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PLANTERS' BANNER. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY, Bf THOMAS F.oJOHNSON, EDITOR AND P1,PILIETOZ. JE lt K s:-This paper will be furnished to sub scribersatl3 per annum, in advowce; !$4 if paid att expiraltlo of six months, or $5 at the expiration of the year. No subscription discontinued until all arrearages are paid, expect at the option of the editor. Advertisements inserted at the n.ual price, viz: Per squars.f twelve lines, first time, $1; and at half that rate for every subsequent i n aertion. Yearly Advertisers will be charged $10 for the irst square (twelve lines) ,and $5 for every additenal square. Trn4pdeit Advertisements, not particularlyspe eified as to duration, will be inserted for three months, and charged accordingly. For announcing candidate for office, $10 each payable in advance. Agensy of the Bannetr. y V. B. Palmer, the American Ntewspaper Agent. is the only authorized agent for this paper in the cities of Boston, New York and Philadelphia, and is duly empowered to take ad. vertisements and subscriptions at the rates as re quired by us. His receipts will be regarded as payments. His offices are-BosTON, Scollay's Building; NEW YORK, Tribune Buildings PHILADELPHIA, N. W. eorner Third and Chest aut streets. 1 Ms. JOHN C. GORDY is an author ized Travelling Agent for the Banner, and all moneys paid him for subscription will be duly accredited. Cadidates for Office. FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEI. Q: I am a Candidate for the office of Dis trict Attorney for the 14th Judicial District. S. H. McGILL. T7' We are authorized to announce that Mr ALBERT VOORHIES, of the Parish of St. Martin, is a candidate for the office of District Attorney for the Fourteenth Judicial District, at the ensuing election. 17 .[7' We are authorized to announce the name of Mr. FRED. L. GATES as a Candidate for District Attorney, for the 14th Judicial District composedof the parishes of St. Mary, Vermil lion and St. Martin, election 23d inst. * FRANKLIN, THURSDAY, MAY 19. f Is it known that a fine opportu nity is afforded to the youibrgintlemen of our town to learn the French lan guage if they are disposed to avail themselves of it ? It is difficult to find a better French scholar than Mr. Pooley or a better teacher of the lan guage. He gives instruction to a French class three nights in the week at his school room, and has room for more pupils. Young gents, dcr you wish to learn to read and speak that beautiful language, which is almost as necessary for you as the English ? Then neglect not the present opportn nity. The time you now waste at billiards or other trifling amusements will be quite sufficient to make you master of the French language. Try 1t. Q We call attention to the card of Mr. J. Grimmer, music teacher, which will be foundi in another column. Mr. G. is giving music lessons to young la dies at the, house of Madam P. Dela. hoessaye where those who desire it can avail themselves of his instruction. He is also forming a Military Band of young gentlemen, the instruction to be given at the house opposite the new Ca thoChurch near the dwelling of Mr. i y, and to cp rence next Monday, the 23d inst. 4't us have music to break the monotony of the long summer that is now upon us, but pruy let it be music, cheering, life-in spiritag music, not the dolorous notes of dispair. We shall listen. . [ The Catholic Church, though trot yet completed, is to be opened on Sunday, ths.th inst.; the sermon will eommeao at 11 o'clock A. M.., the Rev. r. Paageis P. P. of Indian Bend, will eociate, the Rev. Paul Guerard, will preach the sermon. A select choir of ladies and gentlemenn will sing under the direction of Mr. John Grimmer. -- .. . . TlE WEATHEIL-As the season ad vaees, the weather greatly improves, ;3pg,the prospects of the planting in 'to.e brighten. The rains have lately bs very well proportioned to the ;tents of vegetation, the growth of 4ich is rapi Th orn and cane 'as hereabo are foking up right baIkly, and promise an abundant har test provided the heavens continue to -smile. The gardens are luxuriant. The somewhat fierce rays of the sun are so tempered by the intervening clouda and by the soft southern breeze, whinch springs up every morning and contianes through the day, that life puaips mefortably emough especially in the cooling shades. 07" It will be seen by tke card of $Mr. E. F. Goddard, in another colamn that he will tarry ia oar parish for a short time and that his professional ser vices can be had.by calling on him rsonaltlrb addressing him through f MA wee. The impesecibu w-., the Inuner tihaa.% 4 ia. tendedr ist thisseamso, bet that meter s as reeted by the naeuonce ment that Mi ihere. Thie Paptatiai ` hich Mr. Goddard has on his formeriitita earned for him sMltas a sperir portiait painter will b.q t insentive to those of our isipbi~tt ay wish to obain vals. bl'4; fypotirts, to give an early " rict Attorney. We take advantage of the absence of Mr. Mc ill (who has the tempo porary man ementof this paper,) and without his ivity or even permission, to present his',claims tq the citizens of this and the other parishes composing the 14th Judici4l District, for the office of District Attorney, for which he is a Candidate, the election of which comes off on Monday next, the 23d inst. In the first place we urge his election on the ground of his eminent fitness for that important and responsible post. It is a great mistake to suppose that little or no talent, or experience, or profes sional learning is requisite in a District Attorney. There is on the contrary no position at the bar more imperiouslyre quiring the best abilities of a sound and skillful lawyer than in representing the sovereignty of the State as prosecuting attorney. On him rests the vindication of public justice and the preservation of the peace and good order of the com munity; against him are arrayed the whole strength and skill of the bar, and unless he is endowed with the requisite qualifications public justice is born down by the weight of opposing coun sel and crime goes unpunished. An able and efficient prosecuting attorney is " a terror to evil doers," and a safe guard to the public, but without ability, firmness and efficiency in that officer the authority of the State is brought into contempt and the penalties of thei law have no terrors. These are self evident truths. Now withou' wishing in the least degree to disparage the merits of either of the young gantlemen in the field against Mr. McGill. it is but justice to say for him that he combines in himself the elements of a sound and able law yer, and has the proper capacity and qualifications for an efficient District Attorney, In this estimate of his fit ness for the position all will concur who have the advantage of being acquainted with him. But there is another ground on which we press his election. It is that that office of right belongs to this parish at this time, and Mr. McGill is our only candidate. We have just elected our District Judge from the parish of St. Martins, where also resided our late Judge, and where resides our present District Attorney. Is it asking too much, then, to insist that one of these officers shall be chosen from among the citizens of St. Mary, whose Civil and Criminal docket so far exceeds that of either of the other parishes composing the district ? Is this demand unreason able ? Is it a demand to which the par ishes of St. Martins and Vermilion will not readily acceed? We trust at least that the citizens of this parish will show by their votes on Monday next that they do not recognize in the parish of St. Martins the right to furnish all the officers of the district, unless predicated on the superior merit of its candidates. It is of no inconrsiderable importance that the District Attorney should be lo cated in our midst. We hope and trust that a sufficient interest will be felt in this election to bring.our citizens to the polls to see to it that the sovereignty cf the State shall be represented in our Courts of Justice by a man of capacity taken from our own parish. I7' We have received the Dollar Weekly Times, a valuable family paper published at Cincinnati, by C. IM. Star buck. - We find its columns fall of in teresting matter, and we cheerfully place it upon our exchange list. It bears a bold and spirited part in the sharp controversy that has sprung up at Cincinnati in regard to the freedom of speech upon the Catholic question, which was lately put at issue by the Mayor of that city, in denying to a Mr. Kiskland, a street preacher, the right to hold forth in one of the city markets in enveying against the spread of Catholi cism in this country. The Queen City has lately been the theatre of spirited indignation meeting against its Mayor who has been requested to resign. CAsvULTIES.--The steamer indepen dence was wrecked and burned on the Island of Margarita, off the coast of Lower California, on the 16th of Feb ruary, and 129 lives were lost, in the list of whom we see the name of Winm. Peid, from Louisiana. The horrid par ticulars of this terrible casualty occupy almost an entire page of tle New York Tribune, and other of our northern ex changes. A terribli collision occurred the 26th alt. on the Southern Michigan Railroad attended with great loss of life. * ., , ?p y ,-- Otrl LATE ELECTION.-The election of Jd4ge for the 14th Judicial District, which1 tbkptphce on botlday last, pass edoff with singular quietudd, caesrely producing a tipple on the smooth sur face p5 the tide of events. The name of the Hon. T. C,.Ticholls was io uni 'ersally acceptable throughout the dis trict that he was' permitted to walk ieismrely'over the track alone, without a competitor for the judicial 'honor. This i a rare complimenteto be award. edf "so fu ea anii, lbut no doubt is entertaind that he will folly justify by hi;,'iearsed; pon the bench this distin gr hied 1m of confidence re ined in him. Coe~qr only felt for his health fot whir.htif red the labors of the Sench will be too sever. [coMMUNICAT'ED.l BIER SALLY, M'a the 4teenth, Steen 100 and ,50 three. Mr. Edditur-Its bin a rite smart spell since Ire enjoyed the hily honored pri velege of drapping you a small piece of littetature in the shape of one uv them epistolery effushuns, what some times gits into the po.esshun uv eddi turs and disturbs their equmnimity a little; I hope, theo bein as how you print ed them tother letters, and bein as how you didnt grumble abit, why in course you cant have any grate prejection to this or ahty other, privided they aint too long, nor dent have any idee of stickin. into the good nater of nobody. I woutd a rit to you about a weak azo but I met with a rite bad accident. which come mity ni,_h bein worse. while takii a walk whar the niggers had bin a cuttin wood, I tread on the slick side of a churk and to my grate exprize I found my physamahoganv stove dioonatically into a cord of wood--by th-e grate jumping Jehosofat! thought 1, gettin up and feelin the bruzed coidishun of my smeller, but twant no vuse to get angrilied bout the catistrofv, so I didnt cuss much, but felt mnighty warm bout the organ of cornbatativness, if thar had a bin any boie- neer then, Ide a licked him rite strate out. The next time I slip, you may be sattit thar wont be no cord a wood in the way; when shugar makia comes, Ih tarmined to git satifacsban out of that pile of wood. The hole wirld seems to be a gittin crazy bout them 'sperret rappers, what they say can make cheers and tables dance the Poker Mazirker all over the room, without nobody sayin nutlhin to um. Well thats one uv the subjects that ought to be philosophofied by them whats in the habbit of exploring :he hiddin fouritins of science: so all Ill say boat it here, is that I dont believe a darned word of it. and if they come a rappin up thar sperrets on Bier Sallv wel inrtn loose on um, one uv the most pesterifferous pack of muskitters that ever poked a bill into anything and the way theyl dance the millerterry march quadreel up the rode, will be a site not to be met with in mony warm climits. Speekin of mtuskitters down here, tother eveniii a black cloud was seen to rize in the south, threatnin ano ther won of themn noa's floods, but it proved to be nothin on arth but a golly whopping swarn of gallow-nippers and its bin ralely dangeruss to venter out ever sence. That feller what larnt all them Frank lin boys and galls to dance cordin to the rule of three, is bin a teachin a rite snug lot of youngsters on Bier Sally. Havin a pressin invitashun from Bruns, who you kno is the teecher, to ride down and tend the zaminashun, I saddled up ale Scub. Tail and went down to see the preformances. Bout 9 o'clock Mr. Bruns steps up and sez be, " boys get yout partnirs for a plane quadreel." my spectashun was riz considerable high when he said that, for I could see by the cot of thar ise, they war gwine to split that quadreel all to flinders; music": sez he and the nigger fiddler played right strate out. Now youd bet ter believe them chaps went thru that dance in a stile that was sartinly dazlin to the orgens of vision. They war par tickerly conspicouss in the Dutch poker and went the Spanish dance blind. Xourn in a flustration. ZEBEDEE SNAP. OUR StDn WALKs.-Another very con siderable expenditure of money has been made by our town council to render our side walks impassible by placing shells upon them. If it were desired to render ( the walks perfectly insufferable the ob- 1 ject could not be better accomplished than by throwing these rough sharp shells upon them. In fact, they very nearly if not quite come within the legal definition of a nuisance and should be abated by legal interferance. Every returning summer the money of the corporation is worse than wasted t in the purchase of these horrid shells and our citizens are forced to do a pen ance as severe as the old ordeal of walking bare foot over red hot plow shares, and for what particular sin they are not informed. All the pleasure of walking is completely interrupted un. less a person abandons the walks alto gether and betakes to the roads, which we notice is very generally done. It is strange, that the idea has never entered the ha.ds of our village fathers that it would be cheaper as well as in finitely better to plank all the walks in stead of shelling them, The expense of constructing and keeping in repair plank walks would not be greater if as great as putting shells upon them every year, and then the healthful exercise of walking wouid be attended with comfort instead of continual suffering. u-----0 --- Sardinia at the Crystal Palace.-A correspOndent of the Newark Adver tiser, writing from Ganoa on the 11th nlt., a referring to the preparation in Sardinia for the exhibition which is to take place at the Crystal Palace, New York, says: Some of the specimens of statuary and painting that I have seen, are in the finest style of art, and I doubt if the world can show finer.velvets and tilks than those which will be furnished by the maaufactarers of Sardinia. Two vessels at Leghorn are now taking in also some rich specimens of the fruits of Tuscan genius. We learn with pleasure that it is the intention of Mr. Pooley to re ceive male pupils intohis school which has'hitherto been composed exclusively of girls. This in our opinion is a ra tional change, comporting with just educational ideas, and we trust it will meet with universal approval and re sult to the advantage of all parties con cerned. We have never been able to see any prepriety in separating the sexes in our primary schools, any more than in the family circle. The asso ciation of boys and girls as school-fel lows, pursuing the same studies and re citing together in the same classes, not only has an elevating moral influ ence upon them, but it inspires among them a generous emulation which in sures a rapid advancement in learning. Every primary school should in our opinion be composed of an equal num ber of boys and girls, as near as practi cable. We trust that under this ar rangement Mr. Pooley will meet with that patronage which his eminent qual:fications as a teacher merit, and that his school will soon be filled. [lW Frogl the New Orleans police reports it appears that murders and robberies, and other crimes are becom ing unusually frequent in that city : al most every daily paper from the Cres cent City gives the'details of some at trocious murder. --- THE POPULAR EDUCATOR-The first number of this monthly periodical. de voted to the deflusion of popular educa tion, has been sent us by the publisher, Alexander Montgomery, of New York. From a hasty glance at its arrange ment and matter it appears to be well adapted for the dissemination of know ledge among all classes and ages. The present number embraces the depart ments of Language, Natural History, Mathematics, Physical Science, Indus trial Science, Fine Arts, Anthropology, History, Philosophy, Political Science, Civilization, and Miscellanea. THE KAINE EXTRADITION CAsE.-The first under the Ashburton treaty for the extradition of fugitives from justice, was definitively settled by Judge Nel son in the United States Circuit Court at New York on the 26th of April last. The right to deliver up the defendant under the circumstances was denied, the decision of the commissioner re versed and the prisoner discharged. The despots of Europe are clearly in formed by the opinion delivered by Judge Nelson, that they are not to pur sue their fugitive subjects to this coun try and reclaim them for political of fences. ~-~ ~- - • .. . ... The officers of the steamer Rosa will accept our thanks, for files of a New Orleans papers. From South Anmerica.-The Baltic brings intelligence from South Ame rican ports, but that from Buenos Ayeres and Monte Video is not so late as we have already received. From Rio de r Janeiro the advices are to March 17th, t and from Pernambaco to March 25th. 1 The only items of interest ale the fol lowing: At Rio the yellow fever has been fearfully severe. Some vessels have lost all hands on board. On shore its ravages are confined exclusively to t persons lately arrived from other coun tries, or from the interior. t A very-large diamond has been dis- t covered in Bagagem, in the province of t the mines. It weighs eight vitavas and e one-eighth. The discoverer was an old black slave woman, who immediately t carried it to her nmaster, a Brazilian in t very needy circumstances. He imme- r diately gave the slave her liberty, and sent his brother to Rio with the dia- i mond. The Commercial Bank ad vanced him 1,000 centos, about £10, 000, on the gem: and I be rnve it goes to England by this convefance. It is C said to be a stone of extraordinary I beauty. 1 Spiritualism v&. Common Sense.-The a Spiritual Harbingbt, one of the sub limely ridiculous advocates of spiritu- l alism and rappingism, has the following r sublimation of nonsense: In the twefth hour, the glory of God, the life of God, the Lord of God, the Holy Precedure, shall crown the Tri bungCreator with the perfect disclosive illumination. Then shall the Creator in effulgence of the disclosure in one comprehensive revolving galaxy of s supreme beatitudes. The Cayuga Chief thus aptly res. ponds: Then shall blockheads in the Jack assical dome of disclosive precedure above the all-fired great leather fungus of Peter Nip-ninny-go, the Gooseberry Grinder, rise into the dome of the dis closure until co-equal and co-extensive and conglomeratd lumuxes, in one comprehensive jp55 shall assimilate into no ~ig auii .volve like a bob tailed prl-cat after the space where the tail wras. One is quite as intelligible as the other; indeed the response, if anything, has the more spirit. [1N. Y. Paper. Net Way to Settle a Suit.-At St. Louis, a few days since, a young lady was prosecuted before a justice of the peace for obtaining $127 worth of dry goods from a young merchant under false pretences. When the suit opened the lady appear·d, owned up, and willingly offered uersef for pay. The merchant liked her and accepted the kgal tmder} which was ratified by the magistrate, who forthwith joined them in the bonds of matrimony. r- The Prudential Committee of the town of Ware, Mass., declined the applicationof a young a of acknowl edged high chatc "d ability, for the situation of £ 6ne of their coramon scheh , ot ` ount of the Bloomer cut of her dress. ft is stated that the President has determined to appoint Col. HI. L. Scott, son-in-law of Gen. Scott, Inspec tor-General of the Army. fl "My brethjen," said Swift in a sermon, '" there are three sorts of pride : of birth, of riches and of talents. I shall not now speak of the latter. none of you being liable to that abominable vice." A casus Belli.-Dame rumor says that so determined is Santa Anna, the new dictator of Mexico, to go to war with the United States, that should nothing else turn up, he is determined to de mand his leg, which is now in Barnum's Museum. Death'by Contracting Disease from a Horse.-Dr. Peter A. Stoutenburgh, one of the coroners of Queens County, N. Y., died on the 23d nit. It appears that the celebrated trotting stallion Osceola (of which the doctor was the owner) was taken with the glanders and ultimately had to be killed. In his at tention to the animal the doctor in some way became diseased, which pro gressed so rapidly that in a few days it terminated fatally. ... . . . _ A Good ELample.-The North Caro lina editors are congratulating citizens of their State on the eminent men now occupying minor judicial positions. The late chief justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. Thomas Ruf fin, is uow chairman of'the courts of pleas and quarter sessions of his county -a simple magistrate's court. James J. McKay, of Bladein. an in fluential member of Congress for years. former chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means. (the most important of all the committees.) acts in a similar capacity for his county. Calvin Graves has recently been elected to a like post in Caswell. William A. Wright, of New Han over, accepted a year or two aro th, appointment of Justice of the Peace, and regularly brings, at each County Court the weight of his legal learning I and acquirements to the assistance of I the Bench in the tiial of causes. James Monroe, after his retirement from the Presidency, served as a Jus. I tice of the Peace in the county of his residence. Monroe and Madison were both delegates to the Virginia Conven tion. And Thomas Jefferson for several years acted as overseer of the county roads. 8----- A Hunter of Kenturckr.-A corres pondent of the Evansville Journal writes as follows about a Kentucky 1 hunter: ,Vat Eckman-it would do von oo200d to see him-has followed hni ting for a livelihood since the year" 1831. Since that period, he says he has killed 38 bears, 984 wolves. 3.847 coons, 990 foxes, 961 wild geese. 2.040 pheasants, 44 ground hogs, 80 wild-cats, 14 pole cats, 209 minks, beside squirrel quail. and other small game beyond his pow er to calculate. The sum he has re alized from his game, skins. &c., falls but little short of $12.000. Destitetion anl Death.-Several days I ago we spoke of a man and his wife. with their child, who came to the cent-. ral watr:h house seeking a shelter for I the night, they being moneyless and homeless. Yesterday morning the life less body of that same female was con veaed thither. It appeared that both the woman and her husband wereaddicted to strong I drink. They were itinerant, and toge ther with their child-a girl four years of age-lived on solicited charity. Yes terday, at tibout nine o'clock. being in the neigh:borhood of Ninth and H streets the female, having been permitted to enter the yard of a dwelling,. fell to the ground in a state of complete exhaus tion. and almost pulseless. Sympa- I thising strangers directly came to her relief, and removed her to the house, where, under the direction of Dr. Mar. bury, the usual remedies were applied, but without effect, and she died. The name of the woman is Frances West, and the man James West, both of English birth. The last named re presents that he graduated at Oxford University, and exercised the functions of a minister of the Established Church; and that his wife was of highly respect. able connexions. and related in a direct line to Oliver Goldsmith; hence the name of their girl, Ada Goldsmith West. (Washington Republic, 29~ tuk 09 The Germans have produced some very excellent remedies for vari ous diseases. Among which may be specified "Dr. Hooffands celebrated bit ters," for sale by C. M. Jackson-and used with remarkable success in Liver Complaint, Jaundice, Dyspepsia, Ner vous Debility, and a general derange ment of the stomach. The Sunday Despatch says of this medicine: We feel convinced, that in the use of the German Bitters the patient does not become debilitated but constantly gains strength aud vigor to the frame--a fact worthy of great consideration. The Bitters are pleasant in taste and in pmell, and can be-administered under any cireumstancls, to the most deli cate stomach. Indeed they can be used by all persons with the most per fect saf.ty. It would be well for those who are much affected in the nervous system, to commence with one tea spoonful or less, and gradually increase. We speak from experience, and are, of course, a proper judge. The press far and wide, have united in recommend ing the German Bitters, and to the af flicted we most cordially advise their use. Inspector Generalship of the Ar.sy It is stated that among the applicants for the Inspector Generalship resigned by Gen. McCall, Capt. H. L. Scott, senior aid" to Gen. Scott, Maj. W. G. Freeman, Col. Tholtaspand Col. W. W. S. Bliss, all of the staff of the army. There are also in the fieldCol. Steptoe, Col. C. F. Smith, Capt. Btagg, and Col. B. 5. Roberts, of the line of the army. t Clippings from our Exchangses A resolution has been reported in the Massachusetts House of Representa. tives appropriating $10,000 for a stat. ue to Daniel Webster, to be placed iU the State House. The steamship Albatross, wrecked on the 10th ult. on the trip from this city to Vera Cruz, was built in Phila delphia, at a cost of $90,000, for the Charleston trade. She recently be came the property of Simeon Draper, of New York, in payment of advances amounting to 860,000, and at the time of her wreck was on the second trip to Vera Cruz, with passengers bound to California by the Acapulco route. She was insured principally in New York. The Ohio and Lake shore Railroads anti Lake lines of steamers between Sandusky and Cleveland, and Buffalo and Dunkirk, have settled their through fares from Cincinnati at the uniform rate of 7 50. The Consolidated Cen tral line from Albany to Buffalo an. nounces 86 as the through fare between those cities. The Hudson River Board is charging $1 50. Altogether, the charge from New York to Cincinnati is $15. A law has just passed the New York Legislature, making it the duty of any one who performs the marriage cere mony to keep a record of the same, with the names and condition of the parties; and all physicians and mid wives to make a similar registry of births, with the name, sex, and color of the child. &c.. and the City Inspector and Doctor to keep an account of the deaths. The editor of the Tribune, who is one of the Directors of the "Underground Railroad." announces the conveyance of 60 free passengers to Canada since 1835. Probably the same amount of money spent in stealing these slaves, would have purchased twice the num ber and sent them home to Africa. The Limerick Examiner says that there was remitted to Ireland last year, through the Provincial Batik of Ireland, by parties in America, to enable their friends to emigrate thither, no less sum han £600.000. in sums under £4, and averaging £3 9s.-the price of a pas sage. The Boston ice dealers have doubled their prices compared with last year. The New York hotel keepers who had been charging $S 50 a day for board. commenced charging $1 75 on the 1st. So we learn from the Tribune. The Newfoundland papers state that the Submarine Telegraph Company will petition the Assembly to incraease their capital to £300.000, with a view of extending the lines to New York and Canada. The clipper ship Nimrod sailed from New Yolk on the 30th nit. for Anstral lia, with nearly two hundred passen gers. one-third of whom are Canadians, andl the remainder trom the rural dis tricts of the northern and western States. Mrs. H. B. Stowe's tea-.drinkings in Liverpool furnish a little gossip for the newspapers of that place. Her husbandm is telling some monstrous fibs there. He made a speech in which he assuredl the Liverpoolers that nine-tenths of the people of the United States are aboli tionists. He forgot that this would leave only negroes on the other side. A vessel from Porte-au-Prince. ar rived at New York. brines several arti. cles from the Emperor of Hayti, which are intended for exhibilion at the ap. proaching World's Fair in that city. The Springfield (Mass.) Republiean desires to know whether the bill as. thorizing a Boston company io extend their pipes into the town of Dorohester is a plan to evade the city ordinanee against smoking in the streets. It is said that more than 400 tons of pickerel have been taken from Horicon lake. Minnesota, this season, some of them weighing over twenty poends. That is good for the '" dispeopler of the lakes," and will give the other fry a chance. A new harbor on the Pacific, south of Port Orford and Rouge river in Oregon has been found to be feasible; and is called Paragon Bay, apd a city is springing up there called Crescent city. A new volume of letters by Eordi Chesterfield, and another of letters by Poet Gray, neither before publis , will soon appear in London. The Governor of Massachusetts- the Executive Council, and many Senatosm and Representatives, have subscriied one day's pay to aid in the completiow of the Natural Monument at Washing ton. The steamer Humboldt bronght 26 cases of goods for exhibition at t..Tew York World's Fair. The ship Mhetk from Bremen, also arrived at New YorK on the 27th, with 146 cases of goods' for the exhibition. A tunnel now in course of construc- tion on the line of the Dayton and Cin cinnati railway will, it is said, be, with. its approaches, 10,000 feet in length,. and the largest work of the kind inthe United States. I The loss by the late fire at the beak lyn Navy Yard, at first estimated sor near $350,000, is now stated, on hiaI authority, to amoont to $88,508 5. The Earl of Ellesmere -ileaid to tbe coming to New York with his family, to act as the representative of the British nation at the great exhibitine to be held there. A hundred mill girls selected by an American speculator in Glasgow, bcot land, have sailed from the Clyde to commence a new cotton mill at New' York. A man named Jacobs has beer smat to the Connecticut State Prison for eight years for placing obstructions onthse Williamantic Railroad. The New York City Councils have appropriated $1000 for the relietaO the New York volunteers in the M)geioa war. At last accounts, 59 vessel- were up in the various ports of England foe Australia.