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The Riots at Belfast.

The telegraphic synopsis of the EurOpa's
news had brief referance to certain serious
riots in Belfast, Ireland, but said nothing
about the "cause" of them. Our files make
good the omission. 1t was the old feud between
Roman Catholics and Orangemen. 1t broke
out on a Sunday afternoon. on the occasion
of the burial of a woman. the daughter of a
member of the Roman Catholic Gun Club.
The .'mourners" seemed to have walked in
procession, and some of them carried green
boughs an emblem of offense to the Protest
ants, of course. Somebody fired a stone, and
fight commenced on grand scale, lasting
nearly an hour. For forty minutes this
battle ragged with terrible vigor. Stones fell
as thick as hail in the midst of the rioters:
men fell as if struck by a gun-shot, and wo-
men too. for the SOFTER sex, if the term is
applicable here, were among the most promi-
nent leaders on both sides. In fact the wo-
men superintended the ammunition depart
ment of the respective parties. The rest
is described by the Belfast. Northern Wing:
.sAt one time the Roman Catholic body
retreated; at another period of the contest the
Orange party gave way with all the stratagem
and maneuvreing of a military campaign, for
the purpose of entangling their foe. Once the
Orange party appeared as if defeated, in order
that the Roman Catholics might pursue them
over the wall which divided them, taking
care to leave some sharp stOne-throwers in
ambuscade, ready TO pick down any one who
had the daring to mount the dreaded wall.
This contest lasted for about half an hour,
when the combatants determined to close
quarters The Roman Catholics, as we have
mentioned. were well armed with bludgeons
In moments time they rushed at the
Orange party with their cudgels, and hand
to hand fight eHsued. The Orange brigade
having wrested some of the sticks from their
opponents, both sides were about equally
matched. For short period the scene which
occurred almost battles description. Broken
heads and bloody noses were the order of the
fight. Several men fell down senscless, and
were carried off in that condition, to be
replaced by more able combatants. During
all this time not a member of the constabua-
nv, not a local nor soldier were near the
spot"
We learn from other sources that the war
was resumed on the following wednesday with
increased violence. The rioters visited the
more populous parts of the town. Several
places of worship of different denominations,
and private houses were attacked and a con-
siderable amount of property destroyed.
These disturbances were of so alarming a
character as to attract the attention OF
Parliament Union and AnleTicdn.
This is the description of men that precipi-
tate mobs and riots in this country The
mothers train them to it, and when they
come to this side the water they embrace the
earliest opportunities to act up to their train
ing
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Government Expenditures.

WASHINGTON, June 10, 1858.
In order to break the force of the expo
sures Of extravaganza and expenditures un>
der the present Administration, The Union
publishes what processes TO be "A statement Of
the appropriations made at the late Session
for the ensuing fiscal year, fixing the aggre-
gate at 100000. Now, while this is pretty
fair sum in itself for the economical Demo-
cratic concern, yet il does not represent the
whole truth. This statement was not made
mp from the appropriations as they passed
Congress-for they cannot be analysed cor
rectly for weeks 10 come-hut from partzan
speech delivered by Mr.. Letcher. TO counteract
the damaging figures presented by Mr.. Sher-
man, of Ohio. Ii shall be my duty. at no dis
tant day, TO collect the precise dollars and
cents from the bills voted by this Democratic
Congress and present them to the country for
its edIiication. Then shall see, not by
speculaiions aud eonjectnres, but by ofiic al
data, how the account stands. la the mean
time. il would be more becoming in TAe
Lilion To furnish the pnblic with some better
authority than stump speech for is bold as
sertions.
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From The Vichsba1y Sur.

Il
We learn, from planter in Bolivar county,
some reliable information concerning the i'm
mense losses sustained by our planting friends
on the river. In the previous great deluge, in
April, 1--WE adopt his language,) the river was
higher at Prentiss than IL has been since 1928
caused by the extreme height of the water
in the Arkansas and White rivers-which
banked up to an alarming extent-but the
leVees stood without a single break. except
one at Shotard's. We then thought ourselves
secure from the June rise, which we would
have been had we have had system of police
to guard the levees during the high wafer
But, in this, our Levee Commissioners have
been calamitously negligent There is large
amount of cypress timber cut in the back
swamps, which has been hung there for four
or hve years, awaiting some such opportunity
as the present has afforded, and there is no
doubt but that the raftsmen have taken adj
vantage OF our unguarded levees, and for the
sake OF beneitting themselves few thousand
dollars, have destroyed millions of property,
In the way of cotton, corn and stock. The
crevasse at Miles McGehee's, destroyed at the
least estimate $4,000 bales of cotton. The
break at Gen. Clarkes overhows a vast
amount of country, destroying 10000 bales,
and the break at Col. Galloway's will do an
immense amount of damage both in the cOun
ties of Bolivar and Washington.
NO one who has never been an eye witness
can have any idea of the great distress, be-
sides losses, that results from an overflow
To see the fine crops destroyed in an hour,
which have taken the labor of months to make,
to have your stock floating around on RATS,
dying for the want of forage-to have your
negroes eooped up in the lofts of cabins and
gin-houses-to see the honest profits of years
destroyed. is enervating to the energy, and
falls heavily upon the shoulders of the Levee
Commissioners, upon whom the responsibility
chiefly rests.
We want a regular system of police upon
our levees, TO protect ourselves from the ras-
cally raftsmen who infest our back swamps.
There is not a single planter in Bolivar who
would not serve in turns himself or pay
tax to support guards during the high water.
We believe it is in the power of the Levee
Commissioners to appoint guards-but this
they neglected. Witness the result Millions
destroyed-some families rendered destitute
and an incalculabe amount of distress
Had we guards. if a crevasse occurred in the
night, instead of its running all night, and by
morning getting beyond all hopes of being
closed, it would be discovered by the guards,
when it could be stopped. When the county
officers attempt again to economist, let them
not attempt to save one dollar for the county
when millions are at issue. Had our levees
been guarded, Bolivar county would have been
dry to-day. We have the best protected county
in the State, and the best set of levee men as
citizens.
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COaXin0 Douglas.

The Washington correspondent of the
PennsyiUanidR says:
The speech on Tuesday, in relation to the
late Democratic Convention in Illinois, is
taken as another step, on his part. back
toward the Democratic fold. The Kansas
embroglio having been settled by a'Bill upon
which both the Lecompton and Anti-Lecomp-
ton Democrats united, it was reasonably ex-
pected that. if Mr.. Douglas really was honest
in his purposes, he would henceforth let ''by
cones" be bygones and instead of continuing
TO oppose the Democratic Administration.
use his best influence towards healing the
ascerbties his late action produced.
IF Senator Douglas will hut carry out his
views in his contemplated canvass of Illinois,
l have no doubt all the disatfectiOn now ex-
listing among the Democracy Of that State
may be healed. and handsome triumph ac-
cOmplished next fall. -
This is in q very different style from the
six months assaults upon Senator Douglas.
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Tho Tahncco InIereAI.

The following letter from member of Con-
gress, from Maryland to the Editors of the
National ntelligaaoer, calls the attention Of to-
bacco growers to a subject of much import
an ;e to their interests:
10 The Editors Of the Hu1lligenoe::
HOUSE, % REPRESENTATIVES,
June l2th, 1888.
GENTLEMEN BY the terms of the Reel
procity Treaty with Great Britain of June
9TH 1854, the article OF ''unmanufactured to-
bacco or in other words, Tobacco ui the leaf is
admitted free Of duty into her ''Britsh North
American Provinces" The first section of
the treaty defines what is meant by the words
"British North American Provinces" and
confines this Limitation to Canada, New
Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edwards, and
the several islands thereunto adjacent"
By the third article of this treaty it is pro-
yided "that the articles enumerated in the
schedule hereunto annexed, being the growth
and produce OF the aforesaid British colonies,
ar of the Jniied States, shall be admitted into
each country respectively free Of duty
without commenting the various articles
of production included in the said schedule,
il is SUFFICIENT for my present purposes To say
tina. "unmanufactured' or leaf tobacco is in-
cluded. AS the ease now stands. according to
the provisions OF this treaty, tobacco growers
and tobacco merchants can export TO the
British North American Colonies, containing
a population Of more than three millions Of
people, manufactured or leaf tobacco, free
Of duly What is TO prevent the capitalists of
these colonies investing their capital in Hla''-
,sfacfured toddoco, the growth OF the United
states, and then converting the same, by the
application Of their own labor, into the IMAM
ufactured FORM" and exporting the same To
Great Britain, the mother country, on the
same terms that all other colonial productions
..of labor are now exported from there colo
mics! Here Is rich harvest for the profitable
. investment Of capital, il am right that they
! would have these privileges.
The excessive duties on tobacco now im-
posed by Great Britain. when exported direct
" from the United States, would thus be
avoided, and the tobacco trade Of the United
States relieved la great measure from the
i1unjust aud oppressive restrictions now i'm
posed by the cupidity Of foreign Govern
m nts. 1 have thrown out these reflections
Nj npIy to call the attention OF the tobacco
| I ade to the subject, and would be pleased to
|. ar your views on the subject
Very respectfully.
Your obedient servant,
Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-06-26

Three and twenty years have passed since
entered upon my present relations with the
public They began when i was SO young
| that lind them to have existed for nearly a
quarter of century.
Through all that time have tried to be as
faithful to the public as they have been TO me.
1t was my duty never to trife with them or
to deceive them, or to presume upon their
favor, or do any thing with it but work hard
and justify IT, l have always underworld to
discharge that duty.
My conspicuous position has often made
me the subject of fabulous stories and unac-
cOuntable statements Occasionally such
things have chafed me. or even wounded me,
but l have always accepted them as the
shadows inseparable from the light OF my
notoriety and success. / have never obtruded
any such personal uneasiness of mine upon
! the generous aggregate of my audience.
For the first time in my life, and believe
for the last. i now deviate from the principle
l have so long observed, by presenting myself
in my own journal in my own private charac-
ter, and entreating all my brethren (as they
deem that they have reason to think well of
me, and to know that l am man who has
ever been unaffectedly true to our common
calling) to lend their aid to the dissemination
of my present words.
Some domestic trouble of mine of long
standing, on which | will make no further re-
mark than that it claims to be respected as
being of sacredly private nature, has lately
been brought to arrangement which in
wolves no anger or ill-will of any kind. and
the whole origin, progress and surrounding
circumstances of which have been through
out within the knowledge of my children.
1t is amicably composed, and its details have
but now 10 be forgotten by those concerned
in it.
By some means, arising out of wickedness,
or out of folly, or out of uncomfortable wild
chance, or out of all three, this tronble has
been made the occasion of misrepresentation
most grossly false, most monstrous and most
cruel-involving not only me, but innocent
persons dear to my heart and innocent per-
sons of whom l have no knowledge, if, indeed,
they have any existence-and so widely
spread that doubt if one reader in thou
sand will peruse these lines by whom some
touch of the breath of these ISLANDERS will not
have passed like an uuwholesome air.
Those who know me and my nature need
no assurance under my hand that such calum-
MES are as irreconcilable with me as they are
IN this frantic incoherence, with one another.
Butthere is great multitude who know me
through my writings, and who do not know
Inc otherwise: and | cannot bear that one of
them should be left in doubt, or hazard of
doubt, through my poorly shrinking from TAX
ing the unusual means to which l now resort
of circulating the truth.
| most sOlemnly declare then-and this |
do both in my own name and my wife's-that
all the lately whispered rumOrs touching the
trouble at which have glanced are abOmlna-
bly, false, and that whoever repeats one of
them after this denial will lie as wilfully and
as foully as it is possible for any false-witness
to lie before Heaven aud earth.
CHARLES DICKENS.
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wha, &, 4. doing for the sick.

WIN sohuohman, ESQ, the well known Lthograph-
er, says Il have frequently used BSrrhAve's Holland
B.ters and hna IL Invariably relieves Indigestion and
dehlty !"
Rev Samuel habeock, ssys II found special relief
from IL use, Tor severe headache. with which hAd
long suffered. "
J. w WOodWel, Esl. says. Il have ussd BsrrhAve's
Holland Hltt.rs myself, and recommended q others
kncwtng u q be jask what Il - represented. -
Az. jonathan Nicely, cf Lower a Clair, avs II
have derived great benefit from is Tor weakness
Of the stomach and indigestion"
James 81 Marphy, says: "Alter several phyzictans
had faded, BeEftave's Holland Bstters removed the
pain from my heArt and SIDE, arising from aaigost
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The ssNew Party,' Movement In Della


On the 10th of this month"; a mass meeting
of the opposition to the sham democracy wal
held at Dover, in Delaware. The meeting
was large. and each of the several counties in
the State represented. Ex-senator SPRUANCE
presided, assisted by j. NJ. BARR. as Secretary
The following platform was adopted
That the name of the party be THE PEOPLE s
PARTY" That its principles be:
That the citizens of the Territories be allow
ed to settle their own institutions and their
own forms of government.
That the constitution OF every new State
be submitted to the people for ratification or
rejection before being accepted by Congress
That tariff for revenue be laid with incl
dental protection 10 home industry.
That when the revenue OF the Government
exceeds the expenditure, such excess as may
be derived from the sale of the public lands
shall be divided among the States, both old as
we'll as new.
That the importation of foreign criminals
and paupers be prohibited.
One of the principal actors in this meeting
was SAMI. TOWNSEND leading democrat, who
has for years past been prominent in the coun-
ellis of the party. The Memphis Appeal of the
23d inst, says of the PLATFORM
"There is nothing in it that smacks OF Re
publicanism.' but, on the contrary, it is pro-
vided in the platform that the citizens OF the
Territories be- allowed to settle their own in
situations and their own forms of government,
which is in contradiction to the old theory of
the Republicans that it should be done by
Congress, without regard TO their wishes The
Americans and such Old-Line Wings as
have never embraced 'Republicanism,' are at
the bottom of this Peoples party movement
slthou6 h it is evidently favored by consi-
derable section of the Republicans who are
becoming tired of the negro issue, and imagine
that the new organization affords better
prospect of success The Republican lead
ers. such as Chase, Seward Co. knowing
that their political prestige will be destroyed
if the Republican party is merged in the
Peoples organization, will desperately op-
pose it, and will seek to make the former par
ty devour the latter"
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Important Information.

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coAnoNA County. Miss.-A correspondent

coAnoMA COUNTY. Miss.--A correspondent
of the Memphis Edgie a'd Enquirer says;
have lately returned from visit TO Goa
homa county, and know something of the
state of affairs there. The ereuas~ Of which
50 much has been said, is in levee only three
feet high. and Of course can do bat little
damage. The waters run into the Nazoo
Pass and will be carried OF without over
flowing any considerable rxtent OF country.
Instead OF Coahoma county being flooded,
but few plantations are injured, and they al
most entirely from back water from the break
In Lewis's swamp levee.
There IL nothing like general overflow in
the county. and indeed, except the small In
convenieace which one experiences la crossing
the low bottoms, no Que would thiHk that the
water IL much higher than usual. The front
fsvee Is nearly all in good eond lion, and can
stand eight or ten inches mere water.
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Ge- The Knoxville Register says the new
branch of the State Bank has not yet gone
into operation there, but it learns that the
officers have been at work recently filling up
and signing notes, and making ready for
opening at an early day.
A new building near the post-Office has been
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The Memphis people are wondering when
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