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The Literary World. Mr. Hxwny C. Canny has come near spoiling the tnviable reputation he enjoys as the most original and profound political economist of the present age by a pamphlet on copyright, comprising six letters ngainst the proposed treaty on the subject, addressed eo Mr. Cooper, of the Senate Whatever may be the Merits of this important question, Mr. Carey is wide of the mark in his facts, bis reasonings, and his con- plusions. He shows a melancholy picture of the po- erty of English authors, but neglects to suggest that £79 per cent on the Amerisan editions of their works would have saved Scott from Sankruptcy td the Biecay OF his extraordinary new yy; Hazlitt afd Hood from such want as resulted in deatn; and given Dick —who is enduring am, horforable old age in sbjest fegeary—an ample fertane. He quotes from the Daily Times an absurd estimate of the profits of several American authors, with the observation that Sf it is not correct, it has never, to his knowlédge, peen contradicted. He might have seen it contra- dicted and refuted in the Herap the day after its Sppearance. It may surprise Mr. Carey to learn that of our chief historians, Bancroft, Preacott, and Tick- nor, not one has received asingle dollar of profit. The writing of history demands so large an expen" diture of capital, in travel, observation, and the col” Jection of materiel, that it can be undertaken only by men of fortune. Extinent as have been the successes Of these distingdished men, neither of them has re- feived from, publishers the cost of his necessary col- Jections of printed and manuscript authorities. For he carer volumes of Bancroft’s great work he may have been paid an amount equal to the expenses inourred in their composition, but we know that Ghis is not true in respect to his latter volumes; yet Bancroft, as well as Prescott and Ticknor, would ‘pave been fairly remunerated if protected in their Joreign copyrights. All this, however, bas really very ‘Bittle to do with the matter in debate; it is none of Mr. Carey's business, nor is it the business of any- pody else, except themselves and their publishers, they have received thonsands of dollars for every cheet they have written; they have produeed certain works, which, without any condition whatever, are heir absolute property, by the highest, most perfect, most indefeasible, most unquestionable title that is known or can be known to God or man—the right of wreation; and to deny this right, in any degree or ‘manner whatever, where it is capable of assertion or vindication, is to insult the common sense. What Mr. Carey says of an increase in the price of books, with an international copyright law, is for the most part absurd, notwithstandiag the statement of com- parative prices which he derives from the sttorney of ® great publishing house in this city. It is well known that with all our boasting of cheap books, Bohn’s admirably selected and carefully printed Ubraries are sold in this conatry, despite duties and ‘Me expense of importation, for fifty per cent. Jess han it would cost to prodace them in our own print- ing houses. Books in Europe are generally even eheaper, considering the excellence of their mann- Jacture, than with us, though one of our half-dollar novels may be so printed as not to be afforded in Lon. don for leas than a guinea or aguineaanda half. But if five per cent. were added to the cost of our new books, on account of their authors, none but the most Seredeemably base of God's creatures would complain pf it. Mr. Carey’s hasty and ill-eonsidered pamphlet ‘thas been read everywhere by his frieds with extreme t. ir. Benron’s ‘Thirty Years in the Senate” is rapidly passing through the press, and will make wo very large octavo volumes, printed with small Sype in double columns. There is a prospect that Bhis work will have a larger sale than any historical Composition ever printed. Already more than fifty Bhousaad copies, at $5 per copy, have been subscrib- Bd for, and it is anticipated that in the first year after its appearance it will attain to a circulation of Not leas than one hundred thousand copies—a suc- ‘eas, for so expensive a publication, without parallel 3 all the world. Mr. Ranpatt, the retiring Secretary of State, will _Mmediately give to the press his elaborate Life of Thomas Jefferson, work which has occupied his attention for several years, and which he has written with every conceivable advantage as to materials, having had free access to public archives, and been gasisted as largely as possible by Mr. Jefferson's fami- ly. Of course the work will be @ vindication and fan eulogy of the great democrat; but it will be writ" fen with candor, taste, and eminent historical ability. Great dissatisfaction is expressed that tne works of Mr. Jefferson, now being printed under the pa- Sronage of Congress, thus far include little, if any- Shing, that has not long been familiar to the public, while {t is known that the unprinted Jefferson papers $n the State Department, purchased of the Jefferson family, comprise ample material for forty or fifty volumes. It is hardly worth while for the govern- ment to undertake the publication of new editions of books 60 common as the four volumes of Mr. Jeffer- pon’s Correspondence, as edited by Mr. Randolph. Mr. Baxcrort’s sixth volume, concluding the “History of the Ameriean Revolution,” is about half printed, and will probably be in the market by the beginning of February. The author will doubtless proceed immediately with the additional three vo- James, to close with Mr. Madison's administration sand the second war with Great Britain. The Rev. Dr. Courox, having completed the sup- plement to his “Life of Henry Clay,” bringing that voluminous and carefal work down to the close of the ®areer of its illostrious subject, is about to proceed to Ashland, to select and arrange for publication Mr. veteran and industrious suthor has entitled himself to the gratitude of scholars throughout the world, by placing in a desirable form these important re- searches and speculations, which are fruits of a long life’s devotion to the study of Indian character, yanguages, traditions and history. Whon the red race shall be extinct this great work of his will re- main their most imperishable monument, and the principal! énd most reliable source of information re- specting them. Mrs. cael BescuEr Stowe is busy with the proof sheets of yp ‘Journal in Europe.” A free- soil and progress-in-generai magazine was to have been commenced by her publishers on the beginning | of the new year; but there was a flare-up of some wort, We believe, and the scheme has been abandon- ed. It is doubtful whether a partisan magazine of the description proposed could be suecessful, not- withstanding the fact that 400,000 copies of “ Uncle Tom” have been sold in this country. W. H.C. Hosur, whose lyrics and poems, sug- gested by Indian traditions, &c., have been eminently popular, particularly in central and western New York, bas in prees an edition of his ‘Poetical Works,” in two ample octavo volumes, nearly 2,000 copies of which are subscribed for in advance. Mr. Hosmer has peculiar and striking merits as s poet, and this collection of his writings will be a weloome offering to his friends and admirers. James T. Freips has given to the public an ex- quisitely printed edition of his poems. Nothing from the American press is in all respects more daintily executed. Mr. Fields, like Halleck, has written very little; but all his pieces are remarkable forthe harmony of their versification, for delicacy of feeling, refined sentiment, and an indefectable taste. Of other new volumes of postry, the most noticea- ble are “ Passion Flowers,” understood to be by a daughter of one of the most celebrated American bankers of the last generation, now the wife ofa world-renowned philanthropist, and “Poems and Parodies,” by Phebe Carey. The“ Passion Flow- ers’’ are in the vein of Tennyaon, and have many un- ostentatious but extraordinary merits, with occasion- al intimations of a philosophy something too “ liber- al” and “ progressive” to suit old-fashioned thinkers. Phebe Carey’s ‘ Parodies” are as good as anythiag of their kind ever done, and her more serious poems are nearly all deserving of praise. A new volume of “‘ Poems, Sacrad, Passionate, and Legendary,” by Mary E. Hewitt, is on the eve of publication. Mrs. Hewitt has written the best love songs produced in this country—full of imagination aad tenderness, expressed in noble and most musical numbers. - The second series of “‘ Clovernook, or Recollections of our Neighhorhood in the West,” by Alice Carey, is filled with displays of womanly genius. Five rival editions attested the popularity of the first series in England, and the sale “of nearly 20,000 copies at home ,evinced the author's control of the common sympathies and the strong hold she has acquired of the general admiration and affection. This second series is the most delightful American book of the season, and it will have as large a sale as its prede- cessor, The idea that the Roman Catholic Church is hos- tile to the eirculation of the Holy Scriptures is in some sort refated by Dunigan’s splendid edition of the Bible, publishing in quarto numbers, with the imprimatur of Archbishop Hughes. This is the finest edition of the Roman Catholic English version of the Bible ever printed. Bohn, the great English publisher—whose books have the correctness of the Aldine editions, every advantage of intelligent and learned annotation, and tL> most convenient form—is to commence with the new yeara “Historical Library,”,to comprise the beat Engiish historians—Hume, Gibbon, Robertson, &.— with the best histories from other languages. No popular libraries have ever been selected so judi- ciously as those of Bohn, and their unparalleled cheapness insures for them a circulation wherever the English tongue is understood. The most important historical publication in Ame rice during the last year is the “History of the Apos tolic Church,” by Professor Scuar, of Merceraburg, Pa. It is a elosely printed octavo of about seven hundred pages, and for learning, judgment, temper and style, is ranked by the Edinburg Review, by the Chevalier Bunsen, and by our own most distin- guished scholars, with the most celebrated produc- tions of this age. Mr. Henry James, of this city, will in a few days meet one of the leading ideas of Dr. Schaf in « small volume, under the title of ‘The Church not an Ec- clesiasticism.” T. B. Tuorrr, author of “ The Big Bar of Arkan- fas”—the most admirable exhibition ever made in print of Southwestern humor and extravagance—has in press “ Scenes and Characters down the Miasissip- pi.”” Guret, the Irish orator, contributed, several years ago, to Campbell's New Monthly Magazine, a series of “ Sketches of the Irish Bar,” which Dr. Shelton Mackenzie, who has for some time resided in this city, will republish in a few days, with numerous ad- ditions. The work will be one of the most enter- taining in the whole range of anecdotal biography. Wiii1am Gitmors Simms is the most prolific of American novelists. He has written, under various names, nearly as many novels and romances as Mr. James, and he keeps pace with that indastrious gen- tleman in every year’s production. A new and very handsome edition of all his works has just been com- menced, and will be completed im forty or fifty volumes, of which the series of Revolutionary tales, “The Partisan,” ‘“‘ The Yemasee,” &c., will make {Clay's extensive and most interesting correspondence, @uring fhalf @ century, with the leading political characters in this country in that long period. Mr. (Clay and some of his correspondents were capital otter writers, and Dr. Colton’s publication will probably be the most curious revelation of the char- acter and history of parties that has ever appeared— wot excepting Mr. Mackenzie's Documentary Exhi- bition of B. F. Butler, and Martin Van Boren—bat bappily for the reputation of Mr. Clay and his friends, it will probably present a very different phase—social, moral and political. Wasuinoton Invinc, who bas returned to his feat on the Hudson, in excellent health, after spend- ing the summer and autumn with his friend John B®. Kennedy, in Virginia, is preparing for immediate Publication the conclading volumes ‘(the 16th and ith) of the revised and uniform edition of his ‘works. They will eontain the last series of the Geoffrey Crayon papers, contributed some years ago Bo the “Knickerbocker,” and numerous sketches, Resays, reviews, &c., written at various periods since jhe commenced authorship, bot never hitherto ac- kknowledged or embodied in any collection of his works. The veteran author—sdmired, beloved and reverenced wherever the English language is read— Js now in his scventy eighth year. Fanny Fenn’s “New Volame for Children” is said Sin the advertisements of the publishers to have peonfestonishingly successful. . Mr. H. T. Tvoxenman has lately published in ‘Londen two characteristic volumes, entitled “Leaves from the Diary of a Dreamer,” and ‘‘ Mental Por- fraity ;” and his agreeable and suggestive ‘‘ Month Ja Eogiand” is speedily to be reprinted in London, Mr. Dackerman is a quiet, thoughtful, and discrimi. nating eseayist; and it will please his many ad- zaivers to learn that he has in preparation a com- plete and uniform edition of his several works, to appear in some half dozen volumes, similar to those of the later editions of Irving and Cooper. A son of the late Richard Henry Wilde has in pre- “paraticn the “Life, Letters, and Literary Remains” wf That accomplished gentleman and elegant Poboiar. Mr. Wilde is known to have left nearly ‘cots pleted a critical memoir of Dante—similer in who: scter, we presume, to his admirable work on ‘Taser; and, besides his graceful and original poems, @ collection of Italian songs, which he had ferensiated while residing in Tuscany. Mr. Bctoo.cnart has nearly ready the fourth {volume of his magnificent work on “ The Red Race yn America;” and it will be published, like ita prede- ecssorm, under the patronage of Congress, This five. His “Poems,” in two volumes, will be out next week. Mr. Macaviey's speeches in Parliament and else- where were first collected in two volumes in this city last year, and have had a large sale. The threatened republicationof this American edition by Vizitelly, of London, induced Mr. Macauley to bring out a se- lection of his speeches, in one volume, embracing about half the contents of the New York copies. Professor Maurice, recently expelled from King’s College, London, for heretical notions respecting the word “eternal,” has brought out a new and enlarged edition of his ‘‘ Theological Essays’’—one of the most brilliant religious books of the present day. It will be reprinted here immediately. The Rev. Dr. Kirr, Bishop of California, finished, jnst before leaving for his diocess, a very Interesting work on the ‘‘ Catacombs of Rome,” which will bs published here in February. The edition of Shakspeare, embracing the Collier manuscript corrections, has been one of the most successful of the larger publications of the last year. The North Americqn Review has gone into the hands of Crosby & Nichols, of Boston, who have cashiered Professor Bowen, who had nearly run the work into the ground, and engaged Dr. Peabody to be ite editor. The Southern Quarterly Review has also changed proprietors, but it will still be edited by Dr. Simms. Dr. Huntington, author of “Alice,’: “The Forest,” &c., has gone to Baltimore to edit the Roman @atholic magazine, published there; and a new review— The Episcopal Quarterly—is to appear in this sity in a few days. During the last year several distinguizhed scholars and men of letters have died in this country. Among them we have space to refer only to Professor Green- leaf, the greatest American writer on law, after Marshall and Kent; Dr. Andrews Norton, for a quarter of a century the ablest author in the Unita- rian Church; Mr. Jadd, the author of “ Margaret,” Later from New Mexico. ROW AT SANTA FE—TWO MEN SHOT, AND THE MURDERER EXECUTED BY LYNCH LAW—MURDEE OF AN INDIAN (CHIEF BY A MEXIOAN—TRADE WITH CHTHUABUA—S8MALLPOX AMONG THE INDIANS, We bave received the Santa Fe Gazetieto the 26th Nov., from which we extract the following articles of new! . W. W. H. Davis, of Pennsylvania, U. 8. Dis- Attorney for the Territory, had arrived at Santa e. The commission of Ckurles Blumazr, Bsq., wno Sas eens, Marshal of New Mexico, had been re- General Garland had spent some d>vsat Santa Fe, while 9 iis way to visit ie Geveral seems to be mab 4 quainted with the difierens benefit a | being made. Fort 5 rapt hepa ecngey broken up, and one o} companies or dered t0 Cantonment B » and the other to jue. We trust these arrangements not be given up. Nothing will give us the eame se- EG on the Mascalero tribes, inhabiting -the White Meuntain region, that now seem likely to give some trouble, as the establishment of a beni post on the Pecos, or near the Seven Rivers. It will also secure the speedy settlement of one the fairest dis- tricts of country in our territory. A difficulty occurred at Santa Fe on the 12th Nov., ie is thus described by a correspondent of the zette:— Several of the citizens of unquestionable respectability were div themselves at a game of monte in a back room, when the harmony ef the amusement was disturbed the entrance of a stranger, somewhat intoxicated, with & comparion who sesmed to be more sober. Taubsrquently ascertained the name of the former to be Stephenron and the latter Scallion. Stephensom com- menced betting on the game, and, from a casual remark, hearing the name of one of the dealers mentioned as Stephens. exclaimed that he could whip any man of that name in Sante Ee. This obtained a om Say eee bank would as soon be bet on that as uponanything else, rather, however, jocularly than in anger. Here the affair seemed to end; but wer shortly after, Stephenson again sought @ eollisien, on which he seemed lately bent, by bully ‘and annoying the party, who, anxious for his removal, appealed to friecd Seallion to take him away, This appeared to exssperate Step! still more, reeulted in one of the citizens of Sauta Fe remarking, that if he came from Texas, as he kept ‘requently repeating, he would find that at Sante Fe tl were men to whom po pame or country could communicate terror. Words rapidly ensued oocsuioning an immediate demonstration of s contact; this, however, was arbres tae man Scal lion, who had ‘ap observer only of all that had pass- ed, drawing a heavy Colt’s revolver, and firing upon the persons present, loudly vociferating his design of c the room, which, as they were all unarmed, he might perbaps have accomp'ishtd by force of slaughter, had he not been arrested in his murderous intentions. Bcallion fired three ehots, the first one struck his own companion, Saf ips in the hand, and the second one struck the Hon. Hugh N. Smith in the chest, near the sternum, on the right side, and was afterwards cut out from the back part of the shoulder. The wound was regarded as mortal by all present, e as it was sup} d, from the direction seem: ed to have taken, to have passed ly through the lungs. Under the excitement occasioned by this belief, beth Scallion and Stephenson were imme- diately arrested by the citizens present. Stephenson was sent to jail, but Scallion was not 80 fortunate. A court was at once organized by ap- pointing a citizen to act as niet Whore eae a jury of twelve men to be empanelled, and the prisoner was put upon his trial for murder, and after a patient hearing of the case he was found guilty, and imme- diately hung. We are op to this summary mode of adminis- tering justice, lynch law as it ie called, however much the circumstances may seem to justify it. In the present case the excitement was very great, one of our most res citizens had been shot down in the presence of his friends, by a desperado, with- out the least provocation; and even r the deed ‘was done the offender seemed to feel no compunction for the crime he had committed. When asked how he could thus, without cause, murder a valuable citizen, his answer was, ‘I don’t care ad—n, if you don’t like what I have done, map ourselyes.’’ It was also ia proof that both him is friend Stevenson were in several drinking houses during the evening, and seemed determined to have arow, no matter with whom. They declared them- selves true sons of Texas, and that they could clear thetown. Atthe barin the Exchange they drew their pistols on the barkeeper because to advance them a loan of ten dollars on one of their pistols, vociferatiog again that they were from Texas and could take the town. This conduct had ita ef- fect in producing the final and unfortunate result which closed the business of the evening. Another reason that had its effect in producing the closing scene in this sad affair is the fact that many murders have been committedjin this Territory within ube Jast two or three years, some of them of the most upprovoked character, and the guilty parties have gens escaped withont paniatonents some from the insufficiency of the jails, and others from being acquitted by jurors when the proof was most positive against them, and others from being permitted to e-cape without even an arrest. The Gazette Bld the following acconnt of the murder of the Muscalero chief, Cuentas Azales :— Informationtreached Governor Merriwether a short time since, through Major Bachus, in command at Fort Fillmore, of the unprovoked and inhuaan mar, der of the celebrated Mascalero chief, Cuentas Azules, under the following circumstances :— It seems that after the murder of the ten Cali- forrnia emigrants by the Mascalero nation, they were informed by Major hus that the murderers must be surrendered, or the whole tribe would be held ac- countable for the offence. Cuentas » with some fifseen others, came into the fort to see Major Bachus, and to inform bii that they were not of the party that committed the murder, and to renew their assurances of friendly intentions. After hearing the statement of the chief, Major Bachus the party to be fed and kindly treated. While in the fort the chief traded with a soldier for a horse, that the soldier had previously bought of a Mexican, who resides in the Messilla. “After the Indians were dis- missed by ae Bachos, they left the fort on their return home, by the way of Dona Ana, where they met the Mexican who had previously owned the horse, and who claimed him of the chief as his propert . The Indian very properly refused to give up the horse; but in negotiating about the matter he suffered himself to be decoyed away from his by the Mexican, and was assailed with a club and left fer dead, the Mexican making his escape with the horse. ‘The right to the horse was afterwards investigated by Judge Campbell, the Prefect for Dona Ana county, and 0) to be returned to the Indian, the Mexican having, as was proven before the court, dis] of it to the soldier. e inake the following extract from Major B.’s letter to Gov. Meriwether: I went up to Dona Ans, and inquired inte the cir- cumstances and cause of the foul deed. ‘Tne motive seems to have been plunder, (bis horse,) and the man who commitied the deed was s Mexican from Messille. This place, I am informed, {a filled with refa- gees from justice, where they are beyond the reach of our Jaws, and uncer the protection of an aleade, who, Judge Campbell informs me, has invariably refused to surrender @ crimine) to the authorities of Dopa Ana county. Cuentas Azules was not dead at 2)’. M. yes'erday, bat be probably expired soom after, as his brains were lite- ral'y beaten ont. His people, excepting his mother, wife and child, fled to the mountains, threatening vengeance ome all Mexicans, ano especially agaiast those of jerrilla. This foul act has probably rendered this friendly band of Apaches the most hosiiie of any on this frontier, and Thave much reason to fear that our highways will again be infested by murdering parties, and the busines of the country interrupted I shall write a nore to Mr Smith, gent at Fort Webster, to advise him of the facts, and sha] ure all the means at my disposal to prevent any ill conreg xences from this srose outrage upon the [ndians. z ess case presents aed pe ved the neces ity of a speedy settlement indary ques tion. This Mexican has been guilty of a crime, the il oor iane of which it is impossible to foretell; and yet there is no way to secure his punishment; and 80 it will be as long as this question remains un- adjusted between the two governments. rom the following letter, says the Gazette, which we received from E] Paso by the last mail, it will be seen that our trade with Chihuahua is likely to be 0 broken up. Frawxun Texan, } after ‘ed efforts ppostte El Paso, Nov 4, 1863. repea ‘to introduce oor stock of into Mexico, we find it utterly impossible to do 80, owing to the high duties exacted by the government, and the upsettled state of things in that ber earl geoerally. We received day letters and papers from Chihua- hue fally advising us of the state of things in that eity, and that imperat orders had been issued from the fed- eral government to confircate indiscriminately all goods introduced into the republic, unless full duties had been paid on the introduction, which would amount to 80or 90 per cent on New York cont. Ps ie the new tariff, and See in to be adhered to un- circumstances, consequently a arrangement cas be made without sustaining & fearful loss. Cc mmerece is represented as pertectly fist, and remarkably scarce. tiow do you thima we could do with a stock of Bfty or sixty thousaed dollars in Senta Fe, for we really fear we will be years before we can realize or wind up our ex; edition The pews from Chihuahua, refered to abeve, is the lat- ent received here everything introduced from Mexico, m to a bag of corn or frijoles, articles upon which it coger roar sant duties as upon a fa- nega of pinofis, which we understand. a of nine doliars when taken into El Paso. ses By a letter received from a gentleman in Zuni, dated November 6th, we learn that the smallpox is to a fearful extent in that village. A number had , and our informant thinks the epidemic ‘Was on z the inciease. ' The Indiane.gre _ utterly ignorant of the nature of the disease, or its treaumént, that our correspond- ent thinks unless they get some medical relief the whole tribe may be decimated. The disease was also jui villages ten ec ants tt tet n javajos, pet cen with Zuni and Mogui leaves it on vaccinated. From Texas. The Houston Telegraph, of the 16th inst., says that let- ters have been received from Gen. Orville Clarke, convey- ing the pleasing intelligence that he had made arrange- ments with several heavy capitalists to prosure the ne- funds to prosecute the work on the Galveston NR I tonio ‘exam 8 for heavy crops of cotton had oleer’ ox the fatteringe imparting fine that region. They have alse Virginia, was found dead ia the prairie on the 9th inst,, about six miles above Gonzales. He was supposed to have been intoxicated, and cied from the mingied effects of intemperance and exposure. The Galveston Wews says that the steam sawmill of Mesers, Clarke and K:lgore, about six miles above the mouth of the Trinity, blew up the other day. Fortunate- ly, however, no lives were lost, and very little da: done The accident will soon be repaired, and the t fi ration again. Prom yal who arrived in Galveston by the From some stesmer Feahio, the Newt earns that an express arrived from Mexico at Matamoras on the 11th inst., b in- tel gence that Santa Anna had had himself declared Dis- tator. On the receipt of this information Gem. Woll, who ie in command at Matamoras, immediately called his offi- cera together, who all signed fall scquiescense in this measure, and ap acknowledgment of the new Dictator- ship; after which a geveral vejceiog aurea. An order has been issued ym Mexico requiring just Gouble the amount of previous duties on all stock export- e4 from Mexico, such as cattle, horses, mares, mules and sheep, thus making the government duty twenty, instead of ten per cent, and this, together with the State tax and othe charges, amounts to about thirty per cent. Secre- tary Guthrie has also put » new constraction on the law of the United Staces requiring an impost duty of twenty od oenten all such stock. The result, therefore, will be at all such stock brought from Mexico will be subject toa duty by both governments of about fifty per cent. The Austin State Times of the 10th inst. has the follow- ing Indian news:— “The Lipans and Toncahuss ars orgavizizg an expedl- tion sgainst the Camarches. The anches recently mace s foray upon the former, and. carried off near two hundred horses! The Lipans and Toncahuas are deter- mined to avenge the injury by retaliation. They and the Camanches bave been enemies for years. Tae Lipavs once claimed the greater portion of the territory now occupiec as a hunting ground by the Camanches. The Toncahuas have receded from vicinity of the coast They are greatly embittered against the Camanches. Some troubie may originate from the late depredation Major Neighbors will take timely and judicious steps to arrest the movements; Major Hiward being on leave, he has taker temporary charge of these tribes.” The eame paper has the following notice of Indian de- predations in Mexico-— “A gentleman who has been travelling some time in Mexico represents the cor dition of the Mexican Btates ot Zacatecas and Durargo as deplorable indeod. Mauy dis- tricts are entirely Cepopulated and in possession of the Indien They havo fastnesses in the mountains, to which they retreat when pursued by the Mexican troops. By dexterous management they get the troops en- taped in the pass of s mountain, and cut them to pirces—a no very hard matter to accomplish, A ma- tive of the ‘msgaanimous nation’ will as naturally take to his trotvers upon the firat glimpse of aa la- dian, or the ‘first sound of the war whoop, as he would perform any other act. Fear of Indians is in- stinctive. A Mexican can’t help it—it is a part of his education. Pag ay ion eorly Seon hte ‘nless the gevernment of joo em: n soldiery to operate Keainet the eavagen, there’ iLike tok narrated ovis will stop. Mexicans theroselves have joined the Indians. Robbers, resegades, and scoundrels find a safe refage among them. With these for guides and counsellors the Camanches and Apsches have every advantage over the unwarlike rancheros.’”” The Governor of one of the Mexican States offered s reward of $3,000 or # villain who had led a band of In dians into the heart of the country. A Mexican followed Bonet , Representatives of the Unit in cracy in Philadelphae’ Your memorialistas, citizens of the republic A mam meeting of national democrats United States of America, most reepectialy ed the Chinese Museum, Philadelphia, on oo mae ‘ leave to represent betore your honorable body, ‘There was a large attendance, notwit certain physical and mental phenomens, of quéstion- | inclemency of the weather. ‘The hog al le origin and mysterious i port, have of late oc- | posed of who desire a new man for Govereoe, curred in this country, and in almost all “Ea- | who are opposed to the interference of e federal Sa ite, aes te sain aze now 20 pro » C8peci. in the local of a State, lag Ganapati cee Sp | ge Me feaens sents a D engross a large share 1 pub- D “ Pi ie cua: ia Pena nea ete | Coton ati, eee which the ts desire to solicit the attention pour Band was in attendance, and dis been. our honorable body may be inferred froi analysis of its benossoal aspecta, which are imperfectly comprehended in the following brief gen- bim to Sam .Carlos, on the Rio Grande, made him drunk, cerried him back and received the reward. Tne wretch ‘wan executed, The Indianole Bulletin of the 16th, ssys that the stable of Mr. James L Allen, stage proprietor, was burned om the previous Wedsesday night, togetber with seven good American horses. The atage only lost one trip, bowever. The Bulletin also haa the fo! yh on the abject of the Colorado ee ee ve learn tbat utenant Stevens is progressing very successtully ip the work at the raft, Ean not, however, ‘a we had supposed, removing the raft, but is laboring to make a channel around it, by connecting certaia lakes together and with the river, om the route through which the steamer Kate Ward got out of the rivrr several years ago. There are three large ard,deep lakes, which, wh so united, will not only form a chennel but make a copriderable “cut off.” There are twenty-five hands at work and everything goes on well. Latest from Bermuda, By the arrival of the British screw ship Curlew, Captain Sampson, we have received files of the Bermudian, dated to the 21st of Decemper. The pews is not of much importance. The brig James sailed on Monday, 19th instant, for Cork, Ireland, having received on board one hundred convicts from the hulksat the dock yard, whose term of transportation had expired. An ad- ditional number of these people are in readiness for a return passage to Great Britain. ‘The vacancy in the command of the Artil- stationed at the ialands, occasioned by the death of Lieut. Col. Robe, is filled uw the a tment of Lieut, Gol. H. Posie, of the 1th Batiallon, BA. The late Col. Phillpote’ successor in the command of the of Royal En; at the islands, is ) RB. E., who is ex- tion. The Bermudian of the 21st, says:—We have heard of no case of yellow fever during the past week. We are assured that the troops are now in excellent health. There may be cases of sickness of a febrile nature; but these islands are at present free from any demic. A sul iption list for aid to the sufferers from the dete Seven $i Shes colony, bas bees coeees oo a ae lie library. His Ex cy the Governor heads the list with the sum of £50. Our report says:—The temperatare of the atmoe- phere is cool and bracing, and there seems to bea promise of such weather continuing to ail for a while. At all events, the “wish is the to the thought,” since we have had more than Soret of a season unprecedentedly wet and change- The following officers and gentlemen have, we hear, been appointed by the Governor to institute a full inquiry with reference to the origin of the late fever:—Major Manage" ent; Major Byles, 5 th ro hae General; D. Stewart, F 56th Com: genet dH Darrell, Esq., Solicitor Court of Common Prerent—Judges Ingraham and Daly. Deo, 81.—Hyer against Ayers —Order affirmed, wita costs. Mead against mp dismissed, with costs. Donads against Wes —! of referee set aside. Judg ment pinneks coors dceatont commas to increase amount of report to $66. Hanna againl McKensic.—Jadgment affirmed, with ecker against Cheeeborough.—Judgment affirmed, with Stenaker against Van Dolin —Judgment affirmed, with Corts Kennedy against Burr.— Judgment affirmed, with costs. Nichols against Van Wort.—Jadgment aftirmed, with “atm et al. against Quackenboss —Judgment affirmed, "h Coma. Townshend against Dynan —Judgment afirmed, with conte. Hyland a al, against Sherman a al.—Jadgment affirm. €d with conte. bas Irdand.— Judgment affirmed, with eoste xin games Fuh ct al.—Judgmest affirmed, with ie. bay ent reversed, with costs. Beatise ogasnst Larkin —Judgment reversed, with costs, Howard against Brown.—Jatgment reversed, with 8. Vettee.—J Teversed, with costs- srvt Schartus,-- Judgment set aside and new Taian oO ee called the meeting to order 1. An occult force, exhibited in sliding, raising, | * balf-past 7 01 Dr. Isaac Deiterick arresting, holding, suspending, and otherwise dis: | Rosed a8 Presidtnt, aii targe number of Vioe Pres) tarbing numerous pon le bodies—apparently in After the {rect opposition to the acknowledged laws of mat | p.2oneh of ation Sesietol ttnen tian fa reanifested ie tenn | elicited ie 8 Socteaeed . Sands of intelligent and discriminating persons,while | ADDRESS OF THE NATIONAL pgwocaacy OF Pama- the human senses have hitherto to detect, to DELFBIA COUNTY TO THEIA BRETHREN the satisfaction of the public, either the primary or causes of these phenomena. 2, Lights of various forms and colors, and of differ- ent degrees of intensity, appear in’ dark rooms, where no substances exist w) are liable to de- velop a chemical action or p! illumina- pee bane tna wafer adap means and instra- tion produced. ad bit nomination for oh walch Fracklia’ Perot Ineasures tothe Presidency, are the subjects of this eae ‘We believe that every democrat has ences before a nomination; and the cb de ithe canvass of the merits of $3 Ss 'poreeet cs press to Public opinion in y The publisher of s paper is entitled to his rs Togard to easy ‘sounds, are masts and rh - ror the discharge of artille: , @ecompar nied by-an oscillatory movement of suneanding DD. Sctasteat as how of as emer lous m ‘ 1» OF, may be, of the whole house wherein the phenomena ee cur. On other occasions barmonic sounds are heard, as of human voices, but more frequeatly resembling the tones of various musical instruments, among which those of the fife, dram, trumpet, guitar, and piano, have been pe ‘and su represented, both with and without the instruments, and in either case without any apparent human or other visible agency. These phenomena ian to depend, so far as regards the process of their pro- duction, on the acknowledged ciples of acoustics. There is obviously a disturbance of the sensational medium of the Carp biped! occasioned by an un- dulatory movement of the air, wh by whatmeans these atmospheric undulations are does not appear to the satisfaction of acute observers. 4. All the functions of the human body and mind are often and strangely influenced in what appear to be certain abno1 states of the system, and by causes which are neither adequately defined? nor un- derstood. The invisible power eeey interrupts what we are accustomed to ¢ the normal CY) of the faculties, es sensation and capacity for eine motion, the cir- culation of the animal fluids, and reducing tem- peratirs a beie nd rtions of the body to a leathlike coldness and idity. Indeed, in instances, respiration is entirely suspended season—it may be for hoursor days to; -—after faculties of the mind and fanctions of the body are fally restored. It is,| moreover, con- fidently asserted that these phenomena have been suc- the Su F ipreme Court, didate, whose pure life, integrity, rendor , bile fave, The ie tye ing and politica} meritorious of m. J. Pringle long and deservedi; the democratic “f cheerfully give to either of vided ropgoes. Rape oe L steeple pe i the case is very ent ’e have man: lous objections to his re-nomina- which we tla render iS im) before the prople for re-election. In all fairness we will state these objections to you. We Toresous, “Oppoution to beastie and peper Saresey fe . re ardinal principle of eur party, and st gee . im and out of conventions. ney of the State pound condition, and to be suffi , in numerous cases, by nent mentaland | srount to answer the ends of trade aed the hysical derangement, and it isas positively affirm- joney at thin time Weed, ta 2a} pes believed that many persons who a suffer- pereignde ad ile - * “ od ‘The ettontions that we are on the eve of a dangerous, inflation of snd an artificial expsnsionin com mercial and other business affairs, are toe clear, it to me, to be misunderstood. This oy aho' not be stimulated by any increase of paper sy. Itisthe part of wisdom te restrain rather than heighten this ex\ citement.”” hd ha ne id ing from organic defects, or from protracted and ap- peay incurable diseases, have suddenly re- ieved and entirely renovated by the same mysterious ere teay net be improper to observe ,in fthis con- nection, that two general hypotheses obtain with Tespect tothe of these remarkable phenomena. other ‘The one ascribes to the nower and intelligence ele ne Res Tit maple casa hod of I» on and throug! were highly prejudicial te the interests of our subtile and imponderable elements which common’ 1, The relinguishment of the right of the State to re assume the Delaware and Hudson Canal. This work was and permeate 3 should be observed, accords with the ostensib! to the claims and pretensions of the selves. Among those who accept this h, potiaeses will be found a lerge number of our fellow-citizens, who are alike distinguished for their it to be, in the hands of eom- political influence. Others, not leas hed in all the relations bie aid to the extinguishment of our life, reject this conclusion, and entertain the trere iunse by the New Tore of life, reject opi- nion that the ackno' cer of physica depreciate stoek, in order that the and metaphysics will le scientific inqu! to | Legelature might canes sania ita ‘resum; Upon acconnt for all the facta in @ rational and satisfac- | ‘Bet que tion an exciting debate was had in Ita incalculable advantage to the State was most coneiu- tory manner. While your memorialists cannot agree ‘have decreased on this question, but havé tly arrived at widely “Ne teats Govt zens, an as 6 comeque Hgutesed different conclusions re: the probable canses | he burden of taxa lotwithetanding bil * of the phenomena herein nibed, they beg leave, | paseed both Houses, and the state was deprived of this most respectfully, to assure your honorable body they nevertheless most cordially concur in the opi- nion that the alleged phenomena do really occur, and that their mysterious origin, peculiar nature, and im- it perks the intereste of mankind, demand for them a pai , thorough, and scientific investi- tion. me cannot pentose denied that the various phenomena to which the memorial refers are likely aluable work. The constitution having invested Governor Bigler with he his int Rlcii [ %o produce important and lasting results, 7 nently affecting the cal ‘ondition, meutal de- copy orem up thsee ected Samah eiaenctae of alarge number | Pundred Lerteleath tes | " reas sacnnnsin aaa aaniea ofthe American people. It is obvious that these | that the company would have paid a bonus of three han- occult powers do influence the esssential principles | crea ‘thousand dollars for the relinquishment the ' of and life, of thought and action, and hence | state insisted on it. Thus was the State tctnced outed they may be destined to modify the conditions of | this valuable work, acd Wm. Bigler failed to interpose our , the faith and phil y of the age, and eee of the ba rm tale of ieee cin rope aad pret a ey git the State we conceive to be one of the most \ atric compatible with the eardinal objects spirit ef our institutions, to address the re- presentatives of the people any and every subject which may be fairly presumed to in- volve the discovery of new principles, which must or may issue in momentous consequences to mankind we, your fellow. citizens, whose names are appended to memorial, earnestly desire to be heard on gre therefore, of the contempl: ar ted by the present memorialists, an in view of the people. and reasons herein contained or referred to, Dur! oe asain petition your | lskeste ble body for the @ sotenting | means of to which this subject be referred, | llinois, Ino and for such an appropriation as shall enable the pare e commissioners to prosecute thelr inquiries to a suc- | Dis, Wit ‘ cessful termination. Believing that the progress of peed greatly promoted by the proposed investigation, the ion, Sderdgaed enarete Lo rahe wiaed hy ike * nr aj ani widom of your henprable body. And to this ead ; the petitioners will ever pray. ‘The Merse Patent. . Wasuinctos, Deo. 20, 1853, 10 THE EDITOR OF AHIE NEW YORK HERALD. One of your correspondents here Serum patenta, amorg which is Professor Morse’s for his vele- graph, for the extension of which he says application is about being made to Congress. Similar statements have been mace elsewhere, coupled with imputations cf inten. tion to use iroproper means to ure the exteasion. ‘Be assured that #0 far as fessor Morse’s patent is copcersed, the whole story is a clear fabrication. No such Geeign is entertained, or ever hae been, Of the other cares, I know nothing Very respectfully, AMO3 KENDALL, Agent, ete. Rxmanxe.—Does Mr. Kendall mean that ‘‘the whole story” of the application simply—or the whole story of the “imputation of improper means,” is a shee” fabrication?” We of the Henan never imputed any improper means—but we have been credibly in- formed that an application for a renewal will be made in due time by the proper parties, and we believe so. We have a right to do so, Amos Kendall to the contrary notwithstanding. ’ Acoma The wound can cured by wie . and bis pretended penitence come with » better grace if not immediately ‘to an office for which he is comfessedly ua- lified apd un’ '. viewed the official cureer of the careful of the i Srveu.aRr ap Disteessine Scictps.—On Mon- day last Mr, James Chowaing of cay? Rooney fi com mit suicide under the most lar circumstances. He was a bighly respected citizen, been at oe periods preasher of the church known as ‘“‘Reformers,”’ then be- came impressed with the influence of a belief in univer- sa] salvation; but for the last few years his views of reli- capricious and eng a wee ifty years old, ® family to whom kind; and s daughter was to be married rated the rash act fl ER & i e HT