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The Atlantic Telegraph.
TRINITY BAY, Aug. l4th

hLNilf Dali aug. A1se.
To the directors of the Atlantic Tele-
graph Co., New York;
The cause of our not transmitting and
receiving intelligence through is, that
the instruments require a great deal of
care 10 adjusting and getting them ready.
l am doing this as fast as possible. You
should not look upon the Gable as an
ordinary short telegraph line, that can
be worked through directly. The Gable
has been successfully laid and tele-
graphic signals are passed through it at
our pleasure, but we have encountered
little difficulty, which it requires time
and many experiments to entirely over
come, but we see no reason to doubt that
We shall be able in a few days to sur
mount all difficulties. I will send you
the earliest intimation of the probable
time when the Queens Message may be
expected.
Signed DESANTY.
NoTE.-In addition to the above we
have seen a private despatch from a re
liable gentleman at st. Johns, who is in
a position to obtain the earliest and most
correct official Intelligence concerning
the Gable, which states that the instru-
ments at Trinity Bay record with a good
degree of success the, communications
from the electricians at the Valencia of
flee, but that owing to some unexplained
cause it has been impossible to send
that or any other Intelligence to the
operators at Valencia.
This is a state of things which often
occur on a land line, that one office can
receive correctly from u distant operator,
and yet be unable to send u word in re-
turn, and the difficulty sooner or later
is found to be in the battery, its con-
ncctions, or the instruments, and there
is no reason to doubt hat the present
difficulty in working the cable will, as
soon as the electricians can compare
notes, be entirely overcome.
Signed, -REPoRTER.
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Interesting from Utah.
Is COL. KANE A MORMON?


The Kansas City (Mc.,) Journal Of
Commerce of the 9TH inst, announces
the arrival of Major Bridger, an old
mountainecr, from Johnston's camp,
near Salt Lake City, on the I'd of July.
He says:
The feeling toward Gov. Cumming is
not very favorable, and it is thought he
is Influenced in his actions by Brigham
Young, eadeavoring to operate upon the
Mormons through him, Illus placing him.
self in the power of that INSCRIPTIONS
scourdrel
Col. Kane, Of whom so much has
been said AID written, rs q Mormon,
bartised at Kanesville, wearing the en-
dowment robe, aud sent out with the
blessing of the prophet upon his head
to work for the interests of the Church.
Mono of the Gentiles in the valley have
any confidence il him whatever. Brig.
ham Young, in q speech the Sunday be-
fore Bridger left, expressed great love
for the United States, denied having
ever done anytA6ug except burning the
trains last season, and promising 10 re-
store the cattle. This is about all the
government will ever receive.
About 2son0 troops were motto the
way, and from the South Pass to Fort
Kearney the road is lined with teams
and troops. .
The road is very much cut up this side
of Fort Kearney, but is very good be,
yond. Grass and water more abundant
than he has aver seen in the last thirty
years. q
The crops in Salt Lake Valley are all
good, and it is his opinion that there is
not an acre of wheat harvested that will
not yield seventy five bushels to the acre.
Il is the best wheat country on the con-
tinent-
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A DESPERATE LovER.-The Layfay-
cite (Ind.) Courier gives the following
account of a most remarkable escape
from the murderous intent of a desperate
lover:
ga young man named Paxton, having
received the ''mitten" from a young la
dy at Darlington in Montgomery county,
to whom he had been paying his eds
tresses," met her at Church last Sab
bath, and drawing a revolver snapped it
three times in a vain attempt to shoot
her. A gentleman came to the rescue
of the lady, and Paxton levelled the re-
volver at him, but fortunately it again
missed fire. He was Immediately dis
armed, and was yesterday arrested and
taken to Charlottesville, where he was
lodged in Jail. Strange to say, the pis-
toll was r~c-capped, and every barrel which
had before missed fire, was discharged
on the spot"
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- Marshal Johnson TO GEN. Ty-
LER.-Thc following letter of Marshal
johnson to Gen. Tyler of Ravenna ex
plains itself as well as cxplodes Il dread
full" rumor which has disturbed the
slumbers of numerous old women in
Marlborough aud vicinity ClcreIand
PLaiHdeaIer.
UNITED states MARsuAL's OFFICE, }
Northern District of Ohio,
CLEVELAND, August 10th, 1853
GEM b. TYLER:-
DEAR SIa:-Judge Spalding has just
informed me that a story is in c%ircula
ton at Ravenna, that my i'eputy, Mr..
Mckee, Of Alliance, has a process in
his hands for the arrest of some party i'll
Marlborough, Stark County, nude. she
Fugitive Slave Law. take the liberty
of stating to you that there is not a
shadow of truth in such a report, and
all the excitement Oh that subject grew
out of the fact that on the 30th ult. Mr..
Mckee went to Marlborough, by my
direction, with an execution, issued by
the Circuit Court, in the case of Edward
NJ. Davis, ct. al, VS.. Samuel Brooks
auu ailer mahIuS u luu lu~'ectSdllob
made return that he could find no goods
chattels, lands aud tenements, where
upon to levy"
1 trust the good people of this dis
trict will permit my Deputies to sub
poua witnesses, or summon parties into
this Court, without getting alarmed fol
the liberties of our country.
Yours truly, Nj. JOHNSON,
United States Marshal,
Northern District of Ohio.
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The e Race.

.. EN - ~ E-
Hon P. Bliss. in speech which he is
reported to have made in Congress, and
which was published in the ashland
Times a few months since, represented,
among other npocryphal things, designed
to establish his theory that the Negro
was the equal of the Caucasian, that
the noble works of antiquity which
abound in Egypt, we're the offspring OF
Negro genius. 1t was not enough for
Mr.. Bliss to claim for the Negroes that
they fought the battles of the American
Revolution and of the2War of 1875 e.
but he must point to the Pyramids as
among the monuments which the Afri
can had bequeathed mankind as evidence
of his skill in the arts of peace. The
error of these assumptions of the abo
litionists has been often demonstrated
but here is testimony from BAYARD TAY
LoR, now travelling in Egypt, and whose
intense Republicanism is known through
out the country. In a letter to the
Tribune, Mr.. TAYLOR, says:
"Those friends of the African race whc
point to Egypt as a proof of what thai
race has accomplished, are wholly mis-
taken. The only negro features repre-
sented in Egyptian sculpture are those
of slaves and ~captives taken in the Ethio
plan wars of the Pbaraohs, The temple.
and pyramids throughout Nubia, as fal
as the Daref and Abyssinia, all bear The
hieroglyphy of monarchs, and there ii
no evidence in all the Valley of the
Nile that the negro race ever attained
a higher degree of civilization than is a.
present exhibited in Congo and Ashanti.
1 mention this not from any feeling hos
tile to that race, bnt simply to contro
vert an opinion very prevalent in some
parts of the United States"
No n will certainly accuse Mr.. T4Y
LoR of any hostile feeling towards the
Negro having formerly been associated
with Mr.. GREELEY in the Ili6une-but
as a man of intelligence and cundor, he
is compelled to write as he has upon this
point.
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Religious instructions of the Color
ed Population i'm slave states.


From a letter dated at st. Augustine,
Florida, published in the Home and
Foreign Record for the current month,
we find the following paragraph relating
to this subject. How the truth, as here
related, differs from the inventions which
the crazy Republicans about Oberlin
put forth i'll regard to the exclusion OF
religious light from the minds of South.
ern Negroes: .
Much attention is paid to the relig-
ious instruction of the colored people.
They attend the regular services of the
Sabbath, quite rumerously in the even
ing, but besides that, they enjoy the
privileges of a most excellent Sabbath
school, in which both the young and the
old take the greatest interest. Several
of the ladies of our church are remark
ably happy in their method of imparting
sacred truth to these poor Ignorant crea-
lures. It is one of my greatest pleas
ures to go into the school and note the
evident interest with which these teach
ings are received. The singing in the
school has improved very decidedly du
ring the winter, under the instruction OF
Miss Mather, a lady who has recently
opened a seminary for young ladies in
this city. The fondness of the colored
race for vocal music you well know, and
it would please you to hear and see them
sing, s'There is a happy land" ''I'm
bound for the land of Canaan" and
hymns of that class. 1 cannot report
any recent cases of conversion among
them"
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3,076,902

With all the acquisitions to the Amer,
can Union since the Revolution, inclu-
ding those from Spain, France and Mex
leo, we nave yet a less area than Great
Britain by 1926 square mi!es-an
extent of Territory more than equal to
three States as large as Ohio. Those
immense possessions, which extend from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, comprehend,
as before remarked, one third of that
great Empire upon whose dominion it
is the boast of Englishmen that the sun
never sets.
The Atlantic Cable has its termini
upon British soil, and annihilates the
space that separates the Home Govern.
ment from her American Colonies. The
gold discoveries upon Frazer's river, and
the immense tide of emigration which
will flow in there from all quarters Of
the world, will soon render the British
possessions upon the Pacific as populouE
and powerful as those upon the Allan
tic and the necessity of connecting
her Eastern and Western American in
t~erests by means of a Rail Road upor
her own soil, and also, through such {
splendid highway, to bring her Indie
possessions nearer home-is hourly be
coming more urgent. 'r
Great Britain has distanced US in OBJ
tanning a monopoly of the Ocean tele
graph; shall she BIO suffered to %outstril
US in the construction of a Pacific Raj
Road? A rare opportunity is now of
fered Congress to carry out the wise pol
icy of the Administration, and, by
truce to the impracticable and unavail
ing clamor about the negro, to addres
itself to an earnest effort to look afte
the material interests Of the white me-
of this great Republic.
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From Washington.
WASHINGTON. August

AsHINUION 3 q.
The President returned here last
evening, and proceeded to his summer
residence. aoe- as ser aIgsrrI tz Z
Gen. Harvey and the. Peace Commits
s%ioners, Messrs. Powell and McCulloch,
also arrived here yesterday, and sever
ally had interviews with the Secretary
of War. Gen. II. expects to proceed
tethe Pacific in a few days.
Mr.. Stockton, minister to Rome, and
General Thayer, of Ala, minister to
Belgium, are both awaiting their final
instructions.
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b1sd "a THE QUEENS, MESSAGE.
To tie Honorable the Pre- sident Of tho
" United StateS:-
Her Majesty desires to congratulate
the President upon the successful com.
in which the Queen has taken the deep
est interest. The Queen is convinced
that the President will join with her il
fervently hoping that the electric Gable
which now connects Great Britain with
the United States, will prove an ad
ditional link between the nations whose
friendship is founded upon their common
interest and reciprocal regard. The
Queen has much pleasure in thus com
municating with the President, and re
neWing to him her wishes for the pros
perity Of the United States.
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From New York.
New YoRK, August Il

NEW IUhhj z To
A letter from Havana says the rumor
that the United States was meditating
a purchase of Cuba had caused great
excitement there. .
Yellow fever continued to rage
Capt. Albert Gage is among its recent
victims. a!i 6as sar
All the vessels of the Spanish fleet
had been ordered into port by tho Ad-
miral in order to escape the autumnal
hurricanes. All the sailing vessels were
rapidly getting to the northeast.
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New York, Aug. /!

The steamship Philadelphia, from
Havana, Aug. sth, arrived. here this
morning. q"
The brig Lancy, of New Orleans, re-
Gently seized at Havana as a SLAYER, has
been discharged. a2i a1i7 l7isf
Two cargoes of coolies, numbering
nearly 500, had recently arrived at Ha-
yana under the Dutch and Spanish flags
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Kansas! Kansas!

Il Grated by Slavery All who are opposed
to oppression-who desire to see right tri-
umphover wrong, areearnestly invited to call
at the Saloon of the subscriber, in the base
ment of the Sampsel House, and eYince by
their patronage, that they are honest in their
good as another. Shaving done easier than
the brokers, and hair clipped in a style that
would put to blush the tonsorial skill of a
Delilah. Let the unbelieyer come and see If
one half has yet been told him.
GEORGE DORSEY
Ashland, March FL, 1858. 42tf
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From PHILADELPHIA.
PHlLApELpH1A, Aug. I4th.

The Mayor has issued a proclamation
that on the receipt of the first despatch
-over the Atlantic Telegraph a salute of
100 guns be fired, and flags displayed
with other demonstrations this is the
first official notice of tho enterprise TIA
ken here.
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~ THE -
WOOL DEPOT
Established in the winter of 1854,

Has been in operation over four years, during
which period, though its progress has been i'm.
Peded by the adverse years Of 1857, the practical
bility of the plan has been clearly demonstrated.
That the house affords superior advantages to the
WOOL GROWERS OF THE WEST, as a medilm
for passing their woods into the hands of the man
ufacturer, is now no longer aquestion. But al
though a very large number of Wool Growers
have availed themselves Of these advantages du-
ring the %lastfour years, yet. surprising as it may
appear to many. GU receipts have been larger froms
Merchants and wool.buyers than from WOOL.
growers, and this may be accounted for mainly:
from the fact, that, as a class. woolgrowers have
been more easily influenced and .misled than the.
former, by the statements of a few operators who.
are wholly opposed to all efforts having for thein
object the systematizing of the wool trade, or the
enhancement ofprices to the producer.zzze
The past year, characterized as it has been by
the most disastrous financial embarrassments, has
been one of the most unfortunate for negotiating
and managing sales of wool, and the fact that the
enterprise has been remarkably successful,Lnot-
wIthstanding these disadvantages. and given al
most universal satisfaction to consignors, should,
we think. inspire sufficient confidence to induce
large consignments from wool growers.
To those who have been prejudieed by false
rumors, and who have manifested a want OF con-
fdence we have frequently made advances equal
to the price they have been offered for their wool,
such advances, hoWeVer, shonlo moi De required
as the enterprise was started fer their benefit. and
this object has been ste ably kept in view, and We
hope the encouragement will be such as to enable
us to continue our efforts. Indeed, wool growers,
particularly the present year, cannot sfordst to- do
without such influence and facilities as this House
can extend to them.
This ear must be a peculiarly favorable one for
wool growersto test the merits of the RooIDePot
system, and we hazard nothing in assuring those
who are disposed to consign to us, that they will
avail themselves of 1sfE
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Democratic Congregational COnVen-
-htl % ton for the 18th District.
J 70 Pursuant to an arrangement between
the members of the Con gressional Com
: mittee in the Counties of Ashland, Lo-
rain, Medina and Wayne, composing the
18th Congressional District of Ohio,
Che Democratic District Convention for
nominating q candidate to be supported
ID for Congress at the ensuing election,
2 will be held at Ashland, on Tuesday,
Q the i4th day of September, fis58. Ia
king the vote cast for HENRY B. PAYNE
p in 1857, as the basis of Representation
in the Congressional Convention, the
n Counties comprising the District will be
entitled respectively to the following
number Of Delegates, viz Wayne So
Medina %; Eorain is, aud Ashland 90.
By Order of the Dist. Com,
I. L. CRANE,
Acting Sec'y for Dist. Com.
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DRMocRAlTEIC MASS MEErINa
saturday, sept. IL.

.HonssGEo. E. PUGH, the gallant
champion of the Western Democracy in
the United States Senate-and one who
oYerahadows all little giants-will adj
dress the Democracy of Ashland county
at Ashland, on the day above named. Let
us honor ourselves and him by an old
fashioned crowd of the steadfast and un.
faItering Democracy of Ashland county,
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Good Farm for Sale.

"a TWILL sell for cash GsEf
s:sEi1 or on credit to suit IsSSgsFs
iisiR purchasers, the farm ly. STsP
{EsE9 ing in Milton township, -
Ashland County, Ohio, formerly owned by
Andrew Burns, Sem, deceased. Said Farm
contains e819 acres, about 70 acres of which
is under cultivation, the balance is well tim
bered; there are several Springs of living wa
ter, and a good Orchard of choice fruit on said
Farm it is located within three miles of the
County Seat, in the midst of a healthy and
prosperous neighborhood. with excellent IA
%cilities as to roads, mills and markets AN
UNDIsPUrED title will be made and peaceable
possession given. For particulars inquire of
Hugh Hurns. or II. S. Knapp, Ashland, Ohio,
or the subscriber in Mansfield, Ohio.
BARNABAS BURNS.
july ID, Cw6
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The year last named furnishes the Ia
test general official statistics and won
derful as her progress has been within
the limit embraced in the foregoing
period, the ratio of progress since 1851
has been immensely greater than at any
former period, and is unexampled ez-
ccpt in the strides of some of the States
of our own Union.
In undertaking to write of the British
power upon this Contineut-of former
intrigues to enlarge and strengthen this
power,-and to record its defeats in our
own Councils and in the Cabinets of Eu-
rope, by the veteran CAss and other OF
our Democratic Statesmen, and of the
partial abandonment of this policy
would open a field of thought and investi
CATION, too broad for a newspaper ar
ticle and besides, it would not subserve
our present object.
The British possessions upon this Con-
tinent embrace about one third of the
whole of that immense Empire. Ex-
Guiding theWest Indies, Bermudas, SC,
the area of British America is as FOL-
LOUIS. t .
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Estate of John Schambaugh, Jr.
NOTICE is hereby given that the under
In signed has been duly appointed and
qualified as Administrator of the Estate of
John Schambaugh, Jr., late of Green Town
aa John SCHAMBAUGH, Jr. Z.
% Aug. Is. 1858. ii7s - dora s3wll f1iv
200 EGS PURE LEAD, 100 KEGS
q SNOW WHITE n at
74O ROLLER &HowARD'S;
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A. H. C.. BROKEN,
% CLIFF STREET, NEW-YORK,
MANUFACTURER OF
Glass Syringes, Homeopathic Walls.
Graduated Measures, Nursing

Graduated Measures, Nursing
Bottles, &c.
Glass Ware for Chemists, Druggists, Per-
tuners, Photographers, &c. Green Glass
ware by the package. A liberal discount
made to the trade Orders from Country
Druggists and Dealers solicited. Price Lists
sent on application -9
Aug. a, 1858. 3m9
~ For the Little Folks. =
NANDIES ~ofallkinds and ofthe best quail
v ty, to be found at the Book and Drug
Store of CLARK d POTTER, =.
n so ..i-l- Successors to R H Chubb.
TrOSTETTER,S CELEBRATES
1l BI1TERRS-l2 doZ. just arrived, and forsalc
at 4Otf ROLLER IL
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Our town, last evening, was in an ut
Q ter delirium of joy, celebrating this great
seachieyement of our time, by every con-
s9ceivable noise that the loud mouthed
Cannon, ringing of bells, wind and
: stringed instruments-and ID, indeed, ev-
erything having the capacity to utter
tsnoise and confusion, J" could produce.
.ftisisdeed aEproper occasion for re-
joicing-marred by only a single consid-
3eration-and that is the fact that both
ENDS of this line rest upon British soil.
The concluding sentence in the reply of
the President is significant. In the
event of another War between Great
! Britain and the United States, our Gov
a eminent would be compelled to summon
that same genius of our eouutrymen
which originated this great instrument
of international communication, and
se which has now found its way to the ex-
elusive hands of a foreign and rival pow
er, to deUise means forts dcstrnctaon.
But We have neither time nor space
to elaborate this point. Heaven grant
Sd that the peace of the two countries may
never be interrupted Space has disap'
peared from the face of the globe. 1Snat
/, only remains. q
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THE-GREAF

THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH COM
nsis3f.L E55 PLETE
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"a Casketef Gems Of VII and Jyisd0m."
A THOUSAND AND ONE STORIES

OF FAcTsND FANCY, WIT 4ND RUJMoR,
Rhyme, Reason, and Romance.
Edited by $. e. oPeter
Farley.
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Illustrated 6y 800 Bcautitul engraving.

One volume, large octave, handsomely bound
iii red morocco, with gilt side and
back containing $50 pages, and
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Also, a Grard Pc rfornance in the Circle, con
sitting of Daring Acts OF ECuestriani SIN!
Acrobatic And GymnTstc Exercises,
Hereuienan feats SC,
Tnterspcrsed and ehLircRed by the COmicalities of th
CE01on.