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A «EM—THE WELCOME.
Come in the evening, or come in the morning.
Come when you're looked for, or come without
warning,
Kisses and w. Icome you'll find here before yon.
And she ullTier you come here the more I’ll adore
you.
Light is my heart since the day we were plighted,
lied is my cheek that they told me was blighted;
The green of the trees looks far greener than ever,
And the linnets are singing, ‘True lovers, don’t
sever!’
I’ll pull you sweet flowers, to wear if you choose
them.
Or, after you’ve kissed them, they’ll lie ou ray
bosom.
I'll fetch from the mountain its breeze to inspire
you.
I’ll fetch from my fancy a tale that won’t tire you.
0 ! your step’s like the rain to the summer-vexed
fanner,
Or sabre and shield to a knight without armor.
I’ll sing you sweet songs till the stars rise above
me.
Then, wandering. I'll wish you in silence, to love
me.
We’ll look through the trees at the cliff and the
eyrie,
We’ll tread round the path on the track of the
fairy.
We’ll look on the stars and we’ll list to the river.
Till you ask of your darling w hat gift you can
give her.
O! she’ll wisper yon ‘Love as unchangeably
beaming,
And trust, when in secret, most tunefully stream
. ing ’
Till the starlight of heaven above us shall quiver,
And our souls flow in one down eternity’s river.’
So, come «n the evening or come in the morning.
Come when you’re looked for, or come without
warning.
Kisses And welcome you'll find here before you,
And theofl’ner you come here the more I’ll adore,
you.
Light is my heart since the day we were plighted,
Ked is my cheek that they told me was blighted;
The green of the trees look far greener than ever,
And the linnets are singing ‘True lovers don’t
sever!’
[From (he N. O. Picayune.]
A DESERTER AT MONTEREY.
The capital Army correspondent of the
N. Y. Spirit of the Times, “G. de L.,”
whose graphic letters are universally
read, has written some of the most inter
rsliug accounts of 1 Ite battles with the
Mexicans we have yet seen. Wrilinu
from Monterey, under date of the sth
October, after speaking of American de
serters in the Mexican Army, be next
tells an amusing anecdote ot a prisoner
who was brought before Gen. Ampudia.
The verdancy of the Mexican general is
hardly to be wondered at; but let us copy
1 lie paragraph:
‘•Several of our deserters were recognised
in the ranks of the enemy while they were
marching out—some of our men hissed one
of them, lie was marching by the side of a
tall Mexican, who looked dm* n upon linn and
laughed at him, as much as to say: ‘You
have to stand it, old fellow!’ ilow degraded
the poor wretch must have fell! Some of our
deserters are commissioned officers in their
Army. Some few of our men were taken
prisoners during the action. Gen. Ampudia
had them brought to him and questioned them
himself.. Alter a.-kmg one ot them about our
strength, number of .cannon, &,c., lie wanted
to know what ellect bis Proclamation bad
produced among our men? whether some of
them had not been inclined to desert? ‘Oh!
no,’ replied he, ‘they are not so green as
that.’ The word 'green' being ratio r above
tlie general’s English, another interpreter
was brought in to explain the monstrous
wind. This interpreter was a captain, who,
six months ago, was a private in our ranks.
When questioned to explain the word—
‘Why,’said lie, ‘they were not such d—d
fools!’ (Mem. —‘Green,’an Americanism not
well understood by Mexican generals, signi
lymg — dfitol!’ ”
'Phe anecdote we do not recollect having
heard before, but the deserters we saw
ourselves as they marched out in the
ranks ofthe enemy, and more miserable
wretches to look at, or a more miserable
company than that in which they were
found, it would be difficult to imagine, or
meet with in the wide world. One fellow
in pailicular, a worthless scoundrel,
named Riley—who had deserted from
Cant. Merrill’s company of the3th lulan
try —received a passing salute from his
old comrades, as he went out of the city,
which lie will not forget in a twelvemondi.
fie I lad deserted from near Matamoros
early in the spring, had succeeded in
reaching the Mexican lines, and was at
once taken into the artillery and made
captain of a gun. lie was a tall, stalwart
fellow, yet utterly worthless—a noisy,
quarrelsome, yet cowardly wretch—and
hi.s riddance from the company was even
matter of rejoicing rather than regret.
The Mexican army marched out of
Monterey in three divisions and on three
successive days, and more motley crowds*
of tatterdemalions never paraded through
streets at carnival time—never evaculed
captured city. Something like one-fourth
of each division consisted of women—
Dampers carrying parrots or poodle dogs,
pots or some kind of cooking utensil—ail
wearing ranchero hats, yet many of them
barefooted: these were the wives and
camp women of the common soldiers, the
most of them ugly,yet all having the fine
eyes, teeth, feet and hands characteristic
of the country. Then came officers—
young lieutenants—mounted on wrecks
of horses. Small yellow dogs, with green
or pink ribbons lied round their necks,
were carried before them on the pommtls
of their saddles, while rnavhap a guitar
was tied on one side behind and a camp
kettle on the other—the useful and the
ornamental strangely mingled. Upon
mules, in the rear ot these officers, would
follow women of a belter grade, their
shoulders covered with gaudy scrapes or
blankets, while their heads were protect
cd as were those ofthe fool women, with
wide rimmed hats. Again, seated flat in
the bottoms of clumsy wagons, came
females of a still belter class, children in
their midst, all followers of the army.
Each battalion or regiment had its band
—trumpeters and drummers—and the
fellows beat and blew as lus’ily as though
it were a triumphal procession: yet under
an ill-concealed bravado would be seen
lurking a deep mortification—an under
current of chagrin at thus being compell
ed to march out ofthe noted and beauti
ful capilol of Nueva Leon through a
guantlel of their hated er emics.
On the second day of the evacuation,
sealed upon the first gun as its captain,
came the renegade Riley. The desert
er was ill at ease, notwithstanding his
comfoitable seat, as the column passed
through the thoroughfares which were
lined with the Arneiicans; but it was not
until bis eve caught some of bis old com-
V I?
rades that the spirit ofthe wretch died
within him. The company know that he
was to pass out, and had stationed them
selves near a banicade, opposite the
quarters then occupied by Col. Duncan,
as the best position from w hence to give
him a broadside of roprraches, “Riley,
ye desartiu’ thafe, ain't ye ashamed of
yerself?” said one of his former mess
mates, an Irishman, and one of the best
soldiers in the company. The color en
tirely forsook the face of the runaway.
“Whin y r e desarted w-by didn’t ye go
among dacent white people, and not he.
helpin’ these bloody nagers pack ofl’tlieir
varmin?” continued the speaker, his com
rades keeping up a running accompani
ment of groans and hisses. This was 100
much. Riley jumped from the gun, every
limb trembling with abject fear, and as he
passed through the barricade the wretch
supported his tottering knees by placing
a hand on the revolving wheels of the
carriage. Not until the barricade was
passed, and be was out of bearing of bis
former comrades, did be remount bis gun;
and even then, so utterly prostrate were
all his faculties, be had barely strength
to clamber upon the carriage. Such was
one ofthe scenes we witnessed at the
evacuation of Monterey by the Mexicans.
Ollier deserters were in the ranks of the
enemy—runaway negroes as well—but
notone of them was as well known as
was the traitor Riley, not one of them
received such a blighting shower of con
| tempt, such a withering tornado of scorn.
f From (he N. Y. Sun.]
MR. WEBSTER’S SPEECH.
The dinner to Mr. Webster by bis
political friends in Philadelphia, came off"
in a suitable manner on Wednesday’'
evening. On the chairman, (the Don.
I Samuel Beck,) giving the health of the
1 distinguished guest, Mr. Webster arose
I amidst great cheering to reply, and in re
; turning thanks for the bo ior, expressed
! bis embarrassment at being called upon
| to address a meeting of bis fellcw citi
zens of all pursuits and occupations, the
galleries being filled w ith the intelligence
| and beauty of bis fair country women.—
Mr. Webster referred to bis long ex
c*
j pnrience in public life, bis study of the
i Constitution and history of the country,
| and it avoided him great pleasure to ad
! dress the profile of a Slate which bad
I been so conspicuous in the waroi the re
| volution, and near, also, to that flail
i where the Independence of the thirteen
i United Colonies was first read and de
, dared. lie paid a merited compliment
to the position and character of Phila
| delphia, and the enterprise ami integrity
j of her cit z ns; also, to the soil, climate
and industry of Pennsylvarva, and then
proceeded at length to defend and sustain
the Constitution of the United Slates,
which, under all circumstances, he con
sidered the most perfect instrument of
that kind ever devised. Notwithstanding
the defects it may possess, we are all in
honor bound to rally round and defend
it. Mr. Webster proceeded to refer to
the changes of political opinions which
i bad occurred since the adjournment of
! Congress, particularly in the central
j state ou the atlantio seaboard. The move
incut be believed far too deep and too
: general to be considered temporary and
| evanescent. No such revulsion in the
political aspect of the community had
I happened for the last fifty years, and he
thought the remark applied with great
force to the States of New York and Pen
nsylvania. The people had been taken
with great surprise at the result in New
York in as much as it appeared to him as
the spontaneous and conscientious move
merits and convictions ofthe people; and he
proceeded loenquire w hat was this revolu
tion, for whom, against whom, for w hat,
and against what? Mr. Webster said
that without denunciation or vituperation,
it was as clear as the sun at noon day,
that the revolution was directed against
the measures of the existing administra
tion—a revolution against gelling into
the war with Mexico—a revolution against
the Tarilf of 1846—a revolution against
that absurdity of all absurdities—the Sub
Treasury—a revolution against the du
plicate veto. The administrati m, he said,
did not resemble General Jackson’s or
Mr. Van Buren’s, and “God knows it
resembled no other.” Mr. Webber then
proceeded for some time to examine the
measures of the two administrations first
named, and then referred to Mr. Polk’s
which stands as it were alone, backed by
no party, fie read extracts from the
Message of Mr. Polk on the Tarifl and
compared them with extracts from Gen.
Jackson’s messages on the same subject.
He proceeded then to the consideration
ofthe Oregon question at great length;
and then fell back on Texas, condemning
annexation as uncalled for and unwar
rantable. lie charged the President with
having occupied the territory of a friend
ly power, and of having pushed on the
war, fie briefly refer red to the events of
the war,denied our right of conquest, and
paid a compliment to Gen.Tavlor and the
army; and then referred to the Harbor bill
and the veto of the French spoliation bill—
Mr. Walker’s finances—in short, after a
speech of nearly five hours, he set down
very much exhausted. We give a bird's
eye view of this interestin'; political
speech, which no doubt possessed all the
eloquence so universally conceded to the
distinguished orator, and although his rca
soningund arguments will fail to convince
| all who will read his speech, they pro
; duced all theeffects intended on his hear
ers.
[From the N. Y. Gl*AeJ\
The Lecture of Gen- Cass before the
Mercantile Library Association of
Boston.
“The outline of this lecture,**says a writer
in the Boston Post, “whs distinguished by
one characteristic which was not less com
mendable than its high literary merit. 1 mean
the sentiment that ran through the whole, of
regarding the progress of society with refe
cnce to the people, and not the elevated few.
The contrast between the ancient and mod
ern society, in tins respect, was drawn with
the vigor of a mind that had taken the sur
vey of human progress as a whole, and not in
detached portions of splendid wealth and
magnificent art erected upon the surround
ing ruin of an impoverished and over tasked
people.
“Without the slightest allusion to political
: or parly tendencies, the great merit of the
lecture was that it was thoroughly American
and purely Republican in every sentiment
and illustration. One of these illustrations
aptly conveyed the meaning which the au
thor attributed to true progress in society.—
Speaking of lire splendor of the nobles and
the destitution of the people of Rome in the
reign of Augustus, he said that it was the
1 boast of that emperor that he had found Rome
! of brick and would leave her of marble; but
| be would rather lie the author of the senti
ment of Henry IV., of France, who wished
( that lie could so rule that every peasant might
have a fowl in his pot of a Sunday.”
j HUNT’S MAGAZINE FOR DECEMBER.
The last number ol this valuable Com
mercial Magazine is full of interesting mat
rs r*
ter, containing articles from the pens of Prof.
Mc(’ay,Gen. Dearborn, Hon. F. Whittlesey,
A. Nash, James H. Lanman, Junius SmTh,
j Hon. Benjamin F. Porter, and Charles Lan
man. Tiro latter gentleman furnishes a
biographical sketch of the late Preserved
Fish, from which we make the following ex
tracts:
“The ship that he commanded had been
ordered to the eastern coast of Africa, after
a cargo of oil. It so happened that as soon
as he bad weighed anchor, it was discovered
tiiat ti e chip had sprung a leak. A good deal
i of alarm, as a matter of course, was caused
i by this event, and lire crew and subordinate
I officers insisted upon going back. Captain
j Fish, however, would not listen to this ad
| vice, and swore, by all that was holy, he
, would continue to proseci ie his voyage at
every hazard. The indomitable will of lire
1 man was triumphant, and the very idea of
mutiny was entirely banished—the whole
crew performing their duties without a mur
j mur. The voyage was successfully per
formed, and the cargo of oil lurneAout to be
i uncommonly valuable. And thuo Was ii that
fortune smiled upon the sailor merchant.
“In 1810, Captain Fish settled himself in
; New Bedford, as a shipping merchant, having
I given up the sea. His partner in business
was Cornelius Grinnell, and the firm was
j Fish & Grinnell. It was at this period of
j his life that he became engaged in politics,
i He was a biller democratic partisan, and his
many quarrels and disappointments as such,
i were the cause of his leaving New Bedford.
His manner of proceeding on this occasion
1 was also somewhat peculiar. He happened
In be passing the stand of an auctioneer one
day, while there was arrowd assembled, and
stepping suddenly up to the gentleman with
i the hammer, he exclaimed in a loud voice:
■I want you to sell my houses Without any
other notice, the house was put up, and
j knocked down to a gentleman for about one
l half its value. In a fortnight from that lime
Preserved Fish was settled upon a farm at
! Flushing, in this £>lale, which lie had pur
chased, with a view of devoting himself to
! agriculture. While living in Flushing, lie
j became veiy intimate with a Mr. Franklin,
| ol that plate, hula misunderstanding having
I taken place between the parlies, their friend
ship was broken oft’, and Captain Fish de
-1 dined to be even on speaking terms with his
old friend. During the existence ol this state
of things, it so happened that the Captain
was capsized in a boat while crossing the
I troubled waters of Hurl Gate. Mr. Frank
lin also happened to be near w here the acci
dent took place, and it was his fortune to
rescue Mr. Fish from a watery grave. After
the excitement of this scene was over, and
the Captain had so far recovered as to scan
the lealnres of his preserver, he was per
fectly astonished to lind him none other than
his bitterest enemy. This singular fact
threw him into a perfect rage, and uttering
an oath, lie said that he would have much
preferred to die, rather than be saved by the
hands of Mr. Franklin. * * *
“The story that Preserved Fish had been
picked np, when a child, on the ocean’s shore,
is a mere fiction, lis origin has been traced
to the following laughable incident; While
on one of his trading voyages, Captain Fish
was hailed by a Revenue Culler, with the
question—‘What’s the name of that brig?’
‘Flying Fish, sir!’ ‘What’s your cargo?’
‘Pickled Fish!’ ‘Who’s your Captain?’ ‘Pre
served Fish?’ The revenue officer became
quite angry, and immediately boarded the
brig, to revenge himself for the insult.
When he found, however, that only the truth
had been spoken, he enjoyed the joke, and
vowed that he would reserve the memory of
Preserved Fish, as an ocean wonder.”
(j^T A toper, sometime since, went info
a bar room in the western part of this
State, and called for something to drink.
“We don’t sell liquor,' 5 said the law
abiding landlord—‘we will give you a
glass, and then if you want to buy a
cracker, we’d sell it to you for three
cent.”
“Very well,’ 5 said the Yankee customer,
“hand dow n the decanter. 55
'Fhe “good creature 55 was handed down
and our hero took a at iff horn, when turn
ing around to depart, the unsuspecting
landlord handed him a dish of crackers,
with a remark. “You’ll buy a cracker?'’
“Well, no, 1 guess not; you sell ’em 100
dear; I can gil lots on ’em, five or six lor
a cent, any where else, 55
I From the N. Y. Journal of Commerce. J
NATIONAL DEBT AND FINANCES OF
MEXICO.
The national debt of Mexico is one of very
considerable importance, and may be divided
into the two great classes of foreign and in
ternal debt. The internal debt amounts to
$18,550,000; and in 1841 the customs were
mortgaged to pay this sum, in the following
subdivisions:
INTERNAL DECT.
Amount.
IT p c. of the customs devoted to a debt of $2,040,000
16 “ “ “ 410,000
12 “ “ “ 2, J 00,100
10 “ “ “ 3,1t0,0U0
8 “ “ “ ] ,200,000
10 “ tobacco fund debt, y,700,000
1 1>3 “ interest on English debt,
10 “ garrison fund,
ÜBI 18,550,000
H balance clear of lien, for the govermenl!
100
'Fhe foreign debt is still larger than this;
and (including the above) I will slate the en
tire national responsibility as it existed at
the end of last year :
FOREIGN DEBT.
Amount.
Internal debt, $18,550,000
Debt to English creditors, 60,000,000
United Suites claims and interest, say 2.400,000
Copper to be redeemed, 2,000,(MO
Cla msf»r llilazo, 700,000
liustameule loan, 500,000
Total, Sat, 150,00 J
The prospect of the payment of this debt
is then carefully considered, and thus sum
med np :
“The mint at Juanajnnto, or the right to
coin at that place, was contracted for in 1842
bv a foreign house in Mexico, for $71,000
cash,for the term of 14 years, at the same lime
that another offer was before the government,
stipulating for the payment of $400,000 for
the same period, payable in annual instal
ments of $20,000 each. The $71,000 in
hand were, however, deemed of more value
than the prospective $400,000! This mint
leaves a net annual income of $60 ; 000 ! It
appears to us quite evident that all the taxes
which can be levied, even loan amount equal
to confiscation, on the produce of labor in
Mexico, will be found to be far short of the
amount necessary to maintain the army, the
civil expenditure, and the payment of the in
terest of the national debt; especially while
the church and priests absorb so large ashare
of the produce of industry.”
{From the Baltimore American.]
THE BAY OF SAN FRANCISCO.
The subjoined description of the bay and
harbor of San Francisco is from Faruham's
Travels in California. 'The testimony of all
navigators who have visited this magnificent
harbor concur in pronouncing it one of the
most noble receptacles of slops and shipping
i anywhere to be found on she globe.
The harbors on the Pacific coast are so
few towards the North that San Francisco,
i even if its natural advantages were but ordi
nary, would become an important point in the
future development of the commerce of the
! Pacific. With its very extraordinary advanta
ges so admirably adapting it to the uses of a
vast trade; witii its special facilities of access
and defence, rendering it so iiappily suited
(or a naval depot such as might be required
by the first maritime power in the w’orld, the
importance of such a harbor can scarcely be
estimated by any known standards of value
applicable to such things. The natural
facilities for communication between Fan
Francisco and she valley of the Missouri are
such tiiat the hand of art, in perfecting them,
will seem to be co-operating with Nature
rather than overcoming her:
The hay of San Francisco is the glory of the
western world. Its month lies in latitude 37 de
grees 58 minutes. The water on ihe bar is eiirhl
fathoms at low water. The mountains on either
hand ri e several hundred feel above the sea, and
form the land-marks in foggy weather to point out
the bar, and the channel into the harbor. The
capes at the ocean's edge are about two miles
apart, always verdant and refreshing to the eye;
and. as you go np the passage, the little streams
tumbling from the rocks among Ihe greenwood,
and the wild game out on the cliff-, or frolicking
among the brush, and the seal basking in the wa
ter, give promise ol pleasure and rest Irom the toils
of the sea.
This passage is about five miles in length. Four
and a half miles from the capes it narrows consid
erably, and presents a bold point North and South.
The fort on w Inch this mighty harbor condescends
to depend for protection is in ruins. A dozen old
rusty guns, in the care of thirty or forty half-clad,
hall-breed soldiers, usually foraging in squads of
fiveorlen among the neighboring Missions; one
side of its walls tumbled down, and another strong
ly disposed lo plunge into ihe sea, and not the tenth
of a true soldier’s Iwarl beating for a hundred
miles around, is a true summing up of its present
strength.
Fix miles from the capes at the mouth, and at the
point w here it begins to open into the Bay, are
two small islands on which forts might he conve
niently built, that would command the narrows,
and also the entrance into both the North and
South part of Ihe bay. Indeed, the whole hay is
so studded . w ith islands easily fortified, and so
overhung by headlands, which of themselves are
fortresses, tiiat a party in possession of them could
hold the bay against vast odds, and in comparative
security. From the narrows to the Northern point
of the hay is twenty-four miles, and lo the Soulh-
Eastern point thirty-five miles.
The Southern half of the bay varies from four
teen to fifteen, the northern half from four to twen
ty miles in width. In every part of this large
tract of water is good holding ground, and on its
shores are coves in which vessels of any tonnage
may lie snug and secure from storms, within a ca
ble's length from the land. In the N. W. corner
of the Bay is the inlet of Rio Sacramento.
The surpassing beauty and magnificence of this
harbor of Fan Francisco can never be properly
estimated by being viewed irom the land. One j
must approach it from the sea: have a full view of j
the lofty shores north and south, rising at intervals '
into lofty peaks girded at their basis with primeval
forests of evergreen cedars and pines mottled with
the houghs of the oak, the ash, and the plane.
The bar which springs from the northern head
lands of its entrance, and running beneath the
blue waters of the Pacific from five to nine
fathoms, caused a belt of surf to roll across the
mouth, must be passed. A breeze must bear
your Itark over and along the dangerous rocks
three-quarters of a mile inside on the right, quar
relling with the surges; and onward lour miles be
tween the projecting clifis, overhanging peaks and
verdant woodlands filled with starting deer and j
other game, to the harbors at the narrows beneath !
the fort: thence outward still past the fort and the '
Bay is seen, a broad sheet of water stretching off, !
north and south, the largest and best harbor of the ;
earih, surrounded by a country, partly wooded,
and partly disposed in open glades and prairiesof
the richest kind, covered with the flocks and herds
of the Missions, and deer, and elk, and hears.
And amid the beautiful hills of the South and east
of Santa Clara, El Pueblo San Jose, and Mission
San Jose: and on the southern peninsula, five
miles wide, is San Francisco, Verba Bueno, the
trading house of the Hudson Bay Fur Company,
the Preside and Castillo; on the northern penin
sula is San Reseal, and in the north San Francisco
Solano; a group of beauty and grandeur, that
knows no superior in any clime.— Tarnham's
Travels in California.
Cut Doicn. —The patronage left to the Go
vernor of the great JState of New York, ie
the appointment of an Adjutant General;
also a private Secretary and door-keeper,and
no more. All the reel the new Constitution
hands over lo (he people.
{From the Albany Atlas.]
THE WKRCK OF THE ATLANTIC.
The horrors of she wreck scene of she At
lantic wore aggravated, in some of llio ac
counts, hy the statement that the bodies of
the dead wore robbed by the people in the
neighborhood. The story turns out to be, as
we felt it must have been, an invented hor
ror, thrown in to inflame the interest of the
narrative, or at best, sprung from a bewilder
ment which had traduced some effort of hu
manity into an outrage upon it. The Cou
aier &. Enquirer says explicitly that ‘"there is
no truth in the rumor, which has been pub
lished, that the dead bodies were robbed as
they floated ashore. Nothing of the kind
was witnessed, —but every thing, on the con
trary, was done which prudence and humani
ty required.’ 5
Jt relates too, an incident which shows
how different a spirit from that of plunder,
animated the neighdorhood of the scene.
“Mr. Gould, who had charge of a large
amount of money for hanks and brokers in
Wall street, when it became inevitable that
the vessel must go ashore, fastened /ice life
preservers around the valise containing the
money. He soon afterwards perceived that
some of the messengers had taken them off.—
He then plac|d the valise in a barrel,and just
before the vessel struck, threw it overboard.
It was picifed up five miles from the wreck,
i by some of the inhabitants of Fisher’s Island,
and every dollar of its contents was returned
to him.”
THE REASON OF IT.
A few whig papers occasionally display a
little patriotism, in regard to the Mexican
war, or at least refrain from taking sides
with the enemy. A Washington correspon-
the N. V. Commercial Advertiser, re
cently indicated one of the reasons, in lan
guage thus frank:
“There will not bn any opposition to the
Mexican war in the Democratic ranks, and
many of the Whigs wish it to continue till a
debt of respectable amount is created .”
This is condensed and unadorned, the doc
trine of the N. V. Courier & Enquirer also;
I and it may account for she peculiar ground
taken on this subject by ISenatar Davis and
| some others of the representatives of the cot
, ton lords of New England.— Albany Atlas.
[From the Charleston Mercury.]
O“Mr. Webster, according to all accounts
has committed a very great indiscretion—be
made a speech in Philadelphia, five hours
long, after dinner too. It fills fourteen co
lumns of the U. Nta’es Gazette. A I the
reporters “left Mr. Webster s leaking” and
we wonder the whole company did not follow
the example. Such preposterous expenditure
! of wind at a dinner parly, is disgraceful to a
man of Mr, Webster’s sense, and of such
1 dangerous presedentthat it “ought to be in
dignantly frowned down.” No man ever
made a speech at a dinner party that was
worth listening to beyond half an hour, or
worth reporting beyond half a column. The
Baltimore Amnican says, dolefully enough:
“When we promised yesterday to lay before
our readers, as soon as it reached ns, the
speech of the Hon. Daniel Webster at. the
public dinner in Philadelphia, given in honor
of the distinguished statesman by the Whigs
of that city, wo supposed if would not extend
I beyond a convenient printable limit.”
I _____
[From the Savannah Georgian. Dec. T.j
(C>"\Ve regret to announce the death of
Joseph Cumming, Esq , one of our oldest
merchants. He departed this life on Satur
day evening last, after a (lingering illness,
and his mortal remains were inferred yester
day, attended to their lasi home by a large
concourse of his fellow citizens. Mr. Cam
ming has, during his useful and honorable
career, filled many important posts in our
community, having been Alderman of the
city. Justice of the Inferior Court lor a ’oog
period, and President of the Marine and F re
Insurance Bank. In all the relation* of life
exemplary, the virtues of the deceased shone
bright in the dornet-lic circle, as the parent,
hu.-hand and master.
In intercourse with his fellow men, he was
pleasant and courteous—in his opinions ot
men and things, firm but respire l ful—as a man
of business,attentive and faithful.
His duties, public and private, have, we
believe, been discharged with fidelity, and he
leaves, we trust, the earthly scenes, whence
his removal is deeply tegrelled, to meet, we
hope, in the skies the reward of the faithful.
The Tjondon Press. —When the London
Daily News, (Dickon’s paper) was started, it
had a capital of JCIS(J,OOO, but in.six months
it passed in a tottering condition into the
hamisot the present proprietor, Mr. Dilk, of
the Athenaeum. 'l'he reduction of the price,
I owever, from fivepence to twopence half
penny, has run up the circulation, and it is
expected will ultimately make it a profitable
properly. Last \’ear, the London Morning
Herald made a hundred thousand pounds
by railway advertisements, it maintains a
corps of reporters, amounting to eighteen,
who until recently have had seven guineas a
week each; the salary is now five guineas
($25) a week each, 'i'he Herald and the
{Standard belong to the same person, whose
name is Baldwin. 'l’he editor of the Morning
Chronicle is a Mr. Doyle, who married the
daughter of the proprietor, Sir John East
hope. Mr. Doyle is a son of the Emerald
Isle, and was educated in Maynooth for the
priesthood. He is a very elegant scholar, an
able writer, and a polished man. He re
ceives a thousand pounds for his services.
'l’he Times, which is the leading intelligencer
of Eurhpe, has thirty-six proprietors, the
chief of whom is Mr. Walters, whose in
come amounts to between forty and fifty
thousand pounds a year. 'l'he political edi
tors are Mr. DeLorne and his sons, and the
city editor is Mr. Algager.
Monopoly against Geese, —When steel
pens were invented, it was thought hy some,
that it was done to injure the quill business;
but now the attempt is to banish feathers in
toto. Excellent cotton mattresses and pil
lows are now made in Germany and England
by a new process. The cotton is prepared
by a machine which renders it surprisingly
elastic. There is no doubt, it is said, that
cotton will supersede the use of feathers or
hair for many purposes. Thus, the con
sumption of American cotton must vastly in
crease every year.
Rights of Women. —Governor Edwards, of
Missouri, recommends to the Legislature the
passage of a law requiring the consent of the
wife to legalize any endorsement upon notes
her husband may make.
ITGen. Cass arrived in Philadelphia on
Wednesday afternoon, on his way to Wash
ington. Instead of attending the Webster
dinner in the evening, he delivered a literary
discourse before one of the societies.
AUGUSTA. GEO..
WEDNESDAY JIOK.NI.NU, DEi:. a, MIA.
BCT No .Mail last evening mmh of Cfiurleston.
O’ We call the attention of our merchants
to the extensive sale in Charleston, on the
llth inst., of Wines, Fruits, and Liquors, by
A. Tobias & Co.
EPISCOPAL FAIR.
We bespeak a full attendance and liberal
patronage to-morrow evening, fur this praise
worthy enterprise of the ladies of the Epis
copal church. So elegant and tasteful have
uniformly been those of a similar character,
got up by the Fair of our city, that this com
munity need no other guarantee than the re
collection of the past, that this occasion
will he equally distinguished by all that can
delight the eye, or please the fancy; and by
way of anti-climax, we would add, or gratify
the palate.
LIFE ASSURANT E.
The late calamitous wreck oflhe Atlantic
affhrdcd another instance In the public of the
benefit to be derived from insuring lives. A
young man hy the name of Orlando Pitts,
who was lost on that ill-fated steamer, and
upon whom an aged mother was dependent
for support, had an insurance upon his life
for S2OOO. This he secured hy the annual
payment of forty-three dollars. The sum
now called for hy the policy will he available
to accomplish, now that lie is gone, that
which was the sedulous care of his filial
heart while living. It will shield the gray
hairs of his venerated parent from “the pelt
ings of the pitiless storm” of poverty and
suffering. Secured from want, she will sink
to her last resting place in peace, and her
declining years even in the aflltction that
the loss of so good a son must bring upon
her, will he cheered by the reflection that he
leaves anhom nble and an honored name
among men. It is an old saying, to the
correctness of which we believe the world
will show few exceptions, that a good son is
not often a had citizen.
We doubt not that in the last trying hour,
amidst the wild howling of the blast, when
every heart was appalled at the dread pros
pect of impending destruction,
“ When r«*. e from sea to sky the wild farewell.
When shriek’d the timid, and stood still the brave;’*
his feelings must have borrowed for a time a
sublime serenity from the reflection, that his
filial forethought had made provision to tem
per the blow to her who had given him being,
and watched over him in the years of his
helplessness.
The fateof that gallant steamer, too, is an
impressive warning to all, of the uncertainly
of life. It realizes most emphatically, she
scripture admonition, “in the midst of life
we are in death.” It shows that all, all, how
ever young and robust, however bright may bo
the promise of a long life, however fair llio
prospect, and buoyant the hopes for the fu
ture, hold life by a most uncertain tenure. A
thousand unseen dangers beset us, and de
struction waylays our footsteps, at the very
moment that vve seem to have the firmest and
securest hold on life. Who could dream of
danger, of such a fate, while promenading
the deck, or lounging in the magnificent sa
loons of that splendid vessel—the most
splendid—the most costly, that ever floated
upon the American waters. Famed too, she
was, for her security—her ability to contend
with the waves, and to “battle with tho
storm.” She had often ventured to sea, and
rude out tempests triumphantly, when other
river boats and coasting steamers dared not
move from their wharves. So frequently had
this been the case, that she had given name
to the line on which she moved It was
called “the stormy day line.” Passengers
had become accustomed to feel as safe upon
her, a* if walking the streets of Broadway,
and to consider her destruction by the perils
of the seas, as improbable as the swallowing
up of New York city hy an Earthquake.
How impressive is the warning to all, w’.a
seemingly are not more safe now than were
those who on the morning of the 26th nil.,
stepped so confidently on hoard she Atlantic,
ILTWe have been kindly permitted to pu* -
lisii a letter from an officer of the Richmond
Blues, to liia brother in this cdy. It is of
recent date, and in many respect* interesting
to our citizens. We know that we could
publish nothing more interesting than com
munications from the army. We regret tho
irregularity of the mails complained of. We
send our paper regularly to our subscribers,
both of the volunteer and regular forces:
Camp Am.k.v xkar Moxteret.J
ISovfiulier 10, 1046. $
Dear Brother—l have beenanxiou-lf ex
pecting a letter from you or Father giving mo
the details of all occurrences before, during
and after the elections. But mail after mail
arrived and no loiter or paper. Here let me
request you, onr.e every week, to forward by
letter a paper, whether it contains any thing
worthy oflhe expense or not. It may seem
to you not worthy our trouble, but were you
in the wilds of this land as we are, you
would think the old advertisements which
have met your eye each morning for years,
worth more than such a letter will cost.
Our camp is a beautiful spot eight hun
dred feet square. The one halfofllie camp,in
which our tents are pitched is shaded hy the
live oak, lignum vi*ae. ebony and wild almond.
'l'he first hears on its branches the long
while moss so frequently seen in the lower
counties of our Elate. These add to the ap
pearance of the place, covered with tents and
frequently bristling with glittering arms. 'l’he
remaining half is well cleared and forms our
parade ground, in which we are to be seen
thrice a day, with arms ai d accoutrements;
and not unfrequenlly Cap!. Hardee, with uis
squadron of cavalry, joins our parade. You
may imagine the scene, and forgot not in the
picture the stalwart form, military carriage
and long white hair of the General, Georgia’s
son, who frequently comes to our camp, tells
the news,and cheers our spirits with his anec
dotes. He goes wiili us to Tampico. We do
not know when we leave, bat they s-ay as,soon