The New York Herald Newspaper, July 18, 1854, Page 2

Interesting from Japan. OUR YEDDO CORRESPONDENOS. Yuvo Bay, Jaram, April 3, 1864, The City of Veddo—Redundant Population of the Empire—Political Economy of the Emperor— —Seene ut the Interview with the Commissioners * Various Dishes at the Feast—Tvade, Agricul: | ‘The squadron ia at anchor in Yedo bay, (spelt Jedo on the charte—pronounc d Edo, by the Ja- | pansse,) and within eigh . miles of the city of Yedo, | whieb, it iaaaid, contans a opulation of two mil- | Hons, ‘Thoempire of Japan is supposed, from the best information, tohave a population of over ixty mil- Noma, whe ar wholly sustained by the empire, ‘whiok is in geographica] extent not much more thaa Ske British isles. May not this redundant popula- ties bea subject o late of much concern to them? If this large population were to have a blight in the rice crops, aa the Irish bad in the potato crop, ‘what an evil it would proiace! Rice i+ so great an article of componna in their diet that nothing short Of farinacjous food could supply the place of it. Buok isthe demand for rice that the sides of hills are terraced and irrigated for the production of that article. Has the yield always answered the demand? And can the yield be made in the ratio to the in- rease of population? We think not. China is near by,and could supply them when in want of that article; but China has a population of tw hun- dred and forty millions, who, like the Japanese, are chiefly sustained by it. It must, therefore, be seem that Japan will have cither to find an outlet for her redundant population, or open her markets to commerce. Pernaps not une idea bearing on the @abject, worn threadbare by political economists, has over entered the brain of his Imperial Majeaty; butwhen he was informed by our Presideat that bis empire “contained a great abundance of coal, which our steamers in going from Califoraia to China most use,” he then saw mountains of wealth, and the importance of making @ treaty of amity and commerce with us. [his was the key which unlosked Japan for us, The Commodore met the Japanese Commission- ees on the 8th inst. The escort of officers, sailors, and marines, in all aboat five hundred, disembarked in offeotive order. The three sides of a square were quickly formed: the marines formed the Tight, with their right on the beach, and the bottom of the Square; and the sailors formed the left, with their lefton the beach. The three bands of the steamera ecoupled different positions of the square. ‘The officers formed themselves inside the square iate two lines, about ten feet apart, facing towards the beach. In the rear and outside of the square wes ®@ crowd of Japanese looking on with in- Serest. Time having been given to the whole es- Cort to form in position, the Commodore shoved off from his flag steamer and landed, with two tall ne. grees on his right and left, bearing each the Ameri- cam ensign. He was received by the officers, and | by the marines and sa:lors, under a salate of “ pre- Seat arms,” followed by martial music from the bend of the Mississippi. A mlute was fired from Isanohes at the beach, in honor of the og by . Proceeding through the dou! nied building expreaal’ @ small recess formed at the and tables in two rows, pa- the lett side from the en- lively colored Canton crape, emselvea according to ee front aad at sh upper Opposite size was a long single seat, , covered like the others, and unoccu- with a i | itt ft is i i if i Fh E | i ia re [ bi f [ : Eo tke pce, of chase there wet ait paca: of gi was aper for the windews, which threw a soft light rants room. after the officers were seated, the Japanese five in number, seated themséMtes the Comm: y y ig Canton crape and twilled silk of plain and various patterns; one of whom was a ‘end the second in authority in the kingdom. one the commissioners was a Japauese, spesking Datch, who took his position on the floor between them and the Commodore, kneeling, with head bent low; and theu shiftiny his positioa from one to the other, to interpret, he crawied on and feet. Such is the custom t» be ob- werved in the presence of him who is high in authority, The Commodore's interpreter was a Hollander, and attached to his suite. fhe Dutch have had for i two last eprtation a ray ont trade with japan—with only one port—Nagasaki. ue or two veasels are permitted annually to trade there. eee ae ig are reqaired to obtain e Dutch language. f ge. i fly E Beil was informed taat it was better. Another sa- at mee time, being fired by the launches ; that the salute was in honor of the Japan. The Commissioners returned the Commodore, and informed him that recess was for his reception; but that it mot admit more than five persons with them. this receas was a table, with seats on each side, 5 : E [ fli Ba dreased with lively colored Canton crape, the whole | looking like an ice cream box. The Commodore, with hie suite of four selected, and the Japanese Commissioners, retired to it, and were curtained from view. Let it be said here that the Commodore fora moment. A preparation was immediately to regale them. In came Japanese, richly attired in Canton crape and silks, with small, beau: tifally japanned stands, on each of which was a cup weak tea, without sugar or much fiavor; ith other japanned stands, having on cach a piece of cake, like that of sponge, and two ofgugar candy, one like cream and the other common t scent; now with others, larger ‘and more elegant, ba two saucers filled hee fish, and resembling— coloring matter of a rich yellow, pink, and blue it contained—candy; with fish were two seseeeaad cuntincet, wale a a fish or oyster soup; in one saacer, with the fish, e 4 i 60) sana japanned bow! of wore three different kinds of ared vegetables— | the white redlahy” 9c as horse | he second, raw cabbage, cut in | third, a small, white vegetable, Knives, forks, nor spoons, the the officers to provide them- les. They use, like the Chi- So taving a round ope | wing @ peculiarly un- taste, was little eaten; bat the ou wae On id with the fish, was also an r, iuto which was poured a sweetened sackee, a spirit ich tasted like Italia, distilled | They were ever ready to b it, from a vessel like a tea and seemed surprised when 'y hia sancer. This mark of ae ye in erery other | over, liquor is good nai visiter. 4 ci | having been closeted with the | Commissioners about three hours, embarked, aod H i g ? ‘ é q i E f Zé F i | f his whole eacort, in the same order as on landing. | seeks to retarn to the flesh pots of Egypt, by means | pietely paralyzed, not being able to move hand or ‘The better classes of Javanese sre highly refiaed |. of worate from Spain? If Honduras has | foot; entertaining, as most Irish persons do, a great and thelr manners soft and Stantug. | not tan the sep of which ae is sacha oe dread for faskes? he felt. alarmed for the satety of ‘The cast of face and — of the Japanese | been from ae ee bp) respond to | his child, not knowing the astare of the snake or and a stamp the two races with the same Rice poy nm os egy d n cither | the extent of the influence on his child. His blood be- origin. the nose of the former has Costa mh ee becanse not in | came almost clogged in his veins, and groaned in per- nenoe, and the eye a less ‘accordance policy or prinetples, fect agony,which caused the snake to become alarmed pression igs the yo | and fide away into the creek. em child then — Wi |) INSTE: ROKEN.—| ely spran; feet and ran home, appare! Bie the that of Holland, pena Last by TOON Coa rote ehas tas | suueh NigKteted, Hor father fellowed ber, Pet aeeee few junks are only permi late Lothrop, Esq., of this town, by his will, | fused to answer any questions, and he then resolved trade ot Neguaki. pesioted aba (We pases previo te hia h, dis- | to detain his child at home, but he was advised to Ta.the ars of caltivating the inherited two of his children, ani with the excep- | it her to go again next day to the creek, and to of enlorging and tion of = legney of ten thousand dollars to third, | follow her and kill the snake. Next morning she are The indi. | ten years after his decease, left the great | tooka piece of bread again and went out to the Teeny soa | Balk of his large estate (vurionsly estimated ‘from | creek, her father followed her with his gun in his , gad now, , Ie - | $100,000 to twice that sum) to Me. Coarles Albro, | hand, and as soon as the make made his sppear- eteol and anaonnning for several his principal business agent st | 9nCe shot him th the head. The child areca ia surprising. vi | Ho) ‘here was no question as to the validit the snake sqni: and worked himself a: is collected from the urasi tree. An incision | of the will. We now learn that Mr. Albro, wil awhile and then died; the child in the meantime re- in the bark, fro: praiseworthy liberality, han voluntary made ‘a libe- | Covered from her swoon, but was immediately seized ; With this collected and | ral division of the equally with the several With spasms, acting in a manner resembling the woodenware and | kins of Mr. Lothrop, giving them the sam | Writhing of the snake, and finally died at the same ‘The pe of $42,600, to be pala tn instalments, | moment the anake did, apparently in the greatest ‘Their himself it lebts Q scarcity of pasture pee fo oor pe Mr. Lothion. This ts an lraeaae | “artis horribte, and at the same time melancholy given to rice as of such as we have seldom recorded; and | o¢eurrence ta the first we have heard of for @ long are M6 Oy gr while it is a eacrifice which Mr. Albro can well af- | time, and in fact the first we ever knew of where | . B:, 8 ford, it is one probably which be will never rogret | We could positively vouch for ite Ling ho a the possoaton 0 Saving metenatinmnien Gasette, | the Yong Me snake fascination, but if they enter ba shore and closeted, vith the Japanese | tain bts on this subject hereafter, the rela. | 2 &7 lst Inst. the treaty was eee So nae a = than i oa ves usin Japan or » tro good ra, Sica all of oer sispieg may have access to (water, wood, and fresh provisions, with the right to seven sates inte the conatey from ag po ral to be any ‘m on payment gold 0 Amal wr wo one frevh provisions Yo be paid for. + Chought that fn two months a treaty of com: be effected. quired after the health of the Com- | who was recovering from a short illness, | Commodore instrasted his inter- | and the other an | ‘Very Late and Interesting from Honduras, Our Havana Correspondence, ‘We bave received files of the official Gazette of | ; Havana, July 3, 1864, Honduras, up to the 15th of May, and letters and | Reminiscensee of Admiral the Viscount Duquesne— advices from the capital, up to the Ist of June. His Policy in Cuba—The Gray Eagle at anchor— It appears that order reigns in the State. As pre- An Intended Visit to her—Business at Havena— | viously announced, the attempted invasion of the Trade Report. State, in the month of April, by forces from Guate- We awoke this morning with the astounding in” mala, indirect violation of an existing armistice, | telligence that France had los’ another sdmiral— proved a total failure. The Gazette publishes offi. inglorionsly aacrificed to the vomito. That he was cially the char’er of the Honduras Inter-oceanic born here proved no guarantee for iis life; he died Railway, which was finally ra‘ifie? by the legiala- | with all the offensive symptoms of the disease in ture on.the 28th of April last, This charter is per- ' ita most malignant type, at or near 4 o'clock haps more liberal in its provisions than any yet this day, and balf hour guns from the French conceded for any similar purpose, and moreover squadron proclaim the death of Admiral Vis- places the relations between the company and the count Duquesne. He had the prejudices per- State on a basis so plain ard simple, and withalso . taining to his lifo associations, bat he was mutually advantageous, as almost to preclude the an estimable man and a valuable officer possibility of difficulty or misunderstanding arising | of hiscountry, andthe French navy will feel the between them, The following is 9 summary of its loas of his intelligence in h’s profession, his gal- provisions:— | lantry and his active zeal in promoting the honor, Seo. 1 concedes to the company the Psapp i a | the comfort, and the security of those entrusted to Ce aan? wate oerallwey, | bis command of the service, to which all his daysof een satura ppateriala, necoeaar: 4 manhood have been sores: a, ipa Lary * omgeed - | His peculiar conduct unauthorized < ic the tion of | , Mena the contrat re concoed fo cast, terra | structions, is of no consequence, and may be es- for eeventy years from the completion of the work pro; | *eemed obly a8 innocent play or coquetry, with 01 01 4 fe vat th fod of whicn time the State may puvslane powers that felt the want of something else he Spee 06 & le vacate; or extend the charter,in to rest their hopes upon than the Bleck ra setriden ball have f | Warrior, the ever faithfol Cubans ae eT eda publle oF teivate und ‘concetes to | alty of 8 worn and d soldiery, the company a space of two hundred yaris on each side the homes, the green hills of of the line of the road; free use of ail timber, etone,or land, and the cool springs of the is no other natural materials; free use of all the rivers and matter—he has gone where the nothingness of these harbors of the State; and freo introduction of all ms- | things will be 4] t to his goal, neck. chines, instruments, provisions. and other materias for | oning there we have nothing to do, We are not | the construction and use of the ruad Native laborers employed on the road are exempt frou civil or military | #dvised aa to the course eg ye yr life ice. The company has the right to sovetitute iteit ; remains, but the presumpt Sitock company, Ke and all of its rights, interests, and | ton of” the body when property are permanently exempt from taxation or other | would not be a! charge. play, this afternoon. Upon principle I shall atread the funeral, as I have previously intimated, if there | is one. There is no telling whose turn may come next. One day we consign youth, loveliness, and intelligence to the grave, in astrange land, with se 3 provides that the company shall pay to the State the sum of one dollar for each through passenger over ten years of age. The company shall receive the labor of convicts from the State on equitable terms, and egrees to fix the rates for interior traasit and trade on the lowest terms consistent with its interests. Sec. 4 provides that the citizens of the United States, | the h of sincere from Torshipping and of all nati t pence with Honduras, shall hearts, as in the case of a Sarah Allen, re- over the route free of all taxes and cuarges, ead without | nada, Miasiasippi, deceased and buried on’ the 1st the requisition of passports. all goods and merchandise, én transit, clall also pass free of charges on the part of the State, with the exception of a nominal sum for rogis- try, tobe'paid by the company. Bageage of passengers to pass without examiuation or charge of any . 5 makes a gift to the company of 4,000 eaballerais | of land, which, as the cabslloria is lixed by law at 160 acres, equals 640,000 acres, or 1,000 square miles, The company has also the exclusive right to purchase and | locate on the line of the road or elsewhere an additional 5,000 eaballorias, (800,000 aerog,) at twelve and » half conte the acre, payable in the atock of the company, at | lowed bya train of sycophant humanity. Par. |All yersons settling on the lands of the compiay | “°T'ove' the tear for humble worth; bai I do not are entitled to all the rights and privileges of mative | aoaoice quite, the conventional honors to oftimes born citizens of the State, andare exempt for ten yeara | Sespise, ers the heart’ bas from all kinds of taxes, and all civil or military service, ve merit, in which no sya: ith thei hy. may ‘stipulates that the | as at the extremities of bart Gray Eagle slaver Iles quietly at her anchor- inst, and the next we are found following the proud ard hangbty in rack, with all the trappings of pomp ani iroumetance, thd pa tae nena AE ‘church and state, in requisition, a Bert of wonderment that such greatness could die; but not a mourning heart in the throng of time-servers or official pieces of dignity that do the honor-forms of grief. } maiden; | Our hearts rest in the coffin with the | but our curiosity is only interested in the caneens | car and funeral pageant of the mighty dead, fol- | the road shall be free 4 commission of five per- | age, and I endeavored to get on board of her yester- #ons—two named by the company and two by the State, day, that I ht furnish @ description of her inte- Who shall jointly elect a ffth—to constitute» “Tribanal | por’ fixings, but I was repuleed by the guard on Of Reference, * to frame all necessary rules and regula: | board, and as it was just one of the caves that would | tions for ing out the charter in its letter and spirit, ot naw 9? b ing, Iconcluded to the l And to decide ally and without appesl al diapuies | Bot “Dey," by peying, J eoneluded to pocket the loss which may arise between the State and company. of boat not gratify the with a stiv marine er. Bhe is a saucy i g vessel, and well calculated for piracy. If she can escape condemnation, she make a tolerable 8; brig of war ; at any- they have, @ ions as to the with her captare are Spanish honor clean ; ‘Th jovernment of Honduras to open negotiations with the | Kling maritime nations, for aarantee of the per- petual neutrality of the pro; Toute, in accordance with the convention of Washington, July 5, 1860—the company to have the right to construct tele- aie |. The government gives a bounty of fifty acres of \d to each unmarried, and of seventy-five acres to each married laborer, who shall come to Honduras to work on {he road, and who aball declare his intention to become In addition to this, the Railway Company constitutes tha peivloge of ingrote, ogress Sid amegs en hss and arene the Pe ena 9 ‘and waters of the State, free of all duties and charges of every kind.”’ The greater part of Central America has suffered severely, for the past two years, from the devasta- tions of a species of flying grasshopper called “ cha- | pulin” or “ langosta.” These traverse the country in columns of incomputable millions, filling the air like the dakes of snow in a storm in winter. Wher- ever they alight they devour every green thing. A corn field, which ped we is green and fair, the next is wey, destroyed by these voracious insects. All | | kinds of devices are resorted to by the pe: | keep them from iting—such as beat | and burning sulphur in the corn flelds; but precautions, a @ whole, are of little avail; for the “ chapulin” destroys by night as well as by day. | Hondaras has suffered so much from this cause that some parts are in a state bordering on starvation. | Guatiel toy oF has bees, as many dollars, "0 alent | #6 St. ‘ Boome eget ad en, as many dollars. To allevi- | We have co! versions this evening ‘of the | | ate the distress from this cause, the Hondaras Inter- | death of the ranenning. -anoglexy, scarletina, and | | oceanle Railway Company has sent from New Or- | angcr with one of his officers—have all had their | porn Neh eg womelgoeey of psa a ate | places, as cause of the sudden death of the French | | dist jon. donation is acknowledged inthe | 4" ‘ | most grateful terms in the official gazet’e, aad let- Admiral. | The body has been embalmed, snd the | ters ofthanks have been addressed to the company | funeral ceremonies are deferred to the 4th, at 6 { i i “to rp ee b aE bia { z i Isball endeavor to send you a note of it, as it is five | dayn before the departure of another mail steamer | for the United States—the Isabel, for Charleston on | | from the mumcipalities of tne towns to which tl o'clock P. M. I presume that the death derives { uA i hasbeen s ‘0 opportanely extended. Satie | Cie — firet assigned—the acclimating or ir. Carl erzer, travelling in Central America | ‘f under the auspices of the [mperial Academy of Sci- Bu }, at the commencement of this week, ences of Vienna, publishes a letter denying, in strong terms, the truth of the rumors circulated in | tno United States. \ | Costa Rica, of the insecurity of travelling in Hondu- No sales have taken place, no exchange opera- | } 2a oem Comavaava, April 9,1954, | ons, and no rates to —~ The first intimation ’ A : Toru Foron ov ras Gauerrs oF Hoxpcaas— | gut, Populace, have of Tavane doings, ie dared | -—The ramors of the great personal insecut | fai | to travellers in Honduras, which are 80 industriously | faith in Napa Mas. ; Circulated in Costa Rica, and in some other parts of | | Central America, and which at one time almost led | | me toabandon my visit here, make it my duty, after | baving travelled in nearly ail parts of Honduras— the wildest as well as the best known—to say that does not indicate any material change in our staples, or in the value and demand for produce of | | Saxe Fascrnation.—We have occasionally read | acconnts of persons having been fascinated or spell- | bound by snakes, but never knew of an instance peg, Me va vicinity Ong . day As two Faw all these reports and ramors are not only utterly un- 90d one that we know to be a fact. A man by the | founded, ‘bht evidently circulated: coaltcionciy, ta; | name of O'Mara had a small child, a Hdtle girl about | She seructhy pespese of leeredising She poupsnsed | Tocuas ike tatnente ota tack, cor Gay mon wate} | Hond Taking into ered | under the following circumstances:—O’Mara resides on Copperas Creek, in Franklin county, and but a \ | tion the unteetsnete conition, ia ahlol ie wa | carried on jaa as place: e Stat e '; | foreign pein finds here acatee securityand con- short distance from the Paciic Rail depot. | sideration than he will find in many ether parts of Some ntne months ago, early last fall, his family Central America of greater pretensions. The kind- | Poticed the little girl to be pining away, and becom: ness of the public authorities, the liberal principles ing very weak and pale, alt she been very | which govern the State, its misfortunes, as ag fleshy end , CR ag without any | the magnificence of ita scenery and the extent of cause be oe sickness. By the time winter | Eby ay | of aecreunere years ERY ee a rhe n tar ie) jevee: ag - mare | The time seems near when there will be a la: Ql ing unwell, an reply to all their inquiries | emigration to this country, which shall compensate, , Tegard to ae ealth, she invariably said she felt with its industry, intelligence, capital, and inven- | Very well, only a little weak. As soon as spring ar- | tions, for the hospitality and good feeling with | Fived, she could not be prevailed upon to eat any which strangers have been received and treated in Victuals in her father’s house, but would take a | | Honduras. Alchough I may not personally witness Piece of bread and butter, or a Biece of meat, and | | these revults, yet I shall never forget the favors §° out to the edge of the creek to eat it. The | which I have recetved, nor the agreeable disappoint- | family noticed her regularly, hee going precisely | ment which I have experienced in view of see to the same place, and im ly complaining of | lumnies elsewhere circulated against this truly re- being bungry after her return, when if more victuals | markable State. Your obedient servant, } would be given her, she would again return to | Cart Scuerzen, the creek, as they thought, to eat, Com. of Imperial Academy of Sciences, Vienna. | hy some of 4 neighbors having heard of From the Gaceta Official de Honduras, May 10.) the circumstances of the child's extrao: con- Gazette, of Costa Rica, reprodaces an article | dact, and also of her wasted appearance, suggested titled “ Noticia Importante,” from the Gazette of to her father to watch her movements, which he Guatemala, in which it is asserted that Hondaras | (4 last Friday. The child had been sitting on the | has solicited its annexation to the American Union. near epee fy ghee Me aoa war oy ber The Gazetle then calls upon the other States of | ah Q Bot aed! ‘. a 4 an exptenation from | father’s house, asked fora piece of bread and but- } Central America to ou We have aie te. | tf and again retnrned to the same place she had sree eee rane of the tllegation: But | een. Her father kept behind ber without making | Sprosing that Honauras has made this application, any noise. As soon as the child was seated, the | ; father saw a huge black enake slowly raise its head | what right has Costa Rica or Guatemala to demand | into her lap and receive the read and butter from | her hand; and when she would attempt to take a | bite of the bread, the snake would commence hiss- | ing and become apparently very angry, when the child, trembling like a leaf, would promptly return the bread to the monster. The father was com- | explanations from her | nde vos Is not Hon- duras an independent State, free to do as she leases? Did any State ask explanations of Costa ica when she solicited the protection of es cag Has any State demanded of Guatemala why she | Serrixg Pier to 4 Carronite Cacrcn.—An at- | tempt was made at an early hour yesterday m rn- ing, to burn the Catholic church in this town.’ For- tunately, a lady living opposite discovered the | ght tives of this unfortunate Itttle girl can be found | and willing to corroborate onr statement. This | serve a8 a warning to parents who re- | side in the country to be more careful in watching read, ‘l in the building, and gave the alarm,and the their children. was extinguished before mach damage was don’. A We bad almost forgot to mention that it was a reward of two hundred dollars is offered by the black snake, (generally supposed to be harmless, | selectinen of the town for the arrest and conviction of the rascal who perpetrated the deed.—C/iaton 4 (Mavs.) Cowrant, July Wy that is, not poisonous.) seven feet six inches in length, that fascinated the little gitl—St, Louis i Herald, Ju'y 12 | PRocaasave wor | their number LE pad if Paainieeet 5 é facte: 69,466 ite 233,594 319.698 386,303 434,495 PREZ COLORED IN EACH STATE AT DIFFERENT PERIODS, Da, 18@., 1850, 196 1,385 1,356 a 8 if aus 3 bake sisal Fs pm Ei sue £8 :| 2 E 5 & Repees BEES 5 TS staf fi eee ah |G > bees bl gu88 | | | | i i ' oes il uoktut SIS ze bagi age A #28 28 vs = SEE in. We s| 1182 zl or El BeREgReS i ie 13 om g 8 eli B else ee Eiap 2 rens on 2 i fe Sof B ug some! esas ol mm SB: Peiieetiy BE: S585eR aris 31382! 8 Sees a = #2; ee | | 2 rs s 183,976 200 068 oe = Kentucky. Miarougi. . Arkansas. oy Tonnessee 561 | Total... 475 1,000 3,637 6,892 10,182 14,880 19,659 | PER CENTAGE OF PROGRESS OF THE FREE COLORED POPU- LATION IN RACH STATE. 1800, 1810. ui 1850. Maine,. 52.04 18.45 (decr) 2809 13.86 0.07 % x 3. deer) (gees) (deer) ae 64 c) (decr) = Decenniat Increase, reer teehmnerraetrait 48,929 or 82.28 cent. 051 72.00 do. 78,06) 47,078 25.25 do. 38,075 = 86.86 do. 386,808 = 66,804 20.87 do. 1860, 424,495 49,192 12AT do, EASE OF WHITES IN ALL THE STATIS, Decennial Increase. $193,025 or 85.08 per cont. or e cent 15577515 38.18 Pao, 1009, $4.12 do. 2676,441 34.08 do. 8,658,317 24.72 do. 5,857,873 87.74 do, | ESS\VY INCREASE OF SLAVES IN THE SLAVE STATES, nial Increase. | COR ne, | 195,144 or 23.1 per cent. | 206803 834 do. | 344,674 29.10 do. 471,005 30.63 do. 78,412 23.81 do. 116,868 28.82 do. In connection with the unmistakeable fact that | the ratio of decennial increase of free colored popu- Jation in the United States has declined from 82.28 | per cent between 1790 and 1800, to 12.47 per cent between 1840 and 1850, it observed that during the same period the rate of decehnial in- | crease of the whites had advanced from 35.65 per cent to 37.74 per cent. In the New England States the nnmber of free | blacks has kept about stationary. In New York | absolutely declined about one ousand in ten years. In the middle States the | cline in the ratio of increase is especially observa- ble. In the western States—for afew years past the grand reservoir of negro emigration—an increased ratio is shown; but even here the aggregate addition to that portion of the population amounted in ten are to but a little over 16,000, a ratio a great way e: ; behind the white increase, Thus much of the increase in the free States, In the slave States a different state of things is pre- sented. Here, where we should naturally Jook for the largest decrease of the free ne, ulation, there hae Deen and continues to bea eseady | increase ; and this, as the Philadelphia paper re: , in spite of the civiland social disabilities and the antago: of rages, which is more marked there thap at the | North, And although each of these States has passed laws forbidding absolutely the introduction of free negroes from other States, their numbers muitiply there ina ratio exceeding that of most of the free States, which are the refuge of fagitives, and whose laws are the most indulgent ani flatter- ing to the colored race. ‘Yhe free negroes are now more numerous in the slave than in the free States—a result not to be easily credited or comprehended, when we think of the opposite institutions and tastes that exist in the | two aivisions of the confederacy. It mast be re- ferred partly to the more favorable climate of the South, and partly toa nataral inclination in a por- tion of the race to submit to the degraded condition of their ancestors, rather than undergo the hazards so often attendant upon higher civil standing in more northly States. ws Touching the fact that the rapid natural increase of the slaves, without any aid immigration or foreign slave traffic, is in striking contrast with the almost stationary condition of the free negroes, the Bulletin remarks: — * It furnishes no moral Justification of the institu- tion of slavery, but it does give a decided denial to | the stories of general cruclty and degradation | we among the slaves; for no race could thrive and mul- tiply thus steadiiy snd rapidly, undere general sys- tem of crvelty. It proves, indeed, that the average | of social happiness and physical health, which are the chief stimulents of rapla increase, is greater emong the slaves than among the free negroes; and | aa happiness and health are what chiefly | snfler froma general system of harsh, tyrannical proprietorship, there can be but exceptionsl cases of sucn harshness, whieh achat no appreciable effect ‘Gpon the condition of the great mass of the siaver.” Dsrnayity.—A wealthy gentleman from wenert New York died tr 4, city on Frida; afternoon, at one of our hotels. An the only reiative present at his decease—while the offered to sell the boots of the | to the platform, he bid farewell to Father McMahon, THE WATERING PLACES. Our Cape May Correspondence. Care Mar, Jaly 1é, 1854. Attractions and Di. of the Retreat—The Visiters Now Here—Music and a Hop—The Mount Vernon Hotel— Absence of Politics—Guests Know Nothing in that Respect, §e. . Tam here at Cape May, tne most eandy, treeless, and, 80 far as out-doors is concerned, the most mono- tonous place perhaps on the continent of America. I love it for its very barrenness. You will recollect’ | the story of Madame de Genlis, the heroine of which sighed for a calm, serene, never-cloaded sky, cover- ing a surface of land without hill or dale—a scene of intense, but, still beautiful quiet. She had her wish; and the result was that she soon sighed for crags, rocks, ravines, rushing torrents, lofty moum tains—indeed, the very antipodes of her first long- ing. Now, lhad become tired of the irregularities Of the city; its interminable ranges of squares, made up of brick and mortar, marble and brown atone, and plain clapboards; everjasting Brooklyn on one aide, everlasting Hoboken on the other; the Pali- gades above, and Staten Island below; with the it will be ahort-lived. You will ask me who are here. Really I cannot tell you. ‘There is a rich medley. At the Colum- aes cornea Amon, then T ony ot the he on " (Pgs than Col. while several désti Crystal Palace burst—the band play beret emma wha a Jy) ‘at § iy - formances. nee jwo tender aud extremely inno- cent young gentlemen, in very tight pantaloons and very short-waisted coata, rolled their eyes up with delight till they were nearly lost in heads where brains ehould be, but were not, alas! wonder Where they ever got timber enough in Jer- sey to build it cannot say. I assure you it is a whopper—five hundred feet long, yes, and upwards; with three hundred feet and more in breadth. It takes full abalfa day to walk over the premises. Think of this, and don’t come when are not in |. The original intention of the founders Ped thet, after, workings. Soar er te, ed , working a year Wo, covering two or three acres of and t now room for something like ‘away, too, and ventilation, Le here—I Sliver tae" Reto nenteeiseae Ww oa ew in. Saa-GoLL. ‘White Sulphur Springs, Va. ‘We make the following extract from a letter we received yeaterday, dated ove Ware Sutrave Sramas, Va., July 8, 1854. The weather for the . iL tome At Grins Bev Ouaeas Delta, July 8.] had an ur yesterday mo: & crowd ha athered asound the arish ‘ completely block- ng Up Orleans and Tie tuiaeaete Veintt ' attracted thither, either to witness or be near the scene of that greatest of novelties in our city, the execution of a murderer. Men, women and child- zen were there assembled, crowding around the bars of en though there was not the slightest possibility that their curiosity would be satisfied, as vhe execution was to take in the prison yard, where, shut out from the world’s rude gaze, sur- rounded by high walls, the unfortunate victim to his own passions was to expiate his crime upon the gallows ere that glorious sun, upon whose rising pte Cd for the last time, should reach ics me- iidian We arrived at the prison about half- nine o'clock, were conducted into the yard by Mr. Pow- ers, and found that the Sheriff and his cfficers and several other persons, together with a namber of the gentlemen of the press, had already arrived. Among others were Judge Robertson, District Attorney Tappan, Chief James, Captain Moynan, and Deputy Coroner Terrell. Atthe farther end of the jail yard the gallows was erected. Its architectural arrangements were suffl- ciently simple, consisting of a small platform, at- tached to the wall by hinges, and kept in a horizon- tal position by ropes from each outer corner, which were carried over the platform at an angle of forty- five degrees t! wh an iron-barred window in the rear, and there ned, the cag ony ks which ropes from a concealed position by the hangman, would let the platform drop. About ten feet above this platform a heavy beam protruded from the wail, to | which wasattached the rope with the noose of death. Upon the platform was a rude stool—the last seat of the murderer. At five minutes past ten, Smith was brought forth from his cell by the deputy sheriff, accompanied b: Father McMahon, his spiritual adviser. He look very feeble, but walked forth to death with a firm trend; and es he wasabout to step from the balcony shaking him by the hand, and ejacu! in a fal- ey ou me! he stepped” on to the platform aad sat cy on e on an the des The down pon hangman, ‘Who was dis- | guised in a long robe, and had his face completely covered with a silk handkerchief, then Tope atound his neck, and deputy she! Fabre, standing on the balcony close by him, read the death warrant of the Governor for his execution. During the reading of the warrant Smith moved not a muscle; there was no bling; bat he con- tinned to call upon the name of the Lord, and invoke Divine mercy. The reading of the warrant was finished, and ‘the han; oe and the white cap over his face. now sat motionless, said not a igorous iy wan bad, in one short moment, been launched into eternity, and his spirit had winged its fight to the bar of the Great Judge of all the earth, there to ren- der an account of the deeds done in the body. He died hard. The convulstve twitchings of the mmscles were very violent for more in five minutes, and continned for ten minutes with less g E 5 the | fi with the murder; he was drunk at the i Smith was an irchanan by birth; was aboat five years of age, though he bed See Foran arbor 5 a very . le & small house at the and Common stre: the , he follow: | ed the of & wood Lom | | well in the world, and it is aid always beppily with his wife. On the Sunday evening, | when he committed the murder, he doubtless | been ont ond got very drank, and returning home, qvarrelied with his , and beat her to death with into be hoped tat the late ofthis tan may have the isto ave effect ‘o strike some terror to the eonls of other evil description of the journey, prior to entering upen & general view of the country, might not eeme amiss. We left New York in the evening train for Baf- falo, via Hornellsville and the Buffalo and New York city railroad, reaching Baffalo at about aise o'clock on the following morning. From here you have choice of two routes, viz.:—Michigan Souther or Michigan Central Railroad, to Chicago. We teek the former, crossing Lake Erie, starting at nine o'clock P. M., and arriving st the steamboat landing at Monroe in time for dinner on the following day, : af 3 H uf fi FE iy i 3 5 8 i z i [ Ki gS zt i B z § E E H i fF iz i i fee 1 | Be Ec t nu A i : E a i & i $ E h i headed Greeley and his shoutin, ont Lotwithstarding. We ely gay we think ‘e may ea! ‘ etter, po velier land we never yet have seer. PFD an Ce nding crops, require merely one loughing and no hoeing, to ice double py sane extentin the Noun “Pore leareovee is the finest location for a future town we have yet seen. To-morrow I start for Nebraska, from whence I may write you again. I.W.P. APPEARANCE OF TIE COUNTRY. (From the Indiana; 20.3 We conversed a few since with a ge who had just retarned from a visit of obvervation to Nebraska and Kansas. He informs us that there are hundreds of families movin; ritories daily. Kanses, Which is better and the climate more congenial. No sooner is an Indian treaty made and confirmed, than the whole purchase is staked out with claims. He stated another fact significant of the future, which was that no slaves are going into that country. No effort will be made by the people from the South to make them, or either of them, slave Why should art The country is a vast fertde plain, much of it destitute of timber, and only to grazing purposes. Slavehol Jers their chattels to sugar and _ cotton. tricts of Texas, where land is cheap and slave rofitable. They will not be guilty of so great = folly as to hazard the right of this Hind of property by taking it to Kansas or Nebraska. Here we the effects of non-intervention. Without that re- striction that arbitra: offensive to our dl [From the Onlo State Journal, Joly 14 ‘There is destined to be much diferiy 3 bloodshed, ane a pik E i Ad eee i