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SATUfRDAY MGOIING, NO~EMIIER 19, 1859.
A COMPARItON.
d,8perthe clote of the present year the Grand
f ii Ri~lwgy of Canida will be completed to be
trolt, Mluhigan, a distance of eight hundred and
altyatwo miles in a direct line, with branches in
addition, which make up the aggregate of eleven
hundred miles of complete railway. Tide is a
tremendous work, and the cost has been tremen
dous, too-disproportionately great for the length
of road made. It has cost sixty millions of dollars,
and we have heard of few reports of grumblings of
the parties who have been obliged to launch out
this "grand cash" in currency or credits. They
went to work like men, and shouldered their
burden as Milo, the athlete, did his ox; for he knew
that he would only have to carry it a furlong and
his thsk would be ended, and the prize gained
which would repay him for his toll. They knew
what they had to do, and what was to be gained
by doing it, and made up their minds that the
arduous game was worth the costly candle, and
that while the reward would last forever, the
striving would be but for a brief period.
Let us see how this great Canadian enterprise
will comparre with the majestic schenme which
maken the whole sovereign Southwest, with its
vast wealth and- its acknowledged public spirit,
stand aghast at the grandeur of its proportions,
wisch, seen through the medium of hesitancy and
doubt, loom up with a magnified portentousness
that terrifies capital from grappling with them.
Let us see hlow the dificulties and outlay at cost of
which the Southern Pacific Railroad is to be ac
complishee compare with those which have been
successfully overcome by the grand Trunk Com
pany of Canada. That road was built through a
country of the most disadvantageous character,
withli merons rivers to be bridged, ravines to be
filled up, hills and small mountains of earth or rock
tobezdu or blasted away, and for half a year the
rigorous climate cemented the snow and lce-cov.
ered earth to the hardness of stone itself, com
pelling cessatfon bf operations, and forcing the
company to great trouble and expense in re
organizing their working forces and resuming con
struction labors. In the catalogue of bridging
Items isdoaladed that magnificent and enormously
exppnsive work, the Victoria bridge, the cost of
whibh and everything else comes out of the sixty
millions that pay for the eleven hundred miles of
road.
From New Orleans to the city of flazatlan, on
the Pacific, the distance is twelve hundred and
fifty miles; and from New Orleans to Cgayamus,
an eligible port on the Gulf of California, is thir
teen hundred miles; by the one route but one hun
dred and fifty miles more of road are required than
have been built in Canada and Maine for sixty
millions, and by tihe other but two hundred more.
But this comparison of distances, favorable asit is,
amounts to nothingwhen the nature of the country
which one road traverses, and the other is to tra
verse, are contrasted. The Grand Trunk had to
meet and overcome natural obstacles at which we
have glanced above, but none of these will stand
in tile path of the Southern Pacific as it marches
onward to wed the Atlantic to the Western Ocean.
No wintry frosts will come, in scorn of the enter
prise of man, to congeal the earth to flinty hard
ness, and peremptorily command the workman to
stay his hand. No rivers will cross its way,
demanding Victoria bridges to triumph over their
interruption, and no rocky highlts will stand in
its pathway to be conquered by huge toil and
delqy. But the route will lay throughr a level
country, few inequalities of the earth's surface in
terposing obstacles of an importance which can
not be overcome by easy grades; for long spaces
the rails can be laid with scarcely the nece ity for
touching the soil with the spade, and through all
the year a teniperate climate will ensure the unin
terrupted continuation of the work.
How then could the company contrive to prop
erly spend the sum of sixty millions on the road,
a sum, too, of which a heavy proportion is pon
sessed as a free gift in the franchises which have
been donated the corporation. The road can cost
nothing like what the Canadians have paid for
their Grand Trunk, and our Grand Trunk Southern
Pacific road will be the avenue of travel between
two worlds, the Eastern and the Western. The
most valuable portion of the Asiatic and European
:and the Pacific coast trade will have New Orleans
for its shipping depot on this side, and the great
channel of commerce and travel will drain to the
city the specie of Mexico and the undeveloped
trade of all that country. Yet, with all this mag
nificent promise the timorous capitalists of this
:section, which is to be so inestinably benefitted,
regard the enterprise fearfully and hesitate to take
possession of the franchises, which have been
pledged them conditionally on their getting it un
der vigorous headway. But we console ourself
with tile reflection that "Rome was not built in a
day," and that as certain as the sun continues to
rise for a few years longer, so certainly will the
.Southern Pacifle Railroad be built. It is a question
of time, but we would Ihave the time shortened
that is to develop the result.
TALK ON 'ORANGE.
The weather was very favorable yesterday for
out-door transactions. The storm of rain, which
was the principal attraction when we talked in our
last, ceased at an early hour on Thursday night,
and although it has been of great and essential
goodjn many respects, yet it was not of sufficient
duration to lead to results that there has been any
effect on the navigation of the Mississippi river and
tributaries. Of course the talk of low water will
prevail for some weeks. This is not the first sea
son of a want of water, nor will it be the first that
the Ohio river and its many branches (the Upper
Mississippi and the great Missouri river) have froze
up tight and strong before a rise, and procrastinat
ed the resumption of navigation till the months of
February and March; yet we are getting along
tolerably well, as is indicated by the daily arrivals
of steamboats from above Memphis. The stocks
of Western produce are ample for the demand.
'The receipts henceforward are not expected to
cover the impression that prices must or will mate
rially decline. The habituds and frequenters of the
flags on Tchoupitoulas, Poydras and New Levee
streets, are in good humor, as are all traders and
dealers engaged in the great Western trade.
It was rather quiet on Carondelct street yester
day, though the gatherings on the flags were free
and large. The chief talk was of cotton, but it was
varied, embracing a good many things and sub
jects, one of which was, " who will be the next
President of the Bank of Louisiana?" as it is now
conceded that the present venerated and respected
incumbent will be prevented by physical infirmities
from resuming the responsible duties.
The further talk was that there was considerable
animation in the cotton market without any ad
vance in prices being realized. While talking of
cotton, we are constrained to talk privately of
some figures in regard to the crop of this season,
which emanated from this city under date of the
2d inst., giving estimates and placing the receipts
at this port at 2,000,000 bales, which are. about
100,000 bales under what they were based at.
Bat what attracted our attention were the figures
In regard to the shipments from Memphis to the
East or up the Ohio river and to St. Louis.
These shipments are placed at 50,000 bales for
this season against 85,000 bales last year. Assum
ing a deficiency of 35,000 bales for this season is
altogether erroneous and misplaced. The ship.
ments from Memphis upwards will this season ex
ceed 100,000 bales, as there have already been
shipped since the lst of September last 27,221
bales, which exceeds one-half of the quantity
alloted for the entire season by the writer of the
cireular before us. In fact, if the present embargo
from low water continues, we would not be sur
prised that the shipments from Memphis East
should reach 110,000 bales, as the estimated re
ceipis at that port were placed weeks ago for this
season atfour hundred thousand bales.
There was some talk of a conflict, or litigation
arising, as to who shall pay for the one hundred and
- seventy-three bales of cotton burned up this week
on the Jackson Ratlroad while in course of transit.
NEW ORLEANS DAILY OREScENI.
PUBLISHED EVERY DAY, SUNDAY EXCEPTED, BY J. O. NIXON, AT No. 70 CAMP STREET.
VOLUME XII. SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 19, 1859. UMB'R 2t'.
The company has assumed all risks against fire or
damage from that element. At the same time,
factors have taken out policies of insurance
against dangers and accidents, which includes fire
on cotton shipped either by the river route or by
railroad. But, then, two strings to the bow do
not answer in this case. The company has as
oumted all risks on shipments against fire; but con
tend, if the cotton is insured by the consignees,
the company is not liable. The insurance offices
turn about and say they are not liable, because the
Railroad Company assumed the fire risks. How
ever, only one hundred and seventy-three bales
of cotton have been destroyed, which is far pre
ferable than 1730 bales; and thl present case only
more strongly confirms the admonitions and re
marks which we talked of last year, and have
again talked of tihe present season. The assump
tion and responsibility of fire risks bythe company
was a very impolitic course. Suppose the train of
cars, with some 1800 bales, had been destroyed,
would it have been so very an easy matter for the
company to meet an immediate demand for pay
ment--ay $100,000. The talk is that the late dis
aster will lead to long litigation; and in the mean
time the planters, or owners of the cotton, may
suafer. We, however, suggest to the mandators of
the road to abrogate the assumption of fire risks,
and allow those risks to be assumed by the parties
to whom they belong-the insurance associations.
There are no two ways in this matter, a thousand
bales of cotton are just as likely to burn up in a
day as one hundred.
The mails failed yesterday by both routes; that
via the Jackson Railroad owing, no doubt, to tile
late fire. Very little delay will Intervene, and we
may have the mail over the route to-day. Tihe
mail via Mobile never comes entirely through on
Fridays. The Canada, the steamer of the 5th inst.,
is fully doe-out thirteen days. The Asia's mains
are due this morning.
THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT.
onrein--.See thou not. I say, wht adeformsd thief this
e(haolc.-t see that the etibon wevas out more apparel than
lthe aun.--lM,-rh Ad Aaout Nhitn.
If tile foolishness of fashion addled the strong
heads of the lordly sex when Shakspeare wrote,
truly there is no food for surprise in the fact that
tihe gentler gender has yielded to its seductions in
our days. We are exceedingly grateful to Shaks
peare that he "wrote for all time," for how
lprsopos to this time is the sage remark of the ora
cular 'onrade-less the term of masculinity-that
the fashion wears out more apparel than the
woman, who perambulates the dusty and muddy
thoroughfares dragging after her fair form a con
tinuation as useless as the tail of a comet-save
that it polishes the sidewalks, and in so doing, the
fashion wears out the apparel, though it saves the
city fathers something for street sweeping. It Is
enough to make a husband or a father tear .his
hair to see his wife or daughter performing tihe du
ties of common scavenger by sweeping the ban
qoette with surplus yards of tile costliest silk
which he paid for-and so unpleasant is the aspect
of a female engaged in this voluntary street work,
that though her front view charm us never so
much as she approaches, the illusion is painfully
dissipated when we turn to look after tile wiggling
mass of dry goods which trails its way along the
walk by the hidden agency of a mincing motive
power within.
We might have denounced fashion in this regard
with more energy a year or two since, but we did
not, for we knewr that ink and paper would have
been wasted, as they were several years before
that, when we ran a tilt against the introduction of
the long dress style, and were most ingloriously
vanquished. We knew it was no use a year or two
since, for the fashion was then in its zenith and
scornfully elevated far above our fulminations. So
we patiently and silently awaited the setting of
the culminated favorite, that we might valiantly
pitch into it as it was going down hill, and claim
some of the credit of its overthrow. The time has
come, and we are after it remorselessly. Bulletins
from the boss modiates of the Parisian center of
fashionable law-giving have been posted through
these provincial dominions of the French capital,
and tile faithful are directing their dress makers
to dock their skirts in obedience to the edict that
" dresses are worn a little shorter this season than
laot." Already we see members of the feminine
elite on the streets, who are neatly aswell as hand
somely attired, for their skirts only touch without
dragging, and we hopefully look forward to the
millennial period in the history of fashions when
they actually teill not touch the ground!
Some may deem us insanely, fanatically san
guine, but we persist in our opinion, and have
a reason for the faith that is in us-and tlis
is that there is no conservatism in fashion;
it never pauses short of extremes. Consequently,
there is no telling hlow short, as there was no
telling how long, dresses will get before tile
movement ceases. We hesitate to indite our
opinion as to the precise altitude at which tile
lower hem will finally pause, and " thus ftr and
no farther" shall be recorded by the directors
of the modis, to stay the alarming progress of
fashionable abbreviation of crinoline. For our
self, we shall continue to hound on the fashion
with the shout of tihe aspiring youth, " Excelsior! "
" higher ! higher ! " until it shall pause on the verge
of the ultraism of Bloomerism !
DOLpEAR COMMERCIAL OOLLEGE.
The belief has somehow or another gained wide
currency throughout the South that at the " Dol
bear Commercial College" nothing more than pen
manship is taught, whereas the curriculum of this
admirable institution is as comprehensive as that of
the first-class colleges of the country, taking the
student through a thorough course of classical in
struction-the dead languages, besides the modern,
algebra, geometry, surveying, navigation-a com
petent knowledge of all of which is inculcated by
accomplished and experienced professors, for no
consideration of expense has been spared by the
manager in so organizing the college that it may
have its due rank as a first-class educational insti
tute. And this reputation it has with those who
have correct information, and that it is entitled to
it is demonstrable, for it can point to its long and
successful career and to the many graduates of
social and professional eminence in the community,
who can claim it with pride as their alma matler.
It is true that especial importance is given to the
study of penmanship and book-keeping, and in
these qualifications for business life tile graduates
of the College go forth armed and equipped with
all that can be acquired which will fit them for
practical participation in commercial pursuits; but
that these branches alone are taught is an error so
egregious and so palpable that it could only have
gained currency by the sedulous and designing mis
representation of interested parties, who, to sub
serve their own ends or to gratify a feeling of sec
tional prejudice, have deliberately traduced and
falsified the character of the institution. The slan
der is almost too transparent to call for refutation,
so widely and so familiarly known is the College
and so general have been the commendatory and
explanatory publications of the press; yet, lest
here should be some who have by chance not
happened upon the correct sources of information
and have acquired their impressions from false
sources, we would state in so many words, that at
Dlbear Commercial College the pupil may pur
sue any branch essential to a complete education,
as taught in other regular colleges of the country,
North and South, and to the former section no
southern student should have recourse while he
can command here facilities of proper description.
The roll of its students is very large, and each sea
son sees its numbers enlarged in a heavy ratio,
which indicates thie increasing appreciation with
which it is regarded in the Southwest.
TELEGRAPHED TO THE NEW ORLEANS ORESCENT.
LATEST TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.
Inr TuN ATIONAL AnD A*uRsCAx L1N IS.]
Havre Cotton Market.
HAVRE, Oct. 31.-The Cotton market closed firm,
Orleans Bas is quoted at 105f. The stock on hand
at this port amounts to 40,000 bales.
Later from New Mexico and Kansas
LEAbvnwoRTH CrT, Nov. 17.-The Leavenworth
and Denver Express bhs arrived here from Denver
City, bringing dates from that place to the 10th
inst. The express brings $10,000 in gold dust, con
signed to various firms in this city.
LecaVewoirrT CITY, Nov. 17.-Both Houses of
the Legislature of this State were this day organ
iced.
Excitement in New Mexico.
ST. I.oCIs, Nov. 17.-Later advices from New
Mexico report great excitement throughout New
Mexico on account of the continued outrages of
the Indians.
Fatal Affray at Nashville.
NAsnVILLE, Nov. 18.-A erionus rencontre oc
'curred this morning between two of our most res
pectable citizens. The parties concerned were
Allen A. Hall, editor of the Nashville News, and
G. E. Poindexter, editor of the Union and Ameri
can. Mr. Poindexter was instantly killed by a load
of buckshot discharged from a shot-gun in tile
hands of Hall. Mr. Poindexter did not fire at his
antagonist. The affair grew out of an editorial
quarrel.
The Harper's Ferry Affair.
BosTov, Nov. 17.-Dr. Howe, who was shown by
Col. Forbes to have been connected with the Har
per's Ferry insurrectionists, has gone to Canada.
His friends deny his connection with the insurrec
tion.
Excitement in Virginia.
RicHMONDc, VA., Nov. 17.-There is great exciteo
ment here and at Alexandria, in consequence of a
rumor having been circulated to the effect that an
attempt to reseue'Brown is to be made, though the
rumor is discredited at Washington.
A dispatch has heen received here from Col.
Davis, at Charlestdwn, to Governor Wise, request
ing hifn to send two companies of cavalry which
are stationed here, for the purpose of quelling
insurrectionary movements. Col. Davis states that
there has been five barns and out-houses fired to
day, which is supposed to be the work of Brown's
sympathizers.
Heavy Failure at Boston.
BosTos, Nov. 17.-The firm of John Mansfield &
Co., boot and shoe dealers of this city, have sus
pended payment. Their liabilities amount to
$200,000.
New York Election.
ALniNY, Nov. 17, 4 o'clock Evening.-The re
turns of the State election give Jones, the Repub
lican candidate for Secretaryof State, a majority of
1270 over his opponent.
New York Stocks and Exchange.
New YORK, Nov. 17.-Louisiana Sixes have sold
to-day at 94.
For Sterling Exchange there is a fair demand at
109n to 110.
Domestic Markets.
New YVon, Nov. 17.-The Cotton market closed
dull. Prices are easier, but quotations are un
changed-salesto-day amountto 4000 bales. East
ern Mess Pork is quoted at $15 to 15 50. Musco
vado Sugar is quoted at Ci to 74.
River Intelligence.
VICe.BnHO, Nov. 18.-The steamer Parkersburg
passed down at 11 o'clock this morning, the
Charmer at 1 o'clock, and the Catahoula at 5
o'clock this evening.
VicsKRonvw, Nov. 18.-The steamer Mars passed
down at 3 o'clock this morning.
Sr. Loris, Nov. 17.--The.Misissippi river at this
point has fallen about one inch during the last
twenty-four hours.
Ir.n Tie for Cotton Baler.
EIl.s ColtT, Miss.. No'. 14, 159.
Mer,. Mondernlle .t Mcllthenny, New Orleans:
Gentlemen--It is with some surprise that I hear
that commission merchants and cotton factors in
New Orleans are lending their aid and in some in
stances using most strenuous endeavors to put
down the use of the iron tie for cotton bales, and
have signed petitions to the Chamber of Commerce
to impose a heavy tax upon all bales bound with
iron, etc. This seems to me to be a very impolitic
move for both merchants and pressmen. It is
equivalent to the most imperious and offensive dic
tation. It reverses the acknowledged order of
things, and makes the principal subordinate and
inferior to the agent. The producer is placed low
est on the scale, his opinions and prejudices are
set at defiance, and he is to be compelled to sub
mit to the most outrageous extortion, unless he
succumbs to the will and rule of a handful of men
who are entrusted in preserving the existing state
of things, which " existing state" is universally
acknowledged to be a "false slate," and one that
must and will be reformed at an early date.
Now, does any one suppose that planters will
submit to such dictation and such imposition? If
there are any such, they will soon be disappointed
in their expectations. I express the sentiments
and opinions, not only of myself, but of the entire
planting community. I am the exponent of an in
terest that is overwhelming and not easily con
trolled.
It may be that I am particularly prejudiced in
favor of iron hoops. Granted. But apart from
this, and if I had never bound a bale with iron,
with the present aspect of affairs, and the present
action and motives of merchants and pressmen, I
liould unhesitatingly and immediately adopt the
iron hoop, incur the expense necessary to reduce
the bale to proper dimensions and ship to England.
And such is the opinion and determination of every
planter to whom I have expressed the foregoing.
The obvious policy of merchants and pressmen
should have been to conciliate the planter-to
humor him in any change which he deemed proper
to make in the management of his cotton-to ac
cept the iron tie upon the same terms with rope,
and to make the best of this innovation, which is
inevitable, and which will soon become wide-spread
and general. Instead of pursuing this line of
policy, however, an insane attempt is made to re
press all innovation by tyrannical legislation, and
has thus hurried forward the consummation of the
planters' independence of the compressors of New
Orleans. I have started in this work in full earn
est, and am supported and encouraged on all sides.
With all modesty be it said, but a short time will
elapse before the means will be at hand to enable
every planter, with a trifling expense, to reduce
his bales below the average of the compressed
bales of New Orleans.
Yours veer truIEr
A. t. MIRRILL, JR.
TnE Sr. CItnax.s.-To-light bliss Jane Coombs,
the accomplished young actress, makes her last
appearance and has a farewell benefit. The bill
is good. She plays Bianca in the "Italian Wife,"
and Constance in the "Love Chase." We hope to
see the house crowded, for the fair and deserving
beneficiary is certainly entitled to such a recog
nition of her merits. Her talent, her youth and
her success, all appeal for the favor of the public.
DaxwIso or ruin HAVANA LorrEsY.-The tallow
ing numbers drew the principal prizes at the last
drawing of the Havana Lottery, Nov. 9, 1859:
No. 12,404, $100,000; 19,751, $50,000; 19,498,
$30.00; 6,896, $20,000; 10,376, $10,000; 861, 1,111
1,400, 1,764, 1,874, 1,905, 2,437, 2,5590, 2,600, 3,644,
3,697, 4,877, 5,299, 5,608, 5,097, 6,051, 6,247, 0,549,
8,154, 11,868, 12,501, 12,700, 12,832,13,088, 15,945,
18,69i, 18,867, 19,224, 20,644, 20,719, 20,808, 20,875,
20,946, 21,100, 21,340, 21,760, 22,250, 22,887, 23,179,
23,439, 12,413, 26.484, 26,692, 27,180, 28,173, 28,864,
29.023, 29,066, 29,641, 29,779-41,000 each.
Fin.--The alarm of fire yesterday forenoon was
originated by a small display of smoke and very
little, if any flame, while the ready action of the
engine companies at 6 o'clock in the evening was
created by a msoquito bar taking fire and born- I
ing only itself, in a house on the corner of Caron
deblt and Girod streets.
CHARTY HIorrTrAL.-The report of this Hospital 1
for the week ending last evening shows:
Admitted............................. ... .
IrbcLh rged ............................ .. .........3M
lD s t ............................... . ........... .... 47
ioesaising ................. . ..... .... . .........
Face DISPENARY--Weekly report of the New
Orleans School of Medicine on Common street, op
posite the Charity Hospital:
Case treated stseteylNsov. 1...............
Mrndy, .. 14 ............. 45
wedleday, .. 16. . ...... 40
Treated pre ouly....... ......... ....... 15,31
Total ........................... . too.io
LoST CmLDn.-A nice little boy, aged six years,
who says his name is King, was found in a bewild
ered state as towhere helived, or who he belonged
to, or where he came from. Wm. Waterman, on
Jackson street, between Chesnat and Colliseum
streets, kindly took him tobhis residence, until he
is claimed by those to whom he belongs.
A SBroY or Two Tnuoss.-WhonSamuel Weller,
Sen., entered the apothecary shop of Bob Sawyer,
late Sawyer & Knockemof, and beheld Mr. Pick
wick and the bounding Bob indulging in a series of
rongh-and-tumbles, he in horror exclaimed "wery-ly
this is werry strange medical play, gentlemen"
and when Peter Sablish, mariner, boarded the
schooner "Critic," anchored in the Old Basin, on
the night of the 14th inst.,, and thenandthere dis
covered the cabin doorbroken open and a trunk of
valuable property stolen therefrom, be inlike horror
unto that of the senior Weller cried out, "stop
thief!" But like the calling of spirits from the
vasty deep, no available good resulted ini Mr. Peter
Sablish's lusty ecry. Then it was that the following
aflidavits became necessary and were resorted to
before Assistant Recorder Benit yesterday. Capt.
Antonio Masculini deposeth that on the night of the
14th inst., about 9 o'clock, he leftthesaid schooner
" Critic," and in company with two friends and his
above named sailor, went to take supper at an oys
ter house convenient in the locality. Having in
dnlged in the bivalves these gentlemen made their
way back to the schooner, preceded, however, by
the trusty Peter aforesaid, and ere they arrived to
within twenty paces, of the vessel the cries of "stop
thief!" arrested their attention and caused them in
turn to arrest one John Mora, whom, with two other
men unknown, they now accuse of breaking open
the cabin doors of the schooners " Critic" and
"Alligator," and stealing therefrom two trunks
containing clothing, valuable papers, and one sil.
ver watch, all valued at $215. . One of these trunks
that contained the clothing, papers and watch, is
the property of Capt. Thos. Degan, of the schooner
Alligator, and the other trunk containing only
clothing, belongs to a sailor named John, of the
Critic. The accused, John Mora, was seen by the
Captain jumping ashore from off the Critic, and this
testimony being corroborated by the master of the
Alligator, and also by the sailor Peter Sablish, who
adds that when he surprised the wily Mora two
brother burglars made tracks for parts unknown.
The Recorder deemed it proper to hold the said
Peter and case for further investigation.
Tns MURDER oF CaPTAIN PRosAR.-Yesterday
two men were brought before Assistant Recorder
Monroe, charged with being the murderers of Cap
tain Probar, of the fishing boat Millard Fillmore.
It will be remembered that this diabollcal murder
was perpetrated about a month since on the oyster
banks of Bayou Julia. This case and the accused
will be brought up at the First District Court,
whither Recorder Monroe sent them.
ACCIDENT AND ArcPL'uATION.-James O'Connor,
a laborer on the Opelousas Railroad, met with a
sad accident on Thursday evening last. He was
engaged at work near the Bouts station, and acci
dentally fell on the track justas the train was pass
ing, and before any means of stopping the locomo
tive could be applied, the wheels of a car passed
over one of his legs, crushing it so severely that
t amputation was necessary. Dr. Smith performed
the operation of amputation, and his patient is in
no further danger from this accident.
CALcSE OF mss DEAT.--The late Mr. G. G. Skip.
with, of Baton Rouge, who came'to his death sud
denly at the Conti Street Hotel, was aflicted with
disease of the heart, and hence his decease-so Dr.
Delery says-and an inquest being held, the jury
rendered a verdict accordingly. Deceased was 57
years old, and a native of this State.
CHARGE OF STAnnoBa.-Last evening a Cuban lad
- named Joaquin Fernando was taken to the Second
District lockup charged with stabbing Baptiste
Bogue, residing on Old Levee between St. Philip
and Dumaine streets. The lad said lie was playing
r with some small girls near complainant's store
t when Bogue interfered, calling him bad names,
whereupon he hit Bogue in the mouth, who in turn
I hit him back with a bucket, thus exasperating Joa
f quin, who says in self-defense ihe drew his knife
I and slightly stabbed Rogue.
"Nor A TRun B.LL."-Yesterday the jury at the
First District Court, Judge T. G. Hunt presiding,
failed to find a true bill against Win. Leith, charged
with obtaining goods on false pretences.
GOT Hnse ON THE FIRST Cot.-This was Pat
McNamara, who stood before the First District
Court charged on two counts of an indictment
wherein larceny and receiving stolen goods were
the points. A nol. pros. relieved Pat of the second
count but a verdict of guilty on the first caused
him to be remanded for sentence.
"OiFF BEFORE TIIE BREAK OF DAY."--SO was It
with some light-fingered, quick-footed rascals who
entered, in a burglarious style, the house of Mr.
Luke Welsh, on New Levee street, near St. Mary's
SMarket, and departed ore sunrise yesterday morn
ing, with a lot of wearing apparel, a silver watch,
and some gold trinkets. The thieves are non est
men.
DISoISSje.-John Beetly, charged with commit
ting an assault and battery on one Owen Howard,
on or about the 11th inst., was discharged by As
sidtant Recorder Benit, owing to the non-appear
ance of the plaintiff.
" Mr HONEo AND Mr PEnsos."--Sylock, poor
old cormorant that he was, could not have ex
pressed over even two pounds and a half of any res.
tricted Venetian flesh, with the same agonizing look
as did John Walter yesterday before Judge Hunt,
when he was told to pay a fine of $20 or spend
two weeks in the Parish Prison, "What?" said
John, " my money and my person! " Yes, John,
one or the other is necessary when you indulge in
assault and battery.
"CHARLES WILLIAM HElNY IS MY NAME."--S
said a royal prince on one occasion to a fair
peasant; so said C. W. Henry to the question of
the First District Court yesterday. Charles Wil
liam is a waif on the ocean of life and indulges in
larceny and a goatee, and for such-the larceny
and not the goatee-Charley was sent to prison for
six months in the absence of $40 fine. Charley is
an ornithological being-" a bird."
GAnLoc is DxNoanous.-Asparo Spartero, though
enjoying a very vowelly-ending, pleasing name, has
a rather unpleasant habit, like all his Cuban asso
ciates, of indulging in garlic and assault and bat
tery. He says "one garlic makes him think"
(certainly a much pleasanter effect than we ever
knew it to possess ; but this is owing, no doubt,
to the locality of the thinking functions in Sicilians
of Asparo's class,) and he adds, " when he thinks,
he becomes dangerous;" (another singularly con
tradictory result, according to Archbishop Wheat
ley's and Sydney Smith's theories) anm When As
pare is dangeroas, he commits assault and battery.
Now, if one garlic produces ench results, what
rwould a peck measure of them do, or rather what
what would they not do, with Asparo? IMrders
galore, no doubt. Well, the bad result of garlic
this time was an attack on Santa Oterra, during
the night of the 10th instant, on Main ani St
Philip streets, for which Assistant Recorder Mon
roe held Asparo for trial.
CAUGoT ON THE TR*AP.--J. W. McGee was
brought to the First District lock-up last night,
charged as a fugitive from justice. McGee, itseems,
slipped from the hands of the Sheriff of the parish
of Caddo, while en route to the Penitentiary at
Baton Rouge.
McGee was found guilty on the 4th day of Octo
ber last, in the parish of Caddo, of an act which
the law calls larceny, but which J. W. McGee
termed simple loan. A difference of opinion, how
ever, with the Judge and Mr. Mac. caused the latter
to receive a sentence of twelve months in the Peni
tentiary, and on his way to receive the same he
gave the Sheriff the slip.
"O7r.Y Two YsaRs," s.c,--Charles Blanchard
took it into his head to commit larceny onthe 14th,
with the particulars whereof the public already
know, and for such head and hand considerations
Charley was detailed to -deuy; in-the4shape of
" hard labor" for our good State, in the Peniten
tiary during the neirt'two years to come. As
Charley entered the legal vehicle known as the
"sable Maria" he exclaimed, "Only trwo years I
away my chariot, on, Troy is free." So he went.
CAEY CAUnGT AT LAsT.--The slippery Jeremiah
Casey, who has eluded the efforts of the police to
catch him during the last two months, was captor
ed last evening by officers Hyatt and Tank, of the
First District police. Sergeant Reed was on Jerry's
track the night before, but the long legs of Casey
gave him an advantage over the officer's motion.
It will be remembered that Casey was charged, in
connection with two others now in prison, with
killing a man named Ryan on the night of 17th
September last, on Erato street and Leeds' Row.
Jerry will be arraigned to-morrow.
RrrvLnsS Ru'r.--Adam Ruth, in the most em
phatic sense in his sponsorial cognomen, is one of
this earth; consequently he is a victim to a weak
ness which some humans display by their strength,
and known in law as assault and battery. This,
Adam exhibited in a way not proper to one
Stamp, and Assistant Recorder Monroe sent the
ruthless Ruth on his way, with bonds to keep the
peace for the term of six months. Keep it, Adam.
" Th GnEEs-Erse Mosrea."-Thlis terrible em
erald-hued optic creature tookpossession of a rosy
cheeked smoked-beef complexioned damsel, whose
patronymic has graced small as well as large pota
toes--Murphy-Ellcn Murphy. Ellen was dwelling
in the same house with her fellow-servant, Mary
Ann Clark, and Mary Ann was at No. 614 Magazine
street. Here Ellen became touched in the heart
with jealousy and on the tongue with gaul, and
evinced the one and the other in such a forcible
manner towards Mary that patience ceased to be a
virtue with her, and law became her only solace.
She therefore asked the aid of the excellent Assist
ant Recorder of the First District, who caused the
fair Murphy to be planted within the region of de
corum by an instrument known as a peace bond.
Ellen, never be envious, jealous, or, if you can,
1 talkative,
L.QUSmT ON THE BODn or J. M. DsELtA.-Yester
day morning, Deputy Coroner Weysfoam held an
inquest on the body of John Manuel DeLima, bet
ter known as "Picayune Lima." The following
witnesses were called and sworn, to give testi
mony touching this man's death:
Pedro Holmes--On last Sunday night, I was in
1 the coffeehouse of Mr. Lewis, corner of Spain and
Levee streets. The deceased (DeLima) was there
too. Two other men were already in the coffee
house at the time. I believe they were sailors
one a first-mate and the other a second-mate of a
a nhip. Words passed between one of them and
Picayune Lima-they were quarrelsome. After a
little time they ceased to abuse each other, and the
two sailors went out of the coffeehouse together,
Ithe deceased following them. Shortly after this
another man, who was also present, known au
Charley Williams, went out. The landlord, Lewis,
then closed his door. In the course of a few minm
utes Charley Williams returned and knocked hur
riedly at the door, telling Lewis that "little
Johnny" was stabbed. Lewis accompanied 'Char
Icy Williams., and discovered deceased in a wound
ed state. They gave him all the care the circum
stances demanded.
Aetonio Lewais.-I am proprietor of the coffee
house on the corner of Spain and Levee streets.
The deceased came to my place on Sunday eve
ning, and soon got into a quarrel with the second
:mate of a ship, who had been in the house the besat
part of the day. This second mate had a sword
cane. He pushed the deceased back from him
and told him to go away, and that he did not wantto
d have anything to do withlhim atall. Deceased was
very abusive to second mate, McLain; he called
him hard names, until he (McL.) drew his sword
from the cane, but no blow was given or the sword
Sergeant Brook..-l went with Recorder Long to
take the affidavit of the wounded man, DeLima.
It was made out against some person or persons
unknown. The deceased told him there were
other persons present during tle affray. In course
of time I arrested John Thomas on suspicion,
knowing him to have had a difficulty on one occa
sion with the deceased. I also arrested the two
men, Daniels and McLain. From all I learn re
garding the matter, my impression is that McLain
is the man who stabbed deceased. I am positive
no other hand but his committed the act.
Hecre W iliamse-I was coming up Levee street,
accompanied by a friend, Mr. Holmes, and -when
near Spain street we met two men coming out of
Lewis' coffeehouse. Shortly after we met a man
known as Johnny Picayune, the deceased. He and
the two men crossed over to the other side of the
street, going down, and we crossed, going up. In
a few seconds after tile three men passed over, we
heard a cry of " Oh oh, I am killed ! " We recog
nized this to be the voice of deceased, and on
looking, saw a man fall and another man walk
away. The third man we cosld not sec then.
Antonio Daniel-I was with McLlain in the coffee
house. I was there some two hours and a half.
John Picayune came it and got talking and got
into a fous with McLain. He shoved McLain, who
shoved him back. I told them to he quiet, and not
get on with any more of their fighting and fuss, and
to go home, as it was late. They then went out,
and I saw deceased follow MeLain and slap him in
the face, when MeL. turned and stabbed deceased
with a sword, which he pulled out of his cane. I
and a man named Williams ran to where deceased
was lying and picked him ip. We thought at
first that he was only stabbed in the leg. During
this time, McLain put his sword in its sheath and
quietly walked away, wlhilst we, myself and Wil
liams, took the wouncled man to the coffeehouse of
Mr. Lewis, who admitted us after knocking some
time.
This being the chief evidence, the jury returned
a verdict that the deceased, John Manuel de Lima,
died of a stab in the abdomen, penetrating the
intestines and causing inflammation and death; said
wound having been inflicted by a sharp and pointed
instrument in the hands of one McLain, on the 13th
November, inst., at about 10 o'clock P. M., on the
corner of Spain and Levee streets. McLain is in
custody awaiting the action of law.
THE u 'AIHnI~Ss.-The interesting and successful
comedy of ' The Country Squire," with Mr. Wal.
lack as Squire Broadlands, Mr. Sothern as Horae,
Miss Thompson as Fanny, and Miss Polly Marshall
as Alice, will be brought on again to.night, fol
lowed by a dance and the admirable comedy of
" Used Up," in which Mr. Sothern will be the Sir
Charles soldstrasm.
Tua Axrsrgsreasurr. - Kneeland, Adams and
Hedden's Campbell Minstrels promise one of their
best entertainments to-night, giving a general
blow-out of melody and comedy which will enter
tain everybody who attends in tip-top style.
At noon to-day the doors of the Amphitheater
will be open to the public, and the Minstrels will
be on the stage in all their sable glory.
SnAerrFa, P .LLvEYS, hangers, pillow blocks and
all tuch artichs aro advertidcd for ale by Mesrs. D. C. Lowbr
A Co., 73 Camp sceot
Mmeaoooouvrx i 3e t ,4h , q I
weather in V p i
la the following:
We learn from the O ea
bnek, that two gentlemen wos
Bledeee'e place, Sunflowe'
day zgt lr. Bledloent mud r
binboup, went out hunting in the ass
that evening, and getting lost, t r wero
ken hythe cold spell which nddn iy et
nrday, and froze to death' efore.'teie iei '
ered. Mr, Bledsoe we. quite a yaon r maa--*e
were nable to learn his first name. .
The Beaadrn Herald of Wedneldayihstsat:
We regret to learn that on Sunday night
about 7 o'clock, the gIn-house of CtiI,J- ep
tcMAe.waaentirely conSuinc d by tireti n
at-the time twenty bales of cotton-tei
to himaelfandten belonging to Mr.Samnl
being the whole of later 's crop. We fave not
learne the cause of the fire.
The i sconltar of the 12th gives the follo~
account of a mall robbery:
It was erovered a fw da o aro that tih-d,
earries on hoeeback bhetween . phIn l.a.ao~i
Hubbeed isd been robbedof a portioe of Ito e-a
tents.
Snumber of letters or pleces of ttnrs,~er
fonnd c eattered along the Inat routeo a to
have been extracted ofr l reil td oa irthed
a.dtorn ap, n s e e
Suspicitcs rested pb ht Imal carrler a warrDt
He wagt d beore oJric'Gaye wn e are oted,
alas, for he uoeertantyp of oma° emine, e
Court dianSeand that they, aut. Jatiaeo t
Peace, were not auhorized to, e iop
fentoe committed 'sagainet the F tin
ment, and.neeidnglty dIcharg d f.'le ' t
expeddtton.to Chinlsdlusl ifItlaiidni onie-1
count of the euat, while that "to.ýkoec t-tobe
au mente b rtwo brde .. . e .h.....
London, between dney lHerbsl'e tfhe h y
of War, anethe chIef uesetetarj lrtene6
inter ni'nrWarjmwblchs ell tih nag onties
combined expeditie ti China were coniltded, the
departure ofdthe expe:dtionbp ng zedfre nrte
fortnight laFoebeery.
The London Times uays that ltOhaesele
out at Portsmouth to reinfor..tlbesquedrm;l tan
China will nail for their doetnineop,.sia ,tb L
November.
The London Times of the 27th of Octobearnya;i
In addition to thelarge quantity of engnee
strewhCh thic detachlieate of Royal gie
about proceeding toChina take out witthbenm, tle
authorities bhae decided on forwarding.to China
neveral miles of teleg.iph wires,, together with
telegraph apparatn'of the most isoderdtcouhiuc
tinn, In order to enable the force-whichis ebloit tn
be dispatched teChina to keep up intantaaeom
communlgation with each other wh eeer.naepe
rated. Several of the non-com. . b o -=i
and men of the Royal -Englnera who =a
nelected to proceed with the detobmenntnotO eq
have been undergoing a ourae of instruetion;at
the telegralh' school atthe Boyal Engineer et ls:
lishment, Chatbam, to enable them to iy the wi
and work the apparatno. :
The Siluf Zublic, of Lyons, contaIns the follow
ing article:
It is seriously proposed to establish a diCrt
steam service between France, India and China:
The first result of such a service would be to re
move the carriage of silk from the exclousive din
cretion of the Pennienlar and Oriental Company.
But it is intended to go farther-the French
company charged with this service would, if we
arc well informed, be a banking house specially
created with a-view to the extension and facility of
our financial and commercial relatioos with thioee
countries, where English houses reign exclusively
and without competition.
Contracts are stated to have been made foi sap
plying the whole French force in, Italy up tothe
list of May next.
H. Frederick de Conlnck, of Hl re,hae jut pohb
lished a second pamphlet on the Isthmus of lnez
Canal scheme, of which he- is -a determined and
perscvering adversary. The Bishop of Orleans, ;ln
is last pastoral letter on the Roman question, oh-.
serves:
The victorious obstinacy of M. de Lessmps pierces
the land of Suez, and through seas that approach
each other, and opens a shorterway for.the gospel
to the Indies.
On this passage M. e Coninu c remarks:
Certainly, if I shared this opinion, I should do
nothing to prevent the construction of the Canal of
Suez; obut I consider the sacred canuse of the Gos
pel has nothing whatever to do with the subject.
We are no longer in the times of Vasco Game ; and
if our worthy missionaries desire to carry the good
tidings to India and China by Suez rather than by
the Cape of Good Hope, they need not walt for thae
good will of the Sultan, and, afterwards, the con
elusion of M. de Lesse.a' labors. They may set
out to-morrow.
t. do Coninck is of opinion that the Pasha of
Egypt makes ns of the Sultan's name as a pre
text for getting out of the Suez Company, ho being
both a shareholder to a large amount and proprie
tor of the Alexandria and onez Railroad, which
yields profits quite unhoped for, and to which, of
course, the canal would be in opposition.
The Times has a leader on Lord Brougham's
speech at the Edinburgh banquet, and says :--We
were never more serious than when we hail in
Lord Broughamn an almost providential medium be
tween English and French ideas. -
Lord Brougham was elected Chancellor of the
Edinburgh University, by a vote of 654 to 419 for
the Duke of Buccleugh..
Sir George Grey has announced his intention of
accepting the Governorship of the Cape of Good
the will of the late Robert Stephenson, Esq., has
been sworn to by the executors. The personal
Iproperty alone was valued for probate duty at
£400,000, which is exclusive of the freeholds.
A fire took place on the 28th atthe palace of the
Senate de Luxembourg. The Salle de Jeamnas
was completely destroyed, and four persons were
dangerously injurmed. The galleries, museum, ar
chives, library, etc., were all saved.
The Paris correspondent of the London Herald
writes that Government hd given orders to an
iron company for one hundred gunboats, twenty
live of which are to be completed with the utmost
diiThe oniteur de Bologna contradicts the report
that the Bishop of Rimini had been arrested.
Three monks were arrested in consequence of seri
ous accusations against them.
Ferom Turkey we learn that the nomination of
Kubristi Pasha as Grand Vizier had been con
firmed.
The Commissioners for settling the boundary
question in Montenegro were obliged to leave the
country, having been attacked by the inhabitants.
some insurances were efbfeted at Lloyds', on.the
27th, of the bullion by the Royal Charter, at 25 per
cent.
The great gale which caused the wreck of the
Royal Chlarter, and the detention of tile steamers
North American and City of Baltimore, was most
disastrous n its effects all around the coast of Eng
land. Numerous vessels (mostly coasters) were
wrecked and many lives were lost. Mluch damage
was also done on land.
The following disasters to American vessels are
reported:
The bark J. M. Thurston, Captain Grant, from
London for Port Talbot, In ballast, was driven
ashore near Falmouth, but was subsequently towed
off anud taken into Falmouth harbor. The damage
was not supposed to be extensive.
The British ship England, from Liverpool for
New Orleans, went ashore in Holyhead harbor,
but was expected to be got off.
The American ship Rockingham. from Cardiff,
outward bound, lost anchors and cable in Penarth
Roads, and was run on the mud.
The bark Marlborough, from Baltimore, was to
tally wrecked near Ilfracombe; crew saved, with
the exception of the pilot and second mate.
The ship Tornado, at Liverpool from New York,
was struck by a sea on the 6th of October, which
washed overboard the first and third mates, five
seamen and two boats. Three other boats were
also smashed.
A heavy gale had occurred on the Black Sea, and
fears were entertained of very serious damage to
the shipping.
RamsLAU Sxsa.su.-A collision occurred between
two trains on the Memphis and Charleston Rail
road, about nine miles from the former.ofty, on the
night of Tuesday last, whereby one of the loomo
tives was utterly demolished, and several eard
thrown from the track. Nobody hurt. Sob ays
the Avalanche.
Faox SAx DoI mop.-Advies ftros as ll .
mingo are to the 19th lt. Thie revolntlmoary
movement at Ansa ijd'bltnp pptagl qeej dby
Vice-Presldent-en-eral ýb#4 solfes to whom San
tans bad temporalrc resigned the Preeldeney.
Ten of :the eompslrators were shot, and quite a
number were banished to New Granada. It was
believed that the revolt was the work of the parti
sans of ex-President Baea, and not of the Baytiens.
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creating a cuarrent wi
mand miles beulbe'
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doubt will be wteh
will extend commesq e
various ways, tpe
rivers, making sa
water. Snch en
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all m osses by etentho p
tearing of boats, ontling lan
and steamrs, light ningto
of fel, oile, and men wt
nothing, and wtchingea
and tear of machiery and
wing-dams and loiebo e
oTohis machine may ;.l'
to that a boat getttig gt
channel. At any rate,
a Dredge tok ep ithomeqdwh
and washing in sand and mod,,
Dredger woold be needed.
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A NATURAL Iit
Mrs. Dr. Lyd ay j ee
the dressreformesalt"l
editorials and'on s
iota ! p cal s
all their rotundity and p
to amuse in what thediti
entswrite. A Xlunneaotsdu
There are near a sco.neofla
viinity who have worn. t.l
Drees, for several yeauaand i
the first Impropriety or i ea
wearing the same ; while on lb otf
much to adtmire. I goopowthe]
rights to all." Why Il it-anymre
female to wear pants th.oain A w
gown? Did Godpreserib eain r
oatioa concerning the of q am
Did he not dress them equally alike~
t Did htottn dress them equally e>l '
the question.
Ergo-the strong-mindid l1a in''
turning to the condition of po-t el
her neighbors will coment to, 3i bn
mission.
Sommos Au IsTlnonnuttoag a
gor, since his introductIon, hibs e
self highly popnlar. A rt
companlefd b rh .
house of an humb°ia aoliqpr
colloquy took l ratea; o
have ea ied't'toiifrodpce thk e
men etoerI
to Introdue eTpb
dill be good enough tq e
never saw him hty Loe
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describedby a tolils
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