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SOUTHERN PRESS. WASHINGTON CITY. VVED DAY. SEPTEMBER 10, 1861. I'bo Uhion announces with some deice ui exultation that il has received a despatch tiuiu Mississippi, duled Hepteuiber 6ih, to tlie flee I thut Gen.

Quitman liud abandoned the held, and wan no longer candidate for governor. There of course, no published ul Uie Union nays, in explanation of its publication of it: "as it bore a responsible signature, the fact which it alatea udinita of uo doubt." are not so cany on that score us our contemporary. We do not put much faith in what ure always called rtSjnnaU)Le 11g So many statements, equally reliable, have come from the West of late, that wo do not doubt but the Union has been deceived. We believe we should have received similar intelligence hud there been any truth in it. General Quitman will not give in, unless compelled to do so by ill health.

The Union in supporting the cause of Foote, is in fact siding with the Whig, while it professes to belong to the Democratic, party. That those who now proclaim themselves friends ol the Union will show their Whig colors before Tung we have litth doubt. And then what course will our cotemporary take? We apprehend it will look with another eye upon the course of the Southern rights party, and find less fault with the just and independent eourse which the Southern I'ress has all ulong adopted in upholding the constitutional rights of the South. A Hew View of the Cuban Affair. The New York Herald of Monday, contains the statement that Lopez arid his friends were enticed into Cuba by a stratagem of the Captain General and some of his otlicers, and adds that the discovery has been the subject of discussion at a meeting of the Cabinet.

Whether such a charge can be proved, we very much question, as the Spanish authorities are too knowing in such intrigues to involve luemseives so carelessly. A.na II II. couia lie proved, we question whether the government would think it right to press a matter implicating the honor of Spanish officials. That Lopez did not venture out there without strong assurances of support, no one will question. That he had the good wishes of all liberal, educated Cubans, we believe to be true.

But those having much to lose were among the last to aid him personally, until he had distinguished himself by sorno signul success. The lower classes, in all probability, were, as stated, against the liberators and so long as they are so disposed, the better class of that island can make, of themselves, no successful move. The Captain-General was well aware of this state of tilings. lie was anxious to stifle in the bud any hopes entertained by them, and put an end to their reliance upon Lopez by entrapping and destroying him. In a Catholic country, like Cuba, where so little has been done for general education, the common people have no mind of their own.

They are what the same class was in Spain during the invasion of the Bretons and Vendeans were in France during the great revolution, mere instruments in the hands of an anti-liberal party. It is a grave question, however, and one that cannot fail to agitate this country, that of the destruction of some 400 American citizens, after enticing thein over under false representations. If this can be shown sufficiently to satisfy the public mind, we trust that measures will taken to demand a most signal reparation, if not the punishment of the assassins. For, whatever may be said of the error of invading a neighboring and independent State, the fact that authori ties or officials of that Sta'e should have designedly enticed men over there to destroy theun is just as nefarious as would be the conduct of an individual who should invite a stranger into hie domicile under some equally specious pretext, and murder him. wo 11a ft If wllftt pniimo Sthnr V.nrrlonrl or France would pursue, supposing the Spanish government had enticed some hundreds of their subjec into Spain, in order to catch one or two refugees, and then massacred or imprisoned the whole of them! Would not a fleet be sent instantly to demand satisfaction, the restoration of the captives, and compensation to the families of the butchered! Of course it would.

And shall not American citizens have an equal right to protection We feel the more strongly for these deluded men, because the generous and the brave would be among those roost likely to be so entrapped. And we would appeal to the letters themselves, written by these unfortunates, as a proof that they were not influenced by piratical motives, as some of our cotemporaries have most unworthily asserted. We trnst that the government will sift the matter to the foundation. And should the documents, said to be in this country, indicate with sufficient clearness the participation of the Spanish Governor and officials in such a truly piratical ambuscade, a most severe retaliation should be made, in order to ahow our neighbors and foes that the generous and sympathizing spirit of our countrymen is not thus to be taken advantage of, to gratify aristocratic animosities and hatred of republicans. NT We publish in to days two letters which have appeared from Gen.

Quitman and Senator Rhett, in reply to the calumny contained in the letter. Any remarks of our own are almost needless, inasmuch as the letters, brief as they are, apeak for themselvea. Hummfrvillk, Aug. 23d, 1851. Or.

W. Poindexter, my hurried canvass I have had only leisure to rend haatily the Union Beacon, Extra, containing letter turporting to he written hy Mr. James A ewis, of South Carolina, to Robert Brown, in which it ia atated that I nin urging the secession lenders of South Carolina hy all means to keej. thai tip to ike rack, to make her sex ede ami that although Mitttttippi not for tenettian hertelf, and it irill not da for htm (me) In lake ihil ttand, yet, if Smith Carolina trill only bring on the tt'tie, he (I) tr'll munlatn her. THIS STATEMENT IS NOT TRUE.

my nomination for gove-nor, I have no recollection of having ever written a letter to Carolina Beforo my nomination, in anawer to aome inquiries made by several gentlemen of that State, I endeavored to present the issues wMeh were involved in our ranvaaa, and I may batra expressed ttie wiah thai South Carolina mimnm Would tibt recede ftdm the position which she lias Assumed, and my hope and expectation that Mississippi would luuinlaiii the position of resistance she had taken. i have ever said, and say now, thai 1 maintain the right of sovereign Slate to secede and should South Carolina, or any other St its secede, 1 am opposed to the of coercive measures on the part of the federal government I to force tier into the Union and I believe that Mississippi will maintain this usher doctrine; but i have never undertaken to speak for her, nor to pledge her to any course of action. J. A. QUITMAN.

The following is the letter from the lion. It. B. itiiKTT, to the Southern Star Jar Messrs. Eoitobc A friend has called my at tention to a letter published In your paper ot this morning, from a letter of Mr.

unes A. Lewis of this Slute, written to a Dr. Robert 1). Drewi) of Mississippi, in liit-li it is asserted, "that (ienerul Quitman had written letters to South Carolina, urging (the secessionists) to keep South Carolina up to the make her secede; und although Mississippi is not ready for secession herself, and it will not do for liiui to take the stand, yet if South Curolina will only tiring on the issue, he will sustain her," and that Rhett, in his near Ross, ville, on the 4'h of July, assirt-d that Quitman had written thus to him I have never received from (ienerul Quitman, 1 ain uwure of, any letter on any subject whatever, in my life, nor huve I spoken of his opinions on the authority of uuy letter from hiin. In reply to the assertions that all the statesmen of the South desired South Carolina to submit to the pust agressions of the genera) government, by co-operating with ll Southern tutes which have submitted to 1 have stated that (ienerul Quitman, in my opinion, was not in favor of this have repre Mooted lua policy to bo pretty muoii its no has laid it down in his letter of 23d August, to Dr.

VV. Q. J'oindoxtor, published in your morning's paper. As to Mississippi acceding with South Carolina from the Union, I distinctly declared in a published eecli of April lust, that 1 deemed such a result quite out of the question, for reusons I then assigned at large. Your obedient servant, R.

B. RHETT. September 5, 1851. Manufacture of Cotton Yarn fob Export by Cotton time ago, our eorrespondent wrote an urticlo for this paper on this subject, nnd gnve the facts showing that Home bales of our cotton could be made into yurns at home, and exported at a large profit. The article was widely copied at the time, and the correc'ness of the positions taken seemed lo bo fully udinitted.

The great fall in the priee of cotton has drawn attention again to the subject, and an editorial recently appeared in the New York Courier and Enquirer in reference to it. We copy below a letter to that paper, in which the extent and profit of the English cotton-yarn are alluded to. We have heretofore shown, by an enumeration of all the item that the cost of moving a pound of raw cotton, from the Mississippi cotton gin to the door of the mill at Manchester, England, is about four cents. For a less cost it can be made up at home into the average numbers of cottonyarn. What folly to expend more capitul and labor on the unnecessary carriage of the material and product, than would be required in all the processes of its fabrication.

In a few yeurs, comparatively, the cotton planters will be as familiar with the spinning frames us they ate now with the cotton gin SOUTHERN MANUFACTURES. To the Edilori of the Courier and Enquirer il huve read wilh interest your article on the manufacture of cotton by the South, and, if the planters will act up to your suggestions, the value of our exports in cotton ynrns and general cotton fabrics might be quadrupled. There is no mystery in the business of spinning yarns that need cause our planters to hesitate about embarking their capital in its manufacturing; it is simple, and only requires attention and care to produce what the great markets of the continent of'Europe, China, and the West Indies call for, as respects an asso-tment, style of packing, to give us those markets. The cotton spinners of I ancashire (1 mean those who spin yarns for the export of trade, not the weavers) are among the most wealthy men of England. During the past two years, while our cotton manufacturing interest has languished, and has been profitless indeed, the spinners of Manchester have made large sums of money.

Can we be acting with our boasted shrewdness, when we quietly yield the competition in twist to our great rivals, and suffer them to Lake the profits and commissions that result from the busin ss, indicated by the figures which I know give you, taken from the customs of returns, as follows, viz: Five months exports to China from London, Liverpool, and the Clyde, any from 1st Jan. to 31st May, 1851 2,295,600 Five months exports to Calcutta, for same time 6 911,920 Five months exports to Ilombay, for same time 1,781,800 ToUl 10,989,320 Here we have a total of nearly eleven millions pounds of cotton twist exported to the East Indies and China, during five months of this year, worth from to 18d. sterling per pound! Observe this is but one section of this enormous and lucrative trade. The exports to Germany and other continental markets, are vastly greater. Now the raw cotton costs from 3d.

to per lb, and we have had the great satisfaction of putting these profits into the pockets of our friends abroad, when we might have shared them ourselves. There is a great deal to be said on this subject and kindred topics, hich my numerous engagements will not permit me to discuss during this hot weather. I will barely hint at one plain and palpable reason why our cotton manufacturing friends of New England have, for the past three been so very unfortunate in the prosecution of their business, and it is have not divertified their productiont. They have made no have mnde but a small variety of coarse fabrics; consequently they have overstocked the markets, and prices have rated low, ruinously low. It is pleasing to see the great State ot Georgia taking the lead in the Southern manufacturing interest.

The labors of Senator James, of Rhode Island, at the Weat and South, have been useful in calling the attention of our friends to the necessity of building up a great manufacturing interest among the producers of the raw material, i and before long they must become exporters of something besides. MERCHANT. New York, July 16, 1861. A Hot Empire, a newspaper published nl Sidney, in New uth Wales, gives ihe following account of a ncorchifUr tornado. experienced at Warnnmbool in thnt colony: On the morning of Thursday, March 6, from he North-westward came sweeping along over and among the lofty gum and wattle treea, a heavy cloud, accompanied by towering cnlumna of and amoke, driven with a lempeatooaa hot blnat; ao sudden waa the change that the fiery blnat might be felt on one cheek, whilst i the south easterly wind played on the other, i Thin wna about ten minutes post woven o'clock.

The wind in fury and in hent. The air waa Gill not only of aand and duet, but email atones, which drove with incredible force. The heat increased every and the wind blew with resistless fury; it swept the roada and treetn, it hovered round the angleaof tin huildinga, and fell with a deadening heat on all that it came in contact waa prostrate and helpless, bnaineaa atoppel. the at roots deserted, the houses closed. and tor many weary hours tiie blast and the sand storm ruled supreme.

The sun, when it strnok, aeerned to leave a horning apot; but worse than all cnino the auf m. 11 iiiiiiiiii i i i focntifijf dry air that filled the lungs with pafeh. 11 ing heat, and choaking thirst, ami an insatiable I dunim lo drink The thermometer raiigtd one i hundred and fifteen decrees in llie sliadu, sonic- i tiiuon rising sometimes sinking, as the hot wind I aw. by or partly lulled All Mere stricken I i mid cowered before it. The bunion wan dimmed, and ever and uiion tlie ce of heaven i Was obscured with I'm thick sinoky cloud of i sand and stones hurled al It and scattered lyp the wind, which now blew with inereaing fury.

i The will was powerless, and sunk into a dreamy torpor; men, women nod children lay I on the ll couches, and chairs, denuded of i all sorts of superfluous clothing; and on them, und on everything else, came the du-t, insiduously creeping through every crevice, and spreading itself overall hum in and illuminate dust lo dust. Appetite was destroyod, and in its place came thirst, iu fearful usurpation, and then sleep. The dogs had slunk into dark corners, and lay punting; the fowls cowered in covins, with half open beaks and rulHcd feathers; the hul- locks hung down their dropped down exhausted and dropped down dead, hile others more fortunate turned tail to the driving winds and lolled their tongues, uttering now and then 11 faint bellow men rushed desperately round tlio and plunged rosdly into the whirlwind, in the to regain their respective homes; others, dead beaten, turned their backs to the tempest, and journeyed crablike. Towards evening the wind bad changed to full south, from off the bay, nod brought with it a cool, gentle, and refreshing breeze, and the sun sunk in the fur off west with all its mugnificient splendor. In the morning, accounts of fires came fast trooping in, with melancholy descriptions of losses sustained, and fears were entertained that further devastation might result.

Rumors unhappily but too true." Spanish Official Publications. Sketch uf the Expedition, by one of its Membei s. His excellency the captain-general has permitted the insertion, in the official gazette, of the following account of 0. Francisco Alexander Luine, one of those ho comprised the piratical expedition: In the Plaza of Havana, August 30th, 1851, the Her. Piscal, accompanied by my secretary, proceeded to the Castle of the Presidio, where was confired D.

Francisco A. Laine, who, being sworn, offered to testify to the truth as follows Being a-ked bis name, religion, be said hid named F. A. Inline, aged '26 years, a native of Alqnizuc, C. A.

executor of my mother's property. Being usked when be went from the island; if his passports bad been verified, and to what port; he said that be had sailed on the 4th of I February, 1849, with purports for Sun Fran- cisco, going lirst to New Orleans. Being asked if he went to California, or re- li rnained in the United he said that, not i' having received in New Orleans the letters I which he exp 'ted, and feeling short of money, he had given lessons in Spanish and mathemnt- ics for a livelihood. a Being naked if subsequent to this time he had ii returned to Cuba, he said he had not. Being asked if he knew Nurciso Lopez, and what was the nature of his relations with him, he said that when Lopez reiuri jd Irorn Carde- tins, in 1850, he had some conversation with him ti respecting some Cubans, whose names lie did ci not remember, but whom he belie are all al dead, excepting one, Sr.

Leno, and that he had in no employment with Lopez, or relations with hi him, except in the course of friendly corres- pondence, which was lost with his letter book, ve at Ijis Poena, and which wus afterwards found qi by one of the Galecian otlicers. A Being asked to tell what he knew of the de- signs of Lopez in this expedition, what was his force, who were his officers, and what happened after leaving New Orleans, until landing on this island, he suid, the expedition which sturted in the steamer Pampero numbered 600 men, exclusive of some who joined the steamer in the tl Mississippi river; but the captain having made known that it was impossible to carry all, a por- ft tion returned, leaving on board 480 men, who were all who dise.nik?rked at Morillo; that the ei object wns to go first to the river St. John, vi there to effect a junction with a force of artil- fa lery which was waiting there, and then to land at some point in the central department: but, having touched at Key West for stores, Lopez received information that Pinar del Key and hi almost all of the Vuelta de Abajo had revolted 0, that it was then resolved to Innd somewhere in Vuelta de Abajo; at by a miatuke of the pilot, thev were taken before Mutanzas, and were obliged to return by Havana, in search of the r( port of Ortigosa, ere they proposed to land, but were prevented bv the frigate Esperanza: that the officers were Narciso Lopez, a Ilunga- rian, Mr. Pragay, Colonel Crittenden, and two others named Llinds and Clinton; that the cnp rain of tho Cuba company, to wtiich deponent belonged, was Ildefenso Oberto, who was killed at Las Posas; that the design of Lopez was to establish a Cuban republic, counting on an insurrection in the country, and the good pj will of the troops. Being Hsked what occurred ufter his landing until brought here, he said that they dis.

inbsrked on the shore of Morillo at 11 o'clock at 1 in night on the 11th instant, without any opposi- tion beyond four or five discharges, which dis- perned annie countrymen of Morillo; that they found the shores deserted, the store open and forsaken, and having left something less than two hundred men under Colonel Crittenden in charge of the unnnecessury arms and provisions, the remainder of the expedition under Lopez, advar.ced to lots Posaa, without meeting anything except a few countrymen, who fled when they saw the advance; and that upon arriving at Posas they found the town abandoned, nor were they nble to make the inhabitants return, notwithstanding the offers made them; that the day following they were attacked by the troops of the Queen, who, in the end, were li forced to retire, leaving them in possession of the place, with the loss of Col. colonel whose name he had forgotten, Captain Oberto, and some fifty killed and wounded; that finding 2i they did not encounter the expected sympathy amongst the people, and U'ere attacked by the very troops whom they expected to join them. they resolved to resort to the mountains, and 1 with this object stHrteil for Pinar del Rio, but A hy Hip error or treachery or the guide were conducted to the coffee estate of Frins, where they had another encounter with the troopa, which 1 resulted in the loan of four or five men, which, with what we-e before lo reduced the forces 2 nt Friaa to 220 men, including 12 to 14 wound 1 ed that with these they passed to Brujo, and spending the night in union, went to Martitorenea or Candelarin, where, on the 21st, in number not exceeding 200 men, when breakfasting, they were surprised, attacked, nnd dispersed by the troops of the Queen. A hundred or more hid themselves in the forest, one-third without arms, where they remained for four days without nny food except a horse, some corn, and w'ild plantains that then nrriving at a road the deponent left the rest, in order to write to his mother, and that for this purpose he went to a hacienda, where were some officers of (ialicia, i wh told him that it was not necessary to write at the moment, ns they were ordered to give i quarter; that he was delivered to Bri? (ten. Ho- I zales.

sent to llshia Honda, ai then to this city Being asked what, resources the expedition re i lied upon, both in the United Stsles and In this island, who were their principal agents nnd cor respondents there and here, he said that almost nil the resoorces were from Mr. Segur, who ac cording to F.oppz, had given 976,000 to pur chsno the Pampero that sundry cannons and arms were purchased at a snle of government remnants, that the cartouches. were purchased through merchants in Orleans, whose nntnes he had forgotten, under a receipt from that he hnd heard mo- ey had been sent from the island, and many valuable jewels, which young persona hnd come to the I Inland to receive; and although they had I believed that, in thin islnt. tlwe were other re-1 Tl ourcea, yet after their lai; thev hud received uin none that the agents in the United were tVom tfegur, Cochins Co. that these were the only bdni promotes of thin expedition, that had 391 njnaUnlly said that they could not count on metallic aid iu the island, without co-opera'ion yy the jnnta in New York, which had disagreed with Uetuncourt and Aguero, in respect to the mode of organizing the expedition; tlmt the unta referred to is of various other yy those mentioned of whose .1.

.1. i i. "a' "77, ignoruor, lJroU is true, KHAN CISCO A LAINB. Signed before me? BLAS VlLLAl.UA. parly from Diario dr la Ihbuiiu, 31.

rrocluuiutlou of (he Captain tieucral to the Inhabitants of Cuba. we al Ian AH1TANT1 OK TH I LAUD I It is my dutv (rrivci manifest to you my great utisfaotion at your butin loriduct during the events which have been ter- whall 11 mated in a glorious manner by the groat that country of which we are all subjects. eiitiri It is acknowledged by all, that a foreign whilt ry, individuals without law or conscience, pro- cri josed themselves to take by force this beautiful Popn aland from the same nation Inch ive to the Cons A'orld the hemisphere of which this is the most join I lundsome part. in Ct Their first attempt not having succeeded in the 'ardenas, they believed in the possibility of fol- extei owing the criminal project to which they as- Kngl in seducing some youths, incau ious and impo A'ithollt PVnr.rii.nr... rnvrilturl urrniii.it tlwiir I -P Joeon and their country but your loyaltv and valor of the Brrny terminated their expedi- ofthi uh soon as they began the insignificant our liovement excited by their intriguers; and, as if IJj hay had proposed to themselves to throw uside were ill doubt respecting the true origin of those the novements, they organized an expedition com- Stocl unnded by the traitor Lopez, who disembarked gone the northern coast of the eastern part of this veasf iepartnient.

the i Two weeks had scarcely elapsed, when all I'ana hose who composed the exp dition including Co traitor commander, were killed or taken wine prisoners in your hands, or in the hands of those tlemi lent in pursuit of them. Ilintnry does not pre- to tli lent, perhaps, in its pages a single example of quiet in invasion bo prompt and completely sup- Ne iressed. the There could not be a doubt about our sue- the icss. The valor of the troops defeated them in made he combats, and you, as soon as they trod your muni erritory, became soldiers, and took to your Diaz irnis. Not only have you given assistance to Tnhn lie army and authorities by every means in your Tn tower; you not only deprived the enemy of all troop neans of Might, but, worthy rivals in valor and but I mthusiaHin with our army, you pursued the pi- VIr.

a es without intermission and rest, 1 spite of necc? nngor, and partaking with the troops of the by nbors and fatiguos of war in that place, which troop i one of tho most difficult to travel in the stenir stand. Success crowned your exertions, and ou have put Hie seal to your unequalled loyal- McKi in one of you delivering into the hands of the the uthorities the chief traitor, who was want'e pretei lg, fearing the just punishment which threat- McK. ned him. and VVilh the decision and enthusiasm of which ringle ou li ive given so numerous and remarkable remot roofs; with the generous patriotism which nc- upon lated the merchunts, tho proprietors, and the leasee irporations of the island, to put (heir fortunes and I the disposition of the this that I itimate union, in the army and in- not sbitanta, or all classes and union wns mented upon the loyalty and nationality which ineani ill immortalize the name of trail- agree uility will he secured, and the Queen of the to nlilles will never cease to be Spanish; for a out fi eople which repels, as you have done, those in a ho make attempts against its nationally, can- when ot be overcome by force. The history of our of lie ays in the memorable war of independence, Th fters to us one striking example of the truth ma 01 this assertion You are the worthy sons of leave iose who, in past times, astonished the world touch ith their bravory and their constancy.

Receive Th this my sincere und heartfelt congratulations, road ith the assurance, also, that your august pectei -eign will learn with joy this new proof of her, tl our loyalty, which has been given by her always reduc ithful island of Cuba. Th Josf. de la Concha. ari Havana, 31st of August, 1851. Ou The Herald has two letters, hich say, tMTm sppened to know the country well, as he once wned an estate in the vicinity; he and hia men up their march to the rugged heights.

The 11 paniards, after awhile, followed him, ouidcd the country and their dogs, who fcr- TP, out Lopez's men in the morasses, gulleys, id precipices, to which they fled to escape. 8 were rescued thus from certain death, res''u, order came from the governor of Havana to reflue ive quarter, and to stop shooting the enemy, this one hundred and thirty have escaped ith their lives the number landed was 548. itliir The greatest enemy of the Loppz party were on le country people. The sume spirit was shown ac' in them as when the French invaded Spain? 1 recisely the same feeling. broog Lopez was surrounded by upwards of six iousand Spanish troops, and, after holding out Jrajr ghleen tyt, was eventually hunted through thi -n'(7 uiuntains by blood-koundt, and finally betrayed a Creole.

Do all in your power to prevent tlier expeditions leaving the States; and you innot but do well in cautioning the public, id publishing to the world the dastardly con- net of those onse wretches, the Creoles," who, their cowardly conduct and base promises, iduced that handful of brave men to come on tre, to their almost total destruction. About 10 ure left to be sent, probably for life, to the runne uicksilver mines in Spam. inson The following prisoners, in nddition to those the named yesterday, had been sent into Havn- forme Cruet Ellis, Washington. Tin K. H.

M.icdonald, Mobile. upon do. James G. Owen, New Orleans. quent do.

P. S. Van Vcchten, New York. been do. G.

Rousseau, Kentucky. variot nd H. Craft, Memphis. subjet do. J.

G. Hush, New Orleans. servic Andrew Gonzalez, New Granada. Mr A. Simpson, Philadelphia.

steam st Wilson, New Orleans. the 'J' do. J. D. Preuit, Alabama.

buriei do. Thos. Hilton, Washington. of Mi do. VV.

L. Wilkinson, Alabama. Rochi st D. Wall, Mobile. comn dc.

H. I). Tomason, do. Th do. W.

Miller, New Orleans. at Lncoste, do. Anna do. M. Sieger, do.

follov do. I). Hughes. Kentucky. do.

P. Coleman, New Orleans. Valpn do. M. L.

Hcfren, New York. findin do. James Hrady, Galena. III. put do.

Henry Smith, New Orleans. provii do. John Clino, do. ceivei do. George Forstor, do.

after do. mies Chapman, Charleston. him do. C. Cook, Alabama.

of ter do. C. lib oil, New Orlenns. must do. Nicholas Port, do.

him do. John Martan, do. After do. Henry B. Hunt, Petersburg.

his pi do. Jacob St. emba do. I'niric Gmth, New the do. Charles S.

Daly, do. ihonn do. Kiddea, do. port; do. 8.

li. I'rinell, do. there do. Conrad Tailor, do. trary do.

Denton, do. havin do. A. Me Murray, do. that do.

J. I'atnn, do. conin do. Conrad Arjfhalici, do. while do.

Joae Chieheri, do. lain do. Antonio lb rnandez, Havana. On do. (I.

Richardson, Now Orb-ana. ceedr Manuel Ilayatno; Antonio Romero, in? tl Navarre John Nowea, England Benjam'n liar il'rer Preeton ''ranciaco B. Kentucky. Jaomi "LJ. 1 tf'' AKitltiV THE bo UmleJ Hi ilea mail steamer (ieorgia, I Porter, arrived i New ork on Mundif vit Kingston, ttnaica.

S)he about one mil 11 till and tulf of gold, mid passengers. FHOM THE ISTHMUS. have Panama In tile 2'J. I ot te Panama Hnr of tin- 19th has the follownforuiillon rel.ilive lo utfairs in New Cru have advices from Bogota and Caitliugevhich represent thai an actual revolution has ell out in the firtt mid cupit.il le republic- -and that every tiling is in disr there. We call learn no particulars, howus to how the light ntamis; win liter the Jdh" or Red government the "Liberal Conservatives" are in evious to the utbroak at Bogo however, re informed that decree wan issued by the rnment to the effect that the forced contri in," of which We have before made mention, I be levied only upon the Conservatives and the friends of the government party atiali be ely exempted.

The consequence is, tliat 1 this decree has had the effect of complete- 11 thing the disturbances in the provinces of yun, Buenaventura, hy causing the ervauveH to uuanuuii uitur principles nnci i Rojo" party, it bus hud different effect! irthagena, in which neighborhood, it is mini, I en pie tire much incensed, and nre making isive arrangementsfor revolt, Ry the next m)i steamer at Ch agree, we may look for rtant advices from the Atlantic side of this l.lic. n. Ht-rrera, the newly appointed governor is province, is at we can't tell enders exactly where Cartngo is. our previous advices from Panama, we informed of a serious disturbance among passengers on board the steamer Com. kton, lying at Taboga.

some of them having so far as to destroy the rigging of the and prevent the crew from discharging rargo. The sequel is thus detailed in the ma Star of Angust 8: pt. Acklev culled upon Mr. Consul Corfor his otlicial interference, and that addressed a note in reply, which was read passengers, and which had the elfect of ing them that day. sxt morning, however, (Wednesday) upon rew resuming their labor of hoisting out oals, the passengers again interfered and them desi-t.

these facts being comeated to Mr. Corwine, lie applied to Gov. for a sufficient military force to repair to ga, and arrest the mutineers, governor very readily called out the and offered to put himself at their head, iiis generous offer was declined, because did not think his personal services sary. Capt. McKinnoy was then deputized r.

C. to act for him, in conjunction with the which were to be, taken down on the ler Taboga. iiy a fortunate mishap, the rs did not embark, however, and Captain iiney started down, accompanied only by nptain of the port, and the official interr; going on board the Stockton, Captain showed bis authority for acting as consul, hen caused to be arrested several of the aiders of the mutiny, who were at once red from the ship and taken ashore, but proper explanations were afterwards re. 1. In the Wing restored, the passengers becoming fully satisfied were pursuing a course which was nly placing themselves in the wrong, but nictitated still further to embarrass all the that were being taken for their relief, to desist from further opposition, and aw the repairs of the vessel go on withtrther delay, and so all is now quiet, and day or two, the vessel will be beached, il will be ascertained what is the extent injuries.

steam ship Sarah Sands arrived at l'anal the 13th August, and was advertised to i for Liverpool on the 23d of that month, ingat Callao, Valparaiso and Rio Janeiro. I Panama Herald says that when the rail is in operation to Gatane, which was exrl to be accomplished by the 1st of Septemle time of travel across the isthmus will be 1 ed to twenty hours. Panama Star of the 8th thus chronicles 1 rest of suspected robbers rci'y was again thrown into state of ex- I ent last Tuesday morning, by rumors which 1 currency, thatn train of English treasure eft here early that day was to be at'acked abbed, six or seven miles distant from the So much importance was attached to the that those having charge of the safe tran- the treasure called upon Governor Diaz detachment of soldiers, to hasten to the 1 3 of the train, and escort it to Cruces, which st Governor with his usual promptiinstantly complied with, and issued the or- or the necessary number of soldiers, who, a few minutes nfter receiving tl.em, were I rond, fully armed and equipped, ready to any emergency. I rly in the afternoon, information war-! into town, that six or eight persona had apprehended on the road, who were sus- i of having planned the robhery of the and who were only prevented from carry it their views by the sudden and unexpect- pearanee on the ground of their ird night the whole party were marched own and confined to the city prison. There six white men, Americin and man, a native of this or an adjoining conn nd one or two The names of the ix are recorded as Wm.

T. White, late per nt the Western 1 Intel, James Martin, i Byrne, James Brnbb, and Wm. Harris, ra of the Mansion House, and II. W. Rob, who ia part proprietor of coffee stand in irtico of the Panama Exchange, and who 'rly kept one of the half-way houses on the a rond.

pse men hid committed no act of robbery the train, but the Star says that subseto their arrest evidence sufficient had obtained to convict several of them of is robberies and other crimes, whi will them to from fourteen to eighteen years in the chain gangs of Carth'igena. s. Wilsey, a cabin passenger on board the er Oregon, which left Sin Eianciaco on 1 I of August, died on the 13th, and won' I at Acnpulco. On the 14th Jame- Baker, ssouri, and on the 15th O. N.

Bush, of pater, died. The bodies of both were i unco 10 tne son. 1 0 Panama Herald publishes a letter dated 'urnhrz. July l'J, stating that the brig I had 'pn poized at that port under the ving oircumstances 1 pt. Erskine was bound from Panama for iruiso, having had a long passage, nrd fr gome of his crew sick with scurvy, he i nto Tunibvz, the nenreat port, for frea'i 1 iiona.

Immediately on anchoring, he re- 1 a visit from the captain of the port, who. I hearing the object of his visit, informed i hat he muet ly the usual anchorage fee I i (for which he gave ipt) ai anil wilhin a given time; lie alao informed I chore he could oht.ain the articlea required I the detention of few in obtaining oviaion, C.apt. E. repaired to hia boat to I rk, when he wag told by the captain of, i iort that lie was aubject to a fine of no land dollars for having anchored in thnt only being allowed to anchor (-apt. E.

rcmonatrated against thia arhi- 1 demand, and mode of cntraping him and no menna of paving the fine, consented I should go to under the 1 of (' pt Colih, a passenger on board, i Capl. wunt aa a prisoner with the cap- i if the port, by land, to the same plnee. i hia arrival at Pnita, Capt. Erakine auc-1 in giving hia enptora the a lip, and join. 1 lie vessel ofT the port, made aail in another lion.

have heretofore published, we believe, cflii ial notification that Tumbez is not a port of elitf oilly having the peruiiaatou JI to anchor (hero. i KEVOLUTi The Panama lb-mid of 14th, hy the arrival of a coasting vessel from Guayaquil, has intelligence of a military outbreak ml innirrec tit 11 there which has terminated in the expul- sion of Gen. Diego ivoa, the President of the republic, and the temporary instalment of Gen. Urbiliu It On ihe 171h of July, President 'It ft Quito, the capital, for the purpose of visiting hie family, residing at Guayaquil, notice of in- (tuition having been previously communicated to Ida fumilv, and made known among the inhabit- Hiita. It wan proposed to meet him and hia suite at some distance from the city and accom- puny tin i with a military escort.

A cavalcude, conaiating cliielly of aoldiera Niid newly created offiearu nniti-r the direction of fieil LJrhilia. un dertook the mission nnd went out ostensibly for I this purpose, but having met the President, they 1 seized him nod made him their prisoner. A small man-of-war belonging to the government, was i then lying in Guayaquil river, near its mouth, President Novoa was hurried down to this ves- sel, placed on board, and the vessel was ordered (. off. She soled under "sealed orders," so that no one knows destination.

Geo. Urbina immediately assumed the admin- 1 istration of the government, and is now at the i head of the government. Great dissatisfaction (. exists among the friends of President Novou and his family, at the manner in which he has been disposed of, though no fears are enter- tained as to his entire safety. President Novoa ia about 55 veara of age, ai bus a large family at Guayaquil, who are distinguished for their hospitality towards foreigners, especially Ame- ricsns.

j( By the arrival of the British steamer from the (j South, on the 18th or 19th we may expect to ceive further particulars of this lust South 0 American revolution. FROM CHILI. By the arrival of the British mail steamship New Granada, advices from Valparaiso to the 27th of July hud been received at Panama. The Panama Star says that the steamer has eight million dollars in silver bullion on board. From the largeness of the sum, we presume that this is mistake.

The votes of the electors for President were being canvassed when the Valparaiso Mercantile Reporter of the latest dale went to press. There was no doubt, however, of the of Senor Don Manuel Montt, formerly chief jus- Ui of the supreme court. The provinces of a Conception and Coqoimbn clo se electors favor- Cl able to General Cruz The other provinces had given their suffrages in favor of Montt. In relation to the election, the Valparaiso I sl Neighbor According to our estimate of events the vietorv, in the late election, has been one of prin- f1 ciples rather than of persons. The vote of the nation has been cast in favor of improvement and progress, rather than of any man or party.

Correspondence of the Commercial Advertiser. By tbe Steamer Franklin. 1)1 London August 26, 1851. 01 A failure which has occurred, of greater mag- ai nitude than uny since the crisis of 1847, is the chief event since the departure of the Inst packet. The house is that of lttiekor Sons, and its 1 abilities are beyond The firm were produce brokers, and they havQ for to many years he'd a high position in London.

The event was altogether unexpected, and has created a great sensation, The result is very uncertain, but aa there can be no doubt that I the private friends of the partners would have prevented their suspension, if the object could have been eli'ecled by any reasonable sacrifice, i te it is feared that they must have been engaged th in speculations to a large extent, and that the I ess will prove extremely heavy. Coflee is dr understood to have been the article in which th they ve been most deeply engaged. Duii ig the whole of the present year, the prices of produce of almost ail descriptions in have experienced an uninterrupted fall. In cot- er ton, coffee and sugar, it has been not less than 20 or 30 per cent. Hut as this full has not bf caused by a diminution of consumption, er there has been a good and profitable business co for all parties except those who, in tiie face of an increasing cultivation, improved methods of i or manufacture, and cheaper labor, have been ju ftolish enough to hold largo stocks in expectation of rise, instead of contending them selves with supplying from day to day the legitimate tir demand that existed.

It will therefore be understood that the pre- 'ent failure, as well as those which preceded it, to at Liverpool und in London, are not to be in riewed as indi ating in the s'ignU'st degreeo an anprosperoua or dangerous state of general af- lire. The community at 1 irge have of. irse been benefitted by the universal fill in pric s.and Gi those among the trading classes who have kept th to steady system have also benefitted to a pro- as borlionnto degree by the increased transactions en to which the general cheapness lias giv, rise. It is only those who, instead of pursuing the fri -outine operations cf supplying- the wants of the an sonntry from day to day, have preferred the fo if attempting suddenly to muke or lose their on rortunes, that have been no brought dawn. gn In quarter trade and manufactures show fei -igiis of undiminished vigor, and, especially dur- ho ng the past fortnight the prospects for the fu- ho have become still more favorable.

There lever wan a time when the opportunities or regards of steady industry in Borland were more iisliuct, or more easy of attainment, nnd unless lomething occurs, tlie warning of which ia not in it present even on the horizon, there ia no rt-a of ton to look for any thing el-e than a continu- hn ince and increase of this favorable state for at east the next three or four years. The impend- ng troubles on the continent may doubtless Or temporary uncertainties and confusion in iar icoUr branches of commerce, but the appre- of inconveniences in that resect is cri froatly lessened by the experience of 1848, of which has taught ns that we have nothing to all Iread if wo will only confine our attention to vs jar own affairs. On general subjects is nothing new to da sommunlcate. The feeling with regard to the of the Roman Catholic party if. Ireland en very general and decided, and government ca nay consequently rely on almost unanimous do iupport in any measures ey may deem neces.

sei lary. No serious evils however are anticipated, so the idle threats which deluded poor Smith Sh TBrien to his ruin, nnd their miserable termination are not yet forgotten. It is stated that your countryman, Mr. 11 ebbs, Mi ias ju6t succeeded in opening the look of Messrs. wi itramnh on which he has been so long ngagrd, and that ho has claimed his reward of so Mo The complete triumph of the America in her mee with the vessels of the royal yacht club has Mi been accepted here, you will see, with very yo jood grace, a the details which have been an furnished by our stid which are nniple ind exciting, will doubtless spread with rapidity Tl rrotn one end of the Union to the other.

It is of he Anglo Nuxon nlone who can understand thnt bv is a blessing in being beaten, and in thus vie taving the information forced upon him that 10 is in existence something superior to what ret ie had vet contemplated, nnd that lie must con- icquntly develope now energies, if he would tor scape being left behind. With this success of tho America nnd the un- etc voyage of the Pacific across the At- nntio in the spring, )ou have earned glory I wr notlgh for one year, bnt to roll dive minds fur hii brighter and more momentous achievement hns rei been announced liy the steamer which hua ju-t thi irrivi d. The success of Captain Vandorb.lt ind tho Nicaragua Oannl Company in over- in little more than a year and a half, all HI Iho insurmountable" difficulties of tlie transit. 1 between the Atlantic nnd the Pacific, in the face kn of discouragements and evil prognostications Sc, which appear to have been even louder from their own countrymen than from us, is a circurn on stance which will do more than anything that na baa yet happened in yottr to accelerate the progress of ie world. SrirTiTuM.

ThK UTtOM OF A POLITICAL iT Milan, lair Chieaa, a Milanese a oikii.an, was nliol the other duy for attempting i.u punt Borne revolutionary was ail uouuced in Uie newspapers at the lime. Private letters supply the following interesting particuira of the man and Ida manner of death. He was to have Linen hanged according to the Menence of the court martial; but the executioner if Bergamo having refuaed to give hia le waa aliol. The executioner (hatred to the oreign yoke ie so deeply ingrained in the nation, hat it lias penetrated even to this most abhorred its functionaries,) lias been puniabed with ieuth for Ids disobedience. On Ids trial, 'hieaa wua asked, Who gave you the writings 0 post iieanawerid, No one; i composed hew myself." Where did you get fheui irinU'd 1 printed thetn myself in my own 1 Where are your printing mateiuIm!" "I do not know." On his passage from the prison to the place iinniahinattl 1 luKinniii proinisea nun Humility if lie would wiilits a revelation of his ucompliccs.

Ctiicsn, who has left at wife and laughter without means of Hupport, constantly el used to purchase hi-t life at the price of dislonor. lie saluted, with quiet and serene air, he people who were near, and kneeling to reeive hie death, said in a loud voice, My sacriice ia the sign of the coming ruin of Austria." le refuaed to let hia eyes be bandaged, wishing look hia murderers to the leal in the face. This political uaaaaaination, ao atrocious in itelf, wuueven consummated without legal fornta or the olliccr who commanded the platoon barged with the execution, having fallen down it a flint, couhl not give the signal; and the solders tired without receiving orders. The is itill worse: "The wife and daughter Chilian are in prison; the Austrian judge luivcs tlieui ignorant of the death of their reluive, and triee to wrest from them revelations of is accomplices by promising the pardon of the usband and father as a reward for avowals." Ve hope, for the sake of humanity, this last delil ia not true. Storm In Florida, Alabama, and Georgia.

lerious Loss of Life? Destruction of Property to the Crops, tf-c. We have received accounts from Apaluchiola, St. Murks, Newport, Tallahuase. Quiucy, nd other places in Florida, of a teriific hurrittne and atorm which commenced on the 33d, nd continued ill the 25th ult. At Apalaohiiila the gale commenced about 11 o'clock on ic niirht of the 22.1, the wind blowing from S.

and the tide rose five or six feet in the treeta during the night. About daylight the 'ind lulled somewhat, and it was thought that ie worst of the gale was over. At sulfrise, owever, it freshened, the front doors were lown in, the breakers running some five to six set high. On the 23d about five o'cloek, the wind changed from S. to S.

W. and the lido then at its highest, running back i far us to Maiket street, being the second reet from the wharf. Many of the buildings a Water street were materially injured; doors id windows nil blown in; and many of the arehouses suffered the same fate. I)otr UUiwt ght was or six lives lost. Cape i.

Bias gone. Ship in the hist pass, high id dry, supposed to be the John Bryant, bound Liverpool. Steamer Falcon (river boat) ueh injured. Spanish brig wrecked at tho lives lost; loaded with fish, bound from St. Jago to Havana.

There ere but two or throe houses not unroofed, or jured at Apulachicola. Groceries and dry jods in Mores, were destroyed to a great exnt. At Old Woman's Bluff, a steamboat, on ways, had her cabin blown Thesteuiner agnolia was lost. Mr. Samuel Smith was owned.

lie was the on'y person saved from brig Saratoga, wrecked on Orange Keys in 144. Great fears are apprehended as to tho vessels the Gulf, and it is expected that the South11 coast and keys of Florida are covered with recked vessels, mid that hundreds of human have been drowned. The sea rose sevnl feet higher than Ht any former period; the tton fields of Middle Florida are laid waste, id it is not anticipated that more than half the op will Vie saved, and it is feared that the inrv has extended to Georgia. At Tallahassee the same terror prevailed, and great many houses were blown down, loss equaled at At Newport and St. arks the storm was.

if possible, more severe, ouses were blown and goods damaged a very great extent. Accounts from fiufnla, Alabama, represent not quite so destructive Vets as in Florida, yet awfully severe, ouses unroofed, and crops destroyed. It is arcd that it has rxtended through all lower sorgia. The weather is still unsettled and atening. All the bridges in Florida, as far heard from, are destroj ed, and it will be an dless labor to olear the roads of lallen trees.

Throughout the parts of tho country heard ini, at least nine tenths of tho tobacco barns proMrated, ami it is estimated that threeur lis of the crop is destroyed, and at least half of the cotton crop. At Qnincy the )e lasted'24 down houses and fiees, and destroying the crops. Some fifteen uses were blown down in that city, and many uses lost their chimneys. The Croat Hurricane at the TEHRIBLE OF PBOPEKTV Wo have before referred to the dnmsge done Florida bv tbe great storm of about 22d A is but the Intent advices show Hint we former! no conception of its violence nnd tent. It to have swept from Florida to irto Rico, and perhaps further Son.h.

The encountered it on the 18th in the araquana Passage, on her outward voyage to mai a and ('Ingres, from N. York. It is desbed as a terrible gale. She laid to upwards forty honra under tl lee of the island, but her die were blown away, and her topsail rd was lost. The Georgia, after the gtle, ide several feet of water before alto put into ntaiea.

The British roy.d mail steamer Great Westa, on her way to St. Thomas, met the hnrrine in the Mins Passage. She was knocked in upon her beam ends, shipped several heavy is, carried away her wheel house, and was veral hours in imminent danger of being lost, wis greatly damaged. The loss of vessels and lives in the West by wrecks, it is expected, is very great, iny vps els must have been lost nt se that II nevi be heard The hnrricance was felt at Jamaica, hut not severely as in other islands, so far as informsn has been received. The island of Porto Rico has suffered greatly, ist of the plantations arc utterly ruined hend resuscitation for one or two years.

of cattle and horses and other animals re killed, and mnnv persons lost their lives. tn.mnrl the worked into immense gallies, the the A ge tleman who lited the mountains on Porto Rico to view the moulding coifntrv of ono of the most fertile i describes it an ono entire sepne of denetion and desolation, by the winds and wan. The hirrieane was not felt in Chagres. Wo iti on yesterday. that it.

wan believed the lo no' roorhni West and the south coast of Fieri In. We fear our inf arm- may have mis'nken, and that we may rive, in few day distressing neconnta from it region of and losses r.f life. The a on the const of Porto Rico, end on the mat, at St. Mnrks, Apnlachicoln, and St. ns, by Iho already published, rose veril f-et thi" ever before been own, and it must have affected the Keys and cithern coast.

It also, that the inner Union felt the gale in the (Jolf Stream, the ouhtoMi coast of Florida, off Unpe Utrveral..

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