Germans of that place, a fight ensued. The police
interfered, and were bearing off one of the belligerents, when
the Germans attempted a rescue, and the mêlée became
general. The police of Philadelphia are armed with
revolvers and clubs, and they discharged the former
into the crowd of Germans, wounding a number of them,
and used the latter so vigorously that several were badly
beaten. The Germans armed themselves with fence
rails, and made a desperate resistance. During the row
one of the officers was stabbed, and another severely
injured. There have also been riots at Newark, New
Jersey. The Protestant Association having marched in
procession through the town, they were hissed and
pelted, and shots are said to have been fired from a
Roman Catholic chapel. The enraged and zealous
Protestants broke into the chapel, and ruined the
interior. These disgraceful "religious" disturbances are
becoming very common in America.—The caloric engine
invented by Capt. Ericsson has been finally abandoned,
and is to be taken out of the ship bearing his name,
steam boilers being substituted.—Fifteen or sixteen
persons had been killed by the explosion of a steamboat
at Jefferson city.—Senator Douglas had attempted
to deliver a proslavery speech at Chicago, but was
prevented by a large body of abolitionists.—
Commander Hollins, of Grey Town notoriety, had been
removed from the command of the Cyane. In the
official communication, however, the Secretary of the
Navy assures the commander that he retains
unimpaired the confidence of the department.—The New
Orleans papers mention that the cholera was increasing
and the mortality great; the immigrants were the chief
sufferers.

The St. Louis papers mention the massacre of a number
of soldiers by the Sioux Indians. It seems that a Sioux
Indian stole an ox from an emigrant. The chief of the
tribe offered to deliver the offender to the commander
of the fort; and, accordingly, Lieutenant Grattan,
Serjeant Favor, Corporal M'Nulty, and twenty privates,
accompanied by an interpreter, set out for the camp of
the Sioux, where the entire party were massacred. It
was reported that the chief of the Sioux was also killed.
Considerable apprehension existed for the safety of the
garrison, as the Indians had surrounded it. It was
reported that the Indians had also destroyed the
American Fur Company's station. Persons well
acquainted with the American Indians assert that the
whites are generally the aggressors in these scenes of
murder and robbery.

A shocking instance of heartless ingratitude and
cruelty is stated to have recently occurred in the state of
Mississippi. A planter was grievously diseased; every
one but a slave-girl deserted him; by her care he
recovered. With gratitude and affection to his
benefactor, he took her to Cincinnati, Ohio, executed to her
a deed of manumission, had it recorded, returned to
Mississippi, and there married her in legal form. They
lived together affectionately for many years, reared a
family of children, and as he lay upon his deathbed, by
will he divided his property between his wife and
children. His brothers, hearing of his death, came
forward and demanded the property. The widow and
children were indignant at the demand. They too were
seized; and the validity of that marriage was tried
before Judge Sharkley, of Mississippi, who decided that
the whole matter was a fraud upon the law of slavery—
that the property belonged to the collateral heirs. The
widow was sold by the surviving brothers; the children
were bid off at public auction; and both mother and
children are consigned to slavery.

NARRATIVE OF LITERATURE AND ART.

Hardly more space than sufficed last month to record
its principal features of new publication will now be
required for its successor. Cheap editions of well
known works have again formed the main part of
the monthly issue, and our list of the really new or
interesting books will be speedily exhausted. Professor
Ansted has published extracts from his note-book
during a geological and mining excursion, with the title
of Scenery, Science, and Art. Mrs. Mathew Hall has
published, in two volumes, uniform with Miss Strickland's
royal biographies, Memoirs of the Queens before
the Conquest. Mr. Kaye has put forth the Life and
Correspondence of Charles Lord Metcalfe, drawn from
his unpublished letters and journals. The ex-council
of the old Anti-Corn-Law League have printed
in a handsome volume, which they entitle The
Charter of the Nations, a prize essay by Mr. Henry
Dunckley on the results of free trade. From Mr.
Edward Thornton we receive, in four octavo volumes,
a very carefully compiled Gazetteer of the Territories
under the Government of the East India Company.
Mr. J. D. Harding has reissued his Lessons on
Art, with a new guide and companion. The author
of John Drayton has edited a new novel called
Mathew Paxton. The substance of ten lectures
by Mr. Brande on Organic Chemistry applied to Art
&c. has been collected into a volume. A second
volume of Sir William Hamilton's edition of Dugald
Stewart's Works has appeared. Mr. James
Heywood and Mr. Thomas Wright have comprised in
two octavos a collection of Cambridge University
Transactions during the Puritan Controversies of the
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Lady Scott, the
author of The Henpeck'd Husband, has written a novel
called the Pride of Life. Mr. Edward Mayhew has
published a practical treatise on Dogs. Mr. Jonathan
Duncan has contributed to the National Illustrated
Library a newly compiled History of Russia; and
for the same series Mr. Whitehead has written a
Life of Sir Walter Raleigh. Mr. Bohn has added
many good standard books to his various libraries,
and among them the first volume of a new
translation of the Works of Philo Judæus. A most
interesting volume has been compiled, by authority of
the Registrar-General, from the Census of Great Britain
in 1851. To a lady, Ann Elizabeth Baker, we owe
a careful and curious Glossary of Northamptonshire
Words and Phrases. Mr. Charles Henry Scott
has produced, at an opportune time, a volume on
The Black Sea and the Crimea, from notes of travels in
Russia four years ago. Mr. Bell has added Sir Thomas
Wyat, and Mr. Gilfillan Samuel Butler, to their
respective collections of the English Poets. Mr. Homersham
Cox has published, with the title of the British Commonwealth,
a commentary on the institution and principles
of British government. Doctor Redford and Mr. James
have edited the Autobiography of William Jay. Mr.
George Melby has written School Experiences of a Fag
at a Private and Public School. Mrs. Charles Clacy has
collected some stories and sketches illustrative of colonial
settlers' lives, under the title of Lights and Shadows of
Australian Life. Mr. Francis Pulszky has translated,
from the German of Dr. Wagner, a volume on
French conquests in Algeria called The Tricolor on the
Atlas. A volume has been issued by Mr. Constable to
exhibit the Mosaic Record in Harmony with the
Geological; and Mr. Calderwood, in another volume put
forth by the same publisher, treats of The Philosophy of
the Infinite, with special reference to the theories of Sir
William Hamilton and Mr. Cousin. Mr. Routledge,
among many other new editions and compilations, has
given a new edition of Gay's Fables, with more than a
hundred designs by Mr. Harvey; and a condensed but
clearly written Life of Julius Caesar by Archdeacon
Williams. Mr. Heberden Milford has written a novel
in three volumes called The Physician's Tale. And
finally, the Rev. Mr. Desprez has replied to Dr.
Cumming's Apocalyptic Sketches in a volume called the
Apocalypse Fulfilled, remarkable for the moderation and
modesty of suggestion with which the subject is treated.