The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-07-08
: From Havana.


By the steamer Empire City, arrived at New
I DIRK, we have accounts from Havana to the
% instant. The letters report total 1cessa
ton of the visitation of our vessels by British
cruisers. The United Safes feet off the island
made very respectable appearance. q The
British gunboat Styx arrived at Havana on the
18th, from cruise f the nor,h beast corner oil
Yucatan, and thus pleads an alibi to many
charges OF outrage preferred against her
Amongst the passengers by this arrival is NJ
Felix Belly, on his way to France.
Earthquake at New Haven. J-2a
Neso Haren, June 30.-The shock Of an earth
quake was observed in various parts Of this
city at eleven o'clock last night. 1t was a light
one, yet caused crockery to rattle, and was dis
tinctly felt BY many persons who were walking
out. as Ssh ftfe. ....,,,.s
p. S.-The earthquake of last night was OBJ
served in Woodbridge, seven miles northwest
from this city in Wes,ville, two miles distant
in the same direction; and in North Haven,
seven miles nearly northeast from the city
where second but slight shock was felt. The
direction of The vibration seemed to be from
south to north. The shock was also felt in
Waterbury. There have been but two shocks
of earthquake recorded as having occurred
within in the last hundred years in this vicinity
Letters have been received at the Office of the
American Colonization Society, from Liberia
to the 18th of April The following extracts
from letters of DR.. Snowden, dated at the In
terror settlement, Careysburg, March Is, viii
be interesting to our readers:
Sup to this date, the emigrants we're vel
and doing we'll. Three or four of them have
had slight indisposition. None have had a
decided attack of African fever. Six of them
have nearly completed their houses, and others
are under way. Their town and farm lots are
for the most part cleared eff and planted, and
some are even yielding. This company q
emigrants have been here ncw three months
The first company of emigrants are also in Q
prosperous condition all seem contented an6
happy; and, in short, industry appears to be the
rule and order of the day. 90 a.ir f
Under the present system, the emigrants al
Careysburg are as well cared for as heart car
wish. They are near their farms, have a tight
comfortable house, and a good table. Their
diet is under regulation, and at any moment
medical assistance can be rendered. They
have every opportunity to complete their hou
SEES, 80 that at the expiration Of their SIX months
they will have Only to move from the SocietyG
good house to better one Of their own. 1
This place maintains it's sanitary reputa
ton, which will be permanent and it only re
quires good cart road to some convenient
point on the river, to make Careysburg the
Saratoga of Liberia ss
The cordial greeting extended to Senator
Crittenden on the borders of his State followed
him on his way into the interior. Popuial
demonstrations and Complimentary speeches
greeted him at all points. At Lexington, the
venerable Chief Justice Robinson, who ENTERED
public life with Mr.. Critterden Al years ago
welcomed him in a speech of much force and
feeling. Of the Senator's action against the lie
compton measures, the speaker said:
You have done as the Great Commonel
would have done. Here, on this spot, standing
as We are before this people, between Ashland
and the cemetery where the shaft is rising il
solid grandeur to mark his grsve-here, be
tween the living and the dead-between the
home where the sage of Kentucky dwelt and
his grave, believed by a nations tears, sol
EMMY assure you it is our belief that, had The
noble Clay been at your side, the course yor
have pursued would have been his. We, who
knew him we'll, know he could not have dont
otherwise, without reaouncing his life long cher
ished principles. Kentucky does and will sus
tain you. For your agency in the manly de
fence of the right, you are deserving o. our low
and veneration. Some day, living or dead, tn,
gratitude of the country will be offered you fol
it-and that, too, with potent emphasis--by th'
South herself. Whatever be the Judgment o
others, we will be true to you. We approve al
that You have done, and will stick to you anc
stand by you. Kentucky, your loving mother
will hug you closer to her bosom the more 20,
are aesailed. She will recognise you as the
manly, independent, and patriotic servant whC
has devoted his life with filial piety and unself
ish aims to her interests and the nations vel
fare"
He then presented Mr.. Crittenden as the
favored Senator of Kentucky :, John j Critten
den, the American legislator and nstiona
statesman.
The death of AIRY Scheffer, the great paint 81
of France, ia reported by the steamer at Hall
fax. He died at Paris about the 18Th of June
Although an artist of the modern French
school, Scheffer was born in Holland in the
year 1895. But he received his whole ar
education in France, receiving instruction from
Guevin, and enjoying all the opportunities o
study that are afforded so literally by the Pari
galleries. He was o favorite of Louis Philip,
when he was Duke of Orleans, and YVES instruct
or in art Of his children, including the Princes,
Marie, who afterwards showed such talent as
sculptor. He has painted some large works
for the gallery al Versailles, but he is mos
favorably known for his smaller works, his
"Dead Christi his "Francesca do Rimini,'
his illustrations of Faust" Wilhelm Meis
ter" the "Giaour" of Byron, and others. He
has been devoted and Woodworking artist in
his latter as well as in his earlier days
mi. :-x1a. norcloa H. A.
Minnesota Legislature; aud these, with the Re
tory of the Administration, and laudatory O
Senators Douglas and Shields-Senator Rice
not being so much as mentioned. This would
indicate that no election will be possible in hi.
Legislature for Mr.. Shields's successor, for the
term commencing next March, since the AID
ministration Democrats will hardly care to sup
port him, and the Republicans do not INDICATE
q disposition to do more than praise him
hoping, probably, by waiting till next year, tc
supplant him with one of their own number
Selfish and shortsighted, both, is this.
Several prominent Douglas Democrats, hold
ing postmasterships at Quincy, Peoria, ant
Jacksonville, Illinois, have been lately reap
pointed by the Administration. This either in
dicates change of policy, carelessness, or wan
of any other kind of Democrats to take their
rlaces. The man appointed at Quincy is an
editor, and talks out as follows:
"We shall regard our own reappointment as
an approval on the part of the President of our
general course as Democrat and an editor,
as we'll as of our official conduct. We shall re-
gard it as evidence that he does not prefer the
election of q Black Republican or Know Moth
ing to the United States Senate, over Judge
Douglas"
John T. Nixon of Bridgeton, Cumberland
county, has been unanimously nominated for
Congress by " Peoples" Convention in the
LIST (Clswson'sl district of New Jersey, and hay
ing received a majority vote in q Native