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FROM CAPTAIN POPE'S EXPEDITION.
Correspondence Of tho Austin (re1as) Intolgoncer

Correspondence Of the Austin (rexas) nteligonccr
CAMP ON THE PEcos Aug 21-The order to t'pack up
has just been issued and the mote Of preparation hath
already sounded. We leave here on Monday morning,
and have just time enough at my disposal to tell you
expect no moro letters from dated the Pecos. am
almost sorry leaving here. have formed sort
Of affection for this turbid sinuous stream whose
banks have shvered and swetced during the colds and
heats Of the last four years. and my regret not lessened
by the consideration that abors far have been de-
void of success.
believe it is now pretty well understood that the
completion Of well in this plain would cost than
Congress could be reasonably expected appropriate and
it would not be carrying out the intentions of that body
when voting the appropriation of hundred thousand
dollars to expend oil that at particular point to
the total neglect of Others not less important
The geological structure of this plain is singular one
presenting features widely different from anything here
toore known The greater the depth to which we pene-
trate the greater and outre become the difficulties
In our progress At the depth to which have attained
$50 feet the formation just as soft, rotten, and
crumbng at the surface and tubing Is still necessary
below in order to prevent the soft strata from falling in
But this tubing find impossible to get down with our
present apparatus and the tubing which have is not
the kind for this work But you may ask, why not pro-
cure the suitable apparatus and tubing All, there
the rub T. The cost Of transportation alone for the
say material would exhaust the portion of the appro-
pration not hitherto expended and present ma
tea is perfectly available for the works at other points
II surely more prudent and economical to transfer to
some Of them apparatus and men, and COM
operations elsewhere with better prospects OF
success.
believe Galsteo will be our next eneampment, as
we'll is much needed somewhere in that vicinity
Although we are compelled to abandon this work un-
finished, am sangune in my hopes of being able
TO accomplish the greater part of the object for which
appropriation granted Our difficulties, physical and
mechanical will be much less the Rio Grande than
here for besides the different geological structure to be
penetrated iron and machinery will be longer de-
voured by the corrosive acids of the Pecos waters
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INTERESTING FROM THE NAVAJO COUNTRY
[from the States, Oct. NH


The Commissioner of Indian Affairs has received very
interesting dispatches under date of September g. Fort
Defiance N M, from Agent Yos giving details of
we're engagement which took place between Capt. Me-
Leans command and body of Navajo Indians, at Bear
Spring, on the 23d Of August
Capt. McLeans force consisted of twelve AT
Curero he joined by Capt Ba Luceros and his com
pany of fifty Mexicans
On arriving at Bear Spring, large number Of Nava-
joes discovered Capt Mclean, from certain infor
nation he had received and from the fact that express
had been despatched from Fort Defiance after the ten
days allowed the surrender of the murderer of Major
Brooks negro had expired deemed it his duty to i'm
mediately punish the Indians. -Four of his men and
twenty Mexicans were detailed for the attack.
Bear Spring is approached from the road by valley
200 yards wde either side and in front of which
are high hills covered with timber. AS the party APP
preached the Indians delivered volley OF gave
the -whoop, and invited engagement As the fight
became general Capt Mclean ordered four of his
dismount and with himself at the head led them
to the attack telling the Indians at distance of 400
yards with great accuracy.
The Indians then made for the timber. From this
shelter a shot was fired which wounded Capt. Mclean
very severely but not fatally The fight lasted ten
or fifteen minutes. The Mexcans fought we'll One Ma
vao Indian rs ponies and several blankets taken
1t is not known how many Indians killedprobably
eight ten. Capt McLeans party then pushed on and
took him to Fort Defiance.
Agent Yost is satisfied that the Nayaoes will not give
up the murderer Of Major Brookss negro and that they
are determined to persevere in hostes. Col Miller
rived at Fort Defiance the 9th, and had resolved
commencing operations against the Indians Immediately
1t thought that protracted contest would follow
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PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Rev. Il. c. MCGUIRE d. d. rector of the Protestant
Episcopal church in Fredericksburg, Va, for forty fve
years past died very unexpectedly at his residence in
that city Friday last He attacked with apoplexy
about 10, M and breathed his last at clock in the
afternoon.
The next meeting of the Pennsylvania Editorial Union
will be held in Philadelphia on Wednesday, the 30th OF
October
G. w. Bradley, esq, who has been attached to the
United States legation to China arrived in this city yes
terday morning the bearer Of the treaty with China
recently negotiated by Mr. Reed. The treaty duly
presented at the Department of State yesterday.
Commodore Shubrck left Washington yesterday morn
ing for New York. He will probably sail for Buenos
Ayres in the frigate Sabine on Wednesday morning.
The family of Postmaster General Brown will leave
here to-day on brief visit to Philadelphia They will
be accompanied by Dr. W. s. McNairy, Of the Navy De-
partment.
Gov. Thomas Brown, of Florida, Is In this city at
Browns Hotel.
Col Albert G. Ramsey is at the National.
Dr. James b. Smith and Edward Ingraham United
States army, are at the Kirkwood House.
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Mr.. HENRr czAr DEAgs SPEECH


tFrom the BOrDgtOn Iowa, Gazette, October 81
The speech of Mr. Henry Clay Dean, at Marion Hall
Friday night last, Of the most brilliant and
intellectual efforts TO which have listened The
hall crowded 20 its utmost capacity, and for full two
hours the eloquent speaker held his immense audience
II spellbound The speech admirably arranged, its
subject matter ably handled and its delivery highly inn
pressve Statesmanlike in its views sound in principle
and full of wit and SATIRE it also abounded in passages Of
stirrng eloquence which went home 10 the minds
and hearts of all whose fortune it be listeners
Such speech wherever delivered, cannot be without
telling effect in behalf Of the great OF democracy
a cause which Mr. Dean esp with an honest zeal and
champions with most marked To talents of
the highest order popular orator he adds all the zeal
Of conscientious CONVICTIONS and 10 his mission
with will and power which carries everything before
him For comprehensyeness Of view, richness of Ian
guage aptness of illustration aud power and effect Of de-
livery he stands popular speaker second to man
in State If second to any speaker In the West Our
only regret is that he cannot be heard in every school
district in the State before the close of the pending
AS it is glad to learn that the people Of
Fort Madison, Keokuk, Keosauqua, Bloomfield, Fairfield
Mt Pleasant and Wapello will have the pleasure Of
hearing him. il being his purpose to be present at those
places in company with Hon. ii. H. Trimble our worthy
democratic nominee for Congress We safely prom
ise those people rich intellectual treat and rare skim
ming OF black republicanism.
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POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE.

meeting of the democracy Of Boston arranged to
be held last evening in Faneul Hail. which would be
addressed by the Hon. Jefferson Davis.
grand mass-meetng of the democracy of New Jersey
held at Newark the evening of the 9Th inst Gen.
John S. Darcy presided The meeting addressed by
Daniel Holsman of Bergen, Judge Mar of Trenton,
Thomas Jones and Mr.. Lester of New York, Hon j. r.
Wortendyke, Gen. L. r. v. Wright of Hudson, Mr.
G. H. Winfield Of Jersey City, Gen Walbridge of New
York, ex-Ciov Rodman NJ Price, and Hon. John A.
Soaring.
Richard H. Jackson, esq national democratic candi-
date for Congress in the first district of Illinois, has pub
lshed short address to the democracy of that district
appealing to them to sustain the principles he represents
He says that his Douglas opponent heard of
before democrat having heretofore always opposed
the democratic party
The following is list of the candidates for Congress
In the State of Illinois
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TILE WAFER QUESTION IN WASHINGTON.

We publish this morning the second number of a
series of three articles addressed to the Mayor upon
the question of the introduction Of water into the
city of Washington. They have been prepared by
resident of this city who has given his special
attention to the subject, and they embrace variety
of information of great interest to citizens at this
moment. The present number combines a mass of
statistics concerning the cost of water works in other
cities, the quantity of water supplied by each, and
explains the in which the consumers are as
sessed in the shape of a water tax. We commend il
to the careful attention of readers. The third
number will appear tomorrow.
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The CHINA TREArY---We understand that the new
treaty between the United States and the Celestial
Empire, negotiated by Mr.. Commissioner Reed, has
been received at the Department of State OF course
its terms will not be made public till after the
change of ratifcatons but the reports of the nego
tiations between the British, French, and Russian
governments and the Chinese, and the details given
of the general terms of the conventions with those
countries, go far to disclose the character of that
which the American commissioner has sent home.
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Markets.

New YonK, Oct. l1--Cotton has declined i-saes Of
4,c00 bales Orleans Mddling, Is 5-16 Flour has de-
clinedsales of Il, 500 bills State, 81 60 81 10 !;
Ohio, 81 95 SIS 20; southern, S. S. 40 Wheat has
decinedsales of II 900 bushels red, 81 IL 81 l8
white 81 20 ST IS. Corn is heavysales Of 20. 900
bushels mixed, 40 70 cents white IS cents Pork
is unchanged. lard is quiet at I0s IL cents. Whs-
key quiet at 22 pa cents. Sugar is heavy at 81
"a cents. Moasses is quiet-Orleans, 391 40 cents
Spirits of turpentine is firm at so 81 cents Rice is
dull at 3 a 81 cents new, cents.
BALTIMORE Oct. 1l.--Flour is dull and unchanged
Howard street and Ohio, So 374 So SO City Mills,
S. Wheat is dull and nominally unchangedred, 81 is
a 81 20 white, 81 So 81 40 Corn is firm--white,
80 cents yellow, 81 80 cents, Whiskey is quiet at
90 23} cents Provisions active and tirmerbacon,
a 8 cents bulk meats, 6 a s cents.
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NO CONSTITUTION FROM KANSAS ANOTHER

A long time ago we said TO the country that no
application could be made to the coming Congress to
admit Kansas into the Union. This was promptly
denied by the negro and mulatto journals and we
were warned to be prepared either to approve or
disapprove the proposition for admission at the
ing congressional session. That bible of republican
ism in Kansas the Herald of Freedom now tells us
that no application be submitted till the opening
Of Congress in December, 1859. This authoritative
and semi-ofcial announcement greatly fear, will
disturb the sensitive nerves of those who have prom
ised to vote for admission next winter. Is there no
way by which the pledges made can be redeemed?
Constitutions like buttons, ought to be made by
chinery-that is, the opposition who go in exclu-
svey for the main chance ought not to sickle about
the mere process Of making such instruments. The
honor of great many representatives demands that
they shall be permitted to vote for the admission Of
Kansas next winter. What nonsense it is to think
for moment of the people of Kansas when the
pledges OF their keepers are at stakel ... .
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THE TRIBUNE AND CENTRAL-AMERICAN AT
FAIRS

The Tribune asserts that Gen. Cass has always
been remarkable for preserving his gravity and dig
nifty. We are sorry, indeed, we cannot say as much
Of Mr. Greeley. He is hard to please. lie was bit
tery opposed to fllibusterism Mr.. Buchanan crush
ed out that divinity of demagogues and restored to
Nicaragua the supremacy Of law. The latter power
was in helpless disorder and confusion. The Tribune
would now convey the impression that the American
government was responsible for the conduct of Wal
ker and his marauding associates and fix the respon
sibility upon Mr. Buchanan for their acts in Nicara
qua. President Martinez was no sooner relieved Of
Walker than he sought the aid of European powers,
nlanguage most insulting to this government to resist
the 1illibusterng policy of the administration which
had, by the exercise of the means in their hands,
driven out the American invaders from Nicaraguan
SOIL Subsequently with an impudence too charac-
teristc of the weak States of Spanish America, the
President of Nicaragua accredited to the President
of the United States public minister The latter
very properly declined to receive this functonary
until ample apologies had been made by the authori-
ty of his government for the grossly unfair and in
sulting language of the latter towards those who had
been chiefly instrumental in putting down in Ncara-
qua the unlawful invaders Of its national urisdistion.
The Tribune finds fault with this conduct Of Gen.
Cass in vindicating the honor Of the United States
aud even goes far as directly to maintain that the
offensive language of President Martinez, which he
utterly disavows through his minister was just and
truthful.
The Tribune manifests strange ignorance in re-
gard to the policy of the American government in
Central America. 1t discusses the question on the
basis of an exclusive interest and claim the part
Of the United States to the occupation and of the
Tshmus passages This is an error, in view Of what
has already been published of General Cass's des-
patch to Mr.. Lamar, which can hardly be recon
ced with upright intentions. We have asserted
no such claim; but, on the contrary, and in the
most explicit manner have denounced erclusfve pre-
tensions, by whomsoever made, as unjust and mad
missibe II is well known that the British govern
ment approved the terms Of the CassIrisarri treaty
and we are convinced that in respect to the general
objects of all nations the routes the 18TH
mus the positions taken by the venerable Secretary
Of State in his letter to Mr.. Lamar will also be ap
proved. We claim to be placed upon footing only
with other States in regard to the nteroceanic com
munication across Nicaragua We do not touch the
question Of individual proprietorshp of the route
We do not pretend to decide whether its immediate
1 management is in English, French, OF American
hands. But all this goes for nothing under the gen
Z eral policy of the Tribune to complain OF and con
denim whatever is done by the United States gov
ernment
tits only few days ago that Mr.. Greeley devoted
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We publish the first page of this mornings paper
the monthly bulletin of the Ladies' Mount Vernon Asso-
citation These ladies continue to display the
thusiasm in this with which they entered upon the
work--an enthusiasm which is to be crowned with
success The Mount Vernon Record, monthly publ
cation is the official organ Of the association. Subscrp
tons are solicited price, 81 per annum.
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An interesting trial for murder is progressing at Pert
land Maine il appears from the evidence that Captain
Holmes, of the ship Therese caused Of his seamen
named Chadwick to be whipped to death for alleged dis
obedience Of orders The cruelty Of Captain Holmes is
represented 10 have been almost unprecedented After
the victim had sunk down from exhaustion the captain
charged him with being lazy, and struck him several
blows and he did not live half hour after receiving
the punishment The captains inhumanity not con-
fined to this man. but distributed among the entire
crew.
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THE ELECTIONS.

To-day elections for members of Congress and various
State officers will be held in Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana,
and Iowa In South Carolina election for members OF
Congress commenced yesterday and will be concluded to-
day The present representatives have no opposition
Mr. Orr having declined reelection his is the only dis
trct In which there is any contest
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THE ARMY AND NAVY.

Anew military post named Fort Qutman, In honor Of
the late General Quitman has been located the San
Diego mail route sixty miles beyond Fort Davis and at
the point where the road first touches the Rio Grande
The posts this route between San Antonio and III Paso
Fort Ingc Fort Hudson, Fort Lancaster Fort Davis
Fort Quitman, and Fort Bliss.
The United States steamer Harriet Lane sailed from
New York Saturday the 9th inst, for Paraguay by
way of st. Thomas
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No nomination has been made by the national demo-
Gratis in the 9th district and it is understood that they
will sustain the election Of J. A. Logan.
Primary meetings have been held in Barbour and Rock
bridge countless Virginia. to select delegates to State
convention, both of which recommended Hon John
Lecher as their first choice for governor AT the Bar
bour county meeting, Staunton suggested as the
place and the LIST of December as the time for holding
the convention
Hon Sherrard Clemens having learned that efforts
being made in his congressional district to get up
vention this fall publishes card to his constituents
fusing to allow his to go before any convention
called prior to the expiration of his term the 4th Of
March next--nor until he have opportunity Of
giving them account of his stewardship He expects
before the close of the next Congress to address them
the subject.
general rally Of the democracy of Philadelphia took
place in Independence Square Saturday night. Nu
merous speeches made and the utmost enthusiasm
prevailed meeting Of the opposition also took place
on the same evening in the same neighborhood
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Keou paper gives distressing account OF things In
Iowa. comparing it's condition that of the doomed city
of Jerusalem They have creditors without and creditors
within every third man Is lawyer, every other man
virtually pauper and all standing In listless and un
profitable ideness except the police and constables
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The Boston Courier, of the best journals in New
England and conducted with marked taste and ability
has commenced the issue of evening edition It Is
contain less political matter and more miscellaneous
reading than the morning paper.
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VIRGINIA FINANCES.

The treasurer of the State of Virginia has transmitted
to Governor Wise statement of the financial operations
Of his department for the fiscal year ending 3Oth Sep
tember 1858 The aggregate balance in tho treasury
on the LIST of October 1857 $37s,s7l 90. credited
to the several funds, as follows
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WASHINGTON CITY.
TUESDAY. OCTOBER az. 1855.


A. M busipsss Of the Union Of the proposed
change terms viii be conducted sreiy on cash basis all
agenes for the subscriptions for he Union are dscon
tnued should be made Agents aor This date
cept Mr. W Iipscomb who authorized 10 make collections
n are. Mary land, and Virginia, sifftt
wAsmsoaox March 2S, lsos--d
rho foregoing notice tonelude colec
tors that Nc now employ heretofore employed In this but
those only performed such service in other parts the
countrv Ap 29-u
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The receipts during the year just closed amounted to
49, 936 o. and the expenditures to 50 1854 900 o.
The balance hand the LIST inst. $l54,007 81
The receipts and disbursements of the several funds are
as follows
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Subjoined is complete list Of the persons admitted to
the Naval School as Acting Midshipmen
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NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
COMPLETE SUCCESS OF THE OVERLAND MALL
ROUTE
Ten Days Later News.

Sr. LOUIS, Oct l0.-The overland California mail ar
rived at clock last night bringing dates TO the 18th
utmo ten days later than the previous adyces via Pan
anna A large number of prominent citizens assembled
at the Pacific Railroad Depot the arrival OF the train
from Jefferson City Col Butterfeld greeted with
hearty welcome and formally received in brief but
highly complimentary speech by John H. Darby, in be-
half Of the citizens Col Buttereld responded In an APP
propate manner returning thanks for the unexpected
demonstration and cordial approval of his abos by the
citizens Of st. Louis The mails escorted to the
post Office by long procession and bands of music
The a-Califonian of the l4th ult., prepared ex
pressy for the overland mail, furnishes the following
The news from Fraser river is unmportant. The
water is still too high for successful mining purposes
Trade at Victoria much depressed Dates from Ore
gon to the Sth Major Garrett has had skirmsh with
the Indians the 0kannagan Lieut. Allen and six In
dams killed party of miners under Major Rob
nson had been attacked by the Indians on the Wasach
and one white man killed. rumor attained credit
at Daes that General Palmers party had been massaced
okannagan Good diggings had been found ON the
Wasatch.
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ACTING MIDsHIPMEN ADMITTED TO THE M VAL
a SCHOOL.
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COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

LIvERrooL, Wednesday, September 29.--The cotton
market for Saturday Monday and Tuesday continued to
be steady and quiet, with prices unchanged Sales
Saturday and Monday IA 900 bales of which spectators
and exporters took 1900 The sales Tuesday were
estimated at 900 bales Flour closed dull and un-
changed Wheat was in moderate demand at slightly
lower for the better grades and secondary and in
ferior qualities had declined Is. Corn dull Mt do
cline of Is Provisions dull and quotations nomi-
nal Rice closed dull. a&a
London Markets Sugars and coffee steady.
Spirits turpentine SO 39s.
Consos 984