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F|[l' GREAT STATE FAIR AT
W BUFFALO.
v Buffalo. Sept. 6, 1848.
There never was a fairer sky spread over a
city on a gala day than was to-day over this.
The cool air of the Lake tempered the rays of
the, else too bright, sun, and the clouds form
ed kindly in groups, affording alternations of
grateful shade and light. If this be a specimen
of the climate of Buffalo, its citizens are to be
envied —still it may be worth waiting the expe
rience of.a winter storm to determine the precise
degree of felicitation done there. There are
well authenticated legends of wild gales that
give chimneysandsteeplesan uncertain tenure,
and put as many wrecks on the shores of Lake
Erie as ever were clustered in gloomy ruin
on the Goodwin Sands.
But the winter and its tempests are in the I
future—to day has been devoted to the Fair —
under circumstances the most agreeable. A
temperature best adapted to the exercise ne
cessary in visiting the different departments,
lias prevailed, and every one has seemed to be
in good nature. It is curious to see how the
sky is reflected in the human heart, if it b ?
calm and cheerful as to-day, “ the masses P ar '
take of the kindly influences —but had it been
a gloomy and a rainy one—the interests of
agriculture would have been pronounced a
great humbug.
THE PEOPLE.
The number of visitors has been immense
to-day, and this great avenue of Mam-stree .
has been the passage-way of a continuous
crowd. Such has been the array of vehicles
ofall descriptions and drivers of every variety
that the road near the grounds has presented
the appearance ofthe journey to Epsom races,
so graphically depicted in all its ludicrous
tableaux, in the London Illustrated News. !
That journal lost a capital opportunity of en- ,
riching its pages with quaint scenes, by not hav
ing an artist here.
The throng is very large—the great area of
the Fairgrounds and all adjacent were alive I
with the crowd. Had it been one of the politi- ’
cal gatherings of 1840 and 1844. it would have I
been heralded in all theplenitude of large type.
an hundred thousand, aim it looks rather more '
like that than any other I ever witnessed, al- 1
ways excepting the memorable Festival of the
completion of Bunker Hill in 1843.
The array of distinguished names is increas
ing. Mr. Graham recently the representative
of the Buncombe district, in North Carolina,
and recollected by all good Whigs as the re
turned member in the famous Graham and
Newland contested seat—is here Gov. Young
and Mr. Filmore made an inspection of the
different Halls in the morning, and ex-Govern
or Hill, of New-Hampshire—who is an enthu
siast on the subject of agriculture.
If I mistake not, among the crowd. I saw the
face ofyoung Mr. Stanley, a member of one
of the most distinguished and estimable of the
aristocratic families of England.
Throughout the day the numbers increased,
and at about 11 o’clock, the Fair seemed to be
at its zenith. A long train of nineteen cars 1
caine in from the East, and some eight steam- 1
boats, dark with their living freight, from the 1
West —that home of successful agriculturists— 1
one of the great gateways of which is this busy I
town.
THE GROUNDS.
These are admirably located just on the verge
of a piece of forest, in whose cool shade the fat
cattle find themselves “ at home,” and certain
ly they have been so to a throng of visitors.
The extent embraced by the fencing is very
large. (18 acres) and gives the exhibition the
best appliances. It is a good evidence of the
growth and magnitude of this famous town,
that it has been necessary to go out some miles 1
from the wharves to rind a lot sufficiently de
tached from any building. The numbers in
attendance to-day were so great that I observed i
the grass had become slippery to the tread, as 1
if worn by the multitude. The preparation of 1
these grounds has been a work of magni- 1
Hide and severe cost [s4ooo] to the enterpris
ing Bufl’alonians, but liberally have the people '
repaid the outlay.
THE HALLS.
Floral Hall was as beautiful as the combina- 1
ion of fruits and Howers could make it. It was 1
jo my practical view a theme of wonder how a
t people so active in all the pursuits of trade and 1
commerce, could find time to turn aside and ’
weave for the earth its coat of many colors.
The centre of the H ill had a temple of an 1
order of architecture which could be properly '
designated a florid gothic. In the centre in
vivid contrast with the rich emerald verdure,
is a statue of Flora—its while proportions re
vealed in loveliness by the fair and glowing
hues around it. A great gathering of Howers
of every dye, that ever sprung into being to tell
Man what Earth once was. is on all sides, and
so interturned and variegated, and laced and
festooned ami garlanded, that if Flora ever had
had a being, it would have gladdened her rose
leaved genius to have seen her temple. It is
surrounded by fruits and of a nature so excel
lent, <hat I do but quote the opinion of a West
chester friend, when 1 say—the metropolis
could furnish no parallel for sweetness. There
are sage old cultivators here, and whatever has '
bornethe*r ordeal, may be safely considered as
worth the distinction of being prominent at
such a Fair. This part of the exhibition has
been under the superintendence of, and was
prepared by. the good tnstw nn«i-Uill «♦*
eminent florist, AlexanderThotnpson of Auro
ra.
mechanics* Hall.
Here are the ingenious contrivances of our
countrymen to make labor not easier— that is
not often the aim of American skill, but to make
it more productive and profitable- and it would
seem to bean end. which those machines could
obtain. It is almost as if the bright and gh Ber
ing steel—the durable and compact woods—
the di. ersities of cordage and leather— the laby
rinth of cogs and wheels and gearing —could do
all that was necessary on a farm, and do it well
—a(ways excepting that part of the process.
rather important, the obtaining one.
The forks and axes, and ploughs and har
rows and threshing machines and h»»rse pow
ers, and all the other ingenuities of farming,
are very beautiful. I noticed that Mr Fillmore
examined, very minutely, a powerful axe, keen
and sure, from a Westfield. Chalanqiie co.,
manufactory—as if it was a weapon of the days
of peace, familiar to him, and indeed I heard
him say to a friend, that in ” Old Cayuga’ he
ha I swung such an one all day long.
The strength of these took surprised me,
and completely dissipated the idea that they
might be fancy work all very pretty and clean
and neat, but
“ Wisely kept tor show.”
They were the stern steel stuff. and their elabo
rate finish, was only a proof ofthe advance of
the art. It was very gratifying to know how
many of these implements were manufactured
in Western New-York.
DAIRV HALL.
It is remarked by all who have been in the
practice of attending the Fairs of the several
past years, that the Butter and Cheese exhibit
rd now, f«»r quality and quantity, has never
been equalled. The butter looks as though
that golden crown on the head of Goshen,
might be seized by Erie and Wyoinin. and
Genesee and other competitors. The butter
was of a rich color, and a flavor such as it is sei
dom the late of dusty citizens to enjoy, and
think ot it.' ye housekeepers of New York, in
whose purses ’ the butter bill” maketh a visi
ble ••tune of low water”—golden butter such
as this, is furnished all the year through to the
favored citizens of at the merciful rate
ot steteen cents per pound.
Ihe cheese was of an order of excellence,
demonstrating the good effect of the foreign
market, which the more liberal policy of Eng
land has recently opened. It was made with
care, and with an attention to the putting up,
the coloring, the flavoring, and whatever else
is required by the fastidious taste ol Mr. John
Bull, our lordly cousin, which will make
il an article ot eager consumption when it
reaches the wharves at Liverpool.
there was some refined maple sugar from i
< niario Co., ot such fair whiteness, that 1 sus
would ••bother” our friends Woolsey '
and H oolsey—(hey of the towering and gigan
tic factory that rears its tall head up with I
the spires of your city, to exceed its purity. |
Il was an evidence of what we could do. if our
street MMer Louisa Anna should depart this
New World.
1 HE STOCK.
This is. by the testimony of those most com
petent to pronounce such an opinion, a
very large gathering of good stock—and yet
the show of' blood horses could soon be sur
passed in the vicinity of New York, ft seem
ed to me that there had not been so much at
tention given by the breeders, to that symme
try. nd elegance of form, that neat and grace
ful limb. a-» to strength and power and stalwart
proportions. One of the most admirable ani
mals on the ground was a Norman horse, own
ed by Robert Howland of Springport. Cavu*a
Co. His appearance was very peculiar, and
indicated strength and activity . I: was a quaint
looking horse, and would have attracted notice,
even m Broadway, where a sight mast be re
markable. to be gazed at. One of the nicest
horses here was sired by a Camanche horse
one of the animals that the tribe of Indians
bearing that name keep to bear them with the
fleetness of the wind on their predatory war
fare. The Marfan horse has al wavs—at everv
I air—and al this as well, some excellent repre
sentative—a* has the Duroc. and the Albert.
Os the fat cattle. I expect to give a brief sketch
to-morrow. Some of them are so large that it
r« quires "the three days of September to be
come acquainted with them. .Many of them
find existence luera'ly a burthen, and
"eumfefined sentiments of kit dness toward
the butcher.
v Biffxlo. Sept. 7. ISIS.
Ihe three days of the Fair w. I be fllusln
ons in ihe annaU of delightful weather The
worm, and leu.pe.uh.re concluded. „ would
nor to aiiand but brdc ih« r u .u,
t we are safely and comtortably off to ou
homes The rain clouds have "bU> Wn aw
and the breexe tempered meantime been
present. So a kind word ever after for But
’aef.-tuik lis moonshine is enduring, !•*
clouds are fleeUSg.
The gieal Festival ut the Farmers closed
last night by a dinner, and an assemblage of
many of the parties most prominent in the ar
ranging of the decorations of Floral Hall—en
throned its rose-garlanded parlor for festivity.
The address of Mr. John C. Spencer was
delivered in the large tent of the Society. It
can contain a large crowd of people, and it
was more than thronged His discourse was.
as every effort is which Mr. Spencer makes,
elaborately and carefully prepared. It was a
superb defence of the policy of encouraging
WA manufactures and agriculture, and in that
respect was a contrast, and, indeed, it might
be called a review of. and an answer to. the
address prepared by Gov. Wright, last year,
and read as will be recollected at the meeting
at Saratoga by General Dix.
Mr. Spencer is no fearful, timid reasoner,
I but grasps with hereditary and characteristic
boldness, the opinions he promulgates. He
has ever been of those whose intellect has de
manded a place in Hie front rank of whatever
enterprise he conducted, and his is the voire to
utter truths, from the declaration of which
others would falter—because of “ the force of
circumstances.”
The group around Mr. Spencer during the
delivery of his address was interesting. The
Presidentofthe Society, Lewis F. Allen, pre
sided. and by his side sat Mr Fillmore, while
around him I observed Mr. John A. King, A
dain Ferguson, an eminent agriculturist and
citizen of Canada. Mr. Stanley, son of Lord
Grosvenor, who was also on the stage, seemed
to take earnest interest in the discourse, and
took notes constantly.
The entire ground of a foreign market—its
probability of durability; its extent; the a
inoiint of exports ; the real effect of the sales
over the water, as in contrast with those in the
home market ; all these were with keen and
precise observation, commetited upon. The
importance ofthe market of the South Ameri
can countries and the West India Islands, so of
ten neglected in the calculations of the politi
cal economist, was dwelt upon, and a .sound,
permanent, and fixed protective policy was in
sisted on as the great doctrine ofthe true pros
perity of the nation —to which the farmers
should gi v e their friendship, and on which,
combined with a just attention to skilful agri
culture, the happiness of the people rested
The great maxim upon which the affairs of a
country, in its intercourse among its own peo
ple, and with other countries, should be the
homey maxim of live and let live—a principle
founded on the eternal basis of justice and hu
manity.
But to Mr. Spencer, justice can only be done
by a full and complete presentation by his own
pen of all his arguments. His doctrines
were of rhe very best Whig school, and their
promulgation at this time wiildo good. It may
be said that the address was somewhat of the
controversial school —but even if this was ?o,
no man can conduct an argument better than
Mr. Spencer, and the defence of the Protec
tive Policy could not have been entrusted to
better hands
The award of the premiums followed, and the
flags which were placed on the successful ani
mals, soon dotted the field The cattle seem
ed conscious of their banner. It is a curious
incident, that one of the horses which took a
prize, in the class of blooded stock, was Bucy
nes, a descendant of Old Eclipse—thus perpe
tu iting the honors of that splendid steed, to a
late day. One of the successful horses was
named Hnrnbloirer, after the learned Chief-
Justice of New Jersey.
The tide of population ebbs to-night—all
the railways and steamboats will be loaded to
their utmost capacities. Happy the traveller
who can escape the pressure.
The city of Bufl’alo has been greatly benefit
ted by the Fair—not merely in a pecuniary,
view, though the thousands of visitors have
all departed and are departing with less of the
pecuniary treasures of this earth, than when
they came—hut this is a selfish view ofthe ques
tion. It has been benefitted most by the ex
position which has been personally given to the
many—very many—by their own observation,
of the abundant capacities and resources of
Buffalo, ofthe mighty foundation stones which
are laid down here, on which a mighty city is
to be built, and is now building. The wealth
of its trade—the characteristics of the harbor
—the pier—the canals—all these demand a
more enlarged notice than could have been
given by men? hearsay or reliance on the ob
servations of others, and a great section ofthe
population of the adjoining States, ot Canada,
ofthe East, have now been enabled to judge
for themselves.
The Main street of this great city will yet
be the only avenue in the North, which for
business and bustle, will bear a parallel with the
Broadway of New York.
The good order which has everywhere
prevailed during the Fair, has been delightful,
and reflects the highest credit on the Police,
and the character of the city generally.
This great irood grows out of these Fairs
when successful and thronged as this one has
been. The farmer is no longer satisfied with
auy thing but excellence—with the best stock,
the best implements, the best of every thing.
The Wes’ern and the Canadian farmer will be
especially benefitted, and the Provinces and
the States that border on the lakes, have the
deepest interest al stake in the advance of ag
riculture. I observe that a great “ show” as it
is railed is soon to take place at Coburg. Many
of the Canadian gentlemen were successful com
petitors, ami can display their premiums as an
evidence of the good feeling of their friends
•‘ over the river.”
The Fair has been the best of the series, and
Buffalo has achieved all the honors that rightly
are due to an energetic and an hospitable pen
pie. it has decided the problem of the availa
bility of tho West. Sentinel.
Holters from the Army,
M ijor David Lynch, says the Bucks county
Intelligencer, la’e Postmaster in Pittsburg, dele
gate to the B illimore (Convention, and a pro
minent Locofoco politician, has come out in
opposition to the election of Gen Can.
James Johnson. Esq . heretofore a prominent
Locofoco partizan and the editor of the Greens
burg Argus has written a letter repudiating
Casa and Butler, ami declaring his determina
tion to support Gen. Taylor.
Judge Bucher, of H trrisbiirg formerly the
Chairman of the Locofoco State Committee,
is now an active supporter of Gen. /Taylor.
Jutlgr Blythe, formerly collector ofthe Port
of Philadelphia and a proniin nt candidate for
the Locofoco nomination for Governor, a few
years ago, is now a decided and active friend
of Gen. Tavlor.
H«»n. Ovid F. Johnson.late At’nrney Gener
al of Penn*} Ivania. is now engaged in delivering
speeches in various parts of the country, in
favor of Gen. Taylor.
William B. Potts, a distinguished and influ
ential political! of Schuylkill county, has aban
doned Cass and goes for Taylor.
Francis P. Blair, the celebrated ‘Globe
Man.’ and a delegate tn the Baltimore Conven
tion. is frien ily to Mr- Van Buren and opposed
to Cass. This is truly defective in high places.
Montgomery Blair. Esq . son of F. P. Blair,
is delivering stump speeches against Cass, in
N York, and elsewhere.
Hon. Henry D. Gilpin, late United States
Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsyl
vania, is now a prominent opponent of the
election of Cass.
Judge Myers of Clarion, formerly a leading
and influential Democrat, and an elector on
the Polk and Dallas electoral ticket in 1844. is
now a zealous supporter of Taylor and Fill
more.
Dr. Edward E. Gazzan, George W. Jack
son. Esq., George R. Riddle E*q . John Surber,
Esq .and a host of other prominent “ Demo
crats” of Alleghany rountv have bolted the
Baltimore nom nations.— Xorth American.
Another Cass Flag Struck.—The Alton
(111 ) Monitor, a few weeks since emerged from
its state of neutrality into a Cass and Butler
organ. The change was heralded as an evi
dence of the increasing popularity of Cass. It
has hauled down that flag, and run up the names
of Van Buren and Adams. The Monitor is
under the editorial management of John W.
Buflun. an ultra Locofoco and a prominent
barnburner of Illinois. We should not be at
all surprised tn <»•»» other Locofoco papers in
both Illinois and Missouri following the exam
pie of the Alton Monitor.—<V. O Hee.
Northern Dkmocrxts <nv Abolitionists.
—The Vermont and Maine Election, prove
one thing beyond all question, viz: that the
Northern Whigs are resolved to stand firmlv
by the banner of Old Zack and Reform, while
| the Democratic Partv is dissolved and virtually
! "’"gednt the Free Soil and Abolition partiei.
W hat an inglorious end for the boasted Demo
cratic allies : What say the Democracy of
| Georgia ’ The Northern Whigs so long’ and
I so grossly abused by them are tirmlv standing
■ bv the Sugar planter of Louisiana.’ while the
Northern Democrats have turned AbolmonUts
! and f reesoders. Te.l it not in Gath: No
wonder that the Georsia Barnburners. Cobb.
Lumpkin. Iverson. A Co. have been for tears
I engaged in preparing the public mind for this
■ result, by voting f„ r !he Wilmot Proviso them
sel.es, am. advwms Mr Polk to give it his otli
cial sanction.— Jour \ Mes.
*'• ’-Cass has an
that the public mind has been undersoitie a
on the \\ dmot provwo . and also th hlts
ea-ammd has. U .11 any of h.s organs mfor.n
us to irA.it ri.'rat. precisely, that change has ta
ken place, and whether it has rrmuaerf at that
point a neo die dateol the Nicholson letter or
has retrograded any It is very i t,port .>H to
tie to have accurate information.—
hiten.i I ism.
’ *■ l sc r—one that .peaks
, :in-. against .he lairnes-and common hon
est, <>! the t ass party that „„ of the I o
cofoeo papersol the Sonth hasdared to publish
the letter ot Gen C ts. to R S. W.lson of Mi
cbigan. Me ca .t .e attention of the honest
voters ot the South to the aneak.ng game of
deception and fraud which then leaders are
playing, b >uch a party deserving of k> n fi.
deuce * — Mobile Adrertiser
Gnt u 'lkkrkl Salk X correspondent
•»t 'he Bath Trib-me *nshe was m Boston last
*e«k. and saw a min from .Nov* Scotia. con
iravtio deliver tn Boston in the month of Sep.
ten v*ou«a nJ barrel* of ni ack ere
Tlugusta, QM.:
MONDAY MORNING, SEPT. 25, 1848.
Mr. Clay—The Democracy.
The prompt refusal of Mr. Clay to permit
his name to be used by the faction of disorgan
izers in New York, has nipped in the bud some
bright hopes which had but just began to flit
before the imagination ofthe Democracy, In
their despondency, the proceedings of the fac
tionists in New York were hailed by their or
gans and those in their interest, as a sort of
god-send, and they were paraded before their
readers in great pomp, to excite a faint hope of
the defeat of •* Old Rough and Ready.”—
Vain hope! The Sage of Ashland could not
be made the instrument of such a faction, and
thereby contribute to the election of Gen. Cass.
However he may have been disappointed, he
is too devoted to the Whigs and Whig princi
ples to attempt to divide them, that they might
fall easy victims to the “Northern man with
Southern principles” No. 2.
It is really am ising to glance at the demo
cratic journals throughout the country, to see
with what avidity they caught at the prospect
of a division in the Whig ranks, how eagerly
they sought to nurture it, and how much their
drooping hopes seemed to be revived. They
are really to be pitied, since they cannot longer
indulge the flattering hope of a Whig division.
“I doubted that Gen. ('ass’ posiiion was safe be
fore I wrote my letter to him. I felt satisfied when
I wrote the leiter, that I had given a proper construc
tion to his views—and the character of his reply could
but confirm me in ihe belief Z/i Z/ie South could re
ly upon no one with less safety , than the honored
individual who is now the nominee of the Baltimore
Convemion.”
Such is the unequivocal language of the
Hon. R. J. Moses, one of the delegates from
Florida to the Baltimore Convention—lan
guage which should not be lightly considered
by Southern men. Mr. Moses is a zealous
Southern Democrat—who is devoted to the in
terests of the South and tho protection of her
rights and property. He was desirous as a
Southern Democrat that the Democratic party
should present to the country a candidate for
President sound upon the slavery question,
and believing that Gen. Cass was not sound,
he wrote to hiiu to obtain a more explicit avow
al of the Nicholson letter. The result of that
correspondence, and the correspondence itself,
our readers are familiar with.
Every impartial, candid man. who reads the
correspondence between Mr. Moses and Gen.
Cass, cannot fail to concur with Mr. M., “ that
the South could rely upon no one, with less safety
than Gen. Cass. 1 '
Mr. Moses, although he refuses to vote for
Gen. Cass, does not support Gen. Taylor ; he
is, therefore, an impartial witness, and his opin
ions should be deliberately weighed by the
Southern Democracy.
From a report in the Alabama Tribune
it appears that three ships were ashore on the
4th on the Great Bahamas. Their names are
not known. There had been a very severe
gale, and numerous disasters had occurred.
A Floating Tunnel.—One of the most ex
traordinary plans submitted for the approval
ofthe French Academy of Science is that of
M. Ferdinand, engineer, who proposes to con
struct a floating tunnel from Calais to Dover,
for the wires of the electric telegraph, and large
enough to be traversed by small locomotives,
tor the conveyance of passengers. The plan
was referred to one of the members of the
academv for examination.
The receipts on the Little Miami Railroad
for the late month of August were $27,699 66
—being an increase over the corresponding
month of 1847, of $12,400. An uninterrupted
railroad communication is now open through
from Cincinnati to Lake Erie, which is giving
an astonishing increase of business to the road.
The following item is an illustration :
“ The 2d regiment United States infantry, com
manded in Mexico by Colonel (now Brigidier Gene
ral) Riley, reached Cincinnati on the9fh instant from
Jefferson barracks, en route for California. It num
bers 625 privates and 15 officers. The regiment pro
ceeded in the cars for New York, where it is to em
bark on its long voyage forthwith.”
The receipts from passengers on the Wes
tern (Mass.) Railroad for the week ending
Sept 9, were over $17,009, being the largest
sum from that source in any week since the
opening of the road.
’VI.« .... . V>>. lliv Mu.lbiUll Ulltl I lilll v
lis Railroad were :
August, 1848 $15,643 22
" 1847 7,503 29
Increase (nearly 110 per cent.) • • $8,130 99
Robert Gnflin, of Savannah, has been elect
ed Grand Sire of the General Grand Lodge
of Odd Fellows. Mr. Kellogg, of Michigan,
waselecled Deputy Grand Sire, and J. L Ridg
ley. of Baltimore, Grand Secretary. 'These
elections took place at Baltimore, where this
body annually assembles, and the information
was communicated to the Savannah papers by
telegraph
The inauguration of the Hon. John J. Crit
tenden, as Governor of Kentucky, took place
at Frankfort on Wednesday, the 6th instant.
A large concourse of persons was present
from all parts ofthe State.
Governor Crittenden has appointed Orlando
Brown. Esq., of Frankfort. Secretary of State,
and Henry C. Harlan Assistant Secretary.
11?’ Grn. Pillow will probably be a member
of the next Congress, from the district in Ten
nessee now represented by J M 'Thomas—
the latter gen lemen declining in his favor.
The Majority for Mr. Manly—'The offi
cial returns ofthe Governor’s election in N.
Carolina makes Mr. Manly’s majority to be
874.
The German citizens of Irondequoit. N.
Y.. have raised a splendid pole tn Honor of
Tailor and Fillmore. They will be found
in November doing good battle in the Whig
cause.
The Washington correspondent ofthe Balti
more Sun states that Gen. Cass has written a
letter to the democratic central committee at
Washington, sa> mg that he approves of the
passage of the Oregon bill with the Wilmot
proviso annexed, ami also of the course of Mr.
Polk in signing it. He probably begins, once
more to be ” strongly impressed with the opin
ion, that a great change has been going on in
the public mind on this subject—in his own a*
well as others.”
Lei ns see:—in August '46, an avowed pro
visoist in public and in private:—in February
'47. an avowed provisoist in private (letter to
Mr. Wilson.) an anti-provisoist in public:—in
December ’47, an anti-provisoist both in public
and in private ("a great change having been
going on in his mind”) —and in September
IS4S, a provisoist in confidence to the central
committee (another great change having been
going on in his mind,”) as will doubtless be
duly and officially set forth in the north, on the
eve of the election.) That will do for the his
tory of two years.— Alabama Monitor.
INTERESTING St AVE C-VSES The Holly
Springs v Miss.) Gazette, of the 4th inst . gives
the following important cases, decided m the
Circuit Court. The first was to this effect:
Two men had employed a slave without the
consent of the master, to assist them in unload
ing a wagon of cotton, promising to pay the
slave in liquor. The liquor was furnished, and
the bov. while engaged in unloading the wagon,
was killed bv a third person. Suit was brought
by the owner of the slave for his value, against
all the parties, the employer and the slayer.
The jury gave the plaintiff a verdict for the
value of the slave against all the defendants.
The other case was a State prosecution
against a stare for stealing a slave.
The court, lion Hugh R Miller, presiding,
charged the jury that a slave could steal a slave,
and that the owner of the thief was responsible
to the owner of the stolen slave for bis value.
The case was one of much excitement, mas
much as negro testimony was admitted on be
half of the State to sustain the prosecution.
The jury found a verdict fur the prisoner upon
the ground as stated bv them in rendering their
verdict, that the proof for the prosecution was
nut satisfactory.
The I S. Navv.— fne navy of the I nited
Spates now comprises s.»ventv-eight vessels, of
ail descriptions, of which 11 arc ships-of the
liae. 17 frigates. 22 sloopg-of-war. 11 steamers.
5 schooners. 7 store-vessels. 4 brigs and I ra
zee, carrying a tot.il of 2.174 guns". Os these.
24* guns are employed in the Pacific. 77 on the
Mediterranean. l.»l bv home squadron. 76 in
the Coast of \frica 74 on the Coast of Brazil
46 in the East Indies. 6 in die coast snrvev. and
1 m the lake service : while 10 vessels are on
the stocks, rating t»IO guns; 15 m ordinary,
rating a9O guns ; and 5 others preparing for
sea. rating 1 I’d guns.
Th> Ci ai Parti in New York —The
New Y ark Express says that the \\ h'g partv
in that city are beconung perfectly united in
favor of the whole Wnig ticket. This has t een
caused by Mr. Clay > letter, m connect.on with
Geu. Taylor’s last Allison letter
[From the. New Orleans Picayune, Will inst. J
The Taylor Barbecue*
Pass Christian Sept. 17, 1848.
Yesterday, agreeably to announcement, the
grand Taylor Barbecue came off at this place,
ft was emphatically a grand affair, such, I ven
ture to assert, as Mississippi never witnessed
ed before. I have been accustomed to see bar
becues in various parts of the country, but
this was unlike any other lever attended. The
site cnosen for the occasion was in a beautiful
live oak grove on the grounds of F. B. Hierti,
Esq., near the hotel. The day was most lovely,
and the arrangements extremely unique. A
more picturesque spot could not have been se
lected any where in the vicinity of the
All who have ever visited Pass Christian, must
remember the beautiful Indian mound in the
grove alluded to. On the top of this mound
a neat and comfortable tent had been pitched
for the special accommodation of Gen. Taylor.
'Phis was surrounded by a number of our na
tional and other colors, politely loaned
for the occasion by several shipmasters from
New Orleans, to whom much is due for the ef
fect given to all the proceedings here in honor
of ‘‘Old Zach.”
Near by the mound, and beneath the over
spreading branches of evergreen was placed
the table on which was to be spread the barbe
cue. About 12 o’clock the people began to as
semble on the ground, and at a little after 1 P.
M., Gen. Taylor was escorted from the hotel
to the scene of festivity by the Board of Se
lectmen and other citizens of Pass Christian,
together with crowds of others from the coun
try and the gentlemen boarding in the house.
.\s the old soldier approached his tent, a fine
band of music struck u p “Hail to the Chief ’”
which was spiritedly executed. This compli
ment being over. nearly the whole multitude
advanced io shake hands with the distinguished
guest of the day.
The introduction of the company to Gen.
Taylor, having been gone through with, he
was conducted to his seat at the centre or head
of the table, which was so selected as to give
all those on each wing of the table an opportu
nity to see him from their places. Over the
chair of the General was a neatly arranged
canopy formed of the star spangled banner and
boughs of green trees. He was supported on
iiis right by Maj. Waggaman, and on his left
by Maj Garnet, of the U. S. Army. Before
the company took their seats, John Henderson,
Esq., welcomed tbe General in behalf of the
people of Harrison county to the hospitalities
of the day in an eloquent and appropriate ad
dress, to which Gen. Taylor responded most
happily.
After a rapid and vivid description of the
barbecue, the dance and the other festivities of
the day the correspondent concludes :
Persons from a distance of thirty-five and
forty miles were on the ground; persons of
different political sentiments; of different
gradesand rank in society; yet all was harmo
ny and friendship. All was courtesy and good
feeling. Not one single incident occurred in
the whole routine of hilarity to displease or give
offence. All was free and easy. In a word,
it was one of the best arranged and best con
ducted affairs of the kind that could possibly
have been seen any where. The people of
Pass Christian and Harrison county cannot re
ceive too large a share of oraise for their public
spirit, hospitality, good sense and politeness in
vicing with each other to manifest their respect
and admiration of one who has done so much
to shed lustre upon our national character at
home, and increase the splendor of our coun
try’s fa me abroad.
As the sun went down, at the close of one
of the most delightful days of this season of the
year, the band struck up “Hail Columbia,”
concluding with “Yankee Doodle,” when the
stars and stripes, which bad Honied gaily over
the mirthful peagent. were hauled down amidst
a perfect tornado of huzzas. Thus ended the
proceedings of the Taylor Barbecue at Pass
Christian—an event not soon to be forgotten
by any of those who were fortunate enough to
witness it. Yours, *tc. f. a. l.
TOASTS.
1. The President of the United States. Music—
“ Hail Columbia.”
2. The Army and Navy of the United States. Mu
sic—“ Star Spangled Banner.”
3. The Volunteers of the State of Mississippi, and
their brave officers, Davis and McClung. Music
“Yankee Doodle..”
4. Maj >r Gen. John A. Quitman He has proved
h mself us efficient in the field as he was learned and
unbiassed on the bench. In whatever situation he is
placed he challenges our respect and admiration. Mu
sic—“ Grand March.”
5 Gen Z ichary Taylor, our honored guest
Great in his incorruptible honesty ; strong in his in
flexiule firmness; invincible in his steady indepen
dence ; as a soldier, deliberate and cool in action,
wise in council, and a successful conqueror; a man
who has done his whole duty as a citizen and as a
soldier.
A sentiment by the ladies of Pass Christian:
Gen. Taylor—Husband, father, friend ; gentleman
warrior, christi *n. The free women of our land will
bear him on their hearts to the highest seats of
honor, giving to the world their appreciation of a
man.
When the General arrived at the head of the
table the Hon. John Henderson addressed him
in the following speech :
Genera/—I am commissioned by the municipal
authorities of the Pass Christian. in their name, and
in behalfof the people of Harrison county, to pronounce
you their wtlcomo to our coast, and to make von their
kindest recejMion to the republican hospitalities of a
Barbecue. in this reception amt entertainment is
represented that, which tbe fashionable dining saloon
cannot Inru sh, anil wealth and luxury cannot supply
-the embodied manifestation of the affection and
esteem of a whole community. We meet here upon
a platform, not constructed by the politician's craft,
with spring-traps and pit-falls, but on the plain equal
surfice ol republican simplicity, where freemen hon
or their fellow man according to their appreciation of
his merits. Such voluntary homage we this day ac
erd to you, general, as the guest of this occasion.
|i were needless, as at present inopportune, tore
count the incidents of that brilliant military career,
which, with many brightly correspondent virtues, has
so endeared your name to the American people. Your
battle sceib-s on our Western frontier, and in the sa
vannas of Florida, from the wet plains of the lower
Od Norte, to the mountainous altitudes of Buena
Visla, have become as familiar to us as household
words. And yet, how much better known and re
in •inhered by you, all the trying circumstances of
those bl Mxly fields of mortal strife, seen and felt by
you as a man, whilst, with the spirit of the master,
you controlled and directed their tumultuous storm.
There were periods intervening your first coinbat
with the Mexicans, and your last glorious triumph on
the held of Angostura, when the p »blic mind at home
became excited with apprehensions for your safety, to
a degree of intensity exceeding ail ex pres ion. But
with each authentic dispatch, which left your camp,
when the Jin of battle had subsided, the clouds of des*
[Ktiidenev were rolled awiy, and the cannon’s roar
mingling with the shouts of the public rejoicing, pro
cl timed throughout the land the watchman’s cry of
‘'all's well!" An t wwn was established the popular
confidence that all must be well where you, general,
were in command. S-xm, too, with popular accord,
were you distinguished by that significant soubriquet,
s<> expressive of sound judgment, vigilance, and in
vincibility-indicating that you were every ready for
the roughest emergencies. Time lias proven the
popular confidence was not misplaced; and when,
with a reduced command, you were left to retreat, to
surrender, or t<« contend at fearful odJs, with the
largest and best appointed army ever organized in
Mexico, you were followed by the nation's sympathies,
and the national sentiment deprecated the dangerous
necessities to which you were so iin providently ex
po ed.
Ami when the historian shall analyze the circum
stances which placed you at that hazard, ami shall ex
plore tne belligerent sciences for the philosophical
conception which dictated its arrangement, it shall be
w ell tl tie discover only the errors of a fallible judg
ment, which prescribed to you a position so extraor
dinary ; and that it was but the common casualties of
war. which compelled you to choose between the
soldier’s humiliation, and the penis nf a conflict —
deadly, doubtful, and of the most probable disaster.
You did not hesitate in the choice; and though our
country mourns some of its best blood, poured out in
sacrifice on that occasion, it was your crowning glory.
General, that you did not hesitate. I have said the
anticipation of that perilous struggle promised a doubt
ful issue ; and this, not more from the great disparity
of opposing forces, than from its inexperience in the
held of the larger p»rtion of your little army. And
I here forego the reflections so naturally eugges ed, to
speculate upon the consequence? which must have f»l
--lowe I, had yon and your Spartan band met defeat in
that eventful conflict. Suffice it fur the present, that
whatever the discouragements which lowered in
gloom upon trie prospective destinies of that issue, its
final results won fur our country its greatest renown,
and for you. general, a nation’s gratitude. And
pnmdly should we remember it, in grateful admira
tion of our gallant volunters. that all which brave
hearts could supply in substitution for discipline and
exj*eriencc, wis rendered by them with a tearless
devo ion, worthy of veterans. And pardon us, gen
eral. the partiality of Mississippians, if, upon this fes
tive occasion, and upon our own soil, we refer with
some State pride and exultation to the part borne by
our Ist Regiment in that bloody field. W here so
much was achieved, and so many brave spirits va
riously distinguished io the discharge of duty, it gra
tifies iis to believe, that no Mississippian was found
delinq ueot.
But 1 forbear further detention, and cheerfully re
cur again to the occasion of your presence. And, in
behalf of all ti» «se w hom I here represent, with hearts
generous a- the sunshine, and open as the Heaven?
which canopy the board now spread <?it before us, I
again, general, Lid you welcome —a thousand times
welcome.
Gen. Taylor’s Address.
The following were the remarks of Gen.
Taylor in reply to the address by the Hon. John
Henderson:
It is with emotions of n ) ordin try embarrassment,
Mr. Speaker, that I find myself c tiled up>n torespwd
to the cordial reception with which I have just been
met v the authorities of Pass Cbris’ian and the citi
zens of Harrison county. I cannot, inie-'d, expect
to do justice to the oecason. and feel especially e?s
able <: r - rin adequate terms my acknowledgements
for the very flattering language ia which this greet
ing has been tendered by the talented citizen who
has just addressed me. 1 can only, therefore, offer
v.?u my warmest thanks, and assure you that
the style of my reception here is particularly
grateful tu my feelings. This simple and republican
manner of meeting my fed -w-citizen* carries me
back to the pleasant scenes of my early life. 1 was
reare 1 from infancy to early manhood m the W. st —
among men of the m >sx primitive tastes and republi
can simplicity. We tbei - fre . lastly met on occa
sions .:ke this, to exchange freely ir opinions on Na
t>_-i.il and State affairs, and to devise measures for the
defence of our borders, which at that day the Gene
ral Government was sometimes unable to protect.
On these ocra<i >ns were often collected, to?, those
men of hoc hearts and nenes who had n ?t only aided
the Father of ecr Country in achieving u.ir in Impen
dence. and sao-d v hi* side in many of the hard
: >agtit Saturn, but who af.erwardi filled,, with honor
to our country, conspi -uous places tn our legislativer
bodies, both Nationalland State. I have been edu
cated in the simple and republican habits so happily
illustrated in this scene, anu do not expect to change
them in my old days. You wilt then understand me
when I assure you that the manner of my re
ception here is more agreeable to my feelings and
taste than could be all the pomp and pageantry of a
reception at the most splendid court of Europe.
The complimentary language in which you have
been pleased to allude to my military services, which
now embrace a period of more than forty years, and
especially to the actions in which I have been engaged
during that time, commencing with the defence of
Fort Harrison, in 1812, and ending with the battle of
Buena \ ista, has awakened in me the most grateful
emotions. I feel particularly gratified at the just
tribute of praise which you have paid, in speaking of
these services, to the gallant men whom I commanded
on the occasions referred to; and to their zeal in sus
taining me. and to their bold hearts and strong arms,
are we indebted for our victories. The manner in
which you have alluded to my being stripped of my
troops on the Rio Grande, and to my being left, as it
might seem, at the mercy of the enemy, just before
the battle of Buena Vista, renders it proper, probably,
that I should make a few remarks in relation to that
matter. I received at Victoria, while on my way to
Tampico—a movement which 1 had advised the War
Department, I should make, for certain reasons—an
order from the General-in-Chief of the army, strip
ping me of the greater portion of my command, and
particularly of regular troops and volunteers well in
structed. This order was received by me with much
surprise, and I must confess, produced the strongest
feelings of regret, mortification and disappointment,
as 1 knew that Gen. Santa Anna was within striking
distance of my line, with an aimy of 25,000, probably
the best appointed men ever collected in Mexico.
After putting most of the troops then with me at Vic
toria en route for Tampico -the larger portions of the
commands at Monterey and Saltillo having been al
ready withdrawn for the same ultimate destination—
-1 was instructed to return to the former place, where
it was expected 1 would remain on the defen
sive, with the small force then under my orders. A
few days after reaching that point I learned that the
greatest alarm prevailed among the advance at Saltil
lo, in consequence of the capture at Encarnacion of
Majs. Borland and Gaines, with their party of about
eighty picked men from the Arkansas and Kentucky
cavalry—followed a few days afterwards by the cap
ture of a detachment of picked men under Capt.
Heady, also of the Kentucky cavalry.
About the same time I received a communication
from Gen. Weol, then commanding at Saltillo, urging
me to join him with all the troops at my disposal, stat
ing that Gen. Santa Anna was at least preparing, if
he was not already en route to strike a blow at Saltil
lo ! I immediately joined Gen. Wool with 700 or
800 men, and a few days afterwa r ds concentrated all
the troops, which were rally encamped by regi
ments, and touk my posit® nt Agua Nueva, inorder
that all the officers might become better acquainted
with each other and their duty, and that generally
a more thorough system of discipline and instruction
could be adopted to prepare all hands for service.
While here, 1 was ad«ised by the War Department
and the General-in-Chief to occupy Monterey. This
advice I believed then, as I do now, was given at
hazard, and in ignorance of my situation, if that of
the enemy, and of the country. I declined to adopt
it. and determined to fight the Mexican General im
mediately after he crossed the desert country which
lay just in my front, and before he could have time to
refresh and reorganize his army, which I knew
would be much worn out and disordered by a march
of 150 miles across this desert without sufficient pro
visions ami supplies, and with a great scarcity of wa
ter. In this determination, so far as I know, 1 was
most cordially sustained by the officers of my com
mand. About two weeks after taking my position at
Agua Nueva, it was ascertained by my advanced
parties that Santa Anna was at hand with his army.
We then fell back to Buena Vista, a ranch some six
miles in front of Sal id I 10, where we took up a strong po
sition, and where we could easily communicate with
our depot in the latter place. Upon this ground Ide
termined to give battle. The enemy arrived in our
front on the morning ofthe22d, and summoned me
to surrender at discretion about I o’clock of the same
day. The summons was declined, and about 4
o’clock on that day the battle of Buena Vista com
menced. The result of that battle is known to you
all, and I shall not, therefore, trouble von with its
details. All fried to discharge their duty to their
country on that occasion, and some even did more
than liieir duty It would then, perhaps, be invidi
ous to draw comparisons, but I must be permitted to
say that, led on by their distinguished commander,
the gallant Mississippi Volunteers, of whom you
have just spoken so highly and so justly, performed
well their part. They were the only volunteers with
me who had met the enemy before—having acted as
would become veteran troops in the conflicts about
M.jnterey. I therefore calculated much upon their
assistance on that eventful day, and 1 am happy here
losay that my expeditions were more than fully rea
lized. Their ranks tunned by the enemy’s bullets
are much more conclusive as to their good conduct
than anything that I could now say.
The ba'tle ot Buer.a Vista, under the circumstances
under which it was fought, was one of the most trying
occasions in which a soldier can be placed. I may
say indeed that 1 fought that battle with a halter about
my neck. 1 had >een advised to fall hack and occu
py Monterey, which, as before stated, I declined, and
had I been unsuccessful this advice would have been
brought up in judgment against me. 1 declined that
advice, because I believe*! the result would have
been as disastrous as a defeat. Had I fallen back
to Monterey the whole country about me, upon which
1 was greatly dependent lor forage, would have flown
to arms. Once confined in Monterey, the volunteers,
to say nothing of the effects of the retreat upon them,
would have become sickly and dispirited, mid depriv
ed of all means of obtaining supplies, and particularly
forage, I should soon have not had a dragoon or artil
lery horse in my command, and would therefore have
been compelled ultimately to surrender, unless the
siege could have been raised by the return ol Gen.
Scott from Vera Cruz with the troops under his com
mand.
The battle of Buena Vista was fought on our side
by about 450 regular troops and something upwards
of 4000 volunteers while they were opposed by at
least 20,000 of the enemy ; and had we lost the day,
I feel ’finr tk“ wb<4c respijusibiliiv us thn misfortune
would have fallen U|*>n my shoulders. Yet Ido not
wish here to censure those who placed us in that crit
ical situation : whether thev deserve blame or not I
leave for others to determine. Those who had con
trol over my fate in this transaction may hive friends
here present, in whoso good opinion I would riot harm
them. For my own part, lam satisfied to hope and
believe that it was all the result of accident rather
th in <»f design on their part.
In conclusion, I beg to return to you, to my fellow
citizens of Harrison county, and particularly to my
fair countrywomen here assembled, my heartfelt
thanks for the cordial reception which they have this
day extended to me.
From the Baltimore Sun.
Gen. Taylor’s better tn the Independent
Taylor Party of Maryland.
The Patriot of yesterday afternoon, contains
the following letter from Gen .Taylor to a com
mittee of the late Independent Taylor party of
Maryland, which was presented to the con
vention ofthat party, held in this city in July
last, but which was withheld from publication
in accordance with a request from Gen. Tay
lor contained in the letter. The convention
placed the letter in the hands of W’m. 11. Col
lins, E*q , with instructions to furnish a copy
for publication, “whenever Gen. Ta v lor, or
any of his authorized friends, shall ask for the
same for that purpose " The Hon. Reverdy
Johnson, having received a letter from Gen.
Taylor authorizing him at his discretion to call
for this letter, it has been delivered to him by
Mr. Collins, and Mr. J. gives the following rea
son for its publication :
“ The failure heretofore to give the letter to
the public, because of a request to that effect
from the General himself, unexplained bv his
motive for making it, has, with some, given
rise to suspicion that it contained matter de
rogatory to his frankness and integrity. These
I deem it due to him to have dispelled, and I
know no mode so certain to accomplish it as
giving the letter itself.”
The following is the letter :
Baton Rouge, La., June 29th, 1848.
Gentlemen .•--! have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of your polite communication of the 12th inst.,
calling my attention to certain statements, relative to
my position before the country as a candidate for the
Presidency, winch are represented to have been made
in the Whig National Convention, recently held in
Philadelphia, pending the action of that body, bv
Judge Saunders, of Louisiana, in the name of the
delegation from that State ; and requesting to be in
formed whether such statements were made by my
authority. I have to inform you. in reply, that on
their way to that Convention. Judges Winchester and
Saunders, of the Louisiana Delegation, who have
been, for many years, my personal friends an! neigh
bors— wrote to me requesting my views, before the
meeting of the Convention, as to the course I desired
my friends to pursue in that body, hi two communi
cations addressed to them in reply, I informed them,
in substance, that at my distance from the scene, it
would be quite impossible for me to give any specific
instructions upon the subject; that many questions or
contingencies might arise during the action ot the
Convention, the character of which I could not fore
tell, and that they mu-t, therefore, assume the respon
sibility ot acting for me ; that I felt my honor and in
terest safe in their hands, and that whatever they
should see fit to do, 1 would most cordially approve.
I substantially informed them, further, that, unless
they should di- * ver an evident disposition to treat
me unfairly, —which I had no reason for supposing
would be the case, —1 thought that my friends should
go into the Convention, as they had been selected bv
their fellow-citizens ior this purpose ; but that, hav
ing once entered it, they were, of course, bound, if I
were not nominated, to sustain an ! support me nomi
nee whoever he might be; and that I hoped they
would do so heart and soul. Tnat I was a candidate
for tbe Presidency, only sn f ar ag lnv f r j en ds had
chosen to make me one; but that having been placed
in my present attitude towards that subject, without
any agency act ol my own directly or indirectly,
I did n >t feel myself at liberty, bv ar.v such art, to
withdraw myself; but my friends’, in whose hands I
had ever been, could do so whenever they >h ul ! -ee
fit, and finally, that it they could succeed n electing
to that office any one better qualified for its duties
than I was. and who was at the same time honest,
truthful and patriotic, it was their duty to go for him ;
and that, so tar Irom being disappoint*-J or moruned,
1 should h.oi '■ result with joy.
Such, I has been the language whi . I have
uniftfmly held on this subject since mt name was
first mentioned »n connection with it. Ir- gret that I
hare nut a copy of my communications t Judges
Saunders ar. i M inebester; btr the above I i.eve to
be their substance. Under the general authority
then th n given these gentlemen. I shall what
ever statements they may have made to be right and
proper; and, confident in their integrity and jp tbe
sincerity of iht-ir friendship for m •. I >ha;l sustain
th-m with ut qualification. I. therefore, n w take
upon my own siioulders the responsibility of the acts
of the Lauisian.l delegation, in that Convention, and
am prepared to standby the consepenees, in their
length and breadth.
1 rezret exceedingly that my friends in Baltimore,
whom you represent, sh-xiid have thus misunderstood
the course pursued bv the Louisian i delegation in
the Convention, and should have imagined that I had
abandoned the position held in my published letters
on this subject.
I fo*l bound, however, to respect tbe opinion of
th*s»»who honestly «iiffer with me; and, therefore,
wU:i* I feel conscious of no change ot teeiing or in
coosbteDcy on my pan, I cannot expect or desire that
any of my friends, whom vou represent, sh i I do
••uolence to Choir own «er.?e of right and wrong, by
supporting my election, while they believe I have
changed my political views. I ask no man, be he
Whig, Democrat, or Native, for his vote. 1 take
every American citizen’s interest in the welfare of
his country, to be as pnre and as deep as my own ;
and I have, therefore, no right, and certainly no de
sire to influence his action in the exercise of the im
portant duly of voting for the officers of this Govern
ment.
Though I have no objection to your circulating
this communication among such of your friends as
may be interested in it, yet I request that it may not
be published. My aversion to the appearance of my
name in the public prints, in connection with such
subjects, is my apology for the request.
With great respect, gentlemen, I am your obedient
servant, Z. TAYLOR.
Messrs. Chas. H. Pitts, John W. Walker, Thomas
S. Alexander, and others, Baltimore, Md.
Steamboat Explosion and Loss of Life.—
The steamer Concordia, which left iiere on
Saturday morning last for Milliken’s Bend,
was about 4 o’clock on Sunday morning al
most torn to pieces by the explosion of her
larboard boilers. The boat had just made a
landing at Plaquemine, and had got half a mile
on her way, when the accident occurred. All
the upper works forward of the wheel-houses
were terribly shattered, and portions of them
thrown to the distance of several hundred
yards. The wreck of this once splendid boat
was yesterday towed down to the city by the
Princess No. 3, and is now lying on the oppo
site side of the Gretna. The followingisa list
of the sufferers, as far as ascertained : Killed
—B. \V. McDowell, assistant clerk; Michael
McQuade, deck hand ; Jordan, (colored) fire
man ; Robert and Edward Davis, (colored)
cabin boys ; one firemen (colored) missing.—
Badly Scalded— Capt. 11. Pease, John F. Mose
ley, assistant clerk ; Talbot, (colored fireman)
thigh broke. John Lentz, Ist engineer, F. VV.
Colles, book-keeper, and Biinell, colored, fire
man. were slightly wounded.
Besides the above named tlrere were doubt
less several others lost. Several new deck
hands were taken on board just as the boat
was leaving this port and their names are not
known. The scene of the explosion is said to
have been heart-rending; yet Capt. Pease,
badly scalded as he was, retained his presence
of mind, and when offered assistance told those
who could do any good to attend toothers who
were in more danger than himself. Capt. P.
had just left the main deck when the explosion
•took place, and was directly over the boilers,
upon one of which he came down with the
upper floor. One of the boilers was forced a
bouttwemy feet aft.
In regard to the cause of this melancholy' oc
currence we can as yet say nothing. It is the
wish of Capt. Pease to have an investigation
take place as soon as possible, and we there
fore reserve all comments for a future occa
sion.
We believe that no passengers were injured,
with the exception of one gentleman, who
sprained his foot by jumping through the up
per part of a state-room. The freight and let
ters were all saved, and will be forwarded this
evening by the steamer Magnolia.— Picayune,
Wth inst.
From the Rio Grande and Tampico.—
The U. S. steamer Hetzel, Capt. Ellery, arri
ved yesterday from Tampico and the Brazos,
and the schooner Oregon, Capt. Trenis, from
Tampico. By these vessels we have Tampi
co papers of the 6th inst., and Matamoros of
the 11 th. The schooners Major Barbour, Sa
rah Jane and Alvarado were left at the Bra
zos.
The dates from Monterey are to the 3d
inst. Business there and at Saltillo was ex
tremely dull. Mr. Garnier, a merchant of
Monterey, reported to have been murdered,
proves to have been alive. The utmost good
feeling is said to exist between the American
and native residents of Monterey.
The Flag says that Gen. Bustamente is to
have command on the Rio Grande frontier, and
will make his head-quarters at Matamoros.—
Col. Castillo is expected at the same point with
four or five hundred dragoons.
- The Mexican authorities are ferreting out
the murderers of Mr. Carroll and with some
success. He is believed to have been killed by
his own servants, who have both been arrested.
The Flag gives us full details on the subject,
but we have not room for them to-day.
El Nolicioso of Tampico of the 6lh inst con
tains a memorial fr*m the commercial commu
nity of Tampico to the General Government,
protesting their opposition to any plan for dis
membering Mexico, their satisfaction with the
existing j-late of things arid their loyalty to the
Government. They reflect upon the editors
of the Not;cioso for misrepresenting the state of
feeling in Tampico, which they allege to be en
tirely loyal.
The same number of the Noticioso contains
a decree of the President, in which provision is
made for the removal of Mexican citizens
from territories surrendered to the United
States back to their own country. The Gov
ernment deals liberally with all such, treating
them in the light of the most favored colonists.
The pressure upon our columns to-day pre
vents us from going into further detail.— Pic.
I'.kA inst.
From the West Indies —The Hurricane
and Earthquake.— As announced yesterday by
telegraph from the north, letters have been re
ceived at Boston from St. Croix and St.
Thomas, stating that the reported damages by
the late hurricane in the West Indies at these
places are incorrect. I’lie accounts of the
damage done at other places, however, is con
firmed by the arrival on Wednesday, at New
York, of the brig Falcon, six days from Ber
muda, with Hamilton papers to September
12th. The latest is filled chiefly with accounts
of the hurricane of August2lst, at Antigua,
Nevis, St. Kitts, Saba, and Si. Johns. During
the progress of the gale a severe shock of earth
quake was felt at Antigua. A French schoon
er, which left Martinique with 22 passengers,
bound thence to New York or Europe, was
lost on the morning of the storm, with all on
board.
The statement contained in the following
paragraph is probably unfounded, or it would
have been mentioned in the direct intelligence
last received from Port-au-Prince :
Two or three days before the Medway left
St. Thomas, (Ist September,) a vessel arrived
from Porto Rico with the information of an
outbreak among the black party at Cape Fran
cois. Hayti ; that Mr. Thompson, her Majesty’s
Consul, in giving protection to the whites and
colored people, was killed. The greatest alarm
prevailed at Jacmel.— Balt. Sun.
Lake Superior Copper Mixing.—The
Cambridge (Mass.) Chronicle has a correspon
dent tn the Lake Superior Region, who fur
nishes interesting accounts of things in that
quarter. He thus describes the celebrated
CHIT Mine, perhaps the richest yet discovered :
While at Eagle River. I visited the famous
Cliff mine, owned by the Pittsburgh Company
and under the direction of Capt. Jennings, an
English miner. Here we have an opportunity
tu see what mining, properly conducted, may
become. The mine is situated on the side of
a steep range of trap rocks, facing to the south,
about four miles from the mouth of Eagle river.
The vein at the surface is but a few inches in
width, and can be traced along up the side of
the blutf to it* top : following its course into
the bowels of the hill, deep shafts have been
sunk from which, north and south, long galle
ries six or seven feet wide extend. Far down
under ground you descend by ladders ; with a
lighted candle in your hand you follow your
guide through the passages, now descendingin
one spot to see the ores, and now to another to
visit a mass of native, pure copper, which na
ture herself has melted and cast into a solid
block, as though to show how far inferior to her
is man’s best workmanship. This mine is the
wonder of all English and German miners who
visit it. All agree that nothing like it was ever
wrought; and that the science of mining fur
nishes no rules applicable to this case. Cop
per has usually been found in the old world
chemically combined with other substances,
such a? carbon, silica or sulphur. And where
it appeared in its native state it was regarded
as an unfavorable sign—a prognostication of
the failure of the vein. Here the case is diffe
rent : and the finding of the mass which I saw
far down in the mine, weighing by computa
tion at least sixty tons, is but a ne w proof of
the enormous wealth of this location. There
is one drawback though to the advantage of
finding such masses—the labor of cutting them
to pieces and raising them to the surface. The
copper is so extremely solid that it will lake a
labor of months to get this mass in pieces. 1
saw a seam cut by three men who had been
at work three days upon it. which was but two
feet and a half in length and from six to eleven
inches in depth Now this great mass in the
mine I judge tn be fifteen feet long, from two
to five feet wide, and from six to three feet in
thickness. How long then, will it be, and
what luti-t be the cost of getting it to market ?
<>n the pier I saw several pieces ready for
shipment; one weighed3S4«i lbs., another 3610,
others 3426, 2456. *fcc, ; making 1 should sup
pose. four or five hundred pounds to the solid
loot.
Now this company have been at work four,
if not five years, and have never made a divi
dend. Money his been flowing out like wa
ter—but water into a cistern. I was told by a
gentleman conversant with the mine, that the
expenses of this year will be at least eighty
thousand dollars. But the time for the reward
of the r patient waiting has come—and that this
fall there will—there must be—a surplus to di
vide of two hundred thousand dollars. Other
mines which are now going on with vigor, in
dicate that when driven to the extent of the
Chff, their products will be equal.
Copper mines in Massachusetts.—The loca
tion of these mines is about four miles from the
court house in Concord, within 20 miles of
Boston. Three or four companies are now at
w ork : one oi which are said to have already
gotout a number of tons of the ore, which
has yielded from fortv to sixty per cent, of
pure copper. Miners who have beenail their
lives employed in copper digging, say that
they never saw belter indications of copper
thin are found in that vicinity. So we learn
from tne Boston Traveler.
Frost —There was axlight frost in Mont,
gomery, Ala. on Friday morning the 22d inst
Augusta, ©col:
TUESDAY MORNING, SEPT »6, 1848.
“ Resolved, therefore, That this convention is op
posed to the exercise of any jurisdiction by Con
gress over the matter of slavery in the terri
tories ; but is in favor of leaving to the people who in
habit them the right to establish and regulate their
own domestic institutions and relations, under the
general principles us the constitution; and this is a
claim for them which cannot be disallowed by the
national democracy, devoted, as it is, to the liberty,
equality, and fraternity of this great brotherhood of
States.”
The above resolution was adopted by the
Democratic Stale Convention of Massachusetts,
assembled recently at Warrenton, to nominate
a candidate for Governor, &c. It embodies
the doctrine laid down by General Cass in his
Nicholson letter, that Congress has no power
over the question of slavery in the territories
of California and New Mexico, but that the
whole matter shall be left to the territorial legis
latures themselves. Gen. Cass, it will be re
collected, entered into an argument to show
that by adopting his measure of leaving the
question to the people and the territorial legis
latures, slavery would be effectually and for
ever excluded from those territories; because
the great mass of the people were negroes and
mixed-bloods, among whom the negro did not
occupy a degraded position—hence no legisla
ture representing such a constituency would
ever adopt slavery. And it is because this
mode of submitting the question to the terri
torial legislatures would certainly exclude sla
very, that he became its advocate as a substitute
for the Wilmot proviso, which he had pre
viously sustained, and for which he had de
clared his intention to vote.
Between such a man —entertaining such
views of the rights of Southern men to partici
pate in the conquests which have been secur
ed by the common toil, and blood and treasure
of the American people—and Zachary Tay
lor, the Louisiana planter, identified with the
South by birth, education and interest, the
people must choose their Chief Magistrate for
the next term. In such a contest what course
does wisdom, prudence and sound discretion
suggest to Southern men to pursue ? Shall
they make choice of a man who entertains no
feeling in common with them or the institutions
peculiar to them—6r shall they select a man
united to them by a common interest and des
tiny ? Such a man is Zachary Taylor, and
the South should not falter in her duty to her
self in such a contest.
Mr. Van Buren, so recently the standard
bearer and idol of Southern Democrats, has
betrayed the confidence of the South, and
Mr. Polk has followed in his footsteps. Will
the South with these deeds fresh in, her memo
ry, support Gen. Cass, who, it is said, approves
of the “ treason” of Mr. Polk.
If Gen. Cass approves of Mr. Polk’s signa
ture to the Wilmot proviso, what reason has any
man to doubt that he would also assent to the
proviso in reference to the territories of Cali
fornia and New Mexico, if he be elected Presi
dent? It would be improbable to suppose
that he would withhold his assent —for he
would but be carrying out the principles of his
whole life—opposition lo the institution of
slavery, and, to some extent, contributing to the
accomplishment of that for which he avers he
prays—its abolition everywhere.
The Georgia Barnburners.
One would infer, says the Journal Messen
ger, from the “ noise and confusion” which
pervade the Cass ranks in Georgia, in regard
to the vote of Mr. Stephenson the Territorial
Bill, that they were “ like Ceasar’s wife, above
suspicion.” Their orators denounce Stephens
and Toombs, but never once tell the people
that their own men have been standing “cheek
by jowl” with the Barnburners; nay more,
that they have been acting, counselling and vo
ting with them.
Mr. Cobb has voted for the Wilmot Provi
so.
Mr. Lumpkin has voted for the Wilmot Pro
viso.
Mr. Chappell has voted for the Wilmot
Proviso.
Mr. Seaborn Jonf.s voted for the Wilmot
Proviso.
Mr. Polk signed the Wilmot Proviso, and
Mr. Iverson boasts that he advised him to do
so; and yet these men and their followers and
supporters are the denouncers of Messrs. Ste
phens and Toombs, because they voted against
a Bill that contained this same Wilmot Provi
so, and that abandoned the rights of the South
to a court which would most certainly have de
cided the question against us ! They are lusti
ly crying “stop thief” merely for the purpose
of attracting the attention of the honest peo
ple from their own conduct and the rottenness
of their candidate for the Presidency. Is this a
safe question upon which to deceive the peo.
pie ? Do our opponents act honestly when
they refuse even to let their people know the
fact that Mr. Polk has betrayed their rightsand
that Gen. Cass proposes to leave the question
of slavery to free negroes, mulattoes and Mexi
cans, who inhabit the conquered territories?—
We ask the honest voters to be cautious how
they place reliance upon the mercery of party
which is carrying them on blindly into the
support of men who are, according to the
testimony of the more honest, of their own
men, unsafe and unsound upon the subject of
slavery. Let’hem read what Mr. Moses of
Florida, says of Gen. Cass—let them examine
honestly into his position—let them peruse his
Nicholson letter, in which he acknowledges
that his plan effectually prevents Southern
men from establishing slavery in New Mexico
—let them read his declaration recently made
in private conversations with the Editor of the
Piaindealer, and then say, if, as honest men
they can support him in preference to the old
Planter of Louisiana ? They cannot, they will
not do it.
“ But one Head, and that looks South.’’
Our worthy contemporary, Hooper, of tbe
Alabama Journal, better known as the “ Chick
en man of Alabama,” has been making a tour
in the counties adjacent to Montgomery, and
has been “takin’ notes” of men and things,
politics. *fcc.—some of which he is giving to
the readers of the Journal. In a letter from
LaFayette, Chambers county, he closes a most
admirable account of the political prospects of
“ Old Rough and Ready” with the following
anecdote, which the reader cannot fail to enjoy :
Before I close this hasty letter, I must give you old
Tom Martin’s illustration of the fully of Southern men
who support Cass. Tom, it must be premised, is an
Irishman, a painter, and perhaps the most enthusi
astic Taylor man in Alabama. He has travelled
much ; is full of anecdote ; and takes great delight in
fretting tbe Cass-ocracy.
The other evening, Tom discoursed in the following
strain to two or three disconsolate, sorrowful, melan
choly Case men :
“ Ye see. boys,” says Torn, “ ye ’mind of the time
I was at the Barbadoes, in the brig Empress. Ye
talk about Misther Cass, and. bedad, he’s for the
North and the .South. He’s like the double-beaded
snake I started to tell ye about.
“ Well, tbe captain of the brig ses to me, ses he,
Toni, take some u! the boys and clane out the lockers,
for you see, he, we must clare out from here, and
save our insurance.
* • Well, to the fore, I got a half dozen of the boys,
and we corn mi need cianing out tbe luckers, and soon
we had out a lot of empty bottles —for, ye see, to have
somethin’ to keep thesowl alive on the passige back.
We dined the lockers away, and borted the bot
tles, when suddintly, all at ownst, ees I,
“Boys, I’ve litigant news for ye : Be-Jasus, here’s
a full bottle »
“ Upon that, ses tbe boys, what’s the cantints?
And ses I, takin’ an Admiral’s dhrink, you obsarve;
ses I, it sames to be purty go»Ml Jainaiky ; and with
that I passed tbe t>oule round, and the boys give a
blessing to ould Ireland, and took a hearty dhrink,
every one to lie sure. Well, I took another dhrap,
and ses 1, passin’ die bottle at the same time ; ses 1,
• nys. there’s another dbnnk apace, purvidin' you only
take half as much as I do. Wnh tint, they all kissed
the cross, and the bottle came back to me ; and so
the thought was on me mind that I’d see if there
wasn’t somethin’ left for me own special sfooiick.
“ You may sware I raised the bottle to the light, to
see what was the remains us good luck. Upon that,
what should I discover but a little two-headed snake,
that the captaio, forby, had tou'd me afore, he was
takin’ home, as a curiosity!
“ Faix ! ye may sware that was a hard case; so
we all went to vomiting, and its only the truth when
I tell ye, the most part of tbe Snake Sauce went
over into tbe harbor to pisen the fishes. And it’s
much the same case with ye Casa men ; ye’re dhrink
ing liquor off of a double-headed snake; and when,
too late, ye find it’s the wrong sort of refrishment.
ye’ll do as my boys did—come down to your knaas
and throw up the whole us it. So come, boys, let’s
take a dhrink of geniwine Taylor liquor; and, be-
Jasus, if there’s a snake in the bottle, ye may aware
it's got but one head, and that look* to the South !”
Punch’s Pocket-book says: “I am
tempted to compare high life to a’ railroad ; it
is very delightful while all goea on smoothly ■
but if you get off the rails, the smash is aw
ful.”
Gen. Cag» fmpllented In Tflo Affair of
the Two Lives*
We published more than a month ago, says
the Richmond Times, the statement of “Inde
pendent, ’ the highly respectable and intelli
gent correspondent of the Philadelphia NorZ/iJ
merican, that he had the authority of a Demo*
cratic member of Congress for say ing that Gen.
Cass himself was privy to the publication of
two editions of his life, the one containing a
reference to his position in the Nicholson let
ter and an extract from it, and the other with
that reference and extract wholly omitted and
substituted by something else. This statement
was reiterated by “Independent;” and its
contradiction challenged. No authoritative ex
planation or denial, however, has yet been
vouchsafed by any Democratic paper, and
“Independent” justly regards the silence of
General Cass’s friends on the subject as an
admission of the truth of the charge. At all
events, he declares his determination to revive
and continue it, until the people are awakened
to a proper sense of its importance. He now
repeats the statement and produces the name
of the Democratic member, upon whose au
thority he first published it. Until Mr. Went
worth —for it will be seen that he is the mem
ber referred to—denies the fact alleged, the
public must receive them as true ; and what a
reproach do they not throw upon the candidate
of the Democratic party for the Presidency?
In his letter of August 10th, “Independent”
says:
“According to the showing of a member of their
own party —of one who holds a seat on the floor of the
House of Representatives—whois an efficient sup
porter of the ticket through his press in Chicago, and
by his co-operation in other ways—Gen. Cass, per
sonally, was privy to the concoction of this scheme
or knowing to its perpetration.
The story is told in very few words, and I present
the authority now, when all the witnesses are on the
spot, that I may vindicate all that 1 have stated and
am about to reiterate should it be questioned in any
respectable quarter.
1 mean to say, then, that on the day on which Mr.
Mangum exposed to the notice of the Senate, the de
ception in the two editions of the life of Gen. Cass,
that the Hon. John Wentworth volunteered in the
presence of one or more Whig Senators, a statement
to this effect; that he purchased at the office of the
Congressional Globe, documents for circulation in
his district, and among others the Life ofCass, issued
in the month of March.
iJpon examining the “sketch” he discovered the
extract from the Nicholson letter, with a commentary
by the biographer, unfavorable to the Wilmot Proviso.
Fearing the political effect of such a Document in
the free States and being himself a Wilmot Proviso
man, he called on Gen. Cass and represented to
him the dangerous tendency of circulating the publi
cation at the North. Gen. Cass informed him that
it should be corrected. Some time afterwards he
had occasion to visit the Congressional Globe office,
when he was informed that an edition of the life had
just been published, better suited to his district, ac
companied by the voluntary remark, that the first
sketch had been issued to secure the nomination and
the other to secure the election.
'This is substantially the statement made by Mr.
Wentworth, and it furnishes the most incontestible
evidence that the insertion and suppression of the
matter relating to the Wilmot proviso in the different
editions of the life of Gen. Cass, was a willful and de
liberate fraud, concocted for the purpose of operating
on the North and South, and of which he was entire
ly cognizant.
The metropolitan organ has attempted to treat the
conspiracy with indifference, as if a fraud so mon
strous, and touching a question sodelica e, was mat
ter for badinage. I apprehend that the honest peo
ple whom it was designed to deceive, will think oth
erwise, and punish it with the severest reprobation.
At all events every man who respects the obligations
of honor ami integrity in politics, must repudiate con
nection with a party, whose candidate or responsible
leaders could be guilty of contriving a fraudulent
scheme like this.
Look upon this Picture and then on that*
The Charleston Mercury of the Bth June last,
speaking of Gen. Cass, says:
“ Mr. Cass has nothing to expect from South Caro
lina, unless indeed he could recall the principles
avowed in his letter to Mr. Nicholson, in which he
declares himself in favor of leaving to the people of
any territory that may hereafter be acquired, the
right to regulate the subject of slavery among them
selves. The Convention which nominated Mr. Cass
understood well the feelings of the South on this ques
tion. They were broadly proclaimed from every
quarter, and it was in utter disregard of them that the
present nominee was put forth as the Democratic can -
didate for the Presidency.”
The Charleston Mercury of the 12th Sept ,
speaking of the same Gen. Cass, designates
him as—
“A Northern Democrat who has pledged himself,
if elected, to the maintenance of Southern rights.”
Since the Sth of June, Gen. Cass, has not
“ recalled the principles avowed in his letter to
Mr. Nicholson.” If “ the man” (Gen. Cass)
has not changed—“the principles” of some
men have. z\ Consistent Man.
Hurricane at Antigua.—The particulars
of the last storm have been receivedin Mobile.
The Antigua Observer thus stuns up the loss :
It is supposed that throughout the island
there have been two thousand buildings un
roofed, and seven hundred totally
By far the larger portion of these are the cot
tages of the laboring classes.
The damage to the Shipping appears incon
siderable, attributable to the circumstance of
there having been at the time hut very few ves
sels in the harbor, and to the good “holding
ground” of the anchorages.
Os the entire Joss of life there are various
rumors the number is said to exceed 30, but
authentic statements only aive us information
of eighteen—chiefly, we believe, of the labor
ing classes. Immense numbers of cattle and
stock of all kinds have been destroyed.
The general destruction, including life and
property, is supposed to be greater than the
losses occasioned by the earthquake of 1843, or
by the hurricane of 1835.
The government works suffered to the a
monnt of $106,000.
From Havana.—Havana dates to the 9th in
stant have been received by the brig Millauden.
The following letter, from the best source,
contains important information about the effect
of the recent gale :
Havana, September 7, 1847.
Editors Picayune :We learn from the mas
ters of the brigs Confidence and the Somers,
recently arrived with slight damage at this
port, that a severe hurricane has been encoun
tered. on and near the Bahama Banks, from
the 27th to the 29th of August la-t, which has
done much damage on the neighboring islands
and keys, and by which many vessels have
been materially injured and some lost. Among
the former are the brig Neunplear, bound to
your port; the brig Caspian, of Philadelphia;
and one ship, two brigs, and one sbhooner,
names unknown but said to be American.—
The British Government schooner Henrietta
dismasted and on shore ; also a Spanish bark.
Your obedient servant, c.
An Imperial Parliament in Duhlin.—The
New York papers give the following important
intelligence in their latest telegraphic dispatches
by the Europa:
A society for promoting the periodical sittings
of the Imperial Parliament in Dublin, has been
formed under very influential and distinguished
auspices. The society meets at 112 Abbey
street, and the secretary is Mr. Thomas E.
Webb They have issued a statement of their
object and principles ; to obtain, without clam
or, a session of the Imperial Parliament, to be
held periodically in Dublin—instead of being
constantly held in London. The society dis
avows any party motives, but argues that the
step is perfectly practicable, and would certain
ly be greatly for the good of Ireland, if it can
be carried out.
A petition to the Queen, upon this subject,
has been acknowledged in the following gra
cious manner, by Sir George Grey’s Secre
tary :
[Copy.] Whitehall, Aug 24, 1843.
Sir : —I am directed by the Secretary of Sir George
Grey to inform you that he has nut failed to jay be
fore the Queen the petition which you transmitted to
him fur pr»s--ntation, signed by a numerous body of
Her .Majesty’s Irish subjects, praying that the Im
perial Parliament may be held, from time to time, in
the city of Dublin. I have the honor to be, sir, your
obedient servant, G. C. Lewis.
To S. Blackall, Esq., M. P., L. I . S. C.
From the Baltimore San —By Telegraph.
From Santa Fe.— St. Louis, Septr 22, /*.
M.— Major Johnson and Paymaster Bradley,
arrived to day. from Santa Fe. They report
that Col. Price and all the volunteers were there
on the 15th August last bound homeward.
Every thing at Santa Fe was quiet when
the Messrs. Bradley and Johnson took their
departure. They met Col. Lane at Willow
Springs, 15:h inst.. on their way here. He
was enjoying good health.
From Havana.—The brig Adams Gray,
Capt Scheider, arrived yesterday from Hav
ana. having sailed thence on the 9th inst. Her
news is totally unimportant.
The scheme of a line of Spanish steamers,
to run betwen Cuba and the mother country,
has been given up. It is now said that a com
mercial house in Havana proposes to establish
a line between that port and the Canaries,
touching at Puerto Mico. The emigration
from the Canaries to the West Indies is very
considerable. Picayune Ytth inst.
Cass’ Charges.—A Cass letter-writer at
Washington, remarks, that the “tactics of
Gen. Taylor in his charges on the Indians and
Mexicans at Okeechobee and Monterey were
extraordinary, and attended with needless
bloodshed/’ &c. Gen. Cass’ charges on the
Treasury at Washington, where his charges
have been indeed desperate, are vastly more
ezfra-ordinary.” Gen. Taylor gave the In
dians and Mexicans ‘Jesse,” while General
Cass gave L'ncle Sam’s pocket particular
“goss.” — Prentice.
Massachusetts.—The news which reaches
us from all parts of the State is of the most
cheering kind. The work goes bravely on.—
The popular vote for the Taylor Electors will
exceed that given for Mr. Clay in 1844. We
ask that thia prediction may be remembered.—
Boston Atlas.
SUMMARY OF N&WS, ITEMS, &C.
English Rail Roads.—A late Parliamenta
ry return exhibits the number of passengers as
ateo the number of casualties on the rail roads
of the United Kingdom during the two first
quarters of the present year, From this re
port it appears that out of a gross total number
of 26.380,492 passengers carried on various
railways in Great Britain and Ireland during
the half year ending the 30th June, 1848,90
persons were killed and 99 injured by acci
dents. A careful and minute analysis of these
statistics shows that of the 90 persons killed and
* ,, j ure d there were G passengers killed and
’>o injured from causes beyond their own con
trol; ;> passengers killed and 2 injured owing to
their own misconduct or want of cautiou ; sev
eral servants of companies or contractors kill
e< and 14 injured from causes beyond their
own control; 52 servants of companies or of
con ractors killed and 18 injured owing to their
own misconduct or want as caution; 18 tres
!,nr an ? P ersons (neither passengers
lv rrr rV,an e d and 5 injured by improper
son run* 1 !? ° r 0,1 l^e railway; one per.
thp mi o ® ran J killed at a crossing, through
I H U ?°' J a , n en « ine dnver, and one
suicide. Boston Advocate.
h n e^ hero 't eC The last Cherokee
Advocate estimates the number of professed
than 2'500 a ' n h nS t lhe C " er ° kees
tha 1 ~.000- -about or more than one-seventh
of the entire population. The National Coun-
C'l is announced to convene at Tahlequa on
the first Monday in October. The Supreme
Court will meet at lhe same time.
Mr. McDuffie.—The Milledgeville Union
of the 19th says : “ Hon. George McDuffie ar
rived in this city last weekin feeble health.
The object of his visit is, to try the virtues of
the “Cold Water Institute.’ His numerous
friends will be gratified to learn that his health
is considerably improved.”
Fatal Rencounter.— We learn from Mr.
Giles, the clerk of the Magnolia, that on Fri
day afternoon last a fatal affray occurred at
Vicksburg between Mr. Jenkins, the editor of
the Sentinel, and Mr. Crabb, a young lawyer
of that city. They met opposite Dr. Manuel’s
drug store, and after exchanging a few words,
Mr. Jenkins drew a bowie knife and inflicted
several severe wounds in the breast of Crabb,
who drew a pistol and shot Jenkins through
the heart. The latter expired instantly, and
Mr. Crabb was not expected to survive an hour.
The quarrel originated in a political discus
sion.—Pic 19th inst.
William T. Senter died near Panther
Springs, Granger county, Tennessee, on the
28th of August. He was an eloquent and la
borious preacher in the Methodist Church.
He served on the Harrison electoral ticket in
1840, and since that was elected to Congress,
and served two sessions.
Three members of the North Carolina Legis
ature have died since the election in August.
Major General Gaines, we learn from the
New York Day Book, was to leave that city
on Wednesday afternoon to take up his station
at Baltimore, in conformity with the recent
general order of the President, fixing at that
place the headquarters of his present command.
I he Day Book says : He will stop one day in
Philadelphia, and will arrive at Baltimore, pro
bably on Saturday. lie is accompanied by his
aid-de-camp, Captain Patrick H. Calhoun,
son of Hon. John C. Calhoun. Mrs. Gaines
and family remain for a few days longer in
this city —Balt. Sun.
Coal in Philadelphia is now very low.
The Lehigh Company’s certificates, issued for
arrears of interest, are received at their office
in payment for prepared coal, deliverable, un
til the Ist of November next, on board vessels
at $4, and in their boats at $3 75 per ton. The
certificates are also receivable, uutil the Ist
proximo, for coal, deliverable within the paved
limits of the city and districts at $4 50. These
prices, reduced to cash at the rate of discount
—about 20 per cent.—at which the certificates
are at present selling, make the market price
about $2 60.-— N. Y. Tribune.
A monument, costing SIOO,OOO, is to be
erected at Lagrange, Texas, to the memory of
all who died in defence of Texan liberty. The
bones of the slain are, as far as possible, to be
removed to the land for which they died.
Fire in Norristown.—The large cotton lap
and wadding manufactory of Joseph 11. Bodey
& Co., in Norristown, N. J., was entirely de
stroyed by fire on Monday night. The fire
broke out in the upper stories, and was un
doubtedly lhe work of an incendiary. The
loss is estimated at about SIO,OOO, and there
was an insurance of $6,000 upon the property.
Departure of Missionaries.—The Rev.
Stephen Bushand wife sailed from Boston on
the 16th ins)., in lhe ship Minstrel, for Bangkok,
the capital of Siam, to join the mission of lhe
Presbyterian Board.
The Canadian authorities have granted per
mission for two American schooners to pro
ceed from Sea, up the St. Lawrence and the
Canadian canals, to the Lakes.
C fif* The New York Sun states that the
Prince de Joinville has recently invested s2o,r
000 in New York State stock. This is what
the disturbances in Europe must naturally pro*
duce to a much larger ex'.ent than has yet oc
cuired. unless a re-action in 6*v*»r poblo*
order and the safety of property soon succeeds
to the present condition of affairs,
J'y Sir Robert Schomburgh has been ap
pointed British Consul to the port of St. Do
mingo, which was formerly* a Spanish Colony,
and is now a separate Republic, independent
of Hayti.
New Cheap Hail Hoad Line.— The Camden
and Amboy Railroad Company have resolved,
in connection witii the New Jersey Railroad
and Transportation Company, to run a three
dollar line between New York and Philadel
phia—leaving Camden and Jersev City every
morning at 6 o’clock. This will make the fifth
daily line of communication between the two
cities.
Hon. Henry Ness has been re-nominated for
Congress by the Whigs of the 15th Congres
sional District of Pennsylvania, comprising
York and Adams counties.
I he city council of New York has appropri
ated the sum of S4O 000 for the purpose of
erecting a small-pox hospital.
New Muskets.—A new kind of musket
(from a Yankee invention, no doubt) has been
introduced into the Prussian army, which can
be fired eight or ten times in one minute.
Seven theatres are now in full blast in New
York city, capable of holding in the aggregate
ten to twelve thousand persons. They are all,
with the exception of Hamblin’s magnificent
mistake, the Park, doing a brilliant business.
There will soon also be seven theatres in opera
tion, in Boston.
The first of a line of Steamers from
Cadiz to the Havana, touching at Madeira and
St. Thomas, was to leave Cadiz on the 10th of
August.
L'-ST In Lynn, Mass., where the dysentery
has been raging of late with remarkable viru
lence, the water cure has been applied with
great success.
The Secretary of the Navy has apnointed
Lieut. Gillis to the command of the astronom
ical expedition to the Southern hemisphere,
authorized at the late session of Congress.
For San Francisco, (Cal.)—Two Govern
ment propellers—the “ Edith” and “ Mississip
pi,” are about to sail from New York, with
stores and troops to reinforce the army there.
They will be furnished with the outfit required
for a three year’s cruise. It is understood that
the government wish to engage two merchant
ships, in addition, to transport stores and troops
to the same place.
Samuel N. Janney, of Loudon county, Va.,
a minister of the Society of Friends, declines
being a Free Soil Elector in Virginia, though if
he goes to the polls at all will vote on that tick
et.
Suicide.—We learn from the clerk of the
steamer lowa, which arrived here last evenin",
that Lieut. J D. Clark, Bth Infantry, who was
a passenger on board, committed suicide by
leaping off the hurricane deck into the river
opposite Helena, Ark. He came on board at
Cairo and registered his name for Vicksburg.
He was evidently laboring under great ex
citement from the time he came on board at
Cairo until he committed the fatal deed, as he
never ceased to walk the deck, apparently
much agitated, during the whole time. The
deceased, we understand, bore a conspicuous
part in the battles of the valley at Mexico and
was wounded at Cerro Gordo.— Delta 7th inst.
X new French Discovery.— Method of
Welding Iron, Steel, and sheet Iron.— ln an
earthen vessel melt borax, and add to it 1-1 Oth
of sal ammoniac. When these ingredients are
properly fused and mixed, pour them out
upon an iron plate and let them cool. There
is thus obtained a glassy matter, to which is
added an equal quantity of quick lime. The
iron or steel which are to be soldered are first
heated to redness; then this compound, first
reduced to powder, is iaid upon them—the
composition melts and runs like sealing wax ;
the pieces are then replaced in the fire, taking
care to heat them at a temperature far below
that usually employed in welding; thev are
then withdrawn and hammered, and the sur
faces will be found to be thus perfectly united.
The author asserts that this process, which may
be applied to welding sheet iron tubes, never
fails.— Rec. de la Polytech.
Rev. Dr. L W. Green has accepted the
Presidency of Hampden Sidney College, Va.,
and enters upon his duties on the Isth of Oct.
The health of New-Orleans was improving at
the latest dates. The yellow fever had abated,
and the cases occurring were of a very mild
type.
A NEVER TAILING REMEDY FOR DYSENTERY. —
Those afflicted with this disease, by procuring
a piece of the root of genuine Turkey Rhu
barb, and chewing a piece of the size of a cher
ry stone. once or twice through th* 1 day, will
find certain relief. If the rhubarb be the gen
uine article, the remedy is almost sure in what
ever stage the disease may be.
Returned.—The lion. Ralph I. Ingerso.ll>
of Connecticut, late Minister to Russia, return*
ed home in the Hibernia.