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Eastern times., 1853-10-13
The Land Purchase.

The "Resolves in relation to the purchase
efthe lands belonging to the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts, lying in Maine," passed
the Legislature by large majorities. The
vote in the Senate stood IA to IL; in the
House 96 to 36. The following resolve also
passed the Legislature, introduced by Mr.
Cary of Aroostook
Resolved, That the Land Agent be and he
is hereby directed to suspend all sales of lands,
excepting such as is lotted for settlement, or
may be hereafter lotted for settlement, and on
lysempowered to sell such quantities as may
be required and purchased for actual settle
ment
The lands to be transferred are as follows /:
35,535 acres of undivided lands, and 424 $50
acres of lands held in severalty-all contained
in the first five ranges and 295, ,4O9 acres
west of these ranges, held in severalty unin-
numbered, Ala, PAS acres undivided, and $685.
544 held in severalty
A difference of opinion existed in relation
to the propriety of the purchase. 1t was
feared the large increase of our public domain
would open larger field for Spectators and
plunderers, while the State would secure little
or no equivalent But we believe the pur-
chase, in putting an end to the difficulties be-
tween Maine and Massachusetts on the subject,
and giving US the benefit of all the improve
ments, a part of which Massachusetts, has
reaped the benefit of without any expense to
herself, and in giving US the sole control of all
the lands, will in the end prove advantageous.
All depends upon the policy pursued by the
State, and the management of the land office.
Speculation and plunder have run riot with
our land interest in former years Now is
the time to put an effectual stop to such work
and perfect policy which has worked well
for year or two past.
If any man is pre-eminently entitled to the
thanks of the people of the State for devotion
to their true interests in the management of
the public lands, that man is Ex-Governor
HUBBARD. Upon his accession to office he
probed speculation TO the bottom, and secured
the eternal hate of the spectators. The law
giving land to actual settlers was passed upon
his recommendation, and he invariably refused
to allow the interest of the State to be sacri-
feed for the accomplishment of private and
selfish purposes While holding the Office
of Governor, he accomplished a tour over
most of the public lands, and made himself
acquainted by actual examination with the di-
versities existing in timber, soil and climate.
He brought the subject before the people from
time to time as one of the most important re-
quiring attention, and when he found crowd
of spectators hanging about the NIassachu-
sets executive to strike for private interest.
he struck for the public interest and sent them
home in tangent We say, then, honor to
whom honor is due, and that man is JOHN
HUBBARD. If the policy he commenced is
henceforward carried out by the executive, in
the same purity Of purpose and devotion to the
best welfare of the State and the people, we
have no doubt the management, settlement
and sale of the public lands will accrue to the
advantage a the State for years to come.
Eastern times., 1853-10-13
SIXTEEN DAYS LATER FROM
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Arrival Of the El Dorado al Nelo Orleans and
the Star Of the West at NetC York

Arrival Of the El Dorado al Neao Orleans and
the Star Of the West at NetU York.
The steamer Star Of the West arrived a.
her dock, New York, Oct. 8, at 3 O'Clock. p
NJ, having performed the distance hither from
San Juan de Nicaragua in less than eight davy
She brings passengers BY the Cortes, which
left San Francisco on the 10th Of September.
The Star of the West brings upwards Of
800 passengers and $4,000 on freight, and
half million dollars in the hands Of the pas
sengers
= new ORLEANS, Oct s.-The steamer Ell
dorado has just arrived from Aspinwall with
sixteen days later dates from California, which
WEI Drought down by the John l.. Stephens
anainA, win 700 passengers and one mill
dust uoAi"10 - eO
The lsthmus Of Panama i renresented a.
being quite healthy. o'0--
The Illinois, for New Yorl, b.d 49, z;11;o,,
and quarter Of gold on FREIGHT W Oie 'n'ii'O'
The passengers per Ell Dorado ", ~ ~ NJ,
Orleans in 20 days and 16 hours from mort ~
port.
The elections took place on the 7th of Son
tember, and resulted in Democratic trinronb
John Bigler being elected Governor, and Sam,
uel Purdy Lieut.. Governor.
Intelligence from Rogue river announces
the cessation Of hOstilites, in consequence Of
treaty having been effected by Governor
Lane with several Indians tribes.
Fresh discoveries of gold are being made
almost daily. The miners are doing well.
Business was exceedingly dull, and prices
had undergone bat very few changes.
The whole Democratic ticket for City and
County officers is also elected, and both branch
es of the Legislature will be largely Demo
cratic. 1t is thought that the Democrats vii
proceed to the election this year of an United
States Senator
Eastern times., 1853-10-13

CALIFORNIA ELEcTIoN.-By the last arrival
from California, we have the news of the sue
cess of the democracy. Gov Bigler is re-
elected, and the democratic state ticket major
ity ranges from A 200 to 10, 1000. Both branch
es Of the Legislature will be largely democrat
&c. As one state after another testifes its ap-
probation of the administration by handsome
democratic victories, we cannot see where the
croakers abstract their comfort 1t must be a
difficult work to run down Gen. Pierce in the
face of the fact of such verdicts as the people
give at the polls.
Eastern times., 1853-10-13

N- A most destructive fire occurred at Ken
dall's Mills, Fairfield, at an early hour Sunday
morning. The principal sufferers are VIM.
Conner, Z. & ~ Totman, Oliver Bragdon,
w. Cheney, Samuel Judkins, J. & S. G.
Bradbury, Samuel Taylor, and John Kendall.
The saw mills originally cost $37 ,OOO.-
The total loss is estimated at $50, 900 to $4O,-
600. The amount Of insurance, as far as pos
itively ascertained, is from 900 to SIS 900.
Eastern times., 1853-10-13

% It is highly probable, says the Boston
Post, that Austria has consented to the liberia
ton Of Koszta-having taken the opportunity
ol the finding Of the Hungarian crown as a
gooo chance to get out of bad scrape. 1t is
pretended that Koszta was one of Kossuth's
parry VINO TOOK said crown from Buda. Aus
tria, it is said, intended to have sent word Of
the release OF the prisoner in time to supercede
Mr.. Hulsemann's note, but was too late 10 save
her minister and herself from annihilation At
the hands of Mr.. Marcy
Eastern times., 1853-10-13

Mr.. Wood, late governor Of Ohio, on his
way to Valparaiso, touched at Jamaica, and
formed rather an unfavorable opinion of the
effects of the abolition Of slavery on that island
He says
I" We saw many plantations, the buildings
dilapidated fields of sugar-cane half worked,
and apparently poor, and nothing but that
which will grow without the labor of man, ap-
peared luxuriant and fourishing. The island
itself is of great fertility, and one of the best
of the Antilles; but all the large estates upon
it are fast going to ruin. In the harbor were
not dozen ships of all nations; no business
was doing, and everything you heard spoken
was in the language of complaint. Since the
blacks have been liberated, they have become
indolent, insolent, degraded and dishonest
They are a rude, beastly set of vagabonds ly-
ing naked about the streets, as filthy as the
Hottentots, and, believe, worse.'
Eastern times., 1853-10-13
LIVERPOOL, Sept. 2, 1853.

OOI, IOJJ.
"My cronometer stopped; as | informed you
in my last, on the fourth day out from Charles
ton. The cause Of it has been ascertained be-
yond the possibility of doubt. On its being
taken to pieces, the balance spring was found
heavily charged with electricity, and actually
bent, and all the other work composed of steel
more or less injured At the time it stopped
a heavy storm of thunder and lightning was
passing over the ship; the surrounding atmos-
phere was in such state of commotion that
the Austria fairly trembled in her every tim
Der, and we distinctly heard the lightning hiss
as it struck the water in rather uncomfortable
proximity to our sides. All our compasses
were also slightly injured and had to be sent
on shore for correction, on the arrival of the
ship in Liverpool
Eastern times., 1853-10-13

A SINGULAR ELECTRICAL EFFEcT-The
following extract, from the Charleston Mercu-
ry, from letter from Captain Tesser, Of the
ship Austria, to her owners, describes an eff
feet of electricity which we do not remember
ever to have seen mentioned before. 1t is Of
some practical interest, and shows the neces-
sity of isolating instruments on shipboard as
much as possible -
Eastern times., 1853-10-13

R- We learn that Messrs. J. T. Gilman
and Charles E. Gotten have leased two of the
spacious stores in Moses new brick block,
Front Street. In one of the stores they intend
to keep fancy goods, and in the other to do an
auction and commission business. m
Eastern times., 1853-10-13

q Geo. w. Harvey, Esq, will please ac-
cept our thanks for late Quebec and Montreal
papers.
Eastern times., 1853-10-13

- The Norwalk tragedy was rather a
costly operation for the company. 1t has al
ready paid near two hundred thousand dollars
to those who were injured, and to the relatives
of those who were killed.
Eastern times., 1853-10-13

MURDER IN SPRINGFIELD, MAss.-On Fri
day night, three colored people, woman
known as 60 old Samanth," and her two sons,
Horace and George, were on drunken spree
in Springfield, and during the melee, Horace
shot George twice with gun, the second shot
proving fatal in few minutes. Horace was
orroctaJ
Eastern times., 1853-10-13

SMUGGLING. Irish linens and other goods
which Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe brought
with her baggage from England, have been
seized by the New York custom house Off
GERS, as cOntraband.
Eastern times., 1853-10-13

E George w. Riokford, Of Exeter, n.
H., aged nineteen years. who shot himself last
week, was in love with poor girl, and his
parents did not approve Of his choice. Poor
fellow!
Eastern times., 1853-10-13

E The N. S. Gazette says the PRESIDENT
is in good health and buoyant spirits. lie Oe-
lieves that efforts now making to disorganize
the democratic party and embarrass MS ad-
minjstration will signally fall'
Eastern times., 1853-10-13

DrMocRArIc GEORGIA. Johnson, democrat,
!. elected Governor, by FIVE THOUSAND
majority, and the democrats will have a ma
iority Of the Congressional delegation.
Eastern times., 1853-10-13

CHINA BANK.-This new bank, chartered
last winter, went into operation on Monday
Sept. 26th, and their bills are now in circula-
ton. VIM. H. Herley, President; z. Wash
burn, Cashier.
Eastern times., 1853-10-13

- At muster at Athens recently, there
were, it is said, about 500 persons present; of
which number, says the Skowhegan Clarion,
300 were drunk
Eastern times., 1853-10-13

GF The military post at Eastport has been
abandoned. All troops in New England have
been ordered to California.
Eastern times., 1853-10-13

% The foundation of new engine house
has already been laid on Water Street near
the bridge, and the superstructure will be COM
menced forthwith
Eastern times., 1853-10-13

~ It is reported that the authorities at
Washington have had a consultation, as to the
Chincha Islands difficulty, with Commodore
Daniel, of Baltimore, late commander in chief
Of the Peruvian feet.
Eastern times., 1853-10-13

20 The existing stringency in the money
market is driving the government stocks to
right merrily. Uncle Sam has
money enough, and he cancels his stock as
fast as he can get hold Of it.
Eastern times., 1853-10-13

- We are indebted to lady for bountiful
specimens of the Isabella grape. May she
live a thousand years.
Eastern times., 1853-10-13

0F The Kennebec Journal says that ex-
tensive operations are about TO be commenced
% the dam in that city, the company having
obtained an increase of $IOO, 900 to its stock,
Eastern times., 1853-10-13

PUB. Doc. Senator Bradbury will please
accept our thanks for valuable public docu-
ments.
Eastern times., 1853-10-13

e Upwards Of one hundred liquor dealers
have been arrested in New York since Satur-
day night, 24th ult., for not having licenses.
Eastern times., 1853-10-13

SAD AFFAIR.-The Great Falls Journal
says Mr.. James Woodsum of Berwick, was
found dead in the road leading from this Will
age to Blackberry Hill in Berwick, on Tues
day afternoon. Woodsum had been to this
village with load Of straw, and having dis
posed Of his straw was returning home. He
was intoxicated and was seen whipping his
horses severely short distance from where
he was found. He fell from his cart while
going at rapid rate, and was instantly killed
by the fall.
Eastern times., 1853-10-13

- A fine ship Of 1900 tons, to be called
the Criterion, is building at Georgetown, BY
Gen. Berry, for house in Boston
Eastern times., 1853-10-13

20 Santa Anna is raising an army of 8O,-
900 men, preparatory to assuming the relns OF
empire.
Eastern times., 1853-10-13

~ See advertisement Of A. j. Farnswof'n'
in another column. Call ana see lin
wish for winter suit
Eastern times., 1853-10-13

INSANE HosPITAL.-In consequence Of i'll
health, JOSHUA S. Turner, Esq, has been
obliged to resign the Office Of Steward and
Treasurer Of the Insane Hospital, and Mr..
THEODORE O. ALLEN, Of Augusta, has been
appointed instead.
Eastern times., 1853-10-13

- Brother Drew Of the Banner, has found
his valise Glad Of it,
Eastern times., 1853-10-13

We invite attention to the notice of thr Fair
to be held by the Ladies of the Central Church
at the City Hail.
Eastern times., 1853-10-13
American Mission Board.

The 44th Annual Meeting of the American
Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
was held in Cincinnati, Oct. 4th and 5th. A
large number of clergymen were in attendance
from all parts of the country.
The contributions during the past year
amount to 1915, ,O0O-more than in any pre-
viops year except one, when peculiar effort
was made. The expenditures have been
1910, ,OOO-so that balance remains in the
Treasury.
Twenty-Five thousand are numbered as the
converts of this one Missionary Socicty-two
thousand of them added the past year. The
number of pages printed by the missionary
presses has now reached thousand millions.
The present wonderfully interesting rela-
lations of the great empire of China to the
Missionary enterprise, suggested some remIn-
iscences of the time, now but twenty-three
years distant, when single missionary (Dr.
Bridgeman) was sent as a pioneer into that
vast country, and hardly one acre of land was
admissible to him; but soon, in the provi-
dence of God, five great ports were thrown
open, and twenty millions of people offered to
Christian influence; and now we are reading
by every arrival of the influence which Chris
tanity has evidently produced in the heart of
the empire, so that China can never again be
to us what she has been.
The prudential committee announced that
the Sd,rdtcich Islands haring been ctristianized,
could no longer receire aid from the Board.
Eastern times., 1853-10-13

~ The Millerites have fixed upon May
10Th. 1854, as the date of the destruction OF
the world. They say there will be no mis-
take about it this time,
Eastern times., 1853-10-13

V Ten to twelve per cent. is the price Of
money in New York.
Eastern times., 1853-10-13
CITY GOVERNMENT.
In Common Council, oct. sth

In Common Council, Oct. 8h.
PREsENT-Messrs Covel, ID. Crooker, |.
Crooker, Eames, Hayden, Houghton, Lincoln,
Marston, Morse, Ross, Shaw, Smith, Upton,
and Weeks.
Absent-Messrs. Cox, Haines, Larrabee,
Lemont, Quinnam, Trufant and Wilson.
Mr.. Hayden presented the report of the
committee on new streets, awarding damage to
sundry individuals on account of widening
streets. Laid on the table,
Report Of committee on highways, &c.,
granting leave to withdraw on petition of Bath
gas light company. Was accepted in concur
renee.
Report Of committee on highways, &C., rec
ommending that $4,000 be raised TO complete
such works on the streets as were already 10
progress, came down accompanied by an order
appropriating that sum, to he raised by loan
on from one TO ten years. A protracted dis
cusson ensued upon this order, in which the
doings Of the "Mayor or street commissioner"
were commented on in severest terms. The
report and order were finally laid on the table.
Resolution declaring High street to have
been an old County road for the last hundred
years, and that the city had no authority TO
narrow OF discontinue any part Of it, came
down, accepted in the first and rejected in the
second. Laid on the table.
On motion of Mr.. Morse, the Mayor was re-
quested to communicate to the Council the
amount drawn from the, Treasury on account
Of appropriation for highways, the amount due
for labor and materials up TO the 8th of the cur
rent month, and the amount necessary to finish
the street near the Universalist meeting house.
Report Of committee on fire department came
down and was laid on the table. Adjourned.
Eastern times., 1853-10-13

R- The steamship Uncle Sam, in her recent
rapid trip to the Pacific, made nearly 400 miles
in one day. AT this rate that vessel would
make the voyage from Halifax to Galway
(16OO) miles in four days and there can be no
doubt, says the Ne10 York Mirror but steamers
will be built within five years, if not within one
year, that will accomplish the distance in three
and half days.
Eastern times., 1853-10-13

RARE CURIosITIEs.-A feather from the
wing of time.
A few gray hairs from the head of naviga-
tion
A tooth from the mouth of the Kennebec.
One of the hinges of Hurl's Gate.
The whip with which the pillows lash the
shore.
A laurel from the brow of Mount Kineo.
Eastern times., 1853-10-13

DEATH OF GENERAL TALMADGE- General
James Talmadge, a well known and public
spirited citizen of New York, died suddenly Of
apoplexy,on Thursday afternoon. He had just
returned from the Crystal Palace, retired to his
room at the Metropolitan Hotel, and in ten
minutes was a corpse. He was IS years old.
Eastern times., 1853-10-13
BATH, OCTOBER 10, 1853.
STATE OF MAINE.

,e.-- -r--e STATE OF MAINE
s 4 Executive Department,
Augusta, oct 8, 1853
An adjourned session of the Executive Council will be
held ut the Council Chamber in Augusta on Friday the
fourteenth day of October inst
Attest-JOHN G. SAWYER, Secretary Of State.
Eastern times., 1853-10-13

A laurel from the brow Of Mount Kineo.
Eastern times., 1853-10-13
Secretary Marcy on Koszta.

The following synopsis of Secretary Mar
cy's letter TO Mr.. Hulsemann, we copy from
the Olive Branch. 1t contains all the material
points OF the argument, and is, withal, the
best we have seen The first portion Of the
letter gives history of the position Of Koszta
previous to his seizure by. the desperadoes
employed by the Austrian Consul, and the
subsequent action of Captain Ingraham and
the Austrian authorities at Smyrna, as fol-
lows
Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-05-10

The RAILROAD MASSACRE AT NoRwALK.
A number Of the bodies lying in the station
house have been recognized by their friends;
among which are Mrs. Frances Harley and
child about six months DID, wife and child
of Mr.. J. X. Harley, of Baltimore.
The body of Mrs. Ann Green, mother of
David Green, of Baltimore, and her grand
son, S. L. Hassard, have been recognized.
Among the injured is Warren S. Newell,
of Talbot County, Maryland, who is doing
we'll.
Mr.. Leroy Grant, of Richmond, and Mrs.
Elizabeth Burke, of Lancaster, Pa, have
sufficiently recovered to be able to leave for
New York.
The number Of bodies recovered is forty-
six. The number injured and remaining at
Norwalk, twenty-one. The number on the
train who escaped without injury is one
hundred and fortysix.
Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-05-10
MAY CROWNING.

We intended to have stated last evening,
that the ceremonies of Growing the May
Queen will take place at Island Hall, near
Virginia Avenue and 9th street, at clock,
this evening. The interesting scenes of
this annual occasion will be in connection
with the school of Mrs. HINTON, whose sue
cess as a teacher deserves to be rewarded
by the attendance of parents and friends of
education.
The scholars, accompanied by those hav-
ing them in charge, and preceded by band
of music, will visit the President of the
United States, at the White House, to pay
him the respects due to Chief Magistrate.
The same ceremonies will take place at
night, commencing at o'clock, at Island
Hall.
God bless the children They are the
hope of the country.
Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-05-10

GOLD DISCOVERED IN TEXAS. -Adyices
from Galveston to the Sd instant state that
the accounts of the gold mines on the Colo
RADIO River have been fully confirmed. Four
hundred miners were already at work, real
izing from SIS to $40 per diem each. Emil
grants were f1ocking there from all direc-
transformers were abandoning their crops
and meI chants had commenced to forward
goods to the diggings. The whole State
was in excitement. The soil for hundreds
of miles had been e8amined, and was found
to contain deposites of gold as rich as those
Of California.
Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-05-10
JUVENILE CRIME.

Our exchanges come teeming with records
OF crimes committed by the youth of our
land. Cities, towns, villages and even
little hamlets which We had supposed were
without the vortex of the dark whirlpool of
dissipation, or vice and crime, appear to be
transformed into the theatres in which are
frequently enacted some of the most afro
cious deeds of violence and bloodshed. The
mind of the patriot instinctively shrinks
back with horror from the frightful picture.
And is there no remedy? Must we 20
On from bad to worse? Is our nation
leaping onward to career of unblushine
RIGHTEOUSNESS and debauchery Are we
doomed to perish by the bloody onslaught
OF our own crimes?
We have been led to these reflections by
statement Of facts which comes to US in
an exchange from one of our inland cities
place that has hitherto boosted of it's in
telligence and rapid growth:
$" 1t was but two days ago that we passed
company of marble players, on the side
walk, ranging, apparently, from six to if
teen years old. One of them, it appeared,
had taken a marble which it was denied he
had won; and the one from whom he had
taken it, arose in his wrath, and three times,
as we were passing, uttered, at the top of
his voice: "You are Cd ID thief"
Now, we have to ackno Wedge that this is
language unfit to appear in public news
paper; and nothing but the necessity for
making the shameful truth known where it
should b. known, could excuse it. But if it
be too grossly immoral and disgusting to be
shown up in newspaper, as picture of
juvenile deprayity, is it not in the last de-
gree shameful that such language should
be suffered to assail the ears Of every per-
son that passes the street, or that sits in q
house in the neighborhood? And this Ian
guage, though grossly profane, is nothing
to what we sometimes hear, which may not
be written"
How many cases of similar character to
this have to-day occurred in this goodly city
of Washington-in this capital of 6 the land
of the free and the home of the brave? '
Parents and guardians of the Metropolis
that is question for you to answer.