General Intelligence

The. Collision on the Utica and Scheneclady Railroad. - We are gratified to learn that the account of this accident which we copied yesterday from the New York Courier and Enquirer, was greatly exaggerated, and that no lives were lost. The Albany Evening Journal, contuins the full particulars, and from it we galher t!ie following fncls.' "The Western trr.in, nt having arrived at Schenectady at the proper time, a special train, consisting of locomotive, tender and a few empty passenger cars, was despntched from Schenectady westward. A few miles west from that place the two trains met. ForUinately for the üves of the passengers, the trains were in sight of each other some few rnoments before the collision. The Engitieers of each train instantly shut off stenm - reversed the action, and leaped from their respective machines. This well-timed precaution deadened the speed, and the collision, though tremendous, was not as great as it otherwise might have been. The engine, tender and passenger car going west,were uttcrly demolished, as also were the engine, tender, baggage and post-oiïice cara of the train coming cast. Providentiaüy, none of the passenger cara in this last train, were injured in the least. Two hundred and fifty passengere were in these cars, and their escape can only be regarded as miraculous. - The delenlion of the wsstem train, was occasioned by the loss of an hour at Bufiulo, in taking on 80 passengers from a Lake Erie Steamboat, which arrived as the train was about leaving. Another hour was lost on the passage between that place and Utica, and the train did not leave the latter place for Albany, until 12 o'clock. - J'Jst previous to the col- lision, tho train was going at the rate of 20 milos per hour. We learn that Mr. Yoüno, the Superintendent, wasoverpersüaded, much ngainst hie own wishes, to send out the train for tho west.-IM. Mv,Pktkrsburg, June 20, 1843. BrulalUyoJ a Slaveholder-Indignation of his feliow Slavekolders-Thc Military in the Soutk. DkarSir:- Itisso very seldom that your columns are graced with any Communications from these "diggins," thot it may excite some curiosity in your breast to know from whora, the6e lines now emanate. Suffice it to say, ! sir, that they emanate from a íriend, and without being an acquaintance. Your good een se, tearlessneas, and indopendence of thought and speech, have ga:ned for you many frusnds in j this section of country. The object of the present coinmunication is to notice the death of a negro by whipping a few days ago. A man named Mintree, caught a negro ihat had run away from him some time; he tied liis hands and feet together, what wc cali lucking, and with the end only of a cowhide", he gave him about 500 lashes - not the fu!l length of the Inde but the end only ,fi!ling his tody with short cuts from his head to his! heels. While Mintree was whipping him, the negro asked for water and while Mintree was gonc for water, the negro untiedh imself and ran offto a pool of water and juinped in. He held his inouth open until his stomach was actually fiiled with water up to hia throat. - Mintree having fonnd out that the negro was gone, become more exasperated than ever. - He took him out of the water, lied him up and gave him about two hundred lashes mare, from the effects of which he died . Mintre bas been committed to prison, the negro examined, and a court called to try him on the first of next month: the result of that trial I will let you know. The negro was dissected, and if f ehould judge from the physicans' face, they believe thal he was murdered. The fanatic abohtionist will howl over this case, no doubt, and say that all slaveholders are brutes, nnd that the murder of a negro is countenanced by all slave -holders, but they lie; there is not a man but condemns in untueasured tnrms this conduct, and Minitree will certainly feel the severest penalty of the aw. By an invitation of one of our volunteer companies, the Raleigh Guards spent the 24th of June in our town. among the best eatables and drinkables that could be found, and a happier set than they were was never seen. - Times dull, crope good, weather hot, fcc. - From the JYeio-York HercUd.American Tttrs Abroad. - A correspondent of the Evening Post says that Admiral Brovvn, who for many years past, has been the life nnd soul of the" Buenos Ayrean Navy, was burn in one of the Eastemseaports of the U. States, vvhence he eailed in a whale ship, and in due time rose to the rank of commander. His parents were nativea of Ireland. - Commodore Coe, who commanded the Monte Vtdean Navy, is also an American, a native of New Jersy. Admiral Woosíer, who for a long tinr.e commanded the Chilian Navy, and does now, for aught we know to the contrary. is an American, and hailed from New Haven. Commodore Moore,who commanded theTexian Navy, or recently did,is an Americaa, from the District of Columbin. Letters have been received from Mr. Perkins, the American Missonary in Persia, to Ihe 16th May, at which time he had reached Trebisond, a City of fifty thousand people on the Black Sea, with his familyand Mar Yohanna. He writes that, with Ihe remarkable extensión ofcommerce, thefacilities of diftusing Christian influence also increase. The amount of goods now sent anually from this city over tbe mountains has increased to thirty thousand horse loads. The labors of the American Missionaries in the East, are beginning to be highly appreciated, not only for the pecular reügious objects to which they are devoted, but for the ampie and valuable contributions thcy ore making to the philological, and ethnical Eciences. The war-god of Christendom ie obviousiy relaxing his grasp. Men are sighing for relief from his burdens; and we find England. Frpnce, and other nations of Europe, reducing their military establishments. We know not the exact extent of these reductions; but France has recently dismissed about 100,000 soldiers, and now has a standing arrny of about 150,000 less than she had a httle more than onc year ago. This cxample will soon be followed by all, or nearly all, the governnients of the old world,andthus diminish their expenses some h'indreds of millions a year. - Advocate of Peace. 'Bologna sausages,' of Brussels Manufacture, have been brought into suspicion by a recent discovery. The proprietor of a ham and beef shop, a largesausage manufacturer, has been in the habit of buyingimmenEe quantities of horse flesh, for the manufactnre (according to his own account) of animal (or lamp) black. The pólice have seized several of his aausages for the purpose of analysis. Mr. O'Connell is, at least, acling,in accordance with hisprofessed principles,in uttering his abuse of this country on account ofits "peculiar institutions"- bul it seems supremely ridiculous in Master Ahazuervs - the hopeful son oí Capt. Tyler- to show off his zea1in public speeches, in favor of the oppressed Trish population. We wonder how many slaves have suffered under his lash, ou his father's plantatiou-m Virginia? Consisency is a beautiful feature in a raan's life.- Marshall Statesman. Saratoga Springa.-The arrivals at the Spiings last wceK are eet down at 2800!VisU to the Bank of England The London correspondent of the N. Y. Commercial Adv., gives the following account of a recent visit tothe Bank of England, whicli niay interest 8ome of our readeif: On Wednesday last I visited the Bnnk of Engknd and had the pleasure of examining the interior arrangements of that grcat financia! machine. The show of gold and silver bullion was very great. Tlie gold bars weigh 10 pounds, and are worth L800 sterling or 81,000 each. The silver eceived froiu the Cuincse was a curiosity. It wes in lumps and pieces fall shapes and 6izep, marked with the namcofthemolder, the weight of the pieco, and the royal stamp of the Celestial Emperor. Some of the pieces resernbled horseshoesin form. In the printing department, the method of saturating the paper with water, by exnausting the air ia the chamber where the paper is p!aced,and then suddenly forcing the water mm it, by which every pore is instantly filled, is quite ingenous and effcctive. The method of juardingagainst embezzlement by the workmen, by registering Ihenumbcr of each impression, and by other means, is quite interesting, andweil calculated to prevent frauds being practised. The operations of the bank are immense. - A!l the bank notes which come in for redemption are desiroyed, and the number of new notes that are issued amount3 to an average of twenty thousand daily, the aggregate value of which is about L800,000 sterling, or fotir millions of dollars. The bank has twelve branches, and the building covers about four acres cf ground. The principal deposit office is a very fine and spacious room, and the clerks &. book keepers in it cannol be less than fifty or sixty. The ofBce for the redemption of notes is quite spacious, and some thirty clerks are in attendance. The amount of gold coin is immense, and the rattling of the 6overeigns, as the clerks shovel them into their reservoirs, is quite exciting to a stranger.I Tremont Theatre. Dr. Beecher's First Appearance. - The Boston Mail 6ays that Dr Lyman Beecher appeared foi the first time in hia life on the boards of the late Tremont on Wednesday evening, and delivered one of the most powerful and argumentativo discourses ever delivered in Boston, from the text: "Traitors, heady, high-minded lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God." II Tim. 3,4. In the course of the sermón he gove a brief Imtorical account of tbeatrical representations. A Loafer. - The folio w ing is the best definitionofa loafer, we have yet seen - "A person who begs all ihe tobaco he uses - knows more people than are acquainted with him when he meets ihem- often looking at his borrowed 'vatch to see the time, and takes the paper two weeks and then trainps. " Keep i 't hef ore the people, that the Eve. Journal and Argns adverttse from one to two hundred MEN, on a Louisiana plantation, to be mortagaged as chattels personal to raise money fora North Carolina slave-breederl! Whig abolitionists, do you hear that? In the counties of Edgecombe and Nash, North Carolir.a, thereare 5,631 white persons over twenty years of age, of whom 2,631 j can neither read or write! In 1240 these counties gave a Locofoco majority of 1,958! The cars vi)l run 40 miles furthef on the Central Road - from Jackson to Marshail, and 16 miles further on the Southern Road - frotn Hudson to Hillsdale, which will give us 203 miles of rail-road. We think this pretty fair for the youugeat State in the Union. It is stated in a late English paper that strawberries may be preserved, retaining much oftheir delieious flavor, simply by hanging them up by the stalks in a dry place. West Point. The Legielature of Connecticut has passed rasolutions condemnatory of the Military Academy at West Point, and instructing the delegation in Congress from that State, to vote for its abolishment. It would appear from a return of the Irish constabulary, that crime lias been steadily on the increase in that country since 18S9. In 1840, there were 4,626 outrages; in 1841. 5,300, in 1812, 6,535; and the first three months of the present year, 1,953. Temperante.- The New York Sun eays there was scaicely an instance of intemperance omongst the va6l mukitude which lined the various thoroughfares and other pubhc places of the city on the Fourth of July. Nineteen free colored persons were committed to prison on the 24:h uit. in New Orleans, for being within the State of Louisiana contrary to the statue. We are glaá to learn that a change of opinión is visible in Mississippi, and that the disreputable plan of repudiation which was adopted eome timo ago, is likely to be ltself repudiated by all parties. The great American Aloe, 'Agave Americana,' which is so exceedingly rare, is about blooming in New Orleans. It has over 5,000 flowers in nch and fragrant blossom,and stands 3i) feet in height. Rise ra the Price oj Tf'ool.-We are gratified to hear that Wool is rising. The same quolity tfhich recently soid for 28 cents, now bnngs 82. Holdcrs deraand 3i.- Tioy Whig.