Daily Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1848), 1859-03-21

              r . . . . : . . VOLUME XXII. COLUMBUS, OHIO. MONDAy MORNING MARCH 21, 1859. NUMBER 179. NOW IS THE TIME TO GET READY FOR SPRING FLOWING! FARMERS AND DEALERS, your attention Is called to the lurge assortment of PLO w , Manufactured by J. L. Gill and Son. HAS BEEN DECIDED OF LATE, DY THOSE EXAMINING THEIR STOCK, THAT the undersigned cannot furuish ft i'luw that will suit every Farmer in Ulila, Kentucky, or Indiana, It will be use less to try furl bur. Tbclr assortment consists of their celebrated COMBINATION PLOW, . NEW COMBINATION PLOW, WITH STEEL SHARES, A. 1ST ID CAST PLOWS. Each variety embracing on for every desirable purpose both Right and Left Hand, fur one, two, or three horses, fur large or small teams, l or black muck, common nubble or green sward, the COLUMBUS DOUBLE FLOW and Subsoil Plow. All of the abovo at Prlcot that will suit, for of their new patterns they make eight different qualities. THEIR ILIiTJSTKATED CATALOGUE Will be ready by the first of February, at which time they will be distributed gratia from their now building on High afreet, or they will be forwarded by mall to auy person sending his name, enclosing a postage atamp. Feb. 8. dSlawAwly J. L. GILL & SON. OFPIOIAL. D STATE AUTHORITY. Statomont or tlxo Coixciltioix OF THE ETNA INSURANCE COMPANY, HAETFORD, COJSnNT. fJ ON THE 1st OF JANUARY, 1859, AS REQUIRED BY TnE LAWS OF THE STATE OF OHIO. INCORPOBATED 1819. CHARTER PERPETUAL. CASH CAPITAL, - - - - $1,000,000.00. SURPLUS, .... 867,920.08. The Aasets of the Company are Caal! In hand and in Dank, Cash in the hands of Agents anil In transit 121,812 82 U. 8. Treasury Notos, and 6 cont, and accrued interest 67,502 12 Real Estate Unincumbered in Hartford, Cincinnati, Louisville and Indianapolis 65,538 28 Bonds Mortgage Bonds at 7 H cent. Interest 44,000 (10 28 Mortgage Bonds at 0 cent interest 2H,000 00 25 Jersey City Water Bonds at 8 $1 cent, in't 25,(s) 00 80 Hartford City Bonds at 0 $ cent, interest at.isio 00 10 Brooklyn City Bonds at B cent. Interest 10,000 00 in iioenester uity 5 Milwaukee Citv 1 Dubuque City I State Stocks - - United States Stock, 10 State of Tcnaesseo, 6 10 State of Kentucky, 8 60 State of Missouri, 6 26 State of Now York, 60 State of Ohio (1800) . ' 26 State of Ohio, (lt)8ii) Mortgage.. ..Money due the Company and secured by Mortgage 4,212 IS Miscellaneous 600 shares Hartford A New Haven Railroad Company stock 80,000 00 ! . WT shares Boston A Worcester Railroad stock.. 10,272 00 'I'll) shares Connecticut Hlmr Railroad stock 12,6(10 00 50 shares Connecticut River Company stocK 1,26ft 00 60 shares Citizens' Hank stock, Watcrhnry, Conn 6,260 00 60 shares Stafford Bank stock, Stafford Spa.,Conn 5,260 00 88 shares Eagle Bank stock, Providence, It. I... 1,872 00 16 shares Mechanics' A Traders' Hank stock, Jersey City, N. Y 1,500 000 2XHI shares State of Missouri Bank stock, St. Louis, Mo 20,800 00 Miscellaneous Investments 23,659 68 Bills Receivable receivable amply secured 48,055 67 Hartford Bank Stock - 300 shares Phtenlx Bank 3ii,(K) 00 400 shares Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank 4.r,ii00 00 800 shares Exchango Bank 13,600 00 240 shares State Hank 2H,0H0 00 HSI shares City Bank 11,400 00 loo shares County Bank 5,4(10 00 150 shares Connecticut River Bank O.IKH) 00 405 shares Hartford Hank 80,4511 00 loo shares Charter Oak Bank 10,800 00 KH) shares Merchants' and Manufacturing Bank 10,500 00 100 shares Etna Bank 10,400 00 Y. Bank Stock.. ...200 shares Merchants' Exchange Bunk 10,400 00 2(SI shares North River Bank 10,000 00 12O0 shares Mechanics' Bank 3i;,000 00 200 shares North America Bank 22,400 00 300 shares Nassau Bank 30,0110 00 300 shares America Bank 31,200 00 800 slum's Broadway Bank 27,000 00 400 shares Peoplea Bank 10,400 00 200 shares Republic Bank 24,400 00 100 shares City Bank 12,2u0 00 400 shares Union Bank 22,400 00 100 shares Hanover Bank 8,000 00 1(H) shares Commonwealth Bunk 10,000 00 6(H) shares Pliwnix Hank 11,200 00 400 shares Manhattan Bank 27,110 00 800 shares New York Bank 33,000 200 shares Market Bank 22,000 00 400 shares Ocean Bank 1H.WH) 00 400 shares Metropolitan Bank 44,400 00 800 shares Butchers' and Drovers' Bank 23,IK1 00 300 shares Importers' and Trailers' Hank .Tl.iilio oo 400 shares American Exchange Bank 42,400 00 820 shares Merchants' Batik 45,100 00 lOOsbares U. 8. Trust Company Bank 11,100 00 160 shares N Y. Life Ins. and Trust 0. Bank.... 24,750 00. Total Assets $1,867,030 08 Total Assets LIABILITIES: For Clalma adjusted, unadjusted and not due STATE Personally anneared before mo, a Justice of the Peace, Secretary, and mado solemn oath that the foregoing statement of the assets and condition of the JFAnn Insurance Com pany is true. Branch Office, 171 Vine Street, Cincinnati. J. H. IIE.iETT, General Agent. Agouoy ctt Columbus, 25 HAST STATE STREET, OVER THE POSTOFFICE. NO, THE FINE NEW HOUSE NOW FINISH-ING on Broadway. tSfS The House In which I am now living, on Oak near Itinj Fourth, bolng centrally located, and contalnlngiiJt Twelve Rooms, Gas, and other conveniences, making It a very desirable residence. TWENTY-ONE ACHES OF VERT CfOCB LAND, three-fourths of a mile north of tho Depot, lying on the Plank Road and Park Avenue, snitahle for Garden pur-poses, or a beautiful Suburban Residence; divided to suit purchasers. Also two vacant lots on Stato Avonnos 1 vacant lot on ranklln Avenue; 1 vacant lot on Broadway, and othor de ferable City property, all of which I will sen low 11 applied o soon. dec 16-d.lm J. M. McCUNE "FURNITURE! FURNITURE !! SlltEDlKUER & IIIIOHN, 104 South High Street, Manufacturers and Dealers in all kinds of CABINET FURNITURE, SPRINO BEDS, CHAIRS, MATTRESSES, LOOKING-GLASSES, An. ALL OF OUR FURNITURE IS OF OUR OWN MANU FACTURK, and warranted to lie exactly as rep- nf resented. Customers will And the largest and best as-sortment of any establishment in the city, and can (J buy, at Wholesale or Retail, as cheap as at any other house, ear Undertaking promptly attended to. nov20 lv CABINET "WARE 1 JOHN PIRRUXG, No. 177 East Friend St., HAS A FULL ASSORTMENT OF ALL KINDS OF Plain, Fancy and Ornamental Fnrnlture. Manufactures Furniture to order CHEAPER than any other establishment in the citv, avsr UPHOLSTERING dons in a superior manner. nov22 lv CLARK'S INDKL1BLK PENCILS, FOR marking Clothing mxironfrd. The trade supplied at inanufaolurora' prices, at RANDALL A ASTON'S, foblO PERIODICAL DEPOT FOR SALE ! aUfilHE PERIODICAL AND PICTURE A FRAME Establishment, No. U East Town street,can be purchased on advantageous terms, either for cash, city property, or lands In this State or Missouri. Apply as above. fcl 0. 8. WALCUTT, ALL AND EXAMINE THE ORE AT VARIETY OF Bilk Velvets and Plushes for Vests, at M. CH1LDS' New Merchant Tailoring Establishment, No. 21 High St. deo4-d.'lnt , with accrued Interest . ..1209.180 M 38M95 3 65,538 20 Bonds at 7 cent, interest.... 25,000 00 Bonds at 10 V cent. In't 6,000 00 ua at lu f cent. Interest 11U 00 167,110 00 6 $ cont. Interest 62,375 00 per cent, interest 0,100 00 $ cent. Interest In,2u0 00 per cent, intorest 4.1,500 00 8 $ cent, interest 2K,(MS) 00 8 per cent intorest 60.0(H) (K) 8 per cent, interest 20,600 00 319,075 00 4,i is 143,153 08 48,055 6T X35,30 00 507,450 00 $110,070 64 THOMAS K. BRACE, Socretary, OF CONNECTICUT, HARTFORD COUNTY, SS. 1 IlAHTniRn. Jnnunrv 1st. I860. 1 duly qualified to administer oaths. Thomas. K. Brace. Jr, HENRY FOWLER, Justice of the Peace. FRED'K J. FAY, Agent. "THE MASSASOIT," FORMERLY THE VERANDAH, .siy un stint) sireei, EAST Of THE POST OfFItli. IS NOW OPEN AS All Eating and Drinking Saloon, SUPPLIED WITH THE CHOICEST LIQUORS AND ALL THE LUXURIES OF THE SEASON. OSTBIIItard Hooma and Bowling Alleys are attached to the Saloon. Every attention Is paid to visitors. dec25-d:ira TURNER A DREW, Proprietors. STOVES! STOVES! STOVES! Selling at a Very Small Advance Over Cost I P. B. DODDRIDGE, P. N. WHITE. PEOPLE'S HOUSE FURNISHING ESTA1IL.ISIIMENT,, NO. 103 HIGH STREET, Columbus. Ohio. HAVE ON HAND A VERY LARGE ASSORTMENT of tho most modern improved COOK and PARLOR STOVES, for both Wood and Coal, which they will guarantee to give entire satisfaction in their operation. Their assortment of House Furnishing Goods is also large, embracing CARPET SWEEPERS, PLATE WARMERS. BLOWER STANDS, COAL VASES, with almost ovory use-fill article from the Kitchen to the Parlor. Also a large atock or the celebrated Stewart stoves, v. men will riny f r Itself In the saving of fuel, over any other Stovo, n every 18 months' uso. We have docided to reduce onr very large stock of Goods to open the way for our Spring Stock, by selling oft at a very small advance upon cost. nov25 RtlKTlNOTON f ITCH. JOHM B. eoRTI.V.. lOQQ, IQSQ, FITCH A, BORTLR, PRODUCE, FORWARDING AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS Pia IRON AGENTS, DEALERS IN FLOUR, SALT, WATER LIME, HIGH WINES, 4c. Warehouse East and West end of Seloto Bridge, Broad St., Columbus, Ohio. Make Cosh Advances on Consignments of property to be sold in tills or Eastern markets. Freights consigned us, to be forwarded, will not be subject to lirayage. Wo have the only Warehouse In Columbus that Is situated both on Canal and Railroad. Being Agents for several Transportation Lines, we ran nt all times give Shippers the advantage of the CHEAPEST RELIABLE ROUTES. They will therefore readily see the advantage of consigning property to us, and not by any particular route from Columbus. nolMly to Jtotc iwnral 11 rvBt.isnr.D DAILY, TRI-WEEKLY AND WEEKLY, BY COOKE h MILLERS. Ofllce In Miller's Building, No. Ill Kust Town atreet. Termi Invariably in Advance. Dailt ' - JO 00 per year. " By the Carrier, per week, - . 12cts. Tat-WrraLT, - - 8 00 por year. sxxt.T 1 60 " KRMSOF DAILY ADVERTISING BY THE SQUARE. (tf.x links oa ires mass a squared One square 1 year, $16 0(1 1 One aquaro 3 weeks, J 3 60 une " umontns, 12 iki one " 2 weeks, 3 00 One " 6 months, 10 (to One " 1 week, 1 60 One " 8 months, 8 00 One 11 3 days, 100 One " 2 months, 8 60 One 2 days, 75 Ono 1 month, 4 60 One 1 day, 60 WEEKLY ADVERTISING. Per Square, of 300 ems more or less, three weeks ....11. W Per Square, each week tn addition 37Jj Por Square, three months 6.00 Per Square, six months 9.00 Per Square, one year 16.00 Displayed Advertisements hair more than the above rates. Advertisements leaded and plnced In the column of Spe cial Notices, tioubU the ordinary rate. . All notices required to tw pumisiicd by law, legal rales, If ordered on the inside exclusively after the first week. 50 per cent, more than the above rates; but all auch will appear In the Trl-Weekly without charge. Business Cards, not excoeding tire lines, per year, Inside, 12.60 per line; outside $2. Notices of moetings, charitable societies, fire companies. Ac, half price. Advertisements not accompanied with written directions ill lie Inserted till forbid, and charged accordingly. All TVanstait iiffrerhVnietils mwtt 5s paid in advance. Tilts rule will not be varied from. Under the present svstem, the advertiser pars so much for the space ho occupies, the change t being chargeable with the composition only. This plan is now generally adopted. MASONIC CALENDAR. RTATF.D MEETINGS. COLUMBUS LODGE, No. 30 Second and Fourth Tues. days. W. U, Fat, Sec'y. Amasa Jones, W. M. MAGNOLIA LODGE, No. 20 First and third Tuesdays. L. 0. TiiRAix, Sec'y. Thos. Spabrow, W. M. OHIO CHAPTER, No. 1221 Saturday In each mo. R. A. Emert, Sec'y. J. F. Park, II. P. COLUMBUS COUNCIL, No. 8 First Friday In each month. K. Wkst, Sec'y. A. B. Robinson, T. I. G. M. MT. VERNON ENCAMPMENT, No. 1 Last Thursday in each mo. A. B. Rorinson, Rec. W. B. Tiikat.l, G. 0, I. O. O. F. CALENDAR. STATED MEETINGS. -o),.e.- COLUMBUS LODGE. No. 0 Meets Monday evening. John Otktott, N.O. John Uncles, Sec'y. CENTRAL LODGE, No. 23 Sleets Thursday evening. L. A. Denio, N.O. J. G. Decker, Sec'y. EXCELSIOR LODGE, No. 145 Meets Wednesday even-ng. J. J. Funston, N.O. Jas. H. Stapbixo, Sec'y. CAPITOL LODGE, No. 334 Meets Friday evening. G. Scott, N.O. O. V. O'Harra, Sec'y. CAPITOL ENCAMPMENT, No. 0 Meets every Tnesday evening. Jas. il. dtavhinq, CP. Jos. Dowdall, Ben tie. Columbus Time Table. CAREruu.r corrkcteo with iverv chanok. Columbus to Cincinnati Leaves. Arrives. Night Express .... 2:45 a. m. 4:45 a. m. Accommodation, ... 6:30 a.m. 0:55 p. m. Day Express .... 6:15 p. ni. 2:20 p. in. Columbus to Clevelano Night Passenger Express - . 6:15 a. m. 2:10 a. m. Mail Passenger Express 2:30 p. m. 6:00 p. m. Columbus to Wheelino Night Express ... 6:00 a. m. 2:20 a. m. Mail ...... 2:30 p. m. 6:00 p. in. Columbus to Steubenville anh Pittsburgh Express .... 6:00 a. m. 2:20 a. in. Muil ..... 2:30 p. m. 6:00 p. in. Columbus to I'iqua, Ciiicaoo, etc. Express Train ... 8:30 a. m. 4:30 p. m Accommodation .... 5:10 p. m. 12:30 p. m Arrivals and Departures of the Malls. Eastern Mails arrive nt 2:10 a. in., and 5:15 p. m. Western Mails arrive at 4:45 a. m., and 2:2(1 p. m. Mails for New York Citv, Boston, Washington City- Philadelphia, Baltimore, Wheeling, and other Eastern Cilies, close dully at 7:30 p. ni., Sundays excepted. A through Muil to Cleveland and New York City closes dally at 2 p. m. Mails for Chicago and Diihuone close daily at 2 p. m Mails for Cincinnati, Louisville, Indianapolis, St. Louis and houtliern Cities, close daily at 7;30 p. m. A through Muil to Cincinnati closes daily at 4:00 p. m. Cincinnati way Muil closes daily at 4 p. m. Cleveland way Muil closes daily at 12 m., Sundays ex cepted. .unon.nio and Wheelnrwny Mnllchmes dally at 12 m. ttieulienviHe wny Mail c1oms oaily nt ' in. Urhana and I'lnua way Mail closes daily at 7:30 p. m. Chillicothe,Circlovil!eand Portsmouth closes daily at 7:30 p. m., Sundays excepted. Lancaster closes daily at 7;30 a. ni. Bladensburg horse Mail closes every Tuesday at 10 Zunesvillo way Mail over the Natiuuul Road, closes dully at 7:30 p. m., Sundays excepted. Washington 0. II, way Mail closes Mondays and Thursdays at 8 a. 111. lit. Vernon way Mall closes dally at 12 in., Sundays ex-cepted.Dublin way Mail closes every Monday, Wednesday and rinduy at 7:30 p. ni. THOMAS MILLER, P. M. JAMES S. ATJSTirST. Att'y at Law and Notary Public, VVLVMVUS, UUIV, At office of P. B. A Jos. A. Wilcox, No. 7 South High St. nov24 S. W. ANDREWS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, utiles No. 3 Johnson Hutining, High Sired, - - V0LUMUV8, OHIO. nnv29 ly ALLEN G. Till KM AN, Attorney txt Xjvot, COLVMUUS, OHIO, fe20 Offlco on High street, between Friend and Mound. A .B7B V T TLE S , Attoinoy rttacl Ooiuiaol ox- at aaivv. For the present at the Clerk's Ollice. felo R. E. CHAMPION, Doalor lu Coal tJa Colio, Yard and Office near Ruilrood Depot, no2 COLVMHVS, OHIO. M. C. I.II.LEV , I3oolt.-I3iiacloi, AND BLANK BOOK MANUFACTURER, High street, between Broad and Gny sts., nol8 COLUMBUS, 070. AV. AVILLSHIRE RILEY, D'ENTIBT. T)0OMS IN AM BOS' HALL, HIGH STREET. TEETH IV extracted In a scientific manner, and Sets lur Dished that are warranted to please. novli O. II. LATIMER, 33 A. 3X13X1, No. 280 Jliffh Street, between Rich and Friend, KEEPS CONSTANTLY ON HAND A LARGE ASSORT MENT of (Jakes, Crackers, Breads, Fresh Oysters, Fruits, Nuts, and Family Groceries. Also, a largo stock of Candies and choice Confectionery. rGlve me a call, and buy a prime article cheap. nov20 fun Coal, Coal. THE SUBSCRIBER IS NOW PREPARED TO FURNISH the best qualities of Stove and Grate Coal, at tho lowest prices. Ofllce aud Yard comer of Gay and Third sts. aui A. BARLOW. JOHN XV. BIKER, REAL ESTATE BROKER, OIHce in the Odcon Building, Columbus, Ohio, WILL DEVOTE A PORTION OF HIS TIME TO Buying and Sidling Projierty for others, Negotiating Loans and Making Collections, in Franklin and atUoinlng Counties, on the most liberal terms. Letters addressed, with postage stamp Inclosed, will re celve prompt attention. Roferenco Any citizen of Columbus. Ja23 WIEMAIH A. OILL, roi.UMHUB, onio, AGRICULTURAL WAREHOUSE And Seed. Store, DEALER IN GENERAL HARDWARE, NAILS, GLASS, SASH, PUTTY, CORDAGE, duns, Pistols, Wood and Willow Ware, Leather and Rubber Bolting, Lace Leather, Hose and Pecking. nov21 GENTLEMEN I TAKE NOTICE, THAT IP. HOSE, So. T IV ell IIounc, TS RECEIVING WEEKLY NEW GOODS FOR GENTS' 1 wear, of the latest and best styles, to lie found in the Eastern markots, to which I invite thoattentlon of Gentlemen d"slrlng good goods, neat Hts, and line work, at cheap rates as I have adopted the Cash System, aud thot of small profits and quick Bales, and attend personally to bnslncsa, nri rin all tnv own entllnir. 1 feel Confident I Con PleasO all who may favor mo with tholr patronage. Every thing to complete a Gentleman s wardrobe is Kepi constantly on hand. HUSK. deet-'5R GREAT XTSroTJCEjVrENTS rPEN PER CENT. DISCOUNT TO ALL CASH CUB A TOMERS, at MRS. IIOITERTON'8, orU No. 178 High st. Columbus, 0. WHITE WHEAT FLOUR, THE lir.ST IIHtMiS IX MARKET! WARRANTED TO HE AN A NO. 1 AR. T1CLE, and satisfaction guaranteed. In store and for sale at WM. McDONALD A CO.'S Cash 8tore, febll 10(1 High atreet, opposite Johnson Building mh Itotc 0nrnaL MONDAY MORNING, MARCH 21, 1859. Oysters and Letters. The N. Y. Evening rott has an article oa the cheapness of oysters carried by private enterprise and the deafness of letters by government conveyance, and arguing for a total abolition of the postolfice department. We extract the following: 1 All over our vast interior, at any villngo on the railways, oyster-stands arc to be found so numerously, tliatooe is astonished at the fecundity of those banks in the sea which supply them. But the most, remarkable, thing of all is the cheap rale at which we get all this dispatch and nil this punctuality. Like all those things for which there is a large demand, and of which there is a largo supply, oysters are cheap even in the interior. It need not cost more to carry a letter a hundred miles than to carry an oyster, yet, for carrying a keg of oys ters to an almost indefinite distance inland, only twenly-five cents are paid, while for the same weight of letters several hundred dollars would be demanded. If the laws of trado were left to their own operation; if the government did not interfere with its prohibitions and penalties, the communication by letters between differant parts of the country, which the wise ones at Washington are for burdening with an additional tribute to i he government, should be among our cheap blessings. The demand for tho speedy and regular conveyance of letters is large, the supply of letters is ample and constant, and the means of conveyance neither expensive nor difficult to be had. Postage, therefore, ought to be cheap, like Croton water, like bread, like oysters, instead of being made doar, as Secretary Cobb and the late I'oslraastor General would have made it. If the bankruptcy of tho Fostofiico, now im minent, were to result in the breaking-up of that monopoly, the abandonment of the l'ost-ollico Department as a separate branch of tho government, the abolition of the office of Post master-tjencral, and the substitution of private expresses all over tho country instead of government mail routes, tho loss of the Postoffice Appropriation bill in the last Congress would, within two years, be acknowledged as one of the most fortunate events in the history of tho country. We have not the least doubt, for our part, that if a law were to be passed allowing private expresses to carry letters, but prohibiting them trom talcing more than a single penny for a singlo letter, the expresses would make it a gainful business. At tho present moment, what are the means of conveyance to which our banks and our bankers all over the country have rccourso to carry money for them? Who are the confiden tial agents whom they employ in a matter which requires suchabsoluteintcgrity and promptitude? isottlio government postolhcc, not the mail con tractors; the bankers and dealers in money will not, nay can not, trust the government. They have slender confidence in official fidelity, vig- tlanccaua exactness; they call for the integrity ami activity ot individuals, whose solo depend ence for success is on the satisfactory manner in which they perform the service they under take, rrivato enterprise carries their bank notes and drafts and certificates of deposite from place to place, just as it carries oysters. Millions on millions in this manner traverse the country in every direction, meetingand passing each other and intersecting each others track, in perfect security, and reaching their destina. tion with the greatest punctuality. When a note of hand, held in New York, is to be collected at Uui'iingiun, Vermont, the holder does net think of having anything to do with 1I10 mails; he knows of a far better method than that. He takes his note to the express office of Adams and Company; they give him a receipt for it, collect the money in IJurlington, and bavo it ready for him in ftew lork when he calls for it. At every important point in the interior, on the arrival of the railway trams, you see express wagons har nessed, ready to start towards the four winds. the horses pawing the ground and impatient to beon their way. All the ways of communication bet ween man and man, which the mail monopoly leaves open to individuals, are immedi ately occupied by a class of men who serve the public better than the agents of the govern ment. Tho letter trade is in the hands of tho govern ment, the oyster trade is in the hands of indi viduals, n e shall never see the former in satisfactory state till it is committed to tho same hands which so ably conduct the latter. STATE ITEMS. Drowned. The Pcrrysbitrg Journal says that a young lady and gentleman were drowned in the Mau mee river, near that place, on Tuesday last, Their skiff got into the rapids, and was swamped, An Infamous Act. Somo person or persons, between 6 o'clock on Saturday evening and before day on Monday morning, did a diabolical act to tho railroad track, about a mile beyond Martinsville, by di aw ing out the spikes that fastened the railing to the track, causing the track to spread when tho train attempted to pass in tho morning. The freight train had to pass over first. The engine and eight freight cars were thrown off the track rive of these freight cars were completely mashed up, and the freight scattored inevcry db rcction. Fortunately, no person was injured It is supsoscd that nearly ono hundred yards were loosened by drawing out tho spikes. Accidentally Shot. Mr. Albert March, who resides in the neigh borhood of Courneville, was accidentally shot on Monday afternoon. Some young men were shooting at a mark in tho neighborhood where Mr. March was working. A ball passed through a three inch plank und struck Mr. March, who was about two hundred yards distant, on tho riiiht shoulder. Tho injury, tliouirh a painful one, is not considered dangerous. Death of Mike Walsh. Few men in this city were more notorious than Mike Walsh, whose body was found about 6 o'clock this morning, by officer Courtney, at the foot ot the steps leading to the basement of No. 138 Eighth Avenuo. His neck was dislocated, the body lifeless, and he is supposed to have diod in a fit of intemperance. He was conveyed to the 10th ward precinct station-house, where Coroner O'Koefe has summoned a jury to inquire into the causes of his death. Walsh was a man of considerable natural abilities, and if he had cultivated them, and observed good habits, might have raised himself to an honorable distinction. He was a printer, we believe, by trade, and for a time published a newspaper called the Subterranean, which was on abusive and scurrilous print, but an especial thorn to the leaders of theTammany democracy, to which Walsh had belonged. He was after wards elected a member of the legislature of this state, Dutuia not acquire any particular reputation by his labors in Albany. Yet be was popular with bis constituents, partly on account of his talents, but more so on account of his supposed fearless honesty and the rough handed manner in which he always paid his re spects to me corrupt ana treacherous politicians After quitting the legislature he was nomins. ted a candidate for Congress against John Kel ly, our present suenlt, and elected. He served three sessions at Washington, and, on retiring from bis post, went to Europe, and, if we mistake not, to Australia and South America. For a few years past ho has not figured before the publio, and we suposebas yicldod almost entire lv to habits of intoxication. Not Ions ago he lost a daughter, and he has left two children living. "Of all my family," he said onoe inour hearing "not one has died in his bed all by ao- eident or violence, and suoh will be my fate" a prophecy singularly fulfilled. N. Y, Pott. Restoration of the Canal ContractsEx pose of the Falsehoods Invented to Justify It. Yesterday, by a bare Constitutional majority, the bill of Mr. Finefrock to restore the canal contracts, was passed by the House of representatives, and I propose, in a brief space, to expose tbe falsehoods invented to justify the movement. Men always give some sort of pretext for what they do, and where no good reason exists, somo sort of one is invented. In the matter of these contracts the Legislature seems not to have sought for a justification, but have adopted one got up for thorn by those disinterested patriots, Hamlin & Co., who desire nothing else so much as to savo money for the State, a State they have always disinterestedly served, and which they are now anxious to sacrifice their own interests to serve. There is yet hope for the Commonwealth. Patriotism still burns brightly in the hearts of Hamlin & Co. Tho Statemian has caught their patriotic ardor, too. nnd it demands that tho Legislature shall give this noble band a chance to save money for the dear people. To justify tho movement before tho people, the statement that $93,172 a year was saved by the contract, has been circulated far and wido in the Statesman, Enquirer, nnd other musk-rat papers. Governor Mcdill, it is true, did say in his last annual message, that such a saving was mado by the contracts. But that statoment of his was based on the report of the Board of Public Works, in which they stated that the annual average cost of the repairs for the six years next preceding tho lcttingo was $370,703. But that estimate included a great deal of work which the con. Iractori could not be made to do under the contracts. In 1850, the Senate passed a resolution calling upon the Board to report the annual cost for tho six years next preceding the lettings, oxclu' ding from the estimate, all such items as the contractors would not be bound to do under the contracts. That report was made, and publish ed in the report of the investigating committee, nnd it Bhowed the annual average cost for the six years to be $315,098. See Apcndix to Senate Journnl, 1857, page 35. The first estimate is thus shown to have boon f 55,605 too high, and this alone reduces the reported saving from 593,172 to S37,507 a year. But let lis go a step farther, and this last sum will vanish, and there will not be an inch of solid ground for the patriots to stand on, but instead of saving money for the people, it will bo seen that they stand about knee deep in the people's money. Before the contracts were let, tlioso "coming events cast thoir shadows before," nnd a great deal of heavy and expensive work was put under contract just to make everything agreeable to the patriots, Ihmlin & Co. nnd by the terms of the contracts all such work was to be completed, not by the patriots, but by tho persons to whom it had been contracted previous to the letting of the repairs. All the money thus paid for work in 1850, the year the contracts were in force, must bo added to the contract price in order to show tho expenses of repairs under tho contracts. The Legislature appropriated in 1S50 for ou nt this kind $50,191, and it was all used. See Appendix to Senate Journal, 1857, page 38. If this be added to the contract price, to wit: $278,829, we shall have $328,520 as the cost of repairs under the contracts in 1850 or a loss by the contracts of $13,422; or a difference between the statements of tho patriots Hamlin & Co. and the facts, ns drawn from official documents, of $100,594. 1 know it is a pity to dampen the ardor of the patriots by such stubborn facts as these ; but still perhaps the truth ought to be told, that the pcoplo may see what the present Legislature is doing for the country. But much as I regret it, I shall have to give the patriots another jolt. At the close of the fiscal year 1855, on the 15th November, there was due on work done in 1855, preparatory to putting the publio works into first rate working condition, before they were delivered over to the patriots, that they might have but little to do but talk patriotism, the sum of $40,807. This belongs legitimately, and by uniform usage of the Board, to the expenses of the year 1850, and added to the cost of 1850 as above ascertained, lo wit, $328,520, we have as the expenses of 1850, the contract year, $309,327! I have before shown that the annual average cost for six years before the lettings was $315,- 098. I could demonstrate to the satisfaction of any fair minded man that that estimate was too high; but, admitting it not to be, we have Cost of 18511, contract year 3!l,327 Average annual cost lor six years U15,008 Excess of cost under contracts $54,229 A loss by the singlo year of the contracts of $54,229 instead of a saving of $93,172! A difference between the facts nnd the fictions of the patriots, Hamlin & Co., of $147,401! "0 Heaven, the bleeding patriots save I Is there no hand on high to shield the brave?" To show that the above conclusion is substantially correct, let us draw the fracts from another source; and that is from the annual report of the Board of Publio Works for 1850, which will be found in Executive documents, 1858, page 471. It is shown in that report that tho amount paid on account of canals was $401,498, for the year 1856, the contract year. And tho Board go on to say that of that sum $75,000 should be deducted, as not properly belonging lo the year ie;n. uut except about $30,000 spent in widening t lie Lancaster side out, every dollur of it is justly chargeable to 1856. But if we admit all they claim, we still have as the cost of repairs under the contracts, for the canals alone, tho sum of $320,004; and to this should be added $5,000 (or about that sum) paid the contractor on sec. 8, the Western Reserve and Maumee road, which gives $830,004; or a loss by the contracts of $15,500. But if we lake out of the expenses of the canals only the $30,000 used in widening the Lancaster side cut, and add $5,000 paid contractor on Maumee road, wo will have as the expenses undor the contracts with the patriots in 1850, $376,498; or a loss by the contracts in the single year of their existonce of $71,400, as compared with the six proceeding years. Let us now compare the contract year, 1850, with 1857. In thoir annual report for 1857, (pages 17, 19,) whioh may be found in Executive doouments for 1857, the Board say that the repairs for the year cost $317,739; and in the same report, on tho 17th page, they state that McCarthy, the contractor, had entirely failed to keep the Hocking Canal in repair in 1850, and of course an extra expenditure had to be incurred on that work in 1867. Besides a great deal of work was included in tho $317,739, which the contractors wore not bound to do. But if we take the statement of the Board as the actual cost oi su.cn repairs as tbe contractors wore bound to make, the magnificent savins which (he patriots boast of, dwindles down to tho in- Bignilicaut sum of $2,641. Bosidcs all this, there were perpotual complaints in 1856 that the Hocking Canal, and Muskingum improvement, and portions of the Ohio Canal, and Miami Canal, were constantly out of order. This neglect in 1856 caused a much heavier outlay in 1857 than would otherwise have been oalled for. I havo not tho documents to pursue the investigation through 1858; but the extraordinary floods of that year are a sufficient explanation of any apparent excess of expenditure over former years. By these contracts, the Board of Publio Works usurped the taxing power to the amount of $1,391,045. Tbe constitution places the power and the responsibility of taxation in the Legislature. A restoration of these contracts will be regarded by the people as a surrender by tho Legislative of its highest constitutional prerogatives, and as reducing it to a secondary power in the government a mere machine in the hands of such patriots as Hamlin & Co., to drag taxes out of the people. The highest judi cial tribunal of the State has decided these contracts unconstitutional and void, and this attempt to restore them can only result in useless and expensive litigation; it can never accomplish its object. But if there be any who 'take ploasure in seeing any thing doue that will render the defeat of the Locol'oco party next fall any more certain than it now is they will say let the restoration take place let the Legislature show Unit it is "in the hands of its friends" the patriots, Hamlin & Co., and has surrendered the taxing power to them. All the facts stated above ore easily found in official documents. Will the Legislature ignore these and act upon the interested statements of tho contractors, and those in their interest? Will they surrender their own judgments, and treat the decision of the Supreme Court us of no force and rely implicity on theopinions of the feed attorney of the contractors? Let us wait and sco. The pretended editor of the Express is actually trying to scare us by delivering himself as follows : "If this infamous scoundrcs and false hearted libertine, who was compelled to skulk like a dog before the officers of justice, persists in slandering others, we will hold up to the public gaze this young scion of decency and morality." This is certainly rich. This lewd, debased, half-witted underling, threatens to "tell something on us'1 if we don't "hush up." We take tho above paragraph from a country exchange. Whilo we cannot but admire the manly and fearless tone adopted by the editors in speaking of each other, it does seem to us that some of the expressions savor, very faint ly, it is true, of personality. The "Pasha Papers." consisting of the letters of tho Turk which have been published in the Evening Post, with several additional epistles, and a large number of replies received by the translator from various parts of the country, will be published immediately in one volumo, 12mo.. by Scribner. A'. Y. Post. The "Pasha Papers," (which are thought rath er heavy, by the way,) are said to have been written by a literary lady formerly of north ern Ohio, but now of New York city. In the obscure but agreeable village of Mid dletown, N. Y., lives Mrs. Dr. Lydia Saycr Hns-brouck. In this village this lady publishes a strong minded paper, and incidentally wears pan taloons. That she should refuse to pay her taxes is consequent. That her goods should be dis trained therefor is equally so. The tax collector seizes her pantaloons, and brutally sells them at auction. He docs more. lie levies upon her household furniture, and watches with malignant vigilance for a chance to get into her b.uoo Mrs. Dr. Lyaio u.r. iTaahrouck locks all the doors, and laughs horrid defiance in tho teeth of the minion of the law. The minion of the law at last snatches an occasion let the gentle doctress tell the story herself: "We were not, however, surprised to find our collector prowling about our premises, and suddenly potinoo into tho house on Saturday evening, as II. was carelossly standing at the open door. As we met him at the door, he looked cross enough to bite our head off. Pushing his way in, he seized upon the clock. Passing out into the hall to hand it to some one who was helping in the dirty work, we again turned the key, which debarred him from the balance of the goods levied on. We were now threatened Willi a general demolition of locks, bolts, and doors generally, if wo did not open them. This, of course, we refused to do; but feeling ourselves well guarded with two sentries outside, we quietly sat down to supper, awaiting whatever was to follow. To tho credit of our collector we will say, no more warlike demon Jtrations were made, though II., in the course of time passing out, found him pretty well chilled by his vigil?. II., perhaps feeling some fellow sympathy for him, or at least not wishing to go down town again that night to supply the place of a bag of flour he had found and seized, entered into some com promise with him, when the siege was raised and quiet conhdently expected for one year. II. is doubtless the husband of Mrs. Dr. II. We rejoice. The result is glorious. It is delightful. The lady comes out in hor paper, the " Sybil," and deolares that she will make the office of tax-collector so hateful, no decent man will have it. Go in, Mrs. Dr. Lydia Sayer II! and win. The cause is great, and worthy. Let us have an end of rasoally tax-gatherers, and consequently of faxes. The New York correspondent of the Boston Journal has seen several autograph letters from John Wesley, which are now in tho possession of a descendant of ono of his most intimate friends: Her house was one of the many houses to which he was mado welcome whore he could tarry for a night. The letters bIiow the intimate personal relations that existed between Wesley and the family to whom they are addressed. The band writing is plain and neat, and much like that of Gen. Washington. They all breathe a glowing spirit of dovotion, and a most kindiy atfoction for the Church of England, in whose bosom Wesley died. The National Intelligencer makes the revelation that Mr. Perry, Secretary of Legation- and aob-ing Minister at Madrid, when Mr. Soule retired, gave official information to our Government that he had assurances irom mo ftpamsn authorities of their willingness to enter into a treaty with this Government which would obliterate all existing grievances. But this information, or the dispatch which contained it, is not now to be found in the archives. The fact which it communicated conflicted with the assumptions Bet ud bv the Administration as apoloiries loraouar rel with Spain, aud hence the abstraction of the document. The Seat of the Sense of Taate. The Clintque Eurepenne of the 6th contains the following aocount of certain experiments made by MM. Klaatsch and Stich. to ascertain the real seat of the sense of taste, which is gen erally and erroneously supposed to exist on the wholo surface of the tongue. It appears, on the contrary, lrom these experiments, that the only portion of that organ which is sensible to taste, is a narrow spare all round. The breadth of this zone varies in different subjects; in some it is not moro than two lines, in others double that breadth; it rarely extends to tho inferior surface The experiments above alluded to were as follows: A substance having a strong taste is first placed on the centre of the tongue, where it produces no effect; it is then gradually spread out until tho perception or tasto is annonnced this occurs generally on the border, but in somo individuals it begins at the distance of a line from It. The velum pendulum of the palate if also sensible to taste, but the pharynx and tonsils are deprived of the gustative faculty. This is proved by the fact that if they be touched with stick caustic the patient oxperienoes no tasto, provided ho keep his tongue and the velum pendulum away from the spot. Newspaper Personalities. A Into number of Blackwood's Magazine dis-eusses the expediency and propriety of editorial writers for newspapers appending their signatures to articles, and decides against it. Among the remarks are the following on the American press : "At the head of every journal the editor's name is printed in conspicuous letters; and the result is what? Are writers afraid to comment severely? Does the publicity of the newspaper organization make tho journalists timid, circumspect, considorato of the feelings? It docs just the reverse. The personalities in which almost every editor throughout the Union indulges, are something astounding. One New Yerk paper, during the late panic, published the name of every gentleman who bought a silk dress for his wife, or gave a dinnerparty to his friends 1 1 Wo all know how common it is for the American journals to criticise by name the personal appearance of ladies at balls and at watering places. It is quite possible that American ladies may be found to relish such notoriety; but such notorioty is here regarded as not lest nn-English than, on the other hand, is tbe secrcsy of the ballot. It is possible that the above paragraph was taken from Blackwood's Magazine; but we do not remember to have read it in that periodical. Wherever it originated, howevor, it is absurdly full of falsehoods and mistakes. In America, it is not very usual to print the names of the editors in the papers. It once was so, but in the prinoipal cities it is no longer the custom. American journals do not commonly criticise by name the personal appearance of fashionable ladies, but use, instead, a delicate subterfuge of dashes and initials. In England, however, the ladies not only at publio assemblies, but at large private parties, are published every morning in the fashionable intelligence. As to the foolish story about the New York paper, we think it may be safely pronounced a fabrication. It certainly has never before been heard on this side of the Atlantic. The paragraph il about as correct aB most of thoso in English periodicals about America. The Carrara Marble Quarries. Thejunior editor of the Now York Post, now traveling in Italy, mentions briefly these famous quarries of statuary marble. Our journey to Pisa was lengthened part of a day, that we might see the famous marble quarries of Carrara, which for more than twenty centuries havo supplied the sculptors of all nations with marble, and to whith the architecture of Italy is scarcely less indebted than to the constructive genius of her people. The city of Carr.ira liss at the junction o' some fre or eiz valleys, which divide as many mountains, like a fan partially opened. The white openings of the quarries on the mountain sides may be seen from afar, and I found it a good hour's walk from the city to the nearest of them. They are worked without system, and apparently at great disadvantage. The road from the quarries to tho water level was as bad as a road could well be, at one place crossing a stream of water in which the oxen went up to their bellies. The portage is about two miles, and it seemed to me, with every allowance for the cheapness of labor and ox flesh here, that a good road, with two yoke of oxen, would have beon more economical, in the long run, than the miry , slough through which every load has now to be drawn wuii nvo o . Tkr are some seventy quarries altogether at Carrara, but only seven . or eight are now worked, and of these thero is but one, I was told,- that furnished the best quality of statuary marble. The old placers, open in the days of Imperial Rome, nnd from which the Pantheon was built, have been abandoned for centuries. There are about 2,500 men employed in quarrying and cutting marble here, which is nearly the entire able-bodied male portion of the population. The incidents of the auction sale of the slave yacht. "Wandorer," at Savannah, are related by a correspondent of the Tribune: At the hour appointed, the United States Marshal took bis stand on Capt. Corrie's trunk, in front of the Custom House, read the decree of the Court, and offered the vessel at auction, whereupon Mr. Chas. L. Lamar stated that the vessel was his property in the hands of the United ' Stales officers, and hoped no one would bid against him. The first bid was $500 $800 $1,000 and from there up to $4,000, the bids , were $25 at a time by Mr. Van Horn, the jailor here, a quiot respectable person, who was doubtless authoized by the Collector. Soon it reached $4,000, and was knocked off quickly to Lamar, who instantly rushed on Van Horn, and struck him a severe blow which laid him senseless. Lamar is woll known here as' a desperate slave-dealer, although holding an influential position in this community. There was a general shout of approbation at bis conduct, with the cry "kill him Charley, kill him," and for the moment it looked as if pistols and knives would be used. The whole matter was preconcerted so that no bidder should be allowed against Lamar. The vessel was richly worth a much greater sum, and would have brought it but for the bullying of the slave-dealers present, wfio openly avow their intention to bring another cargo of the chattels by the same vessel. This Lamar is the person who took the wild Africans from the prison here last week, also the owner of the fifty captured in Telfair county. No doubt he will get possession of these in the name manner. The United States laws are all a farce in suppressing the slave trade. It is boasted that the , next cargo will pay better than thoso by the Wanderer, and they will know better how to manage in landing. A New Volume of Poems. Poetry flows from tho American press about aa abundantly as prose. Among the new volumes announced is one from our townsman, Mr. Sutliffe, whose contributions have occasionally appeared in our paper. Tho Cambridge (Mass.) Chronicle, in announcing forthcoming publications, speaks thus of this volume. Keokuk Oat City. Poems by Alhkrt Sutlikfe. A very handsomely printed volume of poems by Albert Sut-lifl'o, will soon be published by James Monroe & Co. There are many who have read and admired various poems of Mr. Sutliffe, which have been printed in some of our leading periodicals, and been widely circulated in the newspapers. Such persons are fully prepared to understand that this volume will oontain pieoes of rare merit pieces which would do no discredit to those among our poets who are most widely known and whose reputation is most enviable. Mr. Sutliffe is a young man, born and bred in New England. His pretensions and expectations in the publication of this book are very modest; and, for us, this adds something to tho real and very great merit of its contents. Next week we shall copy one or two of the poems, from advanced sheets. The Q,ueen and the Empress as Mothers. Her Majesty's (the Empress Eugenie's) habits , differ materially from those of our Queen. The Empress is never seen with ber child save in the portraits in the shop windows. As her Majesty was driving in the Bois yesterday, the equipage of the baby Prince, escorted by its invariable glittering cavalcade of hussars aud aides-de-camp, passed by, but the little occupant of the gaudy vehicle failed to elioit even a nod of recognition from his imperial mother. Paris Correspondence of the Morning Advertiser,