Locomotive, Volume 44, Number 4, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 March 1858 — Page 2

THE LOCOMOTIVE.

SATURDAY, MARCH 13,1858. JTJSaturdnyisthe dayof publicatlonof the Locomotive when tlwillalwiysbereadyforsubscribers. In nocasewlll weletacopjrofthepaper go from thcollice before public tlonday. LOCOMOTIVE STEAM PRESS BOOK AND JOB PRINTING OFFICE. w-tk would rail the attention of Kail road Men, Presldontaof W Colleijusand Academies, mo ivieuieai rroiesston, ana all others, to our assortment ol . NEW AND BEAUTIFUL, TYPE! ust received from the best Foundries tn the United States, J iiihraciii? all the Medical Signs Accents Fractions, Frsneh Letters Algebraical Sifff( and 'l the modern facilities for doing work In the best stvle. All our Type and Machinery Is new, and In good order, Including two of Adams' improved. STEAM PRINTING PRESSES which enables us to do our work in asuperiorstyle,on asslior time, and as good terms as f.ny other office. We have on hand a superior article of Hook and Col orel Papers and the best of Inks, and ns we tire practical workmen, wo guaranty all work entrusted to us to be done in tii ii eH teat manner, with promptness and accuracy. Our Job Department is well supplied with ult kinds of Jfew and Fashionable Type, and we are prepared to do 331i:ri.clsi of tT olo Worls. ! on the shortest notice, and nt the lowest living rates; and II I, A N K S OF l; Vi;i(V I I - SCKIPTlOPif on Cap, Letter, Folio Post, Flat Cap, French, or Colored Papers, and Cards or Card Boards. For the character of our work we confidently refer to any Book or Job hearing our i in print. Our prices are regulated n t the lowest cash atnndard. so as to be regular and uniform, and equal to all; and contract for work will he adhered h, without resort to extra charges. jr7Orders from a I i stance promptly attended to, and accuracy cmrantied. Trj0 (If so on Meridian street, immediately oppositcthe Post Offlcn. KLDK U fc HARKNKSS. PAY ALL JUST DUES. Mr. Thom8 K. Hoi.nRoox will cull on nil against whom wo have accounts for printing and advertising, for payment. Let all prepare to lucelhint. All having unsettled accounts against n i are requested to make thorn out at once, so that they will be ready for settlement when called on. Wo want to pay every cent we owe and we want all that owo us to do the same. fiST The advantage of Advertising in the Loc-omo. tive is frequently brought to our attention, and particularly that class of advertisements intended for the Farmers in this and adjoining counties. We might illustrate this with a hundred instances, but will men. tion only two. Gen. Reynolds advertised a farm for pale east of the city the advertisement was the means r of bringing him a purchaser. Mr. C. R. Rhoads determined to sell his farm, west of the city, and put a short notice in the paper some three weeks since he has sold his farm, and the advertisement brought him the purchaser. Both (liese farms were advertised exclusively in our paper. We do not write this to puff our paper as an advertising medium, but to show that advertising does good. Good. The Home Office of the -32tna Insurance Company have concluded to buy and build in this city For this purpose they have appropriated $lfi,000,and placed it at the disposal of the Agent here, Mr. Henderson. They have contemplated the purchase of 40 feet, otTthe north end of the lot On which the Odd Fellow's Hall stands, for $G,000, which will leave $10,000 to be applied to building. This will build iwo business rooms, with offices above, equal, if not superior to the finest buildings in the city. This will give the iEtna company a local interest in our city, and be an additional security to all that insure with it. Building. Mr. John F.. Ramsey has made all his arrangements for building up the corner of Illinois and Maryland streets, to connect with his present three story trick. He will build three business rooms on Illinois street, with an entrance to the upper stories on Maryland street, for a dwelling. As soon as the weather permits he will commence operations. Mr. AV. S. Hubbard has already commenced tearing away, preparatory to building two three story brick business houses, on the corner of the alley south of AVashington street, on Meridian street. These, with other improvements already commenced, will be a good start for the building season. 113" The Locomotive Steam Printing Establishment on Meridian street opposite the Post office, is now fully prepared to do all kinds of Book and Job Printing in the best style and at the most reasonable prices. Our assortment of all the differentkinds of cards, and every variety of the various colors and qualities of papers is full and complete, so that our friends can make their selections in the office, and have their orders done in accordance with their own tastes. Particular attention given to the selection and use of such type, as will both ornament and display our work in the most correct manner. As to the character and price of all Printing entrusted to us, we guar anty enlire satisfaction in every instance. In another column we copy an article from the New Orleans Delta, on the Slave trade in the South. A bill has passed the Louisana House of Representa tives, authorizing the importation into that State of voluntary negro apprentices to labor for a term of years, similar to the apprenticeship system adopted by England, and followed by France, Spain and Brazil! and this article shows, not only that the system lias been commenced, but that, as there is immense profit in it, it will most likely be continued, with or without law. If this should prove to be true, it will createa great hubbub, both in and out of political circles. W Mr. Bryant, of the Daguerean Rooms, in Sherman's Block, met with a heavy misfortune by selling his stock and fixtures to a D. W. Daniels, who made ; way with the stock, before the time agreed on for payment arrived, and has lefts for parti unknown. Mr. Bryant has returned to his old stand in the New York store, where he will be glad to see Lis old friends and acquaintances. The New York Store is the place to get your Dry Goods. C" As there appears to be a great diversity of opinion as to the capacity of Masonic Hall, and the number it will contain, we would recommend those that feel interested to count the seats the next time they are in it, estimate the number they can seat, and calculate the vacant standing places. Some outsiders assert that the Hall will hold from seven to ten thousand. The National Guards celebrated their second anniversary by a public parade, on Thursday afternoon, with a full band, and under the direction of their new officers. As usual they looked well. ST Lots in New York City, on 105th and 106th street, near 2d avenue, are selling at auction at from $200 to $375. AVe can beat that here. CD. W. Gnibbs, formerly of this city, has established himself in Sioux City, Iowa, as Real Estate, Insurance and Collecting A cent 5T See the card of the new Botanic Drug Store, by . Drs. Abbett & Coffin, in another column.

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Hon. O. II. Smith's Trials and Sketches. it is only about two months since the above book was published by Moore, AVilstaeh, Keys, & Co., of Cincinnati. The first Edition of two thousand copies has been ordered, and a second issue, from the stereotype plates, of one thousand copies, is ready for delivery to agents. We gave our opinion of the work when it first appeared we predicted an extensive circulation and sale. It was, however, difficult to foresee what the press would say of it, as its fate, like all new works, depended, to some extent, upon the opinion of the press of its merits. We confess, as the author is our neighbor, and the State of Indiana his home, we have not been indifferent lookers, among our exchanges) for the notices that usually follow the publication of new works, and we can sincerely congratulate the au" thor upon the favorable notices of the work that have reached us, from the leading journals, political and religious, of the United States, among which we name the Indianapolis Journal, Indiana Sentinel, Washington Union, Baptist Witness, Indiana American, Western Christian Advocate, Lancaster, Pa., Intelligencer, Cin. cinnati Enquirer, Lancaster, Pa., Express, Harper's Weekly, Home Journal, Columbus, 0., Capital Fucl Historical Society, Phila., Cincinnati Gazette, Ladies Repository, and Chicago Tribune. Although this book is adapted to the general reader, it especially belongs to Indiana, and should be read by all her citizens, young and old. Every library should contain it, so as to give all an opportunity of reading it, and learning how Indiana looked and acted in her infancy. It is already in the library of Marion County, and we would like to see it in the libraries of every county and township in the State. ' . . Trees and Shrubbery. We are informed that Martin Williams, Mr. Loomis, and C. Fletcher jr. have associated together in the Nursery business. They Avill commence at once, and it their intention to use 150 acres of ground, and make the largest nursery in the west. Their location will be north-east of the city, just out of the donation. Messrs. Loomis & Av illiams are practical nurserymen, with a large experience of the kind of fruit that will do best in our climate and soil, and this experience, with the fact that the trees they raise will be raised in the climate they are wanted for use, will be just what the Farmers and Fruit Growers of Indiana want There is nothing in which there has been so much swindling as in selling Fruit trees and shrubbery from Eastern Nurseries. The trees brought from a distance have invariably died, or been stunted by long exposure from the ground and the kind purchased are generally such as will not do well in Indiana. - 1 Mr. Williams now has a large and choice variety of Fruit Trees and Shrubbery, in his Nursery, north of the city, to which he invites the attention of all that want to set out trees this spring. See his advertisement in this paper. The List of Letters. The list of letters, we find is regarded by a number of our country subscrib ers who receive their letters at the Dayton post of fice, as a very desirable news artilce. Damon Jour nal. This is not only the case with persons in the coun try, but with business men, and all others that get let ters through the P. O. AVe could cite a number of instances where letters have been seen in the adver tised list, by our subscribers, that had been overlooked when called for, and if not seen then would have been sent to AVashington as dead letters, and never obtained, A number of our subscribers depend on seeing their letters advertised, before coming for them from the country, which is a matter of convenience to many. For the information of all we will state that the list of letters is published exclusively in the Locomotive, being selected by the Post Office Department for that purpose because it has a larger circulation than any paper published, in Indianapolis. More Mechanics Leaving. Messrs. Defrees & McJCecly are tearing down their barrel factory, on the uanai, and removing it to ierre Haute, where they intend to follow this business largely. Mr. Hucy, the furniture manufacturer, removes in a few days to South Bend to pursue business there AVhen will our capitalists aid manufacturers, instead of driving them away from this, the best of locations ? Sentinel. AVe copy the above from the Sentinel, for the purpose of asking one or two additional questions, for the consideration of all concerned. . Have our capitalists refused to aid manufacturers ? Have they ever driv. en any away from the city ? ' If this is the best of locations, is there not a point at which manufacturers should become self-sustaining ; or in other words, should not manufacturers, if their business is worth anything, and the proprietors are able to conduct it properly, acquire capital enough of their own to carry on their business, without depending on borrowing money from capitalists ? If they cannot do this, is it right, or safe, for monied men to advance means for their business. Starting business on borrowed capital is one thing, and depending on borrowed money to carry it on ten years after it is started is another. -ZEtna Insurance Company. One of our promi nent bankers interested in knowing the standing of the iEtna Insurance Company at home, made the inquiry of Lucius Barbour, Esq., known to some of our citizens as one of the most prominent, wealthiest and most re. liable citizens of Hartford, as to its' condition, management and responsibility, and obtained the following re ply: Hartford, March 5, 1858. Dear Sir : Yonrs of the 27th of February, is re ceived, and in reply will say that I regard the vEtna Insurance Company of this city one of the strongest and best managed institutions that can be found in this or any other country. I should be willing to take a risk in this office for 620,000 as readily as any Insu rance office in the whole world. Very truly yours, Lucius Barbour. 0"The New York Tribune, of March 9, copies the resolutions passed by the convention of Old Soldiers, n this city, on the 4th of March, and adds Mr. Secretary Cobb will doubtless be glad to hear that this country is "now in a state of unparalleled prosperity;" and will be glad to honor the drafts of the Old Soldiers for living at the public cost for the rest of their days. But we suspect this "unparalleled prosperity" has not yet made itself manifest at the Treasury. ; If paying Bounties and Pensions to Old Soldiers is the way to prove republics not ungrateful, haven't we done it already Congregational State Conference. The Ministers and Delegates of the Congregational Churches, in this State, (about forty in number) will assemble at the Senate Chamber; in this city, to-day, Saturday. A State Conference for business and religious wor ship, will be organized, which will continue its sessions during the early part of next week. The Republicans of Centre township hold a Convention this afternoon, at 2 o'clock, to nominate candidates for Township officers. Holman is on hand already with Sprino- Goods rich and fresh, to which he invites the special attention of the Ladies. See advertisement

Dry Goods. The early spring Dry Goods Trade in New York is now fairly opened. In speaking of

the market, the Independent says : , " The month of March opens with a fair demand for staple goods, but the stock on hand is light and prices 1 i. D mi . -n " : are nrm. .mere are no iancy suss reamming ,u importer's hands. There is, however, a fair supply in second hands, who break bulk and distribute to retail ers. The importations were rather larger last week than they have been, but still are yery light. The demand for desirable styles of goods is active. The sales, however, are clueflv to the near-by-trade, winch com mands the greatest confidence. It is expected by many that the later trade of the season will be better than the early : and should an early opening of navigation take place, as at present seems to promise, this expectation may be realized. . 1 " Prices of most kinds of goods are advancing, and those lobbers who bought largely during the depression are reaping a good harvest. One symptom of a healthy trade it is satisfactory to notice, and that is the absence of all desire to force sales by giving prolonged credits, as well as to refuse any concession in prices for either cash or credit. As tilings have long ago reach ed their worst point, as regards the mass of consumers, there must be some improvement in the extent of consumption ; and every accession of money income to the consumer will be felt speedily in the Dry Goods mar ket. ' Carpetings. The New York TrHiune,o the 5th inst, makes the following allusion to the Carpet mar ket, in its money article of Friday last: A large offering of fine Carpetings, of the produc tion of the JNew li,ngland Worsted Uompany (lately sold by Messrs. Lawrence, Stone & Co.), was made at auction to-day. I he goods were attractive, and line carpets being in moderate supply, with an advancing tendency from late low rates, the attendance of buyers was large and the bidding spirited, mostly from AArestern houses. I he A X Velvets, which were held last year at $1 55, private sale terms being now about 15 per cent lower, brought prices ranging from $1 25 to $1 32. The B X Velvets formerly held at $1 45, opened at $1 10 a Si 20. The sale this far is good, and is admirably conducted by Mr. bpiccr. 1 he Mat tings offered were cargo mattings, and brought about their value. 1. he Carpets are still selling. 6ir The AVashington correspondent to the Cincinnati Enquirer, in speaking of Kansas in Congress, says The Kansas debate in the Senate will close on Sat urday, the 13lh inst. On the following Monday, the loth, the previous question will be called, with a view ot coming to a vote on the Kansas and Minnesota Ad mission Bill; and the Administration members will hold their ground firmly until a vote is taken, allowing no further debate. . If necessary, there will be no adjournment Monday, and the struggle may last all night Ihen the great light will commence in the House, and last probably three or four weeks, unless debate is choked off by the previous question. Nearly every member has spoken once on the Lecompton Constitu tion already, and some few twice so there is no ex cuse for further palaver; speeches do not change opinions. A Mortgaged City. The Rochester (N. York) Union has the following notice of Chicago : A New York merchant, who has had occasion this winter to know how business is done in Chicago, was in this city the other day, onhis way homeward from that place. He says even-thing real and personal is mortgaged. He asserts that he found no less than eight thousand chartered mortgages on hie in the (Jlerk s office; and. he further asserts that those papers reach the personal property of nearly every merchant and business man in Chicago. ———<>——— ——>The Chief Fire Engineer warns merchants, and others, against keeping kegs of powder in their store. At the late fire, on the corner of Washington and Meridian streets, a keg of powder was in the second story, when the roof was on fire, to the great danger of the live's [sic] of the firemen. This is a timely caution. ———<>——— . IgIt is an acknowledged fact in this community that the Locomotive has a much larger circulation than any other paper published in this city, and there is not day in the week, but we are adding the names of good and true men, to our Iistf subscribers. Our friends in all directions are making every effort in our behalf, and they assure us that they receive more reliable home news, and substantial information from the columns of the Locomotive than from any other source. AVe are happy to know that our labors have been appreciated, and feel greatful for the " aid and comfort'' that has been extended to us. The height of our am bition is and we shall apply whatever of ability we have to the end that our paper shall not only circulate through this and the adjoining States ; but penetrate the most remote portions of each State and Territory of the Union. Survey the route and lay down the iron rails for our Locomotive. ' - Union Prayer Meetings. The following circu-r lar has been directed to us by the committee, with a request to publish. AVe do so cheerfully, in the hope that it may aid in extending the interest in religion, now so general throughout the country : . Messrs. Fditors A Business Men's Union' Prayer Meeting is held daily, from 12 to 1 o'clock, in the JonN &treet Methodist (Jhurch, 44 John Street, a few doors east of Broadway. . ' This meeting is similar to to the one held in Fulton ' Street. Owing to the over-crowded state ot the Rooms . at that place and the manifest increasing interest, it has been thought best to open this place also. Already have we seen and heard enough of the results of these meetings to make us firm in the conviction, that if all Christians throughout our land were faithful, as they have opportunity, we would hear one; united shout of praise going up from all the people, because of salvation that has come to all men. It must be evident that we have a right to ask this favor of you, for many of the readers of your Journal are di-; rectly (all are, indirectly, at least) interested in what is transpiring in the metropolis of our country, because of the sons, brothers, or friends they have here, whom they would like to have interested in these things. And we would take this opportunity of impressing upon the parents or friends of all such younrr men, (who may be one of the 150,000, between the age of 1 6 and 35, we have in our city.) that a line, with uie auiircss, uusiuess or resilience, directed to "Xj, Box 3,811, will ensure them a personal invitation to. attend these meeting, and similar ones held especially for young men, at the Rooms of the "Youno- Men's lhnstian Association, 32 Waverly Place. It is proper to state that many of the most thoughtless, reckless, i yea, heaveu-defying young men, have, within a few weeks, changed their views and aims, and are now "clothed in their right mind." AVe hope any who read this, when visitiuor our citv. will feel perfectly "at home" in these meetings, and we win De giau to nearirom country friends always. It is well for it to be understood, that these meetings are a Union of Baptist, Congregational, Methodist, Episcopal, Refonned Dutch and Presbyterian brethren, with one common aim of advancing the Cause of Truth and Righteousness in the earth, especially in our own "wicked Sodom." Information from any of our friends at a distance, as to what is being done among them, sent to the above address, will be gratefully received bv us. as ; tokens that -we are remembered in a great common i j -ii i . e , wont, ana wui mucn increase our zeal and courage to "go forward and possess the land" in the name of our great Captain. Our land may be, (yea, will be) 'ere long the joy of the whole earth, if all will do what their hands find to do now, "while the day lasts." Hoping we have not trespassed over much upon your kindness, AVe are, in behalf of the New York Young Men's Christian Association, Yours, with high regard, Edward Colgate, James Fairman, AA'illiam M. Hastings, George P. Edgar, Charles A. Moore, New York, Feb. 20, 1858. Committee on Devotional Meetings.

SsS" AVe copy the following article from the N. Yj Tribune, of Tuesday, on the business and prospects o the season. It is addressed particularly to the clerks, mechanics, and others in New York, but will be interesting alike to our readers: 5 The present plethora of money and torpor of business are what all far-seeing men expected to follow the late convulsion. Money is a drug in all the great commercial centers, merely because the solvent portion of the community have for months been engaged in paying off their debts and contracting their engagements, until one-half the currency which was needed a year ago now suffices. A million dollars now buy so much more Grain, Sugar, Tobacco, Cloth and Iron than a like sum did last March, that a more limited currency is required, and money accumulates on the hands of capitalists and bankers. But let a man undertake to obtain a loan on very long paper or on securities of doubtful solvency or convertibility, and he finds money nearly as hard to get now as ever; for those who have it mean to keep it until they can put it where it will be sure to come back again just when they want it. There never was a less favorable time to borrow or buy on doubtful paper than the present; and country merchants who have hitherto failed to pay

promptly will find harder work to renew their stocks this season than ever before. AVhoever aspires to "get into business" on the strength of other men's capital, will find success amazingly difficult in 1858. There is, of course, some improvement in Trado, though slow and partial. Imports increase, though still far below the unprecedented aggregates of the former half of 1857. Some factories and furnaces. which have stood still for months, have recently started again or are to be started soon; Spring will doubt less give some impetus to many branches ot industry now nearly quite stagnant; yet Prices will generally be low. Trade limited and Manufactures depressed during the current year. Hence, thousands who are now hoping soon to find employment in cities as clerks, or mechanics, or laborers, are doomed to disappointment Some of those now idle and waiting will obtain places; but quite as many will bitterly lament that they had fixed their eyes so long on a phantom which, when they hastened to seize it, eluded their grasp and per ished forever. AVe desire, therefore, to say right earnestly to our readers, and urge them to say to others, There will be no abundance of work in cities this season, whether for mechanics, clerks, porters, laborers, private teach ers, servants, or in whatever capacity; and those who are not absolutely sure ot employment should quit the cities as speedily and generally as possible. There will be but a moderate Trade this year, and there will not be half so many Buildings or Ships constructed as usual, simply because the present supply of both ex ceeds the present or immediately prospective demand. iewer earmen, porters, stevedores, &c., will be re quired to move the goods imported or distributed, because oi me aiininisneu uemanu ior goous, aim tne general r"trenchment ot outlay and expenditure. In short, we are to have a dull season, while the charity which has done so much to alleviate the miseries of the AVinter cannot be expected to remain so active and efficient through the bummer. AVe know it will be said that this duleness will extend to the country, and that Labor will be abundant and AVages low among the Farmers as well as elsewhere. This is partly, but not entirely true. From the mo ment the frost is fairly and finally out of the ground, there is always a demand tor labor in almost every ru ral district, and especially in the Great AVest No man able and willing to do a fair day's work need travel many days outside of a city in quest of employment Wages will ot course be low, but less money is requir ed to buy a given amount of food or clothing than last year. And, for those who are able to reach the Great West, there never was a more favorable season than this. Everything you need to buy is very cheap there, so that every hundred dollars will go as far toward buy ing land, or stock, or unplements, or working a farm, or subsisting a family, as two hundred went one year ago. Men who have no anchorage in the cities and villages, nor the assurance of work and bread from year to year; why will you not make a bold push for the i! ree West t io wait for ampler means, or better prospects, is madness ; you have already waited too ong. If you have a fair assurance ot a living where you are, do as you please about emigrating; but if you have nothing of the sort, resolve to seek comfort and independence at the hands of God rather than man, and strike out boldly tor a home ot your own in tne broad, hospitable Westl . ' i INCIDENTS OF THE REVIVAL. Papers from all parts of the country are filled with notices of a very general revival of religion. One of the most singular features ot this revival, is, that it has been produced by no effort on the part of the Church it appears to arise spontaneous, and is spreading and extending in a manner unprecedented. In the great cities the church and the prayer meetings are now the principal place of resort, to the exclusion of places of amusements, and the houses are crowded to excess. The daily papers occupy columns in notices of these meetings, and their results. AVe copy the following from the New York Tribune, of March 6 : Incidents. At the prayer-meeting in the Metho dist church in Jolin street, yesterday, it was announced that several losses of money had been suffered, from pick-pockets in the crowd, whereupon the conductor of the meeting said, "that they were proper persons to be prayed for," and a petition was accordingly made "that if they had come to steal purses, God might steal their hearts. A young man, in a store in Park place, was met by a stranger who asked him the question. "Are you a Christian ? " To which, on his replying "No," the stranger said to him, " If you will pray to-night I will pray for you." Next morning the stranger met him in the same place, and after a salutation was surprised to learn that he had been converted the previous day. A young man attending a Presbyterian church in Brooklyn, a few days since, received a copy of the tract circular of the Young Men's Christian Association, accompanied with a printed card of invitation to the John street prayer-meeting. Day before yesterday, at this meeting, he introduced himself to a member of the association and stated that he had experienced conver sion through the instrumentality of that tract A law-sludent in this city was handed a tract about three weeks ago, by a person before unknown to him, who also gave him a card containing his address. A few days since, this distributor received a note from the student, saying, " I feel very serious on the subject of religion, and hope I may be soon converted. Pray tor me. A young man, formerly a Sunday school scholar, re cently received one of the Christian Association's tracts th a request to attend some one ot the noon prayermeetings. Shortly afterward he wrote, "1 received your kind tract. I have been often warned of the dangers of city life, and have been trying to come to the savior. 1 hope 1 may soon be changed in heart In a day or two atterwaru he called upon the person who sent him the tract, and said, " I have found God." The son of an eminent clergyman in this city, writing as a student from AA7illiams College, Mass., says "AVe are having a pleasant time, and there is a deep religious feeling in the college." A resident of New Haven, formerly a clerk in a bank in New York, while on a temporary visit to this city, was converted through the agency of one of the mid-day religious meetings. On his return to New Haven, he interesied himself in the spiritual condition of a younger brother, who within a week was also converted. They are sons of a prominent minister in that city. 1 ' A man who recently experienced a spiritual change stated to a member' of the Christian Association that his attention was first seriously turned to religion on reading one of its circulars to young men. A gentleman who is greatly interested in the progress of the revival recently called at the store of a friend to whom he wished to present the claims of religion. His friend was not in, yet he, being unwilling to go away without having accomplished some good, spoke to one of the clerks a young man about eighteen years of age to whom he was a stranger, on the same subject, and after a few -days was apprised of his conversion through the instrumentality of this conversation. A New York merchant, residing in a town in the vicinity of the city, on returning home recently after havimr attended acrowded prayer-meeting, determined to make an effort for the spiritual good of fome of his J

friends and neighbors. One of these was a man who called himself an infidel. A prayer-meeting was organized, to which this man, with others, was invited, and after several days' attendance, rose on one occasion, and requested that prayer should be made in his behalf. To the surprise and almost astonishment of his acquantances, he shortly afterward renounced infidelity, embraced the Christian religion, and is soon to become a member of a church. The cousin of this man was recently converted in this city, through attendance at the prayer-meetings, and two "brothers and two sisters in the same family have since followed his example. At the prayer-meeting yesterday afternoon, in the Rev. Dr. Macauley's church, (corner of fifth avenue and Twenty-fn-st street), which was filled with ladies, it was stated that not only in these "upper circles," but among the poor, among criminals, the work was going on. The city missionary found a very different spirit among those whom he visited ; it was no longer difficult to call attention 1o the subject of religion, but he was urged to afibrd help and support by persons who had hitherto been cold or lukewarm. At the Penitentiary in Albany, the speaker recently saw upward of 100 of its inmates, most of whom were under 21 years of age, seated together, each with a Bible or Testament in his hand. AVhen addressed, they burst into tears, and gave unmistakable signs of the change which was taking place within them. The next speaker rejoiced to hear of these good tidings, but begged the brethren not to believe that the work was done. There were still many churches which had not been aroused, and many families which had not received the Gospel. All should be vigilant over themselves and take care to be more than half awake. He had that morning parted from a young lady, who lay upon the bed of death. She did not fear the future, but the passage thithci- not death, but dying. lie prayed with her that the transition might be peaceful and easy. On taking her hand at parting, to his surprise he found it cold. She was dead. During the recital of this narrative, the church was perfectly still ; a whisper could have been heard across it At the close of the service parents were urged to bring their children, and Sunday school teachers their pupils to the meeting this afternoon, which will be at the usual hour. It was announced that next week there would be a daily prayer-meeting at the Rev. F. G. Clark's, in Twentythird street, between Eighth and Ninth avenues.

tFrom the N. O. Delta, Feb. 26.1 THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE OPENED AT :.. THE SOUTH. - .; Some startling and significant facts have come to our knowledge. AVe have hesitated to disclose them, but after inquiry, examination and consultation, we are convinced that both duty and policy demand disclosure. The facts, we say, are startling; they are crucial. They will surprise and encourage many in our counting-rooms and offices, and many on the plantations and in the towns, but most of all they will astound the Cabinets of AVestera Europe, and eminently assist to confirm between the genial French people and our Norman and Huguenot South, an unwritten but hearty, magnanimous and unconquerable league against the allied avarice and envy, cant and rapacity of England and the Northern States. Although the foiled and furious enemies of our institutions may shake up, uncork, and pour out on our battered brows the foaming vials of their wrath ; although the President may be shocked and embarrassed ; and although the great parties of the country may be bitterly disappointed and imbrangled, let it go forth that Southerners have taken into their own hand the law, and opened the African slave trade with the South ; that Africans are now imported into Mississippi and other sea-shore States ; that in Mississippi there is a market for African slaves, and that on plantations in that great and intrepid State, negroes recently imported from Africaare at their daily work. The authority on which we make this announcement is indisputable. We even have advices that in Mississippi, Henry Hughes and some of his party now privately urge the Labor Immigration movement, not to open the supply of Africans, but to legitimate, moralize, regulate and equalize the supply already opened and impossible to be closed. AVe have some further details. Some negroes are disembarked on the Atlantic coast and brought overland to the Mississippi cotton fields, but the Mississippi seacoast's peculiar facilities for landing and secreting cargoes, and the conveniences of Pearl River as a channel for distribution, are not overlooked. The profits of the Mississippi slave-trade are enormous. AVe have been so fortunate as to procure from undoubted authority some interesting details. They relate to the operations of the Mississippi slave-trade, and are authenticated by operators. It need not be said, in the first place, that the bark engaged in the traffic to the South must be a fast sailer, for this is indispensable to the security of the officers and crew, the health of the cargo, aud the rapidity of the pecuniary returns. For a trip from the Mississippi coast to Africa and back there must be a captain, supercargo, three mates, three cooks, steward, and between twenty and thirty first-class seamen. The vessel must be well supplied with extra running and standing rigging, and also supernumerary spars, ropes, topmasts, and sui ts of sails. An assortment of the flags of all nations will be particularly desirable, but the most useful is now the French flag, because British cruisers will not verify the colors and take the same liberties as with the United States flag. The fare of the ship's crew must be the very best, and their good will must be carefully conciliated, becausft during the voyage a mutiny is disastrous ; and after the voyage, a treacherous or vindictive information is, to say the least, troublesome and expensive. To procure the good will of the men, much depends on the mates, over whom the captain ought to keep a strict watch. For the subsistence of the negroes there must be a plentiful supply of hard bread, cornmeal, rice, and an abundance of vinegar, red pepper, pure water and drags. In distributing diet, the greatest regularity is to be observed, and the very first symptoms of disease promptly treated. As to the capacity of the superior officer, it may be safely said that a slaver requires in it more courage, talent, honesty, fidelity, skill, and discretion than any other ship in any other trade. Indeed, the captain and supercago must, between them, act as navigator and naval officer, mer chant and physician, diplomatist and magistrate, not to mention the functions of chaplain. As to the expenses and profits of the voyage, the latest advices were from the captain of a bark which sailed from one of the Georgia ports. He has quite re cently returned, and reports that on account of the vigilance ot cruisers, negroes had accumulated on the coast, and in a manner glutted the markets, and that in consequence of this the price had fallen to under $30 a head. The payment, however, must be in'gold or silver, as the head men will not, as formerly, barter ior merchandise. AVe may estimate a cargo to number 700 negroes, although many more than that are often carried ; but whatever the number, none purchased should be over 25 years of age. Seven hundred, at an average cost of $30 a piece, will amount to $21,000, and their price in this country or Cuba will range from $450 to $1,200. But if sold for $500, say, the cargo will net $350,000. Freely allowing, then, $150,000 for the entire expenses of the voyage, and all possible loss, the profits of one round voyage will amount to $200,000. AVhere the profits are so exorbitant, we can well understand why the business has been begun in the South. AAre ran 1 well understand the impossibility of closing the trade now begun, and, most of all, we now can understand that the great question is not whether there shall be for the South a supply of African labor, because that is now settled, and the great and absorbing question is whether, according to Hughes's method, the supply shall be so modified as to be legitimate, fair, regular and equal. " Diddled." A lugubrious gentleman, who responds to the address of Mr. Crocker, and insists that his surname is Diddled, arrived yesterday in the cars from Indianapolis, and tells a mournful tale of having left that city with $8U0 in gold and bills, and now finding himself in the Mound City without a cent At the depot, in Indianapolis, he made the acquaintance of a j'v CO ln. distress, who said her reticule and funds had been pilfered from her, and he was induced to purchase her a ticket for St Louis. He then took a seat in the car with her, having his valise with him. The cars were about to start, when he ran out to shake hands with a friend, leaving his valise and the lady. I he train was getting in rapid motion, when he sprang on the rear car, and 'finding himself, as he thought, all right, he remained about fifteen minutes conversing in the car. A hen he sought his own seat, the lady wns gone, and the valise ! St. Iuis Democrat, March 9.