HASZ.-\l‘»l)’S GAZl3'l"l‘E,_ DECEMBER. 19.

non: ‘rue uitrrln in-res. I Congress met on the 2d inst., but owing to the complicated state of parties resulting from the late elections no choice of Speaker had been made up to the 6th, the latest dates from Washington, and until this matter is disposed of, the President's Mes- sage will not be delivered, nor any other business transacted. Contrary to general usage, the President's Message has not been communicated to the Press in advance of its delivery, so that that document, which will be of much interest to all British sub- jects, is not yet before the public. The news from Central America is not interest- ing. The tilihusters Kinney and Walker still continued to meet with success in their expeditions, and volunteers from California were ﬂocking to their standards. Tlte new Nicaraguan government, of which the latter was a member, and dc fat-lo head and director, had been lormally recognized by the American minister at Grenada, the Capital of the State, thus showing in the most unmistakable manner the approval with which the Auiericaii government look on these piratical aggressions. The Bos- ton Courier says, “ it can scarcely be supposed, that so grave a step," as that alluded to, “would have been taken by our minister, without his having in advance authority and direction how toou.-ie it." Already annexation is spoken of as an inevitab equence to the events just transpirmespecting which the same pa- per says:

“ Besides the external aspect of the Central American question, we have ano- ther, wholly within ourselves, to consider. It is tliis:—Are we ready to entertain the idea of another accession to the territory of the United States, if it shall come in the shape ofniore slave states?”

The foreign enlistment question has almost ceased to agitate the Union, although an effort still appears to be made by the government portion of the press to establish an impression, that the American Govern- ment has been insulted, and their laws violated by Great Britain, in the person of Mr. Crampton, for which the government ofthe latter country positively refused all ex lauation or apology A letter on the

gresident of the United States, and Mr. rampton both, for half the money.”

This language is much more forcible than elegant, and is not such as is expected from one gentleman addressing another; but probably Mr. Howe thought that from the conduct of Mr._ Vandyke and Mr. Cushing in conducting the prosecutions, he had a right to question their claim to the title, and that doubting their apprecia- tion of a more courteous phrase, he must couch his contempt for them and their minions in terms which they can under- stand.—Pictou Clironicle.

The new ship Black ll'alch, owned by Geo. McKenzie, Esq., of New Glasgow, recently noticed in our columns, was wrecked at Bay St. Lawrence, near Cape North, on the 24th ult., three days after leaving port. The crew all saved, but much bruised and frostbitten. Capt. Men- zies had his family on board and one of his children, aged about two years, was drown- ed in the surf; its body was afterwards recovered. A large quantity of clothing and other goods, the contributions of mem- bers oftho Presbyterian Church of Nova Scotia for the use of their Foreign Mission, valued at about £250, which was on board the Black Watch, to be forwarded to Eng- land to Mr. Geddil at Ancitcum, by the mission ship John \Villiams, has been lost. This is a severe blowto the friends of the mission, and the loss will be severely felt by the devoted laborers in Ancitetim, who must ﬁnd their means of usefulness iuiicli restricted lor the want of these necessary articles, until they can be replaced.- Piclou C/ironicle.

New 'I‘r.i.i:oiurn.—'I‘lie New York Herald announces the formation of a mam- moth telegraph company, which proposes tolease old lines or build new ones, so as to bring undi.-r the control of one concern.a net work of uirvs leading from New York to every prominent business point in the Union. They have leased all the direct lines between New York iind Nova Scotia, the management of which they will assume in January. They propose in the spring to build new lines to the Sontli iind \Vt-st. The newly invented telegraphic machine,

so jcct, addressed to James Vandyke Esq., who was the prosecuting Atty. in the late foreign enlistment trials in Philadelphia, by the hon. Joseph Howe of this Province,

has been published, which goes far to con- ‘

ﬁrm the statement formerly attributed to

Mr. Crampton, that the attempt to impli-.

cate him was a vile scheme concocted by

worthless foreigners and ﬁlibustcring Ame-'

ricaiis, in the hope of emhroiling the two nations, and that the American Government followed up these prosecutions, more or tlie sake of the political capital to be made from it, than for the purpose of vindicating the national honor. a land ofslavery, fortunately, it can at least boast a free press, otherwise this testimony might have been suppressed by Mr. Attor- ney General Ciisliing, as easily as he pre- vented any evidence being given on the trials above mentioned, but such as suited his own dishonourable purposes. Mr. Howe brings documentary evidence to prove, that Mr. Crampton, previous to countenancing any steps for procuring recruits, had obtained the written opinion of an eminent American lawyer, as to the correct interpretation of the neutrality laws, and that in all that he did he in no way exceeded what he had ii perfect right to do, as conceded by that opinion. That the law was violated, he admits, but these violations were by irresponsible persons, who either exceeded their instructions or else acted solely on their own responsibility, with the object of making money or for worse purposes. These are the persons, upon whose testimony Mr. Crampton has been implicated. Mr. Howe’e opinion of their character and credibility may be in- ferred from what he says of Hertz, the princi nl witness: “ ertz was not, and never had been a soldier. He was simply a Jew Crimp of rest pretensions. Bustlin , active, boast- fat, and; nisndacious. Ju as lscariot, in

his youii or days, might have becn.yust , in M ver iii-st impression

sue _ _ V, ofhim ds, that he won y sdllllibt

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Iftlie United States isl

which this company intends to employ, is, -if it performs what the inventor claims for ‘it, the most wonderful realization of the ;inventive faculty that the world has yet ,seen. It is the work ofa citizen of Ken- ztucky, befere unknown to fame, and is known as Hughes’ Electro-Magnetic Print- lug Telegraph. The pate-ntce claims for .his machine, that it will deliver niessugrs in rinted words with a colt-rity before un- heard of--that it can he npt'l'illed by any person who can read—ih:ii for strictly rivate messages, it can omit intermediate stations—and that it requires but one wire, gupon which messages can he sent each ‘way at the satnc time, that is, from Boston to St. John and ti-om St. Jolni to Boston at the same time! The Company have pur- chased the riglit for North America for $100,000. The agent of the inventor has gone to Europe to secure patents. The London Times has offered a large sum for the right for England.

SAMUEL Zinimsamm, owner of the Clif- ton House, on the Canadian side, two years age paid $12,000 for ‘.300 acres of rockland, from his premises to the suspension Bridge on the Canada side, now called Elgin. An offer of £240, 000 from a company, last week, for the same purchase, deducting the lots already sold at the bridge, which a- mount to some £20,000, was refused.

Tint Mimi Vent.—We often hear. in the des- cription of cows, the " milk vein” spoken of as though it communicated with the udder and sup- plied to it the milk. Mr. Stephens says :

“ There is also another fallacy in rsgard.io the milking properties of a cow. which should be ex-

scd—l mean the notion of a large milk vein be- ow the belly indicating the milking powers of the cow. The vein. commonly called the milk vein. is the subcutaneous vein, and has nothing to do with the adder, it belongs to the respiratory sys- tem, and‘ is the means of keeping up an equilibri- um in the blood between the fore and hind quar- erp, _,This vein certainly indicates a strongly dcvfp p1’ vascular s _ to secret it generally, and no doubtis so to that

Saviour for thirty pieces of silver, but the

ofothc milk among the rest."

, which is favourable ,

'l‘he weather for the past two weeks hasl

been boisterous and unsettled, there having;

and will be completed at an early date, The whole of British North America is

been several heavy gales of wind, princi-ldeeply indebted to Mr. Gisborne for his

pally at night, and accompanied with slight squalls of snow. On Friday alternoon, it blew a gale from the north-east, which caused the tide to rise in this harbor, higher than it has been known before within the ineinory of any person residing here. All the wharfs were ﬂooded, and ninny of the cellars on VVater street were ﬁlled to the depth of from two and a half to four t'cet, causing a good deal of damage to such goods as could not be removed. An acci- dent occurred on board the steamer George McKenzie on the same evening and from the saiue cause. On her last trip from Pictou on that day, on attempting to come to, at her wharf at New Glasgow, the tide which was ruiniing up the river with con- siderable strength, caught the boat and swept her against the bridge with such force as to sinush the paddle-boxes, and break down the smoke pipe, which fell on deck, seriously injuring the captain, and another person less st-.vere|y.—Pielou paper.

SE3 The telegraph line between Anti- gonishe and McNair’s Cove has been out of order so that no messages could be traits- mitted for nearly three weeks. The sub- marine wire across the strait oi Cnnso has also been damaged, so as to prevent the transmission of messages, but we have not heard whether to such an extent as to render it necessary to take tip and relay the cable.

DISTRESSING Occi'aai;Nca.—Aii accident of a most distressing character, which resul- ted in the death ofi\lrs. Barbara Harris, re- lict oftlie late Mr. lsaiuc Harris, and se- cond daughter of Mr. Robert Dawson, of Pictou, occurred in that town on the 20th inst. Wliile engaged in some domestic employment she was terribly scaldcd with a kettle of boiling water that she expired the same evening, after suffering the most dreadful agony for ten hours. It is not clearly known how the accident occurred, she being alone at the titnc. 'l'he deceased was about 2'.’ years of age, and leaves an infant daughter tifteen iuontlis old. The

amiable character and Christian virtues of Mrs. Harris had endeared her to a very large circle of friends, and her sudden de-‘ cease has cast a gloom over the whole, community of l’ictou. l

HALIFAX, Dec. 9. l Tun li..iiLwAv.—'l‘lie Gazelle of \Ved- ncsday contains a statement of the Traﬂicl on the Nova Scotia ltailway, and the inci-; dental cxpi.-rises, in ilircc periods, belucen the tath June and ‘lid November, I555. The 'l'i'ains commenced riiiiniug on the tithl of June—four trains pcr day—to 9 mile station, 6 miles, two iiiotitlis, and to Sack-, ville, 8 miles, one uiontli. The returns for tlie quarter ending 8th Sepleinber, give the ‘ number ot miles run -1,466, and the passen- gers carried from station to station 17,602. The Revenue received during the some period was— £1,018 4 3 Against which are the expenses, in- cluding maintenence of Way, Locomotive charges, repairs, traf- tic charges, and depreciation of rolling stock. 437 I5 -1-‘,

Net Receipts. £580 8 10;

The second period is from the 8th to the 21st September, when the running of the trains was accidentally interrupted-—-four trains in day—the miles run during that time being 656, the number of passengers carried, 3,‘.‘.58, and the gross earnings of the road, ..t.ll7-1, lls. (id.

The trains reconuiienced running on the 22d October, from which time to the 22d November, the number of miles run was 1,315, the passengers carried, 4,715, and the gross receipts, £272 13s. 7d.—Re- corder

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A Wen. Mnrran Tss'rtiuoituL.—It is gratilyi to learn that the inhabitants of t. Johns, Newfoundland, coiuprising all classes of the community, have determined (I resenting atestimonial of their respect esteem to F. N. Gisborne, Esq., the {and-indefatigable introduccr of com- 'on by Electric Telegraph into that clouy. The plate agreed upon for this purpose is to be manufactured in London,

excrtions.iu securin and perfecting the Electric Telegraph in the several Provin- ces.— Chronicle.

At Woolwich, on Thursday, one of the cast-iron guns taken at the capture of Bom- arsund undo:-».u-nt an experimental trial. The gun, a 50'-pounder, has been bored for our Lancaster shells, which on this occasion were heavily ﬁlled with lead to the weight of ‘,3cwt. 8lb. each shell, and tired 7lb of powder. The Russian metal, contrary to all expectation, withstood the experiment unharmed, when a second round was tiied_with the same result. A few more ol this cliiss of guns, likewise captur- ed at Boinarsund, are lying on the arsenal quay, and are to be subjected toa like change in their calibre. Colonel Wilmot, Capt. Boxer, and the oflicer who accompa- nicd them in their inspection of the conti- nental foundries, have returned to \Vool- wicli with the conviction, that our foreign neighbors are supplied with gun materials tar superior to our own.

()ur clandestine trade witli Russia was frankly coiilcssed to in a case which came before the Southwark magistrate, on Wed- nesduy, in which it laborer was charged with stealing a quantity of Russian tallow lrom Mark Brown's wharf in that city. Mr. Coinbe asked, who the tallow belonged to? One of the owners of Mark Brown's wharf said, that the tallow had just come lroni Russia, consigned to an English ﬁrm; mid it was tinlonding at the wliarf, to be bonded for the owners :—

“ Mr. (Iombe—‘ You say, this is Russian ‘

tallow, and unloading frorii a vessel just 1"'“V¢’d§_l|0\V Is it that you have Russian tallow lrom that country when Wt: are at war!’ VV’liartingcr—Easy enough, sir, “'0 have large dealings with Russia, al- though wc are at war, and our lllt)lIt'_V is ex- tensively received there in return. Nearly all our tallow comes from Russia.’ Mr. Combe—-‘ How does it come from Russia, when all her ports are blockaded and the war is proceeding?’ \\'itness—‘]t comes through Prussia, your worship. The.tal- OW In question came from Memel, Inn. Dutch vessel. Mr. Combc—'\’Vhat part of Russia does this tallow come from?’ }\’ltiirﬁiigt»r—‘ From St. Petorsbnrg. It is there sold by the mercliants on English account to the care of it Priissian lirm, who convey it through Russia and Prussia to Meiiiel, where it is publicly shipped to hnglaud. Not only tallow comes into the inaiket largely from Russia, but hemp, llax, and ilyewoods. \\’c are onstantly |'t‘Cf!.l\’.lng those sort of goods; btit tallow is declining, so much so, that the prices are

much liiglicr, having ri.-ten to 73s. the cwt " ‘ i H A S

ZARD’S GAZETTE.

Wednesday, December .

'l‘nsiu: are some things upon which men con- tinue to dillcr most uimccountably, and those ofa nature which .it might be supposed there would be the greatest unanimity; one of these is climate. Ask any of the old people of your ncquaintance,whetlicr the winters now are mild- er or more severe than when they were young; iuany will say, that the winters are more open than formerly, and tell long stories about sleighing in November, and, that at. Christmas, the rivers were invariably frozen over. Others will .-ocni to accede to this truth, but then on l't‘collt:t‘l.l0lI, they will count n such a number of open winters during their youthful days, that one is compelled to think, that the climate has undergone no very mate- rial change for the last half century at least. There is. we up rehend, as yet, too much forest and waste land tween this and the Pacific. in which immense massses of snow accumulate, over which the atiaosphers, to a certain height, is deprived of its caloric or warmth, and when set in motion by electrical or other causes, becomes the chilling blasts we experience after the month of 0 tober. The British Isles are wariaer thant csc Provinces. though situate under more northerly parallels of latitude; this is accounted for by the westwardly and north-westwerdly winds blowin over lll’ Krtious of the open water of 5..

0 Oregon territo is said to possess a deli btlhl climate. and this is also acobuntld for y its proximity to the Paciﬁc. We are

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