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1793—1S39. —Notes and Anecdotes,
POLITICAL AND MISCELANEOUS.
Drawn from the Port Folio of an Officer of the
Empire.
translated from the French for the Southern
Literary Messenger.
THE GLOVES.
During the short period that intervened
between the-peace of Amiens and the re
sumption of hostilities, nil officer of (he
French army, called to England by some
family affairs, tried to turn his journey to
account, and thus diminish the expense to
which it subjected him. He was advised,
and he accepted the advice, to carry over
a quantity of French gloves, which were
then, as at the present time, much sought
after on the other side of the channel, and j
sold at a very high price.
lie purchased about 12,000 francs worth
of gloves, had them carefully packed, and
set o(T on his journey.
On arriving at Dover, the officers of the
customs asked him if Ire had any thiagto
declare; he acknowledged that he had
among his baggage a supply uf4flku?s,
and offered to pay the duties.
questioned as to the value of his merchan- i
dize, wishing to make the best bargain
possible, he replied 6,0U0 francs, and
signed his declaration.
The officers examined the baggage, and
perceiving that the real value of the gloves j
was at least double that which he had de
clared, took advantage of the privilege
given them by law, and seized the goods,
paying the proprietor 6,000 francs, and
10 per ct. premium for the privilege.
The poor officer thus found himself al
most ruined ; he was in despair ; however,
after mature reflection and a profound
study of the English custom-house laws
and usages, he flattered himself that he
had discovered the means of revenging his
wrongs on the English custom-house otii
cers, and of securing his money with in
terest.
Deferring his business to a subsequent
period, he immediately repassed the chan* I
ticl and returned to Calais. Without los- 1
ing a moment, he wrote to Grenoble, to a 1
lady with whom he had formerly been on
very affectionate terms, confiding to her
his newly conceived project. This ladv,
who was the head of a large glove man-1
ufactory, finding the project which lie sub
mitted very practicable, hastened to des
patch to him a quantity of well assorted
gloves to the amount of 40,000 sanes.
Our traveler knew that the custom
house regulations caused all goods seized
in the different ports of Great Britain, to
bs sold at. auction on the same day, and
on the same hour throughout the kingdom;
this was the important point in his specu
lation.
Dividing his gloves into two parcels,
perfectly equal in size, he confided one to
a who was to enter them at Brigh
ton, and kept the other himself, which lie
proposed to introduce through Dover.
The two friends embarked. Each ar
rived at the custom-house and declared
himself the bearer of gloves; their value
was asked; they replied 10,000 francs.—
As on the first occasion, after examining
them, they seized the two parcels, paying
10,000 francs and 10 per cent, premium.
The day arrived when the merchandize
which had been seized was to be sold at
■fiction. Our two friends repaired to the
bureaux of the customs, the one to that !
at Dover, the other to the bercaux at
Brighton. Presenting themselves, they;
examined with an air of indifference, the 1
objects exposed for sale; the gloves ap
peared handsome and in good condition.
Suddenly, they manifested great surprise :
at Dover, all the gloves were for the right
hand; at Brighton, all belonged to the
left.
The two custom-house officers acted j
separ: ‘cly at thirty leagues from each
other; not having examined the packages I
before hand with sufficient attention, they
were taken by surprise. The auction is
begun : the gloves must he sold imme
diately. At an extreme low price, and in I
the midst of the jokes of the assistants, our
two Frenchmen are declared the highest
bidders.
Meeting the next morning, they re-sort
their gloves into pairs.and hasten to pub-!
lish the adventure in the newspapers of
the day. Forty-eight hours after, they dis-!
posed of all their merchandize at an im
mense profit.
FUF.NCII PoI.ITENESS. 11l COHSCqUCnCC
of its having been made known to the
French Chamber of Deputies that a rule
existed in the House of Representatives of
the United States, {riving the privilege of
seats on the floor within the hall, during
the sittings of Congress, to members of
Foreign Legislatures, they were resolved
to manifest the same civility to members;
of tlie American Congress. The difficul
ty ' vas how- the affair should be managed ;
to place Mr. \\ hite, of h lorid.i, on a foot
ing witli their members at Washington, as !
there were no privileged seats within the
hall of the Palais in which the Deputies
sit. It was proposed to give a place in the
Tribune, reserved tor tbe Ministers and
those invited by them, and finally to man
ifest the espirit de corps of National Leg
islatures, they have furnished Mr. W. with
a medal of a member of the Chamber
which gives the entre to all the palaces’,
reviews, and other public establishments
which a deputy has.
All bad feeling, arising from the recent
unhappy difference between the two coun
tric*, lias passed away, and the best feel
ing is manifested for all Americans
Tight Boots. A physician of New
York says that during the past week lie
lias attended four cases of apoplexy, caus
ed by wearing tight boots.
A pair of new boots always reminds us
ofpurgatorv. Wc succeeded last week,
with the aid of a 4rong pafr»of hooks and
'anfl a half hour’s .close tugging in getting
.into anew pair of boots. For one hour
and more we suffered ail the torments im
aginable: the Asiatic Cholera was noth
ing to it —pains issued from every pore of
our body—the mercury of our system as
cended to fever heat and the perspiration
stood in big drops upon us—we could
neither sit still, nor stand upright, hut on
the contrary hobbled, skipped and jump
ed about in indescribable anguish; if we
| commenced a storv or a dissertation, a
| terrible twinge would cut it short nd
drive the theme completely from our mind.
The hoot-maker said they would stretch
i by wearing,—we took his word, and bore
j our troubles with the true spirit of a mar
tyr —but as the pains increased we me
chanically laid violent hands upon the
j leather and made several essays for a re
| lease, hut all to no purpose ; a powerful
friend took hold ofottr •> ole, and pulled us
from one end of the room to the other.—
We followed him upon one leg, until both
became exhausted. Fatigue and agony
brought on sleep. We dreampt of Span
ish inquisitions and all their tortures —the
rack, the bow-string, straight-jacket artd
whipping-post flitted by in dismal arr.iv—
we twice descended with Pluto into tlie
infernal regions anrf woke up just as a
hydra-headed monster was going to swal
low ns as a Jonah did the w hale We ran
into the street to escape suffocation, and
went into the path of a green-mountain
strapper—he placed a thick pair of cow
hides upon our toes and bent his whole
-weight upon them. For a moment we
felt as though we were screwed up in a
cider mill. ‘Beg your pardon,’ said Jon
athan—we gave him an expressive look
of forgiveness, and hobbled off, resolved
to live no longer in torment. We enter
ed the first cobbler’s shop and tugged
away for dear life—two white oak boot
jacks were broken instanter, but the third
conquered—glorious victory. We sought
our old boots with all the eagerness of a i
‘first love,’ and have resolved to eschew
all tight ‘leather and prunella’ hereafter.
[Boston Herald.
Great Aoriculturistn. The names
of those who have enriched our gardens
with rich valuable plants are deserving of
record and remembrance.
Sir W. Raleigh introduced the potitoe.
Sir Anthony Asldcy first planted cab
bages in this country —a cabbage appears
at his feet on his monument.
Sir Richard Weston brought over clov
er from Flanders in 1645.
Figs were planted iji Henry the Eighth's
reign at Lambeth, by Cardinal Pole—it
is said that the identical trees are remain
ing.
Spilman, who erected the first paper
mill at Hartford in 1593. brought over the
first two lime trees, which lie planted and
they arc still growing.
Thomas Lord Cromwell enriched the
gardens of England with three different
kinds of plumbs.
It was Evelyn, whose patriotism was not
exceeded by his learning, who largely
propagated the noble oak in his country,
so much so that the trees lie planted have
supplied the navy of Great Britain with
the chiefproportion oftli it timber.—FEmr
]isli paper.
The Spartan YYume.n. In their do
mestic life, the Spartans, like the rest of
the Greeks, had but little pleasure in the
society of his wife. At first, the young
husband only visited their wives by stealth
—to be seen in company with her was a
disgrace. But the women en joyed a much
greater freedom and received a higher re
spect in Sparta than elsewhere; the soft
Asiatic distinctions in dignity between
the respective sexes did not reach the
hardy mountaineers of Lacad.rmon : the
wife was the mother of men ! Brought up
in robust habits, accustomed to athletic
exercises, her person exposed in public
processions and dances—which, but for
the custom that made decorous even in
decency itself, would have been, indeed,
licentious—the Spartan maiden, strong,
hardy, and half a partaker in the ceremo
nies of public life, shared the habits, aid
ed the emulation, imbibed the patriotism,
of her future consort. And, by her sym
pathy with bis habits and pursuits, she
obtained an influence and ascendancy
over him which were unknown in the rest
of Greece. Dig«, ified, on public occasions,
the Spartan matron was deemed, however
a virago in private life; and she who had
no sorrow for a slaughtered son had very
little deference for a living husband.—
—[Bulwer’s Athens.
A young Adventurer. The New
York Evening Star states, that on board
the Peruvian, recently arrived at that
port from Cronstadt, is a boy named Mo
ses, about 11 years old. lie was picked
up in the Baltic, seventy miles Iroin land,
in a little skiff, with a gunny bag for a
sail, and had put to sea, with provisions,
in consequence of a quarrel with his step
father, a fisherman in Sweden.
The following toast was given at a late
Rail Road celebration in Carlisle, Pa.
Ifi/omn.—The Morning Star of our
youth—the Day Star of our manhood—
the of our age. God bless
I our Stars.
BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE.
[From the New York Knickerbocker.]
The American House of Represen
tatives. What a mass of representatives
there are here! What singular samples
of our vast country ! Here sits a Tennes
seean, and there a Mississourian, educat
ed among buffaloes, and nurtured in the
forest—as intimate with the passages of
the Rocky Mountains, as the cit with
Broadway—who cares no more for a
Pawnee than a professed beau for a bright
plumed belle. Here is a man from the
prairies—and there another from the
swamps and morasses, whose blood the
musketoes have utterly stolen away.—
There is a sallow face from the rice
I grounds, and here the flushed cheek from
the mountains—and by his side a man
from the pine grounds—laud of tar and
turpentine. What a people we are ! What
a country is this of ours ! How wide in
extent—how rich in production—how va
rious in beauty ! I have asked in iny trav
els for the West, in the streets of the
Queen of the YY'est—a fairy city, w hich
but as yesterday was a wilderness. They
smiled at my inquiry and said it was among
the “hoosiers” oflndiana or ‘the suckers’
of Illinois. Then I journied long. I cross
ed great rivers and broad prairies, and
again I asked for the West. They said it
was in M issouri. I arrived at'the capital.
They complained that they were “too far
down cast.’’ “But go,” they said, “if you
would see the West, days and days, and
hundreds and hundreds of miles up the
Missouri—farther than from us to New
England, and beyond the Rocky Moun
tains, and among the Snake Indians of the
Oregon, and you may find it.” It was the
work of a dozen years to find the West,
and 1 turned about in despair. Indeed 1
have found no hounds to my country. I
have searched for them for months, in
almost every dime—under the torrid sun
of Louisiana the land of the orange and
the olive, and beneath the cold sky of
Maine. I have seen the rice planter
gathering rich treasures from a bountiful
soil, and the fisherman anchoring Ins little
hark on the rocky Island, dropping Ins
hook carefully as if the ocean were full
of pearls, and not of—mackerel.
I have seen the mill man sowing wood
in all variety of forms, on the furthest soil
of New England; and I have beheld the
same wood floating down the Savannah,
or the beautiful Alabama, in the strangest
metamorphoses; it may be in a clock reg- ■
ularly ticking off the time, or in the pail,!
perchance in a button; .and for aught i
know, in a tasteless ham, or an unfragrant
nutmeg! I have never been off the soil
of my own country : and yet 1 have seen
the sun go down, a hall of fire, without a
moment’s notice, twilight, flinging over j
rich, alluvial lands, blooming with mag
nolias and orange trees, a robe of gold ; j
and rfgiin I have stood upon the hare!
rocks of colder climes, and when the trees j
were pinched by the early frost, 1 have!
marked the same vanishing rays reflected j
from the leaves, as if a thousand birds of
paradise were resting in the branches; j
and when the clouds stroamiriT with red.
1 and purple, and blue, tinged and tipped
by the pencil of beauty, were floating afar,
like rainbows in motion, as if broken from
their confinement, now mingling and in
terlacing their dyes, and glittering arches,
and anon sprinkled over, and mellowing
the whole heaven; then I have fancied
that I was indeed in a fairy land, where
the very forests danced in golden robes,
responding to the setting sun, as the statue
of fabled Memnon gave forth its welcom
ing notes as the rays of the morning play
ed upon its summit. I have been where
the dog-star rages, scattering pestilence in
its train ; where the long moss h mgs from
the trees ; where the pale faces and sad
countenances give admonition, that this
is a region of death. 1 have stood by the
wide prairie, and beheld the green hiilows
rise and fall, and the undulations, chequer
ed with the sim light and shadow, chasing
one after the other, afar over the wide ex
panse. And I have gone amid the storms
of winter, over the hi ;h lull, upon the
loud cracking crust, and the music of the
merry sleigh hells. And here are the
Representatives from all these regions,
here in one grand council, all speaking
one language, all impelled bv one law!—
Oh, my Country, my Country! If our
destiny he always linked as one, if the
same flag, with its glorious stars and
stripes, is always the flag of our Union,
never unfurled or defended but Ivy Free
dom. then Foctry and Prophecy, stretch
ing to their utmost, cannot pre-announce
that destiny !
A now custom house on a magnificent
scale has been erected at Liverpool, En
gland. The corner stone of the edifice
was laid by the Mayor of the city in 18*28
since which time a million and a half of
cubic feet of stone and about ten millions
of bricks have been used in its construc
tion. The ground on which it stands,
valued at .£80,00(1 sterling, was presented
by the corporation of Liverpool. The
cost of construction amounting to £150,-1
000 sterling, is to be reimbursed to the
city by the Government at the end of
twenty years from the completion of the
building, the money to be paid in annual
instalments of twenty thousand pounds.
The Excise, Post, Stamp and Dock of
fices are to be comprised under one roof.
In its style of architecture the structure
is remarkable for its simplicity. _ [Balt.
American.
High Life. Five persons including a
baronet have been indicted at London for
swindling a young gentleman of fortune*
out of .£IO,OOO.
From the Gentlemen’* Magazine for August.]
BIG SHIPS.
The Pennsylvania —the most perfect spe
cimen of modern handicraft—has been safely
committed to her destined element. The
launch was perfect, and created enthusiastic
delight in the minds of the largest body of
spectators that ever congregated’ on or about
the river. The Pennsylvania is undoubtedly
the monarch of the seas; we have heard of
larger craft—we have seen longer—but we
doubt if it is in the power of man to frame a
vessel more completion all the essential qual
ities. Objections hilve been made to the enor
mousness of her bulk, but it is confidently as
serted by experienced shipwrights and nauti
cal veterans of high repute, that owing to the
superiority of her build, she will be as easily
handled as any of the crack seventy-fours.
‘• Big ships” have uniforjnly been unfortun
ate in their career; the huge monsters built to
gratify the fancies of various nations, although
scarcely exceeding the tonnage of many of
our Atlantic packets, have generally proved
heavy useless craft, unmanageable in a gale
and ridiculously impotent in war. The Dutch
in the meridian of their naval greatness, never
exceeded ninety-gun ships; and though first
rates, as they are termed, have been built in
England and France, they have been regarded
rather as vessels of superior show than of ad
ditional practical power.
There is very little doubt but that the an
cients occasionally constructed vessels equal
in magnitude to any of the monsters of mod- ,
ern times. The recorded size of the Isis,
built by Ptolemy Philopater, or the cedar ship
of Sesostris, or the wonderful craft built by
Archimedes, by order of Hiero, containing
sufficient wood lor the construction of fifty
galleys. The curious classicist may read a
lengthy account of this leviathan in Athensous
least oj the Sophists. This ship contained,
beside the requisite arrangements, a magnifi
cent temple of Venus, superb banqueting
apartments with floors inlaid with scenes from
the 11 1 ia.il, elegant galleries, baths, stables, and
fish-ponds. \Y hen this floating city was fin
ished, the monarch perceived that there was
not a port in Sicily capable of receiving it: he. i
therefore, filled the ship with grain, and sent!
it as a p.esent to Ptolemy of Egypt, who was 1
much in want of corn.
Constintius built a vessel of sufficient, ca
! pability to remove the largest of the obelisks
| tj lat stood before the temple of the sun at He
liopolis, and weighed fifteen hundred tons.
I Ilis father, Constmtine, had removed two of
the obelisks to Byzantium, but, frightened at
the size of .the third, had abandoned all idea
:ot disturbing it. His son succeeded, and even
transported the enormous block to Rome, and
erected it in the circus of the Vatican, where
jit now .stands. Besides the crank, unmanage
i a !)l ° burthen of the obelisk, the vessel was
i filled up with eleven hundred and thirty-eight
j tons of grain—making in all twenty-six imn
j di ed and thirty-eight tons, almost the burthen !
of the Pennsylvania. llow this craft would |
Im o astonished Coro, who mentions a ship of l
fifty-six tons as a vessel of remarkable capacity.
After these ancient leviathans, the largest
ships on record are the celebrated Santissima
Tnnidada, the pride of the Spanish navy ; the
: gigantic Commerce tie Marseilles, the English
Great Harrij, 'Flic Caledonia, and 'l'he Great
Michae \ whose warlike appurtenances are des
| cribe.l is “bissils, mymrds, higters, culver
i in j's, flings, falcons, double dogs, and pestilent
I serpenters.” These specimens of naval ar
; chitecture in the olden time, had prodi
l giously high bows and figured sterns, immense
1 beaks and solid castles at the stem, with tow
iat each side of the poop and gangways—
looking like the turrets of a castellated cha-■
teau. The signal lantern on the poop of the
Great Harry was on a level with the round
tops, owing to the height of her extremities,,
and the sudden singing-in at midships. She j
had four masts, with tops actually round, an 1;
shaped like huge inverted cones. Gilt work,
carving, and gaudy streamers were profusely
scattered over her hull and rigging. She cost
| 8350,0110 dollars, an enormous sum in those
! days, yet was not over one thousand tons bur-!
I then. Shewas burnt at Woolwich through the
; negligence of persons on board.
Henry VIII., in the year. 1512, built “the
I largest ship in the world.” It was thus -that:
! the Englisli denominated The Recent, yet she
j did not exceed one thousand tons. She was
burnt while engaging the great carrack of
Brest; both ships were blown up, and sixteen 1
hundred men destroyed. To replace the Re
gent, the king built a larger ship, and named
it Henri. Grace dr Dieu.
The East India Company, in the reign of;
James 1., built a ship of twelve hundred tons,
and named it The Trades Increase. She was
also considered the greatest ever built, and the !
Royal Family attended her launch. She was
lost when returning from a voyage to the Red
Sna, and nearly all her crew were cast awav.
Alter this mishap, J unes himself built a ves
sel of fourteen hundred tons, and mounting
! sixtv-lour -pieces of ordnance ; lie gave it to :
liis son Henry, who named it after his own
dignity, The Prince.
The unfortunate but gifted monarch, Eric
XIV., of Sweden, lost, in a sea fioht with the
fleet ot Frederic 11, of Denmark, his main-;
inoth ship, which is described as having been
[of enormous, bulk, and mounting two hun
dred pieces of brass cannon. The vessels of
the enemy surrounded her, and being difficult
to manage, was easily overpowered, and set on
fire. She is presumed to have been the larg
est man-of-war tint was ever built.
The English navy boasts of several vessels
of one hundred and twenty guns, two of
which, Ihe Lord Howe ami The If atcrloo,
have never been in commission. The Lord
Action, launched July the 4th, 1814, from the
Kings Yard, Woolwich, is the largest man-of
war in the service, but is something smaller
than the Pennsylvania, as the following com
parison will evince.
Penruv/’vania. I A.JYelson.
Feet In. Feet In.
Length from figure-head
to stern gallery, *247 6 244 0
Length on the range of
the lower gun-deck, 205 6 205 1
Length of the keel for
tonnage, 173 (j J7O 1()
Breadth extreme, 58 1 1-2 54 0
Depth in the hold, 25 0 28 0
Perpendicular height
from bottom of keoT to
rail amidships, 54 0 55 2
Length of the foremast, 120 0 JlB 1
Diameter of ditto, 3 8 33
Length of the mainmast, 132 0 127 2
Diameter of ditto, 4 0 3 2
Length of the main-top
mast. 70 0 77 2
Length of the mainyard, iJO 0 100 3
Diameter of ditto, 2 0 2 2 i
Draft of water, 25 0 25 0
Tonnage, 3000 0 2617 0
Number of guns, 136 0 120 0
Later from France. By the arrival of
die Havre packet ship Burgundy, Capt. Rock
ett, we have Paris dates to the 7th and Havre
to the 6th July, inclusive.
I aris, July 7. I’lie accounts frojn the
French manufacturing towns still speak of
great embarrassments ; the number of work-1
men in the different manufactures is daily re- [
duced ; the warehouses remain encumbered, j
with produce without any demand. The fairs
of the South have been looked to for the sale !
of goods from Rouen, Mulhouse, Lyons, Ni- i
mes, &c. but the competition in these articles !
caused a considerable decline in the price, 1
and thus increased the embarrassment of hou- j
ses, which had calculated on considerable re- j
turn. t roin Lyons, however, the accounts
are rather favorable. Business has become j
much more brisk than it lias been for a long I
time and purchases li ive been so great as to j
create a rise ot from JO sous to 1 franc in al- j
most every article of silk. The state of as-j
fairs in America has for some days ceased to
be talked of; attention being entirely turned j
to the rise on cotton in every country where !
it is grown. At St. Etienne, also, the ribbon |
trade, lias become much more animated. Or-!
ders from Germany, and more pa.ticularly
from England, on account of the mourning for
the late King, to the amount of 3,00U,0L0
francs have been received.
“ In tiie first six months of 18.37,” according
to the Bon Sens, two hundred and seventy-six
bankruptcies, have been declared, whose unit
ed debts amount to irotn fifteen to eighteen
millions of francs. Merchants, wine dealers,
cabinet makers and builders, always form a
majority in the list of bankrupts.” Our read
ers acquainted with the same period, in Amer
ica and England, must be struck with the dis
prportion they j icsent with the above, the
whole two hundred and seventy-six bankrupt
cies being for a sum very inferior to half of
that for which a single failure is not unfre
quently declared in the United States in Lon
don or Liverpool.
Charles Dupin and the Duke of Orleans
are stated to he qui e ill.
Marshal Clausel was thought to hive ac
cepted the command of the Spanish forces on I
the Peninsula.
A wealthy merchant of Cain, named M. Le
mannissicur, committed suicide on the first of
July.
Paris, July 6. It appears that the Govern
ment is actively engaged in making prepara
tions for the expedition against Aclimet Bey,
and that it will be ready by the end of August,
Stock Exchange —July 6, half past four
market has been very flat. For cash, Fours
have improved 10s ; Fives and Threes have
declined 15c.; Neapolitan sc; Roman 1-8:
Spanish 7-6; Portuguese, 1-1. For the end of
the month Fives have declined sc; Threes
15c ; Neapolitan.
S fain. It will he seen by the following
extracts, that the Carlists had passed the Ebro,
thus confirming the account we gave to the
same effect yesterday, received by the way of
England.
Paris, July 6.—The following telegraphic
despatch has been received by the govern
ment :
11 ivonne, sih July, noon. The passage of
tiie Ebro by the Carlists on the 28th and 29th,
has been confirmed by the correspondence
from Sargossa. Eight Carlist battallions also
arrived in the Incartaciones upon the 27th.
Germany. Extract of a letter of the 22d
ult. from Dresden.
“ It is stated in our saloons that a considera
ble number of the French legitimists are dis
satisfied with the projected union between the
Duke de Bordeaux and even at the invitation
which the Bourbons of the older branch have
received to be present at the manoeuvres ot
the Russian cavalry. Several of them say
that “to form an alliance with Russia is to
lose all chance of one day returning to the
throne of France.”
A letter ol the 25th ult. from Hamburg
says, “ Our colonial trade assumes a certain
degree of activity. Raw sugars, in particu
lar, arc in demand. The supplies from Cuba
find a ready sale as soon as they are lande 1,
and cargoes arc even sometimes disposed of
before their arrival. Medium and superfine
qualities produce high prices, and even the
ordinary qualities are sc iree in the market.
The prices would be still higher, but the ac
counts lrom the Brazils. Speculators are
very cautious in dealing in this produce, as
in Cotton. Foreign bill arc in gre it request.”
According to the official accounts, the pop
ul ition, the population of the capital is 347,- j
662 souls, including the garrison of 12,000
men. [Journal de Frankfort, July 2.
Austria. Vienna, June 22. The North
American government h is intimated its wish
to accredit an Ambassador Extraordinary to
this Court. This wish has been acceded to
by the Imperial Govern nent., and an Ambas
sador from the Emperor will be accredited at
Washington. [German piper.
Still later from England. Tiie Bos
ton papers ot W ednesday contain extracts
from London journals of July Bth and Liver
pool of the 10th. W r e however find but a
very few items of news.
It is stated that th° Goo. Washington, pack
et of June Bth from New York, brought 8110,-
000 in specie, and the Iliberriia, packet of the
16th, 830,000.
The King's funeral took place on the Bth,
agreeably to appointment. Tiie ceremonies
were similar to those adopted at the funeral of
George the 4th.
Anew coinage was speedily to be issued,
hearing the likeness of Queen Victoria.
Four lmndiAd thousand pounds sterling in
gold had been received in London from St.
Petersburg.
I’he London and Birmingham Railway was
to be opened to the public for a distance ot
more than 20 miles from London on the 20th
of July.
Appealing to Thunder. The ultima
ratio rrgum , or the argument of force, is
well illustrated in the story told by Luci
an : Jupiter and a countryman were
walking together, conversing with great
freedom and familiarity upon the subject
of heaven and earth. The couDtryinan
listened with attention anil acquiescence,
while Jupiter strove only to convince him;
but happening to express a doubt, Jupiter
turned hastily round and threatened him
with his thunder. “Ah! alt!” says the
countryman, *“noiv Jupiter 1 know that'
you are wrong; you are always wrong)
when you appeal to your thunder.”
[From tiie Commercial Register.]
Mobile, Aug. 14.
The U. S. Sloop of War Vandalia, Commo
dore Thcmas Crabb, arrived at Pensacola on
Saturday morning fiom Vera Cruz—from which
port she sailed on the .‘ld inst. By the steam
boat Champion which left Pensacola yesterday,
came over to this city on his way to Washing!
ton, Mr. Rol eit Gxeenhow, a passenger in the
Vandalia, who had been despatched! by our
government, with important communications
for that of Mexico. He left the city of Mexi
co on the 3Uth of July last, at w hich time all
was tranquil throughout the interior, so far as
publicly known. Santa Anna was tending
quietly at his plantation Mtnga de Clavo near
V era Cruz; the rumors respecting the despatch
of troops to apprehend him, are unfounded.
Mr. Greenhow relates, that when about to
leave Jalapa, at 3 o’clock on the morning of
the 2d inst., a violent eirthquake occurred,
which on his arrival at Vera Cruz he learned
had caused much damage to the city, and pro
duced the utmost consternation among its in
habitants, many of whom took refuge on board
of the shipping in the harbor. The shock was
felt on board of the Vandalia, about which it
occasioned much agitation of the water, and
shook the chain cables. The Vandalia remain
ed for t#enty-one days at anchor in the nar
row pass between the island of S icrificious and
the mainland—and her crew enjoyed better
health in that situation, th in at any other period
ol the —although the yellow fever was
raging in tiie city.
There is no prospect of an invasion of Texas,
and ceitainly not the remotest chance of suc
cess if the attempt should be made';®
Mobile, Aug. 16.
_ Steamboat Explosion. The steamboat
Caroline, Capt. Griffin on her passage from N.
Orleans to this city, burst iier boiler near the
Dog River bar, yesterday evening. Capt.
Giitfin despatched a messenger over Iml, for
assistance, from whom weWearned that the
boilers were both bursted, and the chimneys
thrown down. The steersman was terribly
scalded, and not expected to survive. The
cook has not been found. Five or six persons
were repo ted as dead or badly scalded. The
steamboat Fox, Captain Gayle, went down
about six o’clock, to the assistance of the suf
ferers.
Since the above was written theCiroline
has reached tiie city, in tow of the Fox, whose
enterprising niamgers deserve great credit tor
their promptness on this occasion. YVeleirn
the following particular:
The Caroline blew up at 1 o’clock P. M.—
only one boiler burst Mr. Levi, the engineer,
was badly scalded, but is expected to recover.
Mr. John Smith the steersman, died while
coming up. Two negroes, deck passengers,
were drowned. There were 5 cabin passen
gers, none of whom received any injury. Five
firemen, McCarty, Hart, Crawley, Corn, Mc-
C'intick, badly scalded.
Latest from Florida. Major Childs,
of tiie U. S. Army, bearer of Despatches from
Gen. Jesup to the Secretary of War, arrived
at this port on Saturday, in the steamer John
M’Lean, from Florida. MijorCniLDs informs
us that as the M’Lean was getting un ler way,
in Ashley River, Capt \V. S. Maitland, of the.
31 Regt. U. S. Artillery, in a temporary fit of
derangement threw himself from the stern of
the boat and was drowned. The stern boat
was instantly lowered, but in vain, the wind,
which was blowing very fresh and a strongtide,
h id carried the unfortunate Maitland beyond
the reach of succour. Captain Maitland was
highly esteemed by his companions in arms,
as a gentlein in and a gallant officer—had serv
ed with reput ition from the commencement of
Indian hostilities, and his gallantry in action
during the last sunnier, received the brevet
rank of C :pt an. Capt M titland was severely
wounded at the battle of the Wahoo Swamp in
November 1 ist, from which wound he had not
entirely recovered, when the unfortunate event
above recorded took place.
His body was recovered yesterday morning,
in Ashley River, back of the Race Course, and
was interred in the afternoon, in the U. S. bu
rying ground, at Fort Johnson.
YVe learn also from M ijor Childs, that about
50 Seminoles were encamped at a short dis
tance from Fort King —that the post wis
healthy, and all was quiet
Major Childs informs us, that a few days
previous to his leaving G irey’s Ferry, he wrote
to an officer of the Army at" St. Augustine, to
know if there were any vessels at tint port for
Charleston, and he was informed in answer
that there was a schooner in port for Ch irles
ton, which he thinks was called the Medium,
but the no uni', Jnhn M’l.e jn- offering him a
direct conveyance, he paid no further intention
trthc-m ttcr, and throw the letter aside. The
Medium, Capt. Magee, sailed hence for St.
Augustin" l on the Ist inst. and up to the sth
inst. she had not arrived—great anxiety has
been felt for tiie passengers and crew.—
[Charleston Courier.
From St. Augustine. Capt. Ilebbard of
of the steamboat Florida, arrived yesterday
from St. Augustine informs us, that Col. Har
ney, commanding U. S. troops east of St.
Johns, left St Augustine on Tuesday last
with twenty United States troops 011 an expe
dition to Indian Itiver, and in attempting to
cross Mi tanzas Bar, his boat swamped among
the breakers and unfortunately lost five of the
men and in consequence of which was com
pelled to return to St Augustine. Capt 11.
reports also having passed at S ipelo, on Mon
day morning, Dutch brig Unike dismasted.
No news from the army.—[SavannahGeorgian.
Payment of our Foreic.n Debt. The
New York G izette estimates the American
debt to England and the probable payment as
follows:
We owe England, at this time for goods
imported’ direct about $7,C00,0G0
For the India trade, 3 000,000
sio,cou,ooo
We shall pay them in the course of the two
next months—
In Cotton, $1.000,000
Dry goods returned, 1,000 000
Indigo, dye woods, and other goods 1,500,000
Specie, 3.500,000
Bad debts, 3,000,000
$lO 000.000
The statement we ’hin'c very newly correct
both as to timo and amount, —$1,300,000 ol
$3,500,000 in specie has gone to Europe smea
the estimate was made.
Change. When the poet, or moralist, or
whatever he was, wrote “ This is a world of
change,” the banks bad not suspended specie
payments.