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GRANITEVILLE HOTEI.
THIS ADMIRABLY located HOUSE
recently undergone extensive repairs
and improvements, is now open for the accommoda
tion of ibe public. For salubrity ol climate, beauty
and variety of scenery, and a balmy and healthful
atmospnere, this establishment oilers attractions un
equalled in the Southern country, either for the in
valid from the hi or th, or as a summer retreat for the
citizen of the South, to whom the daily communi
--emxnfcy Rai! Rc-eut, JW .1-. ribbing Manufactory i
near by, and the opportunity for bathing, fishing,
and hunting, must prove great advantages.
Th- rvoprietor, a native of Charleston, will spare
do eff rt to accommodate thoee who may favor him
buir patronage. Grawvteville is in sight of
the Rail Road. An Omnibus will always be in
waiting at the arrival of the curs, and every atten
tion will be paid to baggage. An accommodation
train runs to and from Hamburg daily.
mbl9«4t
WALTON HOUSE,
BY
fcliii' JESSE 11. ARNOLD,
At Monroe, H'alton County. Georgia.
fe6 ts
FRANKLIN HOTEL,
BROAD STREET, Augusta Ga.,
pfig one square above the Globe Hotel, on the
Soui li side of Broad street.
n 0-wly D B. RAMSEY, Proprietor.
EAGLE HOTEL?~
MADISONVILLE, TENNESSEE.
THE SI BSCRIB>.R takes pleasure
in (eturning his thanks to his friends and fejjj
the public, for the very liberal patronage here
tofore extended to him. And having recently im
proved and extended bis buildings so as to a/ford the
best accommodations to almost any number of trav- I
eilers and persons wishing boarding, he confidently
expects an increase of public favor and patronage.
Building situated on second block south of the
Public Square - one hundred and fifty feet long—
rooms regularly laid off and well furnished. He is
also veil prepared to take the best care ol horses, &c.
Stable large and secure—careful and attentive ser
vants. In short, the greatest attention will be paid,
and pains taken, to render all comfortable who may
call at the Eagle Hotel. JOSEPH R. RUDI).
Madisonville, August 3, 1950. au3 wtl
LIVERY STABLES,
MADISON, GEORGIA.
HA KRALL HARRIS
‘ A beg leave to announce to
their friends in Madison and
n mm ■■ the travelling Public gene- VTl*
rally, that they have opened the above S fABLES.
and that they intend to keep as fine CARRIAGES,
BUGGIES and HORSES, as can be found in any
Stables—with careful drivers. Citizens of Madison 4
and strangers visiting Madison, by coming to us will
always find ready accommodation, to go any where
they wirh on reasonable terms.
Madisoo, Jan. 29 1850
WANTED,
A JOURNEYMAN CARRIAGE MA-
KE t, one that can do fice work, and who is of
steady habits. None other need apply. G »<>d wa
ges will be given. JAMES L. DYER.
__Fayei evi lie, Georgia. ~ 1111118 w 4
SURGICAL INSTITUTE.
DRS. H» F• &. R. CAMPBELL have estab
libhed an INFIRMARY in Augusta, for the
treatment of Surgical and ( Aronic Diseases. They
respectfully call the attention of the Profession, nnd
the public to their institution. Necessary Surgical
operations will be performed by Dr. Hbf.bv Camp
bell; all ocher tr.atmeul will be rendered by them
jointly.
Pa ients sent from the country will receive every
necessary attention during their sojourn in our city.
nl2-w<f*
SPRINGHILL MACHINE SHOP.
A FOR BUILL ING AND REPAIRING
& J|all kinds of COT PON AND WOOL MA
mak.ng large SCREWS AND
OfiXltlNG, of U.U k'iu4» TUntHNU know.
WOOD, Ac.,
ALSO, WOOL CARDED AND BATTED,
six n .lee from Augusta,on the Lnuisvilleroad,where
the proprietors will be grateful for all orders— orthey
can beleftatC. A. & M. H. WILLIAMS’S, Augus
t.”—ordirectedlo Richmond Factory P. O.
d2O-tf HA(K& DUVAL
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD. ~
Mjl lIANAWAY from the subscriber,on the
£u morning < f the 2-ih of March, my Negro Man
BEN, about 43 years of age, 5 feel 8 «r 9
iucuea high, and weighs about 160 pounds. Beu is
of a black coinp'exion, and has a down-cast look.
He limps a little in walking, causal by a hurt he
received acme years ago. He is n blac smith by
trade. He carried <>lf with him a blue Jeans frock
coat and checked linen penta, and a high crowned
fur hat. As lie can write, he will no doubt loige
himself a free pass, as he did so &me lew years
ag », when ho was runaway. I will give the above
reward if he is taken up and delivered to me, 4 ini'es
north-west of Greensboro, Greene county, or put in
any sale jail so that I can get him.
JOHN BRANCH.
Greene county, Ga., April 7. apll-wst
RANAWAY
Xfi FROM the subscriber on the night of the
Aj| 31 instant, inv Negro man NED, about 21 or
years old, black c«unplection, low and
chuitEy, weighs about 160 or 165 pounds ; there is a
•caron his left cb?tk and left wrist, and some scars
or ecraiches on the back of bis neck at the edge of
his ba r. I bought said Negro in Hamburg, S. Q ,
from Hugh <•’Neal & Co. I will give fen dollars
reward for his apprehension so I can get him.
ENOCH BELL.
Elberton, Ga. ap9 w|
brought w jail
JL> IN CRAWFORDVILLE, Taliafer
rA ro county, Ga., a Negro Boy who calls him
self SIP, and says he belongs to one Henry
Re.to, ol Putnam county, Gi. He is about eighteen
years old. and yellow complexion, and has a down
look when spoken to. Tne owner will come for
ward, prove pruperiy, pay expenses and take him
out of jail. W M. Al EXANDEK, Jailor.
Crawfordville, April 2, 1851. w 3
~s2o REWARD. ———
RANA WAY from the subscribers, on the
25ih day of December, 1850, a Negro man
named NELSON. Nelson isab ut 5 feet 10
niches high ; light con plection ; about 33 years oil;
speaks sio* an i very low. The above reward will
be given sot his delivery to the subscribers, or for
lodging him in any jail so thit they may et p<«»ses
aion of him. T. H. A E. H. BLOUNT.
Burke County. jalo-w3n>
RANAWAY
jtf FROM the subscriber at Waverly H all,
Harns county, on the 20th February, my
JACK. Jack is about eighteen years of
am, nve feet six inches in heigh', and heavily built.
He has a noted scar on the left side of his upper lip,
and also, a scar on his left leg. I think he ia ma
king nis way to Augusta, Ga. A liberal reward
wilt be paid for his confinement in any safe jail, and
due notice of the same to me.
niM-wtf WM. H. PETERS.
NOTICE.
BROVGIIT TO JAIL, a Negro Boy,
who calls himself SAM, and says he belongs
*»an by the name of John Thomas, of New
UrieaM. He is ot a dark color, and has a ecar
above one of his eves; he is about six feel high, and
weighs about one hundred and seventy-five pounds, I
and appears to be a very intelligent boy, and says he
baa bean runaway al out six months. The owner
will please come forward, pay all cost, and take him
•W»f. P. H. CAMPBELL, Jailor.
-Mbdiaon. Morgan co., June 15, 1850. je2o-tf
RANA WAY
MS FROM the subscriber, on the morning of
A the 17th of May, my Negro Man THOMAS,
about 30 years of age, of a brown complex-
KMi, sjs*aks quick when spoken to, and rather lispe.
Said man is about 5 feet 8 inches high, well built;
and when he left here had on a blue striped sack
coal, and a velvet cap. He will doubtless en leaver
to make his way to Virginia, as he was purchased
in that state by John M. Cureton & Co., and sold to
me in Greensboro, the 15'.h of last M inch. A libe
ral reward will be given for the delivery, or for his
being lodged in jail so that I get him.
O. P. DANIEL.
Greensboro, Ga.. May 19. 1851'.
XX eKOBGIA, TALIAFERRO COUN
TY :To the Clerk of the Inferior Court of
said county : H nry T. Ph.bps, ot said county, tells
before me an estrav. taken up upon h s own fiee
hoid id said countv. in the 172 n I District. G. M , 3
bright bay H»>K>E, with ablaze lice, left hind so t
wh.te has the spavin, medium fixe and supposed to
be seven years old. Ai praised by Witham C.
right and William H. tio«*r to be worth thirty,
fivedo lars, March 25th, 1851.
Given under my oflrul signature this 3d day ol
April, 1851. Acgcdtvs W. Flynt, j p
At ue extract from the estray bo>k, this April 7
1651. ap9 QUINE < O'NEAI , Clerk.
RAN A WAY
FROM the subscriber in Warren Cocq
a brignl Bay Horse, about 15 hands high,
9 years old, be has a blase face, and a small nog
•round each ear about two inches from b'S head,
those rings ire very small, be has one whi.s hind
foot, and is a littl lame inooe bind leg. I will give
five dUlam to any person tor the apprehension ot
••id Hvwsa, o< lor hts delivery to me n Warren
County, near Thompson, or at the White Plains, in
<»rrea County. This Horse ranaway ou the i 2 hos
March. He was raised in Cherokee near the Ten
***** <u»e. so I have ,learned from the drover who
I bought him from.
ROBERT BARNH KRT
Q\ , JI ST RKC KIV ED al the
vgricvltural WARE
flfem aMHBbBOUS E. A uguMa. a lot of <. *boice
PLOUGHS. eoQsisimg cf Double Mould Board. Hi
"ia ’* *''*'* ; -* h »ri*uing,andone and twe
Mor*' t oigh,. - *ll descriptions. Also.Cvhndrica
Cau a.U.xn Iters,C m Planters.StrswC utters
Gra a Cradles. Road Scrapers. Manure Fork*
trucks, Ac., Ac. “
mhl9-w CARMICHAEL A B£aN.
CHRONICLE ANDSE NTINEL
SELECTED POETBY.
Par the Chronicle tp Sentinel.
SABBATH MORN.
Hail ! holy Sabbath morn I
Blest type of en«Uess rest ;
Thy light the heart revives
And soothes the ach'ng breast.
The toiling sons of earth
Rejoice to see thy dawn ;
Their aching hearts and limbs
Both bless the Sabbath morn.
The Ark of refuge, thou—
A stall to pilgrims given—
Faint foretaste of that rest
The Saints enjoy in Heaven.
The holy Sabbath morn
A sacred infl ience brings,
Wuich woces the grofr’ling soul
Away from earthly things.
Ent a .r, my soul, thy rest!
Dismiss all earth-born care ;
Enjoy thia sacred day—
For God — th'j God is near.
Augusta, April sth, 1851. U.
For the Louisville Journal.
THE WITHERED FIGTREE.
BY MRI. HARLAN.
It stands upou the broad way-side,
A lonely, blighted firm ;
Its leaves were scattered far and wide
Upon the rushing storm.
Yet spreads its withered boughs toward heaven
As if imploring rain ;
And he c<x>lfog drops are given,
They foil on it in vain.
Its dry roots from the fertile ground
No freshening moisture drains;
No living stream a way bath foil id
Along its sapless veins.
No verdure clothes its boughs so bare,
When all things else are green ;
And '•hen the earth with flowers is fair,
No blossom there is seen.
A thousand tones are gushing free,
From groves and forests rou d ;
But from thai lonely withered tree
Thrills no melodious sound.
The breeze that revels through the groves
And dallies with the flowers,
Breathing a joy where ere it roves,
Finds there no fragrant bowers.
The lightning’s course ha»h never passed
Along to tea th o its form ;
It perished not iu the cold blast,
Nor bowed beneath the storm.
Why hath it no enchan ing bowers 7
Vv hy no rich moisture drain ?
And wherefore do the cooling showers
Descend on it in vain 7
The Saviour, weary and opnrest,
Sought fruit beneath ite shade,
And when he found no kind repast
He bade its branches fade.
And still it stands the calm and storm,
True to that mandate give 1,
Bearing upon its blighted form
The withering curse of Heaven.
Oh may our souls take living root,
Where life’s pure fountain flows,
That we produce a righteous fruit
From never withering boughs.
From the Louisville Journal,
TO “AMELIA.”—BY MART NXAL,
Lady, I love thy lays, so free and wild,
Yet rich with melody and tenderness 1
At times thou seem’st to me a fairy child,
Whose heart runs o’er with its own joyoueness.
And then, in fancy 's eye, I see thee tr.pping —
A fairy creature, like a bounding fawn,
Bathing thy tiny feet in [right drops, dripping
From flowerets bright that ope to greet the dawn—
Watching with joy the golden sunlight tipping
At first the bills, then smiling o’er the lawn.
Then thou art changed—a fair and sylph-like maiden,
Who dreams of nought but love on thia bright eartb,
Whose “heart of hearts” with sweet dreams is o’er
laden,
’Till, gushing f>rth, to music it gives birth;
For thou has’ sweet companionship wilh nature,
Such as not oft is given to mortal here;
Each thing • f Earth—her loftiest, tiniest feature,
The boundless deep, the brooklet gushing ciear,
Each flower, each little bird, each living creature,
Th.t shows the Almighty hand, is to thy spirit
dear I
An l now another, greater change comes o’er thee;
The chihl —the joyous giri. is now n wife ;
A new, an untried pdhway lies before thee,
A path that leads throughout thy future life.
And thou must change Ihy blissful dreams, ideal,
Bright dreams which ever raised tby th ,ughts to
heav n,
To find that ’mid earth’s joys and raptures real
Deep drops of bitter wid to thee be given —
That ihy warm through sorrow’s dark ordeal,
Will slowly, limn earth s mighty ties be riven.
Yet thou canst find a balm for every sorrow
Io hoot he and cheer thee through life’s checkered
way ;
I’m* tUvv.
A light which lends to thee u heavenly ray —
A ray that will tliy daikrst trials brighten;
Sweet poesy, religi n of the soul,
Holds in Chy heart a magic sway, to lighten
Thine every care with its benign control I
A sway which w.li thine e*ery pleasure heighten,
And ’round thy he irt a stream of love forever roll.
I know not, lidy, why, more than another
7'hou thould’st around my spirit thus entwine ;
Perhaps our hearts are like unto each other,
Although my thoughts can never flow like thine;
Whate’er the rause, while life shall last I never
Shall lose thine image from my heart’s deep cell;
Would I coul i kii<>w thee| but tho’ parted ever.
Spirit with kindred spirit still may dwell,
Bound by ihot-e mystic chord« time annot sever—
Thus ait thou bound to me I sweet lady, fare thee
wed
II . - 1 11 11 ■' ■'
MISCELU.XISOUB 1,1-
TEKITVKE Ml SEWS.
Highfalutin Tragzdt.—The ‘Editor’s
Table” of fho March number of the Knicker
bocker is rich and rat.y as usual, C ark's hu- <
mor not seeming to flag in the least. He says
that a ‘• Tragedy of the Modem School”
comes to him alHhe nay from New Orleans,
and ihat ho thinks ten lines or so will prove a
dose. We give the (en lines :
— lxx>k down I look down I
Into '.he deep dark shadow of my soul .
Its coal hiuse of misdeeds; where stored lies,
Incipient gems of every future Grief!
Lok down, I way I and, if thy trembling faith,
With search ng find one truant thought to love,
This li:e the loiieit of my crime shill pay I
lam not what I used to was. A time
Has been, when my prou i soul leaped like a steed
To grasp and wrestle with Damnation’s smile.
The stvle of this is modern—in fact, as Mr.
Micawber wou’d say, we think we maybe
justified in saying (hat it is rery modern.
Clark farther siys that tho tragedy was writ
ten by a young man “who is verv smart,” and
who finished the ‘whole thing in two weeks.”
He was offered seven hundred do’lars for it,
•by a man in Texas,” but he says he writes
for fame, n t money.
Eloquxst Dkscription —ln .Meagher’s
Memoir of ’4B is au article on the ‘familiarity
of famine in Ireland.’ It depicts, says '.he
Carolinian, in burning and truthful language,
the often hungered condition of the abject
creatures, to whom Providence willed an ex
istence in one of the most prolific isles of the
world ; but at the same time, one of the most
wretchedly destitute on that world’s broad
surface. Though vivid and forcibly drawn,
(here is no exaggeration in the picture ; it h,
too, from a mas er hand, sketched with traph
is fidelity, and taken to the (i/e;
“ Hunger, I had thought, would break
through gates of brass and walls of granite ;
would rush through lire, or, like the bayed
tiger in his la»t desperate ex remi y, spring
upon the spears which hemmed H in !
“But the hunger of the Irish hod was no
such visitation. It had not come yesterday,
nor a week ago. nor yet for the first time m
the autumn of ’45
•On the grayest headstone, in the loneliest
and oldest churchyard, the spectre had sat
down years and years before ; and from thence
had looked out, with cold and bloodless eyes,
upon the land, over the homes and fruits ot
which it bad been made supreme. Years up
on years —years i pon years—it had walked
the land ; some few blessing it as a serene
angel,Dent by God tochasfae and purify ; the
multitude cursing it as a foul fiend, yet falling
down before it —acknJwledging it lord and
master.
“Years ago. amid the fruits and flowers of
radiant summer, the destroyer had stood con
e?aled. watching the young soft hands that
worked garlands lor me pride, beauty, and
gallant bojhood of the land—muttering to
himself, that the flowers would shortly fade,
and the fruits decay, and that all that pride and
beauty, and gallant boyhood would soon be
his —and his tor many a long day to come
“Years ago. from the peak of ths loftiest
mountain in the South, m an hour when the
heavens canopied me Is'and with their white
and azure banners, and the pe.ik glittered be
neath them like a crown us virgin gold, the
phantom had looked down upon the life, and
sweetness, and glory at his feet—boasling like
the devil upon the wilderness, that all was his
and delivered unto him-
“Years ago, in the golden fields of a most
joyous harvest time, he had stooped among the
reapers; sinitng at the thought, that the curse
which had accompanied the fall was at lengtn
revoked, and that the children of Adam should
no longer eat bread by the swea; of their brows,
as it had been promised.
‘Every where, tor years and years; in the
valley ; on the mountain ; amid the violets and
the roses of many a radiant summer; in the
golden fields of many a joyous hardest time;
on the hearth stone, by the side of the wriuk
| led and the silver haired, roumb mg to her
words of abject resignation, and pointing to
ihe grave, ao that it were not wet with blood
as the sweetest home beneath the heavens;
everv where, for years and years, hunger had
been upon our toil; had ceased a generation
or two ago, to be a stranger; was bo longer
shunned; no longer fought with ; no lunger
cursed ; it was »he eternal de*tiny ot the land.
sb! Heaven’s will he done !
Jamaica.—The advices a’e to the Ist ftwL
The cholera stul lingered at Lucia and Monte
go Bay. although the cholera hospil&b were
croeeu.
OUR PICTURE GALLERY.
O , .. .
GOLDSMITH, THB NATURALIST AND POST.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH.
The biography of those who have become
famousatnong their fellow-men, whether in
the forum, the closet or the fi- ld, is always a
matter of interest to every body ; and not less
natural is the desire to behold the • coun erfeit
presenlmeat,’’ or portrait of those distinguish
ed people with whose deeds or writing we are
familiar, in order that we may determine how
far the physique corresponds with the mind, and
thus put to the test the doctrines of Lata'.er and
Spurzheim. This desire is particularly strong
in reference to authors—those silent, yet de
lightful and instructive companions of our
lonely hours—those true and aithfui friends,
to whose calm counsels and southing consola
tions, we can confi lently turn when oppres-ed
by the fever, turmoil and ‘ dreary inieicourse
of daily life.”
There are few authors for whom the reader
feels such personal kindness as for Oliver
Goldsmith. The fiscinatiug ease and simphci
ty of his style—the benevolence that beams
through every page—the whimsical yetamiable
views of human life and human nature —the
mellow, unforced humor, blended bo happily
with good feeling and good ‘•en-e, throughout
his writings; win their way irresistably to tne
affec ions, and carry the author with them.
While writers of greater pretensions and more
sounding narnt s are suffered 10 he upon our
shelves, the work* of Goldsmith are cherished
and treasured in our memories. We do nor
quote them with ostentation, but they mingle
with our minds—they sweeten uur tempers
and harmonize our thoughts—they put 11s in
good humor with ourselves and with the
world ; and in so doing, they make us happier
and belter men.
All hail! then, to thy rough and honest face
dear old “No!.” Though thy exterior is un
couth and unlovely, there is that within the un
shapely casket which saprkles and glows like
diamonds in the sun ! —the true fire of genius
is thine, and its light shall shine upon and illu
mine the pathway of thy fellow-men through
all future ages !
Oliver Goldsmith was a native of Ireland,
nnd was born on the 29th of November, 1728.
Two villages claim the honor of having given
him birth : Pallas, in the county of Longford ;
and Elphin, in the county of uoscoimnon.
The former is named as the place in the epi
taph by Dr. Johnson, inscribed on his me Di
ment in Westminster Abbey ; but later inves
tigations have decided in favor of Eh hin
From the Baltimore American.
The American Explorers in the Arctic
Sea.
The London Spectator makes copious ex
tracts from a volume by Mr. Snow giving a
narrative of the voyage of the Albert, the ves
sel fined out by Lady Franklin 10 go in search
of her husband. Sir John. Mr. Snow was a
volunteer in the expedition, being a great
traveller and wishing to have an opportunity
to inspect personally the Arctic regions. The
Albert returned home without wintering in
that frozen clime— he condition of the crew
being such as to render it inexpedient and im
proper to prosecute the voyage fu ther
But Mr. Snow had the opportunity ho
sought- Without obtaining an actual -iiht of
the North Pole he saw a tr at deal of the
neighboring country and ihe circumjace* t wa
ters —or rather mostly ce His descriptions
uro drtiwn with a r«cdy han t in graphin
es U ough rough. 4 His style.” says the Spec
tator, “is vigorjiis ; and the scenery and cir
cumstances are so fre-h, so wonderful and so
exciting as to justify reflection. Ihe singular!
ty of the sun at mid night, the alternate deso
lation and iDagnificei.ee of Arctic Scenery, the
wouueriul ope muoiin m uauire uy meaiiN
of avalanche, icebergs, and almost perpetual
frost and snow, are not so hackneyed as to
pail ”
While in the heart f the Arctic region the
zUbert fell in with two American vessels now
engaged as then in prosecuting ihe search fur
Sir John Fr i kliii Mr. Snow s ems to have
been much struck with ihe bold demeanor of
the Americans, their spirit of daring and self
reliance The following piquant narrative is
well told, and is creditab e butn to the narratoi
and to those of whom he speaks:
“The Americans intended to push on where
ever they could, th s wav or that way, as might
be found best, in the direction of Melville Is
land and parts adjacent, especially Bank’s
Land; nnd they meant to winter wherever
l':ey might chance to be. in the pack or on of
tlie pack. As ong as they could be moving or
making any progress in any direction that
might assist in the object for which they had
come, they meant still to be g ing on, and with
the true characteristic of the American, cared
for no obstacles or impediments that might
arise in their way. Neither fears nor the ne
cessary caulion which might easily be alleged
as an excuse for hesitation or delay, at periods
wheu any thing like fancied danger appeared,
was to deter them. Happy fellows! thought
1; no fair wind nor open prospects will he
lost with you ; no dissensions or incompetency
among your executive officers exist to stay
your progress. Bent upon one errand alone,
your mindssetupon that before you embarked,
no trifles nor common danger wiil prevent
you daring every tiling lor the carrying out ol
your mission. Go on, then, brave sons of
.America, and may at least some share of pros
perity and success attend your n.ble exer
lions!
• The Advance was most extraordinarily forti
fied to resist any pressure of ihe ice, and to
enable her to force her way against such im
pediments as those she encountered th is even
ing. Her bow was one solid mass of timber
—1 believe I am right in saying, from the fore
mast. Her timbers were increased in size and
number, so that she might well be ea <i to have
been doubled inside as well as out. Her deck !
was also doubled then felted, and again lined ;
inside, while her cabin had. in addi ion, a
sheathing of cork. The after part of the ves j
sei was remarkably strong; and a movable
bulkhead, which ran across the forepart of the ,
cabin, could at any time be unshipped to as- |
ford a free communication fore an J aft when
needed. The crew, if I remember rightly,
lived in a stroi gly built ‘round house’ on deck, j
amidships, one end of which was converted in
to a cookhouse called a ‘galley,’ and another
the •pm'rv.’ Ten men formed the number of
the work: seamen; there were no ice mas
ters, nor i eguar‘ice men;’ but most of the
sailor? were long accustomed to the ice. A
steward and a cook completed the full comple
ment of the ship
“ The Advance was manned by sixteen per
sons. officers included. Her commander.
Lieutenant de Haven a young man about 26
years of age, had se ved in the United States
exploring expedition, under Commodore
Wilkes, in the Antartic seas He seemed as
tine a specimen of a s?amen and a ro«uh
and ready officer a* I have e er seen. Nor
was he at all deficient in the true characteristic!
of a true gentlemen, although the cognomen
is so often mis-applied and ill understood.
With a sharp, quick eye. a countenance bron
zed and apparently inured to all weathers, his
voice gave unmistakable signs of energy,
prompt'tude, and decision. 'There was no
mistaking the aan He was undoubtedly we.l
fitted to lead such an exj edition, and 1 left
charmed to see it
‘•His second in command (for they were
very* differently organized from u«) was still
younger, and more slim, but withal of equaih
determined and sailor like appearance. >e\.
to him was a junor officer, of whom I saw but
little, and that little was enough to tell
me that the executives under Captain
de Haven would be ♦ ffieient auxiliaries to him
Last of all. iht ugh not leas’ among them, whs
one of whom 1 must be excu-ed for sayin'
more than a casual wc r d or two. It was Dr
Kane, the surgeon, natu'a'ist, &c., of the t x
pedinon. Or an exceedingly eiim and appa
rt-nib fragile form and make, and with feaiun-s
far more suited to a genial dime, and to
the comforts of a pleasant home, than to the
roughness and hardships of an arctic voy’.ge,
he was yet a very old traveller both by sea
and land. H s rank as a surgeon in the Amer
ican n«vy,and hi- appointment at three days’
notice to*tms service, were sufficient proof ol
his abilities, and of his being considered capa
ble of enduring ail that would have to be gone
through.
‘ If ever a vessel and her officers were caps
bie of going through an tinder*nking in wh ch
more ihan ordinary d ffi'ii! iss had to be en
countered. I had nodouoi it would be tne A
mencan ; and this was evinced to me even
while we were on board, by the apparently
reckless way in which thev da>hed through the
vtreatis of beavv ice running off from Lecpo ; d
Is-and I happened ’o go on deck when they
were thus engaged, and was delighted to wit
ness how gallantly they pn aside every impedi
meni in their way. An offi er was s anding on
the heel of the bowspr t, conning the ship and
issuing h;s orders to tne mail al lhe wneei. in
that stiori. decisive, yet cit-ar manner wi.ich
the neiiDsmau at unce well understood and
promptly obeyed. There was not a rig ol
cauv ss taken iu, nor a moment's besila ion
Tne way was before them; the stream of ice
I bad wb« erdwr
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 16, 1851.
The wil' scenery of his place of birth, doubt
less, contributed to the development of his
poetic ta»tes and faculties ; but it is said that
upon entering Trinity College, in Dub in, he
evinced very few, if any of those marks of
genius which he displayed in after years. This
has been the ca-e, however, with many other
persons whu afterwards attained great literary
m minenee.
After leaving Trinity College, he started
upon his travels, and spent several years
■ abroad. His stock of money was exhausted
I soon after he left England, and during his tra
I vels on the Continent, he wis often obliged to
I support himself by playing on the flute.
“ Whenever 1 approached a peasant’s hut
toward nightfall,” he said, in giving an account
of his wanderings, “ I played one of my most
merry tunes, which generally procured for me
not only a lodg’ng for the night, but sustenance
ho next day.” Some of his earlier poems
were written while he was anroad; out they
aided little either 10 hisrepu’a ion or finances
lie returned to England in 1759, and was for
some years a pens oner upon the kindness and
; hospitality of bis old friend, Dr. Sleith, who
a wavs treated the young poet with great cor
diality and consideration.
In 1765. Goldsmith suddenly emerged from
his obscurity, and astoni-ln d ihe world by the
pub icition of “ 7he Traveller.'* Dr J hnson,
pronounced this poem the best wh ch had been
written since the time of Pope; honors and
favors showered iu upon the author, and he
| soon found a brilliant literary career Opening
! upon him. Atone time, he realized from his
: pen upwards of eight thou-and dollars annu
• ally. But, unfortunately, he di I not under
stand the art of using m >ney. He was extrav
agantly liberal in his expenditures, and lavish
ed his money profusely whenever he happen
ed to be p ssessed of any. Besides, he is re-
■ ported to have -pent large sums at the gaming
■ table, and to have acted improvident!/ and
thoughtlessly in all pecuniary matters. This
improvidence and want of foresight in all ma -
ters relating to money kept Goldsmith in per-
j petual difficulty ; and Iris whole life was a
1 con-taut struggle between pride and poverty.
lie died in London in 'he year 1774 His
principal works are ‘T ie Vicar of Wakefield,’’
“Tho Traveller,” “The Deserted Village.”
“Rone,” “ I he Good-natured Mau: a Com
ely,” “She Stoops to Co' qner,’’ “Prefaces
I and Criticisms.” “The B-e,” “Essays,” &c.,
*&c., all of which are doubtless familiar to our
■ literarv readt-rs
detour made ; and despite he heaviners ol th
slream, they pushed the vessel through in ho
proper course. Two or three shocks, as she
carne in contact with some large pieces, were
unheed -d ; and the moment the ia?t block was
past the bow the < fiicer sang out, “So; steady
as she goes on her course,” and came aft as if
nothing more than ordinary sailing had been
going on. 1 observed our own li tie birk
nobly following in the American’s wake; and
as I afterwards learned,she got through it pret
ty we'l thoi’p’i not wi’ho'r much d°llM of !*?•
propriety of keeping on in such a procedure af
ter the ‘mad yankee,* as she was called by the
mao.
‘ if I had ever before doub ed the daring
and enterprise of the A nencatis, what I saw
and heard on hoard of the Advance would
tiiverem.i.ed smh doubt, but these peculiar
features in the child-en of the Stars and
S.ripes were alwavs app.rent to me, and ad
iihruiitly acknowledged 1 was givan a brief
hist.ry of their voyage to the present time, as
also au outline of their future plans.”
Papers edited by ‘ ths Spirits ” —lt is
almost impossible lo conceive, of the amount
c f hnmbnff, impos are and says
the Savannah Republican, which are practised
in some parts of the northern Slates Abo
litionism, Fourierism, Milleristu, and other
rsmt. with which the public is familiar, were,
we thought, bad enough ; but it seems the
age is piogressing in humbugs as well as in
other things. We now have newspapers
edited by Spirits assisted by the Apostles.
Where will •hi* downward tendency finally
end ? In ridicule or ana'chy and revolution I
This is a question worthy of the considera
tion of the northern penpie.
The New York Courier says :
If may not be generally understood by our
readers that there is, in sober reality, a jour
nal printed and published at Auburn, in this
State, professing to be edited, superintended
and controlled by ‘spirits —the same ‘spirits ’
which the Rochester Rapping women have in
keeping, and which “ Shadrach Barnes” has
been haunting, in his recent communications
to the Express. The terms of ihe Rapping
Newspapers are one dollar a year, payable in
advance. We quote from the Prospectus,
as published in the New York Tribune :
“ hs object is the disclosure of Tru h from
Heaven, bringing mankind into open vision of
Paradise; open com inimical ions with spirits
redeemed; and proper and progressive un
derstanding of the Holy Scriptures and of
the merits of Je-uis Christ, from whom they
originated in inspiration absolute, and ol
whom they teach, as the only Saviour of a dis
. severed and bewildered race.
“ The circle of Apostles and Prophets are
its conductors from the lnte r ior holding con
trol over i*s columns, and permitting no arti
cle to find place therein unless orgina’ed,
dictated, or admrted by t em—they acting
under direction of the Lord Supreme ”
We could laugh at this, as the absurd
emanation of some presumptuous and sel -
conceited pedant, who persuades himself that
he has fallen upon some new “ ism ” that is
going to create a revolution in (he affairs of
the world—we could laugh at it. were there
not so much blasphemy and imposture inter
larded with his impious Or we
might pity the delusion and the ignorance
which can thus induce full grown men to
make so humiliating a spectacle of themselves
in this age of he world ; but is it right ?
Does imposture deserve no severe treatment!
and especially when it is turning the heads of
the credulous and weak-minded driving
some to cut their throats, and sending others
to lhe lunatic asylum ? “ Open comiuu ica-
[ lions wi-.h spirits redeemed,” indeed! “The
’ circle of Apostles and Prophets ” its conduc
tors, forsooth! Tell it not, ye missionaries
| Christian America sends out every year, to
; the fire and water worshippers of the East, to
i the man-eaters of New Zealand, or to the
painted savages of Japan, tell it nut that we
nave home among us men who are seeking
| to build up a new faith and a new theology
i upon the Rochester Rappitigs! We call
upon the home missionaries to exert them
selves anew, for there is much work to be
dune a: Auburn.
If spirits have come here to edit newspapers,
as well as to kick over tables, ring bells, and
ding knives and forks a’ one s head it is well
(hat ihe world shoo d know it. It ,s well that
Shadrach Barnes should know it;
And “ dear mother newell,”
And “ mary eileu perkitis.”
Why Hoard cp for Others.—An eminent
writer says, we should bear constantly in mind
I mat nine-tenths of us are. from the very na
ture and necessities of lhe world, to gain
our livelihood oy the sweat of our brow. But
what reason have we to presume that our
children are not to do lhe same ! if they be,
as no* and then ore will be, en owed with
ex raordinsry powers vs mind, these extra
rdmarv powers of tuiud may have an op
p rtutnty of developing themselves ; and if
they never have tn.it opportunity, the harm is
nor very great to us or to them. Nur does it
uence to low that die descendants of Itburers
a e always to be laborers Tne pa h upward
is steep and long, to be sure. Induary. care,
skid, excellence, tn t e parent, lay the founda
tions * t a rise, and by and by, lhe descend
auts ol th pre-ent laborer become gentlemen.
Tms is *he natural progress. Il is by attempt
ing to re ten me top ml a single leap, that so
much misery is produced in the world. So
ciety may aid in making ihe laborers virtuous
* and happy by bringing children up to labor
wita steadiness, wi.n care and with skill; to
show them now to do as many useful things
as possible, to do them ail iu me be?t manner,
to set them an example in indns.ry, soorie
ty, clean.mesa and neatness; to make a, i
these habitual to them, so that they never snai
oe liable io fall into tne contrary ; to let (hem
always ?ee a good living proceeding from
labor, and thus to remove irotn them the temp
tation l > get at tne goods of ethers oy violent
or traudaieut means; and to keep from
tne:r m nds all inducements to hypocrisy and
det eiL
Railroad Irom —Tne ship Georgia arrived
at m s port 00 Tuesday wi.u 3,726 oars nil
road irus con-igaed to W • P. Tefft, and Isu
tons ur me Cen ril Kai. road. Tne sb ps Ro
bert Parker and En SV nnney, arrived yester
day. have on board, .be former 2630, and the
> tatter 4,178 bars—also consigned to W. P.
r I Tefft.—
News of the Week.
European Ntwt,
Correspondence of the Commercial Advertiser.
London. March 21, 1851
There has been no topic since the last packet
but the Papal bill. The debate in the 11 ouse
of Commons still continues and increases in
cornpleiily and virulence. Meanwhile the
position of the Government remains weak
and uncertain, and has been further damaged
by a new display of doubt nnd feebleness on a
subordinate question, winch, with vigorous
handling, could never have occasioned any
difficulty—namely, the conductor Lord Tor
rington as Governor of Ceylon during the in
surrection in that island two years ago.
This s:range introduction in the midst of all
the peen liariiiea of the period, was not unfvr
seeu. D had been proved before a parliamen
tary committee that not only suppres
si hi of tho insorrecucn been signalized by
j cruelty, but that Lord Torrington by encoura
ging ieuds among bis subordinates, and behav
ing with duplicity to all of them, had shown
himself totally unfit for any admiufoiraiivo ap
poin merit As a corsequence the Govern
ment had been forced to recall him, but in do
ing so, in order to shield liitn from disgrace,
they expressed something hke an approval of
his past course They have also been charged
with constant efforts to suppress and impede
she evidence which would have made inevita
ble a parliamentary vote of censure. These
efforts were watched with greater jealousy
from the fact that Lord Torrington is a cousin
of Lord John Russell, and notice was at length
given by Mr. Bailie, who had been chairman
of the committee of the House Commons
on the matter, that he would introduce a mo
tion which would have tba effect of virtually
condemning t e conduct of the Government.
The discussion of the new budget which is
to be brought forward by the Chancellor of
the Exchequer,had been fixed for this evening,
but under the circumstances above mentioned,
Lord John Rusnell rose on Friday evening last
to stale that with such amotion hanging over
their beads the Government would not pro
ceed with the introduction of financial plans
which a I might have to be carried out by
another Ministry. Hereupon, Mr Bailie said
ho would defer his mo ion. The Government
were then angry with him lor threatening a
measure of so grave a character and afterward
withdrawing from its immediate prosecution.
At the same time they still delayed the
budget, and efused now to name a lime for it
until the Papal bill was decided. Everything,
therefore, continues in uncertainty, and the
general public and the mercantile classes who.
after all, are more anxious about the realises
of the financial part of legislation than any
other, are kept in a state of tiresome doubt,
seriously injurious to the steady course of bu
siness. if, however, a division on the Papal
question should be arrived at this evening, the
budget will most probably be brought forward
next week. The Torrington difficulty lias
t een temporarily met by that nobleman giving
notice ol a motion in the House of Lords,
challenging an inquiry into his conduct.
The worthy and unprofitable progress of the
Papal bill has been interrupted by only two
events which cad lor notice—the maiden speech
of young Sir Robert Peel, and a furious at
tack on the Roman Catholics by Mr. Drum
mond, one of the protectionist members, which
led last night to a scene in the House more ike
what habi ually occurs in the French Cnamber
than a ything else.
Sir Robert Peel’s speech took the House by
surprise, in consequence of the liberalism of
ns tone with respect to continental affairs, and
its denunciation of the despotism ol the Ro
man Catholic power. He is now twenty
nine years of age, and such political knowl
eilge as he pusses-es has been gained, first as
attache to the British embassy at Madrid, and
sub-eqiieuiiy as secretary of legation in Swit
zerland. He h-s, therefore, been in positions
to become well acquainted with Papal intrigues.
In the early part of Ins speech he referred to
'he conduct of the French Presidon. The
Pope, he said, had been re sealed in the ‘affec
tions’of his people by a sudden and certainly
very ex raordinary burst of religious zeal on
the part of the people of Frsnco. Il seemed
as if the citizen President was desirous of
making amends for the Emperor’s misconduct,
since, where the latter was ms rumental in es
tablish ng rep iblicanism (for instance, the Li
gurian, ilie Ci-a'pine and the Par'lienopean.)
the former had destroyed the only one he
could lay his hands upon ; and where the uncle
with much display, had carried off from Route
a Pope beloved by his people, the nephew al
a considerable expense, as it req lired 30 000
men,carried back to Rome a Pope whose pres
ence the Romans had made arrangements to
dispense with.
The close of the speech, too, was marked by
a stiil more unequivocal display o Bympaihy for
the oppref hi <i people of Italy atid Germany.
Sir Robert alluding to what he had seen in
Switzerland in 1847, during the contest of the
Protestant cantons against the Jesuits, des
cribed it as ‘the mighty straggle of liberty
ttgai'let, yxnfi*m rug! inf«4ymace. * amt •
1 has ariiottTn 1 inpe'ra 11 vely reqbf the iri
-trucirons of Lord Palmerston (to whom he
paid a high compliment) to maintain a neu'ral
p isition, lie cruld scarcely restrain his feelings
when he saw the blood that resist
the influence of the reaciiouists upon that soil
‘•which still affords a last retreat against the
despotism of Europe—still preserves intact
ilia hospitable abode of liberty.” In conclu
sion. he avowed hisconvicti n that the recent
aggression of the Pope in thia country was but
ihe first step m a premeditated and organized
sv stem of attack and that he should therefore,
although he regretted that it had been applied
to Ireland, heartily support the measure of
L »’d John Russell.
The speech was warmly applauded through
out. and the burst of cheering at the end
showed that in he existing Hoose of Com
mons there is an under current of liberalism
which if boldly appealed to could be aroused
tu support a firm end seif re.iant government.
Tne excitement caused by Mr. Drummond’s
attack was of a very different kind. After
r undly abusing the Roman Catholic system
amid the irrepressible fury of the Irish mem
bers, he at list brought their rage to a crisis by
telling them that if there was one thing on
which the people of England were at the pres
ent moment more unanimous than another, it
was an hones' John Bull hatred of imposture.
Everything like imposture they detest,’ and he
added ‘above ail they scorn those who are im
porting cargoes of blinking statues, bleeding
pic ures. liquify ing blood, and drops of the
Virgri Mary’s milk.”
An indescribable scene of tumult followed.
The Irish members ‘could notsit down there
to be insulted’—one after another rose up
and it was with great d ificulty that the Speak
er succeeded in res’oring calmness. On re
suming his speech. Mr. Drummond softened
matters down by a few conciliatory words, and
he then prjceeded without further inierrup*
lion.
Th< census for this country will be ‘aken on
the 31st inst. 'The clergy ol the established
chil d have endeavored to resist giving infor
mation, which is requested of them, regarding I
the average number of their congregations.
Such information would in future afford val
uable indications of lhe progress of dissent.
The commission appointed to inquire into
the Universities continue their labors The
heads of colleges have refused io answer some
of tne questions proposed. Fortunately, how
ever all the necessary infornation has been
gained from other somces.
The arrangements for lhe exposition con
tinue in rapid progress. An enormous
amount of work st:ll remains to be done in
lhe internal adjustment of lhe building, but it
is expected that it wi.l be complete in rime,
and it has been announced that even i r such
should not be the case the opening will posi
tively take place on the Ist May.
From the cominent the intelligence seems
to indicate that difficulties between Prussia
and Austria are becoming hopeless. There
has been nothing from France during the
week, except accounts of occasional manifes
tations of the republicans in the provinces,
which of course have been promptly sup
pressed m all cases by the republican authori
ties. Spectator.
Loadom. March 16, 1851.
I was told before leaving America that
London was the dearest place in the world to
live in; that while one could live at little cost
in Paris, at !e?s in Florence, and at least of all
in Brussels, or in any part of Belgium, in
London it was imposs.ble to 1 ve cheaply and
well al the same ume. and that without con
stant watchfulness my expenses in any part
oi England would twice exceed my estimate.
As the present season will probably see five
times the number ol Americans in London
that were ever here at the same time before.
I have thought that a letter upon London
living might not be unacceptable to those of
your readers who are thinking of trying it by
aciaal experiment.
There can be no doubt that to a stranger
Loudon lile is aimost always expensive, and
especia ly to an American. If any one a-ks
why to an American more than to a French
men, Italian or Prussian, lean only siy tnat
wtnle each of the latter expect to live in Lon
don, ana every where else, according to the
habits of life of his class, an American has no
class except the very highest knows no supe
rior not even iu the highest Duke of England,
-nd feels that he is as go d. and meins to live
as web, as any lord in lhe laud. And yet lhe
poor of London live for almost nothing; and
'hat great class lust above the poor, the me
chanic. the mediocre artist, the shopman, the
seamstress, the ten thousand working tneu
waose supper every evening i« a cnance,
even at noonday, that would craze a Yankee,
live for a less sum than seems credible. A
poor arti-t told me yesterday, in speaking
upon this very subject, and ne was an intelli
gent, geniemaniy, well dressed man. tnat i»-
ing was cheap enough in London, and tiiat
nis boy brought him every day for diuner “ a
p~.novs worth of meat, a halfpence worth
of potatoes, and a ha'pence worth of bread,
nice, clean and good enough for anybody.”
Tbe earing houses vary, in fact, from tne
highest and most su upto >us s y e of living o
.he very lowest, i lhe eauug houses, be
cause, in tne American sense ui the word.
luoteis or taverns there are none There may
oe a lao/e d iudc in some houses tn London, 1
UMQit I nave heard it said that there ia sne ot
some note, but 1 have seen none, and in nine
ty nine cases out of a hundred, the stranger
putting up in England must take care of
himself ; that is, he mils eat, drink, go to bed,
get up, just at whatever times suit him, and at
his own special order.
Os renowned hotels —in the English sense—
perhaps Morley’s is the most famous. It is a
palace in superstructure, size, condit’on nnd
appointments. It stands in the mo«u magnifi
cent square in London, —Trafalgar Square
at right angles to ihe National Gallery ; in
•right of the bronze statue of George trie
Fourth, the glorious column reared to the
memory of Nelson, and the Commonwealtli
statue of Charles the First; overlooking
marbled esplandes, beautiful fountains and
ever flowing jets d'eau ; and is of easy ac
cess to the be»t part of London in every sense
The charges here for rooms are from four to
twelve shillings sterling per day, the table bills
from a crown to two guineas, just as one is
disposed to indulge his taste for good eatin*.
To this add two shillings a day lor servants,
that ever recurring and ceaselessly ann >ying
expense in England, and you may soon incur
a bill fit for a nabob.
Next below Morley’s is a class of hotels of
which “ The Queen,” opposite the General
Post Office, is a fair representative. Here is
one house, where, after you have paid for
your dinner, breakfast or supper, the waiter
does not stand looking you in the face, and
while vou wonder if the change was made
correct, orsomethingyou had ordered had been
,'orgi tten, or what can be the matter, respect
fully hows and says “ Remember the waiter,
Sir’ ” And yet it makes but little difference,
for upon settling when you leave, two shillings
a day is itemed in the bill under the head of
‘servants ’ I staid here for four days, and
my bill amounted to ‘ two pounds, six ’ nearly
$11,50, and yet 1 never ordered a desert, or
drank spirits, wine or porter.
Below this class are the ‘Albert,’ the 4 Alba
ny ’ and the ‘ Sun.’ a fair specimen of a hun
dred others. In them you fi >d everything
neat, orderly and quiet, paying one shilling
and sixpence for your bed, living fairly, with
out wine ordesert, for about one shilling a meal,
and. if you can bide close quarters, sleep
ing quietly. Then come other grades whose
whereabouts I have not been anxious to learn,
until you get down to the penny a slice shops,
at ihe door of one of which I certainly saw a
hundred beggars wailing to be served in turn
from the smoking pudding
Along through the streets that open on the
Strand, and indeed in every part of tie city, are
to be 'ound good boarding houses, where they
will charge you from two to three guineas a
week, expecting always a slight gratuity to
to servants. Perhaps there are good
boarding houses where a less price is charg
ed, but these were the usual terms given
in answer to my inquiries. It is said that
board is h gher this season, that the expected
influx of strangers has made it so. and that it
will be higher yet as the season advances.
I think this very probable, for my observation
of London and London folks, lias not led me to
suspect here any exception to the general law
of demand and supply governing prices
1 found another, and better and cheaper,
mode of life, and my experience may be worm
something There were four persons in our
party, all of us expecting to soend the Summer
in London. In the search for lodgings, I final
ly found a quiet house, in the West end of
the city, some eight minutes w*;k from Hyde
Park, where a parlor on the second floor and
three bedrooms could be obtained for six
months at the rate two pounds ten shillings
per week These 1 secired. They were
furnished and were to include attendance,
meaning a servant. Two pounds more a week,
gave us, for our party, breakfast at l ine o’clock
in the morning and tea at eight o’clock in the
evening Occupied all the day in business,
each makes his rAycuner where he pleases, at a
genera’ or average cost, as I find upon inquiry
of one shilling and six pence. To this add
laundress, fuel, which will bo but a temporary
item, light, tec., say two shillings each per
week, and our individual expenses will not be
far from one pound fifteen shillings, or sßsu
per week.
It is said that board out of the city, along the
line of the railroad, may be obtained slili
cheaper than this. But 1 suspect, that with the
fare of riding, added to the other expenses,
and especially that carriage fare which comes
when a luckless errand has left you a m note
behind the starling time, the sum total would
not hili below the city expenses of board. And
this reminds me of another expense of London
life—thecab-Lire. To a citizen, who knows
the various localities of this almost eight miles
square of streets and houses, I can very well
understand how this expense can bo avoided.
But wh n a stranger has settled every point he
wishes to visit during the day, the nitons of
getting t • those points is no easy problem to
solve. They say the otnnibusses run to all
parts of the city, and 1 suppose they do. But
every ommibus dues not run to every place
und for a man to start for l.ondnn Bridjyn <»r
Bi'hupgate street within, or St Paul’s and find
himself when the route ends three miles away
from where he wants io go, and where he
came from, is the most awkward waking up to
OHoyggT —“ ”? —Tri? noticed. Even if
■WBTcmfw'rTO’*? -
the way to ce‘ there, the omnibusses will not
stop for him to reach th »m. They are cover
ed, too, with name* of places, squares, streets,
alleys, parishes and whatnot, harder to deci
pher, and «s difficult to understand as the in
criptions on Cleopa ra’s needle For all this
I know none but the .<ch >ol boy’s remedy—to
grin and bear it. Walk it you cannot, “buss”
it you cannot, leave the spot un-een or the
business undone you feel that you cannot. I
know no way but to yiel I yourself up to the
cabman, serenely, uncomplaining, Christianly,
to be plucked to the last feather. D.
London, March 21 s’, 1851.
During the present week the Crystal Palace
haw undergone essential The in
creased number oi workmen is fast hastening
the building to its completion; the painting
is very nearly accompl shed; the numerous
leakages from the roof which the violent storms
of last week discovered have been mostly
stopped, and the taking down of interior scaf
fold ng the sure sign of approximate com
ple eness—is already commenced. I watched
the testing of the strength of the galleries ye--
terday wi h great interest A frame work of
iron forty feet in length by thirty feet in breadth,
was set upon one hundred und eighty cannon
b ills, each one, mno inches tn du meter, as
wheels, and this was drawn through all the
gullenei of the building by eighty five of the
corps of sappers and miners to a heavy tramp,
each man giving his step the powerful fid I of a
leap upon the floor, it was a nice and beauti
ful operation, arid scientific* ly considered, an
admirable ami most conclusive test. 1 stood
where I could observe its effect upon the frame
work of the galleries, but not the slightest de
tection from the accurate horizontal Hie could
be detec ed; nor, thirty feet distant from the
immense moving body, could the least jar be
felt. lam tol l that this test is the most power
fid that Dr. Plajfair cou'd suggest, ami that it
is calculated to give a t»ial of strength to the
building, more than three times as great, as
would be that of a solid column of full grown
men upon the same surface of square feet
The accumulation of bu-inecs upon the
hands of the executive committee of the Royal
Commission is now daily increasing, and with
a staff of officers and c.erks almost coundess
and most effective, it is slid nearly impossible
to complete the duties of each day within the
day’s time. Col Win. Reid, the chairman of
the executive committee, a most amiable and
excellent man and admirably fi'ted fur his
place, the Hon. M Digby Wya t, who has
charge of all he regulations of the interior of
the hill, and Mr Wyhis, the secretary o r the
Foreign Department, are al busy at their pn-ts
from early morning nil late at night. Tne
workmen throughout the building, carpen ers,
joiners, painters, uphuldsierers, decorators,
architects, and all others of whatever name
and nature, as also the hundreds of the c rps
of sappers and miners and the numerous body
of ponce, are at work during extra hours,
even to midn ght, and upon enhanced pay.
The bustle thr »ughout the immense building
eminently befits its tide of the Palace of In
dustry. it is a scene now, all unlike indeed
what it is to be one month hence, and yet
scarce y less interesting, which one may con
gratulate oneself upon. All over the building
the scene is one maze of employment.
Hundreds of carpenters stand toiling at
their benches—hundreds of others are plying
their work in different places—swung beneath
ihe roof countless painters are giving the finish
ing touch to the long lines of sashes and gir
ders—covering the frail temporary stages are
decorators fitting up appropriate national em
blems for the various divisions—seated at long
tables officers of the customs are taking ac
count of tne fast accumulating cases from the
ports of entry —spe* d.ng hither and thither are
the subordinates of different departments upon
ail sorts of messages—hoisting at the gigantic
cranes are the common laborers with the un
mis akabie Irish physiogn my—hauling at tbe
ponderous carriages the red coated sappers are
marching with a regularity as if to music—and
as one advances from p’ace to place tne various
languages ol Europe and Asia and South A
mer.ca indicate that the nations of me world
are represented within tne enclosure, k is
such a see; e of life and employment and eii
terprise and competition as neither tins age,
nor any age has seen before.
The gesera! decoration of the building is to
be similar throughout. 1 mean by this, that
the s yle cl adornments, he colors of the
bangings the shape and a.z ? oi the flags, the
arrangements of the counters and tables and
tne geueu! tout tusembte of each separate
division is to be similar. But in all more
minute maters, toe details are io be left to in
dividual or national taste The French divis
ion, occupying about? 4 000 square feet, will
doubtless excel ail the rest in splendor of ap
pointments, if i’- d jos no: also io the rich labnc
and tasteful finish of its goads, it is wed
unders ood here that France means to exceed
England even upon her own ground. No
expense is to be spared by the French Govern
ment, who nave directed the wnole matter,
to this. In every minute point,
wnen the interest o. foreign exhibitors has
been in the least degree concerned, trie French
Commissioner M. de Lamoinaix has siren
onus y contended, has had tne s r. ject discuss
ed nig,:! y at his soirees of tt»e foreign commis
sioners and rias been generally successful in
securing the right.
Tne Cuiiea States s.ands at unfair odds
among ma omer nations, since no appropria-
' lion has been made by Congress to meet the
i expenses of her general agent. At least
$5,000 will be required to put the contribu
tions of the United States upon a decent foot
ing with others from the rest of the world.
The incidental expenses, the transportation
bills from the port of entry, the labor of cart
; age, unpacking storage of boxes, re-packing,
tec , <fcc , would of themselves consume no
small portion of this sum. To these are to
be added the clerk hire absolutely necessary to
do all the writing, and the very plainest and
simplest decorations to render our portion
of the building no disparagement to the rest.
For it must be remembered, that while Eng
land provides the building, and her Govern
ment consents to bond the goods, she does
nothin more. At a meeting of those Ameri
can exhibitors who are upon the ground it
was unanimously resolved that the reputation
of the Unied 8 ates was concerned in this
matter,and that an outlay of at least $5,000
must be made by the commissioner. Our
hope is that Congress will not fail to make the .
proper appropriati in at last.
Our goods are now nearly all arrived.
With attention and care we shall not be
ashamed to stand by the side of our older I
sisters. In finish, in completeness, in per
fection of minute skill, we do not expect to
excel; but in the raw material, in machinery
of many kinds, and »n agricultural imple
ments and produce we shall be behind none
We have a far larger number of contributions
than we expected, very many not having pass
ed the ordeal of the Washington committee.
In splendid carriages, though England, France,
Belgium and the Zolleverein compete with us,
we shall hold our own, if we do not win the
day. In our farm products, of which there
are some beautiful specimens, we shall be be
fore all, as I think ; an 1 in our ores, our in
ventions, md our “Yankee notions’* that wo
shall be foremost of the world, nobody can
doubt. Nous verrons. D.
Upwards of sixty of the Hungarian and
Polish Refugees hid sailed from Liverpool in
the Charles Crocker, for New York.
An explosion took place on the 17th ult., in
the mill of Mr. Hy. Marsland, at Stockport,
and fourteen persons were kille 1.
A fearful explosion took place at the coal
pit of Mr. G orge Coats, near be
tween two and three miles from Paisley, on
he 15lh, by which sixty one lives were lost.
A deputation, headed by Lord Ashley, wait
ed upon the Archbishop of Canterbury, on
the 19di, for the purpose of presenting an ad
dress to his Grace, signed by 239,860 clerical
and lay members of the Church of England,
on the subject of Papal aggression.
There are now 244 296 persons in the work
houses of Ireland, and 6450 receiving out
donr relief.
Switzerland.— Private accounts state that
the Federal Government has peremptorily
ordered the expulsion from tho S wiss territory
of a person named Vare, a Lombard refugee,
known as the agt nt of Mazzini
France.— We learn from Paris that a Cabi
net Council washeld on lha 19. h, al the Elysee.
to take into consideration the disp He between
Austriaand Prussia, respecting the admission
of the Slates belonging to the former into the
German Confederation. It was eventually re
solve! to forward instructions through the
French Minister at Vienna to that Court, reite
rating the displeasure of the Republic at the
conduct of Austria, intimating at the same
time chat should any conflict take place between
the two German powers, France would sup
port Prussia.
A pamphlet, entitled “Lo Banquet des
Egaux,” giving an accout of the recent din
ner ol the refugees in London, has been seized
by the police. The printer and publisher are
to be prosecuted.
The statistics of the National Guard of
Paris show that this militia has been reduced
from 259,000 to 56 000, without reckoning the
suppression of the legion of artillery.
M. Lamartine has presented a petition from
Win. Tell Poussin, formerly minister of the
republic in the United States, praying the
government to grant a block of granite, taken
from the quarr es of Cherbourg, for the erec
tion ol a monument lo General Washington.
Prussia. Austria, and Germany.—The Ger
man question has again been subjected to a
fresh modification, of which it is stated that it
le ids still more to endanger its doubtful suc
cess.
The Kolner Zeitung states, from Lemberg,
that large masses of Russian troops from the
interior of the empire and the eastern part of
Poland have been directed into Podolia aud
Bessarabia, it is thought these concentrations
are provoked by the insurrectionary move
ments in Moldavia and Wallachia.
From Vienna it is stated that the Austrian
Cabinet has addressed an energe'ic note to the
Porte, demanding a definite tranqui ization of
80-nia and of the Herzegovina.
Turkey —The insurrection in Bosnia is still
ar from being extinct.
it seems that, although orders had been sent
to Kiutaya to set General Demhinski at liberty,
the Lie tier al had not yet arrived at Coualatitino
ple.
Emir Bechir, the old Prince of Mount Leba
nns has just died at Constantinople, aged 94.
The Porte has declared the Island of Samos iu
-otter ..’eET- ■.? cumtMisS
absolutely to accept as their governor, M. Co
nemenos, whom they consider as devoted to
the former prince of Simos (the protege of
Sir Statford Canning,) who is universally de
tested.
A letter from Constantinople, bearing no
date, appear-* in the German paper IVezer Ga
zetle, of the 17th inst .stating that a conspiracy
had been discovered to poison the Sultan. At
the bottom of it was his own brother, assisted
by some Uiemin. The plan was, to corrupt
the Sultan’s doctor, who was to mix poison in
his medicine, for a considerable sum of money.
The medical attendant revealed the plot. The
chief conspirators fled. Several parties con
cerned in the scheme were apprehended and
put to death. The news wa ts confirmation.
Egypt.—The Cologne Gazette states that the
mental alienation of Abbas Pacha, Viceroy of
Egypt, increases; that the c- untry is in a most
wretched sratc ; that it is impossible to get in
the taxes; and that favorites are squandering
what remains of the treasures accumulated by
Mehemet All.
Letters from Manilla of the 23d of January,
contain long reports of the operations of the
Dutch sea and land forces upon the pira es in
the Indian Archipelago. The latter proved
formidable enemies in several of the engage
ments that took place, but they were at length
-o completely defeated aud dismayed by the
deadly fires of the Dutch, that ih-y took to
flight across the country, leaving their prabus,
ammunition, goods, slaves, and many pirates,
behind them.
Latest by Electric Telegraph.
Prussia, Berlin, 14th inst. —A note has been
received from Vienna, containing a reply to the
Prussian memorial of the 9ih inst Ou this
note, the Austrian Cabinet expresses its good
will and peilect readiness to co operate with
Prussia for the creation of a permanent Cen
tral Government. Nevertheless, Austria in
sists in demanding the presidency.
Dresden Conferences.— The Fou’thCom
mittee of the Conferences met for the first time
on the 18lh inst The Committee sits on the
action and duties of a Federal Cour, of Arbi
tration
Paris, Friday.—The Duke of So’amayer
has presented his letters of recall from his mis
sion as Spanich Minister at Paris. The report
of Mr. Gardme s proposition to repeal all ex
ceptional laws, has been presented ai d rejact
ed. Some riotirg took place on Monday at
Auriol Bouche du Roue, on the conscription.
The authorities, aided by the military force,
soon restored order.
Paris Bourse.—Fives 94 25; Threes 57 85.
Greece.—The Kolner Zeitung states from
Berlin that the que?*tion of Grecian Succes
sion has, at leug-h, been decided. The Throne
will fail to Prince Adalbert, of Bavaria.
Austria, Vienna, Idth —The ministerial pa
pers protest against the scheme of a popular
representation in the Germanic Confederation
The Railroad between Beson and Mantua i.as
been opened.
The Dethronement Plot in Hayti.
Correspond' nee N. Y. Journal of Commerce
Port-au Prince, March 17, 1851.—An exten
sive conspiracy has recently been delected,
and persons have been apprehended here, and
also brought from the different towns to lhe
capital for trial. Among the number, the most
prominent personage imp.'icated is M. Fran
cisque, till within these few days, Chief Jus
tice ol the Empire, and one of the three Cab
inet Ministers.
After a short trial, by a Court Martial, he.
with four others, was condemned to death.
The next day the proceedings was reviewed,
the decision annulled, and a new trial ordered
ata email village about twenty miles from this
place, where the ex-minister was conducted
yesterday, on foot, under the guard of a large
body of troops. His fate has uot yet been re
ported.
As far as can be ascertained, the agents of
the three commercial powers have progressed
very slowly in their endeavor to settle the
Giflicultiee between the two parts of this Island.
An order was published a few days wince to
convoke the Senate and Chamber of Repre
! sentalives on the 25ih of this month, to take
in o consideration thia offer of med.ation.
What action this grave body will lake in this
matter is doubtful.
There is probably no reason lo suppose that
it is the desire or design of the Haytiens to
exterminate the Dominicans, in the attack
’on that part of the Island. But the llaytiens
i have been determined to conquer the Domini
, cans, and me latter es firmly deciare that they
wil never submit to Haytien rule, while one
of them remains to defend their soil. The
consequence of the war. therefore, if prose
cuted will De thetrextirmination, though not by
the prede er mi nation of lhe Haytiens to effect
so calamitous a result.
Trie United States steam frigate Saranac,
flag snip of the Home squadron returned
here on the 9tn inst.. and left again for Ha
vana on the 15th. Toe otfiaers reported al.
i wed on board.
The market for provisions at the present
time, is fair. Tne crop of Coffee this season
will fall considerably short of former years,
and tne p rice is firmlv sustained.
A Ton of Books Franked —The Louisville
Courier notices me arrival by th-? through ma.
of teven more large bags fil ed with books.
Jcc., directed to senator Borland, under his
own frank. Tnia tn kes twenty bags in all,
weighing over one ton. wmeh this Senator has
franked home to ms own address.
VOL.LXV--JNEM SERIES VOL.XV-<NO. 16.
J From the Baltimore American —By Telegraph
1 Later from California,
ARRIVAL OF THE GEORGIA.
New York, April 7-9 P. M.
] The steamship Georgia, Capt. Porter, arri
. ve d this evening from Havana bringing the
i California mails and sixty passengers brought
, by the steamer Falcon. The Falcon left Cha
, I gres on the 29th of March, and owing to the
, non arrival of the mails at Chagres, she left
I before all (be passengers got across. There
, were a large number of vessels at Havana
loading with sugar.
' The dates from San Francisco are to March
llih. The Courier says that tho efforts made
by the Legislature to elect a United Stales
Senator in place of Col Fremont have pro
ved ineffectual. When the Convention first
met, the prominent Whig candidates were
Hon. T Bu ler King and Hon John Wether
ed, and the Democratic candidates were Col.
Fremont and Mr. Heydenfell. Mr. Weihered
finally abandoned the contest and it was nar
rowed down to the three others named.
After nearly 150 baliotings, the Convention
j finding it impossible to make a choice, adjourn
|ed ti'l the Ist of January next. King had the
highest vote on «he last ballot, but lacked six or
eight votes ofan election. Heydenfelt was the
favorite of the democrats. Fremont, who com
menced with only half a dozen of votes, gradu
ally increased in strength, until before lhe
Convention adjourned his vote equalled that
of Heydenfelt. On the last day lhe latter
withdrew, and Colonel Weller was substituted
in his place, who received exactly the vote be
fore given to the withdrawing candidate. A
good deal of feeling exists on the subject, and
the senatorial question will enter largely into
the next politic al canvass.
On Sunday 23d of February, San Francis
co was in a tremendous state of excitetneut on
account of lhe anticipated execution by the
populace of two noted scoundrels, SXew&rtand
Windred, for nearly murdering Mr. Hanson, a
respectable merchant of this place and rob
bing him of $2,000. A meeting of citizens
was called, several of our most influential
and wealthy men presided, and the prisoners
were given a fair trial by Jury. The Jury,
however, disagreed, and the officer of justice
took possession of the culprits. At Sacra
mento City a similar affair occurred, but lhe
offender did not escape so easily. Frederick
R<>e a noted gambler shot through the head a
Mr. Chas. Myers for interfering to put an end
to a quarrel in which ho was engaged. A
meeting of the citizens was called, in which
lhe most prominent and influential men took
part, Roe was tried and convic ed and in less
than five hours after lhe commission of the
crime ha was hung in the presence of an as
semblage of thousands.
Business was still dull and the arrivals at
San Francisco of foreign shipping had greatly
fallen off within the last fortnight. The miners
were doing very well throughout the State and
an increased amount of gold was expected to
be taken out during lhe c< ming reason. There
has been but little rain in San Erancipco,
though the interior has been more favored in
this respect.
A terrible accident occurred by whfch the
steamboat Santa Clara, was completely des roy
ed by tire and the steamboat Hartford damaged
to the extent of SBO 000. The Santa Clara
took fire first and was burned to the waters
edge. Three of the crew were burned to
death, and Mr. Kennedy one of the owners,
narrowly escaped, after being severely burnt.
The Hanford caught from the Santa Clara.
The market is overstocked with a varietv of
articles, boots, &c., which are selling for less
than cost. It is incredible the vast amount of
these goods in the market.
Floub is drooping a little, owing to the large stock
on hand.
Building materials without much change. Cigars
arc very abundant and selli g low.
Gkockhikb. —There is rather a belter feeling in
Sug ir, although pr ces are unchanged. Spices very
abundant and selling lower.
Liquors.— Stock on hand much reduced. Mar
kets almost bare of some kinds, such as Holland
Gin, Jamaica Rum, nnd fine Brandies.
Provisions of all kinds firm. Prime Butter,
Cheese, nnd Htuns in good demand.
Tobacco continues scarce, and selling very high.
Mess B >ef, 814 a sls—Mess Pork sls a SlB.
Mackerel 11 alB Hams 14 a 15. Lard 13 a 15.
Butter 36 a 45. Cheese 15 a2O
From California.
The steamer North American arrived at New
Orleans, Saturday morning, direct from Cna
gres, with 450 passengers, and $500,000 in
gold dust.
The debt cf the State still remains in the
same unsatisfactory condition and the State
Treasurer had been for some days in San Fran
cisco, endeavoring to effect a loan in pursuance
o the act of the Legislature authorizing one
for the suppression of Indian hostilities.
The Indian Commissioners have met with
the chiefs of four of the principal tribes, and
had a ‘big talk” with them. The Commis
sioners proposed a treaty of peace with the
Iribtsß, the latter to descend from tho moun
tains and settle on the plains, where the mi
ners would not interfere with them. The
chiefs received the proposal with little Javor,
/iMimatuag-Huu, whilst they the gionq- _
Tarnrrtley <fid xtot fa? »he whites. They were
told that if the proposition was not accepted
war must follow. The chiefs a-ked time to get
a final answer from their tribes. It was given
them.
The weather at the mines was fine. The
want of rain was a serious drawback on the
miners’ prospects. They have been obliged,
in the northern mines, to dig canalsand tunnel
mounta ns in order to turn the streams Irom
their natural course and procure water for the
gold washings A great quantity of earth was
thrown up in the esrly part of the season, but
was rendered useless by the want of water
The miners have taken to working the bars in
the streams, which are remarkably low. The
prospect is good for a large yield ol gold du
ring the summer.
New diggings have been discoved on Scott’s
and Klamath rivers, near the northern bounda
ry ol the State, and the mines there are repoit
ed to yield abundantly, the gold being mostly
coarse and of good quality.
Quartz rock mining and crushing by ma
chinery is being prosecuted with great vigor.
New discoveries of the gold bearing quartz
have been made in various locations the rock
containing a large proportion of .old and be
ing easily crushed Numerous orders have
been given for crushing machines, and in the
co tni r g season, the yield from this source is
expected to be very large.
There have also been discovered new mines
in the neighborhood of Monterey. Los Angeles,
and San Diego, which are said to be very pro
ductive.
A new feature in the business of gold mining
has been introduced, in lhe shape <»f dredging
machines, which are used where the w iter is
too deep to allow lhe earth to be taken from the
bottom by any other means. Two smadsteam
ers have been engaged in dredging the bed of
the Yuba river. The companies which own
them are expected to he very successful. The
result of the first efforts which were mad •
were quite encouraging, and have induced
other parties lo enter into similar enterprises.
The San Francisco papers are filled with
accounts of several brutal murdersand out
rages which have r»c“n*:y been perpetrated in
different parts of California; and, as to which,
lhe people had risen en masse, and after trying
the alleged nflenders, according !o Lynch Law,
had infl cted .-ummary vengeance upon them.
The most dreadful state of lawles-mess, and
popular excitement and violence, approaching
savage barbarity, appears to prevail.
Rich discoveries of gold have recently been
made on the North Fork of Fea'her River.
Provisions were very scarce, barlev command
ing a dollar a pound. Large numbers of mules
have perished along the rouie, in consequence
of the want of food, and expos ire to ’he snow.
In consequence of the scarcity and high rate
of provisions, tuard had rapidly advanced at
lhe Rich Bar. Eight dollars a day was demand
ed for board, and then the very poorest fare
was served up
The bar waa covered with snow about four
feet in depth. Some of lhe miners were only
making sufficient to pay their board, whilst
others were averaging from SSO lo SIOO per
day. Tne gold is represented as being quite
coarse. Tnose who had good locations staked
off before the snow, were realizing by far lhe
most.
There were from two or three hundred per
sons located on Smith’s and the I? ich Bar.
Among other diggings at Sierra Nevada, that
of Maihent’s Creek is attracting much notice.
It yielded from three to twenty dollars a day
to a man. The miners who are working there
have, as a general thing, been there for quite a
long time, and are entirely satisfied with lhe re
sult of their labors and their prospects.
Owing to some outrage committed by a
French monte dealer at Coloma, lhe citizens
rose tu masse and banished all the gamblers
from the place. We are informed that they
took them bv force and deposited them a few
I miles from the city, warning them not lo re
turn.
I’nere are three companies ot iriners ope
rating with machinery Nevada Cry, in
Grass Valley. These companie- consist of
from four to eight men each. Several hun
dred men are employed in digging and hauling
lhe rock at wag-s ranging between three and
five dollars a day.
There is a vein of gold bearing quartz on
“ Massachusetts Hili,” between Rough and
Re dy and Nevada City, which is claimed by
Wright Co., who have expended
$25,0110 for machinery ar d are regularly en
gig»-d in he q Jar z mining business Dr. ?\b
by & Cm., have a.’ready expended about $20,-
OUO for machinery, witn wtnen they are crush
ing ruck from ‘ Gold Mountain,” in the vicinity
of Nevada. A Beniiam <fc Co o-vn a vein io
•‘Union Quar z Ruck Mountain.” some four
miles soma ts Nevada City. This is said to be
the richest vein yet tes'ed in that part of lhe
coun ry. Several .-ptc.me s o‘ quartz from
this mountain nave been sent to Sacramento.
I hey were rich and beautiful, containing not
only g jid, but pry lama,silver in small particles,
and salpnate of iron. A genuine ruby has al
i so been found in a piece of quartz from this
mountain.
Agriculture, which has hitherto been a very
•übordinate interest in California, now bi js fair
to assume its proper position in relation lo a
*ea'nhy and prosperous community. The high
price oi agricultural produce of a> kinds have
induced large numbers to undertake the cui i
vation of me earua, am tho lend s >ands of the
a river bo toms are being rapidly setll d by in
|da sin ous and energetic, iarmeis. Toe pros-
peel for an abundant yield of erery de,crip
lion oi produce waa very excellen* until the
long continued and unusual drought has in
duced apprehensions that th. crops in many
: parts will be a tota. failure. H 7
Later from Panama.
By the arrival of the North American we
have dates from Panama of the2sth ult.
The Star gives an account of the adventure,
of a party of Americans who left Panama
some lime since for the purpose of visiting and
making an examina ion of the gold mine,
near Buenaventura. Owing to a want of ex
perience, and the difficulties to be overcome
in pursuing their inquiries in a s range coun
try, full of suspicious and jealous people, and
also in consequence of the illness of some of
the party, unlitiing hem for duty, the enter
prise was abandoned and they returned home.
Sufficient was learned by them, however,
whilst at Buenaventura, to satisfy the most in
credulous that there is plenty ol gold in the
country, quantities of which they saw in the
possession of the natives and Indians.
Buenaventura is abou: three hundred miles
down the coast; the Britishsteamer stops there,
within three hundred yards of the shore. It
has a beautiful bay and fine harbor. Cali is
some distance in the interior. It is a city con
taining from fifteen to twenty thousand in
habitants, and is located in a country which
for beauty of scenery, fertility of soil, and
healthfulness of climate has hardly an equal
tn lhe world’s wide range.
Whilst at Buenaventura, a letter was ad
dressed by Col. Phelan, who was of the ex
ploring party to F. W. Byrne, Esq., a gentle
man residing at Cali, asking for information
respecting the mines in that neighborhood.
Mr. Byrne's answer is as follows, dated 15th
February last:
“The ioformation which vou have received
with regard to valuable mines of gold in thia
pari of New Granada is Onrroci. Frnm «hak
I have seen in my researches, 1 am of opin
ion that throughout the whole of the Cordillera
which runs through this splendid valley of
Cauca, the mineral riches are as grea asm
California. The specimens which 1 have
taken from my mines are equal to those which
I brought with me on my rsturn from San
Francisco. The quality of the gold is the
same, and the deposits are found in the primi
live mountains, at their base, and all the rivers
which descend from those mountains in the
alluvial lands. In the mountains, the gold is
found in the granite and quarts rocks ; but
the highest inducement to miners i, the facility
with which gold washing may be carried on
in the alluvial soil, where rivers and streams
are found in every direction, and can be con
ducted to any point at will."
A great fire took place at Taboge, near
Panama, on the 221 ult. Thirty buildings,
most of them large and important were des
troyed. Lo s S3O OUO.
The three men who committed such horri
bleand wholesale murders lately on the lath
rnus, have been tried, found guilty and sen
fenced to be hung on the sth inst. The cap
tain of the band of Chilians, who not long
ago robbed the British bullion train of $4 500,
has been arrested and sentenced to be hung.—
Picayune, &th intt.
From Chili.—News from Valparaiso to
tha 25. h December last have been received at
San Francisco.
The most important news is of a great fire
in Valparaiso. It broke out on Sunday morn
ing, December 15th, in a little cigar shop, in
the Calle del Cabo, corner of the Calle del
Cochrane, and was not extinguished until it
had swept the street on both sides, destroying
some thirty-seven houses, shops, &o„ and
about $200,000 worth of property.
The Valparaiso papers are rejoicing in the
prospect of a German emigration into lhe
southern part of the Republic.
The Chilian Congress, at a former session,
placed at lhe disposal of the President 48 000
acres of land, to be donated to foreign colo
nists who would settle upon them; bat this
quantity is so far from being sufficient, that
the Government now asks Congress to pass
a general bill, allowing vacant land to be given
to any extent which may be necessary.
The Chil.an wheat crop is decidedly promis
ing. The grain is now too far advanced to
suffer from rust, and the crops will be, it is
expected, very abundant, nearly three times
the usus I quantity having been sown.
The American Minister to Chili, Hon. Balie
Peyton, was a passenger on board of the
U. 8. sloop-of war Vincennes, which sailed on
the 27th ol December for Talcahuana. He
went lor the purpose of making a tour of the
province ol Concepcion.— Picayuni, Gth last.
From Oregon.— I’he Sau Francisco Stan
dard of the4th ult. has news from Oregon,
sixty hours from Astoria.
Col Beverly S. Allen, of Tennessee, one
of the commissioners to treat with the Indians,
reached Oregon, by lhe Sea Gull, on the 3d
March. The Board of Commissioners was
complete, consisting of Gov. Gaines, Judge
Sk'nner and Col. Allen, and would at once
proceed lo lhe performance of their duties.
The Oregonians wetp expecting the arrival
of a company of lhe Mounted Rifle Regiment,
•aid to have been ordered there for active
”1
The Oregonian saysJthat the Western St u
has hoisted the name cf Judge Ltncewter for •
Congress, in oppoaitioa to the present dele
gate, Mr. Thurston.
The drought, which had prevailed in Cali
fornia during the winter, excited hopes in
Oregon ot receiving high prices for produce
during lhe coming season, and the Oregonian
exhorts the people to stay at home and culti
vate their fields, as they are ceitain to yield
greater profits than digging for gold.—Pica
yune 6th mst.
From Havana—The Isabel, Capt. Rolling,
true to time, was in porl early yesterday fore
noon, bringing us our usual favors from cor
respondents who have been as punctual as the
ship that bears them. Our files from Editors
ol journals, and our letters are to the latest
tla es, as will be been by the information insert
ed below.
Tne Label brings a number of passengers, a
large number were landed at Savannah, ai 2 o’-
clock, A. M. yesterday, the hour at which the
Isabel touched at that port.
A French steamer sailed from Havana on
(he 4ch inst. A British frigate and a brig arri
ved there on the same day. The steam ship
Falcon sailed on the sih inst. at 8 A. M. bound
to Chsgres. A large n**wber of vessels were
in’he port of Havana -nen the Isabel sailed.
The City of Havana and environs were in a
healthy state, although the weather was very
warm.
A grand and imposing ceremony took place
on the 7th inst, at Havana, at the Cathedral
the burial service of a nephew of the Queen
of Spain having been performed on that day.
—Ch. Cour.
Ak American Ball at Naplel—The Phila
delphia Inquirer contain? an extract of a let
ter dated Naples, February 22, which furnish
es he following interesting account of a mag
niticent ball given on board of the U. 3. steam
frigate Mississippi, in that harbor :
‘ We have had a continued round of gaye
ties during the Carnival season. Tie city
has been thronged with strangers, a hrge por
tion of whom are Americans. Tne great sett
of the winter season, however, was given on
botrd the steam frigate Mississippi, by the
gallant captain and officers of the vessel, on
Wednesday last. Irivitaiions were extended
io lhe nobility and diplomalie corps, as well as
to lhe English, French, and Russian naval
oflicers in port, and to all the American
travellers. A* 8 P. M. the boat of the squad
ron began to carry the company off to the
ship. The ball began at eight, and was kept
up until the morning hours. The company
amounted to nearly lour hundred persons, of
ihe elite, ot lhe resident and stranger society of
Naples.
’• This Ball, so successful in every respect,
ha* created a marked sensation in Naples. It
reflects tne highest honor upon the liberal hos
pitality of the Captain and officers of the
Mississippi, and will leave behind a most
agreeable impression of American caaracter.
Tne Alississtppi was much admired for the
beauty ol her proportions, and the masterly
workmanship ot her engines and machinery.
“ The American flag has been fljing all day
from the King's vessels, and the American,
English, and Russian men-of-war, while the
cauuon has Leen thundering on all sides, in
honor us the Birthday of Washington. If
the fanatics at home could see with what res
pect aud admiration the American Union is
tegarded abroad, they would be aide to appre
cia.e lhe infamy which would descend upon
their names,from ths success of tueir unhal
lowed schemes.
“ lhe wiuteral Naples has been extraordi
narily mild L has been almost one continued
succession of warm winds aud bright sunlight
days 1 not say that we have had neither
snow nor ice. Political tranquility is being
gradually restored, and lhe cry is resuming its
accustomed gayety, or rather exceeding it ”
Lowell in 1821 and icol A Contrast I
A Currespuudeut oi the Boston Journal, in a
recent letter, give* the following account of
me ’‘City ot Spindles” as it was in 1821, and
as it now is in lr»51 :
•• I; the visitor wi-hes to go in’o the fac
tories, His necessary to obtain tickets of ad
mission irom the agents, J. W. Paige & Co.
aud A A. Lawrence &. Co., before leaving
Boston. Ou arrival, he will be admitted to
witness lhe vast operations in lhe Hamilton,
Appteion, La wrence, Tremont, Boon, Suffolk
and o her mitts, which together have a capital
of $13,000,000 invested, and give employ
ment u 9000 females and 4000 males. The
animal consumption of cotton is $35,000,000
pounds, and wool 2 SJO 000 pounds, from
which is manufactured 80 000 000 yards co it on
Cloth, 20,000 OOOyards calico, 15.■ 00 000 yards
bleached and dyed goods, 1,000 000 yards
broadcloth and cassimere, and 5u0,0d0 yards
carpeting, lhe annual product us cotton
cluih alone, allowing it to be a yard wide,
would extend over 50,000 miles of surface,
or twice around the giube. Such is lhe vast
extent us the manuiaciuring operations in
Lowell, where pieviuus to the year 1821,
me MernmacK flowed noiselessly through an
almost unbruken fore&t, disturbed only by its
•wu natural ripple, as it rolled along on its
way tube lost in .he Atlantic.”
A new hue us ainamers is about being es-
between Philadelphia aud Liverpool,
lhe new steamer Lafayette, now filling out, is
to sail irom the former city on the 7th of May.
. I Bbe is a propeller of the largest class.