The New York Herald Newspaper, October 18, 1869, Page 10

10 THE COURSE The Valley of the Platte—The Unien Pacitic Railroad from Omiha to North Platte—Ap- pearance of the Country and the Tewns Along the Route. Nortn PLareE, Neb., Oct. & 1869. Upos leaving Omaha thé railroad train com- menees its course across the Continent by diverging to the southward in order to seek the valley of the Ptatte. For'the first few miles the roa@ has a slight aacent, then @ descent as slight to the level of Papil- Mion creek, theh @ ‘gradually rising grade to the uplands of the Elkhorn, then a.gentie downwaril @ope to te commen level of the Elkhorn and tro Platte, whence 4 continues up the valley and the Piains with a constant but almogt imperceptible ele- vation a distance of 500 miles, to Cheyenne, where ‘Yhe first sight ci the Rocky Mountains ta obtained. At first a stretch of briilant underbrush ‘lines the banks of the cnt on both sides of the railvoad track; beyond even slopes of gently ‘swelling native prairin and cultivated lands "roll away; farm houses, with their little gardens, ‘appear at pointe; soft, dclicately-tinted grasses bend before the breeze sporting over the unbroken acres; “wild flowers of imdinive variety intermingle with the grasses; sunflowers Mit their yellow heads above all the otters; natural beds of blooming plants upon ‘the lovely meadows show how the master hand of Nature, m ite free“and lavish style, excels all the feeblor powers of art. Five miles of this débouche Incitaing toward the south, followed by an exten- sive curve, bring the train more directly on its coarse to the distant West. <A similar but wider vie w now unfolds itself, Much of the land 18 under evltivation. Summit Siding, Gilmore and Papillion ‘stauions—merely local depots a few miles apart for OF EMPIRE. * Tailroad sidings and the convenience of surrounding fettiers—are quickly left behind, and crossing the bridge over Papillion creek, the pleasing picture is not lessened, only varied for fifteen miles of splen- did landscape down to Elkhorn station, where tne level land is mutually shared by the Valleys of the Hikhorn and the Platte. Forward lies the great valley of the Piatte itself, and stretching to tie north and south the beautiful valley of the Eikuorn, A glimpse of the latter river is obtainea while the train is crossing. Shooting over the valley (which here is very wide) in a somewhat diagonal direction toward the former river, ten miles only are traversed until the eye resta upon the waters of the Platte. These are soon lost, however, behind the line of timber, while the train continues up the Valley till it stops again where two channels encir- cle a well wooded isiand two miles long, at the town of Fremont. Here a branch railroad line called the “Blair cut off of the Sioux City and Pacific runs eastward, connecting at California Junction, on the east side of the Missouri river, with the Sioux City Railroad for tne North, and a little fur- ther on, at Missour! Valley Junction, with the Chicago and Northwestern tor the East, thus shortening the distance by forty miles. It has as yet little else than local traMc, but by its situation 1t must attract a portion of the eastern trade of the Elkhorn valley, and of the through At- lantic and Pacitic traitic. Fremont rose rapidly to be a town of some importance, with nearly 2,000 in- habitants, but led partly by Eastern avarice it went Wo fast, even for the quickly-growing West. The theoretical ideas and practical extortions of some of its peopie created a reaction, and the value of pro- perty has decreased in consequence. From thé biutts across the river an extensive view of the whole Surrounding country can be obtamed. As the train resumes its motion westward, along ‘the north side of the Platte, you see that the rich @o1i of the valley is largely under cultivation, some- times down to the river bank; houses dot the level botvom tand on both sides of the track and the as- cending slopes far off to the north; grain fields suc- ceed meadows uncut or mown, the grass growing mutive luxuriance, the hay standing in the 8; beyond, over the river, where few settle- sents have yet been made, only the bluffs are dis- tinctly seen, sometimes rugged and abrupt, some- ‘Umes smooth and sloping; Dow the railroad nears te river, the water is in view, and the valley widens to the north; now the water disappears, the vailey Widens southward; soon the shining sands are nearer, and then, as we approach North Bend, where there 1s no View-obstructing timber, the broad sur- face of the swift but shaliow stream 1s close at hand and fullin sight. All along this portion of the line the river, while still establishing its way ward win«- ings, is simultaneously describing an enormous bend toward the north and east, 140 miles m length, between Fort Kearny and Fremont. The town of North Bend does not yet contain many houses or iuhabitants. For several miles we lose sight of the river, but Its course is distinctly marked by the lines of trees upon poth its banks, while we are cutting across the level land to a point where it ey out within pistol shot, and again soon after ides itself. The river is low at present, and in some places you see less of water than of sand. it bas no established channel, but makes ror itself innumerable channels and changes them as often. To-day the current glides swiltly past om a sanay bed, which to-morrow 1s deserted. We are now assing a point where @ broad sandy bed, not a foot iow the level of the land, is altogether dry, the whole body of the river flowing on the opposite side Of it,’ A number of scattered houses form the town of Schuyler, in Colfax county, both named after our Vice President. The valley is still many miles in width, and here the bulk of the bottom land lies mostly on the south side of the river; yonder the distant bluits lead away to the southwest; here the space is short and the slope ts slight irom the track to tne tableland. We have travelled eighty mules from Omaha; gradually we have lately seen 1ewer houses, fewer farms, fewer agricultural implements in open fields, fewer signs ot human in- dustry and life; more broad, unbroken acres whose surface Boll is , 8 you can see by the cuts along the railroad track and the luxuriant growth of grasses; moré signs of Nature’s extensive sway and work. What in the distance looks like must rising from the river is not mist at all—fogs never dim this . Clear atmosphere; but the wind is biowing what would be more than half a gale at sea; it sweeps up clouds of sand from the river bed where it 1s dry, aud from the river banks it carries the sand far over in ‘the vailey, it flings it in your face; if you are in the open air you must shut your eyes or turn your back. ‘There is A station at and named Shell Creek, over which stream the railroad crosses, Shell Creek is narrow, though some sixty miles in length, flowing down from the northwest. Hitherto the train has glided smoothly, but now Tons rather roughly, perhaps by reason of the wind. Here everything 1s rougher—the wind, the railroad and the ground—for the bottom land itself begins to Toll little; but soon there are returning signs of cultivation, herds of cattle grazing, houses in the distance; and now the train stops at the line o1 the sixth principal meridian, on a fine plateau, where stands the embryo city of Columbus. This is the starting point for the valley of the Loup Fork, wnich runs up to the northwest, and, twenty miles from here, through the Pawnee Indian reservation. It is expected that the Niobrara and Missouri Valley Rail- road, which will connect the southeastern corner of Nebraska with the northern boundary of the State, ‘will cross the Union Pacific at Columbus. Here there ia @ pretty and attractive town, having a thriving population, numbering nearly 1,000, The surrounding pga fast being settled by an industrious class of people. After crossing the Loup Fork on a long wooden bridge, which rests on substantial stone abutments, the train runs on smoothly as before. Still off to the south the Platte valley 1s broad; trees along the border of the river are not now so numerous or continuous, but rather appeas more in groupes or groves, with intervening open spaces. Here is the porta channel of an island sixteen miles long, the ‘Water iu sight, the south channel, two miles away, marked by considerable timber. Far over both channels the south bluffs are conspicuous. Near us to the north the distinction between lowland and upland diminishes. Lite and beauty again com. bine to please us, The wind is blowing, but the roud 18 smooth, theéky 1s bright, the sun is warm, the air is pure, the soil is cultivated here and there, the bay is cut and carried of irom weany hundred acres; but most beau- tui of all appear the far-reaching prarie lands, covered with @ verdure variegated and luxuriant; lignt and dark green grasses, with the familiar blue grass, each now in separate patches, all now inter- muingled; here some mellowing into amber, there some deepening into brown; white wild Nowers here in clusters, yonder blooming among the grasses; diferent vurleties of weeds, elegant illuminated piants—each and ali are so beautifully blended that the whole valley 1s covered with a carpet more mag- miticent than human hands could ever weave in vel- Vert. Near Sliver Glen the Platte receives a littie et eam, hear which an adjacent station has assumed its own liquid name of Silver Creek. The river and the railroad still seem to be playing a long game of hide and seek. By reason of the high jand on the wight the railroad is compelled to seek the river, ‘Wlose Course, however, is seldom out of sight, The wiver now inclines to the southern side, near which it runs for many miles; the valley narrows, then it Widens; the river clings to the southern biuds, the southern bluffs bear away to ‘the southwest. ‘The vailey is chiefly on the southern side, ‘Thousands of acres, like thousands more we Have aiready passed, lie clothed in rich Iuxunance an their virgin state. Further on we see hay being mown in considerable quantities for sale to the gov- rumen, for the use of the army, at profitable prices; 5 cid oF two of corn, @ rew houses in the distance, dria pena in the Platte, @ side track and a ata on. (he sabieland, with ‘a near horizon on the te bottom land, stretching away to @ chan- nei of the river, on the left between us and the main body of the Platte~the P| ¥ forty miles since penning fd 5 sioor from us potting nearer to Grang Island pgnore weep 4 ancen the nearer blu be toe trata nae a the distant blu: w merge sink from hed the high plateau, from wi there is on every hand a more extended view. The of Grand Isiand receives its name from the | @ island, over sixty miles long, nar- row, of ireguiar width, and the largest in fhe P etree wane in throagh the south- le 1 ds, ‘De [7 , she unter Plenty, aud many tami. Moat of the le town con- ta, aDd the word el Germ: are livin, ¥ nding netulers” are Gorma is Sin pome Bye hundred tnbavit V ‘NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1869—TRIPLE SHEET. “junch'? or saloon" tn front of almost e1 buttd- ing in “ew indneates the character of erable of 19 business; but in the interior of the town a va- Ttety of branches of trade are represonted, Grand ‘Imtand ts improving fast ana soon expects to have another railroad. ‘Still proceeding westw: ‘the prairie rolls away northward in gentlo swells, looking like the surface Of the sea; to the south, a mtle or two aistant, ts the Rortherp channel round Grand Island, Passing Pawace station we cross Wopdgtiver, which, fed by innumerable rivalets, #ews Gowa from the nortn- ‘west in ward course for nearly @ bundred miles, Fine farms abeund the region 01 Wood The Platte t@ away from us and we follow ‘Wood river instead. Nature rugged indentations on the tlements, except the 1 of railroad stations, have yet been made thus far-to the West in the valley of tke Platte, Evening 1s now coming on, the train is Jate, and we pass successively Wood River sta- tion, a depot for the trade of the Wood river valley; Gibbon, simply a little track; Kearney, whence sup- plies are conveyed across the river to Fort Kearny; Stevenson, a side track and signal station; Elm Creek, named after a stream a little farther on, from whose banks considerable timber is drawn; Over- ton, another side track; Plum Oreck, so calied from the'stream on the south side of the Platte, and which early emigrants remember well; Cayote, at present but @ station for the telegraph; Willow Istand, War- ren, Brady Isiand, McPherson—fort McPherson lying over .the river at the base of the biuf—and then North Platte. Here the first division of the railroad ends; night has fallen, and here, though the train goes on, | stop over for some train that goes ‘westward in the morning. ST. DOMINGO. The First European Town in the New World. PoRTO PLaTA, Sept. 5, 1869. Columbus, upon his second visit to Hispaniola, weighed anchor for the secure haven of La Plata, Adverse winds besetting his voyage along the coast, he put into a harbor ten leagues eastward. Struck with the advantages of the position, he here estap- shea the first European town in the New World, which he named Isabella, in honor of the Queen, To-day this ancient city no Jonger exists. Forests of mahogany and logwood once more cover the site where nearly four centuries ago the first efforts of Spanish colonization were made. The ruined pil- lars of the church, the magazine, part of the resi- dence of Columbus and the old fort, almOkt lost in the profusion of vegetation, are all that is left to mark the spot. After a career of unexampled prosperity and affluence misrule and oppression resulted in bitter wars and an overthrow of the power of Spain. Subsequent history is filled with revolutions, bioodshed and devastation, St. Do- mingo, so rich in soil aud vegetation; exhausted and ruined by the unsettled state of society, strug- gles fora bare existence. Her present career is a retrograde one; her population is diminishing and her extensive savannas and fertile hillsides lie waste, A bounteous nature provides for the few wants of the people as a subsistence and the profits of aprimitive and feeble effort at agriculture sat- isfy the small demands for money. PORTO PLATA AND THE OPEN PORTS. The result of this condition of things 1s almost an entire annihilation of trade. This port and St. Do- mingo City are the only two principal outlets to the island. Avery small trade is accomplished also at the open ports of Azua and Samana. Porto Plata is now the only port on the northern side of the island, and the proceeds of the Custom House. here are the main source of revenue to the government. The town itself is small and very uninviting; it has a small harbor well protected by reefs; a vessel anchors some distance from the shore; all cargo 1s put on board the vessels or taken off by lighters, which can- not themselves approach the shore within fifty yards, owing to the shallowness of the water on the beach which sweeps in front of the town. The shippers have avery novel mode of conveying cargo from shore to lighters and vice versa, Tis is done by means of carts drawn into the water a sufficient depth by bullocks which are manceuvred by ropes passing through the cartilage of the nose. All this trouble, inconvenience and expense could be saved by a pier run outtoa sufficient depth of water to allow vessels to lie along side. Although Porto Plata is one of the early towns of the island the Spaniarda, upon being driven out of the country, completely destroyed It, The modern town, composed of about two thousand inhabitants, has been entirely rebuilt, The people of the place are a mixture of Spanish, Germans and French. The town depends almost en- turely upon Santiago, about sixteen leagues in the interior, for its business, Of this interior city it is the seaport for the shipment of the tobacco produced in the vicinity. The shipments are almost exclusively to Hamburg. This year the tobacco crop is reported unusually large, and, judging from the quantities already come in, it is estimated that the production for export will reach 100,000 quintals, or 3,000,000 pounds. The country around this city is exceedingly mountainous, though the soil is remark- ably fertile. The country, owing to the scarcity of population, produces little, ‘nere is considerable talk of building a railroad from Santiago to this place to carry the tobacco ctop to the seashore. Concessions have already been granted by the government for this important enter- prise. Like all other new undertakings, some per- sons wiser than any one else very propnetically declare that the work will not pay. This remains to be seen, By opening fresh incen- Uves to imdustry the production of the country might be increased. The most serious ob- stacies in the way of success would be the insecurity of the government. I may here introduce some sta- tistics In relation to the tsland of St. Domingo. The principal revenues of the government are obtained trom duties on exports, lmports and sealed paper licenses, fees, &c. COMMERCIAL STATISTICS. Itis diMcult to obtain a clear statement of the trade and financial statistics of the country, No public records are kept from which a tabular list might be compiled. The only accounts are those kept at the Custom Houses, and these are of the simpiest character. From this source, with the assistance of Sefior Durocher, Collector of the Port of St. Domingo, I have been able to gather a small amount of reliable material, from which an idea may be obtained in reiation to the present commercial! and financial condition of the island of St. Domi 1 will give this information for each year separately, as the data accessible is not of a character to admit Of 8 system Of Classification. The four open ports at which Custom Houses are now established are Porto Plata, St. Domingo City, Samané and Azua. Forthe year ending June 30, 1866, the exportation from Porto Plata was 35,000 quintals of tobacco. From St. Domingo City—Exports, $147,575; im- ports, $817,116; revenue, $237,000. For the year ending June 30, 186’ Exports, Invorts. Porto Plata. + $409,107” $750,000 St, Domingo. + 227,808 419,548 Total.... + ae +++. $036,915 $1,160,648 Excess of imports, 33, 2, 6: During this period seven American vessels ar- rived, ail in ballast, except one from the Canary Islands, with a cargo of camels. Four of these ves- sels departed for Aita Vela for guano, leaving three American vessels freighted on the island. Five British vessels also loaded. The value of the im- eta of provisions, flour and petroleum from he United States under the British flag was $40,000. During the year 162 vessels, including those carry- ing the Dominican flag, arrived at St. Domingo, with @ total of 12,293 tons. For the year ending June 30, 1863:— Exports. Imports, Porto Plata. +$696,459 $354,808 171,379 269,501 15,000 20,000 . 6,000 $,000 Total.. $642,309 Excess of exports, $53,471. In the same year the amount of tobacco shipped from Porto Plata to Hamburg and Bremen reached 70,000 quintals, of 100 pounds each, and sugar 91,500 hogsheads. Seven American vessels arrived in port, with cargoes valued at $22,600, and carried in ex- ports to the United States $16,625, Total imports by American and English vessels, $27,000. Total ex- porte RY, game, $50,700, Durg the quarter ending March 31, 1869, two American vesseis arrived from St. Thomas in ballast, and four British vessels from Boston, with cargoes valued at $20,000, The exports by the two Ameri- can vessels were vained at $19,364, and by three British vessels at $14,855. The production of the isiand by the hand of man is small. The fonaen trade is also limited, owing to the smaliness of the population, which numbers not more than 200,000 souls. The territory under the Jurisdiction of the Dominican republic embraces about two-thirds of the.isiand of St. Domingo, or nearly 20,000 square miles, The capability of the country for sustaining a large Population is un- questionable, and with population, would constiture one of ibe richest sections in the world. The soil is remarkably well ada as the records of the days of prosperity show, for the growth of sugar, coffee, votton, cocoa, tobacco, maize and rice, Cabinet and dye woods in great variety grow upon the moun- tains. Exceilent ship timoer and pitch pine ‘also abound. In 1867, near Azua, from 15,000 to 20,000 quintais of sugar were raised. In regard to the commercial regulations of the island, vessels of any nation nave perfect right to enter any open port of the Dominican republic with lawful merchandi: They can discharge and take ll expenses $1 50 per ton. If return cargo at one or more oints on the coast there is an extra expense of one jollar . ton, termed “Coast Permission.” Goods imported from the United States direct twenty-five per cent on the Custom House tari! which is more or less according to United States ricea. ‘The export duties are:—On coffee and cocoa, 60 cents per aD a 1246 cents per 100 Pounds; logwood, imvite, Brag fustic and woods, per ton; to! shelis, 26 cents per pound; whi 1 60 per 100 yollow wax, $1 per 100 ite Wax, Pi poun unds; mahogany, ced: $5 per $1,000 feet; hides, 6 cents each; honey, 2 cents per gallon; molaases, 2 cents per gallon; gum Gaya, a oan er quintsl; tobacco, 60 cents per quintal; vidivi, free. i SIPPING BETURNS AND RULES, The principa) shipping of this port is direct with Europ’, either in veasets arri ope?. to charter or vessels in St. Thomas to cQ%ne bere and take cargo. ‘Phomas is a sort of (vase of business operations for the whole island. A ish steamer running between Havana and St. omas Visits this port once & month each way for mails and passengers, TRADE WiTH THR UNITED STATES. The commerce of thie pace with the United States ip next nomeae ery few imports from the me! however, from States come out. vessels, other 68, tly arrive tn ballast and carry freight to Europe and the Medeterranean. ‘here 18 Do reason Whatever Why our merchants should not open a lucrative trade It 19 unfortunate that a few Americans have visited the teland at different times and in their as proved themselves nothing better than a pack of Tascals, so that the reaty creditable and enterprising representatives have becn much ‘The sympathies of a ma- sty of the business men of the island generally are American, and with proper dealings both coun tries ‘would be benefited in their business relations. THE MALAY SETTLEMENT. See Matacen—Deecription of the City—The Old Cathedral—Vandalism of the British Gov- ernment—Decay of TradeWhat Malac Was in the Past—The “Portuguese of the Bast.” MALAcca, August 4, 1869. Ancient, dirty, picturesque, the city of Malacca, Raving lived out an eventful history of 350 years of European occupation, is now peacefully slumbering in inglorious inactivity. It ts not dificult to de- scribe what it 1s at the present writing, From any point at which it is possible to view it as a whole— from the deck of the steamer which has brought. you from Singapore or Penang, or from the tower of the ruined Cathedral, It appears simply to be a mass of red-tile roofs, supported on mouldering brick walls, and crowded so closely together that only by the severest scrutiny can you discover the narrow lanes that serve as hignways between them—lanes so narrow. that they will scarcely allow your chaise and four feet high Malay pony to lumber and jolt through them. The houses, with the exception of a Bingle block, seem all squalid and poverty stricken and dismal with the signs of unheeded decay. And they were, you notice, at no period very magnif- cent erections; they rarely boast a second story, and in many cases have only a single floor, Here and there a Malay mosque, or a Chinese temple or a European church catches the eye; but they look unnaturally new amid the crumbling mass of innab- ited ruins by which they are surrounded. On @ Uttle hill, close by the sea, 18 the roofiess Cathedral of St. Paul’s, and @ little to the soutn of ita very searching examination will bring to light a moulder- ing gateway, blackened by centuries of rainy sea- sons, which constitutes all that remains of the “old fort.” To make the picture complete it must be added that this decayed city lies in a little curve of the coast, scarcely well enough defined to be named a bay; that a fringe of sbin- ing yellow sand divides it from the sea, and that it is encircled on its remaining sides by thick jungle, from which here and there a cocoa, or betel palm, springs gracefully forth. Away in the background a peaked mountain looms dimly through @ tropical haze, and that, you are told, is the Ophir of the Scriptures, just as the Pentngula is the Aurea Chersonnesus of the Greeks, Very little gold has ‘been got there since the times of the Portuguese, but the natives firmly believe that there is plenty of it left. The main ground for fixing upon this moun- tain as Mount Ophir is the fact that ophir in the Malay language means ‘‘goid.”” Such is the Malacca of the present in its external aspects, and closer acquaintance with it will but confirm the inferences they suggest, Malacca as a city is ruined; ite commerce 1s now confined entirely to the produce of its immediate vicinity, and even that 1s only shipped to Singapore or Penang, to be there reshipped to the markets of the world. During the past thirty or forty years the population of the province has increased, owing to the immigration of Uhinese planters; but this has been scarcely any gain to the city, which has lost forever its chance of being one of the entrepots of the East. No one, of course, leaves Malacca without examin- ing the few remains there are of its old time grandeur. First in the list of these is the old Cathedral of St. Paul, which was established in the early part of the sixteenth century. Climbing up a litte hill one sees a tower, which was once the belfry of the church, and four crumbling brick walls, enclosing a little oblong plot of ground paved with Many tombstones, The inscriptions on these latter are in Portuguese, Dutch or English, according to their dates, and some few are in Latin, The oldest ig that of @ nun who died here im 1568, but by far the most interesting is that of Peter, whom the tombstone reports to have been the second Lord Bishop of Japan, and to have died here in February, 1698. Many of the other graves are those of deccased Dutch residents and merchants, and some few are of English officials who ruled here in the begianing of the present century. Leaving the body of the church, not without won- dering what has become of the roof, which must have at some time or other fallen in, but has now ab- solutely disappeared, leaving no vestige behind, the visitor makes his way up the staircase of the belfry, and, if he be lucky, he will find at its summit a cour- teous gentieman, of Portuguese descent and of de- cided color, who will spread out before him, m very tolerabie English, the traditionary lore of tne place. He will now told many things that he would be very much ashamed to leave the clty without know- ine, Viewed from the enlightened standpoint® which he thus occupies the city will grow crgnt with historic asgociations. Three centuries and a half ago Jorge de Albuquerque, that strange com- pouns ‘of appalling cruelty, mtolerant pany end reckless daring, planted here for the first time in the far East, a European standard. Soon after, Magellan, eva Siapoy cress the passage round Cape Horn that bears his name, and having arrived at the Moluccas in time to assist im rescuing a number of Portuguese sailors, who had been captured by the King of Madura, satled past Malacca on his home- ward voyage. And soon after that again came ig- natius Loyala, the founder of the Society of Jesus, who labored here for many years, saying mass in the self-same cathedral charch of St. Paul, and com- manding the Portuguese feet when the settlement was attacked by Sumatra pirates, and who at length died here and was buried on one of the two little hitls thas lie some half @ mile behind us, but which of the two is not now certain. His was not, however, suffered to repose here long; after two days it was exhumed, taken to Goa, in buried, ain exhumed, and tien forwarded to Rome. And then, lastly, stout old Captain Lancaster, the first captain in the English Eaat India Company’s ger- Vice, sailed by here on his way to China and the Spice Islands in 1601. jut the most etait - thing about the old Ca- thedral, perh: after all, is @ mysterious subterra- nean je, Which no one can find, leading trom the hill to some opening on the shore. That it was constracted there can be no doubt; it is mentioned in many old Portuguese and Dutch histories; but the authorities have in vain sought to discover it. Some- where in this passage are said to be hidden treasures, doubloons and pieces of elght and ingots of gold and bars of silver aud all sori o1 precious stones, which were stowed away there on some occasion of peril and have never since been disturbed. The govern- ment have for years been searching for the opening from the church, not, of course, from any lust of gain, but simply to satisfy antiquarian curiosity. It 8 a pity, though, that they do not treat the church {iself with @ little more respect, taking into account all that has occurred and the men who have minis- tered init. The chancel of the church, for instance, has been “restored” and converted into a powder magazine, and the belfry into an office for the ship- ping signalman. Surely, the Britisn government cannot say that It has taken these crumbling ruins because the revenues of the province will not afford the erection of a new powder magazine. It is hard, indeed, to find any reason for their conversion to these ‘base uses,’’ except a desire to wantonly insult the race who founded both the Cathedral and the settlement. The other sights of Malacca—the ruins of the fort, the Stadthouse, the Chinese temple, the new Catholic cathedral, the padre's house— are none of them. of very much interest, The fort has almost disappeared; all now remaina of itis an old ruined gateway, mounted by the atone framework of wiat was once the home of the alarm bell. The Stadthouse has been repaired, and is used as government buildings, It 1s remarkable only for the possession of some an- tique aud very uncomfortable Dutch furniture, The Chinese tempie consists of much paint and many flags, and some half a dozen shrines, whose resident deities are little, squat, rad faced, black-bearded idols, The new Catholic cathedral is noticeable as being very spacious, and the padre’s house is ap- parently the best In the clty—large, not too much smothered with trees, and deligutfully cool, It is impossible, of course, to stroll through sleepy streets of this city without now and then remem- bering the hopes and aspifations that were once connected with the possession of the place, Portu- guese, Dutchmen, Englisnmen,have in turn regarded 1t as the necessary centre of their power in the far East. In those early days when Portug’l was the mistress of the seas—iong before the establishment of the first American settiement—it was looked upon Mgt ey to lands of gold and precious stones, aiter a century ef Portuguese oppression, it feil hands of the Dutch, who esteemed it a more 16 ‘possession than Batavia, And, lastly, it came into the clutches of the East India Compal ys who thought a great deal of money might be made out of it, who spent large sums in developing ite resources, and who at last found out that it was in no way fitted for a piace of commerce, that its coast ‘Was too shallow to allow of large ships coming near bs city, that it did not command the southern oe of acendante of that proud and chivalrous race, which, With all Ite faults, was still the ‘irae to itroqaee Euro- enterprise and civilization into the East, De- in the Malay, an mu Jower than the Chinaman, the Porvuguese of te Orient is an object of conte: the whites, but sae the natives. Ls ntevish, treacherous, cowardly, blighted crperend and igno- ‘with cargo and | rance and every nameable and naineless vice, he erauion to generation and shows no tendency either to die out or to morease. ‘There ia never any news at Malacca. Now and then there is a murder which excites a iittie local interest, but for the past thirty years nothing has transpired here that would be of the aligntest inter- est to the lving world. Ponang—The Penang Fall—The Bazaar—How to Live om Three Cents a Day—Durians and Durian Slavee—Death of Kurrach Singh—The Riots of Last Year. PENANG, August 6, 1809. Selected with that happy tact which seems to als linguish Anglo-Saxons in the East, as the site for the entrepét of the trade to the northern portion of the Malay Peninsula, Penang, though only sixty or seventy years old, has risen already to be a place of some importance. Standing on a fertile litte island, only three or four miles from the main land, with @commodious roadstead, always pretty, well filled with shipping, it is @ busy, thriving, un- Pretentious little town of some fifteen or twenty thousand inhabitants. Every year finds it wealthier, larger, more hopeful than the last. ‘The island of Penang, amall as it 1s, has the honor of containing a waterfall, which, though not of course to be compared with Niagara or Trenton, 18 still very well worth a long pilgrimage. It is some three miles from the city—a pleasant drive through Plantations of coffee shrubs and nutmeg trees and betel palms, until one gets near the range of well wooded mountains, which forms, as it were, the backbone of the island. Then, having been guided by the gharree-wallah, or hackman, into a narrow footpath, a short walk gives one a first glimpse of the fall, ag it leaps from about halfway up the Mountain inte the thick jungle below. With the ex- ception of the little tuiet, by which the path leads into it, the valley 1s surrounded on every side with hills, covered with trees not unlike American pmes, and in striking contrast tothe palms among which one 1s standing. A brook, fed by the fall, dashes along among water-worn boulders at one’s feet, its plashing mingling pleasantly with the loud murmur- ing of the cataract. Following the path one ascends the hill by a rude earthen stairway, and at length arrives at the foot of the fal. A moment’s glance at the falling water, which hag hitherto been mostly hid by the jungle, assures him that he 1s well rewarded for his walk. The fall is some two or three hundred feet in height altogether, and the volume of water sufiicient to spread over some twelve or fifteen feet of rock. At the top, as it pours over, a ieee conical stone, upon which It acatters @ ceaseless shower of angry spray, divides the stream into two; and then it tumbles slong down the face of the rock, springing sometimes six, sometimes ten, and at last a hundred feet at a leap, until 1t reaches the table of stone on which one is standing, where it sobers down for a score or 80 of yards into @ less boisterous gait. But It oes not pause long, and soon rushes, at a headlong ce, and white with foam and froth, down through Boge stones which it ia ually dislodging into the valley beneath. Such is the Penang Fall. The Hindoos have erected a little shrine to Brahma just at the footofthe main fall, and very frequently the coolies go out to it to pay their devotions. There are no other Cag) in Penang, unless tt be, perhaps, the bazaar, which is pretty much uke Fulton or Washington Market in its general appearance, though it 18 not, of course, quite so extensive. Some of the smells, too, are rather unfamiliar, and Ameri- can eyes open wide with’ surprise as they see exposed for sale such delicacies ag shark’s flesh or chicken’s intestines, The bazaar, however, is the best place to find the solution of that curious problem, which generally perplexes new comers, how .native servant or coolle, gettin ive or six dollars 8 month, and boarding ana clothing himself, can manage to keep in g hysi- cal condition and even get rich on that moderate stipend. Well, the said native lives solely on rice and a little curry stuff and a very small piece indeed of dried fish, He does not long for anything better. When there 1s plenty of fruit he indulges in dessert; but when pineapples and bananas are out of season or dear he consoles himself with an extra chew of betel. All these needs can be supplied, as the mar- ket prices show, on a ridiculously smallsum. Rice of @ coarse quality, such as poor people use, sells at about sixty or seventy cents a picul (133 pounds), or in the dearest of times, perhaps at a dollar; and two picuis of rice will last a man of ordinary hunger through the year. Curry stuf and siri-ieaf and betel cost, perhaps, @ cent @ day—certainly not more, Fish—the little he eats—costs him about a dollar a year. ‘Then for clothes, even if he is @ swell ‘and indulges in a headdress of colored silk and & cotton toga and pautaloons, his expenses will scarcely exceed four or five dollars per annum. he is not a gentleman's servant, but only a coolie, two handkerchi¢fs—one around his head and another around his loins—form his sole ature; and, in many cases, a square foot of cotton shirting, secured by a string around the waist, is his only garment. His wasting he does himself, He wears no boots or collars or neckerchiefs, and he sleeps on @ wooden bench on the veranda of the hotel or house. If all these expenses are reckoned up together it will be found that three to five cents a day 1s about the cur- rent expenditure of a poor native. His surplus in- come i# gradually saved, until, if he be a Chinaman, he can set up a store, or, if he be a Madrassee, until he can buy 8 massive gold ring to string through the nostrils or the ears of his inamorata. We are now in the height of the fruit season, and the stalls are appetizing with durian, amandans, pineapples, bananas, jackfruit, pummolos, mangos- teens and custard apples. Allof these are wortuy of the garden-of Eden; ana the durians, however strong may be the prejudices of over fastidious people against it, is all that it ta claimed to be by its devo- tees—the queen of fruits, the crowning glory of the edible creation. It must be confessed that it offends the nostrils when it is first opened, and that its shell smells like @ thousand commingled sewers, and suggests unpleasant memories of every filthy odor that ever disgusted a human nose. And it Must algo be admitted that that same smell sticks to the person and clothes of the durian eater for half a day after his feast is over. But what of all this? Consult any confirmed @ave to durians and he will’ tell you that it weighs as nothing in the balance against the inde- scribable pleasure he derives from his favorite fruit, ‘whose taste, he will add, is richer, softer, more deli- clous than the choicest of custards. ‘The fascination that durians are capable of inspiring may be real- ized when it is stated that clubs—ol which ladies are ly members—are said to have been formed in Singapore and Penang, which meet solely for the purpose of indulging in a guilty orgie over this malodorous fruit. In Mandalay the King of Bur- mah has sometimes given fifty dollars each for them, when the communication with the coast has been dificult, owimg to the rains. The only news just at present ig the death of Kur- & political enil hogers on from rach , Who has been held or in the te _settiement. for nearly twen! 5 le is @ well known Indian celebrity, and conspired the government in the last Sikh war. He was then sent to Singapore; but when the mutiny broke out, in 1867, his conduct among the Hindoos of that piace Was so suspicious that he was transferred to Penang, where his influence was more limited. He has remamed here ever since. He was not confined ‘8 close prisoner, but was kept under the strictest survelliance, The riots which occurred here last August, and which resulted in Coie Chinamenjbeing Killed, are atill the frequent topic of conversation among the whites, In a letter already published in the HERALD the history of these disturbances has been given, and the singular nature of the hoeys, or secret organizations—to one or other of which all the atives belong—described. The evidence brought before the Commissioners of Inquiry has also shown very prominently the powerlessness of wu government to preserve order, and the ne blundering of the officials at Singa- pore and Penang. In the beginning the riots might, by the most ordinary exertion of firmness, have been repressed without difficulty, and certainly under no circumstances should they hi been allowed to continue fer seventeen days. They were not kept up, of course, through this period without intermission, but after peace had been restored the disturbances were again and again permitted to break out. After the revelations made by the com- mission 1 is quite clear that the — could at any time, by @ united effort, overturn the government. They are no doubt very unlikely organizations to combine together, because they have been expressly formed to perpetuate old feuds among each other. But very much stranger unions have been formed at various epochs of the world’s history, and the gov- ernment will certainly use all its influence to brea’ them up. DANGER IN THE DARK. Highway Robbery and Attempt at Murder by Drowning. Shortly after one o'clock yesterday morning a good-natured German named Frederick Streuben, of Seventh avenue, passed along West street in a happy state of mind and at peace with all the world. On the corner of West and Clarkson streets a voice came out of the darkness: “Ho, comrade, heave Frederick lay to and awaited the approach of what he conceived to be a friendly craft. “Where bound?” asked one, a8 two fellows crossed hia starboard quarter. ‘1 pes going home to mine frau. mit me?” said the Dutchman. We just want to examine your ese ahipmate,”’ aid one of them, and the poor Dutchman was seized and his pockets rifed of his worldly posses- sions—twenty dollars, The two highwaymen then held a consultation and resolved to put the Dutch- man where he could tell no tales. It was deter- mined to kill him, but the dimcuity was to determine by what means. Not wishing to send Frederick into eternity with all his sins upon bim, Vat you vant they resolved to give him a tismal death. He was Sccordingly picked ily, carried to the Pd foot of Clarkson stree ld over the edge and into the water. clerical believers in ro) ’ doctrines of immersion hurried irom the scene of their adventures and made good their escape. ‘The frantic cries of the German for help brought to his assistance roundsman Rusher and other om- cers of the Twenty-eighth precinct, by whom he was rescued from ous position aad restored to hig anxious ones at home. The Russian Government is making large pur- chases of horses for light cavalry. A statue has peen erected in Liverpool in honor of Mr, Josepn Mayer, a distinguished benefactor to that city, At is reported that the Emperor Napoleon will go to Nice 1n order to receive the Empress on ner return from the East. ‘A correspondent of an English journal sageenss that, instead of flogging, criminals should be exposed to a datly dose of electric shocks. A mechanical school for women has been opened at Warsaw for the object of training young women s the lower clasaes in all the lighter Kinds of bandi- The Indspendence Belge states that the oMcers and solaiers of the French army are spoiling for a fight, and that a war must be brought abost in order to cool them down, The post: Tates between France and England are reduced from fourpence to threepence, and the weight of the letters increased from # quarter of an ounce to one-third more. Qount von Trautmannsdorf has gone to Rom charged with an autograph letter. from the Emperor of Austria to the Pope. He also bears some concilia- tory instructions from Count Beust. A D irr napa society has been formed at Dresden called “Federation Society of the States of Europe,” the object of which is the suppression of permanent armies and the abolition of war budgets. The Levant Herald publishes what purports to be the late Fuad Pacha’s political testament, addressed tothe Sultan, It poits out the best policy to be pur- sued towards the great Powera, advises the Porte to trust especially to England, and recommends the amalgamation of all the races of the Turkish empire, the introduction of reforms in the administration of Justice, and the construction of roads ag tne only means o! salvation. In the office of the government tobacco manufac- tory at Vienna the clerks have to write in eleven dif- ferent languages, according to the places with which tuey correspond, as follows:—German, in writing to other Austrian Offices; Bohemian, to the tobacco fac. tories at Sediec, Goding and Jalau; Polish and uthenian, to those in Galicia; Slovenian, to Klagen- turt; Lines and Croauion, to the factories east of the Leltha; Itaiian, to the Southern Tyrol, and French, English and Spanish, to the tobacco oilices in France, the United States and Cuba. Sir Samuel Baker has written to Sir R. L, Murchi- son giving some account of his preparations for his journey into Equatorial Africa. ‘The expedition was to leave Suez on October 4 for Sounkim, at which port 200 camels were waiting to carry men and bag- gage to Berber, on the Nile, latitude 18 deg., where asteamer would be in readiness to take them in three days to Khartoum. Sir Samuel holds out the hope that when he reaches the southwestern end of the great Albert Nyanza he may be able to procure Teliable information respecting the illustrious Liv- ingstone. THE NORWALK Bank RosBERY.—A few days since Mr. William P. Burrell, president of the Hartford and Springfield Rallroad, sent to Norwalk a package which was found in one of the car racks on the through Boston train, containing twenty-five dollars of the old State bills of the bank, a few private papers of Mr. Craufurd, the cashier, and several cer- tificates of local stocks of no negotiable value, The supposition is that these Pores. which were wrap- ped ina Copy of the NEw YORK HERALD, were thus Placed in the cars as a blind to mislead as to the direction taken by the thieves, The most energetic efforts are being made, however, to capture the thieves and regain the stolen property.—Haryora Times, Oct, 16, SHIPPING NEWS. Almanac for New York—This Day. Moon sets....morn 4 14 . 516 | High water..morn 6 47 PORT OF NEW YORK, OCTOBER 17, 1869. Herald Packages. Captains and Pursers of Vessels arriving at this port will please deliver all packages intended for the HERALD to our regularly authorized agents who are attached to our Steam Yacht fleet, The Now York Associated Press do not now collect marine reports nor attend to the delivery of packages, as will be seen by the following extract from the proceedings of the regular monthly meeting, held March 8, 1868:— ‘Resolved, That on and after April 1, 1868, the Associated Press will dlecuatisue the collection of ship news in the harbor of New York. Passed unanimou: ug The office of the HeRAcp staam yachts JAMES and JEANNETTR is at Whitehall slip. All comnmunications from owners andconsignecs to the masters of inward bound vem sels will be forwarded free of charge. ARRIVALS, REPORTED BY THE HERALD STEAM YACHTS. Steamship City of Antwerp (Br), Leitch, Liverpool Oct 7, ‘and Queenstown Sth, with mdse and 89 passengers, to John G Dale, Oct 12, lat 49.64, lon 37 50, spoke schr Schietan (Br), bound E; same day, lat 49 5}, lon 38 % bark Africaine (Nor), bound W ; 16th, lat 47 83, Jon 48 47, bark Ancestor bound E; game day, lat 4726, lon 46 58, bark Albatross (BD, do; 15th, lat 4363, ‘lon 57 3, steamship Hammonia, ence for Harhburg: 17th, lat 40 84, fon 69 66, steamship Cit of habe og bd do for Frhig oe same day, lat 4027, lon 71, steamship Minnesota, from Liverpool for New York, ieamaniy Mariposa, Kemb! jaw Or! is Oct 9, BW Pass woe 8 AM, with mdse and passengers, to H 8B Crom- well’ & Co. Steamship Victor, Gates, New Orleans, Oct 9, and South- yet, Pass th, at 7PM, with mdse and passengers, to © H fallory & Co. Steamship Georgia, Cutter, Charleston, 8 days, with mdse and passengers. to H R Morgan & Co. Oct Ts, atll PM, 60 miles north of Cape Hatteras, was struck by squall from NNW, which carried away jib and split foresail; the wind veering to NW, continued to blow a gale for 24 hours; lath, Cape it, saw steamship Charleston, hence for Charleston. Steamship Flag, Leonard, Charleston Oct 15, with mdse ‘and passengers, to H R Morgan & Co. Steamship Hatteras, Roberts, Richmond, City Point and Norfolk, with mdse and passengers, to the Old Dominion Steamship Co. Steamship Niagara, Blakeman, Richmond, City Point and Rorfolk, with mdve and passengers, to tho Old Dominion enmal Co, psigamalip Fanita, Brooks, Philadelphia, with mdse, to J rillars Steamship Millville, Renaur, Philadelphia, with mdse, to Nghip Helchstag (XQ), Cah " bf a a ai sen ichatag (NG), Cahut lambur; lays, w mascand 138 dessengers, to Fuuch, Edye £00, Bt scary: weather up to the Banks, and light, variable winds since; Oct 9, lat 41, lon 68, saw a large ship, with a ecbr in tow, bound W;; had two’ births and no deattis on the pasaa, Bark Hector (Br), Nelson, Middlesborough, & with railway iron, to J W Elwell @ Co. Sep 43 18, fon 41.47, one rs Golden Horn, from Gloucester for Richmond, Va; sh, Int 43 65, lon 45 90," bark Euphemas, from Bremen for Baltimore; Oct 9, off en, saw a ship with a small sel in tow, ® brig or achr, bor und We Bark Brothers (of Harwich), Weekes, Baltimore, 5 days, “brig Jobe, Given, (Br), Mayo, Bay, Ja, 30 4 rig John Given (Br), Mayo, Monte; 3 B with logwood to Hen Be Coradva Go} veusel ¢) msetae? Had light winds up to Hatteras, variable weather since. Schr A L Lockwood, St John, Wilmington, NO, 7 to Thomas & Holmes. Webb, Cranmer, Virginia, Cranmer, Virginia, , » Virginia, Schr RC A Waid, Edwards, Virginia, Schr Henry Middleton, Brown, Virginia. chr Rebecca, Smith, town, DO, Schr John Shay, Fisher, Georgetown, DC. 3A Shepard, Van Clief, Georgetown, DC. Schr Marion Gage, Shepard, Georgetown, DC, Schr 8 V W Simmons, Williams, Georgetown, DC. Wp Great Western, arrived 16th inst, Sept 11, fead of Kinsale, in a hurricane from NNW, loat fore ‘and matin topsail and reofed foresall; was 10 days in Georges hannel, with heavy westerly gales; had @ succession of gales the entire ; Oct 13, Int 4v 34, lon 69, ship Kate Troop, bound E. The British achr CA Farnsworth, from Arecibo, P! arrived on the 16th, is consigned to JV Onativia & Uo reports heavy NE winds most of the passnge. Passed Through Hell Gate, BOUND SOUTH, Steamship Glaneus, Walden, from Boston for New York with mdse and passengers, 10 Wm P Clyde. * Steamship Acuannet, Rector, New Bedford for New York, with mdse and passengers, to Ferguson & Wood. Hark Wild Gazeile, Nickerson, Boston for New York, in ballast, to Burr & Brow: Brig Emeline (Br), Chase, Cow Bay, OB, for New York, 18 ba) ‘with © Oo master. lg Sangho, Worth, Cow ay for New York, 15 davs, with ain. rig Mary Curley, Bailey, Street Harbor, NS, for New a Ss, with lumber, to master. ir Berma (Br), Ward, with plaster, to Crandall, Umphray & Co. echt Basek, Wallace, Miltbridge for New York, with fish to rye. Schr Catherine, Means, Bangor for New York, with lum- ber, toR P Buck. Sbhr Koumuth, Smith, Portland for New York, with lumber, 8D} ves- h ‘indsor, NS, for Newark, 10 days, to Simpson Schr Oxeo ), ih, Portland for New York. Sbhr Albert Tho: faylor, Nantucket for Philadelphia, ir Ro: Gillin, Taunton for Elizabethport, 0 Bu Schr Ida, Phillips, Taunton for Elizabetuport, Schr John W Bell, Hawkins, Taunton for New York. Schr Jos P Ross, Paull, Tauuton for New York. ¢, Coleman, Taunton for New York. Taunton for New York. ighton for New York. aynor, Cape Bath for Philadelphia, « oF, Holt, Cape Bath for Philadeip! Schr E A Chesboro, Roberta, Westerly for Elizabeth Schr Ira Biisa, Hodgdon, Provideuce for Phi Scur Jas M Bayles, Arncld, Provid Schr M Rockhill, Rockit, Provi Sohr GC Cran! Schr Bella Pec! rt, PI Schr Ruth Halsey, Perry, Providence for Elizavethport, Chase, idence for Biizabetaoort. . Stevens, Providence for Blizabetliport, Schr Empire, Baker, Providence for Rondout. si Sehr Eliza J Raynor, Nickerson, Providence for New ‘ork, Schr J M Freem: ‘ldridge, Providence for Ni Schr Roanoke, Barrett, Norwich for Trenton,o" Yor Sehr Alfred Chae, Blliot, Norwich for New York. Schr H A Demmiag, Boardman, Portland, Ct, for New ‘ork. Schr W W Brainard, Tribble, Portland, Ot . Schr Gen Grant, Hunter, New Haven for siagerphins Scbr Lizz te, Taylor, New Haven for Trenton, Schr Old Zack, Lyman, New Haven for Elizabethport, Bebe Fieveuts Brsccee Wve eevee, Oe eanennrect, o Bebr Florence, ay, New, Haven for Eilzabel lorria, Duzen, New Haven for Ellsal 8 E Nash, Mash, New Haven for New York. Falcon, Whi lac! for New York: nine, jzabethport. , ‘Alcon er, for New York. Sai at erie for New Yor! Bohr LD Jarrard Murphy, Bri for New York. Schr Wave, Hubbard, stamford ton. Scbr Clara’ Post, Fertis, Portchester for New York. BOUND Bast. Schr RB Allen, Chase, Philadelphia for Greenport, Behr Billow, Fenton, trenton Me iridgeport. Schr Cameo, ison, for Newport. Bars Real ciee Bitsbeigo for Soir Uandng Behr Adetatce, Elizebethport for Newtown, c ott, — New York tor Boston. 00d, —— York for Briggep bie, Wew York for lan Co nd, New York for Port Jefferaow. SAILED. Ship Minnebeha (Br), Londonderry, ipping Notes. on, brig GF Geery (327 tons), brig Isabel (288 tons), and schr Edwin Reed 346 tons), for general repairs. Marine Disasters. mI — 5 nthe 234 ot Tron “yuiinacipaie Bol arr een refitted with a new set, proceeded to-day for 01 Falmouth. Uct 6—The ship Wm Woodbury, McClellan, which put in on the 14th ult with loss of satis and leaking in uppep works, yf Boston. A portion of her cargo was dis- charged to stop leak. ‘The F B Cutting is still alongside the Victoria docks here. The Britiab ship Oneta, from » which left here on the 24 inst for Dublin, 1s ashore on the East pier, Kingstown, en- trance to Dublin harbor, likely to become a wreck. AMERICAN LLOYDS’ UNIVERSAL RECORD oF SHIP PING—Supplement for October 15, containing additions and resurveys, which will be added to the next volumeof the above useful publication, has been issued at the oflce of the Association, 85 Wall aad 13 Broad streets. Spoken. Brig Haze, from Providence for Baltimore, Sbinnecook pearing N E40 miles, Oct 16 (by pilot boat ME Willams, Brig Florence, from Newport for ———~, Oct 16, Montauls bearing N45 miles (by pilotboat M E Williains, Nog). Foreign Ports. Anxcrno, PR, Sept 29—In port bark Antelope, for NY brig Apleatord, Yor to. . - my Cerre, Sept 30—Arrived, Giuseppina, Bono, NYork, Ee Cavcurra, ‘Oct 15—Arrived previous, ship Fortune, Taylor, ‘olombo. HAVER, Oct 4—Sailed, Bremen (s), Leist, New Orleans, MAnsEtLias, Oct 2Arrived, Sebamyl, Crosby, Potladale ia. MALAGA, Oct 1—Cleared, Warks Scud, Crosby, Philadel- phia; Wasp, Brady, Boston’ brig Erie, Sears, do, yuontEGs BAY, ‘Ja, Sept i7—In port brig’ Persia, for New ork in 7 days, NEWCASTLE, NSW, Aug 6—In port ship Lightning, Hue band, for San Francisco in 3 days. QUEENSTOWN, Oct 3—-Sailed, doga, Wylie «frome Phila- delphia), Falmouth ; (6th, Wm’ Woodbury, McClellan (from Liverpool), Boston. American Ports. BOSTON, Oct 17—Arrived, steamship Nereus, Bearse, New ‘ork, CHARLESTON, Oct 14—Arrived, bark Frank Marion, Duncan, Boston. Cleared—Bark Annie Torrey, Libby, Liverpool, Mth— Arrived, achr A Haley, NYork. Salled—Schre'aP Cranmer, Georgetown, 8C; L P Pharo, 2S oLMES HOLE, Oct 15, PM—Artived, brig wae N ‘inds, Hinds, Philadelphia for Boston; schrs Rachel 8 Pie do for Ne bnset; Sarah Louisa, Wilmington, ©, for Boston ; 8 & B Small, Cates, NYork for do, |—No arrival paeat achr Darius Eddy, NYork for Bangor. Sailed—Brigs Circass! Chiamborazo; schra Alpha,J M TATOBILE, Oct 1—Arrived, sbip India (Br), Grose, Car aif. - leared—Bark Fleetwing, West, Havre. NORFOLK, Oct ie-Salied, brig Amazon (Br), Sadler, PORTLAND, Oct 15—Arrived, schre Teazer, Henley, Phila delphia; Georgla Deering, Willard, do. Cleared—Ship Mayflower (Br), Harrison, Gaspee, NB; brig B Re} ‘Webber, Havana. VANNAH, Qel 1i—Cleared, bark Mary Anna (NG), wit Arrived, steamer Water Lily, NYork. BatiedSteaniships Huntaville, Crowell, and San Salvador, Mcleared.-Boht Frank Herbert, Jacksonville. SALEM, Oct 15—Arrived, brig Catawba, Hanever, Phile- delphia; achrs Annie Magee, Young, and Admiral, Steelman, do; N Berry, Pendl izabethport, MISCELLANEOUS, BSOLUTE DIVORCES OBTAINED FROM THE A courte ofaiferent sian; legal everywhere; desertion, x cause; terms 7 vi 5 tary Fabien FL. KING, Counsellor at Law, 868 Broadway BSOLUTE DIVORCES OBTAINED IN DIFFERENT eeietin No chatge vat divoros ablated, Advice fres lisity. “No charge until divorce obtained. : aaah M. HOUSE, Attorney, 78 Nassau strect. LWAYS AHEAD OF ALL COMPETITION.—TEAS, A Coffees, all kinds of Groceries and Flour for the mullion, sstinge He 960 Greenwich street, New York. LL PRIZES IN LEGAL STATE AND ROYAL HA- vana Lotteries cashed. Information given. J. CLAYTON, rear basement rooms, 10 Wall street, New York, MEDICAL WONDE! 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BRANDRETH, Sing ae Ihave been for many years m great sufferer from dyspep- sia, I became so bad that it was only the lightest kind of food, and in small quantities, that I could digest at all, and I became in consequence very feeble, For years I followed the prescriptions of the best physicians, but I got no relief, and at length I determined to give a trial to your pills, The first two or three doses made me quite sick; but they brought away much black and fetid matter, and I felt relieved of » load from my stomach and bowels. A few more doses cured me, and for over twoyears Ihave had no return and eat of everything without the least trouble from my stomach, In fact, my health could not be beiter, and I feel ft to be my duty to make this statement that others may be advised what has cured me, and I believe that Brandreth’s Pills are capa ble of doing the same for others they have done for me, | | Yours truly, B, GEDNEY TOMPKINS. 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