The New York Herald Newspaper, June 29, 1853, Page 6

ARRIVAL OF THE UNION. Very Late from the West India Islands. The steamship Union, Captain Adams, arrived yesterday from Aspinwall, by the way of Kingston, Jamaica. She left the latter port at 6 o'clock P. M., on the 22d inst. We are indebted to the Purser of the steamship Uaion for a prompt delivery of the papers. We regret to learn that Purser J. Bush died of Chagres fever on the 27th inst. ‘The yellow fever is not soprevalent as previously reported. Commodore McQuahe died of it on the oth inet. ‘The British war steamers Medea and Buasard are in port. They would leave in a few days for a cruise. The House of Assembly was still at a stand. No usimess done. P. Laurence, Esq., has been elected Mayor of Kingston, in room of the late Hon. H. Mitchell. The Morning Journal of the 24 June, contains a lengthy article upon the question as to the mode of opening the Legislature of Tobago, by the President administering the government in the absence of the Lieut. Governor. The particulars of the constitutional squabble will ‘be found in this paper. Mr. George Adam Hague, a member of the local press, had been appointed to an important post in the Queen of England's custom house at Kingston. The Morning Journal of the 4th inst., alluding to ‘the health of the inhabitants of the island, speaks thus regarding their recent scourge, the yellow fever :— We regret to state that this disease, which has been g0 destructive to human life for some months past on ‘board of vessels in the harbor of Kingston, has not abated in the least, but has, on the contrary, been more virulent; and many unfortunate have recently fallen victimsto it. Captain of the American schooner Walter J. Doil, was attac! terday, and removed from on board to lodgings inthe city, whose ha lian in a dangerous state. ia the day, the mate ot the same vessel, and son, we believe, of the captain, was also attacked with the eame dis- Fare ie Lapp tebe brought on shore nadir taken je seamen were con’ to the [a7 Donegan to be tended by the officers of that » Who, we have no doubt, have sufficient work on hand to get through the many cases at pre- sent under their care. Speaking of Chinese emigration, the same jour nal writes a lengthy, terrestrial article, which is en- tirely adverse to the further importation of any more of their Eastern and etheriabrethren to the island. It concludes thus:— Whatever may be the fitness, then, of the Chinese as laborers in island, or their superiority over the native inhabitants, — morality, we are con- soe coseeih uprtivie tape talion 9 sn wil im ion. No women come with them, and if they do not overcome their abhorrence to the black race, no considerable per manent addition appears likely to be made to our a by conigration frem China. Accommo- jing themselves to circumstances, they may, how- ever, or many of them may, make up their minds to remain here and enioy that rere ees ga in all probability, they will soen acquire. A prime judgeship was going a . The AAtiomey General, Mr Edwards, and xe idleton, had a the honor of donning the ermine. in this dilemma, it was said, an express measenger, of no less authority than his Excellency’s Military Secretary, has been despatched to tender the vacant seat first to Mr. Chairman Farquharson, and then to Str. Chairman Moncriefte. Mr. Farquharson took the post. Mr. Edmund Delliser, acting sub-collector of cus- ‘toms at Kingston, had been confirmed as sub-col- lector at the port of Annottoo Bay. ‘There had been no fewer than 94 convictions and fines, and 135 punishments of a minor description, under the order of England for the adulte- ration of coffee with chicory; and in the course of one day (June 9th) 33 convictions had taken in the city. Many of the convictions were for eva- sions attempted by the printing on wrappers. U; to the above time the excise had confined the penal. ties to small amounts, some £5 or £6 in each case. The seventh of June being the anniversary of the ir earthquake in 1692, by which the greater of Port Royal was d , the several public in 8 Town were closed, as well as the | alifferent places of business in that town, and divine | Service was held at the Cathedral church. The Lord Bishop consecrated a new military burial ground at New Castle upon the 2d inst. The Morning Advertiser of the 20th inst. says:— | “The{British government has determined, it appears, | ‘upon not granting any charters for banks in the colo- | nies until it has referred the applications to the lecal authorities of the colonies interested, and obtained their opinions upon them. The President administering the = of | ‘Tobago, (Mr. Henry Yeates,) and the of Coun- cil, were at issue uj two subjects—Ist, the mode mary the Legislature; 2d, the treatment of the P pears i Barbadoes on his visit to Tobago. It ap- that the President resorted to the unusual method of ae pone? he eae’ te ears See two rs upon opening of the re, instead of addressing them in the same 5; wh. The Council had come to some very spirited resolutions wpor the first matter. A smart shock of earthquake was, the Advertiser , experienced on Wednesday morning, the 4th of May, at about three o'clock, at St. Christopher. The Gazette mentions that the “weather con- inues favorable. During the week we have had fine rains, and we understand that they have been general throughout the island. The young canes are consequently looking well, and the prospects for next ‘year's crop cheering. The present crop is being gathered in, and there is plenty of sugar made. We to notice the paucity of shipping—after the of the Purrock Hal! and James Ewing, there will be no vessel to take our produce,-and we believe that some weeks must elapse before the next London ship can be expected.” he Caged ee oe sates future rosperity of the island depends on something being Jinmediately done to procure laborers for the cultiva- tion of the soil. A grant of twenty or thirty thou- sand pounds from government must be requested on ‘the uurity of the colony; but before this is done, the islature has a duty to perform, and which must be performed. Certain reports have gone forth prejudicial to the a body in hg eo to their re treatment of the African laborers sent here by gov- ernment. Inte ce from New Brunswick. The St. J ~ Morning Times of the 24th, has is para; —_ Poet received last evening, from Fredericton, | fe are informed of the appointment of the following | it Directors for the huropean and North Ame- Railway :—The Honorables Mersrs. Chandler, Hazen, mot, Gray. Hayward and Montgomery. Mr. C. P. Roney, Managing Director of the Cana- diam Grand Trunk Railway, who will be knighted for his services in connexion with the Dublin indus- trial exhibition, was expected to arrive in St. John | \sttne Spacey, Cape Breton News, of the 15th, has | lydney, Cape Breton News, of the 15th, the following :— | The submasine cable has been laid across the Gut of | anso, and is found +o work ospltally. | The wire leading from the office at Plaister Cove to the shore, to be affix to the cable there, is being put up and will be completed to day. py a war steamer wana! the loading ground at the | North Bar for two or three days last week, aud was vis ited on Saturday by a large party of ladies and gentlemen from Sydney and the mines, by invi'ation of the com- wander, who, with his officers, entertained their gusrts with true hospitality. and with the courtesy so character istic of that chival:our pation. The St. Jobn's —— publishes the followin; communication from St. George's Bay, May 30, which | wives the circumstances of the taking the control of the fisheries there by the French more in detail than | numeration only runs uj that can throw Soskid tall o be of interat the pic. With this view we have translated the fol! “y ned We are in possession of others of the same class, which in future numbers of the Herald we shall give to the public: — ORIENTAL MISSIONS, REPUBLIC OF THE ECUADOR—ROOLESIASTICAL GC- © VERNMENT. Cugnca, April 9, 1863. To the Honorable the Minister of State for Home Affairs:— Srr.—I have been much gratified by the h pot teehee uth and aah or st Jn ges decid terest the Supreme government eh after ¢ eres ht both tc the pro: whic! very ivant » to ro- vince of Loja and to this, whose financial position is » Since 1 was inducted ipto this ces, I proposed to myself the colonization Ladaquisa, convinced not only that it would be useful, on account of the rich and abundant fruits that can be extracted from these rich and mountains, ies peinaipen because I resolved, xtraordin: efforts, e ary , to open & com- munication with Brazil by Tabat wishes untilthe 25th of November last. At this time I comprehended that Divine Providence entrusted to me the work of the social and religious civili- zation of tribes of the East; and the mo- ment that I heard voice of God, which called me from the bush, I took up the traveller's staff, and without allowing my impediment, I ji paths scarcely passable, until I saw with plea- sure my desires crowned. eaten with the unbeliever, type of his pri- mitive race, fierce for independence, and who pre- sents himself as the sovereign of the desert; I have examined into his character, his life, his man- ners, and his religion; 1 have his zivors, biv mountains, uid ly shores, convinced tribes bi * niet anes by emg, and necessity. ve manag °) 3 of commu- nication and commerce; and for this ‘pa I have ros, four commissions; one to Loja, the remain- ing three to Mainas, Macas,and to the Barranca, near the Pongo. The Governor of Loja correspond- ed to my desires with a zeal worthy of a magistrate who takes an interest in the welfare of his country. i es the present I am ignorant of the result of the other misslons. I would have done something of more marked ut had I not, bein; oppreesed ‘by the winter, seen myself in the necessity 4 abandoning these, to me, delicious places, but resolved to return in the summer. I have distributed an abundance of agri- cultural tools to the Jivaros, who cheerfully lent their aid to cultivate the fields. Your Excellency is not ignorant that missions area cl which weighs not — on the conscience of the bishops, but also on that of the government. For my part,I have the following relation: — . From the town of Sigsig, which serves as_a stop- ping place, I commenced my journey, following the route shown by the map, which I have the honor to enclose to your Excellency, in which are delineated the views which presented themselves as far as the point of embarkation in Zamora itself. After pees at Granadillos, descending the long hill of the Portada, I commenced to observe the oa vogetation of these lands, the vigorous vegetation of those woods, rich in the multiplicity of very useful substances, one of the first of which that called my attention being the cinnamon. Arrived at Chibuinda, I was Gps at its fertility, in the very little space that been cleared. The want of beaches, the humidity of the air owing to the con- stant rain, the difficulty of the road, and, above all, the impetuous and difficult river, have contributed, without doubt, to destroy some establishments at the bridge called Rosario, where there were formerly more than one hundred inhabitants, which at pre- sent are reduced to three scattered families. This river offers some icles of gold, doubtless carried away from the heights, and borne down by the waters. Attention was called to the same circum- | stance in the other rivers and creeks. Perhaps a troublesome process of labor might render these washings useful. After a most craggy journey, I arrived at Gilala- vegetable and animal kingdom, that the enumeration | of them would be importunate. Suffice it to inform your Excellency that we found, in an almost wild State, magnificent (toquillo) good cotton, tobacco, exquisite sugar cane, cocoa, coffee, carrot, almond, sweet smelling vanilla, various classes of palm, fit for sundry purposes, rezin gums, divers. ms, bees- wax, medicinal herbs and woods, amongst others the famous wood of the Cross, (palo de la Cruz,) and fine woods for cabinet making. Birds, singular and rare, either for their singing, their showy plumage, or the delicacy and juciness of their flesh. The rivers abound in fish of different kinds. It isa remarkable fact that, notwithstanding the frequent and often strong rains, the snake is only rarely seen, doubtless owing to the quantity of guaca grass which is met with at every step. There is also a multitude of wild hogs, bears, and other animals, which serve for food to the Indios, whe penetrate these woods. ‘The Indians, called Jivaros, dwell in Cuchibam- ba, and principally on the banks of the Zamora, as far as the other side of the Chicani, which serves as the landing place in coming from Loja, and is dis- tant five days’ journey from Gualaquisa in ascending, and only two in descending. The Jivaros live in that complete natural iiberty so hurtful both to the body and mind; since from it arises poligamy, which the vigilance and efforts of the parochial clergy is not enough to restrain; hence results the repugnance to embrace the Christian religion, and consequently the slavery and abject condition oi the women, vic- tims of the indolence, inconsistency, and luxury of the men; and it may be affirmed ‘that these passions form the distinctive characteristics of these ‘unfortunate people. Their dwelling places, which they change at least every six years, are exactly eliptic, and occupied by pe gi families, each one of which occupies a sort of cabin made of bamboo cane, in which may be seen a cerbatana, (a tube of great length, te blow clay pel- lets through—they are sometimes eight to nine Ret long—the Indians kill birds by means of these, with | great expedition,) a lance, a shield, some feather ornaments, black and red beads, and four or six game dogs. Round about is a reer of yaca, plantain, cotton, (toquilla) and (huayusa). They abandon these dwellings sometimes befere the six years, if Jivaro dies, whose body seated, with lance and shield at his side, and surrounded by viands and drinks, remains shut up, and no one ever returns to inhabit the place; which proves, according to their confession, the immortality of the soul and the ex- istence of a divine being, judge of good and bad ac- tions, who punishes through the medium of a bad spirit called Yhuanchi. eir language is poor, and supplied with many words from the Quichua. Their to four, and to express a higher number they make use of their fingers and toes. As descendants of the ancient insurgents of Lagrona, &c., they preserve the taaxim of not fighting as a national body, but in detached ‘ies, amongst the woods, reducing their tactics to assassination. ‘Their dress consists of a piece of cloth, which covers from the waist down to the thighs. There are about forty cuadras cleared between Gualaquisa and Yumaza, cultivated by twelve pe: between men and women, who have remained n spite of the fear inspired into them by the Pagans. Many families have dwelt there, but as they had no security either for their persons or for their goods, on account of the want of social order, which could offer them a positive guarantee, they abandoned with sorrow those places which supplied them abundantly with provisions for life, It remains for the govern- ment to remedy this evil in the manner it may think fit. Desirous to take advantage of these lands in ano- ther direction, | despatched a commissiouer to ex- we have had them before :— “T take the fiest oppurtunity to inform yon that t! Freneh cutter has assured the exelnsive right of fiehernes here, and has driven all the Faglish schoone out of the bay, which were about forty in number. They were forbidden to take wpy fi-h on boar! after the cutter arrives, and many were driven out and not alloved to ‘take up their nets that were in the water, and their boats | and berrl- gs tbat were in them were taken from them, | AB8 ‘he cchooners compelled to go out of the bay with a | ‘trong hend wind; aud some. that returned on'account | of the heavy sea and wind, were fired into by the cutter | und, when they returned, were compelied to go out with out dropping anchors. Wedo not know how to act in | the matter, having 0 authority from the government, | noreven the treaty to govern us; but you may depend it made the English blood chill to see the driving the Eoglish, to the forty veesele, ont of the bay, and Gring imto them, &. I was forbidden to take herring on board my schoorers: I had four lying ‘One of them I hed was lnaded with 967 barrels Yhe others I cannot loud ia bolk, which will be considera vie lors tome and the ixbabitants. They allow us to pake our herrings on shore, but not to put any on board schooners. | 0’ on the Freneh ¢ mmodore, and told me we might thaok or blame Tobia for all this, 3 or sopping the French from fishing on the Labrador last | a ‘eason, and that their government had ordered them to top the English in every place where they had right of . Yam informed that the inhabitants in Cod Roy stopped for several dsye from et = fe always Freneh cutter. If they have the excivsive ri Chey now axsume the exelurive right to the Dave teken itetthe month rights of the matter wil! no ye taken ip By the plore in another direction, and the report he gave me on his return have given me well founded hope ot good success. I bave put myself on an under- standing with respect to this new road with the gov- ernor, Don Francisco Davila, whose philanthropy and devotion to the good of this Province are very praiseworthy; and | will inform the Supreme govern ment of the result, be it what it may: After having taken the steps which I have pointed out, [ returned to this cityin the middle of January of the present year, with the determination of doing all that lies in my power in favor of those wander- ing tribes, expecting the co-operation and support of the government. I wish to take advantage of the present opporta | nity to call the attention of the government to an event which has taken place with regard to our mis- sion, and which | consider of great importance. [ have read a treaty of commerce and river naviga- tion, celebrated between Brazil and Peru on 23d October, 1851, and appeared ratified by the Emperor of Brazil on lsth March, 1452; and with Bion I have seen in article seven, that it stipulates for the | Jands which lie to the eastward of a line drawn from Tabinga to the mouth of the river Apaporis, at its | confluence with the Japura. This treaty, sir, takes | away from the Ecuador a territory of nearly 2,000 | square leagnes yieldtd to Brazil ; and it is even given to be understood that the territory which lies to the | westward of the line between Tabinga and the Apa- | ports, shall belong to Pern, which would entail upon Fenuador on incalculable loaa, because no one knews | how far the pretensions of Peru will be extended. ‘The principle which hae been adopted to settle the its Of the Bouth American Republica haw heen pul we bub Ut posmunetes we hl pe dy hein , by the navi- ein of the river Sant , one of tribu- of the Amazon. Which it would be / useless to mention, retarded the of my that in the course of time the nature of these savage | directed, from the centre of the country of the Jiva- | commenced my task, as your excellency will see by | | of my companions, was called to the river Quimi, of rit tr ! é ST ERGER tiie i i Eeg | , would prejudice usin the extreme. Tt is not for me to point oat vo conduct which it should observe on the present ques- tion. Ifthe observations have been made by me, I have done so solely I c no one shout the republic possesses a | know! those lands superior to my own, as I have led there for more ef , this » do what in the year L829 I did with 4 Bolivar; and I am certain that if the limits of the two repub- lics of Pera and Colombia had been fixed, as was stipulated in the treaties which were made after the of Tarqui, many of the data given by me e ne would have been of great service at a . Ihave touched upon this question very hurriedly, that his Excellency the President of 1 seen 5 the statesmen who surround him, and every citizen, in whose heart national sentiment has not ceased to ae study and enlighten themselves in it, in | order that, as soon as possible, the territorial limits | of our republic be recognized, taking for basis the | ute lpoartiatis’? of the year 1810. If be obtain- | ed, your Excellenc: see the future happiness of a great part of the Ecuador secured, for I cannot see | the salvation of the interior in eteaeeeen oe riental | rnment, as the copes | future destinies of the people, to dedicate its illus- | trious patriotism to this great work, which embraces | the regeneration of the country. God and liberty, | Fr. Jose Manvec, Bishop of Cuenca. | GOVERNMENT OF THE PROVINCE oF LoJa, 5 _ February 23, 1853. { To ca the Minister of State for Foreign ‘airs. | Sir—For a long time we have had an ardent and lively desire to discover the town situated to the eastward of Loja, of which history and tradition kept up remem! e amongst us, at once and mysterious, a circumstance which constantly excited our curiosity. Various efforts had been made to satisfy it, and, as a proof, | will merely quote one act: In the year 1849, two Italians were sent,a considerable reward having been offered them, in | the positive case that they should discover the spot where the ancient city of Zamora was situated; for there was a supposition that some vestiges remained, but the efforts of these two loners were vain, | and without any result of profit or importance. We | had not yet forgotten our projects, when chance brought us four inhabitants of that which we had so t an ambition to er and | know. With these, I and other companions resolved | to set out, notwithstanding the very weighty obsta- | cles, resolving to trust to the good faith and pro- mires of the savages; and having discovered in this incursion various and interesting things, I should be reprehensible if I did not inform the government which, on every occasion, I have come in con- tact, of them—that impelled by the great patriotism which rules it, it may do all that lies in its power to | ameliorate the condition of those inhabitants who live in the most complete state of barbarism and backwardness. I hasten, therefore, to inform your Excellency of all the particulars, as follows:— | | On the 12th ult. we left this capital, and to makea halt at the hacienda of Senor Pt Mendieta, on as- count of the heavy rain; on the 13th we slept at El Pajon,a rather cold and windy place; on the Lith, | near the river Sabanilla, we experienced great heat; | on the 15th we were sorry to see the vestiges of the bridge, which, according to ancient tradition, led to | | the ancient city of Zamora; we threw some poles | across, which operation was easily accomplished, and we passed without trouble, sleeping that day in Gu- | | ambuscura, the place of embarkation; on the 1éth, we embarked on the navigable river Zamora, which is — increased by the many streams that it receives from the right and left—most of them also navigable. | Amongst those on the right, my attention, and that the color of blood, which it preserves even for some quisa, whose woods enclose so many riches of the | ‘i-tance, after emptying itself in the Zamora, in a Manver very distinct fora navigable river; aud we | | landed at six in the afternoon at the Jivaro settle- | | ment, (Jivaria,) called Chicani, lodging in the house Ca Guizho, where we passed the 17th and | On the 19th we set out for Gualaquiza, continuing embarked on the same river, taking a downward course, recognizing in the passage the Jivarias o | Yaranza, Chicani, Pachicos, Cuchibamba, Cuchum- | | blesa, Zamora, Bomboiza and Gualaquiza; we landed at a port called Zamora, at 5 P. M., and after travel- | ling a league by land, came to the house of Captain | Eguizuma, where we slept; on the 20th we set out | for Gualaquiza, at 7 A. nd arrived there at 4 P. | M.,after having to cross the river Bomboiza at noon, | embarked; the 21st and 22d we passed in Gualaquiza as also the 23d; on the morning of which I had the pleasure of taking to the font « boy of three years old, to whom was given the name of Raymundo, son of Ausocua, the father, and Tiquizo, the mother. After the ceremony was over, the gossip Kcompodre) took us to the Jivaria of Cuchibamba, where his re- sidence is; we to pass the river Rosario, where we embarked at noon. As soon an we arrived at the Jivaria I had the nari of making the acquaintance of the valiant reeagin Cayuca, who is about 30 years of age, and holds the other captains subject to himself, merely by the prestige of his exploits; he assured me that he had relationship both by consanguinity and friend- ship with the captain of the numerous tribes of the Pongo of Manserviché, distant about twenty days’ from his dwelling, and that it would not be very difficult to induce them to enter into relations with us; on the 24th we set out for the port where we were to embark, and after having walked all day, the misfortune happened that our guide, named An- diche, one of the principal aborigines, fell, and ran a stake into his breast, the consequence of which was that the Jivaros wished to detain us until he should get well or die; but we, seeing that we were going to suffer much delay, resolved to return forthwith for | Gnalaquiza, where we arrived on the 25th; on the 26th we slept at the Rosario, on the 27th in Chugu- inda, on the 28th on the hill on Molon; on the 2:th in Jima; on the afternoon of that day there was a strong shower of rain, accompanied by hail; on the 30th in Nivon, on the 31st in Ona, on the Ist Febra- ary in Saraguro, and on the 2d, at 8 o'clock at night, we arrived at Loja. The captains of the six Jivarias that came under our notice are called as follows:— Of the Ist, Guizho, “94, Gnalo, “$d, Chirapa, “4th, Equisuma, “ Sth, Aguazh, “ 6th, Caynca. They have no mode of worship whatever, but the: have huts like oratories at a distance from the dwel- lings, whither they go, after taking a narcotic drink, to dream over what they want to discover, which they call inspiration. This hut is kept clean and swept, and even the road wilich leads to it, that the | be ing spirit may meet with no obstacle whatever. ‘he following are the customs of the inhabitants of the towns through which I have passed:— They sleep cross-ways on a cane bed (barbacoa) with a head erty over which they place their feet, and below which they put a fire to pep them warm; the husbands sleep separately trom their wives on ac- connt of the idea they entertain, that if = slee} with ther the houses would fall down. " At the foot | of the beds of the women dogs are tied, which form a guard over them, and allow no one to Cena but their respective masters. At four o'clock in the | morning they arise and take guayusa, (leaf of a | tree.) which makes them vomit ; at five they break- fast, and are then sy for work. They eat their fo without salt, becanse the: have it not; but we observed that they liked it mu ‘The following are the natural productions :—Cocoa, of both classes, white and black ; the mami ec, the alligator pear, the breadfrnit tree, the lemon, the guava tree, the platano, also of both classes ; guinea gras#, cane, calabash, white, yellow and red ynea, papaya d pumpkin ; also maize of the com- mon kind, as I as what is called three-monthly, the ear of which is the third of a vara long. The toguilla straw is found in great abundance, culti- vated cotton, wild cinnamon ; also, gum lac, and other valuable productions. The houees are large, with two doors, one at each | timber, and the roof is covered with the leaf of the chonte, The temperature from Sabanilla is agree- able and even, cad becomes gradually warmer in the descent. The character of the inhabitants is mild, bountifal and hospitable. They manifest enthusiasm to establish relations with ua, and it would be very interesting to take advantage of the opportunity of ending them a yo l which give us two ad- vantages, one, that by this means we should manage to bring them round to Christianity; the other, that cor relations of commerce wonld he au, nted, giv- ing us resultsof great profit for the future. ‘They have offered to me to open a road to Sabanilla, pro- \ ded that I give them four hatchets and four wood cutlasees, (machetes,) and that we, also, on our part, would open it up to that point, which is distant (ght Jeaguee from this capital, bis, sir, is what { have been able t discover, sod end; they are not plastered, they are of upright split | ‘and Liberty, the ay governor, ALVADOR PALACIO. Interesting cooneee on Snakes. A paper was lately read before the Boston Society of Natural Hi , from Dr. W. J. Burnett, on the bona and os the eewnae J The Doctor been experimenting on or three specimens of this animal, Rgoocmnsnconpe See. discovery ces aa merous embryo poisonous ws @ snake, ‘nunediaty behind Son cuierhad fangs. The hidden weapons of destruction amen Soe to peppiy she visoee, the biting fangs of the they get broken off or worn out in service. It also ap] that the , (two in number,) which ce ge in pens the § ly bite of the rat ke, are naturally shed every few years, when they are not injured by accident or wear, and the reserve fangs are sufficiently numerous to meet the worst cies. From minute microsco- ical examination of the structure of these teeth, Dr. . concludes that there are two canals in each fang, only one of which conveys the | gps to the woun Lo oar the character of the poison itself, the Doctor remarks as f ollows :— There is good reason to believe that its action is the same upon all living things, vegetables as well as animals. Itis even just as fatal to the snake it- self as to other animals, for Dr. Dearing informed me that one of his specimens, after being irritated and annoyed in its cage, in moving suddenly, acci- eentally struck one of its fangs into its own body: it soon rolled over and died, as any other animal would have done. Here, then, we have the re- markable, and ig unique, physiological tact of a liquid sec we'd from the blood, which proves deadly when introduced into the very source (the blood) which it was derived. In order to scrutinize, by the aid of a microscope, the operation of this deadly agent on the blood, Dr. Burnett stupified one of the fiercest of his snakes by arepp' loroform upon his head. enty-five or thirty drops being allowed to full on his head, one slowly r the other, the sound of his rattle erent died away, and in a few minutes he was wholly under the agent. He was then adroitly seized bel the jaws with the thumb and finger, and dragged from cage, and allowed to 1 gon pay in this state a second per- son held his tail to prevent his coiling around the NET OE le a third bh pee r mouth, and with » forceps pressed the fang upward, cal @ flow of poison which was received on the end of the scalpel. The snake was then returned into the cage. Blood was then extracted from a er for close | microscopical examination. The smailest quantity of the poison being presented to the blood between the glasses, a ch: was immediately perceived; the corpuscles to run and pile together, and remained ‘i eee without any special alteration of structure. whole sp pearance ‘was as though the vitality of the blood had been ey destroyed, e as in death from lightning. This agrees also with another experiment performed on a fowl, where the whole mass of the blood appeared quite liquid, and baving little coagulable power. 1. Burnett is opinion that the physiological action of the poison of a rattlesnake in animals is that of a most powerfal sedative, acting through the blood on the nervous centres. He su} pee this position by the remarkable fact, that its full and complete anti- dotes are the most active stimulants, and of the alcohol (commonly in the form of rum or whiskey) is the first. This remedy is well known at the South, and there are some twenty-five authentic cases on record, proving that a person suffering from the bite | of a rattlesnake may drink from one to two quarts of eee brandy and eventually recover.—Hartford ‘imes. Execution of John 8. Wormley for the Mu derof his Son-in-law. John S. Wormley was hung at Chesterfield Court House, Va., on Friday 24th it for the marder of Anthony T. Robiou, his son- The execution was witnessed by about 2,500 persons, whom the prisoner adressed for about a quarter of an hour. He confessed the murder of Robiou, remarked thi der similar circumstances, he would repeat the crime, | and then gave the following account of the facts | which led to the unfortunate event :— The evening of the fatal day he was in his yard with his gun, when R.biou wat in the act of passing; le imagined the wagon was approaching the the road next to his house, the idea flashed across his mind that Robiou was sbout to stop and indulge in some abuse towards him and his family, as had been his prace tice. Without thought or deliberation he raised his gun and shot him, and soimpulsive was the act that he Gid not raise the weapon to his shoulder, but fired with. out g any from the eye. Nor was it true that his daughter, Mrs. Robiou, entertained any deadly hos. tility towards Robioa, notwithstanding his gross abuse of her. Neither che nor Reed, or any othsr persoa, ever | used any language or employed any efforts to stimulate him to the commission cf the act, on the evening of that fatal day. And when, in an usguarded moment, he killed her husband, she exhibited the most profoun Bort nd showed all those tender feelings wu to the sex at the loss of a husband. He had taken a father’s ° | And by the torrent sapp’d, are ‘Af 4 bi pit if i fi ef iE E E by ? i i ft F iH i el ee dg alte 22ee -ozyPereeeeys brite é = i volvers Discharge « score of shots in quick succession. Now fires are blazing bright and doga are barking, ‘Ard men are fiddling, singing, drumming, larking, yor in aoae Sane, arepmens a eolding nd some by way of change are bus; Some at the fre joying the ‘dudheeh, Some weighing out their gold all washed and clean To see how much a good day’s work has been; At last the songs are o'er, the smoking ended, ‘The arguments and yarns are all expended. Lights aze put out, and all turned in to bed ‘Tl the next sun his early beams shall ahed O’er bill and vale. The morn to dawn, We wake, and stretch our limbs, and lazy yawn; ‘The fire is lit—up, up, we all must rise, The ‘sun begins to illume the skies; 0 (ed kettle, on the frying pan With savory chops to feast our inner man, And give us sti 'b to work and heart to stand The cold and wet from winter’s chilly hand. Breakfact is quick discussed, and off we start, Shouldering our tools with hope to cheer our heart; Perchance rome new found gully we must try, And thither hundreds rash hue and cry! Hurrying with steps and anxious face, Each vieing with another im the race To be in time to make his working 1] 5 Onward they come, ourselves amnong the rest, And each selects the ground he fancies best; But crowds still come, and more and more behind; And soon from end toend the place is lined ‘With diggers all at work : some marking out ie ond the i ates aes there oe a shout, uyget found! (or else pretended so, Some rush to see whether ’tis true or no; But some there are who, having marked their ground, Proceed no further until some around Have suvk their holes and tried the earth below, So that these wary ¢i thus may know Whether the gold is ; unwilling they On a mere ce to throw their time away: And oft a place to which the rush was great, habe Ldap talasypae with Gy ey elate golden hopes, ere man: 8 are o'er Ip lefts rilent as it was before.” ‘The false report brought numbers there at first ; No gold is found—the bubble soon has burst, ‘The swarm has all dispersed to try again Some other place, per! ps alike in vain : But when the glittering dust regales the eye, To work, to work, is then the engrossing ory ; With pick and shovel eagerly they strive In apxious haste their it to derive ; Soon heaps on heaps of yellow earth arise From holes of every shape, and every size, A)l the incumbent ¢arth is cast away, ‘Till they have reached the stratum of tough clay With quortzose pebbles mixed, and gold is there. And this the digger gathers ive care, Bears it in bags or dishes to his tent To wath it when he finds convenient. ’Tis winter now, and clouds with threatening f1 On easth expectant, pour their torrents down ; The thirety ground receives the weloome rain In store. whenee Nature may revive ag And deck anew the wilds with herb and flower, ‘And fill with fragrance every leafy bower, When spring returns. The digger with a sigh Views the relentless torrent swee) ‘Hearing its way with a resistless force, Axd filling every bole upon its course’; ‘Trees, undermined before to reach the gold, Noslonger by thelr roots retaining bold, strate laid, And add their wrecks to the ruin made By ruthlees storm. Oh! dire calamity, Disheartening prospect, thus his work to see Crushed into dire confusion—all undone ; Here several holes are jumbled into ove ; Here, too, the ruin is with mischief rife, There holes will be the cauce of future atrife ; ‘All Janémarks gone, rome will lay claim to more Than is their ght or than they bad before ; ‘Then comes the contest, then may savage might For a sbort time prevail o’er gentler right, Or likelier watebed, the brute against the brute,. ‘The tougbest skin may gain the coarse dispute, Or. as ecurred but lately near this place, The gun and pistol may decide the case, Depriving fellow-creatures of th fe, When gentler means might settle all the strife. ‘The storm ix o'er, the eky again serene, Again the digger with determined mien | Empties bis noie, and sets to work once more Deep under ground to seek the golden store With andimfnished vigor; undismayed By the sad bavoc which the rain has made! And often on his sabor too intent Even to make the danger imminent ‘That o'er bim bangs, or careless till too late, His is, alas! sometimes an awful fate; For when the rain some secret course bas found ‘Through open shingle underneath Svealing in silence on its treacherous way, pains with his daughter, (Mrs. R.,) aud he believed she Was 6p ipjured woman. rumors put in circulation | by her husband, Robiou. in relation to her intimacy with Reed, he belived to be false. In the preserce of his God, he solermply dec’ared his firm belief in her entire virtue and imrocence. In his (Wormley’s) absence, Robiou, a min forty five years of age, bad married his daughter, a gicl of ovly about fourteen years, without bis knowledge; and such was the Gis) “if of theiryears that the state of things which followed might well have been antici- pated. The charges which Kobiou had made and indus- pay A circulated agaiast his daughter were too gross and indelicate for him to repeat, particularly in the pre- sence of ladies, (ihe prisoner turniag aad poluting to rome females near the gallows.) Those charges had beon attempted to be proved, when the depositions in the di- vorce case were taken; but there was an entire failure to substantiate any of them. He bad taken pains in rear- ing his dsughter, and endeavored to instil into her mind correct principles. He did rot seek to alienate her feelings from her | husband, or to produce a separation, He was aby | sent when the marrisge and when the separation took place, and Robiou had written « letter to his (Wormley’s) sister, attributing the cause of their separation to Mrs, Wormley, the mother, and expressing a wich that he, ber father, would return, to bring about s reconcilistion.’ He did return in July, 1850, with no feel- | ings of resentment towards Robiou, or any other person | in the reighborbood; for he bad been absent long, and | Robiou and Reed, and all in the neighborhood, were then strangers to him. He admitted, however, that his feel- ings were embittered against Robiou, in consequence of the gross charges he had made against hii child—a daugh ter whom he loved and believed an innocent and {ojured woman. Only a week before the fatal day, Robion came tohis (W.’s) heure, to ree his (B.'s) child, and while there repeated his charges. and declared that his (W's) house was a place of bawdyism. Such charges aud lan- gunge did excite him, he admitted, bat it did oot cause him to ferm a Cetermination to take the life of Robiou. Be also took oceasion to exoncrate James B. Reed, who | had been tried as an accomplice of bis, from all participa: | tion in the murder. Reed, sinee his acquittal, has mai ried the widow of Robiou, the murdered min. The re. marks of Wortley were delivered in acool and impressive | manner, ard on concluding, he bade the spestators an af- | fectionate farewell. Ina few momenta after, the drop | azd his lifeless bedy was suspended ia the air. He | met his doom with extzactdinary fortitude and resigna tion. Domestic Miscellany. Jobn Shipton, an Fnxlishman, committed suicide at Boflalo, on the’ 234.inst., by drowning himself in the caval We Joarm@gem the Joliet (Ill) True Democrot that the Catholic eb: et Bourbounais Grove was destroyed by fire on the 12th inst. It was a large and finely construct- ed edifice, t on of which are mostly French, who ba the best and most foariching set- (lerwenta in the State. The construetion of a railroad between the cities of Charlesten ard Savannah is egain advocated by the press of thore cities, and of tha intermeciate places. We ob serve thet » meeting has been held on the subject in Gra- hemville, § C., and that notice is given through the press of en intention to reek a charter from tae Legislature of that State at its next session. Robert G. Scott, Feq.. of Virginia, the newly appointed Consul at Rio Janeiro, declined wn invitacion to partake of ® public dinner at Richmond, previous to his depar- ture. Dyson, the Englishwan, charged with incitiag the ne grows at New O:leans to insurrection, and the slave Albert, who revealed the matter, have been committed for trial in the District Court. ‘The Stato Seniinel atSeima. Alabama, strongly endorres a prepesition to erect a monument in that flourishing town to the memory of William . King. A. P. Forest, formerly of New Yor’, committed suicide by drowntng, at Chiesge, on the 24th instant, The Peoria Republican, of tho Dist, says thera are be- tweon five and x feet of water oo the bars above that plece, and eight (0 ten feet om that below, The colored residents of Circleville, Ohio, are about sording en agent to L/beris, to eerk out ® home Zor them, #4 are also the colored paopls of Cleveland. The majority of the Connecticut Legislative committee has repo:ted in favor of the abolition of ospital punted ment. A minority reporté against it A few days since, on the New York and Yirie railroad, « train left Corning for the city of New York, consistiag of reventy-alx cars drawe by a single engino, londed with eight Kandred thousand jest of lumber. A Cary ScHoonkee AT BARATOGA.--A. Schooner of about five toas, has been placed on Saratoga Iske, to necommodate plessure parties on that beautiful skeet of water, She was built in Proviscetown, Cape Ced, from whlch ehe aniled on the 1st innt., coming around through Tong Inland cound, vin New York and then up the Hud~ what I have observed In the short period of my ssay i thoee: regions of the east, and which | congrate wm he wrnaanigileg, werwey Que swohes @ aot dily, een river to Troy, where the vessel was taken from tae water end transported upoa tracks to the uth and of caratogs leke here she rae again lgunebd, fhe is Cob Lk + eu sled Outed plhnw by 0. i No signs its dangerous presence yet bers: lL tx winced erates on Ree RaBAs | The poncerous roof, and leaves him with the dead ! No time for thought, alas! no time for prayer, No time to ast the Almighty bacd to spare, Yet let us hope his sins have been forgiven And his freed soul has winged its fight to heaven. Some holes, deserted when the unwelcome rain Had filled them to the brim, become again ‘To other diggers who have Boles close by, And gladly teize the opportunity To wash their stuff which they bad kept instore. Till ihe rain camo Now tubs are carried o'er Tn which to steeo the stuff, so that the clay, By water oft renewed, is washed away. ‘Ava nought remains but shirgle, gold and sand, Which then are placed in cradles close at hand, And rocked by one—snother pouring on A stresm cf water, till the geld alone Remains behind, thus simply do we free ‘The go’d from all the rough impurity, ‘Then, teken home. ’tie washed with greater care, ‘Then weighed, and esch receives his well-earned share. But cow the month is drawing to a close, Aud now appears the unlicensed digger’s foe, The constatles. How lucky men are they | Who eat, and sleep, and have so much per day; Keeping & guard on the commissioner's tent pele A their valuable time is speut * Hunting among the holes to aid their funds By capturing unlicensed vagabouds! But if we're injured by the licensed thief Long must we search ere we obtain reiief— | Ab! little need their presence here be vaunted. They’re never to be seen when they are wanted; Bush life is pleasent, ease is ever sweet, Ad so they choose @ quiet, eslia retreat, In some green vale, and in a situation Remote from scene of active operation. Not theies the merit. not to them is due ‘The praise, that scta of viclence are few; We, asa are peaceful laborers— | No thanke for such protection as is thetrys— ‘Where is the gully here that is without its varions greg tents, and their rabble rout, While close beside them ever is the tent Of gamblers, always their accompaniment; No diggers these—no toilers for their bread— ‘They live by villary, by crime are fed— Reot out there plague spots, clear the ground of these, ‘then to your tents sgain to teke your ease, Nex then be greeted with the cry of shame, Nor hear contempt convected with your asme. A. R. Foretgn Miscellany. The fashionable world of Paris had nearly all dis- persed at date of last advices. Already the baths of the Pyrenees, the Spas of Vichy and of Montpelier, were thronged with company. People were daily setting out for the Rhine, and accounts from Baden Baden, Hombourg, and Wiesbaden, held forth pro- mise of full seasons ; but of any intended Ng pro- gresses nothing is said. This was especially grie- vous to the legitimists, who had been led to hope an- other gay year at their favorite Weisbaden. + The Jews of Leipsic, who have long solicited per- mission to build a synagogue in that city, have just obtained it. His Royal Highness Prince Albert is making col- lections of all the productions of the United King- dom, in order to present 2 complete assortment to each foreign State of the civili: world. After seven years toil, and many unlooked-for ob- stacles, the revision—rather the re-translation—of the Holy Scriptures into the Chinese language, has been completed at Shanghae, by Dr. Medhurst and Messrs. Stronach and Milne, agents of the London Missionary Society. In the year 1792 Mz, Murdoeh made uso of gas in lighting jis house and office at Redruth, in Corn- wall, England, where he thea resided. The miues at which he worked being distant some miles.from his house he was in the constant pzactice of filling a bladder of coal gas, in the neck of which he fixed metalic tube, with a small orifice, through which the gas issued; this being ignited, served asa lantern to light his way for the considerable distance he had nightly to travel. This mode of illumination boing then Dwengg Aetna it was thought by the conor men people that magical art alone could produce such an affect. Six John Ogilvy, Bart., is about to establish im the noighserhood of Dundee, Scotland, an orphanage and arylium for imbecile children, on the Ty adopted Dr. Guggenbubl, at Adenberg, in Swita- ewand. asylum will be the first of the kind in hat country. The London Standard says:—*Dr. Stevens's work, published by Ballier, ‘On the Nature and Treatment of Asiatic Cholera,’ is exciting ® good. Vatican. Cotton is being cultivated with success in Greece, and will probably be introduced into Algeria. Owing to the late bleak weather in that country, the hop crop of England is very backward, and is for from exhibiting a healthy appearance. A new poesia survey of Spain is to be set on foot, which will doubtless yet undeveloped resources in that country. The Great Britain steamship is being fitted with masts of extraordinary size, in England, and will sail for Australia again on Saturday, July 23. Immense quantities of Birmingham Vespa aregent to Australia and Mexico from England by every ship that sails. A despatch has lately been received at Lioyd’s, Tiere from the Admiralty of England, announc- ing that sickness hes been caused on board several ps in consequence of the passengers and crews having made use of water taken on board in the Bay of Soxene, at the Island of Timor. Vessels should not, therefore, it is suggested, take any water atany of the islands of the ustern Archipelago, unless in cases of absolute necessity. There have been five falls from the Monument of London. On the 25th of June, 1750, a man, sup- pored to be a weaver, fell, or threw himself from the lop. July 7th, 1788, ‘Thomas Craddock, a baker, committed suicide in a similar manner. On the 18th Cae eG Die Levy, a ee in s monda, lea] . loyes, am a lad named Hawes, foe since destroyed them- selyes. The fall is exactly 175 feet. A og cab was caught, a short time since, the rocks near the Haven of T; 5 . with a sixpence firmly grown into the external shell of the back. The man who obtained this curiosity foolishly broke the shell in order to secure the money. The only way by which the presence of the ice can be accounted for, is by sapposing that dur the annual production of the new ll, the crab had lain with the Fat formed pelum on the coin, which had adhered to the skin by this means, and eventually became firmly fixed in the place in which it was found. During a poco delivered at Spaulding, England, lately, atthe auguration of a protection society for young females, it was stated that in London there are now 5,000 houses of ill fame ; in Dublin 315; in Edin! 219; in eaters 707; in Manchester 400; and in 200. Liverpool the number of houses is said to have increased by 126 in two years. It is stated by two Cette le in the London Times, that the ballads published some years sate Tait, and ay styled the ballads of Bon - tier, are the joint production of Professor Aytoun and Mr. Theodore in, and not, as has been gen- erally supposed, the work of the latter gentleman only. Mr. Rooke, a London railway contractor, has of- fered to give the Great Western Company £6,000 a ear to carry the ashes of the inhabitants of Bristol 0 Drayton clay pits, to make bricks. The latest English papers announce the melan- choly news that the emigrant ship Aurora, Captain J. Cherry, 444 ‘tons register, sailed from Hull, Hng- land, on the 26th of April last, with forty-six souls on board, passengers and crew, bound for New York. ‘The ill-fated vessel foundered on the 20th of May, in lat. 46, lon. 38 west, a little after eight o’cl in the morning; she went down with twenty-six souls on board, all of whom perished, besides three” , who, it is presumed, were swamped in the jolly boat. The captain, with twelve others, alone survived the wreck. The following are the names of those who have perished:—John Barker and wife; Charles Bushby and wife; Charles Spink, wife, and two chil- dren; George Drury and wiie; Thomas Battey and wife; Jane Paulson and Mary Coomer; George Hil and Robert Poole; William Carr; CharlesjSiddle; wife, and three children—passengers. Crew—Wil- liam Scholey, steward; Bachelor, sailmaker; William Mitchell Reed, apprentice; Richard Fletcher, ordi- nary seamen; three others doubtful, who were in the jolly boat, but ae eh have been picked up; Ro- ber eek, seaman, William Guest, ditto, Charles Pawson, passenger. . The Morning Advertiser, of London, in allading to a “ recent distressing case of animal ed says, “ We are sorry to announce that Mias C- , the young lady in Surrey place, who was reported in this journal some few weeks ago to have suffered from trying the table moving experiment, by means of the above agency, is much worse. Hopes were entertained that she would soon recover the use of her hands. It seems, bowever, that these hopes have not been realized. Her hands are now firmly clenched together, and it requires great force tosepa- rate the fingers, even for a moment, trom the palms of her hands. This extraordinary affair has caused intense excitement in the medical profession.” The Cine) Patrie says:— A circumstance worthy of remark is, that since the late affairs of the Levant the commercial movement between Russia and Turkey continues the same. The number of Russian commercial vessels arrived at the Turkish porta has been augmented.” The Liberté of Lisle says:—‘ Diplomatic relations have rarely been more active between France and Russia than at present. On the th inst. our de) ment was traversed at the same time by Count Panin, Minister of Justice in Russia, proceeding to Paris on an extraordinary mission, and the Marquis de Mous- sior, Minister Plenipotentiary of France in Russia,on his way from St. Petersburg to Paris.” The crew of the ship Ann Lockerby, of Liverpool, on her passage from Singapore to Sydney, caught some bonito fish, had them all cleaned, and them up to dry without covering them. Such were the effects of the moon on the sh that all who ate thereof were more or less sick, and six of the crew died. The symptoms were the same with all who pertook of the fish, namely, pains in the stomach, and swelling in the body and joints. The other part of the crew continued in good health. A case involving a nice point of law, as affecting conventual life, has been tor some time before the Irich Court of Chancery, the judgment of which has been looked for with no inary interest “by the Roman Catholic public. It was a petition on behalf of Miss E. Blake, a professed nun in the convent of Loretto, Rathfarnbam, and sister of the late Mr. Blake, Q. C.- Mr. Blake having died intes- tate, Miss Blake, the petitioner, seeks that an ac- count be taken of the real and personal property of her deceased brother, and that the property, when its amqunt shall be ascertained, shall be e - ted between the petitioner and her pi ee the other surviving representative. The question now before the court was whether the petitioner, being a pro- feesed nun and @ member of a monastic order of the Catholic Church, should, or should not, be considered in law civilly defunct and fot pa of being an in- heritress of property. A prodigious bar was ai at each side, and the arguments pro and con oceu- pied two wlaole days. The Chancellor, having at very great. dength referred to several of the old authorities, concluded his judgment by giving it aa his opinion that, Cen e legislation in mod- ern times, he could not hold a nun to be le, dead, but expressed a hope that the question, w! he said was a most serious and important one, should be; brought for final adjudication to the House of Lords , coas to have the law settled for the fatare. Judgme at for the petitioner. It is stated there will be an w peal to the House of Lords. ‘The ‘Lomdon Court Journal, says:— We are very alnd t > see, by the answer which Lord Palmorston retur? ied to Mr. Apsley Pellatt, that there 1a some likel’ aood of government introducing a measure for the # uppression of the Betting-office nuisance, with- one upon the legitimate interests of the . Foreign Theatricais, A comic opera, by Lingini, has been produced at Toulouse. The sparkling beauty of the music se cured it an enthusiastic reception, although the li- bretto was of the most meagre description. A new opera, by Pedrocco, to the libretto “Marco Usconti,” by Foronuti, has been produced at Venice. It does not appear to be a very meritorious prodac- tion, and owes its success mainly to a besutiful ter- wi at bet ioe t the Leopold's theatre, in Florence, a new opera, entitled “Cecilia,” has been produced. " It is by Mag: Yvani, and was very well received. Mr. George Duval, a French dramatist of the Inst ecntury as well as the present one, died a short time ago in Paris, at the extreme age of ninety-one years. An original manuscript has been found at Pesth, which contains five hundred national melodies of the country of an early date, “So much for Buckingham,” in “ Richard IIL,” is not Shakspeare’s, but one of Cibber's interpela- tiene. Ditto the words “ Off with his head.” Of the sixty operas produced in Italy last year, only four bave yet been performed in any other country, M. Von Foltow is engaged on a new opera, on the tly oon: le 2 of Rubezabl,”” which wil be leted. The municipality of Barcelona, Apain, bas founded Cealof attention, from the facta which he hag brought three gratuitous singing schools for the benefit of the young workmen of the town, \d to the discovery of