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THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL. wmmuGTOw, If. C, FRIDAY, OCT. 30, 1857. r TRANSIENT Advertisers tcill please bear in mind thai Ihcir advertisements cannot appear in this paper, rcith outfirsi being paid for in advance. This rule uill be strictly carried out, toithoul respect to persons. Ko name for either the Daily or Weekly Journal, icill hereafter be entered on our list xcithout payment being made in advance, and the paper will in all cases be discontinued when the time paid for expires. The Meeting of Congress. In little over a month, a new President and a new Cabinet will submit their reports and present an outline of their policy to a new Congress of the United States. This new Congress wilt meet under peculiar circum stance, and much will be expected of it, while in reality, its power is extremely limited, and the extent to which that power can be prudently exerted is still more so. We need hardly say that the main interest of the opening session will be concentrated upon the financial condition of the country, that the portions of the Pre sident's Message which refer to this point will be the first read that the figures and the estimates of the Treasury Report will be more ' thoughtfully scanned than those emanating from any other Executive department. We think that Mr. Cobb will present a report worthy of the attention it will receive, and one calculated to increase his already well-earned reputation for practical adminis trative ability. If rumor speaks the truth, his report will embody the results of careful investigation into the present condition and future prospects of the commercial world, in which investigation he has sought and received the cuuiiel of the uieiwuitllu community ItSCir. In thus seeming to attach the highest immediate inter est to the financial reports, calculations and recommen dations, we would not be understood as ignoring other questions, or underrating the importance of other depart ments ; but it is not to be denied that the pocket-nerve is the most sensitive, and while that vibrates so painful ly, all others arc felt with but slight force, and receive for the time but little attention. It will call for the exertion of a high order of firmness and ability on the part of Congress to maintain its own position to resist the pressure of schemes and expedi ents which will be forced upon its attention ; to nobly resist will be to achieve a moral triumph equal to that won by the hero who bravely does. To realize and to act upon the conviction that little or nothing can be done by Congress, and to rest satisfied when that little has been done to disturb not the action of the re-creative powers of nature by empirical tampering with the patient, this is the province and the only province of Congress, or of any other legislative body. It is a doubtful question whether or not there will be a deficit in the income of the fiscal year, as compared with the necessary disbursements during that period of time. Acting upon the supposition that, under existing laws, and in consequence of the present exceptional state of trade, a deficit will arise, it will be for Congress to consider how that deficit can Ixst be supplied, and to act accordingly whether by an increase of the rates of duty upon importations by a temporary loan, or by the issue of Treasury notes bearing interest. No Tariff that has yet been devised in this or any other countrv. has been perfect ; and if the most care- fully arranged and laboriously prepared schemes of revcu ue arc felt to be defective, how much greater is the risk of error and imperfection in those that have been hurried through at the close of a session, without the opportuni ty of careful examination, and critical !isseetion. The Tariff of 1857 was thus hurried through, and we do not think that anything like jicrfeetion was or is claimed for it by many who voted for it as a choice of evils. That t may be revised and amended we believe, and we think it ought to be. Some of its parts are erroneous in prin ciples ; others uro luuiiy m detail. "Vu never iKilievcd in the justice of admitting the raw materials of manufac tures free of duty, and imposing the burdens thus removed from the shoulders of the manufacturer upon those of the agriculturalist. A good deal of revision is necessary with regard to the ' Free List," as many of the exemp tions made by placing certain classes of articles therein, arc, as we have said, erroneous in principle and wrong in practice. We think a proper revision will result in af fording a full revenue without resorting to any increase in the scale of duties, or any approach towards that sys tem of partiality known as the " protective " policy. Of i V course, no one would think of measuring the average revenue of years by the rate of the receipts during the intensest moment of depression produced by financial de rangement. It would be far better to meet any tempo rary deficit by a small issue of treasury notes, than, by increasing the rate ol duties, to render inevitable the re currence of a surplus in the Treasury, inviting to pecu lation and speculation, and scaring the timid into the adoption of doubtful measures to get rid of it. Other matters will, of course, attract and receive at tention ; but there is one thing pretty certain. The pub lic mind is not in a state to relish much squabbliner or delay over the organization little fusses about men must be laid aside now. The storm has been violent enough to beat down, for a time, the waves of party violence and sectional agitation. It will soon prostrate any merely personal aspirant who seeks to stir his little tempest in a tea-pot. No doubt the changes will be rune: on Kansas. If it be attempted to make approval of all of Mr. "Walker's Kansas policy the test of Democratic orthodoxy, the attempt will fail. We trust that the attempt will not be made. It can only result in evil. Unless some such ill advised movement should be resolved upon, there is noth ing in the way cf Democratic harmony. Men begin to see that slave population interest in slave property, and not mere territorial extension constitutes the strength of the institution. The institution of slavery at the South means three to four millions of slaves producing certain indispen sibles of commerce, and deriving therefrom an importance and a power amply sutncient lor its own protection, i iw only way to extend the institution is to increase the number of negroes, and this can only be done by re opening the slave trade. If, instead of nearly four mil lions of negro slaves, there had been nearly eight millions, Kansas would certainly have come in as a slave State, and so would Oregon ; Delaware would not have fallen out of the ranks of the South, nor would the permanence of the institution in Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri be threatened. If Kansas be lost to the South, it simply arises from the fact that there was no surplus of Southern labor to go into that Territory seeking employment. This is beginning to be seen and felt, and therefore less impor tance is attached to the movements cf politicians in that connection, although neither the nature of these move ments themselves, nor the estimate to lx: placed upon them, can thereby be changed. Thanksgiving. Gov. Bragg has issued his procla mation setting a part Thursday, the 26th day of No vember next, " as a day of solemn and public thanks giving to Almighty God, for past blessings, and of sup plications for his continued kindness and care over us as a State and as a nation ;" and " most respectfully and earnestly recommend that it be observed accordingly by all good people of the State." The Wilmington Light Infantry went off yester day on the evening cars, on a visit to Hillsboro'. We regretted to notice the thinness of their ranks, occasion ed by the iact that this is the busy season, when the members find it impossible to turn out on parade, much less to go off. We trust those who have gone will have a pleasant time. Daily Journal, 21th inst. The news from Europe is of a mixed character. Upon the whole, the Indian advices are of a complexion rather more favorable, or, at least, less depressing for the English. Troops are beginning to arrive at Calcutta, and the period has come when the British may be ex pected to assume the offensive. The moral effect of such a position is very great, especially where the enemy be longs to an inferior or subjict race, for, of course, much as British prestige has suffered in the East, the Sepoys, and the population of India generally, have not yet been able to free themselves from their instinctive dread of the power and prowess of the white man, and this dread although forgotten in the flush ot victory and the cou RfMnnsness of strength, will be sure to re-assert itself at the first turn of the tide. But, although favorable advices from India may ex ert some conservative influence upou the market at home or at least prevent the further stringency, which must have resulted from a different state of things, the great indicator of English finance exhibits a depression with out an example for a lone: period of years. Consols, the great financial barometer, have kept falling, and are now considerably below any point reached during the Russian war, or even during the prevalence of the great Railroad revulsion of some years back. This foretells a financia storm just as certainly as the fall of the barometer does an elemental one. Failures and suspensions, too, have com menced on the other side. The stoppage and suspension of mills and factories may lie looked for with all cer tainty, resulting, of course, in a diminished consump tion and greatly reduced prices of raw material. the revulsion be not more severe in Europe than it is in the' United States, we shall be greatly surprised. Out of nine hundred and fifty two failures occur ing during the last three months, only thirty-six have taken place at the South. This is a remarkable and a pleasing circumstance. We are pleased to record it, but unfortunately the figures of actual failures do not show the whole thing. We don't feel any assurance that the losses of the South by the crisis have been anything like as small in proportion as the rarity of the failures in that section would indicate. Suspension is next to nothing among speculators, it is only a feature of their business. Go to New York or Boston or Philadelphia and pick out the biggest houses and the showiest equipages, and the most expensively dressed females, and make enquiry about them, and you will find that they belong to, or are the families of the " great suspended." Go North in throe, four or five years after this " crisis" has passed, and see who are putting up palaces, either for business purposes, or as private residences. The South will find the names of many of these " merchant Princes " among those whose paper was returned unpaid. There is actually more turning and twisting and shov ing around, and mental anxiety among the business community at the South who do not fail, than there is among the same community at the North who do. Commercial standing is to be prized above all prices, and a high price many a man pays for it in these times. A period of pressure like this, ages a man in business, more in one year, than ten years of quiet life ought to do. Death ok Crawford, tub Sculptor. Thomas Crawford, Esq., the celebrated American Sculptor, died at London on the 1 Oth inst. He was in the 44th year of his age. Mr. C. was the truest genius in art that America has ever produced. Mr. Powers' strength lies in the leautv of his mechanical execution Crawford's n the truth and grandeur of his conceptions. The great Virginia monument to Washington is also the noblest monument to the great sculptor. lie was a native of New York, to which place his larenls had emigrated from Ballyshannon, Donegal County, Ireland, about six years Itefore the birth of the uture .sculptor. His remains will le brought home in the steamer Arajjo. Jcdck Pottek. The r'ayetteville Observer contra diets the report of the serious illness of Judge Potter, of the U. 8. District Court, who was paid to be confined at Kdenlon. Judjre Potter arrived at Fayetteville on Saturday. I le is suffering somewhat from influenza, but is not confined to his bed, and holies to leave on Thurs day, to hold his Court at Wilmington next week. The Judge passed through Wilmington on Friday last on his way home. He was very feeble, as must be expected from his extreme age, but not otherwise sen ously affected, nor apparently in any immediate danger Superior Court. This morning a rase of illegal voting from Brunswick was tried. The charge was that the defendant was not four degrees removed from a negro ancestor. The jury brought in a verdict of " not guilty." Solicitor Strange for State, Messrs. Smith and Miller for defence. Celia, a slave, the property of Mr. William Hanslcy was arraigned for the murder of another negro on the Sound. Scott Johnson, a free negro, and Jack Dudley, a slave, belonging to Mr. Alfred Dudley, were arraigned for the murder of " Robert," a slave belonging to Mr Thomas laspcyrc. They all plead " not guilty." Daily Journal, 21th inst. Sitkrior Court. The case of "Scott Johnson," a free negro, and " Jack Dudley," a slave, indicted for theniur der of " Robert," a slave, were this morning, on affidavit removed for trial to the county of Columbus. The al leged murder took place during tho summer on the lot at tached to the residence of Thomas II. Lane, Esq., in this town. Daily Journal, 28th inst. jg-AVe were mistaken yesterday in saying that the case of " Jack Dudley," arraigned as an accessory with " Scott " or " Johnson," on the charge of murder, had been removed to Columbus. The case of the principal only was removed. The trial of " Jack " occupied the greater part of yesterday, (Wednesday,) the evidence closing at night. The counsel arc still occupied in plead ing. The case will probably occupy the balance of the day. Daily Journal of yesterday. Sxow. The Chcraw, S. C, Gazette, reports a slight fall of snow at that place on Friday night last, the 23d inst.; on Wednesday and Thursday mornings of las week there were quite heavy white frosts in the vicinity of that place. J'iik Cash System. The Goldsboro' Tribune gives its subscribers notice that on the 1st day of January, 1858, the cash system for all subscribers to the Tribune will be adopted. Prioress Comixg Out. It will be seen that Prior ess, one of Mr. Ten Broeck's horses, has at last won race. As was predicted, the American horses are get ting worked up or down to running order. Later from Mexico. New Orleans, Oct. 25. The steamer Tennessee has arrival at this port from Vera Cruz with dates to the 21st inst., and from the City of Mexico to the 18th inst She brings 2o0,000 m specie. A new Cabinet has been formed in Mexico : Fueutez is Minister of Foreign Affairs ; Janrez, Minister of the Interior ; Ruiz, Chief Justice ; Conde, Minister to Nica ragua, and Payno of the Ireasury. Alvarez has routed the rebels in the South with grea slaughter. The whole coast of Yucatan is in the hands c f the re volutionists. The war of the races has broken out with n creased violence. From Kansas St. Louis, Oct. 26. Gov. Walker has given certifi cates of the election of the Free State candidates in Kansas. The pro-slavery men are greatly excited. Utah. St. Louis, Oct 26th. The Republican publishes a speech delivered by Elder Kimball in Salt Lake City, Utah, expressing the determination of the Mormons to resist the government troops, and calling even women and children to arms. He declares that he would have Brigham Young for governor for life. i ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER BALTIC. FOUR DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE. Nf.w York. Oct. 25. The steamer Baltic arrived to day, bringing dates from Liverpool to the 14th inst. The .Baltic brings JE z,uuu sterling in specie, ana iou passengers. The American ship ixxington has l)een totally lost near V alentia. Latest from India. The Indian mail has arrived with dates from Calcutta to the 10th of September and Bombay to the 17th, the news by which was telegraphed to London. The siege train was expected at Delhi on the 3d of September, and the assault was then anticipated to take place immediately. General liuveiock remained at iawuporc, uux, wouiu be reinforced in a few days by Gen. Outram, who had reached Allahabad with a strong force. Lucknow was still gallantly holding out, and would lx; relieved about the middle of September. I)rd Elgin had left Calcutta for Clunia. The China mail failed to connect at Ceylon. Gen. Nicholson had defeated the'rebelsatNajofGhar, with the loss of their trims. Gen. Havelock had defeated the reikis near Bithoor. On the 17th of August the garrison of Lucknow made a successful sortie, capturing the guns aud provisions of the Dinapore mutineers, who were again defeated by Major Eyre. The rebels were threatening Allahabad and Benares. Large bodies of troops were marching, from Calcutta towards Allahabad. Troops were arriving at Calcutta rapidly from England. A dispatch to the London Post says that the British forces had attacked Lucknow castle and spiked the guns, inflicting heavy loss on the enemy. England. There were thirty-four horses entered and ran for the Sezarwitch purse, including the American horse Prions. The first trial was a dead heat between Prioress, Elhassim and Queen Bess. The deciding heat Prioress won by a length and a half, amidst great cheer- r-- P il . 1 1 W l -.A K - ing. inc value oi me sulkcs was over ti,uw imug. The American horse Jjccompte is cieaci. There is an extensive money pressure at London, and further advance in the rates of interest was feared. Consols had fluctuated greatly, having been as low as 86, but rallied. The Bank of Dublin has advanced its rates to t per cent., and the I3ank ot France to 0. There was also a great pressure at Vienna. Messrs. Koss, Mitchell fc Co., a Canadian nouse at London, has failed liabilities quarter of a million ; as sets larger. J. Monteith & Co., and other Glasgow nouses, nave suspended to large amounts. The King of Prussia was better, but still in a critical condition. The meeting of the Emperors of France and Austria was still talked of. Spain. The ministerial crisis at Madrid still contin ued. Bravo and Murillo still refuse to form a ministry. Italy. There were apprehensions of further dis turbances in Italy. From the Special Dispatch of the Baltimore Sun. Further News from India Anticipated Assault on Delhi, &v. New York. Oct. 25, P. M. Dates from Delhi to August 30tb, state that an immediate assault was anti pated. The rebels had been defeated on the 26th with the loss of all their guns. Gen. Outram was expected to reach Cawnpore on the 9th ot September to join Havelock. It was expected that the garrison of Luck now would be relieved on the 1 5th. Havelock defeated the rebels at Bithoor on the 16th of August, then return ed to Cawnpore. The mutiny of the fifty-nrst native infantry was crushed. The garrison at Aryan arrived safely at Dinapore. The rebel force at Ingdespore was broken. The insurgents at umapore were endeavoring to reach Delhi. The twenty-third lusileers had arrived at Calcutta. Central India continues undisturbed. No further outbreaks at Bombay. The Madras presidency was tranquil. Lord Elgin had proceeded to J long ong. The Persians evacuated Herat on the 27th of July Imports at Bombay were advancing. Money was plenty, and exchange 2s 3d. The Bank of Bengal had refused advances on the India Company s paper, Another dispatch says that Havelock was awaiting reinforcements at Cawnpore before attacking Lucknow The garrison of the latter place was bravely holding out, having again defeated the rebels with severe loss, The reikis from Oudc were threatening AUabanad and Bonsires. and the fiftv-tifth native Bengal infantry had ljeen disarmed. Iirge bodies of troops were marching from Calcutta towards Allahabad. The Punjaub con tinues tranquil. Twenty-five hundred troops had arrival at Mauritius. The export of goods at Calcutta had declined, and im- lorts were dull. Money was excessively scarce. From the Times of Oct Financial Affairs. 12. The funds declined W lcr cent. The demands for discouuts at bank is more numerous than any during the month. Sixty thousand pounds were also withdrawn for exportation. The American advices per Persia show that many mouths must elapse before its consajuen- ces here will be retrieval, i he chief danger ot gold be ing sent hence to New York is on account of large ad ditional purcliases of securities, which our capitalits have been tempted to make at present prices. As re- STiccts commercial losses to be sustained this side, very heavy amounts are lclievcd to have fallen on Lyons and Paris Manchester, Bradford and Glasgow will also suffer considerably. From the Times of the 13th The bank to-day raised the discount to 7 per cent. This measure was fully anticipated, and from the extent of the applications, to-day it is doubtful if further move ment will not immediately be found necessary. The amount of bullion withdrawn from the bank has been only nine thousand pounds, but it is assertal that four hundred thousand pounds will be dispatched by the Bal tic and Persia, on Wednesday and Saturday next, and as the Indian exchanges show an adverse alteration, it is also anticipated that the shipments m that direction by this mail of 20th will be larger than at any one time thought probable. With these prospects, a fresh advance in the rate of discount can scarcely be avoided, and per haps we may again see the rate of eight per cent., at which it stood in October, 1817. In proportion, how ever, to the suddenness of the pressure, will be the rapid idity of the ultimate reaction. There is nothing to ex cite apprehension that the disturbance will be protract ed. The sole cause for anxiety is the fall of such houses, in the provinces and elsewhere, as are unavoidably com promised by tne American failures and fluctuations in the markets for Eastern produce. This should not be get, however, any vague terror, calculated to lead men to a single day ot general financial distrust. Ihc belief is however, that the decided action of the bank has remov ed all danger on that account. Altogether the feeling exhibited to-day was such as to excite pride in our health ful system of finance, and to confirm the impression that although the shock from America comes upon us in the midst of the Indian mutiny, we shall be able to with stand it ; so that its consequences, heavy as they must necessarily be, shall not destroy conhdence or interrupt the general welfare of the country. The fluctuations in the funds to-day have been extremely great. Four failures were announced from Glasgow to-day, The principal one was that of J. Monteith & Co., w hose liabilities arc believed to be extensive. They were large shippers ot lilasgow goods to America aud elsewhere. The other houses are Patterson & Co., Macdonald & Co, and Wallace & Co. From the Times of the 14th. The quotation of gold at Paris is nearly two-tenths per cent, dearer than in London, and at Hamburg five tenths dearer. The fluctuations in the funds to-day have again Deen rapid and extensive The market opened with great weakness, but there was subsequently considerable reaction and a more healthful tone in all departments of business. Consols for money were first quoted at 86 V. No sales, however were pressed, and gradual recovery took place, which was assisted by several purchases on the part of the pub lic. The range was then between 87 and 87) until noon, when the government broker appeared as a buyer of 10,000 exchequer bills on account of the sinking fund. This increased the tendency to confidence, and ultimately, notwitlistanding the announcement that the Bank of France had adopted a rise of one per cent in the rate of discount, transactions were effected at 875 to 87, and 88 to SSU for the 10th of November. A u-iu to 0074 iui u luui 01 ovemoer. ner the regular hours there was less firmness, and quotations were 87) to 87f8' for money, and 88 to 88 for the account. Further Foreign Details. Our English files to the 14th instant, by the Baltic, : 1 n r 1 , . , uuuuiiu euuic iuiuitioxuu milium 01 interest, waicn we subjoin : Progress of the War In India. From the London Times, October 13. Another mail has come, and then another mail upon it, with news from every quarter of the disturbed prov inces, and with a most gratifying announccnient, ycry late indeed, from the garrison of Lucknow, though with out informing us of any substantial change in the posi- i j hi' -tir a l- : JJ Hon and prospecis oi ine war. c an. uuiuc are muccu better pleased to hear that that garrison was safe on the 2d ult, less than six weeks ago, that it had made a sec ond successful sortie, capturing two guns and bringing in a large supply of provisions, and that there was good hope of their relief in the middle of the month, than we . . . m . 1. A should have been to near oi anotner gionous uui unproi itable victory in the open field. Elsewhere, though the end is not vet. everything is tending to it Indeed, no hiRtnrinn. ms dramatis, no poet ever so suspended tne interest, snun out the preparations, and kept the antag musts so lomr on the start as is done by the natural eourse of events in this war. Time is now in our favor ; we every where hold out, i persevere, gain courage and confidence, arc reinforced j from the mountains or the ocean, and grow continually more and more terrible in the eyes of the foe. To the arrivals from the Punjab, from Nepaul, from Madras, China, and Ceylon, we may now add whole regiments from the Capes, and the head of the great column from this country. The arrival of 2,500 troops at Mauritius is an earnest of what we may now hope for every mail. On all sides it is the note of preparation, the catalogue of the forces, the gathering of the hosts nothing com plete, critical and decisive. The siege train was still to arrive at Delhi, and the assault was then to be made. This was indeed no illusion. On the contrary, the mu tineers, having gone out from Delhi to intercept the dreaded messengers of their doom, suffered a great loss of men, guns and baggage. Everywhere it is the same. We are face to face with one another at a hundred points, collecting our strength and maturing our plans. Which ever side tempts a collision, the triumph is uniformly ours, as if to assure the mutineers that they must wait their trial aud then their doom. Our people have onc out from Agra m force and routed a body ot the insur ants. Maior Evre has again deleated the mutineers rom Dinapore. Fresh, but not uncxpectal mutinies m f . -, .... the Puniab have been speedily extinguished. Thus the intelligence is throughout far more satisfactory and hope ful than we could have ventured to expect, and it is mi- ssihle not, to feel that we have now broken the back of this terrible affair. Nevertheless, there is thispecu iaritv in the news before us that it leaves the two sides much where it found them that is, nearly in the snme nosition and in the . same force, with no fortress captured, no territory won, no army destroyed. Though the rebels were everywhere beaten, there they still were ; and at the verv time that Outram was advancing from Al nhflhnd tn awnoore. it was said tnat tne iormer , . i ii . i place, as well as Benares, was threatened by the insur gents of Oude. The real chansrc is that, when recovering ourselves uniting, and slowly augmenting the small bands that iave hitherto wae-ed uneaual war with the nosis around them, those hosts are themselves melting away. Ihey are not like the smoke of the genie that took form and substance and became a giant ; they only rise to evap orate. They may be said to be without form and void A common cause thev cannot have, as the Hindoos can only co-operate with the Mussulmans, and the Mussul mans with the Hindoos, with the secret intention of get ting rid of the other at the first convenient opportunity, There has been no manifesto, except a story of greased cartridges, which none believed, and the proclamation of a King whom none respected, 'there has been no gen eral except Nena Sahib, for the names mentioned at Delhi are those ot humble men, and change irom day to day. There has been no plan of operation, except that they who don t know what else to do nocu to ueim, where thev are not always comfortable or welcome, where, indeed, they don't always stay. It is true that we hear of the mutineers everywhere ; we may eccounter them everywhere : but everywhere they are scattered and dissipated, to turn up somewhere else. At this moment it would not be safe to say that the insurgents oi uude are not on their wav to JJelhi, or that tne garrison oi Delhi is not on its way to Oude. The insurgents of Oude also threaten Allahabad and Benares. The mutineers of Dinapore diffused an extensive panic down the river, but have been beaten twice higher up. Thus the foe we have to deal with nameless, causeless, pointless, and aimless is desultory as a vapor, shallow as an inunda tion. jN ever was anything of such formidable dimen sions so destitute of consistency. A great people or a great cause will in time find a great general, and win the dav. But even if the Sepoys should have the luck to find a great soldier, they have not in themselves what he could take hold of. He might as well attempt to grasp a mist, or to command a shoal of herrings. Their faint traditional loyalty to some names and sites would afford but slight ground-work for discipline or government. The weak, listless, vaporing throng would resent efficient command as a wrorse bondage than the old one. So little solidity or principle is observol in the mutineers, and so little power of turning their opportunities to ac count, that it has been thought not improbable they will all disperse on the arrival of our reinforcements, or prof fer their submission. They may not take cither of these courses, for they may not !e able to do the one, or have encouragement to do the other ; but it is confidently expected that they will make no stand. A dispatch from Calcutta contains the following : The Punjab reinforcements reached the camp before Delhi on the 14th of August, and more recently an aux illiary force os 26,000 men from Cashmere has inarched to join the force. It is expected to do good service. The disarmed 26th Native Infantry, at Lahore, mur dered their commanding officer on the 30th of July, and broke away from the cantonment. The troops sent in pursuit took the wrong road ; but the mutineers were followed by the police and the people of the country, and in the first days of August were cither destoyed or captured and executed hardly a man had escaped. Fugitives of the 5Gth Native Infantry, in Pershawur, have been seizal and similarly dealt with, These rigor ous measures will probably stop others from similar at tempts in Bengal and Behar. It is stated that the troops at Bhopaul have rebelled. The Begum, who continues friendly, had already sent away the Europeans in safety. The Bank of Bengal refuses to make advances against government paper or bills having more than 30 days to run. North Carolina Synod. The Synod of the Presbyterian Church of North Car olina met in this town on Wednesday last, the 21st in stant. The opening sermon was preached by the Rev. Neill McKay, of Harnett county, (Fayetteville Presbytery) from 1st Corinthians, 3d chap., 8th and Oth verses : " Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one : and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labor. For we arc laboring together with God : ye are God's husbandry, yc arc God's building." There was a large and attentive audience present, and all seemed deeply interested in the subject. The discourse was one of much ability, replete with sound argument, logical in its deductions, aud delivered in that clear and forcible manner, which, while it attracted the attention of the hearer, pressed home the subject upon the heart and conscience. After the sermon, the Synod was called to order, and the roll being called, it was ascertained that 20 Minis ters were present from the Orange Presbytery, 30 from the Concord Presbytery, and 20 from the Fayetteville Presbytery, besides Ruling elders from each of the above Presbyteries, numbering about 40. Rev. W. W. Pharr was elected Moderator, and Rev. Jacob Doll and Rev. Martin McQueen were chosen Clerks. On Thursday, after the appointment of the standing committees, Newborn was chosen as the place for the next meeting of the Synod, on Wednesday before the third Sabbath in November, 1858. On Friday, resolutions were offered concerning the " North Carolina Presbyterian" paper, proposed to be published in this State. The resolutions endorsed the paper and pledge the members of the Synod to exert themselves m sustaining the enterprise. Short speeches were made by Rev. Messrs. Colton, Nash. Wilson, Me bane, Chambers, Geo. McNeill and Neill McKay, and by Hon. A. W. Venabie, C. II. Wiley and Jas. W. Osborne, Esq'rs all in favor (with one exception) of publishing the paper. The resolutions were adopted with but one dissenting voice, Rev. P. T. Penick. Rev. James II. McNeill, Corresponding Secretary of the American Bible Society, addressed the Synod and a large audience, on Friday afternoon, with regard to the affairs of that Society. He spoke about two and a half hours, making an eloquent appeal in behalf of the Bible cause, and relating a vast amount of valuable and interesting information concerning the operations of the Society. He is a fluent and impressive speaker, and his effort was highly commended by all that we have heard speak of it. Friday night, after a Missionary sermon, the commit tee on Domestic Missions reported, and Hon. A. W. Venabie spoke in behalf of the cause. The various reports made to the Synod show the Church to be in a very prosperous condition. The Synod adjourned on Saturday night. Charlotte Democrat. A number of the Lazy Society was complained of for running. His defence was, that he was going down hill, and that it was more labor to walk than run. Com plaint dismissed with expenses. Virginia Presbyterian Synod, Washlsgton, Oct. 23. In tho Synod to-day a reso lution was offered, that the Synod of Virginia are oppo sed to the agitation of the slavery question in ecclesias tical bodies ; that they have no sympathy with either the Northern .or Southern extremists on the subject, and that thev are opposed to political preachers and preach ing. Tne resolution was laid on the table. The following resolutions were offered : Resolved, That we have heard, with regret, that the sentiments of the Declaration of Independence are oppo sed by some ministers, and that we regard that national document as an honor to the head and heart of the au thor ; and we believe it ought to be the pride and glory of all Presbyterians, and of the American people. Resolved, That the Synod of Virginia, Ixjlieving from her territorial position, that she has a great mission to perform in binding still stronger the chords that hold together the union of these United States, earnestly dep recating all agitation of the slavery questson in ecclesi astical bodies. The resolutions, after leuig discussed, were finally ta bled. Previous to the resolutions being offered, Mr. Danford, from the committee on the minutes of the General As sembly, held at Cleveland in May, 18.57, made a report that they have examined the same up to pages 101, 102, 103 and 104, and as it is impossible for them to concur with the views therein expressed, and which the mem bers of this Synod are expected to carry out in the ad ministration of the affairs of our Churches, we are, there fore, left to the alternative of dissolving our connection with the General Assembly ; and the committee accor dingly recommend that the Synod of Virginia do with draw from all farther connection with the General As sembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, which held its session in Cleveland in May, 1857. In recommending this course to the Synod, we , believe we are expressing the sentiments of the great, maiority of our Churches, deliberately formal, after the most ample discussion, and when all means of reconciliation and ef forts for united action have been expended. While w-e take this ground with a firm trust in the justice of our principles, and an unalterable reliance on the gracious support of the Great Head of the Church, we do it also with unabated affection for our brethren in the Lord, who have compelled us to separate from them, and on whom we would invoke the choicest benediction of our Common Father. After the previous resolutions had been tabled, Rev. Mr. Newlin, the President of Delaware College, offered the following substitute for the report of the Committee Whereas, it has been the rule of this Synod to appoint Committee on the Minutes of the General Assembly, to report on such matters as may require our attention, and, whereas, the actiou of the Assembly on certain sub jects was the occasion of much discussion and difference of opinion, be it Resolved, That the said committee be excused from reporting on the Minutes, and that we reserve any defi nite action till the next Synodical meeting. A long and warm discussion ensnal pending which the Synod adjourned. The Synod re-assemblal at 5 o'clock this evening. The debate was resumed on Mr. Newlin's substitute. Much feeling and warmth prevailed. The question on the substitute will be taken to-night ; but there is now little doubt that the report of the Committee will be ac cepted, and the connection several the District Pres bytery going with the South, and forming a new As sembly. John 31 Ut lit r 8 Rtiic-oiitre vlth the Editor of the Knoxvllle Register. We find in some of our Carolina know-nothing ex changes a very different account of the affair from the statement appended below. The latter is from a reliable gentleman who was present, and who published it in the Washington Union : Knoxville, Tenn. F. C. Duxxixgtox, Esq.: The know-nothing papers here will endeavor, I have no doubt, to produce a false impression upon the public mind with reference to an assault made upon Fleming, the editor of the Register, by John Mitchel. You have seen, I suppose, the arti cles recently appearing in the Louisville Journal, in which Mitchel is charged with having effected his es cape from Van Dieman's Land by a breach of parole. One of these articles, during Mitchel's recent absence in New York, was re-published in the Register, accompa nied by some impertinent comments. Day before ves- Lterday he met with Fleming, and approaching him, (no friend ot Mitchel s having the slightest intimation of his intention in the premises,) said to him in the hearing of suudry persons : " Mr. Fleming, sir, in my absence, you published a scurrillous and impertinent article re specting myself in your paper." Here Fleming inter rupted him by saying, " scurrillous?" " Yes, sir," said Mitchel, " scurrillous, and it is this way that I shall an swer it," and immediately commencal caning him, a dozen or more persons witnessing it. His cane was broken upon Fleming, the latter making such resistance and parrying the blows as best he could, though inflicting no injury whatever upon Mitchel. They were serrated by bystanders, an officer seizing Mitchel. In ten or fifteen minutes afterwards Mitchel stepped into the Lamar House with a friend, and re mained there perhaps half an hour. Fleming's friends became quite anxious to know why he did not appear upon the street, that F. might repair the injury he had suffered. Mitchel not being armed in the first melee provided himself with such weapons as he thought ne cessary to his defence, and appeared upon the street, though told that there were Know Nothings around who intended to mob him. He passed by Fleming, who ac costed him, when Mitchel halted and said, "well, sir, what do you want ?" At this Fleming had a half dozen or more ot his friends about him, all of whom were armed. Fleming said, " you made a dastardly and cowardly attack upon me when I was not prepared for it, and I now pronounce you a coward." " Well," said Mitchel, " words are nothing now, what will you do ?" Fleming thereupon repeated his denunciation. To which Mitchel replied, " you are a white man ; what arc you going to do ?" At the same time inviting those who stood about not A J. A 1 1 1" . . I j 1.1 . 10 interpose inai ne ana r . mignt settle, as it was a per sonal difficulty between them. F. made not the slight est demonstration of an intention to make an attack, and when Mitchel pronounced him a " whipt man," and that words were nothing then, he (M.) turned and started on, when one of F.'s Know Nothing friends spoke out saying," " you sneak off', do you." M. turned, stepped back and inquired " who said sueak ?" Whereupon he who spoke thrust his face viciously at M. and said " I did, sir." Instantly M., though surroun ded by the whole pack, with their knives, slapped him in the face with such force as came near prostrating him. As he recovered from the blow he drew a pistol and snapped it at Mitchel, the cap exploding only. Mitchel immediately drew his pistol, and was about to fire upon him, when some one told him not to fire, that the fellow was drunk, whereupon Mitchell put up his pistol saying, " I will not shoot a drunken man." As he stood there casting a glance first at one aud then at another of them, neither F. nor any one of them dared further to molest him. Whether any one of them will yet do so remains to be seen. However, yesterday, ne was upon the streets, and no further assault was made, I have endeavored to give you a narrative of the oc currence as it transpired, and I hope you will take such notice of it as will counteract any false impression, that I am sure will be attempted to be made, by the Know- is othmg press here, that Mitchell should dare, in the midst of so large a majority of know-nothings to edit a paper, and I have no doubt but that cverythmc that can be, will be done to impair the influence of the paper, dui 11 win dc to no purpose. Rev. Henry Ward Beechcr, dressed in very common clothes, was studying human nature as exhibited in the 1 1 J 1 -vt -m-r- -w .1 nignways anu oye-ways 01 iew iorK. in the course of his philosophic perigrinations he went into a mock auction shop. He stood awhile on enterina-, and reflect ed doubtless, how any one could be so lost to all sense of truth and honesty as the auctioneer in question, endea voring to palm off his worthless trash to the inexperien ced in city ways, as good and valuable, and finally the auctioneer called out : "Mr. Beecher, why don't you bid ?" He was greatly astonished, as we can well ima gine, at finding himself known in this place, and, as he had supposed, in his purposely careless dress. He im mediatelly left, and started for the residence of one of the members of the church in the neighborhood, and request ed as an act of kindness, to go down and inquire of that Eerson who had sold himself to Satan for the love of gain, ow it was that he knew him in his disguise. The neighbor kindly consented, and on entering the "Peter Funk" shop he addressed the auctioneer : "How is it you know Henry Ward Beecher so well as to be able to recognize him in his disguise ?" How do I know him ? Why, I have been a prominet member of his congregation for the last five years, and own tlu fifth pew from the front .'"Buffalo Republic. A Distinction. Napoleon was one day searching for a book in a library of Malmaison, and at last discov ered it on a shelf somewhat above his reach. Marshal Moncey, who was present, one of the tallest men in the army, stepped forward, saying : Permit me, sire : I am higher than your Majesty." " Yon are longer, Mar shal," said the Ejmperor, with a frown. - " Caleb Csuhtng on CrtnoUne ,. Hard In Faneuil HalL on the 14th insU, ex-Attorney Gen eral Cushiug delivered an address before the Manarhn setts Charitable Mechanics' Association, in reference to the sentiment " Our Country Glorious for its sci ence, glorious for its arts, and still more glorious for ii public men." In the course of his speech, Mr. Cushintr said : 8 I doubt at any rate in the breadth of its ordinary statement, the truth of the current doctrine of assumed profusion of living as the evil of the times, or contracts retrenchment as its remedy. I think both the evil itself and its remedy, lie deeper in other causes and acts, which it would be out of place to attempt to unfold here at the festive board. For example, it is quite common to assail the ladies and to ridicule and reproach their taste of dress, person al ornament, ami custom of life, as one of the responsible causes of the present commercial crisis. I utterly deny this. I would like to break a lance with any gentleman in that quarrel. I will go further, and run the risk of paradox, in saying that in my judgment the prevailing costume is not only graceful, but, relatively to other fashions which have preceded it, convenient, and there fore justified by considerations of utility as well as beau ty. Apart from that, I confess I have been amused to observe how much of undue importance, in the great sum of our wealth, industry and commerce, has been at tributed to the extra flounces and furbelows of the la dies, it is in truth a matter which enters for a mere bcgatelle into the complex question of imports and ex ports, and that is all. Did the silk worn by the ladies produce the failure of the Ohio Life and Trust Compa ny. Did their superfluous laces and muslins break down the Illinois Central Rail Road? Did the voluminous skirts stop the wheels of the Erie Rail Road ? Was it a fancy of theirs for cakes and sweetmeats, which raised up, or pullal down, the speculative prices of sugar and flour in the United States ? Was it their kid gloves and lilliputan bonnets aud slippers, which occasioned the embarrassment of the great dry goods commission houses of Boston, and the suspension of the bauks of Philadel phia and New York ? Absurd ! I confess it shames me, as a man, to hear so much said of the profuscness of the ladies, in view of our-own way of life. Most assuredly Mr. Fitz Frivol, with his cham pagne, his cigars, his fast horses, his yachts and his oth er fancy pastimes, has no right to complain of the fine rows, the broidered kerchiefs and the bijouterie of Miss Flora McFlimsey ; she will discover that she is in want of nothing to wear quite as soon as he will find anything useful to do ; for even she has a warm woman's heart beneath all the point lace and moire antique in whow mysterious volume her fair form is draped ; and if he did but know how to reach that heart, he would see her as prompt to please by frugality as by luxury, and proud to make any sacrifice of fashion at the voice of duty and of love. But all the follies of all the Fitz Frivols and Flora McFlimseys in tlie land are as nothing, in effect, on the financial condition of the United States, compared, I will not say with a war in the Crimea or in India for that we do not and cannot have but as compared with a few cents per pound or yard of rise or fall in the price of the cotton of Carolina, the corn and wheat of Illinois, or the freights and manufactures of Massachusetts ; and their follies have had no appreciable influence in produc ing the actual breakdown of the credit system of the United States. At such a time as this, at any rate, when so many thous ands of industrious men and women in Massachusetts are deprived of occupation and of means of support, by the curtailment or suspension of work in the great manufac tories of the State, although for them retrenchment is necessary as well as duty, yet it is not so for those who, with wealth, possess assured means of subsistence. Why should they retrench, when every article they consume is of diminished price ? It would be especially unwise for them to do so, at a time when every item of personal ex penditure which they may cut off will but serve to ag gravate, the evils, by contributing to impede the circu lation of money, by increasing the superabundance of unemployed labor, and by multiplying the causes of pov erty and crime, and in the long run subject them to lar ger expenditures of almsgiving and taxation. At a time like this, in France, for instance, there would be succor to labor by great public works of the Government, such as the addition of a new quadrangle to the Louvre or the Tuileries. We cannot in this way combat the effects of a stricture, as it is called, in the money market. But we can, so far as we possess the means, continue our accustomed train of life ; persevere in well devised and well directed enterprises ; keep so far as possible, our ships and our looms in action ; preserve, unmoved, the great landmarks of our industrial, prosperi ty ; and stand ready to start anew' when proper time comes, as come it soon must, all the great movements of production of commerce throughout the Commonwealth. Jnmes K. Folk on Bank Suspensions. The following is an extract from the message of Gov. James K. Polk to the legislature of Tennessee in 1839. After having shown the causes of the financial troubles at that time to have resulted from an inflated paper cur rency, starting first with the banks of the Eastern cities, he says : "Upon the receipt of the information that some of the banks at the East in little more than a year from their last resumption had again suspended specie payments, the question immediately arose in the public mind, what had produced the suspension, and what would be the course proper to be pursued by the banks of Tennessee ? "As far as we are informed, the suspension at the East is represented to have arisen 'not out of a lack of power to continue specie payments, but solf-preservation, under the lorm of keeping the specie from being drained out of the country.' Without the means of knowing how the fact may be, it is for a suspension of payment by the banks, but an absolute inability to meet their responsi bilities promptly. "And whatever may have been the cause of the suspen sion of payment by our banks, so long as they are able to pay. What is the effect if a contrary course be adop ted ? A few of the Banks at the East suspended, and represent to the public that they are solvent, and do so, not from necessity, but to retain their specie : and fol lowing their example, the banks in the interior, which are also reprcsental to be solvent, suspended also, not because they arc under the necessity to do so; but sim ply because the eastern banks have suspended ; so that the suspension of the banks in a single city which may have indulgal in excessive issues of bank paper and bank credits, and thus stimulatal and promoted over-action in trade, or which may have ulterior objects in view, is made to operate as a suspension of payments by all the banks of the country. Surely, if a bank suspendes ia Philadelphia, it is no reason for our banks to follow the example, unless they are compelled by their condition to do so. "The apprehension of the drain of their specie can be no sufficient reason, for one of the conditions of their coqiorate privileges is, that they shall keep themselves at all times in a condition to meet their, liabilities. When a suspension of specie payments takes place by banks, their circulation immediately depreciates in value, and the loss falls not on the banks, but on the people. The labor of the country bears the loss, whilst the lank, during a period cf suspension, arc often doing their most profitable business.'' New Orleans Bank Statement. New Orleans, Oct. 23. The Bank Statement of this 'city shows a decrease in circulation of $500,000, m deposits of $283,240, in exchange of $385,240, and an increase of specie to the amount of $378,400. Minnesota and Iowa Election. Chicago, Oct. 27. Minnesota election returns com plete give Sibley, deni., 123 majority. A large number of Indians voted in Pemlina district. Official returns from 46 counties of Iowa give Oen. Lowe, rep., 2,237 majority. Senatorial Election. . , Nashville. Oct. 27. A. O. P. Nicholson was ed United States Senator to-day, to succeed Hon. John Bell, whose term expires in 18o. An ai.''r made to " instruct" Senator Bell out was Official Vote of Pennyvanla The official vote for srovernor. at the late election Pennsylvania, is as follows : . g-- Packer, democrat ug 1-5 Wilmot, black republican 28 27" Hazlehurst, know nothing Packer's majority over Wilmot, 39,732 ; over m mot and Hazlehurst combined, 11,465. The legislature stands as follows ; Opposition. Senate 12 House of representatives 31 Democrats 21 69 43 90 43 Democratic majority on joint uauui.... . . . This is, indeed, a most glorious record-affording most satisfactory evidence of one oT the most su tial victories ever achieved by the democracy 01 r gylvania. Washington Union. -A man died recently in Alabama, jjj toe growing into the flesh. The trouble is tecunic called "phlebitis." . . - ... i 1.-11-4 .47
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