The New York Herald Newspaper, November 3, 1869, Page 10

“aa ~~, aes oF ieast ASIA. Cholora Ravayes, F Desth in India Gwalior a Golgotha of the Starved Inhabitants. Tho Russian Mar and Northwar the British Interests in Burmah and Jew Route to Western Ci.ina. By the Evropean mat! at this port we Wave the fol lowing | t and very affecting eyecial corres- Spondence trom Asia, exhibiting the acrual condition oT affairs, local and governmental, t EB ritisn India Go the 10th of Septem the Jatest meg} date from Welhi an# valcntta. The recent explorations towards “Western China, as recorded by car egrrespondent, will command the earnest attention of our readers. One Finndred Thousand W lera~Great Saferlug fro E Theuseand De from Sis Gwuuliceo—Raid of tho Pull Viuzern Frovtior~Twonty British HiletmReport on the Present State Kostern Torkistan=The Russians With a Day’s March of the Kushbegis’? Front DELHI, Sept, 10, 1809, Flaving just traversea the line from Calcutta to Delhi, ‘and writing from a point only a hundred miles from ‘Umriisir, I am in a position to give some reliatde details both as to the ravages of cholera during the present season and the severity of the existing famine in the Pu Allalong the road from Benares to this city the cholera mortality during the past two months has been very severe. Scarcely a place has entirely escaped, however small; and all the large cities, such as Benares, J ad, Lucknow, Agra ana Delhi have satiered more or less heavily. At present the ¢ is not raging with anything approach- ing virulence at any place except Lucknow, where the European deaths are averaging eight and tena day, and at Umriteur the death rate has falien to twenty-five (natives) per diem. There is, indeed, ereat reason to hope that the epidemic bas, for the present year, pretty well run iftselfout. No exact €siimate can of course yet be formed of the total mortality 1t has entailed during the past two or three months, but the official is already to hand show that it has been ma than hitherto Subjects of 2 expected. During the month of June alone there were 20,000 «deaths from cho} in the central provinces, and for the following two mouths the rate was not mucn less In Eastern Bengal there have certainly been 20,000 deaths during the season, and in the Panjab, Upper Bengal and Rajpootana the deaths have at the very cen suficient to swell up the grand total to 100,000 1O&t2e Whoie of Eastern and Central India, ‘Thava “lac people have died during the recent epidemic is certalSerobably this very eri y under. rates tho actual figuc%, Six hundred Kuropeans have perished out of a sCMMY population of some 150 000, In the presence of these facts a great deal of news- paper and public indignation has been exy a upon the “civil surgeons,” who almost deserted the aistricts in which the pestilence raged flercest and rusned up to Simla on “sick ieave” certificates. The heads of departments, very properly, no doubt, move up to the mountains with the executive authorities; Dnt itis hard indeed tho inate medical men should run away on went —ceruiicates at the one time In the year when their services are most eeded. It is Iy in Umritsir and other piac utterly destitute of ‘ Tn fact, the whole § ‘at Sinia during the t Teviston, Ab present any oflicer, military or civil, can by means ol a “sick ? certilicate desert his re; ment or his station and pass the unhealthy season of the year im tue mountains. The gone ment can, of course, without improprie: liseif to Simla, as its business can be transacted Jiwre with as littie delay as m Calcutta; but taking Into account that ali European servants of the gov- ernment get two years’ holtday out of every ten, one yeay of leave for every four yeurs of service, 1i is too bad that district oMiciais should still eudeavor to shir’ their duty for lialf the year, As’ far as the famine is concerned, there can be no doul® that over most paris of the Punjab the Tass es of the people are sadly pinched, and that death 6 from ‘Vallon or from diseases consequent upon — insuiicient do Telli food huiritton are very trequent. has risen to four times #8 ustual price; rice that used to be pro- curab.® at forty seers (eighty pounds) for the rupee bow commands a rupee for ten seers, and in eptie o Cine a al well-to-do character of tae popu- Javon there is widespread distress. People are Scling if their idols aud jewelry to keep them alive; tbe food shop ensive, possibiy riots, eo pend a large é of their profits in peusing provisions gratuitously to the peo mm the evening these reli Jons are with em: Wlated creatures wio scramble f grains of rice or corn, Fortunately during tie ‘wees thei te have yraias, and 1 et be garnered. But prices as yet suow no disposition to deciue. in Ajmere an G sole Of the naive states of Kajpootana the suffer yw is dreadiu In Gwalior alone there have been :2,000 deatus {rom starvation in tie pase Bix weeks. ‘The Maharajah of Jeypore has expended nice lacs of rupees ($450,000) in ieeding his peopl but even thi # munificcnt liberality bas only pu alleviated ti le existing distres: Signs of coming troubie ve appeared in the hills, Bomcy Weeks ago & predatory band from ti Mount.tin, on the ot Tiwazera, lost one of thy dering a village ¢ Anticipating a yenewal of th applied for { obtaiued a strong guard of police. AS was @ Huzzunzais came down im Birong fori ) and, surprising the guard, Killed by em ALU Wounded @ number |) gides. OniyJast year a furco was sent up to th sane district to quel some disturbances, and It w hoped t tie Aisplay of force then made, which entailed considerable expense, Weuld preserve quict among these law‘ess tribes, ‘at any rate for a few years to come. But a few more lacs will propabiv have to be expended upon tke protection of & dis- trict Which scarcely 8 Budiclent revenue to pay the salaries of its in. \eistrates aud ollicials The following brief oficial report oi the informa- tion gathered by Meets. Snaw and Hayward, who have just returned irom @ tour in Lastera Turkistan, will doubtless he of interest. The journey, taking into account the murder of Mr. A. Schiagintweit a year or so ago sped the fanatical vatred of many of tno inhabitants to ‘intidels,”” was one of great peril, and the resulm@ of the expedition seem likely to be of considerable tmportance. It will be seen that the people are extremely anxious to open outa trade with India, while the “Atatiga Ghazi,” or the Ku begi, appears much more friendly than was sup- sed, and has agreed to send an envoy to the rideh authorities in India, who, unless objected to, will, after aa interview wiin tho Governor Gene proceed to England to carry bis royal masi respects to the ¢ ‘The report {s from Dr, Cay- the special agent of the government at badarh, Sid reels as follows:— MENT, PONJAD AND irs port Mr, Shaw has rescked Lob frop: wtry be remained six months. Dur: wan trented with great honor aud d.s- to three or four interviews with tbo three months, peut If “Ataligh Ghazi,” was wolf lighly gratived and = to the Queen in coompanied Messra. Shaw here was some delay aud openly about the doatis co must on tnt ace reason ho had wot to india, although he and bia with the “murder, and Khan to de wat mor at diss antry, and for thi envoy t bad not had himself ‘ous ruiiian, ut to death "oy aleliigent nd in Liberast #irict ol acrvane ad declared his in- | | the p I ozpoots hia highest officers to do the some, In the ease a nyiole discipitue aad panizhes any ig somewhat of the character ‘cistan. His dominions east. ‘a Kousnehi, waich two places pay tribute bis rule, thoagh actuntly fnelnded in Ataligh now resides chiewty at ar wh rn [rontier om account of the movements Kos , who have erected a fort and bridge at tho river foom the side of Ahnat, and the Yarkandis havo advance post on the mouniatas (called by thom by the Chinese the Tien Kian), two marches northeast 91 Artush and about one mareh from the Russians. The wi or {8 juost etriotly guarded and watched, and tor the country from the north. It seems Russian oflicers tried Inst autumn to enter themselves before the King, but were t, and, though well treated, were sent irontter, inors of last year are not confirmed Khudayar ta and 1s quite under Russian iniluence, which is teful to his subjects, and produce:t entaity cen him and the Yarkand ruler. oats iu Khokand, A large katila re and late last year, and between the two countries t id Kashgar are almost er tirely ares, Neos, cb intze F10" Many of the ‘rhe s Tait wilt yt cut sever! of the new ruler of ty. Sucl Eastern Tu nok at onee % In Kho thet Khuda: h, imported through Kussta. BY, via Bishawah, Cabul and Lok dara now Vory wearee ant expensive; the common HKaugra green tea sell at four rs. per pound. ‘Black toa ig 20¢ approved of, 4. A few ionds of merchandise have reathed Le irow Lahonl, and much more is now en raute. This report snows fhat the ramors that have been Noating about for the past fw montis to the eect i tho Russtaus are still steadily pushing south- d, on the other hand, the complaints ol the urg journals that the British anthorities are using every efiort to extend their iailuence among the governments to the north of India, are poth equally founded in truth, The rypeeg that have been made to the Ameer Shere Ali have been openiy and avowedly granted, and they already amount to a very large sui, viz.:—twelve lacs of rupees (760,000); and this unobtrusive semt-oitictal embassy to the Kushbegl evinces the cagerness of the authorivies to krct themselves in close bonds of friendship with the other interposing barrier to the tner advance of Russia—Lastern Turkistan, Tne Fuushbegt and the Ameer combmed can, no doubt, oppose a very strong front to an invading army, while elther hag, of course, the power to grant a treo passage through their dominions, The object or sent interest of tho authorities in Turkistan is, therefore, very apparent; and no doubt a few more months wi'l bring about a treaty of alliance, offensive and defensive, between the British govern- ment and the Kushbegi similar to that which has already been concluded with the Ameer Shere Ait. On the other hand, the news that the Kussians have advanced to within a day’s march of the Kushbegi's fronuer is very unwelcome to the British authori- es, though ramors to the same elfect have long ago come to band, The Wababee Conspiracy=Siarvation at Al- mere—Anticipated Famine Ail Over the Pune Jab—Curioas Bratmin Ceremony Antici= pated at Travancore—The Rajah to Make a Gift of His Weight ia Gold=Nows from Afghanistan, CaLcurTa, Sept. 7, 1809. » About two months ago the authorities and the general European public went mad with fear about aconspiracy which had been unearthed by the vigt- lance of the active @etectives. From “iniormation received,” 1t was determined to search the houses of two well known Mussulman merchants, who con- trolled a certatn trade in Culcutta; and a number of papers were found which clearly revealed a wide- spread schome of revolt. The conspiracy seemed, it was stated, to bo confined to the most fanatl- cal set of Mussulmans, the Wahabees, who have, in the last fifty years, obtained a firm foothold among the Moslem of India, Their tenets are singularly bigoted and intolerant; they hold the doctrines of the Koran in regard to ind- dcls—that it is a high virtue to rob or stay an unbe- Never—in the literal sense. They advocate also an ascetic rule of life, The merchants Ameer Khan and bis er, Were conspicnous members of this sect, and carried out their faith as rigorously as circym- stances permitted. No European could have even a business transaction with thi Without meeting with usuit, and no great surprise was occasioned when it was discovered that they were among the leaiers of the proposed plot. They were arrested by the government and lodged in the Patna jail, where they have since rem ained, pending the com- inencement of a secret trial, it has now been avuounced that Ameer Khan has, by bis own request, been transferred from Patna to Ue jaitat Gya, near Calcutta, and the public, who had almost forgotten tie conspiracy, are asking why the government have not a the cetails of the information they have gathered, if the piot were Hol so serious as Was at lirst stated, or if 1% were no Worse, nothing but good could resuit from an official revelation of the whole business. But supposing that it has turned out worse than expected, a motive for suppression is at once evident, It 1s quite possi- } bie that, in spite of the open hostility between the Mussulnion and the Hindoos, they had both agreed om hands for the inauguration of a second revolt. fie famine which has set in at Ajmere 1g rapidiy growing jn intensity, and has already spread ail over the States of Rajpootana, At Ajmere the poo- ple are dying by hucdreds of famine, fever and giunea-worm; the relief stations are daily besteged by hundreds of emaciated skeletons, who greedily snateh at the scanty allowance given them by the authorities, From Marwar the people are flying by hundreds to the adjaceat British territories, m the hope of obtatuing supply of food. ‘ney are too weak to work on the publio enter. prises which the government are carrying on to afford reltei, and must starve unless charity, pure and unmixed, Is exteaded to them. And from Delhi, Agra and Patna and all the principal cities in tie Punjand the most starting reports have come to hand. Rice has risen to six and seven seers (pounds) for arupee—a starvation rate, when it is remem- bered that men are getting only an anna and a half or Wie anuas (there are sixteen annas to the rupee) per diem. The non-ofMcial presses have already begun to Whisper about another and a more terrible famine tan that ever-memo.able one of Orissa, in which two years ago a million of human beings perished of hunger. “Should the crop in the Panjaub and Upper Bongal utterly fall, sad indeed will be the story that will have to be told trom India to the vitized world during the next six months. It is g, however, to know that the Durbar of the inburg Wil hot take place, as was con- templated. Cholera ts still raging in many districts; as fast a3 it ceases in one place it breaks out im another. Sixty men in one of the white regiments at Luck- now perished last week. The Maharajah of Kerow- lee is Among the last reported victims, A curious Hmdoo ceremony is announced to soon take place in Travancore. By an old custom the Maharajahs have usually, shortly after their acces- sion, presented the Brahmins with their royal body's Weight in gold; and tho present prince will soon aub- ject his revenues to thts costly infliction. ‘The gold is minted mto small coins, with tho words “Tree Pulpanaha” stamped upon them; and these are dis- tribnted among the moimbers of the Brahmin caste resident in Travancore. ‘Tho last rajah seems tn some way to have been cheated by those who weighed hita, for they made him out to be equal in weight to eighteen tulams, or 316 pounds. After the welghing ceremouy the Malarajah will have to go through another, also of a very expensive charac- ter, This is called the Pudmagerpum, aud consists in hia emerging from a gold lotus leaf. it is unne- cossary tu say Utat be 1s himself required to find the lotus leaf. ‘There is very little news stirring. Trade {s dull, and while the Governor General Is at Simia there 1s Little, ow ln the way of politica or gaicty, to record. Another insurrettion has, it seems, broken out in Atighanistan, but has been promptly suppressed. It Was headed by Sirdar Ishauk Khan, who las been for the past few months at Koxhara, It seems that he crossed the Oscus and succeeded in mustering a smailarmy, but in the first engagement with the troops of the Ameer Shere All he was defeated and as again taken refuge in Bokhara. ‘The rebel Aif- gan cbtefs who tave fled to the Shab of Persia seein to be well treated. The Shah doubtiess thinks that they may yet prove of service to hin when the Herat didientty Cowes, a3 it must do eveutually, to the suriace, BURMAH. Sottlement of the Pe K ing Disputes with the ingA Mixed Court to be Established at ainyThe New Route io Western China—Appotntment of an Agence at Bhamo— Tho South Carolina Rice Seed Experiment Cetion tuvePetroloam Wella of Burs mah—Kangoon and the Great Pagoda. Rangoon, Burmah, August 23, 1869. ‘Thanks to the firmer tone which the Indian gov. ernment have authorized Captain Sladen, the pre- sent British Political Agent at Mandalay, to assume, the King has consented to the establishment of a mixed court, in which cases between British sub- Jects or Europeans under British protection and Bur- mans under his own authority can be tried. He has also waived the claim he once made that all decis- ions in such cases should be governed by Burmese customs, and not by civilized law. Ags the matter now stands the court will consist of the Political Agent and the Kulla Woon (or the King’s Foreign Secretary), whose joint deciston will be final and absolutely beyond appeal. No provision hag yet been made for cases in which the two jadges may arrive at oppo- siie opinions; but this can easily be setuied, Jm- prisonment of British subjects for debts due to Bur- subjects towards most tolerant, and even ans other Il ina Le nportant potuts inemtod il sulmang, such as not bonig allowed to ¥ horses in the towus, Merchante of nn ed avo liberally encouraged. His rule is just aad vigorous, but revere he puta down his enemies with w sirong nnd piilicas band, Asa soldior his peysonnl daring and prowess, wile mie Bead bisn into thé van of she Aght. nse tunpicet tiv toNek at confi fade his enomlos 4 orey is remarkshio, an” he eecy to every: i} when engaged in drecting foruica\ions or any other {ayportant work bo will, to encoursg’ hiv poidian, perionn Ye youghes Iabor with bis own Ke mans is recognized; but it ts stipulated that such imprisonment must be in the house of ihe British agent and not In tie King’s jail. Yuis arrangement Is much better than was hoped for; indeed, when the King mustered an army of 30,000 or 40,000 men, it was generally expected that iveat Briain would be involved in another of those betng bullied as it 1s for 4 of the pleasure of bully- ing; and finding s5 his “reatening attitude’ Produced ‘no eifect, on the agent the King has at cace backed do¥/n and come to terms, Mr. Wil- Mams, whom the King has held im prison for the past few weeks because Dr, Willams (us broth’jy), of Rangoon, owes him some money, “js to be released, There can be no 40’ .yt that the mixed court will do mucn towards opening up the interior. Hitherto mere’ pants have been afraid to do very much busl- nes 4 with cither the King or his subjects, owing to We slenderness of the chances of their ever getting any cash return for their goods and the impossibility of recovering @ debt due by a native Burman. But now credits may be more freely extended, and as the King has further agreed to observe the treaty of 1866, which provides for a certain freedom of trade, there will be a large tucrease in the commerce be- tween native and British Burman. Captain Williams’ report as engineer to the West- ern Clina expedition of last year has just been pub- lished, Of the advisability of going up the Irra- waddy river as far as possible Captain Williams ts as firmly convinced as Captain Sladen, but he recom- mends taking @ more southerly pass through the mountains than that through which the expedition journeyed. From what he was able to gather from the Kakhens he believes the way he suggests would be found much the easiest, the gradients being more graduai and the hills themselves lower than on the other route, There is no doubt now but that the government of India has fully awakened to tho advantages attend- Ing vhe opening of this new road to China, An agent has atready been appointed at Bhame and far- ther steps will be taken us good as communication can be again restored with the Panthayo. — ‘The last rumor, by the way, of the defeat of the latter by the Chinese imperialist forces, still lackg confirmation and is probably as basviess as the reports to the same eifect previously, The Chiet Comuilssiouer of Burman has postponed the construction of a rail- road from Rangoon to Prome, to be exvended ulti- mately as the commercial needs of the country may suggest. ‘the reports from the various districts in which the South Carouua paddy (rice) seed, obiamed from the Agricultural bureau at Washington, was distributed have been received. In a few cases the crop has been tolerabiy good and the cuitivators appear to tank that next year 146 will do much __bet- ter, This last season, however, has been very uufuvorable, and the cyclone in tho Akyab disirice destroyed nearly ali the plants there. Th many cases, also, it appears that tae naitves, from Ignorance, allowed the paddy tobe too much under Ww, Where ithas thriven the rice seems to be larger and finer than the grain received, aud the ofiicial reports, as a whole, speak very favorauly of its prospective value. The cotton crop hus this year been larger than ever before, and the exports to Hurope have not fallen far Short of 10,000 baies, Much more than this has been but it has either be rbed by th or sent ey «i to Western China, where tked up into coarse fabrics. Cotton culture in Burinat is entirely carried ou by sinall Burmese farmers, who re ‘obably @ coupie of baies aunu- ally per head. The bales here are smaller thao in the south, aud rarely exceed 300 pounds. Vlanting on a large scale by Luropeans, employlog a number of hands, bas not yet been.attempted, owing to the dificuity of keeping Barwese regularly at work. it the cotton murket, however, shows any pestis of the preseat price for Burmese cotton cing maintained, coviies will be imported from In- dia aud large plantations established, Itts estimated that jourteen Cents a pound ut Liverpool would yield a habdsome proiit, aud at present eighteen cents 18 being obtained. ‘he Burman cotton has a longer staple than Indian and ranks between that and American uplands, Burma, however, is not likely to ever become a@ very serious rival to tue United States in producing cotton, But there is another product of the country which Will no doubt become of great itmportance—pecro- leum, Few Americans are aware, probably, that as far back as 1835 oi] was “struck” in Burman; in fact, kerosene has most likely been Kuown to and used by the native Burmese for generations, ‘The only welis at present beiog worked are owaed by the King of Burmai and are situated m his own dominions, @ little beyond Thayetmyo, on the Briush frontier. ‘Lhe metuod of working them 13 somewhat primitive, ‘Lhe pits are about four feet square in srea and avout 200 feet deep. The oil is not found im anything like the abundauce which exists in Pennsylvania; tn fact, when it stands four or iive feet deep at the botiom the pit is thought to be @ very productive and valuable one, The oli is not pumped up, but is raized in an iron pot ajiaciied to @rope aud pulley. When first obtained a great deal of water is mingied wi¥ait, ana the dud is glowed to sland for sume time, uniii tie oil has Moated to the top. ‘Lhe oil is then drawn of mto eartiien jars, Walch are carefully closed up aud sent down the river to Rangoon 1n smail native boats, As it appears hore, in the form of an article of com- mere, the oil is thick aud dirty, of @ silghtly green- ish color, aod in smeiias oifensive as crude petro- Jeum 1s generally. Lad as it 18, uowever, the natives, both here and 1 Madras, se It iu its wureilued state a3 @ buramg tiuid. A speculator once tried to make gas trom li ior Rangoon, dus from ig inedicteas caplval was forced to aoandon the underiaking, One very curlous Jact about tie wells 18 tat they are of a very high temperature. Geologists say that petroieum Will probably be found ali along ithe valicy of the Irrawaddy, and there 13 every prospect of the burmese welis becoming as celebrated as those of Vengo county wheuever oil rises ia the market to @ price that will be remunerative. Of course so long 8 ihe American Weils aro able to supply the entire demand of Europe and Ausiralia Burman wells will not enter tae ficid, owing to her distance from those markets. It is curious, though, to realize that British capitalists, by a moderate exertion of energy and perseverance, might bave reaped thirty years ago the chormous prolits Which aiieuded tue frst production of kerosene. Rangoon itself is fast Improving, aud will proba- bly be the metropolia of Buraiah. Already the trado of Maulinain has sadly declined, while every year the commerce of Rangoon increases, This city, how- ever, it should be remembered, is one of the videst in the Kast, having beea established Ub Six cen. turies before Christ by a discipie of Caudama, the founder of the Budadlust religion and the last iacar- nation of deity that as appeared, according to we Burman faith, on the earth. It is, therefore, very Dearly as oid as the city of Kome, aud, ike Rome, It enjoys the prestige of boing a ‘ioly City.’ Those Who visit tt, Llowevor, ia the liope of seeing moulder- Ing ruins and venerable sirines Wil be greatly dis- appointed, Jn the jast war the city, togecher wiih most of the pagodas, was destroye rebuilt on the iost’ approved Ain: ‘The streets are at right angles and, es ng tuorougitares, are distiagu: ot nawes, and has been wean principles, ept the iead- d by numbers, Zhe European houses are of the Bun low pattern, hud the natives live, after the fasion Of their ancestors, in dwellings raised on piles some few fect above the surface of the earth. The few Chinese who iave settled bere live in a separate quarter, but they have imerely a biock or two of low godowas, ‘Tae one great sight of Rangoon ts the Shoay da Goung Pagoda, beiter known among the Baropeans aud missionaries by the name of “Dagon? This pagoda is the largest in Burmah, and is supposed to possess pecullar sanctity, About twenty or thirty thousand pligrims from all parts of the country Visit 16 at tue end of the ratuy season. It is built on an artificial hill, some two hundred feet in height And several acres in area. Approacuing It from (ie city one has to go up along covered porch, with here and there a fight of twenty or thirty steps, At e sido of this porch, and supporting it, there isa Lvi@ TOW OL pilidi®, SOME Of Which are of teas, painied red, thougi most are of brick, covered wath chunam, @ peciliar Kind of plaster, which dries a3 White aud smooth and polished a8 marbie, Among the pillars are generaily to be found a fluctuating quantity of siails, on which are vended edibles of Various descriptions, together with bunches of little’ candies and long strips of paper, atiached by ®& thread to # thin switch aud covered with a neatiy written prayer, ‘These papers are offered by the Burmese at ine shrines of Ueir gods, and are supposed to answer every end that coutd be attained by a verbal supplication. Tie roof of the porch 18 1h many paris profusely deco- rated with Mosaics and ornamental designs, Here and there, also, one sees a carved figure of a Bur- nese prince, and there are a few wali paiatings of animals and suips and Burmese celeprities. About hall way up, on the left haad side, is the most curious of these artistic productions, It 18 a pic- torial representation of the tortures of hell, and 1a, perhaps, the only work of the Kind 1u the pagoda that has called fort anything like an artistic ieenng. Lhe pers)potive aud drawing are no doubt horribly bad, ana fie Devilis represented a3 being in some twenty oF chirty placed at ie same instant of time; but, leaving these defects out of siglit, the spec: taior is struck by the vivid realsm of the: imaginative conceptions. The artist dentiy thrown his whole — soul Work and thought out every line of the patating. The most striking feawire iu the tortures dep is the superabundanee of punisument? in- volving bloodshedding; im fact, at the arst blush, the picture seems covered with an eruption of gory blotches. Here a sinaer is being sawed in two irom the head downwards, between a couple of boards; there another 18 being crushed into a Darrel, while the biood gushes over its sides; a Wicked lady in anotuer place is being gashed at random by Vio executioner; while a fourth victim is being pierced trough and through with that same four pronged harpoon with which Caucasian school boys endow tier ideal Dixbolus, Many of the tor- tures are too cbscene to be deacribed, but m ail the element of horror preddieinaies, and a man of Hervous tomperainent will dreau of some of thew for months together, ‘Tle central point of the pagoda is a huge mass of Solid masonry, tapering by gracefully swelling and receding “rings” Into a siender spire. The extreme summit ts surmounted by @ sacred “tee,” which Buropeaps generally call an “ombrelia? It is Simply A framework of iron, haag over with beils, which tinkle, by no means unmusigally, ag the breeze stirs them, Tails mass of masonry 13 pierced on each of its four sides with a Smail chamber, in each of which there are idols of Gaudauia, the last Buddah. Inthe holiest of these chambers, besides the usuai tmages, there is w Pan- theon of the yarious incarnations of Detty that havo visited tho earti, consisting of several hundred small figures. Very few of the idols are of any artistic celience. The Only ones at ail well executed are one brazen and two marble linages, Round this central “ite ware’? which have become proverbially ex- Densive. But the Burman mind is as pusveptible of : Pe building are a number Of idol houses, all filled with images, and sous of thew iy by no meuns pair. There are nell honses at each site of the pagoda, with two enormous bells of with here and there a pellet of gold tie sides, Theze bells are of great value, andin the jast war the British captured one, but in getting it aboard the gunboat it fell overboard, The Burmans managed to recover it, and have been aliowed to re- tain it ever since. These are the main features of the pagoda, and may afford a general idea of its appear- ance. All travellers in the Further Bast should, however, determine to visit 1t; it 18 certeinly one of the most costly works reared by human hands. Tho eng: we priests, are now collecting funds to gild over the central building, and when t! descr the pagoda Will be oue of tue most eplen hy in the world. ‘The most important religious festivals take place at the first appearance of the new moon, and on these occasions the Burmese spend the whole day at the pagoda. Their religious exercises are, however, quite a subordinate part of the day’s business, It 18 true that now and then they enter the temple (some- times cigar in mouth), and mumble over a few prayers; but by far the greatest part of the time is more profitably employed. The elders sit and chat, the younger folk mike love, and the boys run about, jetting olf fire crackers and shouting. id, Were it not for the large pecuniary contributions they make for the support or their religion one might be anslined to doubt altogether their faith in their priests. PERSIA. Disappearance of the Cholera After a Fatal Visitation. The government of India received intelligence September 17 from Persia to the effect that cholera, which lately raged at Shiraz and Ispaban, entirely disappeared about the middie of August, ‘Two thou- sand tive hundred persons are believed to have died at Shiraz, and a larger proportion in the surround- ing villages. Cholera has also greatly diminished at ‘Tehran; but it 1s said to be spreading towards Meshed. A few cases were reported souih of Shiraz towards Bushire, THE “CUBAN PRiVATZER HORXET. The Case Closed=Decision of the United States Commissioner. The following is tho decision in full of Commis- sioner Rutherford im the case of the Cuban privateer Horaet or Cuba, recently tried at Wilmington, N. C= DECISION, . The United States vs. The Opicers of the Steamship Cuba.—In this case the defendants, twenty-four in humber, are charged with a violation of the third section of the act of Congress of April 20, 1813, known as the Neutrality law, the charge being “that they did fit ont and arm, aud did procure to be Atied out and armed within the limits of the United States, a certain ship or vesse!, called the Cuba, with intent that the sata vessel shall be employed in the service of the people of Cava to cruise and commit hostill- ties against the people of Spain, a country with which the United States Is at peace.” i have carefully reviewed the Ltestimony given on the examination and considered the arguments of counsei as well as the cases cited in support of their positions, and am of the opimion that but two acts are shown to bave been committed within the limits of the United States trom which an intent to violate the neutrality laws cau be inferred, These were— First, the enlistment of the witness James Gordon, Jr, by D. D. Munro, one of the derendants; and with this act no one but the defendant Munro is shown to have been connected. Second, the act of taking on board a cargo of coal from the schooner James Predmore, ‘The testimony of all the witnesses unive Mm showing that this coal was taken on board the Cuba Wiuie she was lying in Long Iland Sound, in- side Montauk Point, and therefore clearly within the limits of the Uniced States, even though she was move than three miles from the shore. From all the evidence as to the position of the Cuba at the time she received the arms, stores and men from the Petrel, the Charter Oak, the Only Son, the Martha Washington and tho Virginia Seymou: I believe that she was more than a manne league from land, aud without the jurisdiction of the United States, ‘the evidence, as well of the prosecution as of the defence, shows that some of the deiendants were merely passengers on the vessel, who nad taken passage at a foreign port, and that others lad jomed her on the high seas; that these persons had exer- cised Do command and bad no control over tne yes- sel or its crew until aller the arms had been put on board and the coal silpped, and not until the Cuva Was on the huh seas and beyond the itmits aud jurisdiction of the United States. It is claimed by the defence that as no proof has been ofiered by the prosecution that the United plates 18 at peace with Spain, this being, as they cial, & material point of the charge made against tiem, that the Commissioner cannot take judicial nouce of the fact, and that the prosecution haviag failed to prove it as a fact, the whole charge falis to the ground, With ts view of the case i cannot agree; tiie public acts, treaties, &c., made by the United States with foreign countries are judiclaliy noticed by the courts oi the United States, and tie fact that peace exists between the United States aud Spain ig a public master ailecuung the whole people and need not be proved. Much has been said by both the prosecution and the defeuce upon the duties of a Come nussloner as a commuting magistrate, the prose- cution taking the ground that it was the pro- vince of the Commissioner merely to inquire into the matter and asceriuin if the offence charged had been committed, and if this fact appeared, tt was tien us duty Co hoid for trial any person or persons whom there was “probable cause’? to believe had commitied the offence. What may be “probable cause” must of courge rest entirely in the discretion of tie Commissioner under the different circum. stances in each case; but in my opinion he would not be justitied in committing a citizen for trial, and subjecting bim to the great annoyance and expense atiending such proceedings, on silght evidence whitch creates only suspicion against the accused, and where it is evident that a jury would not convict. ‘The defendants, Edward Higgins, Thomas L, Dor. nin, G. W. Keed, F. J. McNulty, £. Valiente, P. Ingra- ham, G. W. DuBose, R. Somers, H. 8. Cooke, A. M. Mason, Antonio Munoz, Wm. H. Robinson, Stephen Kearacy, Joaquim Aguiar, Edward Toulas, John Mullay, W. J. Miatherty, are discharged, Tne de- fendants, David A, Telfair, D. D. Munro, Nicholas Esing, R. H. Gibson, W. VD. Philips, Lous French and John Lynch, will be required to give good and suiicient bail in the sum of $500 each for their appearance at the next term of the District Court of the United States for the Cape fear aistrict of North Carolina, to be held in the United States Court room, in the city of Wil- jmington, on Monday, the Ist day of November, 1869, to auswer any indictment that may be found against them, and in default of fndiog bail as aforesaid that the said David A. Telfuir, D. D. Munro, Nicholas Esling, R. di. Gibson, W. D. Phillips, Lowa French and Johu Lynch stand commitied for trial. ALLAN RUTHERFORD, United States Commissioner for the Cape Fear district of North Carolina, The Commissioner stated orally after readiug tho above decision that it had also come to luis knowledge that the offence had been committed tn tho Fasiern district of New York. JBACLO. The Product of the United States. [{From-the Richmond (Va.) Whig.) The amount of tobacco raised i the states and ‘Tervliories of tho Union im 1860 was 10,752,660 pounds. In 1860 it reached 44, increase of nearly 220 percent, In 1860 Virginia Taized 66,308,227 pounds and Keniucky 65,601,196 ounds. In other words, in 1850, out of @ wial pro- Auer of tobacco of less than 200,000,000 pounds .in the States and Territories, these two Staves produced over 112,000,000. Of the amount of 434,209,461 pounds roduced in all the States and Territories in 1860, Virginia produced 123, 968,312 pounds and Kentucky 108,126,840 pounds. in other words, Virginia and Kentucky produced in 1860 more than half the to- bacco grown in the United States. It is a curtous fact that more or less tobacco is ratsed in every State and Territory except Dacotah, ‘The amount raised in the New England States in 1850 ‘Was 1,405,920 pounds; in 1860, 9,260,446 pounds, Con- necticut rose from 1,206,624 pounds in 1860 to 6,000, - 133; Massachusetts from 133,246 pounds in 1850 to 4,233,199 pounds in 1860. The amount raised in the Middlo Svates in 1850 was 72,411,447 pounds; 1n 1869, 47,531,617 pounds. New York increased her produc- tion from 83,189 pounds in 1860 to 6,764,682 pounds in 1860. Pennsylvania increased from 912,651 pounds 1n 1850 to 3,181,686 pounds in 1860, ‘The increase in Maryland was from 41,403,497 pounds to 38,410,065 pounds, The amount raised in the Southern States 1n 1850 Was 90,061,429 pounds; In 1960, 203,642,003. Of these 208,500,000 pounds raised in the Southern States in 1960, Virginia, Tennessee aud North Caro- HD& rAatsed 200,000,000. ‘The amount raised in the Western States in 1550 was 64,908,997 pounds; in 1860, 178,163,767 pounds. Next to Kentucky, Onlo and ea? are the greatest tobacco growing States in the West, The aimouut raised in the Pactfic Stated in 1860 was 9,862 pounds; in 1800, 10,609 pounds. ‘The collection of tax on tobacco in Virginia for the seven months ending September 40, was $2,194,308 99, against $225,614 61 1ur the same period of last year, the increase this year being $1,968,739 38, ‘The Supervisor estimates that the revenue from tobacco tn Virginia for the year commencing March, 1809, and ending March, 1870, will be at least $5,000,000 greater than for the previous year, Tite BROWN UNIVERSITY LAND GRANT.—"oy, Horace 'f. Love's statement of his transactions in disposing of the Brown University public iand grant, Wwiuch was read before the tuvestigating committee last week, detalis at length his operations in locat- ing the land in Kansas and Nebraska; his dimcul- ties with the Central branch of the Pacific Raliroad Company and the State of Kansas in securing a title, and the causes of bis reaignation of his office to procure Iunds for the university and puronase of the entire amount of scrip at wholesale for $60,000. He stated that he had not made $20,000 out of the transaction, and if he had made more should have given it to the university, A statement was pre- sented, showing that the average sellin, price of the Now Hanipsiiire, “Massachue setts, New Jersey and Maryland Agricuitural Coll land scrip was 63}4 cents per acre, at which rave itnoae Isiand’s 120,000 acres of scrip would have brought $63,909, while she actually :received ony $50,000, A letter from Senator Pomeroy, of Kanas, was read, approving location of the iebigraaotrats, 1b tunel as al ea ‘ued, Mood re- | the chairman of the 6L pounds, an | THE BYRON CONTROVERSY What the English Pablic Says. {From the London Standard, Oct, 20.) While hire. Stowe is pre} her defence, which 1s, we understand, to be strengthened or eincy or, at any rate, supplemented, by the publication of her correspondence with Lady Byron (iacluding her own letters returned by the executors), the task is being made, if it well can be, a little more arduous for her pen. Had we said that a successful defence was ee ajet ee ED ea ae ing article which has just ap| ja the Quarter Rove, We sudat Lave been guite within boun Enovgh and to spare had alreaay written for that purpose, but new and valuable facts, letters and attestations still crop up, interesting in the highest degree, not so much at this stage of the affair, as rescuing Lord Brent menery Ttyia contact with the toulest feproach, as in throwing hight on thoughts, character and habits of hulmselt and those by whom he was surrounded. The reviewer has done lis work wall, snd the work 1s exactly that which the public @ right to expect from such @ quarter. There ts time accorded to tue writer in such @ publication to analyze, sift and weigh all that has been written, as well as to col- lect more recondite facts and crowning evidence. Not only does the reviewer, in this case, act the part of an impartial judge in summing up all that has been elicited in court, but he has also important additional evidence to state and bring forward, Need we add that the whole reault 1s one which can- not fail press the great panel of the educated world with tie necessity of acquittal, so -far as Lord Byron 18 concerned, and to suggest atill more imper- atively the duty of impounding a ‘True Story,” with the view of its writer’s moral impeachment before the tribunal of earthly 1gut? The reviewer com- mences with some admirable trony directed against “an influential portion of the press,” ‘The sensitive journalist,” he writes, “can derive no pleasure from Byron’s poems silce the terribie disclosure Hire, Beecher Stowe, and almost feels he shall nev open hig works agatn. t will, therefore, be a kind and deed to take ‘Childe Haroid’ and ‘Don Juan? out of quarantine and fumigate them for family use. ‘to do this effectually * * we must venture into a tainted atmosphere,” &c., &c. We cannot help saying bere that we icar that a cer tain small section both of the English and American community may have been only too glad to veileve anything alleged against the author of “Childe Harold” and “Don Juan,” and desire not to fumt- gate but to burn them as ruthlessly as the romances Of Don Quixote were comuitted to the ames. These persons would equally doom Byron through his works as they would his works through Mrs. Stowe’s Lord Byron, The Quarterly Review, in the first place, quotes Moore, and endorses his evident opin- jon, that tho case was “a clear, undeniabie, tuevi- table one of incompatibility.” Whéther in ‘‘the minor differences which preceded the decisive one, she (Lady Byron) was always in the right,” does not “much mend the matter.”” ‘The reviewer, after giving the new letters, iront- cally sumests ‘a second revelation—to Lady Byron’s own mind, if not from without;” “old facts in new lights;” and “the ‘haif-truth-at-a-time’ theory which, we are assured, in no degree weakens credibility; and the angelic theory which justifies a lady (if she 1g pure, chivalrous and religious) in aliernately ex- alting and vilifying, trosting and disirusing the same person, according to her mood. It will bo hard, too, {f something cannot be mado out of the “unnecessarily,” or the reasons which she waa not “ca- able of stating In a detafied manner,” although she goes on jontate them in gencral terms. In dealing with such autago- Aiate 1f fa not enough to cut away the groundwork of the cal- wmny; we must swecp away the materials in the shape of conjectures, surmises, insinuations and inferences, with which the dirty work may be recommenced, and we hope to do this 20 effectually as not merely to clear Lord Byron's memory from all tafnt of guilt, but to refute the incidental charges of unfeeling or ungenerous conduct towards his wife. We must pass over Dr. Kennedy and his ‘‘Conver- Terriinal but the following is too important to omit:— When Mr. (afterwards Sir Robert) rd yhton (Hob! Wilmot Horton, acti for her, met Lord Broughton house), acting for Lo: an awicable arrangement, Lora 8 preliminary, that all the spectiic st Lord Byron should be disavowed, to which Mr, Wilmot Horton readily assonted on her bebaif: Lord Broughton was wout to relate that he ‘racked his im- agination" to exhaust thom, and put each categorically. “Do lopt or believe this?! to which the invariable answer atm it—we do not believe it.” We aro not r this specitic charge was named among the resi. We should think that, though no ni ty, it ranked in the miuds of all parties with the Florence tragedy, to which Goethe gave temporary credenco; the Giuour story or the many other wild faventions which fully bear out the noble poet's statoment that his case was supposed to comprise a fhe crimes which could, and several which con's not, be com- mittod. There can be no doubt, however, that Mr, Wilmot Horton's disclaimer was vinually complete Wen, in the resence of the arbitrate if n put his amo an i raion he added, “hte Seal to the deed of separ: ia Mra, Cler- mont's aot and deed.” Mra, Clermont was the lady so disa- grceably immortalized In “A Sketch.” The pudlio will like to know that lady’s name. Then comes the cxamination of Lord Byron as a Fuyaron des vices. Certainly incest was not in- cluded in these, Tho dowager Lady Sneliey’s tn. pressions and recollections of Mrs. Leigh are most striking, She writes:— Thave seen a gront deal of Mra. Leigh (Au Mrs. Leigh was like a mother to Byron, being #0 much older, and not at aii an attractive person: her, at her request, to pay a we: when she returned to town, and tho grestest anxlety that hfs marriage should rétorin, bi, . r_ My astonishment at the present acoasation bounded, “She, a Dowsy-woody,d belng then, T muoporo, ® ‘oung, fine lady. Serope Davies used to come to dinner, and Talked! to mea great deal about Byron atterwards, when he resided in the countiy, and Inever rememvor w hint at ti unnatural and improbable Uaison when all London was at feet, * * * she must have been marricd (in 187) ite a Loy (he was nineteen). She had no etry. She had sad misfortunes in her later ysara, jent and only surviving daughter nursed her with the tenderest affection in her last iliness. How any one could have been so wicked a8 to write 80 horrivie ® story of one too long dead to have friends left who could rotute the story seoms beyond belief. Tbis much injured iady (Mrs. Leigh) has a daughter and son living, “whose feelings,” writes the re- viewer, “may be guessed.” She loft a most favorable impression on all who had an opportunity of observing her, and the co-Inmates of paiaces ntrive to know Whatever can be kuown avout good, bad or indifferent. In fact, her habits, manuor and appearance wore a complete antidote to calumay, erpecially this sort of calumny. We need not re-cuter Into the consideration of Lord Byron’s poetry referring to his sister. We may, however, notice the allusion to the “witch drama,” a8 Lord Byron called Manfred.” He told Mr. Mur- ray, in a letter written March 26, 1817, that he might “put it into the fire if he liked,” “and this is the poem,” remarks the Quarterly, “that reveals the grand secret of his life.” Some of the letters are duly quoted, proving the relations which continued to exist between Lord Byron, his sister and his wife, even to the day of his death, But these have already appeared. The “pray tell Mrs. Leigh to request Lady Byron,” writ- ten to Mr. Murray, February 21, 1820, and the “My dearest Angusta, I received a few days ago your and Lady Byron’s report of Ada’s heaith,” speak vol- umes in themselves, So also his uifectionate remembrance of his sister and her children and his “dear wife” in his will. The reviewer comes to the conclusion that Lady Byron was under delusions, and that the following Story really came from her:- ‘That not only had Lord Byron confessed the charge, but th the partner of his guilt, on the faith of a promiso to bo 8} exposure, had dejivered to Lady Byron.a'writen aud signed confession, which Lady Byron had forthwith deposited with ne Lord Chancellor (Eldon) asa bar to any future procecd- ings that might be taken by Lord Byron to obtain the cus tody of his daughter, “We are convinced." says the Quarter?y, “that it was her story (or rather one of her stories). ‘fo expatiate on its imnprobabllliy would be an insult to the understanding.” The following 1s worth noting:— Let who can, reconcile Mrs. Beecher Stowe'n account of the carriage scene with tho one given to Lady Anne Barnard— the rambilng incoherence, with the uttor confusion of timer eriods, renders it impossible to reconcile any two con- ulive paragraphs of Mrs, Beecher Stowe's narrative with way other tw “Only @ few days before she left bim for ever Lord Byron gent Murray mannscripts, in Lady Byron's handwriting, of the ‘lege of Corinth’ and '‘Pariaina,’ and wrote :— “T am very glad that the handwriting was a favorablo omen of the morale of tho piece; but you must not trust to that; for my copylat would write out anything I desired, in all the tguorance of innocence,* zs 3 “But there came an bour of revelation—an hour when, in manner which left no kind of room for doubt, Lady Fyron Saw the full depth of the abyss of infamy which her marriage was expected to cover, nnd inderatood that she was expected to bo the cloak and accomplice of this infamy.” ain, “He” (Lord Byron) “repudiated Chris- tianity as an authority, and yot directly aiterwards page 395) we aro assured that confirmed belief in its jarshest tenets was his destruction.” One passage from the Kennedy “Conversations” we must give. It 18 quoted in smail capitals in the Review:— “Tread more of the Bible than you are aware," sald Lord Byron. ‘Ihave a Bible which my sister gave mo, who isan excellent woman, and I read it very often.” He went into li bedroom on saying this and brought out a pocket Bibie, fine! bound, and showed it to me. ‘This allusion to his vister was accidentally let drop a few months before nie death, in an earnest and solemn frame of mind, On another occasion Dr. Kennedy states ho ieft the room “to fetch his sister's Bivie." ‘Then the statement about the ten executions paid ont of Lady byron’s fortune 1s disposed of by the evidence of letters to Sir. Murray, &c., aud tle re viewer writes:— Did {t ever occur to Mra, Boecher ‘Stowe that very strong Ianguage may be applied to people who, when reputati at stake, are guilty of Jnaccuracy upon inaccuracy, wit moderate attention would prevent? ‘There is au amount iigence which the Engliah law holds tantamount to fr if Lady Byron told her that the ten execatlons hap} inher tme and were satiled out of her money she shoud have verified the statement before adopting it, “The audacity of misrepresentation cannot,’ says the writer, “be pushed farther than in tuo following passage.” He proceeds to quote Mra, Stowe’ ‘8 vor- sion and the authentic one of Fletcher. ‘The follow- ing 18 admirably put:— A mad world, my masters! Lady Byron could at first ac- count for her gifted husband's conduct on no hypothesta but insanity; and now, bya sortof Nemesis, there is no other hypothesis on which the moraliata can cbaritably acoount for hors, Butthere is this marked difference in thelr mala- ies: he morbidly exaggerated his vices and hi lay in 1g an impossible sinner, and hers in being an Impossible saint. He was tho faulty, and she the fauitiess, monster the world no'er know. He 11 hie mad moods did his beat to_biacken his own reputa- tion, while her self-delusions invariably tended to damage the Characters of aii that were nearest and shouid havo been dearest to her, Which was the more dangerous or jess ami- able delusion of the two ? Even Mrs, Stowe’s most prominent excuse for ublishing her story ia shown to be false, The uicciolt hook has not sold rapidly, but the reverse, “The trade,” which informed Ars. Stowe that sucit ‘Was the case, knows better. We give tho reviewer's closing remarks:— el Lether (Mra. Stowe) reiterate it (the charge against Lord Byron) it aie’ thinks provers, let her misaate,, 118 {Oley misunderstand, a nt as sho will; long’ before the oar clonea, bet true story will, be almost univerealiy pro; Bounced a story, be dung aside with loathing and He'are some who will not be convinced, No, T ‘afterwards went with e her fan eloae! cowmend th freon 6 and to Sy genre jarge the outletting but it was ratier an ecror of judgment in #0 very cquivocal a commission, than of want! rashuess in its execution, Ars, Brows, if she erred im accepting such a duty, had no alternative to break her pledgea and irrevocavl dead, or to go through with shes whtolt ane And ores ees een an a uotations from ets as . fot ge! Ate easence ‘of our law not 48 oantioan ugh voluntary eg as i? it were wa sui 0 Af wisioll ast waren to the exculpar tory Dre th pests a8 in the least a or reilable accor li Lady Byron got a story burned which would have earlier forced from her a damning story, in which she at least believed, 1t was only a continua tion of Uie nobie seit-deuial which bore so much from one whom she had rasily vowed to cherish and to care for. Nobody denies that his lordsuip did not act, or was not, perhaps, able to act as he ought to @ lady who had given up her independence for him. pt posure else was involved it would be @ great mercy to leave the question there, as we believe that no victory or exposure cau be worth the pains with it, or of the other hateful consequences of find. ing an admired poet to be wholly a despicable man. - The U's frienus will achieve a dear Victory if they succeed. Some of them are uncommonly like Mr. Pickwick’s fricad in the witness box, although we can hardly mpate the simplicity of the seutumental ‘Lupmun to them all, : More Letters. To THE EpiroR OF THE LONDON STANDARD:— The “saturday Reviewer” appears to be haunted with the ‘litle gram of conscience which soura,’? Disquieted lest the scholarly portion of the public, reading the contribution to the Byron controversy in the academy, sould sve in 1b ever so slight afurther voniirmation of Lue position maiutained by Be journal, that however bad aman Byron wa re ig no evidence, save Mrs. Stowe’s ipse cixit, that. his sister was an incestuous adull he breaks the silence which he told us in @ former article he was determined, having ascertained to his own satishio Uon her guilt, tuenceforih to observe. The ight Wich ie has read the academy Lam glad to see not the sume oid lurid one, but One more of the rush- lightiorm, ‘The article contams an implied false- hood, as the “Keviewer’ ought to know. it asserta Wat Lady Byron “undoubtedly believed him to have committed the crime of incestuous adultery; although the writer knows that Lord Wentworth asserts Liat 20 such accusation is made in Lady Byron’s papers, aud Lady Byron’s solicitors: Have assured ine tuat Mrs, Stowe’s Charge 18 not ace curate, ‘ihe silence of Mrs. Stowe, and the numer- ous proois adduced on ail hands that the inoul Mrs. Leigh was u lauy of stainless reputation during her life, produce no efect on this ingenuous, not to say ingenious, crilic. What cares he Jor the leelings of the jiving or tae reputauion of the deaa? He Las written duwn Byron the vilest of mankind and hig sister the vilest of women. ‘They are dead, and can- net prove lium @ caluimpious and mendacivous scribe bier, and as lie probably Knows @ little Latin, be quotes wis of Horace to almseit— Populus me sibiiat; at mihi plaudo Ipse domi, simul ac nummos contemplor in ara. Parties, as au advertisement would say, about to adopt a inal deterinmation and a settlement im favor of a matrimonial squabbie, will find advice in the articie as to the course de- manded of them, though, to be sure, the tenor O1 it suoWs that the writer has no beliet in or Weakness in fuvor of honor or kinduess, “What Lord Byron ought to have done,” says our Mentor, “was to decline to consent to the separation and threaten a@ suit for restiiuiion of conjugal righis;” and again, “he ought to have gone into court and pro- ceeded against ier.” No doubt the “Saturday Ke- viewer,” devoid of shame or pity, would have thus. done; but it dves not follow that every man, though a bad husband, is oi such superhuman coo.ness and decermination to justify himself at all hazards of pain and some incquity towards a woman. I however, Dot without hope of the writer; he has pul a shade on his lurid Lght and has learned the mean. ing of hallucination, He is still, as ever, fond of dogmatisin and wouse, this time adding Mr. M. Lewis. and the Countess of Blessington to his catalogae of Infamous persons, 1s not the description therem contained of Luc morais of visitors and their habitual conversation borrowed from some scene in his own chambers or litte retreat at Brompton, or even, may “I suggest, from the Haymarket? I allude to these passages particularly which convey such a charming view of Englisi luteriors if they are true—“‘A dreary frivolity pervades the circle Which not even the scandalous tongus of fashionable spinsters can re- lieve.” And again, still nicer—“To descend and fina yourself next or opposite to , the dowager from Whose scandaious chronicles, &c. Poor Saturday Keviewer !_ No wonder he scents incest and adul! in ‘My sister—my sweet sister; he who s ob ge spinsters and dowagers in every hall, re- ved oly by schemers and jeunes a marier, B. A. OXON, To THE Epiror OF THe LONDON STANDARD:— ‘The writer of an article in Zemple Bar svates his disbelief in Mrs. Stowe’s specific charge; his own coujecture is that Byron attempted w poison his wie. So far the Spectaior in its last issue. If have now got Temple Bar by me, but I read the article in question most carefully before leaving bre cin a week ago, anid in it the writer distinctly s' that he no more believes that Byron attempted to poison his wife he believes that he cominitted incest. die says that he uses such a supposition o1 asa convenient hypothesis, in order to pursue @ line of speculative argument, into whicn { need not enter. Comineot upon tus gross wisrepresentation is need- less; butit ought to warn the public against the journal which bas been guiity of it. 1 nave the houor to be, gir, your obedient meevans, ALFRED AUSTIN, FLORENCE, Oct, 13, 1869, THE ONONDAGA GIANT. ‘{ae iwtest from the Cardiff stone man shows that ‘us ¢.antship was 3 man of means, He laid down to Test (how many years ago!) with his pockets full of specie. The Syracuse Journal tells the wondrous tale. Here it is:— On Saturday last Matthew, son of Dr. Alexander Henderson, veterinary surgeon, of this city, while visiting the Cardiff giant, picked up from the sur- rounding débris tirown out of the excavated reat- ing piace of tiis huge work of stone something that seemed like a blackened scale of brass or a rusty old button. Thinking that it might possibly have some aflinity to the wonderful statue the lad rubbed the dirs and rust from its surtace between hia dager and thumb, and burpishing ita little by rubbing it the foids of his coat skirts, it showed evidence being an old copper coin, and he accordingly placed it carefully in his pocket and brought it home. Dr. Henderson, the lad’s father, applied some acids to it, when an ancient coin, of nearly the eleveath cen- tury, revealed itself. On the obverse side of the coin is the head of the Emperor lestyn, with afall fowing beard from the chia, and the sacred heart stra m & rosary in the shape of a shield or breast plate strung around tue neck, Beneath the Emperor is the date, ‘1091,’? Around the edge of the coin is the following tion:—‘‘lestyn-Ap-Gwrgant, Tywysog-Morganwg.' ‘The interpretation of as rendered by a compe- tent Welaiman, means “Jestyn, son of Gwrgant, Prince of Glanmorgan.”” nm the | reverse side is the figure of the Goddess of Commerce, seated on the wheel at her sido, the pillar and ancient crown wreathed with the natioia emblem, the oak, the shield aud spear, porves ‘by the left hand, and the mau pointing to @ ship on the distant sea, with full set, Which sho seems intently gazing, at. The m- scription around tie circle is in t elsh and reads as follows:—“Y, Brenhin a’r Gy id the. interpretation of which 1s, “The the Laws." . The coin 19 778 old—over seven and @ half centuries—and on the edge of the rim be distinctly seen-+ianmorgan Half Penny,’’ resentations of leaves intertwining. The denomina- ton of the coin is LW raised letters, and everything connected with {i shows it to be acoin of the reign of the Emperor wh name it bears. Farther, in connection with the unér«thing of the stone giant, its diacovery in the loose dirt thrown up from the bed of the excavation where the statue was found and yet ties is certainly quite tte} ty aud seems to add to the jnterest that al taches to thisgreat and aoexplained mystery of the nineteenth century. GING AFFAIRS IN THE WEST. {From the Cincinnatl Enquirer, Nov. 1.) Tom Alien had another big crowd.down to see him. at the Buckeye jlouse — who drank to hia heaith in the ambrosial nectar dispensed at the bar, and taiked of the forthcoming fight. Sherman Thurston was there, and Sherman, beng @ little “gaifed,’? did some lond talking, which was not very agreeable te the herote Thomas, and it was thougnt that he and Alien would get up an imprompta mill at one time for the edification of the ‘boys,’ but 16 was all settled witi a drink and @ friendly shake, Jack Looney, Who is managing affairs for McOoole, came over from St. Louis y morning. in the afternoon he went out to rove and made aiTangemeuts tor Mike to take Up bis quarters there dai nde a ond Bar ag x brine’ fur teave home to-day, aud may be expected at Shady'a” to-morrow. om Kine’ has gone to St. Louis to claim his for- feit from Reardon’s backers; but, in the Janguage of the fancy, “he'll just about not get it,” claims that Reardon forfetted because he failed to come to time with lis last deposit, but Bill Carroll says that Coyno algo failed to plank his money at the Specified time. ‘THe Firm AT BRATTLRBORO, Vr—The following, is # ot ot ns Dieter by ine sen or er on Sunday last:~J, re, $6,600; We P. Richardson, Market, $1600; fo We eet h ocers, $8,500; A. K. bar ig éaioon, $3,300; B. NR. hamberlin, hats, &o, $40 ; OG. Lawrence, | lord of the Brattlevoro House, $8,000; Clark & lara, drugs, $11,000; a. 0. Davenport, rs. ‘thy tee wore «Jao burned out and were: Brattleboro House and & G. is Blak