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A W O S I E I N O

Saturday, January 22, 1859.

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Subject to the. decision of the Democratic National Contention, to he. holdcn at Charleston, South Carolina.

NEW ALBANY & SALEM KAIL ROAD. I E A E

T'rainB leave tlie Crnwfordsvillo Depot as follows: Goir. North. Accommodation 0:,r5 A. M. Freight 1:55 P. Nr.: Through Express 6:30 P. M.

Gain Sleuth.

Through 'ExpreM V:22 A. M. Freight 0:.r5 A. Al. Accommodation-1:05 P.M. CgPTlio Acconmiodution Train jroinir North, connects with trains for Indimiapoli*. ('incini ati «nd Chicago. K. K. BRYANT, A:I:.\T.

GLORIOUS VICTORY.

Contrary to expectations, the democracy Bucccedctl in electing their cntiro ticket before the Legislature, consisting of Canal Trustee, Stato Agent, State l'rintcr, ami throe State Prison Directors. All the officers elect are anti-Lccompton Democrats nnd among them Col. John C. Walker, of Laportc, Major Cravens, of Washington, and Mr. llaleigh, of Vanderburgh.

t£&~ A very good understanding is now existing between Senator Douglas and the Administration. The quarrels and wranglings that heretofore existed have about subsided. Old Buck and the Little Giant will yet shake hands, much to the dismay nnd terror of the Black Republican party. It is amusing to see the amount of vilification and abuse they are heaping upon Mr. Douglas sinco his election. Only six mouths ago they wcro loud in their praises. Jamos Wilson's election was owing in a great measure to his pretended love for Douglas. Now James curses him as an incorrigible locofoco. The signs of the times are cheering for the Democracy of thc Union. The nominee of the Charleston Convention, whoever ho may be, will rcceivc the united support of the entire Democratic party throughout the country.

WS" The Black Republicans feel sore over the success of the Democrats in electing State officers.

ACQUISITION Ol

'cuil

It is evident from the movements making at the Capitol, that the first

initiative

steps arc about to be taken for the acquisition of this magnificont island. A bill will pass both Houses, making an appropriation of thirty millions of dollars to be usod in purchasing the island from Spain. It is said that this power will sell out her interest for this amount. It is carnestly to be hoped that such may prove to be the ease. It will save this government from making a forcible seizure of territory, that by its geographical position, is imperative for the future safety and security of our southern coast, as well as the vast commercial marine of American citizens that traverses the waters of the Gulf and southoru Atlantic. We hold that it is the mission of this government to extend its free institutions over the entire continent, nnd that no European power should be allowed to hold or exercise any protectorate over any territory in tho western hemisphere. The carrying out of this mission devolves upon the Democratic party of this Union. The groat party of progress, that from the days of Jefferson have administered the government. The party that established Amcricnu supremacy upon the seas, and acquired by purchase magnificent empires, will, in the course of another year, have added to the confederacy the island of Cuba.

COSMOPOLITAN ART ASSOCIATION.—The drawing of this swindling institution took place over two weeks ago. The drawing is kept a profound scerct. We presume after the managers fix up the drawing to suit themselves, -they-will then give them to the public.

GODET FOR FEBRUARY.—The February number of this beautiful magazine has been received. Its fashion plates and embellishments are decidedly elegant, while its contents of prose and poetry arc charmingly entertaining and instructive. Every body should subscribe for Godcv.

BTRAY NEGROES. ff

It is a common subject of remark'aimong our citixcns as to where all the new darkies coine from. Scarcely a week, passes but the black visage of some freshly arrived African can be seen upon our streets. There can be no doubt that many of these negroes are runaways from Kentucky.— Onr town is already cursed with too many vagabond thieving negroes, and we think it high time that the matter should be looked into. Wc believe it is the duty of the Clerk of our Court to have all negroes and mulattocs living in the county registered. Wc trust Mr. Vancc will sec to this matter. Our Kentucky exchanges would do well to Ptate the fact, that Crawfordsvillo is alive with fugitive darkies. If the own ers will come and capture a car load, we can assure them our citizens will lend them all needful aid. Such negroes as

Askins, Jones, Patterson and others, are of course an exception. have refer cncc only to such black vagabonds as Jcr ry Roberts.

THE CONSTELLATION.—We have rcceiv cd a copy of the Constellation, published in New York, of January loth. It is splendid specimen of typography, and worth a dozen such trashy affairs as the Ledger. It is edited by Park 1'enjaniin

T. D. Brown has removed his gro

eery and drug establishment to the room formerly occupied by Parrish & Co., on Main street. lie will be happy to sec all of his old and new customers at the new stand. In the spring he will make such an exhibition of grocries and provisions as will astonish all competitors in the trade Look out for cheap groceries iu March

tST" The winter so far, with the excep tion of the cold snap on the 8th and Oth has been warm and spring-like. The road arc almost impassable and but few farmer visit our town. What February will bring forth is of coursc a mystery.

ARTHUR'S MAGAZINE FOR FEBRUARY.— This elegant magazine has been received ft is one of the best magazines published and no lady should be without it.

iSF* Houston & Martin are receiving fine supply of groceries direct from the south. They have among the stock a su pcrior article of Laguira cofFcc. Every body should go to Houston & Martiu's for fresh groceries, at cheap rates.

OPERATIC J0NULI.SU.—The Boston Com mcrcial Bulletin's phonographic musical critic, gives the following report of one of Piccolomini's entertainments: 1'JNTER illadaine Piccolontini, R. E., at a sort of hop-aml-skij)-stcp. [Sensation and applause.] Courtesies to audience and looks over left shoulder towards stage box. Young man in small gar rote shirt collar large, straw colored whiskers and while kids, in a high state of excitenicnl cries, "BRAVER." Pic. smiles to balconies Conductor //oni ishes baton, and Orchestra phu/s si/m pJto)i/—after which she sings—

I dreamt zat I dwelt in marble halls, [Glance over left, shoid-lcr, and sensation in stage, box.J

Wis vassals and sorts at my sard. An of orl assembled wizin zoze walls, Zct I was ze ope and zc pride I had richessr too great to coonte,

Could boast a high auceztral frame, Three nods, shrug of pretty shoulders, and snides all round balconies.]

But I also dreainpt vich please me mose Zat you loaf mo still, ze same,— [Exuberantly to galleries, balconies and creri/fjodt/.]

Zat you loaf mo, zat you hta.f me sti-i-1-1 ZE SAME. Applause—laughter—mirth. Kids split to picccs in stage box, and a dress cir clo window smarted iu by an individual in the lobby, anxious to see "what it was all about."

THE VOLCANO OF THE WHITE TOWER.—In the coursc of Thomas Francis Meagher's second illustrated lecture on Central Amer ica, lately delivered in New York, occur red the following thrill ugly -grand description of Thurialba, or the White Tower:

That volcano is a terror to the people the burning agony is incessant no human foot has scaled it nono has dared the exploit—and tho poor Indian, with his clouded brain growing darker and stormier with the belief that the Great Fiend dwell? there, and that they arc lost who venture to ascend. The dense primeval forests, the ravines and chasm?, the vast fields of tva, and tlifc perpendicular, bare, smooth rock, springing tip several feet from them to the lips of the surging crater, all which are clearly visible below—these arc what to this day have rendered it fearful and inscrutable. But a day will come when Thurialba shall be sealed, and its lightnings and thunder-peals shall be the pro mulgation of a new law and covenant, and the birth of new nation, what those of Sinai were to the revelation of the illumination of his people.

A NUT FOR THE S A VANS.—A Mr. Tromblj- has been sinking a well on the western outskirts of our village, in the procrcss of which the following astounding fact appeared. At the depth of twenty-five feet the workmen came 'Upon frozen ground!— Through this layer, some fifteen feet in thickness, they worked "their way by dint of persevering effort such as is always ncccssarv in digging compactly frozen earth. At the depth of forty feet water was obtained, which nightly froze over the ice forming some three inches in thickness. Will some one account, on any known or unknown principles of philosophy, for these astounding facts? We learn that the freezing of the water continues now that the well is "stoned up." —Northern Visitor, Brandon, Vt.

estate of thc murdered New

York dentist, Harvey Burdell, has been completely swallowed up in tho counsel fees.

RECEIPTS FOR :.TC

STJBSCRipTION TO 'REVIEW

These are Men wha Far the Priater.

William ArnolI,-«—— 50 fMtnnel Fnllen. 1 £2 A- J- Davi». '3 Abram Kashner. 1 50 Famnol Watson, 1 05 Jeremiah

Snydor,

TIIE SHIP MARGARET TYSON AND the ONI.Y SURVIVOR of IIER CREW, WILLIAM KENNEDY. [From the Boston Traveler of Thursday cveninjr.]

The bark Azor, which brought the only survivor of the crew of the ship Margaret Tyson, from Fayal, hauled alongside of the wharf this forenoon. Kennedy is a short, thick-set young man of about 25 years of age, not more than five feet three inches high, of a light complexion, with sandy hair and gray eyes. He is quite plump and appears to enjoy good health.

As soon as the bark was alongside of the wharf, several gentlemen of the press went on board and commenced questioning Kennedy, all eager to have the fullest particulars of the sad shipwrcck but he was not communicative, lie said that he had told the story before and had nothing new to add. There is not the slightest particle of sailor in his composition. He does not even know the port from the starboard side of the ship, far less the names of her masts.

With his face toward the bow, he knows the right hand of the ship from the left.— From this fact wc arc led to infer that the ship was on the starboard tack, and had been so for some time previous to the disaster. Capt. Anderson, who was a passenger in the Azor, had questioned him during the passage, and by dint of perseverance, had obtained the lew particulars already published.

He thinks the Margaret Tyson had been out about twenty days, when she was lost, this was about the 15th of September, but his first account stated that she was lost on a Sunday. 11c docs not know whether the masts were cut away, but thinks they were, and that the wreck of them stove the boats. A quarter-boat, with five men in Iter, cleared the ship, but she fell into trough of the sea anil capsized.

As she was to the leeward of tlie'ship and partly becalmcd, Kennedy managed to scramble on board, where lie took off some of his heavy clothing and when the ship went down, the movable house over one the hatchways, he does not know which, broke adrift, and upon this he and four others managed to save themselves. He docs not remember their names in fact he does not seem to know the names of any of his shipmates. One by one they died.

ring-Dolts below.

rain. He said that a fish was washed upon the house, but how largo he does not remember, and upon this lie lived for some time.

No doubt there were plenty of fish around him, for fish invariably play around drifting spars, wrecks and sca-wecd.— When discovered by the schooner Oread, he did not feel any particular change in his mind he docs not know what gratitude means, but thought about something to cat. j"

From all we can Icaru directly, and infer from leading questions, wc believe that the ship had been carrying a heavy press of sail by the wind on the starboard tack close-hauled, that she shifted her cargo and fell over on her beam ends—that in order to get her before the wind, her main and niizzen masts were cut away—that these in their fall stove thc boats—that the cargo forced- open thc hatches, the water rushed in, filled her, and she was down before there was time to construct a raft, or to save thc boats.

There does not seem to be thc least reason to doubt thc loss of the ship, but from Kennedy's want of knowledge or some other cause, it is not so clear^that all hands perished. Men may like himself have clung to pieces of the wreck, and bceu rescued, or, for aught we could learn to the contrary, may have taken one of the boats, filled the holes in her with their clothing, iid been picked up. by some vessel.— William Kennedy states positively that he hipped in New York by that name—the ouly name he ever had.

!&"" Thc following act in connection with in amendment of the Divorce Law, was passed by tho Legislature on last Thursday:.

AN ACT TO REGULATE MARRIAGES.— From and after the passage of this act, all women of whatever age, whether maids or widows, that shall impose upon, seduce, and betray into matrimon3\ any male, by the use of scents, paints, cosmetic washes, artificial teeth,-false-hair, iron stays, hoops, high-heeled shoes, bolstered hips, shall incur thc penalty of the law now in force against like misdemeanors, and that the marriage, upon conviction, shall stand null and void."

l€S~Thc Lafayette Courier tells of a dissipated woman "in that city who drank thirty-two classes of lager beer at a low saloon, on last Sunday. She was taken up at night on a charge of drunkenness. We should tli ink such a woman would need to wear hoops. t"

Four

Days

later,

Arrirtl of the fXtfof W«*kiactoi.

5- NEW YORK, Jan. 19.—The

5th

^U... il 50

George W. Snyder, 1 50 Curtis Ilardce, a.« 1 50 Abraham Davison, 2 50 William Mason. 1 50 T. II. Fitzgerald. 1 50 AJphcn* Gresg. 1 50 Matthew F. liowen, 1 50 William Wag-son. 2 25 .John Kastcr, 1 50 Abiier Gxay, 1 50 Swan BrooKeUire, 2 50 Henry Walters, 75 John Britton, 1 50 William Moore, 150 Jesse W. Cumberland 75 George Fonst, 2 00 Daniel A. Walter, 1 50

On the 4th instant, the Bourse continued depressed and again rather lower. The London Exchange sympathized with the Paris Bourse, and Consols at one time were per cent, lower, and the market closed flat. **•••'.•••

At Vienna also, a panic prevailed, under the rumor that Austria would send troops to Belgrade.

Italy continues unsettled, Lombardy in particular. The news from all parts arc pregnant with alarm. The steps taken in Lombardy arc almost tantamount to a state of scigcJ

The Spanish Minister has declared that Spain will never sell Cuba, and has protested against the insulting hypothesis to the contrary in President Buchanan's message.

Olozula introduced a motion in the Cortes, supporting the Ministerial declarations, and was unanimously approved.

Spain has obtained full satisfaction front Mexico for tho Tatnpico affair. Rumor prevails of the discovery of a formidable conspiracy at Cracom. Numerous arrests of parties said to be implicated, have been made at Cracom. All was quiet at Servia.

The Bombay mail of December 9th, had reached England. The news includes an account of a largo army of rebels having been defeated by the Commander-in-Chief. The amnesty was slowly, but effectually, thinning tho ranks of the rebels, giving a promise of an early peace.

ADDITIONAL NEWS BY TIIE OVERLAND MAIL. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 19.—A riot occurred among the settlers at Sacramento on the 19th ult., growing out of a refusal of Judge Perry to grant a writ of error from the i\ State to the Federal Supreme Court, in

All these particulars, however, are only inferences for in answer to direct qnes

the case of Ferris vs. Cooper. The police had made a descent upon the richest gambling house in San Francisco.

In the case of the steamship Hermann, the U. S. Commissioner finds for the libelhints, and recomtnends a decree for three months' additional wages, amounting to S19.000.

Oregon.—The Legislature assembled

tions, lie replied thiit he did nor. knuw, he December Oth. Chief Justice Williams could not tell, ho had rorgotten all about .am| jamos o„ti11.ic Kegister of the Oregon City Land Office, had reigned. lite weather was not very cold some-1 The Eliza Anderson, the'first Ocean times the sea was \erj' rough, and washea steamer built on the Pacific coast, was over the house, but held on to part of the launched at Portland, Nov. 27 top lashing which was still fast to the

Thc

Washington- Territorial Legislature

convened on the Gth ult.

In answer to tho question—what were .Henry Owner, American Ex-Consul alius thoughts when he found himself nloiic, Tahiti, had arrived at Honolulu. He rewtthout any pro.spect of haying his life ports a change in thc Governorship of Tu saved he replied that lie did not think.

TiiC ncw

He lived from day to day in a state of I military and was making the fort a civil torpoi. lght came and^ daylight Follow-1

(jnc,and

cd without making any impression upon respecting the shipping mind. He was dead to every snnsa- (JoK Hoffman and one Company of the tion of fear or hope, and lived without Sixth Infant.-y had arrived at LosAngelo •iioxung why. Hie instinct ot life indue- Huffman immediately left for the Navajoc ed him to hold on when the sea washed country oyer him and the same instinct caused The keeper and his wife at the mail stahim to look out tor something to eat, and

to eaten water in shoes when there wa

mam ttm HMMHI

fran

llnrope.

Steamship

City of Washington, with dates frftm Liverpool to the

inst., four days later than

previous advices,

arrived

.here this, morn

At the New Year's Levee, the Emperor Napoleon made a threatening remark "to' the Austrian Minister, vliich attracted great attention. The reports growing out of the affair caused a panic, and a decline of 1 per cent, on the Paris Bourse, and per cent, in Consols at London.

The Emperor's words were: "I regret that our relations with your government are not so good as they were, but I requestyon to tell your Emperor that my personal feelings for him have not changed."

The emphatic tone of the Empcsor, and his animated gesture, attracted the attention of"the assembled diplomatic corps.

The Bourse was closed until Monday, the 3d instant, but" on the opening, quite a panic prevailed, the decline in the funds being fully 1 per cent.

Governor had removed the

hitd :ibron:ated thc obnoxious

tion near

fort Tegon, had been murdered

and eight mules stolen, by the Mexicans The coach was hauled fifteen miles by one mule.

Col. Vineyard, Indian Agent, and Dr Deffendorf, American Consul at EI Paso ciinic passengers, and will proceed immc diately to Washington.

GOING TO EUROPE IN A BALLOON. [From the Troy Times. January 1-1.] Mr. John La Mountain, the leronaut', is again in this city, where lie will remain a few daj's. He has made arrangements for the construction in Boston of a balloon with which he designs to make an attempt to cross thc Atlantic next summer. Thc money is to be furnished by a wealthy gen tlcman of the modern Athens, who has sufficient confidence in the practicability of the scheme to make a venture in it.

Thc balloon is to be of silk, with an nscensivc power which will make it capable of carrying a life-boat stocked with pro vis ions and four passengers. The power it is designed to employ is thc gun-cotton engine—one of which, owned by a gentleman of Springfield, Mass., has been tested, and found to operate satisfactorily. Before the venture of sailing over thc occan, it is designed to make three long voyages, starting from western cities, for the purpose of testing the capacity of the balloon, and the effect of the employment of machinery. Mr. Wise, the "father of ballooning in America," who has been in consultation with Mr. La Mountain, ap proves of his plan in all its details, and will give him the benefit of his remarkable experience in suggestions as to the manner of carrying it out.

MARION CIRCUIT COURT.

Thc jury in the McTwigg divorce case found for the plaintiff on Saturday, thus setting aside the divorce obtained by the defendant in thc same Court in 1854. The case will be taken to thc Supreme Court. If this decision is sustained by the higher courts, it will place hundreds who have taken advantage of the Indiana divorce laws as they heretofore existed, in a very unpleasant predicament, as it has done McTwigg, who now finds himself in possession of two wives. There are not less than one hundred similar cases on the docket of this county, that might be opened up, and there is scarcely a county in the State whose records are not plentifully stored with them. If the ladies and gentlemen who have been cheated out of their other halves, by Indiana law, have money and pluck, what a rich field is thus opened up for them to explore Already visions of big fees are looming up before our lawyers, making their hearts glad by dreams of rich

gl^ibgsffitlmant£MtriMnulfteldv As to tjie mo-its oi-' this particular case it is ndt ©urlptorpose now to-speak. The^trial. luted iitarly ,week^ thfr^testimonj/waS •ohnninous, and the effortfl-W- the lawyers on both sides untiring. Ir was out of the question for us to be present all the time, and consequently we would iiot be justified in giving an opinion of its merits. We presume the "ease turned on the' question of residence. Mr. McTwigg resided here for seven months before getting the divorce, bought property, &c., but it appears he left the next day after the decree was granted, and this fact was used with considerable effect by tho plaintiff's council, as an evidence of his intention not to become a citizen of the State. How is a man to prove his intention in regard to residence, unless as foreigners now do, he would go before some court and swear to the same Would that be any better than his oath afterwards, that he was a citizen of the State Wc are of the opinion that the opening up of this case will pave the way for many long and tedious lawsuits, and that a golden shower will fall upon lawyers without any adequate return, in the righting of the wrongs done uuder our old divorce law.—State Sentinel.

GLORIOUS NEWS!

Democratic State Officers Elected.^

The telegraph brings us the glorious news that thc Legislature, in convention yesterday, clcctcd the following State officers

Agent of State—James A. Cravens,.of Washington. Canal Trustee —Bichard Balcigh, of Vanderburgh.

Stitc Printer—John C. Walker, of Laporte:'-- n" State Librarian—J. II. Bryant, of 31arion.

State Prison Directors—Grafton F. Cookcrly, of Vigo Samuel II. Buskirk, of Monroe and Thomas M. Brown, of Floyd.

These gentlemen were all thc rcgulr Democratic nominees—Mr. Jones for Agent of State, and Mr. Donelson for State Prisin Director, having respectively withdrawn oil favor of Messrs. Cravens and Brown.

This result is as gratifying as it was unexpected. Thc gentlemen elected are all Democrats—full believers in the great Democratic doctrine of Popular Sovereignty. They are, too, eminently qualified for the positions to which they have been elected. Major Cravens of Washington is our neighbor we all know him and the fact that he has managed his own affairs well is a sufficient guaranty that he will manage equally well those of the State. Tho other gentlemen elected are .also well qualified for their respective positions, and will discharge their duties in a satisfactory manner.

We hail this result as thc harbinger of a better day for the Democracy of Indiana. The nominees received the support alike of Lecompton and auti-Lecompton members, and we hope that on all future occasions they will be found exhibiting the same harmony of action.—New Albany Ledger.

THE SLAVE TRADE AT TIIE SOUTH. We copy the following article from tho

Montgomery Advertiser, thc organ of the '•Southern League" at the head of which stands the Hon. Win. L. Yancy, and which favors every thing that can tend to advance the interests of slavery, whether it be thc conquering of Cuba and Nicaragua by filibusters, or, as a denier, a dissolution of the Union. A pap:r which can sanction almost any extreme doctrine favorable to the South cannot sanction thc importation 3"cars of wretched CKI of savage, cannibal, and bestial Africans into the bosom of southern society. We copy front tho Advertiser:

Wo learn from private sources that subpoenas have been served upon several planters in Georgia suspected of liaviii" purchased portions of the recently landed cargo of the 3-acht Wanderer. These gentlemen are to appear at Savannah as witnesses on the trial of the crew of the slaver. We hope that the affair will be rigidly investigated, and that all those who may prove to be directly engaged in the landing of the Africans may meet with thc punishment due to their infraction of the law. We candidly confess that when the revival of the African slave trade was first agitated, we were indisposed to condemn the measure with the severity to which we now believe the sehemo to be justly entitled. Smarting under a sense of northern injustice, and viewinir with mournful feelings the unequal struggle between a handful of southern heroes and thc hordes of northern marauders upon thc plains of Kansas, wo were at first disposed to give a favorable consideration to any scheme that promised relief from the numerical inferiority under which we labor in contending with the free-soil hosts. Since then, a mature and careful consideration of thc subject has convinced us that thc revival of the African slave trade would be a death blow to the vital interests of the South. We oppose it upon grounds of humanity as well as policy. Not the humanity that causes the. hypocritical tears of thc Beechers and Sumncrs of the North: not the humanity that causes thc tender hearts of very many of our southern citizens to consider slavey a temporary and necessary evil but upon motives of humanity that wo derive from a careful consideration of thc very foundation of thc proposed traffic from a knowledge of the means that must necessarily be employed iu obtaining'the-negroes that are to be deported to our shores. There arc few of our readers that have not had occasion to view with a pi tying C3'e the inevitable separation of thc slave mother and son—nay, even

the husband and wife. Ilappity, such events arc of rare occurrence, but are still occasionally to be bewailed^ It is one of the glories and thc blessings of our s3-stcin of labor that these sundcrings of thc bonds of natural affection are less frequent in the South than perhaps in any other portion of thc globe. For one slave famil3' that is thus rudcty dismembered, hundreds of the poorer classcs of the North arc forced b}- bitter necessities to separate and go forth singty to combat the demon of hunger and nakedness. Family separation is a grievous thing, even wheu restrained by the kindest and wisest laws that ever protected the laborer. But what would our readers think of the destruction of a whole town by its neighbors in order to still a remnant of its inhabitants? What would they, think of the alliance of three counties of our State for the purpose of

TtWrring upon and oonqwrin^ -a fowth county for tlfc sake &f |puil$-j And yet it/is liy bloodshed and fire -inid rapine that tfoe slave sbipi^of Africiarc id be filled. The aborigines'-of the Guinea" coast are not a civilized class and already in servitude.— They are not aware of thc blessings conferred upon their unfortunate race wbeo' made slaves of a superior order of beings. They are aware that ^hc white sailors on thc coast will pay a large sum for every sound African, and so each chief is at all times ready to march upon his neighbor, to burn and destroy, to encounter the desperate resistance of his infuviatcd, brutal fellow negro, to kill hundreds in thc endeavor to capture a dozen, and for the purpose of furnishing a cargo for the slave ship. That it would be better if every African had a Southern master wc all admit better for him in this world and the next. But that it is justifiable to encourage the murder of one hundred Africans iu the endeavor to bring a dozen of them under a master's care is an absurd and inhuman idea. The advocates of the slave trade contcnd that to briug a cargo of Africans from Congo is precisely the same as to bring thc same number from Virginia and yet iu bringing negroes from Virginia we transfer them from the hands of one kind master to those of another, while in the other case wc encourage thc destruction of three human beings for thc gain of thc services of one. One is rational, wise, humane, and legal barter the other is murder. .ji ,lfc ,. .....

We are not willing to cncouragc bloodshed, even among brutish savages, for the aggrandizement of a few ship owuers.— Wc are not willing that those cruelties which we have enumerated should be carried on in thc name of thc South, and for the ostensible benefit of Southern interests. In the name of Southern civilization ind enlightenment, we protest against thc slave trade and its concomitant horrors.— In tho name of a flourishing, prosperous, ind all-powerful Southern confederacy of States, wc denounce a schctue^ that is fraught with every mischief that can degrade and weaken a nation.

We arc veiy glad to sec a similar spirit manifested by almost the entire oxtremc Southern press. Many papers which, six months ago, were rampant in their advocacy of tho reopening of thc slave trade, now denounce it quite as vehemently.— The fact is, while the subject was only talked about, without any nnvennnt being made to c.irty it into practical effest, public opinion hal no opportunity to manifest itsjlf. Probabty not O'.ie man in a thousand ever dreainpt that tho slave trade ad vocates were sincere in their declarations, and still less did thcy^ imagine that they would ever see a cargo of wild, savage, and brutish Africans landed on their shores. But tin exploit of the Wanderer has aroused them from their lethargy, and arc beginning to speak out their sentiments. They have seen thc poor wretches torn from their African homes and brought here to be placed on Southern plantations, and subjected to thc hard discipline which there prevails. 3Ien who in their native jungles have probabty never had a stitch of clothing Oil th.ur perso.u and never done a day's labor in their lives excepi to limit and gather a few ):i:ids of wild ric arc suddenly placed by the side of slaves inured to labor and to the eliunt from infancy, and expected to wjr'.c sid by side with them. It is not dii'li-iit t) tell w'ial will be the result. At tin eii 1 of five i' e, d.M.ii will relieve them of tliiir torturis. Li is in Cuba, and can be but little better in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi.

To their honor be it s.tid l!ie press nnd people of South Carolina, long the dup:.* of politicians of extreme opinions, hive spoKen out ti\nup' t-iongii. agaimt thc iniquity. A few of thc wretched Africans

were taken into their State, but th sy found no purchasers there, and they were shipped further west. The Georgians, too, are indignant that thc infamous tiuflij should be reinitiated on their soil, after it 1 been so long suppressed, and while the law and thc general voice of miukin was 0 strong in its condemnation. Alabama -peaks through the leading p:tper at her capital, quoted above, and we doubt not other States will be equally uaiphatie.— Southern public opinion is aroused, and it speaks through every proper channel in almost unanimous condemnation of th trade revival.

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ous reasons prohibited, wwld jMtooMfTi while, they wtmld aaioredly grieve, Ae public. Two eases, however, we may gfre

unduly obtrading on the privacy

ofdt stress,-,nd aa showing the way in which imprisonment for deat still works in fcfye creation of human misery and mischief. J: ... I

Some years since,' ^fwo* maiden ladies, then young and beautiful, and'who'had" just become heirs to a considerable property, were thro'wn into the Queen's Prison by a legal .process which, of coursc, they did not understand. While 'there, and helpless,.they employed, one after another. such lawyers as'.were'to be obtained undiijr their circumstances, but the latter merely famished them with heavy bills .of costs, and took uojfarther trouble about their affairs.

Thc masters in chancery, whose special. duty it is to redress such cases, duly-paid their visits—monthly visits seem to ba sufficient for all thc highly paid duties con* nected with thc Queen's Prison—inquired .affectionately as to the 3'oung ladies' health, and thought no more of them until the next month came round. This went on for several years, thc blooming girls fading gradually into old maidenhood their friends forgetting them or dying off, and their means wasting away, until Providence at last brought their ease before a member of Parliament, who, having known their father in his youth, flew, thc moment he heard their case, with the seal of friendship, to their relief. Being a lawyer himself, ne of course knew how to sweep away all the legal cobwebs in which they had been so long-enmeshed, and in two months he procured their enlargement and^rcstoration to their property, which it is to be hoped they arc enjoying at the present moment. Thc £nanie and residence of these ladies can interest no one but to conccal that of thc author of tho benevolent action would be to deprive thc world of a high moral stimulus. Thc gentleman who thus restored these two helpless women to liberty and fortune was Mr. Iladfield, the honorable and learned member for Sheffield.

Thc sccond case is still more striking, although-the end is not yet, nor is it likely, unhappily, to have so favorable a termination. Just forty-four 3-ears since, a young joiner lived with .an older sister in a village in the south of England. Thc girl was scduccd I13* a rich tradesman, butcher in the neighborhood, and tho latter, fearing thc vengeance of thc brother, then an active, powerful j'oung man, had him arrested on a forged obligation, and thrown into Winchester jail. Tho prisoner was poor, and within stone walls, and had 110 redress but to file a schedule and becomo insolvent but this he resolutely refused to do, alleging, and with truth, that he owed no money, and that to swear lie did would be perjur3*. Time went on his persecutor died miserably, but lie was still prisoner. There was a legal form to bo complied with, and without that he must remain a prisoner all his life. The prison authorities naturally got wearied 1)3' his obstinacy, and used every moans of annoyance to subdue his indomitable determination. At one time he was four years 111 solitary confinement, and at another, when the prisoners wore removed from the old to thc new jail, he was taken from his bed, carried in hi.a shirt to his now quarters, and placed in a room so damp as to make' him ii rheuniaiie cripple for the rest of his lite, although it could not induce him to i.irn his name to a debt which he did not

owe. Durinir this long incarceration he became a complete lawyer corresponded with every Lord Chancellor, from Lord don downward, and having suffered the pains, afc last began rather to enjoy the lignity-of martyrdom. At last he got a

lllabeus,"

DEBTORS' PRISON IN LONDON—CRUEL PERSECUTIONS. The Queen's prison presents but a blank and dreary wall to St. George's road, and yet it is not many years since it contained within its gates as busy, as 11 ri.y, as niotI03 *"'d a- 11111101 al a community a.-j could once a month, may fuijo3" comfortable inprobably be found within a similar circuit comes of from X'.SOO to 1,000 iu any quarter of the world. Lfjndon News.

Here, then, in a prison containing only one hundred and fifty inmates, (debtors,) TIIK WASM.NGTO.rNATIONAL HOTKI. 111 which wc find a proccss of deinoralization constantly going on, and men and wo-

men, by a lengthened sojourn in it, rendered totally unfit for resumption of their duties in thc great world. When once a man enters here, vice and temptation shoot at him as if he were a target. He has 110 means of rcsistancc, not at^- of redress, but to make terms with thc enemy, and, in time, to become one of his devoted followers. This prison of one hundred and fifty inmates, of which one hundred support themselves, costs the country .£5,000 a 3"car, of which the governor gets about £1,000, the deputy governor X*400, thc head turnkey £180, and the chaplain £150. To thc last named sum £100 has recently been added for house rent but this is in lieu of an official residence within thc jail, which has been otherwise, disposed of. If this -€5,000 were applied to the release of prisoners, we question if a dozen would remain to occupy thc time of its numerous staff of officials. 3:

And then we ought also to'consider the amount of human degradation and miscry" which the maintenance of this last rag of absurd and cruel law involves. Thc annals of the Queen's Prison contain chapters far surpassing in interest those of thc most exciting romance, and at this moment sorrows are being suffered, which, but that the publication of thsir details is for obvi-

as he calls if, and was removed

to the Queen's Prison after thii^'-nino years in Winchester jail, and there he lias emaiiied for the last five years, being for-y-lbur 3'ears imprisoned iu all, and is like--iy to remain for the rest of his life, and. his determination against a-kiiowledging the false claim is as obstinate as ever.—

Thc original,demand was 1,001), and iu resisting it he soon exhausted all his means. Wo may presume, therefore, that during the forty-tour 3'carshis maintenance must have cost thc country X'li,000, besides his proportion of the X'5,000 a year, which thc Queen's Prison authorities get for keeping him and others in safe custody.— But it we add to all this the fort3--four years of skilled labor of a strong, industrious artisan, wo shall then conic nearer to a practical estimate of the public profit arising from imprisonment for debt.

I he points which we wish to illustrate by the foregoing .statements arc, first, that, many of the evils of imprisonment for debt still flourish in rank luxuriance, notwithstanding all the late reforms in Jaw secondly, that the debtors' prisons, especially the Queen Prison, are couductcd according to rules which let in the most scandalous irregularity and thirdly, that it would be cheaper for thc Chancclor of the Exchequer to pay off tho obligations of the few who still remain amenable to the law, than to keep up such enormous establishments solel3' in order that governors, who are only obliged to inspect their dominions once a month, a year.—

M.w.Ahv. '•—Gen. Quitman attributed the cause of his decline, up to thc last moment of his life, to poison, administered to him in the shape of arsenic while a resident of thc National at Washington. He used to assert that it was mixed with thc sugar, and sustained this by thc fact that during the entire malady which afterward assumed the name of the hotel, no person was taken ill who refrained from thc use of that article.

flS-Thc cost of the construction and equipment of the .Railroads in tho United States amounts to $1,050,655,870, or money enough to break down any other country in the world.

Dllfl)—On Wednesday, the 19th inst., at 9i- clock, A. M., of consumption, AUGUSTUS VOGEL.

Mr. Vogel was born October 31st, 1801, in the kingdom of Saxon3', German}'. He emigrated to this country when quite a young man, and for the last seventeen years has resided in Crawfordsville._ He was. a quiet, unassuming man, and a good citizen.