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BY EDWARD F. GILBERT.
OFFICE ON MULBERRY STREET.
TERMS : $3 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE.
MATAGORDA MONDAY MORNING JUNE 2 1851.
Vol. 4-
No. 21.
Colorado
THB MURMUR OF THE SHELL.
ST i K0BTOH.
A mHot left hit native land
A ample gift he gave:
A sea-shell gathered by his hand
From cot the rippling wave ;
OK lave by this remember roe !
Far inland thou must dwell
But thon shaft hear the sounding sea
In the murmur of the shell.
Ah ! woe is me ! with tatteiM sail
The ship is wildly tost!
A drowning cry is on the pale
They sink and all are lost !
While happy ret untouched by fear
Repeating his farewell
Poor ilary smiles and loves to hear
The murmur of the shell.
The tidings wrecked her simple brain
And smiling now she mes
A mid girl reckless of her pain
Unconscious of her woes ;
But when they ring the villace chimes
That tolled the lover's knell
She sighs and says she hears at times
Death-music in the shell !
MY GIRLHOOD'S HOME.
ST CERTRCDE MACACLIFF.
Bring hack the days the sunny hours
Of girlhood's thoughtless glee :
The placid stream the opening flowers
Oh! bring them back to me.
The noontide walks the hollowed eve
Thclovedthe lost that brow
On uhtch love sat like sunset's leave
Oh ! bring them back to me now.
Where is my home my girlhood's home
Of sweetness t Has it fled ?
Alas! -'tis gone : the joyous tone
Of its lived cadence dead.
Bring me the happy scenes which there
Passed like a summer's dream
The soihung tints of memory
Ere sorrow o'er me came.
Oh ! let me dream I see it still
With bird and snn and flow cr ;
'Twill serve to soothe a treasured will
In this sad. trying hour.
Home of ray'youth farewell farewell !
Once I did hail your glee ;
"Painful as is the bosom's swell
Oh! bring it still to me !
MOXDAY MORSIXG JUKE 2 1851.
South Carolina A Xew Movement.
It appears that South Carolina discouraged at
the prospect of a cooperation of any of her sister
States in Jhe-contemplated Secession and being
''ly convinced of her inability to sustain the po-
sition of an independent sovereignty unaided and
alone has hit upon an expedient that must at
least give the General Government no little in-
convenience if carried out should it not eventually
lead to a collision while the dignity of the State
would be fully sustained and the way being pav-
ed for the ultimate object in Tiew. The follow-
ing is the basis of the plan alluded to as we find
it in the Charleston Mercury of a late date. We
think it by far the safest expedient for South Caro-
lina. Although it cannot be considered much
short of actual secession she mutely folds her
arms and refuses to assist in the operations of a
Government that has become loathsome to her
"The people of South Carolina in Convention
assembled declare that :
I. The perpetual and undisturbed use of slaves
of the Negro Kace is indispensable to the full de-
velopment oi the chief remurces of the staple
jrrownig Sta";s ot Ainer.ea including South Caro
lina.
1L The agricjlrcral staples of the Southern
States of the American Union which are produ-
ced by slave labor can from their extent variety
cheapness and prime importance cummand near-
ly all the markets ol the "world and tnake the
whole human family more or less tributary to
the prosperity and grandeur of these Stute pro-
Tided they can exercise the privilege of receiv-
ing at their option in return the productions of
all other countries tree froji injuriously restrictive
import duties.
ML The citizens of the Northern and non-slave
holding States of this Union devoting their labor
chiefly to manufacturing farming and their inci-
dents are deeply interested in imposing high du-
ties on the most important imports train other
countries m order to monopolize the markets ol
tee alavehaiding states tor their own productions
at high prices. These SuteSj therefore will nev-
er willingly consent to any liberal sj stem of lree
trade such as the Southern States require. And
influenced also to an extraordinary degree and
permanently it is believed by false views of re-
ifjon humanity and podcy tney will not permit
ileSoutbem Stales to hold their slaves uiiiUsturb-
ed ; and will not cease zealously to endeavor to
abolish negro slavery every where and altogether.
IV. These non-siaveholding Slates containing
s numerical majority ot the citizens ot the United
States and having complete control ot both Hojses
of Congress and the Electoral College with the
certainty ol being able to maintain such control as
Jong as tins Uniuu lasts: and having Heretofore
strenuously exercised their power to impose high
duties on imports and to arrest the extension ol
Alncan slavery lor the express purpose ot hasten
ing its abaition: and them being no prospect that
tney win ever cease to impose such duties and
intenere with slaveholding though to do either
H a flagrant violation of the Constitution of the
United States it follows that the existing Union
of the non-slaveholding and claveholding States
of North America is and ever will be wholly in-
compatible with the fulldcvclooment of the na
tural advantages of the latter States and their
attainments to that position of power prosperity
and happiness to which they are justly entitled.
V.. The people of South Carolina convinced of
loo uuin anu -fimpunuuco ui uieso views ore cus-
Sinethr and unalterably lorDosed to a longer eon-
tinnanos of this Union; and are already dejrotuof
Ms vpeoay ajasoiuuon anu me lormauon ot a bourn.
ra Confedeniey composed of slaveholding States
only. And tney would prompuy ana piaoiy adopt
any practical measure to promote such dissolu
tion and she formation of such a Confederac v.
Vfc ItoaAeKtBsjwaads they would forthwith
withdraw thanaa)hSBm the existing Confedear
ay. without im sjlian fornrer and are only re.
t MUMd o ttnallowimjconsiflra.
aSBITU'-. v. . ..
". XhTiM.lmMamt'iteamito believe
scarry ether tla
time follow their example and unite with them
but on the contrary they believe that all the
States their own excepted are yet disposed to ad-
here to this Union at least until farther injuries
are inflicted on them.
2. They have reason to believe that if they did
secede from the present Union thenon-slavehold-intr
majority which controls the new National
Government would immediately take measures
to coerce them into entire submission to their will
which measure they are constrained toacknowl.
edge they clearly have not the physical ability
unaided by other slaveholding States effectually
to resit
3. Thev have much eround to apprehend
that from the narrow limits of the territory of
South Carolina and the sparscness ot her popula-
tion she would not be able situated on the open
sea and bounded in the interior by States of the
Union even if permitted peaceably to secede to
maintain alone the dignity and independence of
a nation ot respectable rank among the nations
of the world.
VII. While for these reasons the people of South
Carolina reluctantly decline for the present to
withdraw from the existing Union and declare
their State a separate and independent Sever-
eignty they are so fully convinced of the fatal in-
fluence of the Union upon the interests and char-
acter of the slaveholding States that thev cannot
doubt the time is not far oft when these States or
a sufficient number of them will unite in such
withdrawal and Declararion of Independence
And thev are also fully convinced that placed as
they and the people of the other slaveholding
btatcs are in a permanent and hopeless minority
in the present General Government there is no
utility in longer continuing voluntarily to take
a part in its councils or maintaining any connec-
tion with it which can be disolved without afford-
ing plausible pretexts for violent collision.
VIII. This Convention therefore ordains as fun-
damental and perpetual laws in the State of South
Carolina that
1. No Electnrs shall hereafter be appointed by
this State to vote for President or Vice-President
of the United States and no vote shall be given
by the State in these elections.
2. No Senators or Representatives to the Federal
Congress shall hereafter be chosen by or in this
State and the seats of those already chosen are
hereby vacated.
3. feverv citizen of this State who shall hereafter
accept and hold any office of honor profit or trust
under the General Government or any of its de
partments save such local civil offices as exist or
may be uonsutuuonaiiy created in the State shall
instantly and forever cease to eniov all and every
of the privileges of citizenship in South Carolina.
and all his property in the State shall be liable to
a tax of six per cent perannum ad valorem which
the Legislature shall impose by a general law at
the next session.
1. The State of South Carolina shall not acrent
any annronriation made bv the General Govern
ment for the ue of the State or for the benefit of
any portion ot the citizens thereof which it may
le in her power to refuse without violating the
Constitution of the United States.
5. The legislature shall at its next session im
pose double taxes on all the property within this
State belonging to persons residing hereafterfor the
srvire of one month or mora in anv vpar in anv
non-slaveholding State or States which tax may
be increased at the option of the Legislature
but never reduced below double the amount paid
by those residing continually in the slaveholding
States.
6. The Legislature shall to the extent it may
deem expedient and permitted by the Constitution
of the United States impose tax on the manufac-
tures and other productions of the non-slaveholding
States when imported into South Carolina.
7. The Legislature shall encourage manufac-
tures and internal improiements in this State by
crantiug. with dun discretion liberal charters to
privato companies applying for them for these
purposes. It shall encourase agriculture and
especially drainage in every judicious manner.
And it shall at as early a period as may be conve-
nient apply all the surplus funds of the State
which can be applied with benefit to aid in the es-
tablishment of direct commercial intercourse with
foreign nations by steamships adapted to the
purposes of war in case of need.
IX. This Convention of the people of South Caro
lina thus from stress of circumstances openly
placing their beloved State in the position which
has in point of fact been long her actual position
of a conquered province: submittintr for the
time to tyranny and oppression which they have
hot the power successfully to resist and therefore
forbear to attack rest here until by the bles
sing ot uod they snail acquire suincient strength
either by the co-operation of others or their own
exertions to assert and maintain all their just
ngnis.
N. B. By the adoption of an Ordinance such as
this the Convention will redeem all the pledges
of the State actual and attributed and will main-
tain unimpaired her honor dignity and influence.
All collision with the General Government will
be obviated yet South Carolina will be morally
out of the Union and a blow stricken that will be
fatal to the moral power of-the Union itself. The
Slaveholding States will not feel themselves rebuk
ed but conceded to and their jealousy will cease
their sympathies will be enlisted and should tho
platform thus erected prove a safe and peaceful
one a number of them will no doubt place them-
selves upon it at the next aggression of the Gen-
eral Government whenever Georgia Florida
Alabama and Mississippi come to it the Union
is dissolved and a Southern Confederacy formed.
In the meantime South Carolina can lose nothing
that she has not already lost in this Union. And
those who really desire to see its dissolution will
rejoice to find the entering wedge firmly fixed.
while those if there be any who are merely
playing a game of politics and moving the peo
ple ot this state as they would pawns upon the
board for their own ends will be defeated and ex-
posed. If the Union is to be disolved it is believed it
must be done by soma such process as that here
suggested. It is altogether impobable that any
number of States will ever either consentaneously
or in Convention together deliberately resolve on
a direct mptare when the highest excitement is
created by Northern outrages the area of the
proof that if any one State assumes the lead and
endeavors by a violent course to seduce or compel
other States to follow her they will almost certain-
ly draw back. The only plan that promises suc-
cess is for tho aggrieved States to wheel out of line
each in her own time and on her own sense of pro-
vocation and having secured an impregnable po
sition calmly to wait until a proper nnmber shall
have formed on the same ground and then to
close up in solid column.
Tafmn Abolitionists. The New York Abo.
lition Society which went to Syracuse to hold
their anevcrsary meeting because they were
afraid to speak out all they wished to say in the
city of New York were unnecessarily alarmed.
The American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
held their anniversary there last week and indulg
ed in a latitude of violent incendiary and lawless
declamation without interruption or raising any
excitement. The whole affa vile and scurrilous
as it was appears to have excited only contempt.
Even the sentiment of the meeting itself appears
to have been divided and there was a good deal
of disapprobation of the extreme coarseness of the
language of vilification employed and the extra-
vagant ideas maintained. A " colored brother"
Gardner read prayers. Mr. Arthur Tappan was
in the chair and another "brother" Lewis Tap-
pan read the report and a string of incendiary
resolutions. They attack the South Southern men
Southern institutions Congress the Executh e the
Cabinet the compromise the fugitive slave law
and all who vote for sustain or approve it or ad
mit the obligation of its enactments. The law
they say is ' unconstitutional and inhuman a dis-
grace to the country and an outrage upon civil
liberty deserving the reprobation of every friend
of God and man" and ought to be universally dis-
Tho preachers of this fanatic treason were un-
muleed except by a few hisses and groans. No
agitation appears to have been created except
among the speakers themselves who labored hor-
ribly to pile on the agony but failed ludicrously to
get up any demonstrations of sympathy. Such
foolishness is beginning to be rated again at its
true value frothy words and nothing more.
Prospect or war between Bcekos Avitts
and Brazil. The question of peace or war be
tween Brazil and Gen. Rosas will shortly be put
to the test the Brazilian Government having
nearly completed its preparations for hostilities.
A squadron consisting of one frigate (flag ship)
fivo cutters and four steamers was to proceed on
the 26th of March under the command of Admi
ral Greenfcll to tho river Platte there to make a
demonstration. The moment was said to be fa-
vorable to Brazil in consequence of the existing
misunderstanding between Rosas and Urgniza
the latter being supported by Corrientcs and cal-
culating at least on the neutrality of Paraguay.
The general feeling in the Brazilian capital
seemed to be that satisfaction would bo obtained
without actual warfare and this impression had
caused a rise of nearly 2 per cent in the public
funds.
Abolltlonlam at Fault.
The Haverhill (Mass.) Banner tells the follow
ing capital story:
"I had a brother-in-law" said Moso Parkins
"who was one of the ravenest maddest redest-
hottest abolitionists you ever sec. I liked the
pesky critter well enough and should have been
very glad to see him cum to spend a day fetchin'
my BSter to see me and my wife if he hadn't
'lowed his tongue to run on so 'bout niggers and
slavery and the enualitv of the races and tho
duty of overtlirowin' the Constitution of the Uni-
ted States and a lotof other thintrs some of which
made me mad and the best partof'emrizhtsiefc.
It puzzled my brains a good deal to think how I
could make him shct up his noisy head 'bout
abolition.
"Wall one timo when brother-in-law come
over-to stay an idee stnick me. I hired a nigger
to help mo haying time. He was the biszest
strongest greasiest nigger you ever see. 'Black!'
he was blacker than a stack of black cats and
jest as shinoy as a new beaver hat. I spoke to
him. 'Jake' sez I 'when you hear the break-
fast bell ring don't you sav a word but j ou come
into the parlor and set rigid down among the folks
and eat your breakfast.' The nigger's c es stuck
out of his head about a feet ! You're jokm'
massa.' sez he. 'Jokm' !' sez I ' I'm as sober as
a deacon.' ' But' sez lie.' 'I shan't have time to
wash myself and change my shirt.' 'So much
the better' sez I. Wall breakfast come and
so did Jake and he set right down 'long siJe my
brother-in-law. He started but he didn't say a
word. There warn't no mistake about it. Shut
your eyes and jou'd know it for he was loud I
tell vou. There was a fust-ratu chance to talk
abolitionism but brother-in-law never opened his
chowder-head.
"'Jake.' sez I. 'vou be on hand at dinner-time :'
and he was. He had been u or Lin in the medder
in the forenoon it was hot as hickorry and bilin'
pitch and but I leave the rest to your' imagi
nation.
" Wall in the afternoon brother-in-law come
up to me madder than a short-tailed bull in hor
net-time.
'Mose' said he 'I want to speak to you.'
' Sing it out' sez I.
' I han't but a few words to say' s z 1 e 'Atif if
that 'ere confounded nigger comes to the table
arrain while I'm stoppin' here I'll clear out.'
Jake ate his supper that night in the kitchen
but from that day to this I never heard my brother-in-law
open his head about abolitionism. When
the Fugitive Slave bill was passed I thought he'd
let out some but he didn't for he Lnoic'd that
Jake was still a troriin' on the farm."
.tete would at tfeaaj the
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aaiktaadactkeefs9Ttncw(sddwuBplie.-And
The Cuba Affair.
The Savannah News of the 10th inst.savsthat
me sieamer cu luainews arrived irom Jackson-
ville on the 10th but brousht littlo additional
information in relation to tho late Cuba move
ment in that quarter. The men who had rendez-
voused at Jacksonville had nearly all returned to
their homes. A small company probably not
more than sixty or seventy were in the neitrnbor-
hood of Burnt Fort on Wednesday last and wero
makine arrancements to return to the interior.
Upwards of six hundred men had passed that
point within a few weeks past whose object
was to join the expedition. Tney expressed great
dissatisfaction in not being able to enter upon the
object which they had in view but were all wil.
linn to embark on the enterprise at anv fnrnrn
day. They are represented as having been a fine
body of men.
The ladies of Jacksonville had wrought for
them some beautiful banners which for the pre-
sent have been furled and will be preserved for
a more nromtious dav. Tha News tin tW
since it has been known in the neighborhood of
Jacksonville that the project has been abandon-
ed the cause of Cuban independence has gained
strensrth with the people and many who here
tofore were backward or indifferent on the sub-
ject are now the open advocates of the expo.
aiuon.
Capt Brown of the brig AlmiraofNew Or-
leans arrived at Savannah on I Oth inrt reports
having spoken on Sunday the 4th inst twenty
miles to the eastward of Key West a strantre
steamer which he supposed to bo in distress. He
saw a large number of men on board. The steamer
was standing before the wind and had neither
steam nor sail on. Capt B. run down to her and
asked if she was in distress and if she needed any
assistance. He received for answer that she did
not wish anything. When asked where she was
bound the reply was that they did not know!
sne was painted a dark color and bad no nag
up. She was not very large and appeared to be
foreign built The men appeared to be French
or Spaniards.
A letter from Key West says that about one
hundred men supposed to be destined for Cuba
passed that place on the last trip of the Isabela.
They were transferred to the Falcon at Havana.
Dr. Burtnett one of the parties arrested in New
York for participating in the alleged Cuba expedi-
tion has been diseharzed. He was reonired to
give oonus to mo amount m 93uoo tor his appear
ance as a witness at the approaching term of the
District Court Dr. Burtnett in his application for
a discharge stated that he had no connection with
the affair further than beimr employed to convey
one hundred and fifty passengers from South Am-
ooy rn. j. to sandy hook and two hundred
or more irom 'the city ot new rork to the
place.
Somlim States U to lam and the tjoraxlatim is a cony of a swn nnnn an
attend to espeatlu. ft itjtsiasttsm for teaching youth in one ofthf
westrrn states :
Tuxhui Aire Hcooa Seitoot Tunmts.
f things faxmaBM cvincingirrerma tcadUs tkt'Bogt and Atfg (It Oirti.
Another Accomplished Financier.
The Picayune gives an account nf ihr ope-
rations of another swindler who lias lately
been fouling in that rtiy and olhri portion"
nf the South hoe fral in lhl way evrn
excel the cutest transactions nf Parker II.
Frene h :
Some j ear and half or two year einre the
well known house nf lliir-ner & Slaninn in
Ihis ntv rrreived a ilrafl iliawn bv a ieriii
named or calling himself Dr. Tlmma Rurker
foi i small amount but knnuing no such per
on ihey of course rrfnseil to pay it. Nothing
afterward' the same house hail presented
lo ihem another draft for payment ilianm bv
the same person at San Antonio Texas for
some five hundred dollar which was also a
cheat as they neither knew the person nor hail
any monev in their hands deposited in surh a
name. A few months followed mid still anoiher
draft was p'esenteil drawn at El Pao del None
whirh like the others was a fraud. Knrker
appeal to have set "in on his travel in earnest
anil to pay his expense adopted the somewhat
laihiniiable but not very honest mode nf selling
draft upon a firm entirely iemuanl of his per-
son his purse or his perulMiiiies.
After this from month lo inonlh fraudulent
drafts drawn in different pan. of .Mexico anil
even in Caliroinia continued to auive all of
whirh were at oncepioimunced frauds. In this
way. Or. Murker contrived In raise -nine ten
oi tifieeen thousand ilollais mote lens from
those who were willing to exrhange their unM
dust or dollars lor iliafts ami his operations
were extended until he learned Central Amen
ra. At Uievlown some lour weeks since the
agent nf a friend of nuts sold a small srlioouer.
and in part payment received a ilrafl drawn
upon (Messrs. Knrker t Sianinn by the imle-
faiigahle and industrious Knrker for one thou-
sand dollars. It was only presented three nr
four da) s ninre.and n course wa. pronounced
a rheat. The next opeiaiion of Kurker seems
In have beril in Havana whither lie had gone
fiuin Greytown nr San Jmin tie Nirarauga in
one nf the steamers. On rearlnng the rapiial
of Cuba he seems so far to have wormed him-
self into the good graces of ihe well-known
house of Drake St. Co. as to sell them a limit rn
Bucknei &Sianlou foi live hundred dollar. a
moderate tiiin.whrn he iiiigln have raised mure
This was only ten clay. ago. anil since then
nothing his turned up in relaiinu to Di. Thorn
a Kuckrr. He has eiiher come lo ihu country
or else i continuing his travels through the
West India on the strength of his peculiar
financial operatiims.
Kucker is desrnbeil to us as a young man ol
good manners ami most plausible address' and
thatlielia.a well-foiged letlerofrrcdilnn Mess
rs. Burkner & Stanton there ran be no ilouin.
Hi. operations cnmnif need eiiher on the YiZ'
nr Alissi'aippi rivers as we hare already said
some year sinre and ai first were confined to
such suial' and insignificant sum. that no no-
tice wb. taken of them. But by and bj a.
his travelling expenses increased and new wants
developed ihemselves. he enlarged his open-
lions. It is even said he has drawn upon oth-
er houses in our rity beside that of Burknei
2c Stanton and to no inron.iderahle extent;
but we are not cognizant of anv other trans-
action in hi. own particular line.
Although this new candidate for a iluatin 'n
our Stale pi iron hasnnl entered as deeply inin
the an and mystery f forgery as Monioe Ed-
wards nr Parker H. Fienrh. vei he ha
been driving a pretty thrifty trade ami one far
mote safe sn fi han eithei those worthie
rould boast of. We regret that we have not rr-
cervtd sock a description ef bis fees and per
Koual appearance a would enable u. to dran
a porliait so ilia! all would know him. hut wp
lili'l we have nlieadv .aid enough in put on-
reader in the West Indie ami elprherr on
iheir guard. Rueker will not soon give up
railing thai give iieli heavy profits on so small
an outlav of rapiial.
Tun New Yore Dandy DAocERREOTTPEn A
writer in the Courrierdes EtaU Unis has anatomiz-
ed the New York Dandy in a style which loses
nothing of its punsency in passing into English
through Willis s pen :
The toilette of the New York dandy is described
by Mons. Lacombe as truly irreproachable. His
pantaloons are so diligently renewed that knee
marks never protuberate. His gloves look like
frimroses new-blown with thumb and fingers
lis head smooth from the curling-tonss sits in
hiscollar likca merigold in a paper-holder. The
tie of his cravat so broad and so fontr is a marble
of untumbled dexterity. With his hat at the ansle
agreed upon his set booted like the model foot
in the show-case of the maker laced and with a
violet in his button hole he walks Broadway like
a machine moicd by single action and if he looks
it ni it nit .Inn. !. ...1.1. f II lf..l
mjuunioiiuw;)ii im uu expression oi vul-
garian ! keep on the other side of the walk1
('Pren le las Ju paie manant."
At his club at the oneraat balls and in Broad-
way the New York dandy is pacha. He is not
in tact a danicrous member of society the
business"' fathers and husbands of New York
have cyphered up the fact that " appearances"
content him. Some intelligence and certain pow-
ers of cpnvcrsation are necessary in fact to keep
np the illusions that are risky to those who 'at
least will flirt" but the intelligence and conver
sation of the Fifth-ave noodle are confined to
topics soon exhausted. He knows that Cellarius
invented the polka and that Sri racco is his proph-
et that Derry and Corraz cut a coat authenti-
call) that Montel Tajlor and Lenoir make
bouquets and that Asia Minor and East Broad-
way are positions of the planet we live on but
other knowledge come by accident if at all and
is left to bald heads and those who are willing to
be bored with it
An Editor Knocking hi. Paper Into Per
pslual Pie.
A Phenomenon. The editor of the Cort-
land Pemonat. in a formal valnlirloiy. lake
leave of that print for another field of labor
under circumstances which tee shall not ven-
ture lo stale. We coppy his men account of
the mailer :
We will now give onr readeis an idea of
our reasons for leaving limn and an ircouut
four future occupation. You rrrollrrt per-
haps that we gave n uoiire a few urekssmre
of investigating Ihe .pmltial manifestations nr
commonly leimeil .pinliial tappnn!-.')ind that
we .taied our belief in regard lo the phenom
enon. e have hetn in Auburn since then
and upon a ihnioiiuh and rlo-e investigation
of Ihe suhjerl wp have mine to the further
ronrlii.imi thai the iinoiifesiaiion are not only
piodured by spirits out of Ihr Jl'sh hut that
Ihey are permitted anil delegated lo communi-
cate with moiials by God. for ihe vast aniliu-
ronreir.hly exalted purpose of Ttdermint; Ihr
tcarlrlfrom the bnnitngr and corruption nf sin
Ami a' one of the feeble instrument ol God
in ihu great work we engage our weak talents
onr lime and our all. henreforth and forever
till the ohjerl he accomplished.
Paul. Ihe Apostnlir Messenger. directed us.
hy mrant of ihr rapping.' in leave run hmi-
neis in lhs place and remove lo Auburn there
lo commence and roniimie the publication if
a paper lo he Hevoieil uliotiy ami exclusively
to ih is ratisp. Arroidinglv ue have disposed
of i. in interest in the D
The Revolution in Portccal. The insur-
rection in Portugal under the Duke of Saldanha
has turned out to be an absolute and ludicrous
ailure. It does not appear to have been attempted
in concert with the constitutionalist opposition as
was first supposed or by any direct appeal to the
people butt on the expectation merely that the
army would hike part in his favor. Hi3 addresses
wero accordingly made to the military command"
era and they took no part to sustain hira. He was
consequently compelled to flee and is before this
time a refugee in Spain.
The impression in Enuland on the first intelli-
gence of the attempted revolution was that it
would succeed because it was supposed from the
character of the Duke de Saldanha. that he wonH
only head an enterprise well planned and started
on constitntinnal grounds looking to a change of
administration. It seems however that he has
acted without any fixed plan with no organized
party and no definite aim and that his discom-
fiture has accordingly been sudden and complete.
An xploilon.
The foreign papers give an account of a
terrible explosion of a ponder magazine on
the 3d of April at Temesvar in Hungary. A
letter ssys:
uTlus morning at seven o'clock a nnise
like thunder was heard over the rity follow-
ed by a sound like a heavy fell of rain; evaiy
window in the rity was smashed to atoms
ihe door in all ihe houses even those whirh
were locked were hurst open massf. of ma-
onry strewed the streets and a dense m of
smokedaikened ihenimoapherp. The powder
magazine had exploded. In a few minutes
ihe noise of the explosion had reaed. and the
rause a ascertained the powder magazine
near Tiansylvaiiian harnrk had blown up.
People hastened In the barrack as soon a the
moke had rleared away. Of the magaxine
itself a large building of .uhs anlial walls
nothing remained hut a heap of smoking ruin
fmrn which occasionally a shell exploded.
The whole roof of the hariark. wa blown
away the walls riddled with shell and other
material. which had been thiowu likewise
in In every pail of ihe town committing havoc
where they exploded. Legs and arms and
roipse. horribly mutilated were scattered in
all direction. The exact nuniher nf killed
ha not been ascertained. Two explains nd
fony piivale aie reported dead. Halfan hour
later a whole battalion would have been on
exercise in ihe barracks' yard and ornbahtv
exleiminaleil. The lown gale are sn eri-
oulv damaged that thev are unsafe. At ihe
moment I am writing shell continue to ex-
plode some rising to height in ihe air. ' It is
not safe In veiilmp near ihe pot Ten hun-
dred weight ofpnwilei i drp.i.ilrd at nErrot
distance but it i hoped that it will not be
ignited. Memher nf some nfihe unhappy
ririim were found 1500 yards from the pot
Nearly all the inhabitants have fled from the
rity for safety. No clue to the disaster has
vet been found."
ehaed. in ihe nainen Peleg S.Coiirell Si Co
a pruning omre located in .Vihurn. wliere. in
a few week will he ismieil llie rirl nuiiihei
of the paper alluded lo under the title (given
hlsohy llie 'rapping') of Spitiiual anil Alotal
Instructor.' The paper will commit accounts
nf ronversalion with spirits llieliiMory.de
fence and advocacy of ihe manifestation and
ailirle composed and given eniiiely hy pirn
in another .lale of existence ll will be issu
ed rmi-mnntiily. for $ per year."
That ihe writer i entirely serious in all he
say strange though it may seem is as ob
vious a. that he is laboring under a hallucina-
tion hoidering on something more feaiful.
He goes on tn say thai he ha been rnnverlrd
from infidelity in Christianity and from a stale
of doubt tn one nf full belief as tntheimmni-
tality of the soul by means of the 'spirits'
tappings.' "
THEAprALLIG0cCURRE"iCEATDANVltLt.
The Lewishttrg Chronicle gives the particu-
lars of the injury tn the Methodist Church si
Danville Pa by lightining:
The congregation were kneeling in nraver
just before the sacrament im tn he niloilms-
lereil. There were no previous indications of s
storm except a flight sprinkle of rain anil a
rtiiuil Inch seemed to he gaiheaing m a north-
rlv direction. The steeple was first struck
Mineral and have niir-lanil iiiiirh shairered After reselm.g ihe min
The Carabv Affair. One readeis mnsi
iccollect the Carahy affair as it was trimrd
in Pari. ihe tenible drama mined in the
Rued' Anion St. llonnresomf two years since
ll may he remembered sat Galignani that a
Mi. Caiahv. who married a Miss Blanrhard
formerly of this city learned at a late hour nf
ihe night and while a number of Ef si. were
in his parlor that a man wa. in the becl-rham
her nf his wife. He rushed into the rnnm h
thehalrnny. aimed with a pistol and i!irlisigit
it at ihe adulterer wounding him. The latin
suddenly disappeared he had .lipped aw.v
bv the balcony into his apaitmenl in ihe adja
rent house. M. Carahay descended the stair-
case and on arriving al the bottom saw a young
man resembling him heimmediatelydi.rliarrr
another pistol and inflicted a serious wound
the fare and neck of this person. The vienn
wa. named Boigngnon ; and the adulterer s
subsequently discovered tn he M. deCoellogm
who with Mme.l. was ronilemnedln two year-
imprisonment for the sdn'lerv ; hut M. "aiabj
had to pay 22.(100r. tn M. Boigngnon for Ih-
injury he had rau.ed him. The payment o
Ibis sum snd nf the law expenses tn whirl
he had been ubjrled. almost ruined him.
A few weeks sinre he hinnght sn action hefoi
the civil tribunal against M do Coetlogon.
obtain payineni nf a certain sum a damage f
ihe iduliery and for the expense he had pan'
The tribunal admit! d the piinripte of iheth
mand but has taken time to fit the amount u.
the damages. Pie.
building the elertrir fluid divided iu-o two sep-
eiale riinent. one pa-.ing ihiough .he red-
ing and along ihp chain hr whirh on of the
lamp wa uspenileil. (h"lh of hrhjller
w re demolished.) direnly down into ihe nii.Nt
of ihe rrowi'ed rongirgation. leinng up ihe
floor and pew ronsiderallv. and in. an'ly kil-
ling Mi. Pencil and iuflirtiug alaiming injur-
ies upon her sister. Mi Viine and eight nr
ninp others. motlv female. bcii! stunning
and otherwise partially affecting many other
persons.
Thr ladies' di esse were mnrh torn as well
as set on fiie and in some instances ripped
completely open In llie fleh hy ihe force nf
ihe terrific holt. Mis. Pencil' person bears no
external mark nfinjiirv.hui most nf the others
were srniched and discolored in a greater nr
le. extent The other current passed out
through the brirk wall by the front dooi j-r.
ing off 'he Tarings and prostrating a young man
named Jones who wa just at that moment in
the art nf entering. The lightning sirnrk his
right shoulder lore hi light hoot tn fragments.
mistered In. ttcsii Irom shoulder In heel so
badly that the skin peeled ofTwhrn his clothes
were removed.
I.MTCHCSTINC Case Or I.ISANITf. We see
H slated in the Worcester (Mas.) Falladirun
hat among ihe immates recently committed
in the in.ane hospital in lhai city is a young
Spanish girl from llie Island nfCiiha. She is
in her sixteenth year the daughter of a libera
list in the Island who placed hei at a boarding;
srhool in western Massachusetts. The inlelli-
lence that her father was implicated in the late
-evolutionary movement in Cuba and his
irnperty confiscated preyed upon her spirits
nd unsettled her teasnn. Hopra aie enter
ained she may recover.
An Intitatios Accepted. We pick trp the.
ollowing short correspondence in a ccun try paper.
Mrs. Jenkins must have had quite a party. Here
ire the notes:
Mrs. Jenkins requests tho pleasure of Captain
frown's company at a small paity on Friday eve-
lingnext 21 Spriggins Platr Monday.
Capt Brown presents his comp'iments to Mrs.
anions and regrets that thirteen privates will ba
ttained by habeas corpus writs and two sergents
re on the rick list; the rest of- Capt Brown's
ompanv will have much pleasure in waitaur cat
Mrs. Jenkins on Friday evening.
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