The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-11 00:00:00

ETWQIIANCE.

to be reliable, but there n no means of verifying its Angst*
mobbility.

The cannot cootinsed ia neesion aisaiy six hour; and
it is °attain that it adjourned until to-morrow without
coming to a oeselesinn ou the affairs of South Carolina be-
fore it.

The act of Major Anderson is generally commended,
for, among other reasons, that while Fort Moultrie was
comparatively week, and might provoke the assault of a
mob, the impregnable defame of Fast Sumpter placed it
beyond such contingency, as it could be reduced only by a
regular and protracted siege, thus avoiding an immediate
collision.

Another statement, which seems to be truthful, is
that the Booth Carolina conunissimers, in view of th,,,
alleged stipulations on the part of the President that the
garrisons of Charleston harbour should not be augmented
nor the military status of the porta changed, requested
the President to inform them whether Major Anderson's
movement was in consequence of say order issued by hire
or from the War Department. The President responded
negatively, and added that Major Anthems had acted on
his own reaponaibUity. The commissioners then requested
the President to remand Major Andeivon to Fort Moultrie ;
bet on this point there wee no conelmien wise the cabinet
adjourned.

The bids for 5,000,000 dole. of Treasury notes
were opened at the Treasury Department on Dec.
28, but the whole amount offered was less than
2,500,000 dole., at an average interest of 12 per
cent. The amount bid will about meet the January
'intermit eia *squib& debt. •
In the Oirenit Court on Dec. 25, Judge Smalley
granted injunctions Jerome B. Simpson,Vice-President of the le,nd Express Company
Thompson Brotbersi3tanilt Clark, Dodge, and Co.,
brokers; Goddard • , chief clerk of the Inte-
rior Department ; R Majors, and Waddell,
and Richard Schell, restraining them from parting
with any of the stolen Indian Trust Fund Bonds
which they may have is their possession. The
complaint alleges that Bailey combined with
Russell, Majors, and Waddell to rob the United
Slates, and gives a receipt of this firm to Bailey
for bonds to the amount of 820,000 dole., in which
lit is stated that they hate *cid in the bands of
Bailey acceptances of the i,ry of War to a
like amount as collateral security for the bonds.

LOST Hi A SWAMP.

The following 'us from the Nemo:fee, &paper pub-
lished in the Red River Settlement, in the Far West of
" We have within the peat few days received intelligence
of as awful ease of suffering on the plains. A party was
lately journeying from St. Paul to Pembina. A priest, sta-
tioned at Pembina, who was travelling in their company,
left them somewhere about the Greed Pocks to coma
ahead. On the 'led inst., whoa within lees then a
*wary of his destinatioa, he was overtaken by • tearful
snow storm, and, losing his way, got mired In that Slough
of Despond, the grand mans* otheraide Pembina.3lt
had little or nothing to eat, and but an old robe to
rover with. When he get into this swamp, his bores
being in very poor condition was unable to get through
it, and lay down and died' the first night Why
the priest did not maks a great effort to extricate
himself and push on to Peendina, not more then ten or
twelve miles distant, seems almost neaeoeuntable. Hewes,
it appears, ulteet•ighted, and may from this cause have
hest deterred from setting out on foot ; or perhaps he
kis piety would soon some up to his relief. At all
=
he seems to have absadoned all hope of getting any
farther unaided, and laid himself down beside his horse,
coder a pelt. shower of snow and a pietring northern
blast, boM of which lasted 48 hours. His agony tin be
better imagined than deacribed.• No food—thoroughly
drenched—cold racking his frame--the near prospect of a
miserable death—an combined to produce the gloomiest
despur. He lay in this state five days and Ave
nights—from Saturday to Thursday. On the fourth
day, feeling life to be feet ebbing, and thinking a/2
was lost, he wrote his will in pencil on • slip of paper.
When found, he was on the point of death, He had
eaten parts of the raw teals of his dead bores. He was
dreadfully swell's with the wet and cold: so much so,
indeed, that Mr. S. Pendant (fee it was he and his party
I that found him) could not get off his clothes without cutting
them to pieces. He was wrapped in blankets and kept
warm ; and we are told that every attention possible wee
I paid to him. After some delay the priest was comfortably
pieced in a waggon tad brought ea by Mr. Pritchard's men
—be himself starting ahead to get help from Pembina.
Mr. Rolette at once fitted up • party and sent him off, and
is due time the priest was brought to Pembina—much re-
covered but still very poorly. The erectile before he was
discovered Mr. Pritchard's party encamped within a stone-
cast from where the poor man lay. His plaintive, pitiful
moaning, were distinctly heard duriegthe quiethous of the
night, to their great alarm and perplexity. The morning
search revealed the sad picture we have already drawn."