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By MAlail.
SEVEN DAYS LATER FROM EUROPY,
ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPA AT HALIFAX.
The following Furopean intelliigence was re
ceived by the steamship Europa, which arrived at
Halilax on Tuesday evening last.,
Lavesroor, July 14.—The tone of business
throughout the weok has continued aetive and vig
orous, and econsiderably more than an average
amount of operations have been offected. The man
u(uturiqr districts give assurance of a healthy
state of things with a fraduul extension of manu
facturing traflic, and the restoration of confidence,
The English funds have steadily advanced during
the week. Yesterday Consols ranged from 92 3-4
to 93 for transfer and the same for settling day.—
Bank Stock 198 1.2 Exchequer bills 48s too )Bls,
cremium. The money market continues remarka
ly easy,
{.iule has been doing in Continental Stocks, but
the aceounts recerved yesterday, were of a most en
couraging character,
ln‘chriu»u Securities there have been no falling
off in demnud and prices have not undergone any
material change. .
Eungland,
The proceedings in Parliament nre void of
general interest, D'leracli's promised movement
in the House of Commons, designed to test
the sense of members in regard to the present free
trade policy of the British government, has been
negatived by a vote of 206 over 156,
fhc weather bas been unusually hot. Monday
is sald to bave been the hotest day ever experienced
in London ; and in Liverpool and vicinity the heat
has been not less excessive. On the 9ih at Liver
pool the thermometer stood at 86 degrecs in the
shade, and 120 in thesun,
The cholera is sieadily on the inerease in Lon
don. Last week there were 152 deaths, and in Liv
erpool 201, The disease has brokea out in a very
fatal form in Southanpion, aud seems to infect the
entire southern coast.
The growing erops throughout England and Ire
land are represented as giving good promige of an
unusually abundant and curly harvest, The pota
1w disease has appeared 1n a very limited number
of places in Ireland, and at present gives no alarm,
whilst the weather both in England and lreland is
ull that could be desired.
Trelund,
The Irish papers contain most distressing
accounts of intense suffering and misery that
prevail in mnnfy parte of that ill fated country,
particularly in the southwestern districis.
All the ‘workhouses are filled to repleticn, and
thousands of persons appear actually withoui the
means to keep hife and soul together § and until the
crops are available, which fortunately will from
g.mem npgennuoea be very early, the distress will
severe almost beyond example.
On Monday, Messrs. O Brien, Meagher, McMa
nus and O'Donohoe were embarked on board the
war schooner Swift, which imnediately sailed for
Van Dieman’s Land. [Previous t the departure of
the prisoners, they prepared and placed in ihe hands
of a mutual friend an address to their countryen,
of which the Londoy Times says it must be ad
mitted that * its tone 18 unobjectionable, nay, even
more moderate than could be expected from men,
the whole tenor of whose previous conduct favored
the aupgosi(iun that they were acting not as free
|fenu, ut as the vietim# «f some unknown species
of downright lunacy.”
France, *
The clection to fill 35 vacanmes are going forward
uietly, and the resulis as far as ascertained are in
?nor of the moderate candidates. In Paria the
ministeria! candidates were all returncd. In the
provinces Lamartine and a few socialists have se
cured the elcetion, On Thursduy there was a ru
mor in Pacis of & difforcuce in the cabivet on the af
fairs of Rome, and it i= now said that Barrot and
Dufsure witl retire. A doubt is expressed as to
whether England has, as previously reported, re
monetrated with France on the subjeet of Rome.
M. Drouyer Delpins has been dispaiched as am
bassador cx(raurdinar{ to the Court of St. James
with much apparent hasie, with the object, as is
conjectured, 1o neuralize Lord Pal nerston’s deci
ded or apprebended intervention in favor of the Ro
mans. in regard 1o this subject, the London Sun
of Friday says:=-* the Marquis of Normandy has
g::lemed a note to the French government from
rd Palmersion demanding explicit explanation
as 1o the intention of France with regard to Rome ;
how long 1t is intended that the French army shall
occu;z{ the Roman territory, and whether iis re
solved to support the Pope.
The lggitimist and Jesuit joarnals are setting up
a cr{ for the absolute aud unconditional reatoration
of the Pope, but the correspondent of the Times
says on reliable infornation, that no such folly is
intended by the French government. Several com
mittees of the Legislative Assembly have suggest
ed that it might be prorogued from the 15th August
to Ist Octuber, without detriment to the public bu
giness, and a commission will fonbwufi take the
propusition into consideration.
'l}l’w difficulites which continue to beset the
French Government, particularly in tegard to the
Iwalian question, occasioned the funds gready to
fluctuate at each turn of fortune. The five per cents
closed on Thursday at 838 f. 15¢.
'ie Moniteur contains a dispateh from Gen, Ou
dinot, which gives an elaborate and vivid deserip
tion of the final assault made on the 29th June. The
Romans fought most desperately, leaving 400 dead,
with a hundred and twenty-five prisoners in the
hands of the French, including 31 officers of all
rauks, none of whom are desciibed as foreigners.—
The French admit only 9 killed and 110 wounded.
Iu consequence of the surrender of Rome, the or
ders received at Toulon for embarking remnforce
meunts of all kiuds, have been countermanded, and a
steamer already at sea with troops recalled.
The movements of Ledru Rollin have been at
length traced out. He has until recently been se
creted in Paris, and on V\edncoda¥ veoched Lone
don in the O=tend steamer from Belgium, in com
gtny with Marun Bernard, Euenue Arago, aud
a{fem Boychot.
e present accounts of the chiolera are favorable,
The deaths have fallen to fewer than 30 a day, and
are daily decreasing. The wtal number of deaths
in Paris and the suburbe since the breaking out of
the disease in January last, is said to be more than
20,000,
The Council of Revision has confirmed the sen
tence of death, pronounced by Court Martial, on
Capt. Klever, who immediatcly appealed to the
Court of Caszation.
Italy and Rome.
The Assembly, in i last givting, unarimously
voted the Consutution of the Republic, and order
ed itto be deposited in the Capiwl as the expres
gion of the unanimous wich of the Roman people.
The Constitution i# by a vote of Assembly to bLe
engraved on marble aud placed in the Capiwl.—
They also ordcred a funeral service to be celebrated
in 3’t Stepheus for thuse who had fallen in defence
of the Repuhlic.
The eutrance of the French troope en masze into
Rowe did not take place till 7 o’clock of the even
ing of the 3d. A proclamaion from the National
Assembly announced the airival of the French and
recommended abstinence from all vengeance as
useless and unworthy the dignity of Rouwan citi
zens. Gen. Oudinot and his statl’ were disgusted
because the Nauonal Guards at the corps vfigzardo
did not rise at his passage and fiay biin the milita
ry salute due to his rank, and the barricades had to
be pulled down by the French soldiers themselves
in &e absolute dearth of Romnan laborers. At dark
the troops were consigned o their various quarters,
Garibaldi succeeded 11 escaping from Rome with
10,000 men ; he was loudly applauded as he passed
through the city. He had been in the direction of
Terracina, where it is probable he would fall in
with some detached force of the Neapolitaus or
Spaniards, to whom he might J;ive trouble. His
intention was, it is #aid, to invade the Kingdom of
Naples. The first division of the Freuch expedi
tionry army set out in pursuit of him on the 4ih
A, Curricre Mercantile of Genoa, of the Tih,
states that the Government, composed of three indi
vidualg, one Roman and two French, had been es
tablished at Rowe. Uy the latest accounts the Ro
man Muuicipality bad proclaimed that no conven
tion had been made with the l"l_’encl.l. The poutif-
jcal arms had becn put up, but the tri-colors remain,
The regular Komen woops will be stationed at Lez
ni and Terracina. At present they are in barracks
at Rome. In epcaking of arrangements for the fu
ware settlement of the Roman Siates, the Paris cor-
ndent of the Times says, “1 have c.vcr{ reason
w E: ieve, although I have i from no official source,
that he government arc satisfied with the Jast ac
counts that have been received from Gacia. It |
may trust my auihority, these accounts would show
that the Freuch Minister there bhas concluded an
arrangement, uot vuly with the Pope bat with the
Ausinan representative, 10 the effect that his Holi
ness s o return 1o Rome, that the French are to
evacuate the city, leaving only a garrison of 5000,
and that the Ausiriau representative Lae agreed on
the part of s government that the Austrian troops
shull evacunte Bolognaand Ancona, lcaving a con
paratively amall number in the forte. It is further
said that it was in consequence of (his arrangenent
that the army of the Alps was discolved. Such is
the substance of the account stated to have been re
occived from Gaen, and which if correct will no
doubt soon be confirmed ”
Venice still holds out againet the Auvetriane, and
continues 1o nake a vigorous resistance, The city
carries ou i principal defence from two emall forie
at abuut 1000 yards from the first houses of Venice.
One sitnated on the small island of San Secondo,
and the other on the railroad bridge. The Austrian
shells do not resch furither than 400 yards wihin
Veniee. Provisions src very searce—nothing but
black bread half baked is to begot. Meat and wine
are become lurarics, : St‘i,ll a calin determination 1o
resist reigus among the Veoitians Carrespondenis
Turin of the Bih inst. state hat M'..pl’nudu,
of the Bardinian legation in London, ar
rived w with dinmdm of great and argem
inporance. It is waid they contain the wish of
Lord Palerston .“S.o l!u;linh ohoul.lhnxc at pres
ont resume negotiations for peace wii usiria, as
m.‘ wishes to save lcd& from ihe abyss into
she sppears ready o [,
Denmarvk and the Duck les,
A sirnal vietory has been grained by the Danes
over the Holsteiners in Nonfl Juttland, which is
announced to the Minister of Marine of Copenha
gen in the following telegraphic dispatch from the
Commander of the ?)luiah squadron :
“The commandant at Frederiea has demanded
transport vessels for upwards of 1800 prisoners, 30
of whom are officers. 1 expeet they will arnve at
Copenhagen to-morrow morning. The enemy 18
totally defeated and our vietorions army is purau
ing them. All the enemy’s batiering guns are a
ken and severul pieces of %eld artillery. 1t is said
that the Danes have taken Kolonig.”
Hungnary and Austria,
The Hungarians continue to earry on the une
qual otmggfo with indomitable rnergz{ and cour
age. Advices from Vienna o the 7th inst. have
been received. The staiements about a victory won
by the Ban Jellachich at St, Thomas, Ym\-cd to be
I!K(lg‘(‘lh(:r unfounded, The Ban isstill in the back
country, and though he has had au engagement
with the Magyars the atiuir scems to have been of
little importasice. The imperial troops on the right
bank of the Danube, after leaving ‘;{aalp followed
the retreating Hungarians, and appear to have ob
tnined some advantage in an encounter at Acs,
where, it is said, 500 Hungarians were made prison
crs, The Auvstrian headquarters were then removed
to Babolua, where the Kinperor was,
The Hungarians appear to have retired into an
entrenched camp and works at the head of a bridge
thrown from the right bank of the Danube to the
tortress of Comorn, from which point they man
wuvercd with 20 squadrons of horse, and kept up a
fire from 50 guns for 8 hours, Bat their infantry
remained in Ihcir vnlqmzhuu-ntu One tield batte
r?' ventured beyond the protection of the guns in
the entrenchiments, and a regiment of Austian light
horse attacked and captured the battery,afier eutting
down the greater part of the men at their guns,—
The battery consisted of six six pounders and two
twelve pounders.,
The kuuinn corps having entered Transylvania,
has succeeded after an obrtinate registance in taking
Tomoses pass, which was strougly fortified. The
Russian (roops forced their way through with the
bayonet, and entered Cronsiadé the same day, the
<Uth June, Eleven cannon and one ummlar!wme
the trophies of this day., The Cussacks succeeded
in eaptring Gen. Kise, who was wounded and
Landed over to the Austrians. Other accounts from
Transylvania state that the other Russian curra
has entered Besiniz after a sharp action with the
Hungariane. p
The Austrian garrison at Arab had been compel
led to surrender that fortress. ko
A letter from Vienna in the Independent of Brus
scls states that the Hungarians had waken Szigel
lin—uand that the Diet was to be open on the 3d -
Intelligence has heen received by the * Nation™ -
a Belgian journal-—to the fullowing eflect: *On
the Ist and 2d July, lnmbinskiwilt his corps de
armaé, and all the rescrve of the veteran troops,
drawn from the arny of operations now acting in
different parts of Hungary, amounting, altogether,
to 80,000 men, attacked |ge Russian army, consist
ing of 110,000, commanded by Paskiewitch, in the
defiles between Makoloz and Eylau The auack
tovk place in flank, #o as to drve the corps comi
winded by the Prince in person into the mgrshes
of the Theiss, We have not reccived any details of
this imporiant battle, but the success secmis to have
Leen go complete that the Hungarian reserve of vet
crans to the number of 40,000 men, marched the
next day, by way of Waatca, for Comorn, to rein
force the army of Gorgey, who from the 4th July
has been able to resume the otlensive against the
Austrian armies, Dhnbinski with 55,000 wen was
in pursait of the remaing of the army of Paskie
witch, and it is probable that immediately the news
of Dimbinski’s victory becomes known, the war
like population of the defiles in which the Russian
Prince has improdently engaged himself, will rize
en masse 10 cut ofl his retreat through the passes.”
kossuth issued, on the 27th ulumwo, at Buda and
Pesth, a proclamation calling upon the people 1
the most emphatic language, to rise in array against
the invader. The cuwmpagoe against the Austro-
Russian arny is colled a crusade. The proclama
tion is manizyfll ¢ intended to work on the relig
ious feclings of tl}h‘ people and s etyle is said to be
most (~lquucm and impressive. Kossuith had leit
Pesth for Szigellin,
Bavex.—Radendt was fearfully bombarded on
the 7th ;s but according to the last accounts it held
out, and the garrison had hoisted the black flag
in token that lfwy would rather die than surrender.
R s
Pivaev.—~A correspondent of the New Ydrk
Commercial, writing ll:om Valparaiso, gives the fol
lowing account of two piracics : 4
On the 10th inet. the Chilian schooner Rose Se
gunda was brought in here by a French officer and
l)rize crew, with three of her Chili crew confined on
hoard, the vessel having been seized for piracy.—
The Rosa left this place some few months since for
Sen Franeisco, with twenty passengers of both
#exes ; the eaptain’s name Contreras; as they were
passing very near the Gallipagos Islands, the temp
tation 1o visit their shores was irresietible, so the
captain Love to, lowered hia boatand went ou shore,
with all his passengers but one female, leaving the
vessel in charge of the mate (a 0 Kaghishinau named
Uurmx:] aud two men., ‘e boat had no soener
reached the shore than theze three villains “ filled
away” and ran the schooner off before the fresh
trade wind, for the islands of the Pacific; arriving
at Tahiti, their conduct excited the suspicions of
the captain of a French brig of war lying there,
who sent an officer on board 10 examine the papers
of this Chilian ; 1t was found that many erasures
had been made on the muster rolls, the manifest
-was altered, and ail of her papers were ridicuounsly
incorrect, for a vesscl in the condition in which she
'was placed. I had furgotten to say that the con
| tramacatro (or boat=wain) had been left on board
by the captain, but confined to Lis bed by a danger
ous illuess ; he of course had no part in the piracy,
and was #till alive when the French officer visited
the &chooner, and well enough to make a full and
suflicient dizclosure with regard to the transaction.
So the French officer seized, put a prize crew on
( board and sent her (o this place, with the pirates in
irons; on their pascage, }uur of the Freuch crew
mutinied, liberated the prisoners, and were in open
revolt araingt the licuienant and four men who re
mained true to their country; by these the muri
neers were sceurcd without bloodshed, and all
brought in for trial, the Chilians to be tried here,
the Frenchmen by their admiral when he comes.
I Youwillask anxiously, Where are the passengers?
| What must have been their sutlerings, abandoned
on the shores of a small and desert Island 7 They
were mogtly poor persons, mechanics and laborers,
who had invested their entire meanz in the char
ter of this vesscl, and provisions for their voyage.
So the lozs to them is (Yiflm«ingz beyond measure,
| as the provisions being nearly dcsmaycd. and rap
[ Idiy perishing, the residue was #old at Tahita for
the benefit of the parties concerned. The poor peo
ple did not ?erish, but subsisted for fifty-two (?nys
on turtle (which you know abound herc{unc«mkcd,
as (hey were withiout fuel. At the end of that tine
a small vessel chanced to come for turile, rescued
. the unfortunates, and carried them to Panama,
where, it has been heard, they arrived in safety, but
Fdestitute,
Indeed it will be necessary to keep a most vigi
lant look-out on this ocean now, as the richly
freighted vessels will ofler a teinptation equal to that
of the old Spanish gralleons in the time of the bue
ancer. A most horrid piracy and murder was com
mitted on board the brig Amelia, which left Mazat
lau for Canton in October last. She was provided,
as all of these vessels are out here, with two sets of
papers, oue Mexican and ove Eoglish, (in case of
general war in Earope she was to use the former,
otherwise the latier) and two captains, one of each
of the nations whose flag she bore ; a motley crew
compozed of villains of every caste and from every
part of the world. She had on board £500,000 in
srcc}(-. One night three Spaniards, who formed
the watch, butchered both captains and a passen
ger, Mr, Cook ?an American, whose lady was on
board,) secured the arms and 100 k charge of the ves
el ; the rest of the erew were one English lad, two
other Europeans, and a half dozen natives of Ma
nilla. The pirates made the young Euglishman
(quite a lad) eantain, he being the valy one under
standing navigation, and ordered him to the Peru
vian coast; he and the other two, a Dane and Swede,
watched their turn, put the Spanish rascals to deaih,
mfade (hemselves masters of the vessel, and by ad
viee of Mrs. Cook, of whom |he( took kind care,
#quared away for the Sandwich Islande, their near
est port, where on arriving they delivered the ves
! sci aud her rich freight w the British consul.
The British admiral hae publiched a notice here
that the Board of Admiralty had intelligence of
vessels fitting out in England under circumstancos
which excited suspicions ; they were watehed, how
ever, and the notice was given on this coast that all
vessels may be on their guard.
New Youx Srare Bosvs 70 se Parn Opp.—
The Delaware and Hudson Canal Company lLav
ing given notice to the Comptroller, of their wish
to pay on the Vot of January next, the $3OO 000+
of Stute certificates of stock, loaned them on the
20d May, 1829 the Comptroller has given public
notice to the Liolders of said stock, that it will be
prid at the office of said Company, in the city of
New York on the let duy ot }nnunry next. The
stock is made payable, at the pleasure of the State,
any time after the year 1849. < Jour. ¢f Com.
Tue vaer or e Crevaser.~All the timber
sacks, bricks, &e., used in stopping the great cre.
vasse, were submitted yesterday to public competie
tion on the spot, and were knocked down for
s°6s, an infinitely smalier sum than it cost to
knock down the piles. The loose materials were
bought by various parties, and the crevasee itself
was purchased by hr. L. Spangenbourg The old
ship Suvialh wase sold for Q‘hb The sum realized
by the sale is about four fifths of one &ret cent. of
the entire cost of closing the breach—rather a
Flemish account, we ohocfld say,~.N. O. Bee, 170 h.
Lewis, one of the black men who violated and
murdered Mrs. Foster in Kentueky, has been
hanged. after confessing the crime. and warning
lis black friends 1o avoid bad company.
Wheat Crop.—The Wheeling Gazette, which
has paid partienlar attention to ihe nccounts ol the
Wheat crop fronfull sections of the Union, says
that the crop in Western Virginia. Ohio, Wesiern
Pennsylvania and Northern Kentueky, will fall
mnch below an average cne. Itulso expresses the
opinion. that after making aliowances for the
grumhluul; dieposition of farmers, the erop throagh
out the United States will be eonsiderably less
than an average one,
We infer fi'nm what we have heard, that the
vield will not come up to the expectations in
Virginia below the mountains, The erop ofstiraw
is very abundant, which induced farmers to in
dulge very lofly anticipations ; bnt very few
meshes have more than two grains, and the cheat
and spelt greatly abonnd. Still the erap s fully
an average one,
Elopement Ectraordinary.—The Glasgow, Ky,
Reveille gives an ncconnt of the elopement of
Jerry Vaughan, a country merchant of Burnen
county, with the wife ol'yllurri-mu Povuter.
Vanghan was pursued by a gentleman who had
endorsed for him to a eonsiderable amount—was
overtaken with his paramour in ‘Tennessee—and
possession obtuined of some negroes und other
property he was taking off with him. "I'le guilty
and loving parties were permitted to pursne thewr
journey towards Californiv. Vaughan left a wife
and several children, and Mre. Poynter left a hos
band and fonr children, and one of them a sucking
infaut.
A movement has been set on foot at Troy New
York, which Las for its object the construction of
a work to be called the Champlain Ship Canal
This work, it is expected. will lead to the enlarge
ment of the canal froma Whitehall to Troy, when
ships and propellers carrying 3,600 bbls. of Hour
wil‘ be enabled to load at Chicago or nny of the
lake ports direct for New York or Liverpool
When accomplished, this will be a pretical realiza
tion of Clinton s ogiginal idea of uniting the Hud
son with the Liakes'in such a manner as to avoid
the necessity of breaking bulk or transhipment.
N. Y. Cour. ¢~ Eng.
A Fatal Mistake.—Night before last a man fell
down a flight of steps in a honse at the corner of
Walnut and Main street, and was badly simuned.
A physician was called in who attempted to bleed
the injured wan, but as no blood followed the
lancet and as there was no sign of remaining lite,
the Doctor pronounced him dead. He was laid
out and leljt, in a room by himself. Yesterday
morming it was discovered that during the night he
hiad come to, and subsequently bled to death from
the wound in his arm made by the Doctor's lancet.
St. Louis Union, July 13.
An Old Soldier.~Drigadier General Brady, of
Detroit, is now the oldest surviving officer in the
American ariny. He is now Colonel of the 2J
Infantry. A few days since the General was ta
ken violently sick. The attending physician
thonght him to be dying, and commnuicated to
him his fears. “Beat the drum=—my knapsack is
slung, and Hugh Brady is ready to march,” was
the soldier-like response.
Lead Mine at Buliisport Me.~\We learn that the
lead mine recently cfiscm'cred at Bucksport, is
fonund 1o extend across the river, and the specimens
smelted have proved very rich, yieldingover seven
ty-five per cent of pure leadv. The quantity s
said 1o be large, and inmediate measures will he
taken to work the mine systematically, and it is
helieved a large protit will be realized.—Bangor
Whig.
Erecution.—Y esterday, the sentence pronounced
by the Counrt of Magistrates and 'recholders, on
Nicholas, the slave of Wm. Kelley, George, the
slave of J. 8. Holmes, and John the slave of Dr.
A. V. Tooner, was carried into effect in the jail
yard, between the honrs of 12 and 2 o'clock.—
Charleston Courier, July 21.
Tall Oats.—~We have received from the farm of
Mr. G. 8. Hughes, in Hurtford connty, near
Havre de Grace, a specimen of the tallest oats of
tlie season, measuring five feet in height, perfect.
ly straight, and the stalks nearly seven-eighths of
an inch in eircamference. The heads were also
well filled.—Balt. Sun.
The number of miles of Railway in England,
sanctioned by Parliament, up to this time, is about
12,000 wiles. Only 4000 miles are completed -
The capital invested in these compl le.' lines, is
one thounsand millions of dollars, The total re.
ceipts of these ruilways last year, was £50,000,000.
U. 8. Coast Survey.—The survey of the coast of
Marylaud is rapidly progressing, and three or four
parties are at work, with the assistance o asteameoer
and brig of war under their direction. Captain
I'arley commands the lund operations, and Licut,
McLaughlin those on the water.
William Manning, the oldest printer in the
State, having been a member of the old firm of
Mauning & Loring. in Spring lane, Boston. alter
wards messenger 1o the governor and council, divd
nt Cambridgeport on Wednesday worning, aged
82 years.~—=Boston ['ost.
Fmigration still increases, notwithstanding the
approach of harvest, which nsually operates as
check. The total emigration from Liverpool for
the past hnll"‘venr has been 87,443, In the corres.
ponding half year of 1348 it was 02,0%0.- New
York Commercial Advertiscr.,
The New Hampshire Legislature has soclisinged
the law inflicting the punishwment of death, that no
convicted prisoner shall be executed nutil n year
has been passed in confinement—and then his
ptimshment may be commuted by Governor and
Council.
The Worcester's passengers have published «
card ofthanks to Capt. Comstock, of the Empire
State, for the prompt assistance rendered on the
night of the accidcat to the Woreester, The pas
sengers attribute the collision to the carclessness
of those on board the schooner.—N. Y. Com
The Cleveland (Ohio) Herald states that eight
firms in that city have parchased there during the
season, two hundred and twenty-three thousand
pounds of wool, at prices rimging (rom 20 to 37}
cts, per pound, but the greater portion at from 24
to 27 cts.
A man in the employ of Mr. Mellntire, at South
Wobern, Mass., fell from a hay stack npon the
handle of a pitchfork which stood npright, and
which penetrated his body injuring himn se severe
ly that Ee was bronght to the hospital.
Crop tn Ohio.—The Cincinnati Gazette esti
mates that the deficiency in the wheat crop of the
State, this year, will be aboul one Ihinl'. or he”
tween 7,000,600 and 8,000,000 bushels. The loss
falls principally upon the large wheat growers.
The Newhuryport Herald pronounces the story
übout the brig Smith Tuttle being chased by a
pirate, written and enclosed in a bottle, which was
picked up in Delaware Bay, “ a vile hoax perpe
trated by some idle scoundrel.”
Speaking of snakes, the Barnstable Patriot says
Mr. Cornelius Crocker killed a black one in his
mowing field over four feet long. It had the im
pudence to turn upon and leap towards him.
The Alleghany rioters, at the fire in that city,
are bound over on a clmrie of aiding and nbetting
arson, by interfering with the exertions of the
authorities to put out the fire,
There have heen very heavy freshets in South
Carolina, washing away milldams, bridges, &e.,
and by the extreme wet weather inflicting severe
iujury on the cotton plants.
At Alburgh, Vi, M. Michael Duel, about 60
years old, was killed by his insane wile, who clove
his elenil with an axe as he sat ina chair. He was
doomed to die soon of consumption
On the 11th ult, Mrs. Butterfield of Hitchen,
England, presented her husband with their twen
ty-fourth child about a month after the twenty
third anmversary of their wedding day !
Manuring High.~<~One hundred tons of Pata
gonia guano were disposed of last week to the
farmers, at Chestertown, (Md.,) at 320 per ton.
Franklin Foss was instantly killed at Stillwater,
Me., while blasting rocks. A large stone struck
hiw in the forehead scatlering his Lrains,
Lient. Maxwe!l Wood, now attached to the U 7,
€. const survey. is ordered to complete the survey
of Hellgate commenced by Licut. Porter.
The body of Matthew Wood, hung at New
York on Friday, was placed in a pine, unpainted
coflin, his friends refusing to receive it
At Cincinnati a dissipated son of Capt Sam.
mons has been arrested for poisoning the family
by putting arsenie in the tea,
John D. Morey, aged 19 years, son of Charles
Morey, of Albany. shot himself dead in Watervliet,
N. Y., beeause of disappointed love.
In Rockland, N. Y., Elisha Smith, an old man,
killed a man named Nawmary in a quarrel about a
division fence.
There i a rose bush flourishing near Bristol,
Pa., kuown to be more than a hundre ) years ol'.
There are now nine cases of murder for trizlin
Judge Keith's Circuit, in Tennessee.
Republican HHevald.
PROVIDENCE,
Sanrday, July 28, 1849,
TAYLOR AND HIS CABINET.
Jast now the Whig papers are denying that
Geueral Taylor permits his Cabinet to make his
appoiniments, somctimes voting with the members,
and oceupying the same footing as either of the
other seven. It is too late to take this new
ground. Whig papers, which knew the facts,
long ago wdwitted it. They published the voie by
which My, Lewis was made Coliector of Philadel
phia; aud they know that General Taylor excused
that appoeiutient, by saying that his wish to ap
point Peter fken Smithwas voteddownin Cabinet
meeting. We all know that this voting was ex
cused and commended by the Whig press down
to within a very short time,
‘T'he fact at the bottom of all this—the incompe
tency of General Taylor—is undeniable. Many
of his own friends admit that he lacks capacity and
intelligence ; and all who have more than a mo
ment's conversation with him, are pamfully im
pressed witlt thisfact. A brave man and a skilful
officer, in the ‘military sense, he undoubtedly is.
He has fought nobly and bravely for his country,
and deservesall the eredit for it that belongs to any
soldicr in onr service. The dangers he has en
countered, the depiivations he has suffered, the
sucrificos he has made, the years of toil he has en
dured, point to an exalted patriotisim and a nolle
nature. They are remembered by his country
men ; and will seeare him forgiveness for many
errors of the head, while evidence is given us that
the heart is right. But they have ceased to blind
our eyes to the fact of his utter unfitness for the
oflice he now fiils, or to the wretched mistukes
which men without experience in statesmanship
are liable to. These are too apparent to be over~
looked. They are the cause of regret and morti
fication ; but they are not to be passed over in si
lenee by those who wonld guard the people against.
similar mistakes in the future.
We are sometimes asked to blame the Cabinet, |
and not General Taylor, tor the errors of admin- |
istration which become apparent. T'hat the Cab~ |
inet deserves blume, we entertain not a doubt.
Ungnestionably they huve abused the authority |
with which they have been invested. General |
Taylor probably had no idea, when he appointed |
them to oflice, that they would do as they have |
done and nre doing. He hasbeen deceived, quite:
likely, and is still deceived. But he can hardly |
plead the deception as an excuse for his conduct. ‘
He voluntarily called them about him, knowing a. !
majority of them to be altra Whigs, and all of |
them Whigs of some sort. He voluntarily re- |
signed to them the duty of deciding upon applica- !
tions for oflice. He gave ontin his own orgoss, |
that he would only listen to applications when they |
came through members of his cabinet. Of coumse
the member of his cabinet who was applied to, ‘
wonld decide between the applicants, and swmd |
the name of ouly one to the Presilent—giving ho o
General, Hobson's choice, that or nothing. 1
there was suflicient interest in the case to caryy iz
before the cabinet, it went there, aud was vated
upon; but the case has not been presented ous
where General Taylor has exercised the anthesity
vested in him, so far as to reverse or disregard one
of their decisions, or 1o refuse an appointwent
where it wiy recammended by an officer of the
cabinet. Allthe while he has permiited the slawgh
ter 1o go fosward nnchecked ; has removed some
of his most ardent friends who were not Whigs s
has disregarded the importunities of large majori-
Les i places where old incumbents were sought
1 be retained ; has disregarded the necessities of
wen who Lopponed io'hold places of trifling val
we,and has struek down hundreds who fought
by his side onthe field of battle, and whose hon
esty and fidelity huve heen attested by men of alk
parties. All this he has permitted. If he had give
“en his personalattention to the work which be
longs to Lis otlice, he might, and perhaps would,
have prevented it. Or, if he had laid down the:
same roles for his cabinet, which he proclaimed
for himself in his inaugural, the result would have
been (ur difieremt; the people would have par
doned many errors, in the belief that their chief”
magistrate had desired to do right, and had taken:
the steps which he deemed necessary to secure amn
adherence to the doctrines he had proclaimed be
fore his election. But it is too late, now, to say
that no blame ataches to him. It is too late, be
cause the evidence is before the people, that his
cabinet was voluntarily entrusted with the powers
which they have exercised so shamefully, and it is
equally plainthat he might have arrested their out
rageous proceedings at any moment. So, on the
oilier hand, it is o late to deny that he has let
himsell down to the level of a cabinet member,
while the fuct is adimitted that he hus submitted to
appointments he disapproved of, and in no single
instance disregarded the majority when he hap
pened to be outvoted.
LP" Several reagons are given in the Whig pa
pers why we cannot jast now send in search of
Sir John Franklu, One is, we havn't got any
vessels to send ; second is, it is too late to send
them, if we had & thousand; and a third is, we
havn't got any constitutional right to send any.—
All these reasons are arrayed in the National In
telligencer, and in the next breath, we are told,
the Expedition has only been postponed. If Sir
John were really alive, and conld know how bright
ly our President is managing things, he would
certainly fecl safe enongh !
EP" The “anunexation” of Cuba is being talked
of by men of all parties at the South, and the feel
ing in favor of the project grows every day stron.
ger. A friend writes us from New Orleans that
this feeling is already too strong to be controlled
by any party or central influence, and that it must
and will accomplish its work. We have no ob
jection. But we shall protest agains the measure
unless it is conpled with the annexation of Canada.
It will not do to annex any more hot weather, un
less we can have an ice-berg or two, to cool our
lemonade with. Yesterday was Lot enough o
make us think all the West India islands had been
annexed, and the Northern colonies moved back.
We can't stand it any hotter, now, we can’t,
£7" If the reports by the Europa are correct,
England has demanded to kuow of France what
she proposes to do with ltaly—how long she is go
ing to hold Rome, and whether itis her purpose
to reinstate the Pope. This begins to hintata
desire to see fair play j but it comes too late. It
looks as thongh England cared not a fig for Re
publicanism, but something for the Protestant Re
ligion. It is n shame that she stood still and raw
France murder hundreds of Roman citizens, with
out ghinking to inguire what it was for.
Veny eroguest.~*When there is no gold in
Californta. When the Mississippi emptics itselfl
into the Pacifiec. 'When the sun can be blown ont
with a schoolhoys whistle, then will the gentleman
editor of the Herald become an Anti. Slavery man.
There's a good time, &e."”
When “the fools are all dead”, there will be
iy e ditovial chair vacant.
CllOl.filgA IN PROVIDENCE. ‘
Cholera is made up of' symptoms ; these symp,
toms have been observed in onr city. Seventeen
cases had been reported by the physicians up to
Thursday last. Fifteen of these had proved fatal.
Cholera in its early stages, resemnbles cholera mor
bus ; the latter has frequently proved fatal in years
past; and this fact, and the resemblance between
the two diseases, have led some to dounbt that any
case of cholera has ocenrred amongst us. It mat
ters little what we eall a disease ; we are chietly
interested in the symptoms, and the results which
they threaten. Symiptoms which produce death
in filleen cases out of seventeen, deserve to be at
tended to. May we notsay, also, that a system of
medicine or plan of practice which loses fifteen
out of sevente#i paticnts, deserves to follow this
large majority, and be handed over to the sexton ?
We have good physicians in Providence—some
of the best in New England ; learned, skilful, care
ful, honest. 'We respect them as highly as we do
nny otner class of citizens, There is not one
amongst thoin, thatwe are awareof who disgraces
the profession he belongs to—not one, probably,
who wonld not go as far as any citizen, to relieve
distress. But they are not successful, thus far, in
treating what they call Cholera. We mean the
allopathists—no others, thatwe are informed, have
been called upon. Perhaps one reason of their
poor success is, that they were not called early
| enovugh, |
But this cannot be the sole reason; for the suc- ‘
cess in other places, where they have had a fuir |
chance to combat the disease, has been very poor.
They have saved but about one half of their pa
tients. The homeopathists, if human testimony
may be relied npon, have done much better-~los
ing only one in four or five. 'The hydropathists
claim to have done better still, but how well, we
cannot say. We know they tulk very sensibly
abont the disease, but we have seen no statement
of the results furnished by their practice. The
Thomsonians elaim that they eure nearly every
one to whom they are called. and aver that there
is very little or no danger when they ure called at
the proper time. Their statements are backed by |
disinterested testimony, nnd if webelievethe others,
itis our duty to believe these also.
Then it follows that the old system is not the
proper one by which to treat cholera. The doses
of opinum and calomel, and the blistering resorted
to, by the old school physicians, and strongly re
commended by their authors, do not produce good
results. A few are saved—or, say one-half—but
when the medicines are used in infinitisimal doses,
as by the homeopathists. more are saved: and
when not used at all, as in the Thomsonian prac
tice, still more. The fuult is evidently in the med
icine ; the less nsed of it, the better; and where
none at all is nused (of the sort), the chance is bet
ter still. Either the cholera has changed from
what it used to be, or else Eberle and the other
allopathic authors, have made a grand mistake—
the sooner it is corrected, the better.
We ventured sowme advice to personswho should
be attacked with eholera, afew weeks since, inthe
Herald. We recommended hot bathing, and hot,
stimulating medlcines; a resort, in other words, to
the most powerful means within their reach to pro
duce sweating. We believed then,and we believe
now, that the mzn who can make a person sweat
quickest, will prove the best cholera doctor; and
we venture to say that where this advice s follow
ed, the result in this city will be reversed, and not
more than two in seventeen patients will be lost.
Physicians are almost unanimous in saying that
when perspiration is efiected, the disease is con
quered ; and our humble opinion is, that they do
not effect it, becanse they will not resort to medi
cines and modes of treatment which are resorted
to by men they have siyled quacks.
Qur purpose in making these remarks, is not to
detract from the merits of one class of physicians,
or to build up saother cluss. There is no law
against the use of hot water and cayenne by allo
pathists, and we honestly believe they can be suc
cesslul in it, il they will leave their old books and
try.
P.B.—~When we had written thus far, we
thought we had told as much trath, in an unpopu
lar eanse, us we could afford to, (as we may lose
at least one subscriber for every line of it,) and
had thrown down our pen. But on looking over
the New York Tribune of Wednesday, we find a
comwmununication so directly to the point, that we
canuot resist the inclination to publish a portion of
it. Let it be understood, at the same time, that
our columns are open to the other side, and that
we shall be especially pleascd to correct any errors
into which a desire to benefit our kind may lead
us. [Horace Greely, in publishing the communi.
cation below, says: “We know the writer to be a
worthy, truthful, disinterested man, and very glad
ly publish his testimony,” &e.
To the Editor of the Tribune : |
The writer of this article is not a physician of‘
any school, nor has he any pecuniary interest, to
the valne of a cent, in the sale of uny Cholera spe- ‘
cific, or in the prevalence ol one mode of medical
practice more than another. e isof the opinion, |
lw\vevrr, that one substantial fact, in n‘gar«} to the
treatment of epidemiec Cholera, is worth whole
acres of speenlations and theories, and that obser
vation and experience are far safer guides than
the wisdom of school-men. In '32 and’'34-he was
in the midst of Cholera, and he is now familiar
with it. lle has seen itin allits forms and phases,
and his professional daties, as a clergyman, have
brought him in contact witli the physicians of every
school and given him ample opportunity of wii
nessing and comparing their various degrees ol
snceess, Ol a large number of cases which have
come under his immediate observation the result
is as follows: OFf those treated by the “Regular
Faculty” m'nclhini’morc than one-half have died.
Homeopathy and Hydropathy are generally sue
cessful, but few of these imstances have come un
der the immediate cognizance of the writer, and
he cannot therefore speuk sé confidently or pre
cisely from actual knowledge. With the Botanic
or T'homsonian practice, however, he has been
quite familar, and has seen its application in many
instances, and he has yet to see the first instance
ol its fuilure. He does not pretend to say that no
instance of the kind has occurred, for it 1s ro-‘
sumed that there are cases which are heyonftho
reach of human means ; but, if in the city of Al
bany, in "32 and "31, or in this city, during the pre
sent epidemic, a man, woman or child has died of
Cholera under the judicious application of Thom
sonian remedies, it has escaped not only the ob
servation but the careful inguiries of the writer.
The application of this fact, if’ it be one, in an ex
tended sense, is plan and easy to be perceived,
though it is not so easy to determine why, in this
great city, there is no hospital where this mode of
treatment is introduced. Possibly our Ci;] Fa
‘thers way be of the opinion that it is better for the
| ,teople to die scientifically than to be cured irregu
arly; but if the people themselves wmight be al.
lowed 1o judge, in a case where their own lives
are concenwfl, it wonld be found that they are less
solicitons about the orthodoxy than the success ol
their medical attendants.
[ln another part of our paper will be found a
commnication from one of our own citizens on
this subject—ithe facts submitted going to show the
same results as are claimed in the article here
quoted. We eommeniitio our readers.)
Dianrn@a =—An old friend of ours, who has had
some experience ia the world, and has kept his
eyes open to the experience of others, offers the
following as a care for diarrhaa, and says it is the
best remedy extant. It is certainly a very palata.
ble one for such as like Lrandy *<*The yolks of
two eggs—two ounces powdered loaf sugar, a gill
of fourth-proof Lrandy—mixed, and one nutmeg
grated into it. Take a tea spoonful every hour.”
57 We saw peaches in our eity last Welnes
day for the first time this scasen. We believe good
ripe peaches are not deemed hurtful in their sea
son, il people do not mistake the size of their
stomachs, It isn't best 10 eat too much of any
thing.
CHOLERA TREATMENT.
Mu. Eptron—Will you permit me in the col
umus of your paper to present a few fucts in re
gard to the success attending some of the differ
ent modes of treating Cholera. First, the
“Old School”, er Allopathic treatinent —lt is gen
erally conceded, and will be observed by the read
ers of the daily papers, that of all the cases report
ed in the principal cities where this epidemic has
raged, nbout 50 per cent. or one half prove fatal.
These reports are made priucipally by the “old
school” physicians, and probably formn as fuvora
ble a statementas the facts will warrant. If atany
time a much less proportion die, il is to be attrib
uted to the disease assuming a milder form,
Homeopathic Treatment.~From reports publish
ed in the New York Tribune, by sixteen howmeo
pathic physicians, it appears that their treatment
has proved far more successiul than that noticed
above. The last account gives a total of eighty
two cases. and only twelve deaths, up to the 10th
inst. ; and the character and standing of the physi
cians are such as 1o preclude the suspicion of in
uceuracy.
At present I am not furnished with data to give
the results ot the Hydropathic or \Water Cure prac
tice, but have repeatedly been informed that their
treatinent has been attended with good success,
Thomsonian or Botanie Treatment.~From the
statements of practitioners who have had much
experience in this disease, it appeurs that their
mode of pructice has generally been astonishingly
successful. Prof. J. R. Bnechanan, of Cincinnati,
Ohio, in a late number of the Journal of Man,
states thut in that eity, “‘nine respectable physi
cians (Thomsonians and Feletics, eschewing cal
omel, opium, bleeding, blistering, &e.,) treated,
during the month of May, 330 cases of real chol
cra, and upwards of 200 cases of cholera diarrhava,
with only five deaths, two of which were in conse
qhence of vielation of directions, and the other
three were too far gone to he saved by any treat
ment.” Dr. Buchanan also says, “It has been
clearly demonstrated that Cholera, left to itself, is
one of the most fatal discases; but rightly man
aged, is one of the mest harmless.”” Comment is
unnecessary. De wise in time! 5. W,
Mgz. Evitor :—I was much amused, a few days
since, by the recital of the following anecdotes :
A gentleman who prides himself upon his liter
‘ary and political knowledge, and whose residence
is not more than one hundred miles from your
peaceful abode, held a levee with his friends.—
The subject of the U. 8. Constitution was intro
duced—the spirit and the meaning was urgued.
A majority of the company dissented from the
gentleman’s views of the “venerable instrument.”
He became somewhat enraged at their decision,
and declared that he was ready to make his state
ment good. No Constitution being at hand, but
one being “at home”, he wonld produce it—*don
ned his beaver”, left his seat, opened the door,
and was about departing on his mission to obtain
evidence of his views, when he suddenly paused
and inquired—**Whether they wanted the first or
sccond volume of the Constitution of the United States !
in order to satisfy them he was correct !”
One of our merchant tailors, a few years since,
having been unfortunate in business, failed. In
time he overcame his difficulties. and resumed his
vocation, got out his cards and presented them to
his friends. One was handed in propria persone
to the gentleman above allnded to, and read—
“G =, Draper & Tailor.”
He raised his eyes from the card, and giving the
tailor a solemn look, burst ont with the following
exclamation—**G e, who in h=—ll is this Dra
per and Tailor you have taken in company with you ?
I thought you had had partners enough alrfiady ”
EM.
{77 That good man, Father Mathew, has met
with a most glorious reception in Boston. Speech -
cs of welcome have been made to kimby Dr. War.
ren, Gov. Briggs, Mayor Bigelow, and others, and
to all of them he has replled in lunguage the most
flattering to the city and its institutions. He is
evidently delighted with our country, our people,
and our laws. He adinisters the pledge to all
who call on him for the purpose, whether the time
has been assigned for that or other ceremonies.—
Thousands have joined his standard since his arri
val in this cofinlr_v. and there cannot be a doubt
that he is effecting more real good than any other
man now living on the face of the globe.
Gen. Tavror axo uis Sonnigrs.—“The recent
campaigns in Mexico, so far as military combina
tions and the actions of commanders ure concern
ed, have now become matters of history, but no
history can fully record the sufferings, the priva
tions, the courage, and constancy of the common
soldier. To the steadiness and’ discipline of the
rank and file, ably led as they were by the platoon
and regimental officers, our successes must be
mainly ascribed. Without such officers and such
men, no inspiration, no good fortune, could have
averted disgrace from our arms."”
‘l'he above is the language made use of by Gen.
Taylor in accepting a sword presented to Kill re
cently by the State of Virginia, in honor of his
signal military services in the Mexican war. He
might have added, that “without such officers and
such men’ as stood by him at Buena Vista he nev
er would have been President of' the United States.
So far as words are concerned, the above quota
tion is nothing more than a just tribute to the gal
lantry and patriotic devotion of our soldiets to
their country ; but when we look at the acts 6f the
administration of which he is or ought to be the
head and front, we find that they are directly at
war with the sentiments expressed by him. In'
removing from trivial offices men wfio bravely
fought and bled in the Mexican war—men who
were maimed at Buena Vista in aiding to make
the Stars and Stripes victorious—and in many in
stancesnppointingin their stead miserable creatures
who had not the moral courage to shoulder the
musket, go to Mexico and fight against their brave
countrymen, but the abominable cowardice to do
all they could against them at home, in act and
speech. We have yet to hear of the first gallant
soldier of the American army who served in the
Mexican war being appointed to an office by the
present admini<tration; bnt we have seen \{’hig
fin ers, in announcing the removale of some who
us fought in Mexico, that exulted at the fact that
the appointees were persons “who did not go to
Mexico and fight”
These facts prove but one thing, and thatis, that
Gen. Taylor's affection and gratitude forthe com
mon soldier, who stood by him in Mexico, is but
lipdeep. Yea,they rto\-e yetmore. They prove
by implication that they would have been more
honored if lhe{ had acted the coward’s part, staid
athomo and abuse the government and those who
went forth to fight. 'lghe administration in this,
notonly fails to manifesta regard for the common
soldiers, but endeavors to attaint them with infamy.
Are the American people—~those whose patriot
ism and love of conntry wounld not allow &em to
side with the onomy—‘oini to tolerate such base
condnet—will they paes it by without their con
demnation ? Wifi lgey not hurl into oblivion the
administration and its apologists, when an op};'or
tunity offers for such unhallowed outrages. T'he
fewer the qnotations the whig Jpreu make from
Gen. Taylor's speeches and addresses, that look
like an expression of regard for the common sol
dier. while the acts of his administration are at such
open v ar with his expressions, the better.— Trum
bull ( Ohio) Democrat.
Orp Zacx's Geoararny,.—The Hartford Con
rant don't believe that Gen. Taylor remarked 10 a
party of Conmecticut visitors to the White House,
that he was “glad to seo the Bay State so well rep
resented.” “T'o suppose.” says the indignant
Courant, “‘that a man who has ever been to Mas
sachusetts, as President Tavlor has, should not be
able to distinguish that State from Connecticut, is
arrant nonsense.” T'he New London Star, how
ever, offers to "' the truth of the story, and
on “as good mflhnrity as there is in New
London !
Zachary Washington, it seems, hasn'tpicked np
as much information in his travels through Massa
chusetts, as the Courant imagines. But the whig
papers must not be discouraged. After the Gen
eral has made his visit to the north, and had a chat
with his :::onq'friend'o. “the 'l::u Bekolh whigs,”
erhaps he will get along withont making so man
gf theselittle blundersin unvomflon.—.‘n’u‘fi&
Post.
Daoverneoryer Mixiarunes.—Being desir
ous of obtuining ome of these “pleasing keep
sakes”, we called on the Messrs. Manchester, at
their beantiful gallery, No. 33 Westuinster St., a
day or two since, and had onr likeness taken.—
We had often heard these gentlemen spoken of
very favorably, and we went to their estublish
ment expecting to receive a superior picture. In
Justice 1o thew we st suy that we were not dis
appointed. The picture we had taken, was cer.
tainly (in poiut of artistic taste and excention) the
most beautiful specimen of the art we have ever
seen. The Messrs. M. have recently fitted the
upper hall in Hoppin's block with a superior *ob
lique sky light’, which they assure us is much bet.
ter adapted to their business than any other, giv.
ing a most beantiful aud watural shading, with
sharp and life like eyes. ‘T'hey seem determined
to keep at the head of their profession. whatever
may be the expense. No person can examine
their large colleetion af specimens withont observ
ing the peculiarly graceluk attitudes in which the
sitters are arvanged—and the beauty of coloring,
as well as the boldness of execution. We would
recommend to our readers who are desirons of
obtaining a likeness taken in the highest perfec
tion of the photographic art, to call at this estab
lishment. "Vheir gallery of specimens is open for
the inspection of all—and persons calling to seo
them will find the proprietors civil and gentle
manly. ~ v oy
& The publisher, John Bartlett, of Cambridge,
has sent us a beantiful pamphlet edition of the
“Addresses ot the Inangnration of Jured Sparks,
L. L. D., as President of Harvard College.” The
inanguration took place on the 20th of June, and
the pamhplet embraces a full account of the pro
ceedings. We cannot speak at length of all the
addresses delivered on the occusion ; we will only
say that the Latin Oration is excellent, so far as we
can understand it. 'T'he Latin Hymn is superh—by
which we mean, itis fut; by which printers will
understand that the lines are very short.
Tux New Orreays Serevavens,—lf common
report peaks truly, this is one of the most talent
ed companies of perforniers thut has ever visited
our city. They give ns three entertainments at
Howard Hull next week, commencing on Mon
day evening. If thetr music and burlesques are
half as well liked here as they have been in other
cities, in onr own and other countries, onr people
will not regret the bestowmnent of a liberal pat
ronage.
=7 We publish to-day the Proclamation of
Gov. Anthony, enjoining upon our citizens the
observance of the Fastrecommended by President
Taylor. The day will be one of interest to the
religions community, if' properly regarded, and
may turn the thoughts of all our people to a better
observance of both the moral and physical laws of
our nature as established by a wise Creator.
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£ We hear that two or three mad dogs have
been killed in our city within the past week or
two. We cannot recommend the slanghter of
every dog found unmuzzled in our streets; but
the owners of such would show themselves more
regardinl of humanity by complying with the law,
and we hope they will more generally do so, than
they have heretofore,
it
KitLen.—A woman by the name of Dorianna
Smith was struck by the middle train of cars from
Worcester, on Thursday, in the deep cut at the
North End of the city, and so badly injured that
she lived but a few minutes. She was not per
ceived till the engine was within a few rods of
her. Probubly she was intoxicated or crazy, as
when perceived she was swinging her bottle and
making ridiculous gestures.
7" The cholera is increasing again in New
York; 150 cases, 52 fatal, were reported on Thurs
day.
In Philadelphia the number of cases is gradual
ly diminishing ; and so at most places where it hus
raged at the South, 8
[P" Rev. Hosea Ballon, a father in the Univer
salist ministry, preached a conple of very eloquent
sermons to the Second Society in this city, last
Sunday. Tomorrow, Rev. Thomas Whittemore ,
editor of the Trampet, fills the same desk.
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Bayse's Vovack 1o Evkore.—~To uy.another
word in praise of this beautiful Panorama would
be superfluous. All who have seen it are satisfied
of its intrinsic merits. "T'here will be iwo exhibi
tions to-day—oue at 3§ in the afternoon, and one
at 8 in the evening.
E 7” We thank Mr. O'Gorman for Boston pa
pers containing the news by the steamer.
Two hundred and fifty houses in Cincinnati are
‘““to let,” the cholera having frightened former oc
cupants from the city,
A PROCLAMATION,
Y
HENRY B. ANTHONY,
GOVERNOR OF TIHE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS.
Whereas, the President of the United States has
issued the tollowing Rccommendation :
A RecommenpaTioN.—At a season when the
Provivexce of Goo has manifested itself in the
visitation of a fearful pestilence, which is spread
ing its ravnfc- throughout the land, it is fitting
that a people, whose reliance has ever been on
dus Prorecriow, should humble themselves be
fore His Tunove; and while acknowledging
past transgressions, ask a continuance of pivine
MERCY.
It is, therefore, earnestly recommended that the
first Friday in August be observed throughout the
United States as a day of Fuasting, Humiliation
and Prayer. All business will be suspended in
the various branches of the public service on that
day ; and it is recommended to persons of all re
ligious denominations to abstain, as far as is prac
ticable, from secular occupations, and to aseemble
in their respeztive places of public worship, teo ac
knowledge the inviNiTe Goooxess which hos
watched over our existence as a nation, and so
long crowned us with manifold blessings ; and to
im;fiorc the Aumianty, in His own good time, to
#tuy the destroying hand which is now lifted up
against us.
Z. TAYLOR.
Washington, July 3, 1819,
And whereas it is becomin’ a Christian people
to acknowledge the hand of God in seasons of
great national calamity, and to supplicate His
mercy for their alleviation and abridgment so far
as may be consistent with his Divine will :
Therefore, not doubting that a compliance with
the President's Recommendation wigl be conso
nant to the feelings of the good peorlo ofthe State,
1 hereby invite them to join their fellow citizens of
other portions of the Union in setting apart FRI
DAY, thethird day of Augu-l next, as a day of
Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer:
And that abstaining on that day from all unne
eenarg and unbecoming sccular employment. they
~assemble in their respective places of worship,
and there humbly entreat the Giver of all ood,
~that he will be pleased to stay the peltirence
which rava?e- the land, and to restore to the peo
ple that health which is the greatest of His tem
poral blessings.
And while we implore the mercy of God, in this
respect, for other portions of our country, let us
not be unmind(u! of the thanhgivin. due to Him,
that hitherto we have been, in a great degree,
ucmh!od from this fearful scourge ; and whether
it be His good pleasure to eontinue this exemp
‘ion to us, ot whether we shall share more dccpry
in the ealamity which afflicts our fellow country
men, let us entreat Him to give us grateful hearts
for the Nenin}p which He gu vouchsafed to ve,
and to sanctify to our good the afflictions with
lw.t:lich, for wise purposes, He permits us to be vis
ted,
Given under my hand and seal of said
State, this twenty-fith day of July, in
(L. B.]) the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and forty-nine, and of
Independence the seventy-fourth,
HENRY B. ANTHONY,
By the Governor:
Cunis. K. Rosmixe,
Sccretary of State,