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JJobk Camels ro Texa& The Uni ted States steamship Surprise, aw laying at tb Brooklyn Nary Yard, it U stated, U to be Bent again in a fear weeks far a eiu force uijeiit to the stock of eaniels lironght in by Ler .ou Iter last trip, and andjj is Texas for tbe United State Oov rrooieut jes. . It has &eea found that he eiftcrimfelit succodi admirably, and that forth transfer of the United States tore across the plazas of Texas the camel Is perfectly fitted, and withstand the soil nod climate of the country wiijjut any difficulty. . Thus far only thirty five have Iteen brought. It is intended in the next trip to bring fifty. ifctos f Sty? Later rrnj California. The steamship Daniel Webster arrived at New Orleans pn the 12 inst., from San Francisco, with California dates to the 20th ult. The (George Law had sailed for New York, w'Ub $900,000 in gold. The excitement ia California still continued. Very few persons had responded to the Governor pratla i, while ? the Vigilance Couimitteiinued to receive recruits by the thousands. It is stated that they-bave'4ndf arras and4bim cannon. The Governor collected a fey hundred men and vent to Bonicia, to get arras from the United States arsenal, but Geu. Wool I f( refused to let him have them. The Governor's forces were encamped iiMr PranpK ft ' The Co amittee had banished six more rogues, and continued arresting them. Nearly all the towns in the interior had held enthusiastic meetings in favor of the Committee, and formed organizations to assist it. The reports from the mines are fayoable. Indian War in Oregon. Indian hostilities continue in Oregon. Smith's command had been attacked near the . Meadows, and 12 killed '."and 25 wounded The Indian loss was considerable. Col. Wrieht had one-third of his com tmnd killed by the Yukoma Indians. From Cemsax America Waiker Elected President. The news from Nicaragua is important, Gen. Walker was "elected President, on thetn of June; and on tbe 2th Presideat.Rrvas and the minis ter of war loft Leon. They afterwards appeared at Chinendago, collected COO , natives, called in the outposts, and ordered the Americans to evacuate Leon. Th v order was obeyed, and Rivas took possess ion with 120 men. Gen. Walker declared Rivas and his party traitors. Most of the officers of the former cabinet adhered to Walker. . Tbe advance guard of the Guatemalan army proceeding against Walker, reached Santa Anna on the llfh June, aud were cordially received. It is reported that Col Gomel and other ex-omoers of the Mexican army, have gone to Guatemala to assist against Walker. .A strong revolution had broken out in "7 Costa rPUcabeaded by the party which opposed the invasion of Nicaragua from Kansas. St. Louis, July 9. Advices from Topeka, Kansas, to the 4th, state that the Free?tate Convention met on the 2d and passed resolutions in favor of the Republi ican party, and appealing to- their friends in Congress to refuse all appropriations " State. The President's" and Gov. Shannon V proclamations were read, and also a letter from Col. - Sumner stating that he would disperse.the Legislature. About $00 were present, all amed. On the 4th Sumner with 200 dragoons and 2 cannon arrived and ordered the J; Legislature to disperse, and they compli ed. : The Convention was preparing resolu tions endorsing the State Government and tbe.!opeka Constitution. Fears of an by yUfck all the distressed runaway slaves in Cscnda may be returned back po. the United States. ' : ?: h ' -. ."" .1 ' ' ' - The Bank orrayettcvllle 'ae--Small A'otcs Prohibited. It will be seen that among the decisions of the Supreme Court of NoribCarcliua, are the three cases made up fryfi 'the Su perior Court of this county, the Sjtate r. the Bank of Fayette'ville, the State ts. W. G. Matthews, Teller, and the Stale r, Al exander MePherson, Clerk of said Bank. The judgment in the two last eases is af firmed against thp defendants. In the first named case, the judgment id nomi nal for the Bnuk, but we lonrn that it is fonly soon the ground that an indictment was pot the proper proceeding, but that the case should have originated by an " In formation" instead of indictment. We further learn thaf a'l the points heretofore discussed in the public prints and otherwise, are decided in favor of the Bank. That is, it ia decided in 1848, when the Bank was chartered, there was no general law in existence prohibiting the issue of small bank notes. And that un der its charter the Bank, had a rijzht'to is sue small notes, up to the 1st day of Jan uary, 185G, when the new Revised. pde invasion kept Targe nuniber3 from attend ing .. . : Fl'RTIl ER FOREIGN SEWS, New York, July 11. One hundred .1 1 1 11 1 J . 1 fl 1 ' tnousana q;iars J3aa oeqn eupscnpeu in London for the French sufferers by the last , inundations. Russia was busily engaged in strengthen ing the defences o'f NJcolaifF and Sebasto- pol, rendering them stronger than ever. Copies of incendiary proclamations, ex citing to pillage and assassination, , were circulating throughout Italy. It was rumored that the King was disposed to reject the counsels pf the Western powers. . A private interview was about to take place between the Emperors of France and Austria, the object of which was un known. .. '. It is now said that Spain reserved to itself the right to fix the conditions and nature of the reparation it demands of Mexico; France merely offered her good offices pot her mediation. The chief reason for the reduction of the English bank interest was the fine weather, which promised an abundant harvest. But the decision is against the issue of any such notes by-thc Bank after the. let of January, 18;"0, upon a point never be- brr mooted, not even in the argument of the Attorney General against the Pank. It is this : That the Legislature iu its sov ereign potrertp regulate -the cunency, has the right to prescribe what kind of Dank notes may be issued : That, when it shull have exercised that right, in any bank charter, it cannot revoke or alter its decision, for it has then passed into the nature of a contract with the Bank, which must not be violated! But in the case of tbe Bank of Fayetteville, the charter was silent on that point the right was not ex ercised ; the failure to exercise it origi nally did not diminish the right to do so at any future time. And thus the Jaw of January 1, 1850, forbidding any bank not expressly authorized to issue less than 83 notes, is constitutional, infringing no con tract with the bank. ... The case s different with all the other banks in the State j the Legislature ex hausted its power on that point when it prescribed iu their charters the kind of notes they might issue, viz : ?2'g and up wards. " We learn further, ithat this decision is iu accordance with two very recent decisions of the Supreme. Court of the Uuited States", in similar cases which went to that tribu nal from the Supreme Court being pro nounced by Chief Justice Taney. We are authorized to say that the Bank will not hereafter pay out any note under $3. Of course it will redeem any of its notes, largo or small, as usual, on their presentations But we may be allowed to express our hope that the publio, to whom these small notes are an incalculable con venience, will not pay them into the bank, either that bank or any other, for they cannot then be re-issued. - They will ne cessarily become scarce, but let us have the benefit of them as long as possible. v e are informed by a legal gentleman who has read the opinion of the Court, that it extends only to notes issued since the 1st of January, 1850, the Court being at liberty to decide as to he Tcgalify of the continued circulation of notes issued pre- vi'ua that time, tfwi now in the bands of individuals. That point- was not pre sented for decision. It is still a ouestion. therefore, whether individuals, in whpse hands such notes now are, have not a right stnrto circulate them. They were lawful when issued, and the opinion of the Court only restraipj the bank itself. ' ' We hope to have a copy of the opinion ofthe Court, as delivered by Judge Pear son, in time for publication in Monday's Observer. Fay. Observer. : Toe $ew York Iron Floating Bat tery. A Jarge iron floating battery has been building in New York for some yean past. Tufa iron vessel, so mysteriously docked and hid from public view, laspeen fourteen years under way, and of course considerable progress has been made in her construction,' and she could be finish ed, if necessary, in one year. She is four hundred feet long, and Jthirty or forfy feet in breadth. She is builteutirely of wrought iron plates, and each plate se S inches in thickness; these attached to her iron frame work. She will have eight steam engines, and is to be propelled by two screw paddles one on each side of her 'Stern post. In smooth water she will run, it is expected from twenty to tjveuty-five miles per hour; aud as she is intended solely for harbor de fences, the will have smooth water to run in at all times. She can, by her double propulsion power, by reversing one of the screws, turn in her own axis, or in a space of four hundred feet. She is to be mount ed with twenty guns, of the heaviest call bre and Jopgest range. The dock where this wonderful floating battery is now lying is very mysteriously guarded,. ' ' -" Owing td tb6 extreme length of the ves sel, rocks have been excavated, and one of the streets of Iloboken bas been tunnelled to admit one end p( the monster, wucn Mr..Fiobcrt L. Stevens died, he left models to enable Mr Walker the superintendent of her..contruction, to complete the vessel in accorditncewith ' bis -original conception. She has cost the Government, thus far, over half a million of dollars, all of which has becu expended,-aud- lately the-work has been carried on out of the private funds of Mr. Stevens. This vessel, or two or three Jjke her, will guard New York from any force that may be brought ngainSt the' place. She is perfectly impervious to shot orsheH, from Lancaster, Paixhan or Colum- biad. The iron plates of which she is con structed are" each' thoroughly tested by cannon-shot before being fastened to the frame of the vessel. Her machinery is all below the water line, and out of harm's way. Her speed will make her equal to twenty or thirty gun-boats of the modern style With two or three such vessels, New York would indeed be impregnable. I.nterebtixo Relics. Two . medals were lately found in the grave of an Indi an chief, upon the eastern border of I llin- Figitite Slave SiRREMEa. The Quebec Mercury is out in an article, enjoin ing the Canadian Parliament to pass a law, ou. Une is American and the other Enu. lish, and are such as was presented by the two governments to sachems whoso friend- sbipThcy desrrcd to conciliator- The Ame-4- rican medal is elliptic in shape, and four by five and a half inches in dimensions. Upon one dide it has engraved a figure, in tended to represent Washington in con versation with an Indian warrior. They are smoking the calumet, the tomahawk is on the ground, a tent in the rear, and a yoke of oxen in the back" ground. The in scription is " Georga Washington, -President, 1792." Upon the reverse ia the American eagle. The English medal is circular, four inches in diameter, and was evidently struck with a die. It ha9 the king's head, with the InscriptionfieBre III. Pei Gratia." On the reverse are the I British arms. The medals are of pufe sil ver, weigh each about four ounce", - and Were found, together with a number of trinkets, ip a grave in one of the mo6t ex tensive Indian cemeteries in the JVest. - : . r, . . Sxv IiOi;iSr July 3-Six steamboats, the St. Clair,4aid- Andc rson,- Grand Turk A Thrilling Scene. A sub-marine diver from Buffalo has at last succeeded in raising tbe safe of the American Express Company, which was lost when the steam er Atlantic was gunk off Long Point in 1852,. It will be recollected that this steam er was instantly sunk by collision with a propeller, and that a largo number of pas sengers were lost The diver was protect ed by copper armer, and was under water forty minutes. The upper deck of the steamer lies one hundred and sixty feet under water, and far below where there is any current or motion. Everything there fore is exactly as it first went down. When the diver alighted upon the deck, be was saluted by a beautiful lady, whose clothing was well arranged, and her hair elegantly dressed. : . As he approached her, the motion ofthe Water caused an oscillation of the head as if gracefully bowing to him. She was stand ing erect, with one hand grasping the rig ging. Around lay the bodies, as if sleep- ing. Children holding their friends by their hands, mothers with their babes in their arms, were there. In the cabin the turuUura was .still untouched by decay, and to all appearance w.. beenarranged by eome careful and tasteful nana. - Inthe office he found a safe, and was enabled to move it with case, took it upon deck, where the grappling irons were fas tened on, and the prize brought safely to the light. Upon opening the safe it dis played ita contents in a perfect state of pre servation. . There was in the safe $5000 in gold, $3500 in bills of the Government Stock Bank, and a large amount of bills on other banks, amounting in all to about 836,000. The papers were uninjured, ex cept that they smelled very strongly of de cayed human bodies, as if it had lain for many years in a coffin with" their 'bwner. Of course, all this money goes to the per sons interested in tbo wonderful adventure. ThTT)etrdifFree-Press-says4rifTh new bills, we are told, are comparatively uninjured by their long imprisonment and exppsuTe-to-dampiiessrbut the old ones are juite injured and defaced whether so much as to prevent their identification, we have not learned. There are several thou sand of dollars on the exploded Government Stock Bank of Ann Arbor, included in the amount recovered." Detroit Advertiser. strcejta and their bead knockejjn, )Ybep ever jiny of the " cntjber'' was found, iou shoUts would resound froet jthe assembled ladies.- Gloucester Afats,) ( Telegraph, 9th in$r. , .-'..; '' - r - .' ?'- ' SniPPiNa ot England. The London S'u'pping- Gazette of ' May 21 . says A series of returns moved for by Mr. Ingbam, relating to shipping, have been issued this morning, from which, it appears that the number and tonnage of sailing vessels registered at the ports of Great Britain and Ireland, including the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands, pa the'31st Decem ber last,, was 24274, with a tonnage of 3978,099. Of steam vessels there were 1,674 with a tonnage of 380,635. The number of vessels thaf wcrd built and registered in the United Kingdom during the year was 856 sailing tessels, 214,990, and 242 steam vessels, 108,210 tonnage. 2,050 vessels, 413,966 tonnage, were sold or transferred during; the like period. There were wrecked during the" first year 474 sailing vessels, 93,161 tonnage, and 12 steam vessels- with. 2,656 tonnage; 94 sailing, vessels, 6,121 : tonnage, and 20 steam vessels, .1,908 tonnage were broken up. : The colonial built vessels registered iu the United Kingdom during the year was347Tfilh 2'r,177 tonnager'andltT foreign bnilt; with 39.437 tonnage. - The number of ships employed in the trade of the United Kingdom that entered ijiward, including their, jepeated v,oyages, were 285,787. British, with a tonnage of 5,270, 792, and 18,103 foreign, 8,683 foreign, 3,680,447 tonnage. There cleared out ward 23,095 British vessels, 5,04840 tonnage, and 19,502 foreign, of 3,889,291 tonnage. A New Motive Power. The London Morning' Chronicle announce that a great experiment wasTeeentfy tried at Yincen- nes, in the- presence of Gen. Labitte and the officers of the fort. The Chronicle says the secret of compressing and govern ing electricity is at length discovered, and that power may therefore now be consider ed as the sole motive henceforward to be used. (A small mortar was fired by the inventor at the rate of a hundred shots a minute without flashing, smoke, or noise. The samp power can, it seems, be adapted to every system of mechanical invention. and is destined to supersede steam, requir- ing neither machinery nor combustion. A vessel propelled by this power is said skim the water like a bird, and to fear neither storm nor hurricane. The inventor already petitioned for a line of steamers from L'Orient to Norfolk, in the United States, which passage he promises to ac complish in eight-aod-forty hours. I he modus operandi, it seems, is not given. We, tear when more extensive trials are made there will be something wanting, some defect or mistake some where. This is not the first attempt to harness electrical elements to do the bid ing of man. Heretofore it has been very refractory, in all cases refusing to go, else going too rapidly, and so rapidly as not to be caught again. Should it prove to be a valuable discovery, we should hail it with pleasure. It is just what is wanted. " A Pen of Thieves. The most astounding discoveries have been made witjja Jhr.ee ,or fopr jweetjjpafit ofthe existence of a larg and wey prgapjUed band of thieves and robbers, w&o having their head-quarters at or near the Gap, n Lancaster county, Pa., have extended their operations over several Sjatcs, and have their agents and accomplices in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Marylamiand perhaps iq other States be sides. -These--discoveries were made, it seems, by the Philadelphia police, though the revelations of a notorious horse thief named Young ffhp recently fell into their clutches. The whole matter has been kept as secret as possible, in order that they mighfeapture as many of the gang as they could lay their hands upon. We under stand that about twenty of them have already been taken into custody, and that in this city wane effected "on change" thi morning. , Two hnndred and fifteen thous and bushels changed hand at 49a50 cents,' mostly for present delivery. Chieayo Journal Saturday. - the officers are actively engaged in th pursuit of others in various parts of the country. ' Among the number already ar rested is a dentist, of Camden, N. J., lawyer, of Lancaster, a Methodist local preacher, of Lancaster or Chester county, Quaker, or an individual who wears th Quaker garb, and several others who have held a respectable position "in society. Several individuals in- 'this; county are implicated, and tbo police are on their track. - - - - . ' ' Young having been trapped and seeing no chance of escape, bas made the most remarkable revelafioug. lie has been con nected with the gang for ten years. Their operations have embraced horse-stealing, barn-burning, cattle driving", counterfeit ing, and robbery and murder, two drovers and a pedlar having been .murdered and robbed sincehis connection with them. A quaatity of stolen property has been re covered at the Gap through bis agency. A notorious personage who keeps a tavern in Harford county, Md., has been lodged in West Chester jail, as one of the gang, who is supposed to have been committed with a pair of stolen horses, traced to his stable some two or three weeks since' and finally recovered in ashington city, Elkton Democrat. Another British Consul in Trou ble. Strange reports are published in the New Orleans papers concerning a sum mary process served upon Mr. Muir, the British Consul in that city. It appears he was travelling on board f? steamer iMaga ra, uvu-a r rniro, in company with a French lady, when the other ladies took aeception to thoir conduct and sought re dress from the captain. The Briton and the fair daughter of France were requested fto leave the boat, and on their refusal to do so, the parties ere put ashore at a woodyard in one ofthe most desolate and inhospitable bends of the river above Memphis'.-' The ladies of New Orleans intend to present a testimoial to the cap tain ofthe Niagara. Augusta Sentinel. Exciting Rexconter itf New Or leans. On the morning of the Its inst., Mr. G. W. Kendall, ex-postmaster of New Orleans, and Mrr IV S. McCay, U. S. District attorney, met on Canal street, New Orleans, Mr. Kendall seized Mr.- Mc Cay by the collar and beat him with , his fist until the bystanders separated them. Mr" McCay drew a revolver, which was knocked out of his hand by Mr. Kendall. Both persons were taken into custody, but Mr,. McCay declining to make any charge against Mr Kendall, they, were both lib erated; the latter, however, being fined ten dollars for a breach, of the peace. The following day another affray took place on the same street, in which Mr. Kendall again participated. The Picavune says: It appears that high words arose between W. G. Kendall and Mr. Thomas Adams, concerning Kendall's attack on U. S. District Attorney MoCay on Tuesday, and that Kendall, having at tbe time a knife in his hand, attempted to strike Adams. He however, . caught a Tartar, for his antagonist knocked him down with a well directed blow, and then gave him one of the most unmerciful beatings that mortal ever got. Quite a number of persons looked on ilnlighiea MliU lUo oport, and ono 01 two small supplement affairs grew out of the general conflict."""" - - Scramble fo&Land in the Territo- A A. 1 L f . 1 V. i .-uwiuspouueni 01 tne lioston Traveler, writing from the West, says the scramble tor the land in the new Territo ries is greater than the scarmble for bread in theold settled States. Millions of acres are uncultivated, but all the choice spots are extravagantly dear. Speculators have S. M. Stockwell, Saranac and Southerner, were burnt at tbe Lcvce to day. The loss is about S10P,000. Great- Excitement at Rocicport. We learn from Rockport that a great ex citemcnt prevailed there yesterday. For BMiie time past intcmperfn 'e has been greatly on the increase, and during the presentsea8pn - quite a number of places have been opened where intoxicating li quors could be. procured- without stint. Finding the evil increasing, the ladies of that unusuajly quiet village have taken the matter into (heir own hands. Yesterday morpipg a delegation of about seventy-five, headed by &n American flag, carried by a stout sailor, paraded through the streets, and proceeding frutn place to place, destroyed all the liquor they pould lay their hands on. Demijohns and got hold of nearly all the marketable lands, and those who want cheap lands for cul tivation have to go still further into the wildorness, and still more remote from all that makes life desirable society and civilization. State Elections. On the first 'Mon day in August, elections will be held in the States of Kentucky, Arkansas, Texas, Missouri, and Iowa; and on the first Thurs Ann vf A ..OT.n T ... L n 1 .. -jr v.. a5m iu 11 wiu Carolina, untbe first Monday of October, in Georgia and Florida, and on tbe second Tuesday of October, in Pennsylvania,. Ohio, and In diana. - .1 Chain Cable Telegraph. The St. John Observer states that another attempt 10 my a cnain cable tor a telegraph across the Atlantio will soon be made. Th Archaeological Discoveries in Scinde. An interesting pamphlet has lately been published in Bombay by Mr. Bellasis, Collector of Hyderabad, in Scinde, containing an account of his excavations and discoveries on the site ofthe ancient city of Brahminadab, on a branch of the old bed of the Indus. Tradition affirms that thecity the capita of a Hindooking- dom to which the tide of Mebnmmedan invasion had scarcely penetrated was Col. Fremont's rumored possessions of fabulous wealth are not credited in Wall $tre,et; ff ,the annexed Rtatement of the Journal of Commerce may be believed : v "The failure ofthe State of California to provide for .the payment of the interest duo on her bonds, July 1st, baa excited much attention. We refrained from ma king any remarks upon it yesterday, be cause there was a plan on foot to raise the money here, and for obvious reasons, we did nop wish to interfere, although doubt ful of its success. The plan was for Col. Fremont, who has business connections more or less iufimate with Palmer, Cook Co., to raise the money upon his person al security. -His notes, or memoranda of them, were accordingly offered all through the market by the note brokers, but with out finding any buyers. However attrac tive the. name might be in capitals at the bead of a campaign paper, it bad no mark et vulue at the foot of an. I. 0. U., and the plan has been roluctuntly abandoned. The State of California is therefore a defaulter." Sudden and Melancholy Death by LioiItning. On Sunday, the 29th ult, Mr. Alfred Brown was killed by lightning, at North Hampton, N. II. He was stand ing in the door with a young lady to whom he was ere long to be married, viewing the rain upon the Wide ocean, and the serpen- he darkrclouds; One tine displays in vivid flash, and be falls a lifjlcss corpse! and by his side lay her who was to become his partner in life. She was restored, but his life had closed. There were no visible marks ofthe lightning upon him nor upon the house. It is supposed tfiat the electric current struck the ocean, and that he was struck by a scattering branch. Uspaid Letters. The plan put in operation at New York some weeks ago for the disposition of unpaid letters addressed to persons Kjthin the United Stales being found to work satisfactorily, tho Postmas ter General has given directions for it to be extended to all other offices as early as practicable -The plan is, . that when an unpaid letter is"dropped in the post-office, the postmaster is to inform the person to whom it is directed, and on said person rc-1 niitting tho required postage, and pre-paying his note of reply, the letter is to be forwarded according to its direction. Reformation in the. Navy. It is stated that the . amendment made to the Senate bill for reforming t'teNavy provides for a new Board to open, re-examine and pass upon the cases of furloughed or drop ped officers who desire it, with a view to a restoration to their former positions, if it is found they have been unjstly treated by the late Board. The whole number of officers in service is to be temporarily in creasjd Lr this purpose. This amendment does not interfere with the confirmation of the promotions by the late Board. Reduction op Postage to Egypt. We are requested to state that the British postage oharge on letters between tho United Kingdom and Egypt, whether sent via Southampton or via Marseilles, has been reduced to six pene (twelve cents) tbe half ounce, and therefore the single rateof letter postage between the United States and Egypt will, for the future, be 33 cents via Southampton, and 43 cents via Marseilles, instead of the rates hereto fore charged. ' The postage must, in all cases, bo pre-paid. Union. "anacttopulat.on paper. wUhm the State of K. CarolinaT i ' Washington, Joly 8,-Tbe trial Q V Mr. Brooks eame off in court toljay Mr ' : Sumner left tha cityt, iwad,; the wrvic of tho subpoena.'., - , V. - After tteiiSg Brooks made speh, y which w S ' 1 there were Some cses wher the W ST88? reuled i.ult U hile he had a heart to fI, and a n,B; to strike, he ould defend South C.rolin. - from every effort Q stain her with dishen or and obloquy. . He now bowed to th, majesty of the law, and awaited sentence Judge Crawford refrained from any com! "Hwj.eujencea the accused to 1 nne 01 fcauu. Remarkable Foontaln la r,,, Taking a narrow path, I crossed tbronch -me dense underwood, and .11 a once I : stood otrthe Skulls Spring. There ag. a basin of water one hundred yards in di ; ameter almost circular. The thick bushes" were almost growing to the water's ed. aid bowing their beads under the unrin.' Pppodjnt0:.;.kiff ,Zd pushed off. Some JmmenM fish. ....... ed my attention, ant) I seized pear to strike them. Thfboatmnn i.u . . ....gucu, ana UPW Iar WW the surface they were ? I answered, about four ft n. assured me that they were t least twenty from me, and it wasso. The water is of the mostmarvelous transparency. I drop, ped-an ordinary pvttUiZr iJr pt deep, and saw its head with Lrrl distinctness, as jt laj on the A wc .Hoaeaea tho centre, I noticed a jae. gcd grayish limestone rk pierced with holes; though these hoi ' one seemed tn Wk ;. .. . .. , uniatnomable depths The boat moved slowly on, sd the ullenchfr,udfarMow.., yawning, unfathomaUe .Vya,. n , gorge comes pouring foxth, with immense velocity, a living river. rushing on just bcvond'ii. r drcTped a ten cent piece into the W which is there one hundred and ninety fcc 'n depth, and I clcarlv saw It . he "teio-rir-ii.T- think the water, possessed . iagifyi, power. I am confident that the piece eould not be so distinctly seen from .C er one hundred and ninety feet W rowed on towards , he north aide, . nd sud denlj -we perceived in the ater the fish which were darting hither .nd thither, the long flexible roots, and the wide luxuriant grasses on the brttom . B,Urra n most beautiful prismatic hues.' The gentle wel occasioned by the bot gate t(rthe whole an undulating motion. Death-lik. mllness reigned .round, .nd . more fairy scene I never beheld. Sogreat isthe quantity of water here poured forth, that it form, . river of itself, " large enough to float flat J ;.u ' The planter who lives here has thus trans ported his cotton to StIarl.TNeaT tountnn we saw some of the remains of a mastodon which was takeo from it. The r triangular bone below th j six inches on each side. Almost the entire skeleton has been ... t, . Museum. - ' W raaai destroyed by fire from heaven and by earth quake on account of the wickedness of its ruler The investigations of Mr. Bellasis seem to prove that the place realln was destroyeihysqme terrible convulsion of nature, which probably, at the same time, and two steamers, each with 1,200 miles of cable, will meet mid wav between W decanters were smashed, and barrels of land and Newfoundland, unite the cables rnm PS tlnd lrflnf,J ..L'?ljftdjnto the. and proceed in opposite directions to land' length of the cable-will be 2,400-miles;eonooives 1. . 1 nsr .. I ' completely,-cbanged-the -course of-the Indus. . . . ' On no other supposition can a ruin be accounted for that was at once so sudden and so complete. Skeletons were found in every house that was opend and in the streets, gome crouched together in corners, and there buried) others . crushed flat by a tailing weight, the pieces of stone or brick still in somo eases buried in the fractured skull. Numerous coins and other valua bles have already been discovered, carved figures in ivory, engravings on cornelian and agate, a set of ivory . chessmen, and tho like. The" figures carved on objects connected with religious worship are Buddhist. From the fact of their being unmutilated, Mr. Bellcsis oonslderes it clear that the inoonoolastio Mussulman invaders had not reached, or at least had not permanently annexed,' Brabminadeb at the time of its destruction, which he Paper from Cotton Seed Hcels. The Galveston News 'has seen a lottcr ad dressed to Capt. J. G. Todd, of that place, from an eminent Northern chemist, en closing him a sample of paper manufac tured from the hull of the cotton seed, CapLTodd is fully impressed with the conviction that the fiSest quality of paper can be made from jthe fibre of the cotton plant as well as that from the ochre. If phlrbe true, the manufacturing establish- mcntacontemplatcdJ)y-CaptTodd-will make the millions of bushels of cotton seed that rot annually in Texas, a new source of wealth to that prosperous State, as well as help to supply a very general want. The cotton seed is a great seed, any way you can take it. It is said to yield somo 34 per centum of valuable nil. wKiln the oil cake is in great demand for food for animals, and recent investigations prove it t) be as valuable for agricultural purpos s to many plants, as the guano for a manure. Wealthy Pauper. Catherine Al- bcrti, a beggar and fortune teller, died in Kaleigh, N. C, last week.' On examin ing her effects $2,600 in gold, silver and notes was found, together with evidences of her owning a plantation in Kentucky, and 20 shares of railroad fctock. Around her body was a belt full of gold coin. " The Indian name of the fountain is beautifully aim. 1 n- . .. ,lT, ' aiuila means The Mystery." I, is said that the gpan .sh eovercrs spraSgluirwi.h .lLt fran ,c joy supposing they had discovered the long 80Ugut "Fon, Juventutis," or ountain of youth, which should rejuvenate them afterexhausting marches.nd battles. ISallou't Pictorial. Sale or Negroes.-Wc learn that the negroes belonging to the estate of Daniel Ward, dee'dof Martin v r were sold at public sale at Hamilton'. the 27th ult., prices and brought the following Woman, 35 years old, and child. iSOfe ' woman .29, and two children, 1400; girl, 17, 800: boy, 15,1221 rcrirl. 11 finrt.k.,. 6.40o;man, 27, 1275; man 46, 600 ; 20and child, 830 ; boy, 17 1401 ; boy,. . T, 705 ; boy, 5, 300. 1020. Paper. i Heavy Cokn' Transactions; The heaviest corn sales ever made in one day Ct'RRExcV Law vs. Newspapers. The editorial fraternity in North Carolina is probably more" interested in the circula tion of small notes than any other class. How are thoir supsorihers at a distance to pay up without 1's and 2's ? Tho law of the lart session ought to have been ent itled, Assault on Gov. Wite. Richmond, (., jni, 7 V,i, Pleasants, the former editor f i,.-pbJ ' Post, published in thiscitv. t-J.v ed the executive chamber at thecapitol, in a state of intoxication, and insulted Gov. Wise, and, when ordered to leave, attemp ted to strike the Governor. Mr. Wise tnen struck Pleasants kicked him out of the in the room. eye, and Arrested.-J. B. Itamsav. wa arrest- edand brought to this place on Sunday evening last, on a charge of having stolen from R. W. Mills, the amount rif moncv mentioned in our last issue. From the confession and the whereabouts of the purse and a part of the money as given by himself and the evidence ci ven on the trial, it was evident ho did tbrdeedHe.was taken before his honor Judge Caldwell on Monday evening last, and after . full inves tigation held to bail in the sum of $500- Mr. 'Mills is still minus some J350. Ihrald. r
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