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INDIAN ADvICEs.--The Indian Bureau received
on Monday morning, letter from the Commission
ers now surveying the Indian Boundary lines. The
| letter was written Nov, 80, from "near the loOth
meridian W. L., and says:
We have good observatory, and our instruments
all in excellent order. We are likely to winter
at this post it will take fully three months con
stan observations before the accurate initial point
of the Tooth meridian can be identified 1t is an
important boundary and requires great care me
delay incident upon aseertaining the true longitude
originates from lunar observations and it requires
at least two full moons, and probably three, before
! the result can be known with sufficient accuracy
In the mean time, we under the protection OF
Major Van Dorm, an officer of great experience and
merit. He has recently inflicted the severest chas-
tisement upon the Camanches residing on the Cana"
dian river that they have ever received and it was
| punishment they richly merted.
! The gang of Indians, under Red Buffalo
! Hump, have for long time been committing mur-
der and theft the western frontier of Texas ana
recently threatened Fort Arbuckle when that post
was left unprotected. The hostile attitude assumed
by these Indians has occasioned delay of our work
|. for the past three months; but are now happy
to inform you that, through the vigilance and ex-
ertions of Major Van Dorm and the officers accom-
panying his command that this frontier and the
frontier of Western Texas is not likely to be mo
Tested again, for long time, by these marauding
rascals.
They have kept this whole country in constant
state of alarm and anxiety. They have now dis
appeared, and nothing to be of them since the
fight at the Wichita village. Major Van Dorm
and command however, scouting all the time,
notwithstanding the inclemency of the season.
We have had snow a foot deep at this post during
the past fortnight.
Major Van Dorm has entirely recovered from his
very dangerous wounds, and is preparing to
heada scouting party.
RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY PuBMcArioSs.- Alexan-
der Herzens periodical KolokoH (The Bell) and the
Colossal Is RossiH Voices from Russia) are printed
in London in the Russian language, and find their
way into the very heart of the Muscovite empire,
notwithstanding the strongest prohibitive laws on
the part of government and the (supposed( yigi-
lance of frontier officials. Whole bales of these
prints smuggled into the Russian Black Sea-
ports by way of Constantinople, and in the North
they find their way across the Swedish territory
into Finland. The governments of Prussia and
SaXony have likewise inhibited them, without, how
ever, having any effect upon their circulation,
either in their own countries or in Russia. These
publications bear striking resemblance to the
Mazzinian pamphlets; no one admits having read
them, yet every one is familiar with their contents.
Their principal articles copied and circulated
in manuscript from hand to hand. Herzen has
efficient correspondents in st. Petersburg, from
whom he receives intelligence which is suppressed
in Russia, and who have thus far eluded the vigi-
| lance of the Russian authorities.-N. Y. Epeniny
| Post.
The Washington States has received information
OF lne uedLn OF eX-CnleI EuSJlS OF l0ulSl-
ana, at New Orleans on the 23d. He a native
I of Massachusetts and graduate of Harvard. Soon
! after his graduation he went abroad private
| Secretary to his uncle, Gov. Eusts then United
! States minister at the Hague. Judge Eustis began
his legal studies while at the Hague and settled at
| New Orleans about the year of 1922. He filled
number of high public positions, and in l845 be-
came Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State
which post he held till the adoption of the present
State Constitution in 1852 which provides for popu-
lar election of Judges. He then resumed practiceat
| the bar. He 63 years old. One of his children
| Hon. George EusHs, Jr., has, during the last and
present Congress, been the Representative from the
first Congressional district of Louisiana.
| WscoNsIN.-The State of Wisconsin, in addition
to School Fund for the support of common
schools, amounting to four millions of dollars, and
University Fund amounting to five hundred thousand
dollars, has set apart oneourth of the avais of the
sale of what are known as ''swamp lands" a
fund for normal instruction. The income of this
fund for this year is about eighteen thousand dol
lars, and is expended by Board of Regents, for
the support of Normal Institutes in colleges, acade
mics and high schools. This Board propose to ex-
pend the income hereafter, which will soon reach
the annual sum of twenty-five thousand dollars on
more comprehensive and practical scheme, sub
mitted by Hon. Henry Barnard, of Connecticut,
embracing central normal school, normal classes
in all higher institutions of learning, county teach
ers institutes, State, county and town teachers
sociations, and general normal school agency.
coal weighing cart invented by Mr.. A. C.
Jones, of Philadelphia, is exhibition at the
Franklin Institute, in that city. The Ledger says:
The scale is attached to the tail of the cart, and the
coal is delivered into box receptacle and when
| weighed is discharged into the street. The inven-
tion is simple, cheap, and not liable to get out of
order when travelling over the toughest roads.
1t can be attached to any common coal cart. 1t
will weigh correctly if one wheel is ten inches
higher than the other. The receptacle for the coal
is balanced by an adjustable weight. The coal is
weighed by single weight hung to the end of the
scale beam, the raising of this is the test of the
| I0b napta of tonp pf nnaI tbn
scales and weights will be made of uniform size and
! weight, thus preventing confusion. The coal is
! loaded and discharged with facility. Any cart
driver can be taught in five minutes how to man
! age it.
NAvAL.-The Despatch arrived at the Washing
! ton Navy Yard on Sunday, after absence of ten
months. She has been actively employed on the
north coast of Cuba and in the Gulf looking after
slavers, and protecting our flag generally Her Of
! feers are f. G. Parrott lieut.. commanding; Fl. s.
! Newcomb, lst. lieut.. and executive officer; D. A.
| McDermut, I'd. lieut.. j. D. Daniels, Sd. do; J. E.
Hart, 4th do; II. II. Stewart, chief engineer; Ben
! jamin Freeland, passed assistant surgeon; Thomas
Williamson, Joseph N. Cahill, and Jas. D. Wright,
! engineers.
Lieut.. J. 2. K Mygatt, who was recently or
dered to the st. Louis, has resigned his commits
| sion.
The U. S. sloop-oEwar Marion was at St. vincents
on the 23d November.
| The U. $. frigate Macedonian was at Alexandria
on the l9th and the frigate Wabash at Malta on
the 23d November.
| CAPT. REID AND THE AMERICAN FLAG.-Amono
the proceedings Of the House on Thursday last the
Hon. John Cochrane of New York, introduced a
joint resolution giving vote of thanks to Captain
! Sam. G. Reid the hero of the battle of Fayal, in
the gallant fight which he made in command of the
| private armed brig General Armstrong, in 1914,
for having made and designed the present flag of
the United States. The design of Capt Reid was
adopted in committee, and the bill passed Congress
on the 4th of April, 1918. The new flag, as de-
| signed by Capt. Reid, was made at his house, in
| New York, by his wife and number of young la
| dies and was first hoisted the hall of the
House of Representatives on the 18th of April 1878
| -Na. Int r.
! Among the coins presented to the Tennessee His
! torcal Society recently, Grecian Drachma,
of silver, of value about II cents, coined in the
! days of Alexander the Great 1856 years B. c. 1t
was picked up in the streets of the buried
! Pompeii by VIM. H. Polk Esq.,, while he was in
Italy charge dafairs of the United States to the
Two Sicilies, in lS45 1t has on one side the head
! of Alexander, on the reverse figure of Jupiter
sitting in chair, holding a hGSty pura (spear of
favor in his left hand, and imperial eagle in the
right. There several symbols, and the inscrip-
| tiOn Alexandron on the same side..
The Delaware General Assembly will be applied
! to at the coming session for extensive lottery
| grant. Memorials, however, in circulation
among the people of Newcastle and other counties
in the State, earnestly protesting against the pas
sage of an act for such a purpose The memorial
says: at is time to take warning that the deprava-
ton of moral principle that first winks at wrong,
and then promotes it, will prove difusive: and its
maturity will be manifested in fraud and knaverv
eating out integrity from business transactions and
social relations ending in violence subverting the
power of government"
As heretofore announced, convention of Pres
idents, Directors and stockholders in all railway
companies interested in DEMONSTRATION of road to
the Pacific, will be held at Memphis the oath of
January. Roads North and South will be repre-
sented, aud it is designed to agree upon some plan
for building a road the plains, satisfactory
all parties Interested in order that the conflicting
interests hefnre Con nnress ma be nd