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An Incident of Waterloo.
BY J. T. HEADLEY.
Ase a* month's since, I was standing on the
.—U*i«lol Waterloo, on the anti.veisary day ot
that great battle. The fields were w iving with
the ripening grain, just as they were on that
" tn‘inorable morning, belore irodded down by the
charging squadrons. As 1 stood where Welling
ton stood on the ridge occupied by the English
lines, and surveyed rhe entire field, and looked
down on the narrow valley where the late ot
all Europe was once put up and battled for, a
world ot conflicting emotions struggled for mas
tery within me. The magnificence and po np
■ of that stern array were belore me, and my ear
seemed distinctly* to catch the first cannon shot
that opened the conflict. Far on the right
comes down on Hougoutnont Jerome Bona
parte, with his twelve thousand men. A sheet
of fire runs along the walls of the chauteau,
and a gap opens in the advancing columns ot
the foe. Its tn angled head melts like trust work
belore the destructive fire. The smoke of battle
covers them from sight, and rolls up the valley,
and 10, I see nothing but the melee of horses
an<l riders, the tossing of banners, and the
soaringofthe French eagle amid the cloudot
war, and I hear nought but the roar of artillery,
the braying of trumpets, the blast of the
sounding the charge, and the heavy shock of
cavalry.
Amid the confusion and terror of a scene
like this, which the imagination will call up
on such a battle field, how naturally does the
mind rest on some single character, or incident,
and gather around it all the interest of the fight.
It may not be with others, 1 find it true of my
self in all circumstances. I remember, when
standing oa the top of the colonade ofSt. Peter’s
and looked down at the tens ol thousands, that
were waiting the blessing ot the Pope, I forgot
all in a poor pilgrim beggar and his boy, that
reclined on the ample steps. Their distant
ho ue among the Italian hills, their weary as
pect as ihey slumbered there in the sunlight,
and their sudden starting up as the blast of a
solitary trumpet announcett the approach of
his “fl illness,” formed the ground work ot a
scene more touching than the one before me.
So it was here. Ir. the church of me little ham
let of Waterloo, lying on the edge of this field,
are a multitude of tablets, placed abo"e officers
who tell in this battle. Among them is one
recording the death of a mere boy, who formed
one of Willington's suite. The epitaph closes
with—“ he was eighteen years old, and this
was his twentieth battle.” I gazed on it with
feelings of the profoundest melancholy. So
young anti yet so tried. Trained amid the
smoke and thunder ot battle, accustomed al
most from infancy to scenes ot carnage and
cruelty, what a moral effect it must have had
upon his character. An angel could not abide
such discipline. I walked over the field with
an English officer ot rank, and gleaned from
him the following incidents of his life, which
I have filled up. •
Young Gordon (my memory may ba wron g
here respecting the name, it having become
illegible in my note book,) was the second son
ot a distinguished English family. He had
Chained a place in Wellington’s suite, though
a mere boy, and had been with him through all
the Peninsular campaign. He was fitted by
nature for a soldier. Enthusiastic, bold and
strangely ambitious, the excitement ot battle
and the occasions it gave for distinguishing
himself were his delight. Around his frank
and open countenance clustered ringlets of
chesnut hair, while his blue Saxon eye spoke
at once the generosity and fire of his ardent na
ture. He had one only sister, the very reverse
ot him m everything but her strong and gene
rous feelings. Frail as the flower that is born
and matured in a single night, her very face re
minded oueot an early grave. It was of that
delicacy and almo-t spiritual transparency,
which makes you shrink as you think of the
first shock of lite. You look around in vain for
some shelter tor such a flower. Her eye was
large, and the very soul of tenderness, telling
without disguise, and painfully distinct, that
affection was her life. Next in birth to the
young soldier, all her extravagant feelings and
yearning affection had centered in him. His
bold and often reckless conduct had caused her
many a pang as they played together in child
hood, while his generous love as he would come
and fling his arms around her neck and kiss
away her tears, had bound her to him with cords
of iron She love I him with that utter aban
donment ot heart, a being constituted as she
w is, always loves : and he returned it with all
the strength ot his brave young heart. She
was all faith and timidity; he all hope and cour
age. Thus had they passed their childhood
together, and when they came to part, her heart
sank like a smitten blossom to the blow. As
he glanced" over his rich uniform and sword
flishing by his side, a deeper flush mantled his
cheek, and prouder feeling beamed in his eye,
while all over her spiritual features, came the
hue of mortal fear and unutterable dread. Her
head sunk op her bosom, and the big tear drops
fell unrestrained and fast at her feet. At first,
he attempted to laugh away her fears, but seeing
that his raillery jarred painfully upon her heart,
he too burst into tears, and folued her to his
bosom with all the holiness and strength of a
brother’s love.
They pi’.’l, ani her sweet but rare laugh
was still te.-.. ..equenllv heard. I will not fol
low him thru igh his eventiiil career in Spain
Like all soldiers, hs learned to like his emoloy
ment, and with the love of it came the loss of
those sensitive leelings that had been th- hcam-i
- wa» often ’entrusted with des
patches to different pans ot the army in lhe
ini litot battle. Althe battle of Talavero, while
Mackenzie was retiring in magnificent order
and with consummate skill, belore ihe advanc
ing French, he was sent to that officer with an
order from the Marquis ot Wellesley, it was
midnight, and the route he was to take one of
great exposure, bei ig sweat by the enemy’s ar
tillery. The frequent flashes of lhe cannon
that blazed on his path were the only lamps to
guide him as he galloped over lhe uneven field
We will not say his bold young heart did not
beat a trifle faster,as the darkness through which
he rode was suddenly made dazzling bright by
the artillery, whose roar caused even his well
trained war-horse to s 1 art, while the eanh wa
ploughed up in every direction by the shot—but
we will say, he did not falter or hesitate, but de
livered liis order safely and well. On his return,
just as he had entered on the place of danger, a
cannon ball struck his horse’s flank, shattering
it to fragments, an 1 sending the blood and en
trails all over his face and uniform. He him
self was thrown several yards, and for a mo
ment lay stunned by lhe blow. When he re
covered, however, he boldly crossed the field,
traversed by the shot, and arrived safely al Wel
lington’s tent. As he stood with cap in hand,
pale, and covered with blood and mangled flesh,
the Duke thought for a moment he was dread
fully wounded, but as he listened to his account
of lhe matter, he warmly complimentedJiis gal
lan ry. From ihat moment he became still more
anxi >usto distinguish himself, an t in several
instances nearly lost his lite. A sword cut ov
er his left eye had tell a scar, of which he was
as proud as he would have been of two epati
. .letts. No curl was ever allowed to fall over it,
and he was halt vexed to think the surgeon had
cured the wound so effectually.
At length, after a ye ir or more of hard fight
ing, he returned to England, before Wellington
joined the allied forces on the Continent. It
was a hurried visit, but a mem arable one to his
sister, now grown Stillmore delicate than be
lore. She folded him again and.ga7n~in her
arms, amLwept.as.p n 'ef heait would break.
—r4Any a long night had she lain awake, imagin
ing her brother now in the headlong and ruinous
fight, and now pale and wounded, gasping on
lhe plain. The terrible scenes ot baitlesbe had
so often pictured to herself, had shattered her
over delicate frame, and she had become doubly
sensitive; while the scenes ot bloot he had
passed through, and the roughness ofcamp life,
had blunted his leelings and made her childish
terrors annoying and foolish. Yet he loved her
as his idol, and when he parted from her, he
tied her miniature around his neck. That se
paration was the crowning agony to her. She
told him they should never meet again, that his
body would be left on the battle field of the
stranger. It was in vain he attempted to calm
her grief—a foreboding like that of prophecy
crushed every hope, and she saw him depart
.with the same-findings she would have seen the
grave close over him. I have sometimes
thought these strangely sensitive and spiritual
beings hadaimost the gift of second sight—tha
" coming events” to them do literally “cast their
shadows before.” From that moment she
never smiled, but laded gradually away.
.The whole story, together with the epitaph, had
made a p olbund impression on my leelings,
and as I stood on the field ot battle and called up
the terrific day, his form constituted lhe fore
ground ot the picture. The morning of the bat
tle was damn and heavy, but not lhe spirits of
the young Gordon. As he stood beside the
Duke and looked on lhe magnificent array be
fore Mtn, he determined his name should be in
terwoven with lhe history of that day. The
great battle of Europe was to be fought. All
its kings stood looking on with breathless in
terest, for their thrones were at stake The
feelings of those two great military chieltains
themselves, as they thus, for the first time, stood
face to face, and battled for a Continent, were
scarcely more stirred than his. From the mo
ment be saw the head of that gallant column,
which Jerome Bonaparte led down on Hougou
mont, melt away bei ore the destructive fire with
in, all the fury of a liger seemed roused within
him. He wanted to be somewhere, he cared
uot in what capacity, where lhe onset was made.
The heavy cannonauing that soon opened the
whole length ot the lines—the terrible charges
made by the French cavalry soon gave bitn
work to do. He was sent hither and thither,
with orders, while the shot foil around him like
hail-stones. He looked on his pierced uniform
and foam-covered steed with a kindling eye.
—The pressing danger now becoming more
imminent on every aide, the Duke led on in per
son several distinct charges. This was the
crowning point ot young Gordon’s wishes. He
charged besides the Duke with the impetuosity
ot a veteran, and wheneverdanger threatened his
beloved commander, spurred headlong into it. In
the midst of a terrible carnage, Sir Alexander
Gordon rode up to the Duke, and expostulated
with him on thus exposing his life, when every
thing rested on his safety.
While he was thus pleading for the life of
another, a bullet pierced him and he fell. Young
Gordon immediately spurred into his footsteps,
and placed himself so as to protect the Duke
from the greatest apparent danger. The Weary
veteran regarded him with a smile ol affection,
and then as he wiped lhe sweat from his brow,
exclaimed, “ Oil that Blucher or night would
come!” The next moment an immense body
ot Frenchcavalry came thundering down on one
of the English squares. It had already become
weakened by the loss ol whole ranks which the
French artillery had mowed down, but with
stood the desperate shock with true British
bravery. The French cante down with a
plunging 'rot, then breaking into a gallop fell
like a rock upon it. Like that rock hurled
back from the mountain, they recoiled from the
shock. Driven to desperation, by their re
peatedly foiled attempts, they stopped their
horses and coolly walked them round that
biave square, and wherever a man fell,
dashed in. Such desperate resolution and
such recklessness of life, began at length to
tell upon the conflict. The square began
to shake and waver, when Wellington came
dashing up with his guard—the square
opened and he was in its bosom. Their
chief in their keeping—his fate voluntarily
thrown in their hands, these brave British hearts
could not yield. Rank after rank fell, but not a
man stirred from his footsteps. The French at
length gave it up, and retired to their position.
Again on separate squares were these terrific
charges made, and again, as fast as they waver
ed did Wellington fling himself in thei r midst.
Young Gordon was ever at his side, and in one
of these dangerous attempts, had his sword
struck out ot his hand by a chance shot. But
there were enough other good blades on that
ensanguined field without owners, and he was
soon wielding one, from which the convulsed
hand of an officer had scarcely loosened.
Thus, from eleven in the morning till four in
the evening, had the battle raged, when a dark
object was seen to emerge from a distant wood.
Larger and larger it grew, till a whole column
stood revealed with banners waving in lhe
breeze. Blucher and his Prussians had come.
Both armies saw that the hour had arrived for
the final issue. Bonaparte then rode up to his
old and well tried imperial guard, that had not
been in the battle all day. Placing himself al
their head, he led them hall way down the slope,
when he halted and addressed them in his fiery
manner. He told them that the fate of the bat
tle and ot France was in their hands. He was
answered by those devoted hearts, "the Empe
ror forever!'’ with a shout that rung oler the
storm ot battle, and was heard all along the
British lines. He then placed them under Ney,
with orders to force the English centre and pre
vent the junction ot Blueher with the allied
forces. That hitherto invincible guard came
down in beautiful order, and with hearts burn
ing with high hopes. They knew that their
Emperor and the civilized worl t were
on. No bugle sounded the charge. In perfect
order and dead silence they moved over lhe
plain. Above them soared the French eagle,
no power had ever yet wrested tri m their grasp;
and on them was the eye of Bonaparte. The
allied army saw with awe and dread the ap
proach of that unconquerable legion. The ter
ror ot Europe was on the march. For a mo
ment the firing ceased along the lines. The
battle was hushed. The muffled tread of that
magnificent legion alone was heard. Oil, you
should have seen young Gordon then. With
flushed cheek, and dilating eye, and breath
coming difficult and thick, he gazed on that si
lent host. He looked as if every moment he
would be off like a thunderbolt.
The sudden calm was but momentary. The
artillery again opened like a volcano on the foe.
Whole ranks went down belore the destructive
fire, yet they laltered not for a moment. Over
their fallen comrades, with lhe same steady
front, they moved on, across the valley, and up
the slope. Before their cool, resistless charge,
the English lines melted tike frost-work. They
took the last fire of the arti-lery full on their bo
soms, then walked over the cannon, artillery
men and all. On, on, like a resistless wave,
they swept, carrying everything down in their
passage, till they approached within a lew rods
ot where Wellington stood. All seemed lost,
when a rank of men who had lain flat on their
faces behind a low ridge of earth suddenly heard
the ringing order, “Op and at ’em.” They
started up as from the bowels ot the earth, and
poured in their destructive fire in the very laces
of that mangled guard. They recoiled to the
discharge ar it smitten by a sudden blow. A
second and a third followed. They reeled and
staggered a moment, and then broke and fled
Young Gordon could be restrained no longer.
He burst away with a yell like that of a mad
man, and was lost in the fight.
The battle Was over. The thunder of distant
cannon came at intervals on the night air, telling
where Blucher trod down the foe. Wellington
had left to him the pursuit, and was leading bat k
his weary and bleeding army over the battle
field. The lull round moon was riding the quiet
heavens, lighting up the mangled masses of hu
man flesh that weighed down the field. Here
an epaulette, and there a shivered sword, flashed
nack its beams. Groans loaded the air, while
'he death-shriek came at intervals on the ear.
Wellington wept. The excitement and rage of
the battle was over, and his heart sickened at
the awful scene before him. Among a heap of
lhe slain, young Gordon was’stretched. His
sword lay shivered at his side, dabbled with
blood. The miniature of his sister had fallen
from bis bosom, and that spiritual face seemed
gazing up towards heaven... A . Ijidto ..drew
-efraerr'TlTklirCat a blow. "He was but eighteen
years of age, and this seas his 'twentieth bailie.’’
He sleeps" in the little church at Waterloo,
within sight of his last battle-field.
The history of that sister is soon tol.l. In a
country chtfch yard of England is a plain monu
ment recording her death and virtues. I turned
away, murmuring to myself, “And these were
but two of the twenty thousand hearts that sin
gle battle broke. Oh, War! thou last invention
of man for his own destruction.”
Funeral of Com. Siiubrick.—Yesterday
afternoon the remains ot Commodore Edward
Rutledge Shubrick,ol the U. S. Navy, were de
posited in the Cemetery of St. Philips Church,
in accordance with the arrangements made and
previously published.
From lhe time the corpse left lhe Lexington,
until it was landed on the wharf, and placed in
charge of the military, minute guns were fired
Horn that vessel, and on its reception by the
military, minute guns were fired Irotu the South
Bay Battery, by a detachment from the Regi
ment of Artillery, until the close of the melan
choly ceremonial.
The procession was a most imposing one,
and admirably conducted. The attendance ol
lhe seamen attached to the Lexington, their
neat and cleanly appearante, and exhibition of
feeling while following their late commander to
his last resting place, added much to the solemni
ty of the scene, and reflected honor on these
hardv sons of the ocean.
We take this occasion also to remark, that it
afforded us much pleasure to perceive the
Citadel Cadets participating in the duties ol lhe
day. This body of fine young men should be
brought out on all occasions, when the military
are called into requisition. Their accuracy in
drilling reflects great credit on the accomplish
ed officers who command them, and is well
calculated to infuse an espirit du corps in our
military companies that will prove highly
be n e fi cial.
■‘■'"ffeteliags of the" shipping in post" l UI —"1
played at half-mast during the day.— Charleston
Courier.
The Public Domain— Ev'ensive Saki.—Tbe
President has already issued his proclamations
tor very extensive sales, next sure.iner and au
tumn, of the public lands in Vue northwest, ar d
southwest, embracing an Aggregate of upwards
of five millions ol acre 3. ( n Wisconsin Terri
lory, about 370,(X)0 acres of choice lands, lying
on and between Fjx and Wolfe rivers. lowa.
There are two sales to take place at each of the
land offices in that Territory, Dubuque and
Fairfield, in lhe months ot. September and Oc
tober. Upwardsof 90 Oofi acres of the rich bot
tom lands in Illinois will be brought into mar
ket, embracing tracts on the Mississippi, and
stands in that river, with small detached bodies
of land not heretofore offered. In Missouri, up
wards ot a million of acres will be offered lor
sale, embracing tracts in the north, northwest,
west, and southwest parts of the State. In Ar
kansas, there will also be brought into market
about 1,(XX),000 acres, embracing nine townships
in the new district of Champagnole. In Lou
isiana., about 154,000, and in Florida, upwards
of 600.000 acres ot fine sugar and cotton land
will be offered for sale.— Baltimore Sun.
Quarries. —Five hundred men are engaged
in the business connected with the working of
the stone quarries at Quincy, Mass. The
quarries arc 12 in number, the largest amount
of stone got out from anyone quarry was 20,000
tons a year.
From Buenos Ayres and Montevideo.
The New York Journal of Commerce has
the Buenos Ayres British Packet of March Ist.
In reference to the decree ol the Argentine
Government of the 13th nil., prohibiting com
munication with Montevideo, the Packet says
its effects are seen in the deserted state of that
port, no foreign vessel now existing there; and
when there are so many foreign squadrons in
those waters, whose duty it is to warn the ship
ping of their respective nations of the danger to
which they are exposed in touching at Monte
video, it may be reasonably expected that those
effects will, ere long, be more keenly felt by the
intrusive authorities and foreign mercenaries
who hold precarious sway in the capital of the
Oriental State.
The Packet is confident, from the benevolent
disposition uniformly evinced by the Argentine
government towards foreign commerce, that, in
all cases of accident or misfortune, or where
fraud is not actually attempted, lhe government
will make due allowance for any unintentional
violation of the stringent terms of the decree.
The latest intelligence from the seat of war
gives the account of the retreat and defeat ol
Rivera and his party, in theirattacks on Moldo
nado and Carro Largo.
American Bonnets in London.—A Manu
facturer of the Neapolitan bonnets in New York
has received from London, an order for fifty
Neapolitan bonnets, for the service of her
Majesty and the ladies of her court durirxg their
visit to Ireland in July next.
anb Sentinel.
A(Jt;II ST A . _____
TUESDAY MORNING. MAY 20.
AosncT.—Mr V. B Palmbr i> «ulhorl»eU lo act a>
our agentfnr alt business connected with <hts office in
lhe Cities of New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Bal
timore. His office ill New York is 160 Nassau-street;
Philadelphia, 69 Pine street; Baltimore, S. E cornel
of Baltimore and Calvert-alreela; .Boston, 16 Stale st.
Messrs. Mason & Tuttle, of New-1 ork, are also lhe
agents of lhe Chromels and Sentinel in the city of
New-York. __
The Meetlug
Os thy Whigs, at lhe City Hall, last night, to
receive the report of the nominating committee,
was called to order by* Col. Wm. T. Gould,
Chairman of lhe previoud*meeting.
The committee, through their Chairman,
John J. Cohen, reported the following persons
as Delegates to the respective Conventions:
To the Gubernatorial Convention—C. J. Jen
kins, A. J. Miller, A. C. Walker, W. J. Doyle.
To the Senatorial Convention. —Amory Sib
ly, Jesse Kent, H. F. Russell, B. H. Warren,
Artemas Gould, Jeremiah Winter, Geo. W. L'
Twiggs, Wm. J. Eve, D. B. Hadley, H. H.
Cumming, James Hope, B. F. Kenrick, James
Harper, John McDade, Wm. J. Rhodes, Jas.
T. Barton, Wm. A. Beall, Potter Fleming,
Wm. P. Beale, John Skinner, Sr., Wm. W.
Holt, Nicholas Murphey, James Brandon, Jr.,
Joseph Burch.
A resolution was adopted, authorizing the
delegates to fill any vacancy that might occur
in their respective delegations, and the meeting
adjourned.
Life op Sumner Lincoln Fairfield, writ
ten by a College class-mate, will shortly be is
sued trom the press in New York, for which the
Mother of the Poet is now in this city soliciting
subscriptions.
Apart from the merits ot the work, (into
which will be introduced some of the best pro
ductions ot his peqj presenting, as it will, a
complete narraiive'bt the hie of a man, wKb;
while living, filled no inconsiderable space in
the world of letters; the mother appeals to the
sympathies of a generous public, in her lauda
ble efforts to sustain and support her four grand
children, who, by the demise ot her son, have
been committed to her charge, and whose only
means of rearing and educating them, must be
received from the publication of the Lite and
Writings ot their deceased father. It is truly a
labor of love, which nought but the devotion of
the gentler sex could prompt, and one which ap
peals strongly to the sympathies of every gene
rous heart.
A singular Law Case.—A very singular
law case has been pending before one of the
Courts in New-Orleans, in which a child is
claimed by two sets of parents—the one asserting
that lhe child was born in New-Orleans in 1835,
and the other that he was born in New-York, in
1837. The testimony adduced on lhe trial, says
a New-Orleans paper, is very conflicting. The
case was brought up by a writ of Habeas Corpus,
and had not been determined at our last accounts.
“The Chinese Shaving Compound.”—The
Philosopher’s Stone in lhe shaving art, says a
cotemporary, has at length been found, and we
have it in our possession. We do not wish to
“comethe Saponaceous” too strong over the
public, but on the word of a clean shaved man,
they may rely that the “Chinese Shaving Com
pound” is the soap of the day. It gives a de
lightfully scented and rich lather and beautifies
the skin. This luxury may be had at the drug,
store of Mr. Joseph E. Marshall.
Cotton Sale.—Filly one bales Nankin cotton
raised by Andrew Kerr, Esq. of Tunica county,
Miss., tormerly of this city, was sold in New
Orleans at 22) cents per pound. By a private
letter received in this city, we learn that lhe
cotton "very handsome," and was put up in
the best order. Facts which should stimulate
our planters to handle and put up their’s in the
same manner, for all experience teaches that no
labor is bestowed on the culture of cotton
is better rewarded than that which is bestowed
in pieparing it for marker. The planter who
has his cotton neatly handled, and sends it to
market in good order, as in the case ofMr. Kerr,
is always sure to receive a much belter price for
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The Creek Council.—We learn from the
last number of the Arkansas Intelligencer tha 1
the Annual Council of the Creeks commenced
on lhe Ist inst. The runners which were sent
out to the prairies did not succeed in bringing in
lhe wild tribes, but on the contrary narrowly es
caped being murdered. A letter from a gentle
man in the Creek Nation to a friend in Van Bu
ren, stiles that the runners which were sent to
the Camanches were robbed, and chased six days
and nights, and escaped very narrowly. The
Pawnees, it is thought, will war upon the
Creeks during the ensuing summer. The
Creeks will decide during the present Council
the course to be pursued towards them.
The Wacocs, Kichees a.nd Caddoes are the
only prairie tribes that will be represented m the
Council.
The writer above referred' to says that he was
present when the upper Creeks rent the news of
the reception of the runners, by the Camanches,
to Roily Mclntosh, and that he thinks that there
is a great probability of a ’’ frolic” this
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tat ore of New York it appears that the railroads
finished, over which cars are daily running,
present a line 0f682 miles, and cost $20,736,931
20. There are roads commenced and being
constructed, which will extend the line 4*20 miles
further, at an estimated cost of $10,104,000. —
There e.re now pending before the Legislature
applications for 490 miles of railroads, at an
estimated cost of $11,854,000.
O Some of the enterprising citizens of Bos
ton ’nave it in contemplation to erect a steam
carpet mill in the immediate vicinity of that
city.
r*i* The Noriolk Beacon says that the steam
boat Loper burst her boiler and had her ma
chinery broken to pieces in her recent trip up
the Roanoke River. Fortunately no injury
was sustained by the persons on board.
Passengers came through from Montreal to
New York on Friday and last in 34
to 36 hours. Fare $6. Distance 400 miles.
The expense of travelling from New York to
Cincinnati is now about $25; time required five
days.
“Next for California.”—The St. Louis
Neiv Era says that a wagon drawn by six
mules, and accompanied by a number of hardy
rough-looking men, passed through Warren
town, Missouri, on the 28th ultimo, on their
way toCalifornia. They appeared to be fully
equipped for a long and tough voyage across
the continent.
T he Washington Union contradicts explicitly
the i*unor, that the President had it under con
sideration to appoint Mr. Calhoun Minister to
Engl and, with power to settle the Oregon dispute.
Fashion and Jeaneatteau were to contend
for the purse four mile heatson Friday over the
Long Islan d course.
The Swallow Raised Again.—We are in
formed, says the New York Express, that the
Swallow a as raised on Wednesday morning
and towed on to the flats. At low water they
would be able to go below and search every
part of the boar.
Release of Dorrites.—The Providence
Gazette announces that Messrs. Bosworth aud
Heath are again at liberty. They took the oath
of allegiance on Saturday night last, and were
! discharged from custody.
receiver! at Pittsburgh up to Tuesday evening
last, in aid of the sufferers by the laic fire in that
city, amounted to SI 13,707 60.
The Postmaster General has given notice
that the special agents of that Department will
be dispensed with after the first day of July
next.
An intimate friend of Gen. Jackson, writing
from Nashville, under date cf 11th inst., to a
gentleman in Washington, says:
The impression of the General’s nearest
friendsnow is, that the ‘time honored’veteran’s
lite is drawing to a close. Symptoms ot dropsy
have intervened. His legs are swollen trom his
feet up to his abdomen, and bis respiration is
feeble and difficult.
Frost.—The Charleston Courier of yester
day, says; A letter from St. George's, Dorches
ter, about 17 miles from this city, dated the 17th
inst., says there was a white frost on the ground
that morning. We tear that this indicates an
unseasonable lowness of temperature in the up
per parts of the State, which may prove greatly
injurious to the crops. A frost so late in May
is a very unusual occurrence so near the city*
In the city the weather, for several days past,
has been unseasonably cool, renewing in many
families the worship of their Lares. Notwith
standing this late frost, the spring has been very
forward in lhe city and its vicinity; and, yester
day, we had on table a mess of matin or green
corn from our o
The Secretaries of War and of the Navy, to
whom the subject was referred by the last House
of Representatives, have arrived at the conclu
sion that Coll’s sub marine battery is nothing
new; that he is entitled to neither praise nor re
ward, and that he has only availed himself of
Fulton’s stationary torpedoes and Prof. Hare’s
galvanic current. It appears from the commu
nication of the Secretary of the Navy,
ithat all Mr. Coll’s labors bjj*c iirSsdirvsMPW
nought. He has received from that department
over fifteen thousand dollars on his own account,
and over two thousand dollars for experiments—
amounting, in all, to upwards of seventeen thou
sand dollars.
There seems to be some fear that trie Stale of
Missouri will tail to pay the next instalment of
interest due on her State debt. The Missouri
Herald, published at lhe capital of the Slate, re
marks—
The Governor has been unable to procure
from the bank and blanches, the whole of the
sum authorized to be borrowed of that institu
tion. Ten thousand dollars ol interest on State
bonds fall due in a fe w weeks, and there is not
money enough to pay it, either on hand, or like
ly to be received in season.
Jj* A meeting of the Irish Repeal Associa
tion of Louisiana, was held on Saturday even
ing, 10th inst., at lhe Temperance Hall, St.
Charles-street, New Orleans. It was brought
together by the intelligence lately received of
lhe extraordinary manner in which Daniel O’-
Connell has chosen to assail the American peo
ple. The results of the proceedings were, a dis
solution of the Association, and an appropria
tion of the funds collected to the service of the
Female Orphan Asylum, and the Charity Hos
pital.
Gen. Sam. Houston and Com. Moore.—We
find in the Texas papers a long article from
Commodore E. W. Moore, of lhe Texas Navy,
addressed to the people of Texas, in which the
redoubtable ex-President, Sam. Houston, is
handled without gloves. The following salty
paragraph is clipped from Com. Moore’s pub
lication :
When Satn. Houston enters upon an inves
tigation of private character, he opens an ave
nue to fearlul retaliation ; he basin his own
person violated almost every law, human and
divine—lie has set at naught every lie calcula
ted to render life an enjoyment, or that gives
peace end quiet to a community. Trace his
career from his youth to the present moment,
you will only see a rnemoraole instance of a
man attaining high station who has neither ho
nor, courage nor morality—who, in every stage
ot his progress, has committed acts that would
have blasted tjnother—a man f alse to Ifls coun
try, falsf to his domestic relations, and false to
his friends—whose life has been a lie; a living
deceit ninon the world, corrupt and tainted in
morals apd body—whose ephemeral fame has
resulted from causes he could not control—a
man whG has continued to be the recipient of
honors ha never won, ot dangers ly* tlt’eiutlK-v 1
..n-A-f. warrior, statesman, philosopher and
mountebank.
Eaftura of a Slaver.—The schooner Spit-
O f l eans t arrived al Boston on
(Vedftajjiy morning, a prize to the U. S. btig
Truxton, in command of Lieut. Washington
Reid. The Spitfire, Peter Flowrv, master, was
seized in the Rio Pongo, Coast of A trica, at lhe
slave factory of Paul Taber, March 26, on sus
picion ot teing engaged in the slave trade, by
the boats of ihe U. S. brig'Truxton, in lhe charge
of Lieut. Simon F. Blunt, co-operating with the
boalsofH. B. M. steamer Aident, under lhe
charge of Lieutenant Johnson. The boats
went alongside under English colors, and or
dered the schooner to show her colors on the
penalty ot being seized as a pirate. The Atne-'
rican ensigh was then-hoisted at her gaff, and
the colors immediately shifted in the boats, and
the schoonet taken charge of, evidence having
been lodged against iter as having already made
a successful trip from the same place to the
island of Cjba, with 316 -laves, under the com
mand ot Cttyt Gordon, lately in command of
the Manchester, by Thomas Turner, who
served in bith vessels as Capt G.’s mate. She
wastnen ktown by the name of Cavallero, and
was built it Baltimore, whence she sailed via
New-York in 1842. She was afterwards sold,
and her rtgister returned to Baltimore. Her
I nre-ent crew also testified as to her intention of
The officers and crew of the
.re die |'m;.ei tiiliunal.
1
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aapfey Mw tic. tipied a- Ila: Si.ues bv
M'" ! - I!" '■ lli'.’gin-,
> Air
,i-
‘ . .m- It'.H'S Ur*
was insured in Cincinnati; Mr.
Marks some SI2OO in the Mt mphis office, and
Beck &Co., in Clarksville; the Franklin House
was in great danger, and suffered some injury,
as well as the adjoining wooden buildings oc
cupied by Mr. John McKeon, grocer, and
Messrs. Levitt’s shoe store, whose stocks were
turned into the street.— Eagle, 9/h,inst.
A Soldier’s Testimony.—' l Sir,” said an old
soldier to the Secretary ot lhe London Peace
Society at the close of one ot Ids lectures on
Peace, “ Sir, what you have related, I have seen,
and much more. I was on lhe field ol Water
loo; and there I saw, on a plat of ground not
much larger than a gentleman’s garden, sixthrru
sand ot my fellow-men with mangled limbs,
dead or dying.”
Could we see the operations of War with our
own eyes, as we do the effects of intemperance,
what tales ot atrocity, anguish and horror might
we tell I But these the friends ot peace know
not bv their own experience or observation; and
those who do, are reluctant to disclose them.
The following are the distances travelled in
going to Oregon
From Independence lo Fort Laramie 750
“ Fort Laramie “ “ Hall, 550
“ “ Hail, “ “ Wallawalla, 450
“ “ AVallawalla u Vancouver, 250
A Russian named Ermett, in 1833, visited
Cincinnati, a poor ragged cobbler. He could
not make a living, and, therefore, went South,
and engaged in the tnanulacturing of lucifer
matches. He returned to Cincinn.ati a few days
since, worth $20,000.
Candles that do not need Snuffing
Candles may be made to burn their own wicks
by saturating them with a strong solution of
nitre, and then thoroughly drying them. The
cause of the wricks of the candles refusing to
burn is, that the air cannot get access to them.
The nitre, however, at a high temperature, will
supply oxygen enough for this purpose.— Mich.
Farmer.
German Emigrants.—An enterprise is on
foot lor establishing a colony of German emi
grants in Morgan county, Tennessee. About
two hundred thousand acres of land have been
purchased, and two or three hundred emigrants
are daily expected to arrive. Others will lol
low from time to time as fast as preparations
can be made tor theirreception. Manufactures
and agriculture will engage the attention of lhe
colony. For the former there is water power in
the greatest abundance. The agricultural ope
rations will have reference chiefly to the cul
tivation of the vine and fruit trees generally.
Special attention will , e given to the raising of
sheep and the growth ol wool. In view of the
•last mentioned object, the company have al
ready sent over a few of the finest Electoral
Saxony rams, whose original cost was over
SS(X) apiece.
Another company, with similar objects in
view, have purcha-ed about sixty thousand
acres in Perry twunty, Tennessee.— Balt. Am.
—lfroui the Union.
Nary -of the United States.
Seeing within the last few days a genetai
statement, a'lloat in some of the newspapers, of
the number andjWze of our vessels of war, dis.
tinguished, too, as lo their being in commission
or in ordinary, &e., we have applied to the navy
board for a complete and accurate list of our
navy, embracing also their destination. Thej*
have been so obliging as to furnish the following
specifications, which we hasten to lay before the
readers of ”The Union:"
Ships of the line—lo.
Pennsylvania, three decks, in commission as
a receiving ship at Norfolk.
Franklin, two decks, in ordinary at lhe navy
yard, Boston.
Columbu-, two decks, in commission at New
York, destined tor the East Indies.
Ohio, two flecks, in commission as a receiving
ship at Boston.
North CauNtina, two decks, in commission as
a receiving stgp at New York.
Delaware, avo decks, in ordinary at the naw
yard, Nortblkj
Alabama, two decks, on the stocks at Ports
mouth, New Hampshire.
Vermont, two decks, on the slocks at Boston,
Virginia, « do do do
New York, do do Norfolk.
Razee—l.
Independence, in ordinary at the navy-yard,
Boston.
Frigates, first class —12.
United States, in ordinary at the navy-yard,
Boston.
Constitution, in commission in the East In
dies.
Potomac, in commission—home squadron.
Brandy wine, tn commission, on her return
from East Indies.
Columbia, in ordinary at the navv-yard, Nor
folk.
Congress, do do do
Cumberland, in commission in the Mediter
ranean.
Savannah, In commission in the Pacific.
Raritan jin eominis-ion on the coast ol Brazil.
on the stocks at Portsmouth, New-
Hajgpshire.,
at New; York. _
Class —2.
ConsteifinUn, in ordinary at the navy-yard,
Noriolk. v
Macedonltn, just returned Irom coast of Af
rica, and placed in ordinary at New York yard.
Sloops cr War, first class —17.
Saratoga, iti commission.
John Adans, preparing tor sea at lhe navy
vard, New Yo;k.
Boston, in commission, coast of Brazil.
Vincennes, in commission, destined tor the
East Indies.
Warren, in commission, in the Pacific.
Falmouth, ia commission—home squadron.
Fairfield, in otdinary, at the navy yard. Nor
folk.
Vandalia, in ordinary, at Norfolk.
St. Louis, in commission, on her return from
East Indies.
Cyane, preparing for sea at the navy-yard,
Noriolk. «
Levant, in commission, in the Pacific.
Portsmouth, in commission, in the Pacific.
Plymouth, in commission, in the Mediterra
nean.
Albany, on the stocks at New York.
Germantown, on lhe stocks, al Philadelphia.
St. Mary’s in commission.
James'own, in Commission, coast of Africa.
Sloops ov War, second class—6.
Ontario, in commission as a receiving ship,
Baltimore.
Decatur, in ordinary at the navy yard, Nor
folk.
Preble, in commission, coast of Africa.
Yorktown, do do
Marion, in ordinary, at the navy-yard, Boston.
Dale, in ordinary, at the navy-yard, New
York.
Brigs—B.
Dolphin, preparing for sea at the navy-yard,
Norfolk.
Porpoise, in commission.
Somers, in commission—home squadron.
Truxton, in commission, coast of Africa.
Bainbridge, in commission, coast of Brazil
Perr;, in commission, on her return Irom East
Indies.
Lawrence, in commission—home squadron.
Schooners—B.
Shark, in commission tn the Pacific ocean.
Boxer, in ordinary, at Boston.
Experiment, in commission, as a receiving*
ship, Philadelphia.
Flirt, in commission as a packet, running be
tween Norfolk and Chsgres.
Wave, in commission, on coast survey.
Phenix, in ordinary at Norfolk.
On ka-hy-e, in commission as a packet, run- j
mi ng between Norfolk and Chagres.
Stlameks -8
Mississippi, in ordinary at Boston.
Fulton, in ordinary m New York.
Union, inmriinitry St'Washington.
Princeton, in commission
Michigan, in commission, on Lake Erie.
Poinsett, in ordinary *' New York.,. .o> r—-x
*.. w i»<m,-*wflrrTiink at Norfolk.
Engineer, tag boatat Norlo’k.
Store ships—4.
Relief, in commission, Paclfie.
Erie, in commission at Naw York, destined
for the Pacific.
Lexington, in coriimission, Mediterranean.
Southampton, repairing for sett nt Norfolk;
destined for the coast of Africa,.
A Young Lady Shot.—The Somerville
(Tenn.) Reporter of Saturday says:
On Monday last, a soil of Mrs. Allen was en
gaged in fixing the lock of a shot gun, when by
some unaccountable invans it was discharged.,
and some 16 or 18 shot entered the lace, neck,
shoulder and hand of .Miss Sarah Goodby,
daughter of Mr. Wm. M. Goodby, who was
standing in lhe room, btit no: within lhe range ot
lhe gun. It seems that the shot first struck the
top of a dining table, then glanced to the wnl of
the house, and again glanced to the spot at which
MissG. was standing. By these several ob
structions the force of the charge was weakened,
or doubtless the result would have been fatal
The wounds we re at first considered dangerous,,
especia ly those in the neck; but we are happy
to learn that the lady is now considered entirely
out of danger, and is recovering.
Tha receipts on the Western Mass.Jßailroad
during the weekending on lhe lO.h instant were
$16,844—0n1y $350 more than during the cor
responding period last year.
The total receipts on the New York Canals,,
from the commencement ot navigation this
season up to the Bth instant, twenty-three days
in all, were $230,978. Last year, up to the
same period, the tolls amounted to $200,329.
The Last Davs of Great Men.—ln on.e
morning m advanced lile, Johnson ■'imuse.t hir*n
iJ.'fby committing times — SOO lines of Vi.r
gil. At ttrtTree of 73, when staggering under
an immediate attack ol paralysis—sufficient! y
severe to render hitn speechless—he composed
a Latin prayer, in ordet to test the loss or rete n
ti on of his mental faculties. Nor is this a sol i
tary instance. On€ of the most beautiful son
nets in the English language was composed by
Ma«on, on the attainment ol his 72-1 birth day.
Locke at 72, and Newton at 84, retained their
faculties in unabated vigor. The feeble frame
of the Earl of Chatham, al 70, sank under the
effort to express the conviction of his mighty
mind, afiera speech sosingularly eloquent, bold,
ardent and animated, as to rival, it not outvie,
the most brilliant outpouring ot his youth or
early manhood.
According to the Kingston (Jamaica) Times,
the last act ot President Guerrier was a refusal
to sign the death warrant for the execution ot
ten persons who had t>eeii condemned to be
shot, remarking at lhe time, “ I am an old man
myself, and have but a few short days to live;
why, therefore, should-1 deprive my fellow
creatures of Hie?" Having said this, he fell
back and expired.
A Real Irishman.—ln the adventures of the
Exploring Expedition, Capt. Wilkes stated
that on arriving at one of lhe farthest and most
undesirable ot lhe Fejee Islands, where pig’s
flesh is a luxury, and human flesh a high holi
day food, they had a visit from a host of oil
bedaubed and clay-covered inhabitants, whom
he addressed through an interpreter, and whose
wants, in the way of jackknives, beads, and
glass, he supplied. One of the inhabitants
gently pressed aside the interpreter, and, to lhe
question of what he wanted, replied, that “his
honor should give him a hatchet tor the chil
dres.” Great was the astonishment of the cap
tain to ascertain that beneath the bushy head
and oiled skin before him, beat lhe heart of an
Irishman, who to the question of what he was
doing there, replied, “raising pigs, hens and
children.” The pigs and Irens did not multiply
rapidly, but Patrick was lhe happy father of
“ Forty-Eight Children,” and was living ir tire
hopes of two more than very year. But alas,
the hopes of this Priam of the Fejees were
blasted; notin the failure of his plans, but in
lhe termination ot his life. He died in a few
months afterwards.
Public Opinion in Germany.—A letter from
Hamburg, dat-d April 14th,snys:—“So much
is certainly believed, that it Great Britain and
America go lo war, the French Government
will find some pretext or other for joining the
la'.ier, and if the French are once at war, they
will not rest until the Rhine forms their boun
dary. A war, therefore, in which France is
involved, must sooner or later implicate the
whole of Germany and probably the entire con
tinent ofEurope.”
The Governor has appointed Messrs. JohD
F. Lloyd, of Floyd, James Hunter, of Savan
nah, and Jeremiah Beall, of this place, the
commitee to examine into, and report upon the
condition and management ol the Central Bank
to lhe next Legislature. The committee met in
this place vesierday to commence their duty.
South. Recorder.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 21.
Tut Twenty-Ninth Conchies”.—The elec
tion in Virginia brings up the number ol mem
bers chosen lor the next Congress to 103, ot
' whom 58 are Whigs, 99 Locos, and 6 Natives.
There are 58 more members to he elected, in
Maryland, North Carolina, Indiana, Kentucky,
Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida,
and a vacancy to be filled in each of the Stales
of Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hamp
shire.
The Louisiana Stale Convention has brought
its labors to a close. The final vote on the Con
stitution as formed, was taken on Wednesday.
The instrument was then engrossed, enrolled
and signed, and the Convention adjourned sine
die, on Thursday.
The Constitution will be submitted for the
ratification of the people by general ballot in
November next, and the election lor Governor
and other officers will take place under the new
Constitution, it adopted, next January.
The Oregon Negotiation has often engaged
the attention of American and British diplo
matists. Twenty years ago, says th • Baltimore
American, when Mr. Rush was our Minister in
England, the subject was under discussion. In
his “Residence tn Londm,” a work published
after his return home, he says that the British
Plenipotentiaries made no formal proposition of
a boundary in the Oregon country, but “inti
mated that the river itself (the Columbia) was
the most convenient, and said they could agree la
none that did not give them the harbour at its
mouth., in common with the United Stales." To
this the American negotiators could not assent—
and so the matter remained unadjusted to the
present day, and is unadjusted still.
We inay here remark, that lhe real point of
difficulty in this question, now, as it'was twenty
years ago, is in reference to the Columbia river
and its harbor. If either party would yield that
point, there would be no trqubie whatever in set
tling the whole business. But that is the very
point which neither party is disposed to yield.
" I cannot leave this part of the negotiation,”
says Mr. Rush, “without remarking that the
important question of territorial rights which it
valves between the two nations is still an open one;
and I do.not fear to record the prediction that it
will be found a question full of difficulty, under
whatever administration, either of Great Britain
or of lhe United Slates, it may hereafter be ap
proached.”
The One Term Principle.—The Washing
ton Union says:—“The President has already
de dared more than once that he himself will not
be a candidate for a second term ot office. He
has authorized us to declare it again in the pr#
spectus which we have submitted to the nation
as the creed of our own faith and the guide of
our own course. He goes in tor one term only,
to serve his country to the best ofhis ability, and
anxious to testily his gratitude to lhe people who
have honored him by iheir confidence by devo
ting himself to their service, and not to his own
continuance in office. He doesnot, therefore,
design to shape his Administration to assist any
aspirant, or to make his appointments to pro
mote his own re-election; but to carry out faith
fully the powers which lhe people have placed
in his hands.”
New York Statistics.—The debt of the city
of New York, in lhe Mayor’s inaugural address,
is stated to be $12,451.498 50, payable from 1847
to 1880, to which the completion of the waler
works and new almshou.-e will add about
8700,000. The real estate of lhe city, stated re-
of SIOO 000 per annum, and bonds and
mortgages, are pledged to the redemption of this
debt. The temporary debt of the city, incurred
in anticipation of taxes, is $992 184 68. The
receipts for the support ot the city government,
from 1839 to 1812, inclusive, exceeded the ex
penditure tor the same period in lhe sum of $824,-
441 57—of which $628,235 14 accrued in 1842,
in consequence of levying a larger amount for
I interest and county contingencies than was re
i qnired for the expenditure of that year, and from
the sale ot property for the taxes of former years.
This surplus of $821,441 57 has been wholly ab'
, soibed by the deficiency in ’he receipts from re
venues and tax to meet the expendilare of 1843
Lan A Wifcemfrt imj-rsr J an. ,-m5;Ts shown to be’
$25 916 39 There ate now in the city 39- en
gines, 39 hose companies, 7 hook and ladder
companies, and 2 hydrant companies,
Mrs. Hamilton.—A letter from Albany says
o’The Hail of the Assembly witnessed an unu
sual scene this morning. Mr. Lee, ot West
chester, announced the presence ot Mrs. Ham
ilton, the widow of Alexander Hamilton, and
the daughter of Philip Schuyler, (names coin
cident with the true greatness of this Stale,) and
Mr. L. and Col. Sweeney, of Niagara, were
appointed a committee to conduct Mrs. H. to a
place on the right of the Chair. The Assem
bly received their venerable guest, standing,
and the whole scene was conducted in good
taste and with dignity.”
The Temperance Bill.—The bill authori
sing the People of the several Cities and Town
ships of New York (except the city of New York)
to say whether they will or will not license the
sale of Ardent Spirits within the limits of such
Cities and Towns respectively, bad passed both
Houses, and is doubtless by this time a law. Il
such a bill was necessary in other parts of the
State, it would seem to be pre-eminently neces
sary m the city of Gotham.
The Oregon Question. —The “ Union" of
last Friday evening, speaking of lhe Oregon
question, says:—The “New-York Courier”
suggests arbitration. We understand that Mr
Calhoun declined this proposition when made
by the British Minister—and declined it, it is
said, upon grounds of lhe strongest character.
We are content to wait lor the publication ot
that document, with the general remark, that it
is seldom, if ever, that the umpirage of a third
power has been able to settle satisfactory the
controversy between two States in relation to
disputed territory.
The Stsames Swlalow has been raised and
towed on the flats. Two bodies, a man and a
boy, were tauen out of the river, near Hudson,
on Thursday afternoon, supposed to have been
two ot the passengers who were on board the
Swallow - r one of them is believed to be the son
cl General Mather.
KJ-Providence, R. I. has re-elected Burgess
(Whig) Mayor, and a regular Whig Board of
Aidermen.
Spy The Washington papeis announce the
death of Reuben M. Whitney. He died in
that city on the 14th inst., in his 57th year.
Weather in New York —The N. Y. Tri
bune of Saturday says:—A most extraordinary
change of weather took place yesterday morn
ing, accompanied by a regular Northeast storm
cold and freezing, which continued in unmiti
gated misery through the day. So much need,
however, was there of rain, both in town and
country, that no complaints were made of the
weather, save by the Broadway clerks—a sort
of vegetable which we believe only ihrives in
sunny weather. The sun last night, however,
“made a golden set,” and we presume the storm
is over.
Failure. —The New York Tribune says:
The announcement of the failure ot the house
of John T. Smith & Co. this morning created a
lively sensation. It was in most quarters en
tirely unlocked for. They have been for many
years a leading house in the uncurrent money
business, and were considered moderately
wealthy. When Mr. Smith died, he was gene
rally estimated to be worth 50 to $75,000. The
house, it is said, owe the brokers in lhe stree;
about SGO.OOO; and as their business was large
with other cities, are probably involved to a
larger amount than this. Mr. Underhill, the
managing, if not the only surviving partner,
has been absent from the city tor a day or two.
There is also some excitement in the street oc
casioned by the disappearance of a gentleman
doing business in Wall-sf., who left town seve
ral days since, to visit some friends on the North
River, and has not since been heard of.
Green Corn.—Mutton Corn wasserved up
at the City Hotel, in Savannah, on Satttiday
. last, the 17th inst.;the first this season.
Large Haul or Fish.—The New Haven
Courier states that the largest haul of white fish
ever taken in that place was last Monday, when
fifteen hundred thousand were taken. Onemil
lion is the largest number ever before taken at
once in the harbor, and were taken last year at
that place. The net used is three hundred and
fifty rods long, and yet it was filled to overflow
ing. So great was lhe rush ot fish in a body
from one extreme to lhe other of the net, that a
bystander represents the noise to have been equal
to that ot a steamboat. At the rate they are
sold, this haul would produce lhe snug little sum
of $750.
A large silver mine has been discovered on
New River in Grayson county, Va., about
twenty miles from the court-house of that coun
ty. A s netting furnace is about to be erected
at the mine.
Ten Year Rule.—A correspondent of the
Union, writing from Baltimore under date of
the 15th says:
“ Last evening o.;r different wards held meet
ings, an I the general expression of opinion is
strongly in favor < f ejecting every man from
office who has been in over ten years.” (Cetera
dossunt.")
The latin phrase, “lhe remainder is want
ing,” is put there to indicate that the work of
turn out is not finished, and that the President
or the Secretaries ought “to go on.”
Sixty-fire hundred sacks of « heat, averaging
about sixty-two bushels each, says an exchange
paner.have been purchased in the country above
St. Louis, and were received in that city a week
or two since to be shipped via. New-Orleans, Io
mills in Nova Scotia. The time is within the
recollection of many merchants when the idea
. of purchasing wheat in Missouri, Illinois and
lowa, for mills in Nova Scotia would have
been laughed at as a wild and unprofitable
speculation.
Accounts from Antwerp represent that
port as swarming with emigrants seeking a
passage to this country.
A large shoe manufactory is to be erect
ed at Chelsea, near Boston, with accommoda
tions for ninety or a hundred workmen.
£>Six Odd Fellows have been ex-commu
nicated by the Baptist Church in Unionville,
Washington county, Pa., on accountot the sup
posed inconsistency of the tenets of their order
with a religious profession.
From the Baltimore American
Life and Times of Henry Clay.
The prospectus of this forthcoming publica
tion, by C. Colton, Esq. author of the “Junius
Tracts,” announces that the work is ready logo
to press. Mr. Colton, whose endowments as a
writer fit him in a peculiar manner for the exe
p cution of a work like this, has Had special oppor
tunities and advantages in lhe composition ot
1 it Lie spent the la-t winter at Lexinulon, Ky.,
I in immediate communication with Mr. Clay,
, ami with tree access to his papers and Corres
pondence.
The period tn which Mr. Clay has lived and
1 acted in public affairs, constituting in his own
, person lhe central point of our history during
, lhe most of that time, embraces some very im
portant epochs in our annals. The philosophi
cal historian who shall hereafter trace the | ro
■ gress of the Republic, and note the changes
I wrought out by lhe development of lhe demo
cratic principle, as contra-distinguished Irom
that ot conservative republicanism, will mark
one great transition-point as signalized by the
election of Gen. Jackson. The illustrious
, statesman now calmly surveying the past and
t present in his quie’ retreat at Ashland holds in
. his mind, side by side, the two diverse pictures
of public affairs, as presented respectively at
1 the beginning and close ot his eventful political
life. His career embraces two eras. A demo-
I crat of the old school, he has lived to see demo
cracy in so strange a garb, and so changed that
those who, with him, once loved and honored
I her. can now no longer recognize the lineaments
• which gave character to her face.
But leaving these reflections, we may say of
1 the book now about to be published concerning
the Life and Times of Henry Clav, that the
• characteristic abilities of the author, in connec
tion with the interest of the subject, give warrant
lor lhe expectation of a very valuable work.
The correspondent of a Cincinnati paper speaks
of its disclosures relative to the famous bar-
i gain and corruption charge as perfectly astound
ing, and as showing that all the bargaining was
on lhe side of Jackson and his friends. The
writer says nt the documents on this subject :
’• Li is proved by them that Buchanan came
L "The I snarl into which it"
gets Buchanan, Jackson, Eaton, &c , is per
fectly laughable. Jackson in his after attemr ts
to get out of the dilemma, when he found that
Clay was too noble to be bought, annihilates
Buchanan, and Buchanan, in endeavoring to
throw the burden from his shoulder, drives t’-e
General to the wall, while Gen. Eaton eats them
both up. The disclosures exhibit the Jackson
men ol that period who surrounded their favo
rite candidate in a most ludicrous light, whi’e
il fastens a blot on Buchanan’s forehead he will
I find it impossible to wipe out. Hitherto Mr.
Clay has refrained from making these disclo
. -nres out < I regard lorßuchanan. Butnow.as
his life is to be written for the benefit of pcsteri
' ty, and he is to take his true position in the
i constellation of great and good men, and his
own lite is drawing to a close, lhe call forevery
thing that is needed to clear his character from
’ the aspersions made against it is too loud and
I imperious to be disregarded. His very for
bearance shows how well his enemies know
him. They felt they could trust to his magna
nimity while they allo wed a charge to rest against
him he could at any lime destroy ”
1 From the N. Y. Courier Enquirer.
Ridendo dicere I’czwr—which may be freely
i rendered, at least for our present purpose, an
, exhibition of serious truths, in a sportive man
ner-is an allowed mode of instruction ever
since the days of Horace.
i Our readers will, we think, agree with us, in
. reading the annexed extract of a genuine letter,
addressed by a genuine American to a political
friend of the dominant patty—that Horace’s
p rule is well carried our.
New York, 15th May.
1 “We are a wonderful people; and ttnderthis
’ new administration, this new phasis of the de
mocracy, we shall doubtless become one of the
greatest people on the face of the earth! More
' potent than England, more warlike than France,
more numerous than the Chinese, more Tar
taric tha'. the Tartars themselves, we shall
leave behind us, in the race of greatness and ot
1 glory, all the nations of the globe! Ours is lhe
t empire of the world, and the residue of man
| kind can only be recognized as “outside bar
fa ria ns.”
“ It is true, that just now we have no money,
i no army, and little or no navy! But we have
got “ democracy" and lheghost of General Jack
son ! Wc have no military defences, no torts,
I no fortifications, no munitions of war. But we
have demagogues that can whip all the world
an the floor of Congress! and we ha e Southern
i Hotspurs that can tear an army to tatters, and
i Western fighting cocks that can swallow a Boa
, Constrictor, an<! lick two line ol battleships with
one hand! We are indeed a great people—a
1 wonderful people!
“ We may, to be sure, when we come to the
scratch with England, get most d—y drubbed for
1 ayearortwo. We may have all ourcitieson
I the seaport battered down aboutout ears ! We
may have our little Navy annihilated, our com
merce cut up by the roots, our mercantile nia
' rine swept Irom the ocean ! But wnat of that !
i We may lose four hundred millions of property
and add two hundred millions to our national
debt I But who cares for that? We can do a
great deal ot mischief io England. We can
starve her operatives, bankrupt her treasury,
revolutionize Iter Government, and play lhe ve
ry devil wita her, inside and out!
“Itis true, we may lose two hundred thou
sand belter men. So much the belter! We
may plunge the country in ruin—we may throw
it hack a thousand years! But what ot that?
All we have to do is to arme forward again.
We may in short lose the landmarks of the
Union. What if we do? Nobody cares for
the Union now-a days! We may have a ser
vile war—possibly a black kingdom in the
South ! T.wtf mieux. We like variety. We
may lose the legacy ol the revolution—we may
lose ever) thing that a great people hold valua
ble. Very well, let it go! We shall still have
Ritchie and Benton and Blair! Then we shall
be rich in the great staple of democracy, and
what more do we want !
“We are truly a wonderful people! it is our
destiny to be great--our destiny to annex!!
England may bluster and kick up a bobbery if
she thinks best, but we shall go on—we must go
on—il is our destiny to go on—to annex Texas’
Mexico, California, and the two Canadas!
So, hurrah! boys—and the d—l take the hind
most.”
Conflict with a Whale. —Mr. Seth S.
Snow was killed instantly by a whale, off Race
Point, Pro“incetown, last Tuesday, in lhe
following manner: As soon as the whale
was discovered, two boats, one containing five
and the other seven persons, made in pursuit,
and each boat succeeded in fastening their irons,
when the whale turned upon them, and comin>
upon one boat head foremost, utterly demolished
it, killing instantly Mr. Snow, leaving the
others afloat in the water. The other boat sever
ed their line, and succeeded inrgscuing the
drowning persons, when the_^tTmlemade for
them also, but by hard pulljdg they reached the
shore in safety. Hie whale following close in
their wake, as far as the dep'h of the water
would permit. This is said to be the fir.-t in
stance in which a whale has altacked'a boat in
this manner upon otir shores.— Bostoij Courier.
i
■VWWWnCMHnMI
Oregon.—The distance of Oregon from the
U. States is not generally known to half the per
sons who talk ol settling beyond the Rocky
Mountains. For lhe information of this class
we give the following on lhe authority of Mr.
Greenhow’s late publication.
The journey is generally commenced at Inde
pendence on the Missouri river; thence
To Laramie Fork, i-- 750 miles.
To the sources of the-Plate, 250 "
To Fort Hall, 250 “
1250 “
The travellers go the greatest pan of the way
on foot, through a dreary barren country, cross
ing mountains that are 10,000 feet high, and
destitute of vegetation and water. They are
liable to be attacked by Indians, and suffer all
kinds ol annoyance and privation.
The route usually taken from Canada toOre
gon by lhe employee’s ol the Hudson's Bay
Company is about three thousand miles, and is
traversed<m horse back, there being no roads
tor wagons
From Hayti. We have lull files of Pot 1
Republican papers to the 27th ult., brought by
lhe schooner Fawn, Capt. B-rllott. The new
President Pierrot bad not yet arrived at the ca
pital.
Ex-President Herard had effected a landing
at the portol Grand Goister, where he remained
vainly expecting a rally of his partisans Irom
Jactnel and the neighboring mountains. For
ces have been sent against him, and be is likely
to be cantured, as well as bis ves«el, Grenadere,
which Is anchored off the Port ol Grand Goi
ser. — Jour, of Com.
Purchasing a Wife.—Not long since a
young man in the interior of New York, on the
day he atiained his tnaj irity, alter receiving a
large estale, eloped with his neighbor’s wife.
They were pursued and overtaken in New Or
leans, when a negotiation ensued of which the
Picayune furnishes the following account:
Raising the Wind—A Novel Speculation.—
We are informed that the enterprising yonng
titan who ran away from an inland town io New
York wilhanother man’s wife the day he became
of age, was arrested in mis city, a day or two
ago, upon a writ, issued by Hie agent of the de
serted husband,claimingdamages to the amount
l bfs2o,ooo forme bleach in me domestic f.appf
ness of his principal, occasioned by the adven
ture aforesaid. The day after the arrest the
agent called upon the lawyer who had chatge
of the case, and told him that the cause might
be dismissed, ass compromise had been effected
with the adventurous youth—he agreeing to
soothe the wounds and injuries lie had inflicted
with a SSOOO poultice. Things were accor
dingly so arranged. But shortly afte-wards the
agent seemed visited by compunctions ol con
science lor taxing the young gentlemen so high
for a luxury that carried with it a suffieiet pun
ishment, and in consideration of his inexpe
rience, returned to the officer of the gentleman
of lhe law, and desired that lhe documents
should affix the compromised damages at S2OOO.
To this the attorney could have no objection.—
The individual to whom lhe husband had en
trusted his affairs was the best judge of lhe
cash value, oflhe suffering caused by the elope
ment ofhis wile, and if S2OOO was considered
a quid pro quo, it was his business, and not that
ot the legal adviser or agent, who might be
accused ol aiding and abetting extortion if
more were exacted titan the article was deem
ed to be worth. 'The attorney ot course thought
that in reducing the damages to S2OOO, the
S3OOO, excess which had been paid would be re
turned to lhe misguided young man. But such
was not the case. The agent, it seems, agreed in
his own mind that S2OOO was ample compensa
tion for a husband who had lost a runaway wile;
but having induced the gay Lothario to pay
down SSOOO, although his conscience would n it
allow him to pay over but S2OOO to the husband,
he very justlv considered that his smartness en
titled himself to the other S3OOO, or at least a
loan of it, for ten years without interest or secu
rity. This arrangement was the more reasona
ble, as the young man had promised to lend lhe
gentleman some money before he came of age,
but in his hurry to get away with his (the gent’s)
friend’s wife, had utterly neglected so to do, anc
lie had undertaker, to follow him South in con
sideration of his promise, and to harass him for
his neglect, it struck us that lhe difference be
tween a sum extorted from a youth who runs off
with a man’s wile, and the cash value ol the
husband’s sufferings in (he opinion of an agent,
was a novel item in the money market, and that
the first transaction in this stock was worth re
porting.
A Fashionable Chapel.—The following ex
tract from Punch administers some punches
under the filth rib to a certain class not con
fined to lhe latitude where ttie article was writ
ten :
The growing desire of the vulgar poor to visit
church, may in lhe mindsol some people, it is
much to be feared go tar to bring the true inte
rests of religion into contempt. It is here pro
mised by certain zealous projectors, to build a
chapel tor the exclusive use ol tire rich and lhe
very respectable. People in high-lows and cor
duroys are never seen ri, ibumi.iilili m t1 it l< ills 7~
For stu h people, aie there not meeting-houses,
nay, even churches?
Keenly alive to the wants of the superior
classes oflhe neighborhood of , the pre-
sent projectors intend to build a proprietary
chapel which shall, in all its appointments, make
religion, like venison, a luxury tor the better
orders. Every pew, like an opera box, will
bear so high a price that it will be unattainable
save by the wealthy; thus, every religionist will
have the comfort of confessing himself once a
week “ a miserable sinner,” only in the very
best society. He is thereby spared thchumilia-
tjon <>l such an avowal in the presence ot the
vulgar, who too frequently presume upon such
merely ceremonious confession If a gentle
man is “ a miserable sinner,” is there any ne
cessity that he should condescend to own as
much to the very riff raff? Certainly not.
The elegance and the costliness of the pews—
they will be fitted up under the tasteful direction
ol Mr. Brad well, late ol the Covent. Garden
theatre—insuring the most select subscribers,
the sermons Ki be preached will be of corres
ponding beauty and superiority. Thus it may
be confidently promised, that the minister en
gaged will never talk ol “corruption,” and “ the
grave,” and “the worm that never dies,” and
such digressing subjects—well enough an-l
indeed very proper tor working people with
nerves like whip cord—but will so order his
discourse that it shall not nifHe a single leather
of the very downiest conscience. Hence the
subscribers to the pews may take ate; id bath—
tor a soltand pleasurable sensation. Not even
in the shape of one ot his matches shall Lu
cifer be tn any way permitted in the proposed
edifice.
A clergyman has been engaged, at an enor
mous expense, who brings with him lhehighest
and most delicate testimonials, viz: a silver
wanning pan, the tribute id' one admiring fash
ionable flock, and iw:i dozen lawn handkerchiefs,
marked with the hair id' the spinsters ot anoth
er congregation.
Male and female vocalists, from rhe theatre,
are engaged; and M. Ju I lien will occasionally
preside at the organ.
The beadle already engaged has lived as but
ler with an Earl, and is, therefore, used to good
society.
The pew openers have also waited on the up
per classes, having in their youth employed
themselves as family governesses.
No subscriptions returned.
An Early Settler.— A Father and Sun
Schoolmates.— The sermon by the Rev. E. Clark,
preached at Middlefield, on the occasion of the
death of the late Dea. David Mack, March 2(1
1845, has been published. Dea. Mack was 91
years vs age when he died, and had been an
inhabitant of Middlefield 70years, having re
moved to that place in 1775, then nearly a wil
derness-only eight families residing within its
boundaries. He Commenced there with 50 acres
of land which he purchased lor a horse valued
at Sit). From this small beginning ho acenmu
laled great wealth, contributions from which
have been made al various times to benevolent
objects to more than 18,000. His advantages
lor education, like others in the early seule
ments, were very limited; he attended school
only six weeks previous to hrs marriage, and
afterward went to school with his first child
Hon. David Mack, of Amherst, was in the same
class, and oftentimes emulated in the studies
pursued by his class-mate. His descendants
number upward of 200, and he lived to see eight
or ten of the filth generation.— Northampton
Courier.
Among the great printing establishments
of the city of New York is the Methodist Hook
Office. It continually works eight or ten press
es propelled by steam, and empl >ys more than
one hundred and fifty workmen. Over one
hundred thousand dollars worth of books are
annually printed. A writer in the Northern
Christian Advocate, in speaking of this estab
lishment, remarks: “ It has but one pecuniary
object, which is to create revenues for those
ministers who have stink down in broken health
under the weight of arduous labors, and to make
slight provision for the widows and orphans of
those who have nobly fallen with via written
on their shield.”
The Albany Daily American Citizen thus
describes one of the wonders of the animal
kingdom now exhibiting in that city:
It is the petrified vertebra of a monster
called by the Naturalists the Zuyloam—a crea
ture which must have been hall alligator and
halt whale. It was discovered embedded in a
chalk formation on the banks of the Alabama
River, and was boxed up and sent to Professor
Emmons of this city. The vertebra, extending
Iroin a portion of tne head to the tip ol the tail,
is eighty feet in length ns it iies upon the floor I
The creature must have been, io lite, fiomninc
ty to one hundred feet long 1
News from Independence, Mo., informs that
the emigrants now near that point number a
bout 7000, all destined for Oregon and Califor
nia. 1 hey will start about the same time, di
vided into convenient companies for travelling
with ease and safety. The Indians will not at
'ack a party of five hundred. Os course the
emigrants this season standin no iearof the re I
skins. It is astonishing what a tide is setting
toward the fertile lands on the Pacific.
The way to Cure.': Cigar-smoking Husband. I
Mrs. Reed Williams bad never looked more |
beautiful than she did that evening when her '
husband returned. Perhaps there had been '
more than usual solicitude about lhe shade ol a
ribbon or the adjustment ot a curl, but it there
was, looking-glasses “tell no tales,” and neat
and plain attire would not proclaim the fact to
an ordinary observer. She s arted nervously as
heenteted, but she controlled herself ana greet
ed him kindly and cainly as usual.
“ Well, my dear,”said he, advancing gaily,
“ 1 have riot been smoking to-day.”
“Oh, thank you, thank you, dear husband,"
exclaimed Emeline in the fulness of her heart,
“you will never smoke any more, will you?”
and her soft pleading ejres were raised to his
with an expression that amply repaid him lor
the sacrifice. ‘
Days passed, and the young wife felt hap
pier than she had ever felt before, for her heart’s
idol had relinquished even his favorite cigars,
and tor her sage.
One evening,as he sat by her side, she thought
lie seemed unusually depressed, and her cheer
ful smiles and her animated conversation failed
IO restore his wonted gaiety. She did not ask
the cause, but she almost fellas il she had been
selfish in exacting such a sacrifice as she knew
it to be. At length he arose-” Emeline, I
think I must have a cigar.” No word ot fond
entreaty stayed his course, and lie soon re
turned. ” 1 have got the bunch, they will soon
be gone, and then I will smoke no more.”
He looked.up in her face, but he could not
read the expression there. It was not grief,
disappointment, anger o' love, but a most mar-
vellous calmness. He was about to retire to
bis studio, where he generally indulged in lhe
luxury t.f smoking, but a soft voice recalled
him. “ Will you not stay with ijiii f ,<r
“ I thought,” said be hesitatingly, “ 1
smoke was very disagreeable tc you.”
“It will be mure disagreeable still, it it de
prive me of my husband’s company,” said Em
eline, as she gently drew him back into the room,
and placing a luxuiiomt rot king chair fur bis
reception, seated herself by his side.
Sue then selected two cigars from the lot,
lighted one and placed it in her busband’s lips,
and performing the same operations with the
other, commenced puffing away with the gravity
of an experjettc d smoker. Both uiaintaibed’
the satwimpfrttfrltaWe coblnTs? fob several '
minutes; he looked every ii.stant to see her give
up the attempt, and she still smoked as if it had
been a habit for years.
At length bursting into an uncontrollable fit
of laughter, he flung the remnant of his cigar
into the grate, exclaimed, “ Emeline, you have
won the day—if you will leave off smoking, 1
will.”
“Certainly, I always imitate those 1 love;
but bad we not better smoke this bunch it is a
pity to waste it?”.
“No; we will keep them in remembrance of
our mutual promise."
“ Well, then, I have been thinking as i sat
smoking, how much did you give for these
cigars?’ “Three cents a piece.” - -
“And you smoke four in a day, that is a
moderate allowance, is it not?" “It is.”
“Then twelve cents a day.is fbrtv-lhree
dollars and eighty cents a year; lhe same lor
myself would make eighty seven dollars and
sixty cents. Am I no: a good arithmetician?
In one of my rambles the olher day, I met with
a very poor old woman, who with her little
grand-daughter lived in oneofthose little wood
en houses just over the Schuylkill. I soon re
cognised her as being the Mrs. Ellison of whom
you have spoken as being so kind to you when
a child. She is in extreme poverty, and of
course feels it more severely after a life of
affluence. Now yon remember that pretty little
white cottage near our country residence; itis
so tent, very low, only fifty dollars, ant itis
plenty large enough for Mrs. Ellison and her
little girl. Now our cigar money would hire it'
for her, and the remaining thirty-seven dollars
and sixty cents would be some relief to her.—
Then she would be so near that we can run in
at any lime, and see that she is comfortable.—
What do you thing dearest, ot my plan ?”
Laconic Correspondence. —Btevity in epis
tolary correspondence, says the Picayune, has
long since come to be regarded as a character
; istic of great minds. Whether lhe following
correspondence is to be regarded as the emana
. tion of genius, a “discerning public must de
cide,” as the quack said when he spoke of the
curative powers ot his patent medicine.
The first letter is from a lady who keeps a
boarding house in this municipality to one of
her weeklies: the second is his reply:
W EDNESDA Y, 10 O’clock, A. M.
Mr. , Room No. 24,
Sir: I send your account by my Bill, toot it
immediately or quit the house.
Yours, in want ol money,
J R .
Bill, we would here remark, is lhe lady’s
colored servant, well known to all the boarders
as the “ man ol all work." A few minutes af
ter Madame J R put her note in the
hands ol Bill, he came running down stairs,
crying as loudly as il some
nJ in ,ii, ir, i.TtlffinTTrauseot his wailing.
What T S faced usly calls “ footing
your Bill” means kicking his posteriors: *
W ednesday, Room 24, about 10, a. m.
Mrs. J R ,
Afidam: Not finding il convenient to foot
your account, I have footed your Bill.
Youts, though lying easy in bed,
extremely hard up, T S .
Napoleon’s Attempt to Pass ths Red
Sea.—The author of Eothen, or Traces ot
Travel, after mentioning several speculations as
to lhe point at wnich the Israelites passed the
I) r\inur. f* th A n ,f i . 1 - A *AA I.
, Red Sea, one of the suppositions being that they
1 had traversed only a small creek at the northern
extremity, Near Suez, proceeds as follows. —
' “ Napoleon, when at Suez, made an attempt to
follow the supposed steps of Moses, by passing
lhe creek at this point, bin it seems, according
to the testimony of lhe people at Suez, that he
i and his horse men managed the matter in away
, more resembling the failure of lhe Egyptians,
than the success ol the I-racliles. According
’ to the French account, Napoleon got out ol lhe
. difficulty by that warrior-like presence of mind
which served him si. II when lhe fate of na-
, lions depended on lhe decision of a moment.
I He ordered his horsemen io disperse themselves
in all directions, in order to multiply the chances
i of finding shallow water, and was thus enabled
s to discover a line bv which he and his people
r were extricated. The story told by the people
e of Suez is very different. They declare that
Napoleon parted from his horse, got thoroughly
” submerged, and was only fished out by the people
on shove. 1 bathed twice at the point assigned
i to lhe Israelites, ami the second lime that I did
so, I cfiose the time of lo w water, and tried to
walk icross. but I soon found myself out of my
j depth, or at least in waters.) deep that I could
r only advance by swimming.
A Distinction.—The best distinction weev
, er heard between railway ami coach accidents
• was thai of an old whip. “ If,” said he, "you
gels comfortably capsiz-d into the ditch by the
; roadside, ifrerc you are; bril if you gels blown
t up by an engine, run into a cutting, oroff an em
bankment, where are you ?”
’ Beautiful Phenomenon —The visiters at
Rockaway, who happened to be on the look out,
on Sunday afternoon, we e favored with an ex-
■ hibition oi that remarkable phenomenon, known
in Italy by the fanciful name c>l Fa n Morgana.
It is often observed at sea, especially in high
latitudes, but is compa to observers
( on land. The forms of vessels,\at various dis
' tances from lhe shore, were seen
; fleeted on a mass of dark cloud, some inverted
and some in their true position. Even vessels
I so far distant as not to be vi-ible in their real
, substance were presented to the surface ol the
cloudy mirror, and with such distinerness, that
by the aid of a telescope, the spars and cordage
’ could be traced with accuracy. It must have
. been a gratifying sight to the observers—and
J doubtless lull of terrified wonder to some.— ls.
' Y. Con. Adv.
r Heavy Verdict.—ln the United States Cir
cuit Court in New York on Wednesday, in the
case of the United States vs. Hogan, the jury
brought in a verdict that there wasdue to thede-
I fendant the nice little sum of $22,594 damages,
I besides costs. Action hud been brought by the
Government lorecover from Mr. 11., as admin-
■ itsrator of his father, S2OOO, said to be due by
the father, while Navy Agent at Valparaiso.—
■ The jury considered that the Government, on
the other hand, were indebted to Mr. H. in the
amount for which the verdict was rendered.
This is putting the boot on the other leg!— N
Y. Gaz.
There are at present eight millions ot dollars
in lhe Saving Banks of New-York; showing an
, accumulation ot three millions within lhe last
five years. In the Seamen's Bank for Savings,
in New-York city, lhe deposits amount at pre
sent to #470,000.
Poetry.—The Key West Gazette has a cor
respondent who calls himself the “Key West
Bard,” and the following is a specimen of his
style: - >
Os all the girls in Key West,
'l he most amiable and the verv beat.
Is she whom I »sw yesterday dte»«’d
In muklin de laine.
Iler eyes are soft and very blue,
Iler figure is good—her temper too,
And then she never ha* the blue
Devils or any pain.
Railroad Facilities.—William Jackson, for
several years a director in the Worcester and
Western Railroads, says that very many ot lhe
soundest and clearest headed men we at this
lime have in Boston, fully believe that the net
gain of properly in the city attributable solely to
railroad instrumentality, amounts to more than
theenrire cost of all these roads.
Relative to the cost of transportation on Rail
roads, lhe same gentleman makes some inter
esting calculations. He says one Locomotive
will do the work every day of 668 horses; and
it does this work with the aid ot only lour men;
whereas with four horse teams doing the same
transportation, would be required 167 men.
The Interest on the cost of the Locomotive,
amount expended for its lepairs, wages of the
lour men, with wood anil oil, show the annual
expense of maintaining this team to be about
811,000. Similar items in relation to the horse
teams will show an annual aggregate expense
of about #120,000. — Newburyport HeraU.