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The books of the "W ashington Branch Railroad
furnish most gratifying evidence of the increase
of the population and business of our city. During
the month of January, the number of passengers
ticketed to Baltimore alone four thousand
nine hundred. being twelve hundred more than in
the corresponding month of 1852. Sixteen hun.
dred tickets were issued for Philadelphia and New
York, showing an increase of six hundred and fifty
over January of last year. Greater than ALL the
number of tons of freight to our merchants during
the same month reached two thousand, being seven
hundred tons over January, 1852.
Wash Cor. Baltimore Sun.
This increase Of business on the Washington
Branch ought to relieve our citizens from the
monstrous impositions to which they are sub
jected in their dealings with this road. The
passenger fare Of 81 80 for thirty six miles is
the most enormous paid in the United States, as
far as we have had any experience. It should
be reduced to one dollar, and would be large at
that. What has become of the Air Line to
New York?
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Pamphlet has been received, containing the
remarks of Hon Robert F. Stockton in the Senate
on the announcement of the death of Daniel Web
ster, and also on the bill before that body to in
crease the efficiency of the army and navy, &C.
Wespoke at the time of the generous feeling ex-
hibited by the former, and the business and elo-
quence which marked the other. We think the
country is entitled, in some sphere other to the
employment of the ability and requirements of
Senator Stockton in the reformation and improve
ment of the two great arms of our strength, the
army and the navy, but particularly the latter,
where his energy and ripe experience cannot bat
be salutary and efficient.
Ne,oark NJ ~ x4dyertiser
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boston Advertiser, 5th.

GovERNoR SEYMOUR some days since sent into
the Senate some two hundred nominations TIL
Hunkers on looking the list of names foun
they were generally of very e'sot'' character an
refused to take them up for confirmation; the Wing
members, or majority of them, having great
deal OF the milk of human kindness in their com
postlon OF course voted with the prosecuted party.
II appears probable that Governor S. will be com
PEELED to knead over and aharden' the batch in
order to get it through the Senatorial oven In the
mean time the expectants wear the most melan-
choly visages over "hopes Deferred and "swear
terribly at "the powers that be.''
IroU IN. W Yhip
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present we derive from Cuban imports annual
revenue of nearly six millions. This would be
| lost While he deprecated arguments addressed
to the North or South-because no argument could
be good that did not address itself to the whole
UniOn-he proposed to meet the sectional appeals
already made. In no possible aspect could the an
nexation of Cuba take place without the greatest
injury to the South
As slave State, she could give the South no ad-
ditional power the dream of balance of power in
the Senate was long since exploded. It would
bring powerful rival in direct competition with
the most profitable productions of the Southern
States. Remove the duties now collected on the
articles raised in Cuba, and their culture in the
Southern States would soon sicken and die. The
present tariff on sugar no slight matter. He
commented upon the tenfold addition to the agri-
cultural energies of Cuba to result from the annex
alton OF it to the United States detrimental to
| the South.
| As long as Cuba remains possession of Spain
1t Will be OF inestimabe advantage in time of war,
as neutral port, where the commerce of the gulf
! could ind 2 port, and where purchasers would
come to reship it. This was done in Florida dur.
| ing Mr.. Jeferson's embargo, and in the war Of
1872. 1t was difficult to estimate the advantage of
| such an outlet. There were two hundred thou
sand Tree negroes and six hundred thousand whites
In Cuba. He argued at length, showing that these
whites, unaccustomed to self government and al
tached to an established religion which would no
| longer be supported BY the State, would prove a
| turbulent, ungoyernable people. The free me-
groes, he also commended, would be an element Of
the most dangerous character.
| The Senator from Louisiana had not ventured to
tell Us when or in what manner he thought Cuba
ought to be acquired He told us that he was not
in favor OF its purchase. but there he stopped /
sure he does not desire it should come to us as
the result of an unprovoked and aggressive war.
There is but one other mode in which il can come,
and that is by successful revolt of the Cubans
themselves. Ii that be his method, he and very
nearly agree. am willing to compromise on
that, for it is toIeraby certain that he and will
both be cold in the grave long before that revolu.
xrL1 nnr ,ts~nol
The Senator from Florida went further, and
urged there was some sort of everything necessity
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thing. | am willing to go further, and say that it
does mean what it imports on its face; that it was
known it would be rejected; that the idle form OF
making the offer would have been dispensed with
Out for Interior considerations Let it be conceded
that 1t was intended to ntimidate the United States
and to give US notice that France and England
were watching Cuba, and determined to prevent
efforts upon our part to acquire its possession.
but Whle conceding all this, do not agree with
that Senator as to how it should be met do not
think 1t ia the part of wisdom, or of sound policv
to permit ourselves to be hurried into ntemperate
action because France and England have made a
foolish parade of their future policy. To redeem a
threat from contempt it is necessary that the party
making it should possess the power OF carrying It
into effect. As long as English statesmen keep
their senses, thousand Cubas cannot induce them
to declare war against the United States. With.
hold the exports of our cotton one year, and the
starving millions will be in open rebellion We
have heard in a time of profound peace of banners
borne by the peasantry with the fearful inscription
ablood or bread" Who doubts that that CRY
would be reawakened, and who doubts that blood
would furnish the fret, second, and third course
of the banquet to which she would be invited
at home. Add to this the certainty of hun.
dred thousand American bayonets glittering in
the sunlight of Canada, and thousand Ameri-
vessels cutting off her commerce, and you
have amount of suffering which no nation Will
willingly approach. 1t had been declared In the
Senate that England had given bond and surety
to keep the peace towards the United States. Ihat
secuit y is her lie's blood, her very existence; mol
merely her provinces and dependencies, though
grant you she would consider it poor exchange
to secure Cuba to Spain and lose Canada herself;
but she has more at stake, and regard any threat
from that quarter the veriest gasconade IN which
any government ever permitted itself to indulge.
France has recently erected an imperial throne
above the crater of Volcano He who occupies
that seat must watch by day and night, or an
eruption will soon come to bury him and his for
tunes beneath the burning flood. If the great en-
peror himself held the reins war with America
ha a. To toHd FfYT
mere would be to give them to the sword. France
mas acquired no glory upon the seas. lam aware
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ern States the slightest possibility of an equal mar
tlcipation In the benefits to be derived from the
construction OF this great work. | have already
shown that our present railway communications
point to st. Louis and Vicksburg as the two start
ing points to proceed West. The former is situ
ated IN latitude 3So 81 north. the other in latitude
Sso 5U north. Albuquerque, on the Rio Grande, in
latitude 35o north, three degrees and thirty
minutes south of st. Louis, and one degree and
twenty minutes north of Vicksburg. San Francisco
10 in latitude 37o 49, north The distance on
right line between st. Louis and San Francisco is
1850 miles. The South Pass is in latitude 42o 81,
Therefore, to proceed from ST. Louis via the South
Pass, to San Francisco, would be deviation north.
wardly from the right line of four degrees and
from Vicksburg of nine degrees; consequently,
you will perceive, that to proceed from ST. Louis,
via albuquerque, to San Francisco, would be less
deviation from right line, even from st. Louis.
than to go by way of the South Pass. and would
also avoid the monstrous injustice of throwing all
communication from southern railways nine de-
gress to the northward out of the right line /
therefore suggest that one line of railway be COM
menced at st. Louis, and another at the west side
of the Mississippi, opposite Vicksburg; that thew
shall unite at some eligible point on or near the
parallel OF 350 north, and proceed westwardlv.
through any practicable pass in the Sierra Madra.
on or near that parallel, thence to Walkers Pass,
IN the lower ranges of the Sierra Nevada, also in
latitude SS0 north, and thence through the valley
Of the San Joaquin, to San Francisco. The detour
'outhwardiy from st. Louis this route, you will
perceive, would be 80 81, and northwardiy from
vicksburg 10 3d.
This line would pass through the great valley of
he Colorado, the soil of which is believed to be
ertile It has not been explored. but the few emf
grants who have passed through it report fayora.
by OF its beauty and fertility and the practcabi
y Of the route. Mr.. George Yunt, gentleman
II much responsibility, informed methat he passed
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ssnnuniea 81 this church and snbnisssn the
Bishop Of Rome Universal Bishsp and
Vicar u Christ earth, thus AckAowledgng thsss i'm
pious OF that Bishop thereby tns the
sslenny made by hin the said Levi Silan D. D. NJ his
conservation - Bishop Of the Church OF
that portion Of the flock Of Christ committed his oversight
and binding himself uudsr Anathma the ehysn doc
all the churches Of Roman obedience
be therefore known that this 18th Of October in
the OF Lord 1855, Thomas Church Brownel d. d.
L. d. by Divine commission Bishop OF the Dioeess ~ Con
uecticut and Presiding Bihop Of the Protestant Episcopal
Chnrc in the United States by the majority o.
the mebers OF the House Of Bishops enuner
afed. TO wit
Here the sentence gives the aud titles o. the follow
ing Bishops according 10 sesiorityMeld ofNiranla HOP
knf, Of Vermont Smith, Kentucky McIlFaa, VI oao
Sloan. Of Nea Jersey Otey of Tenress-e kemrer OF WIS
nsin and the North vest; Mkoskry, Il Mehgan d.
eey Western New York. Whttingham, Of Maryland ~
lot II Georgia Lee, Of Delaware johns (asstnt Of Fr
gina, Eastburn Of Massa husetts: Chase VI New uanp
shire; Cobhs Of Alabama; Hawks Of Mississippi Freshman u
the Southwest; Potter nsylvan Burgess Of M2ae
Uphold indians; Green, Missouri Rutedse II Florida
vii sms (assistau Of Connecticut; Whteh0use 81 Illinois,
anu VI ain wright, (proyisionAD Of New York
the Of the in and provided
do prctouEee the said Levi Sill d. d. ipso icto
deppsed to all nens and purposes from the ce Of bishop
the Church Of Cod and all the rights, privileges
powers and disnities thereunto pertaining
tie u the Father the and the Holy Ghost
AMCnl THOMAS CHURCH BROW NEIL,
Bht OF the Docess of Connecticut and Presiding Bishop.
THIS was solemn ceremony and daring its continuance
many Of the delegates were affected to tears.
After pronouncing the sentence, the Bishops retired
from the Convention and after few moments che house
adjourned till 10 O'Clock this morning.
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Rio JANsRo, August I, 1858.
Commercial Importance of io-Nasigation of the
Amazen-Ihs Notorious Commodore Gee, &c.
we are tired out here Of the unremitting attention
paid by you and other able editors, to Cuba, span
and Mexico, to the neglect Of this most important
Empire of Brazil, with whom our relations, present
and to come, are OF vastly more Importance than
those we have with any other power except England.
One would suppose that neither the government nor
the press Of the United States ware of the yslue
of our commerce with Brazil, and the inv alaab!e
benefit to be derived by usrom the navigation of the
Amazon. This navigation Of the Amazon is the
great American question of the day-far mora in-
porant than Cuba annexation or Nicaragua canals.
We can get along without either Cuba or the canal
but we lose the trade with Ecuador, Peru, New
Granada and Bolivia, unless we obtain right of way
upon the Amazon. The claim of Brazil to the exclu
sive right to the mouth Of the Amazon is too lieu
lous TO be considered. Bolivia and Perd have rivers
as large as our Ohio, but cannot trade with us, be-
cause Brazil owns the entrance to the natural
law gives all ratons owning rivers which rua into
the ocean, right of way to the ocean. This is call
ed by the authorities an imperfect right--bat can
not see wherein it is not perfect and iudisputable
Are Bolivia and Peru to be obliged forever to send
their products over the Andes aud round Cape Horn
to US, because Brazil will permit them right Of
way to the sea. and wishes to monopolze the trade
OF those repubcs2 Do get An atlas aud read Lieut..
Maury letters upon the Amazon, published in the
HERALD, and then see il you can't let the aeopls
know what they are losing in this part Of the world
Brazil refuses to make treaties vita other nations.
1--WE are not the only one excepted,) and wishes to
keep the river sea to herself Is she to do so2
Commodore Gee the commander Of the late block
sdng squadron Of Urquiza at Buenos Ayres, has ar
lived here in the United States snip jamestown, ON
If yh led far
saysold his squadron the city Of Bueuos Ayres for
ten thousand pieces Of gold, or $l6O 600 The fact
that such man should be received as guest aud
passenger on board an American vessel Of war has
naturally created considerable excitement here.
AMHKIGEa.
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The Five Points House ofIndustrv.

The Directors Of the above institution ast issued
lengthy report, from which gather the following
After detailing the manner in which the mission was
established and the work OF regeneration and redemption
was prosecuted, the Directors say
full statement of the affairs and effects Of the mission
made out, and the whole comu tilted to manage
ment the lat of May 1852 the dating from
the ist of March previous when the control Of the Ma
tiopal Temperance Society had ceased Under this
peivson the House of Industry has continue to tn,
en time the Superntei dent accounting for all that
has been Irodu; received in donations and being
ii for the arduous exertions of himself and Mrs. Peae
Who acts mstron OF the establishment and whose
wees in that capacity are invaluable to salary Of but
. co. only $3.50 of which received by them for the
year ending last March, the balance being freely relin
pushed to the mission.
Through the excellen. mana cement and large money
donato of The superintendent with the unsoagt aid of
he benevolent who have CHANGED to become acquainted
with it, the Five Points House Of Industry has sustained
itself in widening sphere Of signal usefulness without
becoming encountered with debt burdensome to the
public II now includes seven three-story houses
pyng the whole Lit Water street. from Cross to
Anthony except the corner OF the latter with adon
ing tenement in Cross street 1t affords ubsstence edu-
cation, and religious instruction seventy five women
eighty children and twenty men-the children being
supported all Of them redeemed from
actual Inevitable vice Of the desperateknd 1t
supports free day school in three departments with
three teachers and average of hundred and fifty
pupils. Ii supports Sabbath school, in which hun
dred and fifty children instructed in the Holy Scrip
lures and the pure and universal elements OF Chrstiani
y supports public religious services the sabbath,
at which congregation of two hundred and hity of the
most neglected and morally destitute of population
are gathered TO receive the Gospel of the Lord Jesus
Christ 1t has administered the pledge Of total abstinence
to more than car thousand persons 1t has in this short
period redeemed from acu or inevitable rum from six
TO eight hundred females of all ages who respec
table ard virtuous members of society
lts economy includes bakery, tailoring workroom,
plain sewing workroom, millinery workroom, q straw
workroom and children s workroom Much Of the work
done in these rooms proves To be of the best In its kind
some of it, by the admission of employers assng
best they can procure from other The adults il
expert with the needle earn in these rooms from two to
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TIE ORPHANS or THg EPIDEMIC IN NEw ORLEANS.
One Of the saddest egsces OF the late terrible peense
a. the arre number of poor orphans that IL has thrown
the charity Of our city support and shelter The Howard
Association have hundred and thirty niae Of these
unfortuuses and the Board Of Health nearly as large
number are pleased to learn that the Hovars havS
determined 10 provide for the orphans ia their csargs
by placing them at the various orphan asyuas OF the
sy with liberal allowance out OF the funds 81 the asso
citation each orphan thus disposed Of Thirteen thou
sand nine hundred dollars have been appropriated 70 tns
ebjec being hundred dollars for each orphan IAe
cphans Of Ca hello parents have been placed II the asy
lus under charge Of professors 81 that faith and Pro-
testant children In institutions directed by Protestant
This is wise and benevolent disposition which we have
doubt will meet the approval Of the. Hbertl
onors of the fund placed AZ the disposal OF the Hovars
We HOPE the Board Of Health viii ADOPT similar course
sn providing for the orphan' npde i's charge.-N o.
.Lxfta Cc 5.
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Thursday IA observed ia Sayau an Ga, as day
of tlart giving and prayer.
Tie Kauawha Va, Lepltlican learns that McMahou
clslged with shooting young w ggener in Mason county
last summer convicted his trial a the Circuit
Court ~ at county acid at Point Pleasant last week. of
n,uidsr Ia the frat degree ~
'on,pany G. Fourth iillery, .. A. Major Ridgeey
nuh Lieut. y sch commanding, have arrived in Boston
ito III acel pha They 10 be stationed at Fort In
oelcn0' nee, Ia Bost, Larbor.
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A LONG FAnrxgI1.-mis.ea NJ ". and c. P.

A LONG FAREwgLL.-misie s NJ. w. and g. r.
Webster the only survivors IT the late Professor John w.
Webster, in this country, babe farewell to
shores yesterday having sailed for the Azores In the snip
To- They have Just pal tue last elsncholy rites
the remains IF iaoized mother snd most estmasls
and having moistened tie dust ~ Mount Auburn
with their bitter and sympa'hetc they nov eaTe
forever the sweet Of their childhood Of home friends
and those many delighted associations around which
heart ALWAYS elngs naturally and fondly. They
have utterd that last and melancholy vori-farewell
Toe train Of misorunes which have rendered lark and
gloomy the paths Of these young and beautiful ladies'
for such they ares peculiar ard mournful We VII
name that circumstance dreadful but ending in death
which deprived them Of father. From that event we
desire to draw veil And now, before he robes NJ
mourning had been exchanged before the deep fountains
of grief had been dried up death ilsstats and almost
cruel has prostra ed the form Of Jther The grave
has closed her and ac too sleeps n eternal repose
BY the side Of him who went before her. The mournc
In their youth and beauty have Tho ocean IL
TO separate them froIn the sacred spot q home They
have bid farewell 70 whatever was dear ever more to
return Such Is phase Of Ue-nor. Of shadow than Of
sunshine. --BoSon Bo, OI ID
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TIE YELLOW FEVER AT TIE SoUTH.-DurDg the
week ending the 2sth ut., there twenty six yellow
fever deahsat Yazoo city, Miss, and about hundred
ana twenty sick the 2Sth out OF population OF some
three hundred At Natches, for the week ending the Sd
inst there fourteen fever deaths The disease is
said has not ebaed there but lacks victims At vicks
burg there nine deaths for the friy eight hours
ending the Both ut Al Jackson Miss there were forty
three DEATHS principally Of fever from the LIST to the
2sh ul,.; the latter day there not three
hundred persons in that town and fourth or these
we're sick. At Lake Providence La there have been
eighty five deaths aud at the lat accounts large ma
jCrity Of the population we're sick,
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Toward AssoCIATIoN-D tsTRrBJTIoN OF Sut
FUNDS AT meeting of this noble an praisewortn
association held Thursday evening last the folowin
distribution of it, surplus funds was made We are u
for the statement
10 the Orphans Home, containing "a girls and 81
boys-55. ........ ...............
Extra sppronriaton TO same 10e
To the Camp street Female Orphan Asylum "a girls B A
To the st. Iary's Asylum Third district, Catholic
Orphan Boys,) 40 46t
To the Hebrew Benevolent Association, girls and
2 boys....,........... ..,.....................
Besides the above cash Donations the Association al
distributed the beds and bedding in its possession In
portions similar TO the above. 80 w
5Of the Hewsrdr msy It not be well said s Wall Aos
good f,ithful servsntsl ~ Many the homes III
have cheered. Many Orphans heart have they ma
s,sa.--Nac orleans PicapaH, Oa, 5.
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10 As many persons here
interested in the American Art Uui
we publish below a letter recei,
yesterday BY the Messrs. WALTERS
their. Honorary Secretaries for d
place. .
New YoRK, May 231d, Isl
Messrs. Fl. 4 W. g. Waller.
Hon. Sect. Ame,ican Art Uni
Condemnation letter Of the
inst, is received. We are not sole
ing subscriptions for the institute
at the present time, as We have
definite plan fixed upon. The corpt
ate powers oftbe institution still exis
though we have no right to distribu
by lot, consequently cannot purcha
paintings as usual. Each memb
will soon receive an extra Bullet
which will fully explain the conditi
Of affaies, financial and otherwise.
Respectfully yours,
ANDREW WARNER, Cor. Sect.
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LAND SUBTITLE Point Coupee
Echo of the 2sth ult., says that an
extensive land slide took place at the
upper end of Mr.. Lobdell's Plantation
in West Baton Rouge. Over an acre
went in. taking the levee with it leav-
ing . dangerous gap, in case of high wa.
ter. If the levee is not promptly re.
built, nearly the whole of West Baton
Rouge will be submurged before the
season is over
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uspeaking Of stage tricks .
actors and actresses, the Pen and Pei
Gil says:
This reminds me of Crisis famot
trick, by which to get some stimulaI
during one Of her exhausting scene
The play required her to kneel dow
to mound, and press her face to T
in a paroxysm Of sorrow. TIL
mound was 50 made that mug coul
be presented from beneath; an
while Grisi, in an agony Of grief, lii
PROSTATE upon the mound, she mar
ages, in very quiet way, to take on
good long pull of porter, and in voic
and spirit goes on with the song. /
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The SOUTHERN LAD les Book
This literary Magazine, is steadily
gaining friends. The May number
is before us in its usual. chaste and Ell.
egant dress. The art ,icles in the la.
dies book are all o l.iginal, and from
the pens Of South srn writer's. This
work is destined to chase away the
sickly sentimental stories Of the north.
ern bedblanket newspapers which at
the present writ ng are SO fashionable
as mental food for our Misses.