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LOSS OF THE STEAMER ATLANTIC.
Forty Lives Lost!
The mail of last night brought us the mel
ancholy tidings of the wreck of the splendid
new steamer Atlantic, Capt. Dustan, on Fish
er*B--IsTaff<JF nearly*nppastte 1 hr. mwn <d -New
London, on Thursday night last, afcl.forty lives
lost, Capt. Dustan among the nujraber. The
vessel went entirely to pieces—
of those on board saved. Mr. Marsh, ot
hill, Mass., has furnished the following acNnudj
of the catastrophe:
The passengers left Bosfen at h*lfjast liy«
o’clock on Wednesday aftejnooif. They pro
ceeded over the Worcester and Norwich roads,
and reached Allyn’s Point at halt past eleven
on that night. There they went on board the
Aitattrfrr-She Wt tor New York between 1?
and 1 o’clock on Thursday morning.
There wkrA between;seventy and eighty per
sons on boArd in all, iricluding passengers, offi
running along finely, when the steam chest ex-:
ploded, and almost at the same moment the:
wind shitted from the north-east to the north
west, and blew al,mosl a perfect hurricane.
The steamer was thrown into the midst of
darkness and confusion, and the air resounded
with the cries of the scalded. It was a frightful
seepe to behold. Capt. Dustan instantly called
all hands to the lore deck, and ordered them tot
heave over the anchors, but it was found almost
impossible for a man to stand on deck, in conse
oueaee of the violence of the gale, the sea con
uuually making a breach over her bows. Ow
ing to. this, it took nearly an hour to get out the
three anchors.
The Steamer worked heavily, plunging her
bows under at every lurch, and dragging her
anchors. Between the time of anchoring and
daylight, it is thought that she dragged about 1 1
mijes.
The fires were all put out at daylight on
Thursday, and from that time to the period of
going ashore, the passengers and crew suffered
from the intense cold, The only means of
keeping warm was to wrap themselves in blan
kets," and walk briskly around the steamer.
All, at this time, began to look to their own
personal safety. All put on the life preservers,
that the ship wasplentifully supplied with,
and prepared themselves lor any emergency.—
The doors, shutters, settees, &c., were detached
and cut away, for rafts to drift ashore upon,
whenever she should strike.
The gale increasing in violence, Captain
Dustan, who preserved his self possession
throughout the perilous time, ordered about for
ty tons of eon! to be thrown overboard, in order
to lighten the vessel.
About noon on- Thursday, the smoke-pipes,
which were very large and heavy, were ordered
to be thrown overboard. This was done, the
captain assisting, and the steamer was eased for
4 short lime. There was less offered to the
force of the wind.
The steamer continued to drift, however, and
everything looked terrible and hopeless.
T,be danger increased so rapidly that between
two‘arid three o’clock Capt. Dustan ordered the
decks terbe cleared of all merchandise, of every
thing that was in, th? way. Cases of bools,
shoes, barrels of flpur, stoves, &c. &c., including
one package said to contain £7OOO worth of
plate, were thrown overboard. There were six
to eight thousand dollars’ worth of. lace on
board, belonging.to one of the passengers, who
had previously said he would give the whole to
any one who would put him safely on shore.
This lace was afterwands seen strewn, along the
beach.
AU these efforts, however, to save the steam
er, were unavailing. No person worked hard
er than Capt. Dustan, and his passengers and
cmw. . After these- repealed-a nd united efforts
fold.failed, all hopes, of safety were over, and all
felt desirous apd. anxious that the steamer
sjfotfld strike the beach. It was a frightful
sight, but the feelings of those on board had
been wrought to such a pitch that reaction came
over them, and they were resigned to their late.
About midnight she parted one of her cables,
there being four out, one attached to thirty hun
dred weight of furnace bars, and the others to
anchors. After this the gale continued to in
crease and blew a perfect hurricane. -
She was driven still nearer the shore, but
passed a point that all expected she would strike
upon. She then drifted about bleven miles
more, making in all twenty-two miles, which
occupied about forty-eight hours of terrible up- ■
certainty and suffering. She then struck, stern
first, on a ledge of rocks on Fisher’s Inland. A
tremendous sea threw her qp_to.die very topol
the ledge. Thia was the crisis in the disaster.
In five minutes dfter she struck she was in pier es .
'ln these fiye'mlnutes at least one-halt of t hose
op board the Atlantic were taken iron* t j me ; n .
to eternity. The screams, the crash t i, e roar of
the sea,' were dreadful. ■
' There were six females, f' „ chi i dren an d
t>«o infants among the pas' en rs AlllUe le .
males were drowned or --.rushed to death. Only
one of the children 9a „ d| and he wasthe
only one of the fam f) wd ich he was a mem
ber. His father , mother> marr ied sister, and a
younger and lwo y onn g brothers, were
The poor little orphan thus saved,
ana thus dirown a | one n "pon [he world, is only
*”***>. years of age. The two infants were
ar<> «rned, frozen, or crushed to death.
AU this occured at half past four o’clock on
Siueu me Aiiauim itrhcx, ivir. marsn w—
silting in the gangway; bisfirst impression was
that a heavy sea had struck the steamer. In a
moment alter, however, the sea stove in the
side of the vessel at his back, and swept him
along and dashed him against the second side of
the steamer. Before he could recover, another
tremendous sea threw him sgainst the upper
side of the vessel. Thenee he was thrown in
amongst the things on deck and- considerably
bruised.
After he was thrown up the third time, he
succeeded in catching hold of the sky light
frame, and there remained for a few moments,
aid- the only person near him to be seen or
heard; was the small boy who was saved. He
WAS ms)he top of the ledge among the wreck.
Mr. Marsh here , discovered that he was made
fast by an Iron'hbok,on a bar of iron, which
had become entangled in one of his life pre
servers , after great exertions he made out to
throw ope of the straps over his head, which
drew the other still tighter. He then thought
that all'was over with him , but he succeeded
in drawing that off. He then found that the
other pairol preservers, which he had on, were
entangled with those he had thrown off. To
extricate himself from this difficulty, he lay
down, and drew all over his feet, and threw them
away.
During this time the sea was breaking up the
steamer, and dashing the pieces of wreck about,
at one time, against Mr. Marsh, and at another
crushing either a poor passenger or an unfor
tunate sailor to death.
After Mr. Marsh had thrown away his life
preservers, he saw a gleam of light from the
upper side of the vessel. The Atlantic was
then lying on her beam ends, and her decks
covered with iee. 'By some means he made
his escape through the side of the vessel through
which inis gleam of light came. Before he
reached that point, however, he saw a human
being standing near the aperture.
After reaching to within six feet of the out
side, he called to the person whom he saw, and
who proved to be the little boy, to pass him a
pitfOe of board, of something else, to enable
him to get ovet the ice. The boy thought that
Mr. M. told him, to leave the place. This in
duced the boy to leave, and Mr. Marsh crept
ont over wfiat he'snpposed to be a dead body,
it was too dark to tell with certainty. Then he
look hold of a part of the wreck on the side of
the ladies’ saloon, and walked bn the edge of
the vessel. On looking up he saw the mast,
with several pieces of timber or spar attached,
swinging to and fro.
At this moment Mr. Marsh was washed back
ipto the sea. Then he found it necessary to
swim as rapidly as his bruised limbs would
permit him through the swell of the sea, ice
and broken parts of the vessel, to avoid Hie
falling mast, and escaped by a lew feet only.
Me made for, the shore as quickly as possible,
which he finally reached in safety, after being
dri.ven back several times.
After Mr. Marsh turned toward the shore, he
heard some oneery "Oh! what shall I do? 1
shan’t get ashore!-’ Mr. Marsh encouraged
him to strike out through the surf, and he had
the pleasure, in the midst of his pain, to see the
little fellow land o> the beach.
As Mr. M. #as thrown up tor the last time
he caught hold of a small sharp rock and held
on till the sea left him. Then he crept on his
hands and knees from the beach over rocks till
he reached a Urge rock, which sheltered him
from the wmd. It was very dark and intense
ly coid at this time.
Shortly after this, Mr. M. heard a man speak
and inquire “ who is there?’ Mr. M. made an
exertion to speak, and probably made some sort
of a noise, tor the man told him “to hold on to
his dress,” to be led to bis house. Finding
himself very weak and cold, lie could not walk
without falling. Just then two other men came
up and conveyed Mr. M. to the house. This
was about 5 o’clock in the morning, and from
that time to about 8 o’clock Mr. M. was insen
sible.
AVom the New York Journal qf Commerce.
Further particulars of the Wreck ol the
Atlantic.
We regret to say that the bodies of two hi-h
--ly respectable citizens have been brought to
their families from the wreck oftbe Atlantic
whose fate was not certainly known betore viz
Mr. Moses Kimball, of the firm of Kimball &
Brown, and recently one of the house ofSpof-
Tileston A. 00., who was returning from
Massachusetts, his native State ; and Mr. Wil
liam Burbank, of the firm of Burbank &Cham
n"l m , orocco dealers in Ferry street. Mr.
Burbank s bouse was in Brooklyn, where he
was an Aiderman, and we believe President of
the Board of Aiderman of that city. Mr Bur
bank has been in public life tor a number of
me,n berofthelastLegislature.
Both these gentlemen will be jnournid by all
who knew them but how deeply by the young
kHtebtod' 0 ' whicl ‘ Lh< -y ba4
All the bodies at New London, with one ex
ception, badbeen claimed by friends.
Among the lost were two young gentlemen
of Boston, Mr. Orlando Pitts, Secretary ofthe
Boylston insurance Company, and Mr. French,
of the Merchants’ Office, both of whom were on
their way to this city to spend Thanksgiving
day with their friends.
f’raiii the N. London Star, Extra, of Saturday.
We are toid diatjhe Rev. Mr. Armstrong,
wlibseTiody was brought' up yesterday from the
wreck, by the Mohegafi, disclosed his presenti
ments of the approaching disastef; shortly after
the boatjeaving Allyn’s X’oint, by inflating and
securing to hi/pqrson several life preservers.
Many of tie passengers owe their escape en
tirely to those articles, andon leaving the Island
they bibught them away, as mementos of their
deliverance. J
One of the survivors (the brother-in-law to
the lad whose fefher, brothers and sisters, were
lost,) was married on Saturday night last. The
family were on their way to purchase a farm
iind.seHleJn tfieyiciuily ol Lancaster, Pa.
Capt. Cullum, of the U. S. corps of Engi
neers, while endeavoring to make his escape,
had his left arm severely bruised, by the falling
ot the Upper Saloon upon it, which held him
■fast uffiil a ‘‘breaker’’ raised it sufficiently tor
him to effect, his release from this perilous situ
ation. Wherf he reached theshore he waseom.
pleteiy exhausted and almost senseless. Gapt.
C. left that evening on government business,
the importance of which, only, induced him t<>
venture out in such a gale. He, together with
Lt. Stewart and MaynArd, and the two officers
that lost their lives, rendered much valuable as
sistance.
Lt. Norton, one ofthe lost, had been stopping
in this city lor several days, on a visit at Capt.
A Bassett’s. He entered the Military Acade
my, from the State ot Ohio, in 1828, and gradu
ated in 1842. For several years he has been
stationed at West Point as an Assistant Instruc
tor of Tactics, and was returning to the Milita
ry Acadtmy when lost. He was a fine soldier,
an estimable man, and endeared to all who
knew him.
Surgeon C. A. Hasler had just arrived at
Boston, after a three year’s cruise, in the U.S.
ship Falmouth, and was on his way to Bruns
wick, N. J., the place of his residence. He has
left a devoted wile and four children, to mourn
his loss.,
We have heard it staled that the distress flag
was hatiled down while the Mohegan was at
tempting to get to the Atlantic, but we learn,
from a survivor that it was blown down.
Capt. Dunstan, after staying by the boat until
all human efforts were useless, and announcing
such to the passengers to be the case, was
lowered down from the hurricane deck into the
water, but probably being so benumbed by the
cold, and exhausted from efforts to serve until
the last, as well as the strong undertow, while
attempting to save himself, as was supposed,
was drawn under the boat, and nothing more
was seen of him until found on the shore. Be
fore leaving his station he shipped the last
cable.
The following list of the passengers and
crew of the Atlantic was made up from the
books of the Company, and is believed to be
correct, or nearly so. We are indebted for it to
the-kmdnessof Capt. J. H. Vanderbilt.
Passengers.— Mr. Symes, Boston to New
York, not lonnd; Atwood do do probably found;
Atwood dodo probably found; Hassler dodo
body found; Maynard dodo not found; Gid
dings do do not found ; Burbank do do body
found; Partridge do do saved; Western dodo
body found; Orr dodo not found; Cullum do
■do saved; Leverett do do not found; Van Wert
Idp do saved; Cunningham dodo not found;
■ Burbank (probably Archibald Austin Burbank)
: do do not found; Houghton do do saved; So-
I lace do do body found ; Kimball do do body
Hound; Cassidy do do body found; Coltamore
do do body found; Hirsch do do saved; Arm
strong do do body recovered; Booth do do not
found; Hanna do do not found*French de. do
body recovered; Pitts dodo body recovered;
Baldwin do do not found j Mary Jordan do do
■not found.
A lady in berth No. (T, probably the body at
Norwich, now waiting to be identified.
> Mr. Comstock,, New London io New York,
’saved; Lieut. Norton dodo body found; Mr.
Andrews do do saved; Rogers dodo saved;
Ames, Norwich to New York, not found;
Truesdell dodo saved; Brewster dodo saved;
Tarbox do do saved; Tinkhamdodonottound.
I Deck Passengers.— Mr. Wilson, Boston to
•New York, not found; Putnam do do not found;
Bohn Walton dodo missing; Mrs. John Wal
ton ai»d 3 children do do bodies found; Jacob
Wallon (boy) do do saved ; Robt. Vine, son-in
iawtoJ. Walton, do do saved; Madder dodo
hot found.
I Officers of the Boat and Crew. —Captain Dus
tin, body found; Michael Doughty, waiter do;
Mary Ann Hilton, stewardess, do; Sarah Johnson, 1
ilo. do; Sarah Rubey, do. do ; John Gleason, por
•ter, body not found; Charles Riley, waiter,do;
Thomas Gibney, do. do ; John McFarlane, do. de;
iLanmer Kelly, deck hand, do.
i Saved. — N. M. Allen, Ist Pilot; Chas. CrandSlf,
'2d do; E.Kingston, Ist Mate, R. W. Duncan, 2d
do; J. M. Cobbs, Ist Engineer, E. Birdsell, 2d do;
nV. VV. Boyle, Clerk; James Stetson, Captain’s
Math's John Keel, Steward ; C. W. Woodworth ;.
H. Manchester, Fileman ; J. Thompson, do; R.
Atwood, do; T. S. Barker, gas tender; George
Smith, Cook ; I’. Mayhew, deck hand ; W. Haller,
Mo; T.- McCoy, porter, E. Daily, waiter; Thomas
Kingston, mail agent; T. O. Gould, Adams’s Ex.
/press.
There are five bodies amongst those not positive
ly identified.
, One man, on whom was. found a linen cambric
L handkerchief, marked Archibald Austen.
One woman and a child, supposed to be from
A Miss Smart, supposed, said to belong to Bos
ton.
A Mrs. , so supposed, as yet not known,
iprobably the lady passenger who was in Berth
jlo. 6, Ladies Cabin.
One body of a man at Fisher’s Island so cut to
pieces that he could not be identified.
Part of a body, from the waist to the neck, so
mangled that it cannot be identified. Also several
parts of bodies, such as arms, hands, legs, feet,
&c., lying in different parts of the Island.
: From theN. O. Picayune, of ultimo.
The Army News.
We received yesterday a portion of our cor
respondence from the Army, which was sent
by private hand. From this we are enabled to
I correct one or two errors—of considerable
-moment—which appeared in our summary yes
terday. Gen. Worth left Monterey tor Saltillo
on the 13th inst. He took with him about 1000
/troops of the sth and Bth U. S. Infantry and
Col. Child’s Artillery Battalion. The objects
.of this expedition are explained in-the subjoin
led letters :
Monterey, Nov. 10, ’46.
Eds. Pic.— The game's afoot and the tally-ho
has again been sounded. The 2d Division,
under Gen. Worth, march on the 12th—day af
ter to-morrow—for Saltillo, accompanied by
two squadrons of cavalry. Ot course there
will be no fighting nntil onr troops get b-yond
that place. Santa Anna is making great exer
tions to rally all the means of the country, and,
in the slang parlance of the camp, promises
"mucho fandango" at San Luis Potosi. He
has already 16,000 regulars, and 6000 more
are on the march from the capital. We shall
probably have one more big fight, and then
peace—a long rest to many.
Yours truly, PAISANO.
P. S. Gen. Wool reached Monclova eighl
days since and goes no farther in that direction.
Monterey, Nov. 14, ’46.
FViemiPic.—Gen. Worth left here yesterday
with about 1000 regular troops—the sth and
Bth U. S: Infantry and Col. Child’s Artillery
Battalion. Gen. Taylor went with him, and
took Col. May’s dragoons, to the number of
some 250, as an escort. 1 suppose that one ob
ject of the commander-in-chief is to asceitain,
positively, the chances ot obtaining water on
the road to San Luis, in case it may be deem
ed expedient to march direct to that city. The
report in cainp is, that Gen. Taylor’s force has
been ordered to Tampico; bull believe he can
do as he pleases, and it he finds that lie can get
to San Luis easily in this direction he will go
there. 1 give this as mere speculation, ot course
we can know nothing certain here. If Gen.
Taylor had Ben McCulloch's old company ot
Rangers he could soon find out all about the
route to San Luis ; as it is, Col. May may be
sent out in that direction. He is an excellent
and most skillful officer, a go-ahead one, 100 ;
but the Texans are “lighter draught'* than the
dragoons, it I can use an aquatic comparison in
this case—can get about and play hide-and-go
seek in the chaparral better than any troops in
the world, and are now much needed. It any
thing turns up you shall hear from me again.
Yours. COMPANERO.
Tns Somnific Gas.—On Thureday a rail
road accident occurred at Wenham, Mass., in
which a young Irish girl was so much injured
as to render necessary the amputation of an arm.
The Salem Register states that
“The operation was performed by Dr. Pier
son, accompanied by Dr. Fisk, who adminis
tered to the sufferer with perfect success, the
new preparation lately made known by Dr.
Charles T. Jackson anil Dr. Morten ot Boston,
the inhalation of which produces insensibility
to the pain of surgical operations. The uncon
sciousness of the girl continued undisturbed un
til near the close of the dressing, when she
simply inquired what they were doing, but
with another inhalation immediately relapsed
into insensibility, and upon coming to tierself,
supposed that she had been dreaming.”
‘1 he Register relates another accident which
occurred on Saturday in consequence of which
amputatian of a leg was performed by the same
operators, with the same successful results:
“ Mr. Wm. A. Osborn, son of Mr. Jonathan
Osborn, of this city, was badly injured on Sa
turday forenoon, on the Essex Railroad in
Danvers, near his tan-yard. He was endeavor
ing to turn his horse and wagon from the track
as the locomotive was approaching, and unfor
tunately put his own foot over the rail, so that
the wheels passed oyer it, crushing the lower
part of his leg so badly that amputation was ne
cessary. The operation was performed in the
afternoon by Dr. Pierson, and Dr. Morton’s
preparation was administered by Dr. Fi«k
with entire success.
The substantial character ot the~trading and
manufacturing operations of Pittsburg is evi
denced by a fact which we have recently seen
noticed in oneof the journals ot that city. It
is this that since the destructive fire in April
1845, which involved the city in a very great
calamity, there have been only two failures;
and both ol these were, it is staled, lor consider
able amounts.
AUOWBT.iI, C 1.1.:
MONDAY MORNING, DEC. 7, 1846.
From the Columbus Times.
Some weeks since we copied the Ihßexeil pira-'
grab from a Boston pipe. It is so appropriate to
this subject that we re-print it.
“ Facts for the Farmers. —The Whigs have
tried to wheedle the farmers, as well as the manu
factnrera, into the belief that the new tariff was
going to ruin them. Now
“Itis a fact Ihut the farmers will produce an
amouut of produce exceeding in value this year
SEVEN 11UNOBED MILLIONS of dollars.
“It is a/oct that, in consequence of the increas
ed demand for this produce, created by a liberal
commercial system, the prices have gone up from
twenty to fifty per cent.
“It u ajact that, while the farmer will get
higher prices for his produce, and find a larger mar
ket for it, he will also get the articles of necessity
he uses in his daily toil cheater than he ever got
them before.
“ These things are worth looking after by the
farmers, and they will do well to ask why they
are so. Why has one business, for a few years
past, produced enormous profits, whilst others —
among them their own—have barely paid expen
ses ? What has it been owing to but unequal
laws ? If the farmers wish an open field and fair
play, let them look for it in the benign influences
of truly Democratic legislation. There is nothing
like this to make young and free America grow.”
The impression sought to be made by the a
bove, which the Columbus Times ot the Ist
inst. publishes from a Boston paper, is, that the
prices ot American wheat.liour, corn and other
provisions, have gone up in price in conse
quence of the passage of rhe tarifl ol 1846.
That prices have advanced there can be no
doubt. But is it not true that prices of wheat
and flour were as high if not higher in the fall
0f!845 thantheyarenow? We merely refer to
the fact without giving prices at the respective
periods.
The tariff ofthe present year, according to
the Boston paper and the Times, raises the price
now. What raised it in 18-45? We ask the
question and ask our readers to note it. Every
one who recollects the state ot the markets in
1845, knows, that they were influenced by the
expected and supposed failure of crops in Eng
land, particularly' that ot the potatoe. The
same cause has influenced them during the last
few months. This is notorious. Every man of
common reflection and observation knows it.
Every body knows also that flour has fallen a dol
lar or more, per barrel, in the great markets of this
country, within a few weeks. Why was this?
We have as much right to say dial it was owing
to the near approach ot the time for the new ta
riff to go into operation, as for the Democratic
papers to say that the previous rise was owing
to that tariff. The price of those articles rose
in 1845, and soon tell, because it was ascertain
ed that the demand would not be as great as
was expected. For the same reason it has re
cently fallen. The demand has grown out of
foreign necessity, not the tariff, and will be regu
lated by it.
Why then seek to impose upon any, the false
idea, that it has been owing to the new tariff
that went into operation for the first time on
Tuesday last? Why seek to delude any, with
the idea, that the English have relaxed theirsys
tem of duties, to meet the United Slates in a
liberal and generous policy?
Cotton is essential to English prosperity—and
hence, their Gove rnmenl took off the duty to ena
ble their manufacturers to compete with ours.
This was the avowed object It was done toryre
teclion. We raise the raw material, and as
England does not, a duty operated as a burthen
upon her manufacturers. They appealed to
their Government to remove it, and Sir Robert
Peel declared that it was removed accordingly,
for their protection and benefit.
Subjects of Great Britain are starving for
•want of sustenance. Providence has denied
them a bountiful crop. They are compelled to
look abroad, for the means of living, and as
crops have failed, too, upon the continent ol Eu
rope, they look to this country, where Heaven
has smiled upon the labors of our people and
filled their granaries with the sustenance of lite.
Democratic papers are seeking to make po
litical capital of these acts of Providence, and
attribute the state of things to the acts of the
English, and American Governments!
That the produce of American farmers
amounts this year to “seven hundred millions
of dollars" is all conjecture and guess work.
It may be more! We hope it is. It probably has
been as much in many years that arc past. Wt
a consequence of the new tariff! That the pre
sent prices cannot continue will be shown by
the fact that as soon as it was found in 18-15 that
crops in Europe were better than had been an
ticipated, prices in this country fell to nearly
their original standard, before the report of their
failure.
Again, a table taken from “Parliamentary
Reports” shows that the average price of wheat
in the principal marts of trade in Europe, from
1830 to 1843 inclusive, was 88 cents per bushel,
while in our own principal markets it averaged
81.25 for the same period.
This, added to the greater distance of our
markets from England than the wheat markets
•of Europe, will ever, under ordinary circum
stances, prevent an extensive demand from
England for those articles raised in the
United States. If the people of this coun
try should increase their production ot provis
ions, with a view to supplying the English mar
ket, they will make the attempt at a conside
rable loss. The next year’s crops may be good
in England and throughout the continent of Eu
rope. Doesanyman believe that ourbreadsttiffs
would be bought then, or even wanted? No.
The true policy is to foster markets at home for
these articles, by a division of labor. We are
willing to abide the developments of time.
Home markets broken down, and an immense
surplus of provisions which cannot be solei abroad,
will be a splendid gain to the American peo
ple! This will pay them handsomely for get
ting goods a little cheaper, when the British are
determined to glut our markets, even at a loss, till
they can control them. After that, no markets
for provisions, and high prices lor goods, will
cap the climax of Democratic efforts to make
the country prosperous and happy I
Since writing the above we have seen the
following, which we cut from the New York
Express, as very appropos to the subject before
us. From that, it will be seen that flour was
more than a dollar per barrel higher under the
Tariff of 1842, twelve months ago,than it is now.
What a comment upon the good sense or fairness
ot the Democratic papers in their assertions on
this subject:
To-day the new “Free Trade” Tariff goes
into operation. If we are to credit the Free
Traders, we are to see our farmers and our mer
chants grow wealthy more rapidly than ever.
For a long time we have been told that the Ta
riff ot 1846, (now just commencing its work,)
has made the farmer richer by extending his
markets where he sells, and by opening markets
where he can buy to better advantage than he
now can of his neighbors, who make manufac
tured goods such as he wants. The effect of
the Tariff upon the articles he buys we shall
not examine here, but we shall look a little at
these famous stories about extended markets,
improved prices, &c.
The following table shows the price of cer
tain articles upon the day the tariff of 1846 goes
into operation, and the prices the same articles
sold for one year ago, under the “High Tariff”
of 1842.
Block TorijT Pricts. Free Trade Prices.
Dec. 1845. Dec. 1846.
Flour, Genesee *6.75 bbl. ,5.31*5 37
“ Michigan.. 6.62 “ 5.18*5 25
“ Brandywine 7.00 *• 5.50
“ Kye 1.2551.50 3.75*4.(10
“ Wheal, N. Y.1.40*1 45 1.12*1,15
“ Rye S3* S 5 78* 79
“ Barley 63a 68 59a 62J
Comment upon this table is useless. Any
one can see that the stories ot increased prices
are all false, as are all the assertions made that
the new tariff has advanced the prices of pro
duce. The tables show that, if the low tariff
has affected prices, its effects have been against
the farmers, and not in their favor.
Gen. Scott.—The New York Tribune of
Wednesday says: We have good authority for
slating that Gen. Scott expressed the opinion,
before leaving here to take charge of the opera
tions in Mexico, that if the supplies and other
means ordered by the Government should reach
their points of destination in due time, the coun
try ought to expect a peace with Mexico by the
middle or last of July—certainly within the
coming year.
Govbbwmwt Financu —On tlx Tsd ult. the
Government had on deposit, subject to draft, 14,-
8X4,710, in different banks. Tba amount of Trea
sury Notes outstanding on the Ist of December
was $3,631,430 97.
From Washington.
Correspondence ofthe Baltimore American.
Washington, Dec. 3,1816.
1 have waited for the sailing ot General Scott
and suite for New Orleans to vindicate myself
from the charge of communicating erroneous
-information for yourcolumns, as I was the first
to announce the fact which was not credited for
many days. The information I gave you was
from the best sources, and 1 should have been
sorry to have stated so important a fact upon
the ground ot mere rumor. Gen. Scott’s present
destination is New Orleans. His ultimate des
tination Mexico, where he has a supervisatory
control of the whole army. To this complex
ion it has come at last, notwithstanding all the
occurrencesol May last. General Scott is quite
ready to receive “the fire in front,” now that he
has assurances that there shall be no "fire in
the rear.” The idea of penetrating Mexico by
the way of Monterey and Saltillo will be aban
doned, and just at this point 1 wish to add that
before the close ol the last session of Congress.
General Taylor advised the Administration in
a letter to the Government, and in a letter to ils
friends, not to make the attempted invasion
from this point. At this time General Taylor
had no discretionary power in the matter, and
he had none for a long time after. His orders
were to go forward, and as obedience was the
soldier’s first duty, and the error of his instruc
tions was likely to develope itself before long,
he went on until the Government gave him
large discretionary power.
But alter tne success ot the Army, the Ad
ministration here seemed to think that nothing
was to be done but go forward, and notwith
standing the terms of the armistice, thedaily di
minishing force of Volunteers, the long route
which had Io be protected, and the great sick
ness in the Army, the orders were given to sus
pend lhe armistice, and this with the idea ol
carrying cut the invasion ot the Capital of
Mexico by the distant route of Monterey. Nay,
more, immediately after the battle of Monterey,
a "eneral programme ot military movements
was marked out at this point by which the
Army were to have been at San Luis by the
20th ot November, and possession taken ot lhe
Capital. ... , , , .
All this advisatory folly, it is to be hoped, is
now over. The idea seems to be to fortify a
line of country which will connect the Rio
Grande with the Pacific, secure us in the pos
session of the ports ot Mexico on the Gulf, and
all the important Mexican ports on lhe Pacific,
and thus secured to colonize Northern Mexico,
California, New Mexico, Chihuahua, and
parts of Sonora and Tamaulipas, as fast as we
may. This done, the advice is to halt until
Mexico sues for peace. The invasion of her
capitol would cost a hundred thousand men
with the necessary troops to secure the impor
tant points on the road. To do what is pro
posed will probably require a regular and vol
unteer force of 25,000 or 30,000.
Rumors from Washington.—The Washing
ington correspondent of the N. Y. Journal ot
Commerce, writing from Washington, Nov.
30, says that the correspondence recently
published, purporting to have passed between
Mr Buchanan and a Mexican agent, is au
thentic and is acknowledged to be. He al
so states that we shall soon have the official
account of lhe affair of Santa Anna being pass
ed by our squadron, which ought to have been
given long ago—that we shall "probably” soon
have peace with Mexico—or if not an attack
will be made on the castle at Vera Cruz, by a
naval force under Com. Stewart. He also
gives it as a fact, that the administration will not
recommend a revisal and relaxation ot the sub
treasury, as had been supposed. Mr. Walker
was in favor of it, but Mr. Poik utterly averse
to it.
The writer of this letter has good means of
knowing the truth of what he writes; but how
far he is correct in these statements and opin.
ions remains to be seen.— Balt. Patriot.
The Washington “Fountain” has a state
ment‘‘that there is now an Agent in that city
prepared to act for the leading men in the North
ern Provinces of Mexico, who are willing and
eager to eome under the power ofthe United
States, if our Government will protect them a
gainst the invasion of Mexico. To be more
explicit, this Agent represents that the master
spirit of all the Provinces north of 22 degrees
of North Latitude except one, (and that one, it
is believed, will soon consent to come in.) are
anxious that the American government should
occupy those Provinces in force, and byway of
aiding us in our occupation they are prepared to
express their assent to the occupation by all the
usual forms of governmental action—tn other
words the people ot those Provinces will in due
time unite and cede themselves and their terri
tory to the United States.”
low*.—lt seems to be settled that the Legis
lature of the new Slate of lowa will consist ol
27 Whigs, 28 Democrats, and 3 Independents.
The Democrats have the majority in the Sen
ate, and the Whigs in the House. The Chica
go Democrat, in speaking ot this result, says:
“The following, from a prominent lowa
Democrat, looks bad for the two Senators from
that Slate. Il the latter rests with the ‘lnde
pendents,’ Gov. Dodge, who is a ‘regular,’ in
every sense ol the word, or any good Democrat,
stands no chance for the Senate. ‘lndependents’
in lowa are like ‘Softs’ in Missouri, Haleiles
in New Hampshire, Conservatives in New
York, or Porcupines in Illinois.
“ Dubuque, (lowa,) Nov. 6. 1846.
“My_Deaß ,84^3—Th®. Whigs._in_Jqwa
Governor, but the presumption is they have
beaten us. Much depends on the two Inde
pendents, as they seem to hold the balance of
power. It is generally thought they will act in
concert with the Whig party. 11 we lose the
State, we die in the hands of the veto.”
From the Troy Whig.
Obituary.—Died on the 3d inst., fn the Slate
ot New York, an unfortunate loafer, named
Free Trade. He was raised in the South, and
sent North by his friends as a commercial mis
sionary; but the climate being altogether un
suited to his constitution, he was attacked by a
peculiarspecies of consumption known as home
consumption, to which, after many struggles,
be has at last succumbed. It is thought that
his final exit was hastened by sundry kicks and
cuffs which he received in New Hampshire,
Maine, Pennsylvania and New York, but for
which he might have lingered some time long
er. Throughout his painful illness he has been
faithfully attended by Drs. Polk and Dallas,
and a tender hearted old woman by the name
of Ritchie has officiated as his nurse; feeding
him with asees’milk and the like nourishing
aliment. In order that he might enjoy the bene
fit of country air, he was sent on a tour through
the rural districts of Pennsylvania and New
York, but the bluff farmers, taking him for a
Britishagent in disguise, refused to harbor him,
and he breathed his last in the presence of a few
friends in the city of New York, who would not
believe, until he had actually given up the ghost,
that his disease was mortal.
The body of the deceased will be sent to
Washington for interment; and in order that
it may be buried with appropriate honors, a
shell of British oak and a pall of British velvet
have been provided for the occasion.
As the deceased had a great antipathy to ev
ery thing of American manufacture, each arti
cle used at the ceremony is required to be for
eign—and indeed it is probable that most of the
weeping will be done abroad. The only por
tion claimed by Americans in the last offices
due to the departed, is the privilege of driving
the nails into his coffin.
Thefuneral will takeplace soon after the ar
rival of the body at the capital, as it has already
become offensive to the nostrils ot the people.
Polk, Dallas, Buchanan, and Marcy, have been
named as pall Bearers, and Calhoun, McDuffie,
Rhett and Sevier will officiate as chief mourn
ers. • The Whigs of sixteen States have volun
teered to chant his requiem, and having consti
tuted themselves a funeral committee, have
caused his grave to be dug so deep that the
“hand ot resurrection” will never reach his cold
remains. We give below the sketch of a ceno
taph already erected in his memoiy. As con
tributions come in (and they ate coming very
rapidly,) the structure will be raised to a still
more commanding altitude.
OHIO,
MAINE,
FLORIDA,
VERMONT,
KENTUCKY,
GEORGIA,
MARYLAND,
D E L A WARE,
NEW JERSEY,
CONNECTICUT,
RUO DE ISLAND,
PENNSYLVANIA,
NE WHAMPSHIRE,
MASSAC H USETTS,
NORTHCAROLINA,
NE W Y OR K.
The Webster Dinner.—This came off Wed
nesday, in Philadelphia, and was a magnificent
affair. The U. S. Gazette gives the following ac
count of the preparations:
We had a glimpse of the great Saloon in which
the dinner is to be given, and the disposition of the
tables is such that there will be ample opportunity
to see and hear Mr. Webster. A large platform
has been raised midway the saloon, on the north
side, and on this a table is to be set with twenty
covers. The President, Mr. Webster, and a num
ber of the invited guests will be seated there. lu
front of this platform two immense tables stretch
the entire length of the saloon, and other tables are
placed on a line with the platform. At the upper
end a powerful band is to be stationed. The dinner
will be served at 4 o’clock, and as soon as the cloth
is removed the ladies will be admitted to the gal
lery. The immense space will afford ample room
for all.
There were four hundred gentlemen at the ta
bles and fifteen hundred ladies in the galleries .'—
There were gentlemen from a number of States,
and the whole affair was magnificent throughout.
It is not certainly known how many persons
perished in the steamboat Atlantic, but the number
u supposed to be forty-five. It is the general im
pression that more bodies will be discovered as the
fragments of the wreck are cleared away.
The body of Mr. Robert Hope, of Baltimore,one
of the passengers lost in the steamer Atlantic, was
found among the ruins of the wreck on Sunday
last. — -Balt. American.
Summary Ac.
The aggregate amount received for tolls on
the New York Canals, from the commencement
of navigation to the 22d of last month, inclu
sive, was increase, compared
with the receipts of the corresponding period
last yearj oT The amount received
fortoils this year to theS2dult. inclusive, ex
ceed the entire receipts during Canal naviga
tion in 1845 by the sum of £86,419.
There have been built in Cincinnati during
the presentyear 816 brick and 559 frame build
ings, makfljg in.all 1,375.
Manufacturing Company of
BostonWWeclariffi asetni-annual dividend ol
Company ol
that declared a half-yearly divi
dend ofs jWBi.
The Bartlett Steam Mills, Newburyport,
Mass., have declared a dividend ot 4J per cent,
lor lhe last six months, and have expended of
the earnings during this period, 2) per cent, in
the renewal of machinery.
Henry Clay leaves Ashland to-day or to-mor
row to spend the winter at New Orleans. He does
this not because of ill health, for • his health was
never better, but because he finds a Southern resi
dence in winter conducive to the preservation of
his energy and vigor.— N. Y. Tribune, Nov. 30.
New York and Erie; Rail Road.—All the
contracts for building this road from Port Lew
is to Binghampton (130 miles) have been taken.
The aggregate amount of the contracts is 31,-
900,000. This is £1,000,000 less than the esti
mates! Twenty-two contractors have taken
the whole job, at an average ot 42 cents per
yard for rock and 10 cents for earth excavation.
—This is considered ttio low; but the contrac
tors are said to be responsible men. At this
rate £8,000,000 would complete the road to
Dunkirk. — N. Y. Jour, of Cbm.
Fire in Providence.—A destructive fire oc
curred in Providence R. 1. on the Ist inst.,in
the machine shop of Mr. Albert Fuller, which
together with the foundery and two or three
small buildings attached, were destroyed. The
following buildings were also burnt; the shop
ot Messrs. Dean & Brothers, calico engravers ;
Stone & Weaver’s jeweller’s shop, and lhe two
story dwelling house of Capt. Manchester,
whose furniture was laved. The loss is esti
mated at £50,000. Mr. Fuller lost 818,000, in
sured for 33000. Stone & Weaver lost about
£ISOO. Harding, engraver, lost about £2OOO,
no insurance. Tire tojqljk ss of property, £25,000.
Upwards of two hunJSf» men are by this cal
amitous fire thrown'oirrof employment.
Ungrateful.—A very downright piece of ras
cality was perpetrated in Philadelphia on the 19th,
as described by the N. Y. Mirror. During the
heaviest of a severe shower, a gentlemen was hur
rying along with an umbrella over his head, when
he was accosted by a well-dressed fellow, who
asked to be permitted to avail himself of his shel
ter, as they were both going one way. The privi
lege was instantly accorded, and the twain walked
together for four or five squares, when the umbrel
la-less individual took his leave, with a profusion
of thanks. In a few minutes thereafter, ths man
with the umbrella discovered that he had been
robbed of his gold lepeater, which was taken from
his fob, unperceived. The Jeremy Diddler is des
cribed as being 1 irresistibly amusing, possessing a
rich fund of anecdote, and a remarkably happy
way of telling short stories.' All attempts to re
cover the watch, or find the thief have proved
fruitless.
Death of a Tennessee Officer. —We regret
to state that Capt. Wm. N. Porter, of the Regi
ment Os Tennessee Mounted Volunteers, died last
evening at the St. Charles Hotel, in this city.—
Captain Porter returned from Mexico on the steam
er McKim, on Friday, being on bis way to his
family in Memphis, but fell a victim to chronic
diarrhoea, a disease that has cost us so many brave
soldiers and accomplished officers.
North Carolina Volunteers.—Lieut. Fre
mont, ot the U. S. Army, has arrived at Wash
ington, for the purpose of mustering the Nonh
Carolina Volunteers into service. Governor
Graham has intimated that they will not be rea
dy before lhe Ist of January.
Mineral Wealth of Enoland.—ln the course
of a lecture delivered yesterday to the general
classes of King’s College, by Mr. Tennant, on
mineralogical geology, the lecturer stated that the
annual value of the mineral produce of England
amounts to about twenty-five millions. Os this
£9,100,0(10 is from coals, £5,400,000 from iron,
£ 1,200,000 from copper, £920,000 from lead,
£400,000 from salt, £390,000 from tin, £60,000
Irom manganese, £35,000 from silver, £22,000
from alum, £B,OOO from zinc, and £25,000 from
the various other metals, as antimony, bismuth,
arsenic, &c, — Landon 'Times.
The extensive Foundry of Messrs. Lent, South
and Shipman, of New Albany, Indiana, was entire
ly consumed by fire ou the 27th ult. Loss $12,-
000 or $14,000; no insurance.
Yucatan Vessels Released.—ln accord
ance with orders received by the Collector of
the port from the Treasury Department, the
Yucatan schooners Ventura and Joaquin, seiz
ed about a fortnight since on their arrival in
this port, have been released. The instructions
tor their release are given on the ground that the
vessels were seized before the lime when the
circular directing the seizure of Yucatan vessels
had arrived. The Yucatan schooner Leonidas,
which has also been seized, remains in custody,
until instructions in relation to her shall have
been received from Washington.—M O. Mercu
ry.
Fire.—About 9 o’clock this morning the roof
of one of the tenements of the planter's Hotel,
but was soon extinguished by the fire compa
nies.—Charleston News, fith.
The brig Casket, of Beverly, which was seized
on the Coast of Africa, and sent home ou suspicion
of being engaged in the slave trade, was released
by the government to her owners on Tuesday.
A Phenomenon.—lt is stated that lour or
five acres ot land, belonging to Mr. Ledyard,
on the east bank ot the Cayuga Lake, sunk a
lew days ago, and have entirely disappeared.
The steamer Acadia left Boston on
Tuesday for Liverpool, with forty-two passen
gers.
" There is some fun loft in this world,’ yet,” as
the man said « hen he heard the boys laughing at
seeing him in the gutter.— Boston Post.
A new morning daily line has just com
menced between New Yoik and Boston. A
steamboat leaves New York for New Haven,
80 miles, the remainder is by railroad; Irom
thence to Hanford, Springfield, Worcester,
&c.
New Haven, Hartford and Springfield
Railway.—The cars passed over the new bridge
across the Connecticut River at Enfield,on Thurs
day. The former bridge was destroyed by the
tornado of the 13th October, and in six weeks
the new structure —thirteen hundred feet in length
—has been erected.
A Costly Enlargement.—The Old Colony
Railroad has been obliged Io enlarge its depot
in Boston, by purchasing a section of land com
prising 135,000 square feet, between South and
Cove-streets, fronting on Kneeland street. For
his land $210,000 was paid.— Salem Register.
The special election in Missouri for a mem
ber ot Congress, has resulted in the election ol
McDaniel, (L. F.) by aboul4oo majority.
Finances or Arkansas.—A letter in the
Louisville Journal, from a member ol the Ar
kansas Legislature, which is now in session at
Little Rock, says:
“The Governor’s message isa plain document,
and gives the true picture of our situation,
which is a deplorable one, God knows. Our
population is now one hundred and forty-five
thousand, yet we do not pay as much revenue
into oar treasury as when we had a population
a little short of one hundred thousand- Our
taxes are higher than then, but lands that were
taken up for speculation have been striken off
in many instances for taxes, and property ot all
kinds has gone down in value.
“The back interest on bonds amounts to
some SBOO,OOO anil upwards. How we are to
get out of our difficulties God only knows. A
recent decision of our Supreme Court makes
the bonds mortgaged to the State, for the bonds
furnished in the Real Estate Bank lor capital,
liable for these bonds; that is to say, the Bank
cannot foreclose the mortgages upon the debt
due her; that the bondholder and the State of
Arkansas are parties concerned. Os course,
until the bonds become due, no action can be
had in relation to the mortgages.”
Fourth of March.—A correspondent of the
Alexandria Gazette gives the following rule for
determining on what day of the week the 4th of
March occurs :
Divide the year by 4, neglecting the remain
der, and add the quotient to the year; divide
this sum by 7, a:.d the remain ier will indicate
the required day, counting the Sabbath 1, Mon
day 2, &c. It there be no remainder the dav
is Saturday.
Example: Required the day of the week
on which the fourth ol March fell in 1845?
Solution: 1845 divided bv 4, gives 461, which
added 10 1845 gives 2306 ; now divide this by
7. and we have 329, with the remainder 3 ; the
required day was therefore Tuesday. This
rule is good for any year, from 1800 to 1100 •
thus in 1802 it fell on Thursday, in 1870 it will
tall on Friday, &c.
Problem—Required the day ot (he week on
which the fourth ot March will fall, at the in
auguration ot the next president ?
Answer—Sunday.
How Cane it So ?—The “ Union,” in replying
to some remarks of an English editor, makes the
follewing emphatic assertion:
Government made no sort of bargain
with Santa Anna, and never counted upon his
treachery.
We consider the above assertion exceedingly
important. If our Government did not count up
on the treachery of Santa Anna, and made no sort
of bargain with him, how came Santa Anna to hate
means of passi ig through the blockading squadron
with, the knowledge qf the United Stales officers ?
How comes he now at the head of the Mexican
troops infusing new life into them against those
of this country ? Let that be answered.— U. S.
Gazette.
Nineveh Discovered.—An Englishman,
Mr. Lay a rd, has recently pursued the track
laid open by Bot'a at Nimrod, near Mosul, on
the Tigris. His excavations are said not only
to have settled the precise position of Nineveh,
but have brought to light some of its buildings,
sculptures, and inscriptions.
Agricultural Society.
The following communication, showing the
advantages ot Agricultural Societies, which
we copy from the Columbus Enquirer, we
commend to the consideration of the planters
in every county and neighborhood in Georgia:
Harris County, Nov. 17, 1846.
Messrs. Editors:—lt seems to methat lhe
subject of Agriculture is very much neglected
by the Press, considering its importance to
every member of society. When we look at
lhe lands in this section ofGcorgia, and remem
berthatit was but yesterday that they were set
tled, and now almost exhausted, and see our
population scattering and moving off to other
States west of us, leaving their homesteads, se
vering the social relations formed and cherished
from earlv vouth, we can but look around us
for some means to prevent that necessity. Be
lieving that, a remedy is within our reach to a
void this constant drain upon our population,
and upon the wealth of the country, we cannot
sit down perfectly satisfied and contented, and
use no effort tostay lhe tide of emigration, and
that monomania ot “moving to a new country,”
which has always deranged and disordered the
mblicmind. The farmer here can improve his
ands, increase in wealth, and constantly add to
pis general estate, if he will but get his consent
to use mu-third lhe effort in improving the fer
tility of his soil that those do who live in a
country much more barren and sterile, and yet
so far surpass us in production as even to make
us, many limes, doubt its truth. Our country
is yet new enough to save many a valuable
settlement to cultivate and improve at the same
lime its fertility, and when we have passed a
way, leave them to ourchildren better than they
were when cler red, and far more valuable. —
There is no planter who does not desire to have
one of the richest farms in his neighborhood or
county. It is best for cultivation or for sale.—
If cultivated it pays well for the labor bestowed
upon it; it in market, it brings a price propor
tionate to its annual products. And why are
we not satisfied to have a portion ot cur increas
ing wealth invested in this way, adding yearly,
by skilful culture and improvement, to its fer
tility and value? This can best be accom
plished by locating permanently, and then every
thing done will be well done—hous-s will be
belter built, fences better made, every clearing
of fresh land will be more judiciously and care
fully brought into cultivation; orchards will be
better arranged, and thechoicest fruits selected ;
and in short, home will be made desirable and
comfortable, and every thing that will add to
the taste, convenience and wealth ofthe family,
will be prepared and kept in order. Just visit
that neighbor who expects to "cut down, wear
out, and go on,” look at his negro cabins, his
cribs, his stables, (if he has any at all) his
fences and draw-bars, the way his corn and cot
ton rows are laid off—and it you expect to live
and die this side of Texas, you would be glad
to see that man move, and that speedily.
You are well aware that we live in as good a
country as can be found in the world , the cli
mate is most delightful, warmer in winter, and
cooler in summer than lhe northern States; a
soil naturally productive, and capable of the
highest state of cultivation and improvement. —
And while we have all these advantages, and a
thousand others, many are disposed to leave the
State of their nativity and try a home in the
West—-alleging as a reason, that they can do
better—while the farmers of New Elgland are
buying the turned out and worn out old lands of
Virginia, and by skilful culture and measures,
adding more rapidly to lhe fertility ofthe soil,
and their own wealth, than weofthe South and
West. And even incur State, some of those
connties which were settled and cultivated thir
ty and forty years sooner than ours, are now out
producing us altogether; and why is it so?—
There can be but one reason, and that is, they
have adopted a system of improvement, instead
of destruction, to their soils. The county ot
Hancock, for instance, has improved her lands
beyond the expectation or hope ol those who
left years ago, considering that it would soon
be a barren waste. And many persons leaving
under such impressions, have since returned and
purchased lands again, and the production of
the county, the population and the taxable pro
perty have increased some twenty-five per cent,
within the last twenty years. And those men
who are best informed and residing there, attri
bute the change to the permanent settlement of
its citizens, and a union ot their efforts to raise
lhe standard of Agriculture. In fact, the or
ganization ot a well conducted Agricultural So
ciety has been the main-spring in achieving so
desirable a result. And if these are facts, ought
we not, possessing the advantages that we do,
to make some effort to interest the people ot this
section in the establishment of similar Socie
ties in every County ? They would elevate lhe
character and reputation of the farmer, save
our country from depopulation and exhaustion,
and prevent lhe professions ol law and medicine
from being crowded by many young men who
despair, after a few years’ effort, and prove
worthless themselves, and an injury to their
families. They never have failed wherever
they have been tried, and that is at least some
reason and inducement for us to make lhe ef
fort. And we ask the Press to help us, and the
Farmers of the country to look well to lhe irn
pottance ofthe subject. J.
Reported Capture of Chihuahua.—We
announced yesterday, upon the authority of a
report which reached Monclova on the2J inst.,
that Col. Doniphan had been despatched by
Gen. Keatney from Santa Fe with a force ol
that he had taken that town without opposi
tion. We are inclined to think this report pre
mature, though we entertain no doubt he will
take possession of the place when he reaches
it, without bloodshed. It is probable he may
have done so by this time.
Our reasons for doubting the authenticity ot
the report brought from Monclova are based
upon authentic accounts from Santa Fe to the
12th of October. At that lime Col. Doniphan
was yet at Santa Fe and was preparing for
an immediate expedition against the Navajoes
—a tribe of predatory Indians. On his return
he was to proceed to Chihuahua wilhhisown,
and, probably, Maj. Sumner’s command. The
news from Santa Fe was not favorable to the
discipline and military demeanor of the volun
teers ihere, who have relaxed somewhat in
these particulars since Gen. Kearney left for
California. It is not therefore probable that
Col. Doniphan left Santa Fe much before the
lime he is said to have taken Chihuahua.
But if he pretermitted his expedition against
the Indians and proceeded at once upon Chi
huahua, he could scarcely have taken the place
in season to admit ot news of his success
reaching Monclova by the 2d inst. It is six
hundred miles from Santa Fe to Chihuahua—
twenty-five good days travel for invading troops.
From Chihuahua to Monclova the distance is
over two hundred miles; and there being no
direct road between the two places, the distance,
in actual travel is much greater. From this
statement it seems to us impossible that the
accounts brought Irom Santa Fe (via St. Louis)
by Capt. Fitzpatrick, who came direct with
despatches for the Government, and the news
Irom Monclova, can both be true. The intelli
gence from,Santa Fe is altogether more authen
tic in its character, and hence we do not put
faith in this third repoit oi the capture of Chi
huahua.
The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser thus
sums up the business of the Erie Canal, at the
western terminns, for the present year:
Canal Business for 1846.—The aggregate
ot tolls collected at the office in Ibis city tip to
Thursday evening, as furnished by Collector
Thayer, amounts to the unprecedented sur.i of
seven hundred and sixty-three thousand, three
hundred and twenty-six dollars and seventy-one
cents. J
As compared with the two years previous
the account stands thus: 1
1844. 1815. 1816.
$503,160. 8485,000. $763,326 71.
A corresponding increase is also exhibited in
the amount of articles shipped eastward. The
following is a comparative table ot flour,
wheat and corn for 1845 and 1816:
r „ 'Bl6.
Flour bbls. 721,900 Flour bbls. 1,288 819
Wheal bit. 1,351.975 Wheat bit. 3,407,397
Corn - 23 037 Corn 1,119/89
The statement for 1815 comprises the busi
ness for lhe whole season. With the exception
ot a tew boat loads ot wheat destined for short
routes, very little is now moving hence.
From Santa Fe.— By Mr. Eli Danna, late a
member of Capt. Hudson’s company, who ar
rived at Saint Louis on the 24th ult. on the
Amelia, the Saint Louis Union has >6wr days
later intelligence from Sama Fe. Mr. D. came
in with a party of sixteen others as far as “One
Hundred and Ten Creek,” (eighty miles from
the settlements,) and from that point came on
alone, bearing despatches from Major Sum
mer, whom he had left at that place. With
Major Sammer there arc Liemenan s Arm
strong and Adjutant Staunton, all having been
detached lor the service in the South.
The party, alter leaving Santa Fe, met with
no very interesting incidents. They saw but
one Indian on their entire route. They met
numerous trains of wagons, but heard nothin'*
ot the robbery, the report of which was
promulgated. They came by the Cimaron, or
lower route, which may account for this fact.
All was quiet at Santa Fe, yet a feeling pre
vailed that the inhabitants wanted but an op
portunity to rise upon their conquerors. Noth
ing later ha<l been heard from Chihuahua.
J rom Santa Fe.—The St. Louis Republican
has later dales from Santa Fe. Great fears
were entertained that the supply of provisions
would be entirely inadequate to the demand lor
the 3,000 troops stationed there.
The American soldiers were constantly com
mitting outrages on the Mexicans, and the lat
ter would secretly assassinate their persecutors
whenever an opportunity would oiler.
Moncure Robinson, E<q. has resigned the office
of President of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and
Potomac Railroad ; and Edwin Robinson, Esq. has
been elected his successor.
Ibe Sugar Crop.—-We regret ro
learn from New Orleans, and otb<., papers from
Louisiana, that extensive injury# hav# beeji done
to the staudingjjjM’.e, by the severe frost on the
night of the 26m ult. Out Planters leally have
had a most uufoiinnate season of it, —first floods
rain, then drought, frost. Mobile Ad
ertiscr.
TUESDAY MORNING, DEC. 8,
English Markets for American Wheat,
Flour, Corn, &c.
We have, time after time, shown that the at
tribution ol the rise in the price of American
breadstuff's to the new Tariff, was utterly ab
surd and untrue. This has been proven by
facts which could not be successfully denied.
The effort is being made by the Democratic
press to make the people believe that, in conse
qnence of the action of lhe two governments,
this demand has taken place and will continue
for the future.
We have heretofore shown, by extracts from
British papers and speeches, that the people of
England do not look to this country, under ordi
nary circumstances, for such supplies. The
following table taken from “ Parliamentary re
ports,” exhibits the price of wheat per bushel
at the respective marts of trade (or the fourteen
years which are given :
Dantzic. Ilamb’g. Ami'ilam Antwerp. Odessa.
1830 51,»7 93 f>,'3 , ■£’
|S3| I.IS 1,19 1.16 >,07 71
1832 93 90 1,10 90 62
1833 S 3 70 89 6T> 01
1834 70 67 66 (.0 77
1835 60 65 76 68 57
1836 ... 70 79 76 70 M
JSj? 73 76 81 99 50
1838 ..91 79 I,‘ZO 1,48 U-»
1539..::... 96 1,15 1.37 70
1840 1,07 I,‘IO I,H JAS
1841 I,® 99 1,09 1.45 74
1842 1.10 1,11 f.H 95 60
1843 76 Ki 78 76 48
Average, 91 90 99 93 61
These are five ot the most important wheat
markets in Europe, and it will be seen, that for
the given term of years the average price was 88
cents per bushel.
In the principal markets in this country, the
prices in the same years were as follows:
1„ 18:30 51,15 In 1837 51.83
'3l I,IS ’33 1,54
■32 1.15 ’3« J U
•33 1,13 ’lO 1,10
'34 1.08 ’ll 1,03
-35 1,19 ’42 1.16
>36 1.41 ’43 1,00
Any one can see, by calculation, that the
average price in the markets as in this country,
as shown by the above, was £1.25. Even sup
pose it to have been 88 cents, 371 cents less
than it was. and what reasonable prospect is
there that the demand for breadstuff's from this
country can continue? For a year, crops may
fail, as they have this one, not only in England,
but all over the continent. But, for a term of
years, lhe chances are, that European crops
maybe as good as ours.
No one could then expect markets in Eng
land or Europe for our provisions, except oc
casionally, in consequence ot a poor return
there tor the culture of lhe soil. It would be
lhe greatest absurdity, then, to look to that quar
ter for regular and permanent markets for them.
This will be made still more manifest by lhe
following table:
Daiitzic is 150(> miles from London-
Hamburg “
Amsterdam 400
Antwerp.. ‘KHI “ “
Odessa “
New-York... 3600 “ “
Philadelphia 3A(X) “ “
Baltimore 4000 “ “
Now, if lhe original or first cost of grain, is
37J cents per bushel in favor ot European
wheat, or even it it was the same as in this coun
try, distance and the diminished cost of trans
portation, would decide lhe question of lhe Eng
lishsupply against thiscountry. This we say
would be lhe decision, even ifthe price was lhe
same in both quarters; but it must be so, when
the difference of price is taken into considera
tion.
The European market most distant from
London is only two hundred miles further than
the nearest one referred to in the United States.
The nearest one in the latter, is three thousand
six hundred miles further from London than the
nearest one in Europe. The average distance
ofthe three in the United States is 3,800
miles; the average distance of lhe three farthest
in Europe is 1,933 miles, while not only the
other two, but several other important marts in
the latter country are but a few hundred miles
distant.
The question then is, will lhe people of this
country break down a system which affords a
certain and unfailing market every year for an
immense amount ol flour, corn, &c., for the un
certain and occasional markets of Europe?
Do not the Democratic papers count largely
upon the ignorance and credulity ot the people
in attempting to impose their absurdities upon
them?
Suppose lhe com crop of the United Slates
should have reached this year seven or eight
hundred millions of bushels? How much ol that
will be rent abroad? Will thirty millions?
Would it not be extravagant to anticipate so
large an amount ? What becomes then of the
remaining seven hundred and seventy millions?
What, ol course, but to be consumed in lhe
home market, which democratic editors have
recently been so fond ot treating with contempt
compared with the foreign market!
The true policy of this country is, by a suit
able division ot labor, to create demands at
home lor every possible production. We can
not look abroad for permanent markets lor oi Jr
grain and other provisions. But we know 'dial
every establishment for manufacturing, or other
parposesthan cultivating the soil, will neces
sarily create a demand for the productions of
lhe soil. This demand will be sure, and pro
portionate to the diversion of labor nnd ca pital
in those chant els of business. Every dollat
retained in the country by such means is clear
ly so much gained :for every dollar whir h goes
abroad for foreign goods is taken pern ianently
from lhe country, is lost to it tor ever, and, of
course, leads to its impoverishment. The re
tention here of many millions w hiclt would be
thus expended abroad, wo old, in its circulation,
counterbalance ten-fo 1 ,; t ] lP advantages of even
getting foreign ge o ds a little cheaper. Il would
give strength | O || IC monetary sinews of the
country, »'. ld scatter prosperity around, while
the co’litrary policy would make fliem weak and
8" r cid, an-1 produce a general and inevitable
paralysis.
Tlie Southern Courant.
This excellent and spirited Whig journal
has failed to reach us for the last two weeks,
having been suspended for want of workmen to
carry it on. Our brother Sneed has done effi
cient service through the columns of the Con
rant, and we trust that be will be able, at an
early day, to effect his arrangements to do fur
ther battle in the cause of firth an<l lhe country.
<>ur Book Tabic.
Mr. Millen, of the Literary Depot, has laid on
our table “ Tanner’s Pocket Map of the Seat of
War in Mexico, including the most recent im
provements.” “The Illusrated (New* York) Sun
and Holiday Present,'” containing a great variety
of Pictorial Illustrat ions ; and No. 2 of “Judy,”
an illustrated Week ly which has been recently
Waited in New York, in imitation of the London
Punch.
Fl ne Tobacco.
Messrs. Beers &. Roberts, and W. & J.
Nelson, have bot h within the last few days
laid on our table some very choice Chewing
Tobacco, which they recommend with confi
dence to the lor ersr of the weed, as “calculated
to give general satisfaction.”
The Whig s ana* the Administration.
It seems to cause great uneasiness to some
oi the Administration journals, says the Balti
more Ameri can, that the Mexican war has nut
been made’ productive of political capital to their
side. The Oregon adventure proved an entire
failure; i tended in a loss of both capital and
credit. ’ jTu retrieve the disaster of that specula
tion the with Mexico might do something.
But wh tn it was found that the exclusive
claims i x> patriotism, arrogated to the party of
the Ad ministration, were utterly set at nought
by the ardour with which men of all parties
came forward to fight in a war actually existing,
the .* «lf.px>clabned guardians of the national
honor discovered (hat they were talkingnon
s ettse. and some of them had the discretion to
StOJk
Still it w«>uld not do to give up the war-cry
without fieri her efforts to make something out
of it. Accordingly the official paper at Wash
’ ington, as the leader of a forlorn hope, goes on.
With all the energy and with all the blindness
of desperation it novi' labors to produce the
impression that the opponents of the Adm in is
tration are the frßnds ol Mexico, ani) that to
censtlTe any inwffurc yl
to the war, how shortsighted or blundering so
ever, is to lake the pan of the Mexicans and to
play into their hands. Here follows a speci
men of official denunciation:
“Such is this war, thus far. inrallyinglo
oppose it, lhe Federalists make war upon the
patriotic feeling ofthe country. Indenouncing
as insufficient causes the outrage which pro
duced it, these same men —the worthy succes
sors ol the Federalistof!Bl2—avow themselves
insensible to their country’s humiliation, and
proclaim themselves tube THEPARTY OF
NATIONAL DISGRACE!”
Such charges as these in the "Union” prove
nothing so much as lhe poverty of its own re
sources. Language of this sort falls flat and
stale. The readers of lhe official paper, in this
community and elsewhere, who know how all
political distinctions were forgotten when the
summons came for volunteers to the field, w ill
escape from a feeling of indignation at lhe sight
of the paragraph above quoted only by passing
it hastily in a sort ot compromise between an
instinctive impulse of disguise and lhe force of
political predilections. What honest man who
gave his vole for Mr. Polk will listen to the
calumny which denounces the Whigs as “the
Party ol National disgrace," when he knows
that his own son and the son of his Whig neigh
bor and friends stood side by side at Monterey ?
There is blood enough already shed in this war
under ihe'national standard by gallant men cher
ishing lhe name and principles of their revolu
tionary lathers, to cry from the ground against
so foul an imputation and to reflect its own
color upon the laces of the calumniators who
may yet retain lhe faculty of blushing.
But it is painful to.rccognize even by allusion
the existence of any political divisions or party
designations when the cause ot lhe country a
gainst a foreign enemy is involved. These al
lusions are compelled by such direct and un
qualified charges as the official paper chooses to
give forth. We may undertake, however, to
say that the Whigs, with or without denuncia
tion from official sources, will adhere to the
cause ot their country both against foes abroad
and an incompetent Administration at home.—
They will justify no clandestine intiigues with
a Mexican chief, no inglorious shuffling out ol
difficulties rashly brought on yet actually exist
ing. They will do their best to terminate this war
honorably and advantageously, and they will re
joice «lien it is over. Os their patriotism making
noboast, the)' will confine their efforts to the do
ing ofuseful services to lhe country, in which
they include the duty of setting aside the Polk
dynasty and its surroundings, at the first oppor
tunity. Against lhe etrors and the weakness
of the Administration, in the meantime, they
will bring the best remedies they can in the
shape of wise counsels and the impulses ot an
enlarged public spirit. And whaleverthe men in
power may say —and it matters not much what
they say in this behalf—the country at large,
we are persuaded, looks with hope and trust and
confidence to the intelligence, the practical di
rection and the true patriotism of the Whigs of
the Republic in view of our present exigencies
anda future deliverance.
South Caroi.ina Senators. —The Hon. Jno.
C. Calhoun, was elected on Friday last, Sena
tor in Congress, from lhe State ot South Caro
lina, to serve for six years, from the 4th day of
March next, in the Congress of lhe United
States.
On the fourth ballot, lhe Hon. A. P. Buller
was also elected a Senator in the Congress of
the United Slates, to fill the vacancy occasioned
bv the resignation of lhe Hon. Georg 1 ® McDuf
fie. The vote stood as follows, viz: A. P. But
ler, 85; James 11. Hammond, 62; Wilf. F.
Colcock,B; Scattering, 5.
O’ The Hon. David Johnson lias resigned
ed his seat as Chancellor ot lhe State ot South
Carolina.
Mr. Webster’s speech, at the dinner given
in honor of him by the Philadelphians, occu
pied four hours in its delivery—lhe half of it
fills a page in lhe National Intelligencer. It is
pronounced by the Philadelphia press to be a
masterly effort ofthe great statesman. We
should be pleased to lay it before our renders,
but its great length forbids.
Henry Clay.—The Lexington Observer of
Saturday the 28th ult. says: “ Mr. Clay leaves for
New Orleans this morning, where he will proba
bly remain until some time in March, when he
will return home. Mr. C. is in excellent health
and spirits, and is looking better, we think, than
he has for the last ten years.”
U. 8. StrcRENE Court.—A letter in the Wash
ington Fountain says, that an attempt will be
made at the approaching session of Congress to get
a bill passed, authorizing a term of the Supteins
Court to be held West of the mountains, as nearly
three-fourths of the cases now come from the
West.
Exports from New York —The N. Y. Herald
says, that the shipments of produce from thar pot t
continue to be very large, and that it is with the
greatest difficulty that vessels can be obtained to
carry supplies as fast as they arc offered. The im
portations, on the contrary, continue very light;
and many packet ships are arriving with very
limited freight lists.
For TUB Seat or War.—The Pic.iyu.ne oj
lhe 2d inst. says: The steamship Alabama,
Capt. Windle, left last evening for Brazos San
tiago and Tampico, crowded with passengers!.
Among the officers we notice the names of Maj-
Dix, Capts. Heteel and Gordon, and Liettts.
Bee, Wardand Johnson of the regulars, Col.
Davis and Capi. Willisofthe Mississippi Vol
unteers, and Col. Bohlen, young Mr. Critten
den, and several other gentlemen going out ap
amateurs to the war. The principal part oil
them will land at the Brazos and proceed th
Monterey, and we learn lhat Capt. Gordon takes
down 150 recruits for the 3<l U. S. Infantry.—-
The Fashion will probably be lhe next steami
er lhat leaves for Mexico.
Sweet Potatoe. —The Richmond (Va.p
Standard acknowledges the receipt ot a Sweet
Potatoe, measuring exactly/oitr feet. Caroline
county produced this monster of the Vegetable
Kingdom.
Judge Gamble.—We find the following par
agraph in the Sandersville Telescope ol Fri
day, the 4 th inst.:
The adjourned term of the Superior Court
lor this county has been in session during the
week, his Honor Judge Sayre presiding. We
learn that Judge Gamble js laboring undei a
severe indisposition, (a stroke of Palsy,) and
it is through the kindness of Judge Sayre that
our bench has been occupied. But a lew im
portant cases have come before the jury, in con
sequence of the non-altendence of principal
counsel, who have been induced to remain at
home on account of Judge Gamble’s sickness*
A Soldier's Gratitude—The following para
graph is extracted from a late Washington letter
in the True Sun :
“Yesterday the last will of Captain McKavett,
of the Bth infantry, killed in Worth's division at
the storming of Monterey, arrived in the city. It
was found in his trunk after the battle, and ap
peared to have been written the night mevious.—•
He wills to the Orphan Asylum in New Yoik city,
where he was nurtured in his childhood, nearly aW
his effects, including a farm in the State of New
York, and some money due him as pay.”
A letter from Washington to the editor of the
Baltimore Patriot narrates the following amusing
incident:
“ Some time since Mr. Holbrook, a private mall
agent at the North, bought a huge cheese in* Con
necticut and sent it un to Washington, by the
string of mail agents along the route, as a present
to Col. Cave Johnson, the Postmaster General. AU
light. Subordinates know how to tickle the fancy
of their superiors, in most cases. Sometimes,
however, functionaries from the South-west are
not over-fond of cheese ! Be the case with Col.
Johnson as it may, the cheese, instead of being
sent as the giver intended, was, most likely by
some agent who loves Cave Johnson less than he
does cheese, mischievously chipped in the post of
fice mail, by which conveyance it came safe to
hand, with one hundred and twenty-fee dollars
postage charged on it ! Col. Johnson refused the
present ’ and ordered “ the chee’e” to be taken back
so that it might be propci ly filed away in “ the
dead letter office /”
Albany, Dec. 3—7 P. M.— We have had a
warni day— the thermometer at 58 degrees.—
The canal is again open, and a number of boats
which were frozen in above Shenectady, have
come into port.
A Gentleman, just returned to thi» country from
a tout ju Europe, was asked how he liked the
ruins ol Puwq>eii! “ Not very well,” was the re
ply ; “ they are so much out of repair!”
From lhe New Orleans Picayune of Ihe 2d inst.
Louisiana Association Races.
Eclipse Course.
Our Fall Races commenced yesterday under
the most favorable auspices. The weather was
mild and agreeable, the course was in admira
ble order, and lhe utmost enthusiasm was felt
in regard to the issue of the race, in which most
ol the prominent turfmen ot this section of the
country were engaged. From the moment lhe
“Miller Slake,” called after John F. Miller,
Esq., was made up, it excited the utmost in
terest. The circumstance that two of lhe sub
scribers to it nominated lhe same filly, and that
there wa» something like a race in the effort to
secure her services, was lhe source ol no in
considerable speculation. The betting has been
rather heavier from lhe outset than is usual
with om sweepstakes, but since the horses
reached the ground it has been spirited and
heavy. Il became known lhe evening before
the race that but four horses would Mart—the
Boston filly, Louisa Jordan, Brown Killy and
SI. Louis. Os lhese Brown Kitty was tne de
cided favorite from the day the stake was en
tered into till the tap ot the drum. Her recent
races in Kentucky had confirmed her in (he
premiership, notwithstanding the brilliant per
formances of St. I.ouis had brought him very
prominently info the betting. The Boston filly
had a strong party ot friends who were backing
her in a vat iety of' combinations, and taking the
long odds which were current against their fa
vorite. The morning ol lhe race lhe backers of
Louisa Jordan came into lhe field, and in sueh
force and with so heavy a weight of metal as to
produce almost a panic among speculators.—
Bhe quite assumed the place which St. Louis
had before occupied as second favorite, and im
parted the utmost confidence to those who had
been backing lhe field against Brown Kitty.
But the Kentuckians stood up to their favorite
manfully, and in a very few minutes an amount
ot money was laid out which might well in
fluence “lhe funds,” had any symptoms of
“lightness" been previously apparent. It was
whispered about that Kitty was by no means at
herself, but no one would have suspected it from
the manner in which those backed her who had
seen her races in Kentucky. On the other hand
Louisa Jordan was owned in this Stale, had
won a fine race immediately after passing into
the hands of her present owner, and had been
carefully nursed lor this occasion. Hence her
friends were extremely sanguineot hersuccess.
But to the race, to see which a very large con
course was drawn together, including many
ladies.
Louisa Jordan is one of the hardest customers
to start in a race whom we can recollect. She
had Chisel’em on her, but for many minutes his
chance of gelling her to the post was very du
bious. Alter some time, however, spent in
coaxing her, she bounded off and lhe drum was
tapped, securing her a shade of advantage, St.
Louis being last. The latter immediately made
play and before going a quarter ot a mile placed
himself in from, with Louisa running second
and the other two well up. In lhese positions
they ran through the first mile in 1:52, lhe pace
down to the stand being first rate, and the four
nags well together. In going round the turn
into the back stretch, St. Louis appeared to de
cline the running, and Louisa, keeping up her
rate, ot course went to lhe front. Brown Kitty
and the Boston filly successively passed St.
Louis before reaching the halt mile post. Al
this point Louisa had a good lead of the brown
filly and in making lhe turn into straight run
ning, she opened the gap al every stride.—
wSiether Kilty was called upon and could not
respond, or whether her jockey deemed it im
prudent to endeavor to make up the gap, it is
impossible for us to say. It appeared to every
one that lhe effort had been made and lhe filly
found wanting. Louisa Jordon came to the
stand an easy winner, running lhe last mile in
1:57i, thus making the heal 3:49i. Brown
Killy came second to the stand, lhe Boston filly
who'was second at the distance flag, having
been pulled Io a stand still before coming to the
score.
The elation i f the backets ol lhe field was
now immense. The previous impression lhat
Kitty was amiss appeared to be absolutely con
lirmed by the symptoms ot distress she exhibit
ed. She suffered, to appearance, more from the
heat than either ol her competitors. Louisa
Jordan at once usurped the palace of first fa
vorite,and the odds of 100 to7supon her were in
some cases laid; but lhe betting was rather
general than heavy, a great many transactions
being entered into for lhe sole purpose ot hedg
ing bets.
In starting in the second heat Louis was left
many lengths behind, but she went off with a
rush and soon secured a place as near the front
as was desirable. The Boston filly made the
running with a slight lead upon her competi
tors, and lhe pace was every inch a racing one
throughout lhe mile, which was finished in 1:51.
The rush down lhe quarter stretch in front was
particularly beautiful, the four nags were so
well together and going so sweetly. In com
mencing the second mile Brown Kitty had a
very trifling advantage of Louisa, and as both
kept up their rates they speedily passed the
Boston filly, and from that moment all the in
terest of the heat was concentrated in them.—
They ran the greater part ot the second mile
very nearly locked—for some hundred yards.so
perfectly so that it was impossible to perceive
hat either had any advantage. But not once
did Louisa, if ivesaw aright, get her head ab
solutely in front, though she was called upon
again and again and most gallantly responded,
in coming down the quarter stretch home,
Chisel’em very prudently took Louisa in hand,
while Sam De Morse on Kilty—determined to
leave nothing at hazaid—kept her going till he
passed the stand and secured the heat, running
the last mile in 1:53, and the heat in 3:44. A
very beautiful heat it was and we shall long re
collect it. Though it was such a damper to the
hopes ol the fielders, it is dur: to “Old Kentuck”
to say that her friends were “about,” and they
made lhe woods and groves reecho with their
shouts.
But little betting could be heard after this
heat. The “pegs” were all “down,” and it was
no use trying to move them. Brown Kitty was
more than ever the favorite, being less distress
than after the first heat. The start for the third
heat was a very excellent one. Louisa Jordon
made play from the score, and led round the
whole mile, runnin? it in 1:55. As they passed
the siand Kitty wa- behind, but yet well up,
while St. Louis was running second and forcing
the pace. Ge closed wilh Louisa in going
round the turn, ran locked with her and ala
flight of speed lor several hundred yards on lhe
back stretch, but he never got in front. As he
declined belore reaching the half mile post,
Brown Kitty, who had gradually crept up, as
sumed his place. She got to Louis in making
the turn, ran round it locked wilh her, and from
the head ol the stretch they came down to the
stand like two bullets shot Irom the same gun.
Each was out, doing her best, and the profound
ness of the silence in the stand indicated (lu:
breathless suspense of lhe spectators. Inside
yae distance flag, Kilty appeared almost a head
irUiont, but Chisel’em roused along Louisa for
a,dying effort, and for an instant we thought he
had iwr in front, but Kitty’s nose first passed
over Use Jfne and the judges awarded her lhe
heat by half n neck. A more brilliant finish
to a brilliant j.ace cannot be imagined. Every
man’s heart was,in his throat, and the voices ot
the winners ref used to do their office, so choked
were all by the inlcpseneas of their emotion.
The last mile was run in .1:50, thus making the
time of the heat 3:15. St. jLouis was many
lengths behind his leading compelitm*, and t);e
Boston filly a long way out of herdinianee.
After this description, imperfect as it is, lhe
reader will feel with us that our fall races have
commenced utoet hopefully. Col. Bingaman,
the fortunate winner ol lhe stake, had lhe lur
fher gratification oi receiving forfeit in the se
cend slake, and was warmly congratulated up
on his success by crowds of friends. We ap
pend a more unerring description ol the .day s
sport in the following sunifßarj ■
Tuesday, December 1, 1846.—The Miller
Stake for four year olds—fourteen subscribers
at ssoo—forfeit $lO0 —two mile heats:
Cot. A. L. Bingaman’sbr. f. Brown Kilty, by
Birmingham, dam l»y Tiger [Bam De
Morse] 2 11
D. F. Kenner's ch. f. Louisa Jordan, by imp.
Joidan, dam by John Richards- • 1
M. Morrison’s gr. c. St. Louis, by Altorf out
of Fleta by Medley 4 3:
John F. Millers's b. I. by Boston, dam by
imp. Piiam 3 4dis
Time.
Ist Heat 2d Heat. 3d Heat.
Ist mile •••• P 52 1:51 1:55
2d mile 1:57$ 1:53
3:491 3:44 3:45
Same Day— Second Race.— Sweeptakes Ibr
two years olds—nine subscribers at s3oo—for
feit slso—declaration s2s—mile heats :
Col. A. L. Bingaman’sch. c. Bundle and Go t
by imp. Leviathan out of Fanny Wright ree’d ft.
We like the spirit ot frankness and indepen
dence which characterise the annexed para
graph, copied from one of the Democratic pa
pers published in ihe city ot Richmond:
“S anta Anna.—The country is demanding
to kno w how it was that this distinguished chief
passed the American blockade and got into
Mexico. We do not see why the Executive,
by whose connivance it was certainly effected,
should remain silent upon the subject. Why
cannot the c rgan give us something more than
dark hints ai'd innuendoes in relation to a mat
ter ot so much public interest? Depend upon
it, openness avd candor is the best policy in
dealing with the American people. We know
that there are negotiations that must be kept se
cret, nor would we have (he government organ
busy itself in nodding and winking and indulg
ing in portentous shakes ot the head at every
idle report that may be gotten up by our adver
saries. But it he refers at all to a great public
event in which the whole country is deeply in
terested, kt him speak out like a man. If the
Executive has been duped by a wily Mexican,
let them say so; or if Santa Anna was permit
ted lot eturn t<» Mexico iiom motives of policy,
kt lite nation know upon what these calcula
<io®» were based. In shoit, let the Executive
organ either say that the public interest requires
a suppression of the fads connected with thrf*
case, or let the supporters of the administration
kiM»w tf.e grounds upon which this anomaly in
modem, warfare is to be defended. We are
tired oi ahis childish game of ‘hide and seek,’