The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-10-07
+ MISCELLANEOUS.

genee from Liberia has been received, via Eng
land, to the 18th of August. The news is ia
vorable, and the general progress of improve
ment is as rapid as we could reasonably expec
it to be.
1t is known that the Government of Liberis
has been charged with completely in the affai,
of the French ship Regina Cgli, and her com
pany of free immigrants, or, more properly
speaking, sLaues. Mr.. Coppinger, of the Colo
nization Office in this city, has letters from ex
President Roberts and President Benson, in
which they both express indignation at the I'M
truths of the French in asserting that passport
duty was received for the emigrants on board
of the Regina Cell. Not a penny was taken
for passports, and none (passports) were applied
for, because the passengers ran away from the
ship before Captain Simon could make demand
for them, which could only be done at Monro.
via, where each individual was to be examined,
to ascertain whether he was voluntary or in.
voluntary emigrant. If the latter, then no pass.
port would be granted. But on the capture OF
the Regina Cell, and her being brought into
the port of Monrovia, the passengers all made
their escape, 80 that Captain Simon was not at
the trouble of applying for passports. They
were all shipped at Gallinas River Inlet, 70
north, at nearly the extreme end of the Liberi.
an territory, and they we're composed entirely
of natiUe a fricGns, forced on board suddenly,
clandestiney, and without the knowledge of the
authorities of Liberia. .ee
All the money received from the Regina
CRli was between three and four hundred dol.
lars for tonnage duty ard import duty on mer.
chandizs landed for sale within the Republic
President Benson positively denies that he ever
pressed Captain Simon to get emigrants from
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entirely opposed to this system of emigration,
and he did everything in his power to obstruct
it. PHitadelphiG Inquirer.
MosCow.-No other city in the world presents
so cosmopolitan an aspect. The gilded domes
of Lucknow-the pagodas of China-Byzantine
churches-Grecien temples-palaces in the
style of Versailles heavy inexpensive German
buildings-wooden country cottsges-glaring
American signs-boulevards, gardens, silent
lanes, roaring streets, open markets, Turkish
bazaars, French cafes, German beer.cellars,
and Chinese tea.houses-all of which are found
here, not grouped exclusively into separate can
tons, but mixed and jumbled together, until
Europe and Asia, the past and the present, the
old world and the new, are 30 blended and con-
founded, that it is impossible to say which pre-.
dominates. Another city so bizarre and so
picturesque as Moscow does not exist To
call it Russian would be too narrow q distinc.
ton; it suggests the world. Its position, near
the imaginary line where one continent is mer-
ged into the other, accounts for this. The wa.
ters of the Moskva seek an Asiatic sea, vet it's
nearest ports are those of central Europe. It's
fbres Of commerce branch eastward across the
Tartar steppes to Mongolia and China south
ward to Samarcand and Bokhars, to Cashmere
and Persia; northward to Archangel and The
Polar ocean and on the west, to all the rest
of Europe. The race who founded it came
from the southeast, and brought with them the
minaret and the swelling Oriental dome, the
love of gliding and glaring colors; its relig ion
came from Constantinople, with the Byzantine
pillar and the Greek cross and the founder OF
Russian power learned his trade in the west.
On every one of its thousand spires and domes
gftters the crescent, surmounted by the tri.
umphant cross. At it's southern end, the Tar.
tar muezzin calls to prayer from the roof of his
mosque, while at the northern, the whistle Of
the locomotive announces the departure of the
train for St. Peterburgh.-Bayard Taylor.
The GREAT RIVERS OF THE WORLD-Lieu.
tenant Habersham, in his letters from China,
asserts that the Mississippi river, which we cali
the Father of Waters" is not to be compared
to the ang-tse-Kiang river, to which he applies
the name of the Mother of Waters" In proof
of this, he compares the width and volume of
the two streams. The Mississippi, opposite
New Orleans, is not quite 800 yards wide, with
a mean depth of 100 feet, and a mean velocity
of nearly II miles per hour. Thus a body Of
water miles long, 600 yards wide, and 100
feet thick, is driven into the Gulf of Mexico
every hour. A little more than one hundred
miles from the mouth of the Yang.tse Kisng
1.-THE Son of the Sea- is located the city of Ri.
ang. Yin. The river here is 1000 yards wide
has an average depth Of SO feet, and mean
velocity of two miles per hour. Thus wehave
be remarks, body of water two miles long,
1900 yards wide, and SO feet thick, hourly
urged into the bosom of the Yellow Sea. Com
pare this volume with the first, and it will be
found to be almost double.
Were the length of the great Chinese water.
course only known, the comparison might be
completed but that cannot be until the inie
rior OF China is opened to the world. Its est
mated length ia $500 miles; that of the Missis
sippi is 1920 miles. Lieut.. Habersham est
mates that the waters of the Yang tse- Kiang
carry along In suspension the remarkable GUAM
hty of about 335 per cent. of sedimentary mat
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cubic feet of mud is hourly transported to the sea
by this river. 1t seems quite incredible, but as The
earthly matter discharged by the Yang -tse. Ri
ang colors the waters at its mouth, giving to
them the name of the Yellow Sea, beside form
ing immense fats, the amount must be very
large.
The Yang-tse- Kiang, however, bears no bet
ter comparison with the Amazon, than, accord
ing to Lieut.. Habersham, the Mississippi doe,
to the Chinese river. The Amazon. which /,
the largest river in the world, is l,769 miles il
length in direct line, or, including its wind
ings, nearly 1000 miles; while 400 miles from
the Atlantic it is more than mile in width
and has velocity Of 81 miles per hour. and !,
indictment no bottom is found with 20 fatboms
or 100 feet. This noble river, with its trim
taries, is estimated to afford $4,000 miles fo
inland navigation.
INsINcERE CoNFoRMITY.-"When I was ono
talking," says Winston, with the Lord Chic
Justice King, one brought up among the dis
senters at Exeter, under most religious, Chris
tan, and learned education, we fell into de
bate about signing Articles which we did no
believe, for preferment, which he openly Just
hed, and pleaded Tor it that we must not los
our usefulness for scruples. replied. that
was sorry to hear his Lordship saw 40. and de
sired to know whether in their courts thew a
lowed OF such prevarication or not? He an
swered, they did not allow of it; which produce
this rejoinder from me: Suppose God Almipht
should be as just in the next world as NV Lor
Chief Justice is in this, where are we then /?
10 which be made no answer And to whic
the late Queen Caroline added, when told he
the story, Mr.. Winston, no answer was to b
I made to it, f"
Well might such examples make hone,
Winston think show wisely our blessed Savior
put in that petition into the Lords Praye
| Lead us not into temptation Wen miel
he repeat the lesson, Ersat aula qua pcse ess