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Bp Mail.
5 DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF THE FRANKLIN,
The U. 8. Mail steamship Franklio, which ar
rived at New York on Monday morning, brings
the following European intelligence :
Cotton at Liverpool has advanced § since the
sailing of the America, with an average sale daily
of 10,000 bales. : B :
Trade in the manufacturing districts is active
and healthy. -
A heavy failure had occurred in London, the
old and respectable house of Rucker & Son
*l'heir liabilities are reported at £2,000,000. The
cuuse of their failure is atribnted 10 large advanc
es on produce. It was believed they would
enmunfiy pay up. Greatagitation prevails; and
a crisis is thought to be at hand.
The French ambassador at Madrid has promised
the Spanish government the assistance or France,
o put down any piratical expedition in Cuba,
Paris generally was tranquil, waiting the reports
and decisions of the councils general.
T'he London money market is very tight,
The Pacific on her outward trip. the 2d night
out ran down an Awmerican schooner. All her
crew were saved. The Pacilic carried away sev
eral of her floats.
Breadstufis at Liverpool are reported as un.
changed.
Parliament has been further prorogued unul
November 4th. The Queen will visit Manches
ter and the adjoining town of Salford, on the 19. h
of October.
Gibraltar is threatened with quarantine in con
sequence of the cholera prevaiing at Oran and
Melila.
Commercial maiters in France were in a com
paratively prosperouscondition. T'he harvest was
excellent and mostly secured. The Conneil Gen
eral of the Seine at Murne has adopted resolutions
in favor not only of the immediate revision of the
Constitution, but alse of article 45, which prohibits
the re-election of the President.
The great topic ol conversation when the Frank
lin left, was the extraordinary qualities of the
schooner yacht America, which vessel (as is al
ready known to our readers) won the challenge
cup for yachts of all nations, at Cowes, on the 224
ult,, given by the Royal Yacht Squadron. In the
Times of the 25th August there is a most able and
graphic wecount of this memorable race, in which
full justice isdone to the Yankee clipper, which has
80 unceremoniously astonished the European yacht
ing world. An immense concourse of people us.
sembled to see the match, the American Minister
and other American notabilities being present
Although the America was proved to have deviat
ed a litle from the course, (at a disadvantage to
herself, however, in poiot of distance,) yet the
committee adjudged the cup valued at £lOO, to
the owners of the America. Commodore Stevens
expressed himsell perfectly satisfied with the man.
ner in which he has been received and treated by
the members and committee of the Royal Yacht
Squadron, while they on their part freely ucknow|
edge the fair, manly and straight4orward behavior
of their successful American opponent.
Queen Victoria and Prince .‘lben have bestow
ed the most lively attention to this exciting race,
and the day afier it came off expressed their de
sire 10 visit the Awmerica. T'he schooner was nc
cordingly moored off Osborne House, (the marine
residence of Her Majesty.) when the Queen and
the Prince, accompamed by their suit, paid her a
visit of inspection, being towed on board in Ihe
State barge, steered by Lord Adolplus Fitzelar
ence. On nearing the vessel, the national colors
were dipped out of respect to her Majesty, and the
same ceremony was repeated when she departed.
The Queen made a close inspection of the Amer
ica attended by Commodore Stevens and Colo
nel Hamilton, and remained on board half an hour,
expressing great admiration of the gemeral ar
rangement of the schooner.
The Awmerica had entered for the cup, value
£lOO, givenby the Queen. 10 be suiled forby yachts
of all nations at the Royal Victoria Yacht Club
Regatta, at Ryde, Isle ol’Wighl. on the 25th Aug.,
but Commodore Stevens declined to start, owing
to the almost entire absence of wind on the day
appointed. The America subsequently got under
way. and beat the whole fleet upwards of an hour,
not, however, winning the cup, becanse ehe had
been formally withdrawn from the race.
Great grepautiom were made for the Queen's
journey North.
The trouble in Treland is owing to the violent
action of the Catholic defence association. Some
of the Irish Bishops were 10 be prosecuted by gov
ernwent for assuming illegal titles in contraven
tion of the Ecclesiastic T'it es Bill. ‘This proceed
ing will probably drive the Catholic districts to re
bellion.
A london correspondent of the Commercial
Advertiser says, “'lt is stated that your conntrymen
Mr. Hobbs has just sncceeded in opening the lock
of Messrs. Bramah & Co., on which he has been
?9}(??" engaged, and he has claimed his reward ot
Tue Parar. States —The Milan Official Ga
zette of the 21st nst., quotes a letter from Rome
of the 12th, recordimg two other political murders.
“A new assassimafion,” it says, “has been com
mitted at Rome. A man, named Orlandi, was as
sanlied last night and stabbed by am emknown
hand. As the crime was perpetrated near the
squares of Colonna and Monte Citorio, clode to
the residence of Major Caramelli, it was believed
that he was the marked man, and that it was by
mistake that Orlandi was killed.
The director of the Police of Pesaro has been
murder at the gate of his dwelling.”
Ispia,—~There has been an insurrection in
Cashmere. Goolab Singh is collecting an army
for its suppression, and his success is considered
certain.
Cuina.—The chinese insurrection against the
Tartar dynasty continues 1o gain strength.
Frou THE IsTHMUs. —~The aiuil steamship Geor
gl from Chagres on the 26ih, and Kingsion on
the 3lst ult, arrived ot New York on Sunday
morning last, with 391 passengers, and £1,497,176
on freight, besides a large amount in the hands of
passengers.
She brings two weeks later news from Panama,
V.lrnuilo aud the ports on the Pacific, but her
intelligence from California has been anticipated
by the arrival of the Promethens.
Panama papers state that a few days previous
to the arrival of the Ohio, on her last trip from
New York to Chagres, and subsequent to grenk
ing her shaft, a fire broke out on board and con
tinued to burn several hours before it could be
reached. The frightful circumstance was not dis
covered by the passengers till after all danger wae
at an end.
The Panama Herald states that there is a fine
opening in that city and vicinity for all kinds of
mechanics and agriculturists, and that then labor
will yield them from five to ten times as much as
they are accustomed to receive inthe United Staes.
Advices from Guayaquil state that on the 17th
July the military revolutivn occurred in Equador.
General Urbina and a small party of officers and
soldiers seized President Navoa on his way from
Quito 10 Guayquil to visit his family, and hurried
him on board a small Government vessel which
immediately sailed with sealed orders.
By the arrival of the British steamer New Gre
nada at Panama on the 19th Auguost, with $8,000,-
000 in silver bullion, we have \’-lpnrniso dutes to
the 27th July. They fully confirn the frightinl
character of the previously reported Lurricave of
the 7th and Bih of July.
The late election in Chili resulted in the choice
of Don Manuel Montt for President. The Neigh
bor in congratulating ite readers upon the result,
saye the election has been sne of principles rather
than of persons, and the editor regurds the decision
of the nation as indicative of improvement and
progress.
Later advices from Coneeption contradict the
statement previously reported of political disturb
snces at that place.
The latest accounts from Bogota and Carthage.
o leave no room 10 doubt but that ap actual rev.
olution has broken out in the first named place,
whilst at Carthagena, active and extensive prepar.
ations were beiig made by the liberal party 1o re.
sist the partial and oppressive measures of the ex.
..'A(}nvcr'nm:l. >
new law has recent en promulgated in
Peru for the greater ul.,nuon o"un fu.odom of
trade, and the ntmost degree of hnrmony prevaile
between the executive aud the legislative bodies
of the Government,
A vew article of merchandise has made its ap.
ravce in Callao and Lima, where 399 Chinese
f::. neuu’ been landed and sold o{ the captaing
or owners of vessels at the rate of §lO7 per head,
vonder engagement that they shaull be free after the
um:" three years. 1t has become all the
fashion, at Lima particularly, 0 bave Chinese
servanis.
There ieno general news from the luland. The
Cholern continues 1o linger at Kingston and at vq.
rious other towns, but not to any alarming extent
The weather had b«;u ofllccninly hot, and o
troublesome tes of influcnza wae prevail,
all over the lr‘. e
| Havawa.—This noted city has a population of
"about 140,000, including the troops. It is re
| markable for the regulanty of its streets, all cross
ing each other at right angles and extending in
‘straight lines from one end of the city to the other.
They sre macadamized but narrow. The city is
remarkable for the substantial manner in which
its buildings are constructed, the walls of a sing'e
story house bLeing seldom less than two feet in
thickness. The windows, accessible either from
‘the street or from the roofs of neighboring honscs,
‘are strongly barricaded with iron bars. So much
do they wear the air of tortified places that they
have been termed castellated palaces. Ther ter.
raced roofs—says Ahlvou—gnfiuiu and passages,
barriended windows and ponderons doors, callfo
wind the old Saxon strongholds described by Scott.
A city like this. held by a brave people. even with
out garrisoned walls, would be impregnable. It
has two celebrated defences— Moro castle on the
east, and the fort of Panta on the west. The for
mer is on an elevation where it is impossible to
canuonade it from shipping. lis works are exten
sive and strong. Panta Fort is situated on a low
point, and forms a square, with a diteh cut in a
rock. and other sttong works. "I'he entire city is
walled about with formidable works. ‘l'he cita
del is a forrtess of great strengih, and extensive
fortifientions are erected on such of the heights
as command the city and port.
Havana has been repeatedly captured. It was
tukeo in 1536 by a Freneh pirate, bat ransomed
for seven handred dollars. rt was subsequently
taken by the English, by the French, and also by
the Buccanneers. ‘l'he most memorable attack
was that made upon it by the English in 1762 It
resisted two months and eight days. but at length
surrendered, with a districtone hundred and eighty
miles west of Havana. The merchandise and
specie fonnd here amounted to some fifteen mul
lions of dullurs. Havana wase restored to Bpain
in 1763. and it has not since that time been the
scene of military operations.— Boston Post,
Fuarrive Law.—" The decision bv which Judge
Conkling liberated Duaniel at Buffalo amounts to.
this : hat, according to the 10th section of the act,
no slave who escaped prior to the passage of the
fugirive slave law can be holden under that law !
Daniel was brought before Judge C. on a habecis
corpus, and taken by that writ from the custody ol
the U. S. marshal, and liberated, notwithstanding
the marshal had a certificate from the U.S. commis
sioner directing the return of Daniel to the ser
vice of his owner. After this, it can hardly be
pretended that the fugitive slave law cuts off the
habeas corpus.
Mr. Phillips lately made an experiment with his
fire annihilator at Paris. A wooden house had
been built in the centre of this large ground, and
it had been filled with tar, shavings, and combus
tibles of all sorts. As soon as a match had been
applied to these inflammable matters, the whole
wius in a blaze ; and instantly Mr. Phillips, having
i opened his apparatus, which looks like a big lan
tern, asort of white gas evaporated,which. directed
‘upon the blaze, put it down as if by enchantment.
Thousands of plandits were bestowed upon the
inventor, who has decidedly won much fame, and
deserves to be deemed one of the benefactors, of
hamanity.
The exportation of staves from New Orleans to
Europe is an item of some importance. T'wo
firms load, twenty ships ftom France and Spain.
Eight ships leave that place freighted with siaves
as their sole cargo, and twenty more carry staves
as the principul part of their load. The staves
come from Ohio, Kentncky, Indiana, Tennessee
and Missouri. Sent to Furope, they are mannu
factured into casks, and filled with the foaming and
sparkling vintage of the sunny slopes of France
and Spain, and return to the New World, the for
ests of which are felled to procure them.
Close Question.—lf the President dismisses the
collector of New Orleans for being absent a few
days from bis post. while the Cuban expedition
sailed, what should be dene wirth the President and
his cabinet, who are ‘much more guilty, having
been ahsent from their posts a much longer time,
and during the sawe eventful period '— Bal:umore
Argus.
There were 8.452 bonnty land cases reported
upon in the 3d anditor’s office during the month of
Angust ‘The Pension office has issued in all,
snce Snnnnr last. about 40,000 land warrants nn
der the act ofySeptember. 1850. Numerous claime
for arrearnges to pay in the war of 1%12 huve aris
en sifce the passage of the bounty land act,although
not one in filty is allowable.
Visitors te the Roston Common.—Officers station
ed by the City Marshal atthe varions entrances
to the Common on Sunday ufiernoon, ascertained
that the number of persons who went on to the
Common during three honrs and a half from 4 to
74 o'clock, was 13,245, T'he number that went
off during the same time, was 17,5564 Boston
Daily Ado.
Persererance.— A fellow named Cammings, stole
a horse from Col. Shaw, of Marqueite Co., Wis
consin. The Colonel swore he would eatch him
il he had to make a life pilgrimage over the world.
He travelled 87 days, and expended $2OB, and
canght the rascal at Ottawa, fll. Horse thieves
will‘bo apt to pass by Col. Shaw's pasture afler
that, when they want a nag.
Tame “ Wild Cat"—Dr. Ackley, of the Cleve
land Medicgl College, hus a wild cat three monthe
old, a fine specimen of the animal. It was canght
when a “wee thing,” and bronght up under the
immediate supervision of a domestic cat. [t is
playful as a Kitten, but returns handling with a
touch of its clawe and a laste of its teeth.
Papular Sentiment.— Fnthusiastic weetings are
being held in every city, town and hamlet throngh.
ont the Union, condemnatory of the dastardly and
brutal treatment of American Citizens, by the min
ions of Spain. Haynan Concha, as he is justly
termed, will live 1o curse the hour he was born,
ere another twelve-month roll round.
Advices from Siam state that the King of that
country died on the 3d of Aprl. and that the suc
cession has fallen without contest to his two broth.
ers, who are jointly to occupy the throne, the eld
est of whom ie well acquainted with the English
language, and favorable to a more open vommer
cial policy.
“Operations on the Teeth."—ln order to cnre g
famous elephant of insanity, the doctors at Paris
sawed off Ki- tusks and then extracted the roots,
in which caries had commenced. As chloroform
would'nt overcome the animal, a windlass was used
to lay him on his side.
An Interesting Question A case is now pending
before Justice fienueu, of New Haven, involvin
the question whether a passenger on a ruilmas
retaine the right to a particular seat through the
whole journey, aud can reclaim it after huving
once vacated it,
Virginia Gold.—The Richmond Republican
states that twenty-six bars of Virsinin old valned
at $6.000, the product of ninety days’ fnlmr in the
Buckingham gold mine, were received in that city’
a few days since, and at once despatched to 1, ¥
Philadelphia Mint.
Voluminous.—The late Gen. Dearborn says the
Boston Post, “'has left beside his printed works v
over a hundred mannseript volumes, consisting o'
biography, among which is a life of Christ, and o
treaties on various subjects.”
Discovery of Buried Gold.—" The Opelonsas (L.a )
Whig. states that some of the hands of Mr. Luiz
of that place, while digzing on his plantation, fyune
a large quantity of gold coin, amounting to about
$1,400.
Terrible Fellow.—ln resisting the officers of the
law at Thibadeanx, La., W. B. Austin killed Sher
iff Knoblock, badly wounded two others, and had
both his arms broken by gunshots befire he was
taken.
Universalist College.—~Over one hundred thov.
sand dollars, have been subscribed, and the sub.
scribers are to meet in Boston on the 16th inst.
to select a location and choosesdirectors.
The English post office stamps are covered with
dextrine, a substance cheaply munufactured from
starch, and that it answers its purpose much bew
ter than any kind of gum or paste.
Coppered to the Bends.—lt is said that the Chu
vash ladies, a Russian tribe, wear bustles of sheet
copper, and have metal ornaments attached, which
wake a great clatier in walking.
Paine's Gas.—~The National Intelligencer de
nies, by nmhom’. that any patent is sbout being
issued for Paine's new li.il. his publication to the
contrary notwith«tanding.
In Ifuohnlt. N.H, ‘6 rattlesnakes were killed
by workmen blasting rocke on the line of the
Portsmouth and Coneord Railroad.
James Johnson, who killed Mre. Amy G. W right
near Milledgeville, Georgia, in March lamt, :u
been sentenced to be hanged.
Scrved him Right.—A man was rude 1o a coupls
ol women in a street of New Orleans, whereupen
they gave him a thrashing.
Tt is stated that at the present time, npwarde of
$300,000.000 are invested in the various railways
of tbe United Siates.
Republican HHerald.
| PROVIDENCE,
Wednesday, September 10, 1851,
THE MURDERED AMERICANS—GEN.
| LOPI'Z.
l The recent arrivals confirm the former state
ments of the atrocious proceedings at Havana
against the captured Americans, who were barba
rously put to death, and whose remains were sub
| jected to the most savage indignities. But it seems
the prisoners were not all prevented from writing
on board the prison ship : and some of them sent
briefand affecting farewell messages to dear friends
at home, which have been published in the papers.
We have not room for them all, The following
fromn Adjutant Stanford explains the circumstan
ces of their capture.
LETTER FROM ADJUTANT STANFORD,
Havana, August 16. 1851,
Dear Huling:—=We arrived on the Island of
Cuba after the most horrible passage you euncon
ceive of, cooped on board with four or five hun
dred men. |
We arrived on Snndu'y last, | believe—dates |
have almost forgotten. T'he nextmorning, Lopez 1
| with Gen. Pragay and all the communding officers,
left us, (L mean Crittenden und his battlion ) We |
heard nothing more of hiun for two days, when l
Crittenden despatched a note. He then request
: ed we should join him at a little town some six or |
ceight miles off leaving us in the Meantime to take |
care of all the baggage, &c. * i
. Westarted for hiw on Wednesday morning at
{two o'clock, and had proceeded only three wiles |
‘when we were attacked by five hundred Spanish |
| soldiers. In the first charge, | received a very se- |
' vere wound in the knee. We repulsed them how- |
cever. They made another charge, and complete- |
ly ronted us. We spent two days and nights the |
most miserable you can imagine, in the chapparal, |
l without anythig to eat or to drink. ’
We wade the bast of our way 10 the seashore, |
| and found some boats, wikh which we put to sea. |
' Spent a night npon the ocean, and nextday about |
twelve p'clock, were taken prisoners by the Hab- |
anero, were brought to Havana last night and con- |
demned (o die this morning. We shall all be shot
' within an hour,
| Good bye and God bless yon. 1 send the Ma
sonic medal, eiclosed in this, belonging to my fa-
Cther. Convey it to my sister Mys. P——n, and
tell her of my fate. Ouce more, God bless you.
f Srasrorp. |
{ The following is from ** poor Tacite". !
'Ox Boakp tne Mix or War Esprranza, |
' Satarday, Aug. 16, 1851
| My Dear ArvecTionaTe Sisters axp Brota
' kre.~Beflore 1 die, | am perwitted to address my
last words in this world. ,
| Deceived by false visions, I embarked in the
expedition for Cuba. We arrived, about four hun
dred in number, last week, and in abont an hour
| from now, we, [ mean filty of us, will be lost. |
was tuken prisoner afier an engagement, and with |
filty others, to be shot in an hour. .
| Ddie, my dear brothers and sisters, a repentant
| sinner, having been blessed with the fast rites of |
onr holy religion Forgive me for all my follies |
of my life, and you my dear and atfectionate sis
ters, pray for my dear soul. |
A=, go to my dear mother, and console her. '
Oh'! my dear child, kiss her a thousand times for
' me. Love her for my sake. Kiss my brothers !
| and all your dear children. To Father Blackney,
my last profound respect ; to Father Lacroix and |
Father B'Hau. n mass for the repose of my soul. ‘
Mv dear mother in law farewell! Poor Tacite :
is shot and dead by this time ! :
1 give and bequeath my dear child to you and
yon nlone. Good bye H——; good bye Ge——,
and T'——. Idid my duty. Good bye all. i
! Your dear son and brother, ‘
| Hovore Tacite Viesne, | ¢
- Mr. Antonia Costa has promised to do all he i
can to obtin my body. Ifso, please have me bu- |
ried with my wile. .
T'he letter of Gilthan A. Cook is the only one :
which disparages Gen. Lopez. It sags, * Lopez | '
the scoundrel has deceived us,” and * deserted P
- us"",—hard words even for a dying man to utter— "
“and harder becanse unjust. So far from Lopez | é
having deceived his men, it is expressly stated in "
the New York papers, that he laid before them his | f
plans, and stated his difficnlties, and desired no one | k
to go who did not feel prepared to encounter them ' 8
all. And a 8 to his deserting Crittenden’s detach. | :
went, we now know what Cock could nqt, that, | |
atthe time when five hundred Spaniarde were |
attacking Crittenden, a heavy force were also en- ! .
gnged with Lopez, who fought at least two batiles d
with them, and il successful, as is now stated, was ;
unable to render any assistance, until it was too | !
late. Crittenden was posted but a short distance t
from Lopez to guard the baggage. Both parties
“received an earlier dttack than they expected. i 8
! The Whig press are seizing upon this passage
in order to heap bbloquy on Geh. Lopez, who
“has been much abased for the Cardenas affair.— '
' But there are two circumstances which speak de
cisively in his favor. The officers, and men who ’
~accompanied him to that place have never de- b
nounced his proceedings, as they might have done, ' I
(il he had shown deception or cowardice. And sec- P
ondly, some of the same persons have gone with | o
“him a second time to Cuba, thus showing their | f
~confidence in him as a soldier and a patriot. Al |
must have noticed one noble quality in him. He T
has preferred to receive the shower of W hig abuse .
(in silence, rather than by any written explanation, | b
:to compromise the safety of patriots in Cuba. He | §
has given the best evidence of his courage and |
rincerity by plunging into the midst ofhis enemies | .
with s 0 small a body of men, trusting in the assu- | u
rances ol aid from his fellow citizens.
In explanation of this expression it may be ne- |
cessary to state to many who do pot know the L w
fact that Gien. Narciso Lorkz is a citizen of Cu- | "
ba, where he had a valuable estate and was highly | :Il
esteemed. But venturing to disapprove of some h
of the enorities of the Spanish government, he n
was set upon, and barely escaped from the island [
with bis life. He has gone back where he had a ©
right to go, to render aid to his fellow-citizens, in
redeeming their country; and those mean spirited | h
Americans who call this gallant soldier a pirate, 8
show that they are only fit 10 be slaves themselves. , g
The following resolution passed at a recent meet. | ;l
ing at Savannah, by man who know Lopez, will | ¢
refute the basg calumnies of his ensmies. l h
Resolved. That in Gen. Narciso Lopez, we recog- | :
nise a true pairiot, who in the canse of liberty has | b
sacrificed a brilliant position, political and military | b
in the service of Spain, and & large private for
tune, and that, whatever success may attend his ‘A'
present efforts, he deserves the admiration and re
*pect of every true Republican. R
It might be added that Gen. L. ias the charae. %
ter of a pure and honorable man iw his private re
lations.
THE END.
The article which precedes this, was . ritten for
Satarday’s paper, and deferred for want of room.
Since it was written decisive intelligence has Leen
received from Cuba by the arrival of the Chero
kee steamer on the 4th of September at New Or.
leans, and of the Empire City on the Gih at New
York: and we bave the painful duty of recording
the end of the struggle for the deliverance of Cy.
ba in the captare of Lorrz and the remainder jof
his men, and the execntion of the former by the
garrote at Havana on the Ist of September.
The capture of the expedition had occasioned
the greatest rejoicings—a general jubilee among
the Spaniards, at Havana,with illuminations,torch
light processions, &e.
The engagements before related actnally took
place between Lopez and the Spanish troops;
and the latter were twice defeated with imamense
lose, —2OOO killed and wounded. The Command.
er-iu-Chief.Gen. Enna was killed. But the num
bers of the opposing force were too greatly dispro®
portionate 1o the handful of men under the com
mand of Lopez for him to make a protracied de
fence, and they were at last compelled to give way
before a body of GOVO troops concentrated agninst
them. The whole number of Americans who
landed on the 11th of August, was about 450, Of
these 114 were left with Col Crittenden to protect
the baggage and stores, and were killed or captur
ed as has been before described, near the place of
landing. The rewaining 336 kept at bay for sev
eral days several thousands of well appointed and
disciplined Spaniards at Los Pazos and Frias; and
were finally dispersed at Candelaria on the 21lst,
afier they had been reduced to two hundred men.
They took refuge in the forest, and were reluced
to great straits for want of food, subsisting on the
leaves of trees and making a lust meal on the horse
of Gen. Lopez. They then scattered in various
directions and were captured.
A few men stll remained with Gen. Lopez,
butat length became separated; when h» stopped
at a farm house nearly exhansted by fatigue and
hanger, to ask for food and permission to lie down;
and while asleep he was bonnd and made a pris
oner. One account says he was huuted and taken
with bloodhounds.
The expedition received no aid from the inhab
itants, who forfeited all the promises that had been
held out to those who should come to their aid in
accomplishing their liberation. I'he Cubuns with.
oul arms, or organiz.tion, had made no prepara
tion for the expedition. They trasted to a force
from abroad to do the whole work for them ; and
Lopez on the other hand trusted to their numbers
and resources to increase and sustain his small
force. The error on both sides was fatal. Panic
stricken by the exccuiion of their leading men
which shortly preceded the arrival of Lopez, the
Creoles actually fled irom their liberators; and
many persons in the country, no doubt instigated
by tie rewards offered, took part in harassing and
destroyiag, or capturing the Awericans.
Somewhere between 100 and 150 of the Amer~
icans have been taken, and are imprisoned in Ha
vana. One account says they have been sentenc
ed 10 the chain gang for ten years; another, that
they are to be seut to Spain to be there confined
in dungeons.
Gen. Lopez was executed, by the garrotte,
(choked with an iron collar, with a screw behind
to penetrate the spine.) at Havana, at seven o'clock.
in the morning of September Ist, in the presence
of 8000 troops and as many spectators, on the side
of the harbor opposite to the Moro Castle. He re
ceived his fate with the mauly composure and for
titnde of a brave man. He ascended the jlatform
and made a shor! speech to the multitude. His
last words were—* | die for my beloved Cuba.”
His concern was not for himself but for his coun
try. He then tock a seat in the fatal chair, the
iron collar was adjusted to his neck, and at the
first turn of the screw his head dropped forward
and he was dead.
Thus has terminated in disaster, and in the bloody
vengeance of the Spaniards. an expedition design
¢d t ns:ist the pairiots of Cuba in breaking the
yoke of Spain. That it was planned and carried
out by brave, honorable and chivalrous men in
entire good faith, and for the attainment of the
specified object, does not adwit 6f a doubt. The
ferocious exuliations of such debased Whig papers
ns the New York Express, over the death of Lo
pez und hiscompanicns, provesthe deep ingrained
toryism by which they are actuated. The New
York Enghsh Tory paper, the Albion, appropri
ately and consistently congra.ulates its readers ap
on %0 * desirable’” 8 result; and the Express, to
its deep disgruce, if such a paper can be disgrac—
ed. insists, that he deserved his fute. Thatthe ed
itors of this, and of siwilar prints wonld have been
British tories in 76, and would have sold for a
price the patrivts of the revolution, more especial
ly such a one as Lafuyette, who lelt France, under
the prohibition of the King, to join the American
standard, can hardly adwit of a doubt.
What possible ground is there to doubt the sin
cerity of such a mah as Gen. Lopez, who sacrific
ed wealth, and distinguished position and honors,
for the cause of iiberation in Cuba? He may have
been unwise, over-sanguine, too confident of tho
support of those who had summoned him to their
rescue ; but he deceived no man. Where he in
vited others to go, he went himself; and sending
back his ship, committed himself to the fortune of
war. He paid the forfeit of his life, and received
the stroke of = panish vengeance with an equanim
ity and heroic bearing, not surpassed in the an
nals of war. The mistaken charge of one of Crit.
tenden’s men, that they were deserted by Lopes,
is now completely dissipated by the final intelli
gence from the scene of action. Lopez was at
tacked and cut off from them, and could render no
aid. One of Kis rogrets was that for want of these
men his plans failed. With them he might have
fought his way to the highws of the interior.
With the Cuban declaration of the 4ih of July:
belore their eyes, and with the recital of the ear
liest mo¥ement at Principe. and of its temporary
success, and of the execations of Hernandez, Are
mentero, Aguero and many other Cuban patriots,
fresh in memory, how shamefully dishonest the as
sertion of Whig prints that there has been no ris
ing in Cuba, and that these brave and high mind
ed men of the expedition were freebooters, rob
bere, pirates, secking to wrest a province from
Spaia for the objects of plunder and devastation.
The New Orleans Picayune, one of the honor
able exceptions among the Whig press, justly and
truly says—
“ These young men (of the exp!ditim? were all
well known here, and had numerous friends to
whot these touching memorials of the constancy
with which they met their hard fate are inexpres
oibly dear—(their farewell letters.) Whocan read
these simple and feeling lines, written in the last
hour of mortal peril, in the very lace of death, and
not feel that these generous men died in the fuil
faith that they were onn&ed in an honorable
cause, and died as martyrs.
What American, who loves the institutions of
his country, that will not heartily adopt the len
guage of the late meeting at the National cap ital 1
“ Resolved, That the People of the United
States, sympathize with the oppressed of all na
tions, whether found in Europe, or Asia, or Afri
ca. or America; whether groaning under the iron
heel of a Haynau in Hungary, or a Raditzk'r in
Italy, an Oudinot in Rowme, or a royal imbecile in
Naples, or in the land of Koscluszko under the
barburous Russian, or nnder the endless and
boundless uggressions and butcheries of the ** Uni
veretl Robber"—whether in India or Southern
Africa, or in unhappy Ireland ;—und especially do
we leel pity for our neighbors of Cuba, whose ex
iles #0 often find a reluge among ns, and whose
groans are borne on every breeze to our shores.”
By the law of nations Americans huve a right te
render aid to one portion of the citizens ofa coun
try engaged in a contest with another ; and no ju
ry has ever yet found thatany man renderiug such
aid is guilty of & crime agninst the law of the Uni
ted States. Even the London Times, tnat jeaious
guardian of the hoary despotisms of the old world,
admits that a movement among the Cubans forin
dependence is perfectly natural ; and that if such a
government as that now existing in Cuba be not
speedily changed, it will be in vain for the govern
ment of Spain to leok to other nations for a guar.
anty of the island to its present proprietor.
The Spanish characteristic of extreme vindic
tiveness has manifested iteelf in the murderona ex
ecavion of fily-two Americans in cold blood, and
in the snbsequent barbarous treatment of their re
mains. Farther manifestations of vengeance in
the death of Cuban patriots and the confiscation of
their estate will no doubt speedily follow ; but 1o
suppose that the lute execution of Lopez, and the
‘condemnation of Americans to the chain gang will
abate the excitement in this country, fixed as it is
in the minds of the citizens by a daring insult to
the American flag, is to contradict all history and
experience. The reign of terror in Cuba is draw
ing to ite close; and the continnance of a despot
ic government upon our borders, which respects
neither property, nor liberty, nor life, is an anom
aly, which ean find no toleration in this age of pro
gressive freedom.
One word more of the gallant officer and hon
orable citizen who sacrificed his life for the deliv
erance of Cuba. Gen. Lopez was 51 years of age,
He was a native of Venezuela, long a citizen of
‘Cuba, where, through his wife, a Cuban lady, he
possessed a large estate. Ile was an “outlaw” in
the languaga of the New York Express, only in
the sense in which Kosciuszko was, and Mazzini
and Kossuth are outlaws by their devotion to re
prblican priuciples, and to the canse of freedom.
At no distaut day, his monuinent at the place of
his execntion, will indicate to all who approach by
sca the capital of Cuba, the earliest sacrifices for
its independence. 1t will then be enrolled among
nations, and separated forever from the tyrauny of
Spain. i) |
{ Ausence or Wrnster.—Mr. Webster has been
for some time absent from his post at Washing
ton, under the plea of poor health. This will do
for an apparent excuse ; but he has had one strong
political reason for keeping out of the way, not
to mention others connected with his designs
upon the Presidency. He was anxious to avoid
the Cuba business, which placed him in a dilem
ma. In his correspondence with the British
minister some years ago he had taken the ground,
that Americans are not pirates, when they go
abroad to assist a people, as in Canada, striking
for their liberty, end that by the law of nations
they are not prohibited from so doing. He also
informed the Mexican minister, previously to the |
annexation of Texas, that Americans have a nght
to goabroad, (alluding to the emigration to Texas)
armed or unarmed, as they see fit. But now, as |
a member of Fillmore's Cabinet, he is placed in '
a situation to be obliged to contradict himself, ,l
and to call it a erime to go armed or unarmed to |
the aid of the Cuban patriots. He is also obliged .
by the Cabinet policy to give the severest con
struction to the law of 1518 against expeditions ’
~a law which conflicts with the law of nations, |
—and to construe it so as to render Americans
on their way to a foreign country liable to stop- |
page by American vessels of war upon the high
scas. He must also take part in assigning to the |
naval officers of the United States, the odious !
and contemptible duty of Spanish police men on |
‘ the coast of Cuba. In other words Webster, by |
‘aiding and advising in these proceedings, is ren- |
‘dering himself liable to a share of the odium,!
which they have drawn down upon the adminis
tration. He has also seen one of the results of
this dastardly policy in the conduct of the Amer
ican Consul at Havana, Allen F. Owen, who left
fifty-two of his countrymen, captured without
arms, t>an undiscriminate massacre, without the
slightest inquiry, or personal interference—be
cause President Fillmore had declared them out
laws and pirates! To avoid a large share of
popular indignation, and the consequent damage
to his presidential chances, Webster has retreat
ed from Washington, and of course has no share
in the Cuba matters! Like the Ostrich, which
hides its head in the sand, and supposes itself a]l
safe, this sagacious statesman has attempted a |
dodge by retiring to the couatry. Now that the
Cuba affair has ended in the death or capture of
the American forces, he can return to Washing
ton, and tell the public, that, as to that affair, he |
was entirely innocent, and lay the whole blame !
to that Algerine Fillmore ! |
Nxw Parer.—The *Christian Statesman” hae
been established at Washington Ly Rev. R. R.
Gurley and Daniel R. Goodloe, to promote, *Af
rican Colonization and Civilization.” ‘l'he fol
lowing is an extract.
“To the colonization of our free people of color.
with their own cousent, in Africa, and the civiliza®
tion of that continent, through christian setile:
ments, and other means which humanity and ex
perience may suggest, we shall devote earnest and
unremitting atten‘ion, considering these among
the greatest enterprises which can command the
energies of individuals or communities in thie age.
Ever since Granville Sharp examined the early
maxims of English law, and condneted the mind
of Load Mamfield to his immortal decision in the
case of Somerset, the cloud hasbeen gradually but
constantly rising from off the destinies of the Afri
can race; and to us, at least, the evidence is con
vincing, that the land of their first degradation,
captivity, and suffering, is to resound with the
songs of their deliverance, to be their chosen in.
heritance, their magnificent possession and home,
?o a people, distinct, independent, religious and
ree.”
, Spanisn Troors.—lt is worthy of remark that
the late Gen. Nurciso Qopez, with less than 350
American troops, newly levied and undisciphned
volunteers, twice defented the veteraun soldiers of
Spain, at least 4000 in number, with a loss of 2000
‘ killed and wounded. Such a result is almost un
precedented. At Buena Vista, Gen. Tuylor with
4000 regulars and volunteers, all of the latter un
der tolerable discipline, defeated Santa Anna, with
an nrmy of 20,000 men—five to one. The Span
ish force was to that of Lopez as eleven to one.—
For his victory the Whig papers assisted to make
Gen. Taylor President ; for two victories by Gen.
Lopez, with such an extraordinary disparity, the
same papers call Gen. Lopez a pirate, and some
of themn a coward.
One inference is very certain, that 3000—or at
the utmost, 5000 American troops would muke very
shortwork withthe 18,000 S punish soldiers in Cuba.
Kossuru.—The Ex-Governor of Hungary is
about to be released, by the Turkish government,
against the remonstrances and threats of Austria,
from his exile in Asia Minor; und by a letter of
J. P. Brown, of the American embassy at Con
stantinople, to the Mayor of New York it appears
that Kossuth will take his departure about the mid
dle of September; and may be expected in the
United States in the latter part of October. It in
to be hoped that his reception will be worthy of
his character and services to the cause of freedom,
of which he is a noble and illustrious friend, great
er than ever in his misfortunes.
James McDowerr.~Virginia and the Union
have lost an able and distingnished orator, statesman
nnd patriot in the death of Ex.-Gov. McDowell,
He was remarkable for his eloquence, which was
of a genuine, original cast, without effort or affee
tation, and produced the effects ascribed to the pe
culiar powers of the celebrated Patrick Henry.—
Mr.McD _sepeech delivered in the National House
of Representatives, iwo or three sessions ago, on
the value of the Union, was an effective, heart
stirring appeal, which produced a deep sensation
in all who heard it. That speech is of itself a mon
umeont (o its lamented author.
Cusa coast euanp.—The American navy, in
their employment of Cuban eoast guard, are re
lieving the Cuban suthorities of considerable ex’
pense, beside promoting our naval glory,
“It is reported from Washington that Commo
dore Parker carries out instructions to send a war
steamer to guard the outlets of the Mississippi,
while the main body of the squadron plies between
Cuba and Florida.
Rumor.—lt is rumored that both Fillmore and
Webster are to resign their claims to the Presi.
dency—-the tormer to suceeed Concha as Govern.
or General of Cuba—and the latter as General
Treasurer of the island, and superintendent of
the African Blave Trade.
- Meax Peuversion.—lu the letter purporting
1 to be written hy T'. W. Dorr, which was fabrica
ted by George Rivers and others, and publi-hed
in the Providence Journal of September Ist Riv
ers, by way of ridiculing the bodily infirmities of
Mr. D. mukes him say, that he was wounded in
the back by a stone thrown athim in 1842 by an
“ Algerine boy,” on his way from Chepachet to
New Hampshire. On which the Herald remark
ed that Mr. Dorr said he ** never before heard of
the circumstance ; and that, if a boy did throw a
stone, it might have been the black boy to whom
Rivers paid twenty five cents, the next day, (after
Mr. D’s departare,) ““to go up and see if there
were any suffrage men on Acote's Hill,” &e.—
This paragraph is altered by that blackguard Whig
paper, (edited by Jumes and Erastus Brooks,) the
New York Express, in the number of Sept. 6th,
as lollows:
“T'he notorious Rhode Island ““ Governor Dorr”
of Chepuchet memory is now the editor of a paper
called the Herald, in Providence ; wherein he
States that a stone was throwe. at him as he was
teaving Chepachet, (that is runoing away from
that famous Knmlo gronnd,) by a bLluck boy wlio
waus hired for twenty five cents to go into the u}un
at Acote’s Hill, and sce if there were any suffrage
men there.”
It was supposed that the Whig papers like the
,Expren had long ago *“touched the bottom of
their meanness'’ in fabricating every species of
falsehood respecting the character, motives and
conduct of Mr. Dorr; but there is a crevice left
( to go still deeper; and not content with giving
full license 1o their malicious invention, they put
(lheit own falsehoods into his mouth and then
pretend to quote them from him, by saying that
he “states’’ whatever it may please any knave to
, invent. It wou!d be useless to remind the Ex
’preu of the fate denounced against inveterate
liars ; for its principal conductors no doubtexpect
to escape, as it is related one of their notorious
predecessors did, in the !evil's presence cham
ber, by being of the same politics with the pro
pritor. When brought into an audience with
the prince of darkness, (who, Dr. Samuel John.-
son says, was the first Whig,) the delinquent
was asked what were his name and actions and
writings. On his replying I'am ——, the grim
tyrant softened into a smile, and very politely
arose and requested him to take his seat !
’ Tue Wuies Boveur.—The Providence Jour
'malafter having, several times since the April elec
(tion, attributed the success of the Democrats to
money, again repeats the assertion, and-disgraces
its party by the confession that its members are ve
| mal,—can be bought up when wanted, like so wany
' sheep. The Democrais of course do not pay for
their own men; and if they pay, as the Journal
solemnly avows they do, then it must be for the
Whigs. And this is a subject which the Whig or
-Ban likes to play upon. It must be very gratify
ing to the Whigs to have the fuct that they are a
purchasable article, so frequently thrown in their
faces, by one of their pretended friends. Mr,
George W. Brown is referred to as proving in his
recent Donaldson letter, the fict that the Demo
crats use money in the clections. That money is
the god of .his State is conceded ; but Browne al*
luded, as we may suppose, to the requisition of
the Constitution of head money to be paid once a
year by the voter for his privilege of voting ; which
money is in practice raised on both sides by sub
scription ; the Whigs expecting to carry the elec
tions under the money Constitution, because they
carry the largest and the longest purse. After hav
ing been for years steepedtothe eyes in corruption,
this virtuous Journal now turns, and accuses the
Democrats, (whom it has sought to deprive of the
right ol suflrage because they were poor,) of buy
ing up the rich Rhode Island Whige! What does
the editér of the Journal,an ex-Governor,ask as his
price? We know that his own party paid him
thirty pieces of silver ; but if the Democrats are to
pay for him, it must be a much emaller sum than
that. It may be a question whether his enmity is
not more valuable to them than his friendship.
Arcerine Docrwives 18 Itavy.—Mr Glad
stone, (himeell a Tory,) who has been calling at
tention in England to the cruelties practised upon
the Italian patriots, in one of his letters examines
a Neapolitan work, called *a Philosophical Cate
chism, for the nse of Primary Schools,” which
shows that what are called Algerine principles in
this State are not exclusively confined 1o it, as the
professors of them here will ba glad to learn.—
We take some i'lustrations. The author lays it
down, “that it is essentially absurd, that the gov
erning power should reside in the governed; and
therefore God would never give it to them ;~that
the sovereign power is not only divine but unlimit.
ed: that the People cannot impose any law vpon
sovereignty, which derives ite power not from them
but from God ; that a prince is not bound to main
tain a Constitution in opposition to the supreme
power as established by God ; that an oath cannot
bind a suvereign”, &e. Nothing so bad as this
has as yet been introduced into our public schouls
here ; and the Italian work surpasses anything in
the Algerine History of 8. G. Goodrich, which
was used for a time in those schools. But if Al
gerine principles as they were professed here in
1842 are to be recognized and adopted by the ris
ing generativn, there is certainly no book which
represents them so completely as that which con
tains the specimens quoted. The only way to
make good reliable white slaves in a republic is to
train them to abominable doctrines like these w hile
they are young. *
Lazarvus.—*“The name of the new Democrat
ic Governor of Kentuckl is Lazarus W. Powell
It is not inappropriate ; for Locofocoism was long
ago deu*und buried in Kentucky, .nd his elec
tion is liftle less than a miracle and a resurrec
tion."" Prov. Journal ’
If it be decorous in the Joutnal to compare the
forthcoming of Democracy in that State to the
scripture account of the resurrection of Lazarus
from the dead, it is aleo proper for the Journal to
mention a strong point in which the two cases
differ. Of the ancient Lazarus it was said “he
smelleth badly” ; but in the present instance it is
not Lazarus Powell but the Whig party who are
in bad oder in Kentucky.
Passing THEM Avrova —The English papers
compluin as loudly of the French for sending over
to them profligate or triminal foreigners, as some
of ours do of the English for sending out cargos
of disubled panpers 1o this country. Not a few
rogues and pickpockets are vomited forth upon
the American shores from abroad; but the great
mass of emigrants are industrious and useful, and
are a decided acquisition. To keep the ball a rol
ling, it would be fair for us in turn to paes slong
the imported rogues to Mexico ; especially as in
that country thieving and robbery are such com.
mon professions, that, as Arista recently remarked,
the Americans rendered themselves unpopular
there during the ocupation by punishing thieves
and robbers !
Barrue or Lare Erte.—This day, September
10th, 38 years ago, in 1813, Commodore Oliver
Hazard Perry, of Rhode Island, in command of
the American squadron on Lake Frie, gained the
important viclory over a superior force of British
veseels, and wrote his name on the history of his
country.
Fine.—Own Monday afternoon, about 4 o'clock,
the rool of the machine shop of the High st. Fur
nace Co., took fire, and property to the amount
of $5OO was damaged by fire and water. Fully
insured.
77 An article on the life and character of Judge
Woodbury is postponed till our next for want of
room to-day.
Tus Tives wave Cuanoen.—President Fill
more, in his recent speech at Fredricksburg, Va.,
stated that tem years ago, the lute President Jobn
Quincy Adams, introduced into the House of
Reprexentatives a petition praying for a dissolution
oflru Union ;—not because he approved of its sen
liments, but because he pmcliu«r upon the prin
ciple that every citizen had the right to be heard
in Congress by his petition. Mr. Adams no soon
er announced his purpose than “the whole house
seemed to be in a ferment, and ina very few mo
ments a resolution was introduced for expelling
Mr. Adaws from the House for having dared to
introduce a petition ihere for a dissolution of the
Union, althongh accompanied at the same time
with a sonilive declaration on his part that he was
opposed to it.and an appeal to the House to sanc
tion his sentiments on the subject.”
“Since then,” added Mr. i-'illmou. “we have
lived searcely ten years, and the valae of this Union
is now a common subject of conversation. The
very oircnmstance—looking back to that ocenr
rence, and then 1o what we have seen within the
fiear Eut-—-lhould alarm the trne friocuds of this
oJm lie. Itshould teach usthere are en Norih
and South who are ready 10 accelerato the ful «f
this Union, and. il necessary, to destroy it. 1 suy
this in all sincerity. 1 say, too, that when I look
back to the crisis through which we have passed,
[ feel that there was danger that the duys of this
Union were numbered. [ determined thew, if
necessary, to sacrifice uver{ political prospect |
had in the world, and life itscll'to save the conntry.”
(Great cheering.)
Strange that a man of this moral coursge should
eubmit to be dictated to by the Seward clique at
Albany, and committed 1o an “arrangement”’ which
provides for opening again all the questions, which
endanger the Union !
Cororep ProrLx at vk Nortn.—Speak
ing of the rm\'ioiom of the Indiana Constitntion
for the exclusion of colored people from that Siate,
the Albany (Whig) Register remarks :
*“We have been surprised 10 find this Indiana
‘ontrage’ so tamely and quietly submitted to.—
Scarce a murmur has been breathed ngainst it,—
To onr mind the almost generul acquicscence in
its perpetration, as well as its adoption by an over
whelming mujority, proves that runaway sluves
are not likely 10 find pleasant homes in liurlhcn
States. We have litile doubt that a majority of
the people of those States would sanction enaet
ments similar 1o those of Indgiana notwithstanding
the valorous professions of Abolitionism so cur
rently made. It becomes a question therefore, in
view of this state of public sentiment, whether
there is any such barbarity after all, in returning
fugitive slaves 10 their mastera. They are treated
with as much kindness and consideration by them
as fiee negros are likely to receive in free Statee,
where they are not recognized as citizens, nor
hardly as men. Itis ver{ clear that philanthro
pists, aa they term themselves, will have to devise
some other mode of disposing of slaves, besides
stealing them for northern asylums.”
’ Tarirr Prorrcrion.—We need sucha protec
tion as will make the foreign article so high that it
can no longer stand a competition with l'f;. Awer
ican produci—that the importer cun no longer find
it an object of profit to bring it into the country.
—-Har'}aml Courant, ¢
The ‘Couraut’ used 1o tell us that *high duties
do not increuse the price of articles 1o the consn
mer;’ that ‘the foreigner paid the duties,’ and all
that; but it seems 10 be on the other tack, now.
If the ‘Courant’ is really anxions fos prohibitory
duties, why not advocatg an embargo, and non-in
tercourse, at onco—which is much the shortest
way of ‘regulating trade, and securing the home
market’ That wonld merely destroy the ship
ping interestu—but what is that compnred 10 a few
cotton mills 7 Another way of bringing about the
*‘Courant’s’ industrial milleniam, would be to pro
hibit our farmer's wives from exchanging their
butter and eggs for French calicoes! T'his wonld
relieve the ‘lightness’ of the ‘broiled chicken’ mar
ket, and promote the manufacture of domestic
gridirons! If the ‘Courant’ ever goes down to
osterity as a benefactor of the human race, 1t will
K-. for lga discovery ofa method for muking goose
berry pies out of pig lead —New Huven Register,
Mr. Crax's Orinion o THE NorTHERN Dx.
mocracy.—The New York Mirror, Whig, says—
“ The defeat of Leslie Combs in Mr. Clay’s, own
district, and the election of a Democrat, somewhat
nzegles the friends of the compromise measures.
But the solulion is very easy and very favorable
to the Unionists. It is all owing 1o J;o fact that
Mr. Clay publicly stated last spring that the great
body of the Democratic pntx at the north were
sounder on the Union question thaw the Whigs. 'Thie
declaration wus made great use of in the recent
canvass, and turned the scale in the Ashland dis
trict against the Whigs. When the issue is simply
between the Union and disunion men, the venfiet
of the masses is never wrong. John C. Becken
ridge, the member elect from Ashland, is in every
respect worthy of the success he has achieved.—
He is a gentleman of high position—a Democrat,
but not an ultra Democrat.”
Hovp on.—We sometimes hear of a man dis
continuing hie advertisements, after having per
fectly satisfied himself of the nse of advertising.—
Reader, did you ever hear of the honest Hibernian
who had clambered 10 the brink of a well and thea
let go his hold to spit on his hands ? He was just
about as wise as the man who stops his advertise
ments. A man might as well take down his sign
as discontinue his advertisements.
ELxcrions.—~The Alabama Sennte just elected,
contains 22 Union men. 11 southern rights men.
House 52 to 38, ae before stated.
The legislature of Indiana has 40 Democrats, 10
Whigs ; homo 61 Democrats, 38 Whigs, 1 free
soiler.
FROM THE JOURNAL.
CITY COUNCIL.
Monpay Evening, Sept. 8.
The City Treasurer submitted his monthly
statement, which was read, and referred to the
Committee on Finance. By this statement, it
appears that the expenditures for the first six
months of the present financial year have been
as follows :
Public Schools, &19,325 07
City Debt fund, 4,575 12
Support of Poor, 9,760 07
Fire department, 6,230 13
Highways, 18,094 29
Bridges, 650 42
City watch, 3,940 61
Lighting streets, 4,751 38
Safuiu. 3,300 00
Re pairs of public buildings, 89 49
Asylum walls and buildings, 304 67
Contingencies, 3,681 80
Scheol-houses and lots, 2,004 00
Cove Promenade, 539 48
Gas lights and fixtures, 341 92
Reform School, 1,231 30
Ellipse wall extension, 109 08
Paving stones for Exchange Place, 676 10
North Burial Ground enlargemert, 141 11
Repairs of Hospital, 23 33
Corebntiou of American Independence, 1,592 (8
Police, 2,650 49
Culvert in Westminster street, 2,135 63
83,375 57
Expenses during same period last year, 74,211 99
Excess of the present year, 9,16’
The sum of $3O was voted to Ruml‘ Cla:#-
an indemnity for injuries received at a fire in
George street.
The Committee on Finance reported a resolu
tion remitting certain taxes, erroneously assess
ed the year 1851, amounting to §1,405 Og; which
was read and passed.
A communication was received from the Board
of Managers of the industrial exhibition, asking
for the loan of the portraits in the Council Cham
ber, to be used at the fair, and a resolution was
passed granting the request.
A communication was received from Mr. Per
ham, inviting the members of the City Council
to visit the exhibition of the “Seven Mile Mirror.”
IN COMMON COUNCIL —Mr. Anthu‘
offered a resolution appropriating Ql?O:JP .
continuation of the ellipse wall around t
and for the erection of the south abutment ol the
contemplated bridge,eighty feet in width ; which
was read and passed.
T'he Board of Alderwen laid the resolution on
the table. ey
A petition was received from Fayette Wilkin
son, asking a pennn? remuneration for injuries
received at the recent fire in Charles street ; which
was read, and referred to the Commitiee on the
Fire Department.
An ordinance in relation to streets and high
ways was presented and referred to the Commit
tee on Ordinances, The ordinance prescribes
the manner in which the streets and tighwsyo
may be broken up for private purposes It al
lows an appeal from the Burveyor of Highways
to the Street Commissioners.
~ The 00-ii};.;i—aj-onm‘ to meet again
on the second Monday evening in October next,