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6ilent a« thou, whose Inner life is gone, Let m« e&ttxy thy meaning if 1 can— Thou ghostly,jrhutly moral carvod in bone,

Old nature»'s quiet mockcry of inan.

Tho fire of suns colossal for his crownt:

NEW SERIES--VOL. IX, NO. 28.

TO A SKULL.

1 place thee in the light the orient gold Fall on thy crown and strike# *nc anconth line: Strange shape the earth has rnins manifold,

Bat nono .with meaning terrible aa thine.

For here beneath this bleak and sterile dome, Did hatred, rage, and silent sorrow mourn A little world, an fnfihi te spirit's home,

A heaven or hell abandoned and forlorn.

Here thought on thought arose, like star on star, And loved deemed deathless habited and now Aft empty mansolcnm, vainer far

Than Chcop's mountain pyramid, art thon.,

Onco on that forehead, radiant as tho day, Imagination flamed in tranced mood Once on thy fleshy mask, now fallen away,

Rippled tho pulses of' a bridegroom's blood I.

And langhtcr wrinkled lip those orbs with fun, And sorrow furrowed hahnel? as yon prayed Well, now, no.mnrk is left on .these but one,

The careless stroko of somo old sexton's spade.

Lost arc thy footprints changeful as the air Is tho brown disk of earth whereon to move Tho bright sun looks for them in vain. Ah! where

Is now thy life of action, thought, and love

Dumb aro the heavens "sphere controlling sphere Chariot tho vuid through their allotted span And man acts out his little drama hero

As though the only Deity wore man.

Cold Fate, who sways creation's boundless tides, Instinct with inasterdom's eternal breath, Sits in the void invisible and guides

The huge machinery of lifo and death.

Now strewing seeds of fresh immortal bands Through drifts of universes decponing down Now moulding forth with giant spectral hands i.

prescient for feeling still unfolds ""The fitani in death nnd life, in night and day, And, elotiwd In equanimity, beholds

A blossom wither or a world decay

fflecplcss, eternal, laboring without pau»3, •Still girds with lifo hisinflnito abode, And moulds from matter by developed la^\s

With cqnil laws tlie iiificct or the goJ 1

•"IV.or human skull I pcrclian.io some mighty r.ic».Tho pi ant birth of nover-coasing chango, Winging tho world, may pause awhilo to traco

Thy shell in some recreant Alpine rungo

Fcrohancc tho fire of some ar.geliebrow May glow above thy ruin in the sun, And higher shapos reflect, as wo do now,

Upon the structure of the Mastodon.

THE LATEST FROM THE UTAH ARMY. The last advices, a sketch of which we have had by telegraph, gives some of the particulars of operations and events in the army, for the last part of November. On the 5th of November, while at Black's Fork, between 400 and 500 head of cattle belonging to Sutler's train of the 5th Infantry, and to the private train of Gilbert and Gerrish, were stolen by the Indians. Both these trains, thereby, had to be left behind. They have enough cattle between them, to pull a train along a short distance one day, and go back to fetch up the other the next and their men are numerous enough, and well armed to defend against any attack likely to be made by the Mormons.

On the 6th Major Taylor, the Mormon prisoner (on whose person important papers were found from Brigham Young,) against whom a writ for high treason had been issued, succeeded in making his escape from four sentinels who had him in charge.

The army did not advance at an average of more than two miles a day. It was necessary to employ all the cattle on one to haul along one-half of the trains, and on the next to send them back to bring up the remainder. Most of the artillery hores [sic] are dead, and their places are supplied by mules; while the march had been seriously retarded by the inefficiency of the employees of Messrs. Russell and Waddell, who have charge of the supply trains.

November 18th, three Indians reached the camp, one of whom gave important information in regard to the Mormon army. He said that the male population of Salt Lake City is almost under arms, and is drawn out upon the road between Emigration Canon and Yellow Creek. Bishop or rather Col. West informed him that the force posted in and about Echo Canon is 3,000 strong. His own observations have satisfied him that this is not an under estimate. On the northern side of the Canon the bluffs are almost perpendicular and several hundred feet in height; but on the southern side they are lower, and the Mormons have thrown up earth-works along the summit line. They have also dug ditches through the Canon, and have so arranged an old beaver dam on the Weber

River that they can divert the course of the stream into these ditches, and submerge the road for miles. At the eastern end of the Canon they have also built fortifications of earth, stone and wood.— Among the persons whom Ben has noticed within ten days, in the neighborhood of these works, was Major Joseph Taylor, the same individual who had escaped from our garden on the evening of November 6.

With regard to the quantity of snow which has fallen up to this date on the Wahsatch range, he says, (measuring the depth on his boot) that it averages at least one foot on the eastern slopes, and on the Big Mountain about one foot and a half.— On the western slopes there is not so much snow, and in some places, even on the line of the main road the grass is acccssible and abundant.

On November 19th, preparations for locating a depot of the supplies of the army at Fort Bridger were being made rapidly. Four companies of the 5th Infantry and two of the 10th have been detached on fatigue duty for this purpose, under the command of Captain Robinson, of the 5th, and have established a camp within a few hundred feet of the Fort, where .the supply trains are received as they come up. The stone walls are of sufficient strength to support a roof, and with the aid of posts

one can easily be constructed. On the 20th, Col. Cook arrived, with

the Governor; the Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Mr. Forney; the Secretary of State, Mr. Harnet; the Marshal, Mr. Dolson, and the District Attorney, Mr. Hockaday.

On the 21st, Lieut. Tyler was despatched with that squadron of dragoons which came on with Col. Smith's battalion and with 250 mules, to bring up all the wagons, camp furniture, &c., which have been left on the road by the various divisions of the army, and to assist Mr. Bradford, the sutler of the 5th Infantry, in bringing up his train.

By Nov. 26, the army had gone into winter quarters at Fort Scott. Their winter camp is in the narrow val-

ley of Black's Fork, sheltered by high bluffs, which rise abruptly on each side of the bottom, at the distance of six or seven hundred yards from the channel of the stream. The banks of the Fork are lined with willow brush and cotton-wood trees, blasted in one or two places by attempts which were made by the Mormons, before the evacuation of Fort Bridger, to deprive us of fuiel as well as of grass. The trees and brushes were unfortunately too green to burn, and the fire swept through acres of wood, doing no other damage than to consume the dry leaves and scorch the bark. The water of the Fork is clear and pure, and ripples noisily over the stony bed between two unbroken lines of ice.— The head-quarters are upon a green knoll, around which the stream makes a gentle bend. The 5th Infantry are camped on the left, toward Fort Bridger; the artillery batteries, and the 10th Infantry on the right. The dragoons will be distributed along Henry's Fork, on which the grass is unburnt. All the cattle and mules which survive will also be sent there to recruit.

The work of killing cattle and jerking the beef had been prosecuted busily during the week but there had. been no salt in camp for more than a fortnight. The average cost of transportation from Leavenworth City to the Salt Lake is from 13 to 18 cents per pound, and it was thought uneconomical to haul an article across the Plains at so heavy expense, the value of which at the expected termination of the march would not exceed two cents per pound. So the army were provided with boiling kettles and all the machinery for operating on the water of the Great Salt Lake just 113 miles distant from their winter quarters. -----

JJSF* Wo sec by Congressional reports that Pr. Fitch on the 18th iust gave tho Wallace resolution a version which a full knowledge C'f the discussion had on tho resolution the State Convention will not justifv, viz thut did not apply to Kansas. Dr. Fitch re.'d an cxtract from a private letter from a or:lier of the Convention. to sustain his positu, n.

Dr. F's. informant is certainly iu cvror. The strong friends of "Lccompton" understood that the resolution did apply to Kansas and urged that as a reason why it should not be adopted. Gov. Willard stated that the resolution was a condemnation of Xeeompton, and publicly appealed to Mr. Wallace, who publicly sustained that version

The State-Sentinel of the 14th, defending itself from the insinuation that "now" was left out from the "Wallace resolution, says that "there was no Territory orierritorics which had made application tor admission into the Union as a State when the resolution wa3 considered and adopted," and that "if the words now and hereafter" had been entirely omitted, the resolution would have been none the less significant." This is our view of the mater. The resolution declared a principle which was to take effect from and after its adoption.

There can be no rcsonablc doubt in the mind of any man who heard the debate, as to the meaning of tho Wallace

rcsolu-

tion—it was fully discussed as to its

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l'e

euce to Lecompton. It t.iei .. i.oubt I

in the mind of any honest man in the matter, it can bo settled. Let a mass meeting of the Democracy of Indiana be called at Indianapolis, and after it adjourns no one will have roam to doubt as to the opinion of the people of Indiana ou "Lecompton." If there arc further serious attempts to destroy the just intent of the Wallace resolution, wc are for the mass meeting.—Logansporl Pharos.

Sl'FPOSKD STKKNtJTll OF TIIK .HORMONS. Various circulations have been going the rounds of the papers of late as to the estimated number of the Mormons in Utah, and the armed force which they could possibly bring into the field against

•©"There was immensese asmblagcs of citizens at Harrisburg, Pa., to witness the thc inauguration of Governor "Packer.— The Governor read his inaugural address in a clear, loud voice and when he came to that poini in which he takes ground in favor of a//the bona fide citixens of Kansas being permitted, to.vote on the .adoption of their own constitution, the vast audience burst oat into tremendous applause, which compelled him to cease speaking for some time- !siz

TOE TOMB OF FRANKLIN. Daring the remarkable mild weather with which we are being favored, the opportunity has been embraced of prunning the trees in the old Episcopalian bu-ry-ground, on the corner of Fifth and Arch streets.-

Throughout the day, yesterday, a large number of persons took advantage of the open entrance and visited the spot in. the north-west corner of the remains which it enshrines. The humble slab that marks that hallowed spot—itself as unostentatious as the character of him whose memory its simple inscription commemorate— seemed to excite surprise in the minds of many and well it might. If the classic saying, that "he whose merits deserve a monument can now scarcely find a tomb," could with justice be applied to the defeated Roman, with how much more propriety may the American blush with self-condem-nation at the thought of allowing sixtyeight years to roll over the tomb of one of our countrymen, who, even while living, wrote his epitaph upon the clouds of heaven with a pen of lightning, and yet, whose grave is not marked with a tributary mouument equal to that which is cheerfully bestowed upon the commonest benefactor of his race. The fact of Franklin having expressed a wish for such monumental simplicity, forms but a feeble palliation for our neglect.

Tho dead could certainly not be dishonored by any appropriate tribute, and the appreciation of true greatness, which we should thus testify, would stand as a noble monument for our children to emulate and revere.—Philadelphia Press.

A DISTINCTION WITII A DIFFERENCE. A clergyman of rather violent temper, having received a blow from one of his parishioner: with whom he had alternation, gave the latter a sound beatiug. On the following Sunday, a great congregation was present, to hear the parson's expected apology for an offense that had been the subject of universal gossip and astonishment. The clerical gentleman was in his pulpit, as usual, and after praydr and singing were over, he delivered this brief and discriminating discourse: "Brethren—Wc arc commanded to love our enemies and to respect those who despitcfully use us. Jt is our duty to do so Forgiveness is the finest quality in the Christian character. It distinguishes him from all others, and causes him to be looked upon with respect and admiration. Lie who is able to forgive an injury is more, than a man, becauSc ho rises far above his fellows, and is conscious of poscssing parts to which others arc strangers. In my short, checkered career, I I:.ivc always endeavored to overlook every jit-tie injury I have received. In most instances I have been successful, thus proving that tho immortal and tho Christian arises far above the mere man. But, my dear brethren, it has not always been the case. Frequently my proud heart and violent passions prevail over the command of wisdom and the voice of prudence. A few days since I forgot my position and struck an offender. I am well aware that we are commanded, when smitten on the right cheek, to turn the left, and I think it proper to do so but, my brethren, when a man undertakes to cava in .my head, I am there.'" i-

MR. SrrnGEoN*.—Rev. Thco. L. Cuyler, who has just returned from a European tour, in a lecture before the Southsoir ian Institute, las.t week, raid of Mr. Snur-

but a tremendous parson to preach. When

iccturer [icarij]1ira lie commenced

'',ht| friends, last Monday I preached in

refer doubt

Yorksheer,

I'm about used up. Other men get one day's rest in seven, but, I don't. I mean to strike one of these times for a little rest. However, I'm not so tired that I can't preach to you to-day, from Matthew,

the United btates troops. Hitherto the 1ms now readied the depth of 1,900

estimates seem to have been greatly exageratcd. Thc Sacramento Union gives the following ou thc subject:

tVccording to the United States ccnsus 300 feet. Louisville, has therefore the of 1850, the whole Mormon population—j deepest well in the world, and the tallest men, women and children—amounted to steeple in thc United States, thc cross on 11,335. In 1852, from thc minutes of thc the St. Louis Cathedral being 28G feet Mormon General Conference, it appears high, while the summit of Trinity, New that the population had increased 6,851, making thc total 18,206. Taking thc same ratio of increase, we have the whole Mormon population, in 185", amounting to 31,012. Taking out of the relative proportion of children which existed in 1853, with thc increase of population. Stay 9,000, we have left 22,012. Deduct .from this amount one-half for the women, the same proportion that existed in 1853, and there remains 11,000 fighting men, including those somewhat advanced. This is probably the whole fighting strength of the Mormons.

wcll of' thc Mcssrs Dlip011j of that

feet. It adds: "This is thc deepest well now known to us in the world. The next in depth is the well at Grencllc, near Paris, which is 1,

York, is only 264 feet.

Democrat: "A white girl, about nine years of age, was in thc camp of the Chians, dressed and painted as a squaw. By ber own account, she WRS formerly from Green County, Illinois, and had been stolen by the Indians from her fathers wagon, while crossing the plains. She had no knowledge whether her parents were living or dead. Mr. Achner was unable to rescue her by force or to buy her. Her Indian captor was absent on a hunt, but Mr. A. expresses himself confident that he will be able to bring tho child in on his next trip. Mr. Acher has been a trader among the Indians many years, vnd ire believe his statements entitled to fall credit. .„

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20th chapter and 24th verse." Spurgeon sometimes comes out with a good thing—j consists of a "Brethren," said he, "if the ark to a Committee on

it's my opinion it wouldn't have been built yet!" Aud this is "the modern Whitfield!"

DEEPEST WELL IN THE WORLD.—The Louisville (Ky.) Courier says that the ar-

both

and luesday Lestcrshccr, jon ,,g their «uns, a.id they did not stop and Wednesday in Derbysheer, andThurs- junt

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ALL WANT CENTRAL AJIERCA. Stephens and Toombs want Central America to take, their slaves to ,Frank Blair, of Missouri, wants it to convert it into a free nigger colony and Eli Thayer wants it for. white folks, and announces that he is actually engaged in organizing a colony of Yankees to go and found two •cities—one on the Atlantic and one on the Pacific side. We beg these gentlemen not to be in too big a hurry. Wc are not ready for Central America yet awhile. Let us get Kansas and Utah first off our hands then see if by some fair means wc can not get Cuba Sonora is said to be a very delightful and desirable country and after that it will be time enough to talk about Nicaragua and Central America. There i3 no need of being in too big a hurry. Filibustering is at a discount just now and our national exchequer rather low for buying any more land till we sell some we already have. i~S

MORMON DEFENCES.—Ben Simons, a Delaware Indian, lately from Salt Lake City, reports that the male population is almost all under arms, and is drawn out upon the road, between Emigration Canon and Yellow Creek. Bishop, or rather Col. West, informed him that the force posted in and about Echo Canon is 3,000 strong. His own observations have satisfied him that this is not an underestimate. On the northern side of the Canon the bluffs are almost perpendicular and several feet in hight [sic]; out on the southern side they are lower, and the Mormons have thrown up earthworks along the summit-line. They have also dug ditches through the Canon, and have so arranged an old beaver-dam on the Weber River, that they can divert the course of the stream into these ditches and submerge the road for miles. At the eastern end of the Cannon they have also built fortifications of earth, stone and wood. -----

A SHARP POINT.—The Mansfield Shield and Banner closcs a long and able article against admitting Kansas under the Lecompton Constitution in the following pithy terms:

The Declaration of Independence declares that all governments "derive their just powers from tlie consent of the governed!" The governed in Ksnsas do not consent to the Calhonn Constitution. This is perfectly clear to all. Where, then, is it to derive its just powers from? We hear a great deai of false position in these times. Can there be anything in a position which merely demands that a fundamental truth, which lies at the whole basis of our Government, should acknowledge— iu a position which asks that the future State Government of Kansas shall possess "just powers" derived, from the consent of the governed, and not merely unjust powers derived from other and less reliable sources?

A STRANGN PHENOMENON*.—The Bristol (R. I.) Phenix has the following singu Ji paragraph

Within the last six weeks several persons, some of whom are among our acquaintance, have, without any known cause, lost all the hair from the head and body. Within two weeks from the time the hair commenced coming out, not a spire was left. The eyebrows and eyelashes also dropped out.* Neither of the persons had suffered from recent sickness, nor had used hair dyes, nor taken any medicines. They have applied to several eminent physicians, but can learn DO cause for the singular circumstance.

A REGIMENT rrt TO FLIGHT i:r A SWARM OF BEES.—In India, lately, while the army were returning from Allumbagh to camp,

£con- one of the Lancers waa tempted to poke lie is a homely individual to loo.c at,

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crs

}lCC'snest, when the swarm

lt onco irn0li

out and attacked the sol-

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s-ac],

feroeitv that they ail turn-

officers and men, aban-

1 icy roa clietl

day in Hampshccr, and Friday somewhere .rc enabled to partially protect themselves else, and Saturday in another place, and

the camp, where thev

f..0.u tjie activc

persecutors.

5©°"A new invention has been attached to thc steamship Moses Ta3*lor, recently constructed at New York. It is a velocimetre, or an apparatus used for registering the speed of a vessel. The mechanism dra«r," which is attached to

had referred tj,0 ]ie0]j midway of thc vessel, playing Naval Affairs, forWnrd or backward in a journal. This

drag is deflected from its perpendicular position just in porportion to the resistance of water which is, of course, greater or less, as the vessel moves faster or slower, and thc amount of thc deflection is registered by a connccting-rod on a dial plate in the main cabin, wnich is capable of recording 20 knots an hour, and 400 a day. Thc correct time is given by achroHon'ictcr.—It is claimed for the vclocimetrc that it will record the distance from New York to Liverpool within a mile, whereas by no other process can it be ascertained within fifty miles.

WHO is AFRAID OF A LION?—Dr. Livingston says, when thc breeding impulse is upon these animals, and a man happens to pass to thc windward of them, both lion and lioness will rush at him: but under ordinary circumstances tlie lion is a coward!)* animal, and never attacks a man except steathly, unless wounded. A very curious peculiarity about him is, that at thc very last he will not make an attack where he sees anything to produce the suspicion of a trap. A horse belonging to Captain Codrinaton ran away, but was

AN ILLINOIS «IRL I1ELD CAPTIVE it BY THE INDIANS. Mr. Aehner, thc Indian trader, who brought intelligence of the Chian Indians returning from Salt Lake valley to their villages, eighty miles south-east of Fort Laramie, under the direction of MormOn leaders, gives the following information in relation to a white girl held as a captive by thc tribe. We quote from the St. Louis stopped by the bridle catching a stump.—

lie remained a prisoner during two days, and when he was found the whole space around was marked by the footprints of lions, which had evidently been afraid to attack thc haltered horse from the fear that the whole thing was a snare. It is a common belief (says Dr. L.) that the lion when he has once tasted human flesh, prefers i*to any other, but the real state of the case ts that a man cater is always an old lion, who has grown too infirm to catch game he resorts to villages for the sake of the goats, and if a woman or child happens to go out they fall a prey too. This being his only source of subsistence, he of course continues it until the villagers dispatch him—a work of little dificulty.

CRAWFORDSVILLE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, INDIANA, JANUARY 30, 1858. WHOLE NUMBER 808.

SMALL STEAMERS OF WAW-OBJEC TIONS TO THEM BY THE NAVAL COMMITTEE—THE NAMES OF OUR

YEESSLS OF WAR. WASHINGTON, Jan. 17,1858. It is understood the Naval Committee of both Houses of Congress are opposed to the suggestions of the Secretary of the Navy.in favor _of building a class of small steamers, of light draft, suitable for the shallow bars of most of the Southern harbors. The objection to them is that we do not require a navy to protect our coasv in the manner suggested. Fortifications can be built, if necessary, and would afford far more adequate protection than ships.

The object of our navy is ta protect our commerce afloat. Our tonnage on the occan rivals .that of England, and the men-of-war wc build must be constructed with a special reference to the duty they may be called to perform. It has never been the policy of the United States to construct a navy equal to that of England but it has been the policy to have ships of at least equal size, and if the conflict arise, to engage single ship against single ship, and to avoid fleet engagements. In the war of 1812, England possessed a navy which, as far as numbers are concerned, could have swallowed up our few ships but notwithstanding this disparity, England was amazed to witness our triumph in every instance where the contest was confined to a single vessel. At tho close of the war England* laid down thc keels of a number of frigates a little larger than ours, and she has steadily continued the policy ever since of watching the vessels wc construct and quietly building ships to compete with them. Thus, when our seventy-fours were built she built- a similar class of ships, but of heavier metal afid greater tonnage. When the Pennsylvania was launched, down went the keel of a still larger ship in one of the Engl'sh naval yards: and now, at this present moment, England is building six new steam frigates, a little larger than the Mcrrimac, to compcte with the sis frigates wc have just built.

Our policy heretofore has been to build ships for heavy batteries, and so sound has this principle been deemed, that England has not hesitated to follow it. To abandon it now, and build a fleet of .ships with light batteries, would be to act directly in opposition to a system which our naval history has shown to be wise and successful.

An effort was made last Congress to authorize thc construction ot a light draft screw vessel, to be attached to our squadron in thc Chinese seas, and remain there permanently. Such a vessel is absolutely necessary there, and it is to be hoped Congress will authorize it to be builr. at this season.

Whilst on tho subject of thc navy, why is it that we have not perpetuated the names of those vessels wc took or blew up in the war of 1812? Other countries regard the names of thc prizes they have taken from the enemy, as glorious trophies commemorative of brilliant deeds and gallant hearts. In the English navy every prize they ever took has its representative iu their fleet. When thc Niagara was at Plymouth, alongside of her lay a splendid new screw 74, bearing the name of the President. With tho exception of thc Cyano and the Levant, I believe all our prize names have been permitted to die out. Let us have them revived in justice to thc past, and for emulation in tho future.

It is believed thc Niagara will receive her full battery on board before she leaves for England, so as to show what she really is. Capt. Hudson will again command belaud several of the old officers will also be ordered for the same duty. There will be some ehanges, however, and the exigencies of the service may require the changes to be more extensive than was at first anticipated.-

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TIIE DEAD LETTER OFFICE.—A very large proportion of the valuable dead letters reach thc dead letter office through thc fault of thc writers—either on account of misdirection, illigiblc writing, or neglect to prepay the postage. The prompt return of valuable dead letters to the owners would be greatly facilitated if the writers would, iii all err-c?, observe the following evidently necessary rules Never mail a valuable paper or parccl without a letter accompanying it in the same envelope always state at the head of the letter the proper post office address of the writer and also of thc party addressed, and sign the full name of the writer, legibly, at thc closc. Thc last rule is frequently disregarded by persons (especially ladies) writing to their relatives or friends presuming thc letter will certainly reach its destination, they sign only tho initials or Christian name, and give no address. Postmasters should, in

history is instructive and monitory and we

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from one familiar with its details.

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The estimated value of American

claims against the Mexican Government is twenty millions of dollars.

Correspondence of tlie London Trules. EAR HQUAKE AT NAPLES. NAPLES, Dcc. 22. Tho reports which have been received of thc damages occasioned by thc earthquake are of the most alarming and disastrous character. At Bari the two awful shocks on the night of the 16th had crushed the barracks of gcns-darines and filled the people with terror, who passed the night in the open air. At Ricigliano, "a commune of Campagna, ten houses had fallen, five or six persons had been dug out of the ruins, and two persons had been killed. In many other communes houses and churches had been split, and the cupola of the church of St. Gregory had fallen in. Potenza, the capital of Basilicata, however, and the neighborhood seemed to have suffered mare than any other part.— Thc shocks there were continuous, apd not a single house remains which is inhabitable. They were continuing to disinter the numerous victims, the number of whom is unknown. The whole population, who had been in the open air, were beginning to take shelter in wooden barracks crcctcd for the purpose. From other parts of the province very afflicting news had arrived.

With regard to Naples several lighter shocks had occurred after the severe ones of Wednesday night but on Saturday, at five and half-past six o'clock, P. M., others were felt, which in some parts raised thc fearful cry of "Earthquake! earthquake!" and again a great number of persons rushed into the streets. The movement appeared to be almost vertical, as the ground swelled beneath my feet, and the table rose and fell. Thc same scencs might have been witnessed as those I described in my last., and again, for the fourth night, many persons spent, thc whole night in their carriages in the open squares. On Sunday morning, at ten o'clock, another shock was felt, slight indeed, but sufficient to alarm and to lead to the idea almost that the earth was in a continual state of vibration. Tho government has sent assistance in beds, medicinc, lint, foo4, nurses and wood for barracks to the site of the disasters, as also engineers to see what can be done to repair and restore.

Thc ruinous violence of the recent earthquake appears to have been iimitcd to tho two provinces of thc Principato Stuteriorc and Basilicata. Up to the 18th 15) bodies had been dug up in Potenza, and more were being sought for three hundred had been dug out at Polia. Lagoncgro, on thc same night, experienced three shocks in seven hours. Thc entire population were living iu barracks hastily erected in thc middle of a plain. In the commune of Carboni 21 have perished and 19 have been wounded, not to speak of the damage done to thc Ijuildings. In Castclsano, which is nearly levelled with thc ground, 400 persons have perished. Thc same misfortune has happenncd to Sarconi where 30 persons have been killed. The other communes of thc district of Lagoncgro which has suffered damage iu thc houses generally, and particularly in the churches no returns of the dead have been made.— It is impossible, therefore/ to calculate thc number of the dead. The popular voice makes it amount to many thousauds. I have heard as many as 15,000, even 22,000 stated. It- is very clear, that according to official information, several thousand must have perished.

Commissions have been formed in all thc suffering localities for thc relief of the suffering. Government has scut down fresh supplies of beds, linen and v.ood, for thc construction of barracks. Telegraphic communication has been re-established as far as was possible. Nurses, Sisters Charity, and priests had also been sent down, and everything was being done for the comfort of tlie many thousands who, not only from fear, but from necessity, are now encamped in the open air.

No sooner was the shock of last Saturday felt than a horde of theives and assassins rushed towards the Toledo, but the gens-darmes soon put them down with their drawn swords. All is now quiet, and the weather, which has at last taken a turn, inspires people with more hope and courage still shocks are not untrcqucnt, and twice sincc 1 began this letter have felt them.

It is a feature in thc stale of things not to be omitted iu this paintul narrative, that thc lottery offices all last week were placarded with favorite combinations of figures, and that thc people rushed eagerly to play. Again, another phase of the national mind was exhibited in thc superstitious agony with which all called upon the saints lor protection, and above all, in the reported miracle by their favorite protector, St. Januarius. llis blood is said to have boiled, to have been examined bvthc

all cases, stamp or post-mark letters legi-(authorities, and a procession was thcrebly, for it is frequently thc only clue to ascertain where the letter is written or mailed

SPIRITUALISTS SITTING NAKED IN A "DARK CIRCLE."—Within the past year there has been a community of spiritual-

ists, organized under the direction of John

M. Spear (Boston), and lately disbanded, ^ome

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nity should cease purpose of concealing their persons, and trust to thc purity of each other. The proposition was not accepted, but, on the contrary, it startled the brethren and sisters into the consciousness that Spear's spirits were not safe counsellors, and it was one of the ciuses of the ultimate dissolution of the community. We hear, also, from the best authority that there are actually companies of spiritualists in Boston who sit in circles perfectly undisguised with clothiog, that i3 to say, in purus iwturalibus—men and women indiscriminately. We should not credit the statement did it not come to us directly from those that knew the facts.^—Springfield (Mass.) Republican.

principle of

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Avella, Venosa, in the Basilicata, where houses were thrown down and peoplo kill--cd and wounded.

The same of Valio, Matcra, Majors and Tramonti, in Principato Citeriore. Intelligence had been received from thc Province of Bari, but not given. Canosa suffered deplorable disasters, but they are not narrated. In Principato Ulterioro, houses were thrown down and people wounded.— Abrnzzo Ulterioro Seeundo suffered less the same may be said of Capitanata, Molisc and thc three Calabrias,

I believe tho disaster is vastly greater than wc have any idea of but take only thc admissious of thc 'official journal,' and yet how awful!

It was on Sunday last that thc reputed miracle in thc blood of St. Januarius took and that the procession walked."'

ANOTHER EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF PfcfVATE REVENGE. The Paris correspondent of thc London JVens writes as follows:

A remarkable iustaucc of the length to which the doctrine of private vengeance,sanctioned as it has so often been

French juries, is likely to be carried out in practice at Bricy, in the department of tho Moselle. "Tire facts remind one forcibly of thc eufossc ease. In the present instanco thc pcrsou who set thc example of taking the law into his owu hands was thc Mayor of the commune. He, however, like Madame de Jeufossc acted by a deputy. Instead of an old and faithful servant, his own son, acting under his orders, laid in wait to take a fellow creature's life. The *. name of thc Mayor is only indicated by an initian in the Droit, which reports the caso as follows "A young man, named Basset alias Faufan, one day met Mad'lle thc daughter of thc Mayor of Bil, walking in a wood. He induced her to txlk to him, made love to her, and succccded in obtaining a promise of another meeting.

The interviews, innocent at first', went on till they were guilty. For three whole mouths the Mayor's daughter secretly received Basset in her bedroom at night.— His habit was to get over a low wall which seperated the Mayor's garden from tho street, to use as a ladder the^bars of tho blinds of thc ground floor windows, and thus to get to the window-sill of the young lady's chamber on thc lirst floor. Neither the Mayor nor his family knew of these clandestine meetings till two cousins, of the female sex, rcfcrrcted out the affair, and told Mr. -of it, On the 22d of December last, just as the family was com ing to bed, Mr. ordered his daughter to sleep on the ground floor instead of her own bedroom. In that bedroom ho placed her brother, his son. ILe put into his hands loaded double-barreled gun and told him to shoot a man whom ho would probably sec getting in at a window. The young inan drew a chair toward tho window, sat down upon it, kept hi3 gun cocked in his hand, aud remained ready to execute his father's orders. At a quarter past 9 o'clock he saw a man's head through the window. Basset, as usual, was at tho top of thc first blind, expecting to be let in.

Thc Mayor's son rose "from his chair, went to the window, opened it, nnd fired both barrels at Basset, who fell dead on thc spot. The Mayor, when the deed was done, sent for thc gendarmerie to tell them of it, and he was lost in astonishment when they said that it was their duty to arrest him on a charge of murder. He had doubtless read Mr. Berryer's speech at Evreui,and from the conclusion (which, thc premises being admitted, is entirely logical) that because the law excuses homicide upontlie person of a man found breaking into1 a house in the night time, on the ground that he must be presumed to come with the intent to rob or murder, thcrofore it is justifiable to kill a particular individual', who is known to come secretly indeed, but with the sanction of one of 1 he inmates of thc dwelling, and with no felonious intention. Thc Mayor of il thought it a matter of course to avenge his daughter's easy virtue by assassinating her favored lover, lie and his son are in prison, and must undergo thc form of trial for murder but if modern doctrines on the vcniality of assassination arc to prevail they will bo acit it in or

THBGRAVIJ OF PATRICK IIKN'RY. Vntil very recently—aud thc people not only in Virginia, but of the whole Union should hear it with chagrin and sorrow—• the grave of Patrick Henry had no stono to mark its locality, no monument to invito thc eye of pilgrims in search of that sacred shrine. And at last thc pious and patriotic task has been undertaken, not by thc State that proudly claims the maternity of him, whose dauntless spirit and stirring eloquence awakened thc slumbering spark and fanned the flame of American freedom —not by the nation that "boasts his namo" and still reaps the reward of his services, but by thc two surviving sons of that fearless and gifted champion of liberty.

npon formed, in which an image was car ried so 1 have been told this morning. DECEMBER 23.—I had no sooner finished my letter of yesterday, than many were alarmed by another shock of an earthquake. "Kcsina," says a resident, "is in a contin- who has lately been sojourning for a few

.. ual state of vibration, and so will thc whole days in the county A' Charlotte, with a des

Wc have been favored by a gentleman

r,rob .bly, for some time to come." cription of the tombstone, It is striking-

illtvc ]cft ^saiiles in conse- !y symbolical of the great cause of repub-

others have been resolving to I licauism, in which lie who sleeps beneath

a a a 1 it

thc genius which he

wall

I hasten to send vou the.report which the year 1755. Died i'ebruarj^ Lith, the Government published last night of in-j 1881." It will thus be seen that his wuo telligence from the scene of ruin. In Pol- sleeps by h:s side. In Charlotte count)*, la alone, 2.000 victims had been disinter- at Kcd lfill, thc residence ot John Henry, red, and thev are still at work, l'ortosa, £sq- these sacred rehes lie. Would not bo well for thc Mate ot lrginir Atessa, Auletta, entirely destroyed, suffered next after Polla. Then Padula and St. Pietro", and afterwards Sala, Diamo, Sassano, Montesanto, St. Arsenio and Sapri. In all these places, the number of the dead, as yet brought to light, is 2,600!— The official journal cannot and will not enter into detail*, but mentions Milff, Barile,

irradiated

after a rob- by the patriotic ardor that animated him

it than

to espouse it. It consists simply of a sol-

of fine sand-stone—quarried en tho

from earthquakes place—-nine feet ten inches square, and

though they have desolated thc neighbor-j two feet, high with a superstructure six Vesuvius i-: doubtless a great pro-' feet square, twenty-two inches high, with

hood. Vesuvius is 'Jouoilcss a great pro- feet square, twenty-two inches tcclion tous. On thc night of thc earth-, marble slabs projecting over the tides.— quake, and shortly after, a large opening On one of the slabs-is inscribed "Patrick was made at the bottom of the conc, and a Henrv. Born May 29th, 17HO. Died great quantity of smoke and stones were June 0th, 1700. His fame, his best cpiejected ever s:ncc, it has been unusually tapli." On the other: "Dorethea Danactive jdridge, wife ot' Patrick Henry. Born in

not bo well for thc State of Virginia to add a siugle stone, at least, to the modest monument that marks the grave of Patriok jfenry.—Richmond Enquirer.

S&*During tlie year 1857, no loss than 402 persons, noarly all children, died in Bosfon of fcirlot fov*r.