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= ‘d beauties of this delightful region. As he 6 NOTICES OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. Tax Prison OF WELTEVREDEN AND A GLANOR AT tak East INDIAN AncuirELago, BY CaPrain Waxrer M. Ginson. J. C. Riker, Fulton street. ‘The spirit of adventure which leads men to reck. teasly hazard their lives in search of the unknown, is almost as fruitful in its results in our own day as it was in that of the earlier discoverers. Although a limit seemed at one time imposed to the further advance of geographical know ledge, recent events have demonstrated that there are no bounds to its extension. The discovery of the Great Polar Sea, of the North- west Passage, and of the great Antarctic continent» and the solution of many minor geographical pro” blems, which, though long agitated, had never unti! lately been settled, all show that apparently well explored as is the globe we inhabit, we have not as yet arrived at the full term of our discoveries. How comparatively limited, for instance, is the knowledge that we possess of the islands of the Indian Ocean! The marvellous accounts given of them by the Venetian and Portuguese travellers of the 16th and 17th centuries had long been looked upon as apochryphal. It is ouly within comparatively re_ cent date that the veracity of Marco Polo has received confirmation from the investigations of Marsden, and the work of Captain Gibson supplies us with what was wanting in the way of corroboratory evidence. The latter has the additional merit of bringing vividly before our eyes the poetic life and beauty of these islands, of which previous travellers had only partial and unsatisfactory glimpses. Nothing in the history of individual adventure igs more interesting and striking than the narrative of Captain Gibson’s travels in this delicious region. ‘The singular and unprecedented character of his in- tercourse with the uatives, the circumstance of his imprisonment by the Dutch, and the romantic de. taila of his life in, and final escape from captivity, all make up a story of novel incidents and situations to which but few works of fiction offer a parallel, And yet there are no grounds for throwing doubt on the aceuracy of his statements. They are in strict keeping with the character, scenery, and political circumstances of those islands. He presents to us, it must be recollected, under a new aspect, a race excluded by the treacherous character commonly attributed to them, from civilized consideration and fellowship, whilst at the same time he completes the insight given to us by Sir James Brooke and his associates into the motives and causes of the calum, nies uttered against them. What really led Captain Gibson into this career of wild adven ure does not very clearly appear from his own statements. He had long dreamed of a visit to the Indian archipelago. It was, he says, “ the ideal of a reverie conceived in earliest boyhood, when the Sumatra land began to gleam before my eyes, andthe Indian Ocean lay outstretched a shining path, even in those early days, leading to fortune and honorable renown" ‘This vague and dreamy aspiration seems to have been consistently pursued towards its realization, in spite of the numerous and at times apparently insurmountable obstacles thrown in his way. His life has been a strange mixture of unpleasant reality and romance. After struggling for some years in obscurity, with narrow means and the evils incident to them, he at last succeeded in obtaining possession of a vessel, in which he pro- eveded to realise the golden dreams of his boyhood, and to visit those shores towards which hia eyes had been sofongingly directed. More happy than those who had preceded him in the same path, he seems to have ingratiated himself at once in the affection and confidence of the so-called treacherous, but in reality, simple and kindly disposed race by whom those ialands are peopled, and even in winning the devotion of one of the most remarkable heroines and enthusiasts that we have ever read of. The in tereat with which he has contrived to surround Babyeepah, the grand-daughter of one of the chief- tains of Sumatra, would appear to be pure fiction were it not consistent with the general traits that Captain Gibson attributes to her people. Although she appeared to him at first to be hut the simple childlike daughter of a barbarian, she soon convinced him that she was an energetic and high souled wo- man. She visited him in prison, aided his escape, and saved him from imminent danger of death. Asa nataral corollary of this sympathy on her part for our gallant adventurer, she finally embraced the religion that he professed. Captain Gibson describes the innumerable and sunny islands of the Archipelago, scattered in fanciful profusion like gems over the surface of a bright and tranquil sea, in something of the spirit of the narratives of the old voyagers; and he re- alizes to our minds the enthusiasm and rapture in- ‘ired im those old fathers of discovery by the through the Straits of Sunda, in the ‘le Flirt, the invariable sight described by ‘ors presented itself in harmony with the cid ne + expanding to the view at every the nataral The Malay prahus crowded point of the horizon. y for traffic; the lake like se- with pirates or articles read rely of the sca; the aro, “#tic odors wafted on the almost imperceptible breeze; ‘he varying and gleam- ing tints of verdure on the slopes that rose from the shore to the interior of Java, in an ptmosphere beautifully tp, wont. though slowing close to the ye ©, water - the vision of ro 14 purple base, all burst on «that pro- -u@ delighted voyager with an effect like ~lorer duced on the mind of the old Spanish ex, when he first gazed on the Pacific— Silent upen a peak in Darien. But we will let our traveller describe his own sen- ae ill ing the threshold of heart's thrill on enterii ea eet Tethan archipelago—-those islands of #0 much fabled wealth and woncer, of xo much resl value and in- terest, and so much less known than any other portion of he oe Pgh ‘was the golden Jabadiv, the ‘land of bar- ley,” of the Alexandrian geographer, the sacred Isle of the Bindoos, and the Java of English and Dutch domin- jon—on island rivaling Cuba in size an: fertility, and six- fold its number of souls; once a land of great empires ‘and oriental pomp, sending forth its embattled fleets and hosts to the nations around them, ten warring with European power and skill, and ‘aliing by the hands of the buccancering men ot Portugal. of Engiand and of Holland, and now yielding a coffee harvest, the chief support of the almost bankrupt sovereignty of the last and the meanest at ny loth 8 greater is'and still, though less fruit- {ul and less peopled, and not so rich in histeric lore and nastic tame, but the chief seat of a great race, who without war, or proselyting zeal, had scattered their lan- guage, and customs, and traditions among numberless na- cca to Pr pe isles within the Inoian ocean, all bear some marks i I sway of the Malays of Sumatra, oO ee acive was abe greatest of all, av island continent; fall of hidden wonders, and unexplored rivers, and pini ‘mountain ranges; where the human form, ois batty, akin, lodged in’ the trees; where man sought the head of hin fellow man, ax the best of gifts to lay at the feet of his bride, and Agee! ap Leper pag h, Uwe = man had became the prince and civilizer of « fare, and filled the world with the fame of Brooke and Theo. Pend around these were the covtless. smaller islen of the Indian seas, and many of them Jarge, rich, and greatiy peopled States. There were the fragrant isles of Bpices, Ao rich in soil, yet «0 poor in product, making iueca another name for sordid monopoly, There wi Colobes, with its trading Bughis. and their maritime Jawa; # inno, the Lanuns tand—the great pi- rave isle; Papua, with its ferocious tribes, and birds of paradise; Banca, the great tin mine, Bal, ‘tho little Ball, Pith its heroic race, twice conquerors of the Hutch; Sum: Jaws, the sandalwood island; Timor, the !act remnant of Portuguese in the Indian seas; and still thou- ‘sands more of fair island spots, rich in a gorge: and vegetable life, had wooed many fan hard path of a toiling life in » coli land, au ‘deep heart's thrill with their full | of oe and fragrance bursting upon weary and storm- torsed renses, ¥ it to the It is not surprising that the captain's visi archipelago, with 80 little that was definite in its object, should excite the uneasiness and incredulity of the suspicious Dutch. On landing at Minto he found rather an equivocal reception, We can ima gine the Resident knowingly winking his eye at the military commandant while he listened to the cap- tain’s vague account of the motives of bis expe dition. DUTCH APPREHENSIONS OF AMERICAN PILIBUSTERING PROPENSITIES. T found the Resident in company with the Commandant of the fort, rented beneath a large tree, in the small park near (he esplanade of the fort; some of the avted beverage calle, cal rese. could be di. to traverse sw. Borneo. that they can quick, Took straight forward and «ee eat osut theea of Schiedam sales the geatene fluid of Seltzer was before them, of which I was invited to partake, imme Jlistely after my introduction by the Havermeester. The Resident seemed about thirty five years of age, well made, and of a handsome nce; but he had a’ cold eye, and a skeptic’s smile upon his lips, as I apoke my voyage in my little . and visits to out-of-the i without cargo or it, or any fixed havea will seem strange, said the Residen‘, to our plain matter of-fact, Hollanders, to hear ofa man sailing with good vessel, fit for valuable use, over ihe | dull, wearisome ses, to visit the bleak rock of Tristan @’Acunha, a poor potato patch for whaler+—the bleaker one of $:. Paul’s—a roosting and nesting place for guils and boobies, or to visit the pestilential, morass coast 0! Sumatra. 1 observed that my cruise would not have seemed st to the plain and t Hollanders of the six- teenth and seventeenth century, wuen the roving Hout- mans and Heemskerks followed in the footsteps of Antonio de Abreu, and other rovers of Portugal, over the same dull sea I had crossed, to seek out whut there was rich or rare im desert or peopled islands; but the monopoly which some of those Hollanders’ founded did think strange of independent rovers who came after them, and seized the vessel of one—the brave Roggeween—-wito chose to stop in these seas without leave, But the bi 3 Houtmans and Hemskerks, as you term them, came with sanctions from home, to seek in an open field of adventure for new outlets and markets for ihe NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, and other wild are unknown to ‘They have sometimes been known to rac! abcees of civilteed people, when pressed witt = c as, in some cases, when’ pursued by wild beasts The feaimnant gives an insance of & Kubu female, who was induced to live with a Malay. At first she rejected cooked Sete when she vo partake of it, she seemed to suffer much pain in her stomach. For some time she “in use among the Dyaks, the Alfuras, tribes of the East Indian Archipelago, could not be prevailed upon to wash her bod; instead of smeuring it with lquld gum tree tee eee ‘the greatest number of these bei are to be found in the country of the Batang Lekoh; and these appear to uve come «ight traits of civilization, wore of there being engaged in gathering benzoin or frankincense; and, in fact are the chief collectors of that article of commerce, which ey exe for some trinklets and pieces of colored cloth. ‘They are extremely cautious of approaching the Malays, for the purpose of trading, for fear of cuvght'and retained as slaves, which very often happens: andit, said he, is doubtless the treachery of the civilized tuan which keeps these poor wild creatures more isolated than they otherwise would be. ‘This mistrust of civilised man has led to a very curious custom of trading, somewhat revembling that described by Herodotus, between the as andcertain wild tribes in Africa; but more singular still, in the case of the Kubus, as deseribed by the Dutch Meutenant, and afterwards to me by many Arab and Chinese ra 1 trade of the fatherland; and they founded, wad those wia followed after them reared up @ power which won tho right to bid Roggeween, or any one who should come now without leave, to depart from the shores of auy island in the Indian seas. ‘They went forth, I said, with that sanction only which every commander of a ship carries with him, who has submitted to the marine police regulations of his country, and proceeds in general quest of a market. They went, indeed, into an open field of adventure, for the rich lands ofthe Malays and the Javanese had been a common lundering ground for Arabs, Portuguese and English, long bercre the coming of the present power. The former had menaced the shores of the great islands of the Archi- polago with a shadowy and unsubstantial dominion, aud it did not seem that more than that was done now. It will not reem so to you Ameritana, said the Resident with some warmth. who have decmed the Spanish terri- tory of Cuba an open field for adventure, which you have lately failed to apnex, and fifty of your countrymen, with the scn of one of your statesmen at their head, have expiated at the garrotte the penalty of the failure, (aud an the Resident raid this. he held up a newspaper eon- taining the news of the ill-fated expedition of Lopez.) My heart sickenened as I heard for tle firat time——and being the first news from home—the details, accompanied with bitter, insulting comment in the Dutch official paper of Batavia, of the scourging and strangulation of the mis- ided men who were slain at_ the Moro ; and, theretore, it was, perhaps, with rome little rising emotfun, that L said to the Resident :— ‘The community of the American people has not sought to make an adventuring ground of any well-settled domi- nion. It has placed those of its c!tizens who have done 80 beyond the pale of its protection. Some of these were led to believe that the great body of the natives of Cuba did not desire the presence of twenty thousand allen soldiery for the protection of their indus:ry, and there- fore they went, at their own hazard, to wid in driving the oppressors away. | They failed, and ‘suffered the pain of their own individual faiture, and not that of the Ameri- can people to annex the island of Cuba, And then other matters in relation to the East Indian Archipelago were discussed from our different, points of view. After a time the subject was changed, the spirit of polite taunt was laid aside, and the ill-suppresie¢ scowl that bad darkened the face of the Resident gave way to un offical amile, as he leq the way to the Resi- dency, and introduced me to his family, . ‘Thus at the threshold of Netherland India, was I mat with a strong anti-American feeling, clouked under a guise of diplomatic politeness; and this I believe to be the feeling of Dutch officers generally in the East. Eng- land has been the former cause of fear and jealousy; but now America, since the movement towards Japan, takes her place as rival with Holland for a share of the mono- poly of the East India Archipelago. The captain, amongst other marvels, relates some startling ethnological peculiarities of the races by which the islands of the Archipelago are peopled. The following will, no doubt, revive a good deal of ingenious speczlation amongst the learned in such matters:— : THE ORANG-KUBU, OR DEINGS OF DOUBTFUL HUMANITY. I heard gruff animal sounds mingled with rustles, jumps und shakes amid the tree-top limbs; but as yet had seen nothing of what caused them. 1 sprang out of the boat. and Babdoo, without bidéing, quickly fullowed— the sailor after him, with the earbine in his avd; the heavy lesps and shakes continued, and after some time gazing upward, I got a glimpve amid a thick bower of foliage, at a height of about eighty teet, of a dark browa form seeming to me as large as a human being; and when Pahdco saw it, be cried out, Orang Kubu! Orang Kubu ! I raised a shout, and we all cried out at the top of our voices. Tetruck at some low drooping limbs with the pike in my hand; and then we heard rustles and leaping sounds at other points in the great tree-tops near the form we had seen; this one sbifted, slid down a limb, came nearer to view, and then we could partly see » very human-hke form, holding » little creavure with a very human-like face, peering down upon us, The sailor bad raised the carbine, and was about to fire, when I bid him stop; it seemed like murder to shoot at that human face, tort had heard something of wild and hairy races roaming in the forests not far from the waters of Palembang. I again raised a shout—Bahdoo made a peculiar piercing cry, and again the creature moved, it leaped, others leaped, and the huge tree shook. Downward came the sounds, leaping, rustling, crashing, then dark bodies shot before us, down, plunge into the creek, . We had stood with ons grasped, expecting an at- tack; but after hearing a quick flounder end sniaah fa the water, up sprang five or six large creatures, for a mo- ment but dimly seen, then up the bank and away into the thick forest on the other side, * * * * * * * * While I was eating my curry, real, mild, savory East Indian curry, prepared by Bahdoo, and while sipping the fragrant tea of my friend Lim Boo Seng, the costliest leaf, brought from the centre of China, and gathered, as he said, by monkeys, on certain inaccessible rocky ledges on mountain sides, and while proving the merita of the mangoes brought by the Demang—s visiter was an- nounced, and the young surgeon from the Bali burk en- tered my cabin, He was curious to know what I had seen and met with, and expressed @ regret that I had not signified a desire to have company in my excursion. And then I spoke of the diverging river branch, the covered creek, the brittle stony woods, the gutta percha limb, the leeches, the in- sects, and the orang utan, Thad entered, sat my Visiter, the Djarang, a strait or channel, connecting the Moosee with the Rantoo Stenno, & branch of the Palembang waters, which joins the Soonsang not far from the Campong Soonsang. There are several of these channels, diverging from the main branch of the Moose; the Padang, Kamoodee, Com ang, Oopang, Djarang, Troosang, Punchian, Chetar and Ran- too Stenno, formi numerous deltas, which are much subject to inundation during the northwestern monsoon; and that was why nearly all the cabins we had seen were deserted at that time; but, said he, they will be peopled again on the return of the southeastern monsoon, and a rice crop will be planted and gathered before the season ot freshets has returned. Jn other parts of Sumatra, said the intelligent officer, where vegetation is even more exuderant than you be- hold it here, and forest trees are grander and lotiier, you will meet with many deliciously embowered lakelets and canopied c-eeks, like the one you ascended; and in the interior there are large tracts of country thickly strewn with huge timbers of ancient date, some half and some wholly carbonized, according to the heat and pressure of superincumbent soil to whic! bed have been subjected. e had often suffered from the little swamp leech, achib, which deterred me from further mineralogi sxches, Europeans wore nether garments that ‘awn tightaround the ankles whenever obliged ~wpy tracts of country in Samatra and in ‘ves pass marshes with bare logs, 50 “~ remove the leeches as they leap oan the more readily do, as they ‘ownward as they go along, ‘The nav. upon them, which they and not staring right and ay said that the gutta percha tree was (vwnd in great ‘on the western coast, especially in the terri- sony of Benooeien, Where tracts of ten and twelve miles square were almost entirely covered with this valusaie gum tree, The native name, gutah percha, signifies ban or ribbon gum, probably because it is commonly formed into strips for various purposes; but one of the aged anes of this Irland being percha, it may have beon design to call it thegum of Sumatra. Traders who care little about names, have changed the gatah to gutta, as they have cayu puter to cajepul, and orang wan to — wang, which latter signities @ debior instead of a wilt man, to the esrs ot @ Malay. And then he ——- : upon the humen like creatures that [had seen. He ha heard much about a wild race of human thaped beings, covered with hair, called orang kubu, or brown men, who were to be found’ in the country north of Palembang, between it and the territory ot Jambee, living on the strenme that flow into the “Banyoo Assin, but he bad never heard of them upon the Moosee, or any ot its own branches; yet it need not be surprising that the Kubas should be found upon the Moosee and {ts branches, as there was ® direct, communication by cross channels J the Banyoo Asin, att ct ay extraordinary and improbable stories are teld about the Kubus and other wild aboriginal races, by tho Malays, who cail them all by the general name of orang wian, Some account of them was given by a lieutenant in the army of Netherland India, who spent rs in Sumatra. Mabielieutenant said that the orang kuba are to be found In the large tracts of forest, watered by the Laki- tan, Batang Lekoh, Rawas Ulu and Lalan, tributries of the Moosee and the Banyoo Assin, aud forming bounde- ries between the territory of Palembang and the Sulta- pate of Jambee, He spoke of them asa race of beings living ina state of nature, as simple ax wild beasts, ‘They were much stronger built than the civilized men of thelalend, symmetrically formed, of powerful trame, and capable of enduring any hardships incident to their ig or these creatures, he said, wore a small strip of bark about the loins, and both gexes daub the with mud and gum from trees, to a . : dite of insects ; but they seem to have no idea of the use of garments for a covering. The a have long, shaggy beards (an appendage almost denied to the civilized Sumatrans), aud the bodies of males and fewales are covered with long, flowing hair. ‘Their food consists of wild bernes and fruits, and of fish, and several species of reptiles which they eat raw. They do not cultivate the earth in any manner whatev When traversing the forests, they are accompanied by epecies of Inrge, wild dog, who keep watch against the at- tack of tigers and bears, and also serve ax sentinels, to srevent the surprise of their masters by the Malays, who Rint them for slaves. He said that’ the sagacity amd fielity of there dogs almost tndiente the ion of or reasoning facult many ledge in the tops and hollows of trees. Their only weapon and tool ix a pointed bamboo, of which even the orang utan avail themselves. The bow nnd arrows, and sumpits, or bamboo tuber for blowing out small darts, have met with. The Kubus deposit the gum they collect, and other articles to ex ina certain place, when traders ure in the neighborhood; then they strike with a club upon @ suspended hollow ‘log called taboh by the Malays, making «loud, drum 601 \d run off back into the recesses of thhe forest. The traders come to the s)ot, take away the gum, and leave what they think pro- per. After they have gone the Kubus cautionsly venture out of the thicket, and carry off what has been left for them. Sometimes this mode of barter is reversed—the tracers depositing trinkets and cloths—then beat a gong, auc retire; whilst the wild men come and take away What has been offered, and honestly and generously lesvo all that they have got of gum or other articles. Thus, the chief material for the purifying incense used in the ccremonials of the church of Rome is Gathered by these rude hands, Marsden, who resided many years on the western coast of Sumatra, in his account of tie aborigines of the island, says tha? he had heard of two specivs of people, disperaod in the Woods, and avoiding all communication’ with the other ivhabitants: these were the orang Kubu, and the orang Gugur: the former being, as he understood, very numerous on the south-east coast betweon the bang und Jumbee Territories He apeaks of ha card oi sveral that hac been caughtand put to work as slaves; aud of a young Kubu female that was captured by a man in the Laboon country. He says that the Gugurs are much searcer than the Kubus, differing in little, but the use of some uncouth kind of speech, from the oraug utan of Borneo—ibey being entirely covered with hair. But Marsden is rather skeptical about the existence of these beings of doubtful humanity, MALAY TRADITIONS OF THE ORANG-KUBU. There were tai orang, the refuse of men: they were the deecendants of some slaves of Alexander, who hud fied from their master. They could tell nothing of their fore- fathers; they could only speak some short, grunting wordy; and one syllable only of Malay words they could repeat—nassee (rice) being nass with them, and yan for orang, They were brutes; they had no worship, no mar- ringe, po law, no clothing, no idea of its use; they were the accursed of Allah, companions of djing on earth, fit only to be beasts of burthen; and the Malays hunted b a renery ante Lacs and tree tops, and made slaves of them, as of right, said the Panyorang, all bein, ought to be who are inferior tomen. sy We have already alluded to the part played bya Malay girl named Sahyeepah in the adventures of ovr author. He first met her at the house of her grandfather in Sumatra, where he was hospitably entertained. She subsequently came to Java, where she visited him in prison, and assisted him in his escape. The Captain thinks it necessary to ex- plain the Platonic nature of his relations with her We give him the benefit of his statement, only ob- serving that his position was rather a dangerous one. AN INTERESTING DISCIPLE FOR 4 YANKEE TEACHER. Sabyeepah camo to the prison with her sister to return the map whe had taken away; she had studied all the co- lored compartments, knew ali the names of countries, as linked with beast ‘or bird; had read all the notes, sud was prepared to give her grandfather great giatuess with her knowledge when she returned tw Sumatra. But such love for study was rare in any wo- man, in avy region of the worlu; and still more t» seek to pursue it in a prison; there surely must have been. some interest beyond the study, to such a mind, to a tropic. born heathen girl, to a Malay young woman's youl; and something there was, no cuubt, disturbing the artless thought of one and puzzling the mind of the other But @ cere to learn European wiedom, had been a ruling thought before the Flirt went to Palombang; tor this was Bo common mind, & remarkable one to pe met with ainong Caucasian, as well as Malay. Thad taken rambles far upon many strange paths into the native Oriental mind; 1 had entered many curious regions of fauey and feelings; and I, who had often re- gretiec toat the world was so small, so qnickly explored, so thorougbly known, wishing at’ one time for young adventure’s hake, that its girth were one hundred thou- rand miles, instead of twenty-five; I now began to feel ‘bat there were rarer fields of exploration in the unmea- sured, unexplored human soul: in many strange varieties of race, than wil that might meet the eye ina limitless epace of mere earth and rea, I bad contemplated with some interest a quick and ma vVelious Malay mind, anda fervent young Malay heart; but I had become wrought up by late scagps, touched with sympathies for a race, and moved to the muinte- nance of a chstacter, that inspired me with a feeling to ~ave myself; if not before the rest of the world, at least trom any «ign of weakness before them. Some enthusi- asm, the offspring of 4 strange experievce, caused me to meet the love of learning of Sahycepah, as the sole ground upon which we might stand together; ‘and farther eventa, afurtLergrowth of the thought of the one, and ooservation in the other, made it desirable to maintain the relative poritirn, the teacher and pupil, the master and disciple, im which we had met. Aud Pabyeepah came and sat down in prison, and listened 10 talk of many things; beginning with some of the absurdities of the dreams of her own race, and then advancing to the region of reason; and thus om to an en- layged consciousness of soul. It was Rot so strange for her to listen to all this now, as it was for the otner to so unfeld himself in such a place, to such a person; ali had been strange to her, the first word, the first thought, coming trom what seemed to her and her people, superior and wonder-working race; and her object’ in coming to listen, was childlike curiosity and wonder ; Whilst the other, though not seeking this eneounter, now sought in the curious interest of it, a study of a remark- able Oriental character, the analysis, never to be reslized in the midst of civilization, of a woman’s nature, and some antidote against the lethargy and stagnation of some prison hours, The following episode in our author's adventures is graphically related. It shows what Yankee in. genuity will accomplish under the pressure of cir- cumetances:— THE BRICK MACHINE OF THE GRANDSON OF NAPO LEON'S UNDUNG MARSHAL. For a time it was a hard struggle even with some help of philosophy of soul, and a good constitution, to bear up agaiust hope deferred, uncertainty of law, badgering in the judgment seat, bad quarters, bad air, worse food nd nvihing to do, This, the hardest fate'of all for a prisoner, to have nothing todo, but to prey upon him nel"; to dream of home, of brignt firesidvs, of shady groves, of runny ficlds, of glistening spring streams; and then of love in ite best and brightest garb, of love with- out motive, love without thought of gain; beside it in e quiet Home; beside it im the fields, and by the soa and then’ to think of lapse of time, of the gulf of pace; of the good forgotten, azd evil only growing by absence; to feel the world rolling over us, allve in a grav, no one heeding, no one coming; not a voiee through thore bara, but the voice of demons, aye, comons of celle, who core alone to lonely men, and blow, foul stait breathe, on mirrors of home, blotting out Jove, and hope, and peace from the self-eating heart. But there was work for the prisoner to.do; Learns 4 to rouse the self-preying soul; work for his jailers, wor for the government, t had put al) its talent into on. Pr ahe government wanted many millions of.heicks, to build rome storehouses, some barracks, and.come more walls ‘and cells in the prison of Weltevreden. The government, like all other governments, gave its good jobs for pubic service or public plunder to favorites.ot the gover: ones, without much regard to the interest of the govar ‘The contract for bricks was given tothe grand #on of a stout supporter of the Netheriad India monopoly. A terrible man, by the way, was that geandfettior, who tock large contracts to slay'men; marshal of the great contractor, Napoleon—the Marshal Dagndels—cf whom tbe imperial warrior said, that if hehad two Daendeds in bis army, he must hang one; so torrible for hanging his own people, as well as for slaying She enemy, was that old Dutch marshal. é He was rent curing the imperial sway of hie comman- der -in-chief 1o be Governor General of the late Dateh em- ire in the East, now merged inte. the erspire of the French. He gave out contracts to build forts and roads. He said to one, make ten millicns of bricks, and to build a fort within six months, an@ a not finised, the man thould bang on the top of his work. He bade the people of Java to makes road the whote length of the island, irom Apjer to Banjoowangie, en whish he saight roll bis carriages and bis cannon, and for every portion not finished in a given time, he huag those who directed the labor; such & fort builder and road-maker was the toeri- ple Marshal Dsendels. a hg thin was not all; whilst he demsasded the labor of the men, aad hung whea not promptly perfo: be demanded tha favora of thewomen; nad was as rathless when thwarted in the favor of the on as by a fatiure in the labor ot the other. He burst through the wilderness with his great reiitary road: and he burst into any © Javan home, with his great soldierly ust. At every relay on his higaway march, there was a virgin sacrifice offered to this Blue Beard, this great cevouring oloch of Java, wis ty grandson of this man, thix marshal of Napoleon, jevil of thedavanese, kad a contrast for bricks, none of the grandfather's way of getting the job Bricks were no longer to be made, as in the old man’s time, when, the clay of Jaya might have been raix- ed with Javan virgins’ tears, aud worked with the fotter- ed feet javan princes. @ grandson mus‘ content himself with tbe sweat of Chinese cooies, and the work- ing feet of Javanese buffaloes. jand working and beast-tramping were too slow for the wants of the government, but what was to be done? ‘nere wae Bo marsbal now to demand the unwilling la- bor of five thot d men; for just so many were wanted to do the work a: fast as required; and these could not be got, nor paid when obtained. ‘The government need of bricks was taked of fn Batavia, A great many Dutch tor saving ideas were «uggested: but all, very little faster than Chineve feet and buffalo hoots, There was one, who badtravelled in Amezien; he had heard of machires in that country, that turned out their thousand of brick whilst a buffalo conlé turn round, Where was the American that could tell the contractor something about such # brick making machine? Twa men then lived in Java, wandereres from the land of no- tions, who could tell something, give some idea of a plan; but they had been thirty years sbsent trom home— thirty years behindhand with the progress of their country—and the American burghers of Batavia could not start any ideas for making bricka any faster than their Dutch fellow subjecta. But these are uvt all tho Americans in Java; we have some in Weltevrelen, The con- tractor and his friends speak whisperingly about them, They must ve cautious how they mix up treason with bricks, The marshal’s grandson has & friend, @ fine, generous, brave young fellow, whose t- ther was the ‘noted friend of Americans, at a’ time when there was_no heavy export duty on coffee, and the road- stead of Batavia was often filled with American sails; that father, though not in trade, kept open house for Amo- ricans, whom he loved to see; and now the son had often called 'on the American prisoners in Weltevreden, and had been active to soften their condition, ‘Toe contractor spoke with his young friend about the 4smcrican prisoners; were they all ruffianly sailors, cap- tain and crew? or was thre a gentleman among them, one having some knowledge of the art wud science of his country? Theyoung frieud thought there was more than one; men who seemed to know a little of books as well as ot ropes, Toe one he knew best was the commander ; he spoke of bim in the kindness of his geuerous young heart, with some partiality. ‘The contractor became in- terested, he wanted to see him; he bad a friend in the court of justice, and obtainad permission to visit the pri- son of Weltevreden. ‘The contractor and his friend came together; they found prisonor much sick and, worn out; the young. friend brought some smuggled trifies to refresh him, and spoke words of hope end encouragement; aud the contractor spoke of the machine that was wanted. The prisoner knew but litle of such things; he did not say 0; for a hope dawned on his mind; his memory wns busy with wat be hud seen in his visits to workshops, and at fairs of me- chanics at home; thoughts were busy, and he felt i mood to attempt impossibilities; it would be something te do, and he might raise up means and friends outside, by the attempt. ‘The prisoner said tbat he bad seen such a machine as was wanted; one that would save the labor of hundreds of men; he ‘believed that uch a one could be made in Java, that Javenese mechanics had skill enough to follow ‘geod plan, and he could make that plan. The contrae- tor was taken aback; this was far more than he had dreamed of;—to get some ices of the nature and cost of one to be sent for, was all that he had hoped for; but to have one mude in’ Batavia, why, it would be a colonial invention, und he would get an octrof or patent from the government. ‘The prisoner was pressed with cager questions. Could he indeed do auch a thing? make a brick machine? He would try. The contractor wad in ecstacies; he would give ten thousand recipossen (about $3,000,)' for such » plan—for @ good drawing from whick a machine might be made. ‘The prisoner boldly pledged himselt to pro- duce the plan; his young friend and prison comforter be- came his guarantee; and the contract for the brick ma- chine was made in the prison of Weltevceden. The contractor and his friend had influence to obtain from the court of justice many relaxations of the sur- veillance und discipline that had been imposed on the commancer of the Fiirt. He now saw his prison friends again, the baron, the trader, the schoolmaster, and the in teresting little Umbah. He received paper, pencils, and in- struments, all that he wanted; and wes busily and happily at work for the government of Netherland India, like the resident, the colonel, the baron, the topographer, the Russian, and the rest of the talent which that govern- ment bad tceked up in But inthe case of the brick machine, the fact as to who was the planner, was to be concoa'od from the au- thorities. The payment for the plan would depend on the preservation of secrecy; as no octrie could be ob- tained for the work of a foreigner, much less s prisoner, and such a prisoner; treason would be suspected in & machine from him, that might turn out to be, when made, some self acting catapult to pelt the Dutch out of Java, imstexd of a peaceful grinder and moulder of clay. The drattsman affected to be occupied with various small sketches for his patrons; but during the siesta hour, and other undisturbed periods, he was busy with combi- notions of clay-workers and brick-moulders, It waa per- haps a rasbly undertaken task for one who had deait so: little in bricks, who had never seen a brick machine, ex- cept to gaze at It ax a curiosity, who bad never bought a brick, vor sold a brick, nor ever thought particularly about brieks before. He hud a confused picture in his brain of revolving cogs, of = huge clay hopper, and then of little sliding boxes anf scrapers, and of brown bricka shoved out on & platform, like brown bread from a Dutch oven. But this picture was like some few notes of arare song, that chime on theear, that flit through the air; but the untaught throat can make no melody of it; nor could the drafcman get his cogs, moulds snd scrapers, into feasible shape for making bricks. He spoiled sheet after sheet of good drawing board; be made cogs to revolve horizontal and perpendicular; he made bricxs to slide out, to be shoved out, to drop out; but still the way was not clear how they got in, got start- ed; or how they came out at all. Hedevoured every page ot’a few old Dutch books, having some meagre details of mechanics; now more harmonious to him than. the geace- ful postures and pantun songs of Pleasant Night of the in. He strove in vain for a time to work outa principle into the details of a working plan; and oftentimes he paused to think that he might be like a forger of his own chains; or like the maker of the brazen buil of Phalaris for roasting meny or the French chopper off of heads; the first use of his machine might be to make: bricks to strengthen his joi. But he though of the guilderr, he thought of home, and all the bright world outaide; and ideas began todawn, the idea of the briek machine; and the idea to get out, be- fore bis own skilbhad strengthened his jail. te had got a hopper reared up, and revolving buckets to feed it, some troughs leading the clay into an endless chain of moulds, and buffaloes hitched to levers like-arms of a cotton press, whon the contractor called to see the pro- Ww caters a epbinea’ hal was in h he grandson of Napoleon’ marshal was in raptures, he aid not know why; hoknew little of mechanics; but he saw @ wachine, though little knowing where the e!sy went in, and where the brisk eame out. The young. friend was as proud to see the work done, as though ‘twere the achievement of o brother; his guarantee was made good; and in the joy of his generous heart he drew forth a gold ors of cosily make, which is worn by thot draftaman this day. The grandson of the Marshal had a copy of the plan made by a skilful Chimeye artist; who, thorgh #o little inventive, are so famed for copying, paint’ag, plan, or writing, with the»minute Sdelity of the copying sun. Plan and papers were laid before the grave Council of In- dia, Van Nes, Hogendorp, Ruloffs, anit Vissober, the four advisers of hiv-Exeelloaay, the Minister of State, and Governor Geners! of Netheriand Indba, Mynheer Albertus Jacob Duymaer Van Twist. The skill of Tromp, the-chief of Di itch engineers in the East, and chief examiner of the go vernmoat payent of- fice at Batavia, was called im to jridge the work of the grandson of the-glorious Marshal o{ road asking memo- Ty. His triumphs of war, im forts, 1 oad and rapos, were counted dim by the side‘ot the gr andson’s triumph in ¢a2@; who would pour out brick, and rear forts and Jetta with a0 “ttle‘oost of guilders, ‘blood aud virtue, ‘The octroi was obtainad, “voor ¢ en machine tot het ner- vaardigen var. muursteenen en de kpannen,” for a brick and tile machine, granted to the grandson of Napoleon’s Marshal, for the.exclusive: making ‘of bricks throughout Java, Sumatza, Bornse, and Ps pus, whenever bricks should be neoded there by Duteh burghe>a, throughout, in fact, all of.Netherlond: india, which, in the eyes of that Governor, Couneil, amd he government at the Hague, ia all land south of the equator, and all east of the Cape of Good Hope, in the In dian Ocean. The contractor got ‘is ootvei q aicker than the inventor got his money. He had. to-wait for the most of it, till a machine and bricks wore made; but themoney did come after a lonclapse of prison ii de; it came in good time, when the prison walls. vegan to grow thieker aad to rise higher; whe hope of help frora home, and hope of jus- tice began to fail; than the bric k machine that was help- ing to strengthen the prison, did good: service for the prisoner of Weltevredin. The details\of our autho: -’s trial! and ultimate es- cape from prison, are giver: with. all.the humor and vivacity that cheracteris¢; the other parts of tho book. Teken altogather, it is ono of the liveliest and most agreea‘de nar! atives. that we have read for some ttme. Carnertxe Il, ow Rusista, avn Her Scccessors. By Sarauel 8. Smueker. Miller, Orton & Mulligan. Mr. Srancker has reniered.a service to historical literatura, by collecting all the facts connected with this remarkable woman, which are: found to be scat- tered over a variety of contemporaneous and modern publications. “he D’Abrantes biography of her was a very incomplete and unsatisfactory porform- ance, sad it hasbeen reserved for an American pen to do fall justicato her character,and genius. The au- thor has judiciously suppressed the more objectiona- ble foatures of her history, presenting only those which.were necessary ‘0 give a just conception of the qualities that distinguished her. Tho interest of the book ‘s enhanced by the successfol manner in which Mr. Smucker has traced in the characters of her saccessers the peculiarities of their descent. Thus far, he says, the present Czar has developed the same iastincts ond political tendencies, PERIODICALS. Putnara's Magazine for November 's a very read- able number. The article on the Coest Survey gives an interasting resumé of the results elready achieved by this aseful commission, and renders full credit to them. The following will show the advance that has been made by seience in this country under its auspices:— Great progress bas been ma‘e fa stud; the ti and curren of our coast. The here ood day t ‘ot ithe Gulf, and the great diurnal inequalities on our Pacific coast, are almost entirely analyzed and reduced to the eral tidal theory. Natural history has been benofitred by the study of infusori, brovgbt up frem the ocean yottom to ascertain the laws ef their distribution, and by that stady of the Florids coral veefs which Agassi2 made under the auspices of the survey, In the determination of Intitudes and longitudes, the methods have been much improved. The {ntroduction. of Taleott’s zenith teleseope method, and its improversent, have much facilitated good latitude determinatioas; nor are its results inforior 10 those with Airy’s zenith sector. The method of tole. graphic determination of longitude differerco: has grown up in the survey, under the inspiration of Walker's ge- plas. Nothing compares with I when Practicable; not even lunar culminations, with all of Pierce's stay, and the American Eyhemeris to arsist. The telograpite me- thed, known as “the American method,” is little by lite ue weveling over Europe, and that, too, with no im- provement, but rather retvogradation, in’ the hands of Airy, Leverrier and Quatelet. Some Fnglish and French journals seem quite uvaware that this methoq is Ameri- NOVEMBER 18, 1855. ¢an, Such provincialism ta best punisheu by bob ftself, like avy other incurable iguoramce. The paper on Beine is written with a just sp," ciation of the genfws of that admirable writer, an 4 may be regarded asa clever piece of contempormy criticiam. With the folowing we fully concur:— Pointed, brilliant, fanciful, aud fascinating as is the prose sgnict Heine, { think you will find the most abiding of his genius in ita fine lyrical qualities. In his own secret heart, I doubt not, he cherishes, most of alt his works, those exquisite effusions which collected in half a dozen series, from the ‘Lyrical Poems,” published in'1822, to the “Romaneero” (the saddest and poorest of them all), published in 1853, comprise seme of the truest, and sweetoat, and strongest lyric poetry of modern times. Somewhere, indeed, he’sings:— ‘J am a German poet, Tx the land of Germans fnows; When they number all their mighty names, ‘Then number they my own,”’ and though Gervinns (respectable Gervisua!) bas thought fit to owit Heine from tis very stupid history, so long as the German language shall live these songs will live, in which the German consonants have been wrought to melodies as delicate as were ever trilled througa the vowels of Italy. The remainiag articles are of the usunl average merit. The reviews and editorial notes continue to maintain their character for cleverness aad impar- tiality of criticisnz. CaTaLoGue OF ‘THE APPRENTICES aND DeMinT LipRaRres. Amerman. Anew catalogue of the library of this useful inetitu- tion is now before us. It is prepered on the plan of the catalogue of the Mercamild Library, and will be foundiex- tremely useful, not only to the members of the former society, but to readers in general, We cannot too highly comntend the Apprentices’ Library to the attention of the youths of our city. It offers then all the advantages for passing thelr leieure hours: agreeably that can be {und in a literary institution. Frank Lesuie’s Portronro0' or Fancy Neep.e- work. Edited by Mrs. Ann S. Stephens. Stringer & Townsend. This is one of the most useful as well as beautifully il- Justrated works of its kind that bas-ay yet been presen ‘ed to the public. The illustrations are highly creditable to American art, and the text has been compiled by Mra, Stephens, one of the mort accomplished fumale writers of the day. No lady’s book collection can be complete without this elegant publication. FINE ARTS. We have received the first number of a magnifi- cent German publication entitled the ‘ Sbakspeare Gallery,” edited by the well known artist, Von Kaul- bach. It contains three engravings in the best style of German art, namely, Macbeth, Banquo and the three witches; Lady Macbeth walkiag in her sleep, and Macbeth arming himself for the last struggle. The first is engraved by Professor Hichens, the second by M. Jacoby, and the third by M. A. Hoff mann, all of Berlin. If anything were wanting to prove the superiority of the German over the Eng- lish school of engraving, these plates would attest it. The well known Boydell series of Shaksperian illustrations cannot for a moment be compared with them. In originality and boldness of conception, accuracy of drawing and delicacy of tints, these Kaulbach engravings are amongst the finest speci- meng that we have seen of the German school We hail with pleasure the appearance of a. trans: lated edition ef a popular foxeign work of art illus- trating the different Buropean galleries. The two first numbers give us the pamela architectural features of interest in Berlin; and in those that are to follow we are promised selections from) the choicest works of art in the public collections Considering the superior character of the steel en- gravings, the low price of the publication—25 cents each number—must ensure the work a large circu- lation in this country. Particulars of the Lose of the Propeller Fin- try on the Lukes. [From the Chicago Democrat, Nov. 14.] Wo have further particulars of the loss of this fine -pro- er. The explosion: took place about six o’cloek on ‘Thursday morning, and ten miles from shore, abreast of Port Staniey, Canada. The oxplosion blew off her steca, and she went down intwo minutos in ten fathoms of water. About'six foot of ber mast head is above water, ‘The following is = Mat of the crew on antes Dele) secs iat S. @. Langley, master. In. Dodge, second mate, pe ce gion Charles Ransom, engineer. Newton Walkley and E. Godfrey, wheeimen. Jobn Connell aud Charles Cooper, firemen. Edward Dorsey, steward. Semson Noll, W. O. Harris, Wm. Lewis, John Henns- burg, Geo. Wilson.and James Promist, dech hands—i9. in ad hn St sch abatenee: John Strong, seco: re Jo! Comme, fireman, . Elias Vance, Geo, Dorsey, Wim Keay, N. Marshall, deck hands. Elizabeth Dorsey, cbambermeid. Jobn Pleasant, ‘waiter—8 in all. ‘The crew saved themselves by making a raft of pieces. of the cabin, that were blown off by the explosion, Aftar daylight they had the fortune to tind the ife-boat under their raft, which they & out, and saved two men that were clinging ,t0 masthead of the vessel, some distance to’ windward. They afterwards found one. of their quarter | boats, which was only slightly damaged, and with this and the life-boat they all were 3s comfortable: as they could be, considering that they were driven over- board with but very little clothing, most of them with only shirts and pants on. They wererescued from-their cold situation by the schooner Tartar, of Milan, Captain Phillips, who, together wish his mate,’ Mr. Dutcher, and crew, did all they could to make them comfortable, for which Captain Langley wishes us to return his most’sin- cere thanks. They picked up 139 barrels flour, some bedding, &c, The fiour was left at Port Colborne, tor the benefit of the underwriters. Captain Langley states that bis officers and men. did all they could to save the lives of the others, and for the main part behaved well aud obeyed his orders through- out, without which little could have been done, and the loss of life would have bon far greater. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. MONEY MARKET. Satcrpay, Nov. 17—6 P. M. The stock market continues moderately buoyant. The advance in ali classes of securities during the present week has been full as rapid as any within our recollection, and full as rapid as the previous depreciation. The ab- sence of any startling development, of any strong or de- cidedly unfavorable movement in financial af'airs, of any excessive exportations of specie, and of the usual decrease in the Bank of England’s bullion, has partially restored public confidence, and given for the time s better tone to the stoek market. We eannot, however, look upon it otherwise than of a temporary character. Part of the recent rise in the stock market must be attributed to the natural reaction (rom such a severe depression. When we see prices for even the most worthless fancy on the list rum down ten per cent in half as many days, a reac- tion more or less temporary is pretty sure to follow, and it is ganorally pretty safe to come in at a point sonsi- derably below those which have previously ruled, with the determination to realize on the reaction, A turn in this way is often attended with profitable results. It is difficult for operators, either fora rise or fall, to realize when the market is in their favor, and frequently while waiting for groater differences they fail to secure that which at one time was within their grasp. Many bear operators failed to close up their contraets at the lowest dip of the market, a week or two since, and many bull opsrators are making the same mistake now. At the board this morning the market ruled generally lower, with less activity in ail the leading stocks. Nica- ragua transit fell off \\ per cent: Pennsylvania coal, \; Cumberland, 4; Harlem, %; Reading Railroad, 14; Mi chigun Southern, 13; Cleveland and Toledo, 2%; Chi- cogo and Roeh Island, 14; MWnois Gentral Bonds, 3g; In- diana bs, je Bonds, 1875, 1. It is our impression that the full foree of the inflation has been exhausted— that speculation has, for the time, run out—that all the buyers are filled up, and that they have nothing to do now but hold on. If they attewpt to sell, prices will ron down so fast that they will! be compelled to hold up, and walt for better times; evary faney stock on the list isa grond sale at current rates, and there is quite a margin tor a fall in some stocks, whieh are not exactly of « ancy order. At the second boavd there was not much change ia quotations, but the tendeney from the opening to the clore was downward. The market was quiet. At the close some of the lending stocks were « fraction lower. ‘The steamship Azago, from this port tor Hawre, to-day, carried out $60,943 in specie, The following are to-day’s transactions at the Assistant Treasurer's Offiea :— x Paid on Treasury Account... . $577,408 18 Received “ oes 96, 280 00 nee “ ie 6,35 32 Pard for Ascay Of6ee........ 70,324 72 Paid on disbursing checks. “ 79,023 65 Balance credit all accounts. . $11,995,289 48 The warrants entered at the Treasury Department, Washington, on the 14th inst., were as follows :—~ For the redemption of stocks. sese eves 815,787 50 For the Treasury Department. I yol881 08 For the Interior Department t* For the Customs sees see ceee eee War Wariants received snd entered... For the Navy Department. Ae Covered in from Customs oo. 0000 Coyered in from miscellaneous sgarces,,.,,., 41,270 75 16,829 19 1g left to The following shows the comparative earaings of the Catawissa Railroad forthe month of October, this and fast year:— Passengers, Preight. Total. Oct. 1855 310,936 70 sin 388 68 $22 298 38 “1864, 7,186 78 995 66 11,161 4¢ Increase. .,,,,.$3,750 92 $7,363 02 811,113 94 . ¢ following shows the comparative earnings of the Wittin, Port and Flmira Railroad for the month of Oeto ‘Ber, thie, 124 last year:— Passengers, Freight. «$11,282 25 $9,387 74 $20,600" 90 ++ 6,043 08 3,191 22 9.234 30 Inorsnse......- 928917 $6,196 62 $11,415 60 Will show the condition of the Mas- ‘The fetiowing taste sasbuiatan es oe tho 5th inst., as compiled from their returns to the Secretary a State — Bara or Maa ‘ACHOBETTS, Taadiiin. 37 183 cn 4 Total. Capital... «$38,710,000 926,. the Net circulatiow 4,968,502 13,68,600 18,577,108 Daposite ....., 15,347,10¥ 6,995,320 22.34 aay Profit on hand. 3,178,302 2,205,512 6,343,725 Total.......,956,194,002 $48,998,832 $165,192,234 Resowrces. Notes, bills “cxediange,&c.$53,793,089 $41,505,951 $100, 410,040' Specie: + 2,428,247 1,160,637 3,595 784 Real estat 653,866 532,644 1,186,510" eee | anita eee Total. $56,194,002 $43,998,332 — $105,192,234 The above statemen‘ exhibits, upon comparison with the Ist day of January tat, an iacrease im the items of capital of $1,614,392; of” not circulstion, $2,257,624; of deposits, 95;741,796; of loans, $9,729200; and of apecie, $140,728. Stock Ete! preaecre TURDAY, Nov. 17, 3866. Sl chs Harlem RR... 20 390 Reading-R R.bi0 9034 100 do..,,..b30 OL $3000 Kentucky 67s. 5000 Ind State Dive 55 do...... 120 Hed River RR. 200 Mich Cen RR. 100 de 200 do, . 10 Mich S%NInd Con (50 Mil Con RR....., oie 200 do. +. 95%) 50 Cle & Pitts RRbSO 67 100 do......b30 249% 50 do..., .b60 66 100 Gard Goidiie. b30 250 dorcesere.. 66, 300 do... s... %. 65 Cleve & Toki. 74 60 Erie R Road. .960 5174. 1000 i 190 do, 62%, 50 800 250 200 150 200 200 500 100 do.... .b15 74 450 WOCERKTS BR. b6 91% 100 200 dO... wreee BOG 100 do. -b60 160 do....-bB80 91 105 Harlem Road. 201 TOMiW&MRY.... 81 50 dO..m..., 19% BO New Jersey RE. 124 BECOWD BOARD. $2000 Ind St Fives.b3 8134 10Dehs Erie RR..830 $2 78% 20 52% 1000 Ill. Cen. BR. bs 0... . 2. . 10 Mich So&N Ia RR. 16 ac 10 Penn Coal Co... 100 Cl & Tol RR, .b15 100 Pauama Railtead 10314 100 Erie Railroad... 400 960 CITY TRADE REPORT. Fray, Nov. 17—2P. M. Flour.—Firmer—Common State advanced 6 a 4¢ per Dbl. Sales, 8,000a 10,000 bbls. Wheat 2c. «3c. up, for prime to choice lots. Sales, 30,000 Corn.—Sales- 20, - 000 & 80,000 bushels at 99c.a 100c. Pork dull. Sales 400 bbls. mess, at $22 50. Cottor steady. Whiskey dull, Trade of the New York Canals. Statement showing the quantity of the several arti- cles first cleared on the canals at, and the quantity left at New York during the second week in November, 1856: ‘MERCHANDIER CLEARED, Erie Canal, vintjerockery and glass. Stone, lime andglay..... Mineral coal Articles, Flour, bbis.. Wheat, buiiels.. 727,900 — 127,000 ir = ir 8,252 —- 8,362 400 — ‘400 Barteeecssis~si. :. 501,800 11,800 515.900 Lard, taliow and iard of — 400 904,000 1,100 905,160 Wool... 12,600 4400 17,000 Domestic spirits, gallons. 25,700 — 25/700, Boards and scantling, ft.. 659,100 =, 689,1 Staves, Iba, 159/100 — 1,159;100 Leather. 800 54,200 Demestic cotto 24,100 — (4100 Merchandise at 4'mills.. 500,900 296,200 707/100 Sundries... + 1,728'900 1,108;3100 2,886,600: Potatoes, bushels 5,700” 23.300 ,000- Hops, Ibe. 39,000 — 29,000 Tobacco . 8.300 — 8,300 7,000 — 7,000: 6,700 500 7,208 10,600 3,300 16,000: 2,700 — 2/700 591,900 = 591,000, 7,00 — %a00 9,800 = 9800 Timber, 5,000 — 5,000 Hemp, ‘Ibs 16,600 — 16,600 D, soit 1,500 — 1800 Wood, = 2 z Stone, lime — 1,526,100 1,525,190 Pig, lead... — 1h 600 Tolls received taj ons5%iia50seiks a OO AS SHARD i. WOODS, Collector. ‘The Western Hog Trade. The hog killing season will commence at Louiswilie about the 20th inet. The Qhurier of the 13th ina’. saya:— It has been estimated that 300,000 hogs would be slavghtered round the falls this season, but wo now think the number will exceed 426,000 head, and proba- diy 250,000, Taere is now a better feellog in the mar- ket than has prevailed for some time, though in conse- quence of the continued stringency in money matters toany buyers are still holding back. | The prevailiag quo~ tations for good hogs to be delivered at the pena are Gn 644 cents net, while drovers in the country are 434 cents, on time, We hear of a sale ot 2,000 head at cents net, and Jearn that several lots have been offered at 6\ cents net, The Cincimnati Gaselte, of the 10th inst., says—Hoge are held as heretofore, with great firmness, amd (rom 25 to 60 per cent above the views of buyers. Holders of bremty Aes contend Sor $7, and there are no nellers be- low for delivery this moath, but these races being views of buyers, prices must be set down as Louis Intelligencer, of the 9th, says:—Hogs wore cflered to-day at $6, but buyers at that figure were not about, The rate up the country appears to be $6 a $5 25, nd slow at the lat Jig ee Tae Indianapolis (Ind.) J of She 10th, saya: — ‘Hogs are in , At least since the restoration of the bo which confines them te dhotr pens. Therois ite doin; our packers; sto be tt which we ‘ean uote them We hesud ut some srvall lots taken at thet youterday. ‘The Hopkinsville (Ky.) Preis, of the Oth, sayn:--Ate bout seven miles west of this city, on the 8tlainst., of stosk which would average about 45 pounds grors, sold for $4 30 cash ger head, or about 10 cante poc pound. A lotof fine pork hogs also were soldat $3 94 per 100 pounds gross. Domestic Markets, New Begrorp O11, Market, Nov. 12—An wnusmal acti- vity bas prong up since our last, and prices have const- ably advanced. The transactions taclode sales of 2,200 bbis. at $1 80 per gallon, and 750 do. at $1 81, the market closing very firm with an upward tendency. In Fairhaven we notice sales of 100 bbls, at $1 75, and 2,962 do, at $1 80 per gallon. A part of the of? purchased in this market and Fairhaven is understood to be for ex- port to Europe. Whale remains quiet; the only transaction we know of is a sale of 200 bbis. at Sle. Whalebone bas been in good demand, and «ales of 52,000 Ths. Ochotsk have been made at 52c.: alao 13.000 do Aretic at 65c.; snd in Wairhaven, 15,000 lbs. Ochotey at 600, ¢ 2. < = 3 3 B 4