UNITED STATES-

Tho following letter has been communion‘ ted to the Boston Post.

Gentlemen: You will oblige me by pub- lishing the following extract from a letter which I have received from Halifax re- specting the Arabia:

“She arrived here about cleveno‘clock on Friday morning, having been detaitied off the harbor by fog. \\'e pumped the water nut of the fore-peak, then removed the coal, and made a good and secure pas- sage for the water under the coal. \Ve also stuffed oaknin in the leak from the in- side, and shored the for-e—peak off as well as we could, and sent a diver down who put oaknm and tallow in the leak from the outside.

“ Before she left, we ascertained that on. of her donkey eiigiiic pumps of '2} inches could keep pace with the leak, w|,eroa.i she has tour pumps connected with the engine of 10 inches each, four deck-

hand puiirps ol 7 iucht-s, and two pumps which were put in the fore-lioldofflfi inches each, ni.-ikiiig in all (i S‘(!:|ln pumps and 6 8

hand pumps I gut. the admiral to hold a survey on her; he sent the inn-‘ter of the

flagship and the l'.»rein:iu ofthe shipwrights

ofllie dock-yard; bt-fore she sailed, I read

to the pas.~eng‘ers ii copy of their repoit to

the lltlllllriil.

“lt-i purport was, that the ship was making about eiuhteen tons of water an hour, and this has been cleared by one donkey cir_vine; there are very ample appli-

ances to clear a much larger leak, if neces- sary, as well as six pumps wlitcli can be From the mode adopted in-hoard, to keep out the water. it will serve to strengthen the bows, and from the mode adopted out-board, from allowing oakum to suck into the leak, it is proba- ble that it will diminish, and we further think, from what we have seen. and the reports of the divers, that the ship can pro-,

worked by hand.

ceed to England in safety.

“ After reading this to the passengers, I told them, I would give them an hour to make up their minds; those who did not wish to go, could have their money re-

turned in full, or a passage in the Canada;

they expressed themselves perfectly satis- fied, and I believe about twenty-five landed here; I also put two more boats on board. I feel quite sure in my own mind, she will

go home all right.”

1 may add, from myself, that the pump- ing capacity of the Arabia is over one thousand tons per hour, by injecting from

the ship, instead of from the sea. Your obedient servant, . Cuiuiin.

VVni.'ri-i or POR'l"LAND.—-TIIO total valu- ation of real estate in _Portland is $ll,66l,- IIJ5; valuation of personal estate, $9,472,- The rate of tax-

I49; total $21, 143,171. ntion the present year is 86 cents per $l00.

The published list of tax payers, shows 375 names of individuals, partnerships and cor- porations, whose taxes amount to $100 or more.

Wire is on Farrah 3-—'I‘ho ususll

no on rsspoctin not without foun

ing disclosures, which, if true sro important: " But in co_nnoction with this adjustment, we

have high] important intolligsncs as to the polls on position of England. in regard to tho nitod States on Spain and Franco.

"England is about to conic into collision n the subjsct of tho smbitious wor upon Spain. There is rssssn to believe t at Nspolson III. has re- vivod tho prstsnsions of tho flrst Napoleon to the crown of Spain, and that he now directs

with Francs u

designs of tho ttcr

his entire policy towards that object.

" Ho has soocnd his intentions by acts. Ho has boon and is ongsgod in conccntrntin s vast military force upon the frontiers of Spain; and what with intrigue, through the Queen llotbsr Christina, and s d forco,msy bringnbout a state of things in Spain favorable to his ambitious views.

“ If he conquer Spain, he will seek possession of Cuba’, which the United States is pled ed to resist. England has, therefore, as loin a v_isod, rccommendod to the government of S sin the csssion of Cuba to the United States, or such

as consideration as will rocruit tho exhausted

lnsnocs of the Spanish government, and enable t to resist tho designs of France.

wsll in- formed Wnshin ton correspondent 0 tbs New York Journal 0 Commerce says, that the sate- mont of the London flutes in regard to the ar- rsn moat between Mr. Dallas and Lord Cla- Contrsl Amoricsn sfiirs, is tion, and makes the follow-

omonstrstion of

liAb'ZAitlI’S GA

“That Spain cannot long retain possession of Cuba is apparent; and the British govern- ment, looking _to it rupture with France on the Spanish question, is desirous both to strengthen Spain and coneiliute the United States, by bringing about a cession of the island to the United States.

“ When this matter shall assume it more definite form, and the Central Ainericaii spit-.+ tion shall be settled, it is thought prolvalilc. that Lord IIO\\'(lI.‘ll, the present miiiister to Spain but now in London on leave of :.hi=c-nee, will be sent to this gorei-iiiiient as Envoy l~2xtraorflina- ry and Miiiister Pletiipotentia _,, to complete such arrangements as will hrin riboutalirin i.,|1iiince between Eii,:lan<l and the United States against the desigiis of Napoleon lIl."—Bo.rtun Journal.

The Allany Ar,-(us furnishes ii synopsis of Professor D.iwaoii's paper on American (ion- logy, read before a section of the “ Scientific Congress lately asseinliled at Albany -

r. l).iws ill, yet a young man. has already obtained ti. position among incu whose names are ciirreut in the circle of science.

Mr. Dawson is commended by the Editor of the Ar,-,rus as “having presented his tlicories ‘D’ '6 at (lie top and oing downward.” 'l‘hat is pro-ci.-el_\' what the people desire, to hear and know about the top—tbe surface the crowd

it

While the learned gentleman was expressing his judgment that “ if a certain theory in geo- logy was admitted, all former views must be ignored,” “ Why not,” suddenly said Agazziz, “Wliy not—do we not build all our science on our facts’ " “The distinguished scholar in this uttered the voice of progress—the onward and upwar movement of learning, which ought to cliaractcrise our own tinies.—Even our experience, liowever, brief—I mean, the life of each one of us—living. as we do. in the age that rather leaps than moves, in the pro- gress of knowledge—ha= taught us, that no theory concerning the movements of matter has in itself such certainties, that no effort need be made by the student to go further. There are bounds which some scholars, not wise, but rash, are constantly endeavoring to p:iss—as when it was uttered here,thnt the Creation had progressed from the lowest order of vertebrae to the crowning work— an. Creation has its great truths and order revealed without the assistance of geology."

Srusu or on THE Csnnut. RVILROAD—- One HUNDRED AND Six-rv SWINE Succu- ri-:ai:n—Six FREIGHT Cans DEMOLISHED. —An accident, the result of miscalculation and want of perception, occurred at \Vc-st

sulted in no personal injury to any otie, caused great damage and loss. A freight train of eighteen cars, coming cast, was

way, and with such headway, that five or six cars were entirely demolished. One car contained swine, nearly all of which wore terribly mangled. Some three or fear, it is said, escaped injury, but they were so

into the woods.

Five or six ears, containing butter and produce ofa perishable nature, were dove- tailed together in such a manner, that it is impossible to tell butter from cheese, and cheese from butter.

The hind cars of the foremost train, when the two trains came in collision, were piled one upon the other in great con- fusion. The debris presents a carry sight as the produce is nearly all rendered unfit for consumption. The swine woro consigned to Mr. otter of Troy.

The accident, it is said, was caused by tho miscalculation of tho flag man, who not thinking that the roar train was so near, did not got for enough around the curve to prevent a collision. Tho damage resulting cannot be less than $5000 or $6000 Albany Express, Jaguar! 23.

, Tun Barr TIMI 1'0 Fnx'r.—Two nrdcn on had their crop of peas killed by the frost, one of whom, who had fretted greatly and grumbled at his loss, visitin his neigh- bor somo time after, was astonished to see another fine crop rowing, and enquired how it could be. “ hose on what I sowed while you were fretting,” was the reply. “ Why, don’t you over frct?” “ Yes; but I put it off, till I have repaired the mic- chief.” "Why then, there is no reason to fret at all,” True, that is the reason I put it off."

Tho Persimmon county debating club, out west, are debating the question:_ ,Which is the proudest—n girl with her first boau,or a woman with her first baby?"

Albany, last evening, which, while it re-

run into by another train, also coming this

much frightened, that they scampered off

ZE'I"I‘E, SEPTEMBER 13. iiiuiaunc.

Hmnuacu is n free city in the duchy of Ilolstein, and consists, like Edinburgh, of the new and old towns, both nearly of an equal size, which together with the unlimited extentof country around, fortn an independent republic. It is situated on the rivers Elbe and Alster, and the I latter , before it enters the town by sluices, ifnfllls a fine basin. llainbnrg is well fortified, and on the ramparts are liand- some walks planted with rows of trees. The town from its situation, has all pos- sible advantages for foreign trade and commerce, particularly from its communi- cation by the Elbe with the principal navigable rivers of Germany, and hence it is one of the tnost prosperous coin- mercial cities in the world, though like all such niatts, not conspicuous for manu- factutes.

llamburg can boast of a celebrated college, an arsenal, a bank_.aud exchange, a theatre. in which Jenny Lind has twit- tered her iiiglitiiigale notes——also a fa- mous wooden britlge,whicli extends nsarly three miles over a morass and the river Elbe to Hamburg. The Cathedral of Our Lady isa fine structure, anti the church of St. Michael is celebrated for a lower of 390 feet high, on the summit of which many deeply‘ iiiterestiiu; and important astronomical and physical ex- periments have been made.

Ilamburg contains a population of about l40,000, and its history is very instructive. It was founded by Charle- niagne in the ninth century, and is cer- tainly the greatest commercial emporium of Germany, if not of the continent at large. It fortned, in the Middle Ages, one of the free towns lliat comprise the Hanseatic League. This league was the famous confederacy of the great coin- mercial cities of North Germany, which arose about the beginning of the thir- teenth century. Its title is derived from the 'I‘eutonic word house, an association; and the cities joining in it were styled Hanse Towns. Its object was to pro- tect commerce from piracy, to procure the restitution of shipwrecked property, and facilitate the safe navigation of the seas. Besides Ilamburg, Bremen, and Lubeck, it embraced upwards of eighty towns at the time of its greatest power, the fourteenth century, ranging from the Schcldt to the Gulf of Dantzick. It fell gradually to decay—tho general spread of civilization and advance of society ren- dering its machinery unnecessary, but it has still a nominal existence.

In both ancient and modern times, Hamburg has always been the refuge of the oppressed and of the asylum of the destitute. In lSI5-I6 it acquired an access of prosperity through the navi- gation of tho Elbe being, at the congress of Vienna, declared free throughout its whole course.

This opened up the tratiic of central Germany, and created new fields for tho cntcrpriso ofcapitnlists and manufactures. The trade between Hull and Hamburg is of great extent and the connection be- tween the two towns extremely cordial. When the great firo in I-lsmbu al- most destroyed that place, the inhabitants of Hull were among the foremost and most active of sympathisers in its behalf. Thoir subscriptions were generously be- stowed, and to this dsy no town in Eng- land is held in higher or more grcntful esteem in Hamburgli than Hull.

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LOVI or Couiv'rav.—Indifi'orenco to the welfare of our country is a crime; but if our country is reduced to a condition in which the bad are preferred to the good, the foolish to the wise, hardly any catastro- phe is to be deprecated or opposed that may shake them from their places.

Dr. Franklin used to say that rich wi- dows were the only piece of second hand goods that sold at prime cost.

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ramraasnca,

TIIIC LIQUOR l)l'}.\Ll<ZR’S

CONFESSION. I've graced my rich Saloons to meet, The most voluptuous sense ; Seductively entiriiig neat, Regardless of expense, And there I carry on my trade— In substance as of old. Here ’tis the wretched Drunkards made, My plans are quickly told.

HONEST

The article with which I trade,

By which my purse is filled ;

Willi such. fell murder’s are made, And noon-day robbers skilled :

liy it the Hospitals are stored. The I’oor-houses supplied,

And what may also be deplored. The Prison-lionse beside.

I trade in what will quickly bring, The strong and healthy down; My liquors are the very thing,

All moral sense to drown;

And I will candidly confess, What others too must own ;

Ufi times when taken to excess, Drives reason from her throne.

I also cause the youth in grow,

In ignorance, and tie

And peifidy. And tully know, Ilow others to entice:

I make the husband spam the wife, The parent loathe the child ,

And all the ties of social life, Corrupted and defiled.

The Church’s purity I suin, l’revcni the Gospel’s spread;

And hold the victims in my chain, 'l'il| spiritually dead.

nd not content the soul to enslave,

l, by ilie drugs I sell,

Send myriads to a Drunlrard’s Grave, And to a Drunkartl‘s Ilelll

And yet Iknow the Bible says, Thou shall not kill .' or steal;

That wicked men, and wicked ways, Will God's displeasure feel ;

But I have got my bread to make. What would you have me do?

My wordly interest at stake,

Tho’ Illllllolll by it too.

Wlist would I have me do, 0 man ! Renounco the losthsomo trade ; Make s closti broast while yet you can; Hath not our Saviour said, Tho fowls, inhabitants of air, Arc by tho Almight fed;

uch more is man, flis spccisl csrc, Tho Lord will giro you brand.

PROGRESS IN SCOTLAND.

“ Stands Scotland whore she did 2" By no msnnorof moans. Every British msll puts us in possession of progress. 'l‘ho following from a lots number of tho "Commonwcslih,” indicaiu important and rspid advancement in the work of Tomporsnec in Scotland, and especially in con- nection with the ministers and members of the Scottish Churches.

“We cannot lay down the poo without saying a word touching ths progress now being made by Tomporsnoo principles in the Scottish Churches. In tho last report cfths Frss Church Tsmporsncs Society, there occur those words :—".l‘ho Society's prospects worn never so bright as now. Be a only seven years ago by three or four individuals, and whsn perhaps not s dozen ministers in the church were known to hold similar views, it has already gained about ons sixth part of tho ministry and ons half of tho rising classes of both presch- srs and anchors.’ 0t‘ ordsinsd ministers and ro- bstionors thsro arc, in all denominations of ot- lsnd, sbovc firs liundrsd who sbstsin. Among I-‘rso hutch divinity students, sbstsinors sro almost two to ons, and among thus of tho United Presbyterian body nearly three to one. In the Established Church the proportion, whether of ministers or; students, is not, indeed, so you ; but this cannot invslidsts tho genorsl fact that s most influential portion of the public opinion of Scotland is becoming fsvorablo t Tompersncc principles. Coupling this circumstfnro with the compliment rereiuly paid to Scotland on the score of advancing Terrrpetsnoe, by the Chancel- lor oftho Exchequer, an the not decrease in the consumption of lplllll urinu the last year. we may well rejoice in the success of the cause. and loo

blessing. Ibo great evil of inlcmpotanee will no longer obstruct in Scotland the spread of Christi- vanity and the diffusion of happiusss.”

forward to the day when. by the Divine .