The New York Herald Newspaper, August 9, 1853, Page 1

THE NEW YORK HER, WHOLE NO. 7533: MORNING EDITION----TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1858. THE CRYSTAL PALACE, Two Millions Expected to Viste it, DESCRIPTION OF ARTICLES. We have never seen the Crystal Palace look better “than it did yesterday. There was an appearance of completeness about it, and, with the exception of the Machine Arcade, and the gallery’ for paintings, whieh will be ready ina few weeks, nearly all the arrangements are finished. {n fact, the only contri- butions of importance which have not yet arrived are the Gobelins and the Sevres porcelain from France. There is enough at present in the building to occupy the attention of a person for two weeks, if he would ‘examine the articles with a view to self-instruction, and not merely for the gratification of his curiosity. Powers’ Greek Slave has arrived from Charleston, ita owner, Colonel Pre:ton, of South Carolina, having generously consented to its exhibition. The other two works of art of our distinguished countryman— the ages) Boy, and-Eve—will also be exhibited this week. The public will doubtless be pleased to learn that five dollar tickets, giving the bearer admission as often as he may please for two months, are ready for sale at the Palace. This is but just towards our ‘eountey visiters, who cannot remain long enough in the city to enjoy all the advantages of a full season ticket. The Directors are quite sanguine of suecoss, and calculate on at least two million of visiters. Should their anticipations be. realized, what will become of us, New Yorkers? We can barely imagine the results of such a terrible incursion ‘of oer country cousins, but have an indistinct sahadowy idea or crowded houses, in which even the ‘Kitchens will be turned into sleeping apartmonts, and every available corner will be ccupied by cots. In sueh an emergency, beds that were ouly intended for one person will, by some principle of domestic economy, be made to hold three or four. And then what a harvest the hotels will reap, and what an im- quense amount of provisions of all kinds will disap- pear before such an invading army, fresh, too, from the country. Two millions of persons in New York! the bare possibility of such a deluge of human beings is enough to set the city upside down with excite- ment ; the grocers, on the strength of it, will order a tenfold supply of provisions ; there will be a dread- * fal mortality among fat cattle, sheep and swine; flour will rise without the aid of yeast, and speculators will look sprightly, and grow jolly as they calculate on their chances. What a ehange will be effected by this “ good time coming” in the present gloomy as- pet on” the world outside the Crystal Palace. The man who ,,."inds the organ for the happy family will play a livelfer Air, and even the members of the happy family itaelr will grow happier and more lively. Then the stock of wic Latting Observatory will rise nearly to its own terrific altitude, for people no longer content to look up at it must look down from its “dizzy height” upon this nether world. ‘Then, too, we shall hear the keeper of the live crocodile sing out in more cheering tones:—‘ Haes the largest ‘ yallow-gaiter’ ever seen all the aways from the banks of the Nile, where they devours young nigger babies, and thinks them a great delicacy.” Who, in such a time of gen- eral rejoicing, can refuse his earnest solicitation ta ‘walk in and see his living wonder, or who can forego the pleasure afforded by an introduction to those as- tonishing wild men, whose praises have been tramp eted forth with the most unwearied perseverance to an ungrateful and undeserving public, “What hopes those expected two millions are calou lated to infuse into the bosoms of thousands of our desponding citizens, particularly those who have taken up their habjtations in the vicinity of the Crystal Palace. We have a word of advice for our country visiters, which it may be well for them te act upon immediately. Secure your boarding houses at once, you who are not 80 fortunate as to have eity friends, and;come on as soon,as possible, for i the city is so orowded, flow will the Palace hold all that must visit it? Just think of twenty or thirty thousand in it in one'day, alf- jostling against each other; making it utterly impossible for any one to see the articles:to advantage. We therefore say? make no delay, but prepare yourself at once; the Palace ia almost compicte, and will be entirely ready by the time you make 4 Ij eity. g your appearance in our gooa: UNITRD STATES DEPARTMENT. YLE G@VERNENT FIREARMS, ETC. he co:.tribution of government ordnance and ‘small arms comprises not only such as are manufac. ‘tured at the different armories and arsenals of the United States government, but also some that are furnished from private establishments; and it is owing chiefly to the efforts of Mr. James T. Ames, of the Ames’ Manufacturing Company, who are heavy contractors with the government, that the Crystal Palace is graced with the present con- tributicn. This comprises a specimen of the different ar- ‘tillery carriages, with their implements complete, which goto make upa battery for field service, vig :— Gun carriage. Battery wagon. Caisson and traveling forge. These were all made at the Watervliet Arsenal, at West Troy. A part of the carriages are unpainted, the better to show the character and quality of the wood ured in their construction, all of which is or- obard oak, from Massachusetts and Connecticut, and has been submitted to the mineralising process. This, however, we believe, is nowabandoned. A mountain ‘howiteer carriage, with ammunition chests, pack sad- dle, &c., complete for service, is from the same place. The bronze guns consisting of :— 2 24 per, cannon, weighing 1764 Tha, each, 2 32°* howitzers, © 1; 2 6 © canno! bc 886 ps 212 “ howlteers, « 736“ 1 mountain do, Cr: are from the foundry of the Ames’ Manufacturing Company. This company was the first to intro- duce, with success, this branch of art into the United States, and which a steady prosecution of more thamtwenty years has enabled them to bring to a degree of perfection which will not suffer by com- parison with the productions of any other country. They also execute bronze castings of any descrip- ‘tion, specimens of which may be found in the building. The collection of small arms contains muskets, cadet muskets, sappers, artillery and cavalry muske- toons, from Springfield Armoury, and riflesfrom Har- per’s Merry. At each of these places, the manufac. ture of arms was commenced at an early day. With- in the last few years, very great improvements have been inade, and for perfection of workmanship these arms are now unsurpessed. Every piece is subjected to the severest test, and rejected for the slightest Aault. There is also a perfect interchange of parts, wo that in the assembling or putting together of 9 single musket, the parts are taken indiscriminately; the great advantage and necessity for this is obvious. There is also exhibited a collection of models,show- ing the alterations and improvements which have been made in this class of arms through a long series of years :— Tanie SHOWING —— Wricet, rrc., ov Present [UDELS. Mushet. Rifle, toon, toon, toon. cme t Sonet.07.80 in. 48.8 in, 41,00in, 4100in, 41.00 in, a a. nes. = 6201 in. 59.0tm = be edone 9141b. 968)b, 7.021b. 7 021b, 7.22 1b, baye me : ap o.a2lb — 9.95 1b, 7.20 Th. - PT oe coin, bhin, 00mm, Oia, 00 in, each department of service, both army and navy, from the Ames Company, together with a rich dis play of fancy swords, completes this department. CONTRIBUTION FROM THE SISTER OF ROBERT BUBNS. One of the greatest curiosities in the American de- partment is the pair of stockings knit expressly for our.exhibition by the-venerable sister ot Scotland's favorite and greatest poet, Robert Burns. The stockings are, of course, more valuable on account of their maker than from any merit of workmanship which they possess, although in this last respect they are perfect. They are enclosed in a glass case, and the following inscription explaias their history, and the praisewortby object which the sister of the poet had in knitting them :— “ Stockings knitted by “Mrs. Begg, of Ayr, Scot- Tand, (sister of Robert Burns,) at the age of eight a two thee and contributed by M. M. Keane, to be sold after exhibition, and the proceeds applied to a ch le pury under the directi james Gordon Bennett” pecan a AN INGENIOUS BEEHIVE. Phelps’ Ohio Combination Beehive is among the most ingenious articles on exhibition in the American department. It is situated in the gallery near the plows, and is so arranged at one of the windows that the bees, with which it swarms, have free egress from it, not, of course, into the building, but outside of it; there you can see them at werk in the manu- facture, with that untiring industry of which they have been so appropriately chosen as the emblem. Here one is engaged in smoothing down the interior of the cells, while others are employed in constract- ing new cells. The hive is formed of wood and glass, and is like all really useful contrivances, very simple. ft consists of a number of boxes, and can be made to contain four or five families of bees. The boxes are all alike, and may be changed to any part of the case without difficulty. An aperture is cutin the front of each box, for the ingress and egress of the bees; a spout, or alighting-board, is attached to the front ofthe hive of sufficient length to reach through weather-boarding when set in a building. The bottom is attached to the front of the hive by butts, and may be let down at any time without disturbing or moving the boxes, as they stand upon strips nailed to the case at the bottom, against which the bottom shuts and forms a tight joint. The bottom, when closed, is kept in place by a button at each end. There are ventilating open- ings through the bottom, three inches in diameter, covered on the under side with perforated tin doors, that may be opened and closed at pleasure. The moth trap consists of a strip of board, grooved or rabbeted at the edges, toform a harbor for the motbs on the bottom of the hive; this slide, or trap, is covered with a tin case, with openings at its lower edge, corresponding with the grooves im the trap; the cage prevents the bees from fastening it tothe floor, and admits of its being withdrawn and re- turned without distarbing the bees. : A BIG LUMP OF COAL. One of the biggest lumps of coal which we have ever seen arrived at the Crystal Palace yesterday, from the Parker coal vein. Some idea of its im- mense size may be formed, when we state that its weight is thirty thousand pounds, and it is fifteen feet thick. If this is a specimen of the lumps taken from this vein, we only wish that the vein itsclf may never run out. 2 WASHINGTON NATIONAL MONUMENT. CONTRIBUTIONS. To cash on hand............ see cea iy Contributions for Augusi 5, 1853... 78 81 TORII i eee vec oah va) sncs GTO BL Liewtenant Maury and the Liverpool Dock Committee, Frooxiry, August 8, 180, TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD, Your defence of Lieutenant Maury from the sapient remarks of the chairman of the Liverpool Dock Commit- tee is perfectly just and correct, and in my opinion the honorable chairman was talking upon a subject that he kpew nothing about. i The honorab‘e chairman stated that Lieutenant Mauyy’s book was copied from an Englishman’s—Mr. Towson’s. And now, sir, to facts. About the year 1840 or 1841, Lieu- tenant Maury, of the United States navy, and Lioutenant Roper, of the English navy, each published a valuable work on navigation. Among the different methods of sail- ing each of them gave rules and examples to work a course anc distance by great circle sailing. In the year 1842 or 1843, (Lregret I have not the books by me, but have to trust to memory,) a gontleman by the name of Griffin or Griffith, published (in New York by E G. and W. Blunt) a smail pamphlet on great circle sailing, simplifying the rules and making the work much easier to the young navigator. In 1847 Mr. Towson invented what he called « linear table, and presented it to the English admiralty, who published it in 1848, with a pamphlet, gtving Mr. Tow. son’s rules and method for finding the course and dis tance by great circle sailing. : And now, sir, the honorable chairman of the Dock Committee gets npand publishes to the word that Mr. T.’s bock had been pirate] by Lieatenant Maury, while the only werit that could be claimed for Me, EM by his honorable frie va ia that he had discovered a short and simple method of working a cource and dis. tance by great circle eailivg. But, sit, Mr. Griffith was in advance of Mr T.’s dis- covery by some years, aud to him belongs mach of the merit of shortening the rules for such cases. and most of theWorks on navigation contain rules aad examples for all such cases Lieutenant Maury. from bis investigations of the winds and currents of the different oceans, has piven us @ vast amount of knowledge, and with his wind ond current charts, (the winds are given for every month in the ye the navigator who hay a knowls is of great ‘circle sailing, may at ties shoricn his distance from port to port very much; but great ciicle sailing is not always practicable and ndvisable for ships woder canvass; but for steamers it is the proper and correct route for them to follow as neat aa possible to do so. The early steamers to this coantry—the Great Western, iptag sain and British Queen-railed on a rhumb lind from Sandy Hook to Cape Clear, or the Lizard according to the port they were bound to, until Lient Maucy pad- lished a eketch-chart, showing they could save 69 m. in distance by following the arc of the circle as near_as esible—(it cannot be strictly followed between New York ond Liverpool, as the Shoals of Nantecket and Georges and the point of Csps Race intervene.) lorce more hem forward the remarks of the homora- ble Chairman—that Lieut. Maury’s book is taken from Mr. Towron’s, Ido not know which of Lieut. Maury’s books the honorable gentleman alludes to; but if he al- Indes to Lieut, M.’s work on navigation, Ire ly that Lieut. M.’s work on uavigation was published some six or paven cars in advance of the pamphlet and_linear tables of Mr. i which he presented to the admiralty, and which published by the government in 1848, So, Ia this case, there can be no piracy on the part of Lieat M from Mr. Towson’s pamphiet. I¢ the honorable ebairmay alludes to the ‘Book of bead ls ft nad to Sir teen * Washington, and by that cepsctment Jon would require’ a long stretch of trasgioation to fat any- thing in this work that could be ol from Me. Tow son’a pamphlet on “ Great Circle Sailing.’’ And now, Mr. Editor, I trust @e this, that the honora- ble chairman of tho Liverpool Dock Committee has had an opportunity @f tating Lieut. Meury by the hand, and I trast he will learnfrom Licut. M.'s own mouth the difference between great circle sailing, and the great fisid of research that Lieut, Maury is engaged in; and I hope the honorable chairman will mako the amende honorable to Lieut. M. Should he not do so, it will take more than his simple assertion to tear one leaf of the Isurel from the brow of our galiant countryman, oO. RM. Mexican Items. (From the New Orleans Picayune, July 20 } The,edict of Gov. Young, of Utah, in reference to Mexicans in that territory, is complained of as being a gross violation of the lag of Guadalupe Hidalgo. r. Alexander Oettling has been radia and recognized as Hanoverian Consul at Colima, and at fhe port of Manzanillo, Mr. Victor Garcia has been appointed and recognized as Dutch Consul at Tam- pico, in the absence of Mr. Dickinson. ‘The quantity of clipped coin circulating gives rise to much complaint in the city of Mexico. ‘The Italian residents of the city of Mexico have sent to Gen. Dabormida, Sardinian Minister of Foreign Affuirs,a splendid gold medal and an ad- dress expressing their satisfaction at his dignified and courageous course in the recent question be- tween Austria and Surdinia, relating to the confisca- tion by the former of the property of Italian emi- rants. . The proprietor and editor of the Zco del Comer cio have turned the paper over to new hands. A collection of swords for all the various ranks in THE =~ er PRICE TWO CENTs- YELLOW FEVER AT NEW ORLEANS, Relief for New Oslcans—Meeting at the Astor House. Yesterday afternoon, at two o'clock P. M., a meet- ing was held in the Astor House, in pursuance to a requisition signed by Francis L. Hawks, J. Ogden Woodruff, and Charles L. Frost, the committee who had been authorised by the Howard Association to receive contributions in this city for the aid of those now tuffering in New Orleans from the epidemic at precent prevailing there. The meeting having been called to order by Charles L. Frost, Esq., of the above committee, on the motion of that gentleman the Hon. Arnold Harris was appointed chairman, and Mesers. W. C. Tompkins and Logan McKnight, secretaries. The objeet for which the meeting was assembled having been explained by the chairman, Hon. Arnold Harris, Mr. Frost reported the action of the Committee to which he belonged, the names of whom have been already given in procuring sub” scriptions for the relief of the sick and destitute in New Orleans. In addition to the amount of $1,465, which had already been obtained, the Rey. Dr. Hawks had sent in the sum of $466 ; and there had been likewise received the sums below men- tioned from the following individuals :— Mr. Maltby..... $50 00 John Hicks &Co. 50 00 Harbeck & Co... 100 00 Foster, Elliott & F. Skiddy. .. 60°00 Co.......4..., 50 00 J.C. Patrick.... 60 00 Sundry other in- Eagle & Hazard. $25 00 dividuals...... 82 50 Amounting to the sum of. 5 The amount received for subscriptions make alto- gether $2,408 50. At the termination of the exposé of the financial transactions of the committee to which he belonged, Mr. Frost made some apt remarks upon the subject touching the propriety of the request that was now made upon their charity, and likewise pointed out to those assembled the necessity of immediate action. Mr. Wooprvur¥ then moved that a committee of twenty should be appointed, to call upon and pro- cure subscriptions from those merchants and others in New York who were identified with the New Orleans trade, which was agreed to, and the follow- ing gentlemen subscribed their names for that pur- pose :—F’. Fabre, Wm. Dameron, J. Marks, Wm. H. Litchford, Alfred Monroe, A. B. Stilwell, D. W. Bel- den, L. McKnight, Z. Taylor, M. Haber, J. B. Wal- ton, C. A. Townsend, W. F. Vredenburg, D. Jami- son, D. W. Hebard, M. Hoyt, C. Yale, Jr., Paul Toulaine, Isaac Sawin, and J. G. Pierson, of New- ark, New Jersey. Major Beary moved the following resolution :— Rerolved, That @ call be made upon those citizens of New Orleans, who are at present residing in New York, to make an immediate subscription for the relief of the sick and destitute of their city. This resolution was responded to instanter, and subscriptions, amounting to $2,246 50, were collect- ed on the spot from those present. Shortly after the meeting had broke up, a donation of $100 was sub- scribed by Messrs. Finlay, Kissam & Co. With the amount of subscriptions received during the meeting, $2,346 50, the whole subscriptions received amount altogether to $4,755. ae Brann then moved the following resolution, which was also agreed to:— Resolved, That the committee nominated by the pre- sent meeting should have the poser of filling up any vacancies in it, and likewise of empowering committees in other places to solicit subscriptions, and remit them tothe Howard Association. This ended the proceedings of the day, but the Inesday next for the committee will meet on Wi transaction of business; and we hope that our fel- low citizens of New York will generously respond to their call, and pour in their contribation+ Fr aie of their sister city. “He giveth tice who giveth len i Win regura ve tas charity, the foll letter has been handed over to us tee publtcattony oh wo ive with the greatest } pleasare:— . fo. 633 Breapwar, ; Monpay, Avgust 8, 1853 } To Francis Hawks, Esq., J. 0. Woodruff, vy 0. In Frost, Eeq., Commitiee, ©? Sa by seal Gentlemon—Still retaining in sweet remembtasce the acta of kindness extended towards mo by the citi m8 of New Orleans,many of whom are now pristrated by ines, past ayy of recovery, and earnestly — - addiog my miw td the good cause you are engage: permit mo te offer ibe procteds of say entortainmeat, of an ascent of Mort Blase, upon any night you may desiz- pate es a benefit to our suffering fellow-citizens of the Crescent City. Very respectfully, JOHN E, OWENS, NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS. {From the New Orleans Bee, July 20.] As the fever'is the all pervading topic, we shall bo par. doned for recurring to it more mr 4 than we geve- rally do the same theme Withia last day ort wo the diseace has unquestionably extended beyond the limited boundaries which appeared at first to hedge in its rava- jor. After desolating the small homesteads and squalid hovels of the Fourth and upper part of the First district, it has spread below these points. We hear of fatal cuses in the lower part of the First district, in Poydras street, near the market, in Carondelet, Baronne,, and other street. Below Canal street, the number of ita victins is yet ,inconsiderable. Intellent physicians in fine practice, inform us, that the Second district continues singularly frre from the epidemic, and that even the Third suffers but little in compariscn with the Firat and Fourth. Why this should be, is a problem we will not attempt to solve, It isa charactertstic of all epidemic disesees to break out in the dirtiest sections of a city, where habitations are crowded toge‘her, acd where thultitudes of percons dwell beneath the same roof. In such localities these disorders find abundant material for their propagation, Poor people are seldom particu- larly pice about their personr—and mauy injure thei constitn‘ions and impair their strength by hanitual in- dulgence im apirituous Nquvors. Thece are among the earliest eubjects of an epidemic, and they contribute largely to swell the bills of mortality, It is not neces- tary to adopt the Ley of filth being the generator of yellow fever to account for its appearance in these ro- gions, because experience and observation prove that the residents are constitutionally predisposed to the disease, Let the cause of the epidemic be what it may, they are the first to feel its power. A curious fact about the fever this year is, that it seems thus far almost confined to European imaiigrants of the lowest classes. During previous visitations scercely a Déersanent resident ef our city but could mention the name of some friend or friends who had fallen victims to the pestilence. This is not the case at present. Every- body admits the existence of the fever—the daily and weekly bulletins of death record frightful devasta- tion itis eit in there fow indeed who can point out individual examples of the disease occurring smidst theirown circles. ‘The sufferers are mostly ob sence and unknown. This should not, of course, aba‘ & jot of sympathy, ordim‘nish the efforts of tha coma nily in their behalf. On the contrary, as they are frien less, helpless, and impoverished. their claims on the be- nevelence of the public are ia reality fay greater than if they were more fortunately situated. The rich can take cere of themrelves—| never Jack officious re: nd eager medical attendance; but the poor, if neglected, must perish, They can command no aid, and are forcad torely on the charity of kind hoarted and disinterested citizens. We are merely, however, recording a fact, of which the moral is suflisfently obvious. It is, nevertheless, highly probablo thet the disengo will ero long, fasten ita’ gripe upon meny who deem then. selves secure from ita ravages. It wou'd be unpreeedent- 4 ond anomalons were it to contione as it has begun. Doubtlese, when it has exhausted ail the alimont iv can find amorg the poor, it will discover vic'ims elsewhere. One obstacle to its progress in « now direction—oad che only one we know of—is the absence of seven-eighths of these who are uracclimated. We bave never seen such a veritable stampede as the epidemic has oovasioned Thousands who had lived among us for six or eight years —who had paseed unscathed through the fever of 1847— ard who were wont to consider themselves proof agaiart its attacks, have taken the alarm, and ecampered away with the most commendable attention to their own safety. We do not think New Ozleans bas ever been as completely deserted by her merchants and profsesional men as she is now. A hasty trip to come of the watering places across the lake enables us to form an approximative idea of the extent of thir absenteeism. There are prodably. twenty thourand residents of Now Orleans on tho lake shores. ‘At the Bay of St. Louis, Paes Christian, Mississippi Ci Biloxi, &e., the hotels are thronged, while priv: dwellings are in the greatest possible demand, Add to this the inesloulable number who have left for the North and Weat and it will not be difficnltto under- stand why the fever carries off so few of what ta “the better classes.’’ Those who are compelled to re- main will, no doubt, in due time, have to stand the brant of its assaults. ‘The physicians ray the type of the direare is some- what less malignant than at first, and that they can ma nage it wher taken in time. We presume that yellow fever ia as curable as other disorders. if medical assist- ance be immediately procured. During the first weok or two of an epidemic most of the cases terminate fatally, Decante they occur among thore who are ignorant of the fy ptoms of the disorder, and averse 40 claiming the at- tintion of the faculty, mntil the disease bas fally deve loped iteelf, Unfortunately, it is then, in a majority of initances, “too late. | Hor ttl praction fs the, wore sible teat of the type, of t] mio. Thone who enter the hospital never thiok of going there ‘until they are past Dy ogy Many, as we learn, are taken to the hospital in a dying condition, But in pri- vate prectics, with proper care ard attendance, yellow fever wil not’ be found more malignant, and the per centage of mortality will not be greater this year, than during previous visitations, At least so say several on- ) Pascagoula to-day, ot yellow fever. The deaths within Nigh tened and experienced phy sicians—and tha’Y ought to [From the Picayune, July 30, : The ravages of the railiog fever ee torn great. ‘There is a slight falling off in the agi of deaths, an reported yesterday, from those of the be fore, but not enough to afford any hope of diminution of the pestilence. One favorable sign reported by the phy sicians is that the disease is more mansceable than at first. There are more af recovery in proportion to the numbers attacked. aud the medical treatment is more successful. On the other hand, the area of the dis- spread itself. It is still mainly confined to the districts where it broke out and bas been mos! fatal ; but cases are now occurring in other parts of the city, pet mapy, but enough to show that the pestilential in. finence is diepersing iteelf over places hitherto exompt Some cares have occurred in the lower part of this dis. trict, near Canal street. It is remarked, however, that notwithstanding the great number of the sick and the greatness of the mortality indicating the violence of the epidemic physicians, having the largest practice in the First district have had few calls it is also remarked that while the daily list of deaths reaches to a hundred, few persors that we meet can cesignate more than os6 or two friends or even acquaintances that they have heard of as having been attucke. It is the usual courae of epidemics that it attacks the obscure and unacclima. ted stranger. the emigrant and the laborer, who are not only mort exposed to.attack by their toilsome occupa: tions in the sun and rain, and in spots where malaria is generated, but are least ‘able to tie up in the early stage of the fever, to cal! im skiliful medical advice, to employ nurses and by dint of careful management thus to weather the attack. “For the most part, too, they congregate in damp apd unwholesome places and what with exposure, neglect and want, tecome the first victims of an epi: mic. ‘Tbe remarkable health enjoyed by this olty for several past summers, and the great influx of Jaboring immi- grants caused ‘by the prelcetion of public works, and the search for employment upsn them, have accumulated au unusual number of poor labcrers, and these have fur. nished the principal material for the vast mortality which has been recorded. During no previous epidemic wera there ever so many strangers of the poorer unacclimated classen in New Orleans. ‘This explains, in part, the vast disproportion between the gross number of deaths and the number of rick who are known to our citirens at large. The class of those liable to attack who are kaowa residents ie, morever, exceedingly small Before there was spy apprehension of fever, it was the general remark thax this city was uvcommonly thin, that never had so mapy residents gore cff on summer tours. Since the alarm the number ef travellers bas increased vastly, and the departures continue. The stock of food for fever of those who may be set down as an unacclimated paying clas for the doctors is getting to be so small as to ac- count yery intelligibly for the few casea of sickness mong them which occur. They who remaia are not en- titled to draw any assurance of exemption from the searcity of cases, considering he scarcity of subjects; and the indications are, we are sorry to say, not encour. t present for a mitigation of the epidemic, except @inution of subjects, or a great and favorable change of the weather. Un its cessation no calculations can be made, Whst duty and humanity enjoin is pa- tierce under the afiliction, the use of every exertion, pub- lic and private, to remove or counteract all the infla- ences which are supposed to originate or foster the dis ease, the practice of all Christian kindness and charity to the sick, and especially to the destitute sick, and with Mindly charities and mutual good offices wait hopefully for the end, ‘From the New Orleans Delta, August 1 ] The bills of mortality tell their own story—and a fright- ful one itis When we remember that half the unaccli- mated have left the city, and that this class of our popu- lation is reduced tv probably less than fifty thousand souls, a daily record of over one hundred deaths isa fear- ful thing to contemplate. We take it that the sciolists in mecicise, and chatterers about words, will now cease their meaningless discussions touching the existence of the fever as an epidemic. When a disease carries off more than one per cent per week of the population aub- ject to it, we shoula ine that its ravages might rea- sorably be termed “epidemic,” and that without soy curious display of etymological science in investigating the precise derivation of the term, but taking it in its ordinary and well understood acct ptation. From the, evidence before us, we conclude that the fover is gradually widening its area. It is now to be en- countered wherever upacciimated abound, though still most of the fatal caves occur in the Third and Fourth districts. It cannot continue much longer at the pitch of intensity which tow marks it, Every day witnesses the dopartore of hundreds, whom terror at the unparal- leled mortality driv ay. In a few days, all who are not seasoued to the climate, and who can possibly quit ‘the city, will have left. The pestilence must then abate for want of fuel. There is another chance for us. Kpi- demics invariably ryo s tertain course. They have thelr varie’, cf commencement, Increase, uae; a gradual decline and disappearance. \heged chien Myce’ | Goise weeks. Already the fever has been amoagst us tivee ibe tegioning of” July, If not eanier ; we therefore | pisce the teetmodacence thabit will aye us BY of August. $ Interments in all the cemeteries of the city,for the twenty-four hours ending at 6 o’olock A. M., on the 30th ult. :—Yellow fever, 126; other di 28; total, 154. Interments in all the cemeteries of the city for the twem,four_hours ending at 5 o'clock P. M, on Sunday, Bint ult Yellow fever, 137; other disease, 20; total, if “ ‘Tre followirg is va.2 teport of intermente in the city for the week exding yest *Y (Sunday,) morning, the Slat ult lock A. M.:—Tor..| interments, £80, of which the from yellow fever were «. DIED, == . On the 20th July, “Frangois Nicolas hitows, ¢x capiaid of the U.S. army, aged 36 years. TELEGRAPHIC. Death of Major Biss, &e. ie Batrmore, August 8, 1°53. We to-night received New Orleans papers of Tuesday lest, at which time the weather was still unfavorable, ard the fever was on the increase. The deaths for tlie week ending on 3Ist alt., were eight bundred and elghty- four, sf which six hendred and ninety-two were by the fever. For forty-eight hours ending on the 7 inst., two hundred and ninety. nine deaths occurred, of which two hundred snd forty-three were by yellow fever. Dr. Mye, formerly of New York, was among the vic- tims. New Onirans, August & 1853. Colonel Bilys, General Taylor’s son-in-law, died at the Jast twenty-four hours, in the city, amounted % one hundred and fifty from yellow fever. ‘Washington Gossip. MATTERS, PERSONAL AND OFFICIAL. The Evening Star ot Saturday furnishes the annexed itema from th utive bureaus, &¢.:— Letters beating date July 9, 1863, from Funchal, Ma- deira, from Commander Ringgold, commanding the sur- vweying expedition to the North Pacific Ocean, have been received at the Navy Departmeut, in which he reports the arrival of the squadron under his command, in twen- ty-elght days from tha Capes of Virginie He remarks the ‘it will be doubtless ratifying to the friends of the officers and others compor! the expedition to be satis fied 1) it on board are .”? Lieut. Herndon, U. 8. N., has been detached, on lea from the bose greatest 3 of provisions at Norfolk ; a! Lieut, Gecrge R. Gray has been ordered to that duty in his plece. The Interior Derartment have advices frot Brigham Young. taxing that the Indians of Utah are quiet, and fo far pesceadly inclined. He remarks that they con- tinue the habit of disposing of their children to the Mexicans an ¢laves, and that he has succeeded In nearly entirely putting an end to this “unchristian practice.” The Treasury Department bave received a diagram showing the forward condition of the work on the new Custom Hovre at Charleston, South Carolina, from which it appears that nearly all the extensive piling for that magnificent wore is complet hat perhaps four- fifths of the rest of its foundations are also finished, ready for the reception of the ite work. We hear that, up to noon morning, neither the State Department nor the Nav; rtm ad veseived despatches concerning the Costa (Smyrna) affair, though they are loeked for by the mails of the steamer east, telegraphed. e-learn that the Ministers, or agents of: all grades, appointed since the 4th of March isxt to represent this government abroad, have already received their imtruc- tien. except Governors Vroom (to Prussia) and Sey- -mour (to Russis), whore instructions are ina state of forwardnees. Naval Intelligence. Norroux, Va, August 6, 1855. The U. 8. frigate Savannah, the flag ship of Commodore Mereor, is undergoing a thorough overbauling, prepara- tory to & long voyage in prospective. We leara from the officers that destisation, despite the many rumors to the contrary, ia poritively uncertain. Com. Salter, accompanied by his fiag Iieat. Wm. E, Leroy, srrived here a few days since, and it is likely tho. will goin commistion as soon as her complement of men is 19- ceived. Massachusetts in now in the Dry The old store ehi; Dock receiving a thorough ont. jon has been laid, = Tho keel of the new Con: nomerows workmen are actively engaged noon her. temporary tent, or workshop has been erected in this yerd to otect the industrious mechanics from the tcorching un and piercing rain. It will be remembered that ihe Constellation was ihe noble shin commanded by the gallant Truxton, that oaptured the French frigate Llosurgente, off the Island of Neyis, about the year ’00 or 1960, The keel (of the very dent of white oak.) is com po ed of nino pieces, all making about 176 faet in length, thirty inches esp, andthe siding size eighteen inches, The wort of the timber composing her keel bas, beon in the woter oning, over twenty years, and looks ae sound. fresh and solid as though it had’ just been ent from the forest. officers attached to the Saranac have The varteuy mostly been detached, and the veerel gone ou' of com- mission, —C¢ lence Bi Sum, August 8, U. &. steam frigate Miesissippi, flag ship of Commodore Terry, ‘Commander 8 R. law Tailed from Hong Kong, about April 80, for the North. U. 8. store ship ‘Supply, Commander Sinclair eailed April 27, for the North. Lieutenant Joseph Lanman has been ordered to duty Bt the Warhington navy yard in place of Lieutenant Til. ton, promoted to Commander ; and Lieuteuant Clooro Price is ordered to the reosiving ship Pennsylvania vice Lieutenant John K, Mitchell, detached on leave. NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. mA RE EA Interesting from Washington City. TUE KOSZTA DIFFICULTY AT SMYRNA—CAPTAIN IN- GRAHAM AND THE ADMINISTRATION—SECRETARY M‘CLELLAND AND THE REPORTED FRAUDS, ETC. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE NEW YORI NBRALD. Wasiincron, August 8—8 P. M. Neit ber the State, or Navy Department has recsived, official, & word of information with regard to the Koazta m Tair at Smyrna, The latest dates received from Comodora Stringham, commanding the squadron in those waters, an) up tothe 6th of July. It is veryimprobable that no des) @tches were written to the deparimen—the reasonable * ‘lution being that they have been intercept- «d. The article on the eubject of Captain Iogral ‘8 proceedic gs, in yesterday's Union, is not officis!. It goos further, depend upon it, than the administration will be villing togo. A#atprecent edvired, the ground which the President wh'l lake was correctly stated in yester- Gay's Hera. ‘The despatches published in the papers, to the effect that the recent visit, to New York of Goversor McCiel- Jand, Secretary of thi: Interior, had referenes to the dis covery of frauds in the issuing of laud warrants, are wholly false. Upon tino best authority, it is stated, that the Goverzer’s visit wae simply upon private busioess, VERITAS, The Tennessee Election. Nasnvitte, August 8, 1853. “Tn twenty-four counties the democrats claim a gain of 1,000, while the whigs only edmit » loss of 200, The re- sult for Governor is doubtful. The whigs, thus fer, have gaiped one Congressman. Items from the Fishing Grounds, a Bostox, August 8, 1653, “The fsbing rchooner Flying Cioud arrived at Glouces, ter yesterday from the fishing grounds. The oxptain re- ports mackerel scaree, and that several Cape Cod voasels had left for home with smatl fares. The British naval officers are represented as being more civil, Tho Flying Goud saw a British war steamer keeping a sharp look out, and ceverel cutters in the bays and coves. The steamer Devastation has gone to Quebec for repairs. The fishermen complain of the © Light ne the British, amountiog to about $1 sol The Fy few off ( . 8, steam frigate. The achooner Char rived at Gloucester on Sanday, with a sme cherel, Storm at Baltimore, Baurmore, August 8, 1853, We were visited by a heavy rain and hail storm to bight. The hailwas very large, and many windows were broken; trees, fences, &c., were blown down. ‘The Exte Canal Tolis, Atpany, Auguat 8, 1853, ‘The canal tolls for the fourth week of July were $115,- 170, and the season, up to August the lst, they foot up $1,886,041—being an increase over the same period, last year, of $49,411. ‘The Biack Warrior at Moile, &, New Ortrans, Angust 1, 1853, ‘The steamship Black Warrior, from New York via Ha- vana, arrived at Mobile, yesterday. Col. Palfrey bas been elected Brigadier Genosal of the Louisiana Legion. Markets; New Oatrans, Adgust 5, 1853 The sales of cotton for the week have been four thou: sand beles, and the recsipts of the week twelve hundred bales. The stock on hand is eighteen thousand bales. Middling is quoted at 1034. The accounts of the growing crops are favorable. Monre, August 5, 1853, ‘The sales of eotton during the week amounted ta $00 bales, and the receipts to 20. The stock is 7,005 bales. Atnany, August 8, 1853. have bee the receipts here cinas gt pee) The follow", ger our, 11.000 N 1 44-005 opaNate: "6a ing TONS Dinars oo tbo burbeld. Flour has beoa less active than oo'Saturday, the sales being restricted to 500 bbls, at provions rates.’ Wheat was in fair milling de iand for prime; rales of 600 bushels at $1 35 for Genesee. Cora was easier, with a better inquiry; 15,000 bushels sold at Tle. for damage and 75s. for Western mixed. 17,000 bushels heated oats were dispored of at 43140, a 44c, Ohio whiskey sells at 20c. and privon at 263<c. The Fire Department. PRESENTATION OF PLAT TO ZOPHAR MILLA—~ SPEECHES, ETC., ETC. A special! meeting of the representatives ef the Fire Bepariment of this city, was held last evemiay at Fire- men’s Hall, Mercer atiéét, to hear the report of the joint committes cf the representatives and trustees, relative to the Mills testimonial. Mr. Grauam, Chairman of the Committee, made the report, which was accepted, and a committes was ap- peinted who introduced Mr. Zopbar Mills. He was re- celved with hearty applause. Mr. A. P, Tempz them addressed Mr, Mills as follows :— Sir—The joint committee (whose reyort haz just been reed,) and the representatives of the different fire com. panies, have assembled heres this evening to consammate the pleasing duty assigned them, and to aak your accep. tance of this service of plate they have had prepared for you. The distinction which has been conferred upon me, in being Feleeted to present to you th's deserved ani sn- during tribute of esteem from the firemen of this city, has been as unexpected as it was unsought for by me. ‘There are so many in the department so much move coms: pétent for this occasion than myse¥,, that I question m: own ability, and feel _embarracsed in the performance the agreeable task allotted me. I regard it, however, aa bonor as well os a privilege, to meet with so many of my old friends and associates upon this in ‘oceasion, here in this hall, so familiar to me, to unite iu exprosa- ing to you, sir, the high estimation in which yonr omi- nent services have always been regarded by the fire de- partment of this city. From your fimt entrancs asa member, and during your long continuance among us 8 foreman of a company, representative, assistant engi- reer, trustee, an esident of the dspartment, you have invagiab)y manifested a deep interest in its sucsess and welfare, and im the promotion of the objects con- templated by the establishment of our charitable fand, Placed times in difficnlt aud dangerous posi- tions an a fireman, you have eviaced rare exhibi- tions of judgment,’ akill, and coi fally equal to the occasion and the circumstanses which you were surrounded; while your deportment has cha racterired by so kind and considerate a regard for the righta of others with whon ss have been associated, an to excite our warmest admiration and respec’; indeed, during your eveutful carcer our city has been visited by severe! terrific conflagrations, in which the metropolis itself reemed doomed to destruction; but amid all these dangere— «When shook the timid. And stood still the brave,” your calmners, enexgy and decision’ never forsook you for ® mement; but trusting to the well directed efforts of the free and independent firemen of this city, you saw the destroyer coniined to narrov and still more narrow limits, until he was finally subdued, and our citizens again reposing in coosclous peace and sesurity. You must pardon me, sir, for the allusian I am about to make personal to yeurrelf, but I regard the circumstanc? es refleeting so mush credit upon you that I cannot for bear mentioning it. and that Is, that throughout your en- tire connection with us, embracing a peried of more than twenty years: although exposed the changes of our variable climate, subjected to all i exporure. is winter and summer, in cold, snow, sleet and wet «eather, time and time agata drenched to the skin, you have never been known to partake ot, oF indalgs in iritous Nquors of any description: and here yoa stand ng us to night, erect aud strong, ‘a living example of health and strength unimpaired, which God grant moy continue so, long years to come, In addition to your services as a fireman, you have performed other duties, as a trustes of our charitable fund, which you discharged with your accus- tomed zeal and fidelity, playing to the sick fireman, bis widow. and orphan ch! unvarying regard for the'r persona! comfort and hap) hi York, not — ou to them all. The firemen of Ne ‘wlof the @engers you have passed, fully aj ycur many excellent traits of character, you have been asrociated with them, the varied and im- portant services you have performed, and the benefits conferred by your counrel and advice, and regretting the reporation which has deprived them of your aid, hevo teken this method of testitying their sincere regard for your character asa man, anda member ef that depart- ment, with which yeu zave been so long and honorably arsociated. My own imperfest lai conveys but an inadequate expressioa of the estimation in which the name of Zophar Mills is held by the fire department of thir city, May yon long live, sir, to enjoy the reapect and confidence of this community: and the noble and ex. cellent examples you have presented us with in your own person, of a good man, agood citizen, and a good fire tan, impel all who enter the ranks to imitate your good deeds, and inepire them with still nobler aspirations, in seving Kfe and property, and in sustaining the reputa- tion the fire department of this city ha always en. joyed,"of being the most effeetive and most benevolent of any in the tor ‘The delivery of this speech was frequently faterrupted hy the warmest applanse, Mr. Mriis then rose and said :~ Sir; T thank you for the very flattering manner in which you have baen pleased to speak of my connection with iho fire department of this bes Your having held high and responsible offices in the department for many years, euqbles you to speak frou” Personal observation, If 1 bave done anything incren ** its efficiency in extieguishing fires, aod ia orv- tecting buman life from fe devouring element, or im the prom tion of harmopy among its membvra, or la adding to th.’ Permacent fund $0 ness the TIMOR? relieve the ah'cted, I feel that, im itself, « sufiicieat re- ward for all th. Cuties perforsved that have devolved upon me, Asa p.ivate and officer of a company, on aa engineer, trustee, v.{C@ president awd prevident, I have served the department more than twenty years, and [ hope that I may have 49ne@ somethio'g towards its wel- fare daring that long period. My constant atm hes been 10 elevate the characte.” t \womote the use fulness of the department, beth by precept and exanrpis, How far 1 have succeeded in this yeu are to be the judger; the occarion of our meeting here this evening gives evideuce that my course meets your ap: proval. Our department has ‘loser & bigt olace ta the pinnacle of fame for effielency, and has tie full coa- fidence of the public in its ability to centro the devour- ing clement. charitable fond iain very Gourish- ing condition, thavks to our Legislature for tax oo premiums of forelgn insurance eompanies. This soures ar sided ua since 1849 about $10.000. The perrzaneat and trust funds together are nearly doubled within the last five years, way from $37 000 to $72,000 at the olose of last veor, ond our whole fund st this time is about $80,000. "Besides all this, the expenditures of the depart- newt require the expenditure of $14,000 per annum, and the demande upon it are increasing. | Allow me to: review my connec ion with the department as the year 1820 my attachment wan formed for Eagle Fire Fngize Compavy No. 13. and so eontinged till 1832, whea I became @ member of that company; | was Assistant’ Foreman of it on the 18th of July, I when at the fire in Pearl etreet, near Fulton, yA the of the walls of the building of Messrs. Us billand Ward, two mem- bers of my company} were instantly killed, and I was buried in the ruins with them, but, fh a kind Pro- vidence, (though seriously injured,) my life was pre- rerved. I was foreman of the same oom, in 1886 at the time of Le oe conflagration, an: lieve that cur evgine played the first water at that fire, and ren- dered important servicos thereat. I also some rervice at the great Gre in 1846. im October, 1836, during the Gulick difficulty, our whole company Te: signed In Moy, 1897, ‘eo Mr. Endecsoa became - loser, (applause,)-our engine “other parnous, ve focal Have seseion of other y No. 18. In July of the same year we resigned from the hose company, and thus egaim took slen of our favorite engive. Iwas sgain elected foreman, and thus conti. ued until June, 1838, when I was elccted Assistant Ba- Lage and re elected in-’39, 40, and ’41, and resigned in 1848, haviog served nearly three years beyond the time prescribed by law. (Applauce.) “Toe same I was elected a trustee ard rerved as such in '43, go and 46; was again elected Vice-President, and ser during "47; waa then elected and reelected Presi- dent of the Fire Department, served five successive years, end in Desember, 1852 declined a further re election, thongh always elected by very large majorities. On one occasion, for president, I reesived every vote cast bat cre. Thus have I been honored by the rep-esentatives for thelist ten years. As your presiding officar, I have endeavored to deal impartially with all, and to promote the welfare of cur beloved institu Ably have I been sustained by this te and so faras my memory servea me, no decision bat I bave made was ever overruled. 4It was highly gratifying to my feelings on my retiring from. cflice, to leer that the represontatives had unanimously passed those very complimentary resolutions, and a Pointed, a joint committee with the board of trustees, exert’ mé with a testiwonial of respect and esteem, in being the first cecasion on which a testimonial kad ever been pre-ented to the pre-ident of the dei greatly enhances its value in sy estimation. I have em- Cenvored to serve the cepzrtment to the best of mp ability, andam happy to find that it has proved satie factory to the representatives. 1 most cheerfully accept of this testimonial from the tire cepartment of the city of New York, aed furythis evicenes of your kindness and frier dehip I shail dver feel profoundly grateful Highly us price it for its iatrinsic value, T esteem it the more valuable because it was projected and prepared, on! unexpected to me, aud without any agercy on my ‘To the committee of the representatives and trustees who pany have bad this matter in charge, my most sincere thanks are pies, for the faithful manner in which t! have disckarged the trast confided to them, and tho taste displayed in the selection of the testimonial, w wit be esteemed by myself and family as of great value. 1 see around me some that joized the department with me, and wo bave labored and toiled together for many years, but many, very many, of our associates have to their long homes. The toila, exposure, labor and hard- thips @f o fireman’s life have swept off thousands of our comyanions, The duty devolves upon us to do all in our power to increase the funds of the department, so as to enable the trustees, , to grant to the 13 and orphans of ow brethren, the iy Conte flicted, euch aid and ssstvance as ther nire—there! a to retain f, cnr noble charitable ‘eee a ie ey. “cy rapk, which it Dow 0t0upias * mason the vey esrociations in this ae--* » among the benevoens, [ Sentnttves &- uy erin the world, The repee- ‘a the whole department will please scoapt from me the sincere thanks of ¢ grateful heart, and my pest wishes for them, individually and collectivety; when our journey kere Is finished, I hope to meet you all in. a better world, where teil, poverty, suffering and deat, withe plate ea thos dieplayed, and ts excending 16 fe was then dieplayed, and from its beauty of workmanship, sllalted the wartest eussea It is of silver, very finely chased, and consists of six . On the salyer is engraved the following imsorip- the Firemen of the city of New York to z ., ab a tribute of respect for the faithful ada neers = 4 Otel ase member and officer ° ¢ Department. , 1368, Tt may be ween for one week at the store of its manu- facturers, Mesers, Adams & Kidoey, 33 White street, when it will be removed to the Crystal Palace. After the Se there was a vory pleasant re- bam, Miller, aud McGicnis. The attendance of repre- sentatives was a very falloce, and the whole affair passed cff in the happiest manner. Law in Relation to Savings Banks: AN ACT RELATIVE TO SAVINGS,BANKS OB ENSTITU- TONS FOR SAVINGS IN THE CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW YORK AND THE COUNTY OF KINGS— PASSED APRIL 15, 1853. The Peo © lawful for the several savings banks or institutions for savings im the city and county of New York ard coznty of Kings, nov chartered or which a Ipoerape hms ny peg seam tothe Mego = ir nloneye which Shey have reocived or skal hereaf ex re- ceive on ceposit, er the beget eng pee or om pur- chase any stocie or securities for redemption payment of whicl the faith of sny Stave im the Union shall be “Ap ee pdt ote ifs awd incorporated city, county or town in this date to me such sik ; provided, @ to issue stock ; pi of such stock or securities shall, of such investments, be at or above its tveh loans ¢o made, shall not exceed im cent of the value of such stock the st or securities above mentioned = ciate in value, so that the amount loaned thereon it exoeed per cent of its par value, it shell be the duty of th re Or trustees of any savings bank or institution for savings, to require the immediate pay- ment of avy Ioan made by them thereon, or additional security therefor, so that at all times the amount so loaned ehall be at least ten per cent ‘the par value of such stock or seeurities. Seo. 2. It shell be lewfal for any such savings banks or institutions for savings to make temporary deposita in any bank or banking association to an amount eqaal to ten per cert of the actual cash capital stock ia of rueb bank or association. and to reccive interest thereon at such rates, not exceeding that allowed by law, a8 may be egreed upon; provided that all the deposits in any one bapk or banking association shall not excead in ameunt twenty eent of ail the deposits pore te euch ravings bank or institution for savings, and t u@ contract or agreement in relation to said deposits sball be for a longer period than one year. Seo. 5. It rhall not be lawful for any of such sa banks or institutions for savings to make any ovy banks or banking association ex: the limits above preseribed,. unl suck savings bank er institn- on for ravings shail require and reaeive of in 80 Coposited exceeding the limits above pre- therefor, and equal in amouat, ntendent of the Ranking De- thorized to receive in ex- \g¢ for bills or motes circulation; nor shall it be Jawiul for any trustee of a sa bans or institution fer savings to be a trustee of more than ene savings bank or institution for savings at the same time, nor shal! the irvetees of any savings bank or institution for savings Lereefter to be ineorporated be directozs at the came in sny bark or banking sesociatica whereia any art of the moneys ot such savings bank or iastitution or savings ehall be deporited See. 4, All the assets ef any dank or booking assoziation now ie Lage to be a that aball Le insoly- ent, ‘ter providing for the oat of its ctreulat- ing notes. be applied by the ‘directors thereof, in the first place, to the payment of any deficienay that may arise on the sale of the securities aforesaid, and. thereaftor of any som or sums of money deposited with such bank or bank- it scribed, sueh seouritien a any savings bank er instidation a saving im the ranye of twenty per cont provid in the seeond eection of this ack, Poh sec. 5. No suck savings bauk or imatitution for savi herea'ter to be incorporated shal! roceive from any {i vidual deporitor @ larger sum than one thousand dollars, nor a larger amount three miltions of dollars in the Agaregate amount of deposita, exalusive of its banking house; and the rate of interest on all depwsits of five han- dred dollars and under, shall be cne per cent per sonam exceeding reater than shal) be allowed ea apy vum five undred dollars, See. 6, The provisions of thi act shall apply to all sav- ings banks or institutions for savings in said counties, which savings banks or iastitutions fer rings are hereby prohibited from losning the moneys deposited with them, cr any part thereef upsn notes, bills of exchange, drafts, or any other personal securities whatever. Seq. 7. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provirions of this set are hereby repealed. fee. 8 This act sball take effect immediately. The Galena Jeffersonian of the 1st announces that a company for za the Mis- sane, at the mouth of the Tete des Mort valley, in a northwestern direction, towards the Great Bend of the Minnesota river, is now fully organized and pre- pared to do what may be done toward carrying out ag speedily as possible, the ohject of tho association.