oc- curred in Lowell. The fire extended so ravidly that no effective measures could be taken to save the building. ‘the building and contents are fully insured in the Asso- ciated Manufacturers’ Insurance Company. Tae loss is estimated in the Vex Popult at $300,000. A telegraphic despatch from Lowell, however, inakes {{ only #00000, The corporation estimate their loa at $80,000, Another fire oceuri(d at Mechanics’ Milla, Lowell, on Wednesday night, which destroyed property to the amount of $14,060 ‘The parties who suffered by the fire were Webster & Lew. is, sch and blind makers; Brooks & Tyler, stable keep ert; Isane Place, cash and blind dealer; George Fiske, storehouse for bobbins; Charles A. Durgin, inannfacturer of sewing machines; Michael Comstock, machinist, ani John Pettergiil. carpenter The heaviest loss falls ‘upon the mechanics who ocenried the building. and whosa tools and steck were generally destroyed. There was no in- earance on the property. Webster & Lewis were insured for $1500, in the Chelsen Mutual office. Their loss wax about $3,000. They employed twenty men, who loot on their tools sume $800.—Hoston Atlas, June 17 Corrina AND Propante Monper.—On Saturday night, at the close of the cirens performance, a difculty teok place between two men named Thomas Aylor and William Swift, about a trivial matter, and the latter chal longed the former to fight. The parties. followed by some six or eight persons, started down Plum utreet to the place for combat, at a point near the river. When near the corner of Sixth and i’lum streets, hard words passed between the parties named above, whereupon Aylor drew a large bowie knife. and struck Swift with it— the cut beginning on the head, passed down the vide of | the head and breast to the abdomen, where the knife en | tered the bowels. Aylor and hia crowd ran, winil ft, | with pistolin his hand, and crying murder, pursued — them a short distance when he fell. He waa picked up | by officers Hardin and Shattuck, and home. Hewas | considered im a very critical position yesterday. Aylor 44) 8 OF Doom arrested. —Cinginnaft Gasclle, June 13, J He | A Our Boston e Boston, June 11, 1853. Appointments to Massachusetts Ofices—Old. Line Abclitionists Appointed —-Salem—-Gloucester-— Mr. Merrill—Essex County—Mr. Lord—Nor. folk Cownty—Roxbury Post Ofice—Mr. Seaver —Free Soilers of 1848 Appointed—Mr. Burrill— The “Commonwealth” on Mr. Merrill—Cam- bridge— Mr. Caldwell — Cambridgeport—East Cambridge—Springfied—Mr. Trench—Worces- ter—Mr. Knowlton—Opinions on the Course of the Administration—Friendly Feeling for Presi- dent Pierce—New Bedford—Mr. Fessenden—New Hampshire—Errors of the Journal of Commerce's Boston Correspondent on Massachusetts Statis- tres—The Constitutional Convention, §c. The subject of appointments to office has been pretty well discussed in Massachusetts this week, owing to the certainties and rumors that we have concerning the elevation of not merely coalitionists, but even Van Buren bolters of 1848, and old line Gar- ricon abolitionists, Among the appointments is that of Mr. Colby, editor of the Newburyport Union newspaper, to an inspectorship in the Salem Custom House. Mr. Colby is a highly respectable young man, and of good talents, but some of his antece dents are not, one would think, such as should lead to his appointment to a comfortable pl }» when 80 many steady democrats are treated nothing but sermons on the folly of office-seeking. For two years he edited the Amesbury Transcript, a thorough-go- ing old line abolition paper the Garrisonian stamp—not a free soil ener you must understand, but “a covenant wit land league with the devil” paper—that being the delicious |: which abolitionists apply to the national con- stitution, the work of Washington and Franklin. Among the rumored appointments is that of Mr. Memilf'to the Post Office at Gloucester. Mr. Merrill 1s a Garrisonian abolitionist. He has never acted with the democracy, never voted for their eandi- dates, and never given a cent of his money or a mo- ment of his time to the advancement of the demo- cratic cause. So say those who ought to know him well. His respectability is admitted, and so is that of Mr. Garrison and ‘of Wendell Phillips. Both theee appointments bave been made in Eseex, Gen. Cushing’s own copay where the proceedings of the administration illustrate the French saying— “Eatrémes se touchent,’—that is, extremes meet; for ultra abolitionists share the spoils there with ultra hunkers. The strictest impartiality has been preserved, all offices being given to men of extreme opinions, one heed or the other. Among the stories in Essex is one to the effect that Mr. Colby desired the place of Collector, or Postmaster of New- buryport, (Ceneral Cushing's own town,) offices worth about $1,600 a year each, and that he failed only because it was felt that his abolitionism would kill him in the Senate; and that the appointment being thus prominently brought betore the country ‘‘some- thing aud Tommy” would be played with the adminis- tration, from its ‘appearing in the character of Alma Venus Genetrix to old fashioned abolitionism, now at arather low ebb in Massachusetts, but likely to thrive agein under the concentrated rays of govern- mental fayvor—rays quite equal to anything that could have been produced through the medium of the famous Seward glass. Rumor says that the New- | buryport offices are to be given to Mr. Blood and Mr. Lawrence, the former being a moderate hunker, (most hunkers are astonishly moderate about these days, agreeing with Hamlet, ‘‘ That we should use all ge »’) and the laiter a thorough-going coalition- ist, who held the place of Registrar of Probate dar- ing Governor Boutwell’s administration, receiving his appointment from that distinguished official, and having been removed by Governor Clifford, who gave the place to Mr. Lord, one of the brothers of the famous hunker democrat who ousted Mr. Rantoul from the Baltimore Convention. Mr. N. Lord, by the way, goes in for harmony, and is playing the conciliation dodge with a great deal of usefulness— to the coalition and abolition office-seekers. His ob- ject is said to be, to succeed Mr. Upham in the repre- sentation of his district in Congress, of which he has about as much chance as I have of receiving the crown of China, and [ am sorry to say thal my pros- pects in that way are not very brilliant. He pro- cured the appointment of Mr. Stickney to the Lynn Post Office, as that gentleman migit have stood in the way of bis receiving a vote and a half, or there- | abouts, for the nomination. R When we come to the other cotinties, we find the ccalition star in the ascendant, while hunkerism is j only the dog-star, which the ancient Egytians were used to call Anubus, or the barker, perhaps because it hadu’t the power to bite, thus very much re- sembling a Massachusetts member of the present time; but, jnst now, fur as it has got into the warm weather, that star is remote enough from its political rising—that is to say, itis most deusedly remote from the sun of appointing power. In Norfolk, Mr. Joshua Seaver has been appointed to the lucrative place of Postmaster of Roxbury, which must be equal, during the next four years, to $3,000 per | annum, Roxbury being an uncommonly “ fast”? place, all whig thovgh it be. This appoint- ment is denied, though, as Mr. Seaver pos- sesces “claiins” that, in the opinion of some eminent personages, are paramount to all others. Tam inclined to believe that the denial 1s made with- outtruth. Several New York democrats have as- sured me that Mr. Seaver supported Mr. Van Buren in 1°48, and that he has never been friendly to the compromise measures. I give you what they say, without vouching for its accuracy, though they are all men in whore veracity those who know them place implicit confidence. The Roxbury democrats wirhed the appointuent of Mr. Merrill, a supporter of Gen. Cass in 1848, a democrat of the first class, and a man of irreproachable character. “Mr. Seaver, they say, was mainly backed by whigs. ‘Yhe following paragraph from the Commonwealth newspaper, of the Ist, is interesting, as showing Mr. Merill’s political standing, and as corroborating the statement that he has received the appointment of postmaster of Gloucester :— It is stated that O, Augustus Merrill, an abolitionist of the Garrison school, who was never known toact with the demcerstic party, has been appointed postmaster of Gloucester, which statement is confirmed by a corres- pordent of the Commonwealth, who says it is literally cor- rect, and ibat Mr. Merrill acted formerly with tue free democracy, but has since considered them pro-slavery, after the usual fashion of bis fellow Garrisonians, ‘The above would seem to be conclusive, and may be regarded as one of the richest paragraphs that have appeared on the subject of appointments to of- ice. Mr. Caldwell, who has been appointed postmaster | of Cambridge, is an old democrat, and a thorough supporter of the coalition party. He has always boon « steaay-soing Party man, from the days of Jackson until now, and is universally respected. He is no abolitionist, and even the Cambridge hunkers, who are quite numerous, and stiff in their opinions, are pleased with his appointment. He went for Cass in 1848, and he is one of the best men yet selected for office here by the administration. Not a word has or will be said against it. Another coalitionist has been appointed at Cambridgeport, and a third would bave been appointed at East Cambridge but that Mr. Parmenter objected to him. Mr. Trench, who is said to have been made post- master at Springfield, is editor of the Post in that city, and is charged with having voted for Mr. Van Buren in 1848. He is a man of talent, and supported Gen. Pierce’s nomination very effectively; but how aman who was honest in his advocacy of Mr. Van Buren against Gen. Cass, on the slavery question, can now stand onthe Baltimore platform, is more than I can understand—perhaps because I am too haces to comprehend a plain pro posi tion. Certainly, to a man who though Gen, Cass objectionable on what are called “ pro-sla- very grounds,” in truth and sincerity must find it as difficult to stand on the Baltimore platform as a gen- tleman of the old times, when ordeals were in fashion, found it to walk barefooted over burning plough- shares without getting scorched. 1t is said that the Springfield hunkers are very much enraged; and as they are quite numerous, perhaps we shall hear from them. Some of their number refuse to believe that Mr. Trench has been appointed, and perhaps they are right, for the ablest and most prominent of the gen- tlemen in the new list of appointments, told_me yes- terday, that he had no notification of his having been selected by the government for the place assigned by the papers to himself. Mr. Caldwell’s lat is the only important one included, which I am cer- tain has been made. This, however, does not prove much, for | know that in two or three other cases which were announeed in the papers, the appointees did not receive official notification of their success for more than a month later. Mr. Knowlton’s appointment, or rather the report of it, been well received. No man stands better in our State, whether we regard him as a citizen or as a_ politician, He is the ablest man connected with the Mas- sachusetts democratic press, as is universally admit- ted here. He toa Gen. Jackson, Mr. Van Buren, (in 1836 end 1840,) Mr. Polk, Gen. Cags and Gen. Pierce. He is move of a philosophical politi- c'an than any other man we have. In sentiment he is democratic republican of the old school, and agreed with the Jate Mr. Calhoun on everything ex- cept sowe of hia peculiar notions on the slavery question; but he i# far from being an abolitionist, he holding that the free States have no right to meddle with the local institutions of the South, and that the South has as little right to demand such a fugitive slave law as now exists, which he looks upon as in- vuding the rights of ail the States. In all the great essentials of the democratic party's |e oa no man stands better. His popularity at home inay be judged from the fact that within eight months ho has been shosen by the people of Worcester to the | offices of State Senator, delegate to the Constitu- tional Convention, and Mayor of Worcester city. Last fall he was offered the nomination for repre- presentative in Congress; but, though his election world have been a matter of certainty, he would not aceept the offer. Lf be bap been appointed Post- master, he will make for the place will give ere. I find three here with to what called the abo! pee Ali a Gen. Pierce means to proceed on the principle of comprehension, and that, assured that hereafter men ap) ted will let the slavery agitation alone, he will not have regard to their antecedents The second is, that he knows nothing about these particular pointments, but has left them to be made by others, and has by them been deceived. The third is, that it ig upreagonable to bold the Preaident responsible for sppcininente to minor places; that mistakes are una’ ble where so FH eget to be filled; and that he will be found ready to rectify auch mis- takes. The feeling toward the President is good, and all seem disposed to make the largest allowances for him. Rarely has it happened that a President has been more ody judged. Even the old line democrats, who think that hard measure has been meted out to them, are far from making use of harsh lang! when speaking of him. Whatever of evil they believe to have been perpetrated, they lay to the’ door of another 5 Mr, Fessenden, who has received the appointment ot Collector of New Bedford, is a lawyer, from Sand- wich or Cape Cod. Ishould not think the demo- cracy of Bristol would much fancy their best office being given toa gentleman from ‘nstable, espe- cially as the fact of their having several custom houses of their own is quoted as a reason why they should be moderate in their claims on the Custom House at Boston. Mr. Fessenden is a hunker, but he isa moderate man, of good character and abili- ties, and will fill his new place creditably and sa tisfactorily. If nota brilliant, he isa safe man. If not likely to set Acushnet river on fire, New Bedford is Tent safe against any attempts of hisin the political incendiary line. I suppose your Concord correspondent will give ou full accounts of the democratic New Hampshire ‘onvention’s proceedings, and so I will not detail the curious facts bearing upon it that I have heard from a very good source. Mr. Baker's nomination is liked by our enieeseys He isa gentleman who is likely to rise fast and high in the political world. + A writer in the Journal of Commerce newspaper, who dates from this city, gives some statistics on the population of the cities of Massachusetts which are almost entirely worthless. He assigns 25,000 people to New Bedford, which has not above 19,000, if so many, a8 at the census of 1850 its population was but 16,441. At the same rate of increase that there was made between 1840 and 1850, New Bedford cannot now bave much above 15,000 inhabitants. He as- signs about 20,000 to Springfield, which had 11,330 in 1850, and eannot now have above 14,000. To Roxbury, he gives 15,000, whereas it cannot have much short of 20,000, and perhaps has more, with- out including West Roxbury, peculiar circumstances favoring the growth of our beautiful and thriving neighbor. He gives to Lowell three or four thou- rand too few people, unless she has been growing slower since 1850 than she did between 1540 and that time—and there is not the slightest reason for be- lieving that such has been the case, but there is rea- son in abundance for believing the contrary. A cen- sus taken now in Lowell would probably show its populeten to be not far from 40,000. He speaks of orchester, and Andover, and Fitchburg, as likely rig ge to soon become candidates for the establishment of | city governments; whereas Fitchburg has not much above 6,000 inhabitants—perhaps 6,500-—or little more than half the number necessary for a city’s papalason) Dorchester not above 9,000, and Andover about 8,000. He is mistaken, too, in his estimate of the amount of the opulation of the four cities of Essex county—Salem, nn, Newburypor: and Lawrence—which he puts at about 50,000, whereas they had 60,443 inhabitants in 1860, and must now have not far from 58,000, if not 60,000, to say nothing of the town of Swampres- sott having been last year set off from Lyon. The rapid increase of Ropu lation in Lawrence is a wonder to everybody in Massachusetts. It was not created asa corporate town until 1847, and yet, in 1850, only three years after it had been set of ford and Methuen, its population amounted to 8,358, of which number about 7,000 were new people--per- haps more—the remainder having been taken the two towns just named; and it should be recol- lected that Groveland had been made from Bradford, in 1850, previous to the census being taken. Yet another mistake of this writer, is the assertion that the cities may soon have a majority of the population, | from Brad- , TO TRE EDITORS OF THE RICHMOND ENQUIRER. Lonpon, May 20, 1853. readers will b cent monument to the me bh} country, to be erected by the and lil of the great commonwealth of Virginia. It was a serious as well as an operatio not unattended with danger, as frig ccidet have occurred when the moulds have not been p erly dried, from the rapid fountain of steam so teint the melted metal ‘in every direction. V gverrihing was ready, the director prepared to @ the furnace in persorf, but first reverently uncov ing, as all eo i he solemn; yorenuy the pi tection of Kimigity God and his blessing; then, p forating the luting with along iron rod, on withdra| ing it, the melted metal rushed into the moulds li a torrent of melted lava, throwing jets high into air, through holes made for the purpose. ‘was t) ly a splendid spectacle. In a few minutes the op tion was pronounced perfectly suecesaful, and 4 welkin rang again with cheers for the director, Gustavus Adolphus, and for Patrick Henry. On my way to England from Bavaria I had t melancholy oppertunity of secing the effects duced by @ waterspout, which three or neh before had burst with terrible fury in the tiful valley of the Neckar, sweeping away more th ten miles of tle railroad between Ulm and Stutga| carrying off the bridges from the turnpike, und mining and tearing down houses, and destroy’ much property. and many of the inhabitants—twen eight dead bodies having been found in one house. did not learn the exact number of the drowned, indeed no one seemed to know precisely how m: perished. The river rose so rapidly that many of people could not escape, and the darkness of ¥ night of course increased the difficulty. It was a] # dozen Niagaras had been poured into it at the ga time; and yet, frightful as was the calamity, I hi seen no mention of it in auy of the newspapers, 4 did not even hear of it till we reached Ulu, and tl only incidentally and by way of information that must take the diligence. I therefore sapposed were only common people who suffered. Your o dient servant, Ggorce W. Huong THE ROYAL FOUNDRY IN- MUNICH. [Extracted from the Newest N Yesterday evening, at half- tues of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, Patrick Henry of America, were here cast at royal anitey, This interesting spectacle attrac; aconsiderable number of ctators, who crow into the areas of the building, now magical; minated hy the fey glow of the o) ft The cast succeeded perfectly in all respects. particularly interesting points in this day’s proce may be mentioned:—Firstly, that this cast of Gu yus Adolphus is but a copy of the same which the year 1851, as well known, was stranded and su | near Helgaland, on its voyage to Sweden, and in ¢ sequence of the right of shoreage, still pi the inhabitants of that coast, was detained in Gq enburg; and, secondly, that the statue of the p otic Henry opens the series of that most grand ument of modern times, the Washin, Tmonum in Virginia; Tastly, it deserves attention, in refere’ to skill, that while French founders, to avoid the | ficulties attending an extensive cast, are obliged | model a statue of similar dimensions in ten | tue ten feet in height, and of the voters of Massachusetts. At present they | have not not much different from one-third of the population, and the average number of thei: voters cannot be above two to every fifteen inhabi tants, while in the country towns it is about two to every eleven inbabitants. Then the latter places grow, in proportion, almost as fast— perhaps quite as fast, taking the average—as the cities. Every year sees families move out of the large cities to the neighboring towns, tothe | distance of forty miles, and more in some cases, vary- ing from two to fifty miles—the railroads ing avnihilated dietance. “If apy thing, I have rather onderrated than overrated the importance of the small towns. The Convention hi f rndic | ie Cobyention. uasdone.s great deeliat atin) able Specie and strange habits—has sometlj work this week—abolishing the poll tax, establish- ing the vote by ballot, increasing the number of | officers to be elected by the people, and so forth. The debates have been able and eaeaer coali- | tion having things pretty much all their own way, and encouraged by the favor with which they are regarded by the general government. Next week, it is supposed the representative question will come up for discussion, and will consume a great deal of time. | It is quite uncertain what the result will be, though | the town system party are confident of success. AS this matter is one of transcendant importance, I shall devote a letter to it, and at least endeavor to explain its character, and to point out what will probably be the effect of the adoption of any Sarnia system, on the future politics and standing of jar hedees LGOMA. Our North Carolina Correspondence. . Morganton, N. C., May 23, 1853. Southern Negroes in California—Their Remittances of Gold—Return of Eight Mento ther Owners— Efforts of the Abolitronists to detain them—Re- sistance of the Blacks, and their safe arrival home, In reply tothe ideal cases which the fanatical writers of the anti-slavery portion of the American press cite, and the absurd stories which the abo- litionist orators propagate, in order to impress their readers and hearers with the belief that the negroes of the South regard their owners with abhorrence, and sigh for emancipation, I beg to inform you of a few tangible and positive facts, which will tend to prove most clearly that the contrary fecling exists amongst them, and that they will remember, re- spect, and even return to their masters, from a state of freedom enjoyed under the most alluring circum- stances. oa Amongst the passengers who arrived in your city by the Califoruia steamer, upon the 15th of this month, were some seven or eight slaves, returning from the owners, who are all neighborhood. Four of these men had been in California for about two years, and for the last twelve months they have had the entire control of their own actions and operations. f During all this time they were quite successful in gold-digging, and have been in the habit of vet transmitting the proceeds of their labor to this part of the continent—sometimes by means of drafts drawn in California, and at others by express. Having lately determined to return, they arrived in New York, as above-mentioned, and remained there for two or three days. They were immediately “ hunted Ms and surrounded by your abolitionists and free oilers, from whom they received the most pressing invitations, and by whom the most earnest entreaties were used, in order to induce them to re- main, so as to form part of an exhibit against the inetitntions of the Southern portion of the Union. But it was all im vain; they took their departure at the time previously arranged for amongst them; and leaving your fanatics and sympathizers behind, turned their faces toward the Old Nerth State once planters residing in this more. When they arrived in Philadelphia they were sub- jected to a repetition of the same attentions from a section of the same class inhabiting that city, but the result was equaily barren in proiit to the cause of the psuedo-philanthropists, and the men arrived here in the last stage, all'in good health and spirits, and seemingly most happy in the regollection that they had “saved themselves from their Northera friends.” ‘There are at the present moment some one hundred and fifty negroes, from this and an adjoining ee in California, where they are daily engaged in taining with great success and profit; and from the firm disposition with which they have resisted all the evil influences which are daily brought to bear upon them by a restless party, which disgraces and disturbs the “country, I have no doubt but they will all in like manner return to their owners, unless prevented by the decrees of Providence alone. The owners of those slaves, and the entire South, owe them a debt of gratitude, not only for their firm adherence to honor, but also for their manly resistance of that party which is equally the bane of the black man aud America. I write in much haste, and will ask of you to insert this in the columns of the Heraxp, in order that if the‘ Cabin” writer of the day should ever wish to find a“ Key of Trath” regarding the slave question, they may search for it in the independent columns of that journal. In haste, Sournerner. Cornrrsirs TO THE OFFICERS OF THE SARDINIAN Fricats —The city government, with their invited Guante, the cficers of the navy yard and of the Sardinian frigate ovanni, went down the harbor yesterday on an ex- i. As they pasred the frigate they were honored with a salute from the guns of that vessel. They dined at Deer Inland. Excellent apeeches were made com: mander of the frigate made an eloquent speech in reply to the Mayor, which was interpreted, of course.—Doron Commonwealth, June 16, piv aieEinas of that country to their- m | pieces, our Master Miller, long accustomed to greatest proportions by his cast of the colossal stal of Bavaria, not content with PICs a single. actually executed two at on May the labors of experience and exercise fully 4 ceed! The extraordinary artistic productions of Miller, the active’ inspector of our royal found have already obtained him an Enropean reputat: | and have been markedly acknowledged and nf | ex perimenting on this American crocodile. eminently distinguished in the great London Ex tion, where this branch of Bavarian ‘industry nobly represented by one of the four lions, the sent ornament of the Gate of Victory in this city, Great Alligator Killing. (From the New Orleans Delta, June 2 } We are indebted toa gentleman who was pre yesterday, and witnessed some very astonishing periments by Dr. Cartwright, for the following ¥ interesting report of the same:— The very name of this animal—recalling its forr about it that at once arrests attention. _ Wo beli also, that its tenacity of life—snperior to that o! most apy vier creature—is one reason why the tors'of New Orleans seem to have a neers: dre’s vivisections of the dogs of Paris “pale their} effectual fires” before those cuttings-up of live gators, which have made Dr. B. Dowler and D Cartwright celebrated, at home and abroad. ‘The great killing we speak of, then, occurred terday, in the court -yard of the hospitable man of Dr. Cartwright, who had generously ens monste’s, of the respective lengths of nine, th and three and a half feet, for sacrifice upon the of science. On our reaching the temple, or anat cal theatre, we found a host of physicians pres among whom we recollect Drs. Cartwright and Uj ler, the Drs. Riadle, Dr. Hale, Dr. Copes, Dr. C! alier, Dr. Nutt, Dr. Weatherly, Dr. Wharton, hailie, and Dr. Greenleaf, not to mention the professional spectators like ourselves. The mouths of the alligators were first sect bandages, and their hideous bodies then strap down to the dissecting tables. The larger re) was currendered to Dr. Dowler, and the rem two retained for the special experiments of Cartwright. 1. We may state that there are four cla what are termed excito-motary nerves, two o: nating in the spinal marrow, and two in the b and that sensation, pain, and motion, have hith been referred to impressions transmitted to and flected from the first, or transmitted by the last, assumed seat of volition, and, in short, the m According to this physiology, when you cut finger a message has to be sent to the brain or s; and then a permission returned down the authorizing sensation or muscular motion. It iq the finger that is cut, as the “vulgar” centend, so to speak, the brain or the spinal marrow. the “ vulgar” are right, and it requires a philosoj] to prove them so. This Dr. Dowler did yeste as he has done before, and his opinions are wor] @ physiological revolution. Thus he divide spinal marrow in three Pierygrry: the base of neck, in the middle, and at the base of the bj nay, he divided the nerves emerging from the —and still, on irritating a nerve between the and the extremity, and in proportion as he the extremity, he demonstrated that the ary possessed a diffused sensibility, a capacity to nize pain, and even an intelligent power tq against. or attempt to escape the cause of the ‘Cutting cf the head of the animal, jobbing ou' spinal row, dividing the nerves coming em, id irritating them along their distal fe they still retained this independent sensibility, the mutileted limbs of the headless animal make intelligent motions for getting rid of the I] torture. These are curious and important dj] verie ! Dr, Cartwright contends, against long odd] is tree, that in the lungs, not the heart, reside motive power of the circulation; that, literal] Moges agcerted, the blood ia the life of the flesh theair the life of the blood. He aflirmsthat after di whien the pulse has stopped, the heart is still the be i is insensible to pain, by producing arti iration, by inflating die lungs, the blood co started anew, its life revived, and the body reaw, ed absolutely from the cold abstraction of d Both of his aligators had their windpipes tied one of them had its chest opened, with its h lungs, and stomach, ete., exposed. In the coum two hours both animals were dead, pulseless, quict over flames of fire. Then a bellows-nozz! ing inserted into the trachea, inflation was be and continued for some minutes. We saw th tionless heart throb, the blood beginning to flow the lungs to that organ—they eyes of the alli ned, and the hapless “ victim” lived ee! alligator whose chest was exposed, had its ca artery accidentally cut, thereby losing a con: able quantity of blood, and hence it was not ma briskly alive as the other who 1etained all ites fluid; and the inflation failed in Dr. Dowler's| ject, which was entirely bloodless—results conf Bh however, of Dr. C.’s theory. lieve are all remarkable experiments, and, w assured, capable of the highest practical use. analogical and philosophical reasoning, and ana cal aseociations, etc., connected with each of investigations, are also, we can well conceive, greatest interest. Srrvck sy Ligntying.—During the thi storm yesterday afternoon the following vessels, alongtide, in the Second and Third districts, were by lightning:—The shiy, Josiah Pradiee, lying at th of Port strect, Third district. The fluid entered th hatch, setting fire to a bale of cotton, without doin other damage. The ship Desdemona, lying at the of Spain street, wax struck in the main royal masi running down to the keel of the main topgallent shivering both spars considerably, without dein further damage, The ship Raritan, loading, aed opoorite the Mint, in the Second district, sailand main topgallant mot shattered, and so from the foree of the flaid, penetra splinter nearly two inches. No’ person was injured o% ¢ veneels..V, ©, Crescent, June 1.