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HARRISON A ttYEBS.
CITY P R I.YT ER 9.
From the National Intelligencer.
New Yore, February 10, 1849.
The first Balloon from. Yew York for Califoma
and a market— has not sailed yet, but will short
ly have dispatch - accommodation* for passen
gers all taken up—letter bag still open. “ I had
a dream which was not all a dream;" nor is the
above announcement all a joke, however much
it mav have that appearance. There is a com
pany’here seriously at work constructing a bal
loon to carry passengers to California. Tho
achievements of the human intellect are gener
ally in some degree proportionate to tho stimu
lus or strength of motive with which the object
is pursued: and ifever so grand an achievement
in *ro«tation is to’be accomplished, perhaps the
eager desire of people to get to the land of gold
may be the very stimulus or motive nece sary to
produce so wonderiul a result. “ Hunger will
break through a stone wallwho then shall
sav that the love of gold may not enable a man
to sail round the earth in an air-balloon ?
The company to which I have referred have
their model balloon and apparatus just completed,
and intend to make a public exhibition of it in
the Broadway Tabernacle in the course of the
coming week. The model balloon is twenty
four foet rn length, and two feet in diameter at
the centre, running to a point at each end. It
is to move horizontally, point foremost, like a
fish in the water. The motive power is a small
steam engine, connected with a sort of screw
propeller at the stern, which acts upon the air
something like the wings of a w ind-mill. The
inventor promises that it shall sail round the in
terior of the Tabernacle like a trout in a mill
pond, or perhaps more like a goldfish in a glass
globe.
If the performance of the model prove satis
factory, he will immediately construct his pas
senger balloon for California, which he proposes
shaft be five hundred feet in length, and forty
feet in diameter at the centre, running to a point
at each end, like a parabolic spindle in geometry.
A long cabin or saloon is to be suspended below
the balloon for passengers, machinery, &c The
engine is to be about four-horse power. There
arc to be two screw propellers, the fans of each
to be twenty feet in diameter. The rudder is so
arranged as to vary the direction of the balloon
to the tight or left, or up or down, as circum
stances may require. By calculation it is esti
mated that the balloon, of the size, mentioned,
filled with hydrogen gas, will carry about five
tons besides its own weight and necessary ma
chinery. This would enable it to carry perhaps
fifty passengers with a reasonable amount of bag
gage .
The inventor says be can build bis grand bal
loon in three or four weeks. He will make one
or two trial trips, perhaps to Washington or Bos
ton, before starting on his voyage across the
Rocky mountains. It is hardly probable he wil
get to Washington in time for the inauguration.
The time estimated for a voyage to California is
some four or five days, sailing only by daylight,
and anchoring during tho night. Upwads of
two hundred names are already booked to secure
the right of precedence in passages if the expe
riment is successful.
Now, this will appear to most people to be a
ridiculous visionary project, and 1 have no idea
of asking nnv one to put the least faith in it, or
expect anv tiling to come of it. But, after all,
does its success look more improbable than a de
scription of tho present achievements of steam
on land and water would have appeared half a
century ago? Oran account of the present tel
egraphic communications ten years ago? I am
not prepared to say that something great and stu
pendous will not iet be accomplished in aerosta
tion. It is not quite seventy years since all Bar
is turned out with wonderment to see a balloon,
filled with heated atmosphoric air, ascend a few
hundred feet above their dwellings. This sug
gested to philosophers the idea of using hydro
gen gas for like purposes, the extreme lightness
of which enabled it to sustain great weight in
tlm atmosphere. The subject was pursued for a
while in France and England with great zeal,
and in some eases with grand results. People
began to ascend with halloonsand make voyages
of greater or less distance, till in one case they
reached three hundred miles, and sometimes
moved with a speed of seventy or eighty miles
nn hour. If a sufficient propelling power and a
mode of steering can be snecessfu’y attached to
the balloon, the grand problem would of course
be solved.
Since the above was put in type, we have seen
an account of the admirable working of the mo
del of this /Erial Steamer, from the N. Y. Sun.
“In tho model exhibited," says that paper, “the
fans.cr propellers, were driven by a small chro
nometer spring, as a substitute for a steam en
gine. On being inflated and set in motion, the
little steamer flew rapidly around the ball, in
every direction, as steered by the rudder. No
demonstration could be more convincing, and nil
present expressed themselves perfectly satisfied
with the exhibition of the model. The rate of
speed was fifty feet in five seconds. A large
Aerial, to carry sixty passengers, it is estimated
will travel at the rate of one hundred miles an
hour in calm weather, and at the rate of seventy
miles an hour against an ordinary breeze.”
The World’s Chances —lt is a sad, but in
structive thought, that we live in a world of
change. From the cradle to the grave, tho evi
dences of this painful truth are ever impressing
themselves on the mind. Os all the varied ob
jects that twine themselves round our hearts in
youth, how few cling to its maturer years ! —how
fe w of our precious hopes are not wrecked and
borne away on the resistless waves of change I
Y'et, sad ns are the other effects of change, it
contains in its full quiver one arrow more keen
and deadly than the rest. When he whom vve
have cherished as “ our heart’s core, aye, in our
heart of hearts,” meets us with a cold and aver
ted gaze—when the eye that used to beam on us
with a tender and mellow lustre, no longer re
turns our glances, and the face of him that was
dearest to us wears “the look of a stranger,”—
then has change done its worst work for us,
and we may smile at its further visitations. It
is hard to lose our friends by separations—and
yet more painful and solemn is it to lose them
hy death ; but still we lose them as friends—we
lose them while affection is reciprocal ; and, as
our spirits may still commingle, their memory
is “pleasant, though mournful to the soul.” But
when the being we love lives, and is estranged,
“ there is,” as one has truly said, “ a gap be
tween us, deep and wide, which we can neither
fill up nor cross over.” Then the past is deso
lation, the present is bitterness, the future is a
blank, and the only iodyne the crushed heart
can hope to find is the lethargy of forgetfulness.
Yankee Blade.
(O’“How strange it is,” said a lady, “that
fashionable parties should thus be culled routs! —
Why rout formerly signified the defeat of an
army; and when all the soldiers were potto
flight or the sword, they were said to he routed
This title has some propriety, too ; for, at these
meetings, whole families are routed out of house
and home."
What lock is designed to secure the highest
benefits to mankind ? Wed-lock.
A New Species of Cotton.— Gen G. D.
Mitchell, of Warren county, Mississippi, now
in this city, bas with bim specimens of anew
kind of Cotton which he calls the Prolific Pome
granate, surpassing any ol the gossypium family
we have ever seen. The General has brought
with him the tops and side branches, just as
they were taken from the plant, all thickly stud
ded with open bolls to show the growth of the
stalk, disposition of the bolls, Ac., and wilh the
evidences thus presented, every intelligent plan
ter will at once acknowledge its superiority over
all other kinds. The stalk does not attain a
height tinsually of more than four or five feet,
but every portion of the plant, is literally cover
ed with "bolls, which are sustained in !.n upright
position by the strength and vigor of the slem
and branches.—The chief peculiarity of this
plant is that the stem nnd branches have no
joints as in other kinds—and although the bolls
are so numerous there can he no inconvenience in
picking. In fact, an expert picker might at one
grab gather half a dozen at a time. This advan
tage will be well understood and appreciated by
planters—We are free to acknowledge that the
Prolific Pomegranate is a superior kind of Cot
ton. The staple is beautiful,and far more silky
than the best Petit Gulf. All this can he satis
factorily illustrated by Geii. M. with the sam
ples—ginned, in the boll and on the stock—
which he has with him. lie is nn intelligent
and experienced planter, and is therefore able to
speak from his own knowledge.
From one-third of an acre, measured, lie gath
ered nnd weighed thb past season two thousand
one hundred and forty-two pounds of superior
Cotton. One hundred pounds of the seed Cot
ton yielded thirty-two and a half pounds lint,
and by an accurate test lie found that sixtv-five
bolls made one pound of lint.
Gen. Mitchell Vvill remain in the city a few
davs, and may be -sen at the counting room of
M essrs. Baker, Williams & Cos. where samples
of the Cotton may be inspected. —Motile Herald.
O’ In a recent discourse on the Life and
Character of the late Hon. Jeremiah Mason, Mr.
Webs’er gave the following views on the sub
ject of Religion :
But—political eminence and professional fame
fade away and die with all things earthly Noth
ing of character is really permanent, but virtue
and personal worth. They remain.—Whatever
of excellence is wrought into the soul itself, be
longs to both worlds. Real goodness does not
attach itself merely to this iife, it points to a
notlier world. Political or professional fame
cannot last forever, but a conscience void ot of
fence before God and man, is an inheritance for
eternity. Religion, therefore, is a necessary, an
indispensibln element in anv great human char
acter. There is no living without it. Religion
is the tie that connects man wilh his Creator
and holds him to his throne. If that tie be sun
dered, and broken, lie floats away, a worthless
atom in the universe, its proper attractions all
gone, its destiny thwarted, and its whole future
nothing but darkness, desolation and death. A
man with no sense ofreligious duty, is lie whom
the scriptures describe, — in such terse hut terri
fic manner, —as “ living without God in the
world.” Such a man is out of his proper being,
out of the circle of all his duties, out of the cir
cle of all his happiness, and away from the pur
poses of liis creation.
A mind like Mr. Mason’s, active, thoughtful,
penetrating, sedate, could not hut meditate deep
ly on the condition of man below and feel its re
sponsibilities. He could not look on his won
drous frame—
“ The universal frame thus wondrous fair,"
without feeling that it was created and upheld
by an intelligence to which all other intelligen
ces must be responsible. lam bound to say that
in the course of my life I never met with an in
dividual in any profession or condition in life,
who always spoke and always thought with
such awful reverence of the power and presence
of God. No irreverence, no lightness, even on
too familiar allusion to G«d mid his attributes,
ever escaped his lips. The very notion of a
Supreme Being was with him made up of awe
and solemnity. It filled the whole of liis great
mind with the strongest emotions. A man, like
him, with all his proper sentiments alive in him,
must in this state of existence, have something
to believe and something to hope for, nr else ns
life is advancing to its close and parting, all is
heart sinking and oppression. Depend upon it
—whatever else may be the mind of an old man
—old age is only really happvwhen, on feeling
too enjoyments ot tins world pass awav it be
gins to lay a strong hold on those of another.
Guizot’s last compliment to Washington.
—This celebrated minister of Louis I’hillippe has
devoted liis leisure moments to the composition
of a work which lie has recently published. It
is a treatise on French democracy There is one
passage, ns it appears in the English papers,
which shows how truly he continues to estimate
the character of Washington. He formerly pro
nounred a splendid eulogium upon that distin
guished man.
“ Washington has no resemblance to Napole
on. lie was not a despot. lie founded the po
litical liberty at the same time as the national
independence of liis country. He used war on
ly as a means to peace. Raised to the supreme
power without amuition lie descended from it
without regret, as soon as the safety of liis coun
try permitted. lie is the model for all demo
cratic chiefs. Now you have only to examine
his life, liis soul, his acts, his thoughts, his
words; you will not find a single mark of con
descension, a single moment of indulgence, for
the favorite ideas of democracy He constantly
struggled—struggled even to weariness and sad
ness —against its slightest exactions. No man
was ever more profoundly imbued with the
spirit of government or with respeet for authori
ty. He never exceeded the right of power, ac
cording to the laws of his country ; hut he con
firmed and maintained them, in principle as well
as in practice, os firmly, as loftily as he could
have done in an old monarchical or aristocratic
al state. He was one of those who knew that
it is no more possible to govern from below, in
a republic than in a monarchy—in a democratic
than in an aristocratic society ”
Orators and Newspapers.—Compare the
orator, one of the noblest vehicles for the diffu
sion of thought, with the newspaper, and we
may gain a faint glimpse of the übiquitous power
of the latter. The orator speaks but to a few
hundreds, the newspaper addresses millions.
The words of the orator may die in the air, the
language of the newspaper is stamped on tablets
imperishable as marble. The arguments of the
orator may follow each other so rapidly that a
majority of the audience may struggle in a net
of ratiocination—the reasoning of the newspa
per may be scanned at leisure without a fear of
perplexity. The passion of the orator influences
an assembly, the feelings of a newspaper elec
trifies a continent. The orator is for an edifice,
the newspaper for tho world—the one shines for
an hour, the other grows for all time—the orator
may be compared to lightning which flashes over
a valley for a moment, but it leaves it again in
darkness; the newspaper to a sun blazing stea
dily over the whole earth, and “fixed outlie
basis of its own entprnily.” Printing has been
happily defined, “the art which preserves all
arts.” Printing makes the orator more than an
orator. It catches up his dying words, and
breathes into them the breath of life. It is the
-peaking gallery through which the orator thun
ders in the ears of ages. He leans from the
tomb over tho cradle of rising generations.
MACON, G A_.
SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 3, 1849
NOTIC E.- The “MU THKHN SHTSEI M”
Office has hern removed to the Brick Build
in". at the Corner of Cotton Avrnne nnd
I-’irst Street, formerly occupied as the “Re
public’’ Office.
|pr*\Ve are indebted to the Editors of the Sa
vannah Republican for an extra containing the
news per steamer Cherokee, which vessel arriv
ed at Savannah on Saturday morning last, from
New York, having made the trip from bar to bar
in fifty-eight hours, bringing fifty-five passengers,
fourteen of whom w ere for Montgomery, Ala.
YW Mr C. A. F. Irving, of this city, was on
the 27th ult. chosen Agent of Transportation of
the Central Rail Road at Savannah. Mr. Har
daway is appointed Agent of Transportation at
Macon,to supply the place vacated by Mr. Irving
Mr Polk.—lt is supposed that Mr. Polk will
leave Washington on the 6th of March, after
witnessing the inauguration of Gen. Taylor, and
return home tia Richmond, Charleston, Savan
nah and Macon, spending a day in each city.
California not ancient Ophir.—A doubt
about the correctness of Major Noah's opinion,
that California was the Ophir from whence Solo
mon obtained his gold, having been expressed
in our presence, we were led to examine the sub
ject. The Major assumes that the final disper
sion of the ten tribes took place before Solomon
built his Temple, and states that a portion of
them inhabited California when the ships of
Solomon made their three years’ voyaga to Ophir
(California,) and furnished the gold for the
Temple. On examining the history of the ten
tribes, it will be found that their separation from
Judah, whence their independent existence
dates, was effected in the days of Rehoboam,
son of Solomon, and that their first considerable
captivity occurred two hundred and fifty years,
and their final captivity, two hundred and eighty
years, after the building of the Temple. And,
moreover, ancient Ophir was known long before
the days of Solomon, or even of Moses, or per
haps even of Abraham himself, if the critics are
correct in their views of the antiquity of Job.
We respectfully refer the Major to the twenty
eighth chapter and sixteenth verse of that anci
ent book, where lie will find the “ gold of Ophir”
mentioned. Besides, someone lias lately asked
the question, “ whether the apes and peacocks
brought to Solomon in his Ophir ships, were na
tives of California, and if so, why are they not
found there at this time ?”
Wo suppose the whole matter will resolve
itself into a case similar to one we have some
where met with, and as it will hear a second
reading, we will venture to give it. A relic-
Monger exhibiting nn ancient sword, declared it
to be the identical one with which Balaam smote
the speaking ass. L T pon its being suggested, that
Balaam only wished for a sword, he still main
tained the value of his relic, by stating it to be
“ the very sword Balaam wished for."
So, if the Jews never did obtain gold from
California, they wish they had done so.
ITOur familiar, Pete, (all Editors have one,
who lets them into a thousand secrets,) is an in
veterate punster. Here are a pair of his latest.
Meeting Tom B. in the street, with a hand
kerchief round his jaws, a swollen face and a lu
gubrous countenance, Pete’s sympathies were
excited, and he wislir.d to know from Tom the
occasion of his suffering.
“Ah' hoy,” says Tom, “ did you ever have
the Tic Donloureaux ?”
“ No and yes,” answered Pete ; “ tick 1 have
not, hut dollar oice , I am afraid, will he inscrib
ed on my tomb stone.”
The oilier day, Pete saw Squire B.’s bov Har
ry, trudging along with an artn full of law books,
the centre of gravity of which he maintained
‘‘over the base,” with some difficulty, and he
accosted him with, “ Well, Harry, I see you are
hard at work steadying law.” Harry let the
books full on the spot. It was too much for him
to hear.
(O’We learn from the Athens Post that at a
meeting of the new Board of Directors of the
East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad, on the
21st ult., A. D. Keyes was re-elected President
and R C Jackson Secretary. The new route
by Cleveland has been decided upon, and several
thousand dollars worth of stqck subscribed for.
The point of intersection with the Western and
Atlantic Railroad had not been determined upon
hut it was thought Dalton would be the place.
S. A. Smith, Esq. of Cleveland, has been ap
pointed special agent to procure subscriptions to
fill up the remainder of the $150,000 of stock to
be taken by the people of East Tennessee. The
probability is that this Road will he completed.
A Good Retort.—Not long since a gentle
man, well know'n to the Bar in this State, en
gaged in a case in Court, was proceeding with
his rejoinder to the argument of Counsel on the
oiherside, when the Judge suddenly interrupted
him :
“ 1 opinion of the Court has been given on
this point, and further argument is unnecessary.”
“ A,a y please your Honor,” replied the
Counsel, “ I will cite but one more authority,
which, w ith deference to the Court, 1 conceive
to be conclusive.”
“The gentleman will desist, —the Court has
decided the point-”
“ May I ask the indulgence of the Court?”
said the Counsel, enquiringly, as he laid his hand
on a volume of Blackstone.
“ No, sir ; do you expect to change the opin
ion of the Court ? asked the Judge in an angry
tone.
“By no means, may it please your Honor,”
replied the Counsel, as he took his seat, “ I
wished merely to shew what an ass Blackstone
tens
O* Tho Maysvillc (Ky ) Morning Herald
says: “ Dr. Graham, the well-known proprie
tor of the Springs of Harrodsburgh, in this State,
is having a three-story hotel made in Louisville,
which he intends taking to San Francisco, where
he will open tavern for the accommodation of
tho Californians. ’’
SOUTHERN MANUFACTURES.
We are gratified to learn that several leading
papers of the South and Southwest, are advoca
ting the true interests of thisseclion of the Union
by recommending the establishment of manufac
tories. The South will never reach the height
ofprosperity of which she is susceptible, until
her industrial pursuits become more diversified.
Were it not for that insatiate propensity for land
and negroes, which characterizes most of our
people, the Southern States would soon attain
a degree of prosperity hitherto unknown, provi
ded the large capital thus used should be invest
ed in manufactories and other profitable employ
ments. We have authentic information to prove
that manufactories at the South have invariably
paid large dividends, where the business lias
been properly managed whilst the like amount
of capital invested in land and negroes has ofton
been left for the Sheriffs to declare the diridends.
What we would ask, but the industrial pursuits,
commerce and diversity of labor of the people of
Boston, has made that city worth as much as
the whole State of North Carolina ? What else
beside the miserable spirit of dependancc upon
others for almost every thing we consume, has
kept our people as mere producers of the raw
material for our more enterprising rivals abroad?
Why should so much of the cotton of the South
be sent to the Northern and Eastern States, as
well as to Great Britain, to he manufactured into
goods of various kinds, and to the injury, indi
rectly at least, of the great body of Southern
capitalists and citizens ? Why, also,should the
South buy breadstuff’s from the West, to feed her
working population, while, to a very considera
ble extent at least, she could raise these bread
stuffs herself? We coincide with the New Or
leans Times, that there is no fair reciprocity in
this trade—that the Western people do not take
our cotton in exchange for their flour and pork,
but exact coin. The editor of the Times states
that South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Missis
sippi and Louisiana, pay out more than two
fifths of the entire proceeds of their staple for
pork, flour, lard, mules, bagging and rope —all,
or the most of which, could be produced at
home.
The value of the cotton crop in the States
named, he estimates at $54,000,000 per annum :
and the expenses at somewhat over $22,000,000.
A large portion of the surplus, he urges, goes to
the West for provisions. Hence the policy of a
change of labor in the South is earnestly advo
cated. The Nashville Banner say* that the im
mense force now employed in the culture of cot
ton must he reduced—that the producer must be
come the consumer to a greater extent. Manu
facturers must be encouraged, and a diversity of
employment is essential. The Montgomery
( Ala.) Advertiser follows out the argument still
further, thus :
“ Massachusetts has about 800,000 inhabitants.
Alabama about 700,000. The former is rich in
wealth, and is looking forward to a rapidly in
creasing prosperity. The latter is rich in pro
ductive labor, rich in virgin soil, and can see no
clear vision of prosperity ahead. Why is this ?
Alabama has at least 300,000 producers ; Massa
chusetts has not a much greater number. The
true reason is, that the people of Massachusetts
( we mean the great body of the people ) produce
everything they consume except, perhaps cotton,
sugar and coffee; the people of Alabama buy
from other States everything they consume. The
product of labor is in the one case retained at
home —in the other sent abroad A Massachu
setts village presents a lively scene of activity.
The men, and the women, too, are as busy as
bees. Trades ofall kinds are followed ; and by
their skill and industry there is added to the
whole value of the raw materials produced
mainly by the farmer from 50 to 200 per cent,
value. Iron ore, cotton, flax, hemp, wool, hides,
and innumerable other raw materials, arc mer
chantable goods. The aggregate wealth of the
country is thus advanced by every man’s becom
ing a producer. In our Southern villages there
is little known of artizan skill. ’Tis true we
have mechanics engaged in their respective cal
lings; but they are not encouraged, and they
have not the facilities of Northern mechanics
for labor, because they are not encouraged. Hence
we have among u< a sickly system of mechanic
al industry. This can be corrected by our own
people. If they will encourage home labor they
will bring it among them. Until this done, the
advantages of mechanical labor will he unknown
among us.”
The Natchez Courier also says: “One thing
is positively clear; the cotton growing States
must possess themselves of a portion of the pro
fits attendant upon the fabiication of their great
staple into the various descriptions of cloth, be
fore they can flourish as the God of Nature in
tended them to flourish. They must awake to
their true interests, and vie with their Northern
brethren in enterprise and energy, before they
can hope to receive remunerating prices for their
labor. If vast fortunes can be made in the man
ufacture of cotton, two or or five thousand miles
from the States in which it is grown, how pro
fitable will it become when carried on in the
very midst of the cotton fields? But vve have
sufficiently adverted to this portion of the sub
ject in former numbers, and will dismiss it, hop
ing that the price of cotton will not have to de
preciate further, before our planters will awake
to the overwhelming importance of Home Man
ufactures.”
The reader will perceive that this movement
is one of no little interest and importance. It
is rapidly acquiring strength in the Soutli and
South-West, and promises, before long, to be
come the leading topic of the day.
As having a decided hearing upon the case,
vve may state that according to the best informa
tion at onr command, the aggregate values of
the crops and manufactures of the Eastern and
Middle States, in 1848, were as follow's:
Crops, .... $215,300,000
Manufactures, - - - 252,000,000
In the Southern and Western States, the ag
gregates were as follows:
Crops, .... $336,000,000
Manufactures, • - . 51,100,000
In the Eastern and Middle States, the excess
of goods overcrops amounted to $36,700,000-
while in the Southern and Western, the crops
exceeded the manufactures, to the enormous
amount of $26-1,900,000.
The News by the Kuropsu
The New York paper of the 23d inst. contain
some additional news by the Europa, front which
we extract the following :
The demand for Cotton has continued exten
sive during the past fortnight, and sales to a very
large extent have taken place.
The prices of American remain without much,
if any change, hut Brazil or South American
kinds being in very active request, both for con
sumption or on speculation, have advanced one
eighth of a penny per pound.
The import during the two weeks is 65,000,
of which 52,000 is from the United States, and
the stock now in this port is estimated at 407,-
000 against 232,000 at same period last season.
The stock of American is about 245,000, being
an increase of 102,000 bales.
Money at call may be said to rangdat about I.J
per ct. Tiie pacific tone of our government, the
improved condition of the public revenue, and
perhaps the increasing prospects of large remit
tances of gold from California, have tended to
this result.
The Bank of France has now a large amount
of notes in circulation, and in spite of their en
deavors to keepvvitliin the limits of 450 millions
allowed by law, the necessities of the Govern
ment will probably compel some encroachment
upon the principles generally practised by the
Directors.
The stock of bullion, bovver, still increases as
well as the account on the government, hut this
arises from the receipt of the last installment of
the loan.
The Europa arrived at New York early on
the morning of the 24th. She lias made a win.
ter passage in less than fourteen days.
The packet ships Waterloo and Queen of the
West, arrived out after the extraordinary short
run of fifteen days.
The gold excitement in England is intense—
the people were literally mad.
Irelaud. —The writs of Erroi to the House of
Lords, in the cases of Smith O’Brien, McManus,
and O’Donehue, have been issued from the writ
office of the Court of Chancery.
It is the opinion of some of the best legal au
thorities, that the appeal cannot fail of being
successful. Mr. Meagher has taken no steps for
an appeal. His own means being exhausted, he
refuses all pecuniary aid from his friends.
The New York Tribune, in alluding to the
effect of the news by the Europa, says : “ The
effect of the present condition of business in
England must be highly favorable upon the
trade of this country. Our products are selling
freely, and at fair prices; and the demand for
our stocks will prevent any rise in the price of
hills, so that no disturbance of our monetary af
fairs can be apprehended from a renewal of the
export of specie. Even with the large importa
tions of foreign goods into this country, we ap
pear at present to be much more likely to im
port than to export coin. There lias not been,
for a series of years, so healthy a condition of
the general business of the country as at pres
ent.”
The Ex-King of the French. —“La Cor
saire,” a Paris paper, says : “Louis Pliillippe lias
written a letter to M. Louis Bonaparte, and to
M. Odillon Barrot, President of the Council, in
which he declares the purity of his intentions,
and his desire not to occupy himself with politics
in case he shall be permitted to return to France.
“All my ambition,” says be, “will be to live as
a good citizen.’’ Louis Pliillippe does not ask
the chateau of Neuillyr for a residence, on ac
count of its proximity to Paris, he desires per
mission only to occupy the chateau of Randan
in Auvergne On returning to France, he and
his sons will take an oath by which they will
bind themselves to renounce all pretensions to
the French crown. Neither the President oflhe
Republic nor the President of the Council, it is
added, have as yet taken this strange epistle in
to consideration.”
The Sox of Louis xvi in Wisconsin. —Rev.
Mr. Porter, of Green Bay, in writing to Rev,
Mr. Peet, makes the following remark : “We
have all been surprised at developments which
go to prove that Rev Mr. Williams, of this vi
cinity, is the son of Louis XVI of France.
Colonel Jack llavs. —This officer, so distin
guished as a partisan in the recent war, who was
supposed to have lost his life in a skirmish with
a party of Mexicans, has returned with his com
panions to San Antonio. The cause of their
long detention was, that they—Hays and his
party—had been led astray by their Indians, and
got lost in the mountains, among which they
wandered a long time, without being able to find
their way out, and were in danger of starvation.
They killed their mules and subsisted on the
flesh ; and one of the party perished of thirst,
water being as scarce as food. The party met
some Indians, whose horses they took, or they
might not have got back ; and they recoved from
them a small white Mexican boy, that they had
stolen in some of their inroads into the settle
ment.
Kissing with a Will. —The Louisville
Journal, in its account of the reception by Gen.
Tavlor of the Ladies at the Galt House, says :
“Many of them offered their bright and beauti
ful lips and received as hearty kisses as lips could
possibly desire. Some of the jealous young gen
tlemen thought that the old chieftain, instead of
kissing as a mere matter of form, kissed with a
very decided appetite.”
Post Office in Old Time — A Cincinnati
Editor, in writing home from Washington, com
municates the following antiquarian intelligence
“l was shown by the chief clerk in the inter
ior department of the P. Office the first ledger
opened by the United States during the Admin
istration of Dr. Franklin, the first Postmaster
General in the service. It is a blank book of
some three or four quires, very little superior to
any day-blotter of the present age : but it suf
fices to hold all the post office accounts in June,
19,1775. 1 observe Dr. Franklin charges I imself
with one year’s salary from that date, $t 1000. It
serves to give a forcible impression of the pro
gress of this department since that time. All
the entries are made in his own hand wriring,
while at this time there are over one hundred
and twenty persons employed in various capac
ities in this Department.
Slave Trading.—The Southern Recorder of
the 27th ult. says : “ The progress of this illegal
practice has met with a check, and has indeed,
we presume, so far as this vicinage is concerned
been decisively arrested, in a case which has
just occurred. Two slave speculators reached,
this place some days ago, with a number of ne
groes for sale. The owners were promptly ar
rested at the instance of the Mayor, and brought
before the Council. The parties were saved
from going to jail by giving bond and security
for their appearance next morning, in the sum of
one thousand dollars. At the time for their ap.
pearance it seems the parties arrested had judg.
ed it best to forfeit their bond and pay the penal
ty ( which vve presume they had secured to their
security ) rather than abide the issue of the law
they had violated. We presume that the pro
ceedings in this case, will in future turn the di.
rection of these dealing in negroes, in violation
of law, to any other quarter rather than this.”
High and Dry.— The Cincinnati Commer
cial is responsible for the following :
The popular steamer Albatross, Capt. C. D.
Rohinsor, arrived yesterday afternoon from New
Orleans. During the trip up, the Albatross had
occasion to stop at the mouth of Green River to
put out two hogsheads of sugar. She reached
that point at night—no light to be seen, and the
river was at high flood—the town at the mouth
being almost entirely inundated.
“ Hallo !” cried the captain, “ who keeps this
town ?”
“ Hallo ! yourself, ’ sang out a voice from the
midst of the darkness.
“ Where’s your wharf-boat ? Show your light
we’ve got freight for you,” cried the captain.
“ The wharf-boat’s drifted off—there a’nt no
lights about—and you can’t land any freight ”
was the categorical reply.
“ Strike a light,” shouted the captain,—“ s e t
us see to get in.’’
“ Show a light yourself, lyid let me see to get
out.”
“Where are you?” cried the captain.
“ Up a tree !’’ answered the voice.
The boat sent in her yawl, and sure enough
found a man with a bundle under his arm, perch
ed in a tree, the rising waters stealing slowly
upon his resting nlarp.
Gold Gallop.—The New York Express
sums up the Californin excitement by saying r
Gold is in everybody’s mouth, on everybody’s
tongue, in everybody’s face. Every thing looks
yellow. Walk from the battery up to Grace
Church, nnd one hears nothing but “ when are
you off?”—“ lend a hundred dollars,” —« work
passage,” “ Jones went off yesterday,*’
“Smith starts to-night,”—“ wife provided for,’'
“ twenty pound lumps,” “ pickaxes,’*
“shovels,"—“sifters,” —“jack knives,” —« Sa.
ernmentn," —“ twenty earrats fine,” —“ got u
letter from Jenkins yesterday—Jenkins has dug
up a couple of millions,"—“ the real dust,”—
“ Cape Horn too tedious,” —“ over land,” or
“ through that monumental canal just discovered,
you know, at the Isthmus,"—“ Chihunhun,”—
“ Santa Fe,” —“ Big Fork,’’—“ Feather River,”
—“ Sutter’s Fort,”—“ brandy,”—*’ whisky,”—
“ Seidlets powders,”—“ bowie knives,” —“re-
volvers.”
Important from Santa Fe.— Dates from San
ta Fe to the 1 Gtli Dec. have been received at St.
Louis, iMo. Major Beall was soon to take the
field against a large party of Indians in the vi
cinity of Red River, with the view of compell
ing them to make a treaty of peace. The In
dians were constantly committing depredations
on the inhabitants of Chihuahua.
Kit Carson was at Santa Fe on the Ist of No
vember. A judicial envoy from Texas had ar
rived at Santa Fe with the intention of entering
upon office. Tho Republican ridicules the pro
tension of Texas to sovereignty over any por*
tion of New Mexico. H. M. Smith, District
Attorney, has arrived at Santa Fe.
(ET It is stated that the Pass discovered across
the mountains of California, by Capt. Lawson,
lias been pronounced by a meeting of Oregon
and California emigrants from the United States,
to be one of the “finest in the world.” They
say they found the ascent and descent to and
from the mountains very gradual and easy. In
the opinion of the meeting, a most practicable
road can be made, with very little labor, through
this pass; and this route, they say, will prove
of lasting benefit to parties travelling to and
from Oregon and California, and from the Uni
ted States, as it has proved to them. A vote of
thanks, in the form of “ three cheers,” was pre
sented to Capt. Lawson.
An Extraordinary Development—Diplo
matic Smuggling.—The New York Commer
cial Advertiser, says. “ We have seen a letter
from one of the Northern European capitals, in
which is disclosed a fact most humiliating to our
country. It is alleged that the diplomatic re
presentative of the United States, at one of tbo
Northern courts, have been for some time suspet’
ted, has at length been detected in smuggling
British goods—laces, calicoes, Ac., —to the
mount of .$20,000 rix-dollurs, supposed to be a
joint concorn with some traders in the capita 1
refered to.
The ten large boxes containing the goods we< 6
represented by the diplomatic gentleman. t° con '
tain only supplies for his own family, such »»
sugars, Ac. : but one of them was aceidentall)
broken open in the custom-house, and the dis
covery was made. The custom-house authori
ties took possession of the whale.
The discovery is said to have produced tl> e
deepest modification among the American res'-
dents.”
(jjp A Mr Forbes, from Aberdeen, Scotlnnil, ||
has become possessed of one of the richest quick- a
silver mines in the world in California. J
flasks, of 75 lbs. each had been got in a vd* M
short time, at an expense of ten to twelve d" l '
lars per 100 lbs.
(Tr*lt is stated that the salt found in the g rc ‘'' J
salt lake in California, is superior to any no"' >n |n
use, for preserving butter, beef, A-c. It ■* l * l '.
strongest ever yet discovered. Three barre
water make one of salt.