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EVANSVILLE JOURNAL. PRINTED AKD PUBLISHED BY- WM. H. CHANDLER & CO. The Daily Journal is published every morning, (Mondays excepted) at 10 cents per week, payable to the Carriers, or $6 00 per annum, payable in advance. FOR PRESIDENT: Z AC SCAR'S TAVIiOR.. WHIG ELECTORAL TICKET. SENATORIAL ELECTORS. JOSEPH G. MARSHALL, of Jefferson. G0DL0VE S. ORTH, of Tippecanoe. DICTRICT ELECTORS. 1st DIsI.-John Pitcher, of Posey. 2d " John S. Davis, of Floyd. 3d " Milton Gregg, of Dearborn." 4th " David P. Hollow ay, of Wayne. 5th " Thomas D. Walpole, of Hancock. 6th " Lovell H. Rousseau, of Greene. 7th " Edward W. McGua&hey, of Park. 8th " James F. Suit, of Clinton. 9th " Daniel D. Pratt, of Cass. 10th " David Kilgore, ofDelaware, CITY OF EVASS VILLE: SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 20. A Reasonable Proposal. As it is now certainly ascertained that neither Mr. Clay nor Gen. Taylor ia acceptable to the Government organ at Washington, as the Whig candidate for President, the Alexandria Gazette proposes that the Whig Convention about to assemble at Philadelphia, should, previous to their action, appoint a committee to wait upon the editor of that journal and enquire who will suit him! As it isof importance that he-should be satisfied and gratified, and as he seem s to take so much interest in the matter, as business peculiarly of his concern, and in which he has a right to meddle, we trust, with the Ga zette, that the suggestion will not be overlook ed! Island of Vancouver. Mr. Palmer, late of Indiana, who has explored the country north the Coluiibia river, says that Vancouver's Island is as large as Great Britain, and contains all the natural resources to make it the seat of empire of a great nation. He also states that country north of latitude 49 presents many de eirable tracts, rivers, valleys, timbers, fisheries, and har bors, which will - in time, render the country most valuable to an enterprising people. An Irish Pike. The Charleston Patriot describes the Irish or Crappie Pike, and those who recollect the deadly results of its use in former times by the Irish peasantry, and reflect that it has again been recommended as a superior implement to the gun, may feel curious to know its construction. The staff of this formidable weapon is nine feet long and the blade of the pike one foot more. To the foot of the blade next the staffis affixed a cross piece of iron terminating at one side in a hood and at the other in a heavy battle axe. So that the instrument may be used for cutting down as well as thrusting. " It is believed thatan election occurred in Virginia some time last month. The few accounts we have received are unfavorable to the Whigs who seldom succeed in the high aristo cratic latitudesand who wereat this timemostly abroad engaged in the herring fishery. As the landholders only vote in Virginia it is sup posed the locos have carried the legislature as they always can. OCT Those who have been sanguine that peace would result from the treaty made by Mr. Trist, we fear are to be greatly disappoint ed. Every information received from Mexico, convinces us that there will be no peace. A correspondent of the N. 0. Picayune, writing from Orizaba under date of the 24th ult. says: "Peace stock is very low, and it is to be feared it will be much lower in a few days. I think the guerrillas are again organizing. The ar mistice is more to be regretted the longer it lasts. The authorities presume upon it very much even asking rent for the quarters our troops occupy." . Mob Rockets. It is stated in some of the English papers, that the greatest activity is manifested in the departments at Woolwich, in preparing rockets of a peculiar description, suitable to street warfare. An exchange says that these destructive missiles, when thrown amongst a mass of persons in confined places, are certain to produce the most frightful re aults. We understand that they are being pre Dared to meet the outbreak in "Ireland, and a great quantity that are completed, will be shipped off for that country immediately; the same specimen of rocket was used with fearful .effect in the recent Carlist contest in Spain. Progress of Common Sense. The N. Y. Asemb!y has passed an act to abolish imprisonment for debt and limitimprisonrnentforfines; Allowing each day to liquidate &8 of the fine. At Stourbridge, England, a musical fesliva took place for the relief of the poor, a few weeks t ince, when Mr. Russell sang "There's a good time coming." At the conclusion of the melody, a farmer stood up, and addressing the vocalist, said, ''Mr. Russell, you could not fix the date, could you"?" jT"The Vicksburgh Sentinel says, the in crease of the order of the Sons of Temperance in Mississippi, is unparalleled. Divisions are beine organized all over the State. -This is Xpst gra-if jing intelligence. ' OJ-Louis Phillippe once taught school in iwitzerland, and afterwards in this country. For the last eighteen years he has been trying to teach French;" but "the boys," not liking Jheir master, "hjistled him out."

The English Aristocracy. It is reported

through a variety of English channels, that the aristocracy of England and Europe, to the num ber probably, of several thousands who heretofore have spent their summers and autumns in France, Germany and Italy, intend hereafter to make their visits to the United States by the steamers. This we think probably is correct. atleastin part. The unsettled condition of the Concinent of Europe, will most probably render a sojourn of the English nobility in those conntries which have heretofore been visited by them, unpleasant, and the migratory habits indulged in for centuries, by the British aristocracy, will induce them to spend part of their time ubroad. There are probably few countries in the world where they can spend their time more pleasantly, and with greater profit to themselves, than in this, viewing our magnificent Mountains, Lakes, Rivers, Catajacts, Valleys, &c, all of which nature, as if to eclipse every other portion of the globe, has formed on the most grand and sublime scale. But will the influx of the aristocracy of the old world he of any advantage to us? Surely not, if the people ape those proud lords, and endeavor to build up in this favored land, e. division ia society. For ourself, we love the simple, gentlemanly, social condition of our truly democratic government, and nothing could injure the nation more than to be flooded by these foreign lords, provided they be allowed to bring with them their manners and customs, and find followers in this republic. But while we entertain little fear of them, we certainly would much rather witness another kind of emigration, viz: the industrious and moral classes of the old world. Union Magazine. We were wrong the other dayin supposing the obliging Publisher of this popular and valuable monthly had forgotten us. The number for May has been re ceived, and a beautiful one it is, equal to any that have preceded it. The names of contribu tors to this number present an array of talent that cannot be surpassed in the Union, and who, in connection with the gifted editress, are fast winning a reputation for the work that will be the envy of older but less deserving magazines. We again commend the Union Magazine to the public, as every way worthy of an immense patronage. CCS-There is good reason to believe that there was an understanding among certain leading men in high station, that Gen. Scott was to be sacrificed.for the benefit firstly of the paty, and secondly for that of the immortal Gideon Pillow, the particular friend and protege of James K. Polk. But Pillow had not sense enough to keep within bounds, and, by overacting his part, ruined the plot. The mission of Trist was probably a part of the scheme, but wnen he found out Pillow's true character, had wit enough to keep clear of am. A Voice From Poland. The New York papers publish, from the Polish committee, an eloquent appeal for aid to their poorer country men, now in this country, whodesire to return and assist in freeing their native land from tyranny and despotism. It ,is proposed to form an American committee in New "iork City, to receive donations for this ob ject. 0O-The New Albany Bulletin of Tuesday, says: 'A most destructive fire the largest ever occurring in New Albany, tcok place last night about 10 o'clock. The oil mill of Messrs. Webb & Box, valued at $5000, insurance &3000: the arge and extensive steam Flouring Mill of Messrs. Austin & McDonald, valued at 87000, nsu ranee 4000: and a two-story frame dwell mg, belonging to Henry iurner, valued at 7 or $800 were all destroyed. . We will give the particulars to-morrow." Military Confirmation. We copy the following from the last number of the Baltimore Sun: Washington, May 11, 9 P. M. I learn that the Senate has confirmed this evening the nominations of Generals Twiggs and Wool as Major Generals;Colonel Churchill, as Brigadier General, Captains Washington and BrasE. (9th artillery.) as Lieut. Colonels: and Major Thomas, (Acting Adjutant General,) as Lieut. Colonel. Senator Borland. The late Major from Arkansas, has published an address to the peo ple, of his State, announcing himself as a can didate for election by the Legislature to the seat in the United States Senate which he now holds by appointment from the Governor. In this address he promises to give his attention to the claims of the volunteers and to a con stitutional system of internal improvements - & - The address is very severe on "a portion of the democracy, which it charges with a fondness for the "spoils" without having the courage to fight the battles to secure the "victors, and it thus concludes in reference to them: "As a man, I respect and love my fellows Asa Democrat. I bow to the oeople. But am no idolator to payhomage at the shrine of any individual, and least oi an, tnose painted J e rr , r . l . : 11 puppet3 Ol omce, in wnose launcauuirs i nave Dome a pari peiuajjs iuu gicai a aii. "There it goes again," said Mrs. Partington as she became conscious of the sublimity of a soda fountain one warm day in July. "There it goes again, I declare, fizzirlg away like blessed old locofoco on a railroad."' Letters from Yucatan to the 14th of April state that the Indians have elected a King, un der the name of Tutulxiu, which was the name of their King or Chief before the conquest of the Spaniards. He was crowned in thoa mous ruins of Chichen Itza on the 9th of April

EVANSVILLE, ESTD., THURSDAY MAY 25, 1848.

National Washington Monument. We have already noticed the design of the Association to lay the corner stone, of fhe Washington Monument on the 4th of July next, and we now learn that a committee has been appointed to make arrangements for the occasion. This committee has issued an Address upon the subject which appeals directly to the patriotism and to the heart of every American citizen. This Address says: Thougbout this wide country, every one is, or ought to be, emulous to unite in this lasting token of veneration, which is to aid in transmitting to posterity the memory of him whose fame has spread thioughout the world, and whose name is made the watchword in every strusle for liberty. We therefore deem it expedient looking to the concourse which will assemble in this city to learn by correspondence, as far as practicable, what can be doue to render the ceremonies imposing, and suited to an object so august. With this view, we desire to receive from every part of the Union information as to the number of persons who will be here; and whether they will come as associations, civil or military. We invite the citizens of the States to cooperate with us in the general design which we now submit. As the monument is national, a delegation is requested from each State and Territory, with a banner inscribed with the great seal of the State, and some other appropriate device, to be hereafter deposited in the monument, with a suitable inscription to perpetuate to the latest posterity a knowledge of their origin and use, and the names and services of the iW legations that bore them. If wrought by females, their names to be recorded and perpetuated in the same manner with statementsof the times and places of presentation to the respective delegations. . A military corps is invited from each State, so as to form, when united, one great military and civic procession. Washington was "first in war, first in peace; and first in the hearts of his countrymen." Combined with these, we propose to form in the procession the masonic, odd fellows, firemen's, and temperance associations, the various trades and pursuits, with proper devices and banners. Literary and scientific associations are invited toattend, together with the schools of the District, under the care of their respective teachers. The dif ferent State delegations, military corps, societies, associations, and schools, are requested to hand to the marshall a roll containing the name of each person in attendance, to be re corded and perpetuated as in other cases. As the board ol managers consider the fund contributed by our liberal and patriotic fellow citizens for the erection of the monument too sacred to . be. diverted and expended for any other object, we can only promise the visiters on that day a hearty welcome, good water and beautiful grounds for encampment. lhe editors and publishers of newspapers throughout the United States are requested to publish this communication, and are invited to attend the ceremony of laying the corner stone of the monument, and to bring with them one number ol their paper containing this article, to be ueposited in the monument. Ifa personal attendance shall be inconvenient, they will be pleased to send their papers to the general agent as soon as practicable, that seas onable arrangements may be made for their being placed in the monument. io carry out this general design, we earnest y desire communications from every part of the Union, without delay to be addressed to Elisha Whittlesey, general agent, who will de liver tnem to Joseph Uradley, chief mar shal. Arch Henderson, Chairman. M. F. Maury, W. Lenox, Jrs. H. Bradley. Us ne worKmen Drone ground on our wharf on yesterday. As soon as the water falls sufiicientlyit is the intention of the con tractors to place a large number of hands on the work and rush it through to completion. Certainly two, and perhaps three blocks, will be finished this summer. 03" We learn that the lightning struck the residence of Dr. Woolsey on Tuesday, but did no material damage. Alabama. It is stated that several marble quarries have been recently opened in Talledega county, and that competent judges have pronounced the marble to be the finest which has yet been found in America. Some of the quarries furnish white, and others variegated marble, finely adapted for mantles, furniture, &c. Union of Roman Catholic andProtestans In Germany, (as appears from European pa pers,) the cause of religious liberty is especial ly advanced by political revolution. At Yi enna tneaDoimon 01 ainerences 01 creed in respect of political rights was one of the earli est of the popular rally cries. Thus about fourscore notables of the city of Augsburg, half Roman Catholics and half Protestants, having met to establish a common understanding res pecting the communial elections and adminis tration, resolved to put an end to religious quarrels by an equal division of functions for the future a decision which was afterward of ficially confirmed. , ' Hard Work. After the excitement of the Chartist Demonstration on Mondey, 10th of April, Mr. Fergus O'Connor attended and spoke in the House of Commons. Before the debate was. through, however, it seems, he sank down with fatigue, and was found fast asleep on one of the benches, just after a vote had been taken on a minor question. His case was reported to the Speaker, and he was awakened and reouired to vote. The Honorahle member voted with the Ayes, which caus ed much merriment, it being contrary to his former vote and on the side of Ministry. (Xy The editor of the Burlington (Vt. ) Free Press, perpetrates the following at the close of a paragraph, touching the merits of the immortal General Bombastes Pil low: We hang our barpa upon the wilier When 'er we think on Gideon Piller, The. man that digs, for Polk and Marey, Ilia ditch and breast-work vicey varset.

From the North American,

NEWSPAPER POSTAGE TAX. One of the very curious and inconsistent features of American legislation is exhibited in the disposition to maintain high rates of postage on newspapers passing through the United States mails, and to tax to the utmost, and by taxation diminish as far as possible the spread of, public intelligence. It were superfluous to say that the Americans are a reading people; but this expression means that they are a newspaper-reading people. Newspapers are, indeed, in a great measure, the books of the United States; in which all classes seek and find, prepared for them at the lowest cost, instruction and information of every character as it regards public affairs and the interests of private business adapted to the general wants of a practical and self-governing people. Such vehicles of intelligence ought to be supplied to the people of the United States freely and cheaply; no difficulty 01 discouragement should be interposed from any quarter: every effort should be made by individuals and by government to open the whole land to the circulation of the press, and to fill every cabin with the daily or weekly sheets of what may be properly called the Freeman's Library. Individuals have done, and are daily doing, their part in this matter the newspaper publishers are not wanting in dutv: thev furnish to the public of the United States the cheapest, and.i we may say, tiie best newspapers in the world; I ma notning is wanting but a co-operative spit in the National Legislature. a willingness to adopt a proper system of mail transportation, Dy wnicn journals can be carried as cheaply as they are printed, to remove the only obstacles to circulation which now exist as a burthen and a fetter upon "the freedom of the press. Unfortunately,-the National Legislature has not yet shown any such spirit, or willingness to co-operate in the cause of public intelli-; gence. England has made the great advance of transporting newspapers in the mails without charge: in the United States it is still the ystem to make them a principal source of the Post Office revenue, to tax them, to encumber them, indeed, with an impost which, considered in reference to the ad valorem princi ple, might be pronounced more oppressive than the weightiest custom duties imposed on the products ol foreign capital and industry. It does not need any figures to prove the in equality between the subscription price and the postage of newspapers. The latter, to country Teaders, residing, say, at a distance of one hundred miles, constitutes a tax, which, in the case of the large daily papers. amounts to about 40 per cent., in that of the penny papers IUU per cent., on the subscrip tion price, an immense charge to be made for the simple service of carrying; as compared with the low sum which is to remunerate the journalist for the varied labors and expenses of publishing a newspaper, in a business involv ing a considerable capital and the employment ot many hands. If postage must continue to be charged on newspapers in the United States, the rates ought to be reduced to the lowest possible scale: justice and sound policy. the interest of the citizen and the department equally re quire it. It is certain that, on the principal mail routes, and in the vicinity of the large cities, newspapers might be carried and car ried with profit to the transporter at even passenger rates: that is, at a price correspond ing with the ordinary fare for travellers by the usual modes of conveyance by steamboat, rail road and post coach, lhe average charge for transporting a traveller and his baggage (to gether about 200 lbs.) is considerably under, but we will take it at, five cents per mile; or 85 per 100 miles equal to &2 50 per 100 lbs. per 100 miles. At such rates, the transportation of newspapers would prove highly profit able, on such routes, to private carriers, who will always be tempted by high rates to'enter into a competition with the department, which can only be injurious to the latter. At such passenger rates, not to trouble the reader with minute calculations,-we find that a subscriber to the North American residing at a distance of 100 miles, would have to pay for the delivery of his paper only about 80 cents a year; whereas, the Post Office charges, under the pre sent arrangement, amount to no less than 3 10 a year, or nearly four times as much. One little lact will give the reader a lively idea of the extent and oppressiveness of the post-office tax in the transportation of news papers, lhe weekly newspapers sustain a post age charge of 52 cents per copy 'per year al though the average nett price to the publisher is only about 75 to 80 cents. There are, we understand, about 200,000 copies of such pa pers mailed every week in Philadelphia, the postage on which, supposing they went only 100 miles, would be $2000 a week, or S164,000 a year; whereas, if carried by weight at the above rates, for the above distance, the postage would be only t&iioa. week, or 21,000 year. The whole annual value of these weeklies to the publishers is about $160,000: upon which sum the Government, not only modestly 6r generously it may be thought, imposes a mail tax ol tU4,UUU. Truly, the uovernment comes in for the lion's share of the profits, andgreaty to me damage and wrong ot the reader. In fact, the existing high rates of postage have already had the effect to divert from the public mails a great deal of business, on those very routes where business is, or ought to be, most prSfitable. Immense packages of periodicals, and to a certain extent even of new pa pers, are transported by private earners: and so much revenue is, in consequence, lost to the department. This is an evil which can only be abated by Ixmgress adopting a system of ow rates, under which there will be no in ducement left to the publishers to send, or subscribers to receive, their journals through any other conveyance than mat ol the United Mates mails. '..'. We designed, but have not space, to com ment on the provisions of the newbill recently reported to the House by the Post Office Committee. It appears to be framed on much more liberal principles than any similar bill which has yet been before Congress; but it might be made still more liberal, without injury to the public or the Post Office revenue. The Whig National Convention. We learn from the Philadelphia papers that the fol lowing arrangements have been adopted in relation to the Whig National Convention of Nomination, and the Whig Young Men's Convention of Ratification. A committee will be in attendance at the Whig Reading Room, N. E. corner of Sixth and Chesnut streets, from the 5th of June, between the hours of 10 and 12 B. M., and 8 to 10 P. M. to register the names of the members of the Nomination, Convention, and to receive them on behalf of the Whigs of Philadelphia. The upper saloon of tbe Museum Building, Ninth st. below Chestnut, has been engaged for the use of the Nominating Convention, which win assemble at that place at 11 A. M., on Wednesday, the 7th day of June. The Whig Young Men's National Convention of Ratification will be held in Indepen dence ssquare on lhursday, the 8th day of June. Measures are in progress to provide for the proper accommodations ot the guests ot the ci ty' on the 7th and 8th of June,

THE FEELING IN IRELAND.

At a Repeal Meeting in Killarney. Mr. Lawyer introduced the following lines into his speech: Let the coward shrink aside, We'll have our own again; Let die crawling slave deride. Here's for our own again. Let the tyrant bribe and lie, March, threaten, fortify Loose his lawyer aid his spy, . Yet we'll have our own again. Let him soothe in silken tone, Scold from a foreign throne; Let him come with bugles blown. We shall have our own again. Let the game be fairly tried, We'll have our own again." Mr. Bourke on the same occasion, quoted the following lines: 'They banned our faith, they banned our lives, they trod us into earth. And while we bore with passive hearts, our patience was their mirth, Even this great flame that wraps them now, not we but they have bred; This war is their own work, and now their work be on their head." The "Nation,"in a leading editorial says: Thank God! we are to be troubled no moro with phantoms of "amelioration" and "equality." The unproductive desert of the last twe years, where promise rose on promise like waves of barren sand, is past, and we have reached the skirts ot a farm land fat for fighting on. Our imperial rulers have made the true cause of quarrel conspicuous as a tower; they have struck down every right, or pretence of right, which they might derive by crown, or compact, and have revived, as their banner, the ancient claim of conquest. lhe time ot the sword has come, the cant of the constitution is obsolete as Ogham stones. It is come; and we will show that the reli gious spii-Jt of this people, like the cloak of the Crusader, carries beneath its cross a soldiers heart and warlike equipage. We love not the prospect of civil war, but our dread of it is dead it died in the Famine. It is time for Ireland to strike; she has negotiated in vain for half a century. In her name we choose and we beseech Heaven to sustain and bless our choice civil war, rather than submission to English tyranny! We choose this course with deliberation, and after full reflection on all the duties which attach to us, in our generation, and we call on the people to prepare for the battle. England has thrown down her gauge! thus Ireland takes it up. The Freeman's Journal, in reply to Lord John Russell's threat that he will "put down the Repealers by force," holds this lan guage-. To their menace of armed thousands, we an swer, Temember we are millions. To their armed faction we oppose the resolve of a peo pie. When they ally with British arms the murder knif of the Delahunts, and the Clarendon pikes of the perjured spie9 when they arm their hirelings against the properties, lib eities and lives of our gentry and our peoplewhen it is openly declared that the merits of a constitutional question are not to be discussed in the senate house, but in the field when arms are sent from England by the Government to arm lactions against liberty, against the constitution, and against the people we ask the Irish gentry will they be consenting parties to this procedure will they aid and abet the minister in his efforts to precipitate this country into insurrection and anarchy, that "English Interests" may be advanced by perpetuating the Union? This is a question which the Irish gentry, and Irish merchants, and Irish traders, should put to themselves without delay. What have they gained by the Union? What will they benefit by its perpetuation, that they should consent to make their country the theatre of civil war, and their properties the sport of anarchy? Are they prepared to submit to this, to have, as the Times puts it, the streets of our cities deluged "with civic blood," and a licentious soldiery let loose amid their homes, that British interest may be subserved at the cost ofall that humane and honorable men hold dear? If not now is their time to speak, now, ere it be "too late." Lord John Russell. A letter from the correspondent of the New York Courier, under date of 14th of April, has these paragraphs: jjord jonn rkusseu is clearly behind the age The opinion on the subject which 1 have repeat edly expressed gains daily confirmation. Had he, after the outbreak in Paris, stated his inten tion to set aside the present unpopular income tax, and substitute a property tax; or had he even proposed to modify the system of apportioning the present.impost; had he brought forward a law giving a vote to every person, (household or not) who paid a certain amount of direct taxation to the uses of the State; but he proposed to extend the elective franchise by creatin g a voter out of every man liable to do militia duty or to be a special constable; had he permitted so much of the .repeal of the Union as to have allowed of an Irish Parliament in Dublin, where the members might have spoken to their hearts' content (or eaten each other up if they liked it;) or had he undertaken to allow one stage of every bill in its passage through Parliament to be voted upon by ballot, he might have gained great popular strength and would have shown.some statesmanlike genius. But has been merely solicitous to bring forward those measures which would receive the concurrence of Sir Robert Peel, he has thrown away chances which seldom fall to the lot of even a Prime Minister. Secure in his majority of the Representatives, he thinks onlyof bringing forward measures which have been prepared months ago in the Government offices, and does not seem to notice the great change which has come over men's minds since the advent of republican ideas in Paris. He moves on in the same mill horse round as far as legislation is concerned, as if his blood had never been excited by the j stirring events of the day. I repeat he is clearly behind the age. fX3 Amongst the various plans adopted in tbe neighborhood of Sunderland to enable parties to emigrate to America; is one of novel character, that of several hundred persons join ing in a sweep of Is, each, the person drawing the prize ticket to take the whole of the money. . . . A Hit. "My father is richer than yours," said a boy to his companion the other day. "How do you know,", was the reply. "Because, my father says that your father pays for every thing which he buys, while my father pays no body, but keeDS his money to shave notes The word blouse, which frequently occurs in the French news, signifies "a short blue frock,' the common dress worn by men and boys. The word is used to designate the laboring classes of Paris, V

Connecticut Senators. A caucus of. the Whig members of the Connecticut Legislature have agreed upon Roger S. Baldwin and Truman Smith as their candidates for the United States Senate. As the Whigs have a majority in both branches of the Legislature, the nomination is equivalent to the election.

Result of the Virginia Election. In the last Senate of the Virginia Legislature, the Democrats had a majority of 10. In the next Senate they will have a majority of 12. On joint ballot, the democratic majority will be 27. Gen. Scott. The Harrisburg Telegraph intimates very distinctly, that Gen. Scott will not consent to be a candidate for Vice Presi dent, and gives for authority the General himself. From Jamaica and Port-au-Prince. The schooner Stranger, Capt. Tobey, arrived yes terday from Dingstod, having sailed thence on the 30th ult. As the Stranger was coming out of port she met a schooner bound in, having on board one hundred and forty refugees from Port-au-Prince. Our last accounts from Port-au-Prince repre sented that the news from France had caused great excitement there; now we have the results. The following is from the Jamaica Despatch of the 29th ult: Port-au-Prince. This unfortunate coun try has again become the arena of a sanguinary scene. We learn from respectable authority that the black population have risen en masse against the inhabitants of color, and were com mitting awful ravages among them. The cau ses of the outbreak we are unable to ascertain, but it is supposed to be a dissatisfaction of the browns to be governed by the present Presi dent. The British merchants resident at Port-au-prihee engaged the brig Queen Victoria, which happened fortunately to be there, and sent through the British Consul, to the commodore on this station, requesting the immediate presence ot a man-of-war to protect .British subiects and their interests. mere was a French vessel of war at Port-au-Prince, and we are informed that her presence tended in a great degree to quell the outbreak which took place but which notwithstanding, was ol a most serious nature. The Queen Victoria anchored at Morant Bay, on Thursday last, and the captain forthwith came to Port Royal to deliver his despatches to the commodore. It was said that the num. ber of persons killed in one day exceeded two hundred. Herz, the pianist, was in Kingston on the 30th. He advertises for sale his piano "being about to return to the United States." A smart shock of an earthquake was felt in the town of Falmouth on the 21st ult., at about a quarter past'6 o'clock, A. M. It was of brief duration, not lasting more than a few seconds, and its undulating motion appeared to be from nearly east to west. Since the above was in type we have read the following in last evening's Courier, being an extract from a letter to a commercial house. Hayti has again been the scene of bloodshed, and murders. We learn that the brigantine Queen victoria, (of Trinidad,) Capt. Tucker, from Port-au-Prince, bound to Hamburg, with a cargo of coffee, &c, put into Morant Bay on Thursday last to purchase stores, as none could of procured at Port-au-Prince, in consequence of the state of matters at that piace: and that Capt. Tucker reports that he has brought des patches from the British Consul there to Com modore Bennet, on this station requesting that a vessel should be immediately sent to Port-au-Pnnce, where a serious disturbance had taken place a large number (some say upwards of a hundred) of the colored population havm been massacreed by their black brethren. The cause of this outbreak has not been fully men tioned, but it is said that the lives of people of calor ware daily being sacrificed in large num bers. This determination on the part of the blacks to exterminate the browns had been brewing for a long time.in factsince the tyrant aouloque has been rresident; and it is iow being realized with a vengeance that none but savages would be guilty of committing. The commodore, we learn, has been unable to comply with the requisition of herBritannic Majesty's Consul at Port-au-Prince, there not being a single vessel of war at Port Royal at this moment, excepting the guard and storeships, which are useless in their present! state. It is certainly a cause of much regret that this island should be left so destitute of vessels of war as it, is at present. It has been said that we can have no possible cause for alarm, but who can tell what a moment might produce. The present outbreak in Hayti, where the presence of a man-of-war to protect British interests would be of much service, is a sufficient proof why Port Royal should not be as she now is destitute of at least one available vessel of war to be used in cases of emergency. Who knows how many innocent beings have by this time been sacrificed to a merciless mob; who, had protection ueen afforded by one of her Majesty's vessels, would have been enabled to save themselves and their families from the general massacre, which, we are told, wasjgoing on in that unfortunate county The Alarm, Daring and Vixen are, it is said, cruising off the island of Cuba, arid it is not known when they will return to Port Royal. We hope when this intelligence reaches England that the Admirhlly will see the necessity of having a large number of vessels of war on this station than at present. England seems as has been said, truly to have forgotten her colo nies, and evidently cares little or nothing about their prosperity when she leaves them so unprotected ,and at the mercy of other na tions. Lazy rich girls make rich men poor, while industrious poor girls make poor men rich. Remember this, Ve aflected fair ones, whose antipathy to putting your hands into cold water is always getting your husband s into hot. Married. On yesterdny, 10 o'clock A. M,, by Rev. J. V. Dodge, Mr Vakser Satteelle to Mis. Julia E. Bukbank, all of this city. We received from the happy couple a liberal por tion of the bridal loaf, and beg to return our best wishes for their future prosperity and happiness.

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By Telegraph to Louisville. From the Louisville Courier. THIRTIETH CONGRESS. Washington, May 16. . SENATE. , G The Senate was called to order at the usual hour. ' Mr. Douglass from the committee on Terri tories, reported the House bill for the admis sion of Wisconsin, as a State, into the Union, which was read and made the order of the day for Thursday. V Mr. Bagby moved to take up the resolutions he had previotfsly offered, which declared that neither Congress, nor Territorial legislation, or :he people of said Territories, had the power to prevent the admission of slavery into said country; which motion was agreed to, ana the resolutions were discussed, by Messrs. Bagby, Foote, Badger, and Wescott, L A motion to lay the resolution on the table was passed by a vote of yeas twenty-six nays eight. On motion the Senate took up as in com'nittee of the whole, the Yucatan bill. Mr. Bagby addressed the Senate. The question was then taken onDavis'amend ment, as modified by Lewis, and rejected, by yeas 5, nays 26. The bill was then postponed till to-morrow. Mr. Bright moved to take up the bill relating to the surrender of the Indiana state bonds.held by the Government, which motion was agreed to. ' Mr. Clayton proposed to amend the bill by making a provision to accept f61,000 of the State Bank loan, payable in 1856, which was adopted, and the bill was finally passed. On motion of Mr. Hannegan.the Senate went into Executive session, and adjourned till Wed nesday. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. In the House, .the first business in order was the reports 01 ine standing commit tee's. " On motion, the House went into commit of the whole on the naval pension bill, wi lch was discussed by Messrs. Bagley, and Wyley. j . . ' When the House on motion adjourned till Wednesday. Washington, May 17, 9 1-2, P. M. SENATE. The Senate being called to order proceeded to the regular order of business. Mr. Niles offered a resolution calling upon the Secretary of the Treasury for information relative to the interest of the Public debt paid at Boston, Philadelphia and New York. The bill allowing steamers to touch at Havana was passed. On motion the Senate resumed again the discussion of the Yucatan bill. Mr. Hannegan announced that news had been received from Yucatan, of a treaty being entered into between the whites and Indians,' and moved a postponement of the further consideration of the bill. A debate arose in which personalities took place between Messrs. Hannegan and Niles. Mutual explanations were finally made, and harmony was restored. ' Mr. Foot, ia his speech upon said bill, directed his remarks especially against Mr. Calhoun. The Senate on motion then adjourned till Thursday. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. , . In the House the Naval Pension and Post Office bills, were considered in Committee of the Whole. , The Wilmot Proviso was debated by Messrs. , Woodward, Bailey and Murphy; the resolution -was then adopted. The House then adjourned. House's Telegraph. We copy the follow- s ing from the Baltimore America of lastTueaday : . I ' . We saw yesterday a sample of the work done by this admirable invention. . The com munication is printed distinctly, in capital letters, so plainly that he who runs may read. " The line is in full operation daily between N. ' York and Philadelphia, and has as much busi ness to do as it can dispose of. We learn ,:- that a line is first to be extended from New . York to Boston, and then from Philadelphia to Baltimore. The N. Y. Herald has the followjng notice of the Telegraph: , - . "House's Telegraph. There was an experi- ; ment tried on the telegraph letter print of Prof. House, yesterday, between this city and Philadelphia.and the result was most satisfactory. iiy a lair test,?tney were enabled to print one hundred and seventy letters per minute, all of 1 which were perfectly plain and legible. A ', number of business communications were yesterday transmitted, and the answers were re- ' ceived in the shortest space of time; in one case not more than 5 minutes elapsed before Z answer was received, lhe wires have been successfully carried acoss the North river, and at an enormous expense. The whole length of the wire reaching across the river is 4,400 feet. and the longest wire in the world without an ' intermediate support. The same telegraph has ; been adopted in eight kingdoms of Europe, and is considered the most perfect yet discovered." ' , . (XF"A French paper says, that one of the i numerous solicitors for place has just sent an application to the Minister of Marine, whom he addresses as "Your Republican Highness." ' . .? CO" Amongst the things which the Germans, have conqueredby the revolution, is., the right of smoking in the streets, and is as much prized as arry political privilege in pros- 3 pect. . : , . . . - c A down east editor, speaking of the won-: derful virtues of a wonde'rful. hair oil, says a few drops put -upon kittens mkw hares of them immediately. ; v Some writer has said, that the fondness . of the French people for dancing is (0 be explain'ed and accounted for' by the fact that tbey cat

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