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EDINBURG REvIEw.-T October number
of this Reoic'o has been received The con-
tents are learned and interesting as usual
Republished by l.. ScoTT & Co., New York.
Price SO n year or Btucktcood and the four
RectepS, for $40.
THE INSULT TO TIE PREsIDENT.-T Wash
ington correspondent of the N. Y. CONNER
cial Advertiser gives the following account of
the disturbance at the White House, on Men
day last:
The disturbance which occurred in the
Presidents Office Yesterday has not led to any
serious breach of the peach, nor has it broken.
up the daily business receptions. The facts
are these, rs have heard them, in regard to.
this occurrence. Mr.. Sherman, lawyer of
good rcpulc here, called upon the President
during the business hours yesterday morning,
and presented file of papers, referring, is
said, to some balance of payment claimed
by The heirs of Roadside, under an act of the
last session. Mr.. Sherman urged the Presi-
dent to read them, and order the money TO be
paid. The President replied that he had not
time at that moment. "rhen refer them,"
said Mr.. S., :" to your law officer" But"
said the President 81 must first see "wheth-
or they arc proper to bc referred" Sher-
nan demanded that the money be paid,
threatened n mandumus and what not, and
in fine spoke in an angry and excited man
ner, so much so that the President ordered
him to leave the room. Sherman refused to
go, and said the President, Then will
sc" and suiting the action to the word, he
went into the adjoining room of the private
secretary.
The Attorney General at the same moment
came III and attempted TO uppcaSc Sherman,
but with so little success that the latter warn
cd him against interference. A police Off
Ger was sent for, but before he came the IN
dignant attorney had retired, threatening to
renew his visit this morning: but the PreSi-
dent has not ordered the access to the place to
be barricaded. The moral of the story is,
that the day is at hand when the President
mustrelcve himself from the duty of rcceiv-
ing all manner of complaints, and attending
to all Sorts OF eHactions.
Snow AND PoYERTY IN MINNEsoTA.-A
gentleman from St. Paul informs the Prairie
du CHEN Courier that there were, in the first
part of last week, eighteen inches of snow on
the ground mt st. Paul. The Times says:
The snow at Hastings on the morning of
Sunday was eight inches deep. This seems
tooIerrible for rlelef. a great portion of
Minnesota is in state of deStiution; no mon
ey is in the country; large bodes of cmigrants
a'c huddIcd together in places entirely new
and rem1'e irom supplies, and now the rigors
of no,hcm winter are upon them nearly q
month before they were anticipating it. I'VE
dread the recital Though the press, ofthe hor-
rnrS III store for those who are without provi-
SONS or money. and shut 0ut from the world
ly half year Uf ice and snow"
SPARE THE FoREsrs.--Undcr this head the
Troy Wing says Of the recent frcshets:
Trees that lave stood The landmarks of
century. have been uprootcd, cattle drowned,
crops destroyed, and devastation carried over
that part of the country. The food was not
occasioned by the breaking up Of streams in
the spring, by an cquinoctiNl storm, that old
fashioned people thought nothingof 1t adds
another mite to the weight of argument, that
the constant aud gradual thinning out and
levelling Of trees and forests, all over the
country. is the cause ofthe increase i'm mag
nitude of the freshets that now visit us,sSin'
comparison to those We used to have in old
times. When whole groves are cut down !;
as the face Of the earth changes from prime
val woodland to cultivated fields, we must
expect the waters to rise, in proportion as the
monarchs Of the forest disappear. The soft
spongy ground, no longer absorbs the rain
drops, but the water runs directly into The
nearest stream, rs from a glass pavement
contributing its small force to produce fear
fnl inundations; while the springs that once
gushed forth are silent and in summer, and
times of drought, rivers are shallow and nm
nayigable-they have no longer any reserve
for dry daY-7heat If gentle shower falls
upon the pafchedearth the streams feel it as
sensitiyely as baroneters.
e" These results are. not confined to this
State or this cQntineat. Cause and effect fol-
low each other all pypr the world In France
the foods Of the rivef Rhone- and the inuuda4
tions of Lyons could all be accounted fora.-tte
forest in that part of tho country had been
gradually eNterminated. and when the rai1e
came, there were no woods 10 receive. lle ifst
shock. ana absorb the watcrg parficle- lie
river ives soon a mountain toffent~ a9s'
DAMAGE 10 THE C4wE--The editor Of tho
Baton Rooge Advocate states that he was in
company on the 18th inst, with several sii-
gar plaaterso of West Baton Rouge, who gaye
gloomy acconnts Of their prospects. They
state that theircrop had been injured 2J pcr
cent. by the summer-like weather which had
succeeded to cold nights and heavy frosts.--
Eiemcptions one plantation where Weld 0f
1 700 TO ], 200 & ,nds only to the acre is au-
tioipated where double that yield was caIcu-
lated upon fow days before.