The New York Herald Newspaper, June 4, 1854, Page 3

THE KNOW NOTHINGS. | Hrervatigte sdtteettual at icgnenuneanine . We believe those who belong | big STE ame, becguee thipmaking of sagute | aeiee The Progress of Know Nothingism, as far a8 | to it justify 4 7 cont 4 from . lay rt of merit, and because it enables them to it is whispered about that the t incum- ons. 0 Cee Re ho: > ergy | Seny all that may be imputed to them. This is not | bents in office who are Roma ‘ a toe i ‘a conse i 0 ia cy sepeped Of the "taken Row lt a ~ certainly the snapiess Whee Srmmonching Fee voters | elayed, and a literal destruction of community and throughout the country, in relation of this country. One thing, however, is beyond | pretension to office is to be exercised. This order tothe movements of the new American beige | doubt—and that is, that Ly objects of the or pi rag Ragriany OG Enea ferret onthe i e K Yothings, we have merican. lostility days, and an a « ton genesis gee a rao ues tatements of y to the Catholics—hostili- homogeneous mass will, no doubt, annihilate all collected from our files the following s' aspirants to office who are not connected with it. Au their progress and successes : exciting scene will be enacted at the next munici- NEW YORE | pal clection, which takge plone onthe 24th of May Nov. 11, 1853.—Daring the general election held 8s patriotic urious to contemy next, in consequence of unprecedented organi- hero in November last, y jon made | tion based zation, which will astonish the alien and Romaa its appearance among tt | Catholic San of our community. From authenic cans, who struck off the n | sources, ! understand they number nearly one thou- dates for H sand persons, and frequent meetings ofthe order war- Prison | list of Judges of | his country a native rantthe belief that they are steadily increasing in the Sup Mr. Slosson was | most unbldshing <b- numbers. Quite a strong array for a population struck off, . Blunt for District | gi tas much indanger somewhat limited. This!Know Nothing fraternity Attorney 1 person the name of we are of the Catho- will, no doubt, exercise great influence in the com- Chauncy and temperance can- tor school, whether ing contest, and it remains for the will-Le decapita- didate, ¥ after the | » Me ted unfortunates to prepare themselves for an-aljs0- Jute defeat; for such, under the sigus of the times, le NOW s will be the consequence.” OnI0. Preparations are being made at Clevelan! and are nearly completed, for organizing a large branch ion of the Know Nothings, and it is stated bent was elected ; and county canvassers appe that Mr. Blunt had just ; ; 4 parties that who appreci- y fromthem. di } , his’ baco Keep every majority of 60 Schafer 1 s rights and i were polled, and boast of o ‘are generous 3,000 men are ready to step into the ranks, to op- but a very small n and just, and there are who know why they pose, by all means in their power, foreign influence, This secret organ med to have affected | should be generous anc the whole vote of the city ; and now it was that the | would not be ——_— great power and secrecy of this order was made ap- | ing way to ground Religious Intelligence. parent to all. | ¢ 5 x 4 Rev. W.S. oo . ie Of aatarealit ati ae a Prensa Wed Avie cna teres Noth- ev. W. S. Corbit having been. transferred from De. en es M pe eraly s ahaa thee. . ie snow Nothing pele aly ran eared the New Jersey Conference to the New York East way was attacked by a mob of Know Nothings, de- | ing party if it expects to maintuin itself upon su Conte chpiie hee Bag a ey me manding the instant release of a preacher named | a platform as that we have referred to. Our word Mothowist By Pl Ohi Na st Parsons, whose denunciatory language of the Pope for it, its leaders, who happen to be anti-Catholic, Methodist Episcopal Church, and all Roman Catholics, created a serious disturb- | will oftener sce the inside of a tavern than a church, Religious services have been resumed, and will be ance at the foot of Third street, Nast river. and are quite ready to let foreigners vote if they held every Sunday, in the spacious tent corner of eld in the Park | will voteon their *ide—promising to them, if they | Seventh avenue and Thirteenth street. will, all the offices which the Know Nothing philoso- | Rey. Dr. Bellows, of the First Congregational (Unitarian) Church of this city, will preach this a single neighborhood. Take a Catholle | morning in Williamsburg, at the Odeon, corner of , to instance: whet man, whether native or South Fourth and Fifth streets. ign born, would see that family, doubtless aa OnDrmAnions well-behaved and as well-sustained as his own, de- | iyo Roy. J. 8. Gallup was ordained and installed ‘aded into an inferlor? What man would not re- | 1 nati, ol Esse: ian with high scorn, the idea of suspecting that astor of the Congregational Church at nb ci n c Know Nothings being arrested on a charge of bur- | family? What. man wonld hesitate to take ugh a| ‘onn., on the 17th ult. pits having forcibly entered the office of John bor by the hand, and invite him to his hokse? INSTALLATION, j just, as we hope alido, who and particularly Roman Catholicism. detected in the act of giv- Macnee rie ri suspicions and foolish jeal- the Mayor on the Sunday prev | phy primarily refuses to them. Let us narrow this idea fam sons. his meeting spee Chauncey Schaffer, Messrs. Buckman, Parson: fier, Ridenburgh and others, relative to the right of Tree speech, Xe. 4.—The city was thrown into a great tafe of itement, arising from the fact of three hiliot, 81 Nasgau street, and stolen therefrom papers, might, and the fool might, but notasen- The Rev. Wm. Theodore Van Doren was installed oks, and other insignia of the Know Notting or- | sible ani rightminded man. . | pastor of the Church of Ramapo, on Wednesday, anization, of which Mr. Elliot was a member, But there is a wider and healthier view. No , the 17th ult. ies were, after an exciting investigation, | American—and those who attach them#lves to ., INVITATIONS. e acquitted by the magistrate. Mr. Elliot showed | these one-idea creeds are always loudly American— Rev. Mr. Armiti re late assistant minister of St. some anonymous letters to the Police Justice,wherein | can find a warrant for proscriptive and intolerant | Jobn’s Church, in Portsmouth, N. H., has accepted it was stated that he intended to betray the secrets | parties in our laws. Our written laws are all against | 4" invitation to take charge of the pal of the Know Nothing party, and that his life was in | such organizations, and the common law, which is Church at Au; , Maine, and is about to take up danger. About this time a communication was receiy- | not a written law, has not an element that is not re- | his residence in that city. od by a Roman Catholic priest of this city from some | pugnant to any shade of nativism. Our Declaration The Rev. Samuel H. Higgins, of New Haven, one representing him-elf to be a Know Nothing, | of Independence, our federal constitution, our State | Conn., who had received a call from the Firat Pres- and offering to a8 the intentions of that order | constitutions, our whole policy in States and Terri- byterian Church of Columbus, Ga., has accepted, towards the Papal church for the sum of ten thou- | tories is against it; and yet those who submit to the and has therefore become the future pastor of that sand dollars. follies of Know Nothingism would be indignant if | church. Sonpar, May 28—One of the “Angel Ga- | told they were not good citizens, aud were hostile | Rey, Mr. Swain, of the First Baptist Church in briel’s” companions becoming rather abusive in his to the constitution and the laws. | | Worcester, Mass., has accepted the call of the Bap- Sngeses to the Church of Rome, while preaching | We presume a Know Nothing is also a man who | tist Church at West Cambridge, a few miles from on the steps of the City Hall, some Catholics in the | remembers nothing. Hecannot recollect the adopt- | jiogton, from which place the Cannon street church crowd thought proper to dissent from the views | ed citizens who probably fought at his father’s or | in this city lately derived their present pastor, the @ by the preacher, and were very roughly | his grandfather's side in the revolution and other | Rey, Mr. Banvard. handled by the Know Nothings, and only escaped | wars—who gave to the wounded and the dying the | “Rey, H. R. Knapp has received and accepted an with their lives by flying into French's Hotel. | aid of a friend, or who shared with the living the | invitation to return to the charge of the Greenport Burooxiyn, Lone Istanp, May 28.—A disgrace- | g ory of the victory, Such a man deserves to be a ful disturbance took Bie at the corner of Soils, | nO ae ; ee reas it, | Yonrs ago. and Atlantic streets, where were congregated some | _ Besides, how long, Mr. Know Not , Was two or three thousand persons, listening to tho re- | since your father came to this count f Some | A ait ener re eareentes marks of a preacher named Beach, some Catholic in ; years ago—some generations ago—you say. He gntevedion hia labore. arren, " the crowd, not eing with the sentiments of the | may have been the oldest inhabitant, or he may “ reacher, called him a liar, whereupon he was beSet | be the newest, but as he followed after the Indians, Rey. Gibbon Williams has ace) ted the call of the y the Know Nothings, and a general fight ensued | he was himself a foreigner; and pray, friend, what church in Laporte, Ind., and will commence his la- between them and the Catholics present, which | right have you, a foreigner’s descendant, to perse- | bors in June. finally ended in the defeat of the Know Nothings, | cute those who, like him, choose to settle among us? Rev. John Duncan has accepted a call of the who were obliged to retire to New York via the , You ought tobe ashamed of yourself. 5 First Baptist Church in Camden, N. J., to become | Catharine ferry. | We never knew any min who was nota pharisee | their pastor, MASSACHUSETTS, | ora bigot that did not :ctire from native-Americanism, DEATHS IN THE MINISTRY. A eae) ue 19, eer ea we find aes as ere it Mon ¢ nient, as he: i a ate politici encouraged by the vote of the Know | morwith himself as if he had joined a society agains’ ¥ "i Nothings in New York, reaching and arguing the | the Chinese, or had taken a lottery-ticket for specu- | ei ae Seanad ecns eee cause of Know Nothingism, and urging the consoli- | lations in the moon. So willit be with the Know | Gass ‘with Jo n Quincy Adams. dation of the villages of Cambridge and Brookline | Nothings, fter they have begun to know them- Tnitaris 1 with Boston, so as to counteract the foreign influ- | selves. Rey. Joshua ee We clergyman, ence in the latter place. | The Know Nothings are not, however, always | died in Boston on the lst inst., at the age of about Deo. 12.—We find that Benjamin Seaver, nomi- | native Americans. “We have seen, in some cases, Snare Sana at a A Ser of ibs nated for Mayor, was defeated by the Know No- | that adopted citizens have not hesitated to combine _ the class of 1807. A uring the past few years he has thipge. Seaver polled 5,776 votes, lacking 1,700 of a | among themselves, not as Know Nothings, but , lived in retirement. constitutional majori ° under various names, and for various objects. 1 Re CEU OS as Jan. 16, 1854.—Dr. Smith, elected Mayor by the | Many of the objections applied to sectional or one- | The Presbyterian Cae Wee of betes ddr Know-Nothings, w ugurated to-d: ideal orga: ions apply to all such combinations | J+ intend to build a handsome new church about the May 22—At anelection held for Alderman, the | with equal forc centre of the town, a few doors north of the Court Know Nothings succeeded in electing their candi- The fact is, the name of the new party is a good | House. date, Able B. Monroe, although they divided their one. It signifies a short career, anda rinicaloaa The old building on the corner of Main and Tal- votes between two men. The vote stvod as fol- end. Men cannot overturn governments in these cott streets, in Hartford, has been removed, pre- lows:— cays by a joke, Politics is too serious to be man- | paratory to the erection of the new North Baptist Know Nothingn aged by partisans with painted faces and silly catch- | church. s. American citizen leaves secrecy to despot- | On the 2lst ult., the corn nd paraphernalia to the stage. Know Nothing | Catholic church, to be e! suit the rowdies of a grent city, ee pale pe two miles from Chicago. f; n H th with their drunken orgies, and make the i caniied their whole ticket “by a majority of 21>, | night hideous with their revels; but it isa badge | psig pier Ape oh ered Ho eee ine fr the whole number of yor ed being only 56 ; theta true man wi! fing trom Bim with contempt. | yj¢, Bishop Lee was in "attendance, and officiated. CamnniwGE, March 6, 1854.—The regular whig | We cheapen our privileges by such follies, and help | during the ‘ceremonies. * ticket was knocked into a whole Continental army | our fees to laugh at us by these crude scheme:, | The i ii is 7: hi . of cocked hats. aning nothing but proscription, and everything Methodist ies cr cui ce Gesicee ns: f mee Stem, March 6.—The result of the election this ed a oM cso. umn communi- | Sduare, Baltimore, took place on the 28th ult. day proved a lamentable defeat to the whigs, which ‘ te a ee Nothi th li. The Rt. Rey. Bishop O’Reill: HI dedi to them seemed extraordinary, as the oldest inhabi- | Cation against ety Sened rect and eae S 1S aa i ‘sth on thy t » iad Meee eg ki ‘tant could not call to memory a defeat of the whigs - tlhe» cpr aaa th parties. The — jun ot (he r ih Villney “a We ne < a tely in that town before that day. Here the regular whig bs e et vs whig organ has two Ryeeacia agp hom | erecte ‘alls Village and West-Cornwall, Conn. candidate for Mayor received 481 votes and the Know for of the new party, and one against a £| | The new M. E. Church in North Bridgewater, Nothing man, Mr. Newcombe, 1,343. But in conse. | Stated that the Secretary of the Treasury has threat- | Mass., was dedicated on the Ist inst. Sermon by ence of Mr. N. refusing to accept the office chosen | &2ed ‘4 sonata as ie ith t ee department who | the Rev. Miner Raymond. ‘or him, Gen. Andrews, the Know Nothing candi. , M4y become identified, with the Know Nothings, oF | The Roman Catholic church lately buitt in Louis- date, was chosen by a majority of 740 votes over | Vote their ticket. ville, was dedicated on the 28th ult. to the service of that of the whig candidate. men on this ticket were also elected. rtily out of hu- | Rey, Ebenezer Hill died at his late residence in | Dem. | w Monroe. Cannon Woodman. Scattering. | igm 2,075 561 261 41 WatrTnam, March 6,1954.—The Know Nothings | ‘was established here about two the patron Saint of Ireland, St. Patric! X | Know Gels | _. CONNECTICUT. | ths since, ts from New York. It is said MISCELLANEOUS. Recently at Bridgeport there was a hotly contest- | Sumber eben: ie thoteen members. | Rev. N. C. Fletcher has resigned ab pastor of the fi ln, . ey al Pebacmeh and soy Mir Gat | Fremtberaaiann Gurr, May 26 | Universal Charehat Belfi Mas” were the candidates. When the ballots were count- THE KNOW NOTHINGS. | Church is ig fom athe ed great was their astonishment on discovering that | , The Know Nothings constitute an assoeiation who |), ‘io mew assume: Thos. H. Oakley, whose name had never been pub- | have their secret meetings, the proceedings of which ¢ arge of the Baptist Church in North , licly mentioned for the office, had been elected by « | are private, and not to divulged tothe profane 48°. mi ty of 856. Where the tickets came from, and | and unitiated vulgar. They are welcome, as far as | “A council of the Baptist Church in Steuben coun- | c r . | We are concerned, to keep their conclave aa dark ty, N. Y., have deposed and excluded from church ar ee ee and secret as they can. We have no desire to in- fiiowship the pastor of the church, Rev. Frederick Ou the Gth inst. the Now Brinswick charter clec. | SPect their penetralia, or to overhear theirmidnight | Kent. et | incantations. We may speak of what we have . burnham, Mass. = took place, and the Know Nothing ticket was | heard, nevertheless, rove led we adopt no ungene- PB pihefcine gn ree coor ph gn Congregational ‘ rons or unlawful methods to arrive at their secrets. | Church in that place. Campun, March 17.—The Know Nothing part We have received within two or three day ta | Lasse pucceeded in electing their candidate, Dr. bi Bs | journal entitled the Know Nothing and earicnn Pig sk aeeteon Sherali frie ag ye 1 etanel Fisher, for Mayor. The majority of Fisher over the | “Crusader. It is published at Boston, and is to ap- | he second © grease t is ra: feanaa Se other tickets was 400. pear for the present every week. The copy before | Lever eit = cht Kel ein PENNSYLVANIA, | usis No. 1, da ed May 6. The typography of the | Accepted the ¢ ay rear Purcaprirata, May 17.—Great preparations are | sheet is well executed, and its external appearance | TWentieth street, New being made in this city by the Know Nothings for | is neat and handsome. Its articles are made up of A meeting was held in ca on the 27th ult., the overthrow of the foreign candidate at the next _ sneers and invectives against Romanism, foreigners | to take the initiatory towards making a ofa municipal election, to be held next June. The ex- | of every description, and all sorta of foreign influ- | suitable lot to the Methodist Chorch South, upon citement among all politicians is intense. Thewhig | ence; they spel to the spirit of American nation- | which to erect the buildings of the Book Concern. party cannot stand unless supported by the native | ality, and declare that pens issues have no exist- | The following resolation was adopted :— American or Know Nothing party—the latter body | ence, except in name.” The style in which the arti- Resolved, t we will purchase and present to the belag very strong, the whigs, it is thought, will unite | cles are written is exceedingly coarse and un, | pet es icueinent Stor gtd lot in reve slovatng with them, At present, Know Nothings have | known, without anything like vigor or elegance— ayia oa jor eee buildings meces- nominated Judge Conrad for Mayor. Mr. Vaux,the | without even grammatical correctness. But this 1 sé: chy; hae ‘ie democratic candidate, has, it is'said, turned Know | new journal is intended as a “crusader” rather | Rev. Dr. Mc Fart he city, declined Nothing, 90 aa to secure as many of their votes as against Romanism than against any politieal sect or aed of “ Systematic and Practical Ne posible in opposition to that party's ip ee nomi- | doctrine; and, as it appears to us, is devoted more | logy” in the Genaal ten Syren rar to which nation. From this it would appear that Know | to religious than to secular objecta. It says:—“The | Was recent elected by the General Synod of the Nothingism is in great danger of swelling up and | great and formidable enemy of the country—that | Reformed yyterian Church. He remains in his ‘bursting in the City of Brotherly Love. | which, as Americans, we have to fear more than all | Present pastoral charge. Lanoasree, May 16—At the municipal election | others, is the Roman Catholic Church, and the tre- teld here those who were not known as cardidates , mendous power which it wields upon our national Tus CHARLOTTEVILLE AcapEmy IN Ruins—We fFere elected school directors by about 600 ma- | afiairs, Already its huge grasp, risonous and | are indebted to Deputy Sheriff St. John for the fol- rity over two regular nominated candidates on the | deadly, is laid upon our vitals!” ‘This is a new tact lowing particulars yi total destruction of the qnion ticket. The defeated candidates are Catho- | in physiology; if it be well founded, we are allin a | Charlotteville Academy, Schoharie county, on Wed- fics, and received only 70 votes out of nearly 700 | fair way to have a terrible fit of the cholera. nesday morning, May Sist, by fire. The Academy Ned. The successfal candMiates were, to all ap- | Hear whatthis Know Nothing jonrnal saysin rela- | js ynder the auspices of ints by fro, Conference; arance, astonished at the unexpected result, and | tion to the naturalization laws :— We advocate | the building is four stories high, of creek Sey and ‘cannot account for it. Like the rest of the com: | with justice and reason, the entire and tneond!- width,fand the number of mo oh ‘at the time of munity they know nothing abc ut it. | tional repeal of all naturalization lowe. has | ¢ catastrophe was upwards of eight hundred, half fiang visacrohon. j We have now, and always have had, are burlesques | a ane were females.” ‘The Ure originated in one ASHTD 4rd insults to, the very name of law. We) of the rooms in the fourth stosy, ¥ The approaching municipal clection, which comes | °"+ ts ow ine he days, erocelses 10.58 a highly excitable ; Should have no gen me os han og from the ignition of clothing ore. The Know Nothings are in the field in goodly | framed on the great eae Pe eon = Tend ine heat & Bove, ii which & ’rwe numbers, and have nominated Mr. Tovers for Mayor. | Men born out of a conc Tie tak seh » | bu ‘Phe inmates were out at the tinfe, am. Pefore Know Nothingism is increasing rapidly every day; | Should never be allowea 0 take Part ANY MaY | the discovery, the fire had reached the wainsvoating nearly all the clerks in the various departments are | Whatever, in the affairs of the “overnment of another | and ceiling and. made such rapid progress as to de- connected with this association. The Nebraska | country,” and so on. The artic.© concludes with | sy all attempts to suppress it. It originated about excitement being at an end, nothing else is talked | there words :—\ We say in respect 10 all naturaliza- Petcloce in the morning, and in less than one hour of here the local politicians, wh tion laws—repeal—repeal—repeal !” mene Of too paccons Of This soeney ee ere.NerY | Sho have given the foresoing passages asssvaples | Sd 8balf the entire ims Getreped Natalya National Intelligencer says:— - eee Be og Oy a pg Nothing | fire occurred when the ‘were in the lower The election fo this city is in. | Crusader—l re eir principles, densedl Pi yortet sits magebt moro than ordinary interest ‘astausg | into aamaller space, and placel ai the head tion of the building,and thus all Without in- , t hh . ‘from the peculiar and astounding princ!pies that are oon editorial column as a permanent istere We in iyi ar patie sp ring mak af ae c at work 10 control the election by novel and mysterious | for ita patient and attentive perusal. Read! read? donne; sii pretty Me ben beep Boh or Tt assorts that a now element, heretofore unknown to | 1. pp etaatanblaniion iow also saved, but still the lows will be heavy. The " - Repeal of all naturalization laws. Soaaeenoae tad atten ces Pont have bitter tetera | 2 None but native Americans for office. cava eave, Wa Woe teiestes thee tee tas inte our elestions, and which heve alone been considered | 3- A pure American common school system. shall cause but, little delay or interruption to the epppciets ad hae 4. War to the hilt, on Romanism ! pe pea a ats Mp BB ar RR (From the Washington Union, May 81.1 5. Opposition, first and last, to the formation of | [<7e45n be tondy foothe reception of the seholars, AN OLD IMPOSTER WITH A NEW NAME. military companies composed of foreigners. | of whom but abort fifty will losve fn conssquenoe of Ten years ago the native American party wasre- | |. The advocacy of a sound, healthy, and safe na- | the’ destruction. Charlotteville is in Schoharie coun- vived tinder circumstances which promised to secure | tionality. it a formidable and lasting organization, Fora few | . 7 Hostility to all Papal influences, in whatever | '¥, 00 the Charlotteville, on the Schoharie and years it floarlabed * but, form, and under whatever name. Charlotteville | plank road, some fifty Seed in riot ent. ye poetheien we 8. American institutions and American senti- | TOM here. The Academy has been in suc- of all those who differed from , men' She taut Rowen ond een Jene intl ne ate We ‘weeping proscription 7 . the most fldurishing and ts, and is al 9. More stringent and effective emigration laws. , vs oan ae record coed te aed ng tas thingy tai were. "Tho debris | 10, The simplest proteetion bed Pritestant. Inte | see ier whee ie view Ota lave ri fy however, has not yet been dis- | rests, ; , oe eed, while thers ate Tatilerumce, and __11. The doctrines of the revered Washington and Sues is remarkable. Had the fire occurred Sheets, and guiam in the land, there always his compatriots. anitiec by Kaen merwan would have been most is enough Lome 4 originate and to keep alive, 12. The sending back of all foreign paupers land- picinenati 1y Express, June 2. for a short space of time, something like a native ¢4 on our shores. j American y. It will have its peroxyans of suc. 13, The formation of societies to protect all! Dgarm Causey ny Gairr—The North British cons; it even be strong enough occasionally to American intereste. | Mail, under the head “A Broken Heart,” records defeat those who stand upon the greattraths, and 14. Eternsl enmity to all who attempt to carry | the death of Mrs. Brown, the wife of David Brown, whose integrity is often regarded as necessary tothe on the principles of a foreign church or State. carpenter on board the Liverpool ship Alpine, Cap- preservation of our free institutions. 15. Onr country, our whole country, and nothing | tain Hunter, which sailed from tee ee United Native Americanism, after having been greatly but onr country. States, on the Sth of February, and which has not yeduced in numbers and in circumstances, has re- 19. And finally, American laws and American | since been heard of. Mra. Brown's death was caused cotly emerged into new life under a new name. legislation, and deoth to all foreigy jufluences, | by:the inconsolate spriel occasioned by the euppored ‘La. appellstion of the rejuvenated combination ig Whether in high places or low | tate of ber busban (L. 1.) Baptist church, where he was ordained many | THE BRAZILIAN EMPIRE. Our Rio de Janeiro Correspondence. passage human of wine: The fresh w great a mit Pficer. | of Rio tone was Iaid of a | ed at Bridgeport, Ill, | The Board of Alder- Kaw Ouse: ainar Sat ah, ooded that an order of | Almighty God, under the name and ee of trees. | powerful look: | and fell back, | body upon the oar at every pull. ; In front lay the city, in & narrow plain, but extend- ing U] Every object stood out in bold relief under the bright sun and clear skies of the tropics. The back ground of the piiture was formed by lofty. mountains, clad to their summits in luxuriant green. White houses, scattered here and there, peeped from behind the Ru Javumo, April 8, 1854. Steamer Sonora— First View of Rio—Hotel Pharoux —Dinner and Bili—Brazilian Currency—Streets and Shops— Their Emperor's Garden—Avenue of Cocoa-nut Palms—Hospital of San Isabel—The Emperor and Empress-——The American Consul— “ Busses” in Rio—Health of the Turon. I arrived at Rio in the American steamship Sono- ra, twenty-two days from New York—a pleasant , fine weather, fine steamer, clean beds, and excellent table—all except the wine, and that was execrable. To me, you know, brought up, as it were, on pure juice, and iml#bing the genuine south- side with my mother’s milk, the quality and flavor of the wine I drank at dinner, are no secondary mat- ters. Fortunately, I had taken the precaution to bring with me a few bottles of the genuine “ L” brand, and thus escaped the suffering and qualms which would have been my lot had I beer foreed to | swallow those shocking *combinations of logwood, vinegar and sagar dignified with the name of wine. | In fact, these Americans, who boast their superior *outeness, though they can build steamboats and clip- pers, and some coarse affuirs of the kind, are sadly | deficient in that exquisite taste, that delicate appre- | ciation, which permits one to reach that highest of accomplishments, to be a perfect connoisseur Be Sonora had on board one of Pirsson’s condensers, which acquired so unenviable a re- putation in connection with the ill-fated San Franscisco. Its present performance may, be deemed a triumph for itself and its inventor. It bas kept one of the boilers entirely supplied with ater during the yorage, and the other to so n extent that the whole amount of saline de- posit did not form a scale exceeding the sixteenth of an inch. It was late in the evening, and ee dark, when we entered the harbor. Dim out! were all we could discern—strong fortifications and numerous pieces of artikery gaping at us with their iron muzzles. We anchored just inside, and three miles from the town. The quarantine regulations lines of objects no nearer approach till the visit of the health Even at distance long parallel dotted lines of light showed the direction of the streets, and axinounced the vicinity of a great and populous city. te was my first visit to Rio,and curiosity sent me on deck early next morning. The icent bay was all around us: Islands and headlands, covered with fortifications, bristling with cannon; fieets of merchant vessels of every nation, steamers and men of war lying at anchor. Numerous small craft of sailing vessels were moving lazily about, under sail or propia by long sweeps, fet by negroes, who rose from their seats cocaine the whole it of the and covering the hills in every direction. Down near the water were lens and | country seats, clumps of cocoa-nut e dis- | tinctive feature tropical §scenery—throwing it. | 3B their feathery branches to the sky. | About nine o'clock an eight-oared barge, with n | and gold stepped upop the deck, and announced | himself as the health officer. We had much plea- sure in informing him that there was no sickness on beard, and much more on being informed there was none at Rio. Another barge, green awning, green curtains, Brazilian flag, another functionary and gold, and the ing officer from the custom house steps on board. low we are at liberty to move up to the town. Our steam is up, and in fif- | teen minutes we are at anchor within a quarter of a | A functionary in blue | ‘in blae | flowers. orange ‘ad 2 Soaments for very rich, but, it struck me, too like Sp be on appropriate ornament for ladies’ heads. lions of there. vious scured, Tn its to drin | amount. Some of your readers who are expert at figures federal budge. and wel stable. dama; sive st legatior by the | of is on the in size ity of mile of it, Another quarter of an hour, anda shore | things boat landed me on the quay. wi ‘A traveiler’s first business is to find lodgings. | Ws Out of several hotels named to me! gave the pre- | eds it of every impurity, and its balm: ig! | ference to the Hotel Pharoux. wjth one part upon the water, and one upon the | it and airy, | Plaza de Palacio, its outside was astractive. But extern: ‘als are of little importance—let us see the | interior. We enter the salon & manger; it is clean | and comfortable, with lofty windows opening upon | | a balcony which overlooks the bay. It was French | are | —from Rio Janeiro to Monoluin—trom th Missia- | skppito the Nile—the inevitable Frenchman boils your soup and fries your omelet. I ongaged an | apartment, and ordered dinner for my party. ss yeu a copy, verbatim, of the bill for the di rf send inner, dul , made out and receipted. It shows how we fare and asa specimen of the currency of the country, proocoococo$ claret, The d | double wantec ee of a startling ner. To the uninitiated it does not a) The Brazil “oddest, and. t0 ee a bee , in the world. It is deci- wehees se neeaese nengeatey Ol alee wise 01 for 5 rea rat more than half 8 is a curiosity:— Scoccoscoooo oO oOo OOOO OOOOD Horm Praroox, Rio, 6 April, 1854. + 640 Pommes de terre. 8 ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° eoocosooseosoosooo oo Oooo OOS OOO To those who read French, it is useless to say that we had for dinner bread, butter, ale, St. Julien | allover. The French boast that they are born sol- | @ers—nées soldats. I think it is more true that the; rn cooks and restaurateurs. Go where will | bouquets o! it had poured all day, but it had clear- ed delightfully, with the sun partially o! sky, shade and sunshine. On the Plaza del Palace is a hackney coach stand, where you may take your choice from a variety—coaches, cabs, vo- lantes, barouches. All the drivers are in livery, and h eac in large letters in the back. I selected a ache, was decidedly seedy. Coachy, however, was smart, in an old blue livery coat, and gilt band round his | black,.varnished leather hat. The barouche was a cumbrous affair, with two rats of mules, I hada | “fat friend” with me. It seemed easier for us to carry the mules than they us. We stipulated for an extra pair, the hire to twelve as, with an extra milrea, oetenebly to “feed the mules’’—really had fallen into the sere and yellow leaf; in short, it | For the extra cattle we had to drive to the stable, some streets off. It took four men and two boys about two hours to harness, and then we found we had a lot of “donkeys wot wouldn’t go”’ They bolt- ed right and left, on to the sidewalks and into the front doors, but as for going ahead, they would not parted, and all the mules faced about to return tothe to belabor the leaders, while coachy in the box flogged the wheel mules for dear life. We went off with a rush, and, clattering through the narrow streets, produced a grand sensation. Once off the pavement, the drive to the garden is charming, most of the way in sight of the bay, with all its striking and ied acenery. The road is lined on either side with beautiiul gardens and country seats. High, mas- but through the arched an way you catch delightful glim) of orange groves | and cocoa-nut palms. The style of the houses suits this sunny clime—Italian er Oriental, with piazzas and cornices, iron railings and verandahs, painted in green or brilliant colors. Many of the gardens have statues, vases and fountains. Several of the foreign order, and does great credit to the taste and , made wings of aes garden is, as you know, one of the jo. Three daysago I determined ona drive | It was adelicious morning. The day pre- L 4 and just the right mixture of blue e has its number conspicuously painted | my days it had been splendid, but now it ik the driver, It was not an unreasonable may amuse themselves by reducing it to money. After immense efforts, they got under way nt the length of a block, when the whiffletree We were obliged to heave to, and repair This time ve had two men with cudgels one walls screen them panes: oe vane ornamented gat ns have their residence on this road, marked armorial bearings of their respective coun- tries over the entrance. We saw the American | eagle, the lion of Britain, and, I believe, the tri-color ce. The Vee covers an extent of many acres, and 1, plea! pla laid out and planted. Every variety of tropical plant is, of course, at home. jose we cal “exotic,” and carefully cherish as the pride of our greenhouses and conservatories, grow here exotic, and flourish luxuriantly in the open air. Roses, too, of every name and hue, and many other southern pla and flowers, srpest to thrive as well here as their native soil. of trees, intersect each other. In one part a rivu- let, tumbling down a succession of steps, forms a cascade, whose waters —— at last in a s.nall lake, avenues, of various sorts bosom of which a variety py Fee and on of tropical birds were mise themselves — fla- mingoes, with their dazzling scarlet plumage; par- rots and parroquets, of many brilliant colors. The pride of the garden is the avenue of cocoa-nut palms. It might rather be called a colonnade—a awning and curtains, the Brazilian colors floating at | Shae of _nature’s own planting —surpassing in | at the stern, came alongside. and effect all human architecture. This avenue is half a mile in length, and as you look through, it seems twice that. Every tree forms a beautiful natural column, with exac' cee, and shape, round, smooth and tapering, terminating in a beautiful capital of spreading alm branches. GravejJed and rolled as smooth as a oor, about forty feet Wide, the avenue forms a de- ae promenade. e whole garden is kept in the most fe iberal- his imperial mee I have enjoyed few more than this visit. The air of the garden licious. The heavy rain of the day before exhaled nothing but sweet perfumes. would gladly have spent much more time here; but the day was drawing to a close, and a peculiar sen- | Sation about the ep! rum be; remind us | that th ere were other desirable thi besides flow- ers and perfumes. Our mulesthought so, too, and galloped back im a twinkling. A dinner at the day. * Pharoux” terminated agreeably the labors of the Yext morning was quite differently occupied, in San Isabel. walking throngh the great eee of A very intelligent young Brazilian,a student of | medicine, was my cicerone on this occasion. This soup, fish, cutlets, potatoes, abaca, custard, | coffee and eegare. Tosome of your readers who have not been in the tropics, the abaca, or abacaté—English, la lanation. It isa fruit in | seeme: nce, when ripe, it resembles a hard custard, | dessert, with wine and » It is cious, and quite wholesome. aa dinner was well enough. You would eat just ee same at any French restaurant, from Paris to = is the figures—eleven thousand, two hun- ia, all except the seas but the curious amount for a din- what. lian currency is the oddest, to stran- mill of federal currency—twenty reas, a little more than a cent. Our er, therefore, costs 11,200 reas, or, cyphered out, some seven or eight dollars. A reas make one silver coin @ milrae, about the size of our half dollar. There is no silver coin of/less value than the milrae; then you come to copper. Forty reas make a copper coin of the size of a silver dollar, a most clumsy, un- wieldy coin. The old Spartan iron money maa we been a fool to it. One day in Rio, I step into | the market to purchase a little fruit, some few cents worth—I presented a milrae. Conceive my handful of these copper coins, called = | by the English sailors. I tried to explain 1 some silver, but the old ne; . Locking for eome portable article in which to invest my four or five pounds of copper, I boy a Fran- ciscan iriar, begging, with a Fowl in hand, in which to receive the alms. Seized with a sudden fit of charity, I damped the whole load into his bowl. He was literally overwhelmed, and showered I know not how many benedictions on me. But to retarn to the hote! Pharoux: Dinner over, ® pretty French woman who presided as dame du comp. witha sieur,” to, in eve! throug! walks. tion down Clim! ~tear, made out the bill, a copy of which I have given you. _# bad the prettiest intile hands in the world, (except one pat) and received the money smile, a glance of the ¢’** and “ Merei Mon- all with a grace only a Frenc.. ¥0B#0 is equal ‘We ret out to view the town. In Rio I was a.°e® ably di inted. I had some how connected witu it somet! of the effete, worn-out aspect of and the ot! Spanish American towns. I found are directly age er the of of li and acti ; streets thron, with ple; heavily laden , drawn always by mules, driving direction; gangs of negroes trot merril; the streets, singing as they go, bearing y their heads sacks of coffee ani other mer- chandive, Numerous carriages pass to and fro— coaches, carts, barouches, omnibuses. Houses mostl one or two stories, of brick or stone, stuccoed, roofe with heavy eemi-cylindrical tiles. Streets very nar- row, scarcely more than fifteen feet; narrow side- walks and icy in the centre. There is scarce room for yebic! . This inconvenience is ol les to pass, even by going on the side- i belated” by a regula- uiring them to pass up certain streets and ers. A hand or finger at the corner points the direction. The narrow streets have the advan- giving you always shade on one side or the ‘not @ small one, under a sun. ge yh Hill, on the it of the town, the whole city retched before me like a m: a dense mass of brick and mortar, looking for all the world as ifit had been built up solid, and then va- ee hewn ch —— The pub- ic are vei ' palace poor affair—a low, three building of white stucco; it seems better ot a very ¢l shops we saw, though gonorally small. The Was ope Glied guticely with fonther isavery large establishment, containing, as I am informed, three thousand beds. The building, or rather out in dows around ies for fect cl out conduce ae eae results. The nurses are ive a light, cheerful appearance, and great facili- re anion. Iron bedsteads through collection of buildings, is very extensive, and encloses several large courts, handsomely laid walks and parterres, and planted with flowers. Of the hospital, there is an old and a new Wh The arrangements of the latter are in a sty! elegance I have never seen surpassed. The war | are very large, with lofty ceilings, and large win- e of ds loor to ceiling. The floors are inlaid m | with light and dark woods. The walls, to the height of four or five feet from the floor, are faced all with blue and white porcelain tiles, which in dresses of stuff, with neat white muslin bonnets, fashioned like a sun bonnet at home, with tor pear—may require exp! size and shape a very large pear, grow- | Monsieur,” as we ; but the | ing on a tree not unlike the pear tree, having, how- | | ever, instead of seeds, a large pit in the centre. In | Tear. in the court we tu. Had, however dismay pat eye da id similar occasi this | quently on féte days, anc ions; an: ; When the market woman gave me for change a | csp a iret phe at full gallop a squadron of light horse, next the imperial state coach, poy | ne horees; two carriages drawn by mules fol » with the maids of honor aud gentlemen in waiting. Another squadron of light guards brought up the We follow: Party had just alighted and entered the cape falling over the shoulders. They cheerful, an ve us a polis “Bon jour, faces wore that officer, with, pon his breast, and the head uncovered. seemed about 30 years of , and of features more German than iriemcane think, an Austrian i eee ide, dressed in white po a A cont f° six feet and some inches, she about four fect nothing —very short, very fat, and very di . She looka consi bly his senior. A large head, planted with- | out any neck, in the midst of immense shoulders and bust, adds to the grotesqueness of her appearance. ‘As she passed out she kept nodding int bobbing tothe people, right and left, reminding me for all the world of those ridiculous figures which you set rolling, and they go on bobbing their heads ad infint- tum. The face, however, wore an expression of guilabilige which redeemed its ugliness. A daugh- ter or r of the present King of Naples, the hi Bourbon noge gave unmistakable evidence of her descent. They have had two sons and two daugh- ters, Both the former are dead, and as four have elapsed without any blossoms on the imperial ee it a feared there will be no male heirs. med a great misfortune, as the government not too able,” a i =f e ince being io, I have been privileged to the acquaintance of the America| Consa, ae Scott, of Ass Seg and yesterday I had the pleasure to dine with him at his country residence, about three miles from town, where he lives en garcon, with his son, Captain Scott, a distinguished officer of the Vir; volunteers during the Mexican war. We reached the Consular residence by an omnibus. The “’buases” of Rio are quite a8 comfortable, though plainer and less flashy, than their Broadway prototypes, varying in size; some drawn by 4 others by four mules; but each bears on the lie, in jicuous characters, the number of paseo it is allowed to carry, and the regulation is strictly en- forced. Our “ ’buss” said twelve, and when we had taken that number we were “full,” though a Broad- way Jehu would have stowed another dozen, at - least. Except our party, all were Brazilians. Di- peculiar waxen, sickly look the atmosphere of the sick room always imparts. M; ip Bed formed me that the medical staf the hospital con- if a custard can ke called hard; in flavor it resem- | sists of about thirty physicians and }) and | blesa afm ape fen a peer yeep tae poco begay on tan ‘of inlernes, several | It is eaten as a salad, with oil and vinegar, or a8 | externes. There is a medical school at Rio, and one sae with about three hundred students in ‘The term of study is six , and the can- besides etic Le Lona language, didate, | wee aN phvaeae "What toe wae. ingliah, ry piettiees eames sam ee vicdioe, tink & fie Shoa try is the United States, turn out accomplished by the thousand after two years study, » tongue but their own to begin with, nary education but the three great R’: riting, and rithmetic 1” Thad never in my life been permitted to breathe the atmosphere, or bask in the sunshine of royalty, and I must confess to some curiosity to see a where medical colleges too, RE know no no prelimi- his palace, ten or twelve miles from Petropolis, but visite 4 They drove to the opposite side of ce. ed, to gain a nearer view. The ee to look at the turn out. imy had a body of dark green, with lining of range colored brocade. In its prime it no doubt been splendid—now it was passé. The horses return, which w , an hour was very hot, and I very tires, “4 varfous func- ol tio em! We jiled the time by rving tae * | ‘ ‘civil, ecoleetastical, and mi. ***Y> a popped in and’ out—foreign ambassadors, ..” 8° 2d coats, general officers in splendid “4 forms, some with orders upon their coats; docto. ¥ of law, in long satin gowns, with high ruffs about the neck; priests in long cassocks and shaven crowns, and I not how many beside. At last, when itience was all but exhausted, a rand flour- our ish of trarupete announced the imperial approach. Officers of the , courtiers, and gentlemen in waiting, ushered fhe way—the Emperor and Em- press brought up the rear. Don Pr edro Il., Emperor of the Brazils, would be @ strikingly bandsome eee, Sree: The air of | royalty bf heighten the c | tt but the nlp ¢ rank is but tl inea stam, The man’s the man for a’ that.” A well shaped head, wide, handsome forehead, clear blue eyes, straight nose ,a well shaped mouth and chin, handsome brown hair, moustache and whiskers —a form tall and well devel || together form ique not |. eta aaa eee ~a learnt would be soon. We | stream, opposite the fa 3 rial | Leld on until the weight of the torrent had rectly vis & vis to me eat a Brazilian lady, ver well dressed, going apparently to dine wit son poe out ihe eat She works rofusion of orna- |» aN a cent fan. Though dark, she Tel regulss fons dazzling lack ayes, regular white teeth, and a slight but graceful figure. All these particulars, sitting opposite, 1 could not, you understand, avoid noticing. oe ze lay in a Cage direction oo that ec ror’s en, but was very simila: succession Of hansecan houses, with fe abe ond orange groves. A halfan hour brought us to the Consul’s door, when we were entertained with true old-fashioned Virginia Hospitalier, and could not help Taree en we took our leave, that all Gen. Pierce’s foreign appointments could not have been equally happy. Rio is fectly healthy at present, and there has been no fever here for three years. It is not cele- brated for clean streets,; but coming as I did from that metropolis which enjoys the cleaned repu- tation of being the dirtiest city in C! ndom, supeered the pink of neatness, 'o vessel leaves immediately for New York, so I shall send this, via Cape Horn, by the Sonora. See . if she does not carry you the latest dates. Ll. Our Bermuda Correspondence. Hamitron, Bermuda, May 19, 1854. Military Neos—The Potato Crop—Naval News— The Legislature, §c. 4 ‘The fifty-sixth regiment, at present stationed here, will be relieved in about two months time, by the twenty-sixth, (Cameronians,) at present .gta- tioned at Montreal, when they will proceed to England. The potato crop is now pretty much taken up. A finer one has not been raised for many years. They are very sound and good, all that I have seen. The runaway convict, John Smith, after having | been abroad in the islands for a week, without being captured, took a boat and proceeded to sea on Sunday night, the 7th instant. On the Wednes- day morning following, he was seen some distance off, in a southeasterly direction, and four whale boats, well manned, went off and be ae him. It appeared that ‘during Tuesday night he was steering for the light te Gibb’s Hill, supposing it to be on @ vesse Com. Pasco, R. N., succeeds Capt. Jervis, R. N., as Deputy Superintendent of the convict establish- ment at these islands. The Legislature of these islands assembles for the despatch of business on Tuesday next. Col. Williams, R. E., is still’ administering the government of these islands, no governor being yet : ppointed. Emicratine To THE New TeRniTories.—The Savannah Sentinel, published in Andrew county, on the west line of Missouri, thus speaks of matters , across the State line:— Settling in Nebraska-Kansas, we learn from the Gazette and other sources, is going on rapidly. Hurfdreds of claims are already taken up oppo: St. Joseph, and a meeting of the settlers hel |. Not a ay eee but new additions are made to the number. The Indian agent has issued a proclama- tion trespassing on Indian lands, but little heed is paid to it. The “work goes bravely on.” Nor do the hardy pioneers seem to fear the“ cold steel of the bayonets” with which they were threat- ened last fall. Impatient of the unreasonable de! of Oran Todi titles organizing the ry, the ve determined to take the Megs Pp the matter in their own ds. The appro- riation was made more than a year ago, and enough elapsed for eee to be done. The masses are now on the move. It is as we predicted. Nor can the movement be arrested. Asa cabinet officer observed to us last fall while at Wi 5 ‘as well attempt to roll back the torrents of Ni- fagara as to force back the onward march of the Anglo-Saxon race.” The strength of the present movement may be estimated from the fact that the ancient enemies of Nebraska have joined in the cur- rent. Even Bro. Davis, of the Cycle, who censured Col. Benton for intimating that the unappropriated portions of that Territory was subject tofettiement, and denounced any such settlement prior to the or- ganization of the Territery, has now, we learn, ° Series a Be @ portion of a) a ‘erritory, unguestionably still belongs to the Indians. Surely if it was eal us Benton and his friends recommended, to occupy even the { Tue Stone Baines at Cussrer, Conn., Carer Away BY.THE FLoop—Mrmacutovs Esc. the 27th ult. the stone bridge at Chester, Conn., was ewe} Ci eB Red of the swollen stream, te- two story frame of J. G. froberte, and the dam of factory of Grol & €o. The Essex Mirror says:—' the report came that Griswold’s dam was giving way, several of the workmen rushed to the spot, and were stand- ing upon the earthway near abutment at the - north end of the dam, when the ground on which oe ter ee They rushed up the bank, but one of their number, a young man named Emory E. Watrous, was caught in the crum- bling mass and drawn into the htful vortex. His comrades gave him up as lost. It seemed as though a only could save him. His head ane above water for a second a few rods below where he went in, and then dis: red beneath the mass of rushing, petee: ‘tum! rabbish with which he was surrounded. A distance far- ther on he Se mae ha above the surface, and made for a clump of 3 on the south side of the This he reached, and and then made for the shore. Trees twice f those to which he clung, and within arm's reach , fhim, were carried away by the rushing torrent, -uthe was saved. We understand that he was o bruised as to be unable to leave his bed the A fire broke out on Sun: it, about 8 o'clock, ta taresall Oy peuareene Mesers. Eddy & Posey, on bel G between Franklin avenue and Morgan street. ¢ firemen were early on the ground ; but because of the diffi- culty of making entrance, much time was lost, and great damage was done. The fire began somew! about the centre of the store, an} consumed Principal portion of the valuable silk goods of the establishment. The damages are yee, esti- matcd from $12,000 to $15,000. Sappposed have been eet on fire by an incendiary. Rady & Posey were insured to the amount of $22,000, hold- ing securities for $6,000 upon the Home Mutual In- surance Company, $6,000 upon the State Mutual, and $10,000 upon the Home New York Company. Their stock amounted to about $40,000. One of the* firm assures us that in a few days their stock will be Cutirely re-supplied, when all their customers shalt be .secommoda' it. Louis Intelligencer, May 20. Fugit, V8, Case 1x Convmsus, Onro.—An eldov- ly woman «*f color made her appearance last Sunday * the house . one of our citizens, on Town street, and represented herself to be a fugitive from the “peculiar inatitatioa,” Her story excited a warns interest in her behalf, ahd the family humanely con- tributed a number of articles forthe supply of her temporal wants. The next however, charity was ata discount, upen the being divulged that, she had made an “unreserved’ dale” of the aiticles in question, and taken whiskey in #xcimnge. Hos. tile as ehe undoubtedly is to the Fugitive Slave jaw.” it is shrewdly er that she bas no great poe | tiality for the Ohio Liquor law.~—Columins Dema- erat, May 31