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THE HERALD:
PIU’ITe AND IK'KW.ItY OK FLORIDA.
Tun gcneml appearance of Florid* is unin
teresting. One-half of Uie Territory i* *n im
mense pine barren, where little i to he wen
beside the palmetto, the myrtle and the pine. j
Here and there, however, may be found ‘ham
inorka’of lire oak, |kwl oak and hickory; and j
by the border* of the take* and river* are de
lightful prove* of orange* and fig*. Our Aral !
approach to Florida wn* by the conveyance of
n yawl boat hired for the occasion. ‘Though j
it wa* the depth of winter, yet the atmosphere
was. a* it had been fora fortnight, singularly
balmy and soft. Hueb air wc may believe the
inhabitants of Elysium enjoy. Our little sail
being hoisted, the wind wafted ua with apreed
across the bosom of the river, then onward*
through canals or ‘cut#,’ till at last, when ap
proaching the shore, our boat tv tut grounded in
a narrow pas*, livery hand tvas roused toac- i
turn; five or six pole* were instantly plunged ‘
into the water, awakening in their deacent the
slumbering young alligators imbedded in the
mild. The tide threatened to leave us. To
render the perplexity still more provoking, one 1
of the company, in transport of fun, exclaim- j
•d—“Till* la the unkindest cut of all.” We
feared a practical iilustrtion of the proverb
that ‘Tunc and tide wait fur no man.’ Every
nerve wn* strained, and on a rolling swell wc
floated away. Noon our boat grated upon the
strand ; we stepped forth, and the soil of Flo
rida wa* beneath our feet!
The Ht. Johns is the. most important River of
this Territory. It* source isntnong arhain of
lake* in the Middle Eastern District. These
lake* are accessible to sloops. They are often
deep, but of a living clearness and brilliancy.
In their depths dwell unnumbered fish of vari
ous kind*—the trout, the flounder, and other*.
Alligators dwell tit these waters, and are some
time* found of the enormous length of IS feet!
Their average size, however, is by no mean*
so great. During the heat of noon in winter,
and nt all time* in aunttner, they mny be teen
lying upon tin- sand-bar* of the rivers ami lake*,
(leieuremoving monsters!) enjoying the repose
of almost perpetual alienee and warmth ; indif
ferent to all war* and political tumitlta ; savage
ly desirous of young negroes; laughing at bul
lets and ‘accounting them ns stubble, and with
‘dignified disgust’ turning from the crack of the
rifle a* though it Were but the small voice of a
pop gun.
They nru the enemies of bathers. A boy
from one of the town* lying on one of the
Southern river*, while bathing, was attacked
by one of these “ugly insect*,” (as they were
laughably termed by an ‘ancient marinere’ of
our acquaintance.) The advances of the mon
ster were unforeseen. A ahout front the com
panions of the endangered youth failed to warn
him from the spot,—and—my Wood freezes
while I write!—he rushed into the very juws
of the water demon before him. Oh, dod!
what an awlul moment to the young specta
tor* was that! They saw their companion
struggling in the waves, his heqjl locked in the
very jaw* of the enemy. The combatants
sank. 11 ith admirable adroitness, the youth
seized the alligator by the eye holes, forcing
the balls instantly from the socket*. With a
timid like howl, the monster relaxed his hold
and retreated tothe bottom of the river, w hile
the unlucky youth, blinded and drenched with
Wood, staggered to the shore. This is no fancy ‘
sketch. It occurred near Darien in Georgia.*
Other encounter* of this kind were roinniuni
cated to us. One more relation shall conclude j
our present remarks upon tht* subject:
**♦♦♦*
Alligator vermi# Steam.— This w as n forced,
an unavoidable combat, and a brief one. The
Captain of a steamboat, while at his post, per
ceived oue of the inhabitant!* of the river push
ing his way across directly before the boat.—
At its apprpaeh, the animal sank, and rose im
mediately before the wheel! He rushed nt the
shaft, which struck him with great violence,
dragged him upwards in it* revolution, and
flung him through the shivered boards of the
w heel house, a mangled and quivering victim
upon the deck. This anecdote was told us by
the Captain himself, and struck usas being very
horrible.
We might say some things fttrther relating
to the alligator. We might tell how he swal
loweth pine knots previous to the lethargy of
his winter life, and ronsldereth them not infe
rior to pastry and pancakes ; also, how excel
lently well his tail lastcth to the epicure, who j
cookcth said tail and considered! it equal to
bass; furthermore, how the ladies shudder at
such feat and such opinion, and consider it bar
barism to devour any portion of said ‘varmint’
—with other remarks of like character. But
wc return from the digression to the subject of
our paper.
The scenery of Florida is not all uninterest
ing. He who has seen from some quiet nook i
a graceful bend of the river bordered —;th
orange bowers and groves of the holly and
magnolia and oak, and (truly tropical and state
ly) the cabbage palmetto mid cocoa-nut, will
find in his memory recollections wherewith to
frame a dream of the loveliness of Mahomet's
paradise. There are ‘sinks,’ too, in Florida— ■
places where rivers suddenly sink or vanish in
the sand, or where they rush with abandoned
plunge into dark caverns, mingling there with
subterranean torrents, and gliding away
through thickest gloom with many murmur- ‘
mgs and discordant sounds. At some future
time, the post, looking iuto these dark and mis
ty caverns, may imagine, while he feels the in-!
spiral ion of horror, that these melancholy and
subterraneous sounds are the moans of the
* The lad referred to above is now living in !
our city, and is well and hearty. We seen him
a day or two ago. He often speaks of the ad
venture and “the tussel” he had to get clear of
his Vlligatorship. It occurred about five years
ago at a place called Cat Head, a small stream
NsV-rkb empties into the Altamaha river.
£jal jwj. ‘
water-genii, lamenting that the river amid
whose spray they spread their wings has left
the cypress shades and open sunshine to wan
der on through the ehinittcas and mist and sun
less gloom* of cavern*.
Hume of these Mtygian water* rise and sink
with the tide, thereby indicating their connec
tion with the sea. Lake* once wide and beau
tiful have sunk In a single night, leaving their |
i bed* covered w ith the fi*h. During the pre
, sent winter a lake aattk thus, leaving million* .
us fish dancing upon the land. Cart-loads of
these were carried off und cured by the neigh
i boring ‘crackers,’ (squatter* and herdsmen.)—
The remainder, puirifying, tainted the whole
atmosphere for miles around, reminding the
traveller of the plague* of Egypt.
I was speaking of tree*. Unanimously we
voted the magnolia to be the most beautiful.—
The exquisite fragrance of its blossom*, and
i the ‘imperial pride’ and beauty of its foliage,
have made it a great favorite. The live oak at
| tain* however, to great size. We passed some
grovescertainly magnificent. W hen growing
| in the low grounds, they are hung with dismal
! festoons of moss. A contractor, furnishing
i timber for naval purposes, informed tne of an
enormous tree growing on the bank* of a river.
< lie measured it and found it lit I feet to the first
| bough, and 36 feet in circumference at base!
lie compared its trunk to the shot-tower at
New York. 1 regarded hi* assertions a* exag
geration and extravagance of language, bill
wa* assured by the planter over whose grounds
its m ighty shadow moved, that the statement
wa* correct. Tbits giant of the forel was be
ginning to feci the inroad* of decay. It wa*
not cut, a* it was found hollow in the middle.
Hut what a sound w hen this monarch falls,
shaking the earth around! YYhut a start of
terror and amazement among the wild beasts
of the field, when they hear the echoing crash
of it* dethroned and falling grandeur, breaking
through ami drowning the roar of the tempest!
These tree* are almost invariably hung with
the festoonerv of tin-grape. The vines of the
grape in Florida are sometimes of great size,
bearing abundantly. Front tile fruit good
wine ha* been made. The iu:oonla or Indian
bread is a vine which clambers up the forest
trees. Its thorns are very sharp and malignant.
From the root the Indian prepares a specie* of
flour in tuste not unlike the flour made from
potatoes. The palmetto is a shrub which gives
character to the scenery. Its leaf is fan-shaped
and beautifully green.
The pine of Florida is the long-leafed kind.
It grows sometimes ton great height, towering
above all lit lordly stateliness and strength.—
When the wind rages, the roar of the pine
forest is indescribably grand. In Alcchua
County, the soil is generally rich ; there the
pine is oft enormous in stature, and its roots
strike deep into the fertile earth, so that the
ploughman may drive hi* plough close to the
very trunk.
The cabbage palm resembles the palmetto
ill its leaf, but it is a tree, and grows sometimes
to the height of fifty feet. The trunk is point
ed witlt a thousand shafts of bark, shooting
out like bayonets. It resembles the cocoa-nut.
The orange is of three kinds—the sweet, the
bitter-sweet, und the sour. The latter arc not
unlike the lemon as to flavor. The first men
tioned is the delicious fruit brought to the North
from the West Indies. The bitter-sweet is
most abundant and is certainly pleasant. Figs,
white and purple, arc found in the hammock*
I of Middle Florida and are a* agreeable as the
cultivated fruit. Peaches nrc also found wild,
strange as it may seent. Perhaps the botanist
may say that they must have been introduced
by the. natives—by the men who wandered
through the w ilds of the Territory, before the
savage had passed tile frozen ocean in his de
scent to the temperate and tropical climes of
America, ‘i he cocoa-nut has been introduced
from Cuba, as well as the plantain und banana,
the myrtle or orange, the lemon and pine-ap
ple. Os the latter there are very few to be
found, though the soil and climate are highly
favorable.
In the North-Western parts of Florida, there
is some interesting scenery. “The ground,’’
says the gifted Chateaubriand, “gradually rises,
ns you leave the river,* by natural terracas, rc
>etrembling those of an artificial garden. The
summit of the hill is composed of rocks. A
thousand fountains bubble up among the ter
races, mid, spnrMiug in the sunlight with gol
den lustre, leap away in beauty towards the
river. The whole aspect of the place is im
posing ; it may be likened to the Temple of
Nature und the magnificent steps which lead
to it.” G. 11.
•In the lower part of Florida, they make no winter
retreat*.
•The Apalaehicola.
Immknsk Claim or Property.—lt will
probably be new to many—it was to us
yesterday morning—that a poor journey
man printer, named Htnith Ilarpending,
j now a resident of Tennessee, but formcr
; ly of tliis city, where he is well known,
has instituted in the United States Circuit
Court of this District a claim to an itnnten
isc estate in this city. His action is brought
| against “the ministers, ciders and deacons
of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church,
ofthc city of New York, and others, and
1 the estimated value of the property he
; claims is about twenty-five millions of dol
lars. lie makes his claim as heir at law,
j in a direct line, to a tract comprising about
sixteen acres, bounded by Broadway,
| Maiden Lain, Fulton, Nassau and John
’ streets. The documents comprising his
: bill, of which a copy has been sent us. are
i very voluminous, too much so for perusal;
■ and we can offer no further evidence of the
j support they give his claim than we our
! selves draw from the known character of
his einment counsel, Messrs, Graham, Hoff
man and Sanford.— New York Sun.
Freedom of the Press in Cauda. —lt is
believed that every editor of a French
paper of Canada, is now either in prison
or erile.
TMV WOXNTOSH COUNTY HEKALD.
UIUTIHII EMPIRE.
The empire of Great Britain embraces
large portion* of territory in Europe, Asia,
Africa, and America, and may literally be
said to begirt the globe. The immense
extent, however, of Iter possessions is
rather a cause of weakness than of strength ;
to her home government, which is neccs- I
sarily compelled to divide its means for
offence and defence, and to spread them
so vast a surface, a* to render them insuffi- ,
cicnt for the repulsion of a formidable foe,
who hat concentrated his resources to at- j
tack any given point. The military power
lof England is justly considered second, at |
least, to many in Europe, and in her late
war* on the continent her success was
mainly owing to her ability to subsidize
1 powerful allies, whose armies fought Iter
; battles, and won her victories. The down
fall of Napoleon was owing to such alliances
i —and Russia, purchased by British gold,
gave the first fatal blow to the power
mighty Corsican. Russia, Austria, Prussia,
and Sweden, followed up this blow, and
! drove the conqueror of Kings and Emper
! or*, bark to Lis capitol, and to exile in
Elba. After the restoration of this chief
, lain, hi* power wa* taken from him by
the combined armies of Prussia and England,
| and but for the timely aid of the former,
i the army of the latter would have been
j destroyed or captured. The strength of
! England is on the ocean—in her naval arm.
i There she is indisputably powerful — her
| naval force, however, is so much divided
: among her possessions in the four quarters
|of the globe, and in the protection of her
expanded commerce, that it* capabilities
I for offence at any one point are far less than
the great number of her war vessels would
induce us to believe.
Still she may he called a great sea-mon*
ater with which no nation in Europe can
contend, with an equal amount of available
mean* —wilh an equal number of vessels,
guns and men, if ail the power of each were
brought into the conflict. It is only by
cutting up her fleets, and by rapturing her
vessels in detail, that her naval prepon
derance can be arrested from her. Accord
ing to our naval mean* this nation, more
than any other, can inflict deep injuries on
England, as the results of the late war con
clusively proved. The teason is obvious
—she has to fight three thousand miles
ftoin home—we fight on our own orean
borders—and it would require three or
four of her aquadrons, to which, to inter
cept, and to rapture, one of our own.
Her supplies are generally brought from
a diatanec—ours always arc at hand, and
ready for use. But as the destiny of Eng
land hangs upon her cable—which if cut
will cause her to sink—so it behoves her to
strengthen well this important arm of her
power, lest it be broken by those who may
be made her enemies. In our last war,
{ with six frigates and ten sloops of war, we
j broke the charm of her naval invincibility
—and let her now be careful how she com
pels us to become a formidable naval nation
j —for when we do, the power of England
l on the ocean has departed. England holds
jurisdiction over 4,501,851 square miles,
or 1 505,435,300 actes, and counts among
het subjects and serf* upwards of 1113,000,
000. England's population proper, on
which she can rely in case of revolt among
her conquered provinces, amounts only to
shout 44,000,000. While the population
of the 11. Stales including 3,000,000 of
. blacks, amounts lo only 16,000,000.
In s few years, however, we shall out
number the European, and population of
’ England, and become for more powerful
on land than she ever ran he. She has
| reached the acme of her power, is old,
; and will, like the empire* that hare gone
! before her, gradually tend towards decay.
Wc are young and vigorous, growing rap
idly into the mightiness of potent man
! hood, and will in half a century he the
greatest nation that the world probably over
saw. The march of einpite has been ever
westward, and the sun of time w ill shed
j its last beams of power and rule upon our
Hesperian realm.
Yankee Spirit. —An American brig,
belonging to Portsmouth, N. 11. wan once
in Demarnra, disrhargeing her cargo, when
she was boarded by a boat from a gun brig
lying at anchor at no great distance. The
crew was mustered and their protections
examined—and one New Hampshire boy,
ol'a noble and fearless spirit, and though
young in years, of a vigorous frame, was
ordered into the boat. He peremptorily
refused to obey the order. The officer
in a great rage, collared the youthful
seaman, but was instantly laid sprawling
by a well directed blow of his fist. This
boat's crew rushed to the assistance of their
officer, and the spirited American was final
ly overpowered, pinioned, thrown into the
boat, and conveyed on board the British
brig. The lieutenant complained to his
commanding officer, of the insult he had
received from the stalwart Yankee, and
his battered lace corroborated his statement.
The commander at once decided that such
insolence demanded exemplary punishment
—and that the young Yankee required, on
his first entrance into the service, a lesson
which might be of use to him hereafter.
Aeceordingly the offender was lashed to
a gun, by the inhuman sattelitcs of tyranny,
and his back was bared to the lash. Before
a blow was struck he repeated his declara
tion that he was an American citizen, and
the sworn foe of tyrants. He demanded
release—and assured the Captain in the
most solemn and impressive manner that if
he persisted in punishing him like the
vilest malefactor, for vindicating his rights
as an American citizen, the act would never
he forgotten—but that his revenge would
be certain and terrible. The Captain
laughed at what he regarded an impotent
menace—and give signal to the boatswain’s
mate. The white skin of the young Ame
rican was soon cruelly mangled, and the
blows fell thick and heavily on the quiver
ingflesh. He bore theinflictionof the barba
rous and cruel punishment without a mur
mur or a groan; and when the signal was
S'ven for the executioner to cease, although
e skin was hanging in stripes on his back,
which was thickly covered with clotted
blood, he showed no disposition to faulter
or to faint. His face was somewhat paler
than it wont to be—but his lips were com
pressed, as if he was summoning determi
nation to his aid, and his dark eyes shot,
forth a brilliant gleam, showing that his \
spirit was unsubdued, and that he wa
bent on revenge, even if his life should be j
the forfeit.
Ilis bonds were loosened, and he arose
from his humiliating posture. He glared
fiercely around. The Captain wa* stand
ing within a few paces of him, with a dc- j
tnoniac grin upon hi* features, as if he en
joyed to the bottom of his soul the disgrace
and tortures inflicted on the poor Y ankee.
The hapless sufferer saw that smile of
I exultation—and that moment decided the
fate of his oppressor. YVith the activity,
i the ferocity and almost the strength of a
; tiger, the mutilated American sprang upon
I the tyrant, and grasped him where he
i stood, surrounded by his officers, who, lor
the moment seemed paralyzed with aston- |
ishment—and before they could recover
their senses and hasten to the assistance of
their commander, the flovged American
had borne him to the gangway, and then
clutching him by the throat with one hand,
and firmly embracing him with the oilier, j
despite hi* struggles, he leaped with him |
into the turbid water of the Demarara!— i
They parted to receive the tyrant and his :
victim—then closed over them,and neither \
were afterward* seen. Both had passed
to their last account —
o , -Unanointed, unanealed
With all their imperfection* on their head.” j
But a brighter day has dawned upon the
British navy. The odious system of im
pressment is abolished—neveragain I hope
to be adopted.— Bos. Cultivator.
Da. DyotT. —The Grand Jury have
found a true bill against this notorious
person upon various charges of fraud and
embezzlement, and in due course of time he
will be put upon his trial before a panel of
impartial citizen While wc disclaim any
desire of fermenting the prejudice which
already exist against him, we canitol refrain
from expressing a hope that the law will be
meted out lo him in the full measure of
justice. If he is innocent, we earnestly
pray that his innocence may be made man
ifest, and he be acquitted; but, if guilty, w c
should be sorry to sec him escape through
any mere legal technicality. .Small rogues
are made lo undergo the penalties which
they invoke by violating the statutes, and
there is no reason why your great rogues
should not bear their share of the burdens.
We reiterate the hope wc have here
tofore expressed, that Mr. Jacob Riilg
way’s connection with this business w ill be
strictly intestigated. Wealth anti station
must not be allowed to screen him from
public censure if he is properly censurable,
any more than they should be allowed lo
expose him to unjust condemnation. There
is a strong and constantly growing desire
in this community to have this whole mat
ter throughly sifted—to look iuto its
inmost recesses —to examine all its mys
teries; and we trust the counsel employed
will not suffer any considerations to deter
them from an unflinching discharge of
their duty. No matter who may he im
plicated—no matter who may be injured
in public estimation—no matter what
dark schemes may he brought lo light—no
matter what plots may be unravlled—it is
the w islt of the public that the whole ‘ truth
should he made known, so that punishment
may fall wherever it ha* been deserved.
Let the counsel for the Commonwelth
prode this ease tothe bottom, and if there
are any person legally implicated with Dr.
Dyott let all such persons be made the
object of prosecution.
The Ledger furnishes the following as
the result of the meeting of the creditors of
Dyott.
The Creditors oi T. W. Dyott met on
Monday afternoon at 5 o’clock, lor the
purpose of hearing the report ol their At
torney, YV. L. Hirst. Esq., as to the li
ability of Mr. Ridgeway to pay the debt
of Dr. Dyott. Mr. Hirst, proceeded to
argue, that from the evidence adduced
before the Court of Common Pleas, it was
his opinion, that at the time Mr. Ridgeway
was published in ihe newspaper as being
a trustee of Dr. Dyoil's hank, and when he
received the bond of #.">00,000, he was per
fectly aware of the inability of Dr, Dyott
to proreed with his business, and that con
sequently an action might he sustained
against Mr. Ridgeway, for the recovery of
the moneys due to Dr. Dyott’screditors.
After Mr, II rst had concluded reading
his report, resolutions were drafted and
signed by the meeting, which was very
numerous, authorizing Mr. Ilirst to insti
tute action against Jacob Ridgeway for
the recovery of said moneys. The meeting
thru adjourned.
An English gentleman was recently walk
ing under the arcades of the Rue dc llivoli,
in Paris holding in his hand a gold
headed cane of splendid workmanship;
a man supported by two cruchcs came up
and asked for aims in a mysterious manner
and pitiful tone. The gentleman moved
to pity, gave the beggar a small silver coin.
At the same moment, a person near him
suddenly exclaimed,“ How can you, sir.
allow this rogue to deceive you ? Please
to hand me your cane, and I will soon show
you that the rascal runs better than I can.”
The Englishman, taken unawares, without
reflecting, lent his cane; the beggar, the
moment he perceived it in his detractor’s
hands, threw away his cruchcs and took to
his heels as if his Satanic magesty in
person was running after him, and was fol
lowed by the titan with the cane, whilst
the spectators, and the Englishman par
ticularly, remained in convulsions of laugh
ter at the sight, and exclaimed alternate
ly. “Oh, he will be caught !”—“ No, he
will not be caught !” But both the racing
heroes disappeared at the next turning in
the street, and the good Englishman re
mained waiting for his splendid cane, w hich
cost five hundred francs.
The Mayor of this city has received a
letter from the Sheriff of Jones County.
Georgia, in which the writer states that
“Henry Jones, the prisoner received from
the authorities of South Carolina, has been
committed to prison to await his trial, and
that the Court will commence its session on
Monday the 15th inst.” Inclosed in the
letter was a subpeena for a witness in this
city, whose attendance at Court is earnest
ly desired to establish the truth— “for,” j
says the letter, “the truth is glaring, and
if it only can be produced. I think he will
pay the penalty due to crime.”
Charleston Courier.
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New-Oklear*. \p r ;t 3 I
LATEST FROM MBXtdb. ‘
YVe have converged with the captain of!
thesehr. Arm Maria, lie left Taiapi eu or . ‘
tlieJlst ult. Gen. Mcxia had arrive* at I
Tampico the day befaje, hut unatlcndtg.!
Gen. L'rrea was expected on the day th I
vessel sailed. It wa* reported at Tampico l
that l'rrea had been defeated in two battles |
wilh the Centralists, whose troops, 7000
strong, were ahout 15 leagues from the
town.
Home fear* were entertained for the j
safety of Tampico. The federal troops in |
the place are reckoned at 1000. The U. 8. j
Cutter was still in port.
Tampico, March 17.—Dy an express,
which arrived this morning, we have an j
account of a signal victory obtained by the
federal army over the hosts of our ty
rants.
11. Q. LIBERATING ARM Y.
Tuscan, March 15, l**39.
I have tne *“*tfeiion ( U announce to i
| you that just now at 1 o o—l federal i
! army has obtained a most complete triun. r i.,
| over the division of the vanguard of the
1 central troops, commanded by General Cos.
1 have only time to state that after three
! hours and a half of the hottest firing, the 1
j action terminated by a capitulation, in
j which it has been agreed that the w'hole ;
■ army of assailants shall fall hack on M cxico
hv regular inarches. During the action I I
made “00 prisoners, and was joined after
wards by 150 of the centralists; all their!
artillery, mule* and baggage, 350 muskets i
; and many other articles have fallen into our
I lands. I lost I ollicers and 1“ soldier* j
1 killed. The enemy's loss amounted to 8
j officers and 76 privates.
Jose Antonio Mexia.
Hr. Augustine, March 30.
An mv In tki.lioe.nce. — Lieut, (.‘ol. liar*
| ney, 2d Dragoons, sailed for the Military
; postsHouth, on the‘27lh inst. Two Indians
and a Negro accompanied hint, as guides
| and interpreter.
The Ith Artillery isordered North.
The Topographical Survey of the Mil
j itary Districts, as contemplated by Geu.
: Taylor, is rapidly progressing. A Corporal
1 attached to the command acting with Capt.
Mackey, T. C., was killed in the Etanaya
! Scrub, ahout a fortnight since. The In
dian* escaped.
General Macomb is expected at Black
1 Creek today. It is said thut the object of
j his visit is to hold an inteiriew with the
i enemy. It is further stated, that the Gcn
i era! is furnished with dollars by way of
) closing the war.
The Baltimore Suit, of the iMth ultimo,
states that an iron steamboat, the hull of)
] which was manufactured in Knglaud, sent j
to Savannah for Mr. B. O. Lamar, .ft that;
|city, und thence transmitted by him to
1 this city, to he put together by Messrs.
Watchman and liralt, is now nearly com- i
’ pleated, and lying alongside of their wharf, j
i Another of the same description is now on j
the stocks. The boat is 125 feet in length
! 45 feet beam, and 7 feet in depth of hold, j
: and couse jucntly measure considerably |
j upwards of 400 tons. Thev at* of very 1
j handsome model, and draw only about three I
i feet water, when every thing is in. Their j
’ engines, which have been made by Messrs.
W. A. 11. are low pressure, and each of
‘OO horse power. YVe understand that
j these boats are to ply he l wen Savannah and |
j Macon, in Georgia Only one of them is !
{ yet named—the De Ros? et.
Ac. 01 nt of American Mamitacturer* bv j
!an Englishman. — At a great Anti-Corn Law
i Dinner, recently given at VI a licit ester. Eng-’
i laud, one of the speakers lit the course of his 1
j remarks, made the following statement: that, I
lin 1811 the people of America consumed one ‘
| hundred bales of cotton. Last year the con
j sumption was n urly three hundred thousand
I bales, entirely the growth of the short period
I which haselapsedsinct IN||. She now stands,
j in point of consumption, where we stood in I
| the year 1810. Sixteen years ago Lowell,
the .Manchester of America, w asadesert. Its 1
’ forest echoed no sound but that of thecatrract.
It now spin* & manufacturer* forty thousand
! bales of cotton per annum. There is a con
j eenirated waterpower, amounting to five thou
i >.ind horses’power, which equals one half of
1 the warier power of Great Urittaiu w hich is
: applied 10 the cotton manufacture mi l to one
sixth of all the steam power so applied. In
1832. America exported two inillons eiglitliun
j dred thousand dollars worth of cotton good*.
In 183 H. and half of eighteen hundred thirty
| seven, she exported twenty thousand bules of
her cotton manufacturers round the Cape of
! Good Hope to India and Chnia, nudthirty four
i thousand bales to the markets of South Amer
1u a. Nt ither is it in the cotton manufactures
| alone that she is advancing. In 1835. she had
j seventeen millions of sheep and lambs. Inlß3B,
| 23 millions, which at three pounds per head,
I would give sixty million pounds of wool, the
{ whole of which is manufactured there. Infe
i rior woolens are sold as cheap In Ncw-York
as in the cloth-halls of Leeds. For the last
two years our manufacturers have worked
without receiving any profit.
Boston Post.
InstantaneocsGinoer Beer. —A Lon
don paper gives the follo wing recipe for
preparing this pleasant beverage. Fill
a bottle with pure cold water, then have a
string or wire to tie it down with, and inal
| let to drive the cork, so that no time may
| he lost; now put into the bottle sugar to
your taste, (syrup is better) and a teaspoon
of good powdered ginger, shake all well,
then add the sixth part of an ounce of super
carbonate of soda ; cork rapidly and tic
down, shake the bottle well, cut the string,
the cork well fly, then drink ginger beer.
A good resolve.—“ I resolve,” said a
pious English bishop, “never to speak of a
man's virtues before his face, nor of his
faults behind his back.” If every one
would not only adopt such a resolution
but carry it into effect, the dawn ofmillenial
glory would soon illumine the “whole
broad earth.”
The Cincinnatti Sun says that, a few eve
: nings since, the editor of the St. Louis Ga
zette was seen in a fit of hydrofogy, throw
ing his purse at the foot of the town pump,
and begging for life at the handle.
The Governor, and most of the leading
democrats in Main, have signed an applica
tion to the President in favor of the appoint
ment of Daniel YYf'cbster. as special messen
ger to Great Britain.
CANADA —YVe reluctantly give from vari
ous sources the following accounts of the de
plorable state of things existing on pari o! the
Canadian frontier.—lf these domes bo not stop
ped. it will eventually cause the loss on ltoih
sides of tlte lh,e of private property to a Uunen
table extent. If. a* we believe, these inccudn
ry nets are committed in the first instanct by
Canadian refuges, American citizens residing
I on tile hue are called upon by (help own iuter
*,W, as well as by every com ideration of na
tional honor and faith, not only to give them
| no countenance, but to afford them neither
j .urU >r uur shelter, tul they have drivett them
j into the interior, where they cannot carry out
their plods of wanton, unless destruction,
Ytic York Courier.
From tht Montreal Herald of the 28th ult.
Oi.asknceviu.e. 28th March. I*3o.
Sib. —I beg to inform you of the particulars
iif a small aflatr that took place in this neigh-
Uvrhood last night, or ralherearly thtetnormnf.
j About three o’clock, an armed party ftoin the
United States, in sleighs, drove down on the
j ice until opposite our piquet on Beach Ridge,
; t the scene of some of tin irburning.) and then
• nmenced firing small arms, but w ithout ef
fect, as Out 1a.,-.. w~,t , i.uou-d of themselves
under cover, awaiting their nearer approach,
the distance being too great for precise aim.
The brigands then fired a cannon and immedi
ately decamped in the direction of Alburg
Spring*. A detachment of the Queen’s light
| dragoons, and the light company of Col. Dy
er’s regiment, arrived soon after in support of
the piquet, and marched up the line, near
j which a body of the brigands remained until
the near approach of our force.
I poll our arrival at the spot on the ice front
j where the firing took place, we found the can
j non. a wooden one, burst, and anew United
i States musket, with ntt iron six pound ball, and
j a quality of cannon shot lying scattered about,
i From the appearauce of some pieces of the
j wooden camion, I am led to believe that sev-
I cral of the brigands were wounded by itsburs
j ling, marks of blood being disunity visible on
I the pieces and ice around. The firing on the
i piequets in this vicinity is not an unusual oc
| currence, but from the distance the shots came
] from, and oar precaution in placing the sen
-1 tries under cover, rfb damage has been recciv
j cd. Had the cannon not burst. we have eve
i ry reason to suppose that a more extended at
i tack was intended, as we are informed that a
i considerable force from another point conven
j fill to us was in readiness to march in, and as
Nelson, <’ote, Gagnon and Grogan are now at
’ the Springs, only four miles distant, another
I attack is expected.
I*. S. I have just heard that-oue of the A
-1 mericaiis is killed, and some wounded, by the
i bursting of the wooden gun: they are now at
! the Alburg Springs, one mile jnd a half from
I our line. 4
From the St. Albans Messenger, of March
28th.
Fir at on the Frontier. —Fires on the fron
lier seem to increase, in a fearful ratio. For
the last two weeks there have been one *r
more lire.- utmost every night. Apparently
they are alternately each side of tlie line.
Ketaliation appears to be the order of the night,
j We are not able to stale the extent of the tuir-
I ning, hut presume from the number of fires
-n from this place, and whatwc have heard,
j that quite a number of buildings have been
burnt, the greater part of them barns,, and the
I most of them situated in Champlain and Odle
• town. In the latter place we are informed
i that a largo house was burnt on Friday night
| last and on the Friday previous two barnsbe
’ longing to it. Last Sunday night one or two
! burns in Alburph were destroyed. We hope to
I he able to give further particulars next wee*’.
Frmn the Burlington Sentinel of March 29.
From the Fiio.v tier. —Tito following is an
| extract from a privata letter, dated
Al ia noA, March 22, 1839.
* • * Captain Porter’s Company of
| regulars are ordered from this post to Rouse’s
Point, ami leave to-inorro* morning; the com
pany stationed at Troy are also withdrawn, to
i join the head quartersof the regiment at Platts
burgh. The excitement at Kousie’s point is
i \ cry great, in consequence of the huntings
j which have heenkeptup for nearly two weeks.
I —Quite a number of the families are moving
! out of the place, or rather the female, part of
them. Von can form little idea of the alarm
| and confusion which prevail there as soon as
I night falls.
Every man in ihn place is on duty, and stt
mounted dragoons are stationed on (he lines,
yet with all tins precaution they have fires all
around them. Several fires have occurred
within sight of the guard, and while they were
extinguishing one, another has broken out in
another direction.
Uy a letter from Alburgh, dated Monday
last, on which implicit reliance may be placed
we learn that die barns belonging to Mr. Co
vey, an enterprising farmer in Alburgh, were
burnt by a gang of “loyal volunteers” on the
Saturday night previous. Six or eight head
of cuttle, twi horses, and about ten tons of hay,
“( re also destroyed. Our correspondent adds
that scarcely a night has passed for three
weeks, without the heavens being illuminated
by the light from some incendiary fire in that
v leinity.
A Ci’Riofs Ladies Man. —The editor of tho
Cincinnati News pretends lobe a ladies’ man,
hut from the following we should be inclined
to think that lie is no man for the ladies. Af
ter professing the highest respect, love and ad
miration of I lie dear creatures, he winds up his
article as follows: “But with all our love for
woman, with all our anxiety to secure her in
terest, we would rather be scalped, than to mar
ry—we would sooner be roasted, than to he
beat out of bed with the tongs or broomstick —
would prefer transportation to a kettle of hot
water—and death to the fortune of the discord
of a dozen little hungry, speckled faced barba
rians squalling for bread.”—Where is the
boom. —-V. O. Picayune.
The .Murtler of Prisoners. — Col. Priuce of
Sandwich, 1 C. has been tried by a Court
Martial, on a charge of shooting four of the.
patriot prisoners in cold blood, without trial;
and strange to say he iias been acquitcd. On
the other hand, Col. Elliot, who made the
charge, has been dismissed from the Militia
service. It does not appear, however, that the
charge was at all disproved, so far as the shoot
ing. was concerned, but only as to the ‘* wanton
cruelty” of the act. Probably the Court Mar
tial did not consider it wanton cruelty to mur
der such prisoners as were found near Sand
wich. The whole affair, as we view it, is em
inently disgraceful.— .V. V. Jour. Com.
On Friday the types and pros* of the Au
rora, published at Montreal, were seized,
and Mr J. P. Bucher Belleville, the ed
itor and publisher, was lodged in prison.
There is a story in Pausanias of a plot
for betraying of a city discovered by the
braying of an ass, the cackling of gepse
saved the capito], and, Catiline's conspi
racy was discovered bv a courtezan,
I hese are the only three, animals, as I re
member, famous in historvas rriJepcrs and
iit form ers. —/b an Sri ft.