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The Literary World. the stuff. There is a class, however, not to be affect- | issued in a few days, is one of those works which ‘The neual winter season of fancy books in “extra | ed by any dosing in this way, and the Spiritual | have been suggested by recent Buropean and Ameri- Bi't” being over, the publishers are generally busy | Twegraph bas doubtless, therefore, some few read- ‘with speculations in more solid literary stocks for | ersleft. Those who are addicted to the study of the coming year, and the prospects for readers are | such phenomena will find M. Boismont's “Ha!lucias- upon the whole very satisfactory. Therage existing | tions, or the Rational History of Apparitions, some ten years ago for a merely cheap literature was Visions, Ecstacy, Magnetism, and Somnambalism,” productive of ultimate advantages, though many of | of which o translation has been published in Phila- ‘those who endeavored to promote it were made | delphia, peculiarly interesting and instructive. It bankrapt by their schemes, outraging alike both | is, indeed, upon this whole subject, the most masterly taste and financial judgment; as not only novels, | discussion extant. bat profound disquisitious in history, antiquities, and The expense incurred in the production of statia- philosophy, were printed in immense editions at s | tical works of the best class is illustrated by the fact shilling or even at sixpence per copy; and the pub- | that the first copy of Lippincott’s “Gazetteer of the lishers were so little skilled in their business as ap-| United States” cost the publishers over $32,000, parently to be equally intent upon cheapness and | though they had the vast collection of statistics em unconthness—expending quite as much in the pro- | braced in the new cengus to start upon. This work duction of a huge quarto pamphlet as was necessary | is, probably, in accurateness and completeneas,sape- for a decent daodecimo or octavo. In consequence, copies of books printed by Wilson, Winchester, and their numerons rivals, are at this time more rare than the editions of Aldus; but those issues of dingy rior to any of the kind ever published. Mr. William Chambers, we perceive, since his re- torn to Edinburg, announces ,ss a peculiar feature of “‘Chambers’s Journal,” his observations on the char- paper and miserable ink induced a taste for better | acteristica and resources of the United States. Ail things, widened immensely the habit of reading aud | the serials of the Brothera Chambers have a large the desire to possess libraries, eo that after a grid- iron and a chest of drawers, a booksself wasia circulation in this cocntry, generally in the original editions; but the reprint of the ‘‘Papers for the Peo- almost every frontier cabin or city laborer's lodging | ple” is decidedly improved in various ways, and it the most indispensable article of furniture; and the accumulation of small libraries promoted a demand for a respectable manufacture, so that, ever since, the book business has steadily and very rapidly in- ereased, and the styles of printing and binding have ‘been improved in a just proportion. Nevertheless, there is even now no branch of in- dustry in which we have so little skill as in good printing. We have made astonishing advances in | struck with an elaborate demoustration of the | genius of an exquisitely feminine character, aud newspaper machinery, so that the presses of the HsRavp are beyond the competition of all Europa; but in fine book work we have made very litile pro- gress; indeed, there was scarcely a volume issued in the United States last year as correctiy or tastefally execuied as Barlow's “ Columbiad,” published in Philadelphia in 1408. We are sadly in want of Pickering, an Orr, or a Murray. The best examples of bock manufacture in this country last year were two or three government works printed by Lippin- eott, of Philadelphia, the New York edition of “The Spectator,” and the Boston edition of Sir Jamea Mackin‘osh, which is equalled by the just issued ad- mirable impression ot Hume's incomparable History of England. To these may be added the “Homes of American Statesmen,” a yolume, upon the whole, decidedly better in the mechanical than ia the lite- rary execution. These books are noticeable as in- dications of an improving taste, and the public are to be congratulated on the prospectof a large num- ber of equally good editions in 1854. Among the most important works illustrative of the history of Europe during the career of Napo- Jeon, will be ranked hereafter the collection of papers left by Joseph Bonaparte, and now being printed in | Paris by Mr. Maillard, for maay years a resident of | Bordentown, New Jersey, where his family are still Hiving. Joseph Bonaparte let! copies of ail his owa | letters and public papers, and every communication of a public or private nature received (row his bro- ther during the revolution, the consulate, and the | empire. Mr. Maillard was the private secretary, and | the most intimate frievd and confidant, of the ex: | king during his long exile in America; and, acc penying him on his return to Hurope, att in tw last hours, and received nis ¢ ef which none were m than those relating to t! uly treasured ma- uscripts, which he dire: to have published in full, | under the most vompeteut end faithful editorship. Newrly @ your ago they were removed from Borden- town to Paris, were they have ever since been in process of publication. They embrace an immense {| number of letters from the Emperor, whose aston. | hing industry is illnstrated by the fact that be fre: | quently, in the midst of the most exciting affairs, | wrote from twe.ve to twen'y letters a day with his | own hand, besides all those dictated to his secrete ries. Mr. Maillard could find no editor capable of deciphering many of these—the penmanship of the Fimperor being yearcely more legible than that of our owa Mr. Rufus Choate; and he therefore has been compelled to remain himse!! ia Paris, vo super- intend the press. Three volumes have alfeady been completed, and copies of them have been received by Mr. Maillard’s family. Five others wil! follow; and when they are finished the whole series will be givento the world. This publication will be entirely | distinct from that of ‘‘ The Works of the Emperor | Napoleon I.,” which are to appear under the direo- tion of the French government, in several folio volumes, alto in 1854. Mr. Abbott must defer the conclusion of his romantic and veritable “Life of Napoleon” until this imperial edition of his writings, | and these volumes, which Mr.Maillard is editing, are all issued. Mr. Join R. Bartlett, sinee he retired from the Mexican Boundary Commission, has been industri- Sualy Ovonpicd in the preparation of a “ Personal | Narratiye.of Exploratious in Texas, Mexizo, Cali- | Tornia, which will soon be published in two ample and excellently illustrated ostavos. What- ever the merit of Mr. Bartlett's decisions on the boundary question, itis not to be denied that he isa very thorough scholar, and in matters of ethnology, particularly and most justly eminent. Among the eolid and permanently valuable books of the present year, therefore, this “‘narrative’’ will be conspicuous, and it is to be hoped that it will induce Cougress to publish in a suitable manner the Commissioner's official report. Count Gurowski, formerly, it is understood, one of the chamberlains of the Emperor Nicholas, bat for | several years a resident of the United States, where | he is widely kuown as a learned, acute acd b t | conversationist, has in press ‘Russia As It Is,” a work which will not fail of a large circulation, in the | present condition of foreign potitics. The Rev. Dr. J. W. Alexander is printing a “Life | of Archibald Alexander, D.D.,” the late eminent and venerable head of the Presbyterian theological school at Princeton. The Alexander family has been as distinguished for sound learning, and wise endeavors for the promotion of religion and the general welfare, as the Beecher family fora brilliant Quixotism and the advocacy of all such velties as are calculated to disturb the public tranquillity. Dr. Archibald Alexander was one of the most useful and traly res peetacle men of his generation, and the well known abilities of his biographer assure us of a most inter: estiog account of his career. Mr. Joba RB, Thompson, of Richmond, Va., is oo- cupied with a large work, to be entitled “A Survey of the Literature of the Southern States."’ It is one of Mr. Cassias M. Clay's notions that slavery is every. where fatal to intel/ectual cultivation, and writers at the South have made many complaints of an alleged habitual injastice toward them on the part of North- ern critics. For their proper vindication no one is better §tted than the accomplished and universally respected editor of the “Southern Literary Messen- ger,’ of whom the Frederieksburg News, reterring to an address which he delivered a few evenings ago in that city, says :—~ Mr, Thompron’s addres was entertainiog, inatrnotivs and delightra) in the highest degree, fully sustainiog the reputation of ite distinguished suthor and anes eberm to bygone giories, encircling with # chapiet of wsfeding remem! the colonial tues of the Ol6 Dominion, Ia w aty'e at once “racy and tare,’ with a felicity of expression, s wealth of material, and os ohivalric regard for tie ot Virginia, the society of the “olsen time’’ wae depicted with lifelike rividases—their man Bers, pormuite, end amusements, (heir home detaile end domentio portraitere, until we almost felt that wita the speaker we had entered one of those atately mansions on ‘the James, bed tented ourselves in the ernor’s library at Williamsburg, or were moving ‘n oroas minuet with some courtly dame «! l'an Touching the ebords with = masterly hen past rolled along through tos found tte answering echo ta th prevent ‘The miserable riff-raff oalled “spiritual literature,” seems for the mast part to have paased into merited contempt. The nauseating twattle attributed t> the “spirits of each charasters a¢ Bacon, Newton, Franklin, Gen. Jackson, Webster, Calhoun, Dr. Olin, and others, as assinine as the usual compositions of the creatures pretending to have been their ‘‘me- diume,' has been too much or the public stomach, which bas very generally sickened and discarded bad fied, ening heart ef the | constitutes, as presented py the American publisher, ® dozen volames remarkable for variety, value, and attractiveness. The position of the negro in natural history has never been more learnedly discussed than in the last few years, and there have been some surprising revo- lutions of opinion on the subject. Even the free soil abolition Evening Post of this city, not long ago, was biack man’s intellectual, moral and physical in- feriority to the Caucasian, that it caused the entire work to be trauslated. and printed in its columns, without a word of gissent from its conclusions, bear. ing so fatally on itsZabolition ideas. Prof. Agassiz has, in the same spirit, though with something leas of learning or modesty, undertaken to show up Moses, the prophets, and the apostles, in sundry argamenta, to prove that the negroes, properiy speaking, do not belong to the homan family at all. But the climax of this discussion may be expected in a few days, in & most elaborate work, under the name of “ Types of Mankind, or Ethnological Researches based upon the Ancieat Monuments, Paintings, Scalptures, and Cranis of Races, and upon their Natural, Geographi cal, Philological and Biblical History,” by Dr. J.C Nott, of Alabama, and George R. Gliddon, formerly United States Consul at Cairo. This will be a large quarto, amply illustrated, and the fame of its authors will secure for it a large attention; the negrophobia will be so conclusively rebuked in it that hereafter Mr. Fred. Douglass and Mr. Seward, and the Preai- dent's old intimates, will all be likely to come out with disclaimers of their African descent. Indeed, this gteat work will not improbably change altogether the tone and scope of discussions at the Tabernacle, and in the Tribune and Colored American. The rival schools of doctors were never more buty with abuse of each other than at present. ‘The cele- brated Edinburg professor, Dr. Simpson, has pub- lished—and the allopathists in this country are giv- ing it the largest possible circulation—‘Honieo- pathy, its Tenets and Tendencies,” by far the most brilliant and able production yet directed against the disciples of Hahnemaan, who, meanwhile, point to the rather important well established fact that they have lost by the yellow fever, in the South- ern States, during the last year, less than ten per cent of the proportion of cases loat'by the old school practitioners. Dr. Simpson's work will be read by all the allopathists; but, in fairness, they should study with it Dr. Marcy’s “Reply to Dr. Hooker,” in which most of the Scotch professor's positions are anticipated. ‘Che hydropathists appear to be on the alert also, and Dr. Shew, the ablest of the American pbyaicians of this school, has just published ‘a family ““Pheory and Practice,” whish will be the haudbook ONG iextdenk of pelieverp in the ould water pansesa. We mentioned a few daya ago the destractiou in a recent fire of the celebrated artist Vanderiyn’s manu- script “Memows and Oorrespondence’’—s great loa to the literature of the fine arts. Lawyers will learn with regret that their profession has suffered by a simi'ar misfortune. Inthe late fire av Portland the Hon. Asher Ware lost, not only his very exteasive rary, but a voluminous work in manuscript oo Admiralty, which had occupied his attentioa for nore than twelve years, and was just completed. Except Story and Galian C. Verplanck, Judge Ware ia the most elegant law writer we have ever had in America. His vast legal erudition is fused in an in- tellect of the first order for native ‘strength, refiaed by the most renerous calture, so that the profession have been deprived by this calamity not ocly of a controling suthority in admiralty cases, but of one of the most attractive specimens of legal literatare. The Abbe Roquette, of Louisiana, a French ecele- | siastic who hes hitherto distinguished himself most honorably both as a poet and a prose writer, has been lor sometime engaged in translating iato his native language the poems of Alice Carey, for publi- cation in Paris, An edition of this charming au- thor’s “ Poetical Works" is now in press in Bos ton, and Routledge, the London publisher, has con- tracted forthe Knglish copyright of it. Mr. Randolph, of Richmond, Va., has just pub- lished & new edition of the “ Notes on Virginia,” by his illustrious relative, Mr. Jefferson, who, before his death, carefully revised and considerably enlarged the whole work. This manuscript has for some time, we believe, been in the possession of the Maryland {listorical Society, and it is now for the first time given to the public. , The Rey. F. D. Maurice has long had an unqnes- tioned pre eminence among the cotemporary theolo- | gical and philosophical writers in the English Church, end his recent expulsion from King’s Col- lege, for avowing a belief that no portion of the hu man race will be damned everlastingly, has given his works ® sudden and extraordinary currency in this country, His “ Theological Exsays,”’ just repab- can industrial exhibitions. The design is to display, in letter presy and engravings, (of which this large | quarto embraces more than five hundred,) the pre- | sent condition of the useful and ornamental arta | | throughout the world. It has cost more than $40,000, | | and describes whatever was most noticeable in the | Paris, London, Dublin, and American Crystal Palace | exhibitions; and it constitutes the moet complete, | interesting and important volume in its department | ever exhibited. Some of the Lt we [From ths Loutwviile Jonraal. Fao. 12.) Charlotte Cushman, the greatest American actress, distinguished as a woman unimpeachable, and asa writer of no mean ability, is now in Rome We hear of her there, much honored and admired by all tra- vellers and persons of note. She is the intimate friend of Eliza Uook. Grace Greenwood, in her re- | cent European tour, became warmly attached to the great tragedtenne. Both ladies are excellent horse- | women, and enjoyed greatly this beautiful femiaine accomplishment amid the ue scenery and classic amociations of Italy. Mrs. Mowatt is unfortunately still suffe from the effecta of her recent protracted illoess. She hes jut pvteied her autobiography, which the whole | g world are poring over with delight. She is | loved and admired in private life no leas than she has heen Honored in public, It is said sne will be mar- ear! in the 9 ae gg retire to a beaatifal | home in Richmond, Vira , where she will devote herself to domestic and literary pursuits. Julia Dean was recently playing in New Orleans. | She is rapidly rising in public favor. She has a fine | an gee voice, @ perfect shower of beau- iful hair, and a private life as sweet avd pure as the most secluded maiden of any age or place. She comes before the public always fresh aud lovely, | like Goethe’s' Margery from her prayers. She hus | every year must add to ber laurels, fur she is deve loping in force and intellect, and with ber trutnfal conceptions and energy and enthusiasm for her art, cannot fail to stand at the very head of her proves- sion. She is about to bring out the tragedy of Mra. E. Oakes Smith at New Orleans, the womanly char- acter of Elizabeth Leisler being well adnoted to her powers. She has also made liberal offers to the anthoress to induce her to write a play expressly for herself, which, it is said, Mrs. Oukes Smith is en- gaged to do. Mrs. McCready ia now playing in Albany, where she has Bradused. the above drama with such ood success that the managers were induced to affer the author’a complimentary benefit. New York has de- cidedly made its mark upon the dramatic world, and is likely to become a feature upon the modern stage. | Mrs. McCready has been but a few months in her | profession and is already a star. She is haudsome, | tall, and finely shaped, with a face of great capabili- ty, being marked by pliant force and varied expree- sion. She bas that grand enthusiastic tempera neat which takes the heart in spite of itself, and beiag young, with fine health andjenergy of purpose, cau- not fail to achieve a position second to none in her profession. Her education bas been such that she would adorn the most elegant saloon, so thas with high culture and high gocial relations she will help to place the profession of the dramatic artisie where it belongs, among the mast elevated and enviable in the world. This honor will be peculiar'y American in character. Mrs. Sigourney resides in Hartford. At the pre- sent time she writes but little. Her health, since the deawm of ber only son, has been greatly im- ired, but she siill lends her name aod pea, and } infixence, wherever she can relieve suiferiag or soothe s grief. Sue has been a very suscessful cul- Mae’ of silk, and her taste in horticulture ia well own. Mrs. Kirkland is prepesig Scatcties of Washing- ton for Putnam’s monthly. She also writes stories and sketches for the azines. Her pen is always racy and healthful as is her own fire mind. A look at handsome, genial fase is better than a sermon. | She is a widow, and tives in New York city, where she is much beloved by a large circle of friends. Sne is alao engaged in a series of lite: lestures,. week- iy, before the young ladies of two of the nivst elegant seminaries for girls in the city. Mary E. Hewett is about to publish a new collec- tion of her poems. The first volume of these, pub- | lished two years since, has ‘placed her high in the world of song. Her love sonnets are exquisitely tender and delicstely finished. She is also @ widow, and deyotes a portion of her time in the eame man- ner as Mrs. Kirkland. Indeed, our jiterary women are the true reformers, throwing the best light of their genius and their noble culture into al! subjects of hamau good withoat degrading themselves ‘nto making reform a trade. She isa reeident of New big fine personal Sppearance and elegant so- cl ion. Mrs. Eilet is now investigating the subject of spuitualism, and we auticipate mach light will bs thrown upon this theme from her elsar, comprenen sive intellect, She is not writing much a6 pregens) but is well known for her benevolent tendeacies wherever she goes. Indeed, she hat in many cases given readings from the poets in aid of s»me Charity, and thas has afforded her hearers the doable pleasure of listening to the artistic conceptions of & dus ind, and doing s good act s{ the same time. Her oue band was formerly » professor in Columbia College, South Carolina, where Mrs. Eliet was tong the iati mate friend of Mrs. Caroline Gilmao, anthor of many elegant works in verse and prose. Mrs. Pllet is now @ resident of New York city. She is understood to be ® regwar contributor and critic for the North | American Rev.ew. Aona C. Lynch returned recently from a European | tour, and her pleasant rewn:ons torr) une of the moat attractive features of New York society. Indeed, Miss Lynch of late yore has taken rather the posi- tion of an elegant hostess and that of artiste than literary women. Harper has been indebted to her for some excellent illustrations for his magazine. Mise Lynch is, however, young and intelleztual, and will no doubt add still more to her literary fame. One of the best features of oar literary women is | their capacity to do many things as well as one. They bave “‘inivite variety,” and this is is that | places them the head of every other class of | women in the conntry, Nothing can infringe upon thelr position, Others may achieve @ noisy pupu- larity, but they are soon forgotten with the ocoasi2a, while the women of high culture an@ genius live to all time, Grace Greenwood has been lately married and lives | in Philadelphia, Miss Bremer made some sneering re- marks about her, but we believe she will survive the | lack of appreciation in the fidgetty Swede. She is engaged in publishing a monthly journal for chil- dren. Grece has as yet hardly learned the extent of her own powers. She is ardent and enthusiastic, aud throws her voice always in favor ot great principles. | Sarah Helen Whitroan has jast publiehod her col- | lected poems, and the critics are unanimous in tioir praise. Indeed we have nothing superior to them for | delicate insight aud artistic finsh. They form a beau- tifal record of the mind of a most remarkable woman. Some of her verses have the gracefal and subtle | beauty of an Italian mind, and the forse of the Ger- man, With a clear melody sueh as Milton might have produced. Mrs. Whitman is more wonderfal) her- Welf than her books, She Las a weird loveliness. a | Serene spiritualism, at once touching and taking. She | is a widow, and resides in Providence, R.¢I, | | | | | | | | lished, may be regarded as by far the profoundest and most eloquent of his productions. The widow of the late Dr. Robert Montgomery Bird, author of “Calavar,” &c., has just entered into an arrangemeat with the deceased novelist’s pub: lishers in this city for bringing out a completes dition of that gentleman's works in the style of the new impression of “Nick of the Woods,’”’ &c. Mr. Richard B. Kimbail’s admirable philosophical romance of “St. Leger, ot the Threads of Life,” haw been remarkably popular in Europe. Two Faglish editions have been printed, it hasappeared in Freach at Paris, and Tauchnitz bas just issued it in his Ger- man Library of English classics, It is very rarely that the great truths of human experience are pre- sented with so profound an appreciation, so much aad so varied learning, and in a spirit so genial, and well calculated to command the candid consideration of thinkers holding adverse opinions. Mrs. Harrison Gray Otis has nearly ready for pub- lication a work which will create a sensation in the fashionable world, entitled “ The Barclays of Bos soni? Dr. J. V. Huntington, author of “ Alban,” « Alice,” &¢., has become editor of the ‘ Meftopolt- ten” Roman Catholic magazing published in Balti- The Rey. Mr. Jadd, author of ‘Margaret,’ ‘“Rich- ard Edney,” &:., was a man of very peculiar genins, and his works are peruaps as A merican ia their cha- tacteristics as any that have been written. It will be remembered that he died very suddenly, last sam- mer, at Augusta, Me, His “Memoirs” are now ia press, and they will constitute a very interesting ad- ition to our American biography. Darley, the art- ist, will pablish shortly a series of outline illustrations of “Margaret,” which, in the autograph, have been very mach admired. ‘ Mr. Alildreth, the historian, is bringing out new editions of those works on morals and politics which he wrote before undertaking his “fistory of the United States.” The ‘White Slive,” “Theory of Politica,” &c., will be followed immediately by “Des potiam in America,” and his summary of the politi- cal principles of Bentham. The “World of Science, Art. end Indnstry,” to be where she is much honored, the people being, as they | may well be, proud of their one poetess and she by | common consent ackowledged great. Mrs. E. Oakes Smith is at residing ia Brooklyn, L. L., where she barn net sg 8 high social position, as she likewise ranks amoug the very first of living female poeta, Her tragedy of “Jacob Leieler,” one of the most striking aad thrill- ing productions of the Atwerican muse, has been brought out recently in different paris of the coun- try with uciformly brilliant succeve; aad we under: stand that she is ebout to publish a romance, of which neither the title nor the subject has yet trans- ired, though the pabtic will need no assurance that it will be Kraig Rd powerfully written, and that ite purpose wil! eminently and noble. The suthoress of tae “Siniess Child’ can write ue wrong. Mrs. E. Oakes Smith is, perhaps, the most variously gifted of all our female writers, and ye she appears not to bave sneceeded in determining her true sphere. She seems vainly straggling to utter her inmost sou! —to manifest her most intimate self—to embody the whole secretenergy and beauty of her nature; and hence, while all her emanations / are sweet, and stainless, and glowing with the hues cf inspiration, she is ever restless under a sense of still deeper and more perfeet beauty unexpressed and inexpressibble. So on eaionntaly inte the abstrnsest questions of phi fd cage mee fully throws off to the eager press dramas, critiques, lectures, poetry, and prose, asa flower fli ite fra, upon the waiting air, and then down and sighs for something better, somet! higher, something more finely adapted to maessure rich and lowing natare, and to express itin a single, great, and beantiful effort. We bmg = at Mod mend her to the drama. We believe that has powers which, if consistently devoted to dramatic composition, would speedily’ cause hers to eclipse every other American name in that high field of art. But we must conclude our gossip for to-day. Levora or Rartrosme.—The following is * mammary of | the com parative lengths of railways and ia pro- gross in the diff-rent Siates:— | Ohio... « 4191 Michigan about... 639 North Carolioa “ | soon sowed among the troops the seeda of disssnsion. | Cabanas. A battle took Repubite of Honduras. TO THE BDITOR OF THE HERALD. At is a matter of deep regret that a public journal- ist should comment on @ subject of which he is whol- Jy ignorant. Being in error himself, he cannot bat cloud and render erroneons public opinion. If he poscesees any influence whatever, that influence ia deleterions. More especially is this the case when he is ignorant of the history and internal condition of the country about which he writes, arausing pre- judices, stirring up animosities, and giving a wrong direction to the public mind. I was led te these reflections by the perusal of an article in the Nutional Intelligencer of the 13th, headed the “Republic of Guatemala.” After copy- ing a portion of the message of President Carrera, the writer proceeds to comment on Ceatral Ameri- can affsirs. In this he exhibits not only a profound but insulting ignorance to every friend of Honduras, and every lover of liberal principles in Central Ame- Tica. Tam fot connested with the “New York presses,” nor am ‘‘influeneed by private ends,” bat I write this simply to correct the varions misconceptions “anderro- neous statements” which appear in the Intelligencer. I will speak of what I krow, for I was in Honduras at the commencement of hostilities between that ro- public snd Guatemala, had every means of informa- tion, and am familiar with the eareer of the Indian marauder Carrera. The true cause of the war was a dispute about the nortrern bouudary of Honduras, and con- sequenty the southern boundary of Guatemala. Honduras has claimed and exercised jurisdio- tion over a district of coantry extending fron the bouadary oi Salvador across the country eastward to the Motagariver, including the city of Copan, and some of the best tobacco growing country in Central America. This district of country, though uarrow, is as extensive as the disputed Me- silla Valley tract, and was well populated by an srieultural people, who acknowledged Honduras as ie sovereign power. This was n0 new clelmof Honduras. Her boundaries had been established near three hundred years, by the Spanish colonial government, and coufirmed by the Intendency General of Guatemala, When the couvtry was severed from Spain by the revolution of 1821, Honduras asserted her boundary, and ou the formation of her constita- tion it was re asserted. When she became a member of the confederacy, which formed the republic of Central America in 1823,that boundary was again asserted. During the existence of that unfortunate confederation, that boundary had never been in- fringed upon, and it was not until the fall of Morazan, the final dissolution of the confederacy and the vonse- quent rise ot Carrera, that any adverse claim was ever let up. Indeed, it was but recently tnat any active and po- sitive assertion cf an adverse claim was made by Guatemalz. Instigated by the emissaries of Great Britain since 1851, coustaut aggressions have been made on the territory of Honduras. The first active measures taken by Carrera was in 1852, woen he asserted jurisdiction over the disputed tercitory by levying taxes therein. He also raised @ considerable army, and moved forward to take armed occupation of the country. The forces of Guatemula, in January, 1853, in- vaded the department of Gracios, in Honduras. They penetrated as far as Copan, and committed the most horrible aud revolting outrages on the un- armed and defenceless inhabitants. Rapine, rob- bery, and_mecrder, stalked abroad under the sanc- tion of Qarrera’s officers. Women, without dis- tinction of age, character, or position, were vio- lated by Carrera’s brutal and savage soldiery. Young girls—children ot tender years—were vio- lated. torn, laverated, too horrible to relate. Men unarmed and defen-e!ess were shot without provo- calion—men were bayonetted for shedding a tear or feeling emotion at a wife's or daughter’s dis- honor. Property was forcibly taken, gardens and fruit trees destroyed, and the dwellings of the people baraed. These were the first fruits of ag- gression in this atrocious onslaught on Hondaras, and received the sanction of that prince of mur- derers and savages, Carrera. What was the object of this invasion of the terri- tory of Honduras: It was to her inde- pendent existence. And why? Because sne was the home of the liberal and republican party of Central America— because she stood as the “ city of refuge” for the old liberal and democratic ty which fell with the fall of Morazan. The serviles or monarchista are in power in Guatemala and the other States of the Confederacy, and there is a de- cided mionarchical tendency in ail their acts. Tne republic of Salvador may be regarded a3 au excep- re ame has jast elected a *‘ cervile’’ to the Pre- lepcy. Guatemala is armed entirely with British musketa and cannon, Great Britain is her “protector,” and Gratemala enters ito all her political intrigues and Manceuvres, snd is the main sprivg of the rathless war and iobumenu aggressions on Honduras. The aggressive movemeut of Guatemala was simal- tsneous with the aggressions of the British on the Bay Islands. [+ is eyideut to my mind that the ac- tion war concerted between the emissarios of Great Britain and the upprivccipled government of Guate- wala, Thst governwent is antirepublican and anti- Awerican in aij itstendeccies. An Americancitizen cannot expect common civility anywhere in that | priesi ridden gg yeaa On the contrary, Honduras is American and re- publican. An American citizen ia everywhere re- spected and treated with kindness by ‘the warm hearted and generous natives, There is a deep sented love for the Americans and American instita- tions among the Hondurenos, and this country is looked to as the last hope to proteet them against rapnical foreign aggression. Ls cruetiang” po excesses of Carrera’s army aroused the Hondurenos to arms. was small, and the iatrigues of the serviles of Guatemals As retaliation for the robbery, rapine and buteh in Copan, Gen. C1banas invaded Coigat- mola small force. The whole department was soon reduced, but uo excesses were committed by the soldiers Of Honduras. The forces of Guatemala marched against !ace on the plains of Es- qvipalus. Wit» 400 men General Cabanas kept in check near 3,000 of the Guatemala forces. After bravely routiog the advance of the enemy, Cabanas was forced to retreat by the treascn of a portion of hia troops— treason brought about by the monarchists | of Guatemala. The Guatemaltecoa pursned the retreating forces and re-enacted the same scenes of rapine, robbery and murder that were before comuwitted in Copan. Sven the churches were robbed, domestic animals ed wantonly, and everything which they could not take away with them. The cowardiy assassins and robbers then fled, with Cabanas, rein- forced by a few men from the department of Santa Barbara, pursuing them. The text effort of Carrera was the surprise of Oxmoa. This act was as mean and treacherous as any other committed by the bratal soldiery of the monster Carrera. The piace was sacked and stripped of its ordnance, contrary to stipulations—contrary to every aseurence of the cowardly raffians who entered it, and against the remonstranse of the American Conr: These are the principal operations of the war. Who is to blame? The aggreesion—the war, with all its cruelties and horrors—came from Guatemala. vas uot Honduras bound to protect herself, her own integrity, ber own territory? And shall an ignorant padlic journalist pretend to decide ia favor ot Guatemala, and endeavor to mould public opinion to sanction wrong and ou! ? The assurances of the / of the war are whoily false. It is not true that Hon- duras is the home of political re! ea; but she is the abode of the friends of free principles in Central Acserica, os contradistingai: from the “servile” monarchists of Guatemala. It is not true that Hom duras bas sent “maranding parties of political refu- gees” into Guatemala. Bat it is trae that Guatemala usurped the territory of Hondiras, and was guilty of au unprovoked Goth and Vandal invasion of the same. 1 do not know that any citizens of New York have “farnished arms ora few fighting men” to Hon- durag; but if Say Sate Soe 8 Sey have a perfect right to do #0. beetngenne th ges republic, independent of Guatemala, and has a right to pur- chase arms and amm ion from any nation or people. Every independent government exercises that right. Guatemala exercises it, and purchases arms snd munitions of war of Bagland. And are not the republican arms of the United States as good for Honduras as the monarchical arms of England for Guatemala? In fact, hog awe eEneh tahwoonen overnments are contro! y c juences. fionduras is republican, friendly to the United States, and a foe to England. Guatemala is con- trolled by British influence, is a friend to England, opposed to the United Btater and her free institu- tions. In fact, but a few days ago the government paper at Guatemala published an article against the government and institutions of the United States, with a strong squinting towards monarchy. This rencer a3 to the causes | article must have been written under the sauction of Carrera himeelf, as the Gaceta is his organ. hereafter I hope that the Intelligencer will be better informed before another o1 ‘ht is made on | Honduras. G. Le Yous. Yours, &c., Crey, Feb. 14, 1865: Wasa inctor ty + 470 | 430 | 400 | 490 | | 90 | 70) 10 | Sroxsxss on ras Misssstret.—A letter was re- ceived in this city from one of the officers of the Alek Scott, ‘dno, at Cape Girardeau, in which he states that three of her ers had died since she left New Orleans. She has been a long while out, and the eeinees— Serene emigrante—- are represented to bave had Jong passages across the sea, aod to have suffered Ee from the want of provisions. The disease is stip fever,—St, Lows Republican, Feb. 17. Our Troy Correspondence : ‘Tmox, Feb. 23, 1854 Opening of the Troy and Union Rail: oad —Celebraiion of the Bvent—Condition of the Raver at Toy. The opening of the Troy and Uoion Railroad was cele brated to-day at the ne depot inthis city. A large aun. ber of invitstio.s were iszued, and the attendance was very numerous, more than six hundred persons frem Albany, Troy, sod New Yors, and other cities, being pres- ent. The whole of the New York Leglalature was {ayitrd, audas that body adjourned in honor of the birthday of Washington, about two thirds of the members attended. ‘The trais tn which they arrived was decorated with flags Gitd streamers, anc » band, engaged expecially for the oo- ecession, accordiog to the stersotypsd 4aotetioa, “‘Giscoursed most eloquent music.” Tor hospitali- ty of the company was <ixplayed in & most gen- ¢rous manrer, and received ample jastioe, Tas formality which generally distingaiahes such oncslons ‘was dispensed with, and every coe appeared to enjoy him selt to the utmost. bag tes no “yy but ae specobes, sppropriate to tie subjeo! and the eharacter v the day, were Melivered. Tho President of tne rem’, | George Gould, Keq.. extended s brief but cordi to the company, sad 8 wore made 4 oho, Mr. A B. Dickinson, Mr. Burroughs Joy, Me. and others, At five o'clock the celebrativo termi wated, anc the company returned to Albany ic the same train which brought them here, evidentiy pleased with the manner in whica they had been eotartainsd The depot ix woich the entertainment wes given isa fine and apasieas building, and cost adcut seventy thom sand dollars, It covers ap area of an sore and a quarter, and is four huudred feet long by three hundred in width. At each end there are ten entrances and the same num- ber of tracks, afforcing every ori 4 for the sonnection of tho four different lines w! ‘meet at thin point. They are the Rensseleer aad Saratoga, the New York Central. the Hudson River, and the Troy end Boston. The length of the Uaiom road itself is onl; three miies, and the cost of construstion eight hoodred thousand dollars. Tne stock is owned by the compasies of the lines jast named, who also farniah the mashinery. ‘The new pine recently erected over the Hudson at Tioy, tines, by the gzvatpresture ofthe foe st tkis pola, "Ooe areat jure of the ice ai ae of the butments wal oarred away, but, as there is another ong ng little inconvenience 1s exparieaced at preseat from secident. The Troy Usion Railroad Company is composed of the following geatlemen:—President, Geo. Gould; Directors. J © Heasrtt, D. 2. Vail, J. L Toom J. A. Griswold, @ H. Cramer, R. “age J. 8. Weed, Tapper, D. Robiason, K. Phim, G.H Warren, A. @. stead. E French the Superintendent of River road, is the Chief Eogiueer. The river at Troy and Alvany is blooked up wit’ im- merse masses of ioe, whica in some places rive to the height of ten feet above the general lev Apprehensioas are felt that, when it begins to break up under a thaw, serious ¢. will be done. There has slresdy been one freshet, which, as I have stated, destroyed s butmeat of the new railroad bridge, besides doing damage to other property. posite to the river is impassable by egg tec! account of the cordition of the ice, which lies in broken and confused masass, and in m: laces rises high above the banks. i ich chla- The Turf. TROTTING AND PACING AT NEW ORLEANS. Maurras Covssr, Feb. —TRorrinG.—Pcoprietor’s ures, mile heats, best three in five, in harness. L. Eoff named blk, g. Dr. Elliott. 221 O. W. Dim nick ore 5 1 1ldis G. W. Bidwell nam dis, Time, 2:423¢ ~2:38—3 : Saws Day —Pactnc —Puree and stake of $500, mile heats, best three in five, in harness. O, Dimomick na zed s. m. Pocahontas. ~1li1i1 W. Bidwell nam m. Dolly Spanker. 82 Time, 2:20—2:26—2:20, TEOTTING ON THE ICE. ‘The Oswegatchie Trotting Club cf Ogdensburg, N. Y., had four d trotting on the river St Lawrence. The following is a summary Finst Dar, Feb. 16.— Parse $25—open to four year old horses owned in St. Lawrence county—mile heats, best two in three, in harness. C J, Balewin’s g. m. Alice Gray............ 11 ‘Wm. H, Tall nan’s ch. h. Young Mountain Kagle... 2 2 Time, 3:223¢ 8:84. Sanm Day.—Purse $25—Sabsc -iber’s Parse—Open to all horses that never won match, purse, or sweepatake—mile heats, best three in fire, in harness. H. W. Warner’s br. m. acy Mosoow..... Bapticte’s (ind’n) bl. om. Lady Telegraph. Jomes Flanegen’s br. g. Tom Moore, G. Olds’ b. 4 Zslmette , me, 8:1 Feb » 4 }— 3:07 —8:05—3 302, 16 —Pures $60; $20 to the reson all horses owned in St. Lawrenc bent three in five, in bi Paddy Mathe: 3 Tmo, 8:08—3: 55 Tarrp Day. Feb. 17.—Purse $200—open to all horsta— tbree in five, in harness Charles Lowia’a y Mathews Time, 2:49—2:63—' f 1. Fouxtn Day, Feb. 18 —Subreribere’ puree $60—open only to thetwo hi tered below—mile beats, best Sastie five, in bi jor Rt 'm. Kicgston’s g b, Major Ringeol J. 8. Gilman’s b © Eotaw Disastrous Fire in Cineinna’ [From tne Cincinna:i Commercial, About 1 o’clock Inst night « dense emok: eruicg from the perfumery ctoreof B H. Meakings, on ‘be vorth side of Fourth, betesen Maiae and Sycamore streets. In & very short time fiamer burst from the doors and windows, ad the fire spread with hideous fury, com: monteating to the fashionadle furaiehing satablismuat of Jn Soyer and the periodical book atoreof H 3B, Pear- aon & Co. The roof was epeedily in a blase, and the deluge of water thrown by the firemem, who labored with vehe- ment energy, seemsd to iebaied no effect. Tae whole bleck of buildings in which the confagration aterted were ia less than an hoar involved in a sheet of and the roof rallieg in, tremendous showers of coals arried by the high wind srhich prevailed to a great Ciatence over the lower part of the city, presenting the grand and tersibie sprotacle of a tempent of fire. rs 12 o'clock the whole city was vividly ilmmtina'ed. The centre of the flame was now beyond the effective reach of the e: and the water was privcipally di- rected on the honees on the opposite side of the n‘reet, which were smokipg ominous! ; and on the furnishing store of Ricbardion & Shillito’s great establishmeat, which were in extreme danger. The heat was almost ia- supportable in the centre of the st-eet, but the gallant firemen stood their ground, their clothes et prevented trom takiag fire by an occasional shower from the hose. ‘At half past 12 the eslla commences falling im huge marcses, and the flames begen to be managendle A frag. ment of the wall fell upon the fancy store of Plekering, wext door west of Geyer’s, and crushed it intos shape less bea By rou fortape none of the firemen were caught by the tumbdl'ng bricks. The steam fire engine was stationed on Sycamore, near Fifth street, and wort ed with tremendous effect. At lo’cloek the fire was being rapidly subdaed, and some of the engines were leaving. ‘The total amount ef property destroyed will fall within $100,C00. How mach of this wae covered vy insurance, ‘we were unable definitely to ascertaia At balf past 1 o’elock the rains were and phtemrg pone wed but there was no further deager. During the ocn! ation, several houses io the neighbor- hood caught fire the reof. Very little furniture or moveable property of any kind was saved from the buili- ings destroyed. A Franevr In Trax Screnion Covar or Con RCTICUT—JURY WD — SINGULAR CAS88. AB exciting prvior Overt. Jacgr Storrs" presiding, nowt seasloa i rior Court, Judge » } Bow tn session in Lh city, Mr. Rest, of Tariffville, has sued the town of Bloomfie'd for damages ($10,000) sustaiced by bis wife on fective road or oridge in thet town any witnesses em called and much feeling hae been rvased in re. ference to the case. Yesterday (Wednesday) two of the jurymen, T. O Goodwin, of West Hartford, and A G Vimsted, of East Hartford, went into « restaurant to get their cipmer, «md they dined im the seme alip with N, F. Miller, of Bioomfielé, whem a converaation was com mepeed rpom the osse—Milier tellieg the jarymen that Mr’, Reed was pot burt, that she was siways & week wo- Fappeusd, “RD. Hubverd, Seq, ls coe of Tsed's ator: . . Hal ., le one . sien It Leggs he was cintog in an a‘joleiag slip at the seme time, and overheard the copversation When the osre came on in the afternoon. Mr. Miller was called aga witness for the town, Habbard was very after bim with a sharp stick. Hi: muce » {ot convertirg with s juryman ea the subject of a case be- fore him is $100. sod we believe the same five applies to the jaryman.—Hartford Times, Sec. 23 An Insane Maw Frozen vo Dearn.—At aneariy hour this morning the poay of aman was pete ent ing near the s'¢ ,walk, in Raffslo street. Oo examination the body proved to be that of Albert Cole, a lanatic, who es eaped from the County Hours om Monday last. From the po- tition in which the body was found, it would seem thaton the oceurrenee of the very severe enow sqasil last night the deceased hed # nght sbelter temporarily teppiog fram the walk up sgeinst ‘he wall of Ke, Back tore, but the storm being protracted he probably got and sat down. pecminn ebillec anc droway he most likely stretched Dimseif for repose in the position in which ke wae foucd, acd there met dest! amconssionsly and alone The de- ceased, inanearly cay, was the proprietor of & pablic house im the town of and sul olerk ie ope or more in the olty, He waa Mane set’ n or Copnecticnt, where he had @ ctrole of chu r Obituary. ‘ Mre Burnet Poumamce «ied at Ob Jand county, New York, oo Wedussday, Fob 1. the wi¢ow of the late Asron Polhamus. She was 20th day of October, 1760, and had hed br the dey cf her death the astonishing 103 yours, 3 months, and 11 cays. Bho died ind town w she was born, and where she has lived. Her facultien ramained almost unimpaired within short tims of her death. With the ase of tacles she read her Bible, of ordinary print cally, visited the oity of New York om one oocasion more half a century past, but in comvequence of the confe of the city was anxious to return to ber own quiet where she lived res; and highly esteemed by knew her. She had never seen # steamboator s ri sate coe ene ae Ripe and Saenee, — 4 pumeron: inelude some upectable failien in the State. Mr, Tuomas Buckwrra died in Batavia, N. Y. 15th instant, in the 95th year of his age, and was ‘the olcest cian in the county, Mr. B oe of the Revolatiouary war, for he peosicn. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCI MONEY MARKET, Saturpay, Feb. 25-6 P. ‘The etock market continues active, but mot At the first board’to day prices fluctuated consid and the eperationsindisate an unsettled tecling ” minds of specalators. Parties have bees realizing di the past week, which has undoubtedly kept prices de pressed than they would otherwise have been, fect of this will be ultimately favorable, for those sre now selling will come in again at higher poiats, Zine went up X per cent; Camberland Ozal, %;0 Palace, 2; Michigan Central Railroad, <; New Haves New London Railroad, 3. Canton Company fell off oent; Pennsylvania Coal, 4; Paoame Railraad, 1; 0 Jand and Pittsburg Railroad, }¢ A larger por cent: transections today were for cash than usual. A bank stocks were sold at previous prices, Railroad were heavy. The receipts at the office of the Assistant Treasut the United States for the port of New York, this Feb. 26, were $104,060; the payments amounted to §| 875 97; lepving a balance on hand of $7,183,600 48, The steamship Earopa, at this port from brings three days later intelligences from Earope, political advices are about the same as the Baltic Finanolal and commeroial affairs continue ia s fi condition, Quotations for consols had advanced, bat ceded to rates ruling at the departare ef the steamer. Cotton was firm, with an upward an aciive demand. Breadstuffs continued depressed, decline last quoted had not been recovered, and ‘were indications of a further falling off in prices. news, on the whole, is good. From the continent we nothing of importance relative to the positions of the tile armies or the progress of negotiations. The of the Bank of England for the week ending 10th compared with those for the previous week, show crease of £6,596 in the bullion; £10,129 in the Site tacaano nucze sr: on te th of £394,666; £877,308 in the othe: posite; £696,000 in the goverament securities, and £; 167 in the other securities, In relation to American stocks Baring’s London elf lar of the 10th inst. remarks:— J ‘The United States stocks advertised for ment in good demand for remittance to the United ‘states, & fair supply comes to market at 103 a 1043¢ for bond 1862. and 109810934 for the maturities of 1867-3. small business has been done in Maryland sterling at ales have been made to some amouat of P bonds at 83 & 86, and there are now few for that rate, Penosylvania Ioscriptions 78 a 80, @ Sixes 108.9105. Sellers of Osoada Sixes Bterling at 11) of Visglata Fives Btac ing, 08 901/00 Boeeeaiaty: Four "en a Halfs, at 102; and of lwanis Coatral In bonde, at 013." New York and clo Railroad 66 Bt. Louls Ratiroad 90. ¢ Stock Exc! SarurDay. Feb. 26, 11 $2000 US 6's °68..... 1923 600 una P V 00o.baw 10000 IN ITS$of'4703 91 380 do... 500 In’a 23; per cont. 613¢ 6000 Fre In bonds. b8. 973, 18000 Erie ban of 1885 95 600 Ill Cen RR. bas... 600 LIC RR bds p 08 6000 38 85 s ee 533 SS8238ec8s ESS ca 3 # eeese CITY TRADE REPORT. Sarunpay, Fed. 25-6 P. ASHES were in less request, at $6 75 for pearls ag for pow, per 100 Ibs. Busapstcrrs —Flour was dull. and lower. The 4a travesctions embraced 9,200 pbis, ordinary to cho Btate, $8 25 a $8 453; mixed to Western, $8 2) 9 $8 50; and einer grades at pro, 5 * of Southern were confined to 1, 68% @ [88 87.4 w $8 6254 formixed to streigt) $8 8739 for favorite, and $8 87), 8 89 60 for fancy. bbl. We heard of mo importan: movements is rye ‘1, ocro meal, wheat, or rye. 5 ate and Western yory quiet, at 69¢ » 56c. per wards, The Gay's salina for s lct of damp, and 90c. a 92c. eliow, per bushel. floor. in balk, to fil ap, at Eifccrsprened: "160 com Balti; 600 5 bbls. turpentine, atdn 64. tierern bacon wire engaged st 478, bably in a Britieh ship, at 456; To Bavre rates ruled at 96c. To Californie, rates were mearorement, by medium Hay —The saies consisted or shipment, and 959. 6 Bors were day’s mov ; New O-leans ‘e and 860 boxes brown per Wurersy,—Gales of 360 bbis. prison transpired, ot ‘a 8lo., onsb and abert credit, per gallon.