The New York Herald Newspaper, August 27, 1855, Page 2

NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1855, THE CALE ON THE MEXICAN COAST. —————— Additional Particulars of the Late Gale=The | who was placed crowd Vessels in Port at Mazatlan—Commence- Cathe catne from Svesty Meagaes talons) from steal the report, which contained a concise statement of the | On his return to Taku, Capt. Crosbie ut first thought that efforts and success of the society, and earnestly urged | he would not be able fo trade with the natives, as refused to deliver him rice or till it was ‘rst for, alleging as @ reason that the junks of their own Summary of Foreign News Published | Sunday’s Herald. The Hzraxp of yesterday morning contained a var of most important foreign news, a brief resume of w) NEWS FROM AUSTRALIA: @ommiercial Items—New Imports—Taxation position, having been recently coustituved Victoria — Tartf'—The Gold | 1 distinct church from the Brilish Conference, and will | ly sailéd off without recollectin to pa for their cai t of the Sto Over Thirty Lives Lost goods which floated ‘was seen to strip himself and | we publish tc-day for the benefit of such ofour reader ae We rbtive miseloonin Werorn Australia, The amonat ain he was informed Ath a hi, and that | —Kist of Wrecks. r Teese Erni waren arate eles © |. to at take a paper onthe Sabbath. ” in Western Talia. eo wi was 8 al 7 By way of Callao we have news from Australia, dated was £53 Os. 6d., which with the collections om | if any one acted wrong to inform Lin, aia he would [From the Alta California, July 17.) Pa! whole lece was wound up around his body—he then | From Russian America we learn that the garriso, cut of his head. An agreement was’ then entered’ intd between Captain Crosbie and the natives, by which the former was to pay half the price of the number of sacks contracted for each jual, before the rice was deaten out of the , and the othgr half on the de- livery of the first ment. This Captain Cros- bie found to work very well; and di his entire inter- course with the peoples ha was never cheated to his knowledge out value of one cent. In regard to the price of rice at the port of Taku, Captain Crosbie could not, consistently with his own interests, inform us, but stated that the part of the cargo of rice and sugar with which he there leaded, turned out to be a mere lucrative speculation. Eggs, he says, could be bought at the rate of three hundred and fifty for a dollar, and pine apples at twenty-five cents per hundred. La- borers can be procured at five cents per day, to aid in Petropaulowski, in accordance with orders received t headquarters in Siberia, had evacuated the place on ith of April, and taken all thelr munitions of war,» two war vessels, tothe new settlement on theriver Am: in China. The English blockade was skilfully evaded, and chance of distinguishing themselves thus taken f, the commanders of the Allied Pacific squadron, Ther from the ships destroyed the fortifications of the pl and erected a tablet in memory of their brethren \ had fallen in the assaults of last year. The fleets sa away, leaving a few American citizens in possession the grounds. The Russians are forming an eastern Set topol on the Amoor. They had not @bandoned Sitka collected the Sunday, and the Missionery boxes made £103 18s, 8d. On the following day (Tuesday) ‘a meeting was held for the same object at uarie P| , and a sermon preached on the previous Sabbath by the Rev. J. Oram. At the meeting, Missionary boxes were placed on the table,which contained £98 68. 8d, wyich, with the collections and proceeds of the Tea paling Sadie pomcenty me heen made up the noble sum of £112 244. — The collec- tions at Guyong and at the settlement, with the Mission- ery boxes, amounted to £72 28, 1d., and at Orange £21 1s. 9d,, 80 that the sum realized from the above services is £09'27s. 8144, Mxxnot May 28--com ared with March and April, URNE, je eh and Api May throughout has been a dull month in town; and the storekeepers on the di have complained that little impression has hitherto mn made upon their heavy at Sydney on June 5th; Metbourne, May 80th; Adelaide, May 17th; Bathurst, June 2d. The Sydney Zmpire of 6th June, has the following com- mercial notices. The cargo of flour by the Ocean Wave has been purchased by one of the lange millers, which keeps the market in the same hands; and the sudden rise from £40 to £43 may be in part attributed to this circum- wtance. Among new articles of import we may notice some par- eels of Aberdeen granite in broad flags, suitable for paving purposes. Already portions of the footpaths in our prin, eipal streets are formed of this imported material. Mr. Charles Newton effected a sale of teas lately ex his On the night of the Ist of June there were lying in | gnq children were seen dressed in the gayest the port of Mazatlan the following vessels:—The English | satins, and small children i. bark John Patchett, Capt, Wm. Stapledon; ship Benyamin | of wine at half price about town, they wad stolen Elken, Capt. Langley, and Tartar, Capt. Wm. Porter; the | inher native in Maznthan wee drunks cad the French bark Manette, Capt. Mouard; the Peruvian brig | scemed the baels of a general bacchanalian orgie through Miguel, and the American brig F. Copeland, Capt. Jack, | out that section of country. ‘These were anchoredabouta mile from the shore. About oe ten o'clock on the evening of the Ist ult, the weather was | 7oglish at Meqatien, no mild and calm, the Bky uuclouded and a‘bright moon ii | Consul there. | By an strangemen between this, gentle: rane.” Rey i minating the sea and ‘The night being excessively warm, the erew on bossa the John Patchett turned in on | Americana were shipped in the bark Serene, & deck.’ In half an hour the slight undulation in the ocean roadstead changed into ae increasing swell, | 2vmber with the French about forty, and the captain ordered thirty fathoms of chain to be ha uP and given her. Before this could NEWS FROM THE SOCIETY ISLANDS. Aurora, Pacifique, Blair, and other vessels. The majority | stocks. ‘The roads are still good, cartage remains low, | loading and unloading vessels. ‘The people of the island | he “aecomplished ‘the ‘swell suddenly grew into a reported, An exchange of prisoners had ta and supplies are forwarded; but should the present rains | have a mint of their own, and the medium of excha hea’ md o commenced blowii ef the teas were damaged. The prices, considering the | nd supplies are forwarded; but shoul ihe prose fai | issranish and Mexican dollare In concluding this artl- | fm necsputheast, which la’a-vory. unusual thing. at place between the French on board the + Local Politics—Restoration of King Tamma- this season of the year, the season of the heavy blows rarely commencing until well Into July, Thecombers | toa ito Power—State of Affairs in Tahiti— im half an hour became 40 alarmingly heavy that both |. Last Report from Racaten. anchors -were let go. This lo elfect, however, jaa (From the Alta Californian, July 21.] aber an Parsi ile every exer- |. By the arrival of the schooner Queen of the Isles, Capt. baa an opportunity fo glanco around them to anenins Chapman, in forty days from Raeatea, we hiave advices the.condition of the rest of the fleet, from. the Society Islands up to the 11th ult; . Among the vell was tremendous, setting in with tall combers and . roarkng far inland over the bar'with a frightfal adund. | | Pessengers by the Queen was H. B. M. Consul at the So- ‘Their attention. was directed. to, the French bark Ma- | ciety Islands, Mr. B. Toup Nicolas, We are’ indebted to “nette, of Havre, which vessel, after a few heavy fone “this gentleman for some interesting facts relative to that | had’-parted both her ‘chains, “and was drifting s i poss the roaring line of breakers to atria "As she | Secluded group of islands. The Queen had the northeast drifted she went broadside on to the English clipper ship | trades up as far as 85 N., since which time they have had eva at Se ie ond Which bailles de- | light winds from the N. N. E, and calme, . As the crew of the saw their danger . pees eee ee ae ett wan wcascely deus | _ Mr Nicolas states that the Society group, exclustve of when the two vessels met, with a terrific crash. The | Tabiti, is divided into three separate kingdoms or govern- Bape hil cae at re oe rae of ae two | ments; first, Raeatea and Tahaa; second, Huahine and ‘veasels were rom view. The noise of the collision : wea the cries from the crew arose plainly above thenoiso'| Micu; and third, Borraborre and) Maupite,” These gov- of the combers. Rails, decks, and all the upper works of | ernments have existed for fourteen generations, and the two ships were quickly smashed to pieces. At | though the islanders have frequently made war upon one time the Elkin was entirely upon the Manette, | each Shei invading each others dominions with canoe The scene was such as can only be truly imagined by | fleets and driving off their prisoners in the true anthro- those who have witnessed similar ones. Finally | pophagous style, the hydra head of rebellion had rarely: they separated, and the Elkin hoisted the remnant | dared to display itself. But the convulsive throes whi of 2 ail and sheered away, Meantime the F. Cope- | in the last ten years have overturned European kingdoms land had parted both her chains, and. being nearly | and dynasties, was at last destined to reach over these ready for sea with everything in readiness aloft, hoisted | peaceful little dots on the ocean. For hundreds of years her foresail, and ‘endeavored to get in over the bar into | had the ancestors of the good old King Tamuiatoa, the inner harbor. In doing this she got foul of the Pat- | of the united kingdom of Raeatea and Tahaa, reigned chett, of Liverpool. Our informants then had their | with undisputed sway over bis obedient subjects, but hands too full with their own concerns to observe the | in December, 1853, a seditious Hotspur of a Chief, fate of the rest of the fleet. Some idea of the tremon. | named Tamarrii raised the standard of revolt, and be- dous force of these ocean rollers may be obtained when fore the islanders had well rellected upon what they were we state that the bowsprit of the Copeland was at one | about, his specious eloquence had seduced them into his time over the foreyard of thé Patchett, which it carried } ranks. Old King Tammatoa was ousted from the throne away. ‘The seas ‘washed entirely over both yessels, and | amid the hurling of fishbone pointed javelins and the in the crashing of spars and ripping to pieces of the | furious blowing of conch shells. hulls, all order and presence of mind seemed gone. ‘The | The old man (a paralytic, aged 82) hastened away to a cables of the Patebett siill holding, the two vessels drag- | neighboring Mingdom, accompanied by « few trusty re- ed tozether to leeward. Finally they took upon the | t#iners, where he remained in masterly inactivity until r, the breakers upon. which extended from point to | about two months since, when the licentious abuses of point, a distance of eight miles—one unbroken line of | the usurper having disgusted his warmest partizans, a ollers, which appeared to the crew the most formidable | secret delegation was sent for the dethroned king, who they bad ever witnessed. ‘They passed through this line, | landed, and, as is usualon the landing of all new mo- the Patchett losing her rudder as she thundered over, | narchs, with mouths full of promises, was received with impelled bythe force of the seas. ‘They were then car- | shouts of congraulation. Several hotly contested battles ried through the gat-way or passage formed by the main. | eneued, in which, notwithstanding the remonatrancos of hand and Christors Iolasd, ia which they battered about | Mr. Nicolas, some English and Americans took part, for nearly an hour, utterly helpless ; at one time high | (What meddlesome filibustering fellows these Yan'ees and dry, and again washed off, and English are!) and had the war terminated in fayor of The bark finally took the ground at 12 o'clock, and the | Tomarrii they would assuredly have been put to. death. Copeland still further to the northward. While this was | Luckily, however, the fortunes of the day were with the going on, the French ship broke adrift from the Elkin, legitimate] descendant of the old line of kings, and al- and went down head omieat in twelve fathoms of | though Tamarrii protested that he was fighting for hau- water, capsizing as she sunk—all bonds, twenty-two in | raced, (a constitutional government.) he was regarded number, on board. She was full of water when she dis- | a6 a falling star. Everybody deserted him, and he was appeared, and this fact will give some idea of the amount | obliged in turn to paddle his light canoe to an adjacent OF tamaye done to her in the eollision, The Elkin fared | ishind. fo Tammatoa is egain seated in the bainboo halls searcely better. As soon as she cleared herself from the | of his fathers, and peace reigns inthe kingdom of Ruea- other wreck all hands were put to the pumps, the ship | tea and Tahaa. The Society Islands ke about south- drifting in shore until she sunk on the Mazatlan bar, | southeast from San Francisco, at a distance of about Our informant, an old sailor, believes he never saw so | 3,6CO miles, 3 4 heavy rollers as were on this bar that night. Bu: cll ‘The graduel increase of foreign population has been at- another scene of disaster was being enacted near by The | tended with the usual growth of dissipation and disease brig Miguel, of Callao, and bark Tartar, of Liverpool (for- | smong the islanders of the ontire group, though the ef- merly of London), got foul of each other, and after tear- | forts of the missionaries have done much to ameliorate ing each other to pieces, both being’ dismasted, they | their condition, : drifted on to the bar, capsized and sunk, the sea making ‘There are now residing on Raeatea ond Tahiti about a elean breach over them. The breakers commenced in | forty Americans and English; ut fifteen on Huahine, thirteen fathoms of water. ‘The crew of the Iurtar were | and five on Boraborra and Maupite. The orange trade is in the rigging part of the night, and boats came as near | now monopolized by these residents, Mr. Nicolas states them as they dared from the inner harbor, and took some | that the natives are now being deciminated by discaxe, of them off, The captain of the Patchett having reachei | chiefly ghar by the introduction of the vilest rum the shore, he hastened to the signal bell on the lookout | and other spirits from Sydney and Colifornia, The house, and soon its startling tones were xinging through | islanders use no diseretion or moderation, but drink bottles the town. The captain of the port, the Governor, and a | full where others would merely take drams, The conse- great crowd of the inhabitants, ran to the cliffs and gazed | quence is the most terriblo forins of delirium tromens. npon the sad spectacle. One after another of those who ‘this liquor exchanged for fruit. Some cheap cloths escaped found their way into the town to repeat the de- | and other articles of trade are also exchanged for cocoa- tails. ‘The losses are as follows:— nut oil and the few simple products of the islands, The THE BENS. ELKIN. climate he represents to be the most delicious imaginable; This chip lost her chief mate, a seaman and toy. | the thermometer varying from G6 deg. to 90 deg. through- When the Elkin and Manette came together, the enp- | ut the year. In the daytime the mercury ranges from tain of the former ordered the boats lowered, and two | 8410 84. were let down from the tackles, There were three mo There has been no naval vessel at Reeaten. since the incach. ‘The first roller capsized the smaller one, anti | English frigate Amphitrite stopped there, in 1853, F« til but one succeeded in reaching the larger boat. ‘This,"] Mérly some French schooners ured to come down from however, was washed away from alongside, and as she | Tahiii to observe his motions, but latterly they have drifted past the Patehett, an attempt was made to throw | Cease! to be jealous, i ° . fa coil of rope to her, but the motion of the bark was so | |The news from Tahiti is unimportant. Since the great that it failed to reach her. They succeeded, how. | French took possession of the island, (or rather assumed ever, in getting hold of the vessel’s chain, and here ti.: | its protective right) in 1842, they have rapidly improved beat capsized. "Ihe chief mate and a cabin boy were | i's appearance. "The garrison has constructed a splendid drowned, and the rest were dragged on bonrd the bark, | read entirely around it, and considerable attention is Shortly after this the bark came in collision with the | being paid to the moral and intellectual condition of the Copeland, and went ashore as above stated. This vesse! | islanders, By the bark Sophronia, which cleared for had all Mer baled and manufactured goods discharged, | Tal iti on the 28th inst., there were shipped 75,000 feet of but there was still a quantity of iron in the hold... She lumber, 40,000 shingles, 30 packages furnitare, 40 cases had already commenced tak’ me in her cargo of Brazil | tobaceo, 60 bbls, salmon, 73 bags beans, 23 chests tea, iD) Trincomalee and the Russians, A portion of Allied fleet had arrived at San Francisco. The Fre: had a good many seamen sick. A grand ball’was giver board the English-ship Monarch, at which British, Frer and American ofcerh Were sent. mas Baron Bulow, Engineer-in-Chief of Public Roads Costa Rica, officially invites mechanics, taborers + +mall farmers to emigrate to that. blic, under rantee of plenty of work, » secure land tenure, rel sreedom and cheap living. His letters were publishet Tad thes eodipaaned a mont rUitrhey hati rey or i met a amost arbitrary, nw, inho of filling the treasury by the taxes ed on tra lt was mere likely to impoverish portion of ) Granada, by driving commercial vessels. from its po) We gave the bill in extenso yesterday. Panna and inwall were connected by electric telegraph on the 1 st., when messages were sent across, and the rep) received, in thirty seconds, A series of masquera had taken place at Panama, in which George Law \ represented prominently. |Full reports of the late ra ges of the cholera on board the steamship Siera Nev ‘were en ‘Advices from South America dated ot Valparaiso July 14th, and Callao on July 25th, were also publish Mercantile, educational, and banking affairs went satistactorily in Chili. Bolivia and Peru were yet agit ed with the Presidential canvasses. Trade wis lang at Valparaiso. ‘The two houses of the Sandwich Islands Tegislat: having come to a “dead lock’? om the question of an ropriation bill, King Kamehameha went down to Fiodse of Nobles, and, in a spirited specch, issolved Farlinment, sending the refractory members about {th business.” He explained his reasons to the people i proclamation. Sundoy’s Heranp contained the 10 speech and proclamation, condition of the articles, were good. A lot of Cape flour, : bout 80 tons in bags, was also disposed of on May 8lst., ¢t £37 108. per ton. A parcel of Albertis’ tobacco realized rom 1s, 24. to 1s. 334d. per Ib. Messrs. W. Dean & Co. sold on June 4th portions of the cargo, ex Brilliant, Walter Hood aud other shipa. The attendance was fair, but there was a want of spirit. The folowing were tho principal items:—1%4 inch pitch pine boards, with ‘the 4th added, 36s. 6d, to 98s, 64. per 100 feet; doors, from 6d. to 24s. each; galvanized, and corru; iron, Nd. 22 gauge, £35 10s, per ton;,do,, 20 uge, £34 10s, do.; 133 fnch rough boards, per super- Geial tach, 288. 6d. per 100 feet; 114 inch do., 26s. to 26s. 6d.; white pine boards, tongued and grooved, 31s, 6d. per feet; asso: deals, 208. to 208, 3d. per 100 superfi- t; battem™, 634 x 243, 7x 249, and 7x3, at from i¢d, per running foot; Roman cement, 238. to 248, per cask. ‘Melbourne papers of May 30th say:—The value of the imports into the port of Melbourne for the week ending May 26, as declared at the Custom House, was £196,609; that ofthe exports for same period was £130,407. 'The amount of revenue rece through the Customs for the #ame week was £14 . 4d. By the Eagle, cleared at the Custom House, Melbourne, to-day, for Liverpool, a large quantity of soft goods was yeshipped to England. The matter of Seta interest in Melbourne is the proposed financial scheme of the Victoria government, by which the public debt of the colony is sought to be paid off:—First, by a new duty of ten per cent on all im- ported articles not now subjected to taxation; secoad, by the establishment of a system of stamp duties; third, by increasing the rent of crown lands. The Colonial Sec- retary had expounded this scheme to the Legislative Coun- eil, and it was received with an appearance of support. On the following day the subject was brought under the notice of the Chamber of Commerce, at considerable Jength, when the following resolution’ was adopted by that body:— “That this committee have again to protest against fre- quent alterations in fiscal taxation, as they necessarily ‘exercise a most injurious effect upon the general inter- @sts of this colony, in ils commercial relations.” From the Melbourne Argus, May 26. The chief topic of conversation in’ mercantile circles uring the post two days has been the Colonial Secreta- 2 proposition of an ad valorem duty of ten per cent on all imports, as one means of replenishing the exchequer. Until the bill is before the public, amd it is known on what articles a fixed duty will be imposed, and on what a sunn‘ng ad valorem du‘y, only gencral opinions can be elicited. There is a large class in Melbourne, with whom, ‘at the first blush, the measure assumed rather a popular form, It burst upon the burdencd holders of heavy stocks of goods, for the wost of which the marke’ is only now beginning t» improve, like the consummation of a hope “lo ig deferred,” and, in eifect, they were prepared tof ead jivtle more in the preamble than “A bill to reward the severance of holders of unmarketable merchandise in ictoria, with a bonus of ten per cent.” The reaction to this dppears to be, however, a very general feeling of opposition to the bill. ‘The grounds of this ce cages are several. The evils of continual alterations in the tariff stand foremost—in- volving, as every change is sure to do,a temporary dis- ruption in the System of trade in the articles concerned, and 4 renewed distrust in the minds of the home mer- chant as regards our market. Tt is asserted, and we see Aitle reason to doubt the assertion, that the credit of this colony has suffered a severe check, especially in the European markets, during the past year and a halt, and ‘that the legitimate trade which it is our undoubted rest to foster with the markets of the old world, | likely to be r encouraged by continually shitt- Ing and chan charges on our import, ‘Ton- nage, pilotage, duties, postage, have all undergone one alteration, at least during the past twelve months; and goods in large quantities have frequently arrived here, on which the shipper has based his calculations of profit en a rtate of fiscal charges (hat was reported to him as permanent, but which has been since entirely swept away by acts of the government and almost forgotten by the mags of tra Another great objection to the bill is the amount of ‘the tax. The experience of New South Wales and South Australia here, and of the Cape of Good Hope and colo- nies in other parts of the world, appears to have fixed five per cent as the highest possible ad valorem duty that can be practically imposed. Five per cent is held to be the smuggling point of colonial ad valorem taxa- tion on “all articles not hitherto taxed.’’ Brandy, t bacco, and other usual stocks in trade of fiscal ey tors are so surrounded by a sort of “preemptive right” to notice, from their creation through their various stages to their annihilation, that Wyarne fed in these ar- ticles, except by some deep laid scheme, involving c>nital, time,’and convenience, can never be’ carried on |» any greal extent. The Argus, of Tuesday, May 29, makes a favorable re- port of the gold market. "It says:— merchants in town will receive remtitances on account of their heavy advances. Already the rainy weather has Degun to tell, in reverence both to the quantity of gold dust aud coin, the amounts of which received by escort in the present week are very large. Flour is very firm, at last week's prices; the demand has fallen off, but the arrivals have been very limited; the millers have advanced. their rice, and the bakers have ruised the price of bread; it lively that we shall have a very firm ifnot an ad- vyancing market for some months. "Tiquors—The price of the best Buxton ale is reported to be £11; ‘supplies are pretly freely coming in; botiled beer is rather declining . at prosent.. Cordage is still in good demand, butithe larger sizes have rather declined in’ Value, All’ kinds of suitable ironmongery are getting scarce, the demand for the diggings being steady and great; cooking stoves, shelf hardware, well assoxted hollowware, and grates, are also in fair demand. Provisions—Cheese, ham, bacon, pork, butter, pearl barley, split peas, and rice are still scarce, ant likely to continue 80; some arrivals of butter are report- ed, but they have had no effet nyfon the market. ‘Tim- ber—Notwithstanding the late arrivals, this article is heli firmly. Tobacco—Negrohead and No. 2 Manilas have rather improved, Sundries—Three bushel bags are in betier demand. Candles are still very firm, Blasting gunpowder h afiected by recentarrival Pickles, in pints, are advancing; also carbonate of soda, sulphuric acid, and turpentine, VISIT TO THE ISLAND OF FORMOSA, Interesting Incidents of the Trip—Yankee Enterprize-Opening of another Chinese Port-The City of Taku--First Visit of White Men--The Port of Keleang=Kind- ness of the Mandarins. [From the San Francisco Herald, July 28.) Through the kindness of Capt. Crosbie, of the bark Louisiana, we have been placed in possession of the fol- lowing particulars of a recent voyage to the island of Formosa, in the China sea:— Formosa, according to the Canton Register of 1838, is an island in the Chinese sea belonging partly to China, between latitude 22 deg. and 25 deg. 80 min. north, and longitude 120 deg. 36 min. and 122 deg. east, about eighty miles from the Chinese coast, from which it is separated by the channel of Fo-kien; and one hundred and seventy miles north, Luzon, the chief of the Phillipine Islands; breadth in its centre about eighty miles; length north to south, two hundred and fifty miles; population uncer- tain, but perhaps between two and three millions, Captain Crosby sailed from the Columbia river, Oregon Territory, with # cargo of lumber to Canton, irom whence he proceeded to Amoy. Here he fitted out und sailed for the island of Formosa, which lies directly opposite. He first made the port of Tayou. Here he sent his inter- preter on shore to cominunicate with the Mandarin, and received a message in return that he could not enter, bnt that he could go to the port of Taku, which was further to the sonth, and where he might be allowed to en Capt. Crosbie accordingly made sail for Kaku, and in a few days made that port. This he found a very different place trom that laid down in the charts. The entrance to the harbor is formed of perpendicular rocks from five hundred to one thousand feet high. ‘Vhe entrance is only about one hundred and eighty feet wide, in consequence of a sandbar which ex- tends on both sides of the coast. Jo the immediate front of the harbor, the saud breaks from each side and leaves the inlet above mentioned. Captain Crosbie anchored off Ape’s Hill and sent his interpreter on shore in o firhing boot. Before Wis return, Capt. Crosbie had en- tered the harbor, which he found to be about thirty miles in length by six in breadth, and anchored in six fathoms of water. ‘The mandarin of the place, attended by an escort, paid him a formal visit ond was much surprised to see a white man, and both he and his attendants for a long time doubted’ as to whether the color of his person cor- responded with that of his face. He was obliged to roll up his sleeves, an’ when the Chinese saw the whiteness of his arms they were very much surprised. Boots they never saw before, and when the captain pulled up panteloon and showed them how high up chey extende i, and cxplained to them that in raluy weather’ the panta- loons were worn inside the boots, they were very much struck with the excellence of the inveri- tion. Great was their astonishment, however, when he took a revolver and commenced to shoot. They all started back with fright, and for a long time could not be induced to handle the weapon. Capt. Crosbie says that they have no firearms, and though they form an integral portion of the Chinese empire, they have no bey bene Bs with the exception of the Kiandarias and other high functionaries, of any place except the opposite ports of Amoy and Fu-chau. ‘They were greatly taken with a sword and a watch exhibited to them by Captain cle, it is but jest to say that most of the information re- ceived en pial ae with eee et meagre though 1 ven by the best navigators of the feland, Pi ess The following is list of the principal ports on the castern side of the island: Keleang—exports rice, coals and sulphur; Sam Sug—exports rice and sugar; Tuk Lum—a shoal water harbor, and difleult of access, ex- | ports rice; Sag Lum—ex; camphor and rice; Tayon— exports sugar, rice and indigo; Taku—exports rice, su-, , indigo and camphor; Tong: Kow—exports rice; Sing‘ -—exports very little rice. Captain Crosige had only foray the Mandarin of Taku. $100' as -dues, ovpry 100 bags of rice or sugar, and 50 cents upon’ each bale of Lee a cargo of which he brought to the island. On his arrival in China afterwards, he sent the ship Archi- tect to Keleang to load with coal. INTERESTING FROM MANZANILLO Attempted Setzure of the American Schooner Flying Dart—The Incarceration of Mr. A. H. Halsted. (From the Alta California, August 1.] It will be remembered that, about four months since, we published the fact of Mr. Halsted’s arrest and impri- sonment by the authorities of Colima. After an incarce- ration of more than four months Mr. Halsted was liber- ated on the intervention of Gen. Gadsden, United States Minister at Mexico, and reaching Manranillo, was re- ceived on board the Nicaragua Steamship Company’s steamer Cortes by Cupt. Burns, and taking passage for this city, arrived here on Wednesday. We have been favored with a visit from this gentleman, who is a son of €x-Chancellor Halsted, of Newark, N. J., and who gives the following interesting details of his adventures since leaving this city, in addition to those published in the Alta as above mentioned. ‘The schooner Flying Dart sailed from this port on the 26th December, 1854, for Manzanillo, with the intention of purchasing a cargo of corn in the interior, Besides Mr. A. H. Halsted, there was Mr, Peabody, who also had an interest in the schooner and her cargo. They arrived at Manzanillo on the 1th of February, and were boarded by the Custom House boat, and the papers of the vessel found to be in accordance with tho established rules and commercial requirements. Mr. Halsted went on shore and engaged in conversation with the Custom House Cfiicer, who invited him to accompany him in his boat. After inquiring with regard to the prices of corn in the interior and the condition of the roads, the officer as- sured him that he could obtain all the corn he wanted, and advised him to proceed at once to Colima, a distance of about seventy-five miles, and enter into negotiations with merchants there. Mr. Halsted made particular in- quiries as to the legality of his proceeding to Colima, and Was assured that no trouble would ensue. He applied fora passport, but the official politely replied that it would be unnecessary, as none Was reqaired; the Admi istrador was a muy buen sijelo, &e. The ofticer even i tcrested himself in procuring animals and a guide to fa- cilitate the movoments of the stranger. Mr. Halsted was somewhat surprised at the statement ofthe officer that no passport was necessary, but upon his asserting with all vehemence. that he could go to any art of the territory without, Mr. Halsted proceeded on his way, accompanied by a’ single Indian boy for his guide and servant. He arrived at Colima over a level Toad on the following day, and. calling upon Mr. Sehote, of the German house of Schotz & Co., to whom be had letters of introduction from Mr. Oldmire, at he was kindly received and hospitably entertainc ten o'clock that evening, while conversing in the house with his host, he was arrested by order of the Gencral-in- Chief of the’ territory of Colima (Don Ponsa de Leon). Mr. Halsted proceeded with him to the house of the General, where he explained to him the object of his vi- sit and the reason why he bed no passport—having been assured by the authorities at Manzanillo that such a do- cument was unnecestary, und being refused one when required by him, ‘The General seemed ratisfied, and Mr. Halsted returned to his house. At 6 o’clock on the fol- lowing morning, however, ho was arrested again by An- tonlo Mooteruma, Chief of Police, and conducted to the cuartel, and in answer to his repeated enquiries why he was arrested, he received but the very equivocal re- sponse: ‘No’ hat cutdado; manana tendras su libertad.?? ‘his was the only explanation he ould obtain. After a few days; during which he was left enjirely alone with- out beilding, clothing or food, except what he procured by his own means, he was ordered before the Supreme Judge Rocha, and his declaration taken, after which he was returned to the jail and again left to provide for his own subsistence. Letter from Gen. Cass on Know Nothing! a i the Power of Congress in the Terri rie: He (From the Detroit Free Press, August 28.) Derrorr, August 22, 1855 To THe Eprror or THE Free Press :— Sir—The public journals contain a letter dat July 24th, written by Gen. Houston, which has j met my eye, and in which he says he perceives, the papers of the day, that “General Cass has: proved the platform of the American order, as p claimed to the world by the convention at Philac pbia.” I had observed the statements to. whi jen. Houston alludes, and had let them pass | noticed, for it would be a hopeless task to endeay to correct all the misapprehensions and misrepres tations to which it is my lot, as well as that of other public men, to exposed in these days party strife. And, indeed, I could not suppose t! such assertions would deceive any one who b heard or had read my remarks in the Senate of t United States, on the fifth of February last, up the presentation of the resolutions of the ‘Les lature of Michigan, instructing the Senators that State to vote for an act of Con; hibiti the introduction of slavery into the Territories of t United Stat Upon that occasion, while declini to comply those instructions, I took the opp tunity Litabesd my sentiments in relation tot new political movement, which sought to acqu and exercise. pores by secret. combinations, bou expan by. the sanctions of an oath, which, it said, made it the duty of its members to surren their individual convictions to the ex) will a majority of their associates. I m observe “Strange doctrines are abroad, and arene rd zatious are employed to promulgate for them. Onr political history cont no such chi ter in the progress of our country, as that which now opening. ‘The questions of comes a pniiay a policy, which have been so long the battle ery of p ties, are contemptuously rejected, and intolerance, ligious and political, finds zealous, and it ma; they will prove successful, advocates in this midi of the nineteenth century, boasting with mo selfcomplacency of its intelligence, and in t) free country, founded upon immigration, and gro: rosperous and powerful by toleration. * * * ‘e want no new parties, no new platforms, no ni organizations, and the sooner these danger efforts are abandoned, the better will it be for) and for those who are to follow us in this herita of. \.! I might well suppose, after the expression of th views upon the floor of the Senate, and under c Seep of peculiar Seen that any f er action on my part wot rand ore my consieteste 3 a disciple of the schoo! per built skip, of about | 10 packages druge, 2 boxes books, 120 bags potatoes, 20 The gold market has opened for the week with a brisk | Crosbie. ‘They had never before seen any such things. | On his frst arrest Mr. Halsted surmised at once that | wood. She was an Aberdeen ¢! i : business; tho buying prive remaining at £8 19s. 6d. to £3 | They speak a different dialect of the Chinest, and but few | the object of the seizure of his person vas, su poring lim | 600 tons. ‘The tons was about $4000 bags onions, 2 eases and 2 bales prints, 100 casks Lottled | Weshingtom, and Jefferson, ond Madison and Ja: és, Od. per ounce. Several transactions of large amoant | interpreters can be found competent to translate their | to be the captain, to obtain possession of the Flying Dart, BARK TARTAR. ST aia apeeny og edb) a nann deze a Bh fet in the rejection of a dangerous innovation, Tin esse) had 20 ee cAR TAR: sparging her velua- | traile with the group is not ineonsiderable, as ¥uch clear- e ble cargo of manufactured goods, baving arrived only | @nces are becoming quie frequent; while the character the day before. The was a hew bark, of about 600 tons | of the cargo shows that we are supplying the islanders register, builtin Plymouth (Cat Down), England. The | With many of the most important necessaries and luxu- entire ‘cargo and yenac, 5 dota om ‘are valued ‘at | Ties of lite, 20,000, When she struck an attempt was made to get SET EO EERE TE the long boat out of the chocks, when, the vessel giving News from Bermuda, a heavy plunge, the boat went violently to leward, in- | THE PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER SALARY BILL—A SE- stantly killing the chief mate; his head was completely BASTOPOL ,HERO—MURDER AND 8UICIDE—THE mashed to pieces. A seaman was stunned by being | WEATHER—A TERRIFIC STORM. thrown violently to the deck, where he was drowned, ‘ , the rea ‘breaking entirely over the hulk “The second | OUF files from Bermuda ore dated to the 15th of mate and a seaman, who were ticd in the main rigging, | August were drowned in the surf, the body of the latter being | The Bermudian of that date has the following:—The the only ore recovered, and which was buried the follow- ; ; nar f ing day in Mavatlan. bill providing a stipend in aid of the support of the min- FRENCH SHIP MANETTE. ister of the Presbyterian church in these islands, came All bands (excepting qne who was sick on shore in a | up for its second reading in the Legislative Council yes- ee ee Se eate a eee ae peter terday, and we have now the pleasure to announce that the wreck, which drifted on the small rocks to the north- | the bill passed throngh that critical stage, the numbers ward of the town. The rest (eighteen in number) were | being, upon a division, 5 forthe second reading, and 4 drowned. The ship was from Havre de Grasse, where | against it. There way an animated discussion in the she was owned, She had taken in part of a cargo of | Council on the bill, Unanswerable vations in sup- Brazil wood at La Paz, and came to Mazatlan to complete | pcrt of the measure were mate by the Hon. Mr. Ken her cargo, She was bound home. The loss by her was | dy, the mover; and by the Hon. Messrs, Hall, Smith about $100,000, She was 700 tons burthen, and Foggo. ‘The Hon. Messrs. Butterfield, Tucker and THE JOHN PATCHETT. Darrell spoke against it. This vessel Tost none of her crew. She bad in about Among the passengers by the Merlin, from Halifax, was 400 bales of dry goods, which were to have been dis- | Jebn Rees, Eeq.. Deputy Inspector of Hoxpttals and Fleets, charged the following ‘day. The vessel was about ten | Who succeeds Doctor Hilditch in the medical charge of cars old, 260 tons burthen, and built in Barnstable, | the Royal Naval Hospital at these islands. Doctor Hews onshire county, England; with her cargo she was | bas recently returned from active service at the seat of valued at about $40,000. war in the Black Sea; and he has been an eye-witness of BRIG PF. COPELAND. some of those'gallant exploits in battle which have marked fo er a p cre’ i the eflorts of the allied forces at Sebastopoy. at egfore this vote] struck, four of the crew, afltighted | “The Signal Station at Gibbs’ Hill was’ on the even- the chances of & AB boat, and | $2 of the 7th, the scene of most revolting and frightful pear ° hon e cl yp then, y i eventr—the murder of Louisa Wilson, ‘and the suicide of endeavor to pull around a neighboring point. Before | the murderer, herown busband, Sergeant William Wilson, bie Air) pate and Ober teaty canes oi tbyacomber | ofthe 26th Caméeronians. The verdict of the Coroner's "ot jot a fraginen bes ; hes ibe ieliuence of of the boat or her occupants was ever seen afterwards. | Jury, Was, temporary insanity, under the influence o} The best whale boat could not have lived a moment in | Which the sergeant had taken the Uife of his wife and then the surf, The rest of the crew clung to the wreck until | Te mndian of August 7, saye:—The weather has morning, and, as the wea went down, were taken of | been oppressively hot during the last ten days, notwith- greatly exhausted. The Copeland was a Boston built | standing the prevalence for more than a week of a stead rig, and has been in the Pacific coasting trade two or | {tancing {he Prev ae or nd the toe itis worth three ycars. Mr. McCarty and lady, of this city, were | Pyome trom tne MOke ean} Sevurrence Here during he on board, There were also five native passengers, bound | gummer months, southerly and weiteily Cy bey ef oe Franetfeo, for which port ae waa er sailed | ‘Tate trom dune t> October” cite Dep F he nextday. All were saved. Mr, Palmer, her super- ober, ~ . cnrge, phy oe Tt the time of the disaster, The loss Last night, a few minutes before teno’clock, a thunder FRO, was storm of terrific power passed over these islands, It Ry thle yanvel as ere ee $15,000. was ushered in by @ violent gust of wind from the west- ward and @ brief but heavy fall of rain, Then came the ae be ~ was about wag ten fo Da ls lightning awfully fierce, followed by thnnder of the the country, among which was a quantity of beeswax and | grandest voluine; ‘peal on peal contending clashed”? for a Re ee ey sled the kpace of twenty minutes, one of which, at ten o'clock, Seat OF eal Catia Wadi 19 Liried broke slarmingly close over the town, shaking al:nost In addition to the ty item furnished is thie en every house within the circuit ofa mile, We have heard olan othe ean im arta, uae | “fh damage tm hn lc ul bayond the shattering the following from Dr. Giller, who came passenger from | {n th ee eaaatiosaon avaarnae we Ben Blan. The Doctor recetved a letter at Tepic, from | ithe harbor. | The atmosphere ia now, we are happy to Capt Plummer, of the Water Witch, dated Jane 2, the | “S* UeUehttully c ne y following disaster. He nto Ban Blas, freight fr ‘ The Kinney and Walker Expeditions, and discharged the freight from this port, and theuce fg Apart thong 9 took place yerterday; the buyers shipping by one or other ‘of the veseels about fo sail for London and Liverpool. The Yrokers complain of the great hindrance to business, eaused by the working of the Gold Export Duty bill. A cel of gold sent down by the digger, for sale in Mel- wurne, is almost in effect, locked up out of the way of purehasers, Access cannot be obtained to it untilan ‘entry is posted at the Custom House, and even then the 4’ cannot be removed, except for the purpose of being Fken on boatda ship. ‘The bargain between the buyer ‘and seller has to be «truck at the Treasury, instead of at the broker's office as hitherto; and the time occupied in complying with the forms required by the authorities is Of itself a serious item in the expense, for which the seller will suffer in the long run. The ullimate effect of the ameasure will undoubtedly be to reduce the transactions in the metal in Melbourne, the escort fee being, in fact, a protective duty of Gd. per ounce in favor of the broker at the ciggin te ‘Mr. Khul! says, on May 28, the quantity of gold re. ceived by esvort, for weck ending 26th, has only been cx- ceeded once in amount this year, and in comparing it with the escorts within the months of May in the previ- ous three years, it exceeds any one of them by 10,000 ounces. This is somewhat consolatory in the midst of our nt colonia! financial difticulties, umber of persons. arrived 1,006 Number that have left 256 Addition this week 750 And year... seeecees + 22,450 language to foreigners. After remaining on board for some time, and inspecting all the curiosities which were exhibited to their wondering gaze by Captain Crosbie, the Mandarin remarked that guards were stationed at every point on board the Louisiana. The fact was that Captain Crosbie, having already become acquainted with the thievish propensities of the Chinese at other places, had taken the precaution to — himself from being pil- fered. The Mandarin, when he observed the guards, r0- marked “that there were no beggars among his peoplo— that every one on the island was well off—that Thievin was unknown among them; and that, if any one should attempt to steal anything, to let him know, and that he would take off his head.’’ Captain Crosbie then informed him that his object in visiting the port was for the pur- pose of trading, and received every encouragement. . Next day, Captain Crosbie paid a formal visit to the Mandarin, on shore, and was met by that functionary with a long retinue. A sedan, with four Chinamen to carry it, was assigned for the conveyance of the Captain, and another sedan for his interpretet, with two China- men. The town of Taku is situated about fifteen miles in the interior from the head of the bay, and as the pro- cession passed along, the crowds at every step increased. They passed through several villages on their way, and the arrival of the procession was the signal for the turn- ing out of the poptlace en masse. The roofs of the houses, the trees and the walls were crowded with them. Some- times they rushed on the sedan in which Captain Crosbie ‘was conveyed, and placed their fingers gently on his face or his hands, with the intention of discovering whether the color would come off or not, Before they arrived at the gates of Taku the crowd which followed the proces- sion had swelled to a vast concourse. Taku, Captain Crosbie describes to be a large, hand- some city, containing about 300,000 or 400,000 inhabi- tants. It is surrounded with a granite wall twenty feet in height and fifteen feet in width. The gates were of wood and were strongly constructed, From the gates the procession moved to the palace of the Mandarin. The windows and housetops of the streets through which he Passed were alive with § tors. At the palace of the mandarin he was rec with every mark of ho- nor. The servants, numbering about forty or fif- ba were stationed in lines, through which he passed to the Mandarin, who received him in the most cordial man- ner. which was at anchor at the port, and with which they designed to replace the loss of a Mexican war schooner which had been wrecked some time before. He imme- diately dispatehed a boy courier to Manzanillo with in- structions to the captain to get under way at once and stand off, and on the harbor, and to send by the bearer a few articles of clothing and some money, as he was in the hands of the authorities and would possibly be detained and unable to transact business for several days, He added, however, that the object of the arreat was to elze the schooner, and advised the captain to lose no time in getting unis way. | Though clovely guarded, Mr. Hal- sted succeeded in getting the courier off who arrived at Manzanillo about an hour before the government courier, who was the bearer of instructions to the commandante at the port to selze the schooner at once. His falling to effect this laudable purpose so enraged the General in Co- lima, that he was sentenced to three years imprisoment, Which was afterwards esmmuted by Santa Aun, Mr. Peabody came on ghore on the receipt of the news, to make some arrangements in aid of Mr. Halstead, but was arrested at once and conducted to Colima, where, after arigid examination, he was sent back to Manzanil- lo; but the schooner was then gone, and it was only af- ter suffering the severest privations—destitute of cloth- ing and money—that he finally reached Acapulco, ruin- ed-and dispirited. Here he forwarded the news to Ge Gadsden, and, afier waiting for some time, in hopes of obtaining some redress, be proceeded to this port, where he now is, ruined and crushed by the infamou! proceedings we have above described. Meantime Mr. Halsted, not anticipating a lengthy im. prisonment, and conscious of the great wrong which hat been done him, made constant applications for release and redress, Vat to no purpose, and five weeks having passed away without relief, he flianlly addressed a letter through the house of Schotz & Co. to General Gadsden, at Mexico, who at once interested himself in the affair, He demaded the instant release of the prisoner, and in one of meveral letters which he addressed to Mr. Halsted on the subject, he says:—“I have already interested myself in your behalf upon declaration, and kave super: added a remonstrance and protost, holding the Mexican government responsible for the injuries they have done you.’ Mr. Halsted remained incarcerated all this time until early in June, Mr. Foster, American Consul at Manzanillo, arrived at Colima, and ‘through his intervention the liberty of the city was given the prisoner. He remained in the place, under guard, until the 26th of June, when a document of release arrived from Mexico—procuved through the instrumentality of Gen. Gadsden. The pri- toner now demanded some explanation of this treatment, but no reasons were given. His release was hastened by the rumor which had ob- tained in the country that he had recently forwarded in- formation to the United States government of these abuses, and that an order had issued from the Naval De- partment directing the American squadron to proceed to the Mexican coast and demand the release of all Ameri- can prisoners, Mr, Halsted states that in several in- stances American seamen are confined in Mexican prisons along the coast, whose ignorance of the proper forms of addressing the United States Minister prevent their being liberated. Their cases are not known to any American foreign representatives. He also heard that it was given as a reason for his arrest that he might belong to the Al- consistent with all the principles Sines taught, and which, in effect, aims to t at political duty of an American citizen from t ight of day, where it should be exercised in tl land of freedom, to secret conclaves, as unfrienc to calm investigation, as to wise and ic de sion. But the extract from the letter of Gen. Houst has shown me that these reports have received mc credit than I had believed, and this considerati has induced me thus publicly to notice and to « tradict them. My opinions, indeed, upon any sv fect are but of little consequence, except to myse ut if they are worth referring to, they are wor the trouble of making the reference a true one. Thavye no sympathy with we of political « anization— none whatever, neit with the mea it employs, nor the objects it seeks to attain. secresy, its oath bound obli; ns, its control the ballot box, its system rower] ion, striki: both at political rights and religious » and i inevitable tendency to array one portion of t community against another, and to carry dead feuds into ray corner of the land, of which \ have just had a terrible proof, written in characte of blood, aud are doomed to have many more; if tt movement goes on, for this is but the first inat: ment of death, and how many others are and to what extent, and when the last is to be pai and after what lamentable vicissitades, is knov only to Him who foresees events and can contr them—these characteristics mark it as the mo dangerous scheme which has ever been introdac into onr country to regulate its pubiic action ori social condition. It is the Orangeism of a republi searcely better in principle than ts monarchical totype—of a republic whose freedom and i justily as little as they invite the introduction of machinery whose operation is concealed from publ observation, but whose consequences are as ‘ they are alarming. Gen. Houston gives credence to the report that approve “' the Vagetnt) of the American order, { Toclaimed to the world by the Convention at Phil lelphia.” I am aware thi changes have heen mad: both in the name and in: @ of the principles « this new organization. But these changes do n remove my objections to it. Its spirit of telat and intolerance remains, and witi it, its evils an Some It is a book to which I cannot t reconciled, whatever addition, whether the new on or the old one, is offered to me. There is, indee one principle laid down in that conventio which meets my concurrence, and that ia, the deel: ration that ‘ Congress ought not to legislate ue é LECTURE OF THE FAMOUS AMERICAN {From the Melbourne Argus, May 1.) On Tuesday evening last Mra. Dexter delivers 1 lec- ‘ture at the School of Arte on ‘: Nothing.’ The lec vurer commenced by observing, that although her choice of a mubdject would preclude the possibility of disappointment @n the part of her hearers, sis they had como professedly Yo hear nothing, yet she would endeavor to show that the subject was by no means so. barren es might » first glance be supposed, and that, in fact, somethin, ght Be made of it. she gavo soute humorous definitions of dhe term ‘nothing,”” and mentioned instances in which men had wasted their energies in the pursuit of trifles ending in“ nothing”’—as that of the well known orator Thelwall, who succeeded, after laborious research, in de- termining to his own satisfaction the precise day, hour, and locality of Cwsar’s landing in Britain. The lecturer, then introduced remarks upon the general char: er of nothingness of the literature of the present day, and the inutility of the plan pursued by many of reading at a htning rate a number of works on different eubjects, out at the same time reflecting upon and under: standing the ideas entertained by the authors. Many persons, she continued, found “nothing” in ever; thing Which did not coincide with thelr own particular views: and meamerism had been declared by some to have its tion on ‘nothing,"? but she was glad that @ con- vidiion of ita truths was daily = ground, in spite Of the foutery which, in this as im all other ages, was Faised "against new and startling discoveries. ” The velemence and hostility which§ had been displayed to- wards the early promulgators of truths (now universally acknowledged), as Anaxagoras, Descartes, Galileo, Har- ‘vey, and in later times to Thomas Gray, the originator of OOMFR. ‘A bountiful repast was immediately spread before him, consisting of fowls’ meat of several kinds, delicate fish, rice, and a great variety of luxurious dishes, but the Captain, after he was seated, found that he could not do justice to the good things with which the hospitable board of the Mandarin was spread, with tie chop-sticks, which he accordingly laid aside, and taking out a large clasp knife, with genuine Yankee coolness, commenced his dinner, All weregreatly sur; at this atrange proceed- ing, with the exception of the Mandarin himself, who re- marked that he knew that foreigners used knives at their meals, and he regretted that he did not have any such articles in his palace. While Captain Crosbie continued at table, the attendants comtinued to pile on his plate those articles of food which he appeared to relish the most, aud appeared to think that he was capable of eat- ing any quantity, In the course of a conversation after- wards, Captain Crosbie mentioned that he would like to have an interview with the Mandarin of Tayon, who Is the head Mandarin of the island, in order that he might make some axrangementa with bitn for trading in fature. the subject of slavery, within the United States.” I regret, however, that the which thus pronounced against the exercise of th por did not also pronounce against its e: ut carefully pretermitted—to use its own the expression of any opinion upon Se the railroad system, should teach us the lesson that we direct to Altata, a smail seaport with an ope Gould be before we} ridiculed, or denounced He was informed thut it was two days’ journey to Tayon, | varez party, and had arrived at Colima to make a recon- 7 -_ pen By the arrival of the W. 1. R. M. , yeat , | Lapprove its action ‘upon Raat rca tous etre, we) idle ey oe ator the | Dut that he (the Mandarin of Taku,) would fend ames: | noieance of the defences of the place. The real object, | Tommenccat at ‘once londing with Brazil weed Yor sew, | at this work ve learn that Onl, Kinaty nad cospany eel | goem Tris. step in the ght ane ion’ ama shen oyicit worlie—the rubject whteh ale had. chosen for her eo ko) before them, ia order that the Manirin of however, yee the seleare of ihe schooner. Gen. Gads- | Sirk. Mr. Bigelow, of this city, was in Tepic when tka | fully ingratiated themselves with the people of San Juan, | rejoice to sce it followed by every political party i: eat lecture. The lecturer afterwards proceeted to tlins- | {93 c iaeht soe than At Place halt way between the | tensa’ caiertunate in being arrested. he was meceitee | letter arrived. it states that 's tremendous swell et in, | td uurestt ts stlow name'or the porty teomgs aid, | Our country. itis too, towards the securit » of politi righta tite opposition tothe legislatio: of Congress over the internal affairs of the le 0 the Territories, and, among others, over rela tion of master and servant, or that of husband anc wife, or parent and child; for these matters of do mestic policy are subjects which should be left to th: ‘Territorial communities, and to divest them o the to regulate them is an act of anmiti ited despotism. The negation of all interference by Con in the internal pove ment of the Territorica is the true doctrine, and the only safe and practicable one, anc Tam rejoiced thet after years of opposition—of ob loquy, indeed—it is fast a itself upon im witha heavy gale on the night ofthe Istult., thesame hour | #4 aereed to allow some of the party passage up the Toported. 1a the above actounta, The crew was maotly | ver, upon thelr procuring a permit from «so-called ashore atthe time, many of them having deverte’ in ab be eat Saar oe fe emiamanet of whove Me d 7 bs “~ ut, dous was the surf that she had broken entirely to pieces, | “eepateliex to the United States on their steamors for any Themen being eabors, ts cn tain scaliaot it hisanchors J" pa fn a dh aaa aininca Shae . a ol je 6 eri J Galt Tica take vies eae oastecnn tant | in the iuitish steamer, from Whotp we learn that Col. K. Piuntner thinks that about ao third of his crew cies | nd men are clearing land, laying out lots, and buildin drowned, The ship had been loading with ‘wood for | houses: ‘The most of the accoumt of their, wreck a several days. The news went to the Custanas, who sta. | TUES IAlind is confirmed by the gentleman aforesaid —ag ted that the wetting of the wood would ruin it should | Welles the et that the Ocean Wave and another ves- any of it get ashore from the wreck. She would probably | “el are supposed to have left the United States for San be sold for a trifle to the above firm. At the time the | 482. iss letter was writen, Capt. Plummer was doing everything ur informant also says, that Col, er, with the Arate, by appropriate quotations from Shakspeare, Dry- den, Locke, Bacon, and others, the various meanings aad uses of the word “‘nothing,”” which in one sense she con- sidered was wrongly applinl when it was said that a man sprang from nothing, meaning that he had raised himself Dy his own abilities and tact without extraneous assist- ance. The lecture, whic! ttended, was heard with great attention, and Mrs. Dexter, at the conclusion of her discourse, was gre with « round of applause. FINANCES OF VIC Lida mag by Mr Haines, th ictoria, that the deficit in the ic expenditure of ‘that colony for the pres¢nt year, with the detieit of Inst rer drought forward, will be £600,000, “That may rly be stated to be the debt of tle country,” says he and he has laid before the Lagislavive Council « scheme lucky in raving the schooner, which, when ouce sclzed, would never have gone out of the hands of the Mexican government until some summary process was adopted on the part of the United States to foree them to deliver her, The matter has been taken vigorously in hand by the United States Ministor at Mexico, and we trast that Mr. Halsted will make such reclamation as will teach the Mexican government that, whatever intestine broil they may be aposed to foment among themselves, the pro- rerty and liberty of Americans must not be the less re- spected. It is only by touching the pockets of the im- poverished governments that habitual respect to existing treaties can be enforced. Among the numerous lotters and documents before us in relation to this matter, we have only room for the protest of Mr. Halsted, of which sccompaniot by the Mandarin and bis retinue, proceeded to the place appointed for the interview with the head Mandarin of the island. % ‘He describes the country through which he passed an beautiful garden. As far as the eye could take in, hun- dreds upon hundreds of acres of rice and sugat were stretched out. The lag appeared to devote their at- tention almost exclusively to ulture, and appeared to be happy and comfortable, Cattle too were seon in gmt abundance. He was received very kindly by the ead Mandarin, who informed him “ that his reason for refusing him entrance at Tayon on his first visit to the island, was that his arrival there might be reported to the Mandarin who presided over the department of Fo- kien, of which department the island of Formosa was a 2 loninl Secretary of i ; latter it would no reported to | the following ts a copy:— grou The idk th * as ay womens provinee, and that by the pe ing is a copy a ortion of m force with which he has already been reported as bein, able unds. Borner rcs | ety va it tage al Wy Kone | A at ot Cahn oa | ia hen rr ep srtr | avr a tea greats | Repeat apo it rare lpn among ee ing a new apectes oftaxation, aad by raising the | visitthe port of Taku, to the South, mo ineonvealence | ma, Territory of Colima, Republic. of Mexico, by. sf Sanne Sn tame SOUS Sone sagiaten, CEee ee aeET aan USD hie cme | i ee of my time. On ried for pastoral lads to the squatters, Would resaht, aa the Miadaria,bCtbat Hines wold report. | ertkoedt aid bathoetties Of sald place, tr mere thee foer ph ate ah teeny 9 feta Hin Minere he wae tol ogi erm or | would naturally du Beat oe eee reine the The Mexican war schooner Guerrero drified ashore at | i#Bt—he chose the latter alternatives but, after further | dogma of the right of internal government by an ir ran negotiations, the Costa Ricans agreed, if Ko wouldgive wp | 4° a etal tO Ree ada a total lone. Her | his arms, to protect himself and firce from the Nisrage, | Tesponsible legislature over a distant attempted to get underway in the morning, | an government. Shortly after their arms were unrepresented in the ruling body, would the wind being light she could not counteract the | farfy of Niearaguaus captured some twenty of Col. W's | tle favor, and that the power to establish and WESTERN DISTRICTS. A. mp ifor the Bathurst Free Press, June 2.) “ting of the{Church of England parishiauery wae Rael in, A Paints Gravel, on Monday eveni , 10 con tinue orts which have been made to erect @ school to him, ana that it would be allright. Capt, Crosbie also asked for a privilege to trade at port of Keleang oo the northern extremity of the island, at which it the American “4 uadron on their return from Japan discovered ® rich bed of coal. The Mandarin told him that he might months past, do make this my solemn protest to all and every act, abuse and detention from my logitimate busi- ness, to which I have been subjected during that timo, in contravention of existing treaties between this and my E: rt making some complaints, with the usual amount of | at lumbering, some ot tilling and some at butldie " nantical curses, they wero eet apon eight or ten | We understand that Col, Kinney expects com Ficcnbie | colonists “are entitled to a free and exclusive Mexican soldiers, and the mate ly stabbed with | accessions to bie party by arly arrivels from the Uniiei | power of legislation in their several provincial legis ‘a bayonet. They were both badly aven, and the head ] states, 2 Iotaree, where ther right of representation can } government, holding the authorities of this plage, toge, | lufluence of the surf. As an instance ot Mexiean seaman- --wherenpon, the Costa Ricans raised aD vament might well fo Bathurst. 1 appenrot that about £580 ix at once | trade thes also, but refused to givea written privilege, aa | ther with the Supreme government in Mexiob, respon: Silp Vo Seere Can Che: pebconer’s. Resheas wore It eed’ mem, and sent word (0, {ho Ni sregent pee wae ine Serie eomteel allt fhe senteckbatienmes more can be raised hy puilevubweription, the remaiging ho emarked, “that he dd so, { nt, Crosbie wea saw | ble all aad every damage, lows, abuse. and detention, | fis ter read te sandy and inva, i Holding ground i | who liad the prisoners, that if they did not deliver therm | life wouldve lett without an advocate. The differ pot mubse: On, others, aud he might thegefore rou into trou- ereby protesting in my own name and in the name of “ up th would make war wu t “d See, egeiced shoul be obtained on igun, a0 that wo | bie.”” Tn a ribocuent couvermation; the Bead Mandsrin | my goverament,* an reprovented ty the’ United “Stator | OUTRAGES UPON AMERICAN CrrtzeNs—nouBERIES BY | Hlnce ihe receipt of thie intelligence pea mei ence is broad and practical, and should be the dearer for the Jipounting to Lubseriptions were made | inquired what was the nanse of the King of America? | Commercial Agent at this place, THE INHABITANTS been heard; but it was supposed that fighting between urged by our ‘on Sunday, May tbe id ~ Nowene £800 and £400. And on being informe that the American people had no Usirgp Stares Cowsnmcrat, AGENT, ‘We learn that Captain Jack and the chief mate of | the two States had commenced. hich be; the mo- ta tee vr Ma Phen mons were preached | king, he was very uch surprised; but more so when he Conia, June 27, 1866. the Copeland were robbed by the soldiery at Mazat- | The Kinney party have already preparod and planted Ba! ‘gan by argument, but ended ; , by the Rey. Thomas | learned that cur chief magistrate only received 4 sala’ Personally appeared before ino thiaday, AL HL Halsted, | lan, the officers refusing them all protection. On | considerable ground, and all handy were at work—sume ¥Z Scnitnantal Ch soap Me ga 1706 when ‘e Contine lared English Adams, a returned Missionary from the Pricnd! on bebalfof the Wesleyan Missions, aud on thet ence day a mort spirited meeting was held in advocacy of the w of the institution. The Rev. Joseph Uraw road Py known to me ta be the person represented, and did enter this as his most solemn protest, to which I have given the veal of this Commercial Agency the pbove written. . ww poste of twenty-five thousand dotlers a year—his ideas rach fers having probably been derived feom porta of the enormous amounts pald by the Englis! ple for the eupport of the expensive bauble royeny. bout