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The Dawn of May.
I‘h,the sky i blue am! ilie swan! ispr cn,
Ami the. soft winds w a ke from ilie ha!it>y west;
The leaves unf' I i on iheir houghs of green,
\n ! the bird in i!ie tr -e-top builds its Koft.
The truant z -pliyr Jiirlu pi uraes Ins v\ ings
Owe more, ami quits rfi* perfumed bed -
Soft calls on the slumbering flowers to wake.
And sporiivc roams o’er each dew-clad head.
The blue-bells nod them within the wood,
The snow drop peeps from her milky btll,
Tho tootlev ihora bends her hood,
VS bile beauteous wild (lowers Hue the dell.
The wild-hriar rose its fragrance breather,
The violet op s it*; cup of blue;
The timid primrose litis its leaves.
And kii.g-eups wake, all bullied in dew.
From flower to flower the wild bee roams—
'l hen. buried within the tow lip’s cup,
Hr murmurs I i> low and music tones.
Till .-he folds the wanton intruder up.
'J’lie spring bird, wakening, soar,, on high,
Gushing aloft its melting lay;
Whilst painted clouds flit o’er the sky.
All ushering in the dawn of .May.
Like a laughing nymph she spring* to light,
Ami tripping along in her world of fl *ers,
Brushes the dew in the morning bright.
And weaves a Joy on each heart of ours.
With frolic bauds the daisy meek
Front her lap of green she playful throws.
Whilst the loveliest fl mens spring round her feet.
And fragrance bursts froth the wild wood rose.
Oh, then g’a i i=> the heart, as through leafing
trees
The soft winds roartrt, them in music play.
Whilst the "sick come t )rtb (or the healing’breeze.''
And rejo re. tu the h;nh of the. beauteous Mav!
And glad is the heart of the joyous child.
As, hounding a w ay through the tangled fl. 11,
It roams ’mid the flowers in preen woods wild.
And hums l .e caged bee in the cowslip’s bell!
Ob, bright is this w orld! ’tis a world of gems,'
And loveliness lingers w herever we tread;
On the mountain top or in lone wood glens
A spirit of I ean y o’er all is spread!
Then warmed he our hearts to that kindly power
That scatters bright r >ses o’er life’s tough way—
That unfolds the cup of the snow-drop’s flower,
And mantles the earth with the gems of May*
[F- om the Richmond Enquirer.]
Sonnet to Julia.
LT .«3CHTI.US.
When on tby peaceful pillow thou art laid;
When happy sleep i> thine, and rosy dreams,
Like on some stilly lake the moon’s cold beams,
Jlalo luxuriantly ihy fair head, [fl^d,
Lighting with smiles, whose beauty, e’en when
I lings to thy pearl cleft bps in twilight gleams;
When dreamle s life is lost in that which seems
More life-like and mote real. Hopes long dead,
Like Ixion phantoms woo to their embrace.
The breast Despair has stamped with misery";
And visions which e’er leave-nprism lined trace,
To tell of hours of thoughtless ecstasy;
Spare, in thy happy bosom one pure place,
And consecrate it to mv memory.
Eiciunond, April 2 I J, 1817.
[From the A*. O. Picayune, 9/h inst. j
Scraps from ihe American Star.
The advanced division of I he A met (can ar
my cn'cred rhe city of Jalapa on life i9ili of ;
April, during the following davs*lhe re- !
nia i ruler of the forces came up. Before the
week ended a regular out and otU American 1
paper was established there, and op the 25th
the first tinmber was issued abounding in in
teresting- and important intelligence. 'J’he
j-Nper ii* owned by the enterprising publislters
i»f the Vera Cruz Ragle, Messrs. Jewell, Peo
ples and Barnard. It would seem from the
first article under the editorial head that bur
adventurous cotemporaries have adopted the
military maxim of “foraging on the enemy,”
as the types, presses and material of the
♦‘Star” were part and parcel of a Jalapa pa
per which, whilom belabored the ‘"Yankees”
with grandiloquent ohjurgation. f i’he Star
makes its obeisance to the public in this wise:
The American S/ar. — Another glorious
victory has been achieved, and we have fol
lowed up the army to c hronicle it. Reader,
you have before you the American Star. It
is American in every sense of Hie word, and
shall never disgrace the stars and stripes it i
advocates. It is primed on the same stype i
(hat this day \&eek spoke such bitter tiling :
against us; But-vve trust that they are civil
ized as well as’naturalized. Look at them
nnd say whether you think they are the same
naughty characters that so much slandered
ns. Verily, “change makes change,” and
those that were our bitterest enemies six days
ago now speak to us in the most dulcet ac
cents they a re-capable of.
We have known strange changes tn the
free press of this country erenow. We have
Keen whig papers converted to the democrat
ic faith and democratic ones pass into the
hands of foemen d er, but never was there
nucha type craft as these Span
ish fonts have undergone. They have changed
sides, and languages too, in a trice. An
American paper in Jalapa ! Why ih 1 stones
in the streets might prate round Castilian
against such innovation. But to the Star.
The following observations upon the “rank
tnd file” will awaken aa echo in many bo
soms :
The Ranh and File. —Wuh what pride
must every American review the conduct and
hearing of the rank and file of our army in
battle. 'The}* go to work with heart and sou!
in the cause, and each private works for and
exults in the glory of our arms as if he were
the commander-in-chief and the responsibili- 1
ty of the action rented upon his shoulders. — ■
In the late fight this feeling was indulged in (
to an unusual degree, and the manner in |
which lljey stormed and carried the principal j
height—opposed as they were by men appa- j
rently as determined Ts themselves—de
serves the thanks and gratitude of the whole
American nation. It is said that the strength
of our army lies in the fact that every man is
a. hero and every one capable ol being a com
mander. This is true; they are all heroes,
because they are ail actuated by the same
proud feeling—that of seeing their arms vic
torious or free.ly shedding their blood in the
attempt.. The rank and file, as we said be
fore, deserves tiie gratitude of the nation, and
we would fain see them mentioned qmong
the irjqre fortunate of the arm}’.
The proprietors, we are glqd to see, are
highly pjeased with their whereabouts. Os
the goodly pity of Jalapa they hold this dis
course; , • r
Jalapa. —lf there is any one place in Mexi
co that we deem superior to all else we’ve
seen, combined, that place is Jalapa. It is
the prettiest town, has the handsomest bund
ing*, loveliest gardens and most delicious
fruits of all others taken together; and what
adds more than all this to the interest of ths
place is the fact that it seems to be peopled
with a race distinct from those we have on
countered elsewhere —possessing more ideas
of refinement, mere intelligence, more indus
try and more neatness, ihe women are de
cidedly pretty, and there is not a man who
I will say aught to the contrary; and in their
! habits-—wc moan of course the‘"upper ten s '
I (1,,. v approximate nearer to American refine
: no n!. Naught c m be said of the men but
i what is to their advantage, and many a time,
I whilst passing up the principal st reef .we ima-
J gined ourself in some thriving Van ke o city,
j Taking Jalapa, a I in ail, we are highly
I phased wi'h it and its people, and cannot
conceive that (here is any difference of opin
ion on that subject amongst us Americans.
Amongst the evidences of a rapidly growing
civilization we remarked the following notice.
Theatrical. —Messrs. Iltrl & Wells, the
proprietors of the American drama in Mexi
co, have sent us word that they will be up
here iu a day or two with their company.
Come on, gentlemen—now is the lime. Our
people ha\e been amusing themselves long
enough with viewing the lovely town to turn
their attention for a few hours to the drama.
You w ill he heartily welcomed by a'l Ameri
cans here.
Perhaps the subjoined paragraph may show
i to the thinking ol many that our friends have
fallen upon a race of men already advanced
m civilization:
One of them. —There is scarcely an hour in
the day that some of the natives are not with
onr q ia te ■inas’ers. irgng payment (or pro
per'v destroyed or used by our troops. \\ ben
ever the claim presents anything l.’ke just ice
on its face it is invariably liquid tied. A day
or two since a Mexican proprietor entered
the office and handed in a b.ll for the u*e ol
tit'y mules. After being interrogated through
.in interpreter, it was filially a-certained that
the animals had been u-ed in drawing a 12-
pounder belonging tn the Mexicans up the
Cerru Gordo, which said piece had opened
upon our troops and sent a perfect shower ol
gripe end cannister amongst them. The
quartermaster informed the claimant that he
was not authorized to settle tip fur the Mexi
can Government, but that when lie was he
would pav such bills with pleasure.
The only account of the military stores
| taken at Perote which we have seen is con
| tained in the fodowing paragraph:
The Advance. —On ilie 22' 1 inst. nt 12 M.
Gen. Worth entered Perote, without opposi
tion. The enemy’s forces had all left that
place,and onr General look possession of the
castle, with its armament in perfect order.
Col. Velasquez had been left behind to sur
render all tilings in the name of the Govern
ment. Fifty cannons,.three mortars, four
l .-(one mortars and four or five howitzers, lo
j gether with a. large number of round shot and
shells (no particular quantity of o’her am
munition) and small arms were delivered np
to us. Gens. Morales and Landero, who had
been irnorisonf'd by Santa Anna forcapitula
! ting at Vera Cruz, were released on the ap
j pearance of the Americans.. Two South
Carolina volunteers and an American sailor,
taken near Vera Cruz, were prisoners in tire
castle, and of course released by our troops.
Ampudia was in tfic vicinity of Perote on the
approach of Gen. Worth, but had not the
politeness to visit him before taking his de
parture, which is said to have been hurried.
Some two or three thousand infantry and
cavalry of the enemy were also in the neigh
borhood, hut (hey were disorganized and iu a
most pitiable condition.
On the road the inhabitants complained
bitterly of outrages perpetrated by the re
treating ftoldiers from Cerro Gordo, and many
of them had left their homes.
Midshipman Rogers was removed from Pe
nile to Puebla the same day the fight com
menced at Cerro Gordo,
The last preceding sentence is a'l that has
been heard of. Midshipman Rogers since the
army left Vera Cruz. It is sheer wanton
cruelty tn keep that gallant young officer in
prison. We trust that the next lime a batch
o{ Mexican officers (all into our hands lus re
lease will be specially treated fur.
From Recent French Papers.
Translated for the Home Journal, from Paris
papers received at t v's office, and from the able
summaries a f French neics in the columns of the
Cotirrisr dcs Flats Unisand the Franco Am
erican.
1 r lias come into mo le rft Paris f>r gen
tlemen to frequent places of public amuse
ment in full ball dress—white waistcoat,
body coats and black trow.sers. (The
“night key” to which fashion, probably
is, that it advertises an ulierior engage
ment to ball or supper after the play.)
Shoes are rigorously exacted. Short
canes, which were a refuge to the awk
ward who knew not what else ti do with
their handr, are seen only at the opera.
\hl sare no longer taken into the drawing
room. Cravats, white or black, at pleas
ure. A bunch ofjady segars, with month
pieces of sandaJ-wood, are presented, [by
some gentlemen lo some ladies] .instead
of bouquets. A small bunch of violets,
or some other (lower cosily and modest,
is worn at the button-hole. Men of all
ages, all degrees of gravity, and of all
professions and pursuits, now let forth the
moustache, unremarked upon, except ap
provingly. Nature has prevailed; and
tke general human being is allowed to
proportionately embellished. Ladies say
now they would as lief kiss a woman as
a man without a moustache. There is,
in the public sentiment at, present, a
premonition of small clothes, and Mr.
Macready, tlie tragedian, [who is the first
living artist at “making up,”] is likely to
realize a fortune, it is said, by the sale to
laiJors of his secrets of the semblances of
calf and thigh. Tights are trying. How
ever true it is that d slender leg shows a
man’s descent from ancestors who have
not trudged and carried burthens, ihcfe n
a certain plumptilude ot limb, becoming
to a man, which, “to grace a carpel,”
must needs be had, real or counterfeit.
The age of elaborate dressing is coming
about again, it is generally ptedicied.
Hals are idiosyncratic;—no two of the
unstereotyped wearing the same shape.
No other change of consequence in the
fashions for gentlemen.
During the recent Carnival, the hold at
tempt was made to introduce for ladies ,
the fashion of absence da corset. Those
who fancy-dresses, a “cSiemtsefle o f idea I
batiste,” conformed to this, and wore also,
with their earning u;> around the throat
like a gentleman’s shirt, were sai I to be
dressed a V insolente. It was considered
by the supersrveni.cen plurality* howevar,
as an invasion on the part of extreme
youth, and neither enduring nor endura
ble. Velvet was not worn at ail for
rna-qneracie dresses—satin and denlelles
being the only wear. Powdered hair is
making ominous advances towards be
coming once more the fashion!.
Mach Carnival at Paris has its belie?—
those who distinguished themselves at the
various public halls, by costume or hear
ing, by dancing or wit. Tne most con
spicuous v. as Mademoiselle Celeste Mo
gador, the equestrian of the Hippodrome,
famous from Petersburg to Naples for
the beauty of her arms. She is large,
well-made, marked [just enough for cx
pressing] with the small pox, majestic in
movement and very noble in her air.
She expresses, even in her dancing, the
bean y she is accustomed to borrow from
her horse. The female centaur is there,
though her steed is in the stable. A pro
fjund sentiment of hers, expressed at the
la-t hall, is now repeated in (’aids. On
being asked why she danced so little, site
replied, with a sigh: MPs time ! gave r
up—l m I went y two! ’ it was reported
that she would not re-appear this coming
summer at the U ppodrome, retiring,
henceforward, to private life.
The liv< 1 est of the wonders this year
at the mask'd balls has won admiration
in theco-tnme of a jockey H a r electric
vivacity of wit and movement, absolutely
made people wink as if she filing out
spaiks. Such a fool in such a boot was
never before seen.
The mystery of the whole carnival,
how ever, was a couple of superb Graces,
unsurpas>ahle in form and movement,
dressed most r ichly as delardcuses, and
marked w ith a closeness beyond all pos
sibe detection. They danced only with
each other, and spoke with no one, but
their cm ions and wonderful variations of
tiro dance, and absolute perfection ot the
minutest motiui, and turn of head and
limb, excited intense curiosity. Had they
been public dancers they would have
been recognized at once, but no one cored
identify them with any known beauties
either of public life or private. They
left, as they came, together and unattend
ed, and there is not even yet a guess at
the fascinating riddle.
'l'he snow, rain, bail end sleet of ihis
harshest of seasons, has bad no effect on
the gavelv of the Carnival, nr has the
prevailing grippe, though every body is
afraid of it. dhe grand ball ol ifie Opera
was jammed as usual, This is the cue
place where every body coos —the gra
vest not trusting their knowledge of its
wonders to hearsay, d ire moment before
the leader of the orchestra raises his staff
for the waltz in Miat vast hall, it would
not he credited that there was a pos'd bill
ty ol even spinning round in the orbit of a
gimlet. To-get your handkerchief out
of 3 hind-pocket is an un realizable dream.
But two bars of the waltz are not achiev
od before there is a heaving of the mass,
a dividing and solidifying, and like a
charge ofcavalry, the waltzeis dash hack
the slanders still, cram them and pack
them, till I lie ordained circle, the room
enough, is achieved, and thediincers have
open field for display. It is a wilderness
of confusion, however. The gayetv is
so tumu'tuous and tbe astoniahinge are so
numberless, that few can be remarked.
There are so many people that it is a
solitude.
[Corrc 'ponden e of the Baltimore £un.]
Washington, May 11, 1847.
I learn that commi.-fionors are soon to be
sent, by our government, to Mexico, with a
view to ascertain ttie dispositions of tiie Mexi
can government in regard to peace, if Mexi
co should accept our terms. The prelimina
ries. dais settled, will be submitted to the
Mexican constituent congress, for latifica
lion, and will of course, await the sanction of
our treaty making power.
Senator Benton will be one of the com
missioners; Senator Soule may be another.
I do not think .Mr, Buchanan will consent to
be one of liiem, unless, in the jnean lime,
Mexico should make some positive advance
towards peace. He would not go to Mexico,
I think, upon any uncertainty.
We have a rumor that the government has
sent orders to (!en. Scott not to proceed be
yond Jalapa. 1 do not credit it. But granting
it to be true, the orders to him will come too
late. In my opinion, as derived from good
sources, lie must have found, at Jalapa, the
necessary means of transportation. A gen
tleman here, well acquainted with the route,
speaking of this subject, just now, said that
an army moving west or south from this
place, could not find better means of trans
portation, at Lancaster, than our troops, on
the march >o Mexico, could rind at Jalapa.
While we are seeking new glories, it is
well to contemplate old ones. Recorded
honors and glories should be cherished. The
Republic must not forget, nor longer neglect,
the tomb of Washington.
I happened to hear to diy that there is a
gentleman now in this city who is negotiat
ing for the purchase of Mount Vernon, with
a view to a speculation. He proposes, it is
said, to place upon the estate a colony of
foreigners, Germans or Swiss, who will there
establish a garden and nursery, but giving
free admission and access to all pilgrims
who may visit the spot where ‘Tie hero rests
on the banks of his own Potomac, in glory
and peace.”
I do not much like the plan; but it may be
better than to suffer the hallowed place to go
to utter ruin.
It (.he people of the United States—the de
scendants of those who participated in the
revolution—if the government of the United
Stales, of which he was, in a great part, the
founder— .-do nut deem it an obligation to pro
tect his tomb, it may be well to call in the
aid of those, in foreign countries, who may
better appreciate the obligation, as one im
posed upon the whole human kind. lon.
Democratic Victories;
Maine. —ln the Hampden district, Hon.
IlannibaldHamlin, (d-em.,) was, on Monday,
elected to the House of Representatives by 20
majority over Mexican whig.-? and abolition
ists. 'i’he House now stands— 77,
ad other-, 73; one district to heat^ptn.
Troy, N. V. has thrown off ihts&yljig yoke
in the charter election, having Oen.
Albert 'l'.- Dunham president,and te-v*fpGmo
traoc tfb'tees to one whig.
Wilmindtcs, Delaware ---Herd, ion, the
democrats enerfeeded nobly on Tuesday,
choosing all their candidates in wards 1.2,
and 3, leaving the wings only ward 4.
Average democratic majority 6 j >.
Rhode Island —Here we defeat one of
the whig congressmen. I'he official vote
proves R. B. Cranston (whig) to be r'oeted
in the eastern district by only 24 majority.
In the western district, Wilkins Upcl ke
(whig) lacks about 300 of an election. His
plurality over Thurston (regular democra')
is only 107.— Boston Post.
SATURDAY MORNING. MAY 15. 1817.
o* Received from Thus. Richards, a new
novel, by G. I*. R. James—“ The String of
Pearls.”
Also, “Hackley’s School Algebrt,” by C.
W. Ilackley Prof. Mathematics, Columbia
College, N. Y.
Quarrelling about the .domination. —T he
Whigs who arc so e >gcr to press General Tavlor
into their party traces, to drag them cut of the
political mire, are getting exceedingly intollerant.
We perceive that our neighbor of the Chronicle
if- Sentinel is rather severely ridiculed by the
Macon Journal S' Mcssngcr for supporting
Mr. Clay's pretensions. It describes the CHrcn
i lc as “indicting stanzas on first love,” and like
a beautiful maiden of sixteen, “shedding whole
pints of bitter tears,” because papa (in this in
stance the people) will not countenance the
gratification of her youthful whims.”
We s>e nothing so very ridiculous, if there is
t >be Whig a candidate, in Mr Clay beingadvo
cated by a Whig paper. For we have no idea
that General Taylor intends surrendeaing his
name and fame into the keeping of the anti-war
party of the country. The absurdity is on the
part of those who believe that he will ever con
sent to be the candidate of such a party.
Princip'cs—Not Moi>.
This time honored maxim seems to be
wholly discarded by a large portion of the
whig press as of very inconvenient applica
tion. It never was in very pood repute with
them, and in practice has long since been re
pndia'ed. In running after popular men and
available candidates, that party seems wholly
to h ive lost sight of its principles—if in fact
it has anv—good, bid or indifferent. It
seems very much engrossed with the idea of
obtaining power by means of popular elec
tion-, but it is silent as to the purposes to
which that power is to be applied, if won,
except the turning of democrats out of (Bice
and putting in whips. 'J ins is what we un
derstand to be the plain Hnglish of putting
an end to “ democratic misrule .” The outs
always will think there is misrule in the
country, however prosperous may he its af
fairs. as long as they are out. This is bu
rn on nature. Tnis is the history of lhe
world. Bui it is rather more difficult to
point out the misrule of which to much
clamor is made, than to assert its existence.
'The United States is at this moment the best
regulated government in the world, and its
affairs are managed in the most efficient
manner pnssib’e. 'The treasury department
was never in abler hands, and its financial
condition is in a high degree satisfactory.
In a time of war—an expensive war,in which
the operations of oTr armies arc carried on
at immense distances from the resources of
our country, the cred t of our government is
unimpaired. In fact she presents the unpre
cedented aspect of an appreciating credit in
the very midst of war. The war itself is a
most striking evidence of the great ability
and energy of our government, and shows
conclusively that its management could not
possibly be in abler hands. Order, arrange
ment, efficiency characterize and preside
over every department and combine harmo
niously together. The brilliant results, not
of one expedition only—not of this or that
division of the army—not of any one squad
ron of the navy, but of each and all, have as
tounded the world at the power, the re
sources, the energy of our great republic.
Such results could not have been worked out
by a single General or a single Commodore.
But upon the land and upon the ocean—
amidst the chaparrals in the valley of the
Rio Grande—amidst the burning sands and
narrow defiles of the route to the City of
Mexico—amidst the rugged mountains and
inhospitable snows of New Mexico, upon
the Pacific coast, and in the blustering
Gulf, the same watchful energy presides.
Our gillant commanders, both military and
naval, might have achieved each for himself
miracles of skill and valor—but their victories
would have been barren of results, and their
progress would have terminated in disaster,
were not sagacious and energetic men at the
head of affairs at Washington, and directing
them in all their complicated ramifications
with mathematical precision.
Let us look at home, and we behold the
country enjoying unexampled prosperity un
der the influence of wise and wholesome
laws. Under a lower rate of tariff duties,
the country is enjoying an abundant and pro
fitable intercourse with foreign countries,
and the treasury is at the same lime deriv
ing a larger revenue, than under the restric
tive system of the whigs. 'The products of
our soil, which vve export as the basis of that
trade,are commanding higher prices than un
der the opposite system could be possible.
The theory of free trade is thus doubly prov
ed. . The cheap postage so triumphantly es
tablished among us, is another of the bless
ings our people enjoy, and exhibits the pro
priety of facilitating in every way the inter
courss of mankind by diminishing its bur
dens. For as in tariffs of nations, so in the
domestic interchanges of the mails, you in
crease revenues to a certain limit by dimin
ishing the tax.
When the impartial patriot, untrammelled
by contemplates the present glorious
and prosperous state of his country —happy
at home— *•<»*•*»-td, occupying c. most
commanding attitude among (he nations of
the earth, and with every prospect of k long
career of prosperity and glory, how vain and
ridiculous must seem to him the cmakings
and c lamor* of a party that cry out that the
country is misgoverned—a new system must
be established—‘he present order of things
must Le reversed—whigs must be put in
power, or our country is hopelessly ruined.
His reply must be, the country is doing very
well. It needs no change, and least of all
“Such change as they would bring us.”
Alabama Nomination.
The Democratic State Convention in Ala
bama, have nominated the Hon. Reuben Chap
man as a candidate for Govrjnor. Saudi. N.
Inge has been nominated as the candidate of the
pasty for Congress in the 4tb District,
Tie N. O. Delta of the 9 h iost , sny
‘•The city has quite a military air about it at
the present time. The Kentucky Legion are
hereon their return from Monterey. »Scve
ral companies are here en route f>r Mexico,
and throughout the day the spirit-stirring
notes of the drum and fife are heard in the
recruiting rendezvous.
Arrival of Troop*.
Tit? New Orleans Delta oft he 9'h instant,
says—“ Yesterday morn ng the steamer Star
Spangled Dinner, Capt. l‘iorce, from Cin
cinnati, arrived, and brought down tw« com
panies of the 1 b'th Regiment of Infancy from
Kentucky. The officers in command ure
Capt tins Graves and G trrard, atid Lieuten
ants Mc.Mordie, Smith and Gar eP, 'i lie
force numbers in all 197 tner. They will
shortly be despatched to the seal of war.”
A Creva-se*
The N. Orleans Picayune ot the 9th inst. says
A breach in the levee of a m ry serious char
acter took place about 2 o’clock yesterday at Al
giers, immediately opposite Canal street. Such
was the violence of the water that a frame house
wis upset and others were niu.:h damaged. Sev
eral persons were reported to have been drowned
At dark last evening the breach was about two
hundred feet wide, and the waters were rushing
through with great fury. r i be hull of an old
steamer was procured and scuttled immediately
abreast of the crevasse, which impeded the flow
of water somewhat, hut the banks were evident
ly wearing away and the appearances were alann
iug.
The hank srcn-H to have caved : n, for where
the levee was yesterday morning the water was
one hundred and twenty ft et deep at dusk. The
streets of Algiers weir flooded; and the water
was three or four feet deep all nvi r the Ringa
nnn Com Se. which is immediately in the rear of
the break. The depth of the levee at the point
broken is about live f et, so one mav imagine
the terrible havoc a volume of w iter of the
breadth of the breach and the depth of the lever
must make, unless soon arrested. Unless steps
are taken to throw up ale ee in the rear of the
one now I rcken. tve fear the planters below will
suffer terribly. A great quantity of wood was
s.vept away, an i damage to property in the town
must he sustained to a large amount. There
was a numhoi of horses and cattle in the inclo
-1 sure of the Dingamau Cou se, which presented
a piteous sight.
The ferry boats were crowded with people
crossing the river to witness and marvel at the
rush of waters. It Was a grand spectacle to be
hold, and fearful in its ruthless violence.
D. Korponay, the great Polka danecr <
has been elected captain of a company of the
regiment of dragoons now being raised in Mis
souri.
I Communicated )
Mr. E lilor. — Permit an eye witness, and
one who is unwilling to see censure bestowed
hy any one, however uninfluentia!, where on
the contrary high praise was deserved, to
make a few comments on the recent trotting
race between Columbus and Dutchess. Lu
liter Seargent the jocky of Columbus has
been charged by a few discontented people
with having attempted to throw away the
race. And on what grounds? Why, the
flimsiest and most ridiculous imaginable.—
They arc in sac, 100 ridiculous for r filia
tion, and need only be named to be laughed
at. One evidence of foul p'ay alledged, is, the
breaking of the breeching at the first turn of
the second heat, and this is alledged, or in
sinuated to have been designed. These snarl
ing rynicsshould nnx upa little common sense
with their carping. They must be very ig
norant of trotting horses, il they suppose a
driver would willingly place himself in such
danger of the heels of the animal. No trot
ting horse, especially so hard a pulling and
self-willed horse as Columbus, could be driven
with entire safety without breeching, it is
with the gentlest —the most docile, an alarm
ing accident. Seargant deserved great credit
fur his presence of mind, and good manage
ment, to have brought itte horse to the score,
without breeching, in the very descent time
of O' 2:4*2. Two minutes and forty-two se
cond>, dont look, to a man up a tree, like an
intention to throw away the race. We say
that Columbus made this time. So he did, for
though the mare took the heat Columbus, was
close up—in about a length. He would have
won it, had he not broke within twenty yards
of the score, and lost ground thereby. lie
was ahead, and the shouts of the crowd
caused him to break. This breeching was
nearly new, made by one of our best harness
makers, and apparently of excellent leather.
It’s appearance indicated that it would lake
extraordinary force lo break it.
Now us ol the third heat. CoUirabus won
it, and with it the race. There is an old say
ing, “the proof of the pudding is chewing the
bag.”— 'Phis heal was made in two rnuiutet
and forty-one seconds. When a horse makes
such lime as that, his rider expect* him lo
win, und
“They be fleet steeds that follow, quoth
young Ijochinvar.” It is all gammon lo talk
: about such time being made, expecting it to
be beat. In the trotting calends of 1817, no
such time can bo shown on the American
turf. So says a knowing one. If Luther
Seargent had wished lo he beat, he bad only
to give his horse an extra twitch or two on
the back or quarter stretch, and throw him
from his work. He could have lust five or
l en seconds ea-y enough in that way. One
nr two would have done the business, for
Dutchess was not only jam up, but a little
ahead at the score. She broke tip when Co
lumbus locked her, near the distance post and
ran out first. Rut she would ha ve trotted out,
if her competitor had been a second or two be
hind in the race,
j Take it all in all, this was a very extranr
i dinary race. If was creditable to the con
i lending horses to have made such lime un
i der any circumstance*. When we consid -r
I the condition of (Mluinhus, his winning whs
a brilliant feat, 11 id he fallen off ten or fif
| teen seconds in tiu* second and third hratf,
1 it would not have created surpr ze. He had
, been out of training for a long time, and had
1 been driven promiscuously hy his owner, in
a buggy up to a few days of the race. He
j was in the hands of Luther Seargent fur
: training but eight days previous to the rare.
It was feared that h* woti’d mt hold out
| after the first heat, a >d many would only bet
on his winning the fi st. After the second
heat, he showed considerable distress, and
h’ed a little at the nose. I*, was thought by
n J
j some that li'’ ought to have been drawn. Ha
was under the entire control of Seargeant,
who could have drawn him, and would have
been justified in so doing by many witnesses*.
Ifiit he preferred to do his best to win the
race, as much money was bet on the result.
He did win it, and in gallant style. 1 con
sider that it was a brilliant achievement and
that Seargent evinced by it. great i-kill as* a
| driver. No less credit is due him forprepar
! ing his horse in so short a time for such &
race. It proves him a good trainer.
\
; One sapient gentleman was heard to any
i that Columbus was held back by Seargent*
after getting in f o ihe quarter stretch—that he
swung his whole weight on the bit, ami thus
I jtrevealed ILe old horse from going along,
j I hat i i'firmd Theban" ought to have known
; what he was talking ab>ut, belter than to
suppo-c that mode to be the likeliestNo check,
| such horse rs Columbus. lie is noioriotm
-1 Iv the hardest mouthed trotter hut one in tho
country. A i**rk or a saw, would have done
ti e damage a liti le more surely than a steady
; pull. The brush down the quarter stretch
on the third heat was rent trked as the great
est flight of speed accom.dished that day.
In conclusion 1 will add that no motive
Ik\s been assigned, or ran be, why Seargent
could have wished to lose the race. Ilerer
; tainlv d;d have strong motives to, win. lam
; * 9
equally at a Ins-. to conceive that a generoti*
or just man could wantonly g ve fits mind
up to suspicions so absurd—so improbable
tnd visionary. They must be suspicions en
gendered more by bad temper than good
judgement, nnd in the end can only “plague
| the inventors.” N « one hid any large in-
I terest in the success of Duchess, except gen
tlemen wholly above suspicion, and no oaf*
whatever had un interest large enough to
' make it an object tn accomplish it by unfair
means. Feeling a warm wish to see the
sport of trotting fairly established a* an an*
mial on our Augusta turf, I have taken sow*
i . . =
) pains to refute an imputation which might
tend to defeat that desirable end.
SPECTATOR.
i A correspondent of She Philadelphia Ledger
| gives the following account of the personal ap
pearance of General Taylor :
The Genera! is not over & fret 7 ,i»r S inches
high, is stout, and inclines lo corpulency, would
weigh. 1 should think, near 2(X) lbs , und tho
j most prominent thing about him is an unusual
l shortness of legs. When tie is sitting he looks
! like a tali man - not so when standing. liisfaco
is intelligent, and it is usually lit up with a b nov
olent smile. He is in the habit, when speaking
toanvone,ot partially closing his left eye. Ilia
hair is g-fay and grizzly. In one word, gentle
i men, if you can i nagine a p'ain old Pennsylva
nia farmer, who has a farm paid for worth S3OOO,
and nothing else in the world—an independent,
jovial, don’t-care a-fig kind of an old coon—yon
have “old Zack” before you. One word now us
| to the Presidency.
When the army last summer was at Matamo
ras, a Mr. Reeder, (I think) from Baltimore,
i came there to ci.-tribute medals to the non-rom
i missioned officers and soldiers who had distin
| gui-hed themselves at Palo Alto, Ac. Jt is rr
i ported that while there, Mr. K. informed ‘‘old
: Zick” that he had been nominated by some per
! sons in New York for the Presidency. Jhe old
! General’s rcplv was characteristic. “Mr, Reed
er, I don’t want it—l have no other or higher
; ambiti »n than to remain at the head of my uobltr
j little army. 1 have always considered mv self an
1 honest man—my neighbors so consider me---hut
! were I to accept a nomination, there are persons
who would call me every tiling that is bad, and
others who would say of me. ns they said of Gen
eral Harrison, that i never was within two miles
i of a fi-dd of battle No! no !—I don’t want it.
I don’t want it!
Democratic Meeting in Colombia county.
A meeting of the Democratic pt rty of Columbia
j county will be held at Appling, on the first Turs- .
i day in June, fur the purpose of appointing Dele
j gates to the Convention to be held in Mitledgeville.
.Hand's Kiuanparilln,
This valuable Medicine combine* the mcH
sa!.utary productions, the most potent simples of
the vegetable kingdom. Its unproc*^ suc ‘
cess in tho restoration pf those who had long
pined under the most distressing chronic mala
dies, has given it an exalted character, furnish
ing, as it does, evidence o its own intrinsic value
and recommending jt to the afflicted in terms
the afflicted only can know, h has !ong been a