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Washington telegraph., 1856-09-10
Terrible Storm.

The Boston Jo3rnaf gives the following
account OF a destructive tornado in Essex
county, Mass, CT the 10th inst:
The scene OF the tornado is in the i'm
mediate vicinity of u lake OF some 600 or
700 acres. and the first indications of it
were something that approached like a wa
ter-spout Oh the lake. The tornado
followed, carrying destruction in its path;
unroofng and demolishing houses, tearing
up trees by the roots and hurting them
through the air as though they were mere
straws, leveling stone walls, and, in fact,
demolishing everything which stood in
its path. Six or seven houses and barns
were either wholly or partially destroyed.
The tornado seemed to be confined to
small circuit around the lake, and lasted
but from three to FIVE minutes 1t was
followed by heavy rain and hail Amid
the general crash it is wonderful that no
person was hurt. So far as known, the on
" damage sustained by either man or
beast, was the breaking of one of the
horns of cow who was buried beneath
the ruins of a barn which was demolish-
ed.
Some ludicrous scenes were witnessed
during the brief prevalence of the tornado.
A cow, which was quietly feeding in a
pasture, was lifted off the ground by the
wind. and carried over the fence into an
other pasture, and there safely landed
A shoemaker's shop, in which there was
a man at work, was carried several rods,
and then demolished The man landed
in an apple tree, and escaped with but
few scratches. The roof of one house was
taken up whole, and when last seen was
moving off majestically through the air
towards Boxford. A tree standing not
far distant was taken up, and planted di-
rectly in the rooAess house, where it now
stands
The scene of disaster was visited yes
terday by thousands of persons from
towns in the vicinity.
Washington telegraph., 1856-09-10
Congress-.

As we understand the telegraphic ac-
count of the final scenes in Congress, which
adjourned yesterday, all the appropriation
bills were passed except the army bill.
The civil and diplomatic bill, which is
the general appropriation bill for the sup
port of Government, the foreign service,
the civil government, Including the sup
port of the Judiciary, and the pay and
contingent expenses of Congress, passed
the House, with one of the Sherman
amendments, demanding the application to
the Territory of Kansas of the Free Soil
tests. The Senate expunged the amend
ment, and the House, it appears, recon
sidered, and through the agency of a COM
mittee of conference, were made to with
draw these provisos, and pass the bill in its
simple, usual and constitutional form. 1t
was not anticipated that members of Con-
gress would persist very obstinately In a
measure which would stop their own pay
and perquisites.
The army bill does not Immediately
touch the pockets of these patriots; and
they have accordingly made their issue of
coercion against the Senate on that bill.
Washington telegraph., 1856-09-10
2S,159 Is, ,436
Conway's majority 1928.
Remarkable Coincidence.

Gov. Johnson, of this State has made
a speech. In that speech he says, ':as
heaven is his judge, he believes Fillmore
a greater or blacker Abolitionist than
Fremont" 1t is little remarkable, that
while Gov. johnson was making that dec
laration, the Fillmore men OF Ulster coun-
ty, New York, were passing the following
resolutions:
ReSoired, That we unanimously ap-
prove of the nomination OF Millard Fill
more for President, and Andrew jackson
Donelson for Vice President.
Resolred, That with Millard Fillmore at
the head OF the Executive Department. we
have guarantee against the intrigues of
those graceless agitators, who prefer the
bayonet to-compromises, the blood of fel-
low-citiZens to union; that in him we have
no sectional candidate !; he is for the in
terest and prosperity of the whole country:
with him the Union is safe he recogni-
zesno geographicalline- North, South,
East, and West, are one with him.
Re3olceG', That in Andrew jackson
Donelson. we recognize his Old Hickory
tuforship, and whose education will cause
him to preside over the Senate with that
wisdom and determination OF character
which so signally marked the adnlinistra-
tion of his great tutor.
Resolccd, That we believe that the Re
publican party is only another name foI.
the old Abolitionist party led on by .Sc,c-
ard, Hughes, Beecher, Parker, C; Co.,
that Aboiitionisn, and ,Sectionolism are
ITS principles
That is remarkable coincidence, and
shows up Gov Jacobs Ladder johnson in
no very enviable light.
Menaphis Eagle d; Enquirer.
Washington telegraph., 1856-09-10

Delarge," some twelve miles off; as well
as an Indian boy, servant of Mr.. Read s
and slave of Mr.. Muggah, who were
there picked up. Mr.. NJ Landry, of As
sumption, was also saved in the same
place.
Messrs. Thomas Mile and Capt. Schla
tire have also been saved. A servant girl
of Mr.. L. Landry was also rescued, after
being tossed about for two days on the
water.
From all appearances, the greatest mum.
Der of the bodies have crossed the bay an
taken an easterly direction, and may be
found along the coast between OYSTER
Bayou and the Grand Caillou, and even
farther. We have accounts of many bod
les being seen in that direction. This
would account for so few bodies being
found on the island proper those there
found are supposed to have been among
those who perished the first, and were
brought out into the Gulf Even on the
Gulf shore of the island there is every day
some body washed up
The majority of the lost who may be
picked up will never be recognized by their
friends, as they come in under such state
of decomposition, that there remains no
mark by which they can be singled out.
The jewelry and other objects of value,
which are generally such significant marks,
are but in exceptional cases found. The
island has, horrible dictu, been infested
with gang of wreckers who have spared
no nook or corner to find some body to
plunder. No corpse is found but you see
the trace of the fatal knife about the pock-
cts of the victims, and total absence of
all jewelry or other property. 1t is to be
hoped that these demons in human shape
will meet with their just deserts.
As we were leaving the island this
morning the steamboat Texas came in
from Franklin with a large party of gen
tleman who were well equipped, and de-
termined to leave no stone unturned to
discover the perpetrators of these crimes.
as we'll as fulfill the mission of mercy on
which they had embarked, and to them l
say God speed
Yours, &C., CREOLE.
Washington telegraph., 1856-09-10

The Sherman amendment, forbiddine the
President to employ the forces of the Uni
ted States in executing the law in Kansas.
until Congress should have passed on the
validity of the Territorial laws, was struck
out in the Senate; and when the bill came
back to the House, that body, as we un-
derstand it, reinserted provision in ano-
ther form, but to the same purpose, fas-
tening the abolition programme of doctrine
on the bill. The Senate appears to have
proved intractable, and refused to assent to
any such Interpolation and dictation, al
though supported by the whole Free Soil
minority in the Senate. cooperating with
the factious majority in the House.
The army appropriations have, therefore,
failed, and Congress adjourned without
making any provisions whatever for the
pay and sustenance of the troops in the SER
vice, or the keeping up of any of the mil
ltary posts, either within the States, or on
the distant frontier, where they are within
hostile districts, where tribes of infuriate
Indians are waiting for the opportunity to
rush upon white settlements, and slay and
rob at leisure
The President, it seems. is unwilling to
leave any chance unimproved for saving
the country from the confusion, discredit,
and injurious effects of these proceedings,
and has called Congress together to lay the
matter specially before them, and bring
them, once more, to the test of a deliberate
choice between patriotism and faction
So say the telegraphic reports, and if they
are reliable, the two bodies are expected
to assemble tomorrow, and reconsider this
question. 1t is not likely that the Presi-
dent would adopt this course, unless he
had good grounds to expect, or reliable as
surances to authorize him to count upon
different result. The Free Soil men, now
that the flush of exultation for the carry
ing their point has passed away, and they
are within view of meeting before the peo-
pie the responsibility for all the disgrace
and damage to the public service which
will inevitably follow, may feel disposed to
shun thisss accountability, by retracing
their steps, and consenting to the passage
of the necessary bills to sustain the Gov
ernment in all its branches, freed from the
interpretations and dictations of PARTISAN
ship. We shall see. But whether they
recant or not, they have developed a fierce
anti-national incendiary temper and revo-
lutionary purpose, which stamps upon them
a character for faction and lawlessness
which viii be, we trust, a perpetual bar of
exclusion for them from the favor of hon
est men and patriots every where.
~ o. Ptcayune, 2Oh uH.
Washington telegraph., 1856-09-10
So SO, In ADVANCE.
NO.. 81.

Our prospect is indeed Frightening, Of
being ultimately relieved of the heavy
burthens under which this naturally, the
loyeliest portion of GoD's universe, has
labored for the last ten years. We regard
the building, and completion of both the
Gaines Landing and Cairo & Fulton Roads,
as now placed beyond cavl or dispute, and
should the Loan Bill pass at the present
session of the Legislature, the Galveston
and Red River Rail Road, will reach the
point of junction with us, some where in
Denton and Tarrant Counties, in two
years at farthest. In either event, it
is of the utmost Importance, that our COM
pany begin the work under the charter
Immediately, and of this, from present ac-
tive demonstrations on the part of the
President and Directory, they seem to be
fully advised. The only thing, necessary
to full and entire success is, that the peo-
pie interested will do their part For our
self, we have determined to devote what
ever time and talent we can spare, from
the active duties of our profession, in the
turtherance and advancement of this great
enterprise, and we call upon the friends
of the measure to give us their aid and
sympathy, by helping us in the circula-
tion of our paper. We promise, to keep
you advised of the proceedings of the com
pany, and to use our utmost endeavours,
to keep up the feeling which has now
been awakened in behalf of our road. We
shall, regardless of consequences to ourself
place this thing in true light before
the people of this section of country,
and we will if it becomes necessary, hold
up to the hard-fsted yeomanry, the draw
backs upon them in the way of advance
ment. A more oppressed and outraged
set, never existed and were the Legisla-
ture to- impose but tithe of the tax
upon them, they now seemingly voluntari-
ly pay, it would cause a revolution in less
than six months. To arouse them to
full appreciation of their condition will be
the first and primary object of ourself as
the Editor of this paper. 1t is for the
friends of this measure, to show by their
acts, how far they will assist us in our
undertaking.
In our next issue, we will enter more
fully on this subject, and will attempt to
show, the entire practicability of building
this road. five can but establish conf
dence in the project, the work is more than
half accomplished.-Ldmar Enquirer.
Washington telegraph., 1856-09-10
From the ~ o. Picayune1
The Last Island Disaster-More Saved.
STEAMBOAT T. S. ARCHER, !
Bayou Beuf, Aug. 10, 1856. (

JO" Do.|i IL, LOU.
EDS. PIC.-You have already apprised
your readers of the terrible disaster which
has befallen Last Island, and the recital
which you have given is no vanished sto-
ry- 1t lis unfortunately but too true None
who have not been on the spot can realize
the stern reality. 1t is useless for me to
60 into details of the storm, but fear the
hist of victims you have published falls far
below the real number. | am informed
by those on the island who are in posi-
tlOn to know best, that there were many
at the hotel whose names were unknown,
and which, therefore, may not be found
in your list published in your number of
the 18th inst, which is undoubtedly the
most correct published. l shall therefore
confne myself to correcting any discrep-
ancies [ can find in the list. First, the
following persons, supposed to have been
lost, are not enumerated: Mrs Bell, and
a white servant of Mrs Maskell's, named
Alice Sheppard Mrs Cheney johnson
lost two servants, instead of one; Mr..
Read lost but one servant instead of two
Mr.. a. NJ. Foley lost three servants, in
stead of two; Mrs Crozier had no servants
with her; and Mrs. Telesphore Landry lost
three servants, instead Of four.
The following persons have since been
saved, some of whom passed not less than
day and two nights on the water: Mr..
A. Read, who was carried out some thirty
miles into the ocean, then re-crossed the
island, and was landed near the "Bayou
Washington telegraph., 1856-09-10
Read this three Times.

SENATOR PEARcE's LETTER.-The
Washington Union contains a scathing
review of the letter of Mr.. Pearce, avow-
ing his intention to vote for Buchanan
The following extract will do for speci-
men:
"Mr. Pearce says that he has not been
able to satisfy himself we wonder if he
tried hard p that Mr.. Fillmore can carry
a single State North and although he
does not say so in words, yet it is evident
he means to be understood as saying, that
Mr.. Buchanan can, otherwise there would
be no more use in voting for Buchanan
than Fillmore, and he says he will vote for
Buchanan"
Well, now, why does he say that Mr..
Fillmore cannot get Northern State p
Hear him:
ellis Mr.. Fillmore's wise and patriot
ic course while President which recon-
mended him SO strongly to the Wings of
the South, is regarded by majority at
the North as fatal objection to him."
sNow, is this true ? If it is, then this
fearful fact is disclosed, to wit: that there
is a majority mark, a majority at
the North, who will not vote for man
that they know is true to the South =
Well, does not Mr.. Pearce assume that
Mr.. Buchanan is just as true to the South
as Mr. Fillmore Of course he does, or
he would not vote for him ! If this be
so, will the North vote for Mr.. Buchan-
an? If he is not as true as Mr.. Fillmore,
will you vote for him, Mr.. Pearce %
Washington telegraph., 1856-09-10
The Memphis, FL Passo and Pacific
Rail Road COMPANY.

This Company, chartered by an act of
the 4th of February last, has gone to work
in down right earnest. At the first meet
ing of the stock holders, after the recep-
tion of the charter, the company was in
accordance Herewith, regularly organized,
and T.G. Wright, of this Lamar county
elected President. The Board is Com
posed of the President and eleven direc-
tors Books, have been opened for the sub
scription of stock, and already has there
been sufficiency subscribed to insure the
safety of the charter in that PARTICULAR
The Directory are in high hopes of accom-
plishing all that isrequired of them by the
act of incorporation, and should they do
this they will realize for themselves, and
their associates, a per cent, upon invest
ments almost beyond ca lculation. Public
attention has never yet been directed to
the great advantage necessarily resulting
from an investment in this project, should
the same be consunmated under the pro-
visions and donations In the charter. So
far as the subscription of stock is concern
ed, to secure the charter, there must be
$500, 900 subscribed and two per cent paid
thereon. There must also be graded 100
miles of road within four years from the
first day of March, 1857, and and ten
miles completed and in running order,
within twelve months after connection
is effected with either the Gaines Landing,
Cairo & Fulton, or Galveston, and Red
River Rail Roads This is the sum and
substance of what may be termed the oner-
GUS conditions of the charter, for after ten
miles are completed and one hundred
miles graded, the performance OF the other
condition, that of constructing ten miles
per annum, until the road is completed, be-
comes matter of comparatively small i'm
portance with what will have been alread-
finished. For the building of this road,
the company under the charter are entitled
to sixteen sections of land for each mile,
and it is so arranged in the charter, that
upon the mere grading of section of
twenty five miles or more, the company
may apply for and receive eig ght OF
those sections and SO ON to the end, the
title to the whole being alone dependant
upon the full completion of at least twen-
ty-fve miles of the road.
Upon the survey of the route, eight
miles of the vacant domain Is reserved on
either side of the line, the one half to the
use of the company in the selection of
lands. and the other to the State. 1t is
the intention of the company, to COM
nrence the survey of the road, as soon as
practicable, and not doubt is entertained
that by the first of January next the exten-
sion line to secure the sixteen miles reser-
walton will be fully marked from the Eastern
boundary of the State to the Rio Grande.
This the company are already possessed OF
the means Of doing, and arrangements are
now on hand, for procuring the services of
competent and skillful Engineer to en-
| ter upon the work.
Washington telegraph., 1856-09-10

been deemed necessary to add to it con-
siderably, in order to represent fairly the
true value of the property in those
States. Thus, to Pennsylvania $780,
600, 900 have been added; to Virginia,
Tennessee and Missouri, 100000, 900
each
Texas and California are exceptional
cases, and their population and wealth
have been estimated upon such data as
could be obtained The Comptroller of
Texas is the authority for that State.
The Governor of Georgia says, in let
ter to the Secretary of the Treasury, da-
ted the 18th of April; 1856, that in that
State "the total amount of taxable prop
erty of all kinds is about 500, ,OO0,-
O00."
The Governor of Minnesota saws, in
letter dated January 20, 1856, that the
returns he transmits of the value of the
property in that Territory are but sap
proximations," the returns being incom-
plete.
The official valuation of the property in
the Territory of Nebraska for the year
1885, was SO small-only S617 ,S22-that
it was thought proper to double it in the
table, and it is still too low probably.
The Auditor of the State of Indiana
says, in his annual report (Nov. "a, 1859
ga new valuation of the real estate would
probably make the total taxables $780,
600, 1000"
The Territories of Kansas, Nebraska
and Washington, do not appear at all in
the census of 1850, except as component
parts of other States or Territories, and,
with respect to them, the estimated num-
bers and values may be very inaccurate, as
they may be indeed with respect to the
other Territories and some of the new
States.
The State valuations of property are
for assessment purposes. and are not only
low, and the taxable property only has
been valued; and in all the States there
are many kinds of property-some of it
valuable that are not taxed.
Supposing the whole population of the
United States to be 27,000,0 900, then, ta-
king the State of Maine as criterion with
respect to the value of property, the
amount for all the States and Territories
will be, in round numbers, about $780,
100000.
Taking the State of New York as cri-
teriOn, the amount will be, in round num-
bers, about S1O,611 100000.
Taking the State of Kentucky, then it
will be about SO 100000, 900
Taking the State of Illinois, it will be
about 81 ,290, 100000.
Taking the State of Arkansas, it viii be
about $3.50, 100000
Taking the State of Georgia, it will be
about Sl4, ,430, 100000.
Taking the two extremes, the maxi
mum and the minimum, Georgia and
Maine united, it viii be about sl0,000,-
600, 900
Taking Ohio and Kentucky which will
make perhaps very fair mean, the amount
will be Sit, ,26S, 100000.
Taking these seven States as a criterion,
the amount will be about s9, ,233, 600, 600
This is too low, however, for the official
valuation is too low in them all, unless it
be Georgia.
The 81, 500, 900, 900 added for under
valuations for property not valued, and for
the increase In value since 1850, is not an
excessive allowance.
In the calculations, inconsiderable frac-
tions of numbers and values have not been
regarded.
Washington telegraph., 1856-09-10
9.S17.641.072
26.964.312
26.Y64.312
This sum to be added for
property not valued for
undervaluations, and
for the rise In the val
ue of property since
1850
s1.5OO.OO0.OOO
Sl1.317.641.O72
Total

1OCdl Sl1.OlI Oh .UIZ
In the construction of this table, when
the enumerations and valuations are not
given from official State returns, it has
been assumed that the population and
property of the country have increased in
the same ratio since the general census of
1850, in which they increased during the
decennial period from 1910 to 1885,
The increase has, without doubt, been
proportionately greater.
In some States the latest official valua-
tions have been given. These are of va
rious dates, and are, it is believed, much
too low. The valuation for Massachusetts,
is for 1850; for Maryland and Michigan,
for 1858; for Connecticut, New York and
Missouri, for 1854; and for other States,
for 1855. -
With respect to some of the States, the
official valuation is so very low, that it has
Washington telegraph., 1856-09-10
The United States.
POPULATION AND VALUE OF PRODUCT
CREOLE.

The Secretary of the Treasury, in re-
cent communication to Congress, gives
the following table, showing the pop
ulation of the different States and
Territories, and the value of real and per-
sonal estate therein, prepared in part from
enumerations and valuations, and in part
from estimates
RDnyyufiou and Pronorf,, of }ha T-,;tod
Washington telegraph., 1856-09-10
Effects of Civilization on Heathen Popu-
lation,

In 1777, Captain Cook found 200, 900
people inhabiting Tahati. He declared
his estimate to be rather under than over
the mark. These were the days of wars,
human sacrifices, infanticide, and that
ordinary recklessness of life which the
missionaries profess to have, generally
speaking, cured. Aged natives at that
time rember the high priest Teearmoar,
who uttered the prophecy which the peo-
pie caught up for its strangeness at first,
and repeat now for its dread pathos. 1t
is at this day sung in the depths of re-
treat, where the missionaries cannot over
hear
Washington telegraph., 1856-09-10
''The palm-tree shall grow,
The coral shall spread,
But man shall cease.n

A census taken just before the Ameri-
can Exploring Expedition was there, show
ed the indigenous population to be 5000.
The missionaries called it OOO. In the
Sandwich Islands, the decline of the pop
ulation is such as history can scarcely par
allel, and as every hearer at an Exeter
Hall May meeting should be informed of.
We are told, not only by native tradition,
but by the early navigators of the Pacific,
that there were once human abodes wher-
ever there was good soil and water, and
that the population of this group was not
less than 100000. Now it is under 65,-.
900. twenty-five years ago-within the
period of strenuous missionary efort-it
was double this.
T Westminster Review.