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Mr.. .SterCns' neU Ydcht-Tnnorations an Ship
Bmlding.-A very singular and nondescript
looking craft is now building at Williamsburg.
opposite the Navy Yard which is to race with
celebrated English yacht, in the course of
few months, for an immense sum. Perhaps
there never was vessel Of her shape and form
constructed, for we never heard of such a
model for yacht. On Tuesday last we saw
the vessel in question in a ship yard at Will
liamsburg. and she excited surprise fully as
much as did the little steamer r. F. Stockton.
when we first saw her in England.
This newly fashioned and newly modelled
yacht is building for Mr.. John c. Stevens. and
who has not heard Of him He owns a large
stable of blood horses and a magnificent farm
on Long Island, and perhaps his horses are the
fleetest and best this side of the Potomac. He
is an eccentric man-quite an original. Some
times he is all for horses-sometimes all for the
ladies-sometimes all for steamboats, now he
is all for yachts. He wishes TO sell his orch
ards, his parks, his lawns, his noble mansion,
and his stable, together with all his blood hor-
ses. This is queer freak Of fancy, but his
mind is now bent on nautical sports, and his
whole soul and body is with the famous yacht
which Mr.. Capes is TO launch for him next
week.
This vessel is ninety -four feet long from the
besk to the tail, and twenty-four feet beam.
Her maiumast is ninety feet long, and she
draws from eleven to twelve feet Of water; bu,
with the centre boards she can draw ten feet
more, or twenty feet in al.
Her model is so singular that il is next to an
impossibility to describe il without diagram.
Down even with the cabin floor she is like all
other beautiful modelled vessels tapering to a
very sharp point at the bow. From the cabin
floor commences a swell which rounds off to
the keel, and tspers at the bow and stern. This
swelling is from eight TO ten feet from the cab
in TO the keel, aud is constructed to carry near
ly twenty five tons Of water for ballast. which 10
far superior to either stone or iron, and partic-
ularly in a vessel Of this description. Her keel
is made of iron, and weighs, we are told, thirty
tons. Her cabins extend from stem to stern,
aud are most gorgeously fitted up. with dark
massive mahogany pannels. 1t 10 divided of
into four compartments. the forward one for
the sailors, which is neatly srrauged-and the
three others are to be to the owner like a suit
Of splendid rooms on shore. They are lighted
from above BY several sky.Iiehis; and the
whole arrangement far surpasses the cabins OF
any OF our packet ships, not even excepting 'no
Roscius or the England. Her name we know
not. hut from the design on the stern wnien"
a stag bounding over . Wild prairie. and On 10,
dian after him With bow snd arrow. we shoum
say that Mr.. Stevens intends naming ner 'ne
Stag and Indian
We understand that she leaves for England
very 5000 after she is launched. Tier appear
ance iu the British emanuel VII oreate some
astopishnent among the nobility. who are 40
fcpd Of the spori Of yseh, racing M "src'
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To TRAvELLERs.-It is important for trav-
ellers to know, that, in all public convey ances.
such as sstage-coaches. steamboats,. canal boats,
railroads, cars, &C., the proprietors Of sue h
coaches, boats, or cars, are liable for all bag
ge, notwithstanding the notices generally pub
ished-" All baggage at the risk Of the owner"
The case has often been tested. The passen-
ger can always recover for lost baggage,
whether he has seen the notice alluded 10 or
not.
A quarrel ensued between Andrew ]. Rem
sen. seaman belonging to the U. S. ship
North Carolina, and David Taft. belonging to
another vessel, in New York. on the 10Th inst
Remsen gave Taft a severe beating. after which
Taft. from revenge, stabbed Remsen through
the heart with sheath knife, killing him on the
spot. The funeral Of Remsen," says the
New Era, exhibited solemn spectacle some
$50 Of his late companions, in their white trow-
sers, blue jackets, and embroidered shirts, fol-
loved the corpse to the grave, walking two and
two, and with all Propriety of department"
Tue PIRATE KNEUDsEs PARDoNED.-Hans
Kneudsen, who had been found guilty with
Willms, since executed, Of piracy, in the Bra
ganza case, but rec commended to mercy by the
jury, has been Pardoned by the President, and
was on Friday morning set at liberty.
The Ship Aid de Camp, from Londonderry,
bound TO st. Johns, N. B., was wreched on
Briar's Island on the 18th ult. Out of three
hundred emigrants on board, sixteen were
drowned.
The New York Literary Gazette has been
discontinued, and its subscribers will be fur
nished with the /" Erpositor," another excellent
paper similar in its character to the Gazette.
GO The Hon. Theodore Sedgwick declines
standing as the Democratic candidate for the
office of Lieutenant Governor Of Massachusetts,
at the ensuing election Boston Post
Be~dre Of he third hme.--It appear, from
Mrs. Jarvis confession to friend, that she as
cribes their domestic infeicity TO marrying
a man whom she had three times rejected"
Health Of Sduannah.-The Georgian saws
there were no white interments at Savannah for
the week ending the 9Th. Not case of fever
had occurred.
Ezra White, who killed Fitzpatrick at
" house warming" in New York, last Febru-
AIRY, was found guilty of wilful murder, at the
Court of Oyer and Terminer, the last week.
Capt. jeremiah Harding, a Revolutionary
patriot, and one Of the defenders OF Fort Girls
void, died at New London on the 9TH inst
He was buried with military honor.
The Great Falls Factories, during the first
six months of the present year manufactured
3,74o,827 yards Of cloth.
The murder Of John Ridge, the Cherokee
chief, is confirmed.
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, investigation. But, behold, that week expired
and in the close Of the letter il appears that he
reyer will assist in such an undertaking, after
the highest honors' have been paid TO the fall
en- duelist. Ii was never then his intention 10
vote for the investigation. We have also Mr..
CranstoD's own declaration in the above letter,
by fair inference, that, should he be re elected,
should another fatal duel occur at Washington
next winter, and the man who falls be buried by
Congress as Cilley was, he will not raise hand.
nor utter a syllable, that shall aid TO stamp the
act with crime, or to punish its perpetrator.-
This, we have the undoubted right to accept as
his established principle. 1t was penned with
deliberatioD, nearly six weeks after the duel be-
tween Graves aud Cilley, and when the pas
sions Of members had had time to subside, and
for which he at first allowed only week. All
members Of Congress who fell as Cilley did.
will be honored by burial, as Cilley was. There
fore Mr. Cranston will do nothing to punish the
duellist. This we believed at first. For this
we have opposed him. and that alone, and so
we believe should every one who has no apollo
gy to offer for the crime Of dueling. let him
belong 10 what party he may.
We do not exactly understand in what way
one was to be "persecuted aud hunted down.
by an investigation Of the circumstances of he
duel. II would have been time enough to
talk OF that, after an investigation; and then,
Mr.. Cranston and others; knowing as he says
they did, all the circumstances could have
to prevent persecution and given
an expose which wonld have shielded the per-
secuted from harm. That he would go as far
as he who would go farthest, to prevent and pun
ish duelling. is certainly a very unfortunate ex-
preston, and is not justified by the facts. Mr.
Cranston did not 60 as far az Mr. Tillinghast
and others did. They voted for the proposed
lnvestig gation-he did not. Hundreds. under
the circumstances Of Mr.. Cranston on the day
Of the duel, would have urged some measure
IN the House or among the members, by way
of interference, il possible to prevent it-But
MIR CranstoD. knowing the parties had gone to
The field for the purpose Of deadly combat,
sat quietly, and silently, in his seat. 1t is use
less to say that others pursued the same course
as Mr. Cranston did. They were members
from other States, and are accountable to their
constituents. This gentleman was from Rhode
Island and is the only member within our
reach who acted thus on this question. We
oppose him as We would oppose all who acted
with him. were they dependent on the sufirages
Of Rhode Island freemen, whether Whig or
Democrat.
We marvel that the friend Of Mr.. Cranston,
Il he thought the letter a sufficient justification
Of his votes, bad not given it to the public at the
lime. 1t was loudly called for then as at pres
ent, and was no more private letter then, than
now.
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THE PRESIDENT IN NEW YORK.

The reception Of the President, and the at
tentions manifested towards him, during his late
visit in the city of New York, have been every
thing that his best friends could have desired
Never. since the days Of Washington, has any
other Chief Magistrate except perhcps Gen.
Jackson, received such decisive, cordial, and
universal manifestations of respect and regard
from the great mass of the people as has Mr..
Van Buren,, since he entered the limits of his
native State. The leading federal politicians,
with meanness that shows the desperation of
their cause, resorted tn every expedient through
the presses under their control, to check the
good feelings that where every where exhibited,
but they might as well have tried to check tho
current at Niagara and even now, seeing that
they were baffled, they attempt to uDderate the
great popular movements, that met and cheer
ed on the President, wherever he went The
only federal papers of the city press, however,
from which any thing like fairness might be
expected, the Journal of Commerce and the
New Yorker speak Of the reception i'm New
Y Ork, as being of the most gratifying kind to
the President and his friends and as euualing
in all respects the accounts given in the demo-
cratic papers. One principal reason why the
federal editors generally have been so unfair in
this matter, is, that elections are to take place
next month, in some of the southern and west
ern states, and they cannot endure the thought
that MIR. Van Buren's popularity at home.
should be known among the voters of those
states. Ii is of a piece with all their other
management-they never can be made TO learn.
that these short sighted tricks, with which thew
think the people can be deceived, invariably re-
coil in the end, upon the heads of their authors
-Nec Haren Register.
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GF We copy the following notice OF our
town from the New York Mirror Of Saturday
last, and should be much pleased to see the
suggestion with which il concludes carried in
to effect. There i, plenty of matter which
would make work descriptive of this town
and Island very interesting.
NEwPoRT.-Now is the season for Newport.
When there, select fine day, and driving or
riding along Easton's beach, visit Purgatory.-
Gaze awhile into its deep dark chasm, and then
cast your eyes over the ilimitable blue ocean
that opens before you. Continue your drive
over the sand-and see there--mark Block Is
land looming up, in its dim purple shadows,
spirlt-land-like, far off in the waters And now
you are on your way to Paradise, and having
left your horses, you are threading its long line
of sycamores, and clambering over the rocks to
its summit. The view about you, how mag
nfcent Sit down in the shadow. and write
half dozen sonuets after the manner of Words
worth. There are subjects enough scattered in
all directions. Bishop Berkley's old house will
furnish you fourteen lines. What do you say
to the old tower; that is unfortunately no Scan
dinavian relic, but merely an honest old mill,
which has been made to grind more poetry of
late years than corn. Then the historic recol-
lections The bay is full Of them. Little
more than half century ago. and what mieh
you have seen here! Tent. and banners, reg
iments and soldiers, an armed feet. and all the
"pomp, pride and circumstance" Of war. And
now, everything how placid and serene! There
is nothing but the battemented pile, frownins
at the entrance Of the harbor, to remind you
that there arc times when nations have need Of
defence. Newport illustrated ~ What a
beautiful volume might be made of it A doz-
en- fine pictures, taken at the most interesting
points, with prose sketches and poems and
short sonnets" by way of letter press. Sea
views, land views, with an old building or two.
Fort Adams, and such other scenes as the skill
OF the artist and poet might invest with interest.
Such book must be made.
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the world, and refined by literary pursuits
Should he be sent to Congress, he will not in
suit that body, and disgrace his native state, By
by pouring ionh wisby washy stream in de-
fence Of British pirates. Nor will Mr.. Thurs.
ton--s man Of incorporating patriotism and
intcgrity-ever be found in a minority which
shall vote against sustaining the honor Of the
American name.--Let the Rhode Island de-
mocracy labor increasingly to that end, and in
the next Congress the delegation from their
state will represent and defend American, and
not British interests.--Boston Post
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The PRovIDEscE CoURiER.-The article
which we copied from the Courier last week,
commenting upon the conduct Of the Hon. r.
B. Cranston in voting against an investigation
into the murder Of Cilley, and the frank and
independent expression Of the editors disap-
proyal Of Mr.. Cranston's denomination and re-
election to the office of Representative in Con-
gress, on that ground, has. as might have been
expected, called forth the denunciations Of the
whole Wing press in the State. They have
all set up a most furious barking, in which the
only dstinguishabls sound is that of Loco -foco
-Loco-foco-Loco- -foco, by which they are
in hopes that, if they cannot silence the voice
Of the Courier, they may succeed in preventing
its being heard, or listened to with unprejudic-
ed attention.
The Courier processes to be a neutral paper
as far as politics are concerned, and we allow
that it is conducted with as much fairness in
that respect, as any paper of similar professions
within our knowledge; but, like all others of
its class, we considered its editorial articles
generally to have had leaning to the side Of
whiggery, and have sometimes thought them
strongly inclined that way.
The stand which the editor of the Courier
has taken in opposing the reelection of Mr..
Cranston is such as must meet the approval of
all moral New England citizens who are not
the slaves of political parties, and who value
their principles too much to sacrifice them in
the support of a political partisan.
We copy another article from the Courier
to-day, in which the extracts from letter writ
Ten by Mr.. Cranston, and published in the Provi-
dence Journal, are commented upon and their
sophistry exposed. We recommend it to the
attention of our readers.
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RnopE ISLAND. The Committee appointed
by the Democratic State Convention Of Rhode
Island. which sat at Newport on the 18th Of
June last. for the purpose Of dominating candi-
dates for members Of Congress, have report
ed the names Of Thomas w. Dorr and Benia-
MIN b. Thursion, Esqrs. The nomination is
good one. Both gentlemen are possessed Of
talents and requirements, which will enable
mem, u elected, to do honor to the little state.
mr. Don Is young man, whose natural abiIi.
ue' have been shsrpened by intercourse with
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VALUABLE WoRK.-Those Of our readers
who are interested in the history Of our coun-
try, or of Massachusetts, in particular, will find
work that is deserving Of their attention ad-
vertised in our columns to-day, entitled BAR
BER's HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS. We have
examined it and can safely recommend it as
good work. 1t is beautiful volume of 624 pa
ges, octave, printed on fine paper, and hand
somely bound the cuts are well executed, and
as far as our knowledge extends, are correct
views of the various places and objects.
Mr.. Warren, an agent of the publishers, is
now in Newport, and intends to call upon our
citizens with the work during this and the next
week.
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SwARrwoUr's NoniSrIoS for the Vice
Presidency, says the Salem Advertiser. ap.
peared not only in the n. Y. Commercial. but
in several other papers in the interior Of New
York-one Of which was the Ontario Roposi.
tory. The truth is, Swartwout wss, at that
time, one Of the =" head edpUns" Of the federal
party, and the attempt OF some Of their papers
to disown him. since the exposure Of his pc
cniary irresponsibiiity," is ungenerous in the
extreme.
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NsvAL.-The brig Poland, Gardner. at this
port from Havana, sailed on the 5lh and was
overtakcn on the 9th by the U. $. frigate Con-
s,itution. and remained in company with her
until the 10th, when. in lat, "a. lang. ~. they
left her steering East.
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their country. Such men are THOMAS w.
DORR and BENJAMIN d. THURSTON.
Let them have your cordial and undivided
support.
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ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT WESTERN

The Steamship Great Western arrived at
New York on Monday morning, having left
Bristol on the 9th July, and has brought Lon
don dates Of the 5th
We select from the Correspondence Of the
Commercial Advertiser, the following items of
intelligence.
We are sorry TO say there is a material de-
cline in cotton, amounting in the aggregate to
about iths Of penny. The decline from the
18th to the 2lst June, was / to 3-sths: from
the 2lst to the 29th, /; and from the 2sth to
July Sd, also /. After the 3rd no change.
The steamer British Queen was not ready to
sail on the lst inst. as appointed, but would GER
tainly leave London on the 10th and Ports
mouth on the 1lth or 18th. She had gone on
pleasure excursion to some Of the most i'm
portant seaports in England. She had 14O pas
sengers engaged.
The Bank of England had increased the rate
of interest to 81 per cent.
RIOT AT BIRMINGHAM.
LONDON, July 5th.
AT an early hour this morning an express ar
rived with the intelligence that serious riot
had taken place at Birmingham, at a large meet
ing of the Chartists. knew that number of
the London police had gone down to arrest the
leaders of the gang. The meeting assembled
at o'clock, and in few minutes after the po-
lice made their appearance, and made an effort
to arrest the leaders. They were overpowered
and driven from the field, after receiving some
severe wounds. The fourth regiment of drag
oons were called out. to which was added some
infantry, and the rioters were in turn driven from
the ground.
The great Chartist petition was presented in
the House Of Commons on the l4th, by Mr..
Atwood.-lt was literally rolled into the House,
being cylinder of parchment, about the diam
eter Of a coach wheel. Mr.. Atwood was allow
ed to make a speech in favor Of the petition.
Important intelligence had been received from
the East, of the actual declaration of war by the
Sultan against the Pacha of Egypt. Thi. was
on the 9th Of June: and at the same time the
Sultan despatched feet and considerable re-
Inducements to the rebels in Syria, where the
insurrection against the Pacha was rapidly cx-
tending.
Sir Lionel Smith has been transferred from
the government Of Jamaica to that of Mauri-
tius. Sir Charles Metcalf succeeds him az J,.
maica.
On the lith inst. at 5 o'clock, p. NJ. the
Great Western exchanged colors with the Liv-
erpool steam ship, in 49, 20, of latitude, distant,
at the time, from 10 to l2 miles.
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GT Thus discourses the Providence Jour
nal touching the cause Of whiggery in the
/" Keystone State''-
PENSsYLvANIA.-"O Our friends in Pennsyl-
vania are SO anxiously engaged in quarelling
with each other, that they seem to have neith-
er time nor disposition to attend to the common
enemy. Ii is most melancholy to see the
Wings of that noble State in such dissentions,
but it is the natural and inevitable consequence
Of the course which they have adopted; they
have inscribed men, not principles, upon their
banner, and this done, there is an end to all
harmony Of feeling or Of action. They are
fighting for men. not for the cause, and they
will have the modification Of making their own
dissenfions the stepping stones upon which
their opponents will mount to power. We
hope little from Pennsylvania, at best she was
worse than doubtful; with the present state of
feeling there can be no doubt at all of her.
But let not her fate be without its uses; let il
be lesson to the Wings in other States, never
to think of their private differences, until tho
enemy is at their feet"
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three four Founders, occupied adsantageou.

Three four Founders, occupied advantageous
positions.
Inc Entre Rios cavalry charged that Of Cor
nen'es with such impetuosity, that the latter
was speedily thrown into disorder, and cut down
10 all directions, whilst the infantry of Entire
Rios consisting Of 800 men, with two poun-
ders, killed or took prisoners all the infantry of
Their opponents. and captured the three pieces
oil cannon above mentioned. The reserve of
the Entire Rios army took no parf in the action
IFS assistance moi being necessary.
The Correntinos left on the field of battle
$50 men killed, including "a officers. as also
Genaro Beron de Astrada, Governor and Can
tain General Of the Province Of Correntes, and
Commander in Chief Of its army. $50 pri.o-
ners, 500 muskets, 1900 lances, $50 carbines,
nearly equal number Of swords. wagons of
ammunition, more than 1000 horses, standard.
the baggage. correspondence, &C.. fell into the
hands Of the victors.
BUENos AYREs. May 1.-THE Legislature
OF Correntes has reversed all the enactments
made under the Beron de Astrada administra-
ton, both as regards the alliance with Don
Fructuoso Rivera, President of the Banda O.
rental Republic, and the French; and declar-
ed the firm determination of their constituents
to stand by their countrymen in the struggle
for National Independence.
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NEWPORT.
WEDNESDAY, JULY "a, 1889.
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION
FOR REPRESENTATIVES, IN THE TwENT-sIxTH
CONGRESS.
Election, Tuesday. August 27th.l
THO.u.1S w. DORRz
OF PROVIDENCE.
BENZ. D. ZNURSTO.V,
OF HOPKINToN.
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION
OUR CANDIDATES.

The following article, which we copy from
the Providence Herald, expresses so clearly and
forcibly our opinions, views, and sentiments,
the Democratic Nomination for
members of the Goth Congress, that we cannot