The New York Herald Newspaper, June 6, 1868, Page 5

Would have i . tp company with the Maumee, Lieu, repented sonetation, Havieae: THE PLAINS CHENA. Foreign Treaties Revision. eee ‘The Burlingame Mission and United States Representation in Pekin. @bal Mining, the Telegraph, Ter- ritorial Exploration and Shipbuilding. The Young Emperor Taking a Wife and One ‘ Hundred and Twenty Candidates, American Commerce and Genewal Trade. By mai} from China we have the following special correspondence, presenting a complete and very im- portant report of the situation—political, imperial, industria! and commercia!—existing in the ancient empire io the 19th of April:— ‘The Foreign Treaties Revision—British Policy @f Delay—The Burlingame Mission—War Reports from the Nerth-The New Coal Miuce—Imperial Matrimony—A Wife tor ; the Emperor—American Naval Mission to @orea—French Clerical Missionaries—A Gov- orament Arsenal—Telegraph Exteusion— ‘Brade and Finance, Hon@ Kone, April 19, 1868, ‘The chief political event of the last. six weeks, in- teresting alike to citizens of the States and subjects ef European nationalities, has been the announce- ment thatthe British Minister has consented to put off the revision of the British treaty with Ching until 1870. This, it is satd, has been brought about by the influence of Mr. Robert Hart, a clever and not par- teularly serupulous Irishman, who now occupies ostensibly the important post of Inspector General -of Maritime Customs, and yet more really that of chief adviser regarding foreign matters to the Re- gent. The Chinese are, it is said, determined to an- nul, 4f possible, those clauses in the various treaties which permit the right of residence and travel in the interior. Mr. Hart, being consulted as to how this retrograde step was to be accomplished, advisea— Brvtiy, that atrong pressure should be put upon the British Minister to delay the revision of his treaty as Jong as possible, knowing that the other representa- tivew and the Chargé d’A(faires for the United States Woutd not be likely to takeaetion independent of the British Minister. ‘The second move of the programme was the inaug- uration of the Burlingame Embassy. There is but litte need to repeat my former remarks upon the juisgion, Long ere this reaches you the newly-ape pointed envoy and suite (foreign and Chinese) will ‘ave been among you. “There is, however, one point to which the attention of readers, both in the United States and Europe, may profitably be drawn. Pre- suming that the rumors as to Mr. Burlingame’s objects be true, it seems to have been forgotten that the much talked of “revision” of the treaties does not extend to any but the commercial articles. To tui, therefore, of abrogating any privilege already conceded, ig nonsense, and it is to be hoped that strenuous opposition will be made, both in the United States and Europe, to any movement of a clearly retrograde nature. I have some difficulty in believing that Mr. Burlingame will lend himself to a Proposition so obviously preposterous. ‘The Secretary, John McL. Brown, is a very able man, and was the best colloquia! Chinese scholar in the British service, and Ido not doubt that much wili depend upon him as to'the results of the mission. The announcement that Mr. J. Ross Browne had been appointed American Minister to Pekin caused some litticastonishment out here. Some of the papers: talk of his literary talents in a way which would make us think we had drawn a prize in the way of repregentatives. Knowing nothing of him beyond ‘the gossip of the very small American circle here, 1 cannot offer any very original remarks. The pre- vailing opinion seents to be that Williams, the present ‘Chargé d’Affaires, should have got the appointment, ‘But, then, he is only a profound Chinese scholar and av able man, but is useless as a poiltical partisan; 80 Of course he is passed over. Taiking of him, his brother H. 0, Williams, Commissioner of Customs at Swatow, has just returned to Oalifornia, having re- Suged to avail himself of the liberal offer of the, In- spector General to commence the study of Chinese at some forty-five years of age. Ramors are as usual rife of “rebels,” “Nienfei,”” ac., in the neighborhood of Pekin and Tientsin, but they are so unreliable that I scarcely like to add to their ‘circulation by recording then as facts. The Chinee up there are as usual in a state of pitiable fright, bu eo yd laugh at the idea of there being any danger. il there is,undoubtedly some founda- tuon for the rumors, the utter stagnation of trade at ‘Tientsin betng proof itive that somethirg is amias. Native militia have been enrolled and the pi put in a state of defence at that port, while day after day comes some fresh rumors oft #mperial losses and rebel victories. It 1s, in fact, almost an impossibility to arrive at the true state of affairs. [t must not, however, be imagined that the rebels in China bear any re- semblance to those engaged in rebeTlion ¢lsewhere. ‘These movements how rather resemble the “bread Tits” of Hugland than the Taeping rebellion, whien | was really an organized attack upon the government of the country, An overflow of the Yellow river, a bad barvest,a long drought or some such occur- rence is the usual cause. The starving peasants, driven to desperation, loot the houses and shops of their more fortunate townsmen to get bread; and 60 @ riot commences, which speedily swells inio a petty rebellion. This will explain the constant recurrence of “rebel intelligence” from China sources, and may serve to check the absurd importance atiached 1o buch items of news by American and English journalists, At the present moment three hordes of these so-called rebels are in movement—the Tae- pings from Honan, the Nienfei from Shansung and ‘the Mohanimedans from Shensi, Among these latter alone ie there any approach to political feeling ‘a, ainst the Mantchou government. ‘rhe United States steamer Shenandoah has gone to Gorea to inquire into the fate of American citizens waid to hi been roasted alive in the General Sher- man, Which vessel was burned by Corcans some two years “Rather late action,” as the China Mail remarks. But “better late than never,” is an old saying. It is, however, @ matter of real regret that so long a time has been suffered to elapse before pui- ting our naval force in action in the matter. By the way native piracy near Sbanghae is begi n- ning to attract a deal of attention, and as Ame- rican are likely to suffer materialiy if it con- tinues, itis tobe hoped that energetic measures wiil be immediately taken. The British gunboats are doing ail in their power and ought to be fairly backed by the Stars and Stripes. When shall we see some handy little vessels upon the British mode! sent out here? I hear that the Viceroy has consented to allow of Ohinese availing themselves of foreign help in working the coal mines of the province of Chikiang, ‘This, though much sneered at by Lo Engliah papers it ret here, ig.a greater concession than it appears at sight. It means that foreign aid, foreign mechanical and foreign science wiil welcomed, ances: if the chance be availed of there is little doubt that the first step will have been made towards developing by civilized aids the enormous resoufces of the ao On the March & gtand ceremony took piace at the detalis of which cannot fail to interest your lady readers. The young Emperor, fourteen Jears of age, having been deemed to have arrived at an when a wife ia indiapensavie, was duly fur- ished ‘With that addition to his honsehold. ere were one hundred and twenty Chinese young ladies as competitors for the honor, the final decision being Jeft to the Dowager Bmpress. Hil telleth not how the rival claims are decided, but a ‘ coumpeti- live examination” for en Empresship is at least a queer idea, The boy Emperor is aid, however, to have & “ veto" on the ultimate aelection, a privilege which he has, nope, exercised wisely. en all the beaten trac! Writers become too well worn b— 4 ‘Dhay turn to China for the incidents of a *‘sen- any be true they will find enough and in the annals of the tae | aiynaaty. It seems strange to find the romance tie“ Arablan Nights’ Entertainmenta” still linger- ing abont the court of a ittg monarch in the ‘Dineteenth century, even though that monarch be ime Lo! of pigtailed China, ‘The French seem to possess a most extraordinary RI of enforcing their demands upon the Chinese. hile the British and Americans are diplomatizing Ane Freneh are quietiy intimating th: it their de- anand be not complied with, there will be a resort to Jorce. Some time since the French missionaries at Bhanghae made demands for the cession of certain Bands which had formerly been in their ton. Bad they been anything tue Frenchmen & matter ‘NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1968.—TRIPLE The Chinese gen are Tien! a8 well as at Foochow, the Chinese ment fully ii with of being ly impressed the necessity after the forei following extract gives all the peteaee to ve at the Halauangaze, Tlentalne and ne nat Taylor, the e ines ges has made Banton ‘workmen ate at prosout employed Jance beads after the Hi machinery course of erection being nearly completed. His Ex- cellency Chung-H’ou frequent visits to works and the Chinese take great interest in the ma- chinery, Pekin coals how will be used for foundry purposes at this arsenal. It ts anticipated that this establishment will be the means of influenc' the Chinese in Pekin to a greater regard for the value of foreign machinery, and will also be a step tow: the working of the valuable coal fields in the Si- ity that we have not a few practical neers out here to make an attempt towards working these same Si-shan mines. Richard Pumpelly, whose able paper read to the Smithsonian Institute threw much light upon the geol and mineral riches of North China, was an ear) cate of foreign appliances being pressed notice of the Chinese. Properly backed by the and Consu! @ man can obtain almost any concession from the Chinese government; and I am convinced that a little pressure, judiciously applied, would place Americans in a ralag ‘of overwhelming superiority as regards t matters towards the native government. At present American influence 18 palpably declining before that of France, which works for “an idea’’—said idea being the good treat- ment of its missionary priests, It may be tolerable that Great Britain, with so much at stake in China, should have a preponderating, influence, But there ia no reason why, as is now the case, the States should occupy a (political) ‘ition below not only that of France, but that of Prussia, Russia, Spain and even (sad to say) Portugal also. & The abandonment of the much-talked-of projects of the telegraph company which was going to do such wonders in China has caused err deal of “chatr? from the English and a slight patie of annoyance on the part of Americans resident in the far East. Dr. Macgowan is now voted a “humbug,” his projects insane fand the company he represented as little more than a Roa aig Swindle. Verglikely they are quite right in having abandoned their former plans; but the venerable and stout Esculapius came out with such a flourish of trumpets that his fall in public estimation has been the greater. Bishop Afford, of Victoria, has just been upon a tour ronnd the ports, and has excited a deal of sarcastic comment by issuing a prayer for the use of the English clergy resident in China, m which they pray that British subjects may, “under the protec- tion” of Chinese oficials, enjoy peace and quietness, &c. This has roused the anti-missionary party, and n such yapers as the Shanghae Herald and Hong ong (China) Mail, which generally support the “hureh, have administered some hard rubs to his lordship, as the Britishera love to term hun. The whole matter is trifing enough, but is a laughable lnebey of the system which ordains that some- body wh® is altogether ignorant of the country should be made its chief episcopal dignitary. Sir Edmund Hornby, the Chief Judge of (British) Shang- hae, has also been upon a general tour, and its re- sults are summed up in the fact that Honor’s health is much improved thereby.” The island of Hainan has just been explored by Mr. Swinhoe, the well known naturalist and late Britisn Consul at Amoy. Nothing has been pub- lished in the papers, but I am able to give a few par- ticulars of the results he nas arrived at from confl- dential sources, The island is about 120 to 150 miles in its Jongest diameter, and is laid down most erro- neously in all existing charts. ‘The southern half consists of mountainous country inhabited by sava- ges called Sbu-ii and Shéng-li, the upper, or north- ern, portion being settled with Chinese. Kil Ow, the capital, is described as a model oi, being clean and in good repair, although small. There are several, towns, but none others of importance, ‘There is but little trade, and Mr. Swinhoe did not think that any great advantage would be gained by “opening” the island. ‘The merchants (Chinese) were very anxious to sce steamers introduced to ran between Hainan and Hong Kong, @ hint to any firms desirous of being the pioneers of Hainan trade, Snakes and wild animals abound, the former being chiefly of the boa constrictor tribe and two specimens captured being eighteen feet in length. No new va- rieties of birds were found, but @ very remarkable and totally new species of fying lizard was met with, and several specimens were obtained. The British peo, Algerine, in which Mr. Swinhoe proceeded p Hainan, occupied the time which elapsed between his landing and embarkation geome, two months), in capturing pirates, a purguit in which she was very successful. ‘Che publication of Mr. Swinhoe’s report: is looked for with much interest, but | am able to assert that it will be found more interesting to nen of science than to merchants, The following, which I extract from a North China paper, is of much importance to commercial inter- ests: {some of the outports a circular letter has been received by British Consuls from Sir K. Alcock, call for information as to why all mention of the desirability of bonded warehouses had been studiously omitted from every memorial on the revision of the ™ treaty, except that from Tien-tsin. His Excellency’s surprise at the omis- sion i# natura), It is diMenit to see why the bonded system is leas applicable in China than elsewhere. Indeed it would bave seemed that. merchants would be only Loo anxious to introduce a scheme that must relieve them from the present unjust system of pay- ment on unsold goods. How is it that this constant stream of notifications is kept up from the British jegation, while the United States representative re- mains mute, Americans are becoming dissatisfied at this eternal playing of second fiddie. Surely American interests in China are of suiticient impor- tanee to warrant @ little exhfbition of zeal in their favor. ‘The report of th pany to Decembe: ngivae Steam Navigation Com- is Most satisfactory. The bal- anee sheet showed that during the past year gross earnings bad been made to the exteni of over $500,000, ‘This would just pay all the liabilities of i free of encum- brance, and this course will shortly be takeo, Mect- ings have aiso been held of the North China and China Fire Insurance Companies. The former bas been most successiul, having accumulated 578,000 taels in addition to its 250,000 tacis paid up capital. ‘The directors were asked to consider the propriety of reduemg the timit from 5,000 taels, ‘The China Fire has been less fortunate, }t has st.il 100,000 taela sur- plus, beyond its capital; but it has sugered heavy ioxses, and the sharebolders seem ielined to wind it Wp at the end of the current year, At the meeting allusion was made to a scheme for organizing a new one, it is suggested that the nominal capital shouid be the same us at present, but Uigt 500,000 Laels should be paid up and security given by the shareholders for the remaining half of the value of tueir shares. ‘These results are, considering the business losses of the past year in China, eminently satisfactory and (Americans being largely interested ip ail of them) reflect credit on their directors. The settien poi the important case of Dent & Co.'s [pated ioe still pending, owing to the over- refined sense of ¢ jentiousnesa possessed by the ¢ Kong and the opposition of the hae. It ie now stated that the partners will obtain their discharge at the next siting, but so many obstacles have aiready been placed in the way of a final settlement that it is dimcult to predict anything with certainty. Much sympathy is felt for Mr. John Dent who has been the innocent sufferer for the misdeeds of others. A fine yeasel named the Yang-tan was launched on the 6th March at Shanghae. She measures 260 feet in length of keel and wiil draw about eleven feet of water. Her burden is fourteen hundred tons Eng- lish measurement, and it is calculated that she will carry one thousand tons cargo and 250 Chinese pas- sengers. She is intended to trade in the river. Au English merchant, named Cooper, formerly resident at Shanghae, lias set out to explore the western route to China from India, Advices have been received from him detailing hia journey to Chi y the capital of Sze-chuet je is Making for Bathang (long. 98 E., .), OM the high road to Thibet, and thence intends crossing the Himalay wo Sudya. Sze-chuen isin so disturbed a state that he has been obliged to modify his original plan of opera- tions. At Ching-tu Mr. Cooper fell in with the embassy despatched by the Rajah of Nepau: to demand - faction from the Chinese government for the dis courteous treatment to which it subjected a former embassy, @ refusai to accord which will result in a declaration of war. Danger from such a source will add considerably to the already grave epbarrass- ments under which the Pekin governinent already labors. T eee that literature is beginning to take root in Hong Kong. A China Magazine, ilustrated with photographs, has already been started. Notes and n China and Japan has gained a respecta- ares im pubiic estimation since it was first brought out in +1867, while a China Punoh, contain- ing local hite, with ith ic Hinstrations, meets the views of jeas studiously lociined peopie. It is much to be eted that there exists ho American paper—properiy so cailed in the far East. But a circie of some four or five himdred subscribers wul hardly tempt adventurers into the fled. Stephen Maseett, whose introduction to a Hong Kong audience I noted in mg last, gave his fareweil at the New Hotel last Cd to an audience made up from the most respectable class of English and Americans in the place and yw American ladies, Stephen Pipes has very little to compiain of his suc- cess, I should think, in this part of the world, and he appears well pleased therewith. He haa been bus: an Up material for @ new entertainment, whic! e is “6,000 seconds in’ Ching and Japan;’’ which, judging from his former efforts, will be in- teresting and amusi! He leaves by the steamer to- intending, I believe, to return and make his tour of India In the autumn, And now, after noting some of the changes in our Naval squadron in these I m lay aside the nin. e United States corvette Hartford, bearing Sommender Golds lag, left this for Singa- re on the Zist March, (0 await the arrival of epr Admiral 8, . Rowag:in the new fagehip the from Rio inform us tenant ber 10, fe running fifteen and an Re, On arrival she will relieve the storeship ard at when the Onward will go to Affaire In Canton. Despite the sncers and remonstrances-of English- men, the “new Yankee settlement,” as it is called, on the old factory site at Canton, has already began to give signs of success, inasmuch as trade in the neighborhood is beginning to extend its operations toward the princely ‘“‘hongs” owned by Messrs. Rus- Sell Co, To this fact the correspondents of the local papers most strongly opposed to the step taken by Messrs, Russell bear unwilling witness, and I am Teally tempted to believe that in the course of a tew ears the well known “oid factories’? will once more ‘old their own as the centre of Canton trade, [would refer readers interested in Canton matters to a volu- minous work recently It is entitled the “treaty and a lively idea may be gained of this part of the Kong. from the sections devoted to Canton and Hong and remain there permanently, Fasco. ublished at Hong Kong. ‘orts of China and Japan,” Trade Report. The various markets call for no very spevial re- mark, further than that imports are improving, owing to favorable advices from the Indian and home markets, The tea season has not yet opened, and shippers to New York are said to have made up their minds (if they would only stick to it) not to be too precipitate this year in buying up at all hazards. Ex- change is rising and a more hopeful tone pervades: everywhere. The latest quotations are given here- with, dated Hong Kong, April 17:—Opinm—Patna, cash, new, $645, sales; Benares, cash, new, $635, cash, $675, sales: on time, Patna, new, $647 oe sales; fourth sales Patna, $655, quoted. Cotton—Japan, none; Ningpo, none; Shang- hae, &c., none; Bengal, $15 @ $21; Bombay, $16 a $22, sales. Rice—B ngal and Manila, none;’ Siam, Saigon, Rangoon, &c., $1 50 @ $2, sales, Exchange— Bank bills on (Calcutta at three days’ sight, 218},rs., quoted; on Bombay, at three days’ sight, 2174,rs. juoted; on London, at six months’ sight, 48, 4d, 01d leaf—$24 25, quoted. Sycee—10 per cent pre- mium; bar silver, 11% per cent premium, sales, Hong Kong and Spanepee Banking Co.'s shares, 15 per cent premium old, 3 per cent premium new, quoted. long Kong and Whampoa Dock Co.'s shares, 15 per cent. premium old, 7 Tr cent pre- mium ‘new, quoted. Hong Kong Gas boos shares, $40 per share (10), quoted, Union Dock Co,’s shares, 20 per cent discount, qnoted. Hong Kong, Canton and Macao Steamer Co.'s shares, par, quoted. China Traders’ Insurance Co.'s shares, $150 per share pre- mium, quoted. MEXICO. .General Rivera’s Rebelliou—His Proclawa- tion, Mexico, May 14, 1868, There ts no yeason to doubt the rumors which have prevailed for the past twenty-four hours that Generai Aureliano Rivera has pronounced against the gen- al government, and that he has issued a proclama- tion declaring that the present Congress and the Ex- ecutive were not constitutionaily elected and that consequently Juarez is @ usurper. He invites the people to join him. ‘The rumor that he was to attempt to kidnap Presi- dent Jnurez and family from Chapultepec, where they have been since early in April, was so well be- lieved at the palace that Colonel Soyera waa sent out there with a large force of cavairy to guard the place. are no guns mounted upon Chapulic- Ree and the earthworks and fortifications are rather ilapidated. This afternoon it is rumored that Gen- eral Rivera had declared he wonld cut off the supply of food from the city in a few days. We anxiously wait to record the stepa which the government wiil institute to suppress General Rivera—whether money or powder will be used. General Velez is here. He is said to have remarked that he tinds it diMcult to fall in with Negrete, inasmuch as the lat- ter, ata few moments’ notice, finds no difficulty in breaking up his command into. small parties and scattering to the mountains and et hiding places. We hear nothing new from Ne; The great ex- citement. Cry f is in regard to General Rivera. Diario Oficial has this moment appeared with the above “proclamation,” which | enclose, in hopes that it will reach you by Spanish steamer. ‘he names of the officials who sympathize with this movement, it will be seen, are somewhat familiar. ‘The following is an abstract of General Rivera's proclamation:— . He asserts that the party in power meant only to drive out the foreign oppressor s0 an to make way for domestic ty rants. He siatesthat it was ap culable mi ever to get power; that he fe simply a accuses hit of havit of having interfered fn the elections, aud of having set up his own minions in the gubernatorial’ chairs. He concludes stating that he does not seek to become either President, inister, Deprty or Governor, and proclaime hia adhesion to the constitution of 1857. ‘The document is signed by Generais BE. Huerta, M. Negrete, J.N. Cortina, J. N. Mendez, B. Tellez, Vega, A. Martinez, V. Jimenez, I. Zepeda, 8. Canales, F. Chavarria, 5S. Eseandon, P. Noriega, G. de la Cadena, J. Toledo ; Colonels Catarino Fragoro, Leon Ugatde, K. Flores, A. Santaré, M. Rivera, Juan Togno, José Inclan, C. Sotomayor, R. Ros, ©, Aren: J. Leon, Captain Miguel Romero and a thousan¢ others, Rivera signs last and states that he will answer for all the others, ‘The manifesto of General Leonardo Marquez covers seventy-ibree pages octavo, and contains very Jittie that is mew fo the reader who has followed the course of events in Mexico:— He cites an order from President Miramon to shoot the prisoners at Tacuhaya for their insurrec- tionary complicity, and leaves the odiam of that measure on that General. He also cites a n amber of mstances where he pardoned those who had under- taken to assassinate himself. He also throws upon Miramon the responsibility for having taken the specie from the British Legation in 1860. He then tries to clear himself of the charge that he helped to get up the intervention and betrayed his country to the foreigner. There ix nothing new or striking in this part. of the docu ment, Asto having betrayed the Emperor, he as- seris that Baron de Lago must have misunderstood the Emperor in the conversation in which Lago pre. tends to have heard the charge. He maintains that he was not ordered to go to Quel with troops from the capital. He asserts that th apiain of the Emperor is his witness that Maximilian never ut- tered & word disparagingly of Marquez. He con- by stating that should a foreign foe invade his ae God to grant him the favor of dying in defence of her independence. per. illegally promulgated the Consueuinria, The Defection of General Rivera—Pla Faver of a Regeucy Under Ortega—ste: Line from Hamburg to Vera Craz—Con- gress. HAVANA, May 26, 1468, The Spanish mail steamer Marsella arrived here Sunday evening from Vera Cruz and Sisal. Her ad- vices from the Mexican capital are up to the 17th per telegraph, and from Vera Cruz to the 20th, Revolutions were decidedly on the increase in un- fortunate Mexico. General Aureliano Rivera, as rn- Mmored when the French steamer left Vera Cruz on the 14th, has indeed pronounced against the govern- meut, and this insurrectionary movement hes en- gross@@public attention, almost to the exclusion of all others, The all necessary proclamation w tasued from the mountain tastnesses of Ajusco, and General Rivera has since taken possession of tie little village of San Nicolas. but tweive leagues from the capital, The number of his adherents are vari- ously estimated at from 700 to 1,200. The govern mem is accumulating troops at Angel tothe number of about 1,000 men to fight him, and 300 had already gone from that place for an advance on | Tialpam. When the Marseiia left Vera Cruz a des- patch bad just been received announcing the defea! of Rivera and the dispersion of his troops, but thie was not generally believed, and, like all the govern- ment’s announcements of victory, greatly needs con- firmation. In his pronunciamiento, General Rivera informs the nation of the co-operation of (icnerais Huerta, Negrete, J. N. Cortina, Jaan bin, Velez, Placidio Vega and Anget Martinez (both of Sinaloa notoriety), | Jimenez (of Guerrero), Cepeda, Canales, Chavarria, Escandon, Noriega, G. de ia Cadena and Toledo (also of Sinaloa notoriety). Likewise of @ number of colonels, Heutenant colonels and majors, the two Most remarkabdje of the enuineration being the great erilia chieftains of Tepeji, Colonel Batarino Fragose faa his foster brother tb illicit warfare, Colonel Leon igaide. These omic with the exception of Ne- jor have heretofore been strong ra of the Juarez government, and did signal loes for ite cause dui the contest against im- erals Cortina and Chavarria, how- blished cards stoutly denying any com- General Juan Mendez was in Mexico city a few days preceding the Ajusco movement, but soon left. for his home in the State of Puebla, Jt was univer- sally believed among government Officials at the capital shat Me, too, Would pronounce, and from his yd ity in and ee know of the 0 must pro’ All the sierra of ver, have ‘piicity wits General Rivera. Frio country, he & very troal opponent to the Juares party. i : > might soon embrace the State, as it is one wherein the ope numerous and determined in their imiliap. ‘There is no news from either Negrete or Galvez, and the failure of the government to indulge in its vict over these leading and the Re-zency, respect- ese are ists were most support of Max- ively, presupposes that th generals: progress- ing in the accomplishment of their plans, In con- fSrmation of thi lew ‘we note the return of General Francisco Vele’ the capital without General Ne- grete as prisoner, whom he had been commissioned to arrest or destroy. He saye it is very dificult to defeat Negrete, as he constantly eludes him by going fo the mountains, dispersing, &c., whic! be all true; buat the ehiding, somehow or other, appears to be principally on the Velez, since he has gotten back to Mexico-city, und Negrete remains master of the situation about Tulan- cingo. It is reported that Galves has deelared his Willingness to make common cause with Negrete: and support Ortega in lieu of the Regency. If this be done no doubt all the other parties supporting the latier cause will do@like Galvez, their most promi, nent leader in arms now in Mexico, and the Ortega party wil Indeed become a formidable contestant for supreme rule. The proximity of General Rivera’s force to the capital caused the circulation of a rnmor that he Meditated an attack upon Chapuitepec, where Presi- dent Juarez and family had been resialng since April. So strongly was the belicf at the national palace, that one night three hundred cavalry under Colonel Soyera: were hurriedly sent to the ction of Chapultepec. Since then the President and family ave deemed dis- cretion the better part of valor, and on the 16th re- turned, bag and baggage, to the palace in the city, AS another proof of the uneasiness created by Gene- ral Rivera’s nigh attendance, the officers and soldiers of the garrison of the capital were under orders to remain at thelr quarters bot by night and day, ready to march at a moment's notice, A num- ber of non-commissioned ‘omeers, too, had been ar- rested for shpposed complicity with the Rivera movement. However,.the saine thing had also oc- curred among the garrison at Vera Cruz. ‘The three lately captured leaders in the Tabasco in- surrection, Jimenez, Romero and Ocata, were sen- tenced to the‘death penalty by court martial; but on the petition of one thousand ladies of the State, President Juarez commuted the penalty into life im- prisonment, Would-be Governor Saens is reported as having abandoned the main land of Tabasco State ene ers over to the Bland of Carmen. ‘This is ques- tionable, In the State of San Luis de Potosi most of the courts are closed for want of fuuds to pay the judges and defray the expenses of the sessions. A most un- fortunate and discreditable state of things for a State of 35,000 square tiles, 400,000 inhabitants, and by nature most bountifully endowed. But continued civil war wili_ ruin any country in the long ran, as here exemplified. ‘Two very rich men, Seflora Tomas Rodriguez and Fxivuis Avila, were kidnapped by bandits near Cuer- navaca, and now $6,000 is asked for their ransom. The Legislature of Zacatecas has repealed its de- cree dissolving the municipality of Rio Grande. It has aiso freed woollen and cotton textures manufac. tured within the State from the tax of five per cent imposed by the law of ong 1863. The Apaches are again reported as committing great depredations in Sonora. Mr. Perry, an English gentleman, while riding on the roadfroin Chapultepec to Mexico city, followed by his servant, was attacked by six robbers, but he suc- ceeded in killing one’ by a shot from # pistol with which he was fortunately provided, whereupon the other five fled, This occurred at only one-third of a mile from the city limits. Frederick Johnson, late British Consul at. Tampico, died there on the 13th, His body will be sent to England, > A line of steamers from Hamburg to Vera €rnz, touching at Aspmwall and Kingston, is about being established, It will consist of six steamers and run seml-monthly trips. ‘The election in Yucatan came off on the 2ith, There was great excitement among the different political parties on. the subjects at issue. A decree published by the general government establishes two. military colonies in Yucatan and Campeche, to consist of five hundred mepeach, General Alatorre's: troops were rendezvousing at Sisal, preparatory to embarkation for Vera Cruz. Troops to relieve them had ea throngh Orizaba. A horrible crime has been perpetrated at Huesca by Antonio. Norie; On the sth one of his compa- nions, named Aniveto Mejia, endeavored to ravish the daughter of an old man named José Acebedo, who, in the defence of his child's hovor, killed the bandit, He thereupon surrendered himself to the authorities and was sent to jail, Five days sub- sequently Noriega came to the place with part of his band, had the old man taken out of jail and imme- diately shot. This bandit mast not be confounded with the Ortegan general of the same name of Noriega, whose baptismal name is Pedro and pot Antonio, Congress has voted nearly all the several appro- priations necessary to the Military and Naval De- partment, but not precisely as reported by its Finance Committee, The appropriation for the military statt of the Secretary of War was stricken out of the re- port, a6 also that for the formation of a second bat- tation of engineers, After considerable discussion, hat for the government. artillery schools was passed, gress has also passed the Custom House Appro- bill, and voted $10,000 as a donation to the Asylu of Mexico city. On the ith, Con- occupied in the discussion of the Zangro- Iroad concessions, and three sections of the bill had heen approved, only pending one article (subvertion). President Juarez has signed and pro- muigated the Congressional decree suspending the guarantees of article 15 of the constitution and por- Lions of those of article 21, The saspension is to last till the end of this year, and is only app! cases of conspiracy and “those crimes destructive of the publi pe ” Newspaper publications, whether decined seditious or not, are not included in this withdrawal of guarantees; nor are nation and State fanctionari r acis done in their official capacities The Executive approval to court tial sentences of death is no longer required; but sufficient time between condemnation and execn- tion must be allowed as to permit appeals for Presi- dential clemency. THE YATIONAL GUARD. The following named oMeers have been tmissioned by the Commander-in-Chief in the » York National Guard during the week ending May 20:— Second Brigade—Sidney Morse, engineer, with rank from Februar; signed, Third Infantry—FA, 4, Corbet, captain, with rank from April 16, viee Moeser, resigned. Sisth Regiment—J, Anthony Morschlanser, adju- tant, with rank from May 1, vice J. H. Ingersoll, re- signed: Charles H. Raynor, commissary of subsist- ence, with rank from May 1—original vacancy. Tenth Infantry—Stephen Weaver, captain, with rank fein April 20, vice D. Cuicel, resigned: Mat- thias A. Hook, second NMeutenant, with rank from April 20, vice Stephen Weaver, promoted, Eleventh Infantry—Charies Albert Ebert, chaplain, with rank from March 20, vice J. L. Wilkins, re-" P. Sands, first signed. Tiventy-third Infontry—Witiam lieutenant, with rank frem May 4 vice George MeMilh promoted; H. Herbert Hogins, first lien- tenant, h rank from May 7, vice Alvert G. Kelley, commission vacated by ers from general head- quarters, | Si@ty-ninth Infantry—Peter MeQuade, captain, with rank from March 16, vice Thowas P. Powers, | resigned; Joon J. O'Donoghue, first lientenant, | with rank from March 16, vice John Hickey, re- ed; Michael O’Rorke, captain, with rank from 9, vice Michael Doran, promoted. i penty-first Infuntry—Joseph A, Wise, captain, with ri ce B.S. Chureh, re- from Aprti 18, vice George L. Tyson, re- signed; W, A. Eimer, Orst lieutenant, with rank from April 15, vice H. H. Tyson, resigned; Theodore V. Smith. aecond Neutenant, with rank from April 1, | vice W. A. Elwer, promoted, vetyaizth Pifantry-—Christophe Flecke, first Geib, promoted. ‘The foliowing resignations were accepted during the week ending May 40;—- eine ipvactry—Quartermaster C. H. Douglass, ay 4 Tenth Captain J. P. St. Joun, to date June 1. Pifty-first Infantry—Colone) J. Dean Hawiey, May 21; Lieutenant Colonel E. C. Fellows, May 26, Seventy-second Infantry—Lieutenant Colonel [es ter J. Barnes, May 30; Major H. B, Howard, May 50. Ninetysermd Infantry Adjitant James Willlawe, to date Jane 1. Cavalry Squad, Ninth Brigade—Captain Henry Dorr, to date June I. AQUATIC. AFFAIRS. ‘The Attautic Boat Club have elected the following officers to serve during the ensuing year:—President, M. B. Arnold; Vice President, J. Edward Russel! Recording Secretary, D. Wright; Corresponding Secretary, Bdwin Benson; Preasarer, Cozimer Tag. On Monday afternoon, June 15, there will bes single scall race for $500, $250 a side, off the Klysian Fields. between Connors (amateur) and Blue, @ pro- fessional and one of the Bigier crew, The distance Yom Monday, Jane 24, Joh Waiter Brown. june in Tyler and Waiter Brown aritnpulne ho mile strai yan with tide, of the Piysian Fields, single sculis. A few weeks ago Tyler at Brown in the Charies river regatta at Boston and @ s600nd race Wii) he plied on the on the Sebuylbill ryer. myantry—Colonel Le A. Lennox, to date | Hevtenant, with rank from April 15, vice Gourad | | | le } L&aVENWORTH, Kansas, May 31, 1868, ‘The Indian troubles on the line of the Union Pacific Railroad, Eastern Division, continue to keep the people on the end of the road, near Coyotte, ina pretty unsettled state, There have been two acrious outrages within the past ten days. On Tuesday aband of Cheyennes, numbering nearly forty, made a sortie upon the camp of a Mr. Losse’s wagon train, about twelve miles from Coyotte, and before the men could Prepare for resistance they poured a brisk fire into them, wounding one man in the breast, and then drove off eleven mules before the train men coutd seize their arms, The second outrage was of a more fearful character and occurred further south, in the Osage reservation. Almost immediately after the treaty with this tribe was signed on Wednesday agreeing to the sale of-their land & Mr. Dunn reported to the Commissioners that bis brother and his partner (Mr. Anderson) had been murdered, scalped, and their heads severed from their bodies, at Walnut creek, op the 17th inst, The Commissioners called a council immediately and de- Manded that the murderers should be given.up. It Appears that Mr, Dunn recognized two of then —one named Hard Rope and another young dare devil. ‘The younger chiefs demurred at the demand; but Mx, Dunn, who sat on his horse, revolver im hand, declared his determination to put a bullet through Hard Rope, whereupon the two were given over to the Commissioners and sent to Ottawa jail to be tried by the civil authorities, Colonel Sheri- dan, of the Generdi’s stat, left Fort Leaven- worth for Ottawa yesterday to atiend to the matter, General Sheridan also started yesterday morning for Coyotte to look after the troubie- some savages there. A party of troops started up the road in the same direction at midnight on Friday, It is evident that, although with the excep- tion of these incidental hotilities, the Indians on this line of railroad (the eastern division) are not arrayed in any force, they are discontented and unreliable, and there is no expectation here that peace commis- sions will effect much to secure the safety of wagon trains over the plains. The fact that obstructions were found on the track when the cars were return- ing from the scene of the rald near Coyotte, bringin, the wounded man to Fort Hayes, shows the devilml spirit which animates the roving bands of Cheyennee who infest that vicinity, Itis hinted that there are white men as well as red men at the bottom of these outrages; but of this there is no positive proof. We know, however, how much certain parties ars interested in keeping up @ state of war—parties occupation would be gone if the Indians were ace and no soldiers required on the plains. many tribes, like the Osage, for instance, are willing to sell their lands and move to new hunting grounds farther West, there are plenty of discon- tented Indians who are so jealous of the incursion of the railroada, who ure suspicious of being cheated in their dealings with the whi nd whose sus- picions, I fear, are greatly strengthened by the evil of the Indian traders, that they will neither abide by treaties nor refrain from occasional raids. Many of these who, a few years ago, were fricudly allies of the traders across the plains to Texas and New Mexico, and would assist to recover stolen stock, are now become morose and unfriendly, mainiy among the Chicopee manches — autt Ottawas. ne Osage yo gened at the mission never about one hundred aud fifty miies suuth of tis piace, dis poses to the government eight iniilion acres of land, covering a tract two hundred aud fifty miles in length wnd fifty miles in width. ‘The Indiaus located there number only three thousand five hundred souls, Much is rich valley land, some good timber land and & good deal bluds with rather poor soil. It will now be thrown open to the emigrant for cultivation, add- ing that much more e already extensive valuable lands of Kansas. irchase is to be placed by jovernment at the disposal of the Leavenworth, pawrence and Galveston Railroad Company, who are to pay the Secretary of the Interior $100,000 cash three months after the ratification of the treaty and give bonds for $1,400,000, with five per cent interest, payable semi-annuaily, at the rate of $100,000 4 year, the company beiug required to sell the lands to. set- ters within five years efter the issue of the patent for one-tifteenth of the lands. This road is to run from Leavenworth via Lawrence to Galveston bay. A nerthern connection to Omaha is a feature in the road which vecnpies much attention here, and the project of a bridge to Missouri side to connect with the present read is being vigorously preased by the people of Leavenworth, The twe conficting in- terests in this country are the railroads and the future of the aborigines. ‘fhe latter maust be_re- moved by some process or the former must suffer, It is not dificult to surmise how the question is to be settled, but the present peddling method of dealing with it will not do. Peace commissioners, who make treaties only to be broken and put guns in the hands of the Indians and then call out soldiers to fight them, will manifestly never clear the track for our rapid civilization, I believe that Sherman and Sheridan have a. better plan than that if they are allowed to carry it out, Not the least important subject in the present critical condition of the country is the state of the crops in thia Western region, The prospect of an abundant harvest was never better, The wheat on the prairie lands of Western Missouri is nearly ready | for the sickle, It is far more than an average crop, the heads bearing heavily with grain. Old farmers say that for ten years there has been nothing like it, Through the agricultural portion of Kansas, from this point to the mineral regions of the further Weat the crop ia equally promising. The average yield will be thirty-five bushels to ine acre, but on some bottom Jands it will reach fifty. Corn has not been planted so Jate tn thirty y in this seasan, but it is showing up vigorously every wher 1 though late in the market perhaps will give a. copious yi Hardly any of the produce of this country goes East. It is sent westward to supply the government posts and the hon-grain raising countries West. Much of the wheat will go to Texas this season, a8 the grasshop- pers have devoured nearly ali the young wheat in that State, leaving not enough for s When the railroads are opened to the South there will be no Nimit to the prosperity of region of country, and it cannot be many years re Nebraska and Kansas have acontinnous steam highway to the Guif. Rail- roads absorball men’s (boughts. [tis the raling pas- sion ofthe hour. How the weaith of these rich valleys can be carried to the Pacitle and the Gulf and there coined into gold is the. vital inspiration of labor and industry, of lobbyind and = specu- lation, But the Indian trouble must be got rid of expectations of the The red man scowls upon the fiery irom horse which drives away his buffalo his antelopes, the matustay of his existen ‘They are plenty now on the plains about Fort Har- ker and Fort Fi h hey are dwindling away gradually and must soon disappear alte r. Mf anybody fancies that becan L “on the plams" it must necess: Wilderness he is mistaken. =A thousand persons (with room for a hu sund), siX banks, two of them, of course bicesings,” haifa dozen hotels, as many a free coligge and six dally newspapers can make civilization anywhere. Lying an amphitheatre of bills rising one behind the oth bd, vuted vaileva lying between them, pleasant farms and environs that can passed in beauty, this frontier and pi Plains seems @ inarvel when we ren was in 1854 the Lown was figst laid that im the apring of 185) the first dise from the East was opened, with chisel and mallet, by the gentleman who is now the Mayor of the city. As Andy Johnson says of himself, we must take its past career as the best guarantce of its fu- ture. Probably the most direct. and fortable way to reach Leavenworth from St. Louis is by the Pacific, Railroad of Missouri, because it affords the traveller a first view of the veal prairie country m the western portion of that State, aud be- cause the trip is tmade through a snperd country at a fair rate of speed, the 509 miles bein, covered in seventeen hours. For more than a hundred miles the track was on the banks of the Missouri river, and at night, with its line of nai men at iu tervals and signal lamps at every switch, reminds ove somewhat of the Hudson River road, In no country in the world but this could cities spri up like mushrooms out of the earth such aa this and the dozen others that dot the jine of the Union Pacific Ratiroad three hundred milese westward as far as Fort Hayes; bat they are are all needed to supply the wante of the vast ferritory that lies beyond them. ‘The emigration to Kansas this year is very large. it ie computed that during the present spring aeacon a hondred emigrant fam adey enjered the state. er city of the ut in jolts, and se of merchan- THE UVION PACIFIC Rit, . CARTENNE, VD. T., May 26, 1883. Within the past foar years the press of a!) parts of the Atlantic States have discussed the Pacific K. road, its futare trade, jaduence, &c., in all their po ibie shades apd bearings, and almost al! hare agreed in treating of it in tne most gorid styic. A wip over the Union Pacifle Railroad from ve the best possible poimts of observa! ied mé@ most emphatically to the opinion that be tween What the peopie of the Atiantic States bare read about this road (viewed from aa engineering potnt of view) and what the foad accaaiiy is inece 8 a very wide discrepancy. ‘The Union Pacific Ratiroad nae always besn repre sented as @ first Class road. This (tis not in any ponsibie sense, and that others have represcated It to beso lam charitable cnough to believe is due, first, to the fact that newspaper writers who have treated of it were not’ posted on railroad engineering; second, that they took theit reports about it from second and interested handa believing that they were being correctiy informed; third, to the fact that wt of the road k or selected @ point om the cars from fow or none of them rode over any on baree' aber that it | 5 which they could command @ good view of the road Ingtead of being a first class railroad I ‘unhesl- tatingly the Union Pacific road to be barely to ranks @ third class ‘road, and [ assert, too, well knowing of what I speak, that it would not be accepted by competent engineers iv Enrope as a slow freight line for the conveyance of cattle, And now let me make my assertions good. The first thing which strikes @ practised eye on this road 18 the ties, upon the quality of which to a very large extent depends the estimate which fs placed upon’a railroad. Upon good roads tles are either of oak, chestnut or the very best ping. Upon the Union Pa- cifle, for over three hundred miles, the ties are ot cottonwood, @ kind of wood which is so spongy, lifeless and generally worthless that it is used for no purpose whatever but that of fuel, and it makes but a very indifferent kind: of that article even. It takes no hold of the rail for there ts no grip in it, It warps up at and is the last wood on the continent that Na have been used for ties, utterly worn out are these cottonwood ties that there is not one of them in the road now that does not need replacing, al- though the most of them are not down more than two years. Each cost the com $1 26 to $1 50; besides the expense of Burnetizing them—i. ¢, in- jecting suipbate of zinc into the wood. This rendered the wood almost as heavy as lead, but it did not, on all hands it is admitted, make’ it, apy more sang: Five years was the longest. time cottonw ties were expected to last, while a good tie will last seven to.ten; but the five years are mot up, and yet'the whole as I have said, now rez qtires-new ties. Only to the worst judgment and - or ta. 2 daermination to use only the 2 and, the Most inate-, fiat be due thé selection of cotton wood tes ‘The next thing which strikes the eye on this road is the bridges and culverts, alt of up to Chey- enne, with about @ dozen- exceptions, are of pine ‘a thingyunheard of for general use on a rail- And if rough, makeshift, careless o88 atight wax ever bestowed on @ railroad upon the vital departinent of bridges and culverts, it has been so bestowed upon the Union Pacifie road. Contractors Kigemen with whom I tatked d with me in saying that the culverts and bi are utterly for the work, and but that the road is one of yesterday would ere this have ves ‘the moss costly evidence of their unfitness, Thereare two bridges, ne one thousand five hundred feet long, across Loop Fork river, and another two thousand six hundred, and forty feet long, across the North Platte, each of which is @ stone truss bridge; but in each the very necessary strengttiener, inthe shape of an arch, is. omitted. ‘This addition 18 never omMtted by a caretul stone bridge builder where the bridge has to bear heavy trains and precious human lives, Upon the Union Pacific road economy has been worshipped m every department. To save expense cuts and fills are avoided as plagues, by means of sharp curves and up ‘les. In not one, but nearly a thousand cases, a half practised eye sees curves: and departures from levels, made for short-sighted economy's sake, where straight lines should have becn run and perfect levels maintained, In many, very many, points on the road proper ballasting has been shane! neglected, and the ties between the rails are left bare and gaunt, in- stead of being covered in with earth. This neglect gives the road the appearance of a rough corduroy one. Grades on the Union road are left undressed, and seamed deeply by rains, caves, &c., giving the road t and most careless appearance. mam faults in the Union Pactfic ore than bear out my assertion that oly up toa third class standard, | It the road ix has be any Hes, &c. If tie Government Commissioners reported the Union Pacific road to be @ first class road they shamefully and outrageously abused the most sacred duty imtrusted to them, In one of its pamphlets the company says:— The Union Pacific road is a government wot builé under the supervision of government ofc and to a large extent with gov- ernment money.” All the morereason, therefore, only the road should be built In a first class manner, The overnment is paying for it. It is to be our repre- pntative and longest road in its entirety; ft is to be the great iron highroad across the continent, and fron its Pall, e he nation fins the sant to demand 4 first class in every le res) upon which human life shall be safe, Instead of” being this, however, it is one which European engmeers will langh at, and upon which, if not rebuilt within three or four years, it will be in the highest degree dangerous to travel. ‘To get the rails laid over the ground in such @ way that it will be possible for the locomotive to travel upon them, to get the government subsidy in the shortest possible time, and to be able almost monthly to mal jaming Newspaper announcements about another section heing opened for trade and travel, seem now to be the sole objects of the Union Pacific Company. One of its officers in Fer Aha speed with which the road had been built, seid tome that “it would.have taken the old fogy railroad builders of the Atlantic States ten or twelve years to accomplish what has been pel Tour or five by the Union Pacific Company.” and | so, indeed, it would; but‘ the old fogies alluded to’ would have built’a railroad in the true sense of the term, which this road is not. Jt is simply a temporary ribbon line, over which cars can run; this and nothing more, The bee has been continually congratulating itself upon the with which the Union Pacific Katlroad ts being built, but in place of congratulation there should have been universal regret over the shameful ot ae il, Which its builders have and are adopting. It is now urgently demanded that the govern- shall searchingly inquire into the siip- work which this company 18 folsting upon it. Let. the proper authorities see to tt that we get 4 railroad across the Continent that shall not be as the present ix, for a day, but as far as possible for alltime. Let the unseemly race for government bonds and land be put a stop to; let this com be made to go slow. We want the Pacific Railroad completed at the carlicst possible day, but 1t tis better that ten, aye, twenty years, should be taken for its Ries completion than that our 4. continental highway should be builc in cowpath fashion. efore this trip is up Tt shall, if wed, reach the Pacific. slope, from whieh point Lshail send the HeRAL» as critical and truthfal an account of the western haif of the Pacific Railrond (the Central Pacific of Catifornia) as T have in the foregoing pages given of the road on this side; and in concinsion let me say I feel entirely confident that all who come out and see this road will agree with ure in every state- ment 1 have made about it, provided, first, that they have sufMicient knowledge about pading to know a good road from a bad one» that they will walk or ride on borseback over some portions of it at least, and that they will ride on the rear platform of the rear car when on train, so that they cau command a good yiew of the roat bed, &c.; thi that they do not be nearly all who have written about this road have believed,interested reporta—they must see and judge for themselves about everything; fourth, Inge Pane, not let any dne connected ‘with’ the road ki doce? they are inspecting it, and above alt Wytst thelr judgments unprejndiced by reli to acoept: of auy pass or favor from those whew them’ to obtain favorable reports, simple requisites that TI ask, and if they are com- plied with I feel a8 certain a4 of my, existence that, ail, and more tian all, that I have here said of the Union Pacific Railroad will be fully borne out. gr ee: SOUTHERN CHURCHES bat OR DAMAGED DURING THE JAR. eatant Episcopal Convention, sitting in In the P) Charleston, 8. C., on the 16th inst., an interesting re- port relative to the number of churches damaged or destroyed in the diocese during the war was read by the Rev, C. C. Pinckney, The report, gives a touch ing picture of the aad condition of once happy avd prosperous religious congregations in the South, and conclades as followa:—To sum. up the losses of the diocese it appears that ten churches bave disap- peared; that twenty-two parishes are suspended; that eleven parson: have been burned; that every charch between the Savannah river and Charleston hasbeen injured, some stripped even of weather boarding and fuoring; that almost every minister in that region of the State. has ont home and Mbraty that along the entire seaboard, from North to Georgia, where our Church had fourished for than aceniury, there are but four parishes which maintain religious services; that not one, outside the 4 can be calied & living, aelf-eus- Cy OF Charlot cy gupport a minister; That thelt clergy live Aahing, bY a and mechanic arts: and that history 0, as lost its communion plate, a fruauive and venerable set, the donation oF - or colonia! ancestor. \u ¢ pecuniary | tepaired if tue diocese were as in days esent impoverished condit So hone Pipeedy reaco genefation een speedy restoration. This } scarcely betold it." A DesPEraTe FiGHt—Dwo colored men, named Lem Woodson and Wash Shields, qui lied yester- day, upon the bluff, justbelow the . | on this side of the river. Wi man, and it seeina that he got it the other had menited h tie, ie ae ee upon rts of a | the two came Words. whisked out @ razor, and, thro i keen mining blade, made @ FRE Gs ie F ane received. @ shallow cut a4 the right pass, and he lost @ bit. of one ear aud “ chip from bis 8 now ped hie razor and the other around the body, and in nm gent him wi over the precipice feet into the swollen. waters of the Cumberland. rortamately, the man poet sow Os lower margin adjacentto pda into Wi i with @ savage plash. arose presently to the surface and struck out for es which he reached with a few vigorous goon. blood ‘from cuts on hie face an ok, iP hasti arance. There was much excitement in the ped and ie on the spot, It was found upon ex Woodson's wounds were of @ slight character, and that, moreover, he had su nO particular dam from his savage fall and cold ducking. Shielda, imameaiately after throwing his adversar in the river, fed made good his eacape,—Nashe wile Tenn.) Press, May 12. Caleta Oh eet at)