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\Ve extract, from the Argentine Packet of October 1, a summary of the atate of affairs at Montevid^o» subse*- quent to the reactionary movements against President Giro and bis govep- The successive accumulation of chqke ^anip has at last resulted in nji e r o sion, that has driven President Giro and the partisans of Oribeaud Urqm; r f . ; ; ‘’s : ' M t e 7 i r , “ o \ a S S u ; t l y S Qf order by the Chairman. The Reso- part they acted during eur late rebel lion, aiding and abetting the Provision al Director in every way and as openly thtt’arting the measures of defence on the^part* of this capital^ it worrlddie too' much for them to expect any sympathy in this quarter in the day ofltheir mis*- fortune, however much individuals may regret the inevitable calamities appar- etrtly awaiting that sister community* The reaction of September, J 853, in Montevideo, must, be traced to the same causes, and may be justified by. the same considerations as that Of the 1 Uh of September, 1853, in this prov ince, and follows as a: necessary conse quence of the events that took place at San Jose de Flores in the month of Ju ly last; and we cannot help thinking that the able hand that planned and ac complished the discomfiture of Gen. Urquizza may have at least suggested this salutary and merited chastisement for Iiis unblushing partisans. In imitation of his friend and prede cessor, President Giio has retired but not resigned ,* and the ominous ques tion of “legality,” is once more sus pended over the heads of the unfortu nate Orientals; backed, there is also reason t& suspect, b'y the induence ■ o f the French Legation, of which Senor Giro was an inmate. It was reported here yesterday, {-Sep tember 30,) on the authority of news said to be received by the Bama Negra, that the French naval authorities had attempted to land forces to take posses sion of the Custom house, and that they had been repulsed, with a loss' of from twenty to twenty-fi'V'C ,* but in this we fancy there is some misunderstand- • ing, or, perhaps, intentional exaggera tion. ■ The latest news by the Uruguay, ar rived this morning, (October 1,) reports all quiet in the capital j that Senor Gi ro had embarked in a man-of war, and intended making a trip to the United’ States; and that Don Lucas Moreno and Don Dlonysio Coronel had given in their adhesion to tfie nevv stkte of things. S team F a ^ iing .—It_i5„plea5aut to see that this wonder-working power can bring landlords-and mill owners into so cial intercourse, honorable to botTi sides; it is not less remarkable that it bids fair, ere long, to merge the two great classes in otie class'of manufactu rers, In one aspect it is exalting the present manufacturers to a level with the lords o f the soil-^in the other it is converting the landlords themselves in-’ to master manufacturers, and theirfarfns into manufactories. -The day after Mr. Salt’s princely/efe, Mr. Meclii vVas the invited guest of the Herts Agricultural Association. An earl, and a baron, and so forth, were assembled, in expectation of the speech of the day from a London tradesman ; one who has nfade an ir ruption from the Counter (with wealth amassed there,) into the broad acres of the territorial aristoeracy. ’Nor didthe guest disappoint the nobility and squires who had invited him evidently to stim ulate their own tenants. ^He dealt out wholesome suggestions to landlords With large estates, complaining of want ot capital to improve, honestly, advising them tg sell part of their land,.and i/n-^ prove the rest vviththe money, ‘ lie re buked tenants, who, clinging to the old ways, grudged ,tlie landlord a fair inter-, cst for the mphey be had laid dpt.; but the burthen of hiispeech was steam. The amount of steam power Jn any agricultural district- he took as the test ot its condition, People thought him crazy when he first put up a sieam .en-. gine; but now two. makers in the viU lage had more than they could do to su;.'? ply the neighborhood fast enough. Lin colnshire and Norfolk farmers -have, some of them, one, two, and even three engines bn a, farm ! 'H6rtk Ijad but made .a beginning; he was sure they would soon get deeper into it. BiXtthet grand agricultural achievement is yet to. come. Its advent is nigh. Mr. Mechi: is now building the engine, at a cost-of two hundred pounds, which is to plough. the land and do almost everything .be sides, A Canadian engineer,; neglected in his^owa province, is working at Tip«- t ree, under Mr.. MechPs patronage ; soon the irapiemeiit is to be ready whichis to *revoIutioni2e.'British agriCuUaire, to- enable farmers to-plough twelve inches deep instead of five inches, and to bene fit agriculture t-o the tune of ten mill ions of pounds per annum I We have jiovv farms in which steam''docs all'the fixed machinery #ork, and such farms are ihcrea'sing in immber. and maehine- jy^ f hvejy-liihd is so rapidly ext bndiifg that the farm is fast assimilatihgfio the'' manufactory; and the fanner and his laborers bid fair, in another generation, to equal iri intelligence their brethren otthQ towns.—^Ertglesk Fa'^er. - ' imported a valuable Durham bull and other stock, by the steaiuer' Hermann,' which Were selected* tvithOut •regard -to oosL'ol’tbe hest-td he fouhdin Bngla’nd. The bull* is stated**<o h‘VVe‘'dosb five; thouknd dollars-.'^ By flip Wakhi^igtbhi on lief last'tVip,' hd * r-e^ejvbd a^oWibf tlie same breed ^ the; hull,' which he paitf thrOe-thohSaiirf dOliar-Si 'besideh imported. 'IShe wd§ uccompanied'by tvyd' months bid' calf.- which' cost- eevdn hundred and fifty doHars.* tiUd 4 t0€ of Sbuthd{>vvn Sheep,''of slipcriot* qtiali* 'hpealf^r- ofdhu-Hbuse, and Mr, I'or* i?eyl'^ {p|f j Pa. re-elected Oferk,. a retired Physician. ' H. Xonb ,& M h by larjgep mjajorMies. T h e ’HesS- “ ^jork. ‘ — “ilHE DEliOCR^’gfc , At the Democratic- Citfeus held at _ ^ ^ Whshuigton' . ^ the^eiocraiid mem-,-age\pf 4 he -after the or* hers o> Co'ngr^s, on Safurday'hlght, the [ianizktroif of both-Houses, was read:— lutions contain sound Democratic doc-* trine and just and proper views, and we t-rasLtber-evare not many-Demoorats in Gongrejse yvho are not willing-to sub scribe-lothem.’ - ' , Resolved, ^ h a t the platform of the Democratic Natidhal Convention'of’52 riot only‘rekfiirmea the past policy of the democratic party, but; in resolving to “ ^ide* by and adhere to a faithful exeoutioH of the actsknoWn as the Com promise bets, including the fugitive slave Jaw,” did, in-the most solemn man ner, and under circumstances of urgent necessity,' give a renewed pledge of fi delity to the constitution and all its compromises; as the only secure basis o f ufiibh aji'd harmony. *’ 2. Resolved, That the nomination and’ election of Franklin Pierce to the Presidency were mainly fbe consequen ces of ri universal belief, derived from his past history, and political associa tions, that he would fulfil the pledge thus given for the party in every way which the measures involved could be strengthened in their moral force as well as in their legal authority. . 3. Resolved, That the inaugural ad dress of Generar Pierce was in perfect conformity with that profound national sentiment which secured his triumphant election, and gave the country good reason to expect that both his measures and leading Uppbihtrabnts would be con sistent with the sound hnd patrioGc sentinients therein avowed. 1;. Resolved, That, iu the language of General Pierce, “ if the jnen of the North who liave stood by the constitu- tibniaf rights' of the South are to be abandoned to'any time-serving policy, •the hope of the democracy and of the Union must sink together,” and that in the j-ufigmeiit of this caucus a policy which would recognise abontionrsra or free soilism as an element of the demo cratic o'rgahization, ari^ ejevate lea ding free soijers at' the sacrifice^ qf 'men ,at theNoriivand aV rife South‘/whose lives .have^pfbyed their fidelity to the consti tution, vydnm aiqt qnly. be inconsistent with the sentim.eht expressed by^Gene-. ral Pierce before his^ ribmiriattbn as aboye^quoted, but would be -utterly re- pugnant’ to the principles and pledges wtifch-prevailed, lyith the^peqple in bringiqg the administration into poweT-' 6, ItesoTvedr Thaf We^ cordially, ap prove the follovying .aentiinent of a Cir cular issued'by Thomas jefiqrsoif while President o f the ]Jiiited States ;-r^ The President pf thq United , States has-seen with dissatisfaction officers of the.general goyernment. taking,;on ya- ribqs occasions,, acstive parfsin ejections -of publjc. functionaries, whether of the ■general.qr .of the State goyernment.-f Freedom election being essential to the mutual independence, of govern ments., andiOfthe different branches of thp'same goyerninent,.5p vitally cherisli- ed.by ippst qf pur, constitutions,, jt; is deemed jmpraper for officers depending on .the Executive of the Union to at tempt to control or infiuence the free exercise of the elective right. I am in structed t-Uer?fore, to notify all.pfiicers: within any departmeuL holding theiy appointments, under the authority of the -President fiirectly, and.to desire them to inotify- aU. subordinates ,to ,themj— , The right of any -officer to give his vote at elections as a qualified citizen is not meant tor he restrained,, nor, however given* shall it bavp ;any effect to, his prejudice, hut it is expected that be will riot attempt to influence the votes of others, nor take any/part in the busi ness p f electioneering, that .being deem* od inconsistent with the , spirit o f the constitution, and his duties to it.' ' ‘iniEE SOIL EOT DEil). rrecjSoil has; had its day in the Em pire State.-r-BMjfofe Cuun'er. -1 That is a.raatter that depends entire* ly upon thecourieoftlie pro-slaveryist^- -Jn 1848,-the Free Soiiers accomplished all they attempted, (except the election of their Presiderit, and that was a mat-; ter q I which they.had no hopes of effect ing,) land their-ends being,attained,, the?’e, Was no. filrther need oi’ agitating the question andikeeping up a separate prgatii.sarion ; let the slaveholdets, and theiy abettors again open the,haU,. and they wUl find-that V Free Soil” “ ?s «ot but sleepetb,” and if Waked up, it will take something more than .a compromise anodyne, to- quiet ft again. W© find the above m the last number nf the ©ts’ego Be^i6crht‘ a lDud*mottthed supporter of the State arid National Ad- mhristratioris. ■ The editor of that pa per.; for his, sincere attachment to Free Soil, cerfaihly deserves some rfelvaft^ ai the hqn,ds o.f Guthrie or Marqy. #hUe hdridcf!^ • \vhri .hypopriticaliy, conceal th^ir BVbb Soil sentiineuts are appoint ed to office, why lidf now and then ap- masfc- andxdVeai; his true character hr D e - vth by S cai ; ditn ' g .~^A youngiri^ah named Fhjli.p:-.Olarfe,jenjplpyed fii the ^bilewo’ryltjf.j the 'Messrd iReerf, a t ' uTroj?; ^ff*ll‘ m tdr'd’kVge cariMrbii, lioldiii^ sOriid' -which:qti/tlm thnq,were.,iu a, boiling, ^slater. Tiies.other jnen.in the.establish** nient belfig dbsgijt ut dinfiei', tUd hridy o f thh unfqrLuijute man was riot ii;ecov- ered, and;remained in the rcauldron, |ox peaJdy twoJioure.>’'‘' - * ■ *' f-;.i r’ *t-j- ' r i . ’ij* ^ / i 2'J This bod/ Co'nVped on Monday.— Hon. Lynn Boj^d.^qf |fy., was re-elected We send it to our readers in an extra.' p7jHE B oa ^ p of . SupEqvi§QRS,-*-rThis body^adjourfied on Saturday naorriing, after~arses»fonwjf'*lfi*days;'‘\Nelmmia;h‘ Rice wag unanimously re-elected Super intendent of the Poor, and Henry S. De- vendorf, Inspector of the Poor House. We understand that the ordinary ex penses ef the county are four or five, thousand dollars less than last year, but the increase in w'hat is called the mill tax, will Increase the total taxation of the county this year over last about ^5000. On Friday night, H. D. Colvin, Esq., the Chairman of the Board, gave a sup per at Mr. Taylor’s to the members of* the Board, and a few of his friends,- The supper was got up in good style by the landlord, and was quite an agreeable affair to the parties interested. QI/- A correspondent of the Journal of Commerce makes the following cal culations of the public debts pf this country :--^The total debt of the Uni ted States is about §58,000,000 ; total debt of individual States, both absolute and contingent, according to the cen sus of 185Q, was §200,000,000. The number of miles of railroads in the United *Stajtes finished, is 13,000 ; in progress, 12,CfbO; total 25,000 miles; bn which, admitting that bonds on ev ery road in the country to the extent of §10,000 per mile have been issued, the amount would be $240,000 total Government, State and'quasi R. R. debts §5O8’,0OO,OCM). The same authority esti mates that §209,000,000 o f these debt^, stqcks, bonds and loaris-T-are owned in Europe. This seemsTo be-^ very large ‘pfdbbHiori;'yet the Writef’ kiy^ that it isiba^ed q/careful estimates, .by per.-, sons of extensive knowledge, , .N ew IT okk and . E rie R ailroad .- The businesk o f this road for No vember, will, it is thought, add up nearly §500,* 000./ In regard to the freight traffic, the Dunkirk Journal states that since the let of November, there has been- transported from that place, “ for the New York markqt, thirteen thousand five hundred aqd ssv.tnty-eigbt live hqgs, Over twenty-five thousand hogs are now on their way to Dunkirk, from the three States of Ohio, Indiana and Illi nois, In additiaa to the above, Ia^’\ge shipoient^ qf hogs, abput one thousand fat cattle' and three thousand sheep ;have been setit'forward Since, the 1st ultimo.*^ , ‘ ■ U nfound ed . —The officers pf the Mei chants Bank, Metropolitan Bank, jBank ‘ofi-Commerce, and American Exchange Bank, oyer their own signatures pre pounce the statements of the N. Y. Her* aid relative,to defalcation in those insti- tutionsv base fabrications, without the least .setnblanco of truth. B-?\ The cholerk hasraad'e Its appar- ance at New Orleans.^ That uHfoHu- nate city having ^ harclly got rid of, the yellow fever, is now visited by thi&new scourge. We trust it may not long af flict her, though there is no reason to suppose ,that its ravages can lie so. fatal as those of thepestilence it succeeds. 0I/“ The Pacific Mail Steamship com pany are issuing through tickets from San FrancisQO to New York for §75 in the steerage— §250 in .the cabin. These prices include the crossing of the Istfi- • 01/*' It is estimated that the travel on the‘four principal railroads edrivergih^’ at NeVv; York, to be equal to sixty dr seventy,thousand persons per w;uek. , it?' The; internM.TEade of the Uni* ted S'tatesiis a source of arastpublic and jprivate we&RIi, allridst surpassinl^belief, it now amounts. Lake trade rind Web ern River trade, tq about five hundred millions a year, and'nearly eleyen mill ions of our.people-arc directly interest*- ed'in its prosperity, . ' ' # 3 ” 12.000 sdldiersof the Russian af- BaoTHpK; Now Y Price 50 Cts. ‘i ’l^e.Pbysicjari, jnore than any other lari', ha^\ the opportunity of studying the human mind, at times when all false pretensions'are thrown aside. In these 'sketches the reader is iritroduced to a variety pf characters, portrayed under va/ioha circumstances. In health and -in-sickness,-itt'prosperity and iiradver-- sity,—and each character is delicately and graphically portrayed. ’ It is a pow* erfully written vVork, and decidedly a book for leisure rpading. Copies mail ed on receipt of price (pojst paid) ad dressed as above. M echanics ; their Principles and Prac tical Applications —Edited by O liver B xrn . D b W itt & P avenpobt ,— Price 75 Cents, cloth- Here is a book whieh,.in the smallest practicable compass, lays open to the young artizan a mine of mechanical wealth, and. teaches him how to render the mightiest powers of the L ever , S crew , W edge , P ulley ^ & c ., & c ., sub servient to his directing and guiding hand. A man who is \ posted up” in mechanical knowledge, is, the possessor of a fortune which no “ pressure” can affect. He is independent of the fiiic- tuatiotts of trade, and can dictate his own terms to those who, while possess ing the means, have not the genius to shape it to any useful end—-so true is it that mind is superior to metal. We wculd say to all young men who throng, our Workshops, make yourselves good mechanics, and you must do well. And, as a means to that end, we would di rect you to the careful study of this book, than which there is, to our knowl edge, no work better suited to the me chanic. G odeys L ady ’ s B ooh for January has already' reached Us, and we must say that Godey makes a good start for the New Year. The erabellishmenta and .literary matter are excellent.and o f great merit. TV’e commend Godey to all who\ want One of the best magazines publish ed. the chesi, and qfterwavds discharges a /substaftceiof aw eacthy kind. 0/?“ A dispatch froBf Boston sayi the 'Hori./U. ’G. Atftertbri, recently dedeafe- '\edleft §8,00'0 td' Fresideut' Riefde*| an4 th/h«lk qf hls 'prqpeijly, ; upwards. 'of.*$ IjfiQaOpth Jg his.,wlfy .m 4 cguslns. ;(k?},w/riresfnfprpae 4 ‘tljajt ample raJSenienteiivele/r^^^ New Ydrk to Lake Erie. !dmlhoda'tiori‘of*a 'lavg^ party aff 'the* would, heiqne,of the gsrty, doR?!;-forget titg da.y.:'’V - - ‘ -JuS ru .h'w'i rio.-i* hr.,: -»- t -L f S M ^ iio i ic E s r ' - :\r* T he ,Oi*® D octor ; or Stray Leaves from my Journal, heing^ Sketches of iT?' The Vienna Lloyd publishes some interostiiig personal particulars respecting the Turkish Generalissimo: \Oaier Pacha,” the writet^sayS “ is much -beloved by the soldieis, and offi cers, aithough he conforms very little to Mohammedan customs-—among oth er thirig.*? openly drinking wine at the table./ He has no harem.,and but one wife, an Austrian lady from Transylva nia-. He is a perfect gentleman, a no ble horseman, and an indefatigable sol dier? (U?- The Mercantile Navy of the Uni ted States is at present greater than fW o i: the United luugdom of Greaf - and the tonnage of ths sin gle city of New York is within .a, trifle: of being equal fo’th a t’of London and Liverpool put ■tqgether. According to statistics, our mercantile marine' w us, at the close of last year, upwards of 4.000. 000 tons while that of Great Bri tain vVas but 4,300,000 tons. Seven 3 *ears agd ,the .tonnage of New York was considerably less than that of Lon don. At the end of 1852 it exceeded 1.000. 000 tons, whilst that of London was 682,000 tons, and that qf Liver pool 634,000 tons. ID\ The British possessions iq India are more extensive and contains a. much larger population than is generally sup posed. It is divided into four' depen dencies ---- Bengal, Madras, Bombay, and Agra—each having a Groverqor and council hxc,ept the latter, which is governed by., a Lieut. Governor; and alfrindqr the'supervision of a Governor General. * The 'extent of territory 1-: i,3j8,H 3 square raiies, and, the total population is 151,144,902. To govrerri these provinoeSf rlequifes a standing ar* fmjr of 38'1,692 mfen, threq fourths of whom are natives. • H oboken and \ OANAtoAiGtjA R ail road .—Mr. E. W. Serrell, civil Engi- /jieer of the Hoboken, and Canandaigua Railroad Writes %o the NL -Y. Courier and that the project has not been aljan 4 oned,, - - . The labor of nine competent survey- ■ing dbrj^S ' has- demonstrated, tiiat a route' e^sfsts through, the Counties 'of N. Jep^j/jrange,^m^ ^lisan,: Relawajce,.' 0.tsege, Chpnaqgq, Cortland, 1 Onondaga, Cayuga;) Seneca; /rid'Ontario, N /¥ o f k : that in Mstdnde, \ f t \ f : vorahly with any Railroad now running dqmrn.enpqiqt'the I^usp.,.iipihis. ' village; jtestoi-dayi. 't T •\ .i’:' :• f4 *!|. . *3, W hite W ashing E xtraordinary .— The Rev. .James Williams, the well- known and philanthropic missionary, .so long resident in the South Sea Islands, taught the natives to manufacture lime from the coral of their shores. The powerful effect produced upon them, and the extraordinary uses to which they applied it, he thus facetiously de scribes : After having laughed at the process of burning, which they believed to be, to cook the coral for Uieir food, what was their astonishment when in the morning they found his cottage glitter ing in the rising sun, white as snow ; they danced, they sung,~they shouted and screamed with joy The whole island was in a commotion, giveii up to wonder and curiosity, and the laughable scenes which ensued after they got pos session of the brusVi and tub, baffle de scription. The immediately vo ted-it a'cosmetic and kalydor, and su perlatively ' happy did man\' a swarthy coquette consider herself could she but enhance her charms by a dab of the white brush. And now party spirit ran high, as it will do in more countries, as Who was or who was not best entitled to preference. One party urged their superior rank ; one had got the brush and Was determined at all events to keep i t ; and a third tried to overturn the whole, that they might obtain some of the sweepings. They did riot even scruple to rob each other of the little share that some had been so happy as v ^M ayor W esterv EL t , of New York, tori Thursday handqdJthe check for §4,- 27Q over to Police officer Keefe, ihat being the reward ^vei) by the-Bank of !the State of New York for the recent arrest of Obauncey Johnson, and recov ery of the §32,365. The officeywas accompanied to the Bank'in Wall St. bj’ officer Robert J. Brown, who was connected with officer Keefe in effecting the arrest. In regard to the claims of other members of the Police Depart ment the matter has been; Jeft entirely teethe discretion uf officer Keefe. - ■T he O ttomans .— a late traveller in Turkey thus describes soriie Of the pe culiarities in the manners and customs of the Turks; They abhor tlie hat; but uneoveriug the hea(^ which with us iu an expression of respect,* is considered by them disre spectful and indecent; no offence is ~iven by keeping on a hat in a mosque,, lut shoes must be left at the threshold ; the slipper and not fbe turban is re moved in token of respect. The Turks turn,in their toes; they write from right to left; they mount on the riglit side of the horse; they follow their guests into a room, and prece de them on leaving i t ; the left hand is the place of honor, they do the honors of the ta ble by serving themselves first; they are great smokers and coffee drinkers ; they take the wall and walk hastily in j \ bu T soon n77lirne wJ^^re- token of respect; they beckou by throw- ^ ^ ^ ^o- ing back the hand instead of throwing „,pg^jQ utensil, a war club or a garment It towards them ; they cut the hair from | the head ; they remove it from the , inhabitant but had a skin painted with body, but leave it on the 5 they, grotesque figures; not a pig sleep m their clothes ;, they look upon siinila-ly whitened, and beheading as a more disgraceful pun-, rnothers mfiht be seen in every di- ishment than strangUng ; they deem [ - ^ extravagant gest-' our short and close dresses indecent, i delight at the su- our shaven chins a mark of effeminacy j white-Washed in- and servitude ; they resent an inquiry ji after their wives as an insult; they j commence,their wpoden houses at the j T he M ethodist B ook C oncern suit top, the tipper apartments are frequqnf- : settled ,— The suit long pending be- ly finished before the lower ones are tvvern the Northern and Southern M. closed in ;' they eschew pork as an a - . g . Churches, has been amicably adjust- bomination ; they regard dancing as a ed, through the intervention ofeommis- theatrical performance, only to be look- sioners. A t a. meeting in New York on ed at, and not mingled, In except by the 28th ult., the Southern Commission- slaves; lastly, their mourning habit is 'grs made a proposition for the settle- white their sacred color, green; their ment of their, claim, which the Commis sioners for the New York Concers ac cepted. Nothing now remains to be done to consummate this desirable ad- ijustment of a most troublesome litiga tion* but the execution of the necessary papers, and the arrangements for a final decree of the United States’ Court for the Southern District of New. York, now in session in New York. ^ T h e correspondence, which brought abqut this desirable\result was volunta rily assumed by Hon. Judge M’Lean, to whom the committee award much cred it. The conclusion of this settlement was followed by thanksgiving to God, and most hearty expi;essipns of Christ ian love and rnutual confidence. The details of the. settlement will be made known to the public when the F i nal Decree of the Court shall transpire. white their sacred color, green; their Sabbath day is'Friday'; and interment follows irniriediately in death. M. assaore op C a F t . G unnisen and HIS SuRVEYtNGpARTY,—-The Salt Lake mail brings sad intelligence of the gov ernment-railroad exploring party, com manded by Capt. Gunnisen. Governor Young writes that this party 'bad been surprised by &■ party of Utah Indians, and cut off. An express reached Gov ernor Young, on the 3lst of Oct., from Capt, Morris, giving an account of the- massacre committed by the Indians on Guiinisen’s party OD Sevier River.-— The killed are Capt. Gunnisen, Capt. Kern, of the topographical engineers*, Wm. Porter, guide, and t wo others,-arid the others belonging to company * A. mounted-riflemen. All their arms, mules, &c., were taken from therii.-i- Governor Young, on learning the dread ful intelligence, immediately sent aid to Capt. Morris to obtain his releasd. I nv . ision of L ower C aliforkia - by F ilibusters —P roclamation of i I tde - pendence —W ashington , D ec . 2.— I have private advices from the citv of Mexico td the I7tb ulf., to the effect that letters received there from Tepic', dated on Nov. 1-2, state that two hun dred armed men from San Franciscc? had just landed from the brig Caroline# at the port of La Paz, Lower Califor nia, and had taken possession of tllH town, put the Commanding-Ueneral ifi prison, and declared Lower California independent. . They have a flag with two stars, which is supposed, by. my mexican in formant to .mean Lower California and Sonora. 1 ' ' It is likely that Santa Anna may take' ■advantage of this circumstance and of the agitation it causes among the Mex ican people to pradaim himself Empe- A R eckless Y oung M.' in .— Edgar Ney, grandson of Marshal Ney, aid-de- camp and first huntsman of the Empe ror of France, is in prison for debt.— Immediately on Jiis accession to -the high offices to which his Majesty ap pointed him, he commenced a career c f extravagance which very soon brought the sheriffs down upon him, and, as he could not pay, he was in immediate danger of prison. The Emperor releas ed him from his awkward predicament. In a fe.w months he. was again in a sim ilar positioB, and his family was oblig ed to extricate him, though the’ sums requiring liquidation were’ really enor mous. The foolish fellow put his neck a third time into the noose,* and, as his friends and his sovereign refused to in terfere any further, he is now, and has been for some weeks, at the Debtor’s Prison, at Clichy. R efused to P ardon .— The Presi dent has refused an application for the pardon of \William May, convicted in Utah territory of murder, and sentenc ed to death. In the course of a drunk en altercation between May and his victim. May stabbed the other with his pen knife. The wounded man becom ing very obstreperous and ungoverna ble, the bystanders pinioned his arms behind him and carriedhim away; and, while in this condition, May came up behind him and stabbed him so that be died. It is difficult to see any possible ground’ on which to base Executive clemency in this case. in the midst of a h'ostile and treacher ous band of Indians. A party of Oheyenous surrourided the mail, and demanded the provisions of those hav ing charge of it, which were readily all given up. The following are, in -brief, the par ticular^ of the massacre of Gapt. Gun- nrsen and his surveying party; He and tw'C'.lve of his command lla'd separated ' from* the rest, arid, whilst at their bfeakfa&l, ^ hand of Indians, ‘intended to destroy a Morm’on village near at Irand came 'suddenly iipoil them, firing first a volley with their ritit'5, snd then using their bows. Hie'arrows and shots were returned by Capt, Gunniscn'S par ty, but-he was quickly overpowered .by I A ccidental VnowmN^.— An es- th’e sav^es, arid only foul persons es- eaped to tell the sad news. Capt..Guttr nisefi had twenty-six arrows shot. Into’ his body, and when found one arm Was off. The notes rif the siih^ejV instM-, N ebraska — T he P eople M oving . —The St. Joseph Gazette^ of 16tb,con- and the lost property of the expedition. tain§a call signed by near three hun- Oapt. Morris w'a^ in a critical position,' ri^rejl tJitizensGf Buchanan county. Mo . in the midst o f a h'ostile and treacher- of a convention, at St Joseph,, on the 8th of January next, of all per sons in favor of the organization and settlement of Nebraska, “ so as to con centrate public opinion upon this all im portant subject, that is deemed essential to the security of the Pacific Railroad from our borders, and to the interest and prqsperi’y of our country.”- The Gazette warmly sanctions the movement, and says;—” The whole frontiers of Missouri and Iowa, border ing on‘Nebraska, , are aroused on the subject. A perfect enthusiasm per vades the masses in fa*^or.o£ the organi zation and settlement of Nebraska.” Gates, ife^day- fd.rni?hes ns with the following authen tic pa.riicniars, in regard To* the 'deiitSV by dro’wniris at Albany, of noticed Iri''trie* Gazette-’-of W«di ‘last, *rfe: • - Mr. Philo B. Gates, tin.rier, at Knox Corners', formerly of Rome; left-his* home on'Tuesdays Nov; 22d;-for- -New York, with live poultry,’ and arrived, and took passage on the steamboat Or- egohr Wednesday^ evening, 23d. His coops by hartdfing bald become'some what injured, and he k-ft the boat for ’nails’to re'paff abqrit the timb 'the hbat' was to leave. When he returned the gang pkrnk was- withdrawn from the boat and he rushed off into the river as is supposed and was drowned.* His body Wab riot recovereff till' Frid'ay mornirig' a-nd brought back to this place* on Saturday, and his funeral ’ attend ed Altonday last by a darge“^eircl6 tof Yeld-* tives and friends.— Utica Obs. ments, and animals,’ &c., were all taken by the Indians. .'The surye'y had been nearly completed, and tlie party intend ed soon to go into 'Winter (|uarter&. M urder T rials in I llinois -S trange P r o c e e d in g s .— ^The special term of the La Salle County Circuit Court con%*’ened last week for the trial of the nine Iri.sb- men accused of the murder, in June last, at La Salle, Of Michael Consadine, was brought to rather an abrupt termi nation. Although there were two wit nesses (Ellen Consadirie arid Michael KeWy)rin the room, at the time 'of the murder, who identified the murderers at the time- of the coroner’s inquesf and at the’examination before a magistrate svyore pointedly arid positively to all the circumstances, when brought before the grand jury, these same witnesses, ac cording to a “ presentment” made by the grand jury, ‘‘-denied all knowledge of the identity ofthe persons who killed Consadine,” could give no-evidence-iri the' matter, and the jury were uriabFe to find a bilU'’ The jury bluntly express the Opinion that “ some powerful arid dangerous influence has been brought to bear upon said witnesses, te induce them to'vvithhold and conceal their kno wledge, p f the transaetion, for the purpose of screening the Said ciefendarit from pub* * lie justice.” The court refused to*grant an application,'made by the State’s'At* ;torney,-to commit the'prisoners until’ Jotber evidence could-be'hunted upl— CMoagoBemocrUtiKotf. 2Z. ‘ \■ * - A n AFFAm oH-LovEw-^Laet Satur- day.a fugitive si a v'O'* belonging toi Judge * lng,^tli|cOvefed*'an UriblioWri comet in Fineh,-of this state; vvas daptared iil^ the Ctonstellatiori Gassfopea, which ’.is Jadkson coarity,J;id., and ©vem.oveT-to- nearlyriiii the zenith, i It is of a smalt, his owner.) ‘-There was w ith him, at rou'nd bri^t.appearance; With an ex- the time he wad taken,* a white girl, hte ceediiigly rapid motion in a direction pararaodr, '.who? bad induced' liiiri to i apparently, opposite to that of tbe suii; make hisiescape^^'that she tmght^qoin-i At^e^tonly asboFt^observationdt change) herself for life to this dkrk fortune.— ^its.place veryfperceptiblyi Vitisaiot Louisville-Cmrieri i . !* . ' bppatonttothqnaked eye., • i - 1 . ! (ill i . ' . T ncre A’ se op S pecie ’ i n ' T he U nited S tates .— The Philadelphia Rulfetin publishes a ta'butar stateriVeat, derived alhidsU erifireTy fforri ‘ officlar sbui*ce's,‘ showing the whole arnouht of California gold'* deposited d t ‘the* tJiiiteld’ States’ Arriit from 1*848 tO July Bath, 1853, in- elu-sive, to be §203,886,022'5't; and the whole atnouiif of exports o f Specie froih the United States Tr6m 1847 do Slst 'Oct.; 1853, b’ver ibreigri impoi-fs, is shown tb be §*75,105,207. Thus there appfeaVs tb’have beqft'k b ett fricrease of the specie basis in the United States, siiiee the' dfsri0vefj^'’<if'tli’e jCalrforian gold mines, to the amount of §128,780;- 818' 57.\' ^ ^ A nother - CoMBT;-‘-^Mr. Yan Ars- dale,nf Newark, N. J., on Friday even- M inerals at the C rystal P alace . —Themineralogical portion ofthe Crys tal Palace is attracting much attention. The Journal of Commerce says; ‘‘ New Hampshire is the only State that furnishes tin. Cobalt ores and bis muth are exhibited from Coimecficuf, and cobalt from Maryland, and tbe new mineral called emerald Nickel, from LaneasteF, Pennsylvania. The exten sive use of Nickel in the manufactnre of German silver, gives interest to every discovery of it. All parfsi of the Union furnishes iron, but Pennsylvania excels in number and variety of specimens.— North Carolina furnishes handsome specimens of phosphate,, carbonate and sulphuret of lead. There are silver ores from South America, Mexico, and Eu rope, but none from the United States, except in connexion with lead. Cali fornia is the Only State which sends an ore of quicksilver.” A npient C ookery .— :^ere is one of the “ Lost Arts” which has escaped the notice o f ’Wendell Phillips; It is said that.-some of'..the great cooks of ancient Greece carried their art to such* perfection that they were able to serve trp a whole pig, boiled on one side and roasted on The other, and stuffed besides, ihough without a visible mark of the knife upon it. The inven tor o f this feat was cruel enough to keep the process a secret a whole year. At length it was revealed that he had bled the animal to death b}’ a very small wound under the shoulder, by which he had also extracted the entrails piecemeal; that he forced the stuffing dovsin the*throat; and that by means of barley pastes he had pFevented the roast- ing*fon ■Oric-side, having boiled it a-fteV- wai’ds. It is said also of these Greek cooks, that by their Saltings,' picklings and'flyings they conld'actualfy make a turnip.pass for jsny -Jiind of fish'or flesh they chose.JiiKr. D r I?-«. d f u l T rag e d y at B ea u f o r t .-— B eaufort , N. C., Dee. 2.—George W . Caiama'ri, a Baptist vninTster, lias been •coii*vieted: af this place; for rhe murder of G.'ll.' Lassiter, a schoolmaster, whom Cararaan had charged -with being too intim’ate .with Ms ridfe.-' '' - Lassiter, after enduring the threats of Carairiari for sohie lime,”Sued him foy slander','sho'rtb’ after* which be was found dead in thfe woods,\ having been stiot\by'hB‘aceiiscr.*>’' **<■**' Immediately after theverdiet against • him, Caranian drew a pistol * and fired it at the prosecuting attorney, slightly wounding him. He then shot hiih«'elf dead-in'his own house. ' *- ' •T he .G reat ' 'W estern R ailway -^ C anada .—The*Great Western Railu^iayi from the Falls fd Windsor, opposite’De- - troi t, is-in such a state of forwardness that |tJw4H undoubtedly be^operi thrOjigh * its entire extent from Niagara Falls Detroit by the 1st o f JanuarjVand pSsr sfoly a'vveek Or ten days< before that t i m e ’l l m : ' . i . l J , . .-i- . It is prajctically atoottfinnalitontof th6- Y. Cen*tral R.v R; to De troit, aud is ' , priudipally ownediby -capitalists x>f Ihi? State. - It -is - alateady.' open • from the Falls to Haniiltran,.42tKil€s,' A branck from Brantford to Buffalo will offer a double tersuinusi ; • - flY^'Ther^ is-riot at presen fa capt afh in^tbe United States navy who was-' born in thiri^century? the'averse of officers of this rank isabout IQyearSi. The surprising teriaeity with tvhieR*' theyffiang oh ■and command, is k- coristant- subject of lamentation amton^ their inipatieiifc juiiior& in the seirviegi -
