The New York Herald Newspaper, October 12, 1859, Page 4

4 NEW YORK G FROM UTAW. INTERESTIN Lord Robert Grosvenor in Salt Lake City—Reported Attacks on Emigrant ‘rains—Conviction and Sentence of McKenzie for Forging Treasury Drafts The Crops and Cotton—Sermon of El- der Kimball on Ladies’ Dresses and Se~ nator Benton—Indiun Outrages om Trad~ ers and TravellersmArrival of # Great Hand Cart Train—Life ana Frolic in the United States Camp, &c. We have files from Uta dated in Salt Lace Lath of September—a fortuight later. The Pulley Tan newspaper of the lat sonal and genoral news items City on the + contains the fol” 6 y morning. esday, the 6th inst, and mo mine roule for Chiva, via Paci He will so- California for a few r eres Superintendent of Indian AM™airs for Utah, Dr. Forne! eturned to the city. He has diferent the crops, both as to quantity and quality. The feeling p Indians towards the whites is amicable. He saa See at alan on, Wace La eewledoe portion of Captain Simpsou’s roud, Our Postmaster, Mr. Morrell, arrived from the States in the mail stage on Monday last. Nothing of local interest bas come to our knowledge since our last. On last Sabbath we had the pleasure of listening to the ablest and most refined sermon we have yet heard deli- vered by a Mormon. It was an effort of Orson Pratt, one of the Apostles of the Church. It was agreeably free from that disgusting vulgarity and forensic bra; which some elders cannot preach without, and ca! to edify and instruct all. ‘The same paper adds:—Nothing positive has been hoard from the emigrant road, north, since our last. Several Tumors have come to us to Ue effect that quite a number ‘of emigrant traips‘had: been attacked We have room to hope, however, that the been very much exaggerate Judge Sinclair presided in the Third Judi the 29th of August, when Dayid MeKeuz! Cedar county, convicted of forging a ¢ tant Treasurer of the Unit which you have been found g hard labor in the penitentinry term of two years, ab States, in the sum of & this prosecution, tax al district on n engineer, of on the Assis Sat St. Louis, Mo. your flue to the United at you pa lars and —— cents. ake , and thi cs R. Ballantyne was made a citizen of the Untied States in court. The Valley Tan of the 7th v ntains the follow- ms, a brother of T. wounded, while ago, by one of his com- ing records of incidents:—Archy &. Williams, Esq., was shot, and seriou at a dance in Provo, a few nigh panions of the name of Wheeler. Josiah Arnold, who was shot through the thigh, the ball grazing the bone, at the time that Drown was killed, has since died. He wasremoved from the city to his residence on the Jordan, and died on the morning of the 30th ult. ‘We notice that ripe peaches are appearing in our market; also, apples, tomatoes, aud other kinds of fruit incident to the season and climate ‘We noticed a day or two since in the garden of E. W. Fast three or four rows of cotton, and we’ would judge, from the appearauce of the bolls, that they would open be. fore frost. Will not some one try the culture of this arti- cle on a large sc DER HEBER C. KIMBALL. hed in the Tabernacle on Sunday, the 11th of September, remarking thus DREAD OF A FAMINE—THE ELDER DOWN ON FEMALE KXTRA- VAGANCR. BROTHERS AND SIsTERS:—I on my bed in the very greatest of sorrow, cd hat is in store for this people. I tell you that you may look for a famine immediately. I have talked about this to you time and again, but you don’t it. Brigham Young has talked to you till he to say anything more about the matter. 3 ‘go down to hell where they belong, and they who wear thom are going to hell with them’ sooner Or lnter. Are you women any better than me’ Who are hat you ea! wear a good pair of ¢ skin shoes when I first came to these valleys. without your fine bonnets aad ribbons and’ shoes. Don’t coax your husbands to sell the last bushel of grain; to feed them on who want to cut your throats, and when we will soon be plunged into a famine. Have 1 or Brigham Young sold our wheat? No, nota grain, and I assure you that if Brigham would be offered 310 per bushel for his wheat to-moroow, that he wouldn't sella peck of it. The army with all its (ollow- ers, the whole amounting to about 6,000 men, must be fed. ‘They musteat. Let them get their flour from the Stat ‘You have no wheat to spare, especially to them who want to kill you, Your wheat will whip the world yet. Nations will flee to os to escape starvation. Our at will whip them a great worse than we Ww United States government two years ago, and we whip- ped the soldiers without losing a man. We just Stopped them out on the road here a piece and kept them till they got cooled off. Wonder if there is a lawyer here? If thero is, | would like to know if I bave committed treason? I was just going to pull my coat off and go into it in earnest, and I would if f hadn't a calico shirt on. Don’t get mad, friends, because we whipped the United States; you can’t blame us for it. They were coming to burn our houses, kill the men, and rayish the women. Well, we just stopped them till they got cooled off, and when they got tame aud quiet we let them come in, and didn’t lose a man—I believe a horse was shot in the hoof. We will let them stay here as long as they be have themselves, but they must understand that the United States government and all bell combined can’ drive us from the tops of these mountains. I know you would say, ‘Hold on, Mr. Kimball; you'd better hold you tongue.” Well, I will—when I please, WHAT MR. BUCDANAN [LAS TO ANSWER. ‘The United States will hay the prophets and of 1 voleanocs, bloodshed and hidieo them from one end of the c: will the ican people e blood of |, famine ences will visit » the other. Then emselyes before the ne independent Saints of and beg for food and pro- tection; then will the nations of the earth bow themselves down to our prophets. and in lu! hands deliverance. They will then humble as the soldiers were when the their heads and loc she some of you don’t like you can lump it, and i want to lump itturn it over and thump it, I won't gain any friends by this talk, w Iwillgain the friendship of every good woman and man in this house, and of my Fatbor and angels in Heave THE CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATE SLIDES OFF To THE YESTRY— BE 18 CALSD OUT AGAIN Are theee federal officers here our masters? are not. Brother Bern you? (Looking arc and seeing B; nbisel had evacuated, the spe commanded in a tone of authority, “Come in here, 2 rphisel, out of that y. You always run when Iget at it. Did we send youto Congress, Brother Bern- hisel, as our master, or as our servaut?’’) Brother Braxutski—As your servant. SUFFERINGS OF THE FAITIVCL—END oF That's what these fe ‘wait upon us, to be ou: vants ; their duty they would have bung’ fi for committing treason against Dese: before this time for violating the When we go to the St y they come here t They ought to go laws of this Territory. their laws, and when to obey ‘our laws, to polls aud vote for the man’ whom we want to elect to | the office. They ought to do as Romans do when are among Romans, But do they do it? No, th traitors to Deseret. When we were in th murdered us, and rejc over it. Now, t they time bas come when they will have to gnaw the file. When we were in Missouri, old Tom Benton said, “Give the Mor- mons he Old Tom Benton is now suuffing sulphur in hell, where he ought to be. (Tremendous yelling of Amen). Well, what are you going to make of it Can you help it? No, you can’t. It will be just as God wants itto be. He hold: all as iy in the hands of the pot- ter. Now, 1 want you to give mea right lively taac— Amen. (Amen throughout the congregation.) A YISHOP'S OPINION OF THE RRGULAR ARMY. Bishop Kesler + Tabe' p The Saints who ciean out what few sold fast. INDIAN DIFFIOULTI: EAMG {From the V; We were visited ter, who bad been engaged trafficking with Inc uns up to within a short time of bis cal) upon us. Hi was about 176 miles distant from here, on what own as Kin. ney’s Cut-off. He r attack upon emigrants by th About the middie of w rants, mostly from Louisa count yy & band of Shoshonces, near one man killed and th of the wounded probab!y The emigrants’ stock was driven off, and their wagons plundered and then ¢ stroyed by these fiendish “Lamanites,”” of whom it is prophesied by their friends that they are soon tw be- come ‘‘a white and delightsome people.” The wounded are being taken care of at the military post on Bear river, whither the entire company repaired for protection aud assistance. The commanding officer there immediately ea a body of men to the scene of the outrage. , P. further stated that he was visited by a chief of the Shoshonee tribe, and ordered to leave the country within three days, which he did, travelling night and day, and saved all his stock. Mr. P. could give no other reason for this outbreak than ‘that the pent up deviltry of the Indians bad to “have vent Somewhere. There had no communi between ication the and the savages rer—nothing to en- gender Bitrate in the breasts nizing lacerations. the former had been pen ee being answered in the negative, Itis that 8 horse train was attacked the morn. ween te this somewh ft }upyon, but nothing definite bas been ascertained in re- vatd to that. Mr. Porter expressed his opinion that s¢ ch had been the case the Indians had ‘worsted. ‘The emi were from Louisa county, Iowa, and Linn s ranty, Mo, Me. A. L Boot, was ‘led, and Jacob W. 5 wal Forcum Thomas Blunt wounded—Mr. 1 solin’ badly wounded. ng A portion of the party proceeded to California—viz: Daniel Bales, Hi and Henry Warren, Rowland Dover, Charles Morris, rick Baker, Samuel , Comp: con Farris, William Jones, wife and child; Thomas Blunt, -\acob and Solomon Dusher, Wesley Foroum and Harrison vogue, dr. Milton Carpenter, Buren Hungerford, and Miss No, they | rford and Nathan Fish, came on to Salt Bie aon they intend to proceed to California. ‘The Indians took sixty-eight head of cattle and one mue, aid burned five wagons with their contents. The hidians Were about sixty in number, as near a: could bo judged. The ahs whites returned to thy mp of Mr, Porter, ou Marah cree! eather the above taformation derived from Ar. Porter was in type, a friend handed us the following — # A party of gentlemen just returned from the North, wherethey had been prospecting for a silver mine, re- port that while in the vicinity f Marsh Valley they Stop: ped at the trading post kopt by a person of the name of Graham, who informed them that about the 20th of Au- in of five wagous was plundered aud burned trom his station; that one was killed and ded (is leg and ‘arm broken). The latter he had conveyed to a camp of the military, some fifty miles distant, Name forgotton, but he was from Burlington, ARRIVAL A HAND CART TRAIN OF CONVERTS— GREAT TURNOUT OF CITIZENS TO WITNESS THE EN- TREE. ‘rom the Valley Tan, Sept, 7.) Farly on Sabbath morning it became rumored through- out town that the long looked-for hand cart twain was ap- soled with the former, if ta | arrived at New York “in month. I have decided the 224 of October, or at y, the 29th. In the I shali mention to yow the precise day at | which the | tyne nor was such celle; ¥o | drive a team to within four or fi proaching near the home of the particularly favored of hoaven—Vviz., Salt Lake City—where the ynissionaries had caused thom to believe, most probably, that they would find profits for the body, as well as prophets for the soul; and they have our sincerest wishes that they may be con- yare duped in regard to the existence of the latter. After the conclusion of the afternoon services at the tab- ernacle, & heterogeneous mass of pedestrians, equestri- ans and Jehus generally, thronged the road between tho city and the mouth of Emigration Canon, all on the qui vive to get a glimpsn at the coming object of curiosity. Atabout 4 P. M. the train emerged from the mountains into the plateau overlooking the city, where it was wel- comed by several cheering airs from a brass band, and met by a few kind hearted team owners, who took the most wearied female members of the company into their wagons, while there were an abundance of gallaut young men who harnessed themselves into the carts thus va- cated. A sort of systematic procession was formed just outof the city, by placing the wagons con! ig the baggage and bedding of the hand carters in the van, the music next,and then the persevering, bold spirited cart drawers temselves, the whole followed and surrounded by hundreds of men, women and children, on foot, on horseback, in wagons, carriages, &c. In this order,and under these circumstances, the pro- cession passed through the city to the public square, where, we understand, they were supplied with al! man- ner of desirable refreshments. LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES CAMP—THE SOLDIERS PAID AND LOTS OF FUN, [Correspondence « e since the arr , who d sol tiers, sine Our camp has rec i Paymaster Hunt, U “one thing needfu' i Tan’? (not making refercnce to the title of has been discussed in aii it8 various modes and ‘The various places of amusement have also r impetus from the repleted pockets of the soldiers, The Soldiers’ Circus Company haye secured a canopy for their pavilliom which makes the arrangement fur more comfortable, aud Tam happy to say are steadily im- proving in their style of periormance. Tu,a few days they will secure some good horses, when wife equstrian de- vil partment will be more interestin Willis, the prince of burlesquers and jokers at this camp, continues to enter- tain the folks in his ‘inimitable style Murrell, Greiner, Paul and a host of others of th y are also the performance. heir build- re giv, sto good nightly. ume of the association is com- plete, and the rendition of the pieces now produced on the Stage are excellent and well sus The Social Hail has been bul ly of the club (and is a ve building) on the ground of the Seventh regiment of infantry, capable of holding about 150 persons. The scenery is well painted and ap- propriate—the proscenium especially—an eagle with out- Stretched wings in the and on the other the German fla) taken from the Royal theatre in Hanover, and consists of Helios, the god of hime and News, driving a chariot and four horses in the clouds, surrounded with twelvi nymphs, which rep nt the twelve hours. The who is executed with a degree of taste aud dnish which is highly creditable to the membe The late performances commenced with the farce of “ Why don’t you get married?” and Cox—Married and Settled,’ in two chorus, and concluded with “ Mr. Carolin The whole of the performances were in the German language, and appeared to give the greatest satisfaction | tw the audience, among whom were Col. Smith, Com- manding officer Post; Col. Morrison, 7th Infantry; Col. Howe, 2d Dragoons; and Col. Rugglés, 5th Infantry, be- sides numerous other officers trom the diflereat regiments, and invited guests. As the building was erected by the members for their own amusement and intellectual improvement, no charge is made for admittance, which can only be obtained by au invitation ticket, Taking these circumstances into consideration, Colonel Morrison headed a subscription list, which was liberally responded to by the officers of the Seventh infantry, and the amount ($150) presented to the club to carry out their designs, Adetachment of soldiers, discharged and furloughed, left this camp on the 8th inst. under the command of Colo- nel Ruggles, Fifth infantry, for Fort Leavenworth. A few days previous the command of Colonel Chapman, Fifth infantry, arrived here, composed of recruits for the vari- ous regiments and corps. Colonel Chapman relioved lone! Ruggles m the command of the Fifth regiment of infantry. Should the readers of your journal in the States see these communications, they will understund that not- withstanding we are serving in the most God-fors country in the habitable globe, yet with the ‘Soldiers’ Cireus,’? with Willis as clown, the ‘Military Dramatic Company,” and the Valley Tan to driuk, and ‘the Valley Zan to read, we are alli rght. | SENATORIAL PEDESTRIANISM—GREAT FAMILY FEATS. [From the Valley Tan, Sept. 7 Mr. Grow, a cousin of Hon, Wm. Grow, of Pa., starte from this city about the Ist of August, 1858, and’ walked to California, and returned on foot to this placein the en- suing October. Early this spring, accompanied by his son, of fifteen years, Mr. Grow departed from he! walked (son also) to the Missouri river, and tro point a goodly part of the ¢ ‘They remained in theCapital but a short time, and on the return trip; reached the Missouri from Was! in the same way that they went from the forme to the latter, when the gon got an opportunity to ride and entirely by the members the drop-curtain i3 > that tance to Washington, D.C. | arted city, and came in on foot the r the father returned on foot the fall distanc son, Kansas. We know of but few if record wherein men haye voluntaril; ves to such length } G. did in these cases; and the fortitude of the youthful | son draws forth mingled admiration and astonishment from all. from Atebi- stances on | Visit of Dr. Cahill to the United States. | TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. Murorp, Mass., Oct. 10, 1859. the widely circulated paper a copy of a letter from the Dr. Cahill, of Dublin, if you shall deem it known the advent of so ‘i Rev. P. CUDDIE Batryroan Corraar, Raturannam, ar a attachment that I make no ap 2 ON your support when Is making iy fi cs before I shall leave here. I intend to make a e my countrymen; hy flourishing in- stitutions of the the poor Irish at home a w their relatives and friends on the otber side o Jantie, and to point out thore parts of the Union where labor is most rewarded,and where a settlement is rf ational or dome: ‘ing ny fi them, and con. 1 ty America be a me! countrymen wherever T ha veying the th for her prote wand p ar le prt ms on x ‘Ag ¢00n and fy D. W. CAHILL, noty, Milford, Mass, pparatus ted with artistic perfection. astronomy a Before Hon. Judge En ANTIOCH COLL E SCHOLARSHIP. Oct. 8 —Patmer, as Hey.— Toe plaioiilt sues upon a note given to the Antioch College for ascho'arship, The answer sets up ax a ¢ hat the note was given npon a representation that the Ze would be located in Western | New York, and that the directors had decided on such location | fendant believed to be teue, when it was in fact na: | | ee, ta, BI ge ever established in Western New was obtaimed in consequenee of such and that there has been afailure of con- for, in ths answer any statement of facts ence, Tt is not good, if intended ag oat the note was obtained by false representations, bes cause it does not charge that the representations were nude with the intent to deceive the defendant, nor any knowlodee a¢ thee falsity at the time the; Nor can it be held sufl- cient as setting up a consteuction, by way of damazes, for n breach of warranty as suggested by Gefendant's counsel. If ven for wi ork. Thatthe note false representations, wid .. 1 do not | ment, and iberty of transmitting for publication in your | | | | mud was even let go dircetly in the channel bet HERALD, WED DNESDAY, THE NEW JERSEY BOUNDARY DisPUTE. History of the Case—What Shall We Do with Our Mudt—The Title to Oyster Inland—Terms of the Treaty of 1834— The Communtpaw Oystermen—“Lively Times” Predicted, &e., d&c. ‘The immense drainage of the city of New York empty. | ing by means of sewers into the slips on the Kast and North rivers, necessarily carries with ita yast amount of mud and refuse matter, which settles in the bottom of the slips, gradually and constantly filling them up, 50 as to render them unapproachable by largo vessels. Hence it has been found necessary from time to time to dredge out the slips and remove the mud deposits to some place where they witt de no harm. Formerly these deposits were taken in boats or scows out into the deep water nearest at hand, and dumped often directly intothe channel, but the Harbor Commissioners, appointed by the State, have, within a short time, put a stop to this sort of proceeding, under the apprehension that it was tending to, the filiog up of the channels and the ultimate destruction of the harbor, They therefore directed that the mud dug out of the slips should be romoved into the lower part of the harbor, away from the channel of gavigation. The dumping ground first selected was at a@ point between Ellis’ Gibbet island and Bedloe’s island, anda large amount of mud was there deposited. The Now Jorsey fishermen and oystermen, whose fishing grounds and oyster beds extend all aloug ‘vetween this point and the Jersey shore, waxed excveding- ly wroth at this invasion of their rights, and appealed to the Executive of the State for protection, and Governor Newell, it is alleged, with more of zeal than of discretian, immediately fulminated his proclamation (printed in the Hxrarp of the 4th inst), positively forbidding any person to make such deposits on the New Jorsey side of the channel, and claiming that the jurisdietion of his State extends to the middle of thechannel. ‘This claim the Harbor Commissioners rept. diated and denied, but at the same time yielded to the representations made in behalf of the oysterazen so far as to change the dumping ground to Oyster island, a sort of reef or bar, naked only at low water, three quarters of puth of Bedloe’s island, and nearly two miles from Jersey shore, knownto the oystermen as “Sandy is] and.’’ There the mud from our docks and piers is still dump. ed at the rate of twenty or thirty scow Joads per day. The oystermen haye been partially conciliated by the change of ground, although still apprehensive that their oyster beds may be injured by the deposits but the State ities are not to be so casily mollified, and we are g) understand that they will soon commence a sit in the Courts to test the question of jurisdiction. THE TITLE OF NEW YORK. The tollowing state of facts is relied upon, we learn, to maintain the title of the city. In tne first place, by the Montgomery charter the city of New York was vested with the title to and jurisdiction over all the islands in the harbor, and until a comparatively recent date her juris- diction hus not been questioned, From time to time her title to most of these islands has been conveyed away, but her jurisdiction, it is claimed, was never lost. For example, Great Oyster, or Beloe’s island, wi ‘anted by Gov. Richard Nicolls to Capt. Robert Nedham in 1667 by letters patent, which are still among the archives ia the Comptroller's office in a fine state of preservation. Dy him it was assigned to Isaae Bedloe, from whom it de rived its present name, and subsequently came into pos- y whom 8, it was first leased, and then, in the same year, "d by deed to the city of New York. Subsequent- the island passed into possession of the federal govern- forms at present one of the fortifications ami session of Archibald Kennedy and Mary Smith, m i of our harbor. But the city appears never to have parted with her title to Oyster island, and the only question seems to be whether or not itis an island. Itappears from the old records al- ways to have been regarded as such. In the deed con- ving Bedloe’s islund to the city in 1758, Bedloe’s island is described as “being the largest of three small islands lying very near one another,” referring evidently to Oyster island, Ellis’ island and Great Oyster or Bedloe’s island. But there is a still further and better claim. In 1833 a joint commission was appointed by the States of New York and New Jersey to settle certain matters in dis- pute between the two States, This commission consisted of Messrs. Benjamin F. Butler, P. A. Jay and Horatio Seymour, on the part of New York, and Messrs. Theodore | Frelghuysen, James Parker and L. Q. C. Elmer, on be- half of New Jersey. The labors of the Commission re- sulted in a treaty which was ratified in 1834, and one arti- cle of which reads as follow Article 2. The State of New York shall retain its pepeent in risdiction of and over Bedloe's and Ellis’ islands, and shall retain exclusive jurisdiction of and over the other islands lying in ke above mentioned, and now under the jurisdiction of that § ‘The Harbor Commissioners, relying upon the soundness of the title of the State, have determined to disregard the proclamation of he Governor of New Jersey,and directed the contractors engaged in the work of dredging out the slips to go on dumping at Oyster island. These contract- ors are three in number—Little & Or: ings, and Mr. Jas. Hart. At present th dredging the slips between Charles and ‘Clarkson streets, North ri They empl flat bot boats or cows, each ft i to eighty cubic ‘yards of mud, and so contrived that upon arriving at the dumplnz ground, the bottom of the boat can be swung open, letting all the contents out into the water, igh a trap door. The boats when loaded are towed to the damping ground, about four miles, by steamboats, and this greatly increases the expense, Tue ging and removing the mud is about ard, and probably about 1 is towed away ERMBN THINK. the little village , two or three mil arters of the New termen busily and quietly at WHAT THE JERS One of our reporter of Cumm we oystertuen. "He foun work about their usniat avec and manifesting noex- citement or disposition to resort to extreme measures in support of their rights. Upon ente with some of them be w citly upon the dumping betwee would speedily sured that the: ate authori Beaioe’s an y e ruined their oyster beds, as the mud from the docks would wash over them, and being } strongly im ated with sulphur, A cause the oysters tos nd die, but the pr being further removed from the beds and out of the line of the currents, they hoped would do no harm. If, how- ever, it should be found to injure their beds the dumping would have to be stopped forthwith, or there would | be “lively times,” for the whole State of New Jersey would bé ready to buck them. Sowe of the oyster- men agzerted that the mud scows were often dumped | far away from the prescibed limits, and sometimes the eon Governor's and Bedioe’s islands. While the conversation was going on a steamboat having two scows in tow | passed just beyond Bedloe's island, and the scows were emptied of their contents at that point, which, our re- porter was assured, was at least a quarter of a mile from Oyster island, and in the deep water. Bat this, the oys- termen said, was of very little consequence, for the mud was of such a consistency that the winds ‘and currents would drive it all about the bay. ‘The Harbor Commig- sioners, on the contrary, state that the mud is almost as heavy as lead, and will ‘remain on the island if pladed there, because it is very little exposed to the action of currents. The Camels tn the U. 8. Service. The valuable animals imported for the public service in the West have grown in favor every day their eflleiency } has been tested. The following letters from Superintend- | ent Beale to the Secretary of War show the high estimate | placed upon them by those who have daily occasion to employ them:— Fort Trson, Cal., May 29, 1859. In the other letters to the Department I have neglected | of late to say anything on the subject of the camels. See- ing them, as we do, every day in camp performing with | patience the most toilsorie labors, they have ceased to be | novelties, and are now only admited for their usefulness. | They are employed constantly in the severest toil—pack- ing provisions, Water, working utensils, &., from one | camp to another. My admiration of them increases ever | day. From all [had read of them, I dreaded the difficul- ties which seemed to present themselves in breeding them. Books tell us that the young must be taught to | suck by dipping the finger in warm butter and putting it | in the month of the calf; that it raust be blanketef and | wet nursed through a long and delicate infancy. | _ Knowing that, if this were true, it: would be no use try- } | Ing to breed them in this country, where men have no time to devote to such purposes,T directed them to be | used as usvial,and on their dropping calves to desist from ; but not w assist nature by any warm batter It gives tine pleasure to state that the females, Within a short time of each other, and near the summit of | the Sierra Nevada, in a snow storm, dropped their calves, nd with more assistance than would have been ren- any cows: they are now as thrifty as itis ali the old being employed apon the possible to conceiv road. donbt they are as easily bred as tows and ast that has been my experience with them. ely trust the recommendations contained in your message for the importation of more of these nseful ani- mals will be favorably received and actod on by Con- gress. No one who hus once used them but would prefer them, for all such purposes as 1 have engaged them on, to three times the sare number of horses or mules. At a later date, writing frotu San Francisco Mountain, Mr. Beule rd — T have lately tried effectually the comparative value of mules and camels as pack animals. The experiment leaves the palm withthe camels. Both trains receiving the order start at the same time in the morning, the camels inya- riably arrive at camp—in a distance of twenty-five miles— an hour and sometimes an hour and twenty minutes ahead of the mule train, the mules carrying a burthen of two hundred pounds, the camels packed with four hundred, besides a rider, armed with his rifle, revolver and amma- nition, and bis bedding laid over the pack to siton. The young are great pets in camp, but very mischievous—pok- ing their noses into every bag, pot and pan about the: camp fires. Their great aim in life at present seems to be to ape the manners and habits of their sires—kneeling down and growling and complaining precisely as the old ones do whenever the train is packed. We have entirely discon- tinued the cumbersome oriental apparatus used as a sad- dle, and have in. {ts place one of light, useful and simplo construction. Since I last communicated with the ment pie ae tl no aon Cae the Indians, except a very sligl ack whic! made on us, killing one mule and taking off another. OCTOBER 12, ‘THE PERU-ECUADOREAN QUESTION. The Boundary Dispute Between the Re- publics of Ecuador and Peru. 20 THE BDITOR OF LAE HERALD, Tn tho New York TMerarn of the 27th of article was published by Mr. A. J. Palner, Keuador, relating to the question of the boundary be- tween that republic and the republic of Pera; aud al though an article launched forth witbout auy proof what ever cannot exercise great influence on public opin so delicato a matter, and one which demands so serious an examination, nevertheless, it seems propor to show some of the exrors in which ft abounds, in order that they might be known to the American public, whom it expressly intended it should stir up and excite t Peru. are many points iu the communigation of Mr. Yalmer with which we stall not trouble ourselves, al- though they are incorrect, because their examination would carry us beyond the only question interesting to our object; that is to say, the justice of Peru in demanding territories which belong to her, and which the govern: ment of Ecuador has pretended to cede to its foreign ere- ditors, in despite of the reiterated reclamations of Peru, Mr. Palmer says:— Peru founds her claim on an edict of the King of Spain in 1302, which gave the ecclesiastical juriadiction over these ter- nitortes to the Bi of Lima. The eminent bistorian, Prew cott, tells us that the King of Spain used to let his pen fal om the map of South America and divide It iato provinces {p that fashion, without the slightest understanding or knowledge of the country; but so imy ble waa it found to extend eventhe clerical juriadietion of this bishopric over such distant regionn, that the scheme waa never carried out. The King of Spain has long since ceased to reign in those districts, and many treaties have subsequently been concluded cancelling his preposterous territorial arrangements, It is erroneous to say that Peru founds her pretensions on an edict concerning the extension of the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Lima. The edict of 1802 politically sepa- ated from the viceroyalty of Santa Fe, and added to that of Lima, the general command of Mainas, with the towns of the government of Quijos, comprehending all the terri- tories washed by rivers unto the point at which they cease to be nay In the same edict the King ordained the erection of a new bishopric, composed of various conver- sions and curacies situated in these torritories, all with the view that that the political ‘and ecclesiastical divisions might exactly correspond. Here are the terms in which the royal edict, so disfigured by Mr. Palmer, expresses itsel ia have resolved; and I command the Vice Royalty to add to its jurisdiction the government and general com- mand of Mainas, with the towns of the government of Quijos, excepting that of Papallacta, and that that general command should be extended not only by the river Maranon below, unto the frontiers of the Portuguese colo- nies, but also by all the other rivers which enter the same Maranon by its northern and southern margin—as are Marona, Guallaga, Paztaza, Ucayali, Napo, Yavari, Putu- mayo, Yapuva, and othors not so considerable, unto the poiut in which these rivers, in conse- quence of their rapids and torrents, are not payigable, it beidig understood that there remain attached sate general command the towns of Lamas and ‘bamba, so as to equalize as far as possible the eccle- siastical and military jurisdiction of those territories, I re also resolved to erect a bishopric in the said mis- suffragan sees of this archbishopric, (Lima,) the new bishopric to be composed of ali the conversions which wa the missionaries of Ocopa serve at present, by the rivers Guallaga, Ucayali, and by the moun- tain passes which serve’ as entrances to them and are in the jurisdiction of this archbishopri from the curacies of Lamas, Moyobamba and Santiago; trcm the mountains belonging to the bishopric of Trujillo; from all the missions of Mainas; from the curacies of the province of Quijos, excepting that of Papallacta; fromthe hamlet of Camuelos, on the river Bobonaza, served by Dominican priests; from the missions of Mercen friars, on the inferior sfde of the river Putumayo, all belonging to the bishopric of Quito, and from the missions situated on the superior part of the same river Putumayo, and on the Yupara, called Lucumbios, which were under the charge of the Franciscan priests of Popayan. The bishop may fix his ordinary residence in the town of Xeveros, as the centre of the principal mis- sions, the last mentioned ones of Mainas being almost at an equal distance from it, which is extended by the river Maranon below, like the last, which are waters above the rivers Guallaga and Ucayali, which are towards the south, having on the same town towards the north those of the rivers Pastaza and Napo, pang 9 only those of the Putu- ‘and Yapura farther from the view.”” Neither is it correct that the King of Spain used his pen to divide provinces without any knowledge of the country, and less even that it was found impossible to pat the said royal decree into opera- tion. On the contrary, the separation of the regions of Mainas from the command of Quito, and its addi- tion to the viceroyalty of Peru, have been considered just and proper by the only authority which could have ‘been considered adverse to such an arrangement—that is, by the viceroy of Santa Fe de Bogota, who, giving an ac- count of the acts of his government, in December, 1803, said, referring to this subject:— Another novelty in point of government has just been made, detaching from the jurisdiction of this viceroyalty the government of Mainas, ‘and attaching it to that of Peru; a determination which, for my part, Ihave punctually’fulfilied, without there having occured to me anything to represent on the sub- ject; because, in fact, the distance of as, not only in regard to this tar len (Bogota), the residence of the Vice- roy, but from the Presidency of Quito, to which general command that government was subordinate, made it seurcely accessible to enactments, and its dependence was real burden to this treasury, by the commission which is annexed of the division of boundaries with Portugal towards the Ma- ranon.’” It is seen by these words that the new organ- ization given to those territories was not lightly, but well founded: that no difficulties-were ever encountered, and less impossibility in its execution, and that consequently that measure was fully carried into effect. In order that the fact might be better established, in the year 1805 the King issued a decree giving effect to the buil for the erection of the Bishopric of Mainas, and confirming all that he had said in the decree of 1803. In proof of the execution, the bishopric erected and confirm: ed by the said royal decrees now exists,and consequently, as well in the political as in the religious part, they have been strictly complied with. Mr. Palmer was mistaken in calling the extension of the jurisdiction of Lima what was really the creation “of a new Bishopric, in. saying that a division was eclesiastical which Was political (in the first place) and then ecclesi 1, and in believing that a measnre was ill-conceived and unrealizable which the best informed persons interested in the matter have, on the contrary, found to be just and Hable to no objection whatever. After the independence there were not many treaties, nor any treaty at all, celebrated to anuul the dispositions mnade by the royal decrees; und the territorial arrange f the monarchy, which Mr. Palmer calls preposte: 0 far from ever havin, tilled in “1 to tent of the said royal d ve been, on the jably sustained that the wi possiditis all tho agreements has ever been col concerning brated betw Y stipulations relative to had for their object the acceleration of the de- ation, which Peru hag tly solicite 1, sending one legation afte ith the same object, although without an ‘The only extraordinary compromises adopted by Peru and Feuador, while they defined their limits, and which Mr. Palmer will see if he he follow eaty of Gi “Both parties pective territories the «\ before the independence, as they may think proper to recognise as the lin game boundaries wh Each of the contracting » nor transfer, under any ut any part of its terri- form, to another State or gover tories.’? Mr. Palmer goes on to say ‘he claim of land on the part of Peru appears a mi text for the purpose of matin; is wn por and sister republic. ‘Thy seem to be animated by a lust re war upon her peacefal nevgh- “raving President and generals . of rapine and conquest, like the first adventurous and unscrupulous cavaliers, the Pizarros, the Almogros and the Alvarados. ‘The real causes are said to be the secret instigation and lavish promises of the Keuadorian ex, President Flores, who has been ignominiously expelled as a. traitor, and also the allurement of a rich booty in the wealthy Guayaqn)), which now for upwards of a year has been lockaded by a Peruvian squadron of war steamers, ning to bombard and burn it unless the fronuer dictated by Peru aud xome other humiliating conditions are acceded. to, Itis a calumny to say that Pera socks pretoxts to de. clare war against Ecuador, a calumny overthrown by the series of acts which have taken place since the government of Ecuador commenced its attempts to cede unsurveyed territories in part payment of its debts, a series of acts which are not a mystery, nor could they possibly have bee» -nknown to Mr. Palmer, because every well-known doc..inent shows it, and from those from which it is de- dueed that Pern bas never desired war with Eoua- dor, but only and exclusively that justice should be dono her, and that she should be treated with proper dignity. That series of acts, as they have occurred, are as fol- Jows:— On the 24th of September, 1862, the Congress of Feua dor authorized the Exectitive by a law to colebrate treaties with Mr. Elias Mocata, commissioned by the holders of Anglo-Ecuadorian bonds, in the sense of giving in pay- Ment uncnitivated or good national lands of the republic. ‘The Charge d’Affairs of New Granada in Ecuador protested against that law because, according to his view, the mat- ter of the agreement would have to fall back upon Jands situated in Napo, from which eomplications would result with New Granada, whose boundaries on this sido are even not clearly defined. A year afterwards, on the 26th of November, 1853, the Congress of Houador passed a law declaring the navigation of the Amazon and its tributaries free; and in the same view, probably, a diplomatic agent was sent to the United States. Peru protested Ge such a law, through her Minister in Eovador, Don Mariano Saas, who showed that the territories washed by the Amazon and its tributaries, in as far as any were pavigable, did not belong to Beuador, and in effect the royal decree of the of day, 1902, which added all the territories situated on different rivers, tributaries of the Amazon, unto the cl that the’ said rivers became navigable, unto the ‘ieeroyalty of Peru. The ernment of Kcuador ro- plied to this protest on the of February, 1854, that Suflicient inatructions had been communicated to the Minister Plenipotentiary of Ecuador in Peru, in order that the question referred to should be delineated and ex- plained in Lima. But the Minister of Ecuador in Lima took no step in this regard, leaving the protest in all its force and value. The government of Kouador, notwithstanding, per- severed in its intention, and’ on the 6th of Ne vember, 1854, celebrated a treaty with the Colombian bondholders in London on the manner and formof paying the debt of Ecuador, stipulating that the bonds accrutn; from back interest should be mor with uncultivated lands belonging to the republic, the ‘estimate of which should be catty 4 @ special agreement; and on the 2ist of September, 1867, the government of Ecuador and the representative of the the Colombian bondholders in Lon- don celebrated an agreement by which Ecuador ceded 1859.—-TRIPLE SHEET, the lands hereafter alluded to as mortgage for the bonds already mentioned:— 100,000 square feet between the rivers Metaje and Latol 100,000 square fect on the rivers Sulina, Atacamas and Sua, beginning from the junction, oommon’ to the three, at three dollars 1,000,000 sqy et on the river Zamora, heginning from (he pot nearest to the town of Malaguin, at four reais per (ool. 1,000,000 square feet in the hamlet of Canelos, on the Bobonuza, beginning trom the confluence with the Puzta- za towarils tho west, at four reals, 410,200 square feet between the river Canar, which de- sconds from Jesus Maria towards the north, and the road of the town of Pucara for Babao, at three dollars ‘Whey stipulated besides in the agreement some condi- tions ‘to which the emigrants who were to occupy the lands should be subjected, but the government de- cloring “that it could ‘not come to an under- standing for the delivery of the lauds adju- dicated except with the commission of bondholders established in London, or their representative, but never separately with the bondholders, nor with the colonists who muy arrive to occupy the said lands, tho distribution of which shall correspond to the commission which has been negotiated, and represents all the parties interestod. ‘This contract was not published, and thus it is that the resident Minister of Peru in Eeuador, Don Juan C. Cavero, who had been recognized in that character on the 13th of Septembor of the same year, (1867), kuew nothing of these arrangements, except by private information wi he received, until he was satistied that admeasurements of the lauds had been taken by engincers, and that repre- sentative bonds bad been issued in the olllces of the State. He then addressed to the government of Ecuador a pro- test, dated the 11th of November, reiterating that of his redecessor, Senor Sauz, and copying the royal decree of if , in the hope that the arrangements alluded to would not be carried out, inasmuch as they would be injurious to Peru. The Minister of Foreign Relations of Ecuador re- plied that the protest, nate the territories which it was believed were the proper- ty of Peru; thatthe royal decree of 1802, issued by the infor- mal act of Don Francisco Requena, Governor of Mainas, did not receive the approyal of the Viceroy of New Granada. and that the President of Quito appealed against the royal order, in virtue of the power conferred by the twenty- fourth title and first book of the second Recopilacton de Indias, which permitted an appeal from royal orders, which might produce irreparable injury. ‘The Minister of Pern insisted on his protest, inasmuch us the lands were designated in the royal decree of 1802, confirmed by ano- ther of the 7th of October, 1805, and that they have not been detained in their execution by any kind of protests or reclamations, nor could they be delayed by the nature of these royal decrees, it being so certain that they were carricd into effect that from that period, both politically and ecclesiastically, the territories of Magnas haye been dependencies of Peru; and that lastiy it was suflicient that these lands were questionable, inorder that Eeuador might abstain from disposing of them, more especially when the articles of the treaty of 1829 and the continental one of 1856 prohibited it. ‘The goverument of New Granada, on its part, which had also received information of the contracts celebrated by Ecuador in regard to nndefined lands, addressed a note to the government of Ecuador on the 3oth of December of the same year, 1857, declaring that the acts relating to the concession of undefined lands, and to the freedom of navigating the Amazon and its tributaries granted by Ecuador, and whatever besides might in like manner and tendency be sanctioned, inasmuch as it would be detri- mental tothe interesis of the republic of New Granada, were actually null and void, and would be for the future taretogalsod and rejected by the Granadian administra- tion, The government of Ecuador replied that lands which were its indisputable property had been assigned in payment to its creditors, as the Colombian Congress had disposed in 1826; buteven in the hypothesis that they belonged to New Granada, that republic could suffer no injury, because it could recover what belonged to it, and ‘he: Ecuador would give to its creditors other lands equivalent | to that which was withdrawn by virtue of the law of evic- tion, which forms an essential condition of alienations of is kind. He added that, according to a certain map the territory which might be considered disputable, could not belong to New Granada, but to Ecuador. On March 12, 1858, Sr. Canero demanded that copies of the arrange». ment made between the governments of Ecuador and its creditors should be given to him, a demand which was eluded like former ones. The government of Peru being then convinced that purely amicable efforts were useless in negotiations with the government of Ecuador, gave orders to its Minister in Quito to retire from his post, addressing « formal protest of its intention to resort to all the means conceded by the rights of nations in defence of its property, and in main- tenance of the respect which ought to have been recipro- cally manifested in their reclamations, as loug as the go vernment of Ecuador would not do complete justice to Peru, giving effect to the obligation contracted for in the treaty of 1829 to regulate the boundaries between the two re- ublics, Which had been deferred for so long a period. e government of Ecuador announced that it would send an agent fully authorized to celebrate the treaty of hmi- tation and to clear away all existing difficulties—an agent who had been in Lima without arranging any- thing or stipulating any change in the dispositions adopted against the rights of Peru, leaving everything in its actual state—that is to say, having interrupted the good relations of the two countries. Peru docs not wish, nor has she promoted war, but she has not been able to leave herself to be unworthily treated, and to be despoiled of the most sacred right of a nation—that of its territory. It is Ecuador which has sought for the war and still seeks it, because she has occasioned and has not removed the cause of war. After this slight resumé of the facts which have oc- curred, it will be seen how calumnious it would be to at- tribute to Peru desires for war with Ecuador; but besides being calumnious, it would be ridiculous to Suppose that the President and generals of Peru, excited by the thirst for gold and adventure, have in view, as an event of the war, the sacking of the city of Guayaquil. This could only be conceived by those who are profoundly igno- rant of the state, not only of Pern and Ecuador, but even of the epoch mn which we live. On the other hand, it is an absurdity to believe that the government of Peru would promote a war, the prepara- tion for which alone would cost millions, 80 as to gain the Promises of Fiores, a banished general, and the booty of Guayaquil. Mr. Palmer expresses that, as it is said, these are the causes of the war; but Mr. Palmer ought ‘not to admit sayings which ai urd and insulting to a nation, a pane ag on to say:— fe it is er object to close the Amazon against tl trade of the worlds at the ingtigation “of Benall and to Imit it to Brazilian and Peruvian vessels. Feua- dor, as a fiuvial State. by comity and well established oe of international law, has an equal right with Peru, razil and the other riverine States to participate in the un- interrupted navigation of the Amazon from its mouth to such ports and rivers witzin her own territory bordering thereon she may gee fit. If, therefore, Peru, and still more Brazil, can gain their object of depriving ‘Ecuador of those lands, they can sea) the amazon, and they mean to do ft. It is of the highest importance to the world at large. and more especially to the United States, that the Amazon shouid be considered as one long port, and that the navigation thereof should not be restricted to Pernvisn or Brazilian vessels. | In,this passage Mr. Palmer takes another tone. He does { Not now say that the pretensions of Peru appear to be so and so; neither is it referred to ‘sayings: but he | Peremptorily affirms it to be the object of Peru to close | the Amazon to the commerce of the world. Mr. Patmer | seeks to excite antipathies in the American mind against | Peru, attributing to its policy of exclusion the cause of present differences. But this is to change the question, and by the same moans itis easily answered. The ques” tion is, whether or not Ecuador can dispose of those terri- tories, or whether they belong to Peri—and not of the use | which one or the other of these two States have to make ofthem. Jf it be sufficient to decide the question of pro- perty by alleging that the opposite party is about to make bad usé of it, nobody would be sure of his own, be- ; Cause there would not be wanting many persons who would allege, so as to despoil, the ev made of pro- perty—a doctrine contrafictory to the right of property, | because it makes possession to depend on the good or evil | use of it. Let Mr. Palmer leave Kcuador and Peru to as- sert their right of property before the impartial tribunal | of public opinion, and not excite ill feelings in the minds | of the American public so as to render one of the litigants | calor by attributing to itimproper views in the use of erritory. On the other hand, Mr. Palmer has no foundation for qualifying the conduct ot Peru in the navigation of her ri ap act of exclusivism; there is no act which but on the contrary. the government hasstimu- nterprise of navigation and colonization in the interior of the country by every means in its power, pro- tecting immigrants under all circumstances, without dis- tinction of nationalities. But as probably the false judg- ment which Mr. Palmer has formed upon this subject is to be attributed to the treaty which exists between Peru and Brazil for the navigation of the Amazon, it is sufficient toreply, that both Stites have reciprocally conceded to each other equal rights, without injury to anybody. Peru has granted to Brazil the navigation of the higher part of the Amazon, and Brazil bas accorded to Peru that of the lower portion. In this there is no one to be blamed. It is certain that Brazil has, without any exception, keeured to Pern equal rights, certainly because no one could give her equal componsation, Bat this cau never De a charge against a nation, that it receives special favors in a case in which there is only @ co-proprietorship, and not an individual right of pro- perty. But. even supposing that Peru were the sole possessor of the Amazon, and that she should adopt the policy of excluding the other nations from the wavigation of the river, no one could justly protest against it, nor insist upon the powerful nations interfering, because territorial cominion is the first condition of the independence and liberty of nations, and because it its territory could be alienated and used without its consent that nation could not presorye its own proper rai as a dependent on one or another of the nations whic dominated in its own territory, The charge of exclusivism, which Mr. Palmer bas made against Peru, is, therefore, inopportune, because it is be. yond the question ; it is incorrect, because it is not founded upon any fact; and it is unjust, because although Peru might adopt it, she would not thus do injury to any na- ion, It is not possible to enter {ntoa detailed consideration of the rest of Mr. Palmer's article, because it does not con- 80 us to be of effect, ought to desig- | cern the present I peda Mr. Palmer knows the rich roductions of the hamlet of Canclos, which will be bene- cial to ail who wish to settle in the Acmazonien regions: and now that the invitation of Ecuador to emigrants pre- tends to despoil Peru of its own property, we give on be. half of Peru an equal invitation to industrious immigrants, who will be placed under the shield of legitimate pro: Prietorsbip, with all the securities which Peru can con- cede, and which are, as far as we know, superior to those which gny other nation have ever offered to their new populations. A Fvermvs reom Justice Vouunrart.y Rr- TURNS. —On Friday Jast a man named George H. Drake ‘was committed to the Allegany county jail, on the charge of murder. Sy aac ir years ago. It appears that in 1825 he was indi here on the charge of killin B. M, Athey; that he broke jail and escaped, and although the then Governor BC Kent) and Council offered a reward of $300 for his arrest, his whereabouts for thirty- four yeurs remained unknown. ming, perhaps, that a lapwe of thirty-four years had obliterated all memory of the event, he yéntured back to the city a few days ago, but his presence awakened the recollection of hiscrime. But three of the twenty-three who composed the grand jury by whom he was indicted are now living. Not one of the lawyers then practicing at the Alloy ny bar now survive. All the then officers of the court have been summoned to their final reckoning. But one of the coroner's jury who bold an inquest over the body of the Jourdered tan is DOW alive.—Cumberland . The Hon. D. 8. Dickinson, of New Yor om the DoBRehy. Letter. {From the Richmond Enquirer,} Below will be found a correspondence which will tract po little attention. The Donnelly letter fraud con! back to plague its perpetrators. Mr. Dickinson bit admits the reception of a copy of the purloined lot ‘The fact of the copying of the letter is thus establisl Dey ond coubt; but who the guilty man is Mr. Dicku fails to intorm the public, Mr, Dickiugon should not withhold the name of him enclosed the copy. He can either restore Eugene Casi to bis former position among gentlemen, whatever ti may have been, or confirm him as Confidence Cassidy the remainder of his da: Will Dir. Dickinson host: to do justice in the premises To Tue Evrrons ov Tux ENquinen:— Wasmincron, Oct. 5, 186 enclosed correspondence Oblige mo by giving the place i the columas of ue Hon. Danii 8, Dickson: Dear Sim—A friend, writing to me recently from mond y Nee yt it asa common Bes hy that y« are an enomy wernor ing him for hit Donnelly iter eee that there must be an error tn the matte s0 well I was satisfled you" would mot emdcnas toe wick norable conduct of those who have made Governor Wis private correspondence a subject of public comment, i hoticing, in any way whatever, what Was hot a legititar question for public consideration. If am right in my mate of your character—as I think Iam—do mo the fay of saying 80, a8 I deem it not only due to you, but also Governor ’s Southern friends, that they, at i should understand you barbor no unfriendly feoli towards him. Iam ofthe opinion the rumor in qu originated in mere unauthorized newspaper reports. the same time, if you have no objection, let me have yo 8 upon cither the necessity, constitutionality propriety of Congress passing such law or laws may be necessary to secure the rights of propert, laves in the Territories of the United States, as cont distinguished from that power claimed by the Legislati | branch of the general government by certain, poli parties, giving it absolute control over the institution slavery, whether in the States or Territories, THOMAS FITNAM. Bixanamton, Oct. 1, 1859. My pear Sir—I have just returned from Western Ne York, where I have been to visit an elder brother deliver an agricultural address, and on my return I yours of the 2th ult. Ithank you for thus affording an opportunity of branding as an idle and mischieve falsehood, if not, indeed, & malicious one, that I had “ nounced Governor Wi My personal acquaint with the Governor has been slight but veer pe sant, and bis public course has inspired me wit respect for his manly frankness and fearless intrep'd ‘The publication of the Donnelly letter [ regarded as an though J attached much less consequence to it no given itgenerally: I saw nothingin it butw a frank and impetuous man might, in the haste and co dence of private correspondence, dash off to a suppos . friend. I think the whole matter of the letter has vastly overrated. A copy was sent me, but I treated as confidential, and only exhibited it to’a particular discreet friend. It excited no feelings in me when I read it, and ona full review Ihave never been able give it the great consequence which others seem to ha done. Isaw the shameless fabrications of my condt on reading it published far and wide; but I regarded beneath my notice. You must not, my dear sir, gi heed to the thousand idle and malicious rumors, public and private, which will be connected with my name the next six months. If the expression were . not irrove: rept I should gay they will be so numerous and foul the day of judgment will not be able to pass upon them. Upon my views of the question to which you call my at} tention [can only point yon to my public course in Senate and elsewhere, where I think it will be seen I di not disregard the rights of the States, nor the rights of the people, nor of property, &c. D. S$. DICKINSO? Tuomas Frrvam. ‘The New Congress. THE SPEAKER, CLERK AND PRINTER—A SOUTHE! OFPosiTION BID FOR A COALITION WITH 1 REPUBLICAN PARTY, Rh ETG, {From the Richmond Whig.] ORGANIZATION OF THE NEXT HOURE. We réjoice to observe the unanimity which prev: ‘among the Southern opposition press in. favor 6f & Yoion! of the opposition in the organization of the next Housé Representatives. So far as we have seen there is not * dissenting voice to the proposition in the ranks of t} purty at the South. All perceive the necessity of electi to the Speakership a man who will not pack the comm tees, with the view to a suppression of investigation in the enormous frauds and abuses which have characteris the history of the present administration; and, con: juently, the entire Southern opposition party cordis favor the idea af a union among the opposition memb of Congress—North and South—for the purpose of elec’ suitable persons to the various offices of the House, especially ‘to the important and responsible \ of Speaker. In the judgment of the Sout opposition no democrat, whether from the North or South, should, under any circumstances, be permit occupy the position of Speaker of the next House of presentatives. In their opinion none but a membe one or the other wing of the opposition should be sele to fill that office at the present time. And thus think there can occur nothin; justify or excuse a single op) tion member of Congress from the South in giving his 8 Port to a democrat for Speaker, or in withholding his su, port from any opposition member who may be designated| by the united opposition as their candidate for the post. As a Southern man, sincerely and devotedly attache! to Southern institutions and Southern rights, and yet un- shaken in our ardent devotion to the union of the States, we affirm now, as we have affirmed before, that not even be Spe tortures could force us into the support of, either a Northern or a Southern democrat for the Speak- ership of the next House of Representatives. We affirm now, as we have aflirmed before, that a8 a Patriot and as an honest man, who cannot and will not connive at the; corruption which has been practised under the! present ek an and detestable administration, we should} vote with all boldness and with all cordiality for the ver! Dlackest of the black republicans for Speaker in pref rence to any democrat whatever. On this ground take our stand, and on this ground we shall continue stand, in spite of the wailings and howlings of all the mocratic demagogues on earth or in the regions of tb father, his sable majesty of the realms of darkness. A intimations or insinuations from them to the effect that, thus advocating the election of an opposition Speak: whether in the person of a Southern whig or a Northe republican, we are manifesting disloyalty to the So * and sympathizing with the objects of its enemies, sha)] treat with the unutterable contempt which ¢ slanders and falsehoods deserve. Ithas been with 8c ern democratic editors and politicians the settled hi. of their lives to characterize Southern whigs as abol: Honists in disguise, simply because they refuse to coun tenance or tolerate the manifold rascalities and villanjes of the democratic party. We are accustomed to these calumnious accusations, and cannot, at this time of day, be either intimidated or disconcerted |b: them. Those negrojess democratic demagogues very well know that, in insinvating a charge of infldelity to the South against Southern whigs, they are only giving utterance to a deliberate and wilfal falsehood, designed to impose upon the too easy credulity of the honest, but ignorant ard uninformed voters in the Southern’ States. It is their custom, we repeat—and especially on the eve of an elec- tion—to play upon the sensitiveness of Southern men im regard to the institution of slavery, for the sole purpose of promoting the vile and despicable ends of party, and thereby continuing themselves in the possession and en- Joymont of the public plunder. But the masses of the Southern people understand, at last, the object of their noisy and clamorous professions of ‘devotion to Southern rights, and of their false and silly accusations against the Southern opposition. ‘They see only love of the spoils at the bottom of all their pretensions and all their move Ments, and hence their cuckoo cry of abolition agains’ their bettors has lost its power to benefit themselves “ deceive others, and is treated by all men at the Soute who are not irreclaimable fools, as the idle wind whic they regard not. In conclusion, therefore, we inyoke every Southern Position member of Congress to hesitate not a fuoninn about co operating with the Northern opposition in the or ganization of the next House. It is their solemn publi duty to unite with them in this simple and urgent matte of business, in view of the overwhelming importance of ferreting out and exposing the frauds and corruptions which prevail in every department ‘of the vernment. We repeat, that no opposition member of either section will stand excused to his constituents and to the country who fails to do anything in his power to prevent the elec- tion of a democratic Speaker, who would necessarily so constitute the committee as_to suppress the investigation into the abuses of which his own party and hs own ad ministration have been notoriously guilty. Let, then every opposition member from the South march boldly up to the discharge of his duty, regardless of personal cot sequence ' The Santa Fe Mail Attacked by Indians THE CONDUCTOR AND HIS BROTHER MURDERED, Advices have been received at the Post Office Depart ment from Independence (Mo.) stating that the Santa Fé mail, which left Independence oa the 19th uit ad been attacked by a party et iowa Indians on the 24th, and that tho codducar. 3 Smith, wnd bietovtiee had been murdered. The disasirous intelligence was conveyed to the fe te alan or eens y a passenger named Cole, who, though badly wounded, ad Managed to make his escape. é Fears were also entertained that ¢/ at Independence on tho 4th he incoming m il due instant, and » been heard of on the 6th, had been’ also Daten the Indians. It is believed that Mr. Otero, delegate to oe ae ares and his wife, Judge Watts an: his wife an and Judge Port re y tha ily ; Be ler were passongers by te anxiety and indignation which the news of i rage will occasion will iy Fomewhat allayed by te eee intelligence that Colonel Sumner, commanding the de partment of the West, as soon ax he heard of the fatal oo currence, despatched a company of dragoons to Pawne Fort to protect the majl and punish the offending Indians.| Hopes are entertained that this Prompt and energetic ac: tion on the part of Colonel Sumner will result in the cay ture of the murderers of Smith and his brother, and th rescue of the passengers by the overdue mail. ’It-is pr bable that it will be found necessary to station a ray troops at Pawnee Fork to escort the mail thence to Spring, and thus obviate the recurrence of such a calat ag that which it is our painful duty to annonce. Naval Intelligence. The following is a list of officers of the United Sta steam stoop Wyoming, now at Philadelphia:— Commander—John K. Witehell, Lieutonante—Franc K. Murray, Karl English, John R. Hamilton. Master— Thomas K. Porter. Surgeon—George Mart, Purser—W Brenton Midshipmen—Samuel W. Averett, Sam’ H. Hackett, Beatty P. Smith. Gunner—Adrian O. Star ret. Carpenter—Robert A. Williams. Commander Clerk. Hillott Jacobs. Purser's Clerk J. Laver lauvel Engineer—John P. Whipple; sistant Engineer, Philip G. ; natant Fog Cronin; Third Assistant, i Third Assistant, Thomas M. Dukehart, third Axaiptant George D. Lining. Passengers—David M. Cohen, Lied tenant United States Marines, and bearer of depatchos; ward A. Barnet, Lieutenant United States Navy, to rejot} the United States ship John Admmas, as Executive officer