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Affairs In Cuba. OUR HAVANA COBRESPONDENCE. Havana, July 29, 1854. News in Cuba—The Revolu- tion in Spain attributed to British Infuence—The Black Warriors of Pezwla—Health Slightly Inv Beet of the Ewropean .Wpon our peaceable community, moet graciously bat Ret gratuitously represented by the palace dictam. the sense of the Jepresentations made by the government. The people have felt, in fact, very little interest scenes at Madrid, as of but very little f g I ie Fil E E Ui E Fa s i i iH i F Ree Ez, i i i ; nt | ey fl i i C4 t t ei 3 5 & ex i i 5 i EF H He ae E i e F 2 F 2. 3 a soldier, and he was tried offence—not determined 4 Ez ig &F 3585 ie 3 8 a * 3 j at Medrié. I bad the pleasure of seeing the, veteran lawyer of the Beuthwest, John R. Grimes, in company with Glenéy Burke, not old, but for many Orleans, known almost wD We find nothing new by the Ores- Cent, as yet. ‘The heaith of our city contmues bad enough, but*| J think i and business: se ili statin en ay Morper, Surcroz anv Surmastirion.—A Texas curious story of an occar- mi e mond R~ nan of the name of Hilltebrant, was paper tells the following yence in Colorado county. i f : i ef Hs at of Hilite- hung bimeelf to house in which he was con- ctf 1 i ay? oy i thereugh examination, and the crowded around, eager to man. Among the uomber was Hil it, hman in the crowd, who apes by —— was,ca: marder like the of “Irish J 9” in the “Green Isle’ whenever a one was committed, to assemble the neigh- , and cause each individual in rotation to place ef bis hand on the dead body of the de- and that whenever the murderer laid his | the dead body, the blood would ooze out of the wound or wounds that caused his deat! su ‘of the Irishman was acted upon, and, | atrapge to relate, blood failed to make | ve body was manipolated by individual of the crowd, whenever Hillte- it applied his hands in the manner described flew out from every wound on Duteh Ohar- | with more vim than a water 9) is no fiction. The people of Reed’s Bend will swear the before any court of record in the State | ' Frc od dent seer Seen | ive ir emmy an annu! for | hia valuable discovery. ri 5 3 = Mvrpzr m Rock Is.anp.—This place | oted for its crimes. Robberies are of | ightly occurrence, while murders are frequent. On Baturday evening last, great excitement daced in that city by the report that a man avid Btoddard bad murdered his wife. On repair- ing to @ house near the railroad depot, a woman ly murdered, We are indebted for she following particulars of the apsaction:—-The man was something over forty years ef age,and the woman p-obably thirty-five. ‘were married some years ago, and had four ren——two boys aud two girls. They had never lived peacably together, scarcely a day out some quarrel. It is also served an apprenticcship ia the had been divor-e a carpenter, and Friday and Saturday worled on the steamboat Ben Campbell. The woman hal been livwg by hereelf and keeping a few boarders. Satur day. evening, Stoddara went to ber house, and fornd. drereed to go toa German dane. ing—when an altercation ensued, and he ez in the face with the bit of o hand axe. | he feil on the floor, and he chopped her fase, neck sad show ders in a most horrid ssanner. bought -everal persons to the house, and she died alwostinstantiy. Stoddard ran towards the river, jorely followed by several men, dut escap- cover of the darkness of the evening. Many | of cur citizens were out until a late hour of the , nicht, but could discover no trace of him. The next morning, the axe with which he mardered the | woman, was found on the river bank, in the dirce- tion he ran from the house. The murderer is still at urge. A reward of $500 haa been = for his arrest—$¢. Louis fh jutelligencer, July | Horwire Arrain—On Frid about es o’plock, @ ne ‘erryville, entered the owe of Mr. Bennington, in the Bmp of that @ rape upon the person of | . When first seen afterwards, the victim of his hellish act was much wearicd, as with excessive ing, and presented the appearance of hay- that the negro made her promise, upon her knees, not to expose | He was arrested in 9 short time, and it was with difficulty, as we are informed, that th le could be kept f:oro hanging him imme- 'y hdd @ rope aroand hi ie. He is now confined in vi jail, to await his trial at the August term of iroait Court. Mrs. Bennington, we under- stand, is a highly respectable Jady, amd the diaboli- ' > can hep eta id her jet ay cane create a great excitement against the It} fiend —Danvilie Tribune. . 4 Prowe to Evit.—A little boy, only vine years of d before a Virginia County Court, a fence rail across the time for that purpos & Jew days back, for placin track of the Mapasses Gap Railroad. He was caught in the act by the conductor of a train, and confessed ‘ad placed the rail there to see the cars ‘eyiously placed a stone for off-nce is punish- ise of a discretion “bounce,” as he hed the same purpose. In able by death, but in the exer: wbich the common law permits with bildren, the court decide ee, Which Wad awrdingly dose, “ Jove it not wisely, but too well’”’—all, in short, who could raise the‘‘ tin,” filled up their jagsani de- mijobns, and prepared themselves to encounter the coming droughth. Considerable excitement has, Dawanir .ammecy scien om Sa.tabeect fn Cle com. po Me er wine or brandy, he must proceed to his Ay where, after a series of : paenbey ey and mancuvres, he may get it; but eve: lpia Soper shape of a bar, excepting a few low saloons, has beea hermetically closed. Politics im this State are below par. No man can tell where he is, excepting the office 4 they are dependent on the lates: telegraphic des from Washington to know what their creed is. he democrats are with the administra- tion, and the whige with themselves; while the free oilers and temperance men are concoctt nwilification acts and blue laws. Truly, isa, country. I am happy to say there is one thing—yes, two—— that I can speak well of- we and the It is true we f—the ladies. They are both hacen. might be a litte more comfortable if the thermometer Were at revency-five instead of ninety; bat ninety is so much wore comfortable than one hundred, at which point the thermometer steod for over @ at I consider it delightfal. The ladies— bless their dear hearts!—how charming they are! Hartford bes long been celebrated for its beautifal ladies, and this season they seem even more beauti- ful than ever. Some cross-grained old fogies are disposed to find fault because they have introduced the Bosten custom of reising their skirts when pro- mepading the streets; but Iam confident these are limited ee the fathers and husbands of those Jadies who happen not to have pretty feet and an Kles. At any rate, I can see no reason why any lady who is conscious of possessing att: ankles should not display them, if she can m9 enowtally; and they will do it, too, in spite of re IGBTON. A Hoxurere Criwe.—We clip the following from the Columbus (0.) Statesman and Democrat :— ‘An oocurrence has transpired near Galion, which, if the well- suspicions of the g E Z 5 i F wounds were dressed, after which he was rénioved to more comfortable quarters. But the dark feavure of SPeccenrrana is ngs to ho giren. ‘Phe wao dressed his says the blow u; skull ‘he unfortunate oan is an entire stranger in the neighborhood. He is apparently @ laboring man, of temperate habits, about 25 years of age. A Case or Conscrexce.—Some twelve years ago & wagon shop belonging toa Mr. Kline, at Eato 5 Obio, wos burned to the ground. About the samc time a building at West Alemandria was likewise consumed by fire. None of the conjectures at the time concerning the origin of the fires were cor- rect—the real tor was net suspected. Twelve ears had ela; |, aod the disasters mentioned had Lose ainseek forgotten. Last week, says .he Eaton Register, came a weary footnan from ylvania, leaning on a staff, and entered the house of Mr. Kline. Timeand trouble had ht so great a | change in tte man’s appearance that—though for- merly known to his. iner—he was not recog- nized until he had told his name. He was the man who hai set fire to both the aforementioned baild- ings. His object had been plunder, but he says his nefarious enter: rise regulted in nothing but disa, Pome age bd Neither peace nor enjoyment has ‘:e own since the commission of those crimes. Af- flicted by the pangs of a guilty conscience, and feeling that he could not die in peace without con- fessing and atoning for his crimes, he came for the latter purpose. He confessed his guilt, and exprese- edhis equal willi: to receive either punishment or forgiveness, whicbever should be preferred by those whom Le badinjared. It was deemed more | noble to fo give than to chastise, and’ the tent was pefmitted to ‘go and sin no more.” Tne un- | bt ov then proceeded to West Alexandria,and was there told that the man whom he sought, aud whose baildisg he had fired, had moved to Indiana. eae ee then resumed his pilgrimage in that ireetion. Ayticiratep MurpeR—The neighborhood of | Foundery street yesterday was rife with excitement, areport prevailing to tue effect that a negro had kvled an Irishman, named Jona Donaelly, who worked for Mr. Chester, horseshoer, and confidered avery peaceable man. The street was crowded by his countrymen, breathing vengeance upon the ac- cused. It was not long before watchmen’Taroer and Keenan saw him, having a large bundle in his peesession, and attempting to make his escape. He was secured, however, and brought to the middie | station howe, Captain Hewell. About ten o'clock he was brought out beforé Justice Morrison, on the charge of assaulting with intent to kill Doonelly. He gave bis name as Joseph Gibson. It a from the evidence of Cherles Hale, No. 17 eh street, that about five o’clock he saw the two parties closely engaged in Foundery street, at the corner of Broderick alley; raw the accused strike the man at the mouth, whereupon he fell violently to the ground; the negro then ran away, when witness ran to the injured party, picked him up, found him bleeding much, and saw his teet \ drop out of his head. The weunded man was then taken to his home, and attenied by a physician, whose opiaion was that bis recovery was very doubtful, as he had sustained a very severe wound upon the skull, per- haps by the fall, and more likely by the blow. He a wife and threo children, and will scarcely survive the isjury—Baitimore Sun, Avg. 2. Fink and Loss or Lirg—The alarm of fire about 11} o’clock last evening was occasioned by burning of a shanty near the New Mexico House, on the Green Bay road inthe Second ward. The reflection appeared so faint on the sky, and the fire was so distant, that the engines, after a short run, gave up the attempt to reach the spot, thoagh it wosin the corporate limite. We feares to ont, that five — were burned in the shanty. It was oceupied by & woman and four children, and another woman. The mother of the children succeeded in her escape, but the others were burned so badly before they were rescued that threeof then are dead, and the other two were not expested to live at noon to-day. They were German He, ‘we are unable learn thelr Mm Mil ible to heir nem Milwaukie Meeting of the Judges of the Stateat Albany— Altezation in une Practice of Examiaing ‘Witnesees. In compliance with the provision of the Code, which requires the Judges of the Supreme Coart throughout the State, together with the Jadges of the Superior Court and the Court of Common Pleas of this city, to meet every two years at Albany, to frame such rales as may be necessary to the effec: tive working of the Code, the Jadges assembled at the Capitol on Wednesday, the 2d of August, at 11 Daly and Judge Hoffman; after which the Jadges adjourned until 3 P.M.,when the committee eub- i E ft ghee Ls e af i i ae if re cpl Hu - ie major Judges Several of the old rules were Bew ones adopted; but, as: before remavked, changes are not generally important. The Reman Exiles. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. Sin:—In a recent number of the Ondine, a politico- religious journal of Malta, the following extract from an arti. le bas been published:— Many political con orn for Al The ot havin taken part in the insurrection of -the 16th of August, 1853; and it appeare bo ROS and have left the Roman prisons to m0 _ This isan untrae statement, None of these A ties were condemned; they were taken from their fomflies without having committed any crime. The refugees are twenty-five in number, aud all came from Fuenza, inthe Roman States. Having taken up arms to defend the cause of liberty and the re- ublic, they were imprisoned by the restored pricat 000; aud after auifering miseries and privations for four years in confinement, they were at len, restored to their desolate families. On the night of the 29th of Jan last, they were again ed for their liberal opicions, and sent toRome. On the 3d a following (never having been examined as cong; Me referred s them) they were ie to leave aly forever, : ee 4 ith the threat that, if Rocce pad Tetarn, ten years at the galleys would be qoene The; 1d against this violation of rights. But what could be hoped from a government which persecutes virtue? The refu, were then chained, sent on board « from the. Roman dele reg York. 0 e e wi few York, While suffering as exiles, they at the same time re: Jjoiced at being sent to a country where liberty prevails and where edocation is progress; aad on sailed from Le, in the to Rockland, weight of their misfortune and to alleviate their They looked forward hopefully to being well re- ceived in this free land, which is the only comfort of the exiled, and they have not been di inted. Raffaele Ancarani, Laigi Mantel Domenice Liverani, ‘Vineonzo Revajoll, Gia Pompignoll, Gines! ye Pasta =f jr Gioeant Geravien,’ Nicola Rowe,” Paolo Ugaiini, Piotro Popgialt, Santi Monti, Hedfani Giuseppe, Giovanni Monti, Garo Jasmeon 4 Tricasi, Sant Marea. ! New York, July 31, 1854. Obnuary. DEATH OF A CENTENARIAN. An old colored woman, familiarly known as Ha- Pe gg that she have data at our command, we infer been upwards of a hundred years. ‘She born a slave in Newark, N.J., and was brought to Stam- ford when abe was five or six old, and lived here until the day of ber death. A lady, Mrs. Knapp, now living, aged ninety-six, remenbers that to carry her whea a child, Axeumin; that Mrs. Knapp must have been three years old at the time to which her recollection extends, and that Hager must have been thirteen to be charged with the care of children, it will make her ae at the time of ber death one hundred and six years, Another circumstance confirms this view af the case. During the revolutionary war, Hagar was a cook in Weed’s tavern, and ber husband, Dykins, was hostler in the same establishment. Ha- r used to relate dhe once cooked a gianer for eneral Wash'ngton when he stopped at the tavern, while on his way to Cambridge, Mass., the head- ters of the Amesican army, in June, 1775. On e same occasion Washington presehted to her husband a silver dollar fer name’s sake. Sup- if Hagar to have been twenty-seven at that ime, it would make ber age one hundred and six, as in the case of the first supposition. In all proba- bility this is very nearly her age.—Stamford Advo- cate. Revortme OvrraGe oN a Youxe Gini ix Mane.—For a few weeks past the citizens of this and the neighboring town of Fairheld have beea ex- cited by the developement of one of tne mos: dis graceful outrages known to the cat of dissi- sie and treachery: The particulars are too foul for detail, although the main facts are due to the public, They embrace the abdaction and forcible detention and prostitution of a young girl of some sixteen years, named Smith, residing in Fairtield; the work of. four or more men mesiding in this vil- lage, all of whom are married men and pareuts, and cepnected with several of the most respe table famibes in that place. The arrest of James M. Gray and Charles Scribner, and the trial of the former, before Justice Purrinton, at Kendall’s Mills, ais cloeed the facts thus far brought to light. We give no pames except those thus disclosed, although four or five others a:e confidently mentioned as concerned in the affair, and known to all. It appears that Scribner went to the house of the girl’s pareata, in Fairfield, ahd procured her to go and take vace ot his wife, who he said was sick. He brought her tw this village and Jeft her at a house near tne depot, pretending that he lived ent of the village and want ed to procure a teat to take them out. After dark he called for ber, and took her out upon a back road, where bon Ay hs met by one or more of his as sociates, and she was indneed to driok freely* of some kind of liquor which shessys rendered her he) Jess or insensible. For two or three days she was forcibly detained by these devils in haman shepe, pat of the time in a barn and other places, and was at last found among tvem in a bard by her own fether. It is one to humanity to add, that most of the men engaged in this most foul outrage were drunkards of the most beast'y and gatter soaked clase, ese) it cannot be denied that one or more stand unshielded by this humiltating excuse. Gra was required to give boncs in the trifling sum. it seems to os, of five hundred dollars. He was taken to jail at bebe be ted an by Seputy Sheriff Nye, bat soon succeeded procuiing bail and was set at liberty. Sc:ibner was arrested, bat for s:me reason which we have not yet learned, his examination was deferred several days, daring which time he was permitted to go with little or no restraint, and after the release of Giay, the two disappeared sbout the sane time, and bon nel Their partners in the affair so disgraceful to Humanity, and shime- ‘ to ent village, yet walk unarrested.— Waterville au. A Swocxixe Srroracuz—About four o'clock gap A morning, @ homeless, destitute female, pown as Julia Demon, expired while ig he the avement in Baker street, below Eighth. Whether Tt death was caused by cholera destitution or vio- lence, cannot be ascertained, the Coroner not hav- ig attended to his duty up to a late hou? last even ing. In consequence of this negle:t, the remains of this unfortunate female remain upon the bare bricks that formed her death bed, exposed to the heat of yesterday morning and tae showers of rain that fell during the afternoon. Her formas hii from view by an old piece of carpet, and otve- coverings } thrown cver it by the neighbors. Mossag: after mersage was sent to the Coroner, and the aid of the police, Board of Health, and magistrates, was in- voked, but ali fuiled to accomplish the object. The magistrates under other coroners, were in tae habit of officiating in cases similar t) this, bat the pre sent incumbent has, in various , Texidered him self 60 obaoxkua tast none are wi to atend Ww | bie duties —Philadelphia Ledger, Aug. 3. ‘TO THES EDITOR OF THE BEBALD. As our representatives and the people generally are directing their attention t> our Navy, permit me to make s few remarks in re- ference to it, ‘The Navy, in number of vessels, is but aaa pigmy compired toa giant, when contrasted with those of England, France, Russia, and even Spain. As to efficiency and material personnel, the first three pow- ere are our superiors. There isan csprit du corps in their navies; discipline is rigidly maintained, their men are well trained and practised at their guns. We lack all this, Our young officers, who perform all the sea duty, seeing mo prospect of ad- vancement, lose all energy and vitality after they have been midshi| a few yews; as leuter ‘We must have a retired list. A slight increase in the number of vessels, with a retired list, will 38 case, where & remedy the evil. 1 will instanse one wi captain of of our noblest ships, when entering years Jnore than they i. .deing, pulling at the skirts and annoying our representatives. There area class have suffered to do this for year, and have received the most encouraging rewards, whilet the honest upright officer has to Perhaps it would be in our public printe. Yet I do not know tnat it would touch their consciences, for they have no blush of ebame, when shan racers salary monthly from This class should be farioughed on one their sea pay, until their health or con- aclence is eufficiently restored to them. The liquor ration should be abolished; then there can be Bo excuse for drunkenness, Officers shoul { not be a'lowed to have or Inte y avy liquor on board ofa ship, and none to be 98 a medicine. The eurgeon not to be allowed to admiaister all of that kind of medicine in the cabin and ward room. ‘Three hundred thousand dollars is to be appropri- ated for the increase in number and pay of seamen. Their pay should be—Petty officers, inte month, $25; saamep, $1; ordinary seamen, $15; » $12; 8, $9. jut of what utility will be this increase of pay if the Hon. Mr. Seller’s spre ition should be agreed to—tbat none but native born citizons be enlisted in the navy? Where are they tocome from? They are not to be found in our mercantile marine. The evil, if it be such, can only be remedied by making prac- tical echools of our receiving ships. Enlist the American youth, not under eighteen or over twenty- three years of age. Numbers are to be found who are desirous to enter the service under the present system and good pay. Let the officers of board 1o6e abips, and jcularly those who are idling away Sherr time, is g, and imposing their duty upon other les—let those exercise the men, learn them to band, reef and steer, and work the guns. The rudiments can be inculcated on board those ships. Trey oan be taught to knot and spli-e, by using the tons of old rigging which is annually sold at auction. By such practice the officers’ ideas will be re- ed, and the American seamen can be ob- tained. The of officers—that of the highe: grades—is amy" sufficient; but that of the widebipmen and warranted officers should in- creased to $1.200 apnum when on duty at sea; otber duty, $1,000; on leave of absence or waiting bass? #700; after ie yeara gea eereenianer ; passed midshipmen, owing to the slowness o! promotion, become quite advanced in years, aud have families to support, before they become lieu- tenants, The warrented officers sre all men of familiee—a most useful class of officers—hold the Tmechenic doesn sere, amt. performs those, dots on performs " on the home station. ‘They are not in the line of promotion: therefore their pay should be increased and made somewhat proportioned to the service which they render. ‘They are not, as the commis- sioned ofhcers, educated at the public expense—en- tering as mere boys—but are men of mature years, whose service is efficient and at once renderei available. This class of officers direst so imme- ‘ali the duties of the ship, to a great ex- diacipline thereof, pay should be increased, as it is not at present more than a journey man mechanic receives, and isnot gafficignt to the position which they should occupy as iter mecbanica and officers. In a8 hike manner the first assistant engineer's pay should be increased. The pay of yeoman and amorer should be increased in the ratio that the seaman’s is, Th s dove, a petire? and furlough list created, we may expect the rervice to become. efficient and use fol—a proper spirit infused that wid awake the drones, take some of the sunerabundant flesh off the bones of the lazy skulks. N. August 2, 1854. Hognis12 Mvaven— We regret to record the per tration of a murder in this city last Sabbath, un- Re circumstences of .a very atrocious puture. Oo the day in question, a few minutes after two o'clock, & sboemaker named Martin Richard Kehoe, residing in a new frame cottage owned by Mr. Mitchell, near the corner of Queen and Sumach sireets, ran in reat haste to the residence ot the foreman of the op in which be was employed, aad told him that his wife had just committed suicide. The neighbor bood became alarmed, and several persons repuired to the house to as ertain the trath of the statement, and whilst information was beiog given to the police, Kehoe was taken into custody, Sergeant M+Caffey and Constable Wilkes of the D station, at once pro- ceeded to the place and took charge of Kehoe, on suspicion of being the murderer of his wife. Tre risoner is forty years of age, and hai a family of ive children, all of whom are dead. The deceased was about thirty-tive years of age. When the po- lice arrived, they ound every indication that mu:- der bad been commitied. A razor was dis overed in one of the rooms «overed, wit blood and hair, and its handle broken in such a manner as to lead to the belief that it had been smashed ina severe struggle. The deceased and h+r husband occupied two rooms, the floors of both of which were marked with blood. There was ove trail of blood, eighteen inches broad, extending from the side of the in ove room to the outer door, behind which tne de- ceased wae found lying dead, wd epson as if the body had ben dragged to the piace after the inflic- tion of the death wound. The body was extended on the floor with a etream of blood flowing from it. There were three severeiy inflicted wounds on tie rghteide of the neck, which severed tie Belge half-way througn and dipped to the neck bone. On the left gide the gash commenced on the back of-the neck, and 1an around to the windpipe, terminating 8 few inches lower than the other wound. Drs. en, King, Primrose and Ross, viewed the bovy, snd showed no hesitation in exp-essiny their opinion that the wounds could uot have been self- inflicted. The clothes of the prisoner, wb rest: ed, were ma*ked with blooi in several places. It ie stated that be bas undergone aterm of eighteen months’ imprisonment in tne United States for stab bing the decea-ed some time ago. He asserts his iraiocence, and avers that the decersed committed suicide whilst he was taking a sl-ep. Dr. King aware in a jury of fifteen persons on Sunday evesing, and the body having been viewed to admit of its interment, the enquiry was adjounned to seven ovlock Jatevening. At balf-pas: ten o'clock last night a verdict of “wilful murder” was retarned aguinst the busband of the deceassd, and the prison- er, béfore the jury separated, stood ap and said that a “just verdict bad been rendered.” Furonte Globe, Aug. 1. Daatn sy Licnryixc.—During the thunder shower which occurred about noon yraterdsy (Tues- doy), Mr. William Scott, of Cambria, wa strack by lightning, and instently kifled. He was io his field, with a hired man, engaged in hosing pota- toes, when the shower came _ Both started for ehoure, and while walking along the highway, Mr. Scott being a few paces ahead, a bolt came down, striking him on the heed, and ran down his body tothe ground. The other man was felled to the and remaiced insensible a short time. Wren he recovered be discovered Reott, aud immediately proceeded to him, but brea:bed but once or twice after be reached him.— Lockport Courier, August 2, Fatau Avrray.—The Chillicothe Gazette, of Sa turday, says, tt at two boys on the jing even- ing vere quarrelling. Their names were Jos, Long, aged 13 and Andrew Snyder, aged 19 years. the courre of the combat the former hit tye latter with a stone in the pit of the stomach, causing al- most instant death. Jos. Long, the youthful nur- dever, ia under bonds of $500 for his appearance ab trial before the Mayor on Monday, Coat x Kansas. raveller on the Nemehaw river inthe north of Kanaas territo:y writes to the Canton Transcript, that there is a fine vein of coal, three feet thick, on that stream, that it Is overlaid | by limestone which affords abundance of five butid- ing material. The Neme ia tae boundary be- tween Kansas and Nebras! ind soalin that region where wond is comparatively scaree, isa very im- | portant ebject. ; Perhay ‘The Moraviansat [Correnponcence vf the alveuy Journal.) Pa, J ®, 1864.— ‘the valley 0” tie Lathe since tom tots fal ne we been held at all times and under all circum- seances to mean oysters and ice cream. If it is after sundown, the few stores are closed, families are sitting in their doorways, and children romping under the trees in front of them, at nearly every house. Apple, pea:b and cherry trees in the open street, as if there were no such thing as temptation or thieves; and one ‘mean has trained Ma gcipenian like an arbor over the side’ for the accommodation of the public’s well known taste for low han; frait. Everywhere the most primitive quiet and simplicity. . This is Bethlebem. Count Zinzendorff founded it in 1749, as a refuge for the Moravians, and they have bud undisput possession of it ever since. ‘These Moravians are descendanta of the early Chris- tians of Moravia apd Bohemia—the scenes of the preaching and aan pie of John Huss, and the laces where the Waldencses, when driven out of ita'y and France, took refuge. They trace the hie- tory-of their church back to the day when Paul and Titus “‘went out to teach in Illyrioum and Dalma, tia”—the ancient names of those provinces. After many ‘enturies of persecution in their natjve coun- uy, Count Zinzendorff, then Regent of Saxony, offer- ed them, in 1722, an asylum on one of his estates, which still flourishes under the name of Herrnhut. Sub-equently resigning his regency, he became a a came to creeped ms enenilated (ge colopy, upon a tract given for purpose the Te ae Whitfield. i sit sae ‘A ough in many respects a peculiar people, they do not like to he. cogetperedl Pigeon religious sect. Reccgnizing all as Christians who profess and call themeelves such, they receive Lutherans, German Reformed, Episcopalians, Methodists, &c., without requ'ring them to renounce their ,respective doc- trines. The only easestial requisite seems to be a belief in those four or five fundamental principles of Christianity :n which nearly all sects » For themselves, they claim to have preserved the prac- tices of the Christian church from the time of the apostles, in théir pristine purity, and not to have wandered off into the errors either of Rome or Geneva. For instance, they keep no saints’ days; but Euster, Pentecost and Christmas are regularly Observed. The litany read in theif churches is substantially that of which the Catholics use the Latin version, and the Episcopalians the English oue, though the prayers written in medern times areomitted. They have, like those denominations, bishops, priests and deacons, and like the Presby- terians and others, elders, syoods and conferences. the most striking peculiarity in their chursh government arises from their belief in spe- cial interpositions of Providence. In matters of doubttul or meiaiiy import "the elders use their own bes: judgment firet, but make the final decision by easting ots, believing that God will direct the re- sult. this way they have sometimes filled vacant Bithoprics and Pres! Masta and even regulated points of doctrine. ey have a Vdseonad 3 sey say, in the choice of Matbias by the apoaties. of tris arraugement that is apt to seem amus- ing to us ‘world’s le,” is its application to. mariiages. Instead of the parties concerned, it is the elders who pick out the eligible matches. Then they cast lote. If the lot falls that such and such a youve. map and women shall be married, married they are—their own private judgment being con- sidered as having nothing at all t> do with the mat- ter. They must pot only believe, but act literally on the belief, that “‘ marriages are made in heav-n.” In this country, though, the custom has been modi- fied, but it is s:ill necessary to obtain the elder’s consent. Aud they triumphantly insist, that no- where are there ao many happy warriages as among the Moraviane, Believing that true Christianity divests, or ought to divest, death of its terrors, they seek to dispel the gloomy assvciations with which most others sur- round it, When one dies, the relatives do not put on mourning, nor are the undertsker’s mea, with long-faces, expected to Pe ®& sympathy they do not feel. There are no black plames, no hearse, no dismal pageantry. But choosing, if possible, a suuny morning, the whole congregation repair to the bary- ivg ground, which is laid ont like a A yen aud there, as the cor ia lowered into the earth, to solemn strains of instrumental musio, Join in chant- ing hb) mns expressing trust in God’s purpose, and e of immortality. “I mistook the grave yard here thiehem for the public park, when I first saw It stands in tre very centre of the town. In- stead of monuments, it is filled with trees and flow- ers, altheas an} daisies, and climbing roses. The plain flat slab that marks each grave, seldom bears the inscription “Died,” but almost always ‘Depart ed,” or “Gene home to God.” ‘be Moravians do not generally live in commu- Bity houses, like the Shakers, but in many of their settlements, especially in their poorer days, they have adopted that pla as saving expense. One fa- vorite form of it {s the ‘‘ Siater’s Huuse,” where all he a it. the unmarried females having no households of their own, live and work together, coming and going, of couse, when they jlease. So, also, they havea “ Bingle Brethrens’ House,” which the unmarried men and boys occupy. A third is tue “ Widows’ Hove.” Perhaps in these simple institutions one may trace what nunneries and monasteries were, Lefore Ged were made houses of religious seclusion and asceticism. One of the first buildings erected here was a boarding school for girls, which bas a high reputa- tion, though iv.wany respecte just the opposice of fachionable establishments in cities. Between three and fc ur thousend pupils from all parts of tne Union have been educated init. At Nazareth there isa similar school for boys. That repsinds me that nearly all the names of the towns hereabouts are scriptural, or at least devo- tioval. Shiloh is on your Jeft hand and Bethavy on your right. There is a Canaan across the river, and a little way off an Epbratah. You can rest any cay in Hope, and sit down as long as you pl in Harmony. Once ina wbile an irreverent kee pame thrusts iteelf into the goodly ussembiage. It hes rather @ ludicrous effect when they teli you that the road to Paradise hes through Ragged Hollow, and that to o¢t to Bethlehem you must climb over Jenny Jamp Mountain. Aw might be expected from a sect of 90 liberal a creed and so practi al a character, the Moravians have been more successful in missionary enterprises than any other denomination of the same size. They have now upwarcs of threé hundred stations, in Greenland, India, Africa, Tartary, &c., and claim to bave made 70,000 converts. Like the Shakers, the Moravians lice as much as possible in sus among themselves. They raise their own food, weave their own cloth, make their own cletbes, buila their own houses, make their own im- plements and furmiture, seldom travel, even ‘to town” or “to market,” but aiming to imitate the tiwplicity, frugality and benevolence of their found- ers, berm literally to desire to be ‘in the world, but not of it.” Yet they do not consider themselves ab- solved by their religion from their responsibilities as citizens or subjecta. But if they do not go to the world, the world comes to them, Lately sbe people of New York and Philadelphia vave discovered that Bethlehem is a quiet, healthful summer ret: eat, and now four large betels, surrounded by showy carriages and still more showy neopl, give the town s Saratogy sort of look, cor tiasting oddly aoone with its erioas simplici- ty. There are tome 600 visiters here now at the ifferent houses. Moreov+r, tw railroads have been sus veyed—one to connect Philadelphia with the New York and Erie at Waverley, and the other forming a link in the chain from New York to bi eng. When these two great thoroughfares cross eac! < e here, there will be an eniof Moravian sim plicity. Aumost a TRaGEepy.—The following attempt at real tragedy took place at Ypsilauti on Monday last. A young mao, lermeriy a resident of the village, but who had lateny ided in Chicago, came home at the request of bis mother, a short time since, and went to Adrian, where be fouad employment. Oo the day mentioned a female of prenoaseming ap- pearance vame from Chicago, in soar b of the young being unable to find him, became hi e at bia mother, whom ‘she threatened to shoot upon the firs: opportanity. Either shang her mind, or not hoping to find an opp rtanity of fulfilling the threat,she proceeded to the front of the lady's residence, where she de'iberately laid off ber shawl, snd, placing the muzzle of a pistol against ber side, fired. From defective loading, or bed nim, she failed to io flict a mor‘al wound, upon which she proceeded to the Natioval Hotel, re- quested a person whore she met to reload the pistol, stating wiatshe pad done, and that she intended to complete the work. Betug refused, phe immedi aicly commence: d to relosd it herself, woen it was taken from ber aid measures taken to prevent far ther mischief. The nature of her connection with tie young man was being somewhat cal for Adrian in ¢ ap explanation walk, as if. Shocking Affolrin Whlseenste. PERSONS BUBAT TO DEATH—TWO O7HD +) DANGLROUSLY BURNED. lovaky, a Pole, now at. work Railroad, and that five persons be expected liter’ ex ve, of the shanty, we were wanes. yp fd the most horrible. The shanty was about twelve feet square in the main part, wit) an Lae, ‘about five all reduced to ashes, a Jogs afi mpeu! : dering. She ruhea wave ths Srkqshenta Of several burnt to cinders and still smoking, with the of two or three of them scattered beers! et oe 3 of afemale by the bones, lying partly on the back, with the bones of the band pei the upper ofthe breast. The others were in fragments ecetudirend ashes. shanty contained, at the time of the fre, the The followin, 8 — rt Liftacionaty, (saved), with ber foor chil- en, —_ Mary, 17 years old—she lay badly burned is an adjoin shenty, ano could not recover. tarins, 11 years ald, barned to death. Thomas, 7 yeara old, burned to death. sthaainne Selle: se following persons above fa: % were in the same hovel : ae Johann Stoick, badly burned, taken to the poor Be. Hedwiga Stoick, wife of the above, 59 yeass old, bumed te death.” A r Rosalis Btoick, 22 years o'd, ey oot Anna Swick, 19 Shots old, badly ed. Mathilda Stoick, 17 years old, burned to death. partet too camall wing, and’ its supposes thet, by wing, an 8 80 . some carelessness, that wing, whale was used tte cooking, took fi:e. aod the smoke suffocated, while Sea fanes prevented the escape of the unfortunate jms. We are indebted to Justice Bode, of the Secord ward, for the names and ages above given. A coroner’s jury was snwmoned by Justice Bode, - Lea the nee Daye oe were taken to view Tremaine, where they were s ain met at2 P.M, and then ad Sarned till th oon at 2u’clack, when the inquest will pro- ceed. There are rumors that te building was set on fire; we were unsble ty learn anything on the d, or from those who escaped, to warrant us believing it. The inquest may throw more ight on the matter. TWO MORE DEAD. Anna Stoick and Mary Michaelovsky, two of those who were burned on Friday night, are dead, making seven victims. The coroner's inquest ia not yet closed, but the evisence thus far points very strong- ly towards invendiarism by a girl, who was jealous of the Michacloveky girl, above mentioned, who seems to have been a loose character, ‘Whe euspect- ed git] is mirsing. A Fight with the Camanches. Corpus Cuntatt, (Texas,) July 19, 1854. Bravery one Van Buren—Captain B. Shot ‘ough the bady with an Arrow. On the 1lth ivstant, Captain Van Buren and twelve men of the mounted rifles, overtook orenty of twenty-five Camanche Indians, and whi; > handsomely. Captain King and a part} mounted on mules, first got on their Moras, on the El Peso road, and them four dave when the mules gave out. Fortunately, about time he met Captein Van Buren, who wae out from Fort Inge on @ : cout, and put him on the trail. He followed 3st uy for six days, and trai over 300 miles, when he overtook the Indians. To avoid pursuit, they crowed the Nueces three times, also a large lake. Captain Van Buren swam horses 400 yards a ross this lake and strack the trail on the opposite side. The two parties discov- ered each other as tne lodiaue were turning a hill, and when the captain get around the hill, he found the Indians drawn up in line of battle, to re- ceive him—they having taken their everything off their borsea except the bridles, and put them in a pile. The Indiane opened. the igh; arrows, and when they supposed they drawn the fire of the Gepelh apn) charged it. ote agree Ragen hr mount and take ic \ fore used only their revolvers, without mu 4 ‘When"rome five or six Indiuna had been off re A ce they broke and the Captain charged them. , ‘The Indians left one of their number ground, but succeeded in ca rying the other dead and wounded They -Jeft. their saddles, Capt. Van Buren and three of hia men were wound- ed. In the commencement of the the received # wound ip bis sword arm, which bled pro- fusely, and in the cherge he attacked s powerfci young Indian, who wus on foot, and after, baving made several cuts at him, the Indian guddenly sprung from uncer his horse’s neck, with his bow already drawn, shot the arrow thréugh his body. It entered on the right side, about six inches above the navel and below the ribs, andthe iron head came out on the left side of the ying, beving cut through bis sword belt behind. He drew the arrow out with both hands, and believing tle wound mortal, lav down to die. He, however. semé an ex- press to Fort Evell, and in_ the course of two or three days an ambulance and Dr. Head arrived, and from the baits teld. It s'now the Sigutn-€ey ence rom y eld. now since he was wounded, and the three di ef surgeons who are attending him, (Da, Head, and MePariin,) are of opinion, to-day, that he will recover, but until the last day or two bad scarcely any hope. (The oe from New Orleans announces the death of Cap:. Van Buren from the wounds received in the above fight.) near Las FE E i t i The Turf. LOUISIANA RACES, Merarare Counse, July 26.—The pacing match between Silver Tail avd Tecumseh, for ), mile heats, best three in five, in harness, waa one of the best contested ever run on this course. were @ large number of persons on the ground, ‘was not much be ne before the race, ‘ges ees being the favorite. Daring the running, however, @ pumber of bets were made, and ar the end of there was a good deal of hedging on both Silver Tail won the purse after ran beats out. In the first heat Tecumseh first quarter, bat his rein broke, and before he re over, his antagonist ed him three o: ffeur hundred us His oe. went 6 brig i 20 And saved distance. ‘e appen e following summary, pry kta avention to the time:—~ Sam it g Iv i e's . Silver Tail. . sho 212 H. Duncan’s te ie ee Time, 2:42—2:28--2: | Ouro RAC! Ctxommart, July 29.— Trotting mateh heats, best toree in five, in harness. O. W. Dimmick named Bald Face..... Warien Peabody named Yellow Jacket.....2 2 2 Time, $:20—3:20—3:23. he nem Day.—Trotting match, $100, mile heata, ia mers. . Jar. Rockey named Creole Maid.............%+ ame P. McCo:miok named Lasy Mac. 23 Time, 3:20-8:15. Toe Sow or Patuick Henny.—The painfal atate- ment of the ceath of the youngest son of Patric Henvy, in Floyd county, Va., in ctroamstances o° extr me destitution, which originated in the corres: poncen ¢ of the New Yo: k Observer, ond was denied by the Virgivia papers, is now confirmed by the maker of the original charge, with documet evidence. Mr. M. Henry died at an ianjwhere boarded for some time, earning a trifle by teaching what is called “field-s hool,” but unable to pay bis landlord. The latter, however, relied on Mr. LER ik friends for eventual payment, and wher Mr. Henry died, buried bim at his own expense. He then applied to tue public authorities for the pay- ment of his bill, which was for about Stes board and the foneral expenses. This the law did not rmit them to except the latter ion. ‘Fhe writer oves hi cratementa by olfilal seaorde, and adds nove of Mr. Henry’s -bave done anything, though reques:ed, to I the bill of iene aepeteet yc a da to wpe rewire dependent npon bis my but purposes to papers the dlaim with Me alow ravings, if possible. The correspondent fe very se vere uron Mr. Henry’s wealthy brothers, who be sys richly deserve the disgrace of the exposure, Her Granp Morngr Wov.pn’r Ler Han—Lasy week, we roticed tae fact that on the 23d instant, at Upper Gilmanton,a oy Ate left on the doer stone of Dr. Hard, and not beiog in want of one so young, he handed it over te the selectmen. It was a pretty Kittie girl, about two months old, and the selectmen found no eed UW | it away toa 10) couple, who were earnest to “ adopt” it. Bu m4 were ip treuble the next day when the mother grand mother came after the Tse mother lives in N id, this State, and her name ie Smith. She and her brother bad beem to Boston, D and tock a horse at Concord, and to Dr. Hord’s ‘kaving the child as they did. they re. turned brme, the grandmother wanted to know what bad beccme of \! 0 baby and afterwards: the mother, who was #0 conscious stri that abe could not Ae otherwise, to go with Tea Those who bad ado;ted it were 80 uD to ines with it, that the met! er gave a quit claim of all her ip- terest in it to them, and promised the father ‘dwt she bed not heard vt letter, should do te whom, like the Celifor~ from for wo years, ex namt.— Ad anchester (N,