Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 16 September 1854 — Page 2

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Temperance Resolution Adopted at the Democratic State Convention. RESOLVED, That Intemperance is a great moral and social evil, for the restraint and correction of which legislative interposition is necessary and projier but that we cannot approve of anv plan for the eradication or correction of this evil that must necessarily result in the infliction of greater ones: and that we are therefore opposed to any law upon this subject that will authorize the BEAKOHrso for. or SEIZUJIK, CONFISCATION,and UESTnrcTiox of private property.

Read! Rend Read!

"The ritrht of the people to bo .trrurr in their pernors.

HOUSES, papers, and EFFKI-TS, against unreasonable BEAitcn or SEIZURE, sliull not be VIOLATED." SEC. 11,

Co-list, of bid.

'•No man's ruorr.KTY fchnll bo TAKEN P.T LAW, •without just COMPENSATION." SEC. 21.

DEMOCRATIC TICKET,

For Sujircmo .Tinlcro. 4th District. ALYIN 1'. 1IOVKY, of Posey county. For Seeret.'irv of State. '^KEllEMlAll 1IAYD1-N, of Kusli county.

For Treasurer of State.

8 ELIJAH N EWI.AND. of Washington county, a For Aiiiliror of State. JOHN 1'. Dl'NN. of Pern e.»untv._ krrss/'For Supi'rintcndent of l'ublie In^tiuctioii, I WILLIAM C- LAHRA15EK. of Putnam county.

"'DISTRICT TICKET. *"4'V For Conurrex*—sth District. .Dr. JAMES DAVIS, of Fountain county.

For Prosecuting Attornev,

I SAMUEL W. TELFORD, Tippocmio^c.ounty.

COUNTY TICKET. 'l

For Ri jire-«cntat'\ Tllo.MAS ,3. WILSON.

I Fur Countv Tre:i-urer, JOLN i.r.i:. a t» i4 ,, For P!,i lit!'. ,ls

S BENJAMIN MISNKR. 1'ori iinnm^ii'iier. SAMUEL (rlLLlLAND.

For Coroner.

MATTilKW R. SCOTT. v1" For Surve\or, JOHN CK.

Di-tii'i 1'ioseMitor.

AliMU! V. Al ST IN.

The Journal says neither it nor Mace have

ciiAXorn. That- don't preolude the idea that the

Dr. might have got a little UIANOE without CIIANO-

JNU.

i?»- The N. Y. Tribune is in favor of Dan Mace

and Fred. Douglass for Congress. In this connec­

tion, we have no doubt but that Dr. Fry is in favor

of Fred., also—anyhow lie ourrht to be. for a couple

of years ago he said the NHIOER was vastly superior

to Dan., whom he is now supportinsr.

KT The number of idiotic and foolish or feeble minded persons in the United States is much creator than is generally supposed.—IN. Y. Tribune.

Very true. Had it been otherwise. Know Noth­

ing-ism. instead of having a wigwam in almost

every village, would yet be flourishing in the cellars uud bawdy-houses of N\w York.

t3!r The enemies of the Nobra.-ka bill in Chi­

cago gave three cheers for DISUNION while Lt. Gov.

Willard was addressing them. '-Straws tell which

way the wind blows." Of the same ilk are a large

number ot tho "People's Party" in Indiana—we

moan the abolitionists.

Ca?" The Abolitionists of Tippecanoe have effec­

tually and forever, we fear, strangled the old Whig

party of that county. We say

l-,ve

fear,' for the

reason that we had re.-peet lor the old fabric, while

we have none for the new. The attempt of W. F.

Lane. Esq., to call a convention of tho true Whigs

was ridden down by the ahoiition5:'ed presses of

Lafayette. He is the lat of the Mohicans.

P. S. Since writing the above, welind we were

ini^taKen. Mr. Lane Mieeecded in getting a Con-

\ention together, and. of course, a whig ticket.— Stick to them Lane

KiT" It is rumored that Dan Maco got his new

flrsjciato and triend. Fisher Doughertv, to consult

tho spirits in regard to his chauee of election by

tho Abolition party. Dougherty is said to have

reported t!.i morning that the consultation was

somewhat uiuNutisfactory, owing to a mi-under-

tanding twt«en tho colored and white spirits.

£-2?"""-^ cab.cet meeting was held at Washington or.

Monday la^t. Important dispatches were received from the American Commissioner at the Sandwich

Islands, conveying the treaty between the Uni­

ted Stales and those Islands.

NEW YOKK papers state that the California steamer, via Nicaragua, brings $1,0atid there is coming in the Oregon, via Panama. 1,005,171!, making ever two uiiliions in n!!.

SINGULAR, BUT TRUE.

The meeting that assembled to hear Mr. Beebe last Thursday, was not .permitted to

conclude its business. The truth is, knowing Hull, and his confederate, would attempt to break it up in disorder, it was regularly organized with a vie-p to frustrate

their design. For this purpose, there was chosen a President, and some twelve or fourteen Vice-Presidents.

Hardly bad Mr. Beebe resumed his seat before there were cries for Hull and some

of the Vice-Presidents were absolutely .crowded off by Hull and Dr. Brown in their attempt to gain tha platform.

One insolent official in one of our churches, instantly upon the cry for Hull, reared himself up and yelled so as to be heard everywhere—"Temperance men will listen to Hull whiskey men will not." "While these words, insulting to full two thousand people before him, were beffifr uttered the man had ceased to be a minister of the gospel he was sunken for the time, into the bully the peace-breaker, and the bigoted politician. The name of this man is Palmer. We doubt very much whether in any of his long prayers he bethought him to ask forgiveness for this his own sin.

We will say one word about Dr. Brown in connection with this affair. That he cooperated with Hull no man will deny and we think, though we will not state it positively, that ho was the first of the two to

enter the stand, occupied by the officers of the meeting. His conduct would not be more important than that of any other trespasser's, but for two facts. He is a minister of the gospel, and, at the same time, Grand Worthy Patriarch of the Sons of Temperance in Indiana.

We call attention to the matter, and ask the people, if it is not remarkable that preachers should thus demean themselves? How does it sound—the people are assembled in public meeting, and they are bro­

ken in upon by men calling themselves preachers? Until now, when it has unhappily grown fashionable for holy men to sermonize politically, was the like ever heard of in America? Ministers of the gospel driving the people away from a lawful assemblage! Yet such have been, such are, and such will ever be politicalprcachers.

But more especially, we call the attention of the Sons of Temperance to this matter. The outrage wa9 perpetrated by their Grand Worthy Patriarch. Are we to un­

derstand that they sanction it now? Or that they require of him, as part of his duty, to break up such assemblages of the people? To whom is their "Patriarch" responsible? A few more such instances, and the day of tho Sons of Temperance is over iu Indiana. It will be understood that their hound bites according to their hiss.

Yet ont other view of the matter. It is right to call upon the country to think the

whole ground over. Are not Hull and Brown abolitionists'! And were not they the principal disturbers on Tuesday? Is not abolitionism putting on a front of brass unheard of in Montgomery county?— Where and when will such outrages stop? We ask of the PEOPLE?

PROHIBITION,

Is suffering a wonderful depreciation in Montgomery County. A convention met in Crawfordsvillo on the 19lhof lastmonth composed of so-called temperance men, regular rum destroyers, and wine haters, but in their resolutions they never said a word about Prohibition. This was unkind. The last Journal, however, gives the "unkindest cut." The ticket that used to flourish at its head was called the "Prohibition Ticket." Now however, it has suffered an eclipse—nay, is absolutely knocked from its orbit. The confiding prohibitionists who have laughed at us when we told

them of this very thing, may look in the Jotirnal for tho ticket they made on the 17th day of June, but they will never see it again—never, at least, until the Nebras­

ka-repeal humbug has exploded without making anybody President, or giving anybody an office. In the name of common sense, how can Democrats who are for Nebraska but have gone ofl* for Prohibition, be lon­

ger deluded and cajoled? Come out from the knaves! But the Prohibition men are now nothing but objects of pity. Their pet idea is dying out. Poor fellows! They aro sold— gone, like cattlej in the market. We'll scatter clover-seed over their graves at the proper time.

03^ J. P. CAMPBELL will on Monday next, display, free of charge, his entire stock of Dress Goods. The Ladies may avail themselves of this opportunity of examining the choicest lot of dress goods probably in the market.

(£rWe call the attention of our read ers to the card of McMaines 6c Winton, House, Sign and Ornamental Painters, All work ertrustcd to them will be done promptly and to order, on as reasonable terms as any person can do it.

The President and his family arrived at Washington on the 0:1:, from Capcn Spring*.

I.IEUT. GOV. V. IJLLARD.

As published last week, Gov. "Willard addressed a large and respectable andience, comprising members of all parties, at the

Court House on Wednesday. It is scarcely necessary for us to eulogize his effort.— All who heard it will be willing, we think, to accede that it was one of the ablest speeches of the canvass. For our own part, we have no hesitancy in saying, that the Gov. is the ablest man now on the stump in Indiana. He comes nearer than any other in filling all that £is meant by the term "Orator." He has clearness in

his argument, method in his arrangement, and sustains both by an impressive manner and a fine voice, perfectly managed. In our opinion, also, the excellence of his speech is its perfect kindness to the opposition, not even excepting the abolitionists.

The Gov. handles the Know-No.hin^s O well. He takes them limb from limb but does it so tenderly and skilfully, and with as sharp a knife, that the victims submit to the operation in silence and without a groan.— We watched a number of them during the progress of his remarks. The head of the wigwam sat before us among others. He is a sensible man, and has been a favorite

citizen and, as he listened very soherly and calmly, we hoped he saw his delusion, and

eame back to the sober, second thought, generally so effective in rectifying the errors of opinion.

G. J. BEEBE.

Mr. Beebe filled his appointment on Tuesday, the 13th inst. Full four thousand people weye in attendance, of whom thirty-five hundred were voters. It is universally admitted to be the largest political gathering ever assembled in Crawfordsvillo. The speaker confined himself exclusively to the subject of Prohibition. He handled the subject with ungloved hands, and tore away from it every flimsy pretence of argument. That he succeeded perfectly, we know, partly because the fanatics in the town were mad and disappointed, and partly because the people were almost universally satisfied.

The notorious Matthew R. Hull was on the ground, with his backers, among whom we were sorry to observe several citizens of respectability. Hull is in pursuit of Mr. Beebe. He landed in our town on the same morning. His avowed intention is to break up all meetings, and so, if possible, nullify the effect and influence of Mr. B's. speeches. For this purpose he was selected, and is now under hire. We do not envy the prohibitionists their advocate. lie is Icprously abominable. Had they gone to the Hash cellars of New York, or to the wharf of New Orleans, another filthier in speech, more rotten in heart, and ineffably loathsome in manner, could not have been found.

At the close of Mr. Beebe's address, and before the meeting, which had been regularly organized, had adjourned, Hull and his confederate, Dr. Brown, made a rush for the stand. Happily, for the sake of good order, Mr. Beebe, with great presence of mind, called on all his friends to "go to the right," thus separating the crowds.— The drum and fife struck up, and the thousands marched to town with satisfaction In

their hearts, and Yankee doodle in their cars. Mr. Beebe, with a proper appreciation of Hull's infamous character, refused discussion with him, unless the State Central Temperance Committee would endorse him, which they refused to do.

YET ANOTHER IMPORTATION.

The fags, we understand, have hired Fanny Lee Towsend to stump the county —The "Bloomers" are all the rage.— There is to be a Temperance Supper to raise the wind for her. She comes for the same price that Ellsworth came,

O^rWe clip the following article irom the Indianapolis Journal, the State organ of the Abolition, Maine-law party of Indiana. We do so that our readers may sec the bigoted and intolerant spirit of the fusionists and their object in hiring that infamous and rowdy blackguard (Hull) to follow Mr. Beebe over the State:

"We hope Mr. Hull may attend all the meetings of this man (Betbe), and give him the same kind of 'hot shot' poured into him at Edinburgh. The man whe, at the bidding of the drunkard makers, dare come into this State to attempt to tell us how to vote, should be driven from it by the hootings and scorn of an indignant and virtuous people."

GRAND FAG-END 31 ASS MEETING.

At this time as we are about goingr t0 press, (2. o'clock, P. M.) there are about 150 men and boys, in the Court' House listening to Maj. Mace. Considering all things, it is the most unqualified lizzie ever known in Montgomery County.— Mr Orth is ou hand. Hererfter instead of godlove, his name should be God-forsaken

Orth.

S3T The Hon. Jas. Black, for many years a member of the LT. S. Senate, from the State of Mississippi, and lute of Louisiana, died in Winchester, Va., on the 20th ult..

BEN. MISuNER AND W. SCHOOLER. It is full time the public is understanding the positions of these gentlemen. Of their respective merits nothing need be said.— Both are clever fellows, and amply qualified for the office of Sheriff.

But as the matter now stands, Mr. Schooler expects to beat Mr. Misner by getting anti-prohibition votes. With all-our liking for Mr. S., we cannot but condemn his course since his nomination. He was nominated by the celebrated Maine Law Convention, his name is printed upon the Maine Law ticket, he is the Dougherty-Brown candidate yet he tells democrats and anti-pro-hibitory men, that he is not a Maine law man, and oa several occasions has publicly repudiated the convention that nominated him. With this song in his mouth, he approaches and asks the support of the Democratic party and those whigs whom the ultra-temperance sentiments of his repudiated brethren have disgusted.

Mr. Schooler is a good auctioneer,J a smooth-talker, and a shrewd man. But his course has been serpentine and double-faced. He has been one thing to one party, and a something entirely different to the other.— We call upon one of the prohibition papers to define his position. Until that is done, we will hold him up before the public as a Maine law man, and while he is this, no an-ti-prohibitory whig or democrat can consistantly vote for him, nor will he receive any such support. But whether it is done or not, we will tell the prohibitory men who nominated him, and expect to vote for him that he has repeatedly disavowed their nomination, and given, as his excuse for accepting the honor, if such it can be called, that he took it only to catch their votes! This we stand ready to prove by scores of good men in Walnut and Wayne townships.

Mr. Schooler has doubtless flattered him­

self that he will escape a publication of his conduct. But justice to Mr. Misner, a man as true as steel, and open as the sunshine, requires the exposure. Besides that, we cannot permit either party to be humbugged and cajoled into supporting any man.

If Mr. Schooler desires to make explanations, our columns are at his service. Mr. Misner is the candidate regularly nominated by the Convention of the 5th of August. He has served as Sheriff one term already, and nobody can complain that he

has not in all cases done his duty promptly, judiciously, and without fear or favor. The people know him, and will re-elect him.

i^grlt is a notorious fact that from and after the introduction of the Nebraska bill into the Senate, Dan. Mace had no association politically with anybody in Congress but Giddings and Campbell, avowed abolitionists. He always afterwards acted and voted with them upon the measure, aud was universally considered a "bird of that feather." And now that he is at home, and a candidate for re-election on the "Peoples" ticket, it is also a fact equally significant, that he is being supported by, and will actually get the vote of, every abolitionists of our acquaintance in the District. Do Clay-Whigs and Jackson-Dem-ocrats need other proof as to what Mace is, or who the so called "People's Party" are?

HOW IT WORKS,

Down with Douglas—out on the Nebraska bill—it will carry slavery into Kansas and Nebraska, were parts of the abolition hue and cry upon the introduction of that Measure into the Senate. Terrible was the panic throughout the country. But the re-action has taken place already. It is now being demonstrated that slavery in those Territories is an impossibility. Hundreds of slavery-hating citizens are pour­

ing to them from the North, while the South is as quiet as if it had no interest whatever in their settlement. The last item, though, comes from the X. I7. Tribune, which has abandoned the scheme of repeal. The Xebraska Palladium, a paper published in the Territory from which it is named, comes out boldly, and announces itself in deadly hostility against slavery.—

Every body knows the potency of the iufluence of the press. With an overwhelming immigration of settlers of free-senti-ment, and with public presses of the same stripe, how can Nebraska or Kansas ever be slave? Dan. Mace and his abolition

confederates laugh in their sleeves at the credulity of the people. The "insolent spoil-seeker," as Dr. Fry called Mace in 1852, knows the impossibility of his own predictions—we quote again from Fry—is all unchanged. The leopard still wears his spots. With all his treason rank about him, how can honest men put faith either in him

or Fry? Verily, we might as will look for nectar in a soap-kettle, as for principle in either of them!

JCSrThe Boston Mail says, "We should like to know who first started the idea of holding all the college commencements in the beat of dog days. He certainly ought to be entitled to all the honorary degrees those institutions are able to confer one hundred degrees of Fahrenheit included.

JSSTGo.

Bigler, of Pennsylvania has re­

cently been quite ill. At latest dates he was convalcscent.

S3F The above is a fac simile of Dan Mace as he appeared in the Bloomer in 1852.

^MATTHEW R.IIULL.

The last stage of political respectability has never yet been defined, nor have we been informed of the depth to which a party may plunge itself in public opinion. But the last stage of respectability and the

lowest depths of opinion are not far away from that organization, political, moral, or pecuniary, which hires for its agent, and employs and endorses as its advocate, that subterranean cinder—Matthew R. Hull. There is but one Matthew R. Hull, whether you go abroad or stay at home and there will never be another like him, for the pestilential fountains of villany have almost emptied themselves into him, as into an ocean. The toad, and the snake, and the beetle, detestable as they are, are creatures of light compared to him. His head is a bottle, and his mouth a leak in it and the mouth never opens but "hell-broth" gushes from the bottle. Earth, like boys, sometimes gets lousy and such as he make its most ghastly vermin. His blood is the exuded

matter of a leprous sore, and his body but the sun-dried scab on it. His touch is dishonor his association mfamy. He was born for the gallows but will probably cheat his destiny by dying in a penitentiary. Had Christ been a negro, Hull would be a chris­

tian as it is, he's an infidel. He is a legitimate child of the devil's but at present out of favor for robbing his parent of the title—."Father of all Lies." Yet loathed, low-flung, villainous, maudlin-black-guard as he is, the Prohibition party of Montgomery County endorse him, get crowds together to hear him, cheer and applaud him, and when he is done, put money in his purse, and send him away rejoicing! "How art thou fallen, O, Lucifer, son of the Morning!"

Despised, unworthy, unprincipled, and ready damned beforo his death, as all the world knows him, yet Brown confederates with, and vouches for the wretcln Such it is to be Grand Worthy Patriarch of the Sons of Temperance How much insignificance there is in some Lo lors, and how beggarly mean is a certain greatness!

CELEBRATION OF TIIE FOURTH OF JULY IN HONOLULU.—The seventy-eighth anniversary of tho Declaration of American Independence was celebrated in Honolulu with unprecedented spirit and display. Not only Americans, but residents from other nations as well as Hawaiians, joined in the festivities. The day was ushered in by a salute soon after midnight. Early in the ir.orning, the Consular flags were raised, and the shipping in port gaily dressed. After other ceremonies, at 12 o'clock, all Honolulu was assembled in the vicinity of the Court House, at which hour a salute was fired by the first Hawaiian Guard. A procession—patriotic ode—Oiation by Hon. David L. Gregg, U. S. Commissioner— Music—a Ball and fire-works at night concluded the ceremonies.

The San Francisco Herald says: "By private advices per Polgnecian, we learn that the annexation of the Sandwich Islands has been finally determined upon, and that the consent for a cession of the sovereignty of the Islands to the United States has been sent to Washington, and that a reply is expected in ninety days.,

HENRY CLAY AND THE ABOLITIONISTS.— In one of Henry Clay's speeches he used the following language in refernce to the aims of the Abolitionists to sectionalise the two great political parties. Read and consider: "The abolitionists, let me suppose, succeeded in their present aim of uniting the inhabitants of the free States as one man against the inhabitants of the slave States. Union on one side will beget union on the other. And this process of reciprocal consideration will be attended with all the violent prejudices, embittered passions, and implacable animosities which ever degraded or deformed human nature, and virtual dissolution of the Union will have taken place, while the forms of its existence remain.— The most valuable element of union, mutual kindness, the Jfeelings of sympathv, the fraternal bonds which happily unite us, will have been extinguished. One section will stand in menacing and hostile array against the other. The collision of opinion will be quickly followed by the clash of arms."

0^7~James H. Nelson, sheriff of Vigo county, and an old citizen of Terrc Haute, died in that city on Thursday evening last.

(From the Fort Wayno Sentinel.)

I The Maine Law in ittiune. A great deal is said by certain fanatics in this State, in favor of the Maine law, and we are told that its enactment and enforcement have worked wonders in that wonderful State. The papers printed in Maioe tell a different story, and from what they say, we are of the opinion that the advocates of the law knowingly try to decieve our citizens as to its practical workings. l"ake for example, the following from the Portland Me. Advertiser. Notwithstanding^eil Dow and his iaw, we do not see that even the capital of the cold water State much more temperate than we are hero,, and hence we see no great benefit has resulted from the passage of the pharasaical Maine Law.

"DRUXKENESS AT AUGUSTA.—IWe regret to see it stated in the Gardinal Journal, that' the last 4th in Augusta was digraced by drunkeness in every part of the. city. The Journal says:—'It commenced early in the forenoon, and throughout the entire' day, a visitor conld take no place where his eye or ear would not be offended by the profanity, vulgarity, and quarreling of drunken rowdies. We were told that all the rumshops, from the public houses down to the lowest dog-holes, dispensed their liquors openly and freely. The fruits were exceedingly disgusting—a disgrace to the city, and the State, of which (unfortunately, as we thought that day,) it is the seat of government."—Portland (Maine) Advertiser. ,)

How IT WORKS IN RHODE ISLAND.—By the following it will be seen that the much lauded Maine Law is as great a humbug in Rhode Island as in Maine. And yet by the advocacy of this humbug, the fusionista in Indiana are seeking to wheedle Democrats to forsake their party, and vote the Abolition, Know-Nothing ticket. Can any one be simple enough to be caught by such a shallow device? "THE MAINE LAWT IN RHODE ISLAND.—A gentleman of this city, who is sojourning at Newport, sends us the 'bill of fare' of one of the hotels, on which are the names of over forty different choice liquors with the price per bottle! Not only does it appear that spirituous liquors are openly sold but what is rather queer, notice is given that 'gentlemen drinking their oum mines' will be charged seventy-five cents per bottlel The gentleman writes.—'One gets a very singular idea of the Maine law in this place—where the toddy sticks are beatinga reville from the end of one day to tho other. I expressed my surprise to a citizen of the place, who replied that as long as the city sold it by agents, it would be impossible to restrain its sale by individuals that every body could purchase of the the agents who wished^-and the consequence was a complete letting down of tho bars, in all directions."—Xew Haven Reg~ ister.

SANDWICH ISLANDS.

AliElVAL OF THE MtlTJSII AXD FRENCH FLEET AT T1I13 ISLANDS. The Polynecian of July 22, says: Our little out of the way town was thrown into quite a stato of pleasant commotion on Monday last, the 17th inst. by the appearance off Diamond Head, of a war steamer, which was coming along under easy way, and seemed in no hurry to reach the harbor. All the lookouts were crowded with anxious gazers, and everybody had an opinion about her which everybody expressed and every* body opposed. Sir Oracle thought, nay, was sure it was the American steam frigate Susquehanna, from Japan. Another— equally good authority—shook his head most ominously and evidently did not like to commit himself to an opinion on the sub* ject. But while debate ran high, the public mind was diverted by the appearance of a frigate off the point, and then another and another, until sixvessels under sail, besides the steamer, were all seen bearing down for the anchorage and a splendid sight it was. The British and French flags commingled in the fleet in most beautiful accord, and all tbe vessels looked neat and trim and prepared for service as well as display. By 2 o'clock they were all at anchor in a line off the harbor, and turned out, to be the British frigate President, flag ship, the Arnphitrite and steamer Virago the French frigate Forte, the Eurydice, I'Artemice and brig Obligado—three English and four French the Eglish carrying 80 guns, and the French 138. This fine squadron is from Callao, via Nukuhivia, one of the Marquesas islands, and was but fourteen days in making the passage from the latter port. They are, of course, looking for the Russians, but the Prussians are somewhere else just now, and they must be hunted up if possible, when warm work will of course take place. At last accountsthe people of Vancouver's Island were under much anxiety—daily expecting a visit from the Russian vessels, against which they had no means of defence.

On Tuesday morning (24th July, at 10. o'clock the squadron took their anchors,, and stood off to the southwest, but whea hull down, altered their course to the west, which course they w^re steering when they passed out of sight, the 17rago leading.

The destination of the squadron not publicly known. From intelligence recently'received from San Francisco that dispatches were there awaiting the French Admiral, and that he was soon expected, it hasbeen surmised that the squadron may look into that port: others again, suppose that they are bound north to the Russian Possessions on the Asiatic Continent, in quest of the Russian vessels supposed to be cruising in that vicinity. However this may be, and whatever their destination, of this wa feel assured, that from the efficiency of the squadron, and the character of the officers in command, if an opportunity presents, some bjihiant achievements will be performed during the cruise on which this squadron has now entered. But time alone can determine the result. ,.

jCSTThe Yellow Fever has broke out epidemically in New Orleans. There his been 408 deaths by that disease already