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tamil lowing facts: The schooner - Cc ’ hi —No. 76. ] CONTENTS. i. A Vist? To TUS Fcnoonzgr “ Mozite,” witu rwo ILLUSTRATIONS ll PLTURLALS lil. Tu OUNG IV. Larwresant-Covowen z, OF THE F£OOND DRAGOONS, WITH A Fine l'oRTRAIT \. Luweoans Li VI. Fuwerat Uoxogs raw ar CLs UNNATI TO 7 LATE ( i ivrzen F. Suirn, rwo I.LvstT : Vit. Love il. Domes ’ i POREic tnLy Bowes w ORL , WIth : i l u Drv a My Wrest LAN ECULAT Dt ‘T s NAT W I ‘ rug . or Tax New ¥ i TUREE EX T h : Al 3 ola TO CAPTAIN HOWES, 5 ~~ SSS Eee - —— J |

3 j LUT TY Ce (Mr “” THE BRITISH OFFICER BOARDING THE “MOBILE.” fi

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3790 Mobile, were two men wearing hinen jackets, one occasionally use, a musket. Presently in suecession what ap- holding a spy-glass, which he ther armed with Captain Howes heard twic« and the realize or believe that the i

into his vesse! and endanger the lives under his charge when ¢ within hail. The mate now came up ‘ tain Howse ul said, ‘* They ar fi t us, and with ball too. Captain Howes then ordered his vessel to be hove te, the same as if he were to receive a pilot. After this there were two shots fired, one ball going over the heads of tl n working id id striking the water to the leeward, t o hitting the side of the vessel about eight feet abaft the forechannels (where the mark can now be seen). This third shot

alarmed Mr. Thomas, the passenger; and Captain Flowes, perceiving that his men were in danger,

ordered the jibs to be hauled down, thinking that that m ' This wanton attack greatly i Liowes, whose first im- pulse w ner and proceed on hi ssailing party to a more P r s; but the recollec- tion tl ily on board, and the fact that his « in terror had fled to her at 10 o4 , greatly excit & was | into the cabin it « d lt quiet) «ul t. tl h i eve h ! uld ne Near four a] 1 from tl English scl a of t | P There were sorae six or ten men in the boat, all apparently unarmed, wi the exception of tl officer, who wore a heavy | Coming along- side the Afobile, the man in the bow caught tl brace of the square-sail vard, which enabled tl officer to step on the chaunels, and then on the deck of the Mobic in Howes meantime

as he says himself, to stood aft, having no de welcome the gentlcman on board. The officer wore the naval uniform of a British lieuten n reaching the deck asked the mate where On wx ing tol HM he walked aft, without any ceremony sat down on the tiller

the Captain was?

and tock out of a black satchel he carried in his hand a bock, which he put on the rudder head Captain Howes the mean while standing, and up to the moment apparently unrecognized by the officer. ‘The mate and Mr. 1 haard the « The Englishman, having thus disposed of him- elf, and being the only Thomas also came aft, onversation which ensued. centleman sealed, com-

menced his inquisition, as Captain Howes observes, ** move searchirgly than ke ever witnessed in a rev- enue or quarantine officer.” His first inquiry was, ‘“ Where is this vessel from ?” ** Mobile.” Where bound ‘New York. ** How many men do you carry? ‘*Ten, all told.” ‘Nomber of passengers ?”’ ‘ Five persons, iacluding one gentleman and my family.” ‘What are you loaded with ?” ‘ Cotton.” Captain Howes now concluded he would ask a few questicns himself, and said, ‘‘ What did you mean by firing into my vessel and frightening my wife and children ?” lo which the Englishman replied, ‘Why did you uot heave to when you “aw a man-of-war to the windward wita her ensign flying? You might have known that those vi board wished to commu- nicate with you.” Captain Howes, very much annoyed, replied, ** Why the did you not ran down on my stern and communicate, and do this without firing bul- lets into me?” and continued, stating “ that it was quite common to see American and Spanish men- of-war in the Gulf with their colors flying, and that they had never stopped or interfered with him, and that it would not do for him te heave to and wait the motions of every man-of-war he saw with col- ors flying ; and, besides essary evidence of a ma Howes) *‘had « long ont

® pennant Was not a nec- f-war, for he’? (Captain oard which he often

set. To which the efficer rejoined, with considerable asperity, “If { saw you with one set I would come n board your ship and have it down.” To which Captain Howes responded, “I'll be —— if you would.” r, pow much irritated, got up from his i demanded to see the ship's papers, which ain Howes started for the cabin to get, when the Englishman although he knew Captain Howes’s family was in tae cabin, pushed on, and, uniarited, Thomas followed, and the mate re- mained at the door. his enroilment and license

entered, Mr.

Captain Howes then displayed The officer, after look- a moment, said, ‘‘ You

ing at them suspicious should have a register.”’ Captain Howes replied that in his trade did not have r *but sailed under a lic ense, and, if he was no? satistied, he could look at his clearance from Mobile, which was in regular for ‘* vessels engaged gister m™m The Englishman seemed, or affected to be, satis- fied, and laid the papers upon the table, when Cap- tain Howes asked, ‘‘ Did you take me for a slay- distinctly and emphatically responded t ficer, which denial was heard and noticed by s and the mate, [ ; tinued Captain Howes, “ why did ’ | after it was hove to?’ i the Engl nan promptly denied, when wT. es “ »* . . . ir. ‘I ias and the mate said You did fire into the v l after it was hove te ( ain Llowe 1 8] of himself, now unable to entirely repress the indignation he felt, said, Knowing that my ship y 1 vot a slaver, itis very ant to board my vessel and added, “ you had no sight trance that you sh auld w ‘insult my flag ;” to do it.” an peared to be the report of a rifle, but he coul&mot } the mate heard. : clishman would fire | to say that there was a treaty which gave him the $$$. —s- HARPER'S WEEKLY.

[June 12, 1858.

The Englishman replied, “ That he had orders to boord every ress going up and down the Gulf, and that it was very lucky for him” (Captain lowes) “that he hove to.” "This remark Mr. Thomas and The Englishman then went on

right. This Captain Howes denied, when the En- glishman, in a sarcastic way, remarked, “ Well, likely you know better than I do!” The Englishman, having apparently ended his search, Captain Howes suggested that if such was the case he would like to proceed on his voyage. ‘The officer on this hint gathered up his book and in the satchel and left the cabin. When on deck, he turned to Captain Howes and said, ‘ This will not be the last of this!" ‘1 don’t mean it shall be,” retorted Captain Howes. The Englishman then, as if recollecting something, said that he wished very much to write in his log, for if Llowes was going to make a state- ment he wished to make denied him this privil

one too. Captain Howes re, and then left him, order- ing the sailors to “draw away the fore-stay sail- sheet and hoist the jils,” taking no further notice of the Englishman, who went fi his gig as best he could,

rward and got into The man-of-war by this time was on the Job

lee-quarter, about two hu \ yards distant, with the main top-sail to the 1 ; ly 1 last n by Capt sin llowes wa l in this trim, as if tl ver) sails and rigginy \ ring for being en- gaged in such a dirty, co business, rhe English officer w out forty years of age, and, besides the usual b! re his epaulet His manner was suj sin the last decree and he strode the deck cf + American shiy if he were its master, and gave orders to see the papers and asked all hi ys in insulting tone. Iliust ve of t manner, when Captain

Howes remonstratingly said “T have been running in the Gulf twenty years, and was never before boarded or troubled in any way ;” the officer replied, with a great deal of sar- | casm in his manner, “ That is no re not be overha sason you should iled now.” well to notice that the papers sympathizing with the enemy, and in their “aid and comfort,” d In conclusion, it may | haste to give ny that any shots were ever fired in these recent outrages on the American flag. In reply to this, it isonly necessary to observe that the crew of the JJubi'e. the Captain, Mr. Thomas, the passenger, all testify to the whis- tling of the balls, and the mark of one is still on the side of the ship. It is notorious that Captain Howes’s eldest daughter was very seriously alarm- ed, and that Mrs. Howes conceived her husband's life in danger while on the deck of his own ship. Edith, the youngest girl, who was in the cabin, and too innocent to comprehend the danger, but witness- ing the alarm, suggested that ‘her futher should get Mr. Hawkins’s (the mate’s) awful gun, and shoot the men who were trying to kill her father.” | Captain Howes gave us the above statement, which we transferred to paper as related from his } own lips. } tacit | on his vessel without feeling the uprisiag of intense indignation, |

Althongh naturally a rather silent and urn man, he can not refer to the scenes enacted

At the time the Englishman came up with the A/vbi’e the vessel was where a slaver was never seen, as they would have no reason for visiting the vicinity. She was fifty-four miles from the nearest point of Cuba, sixty miles rom the Bay of Matanzas, and nearly seventy from Havana,

HARPER'S WEEKLY. ———

Saturpay, Junu 12, 1858. COST OF A WAR WITH ENGLAND. Vow that the United States Senate and the | +. press have decided that we are going to war with England, we may as well look the prospect in the face, and count the cost, If | our ruling authorities are to be believed, war may burst upon us any day. ‘That valuable newspaper, the Washington Union—which is compiled, written, and sustained exclusively by | the intimate friends of the Administration— | sounds an ominous war-whoop.

Let us make haste, ere it be too late, to figure up the proba- ble profit and loss of the enterprise in which we are about to embark. | And we may as well at once dismiss from consideration all old estimates. War, in the age of Achilles and Cxsar, cost nothir¢, beyond a beggarly stipend and a beggarly commissariat for troops. Even in the time of Wellington and Napoleon the cost was comparatively moderate ; the pay of the men employed was the leading, and almost the only important item. England incurred a debt of four thousand millions of dol- lars for the pay, feed, and transportation of the raw material of war, rank and file, In the day in which we live all this is altered. War costs at least four times as much as it did in the days of Napoleon, and fifty times as much as it did in the days of Casar. The pay of soldiers has doubled within the past twenty-five years; the United States could not hope to obtain available recruits at | and manufacturers ar i s wages than farmers in the habit of paying for unskilled lab Provisions have quintu- pled in value within the past century. was when twopence a day Time y supported a soldier. A quarter of a dollar will not now place him in a condition to fight effectively. And transporta- tion is far higher than it ever was. We read of times when £300 (say $1500) was a fair remu- nerxtion to a ship for an eight months’ voyage | from England to South America and back. Our vessels would think themselves very unfor- tunate if they obtained cnly ten times as much. |

| | But science has revolutionized war, like év- ery thing else; and now the cost of labor, com- missariat, and transportation would be only a small part of the expense of a war. Improved shells, Congreve rockets, Minié rifles, Lancas- ter and Dahjgreen guns, telegraphs, electric wires, and the thousand-and-one scientific meth- ods of destroying life comprehensively, each and all cost enormous sums of money. War, like other enterprises, has received a vast develop- Ment of late years; we fight on a grander scale than our ancestors. The mere cost of the cannon-balls fired: at Sebastopol exceeded the total expense of the whole Peninsular cam- paigns and our Revolutionary war. <A single regiment armed with the Minié rifle costs more than a brigade used todo. A modern division— with cavalry, artillery, and infantry—is more expensive than a be remembered that the progress reat army was .n olden time. It must always which science has made renders military meth- more cconomical ods more effective, but not , Let us take the Crimean war as atest. It has bee d that, indep nd onily of the pecuniary value of the quarter of a million of ished in that conflict, from first to Jast, the actual cost of the 1 calculat adult males who pe

war was, Iti round numbers, two thousand millions of dol- lars, divided between Rassia, Enzland, France, Sardinia, and Turkey This was a war of less than two years, fought at a single pont. Each side enjoyed peculiar advantages. ach was

enabled to communicate with its hor

voir without molestation. ‘The Russians sent troops into Sebastopol, the Allies sent troops into Balaclava and Chersonese without opposi- tion. Both belligerents thus saved cost of contests by the wv All parties engaged had large andi “8, and were not compelled to make any considers sacrifices for recruits. Now, it 3; the Senate and the press say— we are goinz to fight with Great Lritain, the war could hardly last less than two yea It thousand ate of the Rus- But it would cost more; for none of the nations engaged in the Rassian war paid a quarter what we should be compelled to pay for troops. Russia, Francs, Sardinia, and Tur- key obtain men by conscrip forms—and pay tl would, therefore, cost us at least a millions, judging “om the esti sian war.

on—in various em a nominal hire. We should be compelled to pay full wages. At first volunteers might offer their services at low rates; but the experience of the Mexican war proves that if we wanted reliable troops we should have i to pay them as s they could obtain

{ ood waves ¢ in a pacific calling. Labor, as a general ruie, is worth in the United tates at least twice as much as it is in Europe; we | may therefore say that, so far as this item is concerned, our ex- penses would be double those of the nations en- gaged in the Russian war. This, however, would be but a small part of the expense ofa war. Judging from the latest commerce and navigation reports, we shall be Within the mark i: we say that we have 3,000,000 tons of ship;

ig afloat, representing a capital of at least $165,000,000, which ought to yield an annual revenue of at least $22,000,000 a year. This would necessarily be totally lost in the event of a war with Gre_t Britain. As was shown during the last war, the captures on the one side would balance those on the other; and as our trade would necessarily be destroyed, the revenue now derived from the carrying business would disappear. Then we have $1,200,000,000 invested in These roads derive their income from the carriage of immigrants and goods from the sea-board to the vacant lands of the i railways.

interior, and again from the transportation of grain and other produce from the interior to the sea-board. To earn the ordinary interest these roads must do a business of $84,000,000 a year. This would, of course, cease when immigrants and merchandise ceased to arvive, and produce and grain ceased to be forwarded to the sea-board. Again. We sent abroad, last year, over $260, 000,000 worth of produce, chiefly cotton, breadstuffs, and specie. It is doubtful, consid- ering the preponderating naval force of Great Britain, whether we should receive any specie toexport. At any rate, we should not have any foreign market for surplus breadstuffs and cot- ton. And while our wealthy elasses would be deprived by the war of their silks, laces, watches, jewelry, wines, and other Juxuries, the rank and file of the nation would suffer from the ab-~ sence of a demand for our great staples. Cotton would sell at three or four cents a pound; wheat at twenty-five cents a bushel; flour at two to three dollars a barrel. Instead of producing five hundred millions’ worth of cotton, corn, and other produce per annum, we should not produce over a hundred and fifty millions’ worth. There has been some talk of the enhanced rate of interest which the war would eause. No doubt a war would enhance the rate of in- terest. Every body who wanted to borrowwould

pay more for money than he would have to do in time of peace. A farmer who needed a loan of ¢5000 would have to grant a mortgage for £6000 or $7000 instead of $5000, as he can do at present. And it is very doubtful whether Government securities would be salable at all. United States bonds could hardly be sold at any price during the two wars which we have had ; it is brave to suppose that they would be more

negotiable in the event of a new war. They sell high now, because we have Europe as a ¢ustomer; if we were shut out from the Eu- ropean market they would not find purchasers very easily, In a word, a war with England would cost us, in actual outlay, over a thousand millions a year, which there is no reason to believe we could borrow at less than the ruinous rates eur- rent during the late two wars. We shall be within safe limits if we assume that the thou- sand millions would cost us $1,250,000,000. We should, moreover, lose annually at least half a million in loss of interest on ships, steam- ers, and railways, and loss of trade to commer cial houses and the enterprises which depend on them. Independently, therefore, of any loss to be caused by the bombardment of our sea-port towns, or by the landing of negro regiments in the South, charged with the duty of exciting servile insurrections, a war with Great Britain would cost us at least $1,750,000,000 per annum —in other words, $70 per annum for each white person, man, woman, and child. Assuming that each family consists of four persons—a low estimate for this country—the war would cost every adult male $280 a year as long as it lasted. How this could be borne every citizen can judge. The writer enjoys the acquaintance of a Liv. erpool merchant whose experience illustrates the immense advantage of foreign wars. In conversation a few months since, the Liverpoo) gentleman observed that the taxes which he paid to Government for the liquidation of the interest on the war debt amounted to just as much as all the rest of his expenses. His ex- penditure was divided into two equal parts— one for the Government to pay the cost of En- gland’s foreign wars, the other to support him- self. Every citizen of the United States can thus realize the effect of a foreign war. Now let us see how soon we can go to war with Greg: Britain. THE hkioTtS AT NEW ORLEANS. From the meagre and obviously partial ac- counts which we have received by telegraph from New Orleans, it is not easy to form a re- liable judgment on the transactions which oc- curred in that city on Wednesday and Thursday of last week. We are told that “the murders and acts of violence’

’ which have disgraced the city of late years required an abnormal remedy, and that, in presence of an imbecile and corrupt magistracy and police, nothing was left for the people but to take the law into their own hands. Acting on this principle, a number of persons seem to have as mbled together, scized a quan- tity of arms, erected barricades, set the laws and magistrates at defiance, and raised the flag of insurrection ; and, after a few hours’ debate, the Mayor is said to have compromised the matter, by relinquishing to the insurgents all police au- thority within the city. If all this be so, we can only say that New Orleans must be a curious place, and the people and magistrates equally droll fellows. It has usually been considered that Democracy and universal suffrage rendered the people of ever; constituency responsible for their government and laws, as they had the power to change them at will. No man is well founded in complain- ing of a grievance which it rests with him to cure; and the idea that in a Democratic com- munity, where the power of the people is un- fettered, any amount of disorder can justify a rebellion against the lawful decisions of the ma- jority is preposterous.

Violence, disorder, and crime are common in many American cities. That they might be more vigorously repressed than they are by the city magistracies is quite true; but the fact that they are not does not justify people in rebelling against the officers of their own creation. The remedy lies elsewhere—at the ballot-box, on election-day. It is the business of the people to eléct'men who will repress disorder; if they do not, they must take the consequences. We hear much, not only at New Orleans, but elsewhere as well, of the defeat of the system of universal suffrage by violence at the polls. The Mayor of New Orleans is said to have been elect- ed, with the aid of violence, by a minority of the electors. This may be so, but whose fault is it? If the majority lets itself be thrashed by the minority, with what grace can it complain afterward, and resort, in its turn, to lawless vio- lence? ‘The theory of Anglo-Saxon represent- ative institutions presumes that every individ- val has manhood enough to defend and assert his rights. ‘There are turbulent and riotous in- dividuals in every community; but can it be seriously pretended that the true mode of deal- ing with them is to let them have their own way on election-day, and then afterward to rise in rebellion against the constituted authorities, and set up barricades ? ‘There ave several places in the United States where people seem ignorant of the most essen- tial political duties. If it were universally un- derstood that the saffrage involves a duty as well as confers a privilege, and that the man who al- lows himself by violence or threats io be driven from the ballot-box is a coward unworthy of citizenship, there would be less misgovernment and less talk about Vigilance Committees. These latter phenomena, it is to be feared, are

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generally the work either of intriguing and dis- appointed demagogues, who hope, by the exer- cise of lawless violence, to@btain what they could never get by fair means, or of faint-hearted citi- zens who, in a moment of passionate impulse, seck to repair the consequences of a long career of fatal pusillanimity. In neither case are they entitled to the least sympathy. A LITERARY FRAUD. A postmaster in Alabama sends us the cir- cular of a Philadelphia publisher, advertising a work purporting to contain an account of * Dr, Livingstone’s Seventeen Years’ Explorations and Adventures in the Wilds of Africa.” Among other things, the book is said tu narrate how ‘Dr. Livingstone was imprisoned three years in a subterranean cave 3000 miles long,” in which he “‘discovers diamonds and gold of in- estimable value;” escaping from which * he commences his journey of 3000 miles through a country full of wild beasts, where he is at- tacked by four lions—two natives are killed on the spot, and the Doctor is crippled for life,” ete., etc. Ten thousand agents are wanted to circulate the work, almost any of whom, the cireular says, ‘‘can make ten dollars a day.” This circular appears to have been largely distributed throughout the South and West; and our friend writes to inquire if the book which it descrives is a genuine edition. We reply, that it is a gross forgery and imposition. It does not contain a single line written or fur- nished by Dr. Livingstone, and the incidents described do not bear the slightest resemblance to those narrated in the genuine work. The book is, and is intended to be, a fraud and an imposition upon the public, who will do well to be on their guard against this as well as several other spurious or mutilated books bearing the same general title. Sereye iywiPres Fis LOUNGE. A LETTER FROM MRS. DOBLEY. ‘Mr. Louncrr,—I wish to call your attention to a very serious matter; serious, | mean, to ladies who must go shopping ; and what lady must not —or would not, even if she could not? I learn that Mr. Stewart is about enlarging his vast store, establishment, or shop, and I want to know, and through you to ask him, why he will not empley women in some of the departments? I do not wish to be unreasonable. I am perfectiy willing that the young ladies should still have the satisfaction of being served by deligh*ful young gentlemen in the rooms where they now are—nor am I so heartless (as you would believe if you knew me) as to wish to deprive those young gentlemen cf the sweet society of shoppers. (You may put the sweet where you choose.) Certainly not. Butas I am not a young lady myself (not old, you know, but still not strteen), I find that it is sometimes very difficult to obtain such attendance as I wish. Some of the young gentlemen, in truth, are not so very de- lightful. Some of them are very conceited, super- cilious, and unsatisfactory. I say some of them, and I often hear complaints of their bzd manners! Perhaps we who are not so very young are a little more exacting; but I do not like to be treated as if I were having a favor conferred upon me by a young man in a shop when he shows me goods. “« And there is one other thing. When my daugh- ter Honoria Helen is a little older, I don't wish her to buy certain articles of feminine altire of young men. I forbear to particularize. But, Sir, if you are a married man (as / fondly hope fur your own happiness you are/), you will readily un- derstand that there may be several things for which women can mote agreeably negotiate with women. I am told that in Paris it is altogether the custom vor women to tend the shop. My cousin Pimper- nel tells me that in that city he used always to have his gloves tried on and his cravats tied and fitted about his neck by women,—young women, in fact, which seems to me less desirable. I should Yecommend judicious elderly ladies for that business. Cousin Pimpernel says it is astonishing ‘ow diffi- cult it is for a man to be fitted with a cravat to his mind, in Paris. It used to take him half an hour or more to find one to please him. Honoria Helen wants to know how it would do for the young gentlemen at Stewart's to jit on the collars and cuffs of the young ladies who go there. says she thinks it might promote the sale of such things. But she is a giddy girl—only fifteen: so I am sure you will excuse her. ** Don’t you think Mr. Stewart might think se- riously of this proposition? He may leave every thing just as it is at present, only adding women in the new rooms. Please suggest it to him. Perhaps he does not read your paper. But could you not send him acopy? I suppose you publish it for the sake of having it read. ** Respectfully yours, “Mrs. Naxcy J. Dopiry.” —The Lounger shares Mrs. Dobley's confidence that Mr. Stewart will seriously consider so sensi- ble a proposition. It would be a great satisfaction to many ladies if they could be sure of being waited upon by women; and long experience has proved their capability of even rivaling some men in shop- keeping.

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THE REGATTA, Ox Monday June came out in full force. On Tuesday she sulked and repented a little. On Wednesday the most summer air, with a spice of the East. But on Thursday dawned a perfect day, calm and warm, breathing softly from the south. [t breathed too softly—for what are vachts in a jalm? It breathed up the bay, too, when yachts

wanted to go down. south wind, and at the appointed hour the echoing signal-gun pealed along the water, and the regatta of ’58 commenced. The finest harbor and bay in the world were flecked with white sails. Veering and drifting and idly floating, the great craft and the little , HARPER'S WEEKLY. But man is master of the | craft stood off and on, while shoals of steamers | swarming with eager people darted among them raced down the Narrows, turned and returned with streaming flags and ringing bells and bursts of mu- sichere andthere. The tufted shores of Long Isl- and and Staten Island were alive, upon convenient points, with pretty groups of summer picnickers carriages and horses—shawls spread upon th: and chairs set in the piazza. The day itself was a festival. The distances muffled in tender mist, and all the Loungers upon the yachts or upon the shore, grass Like things of the season gay, like the b son ‘and, When far -~ sail is blown by the breeze of « soft- er clime, Hali lost in the liquid azure bloom of a crescent of sea The silent sapphire-spangled marriage-ring of the land.” Ulli Sea- Seen from below, the haze hanging across the river suddenly blossomed with the white wings of the squadron, which slowly opened into the full spectacle of the race. The bay sparkled all over with pointed canvas, and after Jong silent delays, the saucy little sailers began to feel the rising wind—began to slip blithely through the rippling water, and slowly, slowly tacking far across, with every dazzling inch spread, the leading vessels came straining on and passed Lelow the spectators upon Staten Island. When all had passed the stake-boat, the Josephine steamer, with the judges on board, steamed straight through the fleet toward the lower stake in the Southwest Spit. The strag- gling pageant passed, and the wide solitary lower bay was as lively as a village-common at a fair. Steamboats of all sizes, pilot-boats, sloops, schoon- ers, brigs, and barks, and ships, standing in under full sail, or following tow-boats out, mingled in the scene. A huge barge, crowded with spectators and drawn by a mere tadpole of a tow, moved gravely along, giving its passengers ample oppor- tunity of studying the shores or fishing, were they so inclined ; and on one active steamer, whose decks were packed with people like honey-paste with flies, one enterprising individual in a red shirt straddled the walking-beam of the engine and so rose and fell with every motion of the monster, ingeniously com- bining the excitement of a rocking-horse with the exhilaration of a regatta in a calm. But the calm was conquered, and with pulsing airs the light yachts slid the sea. Far away they went—down into the wind—lost, almost, in “ the liquid azure bloom.” Once more gleaming out of it, and so before the favoring gale flying homeward wing and wing. What disappointment and what wrath—what miscalculation and chagrin—what rough emotions of every kind—why should we seek to discover under those snowy canopies upon that shining sea? The day was the magician, and the puppets danced nimbly to his music. He threw beauty upon the bay, like honey-dew upon leaves, and, like bees, all worthy Loungers devoured it. And though the Yacht Club should last a thousand years, and’once in each of the thousand summers spread all its canvas in a race, never will a fairer sun shine, nor greener leaves glisten, nor sweeter eyes look on, than those which adorned the regatta of fifty-eight.

RICHARD'S HIMSELF AGAIN! Axp who is not glad of it? Who is not pleased to see that the manager who brought us Jenny Lind proposes to do something else for our amuse- ment? How he lias labored forthat end! Have we not all seen—if we have chosen to disregard two shillings—the nurse of Washington—reduced, unhappily, to a somewhat India-rubbery condi- tion? (Why does not some enterprising opponent of Thackeray's “ Virginians” with an ef- fective sneer, that “ the Englishman” shall intro- duce Joice Heth into his story?) Have we not all gazed in wonder upon the woolly horse, and upon that rare and extraordinary animal whose head was where his tail ought to be? The mermaid, too—a poem in a glass-case smelling of old fish ! Are we to forget these things? It may be true that ‘hardly one person in ten knows what an aquaria is ;” but surely a greater proportion than that —let us say two in eleven— ought to know what a good manager is, Now horses of various kinds, eaoutchoue old wo- men, and cows with tails in their stalls, ought to be regarded as the freaks of genius—the jokes of a shrewd, good-humored director — whereby money was easily accumulated for the great purpose of bringing the greatest singer since Malibran to the United States. Mr. Barnum did that, and it was well done. There was never such a remarkable and deserved success ; and it was owing in great part, as such success always is, to sagacious management. The secret of that sagacity is as much an individual gift as a talent for painting. Any man could sce that it was a good thing to bring over Jenny Lind, advertise enormously, and electrify the country. Of course he could. Why, then, did not “any man” do it, and make three hundred thousand dol- lars? It was a happy hit, at least, and so were many of the other experiments of Mr. Barnum. Of course he made his mistakes. The Crystal Pal- ace—alas the day! Then he had to go instead of his clocks. But no man is always successful, and Mr. Barnum has done enough to show that he has the talent of success. The new Opera enterprise is certainly promising. He proposes to bring over the entire company of Her Majesty’s Opera in London, in connection with Mr. Manacer Lumler, who will come to superviee the: perforinences. The troupe includes Piccolo- | mine, Titrens, Ortelani, and Giuglini the tenor. Among the dancers is Kesati. Dviere comcinding

the arrangement Mr. Barnum wishes to make sure of $80,000 by a subscription of eight hundred per- sons at five dollars a night for twenty nighis. The diffignlty is the price. If the eight hundred who first come forward are to pay five dollars a night, for twenty nights, the rest of the p: must do the same; and it is simply in i succeed at that rate. Even a slight reduction will not help it. We have had for sev better Opera than the average

eral months a Eure pean Opera,

and e not paid more than a dollar and a half. Th ;. Barnum is to consider that, among his singers, the only one known here at cll is Piccolo- mini. Ortolani’s reputation, although she sang last season in Lond n, has not reached us; and Titiens is entirely new xe, doubiless, but un- known She d 1 me with a colomini, too, is not a sure s. Sh cl ing in small parts, as we her from th have heard her; and her London s s, found partly upon the romance of her career, is not quite permanent. ‘Giugiini is known to t s who are familiar with the Opera y i, but he has not a general fame as Mario has; and it is a fair ques- tion whether Tamberlik mig! t us better, We say these things in th l irit. Th enterprise is 80 serious that it shou! well con- sidered. It would be a grave misfortune for Mr Barnum to fail in his first fresh st p. We wish him the best luck. But he understands as well as any man that we are not to be put off with names or old reputations That effort always fails. It did with Parodi—it did with Frezzolini —it did, more’s the pity! with Grisi But with Jenny Lind, with Karl Formes—two splendid voices in their prime—how great and deserved th su “cess ! So may it be with “1 Place ! ’ in Irving A Lovscen, with the best possible intentions of laziness, can hardly escape some kind of interest in the public excitement of the moment. The Brit- ish question —the Utah question —the Central American question—and the question of Vigilance Committees, and the sale of public lands vt A Late letter from Paris Treen tic & portrait of Benjamin Franklin now for sale there, It was painted by Th 2518 11443, and belones to ni. tleman, wh reatly reverencine l’oor Richard and now growi very old, wishes it should « into the possession of some American institati Why mieht « our venerabic friends of the New York Hi : i Society imn r attention to tl matter ? \ nal, aathe portrai f him who stole re and the scept and f ts i i be tru ‘ tering hearts of fair French w men, who * ld be a « ary old had they li does not hang upon « wa Benign old : How like in temperament to the la eat Fret poet. Only what was » in Franklin + song in Boranger The is a portrait of ea { them, wearir glasscs, and readin and it i pleasant to watch the secret sympathy of the is pression tl produce. Franklin was typical of much of tl hief characteristic of the Yankee, but he had a profound liking for France, and France has rare ly | cod any American better Why will not the venerable, the Historical So- ciet I 4 and ancient in its very nature) iweditate the ma -_ LETT ER-BOX OUND ROBIN De la s Mr. Lev Cass, Jun., Le ll ? tel to have resigned | because equence of something, Rome had become ! t 1 hir How deil De tell us what can | Ww al f sin Madar 6 echool ia . t Oh my f* \ “ e had written t M t Aaa he « Little ds in the city of Rome lives the Pope. Mr. Case, Jun., h s been the 1 nited Statics Perhaps the most startling form of the demo- cratic inquiry is that of the Vigilance Commitice. It is a practical confession that the ordinary forms have failed, and that it is necessary to rub out and begin again. In San Fre«cisco the experiment was tried, not without success; and, as we wri it is pending in New Orleans. It is always hard to decide when the revolution- ary point has been reached; and that may be a crime to-day which will be a virtue to-morrow. The end of government is the protection of indi- vidual liberty, and the consequent free develop- ment of individual life. When it no longer docs protect, a revolution is initiated, which will, soon- er or later, burst forth — perhaps peacefully, per- haps violently. In New York there was a very general conviction of the incompetency of the gov- ernment, and it was set aside. It was a change which, in other countries, could have been effected only at the cost of blood. In this country a Vigilance Committee ought never to be necessary. If good men, and refined and educated men, did their duty at the polls, it never would be. But if the intelligence and mor- al power abdicate the government, ignorance and violence will certainly usurp it. The times furnish the dullest Lounger with a thousand texts that preach themselves. ————— A LOVE-8ONG. Tut rippling melody of pathos in George Dar- ley’s love-song belongs to the early, warm, lus- cious nights of June. It has as much meaning as you choose to give its melancholy strain: “Sweet in her green dell the flower of beauty slum- bers, Lulled by the ¥ > -

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PHILIP GEORGE COOKE, LIEUT.- COLONEL SECOND DRAGOONS. Ligvrexant-Covoxet Parr Cooxs, of whom we present an a is among the officers commandi tion to Utah. He is one soldiers in the United States army, on the st City, have excited widely-ext ST. SI (;EORGE urate likeness, ng in the expedi- of the most meritorious and his perils route to Salt nied interest and sufferings lately, Lake and attention. Hic w 1809—-the ¥ ruiy s born i jerkeley Ce vy. ¥ irginia, in of many brothers who have in the South and West. Among mention John R. Cooke, a gentleman the Virginia bar; and Dr. Cooke, formerly President of Transyl- y. Colonel Cooke fr » soldier, un ounges been eminen these of much distinction at John Esten vania Universit we may ym early boy- hood longed to lead the Like of but was opposed by his parents. At fourteen, att mpting to fight a duel with one of his com panions, his par 1 to hi prociivities, and he on en West Point. He graduated in 1827, ut the age of eighteen, and entered the army with the rank of third fourth lieucena Soon afterward s lient infantry — thou ? e thank @ boy—he i cumstances of ex- traordinary hardship and trial, of two hundred men some si hund: iles up the Missovri; and t in an expediticn to a it neeting and overcomin t hostile Indians He was rward engaged in the Bi Hawk War,” and was at the bat of B 1 Ax \s Ma f Second Drag ed in California and in the M in War, and conducted the “ M ion Brigade” across the continen to San Francisc« His reports « lowed in the i by the War i! il which he fi hes were publish the routs a ma Department, and will be found fu of interest Many persons believe that the only practicable line for the Pa railroad is that laid down on the mans as *‘ Colonel Cook ; In 1854 he was commanda of the great departments N Mexico. At this time he fou hattle of Cinecuila defeating 1 Camanches and other iva } ‘ islueravi bl l From ‘ iy I i n alterward | ed to Ka hich was then ¢ ls Hi ua dd I iteu to car t tt rs of Goverr and t critical task w f itl eat prude fir r hi 1 1 son I trvir ‘ , loubted? vented the « t of ter 11 i full j I the } i ' ‘ Wher the 1 " \ determined » ¢ ‘ at once ix up i of the t ro was intrusted ¢ fe- luct fsovernor l ni 0 ild a i incider thi hoft ari to Utah i? 8 pe i v j reai- ized te the perils ib lips of the onward advance of rave troops, thr blinding snow-storms, over the bleak and bare w 3 of the yreat plains. Colonel Cooke's horses aud mules perished by the hundred for want of fodder; the stores for the menu were necessarily abandoned ; still, in spite of every thing, they pushed on, and overcame ali the terr f the storm and the desert. We have but little to add in relu- tion to Colonel Cooke. His fortune has been to take part in few of those decisive encounters upon a conspic- uous theatre of acti which alone attract strongly th iblic attention. He has borne the eat of the day,” instead of catching by chan tne ‘““brirht rewards” which ever and anon fall to the lot of holiday « diers. For thirty years he has bec in harness, guarding the fiontier against a wily and untiring foe ; and as he has performed frithfully his duty, he has not missed his reward. He is at this moment one of the best known and most popular officers in the army throughout all the great Western tier of St fhe citizens of these States are fully sware of his services, and justly hold him in high He has wor this honorable dis- y never nedding at his post, but watching with sleepless vigilance over tue regions he has sted to defend. Colonel Cooke is a thor- ughly-trained so!dier—a man to be relied on ; that is the origin of his popularity and distinction. ile r and esteem. inction | fav } , een ™ ——— F LUNCAN’S LIGHT. I was born in a small frame-house situated upon a gray sandy ridge, on what is called the “ High- Cape Cod, in the good cold State of Mas- sachuset's. My grandfather had a family of four. teen children—eleven sons and three daughters— all of whom livetl to become fathers and mothers lands of | excepting one son, who was cut off in the vigor of manhood in the following manner: My grandfather was about the first individual in New England who attempted the hazardous business of pursuing the humpback and other species of the whale tribe, which, in the days of our colonial history, were | often seen by fishermen, showing their black sides in the turbulent waters about George’s or other shoals near the island of Nantucket. My grand- father owned a small schooner called the Harmo- ny, and, with five or more of his sons, was in the habit of cruising for whale in the summer months, and in the winter would occasionally take an ad- venturous trip to the nearest West India Islands with fish to be exchanged for sugar, molasses, and On one of his summer voyages he fell in with a whale of large size, and preparations were immediately made for its capture. The second coffee. son, a man of extraordinary Strength and quickness of action, was usually selected by his father for har- poon-man, whose office was, as it is now, to stand at the bow of the boat ready to cast the iron into the body of the monster as he rose to the surface for air. The whale rose, indeed, but with fatal force, and, with its mouth open, struck the bow of the boat, and my uncle, standing erect with his harpoon poised, pitched into the ponderous jaws of the monster, and one piercing shriek was all that was ever heard of the beloved and brave man, My grandmother, the same evening, while standing at her window, and a flash of lightning came illumin- ating the room, saw distinctly the image of her son standing at a short distance from the house, and she immediately passed out, and called many times, at the top of her voice, “‘ Tully! Tully !"— the name of her son—in agonizing tones, but which | were never to reach the beloved one’s ear. I did not myself see this, but I believe it as religiously as if I had, as it is well authenticated by all the family then at home that my grandmother then predicted the death of her son. I account for aay 8 ing that great anxiety for the return of HARPER'S WEEKLY. i | precious crew operated upon her imagination, rath- er than, as was at that time believed, that the spirit had assumed its former shape, “to walk the earth for a time.” Around the weather-beaten and sandy shores of Cape Cod, now inhabited by an intelligent and wealthy population, there are but one or two good harbors: sand-reefs and bars, in most places, ex- tend far off into the sea, making it a dangerous place in heavy storms. Near one of these dangerous points, and from time immemorial, there has been seen, or said to have been seen, even down to the present day, dur- ing every night in the month of September, a round and brilliant ball of light, which is called ‘“‘ Lun- can’s Light ;” aad when it has sometimes approach- ed near to the shore, boats have endeavored to get outside of it, but never succeeded. ‘‘ Like a guilty thing,” it eluded all attempts to get near te offer it . AN PHILIP ST. GEORGE CUOKE, LIEUTENANT-COLONEL SECOND DRAGOONS, SERVING WITH THE ARMY IN UTAH. The ancient legend respecting the cause of the appearance of this mysterious and much-dreaded light is embodied in the following narrative, which, I doubt not, has been in substance related to many persons now alive, descendants of the ancient in- habitants of this renowned and stormy cape. At the far-back date when buccaneers were allowed, almost with impunity, to sweep the seas and scour the coasts for plunder, a renowned free- booter, commanding a famous piratical craft called the Scourge, was driven by stress of weather near the reefs in front of where my father’s house after- ward stood; but the weather having become mod- erate, most of the crew were sent aloft to attend to necessary jobs to the rigging and sails. A quarrel ensued, when one of the men killed another by driving a sail-needle into his brain, and stowed the body in a sail in the top. Night coming on, and the man being missed, he was supposed to have accidentally fallen overboard, the sailors all deny- ing any knowledge of what had become of the miss- ing man. In the middle-watch, when every noise {June 12, 1858. was hushed on board, and in a dead calm, there came from aloft a voice, loud and sepulchral, reaching every ear on board, saying ‘‘ Let go! let go! let go!" and down came heavily upon the deck the corpse of a man, with a sail-needle sticking in the head. Ail hands were immediately called, and the captain held a formal examination of each one on board, and they all at once denied all knowl- edge of the occurrence. After every inducement was tendered and every threat exhausted in order to elicit the truth, without success, the captain finally resorted to the following method to unravel the difficulty. He ordered the body to be placed in the centre of the deck, and each sailor to pass in a circle around it, and touch the needle, saying that the guilty man’s touch would cause the blood Sa \ Was YY to flow from the wound. The last man approach- ed, with whitened lips and faltering steps, and, lo! the blood rushed from the wound, and the murder- | er stood convicted. From that time “ Luncan’s Light” has, in each night during the stormy month of September, cast its dread rays over the shoals of Cape Cod. FUNERAL HONORS PAID TO GEN. PERSIFER F. SMITH AT CINCINNATL We alluded, a few days since, to the death of the veteran soldier, Gen- eral Persiier F. Smith, who had just een placed in command of the Utah army. We are now enabled to en- grave two of the scenes which mark- ed the transmission of his remains through Cincinnati, on their way to their final resting-place at Philadel- phia. The demonstration was character- istic of the public spirit that has al- ways animated the citizens of the Great West's “ Queen City.” As soon as an intimation had been received that the remains would pass through the city, Colonel Buchanan, of the United States Newport bar- racks, located on the Ohio River, di- rectly opposite Cincinnati, consulted with the military gentlemen of th: city, and intrusted to them the geu- eral arrangements for the reception and escort. The remains arrived on Wednesday (26th), at about three o'clock p.m., in charge of Adams & Co.'s Express, and accompanied by Lieutenants Wheaton and Drum, of General Smith’s staff. They were mmediately taken in charge by de- tachments of the United States troops commanded by Lieutenant Whistler, and the Cincinnati Rover Guards, under Lieutenant H. G. Kennett, and scorted to the Melodeon Hall upon s field-piece, which had been ar- ranged as a funeral-car, appropri- ely draped in mourning for that purpose. In the Hall an officers’ marquee ad been pitched in military style, e American flag flying in front at ili-mast, the roof of the tent cov- :ed with the stars and stripes, and ‘he poles, curtains, and walls fes- oned with black cloth. Beneath ie Canopy was erected a temporary ausoleum, to receive the corpse; nd the entire surroundings were eeply solemn, significant, and aj- ropriate. Here the remains of the allant chief, who had so often per- d his life for his country’s honor, vere laid in state, covered by the tiag he had for many years so brave- y defended. They remained here in charge of the “ Rovers” as a guard «f honor during the re xainder of the day and night, and until five o'clock on Thursday morning. During the entire time sentinels paced around the couch of death in solemn silence, only interrupted by an occasional low but sharp “‘ gut vive,” or by the necessary guard mounting at regu- lar intervals. Several thousand citizens, ladies and gentlemen, visited the scene up to a late hour, but a profound still- ness prevailed, and the impressive- ness of the occasion suffered no rude disturbance. Besides the guards, a staff of officers kept quiet vigil with- in the marquee. At daybreak the low roll of the muffled drum summoned the troops to “fall in,” and the remains were | conveyed to the Little Miami dépét, escorted by | the Rover Guards and a delegation of officers, iu- | cluding Generals W. H. Lytle and staff, and C. H. | Sargent and staff. In the original prograrame it had been arranged that the entire third brigade (General Sargent’s) should form the departing es- cort. The troops were under arms several hours oun Wednesday afternoon ; but the uncertainty of the time and mode of departure, until a late hour in the day, compelled the abandonment of this de- sign. In our first engraving the artist has depicted the approach of the escort to the Melodeon, the col- umn extendiag from the corner of Fourth and Wal- nut streets eastward on Fourth. St. Paul's Epis- copal Church is brought into the view on the right. The company in front are the United States troops from Newport barracks; that in the rear the Ro- ver Guards, in their magnificent uniform of scar- | let, blue, and buff, and bear-skin hats. This cor:- | pany had sixty men on duty for twenty-four hours. The second picture represents the interior of the

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orA vit LITERARY. Boors 4 travel continue to acrease. We have none to s,eak highly of. A gentleman who has traveled and written a book, publishes it under the curious title of Tux Para Parers on France, Egypt, and Ethiopia, and in the curious style in which they get up books in Paris. The book is printed and bound in France, with the name of Ma- son Brothers, New York, publishers, on the title- page, under the name of the French publisher; and the volume is, therefore, almost as mr-fetched as its title, which travelers in the East will recognize as an equivalent to The Farthing Papers, or a littie less; for a para is about the iifth part of an American cent. The author does not undcr-estimate the val- ue of his papers. Such bocks are poor substitutes for the guide-books out cf which they are made up, and as assistants to those who stay at home they are net as interesting as old Murrays. In this vol co we have the account of th. au- thor’s ob-ervations in Paris, his travels to Egypt, and the Nise voyage. The bock is a somewhat edd mixt +e, as the countries described would in- dicate. ic impressions . tne l’rench and France are very commonplace, It would .c impossible to write as many pages on « aris and say as little that is new The result -. his studies in Egypt is illustrated by this very remarkable exclamation ** How glaring have become here the misconcep- tions of man. How fallacious his attempts to con secrate to Divinity the meagre works of his own xvee- ble hands; Did the God of Egy. require the tem- ple of Karnak Did the Ged oi Israel require the Solomon? If so, would he have allow eda Mohammed mosque to rise over the ruins of the one, and the bat alone to abide in the oth- er? temple ¢ he soric ot thy argument i. not quite intelligi ble. Mr. Ditson has published heretofore a vol- ume on Cireassia, which we have no seen. The poor paper and miserable t;pagraphy which char- acterize thic book should warn him against piacing in English book in the hands of French publish- ers We have received a very excellent little booi from England, which teaches How Te Work TuE Microscorr, in a course of lectures on the manip- ulation of the instrument, by Mr. Beale, who re- joices in a series ot honorary tities which fill three lines of fine print on the title-page cf his book, but of whom it was never our fortune before to hear. Phe use of the n Icroscope is be coming one of the urces of amusement and instruction tor i gentlemen who have some .eisure-time

for such disposal) Within the past few years a great change has taken place in this respect in America. Private investigations in science are now quite common. As mical, chemical, and eral philosophical instrmments are found in K | t libraries and private laboratories throughout the One can hardly pass Pike's elegant store on Broadway and contrast it with the little shop in famous in former years, without wondering at the elegance ments which country.

which that name becanie ’ the instru- \lering as well 1wares. Buta visit to almost any well-furnished library in the city reveals the answer te such a query, and the observatories of the Rutherfords and Van Arsdales show the extent to which American gentlemen are carrying their love of scientific investigation. The microscope is an instrument which may be managed with ease by quite young children of either sex, and many parents have found that by directing the minds of their children to the infinite amusement and instruction to be derived from have diverted their minds from the temptations which surrouna therm in city life, and have established in them an inquiring and investi- gating spirit which will result in a mest excellent influence on their characters. If any parent has a boy whose mind is active, and who seeks constant- iy some new source of pleasure, let him apply te Mr. Pike for a microscope, which will cost from twenty to fifty dollars, and give the boy one drop of stagnant water in which to find strange things, Then furnish him with such a book as Gosse’s ** Life in its Lower forms’ (published by Carter & Brothers), or Lippincott’s edition of “ Carpenter on the Microscope,” and we answer for it the boy will stay at home in the evenings, and the only trouble thereafter will be to keep him from destroying his eves Carter & Brothers publish a remarkable book which is Tuk Avroniograruy or Mas. HARRIET B. Cooxe. This lady is well known in private circles as a teacher whose success has been great, and whose personal worth has given her a very high socia: pocition. Her fe 4as not been one of adventure, nor of startling incident. But it has beon one whose cffects will be felt hereafter, and the rolis of eternity will doubtless show it to have been not without its importance in this world. We call the book remarkabie, because it is of 4 00) for the improve- ment of the St. Clair Flats; lost, by 20 to 20, Senator Pugh moved an amendment granting $450,000 for the improvement of various Western harbors and rivers; lost, by 23 to 26, Senator Pugh then moved to strike out appropriatione for life-boats and life-saving stations on the Atlaniic coast: lost, by 17 to 31. Senator Pugh moved to reduce the appropriation for the Coast Survey from $150,000 to $159,000; lost, by 11 to 24. A few oth- er amendments were likewise lost, and the Senate ad- journed.——tIn the House, the Speaker announced as the Art Committee Messrs. Marshall, Keitt, ‘Taylor, Morris, and Pendleton. The Indian, Deficiency, and Volunteer Appropriation Biils were passed, ‘The Fort Snelling Keport was then taken up, and speeches were made by Messra, Morrill, Faulkner, Morris, Florence, Dawes, Bishop, Grow, Phelps, Cavanaugh, Stanton, Burnett, Lingham, Letcher, Marshall, and Hughes. On Wednesday, June 2, in the Senate, Senator Hous- ton's Protectorate of Mexico was taken up, and his reso- lutions negatived by 50 to 16, The Miscellaneous Ap- propriation Bill was then taken up, and several amend- ments proposed and fost.——In the House, the Fort Snelling Report was again under consideration, and elic- ited speeches from Messrs, Clark, of New York, Smith, of Illinois, Barksdale, Pettit, and Russell, Resolutions offered by Mr. Clark, of New York, were proposed to be substituted for those of the Committee, bu were rejected by 88 to 108. The Committee resolutions were then ta- bled by 83 to 76. Some further discussion took place with regard to the right of Mr. Fuller, of Dacotah, and Mr. Kingsbury, of Minnesota, to ocetpy a seat in the House. No vote was taken. On Thursday, 31, in the Senate, it was resolved, on motion of Senator Hamlin, to adjourn on 1th inst. Senator Douglas introduced a bill to revive and put in force the act of March %, 1830. in relation to the north- eastern boundary, with such modifications as wiil make it applicable to the present controversy in recard to the right of search and visitation, The bill thus revived puts at the disposal of the President, to be awed when necessary to resist the claims of Great Lritain, the naval and military forces and the militia of the United State and authorizes him to call into service fifty choutad volunteers; also puts at his disposal ten millions of dol- lara, with the righ’ to borrow the game ; also, if he deems necessary, to send a special cmbassador to Great Britain. The act is to continue in foree for sixty days after the next meeting of Congress, The bill confers these powers in the precise language of the act of 1839, except that it strikes out the word “ boundary” and inserts ** visitation and right of search,” with a few other verbal alterations —conferring, in fact, the same power on Mr. Buchanan as was conferred on Mr. Van Buren, The Miscellaneous Appropriation Bill was passed by 25 to 13.——In the House, it was decided that the admission of Minnesota as a State dissolved her Territorial organization, and that no Territorial delegate could oceupy a seat in the House. A resolution of Mr. Davis calling on the Presi- dent to capture the British cruisers in the Gulf of Mexi- co was, after some debate, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, The House adopted the Senate rese- lution for extending the session, but substituted Thun day next as the day for adjournment. On Friday, 4th, in the Senate, Senator Donglas report- ed against the Territorial organization of Dacotah, On motion of Senator Seward, the House amendment to the Senate resolution regarding adjournment was adopted. Several private bills were then passed.——In the House, several private bills were discussed, Mr. Bocock intro- duced a bill for the construction of ten war steamships, Mr. John Cochrane gave notice of an amendment pro- viding for twenty instead of ter. Objected to.

On Saturday, 5th, in the Senate, Senator Houston an- |

nounced the death of his colleague, Senator Lienderson. Eulogies were p d by Senators Davis, Critten- den, Reid, mone oe ——— the House, the de- cease was announced, a customary eulogies pro- nounced by Messrs, Bryan and Quitman,

WEEKLY. [Jorr 19, 1858,

THE BRITISH OUTRAGES LN CONGRESS. Senator Douglas's bill, which is nearly a fac-etmile ot hit passed in 1839, hc says is a peace measure. It is evidently designed to place the responsibility of preserv- ing the national honor on the President, and forcing him to redeem his pledges. Lord Napier has desired his dispatches to Admiral Stewart, seut from Washington last week, to be forward- ed from Halifax by special steamer to Bermuda, It is understood that he has advised the Admiral to order a discontinuance of the visitation of American vessels pend- ing the instructions of her Majesty's government. The have left Halifax. ‘he report of - British vessel having fired into an American vessel off Pensacola and killec a man, createc a profound sensation here, and has been the subject of strong and excited remark in the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. ‘The report lacks confirmation and is generally disbelieved. THE CASE OF TITE ‘ ADRIATIC.” Mr. Burlingame's report, unanimously concurred in by the Committee on Foreign Affairs, is accompanied by a resolution re¢ ting the President to obtain redress on account of the conduct of the French Government rela- tive to the American bark Adriatic. The report also reecmmends a revision of the laws in reference ~* col- lisious at sea, and an arrangement by which the damaget may be determined in such cases, THE COLLINS STEAMERS. The Senate Committee on Finance have resolved to change the terminus of the Collins line of steamers from Liverpool to Southampton, agreeably to the application of Mr. Collins. The prospect is, then, that this line will commence its transatlantic service again immediately. Tun “PrijOPLE’s PARTY.” Some of the papers have announced the “ormation oi a new political party called the People’ Party. A well-in- formed Washington correspondent says: * The professed programme of the ‘People’s Party’ of the Union, ont from here, was concocted by a few irresponsible individ- uals, having no authority to use any of the names which have been published in connection with the movement. The whole affair is disclaimed by men such as Messrs. Crittenden, Bell, Mar nnd the like, whose influence has been impertinent y assumed to prop up the scheme, GOVERNOR CUMMING EXPELLED FROM ~..LT LAKE CITY. A dispatch from Leavenworth, the 1st, says that intel- ligence from Camp Scott to the 6th of May had been re- ceived at the Fort. On that day two Mormons came into the Camp fiom Salt Lake City, having dispatches from Governor Cumming “~ Secretary Cass, The troops were expected to move toward the Valley by the end of May. Nothing wa» known at the camp, at the date mentioned, of any proceedings within the city. The foregoing came by mail to the fort. The expressman who brought it supplies the following additional particulars. He left . ort Laramie on the 18th of May. At Fort Kearney, t.e commanding officer directed him to in- form Colonel Monroe that he had information that Gov- ernor Cumming had been expelled from Salt Lake City, and that th. Mormons were in arms, determined to resist the army,to the last, and requesting Cc!onel Monroe to push on as speedily as possible. This communication, it is understood, was received at Fort Kearney through the mail brought by this messenger, to whom it was com- mitted probably forlack oftime. Colonel lloffman'scom- mand was met seventy-five miles beyond Fort Laramie. They had encountered snow two or three feet deep and had lost many animals. All the streams were very high. The Peace Commissioners had passed Fort Laramie; they were obliged to swim the Platte at that post. It is reported that the troops af Camp Scott were living on mule meat. No official information had been received at the Fort, but the authority furnishing this intelligence is regarded as unquestionable. The last news is to the effect that the ramored expul- sion of Governor Cur ing from Salt Lake is unfounded, but that Captain Ms 8 troop has been intercepted by the Mormons. All these stories must be received with great caution.

KANSAS AFFAIRS. We have more news of outrages and murders in Kan- fas, committed by the political ruffianms. Montgomery, who seems to have been the leader on one side, has been ordered to disband his meu and surrender his commission in the Territorial militia. Governor Denver has sent to the scene of the disturbances for information, and prom- ises to take effectual measures to put a stop to them. The instructions of General Cass to the Governor, in regard to the election, are published. The Commission- ers have fixed upon the 41 of August as the day of elec- tion. This is the day of the state election in Missonri, and its selection will tend to prevent the introduction of voters from that State.

SUCCESSFUL EMEUTE AT NEW ORLEANS, On the night of 2d inst. an emeute broke out at New Orleans. A body calling itself the Vigilance Committee, in large numbers, took possession of the Arsenal, Jackson Square, and the armories. On the morning of 3, the Executive Committee called for all law and order people to join them, and announced a determination to carry their measures out. Cannon vere posted about the Ar- senal, and about two hundred armed men were on guard. In the course of the day the Vigilance Committee rallied a large force of men, and tore up the streets and erected barricades with cotton-bales. The Mayor seems to have done nothing. On .th, he resigned the police authority into the hands of the Vigilance Committee, who appoint- ed a police of 1000 men, The Vigilance party were com- manded by Major Duncan, late of United States Army. At latest accounts, however, a collision was still appre- hended between the Vigilance Committee and the people. One man had already been shot.

The sollowing was the proclamation of the Vigilance Coramittee : “Crrizexs or New Onteans!—After years of disor- der, outrage, and unchecked assassination, the people, unable and unwilling either to bow down in unresisting submission to a set of ruffians, or to abandon the city in which their business, their social sympathies, and their affections cluster, have at length risen in their might, have quietly taken possession of the arsenal and the buildings in Jackson Square, and have established there the head-quartere «f a Vigilance Committee, pledging each to the other to maintain the rights inviolable of every peaceful and law-abiding citizen; restore public order, abate crime, and expel or punish, as they may de- termine, such notorious robbers and assassins as the ann of the law, either from the infidelity of its public servants or the inefficiency of the laws themselves, has left un- whipped of Justice, ‘* Ia the present the ordinary machinery of police jus- tice is superseded —the Mayor and the Recorders, as we understand, yielding up the power which they coufess their inability to exercise for the preservation of the pub- lic peace and the security of property; and the Vigilance Committee will, thereiore, provisionally act in their stead, administering to each and every malefactor the punishment due to his crimes, without heat, prejudice, or political bias. * All citizens who have sympathies with this move~ ment, and who think the time has come when New Or- leans shall be governed like all other well-ordered and civilized communities, will report themselves, without delay, at the principal office, where the character of this movement will be explained and the determination of the people more fully made known, * All has been done noiselessly thus far. All will con- tinue noiselessly, dispassionately, and justly. But the ruffians who have dyed our streets with the yore of unof- fending citi 6, and terror among the orderly, and Wwell disposed, must leave or perish. 4 “Se the people have determined, Vox populi, vox dei.” THK LATEST BRITISH OUTRAGE,—CASE OF THE “* MINIANUS.” Captain Parkes of the Mirianus reports the following British outrage: We sailed from Black River Harbor, Kingston, Jamaica, with a cargo of logwood for New York, On the 20th of May last, at four o'clock in the

—. afternoon, in longitude 82 degrees 10 minntes, and Jati- tude 24 degrees 19 minutes, we discovered a steamer on the lee bow of the brig, at the distance of seven or eight miles from where we were. We kept on the way we were sailing, anc so dic the steamer and the other ves- sels for about half an hour. [he steamer was then within the distance 0; about 300 or 400 yards of the brig. When thus far from us she steered up across our bow and hoisted the English ensign. We sailed on, not taking much notice of this, imagining the ship to be a merchant, or perhaps a mail steamer. She then backed her sails, lay before us and fired a gun. [ now thought that it was a vessel wanting to send a letter to some port to which we might be bound, but not caring to lose time in bringing the vessel to when we had euch a favorable wind, I still kept on my course. The steamer was now within about 200 yards o. us, and rhe fired a revolver or rifle-shot. I now ordered the vessel to be hove to, in the mean time a boat was lowered from the quarter of the steamer into the water. The American flag was now flying from the peak of the brig, and she was lying to, waiting for the arrival of the boat which it was evident was coming alongside. On the boat coming close I saw that there were eight men in her, and one officer, who was in uniform. On drawing the boat alongside our vessel the officer Jumped on board the brfg and walked aft to where I was, without ceremony. THE ORDERS TO BRITISH GUN-BOATS, The s:ollowing conversation then took cabin of my vessel, and it was commence eddressing me thus: Orricer. Are you the captain of this vessel ? Carrats Parkes. Yes, J am the captain. Orricen. What are yon loaded with on this voyage ? Cartats. I have a carg< of logwood, from Jamaica. Orritcrr. What port arc , ou from i Captatx. Kingston, Jainaica. Orricrr. Where are you bound ? Cartarx. To New York. Orricer. Who is the owner of your vessel, and where does he live ? Captars. R. Lane, of New York, is the owner of tho vessel, After this he did not ask any more questions ; but I re- sumed the conversation by asking the officer where he was from. He answered; “We havc been out from England about four months.” ‘Then, said I to him, ** What ate you doing out here 7” “I am crvising on the coast of Florida, looking out for slavers,” he replied. I then remarked, in an in- quiring way, ** You would not certainly take my vessel for a slaver?” And he eaid, “No; but my orders are to board every one of you.” I then thought of the circumstance of his passing the vessels that were ahead of us, and steering on for our vessel; so I observed, * You did not stop those veasek ahead of us as you did this one 7’ and he remarked, “ No, we did not, for those are British vessels." I did no’ say any more on that subject, but concluded that vessels showing British colors are allowed to pass by British men-of-war, when those that display the American flag are unnecessarily de- tained. lace near the by the officer THE STYX AT KEY WEST. A letter from Key West says: “ The British steamer Styx, Commander Vesey, has been in port since the recruiting, overhauling boilers, repairing the ship, tering, etc. Captain Veseydeni the statement of ( tain Howes, of the schooner Jiob.<. He says he fired into her because che refused * hoi-t her colors. Cap- tain Vesey has aeted under instructions. He says he is commander of all the British vessels in the Gulf, is re- sponsible for the acts of the commanders of the gun-beats Luzzard, Jasper, and others. The Sty has sailed." PERSONAL. The correspondent of the Times rives the following ae- count of the ball at the Britis Embassy on the Queen's lirthda ** Apart “om the war-cloud, the entertainment was a brilliantone. Lor Napier opened the first dance with Miss Lane, 1d had General Robles, with Mre, Sen- ator Douglas asa vis-~<d-via, Ali the Corpo Diplometicuc, the officers of the army, the navy, and the m corps appeared in ‘ull uniform. Vice-President Breckinridge and Mr. Speaker Orr each headed a large dclezation of the bodies over which they preside, and the D: portments were well represented. Prominent among the ladies were Mesdames Crittenden, Jeff Davis, Montgomery, Flair, Appleton, Ledyard, Craig and Clayton, with Mademoi. selles Cass, Sannders, King, and others. Arabella regret. ted the absence ot Madame de Stoeckl, who has been quite indisposed of late, and was told that M. Van Lim. burg, Minister-Resident of the Netherlands, inw nds to follow a good example, and wed an American wife. That same evening there was another wedding at t! ¢ “West end," at the corner of I and Twentieth etreets, the residence of the Hon. Robert J. Walker. Mies Mary Walker was married (by the Rev. Dr. Pyne) to Adrian Deshone, Esq., a brother of Mrs. Senator Slidell, and al- though there was no great display, there was a most se- lect and distinguished company. Arabella went into raptures over a set of pearls which were prominent among the bridal presents, and all agreed that the lovely and accomplished Miss Sannders, who was the first brides- maid, never appeared to sater advantage. The hap- py air receive their friends to-day, and many whe have not shaken hands since the Lecompton question was mga will, doubtless, cordially join in pledging the ride. The trial of General Walker for violation of the neu- trality lawc concluded in a disagreement by the jury, ten of that body being for acquittal, and two for conviction. Judge Campbell's charge was extremely partial and strin- gent. A new trial was urged immediately by Walker. The District Attorney entered a nolle prosequi. F. N. W. Burton, ceretary of State of Tuunessee, in consequence of being charged with having defrauded the State o1 a large amount of money, has resigned his office. John F. Stockton, of New Jersey, has been appointed Minister to Switzerland. Joseph R. Chandler, of Penn- sylvania, will probably go to Rome. J. P. O'Sullivan, of California, has been appointed Consul at Singapore, aud J. N. Heine, «* Georgia, Consul to Turks Island, The applicants for the mission to Paraguay are already very numerous, The names of Mr. Fitzpatrick, of Flor ida, Mr. Harris, late of the U-4on. Mr. Cheson, and Gen- ral Bur-ess, of Rhode Island, are strongly pressed. I-x-President Van Buren has arrived at the New York Tlotel from Kinderhook, on a visit to the city for a few days. Mr. Van Buren looks remarkably weil, and is in the enjoyment of -:ost excellent health for a man over threescore-and-ten years, Since the Senate have evening sessions, Vice-President Breckinridge has ordered the private driuking-room of the Senate to be closed. The Hon, 8. A. Eliot, Rev. Dr. Bellows, of New York, Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, of Massachusetts, and Pro- fessor Felton, are named as candidates for the Presiden- ey of Harvard College, shortly to be vacated by Rev. Dr. Walker. j The Judiciary Committee on Judge Watrons's case, after a most searching, expensive, and prolonged invcsti- gation, are equaliy divided as to their report. Commodore Thomas Ap Catesby Jones, of the United States Navy, died last week at his residence in George- town, District of Columbia. Commodore Jones was of Welsh descent. He was a native of Virginia, and was born in the year 1789. He entered the navy as a mid- Shipman in the year 1805, and received his commission asa ain in 1829, He was first brought prominently into lic notice in the year 1814, at the time when the British naval expedition nst New Orleans entered Lake Borgne. Commodore Jones, then a lieutenant, had command of a division of five gnn-boats, carrying 23 guns and 183 men. The British force that he was ap- winted te intereept consisted of forty or fifty barges or ts built for this special duty, carrying 42 guns, and fix or eight hundred men. After a gallavt resistance the little American flotilla was compelled to surrender, Lieutenant Jones having been early disabled by a shot. His conduct in the affair was universally commended. That the vietory was dearly bought by the Gritieh is proved by the fact that their loss, as officially reported,

was $4—more than half the number of Americans en- cond wae Sy Sees whence of the affair, the loss even said to have been three or four huudred.

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In 1812, when he had command of the Pacific squad ron, while lying at Callao, he received, unofficially, in- formation which led him to believe that a war between the \!nited States and Mexico was ine je. He was also led to believe that through intrigues at Mexico a cession of Mexican territory to Great Britain was con- templated. He suddenly set sail with a squadron of four vessels, in order to foresiall the supposed designs of the British Admiral. Oa arriving before Monterey, some circumstances confirmed his suspicions; be summoned the Governor to surrender the place, which was done, and on the 20th of October, 1542, the Awerican flag rose over the old fort, and a proclamation was issued, explain- ing to the people the strange movement. For this indiscreet but well-meant seizure of Monte- rey, in a time of peace, Commodore Jones was suspend- ed from service for a time, and in 1555 was placed upon the Reserved List by the Naval Io 5 A young lady in Cincinnati, Miss Fanny Hall, has re- ceived damages of $3500 against owe Vandergriff, and other parties, for faise imprisonme She was confir for six months in the Lunatic Asylum, through the in- strumentality of the officers of the church to which she belonged, but was proved to be sane, and was then dis- charged. The suit has been tried three times. The frst jury gave her a verdict of $10,0.0. A new trial was had, aud the jury failed to . The third time she was again successful, and this ends the case By a vote of the Baltimore Common Council, the re- mains of Join M‘Donogh (of conte -will fame) are to be removed from New Orleans to Baltimore. Two thou- sand dollars are appropriated for the purpose. Letters from ex-President Pierce, at Madcira, announce ‘is intention to leave for Lisbon on the Ist of June. Mrs. Pierce is still an invalid, but her health has been im- proved by her voyage. The Evening Post understands that-General Houston, Immediately after the adjournment of Congress, contem- plates an expedition into Mexico with a company of four or five thousand men, who are anxious to follow the hero of the Alamo to new conquests, Walker and lienning- ten do not inspire the adventurous youth of the South with confidence, and it has been signified to General Houston that, if he would lead them, there were thou- sands ready to follow him to any part of Mexico. The anderstanding is that they are to Texasize another slice of Mexico, and bring it into the Union, and, with it, Houston into the Senate. Mr. Everett, since November last, has delivered his Dration on Washington twenty-three times, with aggre- gate net receipts (for the Mount Vernon Fund) of $14,645, and has spoken on * Charity” fourteen times. The az- jp mys receipts from the delivery of these two orations, in six months, is stated at $/7,073. Ilenry W. Pratt, the Teller of the Grafton (Mansa- chusetts) Bank, who robbed that institution of $12 000, has been sentenced by the Court at Worcester to a year aud a half in the House of Correction. “In view of the fact,” says the Boston Traveller, ** that he attempted to fasten the crime upon an hon man—the Cashier of the Bank—by slipping a roll of the stolen bills into his pock- et, we must say that he has been dealt with in a remark- ably lenient manner." The Rev. Dr. Bowman, the new Assistant-Bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Pennsylvania, is a native of that State, and fifty-eight years of age. He has been for thirty years rector of St. James's, Lancaster, Pennsyl- vania, Dr. Bernard, lately acquitted of the attempt to mur- der the Emperor of the French, announces his intention to deliver an oration in Greenwich, England, on the “ Present state of France, Politically consider¢ 2 Mr. George W. Curtis is to deliver the annual address at the Rensselaer County Fair, to be held in Troy next September. M‘Henry, alias Townsend, who had so much trouble in Caneda, has taken to lecturing since his release, Ile visited Parliament last week, and was conspicuous,

FOREIGN NEWS. ENGLAND. PARLIAMENT. Tax British Ministry have not been defeated. On Fri- day, 2ist, in the House of Commons, the vote of censure was taken up, and after numerous and repeated calls upon Mr. Cardwell by the Liberal members to withdraw his resolution, that gentleman, with the concurrence of Lords Palmerston and John Kussell, and with the author- ity.of the House geverally, consented, and the resolution and amendments were fivally withdrawn, thus virtually giving the Ministers a triomph Mr. Disraeli, in giving his consent to the withdrawal, waid the resolution was avowedly brought forward as a tensure upon the conduct of the Government. If he con- tented to its withdrawal, it must be clearly understood that he did so, not because the Government shrunk from the consequences that would follow if it were adopted. Whatever the result might be, they looked forward to it without apprehension, and even now were ready to en- sounter the consequences of a division. So far as the debate was concerned, he thought he might say that no Ministry on their trial could look back upon a discussion with greater satisfaction. The opposition to the motion had been maintained, not by the Administratien, for they had wisely and properly withdrawn as much as pos- sible from the debate, but by members rot connected with the Government in politics, and by men inferior to none in intellectual character and authority. He con- tented to the withdrawal of the motion not for the sake of the Government, but for the sake of India and the best interests of the empire. In so doing he appealed to the language of all tneir dispatches to show that the Governmert had given to Lord Canning 2 most cordial and complete support, and he would mention that since Lord Ellenborough's dispatch had been sent out, the Gov- ernment had communicated with Lord Canning, inform- ing him that he might rely upon their continued confi- dence and support.—{ Cheers, } The House of Commons then adjourned to the 28th. PROSPECT OF TROUBLE WITH NAPLES. On Friday, the 2ist. in the House of Lords, Lord Malmesbury stated he had received a reply from the Government of Naples in answer to the claim of indem- nity, which he understood to be a refusal, and which he had treated as such. Within the last two hours, how- ever, he had received a dispatch informing him that it was not a positive refusal, but simply an argumentative reply. DEATH OF THE DUCHESS OF ORLEANS. The Duchess of Orleans expired on 18th ult. at her residence at Richmond, to the inexpressibie grief of her sons, the Count de Paris and the Duke de Chartres, and the other members of the exiled Royal family of France. The demise of her Royal Highness is a deep affliction to the Ex-Queen Amelie, whose only consolation under the mournful circumstances is the presence of the Duke of Nemours, the Duke and Duchess of Aumale, and Prince and Princess Joinville, who, with their families, are living at Twickenham and Claremont. The lameut- able event was quite unexpected. The Duchess only a fortnight since dined at the Marquis of Landsdowne's, and was apparently in excellent health and spirits. “About half past four in the morning the Duchess expressed some surprise at seeing her physician still at her bedside, and, in reply to a question, said, ‘Oh! I do not feel very ill.’ He left the room to give some orders, returned in ten minutes, and found she had ceased *o breathe. Life had departed without any premouitory sigus.”

HORRORS JF CHURCH VAULTS, Dr. Letheby has presented a report on the state of the vaults in the city churches, in which he says: “ La the vaults of twenty-five of the city churches there are not less than 5700 dead bodies, and this number does not include the burials that have taken place under the aisles of the churches. If the same proportion hoids in respect of all the city churehes, there are about 16,000 corpses beneath the pews occupled by Sunday eongrega- tions. In some cases the eflluvium from the vaults was most offensive ; for although it is the general practice to confine the body in a lead coffin, yet the metal gives way

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after a louger or a shorter time, and there oozes e-like liquid, which stinks abom which is, 1 believe, a most deadiy poison this escaping from a lead coftin that had be in the vault for more than a hundred years is no saying for how lo :

ga tis : mischief of decay and slow corruption may be car Again, t ay in which the coffins are piled upon each other, leads to the er iing in of » lowermost of the series, when the woo ays, an he putrid matter j juashed out through the fissures of the broken coffing. In many cases t vanks are entered by nperfectiy-closed traps or doors from the general area of the church, and the

vaults are cither not ventilated at all, or t ar lated into the public way, so that there steams out | . santly a poisonous vapor that may be the cause of much mischief.” THE TELEGRAPHIC FLEET. The telegraplic flect had all assembled at Piynx and would sail on an experime > in a few ¢ It consists of the United States frigate \iagara, aud the British steamers Agamemnon, Valorous, Gor Porcupine. ;

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jornon, and THIRTY YI The Glaago ARS OF TRADE. w Daily 3 says: “Ourious disclosures y Court, and much | t ai s of bankrupts on the Lid- den springs of commercial a n. The disclosures made by Mr. James Grey, er and ft this city, in his examination before t } the 12th instant, stand out in « eral run of insolvencies, It is si cable fatuity, under which spell a1 against hope in carrying on a bi nothing practically, and if pos 3 for upward of thirty years, without ha any one transaction ever made a profit

do take place in the Bank a! is thrown by the ex

but loss from the curmmencement, and loss « ivanen the end. The large fortune of a confiding ! or was gradually swallowed up in the loam and sand of a ruin ous foundry. The handsome competency of trusting sis- ters was sacrificed to the criminal van ld

bring ruin upon the nearest and doa: than confess to misfortu Ilis private expenses we after thirty-two years’ trad deficit of twen thousand pound AND AUMALE.

The Nord publishes the following an “The gna- lons of Paris are much occupied with aa interview said te have taken » between the Dake d’Aamale and Marshal Pelissier. Ax *0 : rroneous tiatemwents

have been made, I will tell 5 cactly what hap; i Marshal Pelissier was taking a drive in Hyde Park A carriage passed his. The Marshal was not aware who was in the carriage, but one of kis aides-de-camp who was sitting in front told him it was the carriage of the Duke d'Aumale. The Marshal immediately ordered his coachman to drive alongside the carriage which had passed him. When he came up with the Duke's car riage, the Marshal rose and bowed to him. The ordered his carriage to stop and retarned the salat Marshal then addressed the Prince as follows: * Monsei- gneur, 1 am happy to have this opportunity of presenting my respects to you and asking after your health.’ ‘* And 1," said the Prince, ‘am happy to see you and to shake hands with you." A shaking of hands immediately fol- lowed. A few complimentary words were exchanged and the carriages separated. This is all that took place. It must be remembered that Marshal Pelissier served for some time in Algeria under the orders of the Duke d'Au- male.” The London Times adds that the “ Duke d'Aumale and the Marshal met at a small dinner-party a few days afterwari.”

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FRANCE. AN EXTRAORDINARY A very shocki wel was fought, on the 14th of May, in the Bois de Vex near St. Germain. M, Henri de Péne, a well-known literary man, who for some time wrote the fserilicton in the Nord of Brussela, which was signed ** Nemo,’ and who has lately written in avo under the same signature, made some play‘ul re- marks, in a recent article, about the sub-lieutenants of the army, and said, among other things, that, owing to some new orders concerning their uniform, they would no longer tear ladies’ dresses with their spura. This ar- ticle gave offense in a mess-room at St. Germain, and in his weekly article of last Sanday “ Nemo" observed that he had received a very coarre letter from a person who signed himself “ A Sub-Lientenant,” and who talked a great deal more about fighting than a gentleman who means to fight usually does. This article produced a challenge from the sub-lieutenant,. When M. de Pine and bis seconds got upon the ground they found some nty oflicers ihere, belonging to the garrison of St. The duel was fought with sworda M. de Péae rounded his antagonist in the wrist, and disabled him DUEL.

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THE EDITOR ASSASSINATED. NM. de Courtiel advanced politely to M. de Pane, ex- giessed himself gratified that be had met with a man of courage, and that he regretted the oecurrepee which had led to the meeting. The combatants then shook handa, and acco g to all the usages of society the matter should have ended, as M. de lene had given satisfaction to the first sub '}: utenant who had challenged him for an int a, t t ight from d ption of the indivi al w had t 1 wont to t 1 that they had a red, in t I 1 of an Ex hman who was a t to embark on b la vessel at Ha the person ay had them I iin que n y ip 1 his in ls had the hap; s (and in t ‘ y real piee { 1 fortune a Pre he has I been de}; lin A A ing i > tl ) il of ¢ ‘ es a ! I ‘ r y I { } ‘3 set at libe Ils int : 1 ae of « I is ar i he can « j I tol r or cot lL, who will i e poor Fr a} | ly iis liapri c » exil ba ’ t having tue ] rors the right t | self, and ¥ sf rt I . so judi y. wv prot jon he can iav Ia all y la rs t I rwounce th deci af iy l¥ t appeal. They are at the same time accusers, jud and exccylioners,

TUE MARRIAGE LAW IN FRANC! \ CAUTION TO YOUNG WOMEN. “An Tr marriage « was lately subn 1 to the Civili Tribunal. Ay man named } r, having led av lissipated life at Pa I is father in 1855 Lima, in Peru, and there hb iia l with a young woman wi H | ' was } loza | who was widow of ¢ eral Guido, LE @ time was ter of War of I He proposed mar to her, » had no other p jon than t t of ivtant to , ther, a trader at Li a. af did not think fit to ac- cept him, He, howev his | mar ried him. Her th \ ally d ria and stop) ‘ f2o ot had wade! I »months r crueliya a i her, t t He tuid ti g North seek his { i " ard learned that he had come te Pari l I ) r foliowed him there, lie w to live with le a apartment in the Rue Cojnue but inaw i in abandoned her, gave hot to leave t 5 ent, sold off the furniture, and wrote an insolent k r to the con- cierge of the house, directing him pot to supply her with any thing, and te tell her that i tired of her, aud that the best he « I was to take a lover, if she could find one." She fell into such dis tress that some charitable Peruvians h had to raise a subscription to enable her t ‘ ¥ Yesterday Ruttinger’s fathe: d to the Civil Tribunal to declare t i void, on the grownd that they had no it, and that he being only 23 years regards marriage a minor, such ¢ ei of the ( Napoleon, indispe y also urged that it « t to be d it hal not been published and duly ra In the Gourse « e pleadings on their be f it was stated thatt marriage had been a most deplorable o r the young man. The wel of Madame Guido i ted that h urriage was good, in the f rer and { the young man ha at the time it was accomplished, or at a 1 not protested against it within a year af weir k ledge, le Napoleon required them to 4 The first of udicted by piaint- made the cided that the want of the parents ’ ‘ t ine« tracing it marriage void, but, cor

Madame G ; toft French } it laid down t vy the civil advantages to which it « x¢ two other points raised by the pare said that the fi ne being sufficient, y toy ounee on them.” LIFE IN PARIS. A German geaileman was in the pit stalls of the Odeon r ; 0 lad of i his sou, a hands Theatre the other night, wi i woeu Wie @

umissary of Police » lady in his private room sant, rose fro

us ets man astonished, and pot a little indig m his seat, and, follewed by his son, was ushered into the pres- ence of the commminsary Tuis funet ; : ix as follows: *“ Sir, in France a w sn is not allowed to appear in public im male attire w ut authorization. Have you an authorization?” The answer was, “ Sir, I do not know what you mean by talking of women: this is a boy.” The commisary then surveyed the youth from head to foot, and observing, “ Well, I see he has inci; n s tis enough,” allowed the par- tics t gely disturbed to depart, but he did rt vouchsafe to over a word of apology PARISIAN SPORTS, ts are narrated by the Paris Sport: ¥y Cinb a few nights ago wagered The following f *‘ Amember of t

that he would wall iolded from the club-nouse, Rue de Grammont, to the Cirque de | Imperatrice in the Champs Elysves. He accomplished the difficuity, and on arriving at the Cirque 1 walked in. He went 4 , the Place d

we to the Cirque. ace to the ai, and cto the I Royale. red to have studied his route most carefully bo-

l, as he ox when he ought t a cis, unted his steps, and was able to say ) pass before a lamp-po t and otber o!- BIRTH EXTRAORDINARY. A young hippopotamus has been be of Plants at | . The little creature made its appear- ance at top of the water of the tank occupied by its mother about six a.m. on Monday, May 10. Afterswim- npted to get on " ‘ ming about a while tue lit atte dry ground, but the desceat from tue sleeping apartment rn in the Garden

of the parent hippopotami into their bath not being sloped, it had some difficulty in raising its weight out of the water. The mother then came to the reseue, but in her endeavors to assist her little one up the step mannged so to bruise and injure its tender body that it died the same evening. A MALE ABBESS. For the last forty years, in the quict, old, tumble-down city of Versailles, inhabited by decayed Legitimist fam- ilies, a lady, dr garb of a semi-

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sonastic style, was known to pursue the even tenor of her way, received into the local circles of aristocracy, and in receipt from a noble family of 6009 franca annuity, as ex-abbess of a suppressed monastery, At her death she turus out to be aman. The real abbess must have died in emigra- tion, and a swindler of the rougher sex getting her papers has personated her for nearly half a century The name of the deceased androgyne was Countess de Solege de Lange. The matter makes no noise; people only shrug up their shoulders.

A GOVERNMENT DEFEAT. t defeat In the Haut In reference to the Governine Rhin, the Paris correspondent of the Times says: “1 he success of M. Migeon, whe never dreamed that he was a man of so mach importance, is felt in every ofhet al quar- ter as extremely vexatious and humiliating No Paris paper has ventured to allude to it; and the diometeur it-

ynged to the M GERMANY. GOVERNOR WRIGKTS COLD-WATER FFSTIVAL. 27 tmea eay the word of —_ a 7 em = > r —— im cireuia- tion some time diplomatic din ner at Berlin not true that the water only as a drink Mr If to his temp

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t with the rest, r prejudices,” ITALY. SARDINIAN PRISONERS ARE TREATED AT SAPLES How THE

The correspondent of t Daily News writes: The in- telligence from Sa fa most painful and revolting charact and ' tof humanity I send it te you, « } | he sider me tedious Sines the ap; f ' ke 4, not rigor, buat « na ‘ f “1 to hav t » used i ha y 1 t { keeper inaugu: ated | aity t per iD i the mos: wi- ‘ t I “ how} der the effecta of bl | h f ® was much ent, it is imy | t I Sardinian ers are trea { i £ame cat with Watt and ar r ent i ‘ ra as for er t i . knowl l the puri t { ‘ ‘ {-orern ment t alwa ed a t the fol ng faces ‘ Ther ti oi to has hed per I it I 1 freely. is now | ted to oa at ial in the does A brothe Danel ! the*former, haa come f1 tu him, can not r than Naples ' f i ( ‘ pi isi raz tti hay laboring fort e months to got him removed from pris- on, is suffering f m « severe chest atiack, is now spittis 1, and is in considersble will melt 1 { stone When r wa ! e last moment of “ de t ects,” and t were sent home } inlan eubjects are in another categ treat them a kena, because Austr ‘ l that } and sh« lon Sardinia in this poat- tion is a bur @ diegrrace t bitterly te it resent ed by Italia As rega edasdogs Fi have not been al gain ¢ in hospital. Nimartoro, wi gent y 1, ist , 1 ‘ pearance, wae not jval will not probably ud to a t} 6 men to rt m k now etil) there @ a eat- isfaction in the publicat f them, and y ape tn their e they will | ) 4 person called Esporito feased that l« mitted the murder which I re- hist V tat e man did not bclong to ’ V t s among ther and continually fa r & to th jury The imets rent av j ger, manufactared in prison ] an : rub 1 over with oll, burn them with «

murder them tAL 1 ¥ AT MODENA. A letter fr ) of terror ex- isting there: A naturally v ‘ w he he ¥ nity of = tir st her to i h paanic and i wit love fi y (ioverngn t bas it martial law in ’ npreeedented in ti ’ modern oppreasi They hua iberals ae you would fox soldier ron ernte lit see by dey and ' t; they! Th s omne nd « drea: they fill the pri and kill rw vere I tary n and Mows. TY mals and Ma “ ire are dowe away with Ae ro art ’ A Jemn 1, aad on ex- ecutioner ki cepair; de- sp counse ul » legal aseas- #in falls a prey to t and they not rare erve ly t ity of tive « ern ent ar 1 th [ ¥ vd Lise take to flight, and « on Sardinian soil. Whats at this haven of refug But even : sued by the implacable wrath of the Government; reclamations are ‘ Turin, to demand their extradition, the Sardiniaa “abinet bas refused com- © demands, on the very reasonadle extraditi treaties provide only for not for these who fly from the mad

But at present the Sardin- ian Government is placed in « very embarrassing posl-

tion, for the majority of the fugitives have no means of subsistenc THE KEW GOVERNOR OF MALTA. On the 7th of May an individual in pla iothes was enteri e « »or's Palace, Malia, with a« lig ciga i he was slopped by the s ry, with an inti- mation that t ord were not to allow smoking The individual ref ifted that he was the Governor, Sir John Gas i lo Marchar This, however, had ne other effect t » to make the sentry more firm ta the execution of his duty, and bis Excellency was under the necessity of casting away his m i cherished “* Havana.” During the day the jer-board was withdrawn, end a new one iseved from the ‘Town Major's office, with the

omission of the ebjectionable prohibition. INDIA. THE LATEST WS FROM THE SEAT OF WARK. The news from India is interesting dir H. Rose's ad vance on Calpee has been delayed by the fear that the Kotah re Ord . . . sued by G ance te Kotah to ‘ ate W ilitary movement is re ported Koial The Sikh force, under obet 2 battle of some hour 1a arge body of Bheels ixty men and four b i wowen were captured. British loss, 71 killed and ed Azimghur w ' it e. Lingard on the 16th of April yu i with regularity, but lost three gun as t r of men lt is eald tho enemy will make « i at Calpee, DEATH OF ANOTHER MAVELOCK, The Delhi Gasette ¢ a: “Wer ret much to record j ie 2 cw H > : 4 fthe G) hs Regiment, ne} y late M eral Havelock. He belonged to Sir bh. Lingard § coin w h marched to the support of Aziz ‘ ri time ago, Itep pears that oa ma Ng tof Jaun a large bedr of rebels were on t a ) altace 5 ; ward the rear on h t » te Acimehur I caused the Col il to s plana, and pelicd him, befor proceeding fur laperse thie b and while hu ee iow I ena ii lock was 6 frou n weure Villa Ha aN 2 at G pore and Azir t imme of the m y of he tlt ving : hich | . : tant Sey Loew quently he went np as a volunteer wit) hie unele, and has been before Lucknew ever since. Lis fate is de; red by all who knew him, His remains were brougit inte Jaunpore and buried therv.”

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SPECIAL RRESPONDENT, | BILLY BOWLEGS IN NEW ORLEANS. hive cole les, 7 Bowti the hk of the h ih rw a « he was our Lion- ‘ { us, a now have leisure tot it the er se, the British out- . ‘ I ina, and other mat- ters of secondary interest. When the news reach- P ht a t Billy was actually ‘ to his new home in Arkan- s our city with a brief visit, I felt | hat it 8 yt t him in at his revel featur micht i to posterit Hf i lite ‘ v of sk ] x t havi it WR rae , oO ‘ } I v aft r i e ¢ { t* disposal j Ti kettle thus fire led, I set viish. In t King Billy made his ap- pearance. I took possession of him ‘ arrived, 1 never left him till I s him on board the or the Ar- HARPER'S cash, and two marriageable daughters, is worth cultivating. I ret into the good graces would advise any one who wishes of Billy Bow ! “urs to pr y special attention to Ben Bruno. Billy Bowles is a direct descendant of the founder of the Seminole nation. A little more than a century ago, a noted Creek chief, named Se- coffee, broke away from his tribe, and, with many followers, settled in the central part of the penin- sula of Florida They were followed by other bands, and all received the name of Seminoles, or ‘Runawavs.” The Mickasukies, the legitimate owners the country, at first opposed these emi- tan feelle to make anvw ef. n it ¢] were ‘ r, credi evtor, or office-seeker to a ns L dif to Billy. It t Orn; ¢ perse é nquers ali things, and J end y little bili anaex eau—t resuit of my rte, in the h ’ the portraits of lis M A of the Everglades, his two broth- ers-in-law. | . ing Wwite, and last, it 3 | s ie, philoso- if the negro slave y | > fi Indian i n- Micco — is a T, ‘ bout lorenu ud, ] i me i t 1 ! His name f ly appell i an are } er lim ’ a on. 3 porm sl legs yours : e , ves, and lred ai 1 H e } th ‘ 1 , v } } ‘; ? : J { : r hr ! Lie na ' iff vo, featu ira evid i wa 1 ‘ He perf ! h l ‘ t i ymet } $ ni r ly to ‘ if a dr Bill ve ‘ , who has no any { | ld learn. is a autet 1 though her feat resem boiance to th ‘ h | ick, I 1 to my ori ly’s *¢ ters especial - ly Eli ’ K ng lars « 5 } ms 1 .) V +? ; | t ’ x th ’ ( i B ) rpreter, ad- con ial Y of Kir , intelligent A ! ' i e his master, led predilection for civilized ’ l early visit to a t tablishment speedily trans- | fectuai resistance. Ins short time all the Indians fort } , ereditable imitation of a | amalgamated, and joined in efforts to resist the lie has more brains than | white men—the common foe of all. , and exercises almost un- Secoffee was a bitter enemy of the Spaniards, r his master. The negro | and a firm ally of the English. When Florida s $ masters of their red own- | was re-ceded to the Spahiards, in 1784, he took the ers, V ! ious of their own mental | field against them. He died the next year, at the nfer le wishes to convey a high | age of seventy, and was buried near the site of the ea of he will say, “‘ Ah, you no | present Fort King. When he felt that his end was at nigger wit.” The negroes | near, he called his two sons, Payne and Bowlegs, vere tl us well ‘he immediate | and exhorted them to carry out his plans. The occasion, : They openly refused | Great Spirit, he said, had revealed to him that, if to foll if they removed to Arkan- | he would be happy in a future state, he must cause sas; and li they capitulated that the | the death of a hundred Spaniards. Fourteen of Seminol emigrating. The friendship | this number were still wanting; and he adjured ef a men wv : hundred thousand dollars in | his sons to make up the deficiency. WEEKLY. - In 1821 Florida was ceded to the United States. Emigrants began to pour in who demanded posses- sion of the lands. The Indians were estimated at about four thousand, men, women, and children, t hundred negro slaves. Their villages were scattered from St. Augustine to the Appalach- icola River. They consisted of log-huts, surround- cleared fields. It was vain for them to urge ir claim tothe country. Our Government recog- nizes no such title in the Indians. In 1823 they were compelled to enter into a treaty making over to the whites the greater part of their lands, and restricting themselves alle laid dowr with eig within narrow bounds form- Still the white settlers pressed upon the Indians. A thousand pretexts for quarrels arose. Slaves ran away and joined the Indians, who refused to surrender them. The property of the whites was plundered, reprisals were made, and a border war seemed imminent, which must involve the exterm- ination of the Indians. In 1832 Mr. Cass, then Secretary of War, directed Colonel Gadsden to negotiate with the Florida Indians for a total relin- quishment of their lands in exchange for others west of the Mississippi River. With much diffi- enlty Mr. Gadsden succeeded in inducing some of the Seminole chiefs to sign a treaty empowering a delegation to visit the country proposed to be al- lotted to them, and in case they were satisfied with it, the nation shonld cede all their Florida lands, BILLY BOWLEGS, CHIEF OF THE SEMINOLES.—[From a Puorocrapu py CLARK, or New Ortrans.] [Junm 12, 1858. and remove west of the Mississippi. This was the famous “ Treaty of Payne’s Landing,” made on (! 9th of May, 1832. The delegation visited the coun. try, made their marks to a paper expressing them selves satisfied with it, and agreed that their na- tion should commence their removal as soon as satisfactory arrangements could be made. In this treaty the name of Halpatter-Micco appears for the first time in history. [le was then a young man, a sub-chief of the band of Arpiucki, or ‘‘ Sam Jones.” It is noticeable that the names of the leading Seminole chiefs, especially that of Micano- py, the recognized head of the nation, were want- ing in this treaty. The Seminoles refused to tion this proceeding of a few of their hiefs. ‘The delegation themselves denied their own act, and declar that they had not signed any pape which required them to relinquish their lands or remove from Florida. They were assured that they would nevertheless be forced to carry out the treaty. Micanopy, old and in- ert, was little more than a tool in the hands of the bold and crafty half- breed, Oseola, who, though not a chief himself, exerted a controlling influence. The Indians resolved to negotiate, gain time to place their wives and children in safety, secure their crops, and lay in ammunition, but in no case to leave the country. They showed themselves adepts in the arts of diplomacy, and succeeded in putting off any decided action til! g@ the spring of 1835. A council was Zag then held, Oseola and eight others sanc- ZZ agreed to abide by the treaty, and the opening of the next year was fixed upon as the time when the re- moval should commence. Micano- py, Sam Jones, and three other lead- ing chiefs, refused to agree to this. General Thompson, the Indian agent, therefore struck their names off from the roll of chiefs, declaring them to be no longer counselors of the nation. Nothing was farther from the in- tention of Oseola than to fulfill his agreement to emigrate. He wished to gain time, and above all thin by a display of friendship, to procure arms, powder, and lead. refused to sell these. moment Thompson Oseola, for a forgetting himself, bro! out into fierce passion. “‘Am I a negro,” he said; ‘‘a slave? an Indian. The white man shall not make me black. I will mal the white man red with blood, and then blacken him in the and rain, where the wolf shall sinell his bones and the vulture live upon his flesh.” sun He abused the agent, de the power of the Government, and was put into irons. A week's con- ollect penitence, finement gave him time to re« himself. He professed and promised to comply treaty. All difficulties supposed to be ended: the opening of the year 1836 was looked upon as the time when Florida was to be freed from the Indians, and crowds of emigrants stood ready with the were now to rush in upon the vacant land ut as summer and autumn wore on abundant proofs appeared that the ‘ndians had no intentiun of leaving. it afterward appeared that they had solemnly resolved that any one who prepared to remove should Charley-e-Mathla, a leading chief, had begun to dispose of his cattle. waylaid and s : handkerchief money, which he had received for his cattle. Oseola would not suffer it to be touched. “It is the blood of the red men,”’ he said, it away. Late in December the Indiana were ready for action; yet so cun- ningly were their plans laid that no one suspected an out. break. ‘Two companies, under Ma. jor Dade, had been dispatched from Fort Brooke to reinforce the garri, son at Fort King. The Indians re. solved to capture Fort King before their arrival, and then turn upon these reinforcements. Oseola had not forgotten his imprisonment by General Thompson. “He is mp friend,” said he, significantly ; “I'll take care of him.” For two days he lay, with sixty warriors, hidden among the palmettos, in full view of the fort, yet no one suspected their presence. On the afternoon of the 28th of December, General Thomp- son and Lieutenant Smith walked ont from the fort, quietly smoking their cigars. They approached the ambush, and were fired upon. Thompson fell dead, pierced with four-and-twenty bullets; Smith received thirteen. Their scalps were stripped off and divided into minute pieces that each warrior might have a part. Oseola had taken vengeance for the indignity which he had suffered. Meanwhile the main body of the savages had been dogging Dade, who was on his march to the fort. Twice had they postponed their attack to await the return of Oseola, who was watching for his * friend” Thompson. At last they determ- ined to act without hin, Before daybreak on the morning of the 28th, 180 warriors were posted on the road by which the troops would soon advance. Every Indian was concealed behind a tree, and die. He was l ot COWn. In his was a sum of as he flung immediate

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June 12, 1858. ] HARPER'S WEEKLY. ECTOR-G} nothing indicated their presence. At nine o'clock the soldiers approached ; every man was suffered to pass the extremity of the ambush before the signal was given to fire. Half of the men fell at the first discharge. The soldiers, utterly surprised, fired at random, and did no execution, while the Indians from their coverts picked them off man by man. Of the eight officers and one hundred and two men composing the detachment, every officer and ninety-eight men fell upon the spot; another was killed the next day. Only three, all sorely wounded, made their escape. The Indians lost only four or five. Great rejoicings were held that night by th Indians. The scalps of the victims were suspended upon a high pole, around which the drunken sav- His first notable exploit took place in July, 1839. vad made an arrangement with Sam Jones, who was by this time ages danced until daylight. Oseola had joined his comrades, bringing the trophies of his exploit. Songs were sung ridiculing the whites, and the Indians made themselves merry over laughable imitations of the somewhat pec aliar manner and gestures of Thompson. Such was the opening scene of the Florida war, which as to cost so much blood and treasure, and to task so severely the ablest officers. Gen Call, Jesup, Macomb Worth, were successiv: skill and energy of our ines, Clinch, Scott, Taylor, Ar ly placed For a time it seemed as thou iis G istead, and in mmand. ha few hundred s ages would sucx essiu ils efy the whole power of the United States. The Indians, indeed, soon found that in open fight they were wholly unable to cope with the whites. They adopted the true policy of ‘attering themselves in mall detachments, str ing a sudden blow upon some eo posed point, and then taking refuge in the almost inaccessible vamps. Against such a foe regular military operations were of no avail. The only course was to track them to their fastnesses, roy their croy burn their villages, de- 3, and reduce them by starvati \gain and again it seemed as though this end was tained. The Indians would then beg for peace, romise to surrender, gather at the appointed posts, ud receive the promised presents. It would be nnounced that the “‘ Florida war was the volunteers would be disbanded, and the regu lars sent away from the unhealthy swamps, Then ll at Indians would decamp, and the work of hunting them out again, ended ;"’ once the was to be done over Stil hief ; vear by year something was gained. One er another was killed or captured, and their bands surrendered, and were sent to Arkan- 1s. Oseola, coming into the camp of General lfernandez, on pretense of treating, made } ier, sent to Fort Moultrie, where he died of heart. He had broken truce more than lhad no right was to complain of any war of f Coacoochee, or Wild Cat, next after MOseola the most formidable warrior, surrendered ts ving Florida,” he said; “it was my home; I 1 lit; to leave it is like burying m ife l i. But I have thrown away my rifle l ta 1 the hand of the white man, and said to him, * Take care of me.’ So band after band had een broken up and sent to Arkansas. The re- 1aining Indians were slowly forced southward to- ward the impassable Everglades, where they were rely pressed upon by the enemy. f Billy Bow legs appears or lv rarel t three years of the war, and then . lentally as a sub-chief under Sam Jones General Macomb, ine na 5.8 auring t only ine then the commaader in Florida, ' { u ad considered a leading chief, in virtu 1 tr rred of which certain limits were temporarily assigned beyond which the Indians should not pass, and with- | N Then came 1 f in which they should be protected. ve >: sl V nience ver of the 22d of July two hundred Indians, headed by yas complete. Colonel Harney was ‘uard against treachery. murdered in their beds fled to the river, and were shot down in the water. swimming off to a fishing-smack anchored some distance down the river. four we From this time the influence of Bowlegs b years old, was feeble and inert. put slain. LONG JACK, BILLY BOWTRGS’S LIEUTENANT. in his place. The dignity was hardly worth the having hundred and fifty souls, of whom only eighty 1 He was formally deposed from the chieft The band n warriors. The new ance was useless, and, after sending an emissary to ascertain that proposals for peace wi uld be fa- vorably received, he made his appearance at head- quarters, fully authorized to treat Our Government had in the mean while crown weary of employing an army to hunt down a few scattered savages. President Tyler, in his Mes- sage of May 10, 1842, had said that ‘‘the farther pursuit of these miserable beings by a large mili- tary force seems to be as injudicious as it is una- vailing. Notwithstanding the vigorous exertions of our troops, the Indian mode of warfare, their dis- persed condition, and the very smallness of their number, which increases the difficulty of finding them in the abundant and almost inaccessible hid- ing-places, render any further attempts to secure them by force impracticable, except by the em- ployment of the most expensive means." Both parties being weary of the contest, terms were soon agreed upon. A narrow district was temporarily assigned to the Indians as a planting and hunting ground, and on the 14th of August, 1842, it was formally announced that the war in Florida was at an end, and Billy Bowlegs was rec- ognized as the head chief of the Seminoles remain- ing in Florida. This seven years’ inglorious war had cost much blood and treasure. ‘The regular troops engaged had averaged something more than three thousand men during the whole period. More than twenty thousand volunteers had been brought into the field from the different States. The records of the War Department contain the names of fifteen hundred and fifty-eight officers and soldiers of the regular army who were killed in action or died of wounds received or diseases contracted in Florida. The losses of the volunteers can not be known. Besides the cost of the regular army, nineteen and a half millions of dollars were paid to the militia and volunteers, and as indemnity for losses sus- tained by citizens. The whole cost of the war can not be estimated at less than forty millions of dol- lars, and three thousand lives. The number of [Indian warriors killed and sent to Arkansas hardly exceeded fifteen hundred. Each of these, there- fore, must have cost the country two lives, and more than twenty-five thousand dollars. The peace thus concluded between King Billy and the United States continued unbroken for a dozen years and more. At length, something more than eighteen months ago, paragraphs began to make their appearance in the papers announcing the re-opening of the Florida war. Hostilities had again broken out between the King of the Ever- glades and the Model Repultic. Then General Harney was sent to meet his old opponent; but Cooloo All At daybreak on t towlegs, attacked the camp The men, suddenly aroused from sleep, made no resistance. Those Harney himself esca \ Of his thirt ainship, ow chief sa t } nad } num bere sent to establish a trading-post for their | l Then i His company, of thirty men, was encamped in an open barren near the The Indians visited the camp day after day in the most friendly manner. disarmed, and not even a sentinel was posted to ing sucbic As who wer me t i ! t \ ran to increase Sam Jones, who was said to be ninety i rter Dey ’ BEN BRUNO, NEGRO SLAVE AND FATORITE Phe surpt ' had | | A $ my eo ys —

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HARPER'S \ o- 1 great chief—next | ry to His Majesty, ert, with an air of sarcasti ven brighter than nature.” ili carefully preser for a few thousands. I —both of them in the h, whom either of a week or two later she her mirror, fully dressed ; [June 12, 1858. window with the child in her arms, and the sta] wart smith leaning in, making gentle, paternal ad- vances, to her great and laughing delight. Mis. tress Gilbert's heart felt like a lump of molten lead in her bosom at this picture. She stopped and look- ed at it wickedly over the hedge for several min- utes, and then rushed rapidly homeward. Ler plan was maturing. A dreadful scene greeted her when she arrive The house was in.an uproar; every body running hither and thither, calling for this thing and that in frantic haste. Mistress Elizabeth was ill—she was dying—dying in agonies; her shricks could be heard half over the house. ‘She is poisoned!” said Lady Bedinfield, who was shuddering and weeping by her d writhing form; bet Mistress Gilbert, bending over the bed her ash-gray face, said, ‘‘ No, | have n these convulsions before; she is bewitched, lil Mistress Lu Every one 1 the room paused aghast with th remedies; but Lady Bedinfield said, “Who can pursue our family with such a relentless hatred ? Whom have we any of us injured? There is wor- thy Parson Phillips coming to our aid; let him be lile the minister recited his prayers Mistress h died. “She has been poisoned,” he also observed; but the doctor, not being able to name the drug thai had killed her, solemnly coun- tenanced Mistress Gilbert's idea that she had been bewitched. The waiting-woman was not long in ‘ »vering where Mistress Elizabeth had found her fatal draught. Advantage had been taken of her absence to break open the ebony box and a!- stract the cosmetic powder. Too large an intern- ] its work forever. l'rom the time of her sister’s death poor Mistress Lucy’s health also began fast to decline. She! came subject to long fits of melancholy depressi nd more than everevaded seeing strangers. Still she would go out of doors, and her favorite hau as a sunny knoll in the plantations, where « ould sit for hours with either her mother or M tress Gilbert. Any sudden noise—even the flight of ird from one branch to another—wou!d cause her to tremble convulsively, as if with overwhelmin dread ; for the poor girl had heard it said that « was bewitched, and the idea worked in ber im ination until she believed it. It happened « morning, while in the wood, as usual, that |! icholl passed within sight of Mistress Lucy i the waiting-woman. Mistress Lucy began to shul- r and cry out. s it Rose Nicholl that has bewitched 1 ced Mistress Gilbert, earne 1e nervous creature, follow- ing figure with wild eyes. ‘lalwaysthoughtso! I saw the devil’s ‘mark 1 her neck the day she was married,” cried the waiting-woman, triumphantly. When they returned home, Mistress Lucy t that all her deformity and all her ss had been inflicted upon her by 1 proposed to have one of the common prickers who made it their busi- ness to go from place to place discovering witches l Lringing them to punishment. Sir Roger con- ited, and Mistress Gilbert having undertaken to produce a witch-finder, innocent, unconscious Rose was indicated to him as a suspected person; and, full of the importance of his terrible office, 1 pricker went to the smith’s house when he was at his forge. Master Simon also was away from home, and Rose, with her. baby asleep in her lap, sut sewing diligently, like the good housewife and . ther that she was, The pricker obtain into the cottage by pleading that he i walked far and was tired; so the un spi tose bade him rest himself, and gave him some re- eshment. Presently two of the villa sauntered in, ostensibly to see the baby, but in reality, by pre-concert with the pricker, to help in the examination they all began to talk, and presently led the conversation round to the sub- j of witches and warlocks. There had been hundreds of wicked and cruel executions in England during recent years for the crime of witchcraft, and Rose had heard of them, others: indeed, a witch had been swum and drowned in Hambicdon mill-pond within her own memory. She ex this old woman, ressed great commiseration for d said that she believed ma unfortunates were the victims of the malice their enemies, rather than real criminals, ; pretended. ‘The pricker took umbrage at this re- mark, perhaps because Mistress Gillert’s bribe lay heavy on his conscience at the moment; and, thinking to daunt Rose, he exclaimed, that she herself was a notorious witch and evil-liver, and he was there to prove it. Nose started up; and when the two women ap- | proached to lay held on her, she broke from them, and rushed out at the door shricking, “‘ Richard, Richard, help me!” rhe hammer was not going in the forge just then, and the smith heard her. Clutching a stout cudgel, he ran to the spot; and, while the twe« assistants decamped, he seized the pricker in grasp like a vice, and, without Waiting for ex- planation, proceeded to belabor him so soundly that the miserable official was likely to have a skin full of sorely-aching Lones for a month to come. When her husband paused, Rose said, bitterly eping: ‘* He is a witch-finder, Richard, and de- clares that 1am a witch. He came here to prove it. Oh where, where shall we fly? You know, dear husband, that I am your own true wife, and no wicked witch, Don’t you, love?” She clung to him beseechingly. In those good old times there were few ties of blood or of affection that did not break under this terrible accusation; but the smith loved his Rose dearly ; and, having an in- young mother herself standing at her open | tense antipathy to the manipulations of such odious

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Jone 12, 1858.] gentry as the pricker, his wrath was so far in- | at her steadily for a moment, and then said in a creased by the idea that they might have been ex- ercised on his young wife, as to find it indispensa- ble to beat him again, and then to throttle him until he confessed that he had received a bribe from Mistress Gilbert to accuse Rose. A second shak- ing made him give up the instrument with which he proposed to prick for the devil’s mark, which all witches bore on their persons. This instrument was a steel needle with a hollow handle, into which it retired under very slight pressure, coming cout again when that pressure was withdrawn, so that though it appeared to run into the flesh, it in reality did not even break the skin; as the devil's mark could be pricked, as was asserted, without the witch feeling any pain, and without blood following the withdrawal of the needle, this ingenious piece of mechanism answered every malicious purpose ; and, with its lying witness, did to death many a poor innocent wretch; who, after conviction, was tortured into confessing every enormity that the diseased imaginations of wicked or superstitious examiners could devise. The smith was some- thing of a mechanician himself, and immediately discovered the secret of the instrament, which he determined to carry to Parson Phillips. As luck would have it, the minister coming across the green at the moment, he hailed him to come in, and re- lated what had been threatened against Rose. “ These common prickers are common knaves ; I hope you have—” The parson glanced significantly at the cudgel, as much as to add, *‘ used it well!” The smith nodded affirmatively. The pricker was trying to sneak off, but Richard stopped him, and said no—not until he had been before Sir Richard Bedinfield and had a judicial whipping as a cheat, and then a ducking by the village folk. A good number of the rustics had gathered at a respectful distance from the cottage ; and when they saw the official dragged out by the smith, Parsons Phillips following, and Rose look- ing out from the door-way, a few of them felt glad that the pretty White Rose of their village had es- caped the dangerous trial; but when the smith came among them, and exhibited the trick of the witch-finder’s needle, nothing would satisfy them except the summary administration of justice there and then; so the bruised wretch was hauled off to the mill-pond, ducked until he was half-dead, and then driven out of the village with hoots and exe- crations. Mistress Gilbert was foiled of her revenge for the present; but, she said with a deadly tenacity, “ Though he was not a true witch-finder, that does not make Rose Nicholl less a witch.” And the village began to look coldly on the smith’s wife, and to avoid passing near her door, lest she should blight them and theirs with her evil eye, IV. The very name of witch was fatal in those good old times. Noone could long bear it with impuni- ty; and this poor Rose well knew. To see herself hated and feared poisoned her life with a dread that the general feeling might extend itself to her husband, her father, and her child. Six months after the visit of the pricker Mistress Lucy Bedinfield died; and the old report that she had been bewitched was revived, with the addition that it was Rose Nicholl, and Rose Nicholl only, who had laid upon her the spells that had destroyed her. Every calamity that happened in the village was now laid to the charge of the smith’s wife. If an old person died from age, Rose had bewitched him or her; if a baby perished from weakness, Rose had bewitched it; if a crop failed, Rose had be- witched the seed; if the corn, when heavy in the ear, was laid by violent rain, Rose had raised the storm; if a horse cast a shoe, Rose had bewitched the nails, or the hammer, or the anvil. Rose might look as innocent and pretty as she would, but popular saperstition declared her to be a witch, and popular persecution used her as one. Mistress Gilbert scarcely found her schemes march so quickly as she desired; but an unex- pected aid came to her from another quarter. A poor old woman at Whistlebank was tried for witch- craft, and under her tortures she gave a list of names of persons whom she said she had herself seen at the Sabbath, or general meeting of witches and war- locks. She did not at first mention Rose Nicholl ; but the name béing suggested to her, she also avowed that she had seen her, and no later ago than the previous Friday night. All the accused were immediately arrested, and carried before Sir toger Bedinfield, and two other magistrates as sapient as himself. In vain did Richard Nicholl swear that at the time his wife was stated to be present at the horrible mysteries of the witches’ Sabbath she was sleeping comfortably at his side ; he was told that the devil deluded him by putting a semblance of her in her place, that he might not discover her nocturna] absences, The poor smith was nearly maddened; but the prisoners were all confined until the day when they were to be tried. ‘Two days after poor Rose was thrown into prison Parson Phillips brought these tidings to the smith, and said that he had leave to bring her body home, and give her Christian burial. Terrified at the accusation brought against her, deprived of her child and her husband, the young creature was seized with fever, and died in her prison—by God's mercy both the parson and Richard thought, for she thereby escaped the doom of her companions in misfortune, against whose names stand in the criminal records of the time the fatal words—“Con- vict and brynt.” The smith brought his poor White Rose home on the third anniversary of their marriage; and the next day she was interred, with all the rites of the Church, amidst the too late repentance of her per- secutors. Master Simon and Richard stood by the grave in angry sorrow, and directly opposite them, with her wicked eyes fixed on the smith’s face, was Mistress Gilbert. As he was moving away, at last their glances met; the waiting-woman laughed triumphantly, and pointed downward at the coffin with a significant air. looked deep, concentrated tone, which the hearers recalled afterward as a tone of prophecy. “Ay, Mistress Gilbert, there lies the body of my poor Rose that you hated, and her spirit is safe in heaven. You may laugh now, but you shall not laugh long. The day is near when your body shall raise a lowe that shall be seen from Whistlebank to Carnridge, and your spirit shall skirl to be heard from Heckle- stone for three miles round.’ Mistress Gilbert only laughed the louder as she marched away. But Richard Nicholl’s words came true. The Hecklestone was a tall block of granite, set up in Hambledon park, on an elevation about a | hundred yards from the house, §o jong as it re- mained, there were two marks upon the top, which tradition said were made by the burning hands of Mistress Gilbert; she was set on fire acc identally, and, flying from the house, in her agony she ran up to Hecklestone, screaming, and clung to it, blazing all over, until the licht was seen “‘ from Whistlebank to Carnridge, and her cries were heard for three miles round.” People ran to her help, but the story goes that the fire resisted every effort to put it out. Mistress Gilbert was burned to ashes; and wherever the wind scatiered them, says tradition, the ground was forever after barren. MY WESTERN LAND SPECULATION. Six years’ toil at the desk in the office of one of Gotham’s merchant princes (vide Life in the Gal- leys), and I have saved out of my scanty income four hundred dollars. Twenty-five years old. Prospect of being able to support a wife (chief end of man) dubious. Something must be done. Stocks—bull or bear? Pshaw! pile too diminu- tive. California or Australia? Alas! the atten- uated condition of my finances forbids the golden dream. Mistake my employer's funds for my own, and on the strength of the hallucination travel for my health in Europe? Too risky! None but bank and railroad officers, national, State, and mu- nicipal officials, do this with impunity. I have it! The newspapers say there is no place like the West for a young man of industrious habits and a slen- der purse. I hear every day of men who crossed the Mississippi with ten dollars in their pocket return- ing, in a few years, with as many thousands. And do not Eastern broken-down politicians go West, and return therefrom United States Senators or Representatives, or become Governors, Indian Agents, or something of that sort? I’m going West! And I did go. Cold, dismal, and rainy was the afternoon of a November day when I for the first time beheld the Father of Rivers, as we steamed over in the ferry- boat from Dunleith to Dubuque. As since my ar- rival in Chicago (the terrestrial residence of his Satanic Majesty) I had been regularly and sys- tematically fleeced, I was not at all surprised to learn that, owing to the limited number of the Du- buque hotels, and the great influx of strangers, I was compelled to pay full price for the privilege of sleeping upon the bar-room floor of one with a high-sounding name, extraordinary pretensions, and—that's all. The sleeping arrangement being satisfactorily settled as above, | repaired to the wash-room. After a spirited controversy with the porter as to the propriety of a clean towel—the one offered me being “ clane av coorse, as only a hun- dred or so gintlemen had wiped on it afore me !” I fought my way in to the supper-table, coming out of the struggle with the loss only of my tem- per and a few buttons. fice, bar-room, or sitting-room (a trinity—three in one), and endeavored to realize that, at last, I too was an inhabitant of the Great West. Scattered around me, either sitting, standing, or sprawling, wes a crowd of rough-looking, keen-eyed, smok- ing, drinking, expectorating strangers. Repre- sentatives were present from every State in the Union and New Jersey, and for a moment I fan- cied myself in Congress. I was soon disabused of this idea. The assembly was too respectable and orderly; and not one word about Kansas or free- dom. A suspicious-looking man, with a funny hat, hair long and combed behind his ears, and spectacles, who had to my certain knowledge drank three “‘ horns” of brandy since supper, pulled a copy of the New York Tribune out of his pocket, and en- deavored to get up an argument. He was quick- ly silenced, however, by a burly individual, who “reckoned that it mout be jist as well for the stranger to keep his clam-shell shut.” “ Specs” was very indignant — shut his clam-shell with a terrible snap—pulled out a note-book and scriblled furiously. Glancing over his shoulder, I read, “ Border ruffian,” “ Liberty or death,” “‘ Outrage on freedom of speech,” “‘ Gag-law,” and other orig- | inal phrases of the same sort. I sorrowed deeply as I thought of the unfortunate readers of that pious sheet. In so promiscuous an assemblage one would nat- urally suppose there would be as many topics of conversation as there were different individuals, Here, however, was an exception. Every gentle- man present seemed firmly impressed with the idea that there was nothing sublunary worth talking about but land —forty’s, cighty’s, townships, sec- tions, ranges, town-plots, timber, water privileges, and prairie. Upon inquiry I ascertained that the gentlemen were laboring under a severe attack of *Jand fever.” They had assembled here from all parts of the Union to attend the sale of public lands at the land-office in the town of D——., in the northern part of the State, confident of making a speedy fortune from the purchase and sale of Un- cle Sam's acres. The glowing descriptions of for- tunes made, and to be made, as it were, simply by the lifting of a finger, fired my enthusiasm, ** There is a tide,” etc. Here was the ebb. I resolved to plunge in; and at once engaged passage to the town of D—— aforesaid. At four o’ the clock next morning nine sleepy, miserable-looking beings were packed inside of the HARPER'S WEEKLY. Supper finished, I seated | myself upon the sharp corner of a trunk in the of- | stage-coach — 1. ¢., canvas stretched on hoops — and after fifteen min- utes’ application of the whip, we moved off at a snail's pace. The sluiceways of the upper regions a lumber-wagon, covered with | were open, and the rain poured, as the gentleman | from Illinois remarked, “ slightually.” If the spir- it of Admiral Noah had any business to transact in our vicinity that day, I am confident that, in the exuberance of his joy, he at once commenced build- ing a spiritual ark. | sey—was bottomless, I was squeezed up on the back seat between two bulky individuals, one of whom breathed forth an aroma of vile whisky, while the other smelled like a receptacle for decayed tobacco. This, combined with the tossing and pitching of the vehicle, had a decidedly unpl stomach ; and after I had deposited the remnant of my last night's meal in the over-coat pocket of | my left-hand neighbor, that worthy individual con- sented to change seats with me. Daylight revealed the countenances of my com- panions in misery. piciously ; and as it was now certain that all were bound for D , on the same errand, | was amused to see how cautiously the all-absorbing topic was handled in their conversation. Not one would ad- mit he had the remotest idea of speculating in land. He was merely traveling to view the country, ete. Each eyed his neighbor sus- Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Virginia, New York, had representatives in our company. “ Whar mout you hail from, stranger ?” queried Missouri. ** New York,” I replied. “Ever bin in these y’ere parts afore?” said Il- linois No.” ** Nor never'll want to be agin, I reckon!” growl- | ed Kentucky, as a sudden lurch of the Vermont flying head first into the stomach of Vir- | ginia. Here our conversation terminated. The road had been rapidly changing from worse to still worse, from still worse to execrable, until now it was lit- coach sent | erally a quagmire. We were continually bowing, chasséeing, and polking—our elLows into each oth- | er'’s ribs; bumping our heads, now against the top, now against the side of the coach, and then, by way of variety, against those of our neighbors. We were so beaten, bruised, and shaken up that positively there was not breath enough left in our nine bodies to articulate even a —. A feeble “I'll be doggaun!" from Missouri, as Massachu- setts’ nose (a sharp one, by-the-way) came plump | into his left eve, made our inability to give audible vent to our feelings the more agyravating Late in the afternoon, as we were descending a steep and slippery bill, a terrific jolt was followed by a loud crash, and—over we went. Fortunate- ly my side was uppermost, or I should certainly have been crushed. Dashing my fist through the canvas covering, I slowly extricated myself from the struggling mass. The horses were galloping off as fast as their jaded condition would permit ; the driver sat in a hole, digging the mud out of his eyes; while my fellow-pussengers, having recover- ed their breath, were going on at a furious rate— under the canvas. 879 fast at the hotel ; ec I lunched upon a } two crackers, procured at a neighbori The town consisted of some thirty wo: ings, evidently erected in a great hart when lumber was very scarce. Al of these buildings were occupied, as sari informed me, by bankers, land agents, « wi | principal business appeared to be the buyir The mud —tell it not in Jer- | sant effect upon my breakfastless | Ohio, Vermont (of course), Massachusetts, and | “Dod rot it!” groaned Missouri; “ my leg's | broke, sure pop!” ** Git off of a fellar, can't yeou!” squealed Ver- mont. ‘I’m smashed as fine as a pancake !”’ ** Blazes!” roared Virginia. “ Hurry up, thar, | or thar'll be a dead nigger here in less than a min- ute!” One by one they crawled slowly out. No one hurt. The driver went after the horses, and the | passengers in search of a house. After walking | some four miles through the rain and mud we | came to a log shanty, whose dimensions and ap- | pearance would have disgusted a respectable fam- ily of swine, where permission was given us to re- main over night. Having fared sumptuously on fried pork, swimming in grease, bread, and molas- ses (lowa butter), we rolled ourselves in our blank- | ets and overcoats upon the ground (floor there was none), and were lulled to sleep by the whistling of the wind through the cracks, and the pattering of the rain upon our garments, Three weary, miserable days were we tortured in this diabolical vehicle. Late in the evening of the fourth day we arrived at the town of D——. The rain had changed to snow ; and the thermom- eter was coqueting with zero. Starved, and froz- en nearly stiff, I alighted at one of the hotels (** All but the Ao-, I reckon,” said Kentucky), entered the bar-room, and elbowing my way through a crowd of piratical looking individuals, accosted the land- lord, who was dispensing the hospitalities of the house by the dim light of a tallow-candle, with a request for supper and lodging. I was informed | that the hotel was crammed to overflowing ; that four slept in each bed and six underneath ; that the floors of the halls, parlor, and bar-room were cov- ered with lodgers ; and that I had my choice of the softest plank I could find, or nothing. Could suit As to supper—couldn’t have any that A clerk at the St. Nicholas could not have Finding that the other hotel was in the same predicament I chose a plank in the sit- ting-room, and as possession was the best, if not the only evidence of title, occupied it at once. The furniture of this apartment consisted of six wooden chairs and a pine table. The ceiling low; walls dirty, and blackened with smoke. ‘The combina- tion of smells was perfectly overpowering. Musty buffalo robes, old harnesses, tobacco smoke, a lin- gering odor of fried pork, and the exhalations from | some thirty very dirty human bodies, made me sigh for a couch in the pig-sty of some well-to-do Eastern farmer. A profane individual near me said, “that you might search the infernal regions and not find another such hole as this.” quaintance with those regions is limited, but I firmly believe the gentleman was right. Next morning the cold was terrille—thermom- eter twenty degrees Lelow zero. Owing to the tre- myself, night. , done better. My ac- selling of land warrants, and entering land time; but it was chiefly, as I afterward learned (this is private), the fleecing of greenhorns Two were occupied as hotels, four or five as ] riety stores, and the balance as d\ The great centre of attraction Land-office —was located in the s« nd stor ‘ frame building Io reach the obliged to ascend a steep flight of on the outside the dense crowd filling th: et in i stationed upon the stairs, who coully « siders to ‘‘ keep vi punched These men, I 4 afterward had, notwithstanding the i: ity of t mained on those «t . we r o'el { afternoon previous Tor t freezi to th they kept a large fire | he " ing the nigt if not lif it t ‘ mf mt eT t the counter when t land morning, thereby i being able to get tl rh a batch of wa nts i also understood t the stairs, during some twrl r fourteen | in an atme ity, was so highly prized that it was rm l by lot, none bat tl ! fair rs (a8 agreed upon in lowed this favor At ten o'clock the door opens nd witl rants above his | und thre ag them to the face of the Receiver, wi withstood this ter le charge with the utmost o from, and « ly pro- ceeded with his busi s as though not! su- al had occurred I amused myself duri the for on blowing my fingers, kicking my toes, and watching th rowd of greedy land-worshipers, or sharks as t! : called herve. At noon | repaired to the Hotel for dinner. A dense mass of the most rav yus and savage-looking individuals it has ever been my fortune to encounter n a civilized community were jammed together around the door of the din- ing-room awaiting the bell for dinner. rt glared on each other like tigers, and stood wi every muscle strained, similar to thet nol/ l when he is preparing for a deadly sprit on hes dinner. The bell rang—the door o] crowd sprang in, over the table, under the ¢ and on the table—ea as he fell graspin; ne article of food which be devoured as he best could Three times was this disgusting scene enacted ere I managed to get in. 1 secured a frozen potato, warmed through, and a bit of fried pork, and con- sidered myself peculiarly fortunate in so doing, as I saw many around me who had nothing but a crust of bread. I remonstrated with the landlord ; and was told “that “twas no use talkin He couldn't help it. The only way was to do like the rest. Button up my ut, keep a stiff upper lip, and go in with the crowd.” Vers nsoling! bat then, for this bit of fried pork, and this fro tato, warmed through, gotten at the risk of my life, and for the privilege of sleeping upon a dirty floor in company with some fifty v« uals, I paid this landlord at the rate of one dollar and fifty cents per diem. 1 was told that this was the daily order of proceeding. country ! An old man, with whom I conversed during the afternoon, informed me that he bad received a war- rant from the United States Governmcnt for one hundred and sixty acrv i en po- ry dirty individ. Was not this a free s of land for his services in the war of 1812. He had been here over three weeks. Had stood night after night on the stairs in the bitter cold, but all for nothing The Re- ceiver would not notice him. His money was gone and the sharks were now trving to cheat him out of his warrant. I th« publics; but as I was not a candidate for Congress ucht of the gratitude of Re- I prudently determined not to commit myself by a stump speech. I jearned that the above was but one of numerous similar cases—that the idea of old soldiers or their relatives receiving ans from land-warrants is sheer nonsense, 11 have no spec ulation in their eve. The * driy pi re not for poor soldiers. I purchased an eighty acre warrant, and resolved to do my best to secure an entry. Th it purpose. For ten dave did i go in with ¢ and for ten days did | come out with t i squeezing, and nothing more th as unfortunate as myself We becas nant. Rumors wer } t of thousands of acres, by favor f l cers—of a certain fight of stall ° office, being used for | lof merous other tricks not at all « istent with e duties of an honorable official. I am net prey i to vouch for the truth of t rut men are apt to say hard tin Our threats and entreaties were alike of no avail If there was a colored individ ij in the fence kept dark, and said nothin I tweame heart-sick and home-sick. My money was fast aw away, and my eighty seemed ever to elude 1 rrasp. Onc afternoon the bank r of whom I 1 g chased the land-warrant called me into his! fice, and, shutting the door, commen “ Excuse me, my dear Sir; but as you don't appest last | mendous crowd | despaired of ever getting Lreak- | posted in our manner of doing business, and as in -_——_ (ia. eae os ee ee le 2

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A tee a ee eee y aa HARPER'S the way vou are now going on you will never ac- complish that which you are after, I thought, as a friend, | would offer you my assistance, if agree- apie. i expressed my gratitude for the offer, and re- quested the gentleman to proceed. “In the first place, then, let me take your war- ive me twenty dollars, and the warrant shall be entered before to-morrow morning, or I'll forfeit twice twenty dollars, You look surprised at this, but it’s jast as I tell you. You have been here nearly two weeks, at an expense of two dollars a day, and your warrant is not yet entered. You may have to wait two weeks longer, and then not suc- rant, ceed. I offer for twenty dollars to get it entered immedi ately " L ventured a remark, that it seemed somewhat singular he should be able to enter warrants when- ver he pleased, while se many worthy gentlemen » wasting time and money in a vain endeavor ‘ t one throu h ‘Ah!” replied the Banker, with a knowing wink, ‘‘they don’t know the ropes. You see, my friend, we make a business of this thing, and it’s not at all singular that our bread comes butter side up every time. But come now, let’s talk business. Here is a choice eighty (pointing to a map of the land district), about a hundred miles west of here, well timbered and watered, and only two miles from Paradise City. [Here I was re- ferred to a highly colored and well-executed litho- graphic map of said city, wherein broad streets ind squares, magnificent churches and public buildings, and palatial residences, were delineated with great accuracy.] Say the word, and I'll lay the warrant on it for yon, You'll never get an- other such chance. The moment that land is en- tered ‘twill bring at least ten dollars per acre. You may believe mé or not, just as yon please. You are a young man—about my age—should be ashamed to take advantage of you—wouldn’t for a paltry eighty anvhow. And another thing, our land is all chosen from personal inspection; and / know that this eighty is as I represent it. Do you 10ke ? What could I do? I took a cigar, gave my warrant, and a twenty-dollar gold piece, to my banking friend; and, sure erouch, next morning he placed in my hands the Register’s receipt, certifying that [ had entered the E. 4 of S.W. + of Sec. 12, vnship ——., N. of Range ——-, W. of 5th P. M., and that [ was entitled toa patent therefor as soon as Government saw fit to give me one. The bank- er congratulated me upon having secured the choicest eighty in the district—said it was worth, at the least calculation, eight hundred dollars; but advised me to hold on, and I might probably get a thousand or twelve hundred for it. A cool thousand clear profit in less than a week! Rather better than grabbing away at six hundred perannum. What a incky fellow I was to come West! 1 resolved to visit Paradise City and view my property. Engaged a team at ten and a guide at five dollars per diem, and started bright and early next morning. The sleiching was excellent. The wind blew rather more than was necessary for comfort, but the guide assured me that it was an unusually mild breeze. We drove forty miles, and put up at a wretched hovel (the third one met with in our day's journey). While we were eating our supper, of fried pork and molasses (no bread), a little girl came up to me, and said, “ Ain't that nice pork? Pap found a dead hog out on the perara tother day, and mam- my keeps it up stairs for trav'lers !” I rushed out-doors, and, as I leaned against the corner of the shanty, resolved never again to touch, taste, or handle pork. \bout noon of the third day the guide suddenly checked the horses, and, turning to me, inquired, ““ What township and section is your eighty in ?” I gave him the numbers. ‘This is it. We're on it now!” For miles the prairie swept away to the horizon. Nothing to break the monotony of the dreary waste but two trees and a jog-hut. * Nonsens You are humbugging me !” ‘* Not a bit of it, Sir. That's Paradise City over there!” ** Where ? ‘*That log-hat! To be sure it looks a little dif- ferent on the map; but then, vou must have heard of paper cities !” ‘And this is the land, wel’ watered and tim- red, and worth at least ten dollars per acre, which that infernal scoundrel assured me he had selected from personal inspection !” ‘It is well timbered, for this country! Those two scrub oaks are the only trees within twenty miles of here. As to water, it is covered with that at least six months in the year. As to ten dollars per acre, you will be lucky —unless you find a green-horn—to get that amount for the whole eighty.” ) ** Turn the horses around, driver !” ‘Now, my friend,” continued the guide, ‘I don’t think this Western climate agrees with you. This land speculation is a cat-throat game; but few win, and they will get their fingers burned be- fore they are through with it, I reckon. If you have money, my ailvice is, keep it. And, mark this—never buy an inch of Western land, nor in- vest in town-lots in Wosteru cities, until you have vctually seen the property. No matter how re- pectable or honorable the proposed vendor may be, ‘lo not take his word; for I tell you that, out West, there is no honor even among thieves, And, igain; whenever a Western creen-horn visits New York, he is sure to be fleeced by your sharpers. nsequently, Eastern green-horns should not complain if we return the compliment.” I looked the guide full in the eye, and am con- fident the villain was chuckling at my discomfiture. i arrived at New York with two dollars in my pocket ; am once more toiling at the desk, happy and contented, at peace with the whole world—al- ways excepting my friend, the banker, By-the-way, I have a choice eighty for sale— town. He has no church here as yet. I hope ' well watered and timbered—situated within twe miles of Paradise City, Iowa. Price, one thousand dollars ; terms, cash. WHAT WILL HE DO WITH IT? Bi 2°" E. BULWER LYTTON. CHAPTER VII. Containing much of that information which the wisest men in the world could not give, but which the An- thor can. ‘«Darrewt,” said Colonel Morley, “ you re- member my nephew George as a boy? He is now the rector of Humberston; married —a very nice sort of woman —suits him. Hum- berston is a fine living; but his talents are wasted there. He preached for the first time in London last year, and made a considerable sensation. ‘This year he has been much out of to get him one. Carr is determined that he shall be a Bishop. Meanwhile he preaches at —— Chapel to-morrew. Come and hear him with me, and then tell me frankly — is he elo- quent or not ?” Darrell had a prejudice against fashionable preachers, but to please Colonel Morley he went to hear George. He was agreeably surprised by the pulpit oratory of the young divine. It had that rare combination of impassioned earn- estness, with subdued tones, and decorous ges- ture, which suits the ideal of ecclesiastical eloquence conceived by an educated English Churehman— * Strong withont rage, without o’erflowing full.” Occasionally the old defect in utterance was discernible ; there was a gasp as for breath, or a prolonged dwelling upon certain syllables, which, occurring in the most animated passages, WEEKLY. and apparently evincing the preacher's struggle with emotion, rather served to heighten the sympathy of the audience. But for the most part the original stammer was replaced by a fe- licitous pause—the pause as of a thoughtful rea- soner, or a solemn monitor knitting ideas, that came too quick, into method, or chastening im- pulse into disciplined zeal. The mind of the preacher, thus not only freed from trammel, but armed for victory, came forth with that power which is peculiar to an original intellect — the power which suggests more than it demon- strates. He did not so much preach to his au- dience as wind himself through unexpected ways into the hearts of the audience ; and they who heard suddenly found their hearts preach- ing to themselves. He took for his text, *‘ Cast down, but not destroyed.” And out of this text he framed a discourse full of true Gospel ten- derness, which seemed to raise up comfort as the saving, against despair as the evil, principle of mortal life. The congregation was what is called “* brilliant” — statesmen, and peers, and great authors, and fine ladies—people whom the inconsiderate believe to stand little in need of comfort, and never to be subjected to despair. In many an intert or drooping face in that brilliant congregation might be read a very dif- ferent tale. But of all present there was no one whom the discourse so moved as a woman, who, chancing to pass that way, had followed the throng into the Chapel, and with difficulty obtained a seat at the far end; a woman who had not been within the walls of chapel or church for long years —a grim woman, in iron gray. There she sate, unnoticed, in her remote cor- ner ; and before the preacher had done, her face was hidden behind her clasped hands, and she was weeping such tears as she had not wept since childhood. On leaving church Darrell said little more to the Colonel than this: “ Your nephew takes me by surprise. The Church wants such men. He will have a grand career, if life be spared to him.” Then he sank into a reverie, from which he broke abruptly —‘* Your nephew was at school with my boy. Had my son lived, what had been his career 7” The Colonel, never encouraging painful sub- jects, made no rejoinder. ‘Bring George to see me to-morrow. I shrunk from asking it before: I thought the sight of him would too much revive old sorrows, but I feel I should accustom myself to face ev- ery memory. Bring him.” The next day the Colonel took George to Darrell’s; but George had been pre-engaged till late at noon, and Darrell was just leaving home, and at his street-door, when the uncle and nephew came. They respected his time too mugh to accept his offer to come in, but walked beside him for a few minutes, as he be- stowed upon George those compliments which are sweet to the ear of rising men from the lips of those who have risen. ““T remember you, George, as a boy,” said Darrell, ‘‘and thanked you then for good advice to a school-fellow, who is lost to your counsels now.” He faltered an instant, but went on firm- ly: “You had then a slight defect in utterance, which, I understand from your uncle, increased as you grew older; so that I never anticipated for you the fame that you are achieving. Orator Jit—you must have been admirably taught. In the management of your voice, in the excellence of your delivery, I see that you are one of the few who deem that the Divine Word should not be unworthily uttered. The debater on beer bills may be excused from studying the orator’s effects; but all that enforce, dignify, adorn, make the becoming studies of him who strives by eloquence to people heaven; whose task it is to adjure the thoughtless, animate the languid, soften the callous, humble the proud, alarm the guilty, comfort the sorrowful, call back to the fold the lost. Is the culture to be slovenly | where the glebe is so fertile? The only field | left in modern times for the ancient orator’s | | sublime conceptions, but laborious training, is the Preacher’s. And I own, George, that I envy the masters who skilled to the Preacher's art an intellect like yours.” ** Masters,” said the Colonel, ‘‘I thought all those elocution masters failed with you, George. You cured and taught yourself. Did not you? No! Why, then, who was your teacher?” George looked very muci embarrassed, and, attempting to answer, began horribly to stutter. Darrell, conceiving that a preacher whose fame was not yet confirmed, might reasonably dislike to confess those obligations to elaborate study, which, if known, might detract from his effect, or expose him to ridicule, hastened to change the subject. ‘You have been to the country, I hear, George; at your living, I sup- pose ?” “No. I have not been there very lately; traveling about.” **Have you seen Lady Montfort since your return?” asked the Colonel. **T only returned on Saturday night. I go to Lady Montfort’s, at Twickenham, this evening.” “She has a delightful retreat,” said the Col- one]. “But if she wish to avoid admiration, she should not make the banks of the river her fa- vorite haunt. I know some romantic admirers who, when she reappears in the world, may be rival aspirants, and who have much taken to rowing since Lady Montfort has retired to Twickenham. They catch a glimpse of her, and return to boast of it. But they report that there is a young lady seen walking with her— an extremely pretty one—who is she? People ask me—as if I knew every thing.” ‘** A companion, I suppose,” said George, more and more confused. ‘But, pardon me, I must leave you now. Good-by, uncle. Good-day, Mr. Darrell.” Darrell did not seem to observe George take leave, but walked on, his hat over his brows, lost in one of his frequent fits of abstracted gloom. ‘*If my nephew were not married,” said the Colonel, ‘‘I should regard his embarrassment with much suspicion—embarrassed at every point, from his travels about the country to the question of a young lady at Twickenham. I wonder who that young lady can be—not one of the Viponts, or I should have heard. Are there any young ladies on the Lyndsay side ?— Eh, Darre!! ?” ** What do I care—your head runs on young ladies,”’ answered Darrell, with peevish vivaci- ty, as he stopped abruptly at Carr Vipont’s door. “And your feet do not seem to run from them,” said the Colonel; and, with an ironical salute, walked away, while the expanding port- als ingulfed his friend. As he sauntered up St. James’s Street, nod- ding toward the thronged windows of its various clubs, the Colonel suddenly encountered Lionel, and, taking the young gentleman’s arm, said, “Tf you are not very much occupied, will you waste half an hour on me ?—TI am going home- ward.” Lionel readily assented, and the Colonel con- tinued: “ Are you in want of your cabriolet to- day, or can you lend it tome? I have asked a Frenchman, who brings me a letter of introduc- tion, to dine at the nearest restaurant to which one can ask a Frenchman. I need not say that is Greenwich ; and if I took him in a cabriolet, he would not suspect that he was taken five miles out of town.” “ Alas! my dear Colonel, I have just sold my cabriolet.” “ What! old-fashioned already? True, it has been built three months. Perhaps the horse, too, has become an antique in some other collection —silent—um !—cabriolet and horse both sold?” “Both,” said Lionel, ruefully. **Nothing surprises me that man can do,” said the Colonel, “or I shonld be surprised. When, acting on Darrell’s general instructions for your outfit, I bought that horse, I flattered myself that I had chosen well. But rare are good horses—rarer still a good judge of them; I suppose I was cheated, and the brute proved a screw.” “The finest cab-horse in London, my dear Colonel, and every one knows how proud I was of him. But I wanted money, and had nothing* else that would bring the sum I required. Oh, Colonel Morley, do hear me!” ** Certainly, I am not deaf, nor is St. James’s Street. When a man says, ‘I have parted with my horse because I wanted money,’ I advise him to say it in a whisper.” “I have been imprudent, at least unlucky, and I must pay the penalty, A friend of mine —that is, not exactly a friend, but an acquaint- ance—whom I see every day—one of my own set—asked me to sign my name at Paris to a bill at three months’ date, as his security. He gave me his honor that 1 should hear no more of it—he would be sure to take up the bill when due—a man whom I supposed to be as well off as myself! You will allow that I could scarcely refuse—at all events, I did not. The bill be- came due two days ago; my friend does not pay it, and indeed says he can not, and the holder of the bill calls on me. He was very civil—of- fered to renew it—pressed me to take my time, etc.; but I did not like his manner, ana as to my friend, I find that, instead of being well off, as I supposed, he is hard up, and that I am not the first he has got into the game scrape—not intending it, lam sure. He’s really a very good fellow, and, if 1 wanted security, would be it to- morrow, to any amount.” “T’ve no doubt of it—to any amount!” said the Colonel. ** So [*tiought it best to conclude the matter at once. I had saved nothing from my allow- ance, maifificent as it is. I could not have the face to ask Mr. Darrell to remunerate me for my own imprudence. I should not like to borrow ‘rom my mother—I know it wonld be incon- [Jone 12; 1858. venient to her. I sold both horse and cabriolet this morning. I had just been getting the check cashed when I met you. I intend to take the money myself to the bill-holder. I have just the sum—£200.” “The horse alone was worth that,” said the Colonel, with a faint sigh—* not to be replaced. France and Russia have the pick of our stables, However, if it is sold, it is sold—talk no more of it. I hate painful subjects. You did right not to renew the bill—it is opening an account with Ruin; and though I avoid preaching on money- makers, or, indeed, any other (preaching is my nephew's vocation, not mine), yet allow me to extract from you a solemn promise never again to sign bills, nor to draw them. Bé@ to your friend what you please except security for him. Orestes never asked Pylades to help him to bor- row at fifty per cent. Promise me—your word of honor as a gentleman! Do yo hesitate?’ “My dear Colonel,” said Lionel, frankly, “I do hesitate. I might promise not to sign a Mmon- ey-lender’s bill on my own account, though real- ly I think you take rather an exaggerated view of what is, after all, a common occurrence—” “Do 1?” said the Colonel, meekly. “I’m sorry to hear it. I detest exaggeration. Go on. You might promise not to ruin yourself—but you object to promise not to help in the ruin of your friend.” ‘*That is exquisite irony, Colonel,” said Li- onel, piqued; ‘‘but it does not deal with the difficulty, which is simply this: When a man whom you call friend—whom you walk with, ride with, dine with almost every day, says to you, ‘I am in immediate want of a few hur- dreds—I don’t ask you to lend them to me, per haps you can’t—but assist me to borrow—trust to my honor that the debt shall not fall on you,’ why, then, it seems as if to refuse the favor was to tell the man you call friend that you dort his honor; and though I have been caught once in that way, I feel that I must be canght ver: often before I should have the moral courage to say ‘No!’ Don't ask me, then, to promise—be satisfied with my assurance that in future, at least, I will be more cautious, and if the loss fall on me, why, the worst that can happen is to do again what I do now.” ** Nay, you would not perhaps have another horse and cab to sell. In that case, you would do the reverse of what you do now—you wonld renew the bill—the debt would run on like a snow-ball—in a year or two you would owe, not hundreds, but thousands. But come in—here we are at my door.” The Colonel entered his drawing-room. A miracle of exquisite neatness the room was— rather effeminate, perhaps, in its attributes ; but that was no sign of the Colonel’s tastes, but of his popularity with the ladies. All those pretty things were their gifts. The tapestry on the chairs their work—the sévre on the consoles— theyclock on the mantle-shelf—the inkstand, paper-cutter, taper-stand on the writing-table— their birth-day presents. Even the white wool- ly Maltese dog that sprang from the rug to wel- come him—even the flowers in the jardinier— even the tasteful cottage-piano, and the very music-stand beside it—and the card-trays, piled high with invitations—were contributions from the forgiving sex to the unrequiting bachelor. Surveying his apartment with a complacent air, the Colonel sank into his easy /autewil, and drawing off his gloves leisurely, said— ‘“*No man has more friends than I have— never did I lose one—never did I sign a bill. Your father pursued a different policy—he sign- ed many bills—and lost many friends.” Lionel, much distressed, looked down, and evidently desired to have done with the subject. Not so the Colonel. That shrewd man, though he did not preach, had a way all his own, which was perhaps quite as effective as any sermon by a fashionable Jayman can be to an impatient youth. Yes,” resumed the Colonel, “it is the old story. One always begins by being security to afriend. The discredit of the thing is familiar- ized to one’s mind by the false show of generous confidence in another. ‘Then what you have done for a friend, a friend should do for you— a hundred or two would be useful now—you are sure to repay it in three months. To Youth the Future seems s«fe as the Bank of England, and distant as the Peaks of Himalaya. You pledge your honor that in three months you will re- lease your friend. ‘The three months expire. To release the one friend, you catch hold of an- other—the bill is renewed, premium and inter- est thrown into the next pay-day—soon the ac- count multiplies, and with it the honor dwindles —your NAME circulates from hand to hand on the back of doubtful paper—your name, which, in all money transactions, should grow higher and higher each year you live, falling down ev- ery month like the shares in a swindling specu- lation. You begin by what you call trusting a friend, that is, aiding him to self-destruction— buying him arsenic to clear his complexion ; you end by dragging all near you into your own abyss, as a drowning man would clutch at hi: own brother. Lionel Haughton, the saddest expression I ever saw in your father’s face wos when-—when—but you shall hear the story.” “No, Sir; spare me. - Since you so insist on it, I will give the promise—it is enough; and my father—” ‘“* Was as honorable as you when he first sign- ed his name to a friend’s bill; and perhaps promised to do so no more as reluctantly as you do. You had better let me say on; if I stop now, you will forget all about it by this day twelvemonth; if I go on, yon will never forget. There are other examples besides your father. I am about to name one.” . Lionel resigned himself to the operation, throwing his handkerchief over his face as if he had taken chloroform. ~~. -« ome ett a oS oh ee Ooo tee 6 CU

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JUNE 12, 1858. ] HARPER'S WEEKLY. THE REGATTA OF THE NEW YORK YACHT CLUB FIRST CLASS IHE START. ND CLASS. Never did a regatta attract more attention than the one which took place in the Bay of New York on Thursday, the 3d instant. Late years have done much to ef- face the exclusiveness which at first drew a broad line between the yachters and the public ; every one now knows all about the yachts, and every one may be, if he choose, a member of a yacht club. The lony- existing feud between the great New York Club and the Press seems to have gone the way of other great feuds: on Thursday both parties met on terms of perfect good - will and amity. Tickets were provided for the various journals, en- titling a representative of each to a passage on board one of the steam- ers provided by the Club for their members. The day was fine—at Wi Wp least there were no signs : YT, ey Wi ‘i uN AA \ \\ WA \ of rain as the hour ‘ap- : i ty EMD y Nt AR ORIN ri proached for the start. ie : Fate ert The river was crowded with pleasure-boats of all kinds. It is believed that no less than twelve steamers accompanied the race, all crowded with eager pleasure-seek- ers, among whom lovely faces and bright toilets were conspicuous. Sev- eral yachts and sail-boats which were not entered , —" : . . “ = ' t for the race took up posi- F ~ae , a a uss, ninety yards apart, on | | i | — - SE EDGAR. MINNIE HASWLLL SULLA. UNA. ROUNDING THE SOUTHWEST SPIT.

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, two hundred yards to the one hundred yards apart, on a lf} a line parallel with ¢ t nort and the first clas tw

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I s north and west of the off Staten Island, below the Quaran- erly to a flag-boat stationed off - i Fort Hamilton, passing it to the f- , t nd the buoy of the South- 4 " it f h and ea i i ) they will f ase the flag-h Long Island t g i i ‘ to the boa , 1 1e 8 1 we th e te | the Clut e, Ile ken, pas In going and ra buo} t | LB v N il to be passed to the The folk ve ls were entered for the race: Fine ASS ¥ ) Square FEeer and vr- i hy: Rr Too DD. M. I at s wl ‘ 1G. 1 iu Sloop Ti ) RF. 8 MD lL. M. Watert >) 4 t. M*¥ al § ‘ W. the T s iss vie W.A. & ; Se 105-4 ‘ A. U. ingsia Schr > L. Spen 5 | 143-94 | ( OAEM 0 AND UPWARD, BUT LESS THAN 30009 Squaus Fret i Rig Ton. | ; — “4 : ; ae ace. | 33 | ; : | a re 62-7 : Ww @ e ,| a. Ww. bh.bD 5 675 3, W. 7 SI 1 | 4 i F I } LI i A ) ; SQUAR b REY ( NVA am E i ( Ly M 5 l , J, Six Slooy 2 3 I well Sloop | 11 A.D $ 7 hi i : lo the er wh uzsembled at and around \ Hi nm at cleven o'clock the greatest sorrow was \ t want of wiad Barely enough air was stirring ' te t ignals and fags tremble and quiver; id that ul Eolus changed his mind th ld no regatta. Eleven o'clock came I for startiug—but the yachts lay still, 1 " i to t orders: the third class of stake- 80 yards apart, on a line ‘ ie 8 1d class, 90 yards apart, on a line parallel with the same, 2)0 yards to the north ; und t rst cla 109 yards apart, on a similar line, 209 yards to the north of the latter. euple were beginning to say that the regatta would postponed f vant of wind, when, at li h 1., the ensign of the Josephine was low- ered, and the third-cl yachts floated from their station. Twel mina ifterward, the second- iass yachts fol | t; and at 11 h. 48 m. the first-class v hoieted their jibs id to the wind. I i lull work. What l id th was died out before noon, and the fleet drifted r r than sailed down toward Island At half past one there was a little ena it Una to take the lead ; q rof an : elapsed the Edgar passed , rhe Staten | 1 stake-boat was passed by t it 1 bh. 47 m.. the other yachts following i order: Us V/ , Julia, Haswell, Mare Isiand } Va , Gipsey, Luckey, Haze, 1 ‘ , hehe , lrene, Zinga, Fanny, . J { ~ Drift, Wi lge on. I race 1 for the Southwest Spit, and t there appeared a prospect The J which had shot ahead fi ing the calm which followed th « ) to « l advantage as the breeze f la in grand style, leading { 8 l ul 1 The s 1 i l 1 i 0 clo to th , t it tested the seamanship of the yachter ; Lit wi it fuulinc. Loud cheers hailed her " red mang@uvre with exquisite : the ste bl their whistles, and i l their handkerchiefs. rh r yachts f 1 in this order: Una, } [ } i ad Fa Re- ( l , Sdvie, Margaret, y f j © l of the Rebecca, \ P 1 an enlarged suit of , ‘ l I some ac- d ‘ l S 1 Island and t tl ) background ] 1 rt dis v home the , l inued to bI » for yachts crept fre ic | of Stat Island i ied ou The to t Hoboken ike-boat i Li is start, a drift-race. The Julia and vever, had pl “l too great a distance be- t them and thelz competitors to lose their 4 approaching when the . ahead of the Una—passed the “ken, and won the race, amidst Is on the shore and in the j l followed, then the A/innze, ! the J/aswell, The Rebecca 16u from the stake-boat, without i laze, and Island Fawn ended one of the most sutiful pictures of t, the oth the » i i the | est Oj he J that she Should have a 1 e illustr n; the ‘s ; third picture will convey to our country readers a correct idea of the beauty and the proportions of this now famous yacht. Mistellany. a

—Tue Princess Belgiojoso, in her Eastern travels, vis- ited Mustuk Bey, Prince of the Mountains of the Giaour, who held a levee in her honor in the room of his first wife (in date), that being one of the privileges of that import- ant personage, She was a curious object, and bore a striking resemblance to a retired tight-rope dancer. This sultana had been very beautiful, and the beauty had not entirely disappeared ; her complexion of- fered a curious mixture of sunburn and a series of layers of paint, beneath which the original skin was not visible. Her large sea-green eyes looked like reservoirs placed below the lachrymal gland to receive the torrents destined to pour from them. Hier mouth, large and well modeled, displayed teeth still admirably white, but too far apart, and her gums were unhealthily red. disdained the goat-skin covering She apparently for the head, and wore her own hair, dyed of an orange red. Her dress was carefully arranged, and formed a strik- ing contrast with that of her children, who were dressed like little beggars. As long as her hus- band was present she seemed as timid as a newly- married bride, covering her face with her vail or her hand, or any thing within reach, and only re- plying in monosyllables. She turned her nose to the wall, and suppressed little nervous bursts of iaughter: she seemed ready to cry at any moment ; in short, performed all the manceuvres by which East ! o flattered. rn husbands are the room, and then the lady talked without The bey soon

and g began ma ing pertinent about Frankish manners and customs, which caused inquiries the princess to suspect she was not so stupid as her husband made her out to be. The conversation was interrupted, however, by the entrance of the bey’s three other wives: two of them appeared to and had a swarm of children at their the third was be sisters, A genuine Beauty. Behind these two women a face remained hum- bly in the shade, on which my eyes were at once

fixed, and remained so, in spite of the manceuvres executed by the other sultanas to distract my at tention. I never remember to have seen so beau- tiful a face. This woman wore a long trailing robe of red satin, open at the breast, which was lightly vailed by a chemise of silk gauze, with wide sleeves hanging below the elbow. Her head-dress was that of the Turcomans, and, to form an idea of it, you must imagine a complication, an infinite multiplicity of turbans placed one above the other, and rising to an inaccessible height. There were in it red scarfs rolled six or seven times around, and forming a tower after the fashion of the god- dess Cybele: handkerchiefs of all colors crossing the scarfs, rising or descending without any set- tled purpose, and forming quaint arabesques; yards of fine muslin enveloping with their trans- parent whiteness a part of the scaffolding, carefully framing in the brow, and falling in rich and light folds along the cheeks, round the neck, and on the chest. Chains of gold, or small sequins run on a string, or again, diamond pins, were visible be- tween the folds, and gave them a certain stability which it would have been unreasonable to demand of such slight stuff. Little feet that seemed chis- eled out of marble appeared and disappeared under the long satin robe, while arms and hands, such as I had never seen before, shook an infinite num- ber of bracelets and rings, whose weight could not be trifling. All this formed an ensemble at once strange anc graceful, but all disappeared suddenly after noticing the face of the wearer, It was so singularly beautiful that I despair of being able to describe it; for how could I give a person who has not contemplated it an idea of such a charming chef dauvre of nature, such a ravishing mixture of grace and timidity ? Tue poor child was unhappy—she was the sport of

h husband's other wives. Toor soul! she admitted, with tears in her eyes, and amidst the giggles of the oth- er women, that she—had no children; the most terrible misfortune which ean befall a Tarkish woman. We are accustomed to think highly of the famed beauty of the Georgianiand Circassian Girls; but the Princess has something to say on that head to A word here about the two races that represent, to our inexperienced imagination, the prototype of feminine beauty. Tall, strong, of good shape, with a brilliant complexion, masses of black and ing hair, a noble nose, immense, widely-opened black eyes, ten-

and massive brow, an aquiline vermil-

ion iips, modeled like those of the Greek statues of the best age, pearly teeth, a rounded chin, and a perfect facial color—such is the Georgian woman. I really admire the women of this race ; then, when I have admired them sufficiently, I turn my head and look at them no mere, for I am certain to find them, whenever I please, exactly as I left them, without a smile more or less, without the slightest variation of fa If a child be born to them or die, whether their lord adore or detest them, wheth- er their rival triumph or is banished, the faces of the Georgian women rt give a sign. Only years can produce an alteration in this face of mar- bl The Circassian woman has neither the same advantages nor the same defects. She is a north- ern beauty, reminding me of the blonde and senti- mental girls of ¢ rermany; but the resemblance does not extend beyond the exteri The Circassians

are generally blond: their complexion is deli- ciously fresh, their eves are blue, grav, or green,

and their features, though are irregular. While the Ge hauchty, the Cir and crafty. ble of deceiving her lord, the other of causing him to die of ennui.

rgian is ian is false

stupid and T he one is capa !

—Wrrn all the brutal sensuality of the wealthier class- es, there is yet to be found true virtue among the Turk- ish poor. The Princess relates a very touching instance of True Fidelity and Affection. “*You must love your husband dearly ?” I said one day to an old woman, blind and paralytic, whom her husband, a noble eld man, brought to me in the hope that I could restore her sight and activity. She had come seated astride on a don- key, which her husband led. He had then taken her in his arms, and laid her on a bench at my door with all the care of a mother for her child. “You must love your husband dearly?” I said. ‘“T should like to have my sight,” she replied. I looked at the husband, he smiled sorrowfully, but without a shadow of ill-will. ‘*Poor woman!” he said, passing the back of his hand over his eyes, ‘‘ her blindness renders her very wretched. She can not grow used toit. But you will restore her sight, Beyzadéh?” " ‘When I shook my head, and prepared to protest my impotence, he plucked at my dress, as to be “Have you any children?’ asked. ‘‘T had one, but it died a long time ago.” * And how is it you did not take another wife, healthier and stronger, to bear you children?” ‘*Ah! that is easily said; but this poor creat- ure would have been grieved, and that would have prevented me from being happy with another, even if | had children. You see, Beyzadéh, we can not have every thing in this world. I have a wife I have loved for nearly forty years, and shall not make another choice.” silent,

—* LANGUAGE,” conceal! tl said Talleyrand, “‘ was given us to ought.” This was the principle of a Dry-Goods Dealer, who had stuck upon every other pane of glass, * Selling off—no r le offer refused — must He once offered himself as bail, or security, in some case which before a magistrate. The magistrate he was worth a thousand dollars ; he said, “ “But you are about to remove, are ‘*No.” “Why, you wrote up ‘ Selling off.’”’ every shopkeeper is selling off.” ‘* You say, ‘No reasonable offer refused.’” “ Why, I should be if I did refuse offers.” But you say, ‘ Must close on Saturday.’” ‘To be sure; you would not have me open on Sunday, would you ?’ 2as50ni

close on Saturday.” was brought if asked hi n v such unreasonable

—Mr. Domentrcn, some years since a missior in Texas, has some queer stories to tell of the wild life in Texan |} nd backwoods. Here is one of Catching and Hating a Rattlesnake: One day our horse was missing, and we set out to look for it. Just about nightfall I was startled by a rattlesnake making its appearance beneath my feet. I was about to run away, but I reflected that this snake, if captured alive, would adorn my collection of reptiles, or dead, would make a famous pair of slippers for my mother. I turned and threw a big lump of earth at its head, which stunned it; and then I twisted a cord round its neck. The horse was now recovered, and we re- turned to Castroville, Dubuis leading the animal, and I dragging the saake, which began to display signs of vitality by sounding its rattle furiously, and almost pulling my arms out. I could not let go, for it would have stung me, while the violence of the efforts I made to hold it, and the fear of being bitten, threw me into a profuse perspiration. At length we reached home, and attached the beast to a wooden bench, placing my foot on its head during the operation. The next day there were three at dinner, and had only two,eggs between them ; so the young abbé bdldly suggested feeding on the rattlesnake. His companion encouraged the idea, for, as he said, if the experiment proved successful, they would never want fresh meat in future. Well, the reptile was cooked scientifically and spiced, but somehow or other, though the meat was pleasant enough, having a cross taste between frog and turtle, the idea of eating a snake was re- volting. THERE are someé Incidents. : I had gone to Dhanis to christen the child of a German. Ludicrous Jeing then but poorly versed in the language, I had written on a piece of paper the word tanfi n (to baptize), not to confound it with kaufe ufen (to sell), Unfortu- nately I forgot my paper, and was forced to trust tomy good fortune. On reaching the father’s cabin, I asked him he had not some children to— verkanfen? On seeing the anger depicted on the worthy Alsatian’s face, I guessed that I had made a mistake, but returned to the charge gallantly. Well, then, have you not two children to kaufen? This exhausted his patience, and he began a furious attack upon me, which, fortunately, I did not half understand. As I had only one word left, and knew I could not make another mistake, I said, “If they are not to sell or buy, they must be to ufen.” My friend looked at me attentively, and stecting some trace of the priest, burst out into varty laugh, in which I could not refrain from

(to buy), or vers ~

—TuERe appear to be, in that regi Fine Chis Marry. One of the ministers, in very goc imces to 1 circumstances, had three daughters who had long reached a nubile age. The minister perceiving that no one made them an offer, thought it advisable to wait no longer, so he put in execution a thoroughly Amer- ican idea. One Sunday he preached on matrimo- ny: he developed the text, “‘ Increase and multi- ply,” declaring to his congregation that it was a command, and not merely a counsel. He dilated with eloquence and warmth on the chaste pleas- ures of wedlock, and ended his sermon by offering his three daughters, with three thousand dollars apiece, to any persons that were willing to marry them. He added that, after the sermon, he would receive the names of the offerers, and that his choice would fal] on those who possessed the best moral character. A facetious Irishman, who was

present (and where are they not ?), did not await the moment indicated by the priest to raise his voice: he requested that his name should be placed on the list for Two. THINGS WISE AND OTHERWISE. A Point ry Private Frxance.—Two sixpences are preferable to a shilling. A cabman never has any change; and the dignity which a largess of the smaller coin would maintain, would be incompatible with a dona- tion to the amount of that sum, effected by giving twice as much, and receiving half of it back again. —_— — A New PLEascre ror Extoxovociers.—We are sorry to see by a statement in the 7imes, that a most destruc- tive disease termed the * auger-worm,"’ ne arly as ruinous as the rot, has been discovered in the Royal paddle-wheel steam-sloop Darracouta. We suppose that the auger- worm is another and a bigger insect than the feredo nava- lia, and is called * auger,’’ to signify that it bears to the teredo the relation of av auger to a gimlet, and thus con- stitutes a greater bore. What, however, may be a bore to the nation at large, may be a subject of interest to the Entomological Society. ioe euipnnnctnininess Berrixe among Birps.—A considerable number of Hens this year laid eggs on the Derby day. Not a few Chickens also came in for the Plate. — A RETORT IN A BALL-ROOM. BY A CLEVER GENTLEMAN WHO DOESN'T DANCE. “The Extract of Elder-Flowers, eh? Of course you mean Wall-flowers’” (Brutally pointing tv the elderly specimens, symmetrically arranged in a long deserted row against the wall.)

FACILIS DESCENSUS. Quoth a quidnunc to Derby, ** How comes it, I wonder, That the party of which you're the chief No sooner wins office than ill-iuck or blunder The first Session brings you to grief?" “My good fellow,” said Derby, ‘‘'tis no use to busy Your brains with more reasons than one; When we've climbed to the top of the tree, we get Dizzy, And, of course, we come down by the run.” — - WHAT JENNER SAID, ON READI IN ELYSIUM, THAT COMPLAINTS HAD BEEN MADE Of HIS HAVING A BTATUE IN TRAFALGAR BQUARE England, ingratitude still blots cutcheon of the brave and free, I saved you many a million spots, And now you grudge ove spot to mel —

A Stace Provers Rercrree.—*“ Cleanliness is next to Godliness.” We applaud this truth with both hands, and are happy to acknowledge that it is correct in most things, except in picture-cleaning ; for there the cleanli- ness, as laid on with the strongest scouring brush, fre- quently amounts to a sin of ungodliness.

a a Lres Fry.—The Chinese proverb says a lie has no legs, and can not stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide.

a Mrs. Speckles says the best vegetable pi'l yet invented is an apple-dumpling; for destroying a gnawing at the stomach, it is a pill which may always be relied on. _—— Friep fo.rs.—Take a chair opposite a blazing fire, place your feet on the top bar; or perhaps a quicker method is to place them across all the bars together; in a few minutes your soles will be donethoroughly. N.B (Heels may be cocked in like manner.

mannan InDisrcTABLE —A lady's will. _>- Distrrestne Kiwmvres.—A sheriff's officer is a man who never leaves another in distress, pean enseenncns ee A Fact.—One of the wise men of ** Grease” recently declared in a puDlic meeting that the size of sausages was not so important as the material of which they were manufactured. —— “ Well, Charley,” said a gentleman to one of cur Rag- ged-school shoe-black brigade, “how do you get along there hard times?" “Why, Sir, I rub and go.”

A shoemaker, for the purpose of eclipsing an opponent who lived opposite to him, put over his door the well- known motto of “ Mens conscid recti (a mind conscious of rectitude). His adversary, to outdo him, placed a bill in his window with these words: ** Men's and Women's conscia recti [" Se ae A Nover Facr.—A wheel, unlike a horse, runs the better for being tired.

A Cuapter on Kisetxe.—A North country editor, who confesses by implication to large oscular experience of a time-honored custom, for which the present fashion of ladies’ bonnets offers tempting facilities, sums up the fruits of his practice in this wise: “Hardly any two females kiss alike. There is as much variety in the manner of doing it as in the faces and manners of the sex. Some delicate little creatures merely give a slight brush of the lips. This is a sad aggravation. We seem about to “have a good time,” but actually get nothing. Others go about it like a hungry man toa beef-steak, and seem to chew up our countenances, This drives away the delicate lover. Others struggle like hens when bury- ing themselves with dry dirt; the kiss is won by great exertions, and is not worth as much as the trouble it costs. Now, we are in favor of a certain shyness when a kiss is proposed, but it should not be continued too long; and when the fair one ** gives in” let her adminis- ter it as a hamming-bird runs his bill into a honey- suckle—deeply but delicately. There is much virtue In a kiss when well delivered. We have the memory of one we received in our youth, which has lasted forty years! en There is only one love, but there are a hundred imita- tions. —Dr La RocnrroucauLp. _—-

When her young lover went away, In vain she tried her grief to hide; In one short night her hair turned gray— She'd quite forgot to have it dyed. -~Guinareporr (from a Russian comedy). Gres Love without money has shiny-leather boots withou

n compared to a pair of t soles, i Poetry is said to be a gift, but it very often turns out to be a theft.

pesgeemendiiipremmanisteten VICAR AND CURATE. A vicar, long ill, who treasured up wealth, Told his curate each Sunday to pray for his health, Which oft having done, a parishioner said, That the curate ought rather to wish he were dead. “For my truth,” said the curate, “let credit be given, I ne'er prayed for his death, but I bave for his living.”

An Unxrxp Remarx.—With many women, going to chureh is little better than looking into a bonnet shop. So A PuEnomEenon.—A governess advertising tor a situ- ation says she is perfect mistress of her own tongue / Or Mopesty.—Punch says that the characteristic of a time-piece is modesty rather than rudeness, for ‘it al- ways keeps it hands before its face.” omennemeniisalitichngneann A LADY'S MAN. How wuch at home was Charles in all The talk aforesaid, nicknamed * small;" Seldom embarrassed, never slow, His maxim always * Touch and go"— From grave to gay he ran with ease, Secure alike in both to please,

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June 12, 1858. ] FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. FRanxkiin Squann, Monday, June T, 1558. Taz for pares as follows with that of the corresponding week last en trade of the port for the past week com- year Imports Week ending June 5, 1898 $2,238,889... .$1, 224,175 Corresponding week, S07 4,254,107.... 1 Ti4 Decreasé FMOTORES . «eve gbbecccoccccoces +++ $34,461 The decrease of imports at this port since Jan. 1, as

compared with the same period o1 last year, is equal t I moveme ‘ banks, » ) s this « } ] The & € f quarver! i } t) ‘ 1 I ‘ raini t t ed to the day ne It is 5 in ther hbor The course of : i rratic. At first there was an imr . toff ' 2 4 per cent. in the speculative sec ‘ ‘ M on Friday and Saturda; The decline is a bed «a , the unfa. rable cor ion pl 1 it » Report, and partly to the effects or spe sf The following table shows the fi New ¥ 20a y 20:@ 17 414@ 1543) Isla -HW@TS@ M4 (ahd U* i . _ . STIGS 1a LOGE@IOS lO i

PP ert rrr -.-0@ I : 3) @ZV) St ; a S es Soe M SITS ~ \ a rl ta ‘ sence ‘ 04a ’ La ‘ e Land Grants é6ee 354 @ i I ‘ : BS h(a 34 M kee and Mississippi..... 2627 5 Ia ( S i Hud $@ 106 WEEKLY MARKET SUMMARY New Yoru, Mon ne \ . rod M l ‘ VW " ( j 11 d ! i (ats ’ . . ‘ ; h | ‘i ‘ ‘ 1s r Pork | 1 buyers Lard ¥ id | r I f, Butter, and ¢ and | and Wool were | t Spirits Tur; ‘ » 1 , Y f ly dealt in at T ! I Dry ¢ I le « no reall : : i | freely & tabrics er y trad ‘ Cotton and Silks ¢ [ } 6 ’ aS x 5 4 i f y de at style ‘ ri ‘ ively, at f t d rhe \ ar 7.7 a 4 r cr in } i have been ¢ ‘ , 1857 The 1 i t e, and unprod » var I Feathers, per pound 50 l pound } ral Articles on hand, in Ne ) t June 1 1857. 1858 A barrels 5 1 . ©, PACKAGOS .. 26. ce eccerecee 7.717 45,110 . on, bales 63 83.498 Dyewoods, tons 042 ; H 7 ; hi bales... 23,44 . umber 11 ; I tons ‘ ha) ‘ Role ides 110 ) 164.000 ‘ sheads | 4.533 10 ’ 740 I bar 4 4 I the sa . 2 1 “4 sogsheads Te ! ; bags 1250 ) box : . e+eee . Bi } j i a , Crade, hogsheads . b024 ‘ ‘ i co, Manufactured, packages. 9,593 1 Dw BIUGED . ccccccsccccccsegece —_— 15,000

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