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of New York—Develope- which the New Line will dive rican Interests in the East, 5 Keo, Key ke SYNOPSIS OF THE PROJECT BY MR. COL- LINS. Moscow is in latitude 56 deg. north, 88 deg. ast longi- tude from Greenwich; the mouth of the Amoor in 140 deg. east longitude and 53 deg. north latitude, via the route traversed by myself, and over which it is perfectly prac ticable to construct a telegraph, The distance would be, including the distance to Kyachta Bay, in round numbers, seven thousand miles, This distance may be shortened to less than six thousand miles by straightening the line ‘and cutting off many of the sinuosities on the water line ‘of the Ingodah, Schilkah and the Amoor. It will be per- ceived that ou the parallel of 63 deg. the degree is about forty-five miles; add to this for the deflection north and south and tho true distance is but five thousand miles. However, seven thousand miles will carry us clear of al) difficulties to the mouth of the Amoor. From the mouth of the Amoor to East Cape, Behring Straits, via Penjinsk, 170 deg. west longitude, is about twenty-five hundred miles; crossing to Cape Prince of ‘Wales, submerged forty miles; thonce via Sitka, Vancou- ‘ver, Astoria, to San Francisco, about two thousand five Louis, hundred miles; and from San Ffancisco to St. two thousand miles. ‘Moscow to mouth of the Amoor. Amoor to East Cape, Bebring Straits, s Prince of Wale: San Francisco to St. Lou Total... .cseeserscsceseccscnecseecns ‘This distance is liberally estimated upon sured by degrees of land and sea. cow and St. Louis, being 231 deg. 18 deg. north, measure by land about ten thousand miles, We will, however, take the estimate on the route in round numbers to be 14,000 miles The first section, from Moscow to the Amoor, being in the main over an old settled country, over which a post route is maintained, we will place the cost on section No, 1 }, $700,000. ction No. 2, from the Amoor to East Cape, though settled to Tenjinsky, and in fact to Anadyr, we will estimate at $150 per mile, $875,000. Section No. 3, submerged, at $500 per mile, $20,000. Section No. 4, from Prince af Wales Cape to San Francisco, more difficult, we will estimate at $250 per mile, $625,000. Section 5, San Francisco to St. Louis, 2,000 miles, at $200 por mile, $400,000—making a total for the costof the line from Moscow to St. Louis, $2,120,000; add, if you please, for contingencies $380,000, and you | have the sum of two millious and a half as the cost ofthe | line. Now, to maintain this line (some will say impossible) T will place one thousand mea, one on an average of every of $300 each, yearly—making $800,000. To this force will be added 100 stations, at a coat of $1,000 each—$100,000. Interest on two and a half millions capital, at seven per cent, $175,000; contingencies $100,000—grand total expended, $675,000 yearly. Now, a3 to income: 200 messages a day, of ten words, at one dollar a word, is $2,000a day; 318 working days will give $626,000—equal to one column inthe New York Henato daily, of two thousand words, at $2,000 a day, to the press of Europe, the United States and Canada, $526,000. Way business, counted certainly low, both ways, east and west, including Chinese and Japanese news, would be $250,000—making a grand total of $1,602,000. ‘This gives us the working cost of the line at $675,000; receipts, $1,502,000—profits, $827,000. If the business of the line is not calculated attoo high a figure, the line would maintain a cost of ten millions of dollars, and pay eight per cent upon that amount of capital Can the business (supposed) be accomplished by tele- graph? Let ussee. Four thousand words in twenty-four hours is equal to one hundred and seven words each hour, or less than three words a minute. This, of course, equalized by of the line—Moscow and St. I separate being used, from east to west and west to cas ch s twenty four hours toconvey two thousand words, y eighty-three words per hour. Of the great contemp ch lines we will enter into no specific details or at this time, Of their ultimate practicabil od with the main trunk “overland,” we entertain no doubt. The one to Jeddo, we think, could be negotiated at once with the Ja pa sovernmont—in fact, steps have already ken to that effect. From Kyachta to Hong Kon, for the distance, and in view of the cammerce tha’ the globe, mea. The two points, Mos longitude apart, and erence of latitude, would, on the parallel of 50 8 at one hundred dollars per mi cos , would give ©: alculatic onned beon ta vuld, and would more and more concentrate upon that point, be one of the best paying lines in the world ; and it is not too much to look forward to when the four ambassadors are seated quietly ana tirmiy within the gates of Pekin, as a measure which the Chinese Emperor will allow to be put into execution, perhaps at his own enijre cost and c with liberal regulations stipulated in fayor of th (barbarian) Powers. Russia would, as a military Power and ina strategic | pomt of view, ponnect Ler Caspian and Dac: scow; While Persia would not jon of commercial news from ¢ four citish India. But these are all side qu tions. The main question Louis be now is, can line from ™ structed? and, i! constructed, can it U separate aid ork, which y unite, civilize world. The Canadian Parliam has granted the first charter in furtherance of the proposed plan. Other charters will be procured from the States and Territories in the United States and in British America, over which the multaneously with the act of ent granting right of way from Mos- has grown up and been matured by a study dertaking, by a view to the interests involved, by the growth of commerce and from par e become > route ‘n Asia through which this line passes but inhabited under the Russian go vernment with eight to ten millions of people, and having a foreign commerce of fifty millions of dollars annually. Tartary, including Mangolia and Mi ooria—all 0} which would be brought within the ini e of the tele. | graph—bas a population of fifty millions of souls; and if | China and Japan are to be brought to to the ‘oli of tribute nations, more than one third of the population of | the globe must be added ‘Oue word as to the * new Atlantic cal Many have asked, ‘What is to be done with that?’ T answer, when laid and in working order, it will be a good telegraph auxiliary to the o With tke oy: ledge of telegrap no theory or dou por understand s of dollars by a or miscalculation; or by storm, or lightuing, or i The whole of the work: except forty mil above or slightly nay, hourly inspection rope amd America, 2 cable, by bringing the wh nication without the necess! and which is rendered line By this line Pekin, Hong Kong, Hakodad: with steam, without any lateral bron within a week of New York, Loudon, St. Pe Paris; while the quickening of tr commer civilization on the northern limits of Asia and among the Ti 1 would bring ints oy who! Even if the Atlantic think the overland, as au adj tic as ite adjunct, would on! business and profits of both. cheapness and certainty with in be constructed, au n hecessary, in order to meet the line, must, in the nature of | ly considered, make it the route over | eas is not a question. } erlaud passes through much of a wild and country. How are you to protect that portion wer, simply by —From A oh lary posts act accomplished, we , or with the transatlan add to, by facilitating the But we think, by the But the o ‘uninbabite ot it?—is asked by'some, To this I can protecting it; but I will answer further the eastern point of Russian mi Bebring Straits, and thus to the outposts of ficient stations would be established with a suflici ber of men to protect and work th beyon gency. Is it an Indian country? Yes; and as ¢ yerned and controlled as the north son Bay Company, where there is a of 139,009 souls. Now let ussee as to tho probability and prac of maintaining the line and controlling the vat making them the very agents in construc maintenance of the line. In the Hudson Bay Co: 139,000 inhabitants, scatter million square mijes. To govern this nats these nations of savages, there are re the testimony of Sir George Suppson, thy pany’s to Governor of the | the Amoor w | Speedy d Hudson Bay Company, one Governor-in Chief, 16 chief factors, 29 chief traders, 5 surgeons, 87 clerks and 6Y tasters, 1,200 permanent servants (500 very aged), Too omicers and crews of yeasels. No soldiors are em- ployed. It is a sort of patriarchal government over the natives, who are treated by the Gov: ‘of the Company as tho father of a family would his children, or as & Ie tar or Arab chief reigns over his scattered tribes. A few yards of cloth, blankets, a few knives and hatchets, a va- riety of trinkets, guns, powdor and shot for hunting, the simple forces employed. Thus, without a bayonet, by proper management and tho annual «istributl ofa triflmg sum, this Company, with a white force of only a few hundred, governs and rules absolutely over this vast tract of country, and these 139,000 Indians, untamed, are governed and absolutely controlled. ‘The Hudson Bay Company have also a lease from the Russian American Company for the strip of sea coast (over which this telegraph will pass) from tho British line to near Sitka, for which they pay £1,600 sterling a year. Here, then, we have a system of government exercised over the natives of the country from tho borders of Ca- nada and the United States to near Sitka inthe Russian American possessions. From Sitka to Behring Straits the Russian Amorican Company have for generations past exercised the like control over the natives within their territory that the Hudson Bay Company have from the St. Lawrence to the Pacific, all going to show conclusively that it is not dificult to maintain peace and reap a very profitable com. merce, ‘Thus it will be porceived that through thoso inhospita- ble (?) regions, the solution of maintaining a telegraph line is not fraught with such great difficulties as many would imagine, without possessing a knowledge of the wonderful control over the natives and the vast strides made by the two companies named in keeping up regular communica tion through their territories. 1 havo no hesitation in saying that a company could be formed, either in Sitka or Vancouver, which would gua- rantee the permanance and working Order of the entire line from. Vgpeouver to Behring Straits, and at a very reasonable ; because, connected with the keeping and repair of the telegraph, a most lucrative fur trade can be prosecuted. At present this would be done under the auspicos of the two companies, who haye the monopoly of trade in their respective districts, or under special charters from Russia and Great Britany Upon the oppo- site side of Bebring Straits to Penjinsk, or Ayan, the Rus- sian fur hunter and Cossack would undertake with alacrit the ogre of the line on the Asiatic side, and when inyesti- gated, at a very small cost. I have made the calculation for the lime via San Fran- cisco, We will not be tied to that line absolutely, but can take the route of the Hudson Bay Company's posts to Lake Winnipeg, and reach the United States by St Paul. Or if an independent enterprise should construct a line from Missouri to meet the California line, then we could send a branch to San Francisco and continue the main line via British Columbia aud the Saskatchewan to Toronto. But many of these seeming difficulties will pass away, and by the time the line could be constructed to the Pa- cific, San Francisco will have been put im telegraphic com- on with New York. rd to the influence of cold in high latitudes ,on the electric current over the ordinary wires used, expe- perience has proved that it is fayorable. At St. Peters- burg, in 60 deg. north latitude, and from thence to Mos cow, no extraordinary difficulty is experienced; but, on the contrary, I may say the manufactured electricity works better and with increased efficiency in high lati- In this electricians, U think, will agree; at least re not so many disturbances caused in cold as in warm latitudes. ‘The line, except from Taovisk, at the head of the gulf of that name, on the Ochotsk Sea, in east longitude 150 deg., to Mount St. Elias, on the American side, in west longitude 142 deg., will be ‘below 60 deg. north, and the highest point attained is at the crosaing of Behring Straits, where 60 deg. is reached; but if a cable should be stretched along the Aleutian archipeiago, and following the coast to Sitka, 60 deg. would auly be once touched. Again, if the practicability of submarine cables of from two to five hundred miles in length were fully established practically, then the whole detour via Behring Straits can be avoided, and the route shortened by a thousand 4 all ‘care, expense and difficulty in protecting the line except at the points touching land. If this mode should be adopted the Ochotsk sea would be crossed from. the island of Sak-hah-lin, opposite the mouth of the ‘Amoor, to Balcherisk on the peninsula of Kamschatka, a distance of six to seven hundred miles, whence, crossing the peninsula to Petropaulowski, and along the coast to the Cape of Kamschatka, where another submerged cable would unite Asia to America at the peninsula of Alyaska, a distance of some thirteen hundred miles; or a much shorter crossing can be made by using one of tho Alew- tians at midway, dividing the cable into two sections, thus making three steps as it were from the mouth of the Amoor to Sitka, and placing the whole line within the oc- cupied territory of Russia and under the control and pro. tection of the Russian American Company or the govern (o8 ShOrtening the route over a thousand miles. But, ave stated before, these are all questions of detail. As to the protection and maintenance of the line via Behring Straits there is not upon my mind, from the information received in Russia, Siberia and Kamschatka, the shadow of a doubt. Behring Straits, by survey, is thirteen leagues wide, by forty fathoms maximum deep, witha current flowing to the north, no icebergs, and shores favorable to the safe landing of a cable. Again, it is a ct t, that nearly the round world may be encompassed over Russian and British territory by pursuing the parallel of about sixty north latitude, going east from St. Petersburg. After reaciting the south’ western boundary line between Russia and Great Britain, at Mount St. Elias, in America, in west longitude 142 de- grees, 60 degrees north latitude, and from thence crossing the Rocky Mountains by the Peace river pass,on Maken: zie’s trail, and thence via Lake Winnipeg to Toronto, the round world would be brought into the telegraphic em- brace, and the whole distance on the parallel of 60 de- grees north latitude would be only about ten thousand miles. The shortening of distance by this route might bo a matter Of serious consideration, and leave ail lateral lines and branches to work out their own salvation in their own good and proper season. On this parallel the whole land line might be made sub- terranean, if necessary, which would at once render it less liable to casualties, and provide against many contin- cies to which the ordinary pole and wire are subject. , then, the distance by compass (for with the excep- tion of the Ural and the Rocky Mountains, the earth's sur- face on this parallel is nearly a plain) aud the calculation would not be much at fault: -in this case the lateral lines would be run out at such times and at such points as ex- perience, necessity and public pokey would dictate, or pri- vate enterprise find lucrative. Up to, and much above 60 degrees, cultivation of the soil is successfully and profit. ably carried on. At St. Petersburg, for is de: grecg north, vegetation is rapid and h Dies, grains and grasses flourish. St 00,000 inhabitants, and much of the products of the carth for its consumption and commerce, the forests and waters come from the north of that—from Ladoga, from Oregon and . Petersburg you cross the Dwina, a fine navigabl n, With a country producing hemp, and cattle and timber, with Archa tal, 10’ 64 degrees, with a very respectable a population of some 20,000 inhabitants, Pur-uing our way te the Ural—the frontier of Asia—we cross a rich mining country, well settled with a stirring population, Tobolsk, in 58’ degrees north, isa city of much commerce and wealth in Siberia, European in its | civilization, three centuries old in Russian conquest. Pursuing the tieth parallel, we cross one of the richest mining districts in Siberia—the Yenisaisk ral degrees south of important towns and within the best of grain, vegetable and tim! n the Yenisaisk east, we pass south of s¢ ttlemonts | and two degrees south of’ Yakouisk, the capital of that government, and south of the overland government line of post stations to the Pacific, and strike the Sca of Ochotsk (waters of the Pacific) at Tayisk, still to the south of the overland post stations on the road to Kamschatka, Crossing the Gulf of Penjinsky by a submerged cable 800 miles, the peninsula of Kamschatka is reached, yet below the line of civilization: thence to the shores of Beliring Straits, which, near the line of 60 degrees, can be crossed to the ican shore (submerged) about 800 miles to Cape Vancouver or Nuawack. Being thus once fairly seated on the shores of the New World we pursue our way through the -American Company's posessions to Mount St. Elias, still on 60 de grees, from whence » Mackenzie trail to the Red river settlements, are within the possessions of the Hud- son Bay Company's territory, and much to the south of | many of its principal trading posts and settlements, From Red river or Lake Winnipeg, Canada or the United States are near at hand. May it not be said that, in uniting the whole telegraphic systems of Europe and America by this Asiatic overland route, the pulsation of the whole 45,000 miles of tele. graphs in North America, joined onto and conneaié with the 30,000 miles in Europe, will give a stimulusto the united force and render each isolated line more valuable d lucrative; and hold out to the telegraphic lines of both Europe and America a field where by liberal subscriptions their earnings will be very greatly enhanced and their lines rendered mich more profitable. The conquest of Ru in Asia and the rule of the Sciavonic power over the Tartar is a most singu- lar phenomenon in the subjugation of any race, aud one of the most, nay the greatest achievement in any age of the world. herever Russia bas puth forth her hand in y etvili , the arts, peace and commerce have fol- lowed hand in hand; and from the light now before us, i stretch of supposition, uni. sresent Emperor, Alexander If., appreciates fully ¢ importance of Eastern Stbera, in view of its proximity to China and Japan; and his policy in regard to perma- nent acquisition in the northeastern limb of Asia, and the fon, not only of the Amoor, but of the rivers falling into it from the kouth (Manchooria), has done more to break down Chinese exclusiveness, and open up to the world, to commerce and ctyilization, that “dark and bloody ground” (Tartary), than all the navies, armies, ambass , missionaries and priests, since the time of Mareo Polo. ' verning mind of the Grand Duke Con isible in the movement of Russian ships J steamers upon the heretofore unfrequented y. That Le takes a most lively ch of Russia to ast is visible in vari movements, A In fact the reannexation of gre both 2 Europe and quite 1 Russian inte intluence and power in that quarter will most assuredly be augmented by all honorable means at his comm Taking into consi its in the East ned the maritime ¢: Chi tes sent Commodore with a letter to the Eun} and now the treaty of Peiho, with the oocupa- n by ambassadors of the four Powers, added wonderful progress of ith her fleets first since the United jon thi Engiand wi to which, and perbape of not less importance, the occupa tion of the Amoor by Russia, with liberal stipulations for internal commerce and navigation for the Tartar side of and wonderful country, must all tend to the elopement of a vast commerce and satisfy al! nd doubting minds, that in our plans for quick cation with those Asiatic Y Avance of the times in whic this ex kept euing nota day i CANADIAN CHARTER OF INCORPORATIO AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TRANSMUNDANE TELE- GRAPH COMPANY. sirable that a line of telegraphic com a this province 3 Oo Bebris Whereas, it is d miuwication ab fro avorite project with him, and | | this act, this act and all the powers her« Straits through Northern Asia to Europe, with branches extending to the great centres of commerce in the East Indies, Australia, China aud Japan ; and, whereas, Sir George Simpson, the Honorable Lewis T. Drummond, the Honorable John Young, and the Honorable Luthor H. Holton have presented a petition praying to be inoor- porated for the pu of constructing tho first link in the said line: therefore, her Majesty, by and with the ad vice and consent of the Legisiative Council and Assembly of Carada, enacts as follows:— 4 1. The said Sir George Simpson, the Honorable Lowis T. Drummond, tho Honorable John Ross, the Honorable John Young, the Honorable ‘Antoine Almé. Dorion, the Honorable Luthor H. Holton and Perry MeD. Collins, E3q., together with all such porsons as shail become stookhold ers of the Company hereinafter mentioned, shall be and are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic under tho name of tho ‘Transmundano Telegraph Company,’ and as such shall have perpotual succession; may have a common seal and change the same at their re; may contract or be contracted with; may sug or be sucd; oy acquiro, sell or othorwise di of any property, real, personal or mixed, and shall hold, possess and enjoy all the powers and privileges common to all corporate bo: dies. 2. The said company shall have full power and autho- rity to construct, maintain and Keep up an electric tele- graph line from the westernmost station of electric tele- graph communication established in this province, at the time when the said company shall commence its opera- tion, or from any point of connection with any clectric telegraph then established in any one of the United States of America, or from both points, to the'western limits of this province, and thence (with the permission of the Hudson Bay Company or the government of Great Britain, or the government of British Golumbia) by way of the principal settlement at or near the mouth of Fraser river 1g the coast of the Pacific Ocean to the Russian essions in North America, together with such lateral lines or branches as the said company may deem it ud- vantageous to construct, prov! that the course or direction of the line Jo be constructed within this province be npgcoed by the Governor in council. 3. The said company shallalso have power and authority to purchase or lease for any term of years any telegre phic ine established or to be established either in this proviaco ov in the territory of the Hudson Bay Company or im any other British possession, or in tho territory or terri- tories of any foreign Power or State, connecting or here- after to bo connected with the said line which the said company is So authorized to construct; or to purchase or lease for any term of years tho right of any company to coustructany such telegraph line, and shall algo have power and authority to amalgamate with any company, board or persons possessing ss proprictors any line of telegraphic communication connecting or to be connected with the said company’s line, either in this province, in the pos- Sessions the Hudson Bay Company, im any other British colony, or in the territory of any other foreign State or Power, whether on the continent of America or in any other part of the world. * + * * * CMA 5. Aliens shall have equal rights with British subjects to take stock, to vote, and to be eligible to office in the said company; and no shareholder shall be liable beyond the extent of the stock subscribed by him for any debt contracted by the company. 6. The seven persons named in the first section of this act are hereby constituted a provisional board of directors of the said Lay yy and shall hold office as such until other directors elected by the shareholders, in the manner hereinafter provided; and in the event of any oue or more of the said provisional directors dying before the election of other directors, the survivors shall constitute the said provisional board, and four members thereof shall form 4 quorum. 7. The said provisional directors shall have power and authority at any time after the passing of this act to open stock books and to procure subscriptions for the under- taking, to make calls upon the subscribers, to cause sur- veys and plans to be executed, to procure charters or acts of incorporation from the imperial government of Great Britain, from any colonial government or from any foreign State, Power or Legislature, which may be re- quired for the continuation of the said telegraph line or its branches beyond the limits of this province, and also to enter into any covenants, treaties or stipulations with the said rnment of Great Britain, or with the govern- ment of British Columbia, or with any foreign Power or State, having for object to secure co-operation, guarantee or other aid to and for the said undertaking; and it shali be the duty of the said provisional directors to give notice in the Canada Gazette of the opening of the said stock books and of the places where the same shall have been deposited. 8. The capital of the said company shall be two millions of dollars, in shares of one hundred doliars, with power to, increase the same (by a by-law to be passed at a special meeting of the directors convened for that purpose) to a sum not exceeding four millions of dollars, if the said sum of two millions of dollars should be found insuMicient, sub- ject to the approval of a majority of the shareholders pre- sent or represented by proxy ata meeting specially con- vened for that purpdse. 9. So soon as ten per cent of the said capital stock shall have been subscribed, and two per cent paid up, the said provisional directors, or a majority of them, may call a meeting of shareholders, either at the city of Mon- treal, in Canada, at the city of London, in pnuend, atthe city of Paris, in France, or at the city of New Y« ¢ ork, in the State of New York, as the said provisional directors may determine, and at ‘such time as they may think proper, giving at least three months notice in the Canada Gazette And in one or more newspapers published in Montreal, in London, in England, and in the chief city of every foreign State wherein any of the shareholders of the said company may reside, and at the said general meoting and all other general mectings hereinafter mentioned, the sharcholders present, either personally or by proxy,” shall elect nine persons to form and constitute a Centval Board of Direotors of the said company. * * * * * . 19. It shall be the duty of the company to transmit all despatches in the order in which they are d, un- der a penalty of not less than five eding twenty- five pounds, to be recovered with gosts of suit, by the person or persons whose despatch js postponed ont of its order; and the said company shail have full power to charge for the transmission of such despatches, and to receive, collect and recover such rates of payment a8 shall be from time to time fixed by the by-laws of the company. or worked by the be open for the and the com- ver all such mes- to time be tendered yy or on her Majesty's ntelligence for her Maje pany shall receive, transmit and i sages and signals as shal! from ti for transmission for her Btaje service. 21. All messages and signals sent or forwarded for transmission and delivery for her Majesty, or in her Ma- jesty’s service ball have priority ofer all other messages er; and it shaH be imperative on the company, their officers and servants to transinit and deliver such messages and signals accordingly, and to suspend the transmission of ailor any other messages until the said messages and signals shall first have been transmitted; and as between themselves such other messages and sig: nals shall have no right of priority, but shall be transmit ted and delivered in the order in whieh they may be re- spectively tendered for transmission or respectively arrive for delivery: Provided, that in case of war the said com any aball be subjec # to the transmission of all m: sages and signals, to such orders as may from time to time be made by the Governor in Connci 22. Unless the company shall go into bona fide opera- tion, with a paid up capital of not han two hundred thousand dollars, within five yes the passing of y contained shall be null and void; and nothing in this act contained shall be construed to give auy exclusive rights to the said com- pany: Ne af from Tahiti and the Marq missionary brig Morning Star, twenty da Tahiti, had arrived at Honolulu. The Polynesian of July 30 publishes the following summary of news from the Marquesas Islands and Tahiti It is gathered from a file of the Messenger The schooner Caroline E. Foote, twenty-six days from San Francisco, arrived at Tabiti July 19. The Governor had SAS. from military who had conquered and the Fr had | At Nuuhiy colony was dismantled, the Catholic ing almost alone. From the Hivaoa correspondent of the Hae Hawaii we learn that the war now raging between France and Aus- tria has found a counterpart iu the principalities of Oomoa and Ewaewa on the i va. The territory of the night of the first of by th ns, Who, with an armament of eight line-of-battle boats, each carrying twelve men, caught the enemy napping aud killed two men and two women, an carried p wer to Oomo’ litte girl, where she Was strangled to death—a sacrifice to their blood thirsty gods The an! is which had been brought to Fatuhiya and Aivaoa last year and this, by the Morning Star, were doing well. It would seem that’ the domestic animals at the Marquesas were limited to hogs, hens, dogs and cats, The astonishment of the natives at the new comers was unbounded, and their language afforded them no other expression of the idea of a cow than to call her “a bog with very long teeth,’? and a mule they called a “hog without teeth.” ‘The writer thinks that the withdrawal of the French wil! prove of advantage to the Protestant mission At Raiatea, S. I., the civil commotions had subsided, and the annexionists bad been defeated The law of divorce in the Tahitian Code had been amended he Legistative Assembly of 1858, 80 as to make the divorce granted by the Court of Toohitus fine! and definitive, and permitting both of the divorced parties to marry again, the man at once, and the woman at the end of ten mon The prohibition of the Tahitian hu! forced, and the people reminded fs again strictlyen jaw which for- h bids the hula permits every other kind of ement. ‘The Custom Houze regulations at Tahiti have been al tered 80 as to permit duty free goods to be landed without being entered at the Cusiom House, and without the pr gence of a Custom House officer, provided their value has been specified in the man By a law passed on the 15th o® April the distiNa- tion of rum and tafia is permitted on ugar planta (ion that produces ann: 25,000 kilograms of sugar, previous appli ernment attesting t made. A se it is render r issued the director of the ied in the wee Is killed at the slanghte iption of their brand How would Hawait-nei? vspaper a list of Papeete, with t of Common Pleas. One application for licen was received and granted Mr. Kener called up his resolution which was Jald at the last meeting. This resolution is in re rite commenced again and v ed in the Herauo on Wednesday Mr. Haskert—I would wish to hay before we act upon it Mr. Kenr—The cle a t meetin 1 full Board present will notify Mr. Holmes to ve pre thon, T think i should be e1T-—[ think the r i Blasphemy and Balderdash by Cheva- An Important Oall to the Clergy to Stop ¢ Prosperity of the Herald. {From the New York Courier aud Enquirer, Sept. 17.) INFIDELITY AND LICENTIOUSNESS—THE REPUDIATION OF BUNDAY BY THE NEW YORK UKRALD AND NEW YORK INKIDELS. copied with tho attempts of raflaniy pardon, of the occupied with tho attempts of a rut pol sete of, Baltimore to control the nment of that city, a far more dangerous movement in our own city has boon permitted to.paas almost unhoedod. Wo allude, of course, to tho mevement made by our infidel population, under the guidance of the Nuw Yorx Haxay, to trample upon and abolish all laws enacted for the more orderly observance of Sunday, “the Sabbath,’ or “the Lord’s day,’’ agit is known to different denominations of Ghris- tians, but which the law designates as Sunday, It matters not bi what designajon it is known; but from the beginning of world one day in seven has been set apart by every people Dlossed with revelation asa day of rest, and tobo devs: | to the worship and the praise of Him from whom y ro- ceived our being, and upon whom all nations and indi- viduals aro alike dependant. Henco Sunday has becomo known as ‘‘the Lovd’s day,’’ and when, during the French revolution, infidelity sought ¢o accomplish the very end at which the Hxratp and its associates aim, by establishing a larger interval of labor than six days, God, in vindica- tion of his own wisdom, permittod the fact to become ap- parent that He had 60 organized our frail bodies that to rest one day in seven is a matter of physical necessity, as well as a duty enjoined by His express command. Conse- uently, even the philosophers aud men of science of that aay, scorning as they did the very name of reli ,and ridiculing the idea of a God who was to be feared, obeyed and worshipped, were compelled to abandon their hos- tility to one of the ordinances of the very Being they repu- ted, and acknowledge the necessily of resting from labor one day in seven. ‘The history of the world, the history of Revelation, tho history of Christianity and of civilization, all lead to ono and the same result—the oxistonce of one God, a Supreme Being, who created and ene the world, and who has tially revealed himself to man and given him laws for government. The wisest men of antiquity believed in a plurality of Gods—and why t Simply because they wore not blessed with the rovelation of the Bible. And yet the would-be philosophers of modern times, without a tithe of the wisdom of the sages of antiquity, gravely in- form us that they admit and believe in the existence of one God who is supreme, while they deny the truth of the Scriptures! Now this, when analyzed, is an avsurdity. If, with less wisdom than a Socrates or a Cato, these men and their less intelligent followers have, one and all, been enabled to arrive at the same sound conclusion, that there does exist ono great First Cause; and that ‘He is God alone’’—if we say all men now believo and admit this, whetever else they may deny, whence comes this universal wisdom? The answer is apparent—from the revelation contained in God’s word—from that very Bible, the teach ings of which they repudiate, and allof which they ignore, while from it, and it alone, they derive their knowledge of God and His attributes. Hence it is that civilization and Christianity have become, in one sense, synonymous—that is, the former cannot exist without the latter. Where the religion of the Bible does not prevail or is not acknowledg- ed—we speak not of denominations, or sects, or of fanati- cism—there civilization does not and cannot exist. And consequently, throughout the civilized world the obsery- ance of “Sunday ,”’ or “the Sabbath,” or “‘the Lord’s day”” is not only recognized by law, but constitutes a part and parcel of the existence of society itgelf. ‘These are great truths, from which there is no escape; and he who believes that in this country and this age of the world we can do away with the observance of Sunday: or the Christian Sabbath, and of the statute laws which en- force such observance, and at the same time preserve the social fabric, protect life and guard the rights of property, is either a foolor amadman, And yet this is what is now being attempted by the Naw York Hkgaup and a handful of unprincipled infldels, who, at the bidding of that unscrupulous press, are endeavoring to excite the rieh against the poor, and by addressing themselves to the worst passions of the ignorant and depraved masses, are seeking to re-enact in this city the scenes which dis- graced the French revolution. They have revived among us the same cry of hostility to the Bible and Christianity— “Down with the Fanatics’’—and the repudiation of Sun- day and its mummeries; and they have openly com- menced the identical course which deluged the streets sf Paris with blood, rendered France one scene of unutter- able horrors, and caused the whole civilized world to stand aghast at the beastiality and ferocity of man whon cut loose from the restraints of religion and the teachings of God’s Word. Therg is nothing imaginary in all this; and while there @xists almost an unnatural silence in regard to this alarming movement, we are safe in saying that never before has the public mind of this great metropolis been so thoroughly alarmed to the danger which threatens it, and to the true cause of that danger. For weeks past the Herarp has been preparing for an open demonstration against the observance of Sun- day; and to embolden its followers in such an audacious proceeding, it has boasted of its popularity with the people of all classes, notwithstanding its habitual disregard of the law of God and man by publishing on Sunday and treating all days alike. Day after day it has prociaimed its prosperity and its power—a prosperity and power de- rived from a Christian community, and from a moral and religious people, atthe,same time that itis laying the axe at the root of all those‘institutions of religion and morality upon which alone can exist a responsible civilized social ayatem, in which life and property are like protected. We quote from its more recent numbers:— Tue Meeting TH18 EVENING AGAINST SaBpaTARIAN Des- ‘his evening will be held, at half-past seven o'clock, Garden, opposite the Bowery theatre, a. public meet: ing of citizens of ali classes, without distinction, against the Sabbath despotism which a handful of fanatics any traders desire to exercise over the people. We have uo doubt the attendance will be large, and the proceedings be marked by the determination of “men who kuow their rights, and knowing dare maintain.” here is no authority whatever in the New Testament for the Sabbath superstition which it is sttempted to fasten forever as a chain upon the minds and bodies of American citizens. The Jewish Sabbath was abolished, and there is no command to keep holy any other day. on on the Sabbath or on Sunday was regarded as a sin by Christ or his Apostles, would they not have mentioned it in those long catalogues of sins which they enumerate? political ee ee The fact of the Disciples coming together on the first day of the week to break bread is held to be an evidence of the prac- tice of keeping Sunday asa Sabbath. This is alame and im- potent conclusion, for in the same text we are told the reason why thay came was that Paul was about to leave next day, and they assembled to hear him preach,» 9 Theale ow ‘The next mention we find of the first day of the week is in First Corinthians, chap. xvi.:—"Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store,” &c. This proves nothing except laying by money. ‘I was in the spirit on the Lord's day.” Perhaps’ this does refer to the day of the week ‘on which Christ rose from the dead; but where is the command to keep it as a Sabbath, or the evidence that st. Jobn so kept it? r Thus the Holy Scriptures. give the slavish superstitiou no ance. The constitution of the Unil tes forbids any law respecting religious observances, and the consti- tution of the of New York prohibits any preference to be given by law to the opinions of one religions sect over another. bath laws are therefore ia opposition to the State con and the people ought t0 insist upon having them wiped forever away from thestatute book. We trust the meet ing this evening at Volks Garden will take a most decided step toward that most desirable consummation. The time has gone by when people can be ‘compe! follow the religious ob- irvances of any sect by legisla’ can be made pious by the law of the laud. The meeting took place on the evening of the 1th, and inthe Hexaud of the following day we have the follow- ing:— Tue Mertinc Acainst Suxpay TyRaxNy.—In another Jrage we publish a full report of the proceedings of the meeting neid last evening in the Bowery against Sabbatarian despotism, It will be found highly interesting, and worthy the attention of ader. The priviciples ennuciated are sound and incon- rovertible, and we have no donbt that this meeting will pro the entering wedge of public opinion which, driven home by shnilar meetings, will shiver the old rotten plank which bridges f between the era of intolerance and the preseutentight d then that gulf shall be rendered forever iinpas- are to be found in the resolutions as plauded by the Hgrarp; in the denounce: of all denominations as “‘the gentlemen ud in general blasphemy and a stu- m, but of the Bible and of straints upon the natural freedom We extract briefly from , not all religious and soc’ 4 Licentiousness of “ the Ip of s day, like that of a mn of idol worship, is (in accord- ision) lawful and’ allowable in rstitious idedators are as much 1vil authorities from all eh sup n of the i” any oll ‘ dent and unwar sastimption on the | that, if in any -y hap or {regard and defe- ty to worship what thing it we please; infidel and ecognition and protection from 1g Jewish, Christian or any the civil pow other doctrine Resolved, That the recent attempts to enfo gervance of the day of the week as a Sabbath, are the same sectarian and proselyting spicit. which has at this sime time inspire the eft tto enforce the reading of the Pro- hooks. L LD shie abie to get up such inst Taw ainst religion and 5 ‘t origin in matter of sur- It is idle to conceal le Hgrawp, published on Sun. day and every other im the week—openly ridi- culjng and ailint religion and Christianity—repa fiating troth, honor and morality— se by all the means in its power to bring into contempt tho whole social fabric—is daily and exery day purchased and read by more clergymen and professing Christians than any other one newspaper in the United States; and it is equally certain that it is the recipient of a large auivertiving patronage of men of morality and social charac: ter than any of its conte i pause not to inquire f why thi but con with admittin - fact, humiliating as it is. And it is this fact which gives its editor his power for good or evil. Tw years ago, when the of the country den Hearn a the organ ¢ tion, continued his reports of scenes at Cyprian | that money was power; that he ‘pub © money, no matter how, and pre: ering to the propensity of man to hbor, and by pampering his most depraved appetites. Time ‘rolled on, and the result has v d Lis predictions; and pending the getting up of this demonstration ust the institution of # by religiow 1 his opinions of We quote from his paper:— [From the Herald of 1th September. Th a period of ury the London Times has - pusaind shorts per day, York HeRALD, in less t nearly to ninety thousand sheets that number. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1859. tment, and When men | tem; aeons Tribune, Times, Courter, Journat of Com- " osha, 2 ” merce, - * * . . * In these United States, and we may say in Great Bri newspaper press is the power either for ane or From the Herald of 12th September. Twenty Bee Now York papers cummiedes title or no influence. Now, the eight of the Hematp fall so far sear teited fo publigh, thatran we have anid: is ize wil ne ul fore oti fave oe ally increased, if not we Ly Times, 10 ppt jupplement occasionally to our Popier double sheet, the: tengo of things now, it likel arent ve to issue lement to. our 5 ‘also. we shall & supp! te triple a ‘eRaLD employed advertising medium the Hi employed as an ing tie hte renter et eee Sad Guida, the ‘of Philadelphia, Boston and Mon: frees adr tee te ayerived; thet anya ot the are al 5 A, doiphie and Liverpool steamships are rej fy announced in ‘aud so. Wil ‘These are substantial facts'in our career, and hence the ne cessily of a healthy expansion inour size. The Heracp is no longer & mere. me organ, the value and influence whereof je limited by the bout ‘and interests of New York, but ‘& cosmopolitan . Whove opin- Gns lafluence aud contro! interests oxlsing’ far beyond We limits, not alone of the State, but of ‘the republio ilaeifj and our columns have thus become necessary aa a advertising medium to all pines Se he comet ay, ot the St en cas, rican metropo! nawepaper within a periat short of a quarter of mosinry, And yesterday's HeRatp contains the following:— Cash recalans: for advertisements by the HewaLp during the Jast six weeks:— Amount for the week ending August i. « ‘Tota! amount received for six weeks. Avera ee oe ofr ea season entibts aaiocrease of upariy. Unealy bet ¢ present season eres cont over those of he same inal year. Phe ‘latter, in their tarn, showed an increase of nearly the same amount on the Lengo? ei returns. In the same proportion our cir- or BA RAITIGAAnGud adearliae: nentocaanee Itoh yeeeenh jar ¥ Pike of augmentation in both be maintained-and with relaxed ¥ runents of our paper per week. nce bestowed on all depai there can be no doubt that it will—it must be evident to every business man that in the course of a very our ag- gregate annual receipts will amount to a million of dollars. Here is evidence of prosperity in a nei never before witnessed; and oe truthful when boasts of his power. And well may he say to his followers: ‘‘ Fear not the condemnation of the good—regard not the denuncia- tions of the professors of religion or the sticklers for mo- rality. For years they have denounced and condemned me and my press, and yet nineteen-twentieths of my power and prosperity is derived from them. Follow my lead, then, and doubt not your success.’” And is not this true? What and who gives the Ara.p its power for evil? Is not its power derived from its cir- culation—from its daily sale of single copies throughout this broad land? And of the ninety thousand copies said to be daily sold to individuals, do not nineteen-twentieths of them say in their hearts, “* What a curse—what an evil is this press; but, alas, Ican do nothing, I am only one in ninety thousand.”’ And 30 with the advertiser. He groans over what the HeRato tells him is a necessity—an ‘Cessential as a universal advertising agent;” and he submits to the necessity because ninety thousand respon- sible human beings condemn and purchase the demoraliz- ing sheet. is there no remedy for this? True, seven-eighths of the sales of the Hxratp are out of the city, but is there not as much virtue elsewhere as here? And if, as is alleged, and is apparent to all, the power of that press, no matter how obtained, is directed against the well-being of the community and the very existence of the social fabric—if it threatens to break down all the barriers erected by God and man against immorality, irreligion and licentious- ness—if it be gradually but surely undermining the se- curity afforded by society to property, and the protection which Jaw and order afford to life, most assuredly there isa principle of self-respect and self-preservation in the community which, if properly appealed to, will not fail to vespond favorably to such appeal. If every purchaser of the Hsraup could be made to feel that he, individually, could by his own act destroy this power for evil, does anybody bolicve that it would exist for a solitary ‘day Most certainly not. And yet this ability to destroy and put down forever this gigantic power for evil does actually exist in the hands of the very individuals who daily condemn, and yet purchase the infected sheet. But how can each individual be made to feel that the power rests with him, and that it is his duty to exercise it? We auswer, through the ageacy of those who, regardless of abuse even from a press which daily circulates its ninety thousand, dare exercise the courage openly, manfully and fearlessly to speak their sentiments, and’ practice what they preach ith the politics of the Hgraup and its abuse of indi- viduals and its political opponents, or with its habitual misrepresentations of the events of the day, we have nothing todo. If any set of men like these things it is their right to indulge their taste and buy the Heratp, and nobody has a right to interfere with their so doing. But when a press boasts such a power asthe Heratp exhibits, and, confident in its strength boldly arrays itself against all that is sacred in religion and pure in morals, and strikes at the very existence of social order and the se- curity of life and property, then society, in its turn, must throw itself upon the defensive, and as boldly meet and destroy the power that assails it. To do so re- quires courage and concert in action; but the battle will certainly follow the exhibition of the former. We have said, and we repeat, that the very individuals who daily buy, and yet condemn, the HgRatb, and at the same time exclaim—How can this nuisance be abated? have only to be told, and made to believe and feel, that they, the com- plainants, have the power to put it at rest forever, by simply abstaining from its purchase in future, and tho work is at once accomplished. But who is to do this? We answer—the press, the pulpit and good mea every- where. This is not an isolated question of religion, or sectarianism, or fanaticism; but it is a question of public morals, and the safety of society itself against the identical causes, and precisely the same class of mon, that caused the disruption of society in France during the days of ter- ror,and all the horrors of that most bloody era ia the history of the world. Let the press, then, and especially the country press, appeal manfully to its readers not to purchase the New York Heratp. Let the clergy from every pulpit in the land, and more especially from every country pulpit of every denomination—for from the coun- try comes the support of this fearful power for evil— openly and manfully array themselves against this mighty engine of licentiousness, and demand of their hearers not to sustain the modstrous iniquity. Let them. appeal not only to the members of their church against the great wrong of constituting one of the thousands who create and build up this power for evil, but let them be urged to represent to every parent and guardian, to every moral and well behaved citizen, to every Christian man aud woman, and to every person of whatever situation in | life who possesses property or feels an interest in the well being of society, that it is a duty which society demands of them to forego the purchase of the Heratp. In short, | make men feel that cach, individually, has the power to | correct this great and growing evil, and it will be accom- | plished, And in like manner, let each advertiser feel that the withholding of his advertisement will abate the nuisance and destroy the necessity for employing it, and there will nover again appear in this mischievous sheet such an exhibition of power and prosperity as that we extract above. Of the fact, that all men of all classes in every portion of the country would, if they thought they could, abate this great nuisance, there exists no question. We have thus done our duty in the premises, and shown how, if others will do theirs, a great evil of which everybody complains, and which too many thoughtlessly encourage and sustain, may be removed. Of course we shall be abused beyoud measure; but for that we care nothing, except that others, less hardened than ourselves, may be deterred by such abuse from the performance of their duty. What we haye done should have been commenced in the pulpit; for under ex- isting circumstances it is a duty which the clergy owe alike to their profession, to their God, to society and to themselves, boldly and fearlessly to meet this assault upon the observance of “the Lord’s day,’? and upon all those institutions of society which constitute civilization and render us a moral and a Christian peeple. But the clergy are not al- ’s conscious of their power; and in this case we can easily imagine that they would, if possible, shrink from bringing upon themselves the abuse of a reckless and a ribald press. And so would we if we dare. But we re- cognise a duty to be performed, and we have not shrunk from the discharge of it. Will’ the clergy shrink from their duty in the premises? Will the Press recognise what it owes to the public? Will the Christian portion of the country, no matter what its particular creed or special belief, admit that they have a duty to discharge? Will good men and good citizens—men of sound morality, who have a stake in society and demand protection at its hands—will they, no matter what their religious belief, or whether they have any religion or not—unite in putting down a great public nuisance, and one which threatens danger to the State, by simply abstaining from purchasing or advertising in the New York Herat? Time will show, The Loss of the United States Steamer Fulton. Some interesting particulars of the loss of the Fulton will be found in the following extract from a private jetter:-— Sxpremper 16, 1859. ‘The Fniton sailed from Key West on Saturday last (September 10), for the coast of Cuba. The captain was sick with fever when we left, as also the master and one or two others. On the 12th the captain broke down, but refused to give up command of the vessel among the Cuban reefs. He consentod that evening, however, to have the first lieutenant take the vessel to Tortugas Islands, the nearest healthy home port. Wo made for them, accord- ingly; but the weather began to threaten, and we could t no sights, and were exposed to baffling currents, and did not reach our port, as expected. On the moraing of the 14th, in the Gulf Stream, to leeward of the Tortugas, it began to blow, and was doubtful if we could reach It was necessary to batten down hatches to keep out the seas. The fieutena thought we could reach Pensacola, as the wind: was fair for that port; so, on the evening of the 14th, we kept off for ‘it, The gale increased and became very vio- lent, and we lmd to seud before it, without sights, the 14th and 15th, Last night it blew with fury, and the seas were more dangerous, We feared we were approaching and, and council was held to decide what todo. Tt was determined that if the attempt were made to ‘lay hor to” she would be lost; on the other hand, if there had been no current we should be more than one hundred miles from land, and our best chance was t@run on, in the hope of not reaching land before d In the mad-watch, the gale increasing still, t was again consulted about, and ata quarter before two A. M., while every one was up and anxiously canvassing our fortunes, th slid ashore, in the smoothest and easiest manner possible, upon the sandy beach, When day dawned ‘ side ‘to th hich was only about distant, with a fearful surf beating against us outside. The kind vidence only has saved us. Not a soul is lostor hurt. We getting ovr mon and provisions ashore ag fast as possible The Swedenborgians of Minois are to hold a convention ew Jorusalem Tomp! in the city of Peoria, on the 1 9th day of next Oowher. are sides of tho monumont:— East Facs.—Licut. Col. Moses Parker and 4 min Walker, wounded at Bunker Hill, June ie prisoners in’Boston July 4 and Auguss, 76°, ion’ oben Spaulding. Died at ford, Conn., 76, Nora Fack,—] 1859. Lat the children guard what the sires have won. West Fack.—John Batos, died in army at Camb) Toga, David Soaultings died In army at Ticonder oe tiah Adams, killed at Cherry Valley. Noah Foster, shot a capture of Burgoyno. Henry Fletcher, killed’ at ‘White lains. Soumn Faor.—In honor of the townsmen of Chelmsford, who served their country in the War of the Revolution, this monument erected by a grateful aA ne eohumeenk Got 0,000, Nie wei sinty, tone Bo. ni corner ie were Cheimsford History, The Courter, advertiaor: arial oa Traveller, the four Lowell papers, and various town docu- re saan She eheceh adjoining were abundant col ant were - ly decorated with flags, and- presented @ lively > ance. The houses of several gentlemen wero also = rated, among others that of C. H. Dalton, half a mile north,on which appeared this inscription, bore reference to Mr. D.’s ancestor:— The house of Colonel Simeon Spalding, Colonial Ri uve TTT Wo ITS. tan Proviselal Cone from Chairman of the Cot o' to Adjust War Accounts, 1778. Del tution, 1779. Died i785, aged 72. In Yalo’s large dinner tent on the common, there were various inscriptions, as follows, running around the inner walls of the tent:— Forget not those who by their exertions secured to vii sous Covet ihe The precio a fi eh On lorious Constitution, faibera Webster es etey Om Oue Our fathers trusted in Thee, and Thou didst deliver them.— Franklin. From osean’s wave to ocean's wave, perpetual peace and friendship.—Lafayette. John Bull and Uncle Sam. May they always live In peace. Governor Winthrop, 1630; lis name and fame atill lye. Our country. In all that is great and good, may her progress never cease. ts ? Q Our march is onward, and shall not be cared North and South, East and West. No rence under ouc constitution. Liberty and Union, one and inseparable, now and forever. Trath, oe equality. ‘The Union above faction. Our national honor should be preserved at all hazards.— James Buchanan. Constitutional liberty every where. Dorchester Heights aud Bunker Hill. % addition to Mr. C. H. Dalton, the Committee of Ar rangements for the day consisted of Messrs. H. W. B. Wightman, Deacon Perham, Christopher Roby, E. K. Parkhurst and Mr. Pipkham. At a little before 11 o’clock a procession was formed at the house of ©. H. Dalton, under the chief marshalship of Otis Adams. Preceded by the Lowell Brigade Band, Geo. Brooks, leader, it moved to the church on the common In consequence of the inclemency of the weather it had been found impossible to have the exercises in the opea air, and as the church was not fifty yards distant from the monument, the chango to that sacred edifice involved. ‘no extension of the march. On the entrance of the pro- cession a salute was fired from a field piece on the Common. The procession reached the church at about five minutes past eleven o'clock, and entered, Tho wall pews and the gallery were already filled with ladies, and there was a vocal and instrumental choir im attendance. Among the invited guests in the pulpit was Dr. Matthias Spalding, of Amherst, a gentleman ninety-two years of age, who come from that distant place purposely to attend the cele- bration, Dr. Spalding, when young, saw from a hill in Chelmsford the ascending volume of smoke from Charles- town on the day of the Bunker Hill battle. The exercises in the church commenced with the sing- ing of ‘¢ America’? ais the choir. Mr. H. W. B. Wicurmay, the President of the Day, made the opening. address, welcominng all to the festiyi- ties of the day. He trusted that none claiming lin in this town could view this occasion without interest. years had gone, it was true, since the little band of he- Toes gathered under yonder tree, and marched to Bunk- er Hill, where, of sixty-eight men twelve were wounded. They had left one or another of their number on several of the leading battle fields. And it was well. that we should gather bere to-day to per petuate their memory, while yet there were those alive who remembered them living and mourned their deaths. We knew that the sons of the fathers were passing away, but when they, were gone this. monument would remain to do honor to the dead. Here, within our own heritage, were Concord, and Lexington and Bunker Hill, and here they would remain forever, in Old Mid- dlesex. The Speaker here complimented and thanked C. H. Dalton, Esq., Mr. G. S. Curtis, the architect, the society and its officers, and others who bad had their part in iginating or iu carrying toa completion the enterprise y consumunated, and closed by a reference to the feelings with which those who come after as will look upon this work. Prayer was offered by Rev. John Parkhurst, chaplain. An ode, written for the occasion by a native of the town, was sung to the air ‘Hail to the Chief.” The words were full of fire, and the choir sang it in a very excellent and spirited way. Dr, Wu.LARD PARKER, of New York, the President of the Chelmsford Monument Association, was now in- troduced to make the dedicatory address. He was received with applause. Many years had passed since he had been here, and many of the old faces had gone, but those who remained he felt the utmost pleasure in mcet- ing with. First he spoke of the monument in an approving way, of itsdesign, and of the spirit in which the plan for its erection had been conceived. It had grown out of a desire to immortalize those who were worthy of immor- tality, and we were gathered this day te dedicate it as « testimony. of gratitude for their toils and labors, as. a les- son to our children of what the fathers did to secure the civil blessings we enjoy. They had abundant and holy cause for their action. And having taken up arms once, it was indeed with them either triumph or an ignominious end. They were rebels, if not successful. And so undor eculiar circumstances they fought the battles of the Revo- lution. They were weak; they grappled witha mighty foe; but with them right made might, and it was indocd might to them. Like David, they went forth trusting im God, and conquered. The monument we this day dedi- cated was.as much to the mothers of the Revolution as to their sons and sires. It would recall the loneliness, the privations they met with. From many a New England fireside the strong-armed men went forth, and month after month their families were left destitute of their pre- sence to struggle on, not knowing but the next courier would bring fatal tidings from the absent one. They knew: what women’s rights were; and unlike the mermaids of our time, who seem to belong to neither sex, they felt that the duty of rearing men was the noblest on earth, speaker congratulated his audience that the monument had been completed,and expressed the hope that it would long remain to answer the purpose for which it was de- signed, an emblem of that enduring tablet above on which. the names of the good and true were graven. The band played “Yankee Doodle.”” Hon. Cuarves R. Train, of Framingham, was introduced next and warmly applauded. This was an occasion of deep interest to every human being in our country, and every one should bid God speed to every effort to com- memorate the memory of our fathers. What, we owed to them few of us were able to appreciate. The sculptured stone was raised, but in the heart, too, was it fitting toerect aperpetual monument. To their perseverance and Anglo- Saxon persistence in defence of right, the successful issue of the struggle was greatly due. That was a portion of the spirit we were met to commemorate. We had per- formed one duty, but there was a duty which should never be forgotten by the mothersof New England—to educate their children in historical matters, in the history of our country, and the lessons derivable therefrom. So should we most successfully perpetuate not only the memory but the principles of the fathers. (Applause.) The closing partof Mr. Train’s address was very elo- quent. The band gave another excellent performance. C. H. Darron, Esq., Chairman of the Committee of Ar- rangements, read a letter from R. W. Emerson, regretting absence on account of a sprained ancle. Also another from Benj. Peter Hunt, of Philadelphia, which referrod at some length to the objects ofthe day. Another letter was read from Hon. Edward Everett, ¢picadi ing a previous en- gagement. Another beautiful original ode, written for the occasion by Martha L. Emerson, was sung tothe tune of “Auld Lang Syne,” the audience joining. The company were now dismissed to spend half an hour in the interchange of social greetings, at the close of which time a procession was formed, which marched around and saluted the monument, and then, moved to the dinner tent. THE DINNER. A well known caterer bad provided dinner for ovor five hundred guests, and when the ladies and gentlemen form- ing the procession had entered, nearly every seat was full After the blessing had been invoked’ by the chaplain of the day, the abundant and excellent diuner wag duly dis- cussed. ‘The PrestpENT, at the close of the dinner, called the company to order, and announced as the frst regular sentiment, one in honor of Governor Banks, in response to which this letter was read :. Boston, Sept. 21, 1859. Drar Sin:—Mr. Evérett has been invited by the Govern- ment to repeat his oration upon Mr. Webster at the Capitol, en Thursday, and his acceptance of that invitation nakest it proper that I should remain at Boston on that day, which is the day of your celebration. Ihad not given to your committee positive assurance that T should accopt your in vitation to be present with you at Chelmsford, but T should. have joined in your celebration had it not been for this en. gagement. It would have given me great pleasure to contribute as much as should be in my power to honor the brave meu who joined the American troops at Concord, and who ren dered effective service through the Revolution, and also'to have participated with you in celebrating the 20th anni- versary of the scttlement of the town of Cholmsford. We can hardly separate the heroic achievements of the men of our early history from the towns in which thoy were actors, and through whose corporate machinery they made their individual exertions so effective throughout the colo nies, and IJ rejeice whenever occasion offers, in which the prominent features of their history ix properly brought forward. T regret sir, that Tam deprived of the pleasure, in this celebration of the settlement of the good old town of Chelmsford, Accept my thank for your very kind inyi tation, and believe me sincerely Vours, &c., &6, NATHANIEL P. BANKS The second sentiment was in honor of the Granite State (, H. Danton, Bsq., Chairman of the Committoe of Ar-