The New York Herald Newspaper, July 26, 1853, Page 6

wuw UNGLAND. ‘The Herald Comimussioners Report. Norrouk C unry, July 11, 1863. The County of Norfolk—Brointree— Merry Mount —Emment Men—The Quincys— The Adamses— Amee— Warren— Town — Increase of Population | manufacturing establ —Astonishing Increase 1» the Value of Property | ounces of plate Camp person's si —Distribution of Prope: :y—Agriculture—Man- wfactores—Cotton, Woo''m and Paper Mills— “Quincy Granite” —Mv .me Matters—Fishing Faterest— Ship Build ws Revers—The Charles-— Mistake of a Name—1'« Neponset—Railways in Norfolk County, $c. The county of Norfolk iis many claims to the senaideration of those who wuld be familiar with the history and character the commonwealth of Mamachusetts, Partakin. ' the general character ot the community of whic! | forms no unimportant section, it has its distinet\se peculiarities and its points of difference. It is \ nut half the size of Mid- dlesex, and, though a third =s in extent than Bris tol, has a larger populativ. ‘hun the latter county, It stretches from Bosto. |» the State of Rhode Inland. It is not an oii county—its corporate existence dating from 17): ;.revious to which time it was a part of Suffolk vy. No part of the State, its size consideres, 1s produced a larger pumber of eminent men. .; iis respect the town of Braimtree deserves part uisr mention. It was founded in 1625, and was tie, kaown as Mount Wol- jaston, and from it have ~i vv been taken the fine towns of Randolph and \ui.cy. It was at Mount Wollaston that Thomas Mivyin established the colo- ny of Merry Mount, or,u~ | believe it should be called, “Ma-re Mount.” “Grisht were the days at Merry Mount,” says the i)\-i of American authors, ‘whem the May pole was 1). banner staff of that gay eoleny. They who reared 1i, should their banner be triumphant, were to pour sunshine over New Eng- land's rogged hills, and scai tv: ‘Slower seeds through- eat the soil. Jollity and » i... were contending for an empire. Midsummer « had come, bringing deep verdure to the forest | roses in her lap, of a more vivid hue than the « ads of spring. But May, or ber mirthfal spirit all the year rouad at Mesry Mount, sporting » the summer months, and revelling with autume. | basking in the glow | Of winter's fireside. Tir: care che flitted with a dr heme ameng the lightsowe .0s:ts of Merry Mount.” Bus the Puritans had no + iva of people enjoying themselves. They were hu), only when they were miserable, and were bent | a every man having hie fall share in the luxury » wo. The several Pu- ritem settlements formed w ‘iu: was literally a “holy alliance” against a commuuity so absurdly consti- tuted as to believe that heuveu was pleased to see mem enjoy themselves. At tle head of the allied | army, Miles Standish attuch« Merry Mount and de- streged the colony, serviny i humas Morton as badly as Joba Davis served Marcus, of shatname, more than twe cemturies later. This wus ia 1628, and the under- tadaing was the first step in thut Union which hassince become ao great. The cust of tue expedition amounted te £13 Ya---a large sum for those days,but which would berély make much of a figure iu tie cuisse militaire of @ modern army. Theie were no less than eight | to the alliance, and the cust was assessed on ly. Que party was the Isle of has not done wuch in our history since @ world of toil and ike smile, and came Sbeala, that time. At Braintree was born Juhu Hancock, the greatest | eivie character of our revoli:ticu, ‘rom the North—the | Liberal merchant, the first sisuer of the Declaration ot , the man wh» was one of the two | ap by the Briti-h, the )umane statesman, and Chief magistrate who savcu Massachusetts from | pen inky ot having her censtitation baptized in | civil blood. At Brawtree jive. the Quincy family, | descendants of the norgee of that name who fig- | ures im the Roll of Battle Avvcy, among the heroes { of Hastings—robbers, pertiuys. would be the better | term. A more honorable t in their ancestral his- | oy is that of a Quincy’s connection with Magna | Sharte. With the exception of the Prescotts, the Juineys are the the most rinurkable family in New | ingland. They have mai tise: a hich position for everal generations, ang m \iutained it by the exerci: f talent that is as hereditary asthe mame. N nention others, there was Colonel Jolin Qai ro was for forty years a iwemler of the Colonial vouneil; Josiah Quincy, Jr., of revolutionary memory, and who died a week after the first | overt act of the contest had been perpetrated ; the present Josiah Quincy, Seu., who, in his eighty- second year, retains the full vigor of that mind which exhibited its fir-t powers wore than half a cen- | tury ago; Josiah Quincy, Jr., whose business talents, | of @ various character have mide bia 0 coaspicuons; | and Edmond Quincy, tue aviest of the abolition | writers. The Adamses, wh» iutermarried with the Quincys, were of Braintree, wiieb town has had the to | poner of giving one Vice Piesideut and two Presi- | dents to the United States, tu say meee aoe delegateships, diplomatic stations, Senatorships, | cabinet rs, ad so forth, held by the same men. | Joseph Warren was a iative of Koxbury. Fisher | Ames was born at Dedhuin, aod was the most re- xf y federalists. It would | be permitted to revisit the | of the moon, aud -ve how the event has | all his fears. He was elected a member of the first Congress under tue coustitution, over the | celebrated Samuel Adams Edward Everett was | born at Dorchester, in 1/:4, eo that, should he be | our next President, Nori.ik vouuty wiil then have three Chief Magistrates to the nation. Horace belongs here. He was born at franklin, in | 1796. Mr. Walley, representative elect ia the thirty- | third Congress, of one of the Bu.ton districts, lives at | resagptro & Colonel W.iztt, uuw Navy Agent at Bos- ton, who formerly pisyed so prominent a part | in Massachusetts politics, beiouged to the same town, and se did Mr. Goodrich, nuw Consul at Paris, { There are twenty two wwus in this county, not counting West Roxbury, which votes with Roxbury. | The largest of these plaves is the city of Roxbury, | with a Lg some not far frem twenty thousand, even after the loss of more tuav tliree thonsand by the creation of West Roxbury; wud tie smallest is Dover, which had six bundred aid wine inhabitauts in 1550. | Dorokester, one of our videst towns, has not much below nine thoucard inhabitants Weymouth, Quincy, Randolph, and Dedisan, are the next largest » the last named bein toe shire town. Rox- increased in population upwards of ten thou- send between 1840 and 1550. Kifurts have been tade to unite it with Boston, but without rare dough many think thut suc will ultimately be ita vte, and that the great city will also swallow up harlestown and Cambricze, and xo become greater 12 lation of Norfolk county, in 1549, was 9,804 ; in 1850, it was 77,441—increase, 26,55 $a rate something beyond lifty percent. Something f this waa due to remivals of people from Boston to the Norfolk towns. It is suppu-ed that the popula- tion is now not materially different from was the ‘aly town that more than dou ite tion between 1540 and 1450, except the ti town of Brookline. hard 5y Boston, with which it is connected by the Mill-dsm. ax s¢ from 1,123 people to 2,358. Dorcuester ine ed from 4,458 w 7,578. Quincy increuved at the rate of 50 cent, and Raudoipb avd Weymouth at almost as high arate, and Stoughton at evena higher figure. Unlike Bristol, no town Jost in population, but each gained something. ‘The increase of the value of property in Norfolk county, between 1640 aud 1600, was of the most re- markable character, avd affords a fact in the history of material progress, sucii es we do not often flud mentioned on authentic data. Five of our counties (Suffolk, Middlesex Hurmpden, toland Barasta- ble), more than doubled tue utof their property in the same period ot tine, « others, (save Namtacket, which experienced a decrease of about 25 percent, the cause of which | shail explain at another time), gained larvely, in most instunces nearly doubling ; but Nori ands alone in the of having more ian twebled her capital Reson of 1840 showed her property to i to $15,522,527, which had in 1 527 26, the increase being but wo millions of dollars! ‘The gr: was in Brookline, where 't wos mo re thao seven fold, rising from $745 in 1540, ty $5,436,864 50, in 1860. Such an inereuse it would be ito match anywhere, It ought to be meatio et that Kline is w favorite place with ¢ of tasto—a sortof Ka ue to t Boston. t it risen to $47,03 ! ort of thirty: trate of increase ba wrhane and man ele ot Its proximyty t distant only about five ia t a good place of residence for thoze who ¥ t noe of city lite without | ata there are of the al'y and exterc ten from $389,883 to $1,093,296. Canton from Our New Hampshire Correspondence. $562,028 to $1,387,372 75. town had some in- Portemourn, N. H., July 21, 1853. crease, men core oe y. Condition of the Steam Frigate Princeton—Her the distribution of property in Norfolk, according to Trial and Failwre—What the People in New the official returns toward the close of 1850 :— Hampshire think about this good for-nothing Ship. itor, Page eae ~~ 6,098 ; mee Dea Ina previous communication, I informed you that rains gee a nneat s | the Princeton, in her ran from Norfolk here, under 20 in value, 55,563]; | all the steam her boilers could generate, and with amount of e in trade, #1,435,837 5 | every stitch of canvass spread to a fine breeze on the amount of lic securities, $80,756 ; of money at | 7 interest, $3,546,798 of money ou Land, $133,417; | Wer, in @ sea so tranquil that the three wise men of bank and insurance stock, $2,605,410 ; shares in , Of Gotbam might have safely embarked in their railroads, bridges, canals and turnpikes, $1,315,583 ; | bowl, could not attain iter speed than six in other incorporated companies, $1,585,351 ; num: | knots hour. “This gute ke ads and all kinds, 2,530; superficial feet of Soeur : 3 salt works, 356,526. | backers, that with her present boilers, she was ‘ no go,” and when, on the first day out, she took fire The agriculture of Norfolk is of high repute. In- ferior to the soil of some other counties, in particular | from the smoke pipe, through which escaped one- | half the heat intended for her boilers, they becamo its, that of Norfolk has been made very fertile rough scientific culture. This remark applies espe- cially to land near re) the proximity to such | aware of a more alarming truth—that she might, at markets as Boston and Roxbury making farmers put any moment, regale herself with ahuman fry. These forth their best exertions to procure abundant crops, facta being kn Wi i alanis ha aeae-euae oe ae fact g known at Washington, where it had al- J ms nee Sorepaioe ready been determined to send ker to the fishing id: diesex. Such towns are sometimes, and not inaptly, ii grounds, as flag-ship of a ‘‘ spesial squadron,” were called “ Boston Gardens,” for it is mainly from them that the city draws its supplies of all Kinds of rather embarrassing. What was to be done? Was the Department to be nonplussed, and the govern- vegetables, and similar matters, for immediate con- sumption. There is an air of finish, and even ey elegance, about these Norfolk farms, and especially | ment to be checkmated by the breaking down of one bred es pxcliarce ae Cera gee most “ire, miserable steamer? Were the people to be told, ¢ eye and the mivd of the observer. Then i , i the rich county seats, standing in the midst of ose She ship} wpa Ranne stems moneyed: been elaborately cultivated nds, complete the charm, | lavished broad-cast, was a wretched hybrid, a clap- and make one regret that the region should resemble | ‘rap impromtu of American ingenuity’ Of course not, and thus Mr. Martin, an engineer who has but Biden in: no, cence respect than: in. ita: physioel few equals, and scarce a superior, was sent to doctor beanty-—its magnificent trees of fruit or forest, ita | jit Ce vernmens invalid, this victim to misepplied | | verdant meadows and murmuring streams. 7 In 1860 the agricultural productions of Norfolk | science and mercenary speculation. In the language were:—Of Indian corn, 109,523 bushels; of barley, of the great Roman, he says, veni, vidi, but leaves the vic: unspoken—for I fear the patient is beyond | prio 5 2005 wecates ne at inne ets tons the reach even of his skill; and they may patch, | , 45,200; ” potatoes, t) 500, ] of his skill; ey ma "he i RS Stra thts plaster, and poultice as they will, bas ahe han will | fruit, (about) 500,000 bushels. The till: st a pd ye . peor reathe her last, and accomplish her prognosticated | amounted to some 12,000 acres; meadow laud, 56,000; pasturage, 66,363); woodland, 57,2094; land €2d; but that the government may profit by the les. covered with water, 7,538; unimproved land, | 50, and the people see how deep into their pockets speculation has thrust its dirty hands, it is to be 48,9914; unimprovable, 6,594); used for roads, 5,644. P Of horses, there were 6,159; ef oxen, 2,112; cova, hoped that the report of this engineer will be made | quantities of butter and milk are very 10,769; steers and heifers, 1,190; swine, six mouths old and upwards, 8,940; and 538 sheep. Of mules and asses there were 25, being the lurgest numbe- owned in any county. Some fo!'. think the numbe* has been put down too low. Beside the agricultural articles named, there are grown or made in this county, wool, butter, cheese, | milk, wood, timber, honey, beeswax, beef, pork | straw, cider, millet, and all kinds of fruits, vegeta- | bles, and flowers, known to Massachusetts. The | cod and chowder fleet, to scour the ocean with a at. In manufactures Norfolk is very rich. The nun- | ber of cotton factories, at the last returns was, 44, with 42,321 spindles, and valued at $371,520. Can- ton had seven factories and 10,792 spindles, of the value of $107,000; Dorchester, one factory, 5,000 spindles, and capital $60,000. Dedham, Franklin, | edway, and Walpole come next in order in the number and value of their cotton factories. The | other towns engaged in the business are, Belling: | ham, Wrentham, Sharon, Braintree, Foxborough, and Stoughton. | Of woollen factories there were twelve, in- cluding a carpet factory at Roxbury, with a capital | rimentally, and that the Department may learn what | value to attach te “ trial trips,” when the champagne public, as it will doubtless cover the whole ground, showing what a large amount of money has been ex- | pended not only wastefully and uselessly, but de- of the contractors is more apt to measure the speed of the ship than her log-line. But to the viatine Banks she must go, “ gaiters | or no gaiters,” as the flag ship of the special tom- | | of the Russian armies to the provinces in which the fish kettle at her main, instead of a broom, and the zodiacal sign of pisces at her fore, in place of ‘ free | trade and sailors rights,” to compete with the Devas- | tation flag at bowls, with icebergs, and with her friction Ce propagate the creed of Young America | and manifest destiny. They talk too of sending her | to China as Mr. Walker's yacht. Why, sir, before | she reached there, the youngest boy on board of her would be a gray-headed man, the biography of the | Commissioner become a dusty tome, and the Lartar | and Pierce dynasties exist only in history or tradi- | tion, Far better send her to get deep sea soundings | in the Maelstrom, search for Sir John Franklin, | catch the Wanderfng Jew, or find Prester John—bet- | | outward show and visible tokens of material strength. ata the Lamalsm of Nt. peembery. Be (From the Londoa Caronicle, J: I Among the hundred imperfect re; h have recently reached us fiom China, is one, de rived French Core np Ape which looks at first sight like the fabri: of some ingenious manofacturer of » but which rests, we have ere oa te Tater Go ag Te lynast; taken the form of an exterminating Bec of the priests of or Fo, whose interests are sup} in the Southern provinces, to be identified with the fortanes of a race of sovereigns who have always patronized their faith. As the news of the outrages committed by the insurgents has diffused itself over the —e , & vast fermentation has been excited in Mongolia, the stronghold of Buddhism, and in the Lamaite kingdom of Thibet; and the appeals of the Court of Pekin for aid against the rebels are said to have been, in the first instance, responded to in those outlying dependencies with unprecedented alacrity. But the gallantry of the Tartar levies has not saved the Imperial’ generals from a succession of disastrous defeats; and at last the sitter on the dragon throne has been constrained to outrage all the traditions of his government, by panliely proclaiming that he has been beaten. By jis Tartar subjects, however, the confession has beea received with downright incredulity; and from doubting their sovereign’s Nemacity, they have come, it seems, to doubt bi od faith. In the midst of their perplexity, what sort of guide, does the reader think, has presented himself? Why, his Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias, “Russian emis- saries from the Siberian frontier have pureed them- selves over the Northern dependencies of China, and are impressing on all orthodox Buddhists that, be- trayed by the Chinese monarch, they have no alter- native except to seek the support of that pil- lar of Lamaism, Nicholas I. The game is absolutely the same with that which is being played at the other end of the Russian empire. A policy in which Patriarch and Lama, the Panagia and Buddha may be freely interchanged, is a striking and singular phenomenon in the region of international affairs ; nor could we find a better illustration of the mo- rality ot the Court of St. Petersburg, of the audacity of its conceptions, or of its constancy to a single plan of action. In forming a judgment on the Eastern question, it is necessary to bear asin es mind how deeply the religious element enters into it. The progress made by Russia towards the accomplishment of her ends cannot be estimated by ordinary diplomatic rules; for what would, under other circumstances, be a trivial advantage, may, in the present state of Turkey, place the prize of Eastern domination in her grasp, vever to be wrenched away. The proximity Greeks and Turkish races are mixed, is in itself a circumstance whish may in a moment confound all our calculations. In the wars of the first revolation, the objects of the French republic were already half gained whenever a hollow truce had placed its troops in view of a neighboring Bigg ion. The tent witchery of that name iberty which ‘rance had inscribed on her banners became abso- lately irresistible the moment it was seconded by the In like manner, in European Turkey, the sentiment to which Russia is now appealing an poerey to which political fanaticism is mere child’s play. | Those who are most familiar with the East are aware } how the whole sphere of feeling is occupied by re- of $100,000, and all valued at $238,000. Dedham | ter to convert her boi’ers into fish pots, her saila into comes next to Roxbury, having $84,000 invested in | awnings, and her quarter-deck into a ball-room where- [ the business, and then, at a long interval, Belling- | 00 her gallant officers migbt trip it lightly with the | ham, Walpole, Braintree, Wrentham, Stoughton, | belles of the pron incee, ai cod-fish quadrilles, | Sharon, and Canton. mackerel mazourkas, and gudgeon gallopades. The Of rolling mills there were three, with capitals | prayers of the church will, it is hoped, be offered for | of $240,000; of copper, brass, and iron foundries, | the preservation and safe return of this skimmer of | six, value $73,000; forges, three; value $185,800; | the seas, and sincerely do I trust that she will bring | ligion—how distinctions of tastes, fashions, thoughts, and habits, and everything elze which in Western | Europe constitutes a difference between the opinions of one man and another, are swallowed up and lost in the one great antagonism of creed to creed. That the great power in the North is the patron of the Greek Church, and her protector against a renewal machine shops, twenty-three, value $105,000; one | Britannia ware manufactory, value $50,000; four | ropewalks, value $41,300; one distil house, five | breweries, twenty-three tanning establishments, | forty-five ‘grist mills , two falling mills, forty-six saw | -six slitting mills and rail machines, and | thirty-eight card machines, with their buildings, one | print works, seven bleacheries, five card factories, | thirty-four iron works and furnaces, and forty mills | for miscellaneous purposes. The miscellaneous articles manufacturedin Norfolk | cal | whips, baskets, hoops, | wi county are,'brushes, railroad cars, glue, gums, boots, | shoes, straw braid, bonnets, hats, lamber, agriculta- | ral implements of all kinds, building stone, slate, all sorts of vehicles, chocolates, cotton gins, leather, tin | ware, saddles, chairs, hosiery, ancaors, bar iron, thermometers, Britannia ware, palm leaf hats, bob- | bins, marble monuments, grave stones, woollen ware, wicking, thread, sewing silk, salt, silk machinery, | The friends of the State and federal administrations | are determined to show their strength in bearing | down all opposition, from whatever source it may vs, cordage, playing cards, confectionery, chemi- | proceed, and to denounce all who are not absolutely satisfied with the principle which governed General | Pierce's appointments as traitors to the democracy, | harnesses, sheet iron ware, trunks, boxes of various kinds, segars, turners’ ware, pocket books, rales, fancy colored papers and cards, starch, earthen ware, preparations, soap, tallow candles, bricks, nails, lisse wadding, organs, clocks, bells, cabinet ware, bonnet pressing machines, nail making machines, wool and flocks from wool | and rags, blacking, bleached wax, blocks and pumps, mechanics’ tools, upholstery ware, chain cables, brass ware, stained and stamped paper, worsted yarn, steam engines and boilers, fire engines, butts, Sere ware, fire arms, sheet lead and pipe, ‘ite lead, other paints, bread, turpentine, rosin, hogsheads, barrels, rum, looking glass frames, sashes, blinds, beer, corsets, oakum, India rubber goods, sizing, neat’s fovt oil, bove manure, jerked beef, duck, axes, list carpeting, twine, iron axletrees, doors, walking canes, bonnet blocks, &c. There are seventeen paper milis in Norfolk county, with capital to the amonnt ot $212,000. The Jargest number of mills is at Needham, but Dorchester has the most capital invested in the business. Milton comes next to Needham, and thea Walpole, Braintree, and Decham. Every body has heard of Mr. Preston's famous to Barnum the bones of one Captain Bold, of Halifax, | of Turkish oppression, is a belief which the majority fishing for health and happiness. I conclude. of | cot uae Christian ripe pare iceerta) save the Republic, America, and | accepted on the assurance of monks and popes, rather than from vividly realizing it. But when Sam Jones, THR FISNBRMAN. | things have once come i thi, that sian Te ons | | are stationed for miles and miles along the Danul | Our Philadelphia Correspondence. that they can be positively seen from the opposite It Paiwapexrata, July 24, 1858. | bank—it is difficult to measure the effects which this Preparations for the State Convention at Harris- oe physical Senses Tay sian on Ces fo) ar EE itici religious sensitiveness of the jan population. rats hi aeons x Distingwished Politicians, | Events may occur which may, in an instant, render and their Activity in Preparing for the Coming | the crisis unmanageable. Already there is an under- Election. | serra of eset = aed paleh ines, judg Great preparations are now making for the State ment of the informed persons, rivals in im- mats ‘ Mes portance the formidable intelligence pointing to Convention, which is to meet on the 28th inst. at Mnatters more patent and public. The leading firms Harrisburg, and which will furnish a general rendez- | in the Levant trade are said to find their transac- tous for all sorts of political managers and schomers. | tions embarrassed by a chronic misunderstanding between their Greek coezeapon dents and every Mus- sulman, whether in authority or not, with whom they have relations of business; and a still gloomier | source of uneasiness consists in those ramors of pri- vate assassinations which are multiplying from | several points. Whatever, therefore, may be the course deter- | mined upon in the united counsels of France and | England, and whatever caution the wise forbearance spoken of by Lord Palmerston may dictate, we trast | that every Inovement which might, by any possi- | bility, be construed into a symptom of feebleness will | | Le deemed to be put out of the question by that very | porsibility. Information ia the East is gathered in the rovgh, and travels about ia the rough. The ap- | prouch of’ the coabined fleets, and their imposing | array, are probably, by this time, the theme of con- | | versution from the Balkan to the Persian Gulf; and, | | in the judgment of many persons, the vicinity of the Sultan s armed allies has alone availed to preserve | hitherto the equilibrium of races and religious. The | news of any event which should render their pre- and infringers on the ‘ time-honored usages of the party.” On the other hand, the “ guerillas” are determined to show their hands, even at the risk of being so denounced and considered as bolters. They in their turn denounce the “ clique of political petti- foggers” who rule the State as a“ Todi leas minority” who, without being pampered by executive ors, would at once be consigned toobscurity and obliy.on. The Convention mects to nominate a candidate for the vacant si ag of the Supreme Bench of the State. Governor Bigler has alcenty indicated his choice by the appointment pro tem. of John C. ¥Y MARKEE? Moupar, July 25—6 P. M. We have not seem such a dull, heavy market for a long time, There was regular stampede among heldors of Cumberland Coal stock, and sales wore freely made ata decline of two per cont. There isa geacral fooling of die trust and apprehension, and the greut decline already ex- perier ced bas created s desire to realize on the part of awall holders. This is unfortunate; but how the stock of such am unwieldy, bloated monster concern could have become at all distributed is @ matter of astonishment to us When are 90 ‘many good investments in the market at all times, it is strange that those who should be properly ported, will reoommend to their friends such stccks as the Cumberlacd Coal Compaay. We have heard lately of some really bard cases, where ruisous losses were experienced on this stoek. It is very difficult to decide what course to pursue under existing sircumatances, to make the sacrifice as light as possible. Thet the stock wiil go much below current rates, there is not the slizht- eat doubt; but whetber a reaction will, in the meantime, take place or not, Is » questicn for those directly inte- rested toro ve. The anxiety on tke part of holders to get out and elear of such » rot/en, overgrowm concera, may cause an exception te the general rule, Erie Ratl:oad was moderately active to day, without variation ia mar- ket value Parker Vela opened and closed firm; very little stock was offered, and the sherts find the atock is getting rearce. Crystal Palace advanced 3 per cent ; Michigan Central Railroad declined 2% per cent from the opening prices. The market generally closed heavy, with a downward terdency. None of the large famsies could have bees sold to any extent at closing rates. ‘At the Mining Board the same apathy prevailed. The traceactions were as follows :— 100 shs P’ker’s V.b10 313¢ 100 ahs NC Co 00 . BS 3136 425 Dollyhide 100 New Je: iinc.. 12% 100 do For Mapasas 1% bid, 2 asked; Phenix Gold 11, bid, 134 asked; MeCullook 714d bid, 744 asked, The steamship Nort Light, at this port fcom Sen Juan de Nicaragua, brings fourteen days later nows from California, four husdred thousand dollars in gold dust, and four hundred and fifty paseengera, The regular mail steamer from San Francisco has om board one and « half millions of dollars. The financial and commercial intelli. gence does not vary materially from previous accounta, The receipts at the office cf the Assistant Treasurer of this port to day, amounted to $240,014 19 ; payments, $161,929 41—balance, $7 674,601 69. Broks of subscription for five thousand two hundred shares of the working capital of the Lake Superior Silver Mining Company, will be opened at the office, No. 6 Wall street, on Monday, August 1. A per rata distribution will be made of the exooss of subscription. We learm from the Jonesville (Mich.) Telegraph that the directors of the old Bank of Tecumseh, encouraged by the operations of the Erie and Kalamazoo Baak, hive met, and resolve to put it once more in a condition te gricd out ite promises to pay. The Panama Railroad Company, upom the recent de- claration of a dividend, made the annexed statement of receipts and eperating expenditures for the year ending June 30, 1835:— Panama RaILRoaD. ‘The receipts from passengers, mails, fre‘ght and treasure, during the six meaths—esti- mating the month of June (the actual smount of which is not yet received) at $:0 000—amount to the sum of ...........$235,616 65 Besides a balance remaining om hand, from previous earnings, Of...........sseseree ~ $200,603 98 The expemses incurred for transporting the mails by mules, dc., have beon..........+5 34,260 12 $226,343 68 eo The sscer expenses of running th trains, while employed im the above ser- has beem at the rate of $5 per mile for 11,040 miles. st eeeeeneeee or Erb oe net earnings of the road . The whole amount of stoek issued, is ¢ate—inclucing bovds convertible into stock—i uats to $2,194 062; and frem the above balance of corning oa bead, the board have declared a dividend of five per cent thereon, ameuating to.............-. 169,763 10 Leaving the net earnings. Jess the dividend., $61,440 76 Due government of New Gracads, as per con- turct, three per cent om amount of dividend 3,291 09 Which leaves a surplus Of ......scs0seseeee $58,149 67 The outstanding bends of the company on the lat July, inat., amounted to $808,000, on which day the interest for tix mouths, 628,260, was payable. The Board report to the stocbholdors that the road is finiabed and ia opera- tion from the Atlantic to the crossing of the Chagros river, at Barbacoas, a distance of twenty-three miles; and about eight miles more will be in operation as soon as the ruperstructure of the bridge can be placed across tho Chogres river, on the atone piers, which are now com- pleted. The Board regret that many unforeseen obstacles have delayed the completion of the road and while they arsure the stockholdors that they have used every e‘fort im their power to push the rozd to its prevent atate of Knox, of Westmoreland, and expecta the Conven- tion to endorse that nomination in token of their fealty to himeelf und the President. This, however, will be resisted by the guerillas, who avow that they are the regular militia of the State, and that the administration men are but the uniformed companies | sence Jess palpable cr less striking, would be diffused as quickly and as widely; and it is impossible to say | how mucha mere cruise tothe south ward int’ Ng might diminish the influence which they cising. On the other hand, if po other | wide reputation. who show their buttons on parad “Senoreus wets! biowiog martial sounds,”? An effort will be made to nominate a Judge from this county, but if it fails it is not improbab!e there will be some bolters from the Convention, who will make an independent nomination. The whigs may | then nominate their own candidate, or support the oe of the minority of the Convention, as they please. Further, the Convention will be urged to endorse the appointments of General Pierce, and the course (yet unknown and unseen) of his administration. ‘this will only be done sub modo, or after a vigorous struggle, which will sufficiently indicate the diver- | sity of opinion entertained on that subject in the Keystone State. It is not unlikely Mr. Buchanan will be in Har- | risburg during the Convention; at all events | he will not be far from it. He will, no doubt, | | do his best to secure the outward appearance of loy- alty on the part of the delegates, and his friends will vote, in a body, for the resolutions endorsing Gen. | vessels and boate are built, The superficial feet of | Pierce and his cabinet. If, after that, some reaolu- wharf is 2,108,421. | tions should pass compliment to himself, he can- The principal rivers of Norfolk are the Charles | net but merit the attention alike due to his talents and Neponset. The former rises near Hopkinton 8ud elevated position. There may be Cass men who and Milford, and flows through Bellingham, Frank | preler Mr. Buchanan to Gen. Pierce, as there may lin, Medway, Medfield, Sherburne, Dover, Dedham, , be Buchanan men who cherish a similar preference | Needham, Natick, Waltham, and Watertown. Itis | for Gen. Cass, and between these elective allinities | @ stream of some consequence in our history and | there is no knowing what dissolutions may take | poetry; but it is called the ‘ Charles’ without any authority. Captain Joho Smith, that most cheva- leresque of the early settlers of North America, has left it on record that be mistook the ‘ fairest reach in this (Massachusetts) bay for a river,’ whereupon | he called it Charles River, atter the Priucs, who subsequently became Charles [. From Smith's later ‘* relations,” as Mr. Drake tellls us, it is evideat saying, that the only Poets of Massachusetts ae ice and granite. The assertion must be taken with some grains of allowance, tuough it conveys an important truth in rather exulted language. What Middlesex is in the ice business, that is Norfolk in the granite business. The fumous “Quincy granite” is grown and manufactured here, and eujoys a world- Like our ice, it is exported to foreign countries, and is a mine of wealth to the workers in it. Several hundred thousand dollars worth of it are annually got out, and there is no pur- pose for which granite can be used to which it is not applied all over the couutry. The supply is inex- haustible, and tae business of preparing it is carried | on in the most methodical manner. Considerable | quantities of slate are annually quarried. | “The maritime interest of Norfolk is respectable. | Her tonnage was officially reported at 15,627, in | 1550, and she ranks in this respect as the seventh | county of Massachusetts. She has considerable interest directly in the fishing business. The fishing towns are Cohasset, Dorchester, aud Quincy. Some tee what new combinations may be formed. y e live in strange times, and in a progressive age, | 1 every year is fraught with political events, aud | every cycle of ten years counts a century. Mr. Bu- | chanan, at all events, will not leave for his mission | till the democracy of his own State shall have taken | a decisive shoot.” Besides, Mr. Buchavan is a socal | being, who would not like to be the solitary represen- that he had no information about the stream since tative of the United States to the five Lek powers of | called Charles river. He undoubtedly supposed | Europe, while all the rest, save he to France, who is | what is now Boston harbor was the mouth of a great not yet nominated, and the Secretary of State him- | river, such as appears on his map. Writing in 1629, | Self, are attending to domestic politics, Perhaps this he speaks of “the Bay of Massachusetts, utherwise | &bsence of American representatives abroad is in- tended to convince the potentates of Europe that we are not only neutral but indifferent to the events | which may take place in the Old World. If so, our | pe sition could not have been signified m a more forci- ble ner than by keeping our representatives abroad at home. Bown, called Charles river.” And it is evident that Capt. Squeb supposed he war in Charles river when he turned our fathers ashore at Nautasket. Mr. Drake discusees the point with his usual accuracy aud acutencas. But the river is a be “ul one, whether rightly called the Charles or not. The Indians called it Quinobequin. The Neponset is also w fine stream, lerable use tor mills, and of sone in T.eosary Cirealar. circular instructions to Phe Quincy grauive is sent olf by itin | {iad tahs os jarge quantities. = . 7 tages. A large portion of the county is accommo- clon in rele apprairemeat of dated by the Boston and Providence road, aud ano- ures the act of 3d of Mai 51, additivan! ther portion by the Old Colony roud. There are eight io wodifostion of the circu! tructivas from this trains daily between Boston and Dedham, ranning | Pep remert deed 27h March, 1851 :— trom the station of the Boston aud Provideace Rail- |, he tevoice cort of toreiga merctandi-e, aupporied hy th the Oth reqnived by iam, will be bod and tskeu ax the road, and four t6 and from Stongiston. Med- county road, runs’ three times daily, aud the Nor | berore entestrg the sane the said tmporter, his oa-ig folk county accommodates other Norfolk (owas. | nee, or ogent shall deciare iv writing, vader oath cathe | ‘There are eleven daily trains betweea Bo ton and a ceclice in value between she tne of euch gar Brookline, on the Boston and Worcester road Mew | chare acd the da’ of roioment, ond the auouat thereof; parts of even Massachusetts have greater railway | im #bicb case such deciared value shalt be conclusive iacilities, either for travel or transportati The | Sieastwartue oat ha Puck dnslctoanh poten aes id number of people who reside here, bat wu P| Sua ie tedhe thay Warrant JAMES GULHALE a gage is very large. fue chic Secretary of the T 4s of this is that the companies, with tie exception of To fully understand the olject and force the Old Colony, which has a rather bia name, study | ghove, it shoulu be borne in mind that under Me the inverents wt o, and, by good va | Corwin’s adit tion, when fureign merchaadive wud dations support WAS Le Ona » that vie’ eclined in va e hy the Was supposed to buve shipment, after its purch Leiose its shipment brow upon the of fixi my I the n ti ty | lowed their entrance,into the Dardanelles, so ne | one scale of that imaginary balance the vibrations | mess of pottage ag the expulsion of the Turks under | Russian generalship, Western Europe might find | bbés. were exported. ditional weight would, at all events, be thrown i of | which are so eagerly canvassed by Turk and Greek. | Let the preponderance once verge the othcr way, | and the consequences may be tremendous. The loss of a single day might render the full of the Ottoman | power inevitable; and, while the magnificent future | of the Greek race would be sold away for sucha mere itself in face of a greater danger than it has con- | Eel since the infidel was before the gates of ienpa. Theatrical ané Musical, Bowery Tukatke.—The domestic drama called | “ Crammond Brig” will commence the entertain- mente at this old and favorite theatre. The next | piece will be the romauce entitled the “ Blind Boy,” | with Mra. Stevens and other eminent artists in the | principal characters. The concluding piece will be the remance of the “ Woodman’s Hut.’ Broapway TagatRe.—The new Hibernian drama entitled “ Erin our Home” with Mr. and Mrs. Bar- ney V ns in the characters of Michuel O'Reilly, and Mary Moriarty. The next attraction will be the comedy of “ Our Jemima,” in which Mrs. B. Wil- lintms will represent one of the gals. As this is posi- tively the last week of theengagement of Mr. and | Mr. Williams, we presume the theatre will be crowded every night. Nipno's Garpen.—The‘celebrated favorites, the Ravel Family, appear to-night in “ Jannette and Jeannot’—the eminent artist, Gabriel Ravel, in Jeannot, and Madym Margetti as Jeannette. A grand “ Pas de Deux” will be given by the distin- | guished danseuse, Mile DeMelisse and M. Collet. ‘The amusements will conclude with the gorgeous pantomime of the “ Green Monster.” Navionat Tnkatre.—The great success attend- ant upon the representation of the famous drama called * Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” induces the manager to continue its performance until those who are in he habit of visitiog this theatre shall have all seen it. Amrrican Museum.—Yhe order of arrangements for this day are White's Serenaders in the afternoon, in a variety of negro melodies, and Dovetfi's troupe | of monkeys, dogs, aud goats in the evening. | | Hirroprome.—The beautiful and gorgeous pa- geant called the “ Car of Flowers,” togetver with charict races, and other very excellect teats, will comprise the performances of this afternoon and evening. Chnuisty’s American Orena.-The entertain- ments which are given at this popular resort attract large audiences. Woop's MInstens. programme for this evening instrumental performances. Buck Levy's Senenapens.The singing, choruses, and instrumental pieves, as executed by this baud, are grestly admired. This band announce a varied | songs, choruess, and BaNVARD'S GEORAMA.—The panorama of the | Fiely Land is exhibited every evening, and aifvrds | great pleastae to the visiters, Hore Crarei-—The panorama of Niagara, whieb | has been pronounced by all who ln nit ia a if. | font Blans, | with wreat aproved by ine cd tes, beeutiful painting, is exinbited every Asceut of MY Hath exhit Acar Owen ed fora jong t forwardnere, they pledge themeelves not to remit their | exertions to bring the whole road toa speedy complotion. The Morris Canal has made a semi-annual dividend from | the earvirgs of the company,during the last half year, of five per cent on its preferred stock, payable at the office of the company, Jersey City, om the second Tuesday of August. The receipts of the canal for the week ending July 16 were $5,837, against $3,746 for the correapondiug week last year. ‘The total value of the foreign exports from Caltimore for the week ending oa Thursday, was $183,321. Of bread. stuffs the export has been very light. Of tobacco 3,283 ‘The Lebenon 2prings Railroad is being pushed forward with great vigor. The company have all along the line of the proposed road, placed gangs of mea wherever they could do so with advantage, without interferiag with each other, and the excavation grading are progress ing very rapidly. This road outa with the Harlea Railroed at Chatham Four Corners om the south, and the Benington Railroad om the north, the completion of which will be made on the fourth of July next, as oom templated by the directors, and makes @ direct line of communication from the city of New Yerk, by the Har- Jem Railrosd, vith Canada, over the northern roads. Th's coonection of the Lebansm Springs Railcosd with the Harlem Railroad is of immense importance to the latter, and will prove to be of great profit to the stockholde:s. They wiil ce:ive a very large amount of travel from the Lebanon Sprirgs road, without any cont whatever to the atockbolders of the Harlem. This will be the most direct line of communication with Canada. We have always entertained the belief that the Harlem would ultimately be avery profitable dividend payiag road, and the uniting of this road will, in our opintoa, conclusively muko it as “profitable a rail-oad y other in the country. ‘The Harlem Company, after providing for the August dividend, stated they had a surplus of $75,000 im their bands, after prying dividends nnd interest om debt. There cam be no doubt/whatever that this sum is sufli- cient to pay more than two per cent additional to the | dividend they bave declared. Books of subscription to the capital stock of the Rock Cabin Coal Company will be closed on Friday, the 29th ingt., at the ofice, No. 33 Trinity Buildings. Tne eapital of this company 1s $500,000, divided inco shares of $5 eech, Jt owne three thousaad acres of bitumiaous coal ands ia Chiatoa county, Peumsylvania, admira sly lveaved for mintog operations, im thy immediate vicinity of caaal navigation and railroad facilities, Three large veins of bituminous coal cccapy the lands, above water level Tho distance from Puilacelphia to these wines is twoaty.five miles lese than to aay other bituminoas mines in Pepnrylvania. from Rock Cabia b ines to Philadel + 220 miles Ky 97 de, k, + wT do. Mr McAlpia, the State Eogioesr of New York, wets il down s+ a genoral rule that ths cv t of transportation on tuch # cansl aa the one to these mings, is four mills per ton per wile, aod cn railicad, such as will © New York, at 6 mills per toa por mile, At doadis ert. mates, the cost of pactiog coal frou tha Rusk Mines tuto the market would be ae follows Te of miein Riese sins ¢ i tw New York or Jer City by rail t—ful face aon to that of the Tome Se See ; ‘are apparent for a good vein.” 7 ” tly Bubemian nas a very fair prospect for a good vein, ‘The irdications of a true veim at tois mine are good, and it is avtictpated that before the shaft (now sinking) is down, the vein will be confined by was The vein at this wire at the surface was accompanied by walls, Incink- ing from the surface the vein le(t the walls A cross ut wee them driven im to cut the vein, which was done within « few feet of the point anticipated. Tae ageat has drifted ucder the veia fiading its course very regu- lay, and is now sinking under the cross-cut. The veio, so far, in very rich in barrel aud #'smp work. las Houghton lookieg better than usual. p mills im operation. We may lock account frem this mine next spring, preapects of future business now opening for the ch as te gi visible ia- ground. It is praaticable to pss from tl the mount: harbor a¢rous either by 8 common road, » plank, or arareee, al easy grade te the mines beyead the range. The Copper Falls has made an excellent road from Fagle Harbor to their mine, om a much better grade then the od route; amd the Northwestera Company has —— te continue it soross the range to their works. The Northwest, assisted by the Comnecticut and Water- bury companies, are about to improve their road, A bore path is also being out from toe Northwostera, past the Winthrop, back of the range, across the Kagle river and Bey State locations to the Kureka and theCli? This gives an opportudity fer citizens and travelers to pass trom Copper Herbor om horseback, al under the Blut, from mine to mine, as far Weat as the tec, @ distanse of 20 miles. At Evgle river Messrs. Senter acd Mandelbaum have commenced building s pier similar to those at Muwsutie and Cleveiand, into deep water of the open like, Tho same is being done by Carsom & Co. at the Oatensgon. Un the east side of the river the plauk read, toward the Arteo, Adventure, Toltec and Uhio mines is compleied ‘about four miles, and is progressing at a moderate rate. Another is contemplated on the west side of the river, 18 mules im length, tonard the N rwich locetioa, The dia wesota Company intends to make a road 12 miles in leagth to the mouth of the river, their miae being too far fcom the plavk road to uaite profitably. A cattle trail is already cut from the Oat to the Big Bull Falis of the Wi-cousin river, over which & team hav passed, and sowe dreves of live stock. People who have never seem the dificult character of the ground, im relation to roads, canmet aporeciste the full value of such works, mor the resolutioa that is meces- sary to undertake them. It is only those wbo remember the days of mere trails, over which every thing was cariied to the mines by half biced packers, who cam appreciae tha value of « wagon No judgments bave beem obtained against the Nios- caragua Trausit Compaay, as reported. The Transit Company was improperly impleaded as defendants with Mesurs. Drew and Vanderbilt, and a non-suit was ordered by the Court im favor of the Transit Company. No lia- bility exists om the part of the Transit Company for de- tention of parsengera om the Isthmus, as the Transit Company at that time was not a contracting party ia the transportation of passengers toand from California, At the last session of the Legislature of Virginia, the right of way acrvss the ‘Pan Haodle”’ was refused for the extension ef the Pittsburg and Steubenville Rail:osd. The land contained therein, embracing « width of about wix miles, is owned by twe gentlomen—Mosers. Jessie Edington and Nathaniel Wells—who have construeted « railroad om this land, so esto make the connection de- alred, Their right to do so is a question which will doubtless agitate the next Legisiature considerably. The aevexed exhibit of the condition of the banks of Wisconsin is compiled from official reports wade to the Bank Commissioner om Monday, July 4, 1853 :— Banks oy Wisconsin, Regis'd Benks. Loans. Stocks. Specie. Circ't'n. Dep's. State Bank, Mad. $42,187 61,300 14,201 48,197 46,396 Wie M&F Ios. C0.y AMiw 40,998 148, Bank’ of Beciu : es ‘at Racine..... 84.306 68,184 7,845 33,136 49,796 Kosk River Bk 7 Beloit........' 5,968 26,000 4,828 25,000 3,485 Mee 5 2 as Keconhe, 40,908 27,600 6,419 24,997 60,008 State B& of Wis, Milwaukie...’ 71,636 112,000 21,334 70,596 38,413 Wis Beck, Mine- ral ola. 5c SAAT 25,000 2.600 20,868, 19,761 .' 26,411 65,022 13,122 37,961 49.009 Totals...... $696,768 $98,067 174,986 41,748 SpT,ul ‘The followicg is a summary of the items of capital, cie- culation and deposit, specie aud cash itoms, public veca tities and private seourities. of the banks of the State ef Wisconsin, on the morning of Monday, July 4, 1953 :— $480,000 00 S01 168 00 + 807.201 42 Specie. - 174 986 98 Cash itema 42 531 61 Pubhe securities + 398 967 OT Private securities woeee 151 300 30 nual report unier the new bankirg law of that State. The banks appear to bein s sound conditicn. ‘The billholder ia well protested, and the vecured circulation of Wiscursin banks is as safe a currency as can be found in any State in the Union. Stock Exchange. Fiast Boaun, July 25, 1858, £4000 Kentucky 6’s.. 1081; 450 hs Cum Gi Co 103 39 C006 Frie Inc Bas, 03 160” 100 bi 1000 Erie let M B:b3 118 500 1000 Nicd#R Bés,, 104 50 10 ths Hatover Bk. 0614 60 bao 89 6 Contiven‘al Bk.. 10236 160 Parker Coai G63 31 100 Mechanica Br... 139° 700 NOreek Cual Co.03 4 Crystal Palaoa... 2% 5) Eco RR + 20% 2119 oe iT 700 Canton Co...., 50 Perx Coal Co. 300 Jersey Zine, +3 106 "do... .b80 60 N TrnneitCo.d10 460° do... 88 50 do... .b10 100 Phoenix Mg C 03 206 00... .b60 128 Cum. Co OL do SECOND BOARD. $2000 U S 6's, '56.... 1004 400 san Cum C Co.s60 3934 10 rhe DHCO...b60 6 100° do......b60 40 Pt B30 634 100 Parkor Cosl Go ° do... 10 MeCuilock Gid Me 100 do,...., b80 50 Nie Transit Co... 60 de 508 avg 300 45 Mad & 8 Mich 5 RR, CITY TRADE RELORT. Monday July 25—6 P.M. re ead wero made of 100 buls. peacts and pots, viou jour was dull aud lower, The business it $EBL AG w $4 60: axpue- mixed to fanc to chowe "4 Obio at $5 and ober grades at proportionate tgures, Casadiag bes Lot veried. ‘The sales o€ Southern comprised 1 000 bots, at prices O4¢0. per bbl, uxder those last quoted by ax Rye flour aad corn mea! were unchaoged. Wheat favor ed buyers—the operations were confined to 2800 bushels fais Genesee white at $1 33 ; 2.700 Western dv. at 2,100 do, mixed at 3112, aed 10,000 Canedine white, ‘in bond, at $1 20a Si 2 Rye was nogive ed. Gate sold fresly at full rates, Cora was in face vemacd—~ the jalea veschid 50,000 bushels at 67c. a 68e for um sour , 699 a 70e. fo' mixed Wesreru and Southo-n ; 70. | for round yeilow ; avd 72¢ for Southern do per bushel. Carnie —At Weshington Drove Yurd—At mui ket, 2 50 | beeves (all Sonth and West.) Market firm. Prices | rarpivg wt term Be. to Vie About B00 left over unvolt. | At Browning's. (Lower Bull's Heud’+)—Oa sate 128 cows —« larger nuwoer than have beea oifered for Prices steady at from 8. ty nome 1 act 0 L9 B55. | lertover, Steep tam basctive 4220 @ifercd. Ali gold at | $225 to $5 BO Landy 8176 to 8450, At Chamborlaia's, (Hudson River Buil’s Hone) cattle. Salas ab to Dige. Cows and calves—70 off red and aotd 6 to $50, 4008 oa sala, 6 to $650, ved Herain'y ac raovomamta ern ara ar 98¢, and hore ware