The New York Herald Newspaper, January 7, 1855, Page 3

Bn H i 6 EF & i i i EE Ease Hi] men. Wiil not the indomital ug from the tender Broadpecket ¢ ‘The late Terrific pena career vox mcrae The pondent of the London Times corres) gives a hic and animated account of the storm which the camp on the 14th of November. After describing the commencement of the hurricane, ick began, be tolls as, shortly after six o'clock te the ig, he aa ye:— Such a sight as met the eye u in all directions iu chase of thelr sdects and clothes, or holding on by the ible Douglas step in to save mercies of Wesars. Wags and ‘in the dey. Next to our tent had been the of C1 de Morel, aid-de-camp to the Adjutant. General Estcourt. It on the ground, some great mimic o appeared to be opening beneath it, and its folds as- sumed the most fantastic shapes, tossing wildly about in the storm. The phenomenon was ily accounted for by, the apperition of the it owner fighting sue Gaapeantaly the wind, whish was at é bent on is very acanty coveriag trom his pees: nd ot last ha fausceeded in maktu a bolt of it and squattered througn the mud to the hata, Dr. Hall's tent, close to uand, was levelled, and tae ipal medical officer of the British army males in an state o! perturbation, seeking for his garments ere he took to fligat. Brigadier Eastcourt, with mien for once distarbed, heid on, as sailors et torre grim death toa backstay, ” by uds of nis marquee. Captain Ches- wode, in drawers and shirt, was teaing through the rain and through toe diré like a maniac after a ca; which he fancied was his owa, and which he foand, a desperate ram, was his serjeant’s. [he air was filled with blankets, hats, great coats, little coats, andeventablesaed chairs. Macintoshes quilts, India rubber tubs, bedclotues, sheets of tent-can- Babee | like leaves in the gale towards Se. | |. The shingle roofs of the outnouses were tora ‘awsy and scattered overthe caap, anda portion of the roof of Lord Raglan’s house was carried off to join . The barns and commissariat sheds were laid | bare at once. As instances of the forcs of the wind I may mention that large arabas, or wagons, which stood close to us, were overturned ; that mea and horses were knocked down and rolled over aad over ; tbat the ambulance wagons were turacd topsy-tarvy ; and that # large avd heavy table in Captain Chet- wode's tent was lifted off the ground, wairled round and round tili the leaf flew off, and then came to | mother earth deprived of a Jeg and serious!y injured. The French, fiying for shelter, swarmed acrosa the plains in all direcuons, svektog men, more su.lea and resvlute, stood in front of their levelled tents while wind and rain tore over them, | or collected in Sroupe before their late camps. Woe betide the Russians had they come on tnat day, for, fiercer than the etorm aud stronger than all its rage, the British suidier would have met and beaten their teeming battalions. The cry was, all throughout this dreadful day. ‘ Lev us get at the towa ; better far that we sbould havea rash at the batteries and be done with it than stand here tv bs beaten by che storm. ” One regiment alone is said to have some instuaces of an unsoldierlike and di ion, snd that is one some of whose officer: have lately beez much before the public. A few resented feit severety such a rude initiation iato the realities of the profession, aud seemed to think they could not be expected to go into the trencies in this bad weather; but they were s00n shamed ont of their onwillin; by the spirit of ther comrades. Our ps ramp soidlate, after day like this, had to descend to the trenches again at night to look out for a crafty foe, to labor ia the mire and ditches of the works. What fortitude and high courage to do all this without a marmur, and to bear such pri- | vations and hardships with uoflinching resolution! But, meantime—for one’s own experience gives the best idea of the sufferings of otners—our tent is down; one by one we struggle out into the mad, and leave behind us all our little househoid goods, to fiy before a pitiless blast which nearly ca-ries us away to the side of a broken stone wall ind which are cow- ering Zouaves, Chasseurs @ Afriqn a huzzars, infantry meu, officers and horses, Major Blane, in a state of distress, is seen staggering from tbe ruins of his marquee, under a press of graatcoat, — acroas the camp, ana bearing up for tho snelter of jor Pakenbam's hut. We hear ‘nat the hospital | iaelasen down, and tbat the sick have had share the fate of the leat and most robast. Ox turning towards the ridge on which the lar, and imposing wooden structures built by French for hospitals and storehouses were erected, a few scattered plonks alone met the ¢; of the Sth November, who to the number of several bundred were in these buildings, had to bear the inclemen: y of the weatoer as well #s they |. Beveral succumbed to its effecte. In every direction freen scenes of wretchedaess met tue eye. ‘The guard tents were down, tie late occupants bnddled tegetuer under the side of a barn, their arms covered with mad, lying where they had been throwa down from the “pile” by the wind. fhe officers of the guard had fled to the c mmissariat stores near Lord Ragian’s, and found there par- tial shelter. Inside the commiasariat yard, over- turned carts, dead horses, aud groups of shivar- img men were seen—not a tent standiog. Mr. “ookesiey had to take refuge among his stores, aod ‘was no doubt to find it, evea amid salt pork and rum ‘eons. Nearer to us husear horses were ead and dying trom the cold. With chattering teeth and shivering limbs each man looked a+ his - Lord Raglan’s hou e, with the smoke of the fires steaming away from the chimneys, and its walls standing out f eshly against the black aky, was, indeed, “the cynosure of neighbori es.” Our generals’ marquess were as incapable resisting the hurricane asthe bell tents of the ‘common soidiers. Lord Lacan was seen for hours E F E & h rf Eg é ds Fe mover for the lee of | old walls or banks for protection irom the blast. Oar | isordecly | young reciuite, fresno from the comturts of homs, | , ambulance men, | ye. The | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, the heels of a gray mare who had strong an- tipathy to her bors, a mule and an Arab horse, and spent the it in attempting to kick in their ribs. Amid and with tncidents impoestble to describe or to allude to more nearly, we went to sleep, in ped of a dispute between an [ris ser- geant of Hussars and a Yorkshire corporal of !)ra- 0ons as ap Senaeee ‘ ve merits cee and avy cal y is respecting the ca- Md of English and Irish horsefiost, Walsh, by lied b ro trial — Toast aaenate cotue ane ya P a on the part of the disputants. | Overland Trade of England with Russta. BY. [From un Eee ‘Times, eas delay sougat and obtained govi ment, regarding the anooun:ement of their iaten- tions as to the overland traffic in Russiaa prodace, has apparently excited a .vcliag of dissatisfaction both those who desire the stopped, those who wish it to continue. It is an axiom in the conduct cf tae mercantile affairs of nations, that anything is better than uncertainty, and the fact that, from the commencement of the war down to the present moment, almost all the commercial intimations given by Ministers have roved vague, contradicto:y or delustve, is there- strongly commented upon, not withstanding the | Sggetegaoen to pile st peal of le evils as progress ne struggle may reader ia- evitable. On the question of the blockade of tre Black Sea, the confusion that has existed | might have been lessened if the | stared their own uncertainties, instead of allow: ye ech directly at variance with @ach other followed by rather abrupt aad positive aaswers, | which were never subsequently verified to ary men- | ber of the House of Commons who might desire an explanation. Agaia, with regard t» the s:ores of. wheat lying within reach of the Danube, and which arealleged to be preventéd reaching this country , by the allied squadrons at the Suliaa mou sh, unoe: cessary loss has been inflicted, from the absence of | any statement to satisfy the public of the necessity | for the restriction, which, while it fuflicts sertoa4 injury upon the peeple of tuts country, is equally cama giog to Turkey, and is looket upon, accordiag to some stateme as impolitic both by furkey and Austria. Grest, however, as hava been che Perpicxities from tnese circumstances, the doubts enflered to prevailon the question of the coatina- ance ef the sit of Rassiun produce overland to Memel and elsewhere, are calculated to lead to re- sal:s nearly as undesirable: In the Black Sea, uhrougbonut the past season, the prohibition by the Czar of the export ot grain, combiaed with the ab. senceof ectual knowleage a3 to whether at avy sp cific momenta blockade would be found to exist, tendea considerably to dimivish the eff: sts of the want of action on the part of oar ships; hindrances, and has gone on, aad will contiaue to Seaindt ik Every day, therefore, during welch tala it. Et jay, therefore, during whic! 8 point 18 left in doubt Sar mercnents, #ho, uader im- pressions produced by former minis:erial statementa, have embarked in procuring sudstitates, ace carry- ing on a hezardous trade, while thos» who, on the contrary, are endeavoring to extend their business at the frontier Baltis Pon ace equally kept in anx- lety. Of the extent of the interests involved an idea may be formed #ben it is stated that even unter the small existing impediments to the arrival of Rassian | produce the supplies of linseed sent from Calcatta have increased from 440 733 mauods in the twelve months end September 30, 1853, to 1,025,595 mavunds up to the like date in 1454, waile, as regards hemp, from the same quarter, and palm oil, &:., | from Africa, and elsew.ere, the movement has been equally striking; and not onty isa gambling sharaster in parted to the whole of this trade, but the risk is alsv incurred of dispiriting foreign producers by a‘lo ving | them to be stimulated by expectations which are to be | divappointed. Under these ciccumstacces, it will be admitted that the commercial community ae no* anreasonable in expressing a feeling toat the Lvernment can jastify themselves tor postponing heir decision for several important weeks oaly by and peremptory kind. ‘hat such reasons exist, | especially in the present state of the relations be tween the allies and frassta, there is every disposi- tion to betieve; and it may be added tnat, what- ever soreness may prevail as to the various aanoy ances experienced by traders during the past year, | there is still a feeling that the present government | have shown themsclyes, on the whole, desi-ous to attend tw and recognize any representations con- nected with the paramount claims of the mercan tile interests of tne country. It is not expodicat, however, that the desire to avoid cavilliog at a time when forbearance is demanded oa all sides should lead to a suppression of critiviems #ush as on points of this nature have lately been prevalent. Our Nicaragua Correspondence. * Bicrrenos, (Nie.,) Dec. 21, 1854 lution in Nicaragua—Castellon vs, Chanorro- The Credit Systom—The Climate and the Country The revolution has been going on far the last ten months, And who are the sufferers? The unfortunate merchants of Europe and America, because the large credits given by the former to the natives of Nicaragua epable them to carry ontheir wars. As to their own resources they have none. They could sot afford to maintain anarmy, as they have been doing since the com. mencement of the revolution, were it not for these credits. The large contributions levied by both parties would ruin a Rothschild, The natives goto Europe and make those kind hearted merchants believe that they possess large wealth in estates and other property: but after examination ft is discovered that it is only « shadow, and really no substance. I have been ie _ tral America for a ae of years, andean form a co rect idea of the riches of the natives. Their estates of littie value, and, such as they are, are in the of their wives, and cannot be touched by any cred Let me impress on your minds how necessary ft is to be cautious in your future eredits to these plausible peo ple, wo will make you believe that they have large wealth. They, one and all, gather from a number of others a sum from each, making up $15,000 to $20,000, and pay an interest higher tham any business man can afford. They then proceed to sed get from the deluded and unfortunate merchants o credit of three times the amount they pay im cash. And here is the cause of these anfortunate revolutions. The conse quence is that the merchants are never » sod the excuse is—‘‘La revolucion me ha arrui ''—meaning. “the revolution has ruined me.’’ Having no interest whatever in giving this information, it is with pure motives. Indeed, it would be the greatest blevsing if some strong power would take so fine country from the hands of euch a lary race of people. It is one of the mont healthy, aad ihe soil is the most "productive, of any country in the world, It abounds in gold and silver mines Why does not Kinney go there, iastead of coloniri the Mosquito shore, where fever rages nine months during the year? BLUERTELL The Last of a Race of Heroes. Davrars, Pa., Jan. 1, 1855, 7O THE HDITOR OF THE WeRALD. J beg leave to inform you of the death of Jacob | Bogner, of thie place, aged one handred years and | six months. Mr, Bogner fought seven years in the Revolution. He was at a great many of the se- verert battles, and was wounded three times. Since then he has enjoyed aninterru; good health, and } on — generally Deloved respected by all who | knew him. If you will netice the above in your valaable | peped, you will confer @ favor om the friends of the | | departed soldier. R, G, Heres. trade to bo | government had | frem different departments, and to be | but the overland trade is subject t> no sah | ultimately adduciog reasons of an unanswerable | Our Canadian Correspondence, Qursxc, Dac. 30, 185 Commercial News—Depressed State of the Timber and Lumber Trade—Hard Times in Quebec— Misery of the Laboring Cl Se. A lozsal paper, issued this mormiag, contains Mesers. Forsyth, Bell & Co.'s Annual Prices Car- | rent of timber, deals, &c., together with consider- able amount of other statistical information of com- mercial importance. I hasten to lay it before your readers ina condensed form. Tae past season has been very unfavorable to the lumbering business, owing to the general commervial dspression, aud the present wiater wil witness very slight opera- and | tions in the lumbering districts. The fall ia the | prices of timber have been immense. White pine, which twelve months rince brought in the Liverpool market 2s. a 2s. 3d., now sells with difficulty at 1s. 24.018. 3d. During the spring and sammer, rates were higher in this port, and those who sold early made most excellent profits; but towards the close of the season, timber previously in great demand could scarcely find purchasers at any price. Red pine has fallen from 1s. 3d.to 9d. Oak has also depreciated in value. There is but little local | demand for the article for shipbuildiag, and the circular recommends great caation, and the manufacture of a better article than that of last year. Elm has commanded most excellent prices all the seazon—nearly double those obtaiaed lest year. The manufacture of Rosk alone is recom- mended, of at least forty feet average. Tamarac has been overdone, Never at any previous time has go much been brought down. The usual stock of this orticle wintering at Quebec has been under 100,000 feet; this year the sto:k amounts to about a million and a half. Should ship building go on at much of this will be nved up. The prices for tama- tac have ranged, for square, from 1s. to 744., and for flatted from 7d. to 6d. Staves show about the usual quantity in stock. The prices have averaged for specification, merchantable, from /180 to $190; for pipe assorted, from $228 to }”'9, and for W.O. puncheon, merctantable, from $56 to $60. Of pine deals the circular says:—“ Owing w local causes, our supplies were late in getting to market, and prices were much forced up by spocula- tive desl charters made of American § shtys, the market; but we do not shiok that fo: another season the price will be auder our quotations.” The | prices were for floated, $52 for firase, two-thirds for seconds, and $28 for thirds; for twothirds for seconds, and $34 for thirds; and for rds. The shipping interost is in a most depressed state. There were cleared for vea this year about 45,00) tops of ships, built during the wiater and this spring. cubes sold as high as $64. La‘terly many of chese vessels have been soid as low as $32. Tae keels of about twenty-five ships are now laii, Many of them, however, were commenced before the news of beryag shape state of the English markets ar- rived. re are but about eight ships whose keels | have been laid sicce that time, aad it is aot provable that any more will be commenced. Te arrivals | from cea show an excess of about 50.000 toas over last year. Timber treights, which opened at about $10 20 per load for Liverpool, grainatly fell as the news become moze glooms, to $5, the less viasel being taken at $440. Deal freights receded fron | $30t0 $12. The came remark applies to freight for the Ciyde, while for London ceal freights fell from $32 to tis, exd square timber from $11 to $6 50, Large ep, nts were mave with Amorizaas at $52, and aithcugh their expenses were high, owing to the exorbitani rates of wages, as compared witn former years, t2¢ #iipowners nal decidedly the best of the pyran Much of the shippers’ cargoes having gold for Littie more than the cost of freig we The American tonnage loaded uere in 40,000 toas, and at the Bagueray avd tower down tae river, about 20,000, making 60,000, which gave lacrative employment to about seventy sail of United states ships. Tre following taoie of acrivais aad toonage at the 1ort of Quebec, tor ine last five years, is ra- ther interesting :~— Years. Versels, Tons. 18HO, 2... e eee ee 1,078 436,379 181, ‘ 605,034 1852. 454 102 ¥ 611 G48 18s 580 3238 | The stock of timer over at Quebec this | winter is a6 follow: Dake 149; elm 6,210 ; ash, 123.146; biren, 13, : 3, ; worl, 11,956; tamarac, 1,466,115; white pine, 7,537,104: red pine, 2,452, standard staves, 655,43,22; white cak pavcbeon staves, 1,575.1.0.24; red oak puncteon staves, 119.8117; barrel staves 3.1.5.5, ash staves, 14.629; staadard pine deals, 825,134; standard spruce deals, 80,990; one aud a half aad two ineb plank, 101,803; pairs ash oars, 208; hand spikes, 7,701; cords javnwood, 1.361; waite pine ae 2,160; red pine spacs, 1,231, and sleepers, The circular is accompanied by a comparative statement of tve supply, export and stock of lamber for the years 1860, 61, °52, '53, " Memre. Wocd, Petry, me table it appears that the su »ply of timber this year, according to the Supervisor's report, was 30,425,047, beiog 7,464,956 1n excess of last year, and 10,915, - 662 more than in 1850, Of st tae ea ply was 4,515, being 577 less than io 1863, and 1.723 more than in 1650. Deals in market amou: ted to 2.463 680, an increase over last year of 364,784, and 1,002,683) over 1850. The export, tated in casiom’s re- turn of timber dannag vw 1854, 18 46,800; 7,680, and 5,812,480 there wers ex ported and 113 more than ia 1850. Of deals theexports amounted to 5,476 491, an ivcrease over last year of 398,016 and over 1850 of i . The actual sto k of timber now in market 102; 562 67% over the stock in the fall of 804 over that of 1850. Of staves 1853, and " wwe stock in band js 2,152; being 213 leas then last year, and 1466 leas towm in 1850. Tae stock of deals is 014,124, being 166 and 158 .*55 less toan io 1 ‘The effect of the depression in the lamboring bu- siness and ship building will be very severely telt by the bundreds who cejead for subsistence apoa these branches of tiade. In the suburbs of Quebec, perticnlarly in St. Rocks, there are mavy families whcse only means of subsistence will be en- weg out off, ard we sha'l probably have to witasss ip a leswer extent those effects of bard times waich are pow attracting the atwotion of the citiz-ns | of New York, Levee sympathy ia teit for these pecple, on account cf the exorbitant rates of wages Cemandec by them durmg the busines sew ton, aud their overbearing coudust to employers, who were for tre time being virtually tacir de pendents. Toe high prices of provision# must tend to enbavee their misery, and unless some means be adopted for their relief the most deplorable conse quences must be the result Fires afford good op- portunities to the starving to eupyly their want's, and the absence of honest employment frequently cause men to retort to the infamons trade of inceu- | Ciariee. It is most devoutly to be hoped: that steps will be taken to relieve the distress of those who | are, by clcumstan: es beyond their control, broaght | to the a, verge of starvation. There is little prospect of euch relief beiog aff rded by the opera- tions in shipbuilding. The losses of the past year and the failures daily occurring forbid the hope that further enterprises will be undertaken. The Reciprocity Treaty. 70 THE RDITOR OF THR MERAID- Whoever wiil take the trouble of casting his eyes upon the map, will discover that the British powsos- | sione on this continent are even larger than our | own. Asslate writer expresses it: “Tuis large British territory contains more than four mil! ons of square miles, more than two ttouvand six hun- dred and thirty millions of acres, and is equal to wbout one-ninth of the territorial surfsc> of the ter- restial globe—nay, more,” says this 1} itish writer, “it owna the supremacy of our own sovereiga lady Queen Victoria; and the British pox esionsin North | America areopen to the energy and enterprise of | Engliebmen.” We are annually assured by the President, in nis | message, in the reiteration of the Monroe doctrine, | that we will permit no interference by foreign na- tions in the affairs or politisal destinies of this coa- tinent. Onur policy, the polity of President Pierce and bis Cabinet, meantime, must and will rewu!t in nothing ¢lse than in helping to populate | and build ap this “huge territory, enabling it, perchance, in less than a quarter of a century, to place am army of a quarter of » million | of men in the fleld, to cooperate with the | meet powerful naval marine in the world, to de- cide this question, #0 complacently staled, and so satisfactorily settled by the President. But this ix more of @ political view of the subject than I desiga to take. | But what ie the agricaltural capacity of these | provinoes? The Ge Pay BF ith | aid, 245 442 eqaare miles, amd 156,154,425 acres, of S more taaa in 1453, all briskly—which, however, is not now expested— | | which had to be loaded, and which bared | bright, $60 for ficata, , 8) aot tor fireta, $32 for seconds, aai $28 for | Some chan, hands here ut $44, aad | which 7, ge et dand cultivated. Their stated census of 1852, to be 2,265; the number of acres of wheat sowa, 1,136,311, yielding in Upper Canada sixteen bus to the acre and in Lower Canada nine bushels, and thirteen ani three bushels per caynta of the tae tion of cash, respectively. Some of their furtier | sare 78,000 acres of sye, 329,755 of peas, | | ard 913, acres of oats, a twenty-four | bushels tothe acre, 65,656 acres of barley, yielding an _sverazt of twenty-one busuels to the acre. ‘These sverages exceed our own luction per acre, of the sume staples, in any State of the Union, and exceed, also, our production in the ratio of | popal to juction. ‘There is but one State, as statistics obtained in vonnection | with late census, whose wheat crop exceeds to each individnal, and the average of ihe best six States is below eight bushels. Ta pemimnne fo the bene eee the Ml gd pg i , remarks :—“ [n the ten years endin, » he lation of Great Britain inecenset per cent, and that of the United | States more than thirty-five per cent, and that of Cimada more than 104 per cent. Toe land even nov occupied in Upper Canade would hold more thaa cleven tines its present population—-say 11,000,008 inhabitante—to be as peopled as our agricultural markets wide open t> the egricalitural products of this fine ion of country, must greatly stimulate production and 2 idly inorease their population. | ‘he population that will now move in to swell their 18, is the same that, to a great extent, | would have moved in to people our own States—a | valuable class cf husbandmen and farm laborers | that we bave yet a plenty of room for. The negotia- | tion of this treaty will at once give a d in to emigration to Canada—an object that tue Haglish overpment hus ali along sought—for they have | beheld with jeaiousy, eapecially receotly, the vast accession to cur populelen of grown up mep and women, dravn from tueir laboring classes. What { inducements have these emigrants now to come here? They twill have our markets to sell in, and mu r ones of ows to buyin. Taoy qi | much bette their Tasy will bave as cheap and as good lands, and those who become propristors much cheaper labor; they will | have bat and oar taxes, and those be aux liary to their success, for they will | bartben and or:pple those who are to be their com: P If we call the average produc'ion of wheat in Ca- nade bat thirteen bushels to the a re—it is stated at sixteen in Upper Canada, where maca the largest breadth is sown—toeie crop in 1862 must amounted to 14,672,043 bushels. thelr crop of 1454 will enable them to export twelve millions of busbele, which is ahout the annus! a of our own exyorts toall te world in wheat end flour, for the last ten years, exclasive of the last year, and exclusive of the year 1847, the year of tae Irish famine, when our exporta rose to twenty five millions; it ia above the average of our annual exports. This ia tie formidable rival that our wheat growers have to enter @ common market witn, the American pro- ducer paying thirty per cent duty, under a tariff protecting our manufac.urers, and which at the same time was professedly to protect his owa nome market, Still farther taxed in being compelled to ehip his coastwise freight oniy ia Amsricea bottoms, he enters his own grain markets to be uadersold by the untaxed coluniats of Great Britain. Whest is but one of their grest staples. In refer- ence to bariey, they have so mush the ac vaatage of us in soi! and climute, (;oeir climate being particu- larly adapted to its growth, asits high average of twenty-one bushels to the acre shows,) that they must ea get an entire monopoly of this valuaple cereal. ‘Their new grain markets will stimulate the pro- duction of barley in Lower Cavads to as great an extent as the in the Upper Province». Vheir oat crop sveragiay twenty-four bu+heis to the acre, already amoan's to # me twenty-three millions of bushels; and it 14 only ot Canada we are row epeakiog. There are four oteer Provinces-New Brunsaick, Nova Scotia, Newfonndland, and Prince Edward tsland—em- braced fa the treaty, and though uot as favor ably situated for agriculture, are more likely have | It is asserted that | | JANUARY 7, 1855. | | roduction of whest will be iacreased kn Jged by congratulations “on parts thas well sustained.” ‘And least of all wore thoy pre- to see a project started, or at least supvorted, New Evgland manufacturers, who had solem: ed themselves that we should feed thom were allowed to clothe us, to attempt to get cheaper bread from the Canadians. As little were they prepared to wee the commercial interest which they have already helped to “build up,” until, as the President in his la an- nual meseage oar foreign com- tells the nyu hi | equat to that of the first mari power of the carta, and exceeding that of any other;’’ that our merchants merce has reached @ magnitude and extent nearly thus succeeding and thas sustained, should—tn their grasping cupidity for more freights, storage trolers for fahlog-vatrike ts foul, usd wngenerots waters for e and ungensroas blow at agriculture, barter away our interest to en- hance their own, sell our wheat fields for their fish- ing wax not only anlooked for, bat ia ‘the most unkindly cut of ail.” For this administration isnot by any means culpable as they are for exe- cuting the measure, solety responsible for the con- ception of this British treaty. Tae power behind the throne, the commercial and manufacturing in- ° bd was probably greater than the throne Self. But let the respective interests understand each other. Our agviculturista have no objections t Canadian farmers, or any other farmers, in- vcked to feed New Englaod manu'ssturers, or feed the country; and they have as little objection to our commerce having the free navigation of every river, and water toat can float a sail curing as far as they can their triumphant success and complete he bat agriculture cluima an eq freedom. It protesta in that case that these manufacturers shall not be allowed to restrict | the agricultural community to purchasit from them; and that in commerce, American bottoma shall not demand their freighta in preference to all other cariiers. If other interests do tariff’ and navigation Iawa for their protection, neither does agriculture. Give us fres trade if you say so—free trade, complete trade, even to raising the revenue for the support ot government by direct taxutiov. It was only on ir acconat, and only as we ae citizens, to see our commerce whiten with ita sails every sea; only that we rejoiced to give cur ingenious 08 & chance to show their sk ll and render the nation in- dependent of all others in the construction of her fab- rics, that we consented to this tri-party league, in which each surrendered some privileges and was rotected in others. If American manufactures ve nothing to fear from British manufactures, if American commerce had nothing to fear from British commerce, #0 American agricul pothing to fear from British agriculture—home or co- lonial—nothing whatever. But the manufacturing and commercial interest must not suppose that the | agricultural intereat'will consent to be taxed for thelr exclusive benefit and advantage. This they will not agree to, and their resistance to this policy, I venture to say, will be found goon, very generally, to manifest iteclf. Neither thelr good nature nor their apathy will make them so Lon-resiatant as to stand by and see otuer inter- ests built up by asta of Congress and commercial | treaties to the injury and detriment of the great natoral paramcant interest ot the couutry—ita agriculture, Their passive feelings to this exteat, I repeat, cannot be courted on, th ugh others seem confidently to have calculated that they could. But there are some other vie ws to be taken of this treaty, and some matters conncoted with it that must be postpored to another day. A Mippre 8rate Fanwen, England in Her Hour of Need=Fruits of her Step-mother Policy towards Her Children, TO THE BDITOR OF THE HERALD, England will now fled out, and all christendom should hear it, that she has destroyed the best nur- sery of warnors tout ever existed under heaven; | | and who can sympathise with ber should al! the ca- to make weir coutributions from their for rests and their mio for most part; there ig ore esculent, potato, which, as bus | been trujy eaid, may be rewarded as Little jess tm pOrtSot (m OUFOWO Gatlonsl Economy Laan maize, wheat and rice,” that they sre iikely, partionlariy Nova 5 otia, to send as ip large quantities, ana may drive the farmere of New Lagiaut, as well as those of New York, New Jersey, aad Poasyivenia, > a great extent from the Atiautic morkess, though tho | cultivation of thia valuavie es ulent com prorent a very profitaole eoarce of iac me. Tee wraziers and stock breeders will be in like monver iuterfeec with by tie noreed aad cal that will be brovght in, for it 18 wet Kuowa © tutes at Jamities concomitant oa war overtake her, aud her name become Icheboc / The high’ands of Scotland, avd the mountain dis- tricts of Lreland, were the principal nurserive of Kogiand’s best warriors. Now let as bee what Mag- lish civilization, centraligation, corruption, and local tyranny of the most infamous descriptlon have done in bath these countries When the Freach Revolution menaced Europe, and the Convention declared war against Britain, the curober of Hiyllanders then in the British army would be deemed incredibie were it not that we cau show figures for it, Daring a period of forty-six | years, the Highland clans alone supplied the British thry 9: e much cheaper in tse Provinces thanon tau | 8.dé of the tive; and hence h res are often biougat | ip aadshipved to the West Ladies, the ehippor being ent tled in 6u} Cares to ihe Orawback. Rot it ie uonecessery t» detal! farther. The pro pc sition is self-evident, that the British Provin ves, wo their good Jancs and cheap labor—i¢ is vot less than 40 or 50 per cen} cheavert aa it is with us almost tntexed for their municipal goverament or | Jor any otber object, the amali revenue daty of some eight pet feos upon their imports, together with al the: the rece've in different ways from the mot country being sofficient to defray all expense: wilo — fivesixtua of their p¢pniation engaged in agricalmre, it is very evident towt they can produce cheaper than the | American sgricultorist, and thatthe (wo are une leompetitosinacommon market. Why! be the American goverpmen: draws from the ie thirty or forty miilivns annually in the shape ties Ou Marchaudiee, w large proyortion of which fails apon our agricultural producers, a sam not only euffictent to support an extravagant govern Inevt, ap army and navy, but affurdivg a surplus to boy up apnuolly, or biennially, as the case may be, otber Btates, Territories and countries. Nor is this the worst (erature of tois tax as it bears upon oar farmers ; itenables the American menofactarer to bid op for jabor to overbid the farmer ; in short, to ty and commund te labor oft country. The fa mer i thus taxed twice: ficst in the duties he pay*, and thea the much heavier tax he pays in ‘@ armed the mauufacturer to go io.o the mar. ket aod monopolize toa great extent the labor of the country, oy biading it ny eo high that the farmer can only use ft, if atal’ tos linuted extent ard then at such exorbitant /ates as to amount toa EN ry per cent Up.n the net income from his free beld. But is it trae that our farmers, under ali the dis abihties they have labored, with 4 temporary in crease Of many thousend joosumera from anrved emigrants, and te armies of men € under the jpilated avd pigautic sysiem of railroad ecterprises tn which te country hae been madiy engoged, bave not fed the connsry wel), and generally coply? Great providertial afflictions, as a droath, reat ations: Calumiticu, x8 a war ab home or abrosd, that affect pr daction or t She prices of the markets, temporarily, are gencies toat are frevitable and mast be wbmitted to. The coin cider ce of short crops in Europe iu 1463, that de from our markets in one yar upwards of thirty mil o1# Of bushels of wheu:, followed by w short crop four Gwn the present season, when onr markets were entirely bare of the old crop, have greatly ad- vaueed the price of wheat and flour, But take the average price of wheat forthe lat oaif century, aod it does not exceed $125 conte» busbele. Take it for the last quarter of a century, and its iittle if any exceeds one dolia:. but apoa three ocvanons during that thme haw it been as tiga as two dollars, and much of the time below ove Only three years ago, in 1451, the writer of this roid & beau! crop of whess oa Aviaatic market, st 80 centa g bushel, and no longer tian two years ago the @atumn sales ot red wheat io too Battin ore market Were many of them made ot 75 and 40 cents a buehel Let me iueidentaily adi, that from high prices, #uéh aa ate no# current, it ve inferred that tne farmer in citi ‘ge sof wheat ibe ag amount of my own #4 the presént year, with an eqaal beeadta in, will below what Vhey'bave been for tre Inet three years, the addition to the price not making up the defi- cepey im the crop. N has ever donbted bot our farmors could food the , and teed it well, abandaat'y, aad chesoly late cers #atiati # wow of wheat of 1649 smoun'ed to 100,505 ps! bet 1 ot ppg 37% basco in tae the crup of 1*49 was 0 failare in several he large whest dutricts, “ebort crop.” The crip of Ohio thas 15,900,000 of bash: Is below ver crop of 1850,a8 ascertained by the statistic: of that State the fol- lowing year; ‘and crediting tis scd:tion alone to the avnuel average, would moke tee increase of wl at keep wit the ip our popu: lavon. Jt is , Bt lenat, bo Ht per cent in the last ten gears, whip ls toe incr ase of popo | joven. Ewea the increase in the old Atlantic les, 60 long cuitivated, #o long the nursing mothers of the generations of meo, was seveateea per cent, 80 far from snypovlog their capacity to feed the country doutked. our spricultarists who hed forth beet efforts to iawrove Pele b bed dit end creiaed aad lined ae invoked selence sud «pent thetr mon L] per i ewENe and other fertilizers, the objec# of commercial traffic —they were prevered to cab leage the erantzy for some vraise, aud Ww sntici ate thst thefr efforts, many of trem ot1 sod un » \tinb, ae mack to 8 go of farming aa to any immediate profitathey right to soppose that thelr efforte thus to elevate the charsoke of eqricn ture, and > put it 09 8 foot ing creditable to the nation aad comparing fsvora- bly with the same intercsta in other countries, | would bave txen promptly reco, rivet and so ( | army with opventy sia battalions, pach thirteen bun- dred strong. But after the French were conquered at Waterivo, and Napoleon was locked up, the ing: Jish aristocracy considered that sheep, ballocks, and deer, were of for more valuethan men, and that con verting the highlands of S»:otland into sheep walks, deer forests, and hanting parks, would afford healthy recreation and ample amasoment to their young aad pampered pobiity, Hence, in toe most unscrapu- lous mavner imaginable, and with anprecedeated cruelty, the bighiand population were scattered to the four winds of heaven in the course of a few years. ‘This is the coin in which the survivors of the he- roic warriors of Kyypt, Corunna, the Peninsular campaign and Watetloo, and their widows and orphans, were rewarded for their Wravery aod loyalty to the Haaoverians. Those who are ac quainted with geography will know the distance between the Muli of Galloway and Cape Wrath, Sutherlandehire, aad the Western Isles, or Hebrides, waere Prime Esward Charles Staurt, in 1745, raised an army which shook Maglana to her very centre, and woere, since then, were raised forty Highland regiments, twenty-five of which are now reg ments of the ine, fitter of wuioh were feacinles (ana diebanded), beeiaes many mititie and volna- tee: COrpe, Tavied as toe emergeacies of tae coue try required. Keven of these regiments were raised in one yeor (1778) and 6 few mmto«—nine of the line, wits, Tid, T4to, Teh, Teh, THM, Set, A4th, ‘2 buttwlion, and, I t.ink, the 71a, the Ar agile. epdthe Gordou Fencibles ; and between 1704 ad 1.05 NO lead than twelve regamenta were rain: ‘Thu will give you wa idea of the copulation rn the Highlancy of ‘Buottand chen, and f think no obe Will diepate with me but tuey were the bravest, ot ad brave wWortiots a4 ever existed, and jo f who never toet thou match, under proper general ship. fut England, in her present seed of soldiers, wi! recetlect, wiln remorte, that wae aad her aris tocracy converted this extensive noreery of war riers 1 asolitery, howling wiiderness, where tae voice ndber® and of misth lave ceased io be beard, here no more exbiirating or martial strains be traveller, than f hounds aud colley ves of the o the eur of the se: the magtial notes ot the Highlacd bagpipes used to eho and reeceho wy the mouotaior and gler and cheered the > iors, and urged + bigh n nuble bh on w the acbievements of eds, cow nothing prevails bat gloom, desolation, aod bitterness P heart. In thove extensive districts, once #9 populous, there ls now notuing lobe seen lat vast pasture lands, ard preserves upon which the traveller must not trespass. In order to show you the ont te which pater of dapopemiion: baa been carried, | qill just mention @ few facta. The county of Sather- tord, where [ was born and brought up, and where the Vid regiment, pow henteg #0 bravely in the Crimes, were raised, ls almom exclusively the perty of His Grace the Doke of Satherland, and hia aptislavery duchess. In this Highiand county alone, you can set a compass with twenty five miles of © radius opon it, and go ronad wits it fal wretched, but within the circumference you will net find one hundred acres whicu ass been culti- vated for the jast twenty seven years; and | recol- lect when two tho able bodied young men could be raised within the same ciren!; in forty. eight boars. I bave seen myself about five hundred dwelling houses on thatestets, al. ip flames at once; | wae present at the removal of crowds of bamea haings out of the burniog @wellings this is bat « fraction of the en rimities thet are witnessed there ond, in most com, loo, perpetrated at the point Paglich bayonets, and mauctiope! by her angodly yet the cruelties of the hous of Sutverland and Stafford ace nothing in comparison to the crimes perpetrated by other Mizhland Dukes, Earls, lords, Barons, who followed the Satherinad ex ample, bat which would take me too long « time to cota. lang since I have prayed that the day tight overteke England when she would be convinced that a brave rate of menare of more value then dump brute animels. Theat day hae now errived. Will Eagees repent nod retrace her anwise and ungodly short sighted policy. | know the grievances of irelsnd, yet | cannot go We ler gth of the irivh patriote, in the Teternacle, by Joiieg in three cheers for Hawia, knowlag Uhat Van Dieman's land t# & heaven |p csuparison to 4 beria, where ne parole of honor is yracted, and where the knout js stoutly applied to the mppiican but I would in in 6 Crusade, and in these, yes, io a thoasand cheers, for the downtall of every cro ray ed tyrant under heaven. The (Queen of Fagland ts in need of eoloiers. Lat her py, to her Mistrow Of the Robes, and w her favorite Higtlod Dukes and tobler. Yours very wy. » rato Melwon, ) Thompson treet, N.Y, and se- | not require , ture has | Our Nebraska Correspondence. Omana Crry, Deo. 15, 1864 Dhe Nebraska Election—The Oandidates—Exevting Times—The Blection of Giddings Not an Anti- Nedraska Triumph, &¢. The first election of delegate to Congress for Nebraska, took place in this Territory yesterday. Full returns have not yet been received, but enough is known to leave no doubt of the election of N. B. Giddings. Giddings calls himself s democrat, but was the Benton, anti-Nebraska candidate for Buper- intendent of Common Schools in Mimouri, at the late election in that State, and was defeated. I think | can truly say that this election has beem one of the most singular and exciting political com- tents that ever transpired ia any State or Territory of the American Union. Anything like a pariyer- gonization was entirely out of the question, Hon. Bird B. Chapman, late of Ohio, was for & times prominent candidete. Mr. Chapman was endorsed by leading men of the national adminia- tration, Btephen A. Douglas, Cass, Bright, Dodge, and other distinguished statesmen, in addition te which he possessed the confidence and friendship of alarge proportion of the citizens of Nebraska. Im conversation and in public speeches, he avowed himself a democrat, advocated boldly the principles of Jar sovereignty, and declared that if he could not be elected with these seatiments eee to the people, and as the acknow! | Hon, Biephen ‘A. Douglas, he preferred defeat. Mer. | Giddings and his friends on the contrary declared | that party issues had nothing to do with the contest, They refused to ex, sentiments, and ap- pealed only to focal prejudices and inte- rests to secure the election of Giddings. Various rival points were Cec imy. coed the location of the capital, and although the has te do with the establishment of seat of the - torial ment—thia being a matter for the Pxecutive alone to determine—-yet the supportera ' of Giddings raised this false lasue, aad brought to bear on the election. In the absence of ang i By aa thia aly encouraged otuer can- i Thaw to come forward and urge claims. At | this stage of affairs, although the —— ee | democratic candidate im the field, and sare polling more votes by many fold than any other demo; ' then before the le, Mr. Chapman withdrew, in the vain ho) it might be possible to agree | on some er suitable democratic candidate in whose favor all would unite, rea- dering the election of » democrat certsim. Had others been equally solicitous with Mr. Caap- man, to promote the interests of Nebraske and vecure for ber the election of a democratic rey tative, the result would have been far Under existing circu nstances, however, the election of Giddings cannot be considered an anti Nebraska triumph, althou’h as such, the fusion press, with tte ' boop disregard of truth, will doubtless em- nounee it, All must admire the generosity and self-sacrificing atrivtiam which actuated Mr.Chapman in hie with- rawal, slthough not in accordance with the advice of some of bis friends, many of whom ie voting for him, notwithstanding his earnest solist- tations to the contrary. Such magnanimity on the pert of Mr. Chapman, is worthy of all pi , and abould be, aud I doubt nos is, duly agncecialad, by the people of Nebraska. Had the e! taken place betore the excitement Et out of the loca- ton of the capital had reached its heighth, it is be- heved that Mr. Chapman would been the choice of at least two-thirds of the vote tue Tercitory, and were the election to take place by h thore can be no doubt but that he would be the delegste by a large majority. NBOBASKLAN, Who ts Jonn H, Felix! TO THE RDITOR OF THE HEKALD, Who Is Jobn H, Felix, about whom the Havens correspondents of the HxuALp have so mach to say of late? is a question which people begia to ask. Wo have taken some pains to learn whet we could of his history and character prior % his arrast at Baracoa; and as lis case is becoming somewhat intcresting, we have determined to give to the pub lie what we have learned about him. Mr. Felix was born of American parents while they were residing on an estate in Cuba. Hls fe ther, Mr. Henry I'elix, is « native of the city of New York, and is now residing fn Cleveland, Oblo, and bis mother was a native of {bode Inland, where she died s few yours ince. One of bis misters ts the wife of the Hey, Francis Peck, an Episcopal clor eyman, formerly of Providence, and now settled over ® parish in Brooklyn. He ts about twenty-lour years of age, He haw been in the employment of an importing house im this city constantly since 1°46, and bat frequently visited the island of Cabs on basiness for toetr ao count. In (etober last he took parkage on board the schooner Charles 1. Kinyth for Baracon. Aad the next thing that Lis friends beard of him was that he was arrested and imprivoned there. As he bos not since been permite d to communicate with bik fnencs, of course they cannot account for tai extraordinary treatment. 1 is probable, however, thet it waa in consequence of the mere accident of his having become intimate with his fellow prisoner Vetrampes—atier they had both landed. It isa mistake to way that both these men went out in the harne verse’. On the contrary, the latter wentia the Jobn G. White, which vessel with her officers and crew are now detained at Havana. The Smyth, om which Felix went out, was eetzed, but sfterwarde Oischarged, ae they could not make out a case against ’ Mr. Felix in represented by thove who know him best a# toe most unlikely person to be aged in any warlike expedition—being of « very eligut and delicate build, unusually modest, quiet and un oe var J in bis appearance and and habits the most regular and unex- coptionable He is a communicants of Fiyiseopal church, and baa for a long time sclentionsly striven to be governed by religious principles. He some of the best traits of charao- ter veloped to marked degree He ix manly, high spirited and determined ; and his patience and versoverance, exercised under the mot aboriour ciroametances, bave often exsited sarprisa Lady nee? og ade ation. ian copy: aA a pd education, and writes and speaks Spenisa aud French languages tolerably well nia ‘Theatres and Kxhititions, Hnonoway Tunar The Pyne aod Harrisoe appear wmorrow evening in Wal- Opera of “Maritans.” Mins L. Pyne, howe sweet and scientific vocalizat) b admired by all thone who freyseut Broad wag theatre, appesre as Maritaca, Mr, Harrison as Dom . Horrant o« Don Jose, Mr. Keeves ae , aod Mies Pyne as Lazarillo. The farce Fvo La rl poe “ arouseme ute . Gongenbeim, Mra. Praoce, Mr. Davidge and Mr. Whiting in the leaaing characters. howrny Tararne. The selections for tomorrow evecing are such as cannot [atl to draw s crowded house. The drama of “Lochiavar” will be and produced in fine #tyle. The mach pie @ caled* Norah Creina’ will also be pla and the vantical drama of the “Hon of C. a" will conclude the entertainments. The Lenelit of Mr. Kt. Jones, the stage manager, comes off on Wed peaday oventng next. Be wron’s Texarne.A comedy, which the maa- agement announces hav not beea played for thirt, years, wg? Kev. George Crolys comedy * Pride Shall Have a Pall,” will be revived vo mor- i tnnmn | =n ve ba leading artists of iy sppear in Tempe | chareo tem. a” Ja Supper’ will termi- nate the amusements, On Wednesday nexta new piece, called “ Circe and her Magic Cap,” will be produced. | Wattacn's Temarne—The ava Morning Call” wat gungoens ten meoeeneoae el | Morrow evening Chere tote, founded on Bulwer's novel of “ Night and is in rebearnel, and will shortly by prodaced et theatre, with new mcenery end conbmes Awenicax Mirecm- The temperance drama em- titled “ The Drunkard” will be revived om Mow po pp Ly ay bey iddleton, = oventa, ae gare. wih Mr. J. ‘ Roots a tayer an Angelics. The gnoract “ The Cockney io Citng” concludes the aincrementa. Woon's Vasurie.— A very attractive gramme is announced for tomorrow 670 melodies, banjo and violin solos, various and the new musical version of the Muamy. B ce: ey'* Sear svmns. The amusementa of to- Merrow evening consist of melodie, violin solo and pisstation a wih te sew opers of “Olina | ean a _.. Bewpay Concert.’ grand concert will be "this evening, st the Metropolitan, for the Mr, PF. Hughes. Mille Gamilic Ureo, Mlle a , Mrs. H. Watson and Mr. (J Joume wing beveral favorite airs. Dowaronon’s Ores Cowraer beve token Hope Chapel, where they \otend commence Ethiopian | entertainments of the Lith ina. _ _ Antonio and Thereta Rosettl, vrocalinta, arrived t= the bark Hwan yorterdsy, (Seturdaz,) ftom Lisbon In