Mt. Vernon Republican (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1854), 1856-01-01

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RATES. . 4 2 00 " A A -a S , S 8 . o a a a a n-' o n o -- . . $ c, 4 . $ c. $ c. $ c. $, c $, c 4 square 1 001 251 75 2 25 3 00 3,50 4,50,6 00 8 qr8.,ll 75S 25 3 25j4 25 5 25j6,00 6,75 3iqr'v,ja60j3 50 505 006 00,00 8,00 8 00 10 '4 sqr's,,3 504 00 5 00 6 00 7 00 8.0QllOOO 12 1 square changeable monthly, $10; weekly, $15 i column changeable quarterly,. 15 column changeable quarterly,......., IB column changeable quarterly,..,..,.... 25 ,d column changeable quarterly... 40 'LTJ"Twolve line in Ibis type, are counted ata square. ' ETEditorial noticea of advertisements, or fcallingatten'ion to any enterprise intended to benefit individunla or corporations, will be charged for at the rate of 1U cents per line. '" 'U Special notices, beforo marriages, or taking precedence of regular advertisements, double usual rates. tTNotices for meetings, charitablo societies, fire companies, tc, half price. CTAdverliseinenls displayed inlarge type to Jbo charged one-half more than regular rates. ; CTA1I transient advertisements to be paid .in advance, and none Till be inserted unless for a definite time mentioned AGENTS. The following persons are authorized to re-cive money on subscriptions for The Rkfudli- oah, ana receipt tnerelor Dr. J. Tl. Ckooly, Homer, Ohio. ' Oko. Moork, ,. ' Ratkomu Bukr, lit 3. D. Jo.NKa, "David Res, Hkxet L. Osdorx, Thomas Hasce, W. G.Sraoxo, .Rev. T. M. FixRY, Jno. SAPr, Hexrt BoY.NTOy, Ulica, Delaware, Granvillo Obestcrvilla, Bennington, Marengo, Frcdericktown, Martinsburgh, Danville, Monroe Mills, JIOUSEKEEPER'S SOLILOQUY. by uns. r. D. OAOE. I wish I had a dnziiii pairs . - Of hands I his very minute, . I'd soon put all these things to righ s : The very dtuce is in it. Here's a big vaulting to be done, One pnir of hands to do it, Sheets, shirts and stockings. coats and lnntc, How will I e'er gut through it? Dinner to get for nix or more, Kolonf left o'er from fjiinday, Ami baby cross as he can live He's always so on Monday. And there's the cream, 'tis setting sour, And must forthwith be churning. And hero's Rub, wants a I) niton on - Which way bLall I be turuiug? 'Tin time the meat was in the pot. The bruad was worked for baking, The clothes were taken from the boil 0 deart the baby's waking. Hush, baby dear! there. luiRh-th-sh! 1 wish he'd tlccp n little, Till I could run and get some wood To hurry up the kettle. Oh dear! oh dear! if P cornea home, And finds things in this pother, He'll just begin and tell me all About his tidy mother I H"W nice her kitchen used to bo, Her dinner always ready Exactly when the uoon bell rung Hush, hush, dear little Freddy. And then will come some hasty word. Right out beforo I'm thinking They say that hasty words from wives Set sober men to drinking. Kow isn't that a great idea, That men should take to sinning, Because a weary, half sick wile, Can't always smile su winning? When I was young I used to cam My living without trouble, Had clothes, and pocket money too; And hours of leisure double. I never dreamed of such a fato, When I a lass was courted Wife, mother, nurse, seamstress, cook, house keeper, chambermaid, laundress, dairy woman, and scrub generally, doing the work of six, . For the sake of being supported! More Tncm hub Poktiiy. Whether a man leads a sober life or not. depends altogether on the temper of his wife. No man will listen all night to a scold, who knows where a good warm sling may be bought for a sixpence. At Cocktail's the other night, we found no less than thirteen married men, who spent six evenings a week in squirting tobacco juice on a coal slove. We thought we would find out who they were. On inquiring, we learned that eleven of them were blessed with wires who jaw" from Monday morning till Saturday : night, while the other two wedded a couple . of she missionaries ladies so constantly engaged in the "welfare of Central Africa" that they have notime to keep their hus : bands' thirls whole. Immense Emigration. The Lawrence (K. T.) ffernld says i "It s indeed surprising to see the crowds which ire wending their way daily into the Territory. K the reports which reach us from 11 quarters aro reliable, and we believe ; they are, oor population will nearly equal . 70,000 by the IjI of December, and the ppring emisjralion will make us equal to ' Irom 90,000 to 100,000. Coqgress can hardly re(u-c us admittance into the Union for want of sufficient population, for we shall reach the requisite number ere the - bill Is oc'ed upon by that body which in-'iforses our Ute Cunslilulioti. ' ,1 ! ROMANCE OF THE POST OFFICE. CHKATINO inK CLERGY AM INGENIOUS TRICK. (From "Tea Tears among the Mail Bags,") f Our collection of "outside" delinquencies would be incomplete, were we to omit the following case, which was investigated by the author not lonir mo. and in which not a little ingenuity, of the baser sort, was displayed. It will serve as a specimen of a numerous class of cases, characterized by attempts to defraud some one connected with the post office. We would give many instances of similar kind, did our limits permit. A person of good standing in community, who laid claim not only to a moral, but a religious character, was visiting in a large town on the Hudson river, about midway between New .York and Albany! Tho person owed a clergyman, living in New Haven, Connecticut, the sum of one hundred dollars; and one day he -called at the house of another clergyman of his acquaintance in the town first mentioned, and requested to be allowed the privilege of writing a loiter thereto his clerical creditor, in which the sum due that gentleman was to bo enclosed. Writing materials were furnished, and he prepared the letter in the Bludy of his obliging friend, and in his presence. After he had finished writing it, he said to the clergyman, "Now, as the mails are not always safe, I wish to be able to prove that I actually sent the money. I shall tin refore consider it a great favor if you will accompany me to the Bank, where I wish to obtain a hundred dollar note for some small trash that I have, and bear witness that I enclose the money, and deposit the letter in the post office." The reverend gentleman readily acceded to his request, and went with him to the Bank, where a bill of the required denomination was obtained, and placed in the letter, which was then sealed with a wafer, the clergyman all the time looking on. They then went to the post office, (which was directly opposite the Bank,) and after calling tho attention of his companion to llie letter and its address, the writer thereof dropped it into the letter box, and the two persons went their several ways. , The letter arrived at New Haven by duo course of mail, and it so happened that the clergyman to whom it was addressed was at the post office,' waiting for tho assorting of the mails, lie saw a letter thrown into his box, and called for it as soon as the delivery window was open. Upon breaking the seal and reading the letler, he found himself requested to 'Please find one hundred dollars," &.O., with which request he would cheerfully have complied, but for one slight circumstance, namely, the absence of the bank note. This fact was apparently accounted for by a postscript, written in a heavy, rudj nana, entirely atnerent irom that, of je ootiy oi me letter, anu reauinii as toiitrw: "P. S. I have taken the liberty to borrow this money, but I send the letter, so that you needn't blame the man who wrote it. Signed "POST-BOY." The rilled document was immediately shown to the postmaster, nnu in his optn ion, as well as that of the clergyman, f daring robbery had been committed. The latter gentleman was advised by the postmaster to proceed at once to New Yotk, and confer with the special agent, and at the same time to lay all the fact3 before the Postmaster General. He did so, and it was not long before the agent had commenced the investigation of the supposed robbery. In addition to the postscript appended, the letter bore other indications of having been tampered with, which at first sight would seem almost conclusive on this point. Upon the envelope were two wafers, differing in color, one partly overlapping the oil er, as if they had been put on by different persons at different times. Notwithstanding these appearances, there were circumstances strongly conflicting with the supposition that the letter had been robbed. Tho postscript was an unnatural affair, for no one guilty of opening a letter for the purpose of appropriating its contents, would stop to write an explanatory poslsciipt, especially as such a course would increase the chances of his own detection. And iu the present instance there had been no delay of the letter to allow of such an addition. By a visit to the office where the letter was mailed, the agent ascertained that it must have left immediately after having been deposited, and the advanced ago and excellent character of the postmaster, who made up the mail on that occasion, certainly cut off suspicion in that quarter. An interview was then held with, the clergyman who witnessed the mailing of the Tetter, and from him were obtained the facts already stated. Concerning the writing of the document, and its deposit in the letter box in a perfect slate, after the money had been enclosed, he was ready and willing to make oath, and had ho been called upon he would have done so in all sincerity, and honesty. Ia reply to' an inquiry whether he used more than one sort of lotter paper, he informed me he had but one kind in his study for several months, and at my request immediately brought in several sheets of it. A comparison of this with the sheet upon which tho rifled episllo had bben written, showed that the latter was a totally different article from the first. The 6bnpc and design of the stamp, the sizo of the sheet, and tho shado of the paper, were all unlike. Moreover, the wafers used at the bank, where tho hundred dollar note was obtained, and the letter containing it, sealed, were very dissimilar to either of those which appeared upon the "post boy" letter. ...... From the consideration of all theso faets, 1 was satisfied that a gross and contemptible fraud had been perpetrated by the writer of the letter, and lost no time in proceeding to the village whero the personage lived. I called upon the1 postmaster, and made some inquiries relative .to the character and pecuniary circumstances of the person in question. From the replies made, it appeared, as I have already stated, that his reputation In thp community was good. iMQUNrTERNO T tltmiilit It trtttfiVr lirt t-trvoLii liln flinf in ia small a place, I could ascertain whether he had lately passed a hundred dollar note, as ho would have been likely to bavo done, if it was true that he bad not enclosed it in the New Haven letter ' Calling at the store which received most of his custom, I introduced myself to the proprietor, made a conndent of hi m to some extent, and learned that the very next day after that on which the aforesaid letter was mailed, its author offered him in payment for a barrel of flour, s hundred dollar note on the bank from which a bill of the like denomination had been obtained, as before mentioned, in exchange for the "small trash." The merchant could, not then chnngo it, but sent the flour, and changed a bill which he supposed to be tho same, a few days afterwards. . . Armed with these irresistible facts, I proceeded to oll on the drcutarous deceiver of the clergy, who had attempted to make one member of that body second his intention to cheat another. "Insatiate archer I Could not one suffice ?" "Mr. T ," said I, after some preliminary conversation, "it's of no use to mince matters. The fact is, you did not send the money in that New Haven letter. You' offered it the day after you pretended to mail it, at Mr. C.'s store. You see I've found out all about it, so I hope you. will not deny the truth of the matter." I then gave him his choice, to send the hundred dollars promptly to his New Haven correspondent, or allow me to prove, in a public manner, the facts in my possession.Being thus hard pressed, and fiading himself cornered, ho confessed that he bad prepared the letter, which was received in New Haven postscript, double wafers and all before he left home, and that when crossing the street from the bank to the post ottice, he substituted this for one he wrote in the clergyman's study. He promised to send the money, and pretended to have suffered severely in his feelings on account of his dishonest act. There is no United States law providing tor the punishment ot such an otlence, but public opinion and private conscience make nicer distinctions than the law can do, and often mete out a well deserved penalty to those who elude the less the subtle ministers of justice. ;'' In the present instance the foregoing story was mado public by direction uf the Postmaster General; aiul the author of the trick, unable to sustain the contempt of the community in which be lived, was compelled lo make hasty retreat from that part of the country. Here is an incident of another nature, an i more dramatic perhaps than the last : THS DEAD LETTER. The following is contributed by "Dave," of the Columbus (Ohio) post office : During my term of service at tho general delivery of this office, it was my custom, upon receiving dead letters from Washington City, to make a list of the persons to whom they were addressed, and stuck them up in the lobby of the office, with a notice "Cull for Dead Letters." One day an elaborate specimen of Eiin's sons, whose brawny fists and broad shoulders seemed to denote a construction with an eye single to American railroads, lounged into the office, and up to the board containing the aforesaid list. He looked at it a moment, and burst into tears. I spoke to him through the window, and asked him what was the matter. "Oli! Mr. Postmaster, I see ye have a daid lettlur for me. I sped me sester in Ireland's is daid, and it's not a w.ike since I sint her a tin pound note to come to Ameri-ky wid and kin ye tell me hew long she's bin daid, Mr. Postmaster?" I asked him his name, found the "letter," and after a request from him "to read it, sir, and rade it nisy, if you plaze," opened it, and told him not to cry ; that his sister was not dead, bat it was a letter written by himself, and directed lo Mich ael Flaherty, BostoN, Chicago. "And is Machaol daid, Mr. Postmaster? "No, I guess not," said I. "Well, who is daid, sir?" I explained to him that letters not taken from ihc office to which they wero addressed, witliiu a certain time, were sent to what is called the Dead Letter Office at Washington City, and from thence if containing anything valuable, lo the person who wiote them. "God bliss ye for that, sir, but Michael lives in Chicago." I told him I would not disputo that, but Boston and Chicago wero two disliuct cities, and tho letter was addressed to both, and that Boston being the first named, it had been retained there, and his menu had not received it. "Sure and I thought Boston was in Chicago 1 and that's what ye call a daid let- (her, is it? Faith and I thought it was Bridget and not the letlhcr, was daid. Ye see, Mr. Postmaster, Michael wrote home (o the old folks that he lived in Chicago, that be had married a nice American lady, that she was a sea cook on a steamboat, and that they called her a nngur, So whin I started for Amcriky, the euld mod-dcr, Michael's modder, she gave me these illctrant rings, (tho letter contained a pair of ear-rings) to give Michael's wife for a prisint. When we landed at Boston, I wrote Michael the lettlur, lould nim 1 was going to Columbus to live, put on the name Michael Flaherty, Boston, Chicago, and put it in the post and sure here it is, and Michael's sea cook bagdr niver got it. Bad luck to the ship that fetched me to Boslon, Mr. Postmaster." After offering to "trale me for the troub le" he had caused me, he left, and ever af ter when he mailed a letter, he brought it to me (o put on the address, "because he didn't understand these daid lclthers." .Saob Advic-. Her. Dr. Woods, of Andover, was ones giving his class some instructions about preaching la different places in such a manner as to gain attention and applause. " Young gentlemen," said he, " it is all contained in a nut shell. When -yon go to preach in the city, take your best coat, but when yo in (he country, take jfour be on go (a preach est sermon." . ' JANUARY 1, K0MANCE IN BEAL LIFE. . . Tho. Manchester Mirror publishes the following ; ' la the fall of 1817 a young man came to this oily from a northern county in quest of employment in the mill. After weeks of unsuccessful efforts, he became reduced to the pitiable alternative of disposing of ma uest cioiues in otuer 10 uuiuin meuns to liquidate his bills and seek employment elsewhere. After consulting about disposing of his clothes nt auction, ho returned to his boarding house to pick up the same, when the lady of the house' handed him a letter, directed to him in a female hand, which sho iuformcd him had been left by a boy ; which on being opened wtu found to contirn $20 in biu.k bills, with a nolo of hand for the same amount,, nronmpained with the following explanation : ' 'Mij.-t -, Knowing' your pressing wants; and having the means at my disposal, I send you 20 with which you will please immediately settle your board bill, and call at tho card room in Mill, on Corporation, when by applying to tho overseer, whom I have seen, you will be able, by giving your name, to obtain a situation as card stripper. The work may not be desirable, but persevere, and in time it will lead to something better. In return for money, you will please sign the accompanying nolo, which you will enclose in an envelope, without direction, and with a penny for postage, request the postmaster to place it in box No A Stiunqkr." The note was drawn to beurer. Though greatly surprised at such a timely favor from the hand of an entire stranger, he gladly availed himself of it, and impelled, as by an irresistablc power, he obeyed all the directions to the very letter. Un application to the designated room he found that the situation had been secured for bim, through the earnest solicitations of a young lady, who was equally a stranger to the overseer, yet whose pleadings he could not resist. The whole transaction was so unusual that after our hero, by assiduous devotion to his work, had secured the confiJenco of his overseer, he related to him the whole affair, and solicited his aid in endeavoring to obtain the name and whereabouts of his benefactress. He entered willingly into the plans; yet two years had passed and the mystery remained unsolved. In the meantime the stripper had been promoted to grinder, and laid by of his earnings the $20, with interest, in the Savings Bank, so as to be prepared to settle so just a claim at any moment. In his first endeavors to unravel the mystery, he applied to the Post Office, but found, on inquiry, that the box in which the note was placed, was not used by anybody, permanently, at the time of the occurrence. Every succeeding attempt in other directions proved equally abortive, until nt last he ceased all efforts, and resolved to wait for coming events to unfold, or coming time to reveal the mystery. ' Our hero, after a residence of over four years in this city, had formed some very valuable acquaintances, and if is not at all .1 . '.I . 1- . 1 ? tn Jo to another; but gratitu Je unknown, He made explanation, however, for his in gratitude by frankly con Testing to his be loved, what another of her lair sex had done for him without solicitation, in the hour of his deepest necessity. She laughed right out at such an un- maidenly act; declared it proceeded from impulse, not regard, of which it was evi- dent the actor felt ashamed, and hence her studied silence. And she took occasion to console him with tho suggestion, that by tho deposit he had made, of llie amount re-! ceived, he had fully absolved himself from all further obligation. His lady-love be- ing both law and go-pel, he acknowledged the truthfulness of her suggestion, assign-' ed his affections, without reserve, into her keeping. As one of the most natural things under tho sun, they concluded, at 1 est, to gut married Tho day was set but the day precedins which, he received a note through the post office in a letter, which contained the following: Mr. , Sir: By calling this evening xr ni.flAi nHI1 nn..!n,. it... wrttrt d interest, which I hold against you, vou will save expense. A Stranukr. lie canea as eiirccica, oeing extremely anxicus to settle a demand which, from the ; very mystery which surrounded it, made ' him at limes, feel unhappy. Ho was re ceived at tho door by a domestic, who con-1 dueled him to the parlor, when, to his stir- priso, ho discovered in wailing, note in hand, his own dearly beloved the one hcj was next day to call by the endearing name of, wife. Explanation followed, whivh may be left. to the imnginalion of our reader. Suffice it lo say they were married at the lime set and to-day the gentleman stands con-lis spicuous as one of the most industrious I -t I ,..! anu respeciuuiu oi our luiinuiauiunng pop- ulation; nnd his amiable wife has occasion to rejoice constantly that in the Fall of 1 847 she had twenty dollars lo spire. Prince Murat at Bordentown. This is preeminently tho age of political vicissitudes. A few years ago there was an obscene loafer at Bordentown, N. J., who used to drink with fellows about town, and borrow two shillings nt a lime from the gentlombn of the place, his wife kept a most respectable school, and bis aristocrat-. io looking daughter was the cynosure of I all eyes at (he church. Now this same free and easy idler, whose scores at the Bordentown shops were unpaid a lew months ago, and probably are still, has got up a mimic' court in the shadow of tho Tuilleries, and is followed by a retinue of Italian exiles he and they believing that, ere long, the sceptor of Naples will be in his grasp, as King Murat the Second. Boston Transcript. " . ' , Biraoge, inamoiwiinsianuing ms pecuniary the uappy chango. Among the most im-obligations lo one he had formed a very in-! portant movements of the Government, is timate acquaintance with another of the fair j ihe formation of a Rate of Taiilfand a sex. True, his moral sense rebelled, at Bounded Warehouse, from the department first, against yielding up his affections to 0f Col. French, as minister of Hacienda ; one while being so strongly under grati- the rates are 20 per cent, ad valorem on all Very Interesting from Nicaragua Pretenl Aspect and fuluri Prospects of tin Republic Agricultural and Mineral Resource A vkUtotheKrtt Buttle Ground, To the Editor N. Y. Dailv Times: As Central America seems to occupy tho atlention of tho Statesmen of tho United States and Europo at the present time, and news from there is looked for .with interest by the public generally, I beg to intrude upon your columns the following letter: POSITION OF AFFAIRS. Nicaragua, after a civil war of thirty-two years, is at length at peace. Its inhabitants, who, from their cradle had been taught toexpeot a cruel death at tho hands of the opposing factions when opportunity offered ; educated amid the horrors of a cruel and exterminating revolution, and tutored by their sires to show no mercy to the wearer of tbo-rcd or while badge, as tho case might be even though ho wero a brother, as too often happened have, in two months, by the strong will and almost superhuman efforts of a few brave men, been taught that war and rapine must cense, and that instead of marchiog again to battle, they must start on the murch of civilization and progress. However diffi cult it may be for those who, since their strength admitted of their carrying a musket, have never done aught else to turn their attention to the development of the boundless resources of the Eden of the world, nevertheless, under the skillful supervision of American tact and experience, their services will be valuable in the different departments of agiiculture and mining; and though it may rcquiro years to bring them to that social state accessary to their happiness and prosperity as a people, there is not the slightest doubt that the charge, so ably and suddenly com menced, win De lasting and ettectiv Since the lormation of the new GovenKhent and the signing of the Treaty by ae bel ligerent parties, everything has gone on smoothly as a marriage-bell. yThe haciendas that for years had beepeft to ruin and decay, are again inhab?!!ed. Husbands and fathers, sons andBrothers, have returned to their fanrfies, and the stores that for years had been stowed away from the hands of marauders, to moulder and rot, amid the mumbling ruins of bombarded cities, aro brought forth and exposed for sale in the different market-places. Life is again held valuable, and infringements of the laws of the State punished as they deserve. Peace reigns throughout the land; the barricades and fortifications nre torn down; the guns spiked, and now, instead of yoking oxen lo drag the loudmouthed messengers of destruction and death to the'battle-ground, their carriages are used for the conveyance of produce and merchandise through the country. The Ministry has been selected whh the greatest care, and with a view to the satisfaction of nil. Its head, President llivas, has always been looked upon by both parties ns well qualified to discharge the duties of that office to their satisfaction, and his appointment, according to treaty, has resiuifcu in es aoiisning me confidence so anxiously wished for bv tho originator of . . . o goods entered, with the exception of scien tific and firming implements, agricultural stock, seeds, &o. They have also created a Colonization office. The decree offers to each single settler two hundred nnd fifty acres of land, nnd to married settlers three hundred and fifty, with every facility to their permanent , settlement. Does not this spunk voluminous of the intention of the present Government of Nicaragua to raise Central America to a nrnud rmsiiinn nmono- the nations of tho earth ? And in advance of this, it mav be well to state. that the Governments of Honduras and San Salvador have made overtures to the Government of Nicaragua, desiring that th three States bo ioincd totrether in a Republican Confederation, Nicaragua ta king the lead, and giving Gen. Walker, ns Commander-in-Chief of the Union, the monevs and munitions of thn rlifrfn-nt Slates for the furtherance of tho cause of Republicanism and civilization. RESOURCES OF NICARAGUA. Nicaragua, great in its geographical position as the rncJium through which must E. f. .. .... 1 , the Indies and the manufactures of Europe and the United Slates, to supply the increasing demand of Asin. tv-iRsr... ll tho mniiin.mi.nia n, . essftrv to m er for so gri;at B commercial nuci,.us. Famed for the fertility of its soil, llie balmy purity of ils air, and supplied with every luxury necessary for the table, its scenery varied and beautiful, Nature has shed on it its choicest gifts. Nicaragua has a territory of 00,000 square miles equal to five-sevenths of the eastern division of tho United Slates Its turriculturnl resources aro unsurpassed by any country iu tho world its soil will produce threu crops per annum and there no vcgetablo fruit that will not find a congenial soil for its culture. Tobacco, . . n- ..... ' wiictu, conec, corn, cotton, indigo, Cocoa, sugar, rice, beans, ifcc; nnd llie finest tropicnl fruits adorn its hill-sides nnd plains, and grow in wild luxuriance throughout the length nnd breadth of the land. Tho country is studded with beautiful lakes and rivulets', giving every facility for irrigation, if necessary. Its grasses are more nutritious than any other on the face of the earth, and game roams in abundance throughout its shady forests of Brazil and Orango trees. Its waters abound with the finny creation and the mossy banks are carpeted with the most beautiful wild flowers. TUB MINKS OF NICARAGUA. Its mineral resources arc unbounded. Gold, silver; copper, iron, coal, saltpetre, sulphur, and copperas, run in rich, veins through its lofty mountain ranges;, and only requires the energy and capital, of men of talent and experience to lay open to the light the enormous treasures of its valleys and hill tops.' At Ihe distance of 185 about two and a half leagues from Oootal, on the main road to Jalapa, are the ravines of Chachaguas, numbering about fifteen, which some sixty years no had been worked by the natives, and proved to be very rich, they, at that lime, using nothing but n wooden dish for washing, making two and tlneo ounces a day each. Oa the same road, four leagues from Ocolal, ate tho ravine? of Sabumapi, yielding gold in huge quantities, of a superior quality, lo tho valley of Array an uro very licli gold washings. The ravines of Lernes have also proved very fine. Limow, sixteen leagues from Ocolal, is celebrated for its rich silver, iron nnd copper mines.. The mines of Maeuelisisto, Sia Albino, Tirado, QuitubK', Cliuguite, Peaillos, Quebracho, Javonera, and u hundred others, abound with gold and silver.. Ia tho valley of Arrnynn, alone, are twenty-one gold-bearing streams nnd ten placers. Tho extent of the quartz mines of Nicaragua have never yet been ascertained. From Puint Balis, running an easterly course 170 leagues, and from said Point running south and south-east -50 leagues, as far as Segovia, nnd from thence running a course to the source of the river San Juajj. in the Like of Granada, 70 leagues, afj ranging through to Costa Rica and CKonttilts, are mountain ranges, said lq pssess, in every direction, gold-bcnringwrlz. The district of Chontales hog oecn better explored than any other portion of tho mining region, and several convranies are now preparing to open their liferent leads in that district, among whopr are Mr. II. T. Clay, lately arrived iny&icaragiu from New York. Don Fe'min Ferrer, Minister of Public Credit'of this Gjvernment of Nicaragua, possesses mines known by tho nnnu of , "Dulce Nombre," in Tigre Mountain ; and " Uasmateo, in llie same vicinity; and in the Haciendas of San Easabius; and Hato Grande, and Sin Jean, in Juiguepha ; all in the District of Chontales. Those mines have been thoroughly explored, and proved to bo very rich, Don Fermin Ferrer, having extracted six thousand dollars in two days from the Hacienda of San Eusa-bius, without assistance or the application of machinery of any kind. paoaitEss of the country. The progress of civilization, commerce, good'l'eeling.and peace, is unprecedented in the history of Iho world. Since the signing of tho treaty of peace and tho meeting of the opposing armies in the Plazi of Granada, not a single rencontre has occurred between those contending parties who had believed to meet etch other on amicable terms was to sell their birthright and lo brand themselves with eternal disgrace among their party. Now, mingling to gether, all wearing- the blue bade of pence and harmony, they march to the house of God, and in unison offer up their prayers to the 1 hrons ot urace, begging for a con tinuance of the blestings lately shed on their benighted and a war-devastated land Previous to the entrance of Gen. Walker and his gallant band into Granada, the ears of the populace were continually as sailed from (he pulpits and campini rrmnnila until tnlao anil nKnnlinnuia nf .1... depredations and enormities to bo commit ted by them should they ever be allowed to enter their city. Their houses wero to have been lorn and burned down, their churches despoiled of their altars and relics, their women offered up to the brutality of a piratical mob, and lifo set at nought amid the ruin and devastation I hey were to have perpetrated. But a happy disap-pointment awaited tho Granadenos. Walker's battalion, nflcr tho taking of tho city, gave its entire attention to the protection of the lives and property of the populace, and unprccented in the annals of warfare not a single, instance of unnecessary violence or outrage occurred after the capture. Everything beneficial to the country seems to be progressing; the ox goad replaces the bayonet, and tho sickle Ihe sabre. You can now travel through the country without meeting bands of marauding solJiers or guerrillas, and in every direc.ion you may witness signs of improvement, either on the part of the Gov- rnment or the native cul.ivators. Soldiers have been disbanded and sent out in all quarters to improve and make good the roads that had not been traveled on for years, and the barges nnd schooners that had been lying withering on the beaches, arc again plying the beauteous lakes, furnishing produce from tho different islands th.tt besprinkle the waters of Nicaragua, to tho market (owns and points of consumption and traffic. IIEALTI1V CLIMATE. The c'im.Vo of Nicaragua can not bo excelled. There is little or no usa for doc-ton. Since Iho arrival of Walker's battalion in Nicaragua, but one man has died from natural causes. Three months in the year wo have slight rains October, November, and December, and litis is the only season in which ticknes exists, tho principal being calepthura, or dry fever, which never proves fatal. IMMIGRATION AND BECRUtTS. Immigration is rapidly on the increase. There are now in Granada three hundred Americans, nnd, if I niayjudgo from the advantages offered by llie Colonization Decree, the influx of population will exceed that of California in its palmiest days.' The government intends increasing the standing army of Nicaiagua to 2,5'K) men, each of whom will receive twenty-five dol lars per month, rations, clothing, and five hundred acrts of land. VISIT TO B1VAS THB DATTLS GROUND. I left Granada on the evening of the 28th of November, on one of the lake schooners, in company with Col, French, Uapt. Willmmson, Lol. fisher, Hon. Geo. H. Campbell, Mr. Van Dyke, Mr. H. T. Clay and others, and arrived in .Virginia bay the following evening.' On 'the following morning, the 30tli, we started for Rivas, passing through the Village of fit. George, which, contains about 4,000 Inhabitants, and a very large church on the plaza. The church contains eight altars, oeautifully carved, ard the village, as far as tasteful arrangement is concerned, sur passes any thing I have seen in Nlcarngus, Two miles from St. George, inland is Rivas Rivas, the ever-to-be-rernernbered first bat-le-ground of Walker and bis bravo men, ns it was the first and great battleground of the original conqueror of Nicaragua. Gil Gonzales de Avila, in 1529. Rivas has been, originally, an extensivo city, and at ono lirao the most influential in Nicaragua. The department of llivas, in (lie memory of some of its inhabitants now living, has paid seventy thousand dollars per annum church taxes, and the present year they were sold to the highest bidder at seven thousand dollars, the church claiming ono tenth of the produce raised, and stl ing its claim to the highest bidder for cash, leaving (ho purchaser to collect its share. In llie plaza they have been building a church for the past fourteen years, when finished, will equal that of Lenn; it is 020 feet by 120, ils walls being foUr feet thick. Wo visited tho battleground, and examined, minutely, the scene of action. Everything about the locality indicated a terrible struggle. In one house were pent np sixty brave men, opposed to an attacking force of eight hundred. Of those eight hundred, in six hours' siege, one hundred and twelvo bit tho dust. Every ttindow, door and crevice was pierced with bullets, and we tired counting lh number fired into one room, in which Were Gen. Walker and a few of his men. When they retreated they left behind them their dead and wounded, whom they were unable to carry through the murderous fire that opposed their retreat. Those that were still living were immediately slaughtered by the enemy, and, with their com rades in death, were laid npon the fire and burned (as they intended) as a warning to others. But their burning bodies ascended ns incecso to the God of Liberty, an! from that moment the star of the Legitimist Party had set in Central America, nnd Walker's progress was one of triumph and victory. Kinnev and Walker. It has been enrrently reported throughout the United States by newspaper paragraphias and others who have not taken the trouble to investigate the matter, that Gen. Walker was connected with Mr. Kinney, and that they were co-operating to gether for the same end. Now this is not so. Gen. Walker never saw Mr. Kinney, ' nor did he ever correspond with him, and their objects have been widely different. Gen. Walker went to Nicaragua as an ennncipator and public benefactor; Mr. Kinney went as n speculator and jobber. As to the latter party, his raee is about run. He sent up to Granada, hoping to curry favor, h;s colonizing subjects - to serve under Gjn. Walker, but the General positively refused their services aa a body coming from such a source, and they were accordingly disbanded ; nnd Mr. ' Kinney is now on bis oars, no more a Governor and not knowing which direction to steer to escape the wreck he has so foolishly , brought upon his shoulders. While 1 remain in New York, any in formation the Times or the public may require, regarding the resources of Nicaragua, I will be happy to furnish as far as my knowledge extends. I have the honor to be your obedient servant. JOSEPH K. MALE. New York, Dec. 11th, 1855. Sullying a Witness. One likes always to see an Impudertt lawyer, whose fort is to banter and bully witnesses, brought up with a round turn by some victim of his ill-natured bearing. Wo heard an irtstanco the other day which is worth relating. A caso was being tried on Long Island, about the soundness of a horse, in which a clergyman not very con versant in suca mauers, was a witness. He was a little confused in giving bis evi dence, and a blustering fellow of a lawyer, who examined him, at last exclaimed, "Pray, sir, do you know the difference between a hor.-e and a cow ?' " I acknowledge my ignorance,' replied the clergyman; "I hardly know tho differ ence between a horse and a Cow, or a bully and a bull ; only that a bull has horns, and a " bully" (bowing in mock respect to the pettifogger) luckily for me has none 1" ; " You cua retire, sir," said the lawyer, "I've no further questijns to ask you." .V. Ir. Dutchman. ' . . No Appeal fr m tub Popb. Persons who doubt if there aro indeed any who does doubt thnt the Romish Churcll claims temporal, as well as spiritual allegiance from its disciples in the United States, would do well (o read a pistoral letter of the Archbishops of the "Province of St. Liuh." in council assembled, just issued : "We miintain the superiority of the spir itual over the temporal order. We maintain that tho temporal ruler is bound to conform his enactments (o the Divine, law We maintaia that the Vhurch u the -Su preme Judge of all questions concerning faith nnd morals, nnd that in the determi nation of such questions, the Roman Pon tiff, as Vicar of Jesus Christ, conslilii.es. a tribun il, from which there is no appeal and to whoie award all the children of tho Chuioh mut yiell obedienoa." Lyuis-vi le Journal. - 1 Anecdote of Fred Douglass. . Fred Douglass, in a lecture which here ccntly delivered at Lewistown, N. Y., told this anecdote of President Pierce : ' ' "Ab jutthe time Pierce was nominated," said Douglass, "I was in New Hampshire, and wi h a great portion of the American people I felt curious to know who Franklin Pierce was. 1 happened to be in a bar' room when lome allusion was made to the nomination by a plain farmer, who appeared to know somoihing about the caaoidate I asked him If he could tell me who Ibis General Pierce was? .lie replied, 'Oh Frank Pierce O yesl I know. Frank. Wliv. wo think he's nuite a nn tin tnim lh these parts. " Dui then, comi to spread him all out over the country-., he will bo awful f.i.'.".- - . ... . . .What should be the chirfeat mi-nlal qualification of an hostlerT Ads Stable minded. ' ' 1 . ' ' -' ' a