The New York Herald Newspaper, December 11, 1868, Page 5

s THE AUSTRALIAN SLAVE TRADE. Revival of Human Bondage at the Anti- podes—Frightful Atrocities of the Poly- nesiau Slave Traffie—The British Flag Waving Once More Over Bondmen. SyYpNey, Oct. 1, 1263, ‘The Austrailan people have now been fairly awakened toa just conception of the startling pro- gress and ever increasing proportions of the recently introduced “Polynesian Jabor system” in Queens- Jand, Within the past month abundant and indis- putable evidence has been produced in regard to the real character of this last development of Anglo Saxon civilization at the Antipodes, and it is now firmly established that the labor system lately called into being in the semi-tropical section of Australia ig simply a revival in a slightly altered form of the “domestic institution” which flourished but a few years since in the South- ern States, and which has been abolished at such a fearful cost of biood and treasure. It has been clearly Proved that the most hideous and revolting features Of the slave trade and of the slave system already Characterize the operations of the new labor scheme— the horrors of the middle passage, the forced break. dng up of family relations, the clanking of fetvers, the crack of the overscer's whip, the conyersion of human lives and human souls into gold. It mattera Uttie that the system bears the innocent and fair sounding name of “contract labor;” the fact remains unchanged, that uncer the auspices of a British government the fiendish enormities of the siave trafic have been revived tu the South Pacific, and that, with the sanction and encouragement of a colonial Legislature, enforeea servitade has becn established in the most produc- tive portion of the Australian continent. There 13 certainly a strong feeling of indignation among Aus- tralians not Interested in the new system at the appalling cruelties recently brought to light, and a petition praying for the interference of the home government was a few months ago addressed to the Queen, But in the meanwhile no measures are adopted to abolish this glaring wrong; the new tn- stitution is every month permitted to assume larger dimensions and take deeper root; every ship arriving m Brisbane and Rockhampton lands a fresh cargo of Buman victims, and the “vested right” in this int quitous traffic is constantly acguiring greater etrength and more serious importance, The origin and history of this new institution af- fords a singularly striking and forcible tlustration of the principle that similar temptations produce similar crimes, or, to put the same idea in a some- what milder form, that similar conditions of climate and soil, combined with similar opportunities and inducements, will bring about a similar ‘‘develop- ment of civilization.” The colony of Queensland poasesses the same physical capabilities and the fame obstacles to their utilization which in all other slave countries bave formed the main inducement for the adoption of a system of slave labor. Its cli- mate, though equable and not very unhealthy, ts decidedly tropical, and white labor is by many considered to be impossible, while those who Gissent from this theory admit that white laborers syfer greatly from the heat before they are thoroughly acclimated. The soil is wonderfully rich, and seems adapted for the growth of ail tropi- cal and semi-tropical products, while it is especially Well fitted for the culture of cotton and sugar. The high price of cotton during the blockade of the Southern ports divertea a great deal of Australian capital into the production of that staple, and with the most satisfactory results, 80 long as the war jasted, in spite of the high price of the labor (al- most entirely white) employed. Large districts in jueensiand were cleared and fenced off into planta- ns, and until the close of the rebellion, ana the consequent depreciation in the price of cotton, all went weil. But then, of course, the one great aimculty in the development of this industry, the ruinor high price of free white \abor, came to the surface. Unless some system of labor very consider- ably cheaper than that hitherto used were adopted, 1t was clear that the cultivation of cotton must be abandoned as a pecuntarily hopeless, and this, of course, invoived also the loss of whatever capital had been sunk in reclaiming the land and preparing it for cultivation, The idea of utilizing the inhabitants of the Sonth islands, and of removing them from the tempta- tions of idleness and the responsibilities of freedom to a less perilous state of slavery and Christianity ‘was first conceived, so far as is known, by a geutle- man named Clarke, 01 ally trom New Orleans and more recently from San Francisco. Mr. Clarke, about 8ix or seven years ago, entered into an arrangement with the Peruvian government to supply South Sea Islanders to be ebciel at the Chincha Islands in the guano trade, Rumors of kidnapping and ac- counts of the horrible mortality among the unfortu- nate Polynesians selected for the Peruvian service, both during the voy: and after their arrival in the Chinchas, arrived in due course of time at Sydney, and a tremendous storm of virtuous indig- nation ensued. Meet were held under the fos- tering auspices of the local press and the local poll- ticians, supplemented by ® cloud of parsons and missionaries, and resolutions were passed ————- in the stro! and most un- measu' terms it the “inhuman traffic fm human lives and human souls recently inaugu- rated in Polynesia by unscrupulous adventurers,” and calling loudly for the interference of all Chris- tian and civilized governments. It did not seem likely, however, that the indignation of the pie of Sydney would produce much effect; but a few months aiterwards the all slavers had the anda- city to take away some of the natives of as Dow, under the protectorate French government at once took summary measures for the release of the Tahiti eis the guilty ‘ies as they coul and suppressed for a time the infant slave trade of the South Seas. ‘When the necessity for cheap labor, however, in nsland became extremely urgent, the leading jpowner, squatter and cotton grower in both New South Wales and Queensland ventured to revive the scheme which only a few months before appa- rently been finally crus! In fact, in the Introduc- tion of labor from the South Sea Islands lay the only hope of the Australian cotton Laer Chinese coolies had in various instances been tried, but it ‘wes found impossible to keep them from running away and joining the scores of thousands of ther countrymen who reap what seems to Chinamen a fabulous harvest on the gold fields. ‘There was also the yet more troublesome disadvantage that China- men know too much, and that they iearn to speak English far too speedily to be of any permanent ser- vice; for it ls a well established principle in india and Australia that as soon as Bengalees or China- men acquire a knowledge of the Angiv-Saxon tongue they become unmanageabie and usciess. ‘The shipments of Polynesians to Australia in any appreciable quantities began about two years ago, and have steadily continued ever since, until now there are at least 3,000 of these unhappy bondmen toiling in the plantations of Queensiand. flow many in all have been removed from their island homes of indoience, happiness and plenty cannot be computed; that a large percentage of them have sickened and died on tue voyage, or perished after their arrival, under the “kind and shoughtfal’’ care of (heir taskmasvers, or being ‘used up” and trans- formed into cotton and gold pieces, is certain; and yet it is estimated that at least 3,000 still remain alive in the colonies. Their numbers, too, are con- stantly being augmented; their a gs month ig shared by a few more cargoes of their country- men; not @ season of the year goes by without giving them a sadder earnest of the probable speedy, enslavement of their whole race, and the depopula- ton of the islands whence they were abducted. ‘The real character of the new system was at first varefully vetled under the convenient descriptive epithets of ‘free emigration” and ‘contract labor,” and the sympathy of the public was invited tor a scheme which its advocates claimed would necessar- ily result in the civilizing and Christianizing of the PB may ah ae while it would, at the eame time, conduce in an almost fabulous degree to the pros. perity of tropical Australia, Very soon, however, whispers began to be heard in reference to the cruelties practised upon the laborers. Then @ ship, belonging to merchant who first revived the Polynesian labor scheme, put into Sydney, fili with wick and dying islanders. Many of the fm od men who formed the original cargo of the ship had died on the passage from overcrowding and tli usage and starvation; such of them us were left were in the last stage of exhaustion. The matter was, how- ever, successfully ed; the slip was kept away from the city; no visitors were allowed to board her: the authorities were “induced to believe” that every- thing was as it should be, and after a portion of the sutviving islanders had died and'been disposed of, and the remainder brought into iaboring condition, the ship satled away to the north, where the misera- ble remuant of the ship’s cargo were handed over to the planters In the usual manner. The rumors to the effect that the new scheme was in fact a system of slavery, however, were constantly becoming stronger, especially in the few centres of population nearest fo the plantations, although most of the men who had protested loudest at the outrages upon the poor wretches who were sent to the Chincha Islands, awed by the wealth and distinguished postition of the leading Australian slave traders and slave owners, Maintained a discreet silence. At length, after seve- Fal largely atvended meetings had been held at Bris- bane, the capital of Queensiand, the following peti- tion Was drawn up and forwarded to the Queer j— To Her Most Gracious Majesty Victonta of the United King. Farayee , Quoen, Defender of the Faith, teen’ Britain aud Ireland, Queen, The petition of a number of the inhabitants of the colony of Queena Woe mivewng amewmbied In the elty of anxiety the introduction into this colony of a large number of tives of the South Sea Isiands by private individuals, 10 work as laborers on antavions, pantaions ‘and on sheep end cattle That ‘natives ba introduction, to return bome on ‘others un’ ceptive representations, while many bave been induced 10 coms by the promise that should be conveyed home within twelve months; that thi promise has not been fultiliet, but, on the natives have been detained Your petitioners have regarted with dismay the tntroduc- tion of ap inferior and uncivilized race into thie bo supplant the British and European laborer, as ft will have the effect of reducing to destitution and inactivity the working classes of the colons, who have been induced to emigrate here ing im Queensland an io- 4d permanent employment; and they ed thee Te Wnt heh meaeeetp by: vention opposed to the constitution of the colony hat ol its foundation. va Wherefore your Majesty's bumble petitioners most humbly [raz that Zou Mons Gracious. Majeaty will bbe pleased to pro. aman ga, ag being a development the slave ade with ite aitendaat evils in fis most modera “0. 4 your Mos: Gracious Majesty's petitioners, as in duty An bonnd, will ever pra: fiend vy the ‘Chairman at the unanimous request and on bebalf of the said public meeting. JOSHUA JEAYS, Chainnan, BRISBANE, Queexsiand, Jan. 16, 1668, It aiso came to light that some corr dence on the subject of the kidnapped South Sea Isiancers had taken place between the home government and Sir George Bowen, the Governor of Queensland. A let- ter had been received from Captain Luce, of her Majesty’s ship Esk, atthe Englisa Colonial Ofice, stating that accounts had been received of the Is of several vestels and the murder of several Eu- ropeans at certain of the South Sea Islands; and further, that it appeared by a letter written by a trader {n those seas that the natives said “that tl ey were perpetrating those atrocities in revenge for the loss of many of their countrymen, who were i g carried away to Queensland and the Feejee Islands by Europeans, who hired them as ja- borers and | prom! to return them in twelve months.” Governor of Queensland made a Cy investigation immediately into the condition of two plantations, and reported to the home govern- ment that the islanders were ‘well treated in ever; ct” and were ‘perfectly happy and contented.” ‘The slave interest, however, ed at the agita- tion inaugurated against their new ticn scheme,” and with an eye probably to the ira sipility of a more rigid and searching scrutiny into the matter being shortly insti tion to give the system a | it with the permanence ol ‘vested “Polynesian laborers’ act’? was lobbied throt Colonial Legislature, avowedly for the protection of the natives, but in reality to cover up the hideous in- Justice of the system, and secure themselves from __responsibilit, this act. provision was made for the r ‘ation of contracts and for the appointment of inspectors whose special duty it should be to see that the islanders were fairly treated and that the terms of the contracts were observed by both masters and slaves. It was also enacted t @ certain ration of food should be furnished to the laborers and that they shduld each year receive “two shirts and two pairs of trousers.’’ Care, how- ever, was taken that in all essential res} the islanders should be left ag much as ever at the mercy of their masters, and the wor! the act has clearly demonstrated that it affords no protec- on mneneyee to Se oni 1e contract are oc rej ret but the natives, ignorant of the tongue in which they are drawn up, and with no conception of the nature of an agreement, have no idea either of their rights or legal position. The inspectors in- variably are appointed by the interest of the slave owners and on! y acevo to invest the taskmasters in the eyes of the islanders with a more terrible power, No provision whatever has been made for medical attendance in cases of sickness, and the slaves only get their wages (if they ever do get them) at the ex- Piration of the contract. The nature of the whole business was very clearly ented in @ letter addressed by one of the mem- bers of the Queensiaud Legislature, sitting for Bris- bane, to the Brisbane Courier, at the time of the passage of the ‘Laborers’ Act.” After giving his own observations upon the working of the new sys- tem, Mr. Brookes says:— It has been pointed out over and over again, and no one has been able to gainsay the fact, thata close anulogy exists be- tween the lawless traillc in South Sea Islanders a carried on Jo Queensland and the slave trade. Polynesian Laborer's act Ys ftaelf proof of this; for no attempt to legislate upon the subject was made uutll after the traiie had been publiciy Senounced as iilegal. ‘Then, but not until then, this Bill was introduced to legalize a trafle which is admitied to be of a jawless character, and which the bill tteelf declarea to be 1m- lawful. Slavery was abolished by an act of the Imperial Par lament in 1838, throughout all the British dependen ‘and her Majesty has entered into treaties with almost every civilized Powertn the world, and also with many barbarous and uncivilized Powers, for the suppression of the slave trade. ° Upon a full consideration of all the circumstances surrounding this question there can scarcely arise a doubt in the mind of any reasonable and intelligent person that the Governor has no alternative but to reserve “the Polynesian ‘The 4 jone Inland labor into Queensland are not of merely local interest, ‘but of national and paramount im great in- tereste of humanity and justice. It will now be seen that the views of those who have prominently stood forward to op- thie scheme and from the first denounced It ae mgevival their convictions, The sentiments of our this sub, a) bave not as led to any Crrig conclusion, sincerely trust that this great country wi tinally, forever, put f things so repy e an traffic which, |. continue, rill ultimately bring desolation” of Polynesia ax surely as the origin of Wihloh tris % but ho Imitation, brought about ine Sesotation frie.” It fem black staio upon the civilization of Queensland. Ha’ thus briefly sketched the general history of this iniquitous system, | shall now give some account of its I cepa working. In the first place, there is abundant evidence to show that in the collection of the islanders and their transferal to Queensland the atrocities of the slave trade have been revived. The South Sea Islanders may be divided into two classes— heathens and “Polynesian Christians.” Far tho greater number of the Qeensland islanders belong to the former class, and for obvious reasons the slavers find much leas difficulty in disposing of pagans than Chrisdans to the planters. These unbappy savages, of course, speak no English, and are generally forci- bly Kiduapped from their homes. If they show any disposition to be troublesome on board the ship their eap ors adorn them with a pair of handcuils and re- duce them to silence and submission with a liberal application of the cat-o’nine tails. In the Christian islands there is a great difference in the mode of capture, though in the treatment of the slaves after they are fairiy stowed away in ihe hold the Chris- tans receive the same usage as their lesa enlightened compatriots. The Christian natives are invariably enticed away by the most tempting promises. Ac- cording to the slavers’ statement they have it in their power to aall away to @ land overflowing with miik and honey. where, by a few hours’ work a day “for a year’ (the term is never represented as i than a twelvemonth), they can earn enoagh to make them rich, The captain will take them (out of pure Kindness and good nature) to this poor man’s para- dise gratuttousiy, and he will also see that they are sacredly returned to their homes ina year. The poor natives then take leave of their friends, and, as soon as the ship has weighed her anchor, they are safely consigned to the steerage. The mortality daring the voyage, although the passage is not generally more than three or four weeks, ia very high. Ten, fifteen, sometimes twenty reent of the naman cargo nh, ily from ome sickness and despatr, partly from 1ll usage and rtly from starvation, The only object of the slaver to land living human bei! with a few a5 tionally lively specimens. He then portions hi cargo ont imto lots, and the planters take their chances of getting their money's worth out of these purchases, The price paid is not generally heavy— only about seven ands sterling, or thirty-five dol- lars, por head; but shows a constant tendency to rise, and taki iw account the brevity of the voyage the business must remarkably well, A cargo of a hundt is frequentiy taken by a snail brig, and not more than the three months’ rofadozen seamen produces $3,500 in gold, The seamen oniy get about ym doliare per Tonth, 80 the profits must be very high—far more than could be realist in any less questionable baanch of trade. Som@ of the cargoes are landed clandestinely, and though when the veasel goes to Brisbane or Kockhampton it has to pass the ecrutiny of au immigration agent, the examination is a mere farce. A fair idea of the character of the trade may be gathered from the following narrative, which has been recently published. The man who signed it is an extremeiy reputable and trustworthy witness, sod no doubt can be entertained as to the strict ac- curacy of his statements. It will be noticed that until the Syren got ito the vicinity of the islands the crew knew nothing of the business in which she wag to be employed—an old trick of the African slavers. A SPECIMEN VOYAGR—STATEMENT OF ONE OF THE CREW OF A SLAVER, T was cook and steward on board the brig Syren, which sailed from Newcastle, New South Wales, with coals for Sew Caledonia, about the month of Nover- ber, 1367. We sailed to our destination and dis- charged our cargo, after which the Sie called the men aft and informed them that he intended to roceed to some Of the other isiands, and take on board a cargo of islanders for Queensland. Havin: got four uf the New Caledonian natives we sail away from that group, keeping these natives care- fully stonoenied until the pilot had quitted the venrel, We then proceeded to Lefa and commenced trad- ing with the natives, offering them pipes and tobac- co, When a chief and three men were induced to come on board, under the impression that ta Syaney they wonid recoive (rom two pounds to three poun ts per month. From here we proceeded to Tanna, where a chief named Brown came or board ait bargaimed to procure inen, for which the captain gave hin @ musket and a piwe of red We it to Mutlor id, where we got a good m. natives on board; but as the v ot ge over night to take in wood they all made tl uring darkness, except two, In the morning the captain the watch aud them why they had all the islanders to escape. The men dec not-een one of them go away. For this neglect of duty the captain stopped coffee for two days, as he gald he had oat over £100 by it. ‘We then touched at Bur Bur, where the boat went ashore and brought of nine men, who came to trade; they received sewsbarpe and red handkerchiefs, and were secured in the hold while the boat went ashore again, But this second time it was only for- tunate enough to one man, who jumped over- board and swam ashore before they could bring him to the vessel. After touching at many other islands and getting men in the same way to the number of 110, we called at an island, the name of which 1 forget, where we got six men on board out of u canoe; bnt the chief immediately came off and demanded their Itberation, The captain, on seeing the canoes as- sembling, the natives armed, gath on the beach, thought it best to comply with his demand. However, to chastise them for their opposition, ke manned a boat carrying six muskets and four re- volvers, and sent it to chase the natives, who retired to the beach and drew up some of their canoes on theshore. The boat’s crew then fired into the huis which contained the women, sunk some af the canoes along the shore and then returned to the shij We afterwards called at Mare Island, but the na- tives here were too much civilized and could speak English, and consequently it would have been dan- erous to attempt Eicnappltig there. We then sailed for Brisbane. ee the tirst of our voyage the islanders suffered severely m sea sickness; the Maliicoli men in particular touched nothing for four days. The captain tried to indace them to eat by standing over them with a thick stick, threatening to thrash them if they refused, Many of tuem were attacked with dysentery, and after a p: of six days we came into Moreton Bay, where we remained in quarantine for a month, altogether losing by death about twenty-one out of the 110 natives who left the islands with us. ISHMAEL WILLIAMSON, a Witnesses to signature—W1LLiAM CastL&s, DaviD RAY. JIMNA, August, 1868, Statements similar to the above are constantly finding their way into the Queensland and New South Wales papery, and they all teli the same un- varying story of kiduapping, inhumanity aud de- ceplion, ‘The evidence in rd to the treatment of the natives on the plantations shows that, once fairly in the hands of their masters, all hopes of getting away, except by escape, is out of the question. ‘The smaliness of the shipments of Polynesians back to the islands that have taken place hitherto (and they bear no appreciable proportion to the number of im- portatious) demonstrates that either the natives are too happy to care to revurn or that they are power- Jess to do ao. But there is clear proof that tuey do not stay because they are contented, and it is equally well established that they do not go buck, because their masters, when once they have got the unhappy men in their clutches, ignore the quasi contract and keep them at any hazard. As a general thiug the natives are totally ignorant of the term of labor specified m the agreement; but it mat- ters little whether they do or not, The inspectors never interfere against the slave owners, and many plantations are never visited, Even if they are visit- ed the natives are aiforded no opportunity of telling their wrongs through an interpreier, and the so- called “rigid supervision of the reiations existing be- tween the employer aud employed” is purely au empty form. Now aud then a few phllandiropie gentlemen from Brisbane, accompanied with interpreters, have visit- ed the plantations nearest the coast, and althongh the musters have placed every possibie obstacle in tae way of in obtaining information, a pretty clear idea of the position of the natives has been arrived at. hese plantations are, of course, the most humanely worked, owing to their proximity to the chief centres of population, and the condition of the isianders ts reported to be infinitely superior to what it is in she iniertor, Yet eveu here the natives are in a most wretched and miserable plight. Take, for instance, an authentic report of the state of the islanders on a large sugar planiavion vot thirty miles from Brisbane. The islanders begin work at six o’ciock in the morning and toil, with only an hour’s intermission, until balf-past five in the evening. They are overlooked by European over- seers and kept constantly to their work. The whip my used on extreme occasions, but stoppage of food is frequently resorted to as a Dunisnment in ob- cases of laziness. men are lodged ina shed, seventy-feet long aud twenty-five feet wide, thus allowing each human being about ix square feet of shelter. A number of them at the time of the visit were employed in breaking up some new ground with spades, and as are allowed no shoes the bare feet had to be to work the spade into che soil. The only clothing of any kind issued to them were two shirts and two pairs of pan- taloons a year. These, of course, wear out long be- fore the arrival of the next annual supply, and con- sequently most of the islanders were seen toiling in an almost state of nudity, their only covering being a few remnants of a shirt ted round their loins. They would have looked infinitely better aes in econ og ooo ee Se ae © men, however, appeare unger. y stated that the allowance uf food made to them was altogether insufficient; many tmes, they said, they had consumed thetr three days’ rations in a le day. This is by no means a fair sample of the general run of Queensland plantations. natives are in this case com) vely happily situated. ‘Those who have seen more remote plantations bi back reports of a state of singe to which the bed 1s bliss itself. the time the lanier has got his men to the country they ve cost him a good deal of money, and he at once sets to work to take it out of them. The vid system of “using up’ has been revived to @ great extent among these pioneers of civilization, and they do their best, by means of incessant toil, insufficient food and hard usage perf to exhaust froi the bodies of their slaves in a few years the vitality that would have lasted out a lifetime. ‘vhere 1s, of course, a legal fiction to the effect that the meu get wages. But their wages are never paid until the expiration of a contract, which the pilant- ers are too smart to allow ever to terminate. But, even in the few cases where they are paid, the amount is shamefully small. The contracts are gen- erally worded to gre thirty dollars a year, food ana clothing. The clothing consists only of the two shirts: and two pairs of pantaloons before aliuded to, and ‘tue rations rarely inclide animal fool. Bread fruit has recently been introduced by the planters, and, in due course of time, this will probubly be the sole fare of their bondmen. The only real distinction between the Polynestan labor scheme and the old slavery system is that in the former the women have be: litherto spared. ‘This, however, is a very questionable advantage, and the planters have already proposed to linport femal as well as male islanders. [f they can only once get their pet scheme fairly going they will lose ao time ta perpetuating the race of their slay And even now, it is said, a few Women have ty introduced, ‘They will also be utilized for industrial purposes and wiil form the only requirement now wanting to the rmanence of the slave system recently inaugurated, Jniess some apeedy check be gress of this new scheme for Northern Austrail laced upon the pro- e development of uarter of i be the it ts mevitabl great slavery centre of the world. . In order to corroborate the statements given above Lappend the following extracts on this subject from the inost responsible and trustworthy, aud, next to the Melbourne Argus, the most iniiuential and widely circulated of Australian journals, the Sydney Morn- ing Heraid, It will be seen from these that, the ac- connts given in this article is based apon the testt- mony of Australians themselves, and that the Ian- guage used has been no stronger than that of a leading conservative Australian journal:— The accounts we have received from authori doubted of the state of the natives of the South now in Queensiand is extremely disheartening. wish to Faise fastidious objections agaiuat ence promise material ty, but we t henitate, espe- cially tn the light of past events, to desire hat the, conduion a great ion of ored pe one Levey having Yor othe? charnctertatics Sistine’ Tro it but that have no local domestic ties and that at a futare period they may perhaps retura to thelr native country. evidences are too strong to be resisted that many of them are inveigied into their position by the most false representations end that are actually stolen from their native land. it ie considered that five pounds to seven pounds each are paid by the planter for islanders brought to the shores usenaland, and taat the countries from which they are brought are within « short voyage of the market to which they are transferred, can any one doubt that improper means are likely to be employed to lure them, or that they are ac- tually seized and taken on board without their consent, But these men are necessary to grow cotton and sugar, “to dovelop our resources," to make us rich, and for this object aro to overlook the experience of the whole world. If anything ie written in letters of biood and fire, it is that slavery fa an abomination, and that Ite end ie destruction. If anything ‘8 people and ruins their moral senao, it is the obtain- Ing labor by furse and rewarding 1 with vlows, Mia wonder. ome @ thine the very langwyemay become corruyt ‘awl the very slang of the sare driver may be naturalised among ws. At this present moment there are men engaged in this vooa- tion who, had they been told ten years ago that they would ve root by eich @ system, would have, exc iaimed with horror, Riethy servant adogt™ In contending with uncivilized tule man beings tht is of well intentioned men a feeling of antas are worn out by a controversy 7 ion OF Feagon, and to resort to violence as the quickest and for the present the Mont effectnal method of governinent. If anything ie certain it te that If we onc habitnate men of superior race to the command of one that fs inferior, they Wid treat it asa mere instrument of fortune. If any exoep- Hons are mare they will be just such as ure made in regard 10 dogs and horses, petted and cared for on acco wir special value, and that aympatuy which grows between a man and his b ‘The peop!* of these colonies are hound! at the present mo- mont to awake to the creation of @ system, hot only in Quaenmuand, ut in the sox . which wil produce the utment inh tigarace hpon « 0 be the organ of jut we shoud see not to be Isieodn ey lined ebar | lavor as @ poruiianand separate cause, DECEMBER 1, oreed the ludustry of & couniry by the 1868.—TRIPLE SHEET. 5 that would permit the azistence of ye perpetual colision sulleringe Feentmeni, cruelty aud disorder of @ quasi savers. | Tespects, have The deterioration even » few months familiarity mind, Jt may b alr rie hapry for tions ‘or those wi inclined to MEXICO. Seven Monthy’ Session of the Sinaloa Con- grese—Atiempt to Pass an Atrocious Law Rivalling Peonage or Sluvery—Its Defeat. MAZATLAN, Oct. 17, 1868, ‘The honorable State Congress of Sinaola, as it is called, concluded a long, bickering and (the people consider) an absolutely useless session on the 16th instant. They opened doors Jast April, and have kept them open aince, with the exception of a few days’ intermission, when it was thought the public were to be relieved of their silly and unwise legisla- tion. During the seven months’ siiting they have passed thirty-two decrees, not one of which relates to the utterly shattered financial condition of the State, its public schools or public improvements. The time was chiefly frittered away in making war on the Governor, hunting up traitors who served In the Empire, personal quarrels and drawing pay in advance at the rate of $200a month, While the mem- bers have thus, with characteristic integrity, feath- ered their own nests, they have left other State officials at the disposal of a bankrupt Treasury to get half pay or no pay, as the case may be. The people are very much exasperated with their repre- sentatives, whom they believe to have shamefuily outraged the trusis confided to them, and a public petition ig to be presented to the supreme govern- ment asking that sovereign body to dissolve the Congress of State on account of its incapacity, call for anew election and thus procure a new legis- lative body. Whether the general government has the right to dissolve the representative power of “a free and sovereign” State, a4 Sinaloa is styled In oMicial documents, would be a question some people would consider doubtful; but there is an axiom that all things are fair in politics—a rule which boids good in Mexican politics particularly. A review of the entire acts of the Sinaloa Congress would be a waste of time and a few points will be sufficient, One of their most atrocious attempts at legislation was what is known as the law of servants (ley de servientes), regulating the hire and wages of mozos y mozas (male and female servants), One of the provisions of this would-be law provided that any servants leaving a master or mistress before the time of service expires can be followed up and per- secuted until captured and when captured returned to sald master or mistress, after which they must serve out their full term, and the costs incurred in such capture to be deducted from their wages, Of course @ law of this character would establish a sys- tem of domestic servitude having viler and more Infamous traits than even peonage or slavery, for while {t would leave servants subject to insult and abuses from their virtual owners, leave them bound with chains and shackles manufactured by their so-called Senger legisiators, there would be nothing of that patriarchal spirit existing between servant and master which was snpposed in some degree to mitigate the condition of those sub- ject to peonage and to slavery. White the majority of Mexican leaders and Jawmakera have the reputa- tion of being capabie of trampling all laws and vio- lating all moral principles for the attainment ot per- sonal ambition, sil the country is not without afew high-souled and noble-spirited citizens, who revolt against tyrannical and barbarous usurpations, Un- fortunately such men are in a woful minority. Yet even the few do some good, As might be expected, men of this stamp looked at the law of servants, to which we allude, as one which robbed the lower classes of their “pe, and they warred against it vigorously. Leading the attack was the editor of El Correo del Pacifico, Seiior José C, Valades, and to whom is principally due the credit of defeating the enactment of so infamous a piece of legislation. The Legislat to be. avenged upon him, elected the second officer in the Secvetary’s office of that body to the first ition, simply because Et Correo had un iy demanded his expulsion on the of being @ traitor, of having served the late empire in an official capacity. This honorable body also decapitated the editor of La Regeneracion de Sinaloa, the oficial organ, because he took sides with the Governor in the war between the latter and the Legislature. The personal animosity and vin- dictiveness thus exhibited be i the legt=lative body brought the wits into the field. Day after day printed squibs were distributed about the city, bring- Ing the Con; into disrepute, lampooninyg its leg- fslation and ridiculing ite members. About the closing of the session a sort of London Tomahawk ‘was pubiished, in which the Legislature was repre- sented in session, the members photographed as asses with huge ears, but otherwise wearing the latest styles of Mazatian tatlorship. Ley de Sirvi- entes was printed ander the ase who introduced it into the honorable body, and other asses were ap- propriately labelled. In one corner General Corona is made to ask the question, pointing towards the isiature, “Do those animals belong to the train of Fourth division?’ and a person close by replies ironically, “No, General, that’s the State Congress.” Justice is represented as a skele- ton, and two skeleton employes are reaching their hands up towards the Treasurer General's Office, exclaiming, “To us, Don Pachito; we are nearly dead with hunger.” The clerk—a high-toned look- ing young gentleman—sporting a fashionable mus- tache, Teptios, “No hay dinero para nadie” (there's no money for any one). The editor of La Regenera- cion is represented as sitting in his sanctum with a most woful countenance, and beneath him the words, “Un redactor sofando en duendes” (an edi- tor dreaming of ghosts). A pawnshop also figures, upon which Is labelled, “Casa Eimpeiio. Aviso.—No se presia porque se apolillan tas prendas” (Pawn- shop. Notice.—Nothing lent because your goods become moth-eaten). ‘These are some of the salient poincs, Thie Aztecitan Tomahark had its t, and the unfortunate Legisiature put an end to ttself very hurriedly. Its closing scenes were short if its session Was jong. The day previous to its closing amall little handbilis on by one of the Irate city editors, head ul tid. ings, Sinalolans” (Albricias, Sinaloen. ith some sharp hits at the members. At six o’clock in the evening of the 16th the military were drawn up in Une in front of the Government House; music made the air lively and attracted attention to the scene, Soon afterward Major General Corona and Governor Kubl appeared, and, walking i the muddie of the street, bk ee toward the (usa de Ayuntamiento (City Hall), followed by the members of the Legisia- ture, other Officials and some 200 or 300 of the popu- da ‘The party passed through @ single file of sol- diers on both sides of the street, said files extending from the Government House to the City Hall, nearly # half-mile in distance. Arrived there, the President of the Legislature addressed a valedictory to the ex- ecutive, simply saying thit Congress had fin- ished tte labors, The Governor thanked him and said (ironically), “Well done, good and faithful servants,” the audience finishing with @ suppressed Amen. Ou retiring the authori- tes waiked back to the Government House, the sol- diera falling in by companies and bringing up the rear. ‘Thas ended, amid the beatingofdrums and the ridicule of the populace, the seven month's ses- sion of the Cor of the State of Sinaloa, We will add t this honorable body is composed of nine members, mostly young men, aged say from twenty-eight to thirty-five years, two of the number ruvuing over into the sear sud yellow leaf. One isa lawyer, #1X are small country merchants and two are ranceros, Only one of the entire number nas ever travelled outside the State, and the remainder, so to speak, have never been outside the districts which they represent. In one respect they have the great honor of being like the immortal bard of Avon— that is, they know itie Latin and less Greek; they are a8 ignorant of English as if the schooled in the interior af Africa, and t as been sadly basiurdized. The Press of Northwestern Mextco—Only Eleven Newspapers to Over Seven Hundred Thousand Inbabitants—Novel Views Cons cerning the Heraid and Its Correspondents, MAZATLAN,. Oct, 18, 1868, Nothing can better illustrate the Intelligence of the people of Northwestern Mexico thar @ review of their newspaper literature. Political philosophers of the democratic school tell us that a free and powerful preas is at once the bulwark and guardian of republican governments. Judgment by this stan- dard would leave the Mexican repablic with a very weak bulwark and a poor guardian. Withont, how- ever, entering into @ general review of the entire press of the country, we shall devote ourselves spe- cially to the newspaper kingdom in the States of the Northwest—those States in which the American, people, for some reason seem, to take & deep interest. And now, for the special benefit of your readers, facts and Ogures on the subject will be presented. Those will speak for themselves, and their perusal may, no doubt, create a stronger desire for the fulfilment of that manifest ,, had been heir Spanish destiny which the HeRaLD has in store for Mexico and which i# to revolutionize the press, the pulpit and the people tnto the higher life. There is not @ single daily paper published in either of the five great States of Sinaloa, Durango, Coahuila, Chibuanua and Sonora, with which we may include the Territory of Lower California, containing in all @ population of 728,000 souls. The single ‘Territory of Colorado, situated in the very heart of the Rocky Mountains, owns more newspaper property than the immense tract of country spoken of and which comprises Northwestern Mexico proper. Yet Colo- rado cannot have a population exceeding 50,000 or 60,000 souls at most, unless the Union Pacitlc Rail- road has lately Nooded it with a large influx of the brain and muscie of the older States, So much for the relative status of American and Mexican in- telligence. Now for a glance at the States severally. Sinaloa, with a population estimated at 160,000, has @ semi-weekly and three weeklies, La Regenera- ¢ion de Sinaloa is the official organ, published twice @ week, for which the government pays fifty dollars per issue. Itis entirely devoted to the publication of omicial documents, including the doings of the Legislature. Its editor is appointed by the Gover- nor, but he has to be confirmed by the Legislature before entering on his official duties, His salary 1s $700 a year. An editor ‘of this character finds him- self in @ peculiar position, between two fires, 60 to speak. If he attacks the State Congress that body may decapitate, and if he assaults the oMfcial con- duct of the Governor the latter oMcial may likewise behead him. As it is diMoult to please two masters the editor oMcial usually tries to please one at the risk of displeasing the other. The late editor of La Regeneracion is @ case in point. He took sides with the Governor in a controversary between the latter gentleman and the Legislature or Congress, the consequence of which was he found his occupation like that of Othelld’s, The journal over which he presides is a small sheet, twenty-two by fourteen, printed on yellow paper, and sold at the rate of twelve and a half cents per number, one dollar per month or twelve doliars per year, @ sum or sums, the reader will perceive, much higher than the first class dailies in the United Statea, Its circulation is between 700 and 800, mainly among officeholders. Its paying subscribers are not over 200, The name of the paper—The Regeneration @&f Sinaloa—was given to it after the present rulers drove Martinez from power, the latter chieftain hay- ing captured it when he drove Governor Rubi from power. It was supposed that when Martinez’s revo- lution died so prematurely there would be a “regen- eration” for the better, but the minutest observer can see nothing to indicate it. So that as far as the official organ 18 concerned there is nothing in a name. El Correo del Pacijico is the same size as the paper already named. It is edited by a young gentlem: Who has had a California education, Seor José Valades, a practical printer. Editorially this jour- nal pays special attention to attacks on the remnants of peerelins, traitors and the State Congress. Half of its space is devoted to the publication of novels in such form that it may be cut off and the novel reappear in cheap form with the imprint of the office. Paper sold at twelve and half cents @ nuinber; circulation 360, #1 Pacisico is also a weekly, size above named, and is devoted to “politics, news, colonization, commerce, mining, arts, public improvements and advertisements,” at least such is a translation of the editor’s announce- ment. Sold at Hd cents per month or five dollars per year; circulation between 300 and 400, The above three journals are published In this city, con- taining from 12,000 to 15,000 inhabitants, nilica- dor, & Very smail sheet, about the size of large letter paper, 18 published at Qullacan, the former capital of this State; sold at five cents per number; circula- tion 200. The latter paper and El Pacijico towards conservatism, or the Church party, Ind the radical editors of the other two journals named modestly hint that the editors of their contemporaries faithfully served the empire, None of the journais named are yet a year old. Newspapers in this coun- ty go up and down as quickly as revolutions, The State of Durango, having a population of 165,000, can boast of only a sitg’ ie newspaper-—La Restauracion Liveral—* semi-weekly, This 1s. whe otticial organ of the State government, and the funds necessary for iig publication iiave to come out of the State treasury. Like all the other oficial journals, it pays but little attention to news, in fact none de- serving the name. its columns are atways crowded with dry documents from the legisiative or execu- tive departments. It is the size of What is known in our country as a small country weekly ; price one douar per month within the city limits and $1 60 out- side; published at the State capital (Durango), which contains some 12,000 inhabitants. Coahuila claims two publications— El Coahuilense and La Voz del Pueblo—published at the capital, Saltillo. The former 18 a semi-weekly, and the organ of the State government. What has been already said of official organs wiil apply w sul this; price seventy-flve cents per moi the city and eighty-one cents scribers outside, Looking at the condiciones (conditions) on which the is published, a hand or fist calls the reader’s atiention to the fact that “by express orders from the government no com- municauons containing personalities will be admit- ted to its columns,” other paper is published under the auspices of a society, and issued weekly. The Jast number we have seen of it had five columns devoted to ‘The Horrible Assassination of General Patoui.” Price, dos reales cada cuatros numeros para dentro y fuera de esta capital (twenty-five cents for br four numbers within and without this capttal). Itio is said to have a population of 8,000 and the entire State 70,000. he great State of Chihuahua, by far the | tin the Mexican republic, numbering 170,000 abi- tants, has only a single small-sized, four column weekly—‘-oMicial organ of the State government of Oninanuaana it tells ite readers that “the laws and other supreme dispositions are obligatory from the mere fact of their being published in this newspaper,” which means to that all laws and edicts printed in its columns have the sanction of law and are to be considered as legally binding. Its issue of the 18th ult. (last re- ceived here by mail up to date) contains two ora- tions, one occupying seven coluinns and a quarter, the other six coluimns—the latter to be continued. An editorial continued from the last number is a lit- Ue over two columns long, and has at the bottom continuard (to be continued), after the style of G. P. R. James’ everlasting nove.s. In one corner is seen “Redactor responsable, José Maria Juarnietta’”’—that is to say, Seflor J. is not only editor, but he ts also the “responsible,” and will naturally give his atten- tion, if required, to “piatols and votlee for two,” after the fashion of the Parisian editors; or, this not meeting the wishes of some enraged subscriber, he will meet him on the editorial Arkansas style and ange paste poland pen for bowie knile or stt- to. ‘There are no advertisements in La Republica, Whether the advertisements be crowded out for want of space or some other cause is not stated, Such an omission as this on the part of @ journal in the United States would be cousidered an unpardon- able sin or a death warrant. This journal is pub- oe at the city of Chinuahua—population 12,000 to ene State of Sonora has two newspapers, though neither deserves (ne name in the true sense. Une, La. kstrella de Ocvidente (Star of the West), 1s the officia! State organ, published weekly. Bnough has bees sald abont oficial organs to let the reader know exactly What an official organ is in Mexico, The other is @ little sheet published occasionally by some private party. Sonora has a population of 150,000. ‘The Territory of Lower Californ) as its oficial newspaper, published at La Paz, the capital. since the dethronement of Governor Galan by order of citizen President Juarez this journal has been chiefly filled with the brilliant legal military productions of the present military Governor of the Territory. Occa- sionally it contains curiosities. Its issue of the 12th ult. published and recommended to its readers the demo- cratic platform on which Governor Seymour was nominated, adding that ¢ wna fue recibido con grandes aplausos, Wells, Fargo & Co., and the California, Oregon and Mexico Steamship Company give it two columns of advertisements, La Baja california, as the journal im called, is published weekly. Nothing said about the price, and no cards, The Territory has a population of #,000. We find, then, by the above that to a popu- lation of between 700,000 and 800,000 only eleven newspapers are published, neither being daily and six being organs of the State governments, leavin; five insignificant sheets published by the brain an intelligence of private parties. Some authorities assert that not more than one out of every tweuty- five of the adult Mexicans can read or write. But this ts even too liberal au estimate. The eleven pers mentioned will not average combined over 500 subscribers, or say 500 eac! Paying subscrib- ers could be reduced to half this number. Well, the eadttors and publishers have one consolation—they give just the quality and quantity of news in de- mand—namely, they come as near giving no news as possible. ‘The fraternity have evidently never heard of that lightning institution, the telegraph, or, having heard of it, their papers are stlent as to lis existence. Neither have they heard that as long ago as 1835 the New YoRK HERALD inaugurated a sya- tem of procuring and buying news tn all the civilized and unctvilized giove which lias been 0 suc. cessfulas to astound the newspaper world. You might ae weil ask a Mexican editor to start a revoln- tion in the infernal regions against his Satanic Ma- Jesty (and a Mex! could do this if anybody couid) as to him to buy news. And when he tis told that the HERALD has a feet of steam yachts for the col- lection of marine news jarger than the entire Mext- can navy he throws up liis right shoulder and know- ingly amiles (muscular movements only known to Spaniards and their descendants), exciaiming “Que pais,” or “Valgame Dios.” | They have, by we way, some fanny ideas about the HERALD and ita systeui of procuring news. For instance, when your oe sent cot mdent for Northwestern Mexico arrived here last year it was immediately rumored that the United States government had sent @ writer to Mazatlan and that the New York Heratp had given Seerctary Seward permiasion to publish in its col- umns all satd writer might indite regarding Mexican affairs. ‘The poor delu people judged the press of the United States by their own newspapers, and they could not see, for the life of them, how an American journal could afford the great expense of keeping correspondents in foreign countries. When they lad their minds disabused of the ideagthat the | American government liad nothing whatever to do with the business. it was simply individual en- terprise, and that the Hreatn had several sach core respondents throughout Mexico, \uey—meaning we few of the better classes—-begau to realize the power. of Journailam a3 developed Smong thelr neighbors. Outside the editorial fraternity there is not mora than one in a thousand who knows that there 1s any other journal than the H@BALD published in the United States, so absolutely ignorant are the masses of the institutions of our country. Of course, where ignorance prevatis we cannot expect to look tor aspirants in newspaper literature. Mexicans seldom write for the pres# except to explain personalities, for which they have an inordinate passion; thea they write very well, if the courteous expressions with which the Spanish abounds and high sounding adjectives make up fine writing, Editors are addicted to writing out- rageously long editors a from two to four columns in length. I never remember to have seen @ woman’s name attached to any duction in the press of Northwegiern Mexico, Perhaps, to legal documents, one excepted. But Mita lady, a8 was remarked in a former letter, has aa Trish name, at least, and probably gave her heart an@ hand to some gallant native to manner bora. Mexican women are more prone to babies than liter- ature, and, as a type, she cares but little whether he ever sees @ newspaper or not, if she can only haveababy. The men have a like failing with re- oH newspapers if they can only get into office, 3, in part, will explain the small subscription lists. With regu to local news, one, two or three items are considered a big local in any of the me mentioned. fhey are shamefully impoverished in this way--someties not containing even a singe item. But what they write the: have be very careful about for if they are ail personal the “press — law,’? as it ie gives the party alluded to the right to “denounce” the paper. When a person considers the editor has reflected upon his character he ‘de- bounces” the journal insulting him before the Com- mon Council. Then comes an officer, who seizes ail the pi cansaloing the offensive article, the jour- nal being suspended until the case is tried. The Common Couneti call a jury of twelve men, who de- cide mpon. the sacs, f if the editor be ound not guilty he goes on his way rejoicing; but there is no rovision or recourse for him for the damage done im in the suspension of his paper. He must con- tent himself with getting off so easily. If eis found guilty then damages for slander are assessed. Since the commencement of the publication of £1 Correa del Paciico, a little over six months ago, it has been denounced three times, and is expecting another de- nouncement daily from @ Cg of members of the State Congress, who feel emselves aggriev A by the editor's satire. On one occasion the editor of this journal was called to San Francisco, but a few days previously his paper was denounced,- and before he could depart he was obliged to givd bonds for his return, his paper in the meantime re- maining suspended. Editors are very much ha- rassed In this way. Every irritable individual who imagines himself attacked can have recourse to the law; for whether the offensive article be written by the editor or other parties, the newspaper contain- Ing it must stop pudlication until the accuser and the accusea settle thetr quarrel before an august jury. Such a law, however, is in harmony with the wnera! order of things, @ specimen of the wise and fst legislation which characterizes and impover- shes this garden land of the tropics. In the foregoing review we have tried to give the reader as clear and accurate a description as possible of the press of Northwestern Mexico, In doing so let us sincerely hope that it will im some degree acd to tho prevailing American desire of making this benighted country a sharer in the benefits and blesa- ings of a higher intelligence and civilization, Commercial and Market ReviewThe Fall Trade and How it Is Affected—Kevolations and Business Affairs—Standing Report ou Trado in General. MAZATLAN, Nov. 7, 1868. The fall trade has just commenced, There is ® slight though not marked improvement tn business. Country merchants are determined to have long credit, some of them asking eighteen months, although elght months has been considered the standard time. The foreign merchants and importers here do not like to give @ year and a hall credit, but circumstances compel tiem to do #9 sometimes. They have immense stocks of goods on hand and must make room for the new arrivals due by the European fleet this fail. This motive alone often makes them yield to the demands of their customers and without which they would not think of consent- ing. The greatest fear of the merchant is owing to the fact that this State will only have a medium crop this year, and some say not enough to meet home demands, and as a@ consequence the country traders may find themselves financially embar- rassed when payments become due. But tho importers risk all, because they make im- mense profits when they do collect. Besides, if payments are not made when they become due they get from one to two per centa month on the whole amount. It was believed that the present season would open briskly, but such has not been the fact, A depression and stagnation still pervades the commercial community. The late great storms which have visited the towns and districts along the Gulf coast have seriously affected business. Nearly one-half of the little coasting feet was wrecked, and several important towns and villages were either totally destroyed or seriously damaged: The city of Alamos, in the State of Sonora, was represented here yy six merchants, who were making tueir fall Hea ; but hearing of the total destruction of their beautiful city they judged it prudent io make tneir urchases much smalier than they had intended tw. in other cases, From all parts come news of the disasters; but the HERALD has been fw ty informed of the consequences, and we only mention them here in connection with making up our market and coin- mercial report, The destraction of the crops by the overflow! of the rivers will seriously tell in busi- ness. As there is no other great source of wealth but that of agriculture developed throughout this coun- try, and even this is miserably conducted, it follows that when the cropé fail all fails, The condition of the country, too, alfecta trade in a marked degree. People have no confidence in the govern- ment. They do not know who will be ruling next year, and they do not seem to care. If they put im crops they fear that raiding armies wili come along and destroy them. Another great source of fear is that of 1a forced into the constantly moving army of some revolutionary bandit or proninciador. When the masses of able lied men are moved by such impulses it 18 easy to wee Why traie and com- merce languish. I am now going to mention a fact which, in other countries, would be scarcely worth relating, but which is here a matter of vital importance as far as regards business a(fairs. eral Corona has obtained leave of absence, and it is expected that he will soon depart for the City of Mexico, His departure will be the signa! the breaking out of a new revolution against tie present State government, Already the latter have called for the organization of the National (Siate) Guard, and able bodied men not reporting are either heavily fined or severely punished, and in addition jose the privilege of voting at any election within a year, ‘The majority care but liitie whether they vote or not, or, indeed, as to what happens; but the minority are very touchy about serving in the ar with « probability of being badly paid and rae fed. This organizing, then, has driven considerable of the male ere to Tepic, Guaymas, san bias and other points, and the fleeing tives are the best class of the common laborers. The majority of the men liable to mulitary duty who remaim are per- fectly indifferent a4 to their condition i they can oniy get enough to eat and a little moncy to gambie. ‘The revolution already croppiag out not only creates the above condition of society, but makes merchants feel uneasy. They have a horrible aread of the prestame usually given ander the influence of bayo- nets, and they know that a ay awaits them in case of their being stubborn, Thus we have given the reader our commercial and market review, as w commercial editor woukl say. It reads rather strange for a review proper of such business trans- actions, but to write it in any other style would be to write it in ignorance of commercial and business life in Mexico as it actually exists. For a moneyed article, the cotton, tobacco, dry goods and cattle mar- kets at this port, we tfully refer the reader to the H&RALD of August 26 last, at repor’—the Brat ever made ap for an American nae, from this point, or, I believe, any other point in this country— will, in all probability, give @ correct view of the general condition of the markets for the next haif century if there be no change of ownership in real estate, THE WEEKLY HERALD. The Cheapest and Best Newspaper in the Country. The WEEKLY MPRALD of the present week, now ready, contains the very latest European news by the Cable up to the hour of publication; also Teie- graphic Despatches from the Sandwich Islands, Cuba, Mexico and oWer points. It will also contain Presi- dent Johnson's Anaual Message; the Report of the Secretary of the Treasury; the Current News of the Week; the Fashions; Amusements; Varieties; Foreign Intelligence; Industrial Items; Facetie; Sctentific, Sporting, Religious and Literary Intelligence; Wash- ington News; Editorial articles on the promment topics of the day; Our Agricultural Budget; Keviews of the Cattle, Hores, Dry Goods and Boot and Shoe Markets; Financial and Commercial Intelligence, and accounts of all the important and interesting events of the week. TeeMs:—Single subscription, $2; Three copies, $5; Five copies, $8; Ten coptes, $15; single copics, tive cents each, A limited number of advertisements in- serted in the WEeKLY Henan, THR MAIN® MURDER.—The examination of Howard A. Cleveland on a cl of murdering Mr. Warren George at Bast Orrington was held at Haugor on Tuceday last. No material additional facts to those heretofore given by us were elicited. Cleveland waa bound over for trial at the February term of the Sus vert, m™m er of the accused, a ta answer at the same time in the sum Of $1,009, WON® security was furnished,