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EDITED iJD KIIIIHIt WEEKLY, By
HARUt§O!V & Hi ITERS.
CITY PRINTERS.
Telegraphed far the Chronicle 4* Sentinel.
LATE FRO.'I EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF THE
BTA n§ li;i F NIAGARA.
Tiro WEEKS LATER INTELLIGENCE
Improvement in the Money Market lit Eng
land.—Great Adi anee in American Securities—
Large tales of Cotton. — Great battle in India-
The British Victorious, tl,c.
Our Baltimore correspondent y esterday Aimisli
ed us ilie following intelligence, in a dispatch
frotu that city dated,
Baltimore, feb. 11, ( Sunday ) p. m.
The steamship Niagara arrived at Boston the
evening
In the Money market of England a decided
improvement had taken place, and there iian
been a great advance in American securities, and
large sales of cotton.
The French Assembly had been dissolved.
There had been a great battle 111 India between
the British forces ami natives, in which the
English were successful.
Liverpool Cotton Market.
Liverpool, Jan. quotations are as
follows: Fair Uplands and Mobiles 4|d., fun
Netv Orleans 4|d. The sales of llie week closing
on the 27th, amount to 15,01)0 bales—7,Uod ol
which were taken on speculation.
Corn and Floor more cheerful—Sales of-bon
ded si 25s'. 6d. a 255. !)d.
Provisions.— Prices tending downard.
SECOND DESPATCH.
Franck—Boolean Do La Mesth has beer,,
elected Vice President of the Republic. A
Steamer was fitting out at Toulon whose desti
nation was Brussels and Cherbourg, in anticipa
tion, it was supposed of the armed interven
tion in behalf of tile Popu. Paris was in an un
easy state anil forty thousand muskets had been
ordered. The Red Republicans were said to
be making preparations for an insurrection at
Lyons.
SECOND DISPATCH.
Iflgkly Inij ortant from California.
Our attentive corresdondent, in a despatch
from Baltimore lit 6 o’clock, P. M., yesterday,
informs us that letters have been received from
California to the 25th December, detailing a most
law leas state of social; there. Twenty murders
had been committed in six weeks, and three
murderers had been lynched. Such was the
state of lawlessness that the inhabitants were
agitattng the question of establishing a prov ision
al government. The success of the miners con
tinued, and four millions of gold had been col
lected in this El Dorado.
Farther Particulars.
Ireland —The Judges have decided against
tho writ of error in the rases of O'Brien, Mea
gher end others, and an appeal to the House of
Lords is now only left them ; application was
made to them to adopt this course, hut they de
clined, and expressed their determination to sub
mit to their fate.
England —The British Government has de
termined to meet the w ishes of the people and
curtail expenses, which has caused an advance in
the funds.
Italy. —The Hol\ Pope demands the interven
tion of Austria to protect his Imperial power, hut
France and Sardinia strongly remonstrate against
this intervention, as the Roman people have lost
all reverence for the Pope, both spiritually and
mentally, and will turn with contempt to the
spiritual anathemas lie lias hurled against them.
Prussia —The country is quiet. The Frank
fort Assembly has decreed that the dignity of
the Head of the Empire is given to the reigning
German Prince, thus opening a rivalry be ween
Prussia and Germany lor the Throne, of Naples.
Austria, whilst engaged in recovering her re
bellious provinces, Inis another field of contro
versy opened upon her by tho rivalry of Prus
sia.
Windisehgratz hss h ton entirely successful.
Denmark announces her intention to borrow
seven millions of doll rs
Upland or Mountain Rick.—This yields a
j-jj sandy rid ■•ns and will not
thrive on lands that are wot. It differs hut very ,
little in its appearance from the low laud rice,
except that it grows to only about half the
height. It is geneiallv sown in drills about
eighteen inches apart, and worked both with the
plough and hoe to keep out grass and weeds. It
may be sown in the southern States from the
beginning to the end of March 11 yields a good
crop of hay the fiist season, and often springs
up from the same roots the following spring
Two bushels of seed are sufficient for an acre.
Another method, thought by some to he bettor,
is, to sow broadcast, harrow in, and then cover
the ground two inches thick with old rice “Raw,
which wilt keep down the grass and weeds, and
nourish the growing crop. The upland rice will
yield abou 1,000 lbs. per acre— Am. Agricultu
rist.
Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier.
VBUJI WASfUKOTOX.
In the Senate, on Mondy the 12tli instant, Mr.
Benton prt ■ nted a pet turn for a Convoy to prO
tent die expedition 10 California The Civil and
Diploma ic Bill was taken up and considered.
Til*Committee on Finance recommended strik
in# out the clause piohibiling flogging in the Na
vy. A warm debate ensued on this propoaition,
and the clauso was finally stricken out.
Yesterday, in the same body, the bid from the
House, attending pensions to certain widows
and orphans, was taken up and passed. The
Civil and Diplomatic Bill was again discussed.
In the House, on Monday, the bill granting
pensions to widows and orphans of officers and
soldiers, who died of diseases contracted in Mex
ico, was adapted. The bill estsblishing » Do.
pertinent of the Interior, was made the special'
order. A resolution was passed providing for
the paymentof John M. Botts forthe time spent
in contesting the sent of John \V Jones
Yesterday, in the House, the bill establishing
a Department of the Interior, was adopted. A
motion to take up the bill w ith respect to the
Slsva Tr«' e in the District of Columbia, was
not agreed to. The balance of the. day was spent
in miscellaneous business.
Official advices have been received from Cali
fornia to the 7th January. Anarchy and confu
sion prevailed in that country
Telegraphed for the Charleston Mercury.
Baltimore, Feb. 14, 6 p. m.
The Ohio Legislature have nominated Judge
McLean as United States Senator, and have re
commended the delegation in Congress from
that State to support the Wilmnt Proviso.
The ' aahington Union publishes official doc
ntents from Com. Jones, confirming previous ac
counts of gold in California, and representing
the countrv as being without law or govern
ment—robberies, murders, &c., being of fre
quent occurrence.
Washington, Feb. 14,6 p.m.
The Senate and House met in Joint Comrnil
fcgoe to open and count the electoral votes for
Preside nt~a lift-VicF-PfeSKtent * Tfl« lisTial (hr!
m.l.ty being observed, Taylor and Fillmore
wcie declared duly elected, having received one
hundred and sixty-three votes, Cass and Butler
having but one hundred and twenty-seven A
Jo at Commit ee was appointed to wail npnn
Den. Taylor and Mr. Fillmore, and acquaint
them with their election.
At a late hour last night received the follow ing:
Ntw York, Feb 14, 1846
Cotton very firtu, maintaining advance. Sales
for the day 4IMK) hales. Flour, Wheat, and Corn
unchanged
MACON, G A .
SATURDAY MORNING, FEB 17, 1849.
JfOTirE.—The “ SOUTHERN MUSEUM ’•
Office has been removed to the Brick Build-
at the Corner of 1 ottou Avenue and
First Street, formerly occupied as the “He*
public” Office.
O’We are indebted to Senator Berrien for
a pamphlet copy of the Address to the people of
the United States, reported by the Committee of
Fifteen as a substitute for the Address reported
i>y J. C. Calhoun.
We are indebted, also, to lion. J. D. West
cott, for the President's Message and accompa
nying documents.
Melancholy Accident—On Wednesday
night last, Mr. M S. Marsh of this city, fell
over the bluff at the corner of Cherry and First
streets, and was found dead the next morning.
An Inquest was held over the body on Thursday
morning, and a verdict returned, that Ins death
was accidental.—The deceased was a respecta
ble young man, and lias left a number of rela
tions and friends in this city and Savannah to
mourn his unfortunate death.
Georgia Medical Convention at Macon
We have been requested jo call ihe attention of
the Medical Profession to the following circular,
in relation to the proposed Convention to meet
in this city on the 20th of March next.
“To the Physicians of Otorgia. —The Faculty
of the Medical Col.ege o Georgia, suggests to the
Medical Profession of tho State, the propriety of
organizingan Association. Since the institution
of the National or American Medical Association,
our sister States of Alabama and South Carolina
have taken action on the subject. It is there
fore proposed to call a Cosvention of the Physi
cian si of Georgia, to be held in the City of .Macon,
on thi 2 th dayoj March next, then to adopt such
measure, for the improvement and benefit of the
I’rofes.-ion, as they may deem proper.”
Georgia Gold.—The Dahlonega Watchman,
of the Bth instant, says :—A rich gold vein has
rocently been discovered on a lot belonging to
Dr. McAfee and others. This mine is about
ono mile southwest from Atirnrinon the Etowah
River. We were at this mine a few days since ;
little ore had then been taken out, hut what wi
saw gave external specimens of the wealth wi h
in.
Col. 11. W. Riley made 05dwts. of Gold on a
dnposite with eight hands during last week.
Messrs. Moore Sc Kcnnon have just opened a
new vein on the Ezard lot, which they suppose
will yield two dvvts of gold to tiio bushel.
(O' We learn from the Ringgold Republican
th.it the contractors expect to ooinplete the road
to Chattanooga by October next. The Tunnel
will probably be finished and the cars ruiiiiiii;.
from Dalton to Ringgold in August. This part
of the Road, 16 miles, is, with the exception ol
the Tunnel, ready for the iron.
Some fifteen or twenty feet of the arching of
the Tunnel gave way and caved in übout three
weeks ago. No lives were lost.
A telegraph dispatch of the Charleston
Courier of the 15th instant, says : “Cotton was
firm at New York at 7$ for fair Upland, and 8j
for fair Orleans, with sales of 20< l 0 bales
Message of the President on the Secret Pro
tocol.
Wo publish to day, says the Charleston Mer
cury, the Message of the President of the United
States, which was sent to the House, on Thurs
day last, in reference to the Protocol to the Mex
ican Treaty. It is not a very lengthy document,
and is exceedingly well written. He finds fault
with the peremptory nature of the call, and
doubts whether the publication will not prove
prejudicial to the public interests, Imt as this is
the second call that has been made, he concludes
to furnish the pupers.
In regard to the effect of the Protocol, he
maintains, that it docs not alter, or modify the
treaty in any respect. The latter was ratified
by tlie Mexican Legislature, previous to the arri
val of our Commissioners at the scat of govern
it ent, in the precise form in which it received
the sanction of the United States Senate. As
for the Protocol, the President regards it merely
as a note of a conversation ; an explanation of
the individual opinionsof the Commissioners,on
the points to which it refers, lie, nevertheless,
contends that tho IXth article of the treaty, n g
amended, is more comprehensive than was the
original article ; that the second section of the
Protocol does not revise the Xth article ; and
that, as to the right which the Commissioners
concede to the Mexican Government to transfer
tho twelve millions, any transfer must take with
it all the conditions which would be attached to
its payment, to Mexico herself.
The President concludes by remarking, that
he thinks there was no more necessity for lay
ing this Protocol before the Senate than there
would have been, if, instead of assuming the
form of a Protocol, the conversation had been
reported, in a letter from the Commissioners to
the Secretary of State.
The Message is accompanied by two docu
ments—the instructions from the Secretary of
State, to tne United States Commissioners, and
a letter of the same date, from the same func
tionary, to the Mexican Minister of Foreign Re
lations, specifying and explaining the amend
ments to the Treaty, made in the United States
Senato These documents are of considerable
length, and as the merits of the whole matter
s em fairly presented by the Message, we do
not feel it necessary to transfer them to our col
umns.
The President's explanation will probably
;Ut this subject effectually at rest.
Tea t wltiva.-lcu In «hr I tilled t totes.
As* testimonial of approbation, the Mate A
griridtnra I Society of South Carolina has elected
Justus Smith an honorary member, for his ef
forts to introduce the culture of the Tea plant in
the United States. In making his acknowl. ilg
ments, in a letter to the Charleston Mercury, Mr
Smith refers to his having selected Greenville
as the place for the experiment. He soya:
The first seed was planted in Greenville on
the 12tli and 15th of December. On the 26ili
eighty plants were put nut, and five hundred
more would be in a few days.
The Philadelphia Bulletin has the following
remarks :
“In ten years we shall astonish the world by
producing tea in the United States superior in
quality to and cheaper in cost than the tea of
China. Thig is no idle prediction. Already
we find it produced in large quantites and of ex
cellent flavor in Brazil
Mr. S. Bonsall, of Philadelphia, has been for
some years engaged in superintending a very
extensive range oftea plantations in Assam, hav
ing thousands of hands employed in (lie field anil
the factory. The success was perfect, and As
sam is now a tea country. This gentleman has
returned to Philadelphia under the certain con
viction that ten can be grown here Without doubt
or difficulty of any sort.
The ten plant is remarkably hardy, and it
flourishes on the high slopes of mountains,
where frost and snow prevail three months in
jho year. Its favorite soil in Chinn, and also in
Assam, is the poorest yellow sandy loam, with
carbonate of iron in analysis. Silex, 76; clay,
10; rnrb. iron, 10 ; water, See 4-100. No lime-
A good tree is expected to yield
At 3 years I.J oz. tea, or 187 lbs. per acre.
4 years 2$ oz tea, or 312 “
5 years 4 oz. tea, or 500 •*
At 6 years, when it is in full bearing, 6 oz. tea
or 750 lbs per acre.
2,000 trees to an acre. The tree lives to 50
years ofage.
The process of manufacture consists chiefly
in oft repeated exposure of the leaves in well
heated iron vessels, with quick and accurate
manipulations, till the pungent oil is extracted
from them in bull-masses, to curl the leaf as vve
see it. This hand process spoils a vast deal of
it, for the least over-toasiing, or the smoking of
a stray leaf, injures the flavor of the mass. Mr.
Bonsall contrived a machine to dispense with a
deal of labor employed in beating the leaves be
tween tlie cookings, by which one boy did the
work of ten men, and fully ns well. He feels
confident the expensive hot-hearth process can
he done with far greater nicety by steam-heated
inetal plates, which would preserve the flavor op
the most delicate teas ; and circular wire screens
moving by steam power, would sort the teiiß easi
ly enough. Thus the whole manufacture is per
fectly adapted to machinery, and Mr. Bonsall
thinks that the best teas can be produced in the
latitude of Philadelphia, at a cost not exceeding
a shilling a pound.
(T~P MicCONopy, head chief of the Seminoles,
died at Fort Gibson lately. He was one of the
few warriors who at the head of a mere handful
of men, resisted our government for six years,
and maintained possession of their country du
ring that time against twenty limes their number
of well equipped troops, led by our most experi
enced Generals. He commanded the Indians in
person at the time of Dade’s massacre, aud with
Osceola successfully resis'ed the crossing of the
Withlacoochee, by Gen. Gaines, in 1836. He
finally surrendered w ith other chiefs, to Col. J 11
Sherburne- Dec- 3 1&37-
Gold Dollar. —The Washington Wbig speaks
of having been shown a gold dollar just from the
mint. The dollar piece is a little larger in cir
cumference than halfdime, but not quite so thick
On one side there is a wreath if leaves,and around
it the words, “United Stales of America, 1848”
On the other their is a cap, emblazoned with sun
light, and on it “ Liberty.” Let us have them
in crowds, say we. Congress should not adjourn
without acting favorably on the subject.
Virginia Gold Mines.—The Washington
Union, in noticing the arrival of one of Fulton's
patent steam pumps at Richmond, from that
•ity,on its way to the gold mines of Major Heiss
and Coin. Stockton, says :
“ We met a friend a day or two since, who
told us he had seen a certificate from the mint of
nine thousand dollars’ worth of gold deposited
as the tesult of six days work, with about as
many bonds, at the Whitehall mine in Virginiai
of Messrs Heiss, Stockton, &c. Si negroes,
we learn from another entirely reliable s mrce,
had obtained thirty-fire poumtls of gold from the
Ist to the 6th or 7th of this month. ‘The Ist
day's work of three negroes was worth $1,595.'
If this result be the product of a regular vein, as
we learn it is, who can foresee what a week may
not bring forth ?”.
(EPGov. John L. Wilson, died in Charleston
on the 12th inst., after h lingering illness. Gov.
W. was a native of Georgetown ; and at an early
period of his life rose to distinction at the Bar
After serving many years in the Legislature,
and having been President of the Senate, he was,
in 1832, elected Governor of the Slate of South
Carolina.
Virginia. —A correspondent of the Kanawha
Republican has commenced a series of numbers
in that paper, in which lie proposes to discuss
the rights, resources and wants of western Vir
ginia. In alluding to tile salt manufactures of
that region, he states that one connty alone
makes nearly four millions of bushels of salt,
worth from $600,000 to SBOO,OOO. He speaks
also of the Trans-Alleghany District, which lias
an area of over 29,000 square miles, more than
18,000,000 of acres of land, and such lands, he
adds, ns can support a population 80 or 100 to the
square mile, but which nnw lias but eight to the
square mile. Tlii- region, he observes,has rich
er mines than the same extent of enuntr in nnv
part of the union, if you except mines of preci
ous metals. And yet the citizens of Virginia
are constantly leaving her for other States and
dtstaut regions.
Ten Tribes —The N-York Saturday Times,
edited by Noah, has an interesting article on tin
ten lost tribes of Israel He concludes that
they were the builders of the cities whose ruins
in .Mexico and Central America have pmvoked
so much conjecture. He says that there are
many circumstances which justify this opinion,
hut especially the fart that all our Indian tribes
bear the strongest marks of Asiatic origin, and
are identical with the Israelites in many of their
most remarkable religious rites and ceremonies.
The Phcenicians ( Canaanites ) had discover
ed the continent 50ft years before the migration
of the Israelites, and were, it is assumed by
Noah, the builders of the pyramids of Mexico
and Central America, and of Palenque, Cholula,
Otumba, Tlascala, and other cities, of which the
ruins now evcite our astonishment; and also the
introducers of hyeroglyphics, plenisphenes, zo
diacs, temples, military roads, viaducts and
bridges from Egypt, Tyre, Babylon and Cartli
age.
The ten tribes marched towards the northeast
roast of Asia—some remained in Tartary, and
many went into China, where they have been
160 ft years, and are numerous at this day. The
main body crossed at Behring's Btraits to our
continent, the more hardy keeping to the north,
Hudson's Bay and Greenland ; the more culti
vated passed down on the shores of the Pacific,
'■through California to Mexico, Central America,
and Peru, where they met their ancient enemies
the Canaanites ( Phunirians) whom, ns once
before, they dispossessed of the country. Fur
thermore it is contended that that they resided in
California when the ships of Solomon made
their three years’ voyage, are furnished the gold
of Qphir toimJd the temple ; also that they are
the settlers and proprietors of Mexico, Peru,
and the whole American continent, and have
been here centuries before the advent of Chris
tianity, and patiently await the promise of re
demption.
Velocity.—From an extended series of ex
periments made at the Washington Arsenal w ith
the ballistic pendulum, by Capt. Mordeeii of the
ordnance department, it has been determined
that the velocity of a thirty two pound shot va
ries from twelve to nineteen hundred feet per
second, making an average of about fifteen hun
dred feet per second, or nearly twenty miles per
minute. The voloci'y of the electric wave along
the Telegraph wire is nearly 200,000 miles per
second, compared with which, the speed ot the
cannon ball is almost quiescence.
Lumps or Gold.—The largest lumps of gold
recorded in the histories of gold mines, are as
follows : One found at tho Wicklow mines in
Ireland, weighing twenty-two ounces ; one in
Peru, weighing twenty-six pounds and a half;
several in Quito, reported to have weighed a
bout one hundred and six pounds each ; one in
Lebanon, North Carolina, found in 1810, which
weighed twenty-eight pounds ; and one in New
Grenada, which weighed twenty-seven and a
half. These, we believe, are the largest lumps
ou record.
dj* The Supreme Court of the United States
decided a few days ago, that the laws of the
States imposing t .xeson alien passengers on ar
riving at their ports art unconstitutional. The
question came up from New Yoik and M assu
chusetts, and stood for sometime in equilibrium
in the court Judge McKinley, however, arrived
and settled the matter adverse to the stales The
decision, says he correspondent of the N V ork
Post, is based up in the general principle that the
states can pass no laws to obstruct commerce
legalized hi the laws of the Union, that, conse
quently, no tax can he levied upon the passen
gers while on board the ship, though within state
jurisdiction, nor upon the owners of vessels at
any time.
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A Damper. —Two respectable gold assayers
in New York inform the Evening Post that they
recently received a lump of what was supposed
to be California gold, weighing twenty ounces
Troy weight,to be assayed. It was not affected
by acids, but in the refining pot evaporated. It
proved to be sulphuret of iron. The owner of
the article purchased it at San Francisco, where
lie paid $7 per ounce for it in merchandise
They have received several specimens of Cali
fornia rocks to assay, but as yet they have re
ceived no gold.
All this may be true ; but the man who doubts
that there is “some” gold in California is a
heathen.
The Mecklenburg Declaration— By a let
ter from Mr. Bancroft, minister to England,
which has just been read in the North Carolina
legi- ature, ihe authenticit of the Mecklenburg,
(N. C. ) declaration of independence in May,
1775, is proved—two months earlier than the
immortal declaration by all the colonies. 110
found the Mecklenburg resolves in the British
State paper office. They were first sent over to
England in a letter dated 20th June, 1775, writ
ten by Sir James Wright, then Governor of
Georgia.
uj’The“Californian,” a newspaper published
at Monterey, says the inhabitants of California
are united, ns one man, against the introduction
of slavery into that territory.
O’ The St. Johns (N. B. ) News states tha,
the small pox is making direful ravages in that
city—there being over 1800 cases there under
treatment.
A Great Gun. —The newspapers say that Mr
Milo Cass, of Utica, New York, Ins invented a
gun that discharges twenty-six times for one
loading, which it does in two minutes, or less—
the charges being attached to an endless chain.
This beats Colt’s revolt er and all the other pow
der-and-lead weapons we have yet read of.
Extent oe Oregon. —lt appears by official
documents, that on the east it skirts 8000 miles
along the Rocky Mountains ;on the west 7000
miles along the Pacific Ocean, on the North A
merican possessions of Russia and England The
area of thi> immense valley, contains 350,1)00 j
square miles capable, undoubtedly, “f forming
seven Mates ns large as New York, or forty States
ofthe dimension ol Massachusetts.
Telegraph Across the Atlantic.—The
New York .Scientific American says, a memori
al was presented to the Senate on Monday the
271 h ult., asking for an appropriation for the
construction of a telepragil from Nova Scotia to
the coast of Ireland on the submerged tableland
which was slated to have been discovered to ex
ist between the two continents. The inetnoral
ists propose te enclose the telegraph wire.- in
cork tubes and anchor it at ten miles apart. This
proposition is as t'easib'e as going tot alifurniaiii
bag of hydrogen gas.
No telegraph wires that have been laid across
the chaunel of any of our rivers have worked
well, and what will we expert from those laid
down in the bottom of the sea a distance of 2ftoo
miles. The Coast Survey should also make the
necessary explorations about these fishing banks
which are said to extend from Newfoundland to
Erin s Green Isle. Probably such banks may be
like to many others only sperulatire. The best
way to cover telegraph wire (the only way in
fact ) to isolate them entirely to repose on the
beds of rivers, is by HilPs patent process de
scribed and illustrated on page 225 vol. 3 Seien"
lific American. This is the plan employed in
isolating the wires that arc laid across the Irsli
Channel to Ireland
Ity The Butler divorce case is set down for
trial by jury. The correspondent of the N. Y-
Herald, says . “ This disposes of the matter for
the present,—perhaps for ever. Public opinion
seems to he in favor of Mrs. Butler, but we must
recollect that we have heard only one side. To
the voluminous averments mid allegations of
his vvife, Mr. B. has made no answer.”
EP Judge Dickt, of Chicago, hairdccrded that
the master of a slave escaping into Illinois, has
the right to remove said slave regardless of Illi
nois statutes to the contrary, which are declared
to be unconstitutional.
li-f Chloride of Zinc and Gvpsum have been
recently applied vvrtli success to caueer, bv Dr
Brooks, ol Cheltenham, England. The remedy
is applied thus: Take two parts of chloride of
zinc and three parts.of gypsum, and spread the
powder over the surface of the sore, protecting
the edges of the healthy skin with vinegar, and
applying in a quarter of an hour a soft poultice
Dr. B. reports several cases of successful treat
ment.
O’ The London Spectator notices “ The Sax
ons in England, a History of the English Com
monwealth till the period of tho Norman Con
quest —by John Mitchell Kemble;” a work
upon which the critic heslows the highest praise,
as “conveying a clearer idea of the life and
character of the Saxons in England, than any
thing met with elsewhere Mr. Kemble is an
elder brother of Mrs. Fanny Kemble Butler
The Boston Traveller says that the following
sonnet to J. ,\|. K., by Alfred Tennyson, was ad
dressed to this gentleman, who has the reputa
tion of being one of the first philological schol
ars and most accomplished historical writers in
England :
My hope and heart is with thee—thou will he
A latter Luther, and a soldier priest,
To scare church-harpies from the master’s fe ist:
Our dusted velvets have much tired of thee :
Tnou art no Sahba'h-dravvler of old saws ;
Distill'd from some worin-eanker'd homily ;
But spurr'd at heart wilt fiercest energy
To embattail and to wall about thy cause
With iron-worded proof, hating to hark
The humming of the drowsy pulpit-drone.
Half God's good Sabbath, while the worn-out
clerk
Brow beats the desk below. Thou from a throne
Mounted in heaven wilt shoot into the fail;,
Arrows of lightnings. I will stand and mark.
British West India View Respecting Cu
ba.—-Mr Burnley, a member of the Trinidad
Legislative Council, in a recent speech, said
Englishmen had better beware of meddling with
Cuba ; the moment she censes to be Spanish she
will become American, and no power on earth
can p event it.
“ The first outbreak in Cuba would attract an
overpowering foree of volunteers from the
southern states, which the federal government
could not prev. nt. There would be indepen
donee first and annexation would follow —And
the moment that enterprising people got posses
sion of a sugar soil in a tropical climate, the
eultivn ion may be given up in despair in every
part of the world, even in the Brazils; for they
will be as effectually undersold and driven out
of the market as the growers of cotton have
been since the commencement of the present
century.”
II <' Some of the Lowell factory girls recent!y
issued a manifesto stating that they were derter
tnined to leave the mills, in consequence of the
reduction of their wages. From this unique
publication we extract the following, which
shows pretty well what sort of a woman a yan
kee factory girl is :
“We are now working our notice, and shall
soon he out of employment—can turn our hands
to anything—don’t like to be idle—hut deter
mined not to work for nothing where folks can
afford to pay. Who wants help? We can make
bonnets, dresses, puddings, pies or cake ; patch,
darn, knit, roast, stew and fry; make butter
and cheese, milk enws, feed chickens and hoe
corn ; sweep out the kitchen, put the parlor to.
rights; make beds, split wood, kindle fires, wash
and iron, besides being remarkable fond of ba
bies ; in fact, can do unylliing the most accom
plished house-wife is capable of, not forgetting
the scolding on Mondays and Saturdays ; for
specimens of spunk, will refer you to our over
seer ! Speak quick ! Black eyes, fair forehead,
clustering locks, beautiful as Hebe, can sing
like a seraph, and can smile most bewitcliingly ;
any elderly gentleman in want of a housekeep
er, or a nice young mnn in want of a wife, wil
ling to sustain either character, in fact we are in
the market Who bids? Going, going, gone.
Who's ihe lucky man ?
O' Dr. Franklin used to sav that rich widows
were he only piece of second-handed goods that
Bold at prime tost.
The Overland Route to California
Lieut. Morrison, of 01. Stevenson's N. | m i
Regiment of Volunteers, gives the fidlowi„ g
piece of udvice to those whom it may con<-e ra
We commend it to the particular attention 0 f
those who in this and in sonic of the cities wist
arc proposing to take the overland route to Cali
firms.
Caution to Emigrants —I hope that those
who intend to emigrate by land here, will be
careful that they are not overtaken by storms
or snows, or want of provisions, on their toil,
some journey across the rocky mountains. (
have seen those who started from the borders of
Missouri, hale and and stalwart men, hobble
down into the plains of California, crippled lor
life. I have seen brothers who, in -he madness
of hunger, have, fought for the last bit of their
father s dead body, having shared the resist
their previous meals ! having been encompass,
ed with snow on the tops of those dreadful
mountains. Maidens who left their homes re
joicing in the pride of their youth and beauty,
jn joyous anticipation from this fur oft' land, by
the horrors and sittlerings of that fearful jour
ney, despoiled of their loveliness and bloom
withered into premature old ago.
“Murder will Out.”— The Fort Gibson
(M iss ) Herald of the 26th ult. says :
A most ex raordinary instance of the powerful
walkings of remorse, for an irreparable act of
crime, has recently been developed here. On
Tut s lay last, a valuable negro man, Levi, be
longing to Alison Wade Sims, residing about
llirte miles from Fort Gibson, went to his mas
ter, and voluntarily informed him that, some
time previous to last Christinas, lie hud killed a
< cumin pedlerin the cotton fluid for the purpose
of robbing him of his pack, and had afterwards
buried the body in a ravine, in the middie of
a lonely cunebruke on the plantation. At
the Girding of his master, Levi cheerfully pro
ceeded with him to the town to be placed
in custody. The requisite information having
been given by Mr. S., a Coroner’s Jury was sum
moned on Wednesday morning; and, under the
guidance of the negro, who exhibited no rehic*
ttance, but on the contrary, seemed anxiqus for
the investigation, they proceeded to .search ft*
the body, which was easily found.
The place sclec cd for burial was peculiarly
adapted for concealment The hill, which rose
on eiiher side, had poured the waters of every
rain into the ravine at their feet, in the bed of
which, well covered up with cane and chunks
of decaying wood, and the constantly accumu
lating sediment washed down bv the waters, the
body was found. When drawn forth it was re
cognized as that of one David Luhelski, a native
”f Cracow, in Poland—in which city we learn
that his wife and seven children reside- who,
to the last two or three years has followed tYe
occupation of a licensed hawker and pedler in
t is county. From the voluntary and almost
eager admissions of the negro, made before
ln m the Jury, without hesitation, rendered the
verdict in accordance with the facts stated.
Pennsylvania Debi —The public debt of (he
State of Pennsy Ivania is stated, iri the message
of Gov. Johnson, at $49,424,736 The present
liability of the Treasury is $2,376,516 9!*. The
estimated revenue for the current year rs $3,851,*
'IOO. The expenditures are estimated at $3,"
716,690 —making the estimated revenue over the
expenditure $135,300. An examination of the
tevenue and expenditures, he asserts, proves the
n cessity of increased resources ; and lie makes
th r al defi it in four y eais, $248,912 19.
nr The Paris papers announce the death
of Mrs. Niles, wife of the American Charge d'
\flairesa! Turin This lady was born in France,
and married for her first husband Dr Sue, for
merly physician tn King Louis XVIII and father
of the celebrated Eugene Sue. The funeral o<
this Indy was atteded at Turin with every mark
of respect from the Diplomatic corps and others.
Slut lias left twin daughters about fourteen years
o'd, on the model of whom Eugene Sue is snid
to have fii meiltlie characters of rose and Blanc he
in one of his most celebrated romance*.
Virginia Monument to Washington.—
The amount in .lie Treasury of Virginia, appli
cablo to the creation of a monument to Wash
ington is $40,000. This sum has increased
mostly from private donations, from $13,000 in
1818, at compound interest.
Railroad from St. Louis to Cincinnati
under Contract. —The Central Railroad of Il
linois, commencing at Cairo, mouth of the Ohio,
is to he pul under contract to connect with the
cross railroad from St. Louis to Cincinnati, now
being surveyed, as soon as the bill before Con
gress (having passed the Senate) shall be per
fected in the House, donating land on the line of
this road to aid in its constiuction.
O’Mr. Welton has succeeded in sinking the
Artesian Well in Charleston, S. C., to the depth
of five hundred feet and nine inches. Tempe
rature at that depth 73. J degrees. Great hopes
are entertained that the city will be soon suppli
ed with good water, by means of this well.
Illinois. —The following resolution has past
ed the Legislature of Illinois—the Senate by a
vote of 14 to 11, aud the House by a vote of 38
to 34 :
Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be
instructed and Representatives requested to use
all honorable means in their power to procure
the enactment of such laws by Congress, forthe
government of countries and territories of the
United States, acquired by treaty of peace, friend
ship, limits and settlements with tlie Republic of
Mexico, concluded Feb 2,1848, as shall contain
the express declaration that there shall be nei
ther slavery nor involuntary servitude in said
territories, otherwise than in punishment of
Crimea whereof the parties shall have been con
victed.
“Sausage Row.”—This is the name of «
place in Cincinnati. Indeed, all the steets and
public squares are, we presume, furnished ivi f h
names indieative of the great sotiree of Ohio
wealth- There are Pig's Feet square, Boar
eon t, Sow stree', Bristle park, Ham alley, Souse
square, Lard street, Burrow street, and Swill
Common.