The New York Herald Newspaper, September 12, 1853, Page 6

EDUCATION. Commenceme t at Browa University. OUB PROVID:NCE CORRESFONDENOE. Provpmnce, R. 1., Sept. 7, 1858. Het Weather—State Holiday—The People South Carolina— Plymouth Rock, de., &e. If you suppos» that you escape the oppressive heat of the searom by leaving New York, you are decidedly mis- takes, amd very particularly se if you seek this insulated | the srea city ase place of refuge. Yesterday and to day we have Suffered intensely. yet I have sever seom so large crowds of people at this reason and on such an occasion. Commencement day is a holiday throughout Rhode Lland, quite ar much as the Fourth of July or Christmas. It is truly a gala day for the people. The workshops aze all closed; the thousands of toiling industrious operatives im the factorite turm out im their cheap yet beautifu’ aad attractive attire, and the country and all the villa ges throughout the whole State pour iuto the city a per- feet dood of the free and intelligent people ef Rhode Island, until one would think that the greatest, highest, fiest purpose of the souls of this whole people was the felewship of literature and human knowledge, and the support of their old and beloved Browa University. It is truly a aoble «pestacie to eee thus a whole State rejoicing im the success of a college, and cheering its graduates oa to greataess and glory. It has, too, much to do with their success; for these people confide their trusts ia their edu- ated, which it must be acknowledged is a powerful stim- ulus to the prosecution of human knowledge, Let the studemt once realize that the people confide their trusts te clowns and igno ant blusterers, and bis soul sinks ia despair, or resolves to leaye the unprofitable aad unho- nored walks of literature and science to grovel in the pall mell of rea! life around him. Brown University is now eighty-nine years old, It was liberally chartered, by the State, but mever fostered. It has atood the test of time, like Yale, and triumphed without State patronage, and, until receatly, without available endowment. It is true that many years since Mr. Nicholas Brown left a large amount of lands, valued at mearly $100,000, but these have as yet yielded very little. The Universicy has recently collected, for the of its reorganization, $131,000. This is increased by the gift ef $25,000 in 1839, for the library, and $54, by various Oonors since, making a total of active cash endowment of $190 000, independent of the lands. ‘the University is now ins more flourishing condition ‘than at any previous period. I believe that the highest number ef graduates at any time under the old system was im 1825, which was farty clght. ‘There are this year just half that number, while the college classes are ‘nearly twice as large as at any year during the past gen- eration; numbering 3 243, ij shed This Dr. We is attributable te the new system introdaced by land in 1350. which provides for the education in the scienees only, the sciences and lan- of obtaining such practical know- of peculiar sudjects as will enable them te pursue calling most efficiently. Hence, as this ia but the second year of the orgapization, and as ali t! com anew, they areemall. There are now about sixty one - senior eminent personages. Loag old far vg ibe was crowded ba excess, above, w! yusands pressed vainly outside ‘The whole city seemed one continued such as we have rarely seen even en political occasions. addres before the alumni was delivered by the Fravsha Thomas, of Worcester, one of the fff ut i | ? Out—Addresscs— Poems—Honorary Degrees—Collation—Gov. Clifford— t i PTET vizier ei t pe HP a4 se tat icated ‘Liberty’s 4 F ies ef i of interval atri “HE Eire 4 reat agencies, appears im the fitting time and Eiicdle of the nineteenth coat orrives, and th when. lo! in the west ri the cry, “Gold, gold |” y then, and there? Americans in general, and Yaukees is particular, to the mouth of the cannon, or the mouth of dollar, and free States are immediately on the Pacific. It is no lomger for the little Nor little Southerner to talk about dividing pion; t Westerners start to their fost in predominating numbers, erying “ No, you shall act divide,’ Simultaneously witia the discovery of Califor. nia, the keel of the first suscessful steamship was laid in New York, not to rum te Havre, or Liver, 5 i fz aft oSEe of E z commerce, The ‘trade-winds’’ of God are all westward. The west erd of every great city in the Old Werld or New is the growing end. “As the rude archaic sculptures of Silepus were gradually reficed into the transcomdant glo. ries of the Parthenon, #0 all the vitalities successively becoming resuscitated and onized on this Americana continent, preparatory to that— Acs To Comz—Pxkrect CiviizaTion. the 15th Tliad, we have the Fates and Furies contending fer the law of primogeniture, and Jupiter is throned above Nap- tune and Pluto by right. Even Aristides and Phidias were banishea without questioning the justice of the act. But man’s equality with man shall yet by all be receg- nized. so that each will say te his less favored brother, like the Angel to Joha—“Stand up: [ am your fellow-ser- vant; worship (i.e. bow ouly to) God!” Jubal, with chorded shell, and Tubal Cain, with smelting implementa, shell re appear to construct cities along the loftiest yerrace of the Rocky Mountains. While, om either hand. from ocean to ocean from pols to pole,aa unbroken brotherhcod of redeemed millions shall come {a unity of Christ Jesus, and a hemisphere be made teem with the highest life. Then will “Time's noblest offspring,” bave spree, indeed. as the final curtain is about to fall. In view of that, let every one aspire after the ao- blest gifts; and live the most useful life, This address was delivered at the joint request of the two Societies; and was a bright, beautiful, hopeful, powerful appreciation of the progress of the present day, leaving the old stationary, unnecessary characteristics of the ages past, and passing on to that higher, safer, more enduring glory of perfected civilization, which was the inevitable aim and end of the present age, The doctor was correct in his judicious and philosophic esti- mate of the past, and by no means wrong in his buoyant anticipations of the future. He realized a higher vital- ization in the present than inany past age, and saw all the elements of success and perfection lying within the easy grasp of the student, and requiring but energy, pur- pose, hope and fidelity to seize and mould them iatoa glorious dertiny. The doctor's address was truly, ear- nestly eloquent. His style is free, impulsive, impressive. ‘He never wearies, and as certainly never touchs: ‘‘cem- menplaces,”’ alway abounding in movelty, practicability, andimpressing with pathos and power. He certainly sustained his reputation as both an author and orater. This address was followed by a Sema po on “Fi. delity,”” by Rev. S. Dryden Phelps, of New Haven, which ‘was well conceived and admirably short. ‘At evening Rev. A D. Gillette, pastor of the Broadway baptist Church, New York, delivered theanaual discourse efere the Society of Missionary Inquiry, text—Jer. 8, 21. “For the hurt of the daughter of my peeple am I hurt.” The theme was “The moral condition of mankind consid- ed asa motive to missionary enterprise.” the home field was reviewed. ironing heme was made in behalf of our native land. Secondly, the world at large, ite claims u: the educated, free and christian. ized. The whole effort was characterized by the mental traits of its amiable author, and the lofty aims of our 3 tvilization ; .? He eudeavered to | holy religion thew thatemid ihe rapid strides of physical de “Al of the of yesterday were very largely at- we were net: {4 oa im spiritus tended. It is a fact worthy of notice, that the thres attainment; that the material progress of the day neoded | Principal speakers all descanted oa the same general sud- the spiritual to contrel it. im the material had | page ers Plogress of the age. This problem is certain- created great demand for addit moral and mental | ly claiming unusnal attention from all the active minds Power in diplomacy, international law, domestic policy, | of theage. Man is moving, and rapidly; but whither? edueation, and the daily prese. He sketched with a mas- | they Some hope; others fear; but certainly nome far hand the leading features of the age—its follies and | save Soy ag by Seana vices— denounced and satirized these vioes—and vigerous- | The cement exercises proper commenced this ly appealed to the alumni to steadfastly supportandcher- | morning by a very large procession of the alumai, the ish “Old Brown.” His address was characterized by | fraduating students, invited guests, and the faculty. deep thought, but was too despondent in its tone, andtoo | he church must have con’ near three ‘of the future. It, however, sustained the high = city was all alive, and the moved tl rh prestige of bis name, and will do much good. The undergraduates celebrated their aaniversar the Le ‘The address was delivered by the Rev. L is Berkeley's celebrated stanza ** Westward the course of empire takes its way, ‘The four first acts already past; ‘The fifth shal! close the drama with the dsy— Time’s noblest offspring is the last.” of ‘Taking west it was said the year I571, before Christ, westward course . Inthe year 1571, fore st, Moses had rte ail sacred power into himself, to be imsor:bed on tabies that will ever endure; five years after, Ceceopa; from the same Fert, bore away t! elowent of beauty which never be ox: tending im imagivation at the head of the fzean, the magoificeat panori , Homer, Hesiod and Sappho, Aischylus, Sophocles, Euri- _ aad Aristophanes, Diogenes, Plato and —— mae ee and Phidias—ia a word, the age Pericles, in whom all art, science and literature stood barmenized and complete, and all the heroes of “ the liad olf bard i nace ae were united in chilies. In every tment uty reigned supreme. 7 “AUCUSTUD—THE AGE OF MarriaL Fores. —Three iaundred ‘before the splendor of the Parthenon bleaded so TStmesiously with ton thousand kindred charms around, Before Christ, afew brigands ia the far | world, confirm its destiny, and leave their foot prints on Won, G*exeavating their first fortress, threw up a | the times. He here spoke with great effect of the powers bleedy “capnt,” and thus signalized the spet as the | of the mighty printing-press, which aroused millions in a Capitol——the ‘predestined centre of s eonquered | day with one great simultaneous and irresistible impulse. we No lovers of arts elegant letters | It ght my thoughts irresistibly to one great pres: oro . The sword was their instrument, aad | room, and the dail sue ey. thousand copies of the subjugation cf mankind their aim. Soon, | choice editions ofthe practical authors who every from the Euphrates to the Rhine, from Mount Lebanon | appeal directly to the mighty public on every issue, te the heat ‘ills of Scotland one language and one | fully settle public will before the book can be s code bors universal sway. The Pantheon is complete, | much as edited. and as imyerial foree sets up its last god the “Written and Spoken Oratory,’’ by Asa Arnold, of Pro- Gesire of all nations is how to occupy the field thus | vidence, was altcgether one of ‘the best college orations cleared for his use. Then another Hebeu appears im that | | ever beard by any gradu I cannot attempt a sketch sublime official relation which is never to cease. Asiatic | of it. Like the rest of the audience, | was eager to tatch by birth, Grecian by culture, Christian by grace, he | every word, and so reported none. He was frequently has taroWs ® sanctilying element ito commerce, and | loudly applauded. After a diserim diseussion of im that ship from Egypt bears all ennobling gems to west- | the peculiaritie: of both written and spoken oratory, he ern Europe. The age of Pericles was that ef matchless | corcluded that our country needed at times, not so muck mind ; Augustus—martial force. With s | list of but voices; not the head, but the heart, Our great men than any precoding nation could show, Rome | people were cultivated, and, engaging more than any presenta the fewest individuals. The best of her autho: ether people in stirring scenes, needed that eloquence pepe en and C.cero are sycophantic, and ar! which springs up indigenous to the occasion, and of wae degraded. The press, who had | waite not for the meretricious adornments of ‘all nations to her supremacy, ended by holding | the cloister, and the midnight lamp. And this them chained to her degradation; so that when Christ | is the oratory that has characterized us. De- was borm and Paul preached, liberty for the first time | mosthenes studied abstractly and slone; but Webster was witheut anesylum on earth seized the moving times, and painted the panorama of Lao X Tax Age or Extarcrp Ixvevtion.—Providence | republicanism with the —_ of common sense, or reveals itself in fitting representatives, and passes on. | etched it with the sharp point of the most searching ‘Taese are invincible by the ideas they represent. Christ- | logic. He here ran a most beautiful parallel betwoen the i , that eagle from the supreme throne, dropped oes two, and illustrated by the quick impassioned power a the palaces of the Cwsars, and the ravines of the | which occasions forth from the mighty heart of Alps fail of Almightiners. Ambrose, Jerome, Basil, | Henry. Mr. Armold could distioguish himself in the A Tertullian, and others ap} on literary world. Hi Goths, Sax Mr Heard said some very good things. He has one | slides from the North, important element of oratory~self confidence. Im fact fertified the amalgam they it ia superabundant, even touching seif importance. fifth contury the Western empire fell. During the eleven some of the passages in the ‘ Supernataral Charac- centuries needed te prepare barbarians for the boon in | ters of Shakspeare’’ were particularly fine; while the reserve, Bysantiam guarded the remnants of eastern per on the ‘* Commercial Spirit of the Age’ was oapital civilization, then restored the palladium, and cessed (ourg Sanderson wes peculiarly earnest, and will make A’ this point the orator presented a of the origin and uses of the four great beginning with the Benedictines, 529 through the Franciscans aad Domini- , down to the nse the beginaing cont . Inall their seeming vagaries, riled by that or law under invented logarithms and Before Aurora reaches Mem- In 1513, AD., the hour discovery i 5 a f % E i Zz & = 8 HH i in me- when Galileo trusted the compass, and The heavens li ile everywhere was ablaze. All writers, from painters. from Gietto to Michael all arehitects, from Carvack to Coli ~) os of the Lael a nfl a temple; Egypt se column; } Rome ‘used. the arch out of ie ry ES of New York, who took for his theme | ama was made vivid to our gazs: | e streets with great difficulty. There were certainly | not far short of thirty thousand people in attendance on the occasion. After the opening exercises by President Wayland, the graduating class at once procet| to their orations. | The Selutatory, by young Caswell, a chaste, brief, and happy production, was well received by the umusually large atterdance of Alumni. This young man cannot faii making his mark at some not very distant day, and doubtless in the professorial world. | ‘A most practical address was that of Mz. Maxcy, of | | Providence, on the “ Popular Patronage of Literature.” | | He contrasted the slow support and appreciation of | authors in bygove days with the buoyant popular de of all classes and conditions of society at the gi sent day. Then the author of ‘The Deserted Village’’ lan- guished unnoticed and fasting in the -‘Old Bailey.” Mul tom died unrecompensed and unhonored; and rcarcely a single sutbor received as much for the labors of « life | time as now the commonest writer obtains for a si | work. Acharacteristic of the authorship of th sent | ony in its advocacy of practical interests, Theage is full <f productive ideas; and authors, seizing their tnapirs- tion, popularize them by spreading them, as by the | wings of the wind, before the people. Everybody, he | | thonght, treasured’ with care every stray “fern leaf” that chanced to fall before him—dreamed over again and again the practical hints of d:eam-life, and took long pil- | grimages with Mrs. Stowe in search of an “Uncle ‘a Cabin,” from which the appeal came up alike to the | ears of potentstes and and the quiet dwellers | in the unostentatious lonely cottage, Authors now | write for the people—the whole people. ‘They move the an orator as certainly as he attempts it. Mr. Holly, in his treatment cf Natural Motors,” was mes very eloquent, while he manifested an unusually genius. he sentences were finished with poetic beauty. The Valedictory was quite a good thing, but tame. Colleges have a strange habit of making mere recitation the standard of excellence, and quite as strange a habit of asrigning a secondary rank to rome of their mest brilliant graduates. For instance, the addresses of Mr. Arnold, Mr. Maxcy, and Mr. Holly, were assigned a second rank ; while they were unquestionably the very best of the day. But we suppose that Mr. Thurber was right im saying in bis poem, that a mother has most af- fection for her ‘lame child.” It is quite observable that very few college ‘‘ valedictorians’’ ever rise above the commen level. The following is the programme :— of the den P ‘atronage of Literatars.”’ An Oration econd Class.—Eaton Whiting Maxcy, Jr., Provi- ns of the Tower of London,’ Lewis Everett Smith, Lin be Historical on of the Firs are, ae on ve civilization, was | most eloquently handied by the orator, Salisbury, Exe | The Anglo-Saxon Monaaterics.” An Oration of the tar, and hester, the three most western portions of | «. itt Clinton Brown, Dayton, Uhio.* fe contain the originals he aren metrical, , An Oration of the valar Gothic. But prose killed all it | % might not consecrate to “‘the highest good of the greatest | | number,” There been no originality in architecture 7. Gutenberg, earth’s fal: s¢ Civilization.’ t Claas.—Howard Malcolm Jones. Pro The Intellectual Benefits of Scientific Stu First Claes.—Honry Westoott, Warwisk.t 4 “The National Motors.” An Oration of the Second | Clase. flezander Lyman Holley, Sali + Ctt ul lisbu flicts of Popular Opinio —Jared Mann Heard, Wa: rnatural Characters of iret r Mig, © The Commorcisl Spirit of the Ag | “is, ’ An Oration of the First Class.—John Sanderson, Jr. Athens, N. Y. 4. * The Claims of a Trae Philoro, The Philosophi- Oratio iam Henry Kingsoury, Tamworth, N. W ‘T tinotion of Cfassical Pagiuism.” The Clas: sionl Oration.--Francis Marion MoAlllster, Savannah, Ga. 16, *The Power of Personal C) r. Aa Bazlish | Oration with the Valedictory Addresses.—Frank Standish Bradford, Providence. art, commerce, religion | wont but the i, vi “ . speakers are exou sed, viz —~ Givinely harmonized, will eonst sok, AB Oration of the Firat Claas. —Ilenry Hudson Ducting polucs 2 ‘ey A ¢ ‘ef = eh, 4x Oration pine First Class.—George Frederick Kil fetivng sp aystem of centralization, as if ex- 3. An ‘Oratlon of the First Class.~Charles Thomas Miller, peoting commonwealth. The sixteenth con- | N ay Pa* " 77 was preparation: and the seveateenth, | 4 Am Oration of the First Ciass,—Isano Mores Mardook at human is characterized by colonial empire. | WJMGDORGOR, Maeey ay cag —Loomard Daraop ¢ have open cholgert elem e:'s ‘riven. by perseeu Pratt, Providenos* pebaniginas to Hagant with sbuttle aud loom, press and graver. | hau Oration of the Tiss Clan ey Keay Feds Lpases pad Lnicigha sontter armadas, and the people ' Saigm, Mass. Orleans—the firet Ink in the most stupendous chain of | develcped, and superseded through sixty centuries, are | faith and knowledge, to the stature of perfect ones in | ‘The following parts were aleo assigned for Commence- | President Wayland now conferred the following honor- ary degrees ; A. Me, us Eddy, Warsaw, N. Y.; . Maas.; Rev. Andre: Cincinns’ “D, D.”—Rev, Thos. Shey class of 1813; Rev. E. G. Prof, A versity of Rechester, class 1828; Rev. Francis Ma:on, Ta- voy. Burma, * LL, D."—Hon, Geo, F E 5 Dewe Prussia ; and Hom. Henry 8. Randall, Albany, N. Y., Se- cretary of State, $4 ti ater n It seems singular that D. D. Barsard and H.S Ras- dall -hould be doctorated, while such men as Henry Bar- | | | col | thelr respective States as few other me try. Henry Barnard has done mo! the Com: of the Public Schools of Rhode Island, for the ia- | tellectual and woral elevation of State, than any exe hundred of her peliticians 4 | Some years since Bey. Dr. Sears, of Bozton, baptised a celebrated Prussian, who has since establis! forty Baptist churches in Prussia. These and ether Protes- tant chufches have beem recently persecuted, which | caused Hon. D. D. Barnard to address a powerful pro- | test to the Prussian goverument, and which is doubtless the clue to his late honor At the close of these exercires about five hundred alum- | ai. studemts and invited guests proceeded to the campus of | the College where a fine collation was spread under the | “big tent” All present vied im daspatching summary justice to these elements of life, when the President made | a hszelsome epeech, stating the fact that he had taught | kaise first class in the coliege nearly tweaty nine years be | fore, andes a matter of course, remembered that class | wi Gifford, who was one of its representatives. The Gover- | mor spcke Mappily. He had seem « letter addressed two hundred yesra ago to Williams, im which it was | proposed ‘to make Khode Island subject to Plymouth, | But old Roger peremptorily replied that it coulda’t be cone. Since that the college, which the free aad unsub- cited people of Rhode Island had reared, had asserted m to Flymouth snd well maintained it, Browm had seat her leaders ef thought, her teachers all over old | Piymouth; and at a coart some he found that | ameng ninety lawsera nineteen and the presiding ju: were graduates of Brown. He said also that the twe oal chief magistrates of Massachusetts from old Plymont! were graduates of Brown. Attorney General Burgess made a happy speseh on hear- ing “Rhode Island” given, . In the absence’ of the Lieut, Governor he was the next highest functionary. He sa\d that some ese with great Fosse of exegesis had described a State ase large corpora’ npeangnyes ite own ceatre, and he rather imagined that the service he could render to the college just now would be to rest om the centre of his corporaticn. He excited unbounded ap- use. Judge Thomas said that four Chief Justices in Massa- chusetts at the present time were graduates of Brown. Mr. McAllister responded to California. Hon, Isaac E. Holmes of South Carolina, made a Mery ef- fective speech. Among other things he said that in 1774 Mr. Quincy was sent from Boston to Charleston, to see if ali was right. Charleston gave assurances for liberty so warm, that soon after Mr. Quincy’s retura the whole thing was understood; and Charleston encouraged the first blow om Bunker Hill. The Mayor of Providence happily and quaintly res- ponded to the Cea ted Providence,” He had graduated neeuy forty years before, and hence, was ‘ ne longer a Hon. Charles Thurber, ef Worcester, who was of the class twenty-seven years since, and who “makes pistols,” recited a beautiful poem of the bygone days, which fre- apeatly brought the “tent down” with uproarious ap- use After singivg “Old Hundred.” which you know isa “national institution’ in New England, happy con- course adjourned. It has been a good commencement: yut mu very little of “Greece and Rome,’’ but much of common sense. I have fled for relief to the cooling breezes ef the Sound, and after a chat with your friends, the officers, will turn into my hospitable bunk on the Vanderbilt. THE MAJOR. The Stabbing Affray in_ the office of the (ret ae crete Fi ‘rom the Picayune, August 28. In order that our readers may fully understand the na- ture of the unfortunate affray between Mr. Hall, of the Crescen', and Mr. ‘ton, om Friday evening, we pub- lish below the affidavit sworm to by Mr. Van article appeared in the local by ir Hough pg ther part} . [on another pa hd batteriog him. ‘The affidavit’ refe jows:— for assaultio, ferred to is as fol: Thaddeus D. Van Horn sworn for the State.—On last | even! cow) about half-past 6 0’ ton = (chert called at the oftes ot newspaper, on St. Charles street, im this district, and then and there inquired for Mr. Maddox. the pro ‘ Upon being informed that he was not im, Mr. Houghton stated that he wished to see him in reference to an arti- cle that appeared in the morning paper. I told him Mr. | Hall would give him information in relation to any com- munication he might desire to have put in the paper. He then asked whe was the author of that article, or rather who was the reporter. Iinformed him that Mr. Hall He remarked that he presumed as much, and that his communication was an answer, and he further stated that the article was a d—d lie. I told him he must rot use euch lan, in the office, behind the writer’s back— that he could easily find him; and further, that if his communication contained any such language it would | not be admissible. Fllis advised nim to go up stairs and see Mr. Hall, whom I told him was up staira; Houghton | seemed reluctant to do s0, saying he did not care about | ving up stairs to see Mr. Hall; on Ellis’s suggestion, | Seer, he did go up stairs with Ellis, but Mr. Hall was not in, it seems, and they left; few minutes after seven o’clock these two gen’ returned to the office, and inquired again if either Mr. Maddox or Mr. Hall had been in; I informed them they had not, bat that one or the | otber would certainly be in at the evening; th left, and a few minutes after Mr. Hall came in, and I tol! had called to nee him and he had | him these gentlemen Houghton and Ellis came in, and both efme behind the counter, Houghton leading the way; Houghton spoke te Hall, who replied; Hall was sitting in a chair, and roseup as he spoke to Houghton; Houghton asked him if he was preps ey ofthe article which appeared im the Crescent that morning; the answer was, ‘Is your name msn- tiored im the Crescent this » Mr. Houghton *’? | he replied, “No,” Hall then stated that he was the author of every line (meaning editorials) im the Crescent that day: whereupon Hovghton then alarge stick, which he had brought with him, (a hickory. apparently } and struck at Hall with it; they were so close that the effect of the blow only knocked Hall’s hat off; Houghton had ,raised the stick with both hands; the stick was ‘used two or three times, but the close quarters of the par- ties prevented forcible blows; Hall then drew a knife, and put his arms around Houghton; at the moment the parties got together, Ellis got in bet ‘and insisted on letting them alone; observing then that Hall was cutting Houghton I urged « separation; Ellis insisted still om lettivg them alore; I strove to reach and part them; about this time they had got into a corner, and Houghton cried, *‘ He has stabbed me, take him away!” It be looted bis hold of Hall, they Houghton ran inte the street; I ame separated and after him, sup- me, saying he was not armed; Houghton then came iato the front door, opened his coat, and said he was stabbed; & crowd then gathered, and s knite was taken from Houghton. it observed that he was armed; he pointed cut Hall as the mam who had stabbed him, and requested Captain Tenbrink to arrest him, which was done, Hall having previously delivered his knife to Capt. Tenbriak; Houghton then got into acab and drove off, acd Hall went to the watch house. The above affidavit is corroborated by the testimony of Mr. Alfred W. Brewerton, who was prerent during the whole transaction. Mr. Ellis was arrested as naving aided and abetted in the affair, but was released on giv- ing seearity to appear and answer when called on. Mr, Hall was ‘also released on giving $5,000 security. At | twelve o’ciock on Saturday Mr. Houghton’s situation was considered critical in the extreme, and there were but slight hopes of his recovery. ~ Trust Funds in Boston. | [From the Boston Transcript, Sept. 7 | The city of Boston, in its corporate capacity, holds eight different trust funds, in addition to the sums which have been presented to the Free City Library. The Franklin Fund, bequeathed to the inhabitants of Boston by Dr. Franklin, for the encouragement of [sane warried mechanic, has now reached the eum of $54 230,- bs. The increase last year was $2811 83. Nearly the whole amount of this fund is deposited with the Hospital Life Inavrance Company. The Franklin School Medal Fy ey of Dr. Frank- 2 dollars, and is invested in lin, amounts to one tho & vcertifieate of City Five per Cent stock, payable in 1860, The Lawrence High Scheo! Fund iss donation from Hon. Abbott Lawrence. It amounts to twe thousand dol lars, and is invested in one certificate of City Five per Cent stock, payable in 1865. The Lawrence Latin School Fund is also a donation from Mr Lawrence. snd is invested in City Five per Cent, stock, payable in 1865. The Latin School Prize Fund iss donation from a num- ber of the citizens of Boston in 1319. It is invested in one certificate of City Five per Cent stock, payable in 1860, for $1,050. Webb's Franklin School Fund is a legacy of oue thou- sand dollars, received from Rufus Webb, Eeq., in 1828, ‘The income is applied te the pur chase of books for the use of indigent scholars in the Franklin School. It is invested in a City note at five per cent, and is payable in 1 The Smith Fund was left to the selectment of Bostmt in 1815, by Abiel Smith, Eey. It now amounts to thousand dollars; the income is ropristed towards port of the Smith school, * ¢ free instruction of au a] colored children in reading, writing and arithmetic” The {yxds consists of a City note for $1,000 at five per cont interest, seven shares of the Sattolk Benk, and thir. teen shares of the Boston and l’rovidence Railroad “The Poor Widow’s Fund’ is ® donation from Mrs. Joanna Brooker and others. The income is distributed by the members of the Board of Aldermen for the relief of ‘poor and sick people.” This fund amounts to | $2,666 66, is invested ty scrip. The Library Trast Funds amount to sixty.one thousand dollars, The Bigelow Fundis a donation of one thousand | dollars, made Hon. John P. Bigelow, in 185, It is | held in one ificate of City Six per Cent stock for one thourand dollars. The Rates Fund is a donation made by Joshaa Bates, Frq,, of London, im March, 1853. It is invested in one | certlteate of uity Six per Cont stock for fifty thousand cellars. ‘Tue Phillips Fund is @ donation made by Hon. Jona- than Phillips in April, 196. It is imvosted im one cert! Geate of City, Six per Cent stock for tem thousand dollars. Tegat Funds beld by the city amoyat to the sum see N | place of Robert Edi better wait; he did so; about ha!f-past eight e’clock | mn me and them. | caught’ Houghton hy the left arm | poring he bad gone out to draw a pistol; but Hillis stopped | place of Lon-en Nash, removed. ; John T collector, Buffale Creex, New York, in place of Wi um, removed, Abraham V.E. Hotchkiss, collector, Niagara, NewYork, im place of Lathrop Cook, removed, Clarke Kiliott surveyor, Mid#letown, Cenaccticut, ia plaee of Joseph Taylor. removed, Edward Iagreham, surveyor, Saybrook, Connecticut, in place of Giles Blague, ‘liam S. ” » Fairfield, Connecticut, im place of William removed, fdward Dashiell, surveyor, Tennoasoe,in piace of Hume F Hill, removed. Samovel F. Lawyer, collector, Norfolk, Va., im place of — Leesnapy a is os ‘hristopher C. inson, naval officer, Virgi- ain, in place of Thomas Gatewood. removed. ake seek John Hastings 61 or, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, im place of Henry Woods, removed. Jeriah Lavett, surveyor, Salem and Beverly, Massa- chusetts, im place of Allen Putzam, removed. William H Hook. surveyor, Nottingham, Maryland, in Place of John T Stamp, removed. D B Smith, surveyor, Alexandria, Virginia, in place of Charles T Stewart, removed. Elisha Atkins, surveyor. Newport, Rhode Island, in place of Joseph Padéock, removed. William Burnett, of Boston, supervising tnspector of Lt aig first district, im place of Samusl Hall, re- moved W. E. Muir, of New Orleans, supervising inspector of steamboats, fourth district, in place of l’eytem H, Skip- with, removed. Isaac Lewis, of Monroe, Michigan, supervising i of steamboats, eighth district, in place of Alfred removed. Jchn A, Campbell, of Buffalo, New York, supervising inspector of steamboats, ninth District, in’place of Wil- lem A. Bird, removi Henry N. Sands, surveyor, Uoulsville, Kentucky, in place of Robert C. \psen, removed. Samuel Porter surveyor, Beverly, Massachusetts, im place of Robert Goodisin, removed. Lewis Josselym, surveyor, Salem and Beverly, Masta- ehuretts, im place of Joseph Lovett, declined. William A. Lica, surveyor, St. Louis, Missouri, in place of Wm. W. Greene, removed. ¥ Jobn B, Norman, surveyor, New Albany, Indiana, in place of Charles B Applegate, removed. Dennis Dawley, surveyer at Norfolk, Virginia, in place of Isaac H. Parker, removed. Thomas S. Singleton, collector at Newbern, North Carolipa, in place of John D. Whitford, resigned. Roland H. Ln collector at Penobscot, Maine, im place ef Charlee J. Abbott. resigned. Gabriel Johnston, surveyor at Fredericksburg, Virgi- nia, in place of Franklin Slaughter, removed. Peter Herman, assistant appraiser at New Orleans, Louisiana, in place of John E. Bouligny, removed. Franeis it ir at New Orleans, assistant Loulsiana, in place of Alexandve Legendre, removed. Ezra Chesebro, collector at Stonington, Conneciicut, in place of Oliver York, rem Edwia Brownell, surveyor at Troy, New York, in place of John Q Kellogg, removed. Samuel J. W llis, appraiser, New Yerk, New York, in place of Mathias B ar, removed. Isaac Phillips, appraiser, New Youk, New York, in Place of George G. Campbell, removed. Walter Havens, surveyor at Greenport, New York, in place of E. E. D, Skinner, removed, Charles Shelton. surveyor at New Haven, Connecticut, in place of Ezra removed. les B H. Fessenden. collector at New Bedford, berries Place of iarigeries nee removed. , @ppraiser at Savannah, Georgia, im vias Soper Bane 2 t Sa a a p . 8 at Savannah, Geo: in place of William P. Witte, removed. ier iies G. W. Merchant, surveyor at Dymfries, Virginia, in place of Henry Love, removed. Samuel Melvin, surveyor at Accomack Court House, es ee in place of Thomas B. Bagwell, removed. 5. 6 Guinan, surveyor at Penchartrain, Louisiana, in eo of Henry Dart, removed. john S. Brown, of Baltimore, superiatending inspector of ep third district, in place of James Murray, remove William ee surveyor at Hartford, Connecticut, im place of Seth Belden, resigned. John S. Parker, collector at Cherrystone, Virginia, in nee aL s apicrvet See be New J mn A Sherrad, at Burlingten, New in Hiram ved, wa pang X, TORRO' a er at Velasco, Texas, im place 16m John B, Butler, surveyor at Smithfield, Virginia, in | place of Edwim Morrison, remeved. Juliss A. Baratte, collector at St. Mary's, Georgia, in place of John H Dilworth, Robert H. Webb. surveyor at Suffolk, Virginia, in place of Thos. J. med removed. Charles C. set, collector at Sacramento, California, in place of Henry A Schoolcraft, deceased. pre B, Thorntom, surveyor at Port Royal, Vir- SS of Philip H. Pendleten, removed. surveyor at Carter’s Creek, Virginia, in ds, rem: Phineas W. Leland, collector at Fall River, Massschu- sete, in ne of Sami. L. Thaxter, removed. James U. Campbell, collector at Genesee, New York, im place of James R. Thompsoa, removed, John Dix, surveyor at Cos deg Christi, Texas, im place of Frederick Belden, removed. Robert N. MeMillan, collector at Lecke, Louisiana, in Place of Robert Hare, removed. Thowas Lynch Hamilton, maval officer at Savannah, Georgia, in place ot Henry K. Preston, removed, James Biood, collector at Newburyport, Massachusetts, in place of Henry W Kinsman, removed. Nicholas Brown, navalofiicer at Newburyport, Massa- chusetts, in place of Thomas J. Clark, removed. Canby Penning‘ow, surveyor at Havre de Grace, Mary- land, im place of John A. W, eg dete John Gladding, Jr., surveyor at Bristol, Rhode Island, in place of Wm, H S Bailey, removed. A G. “Millard, surveyor at East Greenwich, ugaste, | Rhode Island, in place of Joha M. Spencer, removed. Sidmey B. Smith, surveyor at Pawtucket, Rhode Islan in place of John Neodaaue removed. 3 m. E. Cozzens, surveyor at North Kingston, Rhode Island, in place of AsaB. Waite, removed. ‘Wm. Shatda, surveyor at CityP oint, Virginia, in place | of Wm. 8, Simpron, Jr., removed. | _ Ephraim K. Smart, collector at Belfast, Maine, in place j of Adams Freak, resigned. Daniel D. Briggs, appraiser at New York, New York, in place of Cornelius Savage, removed. niel L. Wilcomb, surveyor at Ipswich, Massachusetts, | iu place of Wm. F, Averill, removed. Augustus Walker, of Buffalo, New York, supervising | inspector of steamboats, ninth district, im place of John | A. Campbell, removed. Charles Fe surveyor at Ponchartrain, Louisiana, in place of M. J. C, Quinan, removed, CONSULS AND ATTORNEY. Samuel C. Stambaugh, of Pennsylvania, consul for Tal- cahvano. Noble Towrer, of Connecticut, consul for Barbadoes. | Philip Barten Key, attorney of the United States for | the District of Columbia, A Wirr KILLEep ny HER HvsBanp tn Bostox.— | Iast evening at Lewis street, East Boston, » wemau | named Mary Bain was killed by her husband, ‘Peter Bain, under the following circumstances :-—Both husband and | wife were intemperate. The husband, while drunk, has been in the habit of whipping hts wife, and om the night before last. he beat her severely, leaving the marks of his brutality on various parts of her eene Yesterday, the husbend moved his furniture to the eity proper, an the wife, with her three children, took refuge im the house of the next door neighbor. Towards night the husband came home and found his wife sitting in fromt ofthe house. He was intoxicated, aad told her to go inte the back room ; but she took no notice of what he said. He then seized hold of her with « view of carrying her there, and on the way either shoved or struck her so that she fell backward, striking the back part of the head on the ficor with great violerce. She was heard to exclaim, “Don’t kill me.’’ He then her into the room, and went into the front part of the house. The people in the house paid no attemtion to the woman, buta child of the deceased, who went into the room where her mother was, returned and said she would not speak to | ber. The people then went in, and found that she was | dead, not having moved since her husband drageed her in, Her head Keo? ge fractured by the fall. The husband was arrested by the watch, but exhibited great waconcern, saying with ancath that he did not care what became of her.—Loston Traveller, Sept. 3, | Unsvccrgsrvn Arremrr To Carrure A Foaitive Stave —On Saturday last, Mazuhal Wynkoop, of Phila- delpbia, accompanied by four assistents, made a descent on the dining room of the Phoenix Hotel, Wilkerbarrre, Pa., and arrested one of the colored men employed there, by the name of Bitt, on the charge ae fagitive slave from the South. The Marshal su: in gettis the hardenfis on one of Bitt’s wrists, but before he co recure the other, Bitt freed himeelf by a sudden seized ups carving knife from the table, with it at the nearest assistant, tsed th cuff over the heads of one or two others, inte the street, Marshal Wynkoop and his men followed | him, giving three or four shota without effect Bitt plunged into the Susquehanna, but being usable to swim. waded out iy - to his neck, where he re- ined an hour, at ni of which time, it is seid, the officers disappeared, and Bitt came ore, and made tracks probably for Canada, One account says he was fired at while In the water, and so badly wounded that the officers became frightened and left him. The con- | duct of the officers is reverely censured by the citizens | of Wilkesbarre, as it is alledged, they being five in num- ber, could easily have captured the fugitive withoyt using fize arms. Se ee ATTEMPTED FRAVD AND Scicipe.—Mt. Joba Farwell was yesterday noon artested by Marshal Cham- berlain, of Charlestown, on a rge of setting fire to his dwelling-house in Princeton street, near Lexiagton, in that city. The house was not occupied by Mr. Far- well, who resides in Ware, Masy., but let out to « au lay evening the aco ed ight and went up stairs to get some clothes; hick he left the premises, Soon after his departure the room in which he had been ‘wan discovered to be on fire and two bunches of matches ‘were found on the floor part burned; and it was proved that he had just before ght the same. At the time of his arrest, he was foundin a privy near by, looking at the progress of the fire. Farwell had recently sold the bouse, but his wife had refused to sign the deed, and there was a heavy insurance on the o ecamination was couducted before Squire Warren, who held the accused to trial in $1,0C0 bail and he was then con 4 to the jail in East . About four Sotoek youtenday afternocn, one of the on entering bis coll, found him with bis throat t, ead bleeding oe, had been visited about hoz proviously, Dr. Browa dressed tho wound, wili probadly act prove fatal Goren Cirpnie, dug, 4, | ship Aberdeen, wrecked has distanced, by forty minutes, the world’s champion, the matchless Fiying Cloud. ‘The latter thip has fully a sustained her reputation as some parison between her sailing 2 > becessacily obtained from the acanty information afforded by the memoranda. We had free accoss to the log book of the Hornet, which enables us to enter more fully into the particulars of her passage. As everything relating to the time made by these oceom gems must prove interesting to our readers, we shall follow the relative;motions of the two ships, and obrerve the courses and distances takem by each, as is practicable, The Hornet cleared two days befere she sailed, and we learn that, in the books of the Merchants’ Exchange, the passage was at first entered dating back to the day of clearance. This, however, is erroneous, a4 both slips broke ground at the same time from the har- bor, and left the Highlands ther on the afternoon of the 27th of April. The best time ever made from New York to the equator was by the ying Cloud, im her last pascage to this port, when lea: jew York on the 20th reat ey) ees ber -: rom her time of sailing. On pasnage, the most part of the time, she had light she made nine knots an hour for every hour was at sep. On @ straight Mne, from of the day of departure and the day she ct line, her sail distance was 3,672 miles. Lieutenant Maury, Sailing Directory, says that the sho test rey to the line have been as follows :—The Sea Serpent, in March, eighteen days ; the Flying Fish, in November, and the’ Samuel Russell, in nag ry Prey Cho roaring! peters ae e fe Squall, in A) wenty-one ;, the Cloud, im June. twen' as “aye, Dat the trip of 1862 gives the Flying the of the seas. But sot content with her third voyage she has perfc having creased the equator on the 14th of May, erin four hundred and eight hours from New York! is addi- tion to this, we find what we believe to be the shertest time ever made to Cape Hora recorded in this peeeee, (forty-six) days, What bets were made in New York on the two ships we do not know, but understand that nobody at versed in nautical affairs would bet om the Hornet trom the prestige of her previous voyage and the unparalleled speed of her competitor. After ruaning through log. of the Hornet, we find that che left the harbor of Now York with light southerly winds, and in bg with several other California-bound ships. ‘These light winds followed her, with frequeat calms and baffling airs, until the morn! ng of May ist, when a deeper iy up from the 8. E ; the gallant ship stretched her wings to the gale And southward aye she fled. For five consecutive days we her making 288 miles per day, or 1,440 miles in all; and thenoe about 240 miles per ane down to the latitude of of 34 .N. Dart is : soeiee rome eve perryrt the iad scarcely veered 8 pc er way, an ship itary course with simoct the ity of a steamer. On the 16th May (19 days out) she crossed the equator, in lon, 32 W, and next day overhauled the clipper rhip Eclipse, sailing ten days before her and put her *‘hull down” during the vight. The day previous fanclag aides ta) aa ooesuard gente ree! averaging long sout ave from the equator to lat. 16.5 aboct 16 miles tat Her best day’s work during phe yeanes isfar below what her Jast 1 ives her. During present parsage she made but miles in SE cee (ae, wuaweas, onan. Peo vious voyage, she made But this discrepancy is owing entirely to the unlucky run of winds, which the chief officer says have never given her « fair chance dur- ion fie pears, and we presume the same remark will apply to the Flying Cloud. So far, the Cloud has dis- tanced the Hornet, having crossed the equator 48 hours before her.” Both ships coe in/nearly the same lon- and currents sp) gitude. The same pear to have acted upon the two ships, for the Clow her distance of two days ahead of the Hi even to Cape Horn, the latter arriving off Staten Land 48 hours after the former. The accounts of each agree as to the weather experienced in these inhespitable regions, and both were there in almost mid winter. The Cloud battled against strong northwest gales and was twenty five days between Cape Horn and Juam Fernandez, The Hornet vindictive namesake, stripped banged away with bare topmasts for ten days, with the wind “dead in end,” and the air dark- ened with hail and snow squalls. She stood on the sontbers: Sr to epee degrees S. Neither ship experienced any material —— ‘The unfortunate deaths of tha officer of the Cloud, Thomas G. Gibbs, and of Samuel Howe, seaman, are corded in the memoranda. So far the rivals have bee pretty well matched, though the Cloud has the advance of the Eornet asyet. June 15, and thereabouts, finds them both pounding away and endeavoring to get head- ed to the northward. Judging from the proximity of the two ships at their arrival yesterday, we must infer ‘that they have not been many miles away from each other since leaving Cape Hora, though it isa singular fact that the Hornet bas not seen a sail on the Pacific side. Following her cource to the northward, wo fied her in latitude 13 deg. S. on the Ist of July, after havin, experienced fifteen days of light variable winds frem al points of the compass. Am ominous sea, however, from the 8S. EL apa promise of the cng Meher trade winds; and next day, at daybreak. the saila begin to swell te the increasing gale, which, before mogn, is blowing bard from the 5. E, with a determination showing that at last they had struck the “ trades’ streak.’ Here we find her reo! off ten to thirteen knots per hour, making about a N. N. W. course, until she spain crosses the equator. om the 24th aot im lon. 114 deg. W., seven days after her rival, and within 160 miles of the same longitude. Hence the Cloud reports ‘continued nertherly winds’’ up to the latitude o! San Francisco. The Hornet’s log records an average of soutbeasterly winds up to the lat of 10 deg. N., and thence continued northwesterly breezes into port. Tae Hornet went as far ag 120 deg. W., and probably the eatert distance between the two ships was after cros:+ ing tbe equator, im the Pacific. Itis evidemt that the Cloud crossed the line 158 hours before the Hornet; but the latter must have done some ‘‘quick eee over- hau! her rival thence into port, But reasons for beatiag, in a clipper race, are of little account to those immedi. ately Interested. Both ships sailed together. and the Horxet passed the Heads forty minutes in sdvance of the Cloud. We should state, however, that Captain Knapp, of the Hornet, formerly commanded the unfortunate year off Fort Point: He ar- ‘ble to come im on Thursday; but f the Aberdeen, brought on by his rived im time, and wi the fat ing sor ewhat indisercet in standing in, he preferred to haul off and go in the next day, under more favorable circumstances, Had he entered as he wished, he wo have beaten the Cloud twenty six hours. fxcepting t of the Staffordshire, we believe these are the two best clipper passages made this year. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. New York, Sept. 26, 1853. ‘There has been a good deal said about the clipper ship Hornet sailing on the 26th of April. The Hornet left her er at the foot of Wall street, in tow of the steamtug ‘untress om the 25th of April. and anchored in rth of the day. April river. It was raining in the after 26th, the Hormet was in the North river. It was cloudy until abont twelve o'clock, when it cleared up. She lay off there until the 27th of April, when she was towed down the bay, and the heads she was be- tee ny be Le ls ks 4 ‘up. be Lone ln ‘apers of Angus say. But they started togeth- er, ind'the Hornet went in minutes ahead. I can eve all these facts, for I have kept s journal since the Forset cleared, on the 25th of April. You would much oblige me by putting this in your morning paper. Yours, tral oi A SUBSCRIBER, Scrxz at a Waic Comvention.—A correspon- dent st Chambersburg farnishes us with the follow- ing account of ascene that occurred there during the sitting of the Whig County Convention, on Mon- ba! last. Our correspondent writes:— ‘he whig convention met on Monday, and had quite an exciting time before they succeeded in fix- ing upon a candidate for Sheriff. On the eighth ballot they nominated John Wilson, of Montgomery township. George H—— and James J, hada knock down inside the bar of the court house, dur- ing the sitting ot the convention. J——, H— and others, were taking a glass at N——’s the day be- fore, when J remarked that Mr. Sharp was not fit for treasurer. H—— replied that Sharp was as well qualified for that office as J-—— himself was, whereupon the latter called the former a (certain kindof a) liar, and shook his fist under his nose. H-—— said that he would see him at ten the next day. About for o’clock on Monday afternoon, J~—- being a delegate to the convention, was sitting inside the bar, when H——~ waiked in, pretty well ‘‘shot,’’ and after looking about, deliberately pease up ® large spittoon, filled with slime and “old soldiers,” | and turned it upside down upon J—’s head, with such force as to break the spittoon, and fairly drown J—— is tobacco juice. The uproar fora while was tremendous. Tre SepveTion Case at Carnoniton.—-A suit brought by Mr. John Combes, of Clarke county, Ind., against Rey. George B. Waller, of the Baptist church, formerly a resident of Carrell county, but recently of Georgia, for damages for the seduction of his daughter, Nancy R. Combs, in March, 1851, was tried during the fast week in the Carroll cir- cuit court, and clicited a great deal of interest. The counsel for the plaintiff were Winslow, Masterson, Gibson, and Gov. Morehead. Counsel for defendant, Cates, Reed, Hinkle, and Fer The examina. tion of the witnesses, and ell te the evidence from the fa cg conven’ ro ee dog Thi a leadings comm . 0 ae Lagoa x Mosrs. Cates and Reed, of this Gibson, of Indiana, and Gov. Morehead. Their ame are ssid to have been unusually able and eloquent. The jury, after a ret'remont of about an hour, retarmed a verdict of Gye tuouenad deljary for Usjasti@atic Arrest and Impetiensacnt of ae American SRipper by Che Battie tics at Cape Town, - ‘ Carz Towr, i aes Says, Come oe oe et J. Gonpon Bawwerr, Esq., ; Eprroz New Yort Herary :— Knowing your wonted alacrity in defending tha rights and privileges of American citizens and theic property from foreign aggression of every kind, I take the liberty of stating a circumstance that hag occurred in this port, and at the instigation of the authorities here, which for impudence, want of cour- tesy, defiance of international law, and extent of im. jury inflicted on the innocent party, exceeds anything of the kind that I have any knowledge of, and whiols has justly incensed not only every American citizen» resident and visiting here, but the majority of the colonists ; and I trast you wil! not fail, as the cham.- pion of American rights, to give the statement I ana about to make the widest circulation, in order that our countrymen at home may be made fully aware how slight and precarions a protection the stars and stripes are to them and their property, when afloat in an English port. On the 23d inst., the bark Peytona, Capt. Jenkins, of and from New York, with passengers, and sound to Melbourne, Australia, put ia here for provisions and water. On her arrival, the captain came en shore and consigned his ship to the United States Consul, at this port, G. S. Holmes, Esq., at the sama time giving hina a list of the provisions and ths quantity of water that he should require for tha completion of his voyage. On Saturday evening, the 25th, everything was on board, and the skip ready for sea— the captain intending to sail on Mon- day—on the morning of which day two passengers, natives of France, called upon the Consul, and made several statements regarding the captain, viz.;— That he bad not given them proper food; that he was perfectly incompetent to safely fill his situation, being addicted to intemperance; and, lastly, that hey believed their lives were not safe while om board, as they had reason to suppose the captain ia- ended to lose his ship—at the same time, giving the Consul notice that should the ship be got om shore they would blow out the captain’s braias. The Consul, very properly, told them that be could not act u] bahia Gareratpr epee but ue an had aap com to make regarding the ¢a) or shi, P ebat they must do so in writing, and eae he find that the chi made were properly founded, he would most willingly see that justice was done te all parties. At the same time assuring them that 80 e ashe could judge from what he seen of Captain Jenkins, he did not credit their ary Seeaee ing his intention to lose the ship; and that the threats they had made would tend to injure thei cause rather than to benefit it. ‘They left the office, romising to retura with their complaints in writing, fat instead of doing so, they, that afternooa, Julius Henamann, clerk of the ship, and whose name is on the ship's articles, had the captain ar- rested on a writ issued by the Supreme Court of the Colony. It appears that Julius Henamane is the helder of several bills of lading of gooda on board the Peytona, and which goods are, oak) to the ‘statement in the body of the Dilla of Jading, to be landed at Melbourne, Aus- tralia. It also appears that this Julius Heaamans had requested, or rather demanded of the captain, ae jes a ee, to land Sis said neous at is and wi very proper e oaptein refued: to do; hence ‘the arrest pa pore On the arrest being made, the Consul offered to bail for the captain in his official capacity; at same time, before witnesses, protesting to the officer arresting, against the illegality of the proceedings. This Se Hes iee ee captain Sie iate prison, where he still remains, being co! among vagraits and thieves, and was not allowed im the first instance, till a petition was made to the Gover- nor, even a pen or pencil in his cell to communicate with his Consul. We will now allude to the atrocity of the act om the part of the colonial government. Here is an American ship in an English port, with a valuable and perishable cargo on board, ides one hi and sixty-eight American citizens as passengers, om the ey eve of sailing, suddenly, and without a mo- ment’s warning, deprived of its commander aad legitimate protector, and left to the mercy of the winds and waves, (no slight danger in this at this season of the year,) the owners and shippers gubjected to a heavy loss by the detention and ex- nges naturally accruing of every kind—logs of mar- kets and destruction of perishable goods—the under- writers subjected to a great additional risk the lives and interests of a hundred and Sey cuca Amecioen citizens endan; 3, @ndfor why? a servant of the ship, out of vindictive feeling, chooses to before the Recorder of the Court and swear that t! captain is indebted to him for a certain sum of money. On which oath, without requiring further evidence, a writ is issued on aly American ship mas- ter, in ae # so eee ship witha aus cargo on board, and many passengers, agai tl most earnest and strongest protests of his Consal, is arrested and compelled to occupy apartments with those accused of almost every crime in the calendar. These things should not be permitted, for who, under such circumstances is safe, or what property er interest afloat secure ; and our government should, in justice to her merchants, her citizens in general, and particularly to her Consuls, see that a prompt and proper apology is made for this outrage om American property and American feelings; and more, that liberal compensation is made to this un- fortunate commander, who has, by the most waatom act that ever a government was guilty of, been sub- jected to the groasest insult and injury that could be eaped upon him, ard done, too, almost beneatia the shadow of his own stare and stripes, that floatover, and should protect, his ship and himself from loss and insu’t. { know my countrymen too well not to sup) that they will most keenly sympathise with Capt. Jenkins in this matter; and if the authorities at Washington will only be guided in some degree by the feelings of the eprops, lam fully convinced that such steps taken respecting this affair that will tend to ensure the safety of American citizens and their proj abroad; and no true American should be content, till “‘ Iam an American citizen,’’ shall prove as per- fect a panoply to him as it ever did to the citizens ef Rome in her palmiest days. Our Consul at this port has’ been particularly ac- tive in this matter of Captain Jenkins, having ad- dressed the Governor on the subject several le and duly and solemnly protesting against this usar- pation of power on the part cf the authorities here, copies of which will be sent to our Minister at the Court of St. James. . Most sincerely trusting that these few hurried lines will hereafter prove of some little advantage to my countrymen abroad, I beg to remain, my dear sir, your very obedient servant, “ A Trove BiooneD YANeRE. Romantic.—A few days since a Mr.C.—, @ gentleman of appearance, and d of excellant address, repaired to a fashional le boardinghouse om Sixth street, not far from Race, and secured a room, In a few days he became acquainted with a young, beautiful, amd wealthy Miss, and soon became al tached to her, and proposed marriage. She saked mission to consider upon the proposition a few ours before an answer would be given. In the evening the lady gave her consent, and the evening for consummation of the nuptials was fixed. The day before the wedding was to take place, the lady, unexpectedly to Mr. C.,declined marrying him, al- though the minister had been sent for. Mr. C. went to the minister and informed himof what hadoc- curred, and told him his services would not be needed. The next day the lady retracted her refusal , and again consented that the nuptials should go on. The arrangements were perfected for the event— confectioneries and refreshments were procured quite plenteously. The minister was again notified and the license procured, anda nuaaber of ladles and gentlemen were invited t»be present. At four o'clock the lady sert for Mr. C’., whe had gone to his room to dress himself, and informed him that she wisbed a private interview with him in her room. Mr. C. was soon in her presence, when she i informed him that she could not marry him, as’ was a comparative stranger, and she thought it im- oper to act so raahly. Im vain did Mr. C. entreat Ber to consent, urging the peculiar predicament per yefusal would place him in. She continued obstinately to refuse. hour arrived, and the party had as- sembled ia the large parlors, and the supper table prepared. The be rothed couple weve notified that all was ready, and the chagrined Mr. C. apj d in the parlor and informed the company and the min- ister of what bad again occurred; that the wedding would not take place: but desired that all present would partake of what had been farnished, and enjoy themselves in the best possible way. Ia the course of the evening the voung lady appeared and united in the hilarity of the occasion; while Mr. C., dis- dingly, was seated in one corner of the room at intervals receiving the glee of all present. The next morning the lady left for Louisville, and has not been heard of since. She is of respectable parents, and a lady of excellent reputation ; bat why she should conduct herselfas she did is wholly unaccountable to her friends.—Cin. Atlas, on THe Prize Cana.--We understand that ste! 156 canal beats are in a jam near Bulphuc Springs. This occurrence is caused by the lack of water, owing to obstructions which have been 1 by ® Railroad ae » probably who are buildinga Age overit. The ta has alse been stopped at the locks ig below awaiting — Lockport Cou