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rated. When the unfortunate | of the meney market is favorable the rate of discount ete pitt overboard pong exertion was bore Todd a Bs » x. a - deve arp haar are fcur of the feamen eater eae of ropes The receat severe fronted beea rudden pap thrown to them, but the tase ve and the whole, of mile westhen anhanin, OMe ite err stv btn thirteen passengers » f9r- | going on in wheat. statement wi RE pS eaninielalainiaal away, ani three days the vessel left the Me , and who BARING, BROTHERS AND CO.'s CTROULAR. was then adopted as one of the crew, was lost. Loxpon, Dee 9, 1853—5 P. M. As the weather continued boisterous, and the crew Bo in strength, the captain deemed it pru- dent to put back to Liverpool; and after } thirty hours the vessel was accordingly Rut about, the captain, mate, steward, and helmsman, ing the on- I 8 uninjured, and only six seamen ab!e to do dub After the 30th the weather proved favorable, and the vessel arrived at the Ormeshead at 7:30 A. M. on Tuesday, port. ly conveyed to the Northern Hospital, where they still remain. The following are the names of a ee who bapocel, Mary ita; , John Fitzgerald, Ellen Fitzgerald, Mary fess icy Bridget Fitzgerald, Margaret Fitzgerald, and John Fitzgerald—all members of one family; Honora Ben- nett, Mary Madden, Mary Maloihill, Mrs. Smith, and John amit, ‘The only passenger saved was named Jobn Ryan. : juano in the Chinca Islands. Sepply otc te London Times, Des 8 | Not long ago @ very learned lecturer enlivened an elaborate urse upon national seataies by some startling speculations on the supply of co: The Dhecrvaticas delivered, were not. it is true, of that particular r which the high price of fuel hag recently suggested, but were addressed to the great subject of supply in general—of its influence on man- ufactures, on navigation, and on countless other de- artments of commerce and go rrnaieat On the hith of statistics lately collected, it was alleged, with some plausibility, that the yield of coal in the British islands was certainly terminable, and that, with such @ prospect before us, we should at leas abstain from ail: waste in the extraction aud use of this precious seme ie We doubt whether the warning pro- dueed its intended effect, but no longer ago than yesterday morning we published a statement of « precisely analagous character, relating to an articl of less direct necessity, no doubt, but nevertheless exalted by modern science to a most important place in the economics of the kingdom. enty years back guano was scarcely heard of. It now acts so influential a part in the Beeson of our daily food, that the announcement of its possible failure is serious enough to create some alarm. The deposits of this celebrated manure are con fined, as the reader is aware, to certain islands per taining to the government of Peru. it is not sup sed that these, in reality, can be the only aceamu Ritions of such material, but at present they torm al- most the only known sources from which guano of the desired quality can be obtained. Hitherto the stock has been represented as almost inexhaustible, but a more circumstantial report has now been given with very different ‘results, Admiral Moresby, the Commander-in-Chief in the Pacific, has caused an investigation to be made into the actual extent of the deposits remaining on the Chincha Islands, and the conclusion of this inquiry, as extracted from the columns of a mercantile contemporary, appeared in cur impression of yesterday. The inspection was made by Mr. M’Intosh, naval instructor, who, though observes that the proceeding resembled rather a cur- gory examiration than a deliberate survey, unhesi- tatingly asserts that his report can certainly not un- derestimate the quantity of manure still available. After making plans and sections, and allowing a eonsiderable excess upon the measurements given, Mr. M’Intosh concludes that, at the rate of one ton of guano to forty cubic feet of space, there cannot remain on the Chincha Islands more than 8,600,000 tons of guano. If we now turn to the process of consumption, we discover that the exportation, or, in other words, the abeorption of this manure, is maintained at a very startling rate. Some results were obtained by Mr. M’Intosh from two sources of evidence. A gen- tleman with the ominous name of Kossuth, but who appears in this instance to be engaged in the highly pacific employment of superintending the exports of guano, allowed Mr. M’Intosh to inspect his books ; and he farther observed that, whereas in December, 1852, the digging or excavation extenied inwards only 150 feet from the cliffs, it then (in August, 1853) reached 850 feet in a direct line to the deepest part of the cutting. On calculation, this state- ment gave a consumption of 240,000 tons in seven months, or 1,200 tons a day, a result generally ecineiding with the entries in the books of the superintendent. But the same work was going on at other points of the group of islands; and, moreover, it is not evi part of the de- it that yields the such @ quality as required for the British market. It is to be uader- stood, also, that the demand is on the increase, and that other nations are beginning to direct their in- quiries to that superior quality of the article which at first was principally in request for the English. Altogether, therefore, Admiral Moresby may not be far wrong in his opinion, that even “at the present ate of exportation, the islands would be exhausted of the guano that would freight, or be saleable in the English market, in eight or nine years.” This is certainly no encouraging prospect, and the subject might well attract some attention even amid topics of a character more immediately exciting. It is to guano that we have been lately arte to look for those means of fertilizing the earth which our present requirements demand. It is guano which is to provide the farmer with wheat and stock, and the nation with bread and meat. Its value, as the tncreased demand shows, was just * beginning to be correctly Seen and it is by mo means agreeable to hear that we must lose suc! services precisely when we can best employ them. ‘We think, however, that by way of reassurance, two or three points may be perenen for public con- sideration. We should like, in the first place, to re- Geive some further confirmation of the facts now re- Ported. No doubt the examination was conducted as efficiently as circumstances would permit; Mr. M’Intosh himeelf describes it ‘as rough and imper- fect,” and it would be desirable to obtain additional evidence in a case where the results are so opposed to those previously accepted. In the next place, it is Perfectly certain that deposits must exist in many other places, and, indeed, the exorbitant price affixed to this commodity by the monopoly of its sale, has already caused researches to be made for some more open market. As these researches must almost in- llinly be successfal, no great harm will ensue if an additional stimulus is given to the inquiry by the rospects now announced from the Chincha Islands. evertheless, new supplies themselves must be ex- haustible hkewise, and, though the production of the | commodity is doubtless incessantly going on, it is hard to believe that the covies of this Peruvian game an be numerous enough to provide for the corsu np- tion of toree thousand tons of guano a day. In fact, this rate of absorption would probably be largely increased under @ more open trade, so that after a Jepee cf years the services of this singular article would, perhaps, be really beyond our command. To this consideration we can only reply that the fame interval of time which absorbs tie sup- BY of guano will heave been but ill employed if it bas not enabled us to discover some metoed of compensating the deficiency. Agricultural science has scarcely passed its infancy even yet, and as Sree appeared to supersede farm manures, so some- ing way appear to supersede guano. We know what guavo is, and on what ingredients its fertiliziog Fit nde depend. Already on the ground, not of exhaustibility, but of its dearness, premiums have been offered tor the discovery of an efficieut subati- tute, and the idea of a Ash manure was proof of the ee sagacity with which the question had en examined. As quano was nothing but fish de- composed by its passage through the body of a sea bird, and lef to the action of sea air, an inge nious jrojector suggested that an approximation | at least, to the autural rewuit might be obtained from the fish which are found in such prodigious numbers on ¢he coasts of these islands, and often lvft absolutely te waste. In tue west of Ev gland the nee of pilchards for manure hae long been common, and they probvadiy answered to some extent the purposes of guano itself. Into these ints, however, we are not called upor to enter. It enough for us to show the bearings ¢° the general question, and we do not think that either our agri- culiurists or our consumers need take auch alarm. It will be desirab'e a8 soon e4 possible to ascertain more positively the extent of atock still remainiug in the: Peruvian islands, and to push moresigorously ‘the search for new fields of supply. A geod many ears,.wo have little doubt, will be found to pass over fore these existing resourees can be fairlyaxbaust- ed, and by that time we hope the inquiries of science may furnish the counterpart dosired. Markets, Lonpoy Mossy Maniet, Fricsy evoniog, Dec. 9.—The Englivh fonce have experienced a fursher decided rive, The cloring quetatio: of conrols yetterday wan 043; 0 95 ex-div., and a: the commencement of basiness morning they wave freely offered at 947%. Upon the ap- pearance, however, of the statement ia the Muntiur, Cor firming the roocnt announcement of the fimes tha; rotoeo! hes been signed by France, Hugi 4 Prasis, for the arrsngemeo D, upon terme that whall ma: tegtity of Tovkey, an immediate improvemeat (ook place of three quarters per cent, which wasin o great degree maintained up to the close of the market, highest price resched having been 955, while the 6 one was 15 }g—rather sellers. Bank stock left off at 2:9 to 210; reduced, 954 te 96; three-and-a-quacter per eon's, 974 to 14 and long aanuities, 6< to 3) ‘The cin snutior in the preaiure for money cumtinnes to | sere + 8 iavorsble influence on tho un‘unied securitiqs, aad the closing price this afternoon of India Bonds, wad 2e, so 64 ; end of Exchequer bills, 64 to 94, premium Foreign secorities were siesdy to-day, and few altera- tions cocurred, Ruseian five per cents showed firmnew, 1 1124; and the four and a half por coats at 95 4x and 14! In the foreiga exchanges this afecnoon, there wag no | alteration from last post, with the exception of Vienna | fa Trieste, the rates upon which pheoew were ratier | ‘wer. ‘The last quotations from the Parle Bonrws to-day indi- | tate extraordinary animation, arise im prices having o9- ourred of about 1}, per cent, From Hamburg the report . Austria, of the Kastern quam .| St. Louis by the Ohio and Mississippi ri shia | | kle, in the terr.torial in- | lonial and foreign produce markets have con- Pht through ine ee on ere je Bg instances been support ~y irmpess rs. have ten dull. Metals continue ia favor. steady. Money in great demand, without alter: tion in the bank rate of discount. The funds have im roved and consols for account leave off 9534, extra divi- Bend. Prices of bar silver and dollars are nomical; the Mexican packet has brought about $2,000,000, and a de- cline is oked for. The . Kast India Company’s pres pa rag emp igegaag ded, and on im . 1d.. the com; "8 rapes. ‘The corn trade has been dall this week, and this has been geeeaby the case im the leading provincial mar ketr, but with little ciminutien in the firmness of hold- ers; the decline 1s a 2s. per quarter in wheat, and 6d, a 1s. bbl. in four. Within a few days we have had rene’ and Belgium, ands inquiry for wheat afloat, for France many cargoes have been taken for the Continent, at prices ruling at 50s, for Egyptian, and from 58s. to 66. 6d. fcr Biack Sea, Kubanka, Xc., in- ge cluding coat freight andinsurance. Last week’s cf English was 74s. and 70,629 quarters’ and 116,791 quarters the corresponding time last year. To-day « firmer tone was evineed, with pany improv: demand, and full prices were obtained im the business done. We quote American red wheat 63a. a 708., white ‘72s. % 788. Western Canal flour 363. » 388., Baltimore and Ohio 378. a 30s, Co1roN—Our, sales have been eonfined to 1,830 bales East India; the ordioary qualities at prices rather in buy- er’s favor.’ At Liverpool asteady business has been doing in American hinds at tbe former currency; yeste:day’s quot ation for middling Orleans was 6); Tron in improved demand, and rs are 0 full of orders that they are disinclined to un‘ ertake any further important ones at current rater, say £8 10s. 9 £8 16s. for oommen bas nd £8 ba. a £3 10. for rails, free on board im Wales. Scotch pig, 781. » 79s, for common ; American brands, 82s. a 858; Swedich. £11 lis a £la; Raissian C.N,D., £17; Archangel £12 158 Leap in request. Common Pie, £23 Be. — £23 108; re fined, £25 a £26 10s.; sheet, £24 6x.; Spanish, £22 10s Talzow is quiet, leaving off with sell-rs of St. Peters- burg Y C., at 65s. Od. on the spot; 651. 6d. to end of month, and 56s for spr! Buenos Ayres, 449. a 578.; New South Wales, 60s. a 57s. ; River Plate grease, 40s. a 43, TURPENTINEK.—A parcel of rough has been sold at 14:., rr ae American spirits at 668.; British is quoted Waarrnone is quiet. Polar, £210 m £215; Southern, £185 a £199 The demand for American stocks does not improve, Quotations are rey mommies and the chief sales oonfinsd to Pennsylvania Railroad bonds, at 0s. Boston City 434’, 101m 108, Canada 6's, 112, ox div. BROWN, SHIPLEY AND CO.’S CIRCULAR. Livmeroot, Dec, 9, 1858, Since departure of the last steamer the demand for cotton bas been to @ fairextent, but without the least activity, the market closing quiet at the following quota tious Fair Orleans, 6%4.; fair Mobiles, 63<.; fair uplands, 63,4 ; middling Urleans, 6d.; do. Mobiles, 6744.; do. uplands, 574.; inferior, 3:40. a 4d.; ordinary, 4'<d. a 530d. per for the weck {s 30,080 bales—epecclators The busin taking 4,260, and exporters 2.200; aad the sales to day are called 6 000 bales, with some speculative inquiry for low priced Surats, The public sale of Sea Islands passed off heavily, 500 bales only having been sold at « decline of 2d. to 3d. per Ib. The stcck of cotten in this port is 650,000 bales, of which 302,000 are American, against 480,000 bales and 255,000 American, at this period of last year. In Manches'er cloth and yarn aie very dull, and the ae for the home and foreign markets extremely ited. A speculative inquiry has again apseared in our corn saaruet, causing an ad in wheat of 3d. to 4d. par bushel, and in flour of 1s. a 1s 6d. per bbl. Indisn corn unchanged, White wheat, 9s 10d. a10d. 4d.; red, 9s, 8d. ® 10s. per bushel. Western canal fivur, 358, a 353. 6d ; Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Obio, 86s. ‘a 30s. Gd ; sour, Sis. 6d @ 83s. 2d. per bbl. White Indian corn, 46s.; mixed, 438.; yellow, 44s. per quarter. No sales to report in turpentine or rosin. Inpportant to Importers of Foreign Merchan- [From the Baltimore american, Deo. 24 26 Collector Thomas, of this ee we learn from the Sun, has received from the Secretary of the Treasu- x a circular, (referred to in his letter to the Gity ouncil of the 5th inst., as about to be issued.) pre- ascribing certain additional rontes, under the 13th sec- tion of the act of the 28th of September, 1850, over which imported merchandise may be transported from Baltimore, as a port of entry, to Pittsburg and other points ofthe West. Hitherto merchandise of this description was sent principally by canal and other modes of conveyance; but now that we are in connection with the West by railroads, the Secreta- ty of the Treasury has issued the instructions which will be found below:— From Baltimore, as a port of importation for Pitts- leat Wheeling, Cincinnati, Louisville, and St. 8. First—To Harrisburg, vis the Baltimore and Sus- quebanna Railroad, and to Pittsburg, by the Penn- sylvania Railroad, thence by the Ohio river to Wheeling, Cincinnati, or ville, and thence to vera. Second—To Columbia via the Baltimore and Sus- quehanna Railroad; thence by the. Pennsylvania ca- nal to Harrisburg; thence by the Allegauy Portage Railroad to Jehastown; thence to Pittsburg by the Pennsylvania canal, and thence to either of those ports as before mentioned. Third—To Pittsburg by either of the routes pre- scribed; thence by the Ohio and Pennsylvania rail- road to Crestline; thence to Cincinnati by the Cleve- } land, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad, and thence | to Louisville or St. Louis by the Ohio, or Ohio and | Mississippi rivers. Fourth—To Crestline as before described; thence by the Bellefontaine and Indiana Railroad to Union; thence by the Indianapolis and Bellefontaine Railroad to Le eee thence by the Madison and India- napolis Railroad to Columbus, Ia ; thence by the Jef- ferson Railroad to Jeffersonville, and by ferry across the Ohio river t> Louisville, and thence to Rs Louis | by the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. | _ Fifth—To Wheeling via the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; thence to Pittsburg, Cincinaati or Louis- ville by the Ohio river, or to St. Louis by the Onio and Mississippi rivers, The foregoing routes are additional to those desig- bated in the circular of the 18th of Jauusry, 1851, and will aflord additional facilities to such merchants as may be desirous ot paying the duties on their im- pertations at any of the ports named. | Anti-Rentism Around, | [From the Albany Register. Dec 24] We said the other day that anti-rentism was de- funct, dead asa mackerel. We thought so at the time. All the outward signs of dissolution were hte and we had no doubt that it had kicked its jast kick. But we were mistaken. Anti-rentismn has started up again and is “ around” over in Stephen- town and the Sandlake country. It has had a gather- ing, it seems, at West Sandlake, a ‘public meeting,” whereat a great deal of bad liquor was drank, anda Pottowatamie war dance pertormed in calico short owns and buckskin leggins, trimmed around the tom with snail shells and the duclaws of the deer. One Timothy B. Wilds, E-q., presided, assisted by a vice-president, who rejoices in the name of John W. Craver. A Sandlake gentleman by the name of Burton A. Thomas had the honor of being mace secretary. This latter gentleman ‘opened the meet- ing by making some appropriate remarks in reference to the rent-paying system.’ “ Harry Betts, Esq.,” | was delivered of ‘ a short but able address.” “ Mr. | Willam Carmichael” took a “shy” at Patrooney, | and the “ paying system,” and “was followed by our warm-hearted and zealous anti-reat friend Mr. | Edward Bell from Nassau, wao gave a short aud pa- tmotic address.” The war dance and the with, the following resolution was offered ; 1. Thet the peo le refuse to sey rear This sentiment was received with wonderful en- thusiam, and was passed with a perfect unanimity, | amid a tornado of war-whoops and a great clatiering of snail shells and ducla#e, appended to the heels of | the people pre:ent. ‘This great principle being established by the meet- ing, it was further resolved 2 Toat we recommend to the seversl towns the ap poiatment of a committes «f three who shall Lava tie power to crpenize their respective towns by sesool dix fund: for the parpovs of defeccdig avy vn enced; . | aud as we are informed, to pay the expenses of a re- | Presentative in the third House at Albany during | the winter. One gentleman, it is said, offered bis | Services ‘or seven shillings and nine pence a day and | board, and a Stephentown coal pediar offered hin a free passage to and from the capital. The bargain, We understand, was concluded, provided the neces- | ae could be raised, and a bushel basket, | holding just three pecks, was presented ) the coal pedlar on account of his liberality and patriotism, | exhivited in the offer juet made by him Whereupon a committee was appointed to solicit | funds, a Sicux qnadrille was performed by the gen- | Weman in calico, and the mee‘ing adjourned. | We do not understand why our friend, Peter Fin- Was not present to “ make Patroonery howl!” with his eloquence. We are not entirely cectain that this Sandlake meeting is not a bogus affair aftac all. ol it oa eae reogtee fae would bave been around; or, at least, one would naturally au 80. “ Big Thunder,” too, was not, as we can ars, at the meeting. These are suspicions circumstances, of which we feel bound to acquaint oar readers, that cs may regulate their faith accordingly. ‘e congratulate the “old members” of that re- spectable and venerable bedy known as the Lobby, speeches being got along | | upon this unexpected acquisition to its members | from Stephentown, and the Sandlakecountry. ‘The: ae well to give him a distinguiahed piace amwny Fire at Sr. Jony, N. B.A destructive fire oo curred at St. John, N.B.,on the 21st inst. We learn from a despatch that the Manchester Honse, Frost's shoe store, and a dwelling on the north side of King street, were burned to the ground, INTERESTING FROM CENTRAL AMERICA, Our Nicaragua Correspondence. Granpa, Nioanaaua, Dec. 14, 1953. The Recent Attempted Revolution—The Costa Rica Bowndary Line—The Gold Mines—News from @uatemala—The War with Honduras—Intrigues of the British—The Annual Fair—Costa Ri:a— Steam Navigation in Central America, §c., Fe. Our rainy season is over, and the weather, which for months has been uninterruptedly disagreeable, damp and stormy, has been warm, pleasantly tropi- cal, and invariable. The usual winds prevalent at this season, have been unusually strong, and our lake has been so stormy during the past week that small vessels have feared to venture out. From Managua there is not much of interest, except that those concerned in and captured during the revolu- tionary farce of Leon, have been banished the State and have left the capital. I much fear that such banishment is but setting them free to act at a safe distance. Castellan and Guerrero, the two ablest and most talented men in Nicaragua, and who are alleged by the government to have been the arch- schemers in the plot, are supposed to be concealed in Leon, or else to have fled into Honduras. After all that haa been eaid of this revolution, it is, in my opi- nion, nothing more than a parturiwnt montes affair, and is supposed by many—and they no mean judges —to have been a ruse of the government, by which to relieve themselves of the presence of a certain set of men, who either were, or supposed to be, inimical to the administration, and whose presence here dur- ing the approaching seasion of the Constituent As sembly, would have been embarrassing. Be all this as it may, the revolutton is over. The commissioner from this State to Costa Rica, for the arrangement of the interminable boundary question, has not yet left. The great success of those who have gone to the Chontales mines—not in finding gold, for the season has been, until lately, too rainy for that, but in dis- covering unquestionable traces of rich asuriferous @eposite—has caused great excitement throughout the country ; but as I desire to make that district of country and its resources the subject of a special communication to you, I will refrain for the present, and go on to give you the news from the other States, From Guatemala my advices are toa very late date. The Baron de Behr was daily expected at the capital, as Minister Plenipotentiary from the King of the Belgians. Belgium has followed close by in our wake, raising the grade of her representative here; and Great Britain, never behind hand where her interests require it, rumor says, is soon to raise Con- sul-General Wyke to either a @harge or full Minis- ter. From private advices of the utmost reliability, I find the statement in my last, in regard to the pro- posed attack by Gen. Santos Guardiola upon Hondu- ras, fully corroborated. On the 8d of November he published from Guatemala, where he has been re- ceived with the greatest favor by Carrera, the Presi- dent of that State, a proclamation addressed to the people of Honduras, calling upon them to take up arms against President Cabanas and his friends, and recalling to their memory the fields of Nacaome and Comayagua, where he had led them victoriously, with the promise to do so again whenever they would call him to head them, Gnuardiola’s name, as I remarked in my last, is a well known and terri- ble one in Honduras. It carries with it the prestige of many a victory, and the effect of his incendiary roclamation has been talismanic in arousing the Evaanrents! against their President and nis cabinet; and, in a word, the State is threatened with extreme anarchy, if, indeed, it does not already prevail. Guardiola hae begun his attack with the forces I told you in my last he had gone to Chiquimula to raise, and thousands will swell his ranks in his pro- gress through Honduras. He has been in exile three years, and 1s @ native of Honduras. I am much afraid thas my next communication to you will bring your readers bad tidings from Honduras. Guate- mala seems little disposed to terminate the war. I have long since written you of the intermediation of Salvador and Nicaragua, as umpires in the difficulty between Honduras and Gustemala, and acquainted you with the fact that commissiuners were + meet during this month at Santa Ana, to arrange term3 between their belligerent neighbors, In wy letter of October 22, I gave you my opinio of the ultimate result of the arbitration, and it is as [ predicted. Guatemala refuses to send her oommi+ sioner te meet the others, until Honduras makes known to her the basis of her proposals for peace. In a word, it the ultimatum proposed vy Houduras is not what Guatemala would have demanded, the ‘war mus goon. More and more am I convinced of the action—tbe under current—of British influence in instigating to dissension these Central Arne ean States. Her ultimate object, I think, is, also, clearly foreshadowed. To her Honduras aud Nivara- fos are the only valuable, commercially valuab'e, tates of Central America. ‘They have ports of un- rivalled capacity on both oceans, serving for the ter- mini of future transits, whether by canal or railway. Her direct enmity (or Nicaragua is too clearly showa by her attacks upon her territory under the shallow ruse of Mosquitian majesty, and the capture of San Juan del Norte. The history of Chatfield’s diplomatic career in this country, is eloquent evidence as to her feeling towards Honduras. Costa Rica ia already said to be much under British influence; Guatemala most unquestionably is; and whatever may be Salvador's feeling, she would at best be but a feeble minority ; and it may be that even she will forget the brilliant and patriotic stand which but a fewyears since she took against British encroachment, and be blinded bee the gilded Repost of partitioned Honduras. Thus, then, Honduras dismembered, there will remain in the north but the two States of San Salvador and Gua'emala, both the creatures of Great Britain ; Costa Rica at the South, a tacit spectator of the im- molation of her sister republic, and all inimical to Nicaragua for the opposition she makes, and has al- ways made, to their common ally and her interested enemy. How long, then, Nicaragua will stand against this coalition of monarchical influence over republican American States, let the next few years, if not months, determine. This is no fancy drawn picture. The well known web of British policy has Jong been weaving over this beautiful isthmus. While we have been talking of futile canals, she has been ma- turing, in her well trained mind, prospective empire over this gateway of the nations. Saall we permit her lopg dreamed of policy to progress further to- wards developement? Battoreturn. The interests of Guatemala seem to be little prejudiced by her con- test with Honduras. Her resources are becoming greater and greater. Her President, if not beloved— and I do not know that he is not—is certainly feared, and bis incomings and outgoings are chronicled in the organs of his capital as are those of suime crown ed head of the Continent. From Honduras we learn only of the effect of the measures I have just been giving you. Guardiola’s exceeding popularity, has caused bis proclamation to be received with extraordinary enthusiasm; disaf fection has been the consequence, and President Ca bavas is, per forse of circumstances, obliged to re sort to extremes to obtain soldiers to fill bis broken files. The official journals of the otaer Stutes term him and bia friends the “ Quixotes of democracy,” and their chief fault in the eyes of the other States is the prinziple of Hveralism Honduras professes, as implied in that would-be opprobrioas epithet; in a word, they are progressive, earuest and liberal de- mocrats, (and I use tle word in its rudest sense), while their opponents are tre ubling ou the brink of a British protectorate In Salvador everything is quiet. Gen. Guzman is spoken of confidently as the next President. The fair at Chaletenango had been weil attended. Indigo rated at extraordinarily bign prices, owing to | the immense number of plants destroyed by the Tavages of the locusts during the last year. Senor | Zeledon, tie Nicaraguan Commissioner, had arrived, and was about proceeding to Santa Ana. I[ have no further advices from the great fair at San Miguel. Costa Rica still advances with rapid and p rous strides. Guatempla quotes her as a model, the other States see In het progress the inevitable result of that respect for established authority and attention to an earnest developement of her,illimitable resources. She is liberal to foreigners—indeed, en- courages their immigration; her roads are being | opened, and every measure which oan in any way tend to national advancement is eagerly taken bold | of and profited by. Fortunately for her, she is dis- tant irom the scenes of the unfortunate disturbanees of her sister States, and, steadily pursuing her own well marked course, untrammelied by monopolies, snburdened by debt, and at peace witli all the world, she is fast attaining to a bign rank among American republics. Within a very few years the exportation of oofiee from Costa Rica has increased to over nine millions of pounds. Contracts are being made with steam companies for the navigation of her coasts, and on the 25th of this month a steamer belonging | to an Amegican company is expected to arrive at Punta Areng*, the port of San Jose, the capital, being the pioneer of a line intended to connect toe Central America, Pacttic ports. | The Legation of the United States is still at Ma- | nagua. Their tardy’ action in many questions of im- | portance will, I am 0,’ opinion, give Nicaragna a Baa idea of our own se,fimposed characteristic of Ranourno. ! goaheaditivencss, Granava, Nicapaova, Dee. 15, 1853. The War Between Guatemala and Honduras— Threatened Invasion of Nicaragua—The Transit Company, $c., $e. 1 can hardly hope that this will reaeh Virgin Bay in time for the steamer for New York. I thought, however, the news I have for you would be worth the venture. Our country is too much, prospectively at least, intereeted in this to let anything pass un- noticed or unremarked upon, which may even in- directly affect us. Last night, after I had despatched my letter of yesterday, private advices reached this city to the following effect: — Guardiola was making his proposed descent upon | Honduras with a large force, and Gen. Cabanas, the | President of that State, had openly declared his de- | termination if defeated, to fall in retreat upon Nica- | ragua; Leon, the principal eity of this State, being his first point of attack. Castellon and Guerrero, with their friends, are with Cabanas, in Honduras. Gen. Carrera, the President of Guatemala, is said to | be preparing to assist Guardiola with some three thousand men. This latter I can hardly credit, how- ever, inasmuch as Carrera’s presence is too much needed in his own capital. The information in re- gard to Cabanas’ attack on Leon, is unquestionably depending solely on his defeat by the Guatemalans —and that is inevitable. There is an immense party in Honduras directly opposed to him, though they may not be in fayorof Guardiola. These will remain neutral, while the latter has the majority of the inhabitants directly and completely under his control. Castellon is univer sally popular in Honduras, while Guerrero’s abilitie are well known and recognized. Ther friends in Nicaragua, and more particularly ia Leon, like them:elves, are hostile in the extreme to the presen administration, and their only hope of overthrowing it is by joining their partie: and their sympathies | with Cabanas in his endeavor to overthrow it. Much disaffection prevails in Leon, where a publication has just been issued teeming with the most violent abuse of General Chamorro, the Supreme Director of Nica- ragua, and promising speedy and ample revenge to thoee whom he has banished the State. Of course, the consequence of all this will be a tremendous re- yolution in this State, and the probable overthrow of the government. This will no easy matter. General Chamorro is a man of unquestioned courage, and of infinitely more determination than is usually met with among his countrymen; while his Secre- of State, though an exceedingly young man for | such 8 position, fills it with ability, and with equal credit to himself and honor to his country. I know nothing of the other membera of his cabinet, but doubt not that they will be found equal to and Ga for the emergency that threatens them. I sh d watch the progress of matters with much interest’ and advise you peompoy of all that may reach me. My time is too limited now to comment upon it. In- deed, it requires no comment and goes far to corro pomie the probability of the many predictions I have made you. Mr. Lejada has arrived here, and comes empower- ed to arrange with the government all difficulties pending between it and the Accessory Transit Com- pany. Mr. Lejada’s well known ability, kaowledze of Nicaragua, her resources and her necessities, the interests of the company and the public men of the State, make him the fitest agent the company could extibly have selected; and I trust he may succeed. ‘The Transit Company, with their efficient and gen- tlemanly officers in this country, throw a new life and energy into that part of it traversed by their transit; and without them here, the isolation of our citizens, as that of all foreigners, would be as inde- scribable as insupportable. Rancaeo. Our Paita €orresponeence. Parra, Noy. 15, 1853. The Invasion of Elias—The Outrage on the Ame- rican Consul—Our Relations with Peru. By the steamer of the 28th ult., I informed you of the invasion cf this province, at the port of Tumbez, by Senor Domingo Elias, with*the view of revolu- tionizing the republic. Since his escape and the dis- persion of his party we know nothing definite of his movements, although it is confidently asserted by some that he has been all the time concealed within ix leagues of this place, and even that he has been here in disguise. Others say that he is making his way to the fonth, by the way of the iaterior provin- ces. I know not which of these assertions is the cor rect one. Several of his known friends have been arrested, and are now undergoing an examination in Tumbez, in which place is anchored the war steamer Rimac. Here we have the war steamer Amazonas, the largest in the Peruvian navy, which steamer brought down from Lima a battalion of troops, altbough, from ap»earances, there was no need of them, becacse the attempt of Seaor Elias seems to have been a complete flash ia the pan. Ovor consul is Tumbez, 8S. Oakford, Esq., sailed from bere for Lima iv the steamer of the 13tn, in order to represent to Mr. Clay the disrespect to the American flag and to himself, the authorities having nt only fired upon his house, but threatened to put him in irons and send him to Lima. There is now quite a litt.e budget of matters and things to be dis- cussed between the government of the United States and that of Peru. e shall see by the sequel how Mr. Pierce fultills the promises which he made ia his inaugural—which promises, by the way, glsddened the hearts of all of us who reside in foreign parts. I do not think that the supreme government of Peru has any particular hostility against foreigners, neither have the people in general, but once in a while we find some endorse Eee disposed to annoy us as much as may be in power. The United States should be firm in its demands for redress of all griev- ances, but should not forget that in treating with a weaker power it is always well to be magnanimous. A Cc LorFD Proressor.—Reyv. J. W. CO. Penning’ ton, D. D , of New York city, has been elected Presi- de~t avd Professor in_the Woodstock Manual Labor Ivetitute, Michigan. The friendsof learning in Mich- igan may congratulate themselves on this accession to their ranks. The Rev. gentleman is as black as ink—was a fogitive slave at the time of the passage of the fugitive slave law, although he has been tor several Mes the pastor ery respectable Congre- gational church, in Hartford, Conn. He was at that time travelling in Europe, as is the fashion with many other distinguished D. D.'s, and there received tne Doctorate in Divinity from a distinguished Ger- man university, it being no less than that ot Heidel- burg. After the enactment of the law he feared to return to his congregation until his friend, the Hoa. John Hooker, of Hartford, pu for a ma)}] sum. and thus secured a good title to the Dr. and then presented tu himself his “ reverence,” and his theology, and his literary title, and his ton- gue, aud _ the right to own his wife, and children, as | well as his bones and muscles and black skin. He | has since been moderator of a Presbotery in New York, whieh embraces such men as Dr. Skinner aud | Dr. A. D. Smith, and now is the Presidents of a col- | lege or literary institution, for the education of color. | ed people in Michigan. —Detroit Tribwne, Dec. 21. | Lineran Bsqvests.—Mrs. Hannah Bigelow, of | Bast Hartford, (widow of the late Wm. Bigelow,) | who died on the 16th instant, made the following libera! bequests :— oe} Towtirete th Windaor, to found two ased him “ranning” | Interesting from the West. OUR MISSOURI CORRESPONDENCE. Union, Franky Co., Mo., Dec. 9, 1853. Quick Trip from New York to Missowri—A Safe Rum through Erie—The Secret Springs of the Distwrbance—Robbing a Newspaper Writer— Disappointment of the Thief—An Accident— A Ride Past Lake Michigan—Train on Fire— The Pacific Railroad Out West—Operations and Speculations—Population, Production and Pre- gress. In three travelling days I have been transported from the foot ef Duane street, New York, to the wilds of Missouri; and here I am, after a ride of forty miles on the Pacific railroad,to Frankiin, west of the Mississippi, and twenty miles in a four-horse Trey-built post coach, with fifteen passengers. Some incidenta and observations in my route may be wortby of note. If you consider them so, you can give them to your readers. First I took my tickets, via Hornellaville and Baf- falo, to Cleveland, instead of the Hudson river road, and thus missed the train at Buffalo, and had to wait nine hours forthe next train. This took me through the “seat of war” at Erie in the night, and consequently we escaped the pickaxes and hand- saws of the valiant and heroic sons of Erie, the de- fenders of that important corporation and its char- tered rights. A worden passant about this matter. Madame Rumor, with her thousand tongues, saya that the capitalists of Philadelphia pat the Erians on the back, and encourage them to resist to the death the taking up of the wide track, and putting down the narrow gauge, on the ‘dis. puted territory.” And they will make large subscriptions to the Sunbury road. This appears to be the great secret of their determined resistance. Such narrow minded policy om the part of Erie and Philadelphia can only result in their final dis coufiture and pecuniary injury. As well might they attempt to turn the current of the mighty Missisipp back towards the Lake of the Woods as to diver the travel and trade between these great Western valleys and the reaboard from their natural and le gitimate channe!s. They may retard taem by heap ing vp obstructions and throwing obstacles in the way; but the immense accumulation, gathering and rushing on, will break away all such sandy barriers with the resistiess force of an avalanche, and cut a deep, broad, and permanent channel, in an “air line” direction, to the broadest bays and deepest gulfs of commerce; and the great central track should be a twelve foot gauge, with cars that can carry @ hun- dred tons. Each great mart on the Attantic sea- board will receive its due and legitimate share of the trade of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. And there is, and will be, enough for all and to spare. No nar row minded, sectional, selfish paley in the projection and Scoseweor of railroads, into and throug these broad and fertile valleys, whose agricultural and mineral resources are inexhaustible, will ever be tolerated or sustained by the people. What they watt, and what they appear determined to have, is the most direct routes to the best markets. I shall | have more to say on this subject when I eome to speak of the Pacific road. At Cleveland I had my valise stolen from the plat- form at the depot. The next day it was found in an old abandoned building, broken open and rifled of a part of its contents; but the thief, who had gener- ously left my #, linen, and other garments, was not arrested. His object was evidently money, but not finding that, he contented himself by taking such small articles as he could put in his po-kets, just to pay him for the trouble and rik (which was not great) of stealing and carrying it off. Mem.—The Police at the Cleveland depot must be more vigilant. After a detention of a ony from this episode, I left at three o’clock, P. M., in the “lightning express,” for Toledo and Chicago. At Elkhart, rich? three o'clock, A M., we met the down train, with locomo- tive and tender off the track, and were detained an hour or more, which must be made up by fast running, or we would miss the morning train, at Chicago, for St. Louis. Thus we were careering along the southern shore of bake Michigan at sunrise, at the rate of torty miles an hour. A fresh breeze from the northwest wa3 blowing over the broad waters, aad the waves were dancing in very glee and sportiveness, while tae white caps sparkled in the bright sunlight, as the bosom of the waters, thus agitated, heaved aud uu- duleted, and broke at she crest of each wave, and finally dashed and jeaped ia foam and spray on the sandy beac”. The early morning had beeu foggy, but the breath of Boreas, as be awoke from his siun- bers, hod swept it away from the face of the deep, and it had gathered into a thick heavy bank on the eastern borders of the lake, were the rising sun had pressed it down 80 closely to the surface that it re- sembled a hnge black cloud restiog on the water, and casting & deep shadow beyond its western boundary, while its upper surface, reflecting the rays of the sub, inbied a depressed mountain range covered with snow. When within some ten or fifceen miles of Chicago the alarm of fire was given, andthe train was stop- ped. The car that contained the baggage of the passengers, and the great Eastern mails, from Bos- ton of the 2d, and New York of the 3d instant, was in flames. It was immediately detached from the train, and every effort made by the brakemen and three ‘or four passengers to save what they could; but the wind was blowing fresh, and {the fiery element was riot- ing in its work of destruction.’ Three trunks and three or four mail bags were all that were saved. Hrnawzs by the thousand, fribuncs by the hun- dred, and many other papers by scores, were soon placed beyond mortal eyes to read. Much valuable time may thus have been saved to the subscribers of some of these papers, while many more may have been deprived of valuable information and intellec- tual repast by this conflagration. The balance of my wardrobe, papers, and valise, saved from the thieves at Cleveland, were burned, and at Chicago I Weot through a sartatorial operatioa, at the expense of the railroad company. I will here say a word in commendation of Captain Gray, the geatlemantly paymaster of the eompany at Chicago. He was | active and vigilant in ascertaining the losses of the passengers, aud cheerfully and promptly paid all whose claims were presented in a tangible and rea- sonable form, without quibbling or bickering. This liberal policy reflects great credit on the company. ‘The remnant of the mails were overhauled by the and documents that could be deciphered wer? put in | new envelopes and forwarded to their Tespective des- tinations. Delinquent debtors, luakewarmfriends, and tardy, wavering, or faithleas lovers, have here an admirsble excuse for their apparent (?) neglect. excuses were burned in the fire near Chicago. All railroad companies should be compelled by law to furnish fireproof ears to carry the mails and baggege. From Chicago to St. Louis (eighteon hours) “all went merry as a marriage bell.’ This Pacific Railroad question is creating a good deal of discussion and excitement in St. Louis, and throvgh the country along the route. The Pacific Compeny, of Missouri, have undertaken to build the road to the western boundary of the State, at or near the movth of the Kansas river—a distance of near four bondred miles. ‘Toe stock is all taken, and \hirty-three and one third per cent paid in. A large spprooristion of laud+ was also made by govern: nentin aidof the work, and the State loaus is cre- 000 | 000 | - 1,00) 1.0% 1,000 aay Fehool LWRry cc cece ee 600 And the residve of her es ever nature, after paying a few small legacies to relatives and friends, to the Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. — Hartford Cowrant, Dec. 24. Gigaxtic Pian or Anrestan Wetis.—A gon- tleman liviog southwest of San Antonio, with large landed interest, is now on his way to Alabama, to secure machinery and workmen for the boring of Artesian wells, The seasons between the Nue ses and Rio Grande are too precarious for the cultiva- tion of the eoil, save by irrigation. There is no finer rezing country tran the section of which I speak. The maequit is uxurious at all seasons of the year. A severe drought bears hard upon cattle, and forces the grazier to drive his herds to a great distance for water. An Artesian well in the region referred to, Iam informed, will irrigate five hundred acres of Jand, and furnish any number of animals with drink- ing subsistence. They charge in Alabama one dollar the foot. Bay it will cost two in Texas, and the de- scent five hundred feet; the disbursement of one thousand dollars enriches the grazier, and the herds. man will pay for his well by the produce of bis farm in a single year. New Ratroan in Vixatnra.—The Committee on Roads in the Virginia Legislature have reported @ bill for Cge: inns Fo ra‘lroad from Harrisonburg, the terminus of the Manassus Gap Railroad, to Sa- Jem, in Reancke county, on the Virginia and Ten nestee Railroad—Lexington and castle to be points on the line of the proposed road. Two millions of dollars, on the joint stock principle, are to be sub- scribed in shares of ($50, to enable the company to proceed with the construction of theroad. ait to the company for the same object. Forty milea of the rowd is completed and in operation, and a hundred more under contract and in rapid progress, ind the entire route will be completed at an ear- y day. This is the beginning of the great | “central,” sud most direct route to the Pacific. Une practicability of constructing a road on thi route bas been demonstrated—tirst, by Col. Fremont, and re-ently by Licuts. Bealle aud Harp. Che inde- fatigable Fremont is again on the ronte, with a picked company, equi»ped at his own expense, being determined to demonstrate the practisability of crossing the mountains on this“ central” route in the winter; and he will do it, or perish in the attempt. Missicurians, then, as well as every man in the nation, who is in favor of the best interests of the whole country, regardless of sectional interests or prejudices, feel a deep interest in this road, and ore anxieusly looking to Congress for some definite ond dec ded actién in regard to it. Col. Benton is looked upon here as the great champion and advo- cate of the road, and he is now more popular than ever he was before. The people and stockholders in the Pacific road in Missouri, are all afraid of the Pacific Railroad Compaay of New York, as they look upon it as a great land mogopoly speculation, regardless of the true interests of the country. Government should never make another aopropria- tion of Jands in aid of railroads, or any other object, without emit the maximum of prices to be affixed to such lands, and making it cbligatory on the recipients of such donations, to sell to actual settlers, and in small parcels—otherwise the lands Will fall into the hands of speculators, and a settle- ment and improvement of the country will thus be ateatly retarded. The country, from St. Louis to Jefferson City, and for some forty or fifty miles above, through which they are now yang the railroad, is rug: ged, hilly and rocky, The work is heavy and con- fequentiy progresses slowly. After striking the prair’e revion wbove the mouth of the Osage river, the balance of the road for a thousand miled oan be built at a trifliog expense, compared with the first hundred and fifty miles, The northern spars of the Ozark mountaics terminate abruptly, and form the southern shore of the Missouri river. This elevated table land is cut up into deep ravines by the streams hat have their source ig there mouvtaine ‘The ire agents of the department at Chicago, and all letters | Their drafts, their replies, their remonstrances or | Gasconade river, which enters into the Missoari fifty miles below Jefferson city, is one of the beautiful streams on the American continent The scenery Cr apy Bh course is , wild picturesque and tiful. High precipiton: cliffs of limestone, crowned with pine and cedar, with their dark green foliage, cast deep shadows ov F its channel in placés, that almost conceal it from view for many miles, where its cool, bright, ang waters will gush out into, and through, broad luxurious valleys. The channel is narrow and » and the water so pure and clear that its gravelly bed, me pg feet below iy wathee aa Fy ° sands sb sporting and gamboling erystal waves, are ‘istloctly visible to the eye of the predes- trian on its banks. Considerable quantities of pine and cedar lumber are rafted down this stream Cred high water in the spring of the yene- When the rail- read is completed to the of this river, quantitie of lumber, coal, lead, and other will seek this channel for an outlet to market. ‘This bill country is fast being settled and subdued to agriculture by Germans from the “ Rhine land,” and the cultivation of the vine, for whieh the coll and climate (38 ceg. north latitude) is ly favorable, is becoming quite an Lay ag of their agriculture. These barren likewise pro- duee good tobacco and wheat, while the valleys are well adapted to the cultivation of corn, potatoes, and other esculents. In passing alot wilderness road, almost on the borders of civilization, I noticed on maby of the sturdy forest trees, painted in large black letters, ‘Use the Mexican Mustang ua ment.” . The Explosion of the Steamboat Zachary Taylor, on the Ohio. [From the (iucinuati Commercial, Dec. 22] Since the enactment of the general steamboat law, we have had a blessed immunity fiom the heart Tending casualities that had been so trightfally fre- quent prior to July last. But early yesterday morn- ing the lower part of the city was startled by the re- port ot the explosion of the steamer Za Taylor, anod boat ruvning in connection with Forest Queen in the Cincinnati, Lawrenceburg, and Aurora (Indiana) line. From Mr. Wheeler, of Aurora, @ passen; on board at the time of the accident, we learn hat the boat was opposite Taylorspor', some nine miles be- low the city, when the accident occurred, and wagon her upward trip, with twenty-five or thirty gers, fever“i havored hogs on board, and two barges taden with hogs from the Lawrenceburg Railroad; in tow. Mr. Wheeler was asleep in his stateroom when he was awakened by # sharp report which proved to have been made by a collapsed flue. This was at thirty-five minutes past six in tae morning. When he went out forward ne found the steamer stopped all the lower part of the boat filled with smoke an steam, and before him, stretched out on the foreeas- tie, lay the corpses of three Irish deck hands who had been ingtantly killed by the explosion. Beside thee there were sever other deck haads, more or lesa injured. Twenty or thirty hogs were scalded, and nearly as many jumped overboard. No other damage was done by the explosion, save the injury to the boilers and machinery—the last was trifling. The Forest Queen, belonging to the same owners, came alongside soon after the secident, and towed the Z. Taylor to the landing. The corpses of the unfortunate deck hands and wounded men were carried back to Lawrenceburg. Ga Protzman, a proprietor of the Z. Taylor, and son of the master of the Forest Queem, states that a few minutes before the occurrence, and while the boat was well out from the shore, the engineer hailed the pilot to inform bim that he was going to stop the engines. The captain ran down to the engineer's room to ascertain the cause of the delay, and was stepping through the door of the engineer's room when the expiosion occurred. A flying piece of the boiler or a brick etruck the eaptain on his side ; this knocked him back through the door, and thus pre- served his life. A minute after and he would have been scalded by the steam and hot water from the boilers, the head and siaes of whch were blown out. The following is a list of the names of those killed aad cai aS od, chery Carens, deck hand; omas Doyle, deck hand, and one passe! mame unknown. "he wounded are named R. Sith, of Aurors, first engineer, slightly scalded; Joba Ever- hart, of Petersburg, Ky., second engineer, badly ecaldced; Henry J.hneon, colored fireman, ly valded; George Washington, colored fireman, slightly wounded; John Clancy, white deck hand, badly scalded; John Slates, deck hand, slightly; Lot Smith, passenger, trom Greenville, slightly scalded, and three or four others whose names could not be ascertained. This being the fir-t disaster of the kind since the new steamboat law went into eff-ct, we have eopied the following entries from the books of Captains eee ne Coe pinnae a8) store: — ai uly 8—Steambvat Z. Taylor le! Whis day without complying with the lee Th beat takes the place of the Forest Queen, and runs daily te Au- rore, and belougs tw the same company, one of whom | have had several conversations with, and told him what was required and ths penalties, July 9—Visited the Z. Taylor, and found her want. ing in many of the requirements of the law, viz :— stops, Wire tiller ropes, or steering apparatus, floats, lie preservers, life boats, pipe to olow steam in the hold, &c. I notified the captain torough the clerk. July 19—Hydrostatic test applied to Z. Taylor, two hundred pounds. The boat has not made ary further progres to meet the requirements of the law. Captain Protzman sent us a note that she would be ready this day, but on examination find "july 27--Certificate of inspection in full granted july 27—Certificat inspection to steamboat Zachary Taylor. Sept. 9—Fcrest Queen made affidavit for certifi- cate of inspection; but, on examination, find no water gergee ‘gauges that were on her were put upon-the Zachary Taylor. Dec. 17— Deposition taken by D. O. Morton, iu the case of the United States against steamers Wiscon- sin, Forest Queen, and Zachary Taylor. We find, however, upon personal examination thet the Zachary Taylof was not furnished and fitted in compliance with the terms of the law at the time of the explosion. At the time the Forest Queen was laid up, a number of articles and fixtures were trans- ferred to the Taylor, in order to bring the latter un- der the law. But when the Forest Queen was again put in the line, the Taylor was partially dismantled to put the former in good order. Capt. Protzman, it | is said, called upon the Inspectors about a month | since, and stated that the Zachary Taylor would henceforward be used as a freight boat only, in which case he supposed he should not be compelled to fit her up, in all respects, in accordance with the terms | of the law, which applied to boats carrying passen- gers. The following statement has been handed ns since the above was written:— The Zac Taylor eol- lapsed the starboard flue at half-past six this morn- ing, killing three immediately and scalding ten per- sons, including tbe two engineers, whose and bands are badly injured. At the time of the acci- dent the Zachary Taylor was opposite Tayloraport. The engineer hailed the pilot, informing him he wished to stop the evgine for a few minutes, and to bold the boat straight up the river. The captain was in the pilot house at the time, and went down to the engine-room, and was there when the expla sion took place. being about a foot from the plac; where the break took place. He is slightly wounds in the head from a brick blown from the fire-wall.”’ Marine Affairs. Tar Resarys or tr RAMSGIP ELUMBOLDT —We rode ovet to Portngnere Co: torday last, and found the re mains of the arlen/id steamer Humboldt lying, the quar- ter whole, sné partially under water, sod the’ sterboard f om onidabip» governed by a chain and anchor psnd- to seaward. The cut ¢r Daring, several fishing smacks, ane other craft. were enshored off the cove, nesr enoagh © wiih tte wreok and shora, and too and fro, Oaptein wt the poin? of leaving ery under the cabin Was eucdenly @ oat jo .kerg on, 10 get to » at of destruction, after twenty minutes, there ne smoke and s few hee nrg of slants reejectful distarce from the e@ S huspenee Of at lonat rixteam vac e crerh batuet tremendone pil ickly from tae vessels .nener acd the shore, boata well mannid, supplied wih tong boat hooks borried to the wreck, nod quite @ cradle ensues, wi h -ome load talking and elbowing A many parcel wee pitched into boasa and stowed the explosion t appesr, however, ty have rough de , fy ths dosires of the earnest hookers, who crowded the deck to the number of one hundred and Ofty at least Before we lect the Cove, be- tween dund 6 o’el ck P.M, proparations were being mado for another blow up; but whiea, we uncerstend, did not tate place Thix we have learced, however, that several vali able package obtained during Saturday and _— meiving. In ihe eveniog there was troable among the wrecks:n, & party of for:y having been organ- ized by the offers in ‘ahatae ot the shtp, to save the greece on'erms of slvage. Fire acme aed other weapoas wire introduced ; fortunately hovever, vo blood was shed. Ove party, iti said, who could net got bale of valuable goods toslore. which b« fund floaieg om Sunday morn: ing opeved the bale, and took as much as he carry in bia flat, leaviog tue remainder in the water, The Por- tugnese Covers hare made rumerous acquaintances since the Humbelit cate ashore—« great number of persona having visited thetn im their demiciies We trust they mutvally profite! by the intercourse which the opportune time afforded = Haivfax Som, Lee 10. 8 OM RbOe the desk Tur Liquor Question 1 Campriper, Mass.~~ Nearly eight hundred citizens of Cambri them the President, Professors and officers of the College, and of the different professional schools in Cambridge, clergymen of different denominations, and large numbers of the most respectable and influ ential men of the place—have petitioned the Ma; for an enforcement of the law against the miloesed selling of ardent spirits in Cambridge. The Mayot has replied, intimating tie readiness to proceed in the work, prey ded he can be supported by the peti: tioners and others, by their personal szample in re fraining from the use of intoxicating , and by such necessary inf rmation as will enable him to dis cover the violators of the law. He Ls ong that he sha'l make no official discrimination in fayor of particular classes, in enforcing this law, and that. he shall stop the sale of “Inxurious wines,” as well : that of cheap liqnors in meane: resort,