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laachter] ; no doubt he conscientiously believed <£tne owed it as a duty to his patromzers to Induce me. He thought that if this desired appropriation did not pass that he could charge , the defeat of it upon me. lam here to state and to prove by the record, which may be found in the Congressional Globe, that I did everything in my power for this claim, and had its passage been in my power, you would have had its benefits to-day. I was openly and earnestly and persistently in favor of it. I did not seek the President's opinion upon it, as did Dr. Gwin, before he voted for the College Bill. Before Senator Morrill's . bill passed Congress, it was known to many members of Congress that it could never become a law, that the President would veto it ; then in steps Dr. Gwin and votes •3ar it at the eleventh hour. I will now allude to one or two extracts from Mr. Latham's speech, made in this city a short time since. He said : "Mr. Douglas, In his contest in Illinois, bad the party ■urgtnization. Let me say here in answer to the cry made th y. Mr. Buchanan tried, at that lime, to crush and degrade him, that John ('. Brecklnride, Vice President of the United Bute* ; Jones, of Tennessee, and James 8 Green, of Missouri, the conceded advocates of the President during ail the Lecompton strut;gie, went into Illinois and stood by him (Douglas) in his contest with the Republicans ; maintaining that the Democratic party owed it to themselves to elect him. {Applause.] This I consider a perfect confutation of the charge that Mr. Buchanan strove to defeat Douglas io Illinois. What does Dicglas himself say? In a speech made at Chicago, on the 9th of July, he speaks «a follows : " I stand by the same platform that I have *• often proclaimed to you and the people of Illinois heretofore. I stand by the Democratic organization ; jiekl obedience to Us usages, and support its regular nominees." I would state that neither Mr. Brockinridge nor Mr. Green went into Illinois during Douglas' canvass ; and they are both bis political enemies. Sly fellow-citizens, Senator Green was choaen Chairman of the Committee on Territories, when the Administration Senators attempted to disgrace Mr. Douglas by removing him from the position which he had held for eight years. Mr. Breckinridge, I believe, made no speech during that campaign ; certainly he made no speeches in Douglas' favor, in Illinois. The other gentleman mentioned, Mr. Jones, is a determined and bitter enemy of this Administration, and he is now stumping the State of Tennessee in opposition to the" nominee of the Federal Administration. There is another remark to which I wish to call your attention. Speaking of the Know Nothing party, he used this language: It swept like an avalanche over the country, and tnveate -ed to break down and destroy the great Democratic party. It would have done bo If the people of lite country had not been awakened by the party organs to the fact that our fathers and forefathers were ■etcigr&nts from foreign countries ; that through our veins Coved English, Irish and Scottish blood ; that this party, when waging war upon foreigner!, were -walking over the dead ashes of the grandfathers and grandmothers of the country; that they were insulting fcfc« Deity who created us all equal, as possessing white features and the same complexion. I wish to address myself to the foreigners of ■whom he has just spoken. Have you read — I v-*n-ak now more particularly to naturalized citizens — have you read the recent letter of Gen. Cass to Mr. Lc Clerc? If you have not, I would urge you to peruse it, and rt fleet upon it. It makes slaves of you all ; no other construction cam be pat upon it. " Once a subject, always a subject" — once a slave, always a slave. Now, tell me the difference. You, who have come to this boasted land of liberty, who have come here to find and make a home, consider the matter, and show the distinction, if you cm. Have you no resentment for this indignity, this great wrong at citizen-discrimination Will you sustain the infamous Administration who put forth such a doctrine as this? ["No! never! never!"! If you will you do not deserve to be citizens of the United States. [" That's so!"] . You should tear your naturalization papers to pieces, and become quiet tools in the hands oi your employers. [Cheers.] You should not attempt to place yourselves on an equality with native born citizens, if you are such cravens as to support the authors of this most un-American doctrine. [" Good."] Of all acquiescence that would be the basest which would be indicated by your support of James Buchanan and his Secretary of State. You must observe that this letter is indorsed by the entire Administration press of this State. Some of them undertake to limit the reference of this letter to deserters and criminals Seeing from justice. Wo have extradition Jaws, by which felons, or parties accused of high crimes, and escaping from one nation to another, may be apprehended and brought to full punishment in his own place. la the German States, I believe, each abla bodied subject owes a protracted service in the army to his country; he is liable to be called upon for that service at r.ny period between maturity and old age. So ia other countries. But even this limitation, so called, will not answer. The doctrine laid down in the Cass letter is too broad for such a construction, though that construction could li&ve no practical effect in helping you in a foraign country, iv your native country. I tell you frankly, if you subscribe to this doctrine, by giving y.;ur support to this Administration, you are unfit to be American citizens. [Applause.] Mr. Bbodzbick spoke of his connection with the Overland Mail Dills, and the bill for the construction of a Pacific Railroad. In c. inclusion he said : Before I leave the stand J would state here, as I have stated everywhere, that I court, on investigation of my public acts Aince I hare been jour representative, and I seek discussion of principles involved in this election. J Cheers.] Mr. Cabiness (from the crowd)— l would like •to ask you a few questions. Mr. Bbodeiuck— l will answer them with pleasure. Mr. Cam.vess— Do you believe that the people cruder a Territorial Government, or in a Conventional Legislature, have the same power to pass fawa effecting property that they have when livi ng under a State Constitution, or declaring their will in a Convention assembled to frame a State Constitution ? Mr. Becderick— Well, sir, the public speakers ■cviio have addressed you have sought to evade an answer to that question ; I will give you one. Cheers.] I contend, sir, that by the p&asage of 'he. Kansas-Nebraska Bill, the Territories were placed upon the sam* level with the States ; that with the exception of the power to elect the officers who should govern them, they have equal rights and privileges with citizens of the Sta'.e3. iChesrs.j Further than this, I desire to siy that I believe that by the passage of th« Kansas Nebraska Act the power was given to the people of the Territories to pass upon this class of property (staves), as well as upon every other kind oi property. If the people of a Territory see tit, by unfriendly legislation, to exclude slavery, well scd crood. In that case the redress which the owner of slavos in the Territory would have must consist in their perfect liberty to take their property to some other place. The Territorial Legislature will not destroy that kind of property. They will toil slave owners that it is unpleasant tor them to have such kind of property in their midst, and they will ask for ana demand, reasonably, I think, that it should be removed. A majority must rule, a minority must submit, and tor ono man to hold slaves against the will of 12,000 persons, who with the slave owners compose the population of a Territory, would be preposterous and subversive of our form of rule. I tell you, moreover, that all the intermedling and ■urighteouß laws in creation, passed in conflict with the principles and standing compromises of our Government, passed through the corrupt inUuence of such an Administration as that of Jarues Buchanan, never could force the citizens of any free community in the United States into a base and trembling servitude. Law, everywhere in our country, signifies the will of the people, fuirly and with due form expressed. In its correctness of form may its effectiveness and constitutionality be, in great part, connected ; in the candor and truthfulness of its origin and popular sanction reposes its vital and enduring ■qualities. Is my reply satisfactory? [Prolonged cheerin.] L ° Mr. Cabixess— l would like to ask you one <iue3tion more. Mr. Broderick — Proceed. Mr. Cabiness— l do it with all due respect. Mr. pboderick— l do not doubt your sincerity, andl am glad to have the opportunity you are affording me. Mr. Caeixess— Do you believe in the constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Law 2£r. BaoDRRicK— I do. Mr. Cabi.vess — Then do you not believe that Congress has as much right to protect slaves in i a Territory, as property, as to take them from j one State and return them to another ■ Mr. Beodkrick -Congress certainly has the I right to protect any species of property which is recognized as such under the Constitution. Mr. Cabixess— Xow, suppose that I should take slaves to Kansas and the Territorial Legislature should pass a law declaring that Blavery should i not exist in the Territory— that slaves should not be recognized as property— what would be my remedy V Would I not have to ask, and would I not reasonably ask, Congress to pass a law to protect me in my rights? .Mr. Beoderick— Well, sir, you had better first visit the Courts of the United States. Air. Cibin'ess— What Courts Hr. Brodkrick— could go to the District Court, and from there to the Supreme Court, on appeal. If the Supreme Court declare that your aroptrty is not protected in tbej Territories, by 'the laws thereof, then, very likely, it would be the doty of Congress to pass a law protecting t&ai property. But what would the Supreme Court do with your property if that Uw was passed ? I think that they would declare the law $3 be void and of none effect. > • : .~ He. Cabi.ness— Have not the Supreme Court steady decided that, under the Constitution, slavery existed in the Territories ? Mr. Bbodkbick— sir ; they have not de- ; .•sided anything of the kind. [Applause.] They {

have decided in the Dred Scott case, that a negro was not a citizen of the United States, and therefore had do standing in Court. That is precisely what they have decided, and that is all the Dred Scott decision amounted to. All this tattle about the Supreme Court having ruled that slavery existed in the Territories under the Constitution is miserable humbug. [Prolonged and tumultuous cheering. ' Hare you any more 'lueationsy After a considerable pause. ' Think now, well, before you put them. [Great cneering and laughter." Mb. Cabixbss— Well, I will aßk you one more. Ma. Broderick— Certainly. Ma. Cabinkss— You say that you believe the Fugitive Slave Law is constitutional ; therefore ' you would have voted for it. Mr. Brodbrick— l will tell you frankly what I would have done, had I been in Coagress at the 1 time the Fugitive Slare Law was upon its passage. I would have voted for it because I be- ! ileve the people of the several Slates have a right to have property, made such by State legislation, ' guaranteed to them where it exists, and '.hat a citizen of one sovereign State ought not to be | deprived of his property — so held in his section ■ of the Union — by an escape into another State. ; iCries of "Right," "right," andcbeers.j A Voicb — Go on, John! [Laughter.] Mr. Cabixrss— The people of Massachusetts . virtually annulled the Fugitive Slave — [Confusion, rendering the words of the questioner un- ■ intelligible to the Reporter.) Mr. Cabinbss was understood to state that Massachusetts had practically defeated the Fugitive Slave Liw by passing obnoxious local statutes. Mr. Broperick— Why, I don't repesent Massachusetts ; I represent "the State of California. ; Cheers and laughter. Mr. Cabims3 — Will you, as a Senator, vote for ! a law to protect slave property in the Territories ;if the Supreme Court decides" that slavery exists in the Territories under the Constitution, and that it is not duly protected there i Mr. Broderick— "Sufficient unto the day is , the evil thereof." [Cheers and laughter. ] Wait ! until the Supreme Court has made the decision ! which you anticipate, and then I will take very 1 greit pleasure in answering your inquiry. 1 [Cheers.] Mr. Cabin-ess— Will you vote for the nominee , of the Charleston Convention ' Mr. Brodeuiciv— lf he is committed to the ! great principle of Popular Sovereignty. [Tui multuous cheers, j If he is not I will not vote ! for him. [Cheers.] Will that answer satisfy you » Mr. Cabikess — I atn satisfied. Mr. BnonEr.icK left the stand amid great api plause and cheering. Mr. McKiifßiN followed, and spoke for two ' hours. Mr. Cotton (former Sheriff of Siskiyou county) ! was called out. He challenged ex-Ssnator Berry to meet him on the stump in this Judicial District. This challenge was greeted with applause. At 12 o'clock the meeting broke up. FURTHER FROM THE NORTH. By the Northerner, at San Francisco, we have papers from Olympia and Steilacoom, W. T., to July, from Victoria, V. 1., to 2'jth July, and I from Portland to July 25d — the last being no j later in date than previous intelligence from Oregon. Wells, Fargo <fe Co.'s express brought $4,000, and Freeman & Co.'s $6,600 by this arrival. From Washington Territory — Accidents ■ krom Firing Cannon. — A distressing accident , happened at Port Madison, on the 4th July, to three or four men engaged in firing a national salute. One man was mortally woucded, another ; lost li"th arms, while a third was slightly injured. . At Tumwater, on 11th July, two brothers, named Joseph and William Kistner, were injured by the | premature discharge of a cannon. One was j slightly, and the other seriously injured.—Steil- ! acoom Htrald. Bbllinmiam Bay Coal Company. — Sinclair & ; Williams, coal dealers, of" San Francisco, have ; contracted with the Bellineham Bay Coal Co. for tons of coal, to be delivered during the i ensuing ten month?, at#l'J 50 per ton ; and the same dealers desire to contract for 4,000 tons ■ more at the same price. The Pacific Mail Steami ship Co. have also mude propositions for a large I amount for their steamers.— Olj ni}>i t Pionter rat. Abundant Crops in the Territory. — Never, to our knowledge, has the prospect been so favorable for heavyjcrops of^wheat and oats 5.3 it ia this year. Present appearances indicate that fruit will be more plentiful than ever heretofore in our Territory. It is not an uncommon Bight , to see an apple tree in the fourth year of its growth, and not more than six or seven feet high, i loaded with a bushel or more of the finest fruit. I It mee:s with a ready sale at almost exorbitant j prices. Cherries, :.'■" cents a pint; gooseberries, J4'icentßa quart. Early apples readily sell at j from 30 to 4') cents per pound, bat the average price is not exceeding 2a cents. — /'/. New Bridge. — A new bridge acro3s the De ■ Shutes river has just been commenced, about a ' quarter of a mile below the one just finished. It is being built entirely by private enterprise, and ; will cost about $8,000. — ic. From Y-u***. River.— The Hudson Bay ComSany's 3.,*w.3T Beaver arrived in Victoria on 22d uly, with $20,000 in gold dust, and thirty pas--1 sengers. The gold dust was chiefly from Doug- ; las. The news was generally considered good, ] as the water had fallen some twelve feet below ■ high water mark, and the miners on the bars of j the Lower Fraser were very generally at work ; agiin. The LillooetHarrison road was progressj ing finely. The mosquitoes on the lower river ; were becoming excessively annoying. Gold Dust Shipments. — Welta, Fargo & Co. i shipped $09,404 68 in dust by the Pacific on 25th [ July. Freeman & Co. shipped $10,000. Total, i 140,454 63. — Victoria Gostiie. Letters on Naturalization. — The following letters of Daniel Webster are found in our j Eastern exchanges. Mr. Webster wa9 ne7er j considered authority by the Democracy : Mr. Webster to Ignacio Tolis, Xeio York : Department or State, i Washington, June 25, 1852. J The respect paid to any passport granted by this Department to a naturalized citizen, form-e-ly a subject of Spain, will depend upon the laws | of that nation in relation to the allegiance due its | authority by its native born subjec'3. If that ; Government recognize.* the rights of its subjects I to denationalize themselves and assimilate with I the citizens of other countries, the usual passport will be a suilicient sifeguard :o you ; but if allegiauce to the Crown of Spain may not legally be renounced by its subjects, you must expect to be liable to the obligations of a Spanish subject if you voluntarily place yourself within the jurisdiction of that Government. Department of State, \ Washington, June 1,1852. | Sir : I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter to Mr. Reddali, of tbe '27th ultimo, inquiring whether Victor B. Depierre, a native of France, but a naturalized citizen of the United States, can expect the protection of this Government in that country when proceeding thither with a passport from this Department. la reply, I have to inform you that if, as is understood to be tbe fact, the Government of France does not acknowledge the right of natives of that country to renounce their allegiance, it may lawfully claim their services whea found within French jurisdiction. I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, Daniel WeiiSTER. To J. B. Nones, E-q., New York. Riot at Aspinwall.— On the 2d of July a riot to )k place at Aspiuwall. A printer named Lyons has for a month or two been printing a little sheet called the Tr'<fler. The white persons whom he abused took no notice of him, but some of his countrymen, Jamaica negroes, took effense at some of his articles, and determined to des'.roy ths press and few types he had hired from a man named Davis, who had fallen heir to them >.n the decease of the Aspinwall Courier. Davis, at one o'clock at night, flew to the rescue of his property, whan shots on both sidc3 were fired, and a railroad laborer by the name of Rafael was killed and five others wounded. The mob, however, succeeded in capturing the pre6a and other material, and throwing them into the sea. The town was in an uproar all night, but in the morning order was restored. ________ Dead Heads i.v Tukatkrs —In tbe Twelfth District Court, July 3u,h, says the Bulletin, in the case of William F. Walton v?. Thomas Maguire, it was decided that a " dead bead " could not subsequently be charged for admission to a theater. S.H was brought by Walton against Maguire on seven promssory notes for $700 each. The defendant admitted his liability on the^ notes, but set op in the way of offset a claim ot $7-30 for use and occupation of a private box and seats in the dress circle of the Opera House. Judge Norton was of opinion that when a psraon had been admitted to a theater free he could not afterwards be charged therefor, cor could the price of admission be urged as an offset to another c.aim. He denied the motion for a new tri&j* DivoRCK3.-Ia the Fourth District Court, July 30tb .divorces were granted in the caee 3 of Caro

SACRAMENTO DAILY UNION, MONDAY, AUGUST I, 1359.

THE ATLANTIC NEWS IN DETAIL.

LETTER FROM ST. LOUIS.

BY THE SOUTHERN OVERLAND MAIL --------------- [FROM SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] St. Louis, July 7, 1859. We have been so full of patriotism, since the departure of the last Overland Mail, that we have to-day comparatively a small supply of news — at least, very little variety of a domestic character. ; What we have is, however, of a fair quality, although some of it may.be anticipated by the New York mail of the sth, and will be should that mail reach you ahead of this. ; The Tehuantepec Company are making great efforts to keep alive their line, and although the mail is to be stopped after September next, in order that it may not lose its pay under the present contract, the company will doubtless make a desperate effort to fulfill the contract. I see it stated, somewhere, that Mr. Benjamin was about to take his departure for Europe, for the purpose of negotiating a loan to sustain the company. The press of New York is still hammering away at the Nicaragua transit business, but no new light has been thrown upon that foggy subject Full details of the news received by the Vanderbilt from Europe will accompany this, and will also go out by the steamer from New York. At the time of writing we also know that another steamer has arrived at Halifax (supposed to be the Adelaide) with still later dates. Her news we ought to have received this morning by telegraph in time for the Overland Mail, but not for the New York steamer should she have left on the sth. It may, however, reach you by the way of New Orleans. Whatever it may be you will have received it in full, either by San Jose or Tehuantepec, ahead of this letter. Appended to this letter you will find a full account of the great aerial voyage of Professor Wise and Mr. Lamountain, accompanied by Messrs. Gager and Hyde. Mr. Hyde, in fine health and spirits, returned to St. Louis at an early hour yesterday morning, and was all day engaged in making out his account of the wonderful trip for the Republican, of this morning;. It will be looked for by every man, woman and child who can read in California with the deep, est interest. Mr. Brooks, who started ahead of the Atlantic in his balloon — the "Comet" — alighted in safety the same afternoon near Edwardsville, Illinois, twenty-five miles from St. Louis. He returned to this city on the cars the next (Saturday) morning. The full account of Mons. Blondin's feat, of which you have already been advised, will no doubt also receive a general perusal. Of the Fourth of July fetes— which by the time this reaches you will 'be an old story — I have not much to say. The day was bright and salubrious, almost beyond precedent; and was observed, so far as we have learned, not only here, but every where else, with marked unanimity. Business was everywhere suspended ; the population of the cities tied to the country, and devoted the day to recreation and innumerable miniature celebrations ; while the denizens of the rural districts very generally resorted to the cities in search of novelty. Of course, the military were out, and looked their very best. But it is useless to attempt a description of a Fourth of July celebration, where one is a counterpart of thousands, in which every reader is a participant. No unwonted incidents occurred here or elsewhere that I have as yet noticed. Such incidents as are noteworthy will be found recorded in their proper place. Upon the whole, the day appears to have passed off agreeably everywhere. POSTAL AND TELEGRAM MATTERS — AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY. It affords me great pleasure to state that I have good reason to believe I have discovered the cause of a mo3i grievous annoyance in the transmission of my summaries and dispatches of news through the Post Office overland, and that an evil under which you have long suffered will now be effectually removed. You know, but your readers generally may not, that when any news calculated in the slightest degree to interest the California public has been received on the afternoons of the days of the departure of the Overland Mail, and when that news cannot be anticipated by the Tehuaatepec steamer, under your instructions, I have been in the habit of forwarding it to Jefferson City , just before the departure of the cars for Tipton, and it is put in the form of a dispatch in a stamped envelope by the telegraph operator, directed to your correspondent at San Jose, from which point it is or ought to be forwarded to you, immediately upon the arrival there of the Overland Mail. These dispatches are handed by the telegraph operator at Jefferson City to the mail agent on board the cars, who places them in the Overland " way " bag, and, if not interfered with at some intermediate point, they could never fail to reach their destination. I say the dispatches are placed in the " way " mail because 1 am personally acquainted with both of the route or mail agents; have explained to them fully how to act in the premises, and have been assured by them on every occasion that th dispatches have been delivered to them at Jefferson City, and placed by them in the " way" bag. And here I wish to make a statement which must be borne strictly in mind. The route agents could not put my dispatches in any other' than the " way " bag, for the reason that, under th regulations of the Department, they are not permitted to have what is known as a " brass key. The brass key belongs to the brass lock which is attached only to "through mails," designed no to be opened or interfered with by agents or Postmasters along the line or at minor intermediate offices. Not having a bra3S key, the route agents therefore have no access to "the through mail bag. The only points between St. Louis and San Francisco at which there are brass keys are Springfield and Fort Smith. I am assured by the Postmaster here, who has the means of knowing, that the through bag has never been known to be opened at Springfield, but at Fort Smith it has repeatedly been opened and letters transferred from it to other mails, in violation of regulations of the Department. A single example will suffice. On one occasion the package of registered letters from San Francisco to St. Louis was taken out of the through bag at Fort Smith and forwarded to Memphis. Not having arrived in proper time, it was reported by the Postmaster here to the Department as " lost." A few days after it came up from Memphis. Now, when it is borne in mind that the "way" bag is designed expressly for sending and receiving letters to and from all intermediate points between the respective termini, it will be obvious that there 13 no occasion for the PostmaßteratFort Smith to open the through bag at all. In fact he has no right to do so, and for this excess of duty he was promptly and properly reported to the Department by Mr. Hogan, the Postmaster at St. Louis. LeaniiDg these facts, on Thursday last, the 80th tilt., I addressed to the Postmaster Gen eral a letter, in which I set forth the importance of having the news dispatches for the pres3 forwarded with regularity and certainty; informing him of the repeated failures in the receipt of my dispatcher, and suggesting what appeared to be the obvious cause respectfully requesting him to take such steps as would correct the evil. Scarcely had my letter gone before the next Overland Mail brought to me the Union* of the 9th of June, containing my Jefferson City dispatch of the afternoon of May 16th, in which was some very interesting intelligence from the seat war. That dispatch should have been received by you one day sooner than it was ; but, as your correspondent etatea, it was " forwarded by mistake to San Francisco in the through mail," and hand to be sent back to San Jose. Here there was, in black and white, and in a shape which would admit of no further doubt — a perfect solution of the whole trouble. The letter left Jefferson City at the proper time. It left, as I have shown above it only could leave, in the way " bag, passed San Jose — destination ; and was received in San Francisco "in th throvgh mail." Now, how did it get from th "way " bag into the "through" bag. If the Fakir of Ava were mail conductor, {we might reasonably suppose he touched the respective bags with his magical wand, cried, " Prtsto — change," and that it jumped from the one to the other. But, although the route agents are very clever and accommodating young gentlemen, they are no Fakirs of Ava, and it could only have passed from one bag to the other at th only point where the through bag is opened, which is Fort Smith! With this conclusive proof in my possession, I determined to clinch the matter, and, accordingly, inclosed the Uxiok, with the article marked, accompanied by a full explanation of the circumstances, to the Post master General. I have, of course, cot yet heard anything fur ther on the subject, but I take it for granted that such a gross abuse of official duty will not be permitted to pass unnoticed by the Postmaster General, and consequently felicitate myself with the hope that my dispatches and summaries will no longer misscarry, to the great deprivation, as a matter of course, of your many thousand readers. At this time the news is of immense importance, and it so happens that often the most important intelligence from the seat of war iB received and published by the Evening J\V:*. from, which I obtain it, in the afternoon oi the

days on which the Overland Mail leaves. Consequently such news you get three and four days earlier than you otherwise would. • Owing, too, to this uncertainty in the receipt of my dispatches, they have not been so full as they would have been had they not been tampered with* by the Postmaster at Fort Smith. One thine more in this connection. Underyour instructions I inaugurated this system of forwarding telegraphic dispatches to Jefferson City containing the news of the afternoon, and for some months my dispatches were the only ones sent. Most of them failed to reach you, for the simple reason that it was a new thing, and they were doubtless transferred to the wrong mill, or mislaid in some was a new thing, and were doubtless transferred to the wrong „or mislaid in seme way. I however made it a personal duty to see every agent and conductor, and to write to the operators at Jefferson City, fully explaining what was nece3sary to be done, and in this manner succeeded in getting through an occasional dispatch. For some time, so long as the arrangement was an experiment— and a pretty costly one, too— none of the other California papers embarked in it. When, how- [ ever, my dispatches began to go through, the correspondents of other journals also commenced sending, and cow I am glad to know that the | practice is becoming general, and only hope that other papers will cooperate in rendering effective the system I introduced and put under way. The steps I have taken are calculated to inure, a3 greatly to their advantage as to yours. Since the foregoing was written I learn from Mr. Hogan that Colonel Buttertield was in town on Tuesday last, on his way from New York to Fort Smith. Colonel Butterfield says that the delay occasioned in the Post Office at Port Smith has been a source of much annoyance to him. Ha has protested to the Postmaster there against the unnecessary overhauling of the, mail, and the only consolation he received was that the Postmaster did not care for the office and wished that the Department would get some one else to attend to it. This state of affairs has been reported to the Department by the Colonel, and it is to be hoped we will soon have a change in the Postmaster at Fort Smith. I perceive that we are not the only ones who are having , trouble with our dispatches. You will have noticed that the intensely interesting news from Europe is subjected to delays in transmission east of Xew York, and that it is received in driblets. After a steamer is reported a; Halifax or St. Johns, we are two or three days in getting the news through, and then receive it in unsatisfactory instalments. The Philadelphia Press complains bitterly of this. It says they " pay as largely for being kept out of the news for twenty hours a3 they ought to pay for receiving it in time. It is evident that a change of system is inevitable, as the causes for complaint have increased, are increasing, and ought to be abolished." It also quotes with approval the following from the Bulletin of that city, which contains a full expose of the whoie matter : . " There never was a time when the public looked more anxiously for foreign news than the present, and there never was a time when the press was more willing to pay for getting it promptly. Yet it is impossible to obtain news from Halifax except with great delay, owing to the disputes between the Nova Scotia and the American Telegraph Company. Each one has given a monopoly to favorite parties, and except for these parties the wires cannot be used when a steamer arrives. It is not only foolish, but it is unjust thus to shut off the lines from the public; and yet it seems impossible to bring either party to reason, and the reading public are the sufferers. The evil is aggravated by the mode in which the news when received is suffered to be published. The agent of the Associated Press in New York regulates all this, and the regulation embraces Xew York as well as all other cities where the press are in the association. As an illustration, the Arabia arrived at Halifax on Tuesday morning, and the mere announcement was given to the evening papers. The morning papers of Wednesday were favored with a very short summary of the news. The evening papers of Wednesday were allowed to have a little more, although every word of the dispatch iras then in Hew <.■{; and finally the dispatch was completed in the morning papers of Thursday — nearly two days after the steamer reached Halifax, and a whole day after the dispatch reached Sackville. The steamer was actually at Boston some hours before her news was published in the Boston papers. Complaints from Philadelphia, we know, have very little weight; but we hope that the pres3 of New York, who were deprived of the news as long as we were, will use their influence with the ageot to prevent similar delays with news for which the public are looking anxiously." While upon this subject I may as well gi7o you some information communicated by the correspondent of the Missouri Republican, a writer who is, as you are aware, not unfriendly to the Administration. Under date of July Ist he writes: / " The Secretary of the Navy is about giving an order for a large number of some approved patterns of breech-loading guns; and, with a view to making the best possible selection for the public service, he has instituted the inquiry. The prospect is that Coil's military rifle will be the gun selected, as it has thus f.ir distanced the field in all the qualities which attach to a fine military arm. II The Post Office Department is still gradually curtailing the mail service over the whole country, but more particularly in the Western States. A large number of contractors and agents are now here and protesting in violent terms against the action of the Government. It is understood that Judge Holt throws the blame on the Opposition Congress, which withheld the annual appropriations; but many contractors say they did not want money from the Government, as their banks were perfectly willing to cash their certificates of service. If this be a step of policy with the Administration, to render odious the party defeating the Post Office Appropriation, I fear the blow will rebound upon the party which strikes such a blow at the convenience and comfort of the millions interested in the mail service of the country." The Overland Mail, of the 13th of June, arrived at St. Louis in the usual time, on Tuesday evening last. It brought no way news nor passengers. The mail was not so large as that which preceded it, which, as you are well aware, was double the usual size of the mails from California. THE PIKE'S PBAK GOLD MINE.-). Besides the news from Pike's Peak, which you will have received by telegraph via San Jose up to the 22d of June, we have another installment not so late (June 17th),publisbed in an extra of the Leavenworth Times with a great flourish of trumpets. These glowing accounts would be very gratifying if they were accompanied by the gold, either in dust or amalgam ; the public mind cannot be satisfied with the assurance of letter writers that the gol i is at Denver " waiting shipment" in consequence of the scarcity of specie to buy it. This statement is not exactly consistent with previous representations to the effect that immediately upon their discovery two claims had been sold for 127,000, while $50,000 had been offered and refused for others. There we come down to facts, the merest trifle in gold dust, putting it all together, has, up to the present time, reached the Missouri river. There are many claims in California which yield more in a single day, day after day, than all the gold put together which has as yet found its way from the entire Pike's Peak region to the States. And yet there are crazy creatures writing from these mines that the California mines will not compare with them in richness, and there are dishonest editors here who approvingly circulate these absurd stories. ,'•'.' But to come back to the information furnished through the extra of the Leavenworth Times, which was issued on the 2 d of July. You will find the details in my budget, and can make such use of them as you please. The correspondent of that paper, writing ou the 14th and 17th of June, gives unto the reader the operand* of mining, and giveß a minute account of operations generally, to which I may be permitted to say I attach very little value. As anything which Horace Greeley may write- is entitled, at least, to the mede of honesty, I give you his letter as it appears in the extra. It is signed " Horace Greeley," dated Deuver City, June 13th, and is addressed to " Friend Vaughan," as follows : " There is no mistake about the existence of gold in paying quantities in this region. I have, in addition to the facts embodied in our report written at the Gregory diggings, an account of the last three days' working of the company, called in that report, Sopris, Henderson & Co., but better entitled Defrees, Barber & Stowell. "We left on Thursday morning, and their product for that and the two following days wa« as follows : Thursday, June 9th, two sluices 410 dwts. Friday, June 10th, two sluices 476 dwts. Saturday, Jane IKb, three sluices. . .1,009 dwts. Total 1,896 dwts. "Which, at |18 per ounce (which I think the fair value of this gold when quicksilverized), gives a net value of over 11,700 for three days' work on a single claim, 50 by 100 feet, with all the fixtures,. not costing over $1,000, and all the labor costing less than $100 — lour hands to each sluice. " I have other returns showing good results for these three — not so good as the foregoing— but not less than 1100 per day to thsluice, which is obtained at a cost of less than twenty dollars per day, all told. And thea the unrotted quartz all remains got out, but not crushed or washed, ready to be washed at any time. "I estimate 500 sluices will be running in these mountains by the first of August, and that the net product of gold will be 190,000 per week till

the snow falls. But I do not wish to be quoted as authority for the.estimate. "Every day makes new and rich discoveries." As many of your readers may have acquaintances who are now seeking their fortunes in that distant region, of whose movements they have not been advised, I also give from the Rocky Mountain News, of June 11th, a list of the arrivals at Denver City, procured by the editors of that paper, which, however, they state is not complete. May 27th.— Messrs. Long and Butler, Linn county, Missouri, Arkansas route ; James Long and company, four men, Adams county, Illinois. May 28th.— H. M. Peck and S. T. Moore, O'Fallon, Illinois; A. Taylor, St. Louis, and seventeen others from Clinton county, Illinois, by Alfred Pucker's train, by Arkansas route ; J. W. Bonnel and W. H. Crane, and sixteen others, by the Greenville Company, Michigan, by the Express route; Charles Hurd and Company, nine men, Grand Rapids ; J. Young, D. Russell. L. Miller, G. A. Jones, A. Grindstaff, E. C. Burnett, A. Challis, A. Norris, M. B. Crigler, T. Hume, N. G. Bishop, J. M. Booth, D. Rowe, J. R. Hunter, T. C. Gabbit, Brown county, Missouri, Arkansas route E. F. Stafford, M. Stafford, T. M. Jacks, A. Anderson, W. A. Marshall, from Leavenwortb, four brothers Talbott, from Platte City, Missouri, and eighteen others, by Express route. May 29th.--J., T. and S. Clark, Warren, Indiana; G. Weller. De Houts, Fountain county, Indiana; J. R. Caldwell, S. Hall, Milford, Illinois ; M. P. Parker, M. Hughes, Coffee county, Kansas Territory; Charles Daley, T. Sirvin, P. Toumey, S. V. Richmond, St. Louis—came by Smoky Hill route, left Leavenworth, April 21st. May 30th—R. B. Ritchie, J. P. Murray, W. N. Smith, J. Ward. Iram Gibson, Z. B. Gibson, M. W. McKinnev, W. T. McKinney, J. N. Cauley, J. Rogers, W. H. McClure, Clayton, Georgia, Santa Fe route; started from Leavenworth, April 1st; E. D. Boyd and seven others from Leavenworth, Express route. May 31st.—Dr. A., A. B., W. P. and J. A. Steinberger, J. Nagle, W. Snell, H. Snell, from Elkhorn, Nebraska; Platte route. June 1st.— J. Young, D. L. Russell and compasy, from Missouri, five wagons, thirty men, by Santa Fe route; R. Gibson, D. Pettijohn, W. H. Bowker, from Illinois; J. H. McLain and company of twenty one, from Missouri ; Santa Fe route. June 2d.— H. Reasoner, H. Hardy, and G. Hardy, from Page county, Iowa; five others, two wagons; J. O. and J. Clark, J. W. Dee, S. H. Bridges, from Illinois ; A. C. Edwards, from Brownville, Nebraska Territory ; Platte route. June 3d. — H. Gilbert and company, Gerard, Ohio. 8 men. H. T. Midbury and company ; five of Ohio. A. Allen and four others, Randolph county, Illinois; V. G. Martin and three others, Warren county, Kentucky; H. McQuinston and five others, Ohio; all by Smoky Hill route. June 4th.—N. A. Adams and W. M. Scott, and fifty five others, from New York, by Smoky Hill route. Moore and three others, Gilson, Knox county, Illinois; Platte route. Hutton, Stagg and Hutton, Mount Pleasant, lowa ; same route. May 7th—J. H. Kronk and three others, Champaign county, Ohio; Platte route—thirtyseven days from St. Joseph. The same paper reports quite a number of casualties. On the 30th of April a German, named Michael Henderlin, in the company of E. F.Stafford, of Leavenworth, while walking in the rear of a wagon on the Plains, was accidentally shot and instantly killed by a pistol which he was handling at the time. The next day, May 1st, being Sunday, the company lay in camp near the Sixth Station, on the express route ; about four o'clock in the afternoon it commenced to hail, and, about five o'clock, a tremendous wind storm or whirlwind was seen approaching in the direction of the camp. Most fled and lay flat on the grass; six wagons were encamped, five of which were taken up by the wind and scattered four miles and broken to pieces ; wheels were broken up and spokes found embedded half their depth in the earth ; the tire of one wheel was found nearly straightened out. Three of the wagons were entirely destroyed, and the others considerably damaged. Oxen were taken up several feet from the ground, and provisions, clothing, etc , were scatter all over the prairie. Several of the party were struck with the missiles that were blowing about and severely injured, and one man, William Micheltree, of Missouri, died eight days after of the injuries received. Between Denver City and Gregory's diggings, on the 28th of May, a young man, named William Hubbard, of Dawson county, Ga., was accidentally shot and instantly killed as he was removing his gun from a wagon to go out hunting. On the 31st of May Wallace Atherton, formerly of Genesee Forks, Potter county, Pa., and latterly of Milledgeville, Carroll county, Ill., was also accidentally shot, fifteen miles from Auraria. After ascending the hill, whilst stooping to lay his pack upon the ground, his pistol fell from the scabbard, the hammer struck a stone and discharged the load, the ball entering in front, in the region of the heart. He raised his arms and said, " I believe I am shot," and fell back dead. He was a young man spoken off very highly by his messmates. His partner, Marshall Lee, had gone to New Mexico for flour. A brother, A. H. Atherton, lives in La Porte, Ind. The deceased had only been one week in the country. DOMESTIC The Nebraska City correspondent of the Missouri Republican, writing June 23th, gives the following interesting account of a series of Indian skirmishes in that section: " While in the valley of the Republican I heard from several persons of large bodies of Cheyennes and Arapahoes, who had come down, and in conjunction with the Sioux were determined to wipe out the Pawnees. These bands, with rare exceptions, were courteous and friendly to the whites everywhere. They had sent out detached companies to scour the Pawnee range and drive straggling bands into their villages, where they intended attacking and overpowering them with numbers. It is reported that a strong force, mostly Cheyennes and Arapahoes, found a body of Pawnees numbering about one hundred and twenty-five warriors, some distance east of Fort Kearny, and gave immediate pursuit. The latter retreated to a suitable place on the Platte, crossed and established themselves in thick brush and chaparral, where the former attempted to dislodge them by crossing the river in the face of their foe. The Pawnees, having the advantage of cover, commenced a furious onslaught before their enemies got within range of their rifles and bows, which resulted in putting sixtysix of them hors du combat and the total rout and discomfiture of the rest, who took to flight, leaving the dead bodies of their ' braves' to the tender mercies of the treacherous currents of the Platte and the merciless scalping knife of their hated foe. This rumor is not generally credited, but I am informed by a gentleman connected with Indian matters that there is no doubt that such battle actually occurred, as the Pawnees had, a night or two previous, succeeded in stealing sixty or seventy head of horses from the Cheyennes. Since then two other skirmishes have occurred between them one in which the Pawnees succeeded in taking some half dozen Sioux scalps, and another in which the Red Allies sent some sixteen Pawnees to the spirit land,' cutting the ears and right hand off another, and sending him as a messenger to inform his tribe that they intended to serve them all in the same way. A few days since the combined forces of the three attacking tribes marched on one of the principal Pawnee villages, burning it down and destroying every vestige of it. The Pawnees, with their usual cunning, finding they were about to be overpowered with numbers, fled with their squaws, pappooses, horses, dogs and other plunder to the Omahas, with which tribe, and also that of the Poncas, they immediately entered into treaty, the result of which is they have placed their squaws and property in security, while some 2,000 warriors of the Pawnee, Omaha and Poncas tribes have gone on a grand buffalo hunt, as they tell their agents. You may therefore expect to hear of some pretty heavy Indian skirmishing during the Summer and Fall, as the war is not, like in Europe, to establish a nationality, but to obliterate and wipe it out. Success attend them all. I say ! The sooner the worthless Indians of the Plains are 'wiped out' the better for the interests of the country and the frontiers and Plains in particular." The Fourth was celebrated with great eclat on the battle ground of Tippecanoe. The oration was delivered by Tbos. Corwin, of Ohio, on "The Origin, Dignity and Responsibility of Free Governments." The crowd was immense, and among those present was Major Ambrose Whit--1 :ke, ninety-three years of age, the only survivor of Wayne's army. In Cincinnati and St. Louis the day was celebrated by military parades in the cities and picnics in the country. At Quincy, Illinois, there was a grand military parade, which was attended by one of the St. Louis companies. There were also numerous steamboat and railroad excursions. The Potosi branch of the Iron Mountain Railroad, in Missouri, was opened with due ceremonies on that day. At Washington City the principal feature was the grand pyrotechnic display in the evening. Numerous fires were caused in Philadelphia by these displays*, but owing to the vigilance of the firemen with their steam engines no serious losses occurred. At New York there was a regatta, at which the first prize was taken by the Pequot, of New London, and the second prize by the Peconic. of Gree-port. The New York bank statement for the last week show an increase of $'345,700 in loans. An increase of $670,137 in specie; of $155,213 in circulation ; and of $959,646 in net deposits. It was expected thai the Persia, which was to have sailed for Liverpool en the 6th inst., would not take less than a million of specie. The stolen book of the Baltimore Street Railroad Company, about which so much fuss baa

been made, was safely restored to the proper persons on Friday, July Ist. :.; On the Ist of July a remonstrance was presented to the Board of Police Commissioners of New York against the enforcement of the Sunday laws, by a delegation of citizens headed by the Rev. J. L Hatch, a Congregational preacher, and the Rev. Dr. Maxon, editor of the Christian Adtoctte and pastor of the Eleventh street Seventh Day Baptist Church. The remonstrance was signed by five hundred and fifty American?, and seven hundred and fifty Germans and Jews. The liquor dealers generally hart been waited upon, and asked to sign the remonstrance, but they all refused, alleging that the Germans were taking away the heaviest part of their trade by the sale of Usjer beer, and were greatly injuring the liquor interests in that city. No definitive action had been taken in the matter. ;■■: i ■-».-••; CRIMINAL RECORD. On Tuesday morning, July sth, Richard Risers, of St. Louis, who had started to walk to Shipman Station, on the Chicago Railroad, was picked up by the cars insensible and with his head badly beaten. lie had been attacked by a Frenchman with a bottle, with which the wounds were inflicted, robbed of five dollars, and left lying insensible. . It was with much difficulty he reached the station. On Saturday night, July 2d, a bloody affair occurred at Louisville, Kentucky. An Irishman named Quill, employed in a rolling mill, committed a nuisance at the door of a German tailor, and was forcibly driven oil" by the latter. Quill soon returned with two of his brother?, and, creating a disturbance, three policemen interfered and attempted to arrest the party, when one of the Quills drew a knife and stabbed oce of the policemen. Pistols were then drawn by the officers. In the melee the three brothers were all shot. One was shot in the breast, and died in about two hours. Of the other two one was shot in the breast and the other in the abdomen. They were, at last accounts, still living, though very little hope was entertained of the recovery of either. Officers Williams and Bell surrendered themselves immediately. During the celebration of the Fourth, at Cincinnati, a desperate fight occurred at Rose Hill, brought on by some rowdies who assailed the German Jagers. Stone?, swords, and every sort of missiles convenient to the combatants were brought into use, and fourteen or fifteen persons were badly hurt but none killed. Ensign Thomas Hohlriegel, a carpenter, was carried home supposed to be dead. He revived, subsequently, but is dangerously wounded. He is aged nearly fifty years. Thomas Henning was badly cut on the head with a saber, and was otherwise seriously hurt. William Hornung was struck in the eve with a boulder and knocked senseless to the ground. A Turner named Bordner, who was innocently enjoying himself hard by, received a fearful blow with a boulder over the right eye, which cut through to the skull bone. He is disfigured for life. The strife waged fiercely some minute 3, and murder only was prevented by the fortunate circumstance that the arms of the tro ipj had been laid aside previously to enable them to enjoy themselves without restraint. The Chicago papers give an account of a brutal ! drunken murder, committed by a man named Fulton, a farmer, in his own house, on Saturday night, July 23, fourteen miles from that city. While the family were seated at the table, accompanied by a man named Mayhew, an altercation aro3B between Fulton and his wife, provoked by her refusal to come to town with him and bia companion the next morning. Her excuse was that she would not be seen in the company of such persons, both being intoxicated. The quarrel was continued for some length of time, when Fulton exclaimed that, he would fix her, get up from the table and went for his gun. Returning; with it, he pointed it at her and pulled the trigger. Immediately at the moment of his taking aim she dodged "back, and the charge of shot passed by her, striking a little girl who sat next to her in the head, tearing oil th 9 upper portion of her skull and scattering her braics in all directions. The fiend then clubbed the gun aod and commenced to beat his wife on the bead — continuing to do so until the gun was broken to pieces. Mayhew did not interfere, but went to a neighbor's house, and on returning with assistance, found the murderer and his victims. The child died in a few hours. Fulton stated that he intended to kill his wife. He 13 in prison. Yonnj; Cook, whoso:n3 months since was convicted of the murder, in the second degree, of a prostitute named Kate Bareau, at Cincinnati, ha.3 had another trial and been convicted of manslaughter. His sentence is cot to exceed ten years. Some of the paper 3 condemn the judgment as too lenient. Joseph B. Warner, who murdered his young wife, at Wilmington, Connecticut, in the early portion of June, ha? made a confession. He says that be drowned his wife in Roaring brock and left the body under water. Next day be went back, acd finding that the body had floated a a short distance from the place where he had lef; it, he took it to another place and bid it. Subsequently, when people began to get excited acd to search for the missing woman, he went 10 MeGregory's, in Stafford Springs, hired a horse and bug£y, with a buffalo, and drove back to Wilmington in the evening, got the body, drove out on the road, and finally deposited the corp3e in the bushe3 in a lonely" place at the edge of the river. He alleges as a cause that he was jealous of his wife, but his statements in this particular are unsatisfactory, as there is proof that his wife was jealous of him. On Saturday night last a young German, named Frederick Braesch, was stabbed by his father-in-law, William Merkel, in St. Louis. Brae3ch is still living, though in a critical condition. Merkel fled and managed to conceal himself until Tuesday morning last, when he was accidentally arrested under a bridge near Chateau avenue. He had previously taken to tht woods, impelled by hunger. The account of h i arrest states that after wandering till nightfall, scarcely finding a morsel to eat, and that little consisting of a few berries, he returned to his hiding place beneath the bridge. Thus he speni Monday and part of Monday night, when th« gnawings of hunger drove him to incur the peril of arrest, by seeking his home. Had he sue ceeded in getting to his family, he would probably have left the city undetected. He admits thrice having stabbed his son-in-law, but says il wa3 by accident, and that it happened thus: His daughter had irritated him by following him from place to place about the house, and upbraid ing him in the most violent manner; he was at length led to respond harshly and to use such language as to cause her husband to attack him. At the. instant he was whittling with his pocket knife, and was at once knocked down, his assailant falling upon him. In the struggle the wounds were inflicted, but — says Merkel— not designedly ! A burglar, named John Regan, was detected in the house of Police Officer Whitcoinb, on the night of June Goth, and was arrested by officer J. 11. Goodwin. During the arrest the burglar stabbed Goodwin severely, though not fatally, in .he neck. A butcher, named John A.Johnson, living in O.ik street, New York, was, on Saturday, July 2d, arrested for a diabolical assault upon his daughter, a girl of fourteen years of age. it is alleged that he frequently too* her from home under pretense of visiting places of amusement, but in reality to afford him an opportunity to accomplish his base designs. His wife suspected something wrong, but, as tha daughter had been threatened with death in ci.se she revealed what had occurred, she was unable to learn the truth until a neighbor saw enough transpire to convince her that the object of the father was bad. The girl was then confronted with this woman acd her mother, when she revealed the nanatti ral treatment she bad been subjected to, and the father was arrested and committed to the Tombs. The ft ed store of Benjamin Miaier, corner of Eleventh avenue and Fortieth street, New York, together with a dwelling and grocery store ad pining, were destroyed by fire on Sunday, July 3d. Two hundred dollars, in money, in the drawer of the store was stolen. The damage by the fire is estimated at 12,500, partially insured. Two boys, Michael Brannan and Henry Duffy, have been arrested for setting fire to the premises. On Saturday, the 25th of June, an affray occurred at Grandville, Grundy county, Mo., in which George M. McAfee shot a man named Phipps, when Kirk, a brother-in-law of Phipps, drew a pistol and shot McAfee. Kirk immediately fled. The cause of the difficulty was not known. Phipps died on Tuesday night, and McAfee was in a dying condition at last accounts. CASUALTIES. On Thursday evening, June SOth, a severe and, as is supposed, fatal accident occurred on the Passaic river, near Newark, N. J. Eight young men, Germans, went up the river in a sail boat for the purpose of bathing. They were struck by a squall, and the boat capsized- Thsy first attempted to cling to the boat, and then tried to swim ashore, but were incumbered with their clothing. Three of the party, however, after a severe struggle, which nearly exhausted them, reached the land, having managed to get off the greater part of their clothing, and thus were able to swim the more easily. Five of the party did not reach the shore, and, when last seen, three of them were clinched together, each endeavoring to save himself by cliaging to the others. One of them is said to have been a good swimmer, but owing to the others having grasped his clothing was unable to save himself or his companions. The three who reached the shore immediately secured a boat from Brower, on the Eist Newark side, and put out in search of those who still remained in the river. Two of them were found and rescued, but the three who were clasped together could not be found. There was no doubt in the minds of their companions tut that they were drowned. Their names a« Th?o-

dore Deanison, Lewis Schuhman anJ C'^:..'> Oarsman. .During the celebration of the Fourth, at Cincinnati, two lada'were fererely injured by the bursting of pistols which the/ were tirin'sf oST. One George Deitzer had a piece of the lock driven entirely through his hand, and it was though', amputation would be necessary. The other, naai-' Rinsber?, had two of his flairs blown cff and a tii'J mutilated. The five o'clock train of the Harlem Railroad ran »ff the track wht» near Hunt's bridge on Tumj.it morning. July sth, and Edward Hall, a m«ii aeen» wit killed. Two can were badly damaged. Thee-irii*--flreman and brakeman were taken from the ru!a* wlS' only slight personal irjaries On Thursday morning, Jane 59th, as the Brookli- 1 * train was passim; through West Orange street, Bostos a little boy seven years of sge, son of Richard 5' C;.ilJs, was caught by the cow-catcher end thrown wit so much violence against a brick wall that he die J^ha'f an hour. He was playing en the track at titime. On the Fourth, a young man named Baldwin » v killed at North Branford, Connecticut, by theexplojMof a cannon. A boy naned Abner Ohonson, while bathin? !n th - Ohio river, at Covlngton, Kentucky, on Bun! . . las* was taken with the cramp and drowned. "' On the Fourth of July a fire occurred la Dorchest*avenue, South Boston, destroying flee dwell!*.™ a-J*a carriage factory. Loss, $10.000 ; partially insured* 0 - the same day. Factory No. 2. of the Fagle LockOonpany, at Terry vllle, Connecticut, was destroyed by 3-^ On Tuesday, June 2Sth, a violent tornado nused over Harper's Ferry, Virginia. A union of wind a" 1 rain seemed to concentrate la the forge of the river* and passing up the Shenandcah river, carried c* thbridge near the junction of the two rivers. The entire structure was lifted from th» piers from abutmea'"* : abutment, and dashed In the stream below. A house near Newport, Kentucky, was struck 17 lightning during the violent storm of Sitnrday nlffht last. One of the male inmates had his clothes lira from his back by the electricity, but suffered no personal injury. Henry Lorscb, on Saturday, July 2d, wMIe bathiaa iCoyd's baths, it Hoboken, was seized with a fit a S supposed, and drowned. On Sunday, July 3d, the pyrotechnic establishment of Samuel Jackson, on the corner of Tenth and Rei Jstreets New York, was destroy, dby fire communicate i by fireworks which he was manufacturing for ths Fourth. In the room In which the fire originated' a. young nan named Charles Beck was at work Throom was Instantly filled with a dense, sulphur- to!---canicsmcke. He rose and made for the door buweakened, as it '.s supposed, with the noxious vapors, he fe.l mseruble. It was Impossible to save him as aa instant after the whole building was a blazinz as.j' Beck was a young man twenty-two years of **■•, aa-« leaves a wife to whom he had been married nearb a year His mother ha. been residing lately .-• the Wei? The body was four.d after the firemen had »ul, J»e 1 the flames, burned to a crisp. This is the SaveatTtlma Jackson has been burned ..ut. " TARIKTY. An occurrence which ha, <?!ven rise to a (nod deal ot excitement took place a few days since in Oxford Tow; ' ship, Chester county, Pa. A young girl, a white w.-> ma = respectably connected, was living ia a farmer's fuafly as a domMtlc. A mulatto was eoplcyed on the farn 33 a laborer. The two becira.- enamored of each o'he ■ and resolved to marry. The party to whom they appiled to perform the ceremony, however declined Before the marriage was ejected the girl's Barer I W» informed of the c.-ndltion of things. They horrostricken and overwhelmed with shame. No time w\j tost, and every effort was made by them to dissuade th» deluded girl f> forego her purpose. Her brother also remonstrated with her as only a broth." can All efforts, however, to Induce her to give up her swarthy companion were unavailing— they only made her dlaa to him the closer. The matter became noised abeu; the neljthDorhood. and a disposition was manifest 1 t lynch the black fellow. This came ti th.' ears of ths infatuated girl She met the dusk* fellow. Their pu'--P'se was at once taken ; they determ'n-d to Ao-p* togather and did so. They disappeared from the neighborhood about ten days mo, and have not since b-V heir ] from. It is supposed they have gone West Th* girl I parenU fire almost distracted. This is th» account that has been given to us. On the 30th ult. a young colored girl, who w i f-ar-ellag In company with her mlstren, a Southern !v!t was forcibly and a*»lnst her straggles cries *nd eitreaties, abducted by a gang of no groej, a' Detroit. a= 1 carried over to Windsor, Canada. The Detroit Fret PrtHH says of the affair : "By a recent Act of the Michlean Letfj'a'ure (?.•• publican) any pen-n bringing a slave withia thj limiu of the State, commits a crim ; nal offense, pun^hable ot t< D years' Imprisonment in the State Prison The "a 'V was consequently liable to the chances of afaloa'i ceil through the previsions of this very enlightened ascharacteristic measure. Fortunately for her the but ltft the tlock before any such idvaj could be take; of her helpUss position, ani procce V.I on h-r war t<> Clevelwd. The la.iy Is a resident of Winchester K7' near Louisville, and g»ve her name as Mrs. Moore. She had been spending the . mer at Superior Ci:v asi '.3 now on a vi»it to Cincinnati. Her husbaad is still V. Superior City, his wife traveling alone with the two servants, who were kept merely as ptr^on&lattea \i~'i The girl's name is Una. She ha 3 been brongl tv? sthe fmily as a per3ocal attendant up n her mlstresi and has never wanted anything. 3t Is now, at thJrt •■<;-' years of a^', thrown upon her own resource", In'a country where me-half of her tscc are piupers ' whi: circumstance will, in a very brief period, cause her i - appreciate the >.le 3 slng3 of knocks got by way of Camdianfieedotn. Her kind heartid mistress bare'? eicape ! ißpriicnmeatasafeloa" The editor cf the Boston Ledger states that ea Thu:■Jay, June 8 'th, he paid a visit to Man-oMVar Islaa : 59 Called, In Boston harbor. for the purpose of witatjj' ing the operations 01 a diving company, who sre VS.gaged In raising valuables fmm ihe wreck cf what li supposed to be one of Count D'Estrange'a fleet suni o-w-L-cked duricp the revolution. He was kindly belted by Captain L P. Bates an] P. Falcon, the latttrjrenUeman ten? the diver of the company, and dur'nz v 'j stay a descent was mi for h's express grttlflcaSos The armor having been properly tdj Faicon, pail in hand, oUappeaxei beneath the waves, atubec- sru'.ti percha. connected w.th a beautiful Instrument oa ths deck of the company's schooner, npplyiDi; him w:7'air. He remained under some twenty niiaut-*, whehe arose by means of a ladder pkeed en the si At ef tis 3chooaer and connecting with the wreck. The resalt of the trip was a full pail of cemented matter conta ! - - ing copper nails, Iradea bulk-U. ! kd pipe acd par; of a sword belt. We supplied oane'ves with a quantity of the re'ici.and have t:iem now in our posaeui J\--1 con c"23:ribed to us some amusing incidents connect-; i with his submarine explorations, such as belnglsurrounded with shoals of perch, placing his haad'in 3 crevice of the wreck to leareh for valuables a.. I ht'.zseized by a huge lobster, etc., etc. The company. cc=si. ting of six men, commenced cperations on t.V- 6th inst , and have already taken up several toDso* copi>*r lead, cannon shot, etc., ani it will ac prove a p-o - (table speculation. An American lady, a resident of Paris, 12 1 p?-. fectly acquainted with Its customs, gives the ' jiiowbi item in relation to Parisian servants : •'You are aware of the petty taxes waleh our csniestics are In the habit of Imposing upon evervt* I ' purchased by them for the use of the household. Firs* in order Is the 'sou per pound ' paid them by groc»rj butchers, bakern, etc , for their custom. This, ho» ever, Is but a trifle in comparison. On a rabbit, bougY. at two francs and fifteen sous, the cook pockets the fifteen sous. For each (Ji«h ordered from a restauraa". the servant gets a premium of five sou?. 80 with butter, and every other article of food. I have calculate i that, over and above her wages, my cook's prcSts amount to at least fifty cents a day. Nor Is si. ■ j <\:> :\ -. - with thU. She has mad- a nice little bargain with ar butcher, to the eflVct that when the buyj six paunls d' mutton or veal for mr, the butcher is to a. ld a poua J c'f sirloin steak for bra The: -is no vi ;nr v an^icir • or butcher. They »>re all thieves alike, and I nri^ only make bad won?- if I interfered." After reading this, we apprehend some of our people will be better contented with their servant). It see's* we are not the only sufferers In the UnlteJ 3:ate«. The Boston Traveller, of June 3oth, says th.a: Wcj. Bbghsui, cf the Revert? House, was find fifty dollars a fewdajs since for serving up wrodcock, on th ■ occasion of the National Lancets dining atihath^te! othe Ilth. At a meeting of th; Lancers, on Tuesda^ evening las', It was suggested that, inasmuch as 'he woodcock were served to them, it *■ uld be no more than right that they shnu'd pay the bi:i for .'uraljtiaj the birds, as they (the Lancer*) never eat that waic^ they do not pay for. A vote wss forthwith uaaa". mously passed to pay from the treasury of the corps whatever expense had been incurred by Bine; i oaceount of the woodcock matter. In accordance W % |T that vote, B ngham has been fall reimburse d. A great sale of oil coins, by an to , has recen'lT Uk°n place at London, and enormous prices w»re obUlted. Three Anglc-Saxcn pennle', of different typa were in one lot for *150 ! Posies of Jllfr-dVtim-soil for from |SOto fvi each, sad r,ne half-penny 0' great rarity brought more than $100. A «ocd p-na? of Henry 111., of the highest rarl'y, .old for upwards oi 1600. among th- coins struck for Amer'c* may b* mentioned the Lord Baltimore penny. «ald to beuniou» Wri , a New Ecglsnd half-penny, $75; thefl.'ty-shillin i piece of Oliver Cromwell, |225; gold Ove-shllUng } itct 01 Charles 11., |Uij. The late Prince de Metternlsh was proprietor of th* chateau and vineyards of Johanchberg. ' This fine es•.^te was f lveo to him In ISIC by the fmp-ror Francis 11., on the condition that he. sh, uM every yew seni the teath part of the produce of the vines to the imperial cellars. A Marietta (O.) paper says: Liberty township hnaiti or the largest baby in Washington county, aid Washington county challenges the State. The chiU's naais Is Isabella Thompeon. She will be six yean o!d t= September next, Is three feet ten Inches Ugh, aal weighs over two hundred poanda. Her arm betw»e= the elbow and shoulder measures seventeen a;. 1 a half inches In circumference She Is a woman In appearance, and as Intelligent as ordinary children of her age, has a good ear for music, and Is healthy. \> here's Barium? Ex -Captain Seaver, of East Boston, has Id his possession an interesting relic, a handkerchief which was prepared and very widely distributed at the time of tif death of Washington. The center is a mourning piece, surrounded by the names of the States which tt«n cosposed the Union. This relic is now sixty years old, an'J is preserved with great care by its owner. Th* united salaries of the ninety-five clerks i. >- charged from the New York Custcm House, on Thursday, makes over |100,<k0 a year. Somebody says that eating Ice cream only seeds to be a sin to make It the most exquisite pleasure ci:' :. a Herds. matMUia The steamer Karopean, which sailed from Boston 03 the 29th June, took oat eight passengers for Halifax and ninety-nine for Liverpool. Among the latter wer* Sufus Choate and son, George S. Hllllard, T. B. Curtu and family, F. D'HautevMe, Amasa Walker, Alfrel Qrteo ugh and George B'ackcura, of Boston. The Florence correspondent of the Newark AJtO'liter writes that many of the Americans who winter? 1 at Rome are now there, generally on the way for home. Among them are a part of General Scott'a family, Mrs. shop Doane and her son, Charles C. PerkJ I aai William Beach Lawrence and family, of Newport, R. I. The Washington A'tVilV* (not the best authority In the world) says that a rumor comes from the other side 0' the water that Charles Bamner Is ahont to " leaJ to ths 3jrm«ne«l alter an accomplished and rich wiJow *. iownrlght Republican proclivities." .. Miss Ollva Oalman, whose captivity amonj tin ipacae Indians recently excited comp*J*l?o. a «e«aring at Haratogi upon the incidents of her Hi amoa* he savage*. _ „ . Professor Ansoa J. Upson, of Hamilton Coile?e, ha* men licensed as a preacher of tie Goipel by lie Stti.yttry of VUcs,