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MORNING NEWS.
BY JOHN M. COOPER.
THOMPSON, EDITOR
TERMS :
DAILY PAPER $4 00 | TIU-WKKKLT $2 00
All New Advertisements appear in both papers.
Report of tire Commissioner of the
General Land Office.
The annual report of the General Land Of
fice, prepared by the present incumbent, J.
Butterfield, Esq., columns much information
of interest nnd of value Not being able to
gi.o it in extensn, says the Boston Atlas, we
ore not yet willing to pass it by entirely ; many
of its statements are too important not to receive
some notice.
Worn tViis port, it appears that our public
lands obtained by treaties cessions, &c., env
brace an area of 1,584,000,000 of acres. On
the 30th of Sept. 1849. 140,000,000 bad been
disposed of, leaving 1,438,000,000 unsold.
The mineral lands of Luke Superior have
not yet been brought into market, owing to in
ability to complete their survey. Measures
have been adopted to hasten their exploration
In Wisconsin and Iowa, where the survey has
been nearly completed, the land has been
brought into market as fast as surveyed. The
minerals of these lands are very valuable, ami
have attracted the attention of capitalists both
in this country and in Europe.
In surveys of the public lands in Florida,
great difficulties have been met with, one class
being in consequence of errors in the original
Spanish surveys ; another, in consequence of
vagueness in the description and locations of
confirmed titles. The first class is remedied
by re-survoys. The latter requires the interven
tion of Congress.
During the past year six millions of acres
of land were advertised for sale, nnd more
than six millions ami a half are now prepared
for market. During the year 1841!, there were
sold of the public land 1,887,553 04 acres,
amounting to $2,621,615 26; and for the three
quarters of 1849, ending 30ih September 887 -
206 40 acres were sold, the purchase money
being $1,178,037 62.
Ttiis falling oil' in the receipts is attributed
to the largo quantities thrown into market
from other sources, especially my menus of the
Mexican wnr warrants, by the State selections,
under the act of 4th September, 1841, granting
500,000 acres to each State for internal im
provements ; and by selections under nets milk
ing largo gi ants to several Stales for canals,
improvements of rivers, &c.
It appears, however, that the quantity of
land disposed of by sales and other means has
largely increased, though the revenue, for the
reasons given has somewhat diminished. The
labor imposed on the Lund office, by the differ*
ent acts for the disposal of the public land, is
much greater, as it occupies more time in ex
amination, registering and issuing evidence of
title for the military and Slate locations, than
would be required for double the same amount
of land sold for cosh.
The Commissioner urges the importance of
prompt nnd summary measures to separate
public from private property in our new territo
ries, New Mexico nnd Upper California. Ho
dwells to some length upon the extraordinary
emigration to the latter territory, and the im
portance of an early attention to the wants and
duties thereby created, He-says:
In extending to this territory the United
States system of surveys, and erecting tl c land
districts, with loculofiic.es, for the sale of the
public lands, it is u measure of the first import
ance that some judicious plan be adopted by
by which private properly may be propery dis
criminated, and severed from the public lands,
in order thut in our syetom of selling we may
avoid conflict with private rights,by disposing of
only such lands as is fully ascertained to bo
public property.
To obtain information ns to the system that
existed before the late change of government, iu
disposing of lauds in Upper California, such
materials have been examined lit this office as
were within reach—particularly the report, in
March, 1849, from the military officer, acting as
Secretary of State of the Territory of California.
From thut report, which is replete with use
ful information und interesting details, we find
that the land system which grew up under the
auspices of Old Spain and Mexico does not
rest upon loose, uncertain, unwritten data, but
is founded‘upon written orders, which from
time to time huve been promulg d. It is, then,
the obvious and indispensable duty of our gov
ernment to take decisive measures for the n -
cognition of good claims, for the extinction of
fraudulent ones, and for the selection and with
drawal from the mass of public property of all
lands requisite for her military fortifications,
arsenals, depots, light houses, or other public
uses; so that our system may be he unimped
ed and free from emb»rrassment in disposing
of the public lands.
Decatur anil Barron's Duel.—The follow
ing letter to Judge Carr, upon the ill-omened
duel between Decatur nnd Barron, in which
a gallant patriot threw away his life, is taken
from Kennedy’s Life of Wirt:—
Washington, April 2, 1820.
I thank you, my dear friend, for your short
letter, which I would have sooner answered,
bnt for causes beyond my control. Instead of
attempting to give you an account of the quar
rel between our lamented Decatur and Barron,
I propose to send you in this a copy of their
correspondence, which wo are promised from
the Intelligencer press to-morrow. Decatur
showed me this correspondence, in confidence,
late lust fall, so far ns it had then gone; and
I used every effort to prevent the fight, which
he wns very far from wishing to bring on, but
which he considered as forced upon him in
such o way that there wa> no avoiding it, but
by disavowing what he had really said and
through! of Barron ; and of this I need not
say in* was incapable. He did not approve of
duelling. * *
He then passed to his own case, fighting,
he said, wns his profession, and it would bo im
possible for him to keep his station and pre
serve his respectability without showing him-
se f ready, at all times, to answer the call of
any one who bore the name of a gentleman.
After my return from Baltimore, I heard
nothing more of it till he was brought home
mortnlly wounded; nnd then I saw him no
more till he was a corpse. As I stood near
him alone, and looked at his dear face, mark
ed, as it still wns, with the last traces of his
departed spirit, I could not help stying.
“What is life, and what all the glory this
world enn give?" The soliloquy is not a very
novel one indeed. I have made it, in common
with others; a thousand times before,but 1 nev
er felt its force till then; for never, till then,
laid I seen the corpse of such a man. They
both fell at the shot, which was so simultaneous
thut the report of two pistols could not be heard
by those who stood out of sight, though close
within ear-shot. This 1 heard from Com
Porter, who was standing by with Rogers.
He exclaimed immediately,” "One of them is
killed, for there is only one shot.”
Very different was the scene when he got to
the ground. Decatur was apparently shot dead;
he revived after a while, und lie nnd Barron
held n parley ns they lay on the ground, Dr.
Washington, who got up just then, suys it re
minded hint of the closing scene of a tragedy,
Hamlet and Laertes. Com. Barron proposed
that they should make friends before they met
in heaven, (for he supposed that both would die
immediately.) Decatur said ho bad never
been his enemy, that he freely forgave him bis
death, though ho could not forgive those who
bnd stimulated him to seek his life. One re
port says that Barron exclaimed. ‘‘Would t<
God you had said this much yesterday!” It is
ceitain that the parley wns a friendly one, und
that they parted in peace. Decatur knew he
was to die, and his only sorrow was that
he had not died in the service of his country
\ Correnponrlenfie of the Morning News ]
MILLEDGEVILLE, Jun. 28, P. I\I.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1850.
It is believed that Barron will recover—though
this is far from certain. The papers will tell
everything as to Decatur’s funeral, procession
&c. Your friend,
W.M. WlllT.
Disunion Taper.—It is stated in the north- I
era papers that a prospectus has been issued in
Washington for the establishment of a paper
in that city, to advocate the penecnble d ssolu-
lion of the Union. The name ol L. Hamp
ton appears as publisher, but who the editor is
to be is not made known. It is not slated from
what party the scheme has emanate—whether
it is a Soul hern or an Eastern movement ;
and the most that is said obout it is in terms ol
strongest reprobation. The New York limes is
startled at the proposition to insure such a pa
per at the seat of Government. 1 he editor
cannot believe that disunion is seriously con
templated by any one, or that any man contem
plates tiie establishment of a press to advocate
such a measure. He thinks “the paper is bl
inded to advocate Southern rights, and that is
called disunion.”
Is it not u strange state of things when
the “advocacy of Southern Rights ’ is term
ed treason against the Union—in other words
when the maintenance of “ Southern Rights
and the preservation ot the union are con
sidered incompatible with each other. South
ern Rights have been and are duily assailed
at Washington—there is no treason in that!
but to vindicute those rights, and to counsel
sistance to the aggressions of those who are
setting the constitution nnd laws at defiance, is
disunion.. The error ot the newborn patriot
ism of the day, is that it directs its arguments
against the effects instead of the cause. If
those who are now ssvallinnt in their denuncia
tions of all who speak of disunion, would array
themselves against the disorganizes who are
driving the South to desperation by their acts of
outrage nnd aggression, they would exhibit
more real attachment to the union, which they
would do much more to insure its preservation.
The treason is in assailing “Southern Rights
not in “ndvocaitng” them.
If disunion consists in a lawless determina
tion to disregard the compromises and guaran
tees of the constitution, and to trample on the
ghts of the South—then there are no lack of
disunionists in the free States; but it it con
sists in n resolute determination to preserve that
instrument and its guarantees, and to defend
those rights at all hazards, then all true men thii
side of Mason and Dixon’s Line are disunion
ists, and the land is full of disunion presses
olreadv.
in senate.
The Bill of the Senate authorizing all per
sons whatever to establish ferries and erect
bridges across water-courses or strearns on
their own lands; also, the Bill to alter and
amend the several Acts of this State so far as
they relate to the counties wherein the trial
of claims to personal property levied on under
execution shall bo hail, have been passed.
The Sonnte has adopted a Resolution author
izing the Surveyor General to employ a Clerk
to assist him in discharging the duties of his of
fice for one year, fiixing his salary at $600. A Se
lect Committee was appointed by the Senate
to examine into the business in that office, and
they reported that the press of business, owing
to the numerous applications for head right
grants and other grants, made it indispensibly
necessary for a Clerk in that Department
hence tbs adoption of the resolution.
HOUSE BILLS PASSED THE SENATE.
A Bill “to incorporate the Duhlonega nnd
Marietta Turnpike and Blank Road Company;
und also to incorporate the Camming and At
lanta Turnpike and Blank Road Company.’
The Senate amended the Bill by engrafting the
following to it: Also, “to incorporate the
Cobb county and Alubnma Turnpike or Blank
Road Company ; also, authorizing the construc
tion of a Blank Road from Washington, in
Wilkes county, to some point on the Georgia
Rail Road.
The Bill to niter and amend the Act approv
ed Dee. 22, 1832, which requires the Jailors of
the several counties of this Stute to advertise
or publish all runaway slaves in one of the pa
pers of Milledgeville. _
Tito House has been engaged during the
day, principally, in considering the “ad valo-
Tux Bill.” Several amendments were
offered during the evening, which have been
disposed of. To-night the local Bills will he
up on their passage, and many will be dispos
ed of.
See first page.
I
Ignorance in the Manufacturing Districts.
—The correspondent of the morning Chroni
cle for the manufacturing districts, on entering
a house in Leeds found three children alone.
The following conversation ensued :—I asked
them if they ever went to school 1 "Never.”
—“Can you tell your letters?" A mere stolid
stare of ignorance.—“How old are you?” I
asked the eldest girl. “Don’t know.”—“Do
you know the Queen's name?” “No.”—
‘•Whore were you born?” “Don’t know.”—
(The relieving officer said he believed all the
family were Irish.)—“Did you ever hear of a
place called Ireland ?" “No.”—Or a place
called England ?’’ “No.”—“Or a place culled
Yorkshire ?” “No.”—“Do you know the 1 name
of this town?” After a pause the question
was answered. The eldest girl did know that
she lived in,Leeds; and this knowledge, with
the exception of matters belonging to the only
routine of existence, seemed positively to be
she only piece of information in the posses
sion of the family.—Liverjiool Chronicle.
Terrible Snow Storm—Loss of Sixty Cat
tic.—A correspondent of the Frontier (Iowa
Guardian, of the 13th ult., writting from Mud
dy Fork, under date of Oct. 18, says:—“We
cros-eil over Rocky Ridge on the second of
this month, near the summit of the South Bass,
with the Wind River chain of mountains on the
north; toward night it began to snow and blow
quite hard und fast from the north-cast, weth
er increasing in coldness, which obliged us to
encamp the best way we could, on a branch of
the Sweetwater. E. T. Kenson nnd Captain
Richards’camp some ten or twelve miles ahead
on Willow Creek. We turned our cnttle loose
nnd drove them into the willows near by to do
the best they could a d share their fate; und
such a storm of wind and snow as wo experi
enced, wo think was never superseded ir I’ot-
tnwnmie. For thirty six hours, it continued to
howl around us unceasingly, blowing nearly a
hurricane, drifting the snow in every direction,
and freezing fast to whatever it touched. Be
ing unable to keep fires, (except a few who had
stoves in their wagons,) we hud to he content
without them, and do the best we could.
Many were the mothers and infants that were
obliged to be in bed under their frail covering
that sheltered them from the pitiless blast, to
keep them from perishing, with nothing per
haps but a piece of dry bread, or a few crackers,
to subsist upon, while the winds spent their
fury upon our camp of canvass, covering it with
a mass of ice, the snow drifting around us in
some places to the depth of three or four feet.
On the morning of the thirddav the storm abated
anil wc turned out thro’ the chilly blast, (from
off these everlasting snow capped mountains,
being at «n altitude of about seven thousand
foet) and snow, to look for our famishing, and
as we expected, many perished cattle. As wa
wended our way down the stream among the
willows, indeed it was a sorrowful sight to be
hold our perished cattle; one afteranothcr cold
and stiff, lying in the snow banks, food for
wolves, ravens, catamounts, magpies, &c., thai
inhabit these mountainous regions in count
less numbers, and live on prey.
The greater port of our rattle had made their
way during the storm about five miles off to the
Sweetwater, where they obtained pasture and
fared quite well, not one being found perished,
while those that tarried behind (ell a prey to
hunger and the merciless storm. Upwards of
60 head of cnttle perished in the three camps.
Those of our cattle that survived the storin,
did not rerover from its effects for sevosal days;
others died in consequence, nnd some show the
effect,* yet, although they are improving at
present, as we find quite plenty of mountain
grass, nnd that hearty and good, and wc are
in tolerable good rolling order, making from
12 to 15 miles per day, and we hope if we
are prospered to reach the vaRey in 8 or 10
davs from this time.
Creole Melodists.—The concerts of this
Curpshavo been well attended, and their per
formances have given a high degree of satisfac
tion. To-night' will be their last night, and
their bill is one of unusual attraction. In addi
tion to a choice selection of Ethiopian Mel
dies, they give a burlesque dance, in imitation
of the fashionable Bnllet- by Lucy Long.
JANUARY 29, A. M.
IN SENATE BILLS PASSED.
A Bill to exempt Physicians, Surgeons and
Accouehiers from jury duty.
A Bill to amend the several Laws of this
State in relation to writs of certiorari.
Several other local Bills have also passed the
Semite this forenoon.
The Resolutions reported by tbe Committee
on tho State of the Republic, together with the
Bill authorizing the call of a Convention, as
passed upon by tho House, have just been re
ported to the Senate.
Truly Yours C.
actresses, and some of the “press," wore thei
—Sandy editors and reporters principally.
You may be sure it was a mixed assembly, nnd
very different from those to which gentlemen
would introduce their wives and daughters.
I presume Burton di 1 not lay out much
on this affair, or if he did, he adopted a .very
good plan of reimbursing himself, for every
gentleman wns taxed 25 cents for taking
charge of his hat nnd cloak, and another quar
ter for the brushing off. Besides what was
spent at tho bar, of which the Manager is said
to he the proprietor.
Three steamers are to be launched from one
of our ship yards on Thursday morning, of
3500,650 and 600 tons,respectively. Oneis to be
launched with engines in working order and
“steam up,” and starts at once on un experi
mental trip. This may be termed a bold origi
nality, nnd a very dangerous one too.
Some thirty Democrats were discharged
from the Custom House yesterday, and about
1.50 more, it is said, will go after the 1st. This
is rendered necessary by the reduction of ex
penses. To tell the truth, that department is
in a queer state, nnd will hnve to stop payment
if things do not chnsge. The amount, accord
ing to the new board, which should pny its ex
penses until July next, has been already ex
pended, except about $200,000. and the pay
ment on the 1st will make a largo hole in that.
This, to say the least, is a disgraceful state of
uffaiis.
The great Ball of the FircDepartmentconios
oft' on Tuursday night, at the Opera House, the
parquetto and stage forming the ball-room—
the ornamental part of the place, on these
occasions, consists of tho apparatus used
by firemen; except, of course, their hose-
carts and engines, but of which they are so
proud, that if it were possible, I have no doubt
they would be introduced also.
Fanny Keuble read, on Thursday night, to
an audience of probably 3500 persons, at the
Tabernacle; and hundreds went away, being
unable to obtain even stnniling room. She was
presented, on this occasion, wifh a very beauti
ful silver vase filled with flowers !
Tammany Hall (Old Hunker) are out again
against the Free-soilers. The General Commit
tee have passed a resolution that no person
is eligible to n seat in the council, who is known
to have voted for Cass and Butler nt the lust
election, and who are now opposed to the
Wilmot Proviso ns n party test. So there is
no chunce of harmony in the democratic ranks
at present. Yours, •
CHARLEMAC.
Gen.-Cass.—A letter frgm Lansing, Michi
gan, published iu tho Detroit Tribune, says that
several letters have been received by members
of the Legislature from Gen.Cass. They breathe
at fear of the dissolution of the Union, un
less there is a stop put to the aggressive move
ments ngninst the South. He wishes to be un
fettered oil this question, and desires that
Michigan sfiall take a stand in support of the
guarantees of the constitution. Feelers are
busily being put forth to the members, for re
scinding his instructions.
In Boston the Pnrkman tragedy is still
the engiossing topic of conversation. The
Grand Jury have indicted the accused, and
what was somewhat unusual, the vote was
unanimous as to his guilt. A correspondent
of the N. York Tribuno says: “As to the coun
sel which Webster has secured, I think he has
been fortunate in securing two such able men
'ns Messrs. Mesiek and Sohier. Mr. Choate
w as applied to, and so wns Mr. Webster. The
latter, I am informed, was offered $2,000, but
declined the invitation.”
Gov. Quitman, of Miss., in his Message
to tbe Legislature, urges the abolition of nil
Common Law forms of Legal Procedure, so
that “hereafter all suits shall be instituted by
petition, and pleaded to by an answer, after the
manner of pleading now in use in the Chancery
Court.” *
Some of the friends of Mr. Calhoun assert
that he will never again, in any reasonable pro
bability, be able to take an active part in pub
lic nfl'uirs, his health being completely prostra
ted. Mr. C. is no'w more than 76 years of age.
Difficulty Surgical Opcra'ion..—We learn
from the Richmond Times, that on Wednesday
last, a most rare and ■’ifficult operation wns per
formed by Dr. Gibson, ai the Medical College
iu that city. The disease was Ostco-Cepha-
loma, and the patient a lady, aged about 40, a
resident of the neighboring county of Chester
field. The operation consisted in the removal
of the right half of tbe upper jnw, and is be
lieved to be perhaps the most difficult and un-
iommon in the whole range of surgical prac
tice. Tho patient bore the operation with
heroic fortitude, and is doing well.
Boston .—During the last six months 291
unfortunate debtors have been imprisoned in
Boston.
Dates from Jscmcl, Havti, to tbe 4th inst..
state that a tremendous fire had taken place,
dest' oi ing almost every house in the town. It
is attributed to the work of incendiaries. Oth
er accounts say that the Dominican ' squudron
had'entered Jacmel and fired the town.
A Boston Mystery.—The bodies of twins
being found beried in an nsh-heap, lias just
been solved by the father coming forward and
stating that he hurried them surreptitiously,
for want of money to pay for their burial other
wise. ' ,
One of the Christmas pantomimes at Astley’s
was called “Yankee, Doodle on his pretty Jittie
poney,” in which sm drv jokes were pla'ed off
ut the expense of the Yankees, and Britet'da i«
the great personage of the piece.
The Revenue Cutter Craw ford, Capt. Coste,
arrived at Charleston on Saturday from a cruise
on the Coast of Florida. Loft at St. Mary’s
brig Dunbar for Boston, in a few days; the schr.
Yankee Blade sailed for New York on 13th;
the Coast Survey steamer Hetzell, Capt.
Rogers, sailed on the 23d for Cape Carnaveral.
On passing the habor of St. Johns, observed n
steamer making in, supposed to be the Jasper
from Savannah.
The New York Times says it is proposed to
give a grand hall in that city on Washington’s
birth-day, the profits to be in aid of the Hun
garian exilse. The arrangements for the ball
and supper are to be on tho most extensive
scale. The tickets are limited to one thousand,
at $5 each, to admit a lady Hnd gentleman ; ex
tra ladies’tickets at $1._ . If the accommoda
tions will permit,a larger number of tickets v. ill
heisxeed,'which will he put at f 10.
[Correspondence of the Morning News.]
NEW YORK, Jan. 2T6, 1850.
Thera is a rumor to-day thut a warrant has
been issued for the arrest of Gen. P. M. Wet-
more, as the Government has decided to pros
ecute him criminally under the clause in ihe
Sub Treasury act.
The plot thickens with respect to the Ar
lington Bonnet, Drury and Ashley affair. Yes
terday, “ one-eyed Thompson,” the active ngent
in causing the arrest of these parties, was him
self nabbed and is now in prison in Brooklyn,
charged by Bennett with having altered a
bill on the Mechanic’s Bunk to a $50. Bon
net says the bill was shown to him by Thomp
son, and subsequently passed off. I begin to
think the old adage is not true, thut “ there is
honor among thieves.” Drury’s trial for the
torpedo charge is set down for Monday next
in the Oyer und Terminer.
Our city has been disgraced for some time
past by outrages with a weapon called a “ slung
shot,” with which the victim is struck from
behind, and fulls insensible. One of the
cowardly wretches who was caught with one
in his possession which is a penal offence, was
convicted on Saturday, I am happy to say, in
the Court of Sessions, and sent to the State
priron for two years.
The case I referred to lately, against Bennei
of the Herald, of libel, for publishing the po
lice report of a mail’s arrest has resulted in a
verdict for the defendant, the court ruling thut
he was justified in the publication provided it
was a correct account, and gave a fair state
ment of the case.
A remarkable case of conscience has just
occurred. A fellow stole a door mat from the
stoop of a house last week, but moved by re
morse and preaching ho returned it in a day or
two afterwards, and slipped the following note
under the door—verily there is some honesty
loft:
to The oenpyir Of this lions—by The instiga
tion Of the devul or sumboddy Like him i So
fur furgot The golden rule Of duin To uthers
what you want them to do to yoo as to Steel
Y’oor mat i Took it one nite last wetik and un
til sundy nite wen i was endust To Go inter a
church i own up that i went thinkin in the kroud
thur might be A chance to pick up suni-
watbut tho precher brot up the Cost so strong
when He sed ‘set that douu’ that i had no piece
til i sot doun your mat agen wich i doo axin you
to tiirgiv me this time.
To day is as soft and balmy ns spring ; in
fact the weather is another of the mysteries
that New Y orkers are puzzling themselves about.
During the present week W(5 hnve had an end
less variety.—Scotch mist; and a real London
fog; a ripping frost, ami a sheen of snow, and
great rain! not coming down in sluices, but a
nasty close insinuating one, that reaches the
skin before you are aware, almost that it ruins
at nil.
Burton, the Manager, gave an opening hall
Inst night, in a room built for assemblies, ad-
joitiif.g his theatre. Most of the actors and
Kossuth. — A correspondent of tho Lon
don Times says :—“What an extraordinary re.
putution this man Kossuth has left after hint.
From Orsova to Vienna, by watcgW byittrid,
there hardly ever pass ten minutes in the day
that you do not hear mention of his name ; nnd
in Pesth, where the sale of his portrait is a cap
ital offence, the Magyars club together to pur
chase a single copy nt exorbitant prices, and
tear it into fragments, which are shared he
tween them.”
Courts of Conciliation.—Gov. Fish 1ms
proposed to the Legislature of New-Y'ork the
establishment of Courts of Concilation, by
means of which parties disposed to a just set
tlement of their differences can do so umica-
bly, promptly and without.lhe expense of lengthy
and tedious suits at law.
A Better Man than his Brother.—The
Philadelphia Spirit of tho Times vouches for
the correctness of the following:
•’On Thursday last.a wedding party arrived
from the country, cosisting of the bride groom,"
the brother of the latter, and several friends.
They put up at one of our public houses, and in
the evening the preliminaries having been nil
settled, and the clergyman in aitendunce, the
ceremonies were about to begin when the groom
manifested some dissatisfaction. The birde
perceiving this, nnd being high-spirited, show
ed as much independance ns the lover. In the
midst of the confusion which ensued the bride
groom’s brother steeped up to the bride and
said, "Since— won’t marry you, I‘ll marry you
myself, if you have no objection.
“None in the least,” said the bride; “I al
ways took you lora better man than yonr
brother, nnd I am now folly convinced of it.
The knot wns at once tied, and much "rati
fication was expressed at the finale of the af
fair.
OP A correspondent of the New York Tri
bune says:
“Mr. Abbott Lawrence 1ms been making a
speech in London. Why is it our ministers are
forever making such elegant fascinating har
angues, to be published in the Ministerial
Tifiies along with fierce attacks on the morals,
manners and policy of America? I think we
hnve lmd enough—two much of this kind of
thing. I do not remember when a British
Minister in'America ever declared with swim
ming eyes anil palpilnting heart, that lie gloried
in America as n descendant of England, or
recurred with pride to times antecedent to the
year 1776, when E' glundhud the honor of be
ing one nnd the same nation with America.
Our Ministers abroad have generally nothing t"
do—Missions being political hospitals; wit
ness the jobbing of the Russian Mission—but
this is no reason why they should be compro
mising the national dignity, by giving England
more than we , rW *V i vc in the wav of fine speeches
from her ambassadors. So American Indies
made and sent a bonnet to Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria never made and sent n bonnet
to an American lady or female sovereign.
Steamboat Disasters.—The St. Louis Re
publican publishes a table showing the number
of steamboats lost on the Western waters du
ring the year 1849. The whole number was
83, and the aggregate loss with cargoes amounts
to $1,600,000. The same paper gives a list el
the boats which were sunk,collapsed boiler* 1
flues, &,o., and subsequently repaired. The
number is 28.