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Weekly national intelligencer., 1857-10-10
GOVERNMENTAL RELIEF.

Semi-oficial advices in the Northern papers in
form us that the Secretary of the Interior has
Gently invested nearly 81 100000 in State stocks
of Missouri, Pennsylvania Illinois, North Carroll
ma, Tennessee, and Virginia, in trust for various
Indian tribes All hut S50, 900 of that amount has
been drawn from the Treasury. The present time
was chosen for the investment in order to contri-
butte something toward the relief of the money
ket, while S180,000 has thus been realized in the
transaction for the Indians
This we regard as very judicious step on the
part of the Secretary of the Interior evncing both
wise craftsmanship and praiseworthy regard for
the interest of the business community In further
pursuance Of the same wise policy, the Executive
Government has under consideration, as we have
been informed, the expediency of advancing money
to Government contractors upon shipments of ma
teral instead of upon actual delivery at designated
places-as, for instance at the sites of proposed
buildings The law requires delivery before MAX
ing such advances, but shipments, with assign
ments to the proper officers of Government of bills
CO aq nf bssa Sld s dsirery TT
is proposed we understand to give the contractors
this benefit, and, by thus preciptatng into general
circulation some millions of Treasury god to Incl
dentally relieve the money market.
The idea is liberal and considerate, and is in
striking contrast with the course pursued by Gov
ernment in the crisis of 1887. 1t was the custom
of the ancient Romans to suspend the operation of
the laws under circumstances of peril, and to sub
NIT to a temporary dictatorship. The Romans were
purely military people, and their prosperity was
founded upon extraordinary development of the
military polity We on the contrary, are strictly
industrial people, and our national prosperity is
based upon material development. If, then, we
should virtually adopt the policy of those greatest
exemplars of law and republican government of
antiquity, it would consist not in departure from
the letter of the law, but drawing from the law
itself the means of averting impending crash of
whole financial system, such as many suppose is
now threatened.
We hope that it may be found in the power of
the National Government, without violating the
spirit of the laws, to essentially relieve the coun-
try, especially when consider the vast
at its command, and its multifarious pecuniary re-
lations with the people Had the Administration
of 1887 fully comprehended the character and in
terests of the people, and the crisis in their affairs
they might possibly have avoided the reaction
of 1910
Weekly national intelligencer., 1857-10-10
TREATY WITH THE pAwNEE INDIANS.

Gen JOHN W. DENVER, Commissioners Of Indian Affairs.
came down the Omaha from Nebraska to Weston, en-
route for Washington. He reports having made full
and satisfactory treaty with the Pawnees at Table Creek
in the vicinity of Nebraska city, the 24h Of Sepem-
ber The Government has now bought all the lands of
the Pawnees with the exception of thirty by forty miles
the Loup Fork. The treaty lasted three days, and
was closed with satisfaction TO all The Pawnees agree
to send all their children ten years Of age to mis-
sion schools to be established also to send apprentices
from their young men learn the different trades
81. Louis Democrat
Weekly national intelligencer., 1857-10-10
FROM CHINA.
The San Francisco papers contain accounts from Hong


The San Francisco papers contain accounts from Hong
Kong to the 9th of July.
Lord ELGIN, the British Plenipotentiary arrived at
Hong Kong on the I'd of July. He was landed on The
9th amidst salute from the vessels of war in the har
Dor and the batteries upon the land and was receive
by the Governor, Sir JOHN BowRING Admiral SEYMOUR
and other chief officers of the military and civil depart
ment, in full official dress He was unaccompanied bv
ships of war or troops, stating that an effort will
be made to settle the matter in dispute without having
recourse to arms.
All communication with Canton continued to be strict
ly prohibited by the Chinese authorities.
The o. s. steamer Levant was wrecked at the entrance
OF the Wooshung river below Shanghai about the mid
die of June last 1t feared she would be total loss
All the officers and crew were saved
In Hong Kong the 4th of July in consequence ofbs
absence of the United States no demonstra
ton was made flags hoised except on board of one
or two merchant vessels In Macao the day was kent as
holyday the men-of-war and many of the merchant
vessels being gaily decorated In the evening DR. PAR
KER, the United States Commissioner entertained the
Governor of Macao and the heads of Foreign Legations
at dinner; and the night wound up by display Of
fireworks &c. at the parade ground.
Dates from Shanghai reach June the 9th Great
lamentations making about the rayages of locuss
and bad harvests were apprehended Occasional out
breaks taking place in the neighboring provinces
Weekly national intelligencer., 1857-10-10
HISTORICAL AND PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE

We have already given in our columns the mani
festo addressed by Gen. GIDEON J. PILLOW to the
People of Tennessee in offering himself as candi-
date for election to a seat in the United States
Senate, together with the letters in denial or expa-
nation of its statements and allegations drawn forth
from Gen E. A. HITCHCOCK, Lieutenant-G General
ScoTT, and Ex-President TYLER. Having thus
nacsd before our readers the papers which initiated
III Neald seem incumbent on us to
Insertion of the communications ad-
s1s public 1 the respective parties who
connected with the history of our late war with
Mexico; for, notwithstanding the discussion ap-
pears to involve more of personality than perhaps
was necessary to full exposition of the merits of
the question as apprehended by either party, yet
the statements respectively made proceed from gen.
tlemen of digni6ed position, and who as such may
seem to claim natural audience from the public to
which they make appeal. That public, it is to be
presumed, will not find it difficult to eliminate the
real points at issue from the mass of personal i'm
putations with which they are complicated by the
respective disputants.
The controversy started by the manifesto of Gen.
Pillow (Which, as it viii be remembered, was
ostensibly designed by the writer to state the
grounds on which he based his candidacy for the
United States Senate) seems to have quite overaid
in the public mind the original purpose of that do
cument, which it is only true to say, considered
merely as an electoneering address, was almost as
singular in character as it was startling in state
ment If, however, this diversion of popular inte-
rest from the primary intent of the paper may tend
to give it an Importance not originally contemplated
by the author, he may yet enjoy the satisfaction of
having contributed somewhat to the "secret his
tory" of the times and events in question, while
the public will have gained during this /" dry sea-
sea" when party warfare is almost wholly sus-
pended, some relief from the ennui of the present
political calm. Even such of our own readers as
may have been sometimes tempted to reproach the
1nteliigencer for dearth of what the I" sensation
press and penny papers are wont to term "spicy
reading" will find it is hoped in the documents we
give to-day, quantum sufficient to atone for much
former derehetion of ours on that score.
Weekly national intelligencer., 1857-10-10

EARTHoUAKE IN PERU.-On the 20th-ultimo severe
shock of earthquake took place in Peru by which the
city of Puira suffered severely. private letter, re-
ceived by gentleman in this city from thence, dated
August 3oth, says:
"At o'clock the morning of the Goth the most Sc
we're shock of earthquake remembered felt
here, which had done damage the of $500 000
The shock lasted about minute and forty five seconds
and every house in the has suffered more or less
The police have had hundred and twenty-five houses
taken down that in dangerous state, and
Der of the churches have been completely destroyed
The damage done is estimated at 100000 The river
Pura which had been dry suddenly in other places
the ground opened and jets of darkcoored water
elected There is record of any similar phenomena
having taken place At Paita the effects of the earth
quake were less severely felt
Weekly national intelligencer., 1857-10-10

FROM NEBRASKA AND SALT LAKE.-A telegram from
ST. Louis announces the arrival there from Nebraska
Territory of Mr. Denver Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Pawnee Indians at Table Creek which treaty was COM
pleted on the Oath ultimo.
The despatch also says that the Lexington (Mo) Ex-
press announces the arrival of Capt Russell from Salt
Lake. who reports that the Mcrmons had fortified Fort
Bridges with the declared intention of holding against
the troops of the United States and the depredaions
were still committed by the Cheyenne Indians.
Weekly national intelligencer., 1857-10-10

INDIANA CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATIoN-Teo vacancies
have occurred by death in the Indiana Congressional
delegation during the present yearly the death of
the Hon. JAMES LoeKHART in the first district and of
Hon. SAMUEL BRENToN in the tenth. These vacancies
to be filled at the election to be held on the 18th in
slant In the tenth district the Republicans have in the
field CHARLES CASE, and the Democrats Judge WoRDES
No nominations have yet been made in the first district
in which at the last election Mr. Lockhart (Dem had
majority of no votes In the tenth district Mr. Bren
ton (Rep.) had majority of 10 votes
Weekly national intelligencer., 1857-10-10

THE MINT.-There deposited at the mint of Phi
ladelphia during the month of September, in gold,
$1,352470 and of silver bullion and Mexican coin
$473 400; total deposites of coin for the month"; ncud
ing old cents exchanged for new The coin
age for the time $685. O40 in double eagles,
237, 600 in quarter dollars, and two millions four hun
dred and forty cents in all of the value of 81
Weekly national intelligencer., 1857-10-10

IMPORTANT TO A MAN WITH AN INSURED LIFE WHICH
ENDS ON SuNDAY-In the Superior Court of Massachu-
setts Suffolk county in suit between John Ham,
mond and the American MutualLfe Insurance Company,
the following points were decided:
Where the premium policy of life insurance is
made payable quarterly in advance on or before noon
of the first day of each quarter and the policy is to be
void if the premium shall not be paid and the first day
of quarter falls on Sunday, the premium is not due
and payable until the next day at noon
Where person insured dies on the afternoon of
Sunday, which was the first day of quarter, without
having paid the premium for the opening quarter the
insurers are LIABLE"
Weekly national intelligencer., 1857-10-10

GRApEs-Dr. Durfee, Of Fall river. (Mass.) has in
his greenhouse bunch of grapes estimated to weigh
fifteen pounds and measuring four feet five inches in
length
By-the-way we have mentioned to several friends the
fact that in the grapery of Capt Lyons, of CO.
umbia bunch of grapes of the Palestine variety,
suring twenty inches long, and almost laughed
at But Maj Perry saw few weeks since, in the same
place bunch twenty inches long Modern ira
veers speak of punches of these grapes in their native
locality as growing in immense clusters and six feet
long Spartansbrg Spartan.
Weekly national intelligencer., 1857-10-10

GOVERNMENTAL PREsENTATIoN.-Mr. DAWSON the
agent authorized by the passengers the steamship
Illinois to procure and present. in their name sets Of
plate to Signor Don EDwARDo RovERA Commander of
the Spanish steamer "Lezo," and to Sgnor Don JUAN
BAsrIsrA ToPorE, Lieutenant in the Spanish Navy for
their bravery in rescuing the passengers of the Illinois
when Colorado Reef has written to Washington to
the Spanish Government for the This
will add dignity 70 the gift and perhaps secure the cd
vsncement Of the donees.-New York Sun,
Weekly national intelligencer., 1857-10-10
TcoMMUNIcATED.1

Observatory, Washington, October 5, 1851
SIR: A new Asteroid was discovered here last night
by Mr.. FERGUSON, with the large equatorial The fol-
lowing its observed place last night at 10h 2lm "a As
NJ. T. W. A. R. Oh 57m. 294s. Dec 80 So 37.31U N.
The daily motion is in A. R. 52s retrograde and in
Dec. = 81 54u 1t is of about the 11th magnitude.
Respectfully, sc. M. F. MAURY,
Lieutenant u. 8. Navy
Hon. l. ToUCEY,
Secretary of the Navy, Washington.
Weekly national intelligencer., 1857-10-10

Low PRICE OF WHEAT IN IowA.-The Iowa City Re-
publican states that farmers offering wheat in that
city for forty cents bushe and cannot find purchasers
The Republican adds: The state of facts is re-
ported Of the Muscatne and other river markets. and in
deed may say Of the markets generally of the State
Weekly national intelligencer., 1857-10-10
WEEKLY NATIONAL rsrE111cEscER.
BY GALES & SEATON.

The subscription price Of this paper for year is
Two DOLLARS, payable in advance.
reduction of 20 per cent one fifth of the full charge)
Will be made to any who shall order and pay for
one time ten copies of the Weekly paper and reduc-
tlon OF 70 per cent or onefourh of the full charge
to any one who win order and pay for, at one time,
twenty or more copies.
No accounts being kept for this paper it will not be
sent to unless paid for advance any longer
than the time for which it is paid
Weekly national intelligencer., 1857-10-10

The EMPEROR RUSSIA AND Mr. CoLT.-The EN-
peror of Russia and Mr. SAMUEL COR, inventor of the
revolving pistol having misunderstanding in relation
to the performance of contract agreed to submit all
matters In controversy to Adjuant General Cooper,
United States army George s. Hiard Esq., of Boston,
and Hon Loren P. Waldo of the Connecticut Supreme
Court, who hearing the case in Hartford-States
Weekly national intelligencer., 1857-10-10

PROFITABLE BUsNEss.-About the best thing, it
would seem, that do in these times in the way
of providing for his family would be to get killed on
railroad taking pains, however to choose one which
still remains solvent. We observe that widow in Mas
sachnsetts the other day recovered $4,000 damages
against the Worcester railroad for having killed her
buahand
Weekly national intelligencer., 1857-10-10

THE CHARLESTON BANKs.-The Charleston
Mercury of Thursday says
"We authorized to state that conference was
held yesterday afternoon by the Presidents of all the
Banks of this city, and that resolution to continue
Gle payments was unanimously adopted"
Weekly national intelligencer., 1857-10-10

The population of Milwaukee, according to census
just completed, numbers A 542 In 1850 it had only
20061 inhabitans showing increase in seven years.
of "a, ,481.
Weekly national intelligencer., 1857-10-10

PLENTY OF BUTTER AND CHEEsE.-A correspondent of
the New York Journal of Commerce at Palmyra, New
York. writes that the people of that city need indulge
apprehension of any scarcity of dairy food such as cheese
butter the quantity of these articles produced the
present in the great dairy counties of the State
exceeds that of any previous year by about onehird
He estimates that in the counties referred to- there have
been made least 900 frkins butter than ever
before in one season.
Weekly national intelligencer., 1857-10-10
the Navy, Washingto
COAST SURVEY,

From the printed directions in regard to the operations
of the Coast Survey for the years 1857 and 1853 it
pears that extensive preparations have been made for the
continuance of the great work. This includes primary
and main tranguations and astronomical and magnetic
observations and reconnaissance Within the scope Of
operations are the State of Maine eastward and north
ward the Chesapeake North Carolina the coast OF
South Carolina and Georgia. Florida Keys; Mississippi
sound Atchafalaya bay and approaches the coast Of
Texas the coast of California the coast of Oregon and
Washington Territories; and the trianguation for
Meeting the islands of Santa Barbara channel with the
coast.
Also, to be continued the collection of data for
tanning the difference of longitude between wel-deter-
mined European observatories and points upon coast
the observations for differences of longitude by the elec
tro-magnetic telegraph the investigation for longtudes,
and the computations of the chronometer expedition
for difference of longitude between Cambridge and
Liverpool
Secondary and other triangulations and observations
connected with the aforementioned work. and in
clude typographical and photographic operations.
The drawing of charts and sketches is to be continued
The number of them is nearly sixty Upward of one
hundred charts and sketches will be- or now are in the
hands of the engravers.
In connexion with the Office are electrotyping and
printing operations requiring in all of its departments,
gentlemen of profound science artists mechanics clerks
and various persons in subordinate capacities Union
Weekly national intelligencer., 1857-10-10

"SoME PUMPKIss"-The editor of the Suffolk (va)
Sun tells of gigantic pumpkin brought to his Office by
Mr. Joseph Ecy of the Isle of Wight, measuring Ave
feet four inches in circumference FIVE feet eight inches
in length, and weighing ninety-four pounds.
Weekly national intelligencer., 1857-10-10

The Rockford Qlinois) Register puts in claim for
Winnebago the banner wheatgrowing county in the
State. One township alone raises 10000 bushels. 1t
s estimated that 600 Of wheat were put in in
that county producing at the least calculation 900
bushels -
Weekly national intelligencer., 1857-10-10

MINNEsoTA.-0n the 18th of this month the citizens
of Minnesota Will choose Governor, Lieutenant Gov
ernor, Secretary of State, State Auditor, State
Treasurer Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and
two associate Justices thereof Attorney General
Clerk of the Supreme Court three Representatives in
Congress- and Delegate to until the State is
admitted into the Union.
The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1857-10-24
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Al, YES. remember that name with delight
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woes,
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From he Ns.as tuan aai AmeaeaH.
PILLOWS REPLY 10 1hE FoBt-
GOING



NraRy CopNey. sept -, 1857
In my recent address tp .he people 81,
.eunessse, giving the secret history Of tho
Pnebla negotiations with ths reisUor
bore To the Government. and 90 the IRE,
n SCION" aua the part psr,umsd 30 de
fsatpg those negotiations, was careful %
avoid every lh.us Of a peraonel or parry
character.
I made /. simple statement OF iae's, aud
referred 70 the war o.iiee 1t Washington,
who're the proof Of those lsc's weeld be
found.
sn,ieips,,d ,hsl ,he-o disclosure,
would start On alfesh the whole pack OF
blood hounds who have pursued me with 50
much iereoncss ever since entered tho
army.
=. A. Hitchcock. who ,iEus himself
" Acting Inspector General Of the army IN
Mexico. and late Rr.vet Brigad.oT drnev-
al d" is the fgst to open tbs cry upon the
new scent. aud forthwith II. -dtloFIa. pack
Prentice, Grs~lsy X Co, chime IN and cry
on.
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uutts itfnilihf 10 va" ilupstN FAf, H"N 80" -
out terror. even to the faiaf hsaried. hni
ihi. man Hitchcock, who think, to give
himself charsctsr and consequence before
the county by setting forth the position
he occupied, and The length o. time be had
been ia the army. Is no. 40 well known,
and therefore L may not be Improper to
give him some further noice.
when tho war with Mexico broke out,
hs wa. l.ieutensnt,C Colonel IN the line, and
in command OF tbs Bed Infantry, AS fne a
Regiment IS The ssmy could boss' OIL
While this regimen, was In the field. march
ing sgains. Tho enemy, to cut rs way 70
honor aud glory, its commander, toi
Hitchcock, gave up the command, and
crarenlg skuihed from this post OF danger
aud honor for the nominal position OF act
ing Inspector General. ia Gen. Scots
staff. where al bis associates were hiea'
tenants, and whore he was iaF removed
from danger With thr soldier, III. post
Of dasxey is the poet Of Aosor.
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